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The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-01-23
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/ On Saturday Dayton had the busy
hum of a seaport. Wagons loaded witt
flour, pork, whisky and every com
| modify were at the boats strung along
the river and many more arrived dur
ing the day from the North. Other:
came down on Sunday morning bu
that day the water began to fall anc
so boats carrying about $4,000 worth
of produce got under way. The whole
value of the cargoes that left the Mi
ami above and below Dayton during
| this freshet was estimated at more
than $100, 900. Some of the boats were
stove in and their cargoes damaged
but most of them passed safely tc
their destinations.
Twelve boats left Dayton for New
Orleans in February, 1927, from Mont
gomery and Miami counties, loaded
chiefly with flour, pork and whisky
Their cargoes were worth about S20,.
600.
The next year, in February, 1928
the last boat loaded with produce for
New Orleans left Dayton by the Mi
ami river. The next year freight be-
gan to be shipped south by canal. Up
to 1886 and maybe year later, when
the canal was opened to Piqua, the
line of boats to the North continued.
The Great Miami river between
Dayton and Cincinnati always had
been a difficult and dangerous water
course. Here and there were sunken
sand bars, water covered logs and
stumps and every kind of under wa
ter wreckage. The river channel itself
was little known and constantly chang.
ing. Back in March, 1886, it had TAX
en- Samuel Thompson's large pirogue
of original settlers 10 days to make
the upstream trip from Cincinnati to
Mad River now Dayton, where they
arrived April 1, that year. Above Day
ton the river was comparatively
clear. Part of Thompson's lost time
was through tying up the boat to a
tree and spending the nights ashore.
For centuries the Great Miami, and
the Maumee, via the Laramie port
age, had been the main route of
travel between the Ohio river and
Lake Erie. There the head waters of
both streams rise. Boats ascended the
Miami to Laramie, then were carried
or moved on wheels to st. Marys.
and from there went north on the
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-01-23
The Miami Freight Line

The first Lakes to Gulf waterways
shipping began shortly after August
81, 1909, when a newspaper adver-
tisement by Paul D. Butler announced
his intention to inaugurate such trans
portation and threatened prosecution
to any who obstructed the Great Mi
ami with fish baskets or otherwise.
Soon after he and Henry Desbrow be-
gan building two keel boats.
Built in the winter of 1809-1810 in
the street in front of the court house
at Dayton, the boats were moved on
rollers up Main street to the river
and were launched. They ascended
the Great Miami to the mouth of
Stony creek, which was as far as they
could go. That was the beginning of
the Laramie portage where freight
had to be carried IL miles overland
then reloaded and sent on up the Au-
glaiZe and Maumee rivers to Lake
Erie. In extremely wet weather the
portage was only six miles between
the Great Miami and the other rivers.
Thus a waterways freight line was
established between Dayton and Lake
Erie, SO far prevented from being ex-
tended to Cincinnati by that end of
the Miami being greatly obstructed.
However, in May, 1919, the river had
been cleared out enough to permit
70-foot keel boat belonging to H. G..
Phillips, Smith and F'aker. to arrive
at Dayton from Cincinnati with II
tons of merchandise on board. 1t was
the only keel boat going that far up
the Great Miami for many years.
Saturday and Sunday, March 26
and q, 1925, were great days for
boatmen, millers, distillers, farmers,
merchants, teamsters and nearly ev-
erybody else in Dayton. A fleet of
more than 30 boats that had been
embargoed there by low water left
their moorings for New Orleans. Rain
had begun to fall on Wednesday and
had continued until Friday when the
river rose. Nearly the whole popU-
lace lined on the river bank, nost
telling each other that THE boats will
get off," 1t meant much in Dayton
vicinity commerce.
Then, one at time the moorings
were cast off and the big boats began
to move down the river towards Gin
cinnati.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-01-23
Mennonite Disaster
Service Reflects
Raid And Lehman

