2013 Help Needed: Library Building Fund

The New Vienna Library which opened in December, 2008, and is currently housed in the Village Council Chambers (old Post Office lobby), is raising money for a new building which will be on the site of Dr. Hause's former dental office.  Ground breaking is expected to take place late this summer or early fall.

Thanks to a local resident to match all donations up to $100,000, a fund raising project is now under way.  The flyer is pictured below, followed by a transcription.  Please spread the word to any other resident or non-resident New Vienna interested folks who might be able to promote the project and or be willing to make a small or big donation.  Any support will help.

Below is a copy of the information flyer and response form as well as information about a fund raising golf tournament scheduled for the last Saturday in July.  Other fund raisers are scheduled later in the summer and fall.

 

 

 

June news from "3" years

1873 and 1883 news from the Highland Weekly News, published in Hillsboro, Ohio 1853-1886; 1893 and 1913 news from the Hillsboro News-Herald; 1943 news from Hillsboro's Press Gazette. Other sources as listed below.

1913 June 5 – Death of prominent Penn Township farmer, Ellis Good, is reported.  He was an old soldier and had been for many years president of the New Vienna Bank.  His will [which can be seen at this link] was published in the June 12 issue of the Hillsboro News Herald and his beneficiaries included:  Bertha H. Blackburn; his sister, Lydia C. Good; Edgar Hallowell, Joseph Charles G Jr., and Mary Blackburn. His brother, Evan Good including $4000 in trust for his son, Charles. Elva W. Good. The remained of his estate is to be divided equally between nineteen nephews and nieces whose names follow: Annie B. Anderson, Charles G. Blackburn, Ella Blackburn, Howard L. Blackburn, Irene Blackburn, Frank Blackburn, Wilbur E. Blackburn, Mary J. Wilde, Charles W. Johnson, Mabel J. Burke, Harvey E. Conard, Helen Conard, Robert Conard, Gertrude L. Hull, Edna M. Good, H. Doyle Wright, Edith L. Zehring, Lawrence G. Wright and Alice Wright.

1913 June 19 – James Wright, 60, a farmer from New Vienna, was fatally injured in a carriage accident caused by a squirrel spooking the horses.  [He was a brother-in-law of Ellis Good, father of Doyle Wright, mentioned above.  See also article at right.]

1913 June 26 – Senator Pomerene has recommended Charles Stroup for appointment as postmaster at Lynchburg and Roy Hale for the New Vienna postmastership.  There was a warm contest for both places.  The jobs each pay about $1200.

1913 June 28 – Roy C. Hale, recommended by Senator Pomerene to be Postmaster at New Vienna, to succeed DeWitt C. Pemberton. [The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, Saturday, June 28, 1913]

1933 June 23 – George F. Neffner, of New Vienna, was installed as Grand Warden of the Ohio Grand Lodge of I.O.O.F. [The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, Saturday, June 23, 1923]

1943 June 25 – To Present Pupils - Tuesday evening, June 29, Helen Isobel Pope will present her New Vienna piano class in a recital at the Church of Christ, New Vienna.  Those appearing are Dickie Carey, Jacquelyn Carey [McKenzie, NVHS'47], Tom Carey [NVHS'49], Carey ["Bo,"] Streber [NVHS'49], Gary Simmons, Miriam Snell and Calvin Smith [NVHS'44].

1953 June 30 – The sixth annual Ohio Sheep Day will be held in Wooster on July 17.  One of the programs, "A Farmer's Sheep Philosphy" will be presented by Clayton Terrell, of New Vienna. [Marysville Journal-Tribune, Marysville, Ohio, Tuesday, June 30, 1953]

1993 Gene Williams, Scoutmaster

In 1993 Gene Williams was honored for his service to the Boy Scouts of New Vienna.   Transcription of the Friday, March 19, 1993 clipping from the Wilmington News-Journal follows.

1993 Gene Williams, Scoutmaster - Clipping from WNJ March 19, 1993

Retired Scoutmaster Williams honored

Eugene P. Williams, New Vienna, was honored recently with a retirement program and reception conducted at the New Vienna United Methodist Church and hosted by Boy Scout Troop 97 chartered to Dalton Lodge F&AM No 57, New Vienna.  Williams served as Scoutmaster of Troop 97 for 30 years and plans to continue service as assistant scoutmaster.

