The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 31, Milford, Kosciusko County, 30 July 1986 — Page 20

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., July 30,1986

; ’ Sesquicentennial Memories • —’ 'I I 'I e : I B I ’ ! I* I 3 Kt ' : ' Wt ’’■ B ■ : I |r f* * I B* ■ 1 ! B# wim WRxlki [Smile at the birdie... • Unlike today when several cameras are found in most homes, few cameras existed at the turn of the century and few photos were taken of children. This treasured photo was taken by a Goshen photographer and was loaned to this column by the Neal Cory family of Milford. J Neal’s mother, the late Mrs. Lee (Clara Neal) Cory is standing in the back. In front from left are Noble, Cletus and Beatrice Myers. As a young girl, Clara was employed at the Myers home. She also worked in the bakery . | ’ operated by the Myers family The photo is thought to have been taken around 1904-1905. F - w x .n. x * * * * -** —

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/ 4 ' < ■ SERVING CHOPS FOR MILFORD — Monica Bice and Margie Brooks were busily serving pork chops cooked by the Milford volunteer firemen last Saturday at Campbe l*s IGA Grocery. Proceeds from the sale of the chops will be used to purchase needed equipment for the fire department and EMS. (Photo by Glen Long)

THE APOSTOLIC Christian Church is undergoing extensive renovation at this time. The new roof was put on a week ago. The walls are being painted so they will reflect colors. New benches and carpet will be installed. Central air conditioning is being enjoyed. The trustees of the church are John Lehman, Jr., Ray Haab and Alvin Haab. -oMILFORD IS once again losing a restaurant. Monday was the last day for England’s to be opened. The restaurant is now officially closed. Syracuse board accepts budgets The Syracuse town board recently approved departmental budgets with some amendments. The anticipated tax rate of $2.65 per SIOO of assessed valuation compares favorably with last year's final 1986 tax rate of $2.72. The 1987 tax rate to be advertised is expected to be, general fund. $1.47; motor vehicle fund, 51 cents; cumulative sewer, 10 cents; cumulative fire, five cents; cumulative capital improvements, three cents; cumulative capital development, 15 cents and town hall lease rental. 34 cents. Cuts in proposed budgets which were made by the town board included SI,OOO for new equipment for the park department since the plan is to give them a street department pickup instead of trading it in on a new vehicle. Also, $12,000 was cut from the proposed police budget. This had been included to start a retirement fund for police officers in which $2,000 would have been put into an IRA for each full-time officer with over one year’s service. The $90,000 the town is to receive from the county option tax also helped keep the tax rate down. This compares with $40,000 received in 1986. A public hearing will be held on the 1987 budget at 7 p.m. on August 18 in the town hall. The budget will then be adopted at a public meeting on August 25 at 7 p.m. in the town hall. Abused women Battered women are getting more protection because of increasingly aggressive prosecution of domestic violence, a new study concludes.

NINE HOOSIER families will play host from August 10 to 24 to Ontario Junior Farm members in an exchange of visits between Indiana and Canadian young people, according to J. Michael Jones, Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc., youth and recreation specialist and Indiana Young Adult coordinator.

