Trains & Mummies
SHOPTALK: Atop the museum desktop this week is a pic I caught of a diesel speeding its way through Vermilion at the Grand Street crossing. I just wanted to catch a moving object with the camera. I should have kept my finger on the trigger and gotten a better pic. Maybe next time.
As some folks know the trains don’t sound their horns when moving through town anymore. That is the reason for the double gates. Thus, while I could here the train coming I didn’t know exactly when it would get to the crossing. But I did get it.
On my home desktop this week are multi-images of me presaging my eventual life as a museum curator. I was probably 11 or 12 years old at the time. Our school class went on a field trip to Columbus. We visited the State Capitol building (O’Neil was governor then – and we went into his office.) Another stop was, obviously, the Natural History Museum where this pic was taken. The boys (faking grief) on either side of my stretched out form were: “Buddy” Clark (on the left), and Frank Knittle on the right. I don’t know what happened to Buddy. His family moved away from town way back when. And Frank, I think, lost his life in an auto mishap a few years back.
Even then I loved museums. Perhaps I will donate my bones to the Print Shop Museum and someone can put me under glass too.
Some say that the definition of insanity is trying the same thing repeatedly – and getting the same results every time.
Call me insane.
If anything – as time passed the situation got worse. The tech reps were not helpful. You’d think I’d learn because I’ve gone through this (or something similar) with the phone company several times before.
Finally, I called the disconnect people. I figure if I’m unable to use something I don’t need to continue to pay for it. And, finally, I got results.
The disconnect people put me into contact with a fella who knew what he was about. The situation was settled within ten minutes
IN (FREAKING) CREDIBLE: After the email thing was settled I received 3031 emails. Some went back to the first of August. It took me around 20 minutes to delete all those items. I can tell you this; the technician who straightened this nightmare out for me should be the head of the company’s tech division. The people working the phones, by and large, are not well trained. The only explanation for this – to my way of thinking – is that their supervisors are not keeping up with changes in their system. Ergo, the techs under them cannot perform their jobs adequately. I hope this doesn’t happen again. This is not the first time that I’ve gone around in circles with the telephone company.
MUSUEM SCHEDULE: Beginning now the museum will be open six days a week from 11 AM to 3 PM. We will be closed on Sundays and Holidays. We are located at 727 Grand Street in Vermilion across the street from Vermilion's historic E&R Church. The museum is open Monday thru Saturday from 11 AM to 3 PM. A small admission donation of $3 (for adults) is requested. Children accompanied with an adult will be admitted free. For Special Tours call: 440-967-4555.
We are closed on Sundays and holidays.
Private tours during those hours and during the evening can be arranged by calling the museum, or stopping in to see us.
FIVE-OH-ONE-CEE-THREE: The museum is a 501(c)(3) organization. Consequently, all donations and memberships for the museum are tax deductible. This is retroactive to November of 2011.
Memberships for the VERMILION NEWS PRINT SHOP MUSEUM are always available. Funds generated will go toward the aforementioned renovations and maintenance of the shop.
If you would like to become a member the VNPSM you can send a check or money order to:
Vermilion Print Shop Museum727 Grand Street Vermilion, Ohio 44089440.967.4555.
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BILL ET AL: This pic (along with that of me laying in front of the mummified bones at the history museum) was donated by Vermilionite Katy Baker Reutener.
I don’t know the occasion – but it appears to have been taken in a church. I’d guess it was the E&R church basement.
My Florida friend Bill Ream is the little guy bottom left. I believe the boy next to him on the floor is Jimmy Calvert. And while I others look familiar I don’t recall their names.
I think Bill is in Dubai (or someplace like that) at this time. But I hope he gets to see the pic. Perhaps he can tell me what was going on here.
GOODY: I now have a good deal of information pertaining to the owners of Vermilion's popular soda shop. Unfortunately I'm not prepared to use it right this moment. (Sorry.)
What is apparent here, however, is that the town some of use once knew is slowly, but surely, disappearing. Ain't that always the way of it?
