Looking Back – July 10

Wild Hogs team member Cody Speaker, 14, closed his eyes tight and splashed  through the mud pit in the watermelon relay at the Bartholomew County 4-H Fair in 2010. From The Republic archives

2010

Cummins Inc. announced it would expand its Industrial Center in Seymour by 28,500 feet, add 200 new jobs by 2015 and rename the facility Seymour Engine Plant.

1995

More than 250 Baby Personality Contest entrants and parents filled the Farm Bureau Building, pavilion and David Boll Theater at the county fairgrounds.

1970

A total of $891,368 was lost in fires through July 1, several times more than the $118,000 loss during the same time the previous year.