Santa And His Reindeer Will Be Here This Weekend

Jolly Old St Nick will be here for sure this weekend, according to the latest reports from the North Pole by way of Jud Essenberg, head of the Angola Merchants Christmas Committee.

Santa has been spending a large amount of time and money to make his sleigh and eight reindeer headed by the red-nosed Rudolph, a sight to behold.  The jolly old fellow will arrive at 7 p.m., Friday night, December 4, and will bring his large sleigh and reindeer up to the spot in front of the court house. More than a thousand lights will illuminate Santa and his sleigh.  And to be sure he has enough current, Santa has installed his own generator to feed current to this beautiful display.

All good girls and boys are invited to come up to see Santa.  He will have candy gifts for them and also will have many many gift certificated donated by various Angola merchants.  These certificates will be good for a large variety of gifts both for youngsters and the oldsters.

Santa will be on hand again Saturday to see the children and learn what they want him to bring them on Christmas.  He will be at his sleigh in front of the court house on Saturday afternoon, December 5, wo give out candy and gift certificates again.

All of the merchants of Angola will have their stores decorated for the Christmas Opening Friday night and will be open for customers just to browse around and see what new gift ideas are available.  Their stores wull be open Friday night and Saturday night and many will also remain opened evenings until Christmas.

The streets of Angola will be decorated, also in the Christmas motif, with the mound and its manger scene the center of attention.  The bands of lights and greens running from the edges of the mound up the monument will add to the decoration.

The arrangements for Santa and his sleigh have been made through Santa's helper, Charles Rodebaugh of Angola.  He has spent a large amount of time and effort to see that Santa arrives in all his splendor aboard a modern style sleigh with the glossiest reindeer available.

Herald Republican December 2, 1959

First Auburn 6-Cylinder Shipped From Angola

     Magnificent Seven Passenger Touring Car, Completely Equipped, is sent to the New York Show
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Monday of this week, January 1st, 1912, was shipped from Angola for the great automobile show in New York City, the first car built by the Angola branch of the Auburn automobile Company, a model that this company will build exclusively in Angola.  The car is a six-cylinder, seven passenger, thoroughly equipped, including shock absorbers, electric lights and other of the latest devices.  The lamps are finished in Ebony, with nickle trimmings, and altogether the car is a giant in strength and a thing of rare beauty.  Several other similar cars have been tested out and are being finished as rapidly as possible.

As mentioned above, this, the first car completed here, has been shipped to the great New York show.  The writer with several other gentlemen and some ladies through courtesy of Mr. Guton, superintendent of the factory, had the pleasure of seeing the car loaded in a box car but with the splendid equipment furnished by the Angola factory, the task was an easy one.  Before the car was loaded, however, seven people, seated in the car, took a ride back and forth through the long avenue of the north wing of the factory building, to show the perfect working of the engine, and the grace and speed of the machine, and the space under cover and over the hardwood floor made it possible to almost exceed the speed limit.  The Lake Shore had switched a box car on the siding that enters the building and when the large door had been raised, a rope from one of the cards that was being tested was fastened to the box car.  Then half a dozen men got on the auto to hold it down, while it pulled the heavy load into the building.  The doors at the end of the car were then opened and two trough like skids placed, one end in the car and other on the floor, with supports under them.  This done, the auto with its own power, moved up the skids and the lask of loading was over.

The car, a picture which accompanies this article has been thoroughly tested; one built at Auburn having last fall carried Mr. Eckhart and one of the proprietors of the factory together with his family and a driver a distance of 4500 mile at one trip.  A.L. Murray, a member of the party. has written a splendid article for the Automobile Dealer and Repairer, descriptive of the trip. They followed the usual routes along the lakes through Detroit and Buffalo to Boston, thence to Portland, Maine, including many side
trips; thence along the coast down to New York City; thence to Philadelphia, Washington, through Staunton, Va, to Charlestown West Virginia, following the New River the roughest in the United States, over broken limestone rocks, climbing irregular mountain rodes, journeying for three weeks over rocky roads, proving that the longest fastest all day runs created no extra heat or friction to any part of the machinery.  The tires with which rhw cars are equipped are the Goodyear,  and in spite of the journey of 4500 miles, the tires, strengthened bu the inter-locking inner tubes, were able to make this great journey, farther than from New york to San Francisco, with only one blow-out, and no punctures, and the blow-out occurred when only ten miles from home on the return trip.  The Auburn cars merit the praise of everyone.