DR.. Howard Raid and Carl Lehman
were reelected as officers of the
Mennonite Disaster Service of West
ern Ohio at the organization third
annual meeting held at Elida recent
H.
Raid was renamed secretary-trea-
surer of the unit and Lehman will
continue to serve as co-ordinator.
Ralph Sommer has been named the
units contact man for the Bluffton-
Pandora area.
The president of the group, Lewis
Britsch, of Archbold, reported on re-
lief work done at the scenes of the
Hazard, Kentucky, flood, and the
Cameron, Louisiana, hurricane dur
ing 1857. -Britsch and his wife spent
six weeks in relief work at the scene
of the southern hurricane of late last
fall.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-01-23
Farmers Have Until March Z To Place
Spring Planted Cropland In Soil Bank

Farmers in Allen county might
well benefit from opportunities of
fered through the Soil Banks acre
age reserve program for spring-plant-
ed crops, Wilbur v. Bunke. chairman
of the Allen county ASC committee,
advised this week.
Any farmer who has an ''old farm"
acreage allotment for wheat or corn
can put any part of these allotment"
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-01-23

river. On the line of Laramie creek
today is the Laramie Reservoir, sev-
en- miles long, two and a half miles
wide at the lower part and contain
ing l,SOO acres, abundant in fish and
fowl.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-01-23

acres in the program, Mr.. Bunke ex'
planned.
In. the case of wheat producers,
they must be farmers who have
grown spring wheat in any one of the
past three years. The signup period
for winter wheat producers closed in
early October and only farmers who
can qualify as spring producers will
be permitted to put wheat allotment
acres in the program at this time.
Farmers who have acreage allotment
for the first time in 1858 so-called
new farm alloments - are not ed
igible.
Farmers who want to take part in
the program, under which they with
hold allotment acres from production
in return for a payment designed to
maintain net farm income on that
land, have to sign an agreement with
the ASC committee specifically desig-
mating the land on their farm to be
nut in the reserve. Land designated
for the program must be cropland
that could produce in 1858 the elig-
ible crop for which allotment acre
age is put in the program and ii
must have produced crop during one
of the past five years.
Acreage reserve signup for spring
planted crops closes March T. Mr..
Bunke said.
THE TYPICAL FARM FAMILY
dinner is different from that of only
Is years ago, according to U. S. De
partment of Agriculture. More food
comes from the store and less is pro-
duced on the farm or in the farm
kitchen. The farm homemaker, like
her city sister, is using wider va
riety of foods, including more pro-
cessed and higher priced foods.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1958-01-23
NOTICE OF AppolNThENT
" r.. 49, a ~

Case Mo- 3fA4s
EstAte of Dapicl White Deceased.
Notice is her2by given# N,at Thomas II.
Wbte of Rouae 2. 0oipmbes Grove. Ohio
hss been duly Rpponfsd Aarn3nistrator of the
estate of Dsnies Whie deseassd, late of Allen
ACounty. Ohio.
Creditors are reqHjred to feNther claims
& with said fiduciary within four nienths.
Dated this 7th dny of January 1919.
Paul j. hockey
Probate Jpdge of said County
~ Jan. 16, 20. 30
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-13
Irish Luck

Among the worlds first
cognac drinkers latter the
French. of course, who invented
IT. were the Irish.
In those days. several hum
bred years ago. gentlemen.
rogues and ladies drank it by
the mug. tThe ladies. so they
say, drank it when they felt
faint or had the vapours.p Gen.
orally, the Irish took their
cognac straight but during the
cold winter months they added
boiling hot water to it >. just
o wee drop or so.
Today. the Irish still love
their cognac but now they have
taken to adding strong black
coffee to it.
The drink ABOVE Is calteQ
"Irish Luck" and was created
especially for your st. Patrick's
Day entertaining by James A.
Beard. Mr.. Beard is q practic-
ing bon vivant Of international
repute. and the author Of sew
eral cook books. When he's not
busy writing, he can usually be
found dining his way through
Europe or across the United
States.
This is the way he makes
"Irish Luck: Pour hot. hot
coffee into q mug. Add q splash
Of cognac brandy. drop in a
silver Of lemon peel. Top with
o spoonful Of whipped cream
sip the hot brew through
the GOODNESS Of the cream and
offer . toast to the Emerald
isle
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-13
IRISH or NOT, YOU'LL LIKE THIS

