The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-15
SPENT EARLY DAYS
IN "OLD WAYNE
Col. Wall and 7. A. Wicker
sham Stop in Washington
and Chat of Old Days.
BOTH ARE NOW WEALTHY.
COL. WALL WHO LEFT HERE IN
1860, CAME BACK LAST SUMNER
AND WAS SURPRISED THAT HE
KNEW VERY FEW.
(By A. W. Tracy.)

| Washington, Oct. 14-One of the
leading citizens of Salt Lake City is
Col f. A. Wall, a wealthy mining
man and manufacturer of the Utah
metropolis. The other evening he sat
in the lobby of the New Willard chat
Springs, extending an invitation to
man, Mr.. T. A. Wickersham. also a
wealthy man, about old times in Indi-
ana, both being natives of the good
old Hoosier state.
LAS a lad said Mr.. Wickersham,
Il went to the Quaker school in
Richmond Ny folks were of Quaker
stock and / might have adhered to
their belief, but got discouraged by
having to stay out the long religious
services on Sundays. You know the
Quakers only talked when the spirit
moved them, but sometimes four or
five did not get moved until it was
really time to adjourn the meeting.
So every one who felt impelled to
make a talk had to be heard, and
very often it was we'll on into the
afternoon when services were con-
cluded. This knocked out all the Qua
kerism / had inherited"
Il, too, lived in Wayne county, and
worked on a farm near Richmond,
when boy" said Col. Wall. Il
worked for the firse year for the
large salary of $3.50 month. but the
next two years had my wages raised
to SIS. / left Indiana in 1860 for the
West and went back there for the
first time last summer, expecting, of
course, that nearly everybody | had
known in those early days would be
dead or moved away. To my utter
surprise about the first citizen l met
was the farmer for whom | had la
bored, grown to be very old man,
but still in pretty good physical shape.
He was as glad to see me when l
made myself known as though L was
his son, and We spent hours in talk
ing of by-gone days. To show him my
of his kindness to me in
my youth, / begged him to accept my
for the night in the best
hotel in Richmond, SO that we might
prolong the renewal of acquaintance.
1.-The old gentleman only lived four
miles away, and we could easily have
night in town. He thanked me heart |
ily but firmly declined my invitation
on the ground that he had never spent
a night away from his own roof in his
life, and did not want, at that late
day. to break his record. / respect
ed his reason, and did not insist, but |
here and now declare that when it
comes to conservative habits, your ru-
raj Indiana is quite at the top of
the list"
Thomas Taggart. pre- sident of the
French Lick Hotel company, tele-
graphed the Wholesale Druggists AS
ISOLATION at it's closing session in
on behalf of French Lick
Springs extending an invitation to
meet there next year. The word came
TOO late, as the association will meet
in Denver.
Major James H. Slime, pre- sident of
the United States Historical Society, |
and prominent historian of the Civil |
War period, died suddenly at his home |
IN this city as a result Of exhaustion |
rom his long march in the Spanish |
War Veterans parade here Tuesday. |
Mr.. slime lived in Indiana for some |
lime in his early days, and was a |
member of the Nineteenth Indiana in
antry He was seriously wounded |
1T the battle of Rull Run