Looking Back
Through the pages of the Wapakoneta Daily News
100 YEARS AGO, MAY 14, 1921
■ ANNOUNCEMENT: Miss Sarah Nichols, Graduate of Moller College, Chicago, announces the opening of a Beauty Parlor in Wapakoneta. Being unable to procure a suitable location at present all work will be done at your own residence. For appointments phone Main 1511 for Marcelling, Scalp Treatments, Manicuring, and Facial Massages. Children’s work given special attention Day or Evening. Satisfaction guaranteed. Phone Main 1511. Miss Sarah Nichols
■ Buckland vs. Wapakoneta Reds at Buckland, Ohio, May 15, 1921. Game Called @;30 p.m.
■ The Junior Reds will hook up with the W.C.I. Bearcats on the local diamond next Saturday. An interesting game is expected to ensure as both teams are keen rivals. The Juniors have found their biggest stunt is base stealing. Last Sunday in the Cridersville game they were able to pilfer 25 sacks. The Bearcats have found trouble in starting, but expect to loosen up on the Juniors Sunday.
■ Master Charle Brown, son of MM A.J. Brown, Main Street, has filed his application to attend the national boys’ summer training camp at Muskegon, Michigan, this summer. Master Charles is a student at St. Joseph’s parochial school. The number of boys who will attend the camp from here has now been increased to eight.
■ Walter Lyman, who has been automobiling around this section of the state in a Ford truck for several months because of damages done to his Overland sedan, was called to the factory at Toledo. He expects to bring the machine back with him. A number of his friends recommended to him that he take the back road coming home this time. He was returning from the factory when the machine was damaged the last time.
75 YEARS AGO, MAY 14, 1946
■ The Circus has come to town and left, having played one performance last evening to a capacity audience, 2/3 of which was composed of youngsters. The Bernard Bros. Circus presented a bill of trained dogs, cowboys and cowgirls with plain and fancy riding. A fire eater, snake charmer. Monkeys and a real honest to goodness lion. Together with various other circus attractions they played to an enthusiastic audience. The lion was reported to have fled his cage in the side show tent sometime yesterday morning, but was re-captured before he could escape the confines of the tent. The circus, which traveled here from Bellefontaine, left after last night’s performance for Delphos, where it will play a one-night stand this evening.
■ The Buckland Alumni Dance will be held May 17 at the Buckland High School auditorium. A short program will precede round and square dancing to the music of a local orchestra. Three pairs of nylons will be awarded as door prizes sometime during the evening. The doors will open at 8:30 with a fifty cent admission to everyone. The public is invited.
■ Born this morning to MM Charles Stevenson, Jr., of Route 4, Wapakoneta, twins. The twins, a boy and a girl, arrived at Lima Memorial hospital. The Stevensons now have two daughters and the twins.
■ NOTICE—NO trespassing on the Second Ward School grounds during demolition of the building. Anyone caught trespassing will be prosecuted. No Sunday sales.
50 YEARS AGO, MAY 14, 1971
■ FOR Rent—location formerly occupied by Cozty Corner, corner of Willipie and Auglaize. Call 738-….
■ Science students from Northridge Elementary School were honored recently when their themes were selected to be read on Arbor Day. They include: Soctt Zwiebel, Peter Frame, David Amos, Toni Rickard, Linda Wagner, Jim Hayzlett, Dawn Laffin, Diane Jurosic, and Linda Keiber.
■ The fame of the Freyburg herons is gradually spreading. A reporter and photographer from the Springfield Sun visited the Lunz farm and were given the tour by official spotter Norma Lunz. The photographer shot the nesting birds from a distance. The picture-story will be in Sunday’s edition, he said,
25 YEARS AGO, MAY 14, 1996
■ Wapakoneta Sister Cities, Inc, will sponsor a Las Vegas Night on Saturday at the Wapakoneta Elks Lodge. Activities will run from 7 to 11 p.m. Games of chance will be offered and an auction will be held. Also to be given away is a gift certificate from Apollo Travel. Process will help defray costs of various activities planned by the organization during a visit this summer by residents of Lengerich, Germany.