DESKTOP - 10/08/11 - THE VILLAGE OF CASKS
FROM MY DESTOP TO YOURS: Well, I’ve been officially retired for one week. I don’t know what to say about it. Except that I’m tired. I’m working harder now than when I was working and being paid. Below is a photograph of my 2nd day of retirement whilst renovating the old Vermilion News print shop. (Gads it’s a tough life.)
EPSON: I’ve been using an Epson scanner that I purchased several months ago to scan some pix at the shop. I didn’t intend to use this particular scanner for pix when I got it. It’s a batch scanner that’ll scan items automatically. I just set it up a few days ago and I’ve yet to do any batch scanning. My intention was / is to scan all the old bulletins / text documents from the Congregational (UCC) church. I realize that that doesn’t sound very exciting. However; you’d be surprised at how much information can be found in the old church bulletins.
I also have a cassette tape recorder that can transfer cassette recordings to formats for discs. I have hundreds of sermons from the church that I’d like to place on compact discs.
TOM: Tom Williams passed away last Saturday (10/01/11). Laid back, always friendly - he will be missed. Vermilion will miss him. It is a lesser place without him.
NO FISHING: I understand that fishing has been terrible thus far this season. Usually the charter boats are doing a land office business this time of year. And that ain’t happening (at least not yet). First it was the weather keeping everyone off the lake. Now it’s algae in the water, etc. Maybe next year.
Historically,
BAND PRACTICE c.1958
THE BAND ROOM: Another cool pic from the archives of the old Vermilion News. I doubt that this pic was ever used in print (though I won't swear to that right now). But it's a beaut.
Like last weeks VHS sports pic I am unable to identify everyone in the photograph. But I certainly see some familiar faces. I see Dave Dickerhoff, Dave Hurd, Wade Rodgers, Cheryl Fisher, Linda Peck, Judy Shaw, Lynn Roberts, Karen Hollosy, and many others. Some Viewers may be able to name them all.
And though you can't see his face the Band Director, Bill Burt, is "directing" the ensemble. I was never a bank guy when I attended school, but I recognize the room. It was the band room at the south end of Decatur Street school. Those were sure the good old days.
"Originally, the Wells building (pictured) occupied the place local folks currently know as Hanover Square..."
THE WELLS BLDG:This week is how to “kill two birds with one stone” week in the Yesteryear column. It is a combination of my interminable grumbling about the disappearance of local landmark buildings from the landscape of our community, and my reflections on yet another of Vermilion’s most memorable personalities.
Originally, the Wells building (pictured) occupied the place local folks currently know as Hanover Square on the southwest corner of Ferry and Grand streets. At that time it served the little Village of Vermilion as a schoolhouse they called the “Seminary”. Several years before Vermilion’s first water-tower (another missing landmark that also “once stood” at Hanover Square) was built the "Seminary" was moved to a lot on the east side of Grand Street behind the M.E. church (PJ 5/26/11) just south of Liberty Avenue. Whether the school was ever used as a school after it was moved to the Grand street location is unknown. But by 1898 a man named George Whitmore had come to town and was running a newspaper called The Vermilion News on the upper floor of the building. When Whitmore sold the newspaper to Pearl and Bessie Roscoe around the turn of the next century the paper continued to be published from that locale. But in 1905 the enterprising young couple moved everything to a new building just a few doors south of the railroad - also on Grand street. After the newspaper / print shop vacated the building Whitmore and his family ran a laundry - the “Paragon” - and millinery (hatmaking) shop from the place.
There are likely very few persons still around who know the complete history of the Wells building after the Whitmore’s occupied it. But during the late 1950’s on into the 1960’s I seem to recall that Ellison’s operated a radio and television repair business on the south side of the building. And on the north side a lady name Pat Wisegarver and her husband Bill ran a little antique shop - Pat’s Antiques / Trading Post. The accompanying photograph was taken during those years.