Faith m begorra ST. Patrck coing Time to touch of
drink
Smooth shmans wit this called
created especially occasion Don't stir after the
addd-avor the blended avors the hot coffee and through
the GOODNESS of the whipped
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1958-02-28
Minnesota History
Presents Story Of
Pioneer Efforts

RH.w. Davis was coal and
wood dealer during the winter
months, and a street-sprinkling
contractor during the summer.
DR.. r. s, Brown, a graduate
Of Bennett Medical College in
Chicago, moved to Minneapolis
and opened offices at 4Os Nicollet
in Minneapolis,
MOnrO Brown was a florist for
the Glass Block, prominent de-
partment store at the turn Of the
century. Brown also operated a
l6O-acre farm near Lake Itasca.
He was a member Of ST. Peters
A.M.E. Church, Minneapolis.
William r. Morris was the first
Negro attorney and counsellor-at-
law in the city Of Minneapolis.
Rev. w. S. Brooks, minister Of
st. Peters A.M.E. Church, Mime
apolis, during 1899, was the author
Of a book entitled What a Black
man Saw in a white mans count
ry".
The minister Of st. James
A.ME. Church, ST. Paul, in 1897
was the Rev. J. @. Anderson.
T. Thomas Fortune, world-re-
knowned editor Of the famous N.
Y. Age was a Minnesotan.
Political independence for the
Negro in Minnesota came as re-
suit Of Republican bigotry at their
convention in st. Paul in 1892
when the name of Frederick Nc
Chez was listed among those Of
the Republican presidential cleo
tors Of Minnesota. As result Of a
small minorities' pickering over
this single Negroes presence among
the electors, the Minnesota Negro
began looking to greener political
pastures.
George w. Nelson was
pharmacist and operated one Of
the first Drug Stores in Mime
apOlis.
Andrew F. Hilyer was the first
Negro to graduate from the Univ.
ersity Of Minnesota Law School
His son, Gale p. Hilyer set an.
other First" record by being the
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1958-02-28

first Negro to be appointed to the
bar Of the Supreme Court of Min
nesota in February OF 1915.
Fred d. McCracken lost his posi-.
ton as secretary TO a U. S. Con-
gresham when Congressman Fred
c. Stevens lost an election in the
4th congressional district Of Min
nesota. This was March Of 1918.
The Negro Press Of 1918 was
busily engaged In the argument
What Is the proper term for
10000, 900 Americans. Booker I.
Washington favored the term
Negro. "Afro-American was
its only rival.
Catherine Deaver Lealtad was
.warded the Noyes Scholarship at
Manchester College for the year
1915. Catherine was the daughter
If the Rev Alfred II. Lealtad, a
British West Indian by birth, and
a former Rector Of st. Philips
Episcopal Church, st, Paul.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1958-02-28

as opportunity for employment
was limited"
1t was not until after the First
World War that ST. Paul began to
expand industrially. Always con-
tent to remain the ignominious
capitol OF Minnesota, industry was
limited TO a few small plants.
once industralization began, the
pioneer Negro lost his place in
the states economy. There were
a few exceptions such as John
Hickman who worked as a book
keeper for so years in a large
wholesale house. But for the most
part the Negro was employed by
the great railroad systems that
centered in st. Paul as porters,
walters, and in one or two in
stances as brakemen.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1958-02-28

