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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH. UTAH 6&U CUMSH THE STORY OF ' OUR STATES ! 1 " By JONATHAN BRACE ""' ( i. .' OWN A DIAMOND. We can suit you as well as anybody, perhaps better. And our reasonable prices ease the way. .1 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) KENTUCKY BOYD THE kinship of and that of parent and child, from Virginia came most - of the set tiers of the west era state, and with (them these pioneers brought Virginia institutions and ideals. It was not until 1750 that the first authentic Journey was made by a white man into central parts of the region afterwards called Kentucky. Further explorations showed that this territory held two important at' tractions for settlers. The first was the great ferltllty of what was called the Blue Grass region. The blue grass, from which this state is (nicknamed the Blue Grass State is jin no wise peculiar to Kentucky. : The Second inducement for settlers was the fact that there were no Indians living In this region. It was later found that many, roving bands of savages crossed the Ohio from the north and sorely harassed the early colonists until Clarks expeditions into Ohio and Indiana checked their invasions. In fact, the name Kentucky is probably derived from the Iroquois word Kentka-ke- , meaning hunting land. Another interpretation "Is dark and bloody ground, but this is doubtless incorrect The main highways of travel at that time were Daniel Boones Wilderness Road through Cumberland Gap and down the Ohio. Hardy pioneers poured Into this new territory In such numbers that in 1792, with the permission of Virginia, Kentucky was admitted to the Union as the fifteenth state with an area of 40,698 square miles. Kentucky has thirteen electoral votes for president. The remarkable physical condition of its population is shown in a report of the volunteers in the Civil war. This gave their average height as nearly an inch taller than the New England troops and with a correspondingly greater girth of chest. JEWELERS y&. BOYD PARK BLDG Virginia Is auui WMi'i'. fri T . TENNESSEE stretches to the year 1541 when DeSoto with his of Spanish advenback party turers probably reached the pres- ent site of Memphis on the Mississippi. The French under La Salle built a fort here about 1682. The English also laid claim to this territory, including it in the grant to North Carolina. It was not until 1770 that the first permanent settlement was made by James Robertson and this was soon followed by many other settlers from North Carolina. They, formed what they called the Washington district, but this was short lived as it was promptly annexed to North Carolina. In 1784 the inhabitants, Indignant over attitude toward North Carolinas them, declared their Independence and formed the State of Franklin or Frank-ianAs this secession was not counr tenanced by North Carolina, for a number of years a state of confusion existed with two sets of officers trying to govern. Meanwhile the settlement suffered severely from hostile Indians and from the Spanish, who still held Louisiana, and controlled the Mississippi river. In 1790 North Carolina finally ceded this territory to the United States. By 1796 the population had Increased to over 60,000, so Tennessee was admitted as the sixteenth 6tate of the Union. At the outbreak of the Civil war, Tennessee joined the Confederacy.' In 1866, when the state was readmitted to the Union, there was much disorder during the reconstruction period. This led to the formation of the Ku Klux Klan, the influence of which quickly spread throughout the Southern states. 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THOSE who know their Lincoln and every good American should read and reread this Bible of Americanism the name of New Salem, rc'ojjr zma$RY ojtxj&T: III., calls up a chapter in his life that no man can read without, rcjvgj Fjpsr I smiles and tears and wonder. Vg jSpr "was good, and SamueflHRtmd John- McNeill presfr A ; For New Salem -- was Abraham ently erected a store building of legs. They sold' S Lincolns town during the six V tea, coffee, sugar, salt and whisky in the grocery, years which marked the first stage I of his development from a quaint line, and blue calico, brown muslin, cotton chain and straw hats, with a few ladies hats and other knight-erraof the pioneers to ' ornamental feminine apparel in their dry goods a masterpiece of God. ' He arrived at New Salem in 1831 a stranger, department. on McNeills John friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working right name was John McNamer. a flatboat for $10 a month, as he himself put it. He quickly made a fortune of about $12,000 and In 1837 he left New Salem to take up his law pracwooed and won Ann Rutledge. Then he left to , tice in Springfield. bring his mother and sisters from New York. A In those momentous six years'" he had translong