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Scottsburg (IN) Journal, October 14, 1914, p. 5.
Elza Jennings of Jefferson County, while making a business call in
Scottsburg last Saturday, paid us a visit and became a new subscriber to the
Journal. Mr. Jennings is a grandson of William C. Amos with whom he made
his home since infancy, and like Mr. Amos is a staunch Democrat.
Evansville (IN) Courier and Press, August 2, 1908, p. 25. NOTE: The item
below is abbreviated from the original as shown by the ellipsis.
.Indiana supplies a world-wide market with fine whetstones. T. N. Braxtan
(consider Braxton a spelling variant) of Paoli, who is one of the largest of
whetstone manufacturers in Indiana, says that people all over Indiana are
buying Indiana whetstones "billed" to them from New Hampshire under the
impression that they are getting their stones from Hindoostan.
The Indiana whetstone has a world-wide fame as "Hindoostan" whetstone, a
name that, though it has survived what promised to be "the city of
southwestern Indiana, came near blasting the Indiana whetstone industry in
its infant stages. It is an interesting story.
Discovery of the Whetstone. Prior to 1820, when the government surveyors
were running the lines in this part of Indiana, they happened to come on a
stone that was admirable for sharpening their knives. At that time the town
of Hindoostan, situated on the falls of White River 20 miles north of here,
was the seat of Martin County and was the largest and most promising center
of population and industry in this part of the state. The old records
credit it with having had a population in excess of 2,000. One of
Hindoostan's captains of industry was a man named Prentiss who seems to have
been a thoroughbred Yankee. He realized the possibilities of the stone
found by the surveyors and, finding that it was perfect and even in
composition and had a remarkable "bite," he began quarrying it about 1820.
He took it to his mill at Hindoostan where he cut it up and made it into
polished whetstones. A flatboat was loaded with these whetstones and sent
to New Orleans where they had a ready sale.
Prentiss then conceived of the plan to send a cargo to England. He did this
with much success, and at once set about at his plant at Hindoostan to make
another flatboat-load of his "Hindoostan" stones. But when this cargo,
shipped from New Orleans, arrived in England, it was seized by the
government that contended that an imposition was being practiced because the
"Hindoostan" stones were not, as the people had originally thought, from the
Country of Hindoostan which as coincidence would have it, was the source of
England's supply then, as it is, in part, today. The stones were seized and
dumped over the sides of the ship and possibly lie in the slime of the
English Channel today.
To lose the cargo and to be branded as an imposition in one of the greatest
markets was too much for the new Hindoostan, Indiana, infant industry, and
it languished. The scourges of sickness that killed off the population and
completely wiped out all trace of the promising city, finished the industry
at the falls of White River.
And these handicaps were not, however, enough to kill off the name. Others
began to quarry and manufacture the stones and, though they operated their
plants in the hills of this-Orange-county in which they stone is found, they
still held to the name "Hindoostan" whetstones-a name that today is famous
and standard all over the world.At this time between 660,000 and 1,000,000
fine-grade whetstones annually are manufactured in these Orange County
hills. They are all handled through E. D. Pike, a middle-aged man who lives
in and operates from New Hampshire and who has a sort of corner on the
whetstone supply. and who, by contracts, absolutely controls the output of
the famous Indiana quarries.
Braxtan only recently was in a neighboring town when he saw a man carrying a
fine new whetstone. "What did you have to pay for that stone, my man?" he
asked.
"Seventy-five cents," was the reply.
"Seventy-five cents? Why I suppose I didn't get more than three cents for
that stone."
"Oh," said the man with the stone, "I guess you never had anything to do
with this stone. It's Hindoostan stone."
"Yes," said Braxtan, as he looked it over, "a Hindoostan stone from one of
my quarries located on the top of a hill two miles back country from West
Baden in Orange County, Indiana, and I sold that stone wholesale for not
more than three cents. There certainly is a good middleman's profit in it."
The famous Hindoostan or Indiana whetstones all come from a very limited
area included in a territory 20 or 25 miles square in the northern part of
Orange County. There are many quarries and little mills in which the pieces
of stone taken out of the quarries in great slabs about one-inch thick are
cut up into stones of varying lengths and breadths. After being cut up into
their approximate sizes, they are ground down and polished on great
revolving stone tables. They are then boxed and taken to storehouses at
West Baden, Paoli, Orangeville and Orleans where they remain subject to the
order of Pike.
