July 4, 1926, a new baseball park will be opened in Orestes Sunday July the 4th.

July 12, 1926, special agents of the Department of Agriculture locate outlawed barberry shrubs responsible for the black stem rust in wheat on the land of the Stillwell Gravel Company (Western Indiana Gravel Company). It was destroyed at once.

April 2, 1927, Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Moore and children escaped with their lives as two houses burn. Arson was the cause. A neighbor heard n automobile stop about midnight. Coal oil cans were found in the debris.

April 14, 1927, Orestes Mudhens are now booking games. The players are as follows: catcher Vlon Hocker, pitchers Joe Allen and Cecil Davis, 3B Clarence McMahan, 2B and manager Raymond Davis, shortstop Ralph Young, and outfielders Joe Dyer, Lloyd, Platt, Goodwin, Stafford.

April 21, 1927, Orestes Volunteer Fire Department has a new Ford pumper delivered by the Howe Fire Apparatus Company at Anderson and a new volunteer fire fighting brigade is being organized. The truck is the latest type for small towns without water systems. It can withdraw water from creeks, ponds, open wells or ditches, and water mains, in order to fight fires and is equipped with a chemical tank for small fires. The Orestes folks have raised funds to purchase the truck and are pleased to not have to depend on the efforts of a bucket brigade for they are not too successful.

July 19, 1927, the new Orestes fire truck received its baptism this morning when a fire broke out at the home of Grace Shaw. Chief Earl Million and members of the Volunteer Fire Department were on the scene within minutes and confined the blaze to the rear part of the house and roof, saving the main part of the structure as well as other neighboring houses.

September 15, 1927, the most disastrous fire in the history of Dundee occurred when the Urmston Grain Elevator burned before a crowd of nearly 3,000. Leroy Urmston is the owner of the elevator and Samuel Welborn is the manager; both agreed that the elevator would be rebuilt. The Orestes Volunteer Fire Department responded to the alarm arriving in the new recently purchased pumper and preventing the fire from spreading to adjacent residences owned by Urmston and the Dundee Christian Church.

Aug 24, 1928, Nickel Plate Railroad started work on a switch to will connect the lines of the Indiana Union Traction Company to the Nickel Plate line. The new switch will enable interchange shipping.

July 1, 1930, after 25 years the Union Traction company will be sold. The company values its assets at $2,881,650 but has been operating in receivership for some time. At one time the company operated 445 miles of interurban and city lines.

October 11, 1930, Gordon Canning Company at Orestes owned by W.B. Gordon and under the lease this year to Shirl Brunson, was completely destroyed by fire about 11:30 p.m. Friday night. Machinery, equipment, and 3,000 cases of tomatoes were lost in the fire.

Jan 14, 1931, Urmston Grain & Seed Company, which operates five grain elevators, was placed in the hands of a receiver yesterday. The elevators are located at Orestes, Dundee, Frankton, Camden, and Galveston. The Orestes Fertilizer Company is also affected by the announcement.

February 13, 1931, Death of Doctor Joel Cook 75, of Orestes

May 20, 1931, The Western Indiana Gravel Company south of Orestes will fight the abandonment of the interurban for the company depends on the service for shipment. Without the service the company would most likely collapse.

May 25, 1931, Don Elser of Horace Mann (Gary, Indiana) won the State 12 pound shot put competition by tossing the shot 52 feet 11.5 inches. Bob Blake of Alexandria High School pitched the shot well enough to garner third place in the tough contest.

June 29, 1931, an old landmark in Monroe Township disappeared when a fire destroyed the farm of George Kelly north of Orestes. The farm had been built about 1855.

June 31, 1931, a Union Traction passenger interurban made its last trip over the Alexandria Tipton line and retired to the Anderson Shops. The company had operated for 31 years.

Aug 14, 1931, Urmston Grain Company at Dundee was totally destroyed by fire again today. A smoldering heap of ruins marked the site of what was yesterday, one of the most modern elevators in the country.

Oct 15, 1931, freight service was discontinued today on the Alexandria-Tipton interurban line.

Nov 27, 1931, Suit was filed in Madison County Circuit Court by the Jacob J. Long Company, operating a general trucking business, and Judge Carl F. Morrow is to appoint a receiver for Brunson & Sons Packing Company north of Orestes. The packing plant is alleged to be indebted to the trucking company an amount of $82.40 for a consignment of tomatoes hauled from Orestes to Chicago. Assets of the packing company consist of the plant and tomatoes that are stored at Frankton, and the firm is penniless it is complained.

December 30, 1931, a very good photograph is displayed including Orestes athlete Bob Blake.

April 11, 1932, Bob Blake of Orestes took first place honors at the state indoor meet at Butler Fieldhouse in Indianapolis April 9th. He heaved the shot 50 feet 4.5 inches to set a new mark in the event.

April 13, 1932, the Orestes Fertilizer Company which was completely destroyed by fire today. The fertilizer plant was owned by Urmston Elevators INC and was the third major fire in three years. The previous fires were at Dundee where the old elevator burned about four years ago. Last year a new elevator was built to replace the old one and it too went up in smoke and has not yet been replaced.

May 2, 1932, Bob Blake tosses the shot 52 feet 4.25 inches.

May 23, 1932, Bob Blake wins the state shot put at 51 feet five inches.

Aug 15, 1932, Irdel Hartwell 22, of Alexandria is in St. Johns Hospital at Anderson in very serious condition following a fall from a tree on the Dr. Cook farm south of Orestes. Apparently Hartwell crippled a squirrel and had climbed a tree to retrieve his game. He had reached a point within a few feet of where the squirrel disappeared and the limb on which he was standing broke, and he fell a distance of about 25 feet.

April 25, 1933, the Orestes A.C. baseball team opened its new park and its new season on Sunday by defeating the Alexandria Independents, winner of last years championship, 7 to 1. The lineup for Orestes is, Custer 3b, R. Walker ss, Davis rf, Gosnell 2b, J. Walker cf, Banta lf, Runyan c, Goodman 1b, and Pratt p. James Grose is managing the Orestes club and is booking games with the best semi-pro teams obtainable. One of the Anderson teams will play at Orestes April 30, and on May 7 Gaston will play there. On May 30th Fairmount and Elwood will play against the locals in a double header.

May, 8, 1933, Bob Blake competed against some excellent talent from the schools in the North Central Indiana Conference at Peru Saturday afternoon. Huntington won the competition but the outstanding feature of the meet was Bob Blakes victory in the shotput. Blake tossed the twelve pound shot 53 feet and 7 inches, which was 7.5 inches better than the old conference mark.

Sept 6, 1933, Brodie Ryan,37, a resident of Orestes was killed this morning when he was run over by a gravel truck while at work south of town. Olen Cox came along with a load of gravel enroute to Orestes and came upon Brodie walking. Cox gave Ryan permission to ride and Ryan attempted to climb aboard while the truck was still rolling. His hand caught the lever which loosens the truck bed and dumps the gravel, and when the lever came down under his weight, Ryan was thrown beneath the rear wheel and run over before Cox could stop the truck.