Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 143, Decatur, Adams County, 17 June 1960 — Page 8

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Decatur Log Cabin Burn<‘<i i < h B£tZ ■■kF : /llSriSmHr jy b*T Th ’’ Fint’state £rX"‘to "m by French Quinn Mr, John Mr, Hugh EdJ.r SuZir .nd menv other friends or relatives <>f the settlers who owned Uy <abin. and the G. Burly Abstract Co. helped in the feathering of material on the history of the cabin.

SUN., MON., DRIVE-IN TI ES. & WED. THEATER pi | s—Hour of short, Let* Lough If Up Folks - Four Big Days of Hilarity in the Year's Funniest Comedy Hit. A LIGHT-HEARTED LEER AT LOVE AMONG THE ADULTS! —ll Ji -~ 1 i uii i — — TW ’jfT, JF m J 4 TONY CURBS DEAN MARTIN/j R JANET LEIGH Pt' . o o — TONIGHT AND SATURDAY — Yes, It's a Shocking Story-But IT COULD HAPPEN ‘ ‘ ON THE BEACH ’ Gregors Peck. Ava Gkrdner. Fred Astaire. Tons Perkins t "THE HANGMAN" Robt. Taylor, Fess ’*<”‘ker Tino Louise Sat. Midnite Bonus Hit —“HELL SHIP Ml TI V

PSI DTE TRADING POST 418 Winchester GRAND OPENING JUNE 18th — 9:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. OPEN WEEKLY — SCHEDULE of HOURS! THURSDAY 1-4 P.M. FRIDAY 1-4 P.M. — 6-9 P.M. SATURDAY 9-12 Noon — 1-4 P.M. 1 Here are only a few of the many good used items which you j will find available in our “TRADING POST”. Women's Clothes - Kitchen Equipment Children’s Clothes Appliances ■— Men's Clothes Dishes Baby Items Used Furniture Hats, Purses Bedding Shoes, Hose Antiques Used Jewelry Used Records Household Items Books Lamp Shades Toys I Ask about our “CONSIGNMENT PLAN” .. - f The consignor will receive 75% of the price received j on any article and the sorority will retain 25%. Consigned j ; merchandise will only be taken on Thursday from 1-4 p.m. j Any donated articles will be appreciated. ALL PROFITS WILL GO TO CHARITY J SPONSORED BY: DECATUR PSI IOTA XI SORORITY

The old Abell log cabin adjacent to Hanna-Nuttman park, rotting and dangerous to life and hmb. one of the five oldest homes in the vicinity of Decatur, is no more Il has been burned down to prevent accidents; in fact, it was so rotten that it could not be torn down but had to be leveled by j fire. The log cabin home was contin- ■ uously occupied from the early, < 1830‘s until November 10. 1953 Its ; history is the story of the pioneers i of Adams county. Family names < it could recall, like Andrews. Arch- < bolsLFisher. Ehinger. Elzey. Pat- « terson. Russell, and Robinson. I heljH-d build Adams County. It was December 3. 1835. several months before Adams countv < was created and organized, that « 40-year-old ‘Mier* Andrews.' as ” Jeremiah was known, and his wife \ Sibby. purchased the land. An- t drews was the grandson of a Rev- ; olutiona.-y war veteran, and his ) wife, the former Sabertha Arch- i bold, was the daughter of Thomas < Archbold, only Revolutionary war veteran known to be buried in Ad- ] ams county. Indians Helped Build Mier's brother-in-law. Thomas Archbold Jr . owned the adjoining' t a to the west, and several; ag;, the iate Adams county ; , r French Quinn wrote the -r, ->.a- Thomas, his father, the