Besides the fine whetstones, there is also a big allied industry in these
hills-the manufacture of scythe stones from a coarse grit stone and also the
manufacture of "shoemakers" stones. Shoemakers want a stone of considerable
"bite," that will put a good rough edge on their leather cutting and
dressing knives. In addition to these stones, little circular whetstones
are made for the use of dentists and other special workers who use small and
fine "grindstones" in their work.
The development of the industry is due not only to Braxtan but also to an
old Frenchman named Chaillaux who was born on the Isle de Cite in the Seine
in Paris.being a skilled mechanic in France, (he) realized the possibilities
of the stone and came here and opened what are now the most extensive
quarries in the field. Gabriel Dougherty, who lived in the hills when the
Archer gang lived there, is also a big operator and John Charnes and Brown
Moore are also prominent captains of the whetstone industry. But Pike gets
the output and puts it on the shelves of every hardware man and dealer in
the country.
Evansville (IN) Courier and Press, April 28, 1911, p. 8.
OWENSVILLE NEWS
Owensville, Ind., April 27-The Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad Company was
made defendant in a $10,000 damage suit that was filed today in the Gibson
circuit court by Mrs. America Parrish of Paoli, Ind., through her attorneys,
Arthur McCarty of Paoli and Johnson and Johnson of Owensville.
Mrs. Parrish is the mother of Mrs. Fred Johnson of this city. On October
26, 1910, Mrs. Parrish came to Owensville to visit her daughter and in
stepping off the platform at the local depot, Mrs. Parrish fell and broke
her leg. The accident occurred after dark, and it is alleged that the
platform was poorly lighted.
Evansville (IN) Courier and Press, June 30, 1909, p. 3.
ROCKPORT MAN LOSES MOTHER
Mrs. Catherine Harrison Dies at Paoli-News of Spencer County
Rockport, Ind., June 29-A message was received by Dr. E. P. Harrison of this
city this morning announcing the death of his mother, Mrs. Catherine
Harrison, at the home of her son, Charles Harrison, at Paoli, Ind. Mrs.
Harrison was 87 years old. The doctor left over the Southern Railroad this
evening for Paoli to attend the funeral. Dr. Harrison had just returned
from a visit to his mother.
Elkhart (IN) Weekly Review, March 7, 1906, p. 6.
James W. Henderson, 70 years old, of this place, married Mrs. Anna J.
Wilson, 59, of Canton, Ind., after a courtship in which the couple had only
seen each other once. It was a case of love at first sight. He has had
three wives, this one making four.
Paoli (IN) Republican, March 5, 1963, from the collection of Wilma Davis,
Paoli, Indiana.
Ernest Apple, 66, succumbed to a heart condition Sunday morning at his home
in the Ethel community. Funeral services are being held Tuesday afternoon
from Apples Chapel with burial by Ellis funeral directors in the church
cemetery. Graveside military services will be conducted.
He was a veteran of World War I, a member of the Orange County Barracks and
the American Legion. He was a retired farmer and a former teacher and mail
carrier.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Naomi McBride, two sons, Gerald E. Apple of
English and Ralph F. Apple of Oak Ridge, Tenn., and 10 grandchildren.
Paoli (IN) Republican, March 17, 1964, from the collection of Wilma Davis,
Paoli, Indiana. NOTE: The item below was abbreviated from the original as
noted by the ellipsis.
Edmund Apple was one of ten children born into the home of Solomon and
Barbara Teaford Apple, June 8, 1875, in Greenfield Township, Orange County,
and is the last leaf to fall from that family tree, all having preceded him
in death.
He grew to manhood in the community of his birth, learned the business of
farming and assisted with other duties of his neighborhood.
He was married to Miss Mary Hollen November 8, 1900, and they were the
parents of one daughter, Fern. In 1934 Mr. Apple, with his family moved to
Paoli; this companionship was broken by her death in 1953 after more than
fifty years of a very happy and compatible marriage.
Mr. Apple for awhile was an employee of the State Highway Commission
retiring about twenty years ago from active industry.
Although he was not a recognized member of any church affiliation, he
believed and trusted in the promise of the Master and in his later illness
he confessed his faith in Christ and was ready to go at His call.
For the past four years he has been confined almost totally to his home; his
illness necessitated hospital care in the Orange County Hospital for five
weeks, later being transferred to the Keller Nursing Home in Bedford; his
condition became critical last Saturday, and he was admitted to the Dunn
Memorial Hospital where came his passing 24 hours later on March 15, 1964,
at the age of 88 years, 9 months and 7 days.
The daughter, Fern, is the only survivor of the immediate family who so
patiently and lovingly administered to his every need and comfort, remaining
with him always in the home and today, perhaps her thought might be.
