Yester Year

The Republican has published local news weekly since 1847. We offer this column as a look back at events from our archives and to help connect today’s readers to the people and events in our past.

ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Issue of September 10,

1896 Maplewood: The tent meeting at Quebec is drawing large crowds.

The most valuable public improvement in road work ever done in Franklin township is now well underway in grading the National road above high water mark for the distance of a fourth of a mile west of Mill Creek.

Coatesville: Uncle Hardin Tincher is a record breaker as a worker. He is seventy-two years old and has cut all his winter wood.

North Salem organized a McKinley club Saturday night with 175 members. George B. Davis is president and John Adair, secretary.

Tomorrow afternoon, at the Estep ball park, Danville will cross bats with the Greencastle City Club. Admission 15¢, ladies free.

The Republicans of Clayton and vicinity met and formed a McKinley Club Saturday night.

Avon: Socials seem to be in order now. Friday eve Eva and Frank Carter gave a social to their many friends. Quite a large number were present and enjoyed themselves until a late hour in social games and music.

Brownsburg: Jno. A. Morgan will fit up a photograph gallery in the near future and will be prepared to turn out the latest in the photo line.

On Saturday, Sept. 19th, there will be a grand rally at the Magnetic Springs at Cartersburg with speaking morning and afternoon.

Misses Grace Huron and Mary Burk very handsomely entertained a number of young ladies yesterday afternoon with a thimble party at the residents of Dr. Huron.

Mrs. Sarah J. Hill has been granted a pension of twelve dollars per month, dating from the death of her husband, D.F. Hill.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO Issue of September 9, 1921

Sheriff Clark wonders if a new jail is the next thing in Hendricks county. Monday night the jail was filled. Alert officials and the general crime wave are responsible.

Miss Lilla M. Hescock, Hendricks county nurse, will be in her office on the third floor of the court house every Saturday afternoon from 1 to 4, beginning September 16.

Miss Dix, the new Home Demonstration Agent, finds busy days as she starts her work in the county.

Dr. Thomas Barker is in his splendid new office on the south side of the square where he welcomes patients and friends.

Walter J. Clark, the poultry judge, has a contract to cull out a flock of 1000 chickens on a poultry farm near Crawfordsville. He is assisting at the State Fair this week.

Dr. A.P.W. Bridges has formed a partnership with Dr. B.M. O’Brien for the general practice of medicine.

Miss Elma Jackson is an artist with the violin and splendid offers have been made for her lyceum and Chautauqua programs.

There was organized at Clayton on August 5, the Hendricks County National Farm Loan Association. The purpose is to make 33-year amortized farm loans at one per cent. commission.

Over 200 students are expected to enroll in the fall term of C.N.C., which opens Tuesday, September 20. Last fall the total enrollment reached 162.

Sunday, the annual reunion of the Hadley family was held in the high school auditorium, North Salem. This branch of the Hadley family are decedents of James T. and Mary Hadley, a pioneer couple who came from North Carolina and settled in Indiana near Mill Creek in 1825. The day closed with a watermelon feast on the lawn.

SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Issue of September 12, 1946

Dr. E.C. Cumings reports 174 new students have enrolled for the Canterbury College school term beginning this month.

Visitors to the Farmers Fair at Brownsburg airport, Saturday, will have the opportunity to see the first glider flight ever made in Hendricks County.

President E.C. Cumings has recently been notified of the accreditment of Canterbury College to train veterans under Public Law 346 and Public Law 16. Approximately seventy-five percent of the present applications for enrollment at Canterbury are those of veterans availing themselves of the opportunity for higher education offered by the government.

Next Thursday will be “Military Night” at the Danville Fall Festival. Two composite companies of the 3rd Infantry State Guard will parade Thursday evening.

Cartersburg: A new building to house the post office is being constructed here.

Total of the first six grades at Danville schools is 356. The high school enrollment is 244. Total amount reaches the 600 mark.

Frederick G. Neel, former principal of Hunter Elementary School at Bloomington, has been named professor of education and head of the education department at Canterbury College.

President E.C. Cumings has announced appointment of Tilman J. Hadley as band and orchestra for the beginning of the fall term.

The clock on the east side of the court house has been taken down and is being repaired.

FIFTY YEARS AGO Issue of September 9, 1971

Tuesday morning, officials of the Danville Community School Corporation, the School Building Corporation, James Associates, and school officials and attorney witnessed the groundbreaking for the new Danville Community High School.

Hendricks County Sheriff Russell Carmichael estimated, Tuesday, that over 150 fans from the National Hot Rod Association at Raceway Park, west of Clermont - had passed through the jail since the event opened last Wednesday night.

The Danville Community Action Group worked all day, Saturday, to put up 50 flags along Main Street for the Labor Day Weekend.

The concession building and restrooms at the south end of the C.F. Roark Stadium, Brownsburg, has been completed. The Jaycees sponsored the building.

Miss Karen Kisner was the overnight guest, Friday, of Miss Leisa Mount of Indianapolis, for a surprise birthday party for Leisa.

The Danville Jaycees are planning the fourth annual Old Fashioned Swap & Shop Days for October 16-17, on the public square.

The Danville Chamber of Commerce is offering a reward of $250 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the dynamiting of the concession building in the Danville Park.

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Issue of September 5, 1996

Country western favorites, the J.R. Love - Kim Cronley Show with the Silverado Band, will be featured at Danville’s Ellis Park Amphitheater, Saturday, September 14, at 7 p.m., sponsored by the Danville Chamber of Commerce.

Spectators are invited to the inaugural Three Round Slalom Waterskiing Tournament at Hawthorne Lake, one mile south of U.S. 36 on SR 75, Sunday, September 15.

A Danville High School graduate is among those to be inducted into the Rose Hulman Institute of Technology Athletic Hall of Fame on Saturday, September 7. He is three-time NCAA III Track & Field champion, Chris Trapp.

The Hon. John A. Kendall of Hendricks County has bee nominated for the Indiana State Bar Association Centennial Service Award in recognition of his outstanding leadership and service to the legal profession and his community.

The Robert G. Porter Funeral Home, North Salem and Jamestown, has announced that Dan Hurt has joined the staff as of September 2.

TEN YEARS AGO Issue of September 8, 2011

Residents who witness unusual silver objects in Hendricks County next week should remain calm. They’re not an army of UFO’s, but a caravan of Airstream trailers for the Regional Rally at the Hendricks County Fairgrounds.

Meredith M. Kincaid an Barbara (Sedwick) Kincade are marking their 50th wedding anniversary on September 2.

Nimrod, an abstract, painted-aluminum sculpture by Odea Halahrny, is at a new location, in front of the Danville Police Department (Hargrave Hall). The sculpture was moved from the plaza by the former Town Hall to its new spot.

The Mill Creek Community School Corporation will host two community forums to discuss a balanced versus traditional calendar.

Hendricks Civic Theater invites adults to audition for “Wrinkled Rebellion” - a hilarious comedy written and directed by local playwright, Ron Schnitzlus.