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Facts About Warsaw
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New Telephone System
· Ye Older Immigrants
· The Pole Raised
· 3 at the Cross Roads
· Early Newspaper History
· Fine Lot of Ice
· Snow storm 1873
· Fish Stories
· From an old Comrade
Facts
About Warsaw
Northern Indianian
August 13, 1896
A Few Truthful Assertions Concerning
the Tri-Lake City--
While Our Citizens Are Not Generally Boastful, Yet It is a Fact
that Warsaw Can Lay Claim to ...
Pride.
Four hotels.
Three lakes.
Two florists.
Three banks.
Ten churches.
No anarchists.
Seven saloons.
Two railroads.
Four cobblers.
One feed store.
Three jewelers.
Few Democrats.
A public library.
A few old maids.
Good mechanics.
Five drug stores.
Four shoe stores.
Five restaurants.
A Military Band.
Fine shade trees.
Two book stores.
One opera house.
Bright prospects.
Two ice retailers.
'Steen dray lines.
Two feed stables.
Not much wealth.
Too many loafers.
Virtuous maidens.
No vacant houses.
Two flouring mills.
Numerous suckers.
Many Republicans.
Not much poverty.
Two livery stables.
Brilliant ministers.
A fine court house.
Several "chinchers."
Honest young men.
Eight barber shops.
Five meat markets.
Two G. A. R. Posts.
Two general stores.
Good business men.
Many church-goers.
Half dozen bakeries.
Three dental offices.
Pretty young ladies.
A telephone system.
Too much profanity.
A military company.
Many smart lawyers.
Two furniture stores.
A number of kickers.
Not many foreigners.
Numerous grumblers.
Three photographers.
A population of 5,000.
Plenty of good water.
Four millinery stores.
Solid business blocks.
Probably 200 bicycles.
Four hardware stores.
Gas and water-works.
Clean business streets.
One department store.
An electric light plant.
Beautiful surroundings.
Numerous dressmakers.
Several chronic kickers.
Lots of wild young men.
Excellent public schools.
Men who want the earth.
Five cigar manufactories.
Rich farms surrounding it.
A rich supply of gossipers.
Four good hose companies.
Handsome married women.
A score of boarding houses.
Five large dry goods stores.
Many handsome residences.
Citizens with unlimited gall.
Many liberal hearted people.
Weeds in many portions of it.
Three public school buildings.
Four tailoring establishments.
A full supply of sons-of-guns.
A great deal of musical talent.
A few "very close" individuals.
A splendid water-works system.
Two fine clothing establishments.
Plenty of marriageable young ladies.
Three building and loan associations.
The "Is-it-hot-enough-for-you" fellow.
An institute for the cure of inebriates.
Three efficient custodians of the peace.
Seventeen groceries and no competition.
An intelligent and progressive population.
A large majority in favor of McKinley.
Plenty of young ladies in search of husbands.
Many lady cyclists, but no more bloomers.
Ten physicians, who all feel confident of the future.
More lodges than any other city of its size in the State.
Many "young ducks" who would like to own the town.
Being within a short distance of beautiful Lakeside Park.
Being in close proximity to the great Winona Assembly.
A number of persons who have no visible means of support.
Three justices of the peace who seldom discharge the defendant.
The reputation of being the cleanliest city in Northern Indiana.
Two undertakers, whom every citizen is trying his best to boycott.
Plenty of women who are eternally gossiping about their neighbors.
Two marble shops, at which places people only talk business as
a last resort.
Good society, consisting both of vivacious and modest young ladies
and fine appearing young men.
Too many young men who are earning their living by the sweat
of their (sometimes poor) father's brow.
And if you would like to know of anything else that Warsaw possesses,
just take a day off and sit down and figure it out for yourself..
New
Telephone System
Northern Indianian
July 23, 1896
Within two weeks the Warsaw Telephone
company's system will be in operation in this city. The work
of constructing the line has been going forward for the past
few weeks and the poles are all placed in position. W. T. Van
Vactor, the manager of the company, has been supervising the
work and states that the central office will be located in Mayor
Moon's room over the postoffice. Between seventy-five and one
hundred subscribers are already on the telephone list and many
more will probably be added.
Ye Older Immigrants
Northern Indianian
July 28, 1904
In a Communication Thomas Woods
Gives List of Eighty-three From One Ohio county.
