The Syracuse Journal, Volume 25, Number 19, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 1 September 1932 — Page 3

Ts SWT* * w *** Jvi /toA WH The Hou«S VV thc Three B Ganders Irving Bachelfei*

Irving Bacheller IFI IV For a quarter of a century the name of Irving Bacheller has been as familiar to millions of readers as their own ■'—-And as beloved- by all. His strongand beautiful novels reflect all that was significant in oujr. pioneer life, with its homely endeuVor, Its taciturn coilrage, .and Rs Incorrigible Yankee tumor. Irving Bficlielier is a product of the "North Country” of which he writes. Bi'wai born in the village of Pierpont*, N. Y., September 26, VSS9. As a boy he roamed the woods, fished the lakes and streams and hunted the game then to be found oh the mountain sides For a time he taught a "North Country” school, but his ambition was to write, and In the early eighties be went to New York where he se. tired a reportorlal job on a BrooMyn paper. After a time he organized a itewspaI»<r syndicate. Then he became Sunday editor of the New York World. It was while he was on the World that the inspiration for "Eben Holden’’ came to him. He went back to the "North Country” to write it, and has since devoted Ills time exclusively to literature. I The countless readers who have followed Baclieller through the years and the new readers who are turning to him today will find that his pen has lost none of Its old magic. In •’The House of the Time (landers” we sees again the qualities that have made him the master’Chrobieler and interpreter of unspoiled America., , It will appear as a serial in these columns, CHAPTER I The Fugitive and the Pocket Eye. That dam on the Hacquette so Increased the prosperity and size of the small settlements on either shore of the river that a bridge became necessary. It was built. The two communities Separated by flowing water had long been at war with each other. The bridge drew them together into one village Their petty jealousies vanished. It wai unregenerate Coh i .-l Sperilow, the nilller and local Republican boss, who gave the new place its truthful and euphonious name. He called it Amity Dam. thus visiting on Its Inhabitants a certain curious penalty for the sins of their fathers. They were soon known as Amity Dammers. . Long after that the little village was the home of a far famed mystery out of which came a murderer convicted In the face of unexampled difficulties and against the testimony of three eye-witnesses. It was, moreover, for a time the home of a number of remarkable characters related to the mystery. One of them was the boy Shad M<»rryson whose courage and shrewd Intuition served the state and put him on the road to fortune. Shad was discovered on a bright I June day in 1$8& He lay asle< ? <>n a bed of moss under a group of pine trees. Two fishermen who had come ashore for luncheon found him. Nobody knew exactly when be was born —a matter of slight Importance. Shad’s life began the day he was discovered. It is likely that he had been j eating and drinking a little more than sixteen years. The fishermen came upon him suddenly. He lay sprawled on his back with an ancient, long barreled, mus-xle-loading shotgun at his side. He - was a pale thin lad In ragged clothing. Both big toes protruded from holes In his boots. The fishermen aroused him. He sat up and rubbed his eyes and stared in confusion at the strangers looking down at him. The odor of frying bacon came to his nostrils. Kindly faces were before him. •I guess I must be dead,” he wm»pered. They saw to the heart of the boy when be asked from the lifting cloud of his slumber: "Is God here?" One of the men put his hand on the boy*s shoulder and gave him a gentle shake as he said: •Wake up, young man. You’re still dreaming. You’re not dead yet. Come. Lunch is ’molt ready * __

