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C-6 Wednesday, May 17, 2017 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, May 8, 1942 In a notice from the Office of Price Administration, May- or Ellis Kays, of Petersburg, and Mayor of Princeton, have received instructions to call all retailers of every descrip- tion together in a meeting to be held at the High School Auditorium, in Princeton, at 8 P. M. on Tuesday evening, May 12th. All Store owners and operators are asked and urged to attend this meeting. A representative of the Office of Price Administrator will be present to explain to the retail merchants of the two counties how the ceiling on retail pric- es will affect all retailers. All questions pertaining to price ceiling will be answered. Very little information has been given out so far, and this meet- ing is being called for the pur- pose of giving retailers their instructions. The Primary election of last Tuesday was one of the most quiet affairs ever held in this county. Contests for the major offices on both the republican and democrat- ic county tickets accounted for a great part of this lack of interest and only about two- thirds or less number of votes were cast compared with the primary of 2 years ago when practically all of the major of- fices of both parties were hot- ly contested. On the republi- can county ticket only the of- fice of recorder was sought by more than one candidate. In this contest Howard Bren- ton was the nominee, receiv- ing 1142 votes, while his op- ponent, Mrs. Della P. Gray, re- ceived 847. Roscoe Erwin has been very ill of pneumonia fever. He is able to be out again, but it will be some time yet before he will be able to resume his work. The Sugar Registration of the wholesalers, retailers and restaurants on April 28th and 29th, and for housekeepers and consumers on May 4th, 6th and 8th in Pike Coun- ty was made in the different towns and cities and school buildings, with a great deal of success by the County and City School Superintendents, School Principals, township Trustees and School Teach- ers and all others who so kind- ly volunteered their services for this work. It is to be em- phasized that members of all boards and teachers and vol- unteers which assisted in the sugar registration did so from a patriotic and war standpoint and without pay. All sugar ra- tioning laws and rules are made in Washington and not by the local boards and that the board simply carries out these rules. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Prentice Bradfield, a daugh- ter, born May 5th; to Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Hawkins, a daughter, Judith Kay, born May 4th; to Mr. and Mrs. Mel- vin Chanley, a daughter, Ju- dith Ann, born May 2nd. Marriages: Miss Velma Willis, daughter of Mrs. Ida M. Willis of Petersburg, to Mr. Grester H. Arnold, son of Mrs. Easter Arnold of Pe- tersburg, Wednesday after- noon at 4 o'clock at the home of Rev. Edward Blake in Oak- land City. Deaths: Karoline Nord- horn, died at the home of her daughter in Washington Tues- day evening; Mildred Dearing passed away in Seattle, Wash- ington; George W. Davis of Cato took his life Wednesday morning at 9:30 o'clock; Mrs. Mary E. Mauch, 56, of Oak- land City, died at her home at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Friday, Apr. 5, 1957 The Sub Deb Dance will be held from 8:00 to 11:30 p.m. Saturday, April 6 at the Moose Hall. "Shorty" How- ard and his five piece orches- tra will furnish the music and entertainment. All past mem- bers are invited. The Ralston Purina Compa- ny announced that it will have an open house for the new Pe- tersburg Purina Warehouse next Friday, April 12, from 1- 4 p.m. Everyone in this area is invited to attend and see the new operation that will supply 35 southwestern Indiana Puri- na dealers with Purina feeds. Five different county deal- ers were awarded truck con- tracts by the Pike County Commissioners at a meeting Monday, April 1, in the Court House. Mayor L. Carol Thomas read a letter to the City Coun- cil Monday night from the State Stream Pollution Con- trol Board ordering Peters- burg to construct a new dis- posal plant. The Board stat- ed in its letter that plans for the new plant should be ready by August 1, 1957, and should be started by March 31, 1958 ,and completed on or before March 31, 1959. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Browning, a daughter; to Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Cle- ments, a son, Jeffery Wayne, born March 28th; to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cooper, a son, born Wednesday. Marriages: Miss Grace Joann Barnett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alva Barnett, to Donald C. Whitehead, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. White- head; Miss Vivian Nichols, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Omar Nichols, to Charles Kuester, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kuester. Deaths: Harry Ault died suddenly at his home in Vin- cennes on Saturday; Ida Har- ris, 71, of Muren, died at 4:30 a.m. March 28 at the home of a daughter. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, April 20, 1967 War veterans, patriotic and civic bodies, from all over southern Indiana, will pa- rade down Main Street in Pe- tersburg, Saturday evening, April 29. This mammoth pa- rade, of some 40 units and sec- tions, is being organized by the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the Eighth District. This ac- tivity is the local contribution in the nationwide plan of the VFW for the American people to publicly express their patri- otic feelings. Pike county taxpayers were reminded this week by Trea- surer Levi Myers that Mon- day, May 1, is the last day to pay Spring tax installments. Mr. Myers said, after this date the first installment of 1966 taxes would become de- linquent. Delegates to Hoosier Boys' State to be held on the Indi- ana University campus June 11 through June 18 have been chosen to represent Otwell and Winslow. The Winslow delegate is Tim Allen Hen- ning, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Henning of Route 2, Oakland City. His alternate is Roger Dayne Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dayne Young, Route 1, Winslow.'Representing Ot- well will be Samuel Padgett, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Padgett of Route 2, Win- slow. His alternate is Gary W. Woodall, son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel E. Woodall of Route 1, Petersburg. State road 57 will be closed Monday, April 24 at 10 a.m. EST between Washington and Petersburg. Detour over US 50, state road 241 and state 61. It will be eight miles far- ther. The road will be closed to repair the bridge floor and will be closed approximately five days. All four of the following se- niors have received academ- ic scholarships, to the univer- sity they have selected to at- tend: Gary Jarvis, Silva Pruitt, James McCord, and Barbara Bone. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Minehart of Peters- burg, a son, Monday, April 17; to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brewster of Princeton, a son, Matthew Eric, Sunday, April 16; to Mr. and Mrs. William Thomas Cunningham of Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey, a son, Timothy Albert, April 2; to Mr. and Mrs. Michael Mason of Boonville, a son, Kelvin Da- vid, Sunday, April 16; to Mr. and Mrs. John Arthur Toler of Henderson, Kentucky, a son, Boyd Toler, Tuesday, April 18; to Lt. and Mrs. Boyd Ash- craft, a daughter, Stacey Re- nee, April 1. Marriages: Phoebe Jean Campbell, 19, daughter of Al- bertine Mason Clark, to Paul Folse; Janet Charlene Mason, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sim Mason of Winslow, to Thom- as Keith Hunt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Hunt of Win- slow, Saturday, April 8. Deaths: Clyde O. Agee, 79, native of Winslow, died Saturday, April 15 at 3 p.m. in the Vincennes Nursing Home; Dr. Lee M. DeMott, 86, passed away April 12; Twi- la Lynn McQueen, 11, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Mc- Queen, died at 1:45 p.m. Fri- day; Robert L. Deutsch, Oak- land City, died at 1:50 p.m. Wednesday, April 12 at Wel- born Baptist Hospital; Anna Eslinger, 79, of Oakland City, died Thursday at the Good Samaritan Nursing Home; James Samuel Hannah, 63, formerly of Francisco, Mon- day, April 10 ; Beryl Youngs, 62, formerly of Winslow, died Sunday at 5:30 p.m. in the Good Samaritan hospital in Vincennes; Henry F. Mer- cker, 72, of Petersburg, died Wednesday, April 12 in the Veteran's hospital in India- napolis; twins Billy Lee and Joyce Ann Reed, children of Billy and Joyce Reed, died at a hospital in Peru; Howard J. Taylor, 74, of Clearwater, Flor- ida, died April 12; Lucy J. Her- bert, 75, of Oakland City, died Friday at the Shurtleff Nurs- ing Home in Mt. Carmel. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, April 16, 1992 The Pike County School Board approved the retire- ments for three elementary teachers and assistant super- intendent Roy Sunderman's request to return to the class- room. The three teachers, Helen Lewis, Mary Russ, and Louise Burns, have 103 years combined teaching ex- perience. Sunderman, who as assistant superintendent has been responsible for the trans- portation policy of the corpo- ration, requested a teaching position for the coming year. Building a new county jail took another step forward Tuesday morning in the coun- ty council meeting. Council- men voted 6 -1 to approve a resolution that empowers the commissioners to request an appraisal of the Wyatt Rauch property, as well as core drilling and an environmen- tal study of the proposed jail site. "This is not a resolution to buy," explained county at- torney Val Fleig. The rail line between Indi- anapolis and Evansville that goes through Petersburg and Pike County is now under the operation of Indiana South- ern Railroad. The sale of the 191.5 miles of track was final- ized Friday in Philadelphia, according to Robert Libkind, a spokesman for Conrail. A problem facing Winslow Town Councilmen is how to repair the Patoka River dam near the water plant. The current is eroding the river bank on the west end of the dam and eventually will wash the bank away from the dam if repairs are not made soon. The dam holds back the river forming a pool from which the water plant draws its supply. Marriages: Bridget Mi- chele Maxwell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Maxwell, to Joe R. Padgett, son of Marsha Chestnut of Petersburg and Mr. and Mrs. Rodger Chestnut of Odon, March 14; Amy Lynn Shoultz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al- len Shoultz of Petersburg, to Brett Michael Gress, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rex Gress of Washington, March 28. Deaths: Harold H. Hurts, 79, of Hartford, Ky. died at 8:30 p.m. Friday, April 10 ; Chase Mitchell Stephens, one