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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, May 26, 2021 D-3 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.cnn.com Wednesday, May 26 • "Dracula" goes on sale in Lon- don (1897) • Last day of Model T production at Ford (1927) Thursday, May 27 • Bismarck sunk by Royal Navy (1941) • Golden Gate Bridge opens (1937) Friday, May 28 • Lieutenant Colonel George Washington begins the Seven Years' War (1754) • Volkswagen is founded (1937) Saturday, May 29 • Hillary and Tenzing reach Ever- est summit (1953) • Danica Patrick becomes first woman to lead Indy 500 (2005) Sunday, May 30 • Joan of Arc martyred (1431) • First Indianapolis 500 held (1911) Monday, May 31 • Big Ben goes into operation in London (1859) • Deep Throat is revealed (2005) Tuesday, June 1 • CNN launches (1980) • Benedict Arnold is court-mar- tialed (1779) net edition pressdispatch.net/edition Web, Smartphone, Tablet Streamline the Headline! 812-354-8500 • 820 Poplar St., Petersburg, IN • ads@pressdispatch.net Mason School in 1906 Spurgeon graduates in 1918 to 1922 are shown above attending the Mason School. The photo was taken in 1906. Bert McMurtry is the 11th in the second row. Bert and his wife, Fred,a operated a grocery store in Spurgeon during the 1930s and 1940s. The photo was submitted by Don and Annetta Parke, of Newburgh. SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Friday and Tuesday, May 24 and May 28 1946 Jesse Arnold, of Campbell- town, was taken to the hos- pital in Washington on Sun- day noon following an injury at Ayrshire-Patoka Colleries. He was found to be suffering from several broken ribs and an injured lung. Mr. Arnold was driving a tractor, pulling a sled on which was a platform of 3-inch pipe used to lift ca- bles from the driveway. The top-heavy platform toppled over on him with the result- ing injury. The condition of Mrs. Ar- thur Hummel, wife of a Wash- ington druggist, is attracting widespread attention, since she swallowed a nail, one and a quarter inches long, a week ago. She was putting up a cur- tain bracket and was holding the nail in her mouth when it slipped down her throat. An x-ray showed the nail lodged in her lung. She was taken to the Methodist Hospital in Indi- anapolis, where an unsuccess- ful attempt was made to extri- cate the nail, after which she was sent to another hospital in Chicago. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Ennis, of Petersburg, a son, Paul Eugene, at Mill- er Hospital, Monday, May 20. Marriages: Bonnie May Houchins and Walter Whitney were married by Rev. Verner Preston, clerk of Pike County, Monday, May 20. Deaths: William F. Jones, 87, of Petersburg, died Satur- day at his residence; Bessie L. Skinner, 36, of Muren, passed away at her home Saturday. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Pike County Dispatch Thursday, May 25, 1961 The Dispatch is proud to present another first in news- paper publishing in Pike County. This week the readers of The Dispatch will find three full pages of pictures of all of the seniors who have graduat- ed from the five high schools in Pike County. These are indi- vidual pictures, not group pic- tures, which have been pub- lished in past years. The pub- lishing of these pictures has been made possible by the many firms and merchants in Pike County who were inter- ested in sponsoring the proj- ect. Those who sponsored these pages are listed at the bottom of each page. Since it took a great deal of time to solicit the firms to sponsor these pages, there were sev- eral who undoubtedly would have also been a sponsor had they been solicited. Due to the time involved, it was impossi- ble to call on everyone. The Dispatch congratulates the more than 150 seniors in Pike County. We are proud to pres- ent their pictures to the read- ing public. Announcement has been made by Charles Killion, clerk of the Pike County High- way Department, that engi- neers working with the Fed- eral Civil Defense Depart- ment have been in Pike Coun- ty this week surveying the damage to Pike County roads and bridges caused by the re- cent flood. An estimate has been made that damage will amount to $ 650,000 in the county road system. At the latest total made Wednesday at noon, the total damage was set at $540,800. This does not include many roads and bridg- es which cannot be looked at due to the high water which has them covered. The coun- ty is asking $ 650,000 through he Civil Defense system to re- build these roads and bridges. Births: To Dr. and Mrs. J.E. Manning, of Winslow, a daughter, Joanne Michelle, Friday, May 19 at Welborn Memorial Baptist Hospital; To Mr. and Mrs. James Mason, of Oakland City, a son, James Kevin, Wednesday, May 17 at Gibson General Hospital; To Mr. and Mrs. Roger Davis, a son, Roger Curtis, at Good Sa- maritan Hospital on Wednes- day, May 17. Deaths: Avie E. Cole, 77, of Petersburg, died at the Ward Nursing Home in Peters- burg at 8:30 a.m. Thursday; Claude B. Norrick, 62, of Au- gusta, died at his home Tues- day night; Edwin Kuester, 64, of Petersburg, died at 5:25 p.m. Sunday at Daviess Coun- ty Hospital. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, May 27, 1971 Stephen Potter was acciden- tally struck in the face Tues- day, May 18 with a ball bat while playing on the school grounds at Winslow Elemen- tary School. Five stitches were required to close the fa- cial wound. Dr. William Dye treated Stephen in his office in Oakland City. He then sent Stephen to St. Mary's hos- pital in Evansville where his broken nose was set. Stephen remained at the hospital until Thursday. Pike County will receive $ 68,902 windfall when Indi- ana returns more than $29 million worth of inheritance taxes, collected in 1967-68, to her 92 counties. "Some coun- ties may be planning special projects, but in most cases, it could be used to give a sig- nificant reduction in proper- ty tax rates," Claude B. Rum- ble, County Farm Bureau lo- cal affairs committee chair- man voiced. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Charles Krieg, of Winslow, Tuesday, May 25 in Gibson General Hospital, a daughter. Marriages: Marcia E. Lee and Gary J. Wagner were wed on April 17 in St. Antho- ny Catholic Church in St. An- thony; Martha Ann Flint and Robert E. (Sonny) Perry were united in marriage on May 1 in the Monroe City Church of God. Deaths: Byrle Gene Ded- rick, 53, native of Otwell, died Saturday, May 22 in Veterans' Hospital in Indianapolis; Ray Kinman, 80, of Glezen, died Friday, May 21 at 5:45 p.m. in St. Mary's Hospital; Claud E. Alcorn, 85, of Otwell, died at 11:45 p.m. Sunday, May 23 in Daviess County Hospital; Paul (Sonny) White, 40, of Union, died Monday, May 24 at 11:30 a.m. at Welborn Baptist Clin- ic in Evansville. TWENTY- FIVE YEARS The Press-Dispatch Thursday, May 23, 1996 Farmers are finally getting in their fields only about six weeks behind schedule. More than 10 inches of rain in April and almost five already in May have kept farmers out of their fields since mid-April until this week. Kurt Brescher, of the Farm Bureau Co-Op in Pe- tersburg, said farming is ba- sically four to five weeks be- hind. He said for the most part, there has been little or nothing done since April 10, when the heavy rains began. He stressed farmers need to be careful. He said a lot of times farmers when they are this far behind will get in a hurry and work long hours, which increases the chance of accidents. A teenage girl from Francis- co was killed in a one-car ac- cident at about 2 p.m. Sunday. Crystal Williams was driv- ing on Highway 64, about 1.5 miles east of Francisco, when she went off the right side of the road, slid sideways and left the roadway, flipping four times, according to Indiana State Police. Williams is the granddaughter of Petersburg resident Phoebe Bement and former Petersburg resident Carmen Smith. The Lady Chargers won the Pocket Athletic Confer- ence Championship Wednes- day evening with a com-from- behind win over the Gibson Southern Lady Titans, beat- ing them 4-3. Pike Central trailed the Lady Titans, 3-1, af- ter three innings of play, but came back to tie the game in the fifth inning and took the lead in the sixth inning. Heath- er Ferguson picked up the vic- tory, pitching seven innings, giving up six hits, striking out two and walking one. The Pike Central Lady Charger softball team took one more step in its quest to win a ninth straight sectional title Tuesday night with a 4- 2 victory over the Princeton Lady Tigers. Heather Fergu- son pitched a complete game, striking out three, giving up two hits and no earned runs. She helped her own cause, leading off the first inning with a triple. James R. Turner, of Vin- cennes, was charged with op- erating a vehicle while intox- icated and disregarding post- ed signs after he drove off in- to the backwaters of the East Fork of the White River Tues- day afternoon. The Pike Coun- ty Sheriff's Office was notified by the daviess County Sher- iff's Department around 5:45 p.m. that a motorist had driven off into the high water on the Pike County side of State Road 257, near the Home Capehart Bridge. Pike County Sheriff Jeff Clements was the first to arrive at the scene. Clements, who was off duty at the time of the incident, said Dick and Kip Traylor had tried to talk Turner out of trying to cross the high water, but Turner wouldn't listen. The Traylors pulled Turner out of the back- water. "Turner was driving a 1996 red Baretta, which he had just bought today in Bick- nell," said Clements. "It on- ly had 126 miles on it." Clem- ents said when he arrived on the scene, he smelled a strong odor of alcohol on Turner's breath. Turner tested .15 on a portable breath test. The legal limit in Indiana is .10. Deaths: Anna Elkins, 84, of Petersburg, died at 4:10 a.m. Wednesday, May 15 at Am- ber Manor Care Center in Pe- tersburg; Alyssa Jane Howes, infant daughter of Arnie and Kelley Howes, of Princeton, died at 3:31 p.m. Monday, May 13 at St. Mary's Medical Cen- ter in Evansville; Marie Ed- wards, 90, of Francisco, died at 5:36 p.m. Saturday, May 18 at Holiday Manor Convales- cent Center in Princeton; Rob- ert D. West, 67, of Hazleton, died at 5 p.m. Monday, May 20 at St. Mary's Medical Center in Evansville.