Looking Back Through the pages of the Wapakoneta Daily News

100 YEARS AGO, MAY 3, 1922

H.C. Soubier, stellar performer with the Shannon players company, returned this week from Windsor, Canada, where he visited for

about 10 days with relatives. Returning from his Canadian home he planned to bring with him his

brother, John, aged 22 years, who, it had been arranged, would travel this summer with the Shannons. Arriving at the international boundary, however, John was turned back, and Red came on to Wapakoneta alone He explained upon his arrival that the younger brother would not be permitted to pass because of an immigration law

or international agreement which prohibits enticing an immigrant by promise of a job. The United

States authorities refused to all John to pass. It is probably that the younger brother will try again in another year, Mr. Shannon said yesterday. He is an actor of some ability and is a good singer.

Legion Memorial Home News concerning the proposed memorial home to be erected by Auglaize Post No. 330. Our slogan: Put it Thru in ’22.” Plans for the Legion Memorial Home show at once a building designed for all the purposes

of Legion meeting place, community center, and athletic auditorium, yet stripped of all the nonessential elaborate features in an effort to practice rigid economy in its construction. The building will be located on a tract of ground on the east

side of North Blackhoof street, just south o the Auglaize river bridge and at the rear of the old

Burnett House. Located in the heart of the city and at the water’s edge, it is expected that water sports, boating, and canoeing on the riving or skating in the winter will be encouraged, the Legion Memorial Home offering a splendid meeting

place for these sports. In fact, the Legion Memoria Home will be as nearly everything in the way

of a common public meeting place as it is possible to have under one roof. Erected as a memorial to the boys who rendered service in the days of 191718,it will contain a meeting hall on its second floor for the Legion and women’s auxiliary. The main floor will contain men’s and women’s lounging

and reading rooms and a mammoth auditorium for indoor athletics, gymnasium work and basketball, carnivals, concerts, dances, social functions, banquets, church or lodge fairs or bazaars, auto shows, corn shows, poultry shows, political or labor gatherings, community singing…..

Robert Langhorst, well known Wapakoneta young man, son of Mrs. William Spees, Van Horn

Street, who has been seriously ill for more than a week in the Dayton Military Hospital, died the

morning of May 1. Robert was a son of MM Emil Langhorst and was born in this city 26 years ago. His father died about 20 years ago. He attended the schools in the second ward building in this city and also attended high school. He served

overseas with the 101st Engineers. Returning to Wapakoneta, he took employment with the city

in the municipal light and water department and remained there until he went to Dayton hospital a few weeks ago.

MM V.B. Arnold and family have removed from their West Pearl Street residence to their

new home at 412 West Auglaize Street, which they recently purchased.

75 YEARS AGO, MAY 3, 1947

NOTICE: Prospective Aircraft Owners— Buy your ship now before prices go up. Have several Boeing PT 17s licensed and unlicensed low time on engine and aircraft. Excellent for building up that flying time. 220 HP engines that use approximately 10 gal. of fuel per hour…..for further information and prices, call John Gehrlich, Canal 1979

Genuine frost-proof cabbage plants, tomato plants and Crystal Wax Bermuda onion plants. 308 E. Benton St. Mrs. Harry Hay

The annual community Daily Vacation Bible School will be held again this year for two weeks, starting June 2 at 9 am and closing on June 13. Participating churches will be the Nazarene, St. Paul Evangelical and Reformed, Methodist, First

English Lutheran, and St. Mark’s.

50 YEARS AGO, MAY 3, 1972

Auglaize County’s ballot battle on the Democratic front for delegate-at-large to the national convention found George Mcgovern edging Hubert Humphrey by the unlucky number of 13. Mcgovern garnered 1116 to Humphrey’s 1103 votes on the slate count in which a voter chose a block of delegates rather than voting for individuals. Henry Jackson received 211 votes, Eugene Mccarthy, 120, and Emund Muskie,329.

Four Wapakoneta young people were injured, two seriously, in a one-car accident on Township Road 93, one-half mile north of State Route 235 Sunday evening. Gregory Rhoades, 17, 304 E. Mechanic was headed north on the township road when he lost control of the car on a curve, went off the left side, and hit a tree. He was listed in poor condition at Lima Memorial Hospital. Also taken to Memorial were the three passengers: Steve Kennedy, 17, 402 E. Pearl (critical condition), Vivian Chenoweth, 16, 717 W. Auglaize (fair condition), and Susie Gilroy, 15, 612 W. Pearl, who was treated and released.

25 YEARS AGO, MAY 3, 1997

Richard “Doc” Urich, 68, of Golden, Colorado, died April 28. He was born in Toledo and raised in Wapakoneta. Mr. Urich was a football

coach in college and the National Football league for 35 years. He was an assistant coach with the

Denver broncos until his retirement in 1985. He was a graduate of Miami University, and was inducted into the Miami University Football Hall of Fame in 1974.