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Page 12A THE BEACON September 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 XIII My youngest boy says I must put in my book some of my courtship, so here it goes. My first young man who came to see me was a preacher at Church where my father and mother belonged. I asked my mother what I had better do. Mother said I was too young and to tell him so. I worked in Indianapolis for a while and came home Author Mary Randell to help Mother cook for the carpenters when they built the third house and barn. I was only fifteen years old but was very large. I weighed almost 140 pounds. The next man I went with took me to church and then home to where I worked. We talked awhile at the gate and when he proposed I told him that I was a poor girl and didn’t expect anything from home, and that I wouldn’t marry anyone as poor as I was myself. (His initials were H.D.) The next one didn’t come any more because I wouldn’t go downtown with him to accept treats. (F. L. are his initials.) I never accepted treats in ice cream parlors, nor any presents. The next one was a girlfriend’s brother. When I would find out from her that he was coming to Indianapolis, I would come home to my mother and father for a weekend visit. I shunned him three different times and after that he didn’t come any more. I had nothing against him, only he and work didn’t agree, and I had too much ambition to marry a do-less man. (P.M. are his initials.) One man came one Sunday when I wasn’t through with my dishes and wanted me to go out walking with him. He wanted to make a date for Sunday evening, to take me to church and have a chat at home afterwards. I told him I had no time to waste on him, to go and get the girl he left on Washington Street last Sunday when he walked away with two other boys. He picked up his hat and left without saying a work. (His initials are T.G.) The next one was a man fifty years old. He had a nice home and plenty of money, and proposed to me the first time he dated me. I told him to get somebody near his age, as I wouldn’t marry anyone that old. (C.R are his initials.) The lady for whom I worked when I was about twelve years old had told THE STORY OF MY LIFE Courtship Days me that when I was old enough to have men coming she was going to send her brother to my house to “talk sweet” to me. She said he was very good looking and a good boy. So once when I was sixteen years old I came home from Lafayette where I had visited my sister. I was working in Indianapolis and had some money to spend Saturday and Sunday. I don’t know how this lady found out I was at home, but she sent her brother over to see me just as she had said she would. He began to talk about farming. He thought that was a nice way to spend a life. I told him that since I had been a resident of Indianapolis I had become plumb disgusted with farming. I had had to plow corn when I was ten years old and had helped to clear the wood, cut down little trees and pile them up to burn, when I was only seven, while Father cut the big ones. So he said, “You wouldn’t marry a farmer if you had a chance?” “I should say not,” I said. So his sweet talk ended. Then he talked with my father awhile and said, “Good-bye.” That was the last of J.M. Here is the story of another young man. He was a school teacher. In the summer vacations, he came to Indianapolis to work in the brick yard. He came to see me and took me to church, then for a short walk around the square and a little talk at the gate. He came to see me five times and the next time, two weeks later, he proposed. I told him that I would do nothing like that until I knew something of his reputation back home. He asked me if he could come the next Sunday and I told him that he could come see me. Meanwhile, I went to see a girl that I knew was truthful and who lived not very far from his home. She said that he was engaged to a girl near his home. I think that, missed that one Sunday, he was out home trying to break his engagement to her. So, when he came the seventh time, I told him not to come any more but to stay with the girl he had promised to marry back home. He always wanted to kiss me when he went away, but I told him that I would kiss no man; I would shake hands and that was all. About four weeks afterward, the first girl, the one he was engaged to came to Indianapolis where I was working. She asked me if I knew where P. S. was working. I told her, “in the brick yard about ten squares from here.” I told her he had tried to propose to me, and that I had told him to stay with the girl in the country, back home. My husband’s folks and my folks lived a couple of miles apart and both went to the same church. My mother-inlaw had held me when I was christened. When my folks moved to Ripley County I was one and a half years old. My husband’s people came to see us and bought a farm two miles from us. So, you see we had always known each other. The folks had to go through thick