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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, July 25, 2018 C-9 HISTORY Submit history photos: Call: 812-354-8500 Email: news@pressdispatch.net or bring in a hard copy: 820 E. Poplar Street, Petersburg SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Friday and Tuesday, February 12 and 16, 1943 Mrs. Maude Gulledge fell from a chair Tuesday at her home in North Ninth Street and broke her right wrist. The fracture was reduced and Thursday morning she was reported to be getting along all right. Tolan Chappell placed sec- ond in the public speaking contest held by the American Legion, Wednesday night at Boonville. The Evansville en- try won first, and Tolan Chap- pell is to be the alternate in the event anything prevents the winner from competing in the district contest. Monday morning the Pub- lic Service Company in- stalled a device that does just what every American would like to do. The device sets in the front window and has four figures operated by electric- ity. Three represent the dic- tators and the fourth repre- sents Uncle Sam. As the fig- ures whirl Uncle Sam gets a punch at each dictator. The display is just one more way of urging the regular pur- chase of war bonds. Word came Friday to Mr. Frank Akridge, that his son, James Brooks Akridge, had lost his left arm and was in the naval hospital at San Di- ego, California. The arm is off above the elbow. He had been in the navy about four months. Mr. Akridge re- ceived no information as to how, or where his son was when he met with this mis- fortune. Three local boys are be- ing held by the state police in connection with the theft of a car from Evansville. Two of the boys, Junior Powers, aged 17 years, and a Black- burn boy, thought to be Carl, but not further identi- fied yet, were caught in Vin- cennes Saturday night. A third boy, Tom Austin, aged 17, escaped from the police at Vincennes but was picked up in Petersburg Monday morn- ing by State Trooper How- ard Lytten. The boys are be- ing held by the State Police until a decision is made as to whether they will be tried in Vincennes or Evansville. Births: Mr. and Mrs. Jack Price have a new daughter, Betty Jackalin, born in Ball Memorial Hospital in Mun- cie, Ind.; Mr. and Mrs. Junior Hornbrook, of Monroe City, wish to announce the birth of an eight pound girl born at 7 o'clock Wednesday evening in Vincennes; Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Myers announce the birth of a 10 pound boy Sunday, March 7. The baby was named Elmer Theodore; Born Monday to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Adams, of Knox County, an eight pound boy. The baby was named Forrest William; Mr. and Mrs. Jack Aikman, of Washington, wish to announce the birth of a girl born Friday morning in the Daviess County Hospital. The baby was named Rober- ta Kay; A baby girl was born March 3 to Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam B. Workman. The baby was named Vina Donna. Deaths: Petersburg lost one of its best citizens, Tuesday morning at 7:15 o'clock, when Joseph Thom- as Thompson passed away at his home on east Main Street this city; Mrs. Thom- as Marsee was called to Har- risburg, Ill., last Wednesday due to the serious illness of her father, Mr. William C. Cain. Mr. Cain was admitted to the hospital on Wednes- day and died Friday evening of uremic poisoning; Mrs. El- la F. Jones, 75, wife of Hen- ry Jones, of Bicknell, Indi- ana died last Friday in the Daviess County hospital at Washington; Ibren Thorp died at his home in the east part of town Monday evening at 9:45 o'clock. He had been ill several weeks of heart trouble; Evalyn Erwin died at her home in Ayrshire, Sun- day morning at 4:30 o'clock. She was ill only a short time, first taking with a bronchial cold followed by a heart at- tack; Alonzo Crow, a native of this county, and for many years one of the most wide- ly known and most highly re- spected citizens of the Glezen community, died at his home in Indianapolis, last Monday morning after a short illness; Dan Tisdale, for the past sev- eral years Petersburg's only taxicab died at his home in this city 12:05 o'clock last Saturday morning. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Tuesday and Friday, June 10 and 13, 1958 Verle Stafford, owner and operator of Verles T V Shop, was injured last Mon- day when he fell while work- ing on an antenna at the Wil- lis home on the Washing- ton road. He was taken to the Daviess County hospi- tal where it was determined his left knee was broken and his right ankle and the meta- tarsal bones in his right foot, were also broken. On Sunday he was removed to the Dea- coness hospital in Evansville. Rev. John Ricks, pastor of the Iva Union church and family moved into the parson- age Thursday. Neighbors and friends gathered at the par- sonage Sunday for a surprise basket dinner. A large cake with the inscription "Wel- come into our Community" was placed in the center of the table. Alice M. Jenkins, niece of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Rad- cliffe, of Algiers, Indiana and of Mrs. Anna Radcliffe, of Pe- tersburg, the granddaughter of Mrs. Ella Radcliffe Kerr, formerly of Algiers, now of Indianapolis, has