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OF THE HUNDREDS OF Columbiana County men who left their homes and families to

help preserve the Union during the Civil War, only one achieved the rank of general. James William Reilly of Wellsville earned not only high rank but also heroic distinction on the battlefield.

Born in Akron in 1828 of Irish-born parents, Reil­ly attended Allegheny College and Mount St. Mary's College in Emmittsburg, Maryland. He then read law under attorney George M. Lee of Wells­ville, and was admitted to the bar in 1853. He was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1861. During the early years of his law practice, it is said that he regularly walked to Lisbon to try his cases.

As a politically prominent lawyer who had assisted the governor in organizing Ohio's volun­teer forces subsequent to the firing on Fort Sumter, Reilly was a natural choice for appointment to mil­itary command. Throughout the Civil War, promi­nence in political life almost automatically entitled distinguished, and sometimes undistinguished, politicians to the command of troops in the field -occasionally with disastrous results.

In the summer of 1862, Reilly was appointed col­onel of the 104th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regi­ment which was being recruited in Columbiana, Stark, Portage and Summit Counties. Columbiana County provided four companies - approximately 400 men - of the ten companies comprising the 104th. Company C was made up of East Palestine men; Company F came from Reilly's own home­town while Companies G and K represented Salem and Lisbon respectively. A company was also raised in East Liverpool by Captain Harrington Hill, but was later assigned to a different regiment.

After being sworn into federal service in Massil­lon, Reilly and the 104th were rushed to Cincinnati which was being fortified against attack during the Confederate invasion of Kentucky. Only eleven days after they entered the service, the raw recruits of the 104th were engaged in skirmishing with the advance guard of the Rebel forces. One soldier from the 104th was killed and five wounded -including a Salem man who lost a leg by amputa-

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Following this early excitement, Reilly's regi­ment spent what must have been a long year marching and countermarching over Kentucky's dusty highways in pursuit of various Confederate cavalry units. Reilly's fiery temper and renowned command of profanity made him well-known to his men - if not always popular. His insistence on constant drill was not intended for winning a popularity contest but his men were always con­sidered the best-drilled of any neighboring regiments.

On one occasion at least, Reilly endeared himself to his men and shocked his superiors by a display of his Celtic temperament at its most virulent. Bri­gadier General Henry Judah once caught two of Reilly's men in possession of some stolen chickens and immediately ordered them bucked and gagged - a brutal Regular Army punishment. When Reil­ly saw the two tied up, he ordered them immedi­ately released and went looking for Judah.

Eyewitness accounts reported that when he con­fronted the superior officer, he shrieked, "If you ever come into this command with any more such orders, I'll let daylight through your damned hide." Another witness commented that "he could swear a blue streak at the slightest provocation, and now the air was fairly loaded with the brim­stone smoke as he stormed and fumed 'till his tem­per cooled down." Apparently Judah was cowed by this display and the men of the 104th were able to supplement their rations without interference thereafter.

In the summer of 1863, the 104th was ordered to East Tennessee, arriving at Knoxville on September 4. The regiment assisted in the capture of the Cum­berland Gap and was part of the garrison of Knox­ville during a 22-day seige by Coruederate General James Longstreet. After successfully resisting Longstreet's efforts, a miserable winter was spent in quarters at Strawberry Plains outside of Knox­ville. Many men succumbed to exposure and priva­tions endured during this interval in active service.

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By Lois Firestone My sister and I were only one year apart and so

we were close companions; we spent hours playing with our dolls when we were young. In the sum­mer we'd haul kitchen chairs outside to the back­yard where we'd hold "piano recitals" for our "stu­dents" - cleverly, we chose a spot underneath the window of the house next door where Margaret Kirkbride sat every morning and afternoon with her piano students. Indoors or out, chilly weather or warm, we were immersed in our world of dolls.

My daughters never cared much about them, and I could never figure out why. Most of the time, their miniature babies and toddlers stood poised on their bureaus or rested in their cribs and bug­gies. What they did enjoy were paper dolls. The couches and chairs in the family room were taken up with make believe homes, beauty shops and supermarkets for these dolls, and the girls' tiny fin­gers designed and scissored clothes for them by the dozen. What they liked about them were their shapely "grown up" bodies and their fashionable clothes.

So I guess I. wasn't too surprised when they started begging for a Barbie doll - she was curvy as the dickens and had a vast wardrobe one could buy which included everything from jodphurs and riding boots to a strapless evening gown with boa. And she had a boy friend. .

Our household saw numerous Barbies and Kens arrive, and stay, over succeeding years, along with their friends Midge and Alan and younger sister Skipper. I had at first disapproved because I thought the teen dolls were encouraging my child­ren to grow up too fast, but I was so grateful that they were showing an interest in doll play that I went along with it. Soon I was stitching up intri­cate Barbie suits, coats and blouses and knitting little sweaters, checking notions counters for minute zippers and buttons for the costumes. The year I made Barbie and Ken ski outfits I created a skiing lodge for them from a cardboard box.

Gradually, the kids lost interest and the fashion dolls were packed away with other toys. I paid scant attention to the doll market until my grand­daughter came along. I was surprised to see that Barbie was still around, often clothed in designer gowns and formed not only from plastic, but por­celain, too. There are dozens of things to buy for the Barbie family of dolls: $200 town houses, jeeps, horses, royal coaches, beauty shops, hat shops, to name a seant few.

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Most of us these days use the generic strings of white or colored light bulbs to brighten our Christ­mas trees, but not too many years ago there was a much greater variety of lights available, and many of them are highly collectible today.

At first, of course, yuletide trees were lit with candles, but not long after Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, it found its way onto the Christmas tree. It was an Edison Co. executive, Edward Johnson, who was the first to utilize them for that purpose - he hung strings of 80 hand­blown electric lamps on Christmas Eve 1882.