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••Wl migMwctag to I <|i«n* hrtpad build lb® Uilto obi in* i abM* Nuitwroua India* Fatb > 4Tr »tlli found Ml it* In te** than two FOOT*. bowrvai |i ibr unto farm put <*tu«*ed foe to® from the gKruimm was Mild Wj l noted Fiber to» »lto N<d k*M ’ after ibis transxlNto on Augu-t g |KH Ftober dkd and Ids Wto i«rw. Ilerbara later umatrW William El#ey. Sr Mr* Firry deedni the land over to Thomas Fl*brr j October IL i*« ' 1 September 10. IMB Thomas and Prnekn* Flatter Mdd tba land to; John Hussrll hw Th< land changed band, twice again. John ' .md Ca that ite Huaarll selling H tn I 'Florian and Elisabeth Ehinger’ ! July 20. 1074. and they in turn selling It to Samuel G and Mary E ' Pattrraon March » IML Mrs Mrtamptoll Buy, |! was on September 22 ISM I that Mrs France* Mc<”ampto-11l ; bought the land for 11250 And it ■' it the past no yort of history of I the rabtn that will be br«t rrmem-j' teged by the native sons of Drca-1 tur Mr*. McCampbs-ll wa* th* 1 daughter of Jamr* and Elisabeth J i Dowden Robinnon. pioneer* of Ad am* county Her mother. "Grand-1 ma" Robinson, lived to be more. • than 98 year* old. and died at her home place at thr edge of Mbnmouth September 7. 1011. Her father had died in 1856 Mrs. M (-Campbell’* husband. William B McCnmpbell. died February 20 1890 but she continued living in the little log cabin The mother of three children, a second tragedy hit her family when the husbaad of her daughter. Flirabeth. named for her mother. Flira-, beth Robinson, died in 1910 Mr. , Abell had been a tailor, and his wife, known to everyone as little ) was a seamstress Mr. Abell was ( very well-known as a tailor, and , his ads. "The more you dye. the , better we live** excited the imag- , ination of the community. Mrs. Abell moved into the little old cabin with her mother, who I passed away at 6 a m . the morn- f mg of October 26. 1921. .at the age ’ of 81 years. 10 months, and 27 davs. A sprightly little old lady, she had walked to Monmouth and ( back the day before she died. Original Cabin < Originally the cabin was two , separate buildings, with the kitch-;, en separate from the main house , The upstairs originally had no windows, just pigeon holes for ven- 1 tilation and what little light was i admitted. Mrs. Abell had the s kitchen moved against the house, i and had windows cut in the UplAlso a well was drilled by the • house. Previously water was oto ( tained from springs in the little creek which runs nearby. An oM log barn, used bv farmer McCamto bell after he moved to A^ ams countv from Jay county, had fallen down many, many years ago. Lived Alone After her mother’s death in 1921, Mrs Abell lived in the cabin by herself Once a visitor asked her if she wasn’t scared, living a ll b ? herself, partially crippled, in that out-of-the-way place. "Oh No sir,” she replied, pulling a large pistol from under her i pillow. "I can shoot this as well as any man". Her door was always left open, and she wished her friends to enter when they came without knocking. Deeded To Church ’■ Abell was a member of the Jehovah Witnesses, and on February 3, 1947 she deeded the 40- • acre farm to Them, with the understanding that she could live there as long as she lived. The religious group, known as the Watchtower Bible and Tract So- ; cietv, then built its first Kingdom Hall on the land. November 10, 1953, Mrs. Abell gave up living alone in the little cabin that had been in her family : for 73 years. She retired to the Indiana state soldiers home at ! Lafayette, her husband having i been a veteran of the Spanish- ' American War. At the age of 88, February 22, 1959, she passed

ALL NEXT WEEK! DECATUR SUMMER FESTIVAL DOWNTOWN STREETS POWELSON AMUSEMENTS • THRILL RIDES • KIDDIE RIDES • CONCESSIONS AUSPICE: > Pocoteligo Tribe No. 203 Improved Order of Red Men • FUR * >

