100 years ago
Clairvoyant sees great boom just ahead for city
Seymour is on the threshold of the greatest boom in its history, according to a prediction of Princess Zoraida, clairvoyant and Egyptian seeress, who is here for several days.
She has told several people who have inquired about the industrial situation here that the boom will start in a big way in 1924 or 1925 when the Stiegelmeyer Manufacturing Company begins operations.
Seymour will be a city three times its present size in 1930, Princess Zoraida predicted.
75 years ago
Plans set for dedication of streetlights
Final plans were being made today for the dedication of the new downtown lighting system. The ceremony will be held at 7:30 o’clock Monday night on West Second Street, near the Elks Club, under the sponsorship of the Seymour Exchange Club.
The new White Way system, which is now in place, will provide several times more light in the downtown section than the present system, which is more than 25 years old, with virtually no additional expense to the city, it is pointed out.
50 years ago
City-County police match Sept. 30
Plans have been completed for the annual city-county pistol match, scheduled for Sept. 30, and indications are the match again will be close.
Both teams will have nine men, and the matches will be fired in relays of four with two from each department.
25 years ago
Unit citation arrives more than 50 years after war ends
It was a long time coming, but a unit citation issued to the 94th Infantry Division for its efforts to crack the Siegfried Line during World War II earlier this year is a great way to remember once of the last offenses of that war, a local member of the division said.
“They just lost the paperwork,” Hobart Baker of Brownstown said of the unit citation.
The citation stems from the division’s ability to establish a 5-mile-deep bridgehead near Lampaden after crossing the Saar River on March 5, 1945.
Conditions during the battle for the Siegfried Line were brutal, especially during the early going, Baker said.
“We lost about 5,000 with trench foot and had pretty close to 5,000 wounded and about 1,100 killed,” he added.