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Smucker House has been a center since 1953 ct or's w-if e saw­

ed for f e era ti on f w-om.en's clubs By Lois Firestone

T HE PATTERN OF LIFE was changing in the

1950s - ranch houses built without the once-vital dining room were replacing the vener­able two-story, the time-saving home freezer permitted house­wives to buy food ahead for next month's dinners, and tele­vision sets were placed promi­nently, and proudly, in living rooms.

What hadn't changed, though, were the needs of the people and the towns where they 1i ved, and the women more often than not met those needs. This was true of Salem women in the mid-1950s, in the days before social services agencies came into their own. As far back as February 22, 1895, the city's women's groups banded together in a unique project which earned $500 for their charities - club members took over the Salem Daily News for the day, February 22, 1895, and wrote copy, sold advertisements, and laid out the pages. A silk copy of the day's edition was auctioned off; W. H. Mullins was the highest bidder at $25.

By the 1930s women, aware of the value in finding a way to get things done by joining for­ces, were forming federations. A Salem doctor's wife was enthusiastic about the success of the Middle East District of the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs; for several years Ruth Smucker was active on,committees and held offices in the state federation, and was eager for Salem's groups to have one of their own.

She'd become involved in town activities since moving there in 1911. For 14 years she taught the Wesleyan Class of the First Methodist Church and was a member of the board of trustees for 22 years. Over the years, she taught 2,500 young­sters and often said her church work was· the- job of· her -life.·

Ruth Tucker was teaching in Shelby, Ohio public schools when she met her husband-to­be, a homeopathic physician, Roy Edward Smucker in 1905. Smucker had practiced in Toledo before coming to Shelby after studying at a long list of schools and hospitals, includ­ing Ohio State University, McGill University, Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins and hospitals in New York and Chicago.

Orphaned at 15, Ruth was raised by an aunt and uncle who encouraged her to con­tinue her studies at Shelby High and Shelby Normal School. The Smuckers had been married six years when they moved to Salem and the doctor took over Syrian-born Dr. Sal­lume' s practice.

For decades, South Broad­way was referred to as Doctors' Row because so many physi­cians opened offices there. The Smuckers bought the hand­some 10-room brick home along 271 South Broadway which had been used as a com­bination doctor's office and liv­ing quarters since it was built for that purpose in the 1860s.

Dr. Smucker took over the practice of Syrian-born Dr. Sal-1 ume and the Smuckers adapted easily to life in Salem, in many ways adopting the bustling city as their home­town. Avid travelers, the two toured 40 countries over the years. The doctor died in the fall of 1951, and his wife passed away three years later at age 70 - enroute from a Florida vaca­tion, she had stopped to visit an old friend, Nell Vernon Sheehan in North Carolina.

In her will she bequeathed her family home to the women of Salem to be used as a center for their clubs. Thirteen groups responded to the invitation and named the home the Smucker House.

Five hundred women were represented at the first meeting

· on March 51 1953.· Mr&. Maurice

Ruth and Roy Smucker pause on the steps of their home-doctor's office along Salem's South Broadway during a winter day in the late 1940s.

Sadler of the Book Club was named interim head of the pro­ject. Other officials included Mrs. Chester Kridler of Garden Club, secretary; and Eleanor McMurray of Quota Club, trea~ surer. Ms. McMurray kept the job for 16 years.

Clubs included Book Club, Garden Club, Garden Study, Business and Professional Women, Council of Jewish Women, Travelers, Junior Mothers, Leornians, Music Study, Quota, Xi Pi, Beta Psi and Xi Gamma Beta Chapters , of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority. The Democratic Women's Club, Republican Women's Club and the Phoebe Fraunces Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution joined later. Each dub paid $100 as an initiation fee - the Book Club members cashed in a savings bond to get the money.

The Quota Club met twice monthly for a dinner meeeting and the Business and Profes­sional Women, too, held din­ners. The Book Club and Leor­nians and the Book Club and Travelers met together annual­ly. Only the Travelers, Garden Study and Music Club met in the afternoons.

The Smucker House was one of numerous homes used jointly as doctor's offices in the early 1900s along South Broadway, known as Doctor's Row.

The women had their center but they needed furnishings and basic household necessa­ries. By the fall of 1953 they'd rounded up chairs, divans, chi­na and silver and were still accepting offerings from dub members and friends. George Bowman Sr. donated nine dozen glasses, salts and pep­pers and sugars and creamers; Mrs. Potter sent in a bed,

springs and mattresses; Mrs. Astry, two tortiers; Ruth Bogar and Mrs. Robert Rheutan, lamps; Belle Golliday, a chicken Fryer; and Helen Thorpe, a Fos­toria candlestick, among other gifts.

