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 Holabird AdvocateProviding all the news we see fit to print since 2002!Monday, October 27, 2003 VOL. II Issue 10N E.E. HINKLE LATEST TO CATCH PHEASANT FLU Early Monday morning 101 year old E.E. Hinkle became the latest victum of the "Pheasant Flu". He has notbeen able to keep any food down. He can't even keep his vitamins and other medicines down. Presently, the old boy is in his bed, resting as comfortably as he can. His daughter, Joyce Ferris was planning to come to the Ponderosa for a visit, but she is dealing with a flu bug of her own. Other victums of the Pheasant Flu have been Joan Hansen, as well as Vicki, Drew, and Dillon McQuarie, who have since recovered. PUBLISHER'S NOTE'S by Jerry Hinkle It has come to my attention that The Pierre Capital Journal has printed an article about what they have discovered to be the factual connection between the Wright brothers and Holabird. One of the parties involved were Holabird's own Nick and Marry Jo Nemec. The article makes no mention of items printed in the "Hyde Herritage" book, published in 1977 by the Historical Society, yet in confims that at least some of those items were true.The Holabird Advocate will reprint the article without permission. Copies of the "Hyde Herritage" book are still on sale at the Historical Society museum for all interested parties. WRIGHT BROTHERS' TIES TO S.D. NOT JUST FOLKLORE by Dorinda Daniel of the Capital Journal Staff Ten years before they changed the world with the first successful airplane flight, Orville and Wilbur Wright might have lived near Holabird and attempted to change young lives. “Wilbur was supposed to have taught at a Holabird school in 1893. Orville, so the story goes, substituted Sunday school for his cousin, Clara,” said Carol Jennings, a researcher in the state archives, which is a program of the State Historical Society, located in the Cultural Heritage Center. An uncle, Samuel Wright, homesteaded near Holabird. Holabird is located about 40 miles east of Pierre along U.S. Highway 14. One story was that Orville and Wilbur’s dad got sick and tired of their working on their experiments and sent them away, Jennings said. But from what she has read of the Wright family, she believes that to be just a story. What makes her believe that the story about the Wright brothers living near Holabird may be true is that it was in newspapers. She came across articles mentioning the Wright brothers and Clara Wright in researching Hyde County, the county where she is from. According to an article in a 1945 Highmore Herald, a woman named Lillian Gregory, a war worker of Spokane Air Technical Service Command, had a well-worn velvet-covered autograph book containing the signature of W.A. Wright, Dec. 27, 1893. The article stated: “Mrs. Gregory remembers tall, dark Wilbur as a young, indulgent teacher. At the time, he inscribed his name in her book, Wilbur Wright was teaching in a tiny school in Holabird, and she was one of his pupils. “Wilbur Wright was even then teaching only to raise money to carry on experiments in perpetual motion that he and his brother were interested in at the time.” Jennings said she believes that the Wright brothers lived in South Dakota only that one year, when Wilbur taught. On June 15, 1915, a tornado went through Highmore. The Wright brothers’ cousin Clara was drawn out of the building she was in by suction. “They didn’t believe Clara would live. Wilbur came out and visited her,” Jennings said. Orville had died of typhoid on May 30, 1912, at the age of 45. Wilbur died on Jan. 30, 1948, at the age of 76. What is verifiable in the tale of the Wright brothers in South Dakota is that Samuel Wright homesteaded on 160 acres one mile east and one mile south of Holabird. Samuel Wright proved up on his claim in 1894. It is unknown how long he stayed on that land, Jennings said. His name is not listed in either 1900 or 1905 censuses, she said. The land owned by Samuel Wright is now owned by Nicholas and Mary Jo Nemec. The quarter section owned by Wright is located adjacent to land on which the Nemecs have their house. The title to the land listed someone named Wright, Nicholas Nemec said. It’s part of local folklore that one of the Wright brothers taught at Holabird, he said. “We thought there might be a connection,” Nemec said. A book about the Wright brothers by Tom D. Crouch, senior curator at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, and Peter L. Jakab, chairman of the aeronautics division at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, would seem to have the brothers living in Dayton, Ohio, at the time they are supposed to have lived in South Dakota. In “The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age,” Crouch and Jakab state that the brothers had a print shop in Dayton, Ohio. In 1892, the brothers branched out by hiring help for the print shop and establishing a small bicycle repair and sales business. “They continued to enjoy some success with their two businesses, and began manufacturing bicycles on a small scale in 1896,” according to Crouch and Jakab. Wilbur was born on April 16, 1867, the third child of Milton and Susan Wright. Otis and Ida Wright, a twin boy and girl, were born on March 7, 1870, and died soon after. Orville was born on Aug. 19, 1871. Katharine, the youngest of the Wright children, was born three years later. “Wilbur and Orville Wright would always credit their parents for much of their success in life. This was a warm, loving, and protective family in which children were encouraged to experiment, think for themselves, and support one another,” wrote Crouch and Jakab. Milton Wright became a bishop in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. Their mother, Susan, was a well-educated woman for her time and place, according to Crouch and Jakab. After graduating from high school, she attend Hartsville College. “Wilbur and Orville could thank their mother for their lifelong penchant for tinkering, and for their extraordinary gift for visualizing machines that had yet to be constructed. That ability, coupled with their gift for problem solving, would carry them far,” Crouch and Jakab wrote. On Dec. 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright accomplished what humans had been attempting since ancient times: flight. The first flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. By noon, they had flown three more times. The airplane traveled 852 feet in 59 seconds on the final flight. The aerial age was born.
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