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Remember When March 19

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10 Years Ago
March 19 1988

    Alton Bruner was recently chosen 1987 Burket Fireman of the Year for his long service to the department.


25 Years Ago
March 19 1973

    Leta Stickler, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Stickler, Pierceton, has been selected to join six other 4-H members of Indiana who will spend June through August in Europe as members of the 1973 4-H Teen Caravan program.


50 Years Ago
March 19 1948

    Three Peru men flirted with death late Saturday afternoon when the trunk and back part of the car in which they were riding were cleanly sheared off by a speeding train. The incident occurred at the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks at Jefferson St. None of the men was injured.


75 Years Ago
March 19 1923

    Chief of Police C.W. Douglass was today searching for parties believed to have taken a basket of washed clothes off the porch of the home of Frank Simcoke, 823 E. Main St.