Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1940 — Page 20
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PAGE 20 FRIDAY, OCT. 18, 1940
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Memories Fill ‘Retired’ Schoolhouse |
~ H.P. Wasson & Company, Basement Store
Wasson’s Basement Does Not Sell Seconds, Substandards Nor Imperfects!
In the more than 80 years old,
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W.C.T. U, RAPS WINE INDUSTRY
Cites Campaign Aimed to Increase Consumption In Homes.
EVANSTON, Ill, Oct. 18 (U. P.) — The National Women's Christian] Temperance Union today analyzed statistics showing that the national
liquor bill increased $200,148,628 during .the last fiscal year. Reasons offered by the W. C. T. U. were: 1. “The liquor traffic trapped 1,455,337 new customers,” or 2. “Old customers changed during the year from occasional - drinkers. to alcoholics.” “More logical,” said the National W. C. T. U. “is the belief that the liquor traffic found fewer new customers than the total figures would indicate, but that liquor increased its hold on old customers. “This is not true,” the National W. C. T. U. believes, of the wine in-
British Friends in Paris Warned
PARIS, Oct. 18 (U. P.).—Residents of German-occupied France found to be lodging British subjects after next Sunday will be shot, a decree by the military governor of the occupied area said today. : The decree was believe to presage a stricter supervision of occupied France.
City Hall—
CITY PROFIT ON
GARBAGE IS GUT a
Reduction in Market Price Of Grease Noted as Contract Is Let.
A drop in the market price of
E, SIDER SAVES AGED BUILDING
‘Forerunner of School 70
Now Mecca of Pupils as | Old Days Are Recalled. | |
By EARL HOFF Silas H. Johnson's memories of his school days were so vivid and so much a part of him that he took his boyhood schoolhouse home with! him, That sounds like a pretty large, schoolhouse to prove it can be ne
The small frame structure sets on the back of his yard at 660 E.| 46th St. He had it carted there in! 1892 when School 70 was erected at! 510 E. 46th St.
The original building was built in! 1854 on land donated by Mr. John-| son’s parents to Washington Towg-! ship * school officials for District]
dustry. “Probably two-thirds of in-| garbage grease will reduce the City’s | school 6. It was. the first school!
creased wine consumption comes from new customers following the wine industry's strong merchandis- | ing campaign to ‘put this form of] glcohol into the nation's homes.” | More than three and a third]
billion gallons of alcoholic bever-|
ages, the equivalent of 13.91 gallons] per capita, were consumed at a cost cf $3,316,735.,757, according to government figures. The liquor bill, as the W. C. T. U. reveals, if split equal among the inhabitants of the country, would be $25.19 each, There are three times as many new whisky drinkers as beer drinkers, according to the W. C. T. U.
profit from grease sale this quarter, | compared with the last quarter of
A New York City concern has been awarded the garbage grease | contract from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31 on its high bid of 2'z cents a pound—| six mills under the price a year ago. | The concern is W. C. Hardesty & | Co., Inc.,, which offers to buy six | tank cars. Garbage grease-price, brokers explain, is determined hy the market, in which the City has a good many municipal competitors. Garbage grease is a valuable by-product of the Sanitation Plant. If this season's production equals last fall's output, the plant will produce about 460,000 pounds, in the estimation of Don Bloodgood, superintendent. That will bring about $11,500. The average citizens’ garbage is
building in that part of what is now Indianapolis not built of logs,
School Now Workshop
Mr. Johnson. is 92 but rocking! chairs are not for him. | He'll take time off from digging | up geraniums and placing them in pots for the winter, to take you! back to the old building he has converted into a workshop.
He'll point out the original blackboard painted on the rear wall in black enamel. Pointing with his cane, he'll tell you about the cold winter when the pupils were huddled around the blazing stove in the center of the one room, how the ceiling plaster caught fire and how the courageous teacher climbed to the attic and chopped out the flaming ceiling, saving the. school.
valuable to the City. So valuable, in fact, that "there is an ordinance providing penalties for the theft of garbage. The ordinance was enacted by the old Sanitary Board year§ ago, when garbage thieves
operated on a big scale and sold [the school.
their loot back to the City. : non
The next step in the City's twovear march toward the construc-
With a chuckle, he’ll point to a ;slot cut into the side wall where schoolboy swains used to slip love notes when they were fearful the teacher would catch them with the notes and read the notes before
. Mice There First
| Several years ago Mr. Johnson removed some of the boards to look for the notes. - Mice had beaten
¥ vi . ichior _ . + tion of the W. Michigan St. bridge his to them and all Mr. Johnson
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| $23,000 worth of bonds at 9 a. m.igeraps,
over Eagle Creek is the sale of
Monday at City Hall, The $2,000 is the City’s share of the bridge cost
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got was a bushel full of paper | He was a little put out. | | Education? Mr. Johnson still re-!
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| half of which is to be paid by the Calls how he “wore out three Mec-|
E County. Bridge construction may be | Guffey spellers.” He can still say
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| pilots weveals that 89 per cent of | Johnson said. “And I taught him, | the answering pilots prefer the tri- ‘how. i
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started early in the spring.
A recent survey made of airline
cycle landing gear for all airliners.
an excellent bridge prize or favor
This Value Obtainable
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[the alphabet backwards. Fast. | | “None of the youngsters at| iSchool 70 can do that but one,” Mr. |
| | Memories of schooldays that
(started in 1854 are so keen they! (“seem like only yesterday,” Mr. {Johnson said. : Each fall a group of School 70 pupils pays a visit to Mr. Johnson's! schoolhouse. This year he had! something to show them. From sheer old age a cornice had weakened and fallen from the corner of the old scholhouse. Mr. John. son examined it and found it was of | lyellow poplar.
Children Enraptured
‘Taking it inside the building to his work bench, he made a stout! wooden box of the wood and fash-! ioned a padlock for it. Every spring the children pay Mr.i Johnson another visit and watch enraptured while he taps maple! trees on his grounds. | Mr. Johnson thinks the young-! |sters now in School 70 are 3 great Hot but he’ll bet anyone he could! {spell them down in a “bee,” even {if the judges ruled out fancy tricks! |like reciting the alphabet back-| wards.
Get Tuberculin Tests
- Southport High School juniors | and seniors and faculty members| this week were given tuberuclin| tests by Marion County Tuberculosis | Association officials. The tests will be given in all city and county schools by the associa-! tion, which is supported by sale of Christmas Seals. | The first all-schooled dance will be | given by the Southport Booster Club | tomorrow at the school.. The dance ji honor faculty members. |
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