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Cambridge City And Environs 47 Years Ago- As Told By The Local Newspapers
From the pages of the Cam- bridge City Tribune editions of September 7, 14, 21, 1916, comes the news of the day.
Curt Gosnell, horse trainer and driver who figured in the rise of Single G to pacing prominence, died August 26 in a Cleveland, O., hospital from injuries sustained several days earlier, when a mare he was driving fell on the track at North Randall, throwing him to the track also. He was 49 years old .... The delivery of mail to the citizens of Cambridge City has been put in force by postmas- ter Straughn. The carriers and collectors are John Dora and Eu- gene Diffenderfer. They will del- iver two mails every day in the residence district and three in the business section. (Note: Eugene (Miek) Diffenderfer retired from the postal service about a year ago. Many of his latter years was with the railway postal serv- ice) .... Contractor C. M. Kirk- patrick has contracted with Jas. A. Boyd for the gravel to be used in the construction of the con- crete road along the National pike through Dublin, Cambridge City, Germantown and entire distance of eight miles through Jackson Twp., providing the gravel will pass the necessary inspection. The traction line is already to place a side track near the gravel pit west of Germantown .
From Germantown comes the news that Sherman Snapp met with great loss Friday night when his crop of tobacco of several neres was totally ruined by the frost. Ilis loss is estimated at $500 Much of the tobacco in western Ohio was also ruined by the freeze Prof. Bowde. of Cambridge City high school Is ar- ranging for the basketball sche- dule. The students of the high ' school will hold a market soon for the purpose of raising funds with which to buy suits for the boys
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From the pages of the Cam- bridge City Tribune editions of September 28, October 5 and 12, 1916, comes the news of the day.
Single G was second to Napo- leon Direct in the free-for-all pace at Columbus, O., last week in 2 :- 0614 and 2:0014 W. H. Doney has sold the business build- ing known as the Raymond hard- --
ware building to Casper Schaefer. The building is occupied by Noah Waddell and the Moose lodge. Consideration, $3,000 .... Arthur Cornthwaite of Cassapolis, Mich- igan, has purchased the Cambridge City Steam Laundry of Jesse Dill, and has taken possession. Mr. Cornthwaite began the laundry business in this plant some 15 years ago under care of Will Guy -; ton, and knows its needs . . . . Fin- ly Gray, congressman from Con- nersville was in town the other day circulating among the faith- ful and giving them the glad hand of cheer . . . . The casket of the late James Whiteomb Riley has been hermetically sealed and the final burial will take place at ! Greenfield, the place of his birth sometime this month The Cambridge City Milk Co., has advance milk to 10e a quart . . . . An independent football team 'will be organized here for the coming season. Fifteen or more hearty, active young fellows aver- aging 150 pounds will make up! the squad. . . . . All the schools in Wayne County have agriculture classes except Webster. The num- ber of students studying agricul- ture in each township is as fol- lows: Abington, 5; Boston, 25; Center, 24; Clay, 36; Dalton, 11; Franklin, 21; Greene, 20; Harri- son, 11; Jackson, 15; Jefferson, -
7; New Garden, 24, Perry, 7; Washington, 27; Wayne, 48 .
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From the pages of the Cam- bridge City Tribune editions of August 17, 24 and 31, 1916, comes the news of the day.
The Washington Twp. schools will open Sept. 4, with the follow- ing teachers: Milton, Prof. Thomp son, Supt .; Miss Cora Wise, prin -; cipal; Miss Nellie Jones, of Modoe, domestic science and supervisor of music; grades, No. 1, Miss Emma Gingrich; No. 2, Miss Marie Sny -¿ der; No. 3, Miss Blanche Moore; No. 4, Miss Alma Wagner. Coun- ty, Wallace school, Miss Gussie Miller; Maple Grove, Miss Violet Murley; Clevenger school, Miss Edna Semler; Burris school, Miss Cora Kellam. Miss Florence Daniel - will give musie one day each week at the high school in Milton and Miss Jones will give lessons three days each week. The high school will cover a term of eight months while the grades will have but seven months . ... The inspectors for the concrete road 18 feet wide, to be built through Jackson Twp. along the National Road for a dis- tanee of nine miles, were appoint- ed and have been assigned by the county commissioners. The inspec- tor for the section through Dub- lin, is Rev. W. A. Oler; through Cambridge City, Michael Gehring; through Germantown, Fred Dryer; through Pennville to Center Twp. line, Clifford Oldham . Indi- ana has four two minute pacers to her credit-Dan Patch, 1:55 14 Prince Albert, 1.5914 ; William, .1.5812 ; Single G, 2.00. Two of these horses were owned and de- veloped in Cambridge City - Prince Albert by John S. Lackey and Single G by W. B. Barefoot . . . . The 114 head of hogs ship- ped from here by Cramer & Kit- terman last week averaged 230 pounds and commanded the high- est price of the week . . . . Frank Ludington has gone out of the cigar manufacturing business, and for the first time in about 75 years Cambridge City is without a cigar factory. The first manu- facturer was probably John Lem- berger, and the "long Nines" that he turned out will ever live in the memory of the boy who tried to smoke one. The largest manufac- turers in town were I'm Doney &
ISons, and J. W. Murson, who work ed a number of men nunl distribut- ed a big sum of money each year . . . The World's Most Powerful Low Priced Car - 31 1/2 H. P. - the new series 75B Overland- roadster $620, 5-passenger tour- ing, $635 - Raymond Stubbs, dealer
(I was owner of one Blue Bird- Overland, cost $75.00 .- M. Fal- con, lino operator with the Na- tional Road Traveler.)