ELECTRICITY POWERS THE NEWS: In 1916 electricity came to the News office. A state-of-the-art linotype was installed. Prior to then the shop used hand-set type to print the news of our community, etc. It was a real task.
Kerosene wall lamps provided the light prior to this time. And if one looks at the building today you will see they had lots and lots of windows. They needed that light.
When public electricity arrived, the Roscoe Family took full advantage. They got the linotypes that took away the need to have all the news printed set by hand. And they installed incandescent lighting throughout the shop. That was Wakefield lighting.
The presses that were all powered by a gasoline engine outside the building were converted to electric. A wondrous event for my grandfather and grandmother.
The lone picture of the incandescent lamps looking west out the front of the building was probably taken by my grandfather right after they were installed in 1916-1917. I believe he took some pride in the improvement.
The accompanying photograph is of my pa, Bill Basil Tarrant, as he worked setting type on the other side of the type cases you see in the previous photo. The lamps were still there.
My pa didn't arrive in Vermilion until shortly after WW I. He stopped to visit his uncle who was the minister of the Congregational Church, which was behind the News Office. And he never left. He eventually married the boss's daughter. He was my best friend.
And essentially what you see in these photographs is what exists to this day in that building on Grand Street. It would amaze you.
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...
Vol. X – NO.19 – October 18, 1906.
The supreme court holds that the provision of the new school code, giving teachers full pay while attending institutes is valid and it make s no difference whether the institute are held during term or not. The text came from Bowling Green and was brought by Edward Beverstock, a taxpayer. The decision was given on Tuesday after being in litigation for many months.
At the weekly meeting of the county commissioners on Monday, the following letter from the U.S.A. engineer’s office at Cleveland was read:
The Commissioners, Sandusky, O. Sir: - It is the intention to dredge Huron River to a depth of 20 feet up to the Lake Shore bridge at Huron.
“In order to afford a passage for the necessary dredges, scows and tugs, you are hereby notified to arrange at once for the prompt opening of your highway bridge at Huron whenever necessary for the passage of craft connected with this work or other vessels.”
The supreme court [sic] decision declaring invalid the blind relief law of 1904, has an appreciable effect in Erie county. Under this law the sum of $8,5460 has been paid out to the blind persons in this county, and these will now be shut off entirely from this source of relief.
Those receiving the full amount o$100 per annum quarterly, were:
Peter Romell, Sarah A. Lowry, W.K. Rutter, Martin B. Doty, Mary Miller, Henry Voigt, Eldon M. Pearl, W.E. Jefferson, Septa Currien, F.W. Beiler, Mary Alexander, Charles Greeham, John H. Rice, Emma Richards, Owen McCann, Edward O’Donnell, John C. Bloker, Isaac Mills, James Fisher, Catherine Doyle, Amy Peterson, Herman Schultz, Sarah Jarrett, Lucinda Maxfield, Louisa Rock, Lovina B. King. Charles H. Wakefield, Geo. Milelr [sic], Katherine Fiefner, John B. Miller, Frank L. Hill, Esther Halwacks, Martha Bier, Marie Damm, Rosanna Bessell, Joseph Braun.
Two persons received $20 per quarter, viz, Smith Tyler and Mary L. Taylor, while one person George M. Johnson, received $15 per quarter.
It has been announced that as soon as the double tacking between Cleveland and Lorain on the Lake Shore Electric Ry. has been completed work will commence on the extending of the second track from that city to Ceylon Junction. Preparations are now being made for this. Later the track will be extended to Fremont and thus the entire road will be double tracked. The company intends to operate high-speed cars over its lines and as a safeguard the two tracks will prevent many accidents. The collision here was one of the things that is hurrying the matter.
