The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-15

educators were: Louis Estes, Moses
Stevens, John Cooper, James Allen
and Josiah Hurry.
"Wanye county lads not only In the
bar, but in education and it has led
for many years. 1t must hold that
reputation as it's highest treasure and
seek ever to maintain it
Praise by Former Teacher.
Mary Stevens Cunningham. form
er teacher under Mr.. Shortridge,
spoke, giving him high praise and say
ing that all who came in contact with
him profited by it in after life and
felt that all was due to him
Pupil Adds His Praise.
Supt. Lee Ault of Cambridge City
gave a short talk recalling old school
days under Mr.. Shortridge and men
toned the power of association as a
factor not only in education but in all
life. He illustrated it by the home
coming week.
Mrs. Grace Julian Clark who is the
granddaughter of Joshua K. Giddlngs
and daughter of George w. Julian, was
one of the most noted speakers. She
is very prominent in literary and club
circles and is president of the Wom-
ans Club of Indianapolis. She is now
a resident of Irvington. She spoke
as follows:
I confess | feel greatly flattered to
be asked to speak on an occasion like
this; it lends a new dignity and i'm
portance to ones view of ones self.
One can no longer claim to be in the
class of very young persons, to De
sure, but age has it's compensations,
and to one possessed of the right sem
sibilitv it means much to make pill
grimage to the land of his nativity.
quite agree with my great-uncle David
Hoover, when he says in his printed
Memoir, that there is kind of in
discribabe charm in the very name
of my natal spot, very different from
any that pertains to any other place
on the globe"
Il certainly consider it a distinction
as well as a piece of rare good fortune
to have been born in Centervllle.
This view was not shared by my
mother, who, a native of the Western
reserve in Ohio, was inclined to take
exception to some of the Indiana peo-
pie and customs. ] recall that l was
instinctively on my fathers side in
those little domestic word-tilts, and
that | felt the case was closed when
he referred to her as a native OF be
nighted Ashtabula."
Inx or
of course. and the Centerville of the
late sixties and early seventies exists
only in the memory of those who
knew and loved it.
Surely no skies were ever so blue
as those we saw through the branches
of the apple trees in the orchard back
of the old house on Main street. And
how good and friendly the people
werei Auntie Sense gave us milk by
the gallon: we had no idea Of any
commercial side to the transaction
it seemed as if. in sheer generosity
she just let us have all we wanted
and Auntie King supplied us with
honey in the same bountiful way and
Mother Barch with ginger cookies
when we went to her bakery at the
other end of town.
I'VE went 10 the Cumberland Pres
byterian Sunday school in the morn
ing, where we received our first and
only instruction in the Westminster
Catechism and to the Methodist Sun
day school in the afternoon, where
Auntie Myers was our teacher. When
our elders went off on the cars, Aun
tie Woods came and mothered us fol
| weeks at a time. Society seemed like
one great family; it was certainly
idyllic and Utopian to the last degree
to at least two children of that earlier
day.
Il remember we'll the removal of the
county seat, and how belligerent ever
the younger me bers of society were
My impression is that the Richmond
people came over after it once anG
went back disappointed, and ther
what rejoicing we INDUCED in! Blu
this was soon turned to sorrow, and
recall sitting on the gate-post and see
ing the wagons go by loaded witt
county records and documents. I al
so remember that. in the impotence
of our rage, we made faces at those
Richmond rowdies Gas we heard then
called) who only replied by hurrahs
hat was the one really gloomy day o
my life in Centerville, and l can Close
my eyes now and feel the atmosphere
of ruin and desolation that then pre-
vailed. The clouds soon lifted, for me
but there were those whose hearts
never again beat as lightly as the.
had done before, and who carried tt
the grave traces of the vexation ant
sorrow caused by that event.
| Some times, when relatives O.
friends of my fathers age came to Sc,
us they would fall to talking abou
when they were young, and even be
fore they were born, and our eye
grew round and We drew closer to
gether as we listened to stories o
Indians and wild animals. One tina
especially appealed to us was abou
our grandmother, Rebecca Hoover Jul
ian, riding on horse back at night
with a child behind her and one il
her arms, to the Centerville block
house. because she heard the whoop
of the savages, and her husband wa
away in the war of 1912. Think O