Service by Williams to the Boys Scouts includes guiding 17 Scouts to the Eagle rank:  leading six troop expeditions to the Philmont Scout Ranch, Cimarron, New Mexico; taking the Scouts each summer to Camp Birch, Clifton; and participating on numerous committees of the former Anthony Wayne District and now Robert E. Hadley District (serving Clinton County) and the Tecumseh Council (serving Logan, Champaign, Clark, Green[e] and Clinton counties.  

Scouting awards received during those years include Brotherhood membership in the Order of the Arrow (the Boy Scout honor camping society), the Cross & Flame Award from the New Vienna United Methodist Church (a Methodist award for service to youth), the Robert E. Hadley District Award of Merit (the highest award conferred by a Boy Scout district for outstanding service to youth of the local civic community), and the Silver Beaver Award (the highest award bestowed by a Boy Scout council for exceptional service to youth).

Tributes to Williams were delivered from Eagle Scout Mark A. Bland, Eagle Class of '88; Arnold H. Hill, current Scoutmaster of Troop 97; and David T. Sipe, Scoutmaster of Troop 149 chartered to the Martinsville Lions Club.  Troop 97 Assistant Scoutmaster Margaret F. Hill had prepared personally and presented to Williams in appreciation from all the parents for his years of serving as Scoutmaster to their sons an oval framed Boy Scout emblem on counted cross-stitch.  And Scouting para-professional, Troop 97 committee member Ronald L. Pirman, presented from the friends of Williams a 1910 original edition of the Boy Scout handbook set in a cherry display case and a Boy Scout scholarship fund in Williams' name.  The fund is designated for Troop 97 Boy Scout leadership training.

Commendations and special recognitions received came from Gov. George V. Voinovich, the Ohio State Senate, U.S. Congressman Ted Strickland, and B.S.A. Chief Scout Executive Jere B. Ratcliffe.  Ohio State Sen. Cooper Snyder personally presented the Senate resolution.

Organist Wilman Croghand [Wilma Croghan] and vocalist Jim Butler provided music selections for the program.  Tecumseh Council Scout Executive William V. Deany delivered the invocation, and Troop 97 Senior Patrol Leader Adam Hill led the participants in the "Pledge of Allegiance."

Williams, in remarks concluding the program, noted that "A scoutmaster's minute is supposed to be a short inspirational talk . . . but this is my inspiration (pointing to the assembled Boy Scouts from his troop) . . . If you live up to all of those (the twelve points of the Boy Scout Law), can you help but love one another and your fellow man around you?"

A reception honoring Williams and his wife Hilda followed in the church social hall.

Blackburn House – Mapleshade

Seventh and last in a series of articles from the Wilmington News-Journal about the New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses in the spring of 1953. For list of other articles see links at the end of this article. Transcription follows. [Notes added in bracketed italics.]

Clinton county's observance of Ohio's sesquicentennial gets underway Saturday and Sunday, June 6 and 7 with the Pilgrimage of old residences in and near New Vienna.

New Vienna plans for opening the celebration have been carefully laid and the pilgrimage, under the supervision of Mrs. Homer K. Williams, has taken in not only representative houses but old places full of charm, peculiar for the type of architecture and rich in fine old pieces of furniture, collections of china and glass and other articles.

Hostesses have been selected to receive guests the two days of the pilgrimage and the garden clubs are making lavish arrangements of flowers to grace the rooms of the houses.  Tickets are sold for the pilgrimage and the proceeds will go to the Clinton County Historical Society.

So that  visitors may know something of the history of each of the houses the owners have written descriptive articles about them.  Today is presented the story, in picture and words, of the Charles G. Blackburn [1900-1975] residence.

The Charles Blackburn home known as Mapleshade, was built in 1837 and 1838.  Many interesting stories of its building have been handed down by persons connected with its beginning.

Francis Woodmansee, great-grandfather of Mrs. Minnie Hadley, former resident of New Vienna, purchased several hundred acres of land between New Vienna and Highland.  He had lived in New Jersey and had the business of selling cord wood in New York City.  During the war of 1812 he was licenses as a privateer.  Having decided to move to Ohio, he obtained $30,000 in gold and silver, bought kegs of nails, and placed the precious load between layers of nails in the kegs.  These were transported by ox cart across the mountains to Ohio.  The driver of this wagon was William Chamberlain, a great-great uncle of Miss Martha Johnson, Mrs. Will Levo, and Dr. James Johnson of Wilmington, and of Charles Johnson, Miss Addie and Ethel Johnson, Mrs. Will Holmes, Mrs. Harley Phillips, and William Johnson of New Vienna.

