125 Years
July 22, 1899
Evidences of the good of the curfew bell are seen every few evenings. A fair example occurred last evening. Two young Dayton girls, who are visiting in this city, were up town with their uncle near time for the bell to ring. He left them for a few minutes and while gone the bell rang. The girls heard it and before it was hardly through ringing they had reached their home several squares away.
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A good game of ball was played on the ball grounds in east Sidney yesterday afternoon. The opposing teams were the Sidney Blues and the Degraff Grays. The Sidney boys were victorious by a score of 16 to 12.
100 Years
July 22, 1924
A number of improvements are being made on four bridges of the city. The bridges on north Miami avenue, Water street, and Court street are being improved by having high hoists cut down and the heavy weights taken away. These bridges were former swing bridges for boats to pass under and have not been used for that purpose for many years. The bridge over the Miami and North street will be improved by having a sidewalk put in on the south side, a new woodblock floor and will be given two coats of black and white paint.
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Just preceding this week’s band concert on the south side of the square, Captain Masteller and his boys of Co. I will give an exhibition drill of squad and platoon movements.
75 Years
July 22, 1949
Scores of UE-CIO employees of Copeland Refrigeration corporation gathered in front of the Brooklyn avenue plant this morning after the company banned union employes who walked off their jobs yesterday. An undisclosed number of UE-CIO workers left their jobs in an apparent demonstration to force a climax in negotiations at the Brooklyn avenue and Short Clinton street plants.
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Mr. and Mrs. William Allenbaugh, newlyweds, are at home to their many friends at their new home south of Montra. Mrs. Allenbaugh is employed by county agricultural agent R.W. Munger. Mr. Allenbaugh is engaged in farming.
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The city of Sidney has received honorable mention for no reported traffic deaths during 1948 from the Ohio Traffic Safety Council.
50 Years
July 22, 1974
PIQUA – A high percentage of people interviewed in a survey indicated vocational education should be increased to serve all needing it, according to a report presented last night to the Upper Valley Joint Vocational School Board of Education.
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A 20-mile bike-a-thon for the American Cancer Society will be sponsored in Sidney Aug. 11. Each entrant will ask for donations from sponsors, John Schmitt, Chairman, noted.
25 Years
July 22, 1999
Mail-Well Inc., a publicly held company with headquarters in Englewood, Colo., has entered into an agreement to buy Direct Graphics, Inc., 829 Vandemark Road.
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FALMOUTH, MASS. – In a farewell at sea, a Navy destroyer carried family members today to a ceremony to scatter the ashes of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, and sister-in-law at a site not far from where they died.
These news items from past issues of the Sidney Daily News are compiled by the Shelby County Historical Society (937-498-1653) as a public service to the community. Local history on the Internet! www.shelbycountyhistory.org. Visit the Sidney Daily News website, www.sidneydailynews.com to read the rest of the week’s columns.
