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Page 14 The Palladium-Item end Sun-Telegram, Richmond, Fridayy May 29, 1959 Parker Will His Friends Be On Hand To Greet At Arba Cemetery Navy Training Plane Crashes, 4 Missing IWAKUNI, Japan (AP) A U. S. Navy twin jet Skywarrior carrying four men crashed into Japan's inland sea Thursday night and left floating wreckage but no trace of survivors. Our History Scrapbook: 1 Believe "Hoosier's Nest" Poem Helped Give State Its Nickname on early Richmond and the growth of the Whitewater Monthly 4 .2 a i jar I I ness to "go to mill, and merchan dising was yet unknown. In one of these log cabins, the home of Jeremiah Cox, on the present site of Richmond, the first Friends Meeting was held, followed by others at intervals.

This led to a regularly established meeting, the same being "indulged" by West Branch (Ohio) Monthly Meeting, in 1807, and finally gave birth to "Indiana Yearly Meeting." (Another Article Follows) Open First Bids For Construction Of phio River Span NEW ALBANT, Ind. (AP) The first bids toward construction of a new 12-mUlion-dollar Ohio River bridge linking New Albany and Louisville, were opened Thursday with an Evansville contractor the low bidder for the substructure. Roy Ryan Sons Co. had the low substructure bid at $994,974 at the bid opening in the New Albany Armory, which Gov. Harold W.

Haadley attended. Actual awarding of the contract will await checking of the bid against specifications. No date has been announced for bids on other phases of the project. The federal government will pay 90 per cent of the cost of bridge, which will carry three lanes of traffic on each of two decks. The remaining 10 per cent of the cost will be divided between Indiana and Kentucky.

Opening of the bridge bid was part, of a monthly State Highway Department bid- letting which totaled $14,304,849. Bids averaged about 10 per cent below the en Yet "Bachelor's Hall." in imita- tion of the Irish, was not in John Finley's best vein, or accustomed line, as was the "Hoosier's Nest" which not alone ao fully describes the primitive log cabin, but depicts the characteristics and customs of the people who inhabited them. It is said that Henry Mosler, famed on both sides of the Atlantic as an artist who began his career in Richmond while be worked as a cigarmaker, employed his leisure at painting. I. He fittingly illustrated the poem in a pair of: companion pictures, showing the external and internal appearance of the cabin.

With this glimpse into the rude dwellings of the forefathers of this now "cultured community, I will leave the reader to imagine the difficulties experienced in getting breadstuff when it was a several days journey over treacherous roads or paths through the wilder- DR. H. B. HENRY Optometrist Conlacl Lenses 8 North 8th Street Phone 2-2243 MILK Secrecy Ban Lifted On Plan For Army Flying Saucer WASHINGTON (AP) The secrecy curtain was withdrawn slightly Thursday night from a hush-hush project which the Army hopes will give the United States its; version of the flying saucer. Heavily censored testimony made public by the House Space Committee confirmed that the revolutionary new aircraft will resemble a saucer.

It is designed for low-level tactical not for space travel. The Army, enthusiastic over its potential, Jhas spent more than five million dollars on the project in the last" three years. "It is one of our high 'priority programs," said Brig. Gen. F.

H. Britton, director of developments for the Office of Army Research. Britton said publicly when he testified April 15 that tests on the new vehicle were to begin shortly. He said initial flight tests-will take place in Canada where the vehicle is being developed by Avro Aircraft under a joint U. S.

Army-Air Force project He testified during space committee hearings on a family of vehicles being developed around the principle of the ground cushion phenomenon. These vehicles, most of them still in the research stage, are designed to rise a few inches or feet off the ground by means of downward air blasts from the bottom or under edges of the machine. Editor's Note: Following is another in a series of articles about the settlement and development of Richmond and Wayne county. No. By Luther M.

Feeger John Pulley's poem, the "Hoosier's Nest," attracted general attention in the Indiana and eastern press. Students of the origin of the designation Hoosier believe that Fin-ley's use of the term in a literary production that was widely reprinted in' the pioneer newspapers helped to make it the nickname for Indiana. Henry Mosler, an internationally-known artist, spent his boyhood years in Richmond where he was an apprentice to a clgarmaker. The author of the article in the Cincinnati Commercial- Gazette observed that Mosler, following Fin-ley's description of a crude pioneer cabin, painted two, pictures. One showed the interior; the other, the exterior of the "Hoosier's Nest Mosler showed an aptitude for painting in early life.

Charcoal was one of the mediums used by the youth who preferred painting to assisting cigarmakers in a Richmond shop. Tacked On Walls. Many of his small unframed oil paintings were tacked on the walla of the tobacco shop and the whitewashed walls of the storeroom. The Duett" an oil painting by Mosler, was the first picture purchased by the Richmond Art association for its permanent collection. The following installment carries forward the writer's observations South 7th Street and SUNDAY Day Frank Parker continues his job as caretaker of the Arba cemetery as Rev.

Joseph of the Arba Friends church stops by to chat. The stone Parker is working by is a marker declaring the spot as the location of Randolph county's first church and schooL NEW STORE HOURS MONDAYS NOON TIL 9 P. M. TOIL. WED.

