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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, June 7, 2017 C-5 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 Tuesday, May 26, 1942 Twenty-four selectees left here Monday morning, May 25th, 1942 at 8 a.m. for the in- duction center at Evansville, Indiana. Those selectees were as follows: Frederick Antton Dieziger, John Edgar Robling, Carl Eldon McCain, Gene Ridge Dillon, Kenneth Seymour Hopper, Howard El- kins, Clarence Everett Jack- son, Hassel L. Jenkins, John Delbert Ward, Virgil Wood- row Lindy, Frank Hibbitt Woodford, Basil Edison Mi- ley, Francis Alley, Maurice Dyson, Brett Luther Engler, Orgle Edwin Myers, George Walter Wilcox, James Arthur Catt, Bernice Don Ashby, Get- tis Lloyd Dickson, Dean Addis Osgatharp, Ivan Louis Vince Collins, John Floyd Collins, and Harold Chris Gieselman. John Mutchmore, of Route 2, out of this city, received of- ficial notice from the War De- partment, Saturday, inform- ing him that his son, Victor Boyd Mutchmore, who was with the United States Army in the Philippine Islands, at the time of their surrender to the Japanese, on May 7th, and that they have had no infor- mation as to what his lot may have been. President Roosevelt has set Tuesday, June 30th as regis- tration day for young men be- tween 18 and 20 years of age. The president also called for registration on June 30 for possible military service of all men reached 20 years of age after December 31, 1941, and on or before June 30 next who have not heretofore been registered. A large and enthusiastic crowd of Coon Hunters dog owners and their friends gath- ered at the Warner's Lake west of this city Sunday for the first Field Trial program of the year sponsored by the Pike County Coon Hunters Association. Hounds owned by Fred Hughes, of Vin- cennes, won the line and tree prizes, Red Oak Drum won the line, and Buck, the tree prize. Arrangements for the ded- icatorial services for the Flat Creek Memorial church are nearing completion and the date has been set for June 7th. Dr. Ottis Johnson of the Oak- land City College will preach the dedicatorial sermon in the afternoon and Rev. Wil- liam Chesser will conduct the morning service. Dinner will be served on the grounds. Births: to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Murphy of Ham- mond, Ind., a son, born Tues- day; to Mr. and Mrs. Lee N. Gray of Otwell, a son, Charles David, born Friday, May 14. Deaths: Carl Cooper, 58, formerly of Pike county, died at his home in Seymour, Indi- ana, Sunday evening; Henry Smith, 73, died in an Evans- ville hospital Monday morn- ing; James Burton Houpt, of Otwell, died between 4:30 and 5:30 o'clock at the Otwell Mill- ing Company. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Friday, Apr. 26, 1957 The Petersburg High School senior class of 1957 will present a three-act play, "The Late Christopher Bean" Tuesday evening, April 30, in the high school auditorium. The auditorium is located in the old gymnasium. Tick- ets for the event may be pur- chased at the high school or at the door Tuesday evening. Arthur Barcus is in charge of the play, with Tom Burton act- ing as student director. Stendal High School held its annual graduation exercis- es Wednesday evening April 17. Rev. Hugo Harmeyer deliv- ered the address. There were ten seniors: Gerald Hage- meyer, Wilfred Lechner, Jer- ry Marshall, Douglas Radem- acher, Wayne Satkamp, James Tooley, Phillippa Egbert, Shir- ley Hilsmeyer, Dorothy Ries- enbeck and Ruth Wellmeyer. Mayor L. Carol Thom- as announced that Peters- burg would go on fast time at 2 a.m. Sunday, April 28, in compliance with the state law passed in the last legislature. All Pike County towns will do the same. Mayor L. Carol Thom- as informed The Press this week that stray dogs would be picked up and taken to the new dog pound beginning immediately. Recent com- plaints have made the move necessary. The new pound is located on city property in back of the water plant...It will cost $1 to reclaim a dog at the pound and after three days at the pound the dog will be de- stroyed. The togaed Romans, patri- cians and plebians convened in the school cafeteria last Wednesday evening to par- ticipate in a banquet ala Ro- man