The federation purchased 9 dozen services of china with the initials SFWC in gold letter-

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By Lois Firestone

D URING THE BARREN days of the Depression

when most people were scrap­ing enough money together just to pay rent and buy food and clothes for their own families, Otis Flick was thinking of others - years later, grown-up sons and daughters would tell stories of the kind man who anonymously left milk, bread and candy bars on their door­steps in the 1930s.

Otis was barely 17 and attending classes af the Salem Business College in 1923 when W. H. Matthews placed him with William S. Arbaugh's fur­niture store and mortuary as a temporary employee. Matthews had bought the school 27 years before and built it up into the largest and best in eastern Ohio. In this case his ability to match up employee and employer worked well: Otis would stay with Arbaugh for the next 41 years, until he retired.

Ray Pearce, who later became a partner, was still attending mortuary school when Otis joined fhe business which was housed in the Pion­eer Building at the comer of Lincoln A venue and Main Street. J. T. Brooks built it in the late 1800s on land that had been the property of early set­tler Benjamin Hawley. The site was a field Hawley had culti­vated when Dr. John Cope bought it and put up the origi­nal frame building, sluicing water from the nearby Hawley spring for bathing and medici­nal use - the doctor believed cold water would cure all dis­eases, but it didn't work and finally the enterprise dwindled

Otis Flick stands beside the company delivery truck in front of the W. S. Arbaugh furniture store at the corner of Lincoln and State in this 1930 photo.

to an end. Charles Davis converted the

building into a chair and cabinetmaking shop, as well as a grocery. Later it was dis­mantled and the Salem Roller Skating Rink was built; still later, the structure became an annex to the Barckhoff Organ Co.

After Brooks put up the Pioneer, a variety of businesses and organizations rented rooms there - fhe YMCA, Elks Club, Salem Public Library and the A. W. Jones Dry Goods Com­pany, among them.

In 1922, Arbaugh bought the building from R. S. McCulloch, renting out rooms on the upper floors but keeping the ground floor for his furniture business. A small building next door was

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At other times, emergencies forced him to take medical action. During the World War II days, Otis was taking a patient to a Salem hospital when he started to choke; ster­ilizing his pen knife with his cigarette lighter, Otis per­formed his first - and last -

, tracheotomy. The patient recovered.

A tragedy he never forgot took place in the early 1950s when a tractor-trailer driver burned to death while Otis and a State Highway patrolman stood helplessly by, unable to extricate the trapped victim.

Otis married Mabel Raynes, a Petersburg, Ohio girl in 1929, and the couple had two child­ren, Arnold Raynes Flick who passed away in 1985; and Phyl­lis Virginia Flick Gibson. Otis was 61 when he passed away three years after he retired from Arbaugh's. His widow, Mabel resides at the Century. House on Salem's State Street.

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TO CITY OFFICIALS, THE abandoned Akro Agate

Company building in Clarks­burg, West Virginia may be a dinosaur. To Roger Hardy it represents a dream come true.

Hardy hopes to turn the building into a museum in which to preserve the history of West Virginia glassmakers, pri­marily Akro.

Akro was a major United States manufacturer of marbles, but also produced sets of child­ren's play dishes and a large line of decorative glassware. At the height of its operation, the Akro plant turned out 2 million marbles a day and was respon­sible for producing 60 percent of all the marbles worldwide.

"We have spent some 20 years digging at the Akro site," said Hardy, who along with his wife, Claudia, has given over much of its Clarksburg home to a massive collection of Akro products manufactured in the first half of this century.

Their digging efforts pro­duced plenty of marbles and glass for their collection. But the treasure hunt wasn't lim­ited to picks and shovels. It also included a thorough inves­tigation into the history of the factory, which opened in 1915 and closed in 1951.

"Out of 130 employees, only a few were not willing to sell me their Akro glass. But if a museum was here, I think

they'd give theirs up, too." Hardy went into the antiques

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"I just like Akro, because I've dug over there all my life," Hardy said.

Hardy said marbles are in demand among collectors. His own inventory -- shelf upon shelf of popeyes, sparklers, corkscrews held in old canning jars -- form a striking kaleido­scope that dominates his home.

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Federation president Evelyn Robbins relaxes in one of the sitting rooms for rent at Smucker House on the upper floor.

ing. At a later time, the group collected green stamps to buy candlesticks for the piano and candelabra for the dining table, among other items. Helen Deming gave the home a photograph of Mrs. Smucker which Mrs. Joel Sharp later framed.

