This article focuses on Davy Jones, a young man who registered with the Selective Service System two days after his 18 birthday. He was killed in the very first action he saw, at the age of 19 years and 15 days. Posthumously, he was issued one service ribbon for that action.

David Levi “Davy” Jones, born in Thornhope on October 23, 1923, was the son of Felix Gilbert "Gilbert" and Effie Clouse Jones. Thirteen children were born of this union. Davy was the eleventh child.

This is the tenth in a Series of Reminiscences by E. R. Brown. Pulaski County Democrat, April 13, 1922.

For some reason wild turkeys were not found in Pulaski county by the first settlers, though so prominent in most sections of the state, and few have been known here since. In other areas where timber and other conditions were very similar to those here, they were very numerous.

The largest feathered wild game formerly known here, and certainly the most picturesque, if not the most numerous, were sand-hill cranes. Considering their size and other peculiarities, they were in a class by themselves. From early spring until late in the fall there were few days when they were not seen or heard, while any time after wheat harvest they fed in some of our fields everyday. The largest of them were almost as tall as a man, and though their legs and necks were both long, the heaviest of them must have weighed close to fifty pounds. Their rich coat of feathers fairly glistened in the sunlight, being of a blueish-gray color, touched in places with salmon and shading off lighter under their wings and bodies. Their calls when excited could be heard a mile, though when they were more calm they were soft and musical.

We can assume we will hear about Mastodons! The first complete mastodon skeleton to be unearthed and displayed at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. was discovered at the Pattison farm in Rich Grove Township, Pulaski County.

Thursday, March 21, 2024

Gathering at 6:00 for desserts and coffee at Celebration Station, corner of Main and Market in Winamac

Short business meeting (short!) starts at 6:30 to elect officers and 1/3 of the directors. No other business is before the Society.

The program will start immediately following the election.

Hoosier cabinets are a mainstay in many homes throughout the midwest. The January/February community display features two of John Simmermaker's child's hoosier cabinets as well as advertisements and other domestic toy pieces.

Hoosier style cabinets were first manufactured in Elwood Indiana in 1898 by the Sellers company who would move their operation to New Castle. In the heyday of hoosier cabinet manufacturing between 1898 and 1949 there were dozens of manufactures of these cabinets.

One was the Hoosier Manufacturing Company, also located in New Carlile, who at its peak was making hundreds of cabinets every day. The Hoosier cabinet's eventual decline is attributed to post World War II innovations in kitchen appliances.

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This poem was written in the summer of 1979 by Mary K. Wiesjahn Williamson. a Star City native. She was born in 1918 and died at the age of 99 in 2018. If you would like to catch up on the series, it started in the January 2023 edition of the e-newsletter. FIND IT HERE.

When the elevator burned in ‘54, the heat

Blew to the west side of the train tracks.

This caused the roof on the Moyer Building to

Weaken and then collapse.

Their roof was repaired, but one Sunday morn,

There was an awful scare;

When the whole second story collapsed (with a boom);

And the townspeople gathered to stare.

Paul Ortman the owner of the store,

Remodeled making it just one-story high,

So to the impressive structure call ‘Moyer’s Hall’;

We bid a sad good-bye.

The Whipple Bros. Sawmill and the Moyer’s Bros. Grain;

Businesses of not so long ago.

Now it's White’s Sawmill, with Gould’s at Moyers,

And with the exception of Merle,

All Brothers’ names are just an after-glo.

John Depoy managed the Farmers Grain & Supply Co.,

Many long years ago.

Followed by Earl Zeiders, manager for 38 yrs,

Where Business continued to grow.

Ray Burger became manager after Earl resigned,

Keeping the same hard working crew.

With bumper crops of grain being produced,

Without the Elevators the farmer couldn’t do.

Tickets available in advance by mail: Preserve Historic La Porte, PO Box 853, La Porte, IN 46352-0853 or through Eventbrite.

Kurt West Garner is a preservation consultant with bachelor’s degrees in business administration from Bethel University and Architecture from Andrews University. He began a consulting & design business with a focus on preservation-related work in 2008. His range of work includes feasibility studies and conditions assessments, restoration planning, tax credit applications, and has written over 260 National Register nominations. He has worked in all but 15 of Indiana’s 92 counties.

Todd Zeiger represents Indiana Landmarks across the 21 county Northern Region to carry out their mission of saving meaningful places. He is a self-described “lifelong heritage conservation professional and advocate who is genetically wired to find new uses and strategies to save threatened historic buildings”. From opening Copshaholm - the Oliver Family home in South Bend - as a museum, to saving buildings such as a c. 1843 Greek Revival in Howe, Indiana, several historic buildings at the Indiana Dunes National Park or assisting developers with tax credit renovations, he brings to projects a practical, market based approach to repurposing historic and vintage properties. As the fourth generation on the family farmstead, Todd is a native Hoosier who practices what he advocates through the ever-ongoing rehabilitation of a historic house and barn.

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