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C-10 Wednesday, April 24, 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 24 and 28, 1943 Mr. and Mrs. Harry We- ber, of this city, received a telephone call from their son, William Evans Webber, seaman second class, in San Diego, Calif., Christmas Eve about five o'clock. He had just returned from sea and is stationed at the navel hos- pital in San Diego, suffering from the loss of four fingers on the left hand. No informa- tion was given as to how he lost them. It is known that he had been aboard a ship in ac- tive duty for some time. As soon as his wounds are suf- ficiently healed he will be re- leased from the hospital and will come home. Jack Dunn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Dunn and a star player on the Peters- burg High School basket- ball team sustained severe burns while working on the New York Central railroad here Thursday. Dunn will be out of the county tourney. It does take a good sto- ry some time to get around, and this one was about a month reaching this office. A month ago Mrs. W. A. Hil- german, of Main street, ac- companied by her dog were downtown one afternoon and were in one of the busi- ness houses. The dog came up to Mrs. Hilgerman and attracted her attention, and in its mouth was a$5 bill. It is not known if the bill was picked up on the street and carried into the building by the dog or whether it was found on the floor inside the building. Marriages: A beautiful wedding took place at the Harmony Chapel at the Ft. Benning, Georgia, Army Post on Sunday, December 19 when Miss Mary Ann Henager, daughter of Mrs. Sampson Alexander of Cato, became the bride of Corpo- ral J. Thomas Craig, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Craig of Otwell. Deaths: A double funer- al service will be at 2 o'clock Christmas day at the Meth- odist church for Mrs. Ade- line Rickrich, who passed away at 6:45 o'clock Thurs- day and her granddaughter, Mrs. Mildred Lance, who died in the Daviess Coun- ty hospital Wednesday eve- ning at 8:50 o'clock. The Rev. R. M. Taylor will offici- ate and burial will be in the Walnut Hills cemetery; Mr. Adeline Rickrich, one of the highly respected and much beloved women of this city passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Beulah Chandler, on South Seventh Street, Thursday morning at 6:45 o'clock; Mrs. Elizabeth Hurt, widow of the late Zack Hurt, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Wilford English in the Littles Com- munity at 5 o'clock Decem- ber 21; Mary Ragle, 11 year old daughter of Mr. Otto and Minnie (McGregor) Ragle of Monroe township, died at 11 o'clock Tuesday morn- ing. Diphtheria was said to have been the cause of her death; Charles Bailey died December 21 at 9:45 a.m. in the Daviess county hos- pital following an illness of several months; Charles C. Hume, 77, died at 9 o'clock Friday morning of a heart at- tack at his home at Muren, six miles east of Oakland City; Judy Kay Sharp, twin daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thurlow Sharp of Winslow died Monday morning at 6 o'clock at the family home of whooping cough. She was six weeks old; Mrs. Dice Oliphant died suddenly at 6 o'clock Wednesday evening at the home of her son, Rev. T. W. Oliphant, residing on the F.E. Carpenter farm east of Alford; Word was re- ceived last Wednesday by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Crece- lius living east of Princeton that their son Lieut. Randall Crecelius had been killed in a plane crash on December 19. He was 24 years of age and enlisted in the Air Corp before war was declared and shortly after Pearl Harbor he received his commission and was sent to Australia; Mrs. Minnie Stork, mother of Mrs. A. H. Martin of this city died Monday morning at 10 :35 o'clock in her apart- ment in the Stork hospital in Huntingburg. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Thursday, March 26, 1959 Sfc. Maron Eveland, local Army recruiter, announced that three Pike county men enlisted from this area dur- ing the month of February. They were David L. Rich- ardson, who enlisted for the second time, Ronald A. Dil- beck and Edward A. Huels- man from Fort Branch who chose military police career group and administration career group, respectively. Richardson's home is in Pe- tersburg. The three young men were sent to Fort Knox, Kentucky, for processing. A Petersburg young man, Tomas E. Witherspoon, has been named editor in chief of the Indiana Daily Student, student newspaper at Indi- ana University, for the re- maining time of the spring semester. Earlier this year Witherspoon was named managing editor of the dai- ly newspaper. He had pre- viously served as night ed- itor and city editor. Wither- spoon, who is the husband of the former Joan Lewis of Winslow, is the don of Mr. and Mrs. James Wither- spoon, Petersburg. He is a graduate of Petersburg high school and is now a senior at Indiana University. He is vice president of the Sigma Delta Chi, professional