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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, August 21, 2019 B-3 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 14 and April 18, 1944 Ralph Hagemeyer, a vet - eran of three battles in A f- rica, Sicily and Italy, was killed in action on Febru- ary 28, according to word received by his parents on Wednesday morning of this week. He had been decorated twice, once with the Purple Heart and once with the Oak Leaf Cluster, having been wounded in action twice. The Sinclair Service Sta- tion at 5th and Main in the Dyer building will open on Saturday, April 15. They will do tire re-capping, vul- canizing and will sell Sin- clair gas and oil. The sta- tion will be operated by D. R. Gaver and F.M. Kell of Washington. Thieves have been busy in the neighborhood of Black Oak, east of Peters- burg. This stealing has been going on for some- time and citizens of this community say that it must stop. Barbed wire was tak- en from the tool yard of Claude E. Noble; Fur- man Boger has 100 rods of barbed wire taken from his farm fence; locks on the doors of the house on the Helen Smith farm have been broken; and much of the furniture and other good stored in the house by Roy and Everett Sulli- van has been carried away. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Corn, of Winslow, a son, David Manford, born April 7 in the Maternity Hospital in Oakland City; To Mr. and Mrs. Treavor Davis, of Winslow, April 11, a girl, Treva Beth; To Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Gray, of Iva, Sunday morning, a boy; To Mr. and Mrs. Char- lie Henson, of Oakland City, Sunday afternoon, a girl, Carolyn Sue. Marriages: Miss Do- ris Goodrid became the bride of Levi Colbert at 11 o'clock Easter morning at the Central Christian Church; Miss Barbara J. Barnett became the bride of Farlin F. McQueen on Easter at noon at the Meth- odist Church in Winslow; Miss Kathleen Hawes and Mr. Herbert Montgomery were united in marriage Sunday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. at the Free Method- ist Church. Deaths: Myrtle M. Win- sted died Thursday, April 13 at 2:25 o'clock at her home in Stendal. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Thursday, July 16, 1959 Mason's Grocery in Spurgeon will have a grand opening Friday and Satur- day at their new location two doors south of their old location. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Mason have been in the grocery business in Spurgeon for 10 years across the street from the First National Bank in the Lawrence Julian building, formerly the Jones Roy building. This issue of The Pike County Dispatch, consist- ing of 20 pages, is the larg- est Pike County Dispatch ever published. As far as we know, it is the largest single issue of any newspa- per ever published in Pike County. This special 4-H Fair and Old Fashion Bar- gain Days issue is made possible by the interest of merchants of Pike County in the 4-H Fair, as well as advertising for their own places of business. Fire truck was called to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Robling early Thurs- day morning where the up- stairs was all afire. The fire started from the stove ca- ble where a nail had punc- tured the cable when the house was covered in sid- ing. The fire went up be- tween the walls to the rooms upstairs. The house had been rewired short- ly before the siding was put on. Mr. Robling and grandsons were spending the night at their camp on White River. Mrs. Robling had remained home to can beans. Wednesday night, while she was canning, she kept hearing a peculiar noise from the stove. Dur- ing the night, she thought she heard something drop- ping. She walked through the house but saw nothing unusual. Again, she was awakened by the noise. This time, she opened the stairway door and discov- ered the upstairs to be all on fire. The upstairs was gutted by the fire. The fire department extinguished the fire with but very little damage from the water to the downstairs rooms. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. William Lewis, of Winslow, a daughter, Alicia Kay, born Wednesday, July 8 in the Daviess County Hospi- tal; To Mr. and Mrs. Rob- ert Chapman, of Chandler, a daughter, Pamela Sue, born June 28. Marriages: Miss Sarah Elizabeth Gray and Buddy Lee Wiggs were united in marriage at 4 o'clock Sun- day in the First Methodist Church of Petersburg. Deaths: Elizabeth En- nis, 82, of Glezen, died at her residence at 1:50 p.m. Monday; Mirtie L. Del- aney, 69, of Petersburg, died at the family resi- dence at 1:25 a.m. Sunday. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, July 31, 1969 Mr. and Mrs. Willie R. Morton, of Winslow, re- ceived the sad news Tues- day, July 29 that their son, Sp. 4 Gary R. Morton had been killed in combat in Viet Nam, Sunday, July 27. This is the fifth Pike Coun- ty boy to pay the supreme sacrifice in Viet Nam and the fourth one since March 23 this year. Approximately 150 peo- ple were present at the for- mal ceremonies of the be- ginning of a multi-purpose water impoundment of the Prides Creek Conservan- cy District last Sunday, Ju- ly 27. The event was staged at the site of the dam which will impound more than 90 acres of water for flood con- trol and recreational pur- poses at the edge of Peters- burg. The project, when completed will affect more than 9,000 acres in the vi- cinity of Petersburg and will supply recreation for more than 30,000 "man- days" and flood protection for more than 3,000 acres of viable cropland in the flood plain of Prides Creek. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Roger Myers, of Oakland City, a daughter, Thurs- day, July 24 in the St. Jo- seph's Hospital in Hunting- burg; To Mr. and Mrs. Ken- neth Parks, of Spurgeon, Monday, July 7, a son, Ry- an Bruce; To Mr. and Mrs. Donald Eilert, of Lynnville, a daughter, Christina Lynn, Sunday, July 2 in St. Mary's Hospital; To Mr. and Mrs. George Norrington, of Ot- well, a daughter, Cheryl Lynn, Saturday, July 26 in the Daviess County Hospi- tal; To Mr. and Mrs. Roger Meyers, of Oakland City, a daughter, Stacy Dawn, Wednesday, July 22 at St. Joseph Hospital in Hunt- ingburg; To Mr. and Mrs. John Wilson, of Peters- burg, a son, Tuesday, July 29, at Daviess County Hos- pital. Deaths: Mrs. Ethel B. Wilson, 83, of Petersburg, died at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, July 24 at Deaconess Hos- pital; Mrs. Hassie R. John- son, 67, of Oakland City, died at Gibson General Hospital; Hobart Richard- son, 43, of the Spraggins community, passed away at his home Saturday eve- ning; Mrs. Melissa Mae Teague, 85, of Otwell, died at 10 a.m. Monday, July 21 at the home of her daugh- ter. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS The Press-Dispatch Thursday, July 14, 1994 A murder suspect was arrested Monday morn- ing, just south of Peters- burg, after police final- ly ran down a 64-year-old Loogootee man, who drove through Petersburg at 90 mph, with 14 police cars close behind. George B. Fields, 64, formerly of Loo- gootee, was arrested after police forced him off the road on Highway 57, south of Petersburg, near Wyatt Seed Co. Fields is a suspect in the shooting death of his estranged wife. He has not been charged in that death, but police found a .38 cal- iber pistol in the engine compartment of his 1986 Renault Alliance, which he was driving when ap- prehended. The incident started Saturday when Mrs. Fields did not report for work and family mem- bers became concerned. When police went to her mobile home in Loogoo- tee, they found she had been shot to death. They began a state-wide search for Fields. He had been ar- rested and charged with stalking earlier in the year. He was on probation at the time of his arrest. Mon- day morning, shortly af- ter 8 a.m., a Knox Coun- ty Deputy Sheriff spotted Field's car. He attempted to pull Fields over, but Fields fled at a high rate of speed, which led to a high speed chase that ended 35 miles later after roaring through three cities. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hackmann, of Ot- well, at Memorial Hospital in Jasper, June 28, a son, Justin Michael; To Mr. and Mrs. Greg Coleman, of Pe- tersburg, on Friday, July 1 at Good Samaritan Hospi- tal. Marriages: Deborah Wood and Jody McCrary were married June 3 at 7 p.m. at Petersburg First United Methodist Church; Amber Faith Lucas and Scott Kent Soderling were united in marriage June 25 at 2:30 p.m. at Bethlehem General Baptist Church. Deaths: John Oral Smith, 81, of Petersburg, died Sunday, July 10 at 3:14 p.m. at Good Samari- tan Hospital; Bonnie (Beat- ty) Thompson, 57, of Oak- land City, died Sunday, July 10 at 3:05 a.m. at the home of a daughter in Boonville; Margaret Campbell, 84, of Oakland City, died Sun- day, July 10 at 6:45 p.m. at Wirth Osteopathic Hospi- tal. net edition pressdispatch.net/edition Web, Smartphone, Tablet Streamline the Headline! 812-354-8500 • 820 Poplar St., Petersburg, IN • ads@pressdispatch.net 1985 Pike Central Marching Band Pictured above are the 1985 Pike Central band members, front row (l to r): Janet Hagemeyer, Bruce Fuhrman, Forrest Price, Houn Crane, Debbie Knight, Beth Williams, Barry Bailey and Stacy Lamb; row two: Kim Bolte, Laurie Lobeless, Kristy France, Beth Carlisle, Cathy Abell, Beth Brumfield, Tricia Fears, Sara Fuhrman, Stephanie Williams, Jennifer Chesser and Kristy Hight- ower; row three: Kim Rhodes, Leann Steinhart, Stacey Huffman, Shannon Beard, Rita Cummins, Cindy Robb, Joy DuPont, Emily Sickman, Wendy Kavanaugh and Karen Brawdy; row four: John Crane, Joe Esarey, Lynn Manges, Sue McNallin, Tony Mann, Brian Stieneker, Suzanne Hunley, Angie Broeker, Kip Myers and Jodi Myers; row five: Brian Andrick, Melody Chesser, Yavonne Sturgeon, Gary Loveless, Jay DeJarnett, Eric Meyer, Susan Ropp, Alan Steinhart, DeWayne Spaw, Cary Van Alstine, Jeff McKinney and Paul Roy; row six: Clenneth Hall, Mark Luff, Chad Evans, Joe Schitter, Andy Willis, Melissa Bailey, Keith Thomas, Brad Walter, Stacy Vaughn, Terry Jones and Darren Dedrick; back row: Missy Barnes, Angie Hunley, Shelly Buenaventa, Melissa Weitkamp and Kim Woodford. Not pictured is Mark Loveless. Photo from archive. Wednesday, August 21 • Hawaii becomes 50th state (1959) • Theft of Mona Lisa is discovered (1911) Thursday, August 22 • Althea Gibson becomes first A frican-American on U.S. tennis tour (1950) • Redcoats land at Long Island (1776) Friday, August 23 • Fannie Farmer opens cooking school (1902) • Pete Rose gets booted from baseball (1989) Saturday, August 24 • Vesuvius erupts (79) • British troops set fire to the White House (1814) Sunday, August 25 • Englishman swims the Channel (1875) • "The Wizard of Oz" debuts (1939) Monday, August 26 • First televised Major Leage baseball game (1939) • 19th Amendment adopted (1920) Tuesday, August 27 • Red Scare dominates American politics (1952) • Krakatau explodes (1883) Source: History.com

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