Pat Wisegarver was friendly, honest, shrewd, and, beyond the shadow of any doubt, one of the most forthright persons I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. Like Vermilion’s Louise Giddings - if you didn’t like what she had to say - that was your problem. Not hers. But unlike Louise she smoked (as my friend Larry Howell would say) like a chimney; and she was very capable of using language that could make the saltiest of sailors blush; though it was not her habit. And, my oh my, could she tell a good story. As a young man in my late teens and early twenties I used to visit with her at the back of her wonderful antique shop and just listen an afternoon away.
Pat’s birth name was Pauline Eudora (Alberton). She was born in rural Kansas on January 2, 1904. The stories she spun for me led me to believe that she had not always lived the life a well-bred lady. Though she didn’t tell me about all her past romances she did mention that she had once been married to a man - a gangster - who had killed someone and was hung for the crime. And before I could pick my lower jaw up from the floor she told me another tale about a time when, after she pilfered some pills from a hospital, she hopped a freight train, eventually ending up in Alaska. Pat, was, in short, a worldly woman. There was no pretense - nothing hidden and nothing fake - about her.
I know not exactly when she overcame the struggle with her addictions and the ghosts of her younger years, but it did happen. And while most persons would rather have forgotten the sordid details of such a past, Pat didn’t. Instead she actively used them to help others deal with their addictions. And for the remainder of her years she helped numerous people, both men and women, as they wrestled with similar issues. She helped organize the first 12 step program in Vermilion.
Pat passed into the next life on November 19, 1989 with little or no fanfare. Some folks have great monuments built to remember them by. Buildings are named after them; streets are christened with their names. But as the years turn those buildings and monuments crumble or, like the Wells building, are razed; and streets are vacated or renamed. The memorial to Pat’s life may be less palpable than those things, but it will not be forgotten. She proved to many, many persons that It’s not “who” we are that’s of real import in our lives; but “what” we do. [And ye can take that to the proverbial bank.]
AGAIN - ANOTHER NEW (NOW OLD) THING: Initially I said that "This will not take the place of the "Macabre" stuff all the time - but will supplement whilst I search for more macabre stories to tell." But methinks that it's carved out a niche for itself and the "Macabre stuff" with have to find another.
So stay tuned...
September 24, 1903 – Volume 7 – Number 17
The Subscribers’ Library was moved last week to Harris’ Drug Store, which place the committee deemed a more desirable location for the members.
We have a good start for a library and if those interested will be patient and give their undivided support to a home institution, we will in a few years have a library to which we can point with pride. It is to be hoped that when the time comes for renewing subscriptions all will respond willingly. At the present price at which good books can be purchased, $1.00 a year should be sufficient.
We believe the people of Vermilion are capable of selecting their own books and not dependent upon some one with a well-learned lesson concerning up-to-date reading. A comparison of our home library with any other of similar size will furnish the doubter with much food for thought. With a home library we pay for the books and have the privilege of reading them, besides they remain in the village for the use of others.
Think the matter over and put your name down for another year also try to induce your neighbor to do likewise.
Two Sandusky milk dealers, Kelley and Weikel have been arrested for selling impure milk. Formalin was used in the milk to preserve it and consequently it was not up to the standard.
The tug Cascade became disabled while out in the lake off Lorain Saturday nigh and through the loss of steam could not even whistle for help. The tug was out all night. In the morning the Steadman was sent out to bring her in.
Raymond Thayer, on 9 years old, of Upper Sandusky, has a peculiar manner of feeling the effects of intoxication. Every opportunity he gets he will inhale fumes arising from gasoline, in a few moments becoming in a high state of intoxication. All the spare pennies he gets he buys gasoline, and on several occasions has been found by the police and carried home. Nothing his parents can do will break the boy of the habit. –Clyde Dem.
A westbound car on the Lake Shore electric jumped the track at Undergrade and crashed into the Nickel plate abutment at 12:30 Monday morning. The trainmen and two passengers were slightly injured. The motorman claims that the headlight was extinguished and he reached the grade before he realized it and made the desent [sic] at too high a rate of speed.
It was some time before the track was cleared as the car was badly smashed.
