The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 26 June 1937 — Page 4

THE iMILY BANNER, GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, SATEKDAY, .ICNE iM., 1 !)■!/■

Janice attended a birthday dinner Sunday in honor of Mrs. Earl Hutcheson at her home near Reelsville. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Caywood entertained at six o'clock dinner Tuesday for Mr. and Mrs. Howard Klute of Richmond. Edward Englehart of

Danville, Ind., and Mr. and Mrs. Fred ton this week.

nomics club met Thursday with Mrs. Lucille Skelton. Charles Marshall is working for Clarence Pickett painting his house

this week.

Ivan Irwin and Arthur Thomas are working on a pipe line near Mor-

Boatman and daughter Martha.

ITKIM K OFFERS FARMERS HI ILDINti PLAN SERVICE

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Thomas spent a few days with Mr. and Mrs.

Paul Thomas.

Mr. and Mrs. Archie Spencer and

- j Mrs. Pearl Sturgeon of Russellville Indiana farmers, who arc consid- i visited Mr. and Mrs. George Spencer ering the construction of farm build-1 Sunday.

RAIN BRIDGE 4 4 Mrs. Nelson + ^ + 4. + J.+*4.-«.J. + ^ + + + 4(j Mr and Mrs. Perry L. Dean and daughter Marilyn and son Kenneth and Mrs. A. S. Dean of Minneapolis, Minn., were recent guests of their sister, Mrs. S. A. Colliver and husband. Mrs. A. S. Dean and Kenneth remained fo ran extended visit. Mr and Mrs. Dale B. Atkins of Crown Point visited last week end with Mr. and Mrs. Basil Pruitt. Claibourne Weddell of Greencastle was a guest last week of Gene Edwin Pruitt. Mrs. W. C. Rroady of White Pine. Tenn . has returned to her home after a week’s visit with Mrs. W. D. Conn, who accompanied her to Bedford and Louisville where they visited relatives over the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Weller of Chicago are spending their vacation here with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Weller and Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Bratton. Miss Mary Kearnev of Washington, Ind.. is visiting friends here for a few weeks. Mrs. Mattie Wilkinson was the guest of friends in Greencastle and Fillmore the past week. Miss Virginia Leyenberger and William Peltz of Indianapolis were

guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Leyenberger last week end. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Etcheson and family spent Saturday night and Sunday with relatives in Charleston,

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Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Darnell of Miami, Fla., are guests for the summer of Mrs. Lena Todd. They and Mrs. Todd have just returned from a two weeks visit with relatives in Detroit, Mich., Chicago and Indianapolis. Mrs. Dan Jensen and daughter Mary Jane of Billings, Montana and Mrs. Carl Williamson and son of Danville, 111., spent the past week with Mrs. Jensen’s brother, D. O. Tate and family. Mrs. Flora Stone of Indianapolis is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller this week. Mrs. E. C. Rice of Ashton, Maryland is spending the week with her sister, Mrs. Win. Summerville and husband. Guests on Tuesday night were Mrs. Ruth Stark and daughter, Mrs. Orville Snyder of Amo. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Klute of Richmond are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Fred Boatman and daughter Martha this week. Mrs Klute was formerly Miss Virginia Boatman. They were married Sunday at the home of Mr. Klute in Richmond. Mrs. Muriel Nelson and daughter

ings this summer or fall, will be interested in the Purdue farm Building Plan Service, which provides a selection of more than 200 plans of typical farm buildings. The purpose of this service is to assist farmers in the construction of farm buildings of efficient and economical resign, according to Professor William Attkenhead. head of the agricultural engineering department, Purdue university. “Buildings necessary for the shelter of animals, the storage of grains, and the processing of and curing farm products, which compose the farmstead group, must be designed for efficiency and economy.” Professor Aitkenhead said. “Research and investigation have brought to light many facts to be considered in the design and structure of farm buildings. The ventilation, lighting, and insulation o fthe structure have been studied to determine their effect on the production of animals. The size of the livestock stalls and the requirements for shelter have in many cases been developed into a more or less standard form. Building equipment for efficient production and for labor saving has been developed and new material has been made avaiable for economical and permanent construction.” The application of these principles of farm building to the actual structures has resulted in the preparation of plans which are readily understandable to the farm owner and his carpenter or contractor. For each building in the service, there has been prepared a complete set of well tletailed drawings. Blue prints of these drawings are available to cooperators in the jstate at a nominal price through .the facilities of the department of Agricultural Extension, Purdue university. A complete list of the available plans is kept on file in the offices of the county agricultural agents. Mr. Harris recommends that farmers interested in these plans, call at his

office.

