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Page 10A THE BEACON July 2023 The following excerpt is from a book written in 1930 by a lifetime resident of Ripley County, Yorkville, and Manchester. The BEACON is honored to share another chapter of the book each month thanks to Mary Randell’s descendants. Previous chapters are available online starting with the August 2022 print edition at goBEACONnews.com/ print_edition. By Mary M. Greiner Randell Chapter XII- Part 1 of 2 At the first place where I worked, I was left alone many times. The rats were so thick Author Mary Randell there that when the two-year-old child went out of the house with a piece of bread they would try to crawl up her dress. Children’s clothes were long in those days. Then she would holler and we would go to her. Here is where I had to settle down and learn to sew. A lady that had come from Germany into the backwoods with her husband taught me hand sewing. My mother went to see her and made the arrangements. Then she came home and told me, “You will have to make your next dress.” It was just before I was ten years old. I took my dinner and started out. The teacher was very good to me. She asked me if I knew anything about sewing and when I told her not, she said she was glad of that, (because she would not have any bad habits -editor’s notes by DWJ.) I learned very fast. I got up very early and walked three miles to take my lessons. First she taught me to sew, then to cut out patterns. In four weeks I had made a dress for myself. My lessons were 50 cents a week. When I had gone six weeks I began to sew at home. At this first place I worked I used to have to gather dandelions for dinner. The family had a sawmill and four men were hired to work in the woods getting out some logs to be sawed into lumber. Well, this man bought me a revolver and laid it by my plate when we were all around the table eating dinner and said, “This is yours to protect yourself. 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ACCUDOCURGENTCARE.COM THE STORY OF MY LIFE Making My Own Way Now you practice on rats and the first fellow that says anything to you to harm you, point your gun towards his head and kill him because I can’t always be here and sometimes Mary and Baby go with me.” I didn’t have the gun very long until one day I was down the valley gathering dandelions and a man hollered at me to come up there to the fence. This was a man from Cincinnati that was working for a farmer. He was on the other side of the fence. I yelled back at him that I wasn’t coming up there, and he had better not come down where I was. I went to the house and got my gun and put it in my pocket and went back to get the rest of my dandelions. But he didn’t come down where I was. Mr. Bowers (the man that got the gun for me) told me to watch him; he said he was “no good.” No doubt the boys told him that I carried a gun. I was only about twelve years old. Another time at this same place, the folks were all gone, work hand and all. He hired a fifth man to help get out some logs because the boss had to haul some lumber that they had on hand to Batesville. The man who had had that job was sick from worry. Once it had been very warm, in July, and when he drove through Laughery Creek he had let both horses drink. First thing he knew they were too warm and one fell over and died. That worried him so that he had to go home until he got over his fright. This fifth man was no good. He didn’t live near there so he couldn’t go home as the rest of the boys, so one Sunday when they were all gone he came home drunk. I heard him yell before he got to the house. When he got to the sawmill he began to pound the outside of the mill weather board; then when he got to the door he began to pound on the door. I had the door locked so he went to the window and began to pound on the window sill. So I stepped over to the window and pointed the gun at him and told him that if he broke the window I would shoot him. I told him to go out to the barn and sober up. So he went to the barn and I suppose he went to sleep hungry. When Mr. Bowers’ folks came home I told them how he had acted and Mr. Bowers said, “He won’t worry you again.” On Monday he got his “walking papers” and we never heard from him anymore. One time I was working for two families when the house caught fire. They discovered it when they opened the stair door to take some washing upstairs. They dropped the basket of clothes and ran out of doors to their men. They left one baby in the crib and one on the floor. I took the two out of doors and ran into the kitchen and grabbed two buckets of water. I ran up a few steps and threw it toward the chimney. By throwing on