Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 83, Number 11, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 24 September 1959 — Page 2

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NAPPANEE ADVANCE-NEWS

NAPPANEE ADVANCE-NEWS 156 W. Market PIIONE 27 Entered al the Post Office at Nappanee. Indiana as Second Class Matter Under the Act of March 3. 1879. PUBLISHED THURSDAYS $2.50 PER YEAR in Indiana $3.00 PER YEAR Outside Indiana Publishers Thos. F. Myers, Jr. Rita 11. Myers NOTICE Pictures for publication are welcomed, but no picture will bo returned by mail unless a self-addressed stamped envelope is sent with it. No charge for publishing pictures, news stories, or announcements. „ CORRESPONDENTS Mrs. John Applesute R I* Etna Green Comm. Center Mary Burkey R i. N ipptioee Locke* U. Center S. Union Mrs. F.lias Surlier R 3. iNappanee County Line Pauline Slabaugh Millwood Mrs. Robert Rumfelt *• R R, Milford Hasting Council Vacates Alley; Vetos Parking Lot A petition to vacate the first east and west alley, north of Broad and east of Hartman, in Broadmoor addition, was accepted by City Council Monday night, and a resolution was passed closing the 153loot alley. The resolution, signed by property .owners, Mr. and Mrs. Owen Senff. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bill Geyer, Air. and Mrs. Floyd Klaus and Wilma Syler was first presented to the council last year but was postponed until the owners could obtain easements from the utility and telephone companies, which teas done. Mayor Clouse reported receiving a verbal petition from John R. Thompson of Association of Commerce on the possibility oi making a parking lot behind the library where a house was just removed. It was stated that tiie lot would only serve 11 vehicles and was too small to be worth the expense of making it into a public parking lot. Councilman Coppes reported that anew mercury vapor street light has been installed on N. Madison at the rear of the Masonic Temple on a trial basis. He invited the council and public to inspect it. If it is approved, these lights will

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Goshen Community Auction Sales Phone 3-1602 or 3-1593 OVER 20 YEARS SATISFACTORY SERVICE TO THE FARMER MONDAY, SEPT. 28 - 12 P.M. Monday is the day to sell your livestock at auction and receive the top dollar on a sound competitive market. Call us for truck service. TOP PRICES Milk Cows 340.00 Heifers - Steers 17 to 24.50 Bulls 23.40 Butcher Cows (Fat Cows) 16.50 to 18.60 Butcher Cows (Canners & Cutters) 15 to 16.50 Veal 39.50 Lambs 21.10 Fat Hogs 14.10 Ruffs 10.25 to 12.30 Male Hogs 8.90 to 11.35 Feeder Pigs 5 to 12.50 Ewes 10:00 We Have The Buyers Sherman, McDowell, Martin Auctioneers

NOW OPEN! UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT WEST END SUNOCO West on U.S. 6 Nappanee P i 7 Don and Rodney Stump Sunoco A to Z Lubrication and Related Services ★ Tire Repair Car Washin g ★ Brake Service Engine Tune Ups :* Complete Line of Kelly Tires & Sunoco Batteries Open at 6:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m

THL’RS. SEPT. 24, 1959

Fine Improvements Seen on Tour of City & Area There has been a lot of painting building and remodeling in Nappanee and area this suintner. A motorist driving on CR 1350 just south of town, between Rt 19 and County Line, listed five building improvement in that one stretch. They were: Glenn Hochstetlers, anew house: John E. S. Mullet, new front porch enclosed; Paul Slabaugh, garage breezeway. and extra room and corn crib: George Flowers, anew garage: and William Yoder a bathroom and basement dug under the house. A large number of homes in the city have been painted this summer, with fine results to the landscape and the number of front porches that have been modernized are too numerous to list. John Bigler is doing another irripressivc modernization next door to his home 'at 656 W. Market, which he dramatically re-styled and improved a few summers ago. Also to be commended are those homeowners who have installed new sidewalks to replace cracked and broken danger spots. A drive south on Rt 19 shows great improvement along the road with many fine new homes and of course, the whole northeast corner expands and improves with new homes building all the time. North on Rt 19 and along roads leading off 19, fine new homes have improved the area and the same may be said of Rt 6 to the cast where beautifully landscaped and cared-for homes line the highway. All in all, Nappanee gives the impression of a prosperous and growing town of good neighbors, working to keep their neighborhood a good place to iive. be used for adding to the present system or replacing some old street lights, where more light is needed. There was a long discussion on preliminary plans for the sewage treatment plant, for which final plans are due by Dec 31, according to an order by the state Stream Pollution Control Board. The council plans further discussions at a meeting with A of C members and members of service clubs, lor an exchange of ideas. At Alonday's meeting, John Weaver showed a map of where the proposed sewers would go and invited the council to inspect and make any suggestions for changes. A building permit was granted Ray Hopewell for a split-level frame dwelling on E. John in Lincolnshire addition.