Still it was a fact that the old Shad Morryson. known to a few people in the forest townshlp-of Blair, was dead, | that the water at his feet was in < eftect the River Jordan. Moreover, it would seem that Cod was really .there. “Well. I kind o’ expected to be dead when I woke up,” said the boy as he arose, "If I ain’t. I’m glad of it, 1 want to live.” What a pitiful look of drooping dis-' couragement and supplication was In the figure of the lad as he arose! "What’s the matter? Are ye lost?” ! one of the strangers asked. "Run away from home." "What’s your name and where do you live?" "Don't dost tell, ye.” "Are you hungry?" "Starvin’. Ain’t had nothin' to eat for days but one pa'tridge. an* a chipmuck.” “Well, you're in luck! Here’s sandwiches and bacon and eggs and fish. The fish are frying.” As he spoke the fisherman was undoing packages-of food from the pack "basket. v I The Ixly trembled with eagerness as be saw it. His face quivered. "Oh. mister, can 1 have a sandwich now?” be asked. ■ •' Av .XiffOTreuK *S>»» — ■' a' "I Guess I Must Be Dead,” He Whls- "■ o pered., ' | "You bet. Take tw<>:” The boy devoured them. He ate i like a hungry dog just returned from the chase. * "I lev! better already.” said The boy, "I’U go an* wash rm dirty. 1 ain’t ! fit t-> eat with nobody, not even my- > s*df." '* I He hurriedly undressed on the river I bank. The fishermen observed that the buck of ,his shirt was slashed and bloody, the skin of his back ridged, red ,and swollen, "My —<l, boy! What has happened to jour back?” one of the men inquired Does It look bad?" the boy asked. "Bad! I should think that someone had tt<ed it for a chopping block.” i ‘oWeil. they did. My dad gits mad awful easy w hen he’s drunk. He ain't always so mean. I gue-s I’m puny , mean myself. I don’t take no interest ; in the work. What's the use? it j don’t do no good. He got home an' ketchevi me fishin' when I should ’a’ been hoein' pointers.” Shad, swam around a moment, came out of the water, dressed himself hur- 1 riedly and sat down with his new friends. They Were afraid he would j eat too much and compelled him to • stop .before his appetite was appeased. I "I mint to pay ye for what I et.*’ said the boy. “How can you pay us for all that food?” "~ "I guess I can pay ye. t’ve got five dollars. I earned it workin’ out It was hid In the cjock. I stole It when I run away." “We don’t want your money, but we rather like your company." j .“I ain’t got nothin’ else but a top an’ i some brass wheels that come out of an old clock, an’ four lead bullets, an' three fish-hooks stuck In a cork, an' a glass eye that my uncle give me the day he died.” Shad took the trinkets out of his trousers pocket as he spoke, with a fond look at them. The* men laughed, saying: “No. we only want to get better acquainted with you. You must come to our camp #ith us. PerhajKS we can help you.” That night he went with the fishertAen to their camp at High falls. Three days later the party moved to Lost lake where they put up tn the log cibin camp of the famous guide, Philo ' Scott, familiarly known as I’hlde. i Now. one of these sportsmen was slim and a bit undersized. He gave the boy a respectable suit of clothes ;and shoes and stockings, a cap, a ' flannel shirt, with collar attached, and a necktie. All these fitted fairly well Shad came out of the camp In which j his benefactor was lodging a new human being, bls face clean, bis hair trimmed and combed and brushed. Those who saw him were astonished. was well put up, as they used to say in the north country. In spite of his leanness and lankness he was no* good to look on. The shapely outlines of bls head and face were pleasing. The expression of his face way cheerful He was like a scrawny, ill- | fed .colt of a promising size and pat- | tern. J - ' . ... . I (TO BE CONTINUED.) 5