Gottleib Knott of Vermilion, who is employed in Lorain, had the misfortune to lose three fingers of his left hand one day last week. He was doing some bridge work with his hand on a rail above him when a train passed over his hand caused him to fall. He was taken to the hospital. He returned to his home here Tuesday.
The Ohio Stone Quarries at Amherst experienced a strike last week among the foreign element employed there.
Oysters for Sunday. Krapp Bros. Market.
H.O. Donand is suffering from an attack of typhoid fever.
Miss Maud Fischer returned to her musical studies in Oberlin Monday.
Miss Olive Lawless with her pupils gave a very pleasant recital at her home last Saturday afternoon. There were eight who assisted and rendered a very interesting program, which reflects great credit on their teacher and pupils. The parents and a few friends were invited, and after enjoying the music were served with ice cream and wafers.
The football season is again at hand and victims have already been sacrificed to that game.
Several pupils entered school this week, making total enrollment 230.
The interest in the ball game has not lessened.
Very few children attended Erie Co. Fair last week.
Free boats at Asal Foster’s next Saturday, Sept. 26, has been the announcement to the schools. Parents accompany small children, no charge. Mr. Foster makes this proposition so all who wish may enjoy a ride before he takes his boats in for the winter. We appreciate the offer.
The boys of Room No. 5 feel highly elated over taking two games of ball from the high school 9. The record being 2 to 0.
E.L. Coen and G.B. McConnelly trustees’ to Silas Hitchcock, lots 35, 70, 80, 85,92, 95,106, 107, 113, and 142 in C. C. Baumhart’s Black farm, sub-division out lot 27, sec. 2, Vermilion Village; $1,000.
Same to August M. Bailey lot 78 in C.C. Baumhart’s Black farm, sub-division of out lot 27, sec.2, Vermilion Village; $100.
Same to the Baillie Stone Co., lot 15 in C.C. Baumhart’s Black farm, sub-division of out lot 27, sec 2, Vermilion Village; $100.
Jacob W. Goetz to John A. and Asmus Nuhn 8 50-100 acres sec 2, lot 14, 33 acres see 2 lot 18 Vermilion tp. $1,225.
Lost-Between town and the residence of John Sherod on the west shore road, a scarf pin set in pearls. Finder please leave at News office.
It is reported that the Electric Railway will on or about (ct. 14 make another change in their time. The half-hourly service will be discontinued and hourly service again instituted.
Call and see ready-to-wear hats at the Whitmore parlors.
Wesley Pelton of the firm of Pelton & McGraw was stricken with appoplexy [sic] Tuesday while at work in the store. He was taken home and is at present able to be about the house.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hahn, Mrs. W.C. Leidheiser and son Lloyd, Mrs. And Mrs. Wm. Nieding and so Fred spent Sunday at Lewis Nieding’s.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Gegenheimer and son Karl spent Saturday and Sunday with J. Baumhart and family.
The Colored Concert Co., will give a concert at the town hall evening, Oct. 5th in the interest of the M.E. Church. They come highly recommended.
The Novelty Society will meet with Mrs. Franc Parsons Friday afternoon Sept. 25th at 2 o’clock. All members are requested to be present.
The tug Stricker arrived from Erie yesterday.
Mrs. E.A. Hill spent the last of the week with the captain at Cleveland.
Capt. Moody has laid up his boat for the season.
A number of our sailors are employed on steel boats and have returned home or will do so on account of the strike.
Street Commissioner Schmoll and a force of men are at work trimming trees this week. This will be a great improvement and probably save considerable loss of temper on rainy days and nights when the branches of the trees would strike people in the faces as has been the case for sometime. Neatly trimmed trees add immensely to the general appearance of the town.
Miss Gertrude Simons spent the first of the week in Elyria.
Albert Baumhart returned Monday from his western trip.
Hmmmmmm....
“...I always wanted a photograph of the house."
