1883 news from the Highland Weekly News, published in Hillsboro, Ohio 1853-1886; 1893 and 1913 news from the Hillsboro News-Herald; 1943 and 1963 news from Hillsboro's Press Gazette.
Feb 14, 1883 - The remains of Thomas Grice were brought home to his mother's last Tuesday from Minnesota, where he had been braking on the railroad. In making a coupling, he was caught between the cars and killed. His remains were buried at New Vienna. He was born in 1863, the son of Daniel [1828-1868] and Jemima Jane Hiatt Grice [1834-1921].
Feb. 23, 1893 - Frank Conard, one of New Vienna's most prominent citizens died on Feb. 14th. "Mr. Conard was widely known ... through his long connection with the business interests of New Vienna and vicinity and was regarded as one of the most progressive and public-spirited citizens of that village." [Born 1839 in Pennsylvania, he was the father of Geneva Phillips and a 1st Cousin to Dr. George Conard, 1842-1929, a New Vienna Doctor, who lived in a house where the park is now located.]
Feb. 20, 1913 - Martha Henley Turner died at her residence, Maple Shade Farm, near New Vienna, on Feb. 14, 1913. She was born Feb. 25, 1833, the daughter of John and Matilda Cox Henley. She married Charles Turner in 1856 and they had one daughter, Mrs. (Harriet) W.A. Teter.
Feb. 2, 1943 - George M. Neffner, former Ohio Secretary of State, said he would go to court "if necessary" to retain his position as election expert and statistician in the secretary of state's office. The new Secretary of State, Edward J. Hummel, has ordered Neffner removed from the position he has held 16 years.
Feb. 2, 1943 - Mrs. Alva (Lillian Carey) Woods, of near New Vienna, died on Jan. 30, 1943 of a heart ailment. The daughter of Zimri Hussey and Ida Fenner Carey, Lillian was born in 1899, graduated from NV High School in 1918, married Alva Woods in 1919 and had a daughter, Georgia Ellen Vance (1922-2010) and three sons, Dale (1924-1942, NVHS'42), Faymon (1927-2012), and Max Richard "Dick" (1933-2009, NVHS'51).
Feb. 12, 1943 - Henry T. Hiestand, respected farmer of Fayette County, born in 1864, passed away on Feb. 8, 1943. He was the uncle of Gladys Hiestand Uible of New Vienna.
Feb. 16, 1943 - Walter M. Engle died Feb. 13, 1943 in Highland County. The son of Samuel and Mary Arthur Engle, Walter was born in 1874. He married Anna (Leanna) Denny in 1896 and had two children, Arthur Dudley Engle (NVHS'15) and Rayburn Earl Engle (NVHS'16). His brother Dudley, died in Oct. 1942. A sister, (Mrs. Taylor) Carrie Martin of New Vienna, survives.
Feb. 1, 1963 - Mrs. Sylvia Burton, born near New Vienna in 1876, died on Jan. 29, 1963. Sylvia was the daughter of William and Tabitha Hubbard Achor. Her husband, George Washington Burton died in 1957. She was the mother of ten children, including Hugh Burton (1905-1967) of New Vienna.
Friday, February 22, 2013
Friday, February 15, 2013
Swingley House 1953
Third in a series of articles 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. Transcription follows.
New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses –
Only Two Families Have Owned 117-Year Old Swingley House
Editor's Note: The New Vienna Pilgrimage of old houses will open the county's observance of Ohio's sesquicentennial and will be held June 6 and 7. the owners of the houses have written the histories of their properties and told some of the interesting architectural points and the furnishings and other pieces which they contain. Proceeds of the ticket sale for the pilgrimage will go to the Clinton County Historical Society. The following is the story of the Thomas H. Swingley residence.)
Hostesses at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Swingley, on Route 73 east of Snow Hill Country club, for the New Vienna Pilgrimage of old houses will be the three daughters of the Swingleys, Mrs. E.W. Blanchard (Lillian Swingley), Mrs. George Martin (Suzanne Swingley) and Mrs. William J. Campbell (Jennie Swingley).
The flower arrangements will be made by the Snow Hill Garden Club, and placed in the home as Mrs. Swingley is a member of the club. Refreshments also will be served to the visitors by the club.
This Swingley home was built by Zephania Spears [1807-1898 – his first name also spelled as Zephaniah] in 1853. [This seems to contradict the 1953 headline about the house being 117 years old.] It was located about 200 yards from the point where Morgan Van Meter, the first settler of Clinton county found an unoccupied Indian wigwam. Here Van Meter built a double log cabin, the only one of its kind during that time and opened it to the public as a tavern, the first on any path or road leading from Chillicothe to Cincinnati.
Van Meter's was made a conspicious [sic] point in the road guide published in the Pittsburg [sic] almanac for the information and directions of traders by land from that that town to Cincinnati. It was said when they built the College township road, Van Meter gave the men generously from his whiskey jug to entice them to bring the road past his tavern. He succeeded.
Here Morgantown, the first settlement in Clinton county was laid out and named for Morgantown, Va., [now West Virginia] the native town of the Vat Meters'. It was plotted and laid out in 1816. There were but few houses built and it remained but a short time and was vacated. The Morgantown log church stood near the Morgantown cemetery which lies northeast of the Swingley residence.
Zephaniah Spears bought this farm in 1836 [117 years prior to this 1953 article] from John Van Meter, a son of Morgan Van Meter. He lived on this farm and worked as a blacksmith 10 years before he bought the place, Snow Hill was also a part of the William Tallifano Survey, the military land grand made by President John Adams in 1794 in accord with Congress to enable officers and soldiers of the Virginia line to obtain titles to certain lands lying northeast of the Ohio river between the Little Miami and Scioto. The land of 1,000 acres was granted to William Tallifano a lieutenant colonel of Vir- .... [Apparently a line(s) of this paragraph has been cut off.] . . . services of three years to the United States. This document signed by the President was given to Zephaniah Spears when he bought the place and is now property of the Snow Hill Country Club.
The walls of the brick part are four bricks in thickness. The floors are the original oak floors sanded and varnished.
Washington Spears, son of Zephaniah, added on the farm part of the house when he was the owner.
The interior is as it was built. The iron fence in front was put up at the same time. Zephaniah Spears gave $12.50 per acre for this farm to Van Meter. M. D. Swingley, the father of T. H. Swingley, purchased the farm from Washington Spears in 1898 and gave $56 per acres for it.
In the 117 years there have been just two families as owners, the Spears' and the Swingleys.
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Notes about the Swingley: Thomas H. Swingley 1889-1980, was the son of Michael Duroc Swingley 1843-1907, and Sarah Abigail Bernard Swingley 1864-1957. He married Florence Fenner 1891-1962, in 1911. They were the parents of five children:
Houses in the 1953 New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses include:
New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses –
Only Two Families Have Owned 117-Year Old Swingley House
Editor's Note: The New Vienna Pilgrimage of old houses will open the county's observance of Ohio's sesquicentennial and will be held June 6 and 7. the owners of the houses have written the histories of their properties and told some of the interesting architectural points and the furnishings and other pieces which they contain. Proceeds of the ticket sale for the pilgrimage will go to the Clinton County Historical Society. The following is the story of the Thomas H. Swingley residence.)
Hostesses at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Swingley, on Route 73 east of Snow Hill Country club, for the New Vienna Pilgrimage of old houses will be the three daughters of the Swingleys, Mrs. E.W. Blanchard (Lillian Swingley), Mrs. George Martin (Suzanne Swingley) and Mrs. William J. Campbell (Jennie Swingley).
The flower arrangements will be made by the Snow Hill Garden Club, and placed in the home as Mrs. Swingley is a member of the club. Refreshments also will be served to the visitors by the club.
This Swingley home was built by Zephania Spears [1807-1898 – his first name also spelled as Zephaniah] in 1853. [This seems to contradict the 1953 headline about the house being 117 years old.] It was located about 200 yards from the point where Morgan Van Meter, the first settler of Clinton county found an unoccupied Indian wigwam. Here Van Meter built a double log cabin, the only one of its kind during that time and opened it to the public as a tavern, the first on any path or road leading from Chillicothe to Cincinnati.
Van Meter's was made a conspicious [sic] point in the road guide published in the Pittsburg [sic] almanac for the information and directions of traders by land from that that town to Cincinnati. It was said when they built the College township road, Van Meter gave the men generously from his whiskey jug to entice them to bring the road past his tavern. He succeeded.
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GENERAL CASS in the conversation with one of our citizens, years ago, made inquiries about this early public home and said that having lain out all night in the woods a few miles northwest of the Van Meters' he was glad to find it in the morning in time for a late breakfast.
Here Morgantown, the first settlement in Clinton county was laid out and named for Morgantown, Va., [now West Virginia] the native town of the Vat Meters'. It was plotted and laid out in 1816. There were but few houses built and it remained but a short time and was vacated. The Morgantown log church stood near the Morgantown cemetery which lies northeast of the Swingley residence.
