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C-12 Wednesday, Februar y 14, 2018 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, October 20, 1942 J.R. Rumble brought to the Press Office Saturday a sample of a second crop of summer apples. Mr. Rum- ble told us that his trees had been in bloom last De- cember when so many of the trees broke out in bloom, but in spite of that had borne one crop and set on another, which now are coloring up. Mr. Rumble's farm is about six miles southwest of Pe- tersburg. The Junior Church of the Main Street Presbyterian church held a scavenger hunt for its members Fri- day night. The homes of the members were pleasantly in- vaded by the group in search of divers and assorted trea- sures. They were in search of everything from personal signatures to gorgeous red roses and original poems. A fter a strenuous search, they all reported back to the church with their glean- ings. It was amazing to see the looks of acute interest on the expressions of each group as the others report- ed their failure or success. In two days of work, the Petersburg scrap collection truck has gathered 7,675 pounds of scrap metal. Rev- erend McLaughen, Omer Klipsch and Doyle Manhart, with the aid of a number of Petersburg high school stu- dents have been doing the collecting. On Saturday, they collected 3,745 pounds and Monday morning 4,200 pounds. They expect to fin- ish the city collecting Tues- day and ask that any who have scrap call either Rev- erend McLaugen or Omer Klipsch for a pick-up. The U.S. Navy welcomed another former resident of Petersburg when Charles J. Toole, 17, son of Mrs. Gol- da Spillman, reported for ac- tive duty at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station last week. Marriages: In a beau- tiful and impressive cere- mony, performed Saturday evening, October 17 at 4:30 p.m., Mary Grace McClev- ey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N.H. McClevey, of River For- rest, Ill., became the bride of Ensign Robert White, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.R. White, of Evanstol, Ill. Deaths: In the second accident of the same type inside of a week, James W. Briggs, 50, director of The First National Bank of Win- slow and a mine mechanic was crushed to death about 8 p.m. Sunday at the Ditney Hill shaft mine near Elber- feld; Commodore H. Mi- ley, only son of Mrs. Sarah Schaefer, of this city, died suddenly last Friday morn- ing at about 8:30 while at work at his trade as a lino- type operator at Hope, Indi- ana, where he had been em- ployed for the past several months. He was at work at the key board of his machine when stricken, death being instantaneous; Word came to Mrs. Frank Spillman, of west Walnut street, last Mon- day afternoon that her broth- er, Haskell Lucas, a former resident of this city, passed away suddenly, at noon Mon- day, at the home of his half- brother, Bernard Scales, in Muncie, Ind. Death was due to heart attack; As this paper was sent to press, we were informed that Lawrence V. Colvin, City Clerk-Treasur- er, had passed away at the Daviess County hospital at 2 o'clock today (Monday) af- ternoon. SIXTY YEARS AGO The Petersburg Press Friday, January 3, 1958 Virgil Woods, 55 -year-old Winslow resident, lost two fingers on his right hand as a result of an accident at the Ayrshire Coal Corpo- ration mine near Winslow, Wednesday. Mr. Woods caught his right hand in ma- chinery while at work at the mine. He was rushed to Oak- land City hospital, where the fingers were amputated. His condition is reported to be satisfactory. Larry and Lowell Foust, who reside five miles west of Petersburg on rural route 2, purchased Eddie's D-X Sta- tion from Eddie Hawkins this week. The brothers took over ownership of the station Thursday, Jan. 2. Lee Milton Gray, Peters- burg, has been elected to a study membership in the In- ternational Grapho Analysis Society, Inc., of Springfield, Mo., world famous home of scientific character analysis from handwriting, it was an- nounced this week. Marriages: In a candle- light ceremony before an al- ter of poinsettias, Miss Jan Martha Knowles, daughter of Mrs. Millard Hightower, was united in marriage to Harry Earl Nelson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Nel- son, at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, December 21 in the First Methodist church; At 5 p.m. Daturday, Dec. 28, at St. Pe- ter's Lutheran church of Manhatten, New York City, Marie Lorena Weisheit and Frederick A. Philippopou- los-Vendouzis exchanged wedding vows before an al- tar banked with mixed white flowers, seven branch can- delabra and holiday greens; Mr. and Mrs. Bill Harvey an- nounce the marriage of their daughter Sharon Lynn Har- vey to Jerry Lee Van Meter. They were married Satur- day afternoon in the Meth- odist church at New Shaw- neetown, Ill.;Miss Esther Marie Parker, Monroe City, and Paul R. Pancake, Pe- tersburg, were married Sat- urday, December 28 at 7 p.m. at Reel's Chapel Meth- odist church before an alter of palms, ferns, two large standing baskets of white mums, stock and ferns and two branch candelabra. Births: Dr. and Mrs. John Kidd announce the birth of a daughter, Sara Alice on De- cember 26; Mr. and Mrs. Al- vin Hill announce the birth of a son, Timothy Alvin, on Saturday; Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam Hensley announce the birth of a son, Billy Joe on Friday; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Adams announce the birth of a son, Charles Edward, on Saturday. Deaths: Funeral services for Ann E. Robling, 80, were at 2 p.m., Wednesday, Janu- ary 1, at the Harris Funeral Home; Virgil Woods, Funer- al services for Mrs. Arvilla B. Ranger, 82, Dale, Ind., were at 10 a.m. Thursday, at the Dale EUB church. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Press-Dispatch Thursday, January 18, 1968 Charles "Bill" Williams, Pike County Republican chairman and local busi- nessman, announced Tues- day that he is a Republican candidate for nomination for secretary of state. He is the first to announce his can- didacy for that office. Wil- liams has been Republican county chairman since Au- gust 1966. He is a native of Washington, a graduate of Washington Catholic High School and Purdue Univer- sity School of Pharmacy. He and his wife, Anne have six children. Although the blanket of snow worked a hardship on many, some of the members of the Arthur G.B. Church used it for "Fun and Frol- ic" Sunday afternoon. They built the snowman shown above, which is about ten feet tall. According to Bill Klusmeir, the snow in his garden averaged 11 inches deep. It started falling Fri- day around suppertime and snowed until late Sunday. Six Pike county men were inducted into the armed ser- vices January 3 and several were called for physical ex- aminations for that day. In- ducted were Gregory E. Weeks, Richard Griffith, Donald Stephen Uppen- camp, John W. Norrington, James Brenton, and Robert Nalley, Jr. Weeks and Nalley volunteered for the draft. A five room frame home belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Buster Nelson in the east end of Winslow was de- stroyed by fire along with all its contents at 10 :30 a.m. Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Nel- son had not been gone from home more than ten min- utes when they were noti- fied their house was burn- ing. They left their home and drove by the home of his mother, Mrs. Henry Brown one block east of Main to see if she needed anything. How the fire started has not been determined. The house and contents were partially cov- ered by insurance. Marriages: Miss Re- becca Anne Stone, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Stone of Petersburg, and James Kent Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester John- son of Petersburg, plighted their marriage vows in a can- dlelight service at the First Baptist church of Peters- burg, Saturday evening, De- cember 30 at 6 p.m. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Linden Deffendall Peters- burg, a son, Lee, January 13; To Mr. and Mrs. Rich- ard Dawson, Petersburg, a son, David Richard, on Janu- ary 14; To Mr. and Mrs. Paul Young, Winslow, a daugh- ter, Suzette Dawn, on Janu- ary 9; To Mr. and Mrs. Lar- ry Bolin, Winslow, their first child, a daughter, Anita Jo, on January 10 ; To Mr. and Mrs. Michael Wilson, Pe- tersburg, their first child, a daughter, Susan Renee, on January 9; To Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rogers, Oak- land City, a daughter, Su- san Delane, on December 31; To Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Helsley, Monroe City, twins, a son and a daughter, Kent Alan and Kimberly Sue, on January 9. Deaths: Funeral services for Paul Wiseman will be to- day, Thursday, at 2 p.m. at Harris Funeral Home; Ted Green, 67, native of Winslow who had lived in Evansville more than 30 years, died Thursday morning, Jan. 11 in the Deaconess hospi- tal at 9:05 a.m.; Perry Rich- ardson, 86, retired farm- er of Oakland City, died Tuesday, Jan. 16 at 10 a.m. at Hedges Nursing Home; Orbie Willis, 63, of Glezen, resident of the Oakland City Rest Home for the past three months, died in a fire which swept a three room frame house early Sunday morn- ing where Mr. Willis and Floyd Heath, also a resi- dent of the Nursing Home, were sleeping. Mr. Heath escaped the burning home uninjured;Funeral services for Hobart J. Grubb, 70, were at 10 a.m. Friday at the Corn Mortuary; Miss Jeanne Bak- er, 20, of Loogootee, died at 6:05 p.m. Sunday in the Da- viess County hospital after an 18 months illness of can- cer; Memorial services for Mrs. Florence Fine, former Petersburg resident, were conducted Wednesday af- ternoon at 2 p.m. from the Harris Funeral Home; One of Union's most beloved women passed away Thurs- day, January 11 at 2:30 a.m. in the Gibson General hospi- tal in Princeton. Mrs. Mag- gie Lou Endicott, 88, whose life was spent in helping oth- ers and who loved and was loved by everyone, especial- ly children, had been in the hospital since Sunday, Jan- uary 5 suffering from pneu- monia; George Ruck, 79, re- tired American Telephone and Telegraph official, died Friday, January 12, in Clear- water, Fla.; Mrs. Elvin (Di- na) Cox, of Petersburg, re- ceived word Thursday night, January 9 of the death of her mother, Mrs. Ellen Rice, 78, who had been living with one of her daughters in New Jer- sey since July 1967; Byron Allen, 84, of Washington, died at 7:40 p.m. Wednes- day of last week in the Da- viess County hospital after a serious illness of two weeks caused from two heart