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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, August 1, 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, March 19 and 23, 1943 Mr. Ralph Boger sustained a badly bruised right arm Sat- urday afternoon while driving a tractor at the Patoka mine. He was taken to the Daviess County hospital, where he re- mained until Tuesday after- noon for treatment. The heavy rains early this week caused considerable damage in Petersburg not only to the streets but in sev- eral basements. Mayor Nixon has ordered extra help hired to try and repair the damaged streets and to work on sever- al stopped up sewers. Various reports on the amount of wa- ter which fell were received and the generally average is that 4 and one half inches fell on Monday. The river has ris- en but at present is not dan- gerous. Miss Eleanor Fleming, Pri- mary Grade Teacher in the Petersburg Schools was one of five out of a group of 23 to qualify for the WA ACS train- ing. Miss Fleming will leave May 15 for the four weeks ba- sic training that all recruits are required to take. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Fleming of this city. Mrs. Cornelius Pauw is nursing a very sore arm, be- cause of injuries received Monday morning when she ran her right hand and arm through the clothes wring- er. The arm is badly bruised almost to the elbow. She was brought to the office of Dr. A.R. Logan where it was de- termined that no bones were broken. Marriages: Mrs. Elma DeWitt announces the mar- riage of her daughter, Miss Pearl DeWitt to Badolette Ravelyette, of Vincennes, In- diana. They were married by a minister in Vincennes at two o'clock March 12, 1943; Miss Golda Corn, daughter of Mr. Alonzo Corn of this city and Flight Officer James R. Butler of Gowen Field, Boise, Idaho were married Sunday after- noon, March 7 at 12:30 o'clock in the Gowen Field Post Cha- pel by Chaplain Carter Births: Mr. and Mrs. Ar- thur Weitzel, of Chicago, Ill., are the proud parents of a boy born Sunday; A seven pound girl was born Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. John Harner, of Alford. The new baby was named Sunny Kay. Deaths: Mrs. Sara Sullivan received word Wednesday of the fatal crash Saturday for Lieutenant Francis Martin, a brother of Mrs. Edwin M. Burlingame, of Detroit. The accident occurred at Tampa, Florida. He was co-piloting and instructing and his plane crashed into the bay; Gussie Amos died at her home on the Line Road at 9 a.m. Thursday morning. Mrs. Amos gave birth to a child at 12 o'clock midnight Wednesday. The baby is living and has been named Gussie Gertrude; Mrs. Nellie Evans Gary, a life long resident of this city, and one of the most highly respect- ed ladies who ever lived in this community, passed away at her home on south sixth street, at 5:30 o'clock last Sunday evening after having been in failing health for the past few years; Friends have received word of the death of Mr. Evell Cathey, of Detroit, Mich., husband of Marie Gray Cathey, who formerly lived in Petersburg; Death came sud- denly to Claude White, min- er, at his home on Vincennes avenue in this city, Monday morning at 6:15 o'clock; Ber- tha Ann Barker, a member of one of the most influential and highly respected families of this county, died in the Princ- eton hospital, Sunday evening at 5:30 o'clock after an illness of several months duration. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Tuesday and Friday, June 17 and 20, 1958 Joe David Black, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arvel Black of Route 1, Winslow, was elected to the state council of the 4-H Junior Leaders at the annual meet- ing last weekend at Green- castle. Black became the first person from Pike County to ever be elected to the coun- cil. He will represent the 8th district. Three students from Pe- tersburg have been awarded scholarships to Vincennes University. It has been an- nounced by the Vincennes University Admissions Office. They are Beverly J. Gott, Lar- ry