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Entertaining Evansville:
Part 6 - On These Boards Trod:
The Evansville Opera House
By Peggy K. Newton
Evansville was in wartime mode during the first half
of the 1860s. The men who were of age — and a few
who were underage — were away, fighting in battles
while their wives, mothers or sweethearts volunteered to
make bandages and uniforms or tended to the wounded
brought in from the nearest battlefields. In the last half
of the decade the city experienced an industrial explosion
that went hand-in-hand with the increasing population.
From 11,484 in 1860 the city’s population grew by
90.1% to 21,830 in 1870. This meant not only increased
housing but more furniture as well. By the end of the
19th century Evansville achieved the status of Furniture
Capital of the World (with the possible exception of
Grand Rapids, Michigan).
But work isn’t everything and as early as February
4, 1859, the editorial writer in the Evansville Journal
saw the need for entertainment, even for those who
preached sermons on the Sabbath. According to a New
York newspaper, the Sunday School of the esteemed
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher’s church in Brooklyn held
a Strawberry Festival, and the Rev. Beecher himself
enjoyed playing (and winning) at quoits (a game similar
to pitching horseshoes, tossing metal, rope or rubber
rings over a set distance to land over or near a spike).
Other amusements at the picnic included singing, dancing
and eating. The Journal writer commented:
“Is it not wise and Christianly [sic] thus to recreate
Edwin Booth, around the time he was in Evansville to
perform his most famous role, Hamlet. (J. Gurney and
Son photo. Retrieved January 8, 2021)
and strengthen both body and mind, so as to use all
the powers the Creator has bestowed? Yet some good,
well-meaning Christian professors would say, and no
doubt sincerely believe, that it was a most ‘undignified
wasting of precious time’ — nay, a very wicked thing to
play at pitching quoits! All harmless and really useful
recreations, amusements, and devising for mental and
physical culture have been in this way anathematized
by well-meaning zealots who have thus undesignedly
persuaded the ‘sinners’ in the world that to become religious
is to make sacrifice of all pleasures and pastimes,
to become little better than sad-eyed, long-faced, never
smiling ascetics, instead of showing that in real religion
—serving God in truth, and not in hypocrisy — there
is more opportunity than in any other circumstances
for the free performance of all that is truly happyfying
INSIDE
Treasure Hunt Contest ................................5
Hometown History ...................................8
Social Security Update. ...............................12
Picturing Our Past ...................................13
Hometown History Contest. ..........................13
Cooking Corner. ....................................14
Energy Savings. ......................................16
Just for Laughs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Brain Games. .................................. 18 & 19
Reader of the Month. ................................20
Yesterdays Remembered ..............................21

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and that really tends to physical and
mental enjoyment.”
The Union soldiers who were
brought to the city to recover from
their war wounds certainly needed
music and entertainment. They
brought with them such songs as
“Camping Tonight (On the Old
Campground).” Another song that
became popular during the 1860s
was “Billie Boy” (“Oh, where have
you gone, Billie Boy, Billie Boy?”).
To help popularize the new songs
by selling the sheet music, George
W. Warren, who led a street band,
went into partnership with Thomas
Conyngton in 1862 to form Warren
& Conyngton, a retail store that
sold musical instruments, sheet
music and other “fancy goods and
notions.” The partnership eventually
published sheet music as well.
Perhaps the greatest advancement
in local entertainment was
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the opening of the Evansville
Opera House at the southwest corner
of First and Locust Streets on
September 9, 1868. The architectural
firm of Mursinna and Boyd oversaw
the construction of the city’s
first structure to be built solely for
entertainment purposes. It was not
uncommon during that period for
theaters to be built on the second
floor, with shops and businesses
fronting the first floor, and such was
the case with the opera house, which
fronted First Street. It was massive
for its day; the opera house and the
Evansville Journal building took up
most of the city block.
The theater was 60 feet from
the ground with enormous iron columns
rising 23 feet. Each column
weighed 9,600 pounds and supported
a narrow iron balustrade. Above
the balustrade the front was faced
with Green River marble. The wide
entrance to the theater opened to a
broad stairway leading to two separate
box offices on the second floor.
