Summer 2015 A New Building – at last! on the state-owned land Hooray! The General A New Name and More Assembly passed and the adjacent to the canal. governor signed the budget We’re wondering if this The General Assembly containing $25 million for a rather broad language says session has changed the new State Archives building! that any facility holding state name of the Commission This is a great thing for which archives, meaning the records on Public Records to the members of the Friends of the state of Indiana, cannot Indiana Archives and Records should be proud. You may be located within that block. Administration, (IARA) not be aware that inserted into That would certainly impact The law (SEA 528) also the bill in conference was the the Indiana Historical Society makes a few minor changes following qualifier: which holds some state records. to local government records Section 65. IC 5-15- At this point, we have requirements. The new name 5.1-20.5 IS ADDED TO THE been “approved” but have no should provide more clarity for INDIANA CODE AS A NEW location. So that leaves us with the general public who never SECTION TO READ AS good news and. . . at least, seemed to understand what the FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE curious news. More will follow, Commission on Public Records UPON PASSAGE]: Sec. we’re sure. was about. 20.5. A facility to house The name change will some or all of the state also change Web sites and archives or to be used in the e-mail addresses. The new Web administration of the state site for the State Archives is archives may not be located www.in.gov/iara/2358.htm. on land bound by New York The office e-mail is arc@iara. Street, Ohio Street, West IN.gov and Archives staff Street, and Senate Avenue in addresses will be (first initial- . last name)[email protected]. The canal runs through The digital archives that downtown city block. address will remain the same – Therefore, the state is www.in.gov/digitalarchives. prohibited from building a new State Archives building ? within that block, including Friends of the Archives Business names was not named after the real from the past estate agent who platted the land. There was also a From the Secretary Henry O. Mertz, MD and of State’s file of dissolved Business names from the past his wife Ida in Indianapolis. corporations, Archives They lived close to the Pugh volunteer From Tom the Secretary York of has State’s come file of dissolved corporations, Archives volunteer Tom York has come up with a few good ones. family in the 1920s. Hague up with a few good ones. did some additional research

and apparently Madelyn Pugh National Auto Laundry 4050-135 Sept 1929 Fort Wayne Wallace Expanding Machines, Inc 4056A-7 Sept 1957 to Feb 1961 Indianapolis named the character “Fred Sightsaving Kindergarten, Inc 4056A-126 Sept 1957 to Apr 1963 South Bend Mertz” after her neighbor Milk Bottle Exchange Inc 4057-1 Oct 1931 to Jul 1941 Indianapolis Henry O Mertz, MD, a Cocktail Hour Cigarettes, Inc 4057-8 Oct 1934 to Aug 1941 Indianapolis Q-N Shoes Inc 4057-28 Aug 1936 to Aug 1941 South Bend urologist. Stardust, Inc 4057-40 Mar 1940 to Sep 1941 Bloomington We don’t know if Pugh Radios & Refrigerators Inc. 4059-52 1939-1945 Indianapolis knew the real estate agent or Wallace Expanding Wallace Expanding Machines gave no clue as to what their machines expanded. why she chose “Fred” instead Machines gave no clue as to of “Henry.” Perhaps it had a whatSightsaving their Kindergarten machines was expanded. a school for blind children. better sound but there have Sightsaving Kindergarten was a Milk Bottle Exchange was originally named Central IndiTheana Milk Mertz Dealers Bottle Mystery Exchange. been several Fred Mertz in school for blind children. Indianapolis. There was the Q-N Shoes was owned by the KUEHN family Surely you remember Milk Bottle Exchange was real estate agent, his son Stardust Inc was a liquor store/cafeteria/cigar store,Fred etc Mertz from the I Love originally named Central Fred Jr., and a gentleman Lucy show? Well, you IndianaRadios... tomMilk York Dealers recalls “When Bottle I was a kid in Chicago, I remember going to the Terman Tire who lived on the other side Company Store (which sold, in addition to tires, probablywashers, dryers, didn’t refrigerators know and therethose new is- Exchange.fangled TV sets. We used to go there in an afternoon to watch the test