My understanding is that anyone who is a resident of Indiana should contact
their representative (http://iga.in.gov/legislative/find-legislators/) as
well as Representative Timothy Brown, Chair of the House Ways and Means
Committee
(http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2015/legislators/legislator_timothy_brown_220
/).
Anyone who is not a resident of Indiana should contact Representative
Brown. I found his email address ('h41(a)iga.in.gov') and sent him my thoughts
on this proposed budget cut. Emails, telephone calls, and letters are all
good.
Points to make when contacting representatives and Rep. Brown include the
fact that those who reside in Indiana are voters and will be cognizant of
how their representative votes on this measure. All who contact should
include that fact that even those who do not reside in Indiana "vote" with
their dollars, spent on travel to Indiana for the purpose of using the
resources of the Indiana State Library -- not just at the library, but in
the broader sense of tourism -- food, lodging, etc. Those are significant
dollars that would be lost to the State.
As I understand it, the savings to the State for this cut is only $400
thousand dollars (but check this), a very small amount to keep such a vital
repository and its services available.
Hope this helps. We all need to speak out for Indiana, whether we are
residents or not. This is too vital a resource to lose for such a small
budget figure.
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Subject: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] Administrative: Elimination of the Genealogy
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Fellow genealogists-
The item below came to me from another source. It appears to be a press
release and is a matter of some concern. If you would like to aid in the
effort to save the genealogy department at the Indiana State Library, please
do your part.
Randi Richardson. List Administrator
INMonroe and IN-South-Central Rootsweb lists
Proposed Elimination of Genealogy at the Indiana State Library
Indiana House Bill 1001 - the State Budget Bill - includes a proposed 24%
cut in funding to the Indiana State Library. According to State Librarian
Jacob Speer, the proposal includes elimination of the Genealogy Department
at the State Library and a 10% reduction in ISL staff.
As Speer points out, the Genealogy Department at the Indiana State Library
has more than 100,000 items devoted to Indiana, states from which Hoosiers
came, as well as some foreign countries.
Many of these holdings are not duplicated at the Indiana Historical Society,
the Indiana State Archives, or the Indiana Historical Bureau. In addition,
the Indiana State Library serves as the "genealogy destination" for patrons
of the Indianapolis Public Library (IPL), as IPL made the decision not to
have their own genealogy collection.
Almost half (49%) of the reference questions that come to the Indiana State
Library are for research from the Genealogy collection. It isn't hard to
imagine an increase in the number of people who will be researching their
Indiana heritage and local history as we approach the State's bicentennial
next year, especially with the state's plans to attract people to "come home
to Indiana."
We encourage Indiana residents to contact their state legislators and
members of the House Ways and Means Committee and weigh in on this important
issue. You can locate contact information for your state legislators here
and the House Ways and Means Committee here.
People outside of Indiana can contact Rep. Timothy Brown, Chair of the House
Ways and Means Committee. Those dollars that you spend in the state while
you're researching at the Indiana State Library add up.
You can find State Librarian Speer's analysis here.
You can find the full State Budget Report here.
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have an interest in the south central district of Indiana, as defined by the
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Fellow genealogists-
The item below came to me from another source. It appears to be a press
release and is a matter of some concern. If you would like to aid in the
effort to save the genealogy department at the Indiana State Library, please
do your part.
Randi Richardson. List Administrator
INMonroe and IN-South-Central Rootsweb lists
Proposed Elimination of Genealogy at the Indiana State Library
Indiana House Bill 1001 - the State Budget Bill - includes a proposed 24%
cut in funding to the Indiana State Library. According to State Librarian
Jacob Speer, the proposal includes elimination of the Genealogy Department
at the State Library and a 10% reduction in ISL staff.
As Speer points out, the Genealogy Department at the Indiana State Library
has more than 100,000 items devoted to Indiana, states from which Hoosiers
came, as well as some foreign countries.
Many of these holdings are not duplicated at the Indiana Historical Society,
the Indiana State Archives, or the Indiana Historical Bureau. In addition,
the Indiana State Library serves as the "genealogy destination" for patrons
of the Indianapolis Public Library (IPL), as IPL made the decision not to
have their own genealogy collection.
Almost half (49%) of the reference questions that come to the Indiana State
Library are for research from the Genealogy collection. It isn't hard to
imagine an increase in the number of people who will be researching their
Indiana heritage and local history as we approach the State's bicentennial
next year, especially with the state's plans to attract people to "come home
to Indiana."
