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C-4 Wednesday, June 14, 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 Tuesday, June 2, 1942 The American Legion and other patriotic orders of the community are to be con- gratulated upon the splendid services conducted at Wal- nut Hills on Saturday morn- ing. The organization formed at the court house and parad- ed to the cemetery led by the City band and the Drum Corp of the local High School. At the cemetery they were joined by hundreds of people who were there in the interest of the day. Commencement week ta Oakland City College start- ed at 10 :30 o'clock Sunday morning at the First General Baptist church with the bac- calaureate service. Dr. W. P. Dearing, college president, will deliver the sermon. The annual concert will be held Tuesday evening in the cha- pel with Miss Edna Treat, Mrs .Neva Rankin Barnard and Mrs. Eunice Troutman Spillman in charge of the pi- ano, voice and violin depart- ments, respectively. Class day will be held Thursday and se- niors will present a program at 9 o'clock. Commencement program will be held at 10 :30 o'clock Thursday morning in Student Memorial hall. Dr. W.C. Reavis, of the Universi- ty of Chicago, will be the prin- cipal speaker;. The three years old son of Mr. and Mrs. Radius Ashby of near Otwell was bitten on the lower lip, Saturday by a stray dog. The dog is said to have had rabies. The little boy was put under the pasteur treat- ment, and is getting along as will can be expected. The dog escaped. Baldwin's Store, Logan Township will accept appli- cations for canning sugar on Friday afternoons, hours 1 to 4 P.M. McKinley Hagemeyer, Stendal, Indiana will accept application for canning sugar at his home on June 1st, June 5th and June 12th, hours 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Births: to Mr. and Mrs. George Williams of Bloom- ington, Indiana, a daughter, Mary Susan, born Wednes- day, May 27. Marriages: Miss Tille Preston and Mr. Frank Ander- son, Thursday, May 28. Deaths: Janie Lincoln Hol- lon, died at the Home Hospital in this city, Sunday afternoon; Joseph K. Gootee, 54, for- merly of Petersburg, passed away at his home in Jasper at 1 o'clock Friday afternoon; Sophia Frances Brokriede, 81, of Stendal and Zoar, died at the home of her sister-in- law May 31. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Friday, May 3, 1957 Cliff Murray, head bas- ketball coach at Petersburg High School for the last four years, resigned his position this week to accept a job as head basketball coach at Con- cord Township High School in Dunlap, Ind. Murray made the decision after much de- liberation. The Elkhart High School product was the most successful coach in Peters- burg history. Murray's teams won 54 games, while drop- ping 34 in his four-year stay here. Readers of The Press will have the chance to prove their knowledge of farms in this ar- ea with the publication of a new "Mystery Farm" feature starting this week. Aerial pho- tos were taken of 52 farms in the area served by this news- paper, and one picture will be published each week, along with an invitation to readers to "guess whose farm." The pictures were taken by the Ze- kan Robbins Company of Har- lan, Iowa, specialists in this kind of low-altitude farm pho- tography, and this newspaper arranged to have the photos snapped in different parts of the area so that every farmer has an equal chance of having his farm picture published. They grow up so fast, don't they, folks? Why not let us help you preserve your mem- ories by making an everlast- ing picture of your young- ster in our KIDDIES K AL - ENDAR, a photographic fea- ture to be published soon in THE PETERSBURG PRESS. We've invited United Studios, of Elkhart, Indiana, an expe- rienced children's studio, to take these special pictures for us. An expert children's pho- tographer, equipped with the very latest in lighting, the new "speed" lights which elimi- nate all movement and flood- light glare, will be here May 15 and 16. Howard Briscoe's Peters- burg High School track team captured its first victory of the season here Monday af- ternoon by dropping Oakland City, 77 3/5 - 36 2/5. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. John W. Hobson, a daughter, Sherri Lee, born April 18; to Pvt. and Mrs. Byron Bren- ton of Ft. Sam Houston, Tex- as, a son, Byron Steven, born April 28; to Mr. and Mrs. Don Welch of Petersburg, a son, Tony Kent, born Saturday night; to Mr. and Mrs. Ger- ald James of Lawrenceburg, Ind., a son, Joseph Edward, born April 12. Deaths: Floyd (Preach) Boger, 64, of Akron, Ohio, died April 25 at his home; Robert Allen Ellis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bobbie Joe and Pat- sy Ann (Bone) Ellis was still- born April 29 FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, May 18, 1967 A check in the amount of $50,000 was received by Dr. J. M. Kidd, Chairman of the Prides Creek Board of Direc- tors, which will be used to pay part of the expenses thus far incurred in the Prides Creek Watershed program and al- so to begin purchase of land. The money, received from the State Auditors office, was part of a $100,000 loan the Conser- vancy District had on applica- tion with the Indiana Depart- ment of Natural Resources. It was paid from the depart- ment's revolving fund. This year's spring install- ment of county tax collec- tions showed an increase of $152,609.49 over the previ- ous year's collections in spite of an eight cent reduction in the county tax rate according to records in the county trea- surer's office. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Osborne of Mon- roe County, a son, born May 11; to Mr. and Mrs. Henry O. Ford of Route 4, Petersburg, a daughter, born May 14; to Mr. and Mrs. Mike Branson, of Sparta, Illinois, a son, born May 11; to Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam O. "Bud" Hand, Jr. of Washington, a daughter, Hol- ly Lynn, born May 14; to Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Dixon of Evansville, a daughter, Becky Sue, born May 13; to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cochren of Oak- land City, a daughter, Kristen Gaye, born May 5; to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Anderson of Mitchell, a daughter, Eliza- beth Marie, born May 7. Deaths: Henrietta Klipsch, 78, of Petersburg, passed away Thursday, May 11 at the Restwell Nursing Home; Fred Eversoll, 82, of Pike County, died Thursday, May 11 at 10 a.m. in the Daviess County hospital; George Pearson, 78, of Petersburg, died Wednes- day, May 11, in the Williams Nursing Home in Salem; Ann Delpha Cash, 81, of Ar- thur, died Thursday, May 11 in the State hospital in Evans- ville; Lizzie C. Foust, 88, of Pe- tersburg, died Thursday at the Daviess County hospital; Wendell Morton, 45, died Fri- day afternoon in a Santa Mon- ica, Calif. hospital; Stephen Lee Garretson, infant son of Thomas and Betty Evans Gar- retson of Algiers, died Thurs- day, May 11; Dorothy Bristow, 62, of California, died Sunday night; Loveviney Ross, 89, of Oakland City, died at 8:15 a.m. Tuesday at the Hedges Nursing Home. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, May 14, 1992 Raids headed up by Indi- ana State Police netted nine illegal gambling machines in Pike County, Wednesday af- ternoon. The raids began at about 2 p.m. in Pike County and were conducted by State Police, who were assisted by Petersburg Police and the Pike County Sheriff's Depart- ment. Police found a total of nine machines at four estab- lishments in Pike County: two at the American Legion Post in Winslow, two at The Bob Inn in Winslow, three at the Fraternal Order of the Eagles in Winslow and two at Selby's Pool Hall in Petersburg. Po- lice also entered Friends Tav- ern in Petersburg, but found no games. Undercover police had seen gambling machines in Friends shortly before the raid. There have been numerous reports of the black deer tick in Pike County, and Dr. J.W. Elbert says that people need to be aware and know the pro- cedures to follow if bitten by one of these ticks. The ticks, pin-head size, and black, have moved into southern Indiana after practically none were re- ported last year, Elbert said. A Stendal man who was sentenced in January 1992 to three years in jail for pos- session of more than 1,100 pounds of marijuana was re- leased Friday afternoon in Pike Circuit Court. Lonnie Hilsmeyer, of Route 1, Sten- dal was granted "shock pro- bation" Friday afternoon by Pike Circuit Judge Marvin Stratton. Jack Hief formally present- ed Pike Central High School with a grand piano during a dedication program in the school auditorium Friday af- ternoon. The grand piano was bequeathed to the school by his late wife, Martha Grego- ry Hief. Deaths: Ruby Coleman, 84, of Petersburg, died at 6:10 p.m. Saturday, May 9 at Memorial Hospital in Jasper; Elizabeth (Betty Jean) Staf- ford, 69, of Petersburg, died at 5 a.m. Monday, May 11 at her residence; Raymond "Skinny" Thompson, 76, of Winslow, died Tuesday, May 7 at 4:54 p.m. after suffering injuries in an auto accident on High- way 64; Sara Michelle Fergu- son, three month old daugh- ter of Robert and Sharon Fer- guson of Indianapolis, died Wednesday, May 6 at St. Vin- cent's Hospital in Indianapo- lis; Daniel Torzewski, 75, of Indianapolis, died Wednes- day, May 6; John Wiggs, 30, formerly of Oakland City, died at New York University Hospi- tal in New York; Shannon E. Kirby, 12, of Albany, died May 6 at 2:30 p.m. at Riley Hospital in Indianapolis; Homer Kend- all, 73, of Vincennes, former- ly of Petersburg, died Satur- day, May 9 at 11:54 a.m. at Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes. By Sandy McBeth Pike County Historical Society In the past few weeks E. P. Richardson has had consider- able improvements made on his residence property. New rooms and verandas have been added, the house has been repainted inside and out, a new roof added, and this week, Will Braden is build- ing first class concrete walks throughout the premises. A large barn belonging to Isaac R. Lett, living five miles southeast of the city, was struck by lightning early Monday morning during the storm and set on fire. The barn and contents were a to- tal loss. The barn contained 30 tons of hay, 300 bushels of oats and 150 bushels of corn. Loss, $1,000 ; insurance $ 600. Near Rumble Wednesday morning Nick Ennes was al- most burned to death while trying to keep his wagon from burning. The wagon caught fire from burning brush and Mr. Ennes and the man who was helping him tried to save it and both were seriously in- jured, Mr. Ennes worse than his companion. It is feared he will