Vermilion Ohio, A Good Place to Live
SHOPTALK: On the shop desk this week is a raw photograph of late Vermilionite Florence Corbin Parsons’ parasol. It came to the museum some time ago courtesy of one Molly Milner. It was contained in a parasol box (pictures) labeled the Scott-Griggs Company. It appears to be very old and the fabric is tearing in a couple of places. I checked online and found a brief mention of the Scott-Griggs Company in Cleveland in 1909. It appears to have been a department store.
The provenance of the parasol is that when Debby Wakefield was refurbishing her house [on Huron Street] in Vermilion, she found the parasol hidden away on a rafter in the house. Her house used to belong to Molly’s grandmother Florence Corbin Parsons.
It is a very beautiful and very fragile item.
The pic, here, is one blended with several others to acquire an image of the whole item. I used the blended pic here simply because I thought it interesting.
HARBORVIEW: On my home desk this week is an old pic of the F.W. Wakefield home at the foot of Main Street. I’m guessing (as usual) but I think this pic was taken at the end of WW1 (1918-19).
I’ve no concrete evidence beyond a number of photographs, but it always appeared to me that Mr. Wakefield was very patriotic – and generous.
The event pictured with he tents on the walk leading to the home was some type of dinner honoring the Red Cross ladies who actively supported the troops during the war.
There is at least one pic of the ladies seated inside the tent that I’ve seen. But I’ve always wondered what it must have been like. How was dinner served, for instance? There really doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of room to move about. But it was done.
As I understand it the fate of Harborview has not yet been decided. I’ve heard stories of the structure being perhaps too costly to renovate – but I don’t understand how that could be. It is an historic site. Aside from it being the home of the F.W. Wakefield family it is like the very first concrete home built in Vermilion. My advice would be to restore it.
But nobody asked me. And I doubt if they will.
FOR THE RECORD: Many local folks already know that the old Erie County Bank building on the southwest corner of Main and Liberty streets in Vermilion has been dubbed as the Ray Full Building in his honor. It was a nice gesture on the part of the city.
I am, however, confused by the new plaque on the building. It seems to indicate that the building was built in 1913, but it was actually built in 1923. I thought (for a minute) that perhaps Ray was born in 1913, but he was born on 11 March 1918. So I don’t know what the 1913 date means.
Above is a pic of the bank being built back in the early 20s. Across the street is the Fischer building that was built in 1915. Obviously, the Full building was built afterward.
Go figure…
Historically,
NOT VERY NICE: These are some of the faces and places related to the areas now infamous Hope of Light Orphanage – sometimes called the Gore Orphanage. The pix appeared in the NEWS, but originally appeared in the Cleveland News in 1909.
I have actually written a good deal about the orphanage both online and in my books. My intent was to dispel the urban legend surround the orphanage. But very few persons paid much attention to the truth of the place.
I’ve always found the truth of the orphanage to be horrible enough without embellishing it with a fire and ghosts. Unfortunately, the truth isn’t bad enough. But it certainly would’ve – if we’d been one of the unfortunates who lived there.
SHIPWRECKED IN VERMILION, OHIO: In 1927, Jerome Kern and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II completed Show Boat, a milestone in the development of musical comedy. It told the story of life on the Mississippi River from the late 1880's to 1927, and was based on the novel Show Boat (1926) by American writer Edna Ferber. The reason this show was so unique was that the music was integrated into the stories more realistically (were that actually possible) than the typical musical shows of the era.
During midsummer of this same year one Charles White, 62, of Buffalo and New York City (if that, too, were possible), and another fellow, George Thompson, 35, (who was just from Buffalo) were working as deck hands on the tug Henry Stokes out of Chatham, Ontario, Canada. The Captain of the Stokes was one E.J. Cadotte of Windsor. All were employed by a concern named the Dennison Sugar Company.
On Monday August 1st Captain Cadotte, White, and Thompson were in the process of towing two canal barges, the Hattie L. Kill and the Charles Hawley, from Buffalo to Chatham. Around 11 p.m. the wind changed - blowing hard out of the northeast, and the barges were torn away from the tug. Or at least most of the barges were. The forward part of the Kill attached to the tug still remained. And the good Captain Cadotte sailed on.