may be kept for three months,
with the average attendance OF
Is pupils, between the ages Of 5
and 20 years, be received by the
board provided, it becomes subject
TO the rules and regulations which
govern other schools"
This second school was disband-
ed in a few months, again for the
want Of sufficient pupils. over
the next nine years several eff
forts were made to organize Ne
gro schools until. in 1869, the
provisions of the Board Of edu-
cation were met when 40 pupils
were enrolled, 80 male and ls fe-
male. The average attendace was
20 of an average enrolment Of 20.
The teachers salary for tht year
was almost S4OO,OO!!!
The great black migrations"
to Minnesota began in the early
l900's. st. Paul being the gate
way to the northwest and a large
railroad center, hundreds Of Ne
groes sought refuge here from
the south's intense depressions OF
the 1914-192O era. DR.. Paul Ryder
professor Of sociology at Macales-
ter College estimated in 1880 "the
Negro population at that time
was not les than 5000 in st. Paul. "
These "Johnny-come-lately" Ne
groes were not given the welcome
Of the Negro citizen. Many old
timers raised serious objections
to this influx Of southern Ne
groes. They intimated that their
coming would make it harder for
the Negroes already residing here
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1958-02-28
FIRST NEGRO JURORS

The st. Paul papers chronicle
he first enpanelment Of Negro
jurors in Minnesota. On Friday
in the court Of common pleas Of
Ramsey County Willis A. Harris,
colored man, was brought to
trial for burglary, and of the Il
jurors who sat on tire case five
were colored. Their names are r.
J. Stockton, NJ. Jernegan, Henry
Moffit, Thomas A. Jackson, and
Robert Hickman.-Mpls. Tribune,
Mar. 25, 1869.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1958-02-28
Only Thirty Negroes
In Minnesota In 1856;
School Organized In 1860;

The Negroes migration to the
Northwest Territory and Mime
sofa was slow and sporadic, and
until ls56-when they began ar
irving in any appreciate number
there were barely more than 80
in the entire territory.
By 1850 the Negro population
Of ST. Paul had grown sufficiently
to inspire the white people to
organize a separate school for
Negroes. In November, 1857, the
St Paul Pioneer announced that
whenever 80 pupils applied for in.
structon, the section shall be
authorized to employ a teacher
for them"
This school was organized and
a Moses Dixon was appointed to
teach the prospective students, but
it was discontinued after six
months when it became apparent
that a sufficient number of stu
dents was not to be found It
is reported that although there
were go colored children of school
age in the city, less than Is were
in attendance at the school"
Another school for Negroes"
was organized in 1860. Said the
Board Of Directors Of Education:
"In common with every member
of the Board of Education, the
committee feels a deep interest
in the education Of the children Of
African descent They would
recommend that any school of
children of African descent, (com-
monty called colored children) that
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1958-02-28
HOMES FOR COLORED
ORPHANS

Wanted TO find homes for a
few colored children who are
orphans whose ages are from
to II, both boys and girls, Any
person wanting one or more OF
said children can learn fun par,
ticulars by inquiring OF the Board,
ing House and Employment Com,
mittee Of the Y.MC.A. Of Mime.
apolis, -Mpls. Tribune, Feb. 10
1868.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1958-02-28

Girls get applications In for st.
Thomas Queen 20 be crowned at
25th Annual Style Show at Lean
ington Hotel. Call Mrs Pearl scho-
field, ia. S-245I evenings, or Mrs.
Grace james FIR. 4-2lD4.-Advt.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1958-02-28
GRANTED LEAVE

Rev. u. r. Brown, because Of
illness, was granted a years leave
of absence by the Trustees Of St.
James A.ME. Church in st. Paul.
Western Appeal. Dec. 20, 1891.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1958-02-28
BEST SELLER

The Best Seller, according TO
tire Negro Press OF 1892, was en-
titled The Black Phalanx', an
anthology - author unknown -- OF
Negro Soldiers in America.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1958-02-28

Marines were stationed on board
more than 500 ships Of the us,
Navy during World War II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-01-12
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-01-12

neighborhood pool. she impressed everyone
by saving q life almost before she knew
where TO find the locker room. and has
racbed up an average Of ten rescues year.
Her friends and co-workers have suggested
o Saved by Doris lessee Club"
As adept on land as In the water. Mrs.
lessee received the highest grades in Judo
In course at the Miami Police Academy.
With figure that still evokes wolf whistles,
Mrs. lessee finds that she often has TO whip
out snapshots to show evidence that she's .
grandmother.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-01-12
Grandma on Guard