The death of C.W. Mead, well known in Lorain county, occurred Sunday night at the Sandusky Soldiers Home. The body arrived from that place this afternoon and the funeral will take place form Parkside Chapel tomorrow at 2:30 o’clock. All of the members of the 103d regiment, O.V.I. who can reach Lorain will be present at the rites and the posts of the G.A.R. from Amherst, Elyria. Sandusky and Lorain will be in attendance in a body. The funeral sermon will be delivered by the Rev. D.W. Sprinkle, pastor of the United Brethren Church of this city. The deceased leaves tow daughters and a son.
Mrs. John Cobb, of this city is one of the daughters, and Miss Mead, of the Vine Street School, is the other.
He has a son who holds a responsible position with the Lake Shore Electric road.
The body will be interred in the family lot at Elmwood cemetery. – Lorain Times-Herald (Monday).
Mr. Mead was well known in Vermilion and had a number of warm friends here some of whom attended the funeral on Tuesday.
Delker Post, G.A.R. of this place had charge of the exercises at the funeral of ‘comrade Mead at Lorain Tuesday and fourteen members of the post attended. The services were very impressive; the casket was draped with the flag and many beautiful flowers. After the services a detail of National Guards fired the salute and a bugler sounded, “taps”. The Lorain G.A.R. and W.R.C. assisted in the services.
The Lake Shore Electric repair shops at Fremont were destroyed by fire at an early hour Tuesday morning and three cars, numbers 152, 11 and 67 which were being repaired were burned. The fire is supposed to have originated from a heaters in one of the cars, and was not discovered until it broke through the roof at 4:30. The building was of brick 50 x 200 feet and contained much expensive machinery. The loss is estimated at $100,000 and was covered by insurance. The shops will be rebuilt but whether at Fremont or not has not yet been determined.
Born – To Mr. and Mrs. Grant Smith, a son Oct. 11.
The new hotel on Main St. is rapidly nearing completion.
Capt. Henry Peterson is spending a few days with friends here prior to his going to Detroit where he will superintend the construction of a large boat.
Mrs. Henry Knettle has moved into the Yarrick residence, which she recently purchased.
F.B. Fisher is seriously ill at a Toledo hospital.
The remains of Chas Adams who died in a hospital at Toledo last week was brought here for burial Sunday.
Jay Tillinghast died at his home in Toledo last Friday from typhoid fever. He is a son of Henry Tillinghast formerly of this place.
According to a calculation by a Broadway shoe dealer who has a fondness for figures, thee are 22 pairs of shoes worn out in New York City each minute.
The oldest building in Wall Street New York, is the government assay office immediately east of the sub-treasury, yet is i only 83 years old, having been erected in 1823.
The L.S.E. Ry. has been enjoined from laying its second track in Sheffield township, Lorain county, by Charles Monroe. He claims that they have not built a retaining wall for the earth placed on which to lay the track.
An Edison Phonograph is a valuable acquisition to any home. A.D. Baumhart can supply you.
George Smith of the Duplex Stamping Company is quite ill.
Capt. Hasenflue was home form the lakes Monday his boat being at Sandusky.
DIED – Sunday, October 14th 06, John Safford, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Ackerman, aged three months. Funeral services Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 17. Rev. Geo. E. Merrill officiating.
Mr. and Mrs. L.U. Todd and O.K. Todd left on Monday evening for Kansas City, Mo., Topeka, Emporia, and Lawrence, Kansas. The party expect to remain in the West about four weeks.
BORN – to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Thompson Tuesday Oct. 16, 06, a daughter.
It is reported that S.C. Myers has bought the Baldwin blacksmith shop and lot and will move the shop back and place the Evangelical church building on it. It will then be turned into a storeroom.
[VV. Ed. Note: I’m not certain what building is referenced here – or where Baldwin’s shop was located. I’ll be on the lookout for more information about both the church and the shop / storeroom. I don’t believe the church mentioned is the E&R church on Grand and Ohio streets. But I’m still puzzled.]
Born – To Mr. and Mrs. John Krapp Friday, Oct. 12 ’06, a son.
The cost of the special school bond election at Lorain last week was $646.