Richard Houchins and Rob- ert L. Gray. The Robins and Wrens each scored a victory in Mi- nor League play last week at the American Legion Park in Petersburg. The Robins, still undefeated, dropped the Orioles, 8 -6, in a hard-fought contest. The Wrens, a newly formed team under the guid- ance of Jack Houchins, had a much easier time. The Wrens scored a 17-0 victory over the Eagles. The minors play on Tuesday and Thursday after- noons. Ted Carson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Carson, of Peters- burg, left last week for Qui- to University at Ecuador for three months study at the Uni- versity as an exchange stu- dent. While at Quito, Ted will reside with Dr. Paul Engel, a medical professor at the Uni- versity, and his son, Juan En- gel. Juan will return with Ted to study this fall at DePauw. Roger F. Davis, native of Ot- well, has been named head basketball coach at Otwell for the 1958 -59 season. The an- nouncement came last week from school officials. Davis will replace Marice Sakel, who has coached at Otwell for the last two years. Marriages: Mr. and Mrs. Hight Tegmeyer announce the marriage of their daugh- ter, Mary Helen to Bill Tray- lor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stan- ton Traylor; Rosemary Don- aldson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Catt and Waldo Abbott were married Satur- day morning in Lawrencev- ille, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Catt were the attendants; Opal Cundiff, formerly of this city, and Lloyd Wakefield, employ- ee of the New York Central Railroad were quietly married Friday, June 13 at Mt. Carmel, Ill. They will make their home on the Slaughterhouse Lane in Petersburg; Mr. and Mrs. Chas E. Owings announce the marriage of their grand- daughter, Patsy D. Howard to James Wm. Ellis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Asa Ellis. Births: Born to David and Betty Tharp, of Gary, Ind., May 26, a son, David Living- stone. Deaths: Mrs. Walter West received word of the death of her sister, Mrs. Versie Hein- rich of Portland, Oregon. She died on the fourth day fol- lowing a serious heart oper- ation; Elder Louis Douglass, 77, widely known Primitive Baptist Minister and former pastor of the Arnold church, passed away in the Gibson County hospital, Wednesday, June 11; Services for Earl Bar- nett, 66, Winslow, will be at 2 p.m. Friday (today) in the Winslow General Baptist church. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, July 4, 1968 By direction of the Presi- dent, the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious achievement was presented to Staff Ser- geant E-6 Paul E. Martin, R A 16310580, United States Ar- my. Staff Sgt. Martin distin- guished himself by exception- ally meritorious achievement in connection with military operations against an armed hostile force in the Republic of Vietnam during the peri- od July 5, 1967 to November 20, 1967 while assigned to 2d Battalion, 3d Infantry, 199th Light Infantry Brigade. His outstanding achievements materially contributed to the success of the brigade's mis- sion in the Republic of Viet- nam. Staff Sgt. Martin's loy- alty, diligence and devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, the 199th Light Infantry Brigade and the United States Army. Staff Sgt. Martin is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Mar- tin of Winslow. Paul is the fa- ther of five children who are at the present living with their grandparents. Members of two Pike coun- ty fire departments recently attended a fire school with one of Pike county's depart- ments taking part in the dem- onstration. All persons at- tending received a card and certificate showing that the course had been completed. The two-day school was con- ducted by Indiana State Fire Marshall's office and with In- diana Rating Bureau in coop- eration with Indiana Volun- teer Fireman, State Indiana Fire Chief's Association, Fire- fighters Association, Indiana Firemen Association, Wash- ington Fire Department and Indiana Fire Instructors