We encourage Indiana residents to contact their state legislators and
members of the House Ways and Means Committee and weigh in on this important
issue. You can locate contact information for your state legislators here
and the House Ways and Means Committee here.
People outside of Indiana can contact Rep. Timothy Brown, Chair of the House
Ways and Means Committee. Those dollars that you spend in the state while
you're researching at the Indiana State Library add up.
You can find State Librarian Speer's analysis here.
You can find the full State Budget Report here.
Bloomington (IN) Evening World, July 13, 1910, p. 1.
MURDER RECALLED ARREST OF SLAYER
Oliver Thomasson Recently Paroled again in Official Custody
How Mob Sought His Life
Oliver Thomasson, who was convicted in the Monroe circuit court some ten
years ago for the murder of Andy (consider Andrew a spelling variant) Lentz
of Lawrence County and sentenced by Judge Martin to serve an indeterminate
term of two to twenty-one years in the state prison, is again in trouble.
Thomasson was only recently paroled from the institution and was arrested at
Bedford yesterday on the charge of carrying concealed weapons. The Bedford
Mail says: "A parole officer from the Jeffersonville reformatory is in the
city looking into the record of Oliver Thomasson, a paroled convict from
that institution. Thomasson, who resides south of the river, was this
morning placed under arrest on the charge of carrying concealed weapons to
hold him while the investigation is being conducted.
"Farmers in the neighborhood south of the river have been suffering from
chicken thieves and complaint has been made to the reformatory official. If
the investigation warrants, Thomasson, who only a few months ago was
released on parole from the institution, will be returned to finish his
sentence.
"Thomasson and Noah Gaines, both sons of respected Lawrence county farmers,
were jointly charged with the Lentz murder, an event that stirred the
community. The crime is directly traceable to liquor, and it was for the
purpose of driving to a country distillery to steal some brandy that the two
young men entered Lentz's mother's barnyard and appropriated a buggy to
convey them to the distillery. It was about eight o'clock in the evening,
and Lentz, returning from work, surprised the two as they were hitching
Lentz's horse to a buggy. A terrific fight followed in which Lentz was shot
to death.
"The identity of the slayers was not determined for several days, Mack
Stone, deputy sheriff of Lawrence County accidentally discovered a clue
ending in the arrest of the two boys. Feeling was so high against the
prisoners that they were taken to the State Reformatory for safekeeping, and
on a charge of venue were tried here before Judge Martin and a jury. The
prisoners were defended by Duncan & Batman of this city, Edwards & Edwards
of Mitchell and R. N. Palmer of Bedford. It was a bitterly contested case,
the attorneys for the boys entering a plea of self-defense. So insistent
was this plea kept before the jury that a verdict of manslaughter was
returned February 19 1900. To escape a mob that had formed at Bedford to
lynch the prisoners, Sheriff Peter Thrasher drove to Ellettsville, boarded a
northbound Monon train for Indianapolis, and in a round-about way landed his
prisoners in the reformatory. W. H. Martin, presiding judge, wrote a letter
that accompanied the commitment papers to the reformatory officials
requesting the prisoners be compelled to serve the maximum sentence of 21
years. It was to the existence of this letter that the prisoners owe their
long confinement as they could have been subject to parole February 20,
1902. The legal battle to save their sons almost bankrupted their fathers."
Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Courier, January 10, 1896, morning
edition, p. 1. NOTE: The item below was abbreviated from the original as
noted by the ellipsis.
The funeral of Hon. Francis B. Hitchcock, editor of the Bedford Mail,
occurred yesterday afternoon at his late residence in Bedford at 1:30
o'clock. More than 500 people were present at the services to pay their
last respects to the honored dead.
Rev. J. A. Ward of the M. E. Church read a chapter of scripture and offered
prayer followed by a scriptural reading by Elder Franklin of the Christian
Church who also gave a sketch of the deceased.
Mr. Hitchcock was born in Terre Haute and began his journalistic experience
in Flora, Ills. He attended the State University in this city in 1861 but
left college to enlist in Co. B and served through the late war honorably
after which he began the practice of law in Bedford. He was elected county
superintendent of Lawrence County in 1887 and in 1894 was elected county
recorder which office he held at the time of his death.
Smithville (Monroe County, Indiana) News, January 15, 1909, p. 2.
Marion Whitted, 40, a farmer who lived near Springville, shot himself dead
while walking along one of the main streets in Springville Wednesday
evening. Family troubles is supposed to have been the cause of the rash
act.
Smithville (Monroe County, Indiana) News, January 15, 1909, p. 2.