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From the pages of the Cam- bridge City Tribune editions of October 19, 26, and November 2, 1916 comes the news of the day.
Article of incorporation have been filed with the secretary of 1 state for Pitman-Wilson drug Co. tof Rushville with a capital of $9,- 000. The directors are Edward H. Pitman, Charles F. Wilson and Marion Wilson. Edward H. Pit- man is a native of Cambridge City .... W. S. Hunt has take a long lease on the corner business room of Israel Morrey and now occupied by Forrest Danner. Soon as Mr. Danner moves the Variety Store to the J. W. Marson block, Mr. Hunt will move his grocery into the old corner where groceries have been sold for 60 or more years John Brown, one of .the hustling farmers of Washing- ton township, brought two loads of pumpkins to town and sold them to W. S. Hunt . ... Danner Bros. Variety Store have a large advertisement telling of their op- ening in new quarters in the J. W. Marson block. Ilere are some of their opening prices: 20×36 bleach ed Turkish bath towels, hemmed, 10c each; good quality 1-sewed brooms, 10e ench: men's husking gloves, 5e pair, 60e dozen; men's four-in-hand ties, nice designs & colors, 10c; 14 quart gray enam- eled dish pan, 10e: women's black hose, 10c, 15e, 25c pair; men's cotton work sox, 3 pairs for 25c . . . . The street car running from Cambridge City to Milton, has been repainted and fixed up much to the satisfaction of the people
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From the pages of the Cam- bridge City Tribune editions of November 9, 16 and 23, 1916, comes the news of the day.
A disastrous fire occurred in Cambridge City, Saturday after- noon, November 4, when a blaze that started in the work room of the Auto Inn spread to the Ma- sonic hall and lodge room above and left it a wreck from smoke and water. Workmen in the shop! of the Davis garage were using gasoline to heat a torch when an explosion took place and set on fire the oils and gasoline in the shop and the oil soaked floors and siding of the wooden build- ing erected in the rear of the first and second floors of the Masonic temple. Several autos in the Davis Auto Inn and garage were destroy ed. They were owned by Wm. Smith, John Kiser, Dr. Johnston, Amos Butler, P. F. Mays and Wise- man & Stanley funeral car, and Mr. Wiseman's automobile. Cam- bridge Lodge No. 5 is the fifth oldest Masonie lodge in the state. It was instituted in 1844, and 15 years later laid the cornerstone of the now charred temple. It was built in connection with Mr. Mer-i cer, who manufactured the Kirby reaper and mower, and later his' stock passed to the Indiana Car Co. When the car company moved away the Masons secured all the ¿ stock. Meantime the lodge will. Imeet in the K. of P. hall while de- cision is made to repair or rebuild! the temple . .. . Oscar Chase ship- ped a car of old rubber last week for which he received $1,700 . . . . 'Advertisement: Horses and Mules for War Purposes. We will. buy in unlimited numbers horses suitable for artillery use by the! United States, English, French and Belgium governments. Re -! quirements of artillery horses are 1516 to 16 hands high, weighing 1250 to 1500 lbs. All war horses imust be 5 to 8 years old and sound - Blair & Baker, Indiana- polis - We will be at the Joe Wade Stable, Thursday, Nov. 23,. from 1 to 3 p. m. 7
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From the pages of the Cam- bridge . City Tribune editions of November 30, December 7 and 14, 1916, comes the news of the day.
