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C-4 Wednesday, August 2, 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, July 7, 1942 A sugar "bonus" of two pounds for every ration card holder, purchasable between July 10 and August 22, was an- nounced by the Office of the Price Administration tonight because of "somewhat heavier shipments" of sugar into this country than anticipated. The old Moose home on Main Street in Petersburg has just had a renovating that brings up to date throughout. The home will be one of the most modern gathering plac- es in Pike County. Mr. Charlie Gladish fell Fri- day afternoon at his home on West Main street and dislocat- ed his left shoulder. A physi- cian was called and the dislo- cated shoulder put in place. He is getting along nicely. With formal graduation cer- emonies suspended to speed up assignment of skilled air- plane mechanics to line du- ty, Pvt. Elvin G. Cox, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Cox, Pe- tersburg, Ind., today formal- ly received his Airplane Me- chanics diploma Keesler Feld, Miss., the nation's greatest Army Air Forces Technical School. Sgt. John F. Dennison, son of the late John Dennison and Mrs. Dennison arrived Thursday evening from San Antonio, Texas to spend a ten days furlough with his moth- er and sisters. Births: Born July 2 to Mr. and Mrs. Horace Eads, a daughter; Mr. and Mrs. Vir- gil Burton of Bicknell are the proud parents of twin girls born July 1, and named Nancy Zoe and Patty Joe; A baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lou- is Beard, named Marvin Earl. Deaths: Mrs. Caroline W. Reid, 44, died at 5:30 Sun- day morning at the home of her mother, Mrs. Sylvia Mai- kranz, Mackey; Leonard Shotz, formerly of near Union, Indiana died at the Boehne Camp at Evansville early last Saturday morning; Word was received Monday by Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Nicely of the death of Dr. W. H. Willey, 75, of Mt. Carmel, Ill. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Friday, June 21, 1957 Ralph Werner, owner of the Werner Show Shop here, came into the office Monday and informed us that he had tracks on his farm of an un- known origin. We decided to go have a look as there have been reports of a mountain li- on in the area. Owen Harris, county coroner, decided to go along also. It will be inter- esting to see if the tracks be- longed to a dog, or a big mem- ber of the cat family. A fire destroyed the Floyd Miller home Wednesday, while Mr. Miller and his sons were preparing to bury a still born baby. The fire complete- ly destroyed the Miller home. The Hazleton fire department was called, but too late. The men worked feverously to put out the blaze, but to no avail. Alpha Tau Chapter of Psi Iota Xi held initiation servic- es Monday evening, June 17, in the church parlour at the Main Strett Presbyterian church for Freddie Kay Col- vin, Sharon McMillen, Helen Goodrid, Georgia Coleman, Delores Coleman and Jean Hargis. They were each pre- sented bracelets with Psi Ote Crests. Ten children are being treated for rabies as a result of an unfortunate event of af- fairs which occurred last Fri- day near Cambelltown. The children had been playing with a dog. The dog bit two of the children, but had been in contact with all of the chil- dren. The dog was destroyed and thrown in the strip pits immediately and the children were taken to the doctor. The Otwell High School Alumni meeting was held June 16, 1957, at the 4-H Building, Hornady Park, Pe- tersburg. Marriages: The First Methodist church was the scene at 7:30 Saturday eve- ning for the marriage of Miss Emma Lou Sutton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sutton, and James Wheeler, son of Mr. and Mrs. DeRoy Wheel- er, Frankfort, Ind. Deaths: Hilda Lavern Bea- dles, three-year-old Velpen resident, passed away at the Jasper hospital Tuesday night just two hours after being ad- mitted. The young girl died of encephalitis, inflammation of the brain; Funeral servic- es for Asa N. White, 86, Pe- tersburg, were held at the Harris Funeral Home, 10 :30 a.m., Monday, June 17, with the Rev. Verner Preston, offi- ciating; Funeral services for Mrs. Zoa Cox, 77, were held at 2 p.m., Wednesday, June 19, at the Nass and Son Fu- neral Home in Huntingburg, with the Rev. C. J. Hayes offi- ciating; Funeral services for Emil Sollman, 62, were at 2 p.m. Thursday, June 20, at the St. James Lutheran Church in Holland, with the Rev. H. E. Burns officiating; Funeral services for George Herman Meyer, 62, Winslow, were held at 2:30 p.m. Wednes- day, June 19, at the Curtis Fu- neral Home, with the Rev. H. D. Harmeyer, of the Baptist church, officiating. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, July 6, 1967 Otwell Holiness Camp meeting begins tonight (Thursday) at the Otwell camp one mile southeast of Otwell on highway 56, nine miles west of Jasper and about nine miles east of highway 61. The second session of Pe- tersburg High School Sum- mer Band program will re- sume Monday, July 10, and end Friday, July 28. The schedule will remain the same with the exception of the seventh grade students who will join the Junior High Band and meet on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 12:30 p.m. There will be a Gospel Sing at the 4-H building in Wash- ington Saturday night, July 8, featuring the Tri-State Galile- ans, Kline Trio of Petersburg and Collegiate Quarter of Evansville. The sing will be- gin at 8 p.m. Admission is $1. Bill Allen who owns and op- erates Allen's Barber shop on Main Street in Winslow, suf- fered a cut on his head re- quiring five stitches to close in a truck-tractor and fertil- izer tank accident Friday at 5 p.m. The accident occurred near Ireland on highway 56 when a tractor pulling a fer- tilizer tank turned left in front of Mr. Allen's pickup causing him to crash into the tank. Miss Sheri Riney, 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence H. Riney of Peters- burg won $10 as third prize in the Safe Driving Essay Con- test sponsored by the Automo- bile Club of Southern Indiana. Miss Riney is a Junior in Pe- tersburg High School. Marriages: Miss Bren- da Lea Bottom, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Bottom of Winslow, became the bride of Gary William Way, son of Wilford Way of Petersburg and the late Mrs. Mary Way, in a ceremony before the im- mediate families at the Win- slow General Baptist church Saturday, July 1, at 6 p.m. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Darell Frederick of Peters- burg, a daughter, on Wednes- day, June 28; To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mead of Blooming- ton, twin girls, Tena Esther and Beth Ann, Wednesday, June 28; To Mr. and Mrs. Ju- lius Church of Winslow, a son, Bernard Eugene, on Fri- day, June 30 ; To Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Pride of Route 1, Wheat- land, a son, Stephen Scott; To Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sims of Manchester, Missouri, a daughter, Kellie Renee, born Friday, June 30 ; To Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Lamb of Route 1, Petersburg, a son, Stacy Dean on Monday, July 3; To Mr. and Mrs. Epifanio Buenaventa, of Petersburg, a daughter, Shelly Yvonne, on Saturday, July 1. Deaths: Thurlow Sel- by, 71, of Petersburg, died Sunday, July 2, at the Veter- ans' hospital in Indianapolis where he had been a patient since suffering a heart at- tack May 3 this year; Marga- ret Adele Miller, 79, of Peters- burg, died at 1:10 p.m. Thurs- day, June 29, at the Hillcrest hospital in Vincennes where she had been a patient for two years; Waldo Bryant, 47, of Kalamazoo, Mighigan, oldest son of Harry and Ona Loveless Bryant of Winslow, died Sunday morning at 8:50 following brain surgery Fri- day in a Michigan hospital; Dr. Gordon A. Dickenson, 67, a practicing physician in Pe- tersburg several years, died at the Veterans' hospital in In- dianapolis Thursday, June 2. He lived 24 hours after fall- ing down a flight of stairs at the hospital when he suffered a heart attack; Funeral servic- es for Dewey Shouse, 59, Vin- cennes were conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at the Harris Fu- neral Home by the Rev. Don- ald Goben; Mrs. Maragret Jullian, 50, Oakland City, for- merly of Petersburg, died at the Daviess County hospital at 11:25 a.m. Wednesday. She had been ill for three weeks suffering from cancer; Funer- al services for Mrs. Eunice Winsted, 69, were conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m. in Ayr- shire Valley General Baptist church by the Rev. Herschel Long. