Herrman’s Historical Happenings week of April 16
1883 The oil shaft on the Marshall farm, just west of Adrian, is cleaned, then reopened and oil starts coming out.
1884 In a monster hail storm, some places around Virginia has 3 feet of hail piled up.
1896 William Hubbard of Deepwater township kills, what is reported to be, the largest wolf ever seen in Bates Co.
1906 The Bates Co Court orders the county of Bates be divided in road districts, each township to be a district.
1925 A proposed map shows a gravel road running through Adrian, Passaic, Butler and other points, eventually leading to Springfield in a Southeasterly fashion.
1938 C.E. Fritts, of rural Passaic, is seriously injured in sawmill accident just outside of Butler. Evidently the saw threw a slab of wood against his head. He was found unconscious and taken to the Butler hospital and later recovers (grandfather of your editor).
1940 Glenn Cunningham, the World's greatest runner, is guest speaker at a banquet at the Ohio St. Methodist Church, Butler.
1989 Butler's second Civil War re-enactment draws approximately 14,000 to the 2 day event at the fairgrounds and the Ed Hurshman farm, in southeast Butler.
