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John and Lydea Gloyd – “Dinky” Gloyd was the town marshal. I am fairly certain that he had no deputies. I think I read in Jessie Gundy’s writings that he was one of the early car owners in town. He must have done a great job as marshal because I don’t recall of any serious crime in Carroll during his tenure. If you look at the current Carroll website you will find a photo of four officers with five others listed but not shown. This means there has been an increase of eight hundred percent in law enforcement officers. Meanwhile the population has grown from four hundred sixteen to five hundred seventy-seven, according to the 2000 census. This represents a thirty-nine percent increase in population. I don’t know exactly what to make of this eight hundred percent versus thirty-nine percent. I guess they just don’t make ’em like Dinky anymore. Did I tell you that Dinky was also involved in the capture of Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson, John Dillinger and Bonnie and Clyde?
Ted Benner - Ted was the proprietor of the “6% Joint” for a number of years. Ohio had two grades of beer based on the alcohol content, 6% and 3.2%. Each of these required a different license. Hordy Solt ran the only other beer joint in town and had the 3.2% license. I personally question the wisdom of the lawmakers who came up with this scheme. It just meant that if you wanted to drink at Hordy’s you had to drink twice as much.
Mary Fischer – Mary Fischer had two daughters, Ann and Charlie and taught at Carroll High School. She was my class’s home room teacher both our freshman and senior years.
Joe and Geri Fisher – The Fishers were the first family I knew in town to get a television. Joe would allow some of us boys to watch Captain Video at their house. And despite being black and white, only one channel and frequently scrolling images, it was a special treat. Joe was also involved with the Boy Scouts and took us camping one time out on the Wilken’s property. We had great fun racing up a creek embankment. Joe was very competitive and always won.
Breta Stroth – Before Breta’s husband Charlie died he had operated a hardware store in competition with my grandfather. I think Breta was the unofficial president of the unofficial Market Street Widows Club and I believe she was the primary influence on Mom’s decision to prove that she could fend for herself as a widow.
Dewey and Mary Dawson – Some years after all of us boys were gone from the house there was a major winter storm. The Dawson’s called the Ridgway house to check on Mom and Dad. They realized that Dad was not talking coherently and came to the house to check. Both Mom and Dad were in bad shape and an ambulance was summoned. It turned out that some bricks had fallen in the chimney and the house was full of carbon monoxide. Mom and Dad recovered and likely owed their lives to Dewey and Mary, a couple of good neighbors. I see that Mary is still trying to do good work as she is the Clerk/Treasurer of Carroll. Mary, this is a little late, but “Thank You.”
Roy and Ellie Redd – Roy worked for the railroad and after he died Ellie did some wall papering.
Jess and daughter Alice Kindler – Alice gave piano lessons on the second floor of their house. My brothers and I never took any. In fact I don’t believe I was ever in their house. Her piano must have been very nice because I read somewhere that it was on display in one of the Lancaster show houses.
Virgil and Edna Pierce - Virgil Pierce and his wife and their two youngest children, Bernice and Harold, moved into the house at the corner of Market St. and Center St. after the Beaty family moved outside of town. Bernice Pierce and I dated during much of my senior year in school. We watched television at her house with her family. We went to many movies. It was with her that I attended my first dance. My favorite story about Bernice and me occurred on a Sunday morning in the Methodist Church. There was an annual tradition at Christmas time at the Methodist Church. Following the regular church services all classes gathered together to await Santa’s arrival. He would enter, coming down the aisle in his red and white outfit, ringing sleigh bells and proceed to a seat in front of the congregation. Then, starting with the youngest children, they paraded up to Santa to receive an orange and a small bag of candy. Santa would take some of the youngest children on his lap and ask them if they had been good. This would continue up through the older children until the oranges and candy were gone. In December 1952 I was recruited to be Santa Claus. I strapped on the pillow, pasted on the beard, donned the pants, jacket, boots and cap, rang the sleigh bells outside the door, entered with many “ho-ho-hos” and proceeded with the tradition. That year the candy and oranges lasted up to the high school boys and girls. Feeling very uncomfortable with being treated like little kids they dutifully came up to Santa to get their goodies. When Bernice arrived I pulled her onto my lap and asked her if she had been a good girl. I was very fond of Bernice and I knew this would embarrass her, but I ask you, who could resist an opportunity like that?
Paul and Mabel Underwood – Before the Paul Underwoods moved to this location they had lived in an apartment above the Carroll Bank. Paul was active in organizing the Boy Scouts and would hold the meetings in their home. Some of us Scouts and a few other kids and friends conducted an old-fashioned belling or shivaree the evening they were married. We paraded around the bank building banging our pots and pans. One of the good things about being a Scout was ushering at Ohio State football games. We were taken in a bus to the stadium early in the morning. We were assigned seating sections where we were supposed to help people find their seats. I was officially too young to be a Scout as I was only eleven at the time but allowed to participate. I don’t recall ever actually helping anyone locate their seats. I ate some hotdogs and either found a vacant seat or sat on the steps and waited for the game to start. I really was not much of a football fan but I think this occurred in the year or years between Les Horvath and Vic Janovicz. It was more like the Ollie Cline years. Just possibly the best part of the whole day for me was everyone singing One Hundred Bottles of Beer on the Wall on the bus ride home.
