Looking Back – September 4

Sixth and seventh grade boys, recommended by their music teachers to participate in a special boys chorus directed by Mrs. James Fritz and Mrs. Raymond Grasch, rehearsed at Lincoln School for their first performance in 1970. From The Republic archives

2010

In local football, the Columbus North Bull Dogs won 27-24 over Bloomington North in a down-to-the-last-second thriller and Columbus East’s Olympians overpowered Seymour 54-15.

1995

About 35,000 people flocked to Vernon for the opening day of Jennings County’s Historical Labor Day Antique Market.

1970

At precisely 9 a.m., Cummins Engine Co. set a new record for plant safety, achieving 2,669,935 working hours without a disabling injury, a figure below the national average.