The Independent-News, Volume 104, Number 9, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 August 1978 — Page 4

AUGUST 3, 1978 - THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS

EDITORIALS

MAN FALLS TO MACHINE We certainly want to apologize for falling victim, man to machinery, this week in a couple of portions of our newspaper. A malfunction of the photo-typesetting machine lost two main items of wider type for us. the editorial which you "aren't" reading and the budget of the Walkerton Library board. We are taking the privilege of omitting an editorial due to this latediscovered malfunction and with the budget being asked for this week and next, but legally not required to run this week, we in order to make our deadline with the printers, are also omitting the budget for this week. We are sorry, especially to Mrs. Smith and the Library Board for holding their budget back for one week. (TAKEN FROM THE FILES OF THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS)

1973 On Sunday. August 5. the North Liberty Church of Christ w ill begin holding all of its services in its new building. The new structure is located immediately north of town at 65225 State Road 23. At the market pork steak was 51.09 a pound; pork tenderettes at 51.29 a pound; stuffed sausage at 51.29 a pound; bulk sausage at 99c a pound; old fashioned loaf at SI .39 a pound; bologna at $1.29 a pound; margarine at three pounds for a $1.00; 10 inch apple pie at 51.09; tomatoes at 39c a pound; lemons, limes, or cucumbers at 9c each; seedless grapes at 39c a pound and 10 pounds of white potatoes for 51.59. 1963 During Friday night specials Folgers coffee was SI .39 for a three pound can; butter at 59c a pound; 72x90 inch blankets at $3.6b and a package of sweeper bags for only 75c. Jacob Hartman has accepted the position of principal at the Walkerton Elementary School for the coming school year. At North Liberty a Park Day has been set for Friday, August 9. for boys and girls ages 5 to 18. Games and contests will be held. Playing at the Rialto this week is "The Man From The Diner’s Club," and coming next week is "Hud." At the Rees is "The Stripper" and next week is "The Main Attraction." At the drive in,. Tri-Way, is "Belle Sommers," "The Vampire & The Ballerina." and "Tow er of London . " At the market ground beef was 89c a pound; rib steak at 69c a pound; T-bone steak at 93c a pound; ham slices at 89c a pound; fryers at 35c a pound; slab bacon at 49c a pound; beef liver at 29c a pound; canned ham for 5 pounds only $3.49; sour pie cherries. 2 cans for 39c; orange juice at 49c for a 12 ounce can; tuna at 35c a can; 100 paper plates for 69c, tomatoe, pineapple or apple juice only 29c a can; pork and beans at 2Sc for a 40 ounce can. head lettuce at 2 heads for a quarter and plums at 2 pounds for 29c. 1948 The H J. Heinz pickle receiving station in Walkerton is anticipating a bumper pickle crop here, based on the receipts of the new crop up

to date. The weather has been ideal with plenty of rain, so that the crop started coming in ten days earlier than usual. There are about 200 acres of land planted to pickles in this territory. One farmer brought in 600 hampers of pickles on Monday evening, but some growers have not made a delivery as yet. Clyde Chapman, Dr. V. B. Wolfe. Glen Walz. Milo B. Slick and Roy Hostetter, the present board of directors of the Walkerton Woodlawn Cemetery Association met Tuesday and elected a complete new board who will assume their duties on September 1. The new board of directors consists of Louis Houser. Harry Doll. Arthur Shirley. Lloyd Thomas and Robert Wolfe. T. F. Radmacher, superintendent. has announced that the Walkerton-Lincoln Township Consolidated school will open on Tuesday, September 7. Chaney's Drug Store is sponsoring the Walkerton Girl’s Softball team and has supplies them with new distinctive and colorful jackets. The girls defeated North Liberty 20 to 7 last Friday night and will meet Tippecanoe here this Friday night. Other games scheduled to date include LaPaz there on August 13 and Ball Band here on August 20. 1943 The Walkerton City Hall, which has been located at the intersection of Roosevelt Road and Indiana Street for the past 21 years, is moving this week to the new city hall building, the former Apple Garage, corner of Roosevelt Road and Michigan Street. Moving with the City Hall is the WalkertonLincoln public library, which has been housed with the city hall. In the new location the library will have separate quarters, which will be far more adequate and modern and enable the library to better serve the public. The old city hall was purchased from the John E. Johnson Estate, in 1922. Previous to that the city hall was a small one-story frame building which stood on the lot now occupied by the American Legion Hall. That was erected about 19(X). Another city building, used for a jail and not the city hall, stood on the lot now occupied by the band stand.

