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C-12 Wednesday, Januar y 2, 2019 The Press-Dispatch 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, August 27 and 31, 1943 Mr. and Mrs. James Hill, residents of this city for for- ty years, quietly celebrat- ed their fiftieth wedding anniversary at their home Sunday. A reception in the form of a chicken dinner was given for Corporal Charley Riley, Sunday at the home of his sister, Mrs. Lyda Williams at Patoka Grove. There was a fine breeze Sunday and much comment was made among relatives and old friends of the enjoyment of the day. Music was fur- nished by the Montgomer- ys accompanied on the pi- ano by John Rutter. Char- ley was stricken with sci- atic rheumatism in North A frica in early spring. The Petersburg Water Station has just recorded a record for the number of gallons of water pumped during any one 24 hour period. On Wednesday, Au- gust 25, the water pumped amounted to 853,000 gal- lons plus 24,000 gallons pumped to wash the sands. Previous to this 811,000 gallons was the most wa- ter pumped in any one 24-hour period. The aver- age in gallons per day for a year of water pumped is about 550,000 gallons. Rev. Floyd Fisher who has been pastor of the White River U.B. church for the past three years has been appointed pas - tor of the Medora, Indiana circuit. Rev. Fisher and his family have made many friends during their stay in Petersburg and Mrs. Fish- er has taught two success- ful terms in the Madison township schools. The ap- pointment was made at the annual U.B. conference on August 22. Marriages: At eight o'clock Saturday even- ing August 21 in the chap- el of St. Paul's Episcopal church in Evansville, In- diana, Miss Jean Dend- inger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert C. Dending- er of Boonville became the bride of Corporal Dallas E. Philips, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Philips, of Arthur; Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam Buchta of Otwell wish to announce the marriage of their daughter, Annetta to Mr. William Garland, Jr. of Indianapolis, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Garland, Sr. of Winslow. Births: Judith Ann is the name given to the girl born Friday, August 27 to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Ste- vens of Petersburg; A sev- en pound girl was born Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Willis of Bowman. The baby was named Car- oline Kay. Deaths: Mrs. Ame- lia M. Lippoldt died at the home of her adopted daughter, Mrs. Roy Mar- tin, two miles west of Sten- dal Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock. Had she lived until Sept. 26 she would have attained the age of 78 years; Rebecca Jane Hill, 78, passed away at her home in Winslow at 12:15 Wednesday morning; Dai- sy Jones died Monday af- ternoon at the home of her sister, Mrs. Adda Eskew at Corydon Junction, follow- ing a three months illness; Funeral services were con- ducted Wednesday after- noon for Frank Ray, infant son of Golda DeJarnett who died Tuesday night at 11:30 p.m. of inanition. The baby was a twin broth- er to Frances Fay, who is very ill. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Wednesday and Tuesday, November 26 and December 2, 1958 Phil Queen, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Queen of 1603 E. Main, is a junior at Hanover College this year. He is majoring in psychol- ogy and plans to enter the ministry. He is affiliated with Sigma Chi fraternity; a member of the Student Christian Association, Phi Eta Sigma, national fresh- man men's scholastic hon- orary; and a member of the Board of Student A ffairs. Three Petersburg per- sons were injured in a two- car crash at 10 :15 p.m. Fri- day on Highway 57, south of Washington. Injured were Delbert Minnis, 44, lacerations, Francis Minn- is, 39, lacerations, and Clif- ford Clay Chew, 37, lacer- ations and bruises of the right forearm and right leg, and bruises on the left shoulder and arm. Officers investigating the accident said Chew, driving a 1955 Buick, was going north on 57 and made a left turn in- to the new Moose home drive in front of the 1956 Oldsmobile driven by Mr. Minnis, who was head- ing south on 57. Mr. and Mrs. Minnis were return- ing home from bowling. Estimates revealed that $1,200 damage was done to the Buick and $1400 to the Oldsmobile. Also rid- ing in the Minnis car L.E. (Bud) Brannon. He was not injured. While Petersburg was witnessing one of its worst fires in history, Stendal was having its share of fire troubles. A fire broke out damaging a barn and house trailer belonging to Jack Maxey, and the home of Newton Maxey. The fire was estimated to have caused $1,000 in damage. The Holland Fire Depart- ment answered the call. Winslow's high-flying Eskimos rolled to their third straight victory Fri- day night in walloping Washington, 71-55, be- hind the sharp-shooting of little Roger Erwin and Ronnie Woodford. Erwin, speedy senior guard, hit for 16 points and Wood- ford tallied 17 to pace the winners. Gene Whitney, who lives just outside of Petersburg on Highway 61, received a badly cut arm