OUR HOME ON PERRY STREET: I had always wanted a photograph of our family home on Perry Street. I guess that's understandable. Because it’s where I, and many of my siblings, first opened our baby blues to this world - and heard our first locomotive. That’s a joke, of course. But the house sat just south of the M. & S. (N.Y.C.) railroad tracks on the west side of Perry. Consequently, the trains - the old steam locomotives trailing their plumes of black coal smoke, and later the beautiful streamlined diesels of the mid 20th century - were so much a part of our lives that we really and truly barely noticed them. I suppose folks who live next to a volcanic mountain must be inured to an occasional eruption or two too.
Anyway, I always wanted a photograph of the house. And though I’d seen a postal card picture of the place taken before the turn of the 20th century when it was fairly fresh and new - it was hardly the home that I recall. So, when my big brother, Al, found the accompanying photo of the house and gave it to me along with an assortment of other family pictures I was pleased. Or at least I was somewhat pleased.
As ye can plainly see this is not the house during its best moments. But also understand that this is not the house during its last moments either. My grandfather Roscoe for, perhaps, a local news piece took this photograph during the early years of the last century. Though I’ve not yet come across the story that goes with this picture I’ve examined the photo in some detail. And by applying my very elemental sleuth-like knowledge to it I believe I can safely say that the fire was a chimney fire. A detached coal stove heater sits just outside the backdoor of the home along with a coal scuttle. Moreover; upon seeing this photo I vaguely recalled seeing some charred beams in the crawl space in the upper part of the house (where the fireman is working) when I was very young.
Our family didn’t come to the home until sometime in the mid 1930’s. By then the smoke had, of course, cleared; a nice porch had been built on the front of the house; shrubs had been planted; a buckeye tree shaded the porch on the north side; and lilacs bloomed “in the door yard”. It was a pleasant place to grow up.
A large yard on the south side of the home allowed plenty of room for children to play, as well as a nice garden. Sugar maple trees shaded the yard toward the back fence line. A carriage house - barely visible in the photo - sat just south and west of the home. During my lifetime it was used for storage, and served as a playhouse for my older brothers and sisters until my sister, Ginny, jumped out an upper window and broke her arm. It disappeared shortly thereafter.
The little building at the back (to the right) of the house with the chimney was a summer kitchen, the purpose, of which was to keep the main house cooler in the summer by putting the cooking and cleaning duties in a separate building. Though the buildings were, in this case, connected - a substantial wall separated the summer kitchen from the main kitchen. Though it had long fallen into disuse by the time I was born - the advent of safe gas and electric appliances making them obsolete - relics of the old summer kitchen remained well into my early years. A wooden “ice box” with stainless latches was something that always amazed me. To think that at one time everybody had to buy blocks of ice to cool and / or preserve their food was hard to imagine. But there it was.
As distressing as this particular portrait of my birthplace is it is nonetheless much better than having none. Moreover; it’s really not too difficult for me to (at least mentally) remove firemen, smoke, and debris from it and remember it as it was when I knew it; Sunday afternoons around the dining room table (at 1 PM) with family and friends; enjoying summer rainstorms on the front porch; burning leaves on Saturday afternoons during autumn; peering out through frosted window panes during winter snowstorms and appreciating the warmth of kin and hearth; and in the spring the sweet scent of lilacs filtering in through open windows and screened doors.
I would admit that this picture of a house on fire in a yesteryear ain’t much. There’s nothing terribly pretty nor unique about it - other than its age. But for me it’s not what it was in this portrait - it is what it later became. They were wonderful years. Who could ask for more?
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THE FIRE-LANDS: I found the following information re: the early inhabitants of our area to be extremely informative. Methinks you will also.
I am getting better at transcribing these passages so there are fewer mistakes. But I like to read as I go - and sometimes I fill in the blanks. So tread carefully this trail through yesteryear.
The following series will take thee to the townships south of Vermilion. Methinks you'll find this history quite fascinating.