[William Chamberlain, 1795-1873, was the father of one son (who died unmarried) and five daughters.  Oldest daughter Anna, 1820-1898, married Michael Mount Johnson, 1818-1912, and lived most of her adult life in the New Vienna area.  She and Michael had ten children.]

After buying his land, Woodmansee decided to build a house modeled after his New Jersey home, and so it is that the house is colonial in style with a wide center hall but differing from the southern colonial style in that the ceilings are lower.  It was originally heated by seven fireplaces, three of which were equipped with cranes.  Five of these fireplaces are still opened and usable.

* * *

The bricks were burned on the place and the timbers are walnut and oak.  Of particular interest is the woodwork, all of which is fluted and was made by hand.  Each mantel downstairs has a different pattern.  The curved walnut stair rail is supported by slender turned spindles.  The knobs on all the doors of the house are small brass ones imported from England. The brick on the house front is laid in a Flemish design with every other brick laid end ways.  Nothing is known of the man whose hands and skill did the actual work of building, but there must have been a "touch of the artist in that artisan" or these extra beauties of workmanship would not have been added.

Very little change has been made in the house in its life time of 116 years [as of 1953] except to add modern conveniences.  At some time a porch with iron work was added.  The kitchen fireplace ceased to be used for cooking, first replaced by a wood burning stove and in modern times by electricity.  Electric lights replaced candles.  But the wide oak boards of the floors, the time darkened bricks of the fireplaces, and the huge stone steps at the front door remain, as does most of the house, as it was when Francis Woodmansee saw it completed in 1838.

Of added interest is a painting made of the house in 1882 and given the present owners by Mrs. Hadley.  On display June 6 and 7, will also be a [paper torn] collection of old china [paper torn] Mr and Mrs. Harry [paper torn].

Pilgrimages host [paper torn] residence will be [paper torn] Hamilton, Mrs. Homer Bohl, Mrs. Beryl Nobel, Mrs. J. Gurney Terrell and the Blackburns' daughter, Mrs. Hugh Young, Jr.

* * * * * * * * * *
Houses in the 1953 New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses include:

• Elmer Page-Wilbur Huffman-Hause House on Bernard Rd – built 1874
• Hillyard Farm - Paul Terrell Family Home on Bernard Rd
• Swingley House on SR-73 - Built 1853 (or 1836?)
• Carl West Colonial House built 1850
• Brown Home, possibly built by Isaac Woodmansee c1840
• Christy Home, Panhandle Road, c1850

• Charles Blackburn House built 1838

1883 New Vienna News - May 30

The following is clipped from The Highland Weekly News (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) May 30, 1883.  Transcription follows.

1883 NV News - May 30 

Highland Weekly News, Hillsboro, Ohio

NEW VIENNA.

Harry Hinman, of Springfield, Ill., is visiting his parents here.

Miss Nettie Downey of Winchester, is visiting her sister, Mrs. J.F. Fenton

T.E. Hildebrant is remodeling his dwelling, and improving his premises generally.

Mrs. Clara Shcott [Schott?], of Chattanooga, is visiting her mother and sister Hannah at this place.

Rev. J.R. Powell has removed to Washington C.H., but will continue to preach here as formerly.

Mary Hetherington and her neice Maggie, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, are visiting at Sam Hetherington's in this place.

C.C. Bowers and family of this place, removed to Port William this week where Mr. Bowers is running a drug store.

Arrangements are being made for Decoration Day, Hon. Mills Gardner, of Washington C.H., will be orator of the day, and Rev. J.G. Black, chaplin.

Dr. A.H. Lindly [Lindley] is traveling in the interest of the New Vienna Medicine Company.  He reports good success and ready sales for all their medicines.

Duchemin Brothers are pushing the work very rapidly on their new business block. When finished it will be the finest row of buildings in the place.

Canvassing committees are vigorously working in the interest of the Columbus & Cincinnati Midland Railroad, and will endeavor to complete their work this week.

Zadock Miller was so unfortunate as to have the small finger of his left hand served [severed] at the hand.  The finger will probably grow fast but will only be a show finger as there will be no joint to it.

