The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 54, Milford, Kosciusko County, 7 January 1987 — Page 7

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VOLUME 23

North Webster News BY MARY LEE WILLMAN

January 1,1987, starts the yearlong North Webster sesquicentennial observance. Andrew Jackson was serving his second term as president of the United States when the first settlers arrived at what is now North Webster. Martin Van Buren became president in 1837. The western lands were being opened for settlement and many original land deeds contain the signature of President Van Buren. Early settlers came from Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the Virginias. Ephriam Muirheid built a mill and dam that caused water to back up across several deep ponds creating what is today Webster Lake. The name “Muirheid” has evolved over the years and today is spelled and pronounced “Morehead.” In 1846, Thomas Boydston purchased the mill from Muirheid and from then on the small community was called “Boydston’s Mill.” It was incorporated as the town of North Webster in 1937 when the 187 residents voted, 102 for and 85 against, in favor of the incorporation.

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King Arthur's Town

HAPPY JANUARY birthday to: Justin Brinegar, Marvin Helsel, and Rhoda Wright, 1; Lester Stabler, Vernon Zurcher, and Gertrude Kiser, 2-; Jim Clayton, Jim Likens, and Mike Clark, 3; Brent Rose, Rita Harris, 4; Meghan Boggs and Kent Butcher, 5; Harold Leach, 7; Doug Brinegar, Mary Ellen Haney, Todd Reiff, and Harriet White, 9; Tonya Kuhn and Barbara Towriss, 10; Dennis Deßois and Dave Martin, 11; Joe Reynolds, Sr., 12; Ashley Madriz, 13; Tag Huffman, Ernest Jehensen, Jason Mickley, Mikki Wagner, and Zermah Wright, 14; Carol Baugher, Roberta Ferverda, Monetta Gray, David Matz, Deb Sumpter, Huong Tran, Yen Tran, and Jeaneen Hienhoff, 15; Bill McNeal, 17; Robin Cox and Viola Whitehead, 18; Helen Grile and Jessica Likens, 19; Billy Heckaman and Chris Lung, 20; Nancy Corbin, Lois Blaugh, and Ruth Hamman, 21; Chuck Dye, 22; Jimmy Adams, 23; Dave Waldrop, Joni Bodkin, Mark Wagoner, and Ranee Tom, 26; Peggy Rinehold, 27; Cinda Culver, Betty Lou Shock, and Evelyn Kimmel, 28; Tammy Adams, 29.

Registration for youth center basketball this week

The Lakeland Youth Center will be offering a new basketball program this year, providing fundamentals and skills for first through fourth grade boys and girls and team competition for TH th and sixth grade boys. » The fifth and sixth grade boys will have practice times to learn the fundamentals and skills of the game of basketball; will play competitive games; and will have a tournament at the end of the season as the Lakeland Youth Center sponsors “Competition Crusaders.” All team competition games will be held at the Syracuse Junior High School. All practices will be held in the participants’ own gymnasiums of Milford, North Webster or Syracuse. The practices dates will be held on Saturdays, beginning January 24 through March 28 (no practice on March 21). The time of practices will be 8-9 a.m. Game dates will be on Saturdays, Feb. 7, through March 7. The games will be scheduled after registration due to the need to know the number of teams The times of the games will be 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., and 12:30 p.m. on Saturdays. All games will be played at the Syracuse Junior High School gymnasium as this seems to be the central location for all three communities and will allow for the ease of scheduling the games. Tournament dates will be Saturday, March 14 (semi- finals) and Saturday, March 28 (finals). The “Pee Wee” basketball program for first and second grade boys and help them in learning Hie fundamentals and

... Readers living in the North Webster area are encouraged to call their riews items to Mary Lee Willman at 834-4544 for publication in this column.

New settlers were arriving regularly at Boydston’s Mill after public lands were made available and following the Civil War. There was also a wave of new arrivals following World War I and World War 11. Some local family names that are familiar today and were registered as early settlers are: Long, Mock, Strombeck, Black, Gerard, Garber, Kiser, Kile, Weaver, Weimer, Kuhn, Bockman, Klirie, Reidinger, and Warner. As roads were improved and railroads built, North Webster became popular as a summer vacation spot. The invention of automobiles set the stage for a year around vacation and recreation explosion that continues today. There are many historical facts, personal incidents, tales, legends, folklore, etc., recorded in old letters, diaries, and handed down from word of mouth. This column would like to have something of historical interest about the North Webster area published each week during 1987. This will be possible only with the