It happened ... in Milford

10 YEARS AGO. JULY 28. 1076 ‘•Edith Baumgartner Day’’ was a success for the Kosciusko County Chapter of the American National Red Cross blood drive visit at the youth annex of the Milford Apostolic Christian Church with 162 persons presenting themselves. A total of 148 pints of blood were donated, surpassing the quota that was set at 140. A gift and framed certificate were presented to Edith Baumgartner for her 25 years of dedicated service to the Kosciusko County Chapter of the American National Red Cross. The Papers Incorporated, printing plant at Milford made its longest single press run last week with 307,000 four-page color circulars for Sears, Roebuck and Company to be stuffed in daily newspapers on August 11 in northern Indiana and southern Michigan. The job took the skilled work of four pressmen, operating two three-unit offset presses for 22 hours. All commercial printing jobs run during the week on the six-unit web offset press added up to a total press run of 544,200 copies. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Estep of Safety shooting course on Aug. 7 Officer Robert E. Houser announced recently that the pistol safety course offered by the Syracuse Police Department will begin on Thursday, Aug. 7, at the pistol range located north of town behind the disposal plant. The first group will begin at 9 a.m. and a second class is scheduled the same day at 1 p.m. Similar classes are also scheduled for the following week, Aug. 14. On Tuesday, Aug 19, a class is set for 5:30 p.m. for those who can not get away from their normal working hours. Each course should last about two hours and all participants will receive a certificate. Houser stated that anyone still interested in applying for the course can still sign up by going to the police station and filling out the entry slip. Anyone wanting to participate must bring a box (50) of ammunition for their weapon and must pay a minimal fee. The money collected will be used to purchase targets and ammunition for the department and improve the shooting range. Those who have already signed up for the course were notified when to shoot. Anyone calling in the future will be assigned to one of the above dates and time or a new day will be selected to handle extra participants. Houser began advertising the new program earlier this year and hopes that most business owners and their employees will take advantage of the program. If the program is a success, Houser hopes to bring the program to the citizens of Syracuse next year. On military pension The House approved and sens to President Reagan a bill cutting military pensions for people whc join the services in the future The bill passed was the final ver sion of an overhaul of the militarj pension system which had beer worked out separately in eact chamber, passed, and then recon ciled by a conference committee.

Indiana Young Adults, formerly known as Indiana Rural Youth, is a statewide organization of single adults, 17 to 35 years of age, involved in educational, recreational and community service activities. Co-sponsors are the Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc., and Purdue University Extension Service.

IV iltord returned home July 16 from a 14-day tour of the countries of Norway, Denmark and Sweden with the Scottish Rite at Fort Wayne. They visited Oslo in Norway, Copenhagen in Denmark and Stockholm in Sweden. There were four other organizations represented for a total of 217 persons on the tour 20 YEARS AGO. JULY 27, 1966 Rod Cameron and his family, who are now here on furlough from the mission field of southern Rhodesia, will be at the Milford Christian Church this Sunday, July 31. Rod and his ventriloquist dummy, ‘Gabby,'’ will speak to the children during the Bible school hour During the evening services, the Camerons will tell of the work in Rhodesia they are doing, and show colored slides of he people, schools, hospitals and country. Vicki Arnold of Milford is attending Camp Lutherwald this week at Howe. Lutherwald is in its 17th year of camping and is located two miles west of Howe on south Twin Lake and is sponsored by the Indiana-Kentucky synod of the Lutheran Church of America. Mr and Mrs. Max Shively and sons of Milford took Alfredo Diaz, who has spent the last three

✓* - **** r W *> Jf . dfl - M\ 3MI ■■ ■■■■■■■ ” — TO UNDERGO CHANGES — The Milford Public Library will be undergoing a number of changes with half the money raised from the recent Milford Sesquicentennial. Shown is librarian Donna Angle at the main desk of the library. The library will be carpeted and the interior painted, among other projects. (Photo by Paul Siegfried)

To bring Milford Library 'up to snuff'

The Milford Public Library is about to get a facelift. Half of the profit from the recent Milford Sesquicentennial, along with the money allocated to the library and personal donations, will be used to remodel the library, according to librarian Mary Jurss. Approximately $5,000 from the sesquicentennial will be used, along with money raised by “Friends of the Library,” and monies allotted to the library to carpet the library, buy new shelves for magazines, upgrade the children’s room located in the basement of the library, fix the plumbing in the building, and

Indiana Young Adult members Sylvia Wright of Milford and Tina Merkel of Jasper are currently in Ontario. They left July 27 and will return on Saturday. None of the visiting Canadians are scheduled to be in Kosciusko County. —O'WREN DAVE Hobbs read the job requirements for the post of Milford Town Marshal it’s doubtful that the lack of “a fear of heights” was included but Monday at about 7:30 p.m. he proved his bravery when asked to help an area resident who was locked out of his home above Bud’s Bar Milford firemen gladly loaned Hobbs the ladder, perhaps enjoying seeing another town official in the air. At any rate, the window was opened and the apartment dweller gained entrance to his abode. — o— CONGRATULATIONS GO to all of the area 4-H’ers who are participating in the county fair this week. Special recognition goes to Renee Beer, daughter of Nelson and Shelby Beer, for her clothing championship honors. —o—- — OFTEN we think we have to travel miles to enjoy nature’s beauty. Not so. The lakes in the area offer visitors and residents alike a place to fish, swim and relax in