Asso- ciation. This is the first school of this kind in the state. This school is known as the White River Valley Fire Conference. Plans are to hold this school throughout the state. Bill Quick, Winslow, re- tired school teacher, is prob- ably one of the top ground hog hunters of the nation, killing on the average 379 ground hogs a year. His first year of hunting and keeping score was in 1965. Prior to that he estimates that through the year he had killed about 500. That year he killed 179. The next year, 1966, he got an ear- ly start, and knowing more about where to find them, he killed 448. In 1967 Bill killed 379, bringing his total to an even 1000. On Monday, July 1, 1968, he made his 327th kill for the year 1968. This kill was in a clover field near Ca- to. Number 1001 came in ear- ly March this year, and he has run hit total up to 327. His best day was on June 24, 1968. On this day he killed 24. Pike County Junior Legion baseball team, after a slow start, has begun to pick up steam. The team went into a game against Dale Saturday with a three loss and six win record, and beat Dale Satur- day and Vincennes, Sunday. It was the first loss for the Vin- cennes team. The Pike coun- ty boys won the Sunday game 7 to 1 and the Saturday game with Dale 14 to 2. Timothy Garland, 12-year- old son of Mr. and Mrs. Rob- ert Garland who live near Otwell, stepped in front of a Volkswagen driven by Mrs. Denzil Russell of near Otwell in front of the Hollis IGA Store Friday afternoon. The impact broke a headlight on the Volk- swagen, then the boy bounced into the windshield, breaking it. The youngster rolled off the car, jumped up and ran to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ber- nard Bath, where his older sis- ter, Judy was visiting. Young Garland was taken to the of- fice of a Jasper doctor where examination revealed that he was not seriously injured. He was quite sore for a few days. Marriages: Miss Lynda J. Lindauer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman A. Lindau- er, of Ferdinand, became the bride of Sp. 4 Roger W. Pan- cake, son of Mr. and Mrs. Al- va E. Pancake, of Velpen, on June 22; Miss Bonnie Beth Arnold, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grester H. Arnold, be- came the bride of Kenneth L. Bottoms, son of Mrs. Irene Bottoms, of Monroe City in the Free Methodist Church June 30 at 2:30 p.m. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Armstrong, of Pe- tersburg, Friday, June 28, a daughter; To Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Wolven, of Griffith, a son, Charles Edward, born Tuesday, June 25; To Mr. and Mrs. Donell Hill, Petersburg, a son, Eric Edward, Sunday, June 30. Deaths: Mrs. Cora Brown, 88, a native of Pike county and a former resident of Ly- ons, died at 11:10 a.m. Tues- day, June 25, at the Commu- nity Hospital in Indianapolis; Clyde Blackburn, 84, of Pe- tersburg, died at the Restwell Nursing Home in Vincennes, at 10 p.m. Friday; Miss Nancy (Nannie) Belcher, 90, of Mon- roe City, died Friday at 8:30 p.m. in a Vincennes nursing home after a lingering illness; Guy H. Blaize, Petersburg, a lifelong resident of Pike Coun- ty, died Tuesday morning, Ju- ly 2 at 12:30 in the Daviess County hospital, Washing- ton; Mrs. Dessie Cochren, 78, of Oakland City, widow of the late Roy Cochren, died at 5:10 p.m. Sunday in St. Mary's hos- pital from lung cancer. TWENTY- FIVE YEARS The Press-Dispatch Thursday, July 1, 1993 Ten Petersburg Kiwanians received the Legion of Hon- or from the Lt. Governor Bob Kinkle at a meeting at the Vil- lage Inn during June. The Ki- wanians are Delbert Minn- is, William Weathers, Joseph Elbert, John Chappell, Karl Schafer, Marion Klipsch, Bill Robinson, Bill Traylor, Lester Nixon and Wyatt Rauch. E.J. Boyd won the Senior High Point overall in the Pike County 4-H Boots and Sad- dles horse show, and Heidi Oxby was the top Junior High Point champion following Sat- urday's day-long event at the Pike County Saddle Club. Spurgeon State Bank re- cently installed a new Mon- eyMover 24-Hour