Schumann Family Newspaper Clippings

 10/3/23 When Daddy and I talked about this today he said that there were a lot of interesting things in it. Written in 1923, he was written during the boom, when the Florida growth was taking place. JFS refers to the boys using the swimming hole from 1908 - 1914. Daddy said that he had never been quite clear on when JFS first moved to Florida, but those dates indicate that he was there then. Granddad would have been about nine years old.  Daddy thought that the way JFS said some things was a little odd --- that the one man was smarter than he looked. Daddy said JFS either knew him well or disliked him.  Daddy said that there was man named Cannon in the US legislature that was quite controversial, and that JFS had said "Pat Cannon was just a squirt pistol." John Franklin Schumann carried a great deal of responsibility at the Orlando Evening Star and had hoped to become part owner, but he wasn't allowed to do that, and it disappointed him greatly. Daddy said that Granddad ...

  September 4, 2023 Daddy said that although the attached article does not say that he went to the World's Fair, he knows that he did, because he remembers it. They went into the city via tunnel, and while Daddy wasn't sure which one, he believes it was relatively new. What it was for sure was an experience that impressed him. He was seven at the time, and my guess is that it would have been his first time going through a tunnel in a car. This was also where Grandad bought them hamburgers and was incensed (Daddy's word) at the cost. Granddad said the hamburger wasn't as big as the coin it cost. (Maybe a silver dollar, maybe a fifty-cent piece. You get the idea.) General Motors had a big display of cars at the fair, with a mezzanie where people could gather and view the cars. Granddad took Daddy there, and they became separated. Daddy said that maybe Granddad moved a head to get a better view, and he got left behind. He said that he must have been taught what to do in su...

  July 8, 2023 Beautification days started in 1928, and they seem to have had one in 1961, but they became a thing of the past not long after that. Daddy said they were like a holiday, only you worked. All the businesses closed and all the grovers came to town. The paper always publicized the event. Daddy remembers taking part a project that was downtown, and another one near the hospital. He said there is a picture somewhere of Grandad with a shovel, working on Beautification Day. I have a guess as to which person in the photo is Grandad, but I'm not sure enough to mark it for you. 

 

  July 8, 2023 The "Justin" in this story is my grandfather. I knew it was his middle name, and knew that I had heard Grandmother call him that, but was evermore surprised to see "Justin Schumann" in several articles in the Orland Sentinel during his high school years. (The fact that he lived in Orlando when he was in high school was another surprise. Somehow I had missed that part.) I thought that Grandmother calling him by his middle name was a sort of affectionate, wifely thing, but it occurred to me that "Justin" may be how he had introduced himself.  Daddy said that Grandmother did ususally call him Justin, and Johnny said that she told him once, "The people in Indiana all call him Justin." When I talked to Mark about this he laughed and said, "And sometimes when he was rough housing with us." I didn't remember that at all, and said, "He used to play fight with you?" Mark said, "Oh, yeah!" like it was someth...

  ~ I was telling Mark about the articles in the Orlando paper referring to Grandad as "Justin," and Grandmother calling him, "Justin," and Mark said that's what she called him when he would rough house with them. I didn't remember them doing that, and said, "He used to play fight with you?" and he said, "Oh, yeah," like it was a frequent hting, but that it wouldn't go on for long before Grandmother would put a stop to it. ~ When I mentioned Grandad's high school year in Orlando he said, "and skinny dipping in _____ Lake," which is now part of downtown Orlando.

  July 8, 2023 I wish I had been able to save this closer to time, which according to my cell phone log was July 2. I was able to sit out on the deck at Firefly and just have a nice long visit with Johnny. I told him about the fun I was having with the newspaper articles, and that I thought I remembered him telling me that Grandad had told him he thought  "Schumann" was a nice-looking (May not be the exact adjective, but similar) name and that he should take the time to write it carefully. He said, "Yes! I was in his office, something about the groves, and he had a check that I had signed. I wrote it carefully after that."  I told him about the articles in the Orlando paper, and Justin, and Grandmother, and he said, "One time she said to me, "You know, people in Indiana call him Justin."  ~ Johnny said that when he was about ten or twelve, he needed some parts for his bicycle. He was telling Grandad about the purchase and said, "He wanted twenty-...