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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, August 15, 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, April 2 and 6, 1943 With a quota of $228,000 of war bonds to be sold in Pike County alone for the month of April an inten- sive bond drive is being planned. This is the larg- est quota to date for this county for the month of March. The series of ad- vertisements in The Press will serve as a barometer to tell how the bond sales are going week by week. Fur- ther plans of the drive will be announced soon. Jess Catt, of Union, while out in the back of his farm this week, found a govern- ment weather box, com- plete with balloon and guard hoop. The box had instructions printed on the side to the effect that the finder should mail the box and balloon to the weather bureau. Earl Kime living nearby brought the box in- to the post office. The drive for the Red Cross quota of $5,100 is going well here in Pike County. To date a little over $4,400 has been raised and there are still some dis- tricts to be heard from in addition to a quota of the money donated at the de- fense plants of both Knox and Daviess counties. Mar- tin county will also furnish part of the sum as our work- ers employed at Burns City will entitle Pike county to a portion. Robert Brittain, age 37, of Campbellville, was one of four injured in an ac- cident which occurred on highway 57, five miles south of Petersburg, ear- ly Friday evening, when his car collided with a car driven by James C. Garrett, of Washington. Mr. Garrett and his passengers were enroute home from Evans- ville where they are em- ployed and Mr. Brittain was going to work in Evansville. Mr. Brittain is confined to the Daviess county hospi- tal with a fractured knee, a deep gash across his fore- head and a number of other cuts and bruises. Mr. Har- rett suffered from a head injury and his daughter, Mrs. Imogene Braun an injury to the right leg. Oth- er passengers of the Gar- rett car injured were Dan- iel Dickens, Washington, route one, and Jack Reck- ers, of Washington. Their injuries were slight and they were released from the hospital after receiv- ing treatment. Burglers who entered Lemmond's Beer Tavern on Main street Sunday night took between $5.00 and $ 6.00 worth of small change and two cases of beer, according to infor- mation received by State Trooper Howard Lytton. Entrance was gained by breaking a rear window glass. Deaths: Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Crow, widow of the late Mace Crow and one of the most highly respect- ed and widely known old- er ladies of this county died at the home of her daugh- ter, Mrs. Clyde Inman, in Winslow, midnight, Thurs- day morning April 1, after suffering from pneumonia a short time; Mrs. Mary A. Whitehead, a native of Jef- ferson township and resi- dent of Daviess county for 29 years died Monday eve- ning at 10 o'clock in the Da- viess county hospital. She was 75 years old; John Jack- son Robling, a former em- ployee of the Newstand in this city died at the Deacon- ess hospital in Cincinnati, one week ago, at the age of 61 years. He had been ill for five weeks; Funeral ser- vices for Mr. Mark Knight who died in Manatee, Fla., March 25 were held Sun- day afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Harris Funeral Home. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Tuesday and Friday, July 3 and 8, 1958 Lawrence Burton, man- ager of the Marathon Sta- tion at 9th and Main Sts. put snow balls in his deep freeze last winter, and his children are going to throw snow balls this 4th of July instead of firecrackers. Johnnie Horrell, North 5th Street was seriously injured Wednesday night while at work with the New York Central railroad. He was taken to the Good Samaritan hospital in Vin- cennes, where it was de- termined he had suffered a brain concussion. He is showing improvement and his condition is reported as good as can be expected. Johnny, nine-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Garland, of near Otwell, fell about 14 feet from a tree he and two playmates