at- tacks; Miss Vera Whitaker, 56, of Cornersville, died Jan- uary 12 at 12:10 at her home. TWENTY- FIVE YEARS The Press-Dispatch Thursday, January 14, 1993 Police are investigating a break in and theft at the Pe- tersburg Pet Clinic. Peters- burg Police Chief Mike Key said someone apparently forced their way in through a window in the rear of the building. Once inside the building, they took an un- determined amount of cash. Jan Rudolph told Key it took place sometime between 5 p.m. Wednesday, January 6 and 9 a.m. Friday, January 8. No estimate was placed on the amount of damage to the window and window frame. Crime statistics in Pike County have several sub- stantial changes for 1992 compared to the previous two years. Some arrests are on the rise whole others are on the decline. Sheriff Wil- liam Scales thinks some of the changes in numbers a are directly related to chang- es in the enforcement agen- cies, while others are a sign of the times. One of the most disturbing statistics is in the number of batteries (assaults on individuals). It is increas- ing at an alarming rate, near- ly doubling both of the last two years, In 1990, there were four battery arrests, in 1991, there were seven and in 1992, that figure nearly doubled to 13. Sheriff Scales said most of the batteries in 1992 were either husband and wife or boyfriend-girl- friend fights. Heather Powell and Heath Norrick were named Opti- mist Youths of the month for December. The students are juniors at Pike Central High School where they are involved in sports, academ- ic and extracurricular activ- ities. They were recognized at a recent meeting of the Pike Optimist Club where they were presented with plaques. Matt Atkinson claimed the only blue ribbon for the visiting Pike Central Char- gers when he clocked 1:13:4 breast stroke during the 123- 54 loss to Heritage Hills. Paul Brewster, of Pe- tersburg, stands in front of his new electronics store on Main Street. Brewster opened Tri-County Elec - tronics in November. He said they specialize in re- pair of televisions and VCRs as well as sales of used televi- sions and installation and re- pair of antenna systems. Marriages: Mr. and Mrs. Chris Halderman were unit- ed in marriage on December 5 at 1 p.m. at the Little Log Chapel in Gatlinburg, Tenn. The candlelight ceremony was performed by Rev. Rich- ard A. Pentecost. Births: To Mr. and Mrs. Billy Stone, of Washington, on Friday, Dec. 18, a daugh- ter, Patricia Teneale; To Kel- ly Cook, of Stendal, at St. Jo- seph's Hospital in Hunting- burg, on Sunday, Dec. 20, a daughter, Charli Dawn; To Mr. and Mrs. Todd Sullivan, in Evansville, on Thursday, Dec. 17, a son, Dean Robert; To Jerry and Kelly Willis, of Velpen, on Monday, Jan. 4, a son, Dalton Cody; To Mr. and Mrs. John I. Morton, of Winslow, on Jan. 6, their first child, a daughter, Megan Lynn; To Mr. and Mrs. Scott Caldwell, their first child, on Tuesday, Jan. 5, a son, Elijah Raphael. Deaths: Ora F. Singleton, 81, of Oakland City, died Saturday, January 9 at 9:45 a.m. at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville; Fred W. Hal- wes, 63, of Fort Branch, died Saturday, January 9 at 2:30 p.m. at Welborn Hospital in Evansville; Velmar Eugene Lewis, 73, of Washington, died at 4:55 p.m. Monday, January 4 at Daviess County Hospital in Washington; Lu- ther L. Craig, 85, of Birdseye, died at 5:45 p.m. Friday, Jan- uary 8 at Huntingburg Con- valescent Center; Word was received at Zoar community that Edmund Hilderbrand, 82, died January 7 unexpect- edly at the home of a friend; Wanete Moore, 66, of Albion, Ill., sister of Freida Bolin, of Winslow, died at 3:10 p.m. January 5 at her residence; Dorothy L. Hayden, 81, of Oakland City, died Tuesday, January 5, at 10 :54 a.m. at Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes; Robert R. Fred- erick, 49, of Washington, fa- ther of Mrs. Robert (Anna Marie) Hill, of Spurgeon, died at 7:15 a.m. Thursday, January 7 at his residence fol- lowing a lengthy illness; Roy Burton, 84, of Mackey, died at 2:15 a.m. Tuesday, Janu- ary 5 at St. Mary's Medical Center in Evansville; Joyce Fields, 55, of Crane, died at 5:10 p.m. Sunday, January 10 at Green County General Hospital in Linton. Children from 1940s Pike County Pictured above are the children of Ervin and Eithel (Willis) Fowler; Inez Lois, Robert Fowler and Car- olyn Fowler. This pictured family lived in Pike County in the 1940s for all but four years of their lives. Submitted photo Wednesday, February 14 • St. Valentine beheaded (278) • The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1929) Thursday, February 15 • The USS Maine explodes (1898) • Canada adopts maple leaf flag (1965) Friday, February 16 • Archaeologist opens tomb of King Tut (1923) • Silver dollars made legal (1978) Saturday, February 17 • "Madame Butterfly" premieres (1904) • Beetle overtakes Model T as world's best-selling car (1972) Sunday, February 18 • Twain publishes "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1885) • Dale Earnhardt killed in crash (2001) Monday, February 19 • Donner Party rescued (1847) • Aaron Burr arrested for treason (1807) Tuesday, February 20 • Postal Service Act regulates United States Post Office Department (1792) • John Glenn becomes first American to orbit Earth (1962) Source: History.com