The Herald Bulletin looks back at stories from the Anderson Daily Bulletin and The Anderson Herald newspapers.

10 Years Ago – 1999

Nov. 10 — Pendleton Town Manager Doug McGee announced a Nov. 19 groundbreaking for the Guide Corp. Technology and Customer Center, a 20-acre site where construction of a 120,000 square-foot multi-story office building was underway. Occupancy was expected by July for 400 employees from Guide’s engineering, research and development, customer service and corporate departments.

Nov. 11 — Hair torn from the roots, kicked ribs and broken, bloodied noses were the tame part of Saturday night’s Tough Guy competition at UAW Local 662. The crowd assembled for the street fighting contest, an estimated 3,000 people, turned belligerent midway through the event and began brawling in the stands despite several pleas from the announcer to stop. Police arrested approximately 10 spectators.

25 Years Ago — 1984

Nov. 8 — A woman accused of gunning down a Madison County Jail administrator appeared in Madison County Circuit court. Joy Lynn Darby was formally charged with murder in the Nov. 5 slaying of Deputy Roger Nodine. Darby, an ex-girlfriend of Nodine’s, apparently coaxed the deputy to the murder scene by telling him her car had broken down. Once there, an argument ensued and Darby allegedly shot Nodine six times.

Nov. 11 — For five years, folks had talked of the serpent believed to inhabit a wooded area between Ingalls and Fortville. On Nov. 1, an employee at Acme Disposal saw a log across from the old landfill. Closer inspection revealed the log to be moving. Manager Jerry Schnitzius fortunately had experience dealing with snakes and was able to capture it. The snake measured 12 feet in length, 26 inches in circumference, and weighed 62 pounds. It was determined to be a python and transported to the Indianapolis Zoo.

50 Years Ago — 1959

Nov. 13 — Several Elwood grocery stores will return their stocks of cranberries to their shelves in response to a report that cranberries are now said to be edible, and that a person would have to eat large amounts every day for 20 years to reach harmful levels due to a weed killer used on some cranberry crops.

Nov. 14 — Carl Erskine, Anderson’s most famous baseball player, joined another all-time great, Red Schoendienst, in working on the 1959 Christmas Seal campaign in Madison County. Erskine was the local chairman and Schoendienst, the second baseman for the Milwaukee Braves who was stricken by tuberculosis after the 1958 World Series, was national chairman.

100 Years Ago – 1909

Nov. 10 — Diphtheria spread at an alarming rate in Anderson and local physicians believe the public should be informed of the dangers. They reported nine new cases. Parents should use every precaution in protecting their homes for there is no telling that, once started, whether any family is likely to be stricken. Physicians suggest that all public gatherings of children that are not necessary be postponed.

Nov. 10 — Chicken thieves reaped a harvest in this city during the past two weeks. Police have numerous reports from parties whose hen coops have been visited. William Harlan’s hennery on Home Avenue recently had 12 young fries taken. Patrolmen discovered a sack with three chickens on the sidewalk in front of the high school, with another chick walking in the street. Police caught it and brought all four chickens to headquarters, where Mary Kutter of Walnut Street identified them as those taken from her coop.