Memory Lane

The Monon News April 22-28, 1914-2014 April 24, 1914

The Monon High School Alumni has been re-organized after a lapse of three years and will hold a reception at the Odd Fellows Hall Wednesday evening, May 6.

April 20, 1934

The Monon High School Commencement will be held May 3. The following are in the class: Doris Wallace, Junior Burroughs, Julia Quade, Russell Templeton, Lillian Rose, Boyd Huff, Helen Hughes, Richard Schlademan, Rosie Watson, Jack Madlung, Esther Taulman, Charles Owens, Maybeth Gilmore, Gerald Nelson, Mildred Donalson, Keith Spencer, Mary Ellen Coffel, Keith Sandberg, Thelma Sprague, Thomas Gundy, Gladys Beamer, Chester Hamilton, Bethel Roush, Roy Miller, Fred Rogers, Fred Hough, Kenneth Smith, Lennard Spencer, Daniel Clark, Dale Richardson, Claude Kesler, Paul Sandilands, Harold Taylor, Beulah Hough.

April 21, 1944

Mrs Inez Smith has purchased the NuMain Café from Mrs EL Mason. Lt Myron Reed, who was seriously wounded in Italy, is now at a Veterans Hospital in Indianapolis.

April 22, 1954

Mr and Mrs Ralph Gray have sold their Railroad Street home to Mr and Mrs Loyd Thrasher and will leave soon for California where they will make their home in San Francisco area. Mr and Mrs Thrasher has sold their farm to Mr and Mrs Gene McKinley and will move to the Gray home in the near future. A very good attendance around 76 or 80 attended church services at Lee on Easter Sunday. Six were received into the church by baptism and one by letter. Thirty years ago, on the 4th day of April, a Monon Route freight train was crossing the bridge over the Wabash north of Lafayette, when a load of car frame broke from its moorings and slammed against the side of the bridge. The bridge super structure gave way and one section of the three-part bridge collapsed. Into the Wabash tumbled 23 freight cars, a number of them containing new Ford cars.

April 23, 1964

Jerry Miller, Monon, is among college men to ride in Indiana University’s 14th annual Little 500 bicycle race May 9 for Lamda Chi Alpha fraternity.

April 25, 1974

The Monon Post Office will be converting the combination lock boxes over to the key-type lock box beginning approximately with the next two weeks. The change over is due to the combination locks are obsolete and replacement parts are no longer available.

April 26, 1984

“Variety ‘84”, North White’s annual variety show will be presented May 5, 1984 at the high school. The show boasts the talents of our local students and will provide an evening of entertainment.

April 28, 1994

Rebecca Lynn George has been selected a State Finalist for Indiana’s 14th Annual Homecoming Queen Selection. America’s Homecoming Queen, Inc. is a nonprofit organization promoting education and educational travel for high school homecoming queen in all 50 states. Shadyhill started the 1994 season with nearly 100 cars. Familiar names stayed on the winning path to start the new season.

News and Review April 28, 2004

Many of the women, and men alike, were happy as the Reynolds Sesquicentennial officially got underway on Saturday morning with the judging of the beards and the shaving ceremony. Kinzie Kiser, a McCutcheon High School junior, won the grand prize of a DVD player at Julie’s Photography’s pre-senior “Bash”. The event, held in Julie’s studio Loft featured music by DJ Cody Wood.

April 23, 2014

North White Primary has been selected as a 4-Star school for the 2012-2013 school year. Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz released a list of Hoosier 4-Star schools and the Vikings have made the cut. Monon Civic Preservation Society, on Friday, sold more than 200 pounds of homemade noodles as part of the Bunny Hop Bazaar at the Civic Center to raise funds to save the Monon Theater, which the organization acquired last year.