| Summary: | Looking back at Orrin! ' Baseball was one of Ornn's activity The first games in the" eaily '30s were organized and managed b> Frank Reiss. This was a weekh, activity every Sunday during the summer months. The '; team Tom Burgard was on Was called '■, .were Gerald Weber,- Clem Hagel' and Gabe Scheet. Gerald Weber also played, first base. Catcher for the team was Jim' Burgard; first base, Phil Wolf; secondi base, Fred'Hagel; third base, Torn": Burgard; shortstop, Clem Hagel. Some ■ of the outfield and other players were • Pius Fettig, Pete Senger, Joe Heintzp Gerald Weber, Math Moszer and scorekeeper was George Axtman. There are more players but Tom wasn't able to remember"them all. These were play-' ing in the 1940s and early '50s. Orrin played ball with Aylmer, Anamoose, Drake, Balfour, Karlsruhe and Balta. Later they played with Rugby, TowneR and York.The memory ofone game| stands out in Tom's mind. Math Moszer| , had hit a home run and the ball landed';' in a straw pile that was nearby and they ' Rjeyer'did find it:' i: ' P. > The cross in the center of.the Sacred ! Heart, Cemetery was donated by Mar-': ,. tin Voeller, Sr. His request at'the time; r\v.as that he, be buried beside;;;itR^;RsR •*"*"■''■ ,'■■■.■'-.■-'--'■ .;■'' ' . .'■ BRRR'RR ■ By the time this is being readj OrrinV- Jubilee will be a thing of the past. Ask long as I receive articles or additions to j the history, I will be putting them in the :;< paper. ,R . ;.";Rj A Looking back at Orrin! PR: ■While I was looking through'the'old hardware store ledger last week I found interesting prices. I'll share with the ladies first. Coffee pot was 75'; butter: churn, $2.75; wash board, 55'; tea ket-,' tie, $1.40; can opener, 10'; dishpan, 65',' wash line 55', soap dish, 50'; clothes basket, 90', wash tub, $1.75; rolling pin, 20*; two lamp chimneys, 25*; fry pan, 30'; looking glass, 50<; Paris green, 35'; clock, $1.00; cook range, $60.00; bed-, spring, $5.50; roaster, $1.10; mop stick, 15*; scissor, 75'; curtain pole, 85!, wash dish, 10*; chair, $1.75; broom, 45*; boiler, $4.60; tablet, 25*; hoe, 65" and headache tablets, 25'., . , p ., PR-.- Looking back at" ''"< A. ;,'3R| < Orrin's Jubilee! . ;; >: R Lots of people! While I was standing, on the hall steps, this one gentleman; said to me, "I guess you knew what you' were doing. I just figured out this past; week why you picked Labor; Day-, weekend. People needed a place to go; and something to do!" The week of > cleaning up and fixing up is over. The. memorial, service was well attendedk The parades had goodparticipation,;!!^ •small onesenjoyed the horse rides and everyone enjoyed the Tae-Kwon-Db demonstration. !B P.R- - looking back aR&trin!,' p-. ' ■", Orrin had its own source of entertainment, the music for dances and parties was provided locally. Just to list some ;of the individuals through the years— Kasper. and Walter Koble; Mike and Louie Reiger;' Nick- Kessler; Pete Moritz and Joe Bertsch; Barney and Frank Bachmeier; Clarence, Ray and ' Lester Rromeiy; Mike and''Edmdhd'"' Hager; John Weigel;Wendelin Bidder; ;;Joe and Mike Eisenzimmer; Louie !Wolf; Joe Marquart; Joe Miller; Conrad . Ziegler; Frank Hager; • Harold Leier; Casper Marquart; Florian Hagel; MikeLinghor; Wendelin Schell; .Sebastian Schell; Henry Reider; Joe | Kessler and Leonard Koble. The Joe Kessler band used to play on the radio |,from Minot. Henry Reider is now the Polka King from Drake. Sortie of the instruments, were, :aticordion, - drums, •clarinet, saxophone :aad Mike Lingbor. ,w'as the one. who played guitar for the churchpregrams and plays. Some of the' later guitar players for church were ,'Leanne and Marlene Leier, and Brian .Hagel, ,.:.dd.,'.' R.R .R. :-.R.ik?Ro Looking back at Orrin a; . ■■■;.