Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 89, Number 40, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 31 March 1966 — Page 3

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By- Kenneth Haney Bad Luck It was bad luck to drive back over the same road on the "way to the ceiratery so this was avoided. It was a bad sign to rain in the grave -—another one. in the family would soon die. “A green Christmas and a white Easter makes fat grave yards” was a fearful saying. .Don’t. be ,too critical! This unseasonable weather caused colds,'Cflu, etc., and. with no medical know how the death rate was high. ' ; /; ; As I said before, the Island cemetery with no income but donations was covered with briars, weeds, etc., which left it in a deplorable condition until its care and that of the Brumbaugh cemetery were paid by public taxation. It’s a free public burying place. Bert Irvine saw the condition of Island cemetery -as he looked over the fence from his farm and determined to do -something about it in the 1950’5. Enlisting the help of relatives of the deceased, he put his bulldozer to work to push out the brush and trees from the back

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part, and leveled it off so it .qould be mowed, , ,r . John Kaiser gave a-fctriip of ground so the drive why. could be Widened, 'graded, drained and graveled, so it’s a public 'road. A well was driven, h; gravel drive around the cemetefy made and the drives were all enclosed with -riew fence. This was done by donated money and labor. A cemetery ‘'fit for a king to be btiried in.” Those who honor the dead will respect the living.’* - r Among those who 'helped irt this worthy project were EnoS, fernest, Paul and Russel HollaT, Henry and Royce Biller, Rudy and Otto Sierk, Lew' Davis, Frank Charlton, Glen Pinkerton, Lawrence Dierks and myself. Tragedies on the Island We have had our share of. sorrows, too. My great-grandmother was killed by a sheep buck as she crossed the hill one half mtile south of Gerald Charlton’s farm. Gerald McDonald was gored by a bull about 1935 and Fred Wuthrich Sr., met the same fat.e in 1921. Truly “You can’t trust a bull any f art her th an you can throw* him by h : s tail.” Mr. Wuthrich r ' had purchased this white faced bull as a calf from Mervin Mishler about two years before. Arthur Hall was buried beneath a load of tile in the bottom of the Neff ditch when a temporary bridge gave way in 1915. Berniece Spicher w r as burned to death. Billie Moore and several horses were killed by lightning just south of the old Miiton Berger gravel-pit about 1906. Aaron Slabaugh met death when run over by a wagon in front of the Hastings store about 1925. Noah Estep was run over by a car_in Ohio and Mrs. Daniel Haney’s life was snuffed out by a car on a South Bend street. A car accident caused the untimely death of Darell Kaiser on the Community Center road. Farm tractor accidents took the life of William Sierk in 1946 and Glenn Baker recently. Truly as we lay our friends and loved ones tenderly away, we look for a city whose maker and ruler is God. The Gravel Pit In regard to W. R. Defter gravel pit now the Zimmerman pit. I recall when this hill reminded you of a Benton Harbor fruit orchard. After we had tied our horses across the road from what is now Dr. Rheinheimer’s residence we to pick thOS* ■Tn&dhJtts cherries from the loaded trees. From our perch in the trees you could see the “mud” train loaded with its precious ..cargo, and Tom Trumb engine wind its way toward the cement factory in Syracuse. It's load of marl had been dredged from the bottom of Waubee Lake.

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Police Chief Dean Middaugh demonstrates the new emergency radio system to LaMar Mutschler, Chairman of the Board of Mutschler Brothers. Mutschler Bros, donated this equipment to Nappanee, enabling the police and civil defense units to receive reports of tornadoes in the area and to relay information to Elkhart for broadcast by radio and television to the whole area. The principals at Mutschler said that they hoped if this radio system is ever called into use, it may help save lives and property. They expressed the hope that it never has to be used in the first place.

Years later when I remember that “toot” “toot” of the choo! choo! as it crossed the country road's my conscience sort of pricked me. What he was frying to tell me was he was bringing me a better life. With the gravel under me and the cement he helped to make, would cgme concrete roads, pavements, sidewalks, foundations, vaults, huge silos and houses. Yes, he would pull our feet from the mud and miry clay and set us free. He would get rid of the rats by destroying board floors and breeding places. Truly, I should have saluted my choo! choo! train as he glided by. Thanks little engine for your help iri making the Orn road concrete! Years later, about 1919, a railroad hauled gravel from the gravel pit to a washing plant, near the outlet to Waubee Lake. The present beautiful beach and park came from the washed sand. Several *acres of/lake were filled up, getting rid of the old ‘swiitnmin! hole, where for years the' young

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men of the community had enjoyed swimming in their birthday clothes. (To be continued.)

ACTIVITIES

Thursday, March 31 Get Together Cl u^ Friday, April 1 wscs Saturday, April 2 Presbyterian Rummage Sale Tuesday, April $ American War Mothers Womens Club Lady Lions Past Matrons Wednesday, April 6 Rotary Glub Thursday, ApH 17 - VFW Meeting

Senior Citizens Friday, April 8 W.C.T.U. Monday, April 11 Child Study 'Club ’ Jaycee Meeting Legion Auxjliary Tuesday, April 12 Republican Women Baptist Missionary Women Junior Auxiliary OES Home Echoes Wednesday, April 13 Methodist Dorcas Circle Lions Club Rotary Club Lyceum Club Thursday, April 14 Legion Meeting The mantis puts its eggs in a sort of thermos bottle —a cluster of hundreds of bubbles of air 'Wwyut the eggs, which- serves-'as insulation.

THE ROBIN (Submitted by the students of science at Nappanee High School as a public service.) Named by homesick colonists for a European bird with a much redder breast, the Robin’s average length is 10 inches in a standard io which birds are compared. Being one of the most common native birds, it is the largest of the thrushes, a relationship seen in the spotted breasts of the young. Two or three broods are raised each year. The male and the female share the task of incubation. Famous for its beautiful, song, it is illegal to kill the Robin in many places. Male and female birds are similar with the female having a palet breast and duller color. The same chalk deposits that make Dover England famous, also, extend into Ireland,- Denmark, Germany and far into Russia.

THURS. MAR. 31, 1966

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL Teachers and helpers of the Community Daily Vacation Bible School will meet Friday at 7:30

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p.m. in the First Brethren Church The .Bible School will open May 31 and continue through Juhe 10. in ’ Central School. Mrfit ’lYiUiam Anderson is director of the school.

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