were climbing one day last week. He broke both arms in two places at the wrist. He now has both arms in casts and slings. Aaron R. Mason, District Representative for the Jef- ferson National Life Insur- ance Company has been notified by the Home Of- fice that he has qualified for an all expense free trip to Bermuda. He will leave August 23 from New York on the U.S.S. Queen of Ber- muda and will return one week later by Pan-Ameri- can Airlines. Marriages: The mar- riage of Rosemary Frank- lin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.E. "Jack" Frank- lin, of Indianapolis, to Wil- liam A. Weathers was sol- emnized Saturday evening at 6:30 in the Presbyterian church; Mrs. Merle Scrap- er and Victor Fine, former Petersburg residents, were married June 20 in Cincin- nati, Ohio at the Madison- ville Methodist church; Miss Lena Johnson be- came the bride of Dwight Swain, Saturday, June 28. The couple were married at the home of Rev. Her- schel Long, with Rev. Long performing the ceremony; Linda Kirk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Kirk, of Vincennes, and Larry Har- rington were married Sat- urday, June 21 at 6 p.m. at the South Side Presbyteri- an church in Vincennes. Deaths: Curtis Traylor, 71, died at 6 a.m. Sunday at his residence in Wash- ington; Funeral servic- es for Frank Powers, 84, were held at 2 p.m. Tues- day at the Corn & Reed Funeral Home, with the Rev. Frank Farmer offici- ating; W.F. Risley passed away at 9 p.m. Sunday in the home of his son, Wil- liam Risley, near Velpen. He had been an invalid for a number of years. Mr. Ris- ley was 91 years old last De- cember; Word was received of the death of Rev. Chas. McCullough, former pas- tor of the First Methodist church in Petersburg; Ser- vices for Carltie B. Smith, 71, will be at 4 p.m. Tues- day at the Church of God with Rev. Wm. Hutton and Rev. Herschel Nelson offi- ciating. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, July 18, 1968 Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Hartke will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversa- ry Sunday, July 21 with open house at their home in Stendal from 2 to 4 p.m. Mr. Hartke and the former Tillie Caldemeyer were married in Petersburg Ju- ly 21, 1908 and are the par- ents of four living children, Oliver and Denver, of Sten- dal, Mrs. Virgil (Evelyn) Fleck, of Jasper and Mrs. Carl (Lolan) Nuekam, of Huntingburg. University of Evansville students who earned a 3.5 or above grade point aver- age for the Spring quar- ter were on the Dean's List for: Eight times, Janice S. Houghland, Oakland City; Three times, John R. Eads, Winslow; Gary L. Jarvis, Petersburg; One time, Bar- bara L. Bone, Stendal and Elijah James McCord, Win- slow. Highways 61 and 56 in Pike county have had new speed limits set on most of them. On highway 61, which runs between Yan- keetown and Vincennes through Pike county, the speed limits have been re- duced on the open road to 55 miles per hour in all Pike county except a three mile stretch south of Pe- tersburg. Highway 61 en- ters Pike county between Lynnville and Spurgeon, runs through Winslow and Petersburg. On highway 56 from south Main Street to Hazelton speed limits on the open road have also been reduced to 55. A showing of the new $160,000 First National Bank building on Colum- bia and Main Streets in Oakland City will be Thurs- day, July 25. Officers, direc- tors and employees invite the public to come and in- spect this new spacious and modern building and its equipment. Mrs. Wayne (Doris) Craig, Petersburg, frac- tured the large bone in her right leg between her ankle and knee. The fracture is lengthwise. Mrs. Craig was riding on a wagon Monday afternoon, July 8, with her children, Lorelie, Doug- las and Kim and a neigh- bor boy, Tom Hayes. They were getting ready to load hay and she went along to the field to watch the chil- dren to see that they didn't get hurt. On the way to the field the wagon hit a bump causing her to fall off the wagon. Her husband took her to the Good Samaritan hospital where she went to surgery Tuesday. The fractured leg was put in a cast