Looking Back

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  • Looking Back: 5/25

    Dawn Mazur
    May 23, 2013
    By the 1920s the once stately Stephenson house in Jasper had been abandoned for some years and the residence was finally demolished by property owner Joseph Gutzweiler, who utilized some of the building’s bricks in the construction of the Gutzweiler Building/Tivoli Theater on the Public Square in 1924.
  • Looking Back: 5/18

    Dawn Mazur
    May 17, 2013
    Photo courtesy of Ireland Historical SocietyA bridge on the George Neukam farm in the Ireland area collapsed as a Kitten steam engine owned by Ted Hulsman tried to cross it in the 1930s. The separat
  • Looking Back: 5/11

    Dawn Mazur
    May 10, 2013
    A group of baseball players from various area teams posed for a group photo circa 1908 on the Kamman farm baseball field just east of the old brick church in Zoar.
  • Looking Back: 5/4

    Dawn Mazur
    May 3, 2013
    This panoramic photo of Jasper circa 1907 was taken from the bluff overlooking the Patoka River looking northwest toward downtown.
  • Looking Back: 4/27

    Dawn Mazur
    April 26, 2013
    John Deere Day, a day of customer appreciation and information, was celebrated at Armstrong’s Store in Jasper in the late 1940s.
  • Looking Back: 4/20

    Dawn Mazur
    April 22, 2013
    Hobard McDonald and Henry Rudolph are pictured with two teams of mules and a large log on a box wagon chassis in Portersville sometime in the early 1900s.
  • Looking Back: 4/13

    Dawn Mazur
    April 15, 2013
    Sunday morning's high wind inflicted extensive damage to the new St. Paul's Church building being constructed at Haysville.
  • Looking Back: 4/6

    Dawn Mazur
    April 5, 2013
    In May 1888, Jasper druggist Martin Friedman decided to erect a new brick building on the southeast corner of the Square in Jasper.
  • Looking Back: 3/30

    Dawn Mazur
    March 29, 2013
    With the help of two oxen, a contract employee working for the Gramelspacher family of Jasper logged the Joseph Schuch farm near Schnellville in the 1930s.
  • Looking Back: 3/23

    Dawn Mazur
    March 22, 2013
    Dick Nicholson won Bimbo, a pony, in 1931.
  • Looking Back: 3/16

    Dawn Mazur
    March 15, 2013
    Dr. Lily Dexter Greene sat amid 110 students and eight assistants of the Lahore (India) Girls School in 1920.
  • Looking Back: 3/9

    Dawn Mazur
    March 8, 2013
    The elm log in this photo grew on the Clay Lemmons farm in Boone Township around 1920.
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