In 1895, the first Christmas tree lights appeared in Grover Cleveland's White House, but for a num­ber of reasons - key among them the fact that so many households still lacked electricity - it was years before Christmas lights were commercially produced. (In the interim, various hand-wired types were concocted, including the fstoon lamp, or stringer - crude globes with carbon filaments and unreliable exposed wire with eight sockets);

the first mass-produced lights were not for the masses. Very expensive, they were a seasonal lux­ury for the affluent.

Around 1910, attractive decorative and figural lights began to be imported from Austria, Hungary and Germany. These were made of thin transpa­rent glass hand painted in a variety of dclica te col­ors, elaborately molded, some coated with crushed glass, in an immense range of forms - birds, ani­mals, flowers, fruit, fairy tale figures, clowns and witches - imitated on this side of the Atlantic by the Eveready Co.

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General Electric introduced globular examples in 1916 under the Mazda imprint, now a magic name for Christmas collectors.

the Japanese entered the market in 1917 when importer Louis Szel went there to circumvent the closing of the European export market. One of the key developments there was hte introduction of milkl glass in 1918 and between the two World Wars, hundreds of figural lights were produced to appeal to the American market.

One of the key events in the story of Christmas tree lights was the merger of 15 small production companies into the National Outfit Manufacturers' Association, known by its acronym, NOMA, in 1925.

NOMA produced many colorful and collectible lights over the years, including their Mickey Mouse Shades (introduced at the 1939 World's Fair), but by far their best known and most sought after today is the bubble light that appeared in 1945 which indeed, bubbled.

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April 1864 found Reilly and the 104th preparing for the upcoming campaign against Atlanta. They participated in all the general engagements and were under fire for 120 days. Reilly personally led a charge against Confederate entrenchments at Resaca, Georgia on May 14. He elected to lead his regiment from horseback but selected a mount described in the regimental history as a "plug" so as not to risk the financial loss of a more valuable animal.

One enlisted man later described Reilly's charge: " ... he lost his cap and with his hair and galway \vhiskers standing out like porcupine quills he reached the enemy line. The plug horse, unable to leap the enemy's works, landed with his front feet in the ditch and balked - leaving the Colonel in a very uncomfortable position. He dismounted and finished the advance on foot as he could not coax or swear the animal out of the ditch. The boys thought it was the sight of the charging Reilly that frightened the enemy from their trenches."

Reilly's service was rewarded with promotion during July 1864 when he received word that he would be appointed as a Brigadier General of Vol­unteers. For some time prior, Reilly had had com­mand of the four regiments in his brigade and, at times, of an entire division.

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gade made a frontal assault on a prepared Confed­erate position at Utoy Creek. The result was a slaugfoer, costing 450 kille?, wounded and cap­tured. Reilly was seen passmg along the rows of dead after the battle with tears streaming down his cheeks.

The long series of battles that had begun in April finally brought about the capture of Atlanta on September 2. While Sherman marched east toward the sea, the balance of the army remained behind to contend with remaining Conffederate forces.

The high point of Reilly's military career occurred on November 30, 1864 at Franklin, Ten­nessee, where the Confederate Army of Tennessee, under John Bell Hood, forced the Union forces to turn and defend themselves. The Union troops immediately began constructing breastworks and by late afternoon were formidably prepared against assault. Hood, whose legendary aggressive­ness was responsible for his promotion to army command, was advised not to commit his troops to a bloody attack against a prepared enemy. As usu­al, Hood chose instead to risk all on the one tactic that characterized all of his military career. · Accordingly, at about 4:30 p.m., the Union troops sheltering behind their earthen walls heard the Confederate bands playing as brigade after bri­gade of the Army of Tennessee formed up in para­de ground order for their charge. Reilly's brigade, which included his old regiment, was located near the center of the Union line in the vicinity of a cot-

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momentarily broke the Union line but the men ral­lied and quickly restored the situation. Hood con­tinued to throw men h~adlong onto the bristling Union defenses. The result was one of the worst disasters ever to befall Confederate arms. Hood's army sustained over 6,000 casualties which included 1,700 killed outright. By comparison, Pickett's immortal charge at Gettysburg resulted in only half as many casualties as were inflicted at Franklin. The fury of the Rebel assault was further evidenced by the fact that no less than six Confed­erate generals were killed that bloody day. Two of these were killed in dose proximity to the position of the 104th Ohio. The regiment captured eleven enemy battle flags and six men from the regiment were later awarded the new Congressional Medal of Honor.

Union casualties were only a fraction of those suffered by the attackers but even so, the 104th lost 70 men - one-fifth of those present. That night, the Union army continued the retreat northward to Nashville where Hood again dashed his decimated forces against the Union anvil. From that point, the Army of the Tennessee ceased to be an effective

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The 23rd Army Corps, including both Reilly and the 104th, was then ordered to North Carolina to rejoin Sherman's avenging legions. After some additional skirmishing, the 104th was assigned gar­rison duty in several cities. On April 1, 1865, Gen­eral Reilly submitted his resignation, only days before the war ended: Had he not resigned, Reilly would no doubt have received a promotion to bre-

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vet Major General, an honorary elevation in rank given in recognition of long and distinguished ser­vice to thousands of Union officers.

Instead, the General returned to the practice of law and banking interests in Wellsville. In 1866 and 1878, he was suggested as a Republican candi­date for Congress but was not noirninated - large­ly due to his refusal to do any campaigning for himself. .

In 1873, Reilly was a delegate to the Ohio Consti­tutional Convention and from 1876 to 1878 served as a trustee of the Soldiers' Orphans Home in Xeni­a. A lifelong bachelor, Reilly purchased a large brick home on Riverside A venue, which later became the MacLean Funeral Home (now Martin's).

