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 October 22, 1896

Lizton: The new school house in district No. 3 being completed, Mr. Brammell began the second term Monday.

Avon: Joe Reid has purchased the old Bailey school house and leased the ground where it stands. He has partitioned it off make a snug four-room cottage of it.

Amo: The measles are still on the boom with thirty-five or forty new cases this week.

The schools at Hazelwood are closed on account of diphtheria.

It is recommended by the Board of Health that each child at school have its own drinking cup.

Monday’s rally at North Salem was a surprise to the good people there, who, while they expected a crowd, were totally unprepared for the thousands at thronged the streets.

Avon: A rapid flurry of big snow flakes Oct. 18th made the small boy’s blood and body leap and caused the old man to shiver and sigh.

Oak Ridge: We have a man in our township who does nothing but attend rallies and ‘rah for McKinley.

New Winchester: Since our last report, the Republican ranks are re-enforced by two boys, Henry Baird’s and Ezra Mason’s. The former has called his boy McKinley.

The Avon McKinley Club had one of the best meetings of the campaign last Saturday night. Ira J. Ross carried the house the house by storm in an eloquent flight of oratory.

Amo: The McKinley club of this place is very enthusiastic. Our glee club, that call themselves the “Triplet Quartet,” render a number of original songs at each meeting.

Dr. Parker, health officer, made. Round of the town last week to inspect the cases of diphtheria to ascertain if it would be prudent to open school Monday.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO Issue of October 20, 1921

Yesterday morning, the E.R. Robards bank at Stilesville failed to open its doors. A posted notice stated that the bank has closed for voluntary liquidation. It is believed this is the first bank in Hendricks County every to close its doors because of financial embarrassment.

Five boxes, containing 275 garments contributed by Friends of Danville and Mill Creek, were packed this week and will be forwarded for relief of suffering in central Europe.

Miss Heacock, county nurse, has been in Guilford township this week and today is examining the children of the Quaker school.

J.L. Darnell received a car of fine northern Wisconsin potatoes Tuesday and they are the only real Wisconsin potatoes. Sherman Christy was an extra clerk at the grocery during the potato rush.

A notable meeting of the Up-to-Date club was. Held with Mrs. Charles Smith yesterday afternoon, when Miss Hazel Hargrave reviewed “Main Street” and charmingly interpreted the heroine, Carol.

Straight salary, $35.00 per week and expenses to man or woman with rig to introduce Eureka Egg Producer.

The Boy Scouts, in charge of Assistant Scoutmaster M.L. Hess, went on a “hike” to the “Devil’s Back Bone,” Friday afternoon and spent the night.

Mrs. Anna Tincher grew on her farm a monster pumpkin seventy-two inches in circumference, is forty-one inches long and weighs sixty-five pounds.

The Pollyanna Girls Sewing club will entertain, Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock, the mothers and members of the Home Economics club in the American Legion hall.

SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Issue of October 24, 1946

Roy Callahan, a returned veteran of Stilesville, and a forger sergeant in the Marine corps, was awarded a new Oldsmobile from the Essex company in Indianapolis. This is the first government car to be received by an injured veteran in this county.

Dr. E.C. Cumings, president of Canterbury College, announced today the appointment of Fredrick Neal as new Dean of Men.

Mrs. John Jenner has opened Boots’ Beauty Box Shop on the second floor of the Porter building.

E.E. Long sold his grocery store and huckster route at Hardscrabble and is moving to Danville.

Allen Campbell was elected president of the Hendricks County Tuberculosis Association at a recent meeting of the executive committee.

Representatives from each of the sororities and fraternities on the Canterbury College campus met recently for the first Greek Council meeting.

South Liberty Home Economics club met last Tuesday at noon in the dining room of the Spring Hill Café.

Center Township War Mothers are asking for the names and addresses of all men and women from the township who are now in service overseas, in order that they may be remembered with Christmas gifts

FIFTY YEARS AGO Issue of October 21, 1971

Announcement was made, Monday, that the Indiana Law Enforcement Training Board has decided to build the state’s new Police Academy on a 310-acre tract of state-owned land at Plainfield.

The Halloween spirit roams the hills of the Frank Konovsek farm, Brownsburg. For the third year, Mrs. Konovsek and her husband, with the aid of their six children, have transformed the barn into a Halloween fantasy for youngsters.

Marion Ginn, president of the State Bank of Lizton, and Hildon Ayers, vice-president and branch manager at Pittsboro, held break ground, last Monday morning, for a new branch building on South Maple St., Pittsboro.

An open house is scheduled for October 24, 2 to 4 p.m., at the Brownsburg Public Library, 104 E. Main.

Mrs. Sandra Martin Burnell was among 79 students receiving graduation certificates, October 1, from the School of Practical Nursing at Arlington High School, Indianapolis.

Louise Platter, Danville, received the United Farm Bureau Insurance Award for the painting, “Ladybug Retreat,” at the Indianapolis Artists Club award tea at L.S. Ayers.

Visit our newest facility – Drive-In, Walk-up – West Marion St., Danville, across from the Post Office. The Danville State Bank.

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Issue of October 17, 1996

The Greater Danville Chamber of Commerce has embarked on the information highway with its own World Wide Web page on the Internet to provide instant information about the community.

Monday night, the Danville School Board honored Helen Disney, food service manager for 40 years, upon her retirement.

Levi Riggs, Danville Middle School Grade 6, is back by popular demand – he will be giving an encore performance during the “Nothing But Country” musical concert sponsored by the Danville Community High School Choral Department on November 2. Levi brought down the house at last year’s Grade 5 “Monster Mash” with his rendition of “Sold!”

The Association of Indiana Counties honored Hendricks County with its “County Achievement Award” and County Clerk Connie Lawson with its “Outstanding Clerk of the Circuit Court” award at its recent 38th annual conference.

Shelly Buckingham, 16 year old daughter of Dick and Jane Buckingham, North Salem, received the honor of having her drawing and writing selected for the Peace Wall Project at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.

TEN YEARS AGO Issue of October 20, 2011

Brownsburg Community School System became the latest school system to adopt the balanced calendar for the 2012- 13 school year.

To answer a growing need in these hard economic times, the Hendricks County Food Pantry is sponsoring its second Treats for Tots campaign.

The original, signed manuscript that eventually became Front Porch Tales, the first book from best selling author Philip Gulley will be auctioned by the Hendricks Regional Health Foundation as part of the Treat People Better award and auction event.

North Salem: The new Italian restaurant will soon be open. They have spent so much time completely re-doing the former Dr. Wisehart office.

A new sign, proclaiming, “Downtown Danville – Since 1824” was added to the upper side wall at 58 West Main on Wednesday. The sign was put up by the Downtown Danville Partnership, with the cooperation of the building’s owner, Gerald Vornholt.