With money donated by dub members they bought new window shades and drapes, repaired windows, painted walls and woodwork and wall­papered the upstairs rooms. Workers removed hte doorway partitions between two room on the south side of the house - having one room was more comfortable and convenient. An open archway near the staircase ana-front entrance was enclosed with a doorway, ensuring privacy for meetings in the large room.

Christie Hanson was hired as live-in housekeeper at an $80 monthly salary plus Social Sec­urity payments. Helen Labbe has been housekeeper at Smucker House since May 1983. In all, eight women have held the job: Mrs. Miller fol­lowed Mrs. Hanson in 1959, Mrs. Boughton in 1960, Mrs. Hilda McGranahan in 1962, Mrs. Corle in 1971, Mildred Shasteen in 1972, and Virginia Long in 1976.

In the beginning, federation members decided not to rent the upstairs rooms but changed their minds a month or so later and have been renting the rooms since September 1953. The rents back then were $7 a week with kitchen privileges and $5 a week for room only.

Mrs. Joel Sharp was elected president at the first annual meeti!tg held on Oct. 4, 1954;

others -chosen included Mrs. Nat Walken of the Jewish Women's Council, first vice president; Mrs. Roy Roller of Junior Mothers, second vice president; Mrs. Holzwarth, sec­retary; and Mrs. Vernon Broo­mall of Leomians, assistant secretary-treasurer.

The major problem at the beginning - and the big one today -- is raising money to run the house. At first, the women held benefit card par­ties, hosted a feature movie at the local theater, and had rum­mage benefits.

In 1955, the federation held its first antique show, a three­day event coordinated by H. 0. Wintermute at the Memorial Building and continued for four years - an antique maho­gany tilt table was grand prize in a drawing, and members donated the food items. Fliers were sent out with Select Dairy's milk deliveries and a puppet show based on the Kukla, Fran and Ollie television show was performed announc­ing the show. An antique doll collection was displayed in a downtown store window. The third day of the first show fell on a Sunday and the federation received a letter from the Salem Ministerial Association protest­ing holding the show on a Sab­bath day. An $1,843. profit was realized that first year.

The rummage sales con­tinued - $856 was brought in one year - and in 1966, the first flower bulb sale got under way, guided by Ethelyn Roth. Orders were taken in June and delivered in time for September plantings. The first year the federation made a profit of $209. Profits increased every year until the project was dis­continued in 1977 and the Gar­den Study Club took over the project.

The Travelers is the oldest dub in the federation; organ-

ized in 1895, the club ceased meetings for a time in the 1920s when 15 members died during a typhoid epidemic. Members have helped with Smucker

·House over the years, including a new sidewalk installed for Salem's 175th birthday in 1981.

The Book Club was formed in 1910 - the first president was Mrs. D. A. Wilhelm. Mrs. C. A. Greenisen was head of the group in 1953. In the early years the club held sewing clas­ses at the Salvation Army and in 1925 opened public restrooms in the city's down­town area.

Mrs. G. E. Stiver headed the Music Study Club when it was organized on Feb. 29, 1924 to promote music consciousness in the area. Mrs. Fred Sweitzer was president in 1953 when the federaion was formed. Spon­sors of the Junior Music Study Club, the group gives an annu­al advent choir festival and gives a variety of music awards every year including the Marie Bums, Grace Dyball, Esther Odoran and Lois Frost awards. Opal Taylor, a piano teacher for years, has held numerous offices in the local dub and at the district and state level -she was the first recipient of the Opal Taylor Award in 1972.

Martha Wire was president of the Quota Club when it was organized in 1925 as a com­munity service dub, emphasiz­ing aid to the hearing and speech handicapped. Goldie Schwartz headed the group in 1953. In ensuing years, mem­bers gave hundreds of hours, and continue to work with the Red Cross, RSVP, Salem hospi­tals, Mobile Meals, Salvation Army, county welfare groups, Tobin Youth Center, public library film programs, Project HELLO, and the first sign lan­guage class in local high schools, among others.

From 1971 to 1989 Quota

financed and staffed the Salem Area Speech and Hearing Clinic.

The Mona McArtor Quota Award was established in 1971 with a bequest from the former president; the grant goes to freshmen college students majoring in audiology and speech pathology.

Esther Messersmith was named Quotarian of the Year in 1986, an honor continued annu­ally since. Ruth Hoch was named in 1987, Augusta Ibele in 1988, Mary Eckstein in 1989, Melba Smith in 1991 and Flor­ence Spack in 1992.