Editor Daily Times:
Dear Sir
When in attendance at the funeral of George B. Richhart on Sunday
July 10,(he being a son of the first immigrants to Warsaw from
Champaign county,Ohio) the thought came to my mind of how largely
the city of Warsaw, Wayne township and Kosciusko county are indebted
for their growth and prosperity to the immigration and settlement
therein, of families and persons from the township of Goshen,
Champaign county, Ohio, wherein the little village of Mechanicsburg
is situated. Such thoughts occurred to me often for several days
thereafter, and finally I concluded that I would, from memory,
pencil down a list of such families and persons who have died
since their removal to this county, and herewith furnish you
such list for publication, thinking that it may be of interest
to many of your readers, and especially to the host of survivors
and descendants of those early immigrants, as follows:
Aborn, Obed H.
Aborn, Mary
Aborn, Thomas E.
Allison, John B.
Aspinall, Joseph
Albertson, William
Albertson, Airy
Blue, John L.
Blue, William
Caples, Mrs. John F.
Daisy, Moses
Daisy, Rhoda
Evans, Adam
___ Evans, his wife
Evans, John Sr.
Evans, John
____ Evans, his wife
Felkner, Margaret (Woods)
Grove, John W.
___ Grove, his wife
Grove, Anna
Gill, John D.
____ Gill, his wife
Gill, Sophia
Gill, Susan (Mrs. O. B. Turner)
Henry, William
___ Henry, his wife
Jerman, Daniel
Johnson, Mrs. Jesse (Allison)
Kist, Amos T. S.
___ Kist, his wife
Kist, Philomela
Kist, Solomon
___ Kist, his wife
Mulford, David
___ Mulford, his wife
Millice, John
Millice, Rebecca and daughter
Millice, Mary
Millice, Nelson
___ Millice, his wife
Millice, Emeline and son
Millice, David
Millice, Henry
Millice, James and wife
Millice, Sophia
Marvel, Benton II
___ Marvel, his wife
Marvel, Sarah
Neff, David
Neff, Abraham
Neer, Edward
___ Neer, his wife
Neer, Henry___
Neer, his wife
Neer, Albiann
Owens, Aaron
___ Owens, his wife
Rigdon, Lewis
___ Rigdon, his wife
Rigdon, Susannah
Rigdon, Elijah W.
Richhart, Benjamin
___ Richhart, his wife
Richhart, Hannah
Runyan, Mrs. John N.
Sheaff, Bernard
___ Sheaff, his wife
Thomas, Abner B.
Winder, Caleb B.
Winder, Allena
Walters, Jacob
___ Walters, his wife
Walters, Mary
Walters, Daniel
Woods, Adam S.
___ Woods, his wife
Woods, Margaret
Wynant, John
Wynant, David S.
Wynant, Ruth
Wynant, James
___ Wynant, his wife
Wynant, David
___ Wynant, his wife
Wynant, Wm D. N.
Wynant, Lizzie
Wynant, Daniel
___ Wynant, his wife
Wynant, Ann and daughter
Wynant, Nancy
Wynant, Elizabeth
The total is eighty-three, and the reader must bear in mind that
the list includes only the dead of these early immigrants. Many
of the survivors of families and their descendants are yet living.
For instance there are six descendants of the late John Milice,
all having families. And one peculiarity about the early immigrants
was that they were, in politics, nearly all Whigs and Republicans
and aided largely to the steady growth of the Republican party
in Kosciusko county. Only three of such immigrants were Democrats,
and one of them soon became a Republican. As an illustration
of the welcome received by the Whig population of the county,
I will state that back in the '40s, when the late Judge James
S. Frazer was editor of the Kosciusko Republican, after the arrival
of a train of such early immigrants, he published the fact and
added: "Warsaw's doors are wide open; let them come; they
are all Whigs." What "Champaigner," without careful
study, as I have made, would have thought that eighty-three of
such early immigrants have passed into the great beyond. Surely,
life is but a span, and many may soon follow. Mary Pyper so perfectly
describes life that I here insert it and close.
"I came at morn, 'twas spring, I smiled;
The fields with green were clad,
I walked abroad at noon, and lo!
'Twas summer, I was glad.
"I sat me down, 'twas autumn
eve,
And I with sadness wept;
I laid me down at night and then
'Twas winter, and I slept."
---THOMAS WOODS,
Warsaw, July 18, 1904
The Pole Raised
Northern Indianian
May 21, 1896
And a Very Handsome One it is
Too, When Decorated with "Old Glory."