Death came to the General on November 6, 1905 at age 77. He was laid to rest in St. Elizabeth Cemetery wearing the uniform of a Brigadier General.

Interestingly, no will was ever found and the General's estate, estimated at $250,000, resulted in years of litigation by would-be heirs. One news­paper account reported that 375 persons had pre­sented claims to the estate. Claimants appeared from England and Ireland and the numerous attor­neys representing the parties were frequently photographed covering the steps of the Courthouse in Lisbon.

In the end, the courts were unconvinced by the sometimes imaginative stories of the claimants and Reilly's wealth was awarded to the state of Ohio. The money was eventually divided among Colum­biana County Schools. In Salem, the windfall was used to purchase and construct an athletic field, which explains why Reilly Field in Salem is named after the Wellsville General. Thus, one of Colum­biana County's most heroic soldier-sons is today remembered more for the football stadium that bears his name than for his martial exploits.

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GERTRUDE Rf CHARDS, HISTORIAN Gertrude Whinnery Richards is the one who

received the body of Edwin Coppoc, brought from Winona to Salem for burial. In 1921 she turned over Coppoc' s original wooden coffin to the Ohio State Archaelogical & Historical Museum.

Mrs. Richards was the daughter of Dr. John C. Whinnery, who recognized the historic value of the crude box, and preserved it in the attic of the building where his office were located (southwest comer of State Street and South Broadway). Efforts continue today to have this coffin returned for pre­servation at the Salem Historical Museum. That is where it truly belongs.

Mrs. Richards was one of Salem's most know­ledgeable historians of the early days. A life-long resident of Salem, she saw the town grow from a bleak log-cabined wilderness into a thriving com­munity. She was born in 1847 in a house where the old MacMillan Book Store once stood.

As a daughter of active anti-slavery parents, Ger­trude was reared in a home which later became a leading station on the Underground Railroad. Here, in her childhood, she heard conversations of stalwart men regarding the ways and means of for­warding Negro slaves to freedom in Canada. These men earnestly believed that all men were created equal, and that there could be no obedience to a law in favor of human property.

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ick Douglas and Sojourner Truth. As a result, she was greatly concerned about preserving the histor­ic Town Hall where these people spoke. It was razed in 1952.

This lady was one of the last residents of our area to have been thrilled by Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. To her, the immortal address was never a mere speech, but a challenge to all lovers of free-. dom. Lincoln's assassination was an extremely sor­rowful event in her life. She had seen, heard and felt the effects of his tragic death.

Gertrude Richards died at her home at 1085 Jen­nings Ave. on April, 17, 1939. She was 91 years of age, and left four daughters and two sons. Burial was at Grandview Cemetery.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH ORGAN For 52 years the organ at the old First Christian

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Thafbeautiful organ with its tall pipes was made by Hillgreen, Lane & Co. of Alliance. It cost $2,000 and was dedicated on July 21, 1907 during morn­ing and evening services. The audience was thrilled with its powerful sound. Miss Lela Baker, church organist, played for most of the services, along with J. Almon Mackey of the First Christian Church in New Castle.

By the time of the dedication the organ was almost completely paid for. Pledges had been made through a series of revival meetings held by Rev. H. H. Clark, the pastor. Guest minister for the services was the former pastor, Rev. T. E. Cramb­let, president of Bethany College.

Objects curator Lawrence Becker holds a reunited ancient marble statue as curator D. Margaret Ellen Mayor holds a cycladic beaker at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia. The 4,000-year-old torso which was found fit together and has been permanently re-attached. (AP LaserPhoto)

AN ANCIENT MARBLE STATUE in an exhibit that opened recently at the Virginia Museum

of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia existed for more than 4,000 years in two broken parts - a head and a torso.

A group of conservators from museums around the country came to Richmond in January 1988 to view an exhibit that included the pieces. One of them joked that it would be funny if any of the fragments in the 147-piece collection matched.

One of the conservators picked up two pieces and, to everyone's surprise, they fit.

"They say you could hear an audible 'dick' when the two pieces snapped together," said Virgi­nia Museum spokesman Don Dale.

"This was, for the most part, just a very exciting accident," said Margaret Ellen Mayo, the museum's curator of ancient art. "It actually was kind of embarrassing because both pieces were listed in the exhibit's catalog on separate rages."

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dates to about 2400 B.C:. Museum officials believe it was broken within 100 years after it was created.

It comes from Keros, one of the Cyclades islands in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey. The statue is part of a relatively small collection of art from the Cycladic culture.

The torso was donated to the Virginia Museum in 1985 by collector W.B. Causey of Santa Ana Calif. The head was owned by collectors Paul and Marianne Steiner of New York City until recently, when it was acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif.

Last month, Metropolitan Museum of New York conservator Jeff Pahacs was called in to make the statue whole. A small steel rod was inserted, and the pieces were glued together.

Ms. Mayo said little is known about the Cycladic culture because no written records exist. Officials believe such statues, created in a reclining position with arms folded, were placed in tombs and sanctuaries.

Ancient earthworks may be destroyed by mining company

By Katherine Rizzo Associated Press Writer

A DELA Y ON CAPITOL Hill has given preserv­ationists time to try to convince Congress to

rescue remnants of a long-extinct culture that left behind perplexing geometric earthworks in south­ern Ohio.

The onset of cold weather means the end of the mining season and a reprieve for people who spent this year trying to get the government to buy more of the puzzling property and secure it for future research.

A gravel company that owns some of that prop­erty voluntarily suspended mining operations for most of the year, while Congress worked on legis­lation to protect the land as a national historic park.

It took Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, until September to get his land acquisition bill through the Senate.

Lawmakers wrapped up only urgent matters before recessing so they don't have to come back to Washington until later this month. The bill will advance sometime this year, Metzenbaum's staff said.