Bess Hansell has been a member for 64 years, since she joined in 1929. An early spon­sor of the Quota annual fashion show - the club's big money maker - she produced out­standing productions for year~.

Mrs. W. E. Bunn was presi­dent of the Salem Garden Club, organized on April 23, 1931, and Mrs. Chester Kridler was president in 1953. The first flower show came in 1936 and through the years the clttb has won innumerable state awards: in 1957, and again in 1986, it was named outstanding Gar­den Club of the Year. Member Betty Jones was elected presi­dent of the Garden Club of Ohio in 1962. Betty Jones, Ethel Parker and the late Leona Zim­merman have been the back­bone -0f the club and federation

Ruth Smucker posed for this photo shortly after coming to Salem in 1911.

for years, beginning with the first flower and shrub plantings at Smucker House in 1957.

Leornians was formed on Nave. 12, 1934 and Harriett Percival was the initial presi­dent; the only charter member living is Margaret Klose Baker. Mrs. Claire Early was head of the group in 1953.

The club's worthy causes have been the local historical

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<:£·1'-.._ ./f.'' .. .......______--. society, Project HELLO and band boosters groups. Leor­nians has supported Salvation Army projects and the local library and for years helped decorate Smucker House at Christmastime. Leah Broomall and Edith Mercer are remem­bered for their enthusiasm and dedication, Leah as a charter member.

Epsilon Tau Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority began as Xi Pi in 1939, with charter mem­bers Mary Ruth Hundertmarck and Ethelyn Roth still active. While not primarily a service group, Epsilon Tau has given to numerous causes, including Girl Scouts, Camp Fire, Retarded Children Multiple Sclerosis, YWCA, Nurses Asso­ciation and library. The main service project has been scho­larships to Hannah Mullins School of Nursing.

The club's fund-raising pro­ject is the annual sale of home­made chocolate Easter eggs.

Mrs. Elmer Kerr was named president when the Garden Study Club was formed in 1941. Caroline Lehwald headed the dub in 1953.

Over the years, the club has continued several planting pro­jects: at Buckeye School, the Century Home, Salem Library and Smucker House. At Smucker, members have fixed and painted fencing and the garage and redonC' the rear yard; in 1983 the received a state award for beautifying the Smucker House Gardens.

One of the members, Mar­garet Massa, is a nationally accredited master flower show judge and member of the National Council of State Gar­den Clubs Inc. She is a life member of both the state and national Garden Club and served on the state board for over 30 years.

For 39 years, Ethelyn Roth has taken care of the Smucker House draperies, bathroom necessaries and carpeting -any maintenance necessary, members say, people can rely on Ethelyn to see it's done.

Gertrude Butera was presi­dent when the Business and Professional Women were formed on Oct. 23, 1946; Mar­garet Lamoncha headed the group in 1953. Mrs. Lamoncha, a charter member, was dedi­cated to scholarship for women and bequeathed a substantial sum to lhe club for scholarship and grants to students.

The federation will celebrate the Smucker House 40th anniversary at a tea on Sunday, June 27 from 3 to 5 p.m. when former presidents and officers of member clubs will be hon­ored. A slide show prepared by Judy Herron and Mary Horn~ ing who have done extensive research on the history of the house and members will be shown.

Federation officers pose at the first annual meeting in 1954 (from left) Mrs. Joel Sharp, Mrs. Nat Walken, Mrs. Roy Roller, Mrs. John Holzwarth and Mrs. Vernon Broomall. Absent was Miss Eleanor McMurray.

Members of Xi Gamma Beta donate a $50 check for classroom equipment to a staffer at the Retarded Children's School at Elkton in the 1950s.

Mrs. Guy Byers, book reviewer extraordinaire, sits with other federation members in this photo taken in the 1980s.

Debbie Montgomery, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Mont­gomery of East Palestine, responds to a voice command from a verbal audi!ory screener, part of the Quota Club's program for youngsters.

A Beta Sigma Phi member stands beside the wishing well the sorority placed in downtown streets on July 30, 1959 tc ~rc;;,;.·r~gsters,

Fred Jones stands with members of federation.

Music Study Club madrigal singers perform (from left) Edna Zeigler, Jeanette Hutchison, Lynn Hunston, Lois Frost, Tim Keen and H:J111er

Letters e give us

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By Nancy Shulins AP Correspondent

A DISGRUNTLED NAPOL­eon once wrote Joseph­

ine: ''You never write me, vou do not love your husband; you know the pleasure your letters give him, yet you haven't writ­ten him six lines1 dashed off casually!"