FITCHVILLE. known originally as town number two, range twenty-one, is situated in the southeast quarter of Huron county, and is bounded upon the north by Hartland, east by New London, south by Greenwich, and west by Fairfield. The surface is rolling and the drainage good. The soil is clay with a plentiful admixture of sand and gravel, which predominate upon the ridges. It was originally heavily timbered with oak, walnut, hickory, maple, black and white ash, beech, basswood, elm and other varieties of trees. The Vermillion river, which heads at two little lakes near Savannah, in Ashland county, enters the township near the southeast corner, flows near the center, and then northward and on through Hartland, Clarksfield, Wakeman, and Erie county to the lake.
Fitchville was first settled in the summer of 1817. Peter Mead, Abraham Mead and Amos Reynolds were the pioneers. They made their beginning upon the east line of the township, upon the farms now occupied by the widow of Peter Mead and by John Golden, Peter Mead taking up lot thirteen and Amos Reynolds lot fourteen, both in section one. The Meads came to Ohio from Carmel, Putnam county. New York, but were originally from Connecticut, and Reynolds was from Westchester county. They were obliged to cut a road into the township. Immediately upon their arrival they prepared the ground for a crop of corn, and then built log cabins for the accommodation of their families, who, while they were planting had had no shelter but that of the wagons. Abraham Mead, after clearing several acres of land, became dissatisfied with his location, and wishing to get as near the center of the township as possible, he measured it off, each way, by the use of a rope and pocket-compass, and took possession of the land lying near the center, and upon which the little village of Clinton was afterward built. Here he resided about twelve years, when he sold out and removed to Norwalk where he died in 1851, aged seventy-six years. His wife's name was Deborah Barker. They had six sons: Alson, William, Sanford, Madison, Joel, and David: and three daughters: Mary, Samantha, and Arvilla, one of whom married John Bell, now of Ripley. All of the sons are dead but David, who resides in Fairfield. Peter Mead died in Fitchville, in 185i. He was twice married, and reared a large family of children, of whom the living are: Norman, Edward B., Fanny (Mrs. G. Jackson, of Ottawa county), Angeline, (Mrs. Eaton, in Michigan), and J. F., who lives upon the old homestead in Fitchville. Those deceased are: Newberry, Varney P., Cyrus, Zaccheus, and Mary.
The Palmers came in 1818. They were from Fairfield county, Connecticut. Rundel, Alvah, Seeley and Linus came first, in the spring, and Samuel Palmer came in the fall, bringing with him Rundel's wife and four children: Isaac, Samuel, Mary and Marcus; and two of his sisters: Adelia and Hannah. Twenty-five persons bearing the name of Palmer came during the year 1818.
Seeley settled upon lot three in section one, where he now resides, and married Nancy Post, by whom he had a large family of children: Delia (Mrs. C. Curtiss of Norwalk), William (in Fairfield), Augusta (Mrs. D. Doran), Beecher (who is in the South), Dennison (in New London), Burdette (at home), Julia (Mrs. D. Curtis, dead), Lucy (Mrs. Hemenway of New London), Eliza (at home), and Nancy (Mrs. Saver in Missouri). Linus Palmer married Jemima Rowland. Rundel Palmer suffered a very sad loss in the death of his little five-year-old son, Marcus, in 1823. The boy, who lived at the home of his uncle, Samuel Palmer, was sent upon an errand, and upon his way back, met an older brother, who was going out shooting. He followed him, and a very violent storm, of hail and sleet, arising, he became separated from his brother, lost his way and perished from the cold. The Palmers, becoming alarmed at the child's absence, went out to search for him, and aroused their neighbors, who joined them, but they were unable, after long tramping through the woods, to discover him, and knowing that if he had not found his way to some place of shelter, he must be dead, they returned to their homes. The next day the lifeless body of the boy was found. Besides the children of Rundel Palmer and wife above named, there were born after their arrival, Nathan, David and Alvah. Samuel Palmer settled upon lot two in section one, cleared up his farm, and experienced his full share of the hardship and privation of a pioneer's life. He married, in 1832, Eliza 0. Curtiss, from Connecticut, who died about two years later. He took for his second wife, in 1844, Anna Lyon, who was the partner of his joys and trials until 1876, when death removed her. Samuel Palmer's children were: Preston, Marcus and Samuel. The last named died when young, the second son died in 1876, and the oldest, now the only one, is living at the old homestead. Abijah Palmer settled upon lot six, section two. He came also in 1818, and was from Cayuga county, county New York. His wife's name was Clarinda Reynolds. Their children were: Robert, Nathaniel, David, (all three dead,) Tamia, Caroline, Ann (Mrs. Ebenezer Osborne), Maria, Ruth (Mrs. William Burras), Phebe and Hiram. Alvah Palmer died in 1827. Rundel Palmer settled upon lot thirty-three, section four. He died in 1876. William Palmer located north of the center, in 1837, bringing his wife and four children. The Palmers were noted abolitionists.
