100 years ago

Club activities for year planned

Members of the Seymour Country Club will enjoy an unusual program of entertainment during 1924, according to a program which was announced this morning by the executive committee of the organization. The first feature of entertainment for this month, which will mark the opening of the club this year, will be on the evening of May 15, when a semi-formal dance and card party will be given.

75 years ago

Baby monkey born to Jumbo and Suzie at Wixom Menagerie here

A new arrival, the kind many local residents may have never seen, made its appearance here Friday night.

It was a baby monkey, born to Jumbo and Suzie, monkeys at the Wixom wild animal exhibit located in one of the former WAC buildings at Freeman Field. The Wixom’s weren’t sure yet this morning whether to give the new baby monkey a male or female name. They said many local residents may be interested in seeing the baby monkey with its mother.

50 years ago

Rail traffic resumed

Rail traffic, after a delay of approximately 12 hours due to a derailment Friday morning, was resumed on Penn Central lines through Seymour shortly after 7 p.m. Friday but its resumption was on a slower basis by Federal order.

A verbal request was made late Friday that all trains, including Amtrak, on the Penn Central Railroad through Seymour not exceed a speed of 10 miles an hour, Mac E. Rogers, director of the Bureau of Railroad Safety, U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Washington D.C., stated.

25 years ago

The Force ushering in new theater

It’s no coincidence that Alliance Entertainment of New Albany plans to open its newest multi-screen theater in Seymour on the same day “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace” opens across the country.

“We fell a little behind on construction and so I told our general contractor he had to be finished by that date,” company President Anne Regains said of Wednesday’s opening of the George Lucas film.

The film will be the first movie to hit the screen at Alliances Great Escape 8 theater at Tanger Boulevard and U.S. 50.