delay broke off the engagement and Lincoln formed himself from an ignorant and uncouth then won Ann. McNamer returned to find Ann to a man of acknowledged dead of fever. youth of twenty-tw- o son why it should not have grown and become, the promise and ability, with more than a local popuTown Gets a Postoffice. of . the county." to travel ' metropolis larity and an ambition that spurred him goes historian the in 1829, On Christmas day s Lincoln far. saw New Salem 'in April, 1831, first New in established on to say, a post office was Those six years were crowded years. It was at when he and bis flatboat crew had their famous Salem and Samuel Hill was made postmaster. . adventure New Salem that Lincoln earned his nickname of " on the milldam. and He was on his way George Warburton then built a store building Ken rdstown to New Orleans, where he saw from Honest Abe and Incidentally fastened upon to the out sold soon a stock of goods, but put jn e the selling of slaves and said, If ever I get a himself a burden of debt which he was' never able Chrisman Brothers,- - one of whom, Isaac P., chance to hit that thing, Ill hit It hard. fully to wipe out until hts fortieth year, after his on November 24, 1831. William postmaster election to congress in 1849. to name n.-- July 1, 1831, Lincoln walked into New Salem to his who of gave brother John, Clary,, the serve os clerk in the Offut store, when it should It was at New Salem that he was clerk and the grove where he settled in 1819, erected and Black-ston. be ready.' The town he studied election at that time was held that grammar and storekeeper; became proprietor of Clarys grocery. Then came that he was a captain in the Black Hawk during the first week in August, and Lincoln, beDoctor Allen, who erected a dwelling across the war, that he was deputy surveyor, that he was , ing about the polling place, was asked by Mentor street south from the Hill & McNeill store. ' Graham, the man who later became his friend postmaster, that he was defeated and then elected addition to his professional duties Doctor In and teacher, if he could write. Lincoln replied, I for the legislature. And it was at New Salem that ' He was an Allen conducted a Sunday school. can make a few rabbit tracks, whereupon he was he loved and wooed and lost Ann Rutledge, over first ardent temperance man and formed the invited in to assist in keeping tally, the regular whose death he nearly lost his reason from grief. of society in the. community. The place clerk having failed to appear. It is said that durNew Salem was founded in 1828. Soon after .. meeting was in his residence or in the log school- : Lincoln went to Springfield the little town began ing the lull in voting Lincoln improved the ophouse erected shortly before this time on the hill-- , to decline. Its people left for more accessible portunity to tell stories. So here, was Lincolns bothwas Allen side south of New Salem. Doctor introduction to politics. Buf he was a finished places. By 1845 New Salem had been abandoned. ered as to whether it was right or wrong to en- - . story-telle- r - v even then. Today,' under the auspices of the Old Salem Linon of his Sundays in the profession gage practice Tom Reed of Maine; the famous speaker of coln League, an organization formed in 1917, and compromised the matter by relieving the sick the house of representatives, once said, A states"Honest Abes town is being restored in facbut giving his earnings on that day wholly to the man is a successful 'politican who is dead. simile. It will be in every possible detail like the The ' work of the Lord. humor and sarcasm of this are exceeded only by New Salem which he knew. Old maps, old prints, OnThen, during the summer of 1830, Henry its value as a popular gauge of politics and poliold deeds every record obtainable have been stott moved from Sugar Grove, erected a dwelling ticians. But where Abraham Lincoln is concerned consulted to make the new village an. exact repro- established a cooper's shop, supplying the and all duction of the old. The only new building is the signs fail. He was a consummate politician meal flour made and at and barrels for the his life, and he never hesitated to seek public all Lincoln museum. William Randolph Hearst gave . ..kegs the mill, and the containers for the cured pork the property. The cost of rebuilding is being met preferment. shipped by flatboat to the markets of the South, ... Lincoln's First Campaign. by popular subscription. The work will be done to which It was from Beardstown, place generally ' some time this summer, it is expected. Abe had been in New Salem Honest After hauled in wagons. a year or so he ran for the state legislature. He Old Salem State Park.' Denton Offut Arrives. had already learned to write, as is shown by his Old Salem State park will be New Salems new announcement of his candidacy, which concludes summer the of Denton on 1831, Offut, During name. Its