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THE REGISTER-NEWS MT. VERNON, ILLINOIS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1949 RADIO DAY by DAY BfO.1. BUTTERFIELD Central Local Time (Listings fit either Daylight or Standard unless noted). GOSHEN ROAD (Continued from Linkletter Says TV Can Borrow Much From Cinema NEW YORK, Sept. 17-Douhling of radio shows in television is becoming more and more prevalent.

In some instances transmission is 'duplicated at the same time in the two mediums, but in numerous others, separate versions are put on at different times. In this latter category is the addition of vision to the Aldrich Family. The radio schedule for this ten-year-old family life comedy opens October 6 after vacation. The new television show will be started October 2. Both are NBC.

Ezra Stone, veteran in of Henry, will he back on the radio, where only the voice is essential. But someone else is going to do the television: someone more closely fitting the part physically as well. So far, Jack Kelk. who plays Homer, Is the only member of the radio cast also slated for the cameras. Another duplication is new Boris Karloff mystery series for ABC.

In this one Karloff will be doing both the radio and the TV. the; 10n0 radio on Wednesday nights and rt ffiL of $0e8 a the television Thursday nights, starting next week. The same area of Madison County, a two- story mansion. The New Madrid earthquake in 1811 cracked the brick walls, hut. the house was standing "in good state of repair" in 1882.

Citizens hud time for public en- terprize, as well as private success. Self sufficient as they were, some necessities could neither grow nor contrive. Samuel Judy could make bricks of his own good earth but he had nothing from which to manufacture salt. Salt was one of the dearest commodities that the pioneers must have. St.

Louis was the customary market, but Illinois merchants with dealings as extensive as Pierre Menard's had difficulty in supplying their At one time a man landed a boat at Isaac Gil- hamVferry on the Mississippi and left a few barrels of salt for sale. The farmers of Goshen Settlement bought it eagerly at nine dollars a barrel. At other times as much a seven dollars was paid for a half bushel. SALT THEY MIST HAVE. and Jorm Reynolds recorded their K.aska«kia River where Carlyle is situated at present, by the Walnut Hills, and so on to the salt-works.

This was in olden times called the script will be used but adapted to fit each medium. This wcekpnd is addinc some more items to the list of program developments. Included arc these: Goshen Road Probably John Roy TONIGHT ABC 6:30, Russ Hodges opening a fall series of weekly football summaries. NBC: 6:30 p. Phil Harris and Alice Faye resuming their program two weeks earlier than planned On ABC: 2:15 Betty Clark, 13-year-old blind singer, moving from 5:30 to her former time: new series On CBS: 10:15 p.

resumption of the commentary of UX in Action." COMING UP MONDAY on ABC. all programs five times a week: 10:30 a. Buddy Rogers new jackpot quiz, Pick A Date: 2:55, Ted Malone's new schedule five minutes instead of 15. Also added for Sunday: NBC 2 p. Opening of western states conference on "Land, Water, Jobs" at San Francisco, principal speakers Secretary of Commerce Sawyer and Secretary of Labor Tobin.

By JACK QUIGG AP Movie Writer he'fp him in TV got a good soaking: rain on last memorize lines Monday, Sept. 12. When it began difference be-! raining we out on HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 17- "1 took a part in a movie," said quizmaster Art Linkletter, "thinking it would be good training for television. And boy, was I wrong!" The blond, wisecracking radio M.

C. insists the only thing lie's learned tha is how to There's a lot more difference tween film and video techniques than between radio and TV. Art finds. thinks TV will be able to borrow little from the movies. Linkletter is certain that his unrehearsed "People Are Funny" air show is a natural for television.

He has already tried it here and in New York. But. like most top radio entertainers, he's in no hurry to make the switch. CHARLES IAUOHTON STARTS 52 one-night stands Oct. 1.

reading excerpts from the Bible and other great books. His agency wants him to travel by train, but Laughton insists on motoring. Says that in all his years here he has seen practically nothing of the United States between New York and Hollywood. Spike Jones, touring Michigan, has sent a frantic call to his Hollywood headquarters for soprano to replace Eileen Gallagher, forced by PLEASANT VIEW After a protracted drouth accompanied by a torrid wave of heat beginning sometime in July and continuing throughout August and earlv September we finally morning and sowed a patch of as we had waited to do many week? A surprise birthday dinner was planned for Mr. Kenneth Ruffner for last Sunday, His brother, Dor.

sey Ruffner. wife and child came from Alton the occasion. Herbert Hickle, wife and family came out from Mt Vernon, 111., and his brother-in-law and sister, of Flora also were present. A pleasant time was passed visiting and eating but sadness came to all when a telegram came from DeKalb. 111.

