Attired in imaginative outfits for ”Miss-Match Dress Up Day,” these Columbus North High School students posed in front of a banner created to inspire their Bull Dogs to beat the state’s No. 1 football team, Bloomington South, later that day in 1973.
From The Republic archives
Oct. 12
2013
About 60 members of American Legion Post 24 in Columbus elected a full slate of 11 officers, the first step in the process to reopen the post after it closed in September because it lacked the required number of officers.
1998
Columbus City Council preliminarily approved a proposal to allow city police officers to bank up to 60 hours of overtime and take the hours as compensatory time at their convenience, allowing officers more flexibility and also saving the department money.
1973
Arvin Industries began constructing a 26,000-square-foot garage at the former Columbus Municipal Airport near Walesboro to house vehicles used in testing automotive emissions and muffling systems.
