The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 4, Milford, Kosciusko County, 22 January 1986 — Page 15

Conservation officers seek help

Conservation officers for Kosciusko County remind operators of snowmobiles there are laws governing the registration and operation of the vehides. Numerous problems regarding non-licensed snowmobile operators using the road ways, off-road three-wheelers and fourwheelers using public roadways have occurred since the beginning of the snowmobile season. The conservation officers have also requested that those having ice fishing houses on the numerous lakes in the county, display the owner's name and address on the door and place reflectors on each side of the ice fishing bouse. These steps will aid officers in locating owners when necessary and the reflectors enhance the visibility of the building at night. Registration Title 14 under recreation and land management, article 1, chapter 3.5 on snowmobiles of the Indiana Code contains all the rules and regulations for the vehicles. The following is brief information concerning registration:

Development of Kosciusko

By ANDREW REED Guest Feature Writer In a recent article in ‘the PAPER’, Charlotte Siegfried wrote of towns and proposed towns that had disappeared from modern Kosciusko County. She brought up names long gone such as Charllotteville, Fairview, Dodgerville, Newburg, Orion, and Winchester. She also reported on the name changes certain villages had gone through in the past; Shakespear, Boydston Mills, and Galveston giving way to Milford Junction, North Webster, and Clunette for reasons of clarity or creativity, always hoping for a brighter and more prosperous future. These villages listed are only a small part of the story of the development of the county, of the dreams of speculators and the realities of rivers and railroads. First Villages The first villages in the county were little more than encampments around the mills that were raised on the banks of the many creeks and lakes that dotted the almost unbroken forest of the early 1830 s. One of the earliest of these was the mill and post office named Tipicanunk, located at the Trimble Creek outlet of Palestine Lake. The name was a variation of Tippecanoe and was later changed to Palestine in 1836. Other early mill towns were Oswego, founded by William Barbee and Ezekiel French in 1837 at the site of Musquabuck’s Indian village and Monoquet, laid out by the Harris brothers of Elkhart County in the same year. In 1845, the Harris brothers sponsored in Monoquet the first newspaper published in the county, the “Kosciusko Republican.” The Harris brothers were so pleased with their village they thought of renaming it Tippecanoe City. With the rise of Warsaw to the south, Monoquet soon lost its prominence with no further talk of grand names. Boydston Mills and Crosscm’s Mill were two other mills that later developed into the towns of North Webster and Syracuse, respectively. Besides locating on the banks of creeks and rivers, the first settlers also chose natural clearings and prairies for their town sites. Heptcm, in Scott Township, was founded in 1838 by David and John Hepler on what was locally called an island in the marsh that ran west from what is now Milford and Leesburg to the Yellow River. To the south, on the edge of a great clearing known as Bone Prairie, Levi Lee had platted his town of Leesburg. With the natural advantage of flat unwooded ground ready for homesteading, Leesburg grew quickly to be the leading town in the county and an early contender for the county seat. Post Offices As the townships filled with new farms cut from the wilderness, the need for more post offices arose. At this time, a post office might consist of a flour barrel in a mill, a box in a general store, or a bag hanging in the postmaster’s home. In the days before the railroads, many rural post offices were established within a day’s walking distance from each other. A few of those recorded on early plats were Deed’s Creek (Washington), Camp Creek (Etna), Oneida (Lake), Seward, on the north side of Yellow Creek Lake (Seward), Oak Ridge, midway between Mentone and Palestine (Harrison), and Millwood, still in evidence along 900 N. (Scott). Some of these were absorbed by towns built along the rail lines, others grew into towns in their own right, and others disappeared from the earth, existing only as fading marks on crumbling maps. Rail Age In the mjd-lKte, the county was about to enter the rail age. The Pittsburg, Ft Wayne, and Chicago Railroad was building a

No snowmobile is to be operated on public property unless it is registered and the owner of each snowmobile is required to register each snowmobile. The owner must obtain a certificate of registration and two decals indicating the year of expiration to be attached to the snowmobile. Each owner of a snowmobile is issued a certificate of registration and is to paint or attach in a permanent manner on the front half of the vehicle the identification number in letters three inches in height to be distinctly visible and legible. The owner of any snowmobile is responsible to notify the authorities within 15 days if the snowmobile is destroyed or abandoned, sold or transferred to another person, or if the owner’s address has changed from that which appears on the certificate of registration. If the certificate of registration is lost, mutilated or illegible, the owner of the snowmobile can ob-