that Mr. Ruffner's brother, Walter, was involved in an automobile head-on collision near that place and that Mr. Ruffner was in a hospital there with a fractured skull. Four persons were killed and ten were in hospitals. Thurs- To Hold Clinic For Mechanics Automobile mechanics in this city and the surrounding territory will have an opportunity to attend a clinic on all phases and problems of ignition at 8 p.

m. Tuesday September 20, In the Mt. Vernon city hall council room. The clinic is sponsored by the Tom Mills Auto Parts Co. of this city in cooperation with Standard Motor Products, of Long Island, New York.

Attedance Is open to all auto mechanics who are interested. The session will be conducted by V. C. Webb, field engineer of Standard Motor Products. The lecture, which will be illustrated by film in color, will deal with the "whys and hows of voltage building, how to test regulators and generators, and how to adjust after testing: how colls are built and why; how condensers are built and operation and testing: and too, an analysis of the ignition distributor and how points should be installed and adjusted according to cam angle.

After the lecture a roundtable will be devoted to questions and answers, and to any special problems the mechanics may have. day morning as we mail this letter. Kenneth informs us that up 1 latest telegrams his brother. Wal-! JCWCierS rUneral ter. has never regained conscious- nolds worked on this road with the other aMo-bodied residents.

Indiana territorial legislature i Illinois would be part of that ter- i rifory until had passed laws I the year before detailing means for' viewing, opening, and roads. The Goshen Road ran east through its namesake settlement to cross Silver Creek. There was a toll bridge there a few years later, "on the road to the U. S. Salines in the southern part of the State." In the beginning of the Goshen Road's story.

provement at the Kaskaskia River crossing, although mail riders from Vincennes and St. Louis were routed that way after 1S05. In 1812. John Hill began operating a ferry, with a block-house fort for safety. Hill's Ferry was the first illness to leave the troupe.

Here's, ne ss. the catch: The replacement must! Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Meaders and have not onlv a fine voice but Mr. and Mrs.

James Newton took heft. too. She "must weigh at least i a trip down to the Ohio At Little Grove 250 pounds, for comedy routine among the Ozaiks and cliffs and purpose. Maybe Spike shoulda viewed the rendezvous of the old sent his SOS to La Scala. or the river pirates, counterfeiters, mur- Met.

derers and robbers that made their hideout in the cave at Cave-In- keeping; invitation to "Mechanics" to settle; in'l "in Edwardsville. surrounded on visit to the "Old Slave House" near three sides by the Goshen Settle- there. Southern Illinois has many ment. which is one of the best in places of much historical and ditional interest and the public is Samuel R. Sanders, 83.

died at river 3:15 a m. today in St. Mary's West Frankfort Man Is Chosen As Army "Dad" By AnotUud PrMl FORT LEWIS, Sept. 17. A West Frankfort.

111., coal miner has raised 14 children 11 of his own and three orphans and now he's to be "father" to part of an army. This post's famous Second Infantry Division yesterday chose 67 year old Earl W. Moore as its honorary dad. The honor carries with it an all- expenses paid trip to Honolulu. Moore will be guest of the 15,000 man division in forthcoming Pacific Ocean war exercises which will include a mock assault on Hawaii.

Corp. Virgil Moore of Company, 23rd Infantry Regiment, nominated his father to compete against thousands of other dads similarly put up by their sons. The winner Was selected on the basis of his son's soldierly qualification, his personal qualifications, and the letter written by the son in submitting the nomination. Struggle In the Mines In selling the elder Moore to the all-officer board which made the selection from 50 finalists. Corporal Moore told of his father's 35 year struggle in the coal mines to support 11 of his own children and three others left by a brother.

"Dad never had much time to travel." the corporal's letter said. He told how his father had worked up at one time in his United Mine Workers Union local to the tion of president. "He has a swell personality and likes to mix with people, too." Three of Moore's sons served In the army during the war. Corporal Moore entered the service 18 months ago. Money Wired to "Dud" The man who will be known as the division will leave his Illinois home Sunday, arriving in Tacoma Tuesday.

