The Mail-Journal, Volume 21, Number 8, Milford, Kosciusko County, 7 March 1984 — Page 17

It happened ... in Milford

10 YEARS AGO, MARCH 6,1974 The new church bus of the Milford Christian Church made its first run on Sunday morning delivering some 27 youngsters to the church for Sunday School from the Syracuse area. A second bus has been covering the Milford area for the past several months with between 40 and 50 youngsters riding that bus each week. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Miller, of r 1 Milford, are the parents of a daughter born Wednesday, Feb. 27. at the Goshen Hospital. Elaine S. Kilmer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orvil Kilmer of r 2 Milford, will receive the cap of the Memorial Hospital of South Bend School of Nursing in a ceremony to be held at the First Presbyterian Church, 333 W. Colfax Ave., South Bend, on Thursday, March 14, at 8 o’clock in the evening. 20 YEARS AGO, MARCH 5,1964 The senior class of Milford High School has scheduled its fish fry for Saturday, March 7, in the Milford Community Building. Serving will begin at 5 p.m. and continue until 7:30 p.m. Carryout service will be from 5:30-7:30 p.m.

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Mr. and Mrs. Victor Beer of Milford and Mr. and Mrs. George Graff of Goshen were among those who attended the dedication of the Apostolic Christian Church in Fort Lauerdale, Fla., recently. At Monday evening’s meeting of the Milford Town Board held in the town hall members decided to thive the town’s dog ordinance to town attorney John Logue to be revised. Mrs. Jerry Kammerer of Leesburg, a beauty operator in Milford, and Mrs. Tom Sands of Whiting attended the annual Midwest Beauty Trade School Sunday at Sheman House in Chicago. 30 YEARS AGO, MARCH 11,1954 The new Milford Masonic Lodge Hall was the scene of an unusually large gathering last Friday evening when the Bourbon degree team was here to present the Master Mason degree to Ed Huber of Milford. Mrs. Ezra Beer and daughter Eunice Beer, will be hostesses at a bridal shower Tuesday evening for Miss Rebecca Beer whose marriage to Arnold Doll of Syracuse, will occur March 27. In observance of National 4-H Club week the West Side Merry

Maidens 4-H Club has a display in the post office window. It gives an idea of the nature of 4-H work and lists their rules. There are also photos of the girls. 50 YEARS AGO, MARCH 8,1934 Mrs. Martin Homan has returned to her home in east Milford, after spending some time with her son in South Bend. She re-

Children's toys are antique collector's joy

By CATHY BRILL Staff Writer Bonnie Lou Scott of rural Leesburg is not just toying with her hobby. She is quite serious about collecting her antique toys and is especially proud of her collection of stuffed bears which date back to the early 1900 s. She is so proud, infact, that she wears an antique gold bear pendant around her neck. Bonnie Lou delights in telling the story of how Theodore Roosevelt inspired the making of stuffed bears. It all started, she explains, when Roosevelt refused to hunt a lame bear while on an exposition in the Mississippi Valley. The Mitchems, she says,

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WHO WANTS AN OLD TEDDY BEAR? — Bonnie Lou Scott it seems is the answer to the question posed by the children’s story book pictured here. Miss Scott, sitting next to her caravan of bears is proud of her collection of bears which date back to the early 1900 s. Chugging along side Bonnie Lou Scott’s bears is a 1895 Bliss train. The paper lithographed train was originally made for the 1893 Chicago-Columbian exposition and later a few were produced as a children's toy.

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mained in the Earl Homan residence for part of last week. Rev. McKee has been invited to give a talk at the Syracuse Methodist Church this evening. Mrs. Cecile Brumbaugh will hold the regular meeting of the Merry Jane Club on Saturday night of this week instead of the regular meeting on Friday.

who owned a stationery store in a nearby town, heard the story and crafted a crude bear likeness. They placed it in a store window display and began rapidly selling them. From that point the craze grew, she explains. Many of Bonnie Lou’s bears date back to the early 1900 s. Price range, she says, varies a great deal. Although Bonnie Lou has bid up to S6OO for bears at auction, she has also been able to buy antique bears for as litte as $4 a piece. She explains, there are antique bears available in every price range. Bonnie Lou is not one to dress bears. “I don’t think bears need to be dressed like dolls, but a lot of people do and it’s all right,” she says.

