Looking Back – September 24

Columbus East High School students, from left, Julie Houston, Casey St. Henry, Ben Wever, Molly Holtkamp and Jennifer Wagner, along with more than 40 other students, gathered before school to sing, read scripture and pray for their school and peers at the fifth annual "See You at the Pole" event in 1995. Fromm The Republic archives

2010

A field fire that erupted east of Hartsville on the Bartholomew-Decatur county line forced firefighters to shut down a portion of State Road 46.

1995

Cummins Engine Co. became the first independent diesel engine manufacturer to establish a presence on the Internet World Wide Web, www.cummins.com.

1970

Workers tore out cement in the circular drive in front of Bartholomew County Public Library to make way for a concrete and brick base for Large Arch, the Henry Moore sculpture donated to the library by Mr. and Mrs. J. Irwin Miller.