Yesteryears
25 YEARS AGO
July 6, 1978
Terri L. Robinson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Robinson of Florence, has been promoted to Airman First Class in the U.S. Air Force. Airman Robinson, a personal affairs specialist, is assigned at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, with a unit of the Air Force Military Personnel Center.
An annual activity of the Florence 4-H Club is the project tour held each summer. Members showing projects at their homes included Brad Vannocker, Raquel and Lane Allison, Dale Peterson, Matt, Robin, and Ron Wineinger, John Goentzel, Sara, Larry, and David Goodwin and Jeff Wyss. The group ended their tour at the Richard Wyss ranch where they enjoyed a swim in a swimming hole of a nearby creek and Mr. Wyss gave the younger members rides in a horse-drawn trailer.
50 YEARS AGO
July 9, 1953
The dial name for the Florence telephone exchange has been designated as Tremont. The conversion date for change to dial telephone in Florence has been set now as Sept. 1 at 1:30 p.m. The telephone number for the Florence Bulletin will be TR8-4112 and numbers are now being assigned to all the phones in Florence.
Soldiers of the 17th Infantry "Buffalo" Regiment of the Army's Seventh Infantry Division in Korea are counting enemy captured and casualties in terms of men, machinery, and mules. The Army unit defies its new bookkeeping system when the Communists began abandoning pack animals during the latest United Nations offensive.
75 YEARS AGO
July 5, 1928
The Florence baseball team won a game here Sunday afternoon from the Western Glass Co. team of Wichita, 5 to 4. Weinmeister twirled the first seven innings for Florence and let the visitors down with three scattered hits. In the eighth, Johnny Umbarger went in for Florence and finished the game. He walked two batters and this, coupled with an error and two singles, gave the class team their four runs.
The Florence Band will play its first evening concert of the season on Wednesday evening, July 11. The bandstand is located on the lawn at the city building on East 4th Street. The concert will start at 8:15 and continue for an hour.
106 YEARS AGO
July 9, 1897
Lightning struck a parish church in Québec while High Mass was been celebrated last Sunday. A portion of the roof was ripped off, two altars upset, and the officiating priest stunned. The church burned to the ground, making the third church building fired by lightning and destroyed in the Lake St. John district in the last two weeks.
The exhibition sparring bout between Robert Fitzsimmons and John L. Sullivan scheduled for yesterday afternoon at Ambrose Park in Brooklyn did not take place. Martin Julian announced to a large crowd of spectators that the police had forbidden the contest and the principles concluded to withdraw rather than violate the law.