style. All members of the Latin Club and their guests, Principal William A. Weath- ers and Alfred James, were clad in togas. The patricians (second year students) wore purple head bands and white togas with purple stripes. The plebians (first year students) were clad in plain white togas. Marriages: Doris Jean Mull, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. William L. Mull, to Frederick Ellis Weisheit, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Weisheit, at 7:30 p.m. April 19 at the Church of God in Pe- tersburg; Christine Dorsey to Frank Neuman at 4 p.m. April 6 at the home of Rev. Parks in Huntingburg; Nina Louise Mosby, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orville Mosby of Petersburg, to Paul David Stewart, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ovie Stewart of Algiers, at 4 p.m. Saturday in the Gospel Center Church; Nellie F. Bak- er, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Baker of Winslow, to Gordon Duane Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ber- nard Jones, of Winslow, at 5 o'clock Saturday, April 20 in the Christian church in Win- slow. Deaths: Clara Anna Win- einger, 82, of rural route, Ot- well, died at 8 a.m. April 22 at the home of a daughter; Ebb McCormack, 76, of Otwell, died at 3 p.m. Monday, April 22 in White Oak, Pike County; Charles Wyatt, 84, died April 19 in Indianapolis; Lucy Vin- yard, 74, of Winslow, died at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Good Samaritan hospital in Vincennes; August Sickman, 75, of near Stendal, died at 7:30 a.m. Friday at the Stork Memorial hospital in Hunting- burg; Anna Hathway, former- ly of Winslow, died at 11 p.m. Tuesday at the Wabash Gener- al hospital in Mt. Carmel, Ill. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, May 11, 1967 At the end of 1966, 2,198 men, women and children in Pike county were receiving benefits at a monthly rate of $148,968, Dwight Swope, so- cial security district manager in Evansville, reported today. One thousand eight hundred and nine were older people, he said, receiving benefits as re- tired workers, the wives and husbands of retired workers and as the surviving widows or aged dependent parents of workers who have died. Petersburg physician Dr. J. W. Elbert is pictured pre- paring a victim for a simulat- ed disaster staged in Daviess County hospital in Wash- ington, Saturday, The Indi- ana State Board of Health re- quires every hospital to have a disaster plan and to test its effectiveness. Boy Scouts and Civil Defense units cooperat- ed with the hospital staff in the highly successful proj- ect that tested the hospital's equipment, facilities and in- dividuals. The street in front of the Cave, Pike county's Teen Cen- ter, will be jumping tomorrow night, Friday, May 12, when the first anniversary of this youth activity center is ob- served. Eighth street will be closed form the alley to Pop- lar and the band will be the Sanz. It was at the opening of the Teen Center, in 1966, that this band made its first public appearance. Jerry Wright, Pike coun- ty chairman for the March of Dimes campaign, presents a service award to Nancy Clem, local advisor to the Peters- burg Future Homemakers of America, as Ann Chappell, southwestern Indiana past president looks on. The local FHA assisted Mr. Wright by typing names and addresses on more than 3,000 envelopes which were mailed through- out the county during the re- cent MOD campaign. Steve B. Potter, five year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Potter, Sr., fell at the Potter Grocery store Sunday eve- ning at 7 o'clock with the back of his head hitting the con- crete walk so hard he was un- conscious five hours. He suf- fered a concussion from the fall. He was brought home from the hospital Monday eve- ning but had to remain quiet for two days. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Earl Russell of Washing- ton, a daughter, Kelly Renee, born Friday, May 5; to Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Nelson, a son, Andrew Brian, born Mon- day, May 8; to Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Kemp of Loogootee, a daughter, Gayla Louis, born Wednesday, May 3; to Mr. and Mrs. David Barnhart of Kankakee, Ill., a daughter, Ja- net Marie, born Monday, May 1; to Mr. and Mrs. Ehrlick Smith of Boonville, a daugh- ter, Michelle Ann, born Tues- day, May 9. Marriages: Peggy Howk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Howk, to Gary Ever- soll, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wal- ter Eversoll, at 6 p.m. Wednes- day, May 3 at the First Baptist church in Petersburg; Becky L. Stone, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Stone of Oak- land City, to Woody W. Bak- er, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mar- vin Baker of Winslow, May 6 at the Patoka Grove Method- ist church. Deaths: Minerva Mize, 99, died at 12:45 p.m. May 5 at Baker's Rest Haven, Boon- ville; Lillie S. Hayes, 73, of 306 North 5th Street, Peters- burg, died unexpectedly Sun- day, May 7 at 8:05 p.m. in the Good Samaritan hospital; Halleck Shrode Tevault, 71, of Boonville, native of Stendal, died Monday, May 8 in the St. Mary's hospital; John C. Com- er, 73, of Oakland City, died at 9:20 p.m. Friday at Gibson General hospital; Ida Deffen- doll Skinner, 87, formerly of Arthur, died at 9:05 p.m. Fri- day, May 5; Fred Limp, 83, formerly of Petersburg, died Sunday morning in General hospital at Louisville, Ky. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, May 7, 1992 There were four mild sur- prises in the Democrat prima- ry: Edward Joseph Kluemper came from a pack of three challengers to defeat incum- bent Dave Stewart for District 1 commissioner; Dixie Fred- erick led the ticket with a 400 -vote margin over the sec- ond place over three incum- bent at-large council seats, Debra Davis won easily over Charles Myers; and Lawrence "Buster" McCandless took three-time incumbent com- missioner Dordon Hartke to the next to last precinct be- fore losing by 119 votes. In the most heated race of the primary Kluemper came out of a four-way race for a sur- prisingly strong win of 210 votes over incumbent Dave Stewart, 1,006 to 796. There will be two new fac- es on the Pike County School Board when the new school year begins in July. Jerry Bar- rett in district four, and Roger Young in district three, both running for the first time, were elected to the school board in Tuesday's election. Delmas Culbertson was re- elected to a second four-year term in district five. A rural Winslow man died at about 5 p.m. Tuesday af- ternoon in a one-car accident on Highway 64. Raymond Thompson, 77, of Route 1, Winslow, died, when his car ran off the right side of the road and slammed into a large tree, according to police. The Petersburg City Coun- cil, with a 3-1-1 vote rescind- ed its previous vote to impose a monthly charge and instead go to a bag system for trash disposal. Councilmen Jack Onyett, Jon Welch and Sher- man Patterson voted for the bag fee, Lowell Garland op- posed it and Kae Adkerson abstained. Mary Russ' fourth grade class at Winslow Elementary School is one of this week's classes of the week. In the front row are Charity Tay- lor, Talethea Dyer, Nataline Heldt, Stacie Andress, Jason Sinkhord, Jacob Yates, and Michael Furman. In the mid- dle row are Cara Burgess, Amy Barrett, Paul Russell, Justin Loveless, Jacqueline Cook and Christopher Leath- co. Standing are Matt Pichon, Billy Wildt, Brian Tharp, Josh Bender, Filicia Racine, Aman- da Thompson, Penny Singer and Mrs. Russ. Births: To Terry and Kel- ly May of Campbelltown, a son, Tanner Heath, on Thurs- day, Apr. 30 ; to Mr. and Mrs. Allen Houchin of Oakland City, a daughter, Kaci Lyn, on Wednesday, Apr. 29; to Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery Clem- ents of Otwell, a son, Blake Michael, on April 23; to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Greene of Orland, Fla., a son, Jonathon Robert, on Sunday, Apr. 26; to Mr. and Mrs. Billy K. Grubb, a son, Daniel Kenneth, born April 24. Marriages: Sheila Renee Bass, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Bass of Boon- ville, to Kyle Gene Gerkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Gerkins of Garrett, Ky., at 2 p.m. March 14 at First Baptist Church of Boonville. Deaths: Richard E. Mar- shall, 48, of rural Hazleton, died Friday, May 1 at 12:55 a.m. at Deaconess Hospital; Ausie V. Willis, 94, of Win- slow, died Tuesday, Apr. 28 at 1:50 p.m. at