weeks with them, to Purdue University Sunday. They attended a program in the Union building in the afternoon. Diaz will spend two days at Purdue and then will spend five days at the University of Kentucky and then will go to Urbana, Calif. 30 YEARS AGO, AUGUST 2, 1956 Mr and Mrs. Henry Beer of Milford will leave for Tokyo, Japan, August 6. They will go to California by train and then continue up the west coast to Portland and Seattle. On August 14, they will leave by plane for Anchorage, Alaska, and then on to Tokyo. They will visit their son-in-law and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Willis Ehnle, who are living in Tokyo doing missionary work. Tentative arrangements have been made to have Robert Gates, Columbia City attorney, as next year's Memorial Day speaker at Memorial Day services held at the Milford cemetery. Young Gates was recently elected as the northern vice-commander of the Indiana Department of the American Legion at their convention held in Fort Wayne Jo Ellen McClintic of Milford placed first in the baton twirling contest held Saturday at the International Friendship Gardens

paint the inside of the library, among other projects, according to Jurss. Jurss said the jobs to be done are “just a start.” She said that a total of SIO,OOO would be needed to completely renovate the library. “We have a small budget and it would take forever to get things done. We would like to keep the library in the period the building was built, but we want to update the library to make it workable.” The library was built in 1918 , and it includes much of the original furniture and surroun- , dings it had 78 years ago. Becky Doll of Doll’s Decorating in Milford will be doing the 1 carpeting and some of the

the cool breezes. It’s also delightful to sit on the shore and watch the boats . . . especially the sail boats with their colorful sails as they drift in the breeze. Waubee Lake visitors and residents currently have a number of visitors. Several families of ducks have been seen along the shores for a number of weeks and Sunday 12 geese decided to stop at the lake for a visit. The large, brown birds now seem to be making themselves at home near the Ed Kinney home on the north shore. Lake people are a friendly sort and like many in this area they are always willing to help a person in need. Tuesday night when this humble scribe hooked a 10-12-inch (who has time to measure) catfish, John Chambers, who was fishing on a nearby pier saw our plight and offered his help. He grabbed a landing net out of Lloyd Mynhier’s boat and soon the prize catch (well, it was a prize after all the three-inch blue gills I had returned to the water earlier in the evening) was on shore. The fish wouldn't win any trophies but it was fun to catch and will look good on the supper table. And, before 1 forget, credit must be given where credit is due. Guess who got the honor of cleaning the fish? — Dad, of course. <

in Michigan City. Jo Ellen won a trophy and a medal and is now eligible to twirl at the Chicagoland Music Festival. This is held each year in August at Soldier Field in downtown Chicago. 50 YEARS AGO, JULY 30, 1936 The Milford Band has been engaged to play their second concert of the season at Syracuse next week. The Syracuse Chamber of Commerce has promoted a varied program this season, inviting various musical organizations to take their night according to the schedule. A group of Milford young people went to Webster Lake last week to attend the annual institute at Epworth Forest. The local groups have leased quarters for the week. A number of boys entered Boyville School Monday. WPA laborers laid some new cement approaches to sidewalks and intersections the first of the week. They also made some cement repairs to Emeline Street. Mr and Mrs. Charles Purdum visited their son, Charles, Jr., a student at Culver Military Academy, over the weekend and witnessed the dress parade. Their son is now a sargeant in the Black Horse Troop cavalry.

renovation. “We ll carpet the entire floor and redo the original wicker,’’ said Doll, “We want to bring the library up to snuff'” Jurss said that a bid for the painting of the interior has been received and is being reviewed. Other money for the renovation will come from “Eriends of the Library,’’ which, according to Jurss, is a small group of people who donate time and/or money to help the library. Jurss said the group is open to anyone and would like to see more people get involved in the group. Jurss is also hoping that various service organizations and private citizens will make donations of to the library.