HISTORICAL TRIVIA 1936-1940 - Fulton County Public Library

triumphed over those who were against such an improvement which at
the time was considered too modern.
The standpipe was 125 feet high, 12 feet in diameter and had a
capacity of 108,000 gallons. It was made of rolled steel. The
contractors were Stillwell-Bierce-Smith-Vali Company of Chicago, Ill.
Eight months were required to erect the reservoir.
This standpipe during the past few years has become pitted due to
rust and engineers who examined it last year declared it was unsafe and
might at some time when filled break under the pressure of the water it
contained and topple to the ground endangering life and property.
This condition was one of the reasons why the city council last
year decided to recondition the city water works system by the addition
of a new water tower and a pumping station. The new system is being
built by B.W. Handler, Chicago, and the site of the old standpipe will
be used as part of the improvement to the pumping station.
LINCOLN SHOT
Seen by Man Who Died at Lafayette
The News-Sentinel, Feb. 11, 1939
Lafayette, Feb. 11. - Silas H. Day, 96, who was in Fords Theater
in Washington the night Abraham Lincoln was assinated, died today at
the Indiana state soldiers home. He was known to fellow inmates at
the home as the grand old man.
Mr. Day was a native of New Albany, Ind., and left Miami
university to join the Union army during the Civil war. After the war
he studied law in Europe and then became a lawyer and newspaper
publsher at Fort Scott, Kans. He once was mayor of Kanopolis, Kans.
After his return to Indiana in 1895 Mr. Day engaged in the
abstracting business at Evansville.
Survivors are a son, Robert Day, of Houston, Tex., and a sister,
Mrs. D.F. Bowman of New Albany.
GROVE BROS. HARDWARE
Enlarged - Opening Saturday
The News-Sentinel, Feb. 15, 1939
Grove Bros., opening Saturday, Feb. 18, remodeled hardware and
appliance store, 126 East 8th street.
This store for the past several weeks has been undergoing
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