A LOOK BACK AT JACKSON

75 years ago 1922

The Cape County Savings Bank stock holders reelected the board of directors. Holding their own were W.C. Cracraft, president; C.W. Henderson, vice-president; A.A. Boss, cashier. The other directors are J.L. Hinkle, L.A. Goodwin, C.H. Wolter, Henry Puls and A.D. Milde. A.G. Penzel is assistant cashier and Alvin Hoffman and Marie Steck bookkeepers.

A reward was posted by the county court for $300 for the capture of the killer or killers of John Green, a prominent Negro farmer. Neighbors of the slain man raised the reward to $500. Green, 53, was killed by a blow to the head and then his body was burned with his home. He had just returned home from the grocery when the attack occurred.

Henry Steck and a force of workmen were out in the woods cutting logs when a roaring sound surprised them after they felled a large oak tree. The hum resembled that of a threshing machine, but it turned out to be an angry swarm of bees, whose home had just been torn down by the unknowing woodsmen.

50 years ago 1947

Marvin Clark and his workmen went to the Helderman orchard two miles south of Burfordville to begin electric wiring of a new storage plant for refrigeration of fruits.

Sheriff Alvin Klaus received a report that the plane of T.L. McCuredy of Camadien, Texas that was forced down on a farm near New Wells had been stripped of equipment valued at $445. McCuredy and his family were on their way from Texas to Indiana when the plane was forced to make a crash landing. McCuredy discovered the theft when he returned from Indiana.

The temperature reached 104 degrees in Jackson as a blistering heat wave scorches the region.

25 years ago 1972

Macke's Store, a fixture in Gordonville for nearly 100 years since the building of the Iron Mountain Railroad changed to Bron's Farm Service. Macke's Store held several different names and locations in Gordonville, but it had always been sold or passed on to someone in the family.

Bob Fox of Marble Hill received the Democratic nomination for sheriff and Homer Garner of Advance received the Republican nod for County Court judge in the primary on Tuesday. Eddie Graham of Lutesville is the Republican nominee for sheriff, he ran unopposed. Garner is to face Democrat Paul Deck of Glen Allen.