The Stmr. Brown which went ashore at Lorain a couple of weeks ago has been repaired and is again in commission.
The dances at the Gibson Hall are in full swing now.
Mr. Beard from Henrietta has moved into Mr. Sanders house the Penson place.
Mr. O.A. Mordoff has been having a very serious tie with a germ abscess, but he is improving now.
BORN – to Mr. and Mrs. Champion a girl.
Were you all prepared for that great big snowstorm that fell upon the earth last week and stayed by like winter? Of course you were not. Well it stands as us in hand to be ready for everything that may happen. [The wording, here, is awkward.]
The mumps are quite prevalent and some cases are severe.
Hmmmmmm....
A CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY: On April 15, 1933 Henry and Katherine Weigel came from the Cleveland area to take the job as Caretakers of the Olympic Outing Club. The Weigels had four children, George, Henry [r, Robert, and a daughter, Ruth. George and his wife, both 29, were married in July. Ruth was also married and had an infant daughter named Katherine. Henry Jr. was 18 and lived at home at the club with his younger brother, Robert.
Henry Sr. had been a member of the club since 1902, when the club was born. Living in Vermilion, and working for the club was a dream and opportunity of a lifetime. When Mr. and Mrs. Peake, who formerly took care of the club left, Henry and Katherine readily took on the job.
When we travel back to 1933 in Vermilion, Ohio, we need to understand that none of our railroad crossings had signals. At that time the state employed men as watchmen at each of the crossings. When they were notified of a train approaching they lowered large gates to keep foot, auto, and horse traffic off the tracks. We also need to understand that there were three sets of tracks on the New York Central rail line. One track was a work track, another was a slow track, and the third was the high-speed track. The final thing to attend to concerns the fact that the watchmen on lv worked from 6:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. The rest of the time the tracks were unguarded.
The summer came and left. All was quiet at the Olympic Club. A majority of the members were Clevelanders who spent their summers in Vermilion and wintered in their homes in the city. Christmas approached. The Weigels were happy. They invited their children, George and his wife and their daughter Ruth Werle, to spend Christmas with them and their two younger boys at the club. George and his wife came from Reading, PA. Ruth (Weigel) Werle came in from Cleveland with her 20-month-old daughter. Ruth's husband was disabled so he couldn't come.
As Christmas Eve neared, Mrs. Weigel made plans with her daughter, daughter-in-law, and her three sons to attend the midnight mass at St. Mary's church on Ohio Street. Her husband, Henry, opted to stay home with infant Catherine while they attended the service. What a wonderful way to begin the Christmas celebration. It doesn't take much imagination (for myself at least) to understand the true magic of attending a late evening church service on Christmas Eve.
Mrs. Weigel was driving. After the service she and her family headed north Division Street toward the NYC tracks to go home. The reason of her decision to go home this way will never be known. They could have simply headed east down Ohio Street to West River Road home. Three days later (Thursday, December 28, 1933) this would be the headline on the front page of the Vermilion News: Funeral For Train Victims Held Today.
At about 1:20 Christmas morning their car was hit broadside and completely demolished by an eastbound flyer, Engine No. 22, at the Division Street crossing. Mrs. Weigel, her daughter, and her daughter-in-law, were killed instantly. George and Henry Jr. still hung to life. A westbound train was halted and they were placed on board to be taken to Providence Hospital in Sandusky. George died while being transported, and his brother, Henry, passed a few hours later. Miraculously, Robert was thrown from the auto as it was pushed to the east of the railway station received a broken leg and numerous bruises.
Hundreds of parishioners were at the scene of the accident. They heard the sickening crash, and rushed to help. But there was little to be done, but pray. Mrs. Henry Andress, walking home, was knocked to the ground by a piece of the automobile, but received no great injuries.
The silence of that majestic night had been broken in the flash of a second.
I (among others) have known about this particular tragedy for many years. It came a bit closer to me when I was contacted by Robert's daughter, two or three years ago. She wanted me to research the article in the archives of The News and send her a copy. She lives and works in San Francisco. Her father is still alive. The one thing she told me that really touched my heart is that her father never mentioned that accident to his family until she was well into her twenties. What a great tragedy to keep to one's self.