Petersburg Healthcare Center; Randy E. Willis, 39, of Petersburg, died at 4:40 a.m. Sunday, May 3 at St. Mary's Medical Center in Evansville; Mary Laverne Fair, 65, formerly of Peters- burg, died April 30 at Frank- lin United Methodist Home; Ralph Julian, 62, of New- burgh, died Saturday, April 18 at 11:55 a.m. at the home of his son, Walter; Kenneth E. "Kip" Evans, 67, of Oak- land City, died Sunday, May 3 at 1:50 p.m. at Wirth Hospi- tal in Oakland City; Evelyne P. Neal, 88, of Greenfield, died Wednesday, April 27 at Regency Place Nursing Home in Greenfield. By Sandy McBeth Pike County Historical Society 08/15/1902—Wilder & Son have moved their music store into the Byers room on Main street. Darnell & Co. have opened up a restaurant in the Harrell block on lower Main street. The E. & I. railroad will sell excursion tickets dur- ing the Oakland City fair at 40 cents for the round trip. Austin Canary has bought the Star bakery on lower Main street and commenced business Monday morning. Walter Coleman has sold the post-office newsstand to Charles Hillman, who will take possession the first of September. Stendal Items—The pic- nic last Saturday was not well attended until night, when a crowd came in and a good sum of money realized. Miss Lou Stork returned home from Chicago last Sat- urday. She has been away for nine years and served as dea- coness in one of the leading hospitals in Chicago. 08/22/1902—Mark Waltz attended a soldiers' reunion at English last week. S. W. Thomas formerly of this place but now of East St. Louis is in the city, the guest of relatives. The 38th Indiana Regi- ment will hold its annual re- union at Marengo, Crawford county, Indiana, September 16, 1902. Three freight trains were wrecked on the Southern railroad near Frisco last Fri- day afternoon. Several of the railroad men were more of less injured. Chappell Bros., sell the Union label flour. Reduced prices on all goods at the New York Store during street fair week. John Warner and family left Tuesday for Falmouth, Kentucky, where they will make that place their future home. Harry Cummings who was sent from this coun- ty several months ago to Michigan City for the kill- ing of Harry Watson, is dan- gerously ill with small pox. Died, Friday last of ty- phoid fever, Mrs. Art Cook, of Clay township, aged about 25 years. The deceased leaves a husband and a four months' old babe to survive her. Sol Van Nada of Prince- ton, and ex-recorder of Gib- son county, was the guest of his father George VanNada, of this place last week. The Littles ball club was defeated by the local team at the park Tuesday afternoon by a score of 14 to 11. The game was very well played. Last week Charles Schae- fer and wife were the recipi- ents of two handsome rock- ing chairs as a birthday gift from their two sons, Will and Hartman, who have lu- crative positions in Chicago. The boys are enjoying good health and prosperity. Gleanings From the Pike County Democrat, 1902 Continued next week Files of the past 1979 Pike Central High School Choir Pictured above is the 1979 Pike Central High School Choir. Front row: Tonya Matteson, Carolyn Caldemeyer, Jana Gideon, Kyra Abbott, Jennifer Bailey and Vicky Osborne. Middle row: Beth Breiden- baugh, Laura Mosby, Denise Pitchers, Tammy Ashby, Rachel Hemmer, Beth Potter, Vicki Boger and Mr. Vance Hays. Back row: Kevin France, Scott McCandless, Rick Osborne, Kerry France, Jim Thompson, Kathy Cockerham and Ted Klipsch. Wednesday, June 7 • Ghandi's first act of civil dis- obedience (1893) • First successful ascent of Mt. McKinley (1913) Thursday, June 8 • Martin Luther King, Jr. as- sassination suspect arrest- ed (1968) • First Porsche completed (1948) Friday, June 9 • Secretariat wins Triple Crown (1973) • Cartier discovers St Law- rence River (1534) Saturday, June 10 • First Salem witch hanging (1692) • Alcoholics Anonymous founded (1935) Sunday, June 11 • John Wayne dies (1979) • Congress appoints Commit- tee of Five to draft Declara- tion of Independence (1776) Monday, June 12 • Reagan challenges Gor- bachev to tear down the Ber- lin Wall (1987) • Anne Frank receives a dia- ry (1942) Tuesday, June 13 • The Miranda rights are es- tablished (1966) • Alexander the Great dies (323 B.C.) Source: History.com