March 15, 2021 - 9:55 AM On the north side of Lake Elsmore, one can find a waterfall amidst the tangle of trees and sandstone. Photo by Trevor Hoag / Iola Register Like Prince Hamlet and his friends, when last in Elsinore I, too, saw a ghost. It wasn’t atop the ramparts of an ornate castle in Denmark, however, but near the banks of Big Creek in Allen County, the place east of Humboldt later christened Old Elsmore. I was wandering near the Old Elsmore/Elsinore Cemetery, using it to determine the location of a vanished schoolhouse, when first he approached me. C.C. Thompson had momentarily vacated the undiscovered country, was circulating a petition to become postmaster at Elsinore and eagerly approached me to sign.