month old, died Friday, April 10 at 11:45 a.m. at Riley Hospital in Indianapolis; Em- ory C. Howell, 70, of Peters- burg, died at 1:30 p.m. Mon- day, April 13 at Gibson Gen- eral Hospital in Princeton; Arch C. Fisher, 93, of Miami Beach, Fla., died at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 7; William Kil- patrick, Sr., 91, of Oakland City, died Friday, April 10 at 3:15 p.m. at Good Samaritan Nursing Home in Oakland City; Benjamin H. "Weasel" Thomas, 74, of Petersburg, died Thursday, April 9 at 12:45 a.m. at Memorial Hos- pital in Jasper; Doris L. Ma- son, 64, of Oakland City, died at Wirth Osteopathic Hospi- tal in Oakland City at 7:40 p.m. Thursday, April 9; Es- ter Knowles, 85, formerly of Pike County, died at her resi- dence April 5; Gilbert H. Rog- ers, 88, of Oakland City, died at 6:25 a.m. Thursday, April 9 at Good Samaritan Nursing Home in Oakland City; Helen Covert, 81, of Vincennes, died Monday, April 13 at 3:23 p.m. at Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes. By Sandy McBeth Pike County Historical Society 08/15/1902—Silas Spill- man, who has been chief clerk at J. H. Viehe & Co.'s, grocery store for sever- al years resigned his posi- tion last week. Will Garland has se- cured a position with the B. & O. S. W. railroad as fireman and left Friday for that place. Sanford Arnold, who has been in China and the Philippine Islands sever- al years as a soldier of the U. S. army, returned to his home at Otwell Friday. He will enter the service again next fall. Smith & Nicely were the successful bidders for the erection of the new grad- ed school building in Mad- ison township. The con- tract was let last Saturday by David W. Gladish, trust- ee, for $1,569. The building will be a very neat and sub- stantial one and a credit to the township. Mrs. Lillian Stewart (col- ored) was taken to the in- sane asylum at Evansville Tuesday by Sheriff Bass. The county clerk has is- sued marriage licenses to the following persons since our last report: Garfield Hall and Elizabeth Bur- khart; Jesse Henson and Eliza Hill; James M. Mor- ton and Luda F. Beadles. The supreme court has announced that the ruling law in Indiana is that when two men have a fight, and one of them is afterward prosecuted for assault and battery, if he claims that he did it in self defense, he does not have to prove that it was self defense but the state has to prove that the assault was provoked. Capt. Sasser Sullivan of Marion township was in the city Tuesday on busi- ness. He says Marion will come up with one of its old-time majorities at the November election. The captain is one of the old- est democrats in the town- ship and is one of the high- ly respected citizens of the county having twice rep- resented the county in the legislature. Died, Saturday, August 9th, at 3:50 a.m., of flux, Willie A., son of Julius C. and Mrs. Salter, aged 1 year and 11 months. The funeral was held at the res- idence Sunday afternoon at two o'clock, J. B. Hadlock officiating. The remains were interred at Walnut Hills cemetery. The be- reaved parents have the sympathy of the commu- nity in their sad bereave- ment. While on his way to Sweet Sulphur Springs last Saturday with his wife, and when about two miles from Algiers, the mare being driven by Frank Lory ran into a horse being driven by an unknown man, and broke the leg of the latter animal. Frank told the own- er of the injured horse to kill it and buy another one at his expense, and that on his return the next day he would pay for the same, which he did. Frank, and wife escaped injury in the accident. Miss Lucy Hoggatt, of Petersburg, well known here, was the guest of honor at a reception given Wednesday by the most prominent literary circle of Chicago. Miss Hoggatt is now employed by one of the leading literary journals of the east, and visits ma- ny points of interest chron- icling events relating to the literary world, interview- ing actresses, authoress- es, etc., and dealing with all topics of feminine inter- est. As a writer she ranks among the best of today, her productions are all of the purest, noblest and el- evating character, and she is gifted with descriptive powers, both humorous and pathetic, which can- not be surpassed. She is a most refined and beauti- ful young lady possessing a sweet and modest manner which not only commands respect but wins the ad- miration of every one she meets. Gleanings From the Pike County Democrat, 1902 Continued next week Files of the past 1986 Pike Central OEA Officers Pike Central OEA (Office Education Association) officers include, front row: Tom Wyatt, vice-president; Mindy Hunt, treasurer; Tiffeny Church, his- torian. Back row: Todd Davis, reporter; Joy Anderson, president; Sara Cum- mings, secretary. Wednesday, May 17 • Brown v. Board of Education is decided (1954) • Televised Watergate hear- ings begin (1973) Thursday, May 18 • Pope John Paul II is born (1920) • Mt. St. Helens erupts (1980) Friday, May 19 • Lawrence of Arabia dies (1935) • Spanish Armada sets sail (1588) Saturday, May 20 • Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive patent for blue jeans (1873) • Spirit of St. Louis departs (1927) Sunday, May 21 • American Red Cross found- ed (1881) • Connecticut enacts first speed limit law (1901) Monday, May 22 • Great Emigration departs for Oregon (1843) • The War of the Roses (1455) Tuesday, May 23 • Police kill famous outlaws Bonnie and Clyde (1934) • Captain Kidd walks the plank (1701) Source: History.com