125 Years
January 18, 1892
J. T. Estabrook and Frank Wilkie have opened a meat market in C.F. Yenney’s room – corner of Main Avenue and North Street.
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Dickas Brothers’ barber shop has made some improvements, whereby all customers are let in on a new “ground floor.”
100 Years
January 18, 1917
Plans for the presentation of a play for the organization’s financial benefit were completed yesterday at the meeting of the local suffrage association. The play, entitled “How The Vote Was Won,” will be given in the school auditorium on January 29. Members of the cast, to be made up of Sidney young people, were selected at the meeting.
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Members of the Turtle Creek Thresher Club elected J.T. Wiley president, when they met last evening. J.H. McVay was named vice president; M.K. Coon, secretary; I.H. Wilson, treasurer; with Grover Yinger, S.M. Abbott, and Frank M. Hussey, directors. The occasion marked the paying off by the Republican members of the club with an oyster supper for the Democrats of a debt incurred at the election last fall.
75 Years
January 18, 1942
The tire rationing program for Shelby County will swing into full operation tomorrow with the completion of the county setup and organization for the distribution of tires allotted for the month of January. Rationing boards have been set up in each incorporated village in the county, and these boards will handle all applications, according to Oscar Barringer, county coordinator.
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The body of Carole Lombard, screen actress, has been recovered from the wreckage of an airliner that crashed on a mountain near Las Vegas.
50 Years
January 18, 1967
A selection of paintings by Thomas Raterman, C.PP.S., son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Raterman of McCartyville, is on exhibit in the public meeting room of the Amos Memorial Public Library.
Raterman presently is attending St. Charles Seminary in preparation for the Catholic priesthood. He has been painting approximately nine years, and five years ago began formal art training at St. Joseph’s College, Rensselaer, Ind. He took art work last summer at the Dayton Art Institute.
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During the annual meeting of the members of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association on Wednesday afternoon, Jerome A. Wagner Sr. and William A. Ross Jr. were elected as directors to serve for a three-year period. Ross had been appointed to fill the term of the late Otto H. Hill. They join Frank J. Amann, J. Oliver Amos, Reuben Aschenbach, Urban H. Doorley, and Edwin L. Frey as directors.
The board organized by electing Amann as president; Doorley as vice president and attorney, Frey as secretary-treasurer; Doris Smedley, assistant secretary; Dianne Kloeppel and Carol King, tellers; and Louetta Lammer, custodian.
25 Years
January 18, 1992
William Leighty was named chairman of the Shelby County Commissioners during the annual reorganization meeting.
In other reorganization business, Adolph “Sonny” Meyer was named to continue as the commissioners’ representative to Shelby County Disaster Services.