from her toes to above her knee which she will be wearing for eight weeks. She was released from the hospital Friday. Births: To Sp. 5 and Mrs. Allen R. Smith, Kens- ington, Maryland, a son, Jeffry Allen born recent- ly; To Mr. and Mrs. Kerry Knochenmus of St. Louis, Missouri, their first child, a daughter, Kathryn Marie, born June 12. Deaths: One of the old- est, most widely known and loved women of Win- slow was called by death Sunday, July 14 near the midnight hour. Mrs. Mat- tie Belle Cooper, 90, died at 11:20 p.m. in the Gibson General hospital in Princ- eton from injuries she re- ceived at 3 a.m. Thursday, July 4 in a fall at her home one block east of the First National Bank in Winslow; Victor Pirtle, 66, Hardings- burg, died sudden;y from a heart attack while fishing, Tuesday morning, July 2; Funeral services for John and Mathilda Neukam were at 2 p.m. Friday at St. Peter's church in Dubois. Mr. Neukam died Tues- day night at 9:20 in Memo- rial Hospital, Jasper. Mrs. Neukam died Wednesday evening at 9:20 at Jasper hospital; Guy Deeds, 69, an Oakland City resident for the past 45 years, died Friday at St. Mary's hos- pital where he had been a patient for ten days; Mrs. Neoma Bell Williams, 68, of Littles died Monday, Ju- ly 15 in St. Joseph hospital in Huntingburg where she had been a patient since June 18. TWENTY- FIVE YEARS The Press-Dispatch Thursday, July 15, 1993 Andrea Aydelott was named Miss Pike County 4- H Fair Queen last Wednes- day night. First runner-up was Amy Western and sec- ond runner-up was Dawn Boger. Aydelott was al- so named Miss Photoge- nic and Western was voted Miss Congeniality. Adri- enne Yates won the Direc- tor's Award. The State Police's erad- ication team along with assistance from the Pike County Sherriff's Depart- ment and Petersburg Police Department confiscated 18 marijuana plants through- out the county last Wednes- day. Sheriff William Scales and State Trooper Paul Bu- cher said the plants aver- aged about three feet in height. Officers assisted by a helicopter searched sev- eral areas and found plants at three sites: near Velpen, off the Cart Road south of Petersburg and west of Al- giers. Sheriff Scales said if anyone has information about marijuana plants be- ing grown they should con- tact the sheriff's office. Two waterline breaks on SR 61 south of Petersburg on Sunday night and then Monday morning slowed traffic and prevented water distribution to Pike Central and vicinity. Police Chief Mike Key and Sgt. Gary West directed traffic while one lane was blocked south- bound. Petersburg Ma- jor Randall Harris stated that on Saturday a number three high service pump at the water plant was hit by lightening, taking the wa- ter tower down from 36 feet to 12. The system was just up and operating thanks to efforts by Jerry Thyen, Jeff Loveless, Jim Dickerson and Bruce Duncan when on Monday night number four well motor went out of commission. Bob Morton got the system back in op- eration after more electri- cal problems related to the lightening that caused the motor failure. A rural Petersburg girl was injured by lightning Monday night as strong storms with heavy rain and lightning tracked through northern Pike County at about 7:45. About two inch- es of rain were recorded in the Petersburg area during the approximate 30 minute storm and a total of more than three inches fell in less than 24 hours in some places in the area. Kim Jar- vis sustained burns to her arm and hand when she was hit indirectly by light- ning while working in the drive-through window at the Dairy Queen. Gladys Wood, manager of Dairy Queen, said Jarvis was working the drive-through window. She had her foot on a foot activated button that turns on the drive- through speaker and her hand on a key on the cash register. Apparently light- ning hit the drive-through speaker, went through Jar- vis and into the cash regis- ter. Wood said sparks flew everywhere around the window and cash registers. Jarvis' arm did not have any signs of blisters but it got hot, so they put ice on it and she was taken to Memori- al Hospital in Jasper, where she was