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Thomas G. Boydston: First Tippecanoe Twp. postmaster

The first postmaster in Tippecanoe Township was Thomas G. Boydston. He was appointed in June 1848, by President James K. Polk. The post office was officially designated as Boydston’s Mills in 1849 and the name changed to North Webster in August of 1879. For many years, both incoming and outgoing mail was tossed into an empty flour barrel at Boydston’s Mill. Travelers passing through the area would pick up outgoing letters and carry them to the next town. It was the best system available at the time, but one wonders how many letters never reached their intended destination. Other Tippecanoe Township postmasters were Benjamin Yohn, who was appointed in 1850 by President Zachary Taylor and again in 1865 by President Abraham Lincoln; Abram Deardorff, 1853, by Franklin Pierce; George W. Eckman, 1858, and James W. Scott, 1861, both appointed by President James Buchanan; Jonas Jarrett, 1861, and Eli Beghtel, 1862, both by Abraham Lincoln; John F. ffockuiau, 1879, uy Ruiuerfurd B. Hayes; Jotin a. Ketnng, 1885, by Grover Cleveland; John Ogle, March 1889, and John A. Mock, May 1889, by President Benjamin Harrison; Jocob Dullinger, 1893, and Orlando F. Gerard, 1896, by Grover Cleveland; George W. Stoner, 1901, by William McKinley; Orlando F. Gerard, 1901, Vernon M. Junken, 1902, David N. Kyle, 1903, Anna M. Bowen (declined)), 1905, Allen C. Scott, 1905, and Jefferson Garber, 1908, all by President Teddy Roosevelt. Garber operated the post office in his general store until 1930.

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

In the early days, the post office department of the government required postmasters give the exact location of their offices. In 1865, Benjamin Yohn described the location of Boydston’s Mill as follows: The northwest quarter of section 14, about 10 rods north of the Tippecanoe River. The nearest post office to the west was Oswego at miles

Diary entries by Jasper Angel

The following are entries from the diary of Jasper Angel, Tippecanoe township trustee - dated October 1889: Oct. 1— Hitched wagon, went over to new school and put together school desks with J. H. Moot. Checked school business in afternoon. Rained some. Oct. 3 — Attended funeral for A. Pontius. Went to Webster and took Parry Baker to poor house. Oct. 6 — Hauled rails in morning. Raised our fence one rail higher. Wife and I went to Cromwell, spent night till 1 a.m. with Albert Stocker. Boarded train for Chicago. Oct. 7— Arrived in Chicago about 7 am., spent the next three days in Chicago. Oct. 10 — Boarded train for home at 9 a.m. Arrived at Cromwell at noon. Got home about 2 p.m. and went to Webster. Oct. 12 — Wife and I to Webster in a.m., thence to Tippecanoe Church house for council meeting. Back to Webster for the speech by Royce, home about midnight. Oct. 13 — Made out statistics for school. Negotiated for school furniture. The agent of the Grand

by road, Syracuse was 8% miles northwest, Wilmot was five miles east, Pearston was eight miles to the south, Ligonier was 12 miles northeast, Warsaw was 12 miles southwest and the “County Town” and Leesburg was B’4 miles west. Portions of the information for this article are from Kip Sullivan's History Book of North Webster.

Rapids School Furniture Co. is here. Mel Kyle, James Stoner, C. Weimer and Miller Janis here in eve. Rained hard. Oct. 14 — Went to Warsaw with Wm. Stocker. He as administrator for Pontius estate and I as witness on the will. Had some school business with the superintendent. Oct. 16 — Wm. Stocker, Ephriam Brumbaugh and I appraised the A. Pontius property. Rained most of the days. Oct. 18 — Attended the funeral of Jesse Beightel. Threshed my buckwheat. Oct. 20 Went to church. Mary' Grindie and Mary Angel were baptized in to the German Baptist Church. Oct. 22 — Worked for township in a.m. Prentiss and I made clapboards. Went to Cromwell to get shingles, door and a window. Installed them. Went to Burkett’s doctoring his old mare about 3 p.m. Went over again in the evening. Mare got to eating again. Oct. 24 — Finished two days work at carpentry for Burkett. Also made him an axe-handle. He paid me off. Rain has let up. Oct. 28 — Wes Weimer here in

