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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, August 22, 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 9 and 13, 1943 Mr. Delmas Stidd and Mr. Bert Bell received some cuts and bruises Friday evening when their car, a 1942 Chev- rolet, was in a collision with a model A Ford driven by a Mr. Myers from Monroe City. Mr. Myers received some cuts and bruises and was taken to the hospital for treatment. The accident occurred about 7:30 Friday evening on the curve just this side of Mon- roe City on highway 61. Mr. Myers was leaving Monroe City. Both cars were badly wrecked. Prof. and Mrs. J.B. Leas spent Thursday evening in Bicknell the guest of their son, James Leas and family. James, the editor of the Bick- nell News for the past few years will leave today (Fri- day) for the army. His broth- er, Lieut. Larry Leasa, is now a German prisoner and an- other brother, Lieut. Maurice Leas is stationed in the east. A heavy rain fell Friday evening accompanied by a hail storm, which did heavy damage to roofs, and window panes. In some localities the hail stones were reported to be as large as a good size wal- nut, but the storm clod was no accompanied by a high wind or the damaged would have been very heavy. Ray Benjamin living near Camp- belltown, had 48 windows broken in his hot beds. Ever- ett Gray and Russell Moore, of the Beckville communi- ty, reported broken window panes in their home, also a number of panes were bro- ken from the windows in the County Infirmary. The top on Pleas Goodrid's Plym- outh had about twenty-six nice size holes pounded in it. Last Week Pearl Minor, father of Tech. Sgt. Kenneth Minor, who is with the Unit- ed States Army in North A f- rica, received two watches from his son, one his own and the other the property of a su- perior officer, which Kenneth had sent back here to have re- paired. Mr. Minor took them to the Hadlock Jewelry shop and told Mr. Hadlock what he wanted and where the watch- es were from, and Mr. Had- lock took another watch from the case and showed Mr. Mi- nor, the property of Sgt. Roy- al Benjamin, also in North A f- rica with the U.S. forces. Marriages: Miss Mar- grette Kelshaw, daughter of Mrs. Grace Kelshaw, of Vin- cennes, became the bride of Sergeant Virgil Ohmberg- er of Sergeant, Nebraska in a ceremony solemnized at high noon Saturday, April 10 in the First Christian church in Vincennes. Births: Born to Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Knight of this city, Thursday morning, a boy. Deaths: Mrs. Julia Brashears Mount, one of the older fine ladies of this community, died at the Fay France Convalescent Home, Thursday morning ten min- utes past midnight after hav- ing suffered a stroke a few hours previous. She was 82 years of age last January 6th; Guy Abel, a former res- ident of the Iva community, this county, was killed in- stantly in an accident at the Ship Yards at Evansville, In- diana, at 2 p.m. Friday after- noon. Mr. Abel was a boiler rigger, and was crushed be- tween heavy pieces of steel which were being moved by a crane in the yards. He re- sided in Evansville; Fred Hollon, native of this county, a retired B & O. railroad en- gineer, died in the Veteran's Hospital at Alton, Illinois, Saturday evening at 6:10 o'clock, after having been a patient in that institution for the past four months; Ishma- el Hollingsworth, 47 years of age, and a former resident of this city, but who has been re- siding at Bloomington for the past several years, was so se- verely injured in an automo- bile accident in Knox County, north of Vincennes, one day last week that he died from his injuries a few hours after being removed to the Good Samaritan hospital in Vin- cennes; Mrs. Colin Sorgi- us of Jefferson township has been notified of the death of her uncle, Mr. Sylvester Cart- er of Snohomish, Washing- ton. Mr. Carter died January 29 in Washington and burial was made there. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Tuesday and Friday, July 11 and 15, 1958 Mrs. Ethel Yager, wife of Earl Yager, who lives near Spurgeon, received word Wednesday, that her son, Em- mett Y. Yager, age 37 years, of Sante Fe, New Mexico, had suffered a broken back. Mrs. Yager left immediately for Sante Fe. John Oren Miller, 66, re- tired farmer, of near Otwell, was returned to Pike Coun- ty from Indianapolis Mon- day after he claimed to have been kidnapped, beaten, threatened with a knife and then was dumped in the In- dianapolis east side. Sher- iff Wilmer Whitehead said that two Indianapolis men were jailed here Tuesday on charges of kidnapping and robbery with $5,000 bond on each charge. Miller claimed he was kidnapped in Pike County, robbed at his home of $47, blindfolded, transport- ed against his will to India- napolis and there beaten be- fore being put from the car. In jail after apprehension at In- dianapolis are Charles Leep- er, 20, and David Baker, 19. Sheriff Wilmer Whitehead said a female participant in the alleged kidnap-robbery incident was not sufficiently involved to be booked. For the second year in suc- cession, the Pike County Fair and 4-H Club Exhibit will have Johnny's United Shows on the Midway. A fter their 1957 appearance, the Pike County Fair Board was com- plimented most highly on the quality of the shows and rides offered to the public on the local midway. Consequently, for 1958, the members of the local fair supervisory com- mittee made a concentrat- ed effort to retain the shows this year. Their appearance at the 1958 fair shows that they were successful. Rev. Carl Boyd, pastor of the First Baptist church in Petersburg was stricken with a heart attack Sunday, just after he had finished the morning services. Rev. Boyd had closed the worship hour and was standing in the ves- tibule greeting the people when he became very ill. He was rushed to the Good Samaritan hospital in Vin- cennes. His condition is list- ed as critical. Marriages: Miss Sharon Potts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O.F. Potts, of Peters- burg, and Kenneth Gladish, son of Mr. and Mrs. Foster Gladish were united in mar- riage, Sunday, July 6, at 2:30 p.m. the Alford Methodist Church; Miss Judy Horton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Horton, Beechmont, and Everett Fleming, son of Mr. and Mrs. T.K. Fleming, of Greenville, Ky., were mar- ried June 14 at three o'clock in the Greenville Presbyteri- an church. Deaths: Johnny Horrell, who was seriously inured about ten days ago, while at work for the New York Cen- tral Railroad, passed away at 10 :20 Thursday morning in the Good Samaritan hospi- tal; Word was received here late Tuesday evening of the sudden death of Wendell Ab- bott, 42, a former resident of Jefferson township. Mr. Ab- bott was fighting a fire in the rear of his home near Orville, Calif., when he suf- fered a heart attack; Stanley B. Offil, 51, of Otwell, died at noon Wednesday at the Gen- eral Hospital in Indianapolis following a heart attack while enroute to Marion, Ind. to vis- it his daughter, Delma Wil- son. He suffered the heart attack while changing a flat tire; Bessie Moore, daughter of the late Elijah and Mary El- len Harbert, was born in Clay County, Ill., April 23 and de- parted this life at Smithville, Ark., June 29, 1958, at the ad- vanced age of 74 years, two months and six days; Mrs. Elsie Carlisle, New Albany, was called to Winslow by the death of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Helen Dills. While sit- ting with the family at their home on route 2 Winslow, she suffered a stroke and passed away at the Stork Memorial hospital in Huntingburg at 12:15 a.m. Monday morning; Services for John Horrell, 41, were held at the Harris Fu- neral Home at 4 p.m., Satur- day with Rev. Hubert Crane and Rev. Harold Head offici- ating; Helen Carlisle Dills, 42, Winslow, died at 6 a.m. Saturday in Stork Memori- al hospital in Huntingburg; Services for Hester (Thom- as) Pennington will be held at the Thomas Funeral Home in Terre Haute, Ind. at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 15, 1958. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, July 25, 1968 Mr. and Mrs. Ivor Powers of Spurgeon received a tele- gram Saturday evening no- tifying them that their son, Specialist Five Ivor Harold Powers had been wounded in Viet Nam. Ivor Harold is a bulldozer operator and hit a land mine while making a clearing. Both ear drums were ruptured caused from the concussion of a blast. He was hospitalized in Viet Nam. His wife, Paula also lives in Spurgeon. Two people were injured in a car-truck accident east of the junction of highways 64 and 61 three and a half miles from Arthur. A 1966 Chev- rolet driven by Mrs. Calette Purpus, 31, of Anderson, headed west slowed for slow moving vehicle. The Chevro- let