Carl and Mabel Jester – Their son Joe was involved in many of the games described in these memoirs and would go on to marry one of my childhood favorites. Roger tells me of the time that they were playing in Joe’s garage. Roger threw a stick and unintentionally hit Joe in the head. Joe went running into the house with blood flowing leaving Roger feeling very bad.
Bessie Harrington – Windy Harrington was another one of the young men in town who helped the Scouts. We camped for a week at the Legion Park up toward Canal Winchester. It was an excellent private camping spot with a lake that offered boating, fishing, swimming and diving. This was the first time I ever swam in a lake and the varying temperatures between the warm and cold spots and between the surface and the below surface water was something new for me. I don’t recall who it was (maybe it was Dick Michaels or Joe Jester) who put a dent in his can of beans and placed it in the fire. This was normal Scout procedure. When the dent disappears you are supposed to fish the can out of the fire and it will be hot and ready to eat. But if you leave it in the fire it explodes and sends hot bean shrapnel flying on everyone and everything in the immediate area.
Forrest Glick – “Frosty” Glick ran the Pure Oil Station. The Pure Oil Station was one of the early landmarks in Carroll. Before Frosty took it over and before my time it had been run by Jimmy Ward and my dad had worked there for a short while after he graduated from school.
On the street in front of Frosty’s house one summer day I remember us kids following Milt Yancer’s Ice Wagon hoping to get a sliver of ice. Some households had not yet converted to refrigerators and still had ice boxes.
Charles and Verna Miller – Frequently in the spring and fall both boys and girls would gather in the park after school to play round town softball. If the game was already underway you had to start in right field. When one of the two or three batters made an out he or she would go to right field and you would move over to center field. This rotation continued as players made outs until you had played right field, center field, left field, third base, short stop, second base, first base, pitcher, catcher and then you got to bat. The object was to advance to become a batter and then remain a batter. Charles Jr. “Chod” Miller was a lot older than us kids but always came and played in the round town softball games.
Myrtle Witherspoon – I think Myrtle Witherspoon ran a beauty parlor in her house. I’m not sure because I don’t recall my mother ever getting her hair done in those days. And you might have noticed from the earlier family photo that Dad had no need for a hair dresser. And just in case you are interested all his sons prove that the baldness gene is dominant.
Jennie and son Harry Fenstermaker – As I understand it the Fenstermaker house was one of the first hotels in Carroll. When Dad first started to school the school was located adjacent to the Fenstermaker property. Dad said that whenever the school kids knocked one of their baseballs over the fence on to the Fenstermaker property it would end up in the Fenstermaker stove.
Now we head back toward the UB Church to pick up Park Street.
Ted Benner - Ted was the proprietor of the “6% Joint” for a number of years. Ohio had two grades of beer based on the alcohol content, 6% and 3.2%. Each of these required a different license. Hordy Solt ran the only other beer joint in town and had the 3.2% license. I personally question the wisdom of the lawmakers who came up with this scheme. It just meant that if you wanted to drink at Hordy’s you had to drink twice as much.
Mary Fischer – Mary Fischer had two daughters, Ann and Charlie and taught at Carroll High School. She was my class’s home room teacher both our freshman and senior years.
Joe and Geri Fisher – The Fishers were the first family I knew in town to get a television. Joe would allow some of us boys to watch Captain Video at their house. And despite being black and white, only one channel and frequently scrolling images, it was a special treat. Joe was also involved with the Boy Scouts and took us camping one time out on the Wilken’s property. We had great fun racing up a creek embankment. Joe was very competitive and always won.
Breta Stroth – Before Breta’s husband Charlie died he had operated a hardware store in competition with my grandfather. I think Breta was the unofficial president of the unofficial Market Street Widows Club and I believe she was the primary influence on Mom’s decision to prove that she could fend for herself as a widow.
Dewey and Mary Dawson – Some years after all of us boys were gone from the house there was a major winter storm. The Dawson’s called the Ridgway house to check on Mom and Dad. They realized that Dad was not talking coherently and came to the house to check. Both Mom and Dad were in bad shape and an ambulance was summoned. It turned out that some bricks had fallen in the chimney and the house was full of carbon monoxide. Mom and Dad recovered and likely owed their lives to Dewey and Mary, a couple of good neighbors. I see that Mary is still trying to do good work as she is the Clerk/Treasurer of Carroll. Mary, this is a little late, but “Thank You.”
Roy and Ellie Redd – Roy worked for the railroad and after he died Ellie did some wall papering.
Jess and daughter Alice Kindler – Alice gave piano lessons on the second floor of their house. My brothers and I never took any. In fact I don’t believe I was ever in their house. Her piano must have been very nice because I read somewhere that it was on display in one of the Lancaster show houses.