Zephaniah Spears bought this farm in 1836 [117 years prior to this 1953 article] from John Van Meter, a son of Morgan Van Meter. He lived on this farm and worked as a blacksmith 10 years before he bought the place, Snow Hill was also a part of the William Tallifano Survey, the military land grand made by President John Adams in 1794 in accord with Congress to enable officers and soldiers of the Virginia line to obtain titles to certain lands lying northeast of the Ohio river between the Little Miami and Scioto. The land of 1,000 acres was granted to William Tallifano a lieutenant colonel of Vir- .... [Apparently a line(s) of this paragraph has been cut off.] . . . services of three years to the United States. This document signed by the President was given to Zephaniah Spears when he bought the place and is now property of the Snow Hill Country Club.
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ZEPHANIAH Spears in 1853 built this large brick house which took the place of the Van Meter cabin. all the brick was burned on the place. The brick kiln was located over the knoll just north of the home. There were also two lime kilns on the place. All of the woodwork is of black walnut. It took one carpenter a year to make the woodwork as it is all made by hand. The building timber was cut on the farm and taken to Hooktown just above Snow Hill to the sawmill, brought back and dried on the farm. The sawmill was where Russell Caplinger now lives. It has been said that Mr. Spears hand picked all the brick for the outer surface of the house.The walls of the brick part are four bricks in thickness. The floors are the original oak floors sanded and varnished.
Washington Spears, son of Zephaniah, added on the farm part of the house when he was the owner.
The interior is as it was built. The iron fence in front was put up at the same time. Zephaniah Spears gave $12.50 per acre for this farm to Van Meter. M. D. Swingley, the father of T. H. Swingley, purchased the farm from Washington Spears in 1898 and gave $56 per acres for it.
In the 117 years there have been just two families as owners, the Spears' and the Swingleys.
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Notes about the Swingley: Thomas H. Swingley 1889-1980, was the son of Michael Duroc Swingley 1843-1907, and Sarah Abigail Bernard Swingley 1864-1957. He married Florence Fenner 1891-1962, in 1911. They were the parents of five children:
- Lillian Lucille Swingley Blanchard Morton 1912-2006, NVHS'1929. In 1981 she married Joe Morton (1913-1987, NVHS'31), son of former NV dentist, Lyle Morton and his wife Helen).
- Thomas H. Swingley Jr. 1914-2000, NVHS'34
- Sarah Edith Swingley who died as in infant in 1918
- Susanna "Suzanne" M. Swingley Martin 1924-2008, NVHS'41
- Jennie Carol Swingley Campbell 1926-2010, NVHS'44
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?)
- Charles Blackburn House built 1838
- Brown Home, possibly built by Isaac Woodmansee c1840
- Christy Home, Panhandle Road, c1850
- Carl West Colonial House built 1850
Monday, January 28, 2013
January News from the "3" Years
Old news from the New Vienna area in January of the "3" years.
1863, 1873 and 1883 news from the Highland Weekly News, published in Hillsboro, Ohio 1853-1886; 1893 news from the Hillsboro News-Herald. 1923, 1933 and 1953 Hillsboro newspapers are not available online, nor is the Wilmington News-Journal currently available online.
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January 22, 1863 - John Mathews, New Vienna, Clinton County, appointed Assistant Assessor of the U.S. Assessor's Office of the Sixth District. His territory is composed of the following Townships: Green, Clark, Washington, Marion, Vernon, Adams, and Jefferson.
January 30, 1873 - Dr. A.T. Johnson, of New Vienna, was in Hillsboro on Tuesday. He says they are still looking anxiously for the coming of the Southern Ohio R.R.
January 10, 1883 - Jacob Dove, an old and respected citizen of this county [Highland] died during the night of January 2nd. Upon retiring he was in his usual health, and was found dead the next morning. He was 66. [Born in New Jersey about 1817, he moved to Clinton County prior to 1840, and was responsible for the "Dove Addition" in New Vienna which ran along Pearl St, south of SR-73 and was platted in 1856.]
January 10, 1883 - Telephone connection is now complete with New Vienna, New Antioch, Wilmington, and from there to Sabina. See previous blog post Early Telephone Service to New Vienna.
January 17, 1883 - Dr. Lindley, of New Vienna spent a couple of days here [Leesburg] looking after his business interests.
January 17, 1883 - Mr. Cal. Baum, of New Vienna, has accepted a position as traveling salesman for the wholesale notion house of Louis Wald & Co., of Cincinnati. Mr. Baum is an excellent business man and will prove a valuable acquisition to any house with which he is connected. [Calbert Baum, 1852-? is listed in the 1880 census as a New Vienna grain merchant. He was the son of Henry and Elizabeth Ann Terrell Baum.]
January 17, 1883 - R.E. Porter of New Vienna pens a response to an article on "Farmers' Boys" about whether young men should stay on the farm.
January 24, 1883 - Dr. A.T. Johnson and wife, of New Vienna, intend taking a trip to Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas, visiting Hot springs and Galveston for their health, and expect to be gone about two months.
January 19, 1893 - Eight couples from Hillsboro sleigh-rode to New Vienna and enjoyed a supper and dance at the Harrison House before returning home.
1903 Jan 7 - Dr. R.T. Trimble of New Vienna is a member of a committee recently appointed at the meeting of the Associated Charities of the state, on crippled and deformed children. "Plans and methods for the founding of an institution for the cure and benefit of this class of people are being discussed." --The Marion Star (Marion, Ohio) 7Jan1903p3
January 11, 1953 - Gary Boldman, teacher at New Vienna school, married Donna Myers on Dec. 31, 1952, in Wilmington. [Coshocton Ohio Tribune]
January 25, 1953 - George M. Neffner, long time merchant and resident of New Vienna, former Ohio state Statistician 1927-1940, and Ohio Secretary of State, 1940-41, died on Jan. 23, 1953. [Elyria Chronicle Tribune] [He married Olive West c1901, and had three children who graduated from NVHS. George Jr. in 1921, Dorothy Hayes in 1927, and Howard in 1928. Neffners lived in the house across from the school on the NW corner of 2nd & College which was later the residence of the Bob and Joellen Rulon Streber family.]
1863, 1873 and 1883 news from the Highland Weekly News, published in Hillsboro, Ohio 1853-1886; 1893 news from the Hillsboro News-Herald. 1923, 1933 and 1953 Hillsboro newspapers are not available online, nor is the Wilmington News-Journal currently available online.
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January 22, 1863 - John Mathews, New Vienna, Clinton County, appointed Assistant Assessor of the U.S. Assessor's Office of the Sixth District. His territory is composed of the following Townships: Green, Clark, Washington, Marion, Vernon, Adams, and Jefferson.
January 30, 1873 - Dr. A.T. Johnson, of New Vienna, was in Hillsboro on Tuesday. He says they are still looking anxiously for the coming of the Southern Ohio R.R.
January 10, 1883 - Jacob Dove, an old and respected citizen of this county [Highland] died during the night of January 2nd. Upon retiring he was in his usual health, and was found dead the next morning. He was 66. [Born in New Jersey about 1817, he moved to Clinton County prior to 1840, and was responsible for the "Dove Addition" in New Vienna which ran along Pearl St, south of SR-73 and was platted in 1856.]
January 10, 1883 - Telephone connection is now complete with New Vienna, New Antioch, Wilmington, and from there to Sabina. See previous blog post Early Telephone Service to New Vienna.
January 17, 1883 - Dr. Lindley, of New Vienna spent a couple of days here [Leesburg] looking after his business interests.
January 17, 1883 - Mr. Cal. Baum, of New Vienna, has accepted a position as traveling salesman for the wholesale notion house of Louis Wald & Co., of Cincinnati. Mr. Baum is an excellent business man and will prove a valuable acquisition to any house with which he is connected. [Calbert Baum, 1852-? is listed in the 1880 census as a New Vienna grain merchant. He was the son of Henry and Elizabeth Ann Terrell Baum.]
January 17, 1883 - R.E. Porter of New Vienna pens a response to an article on "Farmers' Boys" about whether young men should stay on the farm.
January 24, 1883 - Dr. A.T. Johnson and wife, of New Vienna, intend taking a trip to Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas, visiting Hot springs and Galveston for their health, and expect to be gone about two months.
January 19, 1893 - Eight couples from Hillsboro sleigh-rode to New Vienna and enjoyed a supper and dance at the Harrison House before returning home.
1903 Jan 7 - Dr. R.T. Trimble of New Vienna is a member of a committee recently appointed at the meeting of the Associated Charities of the state, on crippled and deformed children. "Plans and methods for the founding of an institution for the cure and benefit of this class of people are being discussed." --The Marion Star (Marion, Ohio) 7Jan1903p3
January 11, 1953 - Gary Boldman, teacher at New Vienna school, married Donna Myers on Dec. 31, 1952, in Wilmington. [Coshocton Ohio Tribune]
January 25, 1953 - George M. Neffner, long time merchant and resident of New Vienna, former Ohio state Statistician 1927-1940, and Ohio Secretary of State, 1940-41, died on Jan. 23, 1953. [Elyria Chronicle Tribune] [He married Olive West c1901, and had three children who graduated from NVHS. George Jr. in 1921, Dorothy Hayes in 1927, and Howard in 1928. Neffners lived in the house across from the school on the NW corner of 2nd & College which was later the residence of the Bob and Joellen Rulon Streber family.]
