Herrman’s Historical Happenings week of May 20
1822 Miss Susan Comstock writes from Harmony Mission, "Dear Mother & Sisters, I have had solicitations to marry an Indian Chief, but I tell them I will not plant or hoe corn or carry wood and they lose interest."
1889 The new bandstand has been completed on the Southwest corner of the Bates Co Courthouse lawn. This compliments the one already on the Northwest corner.
1895 A fire in the "Pacific House" at the rear of the railroad depot severely damages the building. Rich Hill.
1912 Earnest Light, of Hume, receives a telegram from his sister that she and her two daughters were rescued from the Titanic, but her husband was lost.
1943 84 graduate from the Butler High School.
1960 The Bates Co Democrat newspaper adds a Goss Comet printer to their equipment. North side of the Butler square.
1982 A tornado hits Crescent Hill cemetery near Adrian. Small twisters also hit Mound, Elkhart & Deer Creek townships.
1999 The Bates Co Memorial Hospital hold groundbreaking ceremonies for their Dialysis Clinic at the SW corner of High and Nursery streets in Butler.
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