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A-8 Wednesday, April 3, 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, December 3 and 7, 1943 The price of haircuts will rise to 50 cents effective Monday, December 6, ac- cording to an ad on anoth- er page by the barber asso- ciation. The move has been made because of increased prices of materials. Ray Green is in the hos- pital in Indianapolis, be- ing treated for a badly in- jured leg received Tues- day morning when he fell from the back of his car and was run over by a car. Mr. Green accompanied by Mr. Bode of Vincennes, were driving on High- way 57 and were within a few miles of Spencer, Ind. when the hose on the radi- ator of their car burst and forced them to stop. A pass- erby offered to push them into Spencer where they could get the car repaired. Mr. Green was standing on the back of his car to watch that the grill on the front of the car that was push- ing his would not be dam- aged and fell off the car on- to the pavement. He was taken to the Veterans hos- pital in Indianapolis where he is being treated and will be transferred to the Naval hospital at the Great Lakes Training Station in Illinois. Mrs. Green left Thursday to be with him. Announcement is be- ing made in today's Press and through the mails of the formation of The Jas. L. Gross Company, gov- ernment licensed slaugh- ter and Frozen Food Lock- ers. Mr. Gross in company with his mother, Mrs. Rose Gross has nearly complet- ed arrangements with a Chicago refrigeration com- pany for the installation of the locker plant, which will be located in the huge basement of Gross' Super Market. While Clarence Walts, of Clay township was com- bining lespedeza last Fri- day afternoon, his clothing was caught in the machin- ery of the combine and all torn off his body except his belt. Even his shoes and socks were torn off. Mr. Walts clung to an iron rod which was the only thing that kept him from being killed. He was about a mile from his home and was al- most frozen by the time he got home. His legs were badly torn and bruised and he had to have a physician to dress his wounds. One day the latter part of last week Bob Fair was helping John Pauw move a corn shredder from the south part of the county to the Pauw farm east of this city. Mr. Fair was riding on top of the machine to watch that limbs or wires cross- ing the highway would not catch on the machinery. An accident occurred in which Fair was forced to jump to the pavement. His feet were badly injured and he is confined to his home. Mrs. Ben Hudelson of Elkhart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel E. Dil- lin of this city was recent- ly appointed by the Nation- al Vice-president of Alpha Chi Omega sorority to be a District Alumane Chair- man. This included four states and Canada and has a large number of Chap- ters. Mrs. Hudelson was president of her chapter at Indiana University during her Junior year. Marriages: The wed- ding of Mr. William Rog- ers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Rogers of Peters- burg to Miss Virginia Lou Shaw of Elwood, Ind. was solemnized Thanksgiving Day in Elwood, Ind., where Mr. Rogers has been em- ployed for the past few months. A complete ac- count of the wedding was given in the Elwood Call- Leader and we reprint: "At a beautifully arranged wed- ding ceremony solemnized at 6:45 o'clock Thursday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ova Shaw, 2100 No. B. St., their daughter Miss Virginia Lou Shaw became the bride of Wil- liam C. Rogers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis, of Pe- tersburg."; A wedding of much interest to local peo- ple was solemnized Mon- day, November 15 at 7:30 p.m. at the parsonage of the Rev. John Shaw in Ja- maica, Long Island, New York, united in marriage Miss Wande Lee Brittain, formerly of Winslow, and Vernor Dale Selby, also of Winslow. Births: A seven pound, 12 ounce baby was born on November 27 to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Carlisle, of Winslow. The little girl was