100 years ago

Skimpy dinners saved for orphans

There will be many a skimpy dinner served in America tomorrow, and it is altogether probable that rice soup, crackers and such stuff will serve as the main meal for a lot of Seymour families.

The short rations will not be the result of inability on the part of the family pocketbook to furnish the usual dinner but because many are entering into the Golden Rule Sunday sacrificial dinner movement to provide food for hundreds of thousands of children of the Near East.

75 years ago

State increases aid to schools

Seymour public schools will receive slightly over $2,000 more this year in state aid for the public school system here than was received last year, figures released through the office of Superintendent Adolph Zollman revealed today.

The higher amount represents an increase of one teaching unit over the 50 in the local schools last year for a total of 51 teaching units.

50 years ago

‘76 observance planned

Preliminary planning for a bicentennial observance in Seymour in 1976 resulted in a wide variety of ideas and projections Thursday night at the initial planning session in city hall.

Those present at the meeting agreed to have a three-day celebration ending with the annual V-J Day parade, which in 1976 will be held on Aug. 15. This will also be the 30th year for the observance, sponsored each year by the Leslie Arbuckle-Zimmerman Post No. 1925 Veteran of Foreign Wars.

25 years ago

Judge will retire; Brown hanging up robes after 28 years on bench

Individuals appearing in Jackson Circuit Court after Jan. 1 will find a new face behind the bench.

“My retirement will allow someone else with a new and fresher outlook to deal with the myriad of problems and responsibilities of this important office,” Judge Robert R. Brown said in a letter announcing his resignation to Indiana Gov. Frank O’Bannon.

O’Bannon will be responsible for picking Brown’s replacement.