Dayton Daily News from Dayton, Ohio • 21

SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 1937 TT4R A ATT rrr-nvn wttw Rummi i 1 vr j. X-i A 1 TT Old Landmarks Still Stand SCENES AT RIVERSIDE SHOW CHANGES SINCE PIONEER DAYS 1 Wl tit "Til iK 'fit V- And Echo Of Past When Men Built Success Through Thrift Riverside one of the historic treasure-houses of the Dayton sector. Here, stored in old landmarks, such as the Harshman and Weifenbach mansions, in the romance of mills that ground the finest of flour mills that reduced giant hardwoods to plank and pillar, rafter wnd joice, of stills that brewed a staunch old drink, of corn grists brought from the valley for the grinding, of wool-clips fashioned into linsey-woolsey to adorn matron and maid. More than a century aro Jonathan Harshman and a group of emigrants from Frederick, chose these sheltered lowlands along the Mad river to found a settlement. i.

it-. Naturally the place bore the the walls one sees fields turned to 4V A VILLAGE OF WIDE CURVING STREETS a cloth of gold by some yellow flower that has so beautifully taken possession of them. And one thinks of Riverside and its river running hazel-brown, and its sunlit pastures with horses and cattle feeding, as a village and countryside of rare delight. Riverside is located at the very ''crossroads' of rail, highway and air transportation. At Wright Field are carried on the numerous governmental functions that have td do with a commanding United States airport.

Harries on its southern rim treasures, memories of the days of old. Once called Smithville, it too was famous for the stills and mills that made old villages treat. name "Harshmanvule in honor of this Jonathan Harshman, -who in 1832 erected a still and in 1842 built a three and one-half story flour mill. Another member of this family of old-time go-getters, George Harshman, by name, launched a saw mill; carding, woolen and oil mills soon lifted along the banks of the Mad river, that boasts a fall of 150 feet between that point pnd Springfield, and for three quarters of a century the little town vied with Dayton as a factory center. In the town's halcyon days, William Harmar, the first Methodist minister in the valley, lived hard by on what is now known at Tate's hill.

This high point was during the Civil War the site of Camp Corwin. And another his I I MADRIVER AT "LOW TIDE" -41 4 f-Vfr' ff. JtZi: 'S Here one may see one of the most chaste and pretty of the valley's "community" churches. Across the highway from this church, the old Harries mansion almost hidden in a wonder of tree and vine, and on these holdings still intact, the first and only factory building to attempt to manufacture shoes in the Dayton area. As the Harshmanville of the old regime pioneered in the industries that made for the valley a name outstanding; so is the Riverside of vibrant 1037 pioneering in making former historic Dayton-Springfield pike, a way of beauty.

Here one can ee "roadside beautifica-tion" at its best, and vision what ,4 -fifs toric point near the village, section 17 of Madrivcr formerly owned by Isaac Spinning. This pioneer was, in 1803, appointed one of the first of the associate judges of Montgomery co. Dayton, with its railroads and superior shipping facilities, "horned in" on the progress of this lesser town. The wool and carding mills and the oil factory "were first to join the hegira of business looking to Dayton for expansion. In 1S78 the grrgt Harshman distillery that required 500 bushels of corn rer dav, burned to the ground, and only the flour mills were left to carry on.

Like all other villages, Harsh-man was seriously affected by the general lethargy that hovered over valley towns in the horse and buggy days. The big mill, though suffering from vicissitudes of ownership, kept the town on the map, but its glory slowly faded. For a period its slow growth was checked by the Jacob Huber addition to the village; then came the maimificent Wrieht Field, the mk Mm all highways leading into Dayton will be like in times to come. As this famous old turnpike, now a super-highway, has had so much to do with Riverside's progress; a story of Its building would not he out of place: "Because the highway missed Dayton, some surmising for reasons plainly ulterior, the city's fighting "old guard" launched the Davton-Snrinefield turnpine. Some .1 A.