Several local persons have served the community as clerk the more recent ones being A. L. Dupler. M B. Slick. Ed Shirley. E. V. Derf, Claude Houser. Mabel Conrad Keck and Wayne Cover, the present incumbent. The Walkerton Chamber of Commerce, in co-operation with the local housing authority, has instituted a drive to enlist car owners in this community in a "share your .car program." During the next week applications for both ‘rider and drixers' will be made available to those seeking transportation to the South Bend-Mishawaka industrialcenters. Those interested may register at Chaney’s Drug Store or the administrative offices of the housing agency. The armv's radio photo service which made it possible for the public to see new spaper pictures of the assault on Sicily on the same dav that the invasion was launched will be augmented in the immediate future by the same type of transmission from the South Pacific theatre, the War Department announced. The Walkerton-Lincoln public schools w ill open Monday. August 30, according to Supt. J. M. Sellers. The high school grades, including the seventh to twelfth, will meet in the new high school building which has been completed during the summer vacation. The first six grades and the kindergarten will meet in the old building. The huckleberry season is just about wound up for this year, but as always, about this time of year, some old timer digs up that yarn about the famous Huckleberry Queen. We've heard so many tales about this old gal (most of them rather fantastic) that we had about come to believe that this certain person existed mostly in the imaginations of the old timers hereabouts, like that sea lion story at Koontz Lake. (But that's another story.) But when we consulted the Walkerton historians this week. Sid Ewing. Vern Hardenbrook, Willard Place and Milo B. Slick, we found these worthy gentlemen insisting that there was a real-for-sure-nough Huckleberry Queen and that she held forth in the huckleberry marshes about Walkerton. According to the "dope" which is given as gospel truth, the Queen came to Walkerton with a circus troop. She was known in those days as the "Iron-Jawed" woman. ‘Tis said that she could grasp the back of a chair with her teeth and hold it straight out in front of her. Another act consisted of pulling her against a team of horses, where she used her teeth as the grasping agent! She was comely and extremely strong, and could take care of herself in any physical encounter, with man or beast. The Queen had many marriages to her credit, sone of her "late" husbands of local importance being "Buck" Johnson, Bill Fink and "Pappy" Wilcox. In those days the huckleberry marsh was miles in extent, and embraced thousands of acres. I here was no other huckleberrv marsh in the land quite like it. People came to the marsh by the thousands and camped all around the place. A regular town was established by the campers some where between Walkerton and Tyner, known as South Chicago.

which boasted of stores, saloons, restaurants and a hotel. Rail roads ran excursions to Walkerton during the huckleberry season, bringing all manner of people here for a few short weeks each year. Gambling of all kinds and descriptions ran rampant at South Chicago. If there was any scheme of chance not represented there, it was because there wasn't any room left in which to set up shop. Week-ends drew the greatest crowds, and also afforded the most fights. With liquor flowing freely, every man sium became a law unto himself until a bigger and stronger man disputed it and that meant another fight. Beer hotties flew through the air. cutting great gashes in the unluckx xictims and brass knuckles had free play disfiguring some faces for life. Talk about Sodom and Gamorrah--Walkerton was both of ’em in those days! I hey tell the sotry of how the Queen was drunk one day (A not unusual occurrence) and came to Walkerton where she became a nuisance and ran amuck of the "Law which happened to be Gocrgc Ewing, dad of the present Sydenham C. Ewing. Weil, the marshall tried to take the offending Queen off her throne a bit, but he found handling the IronJawed woman no picnic. He called for re inforcements and after deputizing a half-dozen men. the "crowd" went to work on Her Majesty. Tis said that they succeeded in jailing the unfortunate Queen but that all her tormen tors bore "marks" of the escapade which didn't set too well with their good wises when they appeared at home. All of this tsx>k place way back in 1880 and the town is still trying to live down those evil days of the Huckleberry Queen. VOICE OF THE PEOPLE I here arc many people in the school district, such as Johnson and Polk Townships who do not understand why they receive no free library books without paving for a card. We want all of these poeple to feel free to use our library. in the library, without paying for a card if they so wish, but they must buy a card to take out books.

CROSSWORD

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We arc not getting any taxes from the Polk-Lincoln-Johnson School Corporation, which you arc paying taxes for. but only Walkerton and Lincoln Township people are taxed for this library, which all students max use in the library itself. We charge $5.00 a year for cards for people living out of our taxing unit. Ply mouth charges S2O.(X) per familycard. South Bend and Mishawaka. likewise. The South Bend librarian informed me that their charges will go up to $25.00 a card and Mishawaka to $20.00 on January 1, W’O to people who do not pay taxes in their library system. We have a library loan system which can get vou bixiks from libraries in a four-county unit which works very well For example — Miles Laboratories, all colleges and universities, special libraries besides the public library sy stem. We are bound by Indiana State Librarx law to charge a tee for all people who do not pay a library tax in the local units. Polk and John son I ownship citizens pax no taxes for our librarx. We have a library board who represent the citizens w ho pax taxes for our unit. Our fee is low . We have a lot of good books. some bought bx former librarians. Come in and brow sc. If we do not charge for citizens outside our taxing unit, it would not be fair to the people who pax taxes, we could be dropped by the Indiana State Librarx. if thex so desired, and we would have no library You should be proud of the librarx we have in this town, when there are many towns without one I am. I hope that you understand my position in this matter. Helen J. Smith. Librarian Lady Godiva made her fa mous bareskinned ride through the streets to protest an oppressive tax imposed on the people by her husband, Earl Leofnc. "Old porridge is sooner warmed than new made." Thomas Fuller /^Ewen well - fed dogs can * need vitamins^*^" 1 ASerfrarti /hr;**’ A h Wats ”* Co xysd 21? JO

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