The Mail-Journal, Volume 16, Number 19, Milford, Kosciusko County, 30 May 1979 — Page 17

116 attend KCRT's first meeting

The Kosciusko County Retired Teachers met in the Shrine Building, Warsaw, on May 8 for the first meeting of the year. The meeting was attended by 116 members and guests. Following dinner the meeting began with opening exercises and the awarding of door prizes. Lester Davis, president, called upon Clarence Eyer, program chairman to introduce the speaker. Robert Richmond was the

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speaker for the meeting. Richmond is employed by United Telephone as the pay station supervisor. The president asked the association to elect a vice president since the office was vacated by the death of Charles Reece. Mildred Smith, who had been nominated at the previous meeting, was elected as the new vice president for the present term. A discussion followed regar-

ding the meeting for the summer and the question was raised about getting more retired teachers to become members of the Indiana Retired Teachers Association. At the present time only about twothirds of the 21,000 retired teachers belong to the association. The next meeting will be July 10 in the Shrine Building, Kosciusko County fairgrounds. Warsaw. Tippecanoe bridge winners are named The Tippecanoe Lake Country Club Ladies Bridge Club met Wednesday, May 23, with 10 tables playing. Hostesses were Mrs. J. C. Garmon. Mrs. George Hetler and Mrs. Charles Suntheimer. Winners for the day were. Mrs. Florence Stalter. Mrs. C. Pickering, Mrs. William Johnson. Mrs. Marie Yoder. Mrs. Paul Penn, Mrs. Herbert Bent. Other winners were, Mrs. Forest Kendall, xMrs. Robert Coppes, Mrs. James Weddle and Mrs. Helen Longfellow.

■ K i fc ; -&i SIN id Kj— * - RACE DRIVER AT SYRACUSE — Denny Nyari, the top late model race driver of the Tri-State Racing Circuit, was in Syracuse on Saturday, at Wyant Chevrolet. Inc., with his 1979Camaro. X'vari is shown above with his race car.

WOMAN ARRESTED Anna Mary Beasom. 21. 317 Williams Street. Milford, was arrested for disorderly conduct and later released on a S4OO bond

Edison's life and legacy — He was a little addled

By JOHN T. CUNNINGH AM The only people who took the boy called Alva Edison seriously were his mother, who doted on him. and his succession of school teachers, who were convinced that Thomas Alva Edison was destined for certain failure. Indeed. Edisons father recalled years later that "some folks thought he was a little addled. Teachers told us to keep him jn the streets, because he would never make a scholar." Born in Milan. Ohio, on' February 11. 1847. young Edison was sickly, slightly deaf, inattentive and disruptive in and out of the classroom. He was the youngest of seven children, and Mrs. Edison, who already had seen three of her children die. was especially protective of Alva, asshecalled him Alva was seven when his father Samuel moved the family to a military base at Port Huron. Mich., where Sam became the lighthouse keeper The EdisonS lived in a huge house overlooking the broad sweep of the lake. Young Edison's life was lonely. The only brother still at home was 15 years older, and there were few other children on the military base. Boys tended to avoid him. since his ungainly, uncoordinated body made him poor in sports. Edison’s first formal schooling was in Port Huron. In the fall of 1854. at age 7, he entered a private school and so disturbed the headmaster that the boy often felt the severe sting of the tutor's t switch. Alva fled from the school w ithin a few weeks. Mrs. Edison took on Alva's education and was a stern taskmaster herself, for all her affection. She largely shaped Edison’s mind, although sporadically he did attend other schools in Port Huron. Sam Edison tended to let his son fend for himself, perhaps believing too much in the neighborhood stories that Alva was addled. Young Edison was an omnivorous reader, pursuing every kind of printed material. He leaned toward science, sometimes with disastrous effects, as when he burned to the ground his father’s barn while experimenting with ways to start a fire. Alva’s formal education ended at age 12, when he took a job on the Port Huron to Detroit railroad. He sold newspapers, candy and other sundries. The boy left home at 6 am. and returned shortly before 11 p.m., six days a week. It is said that he learned a lifelong ability to "catnap” by sleeping on the train’s hard seats. Ever a believer in turning spare time into cash, Alva bought an old printing press and began publishing the “Grand Trunk Herald" in 1862. The Herald was a lively, gossipy, close-to-slanderous recounting of life along the railroad. It was always "hot off the press,” since Edison’s printing equipment was set up in a baggage car. Alva also experimented with chemicals in the baggage car. doing very well until a bottle of phosphorus caught fire, fell to the floor and set the car afire. The flames did little damage, but Edison's career as a chemist was temporarily snuffed out. The boy’s quick mind flashed into action on April 6, 1862, when a savage Civil War battle was fought at Shiloh and sent shock waves across the land. Hearing in Detroit about the awesome fatalities, Edison talked the circulation department of the Detroit Free Press into selling him 1,000 papers, rather than his usual allotment of 300. The extra 700 were on credit. Edison bribed a friendly telegrapher into sending a "flash” message on the battle to every station along the line. At the first station, where he usually sold two copies, Edison sold 35. He tripled the price at the next stop and, by the end of the run, had priced the paper at 25 cents (against the usual three cents). He had far more customers than papers. Sickness struck Alva in the winter of 1863, and Edison’s mother insisted that he stay home. The 16-year-old boy became friendly with a lady schoolteacher boarding in his

mother's house. When the teacher taught him the Morse code. Edison devised a crude sending key and learned simple telegraphy Undoubtedly Edison pursued telegraphy initially with the same curiosity that had characterized all his life to that point He knew. too. that he could now leave selling newspapers behind him and become a telegrapher, especially since the Civil War had put operators in short supply Telegraphy was probably just something else that Alva wanted to know, but for the world that he would change. Edison at last had found his kev to life.

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“No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century." Mark Twain Lake Lots And Acreage LAKE WAWASEE - Enchanted Hills $ 3,000- $ 6,000 Fascination Place $ 5,500 *10,500 IRISH LAKE *9 100 SMALLEY LAKE $ 2,900 BIG BARBEE *12,000 . Jellystone Camp $ 5,800 Beacon Shores — $ 6,500**7,500 Syracuse KNAPP LAKE — 25.64 wooded acres, private lake and 400' frontage, terms available. *75,000 LAKE WAWASEE — 4 acres, 240' lake frontage! *175,000

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