The Independent-News, Volume 97, Number 7, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 July 1970 — Page 5

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Pictured above are a group of Dixie Walkers Square Dance club members who attended the National Square Dancers Convention in Louisville, Kentucky June 25, 26, and 27. There were 16 couples from the Walkerton group who attended. ATTENDING DEMOLAY LEADERSHIP CAMP James Verkier, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Verkier, 709 Illinois Street, Walkerton and David Bottorff, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Bottorff, Route 1, Plymouth, will spend one week at a DeMolay Leadership School Camp in Potosi, Missouri. Jim is Master Counslor of Walkerton Chapter of DeMolay and is being sponsored by Valley Chapter of Scottish Rite. Young Bottorff is a member in Walkerton and both boys will be seniors at John Glenn High School this fall. The boys will join a bus load of boys in Indianapolis Sunday from this area and will be joined in Missouri by boys from all over the USA - • . *4lll

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John Glenn Defeats Argos 9-1 The John Glenn High School Baseball team defeated Argos 9 to 1 last Thursday. John Harness picked up the mound victcry as he limited the Argos Dragons to two hits. Robert Kaser of the Falcons had two hits ard tour runs batted in. John Clenn lost their fourth game of the summer to LaVille by a score of 4-0. Ralph Kulcsar of LaVille tossed a one-hitter at the Falcons. Robert Kaser went the distance for John Glenn yielling 4 runs on 5 hits. Joe Setnor had the only hit for the Falcons. The summer record now for the Falcons is 9-4 overall record is 17-17. The John Glenn Falcons will n’ >v O’ntrou-Davis a ( Hamlet on Thursday, Read the Classified Aos

Announce Engagement Mr. and Mrs. Louis Anderson, Koontz Lake, Walkerton announce the engagement of their daughter, Alyson to Guy Bernard Minix, son of Rev. and Mrs. Denver MinLx, of Route 4, Winamac, Indiana. Miss Anderson, a graduate of Oregon-Davis High School is a student at Ball State University. Mr. Minix, a graduate of North Judson High School attended Ball State University and is presently employed at Tianstate in South Bend. An October 3rd wedding is planned at the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Donaldson, Indiana. Weekly Schedule For Junior Baseball

The weekly schedule for the Walkerton Junior League baseball games is as follows: Thursday. July 9 The Expos sv As in the minor league; the Twins play the Reds in the majors. Friday The Astros battle the As m the minors and the Mets play the Angels in the minors. Monday The Cubs play the Cardinals in the minors and the Rids battle the Giants in the majors. Tuesday The Expos take on the Pilots and the Giants battle th<* Twins in the majors. Wednesday A double header for the minors. The A s play the Royals in the first game and the Cardinals play the Astro's in the second Thursday The Cubs play the Expos in tne minors and in 0 \ JO t k Cj Something’s missingWithout a roof, this barn Just can't do its jobl Your farm Insurance may not do the job assigned to It •ither-upless It's written with today's farming conditiona In mir.dl Ask about Meridian Mutual's Comprehensive Farm L'ablllty— the modern policy for your modern farm. See me... there's no obligation! your Meridian Mutual agent ^lalnl z R. W. Johnson Ins. Morning — Hamlet Phone 867-2824 Afternoons — Koontz Laks* Phone Walkerton &86-25 W

JULY 9, 1970 — THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS —

the major league the Reds take on the Angels. STEAM BOAT A (OMIN:” Hannibal, Missiouri, is the village-home of Maik Twain, notes the Chicago Motor ClubAAA, the place where the Mississippi river boat entered the pages of American literature and was saved for all future generations. Samuel Langhore Clemens (Twain's real name) recorded the lore of the steamboat. Only one river steamer will ever again stop it Hannibal. The Delta Queen, on her last season, is scheduled for a shorestop at Hannibal on the afternoon of October 17 in the way north. On October 26, she will come by again and (her .schedule permitting) make one last stop on hei final voyage to a retirement berth in New Orleans. Time and Federal regulations will have caught up with the last Mississippi riverboat. Time would also have tumbled some of the monuments of Twain and his fictional creations Tom Sawyer, and Huck Finn; but the people have kept them up very well so that they are preserved for posterity. They still whitewash that long board fence that Tom Sawyer conned cronies into whitewashing for him. And the cave in which Tom Sawyer and his girlfriend Becky I hatcher got lost scared, and witnessed the demise of hoi iifying Injun Joe. is open for visitors. Nowadays they have lights and guides, but you can “get lost" in your imagination, and it's cool enough to send a shiver down your spine. The cave is just a few miles south of Hannibal on Highway 79.

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There also is Mark Twain’s real boyhood home at 206 Hill Street. Right next door is a Muk Twain Museum with more thin 400 exhibits, including a restoration of Twain’s parlor, the kitchen, and the bedroom ■ the real bedroom that became the ficticious bedroom with the b; < k window to the world throe h which Tom Sawyer escaped lor his many nocturnal adventli es. At the bottom of Cardiff hill, which w.is really Holiday Hil in Twains books are two reallooking statues of Tom and Hi < k. Die hill really was a rendevmis place for Twain and boyhood companions. And of course there's the n er which is as real today as it was 100 years ago. It still fills n >st visitors with a lust to live the life of the river, or at least t..ke a ride on it. An excursion boat is available to s itisfy that desire. although the river life as Twain knew it is dead. Riveipark, nature's contribution to the remembrance of Twain, comprises some 200 a< es on the bluffs of the river at Inspiration point. Here you an stand and dream of those real and unreal days gone bv. of the old times and steady river traffic that played a big part in the life of Twain and in the Saw er and Finn books. And if you listen real hard, beyond the’sounds of rustling leaves and the nc , rtiicd liver, you can almost hear the leadsman's cry: "Seven feet! • . . Six and a half! . . M uk Twain!" In spite of its sleepy apptarance. Hannibal's an exciting town, says the Chicago Motor Club-AAA.

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