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The following information was obtained from the log of the Syracuse Police Department: February 29 12:37 a.m. — North Webster Police Department requested we

Bonnie Lou will, however, put booties on the feet of bears with worn pads and if a bear is outfitted when she buys it she will leave it as is. Although she does not name her bears, she still feels that each one is special and different, with its own personality. Os the Cabbage Patch craze, she says, “I think it is very bad to raise children that way, (thinking of dolls as adoptive children) to make them believe that. A doll is a doll, and a child is a child. Just as a teddy bear is a teddy bear.” Bonnie Lou does not take much stock in the Cabbage Patch Doll craze, but she herself is the owner of two of the original 32-inch free standing dolls. To her, Cabbage Patch or not, they

■LIAmOI „.,tl C In., -waft STILL GROWLING AT 80! — Thb glass eyed teddy bear dates back to 1804. Steiff, a German toy and bear company, designed this bear as a riding and pull toy for children. He was c >mplete with a pull sting which made him growl, and after 88 years be is still growling! Bonnie Lon, explains be b a particularly rare find. In near mint condition, he still has the pewter button in hb ear which was the Steiff trademark of the era. The original pull cord and cast iron wheeb make him an even more special part of her collection. ► WoAroT<*inJ < • Applications For • Cloth cutters, sewers and bucket seat J upholsterers for our upholstery F Experience preferred. • All Oponinss On First Shift ’ • Please Apply Between 8 A.M. And ® ► 4 P.M. Monday Through Friday At: 4 Flexsteel Industries, Inc. J o 6A15 O ► New Paris 4

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are just another collectible. As for her bears, they have come from collectors and dealers throughout the United States. The majority were purchased in the area, however Most are from the Plymouth, Silver Lake, North Manchester, North Webster, Bristol, Columbia City, South Whitley or Fort Wayne areas. When purchasing her bears Bonnie Lou looks for several things. Since many of her bears are Steiff bears, a German firm famous for its early teddy bears, she looks for the pewter button pressed into the ear, a Steiff trademark in the 1900 s. If the button is missing, she then looks for a hole in the ear where the button once would have been. Because her bears date to the early 1900 s, she also watches for long snouts and arms, hump backs, sewn noses and shoe button eyes. Bonnie avoids purchasing bears which have been restored. “If they have been reparied in any way that cuts the value immensely,” she explains. She will, however, replace the bears’ eyes with antique blown eyes, another of her many collections of antique items. She also does not object to restorations done with materials correspondent to the era of the bears. Bonnie, who thinks of herself as a “Plain Jane” or a sort of “Second Hand Rose”, has found in her 10 to 15 years of experience with antiques that it can be easy to get cheated. Even dealers sometimes are taken in by reproductions, she explains. Her hobbies certainly suggest her serious interest in antiquing. “I read books on antiques and antique magazines. There’s not a more enjoyable thing to do,” she relates. “I don’t pretend to know it all for goodness sake. I know a lot and I don’t ieLa lot of information go by the wayside. I guess I’m an antiquer at heart,” she concludes.

Wed., March 7,1984 - THE MAIL-JOURNAL

Irish setter in the fish hatchery area 10:23 a.m. - North Webster requested grant emergency right of way to a white/gold Pontiac, enroute to the hospital 2:06 p.m. — Subject reported a stray dog on Mullin Street, bothering her tied dog 2:34 p.m. - Subject reported kids ripping up furniture in alley beside Sportsman’s 3:59 p.m. — Party advised a big black labrador running loose on North Shore Drive March 1 9:44 a.m. - Officer requested a wrecker, one in town, for a van on Syr.-Web. Road near Dana 11:51 a.m. — Report of a subject seeing another subject selling drugs to another subject uptown 4:59 p.m. — Subject on station requesting a copy of an accident report 11:17 p.m. — Subject advised of a problem at a bar, then said to forget it 11:23 p.m. — Subject advised his semi will be at the stoplight until 6:30 a.m. 11:52 p.m. - Subject advised tire and foot tracks to valuables in the back yard, unknown at this time if anything is missing, will check in the morning and advise March 2 9:30 a.m. — Subject reported an accident on the Syracuse-Milford Road, two miles west of Dana 12:53 p.m. - Clerk’s office advised of a subject at the police station requesting a copy of an accident report 4:58 p.m. — Subject on station to pick up a dog 9:53 p.m. - Subject requested an officer on CR 530E reference domestic trouble 11:46 p.m. — Subject requested an officer to meet with him back at the scene for a lost wallet

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