Steuben Republican January 3, 1912 

Off For Camp

Monday morning of this week a great crows gathered at the depot in Angola to say goodbye to the boys of Company B of the State Militia as they started for the annual camp at Indianapolis.  It was such an expression of community interest as would do the Company good.  Angola was creditably represented in last year's encampment, and our people confidently expect the same rank of honor this season.  Following is the list of officers and enlisted men who found it possible to leave for camp on this occasion:
Captain E. D. Kemery
First Lieutenant H. L. Rockwood
2nd Lieutenant Samuel Sheffer
Sergeant  Howard Jackson
Corporals Mack Fisher, H. E. Michael and Harry McKillen
Musician, Charles Goodwin
Names of the Privates:
Mort Barron, Phin Campbell, James Carr, J. Clark, E.L. Cory, W. Croxton, J.M. Davis, Sumner Davis, Howard Deller, Jason Ferris, Guy Hagerty, James Hall, R. Jewell, G. Kellogg, Glen Kemery, W.D. Kline, Burl Martin, Galen Melendy, Harry Newell, Herb Pugh, Melvin Reed, John Rinehart, Clyde Ritter, W. Russell, Fred Snowberger, Wesley Somerlott, Jesse tabor, C. Thomas, Guy Tingler, Lloyd Tingler,
Glenn VanAuken, Elro Wilkinson, Ed Yockey
Charles Freygang and Irvin Sowle accompanied the boys as helpers, and George Harter as cook.

Steuben Republican July 29, 1903

Joyce Library

The Joyce library and reading rooms are assuming an air of completion.  Several hundred volumes of books have been placed upon the shelves, among them which are the very best and latest works, besides all the standard authors and reference books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, histories, etc.  Mr. Joyce expects to keep abreast with the times in the purchase of the newest, clean good literature of the day for his library.  A natural physical appetite can only be satisfied by nutritious food which supplies the wants of a healthy body and insures growth, a rounding out of natures plan.  So the intellect must be nourished with high, pure, noble thoughts in order to "grow in grace and in the knowledge of the truth," as the wise designer has planned it. 

The appreciation felt by people of Orland and vicinity to Mr. Joyce for his magnificent gift cannot be expressed in words.  As Time, the great revealer of all truth, rolls along its mighty way, it will be said of Mr. Joyce that he too, "builded better than he knew."  Orland has the honor of having built the first church (the Baptist) in the country, and now we are justly proud that another honor has placed Orland in the front rank, by having the first free library fully equipped, beautiful in all its appointments, a gift to Orland and vicinity.  The library room for artistic beauty in design and finish is said by good judges to be second to none in the state,  When in Orland see for yourself.

Steuben-Republican January 14, 1903

Around Town

 Several youths of this place, who from old-time custom and former associations have formed a habit of loafing around the Republican office whenever the desire, are emphatically informed that their presence is not desired and that they must cease their visits or suffer the consequences of forcible ejectment.  Remember the word is spoken and a hint to the wise should be sufficient.

Something new, in the way of cloth-covered burial caskets, can be seen at the furniture and undertaking rooms of A. W. A. Sowle, south side of Maumee street.  Mr Sowle is also continually receiving new additions to his already very large stock of furniture,  Remember he has a full stock of everything in the undertaking department - coffins, caskets, burial robes and embalming fluid.

And now it is Nimocks & Wickwire, who are the proprietors of the Angola marble works.  Thos. S. Wickwire having become a partner with Geo. O. Nimocks.  The firm has the best wishes of the Republican.

Remember the Angola Philharmonic, under the direction of Prof. W. H. Burgett, will give two grand renditions of the new and brilliant spectacular opera of Ruth, the Gleaner, at concert Hall, this (Wednesday) evening and to-morrow night.  There will be a grand chorus of fifty voices and seventeen solo singers.  Reserved seats can yet be secured at O. Carvers.