CONCORD Dewey Coy and family spent Sunday afternoon at the Chauncey Coy home. Mr. and Mrs. Burton Howe had a picnic supper Monday evening. Those present were: Rev. Armstrong and family; Rev. Foust and family; Dr. Stoelting, wife and daughter, MrSi Tom Edgel, Kathryn and Mary Lou Hamman. Chester Stifiler and family were guests at the Imon Rookstool home, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Burton Howe spent ; Sunday at the Harry Grieger home. I Wayne Bucher spent Sunday afteri noon with Lewis Hamman. Mrs. Cora Wyland and son Eldon I spent the week end with Mr. and ! Mrs. Ormstein of Fort Wayne. " Hoyt and Russell Smith of Chicago spent a few days at the Chester Stiffler home. Mrs. Woods and daughter Emma, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Kiracoff, and Mrs. Annie Kiracoff of Fort Wayne spent Wednesday and Thursday in the homes of James Dewart, Ernest Mathews and John Roop. Mrs/ J. A. Fisher returned home Sunday after a- two weeks stay with friends in • Michigan. Paul Buhrt and family spent Sunday at the Ralph Beiswanger home. William Wyland and Wayne Bucher enjoyed Sunday dinner with Ernest Mathews and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Bertram Whitehead, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Dewart were guests at the James ‘ Dewart home, Sunday. Ernest Mathews and wife attended the funeral of his nephew, Warren Mathews, in La Porte, Friday. SALEM i John Auer and family and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wogpman of Goshen called at the George Auer home, Saturday evening. Miss Pauline Klinger of Cleveland, j O;, spent the-week end with her father and sister, Edward Klinger and Dorothy. i;:Roy Koontz and family of Mishawaka spent the week end with Geo. Auer and family. Clifford Black and family of No. Webster called on Dale Tom and ; family, Sunday. Arch DeFries and wife attended the G.ood Fellowship picnic held at Camp Mack, Thursday evening. Donald Smith spent Saturday night with George Coy. June Pinkerton called on Marjorie Smith, Friday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Smith called on Mrs. Gertrude Wiley at Redmon Park, Monday afternoon. The two playlets given at New Salem, Sunday evening by the young peoples' class of Rock Run were well attended. Emory Guy and wife called on Joe Smith and family, Sunday evening. — FOUR CORNERS. Miss Mildred Graff returned home ! Monday, after a visit with relatives I in Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Darr and daughter of Goshen called at the Crist Darr home, Thursday. Mrs. Edna Jensen called at 'the Darr home, Wednesday. Mrs. Mary Berkey called on Mary Ulpry Thursday evening, Donna Joan Darr spent Saturday night and Sunday with her grand-* parents, Mr. and Mrs.. Crist Darr. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Weimer of Syracuse called at the Crist Darr home, Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Deithrick and two children from Goshen are spending several days with Mr. and Mrs. Artie Geyer; Mr. and Mrs. Crist Darr and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Darr called on Mr. and Mrs. Carl Troup of Elkhart, Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Berkey called at the Mary Ulery home, Friday. Mrs. Edna Jensen and Miss Edith Jensen spent Friday at the home of Mrs. Jensen’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Blue near Richville. Mrs. Mathews, Mrs. Bushong and -children and Elmo Callander were in Warsaw, Monday. Miss Donabell Ulery returned to her home near New Salem. Wednesday, after a few days stay at the Janies Myers home. Helen Graff and Bettie Callander called at the homes of Darr and McSweeney, Tuesday afternoon. SOLOMON’S CREEK Mrs. Fanny Good is visiting Mrs. Henry Rex of Benton. Rev. Sherrill preached . his last sermon here Sunday morning for this conference year. The conference is in session at Winona Lake, beginning Tuesday afternoon and lasting until Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Vail moved last week from Mrs. Good’s property to a farm near Syracuse. The Juday annual reunion was held at the home of Peter Deardorff near Goshen, Sunday, with 72 present. A basket dinner was at noon and special music by members of the family, and an auction sale were enjoyed. during the afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Firestone