tty 4* 4* 4* 4* 4- 4* 4* 4* 4* 4 4 @ 4 BKUNERSTOWN *4 4 Airs. Loyle Johnston 4 4*. 4 4 4 4 4- 4 1* S' 4 4- JoJ Mr. and Mrs. Carey Dillinger and sons. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Wright attended church services in Indianapolis Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thompson and children visited Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Johnson Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Carey Dillinger and children called on Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Johnson Saturday evening. Carl Skelton and sons have sold their business to Emory Thompson at Greencastle. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ellis and son Junior, and Miss Maxine Dillinger returned Monday after visiting Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Ellis at Williamsburg, Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Brattain and son Junior called by Mr. and Mrs. Carl Skelton Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. George Spencer, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lane visited Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Beckley and daughter Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Irwin and children spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Irwin. The Madison Township Home Eco-

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Mr. and Mrs. Henry Marshall have as their guests Mrs. Marshall's sister. Hottie and two children David and William of Miami. Florida. Robert Snider's house burned Tues-

day.

Several from here attended the shower given for Mrs. Donovan Heber Wednesday at the home of

Ernest Heber.

John Johnston visited Henry Marshall Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. R W. Johnston and Mrs. Eliza Johnston called on Mr. and Mrs. John Johnston and daughter Monday evening. MURDER IN (iROVEI.ANI) (Continued From I’mko One> farm house was located about two hundred yards south of Road 36 and was on the highland just above Monachal’s fork of Clear creek. This branch was at that time a stream of considerable size, but is now only a drained ditch without water at most seasons of the year. In a pool beneath an old elm tree which stood on the bank of the creek I caught my first fish, a small chub minnow, was unable to take it off the hook and so took it up to my mother for help. The Grovelanl schoolhouse was at this time located close to the road just northeast of my father’s house and about a third of a mile east of its present site. It was here that I attended my first school. It was taught by Harvey Summers, son of Frank Summers, and my second one was taught by my father. H. S. Blatchlcy. Gathered Bushel of Walnuts In the lowlands of the stream mentioned there were numerous great sycamores, two of which had large hollows in their bases and in these my two older sisters and 1 played at. "keeping house.” Numerous big. black walnut trees were also in this low ground and under them in au tumn we gathered and hulled bushels of the walnuts. On the uplands of the same fa|m south of the house there were scores of shellbark and few shagbark hickory trees, some of them nearly one hundred feet in height. The shagbarks bore a aut three times the size of the otherr with a much thicker shell and sweeter kernel. One fall after a heavy wind I lay flat on the ground and without changing my position gathered more than a peck of the

smaller nuts.

The old farmhouse was heated in winter by two very large open fireplaces from which arose large brick chimneys. These in spring and summer were occupied by numerout chimney swifts. 'Hieir nests, ftisttened against the inner walls of the chimneys, would often J'all, sometimes with the young clinging tenaciously to them. In the springs and autumns of the years we were on this farm flocks of wild or passenger pigeons oftentimes passed overhead Sometimes these flocks were so close and dense as to almost hide the sun The last ones were noted in the fall of 1868. Qualls or bobwhites were at that time so numerous in the vicinity where we lived that my father and uncles set nets into which they drove them by scores. One or my uncles made for me a large cone-shaped trap of wood slats. This I set with a figure four trigger and bailed with corn, and one morning had fourteen quails as my reward. Candles Provided Light At that time the only way of light ing the house was by tallow candles and I have often watched my mother make them by the dozen. She used large tin molds, a center wick being inserted in each individual mold around which the melted tallow wus poured. She also carefully saved all extra grease and in the spring made all the soap we used, boiled it with lye from wood ashes which had been leached in 'large V-shaped wooden hoppers by pouring water over them The soap was made and lard was rendered out of doors in big iron kettles and in the fall apple butter and peach butter was made in smaller copper kettle. In those days most, if not all, the citizens of Groveland kept one o. two cows and a few hogs. For the greater part of the year these roamed freely through the streets of the t<*vn. There was then as now growing in central Indiana a lowly ill-smelling composite plant, the niarweqjl or dog fennel. In my book, “Boulder Reveries.” I wrote of it and Groveland as follows: “The mavweed flourishes in waste places along the pathways and about the country barnyards where men and hogs and cattle are wont travel or congregate. Elsewhere it

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will not grow. I never see it or scent it without calling up from memory’s cells the streets of a little country town where the mayweed Held full sway a half a century and more ago a town of fewer than a hundred population, far removed from railways, whose citizens knew each other's every act and move, and were content to live and let live, sniffing the fetid odor of the mayweed from mid-June until midOctober. A ‘dog-fennol village’ it was, in truth, where cows and hogs roamed freely Jat will, where the wants of man were few and contentment ruled unbroken. And yet, to my boyish imagination, it was the center of the universe, the hub of the wheel of my existence.” Fciiil Is Carried On During the first years we lived on the farm east of Groveland the muricr committed by Harper Evans was kept in the spotlight by a feud which had arisen between Frank Summers, who had been one of the principal investigators of the Hanna murder, and Noah Evans, a brother of Harper Evans. Whenever they met there were fist fights and the citizens of Grove.land sided with one

the other.