NEW BOOKS for children: Ballet, by Violet LaMont; Night in the Country, by Cynthia Ryland and To Space and Back, by Sally Ride with Susan Okie. Adult fiction and nonfiction: His Way, by Kitty Kelley; Kilkenny, by Louis L’Amour; Cbmmunication and Russia Besieged, bpth by Time-Life; Prairie, by Anna Lee Waldo; Let’s Celebrate Christmas, by Horace J. Gardner; Undersea Warfare, by Richard Humble; Viet Cong: The Organization and Techniques of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, by Douglas Pike; The Old House, by Time-Life; Whirlwind, by James Clavell; Pat Nixon, The Untold Story, by Julie Nixon Eisenhower; Yes, I Can Say No, by Manuel J. Smith, PhD; Frontier, by Louis L’Amour. MR. AND Mrs. Doug Charlton and their two-year-old daughter, Bree Anna Babe, Tucson, Ariz., have just returned home following a 12-day visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Charlton, North Webster. Mrs. Doug Charlton is the former Rita

skills of the game. The classes will be on Saturdays, Jan. 31, through March 28 (no class March 21). The classes will be held 10-11 a.m., at the Lakeland Youth Center. The “Half-Pint Hoosiers” will help the third and fourth grade boys and girls learn the fundamentals and skills of the game of basketball. The classes will be on Saturdays, Jan. 31, through March 28 (no class March 21), at 9:15-10:15 a.m. The location of these classes will be the participants’ own junior high gym. Registration for all basketball classes and team competition will be on Thursday, Jan. 8, 7-8 p.m., and Saturday, Jap. 10, 10 a.m. to 12 noon, at thp'Lakeland Youth Center.-Everyone should know their shirt size at registration time. No late registrations will be accepted after 12 noon on January 10. The Lakeland Youth Center is a United Way Agency. New member inducted at North Webster Gene Deßolf, sales representative for Continental Baking Company, was inducted as the first new member of 1987 of the Lakeland Kiwanis Club, North Webster, at its meeting Monday, Jan. 5. Jerry Badskey, past president is the sponsor of the new member, and past president Richard Long, was in charge of the induction ceremony. Deßolf is in charge of sales of Hostess Cakes in the area between North Manchester auG SR 30 in Indiana. He resides at the southeast edge of North Webster.

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help of our readers. Our sesquicentennial can he a success only if everyone does their part. Don’t be shy about sharing what you know concerning the North Webster community. This reporter will be glad to help, advise, answer questions,

Reach agreement to enhance deaf employment

An agreement to enhance employment opportunities for students and graduates of the Indiana School for the Deaf has been reached by Dr. Lee Murphy, the school’s superintendent, and Jean Merritt, state director of Indiana Rehabilitation Services. The agreement will benefit Indiana School for the Deaf students and graduates as they prepare for and ultimately make the transition from high school to employment. Chief beneficiaries of the new agreement are students who need special vocational rehabilitation at any time during their school years and students whose curriculum is primarily vocational after tbeir sophomore year. The agreement combines the facilities and resources of the two state agencies. In almost all cases, the Indiana School for the Deaf provides the rehabilitation services with evaluation data for each student which is used in

Tobias. This is the first time in several years that Doug and Rita have been able to spend the Christmas holidays with friends and family members in Indiana. .—o— THE CAT had . a Merry Christmas and thought unwrapping gifts was even more fun that wrapping them. He got to chase all the wiggling ribbons and rustling wrapping paper he wanted to without getting yelled at. t . —o— TILL NEXT week . . .

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and talk to you about these matters. If you have something you think would be of interest, call this reporter. Pictures will be returned to you as will documents, clippings, and all printed material.

determining eligibility for vocational services. It is also used for planning an appropriate vocational program. Included are audiological evaluation, basic psychological and vocational assessment and the results of a general medical examination. If further evaluation is necessary, it is done under the auspices of Indiana Rehabilitation Services using existing facilities. In each student’s senior year, an individual written rehabilitation plan is prepared through the cooperative efforts of the Indiana School for the Deaf staff and rehabilitation services counselors. The plan is agreed to by the students and their parentis. Representatives invited to meeting Elected representatives of'the towns which make up the Northeast Roundtable Region are invited to attend a meeting on Thursday, Jan. 15. The meeting is hosted by the town of Topeka at the Country Inn in Topeka. Registration will be held from 6-6:30 p.m. A major portion of the program will be a presentation by a staff member of the Indiana Association of Cities and Towns on what the IACT’s legislative program will be. Because of the several issues confronting Indiana municipal government, the 1987 General Assembly will be a very important and busy time for local officials. Municipal officials have been encouraged to invite their legislators to the meeting. Day dawns Only the day dawns to which we are awake. — Henry David Thoreau

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FIRST DEER — Ben Ringler, 12, Syracuse, killed his first deer with a muzzle loader on the last day of the deer hunting season with muzzle loaders. Ringler is a seventh grade student at Syracuse Junior High and the son of Garry and Karen Ringler, Syracuse.