two more I got the fire out. It was lucky that there was water in the house. So, when the women came with their men they picked up their babies. The men said that I was brave, but that the women were cowards. This was the place where they had their mother living in a log cabin with only one room. In one corner she had her bed and in another corner she had a stove; in another corner she had her wood, and in the last corner was her trunk. In the middle of the floor, a ground floor, there was Howard Excavating, Inc. Ryan Howard 812-584-4923 / 812-532-0864 indianahowards@comcast.net Locally Owned & Operated Since 2005 Commercial - Residential – Industrial Utility Line Installation & Repairs (storm, water, sewer) Dearborn County Registered Septic Installer Excavation & Grading Trucking & Hauling Land Clearing (tree and brush removal) Concrete Flatwork Demolition a table. There was a stream between her house and their house, and when it rained she couldn’t cross it. They were not very good to her; she had very little to live on. They would hitch up two horses to a big wagon and both families would go away early in the evening to a dance. The men they had working for them would go along. This was another sawmill outfit. But they did farming too. They used to go to dances and card games and not get home until morning. So before I went to do their chores, feed two ox teams, milk four cows, and feed ten hogs, I hung a little white cloth on a pole. She knew what that meant, so she would always come over and I would cook supper for us. I would cook coffee and fry eggs and have cookies and bread and butter and I would open a can of peaches for her. When she went home I would give her some cookies and give her corn for her chickens. She only had six chickens. I stayed all alone in a six-room house. After this I went to Greensburg to work for a family by the name of Cover. He had a store. One day I got a letter, that those men who didn’t provide for their mother when they had plenty, one had fallen off a wagon and broken his back and the other fell off in front of the wheel and had his leg cut off above the knee. So, all who read this book, be kind to your mothers and fathers for you will surely reap what you sow. Another place where I worked was with a private family who had three children. I was to plant corn and help do the housework. The lady of the house was not very strong. The lady had to go away to take care of her sister who was sick. She was gone three weeks and I had the children to take care of and the cooking to do. We had potatoes and cottage cheese and fried ham or bacon to eat, milk to drink and butter to put on our bread – three times a day for three weeks. I had to do the washing for the children and myself. The man did the churning and tended to the milking. When I didn’t do housework I worked in the garden and took care of the children, planted corn in the field and herded the cows away from the crops, when the pasture got short. This man would go to the field as soon as it was light enough to see and work with a team until seven. Then he would come home with his horses and feed them and we would all eat together. Then he would milk the cows. He would go out again in the evening before he went to bed and fill the horses’ mangers full of hay. You can see that his horses were fed before he got up and could eat while he was currying them and harnessing them. We could sleep until six o’clock in the morning. When the mother was home she would fix breakfast and I would wash the children and dress them. Her mother baked our bread. At this time I was twelve years old. Please read the next issue of The BEACON for the continuation of Chapter XII of The Story of My Life. 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July 2023 THE BEACON Page 11A By Jeff Hermesch Purdue Extension jhermesch@purdue.edu Be On The Lookout For Bagworms! Be On The Lookout For Bagworms! Now is the time to be looking for bagworms as they have had a few weeks to feed and are now large enough to be seen hiding in plain sight. These insects hide in plain sight by using foliage from the host plant to cover themselves to hide from birds. Bagworms are primarily a pest of conifers like junipers, spruce, pines, and arborvitae. However, they feed on a wide range of host plants including many broadleaf plants, such as; elm, flowering plum, hackberry, honey locust, linden, maple, oak, rose, sycamore, elm, and wild cherry. These caterpillars do their damage by feeding on the host plants from late spring through mid-August before they become adults. Early summer is an ideal time to treat young bagworms before they get out of control. If you find only a few bagworms you can