Hot sandwiches at all hours, at Oyster John's Store, just around the corner on S. Foote St. - big plate select fry, 25e; fine oyster sandwich, 5c; hot dunch, 15c
Sumner Davis, who sustained a loss in the Masonic temple fire, has purchased the garage from Miner & Smith and is now in possession . Bertsch & Co. recently shipped to a factory in Canton, Ohio, a power metnl shear weighing fifty tons, cap- able to cut one-fourth inch and heavier iron, with a blade mak- ing a seventeen foot stroke. It has the longest cut of ary machine this company ever built
Joe Moore and Reuben Bertsch in one day of their annual rab- hit hunt shot and brought home 47 bunnies . ... The followin - are the new officers of Walnut Level lodge of Odd Fellows: Jesse Rodenberg, N. G .; Park Gipe, V. G .; Monroe Bertsch, R. S .; Dr. A. E. Ehle, S .; Omer Neff, T. Walnut Level enenmpment elect- ed the following officers: Will Dryer, C. P .; Geo. W. Klotz, H. P .; Park Gipe, S. W .; Ray Doll, J. W .; W. H. Behr, S .; Chas. Sarber, T. .... Cambridge City corporation has been granted a franchise and has contracted with the town authorities of Mt. Au- burn to extend its municipal elec- tric system to that place . . You can buy a Ford runabout for $345, touring car $360, coupelet $505, Sedan, $645
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From the pages of the Cam- bridge City Tribune editions of December 14, 21, 28, 1916, comes the news of the day.
Russell Crockett has gone to Chicago to enter business college and complete the work he began some time ago .Although the work of converting the old M. E. church building into a com- munity- room was not completed, it was far enough advanced so that the high school lads could play a game of basketball Friday night. The first and second teams of Modoc defeated the Cambridge teams 27-16 and 36-12, respecti- vely. Note: This same community building is now the home of the National Road Traveler - and the foul circle lines are still vis- ible on the hardwood floor .
The First National Bank build- ing is reaching a stage of early completion. The banking house room furniture is ready for in- stallation and everything is being pushed for occupancy on January 1. The six flats are all rented and will be occupied within the nest few weeks . . . . The annua! . It - tion of officers for the Milton Christian church was held with the following results: Elders, Frank M. Jones, Charles F. Ilale, Joseph Manlove; Deacons, James B. Napier, Chas. H. Sorber, Ora E. White, Chas. M. Hurst. Paul W. Ferris, Ernest W. Poty, Mor- ton Warren, Russell Wilson, Hal - rison M. Hicks, Clyde Leverton. Trustess, G. Frank Doty, R. Wal- lace Warren, Edward Wilson
. . Irvin Harmier has resigned his position as rural carrier out of the Milton postoffice to act it a position with the First National Bank of Cambridge City. Will Scott will be acting rural carrier until the new carrier is appointed
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From the pages of the Cam- bridge City Tribune editions of January 4, 11, 18. 1917, comes the news of the day.
W. F. Green, M.D., resident optician has his office in the Opera House Block, Cambridge City . . .. There are 3,500,000 automobiles in the United States, of which Indiana ranks ninth. New York leads and Ohio is sec- ond . . . . For the first time in its history Mt. Auburn had elec- trie lights last Friday (Dec. 29, 1916). The service is provided by Cambridge City .... Gus Garrett and all of T. J. Connel's road. force are home from Shawnee, O., having completed a big con- crete road contract . . . . The election at the annual meeting, of the First National Bank re- . sulted as follows: Directors - Claude S. Kitterman, Lincoln II. Jones, Chas. Ferguson, Oliver H. Beeson, O. L. Callaway. Officers - Claude S. Kitterman, president -
Chas. Ferguson, vice president; F. J. Harvey, cashier . The Whiteley canning factory and cold storage has been sold to F. R. McGraw through the Mason & Roce agency . . . . Advertisers with derre display space in these issue include : Pobt. Hughes, cloth- ier; Wayne National Bank on sav- ings club; Frank II. Ohmit, fourth annual clean sweep sale of furni- ture and stoves; T. J. Connell, coal and feed; Dean House, drings; The Geo. H. Knollenberg Co., dry goods, Richmond; The Model Clothing Store, clothing and fur- * nishings, Richmond; F. W. Mar- son, Buick ngenty; Callaway's, dry good; C. M. Pierce, Chiro- practor .
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From the pages of the Cam- bridge City Tribune editions of January 25, February 1, 8, 1917 comes the news of the day.
