Through the Years: 1947 - The Spencer Town Board voted 4-1 against Daylight Savings Time
Deaths: Larry Scutt, 78; Mike Brown, 70; Charles Beliles, 80; Nancy Kirchgraber, 90.
The Owen County Veteran Memorial Park on North Washington Street, Spencer, was dedicated.
The Reverend Maurice Wright celebrated his 90th birthday with cake, punch, and fellowship at Bethel Baptist Church located at 3573 Franklin Road, Spencer.
Lester Lewis celebrated his 97th birthday.
Artwork by Sarah Walden, 15, of Spencer, was on display at the United States Department of Education in Washington, D.C.
Tony “TR” Purcel was remembered by family on what would have been his 40th birthday.
Frank Hamilton was remembered by family on the 1st anniversary of his death.
10 years (2012)
Birth: A daughter, Joslynn Mae, born to Josh and Lindsay Edwards.
Deaths: Carolyn Gearheart-Thayer, 69; Billy Wilson, 77.
Anniversary: Robert and Betty (Haines) Priest celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary.
Art by glassblower Jordy Minnick was on display at the Owen County Art Guild, in Spencer.
Matt Patterson’s hole-in-one at Rolling Meadows Golf Course gave the Owen Valley Patriots a 101-102 win over Terre Haute South.
Owen Valley High School’s “Westminster Shabbey,” composed of team members Gabe Lacy, Mitchell Price, and Lucas Bird were the National SeaPerch Champions.
Carol Styer was named Owen County’s “Big of the Year” by the Big Brothers Big Sisters program.
Ed Zehr was seeking Duke the black Labrador Retriever who was lost somewhere in the Locust Lake – Bush roads area.
A barn belonging to Shane and Stephanie Freeman burned on Osage Road.
Tony “TR” Purcel was remembered by family on what would have been his 35th birthday.
25 years (1997)
Births: A son born to Brent and Kristen Chitty; a daughter born to Richard and Denise Gamble.
Deaths: Donald Rice, 34; Dorothy Martin, 82.
Wiekus du Toit, 23, of South Africa who spent 6 months in 1995 living with the Tom Stierwalt family, was killed along with a passenger when their vehicle collided with a bus.
Anniversaries: Curtis “Dick” and Helen (Rine) Jones celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Charles and Betty (Stines) Burton celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.
Joshua Terrell, 16, Coal City, was charged with vandalism over the destruction of several gravestones at the Rea Cemetery in Marion Township.
Ricky MacPherson, Poland, planned to reconcile with his wife, Lori, after serving 371 days for criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon after shooting his pregnant wife, shattering her arm.
Loren Mason resigned as department head of Owen County Community Corrections.
Fern Bucklew celebrated her 90th birthday.
Albert Provines celebrated his 80th birthday.
The Owen Valley Patriot softball team beat the Eminence Eels, 18-1.
A benefit was held to help with medical costs for Brent Smith, 17, who was badly burned in a January 28th house fire.
Thieves used a forklift belonging to Hanlon Brothers Hardware, Spencer, to load $3,000 worth of lumber belonging to Hanlon Bros./Huntzinger Lumber into a Hanlon truck which was later found abandoned, sans material, near Patricksburg.
Tom Beasley was offering a $150 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who stole a Ham radio and microphone from a semi truck parked behind R & R Furniture, Spencer.
Rod Cowden, 63, was hired to head the Owen County Highway Department.
Brent Citty resigned as head basketball coach at Owen Valley to accept a similar position at Evansville Central.
Harry Wall was remembered by family on the 5th anniversary of his death.
Gene Williams was remembered by family on the 18th anniversary of his death.
50 years (1972)
Deaths: Christina Pinkerton, 62; Ben Sipple, 83; Juanita Herbert, 51; Wilmer Becker, 61; Alfred Kiser, 89; Nelson Arnett, 70.
Patrick McClure, 13, Martinsville, was killed in a collision between a mini bike and a motor car in front of his uncle Frank McClure’s house in Greencastle.
Anniversary: Gilbert and Bonnie (Slough) Miller celebrated their 44th wedding anniversary.
The Owen County Sheriff’s Departments acquired video taping technology through a combination of federal and local funds.
Edna Jennings, of Spencer, took Best in Show with her oil painting, His and Her’s, at the Martinsville Club Show.
The “!0 run rule” kicked into effect in the Owen Valley Patriots 11-0 baseball win over the South Putnam Eagles.
Richard Snyder, of Morgantown, was seeking Speck, a spotted hound lost 2 miles west of Spencer.
Shaft starring Richard Roundtree and Moses Gunn was showing at the Tivoli.
Due to the death of her husband, Samuel, Bessie Neiswinger was selling her house at 358 Beem Street and its contents.
Approximately 600 students and staff were evacuated after a bomb threat was received at Owen Valley Junior High School.
Lonnie Edwards was remembered by family on the 1st anniversary of his death.
Noel Williams was remembered by family on the 2nd anniversary of his death.
75 years (1947)
Births: A son, James Bryant, to Mr. and Mrs. Dillion King; a daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Ned Smith.
Deaths: George Houk, 60; Maude Parr, 63.
Funeral director Arthur Day, 67, was struck and killed by a car driven by Howard Watson, 22, Harrodsburg, while crossing a street on Bloomington’s public square.
Seven white pine trees were planted in a semi-circle on the grounds of Solsberry High School to commemorate Lawrence Abram, Harry Hill, Earl Bullock, Robert Gardner, James Elland, Perry Paris, and Ranard Crowe, who gave their lives in World War II.
The Spencer Town Board voted 4-1 against Daylight Savings Time.
Emery Clingerman celebrated his birthday with an Angel Food cake topped by 70 candles.
The Spencer High School Band’s Minstrel Show would be, “of interest to those who have never seen a minstrel and to others, who have known the days of minstrel shows and would like to see a revival of the blackface show.”
Senator Robert Taft (R-Ohio) felt confident the Hartley labor bill would be amended to include a ban on industrywide collective bargaining, to allow employers to seek injunctions against nationwide strikes and secondary boycotts, and to ban joint employer-employee health and welfare funds.
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