simply pull them off and drown them in a soapy bucket of water. Unfortunately, chances are there will be too many caterpillars to pick off by hand, so chemical control with insecticides is the best option. The key to managing bagworms with these insecticides at this time of year is to apply them early and frequently enough to kill the highly susceptible young caterpillars feeding on plant foliage. Applying insecticides weekly for four to five weeks when bagworms are first noticed will reduce problems with bagworms later in the year. There are many insecticides labeled for use against bagworms, however, the insecticides that can be used to manage them early in the season are Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. Kurstaki (also known as BTK, and found in Dipel and Thuricide) and spinosad. The bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. Kurstaki is only active on young bagworm caterpillars and must be consumed or ingested to kill bagworm caterpillars. Therefore, thorough coverage of all plant parts and frequent applications are required. Spinosad is the active ingredient in several homeowner products, including Captain Jack’s DeadBug Brew and Monterey Garden Insect Spray. The insecticide works through contact and ingestion; however, the insecticide is most effective when ingested by young bagworm caterpillars. As always with pesticides, read and follow the labels to ensure safe and effective application. If left unchecked, bagworms can cause substantial plant damage, thus ruining the aesthetic quality of plants. Furthermore, bagworms can kill plants (especially newly transplanted small evergreens), because evergreens usually do not produce another flush of growth after being fed upon or defoliated by bagworms. Young bagworms cover themselves with foliage and are difficult to detect. (Photo by Cliff Sadof, Purdue University.) Bagworm caterpillar feeding. (Photo by Cliff Sadof, Purdue University.) By the time August comes, when bagworms are most likely to be noticed, these caterpillars have already formed their bag and it is too late for chemical control. Hand-picking is an option. If you have questions about your landscape, please contact me for answers. I can be reached by email at jhermesch@purdue.edu or by phone at 812-926-1189. The Dearborn County Extension Office is located at 229 Main Street, Aurora, IN 47001. Look for my next article in the upcoming issue of The Beacon. 8 4 6 8 2 1 4 6 8 5 7 7 3 2 9 4 8 9 6 1 9 6 7 2 8 8 1 3 1 7 6 8 2 1 9 3 Sudoku Sudoku is a logical puzzle game that may seem difficult at first glance, but actually it is not as hard as it looks! Fill a number in to every cell in the grid, using the numbers 1 to 9. You can only use each number once in each row, each column, and in each of the 3×3 boxes. The solution can be found on our website www.goBEACONnews. com/print_edition. Click on the link for Sudoku and view the solution for this month and last. Good luck and have fun! 2023 LAWRENCEBURG TASTES OF SUMMER Lawrenceburg Summer Event Series presented by KRISTINE KABBES & THE SKALLYWAGS 6:00 - 7:30 pm THE RENEGADES 8:00 - 10:00 pm I N DIA N A JUNE 17 TASTES OF SUMMER FOOD TRUCK RALLY Enjoy 11:00 am - 10:00 pm local award-winning restaurants and food trucks serving destination edibles in Downtown Lawrenceburg include these participating vendors: LAUREN’S BURG HILL 5K RUN/WALK In honor of Lauren Hill, this event seeks to raise funds to provide scholarships and assistance to families afflicted with DIPG or pediatric brain cancer. 5:45 - 7 am Race Day Packet Pickup – City Hall • 6:00 am Race Day Registration 7:22 am Lauren’s Burg Hill 5K Run/Walk 5K starts on Walnut Street & finishes on the 22” yard line at LHS Football Field. Course will close 90 minutes after start at approximately 9:00 am. PLUS ... • The Twisted Greek • Street Kitchen • Roll On In Food Truck & Catering 5:45 pm Food Truck Competition Awards – Celebrity chef Derek McGhee, Executive Chef at Hollywood Casino, Scott Holubetz, Cincinnati State Culinary Instructor and Michael Sassano of Thunderdome Group will judge food categories to include Best Entrée, Best Appetizer, Best Dessert & Peoples Choice Award. Presented by Queen City Food Truck Association KIDS ACTIVITIES, CARNIVAL RIDES & BEER GARDEN 11:00 am - 10:00 pm - Carnival Rides 11:00 am - 3:00 pm - Kids Activities, Cincy Circus, Petting Zoo, Stingray Meet & Greet and Hocus Focus Picture Booth Noon - 10:00 pm - Beer Garden FARMER’S MARKET 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Delicious selection of local fresh vegetables, honey, jams, and more! www.THINKLAWRENCEBURG.com Get it All at www.goBEACONnews.com
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