jour- nalism fraternity. Mrs. Elzie Jones was taken to the Stork hospi- tal Saturday after falling down the basement steps at their home near Arthur. Mr. Jones had set a box of to- mato plants in the basement and tripped over them. She said she fell head first down the steps, stood on her head on the landing then turned over like a child during a somersault. Her left ankle was lacerated from a nail head in the box, requiring nine stitches to close the wound. She has two black eyes and bruises all over her body. She was very for- tunate no bones were bro- ken. She came home from the hospital Monday and re- turned Wednesday to have the stitches removed. Two Winslow Ford car and truck salesmen were pre- sented with Ford 300 -500 Club awards at Indianapo- lis last week by A. F. Bauer- bach, manager of Ford Di- vision's Indianapolis Sales District. The winners are Frank Evans and Wallace Eads of McCord Auto Sales of Winslow. A card shower has been planned by friends for Frank Bee, "Uncle Frank" as he is generally known, who will observe his ninety-ninth birthday Sunday, March 29. Mr. Bee is the oldest person in Winslow. He was born March 29, 1860, in the east end of Winslow where the John Ellison home now stands. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Gresham Schnarr of Otwell, a son, last week in the Jas- per Memorial hospital. He has been named Kevin Lee; To Mr. and Mrs. Clement of Oakland City, a son, James Albert, Wednesday, March 18 in the Gibson General hospital, Princeton; To Mr. and Mrs. Richard Asbell, of Petersburg, a daughter, Terri Lynn, born Tuesday in the Daviess County hos- pital in Washington; To Mr. and Mrs. Don Welch of Pe- tersburg, a daughter, Tracy Ann, in the Daviess County hospital Tuesday. Deaths: Joda Lyman Hurt, 59, died suddenly Sun- day afternoon at his home three miles northwest of Oakland City. Death was at- tributed to a heart attack; Mrs. Pearl Stephens of the Littles community received word that her nephew, Bruce Haley, died Monday in Cali- fornia from a heart ailment. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, April 10, 1969 Monday afternoon, around 4:15, four coal cars containing around 210 tons of coal were overturned in an accident near where the Globle tipple was former- ly located. The accident happened as the train was rounding the curve headed south. It was a 40 -car train. About 700 feet of track was ripped up and the cars were damaged. Cause of the ac- cident is unknown, accord- ing to AW&W Trainmas- ter Clyde Fiscus. Blackfoot 5 mine was forced to shut down for a short period be- cause they had no way to ship their coal. Trainmaster Fiscus said the track was re- paired and in use last night. Spec. 4, Gary R. Morton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willie R. Morton, was hit in the side by shrapnel while on an op- eration somewhere in Viet Nam. His location has been in and around "Tien Phouc." According to Gary, his inju- ry wasn't too serious and he stated that he was getting along alright. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Larry G. Quiggins in Da- viess County Hospital, Sat- urday, March 8, a daugh- ter, Dawn Danette; To Mr. and Mrs. Larry Miller, Ot- well, in Memorial hospital, Jasper, April 4, a daughter, Marie Sue; To Mr. and Mrs. William H. Young of Oak- land City, a daughter, Tracy Lynn, Saturday, March 23. Deaths: Hardy Wade, 67, west of Arthur, died Mon- day, April 7 at 3:25 p.m. in his home; Funeral servic- es for Mrs. Gertie L. Bai- ley, 75, were at 10 :30 Fri- day morning at Pemberton Funeral Home, Lynnville; Paul Gaston Frederick, 50, of Oakland City, died Fri- day in the Veteran's Hos- pital in Indianapolis; Mrs. Edith Geidel, 73, of Peters- burg, died at 11 p.m. Sunday at the Daviess County Hos- pital where she had been a patient since March 21; El- mo McLain, 65, died at 1;15 a.m. Thursday, April 3 in the Welborn Baptist hospital in Evansville; William Ho- sea Gamble, 85, familiarly known as "Bill" of Winslow, died at 5 a.m. Monday, April 7 in the Holiday Home in Pe- tersburg; Mrs. Cecelia Ella Bryant of Bloomfield died at 5:15 a.m. Sunday in the Ma- sonic Home at Franklin. TWENTY- FIVE YEARS The Press-Dispatch Thursday, March 24, 1994 The Pike County Young Farmers and Future Farm- ers of America joined togeth- er Wednesday to offer a pet- ting zoo to Winslow, Peters- burg and Otwell elementa- ry students. Also involved in the Agriculture Week activ- ities was Tom Held with the Soil Conservation Service. A calf, baby goats, turkey, chick- en and pig were a part of the display for the children. A Loogootee man was se- riously injured just south of Petersburg Tuesday morn- ing when his pickup truck slammed into the back of a coal truck stopped in traf- fic on the highway. Ernest L. Abel, 25, of Route 5, Loo- gootee was driving south on Highway 57, when he failed to see a coal truck stopped and slammed into the back of it, according to Pike County Sheriff William Scales. The crash took place just before 10 