Unfortunately, White and Thompson were not on the tug. They were on the Hattie L. Kill. And, just as unfortunately, they were not on the part of the barge that Cadotte continued to tow through the raging seas toward homeport. ‘Twere their fortune/misfortune to have found themselves on the part that broke away - and consequently - sank.
Were this a musical comedy this would have been the part where the two beleaguered deckhands might have broke into song. But this was, understandably, far from being either a comedy or, much less, a musical comedy. For the next 5 1/2 hours the two men clung for dear life to the wreckage of the Kill.
Around 4:30 the following morning the Vermilion fish tug Potter captained by George Leidheiser, and his crew; Jim Wenling, Harry Ruddy, Harold Tischer, Dave Neiding, and Vern Leidheiser came across the water-clogged pair and plucked them from the drink.
In the meantime Captain Cadotte, who had happily made port shortly before midnight on Monday, was aghast when he discovered that not only had he lost a barge and a half, but had also lost Charles White and George Thompson as well. He promptly notified authorities. Upon receiving the news the U.S. Coast Guard in Lorain, Ohio quickly dispatched a search/rescue team. Their initial efforts proving unsuccessful, they took-up a command post in Vermilion Harbor and met the Potter when she steamed into port with the shipwrecked sailors.
When the sun rose on Tuesday morning early risers along beach at Main Street found the wreckage from the Hattie L. Kill strewn across the sands by the waves still being churned by the northeaster blow. And still further east along the beach of Nokomis Park the great hulk of the canal barge Charles Hawley lay lifeless in the shallows near the shore.
Later, as sightseers gathered and clamoured aboard White (left) and Thompson (right) posed atop the barge for P. Roscoe’s camera. I suppose in the world of the musical comedy it would have been time for another song. If so it would have very likely have been more in the way of a psalm.
YESTERYEAR'S NEWS: The following clips were orally transcribed from past issues of The Vermilion News. I think you will find them both interesting and fun...
Vermilion has a railroad, which is just been discovered. It starts at the Light And Hope Orphanage and its terminals are variously located. One peculiarity is it is “underground".
Ever since the Benny Sutliff incident last year, boys have been coming from the home. They have found good friends in and near Vermilion who aided them in finding homes. They have brought stories of alleged misusage and abuse. It has been only the boys who have run away.
About three weeks ago two girls ages 12 and 13 respectively ran away by wading across the Vermilion River and came to Vermilion. They found refuge with the ladies here. Mrs. G. B. McConnelly, Mrs. Peter Hahn and Miss Griswold aiding the parties. Mrs. McConnelly cared for one of the girls. They reported misusage.
The attention of the humane officer Lawrence of Lorain County was brought to the conditions of affairs in an action brought by W. B. Glatz of Lorain to secure charge of his grandchildren. The testimony given was about as follows:
FRIDAY
The afternoon session of the hearing of W. B. Glatz charges against the Light Of Hope Orphanage [sic] of Birmingham, closed at 4:30 o'clock, Friday, both parties coming to the agreement that Mr. Glatz should be given charge of his grandchildren Dora, Minnie and Augusta Brunk, with the privilege of adopting them at any time he sees fit.
Tom Baker, age 16 years and until recently an inmate of the home, was the first witness of importance to take the stand. He stated that he ran away from the institution on account of harsh treatment and had found a home with a farmer in Vermilion.
When asked if it was true, that the food furnished the children was poor, he said that the boys had often brought calves lungs and heads to the farm and that the stuff had been cooked and served on the table. He also said that although there were a number of cows on the farm that the children were only given butter once a week and that on very few occasions where they furnished with pepper or sugar.
As to the condition of the sleeping quarters, he stated that the bed clothing what was insufficient in winter and that the rooms were infested with rats and vermin. On occasion, which he remembered rats had crawled onto the beds and bitten boys while they lay asleep.
When questioned regarding the bathing facilities at the home, Baker stated that there was only one bathtub for the boys which, they were allowed to use every two weeks, and on several occasions 15 or 20 youngsters had been compelled to use the same water.
George Lambert, a bright boy of 18 years and a former inmate of the home, substantiated the statements of Baker and told of some of his own experiences. He said that he and his companions were often beaten by Superintendent Sprunger the farm overseer until great raw welts appeared on their bodies inflicted by the use of the strap.
When asked the reason that he left the home Lambert said that he wanted to learn something which was almost impossible at the institution, as the children were only allowed to go to school when there was no work to be done on the grounds.
