Looking Back
Through the pages of the Wapakoneta Daily News
100 YEARS AGO, FEBRUARY 26, 1921
■ Eighteen men of the law profession were present at an excellent banquet and meeting held under the auspices of the Auglaize County Bar Association at the Hotel Steinburg. Judge Phil Crow of the Court of Appeals, Kenton, was the honored guest and he delivered an excellent talk showing that the safety and security of our government is dependent upon the enforcement of law. Those present were: Judge C.A. Stueve, as president of the association, Judge Crow, Judge F.C. Layton (Common Pleas Court), Judge Richard Boesel (Probate Court), and attorneys Jacob Koenig, H.S. Vaubel, R.E. Layton, Theodore Tangeman, W.T. Copeland, L.C. Hirsch, Lawrence Brodbeck, Emmett Lusk, David Armstrong, Jr., Frank Connaughton, Roland Rogers, Carl Purpus, R.B. Anderosn, and Karl Timmermeister.
75 YEARS AGO, FEBRUARY 26, 1946
■ Charles (Tad) Seitz, 2-c, quartermaster, is spending a 30 day leave with his parents, MM Adrian Seitz, 406 East Auglaize street. He arrived from San Francisco, accompanied by a friend, Bill Adams, radioman, 2-c, who will be a guest at the Seitz home until he leaves for his own home in Virginia. Seaman Seitz is a veteran of 21 months overseas service and has just recently returned to the States. He will go to Great Lakes, Illinois, at the end of his leave, where he will receive his discharge.
■ The sophomore home economics classes are giving demonstrations in connection with their unit, Machine and Hand Laundry.” Some of these demonstrations are as follows: Joan Thrush/pressing a shirt; pressing sleeves/virginia Elsass; removing stains/jane Smith; laundering a sweater in a glue solution/joan Hibner; folding sheets/helen Benzing; sprinkling clothes/emily King; making starch and pressing a man’s trousers/esther Omler; a report on soaps/dorothy Doseck; report on bluing/lucille Knoch; changing an ironing board cover/lura Webster’ plans for an ideal home laundry/marilyn Archer and Barbara Morey.
50 YEARS AGO, FEBRUARY 26, 1971
■ One hundred and fifty three persons gave blood when the Fort Wayne Bloodmobile made its regular stop in Wapakoneta. Dorothy Franklin and Ilene Fisher were chairmen for the day. The Bloodmobile extends its thanks to First United Methodist Church, the Wapakoneta Daily News, Station WERM, the radio stations in Lima, the Wapakoneta Ministerial Association, Senior High for the typewriters, Pepsi Cola Company for soft drinks. Fisher Cheese, Junior Service League for furnishing cookies, and the young men from Senior High who donated their services. Those receiving pins were Alfred Bustetter, Rose Braun, Janice Britt, Alfred King, and Robert Winkler— one gallon; Carl Moser—two gallons; Demetra Rinehart—three gallons; Thomas Mosler—four gallons.
■ If they had told her it would be Athens, Ohio, Ginger Gritzmaker wouldn’t have been surprised. A physical education major at Miami University, Ginger, a junior, had really expected to do her student teaching in Cincinnati’s innercity area. But when university officials told her it was to be in Athens, Greece, this was a Trojan horse of a different color. Ginger, along with other Miami students, will leave from Kennedy Airport March 22 for her student teaching assignments at the Military Academy School in Athens. Ginger and her companions will return to the States June 18, but sandwiched in between will be from seven to 10 days of free time for travel. This will be Ginger’s first experience in flying. She is the daughter of Mrs. Lucille Gritzmaker, 856 Kelly Drive, and the late Mr. Orrin Gritzmaker.
■ The Wapakoneta Woman’s Club held its February meeting in the club rooms with Mrs. Vera Kiese presiding. New members and guests were welcomed and the program opened with a piano solo by Lisa Steiner. Three songs were sung by Dan Howe, Elaine Jones, and Pam Erb, accompanied by Mrs. Catherine Fuller. The remainder of the program was presented by Rosalind Ricket, who spent two months last summer in Argentina as an exchange student. Mrs. Marshall Koenig was chairman of the program committee.
25 YEARS AGO, FEBRUARY 26, 1996
■ The residents at Wapakoneta Manor Nursing Home received a special treat for Valentine’s Day. Hannah Bambauer, granddaughter of Spike and Dottie Kohler, presented each resident with a wooden flower her grandfather had made.
■ Peter Drummond of Wapakoneta Middle School was crowned the city-wide spelling bee champion following he spelling bee at St. Joseph School. Amber Mccullough, St. Joseph, was the first runner-up. Drummond will compete in the Dayton Spelling Bee in April. Other contestants wee Michelle Pohlable and Amber Hein, St. Joseph School students.