Saturday, January 19, 2013
1953 Hillyard Farm - Paul Terrell Family home
Second in a series of articles about The New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses continues in spring 1953. Transcription follows.
Several other pieces which will be of interest to antique-lovers include chairs, drop leaf tables, chests, cherry china cabinet, four-poster bed, and an inlaid desk which several competent judges have declared to be a choice piece of early furniture.
In addition to the various pieces and furnishings to be seen at any time at Hillyard Farm there will be two collections loaned for the occasion and of surpassing interest. Mrs. Robert Metcalf of Columbus, will bring her collection of fans to be on display Sunday. Mrs. Frances Dobbs, of Indianapolis, will bring her collection of old and unusual ink wells and they may be seen on both days of the pilgrimage.
The following will be hostesses: Mrs. Harold [Garnet] Fisher, Mrs. Charles [Virginia] Hildebrant, Mrs. Elmer [Eva?] Southerland, Mrs. Howard [Hazel] Penn, Miss Geneva Johnson, Mrs. Arthur McCoy [Eva] and Miss Janet Terrell, daughter in the family.
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Another house in the New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses was posted under "Historic Hause House, built 1874," and featured a picture of Charlotte Pugsley Hause. The Hause article, about the house on Bernard Road near Huffman Ave. could have been titled differently. The house was owned by the Hines family from 1874-1917, the Elmer Pages 1917-1942, Wilbur Huffmans 1942-1952, and the Hauses in the 1950s.
Other houses part of the 1953 New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses yet to be featured include:
Captioned: This fine old desk, circa 1700, stands in the dining room of the Terrell residence, Hillyard Farm, and is one of the many pieces of elegance and charm housed there. (News-Journal Photo).
New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses –
[From the Wilmington News-Journal, Spring 1953 – copied from an undated clipping at the Clinton County Historical Society.]
Hillyard Farm Rich in Old Furniture
Terrell Family Has Owned House for 40 Years
(Editors Note: The New Vienna Pilgrimage of old houses will open the county’s observance of Ohio’s sesquicentennial and will be held June 6 and 7 [1953]. The owners of the houses have written the histories of their properties and told some of the interesting architectural points and the furnishings and other pieces which they contain. Proceeds of the ticket sale for the pilgrimage will go to the Clinton County Historical Society. The following is the story of the Paul Terrell residence.)
Hillyard Farm located one mile northeast of New Vienna on the highest elevation in Clinton county (1,197 feet), has been in possession of the Terrell family for 40 years, having been purchased from the Posegate family who had owned it nearly a century. The original deeds are not recorded, but it is mentioned in one deed that the Posegate family purchased at least part of the land from the Clevenger family, who with Abner and Morgan Van Meter were considered to be the earliest settlers of this county.
Earliest records available state that Abner Van Meter and S. Clevenger resided on this land. There have been at least three other houses on this farm as evidenced by the broken chimney brick, glass and chinaware.
An overflowing spring located at present within the farm pond, was used by wild animals as a source of water and they in turn were used for food by Indian bands. This fact is proven by the large numbers of arrowheads and other stone implements which have been found around this area from time to time. Many of these Indian relics are in perfect condition.
This house, like many others, is a combination of the old and the more modern. The old Posegate house was L-shaped and the L has been filled in to make a square. The two front rooms and the dining room are the original parts of the house.
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THE HOME is furnished with several antiques, a number of which are family heirlooms. In this group will be found a grandfather clock which has been in the family for five generations. It was first known to be a wall - sweep, having later been put in its present case. The case for this clock and a large bookcase also in the home were both made out of walnut logs taken from the first Friends meeting house which stood just north of New Vienna. The land and logs for this meeting house were donated by Micajah Nordyke, the great-great-grandfather of the present owner of the clock. Nordyke came to Ohio from Tennessee in 1806.
Several other pieces which will be of interest to antique-lovers include chairs, drop leaf tables, chests, cherry china cabinet, four-poster bed, and an inlaid desk which several competent judges have declared to be a choice piece of early furniture.
In addition to the various pieces and furnishings to be seen at any time at Hillyard Farm there will be two collections loaned for the occasion and of surpassing interest. Mrs. Robert Metcalf of Columbus, will bring her collection of fans to be on display Sunday. Mrs. Frances Dobbs, of Indianapolis, will bring her collection of old and unusual ink wells and they may be seen on both days of the pilgrimage.
The following will be hostesses: Mrs. Harold [Garnet] Fisher, Mrs. Charles [Virginia] Hildebrant, Mrs. Elmer [Eva?] Southerland, Mrs. Howard [Hazel] Penn, Miss Geneva Johnson, Mrs. Arthur McCoy [Eva] and Miss Janet Terrell, daughter in the family.
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Another house in the New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses was posted under "Historic Hause House, built 1874," and featured a picture of Charlotte Pugsley Hause. The Hause article, about the house on Bernard Road near Huffman Ave. could have been titled differently. The house was owned by the Hines family from 1874-1917, the Elmer Pages 1917-1942, Wilbur Huffmans 1942-1952, and the Hauses in the 1950s.
Other houses part of the 1953 New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses yet to be featured include:
- Carl West Colonial House built 1850
- T.H. Swingley House built 1837
- Brown Home, possibly built by Isaac Woodmansee c1840
- Charles Blackburn House built 1838
- Christy Home, Panhandle Road, c1850
Monday, January 7, 2013
Early Telephone Service to New Vienna
The Highland Weekly News (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) of
January 10, 1883 reports - Telephone connection is now complete with New Vienna, New Antioch, Wilmington, and from there to Sabina. Partial transcription follows.Telephone Talk
Telephone connection is now complete with New Vienna, New Antioch, and Wilmington, and from there to Sabina.
Mr. Cooper expects to have the line open to Cincinnati by to-day, and also to Greenfield, by way of Lexington [Highland] and Leesburg, by next Monday.
Wilmington Station is No. 53, Cincinnati No. 54, and Greenfield No. 55.
A public telephone station has been provided for at the Exchange Office in this city, and Mr. Cooper requests all parties who are not subscribers to the Telephone Co., wishing to use the wires, to call there and transmit their messages, as subscribers will be charged for all messages sent through their instruments to points outside of this city.
The ticket books, costing $5 and $10 and containing $6.25 and $12.50 worth of coupons, will be ready some time this week. The following is a scale of rates to be charged between the different points named. There may be a reduction in them soon to regular customers of the telephone company.
...cash rates between all points connected by the lines of the Central, Western or Midland Telephone Companies, but will not be good to points on connecting lines partly owned by other parties, which are marked with a star. [Cuba]
Where parties call for a connection and are unable to raise the station called for, no charge will be made, but if the station answers the call it will have to be paid for whether the party calling gets the individual he wants or not. He will have to transact his business with whoever he gets, or pay for a second connection.
Five minutes time will be allowed for each message.
The following is the rate
....from Hillsboro to New Vienna. . . . 25[¢]
[also same rate to NV from Greenfield and Leesburg
Telephone Exchange c1910 New Vienna Ohio. Image Courtesy of Hayward Crone via Mike Whited.
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A news item in the News-Herald (Hillsboro, Ohio) of February 11, 1904 reports that in a terrific wind storm, of almost cyclonic proportion, the Careytown telephone exchange building was moved ten feet from the foundation, twisted, and will have to be town down.
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Clinton Telephone Company - Wilmington and New Vienna Ohio - Stationary 1911. Image Courtesy of Hayward Crone via Mike Whited. Donald Carey (married Gladys Pemberton), to whom this letter is addressed, was a member of the NVHS Class of 1913.
The letter written on the reverse side of the stationary is from a young lady (signed H.Wright) who evidently wasn't sure whether she was in love with Donald or not, mentions his reputation – quite interesting, but has nothing to do with the telephone company other than she worked there.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
1973 Lions Club Youth Exchange
The New Vienna Lions Club hosted an exchange student from Brazil in January 1973. Transcription follows.
Miss Angela Costa of Sete Lagos, Minas Gerais, Brazil presents the flag of her fathers Sete Lagos Lions Club to Dr. A. W. Hause who is the chairman of the New Vienna Lions Club Youth Exchange Committee.
Miss Costa is one of 10 Brazilian youth who are presently visiting in Ohio under the auspices of the Lions Club. Her cousin Yara Dias is the guest of the Lloyd Caldwell family of Martinsville. The Harold Uible family of New Vienna is the host family for Miss Costa.
The youths will be in this area for four weeks before leaving for Texas for a like period. They will then visit Disney World en route to Brazil.
The New Vienna Club also enjoyed seeing picture of Tiawan [sic], Vietnam and Okinawa which were shown by John Cooper whose son and wife are living in Okinawa.
The Club's February meeting will be adult male guest night and the committee in charge is Stanley Fawley, John Hughes, Dr. Hause, Raymond Smith, Jerome Walker, and Carl West.
1973 - Lions Club Youth Exchange program hosts Angela Costa from Brazil. Pictured are Angela and Dr. A.W. Hause of New Vienna, Ohio. - Wilmington News-Journ
Brazil Lions Club Flag
Miss Costa is one of 10 Brazilian youth who are presently visiting in Ohio under the auspices of the Lions Club. Her cousin Yara Dias is the guest of the Lloyd Caldwell family of Martinsville. The Harold Uible family of New Vienna is the host family for Miss Costa.