woods to see each other, so Pa said he would mark LAWRENCEBURG FALL MUSIC FEST Lawrenceburg Summer Event Series presented by some trees to make a path. He cut down little sprouts low enough not to catch on one’s feet. When I was ten years old, my husband’s folks moved to Dearborn County. When my husband came to see us, he asked for me, and my mother told him that I was working in Indianapolis, so he came there to see me. After that, we wrote to each other every month for about a year, and when I came home he came to see me. When he proposed, he asked me if I wanted to be his cook. I told him I wouldn’t leave my church, but he said he had joined the Methodist church two years before, so I promised to marry him. The third time he came to see me; we were married at my home. My sister came, and two of his brothers witnessed the wedding. We left that evening and went to my husband’s home. He was twenty-seven years old and I was nineteen. We took three rooms and lived in the same house with his people. The Beacon thanks the descendents of the Reindell family for sharing Mrs. Reindell’s story. Upcoming chapters will be featured in future editions of the Beacon. 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debbystutz.thebeacon@yahoo.com September 2023 THE BEACON Page 1B S BEACON PORTS SCENE By Chris Jack Nobbe Zoller beaconsports @live.com sports@goBEACONnews.com EC’s 200-Yard Freestyle Relay Honored as All-Americans The National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association (NISCA) released All-American honors at the conclusion of the school calendar year. The NISCA seeks to recognize the top 100 times in each event from By throughout the country. Maxine Klump East Central High School’s 200-yard Community freestyle relay team received Correspondent the honor and status of All-American with their state finals preliminary time maxineklump.thebeacon@yahoo.com of 1:25.31. The team was composed of senior Kaden Cummins, juniors Ayden Ketchem and Henry Strotman, and freshman Kyle Goodwin. While the team did not quite duplicate their preliminary time in the finals, finishing seventh overall in the state, any legally-recorded time is eligible for All-American status. Thus, the team joined five other Indiana teams on the top-100 performance list for this season, including Zionsville High School as the number one team in the country after breaking the state record in the event with 1:20.53. Road Racing Is Summer Fun for Many Many enjoy the summer months by gathering for community road races throughout the area. People young and old and all in between enjoy the atmosphere and spirit created and shared by others in these environments. Oftentimes, these races are completed before other people may have risen out of bed on a slumbering weekend, yet the notion of the earlymorning runners finds many who derive a love and possess a passion for pounding the pavement. While many of the top runners are often established runners from the area or young high school runners putting in the miles in preparation for the upcoming cross country season, the finishers list is sprinkled with everything from casual runners to onetime supporters of a cause as a runner or walker. All of them, however, celebrate the joy of the event and encouragement can always be found among the participants. The Lauren’s Burg Hill Race was run on June 17 in honor of Lauren Hill and support of brain cancer research, specifically, DIPG, features a five-mile race involving quite the hill climb during competition going to the top of Bielby Road (Old 48) before finishing at the 22-yard line of Neary Stadium and Dick Meador Field, honoring her jersey number. The five-mile race was won AT CINCINNATI STATE YOU CAN! Earn your Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) Degree at about half the cost of other colleges and universities. • Delivered in-person – unlike any other local RN – BSN program. • Small class sizes, because you’re not just a number here. • Lots of support to help you succeed. Starts Fall of 2023 by Owen King of Cincinnati in 28:19 followed closely by Lawrenceburg’s Bryan Wagner in 28:37. Wagner, who coaches cross country and track in the area, had just come off of winning the 2023 CollegeAdvantage Redlegs Run the weekend before in a time of 35:51 over a distance of 10 kilometers. On the women’s side, recent South Ripley graduate Lanie Nicholson won in a time of 34:11 and placed fourth overall as well, while former Lawrenceburg Tiger Hannah Morgan, who just completed her junior season for the Lions of Mount St. Joseph University, was second in 36:56. In total, 59 runners completed the five-mile course. The 5K, which does not include the trip up Bielby Road but has the same finish, was claimed by Larremy Gray of Cincinnati in 18:28. He was closely pursued by an incoming freshman for South Ripley named Mason Bascom, a last name familiar to Lawrenceburg. Mason was the ORVC middle school champion this past spring in both the 800- and 