a.m. Dug sweet potatoes, hauled two loads of wood, and dug a bushel of white potatoes. Wife and boy took cabbages to O. E. Lyttle and J. O. Wood. Oct. 29 — Went to Webster, thence to J. Jarretts, thence to School #4, thence to School #5, thence home. Took dinner and went to Webster with wife to hear speech by Billy Williams. Started to rain in the evening. Oct. 30 — Went to Cromwell, brought home stoves, put them partly together. Sold a calf to Mr. Mulenhour of Cromwell, $4. Buried potatoes. Rainy. Quilt club meets with Ruth Dunker The September 26th meeting of the Lakeland Quilt Club was held in the home of Ruth Dunker on a deck overlooking Sechrist Lake. Iva Lou Turner, Muncie, formerly of North Webster and a charter member of the club, and Dorothy Gregory, Barbee Lake, were guests. Wilma Plotner presided during the business session. It was announced Roberta Sowers, Mrs. Plotner and Wahneta Gebhart of the Lakeland club, and Carolyn Kerlin attended the Mennonite auction held recently in northern Indiana. The top quilt brought $1,500 at the auction. It combined a basket and log cabin quilting patterns. Mrs. Plotner reported on the LaPaz Quilt Show where former club member Estaleen Harney, now of Elwood, had a doilie lamp shade on display. Other items of interest at the show were a tatted table cloth, made by a 50-year-old man, and a wall hanging, done in Sunbonnet Sue and Fishing Boys patterns that had been mechanically reduced to fiveinch blocks. A quilting demonstration, featuring diamond star designs, was presented on October 1 at Millersburg by Vesta M. Ropp, Kalona, lowa. Members of the Lakeland club who attended were Mrs. Dunker, Ann Beamer, Jessie Wainscott, Mrs. Sowers, Eleanore Bates, Marianne Watson, Mrs. Gebhart, Rita Slankard and Mrs. Plotner. Ellyn Barcus displayed “Children Around the World” quilt blocks that she is using to teach a LAFF program class at

Syracuse. The blocks will be made into padded basket tops. Mrs. Slankard and Mrs. Plotner combined their talents to make a small jointed teddy bear with moveable head. Mrs. Gregory showed a wool

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REGISTRATION FOR boys in grades one-five at North Webster school who are interested in joining the Boy Scouts will be held at 7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 8, in the school cafeteria. If you are unable to attend or wish more information, call 834-7171. LAURA HILL, North Webster, has a selection of her work on display at the annual Indiana Wildlife Artists exhibit being held now through October 31 at Keystone Square Plaza, Carmel. The original works are being shown for the first time and will be judged for realistic depiction of wildlife, habitat, and artistic presentation. Types of art work on display include: woodcarving, ink, photography, casting, oil painting, pastels, pencil sketches and aquamedia. NORTH WEBSTER United Methodist Church UMW membership tea was held September 22 in Wesley Hall with Margaret Kiser as chairman. Marian Steedman gave a program and slide presentation entitled, “Impression of Korea.” New UMW officers were elected. Special membership awards were presented to Anna Boyer and Wiima Waiters. —o— THE LEAVES are starting to turn and there is more than a definite hint of fall in the air. The lake and sky are that special shade of blue that seems to come only in October. Every weekend a few more boats and swim floats disappear from the lake as they are put in storage for the winter. We are moving toward the quiet time of year when the earth goes to sleep under a blanket of snow and ice. —o— BOUQUETS TO Ken Kruger, a student at Wawasee High School Who is helping out at the North Webster-Tippecanoe Township Library on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons and Saturday mornings. NEW BOOKS. Adult nonfiction: First Ladies of Indiana and the Governors, by Margaret Moore Post; Revolution in Science, Space, Special Purpose Rooms, Working With Wood, Outdoor Recreation Areas, all by Time-Life Books; Atlantic Beaches, by Jonathan N. Leonard and Time-Life books; Baja California, by William Weber Johnson | and Time-Life Books; The Mediterranean, by Addison B. Colver Whipple and

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ana silk brocade Victorian crazy quilt made by her grandmother, Edith Silas Kennedy, South Whitley, in 1934. Mrs. Watson displayed interlocking fabric squares in a wall hoop, featuring trapunto quilting for a 3-D effect.