B. CUNNINGHAM AT WORK MIDST HIS PLANTS of the few objectors declared the project stark madness, pointing visor and teacher of dancing and swimming at girls' camps and has had experience in directing dramatics and music. THE HARSHMAN HOME crpntpst show tilace in the Miami ty.a v.tinn.i airoaHv YnA th GROCERMAN MILLER valley, to locate on its very edge, business. But to show there was and now few places can boast a In their madness" the old DEATHS DEPLETE ROUS designers built their "pine' as nearly like the National as two eggs. Mile stones were placed, culverts and bridges erected that exactly imitated those of the older route, and many the Connestoga wagon driver swung left in Springfield, pushing blissfully westward and never knowing he was off the National until the roofs and spires of Dayton lifted.

And in those days it was a newer ar.d better route than the National, starting to de-trrionitp: the shorter route and grander highway tr.an Mate 4 tnai sweeps northeast through its pretty environs. Not much of the old Harshmanville remains todav, save the Harshman and Weifenbach man-sions. Even the great towering eld old mill has bren rszed, and the place sails high, wide and handsome under the more appealing name "P.ivers:de." There is a modest little church of the L. B. faith and an up-to-date school that ma'Kes the town rank well educationally.

It wa never a A flag tournament was held on Memorial Pay at Miami View course. Over 20 of the membera participated. First place was won by William Smith, who "holed out" on the 10th hole. Second place went to Raymond Swann, whost ball lay five feet from the cup on the 13th hole. Kiffin Smith toolc third place.

His ball landed in a trap 35 yards from the 19th hole. Monday a blind par tournament was held with Percy Turner, 110-75, taking first place. Second place was a tie between Fob Nelson, 97-72, and Willy Bowline, 83-7G. Third place was won by Bob Wallace with a 80-77. A group of members of Miami View are planning to entertain seven players from Indianapolis Sunday.

The Indianapolis players are headed by Henry Flemming, Arthur Dobson and Charles NEW PHILADELPHIA, 0., June 5. Two deaths in the past year have reduced the membership of the Andrew Crawford Post No. 6, G. A. to three.

The survivors are John A. Shidiker, 8f, and Ebenezer G. McMurray, P3, Maryville. and Jonathan Romig, 93, New Philadelphia. Rieksecker Post No.

Dover, lost its last survivor last Feb. 6 with the death of John Sisson, S3. Newconierstown has two survivors, Theodore F. Crater, 92, and Jes.e Alexander, 8S. One member remains at the Welch Post No.

422. Urichsville. the concpstpd to the west, of shnps and stores some half-dozen all toM serve the town, and many a chuckle went up irom hut all neat and progressive ana its oki nuuacrs. muj fairlv oorrg friendliness. elimpsrs the magnificent stretch Some 500 citizens are proud to; roueh side.

it not hard h---ZS US nw Riverside as their nome the nd as for beauty, there's no town. It is governed by comparison. Kemtniscent oi omer WPA WORKERS AT THE SIGN OF THE "HORSE" highways round about that other mayor-council system, was incorporated when a ioptinp its new name, and Earl Mays, the pres- "Riverside" in California, all hedged with vines and flowers and trees and grass. is Matthew Simpson, 31, of rear Tippecanoe. I THE WEIFENBACH MANSION AFRO-AMERICVN NEWS (Send AU News For This Column to Mrs.

H.Neal, 457 S. Kilmer St) SKYLINES OF NEW YORK Mrs. Marian Anderson of Horace i party of friends motored to Can Mr. and Mrs. Raton Taylor of ton last Sunday to visit friends.

Noted Author May Desert Penthouse for Farm and Life in the Country Irvin Cobb Cite Horrors of Night in Rural Residence. S. Euclid a and Mr. and Mrs. slap each other around plenty and give pain to tht audience "Charlie Chan at the Olympics" is just as good as any other standard- Chan picture "Under the Red Robe" is a patient and studious English remake of the Stanley Weyman historical thriller, with Conrad Veidt torn between love and duty "The Hit Parade" is a vaudeville show that William Dobson of Lakeview av.

attended the Commander's ball In Cincinnati Tuesday evening Mrs. CjT.thia Black of W. First entertained the Triple-Four bridge club last Friday evening when they held their regular bimonthly meeting. Mrs. Alice Wallace of W.