In 1819, Gilbert Martin, Wm. W. Watrous and Charles Lyon arrived. The first named of these three brought with him, from Green county, New York, his family, and they made their home upon lot twenty-four, section four. Martin died about ten years later. Lyon was from Cayuga county, New York. His family consisted of his wife, Deborah, and nine children. Others were born later. The names of those living are: Levi, Daniel, Charles and Abigail. Watrous married a Miss Strong, and reared a large family. Their home was upon lot ten, section four. Mr. Watrous came from Madison county. New York, to Ridgefield township, in 1818, and from there to Fitchville. J. N. and Henry Pickard arrived about this time, from Cayuga county. New York, and located upon lot nine, section two. Joseph removed west about 1840, and Henry also left the township. Absalom H. Coleman came in 1820, from Cayuga county, New York, and located upon lot four, section two. He brought with him a large family of daughters, nearly all of whom were married not long after, and it is to be presumed that some of them did not make “good matches," for their father used to remark that the devil had been owing him a grudge for a long time, and had finally paid him off in sons-in-law."
The Curtiss's made their trip to Ohio in a novel way. The plan was proposed by Jotham W. Curtiss, the father of Hiram A., Joseph C, Lyman, Jotham…
Excerpts from: The Fire Lands, Comprising Huron and Erie Counties, Ohio; W.W. Williams - 1879 - Press of Leader Printing Company, Cleveland, Ohio
VERMILION NEWS REPRESENTATIVE: This card's a rarity for several reasons. Mr. Bottomley was my maternal great-grandfather. Oddly enough I don't know a great deal about him. But I do know that he didn't work as a "rep" for The News for a long period of time. I believe he did, however, have a vested interested in the business at one point in time. But professionally he was involved in several types of businesses. At one time he owned a store in beautiful downtown Milan, Ohio.
The other thing about this card (that I didn't know until I saw it yesterday) is that The News was actually established in 1896 - and not 1898 - as I am accustomed to thinking. I've never seen an issue of the newspaper prior to '98. But somewhere there must be something...
1. A one legged man in an arse kicking contest (from Python I think)
2. A chocolate teapot
3. Milk shoes
4. A nuclear powered computer controlled intercontinental ballistic duck.
5. A one to one scale model of the starship Enterprise made out of honey.
6. A flammable fire extinguisher
7. A glass cricket bat
8. A gelignite suppository.
9. A coal powered frog-violin.
10. Granite sugar cubes
11. Pasta audio wire
12. A pastry telephone
13. Ice cream gloves
14. A sugar surfboard
15. Spam windscreen wipers
16. A blind lifeguard
17. Wooden soap
18. Shortbread tires
19. A whipped-cream jet engine
20. A knitted light bulb
PODCAST #0:The Vermilion Views Podcasts are suspended until I acquire time to better develop them.P>
Persons interested in the history of the Lake Shore Electric Railway (which was the subject of a recent past podcast series) - "the greatest electaric railway system on the planet" may want to go to Amazon.com and purchase a book called "Images of Rail - Lake Shore Electric Railway". It was put together by Thomas J. Patton with the help of my friends Dennis Lamont and Albert Doane. It'd make a nice gift.
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NOTE NOTE:Past podcasts are not available in the on-line archive. They just take up too much disk space. But if one really, really, really wants to acquire a copy of a past cast it can be had by contacting me and I will place it on a disc and send it to ye for a minimal fee.
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