The story of 15-year-old Ben Sutcliffe was very similar to that of the other two boys. He perhaps was even more vehement in his denunciation of the treatment received by the orphans.
Charles Wesley of Cleveland was called for the defense. Wesley was a former inmate of the home, but his opinion of the treatment, conditions etc., was exactly the opposite of the three, who were questioned before him. During the course of the during the course of the examination it was intimated Welty was rather of a privileged character, as he was appointed as an overseer, during the latter part of his stay at the orphanage.
Peter Fiebach a resident of Henrietta Township, when called to the stand stated that as far as he knew the home was conducted in the correct manner. He also said that several of the boys appeared to be incorrigible and that at one occasion two of them tipped over his sap buckets for which they were thrashed by Mr. Sprunger, but not enough to suit him, he added.
Fiebach, at the end of his testimony, was soundly scored by Humane Officer Lawrence, who asked him what kind of reputation he had among the neighbors. Fiebach was compelled to admit that he was not overly popular.
John Muller, who said he worked on the farm for the sake of the children, said that nothing more could be asked for their comfort and maintenance.
Pres. J. A. Sprunger asked that the investigation started last Friday be continued again Wednesday, in order that the good name of the institution might be rescued from the smirch put upon it by former inmates of the place who claim the conditions there are rotten to the core.
WEDNESDAY
Here is some of the evidence offered by Mrs. Springer in an attempt to exonerate herself and husband of any blame for that statements made by several of the orphans under their charge at one time or another. “I have charge of the 90 odd boys and girls and am responsible for their care while they are with us."
“We have butter nearly every morning, somewhat oftener than we did before the neighbors began to complain regarding the manner in which the place was conducted." According to Mrs. Sprunger, ham, bacon, tongue and hash is served the children, and about three years ago heads of cattle were fed the inmates in attendance.
She also testified that it used to be custom to feed the boys and girls the lungs of the cattle, which are secured from the slaughterhouse.
Corn, which is to be dried, is first boiled in a huge kettle in the laundry, the same kettle being used to steam the white underwear worn by the children, which is boiled before being washed, she added that before that the kettle was cleaned first before the corn was placed in it.
Notwithstanding that she had personal supervision over nearly 100 children, Mrs. Sprunger could not remember when the children had been served eggs at table, claiming she had too much else to do.
Mrs. Sprunger also said that when several of the children were afflicted with sore eyes she took one of the girls named Dorothy to Dr. Stuart in Cleveland, that the medicine prescribed for her was used on all the others, but that the little girl thought the prayers helped her the most and that she allowed the children to trust the Lord to cure them, and she had known him to cure all kinds of diseases in the past 18 years.
She admitted that four or five girls bathed in the same water which was carried from the roof of the building into a tank in the bathroom.
She said bedbugs and lice came into the orphanage with clothing, which was shipped in her from the new children, but that they tried to get rid of them when the other children became covered with vermin.
Rose Virginia Kaiser of Cleveland, herself an orphan, connected with the mission school in that city maintained in connection with the Light Of Hope Orphanage, claimed that she was competent to judge conditions at the orphanage, which comprises 500 acres, although she had been there but four hours prior to last Saturday.
Mary Smith who cooks the meals furnished the boys admitted that she could not remember when the children had been served eggs, but she thought they had been allowed to have them twice in the past eight months.
She first refused to tell why the boys and girls were not furnished butter last year but finally admitted she did not know.
The latter part of the morning was partly devoted to the examination of pupils, especially with regard to their schooling.
Some of the questions also disclose the fact that Superintendent Sprunger had been in the habit of renting out the inmates of the home to neighboring farmers. The latter were expected to turn the wages over to Sprunger.
Probabilities point toward the continuance of the investigation at least until Saturday, as there are many witnesses to be examined.
The disclosures in the papers have led to the withdrawal of at least two children by their relatives. One of them, Irene Davey 16, was taken by her father, J. E. Davey of Port Clinton. She had been placed there following the divorce of her parents. Mr. Davey reports since securing her that she seems afraid to tell about the surroundings at the home, especially to speak in any matters that might reflect on the Sprungers.
Miss Griswold a former teacher to the institution, now a resident of Vermilion, testified that the children were allowed to attend school irregularly.
One girl is reported as suffering from trachoma a contagious disease of the eye and it is alleged that some salve and prayers was all that was used to allay her sufferings.