named Elizabeth Ann; Harry James is the name of the boy born Saturday to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Craig of Otwell; A seven and a half pound boy was born Sunday morning to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Griffith of Cato, Ind. The baby was named Roger Lee; A five pound girl was born De- cember 4 to Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Myers of Otwell. The baby was named Mar- ilou Ella. Deaths: Funeral rites were at 2:30 o'clock Thurs- day afternoon for Stephen Andrew Shelton, father of ex-trustee Fred Shelton of Jefferson, at the Oak Grove church in Reeve township, Daviess county with buri- al in the adjoining cem- etery; Caroline Brittain died Tuesday evening at 10 :30 o'clock at the home of it parents, Theodore and Stella (Teague) Brittain of Otwell. The baby was sev- en months and 21 days of age and contracted whoop- ing cough which caused its death; Fred Hemmer, one of the oldest and most high- ly respected and promi- nent citizens of the Zoar community, in the south- eastern part of this coun- ty, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Alice Weit- kamp, from infirmities due to his advanced age, at 1:30 o'clock. He was 80 years old at the time of his passing and had been in poor health for some sev- eral months past; Funer- al rites were Tuesday at 10 o'clock in Winslow for Mrs. Artamesa Hale, who passed away at 6 o'clock Saturday morning follow- ing an illness of four weeks of flu and pneumonia; Lorel Mathew Woolsey, 29, died at 9 o'clock at the home of his mother, Mrs. Marion Woolsey, three miles east of Oakland City, after an ill- ness of six months. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Thursday, March 5, 1959 Ora Johnson, Jr., agent for the Western and South- ern Life Insurance Compa- ny, was recently notified by the home office in Cincin- nati that he was one of the 250 agents winning an ex- pense paid trip to Miami Beach, Fla. This event is known as the 1959 Lead- er's Meeting. The compa- ny elected the top 250 out of their 4,600 agents from coast to coast to attend this meeting. The agent's 1958 sales record was the basis for selection. Two 10 ounce packag- es of Kraft marshmallows were being sold at Red & White for just 29 cents. Reynolds Aluminum Wrap was selling at Red & White for just 29 cents a roll. Mrs. Abbie Smith, 79, of the New Liberty com- munity, suffered a broken hip Sunday afternoon at her home. Mrs. Smith was alone at the time and had gone outside to get an arm- load of wood. She apparent- ly lost her balance when trying to pick up a stick of wood she had dropped, causing her to fall. When Mrs. Smith's daughter Maxine returned from the New Liberty church where she had gone to turn the gas up on the heating stove, she found her moth- er unable to get up. The break was a bad one, close to the hip socket. Mrs. Smith was removed to the Jasper hospital where she went into surgery Monday. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Roy Prow of French Lick, twins, a boy and a girl, last week; To Mr. and Mrs. John Dyer of Oak- land City, a son, Timothy Wayne; To State Trooper and Mrs. Earl Haggard of Covington, a son, Douglas, Saturday; To Mr. and Mrs. James McLaughlin of Ot- well, a son, Tracy Alan; To Ensign and Mrs. Robert J. Hardy of Oakland City, a son, Anthony Wayne, Sun- day. Deaths: Mrs. Clarence Bratton of Cato received word this week that Clyde Stewart, former resident of Winslow, died Febru- ary 24 in Hammond af- ter a long illness of palsy; Rutherford Byron Hark- ness, 82, of Oakland City, died Thursday at 9:05 a.m. in the Gibson General hos- pital at Princeton where he had been a patient since February 8, suffering from pneumonia; Faye E. Smith of Petersburg died at 5 p.m. Wednesday at the Daviess County hospital in Wash- ington; Ira Elvis Barrett, 71, of the Scottsburg com- munity, died at 6:18 a.m. Friday at Stork Memori- al hospital, Huntingburg; James William Heironi- mus, lifetime resident of the Providence communi- ty, was found dead in his home at 8:30 a.m. Wednes- day, by Mr. and Mrs. Orvil Alcorn; Fred Jarrett, 80, a former Oakland City resi- dent and brother of Mrs. Anna Redman of Oakland City died Monday, Febru- ary 23 in Deaconess hos- pital in Evansville; Rick- ie Allen Auberry, three months old son of Donald and Peggy Auberry, died Thursday, at 8:20 p.m. in the Oakland City hospital for two days. He was born in Oakland City November 23, 1958. