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Audubon Slory Reviewed For Community Club The Walkerton Womm': Community Club met on Friday, September 20 to hear Mrs. Han.Mohn, Parliamentarian of La County Fede.-ation tell the lif tory of Juhn J. Audubon. Sh vas introduced to the group b\ Its. Paul Gerry, vie* presid nt John J. Audubon "The Atmri ,n Woodsman", was born Apil 26, 1785 at Aux Cajvs. the son of French Sea Captain. Jean ~n, and a creole de Saint Domingue. Much mystery sur ounds the birth of the "boy wh< was first known as Fougere, ater as La Forest. Wh m in France he was known as Jean Jacques. At one time in certain egal documents he was refert d to as Jean Rabin. Later he war •o be known as John J. Audubon h" name the world knows him by. He end his sister Rosa were ■ dopted by Captain Jean Au lu j»>n and his wife. They liv'd in Xante®, France. At a very early age it was virEnt that Audubon loveu irds. He would spend many .ours walking through fields and narshes watching the winged natur® arid imitating their unds. Mrs. Audubon wanted oung Audubon to be a fine •ntleman. and insisted that m k»' music lessons. Since he had gift for music he soon learned > play the violin, the flute, an I i e little flag”let, the latter |ped him to imitate bird unds. Captain Audubon wanted h » n to become a naval offk id arranged (or his schooling cordingly. But young Audu n had othe. ideas an-1 would p away from school only to b und in the fields and w^H etching and Earning aboil rds. The father recognizing :at Aububon had no love for ,rmal schooling permitted ami retur n home. Audubon con rftr-i at every opportunity to .etch birds, his first attempt ,uld be a drawing of a head d tail with two sticks 'or I gs. it he thought he had drawn a rd. Captain Audubon was mpathetic and kn w it wan 'ficult for the b->y to try b !aw live birds and had some uffed for him to copy. Finally • father sent young Audubon ■f to Paris for b ns with the • out artist of the day, Jaques !..>uis David. Here he Ka ned . draw in black and whi’ •- on he missed the walks in thuntry and was back horn ■. ]Kin returning home howw r he > gan to experiment with water olor and crayon. It was of th * jinoat importance to AuduK n ■ > draw birds in their natu al . iUUt. in correct position. Anyne familiar with the wo k o' ~n will M*>n discover Uvat birds are drawn in branch. n a spray of k-aves with berrie: fruit, in nests, always in a ■ nuine native background. One day Captain Audulx n idea sudden decision to s til ung Audubon to his Mill G. s date in America thei * to be tied for by a Quaker roup •. if Thomases who were in barge of his holdings. This Was adv m the *a~ly spring of 1.M)3 As young Audubon yew tn mh.xid he continued to taw, tried entering business but vas never a success. It was Ahile he was at Mil! Grow h. et Lucy Bakewell, daughter <f wealthy family who occupied Fatkind Ford, a fur estate vhich faced Mill G ove. I-itK Audubon was t° marry Lucy FRED BULLINGER INSURANCE Auto • Life • Fire TOI Moaroe St Walkerton, Ind. PtaM saMtt

who. it is said all th" world knows that the masterpieces created by the naturalist painter could not hav been made p-s---sibD if it were not f-y this girl who braved the wi!dern“ss to follow her husbands dnam and uSio bclivv d m him explicitly. Audubon had an extraordin ir\ he, after muniage he moved about th" country trying various businesses but never succeeding in any of them. He was a wav from his famiy for months at a lima, following his compiling drive to learn more und more about birds. After many trust rations at the age of 35 while wit a his family in Cincmnatti, Audu bon decided to complete his "Birds of America" and smt Lucy and their two suns to live with a friend in Shippingport. He left Cincinnatti in a flatboat, a journey which h" started without funds. In New’ Orleans he taught and painted. After several months h > wrote Lucy that he had finished 62 drawings of birds and ha 1 $42 in his pocket and wnt for he; and the buys to join him. After tean days and unbelievable experiences by the spring of IR?6 he had eccumulated 400 paintings. Hv mg

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met with little success m Am rica to h iv> hi-, w. i k published b went to Eng .n I In Miy • f <hat year he .-a.] ] from New O;h ms too Liv p .. He was w-11 received in England, highly horr i«d air! fvt"d. He wus elected to m- mbership in most important SfM’icties of s< u nee and a t in Great Britain, Scotland and Franco. His first works w published in 1827. After the pleasant flurry in London about his works he rt - turn'd to Am-rica to make mm. drawings, this work took him from Main- to the Florida K- vAt last in June 1938, the last print of his great "Birds of America” was engraved and colored and 200 compl U- x<dr of the "Birds” wore publish >d in Englund. Audubon had achieved fame. He settled in America and built a h<-me overlooking the Huds >n River. He died at th age o' 66 in 1851. Thore is a m irblc m r.ument erected to his memory in New York City, a bronze bust of Audubon is in the Hull -if Fame and in his honor the Audubon Society of America ha been founded. Before the talk th" women

SEPTEMBER 2(1, 1968 — 'HIE INDEPENDENT-NEWS

< njoy d t asty ippl . p !P p , V r! - bj the h- .'.teases of th day M dam*.' Gus kl r L- wis K- mp, Ge< g ■ F : md Ro\ Pou ’ll. B. au’uul i r Howt rs. fall flow, r-, d- p oti n<»s, bright Silvia and man gold- in attractiv- ar .-n ;• m r.t g-iaced th- tables. Mre, tJeorge Hillis, pi id-rit opened th- meeting with i B Happy” theme. Mrs. H-i- n Mitch- 11 gave ti: 1- vote n, Mrs. Paul Bodeman s < -ta v. icad a Citation which had b-en pmsent-d to the Walk-.im Woman's Community Club bv the General Federation o' Women's Club and the Sears R-"bu- k Foundation tm effvi . live Community ai lion th ugh The Community Improvement Project for 1966 68. A lelU was read from th- B atty Hos pital soliciting "Presents for Patients.” Ciun project items forth - year: Indiana Seen" place mats. Scented Candles and dust maps were displayed and ord"rs plai d with the Ways and Means (tom mittee: Mrs. Roy N w 11. Mrs. Helen Quebbeman and Mis. Howard Ferguson. It was r p-.rtvd by M-> Chester Griffin that over fifty

items hav,- air-a ly b-"n -nt ’ । th T-e^ ird- n N’m . in- hon. •, l u > can- ■■ have Lt ; d ; <; , in -| jf thei i.- n , r.-"d f- - tn- ri n, -, < ->mmun,t . th -v will L" giv n ■ > the Home. R II <■ H .Mv F-v :|O. Bod, which w.. in k oiti v'hti ■ ta-k o' 1 h dev, mdi< d th. : P'* par ik- t • uh • • ■ • the favor,t- ioih.”> - , dimPs and wrens i ,1b,.-. • \j in loved birl in n-ral. One faceti- u.- nr-mb- r -iid ■'••<>• t turkey" on i pl dt- t with d ing! Mrs. Ward Au Id of Ri; ,| Route 3 was .<-d to rn-'ni-bership Thirty m-mb.-i - and i>ne gU"St wet' pe sent at this m- eting. XJTCHING? Let doctor's formula stop it. Zemo speeds soothing relief to externally caused itching ot ec/en\i, minor rashe,. skin irritations nonpoisonous insect bites Dcsenuti/cs ncnccnJiruis Kilk millions of mrfaccgerm • ■ i > skin with/emo. I iqmd orOmtment. Quick relief, or your mone> back !

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