- s One of "the things on display at the registration area during the jubilee was the ledger from'the Voeller-Fettig Hardware. Judging from some of the accounts listed, this was the first ledger, from 1911 to at least 1921. )-. Now if someone knows for sure that 'I am. wrong, please call. The first manager of the Ole Torgeson lumber- ■yard that was started in 1912 Was Ole ' Torgeson himself, from Berwick, then Torgeson and Casper Schneider, and , then Schneider and Voeller. When it was first started, it sold only lumber and nothing more. • : Schultes and Turk started their stores in 1912 and purchased some of the ma- terials for their new stores from the ', '■.hardware. One of the first three phones in Orrin that had the lines destroyed by WdsleeVstorm in ih'e 1920s was in the - hardware store . _ ,'. -The'well foY the kandei church was '^ibou't -18 feet deep and cost $11.00 to "either put. in or repair. ,, ,. , ■ The new church built, in 1917 was not ! immediately named Sacred Heart. ■; Besides the-ice houses that were be- <■< '•hind the.pool hall and butcher shop, '■there was also a "Ci'ty Ice House." ,-." Was there a doctor in town? Thereis a reference to a Dr. Peter Fehrney. ' ■' A large volume of Standard Oil gas "was sold. The Voeller-Fettig hardware serviced a large area and carried a wide • selection of hardware. I was once told that when'it firs^started, a few staple groceries lyere sold but never got a se- \ cond confirmation on it. Looking back at Orrin!" Let's share a few prices witli the men! ■ A scoop shovel was $1.25; 10«nailsV50C; A wagon wrench, 20£; pipe wrench, $2.50; horse collar, $5.50; calf weaner, 40£; pliers, 75?; rear axle for auto, $11.00; halter, .$1.25; saw, $2.00;.five gallons gas, $1.25; gopher poison, 35*; spade, 90«; lantern, $1.00; 2 rolls of wire, $6.50; clevis, 30«; neck yoke, 75c; grinder stone, 75CP rifle, $7.00 and $8.00; automobile,. $750.00; well cylinder, $13.00; box shells, 85e; hack saw, 10$ and a fork handle,_80(i. •,',. . ( I. . ■ ■■■':■. Ural Street, PA (Pronounced U-ral). The streets of Orrin had names on the surveyor's plat. Schell, Bertsch-and Man/are quite obvious; but out on the east edge of town by the tracks, going north, a block and ■ a half in length, probably never used, was one named Ural Street. This had many persons wondering why', so on the •tip of a friend, 1 dug into some old geography books that were also on display at the registration room. In the book copy written by 1898 by Ginn and Company, it showed the countries of Russia and Siberia divided by a range of low-lying mountains called.the Ural Mountains. They were on the northern end of the border. Going south between the two countries, to the Caspian Sea, was the Ural River. The newer book, copywrited 1927 by Rand McNally, shows the Ural Mountains and River dividing the continents of Europe and Asia. Russia was no longer referred to as a country, but as Old Russia, a part of the new and shaky government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. I suppose the Ural Street could lie compared to a boundary between town and country. I haven't gotten a. translation of the word, if there is one. .;. The people were basically-uneducated farmers and'working in a culture that was behind times even for 1927. Odessa was a grain port on the Black Sea. It v/as the largest, milling and chief seaport of Old Russia. Russia had enough cultural enterprises to support within itself but not for exporting. One reason for this was the fact that the rivers and waterways leading into it would freeze up in winter.; Enough on this-week's geography lesson! I -4pri" '7ctf:: ■■OR Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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