was struck in the back by a 1968 Ford utility truck, driv- en by Louis Bates, Jr., 45, of Louisville, Kentucky when the brakes failed. The Chev- rolet ran off the right side of the highway and the truck al- so went off the right side of the highway and rolled over three times. Injured was Mr. Bates who received an in- jured shoulder and a bump on his head and a passen- ger, Genevieve Bates, 50, re- ceived head injuries and a lac- erated wrist. O.O. Siple, Petersburg, was admitted to the Good Samar- itan hospital Thursday, July 18. Mr. Siple fell at his home September 8 last year and broke his right leg five inches below the knee. In December Mr. Siple had a steel plate in- serted in his leg. A fter that he was able to be up and around with the aide of a cane. The leg began to give him trou- ble and before re-entering the hospital he had to use a walker to get around. X-Rays at the hospital disclosed that he had rebroken the leg and the screws holding the plate were twisted. Mr. Siple went to surgery Friday where his right leg was placed in a cast from his waist to his toes and the left side in a cast from his waist to his knee. He will be wearing the cast 12 weeks. Noble Dearing, of Win- slow, is a patient in Deacon- ess Hospital where he was taken Monday, July 15 around noon following an accident at the Wright Mine near Boon- ville. Mr. Dearing, a shooter for Ayrshire Colleries Cor- poration, was standing on a diesel coal drill, a new piece of equipment without guard rails to instruct the men in drilling holes. When the ma- chine started up before Mr. Dearing could get off and back on the ground, he was thrown in the air and landed on hard coal. He suffered a broken left hip and three bro- ken ribs on his right side. He submitted to surgery Friday and the hip was pinned. Mr. Dearing is making a satisfac- tory recovery but expects to be in the hospital for around three weeks. Marriages: The Winslow United Methodist Church was the scene of a candlelight wedding service June 14 at 8 p.m. when Miss Catherine Weeks became the bride of Richard Kent Burns. Deaths: Jim Markham, 52, prominent Petersburg resi- dent and business man died at 7 a.m. Wednesday, July 24 in the Harris Ambulance enroute to the St. Mary's hospital in Evansville from a heart attack; Maxie Willis, 54, who lived south of Otwell died Suddenly Friday at 10 :30 p.m. at his home from a heart attack; Funeral services were held for four-tear-old Marvin A. Theiring Monday at 2 p.m. in the Spurgeon General Bap- tist church; Funeral services for Mrs. Eunice Webb were conducted at the Methodist Home Chapel in Franklin at 2 p.m. Saturday; Miss Hattie Barnett, 88, died Saturday, July 20 at noon at the home of her niece, Mrs. Hazel Nel- son, south side of Winslow; Funeral services for Mrs. Lil- lie Pearl Dorsey, 70, of the Ca- to community were Wednes- day at 2 p.m. at the Curtis Fu- neral Home; William C. Hig- gins, 83, employee of Selby's Pool Room in Petersburg the past seven years, died Tues- day, July 23 at 2 a.m. in the Daviess County hospital. TWENTY- FIVE YEARS The Press-Dispatch Thursday, July 22, 1993 Considerable damage was done to the Winslow Gener- al Baptist Church lawn when vandals drove a pickup truck into the lawn and began spin- ning the truck around. The vandals also cut donuts in the American Legion parking lot and drove through the lawn several times at the Sarah Stilwell residence causing damage. Winslow deputy marshal Roger McCandless said this happened around 2:30 a.m. Monday and a wit- ness said it was persons in a clack pickup truck. The inci- dent is being followed up and arrests are expected. Three tires on an automo- bile owned by Fay Head were slashed late Sunday night or early Monday morning, ac- cording to Roger McCand- less, deputy Winslow mar- shal. Mrs. Head, an employ- ee at the Winslow Pantry, works from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. She said when she went out- side around 2:30 a.m. she no- ticed the tires were flat. She said they had just put new tires on the car the previous week. She did not know the reason for the incident. Mc- Candless said he was still in- vestigating and did have a lead. A semi-truck driver was ar- rested on criminal reckless- ness charges for intentional- ly driving his rig over a pas- senger car parked in traf- fic, according to Petersburg Police Chief Mike Key. Key said Robert L. Fuhrman of Route 