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, March 20, 1969 A bicycle-car accident around noon Sunday re- sulted in painful injuries to Kevin Wayne Nalley, nine- year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Millard Nalley who live near Ayrshire. The ac- cident happened on high- way 61 about a mile south of Winslow near the Den- nis Coleman home. The boy was riding his bicy- cle south and was hit by a car driven by Rev. Newton Jones as he was returning from church services on his way to the home of his son, MR. and Mrs. Bruce Jones who live on Route 2, Oakland City, west of Ar- thur. According to inves- tigating officer Paul Ox- endine, it appeared that the Nalley boy swerved into the side of the Jones car as it passed him. Kev- in Wayne received a deep gouge at the waistline and bruises to his left arm and shoulder. The impact lift- ed him out of his shoes. He was taken to Oakland City Hospital where he remains a patient. Four teenage boys ob- tained some beer and went to the Bedell cemetery near Decker and thought they would have some fun. They turned over sever- al large and small monu- ments and destroyed one large monument beyond repair. The Brock Mon- ument Company of Vin- cennes estimated it would cost $1,000 to repair all damages. The Judge of Knox County Court fined the four boys $250 each to cover the cost of repair and sentenced them to re- port and stay in the Knox County jail for several week ends. Mr. and Mrs. Orval Keeton of Oakland City will observe their Golden wedding anniversary at a reception Sunday after- noon, March 30 in the an- nex of the Good Shepherd United Methodist church. Marriages: Mr. and Mrs. Everett White of Pe- tersburg wish to announce the marriage of their daughter, Anna Marie to Thomas Eugene Ross, son of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Ross of Upland. Deaths: Osga Richard- son, a farmer of the rural Otwell community, passed away at 5:45 p.m. on Thurs- day, March 13, in the Me- morial Hospital in Jasper; Mrs. Ida Alice Sullivan, 84, of Winslow, died at 3:30 p.m. Monday, March 17 in the Holiday Home in Petersburg where she had been a resident since February; Funeral servic- es for Walter Tolbert, 65, of Route 1, Hazelton, were in Harris Funeral Home in Petersburg, Tuesday at 2 p.m.; Funeral services for Paul Crowe, 54, Conners- ville, formerly of Glezen, were at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 8 at the Myers Fu- neral Home; John Ste- phens, 83, retired miner of Petersburg, died Mon- day at the Gibson General Hospital following a long illness; Mrs. Mamie Mc- Cullough, 74, lifetime res- ident of the Mackey com- munity died Monday at the Holiday Manor Nursing Home in Princeton follow- ing a long illness; Funeral services for Mrs. May Wil- hite, 92, of Oakland City will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Corn's Mortuary. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, March 3, 1994 A car driven by Henry Deweese slammed into an embankment last Thurs- day night during a high speed chase on Highway 64. Deweese was arrested on burglary charges stem- ming from a break-in at the Winslow Elementary School. Tracy Whittington was crowned Homecoming queen at Wood Memori- al High School on Friday, Feb. 11. Her escort was Bri- an Schoonover. A Pike County man was sentenced to 45 years in jail for severely beating an el- derly couple in an attempt to rob them. The sentence was handed down Friday morning in Pike Circuit Court. Ted Lee, Jr., 22, maintained his adamant denial of beating Cleo and Goldia Hedges after mid- night in October 1992. Lee was convicted earlier this month on charged