In the testimony Wednesday Mr. Sprunger was scored for the condition of things.
There seems to be something radically wrong with the management of this institution. Although we have given only a small part of the testimony it brings to light a condition of things that could be improved especially in regard to cleanliness and comfort.
The regular meeting of the Village council was held Monday night with all members present excepting Minium.
George Fischer was present and had a map showing what he would give in exchange for the corner of Exchange st. abutting on his property. His scheme is to acquire the use of this property in exchange for a right away to the river from Exchange Place. He offered a strip 8 feet wide finally offering to make it 12. Council seem to think that it that 16 feet would be about right. Here the matter rests for the present
George Ritter, attorney, representing H. J. Buster who was recently purchased the Faulhaber property, and the Harris property, was present. The Harris house is said to be in the street and a bill for rent was sent to Mr. Buster.
Mr. Buster contends that the street has been closed far beyond the legal limit. Mr. Ritter was told to bring the required legal proof and matter the matter would be adjusted.
Chief Tischer was present and gave a short description of what he saw at the Fire Chief’s Convention including the run made by an automobile fire outfit – three miles in six and one-half minutes.
Several things were brought up including the calling of the attention of the L. S. E. Ry to the condition of the street along their tracks on Liberty Street.
It was decided to lay a crossing on the west side of Exchange Street across Liberty St. at the L.S.E. Ry. station.
Complaint was made that the dirt used to grade Jefferson Street had been partially removed by unknown parties.
After providing for payment of bills Council adjourned.
Last week it was our sad duty to chronicle the death of a young man just short starting out in life preparation, would bright hopes for the future. This week we write of the departure of the neighbor of the young man, who passed away, having reached fourscore years and seven, Christopher F. Decker. Mr. Decker was well was well known in Vermilion in vicinity where he and his family have resided for many years. He was at one time a wagon maker and some of the production of his skilled workmanship are still in use. As a tribute to his skill we quote what we overheard on the streets.
"You could depend on it that when Mr. Decker put a piece of wood into a wagon it was as he would tell you, the very best that could be had."
The community realizes that in the death of Mr. Decker the town has lost one who has been a good citizen and neighbor.
Williams Schmitkins took 10 prizes on fruit at the State fair.
Lizzie Smith who has been seriously ill with the fever is reported some better at this writing.
The Amherst Newsboys were defeated by the Amherst Blues on Sunday by a score of 6 to 3.
Fred Sollock was taken to the county infirmary. His mind had become weakened since he was hit by a train some time ago.
Funeral services of the infant child of William Martin were held at the residence and Saturday at 1:30 PM.
Funeral services of Gust F. Sabiers who passed away Sunday afternoon, were held from the late home Tuesday afternoon, Rev. Lindenmeyer officiating and the interment was made in the Crown Hill Cemetery.
John Stevenson has been repairing his home.
Our school has begun and the youngsters are happy.
Workmen are now blasting out the old abutment; the new abutment is being laid and we will soon have a new bridge.
I wonder if the discovery of the North Pole is cause of this cool weather. Maybe.
Again the school bell is calling the children to school. School for the first time, while for others it is the old sweet song.
We are glad R. B. Washburn is improving. Only Ray thinks he has to wait too long before he can have some good old “Noodle Soup."
Mr. H Derby is been quite busy selling peaches at home. He has a large crop this year.
The farmers are hustlers with their wheat grounds the season. Earl Leimbach expects sow this week.
Our school has begun with Mr. Blue Oberlin as superintendent. Ms. Carter as intermediate and Miss Wells as primary.
Mrs. Harmon died at the home of Mr. Byron Wilber Monday morning after being sick about two weeks. Funeral Thursday.
Mrs. Rose Todd was taken very sick Monday with stomach trouble. Her sister-in-law from Norwalk was summoned to her bedside. She is a little better at this writing.
The funeral Theodore Jones was held this from this place Saturday afternoon. A large crowd gathered together and listened to the service conducted by a minister from Oberlin of the first Congregational Church, of which the deceased was a member. The young ladies of the McDonald musical club furnished the music. A great number of fall flowers decorated piano, pulpit, alter and casket and were afterward taken to the grave by the young ladies. The afflicted family have the sympathy of all their neighbors.
Capt. and Mrs. Pearl and Mrs. J. Wright visited Marblehead and Lakeside last week.
