Looking Back – July 14

From left, fair queen court members, Jennifer Colvill, Ashley Whitehead, Brilynn Roberts and Queen Hannah Schroer, blew on a frog in hopes of getting it to leap during the  2010 Bartholomew County 4-H Fair Frog Jumping Contest. From The Republic archives

2010

Columbus East football coach Bob Gaddis and Columbus North football coach Tim Bless taught a class, “Football 101 for Moms,” to benefit PAAL and breast cancer research.

1995

The city’s high of 95 degrees combined with 57 percent humidity to produce a heat index of 112 degrees.

1970

Former Republican State Chairman Robert Stewart of Columbus was one of the people considered by President Nixon for a federal appointment to a new six-man board to oversee safety regulations in mines.