The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 October 1964 — Page 6

Page 6 MONDAY, OCTOBER 19,1964

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA

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The War for the Union 1861-65 in Pictures

had no Christmas turkeys. Buffalo meat wen more Bkety, or a little fresh pork to break the monotony of salt pork. Eggs wore scarce, and sorghum molowoi was ucitun so much that the settlers wore coiled "sorghum loppers.*'

"It wasn't a sour note from my singing that broke the goblet,” claims C. M. Norris, manager of the local Montgomery Ward store. "It was probably the volume from our loudest non-electric guitar in the world.” The rugged, handsome fiberglass guitar now available in the store, produces a new sound with the crisp tones folk music requires. A special resonator and tone chamber make this instrument perfect for hootennanies on the beach, campus or backyard where volume is needed but electric amplifiers cannot be used.

The moke-do Christmas dinner, the round-up, and the drive over the trad became a memory after railroads began to bring supplies from the East and carry cattle back .-v again in the 1860s. They also brought the end of the cattlemen's frontier.

Modern westerners, Bks TV's flying cowboy Sky King and his niece Penny, celebrate Christmas in fine style. No dried-up sob pork for them. Christmas, of course, is as likely to be pocked with skybeme adventures as any other day of Sky King's year.

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Part of the inscription on a gravestone in Stroudsburg,

Pa., is: John Summerfield Staples. "A private of Co. C, 156 Reg. P. I. Also a member of the 2 Reg. D. C. Vol’s, as a Substitute

for Abraham Lincoln.”

He wasn’t a substitute for Lincoln in the usual Civil War sense. Earlier, a peculiar law made it easy for wealthy men to escape military service which poorer men could not evade legally for lack of funds. Countless individuals of military age and in fit condition paid others to take their places in the Army or handed over $300 to the government for exemption. One who did so was Grover Cleveland, the future president.

Lincoln was exempted by his position from the draft. But in 1864, he joined other individuals in inducing men who had already served in the Army to rejoin. Staples was a civilian guard at a government building when he happened to be offered the opportunity to serve in Lincoln's name. His acceptance won him a meeting with Lincoln at the White House and a payment by Lincoln of about $650. Staples, who entered the Pennsylvania Infantry in 1862 at 16, had been discharged in 1863 for medical reasons. Years after the war, in broken health, he applied for & Civil War pension, and it was denied him! —CLARK KIN.N VLKD

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Susie Smith and Dolores Sparks had a busy day Saturday when they participated in the H.H.H. and L.B.J. Mainstreet USA campaign. The two girls are members of the Putnam County Teen Dems and passed out bubble gum to passersby. In the top photo, the girls are handing gum to Helen and Paul Sutherlin of Greencastle. In the bottom photo, little Timmy Davis doesn't quite know what its all about but is interested in the bubble gum anyway. Timmy didn't comment to the girls whether or not his vote was swayed by the campaign. Photos by Martin Kruse

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