Seven Strikes In Row f or B owler } Shively Lee Shivel:, who 1 owls on Mutsehler Bros. te. m in 1: dies Thursday Night league, bowlec seven strikes in a row for n 224 st ore last week. Violet Price, 210, 3ea L. Tobias, 206, and Peg Bean, :iOl, also made the 200 league. In the 500 series w are Lee Shively. 507, Dorothy Pippenger, 540, Linda Hockert, 509, Peg Bean, 519 and Dorothy Mishlcr, 518. Split i Con- erted Lucile Maiverson 4-5-7, Mareia Mellinger 5- 0. Dorothy Mishler 4-7-9, Phyllis Hivl ;y 5-6, Betty Stouder 5-10, Bettj Sinclair 5-7-9, Bertha Le iman 5-8-10. Shirley Stahley 5-10, Rosemary Cain 5-8-10. High sing e game: Mutschler scratch 863, Handicap 916, 20th Century 861, handkap 895, series, Mutschler Bros. 2487. William Barth, 88, Recall? eai*ly days at Huffman Lake A veteran 3 otel keeper of horse and buggy da s when the rich took the trains to he lakes, is William A. Barth, 88 ; ears e ld, who is still at Huffman h ie, re iting boats and selling cott age lots while his daughters’ h isbanvs farm the Barth land. He has bee n a 1 and-owner and speculator since tl e long gone days when he raised onions in Etna Green and then in- Constantine, Mich. He sold ou there and bought 20 acres in Lansing, Mich., trading acreage for city lots there. The Lansing ’ots he traded for 118 acres in Win na, w hich is now in the city ands he lad kept it, he could have si Id so a million, he believes. Several ye rs a| o, he went to Venice, Fla., and bought 10 acres of land, whic i he is now holding for SIO,OOO. T!iis de esn’t equal the million his Winona land has come to be worth, hut wi.h his Huffman lake farmland, su /division and business lots, he is probably ahead in his land deals. 19-ROOM HOTEL Mr. Barth sits by his rental boats at Huffman lake ar and is glad to recall for visi ors the olden days when he ope: ated i 19-room hotel for rich sum ner v.sitors and served them do lard nners. The hotel, 10 rooms upstairs with two star ways, one for fisnermen and ba'hers, and the .gr -nci staircase for entra tee to the dining room an ! pari jr, still store's: brown and ’ eatht rbeaten : t the top of his lane, About 15 miles south of Nappanet , straight wc i of the continuatio: of Rt 19. Huffman lake th ived when people took the train from Chicago, Ft. Wayne and othi r cities to Etna Green and Barth n et them with a horse and bi ggy. ; lany also went there from \ T appa lee. But about 40 years ago the h otel trade ceased and a ! reat i ’Umber of surrounding la :es w th new auto roads spurn 1 ahe id of Huffman lake, such a ; Syra ouse, Wawasee, Waubee and Webstii'. When he ‘ame o the lake, he bought all simmer resort rights to Huffman lal e, inc uding riparian rights, which were 15 feet of shore from the we :erline all around the lake. These 'ights le has sold except for his boat rental and his farm and siibdivid ;d lots. In his long yea s at the lake, Mr. Barth his see: six-foot sugar maple sapling grow to tower more than 30 fee and \ Allow branches sawed from trees and stuck into the ground . row to more tfran four feet in dia leter, tall and with spreading s iade. The lake has si ver bass, large and small-i iouth iass, pike, pickerel, big I hannel catfish, yellow perch, trou and bl ue gills. Barth hat tough luck in the old days when lis last crop of onions was harves: :d in s bad a market, nobody wc ild eV n look at the 10,000 bush :1s he tad sacked and crated. Th: s was about the time when Napp tnee ha i full trains of onions cars lined i p at the siding for the cro ). All the : hore o; Huffman lake is on marl nnd evidences of it can be see around the ake. Barth said his marl te ted 92.! a line and he sold it at 0 cents a yard, dig-it-yourself ar i cart t away. He fillet in loac after load, as he could st are the rime, under all his land. S meday narl may be of great enoi ;h valut to strip mine it there, ur ess it hi s become builtup in the neantim; with summer cottages. Living r 'ar Mr. and Mrs. Barth are daugh ers Mac eline, Mrs. Isaac Long ind son Bill and soon another gr >at gran (child, he says. Also Pa l line and her husband, Virgil Osw ild and Violet with her husband, 1 mory V uirphy. CRC WDS Al DEATH He reco: nts the Jeath from wa-