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Now showing at the Royal Theatre, here, "The Eagles Wings"
. M. . L. Young has resigned ns town clerk, which position he has filled since his appointment by the board of trustees to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Felix Dirk . Morris & Krahl, dry goods, ready-to-wear and furnishings, are having their fourteenth annual February sale. A full page advertisement inclu- des these buys: Men's all wool worsted suits, $16; Mackinaw coats, $4 to $7; Ladies' house dresses 98c to $1.35; Boys' over- coats, $2.50 to $6.00 . . . . The town board has selected Harry Stannah to the position of town clerk to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of M. L. Young . . . Lee Pitman, 84, and the oldest active ice man in the state, had a light stroke of appoplexy, but is recovering satisfactorilv. and will be able to mount the ice wagon again . ... Of the 63 sa- Joons in Wayne County 58 of theni are located in Richmond, four in Cambridge City and one.in Ger- mantown. Licensed in German- town is J. W. Sidell, Cambridge City saloon keepers are J. R. Wharton,. Roy Fraunberg, Chas. Merrick and Simeon Crockett ..
The Dublin firm of R. L. Wood ward & Son will furnish all the cement for the new National Road through Dublin and Mt. Auburn The blizzard on Sunday, February 4 was probably the worst in any year in the past half century. It came almost without warning - at least the govern- ment forecast gave no intimation of it. At about 8 o'clock snow began to fall before a southwest wind at- temperature of 30 de- grees. The wind shifted to the west then northwest and by noon it had forced the mercury down to zero. The wind blew wild, driv- ing the snow before it . .
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From the pages of the Cam- bridge City Tribune editions off February 15, 22, and March 1,1 1917, comes the news of the day.
There is an epidemic of meas- les in Jacksonburg and neighbor- 'hood . . . . George Stifel has de- cided to build a six room modern bungalow on the lot recently bought from Frank Frohnapfel, 'adjoining Oscar Chase's residence . ... Don Wright and Omer Man- love have returned from Pontiac, Michigan with two new Oakland cars . Advertisement: Real Music At Last - The New Edi- son, the phonograph with a soul. Music's re-creation operation now a reality. That was the full page heading of an ad by A. C. Reese, Main Street, Cambridge City, dealer for 'Edison . .. . Twenty- five legal voters of the school .town of Dublin, and twenty-five legal voters of the school Twp. of Jackson, have petitioned trus- tee Ehle to build a joint school. The township has no high school Land never did have, and has been dependent on the school towns of Cambridge City and Dublin. Dub- Jin finds that her high school is difficult to maintain, and for that reason is anxious to join the township. Cambridge City is in need of a high building and it · would not be unwise to include her school town in such arrange- ment it the parties could agree as to location and details. (Con- solidation was in the air in 1917 - a new high school was built in 1922) (the Lincoln H. S. which burned in 1955) it served CC and Jackson twp. except Dublin; who joined the new setup in the early 1930's. Now, in 1963 all the schools of Jackson and Washing- ton Townships become one school organization) . Chas. J. Mar- son, jeweler, announces a watch repairing expert, Mr. Wm. Hues-1 man of Shelbyville comes to his shop, and will have full charge of ! the vast amount of repair service . . . Joe Wade is standing two · stallions, Romain 1058 and Samp- Son
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From the pages of the Cam- bridge City Tribune editions of March 8, 15, 22, 1817 comes the news of the day.
The Milton band played for the funeral of Henry Ingermann at Germantown under the auspices of the K. of P. lodge of Cam- bridge City ... Jas. A. Boyd and others have asked the commis- sioners to build a bridge over Martindale creek on the road running north from Germantown. This is a much used road, and especially in getting livestock to market . . . Sumner Davis has been busy for some time convert- ing the old plant of Bertsch & Co. into a modern garage Fifteen dollar hogs are in sight. The high price of $14.50 was! paid at Indianapolis recently for a choice lot . . . J. A. Longe & Co. of Union City have installed a cream station in the rear of W. S. Ilunt's grocery, which will be in the personal charge of Mr. Hunt. The machinery for testing and taking care of the cream has been installed and ready for business . . . Advertisement: Sav- age Tires - heap big mileage! - sold by Auto Inn Co., cor. Center and Church Sts. . . . Car- penter's Rexall Drug Store ad- vertises One Cent Sale. In 1963 and for years past the present Grisby Drug Store does like- wise, here . . . A destructive storm hit the south part of New Castle, Sunday, March 11, about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, in- flieting death to 19 persons and injury to many more, and a fi- nancial loss that can scarcely be compated. For miles east of New Castle the country was dotted with clothing, furnishings, papers und a thousand and one articles that clung to fences, trees and bushes . . . The graduates of the Cambridge City high school this year are Dewey Kelly, Mary Clapper, Ruth Feemster,, Robert
Morris, Walter Myers, Helen Hicks Mount Keeper, Alma Selu uller, han Sloniker, Francis Ogborn and Marquerite South .