The bill must get through a subcommittee, full committee and the House. If that happens before the spring thaw, the land could move into public hands without further mining threat.

James Ridenour, director -of the National Park Service, said the gravel mining operation on the land adjacent to the Mound City Group National Monument in Ross County, Ohio, is "of particular concern to us."

'Without the protection offered by S. 749 (Met­zcnbaum's bill) the gravel company will destroy the remaining 60 percent of the landmark that they currently own," Ridenour warned the House National Parks subcommittee last week.

A significant part of the legacy of the extinct, nameless culture already has been preserved. But decades of farming have worn down some mounds and others have been mined.

Some of that excavation was done in the last month, when a self-imposed moratorium ended and Chillicothe Sand and Gravel Co. worked on a small part of the land adjacent to the national monument.

Archaeologists have high hopes for that proper­ty, since it may contain evidence about the daily lives of the Hopewell Indians, who borrowed the name of Mordecai Hopewell, the farmer who own­ed the land in the 1890' s.

Mark Michel, president of the Archaeological Conservancy, described the Ohio earthworks as "some of the best preserved and most spectacular remains of prehistoric America's golden age."

He said the 762 acres proposea for purchase by the government (for $3 million) include places where art works, pearls and other treasures were found.

"Clearly this site was of immense importance to

the Hopewell people," he said. But no one has yet figured out why it is impor­

tant, or what happened to the people who left behind those treasures around 500 A.D.

Modern-day researchers want to figure it out. Michel and the park service director urged Con­

gress to make that possible by acting quickly.

Newlyweds Lawrence W. and Lydia Hinton settle down for a jaunt into Salem as they leave their Millville Road home in this photo taken in the early 1900s. Hinton was a successful Salem businessman in the 1900s as owner of the L. W. Hinton Plumbing Co. The photo of his parents is from Robert Hinton's collection.

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office in New Lisbon, free delivery in the city did not start until 1888. Among the first carriers were Will H. Read and William T. Smith. J.N. Yates was an early carrier in Salem for 32 years. J.A. Mounts was another.

In the old days, people in the outlying districts received their mail only three times a week, and some farm folks only when they had time to go into t<"lwn. Salem rural lines were the first in the county. Five of them were established in 1901, and the sixth in 1904.

Before 1809, mail reached the struggling settle­ments in Columbiana County only at irregular intervals. In that year the county seat at New Lis­bon began receiving a regular weekly service by horseback from Pittsburgh. John Depue and Hor­ace Daniels were early carriers. Arrival of the post­man in New Lisbon was the major eve~t of the week.

The weekly mail ran by way of Smith's Ferry, Little Beaver Bridge, Calcutta, East Fairfield, New Lisbon, and then on to Deerfield, Ravenna and Cleveland. By 1829 there was a stage line through

Lisbon three times a week. These pioneer coaches carried mail, passengers and light baggage. At first they were drawn by four horses, then six.

For several years the mails were carried north from New Lisbon to Salem on horseback or on foot. Salem's Historical Society Museum has sad­dlebags used for that purpose. In the late 1820s and early 1830s, James Vaughn carried mail on foot from New Lisbon through Salem, to connect at Pal­myra with the stage route between Big Beaver Point and Cleveland. By 1836 a large number of post offices were on daily stage routes.

Railroads soon began playing a part in transport­ing mail. In 1851, Salem and Alliance were con­nected by the Pennsylvania Railroad system.

Some time later, a stage route was established between Hanoverton and Salem via New Garden and Winona. Madison Shaw is said to have been the first carrier on this route. When the route was discontinued in 1894, Vincent Blythe was the carri­er. He then began carrying mail between Winona and Salem.

The post office at Winona was established in 1868, with James H. Dean as postmaster. He had the office in his home, along with a store. Carriers went from Hanover to Salem three times a week.

Virginia historians preserving history By Zinie Chen

Associated Press Writer

A LREADY FULL OF MUSEUMS, battlefields and monuments, Virginia is trying to pre­

serve history in yet another way - with a huge newspaper drive.

The Virginia State Library and Archives, the Vir­ginia Historical Society, the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary are working together to preserve newspapers published in the Old Dominion since the 17th century. . "People have been thinking about this for a long

time. Anyone engaged in historical or genealogical research in Virginia is aware how newspapers arc invaluable," said John Kneebone, an editor and historian in the publications division at the State Library.

"Newpapers provide us with evidence of public opinion, information about politics and govern­ment and ... people who lived at the time," he said.

Virginia has a wealth of history that should be preserved, said William C. Chamberlain, chairman of the project's advisory board and a director at the State Library.

Some of the earliest newspapers were the most significant ones, he said.

"The Virginia Gazette started in the 1600s in Williamsburg, went through the Revolutionary War ... and it's still going," said Chamberlain, not­ing that Civil War-era newspapers are another vital source of information.

Different newspapers give varying editorial slants on the same events, he pointed out. And so they give readers diverse views on history -adding much to the history textbooks being used in classrooms today.

Chamberlain said he relishes the project, >vhich he expects will take about five or six years. 'Tm a history buff. It just got me interested and I just went from there."

Eleanor Andrews, bookkeeper at the National G~nealogic~l Soc_iety in Arlington, said the project will make 1t easier for people to "find out where the blank spots arc" in their family lines.

Ms. Andrews learned about a weekly southwest Virginia newspaper that was able to tell her more about the death of her great-grandfather, William Liddle, after the Civil War. The newspaper was preserved on microfilm and stored at Duke University.

"I called Duke ... and they sent me a photocopy abou~ t~;e mine _acci?ent th:1t my grea_t-grandfather was m, she said. 'It confirmed my information."

Ms. Andrews said putting old newspapers on microfilm could be particularly helpful to genealo­gists because there were no formal birth and death registrations in Virginia before 1853.

