Mt. Eaton/Paint Township Historical Society meeting

  • By Lucinda Strine of The Bargain Hunter
  • November 2, 2009
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Hazel Daugherty Thomas recently entertained the Mount Eaton/Paint Township Historical Society, at its regular meeting at the local town hall, with her memories of who lived in each house up and down Main Street (state Route 250). She mentioned Freys, Singlasses, Schaffters, Dodez, Rudys, Harolds, Alvin Garbers, Atlee and Reva Hunsinger, Torglers and Walter Frankhausers. Walter’s father made cheese. Other businesses were Schaffter Bros. Hardware, Mt. Eaton Bank, Desvoignes Funeral Home (where she went to buy school books), Shifferly Hardware Store, Emicks TV Shop, Spectors, Dentist--E.D. Numbers (who practiced in Mt. Eaton for 60 years and at one time was the oldest practicing dentist) plus the store on the square with Yost, Tracy, then Kandels. (For more information, the society’s 2003 history book is still available at $15.) She recalled Ruth Blosser as her second and third grade teacher, and that the girls had a good basketball team. She remembers sled riding from the schoolyard, past the church and cemetery down to the bottom of the hill. “I remember party telephone lines and listening to conversations,” she said. She ate “smear case” but only later learned it was cottage cheese. “At that time everyone went to the same school and church; I recall Rev. S.J.T. Flohr from St. Paul United Church of Christ the best. We had movies every Saturday evening in the vacant lot.” Thomas, who was born in 1921, the daughter of Floyd E. and Edna (Schantz) Daugherty, did housework for others for $3 a week before her marriage in 1940 to Lonnie Thomas. They lived around Wooster most of her married life. She worked in the welfare office for 25 years. Society members Clayton Hewitt, Carol Stroh and others added their memories during her presentation. Acquisitions include pictures of her high school class of 1939, of her father, who was a plumber for 40 years, setting up for movie night, and one of a truck that hit their house in 1947. Other donations included old township papers, a red ashtray from Younkers Restaurant, a congratulations telegram from former President Richard Nixon to the Paint Township Grange, picture of former residents Harold Henderson and Dorothy Hoelzer, graduation diploma of Lloyd A. Spencer, two name tags from Mt. Eaton/Paint Township Ladies Auxiliary and a small hand mirror from the Shamrock Inn. The chicken barbecue was a success as was the society’s tent at the Fireman’s Festival. The bus trip to Columbus to visit the Ohio State Capital and meet with Ron Amstutz was enjoyed by many local residents. They also toured a whistle factory and a training school for dogs for the blind. The next meeting will be held Nov. 16, at 7:30 p.m., at the town hall. Retired businessman, Albert Spector, of Spector’s stores, will be interviewed at this meeting.


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