1600-meter runs. He finished in 18:40. Sixteen-yearold Amber Detmer of Patriot won on the women’s side in a time of 24:20. This race had 80 participants. Forty-two people chose the 5K walk with Kelly Moore of Milford, Ohio, winning overall in 36:04 and 75-yearold Jim McGruder of West Chester, Ohio, the top male in 37:53. That makes a total of 181 people who showed up For more details, visit www.cincinnatistate.edu/bsn for a race which began at 7:22 in the morning. The Fourth of July holiday has long been started by many in the area by participating in the Greendale 4th of July 5K. This race has now been held and organized by Voices of Indiana for several years to aid and support their efforts for area musical development, focused largely on the youth of the area. The 39-year-old Wagner was able to capture this title on the streets of Greendale by holding off a slew of teenagers on his heels. The nine finishers after him were all teens, but Wagner had the extra spark on this day to finish in 17:11 to hold off all those young firecrackers. The top female was again Nicholson in a time of 19:48. The top walker was Ginger Peters of Osgood in 38:12. The race brought out 292 runners and 72 walkers, as this tradition continues to be strongly supported. July 14 and 15 was Freudenfest in Oldenburg, which has become one of the larger social events in southeastern Indiana over the past several years. This festival has also long held a 5K race over the hills of Oldenburg. It can be a scenic trot for the experienced runner and a challenge for those who prefer running a flat course. Now called the Freudenfest Twister Lauf 5K or the OASIS 5K Lauf, in support of Oldenburg Academy, has been a race dominated by the hometown runner, Curt Eckstein. Eckstein is known well in running circles for his scholastic and collegiate successes. He was a state champion for the Twisters in cross country as well as the 3200-meter run in his senior year. He competed at Purdue and became an All-American in cross country putting his name among the top runners ever to compete for Boilermakers. Eckstein continues to run competitively while also helping to give some time back to the program he came from and where he currently coaches. In May, he was runner-up in the OneAmerica 500 Festival Mini-Marathon in a time of 1:04.14. It is no surprise that he still enjoys the hills of Oldenburg, where he won this year’s Lauf 5K in a comfortable 15:42, followed by former Bulldog runner Ben Moster in 16:23. Both of them finished over two and a half minutes ahead of the other 80 runners who participated that morning. Madeline Douglas was first for the ladies. She finished eighth overall in 21:57.3. Eckstein would then decide to run some more rolling hills, these more gently rolling than Oldenburg’s, when he took the title at the St. Martin’s Country Run in Yorkville on July 23. This race is in its 43rd year and is the oldest road race in Dearborn County and is held in conjunction with the parish festival. The out-and-back race along Yorkville Road was traversed in a time of 14:30, over three minutes faster than the runner-up. This also beat his own course record set in 2021 of 14:37. Kimberly Johnston of College Corner, Ohio, was the top female finisher in the race in a time of 20:52 and was 13th overall. This race had 139 runners work up an appetite before heading to the festival for a wonderful chicken dinner. Another aspect of the summer races over the past many years has been the SIRC-it races, held as solid fund raisers for the cross country teams of area schools and sponsored by Weber Sports of Aurora as well as Stuart Road Racing. The SIRC-it (Southeastern Indiana Running Circuit) has swapped dates, locations, and affiliated communities and schools over the years, but it is still something solidly supported by many allegiant runners from the area. These races being in conjunction with one another, award prizes for individual races, but the SIRC-it also presents awards after the final race of six for participants who have competed in at least five of the six and a chance for prizes for competing in at least four. This series of races is enjoyable to be a part of and truly shows the spirit of the running community throughout southeastern Indiana. At the time of publication, four of the six races in the SIRC-it had been completed with various winners in each race. Races that had already been run were in Rushville, St. Leon, Aurora, and Brookville with Milan and Batesville yet to take place. Many opportunities to take part in road racing events (mostly 5K distance) exist throughout the year and for many good causes. You can find several listed on stuartroadracing.com under the schedule tab, but it is also wise to keep your eyes on bulletin boards in your community and perhaps on social media outlets that may list them. more? want goBEACONnews.com SHOP LOCAL and tell our advertisers you saw them in The BEACON!
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