Kneebone said the project began this fall in with a survey form, press releases and posters sent to his_torical societies, librarians and newspaper offices across Virginia "trying to find every news­paper out there."

The response to this first phase has been very, very good, Chamberlain says. Information about the existence and condition of papers - and occa­sionally copies of the papers themselves - has been streaming in from the institutions and even from individual owners.

Some newspapers already are preserved on microfilm. Time, however, is running out for other publications. "I looked at some newspapers and they won't last through this project," Chamberlain said.

"Newspapers published before the 1840s were published on rag paper - relatively strong - and we do· not anticipate much trouble. In the 1900s, the quality of paper began to deteriorate. Anything published around 1900 is probably the most endan­gered of the lot," he said.

The next stage involves compiling a catalog of newspapers and deciding how to preserve them. The final stage of the project is the actual micro­filming of the newspapers, Kncebonc said. Project officials have not decided yet where the microfilm will be stored.

Kneebone is co-editor of the Dictionary of Virgi­nia Biography, a seven-volume reference book about famous Virginians. He said the archived newspapers would have been handy, for example, when he was researching Robert Peel Brooks, one of the first black lawyers to practice law in Richmond.

"In 1877 he became editor of a newspaper called the Virginia Star. The State Library has 11 copies of the Virginia Star," he said.

The copies of the black-run newspaper gave Kneebone some insight on Peel Brooks, but "the problem is that we know the Virginia Star existed for at least five years. We're trying to find the rest of them."

Kneebone said he hopes that after the newspaper project is completed, people who want to learn

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The Virginia Newspaper Project is part of a nationwide effort supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and tech­nical assistance from the Library of Congress.

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TANNERS' FLESHING KNIFE. After a hide was cured, it was trimmed and laid over a slanted beam so that it could be scraped. A special dehairing knife was used on the hair side, and the flesh side required a knife designed for its surface.

DOG. A dog was used to fasten a log to a beam so that it would not roll while being hewed and adzed. The dog became obsolete as the populari­ty of log cabins declined.

BROADAXE. The broadaxe was a short-handled axe with a beveled (slanted on one side) blade. Colonial builders used it to hew round logs into square beams. The handle angled away from the head of the axe to keep the user from scraping his knuckles.

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By Dale E. Shaffer Freedom Hall, a replica of Salem's 1840 carpent­

er's shop known as Liberty Hall, has some of its walls covered with all sorts of old tools once used by our ancestors. There are froes, axes, hoes, rakes, saws, drills, drawknives, cradle scythes, blacksmith tongs, stone-cutting chisels and other tools of every size and shape.

Few early tools survive today as anything other than collectors' and museum items. The felling ax has fallen to the chain saw; the candy hammer and scissors have been replaced by factory machines. You may know a wrench from a hammer, but can you tell a grapnel from a millbill?

Take a look at these examples of old tools. Then, if you live in the area, schedule a visit to Freedom Hall to see many more, including a complete blacksmith shop donated by Robert Stamp.

ICE AXE. Until refrigeration became widespread, ice was harvested in winter and stored in special cellars under sawdust. The ice axe was used to split large blocks of ice that had been removed from ponds and lakes with other specially crafted ice gear.

MORTISE AXE. Log cabins were built with mortised and tenoned beams: A tenon is a square projection on the end of one beam that fits into the mortise, or square hole, of another. The narrow head of the axe was especially suited to squaring holes in beams. ---=--::--=--. :;::::--:. ; . ..

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- consistency of the apple mixture.

MILLBILL. A millbill was a hard chisel-headed hammer that was used to cut and recut the grooves in a mill­er's grindstone. The grinding surface wore down with use, and millers fre­quently had to shut down to recut their grindstone.

ADZ. The adz was most often used as a trimming tool; it smoothed rough spots and ax marks on hewed logs. The builder stood on a beam and scraped its surface with the hoe­shaped chisel head of the adz.

GRAPNEL. Food was kept cool in summer by lowering storage pails into wells. Grapnels, also called well hooks, came to the rescue when something fell in and had to be fished out.

Highlights in h·istory over the past decades H ERE ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS in history

occurring at year's end over past decades. In 1524 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama -

who had discovered a sea route around Africa to India - died in Cochin, India.

In 1851, fire devastated the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., destroying about 35,000 volumes.

In 1865, several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski, Tenn., called the Ku Klux Klan.

In 1871, Guiseppe Verdi's opera, "Aida" had its world premiere in Cairo, Egypt to celebrate the

opening of the Suez Canal. In 1799, Geo:i;ge Washington was eulogized by

Col. Henry Lee as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen."

In 1865, James H. Nason of Franklin, Mass. received a patent for a coffee percolator.

In 1893, the future leader of China, Mao Tsetung, was born in Hunan province.

In 1917 during World War II, the U.S. govern­ment took over operation of the nation's railroads.

In 1906 Canadian physicist Reginald A. Fessen­den became the first person to broadcast a music program over radio from Brant Rock, Mass.

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Lynn Marie Houger during her growing up years in Salem in the house at 958 W. Persh­ing St. where her parents, Evelyn and Wesley Houger still live.

By Lois Firestone

BEFORE CLOSING UP THE newsroom for the holiday, editor Ray Dean reminded the

reporter of the unusual story he'd been assigned on this final day of 1951: remain on standby near a telephone after midnight, with loaded camera within easy reach.

For the first time, The Salem News planned to officially welcome the first baby born in the New Year. The infant's photograph would be taken shortly after he or she was born and would appear on the newspaper's front page, and the town's merchants had donated a variety of goods and ser­vices - $100 worth, a lot of money in those days. Nurses and doctors at Salem's two hospitals had been alerted to keep a watchful eye for the first "Miss or Mister 1951 of Salem."

