125 Years
Oct. 5, 1899
The new M.E. church at Maplewood will be dedicated next Sudnay.
PORT JEFFERSON – The M.E. church will give a reception and house warming at their new parsonage on Oct. 14. The ladies of the Mite Society will serve a corn supper consisting of the following menu. Chicken, succotash, hominy, apple butter, cornbread, corn pone, buns, pumpkin pie, pickles and coffee, all for ten cents. Oysters will also be served.
100 Years
Oct. 5, 1924
The oil well recently drilled into the rock on the John Paulus farm north of Russia was shot Friday afternoon. A fairly good flow of oil was secured. There is an average of a car load of oil shipped from Russia each week.
The committee representing the churches on the course of Moral and Ethical Training in the public schools will meet Tuesday in the social parlor of the First Presbyterian church.
WASHINGTON DC – Figures given out by the bureau of roads of the federal department of agriculture show that Ohio is the third state in the number of registered automobiles and trucks. Only New York and California have more cars than the Buckeye state.
75 Years
Oct. 5, 1949
Mayor Waldo Patton has read his proclamation setting the week of Oct. 9-15 as Blue Cross week. The action was taken in line with the new eligibility ruling of the Blue Cross hospitalization plan allowing all persons to apply for hospital insurance.
MARIA STEIN – Kings Korner have installed a television set which seems to be very popular with its patrons.
BOTKINS – Simplicity and charm surrounded the marriage vows repeated at half after nine o’clock this morning uniting in marriage Miss Roma Irene Fogt of Sidney and Norbert Francis Gutmann of Botkins and Sidney. The bride is the attractive younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy W. Fogt, Sidney, and the bridegroom is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gutmann who had resided in Botkins.
50 Years
Oct. 5, 1974
Copeland Corp. expects to lay off approximately 300 hourly production employees in Sidney at the end of the next week, due to the severe drop in residential construction.
Sylvester Hoying, plant manager of Wagner Manufacturing in Sidney, said today that 28 of 36 employees on second shift will be affected by a layoff. “As demand increases or decreases, you adjust accordingly,” he said.
Two Shelby County Sheriff’s deputies were treated and released from Wilson Memorial Hospital for minor injuries sustained in a riot early this morning at Lindhaus Park Pavilion, Ohio 66, near Newport. The brawl involved about 400 persons.
25 Years
Oct. 5, 1999
Certainly, everyone in Shelby County is feeling the effects of not having enough rain this summer. Farmers have damages to crops, gardens are suffering, lake and pond levels are down, and almost everyone’s yard is brown or bare.
CLEVELAND – Prosecutors trying to show Dr. Sam Sheppard killed his wife 45 years ago exhumed the body of Marilyn Sheppard this morning along with the fetus she was carrying when she died. The grim procedure is part of the state’s efforts to defend itself against a lawsuit being brought by the couple’s son, Sam Reese Sheppard.
The case helped inspire “The Fugitive” television series and film, and Sheppard’s efforts to clear his father’s name for all time have also been subject of a made-for-television movie.
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.
