100 years ago

Registration to show slight gain

The registration in Jackson County for November election will show an increase of at least five hundred compared with the figures of the 1922 registration, according to an incomplete tabulation being made at the office of Sam Carr, county auditor. It will be the first of next week before the registration by political parties will be entirely tabulated according to precincts.

75 years ago

First Town Hall will be sellout

With but few tickets remaining for the first Town Hall meeting of the season Monday night at the Elks, it appears this event will be a complete sell-out. At the beginning of the advance sale about 275 tickets were made available to farmers, local business men and Rotarians on whose regular meeting night this event is being held.

50 years ago

Norman is President of county fair board

Don Norman, of Brownstown, was elected president of the Jackson County Fair Association for 1975 when the association held its annual dinner meeting Friday night at the Elks’ Club. Norman succeeds Edgar Hackman, who will remain on the executive committee.

25 years ago

Officials checking dead pigeons

The skies over Seymour have been darkened the past few days by the unexplained deaths of an abnormally high number of pigeons.

“We have had a couple of calls and have begun to look into it,” John Reichenbacker, an environmentalist with the Jackson County Health Department, said.

Reichenbacker said he also has noticed more dead pigeons in his travels around Seymour recently. He’s seen others that look sick because they could no longer fly and were shaking.

The city is not putting out any poison that could be causing the deaths and neither has the health department, although both have in the past, Reichenbacker said.

“It’s been considered, but we would have to have someone willing to collect dead birds around the clock and we haven’t found anyone willing to do that yet,” Reichenbacker said.