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From the pages of the Cam- bridge City Tribune editions of March 29, April 5, 12, 1917 comes the news of the day.
Plans for paving the National road. through Cambridge City are almest completed. The south side of Main street (National road) will be paved first, allowing traf- fic to pass through on the north lane. C. M. Kirpatrick, the paving contractor, says the capacity of his mixing machinery will enable him to pave 4000 ft. or the length of a St. block, per day. Much of the material is already here . ... Will Austill, has returned from near Chicago where he was super- vising the setting of a large 100- ton metal stamping machine huilt | by Bertsch & Co. . . . . Ellis D. Filhy has purchased from the late George Drischel the brick property known as the Jacob Dris- chel homestead on Second and Green streets, south of the Pres- byterian church for the purpose of permanently locating the fac- tory of the Perfection Peanut Co. The rapidly growing demand for their peanuts and butterscotch make their present quarters in- adequate . . . . Cambridge City has the largest school enrollment in its history, a total of nearly. 440. The high school is as large ns it ever was, the enrollment to date being 93. Supt. Ault had this number in 1904 . . . . Fifty Lex- ington automobiles passed through here the other Saturday afternoon enroute from the factory at Con- nersville to Dayton, Cleveland and Buffalo. The Lexington will load five express cars here next week .... Mount Auburn now has sing electric lights besides those at the station furnished by the inter- urban. They get the service from the Cambridge City plant
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From the pages of the Cam- bridge City Tribune editions of April 19, 26, and May 3, 1917 comes the news of the day.
The gas company has elected the following officers: C. C. Fer- guson, president; Richard Glad- den, vice president; Ed McDonald secretary-treasurer; C. M. Camp- bell, B. T. Tillinghast and George Watts, directors; A. C. Foringer, superintendent Cambridge City is to have another factory. Chas. Ferguson, E. O. Paul and Claude Kitterman have formed an association for the purpose of manufacturing Ferguson's patent road drag and are already in the market buying material . . . . The Milton high school baseball team, defeated the Straughn high nine 4-3 . . . . Gaar Nursery of this place has been awarded the con- traet to landscape the grounds of, the city light plant nt Richmond . . .. Some talk has been put in motion by newspapers and people regarding the work of the Cam- bridge City school board in the matter of a new high school build. ing. While the board has done some work along that line, nothing definite has has been done, and it may be a year or more before the matter will take shape. It is prch- able that it will be a vocational high school, and destined to serve this and adjoining school districts There is need of such a buildir. :. but the demands of other inter- ests in the community at pre ent will defer its building until later on when local conditions are more favorable, and the issue of the war more clearly wrought . .. . Clarence Whelan, son of Einer 'Whelan, while cranking an auto ,met with an accident bre king his right arm above the wrist .
'The Cambridge Natural Gas Lo. is arranging to put down new wells this summer, hoping t'en by to increase the supply to t winter .
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From the pages of the Cam- bridge City Tribune editions of May 10, 17, 24, 1917, comes the news of the day. 0 23 -3
B. F. Sourbeer of Germantown , purchased the Kinsinger property at that place and remodeling it for a home .... Twenty-nine Lex- ·ington automobiles were shipped from the Pennsylvania station at this place, the other day .. . . The re-organized Mal-Gra Castings Co. is 'surely a bunch of hustlers who believe in doing things. They are pushing the erection of an addi- 'tional foundry building of equal :capacity of their plant . . Plow- ring up the surface of Main street and grading it for cement brings to light the original soil before the National road was graded 87 years ago. It was then a swamp . Advertisement: Just Arriv- ed - 7,000 lbs. Peoria and Ply- mouth Binder Twine - First Come, First Served -- B. F. Wiss ler Hardware Co., Cambridge City .... Commencement exer- cises were held at Hurst's opera house. The address was delivered by Lee Driver of Winchester. Members of the class are Alice Morris, Ruth Feemster, Alma Scheidler, Mary Clapper, Helen Hicks, Margaret Smith, Eva Slon- aker, Robert Dill, Forrest Kocher, Francis Ogborn, Dewey Kelly and Walter Myers .... Letters of pa- tent have been granted Lawrence Bertsch, assignor to Bertsch & Co., for a gauge on operating and controlling mechanism for punch- ing and other machines . . . . M. L. Bowmaster has moved his drug furniture and fixtures to Dublin, where he will operate and up-to- date store . . . . Put the flag on French soil and help as she help- ed the colonies of the United States in their infant struggle . . . . Wayne County Sunday school convention to be held in Cum- bridge City, May 35. June 1, in the Methodist Episcopal church
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