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Page 12A THE BEACON October 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 XIV My husband had bought a place before we were married. My folks bought a cow and calf and fifteen bushels of wheat, and lumber to fix a room upstairs, as a wedding present. My father told me that he had spent all his Author Mary Randell money when he was young, and that, if I would save my money, he would take care of it for me. So I had saved my money, THE STORY OF MY LIFE Life on the Farm from nine years old, and sent it home. When I was married I had four hundred dollars saved up. My father gave it to me, but we had such a big debt on the farm, that instead of buying nice furniture, we paid this money on the place. In those days, money that was borrowed cost eight to ten cents on the dollar. I bought geese and dressed them and went to market with Grandpa Randell and sold them. I could buy them for sixty cents and sell them on the market for one dollar, and the feathers for seventyfive cents a pound. With the money I made I bought some furniture. My mother gave us a bed, when I was married, and a lot of nice clean carpet rags. I cut these into strips and sewed them together making carpet balls which I took to the weaver to have a carpet made. Then I sewed some more that my mother-in-law gave me and sold them for eight cents a pound. With this money I bought more furniture. I got only one piece at a time and we went to the factory for it. In those days nobody bought second hand furniture. Everybody kept what he had. My husband’s parents took the two front rooms at our house. They had a stairway built so they could have the front room upstairs. That was the best part of the house. I had one large room and two small ones. When I wanted to go into the bedroom, I had to go through two doors. The first room had a little transom above the door. The bedroom had a big window and it was so small that the bed just fit between the two walls, so I could barely move it out to sweep back of it. One day, when my husband and his mother went to a Democratic rally at Lawrenceburg, I had a carpenter take out a partition that had a big door in it. Then I had a plasterer come and plaster the ceiling and the wall, where the partition was half-way down. The other half on each side I plastered myself. The plasterers were gone when the folks came back from the rally. They weren’t in a very good humor about it, but it was no use because I had another doorway out. When the boys all left home I had the room where they slept for my kitchen and had a door put between the kitchen and the bedroom. Otherwise I would have had to go through the big room to get to the bedroom. Our house was poorly arranged. There was no chimney outside the kitchen and the big room, and we had to cut an opening in the wall and run a stovepipe through the upstairs to the chimney. By cutting the wall between the kitchen and bedroom for a door, I could leave the door open and watch the children while I was cooking breakfast. So, when my husband’s father and mother died I had another door put between my bedroom and her kitchen and made a spare bedroom out of it. Then I had a parlor room and a dining room and a bedroom upstairs and one downstairs. There was also a spare room downstairs and a big kitchen. I never have seen such a foolishly built house before my marriage nor since. The year after I was married I raised geese and ducks and chickens and milked cows and worked in the field and garden. One year I drilled in eighteen acres of corn and did my housework by night, baked bread when the rest were asleep, canned cherries all night and sometimes didn’t go to bed until the next night. When I had little children I used to put a cover on the ground and put them on it and dig potatoes or shuck corn for the hogs that we were fattening. At threshing time Pa would sow his wheat by moonlight and the next day I would hitch up two horses to a harrow and put two children in the box on the harrow as a cushion and harrow the wheat that had been sown the night before. In those days they didn’t thresh out in the field as they do now. They always got the fall wheat ground ready before they threshed the wheat. Then most people threshed out of barns or wheat stacks. Then they would sow the wheat that had been threshed. In those days, when we DEAR MARIE By Marie Segale marie@goBEACONnews.com Dear Marie, I have eight grandchildren. When they come to visit, I often see them killing their free time on their phones. I would like to interact with them, but I feel like their devices are far more interesting than spending quality time with Grandma. I guess I had better step up my game and become more interesting. However, sometimes when I see them, I am thankful for the quiet time the devices provide. I am concerned about how much screen time all of my grandchildren are allowed to have. I believe our young people are losing the skills they hired hands, we had to bring lunch to them in the field. Nowadays people don’t have to do that. The men have dinner at eleven o’clock in the morning, and don’t have to work so many hours. When I wasn’t working in the harvest field myself, I would have to carry lunch on one arm and a baby on the other, perhaps also a two-year old child with another walking behind me, holding to my dress. Please read the next issue of The BEACON for the continuation of Chapter XV of The Story of My Life. need to interact with other people and survive in life. Marie, what are your thoughts about this battle of screen time vs. spending time in human contact? Connie in Morris Dear Connie, I am also concerned about the amount of screen time all of us spend on our phones. It has reached the level of addiction. As with any addictive behavior, we have to realize that a problem exists before we can begin to change the behavior. I strongly recommend you make changes when you are with your grandchildren. You can say, “ Let’s all put our phones away for a set amount of time.” Then spend time on a board game or learning a new game or craft. 