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, July 2, 1992 Pike County residents will have plenty of choices on how to celebrate July 4th this weekend. There are three events scheduled in Pike County. The biggest of those is a three-day festival in Ot- well sponsored by the Jeffer- son Township Ruritan. The other two celebrations will be on July 4 and are at Prides Creek and St. Peters Luther- an Church in Stendal. The latest quakes in Cal- ifornia shook up four Pike County residents who were at- tending the Optimists Inter- national Convention in Aba- heim. The duration of this earthquake, nearly one min- ute, as well as being one of the most severe in the last 40 years, was what made it most frightening. Earthquakes usu- ally last just a few seconds. A rural Petersburg child was killed Tuesday afternoon, when he was hit by a car while crossing Highway 356 about a mile west of Algiers. Joseph Michael Dixey was crossing Highway 356 from the south side of the road to the north side where his house was lo- cated, when he ran into the path of an oncoming car, ac- cording to Pike County Sher- iff William Scales. The final meeting for pub- lic comment on the county's trash plan is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 7 at Petersburg City Hall/ A final draft of Pike County's sol- id waste management plan has been adopted by the sol- id waste board. It will be re- viewed for the final time at the public meeting July 7. Registration for the Ameri- can Cancer Society Pretty Ba- by contest will be 2 p.m. Fri- day, July 3, at the Sts. Peters and Paul Rectory Basement on Walnut St. in Petersburg. Any child under the age of two may participate. Marriages: Mr. and Mrs. Billy G. Flory of Monroe City announce the marriage of their daughter Kristeen Faye to Charles Wayne Perry of Bridgeport, Ill., son of Alber- ta and Jim Bemis of Marion, Iowa and Alvin Perry of Rob- inson, Ill.; Robin Ugenti and Cpl. Martin Hembree were united in marriage May 22 at 1 p.m. in the chapel at McDill AFB Tampa, Fla.; Brigette Kay Hillyard of Petersburg and Jeffrey Lee Wayne of Ow- ensboro, Ky. were united in marriage on June 6 at 4 p.m. at Yellow Creek Baptist Church in Owensboro, Ky. Births: To Rhonda and Bobby Cates of Petersburg on June 6, Saturday, a son, Dylan Jospeh; To Mr. and Mrs. Mi- chael Howes of Petersburg on Wednesday, June 17, their first child, a daughter, Lind- sey Jo; To Mr. and Mrs. Mi- chael L. Miley of Otwell, Tues- day, June 9, a daughter, Mi- kala Lynne; To Mr. and Mrs. Todd Armstrong of Princeton on June 23, their first child, a daughter, Shaila Dawn. Deaths: Laura Levon Shoultz, 77, of Petersburg, died at 1 p.m. Wednesday, June 24 at Deaconess Hos - pital in Evansville; John W. ( Jack) Aisthorpe, 90, of Win- slow, died at 6 p.m. Monday, June 29 at Asbury Center in Johnson City, Tenn.; Martha Henderson, 73, of Oakland City, died Thursday, June 25, at 1:20 p.m. at Good Samar- itan Nursing Home in Oak- land City; Jodie G. Lang, 82, of Winslow, died at 5:25 p.m. Monday, June 29, at the VA Hospital in Marion, Ill. By Sandy McBeth Pike County Historical Society James Brenton was born in 1764 in Hampshire County, Virginia, the son of James and Mary Brenton. He moved with his family to Harrodsburg (now Mer- cer County, K Y ) in the fall of 1779. His father was a scout and a Major during the Revolutionary War. James married Cathe- rine Elizabeth Bellesfeld, the daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Bellesfeld in 1785 in Mercer County, Kentucky. They had seven children: Robert, Peter and Henry were born in Mer- cer Co., Kentucky; Henry, John and Charity were al- so born in Kentucky; Mary and Ellen Nancy were born while the family lived in Shelby Co., Kentucky. Brenton's Revolution- ary War service can be fol- lowed based upon his pen- sion application #W2518 BLW 26696 -160 -55 on Au- gust 