The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-03

nave dHOlu6T IuTHdC6 Oll eiAO SesAiiN stream next season and expect forge soon on the Mahoning. think Heaton fully deserving his money and natter myself you will approve paying 1t, all though had no express orders to pay it, but his necessity induced me to do it.
 The money by Ford was received by Parkhurst for land in YoungstoWn-the land sold Sears in Youngstown was at $2.75. I have verbally sold the remain der of your lands there to his brother at the same price, but have not made the writings yet; he was to have done i it last fall and depends on the bargain, but has delayed to complete the busi- sness. am in hopes to collect suffi- cient money for the company, but John Beard, that bought Clarks Mill place in Youngstown, is dead, which delayed the payment of eight hundred dollars, but I expect it will come this spring. The principal part of the money will come from Young's debts, for the lake people have very little to pay with. I am, etc., | TJJRHAND KIRTLAND. ! Gen. H. Champion.
 1 Such are few of the local under takings of these energetic pioneers, but aside from all this, lands were sur- veyed, towns laid out, roads blazed and schools established throughout the en- tire Reserve and the Sufferers Land as well-and very early came the momen- tous question of founding a Western College"
 Education has ever been paramount with New Englanders and these trans planted Yankees were no exception. It was soon decided that each proprietor was to give in proportion to the amount of land he owned for this "Yale of the West" as they termed it. Then came the yexing question of site such jealousy and intrigue as is dis played in the voluminous correspon- dence on the subject. Burton came off victorious, and in 1903 the college was Incorporated under the title of the Erie Literary Society" It led a pre- carious existence, it's name probably killing it until 1926, when it was re- moved to Hudson, and is now known as the Western Reserve University Of Cleveland.
 In all this multiplicity of business the early impressions of our little family in their new home is sparser than we could wish. There are school and shoe bills; spinning bills of wearing cloth and sew thread-stoeking yarns of woolen and cotton fine'--and interest," ing old samplers, all limiting faintly that domesticity was their lot, which is strongly corroborated by the perusol of the family receipt book. Such tooth some edihles as it shows and one can readily believe my father when he rem iniscently remarks Grandmother kirt- land was a wonderful cook.
 Hospitality In those days was a ne- cessty, and Judge Kirtland's home was no exception; but fancy a private family cooking on this scale'--1S lbs of flour. lbs butter, I 1-2 lbs sugar, z 1-2 currants, IS eggs at. of wine and at. of emptyings"--A cooky recipe be- ginning with @1 gal. of honey" Chick ems were fricassied in conjunction with onions, sweet marioram nutmeg, eggs, butter, little vinegar and a glass of wine, and cucumbers were pickled with whiskey. 4n
 When Nancy was thirteen years old she was. sent to Canfield to finish her
 education. We smile now, but centen- arian of Ellsworth, but lately passed away, assuredrme that in the early part of the last century this was the
 fashionable school and girls from all over the Reserve attended Miss Betsey
 Bostwick's Private Academy for
 Young Females" Painting, geogra- phy and grammar are my principal
 studies," writes Nancy in 1915, and
 specimens can still be seen of exquisite
 hand wrought embroidery and pictures
 in ink and water color showing deci-
 ded talent and quite wonderful execu-
 tion, but devoid of any of to-day's inn
 pressionistic influences.
 This little time-worn and yellowed scrap of paper tells its own tale.
 Dear Nancy: Some disappointment
 about shoes necessltates us to postpone our exhibition till Thursday and Fri
 day evenings. Be so good as to brins
 your blue ribbons with you and tho things you were to send.
 BEISE1 M, BOSl W ICh. Many letters passed between the schoo friends, and one despairing damsel or the eve of moving to Granville, which l as you know, is barely one hundred an( 5 sixty miles distant, writes:
 Dear Nancy: I know that l hav'
 not long to live near you-my uncle i I determined to leave this country It i V the severest trial ever met with tha Q I must leave my dear Nancy. A fev t weeks more I must be separated per e haps forever. It is vain to oppose hi y going; his mind is fixed and cannot b y altered. I must submit in patience ant r in silence, but cannot do it without re Q gretting the loss of so good friend.
 Nancy in replying to this distant frient - gives little gossipy items of local color . November, 1s15-'I think Rachel Kirt V lands affairs look unpromising MT
 (Caleb) Wick was here last night-th = first time since you left, but In the fol e lowing January she tells her i've had :, ball and wedding too, on New Year day. On that day Rachel gave he e hand to MT. Wick-all her relative - were present and they danced-he
 mother danced like puppet"-N . ise's great grandmother)
 - In April-"Mr. Wick has gone to Phi - la. Rachel expects to move as soon a v he returns. She will live very near he S sister Lucretia (Manning)
 e In 1817--"When I was last at Youngs
 town they had Constitution for Fe d male Charitable society and I signed il
 but they did not get but six more, an
 1t is now almost forgotten