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Page 12A THE BEACON November 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 (cont.) One time we had a big clover field that was ready to come in. When it looked like rain, I hired a girl to stay with the children. Pa and I worked Author Mary Randell until eleven o’clock that night, and as we were coming home, on the second load I heard the children crying. I got off the load and ran home to find that the caretaker had gone and the children were alone. My mother-in-law was in the same house, but she wouldn’t have gone to them if they cried their hearts out. I always was good to my grandchildren. She wouldn’t take care of one in the cradle or rock it to sleep when I had to carry lunch. Later on, though, I took good care of her when she was sick. She lived nine years after her husband died. By this time my two oldest girls were pretty good size and they would say, “I don’t see how you can be so good to her.” I told them that if she died before I did, I didn’t want anything to regret. I am now seven years younger than she was when she died. The Bible tells you to be good to those who despitefully use and persecute you. Grandpa was good to me and the children, but when he got sick he had his daughter from his first wife come and take care of him. He was sick six months and died of a tumor. His wife was sick with pleurisy every winter for nine years. The last time she had it, she went to a funeral down at her daughter’s house, near Aurora. She wasn’t well enough to go and she took down and couldn’t come home. She was sick seven weeks and died. Then they divided her things and, when they were gone, the whole house was ours. Then Louis had a room for himself and the girls too, when they were at home. When Louis left, Bennie got his room and when Jennie left, Wesley and Gilbert got this room. One time, I rode horseback to Mr. George Mendel’s to take a message for my husband. I got on my riding horse and I had a side saddle and a long black riding skirt. Nowadays the women ride straddle on a man’s saddle. I wonder what they did with all the side saddles. I sold mine to a young girl. The reason was that I had two children and couldn’t very well take them on horseback. Another reason was that my riding horse threw himself back when he was tied with a strong rope THE STORY OF MY LIFE Life on the Farm and choked to death. When my husband traded for this horse with two little mules, the man that owned him said not to tie him to anything, but my husband said he wouldn’t humor a horse like that. He would fix an extra stall and tie the horse with a strong rope. Then, when he found he couldn’t break the rope, it would break him but instead it broke his neck and we found him dead. That broke a hundred dollars out of our pocketbook. I told you in the beginning how I rode to deliver a message. When I got to the barn to put his horse in a stable, just before I got off a turkey gobbler flew out of the barn and scared my horse. Mr. and Mrs. Mendel came out of the house and saw the horse lunge back and they called to me to get off. But I kicked my foot out of the stirrup and waited until he got down on his haunches (hind feet), then I leaped off and the horse turned over on his back, but didn’t break the saddle. This was on a hill; after it fell on its back it turned over and got up but wasn’t hurt, neither was I. So much for practicing all kinds of stunts with horses when you are a child. My sister fell off a horse one time and never got on one again. So had my mother. After this I was thrown off only one time that I can remember. Once when we lived on next day as they were going to pick cherries. Pa was so disappointed and said that he wouldn’t bother with any more hands. Then I told him that the big field of wheat would be spoiled before we could take care of it, so when I saw a farmer from Manchester coming from town, I went to him and asked him if he could come and bring some hands with him next day. He said he would come. At that time we had a fine mule team and I told Pa that I was going to run the binder. It was a McCormick binder and it cut the wheat and threw it off in bunches, but didn’t bind the bundles as machines do in these days. Sometimes, now, they even cut the tops off the wheat and thresh it in the field while somebody follows along and hauls it away. When Pa saw those men come driving up the lane next morning, he asked me what it meant. I said, “That means we are going to cut that field of wheat today.” So I drove the binder and Pa and the three men bound the wheat and shocked it. I came home with the team and watered them and got the basket lunch I had ready and before the sun was quite down the field of wheat was in shock. I was thirty years old then, now I am seventyfive. It isn’t an easy job to write a book at this time of napolis. The children were afraid to get on the street car and part of the time we had to carry them. We had supper and put the children to bed early and were talking of how the town had built up when all the church bells began to ring. I asked what it meant and Mrs. Mosler said that a telegram had come that our President Garfield