The box office to the left was for
the dress circle, parquet, and second
tier; on the right was the box office
for the galleries. The entrance to
the auditorium was another flight of
stairs up. A “magnificently frescoed”
dome, 40 feet above the auditorium
floor, was functional as well as beautiful.
In its center was a ventilator
which removed heat and fumes from
the gas lighting that was prevalent at
the time.
The dress circle contained the
most comfortable seating in the
auditorium (aside from the private
orchestra boxes), with some 290
green-cushioned seats. The parquet
section had 150 “substantial” chairs.
The remainder of the audience, in
the second tier and the galleries, sat
on “plain, uncushioned seats.” The
auditorium had, altogether, 1040
seats.
The stage, considered large for its
time, was 50 feet deep by 32 feet wide
at the footlights. It was equipped
with twelve sets of scenes measuring
18 feet high by 25 feet wide.
Backstage there was ample room for
additional scenes, borders, etc., to be
created by the resident scenic artist,
James West. West had also painted
a copy of Rembrandt’s “Village of
Chiusa” on the drop curtain, which
could be seen as patrons entered the
auditorium.
The Opera House opened to a
“preview” on September 9, 1868,
consisting of a number of tableux
interspersed with music by the
Evansville Orchestra. Col. Charles
Denby gave the dedicatory address.
The next night, marking the formal
opening, comedienne Mary
Rickfords and her company presented
The Morning Call.
Over the next 22-plus years
Evansville Opera House audiences
saw the Louisville Opera House
Company presenting Neil Warner as
Richard III; Edwin Booth in Hamlet;
various minstrel shows including
Henry Hart’s minstrel show with an
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all-Black (not black-face) cast; Buffalo Bill several times
before his Wild West Show outgrew the confines of the
theater; Strakosch’s Grand Italian Opera Combination’s
Faust and Trovatore; comedienne Katie Putnam headlining
a show; John T. Raymond in Married Life and
Toodles; dozens of companies presenting Uncle Tom’s
Cabin, a perennial favorite; an oratorio of “Joseph’s
Bondage” by the Crescent City Band led by George
W. Warren; Louise Pomeroy; and Robert Frazer’s
Pantomime Company’s Humpty Dumpty’s Dream.
Touted as “the World’s Greatest Actress,” Kate
Claxton came to Evansville in April 1878 in what would
be her most famous role in The Two Orphans. She was
the Elizabeth Taylor of her day in terms of publicity
and personal sufferings if not for number of marriages.
She brought with her reputation as the “fire queen” (or
according to one source, “fire witch”). In December
1876 a fire started while she was on stage in a play at the
Brooklyn Theater in Brooklyn, New York. She remained
on stage trying to calm the audience as they tried to leave
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to make her own
escape. Sadly, the
fire took 275 lives.
A few months
later she was staying
at a hotel in
St. Louis when
a fire broke out,
and at least three
other minor fires
and four audience
panics have been,
rightly or wrongly,
credited to her.
Claxton did
not have the
happiest of lives.
Two marriages,
two divorces,
two bankruptcies,
the death of two
sons (a teenaged
son to pneumonia
and adult son
Kate Claxton, a star of the theatrical
stage in the second half of the
1800s. She seemed to have an affinity
with fires. (Photo from Digital
Commonwealth, Massachusetts
Collections Online. Boston Public
Library: Carte de Visite Collection.
Retrieved January 8, 2021)
to suicide), being named in another woman’s divorce
case (now that is something she had in common with
Elizabeth Taylor), and health issues (ditto); Elizabeth
Taylor’s sufferings seem minor in comparison. Little
wonder that Claxton didn’t care to grant an interview
with a reporter at the Evansville Courier. After seeing
The Two Orphans at the Opera House on April 13, the
Courier writer opined that Claxton was “monotonous”
and “spasmodic.”
Despite her less than stellar notice from the Courier
reviewer, Kate Claxton was popular with Evansville
audiences and returned three more times to the Opera
House: on April 2, 1880 in A Double Marriage (with her
then-husband as her leading man); in The Two Orphans
on February 16, 1881 and April 11, 1883. She cancelled
a scheduled return engagement for January 28, 1885.
Following one of the Evansville performances a reviewer
noted with a sense of relief that the Opera House had
escaped fire.