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EDITORIAL Because we stress shopping at Nappanee sfores, we hear many of the gripes of those who can't find what they want here. For instance, a businessman was justifiably hurried up this week when he could not buy a typewriter ribbon for a well-known brand of typewriter in Nappanee. “Everybody uses typewriter ribbons,” he states, “And yet there is not one to be bought in town for my machine. I’ll have to go out of town to get it." Other shoppers have complained that altho several stores carry clothing for young boys, they cannot buy clothes for their sub-teen daughters in town. LOSS MAY BE GREAT We print these complaints, not to knock Nappanee or any one store but because we believe it is important that shoppers should be able to find here what they want to buy. A shopper who goes to Elkhart for a typewriter ribbon will ■iossibly stay there to buy anew r 'd' ( oat or suit, or some ffousewars iv sees in a window, which he .•'m/l have purchased in Nappano. So all merchants are hurt, to ;n extent, by a shortage of merch.mlise in any one store. A former resident of an area town has told us how, over the

ter of Mrs. Rockhill in the lake, at long ago. She was in a boat with her husband, him standing, he tells, and she got up to switch seats, capsizing the boat. Her husband held her up and she was still alive when brought ashore but the physician and pulmotor did not save her. Word spread of the tragedy, and crowds collected until county police had to preserve order and keep space for the unsuccessful rescue work. Mr. Barth’s memory goes back nearly a hundred years. He sits by the lake overlooking his lands, in vigorous health, dreaming of his Florida estate, mentally alert, renting his boats and telling visitors of his life, his works, family, of olden days and his' enterprises: glad to see all who visit Huffman lake. AT GREAT LAKES Larry Stutzman, and Joe Guithus who are stationed at Great Lakes Naval hospital spent the weekend with Larrys parents the Roman Stutzmans. The boys are attending chorus school, while stationed at Great Lakes.

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; years-, he has seen one store after 1 the other in his town cut down on ' merchandise and advertising, until now you cannot buy anything there | except “overalls, farm equipment j. and a few groceries.” Everyone i there now has to shop out-of-town. SAVE MONEY HERE On the plus side, we also heard this week of a canny shopper who admits he is price-conscious, but who lost money by shopping in South Bend. He went to a South Bend store to buy an advertised piece of luggage and the next week saw the exact same luggage in a Nappanee store a couple of dollars cheaper. We also know of a mother who i went to South Bend to buy a suit I for her little boy, and only a day i later the same brand of suit was | advertised at a special price in a ; Nappanee store, much lower than | the price she paid out of town. It works both ways. Those who ■ live in Nappanee and benefit from ; its well-being H have an obligation, |we believe, fb try a Nappanee j store first before going out of i town. i Besides, they often can save money by shopping in a Nappanee i store and later, if service or adjustment is needed, the Nappanee i merchant is right there to make |good.

American Finance Quarterly Checks Now Over $2500 American Finance, Cos., Inc. 206 N. Main, announces they will distribute regular quarterly interest checks on their debentures this week. V. M. Kiester, supervisor of the company states that such checks now amount to more than 52500. each quarter from a little over one dollar to three figured amounts. A total of over 60 different debenture holders will receive checks, most of them resident of this com- | munity. Interest on the company’s debentures is paid at the rate of 5% ! per annum on or before the last day of each calendar quarter. Aspirin has been called the world’s most useful and most widely used drug—U. S. uses some 42 million tablets daily, and England some 10 million more. No one seems to know just how it works, though.