Virgil and Edna Pierce - Virgil Pierce and his wife and their two youngest children, Bernice and Harold, moved into the house at the corner of Market St. and Center St. after the Beaty family moved outside of town. Bernice Pierce and I dated during much of my senior year in school. We watched television at her house with her family. We went to many movies. It was with her that I attended my first dance. My favorite story about Bernice and me occurred on a Sunday morning in the Methodist Church. There was an annual tradition at Christmas time at the Methodist Church. Following the regular church services all classes gathered together to await Santa’s arrival. He would enter, coming down the aisle in his red and white outfit, ringing sleigh bells and proceed to a seat in front of the congregation. Then, starting with the youngest children, they paraded up to Santa to receive an orange and a small bag of candy. Santa would take some of the youngest children on his lap and ask them if they had been good. This would continue up through the older children until the oranges and candy were gone. In December 1952 I was recruited to be Santa Claus. I strapped on the pillow, pasted on the beard, donned the pants, jacket, boots and cap, rang the sleigh bells outside the door, entered with many “ho-ho-hos” and proceeded with the tradition. That year the candy and oranges lasted up to the high school boys and girls. Feeling very uncomfortable with being treated like little kids they dutifully came up to Santa to get their goodies. When Bernice arrived I pulled her onto my lap and asked her if she had been a good girl. I was very fond of Bernice and I knew this would embarrass her, but I ask you, who could resist an opportunity like that?
Paul and Mabel Underwood – Before the Paul Underwoods moved to this location they had lived in an apartment above the Carroll Bank. Paul was active in organizing the Boy Scouts and would hold the meetings in their home. Some of us Scouts and a few other kids and friends conducted an old-fashioned belling or shivaree the evening they were married. We paraded around the bank building banging our pots and pans. One of the good things about being a Scout was ushering at Ohio State football games. We were taken in a bus to the stadium early in the morning. We were assigned seating sections where we were supposed to help people find their seats. I was officially too young to be a Scout as I was only eleven at the time but allowed to participate. I don’t recall ever actually helping anyone locate their seats. I ate some hotdogs and either found a vacant seat or sat on the steps and waited for the game to start. I really was not much of a football fan but I think this occurred in the year or years between Les Horvath and Vic Janovicz. It was more like the Ollie Cline years. Just possibly the best part of the whole day for me was everyone singing One Hundred Bottles of Beer on the Wall on the bus ride home.
Carl and Mabel Jester – Their son Joe was involved in many of the games described in these memoirs and would go on to marry one of my childhood favorites. Roger tells me of the time that they were playing in Joe’s garage. Roger threw a stick and unintentionally hit Joe in the head. Joe went running into the house with blood flowing leaving Roger feeling very bad.
Bessie Harrington – Windy Harrington was another one of the young men in town who helped the Scouts. We camped for a week at the Legion Park up toward Canal Winchester. It was an excellent private camping spot with a lake that offered boating, fishing, swimming and diving. This was the first time I ever swam in a lake and the varying temperatures between the warm and cold spots and between the surface and the below surface water was something new for me. I don’t recall who it was (maybe it was Dick Michaels or Joe Jester) who put a dent in his can of beans and placed it in the fire. This was normal Scout procedure. When the dent disappears you are supposed to fish the can out of the fire and it will be hot and ready to eat. But if you leave it in the fire it explodes and sends hot bean shrapnel flying on everyone and everything in the immediate area.
Forrest Glick – “Frosty” Glick ran the Pure Oil Station. The Pure Oil Station was one of the early landmarks in Carroll. Before Frosty took it over and before my time it had been run by Jimmy Ward and my dad had worked there for a short while after he graduated from school.
On the street in front of Frosty’s house one summer day I remember us kids following Milt Yancer’s Ice Wagon hoping to get a sliver of ice. Some households had not yet converted to refrigerators and still had ice boxes.
Charles and Verna Miller – Frequently in the spring and fall both boys and girls would gather in the park after school to play round town softball. If the game was already underway you had to start in right field. When one of the two or three batters made an out he or she would go to right field and you would move over to center field. This rotation continued as players made outs until you had played right field, center field, left field, third base, short stop, second base, first base, pitcher, catcher and then you got to bat. The object was to advance to become a batter and then remain a batter. Charles Jr. “Chod” Miller was a lot older than us kids but always came and played in the round town softball games.
Myrtle Witherspoon – I think Myrtle Witherspoon ran a beauty parlor in her house. I’m not sure because I don’t recall my mother ever getting her hair done in those days. And you might have noticed from the earlier family photo that Dad had no need for a hair dresser. And just in case you are interested all his sons prove that the baldness gene is dominant.
Jennie and son Harry Fenstermaker – As I understand it the Fenstermaker house was one of the first hotels in Carroll. When Dad first started to school the school was located adjacent to the Fenstermaker property. Dad said that whenever the school kids knocked one of their baseballs over the fence on to the Fenstermaker property it would end up in the Fenstermaker stove.
Now we head back toward the UB Church to pick up Park Street.