Readers of this paper are aware that Dr. White, of the Warsaw
Institute, has been preparing to raise a flag-staff on the "Wallace
Place" for some time. On Saturday last Thomas Lehew with
his efficient tackle raised the pole in very short order, notwithstanding
the fact that it stands 132 1/2 feet above the ground. When the
necessary tackle was got in place, not over three quarters of
an hour was consumed in elevating the handsome pole to an erect
position. Dr. White has shown considerable skill in erecting
this fine mast for he made the splicing himself --a mechanical
feat that is considered quite difficult even among skilled men.
The pole came from the Wallace farm not far from Clunette, and
it is a real beauty, tall, slender and perfectly upright, just
like the Republican party which it represents. The raising of
flag-staffs has fallen out of custom within the past decade to
some extent, but the time was when every town and village in
the country during a political campaign floated the flag from
a tall pole, and in most cases one representing each party. It
was not at all uncommon to see them even at farm homesteads,
the neighbors of the same political faith assembling to help
raise it aloft. The Doctor has received many compliments over
the beautiful mast he has erected.
3 at the Cross
Roads
Northern Indianian
May 21, 1896
Queer Coincidence
Mr. Easterday, who took the remains of Mrs. H. C. Robinson to
the Franklin Church cemetery in a hearse Wednesday, relates quite
a queer coincidence that occurred a short distance west of Silver
Lake while on the way to the cemetery. At a cross-roads, at the
point indicated, he met and passed a funeral procession going
south and at the same point another was going north, while he
himself was going west. All three were on their way to different
cemeteries. A hundred years ago the superstition among the people
would have manufactured a gruesome tale out of such an occurrence,
and "old wives" would have had fearful forebodings
for the future, and predict the meeting of three funeral corteges
as ominous of something weird and wild for all concerned with
the funeral trains.
Early Newspaper
History
Northern Indianian
June 25, 1896
An Old Timer
We have a sample copy of the original Kosciusko County Republican,
issued directly after its removal form Monoquet, then a thriving
village north of here, to Warsaw. It is dated January 21, 1847,
and carries the name of Andrew J. Bair, still a resident of this
city, at its mast-head, as editor. The Mexican war was then in
progress, and this particular issue contains an extract from
a speech made in Congress on the subject by Col. Baker, who was
the commanding officer of an Illinois regiment, but also a member
of Congress, before which body the speech was made detailing
the sufferings of the U.S. volunteer forces in Mexico. It was
an eloquent appeal to Congress for aid, and came from the same
man who fifteen years later laid down his life in the defense
of his country at Ball's Bluffs, one of the great sacrificial
struggles at the commencement of the late great war.
In this issue of the Republican
there were a number of contributions written by those who in
those days "just scratched down a few ideas just to fill
up" --a few of whose progeny still live to haunt the latter-day
editor; they not knowing that it is not "filling up"
that is required now, but a sensitive nose to know what to leave
out of the fin de siecle journal of today, even though it may
be a "provincial."
It doesn not contain a single line
of local news --not a fragment of news even squinting in that
direction. Indeed, none of the country newspapers of that period
contained a local department, and so far as we know it was the
writer, who as the foreman of the Rochester Flag, was the first
to erect a local department under an appropriate heading at the
beginning of the third page, and thus began the classifying of
home news in that way. This was in 1853, and Messrs. Pershing
& Hoover, were owners, publishers and editors of that newspaper
--both of them having some years ago mustered on the other side.
The younger publishers of today would be surprised to know that
previous to the period referred to, it was not at all uncommon
for a country newspaper to come out without a single line of
editorial, local or home news in its columns. News was almost
wholly confined to Legislative and Congressional proceedings,
foreign news, long, dreary, wearisome productions from the pen
of some doctor or lawyer, served to invoke a reply, and in that
way keep up a supply of original matter. The copy before us does
not contain either an editorial or a bit of local news; yet it
was a fair sample --a first-class one, indeed--of the country
newspaper of that day.
The last thirty years have witnessed
more improvement in newspapers and their rapid production than
can possibly be shown in any other claling, or, rather, business
enterprise. Nevertheless, the one referred to is handsomely printed,
and was issued only a few months before the writer, as a boy,
"set in" to learn the printing business with Mr. Bair,
his first duties being to carry the paper, sweep out and keep
up the fires, and it is quite likely that we can say what no
other man can do, and that is for almost fifty years we are still
in the same business in the same town in which we learned the
trade, and at the head of the legitimate descendent of the same
newspaper. If there is an instance of the kind--and it is possible
there may be--we do not know it.