The youths will be in this area for four weeks before leaving for Texas for a like period. They will then visit Disney World en route to Brazil.
The New Vienna Club also enjoyed seeing picture of Tiawan [sic], Vietnam and Okinawa which were shown by John Cooper whose son and wife are living in Okinawa.
The Club's February meeting will be adult male guest night and the committee in charge is Stanley Fawley, John Hughes, Dr. Hause, Raymond Smith, Jerome Walker, and Carl West.
Friday, December 28, 2012
December News from the "2" years
Old news from the New Vienna area in December of the "2" years.
1862 and 1882 news from the Highland Weekly News, published in Hillsboro, Ohio 1853-1886; 1892 and 1912 news from the Hillsboro News-Herald; 1902 from the Stark County Democrat; 1942 & 1952 news from Hillsboro's Press Gazette. 1922 and 1932 newspapers do not seem to be readily available online, or is the Wilmington News-Journal currently available.
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December 25, 1862 - Capt. Asa Higgins, of New Vienna, recently commanding Co. G, 11th Ohio, now in Western Virginia, has been promoted to the position of Major of that regiment. Capt. Higgins formerly resided in Hillsboro.
December 6, 1882 - James H. Terrill [Terrell?], a prominent farmer and stock dealer of New Vienna, was in town [Greenfield] on Thursday.
December 27, 1882 - Miss Emma Morrow, who has been teaching near New Vienna is at home in Leesburg spending the holiday vacation at the residence of her father, Judge Morrow.
December 27, 1882 - Mr. Alexander Powell, who lives about three miles north west of New Lexington [Highland] died on Saturday evening last [Dec. 23]. He took ill only on the Tuesday preceding. He leaves a wife and two children.
December 8, 1892 - Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Pittser, of New Vienna, spent Sunday with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. L.S. Pittser of Lynchburg.
December 15, 1892 - Mr. E.P. West, of New Vienna, a successful teacher and school examiner of Clinton County, will have many good points to give teachers [during a holiday institute for teachers of Highland County]. According to further news in the Dec. 29, 1892 issue, Mr. West, Supt. of Schools in New Vienna, will focus on Grammar and History during the institute. He is also a member of the State School Book Board. [He served as Supt. at NV from 1887-1901.]
December 22, 1892 - Real Estate Transfer - J.H. Guthrie, trustee for the New Vienna Bank, to P.D. Matthews and other councilmen of Leesburg, part of in-lot 238 in Leesburg, $45.
December 29, 1892 - Mayor's Court - Charles Smith, of New Vienna, came over on Saturday [Dec. 24] to purchase a larger sized Christmas jag than he could procure in New Vienna. He succeeded in getting a larger one than he had means of transportation for and couldn't get out of town with it. He got [fined] $5 and accompaniments.
December 2, 1902 - "Some of our citizens have quit going to Midland to purchase fire water, and are now having it shipped from New Vienna. –Kelso Herald."
December 12, 1912 - Carlos Simpson and family will move to New Vienna [from Lynchburg] this week where he will clerk in the Hadley store.
December 26, 1912 - Marriage license issued for Arland [Orland?] Polk, of New Vienna, and Susan Mason of Hillsboro.
December 1, 1942 - Rites for Soldier - Funeral service for Clarence W. Yarger, 20, of near Highland, who died Friday morning [Nov. 27, 1942] at the home of his parents while home on furlough from the Army, were held on Monday [Nov. 30, 1942]. He was found in the barn at the home of his parents, lying near the exhaust pipe of the car. He is survived by his parents, one brother, Dorsie Yarger, Cincinnati, and one sister, Mrs. Chester G. [Opal] Ledford of New Vienna.
December 9, 1952 - New Vienna Wins - New Vienna's powerful basketball team, paced by Dale Cluxton's 36 points, swamped Blanchester at NV on Friday night, 102 to 40. Jim Turner had 32 points for the winner.
December 30, 1952 - Etta Treftz, youngest and last surviving of nine siblings, daughter of Nathan and Amy McDaniel Gilbert, long-time New Vienna family, died on December 24 in Lynchburg.
1862 and 1882 news from the Highland Weekly News, published in Hillsboro, Ohio 1853-1886; 1892 and 1912 news from the Hillsboro News-Herald; 1902 from the Stark County Democrat; 1942 & 1952 news from Hillsboro's Press Gazette. 1922 and 1932 newspapers do not seem to be readily available online, or is the Wilmington News-Journal currently available.
* * * * *
December 25, 1862 - Capt. Asa Higgins, of New Vienna, recently commanding Co. G, 11th Ohio, now in Western Virginia, has been promoted to the position of Major of that regiment. Capt. Higgins formerly resided in Hillsboro.
December 6, 1882 - James H. Terrill [Terrell?], a prominent farmer and stock dealer of New Vienna, was in town [Greenfield] on Thursday.
December 27, 1882 - Miss Emma Morrow, who has been teaching near New Vienna is at home in Leesburg spending the holiday vacation at the residence of her father, Judge Morrow.
December 27, 1882 - Mr. Alexander Powell, who lives about three miles north west of New Lexington [Highland] died on Saturday evening last [Dec. 23]. He took ill only on the Tuesday preceding. He leaves a wife and two children.
December 8, 1892 - Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Pittser, of New Vienna, spent Sunday with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. L.S. Pittser of Lynchburg.
December 15, 1892 - Mr. E.P. West, of New Vienna, a successful teacher and school examiner of Clinton County, will have many good points to give teachers [during a holiday institute for teachers of Highland County]. According to further news in the Dec. 29, 1892 issue, Mr. West, Supt. of Schools in New Vienna, will focus on Grammar and History during the institute. He is also a member of the State School Book Board. [He served as Supt. at NV from 1887-1901.]
December 22, 1892 - Real Estate Transfer - J.H. Guthrie, trustee for the New Vienna Bank, to P.D. Matthews and other councilmen of Leesburg, part of in-lot 238 in Leesburg, $45.
December 29, 1892 - Mayor's Court - Charles Smith, of New Vienna, came over on Saturday [Dec. 24] to purchase a larger sized Christmas jag than he could procure in New Vienna. He succeeded in getting a larger one than he had means of transportation for and couldn't get out of town with it. He got [fined] $5 and accompaniments.
December 2, 1902 - "Some of our citizens have quit going to Midland to purchase fire water, and are now having it shipped from New Vienna. –Kelso Herald."
December 12, 1912 - Carlos Simpson and family will move to New Vienna [from Lynchburg] this week where he will clerk in the Hadley store.
December 26, 1912 - Marriage license issued for Arland [Orland?] Polk, of New Vienna, and Susan Mason of Hillsboro.
December 1, 1942 - Rites for Soldier - Funeral service for Clarence W. Yarger, 20, of near Highland, who died Friday morning [Nov. 27, 1942] at the home of his parents while home on furlough from the Army, were held on Monday [Nov. 30, 1942]. He was found in the barn at the home of his parents, lying near the exhaust pipe of the car. He is survived by his parents, one brother, Dorsie Yarger, Cincinnati, and one sister, Mrs. Chester G. [Opal] Ledford of New Vienna.
December 9, 1952 - New Vienna Wins - New Vienna's powerful basketball team, paced by Dale Cluxton's 36 points, swamped Blanchester at NV on Friday night, 102 to 40. Jim Turner had 32 points for the winner.
December 30, 1952 - Etta Treftz, youngest and last surviving of nine siblings, daughter of Nathan and Amy McDaniel Gilbert, long-time New Vienna family, died on December 24 in Lynchburg.
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
1972 Philmont Scout Ranch
In July 1972 a group of Boy Scouts from New Vienna headed west to Philmont Ranch in New Mexico. The clipping is transcribed below. Postcards written by HH from Philmont Ranch can be found at this link: http://uible.blogspot.com/search?q=Philmont+postcard+ranch. John Uible had intended to go with this group but instead took his "vacation" in the Cincinnati hospital suffering from typhoid fever following a trip to Mexico.
Philmont Scout Ranch, Cimarron, New Mexico - July 1972 - Ben Mathews, Mark Young, Brian Smith, Jim Bernard, Kevin Croghan, Dale Hertlein, Jim Mongold, HH Uible & ranger, Robbie Smith. Photo taken by Gene Williams.
Local Scouts At Philmont Ranch
As Reported by ROBERT N. SMITH
Early Monday morning, eight intrepid Scouts and their two leaders left New Vienna in preparation for high adventure at Philmont Scout Ranch, Cimarron, New Mexico.
This expedition, representing the Tecumseh Council, Boy Scouts of America, consists of the following Scouts and their leaders: Jim Bernard, Kevin Croghan, Dale Hertlein, Jim Mongold, Brian Smith, Mark Young, Harold Uible, Gene Williams and Robert Smith.
Traveling by way of two cars, the group sped across Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri; spending the night in Kansas City, Kansas.