away Th* rotatH** at the UtUe >4d «•> 1 tan. rotting away tor mar* a rwtdury. gfoduattr wnrwnod la I tte seven year* H waa uMftk«tal«d Children m Uw aroa played M H ' creating • public ha«ard Karh mu year. th* church owning th* unable to “I! It. t‘»A Hep* tn lr*r down (hr old Cabin, tail found out that It waa in *uch Iwd »hap» that no MW would rl»k (raring it down Thu* they roeelvcd prftoiMton about three week* af«> to burn down th*- eebin which .tmd forlorn and trade, a hnme with nobody in It. after having M<*n some nt the main ptanrrr j famiitaa at Decatur come and go School Board Fight Ends In One Death BROWNSmoRO. Tea • I TPI >- Tvmm Ranger* moved into Brownsboro today fearing a riot in the aftermath of a fight that erupted at a school board meeting leaving two men shot. one fatally and a third knifed and in critical I condition Dtuena of witnesses identified i Dr. Cbarh* C. Rahn, former Brownsboro ma.vor wtx> w»s sec-! rvtary of the Brownsboro Independent School District board, as the man who did the shooting Rahn was held at the Henderson County Jail in nearby Athens • We are protecting him at this time,” Deputy J P. Williams M.d "He isn’t talking. No charges have been filed.” Thurman Jackson. 42. a hun- • I ber company owner, was shot twice and killed. Police said Bill' Melton was also shot, and George Rash was knifed during the brawl that erupted in the study hall of the Brownsboro High schoo iwhe re about 200 persons attended a school board meeting Thursday nirfU. A Department of Public Safety (state police) spokesman said Henderson County authorities bad asked for help because the situation was so tense. Jack Hardee, district attorney, worked through the night questioning about 50 witnesses to the shooting “Rahn is now in jail.” Hardee said. "I have a lot of witnesses to talk to. I have no tacts before me. The case is under investigation.” The situation has been tense in Brownsboro, a small town of about 50 persons located 16 miles southwest of Tyler, for several months. ft apparently started when the new schoolboard fired Homer Bass, superintendent of schools tor 23 years, then later refused to renew the contracts of nine Negro schoolteachers, a janitor and three bus drivers. Over 2.600 D .ily Democrats are sold and delivered in Decatur each day.

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JF.HOVAH-M WITNESSES KINGDOM HAI.L Canter Monroe and Ninth Sunday. 3 p.m — "The Kingdom Ministry" will be the subject of a Bible lecture to be given by Clyde D Steele, local Watchtower representative and presiding minister. The public Is invited to attend Sunday. 4:15 p m —Watchtower Bible study and discussion of the subject. "Living Now for a New [ World' and The Benefit of Living I for God's World." One of the scripture tarts for consideration will be Ephesians 5:17, NW. "On this account cease becoming unreasonable, but go on perceiving what the will of Jehovah is.” Tuesday. 8 p.m.—Bible study using the study aid. "Your Will Be Done On Earth " Friday., 7:30 p.m.—Theocratic Ministry school followed by Kingdom Service theeting LEGAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Public Sarvlnr Conimlaaloß of ladl- ■■■ llut-het No. IN’ THE .MATTER <<F THE PETITION OF BUILDERS TRUCKING. INC.. AND OTHER AUTHORIZED CARRIERS RENDERING DUMP TRICK SERVICE. FOR ORDER INSTITUTING INVESTIGATION AND ESTABLISHING RATES. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF RATES AND CHARGES, RI LES AND REGULATIONS AND PRACTICES FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF COMMODITIES USUALLY AND ORDINARILY TRANSPORTED IN DUMP TRUCK. WITHIN THE STATE OF INDIANA, BY ’COMMON CARRIER. BY MOTOR VEHICLE, AND CONTRACT CARRIER. BY MOTOR VEHICLE. _. Notice Is hereby elven that the Public Service Commioxlon of In-11 ana will conduct public hearing In this cause In the Rooms of the Commission. 401 State House, Indianapolis, Indiana, at 10:00 A.M. (DSTI, Monday. July 11. 10S0. Public participation Is requested PUBLIC SERVICE COMMMISSION OF INDIANA By: George G. Cline. Secretary Indianaixilis, Indiana June 1,

RED CHINA from page one mat subs but~the Navy wos taking no chance* w.th the Proa* dent Gntfcn has commanded the 7th Fleet four month* Sailed From Manila The entarr 7th Fh-rt. n>mg»rh mg about 125 ships and more than Soo ptantv. was operating in direct and* indirect support of the special task force The course of the task force today took it within 150 miles oC the Chinese mainland , The President and his party ; sauled from Manila harbor short- j ily alter midnight and are due Saturday morning off the north- ; eastern Formosan port of Keellung. There the President will disem- i bark by helicopter 'about 9 p.m edt. Friday' for Taipei and an overnight visit with Nationalist Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek

June 19th is Father’s Day to get a BUXTON billfold Jut ton’d B"ft ftM Diomondi • Wotcheg • Sil*»rwftr» MO M. SKONO ft »tCATV*. MDUNA

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SCHOOL i xmi ll■ u»-c trow y«a **• of providing atrip, and urged the Rotarian* to give these needs some thought and then provide the leadership should they seem desirable. Next week'* Rotary mm-ting will be a todies night affair with Terje Strom as guest speaker.

9 to 11 P.M. Spocial! STEAK FRIES - SALAD $1.25 - FAIRWAY