purpose is to preserve for posterity the : his return from a flatboat excursion to New Orthus: environment and atmosphere that helped make man is said to have his peculiar ambi14 north of Main street contracted for lot Every leans, man. Lincoln, the tion. Whether It be true or not, I can say, for and erected a store building, the deed thereto beAs to the photographs here reproduced : The one. that I have no other so great as that of being ing dated September 2 of that year. Then came portrait of Honest Abe is one of the earliest a rash of other settlers Philemon Morris, a tan- truly esteemed of my fellowmen by rendering myphotographs he had taken and gives the best idea ; ner, erected a dwelling and established a .tan self worthy of their esteem. How far I shall sucof his appearance as a young man. The numbefed ceed In gratifying this ambition is yet to be deblacksmith a Joshua and Miller, wagon 'yard; plan Is from the architects working model. veloped. I am young and unknown to many of maker, built a residence and established a shop ; New Salem, first called Camerons Mill, was on Alexander Furgeson and Peter Lukins, the shoeyou. I was born and have ever remained in the the Sangamon river (then spelled Sangamo and most humble walks of life. I have no wealth or makers; Robert Johnson, the wheelwright, who pronounced Sangamaw), 20 miles northwest of made looms, spinning wheels and furniture; Mar- popular relations or friends to recommend me, In those days New Salem was Jn Springfield. My case is thrown exclusively upon the independtin Waddell, the hatter, who made hats out of ent voters of the county ; and if elected, they will rabbit fur, wool and the fur of other animals ; the Sangamon county, with Springfield as the county seat. Springfield Itself was still a mere vlllagei have conferred a favor upon me for which I shall Bale family, headed by Jacob Bale, who bought But and operated Hills carding machine and store-- ' be unremitting in my labors to compensate. having a population of 1,000, or perhaps 1,100. The capital of the state was yet at Vandalla, and if the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to house for wool ; the Herndon Brothers, shopkeep- Jteep me In the background, I have been too fa waiting for the parliamentary tact of Abraham ers, who established a store west of the James Lincoln and the long nine to take it to Spring-fielRutledge residence and inn, and in a part of the . miliar tffth disappointments to be very much , house of Joshua Miller, which was double, lived chagrined. his brother-in-laJack Kelso, whose wife kept Well, Lincoln was beaten by Peter Cartwright, The historian of the restoration project says boarders occasionally and who himself was the the itinerant preacher whom he defeated in 1846 that the first settlers of New Salem were John M. for congress. But New Salem went for Honest Cameron and his uncle, James Rutledge, who enchampion hunter . and fisherman of the village. Abe with 277 votes out of the 290 cast. And twt tered their claims on July 29, 1828. Here they Henry Sinco came In the fall of 1831 and sold out at the end of a year to Doctor Regnier. Also erected their grist and saw mills, both boused years later he was triumphantly elected. came Doctor Duncan, David Wherry, Isaac Burin one structure built out into the Sangamon river, Nobody ever saw any difference between the ner, Edmond Greer, Isaac Goilamer, Robert and . Abraham Lincoln of New Salem-anthat fringed the town site. New Salem grew up the Abraham William McNeely. Caleb Carmen moved there Lincoln of the White House. He never changed. around this mill. from Rock Center after Trent left and made . Moreover, there was something in his lowly origin Settlments existed already at Clarys Grove, at shoes. ., and in the story of his life that brought him n place now called Athens, at Sugar Grove and at close to the people as one of them. And in the Thus the town soon became Indian Point, all within ten or twelve miles of and bad it not been for the fact that it was almost development of the man there is no more fascinatNew Salem. With a mill to attract these settlers. inaccessible except from the west, there is no rea-- ' Hie opportunity for business at the new settlement ing chapter than New Salem, 1831-3O THE history of Te 160 MAIN STRirr ,bzkky - y. f ' . . . tem-peran- : : - ; . . - - , d. . , White Leghorn baby chicks from guaranteed stock May $il.50 hd. & with order, balance C. O. D. San Jose Poultry Yards, San Jose, California. OLDSMOBILE DISTRIBUTORS. Can ft tracks Used car bargains. A. E. Tourssen, 447 S. Main Rings cure your motor troubles. Gill Piston Gill Piston King Co., IS East Fourth South . RUBBER HOSPITAL. We cure injured rubber articles. Boots, Shoes, Hot Water bottles. Tires, Tubes, etc. Satisfaction guaranteed. Return charges prepaid. Western Elubber Sales Co., 14 E. Broadway, Salt Lake. 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