Fifth st.f spent Memorial Day in Pittsburgh, where she visited relatives and friends. bt chbi.m r.stAioi ht. the two boys the shooter and the plains the fur manufacturers r.r.Mri..:"" 1 '-thought up a way of talking picked a heat wave for their 'themselves out of a very touch nual fashion show, and the models NM 'iOUK. June a. in rase.pot wa, w.kinff nonie with i sure did glow under the read one of these nays or dna The Linden Center Industrial league will play every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 5:45 P.

M. Pelco Products, under the leadership of Claude Shepherd, is showing the "class of the league." Schedule for games next week: Monday, G. H. A R. vs.

Frigidaire No. Wednesday, Dclco vs. Frigidaire No. Friday, Aetna Paper Co. vs.

N. C. R. The following clubg and activities are open for registration for boys: Safety, aircraft, handicraft, swimming, baseball, bycicle, track and leaders. Register at the Center with "Jimmie" for the activities.

Day camp for boys will start the week of June 21. Register now. James Burrough and Jerry Johnson are the Linden Center repre sentatives in the city marble tournament Tha tennis courts art oren at the Center. ent mayor. ln I'ayion ii-r-tion Co.

and Wuichet's, two going concerns, are located not far from its southwest boundaries. It was in the unchanging blaze of high noon, when The Dayton News correspondent stepped from tha C. and E. interurhan car to giva Riverside the once over. No r'j in the side streets, no noise the wide expanse of Route 4.

save the swish, wi.h of flying car and truck and the ever roar of the interurhan sped-ir af toward Sprirpfii Id. Not unlike some OM World town whose inhabitants shut up shop and home to go out into tr fields, taking their mid-day lunch and returning at dark. Most of Riverside's Inhabitants are either employed at tht "Field" or in Dayton shops, stores and factories, and it was gratifying to nota signs of activity at Cun-ningham'a plant gardens. It was rone other than A. B.

Cunningham blmself pottering around with his Hungarian pepper plants, sweet potatoes, tomatoca and goodness what else. And it was Mrs. Morris Taylor, of Lake-view who was ill for several weeks, is able to be out aagin. Gloria Vanderbilt. I tne mPa rice vengeance win found on the bottom erber deserting a.

the police." We passed a rarked the dress shop proprietor and. by I 'h ll the city for a farm in the fount rj. tax cab in whifh altercation court decree, part-time mother, bad PohMy be the late har Kreuger the man roJl)(r en A nglf.biock Utfr time of it with the of a dnuble-fe feature bill. Don't go to blame. unless the other pictura is very.

I fc't a sharp pain. I must have was willing to talk about nothing king- OK" Mr. Kreueer. who built a i VU Kw iImo trnm tVi kn f.h;.. very good.

dom on i "'teh-atick with i wimmine along, or at least lorn results, has been blamed for For Mup, ef hour tVfryMy t0i unti, Gtizcns' League Alvema M. Sykes of S. Kilmer and Grace Young of Paisley were among the Roosevelt Junior rich school students entertained Thursday evening at a banquet at Wilbur Wright Junior high school. The banquet was held for all honor students in the junior high grade level throughout the city. a 101 breathed more easily.

Then the i "Evening dresses will be shorter in James B. Tyler, formerly connected ith the Y. M. C. stopped here over Sunday and Monday on his return trio to Washington, D.

where heis now stationed. He had been to Logansport, to attend the funeral of his maternal grandmother. Members of the fartulty and the Uth grade class of Willard school were guests of the school A. Tuesday evening at a reception held at the school. A program and th Installation of officers of the A.

for 1937 police found a hole in tha story. the front." "By that." Interrupted I Ts Tn Innnp TU A Or rather, making a routine check-! a blunderinz male. "Do rou wean 1 13 1 I1UU Ferber. The fact Is our well known Miss Elsie Austin, assistant to author leased tha match Wng'a penthouse apartment on Park av. and found, ranged along tha terrace, the following items: Students Will Have up, they found no bul.et hole In shorter from the floor?" She the man'a clothes.