Fine Lot of Ice
Northern Indianian
April 2, 1896
Superintendent Berkley of the Eagle
Lake Ice Co., states that nearly all of the ice stored in their
houses at this place --some 30,000 tons -- has been contracted
for. To speak more specifically, 80 percent of the 1895 crop
has been sold, and all of the crop of 1896 has been disposed
of. The 1895 ice of this company, stored in the houses a little
over a year ago, is of unusually fine quality. It is said that
it is now as clear as a crystal and is about thirteen inches
in thickness. The shipment of this immense amount of ice already
contracted for, will give employment to about twenty-five men
for nearly six months. This labor will be required in loading
the ice on the cars and the work will begin in the early spring,
so we are informed.
Snow storm 1873
Warsaw Times Union
October 14, 2003
Remember When 75 yrs Ago (1928)
Old residents of Kosciusko County today (Oct. 10) recalled the
terrific snow storm which struck this vicinity 55 years ago Monday
night [1873], piling up snow four feet deep, which remained until
April 18. Never within the memory of the oldest settler had there
been such a winter like that of 1873 nor since. For 14 days after
the storm broke, never a sight of the sun reached the eyes of
man. The thermometer dropped at periods during the winter to
40 degrees below zero and at one time stayed near that point
continuously for six weeks.
Fish Stories
Warsaw Times Union,
date unknown
Around Our Town and County by
Virginia Zuck
When fishermen get to yarning, talk turns to the huge ones seen
and reported from around our county lakes in the past. Sometimes
tales of "Sea serpents and monsters" have been scoffed
at and attributed to the imagination of persons reporting such
rarities.
A 109 pound spoonbill catfish caught
by Ed, Tony and Simon Osborn in Winona Lake 64 years ago this
month was no myth. Garrett Osborn, 117 South Hickory street,
has the original photograph of that big fellow, captured by his
dad and uncles while seining early one morning in the bay at
the southwest end of the lake. Before the turn of the century
it was legal to net fish and sell them. The Osborns sold by the
wagon load right off the court house square. Local restaurants
and hotels had fish on the menu almost daily. Cold fish sandwiches
were commonplace at short order counters then.
It's more difficult to believe that
once in 1913 five or six sea lions inhabited Pike lake for a
brief period. If you doubt the story we refer you to foundry
foreman, Ralph Garber of 1509 East Market street, two machinists,
Carey Craig, Pierceton and Harvey Craig, 821 East Market, or
William A. Nice, general contractor who lives at 303 North Parker
street.
In the summer of 1913 these teen-age
youngsters were fishing, swimming and playing around the northeast
sandy beaches of Pike Lake not far from their homes. On more
than one occasion the boys saw the sea lions swimming around
the shores through the reeds. What's more they got good, closeup
views.
An explanation of how these seagoing
animals got into Pike Lake, far away from their usual habitat,
seems quite plausible. They had escaped from the Barnum and Bailey
and Wallace Brothers circus quarters at Peru, Indiana, the previous
April when the whole town and surrounding area was inundated
by the worst flood in memory.
Many circus animals drowned, including
some elephants and hundreds of people were driven from their
homes. Water from the overflowing Wabash river covered the Peru
business district. The courthouse square one of the few dry safety
islands where the hungry received emergency rations.
Seems the circus sea lions swam
from the Wabash river into the Tippecanoe (River) up to Little
Pike and then into Big Pike Lake where they could go no farther
north in their search for colder water. We don't know how many
miles they covered by it must have been quite a distance. No
one knows what became of the sea lions. The were never reported
after the summer of 1913.
From an old Comrade
Warsaw Daily Times:
Aug. 19, 1897
Doubtless a large number of the
citizens of Warsaw who lived here at the time of the breaking
out of the war will remember the writer of the following - Alonzo
H. Hubbard. At the very beginning of the war, and within a day
or two after the calling out of the troops by President Lincoln
to suppress the insurrection, as it was then called, Mr. Hubbard
enlisted inthe first company raised in this county.