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traveling theatrical companies,
ensuring a regular stream of headlining
entertainers and actors. John
T. Raymond made return visits, as
did Katie Putnam. Fay Templeton,
a great star in her day (she was portrayed
in the 1942 movie Yankee
Doodle Dandy by Irene Manning),
sang at the Opera House. Adelaide
Moore headed the cast of School for
Scandal on December 21, 1885, and
followed with As You Like It the
next evening.
On April 7, 1887 John T.
Raymond was scheduled to appear
at the Opera House but bowed out
because of illness. He died the following
morning at the St. George
Hotel. In November the same year,
Madame Modjeska, the famed
Polish actress (and main character
of Susan Sontag’s novel In America),
played the lead role in Camille.
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Evansville Opera House facing First
Street. The building across Locust
Street, on the left half of the photo,
is the old St. George Hotel where
the McCurdy now stands. Two businesses
occupied the Opera House
building on either side of the large
main entrance to the theater entrance
(directly behind the "Baths" sign).
Photo is from Evansville Illustrated,
H.R. Page and Company, 1889.
Reproduced in 1977 by Unigraphic,
Inc., 1401 N. Fares Ave., Evansville,
IN 47711, sponsored by the Friends
of Willard Library, Evansville, IN.
was showing its age. After the performance
of the Walter Matthews
Dramatic Company in Nature, or a
Mother’s Love on March 30, 1890,
the theater was closed for extensive
remodeling (costing $20,000, about
$576,151.28 in today’s money). It
reopened with the auditorium on
the ground floor and a new name,
the People’s Theater.
Annie Burton starred in Dad’s
Girl on September 2, 1890, and it
appeared the People’s Theater was
off to a great start. However, on
the morning of February 23, 1891
the People’s Theater burned, leaving
only the front and south walls barely
standing. Had Kate Claxton’s jinx
held up after all, eight years after her
last appearance? No one bothered to
explore that idea. The building was
gone, but the People’s Theater still
had a future in a new structure built
on the same spot; it would be called
the New People’s Theater. By now,
with the population in Evansville
more than doubled since 1870, there
was room for new theaters, even after
factoring in the recent Grand Opera
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HOMETOWN HISTORY
Tri-State History April 1974 to June 1975
By Harold Morgan
April 1974: U.S. Highway signs would now show
both metric and mile distances and a speed warning.
Whirlpool withdrew its contract proposal to its union
and said it was “up to the union now.” It was a week of
racial tensions in Evansville, and the FBI was asked to
help. Whirlpool moved its Evansville ice-maker production
equipment to its Danville, Kentucky plant.
Tornados killed 37 people in Indiana and 66 in
Kentucky; Brandenburg lost 26 people. 323 were killed
by 148 tornadoes in the south central U.S. A mattress
and paper fire inside St Mary’s Hospital was harmless but
caused great concern. Deaconess Hospital built a heliport
for helicopter landings. Whirlpool contract talks
failed; the union strike was in its 68th day.
May 1974: Whirlpool moved its Evansville air-conditioner
building equipment to the Marion, Ohio plant.
Two people were killed by gunfire within inner-city
Evansville; the past week was increasingly violent. India
fired its first A-bomb and joined US, Russia, Britain,
France, China and Israel as nuclear nations. Evansville
and Indianapolis would have “tornado detector” radars
installed. Whirlpool moved its Evansville assembly line
#3 and 1,000 jobs to Marion, Ohio, a loss of 2,640 jobs
from the 102-day-old strike.
June 1974: Whirlpool bought 133 acres of land
in Ponca City, Oklahoma for a new plant site. Both
the union and Whirlpool were called to negotiate in
Washington D.C. Whirlpool linked the local strike as a
favor to save (competitor) Frigidaire from failure (both
companies had the same union, the IUE). Tentative
agreement for Whirlpool and the IUE on June 13 said
the union would vote on June 19. Evansville debated
a free ambulance service or a $15 fee for an emergency
run. The Whirlpool strike was ended after 119 days. The
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Evansville Civic Theater found a home in the Columbia
Theatre on Fulton Avenue. Whirlpool eliminated 1,250
new jobs that had been moved to other cities during the
recent strike.
