125 Years Ago
Sept. 26, 1899
Special sale Friday and Saturday. Extra fine gum drops at 13 cents per pound. The regular price is 20 cents by pound. C.F. Hickok. – adv’t.
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J.H. Perry, of the American School Furniture Co., of Sidney, arrived home Saturday evening after spending three months exploring the Klondike and Cape Nome mining districts. He says that most of the buildings destroyed by the late fire in Dawson have been rebuilt, and that the town has been much improved.
100 Years Ago
Sept. 26, 1924
Sexauer’s pumpkin pies are good adv’t.
When the Orange and Black assembles on the field this evening it will be their last practice before the game Saturday (appeared in a Friday edition). The team has been put thru some strenuous practice sessions during the last week to put them in condition for the opening game. When the whistle blows for the initial start, Piqua will be faced by a much stronger aggregation than last year when the Border City piled up a 27 to 0 score on the Shelby county lads.
Corks for all sized bottles at Christians Drug Store. – adv’t.
75 Years Ago
Sept. 26, 1949
Miss Evelyn Wright is dead – Miss Wright, who had been so beloved by the hundreds of children she had taught down through the years in the primary grades in the Sidney public school system. She was a teacher in both Third and Fourth ward buildings and at First ward was principal before retiring in 1945 after 34 years in that profession.
Members of the IUTIS club pledged with a unanimous vote last night their full support to the Sidney board of education and the school bond issue to be voted upon in November. Ralph Wiessinger was elected president.
Wanted to buy Waste Paper. East Side Iron & Wrecking Co. S. Brooklyn Ave. Phone 2451-1. – adv’t.
50 Years Ago
Sept. 26, 1974
Community leaders throughout Shelby County joined together last night for the annual United Fund kick-off dinner held at Avon Lake. The goal is $156,550, or 5 percent higher than last year’s goal, according to fund president David Stang.
About 80 persons jammed an equipment storage building adjacent to the Washington Township House last night to once again make known their feelings about a rezoning proposal that would accommodate a gravel mining operation in the Lockington area. The proposal has been opposed on three main points: fear that gravel excavation will endanger the water supply, concern that gravel trucks will present a safety hazard, and reluctance to have the area aesthetically disfigured.
25 Years Ago
Sept. 26, 1999
Clinton Township Trustees Tuesday reviewed a traffic count on a section of Kuther Road. From Kuther Road, south of the Millcreek Road intersection, the northbound lane had 489 cars over a 24-hour period and the southbound lane of the road had 571 vehicles. On Kuther Road, north of Millcreek Road in the southbound lane, there were 1,059 cars in 24 hours. The northbound lane had 1,036 vehicles. The trustees discovered that the month-old guardrail on South Vandemark Road at the curve had been hit by a vehicle in a hit-and-run incident, causing $1,255 worth of damage. Mike Wooddell, who does road work for the township, will be paint- ing guardrails and getting ready for the last round of mowing. Trustees paid bills totaling $13,269.30.
The annual Sidney High School Powder Puff Football game has been scheduled for Monday beginning 6:30 p.m. at Julia Lamb Field. The ninth-grade women will play the 10th-grade women at 6:30 p.m Eleventh-grade women will play the 12th-grade women at 7:15 p.m. and the band will play faculty members at 8 p.m. Presale tickets are $2 each for students and $3 for adults. All tickets at the gate will be $3, and activi- ty passes will not be accepted. Profits will benefit the class of 2003. The activity is coordinated by Jenny Luebke, Sidney High School teacher.
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.
