Looking Back

Through the pages of the Wapakoneta Daily News

100 YEARS AGO, JANUARY 13, 1921

For the Good of Wapakoneta, Vote YES on the $ 110,000 Bond Issue. The electric light plant is worn out, obsolete and likely to flicker out for good at any minute. It has failed us a number of times already. It is beyond repair.; it must be succeeded by a dependable plant. Vote YES Tuesday on the $ 110,000 bond issue. Keep the lamps burning in Wapakoneta, and let’s have done with worry. Women voters are especially requested to vote favorably on this proposition. Go to the polls next Tuesday determined to keep Wapakoneta lighted; urge your neighbor to do the same, Unanimously endorsed by the Chamber of Commerce. For the Good of Wapakoneta. Vote “YES” on the $ 110,000 Bond Issue That there has been a restored confidence with the manufacturer and wholesale dealers is manifested by the increased umber of traveling men that is noted at the local hotels. All of the Wapakoneta hostelries were filled to capacity Tuesday night, and any were turned away, unable to secure any accommodations. Fill Your Medicine Chest!! The following special prices on household medicines will enable you to lay in a supply at a substantial saving. Comp. Licorice Powder, 4 oz, 20 cents. Boric Acid, per pound, 50 cents. Quinine Sulphate, per oz., $ 1.65. Rhinitis Tablets ( full strength), per 100, 45 cents. Blauds Iron Tablets, per 100, 30 cents. Aspirin Tablets, 5 gr., per 100, 70 cents. Camphorated Oil, 4 oz., 55 cents; half pint, $ 1.00. Bay Rum, Pint, $ 1.10. Elixir Lactated Pepsin, 4 oz., 25 cents. 8 oz., 45 cents. Aromatic Cascara, 4 oz., 50 cents, 8 oz., 90 cents. Elixir of Iron, Quinine and Strychnine, 40 oz., 35 cents, 8 oz., 65 cents. WANTED Second Growth Hickory and Oak Butts. Highest Cash Price Paid. For Further Particulars, Call or Write The New Wapakoneta Wheel Co., Wapakoneta, Ohio

75 YEARS AGO, JANUARY 13, 1946

Captain Herbert Brackney, a former Blume High School graduate, has returned to the United States. Brackney, who is a Captain in the Finance Division, in the Army Air Corps, has been overseas 1 ½ years and has served in New Guinea, Leyte, Okinawa, and Korea. He was a senior at Ohio State when he was inducted in August of 1941. Captain Brackney is the son of the late Dwight Brackney and Mrs. Brackney. His mother resides at 209 E. Auglaize St. Brackney has a brother, Glenn, who is a captain in the National Guard, and another brother, Clement, who operates the SOHIO bulk plant and filling station in Jackson Center.

We think Wapakoneta is just about ideal in many ways for a [ college]. This is the center of an area which has no such schools. This is not an industrial community and living costs are lower than in the vicinity of larger cities or industrial sections. We have good highways and rail connections; good drinking water and our geographical location and comparatively high altitude give us climatic conditions to superior to those in Bowling Green or Oxford, for example. There is really no good reason why Wapakoneta or Auglaize county at least should not have some state institution— no reason except that we probably have never made any serious effort to get one.

50 YEARS AGO, JANUARY 13, 1971

The Joint Board of the Neil A. Armstrong Vocational Center School District has decided to ask the voters to approve a levy on the May 4 primary ballot. Arthur Frame will service as this school district’s representative on the committee. The vocational district includes Wapakoneta, Spencerville, Shawnee, Perry, Elida, Bluffton, Bath, Allen East and Ada school system. s Lima city schools are not included. Paul Wehrman, 405 South St., received a check from Stan Maxson, owner of Stan’s Sohio, 107 W. Main St., which he won in Sohio’s License Plate Jackpot. Paul who works at Swonguer’s Furniture City, says he will use the money toward a new house. It’s time again for that wonderful old- fashioned bean supper at Salem United Methodist Church., The ladies of the WSCS of Salem church are busy planning for their annual bean supper to be held January 29 in the church social room. Mrs. Nellie Burkard and Mrs. Shirley Campbell are busy ordering beans, ham and the ingredients for good homemade cornbread. Relishes, dessert, and a choice of beverage will also be on the menu. Mr. s Paula Koenig and Mrs. Frances Spencer are in charge of creating an atmosphere for an old- fashioned bean supper. Mrs. Marilyn Frische and Mrs. Barbara Wibbeler are looking for volunteers to serve the meal.

25 YEARS AGO, JANUARY 13, 1996

Many people began calling the winter o 1996 “one to remember” two weeks ago. Yesterday seemed to confirm that theory again ( when nearly 3 inches fell overnight in parts of central Ohio. Auglaize County Engineer Doug Reinhart said 15 snow trucks were dispatched at 5 am yesterday morning. “Since December 18, we’ve had only four days when the plows haven’t gone out,” said Reinhart. This was the state’s fourth snow storm in three weeks.

Looking Back is compiled by Everett II