July 1974: Whirlpool closed its Franklin Street plant
that had 750 workers. Bodies of a mother and her two
children were recovered from the Wabash River near the
New Harmony Bridge. The $25,000 statue of William
Tell was stolen from the Tell City town square. Three
articles of impeachment were drawn against President
Richard Nixon.
August 1974: Spiro Agnew and Evansville’s Walter
Dilbeck were partners in the Mineral Mounds property
near old Kuttawa in Kentucky on Lake Barkley.
(The project failed and was abandoned.) Richard Nixon
resigned from his office as president and Gerald R. Ford
was sworn as the 38th US President. University of
Southern Indiana (USI)-Evansville College was advised
to merge with IU, Purdue or U of E. 18,000 heard the
Allman Brothers concert at Bosse Field. The last known
North Vietnam POW, Emmet Ray, age 47 and a civilian
pilot, was released. Atlantic Ocean aviator Charles
Lindbergh died in Hawaii at age 71.
September 1974: Evansville’s Columbia School
celebrated its 100th anniversary. A two-car crash on
Highway 69 south of New Harmony killed 4 people;
all remained unidentified two days later. President Ford
pardoned Richard Nixon. The AEC ordered 21 of 50
U.S. atomic reactor plants to be closed. Haag Drug Co.
bought all 13 Woods Drug stores, Woods had begun
their Evansville drug store business in 1916.
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The William Tell statue on the Tell City main street
was stolen from there in 1974 and restored later.
(Willard Library photo)
October 1974: Evansville’s crime rate was up 41%,
but the U.S. crime rate was up only 1%.
Shopping center construction at Hwy 62 and
Rosenberger Avenue began. The Evansville Zoo upgrading
was approved for $250,000.
November 1974: Gold sales became legal; the opening
price was $200 per ounce. Evansville city-county
consolidation was defeated by a city-county election
vote. ISU-Evansville announced its 10-year plan for campus
development. Chrysler would close all of its plants
during December, leaving 113,000 people out of work.
AT&T was sued by the U.S. for anti-trust violations.
American auto sales dropped, and plants laid off workers.
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near Mill Road for a landfill site.
December 1974: The U.S. recession
deepened, and the jobless rate
was the highest since 1940; high
inflation was another problem.
Nelson Rockefeller became the 41st
vice-president. New Harmony celebrated
its bicentennial with the help
of ISU-Evansville. A robber was shot
and killed as he tried to rob Deeg’s
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Pharmacy on SE Second Street; the
death was ruled a justifiable homicide.
During 1974, Plaza East, Plaza
West and Southlane Shopping
Centers opened in Evansville.
January 1975: Shoppers Fair on
Diamond Avenue closed; it was the
first discount store in the Tri-State.
The Oaklyn Library branch opened
near Oak Hill Road in Evansville.
Mitchell, Haldeman and Ehrlichman
were convicted of the Watergate cover-up.
The (Lowes) Victory Theater
was still operating at a profit, but its
last “sold out” show was Gone with
the Wind in 1948.
February 1975: Alcoa had a
$500,000 fire in its rolling mill. The
U.S. jobless rate was at a 33-year
high at 8.3% unemployment. The
University of Evansville invited ISU-
Evansville to merge the schools; the
University of Evansville engineering
school was over-flowing.
March 1975: The petroleum
nations agreed to lower the price
of petroleum. The old Post Office
building on Second Street was
offered for public sale. It was believed
that the U.S. recovered two Russian
A-bombs from the (very deeply)
sunken Russian submarine in the
Pacific Ocean by the secret Glomar
Explorer ship.
The ISU-Evansville independence
bill, again, died in the Indiana
Senate. 3,000 South Vietnam refugees
from Hue and Da Nang perished
when their escape ship sank in
a heavy storm. South Vietnam was
expected to be captured by North
Vietnam.
April 1975: A “Baby-Lift”
flight of orphans crashed in a flight
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ing 200 of the 319 aboard. The high bid for the old
Evansville Post Office was $25,000, Evansville city had
bid $1. The Evansville airport held an open house with
displays, tours and model airplane contests; 10,000
people attended. Perry Heights School opened at 5800
Hogue Road.