Haneys Find... (Continued from page 1) j one parent has gone home with a ■ dead “cooked” child, or one bit-1 ten and clawed by a bear. An av- j erage of 100 persons leave Yellow- j stone bitten or clawed each seasofi. animals are as innocent as a cheese-baited mousetrap. As I looked down To'Wer Canyon Falls, a sheer precipice of over ; 300 feet, a child sat looking down ■ sidewise, viewing the falls as inno- j cently as sitting on a chair at j home. Many people don’t believe j in signs and have “accidents”. We start driving along the wind- j ing mountain roads and soon are along the shoreline of the lake and smell the sulphur oozing from the bank. We are stopped now by j a line of ears ahead of us. Most of the occupants are shooting bear —with a camera. Mother Bruin sits back on her haunches and her cubs put their paws on the side of the car, begging for food. Aren't they cute! FISHERMEN CROWD Finally we cross Fishing Bridge on Yellowstone River (outlet to the lake) and park our car. I go back and find there’s hardly standing room on the 300 foot bridge to fish in this swiftly-flowing cold stream. It was late in the morning and fishing was poor. You can fish without a license in the park with a limit of three. Charles Mikel got the limit when he was here a few years ago. Around every turn in these rockbottomed streams, you’ll find men in hip boots, waders or on the bank, angling for the elusive trout. A fisherman's paradise, tho crowded. We start to make the grand loop of 140 miles in this 3500 square mile park, hoping to make “Old Faithful" by nightfall. COAST FOR MILES It’s true that you should take several days to enjoy Yellowstone. We made the circuit, stopping at different falls, springs, geysers for a short while. Up, down, around and over the mountains we go using second gear as a brake. We coasted about ten miles down one mountain. It was sundown when we arrived at Old Faithful. I inquired at the Ranger office and learned that Old Faithful’s timing could be from 30 to 90 minutes but today she was right on the hourly button. After getting set in our cabin (they had numbers up to 800 on them, just a drop in the bucket of the camping, cabin and hotels in the park for the average attendance of one and a half million a vear) we went back to see the mamouth geyer do its duty. This geyser has erupted at intervals ever since discovered by man. We are now sitting about a block from Old Faithful and dusk has fallen. A small amount of steam ; n varying amounts keeps coming from tiie crater. We scan our watch and note the time is about up. FIRST A FOOLER Suddenly a large amount of steam pops out - she’s going to go! Nope, just a fooler. We wait in anticipation. There! \ squirt of water comes just above ‘he rim, another goes higher and falls back. The next booms higher. Succeeding streams of boiling water emerge with a greater force, up, up they go! She’s doing her best now. With all the force of her inward combustion, she flings her miracle in the air and then begins to recede in the manner of i worn-out under-earth monster. With the lights on. this makes a magnificent spectacle. As we passed a row of cabins, | one lady said nervously, “Did you see that bear go thru here?” About ; midnight I heard the garbage can ' upset and a rattling of other cans. Looking thru the screened cabin window, an the dim light, I saw a huge bear rifling our garbage for

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some meat scraps, just below the window. I scratched the screen and he took off. As campers, you are warned not to keep bacon in your tent as you might find a bear along side of you, looking in your frying pan. HUNTER DISAPPEARED I was told that in Washington State, a man went out camping and didn’t return. Searchers found a demolished tent and his gun that had been fired, but no food nor man. The next morning we followed Madison River to the west entrance where it turns north and runs into a lake about a mile wide and 10 miles long formed by a dam across a canyon. This river is about the size of Elkhart River on Rd 15. One week later we were at Kalispell, Mont., when an earthquake rocked the beds and houses. Everybody was excited. The earthquake shoved a mountain into this canyon seven miles below the manmade dam. This dam, 3 /4 of a mile long, 300 feet high and about that

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wic buried an estimated 10 to 12 per ons for eternity, and trapped abojt 200 more between the two dams. DAM SAVED LIVES. I; the cam would have broken, all would have lost their lives. The 200 w?re taken out by helicopter. 1 1 the town of Ennis, down river vhich flowed swiftly the night bes re, was a dry bed in the morning v hat would you guess was the rec tion of people? Those who we ? in the area wanted out. And abc it everybody outside the area war ted to go in. Human nature is fun jy. E line, at its peak, had 14 aquedue totaling 13,000 miles in length, Which brought into the city more wat.?r than any modern city use? today. I iexanc.er the Great founded 70 lew cities—and his successors sou ded 200 more.