Having lived in Vermilion all my life, I am very familiar with train mishaps. I am always cautious about crossing tracks. I understand the power of the locomotive and the Diesels that pull/pulled these great loads. I know what can happen in an instant.
In September of 1934 the Ohio Public Utilities people recommended that flashing lights be installed at most of Vermilion's NYC crossings. They also mandated that all trees growing near the railroads be removed, and that crossing watchmen be kept at the crossings 24 hours a day until further notice.
In January of 1935, over two years after this tragedy, flashing lights were ordered to be installed at two of the crossings. It would be some 50 years (and many accidents) later before PUCO would order gates installed at all crossings in Vermilion.
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.
…and that annual pest of the new settlements of the west, fever and ague. This exodus was conducted with military precision, and the cavalcade duly arrived at Mansfield.
A small proportion of the inhabitants remained in Oxford, and in connection with some from Cold Creek and adjacent settlements erected, in the fall of this year (1812), a blockhouse in Bloomingville. This, like other structures of its class erected during this period at the west, although generally occupied by a few persons, was not calculated to be permanently garrisoned, but was merely a place of refuge to which the inhabitants of the neighboring settlements fled in case of sudden alarm. Immediately after the battle on the peninsula (fall of 1813), the settlers became so much alarmed that they erected an additional block house at Bloomingville, and enclosed both with pickets, and because of its greater security it became a place of resort for transient persons and the settlers of the surrounding country.
From the time of "Hull's infamy" until the close of the war but small additions were made to the permanent settlers in Oxford. Soon after the battle of the peninsula, Jasper Wood (father of Bourdett Wood, of Bellevue), and Worthington Wood, now of Michigan, moved into the township, and bought out old Nathan Wood, who had previously settled a short distance east of Bloomingville. Greene Parker, a local Methodist preacher, settled about one half mile east of the present village of Enterprise, on a point of land formed by the junction of Slate run with Huron river. He was the first settler in this portion of the township.
The family of Benjamin Drake were: Caleb, who married Widow Buel (did not locate in Ohio); Charles F., who married Maria Livingston and died on Catawba Island; Benjamin, who deceased single; Joshua, who married Charlotte Gibbs, and lives in Livingston county, Missouri; Frederick D., who married Eliza Smeath, resides on the old homestead, and is the only one of the family residing in the township; James, who married Catharine Smeath, and lives in Missouri; Sarah, who married Dr. Amos Amsden, is dead; Nancy, who married Dr. Daniel Tilden, is dead, and Deborah, who married Shepard Patrick. Benjamin Drake died December 22, 1844, aged seventy-nine years. Mrs. Drake died July 31, 1844.
is situated in the northwest corner of the township, and about one-fourth of a mile east of Pipe creek, on the line of an Indian trail, that seems to have been a favorite camping ground, long previous to the settlement of the country, for Indians and traders, in their journeyings between the mouth of Huron river and Lower Sandusky, the ground being high and dry, and an abundance of wood, water and feed in the vicinity.
The village dates from 1811, but was not laid out or named until as late as 1817. This was done bf Abiathar Shirley and Abner Youngs. At one time its future was very promising.
The first store in the township was opened by Nathan Wood, at Bloomingville, in 1811, and afterward, successively by Peter Vanness, and Faley & Johnson. In 1818, Samuel B. Caldwell and a young man, named Owens, brought on a large stock of goods. Owens soon returned east, and Charles F. Drake became associated with Caldwell, and the business was conducted by this firm for many years.
The first post office was established at Bloomingville as early as 1810. Aaron Bigsby was, doubtless, the first postmaster.
The first fruit trees in the township were planted by Jonathan Sprague, who established a nursery on Pipe creek. This was prior to the war of 1813. Many orchards in this, and adjoining townships, were formed from trees procured at this nursery.
