The USS Milwaukee is one of the 10 scout cruisers authorized or being built for the U.S. Navy. She is 550 feet long and has a speed of 35 knots, combing the speed of a destroyer and the fighting qualities of a battleship.
Image from Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
This week in history as reported by The Summit County Journal the week of May 7, 1921.
County high school plan is emphatically defeated
Incomplete reports of the results in the various districts throughout Summit County at the annual school election indicate an overwhelming majority against the county high school proposition, with Breckenridge, or District No. 1, being the only one to give a favorable vote. The vote went solidly against the plan in all other districts.
Jim Applegate, 54, pastor for 21 years of
Westview Christian Church in Campbellsburg, Ind., died of COVID-19 on Dec. 20, followed by virus-related deaths of his mother (12 hours later), and his sister (on Christmas Eve).
“The thing that’s keeping me going is . . . hope in Jesus because I know where they’re at,”
Nicholas Applegate, the pastor’s son and WCC’s youth pastor, told WHAS11.com. “The first few weeks in December our community had seen a lot of COVID cases, especially here in our church family.”
In addition to the death of his father, Nicholas Applegate’s grandmother,
Pat Applegate, 82, and his aunt,