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spent Sunday with Mrs. Levi Berger at Howe. A number from here attended the j old feshioned belling given Rev. and i Mrs. Eiler at the home of her moth- ! er, Mrs. Alice Darr in Syracuse, ; Monday evening. Lawrence and Lewis Firestone and Harry Nicolai spent Sunday with Fred and Emnia Ringwait. Ben Zimmerman and family spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Sarah Juday of Benton. Frank Bunger and Billie Juday spent Monday afternoon with Mrs. Allert Zimmerman and family. ' Sunday school Sunday morning. SOUTH SHORE Mrs. Decker and children called on Mrs. Carrie Dickerson, Sunday evening. The Strieby reunion held at Ideal Beach Sunday was well attended after the rain. , j Mr. and Mrs. Bert Searfoss and ' Mrs. Carrie Dickerson spent Monday ; afternoon with Mrs. Roy Niles. Mrs. Jordan entertained company | from Winona, Sunday. John Swank is spending the week with Leland Baker and family. Stanley Himes and family of So. Whitley called on Lester Mock and family, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Searfoss called at the William Gilbert home, Sunday evening. SOUTH SIDE I Mrs. Clinton Bushong visited at i the home of Cleo Lingofelter in Milford, Tuesday. j” Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Hammtfn and two children from South Bend, and • her brother and father from North* Webster took Sunday dinner with' Mrs. Lawrence Held. Miss Ber.nice Held is visiting her aunt in South Bend this week. Mrs. Marian Dayis continues to j ! improve. Mr. and Mrs. Merl Laughlin and: I children were callers in the "Oat” Rarig home, Sunday evening. They | had visited the radio station WOWO in Fort W'ayne, that afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Laughlin drove ! to Peru, Sunday, where they called on his uncle, John Laughlin, who is sick there. i DISMAL I Mr. and Mrs. Dale Grimes and, two children of near Wawasee called at the Joe Grimes home Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Hull of Cromwell visited in the Lee Lung home recently. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bitner and two children were guests over the j week end of relatives in So. Bend, j Edwin Lung has returned to Fort Wayne Business College after spend-1 ? ing his summer vacation at the home ! of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Lon Burley and I Frank Burley spent Sunday with; Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Snepp of Monroeville, , ■ Roy Miles of Milford visited in the Merrit Lung home, Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Reed of Elkhart are spending a few days with Stanley Lung and family. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hively and three children of Wolf Lake and Mr. and Mrs. Max Burley of Ligonier were the Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Bobeck. 'Mr. and Mrs. Larson of Ligonier and Laura Bobeck spent Sunday afternoon with Grandma Bobeck and daughter Tilda< Bill Reed and wife of Elkhart, Lee Lung arid wife, Wilbur and Leota Lung and Dora Clingerman and wife ' were entertained at the Stanley Lung home Sunday. AFRICA. Mr. and Mis. Eli Shock and family attended the Kizer family reunion in Elkhart, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Shock and Mr. and Mrs. John Mock spent last Sunday in the Ezra Shock home. Mrs. Earl E. Gipe and family returned to their home in Bluffton, Sunday. Jonas Cripe and Mrs. Elizabeth Shock attended the Hamman reunion last Saturday. Visitors in the Elmo Shock home last week were: Mr. and Mrs. James Hamman and son Joe, Mr. and Mrs. Leland Yoder and family; Mrs. Alice Shock, Mrs. Earl Gipe and family. Mrs. Jacob Click has been on the sick list for a few days. Visitors in the Jacob Click home last week were: Mr. and Mrs. Al Henwood and friends from Chicago,

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Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Beiberstine and daughter, Mrs. Florence Long, ; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Swihart, Mrs. i Amy Wingard and daughter Luella and Mrs. Ira Crow. Mr. and Mrs.,, Elmo Shock attend-' ed the Kum-Joyn-Us Sunday school, class picnic at North Webster, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Weimer and their guests, Mr. and Mrs. : Charles Rogers of Indianapolis called on Elmo Shock and 4 family, Sunday evening. Eli Shock filled his silo last Thursday. M’COLLEYS CORNERS Mr. and Mrs. Russell Swenson and family spent part of last week in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nat House and Verdel. