125 Years
Oct. 14, 1899
Julius Hale has secured a new boat to take the party to the club house next Monday. It is known as the “Swiss Boy.”
FOR SALE: Seventy shocks of good fodder field on St. Marys pike at 40 cents a shock. Also, one Durham cow that will be fresh soon. Call on Frank Elliott at the Wagner house or Clarence Elliott. – Advertisement.
W.C. Jackson, of Coshocton, has purchased the Wagner House barber shop of Frank Flockler.
100 Years
Oct. 14, 1924
The board of health is about ready to begin the Schick testing and diphtheria immunization in the schools. There is no compulsion about this work and no attempt will be made to unduly urge parents to have their children immunized.
Motor cop Sam Foos at Wapak made an important capture Monday when he took a Ford Coupe loaded with cargo of nine cases of Canadian Club, nine percent beer, and about four cases of Canadian liquor. The driver was from Detroit, heading south.
The members of the Holy Angels church choir and the Church organist, Miss Irene Bustetter, were guests in St. Marys Sunday to take part in the dedicating of the new organ recently installed in the Holy Rosary Church.
75 Years
Oct. 14, 1949
Fire resulting from the use of a blow torch to remove paint damaged the outside wall of the home of W.E. Whipp, Riverside Drive, Bon Air, yesterday
Members of the Fort Loramie Future Farmers of America general livestock judging team – Vernon Hilgefort, Carl Boerger, and Edward Hoying – accompanied by their advisor Henry Horstman, vocational agriculture teacher at both Fort Loramie and Anna high schools, have arrived in Kansas City, Mo., after a safe and interesting motor trip to attend the 22nd national FFA convention there. The team is to participate in the national judging contest on Friday.
50 Years
Oct. 14, 1974
The first art ball of the Sidney Arts Association, held Saturday at the Lindhaus in Fort Loramie, drew about 400 people. The next activity of the association is an art fair to be held at Citizens Baughman National Bank, west branch.
A total of about 350 Copeland employees were laid-off last week due to severe cutbacks in residential construction.
MINSTER – About 600 residents of the Minster area attended the open house-dedication of the village’s new $107,000 fire station at Fourth and Lincoln streets.
25 Years
Oct. 14, 1999
BOULDER, Colo. – The JonBenet Ramsey grand jury was dismissed after 13 months of work Wednesday and prosecutors said there isn’t enough evidence to charge anyone in the 6-year-old’s strangulation nearly three years ago.
Fort Loramie has been the dominant team under coach Steve Stickley in Shelby County League Cross Country in recent memory. It’s to the point where Loramie regularly sweeps all the race titles, from junior high on up. So, when the seven county schools congregate at White Oak Lake on Friday afternoon for this year’s meet, expect Stickley to have a lot of hardware to haul back to the school again.
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.