The residence of Vince Steinmetz on the east side was destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning. Loss about $900.
Archibald Parker son of Mr. Mrs. L. A. Parker died at his home in Lorain last week from typhoid fever. Besides his parents, a sister of two brothers, he leaves a wife and a child.
Christopher F. Decker was born in Riederich, Urash, Wuettem-Uberg Berg, Germany, May 9, 1822 and died in Vermilion Ohio, September 3, 1909 at the age of 87 years.
He came with his father's family to Cleveland Ohio in 1847. The same year he and his brother George came to Vermilion, Ohio and established themselves in the wagon and carriage business. About this time there ought occurred a double wedding, brothers marrying sisters.
A few years later his brother died, he carried on the business himself, and in 1878 he also established the Livery business, which he turned over to his sons, Decker Bros., he then taking up farming.
In 1901 he sold out and moved to town.
Mr. Decker was one of the oldest and most respected citizens of the village. He was also a charter member of the German M. E. Church. He leaves his aged wife Eve, nee Beal, and three sons, Philip F. of North Olmsted, Ohio, Lewis J. and C. F. Decker of Vermilion, Ohio, nine grandchildren, and one great grandchild, also three aged brothers.
Two daughters preceded him in death, Sarah dying in infancy and Mrs. Mary Hahn who died August 10, 1887.
Funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon at the German M. E. Church, Rev. E. W. Bocksthaler, officiating.
On September 10 the citizens of Put-in-Bay will celebrate the anniversary of Perry's victory on Lake Erie by raising of a 100 foot flagpole and unfurling a brand-new flag near the burial place of those who lost their lives at that time.
Miss Florence Corbin has returned to her position as milliner in Michigan.
J. C. Seemann moved his household goods to Oberlin today.
Albert Hart has returned home from Clyde and is taking a short vacation before resuming his school work at Ada.
Albert Wittmer, one of our RFD man was run into Wednesday while out on his route by an auto. The party was going in the same direction and did not give him time to get out of there their road. After a little argument the autoists decided to settle. Only slight damage was done to the rig, but the accident caused some delay.
Editor Yarrick of the Berlin Heights Budget was in town Monday and made the NEWs office a pleasant call. He was very much interested in our Typograph.
Lewis Englebry’s fine Scotch Collie, which was admired by all canine lovers, was motored [sic] Sunday afternoon and died Monday. Mr. Ingleby prize the dog Kylie.
The lamps stolen from an auto at Linwood Park last week were found at Milan this week. It had been given to J. W. Seeley, a grocer, in exchange for gasoline. They were returned to their owner, a Cleveland party.
Brownhelm high school opened Monday.
John West of Catawba, Ind. sold a bushel peaches at Port Clinton this week for $21. The peaches were sold at auction.
It is reported that cranberries will probably reach $.20 per quart this year, owing to a severe frost in the cranberry built.
Hmmmmmm....
ALWAYS - WHERE EXACTLY (?):It's really hard to picture where these places were located. I wish we had some sort of map. But store changes are so frequent even today. So keeping track of them is very difficult.
Caselton (my great-grandfather) as you will discover over the ensuing weeks was a musician / fifer in the Union Army during the American Civil War in Company K, 67th Regiment of the OVI. As you will also discover everyone (and I mean everyone) had it tough during that war.
One of the things I found exceptionally interesting while reading his diary is his humanness view of the experience. He was neither a hero nor an enemy of the Republic. But the range of his emotions – his views of the conflict – may be an eye-opener for persons who’ve never had the unfortunate experience of war.
Anyway, in his words…
THE ARMY LIFE OF CASELTON ROSCOE PT.4:…water, and carried eleven hundred tons. We passed Ape Lookout the second day out, then came into Pamico 13 [sic] Sound. We signaled to be towed into Port Beaufort, North Carolina, then took cars for Newbern, N. Carolina, and there pitched our tents. The country is awful, soil all sand, the timber, cypress and seet gum, the swamps of cane so thick its impossible to go through without cutting the way. There is nothing here only niggers, snakes and aligators [sic]. More than two-thirds of the men were seasick. The lower deck looked like a pig-pen [sic].
I was asked if I ever though of the future. The most we think of is to get something to eat, but I do try to read my Testament every day, except when we are on the march.
“Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just / And this be our motto – “In God is Our Trust.” / And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave / O’er the land of the free and the home of he brave.”14
Jan 20, 1863. We have been lying here in the harbor for three days. Whole divisions getting aboard transports, the fleet will leave for Port Royal. The weather is warm and nice here. Fort Macon is in the mouth of this Sound, the light-house is on Cape Lookout in plain sight. We are now at St. Helena Island, South Carolina, have been here about three weeks. It is very warm and there is so much sickness, with typhoid and typhus fevers. Hope and pray we do not have to stay here all Summer, but there seems to be so much quarreling among the Generals. Generals Foster and Hunter have quarreled ever since we came here. Genral Hunter is a regular nigger abolish and has a nigger brigade here. We are kept penned up like hogs. They have stationed guarded all around Brigades, and will not let officers of privates out without a pass signed by the General. We are praying for General Foster to come and take us out of here, if not, there will be a little Hell raised here in a short time. The men are…
14-The passage quoted is the 4th and last stanza of “The Star Spangled Banner” Francis Scott Key.
…exposed sometimes to a galling fire, but generally protected by breastworks. Their loss here was but one man killed and seventeen wounded. Among the regiments sent to quell the riots in New York, occasioned by the enforcement of the draft, was the Seventh Ohio. The regiment reached Governor's Island and went into camp on the 26th of August 1863. The draft being over, the Seventh returned to its old camp on the Rapidan, where it remained a few weeks, after which the Twelfth corps, to which it was attached, was ordered into the western country. The Twelfth and Eleventh were afterward consolidated and became the Twentieth, under command of "Fighting Joe Hooker." On the 24th of November occurred the battle at Lookout Mountain, Tenn., and close upon that came Mission Ridge, Tenn., and Ringgold, Ga. The Seventh was in each engagement, but lost most heavily in the latter. During the assault Creighton said to his men: "Boys, we are ordered to take that hill; I want to see you walk right up to it," And walk they did; straight into the face of death. They were repulsed with fearful loss, there being but one commissioned officer of the whole regiment uninjured. Nineteen killed and sixty-one wounded was the result of that charge. It occurred near Ringgold, on the 27th of November 1863. Colonel Creighton and Major Crane were both killed.
Worn with constant battle and ranks fearfully thinned, the Seventh went into camp at Bridgeport, Ala., where with a few skirmishes of no importance it remained until May, 1864, when again it was called into active service in the campaign of that year. Its first engagement was at Rocky Face Ridge, from May 5th to the 9th, and later at Resaca, Ga., from May 13th to 16th. After Resaca had been fought and won, the Seventh pursued the fleeing rebels until near the middle of June. Then the term of enlistment of the Seventh had expired, and they returned to Cincinnati. Here the Fifth and Seventh, former constant companions in successes and reverses, the former from the south, and the latter from the north part of Ohio, parted company. The Seventh proceeded to Cleveland, where it was mustered out of service, after an experience in active service of a little more than three years. Colonel Erastus B. Tyler was promoted to brigadier general May 30, 1862; lieutenant-colonel William R. Creighton was promoted to colonel May 20, 1862, and killed at Ringgold, Ga., November 27, 1863; Lieutenant Colonel Joel F. Asper was promoted from captain, Company H, May 20, 1862, and resigned March 2, 1863; Lieutenant-Colonel Orris J. Crane was promoted to major from captain Company H, May 25, 1862, to lieutenant-colonel March 2, 1863, killed at Ringgold, Ga., November 27, 1863; Lieutenant Colonel Samuel McClellan was promoted from captain Company H, December 1, 1863, mustered out with regiment July 8, 1S64; Major John S. Casement resigned May 23, 1863; Major Frederick A. Seymour resigned March 29, 1864.
BUNCHES OF STUFF: Here’s a little case of memories. I especially like the wooden nickel from Vermilions Centennial and the A.C. DuPerow matchbook.
There are lots of little artifacts like there around the museum. It’s hard to visit all the memories they invoke in one fell swoop
How often have we heard that television watching can be detrimental? A pastor carried that message one Sunday morning in an impassioned sermon on the evils of TV.
"It steals away precious time that could be better spent on other things," he said. He advised the congregation to do what he and his family had done. "We put our TV away in the closet."
"That's right," his wife muttered to the woman next to her, "and it gets awfully crowded in there!"
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, "Grandma's 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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