It turned out to be Lynn Marie Houger, although she didn't arrive until 8:08 on the morning of Tues­day, January 2 at the Central Clinic. None had been born in either of the town's two hospitals, the clinic and the City Hospital. Her parents, Wesley and Evelyn Houger had two other youngsters at home, six-year-old Brian and Nancy, a four-year-

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1951's Year's Baby

Tiny Lynn Marie Hauger rests in the arms of her mother, Evelyn M. Houger, in this photograph taken by a Salem News photographer just four hours after she arrived at 8:08 a.m. Tuesday, January 2, 1951 at the Salem Central Clinic. The New Year's baby was late in arriving; no babies were born in Salem on January 1 that year.

old. The Hougers had moved to Salem from Akron

six years earlier, and moved into a home at 958 W. Pershing St. Wes had accepted. the position of assistant cashier with the Farmers National Bank; when he retired in 1978 he was a vice president with the firm. The Hougers still live in the Persh­ing Street house.

Lynn, a healthy baby, grew up in Salem and gra­duated from Salem High School. For 18 years, she has been an executive secretary at the Electric Fur­nace Co. Her husband, Jim Lantz is a baseball coach at Salem High School.

Brian played on coach Earle Bruce's football

team during his high school years and today lives in Syracuse, New York where he is an industrial relations director for the Owens-Iilinois Mfg. Co. Nancy McConkey lives in Marietta, Georgia where she is raising a family and working for a law firm.

Every year since Lynn Marie was honored as the first New Year's Baby 41 years ago, the Salem News has celebrated the event along with the town's businesses. Time has brought about one change: the Central Clinic is gone - the building was razed a few years back. The city has one hospital, Salem Community, where doctors and nurses in the maternity ward are eagerly awaiting, as they always do, the celebrated newcomer of 1992.

Items of interest from newspaper files of 50 years ago C,ompiled by Bekkee Panezott

H ERE ARE SOME NEWS notes taken from the files of the Salem News 50 years ago.

P.A. Presco of 963 N. Union Ave. local Western Union office manager, has been named Columbia­na County chairman for the March of Dimes cam­paign against infantile paralysis.

Lydia Bible class officers are Frances Dales, pres­ident; Mrs. Ralph Warner, vice president; Mrs. John Beck, secretary; and Mary Berger, treasurer.

Officers of the Holy Trinity English Lutheran Church are J.A. Fehr, J. Elmer Johnson and W.E. McKenzie, council members; Ruth Hoch, organist;

Celia Greenisen, first assistant organist; and Rachel Lou Keister, second assistant organist.

Pvt. Delos Owens, son of Mr. and Mrs. N.D. Owens of 765 E. Third St., has been graduated with a new class in radio communications at Scott Field, Ill. Air Corps Technical School.

Pvt. John P. Sutherin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sutherin of West State St., has been commended, along with others officers and men in the rein­forced 17th air base group at Hickam field in the Hawaiian islands, for valor in action following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7.

Mrs. John Burke, past president of Ladies Catholic Benevolent Association, conducted the

installation of Margaret Entrikin, new president and other officers of LCBA.

Seniors Olive Carter, Barbara Geiger, Josephine Hans, Joyce Hollinger, Kenneth Marty, Marjorie Steer, Vernon Weingart and Geraldine York were named to the honor roll at the Goshen Township High School.

Pvt. Robert Wilde Jr. of the Marine Corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wilde of Salem, has been awarded medals for pistol shooting, rifle marks­manship and expert hand grenade throwing at Par­ris Island, S.C.

Out of the Amazon By Nancy Shulins

AP Special Correspondent

YARIMA GOOD IS LEAVING the shopping malls, traffic jams and fast food franchises

of the suburbs this winter for a journey 10,000 years into the past.

The Rutherford, N. J. woman will be among Earth's most primitive people, with no written lan­guage and no concept of numbers or time; naked Indians who feast on termites and tarantulas and have yet to invent the wheel.

In effect, she will be in the Stone Age. In fact, Yarima will be home. Five years have passed since the love of a man

brought Yarima out of the Amazon jungle, through the looking glass and into the 20th century. Five years since she first wore clothes or walked in shoes; since she learned to make light by moving a little stick on the wall; since she crouc;hed under a bush to hide from the terrible beast with glowing eyes that turned out to be her first car.

Now the mother of three in a suburban jungle, she can laugh at her early fears: that her reflection would spring from mirrors . and attack her, that toilets would bite her if she sat on them.

In 1975, when anthropologist Kenneth Good went to Venezuela to study Yarima's people, the Yanomama, she was a child, and he was the first "nabuh," or outsider, she'd ever seen.

He ended up staying 12 years. The child who'd shared her plantains and fishing spots with him grew up. So did their fondness for one another. Against all odds, it bloomed into love.

Now Ken is her husband and it's Yarima who's a stranger in a strange land, the land of the nabuh, where everything's different - everything except love. That alone is the same: strong enough to bridge the 10,000 years between her world and his.

There is much in this baffling wonderland that delights her: Macy's sportswear and McDonald's french fries. Michael Jackson and NFL football. Automatic dishwashers and disposable diapers.

Still, it's a staggering transition from life ~n a jungle tribe, surrounded by every friend and rela­tive she'd ever known, to life in a two-bedroom apartment in a New York City subm:b. If it weren't for her children, Ken says, Yarima would sooner go home.

Sometimes her dreams carry her back to the jungle, and she imagines herself lying in her ham­mock surrounded by friends. She dreams she's walking through shallow streams with her sister and brother. The water feels cool on her bare feet and crabs nibble her fingers as she scoops them up in her hands.

Then she wakes up. · Those dreams and the videotapes Ken made in

the jungle are Yarima's only links to her past. Short of an arduous and expensive journey back through the looking glass, she has no way of communicat­ing with family, no way of knowing they're alive.

