125 Years
Feb. 23, 1898
The board of elections met yesterday to arrange for a special election to be held at Loramies on March 16, to vote on the question of issuing $7,000 in bonds for sanitary and street improvement purposes.
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The Sidney high school girls’ basketball team went to Dayton this morning to play the Dayton View gymnasium girls basketball team this evening. The following girls composed the Sidney team: Jeanette Rostron, Ora Nutt, Kate Markland, Olive Ailes, Amelia Davies, Kate Knox, Winnifred Haslup, and Grace Given. A number of other people went down to see the game.
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Capt. E.E. Nutt gave the address at the Washington Birthday celebration at the Third ward school this morning. It was in honor of the “George Washington Memorial.”
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The court of inquiry has been in session today at Havana. Nothing startling has turned up in the matter of the “Maine” disaster.
100 Years
Feb. 23, 1923
About 30 members of the Men’s Bible Class of the Presbyterian church enjoyed a social in the class room last evening. V.W. Watkins had installed his radio outfit in the room and the class had the pleasure of listening to a most delightful concert. A lunch of donuts and coffee was served.
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Members of the senior class at Sidney high selected class pins at a meeting held yesterday morning. The pins are a small triangle with concave sides. The center is black onyx, with S.H.S. in gold. The sides will contain 18 pearls. The pins will also have a guard with the date ’23 in white gold. A number are ordering rings instead of pins. These will not be jeweled.
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The foreign office in London today denied the report from Paris that Great Britain is making further concessions to France in the Cologne military zone.
75 Years
Feb. 23, 1948
A $10,000 building improvement fund drive to add classrooms and to enlarge and redecorate the church sanctuary was approved almost unanimously by the congregation of the Church of the Brethren on Sunday, Rev. Jesse Bowser announced today. The decision is the outgrowth of approximately a year’s study by the planning board.
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Rev. and Mrs. Edwin Allender were formally welcomed at a reception Sunday afternoon at the Sidney Church of Christ, where Rev. Allender is the new pastor. Rev. Allender recently came to Sidney from Athens to begin his duties as pastor. Mrs. Allender is a member of the faculty of an Akron school and will remain there until the close of the school year.
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Defending champion Russia and a surprising Fort Loramie cage combination will square off for the Shelby county high school basketball championship on Saturday night as a result of victories over the weekend. Russia’ Raiders squelched a last quarter drive to defeat the Anna Rockets 36 to 33, while the Fort Loramie Indians held a relatively easy time in winning from Houston 41 to 24.
50 Years
Feb. 23, 1973
ANNA – Henry Horstman, vocational-agriculture teacher at Anna High School, will receive a certificate at the Ohio Young Farmers of America (OYFA) 1973 convention to be held Friday and Saturday at the Sheraton Hotel, Columbus. Horstman will be honored for his fiver years as an advisor to the Anna OYFA Chapter.
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MINSTER – Minster Board of Education Tuesday night approved a proposal to join the Auglaize-Mercer Joint Vocational School District and sent the proposal to the state Board of Education for presentation March 19.
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OSGOOD – The Osgood Fire Department will begin a drive for $33,848 for the first weekend in March to finance construction of a new fire station to replace the old fire house which will be retired in April of this year.
Captains of the drive are Benjamin Pleiman, Cyril Albers, Robert Bohman, Virgil Bergman, Morris Bohman, Cletus Grieshop and Ohmer Brandewie.
25 Years
Feb. 23, 1998
Shelby County students fared well in the Power of the Pen writing competition this past weekend, joining 193 students from 18 schools. Meeting at McBroom Junior High School, St. Marys, students addressed various writing prompts for 40 minutes in three rounds.
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SAN FRANCISCO – A .38 caliber revolver used to kill notorious bank robber John Dillinger is going on the auction block. More than 50 years after the ambush in which Indiana police killed the outlaw, Butterfield & Butterfield planes to auction the 1905 Smith & Wesson today. It has been valued at between $20,000 to $25,000.
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Patsy Watkins, director of the Shelby County Board of Elections, has announced her retirement after 17 years with the department. Watkins will leave her job Friday. Shyla Goffena, who served as director from 1978 to 1996, will again become director.