Traveling across the rolling hills of Kansas Tuesday, the expedition moved on through the panhandle of Oklahoma and into the one of Texas. The two-car caravan came to rest at a park outside of Dalhart. Wednesday morning's drive took the Scouts into New Mexico and at 10:30 tey pulled in to the 347,000 acre Philmont Scout Ranch.
While driving out the group visited several roadside parks with historical backgrounds, as well as the Eisenhower Memorial in Abilene, Kansas, and Capulin Mountain, an extinct volcano now a national monument in Capulin, New Mexico.
Sunday, December 23, 2012
1942 VIENNA VIEWPOINTS - Dec. 3
Vol III, No. 3, December 3, 1942 issue of the Vienna Viewpoints. The dark paper makes it difficult to read but probably made it stand out from the otherwise boring white paper in more general use. Anybody have experience typing stencils or running mimeograph machines? First and last page of this 8 page school newsletter (2 - 8.5x14 pages folded in half) are pictured below.
Bede's must have been the local hang out. Married names of women added in brackets if known. Please send additions, corrections, or additional information if known. Transcription of all pages follows.
Ever since its beginning two years ago, the New Vienna Viewpoints has been distributed free to all the students. Many just seem to take this for granted. "Charge for the Viewpoints! ridiculous" – that seems to be the attitude of most of the students; but many of the schools in this county do sell their papers to the students. In fact, this was discussed as a method of helping finance the Viewpoints this year. However, due to the splendid way in which the merchants of New Vienna have cooperated, this has not been necessary. Three cheers for the friends of New Vienna School –– the merchants who patronize the Viewpoints. –M.L.
[Page 2]
Editor - Melvin Long
Ass't Editors - Aleda Purtee, Calvin Smith
Athletics - Bill Chestnut
Business Manager - Harold Uible
Ass't Bus. Manager - Shirley Chaney
Circulation - Philip Levo
Reporters - Virginia Wayland [Rulon], Georgiana Lacy, Wilma Stanfield, Sally Lafferty, Johan Thompson, Joellen Rulon [Streber]
Typist - Barbara Penn [Nash]
Do you know that you can purchase one-half pint of milk in our school lunch room for one cent? Yes, that is right, one cent. That price is made possible by the cooperation of the lunch room and the U.S. Government. This milk may be had without the purchase of a lunch.
*****
BUY WAR STAMPS AND BONDS TODAY
*****
She returned his glances unopened.
*****
We all hope for the day when the isms will be wasms.
*****
He wore the class colors of the school of experience – black and blue.
*****
Epitaph for a dog: His tail still wags in my heart.
*****
Our country cottage. Five rooms and a path.
*****
NOTICE: Dec. 4 Wayne - Homecoming; Dec. 8 Schoolmasters Meeting at Wil.; Dec. 11 - Alumni, here.
CAN YOU IMAGINE –––
Harry Allen not having his lessons prepared?
Bill Preston coming to school on time?
Calvin Smith not having anything to do?
Barbara Penn being quiet in the study hall?
Joellen Rulon without her smile?
NOW CAN YOU IMAGINE –––
Virginia Wayland [Rulon] talking without the use of her hands?
Harold Uible with no money in his pockets?
Wanda Wayland at Bede's without Lawrence Newbrey?
Evelyn Roush not in the mood for fighting?
Georgiana Lacy without a boy friend?
Jean Rachford [Barrett] without her smile?
Carol Lou Bohl [Allen] not having a show to tell about?
Bill Lamar and Junior Morris with all their lessons prepared?
Shirley Chaney without her braids?
Melvin Long without his red shirt?
Mr. Fenwick with nothing to do?
John Lafferty not having anything to talk about?
Jane Selph [Fauber] being in a hurry?
Miss Abernathy getting mad?
[Page 3]
The Reesville game was probably the best game played on our floor for many years. The game was hard fought all the way. In the first minute and a half, Reesville racked up two field goals. This caught us some what off guard but we immediately came back with a goal of our own. And so it went – the lead going back and forth until the third quarter. There we became nervous and Reesville scored two more goals which they held for the duration of the game. The final score was Reesville 28, New Vienna 24.
The Bengals fared better in their game with Reesville's second string. The final score for that game Bengals 18, Reesville 8.
Our game with Jefferson is one of which we are very much ashamed. They seemed to lose heads completely. We threw the ball away and when we did have it we could not make our shots. Levo and Preston were the only two boys on the floor who looked like they were playing basketball. The Bengals also lost their game.
This coming Friday, December 4, we play our Homecoming Game with Wayne. I hope everyone can manage to be there for it will be an occasion of which we are proud.
The Co-Captains, Lawrence Newbrey and Earl Roush, will escort our Queen, Jenny Swingley onto the floor. Newbrey and Roush will be Co-Captains of the year and I know that they will do their best for the team.
*****
A young theologian named Fiddle
Refused to accept his degree,
For, said he, it's enough to be Fiddle
Without being Fiddle, D.D.
*****
AD – SUN KING COAL $5.75 per ton at the Farm Bureau Coop As'sn. Phone 2791
AD – BOYDS VARIETY STORE - toys and small gifts - New Vienna, Ohio. Phone 2582
[Page 4]
Mrs. Goodrich is a graduate of Ohio University in Athens. Last year she taught first grade at Otterbein Home. Mrs. Goodrich, who lives in Sabina has always taught the lower two grades, and this experience makes her well qualified for her work here.
Mrs. Simmons also graduated at Ohio University. She did supplementary work at at Ohio State University, then accepted a position in Greenfield schools where she taught ten- and eleven-year-olds for a number of years. Thus, she too, has invaluable experience which will serve our sixth grade well. Mrs. Simmons lives near New Vienna.
We might add that both of our new faculty members have found New Vienna to be a very good school, and we sincerely hope that they will continue to like it. We know that we have in them two efficient teachers.
AD – ANNOUNCING - The opening of your new Pure Oil Store in New Vienna and to commemorate the rationing of gasoline, we are making you this special offer: "GAS, FOUR GALLONS FOR A QUARTER" WITH YOUR FIRST RATIONING COUPON. See us for your Anti-Freeze, Thermo-Royal non-rust, no poisonous fumes, ceiling price $1.40 per gallon. OUR PRICE $1.10. C.J. and Harold H. Uible, Props. Be SURE with PURE
[Page 5]
"This is terrible," he roared, "In my business we demand and get perfection. We should expect nothing less in these schools."
"What is your business?" meekly inquired another member.
"I manufacture kid gloves – and we get perfection."
"Yes," replied the superintendent, "but in your business you can pick the kids."
The meeting was adjourned.
AD – FRESH BEEF AND PORK - STREBER & SONS' THRIFT "E" MARKET
AD – CARTER'S ENGINEERING CO. NEW VIENNA, OHIO
AD – HOME KILLED MEATS - NEW VIENNA MEAT MARKET
[Page 6]
Well, we are all back from our vacation. We all enjoyed ourselves. Everybody got their tanks filled with gas so that they can come to the Homecoming Friday night.
Shirley Chaney, R.B. Smith, Marilyn Sayre, Evelyn Roush, Elizabeth Sayre [Nixon], and Jenny Carol Swingley went bowling at Hillsboro Friday evening. Bobby Runk and Bill Seltzer went hunting Monday evening and came back with a skunk and a muskrat, and as a result were chased out of Bede's. Georgiana Lacy spent Wednesday evening and Thursday with Wanda Wayland and they attended the show Thursday night. Kathleen Stevenson [Levo] spent Friday night and Saturday in Dayton.
*****
FRESHMEN NEWS
If you should have happened to pass the English room Wednesday, November 25, you might have been bewildered by the actions taking place inside. You see, instead of having regular written assignment for homework, we all prepared pantomimes Some of us imitated people eating, sleeping, talking, and even walking. If you happen to pass the English room some second period don' get alarmed, we're probably just pantomiming again.
*****
GRADE SEVEN
We seventh graders are waiting anxiously for the Homecoming game Friday night. Also the band which is going to play Friday night for several seventh graders are members of it. They are: Joellen Rulon [Streber], Donald Hite, Billy Huffman, Glenn Bernard, Harold Thornburg, Eugene Prickett. Our class received credit for selling $1028.80 worth of War Bonds and Stamps.
AD – SAYRES QUALITY STORE - WHITE VILLA & HONEY GROVE FOOD, NEW VIENNA, OHIO
AD – OFFICIAL TIRE INSPECTION. HEAD QUARTERS THOMPSON-RULON, NEW VIENNA, OHIO
[Page 7]
*****
GRADE SIX
We are taking down our Thanksgiving decorations and are replacing them with Christmas decorations. We are going to draw and color maps of Australia for geography. We are glad to have Mrs. Simmons for our teacher.
*****
GRADE FIVE
We fifth graders are looking forward to Christmas and because it is getting so close, we are trying to be very good little boys and girls. We are planning to have some kind of a Christmas party. As yet our plans are rather indefinite.
We are doing our part in buying war stamps. Several of us already have our books which we are filling.
We are now starting our new reader, "The Friendly Hour." We enjoy its stories very much. In arithmetic we are struggling along with fractions. Quoting one certain little girl who always asks questions until she understands, "I like them after I get on to them."