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Richcreek spent Sunday afternoon and ; Mrs. Ray Scott and Miss Viola, near, Warsaw. Mrs. Dick Miller and Miss Wiliha and Miss Cora James spent one afternoon last week in Warsaw. Ward Robison spent Monday evening at the L. Comer home. Mrs. Graham Tyler, Mrs. Chas. | Richcree'k, Mrs. Sarah J. Kauffman apd Viola spent Wednesday last week in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Hasca! Darr of Goshen spent Monday at the home of her mother, | Mrs. jda Richcreek. Tom Nine of near North Webster: called on Gzaham Tyler, Monday; ihorning. Miss Lucille Darr of Goshen spent several days last week with. Miss Mary Richcreek/ FRONT STREET The slab concrete layers on Road 6 are near the crossing at the old Huntington road east of Myers hill. The heavy rain Sunday forenoon did not scare 193 persons from Sunday school in the little white church. Next Sunday, Sunday school and church will be held at Camp Mack. ' Lewis Neff and son Quinter went to the Geyer reunion, last Sunday at Camp Mack. Whitehead Family (Cont’d.) David A. , son of Adam and Susan Whitehead was born Feb. 26, 1826 and married Eva Brumbaugh April! 4, 1847. Unto this union was born William, Adam, Melvin, Susan, Melinda, Marietta, Elmer. William married Josephine Hoops, December 24, 1874. Adam died, aged 22. Melvin died abouCThe same time, aged 20. Whitehead: married Jacob Frame, May 13, 1893 and ’died that year. Marietta, daughter of David and Eva Whitehead married Daniel Bowser, Nov. 11, 1880. ■To them was born AUetha and Zelma, Alletha married Arthur Michael. They have, three children, Papl, Ellen and Jane. Zelma married Zena Ecklebarger. ! They have two children, Daniel and Mary. Elizabeth, daughter of Adam and-i Susan Whitehead married Jacob ■ Riggle. Unto this union was born j Jasper, Sarah and John. They died; in infancy'. The mother died in 1855 j at the age ot 26. Jacob Riggle then married Adam’s third daughter Sus, j an. Sh£ was six years younger than 1 her sister. It is said when Mr. Riggle mArried ; the first girl, Adam gave him 80; acres of land. When he married the ; second, Adam gave him the second eighty. To this second union was born Nancy, Alice, Mary, Etta, William Charles, j Daniel, George. Nancy Riggle Daniel Logan. They have three children, Edgar, Laura and Arthur. Alice married Ben Hartzog. They have two children, Lewis and Arthur. Mary Riggle married Myron Miller. They have one boy, Hubert. Etta Riggle married Sanford Frame, they have three children. William Riggle married Sadie Stutsman. They have one son Nelson. Daniel Riggle married Effie Edel-

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man. No children. George Riggle married Ivy Davey. They have Mary and John. Esther Whitehead, , daughter of Adam and Susan was born in 1831. She married Daniel Shively. Their children were Susan, Ira, Albert, Elmira, Elinre, Mary, Aaron and Lydia. Susan, daughter of Daniel and Esther Shively, married William j Leedy. - i Daniel Shively was a man of fine' appearance and wore a smile that would not rub off. He was chosen to the ministry when quite young. He was a fine- church keeper. Daniel al- j ways had a place fop everything. He had a, time for work and a time to! eat, a time to pray and a time to go to church. He never forgot to visit the sick. He was known to be a peace maker in the community’

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[where he. lived. His daily work and ' upright life made him a power among [ the people. Daniel was a good singer, he had power in prayer. The writer often saw him throw off his coat when he began a sermon. This good man died in 1906., Esther died in 1910. They lived together 50 I years. They are buried on [the south [side of the Baintertown cemetery, I one mile north of New Pai is, beside I six of their children. UNCLE LEW, o—_—L PLAY’ IN RECITAL — T j Music pupils of Miss Lucille Hen- , wood held a recital at the grade [school building last Friday. . This j was the first recital in which any of the pupils had ever player, and the s first of which Miss Henwood had ■ ever been in charge.