In the jungle, says Ken, every day is the same. "In the morning, the women go out to the forest. They make a fire, sit and talk, laugh, watch each other's babies and take turns going off to gather food, which will be shared. Then they go to the stream, wash their babies, themselves and the food, and come home with flowers in their ears.

"If you're a woman, you're a gatherer. If you're a man, you're a hunter. This is what life is reduced to in the jungle."

By contrast, this is what life is like in the land of the nabuh: English lessons, which Yarima likes; housework, which she hates; TV, which she watch­es religiously.

She has David, 5, and Vanessa, 3, the only Yano­mama children on Earth who can name all four Teen-age Mutant Ninja Turtles. She has 7-month­old Daniel, a tiny echo of her with his straight

black hair, almond eyes and high cheekbones. And she has Ken, the only adult this side of the

looking glass who understands her language and her lonefiness.

He's everything to her: lover, provider, teacher, interpreter and friend. Just as she once led him along jungle paths, he now guides her through her strange new world, with its perplexing cast of characters: Jesus Christ, Betty Crocker, Pee-wee Herman, Uncle Sam.

Ken's twice her size, with a long, husky body unlike that of any man she'd ever seen. As a child, she called him "Long Feet'' and ''Big Forehead," and touched his black, wiry beard in awe. Yanoma­ma men are small, smooth-cheeked, and unlike Ken, who at 49 is thinning, never go bald. "She's seen those ads for Hair Club for Men," he says, "and she's bugging the hell out of me."

He's not an easygoing man, nor is he good at hiding annoyance when confronted by a traffic jam or a ketchup stain. "A type Triple A," he says.

But when Yarima's in the room, he speaks more gently and smiles more easily, mustering all the patience he withholds from the rest of the world. "I never really get mad at her. I realize what she's going through is enough."

There's an easy warmth between them as they sit together on the sofa, murmuring in their secret, shared language, smiling at the baby's antics and at each other. .

They do not kiss, an odd custom to the some­what reserved Yanomama. There are other ways of showing affection. Once, when Ken had been away from the jungle, Yarima amazed him by throwing her arms around him in front of everyone. They also caused a sensation by becoming the first cou­ple to sleep together in the same hammock. ·

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What is she thinking? What is she feeling? "I'd give anything to know what's going on in her head," Ken says.

The three days a week that he teaches anthropol­ogy at Jersey City State College, he can guess. what she's feeling: Boredom. Tuesdays through Fndays, she has 90-minute sessions with tutor Rachel Schwartz. Then she and the kids walk downtown. Otherwise, there's little to do but watch TV and wait for Ken.

To break up the monotony, he takes them to Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken, rural Pen­nsylvania, New York's Central Park. There are also visits to Willowbrook Mall where, pushing a stroll­er flanked by wheedling kids, Yarima vanishes into a bobbing sea of mothers.

In some ways, she fits right in, proudly display­ing David's construction-paper frog on her refrigerator and stocking cupboards with bagels, Wheaties and other nutritious snacks. She dresses the children in colorful, cuddly outfits befitting the savvy shopper she's become. And included in her small but growing vocabulary are phrases any mother would recognize: "No more Coke," she admonishes. "Milk. Your teeth fall out."

She can't read road signs, yet she's the one who points the way to the mall and remembers where they parked. She also operates the VCR.

Rachel is teaching her to count, an alien notion for a Yanomama, whose entire numerical system consists of "one," "two," and "many." The written

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Having so much to learn is difficult, but "though I've seen her discouraged, she never gives up," Rachel says. Yarima dreams of learning to drive and buying a red sports car. She also wants to move back to Pennsylvania, her first home outside the jungle.

It was there, at Bryn Mawr Hospital, that she delivered her first baby. Barely arrived in America, she was still breaking in her first shoes, size 2 Bus­ter Browns. Sixteen months later during a visit home, she delivered her second child, on a banana leaf. David and Vanessa love to tell new acquain­tances the stories of their births, savoring the shock value.

How will they regard their heritage as they get older? Will they feef proud or self-conscious? Spe­cial or different? "My endeavor in life is to make both equally proud of how and where they were born," Ken says.

At the moment, though, he has more pressing concerns. He's about to trek into the Amazon with three suburban preschoolers, one of whom, Vanes­sa, gets hysterical at the sight of an ant.

The kids are excited about going to the jungle in much the way they get excited about going to Bur­ger King. To prepare them, Yarima plays video­tapes, pointing out relatives and coaching them in Yanomama, a language they understand but don't speak. "I'm hungry," says David. ''Not 'hungry.' 'Ohi."' This is fun, for a while. Eventually, David's scowl signals the end of the game. "Stop talking jungle," he says.

The visit to Yarima' s village, Hasupuweteri, near the headwaters of the Oronoco River, will be Yari­ma's first since Vanessa was born. The petite, self­assured woman in black leggings bears· little resemblance to the naked Indian who walked out of the jungle five years ago. The tiny holes through which she inserted her facial sticks have closed. Nowadays, she wears eyeliner.

This trip, she hopes to entice others with neck­laces of plastic beads to gather her firewood for her. For the record, she'd sooner make the last leg of the journey by helicopter than on foot.

How will her family regard her, with her Ameri­can children and Western ways? "I think we'll be seen as the rich people," says Ken.

As her husband, he's proud of how well Yari­ma's adjusted. As a scientist, he's acutely aware of having upset the balance, disturbed the symmetry, of both their worlds. To never truly belong in either - that is the terrible price the time traveler pays.

Ken knows his children couldn't survive in the jungle, though Yarima has yet to accept that. "The answer," he says, "is to go back and forth, nine months here, three months there." The problem is how to pay for it. Each trip costs roughly $30,000.