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Ont Gallon Half Gallon 59 1 3 i gineers' estimates of cost which had totaled more than 18 million dollars for 21 bridges or other structures, 17 highway construction projects and several maintenance contracts. The substructure bid on the Ohio River bridge was far below the engineers' estimate of $1,665,946. Find Home For Dog Rescued From Sea SOUTHAMPTON England (AP) "Lucky" is fortunate dog. A playful black-and-white mixture of collie and labrador, he was fished put of the sea a mile, off this bustling port earlier this week. The two seamen who found him took him to an animal shelter.

"He was so far gone that when I managed to revive him I gave him the name the superintendent said. But it seemed Lucky had been snatched from death at sea to death on land. The law says any dog landing in Britain must be quarantined for six months. And there was no one to pay the $117.60 quarantine bill. If be wasn't claimed, he would have to die.

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Sth-Pescock FINE FRUIT VEGETABLES GROCERIES CHOICE MEATS log cabin was raised in April of 1814. Came At Early Age Frank's grandfather Jesse, was born in North Carolina in 1766, in the same county as Thomas. He came to Randolph county at an early age, believed to be two years later than Thomas. Jesse had seven children, in- eluding Frank's father, Joel. He died Sept.

24, 1843, and is buried at the Arba cemetery. The first child resident of Randolph county, a son of Thomas and Anna was named for Frank's grandfather. He came here at the age of seven and died in 1881 while caretaker of a toll gate north of Lynn. He also is buried at the Arba cemetery. When Frank first took charge of the cemetery, it was run on a.

donation basis. une year i ngurea i maae a little less than 10 cents an hour for my work," grinned the Arba native. Now the cemetery is. under an association, formed in 1953. And it is kept in excellent condition, strikingly set on rolling hills, amid a cluster of green trees.

Frank bas lived In Arba all but five years of his life. His wife, the former Ethel Newton of Lynn, died in 1947. They had three children, Mrs. WiUodean Brown of Arba. Mrs.

'Frances June Myers, also of Arba, and Kenneth of Fort Worth, Tex." Frank Is the only -one of four children left. Ora Annabelle Thomas died in 1946 and Nettie in 1947. Both are buried at the Arba cemetery. A brother, Bert, died six years ago. The 81-year-old caretaker leaves no doubt he looks forward to Memorial day as his special day of the year.

Known far and wide in Randolph and surrounding counties, he looks forward again to seeing a few of the many friends be bas made through the years. Auto Breakdowns Climbed. In 1958 By 5,600,000 WASHINGTON (SF) There were 60,497,000 calls for service help from drivers among those owning the 66,751,000 passenger cars registered in the United States during 1958. Battery and electri-cal failures continued to be the No. 1 cause of breakdowns.

Although total car registrations climbed slightly less than 1,000,000 during the year, breakdowns in-the historic trouble leader, were creased by 5,600,000. Flat tires, runner-up for the second straight year to battery and electrical V-A FUEL OIL COMIKGSOOil 1 Palladium-Item Photos Old and worn stones mark graves in the "cholera" section 0f the cemetery. The stone in the foreground is marked "Jacob Rogers, died Aug. 28, 1826." It lies above the area where cholera victims of 1849 were buried. "1S49" and are segregated from the rest of the cemetery proper.

These are the graves of persons who died when an epidemic of cholera bit the southeast section of the county. A writer who lived at the Union Literary institute near Spartanburg, described the epidemic as "strange and He said, "The rise of the cholera near Lynn was very strange and striking. A cloud rose in the morning from the with lightning and thunder. The lightning struck at the crossroads near Isaac Palmer's, east of Lynn, and there came a terrible smell. Began Same Day "The cholera began the same day and ran along those roads west and south.

The next day when I was in Newport (Fountain City), a neighbor came for a coffin and said, 'James Lister is dead with the cholera, sick only a few I went home instantly. "Henry Benson was taken also and died that night Hodgen died also. Jesse Williams came to shave the corpse, took sick whUe shaving and died a few minutes later. Twenty-seven, died in all." The fear of the unknown writer is reflected in his words. People were so afraid of the disease they isolated the dead in the south section of the 1 Arba cemetery and none were allowed to walk there for several months.

"Several people come to the cemetery to see this area," com mented "Also the historical society of Randolph county erected a marker naming this as the site of the first school and church in the county." marker stands on the highest point of the cemetery but does not contain the dates of the church and school. According to the Randolph county history book, the first church was a Friends Meeting house, built in 1815. The first school was taught in this same building during the winter of 1815- 16. If anyone' in Randolph county has the historical background to be official greeter, on Memorial day, it is Frank. His great uncle and aunt Thomas and Anna Parker, settled on what is now the boundary one-half mile west of Arba.

This By Max Knight ARBA. Memorial day means more to Frank Parker of Arba than merely the decoration of loved ones' graves. For Frank, great-grandnephew of the Irst settler in Randolph county, Memorial day is for reaffirming old friendships and serving aw a one-man welcoming committee at Randolph; county's oldest cemetery. The Arba native, born the son of Joel in 1878, arrives at the Arba Friends cemetery early on Memorial day morning. His daughter, Mrs; George Brown, takes him a lunch at noon and he stays until everyone has left in the evening.

Frank has been caretaker of the historical cemetery for over 20 years. But he has been taking his Memorial day jaunt for over 40 years. I can answer lots of questions for the people hunting graves," said the former Arba grocery DIUIO AI0U 4. LOU IflUA ith friends I get to see only on Memorial day." Several stones in the old section of the cemetery are nothing more than colored field rock. These are stuck in the ground and names scratched on the surface.

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