pattern for half an hour, of Pleasant Run from the then Howdy-Doody came on.” Those were the goodan oldIndianapolis days. Remember connection. watching test Q-N Shoes was owned by original Fred Mertz in the late patterns?? One of the show’s writers was the KUEHN family 1990s. award winning Madelyn Pugh Stardust Inc was a liquor store/ The next time you see from Indianapolis. She went cafeteria/cigar store, etc an old re-run of to Radios...The Mertz tom Mystery York recalls you’ll know about the Indiana and graduated from the IU “When I was a kid in Chicago, connection! Surely you remember Fred Mertz from theSchool I Love Lucy of show? Journalism Well, you probably in 1942. didn’t I rememberknow there is an going Indianapolis to theconnection. One of the show’s writers was award winning TermanMadelyn PughTire from Company Indianapolis. Store She went to ShortridgeElizabeth High SchoolHague, and graduateConservationd from the (whichIU School sold, of Journalism in addition in 1942. Elizabethto tires, Hague Technician,, Conservation Technician came across, came across a box a box of materials that highlighted Indianapolis neighborhood additions and one of those was a Fred washers,Mertz 1 addition dryers, at 40 threfrigerators and Byram Streets (now ofButler materials-Tarkington), that platted highlighted in 1928. and those new-fangled TV Indianapolis neighborhood Now, that’s interesting but even more interesting is the fact that our “Fred Mertz” was not sets.named We after usedthe real to estate go agent there who in platted the additionsland. There was and also onea Henry of O. those Mertz, MDwas and an afternoon to watch the a Fred Mertz 1 addition at 40th test pattern for half an hour, and Byram Streets (now Butler- then Howdy-Doody came Tarkington), platted in 1928. on.” Those were the good old Now, that’s interesting days. Remember watching test but even more interesting is the fact that our “Fred Mertz” patterns?? Actor, Friends of the Archives From the Archives to the Pfaff for an upcoming trip to Ben Hur Museum Paris. Copies of the letter and Pfaff’s obituary were mailed While cataloging to the General Lew Wallace the collection of materials Study and Museum for their from the Wishard Hospital collection. School of Nursing Museum, volunteer Ginny Terpening found the file from O.G. Pfaff, MD. The file contained letters from some very famous people in 1917 like the Vice President of Henry Wallace, right, with his the United States, Thomas family at the Wallace estate, Marshall! The Marshall Crawfordsville. The photo letter recommended Pfaff for was taken around the time of service at Base Hospital No. the Wallace letter to Dr. Pfaff. Photo: General Lew Wallace 32. There was a handwritten Study and Museum note from a prominent Indianapolis woman to General Jack Pershing also recommending Dr. Pfaff and several letters to Pfaff from Senator Albert Beveridge. One letter was from Henry Wallace, Crawfordsville. We wondered if Henry was related to Lew Wallace, Civil War General, author of Ben-Hur, and Governor of the New Dr. Pfaff was Mexico Territory. Terpening presented with this contacted Larry Paarlberg, graphite sketch and was quite pleased Director of the General Lew to receive it. This Wallace Study and Museum, is what an undated Crawfordsville (www.ben- newspaper notice hur.com). Henry was Lew’s states. son. The Wallace letter, April 22, 1921, offers some travel recommendations to Friends of the Archives

At the 2015 Annual Friends of the State Meeting held on April 14, the Archives Board of following Board members were Directors: approved: returning Board President: members Ray Boomhower Stephen Towne and Clayton Miller. New Vice President: to the Friends of the State Virginia Terpening Archives Board is Vivian Deno, Secretary: Associate Professor of History, Katherine Dill Butler University. Robert L. Interim Treasurer: Gildea retired from the board Virginia Terpening after years of service. Board Members: Ray Boomhower Vivian Deno Jennifer Hershberger Lloyd Hosman Joseph Hovish Alan F. January Tom Krasean James W. Merritt, Jr. Clayton C. Miller Don’t forget to renew your Elizabeth Osborn Friends of the Indiana State Matt Pierce Archives membership! William Schneider Consider Volunteering at Curt Witcher the Indiana State Archives Noraleen Young ([email protected]) Newsletter Editor: Virginia Terpening Volunteer Coordinator: Barbara Wood