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Hy HORTE.N SE MYERS ' INDIANAPOLIS UPI—Most people entering the home of Mrs. Leonard Beer at Sunman . In Ripley County immediately notice her collection of antique china and glassware. They seldom notice that the home itself is an 1882 schoolhouse. Mrs. Beer, who prefers to be ealled^Bert and jokes about her ' last pame. formerly lived in a cottage adjacent to the school

’ house. Her husband, who died in 1962, was a native of Sunman and had attended classes in the school. When it was abandoned for school purposes, Bert purchased the two-story brick building and for seven years said nothing to her husband about the acquisition. “One day my husband said that his brother was going over to Batesville to see about buying the old school and I told him the building wasn't for sale,” Bert recalled. “He said

wouldn’t be for sale and that the school officials would be lucky if anybody bought it.” To which his wife replied: “The old schoolhouse belongs to us. I bought it seven years ago.” Since that time, a lot of remodeling has gone on. with the result that the brick building now is a comfortable two-story home, with big picture windows overlooking an acre of garden. The only indication of the house's original purpose is the

Most strangers, step over the stone wtihout noticing the words, walk inside and say: “I didn’t know you ran an antique shop.” Bert doesn’t. She is southeastern Indiana correspondent for Indianapolis and Cincinnati newspapers and rebional circulation manager for the Indianapolis Star and News. She hires, fires and supervises some 20-motor-earrier routemen who deliver the Star and the News all the way from the Ohio River to Marion County. In between she covers news

School senior. The late Neal McCallum hired Bert to work on the Batesville Tribune (now Her-ald-Tribune). The desk at which she worked was next to a window overlooking the New York Central railroad tracks, but the new girl reporter didn’t

object.

Across the tracks, a NYC yard clerk by the name of Leonard Beer also worked beside a window. “We flirted with each other between trains.” Bert recalled. They were married in 1914 and after Beer re-

( old cornerstone—now a door-

1 step—which has the dim leg- events, to keep in touch with a j turned from World War I, the j end: journalistic career which began ! young couple lived for a while “Sunman Public School, Dis- ; when she was a Batesville High in Indianapolis.

“Then my husband and his j brother decided they wanted to come back to their hometown and run a general store,” Bert said. At present the store is for sale since Bert is too busy with ; her newspaper work to run it. Bert's collection of antiques : began as casually as her acquisition of the schoolhouse. “My relatives, and my husband's rel- . atives knew I was sentimental about old things and would bring them to me.” she remembered. “Then other people started bringing me old dishes and figurines.” She has a set of 1850 English Staffordshire figures : with nodding heads which were a gift, and nearby is a pair of

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French bisquo figurlnea which a friend had often told Bert she wanted to give to her. “One day I saw an ad in the Greensburg Daily News about a sale at the home of this friend.” Bert recalled. "I couldn’t imagine why she would be having a sale but I went over. My friend had died while I was away on a trip. I was determined to have the figurines she had wanted to give me.” It cost Bert S62.50 to outbid other purchasers.

er in a massixe traffic jam out- | side her house on the A-7, a main north-south road here. She called three police stations but none could spare a man for traffic duty. So, in her red, white and blue dress, she stepped onto the road and began directing traffic for two ! hours. “I just waved my arms about and things began to move,” she said.

POWER OF A WOMAN CUMBERLAND. England UPI—Mrs. Laura Bell, 60, watched the cars crowd togeth-

The toll road to the summit of 6.288-foot Mt. Washington, in New Hampshire, has been in constant use since 1861. I

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