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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, October 21, 2020 B-7 HISTORY Submit history photos: Call: 812-354-8500 Email: news@pressdispatch.net or bring in a hard copy: 820 E. Poplar Street, Petersburg Source: www.history.com • Photo source:www.ny.curbed.com Wednesday, October 21 • Guggenheim Museum opens in New York City (1959) • Henry Ford dedicates the Thomas Edison Institute (1929) Thursday, October 22 • First parachute jump is made over Paris (1797) • President Lyndon Johnson signs the Highway Beautification Act (1965) Friday, October 23 • Hostage crisis in Moscow theater (2002) • Brutus commits suicide (42 B.C.) Saturday, October 24 • First barrel ride down Niagara Falls (1901) • James Brown records breakthrough "Live at the Apollo" album (1962) Sunday, October 25 • Pablo Picasso born (1881) • AC/DC earn their first Top 40 hit with "You Shook Me All Night Long" (1980) Monday, October 26 • Whitney Houston earns her first #1 hit with "Saving All My Love For You" (1985) • Erie Canal opens (1825) Tuesday, October 27 • New York City subway opens (1904) • Quakers executed for religious beliefs (1659) `SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Friday and Tuesday, June 15 and June 19, 1945 Monday night some of the neighbors of Mrs. Aline Tis- low returned from a show and saw a man looking into the window of the Tislow home on 12th Street. They called Bon Veeck, night policeman and the man ran away, but left his car. Chief-of-police Her- man Willis was also called to the scene. The man had left his shoes, hat and shirt in the car. The identity of the man is known to the police who also know where he lives. The town marshal of Oakland City said Tuesday that they had been bothered by the same thing and the police believe the cul- prit is the same man. A telegram from Arkansas, Friday to the Otwell Bank stated that Elijah Lindsey was "dead and buried" and advised the bank to refuse to cash any checks on Mr. Lind- sey's account until further no- tice. It seems that Mr. Lindsey, an elderly recluse living on a farm near Otwell, received a visitor at his home a short time ago. The visitor purporting to be a cousin, persuaded Mr. Lindsey to draw a large sum of money from the bank and accompany him to Arkansas. This is the last that Pike Coun- ty friends and relatives have heard from Mr. Lindsey. It will be remembered that Mr. Lind- sey was an extensive traveler until he finally made his home with his brother, William, who died about a year ago. A sale of farm machinery was held after his death which amounted to around $ 30,000. Interested parties in Pike County investigating the un- usual circumstances of the recent death of Elijah Lind- sey learned through the bank at Justonia, Arkansas that Mr. Lindsey had died the day after he had arrived. He accompa- nied a "cousin" Claude Lind- sey to Arkansas and died and was buried the next day. Por- ter Pride, administrator ap- pointed in Pike County last week, attorney S.E. Dillin, and Thomas Stone planned to make a trip to Arkansas this weekend with plan to disinter Mr. Lindsey's body and return it to Pike County but were pre- vented by on account of the ill- ness of Mr. Dillin. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Al- bert Masters, of Petersburg, a son, born Sunday, at the Da- viess County Hospital. Deaths: James W. Nel- son, 76, of Vincennes, died Tuesday, at the home of his daughter, in Vincennes; Mrs. Delphia M. Richeson, 64, of Winslow, died Thursday at noon, in her home. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Pike County Dispatch Thursday, September 15, 1960 Wednesday night Sep- tember 21 Bethel church in Lockhart township will be- gin a four days celebration commemorating United As- sociation centennial. For this night they are asking every- one to come dressed like the people did 100 years ago. The history of the church the first thirty-three and a third years will be given. On Thursday night the second thirty three and a half years will be given and on Friday night the history of the re- maining years will be given. Saturday night will be the or- dination service. They would like to have help Saturday, September 17 at 7:30 in put- ting up two tents and finish getting ready for the associ- ation. Everyone is invited to attend the program and en- joy the fellowship of these fine people. It takes more than cold damp weather to stop a group of healthy, energetic kids as was evident Satur- day evening when 48 young- sters, bundled up from head to toe together on the Wis- dom lot on Center and Main Streets in Winslow ready for a hay ride. Three large farm wagons covered with hay and hitched behind trac- tors, driven by Robert Smith, Oran Stephens and Clifton Stephens took the group to the state park where wieners were roasted over wood fires in the Dutch ovens. This af- fair was the Rainbow for Girls annual hay ride and is one of the highlights of the organization. The girls and their boy friends were ac- companied by members of the advisory board. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Marion Battles, of Vin- cennes, a son, Dale Todd, born; To Mr. and Mrs. Charles Grubb, of Oatsville, a son, Charles Leroy, born August 29, in the Oakland City Hospital. Marriages: Miss Darlene Wolf , of Indianapolis, and Bob Bath, of Huntingburg, were married on Saturday, at 2 p.m., at the home of the bride's grandparents. Deaths: Homer Cham- ness, 67, of Petersburg, died Sunday, at 6 a.m., at the Vet- erans Hospital, in Indianap- olis; Miss Anna Louise Sick- man, 76, of Stendal, died Tuesday, September 6, at 9:30 a.m., in the Stork Hos- pital, in Huntingburg. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, October 1, 1970 Two people were injured Monday afternoon at 3:20 in a three-car accident. Bert Bot- tom, 43, received a lacerated mouth and lips and a bruised left knee. He was treated at the Daviess County Hospital then released. Kenneth W. Sharp, 17, of Winslow, received a bruised right knee. The Ac- cident occurred south of Low- ell Nelson's Filling station, half mile south of Winslow as James Frank Bailey, 17, driv- ing a two door hardtop Ford enroute south, came upon a slow moving truck. He met Bert Bottom headed north and couldn't pass the truck and pulled to the right and ap- plied his brakes. The car skid- ded left of the center line, hit- ting a 1968 Chevrolet driven by Jerry Barrett, 20, of Oak- land City, then skidded back- ward into the front end of the Bottom car. Damage to the Barrett's station wagon was estimated at $1000, Bailey's car $150 and Bottoms' car $ 35. Trooper Steve Richardson was the investigating officer. The Winslow High School band, directed by Bill Crowder, is among 27 Indi- ana high school bands which will be on the Indiana Univer- sity campus Saturday, October 3 to participate in the annual Band Day. The high school bands will team instruments with the Indiana University Marching Hundred Band for a mass pre-game show at the Indiana-West Virginia game. More than 2,000 band mem- bers will take part. The fol- lowing weekend, October 10, the Winslow Band will march in the Indiana State Universi- ty Homecoming parade, the third largest parade in Indi- ana. It will be televised, live on WFIE–T V, Channel 10 at 8 o'clock, Winslow time. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Dennis McClellan, of Peters- burg, a daughter, born Satur- day, September 26, in the Da- viess County Hospital; To Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Graves, of Winslow, a son, Lewis David, born on Friday, September 25, in Wirth Memorial Hospital. Deaths: Mrs. Flora Rich- ards, 74, of Oakland City, died Sunday, at Wirth Hospital; Charles McFarland, 66, of Pe- tersburg, died Tuesday, Sep- tember 29, in his home. TWENTY- FIVE YEARS The Press-Dispatch Thursday, September 14, 1995 A Petersburg man was ar- rested after a fight with his girlfriend in front of Friends Tavern last Wednesday night, according to police. Derek Jones, 22, was arrested on charges of public intoxica- tion and disorderly conduct at about 9:30 p.m. Peters- burg Cpl. Todd Meadors said he was dispatched to Friends because of a fight and when he arrived Jones and his girl- friend Donna McFarland were yelling at each other. Meadors said he talked to Jones, who told him they had gotten in- to a fight. Meadors then tried to talk with McFarland, but Jones began yelling obsceni- ties and would not stay away from McFarland so Meadors could talk to her. Meadors said after three attempts to settle Jones down he arrested him and placed him in handcuffs. He said Jones began banging his head against the car win- dow and screaming obsceni- ties while he was being trans- ported to the jail. Water tests just days after a second stage water treatment system was installed show the pH is drastically being raised by the new structure. A Successive Alkalinity Pro- ductive System was installed last week in a joint project by Waste Management's Black- foot Composting and Recy- cling Center and National Fish and Wildlife Service at Augusta Lake. The SAPS is a second stage treatment sys- tem that pools water at a low dam and causes it to perco- late through a sewer sludge and flash compost mixture with a high pH, then through filter and a bed of limestone, which also has a high pH. Wa- ter seeping out of the mined ground started with a pH of about 2.6 which is similar to battery acid. It is first treated by an Anoxic Limestone Drain (ALD). This process takes the acid runoff through a bed of limestone. It raises the pH to about 4, the water is pooled and then soaks through the SAPS. The SAPS was com- pleted on Friday. Monday morning water draining out the backside of the SAPS had a pH of 12.4 A neutral reading would be 7. Billy McCoy, of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said this is the first time since the area was mined that water with a pH higher than neutral had ever drained into Augus- ta Lake. The lake has a pH of about 3, which is extremely acidic. Water from the SAPS drains through a bed of cat- tails and then into Augusta Lake. Readings taken Friday showed that water running in- to the lake was tested 9.4 pH. McCoy said they hope these technologies can be applied to the South Fork of the Pato- ka clean up project which has similar acid runoff problems. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Bryon Maxfield, of Winslow, a daughter, Leslie May, born on August 29, at St. Joseph Hos- pital, in Huntingburg. Deaths: Goldie Marie Pip- kin, 88, of Oakland City, died Friday, September 8 at 1:35 a.m., at Wirth Hospital, in Oak- land City; Ivan V. Edrington, 91, of Oakland City, died Mon- day, September 11, at 8 a.m., at Good Samaritan Nursing home, in Oakland City. Sickman Coal Mine Sickman Coal Mine was located northeast of Stendal in Lockhart Township. It was in operation from 1926 to 1937. The photo was taken in the early 1930s. It was operated by brothers Charles and August Sickman. 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