The Viet Cong were positioned to attack as soon
as the U.S. left Saigon. Saigon surrendered after the
American pullout. Whirlpool cut its salaried work force
from 1,200 to 900 employees.
May 1975: Viet Cong fighters poured into Saigon
as the U.S. troops pulled out. The GSA rejected the
$25,000 bid for the old Post Office building. The refugee
flood from Vietnam and Cambodia into Camp
Pendleton California already numbered over 114,000.
An Air Force C-141 flew into the Evansville airport to
load supplies from Mead Johnson to Guam for Vietnam
refugees. The road from Evansville to Mount Vernon
would begin to be four-laned this year; the cost was
expected to be $7 to $8 million. Deaconess Hospital
began a 130- bed addition at $4.8 million. Ford and GM
would build minicars in the late 1970s.
June 1975: The last of the 17 remaining B-52 and 31
F-111 bombers left Thailand; the remaining 23,000 U.S.
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service men would be removed by the end of June. Sears
would enlarge its Washington Square store and close its
50-year-old downtown Evansville store and the North
Park store. Fire hit the Civic Plaza (Victory Theater)
at Sixth and Main; the top floor was lost. Chrysler,
Ford and GM would stop building large cars. Vietnam
and Cambodia were battling starvation. ISU-Evansville
enrolment was near 2,600 students. Workmen uncovered
remains of the Wabash and Erie Canal while working
on the Courthouse square. Two FBI agents were shot
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Tuesday – Save for the Unexpected
Wednesday – Save to Retire
Thursday – Save by Reducing Debt
Friday – Save as a Family
It’s never too early to start planning
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make a plan, and save automatically.
People with a plan are twice as likely
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We have many tools to help you
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Picturing Our Past
by Pat Sides,
Archivist at Willard Library
Located on the northeast corner of West Franklin
Street and St. Joseph Avenue, Franklin Drugs was a
West Side landmark for decades. Here it is seen on
January 28, 1937, heavily sandbagged during the Great
Flood of 1937,
which ravaged the
West Side along
with other parts of
the city. The drug
store opened in
1932 and expanded
into the two
adjacent commercial shops in 1965. With more space,
a clothing department and gift store were added, and
the popular cafeteria continued to serve plate lunches.
Franklin Drugs survived the flood that occurred when
the store was still young, but finally ended its long run
in late 1990; it was razed a few months later. MJ
Phone Scam Involving Fake Federal
Reserve Bank Investigators
Submitted by Col. Noah Robinson, Chief Deputy
Sheriff, Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office
A phone scam first announced last month by the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York has been reported in
Evansville. Fraudsters claiming to be from the Federal
Reserve Bank contacted a resident of Evansville today
and falsely stated that there had been illegal activity
involving their bank account. The scammers then tried
to instill fear and a sense of urgency by threatening to
involve local law enforcement. The victim was then
threatened with arrest during a follow up call from a
scammer claiming to be a Vanderburgh County Sheriff's
Office deputy. None of the nation’s twelve Federal
Reserve Banks maintain any type of funds or accounts
for individuals, nor does the Federal Reserve directly
e-mail or call individuals holding accounts at commercial
banks regarding suspected suspicious activity in
those accounts. If you receive a call from a scammer
purporting to be an investigator from a Federal Reserve
Bank, hang up and report the attempt via:
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Hometown History
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This company, which was established to provide food
for animals, was formed in 1894. It originally named its
brands for the animal for which it was produced, e.g.
“Rabbit Chow,” “Pig
Chow,” and “Monkey
Chow.” It moved
into the market of
producing cereal,
which became very
popular in 1902. Locally,
its Evansville
warehouse was built
in 1963 and a mill
was added in 1977.
What is the name
of the plant that has
been producing food
for pets and farm animals
for over 120 years and is recognizable by its red and
white checkerboard logo?
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Page 14 February 2021
The Cooking Corner
By Jancey Smith
Some Big Honkin’
Meatballs!
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Most everyone has heard the phrase, "Go big or stay
home." I've always thought it was kind of cute. To me it
basically means to throw yourself into a project or don't
start it. Well, the other night when I was fixing dinner,
I pulled out a skillet to make grilled cheese, not one of
my specialities, and then I studied the pan. I gazed at the
bread and shook my head and thought. "Go big or stay at
home." I needed a bigger pan.