line across the county that would begin the rise of the railroad town and affect the fortunes of every town in the county. The towns of Pierceton, Kosciusko Station (Wooster), Warsaw, Orion, Mt. Ruska (Atwood), and Etna Green were either created or given a boost by the new line built by Irish immigrant labor. Bloody Corners, a local landmark between Etna Green and Bourbon, took its name from a battle between rival Irish railroad work gangs. The Chicago branch was pushing east from Plymouth and the Pittsburgh end of the line was as far as Etna Green. Each of the gangs that worked the soon to ,be joined lines felt their own crew to be the best — workers, drinkers, and fighters. After a day of proving the first two boasts, the two gangs met at the corners between Bourbon and Etna Green and proceded to settle the latter point. Legend has it the fighting was fierce and before the air cleared two or three of the combatants were killed. In their haste to flee the scene, the survivors quickly interred the fallen warriors under the railroad grade being built between Warsaw and Plymouth. Whether fact or fiction, the story gave a thrill to the generations of children that attended the rural Bloody Corners School. The topography of the county did not lend itself easily to the Iron Horse. As recorded in the Standard History of Kosciusko County by L. W. Royce, a portion of the Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne, and Chicago Railroad sank from sight where it crossed the tamarack marsh east of Warsaw. “When it disappeared, clear water alive with fish took its [dace.” Not a very good way to run a railroad. Many railroads gained right-of-ways but few came to anything but obscure footnotes in abstracts. It was not for another 15 years before a second railroad attempted to cross the marsh country. This was a north and south line to connect Goshen with the central Indiana railroads that eventually became the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad, or the ‘Big Four.’ The towns on this line were Milford, Leesburg, Warsaw, Reed’s Station, Claypool, Silver Lake, and Rose Hill Station on the Wabash County line. In 1873, the Chicago branch of the Baltimore and Ohio cut across the northeastern part of the county helping to create Gravelton, Milford Junction (Shakespear), Wawasee Station and to strengthen Syracuse. The New York, Chicago, and St. Louis R.R. (Nickel Plate) cut across the south central section of the county in 1882-3. Os the six towns on its schedule, only Claypool and Packerton were in existence .before the railroad came through. Mentone, Burket, AVERY PROMOTED — Frederick L. Avery. Syracuse, has been promoted to material service rape rv is er in Northern Indiana Pahiie Service Company’s Warsaw district. He reports to Thomas D. Retseck. NIPSCO Warsaw district Avery joined the utility in i 960 as a helper in the rsaitrnrtfau depart mt nt. He was a crew supervisor-eiectric hi the Goshen district prior to Ms recent promotion. -

tain a duplicate of toe registration. The registration of a snowmobile may not be transferred. Operation A snowmobile may not be operated on a public highway or street or right-of-way or on a public or private parking lot not specifically designed for the use of snowmobiles except for the following conditions: May be operated on the public right-of-way adjacent to. the traveled portion of the public highway, except a limited access highway, if there is sufficient width to operate at a reasonable distance off and away from the traveled portion and in a manner not to endanger life or property. May cross a public highway at a right angle for the purpose of getting from one area to another when the operation can be done safely with the operator yielding the right-of-way to all traffic. Snowmobiles may be operated on a highway or a county road system, outside the corporate of a city or town, which is designated for such purpose by the county

Sidney, and Kinsey were all created as shipping points on the Nickel Plate. The railroads were the last defining factor in the creation of towns in Kosciusko County. With the decline of the railroads and the rise of the automobile, no new towns were built but many found themselves by the wayside. The village schools were consolidated into the larger towns, the growth of the rural free delivery system eliminated the more isolated post offices, and the general stores failed to compete with the hire of the easily accessible cities for shopping. As the by-passed villages lost their function, they faded from view, and now almost from memory, only to be recalled in the name of a church or a country road.

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highway department having jurisdiction. A law enforcement officer may authorize use of a snowmobile on the public highways, street and right-of-way within his jurisdiction during emergencies when conventional motor vehicles cannot be used for transportation due to snow or other extreme highway conditions. A snowmobile may be operated on a street or highway for a special event of limited duration according to a prearranged schedule under permit from toe governmental unit having jurisdiction. The event may be conducted on the frozen surface of public waters only under permit from the Department of Natural Resources. Other operating conditions include: a person under the age of 14 is, not allowed to operate a snowmobile without supervision of a person 18 years of age or older, except on land owned or under control of his parent or legal guardian. No person shall operate a snowmobile on a public highway without a valid motor vehicle driver’s license. Snowmobile may not be used to hunt, pursue, worry, or kill a wild bird or any domestic or wild animal. Restrictions on operation of a snowmobile includes: operating the vehicle at a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper in regard for existing conditions. No one may operate a snowmobile under the influence of an intoxicating liquor or unlawfully under the influence of a narcotic or other habit forming or dangerous depressant or stimulant drug No snowmobile may be in operation during the hours from one-half hour after sunset to onehalf hour before sunrise without displaying a lighted headlight and lighted taillight. A snowmobile may not be operated in any forest nursery, planting area, or public lands posted or identified as an area of forest or plant reproduction when

growing stock may be damaged. Or on the frozen surface of public waters within 100 feet of a person not in or on a snowmobile or within 100 feet of a fishing shanty or shelter except at a speed of five miles per hour or less. A snowmobiles may not be operated unless it is equipped with a muffler in good waiting order to prevent excessive or unusual noise and annoying smoke. It may no be operated within one hundred feet of a dwelling between 12 midnight and 6 a.m except on the owner’s own property.

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Snowmobiles may not be operated on any property without toe consent of toe landowner or tenant. They may not be operated while transporting a bow or a They may Mt be operated on or across a cemetery or burial ground. Or be operated within one hundred feet of a slide, ski or skating area. And, they may not be operated on a railroad track or railroad right of way or on public property unless authorized.

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