between the wrist and the elbow as a result of an accident near Buckskin Friday, Nov. 28. Mr. Whitney was travel- ing to work when his car left the icy pavement and went over an embankment, landing on its side. The car door glass broke cutting Mr. Whitney's left arm. Mr. Whitney had to walk to Oakland City to get a wrecker. Marriages: Sharon Ann Lytton and Richard K. Weatherly were mar- ried Thanksgiving Day in the Main Street Presbyte- rian Church in a candle- light service at 6:30 with Dr. Basil Johnson of Oak- land City College reading the vows before an alter of palms, bronze mums and candlebra; Miss Ruth Ann Anderson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. A. Ander- son became the bride of Benton L. Morris, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mor- ris, Topeka, Kansas, No- vember 15 in the Otwell Methodist church. Births: Born to Mr. and Mrs. H. Kenneth Myers of Petersburg, a son Mark Kevin, Nov. 11 in the Da- viess County hospital; Mr. and Mrs. Gene H. Kinman, Rushville, Ind., are the par- ents of a girl, born Novem- ber 25. Deaths: William Frank- lin Bell, 53, died suddenly at home on Otwell at 5:30 Saturday evening; Otho Amos, 67-year-old father of Mrs. Kathleen Mc- Candless of Winslow, died at 2:30 a.m. Monday in the Baptist Hospital in Evans- ville; Mrs. Rosa A. Ringer, 77, died Sunday night in the Hollis Nursing Home at Boonville. She was the sister of Mrs. Bertha Bone, Spurgeon; Mrs. Eddie Sul- livan, 71, died at her home near Velpen, Sunday; Miss Alma V. Jones, 65, employ- ee and former manag- er of the Hazelton Bank for 27 years, died at 7:10 a.m. Wednesday in Turn- er Nursing Home, Vin- cennes; Services for Nancy E. Barker, 95, were held in the Harris Funeral Home at 10 a.m. Monday with the Rev. R.W. Rogers officiat- ing; Services for Charles Cummins, 91, were held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Church of Christ. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, December 19, 1968 Two Petersburg attor- neys have been named to committees of the Indiana State Bar Association. The appointments were made by Arthur L. Hart, Vin- cennes, president of the 4,000 member association. The attorneys and their committee assignments are: Carl M. Gray, Nomi- nating, Law Day, Special American Bar Association Committees and Chair- man of Scope and Correla- tion; and Edward L. Wad- dle, Law Day and Public Relations Executive Com- mittees. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Rhodes, Petersburg, at- tended the graduation ex- ercises and the commis- sioning of their son, Ed- ward C. Rhodes, as a Lieu- tenant of the United States Army at Fort Belvoir, Vir- ginia, on Friday, Decem- ber 13. Borden's Holiday Egg Nog was selling for 49 cents a quart in 1968, along with Whipping Cream for 25 cents a container. Mr. and Mrs. Levi My- ers of Petersburg returned home Monday from Wilm- ington, Deleware where they visited with their daughter, Mrs. W.R. Ran- dall, Beth and David. Mr. Randall, employed in the offices of the Penn-Cen- tral railroad. The Myers spent one day in Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania where they toured Independence Hall and saw the Liberty Bell. In Valley Forge they toured the Memorial Park. The old stone house used by Washington as his head- quarters is still standing. Marriages: Miss Linda Rothrock became the bride of Philip Pirkle in a candle- light ceremony performed Wednesday evening, No- vember 27 at 6 p.m. in the Winslow Church of God. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Kirby at the St. Mary's hospital in Evans- ville on December 10, a son, Brian Kenneth; To Mr. and Mrs. Robert A.G. Fuhrman, of Otwell, a son, Mark Allen, born Decem- ber 16; To Mr. and Mrs. Larry Elkins of Dunoon, Scotland, their first child, a daughter, Christal Eileen. Deaths: Mrs. Marga- ret Mason of Oakland City died Friday at the Hedg- es Nursing Home follow- ing several years illness; Funeral services for Os- car McGregor, 77, an Oak- land City resident, were at 2 p.m. Friday at the Corn Mortuary with Rev. Glen Lashley officiating; Mr. and Mrs. Herman Russ were called to Indianap- olis because of the death of her brother, Benjamin F. Wiggs, 66, of Indianap- olis; Mrs. Helen E. Smith, 64, wife of Virgil "Dage" Smith of Washington, na- tive of Winslow, died at 6:30 a.m. Sunday, Decem- ber 15 in the Daviess coun- ty hospital; Mrs. Ruth A. Martin, 74, wife of Thom- as Martin, Monroe City, died at 10 p.m. Thursday, December 12 in Good Sa- maritan hospital where she had been seriously ill since suffering a heart at- tack on Thanksgiving Day; John Vaughn, 79, of Velpen, died at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, December 17 at the State hospital in Evansville. TWENTY- FIVE YEARS The Press-Dispatch Thursday, Deember 2, 1993 Miners cleaned up at the Old Ben II mine Tues- day, November 23, as word of a tentative agree- ment in the national min- ing strike spread through the area. UMWA officials sent word for the picketing miners to end their picket lines last Tuesday. Howev- er the tentative agreement had not been finalized as of Tuesday night. Roger