Miscellaneous Items
An accumulation of photos concerning the Gas Company and its many predecessors.
Many are not labeled and many names not listed.
In No Particular Order

16" between Shelbyville & Whiteland - May 1992
Probably river crossing

A typical Gas Manufacturing Plant shortly after the turn of the Century.

GO Engineering had one. Alva Meadows would teach and re-teach John Larison and myself every Monday how to use it. Super complicated and we never did understand it.

When it became out-of-date and was replaced by electronic calculators they suddenly became antiques and were in great demand. It was understood that it was going to Michigan. 

Most of the districts had a Jeep Trencher.  Bob Lambert ran the one at Columbus. Used mainly to dig the trench for the service from the main to the house.

When they became obsolete, they also were loaded up and taken to Michigan.

Digitizing Table. Used by the short-lived Electronic Mapping Department.  Jim West, Barbara Smith and Kevin Cross.

We had two of them plus beautiful SUN computers and monitors.  Each Digitizing Table alone cost approximately $18,000. When the department was shut down, they both were seen leaving the MDC before the company garage sale was opened for the "ordinary" employees in the back of one of the VP's truck (TH).

Since they were not IBM equipment there was no way the computer department could allow them to exist.

Bill Sweeney
Final Picnic at Camp Atterbury - 10/1997
Held just a few days before Bill's death.
He had known about his brain tumor for several days and knew he was near death. Can you imagine how strong he must have been to accept that and still attend his party?

Bill Sweeney, Shirley Decker, Jim West, Barbara Pesut-Handley, Jim Balensiefer & Don Eddings

Kenny Kinman, Fred Pratt, Richard Williams,
Back - Mike Myers, Don Eddings (arms crossed), ??, Jim Balensiefer, Jim West, Becky Staley
Middle row - Bill Sweeney, ??, Mile Oppy, Brenda Powell (red stripes), Frankie G?? ??
Kneeling - Gil Wiseman, Shirley Decker, ??hands on knees, Barbara Pesut-Handley, Terry Camden, Karen Moore

Bill Sweeney

Bill Sweeney and Wendell Thaller

Misc Photos

Muncie Gas Company employees 1937

04/10/1913 Flood at Madison. Area shown is the back yard of the service building.
Ohio River in background

Beasley Building - Citizens Gas