Time-Life Books; The Italian Campaign, by Robert Wallaee and Time-Life Books; and Cose Cover Before Striking, by H. Thomas Steele. Adult fiction: Dark Canyon and The Sky-liners, both by Louis L’Amour. Juvenile nonfiction: Story of the Little Round Barn, by Velma Bright; Thesus and the Monster, Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba, Ohia and the Animals, The Wooden Horse, and Noah and the Flood, all by Danbury Press; Computers: From Babbage to the sth Generation, by Ron Schneiderman; Modeling, by Lois Cantwell; and Guess What?, by Beau Gardner. Juvenile fiction: The Laughing Dragon, by Kenneth Mahood; What Would You Like To Be?, by Velma Bright; Mystery of the Burning Ocean, by Mel Lyle; Mr. Alexander and the Witch, by Emmy West; The Gardener’s Grandchildren, by Barbara Willard; The Astral Fortress, by Victor Appleton; and The House of Sixty Fathers, by Meindert DeJong. A STORY hour for preschoolers is being held each Wednesday morning from iv-n a.m. at North Webster library with Cindy Despot, assistant librarian in charge. The program for Wednesday, Oct. 14, will be, Finger Puppets, My Book hand rhyme and reading stores; All For Fall, by Ethel and Leonard Kessler; Sam and the Firefly, by P. D. Eastman, and In Granny’s Garden, by Sarah Harrison and Mike Walls. On Wednesday, Oct. 21, there will be a pumpkin carving demonstration, Jack-O-Lantem hand rhyme, coloring, and reading stories, and The Magnificent Pumpkin, by Valdine Plasmati, and Space Case, by Edward Marshall. The program for Wednesday, Oct. 28, will include a demonstration of “making up” for Halloween, Five Little Goblins hand rhyme, and “Making our own Halloween masks.” Reading story titles are Detective Mole and the Halloween Mystery, by Robert Quackenbush and Mog, The Forgetful Cat, by Judith Kerr. THE CAT took a ride down the stair steps the hard way. He climbed on top of a stack of empty cardboard boxes at the head of the stairs and leaned too far in the wrong direction. The boxes

Mrs. Sowers showed a counted cross stitch picture entitled, “Grandma’s Bedroom.” Mrs. Turner displayed a crocheted collar. A sack lunch with gelatin salad

tipped and took off down the steps like a sled with the cat riding on top. Fortunately (or maybe not) the door at the bottom of the stairs was closed. The ride ended with a “bang” and a “crash.” No real damage done but of course the cat is sure someone pushed him. HAPPY OCTOBER birthday to: Ruth Ray and Herb Dunker, 1; Jeff Boyer, Elza Ball, Dorothea Kurth, Violet Shrieder, Willie Signorelli, Joni Snider, and John Miller, 2; Evelyn Cripe,' Dorothy Dye, and Emra Kintner, 3; Brent White, Marilyn Thrasher, Jill Shock, and Gary Tom, 4; Michelle Katsanis, 6; Tom Reiff, Sean Shanahan, Gaynelle Daly, Ray Penn, and Ray Rupprecht, 7; Charles Stiffler, Annette Mock, Carol Hoffman, Britney Jo Snider, and Audim Culver, 8; Maude Yontz, Lori Hickman, Kamphune