Mr. A.H. Kohr, secretary of the People's Mutual Benefit Association, at Westerville, O., spent last  Monday and Tuesday in this place.  He paid Mrs. Thomas E. Hale $1,000 in consequence of the death of her husband, who carried a policy for that amount.

The annual commencement of our public schools took place in the Baptist Church at this place on last Thursday night.  The graduating class consisted of Harry Brewer, Clayton Nordyke, Nellie Conard, Marley Rayburn, and Ella Blackburn.  Our schools have been making exhibits of their progress before the public for two weeks one room each day.  Last Friday was the closing day, and a large audience was present to witness the exercise.  Our school has never given such universal satisfaction as during the past winter, although hindered for several weeks by the mumps and measles.  The same corps of teachers is employed for the next term except Mrs. L.A. Henry and Miss Emma Wright, who retire voluntarily.

1963 8th Grade Party - May 29

The NV eighth grade class of 62-63 finished their last year at New Vienna School and celebrated with a party, which was written up in the Wilmington News-Journal.  Transcription follows.

Eighth Graders Have Gala Party

When games, a barn dance, lots of good food and a hayride are combined into one evening it's bound to be quite a party.

That's what happened to the New Vienna eighth graders Wednesday night. It was also their farewell to the New Vienna school as they consolidate with Simon Kenton in the fall.

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Eltzroth had the party for the class at their place with room sponsors Mr. and Mrs. Paul Eltzroth and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fisher.  Other chaperones were Mr. and Mrs. Harold Uible, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Linkhart, Mr. and Mrs. George Gano and Mrs. Mary Nischwitz.

The evening started with a softball game and then a barbecue.  The barn had been cleaned and the class had decorated it in blue and white.  They sat on bales of straw, a long table held assorted food and an amazing scarecrow made the teen table setting.

After the barbecue everyone danced to the records.  The first dance was started by the king and queen, Greg Linkhart and Shirley Bernard and attendants, Linda Eltzroth and Larry Pope, Weegie Hughes and Walter McVey.

The hayride wound up the evening with Thomas Swingley the driver.

Additional guests at the party were Mr. and Mrs. William Cochran and Neil, Chrystal and Brian Linkhart, Lee and Larry Eltzroth, John Uible and Jennifer Gano.

Classmates who attended were: Catholyn Smith, Faye McCune, Keith Collins, Marlena Burns, Mike Purtee, Ann Harper, Linda Eltzroth, Marilyn Vanzant, Greg Linkhart, Shela Puckett, Fred Nester, Linda McVey, Carolyn Collier, Patty Walker, Weegie Hughes, Nancy Henderson.

Ronnie Myers, Linda Sue Rollins, Mike Whited, Sandy Nischwitz, Mike Stackhouse, Gary Orbaugh, Frances Freeland, Alice Fisher, Catherine Uible, Dianne Wilson, Sybil Gano, Dianne Burton.

Pete Walls, Susan Deck, John Stuber, Linda Brooks, Shirley Bernard, Walter McVey, Larry Pope, Jim Dayton and Carolyn Vanzant.

May news from "3" years

1873 and 1883 news from the Highland Weekly News, published in Hillsboro, Ohio 1853-1886; 1893 and 1913 news from the Hillsboro News-Herald; 1943 news from Hillsboro's Press Gazette. Other sources as listed below.

May 8, 1873 - Monthly Stock Sale – Major Higgins, of New Vienna, 3 head at about $150.  [Horses and mules were sold - prices ranged from $100 to $235 for a horse, $75 for a mule.  Major Asa Higgins served in the Civil War, 1861-1864.]

May 29, 1873 - Mr. Jno M. Arthur, formerly of Hillsboro, died of Consumption [tuberculosis] at the residence of his uncle, Edwin Arthur, Esq., in New Vienna.  He had struggled bravely against the insidious disease for several years past, but finally succumbed.  About 3 years ago he was admitted to the bar of this county, but his health has been too feeble to admit of his attending to business.  He was about 33 years of age, unmarried, and had many friends.  [John M Arthur 1841-1873, was a Civil War veteran.  His mother, Sarah Ann Quinn Arthur was a sister of New Vienna's Dr. T.C. Quinn, died at the age of 28 when John was three-years-old.  His father, John T. Arthur died at the age of 42 in 1860.  John's sister Courtney died at age three, and his brother Isaac died at Andersonville, GA, while serving in the Civil War at the age of 21.]