It happened in . . . North Webster

10 YEARS AGO, JAN. 5,1977 * Members of Barbee Busy Bees Home Extension club held its Christmas party on December 29, at a local restaurant. A gift exchange was held. The next meeting is planned for the second Friday in January in the home of Mrs. Gene Rosbrugh. Mrs. Strawd Marvin will assist the hostess. Kathy Koenigshof, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Koenigshof, Pierceton, spent Christmas visiting in the home of her parents. Kathy is a student at Baptist college in southern Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Stacy Davis and family; 1 Warsaw, have just returned home from a vacation trip to Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Smith, Indianapolis, spent the New Year’s week end visiting in the home of Mrs. Smith’s mother, Mrs. Ruth Boyer, Leesburg. 20 YEARS AGO, JAN. 4, 1967 Miss Nancy Bell, of Huntington, spent most of Christmas week at the Leland Kauffman home. Lynn Wood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wood, accompanied Mrs. Jennie Streiby to Napoleon, Ohio, to spend a week with Mrs. Streiby's daughter. ’ Audrey ..and family.

Mr. and Mrs. Norbert (Nub) Niles and daughter moved Thursday into the former Clarence Lewallen farm home which now belongs to Mrs. Niles parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Ferverda. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Mock, Mrs. Ada Klink and Mr. and Mrs. Leland Peterson visited relatives in Detroit over the week end. The Petersons, who were Christmas week guests of Mr. and Mrs.

Purdue Extension Service news

All 4-H members entering achievement record, books this year are reminded that books are due in the Kosciusko County Extension office no later than Monday, Feb. 2. There are copies available of past state and national winners’ books to assist 4-H members in filling out their achievement records. February 2 is also the deadline for applications for the 4-H Plant Science Jamboree Achievement - Award. This award is for 4-H members 14 years and older who have excelled in the plant science areas in 4-H. The two county winners, one in 4-H horticulture and one in 4 ; H field cYops achievement, will advance to area competition. One record each in 4-H horticulture

Promoted at -

Syracuse company

Jim Plummer, Jr. has been promoted from pressroom supervisor to printing division manager at Image Group, Inc., in Syracuse. In his new position, Plummer oversees all phases of print production including press operations, bindery, scheduling, delivery, and print-related purchasing. Plummer is a graduate of Wawasee High School, where he completed the graphic arts vocational program. A resident in Syracuse with his wife, Arigie, he joined The Image Group full-time in 1982 as a pressman. The Image Group, Iqc. is a full service communications company offering fine printing, art and design, advertising, copywriting, marketing, ■ public relations, advertising specialties and audio/visual services.

Mock left Monday morning for their home in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hunt have sold their home in the Strombeck addition to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Kiger. The Hunts moved to one of the Warner cottages near Webster lake. Mr. and Mrs. William (’Bill)

and field crops will be selected at the area level for recognition at a plant science workshop at Purdue University in June. Additional information about this award can be obtained from the county extension office. 4-H members taking the 4-H garden and 4-H flower projects this year should be getting their orders in for the special seed kits available for their projects. The - garden seed kits contain In different vegetable varieties and the flower seed kits contain 10 different flower varieties. Order forms for the seed kits will be in the next 4-H newsletter. They can also be obtained from the county extension office. The 4-H Council Budget Committee meeting will be on

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Beezley and family of Blue Island, Illinois, spent New Years at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Beezley. Rev. and Mrs. J. L. Kline celebrated their 43rd wedding anz niversary on New Years Day. X Rev. and Mrs. Chester Reed returned home from Detroit, Michigan, after visiting relatives there over the week end.

January 6 at 7 p.m. at the extension office. Then on January 7 the 4-H Adult Leaders will meet in the Justice Building lounge at 7:30p.m. On January 12 the 4-H Swine Committee will meet at the extension office at 7:30 p.m. and the Four Year Plan of Work Committee is scheduled to meet in the Justice Building lounge at 7 p.m. on January 13. Other scheduled meetings in January are the Junior Leader meeting at 7:30 p.m. on January 19 and the 4-H Council meeting at 7:30 on January 20, both at the Justice Building. Best way The best way to know God is to love many things. — Vincent van Gogh

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