'I\vo centuries later1 it's easy to empathize with the lonely emperor. In this era of cellular phones, faxes and electronic mail, the low-tech letter is becoming a quaint relic, amounting to just 2.5 percent of America's first-class mail. Per household1 that's less than half a letter a week.

Compare that with the four dozen letters Victor Hugo received on a good day, or the 65 letters that awaited Edith Wharton upon her return from a three-day trip in 1924. Virgi­nia Woolf wrote 20,000 letters in her lifetime. Henry James' correspondence would have filled 50 large volumes, before he chose privacy over posteritv and burned much of- it. '

Clearly, for them, novelists letters were more than a

means of communication. They also were tools for honing writ­ing skills and rehearsing plots. But what about those like Napoleon, who didn't write for a living but still wrote tens of thousands of letters? That so many of their letters also sur­vive suggests another purpose: a painstaking record of events and relationships by prominent people who knew - or sensed - their place in history.

Today's decline in letter­writing has been more than offset by the increased volume of credit card mail, good news for the postal service. But who races to the mailbox in hopes of finding a Mastercard bill?

Most scholars agree that the graceful and leisurely 17th and 18th centuries marked the gol­d1m age of letter-writing, one reason why histories and bio­graphies of that era are so rich.

Tomorrow's historians and biographers won't have it so good. "Phone bills won't tell you much, and as a result, con­temporary history has less per­spective," the late historian Barbara Tuchman said, a notion amplified by writer Ian Frazier in his satiric essay, "Igor Stra­vinsky: The Collected Phone Bills."

The purpose of letters, British man of letters Lytton Strachey once wrote, "is to reveal to us the littleness underlying great events~ and to remind us that

Epsilon Tau Sorority members decorate and lay out (above and below) some of the dozens of chocolate eggs they made every year as a money-making project at the Scott's Candy Store along State Street.

Federation officers on Sept. 25, ,1953 are (front, from left) Ruth Cosgrove, s~cond vice president; Mrs. Maurice Sadler, presi­dent; (standing, ~eft) Mrs. Chester Kridler, secretary; Mrs. John Holzwarth, assistant secretary-treasurer; and Miss Eleanor McMurray, treasurer.

A section of the award-winning yard plantings won by the ' G~rd~ Studk Club for ii;or~ at Smucker House. The newly Junior Gardeners from the Garden Study Club arrange flowers laid suiewal and fence ts m this photo taken in 1981. for a show during the 1950s.

history was once real life." Indeed: "I slept somewhat

late owing to my slight cold, which seems now to have sub­sided," future Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius writes his lov­er, Fronto. He tells of gargling with honey water, going to lunch, gathering grapes, chat­ting with his mother, taking a bath, and enjoying "hearing the yokels chaffing one another." Just another day in Imperial Rome; Real Life, circa A.D.144.

Along with chronicling everyday life, letters provide first-person accounts of events ranging from the fall of the Eternal City to Operation Desert Storm. "These are the things the foremost men of his­torv fought, bled, and died for

- and ~also the things they lived by," publisher M. Lincoln Schuster wrote in his 1940 anthology, "The World's Great­est Letters."

Through letters, we know how the image of Rome in ruins affected St. Jerome ("My voice cleaves to my throat; sobs choke my utterance ... The world sinks into ruin ... "), and how the Great Plains looked to a weary forty-niner ("a barren, trackless waste ... I would not give 25 cents for ... ")

The spread of Christianity can be traced in part to a letter. So can the development of the atomic bomb, urged on in a let­ter to President Franklin D. Roosevent signed by Albert Einstein but drafted, say scho-

lars, by Hungarian-born physi­cist Leo Szilard.

The letters of Paul the Apos­tle laid the foundation for Christianity. Written during the first century, they read as though they'd been written last week. "I have fought a good fight," Paul wrote just before his death in A.D. 67. "I have kept the faith."

Besides faith, letters have inspired poetry, art, even jus­tice. ''What a clod of mud is flung upon your name ... " novelist Emile Zola wrote the president of France in 1898. Zola's letter, printed in the lib­eral newspaper L' Aurore, was in defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, the victim of a :mili­tary conspiracy. Zola's words,

on - behalf of a man he never met, cost him his own freedom; convicted of criminal libel, he fled to England for a time. But his letter, headlined "J'accuse," ultimately won Dreyfus his freedom and Zola a place in history. Novelist Anatole France called it "a moment of the conscience of man."

Some of the most beautiful lines ever written were inspired by or rehearsed in love letters. Before it ever occurred to John Keats to write /1 A thing of beauty is a joy forever," he was writing Franny Brawne: ''Why may I not speak of your Beau­ty, since without that I could never have lov'd you?"

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