May 2, 1883 - West Point Cadet Candidates included two young men from New Vienna: Frank O. Wright [NVHS 1884] and Harry F. Brewer [NVHS 1883].  The successful candidate was W.A. Stamats of Lynchburg.

May 23, 1883 - Dr. Lindley, of the New Vienna Medicine Company, recently organized in that place, was in town last week and called at the News office to make a contract for advertising their medicines.  They are all recommended as tried and valuable remedies.  The company organized for their manufacture is a strong one, composed of some of the best citizens of New Vienna, Rev. Daniel Hill being president and J. M. Hussey business manager.

[Separate but related ad on same page.] FITS CURED - New Vienna Medicine Co., is now offering Dr. Lindley's Fit Cure.  Stops the attacks of Epilepsy immediately.  No fits, spasms, or convulsions after the first day's use.  A Tril [sic] Bottle FREE. Price, $1.50.  For sale by druggists.

May 23, 1883 - Albert M. Perrin and Miss Nancy E. Smittle were united in the holy bonds.  They will reside south of New Vienna.

May 4, 1893 - Dr. Ed Brown was thrown from a buggy and sustained a broken leg.

May 4, 1893 - Carey Woodmansee [of Highland] has secured a position as clerk in a dry goods house in New Vienna.

May 8, 1913 - Death of Charles Turner at his home in Fairfield Township, near New Vienna.  Born in New Jersey in 1833, he moved to Highland County in 1850 in a trip that took 17 days. He worked in Leesburg as a Blacksmith before retiring.  He was survived by his daughter, Harriet Teter.  His wife, Martha Henley Turner, died in Feb. 1913.

May 29, 1913 - Henry Brown (NVHS'08), who will graduate soon from the Miami Medical College in Cincinnati, has received an appointment as an intern in the Jewish Hospital of Cincinnati. [Owner of the historic house written up in the vintage NV House tour.]

May 29, 1913 - Ralph E. Carey, of New Vienna, is one of 14 boys entered in the Boy's Corn Growing Contest for a free trip to Washington D.C.  Four trips will be awarded thanks to the sponsorship of local businesses.  One of the sponsors is the New Vienna Bank and Grain Dealers.

May 6, 1933 - Alie Stingley, supt. of Adams township schools for the last 11 years, has been elected superintendent of New Vienna schools for a one-year term. [Mansfield News-Journal]


May 18, 1943 - Wedding Announcement of Cpl. James Edwards [NVHS'41, New Vienna and Maxola Murrey of Marietta.

May 8, 1953 - Pete, the hiccuping Hereford, was to be returned to the R.J. Curtis farm in New Vienna, after his rumblings - abdominal and phenomenal - stumped all the experts at the Ohio State University veterinary clinic.  The experts say Pete has an "over stimulated phrenic nerve." [Sandusky Register]

1943 Graduation - May 20

NVHS Class of 1943 pictured in 1998: Harold Uible, Paul Rulon (NVHS'39) and Virginia Wayland Rulon, Willis Davis, Darold Whitmer, Dorsey Green, Bruce Kinzer

 1943 Commencement Announcement

1943 Clipping about NVHS Commencement - May 24 WNJ [transcribed below]

1943 Baccalaureate Program NVHS

1943 Commencement Program - May 20

Undated clipping from unknown newspaper, probably Wilmington News-Journal May 24, 1943.  Transcription follows.

42 PUPILS GET DIPLOMAS FROM THREE SCHOOLS

-----------

Commencements Held at New Vienna, Wayne and Jefferson.

-----------

Diplomas were awarded to 42 graduates at three Clinton County high school commencements Thursday night, including one boy who already is serving in the U. S. Army.

Twenty-three Blanchester high school seniors will receive their awards at exercises Friday night.

New Vienna

New Vienna high school commencement exercises were held Thursday at 8 P.M. at the school auditorium when 18 seniors received their diplomas. 

The invocation was given by Rev. F. H. Smith.

Dr. J. Ruskin Howe, president of Otterbein College, gave the address on the theme, "Education for Democracy."

Melvin Long won the Wilmington College scholarship for the highest grades.  Sine he will be unable to attend college due to his being a member of the U.S. Naval Reserve, a special scholarship was awarded to Aleda Purtee, who was second.  Honors went to Harold Uible for being third in the class.