15, 1832 in Pike Coun- ty. "James Brenton, Peters- burg in said county, sixty eight declares he served first under General George Rogers Clark, Major Wil- liam Lyn, Captain Peter St- urgis and Lieutenant James Adams in 1780. The tour commenced in August or September and he served more than one month. He marched from near where Louisville stands to the mouth of Licking where Cincinnati is and up the old Chillicothe town to Pi- qua where he was in an en- gagement with the Shaw- nee Indians. They re- turned to Beargrass and were discharged by their captain. He next served in 1781 under Captain Cowen guarding their frontiers in the neighborhood of Har- rodsburg. He was drafted and served another tour in this neighborhood un- der Captain Ambrose Gor- don for the same purpose and a third tour under Captain Allison. In 1782 he served under Colonel George Rogers Clark, Ma- jor Hugh McGary, Colonel Benjamin Logan, Captain Samuel Kirkham, Lieuten- ant Henry Grider and En- sign William Crow. In Oc- tober they marched from Harrodsburg to Cincinna- ti and up the Miami above Mad River and destroyed five Indian towns. They returned in November. He served again that year un- der Captain Joseph Knic- aid and Colonel Benjamin Logan, they marched from Harrodsburg to Bryant Sta- tion and to Blue Lick where they buried the dead slain in the battle there. (Among the dead was his father, James Brenton) Preformed another tour that year and went down the Kentucky River to where Frankfort now stands and took meat up to the mouth of Shaw- nee Run for the use of the troops stationed at Louis- ville. He had a copy of his age, copied from his fa- ther's record. He had lived in Kentucky and Indiana since his service." James and Catherine then moved their fami- ly to White Oak Springs in Gibson County, Indi- ana Territory. On May 30, 1807 James registered his land as NW ¼ of Section 28, White River Township, Gibson County. He continued to be in- volved with the commu- nity and politics after his move to the Indiana Terri- tory. A news item printed in the WESTERN SUN of August 29, 1807, gave an account of a "meeting of a number of citizens South of White River at Mr. James BRINTON's" at which res- olutions were passed for the purpose of influencing territorial legislators to fa- vor certain proposed laws and oppose others, having to do their the freedom of elections, the practice of law, and the authorization of arbitrations. Ephraim JORDAN of Vincennes pre- sided at this meeting, and James BRINTON signed as clerk. - Jean, Margaret Story, and Treanor, Aline Jean, THE FIRST FAM- ILIES OF WHITE OAK SPRINGS (Published in In- diana Magazine of History, v.X, March 1936, pp.290 - 316). In May of 1813 he was appointed overseer of the poor for Gibson County. Then on December 29, 1815 he was appointed jus- tice of the peace. James Brenton, Early Pioneer and Revolutionary War Veteran 1959 Fair Queen candidates Above a are the 12 girls who entered in the 1959 Pike County Fair Queen Contest. The contest was held at the Hornady Park. Pictured are: Shirley Mason, Erma Mosby, Nina Nelson, Vina Workman, Geor- gia Earll, Sue Himsel, Roberta Aikman, Judy Asbell, Marilyn Coleman, LaDonna Pancake, Joyce Corn and Nancy Fink. The contest was under the direction of Mrs. W. A. Shafer. Photo taken by Wendell Clem- ents. Photo contributed by Tim Postin. Continued Next Week Wednesday, August 2 • Iraq invades Kuwait (1990) • Delegates sign Declaration of Independence (1776) Thursday, August 3 • Nautilus travels under North Pole (1958) • Columbus sets sail (1492) Friday, August 4 • Anne Frank captured (1944) • Lizzie Borden's parents found dead (1892) Saturday, August 5 • First electric traffic signal in- stalled (1914) • Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed (1963) • Sunday, August , 6 • American bomber drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima (1945) • First execution by electric chair (1890) Monday, August 7 • Washington creates the Pur- ple Heart (1782) • Teddy Roosevelt nominated as Bull Moose candidate (1912) Tuesday, August 8 • Nixon resigns (1974) • Truman signs United Nations Charter (1945) Source: History.com