lose one eye—Oakland City Enterprise. Miss Netta Wallace, the dressmaker who has her rooms in the building oppo- site the C. P. church, leaves Saturday morning for Chica- go to get the latest styles and fashions in dressmaking. She will be gone for a week. In our last issue it was stated that E. Hord the gro- cer would move his stock of goods to Vincennes in Sep- tember, and engage in busi- ness at that place. The item was given the Democrat on the very best authority, but it turns out to be a mistake. Mr. Hord informs the Dem - ocrat that he will continue in business in Petersburg. Late Thursday evening of last week a most horrible ac- cident occurred at the Black- burn coal mine four miles north of Petersburg, in which Frank Hayes was killed and Charles Lucas and Ed Preston were badly injured. The three men were at work in one of the rooms, preparing a shot when a miner, in an adjoining room exploded a charge of powder that broke down the adjoining wall and buried a lot of rock and coal against the men. Hayes was frightfully man- gled about the head and lived only a short time, the other two men were taken out of the mine and their injuries cared for. Hayes was buried Satur- day and Preston and Lucas are getting along nicely. The funeral services of Hayes was held at the Needmore school house and the remains taken to Daviess county for burial. The services were largely at- tended, the miners of Peters- burg and Blackburn and Rog- ers attending in a body. Spurgeon Items—James Perry has moved to town. A small child of William Perry has been very sick for sever- al days, with little hope for her recovery. There was a very heavy electrical storm here Friday doing much damage, killing a cow for Mrs. Eliza- beth Heath, a horse of John A. McKinney, striking the house of Mrs. Willis Simpson, set- ting it on fire which burned with all her belongings. Luck- ily no one was at home. The neighbors are subscribing lib- erally for her and will almost make up her losses. She had no insurance. McKinney's horse was insured in the Sten- dal company, which settled with him Saturday. Stendal Items—John- ny Kronemeyer is all smiles now - a little boy arrived at his home last week. Fred Sollman's barn, a mile north of town, was struck by light- ning last Monday morning and burned down together with all the contents except a wagon. The horses were saved and all the cattle ex- cept one. Velpen Items—A. J. Kemp moved his family to this place from Bellville, Illinois, this week. Several from this place attended the convention at Pleasant Grove Saturday. Sev- eral from this place attended camp meeting at Happy Hol- low the past week. Logan Robling, one of the leading merchants of Win- slow, was in town Monday on real estate business. Dr. Chumbley of Arthur, is seriously ill of appendicitis. An operation was performed yesterday morning. A colored camp meeting will be held at Otwell com- mencing Saturday night. Mrs. Lena Mason, the famous lady preacher, will be present. Rev. W. A. Richardson was called to North Vernon last Friday by the serious illness of his father who lives near that place. He is 83 years old. James A. Hartwell, aged 68 years, living in Clay township, died Sunday and was buried at Mt. Tabor cemetery Monday. Mrs. Julia Catt, aged 32 years, died at her home in Clay township last Saturday and was buried Sunday at the Williams cemetery. Enoch M. Schoneyers and Miss Alberta Forth of Yazoo City, Mississippi, were mar- ried at the county clerk's of- fice Tuesday by Squire M. J. Brady. The street fair is in full blast this week. The atten- dance yesterday was very large. The free exhibitions are good. The other attrac- tions are numerous and are being well patronized and are giving satisfaction. The fair will last all week closing Sat- urday night. There is the ab- sence so far of the usual num- ber of gamblers. Gleanings From the Pike County Democrat, 1902 Files of the past The above map of the country shows the War Bond Quota by states for the month of June totaling $800,000,000. Everybody every pay day is expected to invest at least ten percent of his income in War Bonds to aid in financing America's offensive against the Axis powers. The ultimate quota for the nation will be on a basis of one billion dollars per month effective in July. This sum is necessary to provide for all-out production of planes, guns, ships and munitions adequate to arm our fighting men with the tools necessary to win the war. From The Petersburg Press, Tuesday, June 2, 1942. Wednesday, June 14 • Congress adopts the Stars and Stripes (1777) • Harding becomes first pres- ident to be heard on the ra- dio (1922) Thursday, June 15 • Magna Carta sealed (1215) • U.S.-Canadian border estab- lished (1846) Friday, June 16 • First roller coaster in Amer- ica opens at Coney Island (1884) • Valentina Tershkova be- comes first woman in space (1963) Saturday, June 17 • Statue of Liberty arrives (1885) • Battle of Bunker Hill begins (1775) Sunday, June 18 • War of 1812 begins (1812) • Dr. Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space (1983) Monday, June 19 • Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed (1953) • First Nickelodeon opens (1905) Tuesday, June 20 • "Jaws" released (1975) • Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States (1782) Source: History.com