*****
GRADE FOUR
We enjoyed our vacations very much and now are all looking forward to Christmas. There were 5 boys and 3 girls in our room who were neither absent nor tardy this six weeks' period. In music class, we are learning patriotic songs which we like very much.
*****
GRADE THREE
Everyone had a very nice Thanksgiving vacation We are sorry to lose Donald Berling. Donald is moving to Washington C.H. Evelyn Lee Orebaugh has entered our room from Greenfield School.
During the two Tuesdays in which our room has bought War Stamps, we have bough $34.65 worth. We feel quite proud of this and hope to do even better.
*****
GRADE TWO
We are having a lot of fun decorating our room for Xmas. We are working very hard trying to learn our sounds. We want to be better readers. We have a new boy in our room. His name is Virgil Caplinger.
•••••
BUY WAR STAMPS AND BONDS TODAY! BUY MORE AND MORE OF THEM!
[Page 8]
Your old chaperuins are at it again! Please let us borrow your ears for a few minutes and we'll tell you all the latest gossip, dirt, etc. etc. that floats about school.
We all oughta help keep up the moral [sic] of the armed forces! Yessiree! and Thelma Rhonemus really knows how.... We don't see how he gets any fighting done writing all those letters to her and reading hers.... The Stevenson residence seems to be a very popular spot any more what with all these gay young blades calling there.... For further details see Kathleen.
Bruce Kinzer and Mabel Current are currently hitting it off. What's the matter, Prickett?... Our old pals Wanda Wayland and Lawrence Newbrey, Georgiana Lacy and Bill Seltzer (besides John Hamilton and a few others) are still going strong.... We hear that Joe Hartsock spent most of his Thanksgiving vacation at New Vienna and Barbara went to Columbus Sunday....Shirley was seen going places with Oris [Minzler] Tuesday night... Something new has been added, eh what? .... Since the class play wasn't enough, Wanda and Lawrence, John and Georgiana, and Johnny Workman and Barbara, Bob and Virginia, (a new member of our little family?) went to Hillsboro afterwards...The Sunday night troop included those mentioned above with the exclusion of Barbara and Johnny (couldn't find out where she went) and the addition of Bruce and Mabel, Shirley and Junior Custis, who went to the Colony.....Janet Rulon [Cluxton] and Douglas Boris seem to be getting along all right....almost as good as Johan Thompson and Donald Wisecup, who were seen Tuesday night enjoying the lunar spectacle..... (did you say that?) .....Faymon Woods and Linda Lafferty still make a good couple...no fights yet. We found out that Gretchen Fullerton [Huffman] promised Billy Huffman a kiss if we won the Jefferson game....He got cheated that time but Bill thinks maybe the offer holds good for tomorrow night...We wonder if the rationing board will give Stacy a "C" card to come to see Miss Hull?.....Things seem to be running smoothly so far....We wonder if –––– ho, hum!!! What do we wonder? I guess we-uns had better run along, Anna....This is no way for us back-bage specialists to be settin' at home, when we've got work to do..Anyway it's about time for respectable persons (that ain't us) to retire...if they can get a priority rating! So long!
Bede's must have been the local hang out. Married names of women added in brackets if known. Please send additions, corrections, or additional information if known. Transcription of all pages follows.
Vienna Viewpoints Dec. 3, 1942
New Vienna Ohio school newsletter
Vienna Viewpoints
Vol. III, No. 3 December 3, 1942
A TRIBUTE TO OUR PATRONS
"Advertisers, O yes, those are the people that take up so much space in the paper." Did you ever consider that it is the advertisers who make papers possible? This applies to the Vienna Viewpoints just as much as to any other paper. When the average student finds an advertisement, he is apt to give it a hasty glance and continue his search for more interesting reading; but advertisements are just as interesting as any other feature of the Viewpoints. While Vi and Anna may be intensely exciting and the editorials dry, with the various other news features ranging somewhere between, none of these would be possible if it weren't for the advertisers. Ever since its beginning two years ago, the New Vienna Viewpoints has been distributed free to all the students. Many just seem to take this for granted. "Charge for the Viewpoints! ridiculous" – that seems to be the attitude of most of the students; but many of the schools in this county do sell their papers to the students. In fact, this was discussed as a method of helping finance the Viewpoints this year. However, due to the splendid way in which the merchants of New Vienna have cooperated, this has not been necessary. Three cheers for the friends of New Vienna School –– the merchants who patronize the Viewpoints. –M.L.
[Page 2]
Editor - Melvin Long
Ass't Editors - Aleda Purtee, Calvin Smith
Athletics - Bill Chestnut
Business Manager - Harold Uible
Ass't Bus. Manager - Shirley Chaney
Circulation - Philip Levo
Reporters - Virginia Wayland [Rulon], Georgiana Lacy, Wilma Stanfield, Sally Lafferty, Johan Thompson, Joellen Rulon [Streber]
Typist - Barbara Penn [Nash]
Do you know that you can purchase one-half pint of milk in our school lunch room for one cent? Yes, that is right, one cent. That price is made possible by the cooperation of the lunch room and the U.S. Government. This milk may be had without the purchase of a lunch.
*****
BUY WAR STAMPS AND BONDS TODAY
*****
She returned his glances unopened.
*****
We all hope for the day when the isms will be wasms.
*****
He wore the class colors of the school of experience – black and blue.
*****
Epitaph for a dog: His tail still wags in my heart.
*****
Our country cottage. Five rooms and a path.
*****
NOTICE: Dec. 4 Wayne - Homecoming; Dec. 8 Schoolmasters Meeting at Wil.; Dec. 11 - Alumni, here.
CAN YOU IMAGINE –––
Harry Allen not having his lessons prepared?
Bill Preston coming to school on time?
Calvin Smith not having anything to do?
Barbara Penn being quiet in the study hall?
Joellen Rulon without her smile?
NOW CAN YOU IMAGINE –––
Virginia Wayland [Rulon] talking without the use of her hands?
Harold Uible with no money in his pockets?
Wanda Wayland at Bede's without Lawrence Newbrey?
Evelyn Roush not in the mood for fighting?
Georgiana Lacy without a boy friend?
Jean Rachford [Barrett] without her smile?
Carol Lou Bohl [Allen] not having a show to tell about?
Bill Lamar and Junior Morris with all their lessons prepared?
Shirley Chaney without her braids?
Melvin Long without his red shirt?
Mr. Fenwick with nothing to do?
John Lafferty not having anything to talk about?
Jane Selph [Fauber] being in a hurry?
Miss Abernathy getting mad?
[Page 3]
SPORTS
This time, folks, I have some disappointments.The Reesville game was probably the best game played on our floor for many years. The game was hard fought all the way. In the first minute and a half, Reesville racked up two field goals. This caught us some what off guard but we immediately came back with a goal of our own. And so it went – the lead going back and forth until the third quarter. There we became nervous and Reesville scored two more goals which they held for the duration of the game. The final score was Reesville 28, New Vienna 24.
The Bengals fared better in their game with Reesville's second string. The final score for that game Bengals 18, Reesville 8.
Our game with Jefferson is one of which we are very much ashamed. They seemed to lose heads completely. We threw the ball away and when we did have it we could not make our shots. Levo and Preston were the only two boys on the floor who looked like they were playing basketball. The Bengals also lost their game.
This coming Friday, December 4, we play our Homecoming Game with Wayne. I hope everyone can manage to be there for it will be an occasion of which we are proud.
The Co-Captains, Lawrence Newbrey and Earl Roush, will escort our Queen, Jenny Swingley onto the floor. Newbrey and Roush will be Co-Captains of the year and I know that they will do their best for the team.
*****
A young theologian named Fiddle
Refused to accept his degree,
For, said he, it's enough to be Fiddle
Without being Fiddle, D.D.
*****
AD – SUN KING COAL $5.75 per ton at the Farm Bureau Coop As'sn. Phone 2791
AD – BOYDS VARIETY STORE - toys and small gifts - New Vienna, Ohio. Phone 2582
[Page 4]
NEW TEACHERS
This week has brought two new figures to our school. They are Mrs. John Goodrich who accepted the task of teaching the first grade, and Mrs. Floyd Simmons who will teach grade six. Both of these ladies have very admirable records of teaching in the past and we are fortunate indeed to have secured their services.Mrs. Goodrich is a graduate of Ohio University in Athens. Last year she taught first grade at Otterbein Home. Mrs. Goodrich, who lives in Sabina has always taught the lower two grades, and this experience makes her well qualified for her work here.
Mrs. Simmons also graduated at Ohio University. She did supplementary work at at Ohio State University, then accepted a position in Greenfield schools where she taught ten- and eleven-year-olds for a number of years. Thus, she too, has invaluable experience which will serve our sixth grade well. Mrs. Simmons lives near New Vienna.
We might add that both of our new faculty members have found New Vienna to be a very good school, and we sincerely hope that they will continue to like it. We know that we have in them two efficient teachers.
