Looking Back Through the pages of the Wapakoneta Daily News

100 YEARS AGO, FEBRUARY 25, 1921

 Our neighboring towns along the Miami and Erie Canal, which have had visions of the long defunct ditch merged into a barge canal, are greatly disturbed over the introduction of the Emery bill , which calls for the abandonment of the Miami and Erie, of which the Grand Reservoir is the main feeder. Opposition to the pending canal abandonment measure is urged by Albert Krell on the part of all communities affected by the canal. Krell is president of the Central Inland Waterways Association. The Emery bill provides for the abandonment of the canal from Maumee river at Defiance to Middletown.  If you have the money…build that needed house now. Paint that dwelling, that church that school. Repair that fence and make the farm look more tidy. Build that highway. It is badly needed. Pave that street. It will help your town, Improve the water-works and extent the sewerage system for they will better the health of your ton. Build that Church, that school, that courthouse, and go ahead with everything that shows you are a red-blooded American, with faith in your country. W is the time for men— real men—to lead off and do things. Cowards only are slackers. The patriot can do as much in this time of peace for his country as he could do in war. .Let’s play ball.—j.h> Meyer, Architect and Engineer, City Building. Wapakoneta, Ohio  Sudden death came to aged and venerable Thomas Kinstle at his apartment in the residence of MM D.W. Whetstone, No. 13 Blackhoof Street, on February 24. He was in his 79th year. Mr. Kinstle was born near Jackson Center, and had been a resident of Wapakoneta for 50 years. During his active business life Mr Kinstle as a retail shoe dealer. Having conducted a store in this city for many years. For the last 15 years of his life he was retired. He was a veteran of the Civil War, having served in Battery M., First Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Field Artillery for almost four years. To speak of Mr. Kinstle is to speak of a man who was upright of character, a strict Christian, a perfect gentleman, and a gentle, mild-mannered man whose purpose it was to have others enjoy some of the sunshine that exist within his own hear. He as a near perfection as it is possible for any person to be. His nobility of soul was always present in his intercourse with his fellowmen.

75 YEARS AGON, FEBRUARY 25, 1946

 A Wapakoneta hen has outdone the efforts of a Massachusetts hen in the matter of laying whopper eggs. The Daily News Tuesday night reported that a Massachusetts hen had laid one egg seven inches in circumference. Now comes George Mcelroy of East Middle Street, where things are always happening and exhibits an egg which he took from a nest at his home Wednesday. It measured seven and one-eighth inches by the shortest circumference and eight an one-eighth inches by its longest. It weighted give and one fourth ounces. The hen is a White Rock Hen.

 Township and village chairmen were announced today for the Red Cross war fund drive which gets under way on March 1, by Chairman Ferald Ritchie, head of the Eastern Auglaize County Red Cross campaign. They include: Gus Roode, Pusheta township; Mrs. Frank Martin, Clay township; Mrs. Fred Snyder, Union township’ Mrs. S.W. Frazier, Uniopolis; John Umbaugh, Cridersville and Duchouquet township’ Mrs. Myrdetta Morgan, Buckland; Roy Brown, Moulton township.

50 YEARS AGO, FEBRUARY 25, 1971

 GRAND OPENING continued thru March 7—Wapak Gulf Service, 225 E. Auglaize at Seltzer. 2 LIBBEY Tawney ‘Accent’ Glasses FREE with fill-up of 8 or more gallons of Gulf Gasoline

 NOTICE: Wapakoneta Civil Air Patrol has openings for Teachers—students—businessmen—factory Workers—housewives—pilots and Farmers. See CAP in Action, February 26, 7:30 p.m. The Community Room, First National Bank

25 YEARS AGO, FEBRUARY 25, 1996

 A long-standing structure on the city’s south side will disappear in the not-too-distant future. Wapakoneta city council learned from lands/buildings committee chairwoman Ruth Carter that Ben’s Construction Co, Lima has submitted the low bid for the demolition of the “Bum” Knoch farm house, located at the corner of Industrial Drive and Willipie street. The firm will begin demolition sometime after March 4. The Auglaize County Historical Society will erect a memorial to the former owners using bricks removed from the farm house.