PULASKI COUNTY, INDIANA
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
Star City, IN.
Dec. 30,1898. Perry Wilson, of Jackson Hill, has been heard from again. Last Saturday night he got into an altercation with a man named Llewellyn, of Linton, at the Jackson Hill saloon, and when the latter’s back was turned Wilson struck him with a weapon of some kind, knocking him down and beating his head and face into an almost unrecognizable mass, beside tearing the clothes off his victim. As usual, Wilson is at large, no one daring to molest him.
Winamac, IN. Oct. 13,1899. Diphtheria has made it appearance here. Orma McCoy, the daughter of ex-sheriff McCoy, was its first victim and since her death several new cases have made their appearance. The secular and Sunday schools have been ordered closed by the Town Board of Health.
Miami Herald Record 1921-01-10
Winamac The Winamac Hospital burned; loss $15,000.
Daily Herald 1902-02-04
Got More Than He Wanted
The 12 years old son of John Willis, a farmer of Winamac Ind. left a team he was driving while he chased a squirrel. the horses backed the wagon into some beehives, and the insects so stung them that they died. the boy also was seriously stung, and is likely to lose his eyesight.
Date: 1897-12-01; Paper: Indiana State Journal
Sewage Beds for Winamac. Dr. Hurty's Advice - The Pollution of Streams
Dr. Hurty, secretary of the State Board of Health yesterday wrote a letter to the Boards of Health of Winamac and Pulaski county, advising that the most sanitary sewerage system known to modern sciencebe put in the town of Winamac The advice was solicited, and had already been given verbally in a talk which Dr. Hurtymade to the City Council of Winamac recently. In his letter Dr. Hurty stated that there was no law in the State to preventcities and towns emptying sewage In rivers, but that such cities and towns were liable for any damages which such a course might cause. An instance of this kind was cited in the case of Test against the city of Richmond, recently decided. The plaintiff had a mill below the city, located there thirty-seven years ago. During the last few years the sewage from Richmond rendered the river water unfit for the uses to which he had put it in the mill. It cost the city of Richmond $27,000 in judgment and costs—enough to have more than paid for modern sewage beds.
Dr. Hurty described the sewage beds as he had seen them in successful use in cities Of the East, and as they have been used in Europe for thirty years. For the town of Winamac two beds a hundred feet square each would suffice. The bed is made by simply excavating to a distance of about five feet and filling the excavation with well-screened gravel. Under the gravel Is a main drain pipe connected at interval of about ten feet with lateral pipes. The sewage is poured upon the gravel bed and while at first somewhat of a nuisance, very shortly there is formed a vegetable growth through the gravel which destroys all poisonous matter and when the sewage seepsthrough and reaches the drain pipes it is absolutely harmless. Two beds are required, in order that they may be allowed to rest alternately. Dr. Hurty says he has seen these beds with cultivated fields above them. The ground can be used for growing vegetables of all kinds and can. be made a source of revenue. An Instance of the kind, and the only one known in Indiana, is at the .Northern Hospital for the Insane.
For a city the size of Indianapolis not less than thirty-two acres of land would be required to dispose of sewage in this manner. The first cost would be considerable, but it would pay for itself in thirty years from leases, Dr. Hurty says, besides probably saving thousands of lives. Dr. Hurty says the time will come when there will be laws forbidding cities polluting streams with sewage as they now do; that it will be as much of an offense as for an individual to empty refuse in his neighbor's yard.
Date: 1882-02-16; Paper: Indianapolis Sentinel
A Winamac Horror
A young man of this city recently made a stay of a few days at Winamac and tells the following horrible smallpox story .He says that several days before he came to the town a man, having the smallpox, arrived. The good citizens of that burg took him to the fair grounds, laid him on a pile of straw in a stall, where he received no attention, and finally died. A kind hearted citizen dug a shallow hole a few rods away, threw a running noose around the man's feet, dragged him into the hole and covered him with a few shovelfuls of dirt, not enough, however, for the hogs rooted him up and devoured him. This shamful act took place in Christian Indiana. It is too horrible to think of.
Date: 1878-08-20; Paper: Indianapolis Sentinel
Nominated to Fill a Vacancy Winamac, Ind., Aug. 19
Winamac Ind , Ang. 10.—John Shill nominated to fill a vacancy on the democratic ticket, caused by the death ot Sheriff Scott.
Date: 1899-10-18;Paper: Indiana State Journal
Winamac Ind. Oct 13.—Diphtheria has made its appearance here. Orma. McCoy, the daughter of ex-Sheriff McCoy, was its first victim and since her death several new cases have made their appearance. The secular and Sunday schools have been ordered closed by the Town Board of Health.
Date: 1895-11-28; Paper: American Nonconformist
Fortune in a Secret Hominy Process
Logansport, Ind., Nov. 26.—William C. Smith, an attorney of Delphi and part owner of the canning factory at Winamac has discovered a process of removing the black points from grains of corn which promises to make him a fortune. Already 300 bushels of hominy are being turned, out of the factory every day, and the capacity 13 shortly to be increased to a carload.The only person to whom Sir. Smith has confided his secret is his brother, and the two have entire charge of the room wherethe process is performed.
Date: 1919-07-17;Paper: Fort Wayne News Sentinel
Winamac Ind. A Pennsylvania frieght train made a bog omelet when it struck a butter and egg motor truck. there was a mixture of cream, butter, eggs, and chicken.