had died. I think it was about 50 years ago. The people lighted up their houses as far as one could see to show their reverence. The next day we went down to the depot. We had to cross nine railroad tracks with those three children, and they did some falling down. I bought my ticket and then Mother told me that we would have to wait three hours for the train. When the train came the children wanted to know if they were going home. When we told them they were going to meet Aunt Lucie at Terre Haute, we could hardly get them on the train. Some of the children went to sleep before supper and after supper we took a ride on an express wagon. When we came back the children were still asleep. We didn’t want to go riding again, for Aunt Lizzie’s husband went over such bumpy roads. They had a grocery store ad that was amusing to the children- to see people coming and going. This was the second trip my the farm, I baked some life. It takes a lot of thinking mother had made. cookies for lunch. We had to remember. to Homegrown Homegrown take lunch into the field. 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debbystutz.thebeacon@yahoo.com November 2023 THE BEACON Page 1B S BEACON PORTS SCENE By Chris Jack Nobbe Zoller beaconsports @live.com sports@goBEACONnews.com Panther Invitational a First for St. Lawrence The St. Lawrence School cross country program has continued to be a successful program led by Head Coach Bryan Wagner, a successful and spirited runner and coach. The program was started some years back with the encouragement By of Fr. Ben Syberg, a Maxine runner himself Klumpwho has completed a marathon in his time, and has been Community led by Coach Wagner since Correspondent its inception. However, the team has never maxineklump.thebeacon@yahoo.com been able to host a meet. This year, all that would change. Coach Wagner and Fr. Jonathan Meyer, another avid runner and Pastor in Solidum of the parish school The competitors in the girls’ race for the Panther Invitational (Photo courtesy of Bryan Wagner) Members and coaches of the St. Lawrence Parish School Cross Country team as well as Fr. Meyer and Fr. Hollowell and the Panther mascot. (Photo courtesy of Bryan Wagner) with Fr. John Hollowell, worked to create a course at the St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross Parish in Bright since the parish has a considerable amount of ground for a 3K middle school course. Add in a couple of other Dearborn County teams with Greendale and East Central middle schools, and they had themselves the makings of a cross-country meet. The meet was a grand success for all. The weather was The top ten finishers in the boys’ race. Front: Cooper Middendorf (EC), Sam Dennis (StL), Jacob Agner (GD), Jude Wingerberg (StL), Wyatt Nickell (StL). Back: Daniel Broering (EC), Ryder Schaefer (StL), Miles Lightner (GD), Henry Gilliland (GD, and Coleman Hughes (GD). (Photo courtesy of Bryan Wagner) nice and the course served itself well with two laps on the campus to complete the 3K race. The schools promoted it well, and the excitement produced a crowd of over 150 for the middle school races. The boys’ race had 30 competitors between the three Milan CC Wins County Title Members of the Milan Indians boys’ cross country team celebrate after capturing its second consecutive county title. The team scored 22 to Batesville’s 36 and South Ripley’s 72. This team has hoisted a host of other trophies this season, winning the East Central Invitational (Division II) and narrowly coming in second to Cincinnati Elder for the overall title, the Southwestern (Hanover) Invitational with a perfect score of 15 against five other teams, the Jac-Cen-Del Invitational, the South Dearborn Invitational (Division 2 and combined titles), and the South Ripley Great Pumpkin Invitational, and is heavily favored to repeat as ORVC champions as well. (Photo: Chris Nobbe) schools. St. Lawrence would win the boys’ race with a score of 29. Greendale was second with 43 points followed by East Central with 49. The individual winner of the race was East Central sixth-grader Cooper Middendorf with a time of 11:58.5 with St. Lawrence seventhgrader Sam Dennis as a close second in 12:04.5 and Greendale eighth-grader Jacob Agner in third at 12:44.3. The girls’ race featured 37 total runners and was won by East Central with a score of 17 with St. Lawrence scoring 46 for second, while Greendale did not have enough runners for a team score. East Central also swept the top three individual spots in the race with seventh-graders Avery King first in 12:08.2 and Taylor King second in 12:37.9 while eighth-grade teammate Alyssa Donawerth finished third in 13:28.0. The event was successful for the program that brought together three local teams for a memorable race to celebrate running, community, and faith. Top ten finishers in the boys Ripley County Meet. Back: Ben Riehle (MI), Lucas Cooney (MI), Gabe Riehle (MI), Isaac Trossman (BA), Ayden Potts (MI-not pictured), and Clark Cannon (BA). Front: Jake Chapman (BA), Mason Bascom (SR), Deev Ranka (BA), and Jaden Basler (BA). (Photo: Chris Nobbe) AT CINCINNATI STATE YOU CAN! 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