SHERIFF KILLS A MAN
Thomas Box, sheriff of Lawrence County, while taking a man to Michigan City
prison and stopping off at Indianapolis, got into a fight with a man by the
name of Barrett in a saloon, shot and killed him. Box is now in jail in
that city for the murder. Just why Box went through Indianapolis when he
could have gone direct on the Monon is the cause of much comment.
Bloomington (IN) Telephone, April 5, 1910, p. 4.
$500,000 STONE COMPANY
Bedford Democrat: "Articles of incorporation of the Reed Stone Company have
been filed with the secretary of state and were this morning filed with the
recorder of Lawrence County. The capital stock of the corporation is
$500,000 in 5,000 shares of $100 each. The directors as named in the
incorporation papers are W. S. Holcombe, Richard Roberts, W. E. Powers,
Louis Roberts and Albert H. Dunihue. The headquarters of the company is
Bedford.
"The business of the corporation is to mine, prepare for market, sell and
deliver stone, and the life of the corporation is fixed at 50 years.
"The general purpose of the organization is to take over all of what is
known as the Reed properties that include the Indiana Cut Stone Company, the
Norton-Reed Stone Company, the Bedford-New York Quarries Company, the
Bedford Quarry Company and the Oolitic Stone Company of Indiana, the latter
being in Monroe County. The business of these companies is in no way
effected by the corporation which is merely an organization brining under
one head for better working arrangements several of the best stone mille and
quarry properties in the Oolitic district."
Paoli (IN) Republican, February 10, 1915, p. 1.
Miss Julia Standeford has come here from Orleans to assist her brother,
Oscar Standeford, in his duties as treasurer of Orange County and has
assumed the duties of deputy treasurer. She is a fine young lady, very
efficient, and will no doubt render splendid satisfaction. For some time
past she has been bookkeeper for the Heise Bros. Milling Co. at Orleans, and
they regretted to give her up.
Paoli (IN) Republican, February 10, 1915, p. 1.
John E. Lambdin of Livermore, Ky., spent Sunday here with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Z. T. Lambdin. John had not visited Paoli for some time, but he is
looking well and doing well. He owns and operates a coal mine a short
distance from Livermore where he reports he is producing coal of a very
superior quality and greatly in demand. He returned to his home Monday.
Indianapolis (IN) Sentinel, February 14, 1885. Available at
www.newspapers.library.in.gov/.
Seymour, Ind., Feb. 13-John W. Odem and family moved to Minneapolis, Minn.,
about a year ago, and failing to find it the paradise they expected, will
remove to this city soon.
Indianapolis (IN) Sentinel, February 14, 1885. Available at
www.newspapers.library.in.gov/.
Seymour, Ind., Feb. 13-A small child of Daniel Empson of Vallonia was
severely burned a few nights ago and its condition is critical.
Indianapolis (IN) Sentinel, January 19, 1885. Available at
www.newspapers.library.in.gov/.
Seymour, Ind., Jan. 18-The commissioners in special session on Friday
appointed Dr. James M. Shields of this city secretary of the County Board of
Health.. Dr. Shields, although young in years, is an apt, close student and
is destined to make his mark as a physician. He is a nephew and the
business partner of Dr. John T. Shields, one of the oldest and best known
physicians and surgeons in this part of the state.
Bloomington (IN) Evening World, February 6, 1937, clipping file, Monroe
County History Center, Bloomington, Indiana.
CANCER TAKES LIFE OF NANNIE M. SHIVELY, 46
Woman Dies 3 Hours after Taken to Hospital
Nannie M. Shively, 46, died of cancer at 7:45 o'clock Friday night in
Bloomington Hospital after an illness of five months. She underwent a major
operation last September and had been ill since that time. She was taken to
the hospital at 4:30 o'clock Friday afternoon and died about three hours
later.
Mrs. Shively was born March 15, 1890 in Brown County, the daughter of Isaac
and Louisa (Elkins) Chandler. She is survived by a son, Frank Shively, of
this city; the father, Isaac Chandler of Scottsburg, three sisters, Mrs.
John Bush of Bedford, Mrs. Earl Woods of Indianapolis and Miss Della
Chandler of Scottsburg, and two brothers, Howard Chandler of Elkinsville and
Leonard Chandler of Indianapolis. She made her home in this city at 710
West Eighth Street
Funeral services will be conducted at ten o'clock Monday morning from the
Day Funeral Home with the Rev. R. O. Pearson officiating. Burial will be in
Rose Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Thomas Farr, Fred Hays, Lane Young,
Raymond Sare, Frank Terrell and Gamel Peterson.