Several potentially lucrative projects are in the works. "Into the Heart," Ken's account of his Ama­zon adventure, was published this year by Simon & Schuster. The paperback is due out any day.

Reviews have been favorable. One British jour­nalist, though, berated Ken for introducing Yarima to pop culture and fast food instead of classical music and haute cuisine. "It's a Jingle Out There," read the headline.

The article struck a nerve in Ken, who hates fast food and prefers Beethoven, but says Yarima's pre­ferences are just that - hers, not his.

She has many: traffic jams, gold chains, action films, county fairs. He does his best to indulge them all, though he did cancel pay-per-view TV after receiving a $189 cable bill. Yarima had watched "Rocky V" seven times.

Kensington livery man Reed McAllister poses with his horse outside his livery and stable in this photo taken around 1910.

Friends meeting house ~own' s oldest On July 13, 1920 it was reported that the Hicksite

Meeting House located on the southeast corner of Green (Second) Street and North Ellsworth Avenue had been sold to Mrs. Cora Barckhoff. This build­ing, which stood on a lot 190 by 200 feet, was one of the city's oldest and most historic.

The old building, a frame structure, was built in 1835 by the Hicksite Society of Friends. This socie­ty separated from the orthodox Society of Friends in 1828. Originally, the Society of Friends owned all the land extending from Pershing to High (Third) Street, and from Ellsworth A venue to North Broadway. In 1828 it was a virgin tract of land.

When the Hicksite Societv of Friends broke away

'1 feel I'm doing the best I can, and that reduces the guilt somewhat," says Ken. Still, '1 come home from work and I look at her and I realize, She's been sitting on the couch all day.

'1n the jungle, she never knew loneliness. Here, she has no one to talk to, day after day, week after week."

Nonetheless, he says, they are happy. '1t's a very simple relationship. We just live.

We're not overburdened with trying to figure it out. We're just happy to be together."

He can't say wfiy, nor can he pinpoint the moment when tenderness turned to love. It was boundless and intoxicating but when he thought about all they'd have to give up to stay together, he kissed her forehead, gazed at her tear-streaked face and left.

He can't describe his sadness. Nor can he explain what drove him back to her again and again, despite eight bouts of malaria, despite every obsta­cle disparate cultures could pose.

Finally, they knew. They belonged together. As Yarima instructed Ken to tell the judge who offi­ciated at their wedding:

''Tell the pata that I am your wife. Tell him that even if you become sick, I will still be your wife. If you cannot leave your hammock, I will go down to the river and get you water. I will harvest plan­tains and roast them for you on the fire. Tell the pata that I will gather fruit and honey for you. I

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will care for you and do all these things even when you are very old. Even then I will be your wife."

Still, it is hard - hard to watch her listen to tapes of loved ones with tears running down her cheeks; hard to hear her struggle to count to 10; hard to watch her walk into Dunkin' Donuts with the note he has written for her that says "two frosted crullers," words she still can't pronounce.

"All this stuff makes her seem like a child, so helpless," says Ken. "But in the jungle, she kept me alive. She can get food from the inside of a log. In the jungle, she's a complete adult."

And so, they are going back to her world, if only for a few weeks. Yarima is eager to show off her children and see her family, to kick off her shoes and eat roasted snake, to go to the forest and come back with flowers in her ears.

The trip.will, of course, be a logistical nightmare; it's tough enough taking three kids to Disney World, let alone to the Amazon jungle. They'll travel by car, plane and boat. When they reach the headwaters of the Oronoco, they'll walk.

Finding the semi-nomadic tribe could take some doing. But when they do, they'll be warmly greeted. The children will be admired. Yarirna and Ken will be chided for having stayed away so long.

The past and the present will touch, linked by a love strong enough to encompass them both, a love supple enough to stretch from the Stone Age to the suburbs, and back.

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A. This is an early Victorian marble top table made between 1850 and 1860. It would probably sell for $700 to $800 in good condition.

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Q. The attached mark is on the bottom of a cov­ered porcelain box that measures 2% inches by 3 inches by 1% inches. It is decorated with pink and white flowers around the upper section and has a gold border on the lid. What can you tell me about the vintage and value?

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A. The Royal Bayreuth porcelain factory was founded in Tettau, Bavaria in 1794. Your box was made between World War I and World War II. It would probably sell for $75 to $85.

Q. I saw some castor sets at a recent antique show, and I found them quite interesting. Can you tell me something about castor sets and their history? I would also like to know about some typical prices.

A. A castor set consists of two or more condi­ment (vinegar, oil, etc.)bottles or shakers in a metal frame. This frame is usually silver plated.

They were first used about 200 years ago, but most of those on the market today were made between 1870 and 1915. Here are some prices:

Three bottles, amber glass, silver plated frame: $125.

Seven cut glass bottles, sterling silver frame: $1,250.

Q. I have a pair of porcelain figurines of a man and woman in old fashioned clothes. They are about 12 inches high and 10 inches wide. The mark is an acorn with a letter "E" and "Royal, Dux Bohemia." Can you ten who made them, when and how much they are worth?

A. E. Eichler founded the Royal Dux Porcelain company in Bohemia in 1860. It is now Duchov, Czechoslovakia.

Your pair of figurines was made around 1900 and would be worth about $1,000.

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This early Victorian marble top table would probably sell for $700 to $800 in good condition.

Q. I have an antique cake plate. It is 11 inches in diamter and is_ marked "Indian Temple Stone China, J. & W.R."

Who made this and what is it worth? A. Your cake plate was made by John and Wil­

liam Ridgeway in Hanley, England between 1814 and 1830. It probably would sell for $165 to $185.

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I would like to know how old it is and what it would sell for. Your plate was imported from England by Row­land & Marsellus (New York) in the early 1900s. It is believed that these plates were made by British Anchor Pottery. They currently are selling for $65 to $85.

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