My- ers, District 11 Executive Board Member of the Unit- ed Mine Workers of Amer- ica, said an agreement is near and it could come as soon as this week. He said it was his understanding there were no bottlenecks, but that both sides are be- ing careful about the work- ing of the agreements. "I think both sides have sev- eral teams working on it." A Winslow woman was injured in a head-on colli- sion involving three cars on Monday, November 22. Billy D. Thomas, 18, of Stendal, was driving east on Highway 56 and passed a line of cars as Beverly Houchin, 54, of Route 2, Winslow, was east-bound, according to Deputy Sher- iff John Palmer. Keri L. Brooks, 22, of Route 3, Petersburg was following Houchin and hit her car in the back. Houchin sus- tained neck injuries in the accident. Palmer's report said Thomas skidded 333 feet before the impact. He was cited for driving left of center. There were 429 Pike Central students with perfect attendance for the second grading peri- od. One name was drawn from those eligible in each grade level to receive a $5 gift certificate from Volyes' IGA in Petersburg. They were sixth grader Paul Col- lier, seventh grader Man- dy Braun, eighth grad- er Chainy Woolsey, fresh- man Justin Grubb, soph- omore Tara Burns, junior Rachelle Walters and se- nior Kendra Carlton. Roy King of Stendal killed this eight-point buck during the gun sea- son. The huge symmetri- cal eight-pointer weighted in at 177 pounds and was killed in Pike County. His son Shane King took the 173-pound 16 -pointer. Pike Central freshman John Pauw and science teacher Kristi Schulz dis- play a model of the Bio- sphere II project Pauw made for Schulz's Life Sci- ence class. The Bioshpere II project is an experimen- tal "terranium-life" struc- ture in Arizona designed to test the ability of hu- mans to live independent- ly in a self-supporting en- vironment. Pauw's mod- el depicts the five ecosys- tems represented in the Biosphere II: a desert, ocean, rain forest, savan- na and a marsh. Births: To John and Re- becca G. Hochgesang of Dale, at St. Mary's Medi- cal Center in Evansville, November 19, their first child, a daughter, Cathe- rine Jean; To Steve and De- idre Mills of Winslow at St. Joseph's Hospital in Hunt- ingburg on November 15, a daughter, Karley Mae; To Mr. and Mrs. Brett Roeder of Atlanta, Ga at Northlake Regional Medical enter in Atlanta, on November 18, a son, Chad Paul. Deaths: A Cynthiana man was killed Saturday near Stendal when his fa- ther's gun accidentally dis- charged and hit him. State Conservation Officer Mike Collier said Alvie S. Nor- man, III, 38, Cynthiana, died in surgery at St. Jo- seph's Hospital in Hunt- ingburg at 10 a.m.; Min- nie Morton of Winslow died Tuesday evening, No- vember 30. She was a res- ident at Amber Manor in Petersburg; Delores Jew- el Long, 79, of Campbell- town, Winslow, died Thurs- day, Nov. 25 at 10 :30 p.m. at Good Samaritan Hospi- tal in Vincennes where she had submitted to surgery several hours prior to her death; Pamela Ann Elliott, 29, of Washington, died at 8:25 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 28 at the Bloomington Hospi- tal; Betty Carol Selby, 62, of Winslow, died Monday, Nov. 29 at 2:20 p.m. at Pe- tersburg Healthcare Cen- ter after a lengthy illness; Irene Berlin, 91, of Win- slow, died Wednesday, Nov. 24, at 5:20 p.m. at Good Sa- maritan Nursing Home in Oakland City; Woodrow W. Bottom, 79, of Oakland City, died Sunday, Nov. 21 at the home of his daughter in Phoenix, Ariz.; Mary A. Philippee, 82, a resident of Spencer for the past seven years, formerly of Bicknell, and sister of Amy Church of Petersburg, died at 7:56 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 23 at Spencer Health Care Cen- ter; Violet F. McClure, 76, of Otwell, died Tuesday, Nov. 23 at 4:35 p.m. at Loo- gootee Nursing Center; Carole J. (Kay) Eggleston, 62, of union, Mich., died at 10 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 24 at her residence; Adri- an Lee Arvin, 48, of Loo- gootee, died November 24 near his vehicle on County Road 33 in Perry Township, Martin County, during the evening. Pike County Court House, Petersburg, Indiana This was the third court house built in Petersburg. It was built in 1868 and used for 53 years. All the county offices were on the first floor. Photo submitted by Joan Woodhull Wednesday, January 2 • Georgia enters the Union (1788) • Nixon signs national speed limit into law (1974) Thursday, January 3 • Noriega surrenders to U.S. (1990) • United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba (1961) Friday, January 4 • The euro debuts (1999) • President Nixon refuses to hand over tapes (1974) Saturday, January 5 • Golden Gate Bridge construction begins (1933) • Truman delivers his Fair Deal speech (1949) Sunday, January 6 • Morse demonstrates telegraph (1838) • Harold II crowned king of England (1066) Monday, January 7 • First U.S. presidential election (1789) • Truman announces U.S. has developed hydrogen bomb (1953) Tuesday, January 8 • Crazy Horse fights last battle (1877) • President George Washington delivers first State of the Union (1790) Source: History.com