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debbystutz.thebeacon@yahoo.com October 2023 THE BEACON Page 1B S BEACON PORTS SCENE By Chris Jack Nobbe Zoller beaconsports @live.com sports@goBEACONnews.com Kane Family is “On the Go” Brian and Jenny Kane as well as daughters Carly and Heidi recently enjoyed a very busy start to the month of August with sporting pursuits across the country and “across the pond.” While the Guilford area family enjoys competition in many forms, the most recent involved By BMX and tennis. Brian Kane Maxine grew up racing Klump motocross. The couple got their girls Community involved in BMX at a young age Correspondent (hoping it might be a bit safer for the girls) and spent many Saturdays at maxineklump.thebeacon@yahoo.com BMX events around the region. While younger daughter Heidi raced for a few years, older daughter Carly has taken the sport to its highest levels. Carly currently races on the World Cup tour and is expected to qualify for the Paris Olympics next summer. Jenny Kane enjoyed tennis during her first two years of high school. Her competitive nature brought her back to the sport in 2008 and ignited a true love of tennis that has been passed along to Heidi. The two enjoy a passion for the sport and recently competed in a national mother-daughter tournament. To note the competitiveness of the pair, this past summer was also the first time that Heidi had ever beaten her mom in a singles match. Both girls were athletic and competitive from an early age. Both were solid track and field athletes in middle school with Carly excelling in pole vault while Heidi was an aspiring middle-distance runner. As each of them got to high school, they began to focus more on BMX and tennis respectively Carly is a 2020 East Central graduate, and, at age 21, has been racing BMX for thirteen years. She even turned pro during her graduation year and has recently been competing in the U23 class on the BMX circuit around the world. However, at the highest levels of the sport, injuries can and do occur. Carly was already among the best women riders in the country last year when she suffered a concussion last November while competing in Chile. (Yes, South America. Her passport gets a lot of stamps.) Coming back from this has taken time and was hampered by a January training crash in Florida that kept her out of racing during the first months of the year. Carly qualified for the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships held in Glasgow, Scotland, Aug. 12-13. Carly carries a quiet and humble confidence and is quite certain she will be prepared to go into the upcoming World Cup races and her Olympic qualification. Currently, Carly has plans to travel and compete in World Cup events in France, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Oklahoma (USA), and the Netherlands. Carly has already made a significant impact in the sport, especially in American circles of the sport. Carly also readily gives back to the sport by coaching young riders around the country. She accomplishes this between competition dates. Carly truly lit up while addressing the enjoyment she gains from sharing this passion with younger riders in the sport. Younger sister Heidi is a 2022 graduate of East Central. Like her mom, Heidi became more serious about tennis in high school. She had a strong career on the court for the Trojans and coach Scott Kluener. In back-to-back seasons she set and broke her mark of most single-season wins. She recorded twenty-seven wins during her junior season and was the EIAC and Sectional champion. She repeated those titles in her senior season while adding a win when she advanced to the Regional finals. Jenny and Heidi Kane at the Grass Court Tennis Championships. (Photo courtesy of the Kane family) BMX Olympic hopeful Carly Kane. (Photo courtesy of the Kane family) She was named All-District two years and recognized as an All-State singles player in her senior year. Heidi’s passion for the sport led her to NCAA Division II Thomas More University where she currently competes as a sophomore for the Lady Saints. She earned a varsity spot in singles and competed on the varsity roster the entire season in her freshman season in both singles and doubles. Since picking back up in the sport of tennis in 2008, Jenny now regularly competes in the Interclub League of the Greater Cincinnati Indoor Tennis Association (GCITA). Both Jenny and Heidi competed in doubles this past summer in the USTA league, making the regular drive to Dayton to find more competition in their doubles game. The pair then decided to compete in the National Mother-Daughter USTA Grass Court Championships in Chestnut Hill, MA. The Kanes finished an exciting match with a 10-8 score to avenge the early tournament loss and claim fifth in this national tournament. Jenny and Heidi are determined to go back to the tournament next year and have designs on winning it. Both girls credit many for their successes in their respective sports, and the family feels quite fortunate that each has found such great environments in sports. Being an international athlete, Carly has a strength coach, a nutritionist, and other coaches such as Matt Johnson, strength coach for the Washington Wizards, and Jesse Wright, strength coach for the Philadelphia 76ers. Likewise, Heidi has been blessed with coaches along the way who saw passion and potential in her. Besides her high school coach, Bill Meissner also helped with the EC program. Champy Halim, a former Miami University player has been influential. Finally, Angela Wilson of the Western Athletic Club has devoted many lessons and introduced her to her present college coach. Without a doubt, this family enjoys the competitiveness of each sport while at the same time engaging in ways that display appreciation for those who have aided in advancing their skills and then working to pass those on to the next generation as well. Well done, Kane family! 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