AD – ANNOUNCING - The opening of your new Pure Oil Store in New Vienna and to commemorate the rationing of gasoline, we are making you this special offer: "GAS, FOUR GALLONS FOR A QUARTER" WITH YOUR FIRST RATIONING COUPON. See us for your Anti-Freeze, Thermo-Royal non-rust, no poisonous fumes, ceiling price $1.40 per gallon. OUR PRICE $1.10. C.J. and Harold H. Uible, Props. Be SURE with PURE
[Page 5]
JUNIOR CLASS PLAY
The Juniors of the New Vienna School participated in the thrilling event of their class play, "Mumbo Jumbo," in the school auditorium. The Play was directed by Miss Hull. The farce was revealed in a New England farm-house.
At the end of the first act, the president of the class, Calvin Smith, presented a beautiful token of appreciation to Miss Hull for having directed the play.
The Junior Class had a good attendance at their play, they made a net profit of $46.00 to add to the class treasury.
*****
TO HELP OUR BOYS THAT ARE AWAY, BUY MORE WAR STAMPS AND BONDS!
*****
NO GOAT-GETTERS
The president of the school board banged his fist on the table. He had just heard the superintendent's report on retardation."This is terrible," he roared, "In my business we demand and get perfection. We should expect nothing less in these schools."
"What is your business?" meekly inquired another member.
"I manufacture kid gloves – and we get perfection."
"Yes," replied the superintendent, "but in your business you can pick the kids."
The meeting was adjourned.
AD – FRESH BEEF AND PORK - STREBER & SONS' THRIFT "E" MARKET
AD – CARTER'S ENGINEERING CO. NEW VIENNA, OHIO
AD – HOME KILLED MEATS - NEW VIENNA MEAT MARKET
[Page 6]
CLASS NEWS
SOPHOMOREWell, we are all back from our vacation. We all enjoyed ourselves. Everybody got their tanks filled with gas so that they can come to the Homecoming Friday night.
Shirley Chaney, R.B. Smith, Marilyn Sayre, Evelyn Roush, Elizabeth Sayre [Nixon], and Jenny Carol Swingley went bowling at Hillsboro Friday evening. Bobby Runk and Bill Seltzer went hunting Monday evening and came back with a skunk and a muskrat, and as a result were chased out of Bede's. Georgiana Lacy spent Wednesday evening and Thursday with Wanda Wayland and they attended the show Thursday night. Kathleen Stevenson [Levo] spent Friday night and Saturday in Dayton.
*****
FRESHMEN NEWS
If you should have happened to pass the English room Wednesday, November 25, you might have been bewildered by the actions taking place inside. You see, instead of having regular written assignment for homework, we all prepared pantomimes Some of us imitated people eating, sleeping, talking, and even walking. If you happen to pass the English room some second period don' get alarmed, we're probably just pantomiming again.
*****
GRADE SEVEN
We seventh graders are waiting anxiously for the Homecoming game Friday night. Also the band which is going to play Friday night for several seventh graders are members of it. They are: Joellen Rulon [Streber], Donald Hite, Billy Huffman, Glenn Bernard, Harold Thornburg, Eugene Prickett. Our class received credit for selling $1028.80 worth of War Bonds and Stamps.
AD – SAYRES QUALITY STORE - WHITE VILLA & HONEY GROVE FOOD, NEW VIENNA, OHIO
AD – OFFICIAL TIRE INSPECTION. HEAD QUARTERS THOMPSON-RULON, NEW VIENNA, OHIO
[Page 7]
GRADE SEVEN (CONT'D)
The seventh and eight grade Little Cubs defeated the boys from Rainsboro, 14 to 10, November 20. Our class is planning a Christmas party the week before Christmas.
GRADE SIX
We are taking down our Thanksgiving decorations and are replacing them with Christmas decorations. We are going to draw and color maps of Australia for geography. We are glad to have Mrs. Simmons for our teacher.
*****
GRADE FIVE
We fifth graders are looking forward to Christmas and because it is getting so close, we are trying to be very good little boys and girls. We are planning to have some kind of a Christmas party. As yet our plans are rather indefinite.
We are doing our part in buying war stamps. Several of us already have our books which we are filling.
We are now starting our new reader, "The Friendly Hour." We enjoy its stories very much. In arithmetic we are struggling along with fractions. Quoting one certain little girl who always asks questions until she understands, "I like them after I get on to them."
*****
GRADE FOUR
We enjoyed our vacations very much and now are all looking forward to Christmas. There were 5 boys and 3 girls in our room who were neither absent nor tardy this six weeks' period. In music class, we are learning patriotic songs which we like very much.
*****
GRADE THREE
Everyone had a very nice Thanksgiving vacation We are sorry to lose Donald Berling. Donald is moving to Washington C.H. Evelyn Lee Orebaugh has entered our room from Greenfield School.
During the two Tuesdays in which our room has bought War Stamps, we have bough $34.65 worth. We feel quite proud of this and hope to do even better.
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GRADE TWO
We are having a lot of fun decorating our room for Xmas. We are working very hard trying to learn our sounds. We want to be better readers. We have a new boy in our room. His name is Virgil Caplinger.
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VI AND ANNA
Greetings Chillun!Your old chaperuins are at it again! Please let us borrow your ears for a few minutes and we'll tell you all the latest gossip, dirt, etc. etc. that floats about school.
We all oughta help keep up the moral [sic] of the armed forces! Yessiree! and Thelma Rhonemus really knows how.... We don't see how he gets any fighting done writing all those letters to her and reading hers.... The Stevenson residence seems to be a very popular spot any more what with all these gay young blades calling there.... For further details see Kathleen.
Bruce Kinzer and Mabel Current are currently hitting it off. What's the matter, Prickett?... Our old pals Wanda Wayland and Lawrence Newbrey, Georgiana Lacy and Bill Seltzer (besides John Hamilton and a few others) are still going strong.... We hear that Joe Hartsock spent most of his Thanksgiving vacation at New Vienna and Barbara went to Columbus Sunday....Shirley was seen going places with Oris [Minzler] Tuesday night... Something new has been added, eh what? .... Since the class play wasn't enough, Wanda and Lawrence, John and Georgiana, and Johnny Workman and Barbara, Bob and Virginia, (a new member of our little family?) went to Hillsboro afterwards...The Sunday night troop included those mentioned above with the exclusion of Barbara and Johnny (couldn't find out where she went) and the addition of Bruce and Mabel, Shirley and Junior Custis, who went to the Colony.....Janet Rulon [Cluxton] and Douglas Boris seem to be getting along all right....almost as good as Johan Thompson and Donald Wisecup, who were seen Tuesday night enjoying the lunar spectacle..... (did you say that?) .....Faymon Woods and Linda Lafferty still make a good couple...no fights yet. We found out that Gretchen Fullerton [Huffman] promised Billy Huffman a kiss if we won the Jefferson game....He got cheated that time but Bill thinks maybe the offer holds good for tomorrow night...We wonder if the rationing board will give Stacy a "C" card to come to see Miss Hull?.....Things seem to be running smoothly so far....We wonder if –––– ho, hum!!! What do we wonder? I guess we-uns had better run along, Anna....This is no way for us back-bage specialists to be settin' at home, when we've got work to do..Anyway it's about time for respectable persons (that ain't us) to retire...if they can get a priority rating! So long!
Sunday, December 16, 2012
1952 Methodist Church new wing
1952 was a big year for the New Vienna Methodist Church, with the completion of a new Sunday School wing at a cost of $16,000. Consecration service was held on Sunday, December 7, 1952. The original steeple was removed for safety reasons and a new steeple was erected in 1971 in memory of Thomas Rudisill who had been an active church member and school administrator.In 1973 a floor above this was built with most of the labor being donated.
Fifty years later (2002) the building was destroyed by lightning/fire. A history of the church from 1952, information about the parsonage, and a list of ministers from 1877-2006 follows. Partial transcription also follows.
The earliest record of facts we can gather is that from 1820 to 1830 the Methodist itinerants in charge of the Hillsboro and Milford Circuits visited the different local communities at irregular intervals holding services in the homes of the people, and in the summer in the groves at various places.
Among the earliest established preaching places were the Morgantown, Snow Hill, Pleasant Hill and the Woodmansee (afterward named Auburn) societies.
These churches were on the Hillsboro circuit until 1842, when Hillsboro became a station and the Highland Circuit was organized; and continued until 1849, when the work was again divided and the northern part of the work became the New Lexington Circuit, including the newly formed society of New Vienna.
The last change was made in Sept., 1889, when New Vienna and New Lexington [Highland] became half stations, with New Vienna as a charge we we know it now, namely New Vienna, Auburn, and West Chapel.
The first regular preaching and the organization of the first class was in 1842 or 1843 by Revs. R.S. Fulton and Norman Cummins, of Lynchburg, local preachers who were invited to visit New Vienna, and the first services were held in the home of Jonathan Wright. The first know class leader was Thomas Hale and the first steward was Jonathan Wright.
Among the first members were Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hale, Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Wright, Mr. and Mrs. William Noble, and Mr. Thomas Williams, Mrs. Mary Bowers, wife of Rev. Bowers, and Mrs. Julia Moyer.
For the first few years after the class was organized, it met in the homes of its members, and later the Society rented the Baptist Church and held services there.
In the year 1850, the first Methodist Episcopal church edifice was erected. It was a plain, one-story brick house and occupied the site of the present building [which was destroyed in 2002], on the corner of Church and Second streets.