been grant- ed an $1800 scholarship from Oberlin Conservatory of Mu- sic, in Oberlin Conservatory of Music, in Oberlin, which includes one year at Mozarte- um Conservatory in Salz- burg, Austria. She will grad- uate from the Arsenal Tech- nical High School of India- napolis in June in the top five percent of her class. David Klipsch will rep- resent Petersburg at Hoo- sier Boys State the week of June 14th to 21st. Boys State is held on the I.U. campus at Bloomington, Ind. and is con- ducted by the Indiana Dept. of the American Legion. Tons of "fiddlers" will be served at the annual stag fish fry of the Scottish Rite Val- ley of Evansville, which con- sists of nineteen counties in southern and southwestern Indiana, including Pike coun- ty. The stag fish fry will be held at the Scottish Rite Gar- dens on the old Boonville Highway a few miles east of Evansville. It is scheduled for Saturday, June 21 starting at 2 p.m. "Chow time" has been set for 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Marriages: Mr. and Mrs. Glen Van Meter, of Peters- burg, announce the mar- riage of their daughter, Miss Jean Headley to Wayne Hen- son, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam- uel Henson. Earl Beaty per- formed the double ring cere- mony at 2 p.m. Friday, June 6, at the First Christian church; Palms, baskets of white glad- ioli and white tapers in can- delabra decorated the altar of the First Baptist church, Wednesday evening for the wedding of Miss Linda Lu Burton and William O. Al - len with the Rev. Carl Boyd reading the double ring cer- emony. Births: Mr. and Mrs. Paul Youngs announce the birth of a eight pound one ounce daughter at 8 p.m., June 9 in St. Edwards hospital, New Al- bany. Deaths: Services for Har- ry J. Ferguson, 67, Winslow were held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Gospel Center, Pe- tersburg; Daniel Gladish, 83-year-old retired farmer, of Bowman, died at 9:30 p.m. Friday at the Good Samaritan Hospital; Posey Kime, 62, for- mer Indiana Appellate Court judge and former Evansville attorney, died at 8:44 a.m. Sunday in National Institutes of Health, Washington D.C.; Adolph J. Mosby, 67, Otwell, passed away at his home at 3:15 a.m. Tuesday, June 10 af- ter a short illness FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, June 27, 1968 Mrs. Herbert ( Wanda) Perry, 47, of Algiers fell into an abandoned well Thursday of last week and spent sever- al terrifying hours in the well before being found. Mrs. Per- ry left home early Thursday morning to pick raspberries near her home and appar- ently fell through the rotten boards on the old well. When her husband, a farmer, re- turned home for lunch and she had not returned from berry picking, he started a search for her. He found her in the well which contained 5 or 6 feet of water. The well was said to be narrow, and she had managed to keep her head above by hanging on to the sides. Mr. Perry placed a ladder in the well but had difficulty in bringing her out of the well due to her being in shock. When her husband got her to the top of the well, he summoned Harris Funer- al home for an ambulance to take her to the Daviess Coun- ty hospital. Reports Wednes- day morning from her neigh- bors are that she is still in the hospital and is now suffering pneumonia in addition to the bruises, shock and her finger tips torn from hanging onto the sides of the well. Paul Vincent, of Posey county, was found guilty of second degree burglary last Thursday in the Pike Circuit Court, Vincent will be sen- tenced today, Thursday, by Judge Lester Nixon. Vincent was accused of breaking and entering into Hollis IGA store in Otwell last February. He was caught fleeing the store when several men surround- ed it. Vincent was tackled by Bruce Scraper, of Otwell, in his escape attempt. Installed at Jasper Country Club Tuesday, June 18 into Al- pha Tau Chapter of Psi Iota Xi were Helen Koebler, Eri- ka Kissling, Susan Dougan, Ann Chappell, Cheryl Shane, Cathy Elbert, Jean Reid, El- sie McDermand and Madge Cook. The Oakland City College Campus will be the scene of a Chapel Ground Break- ing Ceremony Sunday, June 30 at 3 p.m. Leader for the program will be Rev. Clifton Ford, Chaplain to the student body at OCC. Large twin bags of potato chips were being sold at ed and White for only 39 cents. First-cut pork chops were selling for only 55 cents a pound. Marriages: Miss Joyce Elizabeth Ewan became the bride of Malcom Carroll Mal- lette Saturday, June 15. The ceremony was in the Trinity United Methodist church in Lafayette at 2:30 p.m. Deaths: Funeral servic- es for Howard Cox, 58, were conducted by a minister of the First Christian Church at 7:30 p.m. June 4 in a mortu- ary in Pasadena, California; Hiram Myers, 96, of Otwell, a retired furniture plant work- er, died at 12 noon Thursday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. William (Ruth) Whaley, in Otwell; Joseph V. Buck, 55, died from an apparent heart attack Sunday morning at 5 a.m. at the Pike County State Forest southeast of Winslow where he and some members of the Eagles Lodge had gone to reserve the shelter house for the Eagles Lodge picnic; Walter E. Johnson, 56, died at 3 p.m. Monday in the Vet- erans Hospital in