Steuben Republican March 5, 1879

FURTHER ANECDOTES GIVEN OF EARLY HISTORY

    Another installment of the stories of early days in Angola is presented herewith.  The interest and response from readers has been large, and the events recorded are authentic.
    One of r the merchants in early days was Thomas Morse, who had a dry goods store in the Eureka building fronting on East Maumee street and he had a fine home further east on the same street, nearly opposite the Hendry home, which is now the Cameron Hospital.  There was also a man names John Knott, who had his store in the Carver building, and Robert Patterson, whose store was on the corner now the home of the Moose Lodge.  Dr. Morse also ran a store on the corner where the Hotel Hendry now stands.  There was a nice yard on the west side of this building which contained fruit trees and currant bushes, and a garden plot extending to the to the Killinger building on the west.  Mr Killinger had a wagon shop next to his house.  Dr Morse had living rooms back of and over his store.
    Over the Patterson store there were also living rooms. A Miss Hendry held select school in the store rooms of that building.  Soon after after this Dr. McConnell and Hon. A.W. Hendry, who were trustees of the school, made up their minds to have better privileges of education for the young people of the community, and sent out for teachers, and secured John W. Cowen of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, and a Miss Mary Cooley, of Oberlin Ohio.  Mr. Cowen organized the first grade school the town of Angola ever had and the Dr. Morse building was prepared for the new school. There were two departments, one downstairs and the other upstairs, Miss Cooley having charge of the upstairs room, and Mr. Cowen had the lower rooms and larger scholars.  This was called the "Angola Academy" and the young people swarmed in from all the country round about. The town's young people had been sent to Hillsdale, where there was a college, and also to Orland, which had the most pretentious school in these parts called "The Northeastern Indiana Institute" which had teachers from Ann Arbor and other colleges in early days.
    The little church which stood back on the hill as it was then, was owned by both the Presbyterians and the Methodists, and was used alternately by them, and the same choir and organist sand and played fro both.  Dr. McConnell used to bring his family over in a double wagon, as many as ten coming in the load when the walking was bad.  Dr. McConnell lived on what he called "Prospect Hill," where the old home still stands, south of the public library.  Austin Fox was the chorister and led the choir and saw that everyone was in their places every Sunday.  There was a gallery built in the rear for the choir, and the congregation would rise and turn to face the choir when singing.  The Presbyterian minister was a Mr. Kelland.  One New Year's Eve they were going to hold a "watch meeting" and all went prepared with a little food to help stay awake.  Mrs Helen Linder took raisins and Anne Eldridge took some cookies.  The preachers were to speak and hold the people in until the magic hour of midnight.  The Methodist minister was to be first and hold the meeting until ten o'clock, when the Presbyterian minister would come and take charge for the rest of the time.  The Methodist preacher, by some misunderstanding, or thinking Mr Kelland might not be coming dismissed the meeting and the way they met Mr Kelland who said "Why did you not wait until I came?"  None knew so they went home, a disappointed people, but they laughed a good deal over it, and considered it quite a joke.
    Not to be forgotten is the "Mite Society," organized for the purchase of a piano for the school, for which they now had a brick building on South Wayne street, located where the present school building now stands.  Everyone young and old, was interested n the society, and jolly times were enjoyed at the meetings, acting "charades" taking words like "institution," "Cincinnati," and whatever words could be divided into syllables and represented by acting, and those not in the "charade" would have to guess the word.  Five cents was the "mite" charged for admission, and meetings were held at some one of the homes every week with about sixty in attendance.  So the piano was purchased for "many a mickle makes a muckle," and so it was with nickels.

Steuben Republican  August 21, 1946

World's Second Largest Man At Hospital In Angola

     Several problems were encountered early this week at the Elmhurst Hospital when they entertained as a patient the world's second largest man.  But because of his congenial, cooperative attitude, he turned out to be one of their most pleasant patients in recent months.
     The events began to happen when Max Palmer, 8'2" giant from Cleveland Ohio, became ill as he was traveling the Indiana Toll Road enroute to Chicago, Illinois.  His wife, who was driving the auto, brought him to Angola for medical care.  A local physician had Palmer entered in the Elmhurst hospital for treatment and observation.  As usual, an ambulance was called to transport the ill man.  After some calculation by the 150 pound, 5'6" driver, he decided to let his ill passenger, all 410 pounds of him, get into the ambulance himself.
     At the hospital, the problem of a bed was considered and attendants even thought of placing two together, but the cheerful patient said he was used to such inconveniences and that the usual six and a half foot variety would do.
     Palmer had one advantage over the other patients.  He could lie down on the high hospital bed and still was able to reach over the side and pick up magazines or other items that fell to the floor.
     After he was on the mend, Palmer was able to take nourishment.  He had for breakfast four eggs, four bowls of cereal, two glasses or orange juice, 8 slices of toast and a pitcher of milk, but sent back two rolls, saying he was not very hungry.
     The attending physician had to change his normal calculations, too.  He had to increase medicine dosage to about double to get the required response.
     The 30 year old Palmer started to grow to his bigger than usual size when he was 16 years of age.  He is now 30.  He is well proportioned and muscular with little fat.  Until three years ago he did considerable wrestling but  since that time has been on personal appearance tours. It was on such a tour that Palmer was engaged when illness detoured him into Angola.
     He wears size 21 shoes, size 21 shirt but his proportions are about those of any normal-sized person.
     As Palmer was leaving the hospital Tuesday, a patient looked over his partition-screen and saw the upper part of Palmer gliding along near the ceiling as he was ducking beams and light fixtures.  "My gosh," the startled patient exclaimed, "is that a ghost?"
The Steuben Republican.  April 16, 1958.