In 1864 Harper Evans escaped from prison. A short time after his escape someone shot at nignt through a window at Frank Summers and a few evenings later a Miss Ader, with whom Evans had kept company before the murder, while walking near her home, was shot. This would-be assassin was thought to be Harper Evans, and citizens of Groveland and vioinity were afraid to venture out after night for fear he would harm them he had threatened. The first squad of soldiers I ever saw in marching formation passed one ’morning by my father’s house to the woods south in search of Evans. They did not find him nor was he ever afterward heard of,, though it is said that Noah Evans sometimes showed visitors a picture of a woman and children and said they were those of Harper's family. Noah Evans, the brother of Harper, was for a long time the owner rf sawmill on Road 36 near Groveland. He was afterward jin 1891) convicted of killing a citizen of Roachdale and sentenced to prison for life. His old mother was in the court room at the time of his sentence, and thus heard a sentence of imprisonment for life dealt out of a

second son.

Mail Three Timr* a Week The Groveland mail at this time takes a week on horseback. The icarest railway station was Fillmore, on the Terre Haute division of the present Pennsylvania Railway. Many of the residents of Groveland and vicinity were, during the Civil War, subscribers to the daily Cincinnati Gazette or the Indianapolis Journal \nd someone each afternoon would meet the train at Fillmore for these papers. I well remember the morning after Abraham Lincoln was shot and how my father and mother grieved when they heard the news and I cried because I was afraid the rebels woulv come up and kill all of us. During the Civil War many of the people living in Groveland and vicinity were sympathizers of the South, and a number of them belonged to the “Knights of the GoldUnion Circle.” Those who favored the Union cause were known as abolitionists. My grandfather was an art lent abolitionist, duo, in part at least, to his having all his four sons in the Union armies. He was outspoken in making known his sentiments regarding the war and on the night of April 20. 1865 his general store at Groveland was burned. The party who set fire to it left him a note, written on two pages torn from a small notebook. What the Notr* Said. The original of this note I recently found in an old leather pockethook which helnged to my grandfather, and I quote it herewith verbatim as

follows:

First page. "Read this you dammed aboli-

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tionist for you are on your Jast legs.” Second page: April 20th 1863

"Sir

“Mr. abolitionist of Groveland you hav been cutting a pretty big swell for the last 4 years

“Now sir

“I will just inform you that you hav about run your rase and you had better prepare to meete your God for som of you shal fallow old Abe soon or I am adammed liar "You hav concluded that you had the south whiped but you hav just

begun to have trouble.

“We intend to destroy everything you hav got find kill the meanest of you and if we can’t do it one way we can a nother and the gentleman that don't lend demo, crats money to pay out the draft isent a going to make much by the operation, and that is mr Hall”.

Lost Life's Savings in Fire

The incendiaries were never de- 1 the Social Security Board at tectcd. My grandfather had no in- its field offices for a lump scttli

surance and the fire deprived him of his life’s savings. On March 25. 1865. about a month before the fire, he had been commissioned as postma.* ter, and continued as postmaster, and continued to hold the position for eleven years thereafter. The salary of the office was, however, very small. After returning from the Union army his oldest son. Stanley A. Hall, built a new store building on the site of the old one and for a long time was the leading merchant in Groveland. My grandfather had the post office in this store and on those days when the mail was due the majority of the citizens gathered there awaiting it. Having no individual mail boxes the postmaster would frst sort out the mail alphabetically and then would read aloud the names of the parties to whom it was addressed and they would step

up and receive it.

Wing claims for lump-sum pa| under the social security act. i mg to H. L. McCarthy, ilircd the siv th region comprising ana, Illinois, and Wisconsi n is seventh in states Idling dan( ing led only by six states with] larger population, he 'xp| These payments are awarded I ployecs in onv'rol Industrie! have attained age 65, or to tales of workers who have die(

Jan. 1.

“Claims are being received I region at the rate of 50 a day ( number is expected to rise i| creasing rapidity. Reasons fol expected increase are the glj number of workers who obta| count numbers and therefore 1 eligible, and the increasing num| claimants who become aware i claims procoi dun ' McCarthJ

plained.

“On reaching 65. every wagfl cr in a occupation .should api

SOCIAL SECURITY CLAIMS Hoosiers are among the leaders in

equal to three and one-half of his total wages since lanu^ Upon the death of an eligible v his survivors should make a si claim. To date figures compilj the Board show that 45 per i all claims have been for death

fits.

“Claims proccedure is

simple. A claim usually is within one month of filing In claims however, an additional is reqquircd because of state

governing estates''

The ten states and the numt claims received In the fir st fl ' e

ths are:

New York Pennsylvania

Massachusetts

New Jersey

Ohio

Illinois Indiana

Michigan Wisconsin California

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