I realized then there waa no use and That little detail brought the went away, whole story crashing down. There just didn't seem any reasonable THE NEW ROOKS way to account for an ordinary urton whose wife. Fav Mr Afra fti.rl.a Jam. the Ohio attorney general and member of the state parole board, and Bishop Reverdtjr 0. Ransom, Columbus, will be honored with a jjeky to find him, for he Is a A grape arbor, a peacn tree, a of Home ave are the proud EhlLitS At Fair rrinter and was soon to ne on ms otrawberry bush, a parents ci an lniant aaugmer.

way to work in Dayton. But ne; tree, tulips, plus a kitchen 1..1.. Hnk.L. AR k. the auditor- y1 0hin th K.tcnen.

tnai( wi. 1 VT': 1M were held In Messrs. F. Arlington Vounge and Kenneth Tate, members of the miiy lonit gwins; made to produce next rnoay evening. iunii rmcr speakers of the presl-1 Dunbar Hiph school faculty, mo.

cTden i "lie, and sc.llions. I Zn Jl'tVt Attendance of 500 is expected at evening werr Joe Joe tored to Cleveland for Memorial v. Tne pMeB trM j. the banquet, wrnch bemg spon- dent of the board of education prit. from 12 to 1 peaches, ana iss sored by the West Side Citizens' Riffe, retiring first vice.

presi- Day. They left here late Friday evening and returned Sunday. Corrir.e r.j Ferber has them made Into J.m II, LitV. 1 7 7'-'" I IKue under the chairmanship cfldent of the and Mason, dauehter of the principal its. somehow was closed Iw the boys how the late John D.

Examples of the finest work done by public school students In art, home economics and Industrial art will be exhibited at the Montgomery co. fair in September, with the students competing for awards of blue, red, yellow, white and green ribbons. Three division will be established for purposes of judging, with seventh and eighth grade pupils in elementary schools in one; pupils of junior high schoola in the second, and pupils in senior high schools in the third. for the day, but Ira Miller smiled "RJ, him six brand across his grocery counter, and VJi tha nrw hnw the Gostmeaus were the acme of but rt5-7 1' JJ" i them. Oh no, he said, he didn't get good entertainers.

It was a rest Parted to "Cimarron from the fc drtuhHn Ufk cn the anil ht nn ffrnwn SO She i neither scholar nor philosopher nor writer. He is an observer and re- t- n( corder. has had an array of ex- 13011(1 LOIlCO't traordinary experiences in all the rt Til weird places and even in those that OCllCClUlCCl are not weird, and rattles along' lie met Jiociceieiier on period at me Dig sinnni uuhu.uk and a member of the graduating class. Mr. and Mrs.

Theodore Tanner of Germantown spent last weekend in Cleveland. Tanner teaches hygiene and physical education to the boys' dasset at Willard and Garfield schools, and Mrs. Tanner is well known for her work in the y. w. c.

a. i just outside the town's east cor-, in mains; arnouny diffrrent occasions. Mrs. Cordelia F.lrod, member ef the Willard factulty, who has been seriously ill for several months, is up again, although she is unable to return to her duties in the school room at present. Linden Community Center announces the appointment of Miss Mania Wilson as girls' work director.

Miss Wilson is a native of Chicago and a graduate of Wilber-force university. She has been ad- about them with one little word mam limit an4 uhlt tha ma in Connecticut, where "come and get "I OkM'ij ihiii nine I i But the sight of Sir Harry wear- after another. His autobiography r.ritain's lifesaving forces win cost 11,250,000 to maintain thla year. Miss Geneive M. Moore and a As one enters the from to down on a lit- i w-ra not ior wnat the south a life-like sign intrigues.

firm in tne back of nearly I wust be the worlds most extra-It is a replica of hor, "all har-pvpry townsman's mind, but -oun-, ordinary g.golo. He has made up and rario'" to ko. hf, ju pfril th. Ncw pie more or less used to the a rounl of WPA workers, mowing. Yftrkr.

trvin Cobli is the man to prtacle. Harold T. Wilkins, who has made piracy the study of a life-time, argues in a voluminously documented book "Captain Kidd and His Skeleton Island" (LiverighO that the "heastlie pirate" -as forced to take the step from near by. expressed th.L Tliis world's most extraordinary gigolo wears kilts in the brawest weather. Vou can see him even In the winter striding along Tark it.