WHISTLES MOTHER In her chair
w comes closer to the conventional idea
Of a grandma than Doris lessee. 35-year-
old hfeguard and Judo expert Active. at
tractive Mrs. lessee does not believe in
letting the years 60 by without putting them
70 good use. Married at IS. she had two
baby daughters by the time she was II.
With the children out Of infancy. the fam
lily moved from its Bristol (VaJ home to
North Miami. and there II years ago Mrs.
lessee decided to 60 to work part time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-01-12

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Milford chronicle., 1958-10-31

Their neighbors are unfriendly,
their work is irksome and little
rewardmg, tie town in which they
live has little to offer, no one ap-
preciates them or what they do.
And so the complaining goes on ad
infinitum And the result of it all is
that they plan to move to another
and friendlier community.
But you cannot move away from
yourself. What you are stays with
you no matter where you go. What
such people need-like the woman
DR.. Miller tells about-is not to
move to a new place but into a new
mind. They need to win victory
over themselves, to fight their way
to a new attitude toward life. So
do not think that life has been less
kind to you than it has been toward
others. You only think so. If you
could carry for a while the burdens
that others have to bear you would
soon be happy to shoulder your
own again. And never let your bur-
dens get you down. Rise up above
them; master them by acquiring a
new attitude toward them.
Here / think of the poet William
Ernest Henley. Victim of a series
of misfortunes, crippled and hos
pitalized by a lingering illness, he
refused to be defeated by what he
suffered. And in the darkest hour of
his bereavement and pain he wrote
a poem which he entitled "Invic-
tus", a Latin term meaning "Un-
agree with every sentiment Henley
expresses, the poem is worthy of
our thoughtful attention. Here it
is:
Out of the night that covers me.
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
1 thank whatever Gods there be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
/ have not WINGED nor cried aloud,
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and
tears
Looms but the horror and the
shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
1t matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishment
the scroll,
l am the master of my fate;
l am the captain of my soul.
So do not let the "bludgeonings
of chance" whip you into discon-
tent or whining. Rise above your
troubles; be the captain of your
soul. And remember this: You need
not move to new surroundin gs; you
only need to move into new mind.
Milford chronicle., 1958-10-31

MOVING INTO A NEW MIND
Il am the master of my fate
/ am the captain of my SOUP.
Along the ways of life we often
chance to make interesting acquain-
tances. 1t may be as we share a
seat in a railway train or a bus;
it may be at table in a restaurant
or while waiting to keep an ap-
pointment with our family doctor
or in the waiting room of dentist
Such casual contacts often prove to
be enriching experiences.
Just as interesting and just as
enriching are the contacts we make
in our reading. Here, too, we make
fascinating acquaintances with the
thoughts of others, thoughts sc
we'll expressed that we remember
them almost as fondly as we cher
ish the memory of a friend.
! l found such sentence some
days ago in a book / was reading
like it so much that / want to
share it with you. Here it is: 81
didn't need to move into a new
apartment, ALI l had to do was to
move into a new mind"
To get the full impact of these
words we must know how they
came to be spoken. They were ut
tered by woman who was dis
eontented with her New York
apartment DR.. John Miller tells
about it in his book that is titled
'"Take a Second Look at Yourself"
This woman found the people living
next to he's to be very unfriendly
and the people above her to be
very noisy. So she decided to find a
more desirable apartment. =
She found one but it would not
be available for sometime. For a
while she was thrilled with the
joy of getting away from her pres
ent surroundings, so thrilled that
she n longer noticed the old an
noyances. Mentally, in fond antici-
patton, she was already living in
her new home Finally she was told
that the desired apartment was
now available but when she visited
it again and inspected it carefully,
she decided that she did not want
it at all.
She was now able to look at the
old rooms with a fresh mind and
they liked it there and it was here
that she spoke the words that have
fingered in my mind: 81 didn't
need to move into new apartment.
All l had to do was to move into
new mind"
l have frequently met people
who are like this woman. They are
discontented about many things
and give voice to it in no uncertain
terms. Nothing seems quite right.