teller ma- chine. The teller machine is a free-standing unit located on the premises of Country Junc- tion Convenience Store at the junction of Highways 64 and 61 near the Arthur commu- nity. The system began oper- ation Wednesday afternoon, June 23. No one was injured in this Thursday afternoon accident at Otwell where a truck driv- en by Nathan Mann sheared a utility pole next to Elmer Bu- chta Trucking. Pike County Sheriff Deputy Rick Cham- berlain investigated the acci- dent which did not knock out power but did approximately $2000 damage to the pole and the truck. Carol and Charles Robling, of Petersburg, struck gold at Oak Lanes winning the top medal in the mixed doubles competition for the White Riv- er Park State Games, Evans- ville Regional event. Marriages: Heather Diana Lamoreaux, of Petersburg, and Brennan Clark Summers, of Shelbyville, Ill., exchanged wedding vows Saturday, June 13 at 6:30 a.m. at Petersburg Free Methodist Church; Julie Kay Gross and Russell Wayne Nader were married Saturday, June 19 at 7 p.m. in Oak Har- bor Baptist Church, Jackson- ville, Fla. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Mark Alan Willis, of Terra Haute on Saturday, June 26 at Union Hospital, their first child, a daughter, Erin Chris- tine; To Mr. and Mrs. James (Doris) Wesley Meyers, of Noblesville, Monday, June 28, twin sons, James Wesley Myers, II and Jonathan Wes- ley Myers; To Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Wilson, of Peters- burg, in Daviess County Hos- pital at Washington, Thurs- day, June 17, a daughter, Me- gan Lynn; To Mr. and Mrs. Lowry Delbert "Del" Cooper, of Vincennes, on June 8, a son, Jacob Lowry; To Mr. and Mrs. Dean R. Scott, of Farm- ersburg, their first child, a daughter, Samantha Raye. Deaths: Martha Jean Da- vis, 69, of Petersburg, died at 12:57 a.m. Sunday, June 27 at Memorial Hospital in Jas- per; Christopher A. (Bud) In- gle, 22, of Hazelton, died at 9:15 a.m. Sunday, June 27 at Welborn Baptist Hospital in Evansville, suffering from in- juries received in a fall from a bridge near Hazelton; Gene R. Dillon, 74, of Princeton, died Sunday, June 27, at 11:44 p.m. at Gibson General Hos- pital in Princeton; Harold E. (Rip) Luttrull, 73, of Peters- burg, died at 1:39 a.m. Satur- day, June 26, at Petersburg Healthcare Center; Valada E. Schmidt, 84, of Oakland City, mother of Robert L. Schmidt, of Winslow, died Saturday, June 19 at 2:06 p.m. at Wirth Hospital; Rosa E. Robertson, 93, of Huntingburg, died at 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 23, at Gentlecare in Huntingburg; Infant Johnathan Wesley My- ers died Monday, June 28, ar Riverview Hospital in No- blesville; Josie Adkerson, 97, one of Petersburg's oldest cit- izens, died at 9:40 p.m. Thurs- day, June 24 at Memorial Hos- pital in Jasper; Edna E. Loehr, 87, of Holland, died at 6 a.m. Thursday, June 24 at her res- idence. SOMETHING NEWSWORTHY? Give us a call: 812-354-8500 Pike Central Homecoming Court—1985 Homecoming court includes front row (l to r): Jamie Morrison, Shelly Buenaventa, Bambi Brown, Sta- cy Nixon, Dana Meyer and Ryan Elder. Back row (l to r): Kathy Collins, Susan Rogers, Jody Mattingly, Sonja Henson, Amy Woods and Kelly Riesenbeck. Wednesday, August 1 • Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen (1774) • First drive-through ATM opens in China (2007) Thursday, August 2 • Iraq invades Kuwait (1990) • Delegates sign Declaration of Independence (1776) Friday, August 3 • Nautilus travels under North Pole (1958) • Columbus sets sail (1492) Saturday, August 4 • Anne Frank captured (1944) • Lizzie Borden's parents found dead (1892) Sunday, August 5 • First electric traffic signal installed (1914) • Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed (1963) Monday, August 6 • American bomber drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima (1945) • First execution by electric chair (1890) Tuesday, August 7 • Washington creates the Purple Heart (1782) • Teddy Roosevelt nominated as Bull Moose candidate (1912) Source: History.com