The money for the by the officers' nnd non-commissioned officers' aent him by wire yesterday. From here lie will go to Hawaii on a troop same one car. rylng his son. In Honolulu he will be treated to "the works" for a full week, then returned home again by the same route he came. Moore lives In West Frankfort at 1.12 Poplar street.

the territory 1 Illinois NOT ALL FOUND THEIR GOSHEN PEACEFUL. Andrew- Moore left the original settlement there was im-' of tne narne anc igio. returned eastward to settle on the Goshen growing more and more interested in seeing the innumerable scenes they may behold down here in We may not be quite as spry as we were a half century ago but Sunday last Sunday, in company of Mr. and Mrs. George Lomax.

of the Road some ten miles southeast of Mills Curve and also with Dale the present site of Mount Schuster we left the station be- Moore and his son were killed bv tween one and two o'clock and -ji, nc at 0 0 visited much of southern Illinois, Indians at their ovemght camp Indiana Kentucky and were bac name for the city of Carlyle. and on Big Muddy River. Their name again to the station at a little the ferryman the same was eiven Moore's Prairie, where after seven o'clock Over route ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIST! Hollywood Theater. Truth Or Consequences. Hit Parade.

Dennis Day. Gene Autry Show. Gangbusters Drama. Heinie and Uis Band. Navy Band Concert.

A Number Quiz. 8:30 Lombardo Music. 9:00 Theater Concert. SUNDAY TALKS: Reviewing Stand "Labor Management and the Law." 11:30 People's Platform S. Policy Toward Tito." America United, "Displaced Persons Law." Roundtable "Were the War Crime Trials Justified?" Philip Jessep Discussing State Department Policy Regarding UN.

SUNDAY OTHER: Dramatization, Henry Fonda in "Sometime Before Morning." 4:00 Serenade. Theater Guild, "Libel." 2:00 Symphony, Anthony Collins. 3:30 Louis Matinee, formerly Saturdays. 5:00 Arnold in "Devil and Daniel Webster. a.

Playhouse, Eugene List Guest. Around the World. 2 of Songs. 4 Closeup Dramatizations. 4 Shadow.

Rogers Show. Saint. Theater. MONDAY EXPECTATIONS: Berch Show. Children.

Concert. Beasley's Grand Slam. 2 Moore Show. Costello on the Far East. Smith and Dina Shore.

Breakfast Cluh. 3.30—Sec. of Interior Kn.y on "Reclamation and Power." Smith Sings at new time. For A Das. 4 Ranch, new time 5 :00 Ranch, new time.

stretch of river where the suspen sion bridge was built half a century later. 460 to New Harmony, then south to Mt. Vernon. crossed the Ohio on the ferry to Uniontown. then on to Morgan- THE WALNUT HILLS lay in such a rate its citizens grew am- field.

then to the Ohio river the southwest corner of is i bitious to have a state They came and crossed on the ferry to Shaw- now Marion Countv (then it was: 1 Ar neetown and then on route 13 they had lived two years. The Goshen Road funnelpd new residents into Illinois Territory at such a rate its citizens grew am- County by horse-drawn wagons, by two- through Omaha and Norris Citv across the Randolph line from St. Clair, the two! wheeled ox carts, they rode horses to 460 and then home. There counties of Illinois 1 with Wal- donkeys, and shank's mares, they were many things of creat interest pushed wheel barrows and carried ,0 be as we sped along. The their wealth on their backs.

But nf Js of corn with big Pars hanging down and the fine the came, and many stayed. Not all 1 condition of the farm animals nut Prairie extending into what wc know as Jefferson County. Goshen Road crossed this county's area where Mount Vernon would develop, then ran-diagonally across the future Hamilton County, from northwest corner to southeast corner, and on to Equality, center of the United States Saline Reservation, not far from Shawneetown and the Ohio River. Road viewers in this southern stretch had a way of easing their job of finding a direct" route without sun-eying instruments. They led a mare a day's journey away from her foal, then turned her loose.

Rough blazes were cut on trees as the mare took the instinctive "hee line" back to her foal. Then the road could be opened. The builders of the Goshen Road Hospital. Centralia. He was a retired Jefferson and Marion county farmer.

Funeral services will be held from the Little Grove Christian church at 2 p. m. Monday with the Rev. Merle Melton officiating. Interment will be in the nearby cemetery.

i Mr. Sanders resided at 213 S. Cherry in Centralia. He was born July 16, 1866 in Jefferson county, the son of John and Elizabeth (Cook) Sanders. He was a member of the Boyd Christian church.

1 i Surviving are three sons. Elmer, i Carl and Lowell of Centralia. one daughter, Mrs. Sadie Outland of Mt Vernon, a brother, Edgar of Wainut Hill, eight grand children and 10 great grandchildren. The body will lie In state at the family residence after 7 p.

m. i today. was decorated with Indian ham- mer heads and other Indian relics. He is talkative and friendly and well informed and optimistic. Says next year he will try to have white oxen with big horns.