Diplomas were presented by Superintendent R. W. Fenwick to Dorsey Green, Bruce Kinzer, Willis Davis, Duane Powell, Delbert Floyd, Virginia June Wayland [Rulon], Harold H. Uible, Aleda Purtee, Barbara Ellen Penn [Nash], Virginia Mae Hedrick [Ludwick], Melvin Eugene Long, Lawrence Newbrey, Jr., Edward Earl Roush, Dale Edmond Everhart, Darold Whitmer, Helen I Crone [Murphy] and Grace Bachus [Grace Backus Wheeler].

1963 4-H New Vienna Tasty Club

An undated clipping presumably from the Wilmington News-Journal, May 1963.  Transcription follows.

NEW VIENNA TASTY CLUB

The Tasty Club met Tuesday in the school cafeteria at 3:30.

Sybil Gano led us in the 4-H pledge.

Everyone must have their membership cars in by May 31.

We elected the officers for 1963.  They are president, Ann Harper; vice president, Carolyn Collier; secretary, Catherine Uible; treasurer, Debra Brumley; reporter Alice Fisher; recreation leaders, Patti Baker and Valerie Allen; health and safety leader, Dianne Burton.

The officers training meetings is tonight at Denver Place School.

ALICE FISHER, Reporter

Christy Home "Few Fields" c1850

Sixth in a series of articles from the Wilmington (Ohio) News-Journal about the New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses in the spring of 1953. A photocopy of this article was obtained from the Clinton County Historical Society. For list of other articles see links at the end of this article. Transcription follows.   Of the seven WNJ articles about old homes in New Vienna, this is the only one that contains the source and the date. [Notes added in bracketed italics.]

 
Christy House - Wilmington News-Journal clipping - May 28, 1953

"Few Fields," located two miles southeast of New Vienna on Pan Handle [sic] road or what was once known as the Hillsboro and New Vienna turnpike, is one of the old landmarks of this community. It was the original home of Dr. A. T. Johnson who started his practice at New Vienna in 1859.

In 1862 he was appointed by Gov. Todd, surgeon of the 48th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in which he served with great distinction.  Upon his return he resumed his practice in New Vienna until his death here in 1887.

A few years later the farm was transferred to Walter J. Bates who in turn transferred it to John A. Murry [Murray was Bates' wife's maiden name, she had a brother named John] in 1915.  It was purchased by its present owner, Parley F. Christy [1900-1992], a former architect of Cincinnati, in March, 1937.  In 1946 the Christy's restored and remodeled the house to its present state.

The house is of the old conventional frame construction, hand [page torn] and corner posts held together by the use of pegs and wrought iron nails. Materials used were oak, walnut and poplar extensively.

All panes in the original windows are the old hand blown glass which are far from the modern thermopanes of today but perhaps more interesting to look through because of the many distorted shapes into which objects can be turned.

The plan of the house was of the early American center hall type with fire places and a basket type grate for heating facilities.  The kitchen fireplace was restored and equipped with a new mantel, crane and woodbox of early American design and is located in a paneled wall opposite the modern kitchen working facilities.

The original light fixtures which are of the ceiling pull-down, kerosene type with the hobnail glass domes and brass ornamentation were converted to electric.

The old grandfather's clock that embellishes the wall of the early American furnished dining room is truly an Ohio antique since it was in Mrs. Christy's side of the family for 150 years and in its present location is now only a few miles from its original home.  It was purchased by Mrs. Christy's great-great-great-grandfather Thomas Wright in the year 1813.  He lived near the Mt. Auburn vicinity.

Lending "Few Fields" a weathered and mellow look are the six large maple trees and the one huge elm that with the house have withstood the storms of many hears gone by.

Hostesses during the pilgrimage will be Mrs. Vinton Wolfe [Leone Hack Wolfe 1908-2000], Mrs. Lou Dever, Mrs. Frank Cunningham and Mrs. Delbert West.

* * * * *
Houses in the 1953 New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses include:

• Elmer Page-Wilbur Huffman-Hause House on Bernard Rd – built 1874
• Hillyard Farm - Paul Terrell Family Home on Bernard Rd
• Swingley House on SR-73 - Built 1853 (or 1836?)
• Carl West Colonial House built 1850
• Brown Home, possibly built by Isaac Woodmansee c1840
• Christy Home, Panhandle Road, c1850

Yet to be featured:

• Charles Blackburn House built 1838