a.m. about 1.5 miles south of Petersburg below Bell Hill at the entrance to Solar Source's mine. Abel told Scales he was looking away and when he looked up he saw the truck and tried to brake. Scales said there were no skid marks or signs of braking on the road. Mark A. Kinder of Morris- town, was driving the Rose Bros. truck. He told Scales he was stopped behind another truck as they were waiting for traffic to clear before turning left into the mine. He said the truck in front of him was just beginning to pull away and he had just let out the clutch to take off when the collision occurred. Abel was taken to the Daviess County Hospital, where he was listed in serious condition Tuesday afternoon. Scales said he had collarbone, arm, right hip, knee and foot injuries as well as a possible concussion. An Oakland City woman was slightly injured when she was parking her car and sneezed, according to po- lice. Natalie R. Aldridge, 28, of Route 1, Oakland City, told police she was making a wide circle preparing to en- ter a parking spot when she sneezed causing her to swing wide and hit a steel light pole. Aldridge hit her chin on the steering wheel injuring her teeth and chin. She was tak- en to a doctor, but not by an ambulance. The accident happened in the Petersburg Health Care parking lot at about 2:30 p.m. Monday. Four teens, two boys and two girls, from Missouri, were taken into custody Fri- day night at Hornady Park by Petersburg Police, according to Police Chief Mike Key. Key said Petersburg Police were notified of the runaways and that they might be coming to Petersburg on their way to Canada. He said they were at the park getting ready to make a phone call to a friend, when police spotted them. He said their parents picked them up at about 1:30 a.m. that night. A Pike Central High School students will attend the 1994 National Leadership Confer- ence of Business Profession- als of America in San Francis- co, Calif. from May 7-10. Nata- sha Sutt, the daughter of Jerry Sutt and Lida Buck of Peters- burg, will attend the four- day conference which will in- clude the competitive events, workshops and an election campaign. Sutt will be one of about 4,200 students attend- ing. She will compete in the Data Specialist and Business Math categories. She placed third in the state and earned a score of 90 plus in the Busi- ness Math category. Her local sponsors are Karen Ross and Vicky Shoultz. Births: To Mistina H. Head and John K. Wilder, a daugh- ter, LaNisha Ann, weighing four lbs. and 11 ounces on March 8 at Wirth Osteopath- ic Hospital in Oakland City; To Ben III and Jerry (Gibby) Helton of Otwell, at Memori- al Hospital in Jasper, March 13, their first child, a son, Ben- jamin Curtis IV; To Tom and Danette Robinson at Decatur Memorial Hospital, Sunday, March 13, a daughter, Kirstin Anne; To Mr. and Mrs. Matt Spurgeon of Charlotte, N.C., in the Presbyterian Hospital, their first child, a son, Evan Patrick. Deaths: Nell E. Whitman, 96, of Winslow, died Friday, March 18 at 7:40 p.m. at Am- ber Manor Care Center in Pe- tersburg; Mae Johnson, 75, of Coe, died Friday,March 18 at 5:45 a.m. at her residence; Ardella "Dutchie" Coleman, 72, of Oakland City, died at 12:10 p.m. Friday, March 18 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes; Johnnie R. Per- ry, 52, of Oakland City, died at 8:43 p.m. Sunday, March 20 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Huntingburg; Finis V. Aust, 74, of Route 1, Stendal, died at 8:05 p.m. Monday, March 21 at Wirth Hospital in Oak- land City; Boone Meadors, 79, of Petersburg, died Fri- day, March 18 at 10 :05 p.m. at Amber Manor Care Center in Petersburg; Velma D. Reed, 73, of Winslow, died Sunday, March 20 at 5:44 p.m. at St. Mary's Medical Center in Evansville; Ruth Elizabeth Zint, 86, of Petersburg, died at 1:25 a.m. Thursday, March 17 at her daughter's residence; George Lester Dunn, 87, of Otwell, died Friday, March 18 at 5:35 a.m. at Memorial Hospital in Jasper. net edition pressdispatch.net/edition Web, Smartphone, Tablet Streamline the Headline! 812-354-8500 • 820 Poplar St., Petersburg, IN • ads@pressdispatch.net Pete's Drive-In, Petersburg This was located on lower Main Street. Notice the old-fashioned gas pumps! Petroliana collectors would love to have them today! Photo submitted by Joan Woodhull Wednesday, April 24 • Easter Rebellion begins (1916) • Library of Congress established (1800) Thursday, April 25 • Ground broken for Suez Canal (1859) • Ginger Rogers dies (1995) Friday, April 26 • Polio vaccine trials begin (1954) • Geneva Conference begins (1954) Saturday, April 27 • Parliament passes the Tea Act (1773) • German forces enter Athens (1941) Sunday, April 28 • Benito Mussolini executed (1945) • Mutiny on the HMS Bounty (1789) Monday, April 29 • W WII monument opens in Washington, D.C. (2004) • Nixon announces release of White House Watergate tapes (1974) Tuesday, April 30 • Adolf Hitler commits suicide (1945) • First federal prison for women opens (1927) Source: History.com