the BEACON Newspaper, Indiana beacon6-18 | Page 19
June 2018
O
LOGAN
By
Myrtle
White
Community
Correspondent
[email protected]
It is great to have some
warm spring days. We enjoy
the beautiful blossoms of the
flowers and some trees. But
along with the flower beds
and gardens comes a lot of
hard work. However, all the
hard work is worth it, so we
just keep going.
May brought Mother’s Day.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the
moms. I hope you got to relax
and enjoy the day.
The following comes from
Reflections of the Rhyming
Lady, “God’s Richest Bless-
ings.” God gave the world the
sunshine, the dew drops, and
the showers. He gave the trees
that wondrous green, breathed
perfume in the flowers. He
gave the babe so sweet a
smile; one could not help but
love. He gave the earth the
night time with moon and
stars above. But, we received
a priceless gift, surpassing all
these others; God gave his
richest blessing when he gave
us Our Mothers. This is from
Edna Allen Eschenbach.
Our bird feeder hangs from
the overhang of our roof and
has been there for many years.
We can see all the different
kinds of birds from our kitch-
en table. They are so much
fun to watch. One morning as
I passed the kitchen window,
I saw the strangest thing- a
squirrel was hanging by his
back legs from the top of the
feeder! He was upside down
putting as many seeds as he
could in his mouth. When
that squirrel finished eating,
he twisted around, grabbed
the chain holding the feeder,
climbed up to the overhang,
grabbed the eave trough, and
up onto the roof he went.
The next morning the feeder
had the top half off and was
hanging crooked; half of the
bird seeds were gone. I told
Ernie if that squirrel carried
that much seed away, he sure-
ly will not be back for several
days. Now I fill the feeder
about half full. I have not seen
the squirrel for five days, so,
hopefully, he has found other
food to eat.
School will be out soon.
We will miss seeing all those
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busses passing by the house
every morning and afternoon.
When I was in school getting
out for the summer was great-
no more homework! We still
had a lot of chores to do, but
that was more fun than going
to school. After a long, hot
summer, we were anxious to
go back to school. We hurried
to get back on the school bus.
That’s school-age kids for sure.
Spring is a pretty time of
the year. We watch for all the
blooming trees and wildflow-
ers while taking long drives.
Happy birthday to a lot of
people having birthdays in
May. Our family did skip this
month. Graduations are com-
ing soon. Congratulations to
all - you got it done!!
Please send news.
MOORES HILL
By
Linda
Ickenroth
Community
Correspondent
mooreshill@goBEACONnews,com
The following was submit-
ted by Carnegie’s Nelson El-
liott, Carnegie’s K-12 Princi-
pal, 1968 thru 1976
As I remember, sitting on
the front steps early in the
morning, listening to Carn-
egie Hall come to life with
steam radiators hissing and
birds singing, or, late in the
afternoon when the boilers
were shutting down, and she
was relaxing before going to
sleep, were special times for
the grand old lady. For one
hundred years she has greeted
thousands of students of all
ages, whom reluctantly left
warm beds to attend that insti-
tution of academia, probably
not appreciating it until later
in their life when graduation
from Moores Hill’s Carnegie
Hall became that badge of
honor. From Moores Hill
Male and Female Collegiate
Institute, to Dearborn County
Vocational High School, and
finally Moores Hill Public
Schools, Carnegie Hall has
been one of the few constants
in their lives, and remains so
today. The college graduates
are now gone, as are the Voca-
tional High School graduates;
now Father Time is working
on shortening the “living high
school graduates” list. To the
hundreds of people from the
community and across the
country who have worked so
diligently and continuously
since the school closed to keep
the old lady prim and proper,
we salute and thank you. For
those of you who are visiting
for the first time, we welcome
you, and invite you to come
back and visit anytime, as
this architectural treasure was
saved just for you.
We know the day in the fu-
ture is coming when bus loads
of visitors will arrive and stand
in line to buy tickets, to see
how it was “in the good old
days”. Visiting children have
already been heard to say,
“We wish we could have gone
to school here!” Most of our
neighboring communities have
gone through several school
buildings, while Carnegie
Hall... and probably Andrew...
look down and smile, knowing
that a quality education comes
from people, not from build-
ings. Buildings are important
identifiers.