At that time he was engaged as an
assistant on the building of the old Empire Block, destroyed
by fire in 1870, if we remember correctly; but dropping his employment,
he determined to obey the call. The company to which he was attached
became E company of the Twelfth Indiana Infantry, and as there
were thousands of more men offered themselves for the first six
regiments that Indiana was required to raise as its quota in
the call for the first 75, 000 men, the body of men alluded to
either had to accept a longer term of service than they had enlisted
for, or sneak back home. Almost to a man they resolved to stay
and form a part of the State troops authorized by the Legislature
of Indiana, then in session, to serve within the borders of Indiana,
the term of enlistment being for one year.
On the night of the first battle
of Bull Run Governor Morton ordered the regiment to Indianapolis
from Evansville, where it had taken the place of Gen. Lew Wallace's
Eleventh Regiment, engaged in blockading the Ohio River at that
point. On reaching Indianapolis, the Twelfth was at once mustered
into and transferred to the United States service, and on Monday
was on its way to Washington. It staid (sic) its year in the
Army of the Potomac, and immediately after its muster out at
the end of its term, reorganizing "for the war," Mr.Hubbard
having been commissioned as a First Lieutenant of Company F,
in which he served honorably, faithfully and bravely till the
close of the war.
We were reminded of these facts
on the reception of his letter, which is as follows:
Nat'l Military Home, Kans., Aug. 17, 1897
Messrs. Reub Williams & Son:
Enclosed find $1 and please enter my name as a subscriber for
your paper. I remember your beautiful city as it was in the early
sixties and the hospitality of its generous citizens. I have
a warm place in my heart for the boys with whom I shared the
hardships of war. I have often thought of the editor of the old
Northern Indianian, who went out as a comrade and came back as
a leader, but still a comrade. I have been without your excellent
paper for some time and am anxious to again hear from my old
soldier friends, as I always do when I receive your paper. Very
respectfully,
Alonzo H. Hubbard.
Foote Re-Acts
Crime Today
Warsaw Daily Times
April 11, 1932
Confesses to Swatting An Imaginary
Fly on Man's Face
Joe Foote, local restaurant proprietor was ready for trial this
afternoon for alleged assault and battery on Floyd W. Herald
of Elkhart,a newspaper solicitor. Foote pleaded not guilty when
arrested and arraigned last Friday afternoon following the altercation
which occurred at his restaurant.
Mayor Bibler's court assembled at
1 o'clock with a non-partisan throng present. The Arcade barber
shop and other business houses closed doors to attend. Foote
passed cigars. He was represented by Attorney Allan Widaman.
Prosecutor George Bowser was unable to reach the prosecuting
witness by telephone and after a 40-minute wait moved that the
charge be dismissed for lack of prosecution.
"I confessed this morning to
Chiefie Lucas, who put me through degrees one, two and three,"
said Foote. "I had the Chiefie mystified until he put the
lie-detector, which he brought home recently from Northwestern
College for Flatfeet, on me. The detector said we were both liars.
It's a wonderful machine, 'cause everyone lies and it can't miss.
Lucas also gave me the psychological grill. He trapped me everytime
with surprise questions until he tried to tell me sandwiches
and pie was 15 cents. Everybodyknows sandwiches and pie is two
bits. Then he had me re-enact the crime. I got a copy of The
Daily Times, folded it twice like one does when swatting flies,
and rehearsed the alleged assault.
"There was a mole on the solicitor's
face, which I mistook for a fly, and was brushing at it. That's
what made him think I was assaulting him. You know there has
never been any flies in my restaurant, so of course I was agitated
when I mistakenly thought there was a fly right in my own spotless
restaurant on the solicitor's face. If he hadn't moved I would
have got the imaginary fly. Chief Lucas commended me on keeping
my cafe clear of flies and we hobnobbed and got very chummy.
Quite a number of people volunteered to serve on the jury. Al
Capone has offered to let me have his room at Leavenworth. And
"the Goose Hangs High."
"I didn't see the fly on the
insistent solicitor's face until he had deviled me about half
an hour to subscribe to his South Bend News-Times. I already
take his paper at my restaurant. The salesman insisted that I
subscribe for another copy to be delivered at my home. I was
boosting Warsaw papers and trade at home campaigns and so refused.
I said if I wanted to read the South Bend paper at home I would
take my copy from the restaurant and carry it home. Then the
solicitor said 'You look like that kind of a cheap-skate.' Then
I noticed the imaginative fly on his countenance.
"I promised Chief Lucas to
use Flit hereafter but once I got some Flit on the floor and
a customer slipped on it and threatened to sue me. But hereafter
I'll use Flit." |