Marion, Ill., following an illness of sever- al months; Funeral servic- es for Gurley M. Bruce, 67, former Pike county resident and twin brother of Mrs. Lou- ie Sharp, were held June 17 in Saginaw, Michigan; Carol Thomas Martin, 41, resident of Monroe City, died at 12:50 p.m. Monday at his residence from a long illness of cancer. TWENTY- FIVE YEARS The Press-Dispatch Thursday, June 24, 1993 Roger Breland is about halfway into his 1,000 mile walk which is taking him from Daniel Boone's birth place in Reading, Pennsyl- vania to the place where he died in Defiance, Missouri. The frontier-dressed Ann Arbor, Michigan resident is a Boon/Lincoln period his- tory buff, visiting landmarks concerning the Boones and the Lincolns as he makes his trek on foot outfitted as they were over 150 years ago. A Winslow man was seri- ously injured in a motorcycle accident last Wednesday eve- ning in Petersburg. Herschel A. Jones, 24, of Route 2, Win- slow, suffered serious inter- nal and head injuries, when he failed to negotiate a turn on Highway 356 near 14th St. in Petersburg, according to police. Officer Rick Barnes said Jones was riding east on Highway 356 when he failed to make a turn, ran off the road up an embankment and was thrown from the cycle. He suffered head and inter- nal injuries and was uncon- scious at the scene, accord- ing to police reports. He was taken to Welborn Hos- pital by LifeFlight helicop- ter. Welborn Hospital was unable to release his condi- tion on Tuesday. Petersburg Police Chief Mike Key, who assisted Barnes and officer Brad Jenkins at the accident, said charges are pending on Jones. Key said a blood alco- hol test showed a blood alco- hol level of 0.163 percent. The legal limit in Indiana is 0.1 percent. The accident hap- pened at 6:50 p.m. Fire destroyed the Oats- ville Store and with it a lot of memories for people of the community, who for more than 60 years used the store as a gathering place. The fire was called into the Francis- co Fire Department at about 6:15 p.m. A witness said the fire was not noticed until it was well under way. When fireman arrived the build- ing's structure was already destroyed. A fireman was be- lieved to have injured her an- kle as she fled to avoid a fall- ing concrete block wall. She was taken by her husband to an area hospital. No other de- tails of the fire were available at press time. The Winslow Library will be moving! Thanks to all of the community support, we have outgrown the store building that Dr. Arnold has been kind enough to lease to us. Please come and visit us beginning Tuesday, June 29 at the former home of Tole House Crafts at the cor- ner of Washington and Mill Streets in Winslow. We will be keeping our regular hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Terry Lynn Loveless, of Pe- tersburg, at Daviess Coun- ty Hospital in Washington on Sunday, June 13, a daugh- ter, Shandi Kay; To Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hauschild, of Fort Branch, on Sunday, June 13 in Evansville, a daughter, Caroline Elizabeth; To Mr. and Mrs. A. Ross Elmore, of Petersburg, on June 10, a daughter, Carly Ann; To Robin and Jackie Rice Rob - inson, of Parkersburg, W.V., May 10, their first child, a daughter, Sarah Louise; To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Car- roll, of Greenwood, June 18, their first child, a son, David Adam. Deaths: Carol June Houchins, 67, of Petersburg, died Wednesday, June 16 at 7:39 a.m. at her residence; Myrl Chester, 72, of Peters- burg, died at 6:15 a.m. Sun- day, June 20 at Amber Manor Care Center in Petersburg; Benjamin A. Wilder, 79, of Oakland City, died Wednes- day, June 16 at 4 p.m. at Gib- son General Hospital in Pe- tersburg; Paul Robert Lehm- kuhler, stillborn infant, died at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 16 at St. Mary's Medical Cen- ter in Evansville. net edition pressdispatch.net/edition Web, Smartphone, Tablet Streamline the Headline! 812-354-8500 • 820 Poplar St., Petersburg, IN • ads@pressdispatch.net Hunt school 1931 Front row (l to r): George Shoultz, Jr., Beulah May Harvey, Beulah Campbell, Eugene Hale, Donny Elwood Hunt, Joe Hale, Lovella Campbell, Jeanette Crecelius, Pauline Harvey, Bertha Brittingham and Regina White. Middle row (l to r): Joe White, Laura Campbell, Edra Campbell, Dorothy Muncy, Bettie Jane Shoultz, Verner McDaniel, Clarence Hunt and Wilbur (Buddy) Shoultz. Back row (l to r): Don Crecelius, Gerald Shoultz, Adrian Shoultz, Jean Smith, Earl White, Roscoe Hunt, Frank Brittingham and Charley Crecelius. Wednesday, July 25 • World's first "test tube baby" born (1978) • Mussolini falls from power (1943) Thursday, July 26 • U.S. postal system established (1775) • Truman signs the National Security Act (1947) Friday, July 27 • House begins impeachment of Nixon (1974) • Armistice ends the Korean War (1953) Saturday, July 28 • 14th Amendment adopted (1868) • U.S. Senate approves United Nations charter (1945) Sunday, July 29 • NASA created (1958) • Son of Sam terrorizes New York (1976) Monday, July 30 • Johnson signs Medicare into law (1965) • Last classic V W Beetle rolls off the line (2003) Tuesday, July 31 • Jimmy Hoffa disappears (1975) • Hurricane sinks Spanish treasure ships (1715) Source: History.com