2 Winslow, was mak- ing a left turn onto Illinois St., from Highway 57 and was stopped in traffic. Illi- nois St. was one lane at the time because of construc- tion. Paul W. Warren, 53, of Elberfeld, was driving a Rose Brothers semi-tractor trailer on Illinois St. attempting to pull onto Highway 57, when Furhman stopped in front of him, according to Key. Key said three witnesses told him they heard Warren say, "If you don't move that car, I'm going to run over it,' and he did." Warren drove onto Highway 57 and in the pro- cess drove over the rear of Fuhrman's 1978 Mercury, with the left rear tandem of his 1990 Mack truck. Key said there were minor inju- ries to three passengers in Fuhrman's car. He said all three refused medical treat- ment. Fuhrman's car was a total loss, but there was no damage to the Mack truck. Three Pike County girls were hospitalized due to stomach disorders at Vin- cennes University last week. The girls were among 18 mid- dle school girls attending the National Cheerleaders Asso- ciation summer camp for mid- dle school and high school cheerleaders. Camp officials said 25 girls became sick, but area parents say more than that became sick. Pike Cen- tral representatives Shawna Parsons, Madelyn Dyer and Ski Robling all had to be hos- pitalized after they suffered from intense vomiting and dehydration. The girls went to camp Monday at noon and started becoming ill Tuesday around noon. Dr. Robert Jac- qmain, who is the health offi- cer of Knox County, could not be reached by phone. A nurse for Jacqmain said he did not answer phone calls during of- fice hours and he would not return phone calls. Howev- er he had his nurse say the girls caught a 24-hour virus. Parents of the Pike County girls said officials earlier in the week had ruled out food poisoning. Marriages: Amber Dawn Brawdy and Thomas E. Hens- ley, Jr. were united in mar- riage on June 12 at 3:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in Petersburg. Bro. George Fiscus officiated at the can- dlelight ceremony; Sherri Hulsey and Marical Wood were united in marriage in a 4 p.m. ceremony June 26 at the Winslow General Baptist Church. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. James R. Lemond, of Arthur, at Welborn Baptist Hospi- tal in Evansville, June 14, a daughter, Kelsey Rae. Deaths: Odean Faye, 70, formerly of Pike County, daughter of Leo Howard, a resident of Amber Manor Care Center, in Petersburg, died July 12 at her residence in Kokomo; Zoar community recently received word that Cindy Kamman, 40, wife of Ron Kamman, of Farmer- sburg had died. Ron Kam- man is a native of Zoar com- munity and the son of Zona Kamman and the late Wil- fred Kamman; Frances Mill- er LaPorte, 93, of Jupiter, Fla., formerly of Oakland City, dies Tuesday, July 13 at 2:30 a.m. at Jupiter Con- valescent Pavilion; Kirsten Elise Greulich was stillborn at 9:17 a.m. Sunday, July 18 at Memorial Hospital in Jasper; Fred C. Davidson, 87, of Ha- zelton, died Friday, July 16 at 6:15 a.m. at Forest Del Conva- lescent Center in Princeton; Dortha Mason, 66, of High- land, native of Pike County, died Tuesday, July 13 at Mer- cy Hospital in Dyer, follow- ing a lengthy illness; Ethel C. Tevault, 83, of Huntingburg, died at 2:40 p.m. Tuesday, Ju- ly 13 at Huntingburg Conva- lescent Center; Lillie Bruner, 93, of Mishawaka, formerly of Somerville, died Sunday evening at St. Joseph Medi- cal Center in South Bend. Early 1950s Local Draft Pictured above, after being drafted for the army in the early 1950s are(l to r): Frank Heuring, Un- known, Walter Lee Rumble and Edward P. Willis. Photo submitted by Nyla Dooley Wednesday, August 22 • Althea Gibson becomes first A frican-American on U.S. tennis tour (1950) • Redcoats land at Long Island (1776) Thursday, August 23 • Fannie Farmer opens cooking school (1902) • Pete Rose gets booted from baseball (1989) Friday, August 24 • Vesuvius erupts (79) • British troops set fire to the White House (1814) Saturday, August 25 • Englishman swims the Channel (1875) • "The Wizard of Oz" debuts (1939) Sunday, August 26 • First televised Major Leage baseball game (1939) • 19th Amendment adopted (1920) Monday, August 27 • Red Scare dominates American politics (1952) • Krakatau explodes (1883) Tuesday, August 28 • Charles and Diana divorce (1996) • Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks to March on Washington (1963) Source: History.com