During the pastorate of Rev. G.M. Edgar, in 1876, a building committee consisting of Jonathan Wright, E.M. Woodbury and B.A. Hines was appointed to superintend the erection of the present church building.
The Church was erected and the basement finished and dedicated the following year by Rev. D.H. Moore, D.D. during the pastorate of Rev. R.E. Smith.
The Society continued to worship in the church with varied minor improvement until in December of 1951, during the pastorage of Rev. Paul W. Steele, Mr. Homer Bohl, lay leader, and Mr. George Neffner were instructed by the Official Board to make preliminary drawings and obtain estimates. On March 23, 1952, a called meeting of the congregation was held and after an affirmative vote, a campaign was launched, which resulted in the building of a new Educational unit o the rear of the church building. This new addition will serve for Sunday School purposes, Youth Fellowship purposes, and for the fellowship of the congregation.
Methodist parsonage families have lived in three different residences owned by the church. The first one on Church St. was purchased in 1892 for $2000. The second one was adjacent to the school property on College St., and was last occupied as a parsonage by the Schamaun family in the 1950s. The present parsonage is located at 50 East College Street and was built in 1957 at a cost of $22,000 by C.J. Uible.
List of New Vienna Methodist Ministers 1877-2015
1877-1880 R.E. Smith
1880-1883 J.G. Black
1883-1886 J.S. Pumphrey
1886-1889 C.L. Conger
1889-1893 R.K. Deem
1893-1894 D.D. Cheney
1894-1897 J.A. Easton
1897-1902 John Wilson
1902-1905 A. Hamilton
1905-1908 John H. Lease
1908-1911 W.C. Lewis
1911-1914 J.R. Troxel
1914-1918 Gilbert P. Austin
1918-1920 Charles W. Sultzbach
1920-1922 Luke Davis
1922-1923 W.B. Bonham
1923-1928 W.C. Peters
1928-1935 Burt E. Wright
1935-1937 W.P. Sharpton
1937-1940 Robert E. Lindner [Roland E Linder – see comments]
1940-1945 Clarence Wamsley
1945-1946 Rodney Long
1946-1948 Kenneth Enright
1948-1951 Bert O'Conner
1951-1954 Paul W. Steele
1954-1955 Harold Hugus
1955-1959 Marvin G. Schamaun
1959-1966 K. Albert Kuntzman
1966-1969 John W. Beers, Jr.
1969-1973 Henry M. Lynd
1973-1974 Clarence Wamsley (interim)
1974-1977 Robert Rider
1977- 1981 James A. Wise
1981-1985 Homer A. Thompson, Jr.
1985-1988 R. Creed Culbreath
1988-1995 Edward R. Johnson
1995-1997 Ray King
1997-2006? Mike Barthell
2006?-2010 Dale Hatch
2010 (July-Nov.) Heather Webster
2011 (Feb.-Sept.) Henry A. Green
2011- Sarah Chapman
Fifty years later (2002) the building was destroyed by lightning/fire. A history of the church from 1952, information about the parsonage, and a list of ministers from 1877-2006 follows. Partial transcription also follows.
New Vienna Methodist Church Bulletin - Dec. 1952
Methodist Church dedication of education unit - Dec. 1952, Rev. Paul W. Steele
A word from the pastor
God's word tells us and we have found it to be true that "without a vision the people perish." We have dreamed and planned and worked for this day. With the consecration of this new educational unit and its more and better facilities, opening up a vista of greater usefulness and service, our day has dawned. We heartily thank all who have had some fitting part in the building of this addition.
The Building Committee – Homer Bohl, R.W. Mongold, George Neffner, Henry Waits, Cecil J Uible.
Architects – Homer Bohl, George Neffner, Cecil J. Uible
Builder – Cecil J. Uible
The Finance Committee – Ralph Cornelius, Everett Penn, Mrs. Henry Waits, Miss Emma Woods, Harold H. Uible, Homer Bohl.
New Vienna Methodist Church Bulletin - Dec. 1952
Many familiar names found on the back page of the Bulletin....
Church Directory
Bishop – Hazen G. Werner, Columbus
District Supt. – George B. Parkin, Wilmington
Pastor – Paul W. Steele
Church School Supt. – A.W. Hause
Lay Leader – Homer Bohl
Chairman of the Official Board – Everett Penn
Church Treasurer – Ralph Cornelius
Youth Representative – Roger Ames
Board of Trustees
Homer Bohl
Fred Eaton
A.W. Hause
Geo. Neffner
Everett Penn
R.W. Mongold
C.J. Uible
Henry Waits
Doyle Wright
Board of Stewards
Ralph Carey
Mrs. Arlene Chestnut
R.W. Cornelius
Mrs. Mary Custis
Joseph Eaton
Geo. Henderson
Glenn McElwee
Mrs. Helen Morton
Howard Penn
G. Southerland
Eugene Smith
Frank Terrell
Harold Uible
Mrs. Gertrude Waits
Miss Emma Woods
Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson
Special Stewards
Recording – George Neffner
Communion – Miss Emma Woods and Mrs. Helen Morton
Departmental Heads
Women's Society of Christian Service – Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson
Intermediate Youth Fellowship President – Robert Wolfe
Senior Youth Fellowship President – Miss Jane Fenwick
New Vienna Methodist Church History written in 1952 for the dedication of the education wing.
Church History – 1849-1952
Among the earliest established preaching places were the Morgantown, Snow Hill, Pleasant Hill and the Woodmansee (afterward named Auburn) societies.
These churches were on the Hillsboro circuit until 1842, when Hillsboro became a station and the Highland Circuit was organized; and continued until 1849, when the work was again divided and the northern part of the work became the New Lexington Circuit, including the newly formed society of New Vienna.
The last change was made in Sept., 1889, when New Vienna and New Lexington [Highland] became half stations, with New Vienna as a charge we we know it now, namely New Vienna, Auburn, and West Chapel.
The first regular preaching and the organization of the first class was in 1842 or 1843 by Revs. R.S. Fulton and Norman Cummins, of Lynchburg, local preachers who were invited to visit New Vienna, and the first services were held in the home of Jonathan Wright. The first know class leader was Thomas Hale and the first steward was Jonathan Wright.
Among the first members were Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hale, Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Wright, Mr. and Mrs. William Noble, and Mr. Thomas Williams, Mrs. Mary Bowers, wife of Rev. Bowers, and Mrs. Julia Moyer.
For the first few years after the class was organized, it met in the homes of its members, and later the Society rented the Baptist Church and held services there.
In the year 1850, the first Methodist Episcopal church edifice was erected. It was a plain, one-story brick house and occupied the site of the present building [which was destroyed in 2002], on the corner of Church and Second streets.
During the pastorate of Rev. G.M. Edgar, in 1876, a building committee consisting of Jonathan Wright, E.M. Woodbury and B.A. Hines was appointed to superintend the erection of the present church building.
The Church was erected and the basement finished and dedicated the following year by Rev. D.H. Moore, D.D. during the pastorate of Rev. R.E. Smith.
The Society continued to worship in the church with varied minor improvement until in December of 1951, during the pastorage of Rev. Paul W. Steele, Mr. Homer Bohl, lay leader, and Mr. George Neffner were instructed by the Official Board to make preliminary drawings and obtain estimates. On March 23, 1952, a called meeting of the congregation was held and after an affirmative vote, a campaign was launched, which resulted in the building of a new Educational unit o the rear of the church building. This new addition will serve for Sunday School purposes, Youth Fellowship purposes, and for the fellowship of the congregation.
Pastors and Parsonages
List of New Vienna Methodist Ministers 1877-2015
1877-1880 R.E. Smith
1880-1883 J.G. Black
1883-1886 J.S. Pumphrey
1886-1889 C.L. Conger
1889-1893 R.K. Deem
1893-1894 D.D. Cheney
1894-1897 J.A. Easton
1897-1902 John Wilson
1902-1905 A. Hamilton
1905-1908 John H. Lease
1908-1911 W.C. Lewis
1911-1914 J.R. Troxel
1914-1918 Gilbert P. Austin
1918-1920 Charles W. Sultzbach
1920-1922 Luke Davis
1922-1923 W.B. Bonham
1923-1928 W.C. Peters
1928-1935 Burt E. Wright
1935-1937 W.P. Sharpton
1937-1940 Robert E. Lindner [Roland E Linder – see comments]
1940-1945 Clarence Wamsley
1945-1946 Rodney Long
1946-1948 Kenneth Enright
1948-1951 Bert O'Conner
1951-1954 Paul W. Steele
1954-1955 Harold Hugus
1955-1959 Marvin G. Schamaun
1959-1966 K. Albert Kuntzman
1966-1969 John W. Beers, Jr.
1969-1973 Henry M. Lynd
1973-1974 Clarence Wamsley (interim)
1974-1977 Robert Rider
1977- 1981 James A. Wise
1981-1985 Homer A. Thompson, Jr.
1985-1988 R. Creed Culbreath
1988-1995 Edward R. Johnson
1995-1997 Ray King
1997-2006? Mike Barthell
2006?-2010 Dale Hatch
2010 (July-Nov.) Heather Webster
2011 (Feb.-Sept.) Henry A. Green
2011- Sarah Chapman
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