AsKcd to rjse aion erne inn who rwtVt Iw I'm readerf fcr a 0 PEESOKTS! privateering (legal buccaneering) Avenue, his knee ruddy raw with jto piracy (illegal buccaneering) by 1 'I I IrMM I I II 'IH MORE THAN THE COMBINED POPULATION OF Riverside, bound on the truin enme so close to bis room, cold, the colors of his clan shining an unruly crew hungry for more I bv he Mad river, on the smith it looked as if It was tr intr to i a shade less brightly than those i of the spoils in which it shared. by Payton, or i thr east by some rimh Mt) ilh j.fl nf his bony knees. These days he The fact that the prosecution never i in his finest fettle, a big, bold got around to presenting its piracy rnttlt-r of a man. decked out like case against Kidd, but hanired him a forest grove in brown, yellow, on Execution Dock for killing his county and on tne north tne, i i great flying field. Is one of tho th fnn ry for a week-end give most interesting renters in tholhim at lean one good and quiet valley.

Huffman dam. Mad river nights sleep. gunner in a fit of race, has nro- green, red and cornflower blue. with its numerous ranids. and Inke The morning aTter, Mr.

Cobb sr- rived for breakfast pale -very- bv the great Huffmnn, formed where r.fOt under his eyes. itself What makes him an extraordinary biroIo is that he's a professional hoot-mon Scotchman, so full of the lore of the heather country that he spills over with it at a tap conservnnrv nam, 1 duced hundreds of wringled brows in hundreds of libraries since the day in 1701 when the captain's heel danced against the air. Mr. Wilkins' book does not settle all doubts, but it does give a presumably authentic chart by which J7 Strikinir a.set to any town, makes for ye. lie was a deep blue.

To a question, he replied; "No, I didn't sleep at all. I was kept up on the shoulder. Ordinarily, it is TROY, PIQUA AND SIDNEY WILL WANT TO ATTEND THE GRAND CLIMAX OF THE JOTS JfAESSdDKEB TONIGHT U. D. STADIUM FOLLOW THE CROWDS TO THE STADIUM ALBERTA ST.

(SPECIAL SHOW SUNDAY AFTEKN00N) ADMISSION AND PARKING FREE I atin countries that are sup- posed to grow the species and their 1 directly to the treaure Kidd is believed to have cached on i air of dark mystery, etc. But tins northern bnv trets alotiir fine. His "Skeleton I. laml." The chart, how-1 bluffne.s and hurr-torirued vr. doesn't tell you where Skele- one of the most popular arntinn plavitroiinds of Ohio.

Fine irardens quite in keeping with the well-krt hnmf-s, and front lawns picturesque ith "Vifhl vresth." The Harh-man mansion grntni a wonder of hardwon, foltaite, the Weifenbach mansion maple arched, Its facade a style of anhi-teefure pecul nr to itelf, but most and piurr)ir oety. The remaining foiindai-i wall Of the e'd mill feiififyitip to t'n ubir'i the hililders i'! oW wrought, i ton Island is. Tlie fact is nobody can tell you where it is or even state with surety that it exists. all night by some h'as'ed wren stomping acros the lawn." The inMe particular room only he imagined, but one well-known member of the triable had efn shot In the by ario'ber member of it three were idenfv pnnii kv. The Wounded n-ufi mo.f panicky of all.

The Immrdn'e objective win mile I'm ivmi ns innorert as to i CLARK HAINES Vesper sen-ices and a band concert will be held Sunday at 7 p. m. on the lawn of David's Reformed church, Lebanon pike. The concert will be played by the full Fairmont hi.h school band under the direc tn of Harke Haines and Rev, A. C.

Yost, pastor of the church, ill preside and speak briefly. ness )mve been keepirtp him In kilts and caviar for the hit 15 years. Crncie Allen says that If she a iked to ilav the ro'e of Srarlett in "Gone With the Wind," he will refuse absolutely, "Srar-let doesn't match my hat," she ex- Tin; films "Pick a Star," is a slapftick comedy In which Laurel and Hardy, lialry, Tatsy Kelly and others.