100 years ago

Paving on large scale this year

Business transacted by the city council at its regular meeting Friday night consisted principally of improvement projects and plans for spring clean-up and street work. There are a number of street improvements which the council intends completing this year, which if they pass without remonstrances by property owners, will make municipal improvements during 1924 far exceed those of last year.

75 years ago

Added drilling shows no oil work to go on

Work on an oil well north of Brownstown remained at a standstill today while Harley Burton and the men who have worked with him for over two weeks on the well pondered their next move.

50 years ago

Grandy Jury indicts three

Jackson County grandy jury returned three indictments Friday afternoon, including one for first degree murder.

Jeffrey A. Nierman, county prosecuting attorney, said the first degree murder charge was returned “against a juvenile, and a preliminary juvenile hearing will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday.”

Although Nierman said he could not release the full text of the indictment pending that hearing Monday, court observers believe the indictment names David L. Fleetwood, 17, who has been held in the Jackson County Jail at Brownstown on a preliminary charge of murder stemming from the fatal shooting of James T. Blevins.

25 years ago

Second-grader’s essay takes home first prize

With a thoughtful tribute to his physician, Jacob Lee Jones, a second-grade pupil at Medora Elementary School, has won the grand prize in the seventh annual Doctors’ Appreciation Day essay contest sponsored by Memorial Hospital.

“You help me to get better when I’m sick,” Jacob wrote about Dr. James G. Ingram, a family practitioner with Jackson Park Family Physicians in Seymour.