Looking Back – July 31

Past and current Cross Cliff Elementary School Little Hoosiers member, from left, Casey Mahaffey, Heather Davis, Mark Bense, Matt Bense, Amy Rucker, Chris Munn, Sarah Pence and Jamie Davis, conducted their annual walking tour of Historic Hartsville in 1995, and are pictured among the bricks, mortar and concrete that were once part of Hartsville College. From The Republic archives

2010

Columbus Police reported finding several explosive devices, homemade from two-liter soda bottles and household materials such as drain cleaner, left in newspaper delivery boxes.

1995

Contributions to the fund drive to restore and reopen the Crump Theatre reached nearly $75,000.

1970

International tennis star Arthur Ashe visited Columbus to conduct a clinic for local tennis fans.