How many times have we all grabbed a bowl, skillet
or dish and realized we just didn't have a big enough gadget?
We've all dumped a bunch of ingredients in a mixing
bowl that was almost full, and thought, "Yeah, I fit it in
there, but how am I going to stir it?" Slopping over the
sides is how that works.
I placed the bread in the pan, layered turkey and
cheese on the bread, then wondered how in the world
I was going to flip the grilled cheese. Cook without
moving I could do. Flip a sandwich, no way. That's
when I opted for the bigger pan. A simple grilled cheese
would've been bad enough, but to add layers of meat also
was asking for disaster. With the aid of the bigger pan, all
turned out fine, tricky but fine.
A few days later, the hubby asked what was for dinner
and when I replied with meatballs and spaghetti, he
was being funny and asked if they were going to be big
meatballs. "Hey Honey, are they going to be big softball-sized
meatballs or little golf ball meatballs? Go big
or stay at home!"
OK, the challenge had been issued, so I made some
big honkin' meatballs, a quarter pound each to be exact.
I've seen this done on TV often — a big batch of meatballs
baked in the oven and then topped with homemade
sauce. I knew I could do that, too. I just wasn't sure how.
Instead of making 3 separate items (meatballs, sauce
and pasta) and then combining, I mixed the sauce together
in a bowl and poured it over the browned meatballs in
a casserole dish and covered it with foil to simmer. I've
learned to love foil. It acts just like a lid that keeps the
moisture in and the steam helps finish the cooking and
keeps the meat from drying out.
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finish my plate. Afterall, they were some big honkin'
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1 lb. ground beef
1 lb. ground Italian sausage (hot or mild)
1/4 cup onion, diced fine
2 cloves garlic, diced fine
salt and pepper
1/4 tsp. oregano
2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
1/8 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1 tsp. parsley
3 T. mayonnaise (or 1 large egg)
1 heal of bread, torn into crumbled bits
Sauce
1 can/jar pasta sauce of choice
1/4 cup chopped onion, optional
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1/2 tsp. garlic powder
2 dozen pepperoni slices
1 tsp. basil
1 tsp. parsley
1 tsp. oregano
salt and pepper
1/2 cup chopped bell pepper, optional
4 oz. sliced mushrooms, optional
Preheat oven to 375. Spray a 13x9x2 baking dish.
Mix all meatball ingredients in medium bowl.
Combine well.
Shape into 8 large meatballs, the size of baseballs.
Bake for 25-30 minutes until meat is lightly browned
and juices look clear.
While meatballs are cooking, in medium bowl, combine
sauce ingredients. Set aside until needed.
When meatballs are browned, top with sauce and
cover with foil. Return to 350 oven for 25-30 minutes.
Serve over cooked pasta. Makes 8 meatballs, serving 4-6.
MJ
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By Glenn A. Deig, Certified Elder Law Attorney
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When clients and their families
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SEARCH PARTY
by Ron Eaton
In this letter grid you will find thirty words of at least 5 letters
each. The words can be found by searching horizontally,
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The thirty words can be divided into six groups of five related
words. (Ex: planets, baseball teams, U.S. states)After you
have found the thirty words, the unused letters, when read
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seventh related group.
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Scramblers
By Ron Eaton
Unscramble each of the letter groups on the left so that when the new
arrangement of letters is placed on one of the spaces at the right a longer
word appears. Good luck!
1. TIRE _________ CO __________ RE
2. MINE ________ OR __________ I
3. BALL ________ F ___________ INE
4. RAID ________ C ___________URE
5. MAGI ________ SY __________ LE
6. TIDE _________ T ___________ ES
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Yesterdays Remembered
Cats, Cats, Cats!
I have always been a pet person. I have owned many
little dogs, one large dog, and a vast number of cats. I
remember taking a small kitten home to my son by holding
it next to my neck as I drove my car from Princeton
to Ft. Branch. Needless to say, my young son loved that
little kitten and he carried it around for days until I
insisted that he allow it to walk alone.
As a very young girl, I coaxed a small dog home
from school one day. My mother accused me of feeding
some of my lunch to the dog in order for it to follow me.