of attempted robbery result- ing in serious bodily inju- ry, a class A felony, and two counts of battery, a class C felony. Pike County Pros- ecutor Jess Biesterveld asked for Lee to be given the maximum sentence, because of numerous ag- gravating circumstances. Twenty-five Pike Central High School students were first round winners in the 1994 Project XL which in- cludes competition in writ- ing, video art, fine art, per- formance, poster design and original music. The Farm Bureau Insurance funded and Indiana High School Athletic Associa - tion sanctioned programs allows students to express their views on the topic: "What holds families to- gether." Pike County's 13-and- under boys' A AU basket- ball team opened up their 1994 season with a 60 - 59 road victory against a strong Vincennes team. Vincennes controlled the start of the final period of play and opened up a six- point lead with just un- der two minutes remain- ing. Jon Query then an- swered with a three-point basket. Pike County's de- fense dominated the rest of the game as Clay Van- Meter stole the ball and Pike County went the oth- er way with Chris McCand- less burying a 10 -foot jump shot to cut the lead to one. Working the Otwell Ele- mentary School bake sale to benefit the homeless were Josh Baker, Heather Breidenbaugh, Chris Wil- lis and Travis Scraper. The sale raised more than $168 for the Evansville Rescue Mission which tries to meet the needs of the area homeless. Marriages: Heather Michelle Craig, formerly of Petersburg, of New Hol- land, Pa., and Jeffery Jud- son Fitzwater of Grap, Pa. were married February 5 at 9 a.m. at the New Holland Church of the Nazarene; Donna L. Miley and Ken- neth R. Meece will be mar- ried at the Muren Church of God on Saturday, March 26 at 3 p.m.; Marcie Sue Melvin and Robbie Davis were united in marriage at Victory Church in Winslow by Rev. Bill Meyerholtz on February 14 at 7 p.m. Deaths: Hector King Phillips, 92, lifetime resi- dent of Logan and Madison townships of Pike County, died Tuesday, February 22 at 5:35 p.m. at Petersburg Healthcare Center; Dym- ple Collins, 93, of Oakland City, died Saturday, Feb. 26 at 6:05 a.m. at Wirth Hos- pital in Oakland City; Leo D. Curtis, 93, of Winslow, died Wednesday, Feb. 23 at 6:15 p.m. at Welborn Hos- pital in Evansville; Paul M. Houchins, 75, of Peters- burg, died Saturday, Feb. 26 at 4:48 p.m. at Good Sa- maritan Hospital in Vin- cennes; Floyd J. Wininger, 67, of Petersburg, died Wednesday, Feb. 23 at 3:15 a.m. at his residence; Jerry Johnson, 58, of Evansville, died Thursday, Feb. 24; Joyce A. Colvin, 66, of Oak- land City, died Tuesday, Mar. 1 at 10 a.m. in Good Samaritan Nursing Home at Oakland City; William J. Burns, 70, died at 7:12 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26 at St. Mary's Medical Center in Evansville; Euell Like, 86, of Wheatland, died Sun- day, Feb. 27 at 3:10 p.m. at Willow Manor Nursing Home in Vincennes; Hil- bert E. Blackgrave, 94, of Huntingburg, father of Car- ol Durst of Winslow, died at 1 a.m. Monday, Feb. 28 at Huntingburg Convales- cent Center. Pike County Infirmary, South Petersburg, Ind. This was the Poor Farm and operated from 1850 to 1949. The Pike Central High School was built on this site about 1974. Photo by Master Photo Studio, photo submitted by Joan Woodhull Wednesday, April 3 • Pony Express debuts (1860) • Confederate capital of Richmond is captured (1865) Thursday, April 4 • Dr. King is assassinated (1968) • Washington begins march to New York (1776) Friday, April 5 • Pocahontas marries John Rolfe (1614) • Rosenbergs sentenced to death for spying (1951) Saturday, April 6 • First modern Olympic Games (1896) • Battle of Shiloh begins (1862) Sunday, April 7 • Auto pioneer Hendy Ford dies (1947) • John Wayne wins Best Actor Oscar (1970) Monday, April 8 • Hank Aaron sets new home run record (1974) • Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first female prime minister, dies (2013) Tuesday, April 9 • Robert E. Lee surrenders (1865) • Germany invades Norway (1940) Source: History.com