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10 YEARS AGO, OCT. 5,1977 Country Neighbors Extension Homemakers club met September 18, in the home of Monica Braman. Devotions were presented by Kay Tusing. She read a newspaper editorial honoring homemakers. Tippecanoe Township Hobby Club members met September 28 in the home of Mrs. Russell Mickley, with approximately 14 ladies present. Plans were made for the Christmas Bazaar. Catherine Bause is bazaar chairman. Mr. and Mrs. Rex Hathaway was pleasantly surprised last Tuesday evening at a party honoring their 20th wedding anniversary. The host and hostesses were the couple’s children, Ray, Lynn, Beth and Laurie. Family and friends attending, were Mrs. Helen Staley, Mr. and Mrs. William Hudson, Mrs. Don Ferverda, Kay, Judi, Amy and mike; Mr. and Mrs. John Hudson and Becky, Mrs. Larry Galloway and Tiffany, Maurice Reiff, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Roberts, Ray and Missy; Mrs. Bob Goff, Monica and Kent Goff and Lisa Grisse. Mrs. Hathaway is the former Beverly Hudson. The Hathaways were married on September 27, 1957, in the bride’s home by Rev. Lester Young. Clare Brodderick was chairman for the Tippecanoe Township Extension Homemakers club fall trip, held September 29. The group toured Ruthmere Historical home at Elkhart, Pierre Moran Shopping Center, Concord Mall and the Peddlers Market. 20 YEARS AGO, OCT. 4,1967 Nearly 200 persons lined the sidewalk to watch the ribbon cutting ceremony Sunday morning at North Webster Methodist Church. Os these 14 were high school, grade and pre-school ages. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Piper returned to their home in Epworth Forest after spending a month in Ashley, Ohio.

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was served at noon. The afternoon was spent working on iff"' dividual quilting projects. The October 12 meeting will be held in the home of Miriam Mason. Mrs. Beamer will bring a quilt to be layered together by the group.

Nalongsaka, Connie Thompson, and Barbara Halbieib, 10; Eileen Keppen, Jean Wiseman, and William Kiser, 11; Valeria Merkey, 12; Denise Vanator, Matt Wagoner, Ralph Marchand, and Ruth Boyer, 13; Peg Welsh and Joe Shock, 15; Madelyn Mort, 16; Violet Wolf and Judy Wagner, 17; Galen Haney, 18; Sara Waldrop, Mabie Shawver, Clara Dye and Paul Shrieder, 19; Diep Tran, 20; Sandra Slaven and Nancy Ferverda, 21; Pauline White and Blanche Kuhn, 22; Wanetta Cripps and Amanda Ousley, 23; Brad Leedy, 25; Lynn Black, Louise Clayton, Tammie Wagoner, Stan Stucko, Donna Stucko and Kay Harney, 26; Terry Reiff, Diane Williams, Joyce Searer, and Gary Wiseman, 27; Jarred Young and Allen Giant, 28; Beth Carey, 30; Gary Wiggs, Kristine Richcreek, and Larry Barton, 31. TILL NEXT week. .

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bransford visited their son and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Bransford and Jeff, on Sunday at Buchanan, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Giles Porter left Monday for their winter home in Florida. They have a large trailer home at the Vagabond Trailer court in St. Petersburg. Adult Bible class of the Methodist church met Tuesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse LeCount. Mrs. H. H. Redding was co-hostess. 30 YEARS AGO, OCT. 10,1957 Officers elected recently to posts in the North Webster Women’s Auxiliary are Mrs. Verland Bockman, president; Mrs. Herbert Shoemaker, Ist vice president; Mrs. Robert Brindle, 2nd vice president. Corresponding secretary, Mrs. Jack Dobbins; recording secretary, Mrs. Harold Baker; treasurer, Mrs. Robert Shaffer; historian, Mrs. Albert Hamman, Jr.; parliamentarian, Mrs. Harold Barker; sargent at arms, Mrs. Grover Penn Jr.; executive board, Mrs. C. J. Menzie, Mrs. Paul Beezley, and Mrs. Dobert Willard. The North Webster Church of the Brethren will have their annual all communion service on Saturday night 12 October in the church basement. Mrs. Rachel Morehead, Mrs. Charles Long and two children, Don Westlake, Ida Bigler, and Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Greider attended a chicken Bar-b-que 30 September at the county fair grounds in Warsaw. The affair was part of the program of the Kosciusko County Farm Bureau meeting. Mrs. Morehead and Mr. Greider were on the food preparation and serving committee. Mrs. Rachel Morehead called on Mrs. Orva Miller Tuesday morning. Ormel Kline attended a business meeting at Fort Wayne Saturday morning.