(She knew me well!) But that dog became my constant
companion and I played with him almost all my waking
moments. I strangely named him Blimpy. For what reason,
I’ll never know.
When we lived in Boonville, a friend of ours presented
us with a large collie puppy. That dog was huge
compared to any animal I had ever owned. I loved her,
but she could slobber more than I could have imagined.
Each kiss was a facial! Her name was Nippy
We moved to Princeton and took the dog with us.
However, she didn’t like living with us, I guess. One day
she simply disappeared. We never knew where she went
or why she was gone. She was a beautiful dog, and I kept
her coat brushed and glossy. That didn’t give the thief
the right to steal her, though! But, as we were sitting
on our porch one afternoon nearly two years after her
disappearance, she came walking down the street toward
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our house. What a surprise! She
came up and renewed her friendship with me and my
sons. She seemed happy to have found us. I went inside
to find a hot-dog to feed her since I had no dog food on
hand. She followed me! She had been an outdoor dog
and was never house trained. Perhaps her new owner had
done that for me.
Nippy ate the hot dog, kissed the boys a slobbery kiss
and trotted off the porch. And we never saw her again.
Recently a neighbor passed away. She had a beautiful
gray striped cat. Since I was traveling a lot with our bus
business, I thought that Don would like the cat as a pet
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been somewhat of a recluse, the family
reported. “You won’t see her for
days.” I came into the living room
and the cat was up in my lap!!!! So
much for being a recluse. She has
been my lap cat ever since. Don
named her Whiskers and we loved
her. When I was forced to put Don
in the nursing home, she became
my best friend and companion. She
sleeps every night in my lap and cries
when I leave the house. She is definitely
a spoiled cat!
Recently a neighbor came to me
with a lovely calico cat. Her owner
had passed away and they needed a
home for her. Their next stop was to
be the animal shelter where she was
to be destroyed. I could not accept
that! She was the most beautiful
cat I had ever seen, but if she had
been any bigger, I am sure she would
have been a mountain lion. And she
didn’t like my Whiskers.
When I put the cat, named
Angel, on the floor, she instantly
picked a fight with Whiskers. Angel
was not a proper name for that monster.
She was a huge cat, and since
they were both females, someone
informed me that they would never
get along. That cat had a growl like a
dog and would hiss at the very sight
of Whiskers.
A neighbor came down after
hearing about my dilemma and
instantly stated that he wanted to
take her. The only problem was that
I couldn’t catch her! I realized that
I had to outwit her. She was quick,
but I needed to be quicker!!!
I realized I had to find a plan,
so I managed to coax her out from
under the bookshelf where she barely
fit. My recliner sat in front of the
bookshelf, so that meant we had to
turn over my chair and I would have
to grab her by the scruff of the neck.
FINALLY, success! I gathered her in
my arms and she was screaming and
crying like a wild animal. Then she
began to growl like a dog. I was sure
that I would be eaten soon. The plan
worked but I ended up with a glaring
scratch across my tummy done by
those long claws. Needless to say, I’m
glad she is there and not here.

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The Village at
Hamilton Pointe
A CONTINUUM OF CARE COMMUNITY
COME BE A PART OF THE
HAMILTON POINTE COMMUNITY!
Hamilton combines comfort, convenience and
peace of mind with the lifestyle of an active
premiere adult community.
NEW REVIEW
“ My mother lived at Hamilton Pointe for
five short months. During her stay she had
excellent care. Mom was in an apartment in
the assisted living section. The staff are awesome.
They treated Mom like she was part
of their family. Everyone there is very dedicated
to the care of their residents. Mom
passed away last week in her apartment. Her
health began to deteriote after Christmas.
She was taken care of with love and respect.
Thanks to everyone that assisted with her
care - the management staff - nurses - CNAs
- CMAs - Activities staff - Housekeeping
staff. I would highly recommend Hamilton
Pointe Assisted Living.”
— Linda N
INDEPENDENT LIVING
ASSISTED LIVING
SKILLED NURSING
What are
they saying?
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MEMORY CARE
Call today for more info!
812-858-5300
The Village at
Hamilton Pointe
a continuum of care community
3800 Eli Place • Newburgh, IN 47630
www.hamiltonpointehealthandrehab.com
Located across from Deaconess Hospital