Says he is 80 years old. When he learned we were from Mt. Vernon. 111., he spoke of once knowing Birdie Hopper and her brother, Edgar Hopper, many years ago. SS RRCMG SATURDAY and SUNDAY NIGHT 4 TRIANGLE INN i MUSIC BY A PARK ON U.

S. HIGHWAY NO 40 COU1NSV1UI, III. NIGHTLY OCT. 8 PARI MUTUELS D00Au 'tff POST TIME VA'CVS COCKTAIL HOUR 3 P. M.

to 5 P. M. MANHATTAN MARTINI OLD FASHION COCKTAILS TINY'S HOUSE INC. went the length of the road, but in 181R. when a census was taken to determine whether the Illinois indicate that there will be an abundance to eat this winter.

This seemed to extend in all three states I At many places along the route population was sufficient for state- 1 oil well pumps were busy. We hood, settlers lined the old route. It was a belt of settlement, from Ohio at Shawneetown to the and Crossville. of Mr. John were quite interested when coming to the roadside stand between Mississippi at Alton.

IN WHAT SOON WOULD BE JEFFERSON COUNTV. a thickening of settlement showed where Brown a rather eccentric aged man who brings a bie wagon load with melons and jugs of cider, from his farm, amout a mile north to the slab. An immense load he looked east, striving toward a place Joseph Hensley was the earlies Mt. Vernon would grow. At Walnut brings there using for power two Hill, where the Kaskaskia trail oxen with a huge wooden yoke crossed the Goshen route at an old and guided by lines fastened to Indian village, three or four white rings in their nose.

His wagon families had built their homes Meet Your Friends at BOWMAN'S Broadway at St. Louis, III. where they could obtain their necessity: salt. In the east, beyond the Ohio, men looked west, striving resident, the local justice of the Deace, and a eood stump speaker. His orchard was well set.

the first toward new homes and better! many that would blossom in the CLYDE LEE All Forms Insurance Phone 2940 1008 Main Howard Bide- living. Goshen hecame the pro-1 mised land of their imagination, even as it had seemed to the Reverend Mr. Badgley ten years before. "Goshen Settelment. so called in ancient times, embraced about all the territory of Madison County and was in its early life, as it always has been, a compact, prosperous, and happy community," wrote John Reynolds.

The west bound settlers who traveled the new Goshen Road to its place of beginning found the name was more specificallv applied to a definite political subdivision. It was Goshen Township of St Clair County, a triangular shape including the sites of Edwardsville and Collinsvillc.The county line marked the southern extent of this township, a range line the east, and the meanders of Cahokia Creek formed the hypotenuse of this right-ancled triangle. In 180fi. Thw Goshen Township had to have active overseers of the poor, one of them Isaac Gilham the salt seller. St.

Clair County was reduced in 1812. by forming the new county of Madison running from the present south county line north to the "lir.n of Upper Canada." There was a Goshen Township, the center one of four, and the county soat was the tavern house of Thomas Kirkiiatrick. whose water mill on Cahokia Creek had been rebuilt "main' times before 1807." probably time the creek flooded. It was not lone until a ownsite was nlatted nearhy. the covernor of Illinois Territory was honered by his name being applied 'o the new county seat, and Edwardsville had a land office and a state bank.

The Kaskaskia newspaper carried the advertisements of Edwardsville merchants, and an future Marion County. Cantain James Creed bought the Hensley orchards a generation later and it was in the lyceum at Walnut Hill that a farmer's club, and then the Grange was organized. Captain Creed traveled the state as a Grange organizer, probablv its most orominent member in Illinois. Carlyle. where Indians had killed one traveler in 1813 and chased another across the river into the hushes, by 1818.

had ambition? to be the capital of the state. The ereat United States road from Vincennes to Sr. Ivouis, the roads from Shawneetown and the Saline and the ferries on the Lower Ohio passed through Carlvle's main street. Then on to Edwardsville, Alton, and the new west. THE PROMISED LAND MOVING toward the horizon, just! as Ephraim Connor had done.

But the happy name of Goshen re- 1 mained In Madison County, at-is tached to a meeting house, a school district, and the loving name old 1 men used of their boyhood All across the state the generation 1 whose fathers had traveled the Goshen Road blessed the men of Goshen who needed salt and built; 5 a road. APPLES JONATHAN AND GRIMES GOLDEN Finest quality; good canning grade; as low as 50c J. D. Lacey Grower and Packer of Fine Fruits; 2 miles north Woodlawn. When you visit St.

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