Abiathar Shirley opened a hotel at Bloomingville, as early as 1813.
The first justice of the peace was Israel Harrington. He was elected in 1811, and lived west of Pipe creek, in what is now Groton township.
Owing to the sparsely settled condition of the Firelands at this time, election precincts were almost boundless. What is now embraced in the townships of Oxford, Groton, Perkins and a part of Margaretta, was then one precinct, and elections were held at Bloomingville, and then called Wheatsborough. In 1836, Groton affected a separate-organization.
The first sermon delivered within the limits of the township of Oxford, was by Father Gurley, who located in the township at an early period. He was a Methodist, and was zealous in the cause of religion. He died but recently. The Rev. Mr. Smith was the second minister to locate in the township.
The township has had no church organization until recently. The Lutheran, near Front's station, is the first one, and was formed, perhaps, ten years since. This has now a large membership and is in a flourishing condition. Near the same place is also located a church of the Catholic faith.
The first schoolhouse in the township was erected in 1810, and stood about half way between Pipe creek and Bloomingville. In this a term of school was kept in the winter of 1811 by Joseph Alby. The building was still standing in 1815, and Mr. Drake says, "for a literary institution.it looked hard indeed."
In the year 1870, the Oxford Center Lodge of Good Templars was organized by Isaac DeLamater, Esq. This was prosperous and flourishing for a time, but in consequence of the removal of many of its most…
FROM NAT. GEO: I was cleaning old paper off a shelf in the Bindery Room at the print shop museum when I cam across a National Geographic magazine from June 1918. This advertisement for the “Locomobile” was the first full-page ad in the magazine. It looks as though it was a pretty fine car.
The Locomobile Company of America was an auto mfg. founded in 1899. For the first two years it was located in Watertown, Mass., but production was transferred to Bridgeport, Conn, in 1900, where it remained until it went out of business in 1929. Its first cars were affordable, small steam autos. In 1903, they began production of internal combustion-powered luxury cars. In 1922 the company was taken over by Durant Motors and went out of business seven years later. The cars were always sold under the brand name Locomobile. The name – in case it escapes anyone – was a combination of locomotive and automobile.
A typical open-bodied Locomobile cost about $10,000. The average Model T Ford Phaeton cost about $300. While it was a fine looking car the price likely put it out of the reach of most automobilists of the times – and eventually out of business.
And so it was.
A flight attendant was on the red-eye to Manila when a water leak developed in the galley, which eventually soaked the carpet throughout the cabin of the 747.
A very sleepy passenger who had become aware of the dampness asked the attendant, "Has it been raining?"
Keeping a straight face, the attendant replied, "Yes, but we put the top up."
With a sigh of relief, the passenger went back to sleep.
LOCAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: After giving it much thought this link has been "put-down". During the last year most of the folks who used to use this page as a bulletin board have acquired their own and, consequently, no longer need this forum from "Views". I have, however, kept links (in the links section) to Larry Hohler's "Hope Homes" in Kenya - and to Bette Lou Higgins' Eden Valley Enterprises sites. They are historically and socially relevant projects. I suggest that you visit these sites on a regular basis to see "what's shakin'".
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.
Another great book with Vermilion Roots is, "Grandmas’ Favorites: A Compilation of Recipes from Margaret Sanders Buell" by Amy O’Neal, Elizabeth Thompson and Meg Walter (May 2, 2012). This book very literally will provide one with the flavor of old Vermilion. And ye can also find it at Amazon.com. Take a look.
MARY WAKEFIELD BUXTON’S LATEST BOOK “The Private War of William Styron” is available in paper back for $15.00 with tax and can be purchased locally at Buxton and Buxton Law Office in Urbanna, ordered from any book store, Amazon.com or Brandylane Publishing Company. A signed, hard back edition may be purchased from Mrs. Buxton directly for $30.00 by writing her at Box 488, Urbanna, VA 23175 and including $6.00 for tax, postage and packaging.
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