treated for burns and kept a short time for observation, before being released. The power surge was enough to knock out Dairy Queen's cash reg- isters and their drive- through window speaker. Danny Waddle and Jon Foust toured the east coast on a 13-day trip to visit the United Nations. It was spon- sored by the Odd Fellows. The boys rode a bus from Indiana through Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia on their way to Washington, D.C. In Wash- ington they were given nu- merous tours through the nation's capital, then they went to Gettysburg and Philadelphia on their way to New York. Births: To Gina Thomp- son, of Winslow, at Jas- per Memorial Hospital on June 27, a son, Dakota Mi- chaels; To Aaron Doern- er and Brenda Lawson of Somerville on June 30 at Gibson General Hospital in Princeton, a son, Blake Nathanial Doerner; To Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Church of Winslow on July 2 at St. Mary's Medical Center in Evansville, their first child, a daughter, Haley Drew; To Mr. and Mrs. Paul Demoss of Bloomington on Thurs- day, July 1, a daughter, Elizabeth Suzanne Marie; To Joel and Kim Foust of Bloomington, July 3, their first child, a daughter, Bai- ley Elizabeth. Deaths: Helen L. Spray, 92, of Petersburg, died at 8:40 a.m. Friday, July 9 at the Extended Care Unit of Daviess County Hospital in Washington; Ellen E. Jones, 99, of Petersburg, died at 7:50 p.m. Saturday, July 10 at Owensville Con- valescent Center in Ow- ensville; Lawrence "Pood- ie" Brock, 78, of Glezen, died at 5:15 a.m. Friday, July 2 at Wirth Hospital in Oakland City; R. Glendora (Dode) Shadley, 76, of Por- tage, formerly of Hazelton, died at 5 p.m. Saturday, July 3 at St. Mary's Medi- cal Center in Hobart; Fred R. Lamon, 71, of Oakland City, brother of Lawrence Lamon, of Petersburg, died Wednesday, June 30 at 1:30 a.m. at Community Hospi- tal in Anderson; Ethel C. Tevault, 83, Huntingburg, died at 2:40 p.m. Tuesday, July 13 at the Huntingburg Convalescent Center; Wil- liam Carl Henning, 85, of Evansville, brother of Per- ry Henning, of Coe, Route 2, Oakland City, died at 4:40 a.m. Tuesday, July 6 at his residence; Harold Fair, 74, of Harrisburg, Ill., for- merly of Petersburg, died at 2:11 p.m. Tuesday, July 13 at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville; Howard Staf- ford, 90, of Oakland City, died at 12:15 p.m. Friday, July 9 at Good Samaritan Nursing Home in Oakland City; Huey R. Seale, Sr., 75, of Francisco, died at 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 6 at the Veteran's Hospital in Mar- ion, Ill.; Alvina Coleman, 82, of Petersburg, died at 3 a.m. Friday, July 9 at Re- gina Care Center in Evans- ville; Owen L. Hollenburg, 79, of Evansville, died at 1 a.m. Thursday, July 8 at St. Mary's Medical Center in Evansville; Posey C. Taft, 80, of Oakland City, died at 12:40 a.m. Friday, July 2 at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville. 1957 Winslow High School Prom Pictured above are some of the students that attended 1957 Winslow High School Prom. Front row (l to r): James Powers, James Bolin, Richard Harper and Ernie Wilhite. Back row: Elvis Erwin, Bob Er- win, Tom Stephens, Donald Wood, Don Stephens, Charles Sims, James Dickerson and Jerry Lee. Photo submitted by Beth Soderling Wednesday, August 15 • The Woodstock festival opens in Bethel, N.Y. (1969) • Henry Ford leaves Edison to start automobile company (1899) Thursday, August 16 • Gold discovered in the Yukon (1896) • Babe Ruth dies (1812) Friday, August 17 • Woodstock Music Festival concludes (1969) • Hitler's last living henchman dies (1987) Saturday, August 18 • Coup attempt against Gorbachev begins (1991) • Genghis Khan dies (1227) Sunday, August 19 • First race is held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (1909) • USS Constitution earns its name "Old Ironsides" (1812) Monday, August 20 • First around-the-world telegram sent, 66 years before Voyater II launch (1911) • The Menendez brothers murder their parents (1989) Tuesday, August 21 • Hawaii becomes 50th state (1959) • Theft of Mona Lisa is discovered (1911) Source: History.com