Looking Back Through the pages of the Wapakoneta Daily News

100 YEARS AGO, MAY 20, 1922

⬛ DO YOU REMEMBER? Thirty nine years ago tomorrow, May 1, Wapakoneta and the Middlewest got out of bed and gazed upon an 18 inch snow. Travel and business as well as farming were all halted for two or three days

until the snow melted and work on the farms and in the gardens could be resumed. It was the deepest snowstorm that had visited this

section during the winter preceding.

⬛ Yankers out of town-this was a poor day for sufferers from toothache, if any. Local dentists were preparing for an early start on their trip to the north bank of the Grand Reservoir where they expected to hold an all day session, discussing the business of the Mercer-auglaize Dental society and fishing. Drs. Goetz, Hurlburt, Cannon, and Bob attended from this city.

75 YEARS AGO, MAY 20, 1947

⬛ The boys and girls of 5A, Williamson School, entertained their mothers and friends with a Mother’s Day program and tea on May 9. Corsages were presented each guest, and

Becky Lament, class resident, welcomed the visitors, after which Cynthia Brookhart, program, chairman, took charge. After the program of a play, songs, folk dance, rhythm

songs, a piano solo, and another play, Peggy Jo Davis opened the social hour during which time refreshments were served from a dainty table whose centerpiece was a tall white May pole with story book dolls acting as the dancers. The following guests were present: Mrs. T.J. Erb, Mrs. Harold Harshbarger, Mrs. John

Brown, Mrs. Ned Davis, Patty Davis, Mrs. John Kuck, Mrs. Myron Kuck, Mrs. T.A. Gregg, Miss Carolyn Maxson, Mrs. C.M. Cornell, Tommy Cornell, Mrs. Merle Harrod, Mrs. Henry Moser, Mrs. Walter Golden, Mrs. Henry Metz, Mrs. F.B. Overman, Mrs. Edwin Schemmel, Sandra Headapohl, Mrs. Robert Headapohl, Mrs. W.B. Price, Mrs. C.C. Bowen, Mrs. Ben Doseck Mrs.

George Brodie Mrs. Ferd Doseck, Mrs. Merle Cornell, Mrs. Clarence Headaphl, Mrs. Everett Lament, Mrs. Ben Davis, Mrs. Raymond Kerst, MM Walter Brookhart, Mrs. Richard Hengstler, Mrs. Harlan Jacobs, Shirley Jacobs, Miss Edith Matlehner, Mrs. Ferd Gross, Karen Gross, Mrs. Chris Behm, John Behm. Miss Mary Blossom, Mrs. Fred Snyder, Mrs. J.T Koenig, Mrs. Marshall Koenig, Craig Koenig, Mrs. Lawrence Bailey Mrs. Irvin Conrad, Cathy Conrad, Darene

Botkin, and Miss Catherine Culleton.

50 YEARS AGO, MAY 20, 1972

⬛ The Eastern Auglaize County Chapter of the American Red Cross held its Board of Directors meeting in the Wapa Theatre Building, Red Cross office. An election of officers was

held with the following board being formed for the coming year: chapter chairman Gordon Cummings; vice-chairman Rev. William Medford; secretary Mrs. Rollin Wellington; treasurer Bruce Thuman; Bloodmobile chairman Mrs. Al Winterman; water safety chairman Mrs. Merlin Copeland; First Aid chairman Mrs. Elmer Jauert; canteen chairman Mrs. Walter

Swonguer; disaster chairman Bruce Roser; volunteers chairman Mrs. Eward Grover; executive secretary Mrs. Robert Lietz.

⬛ Three Wapakoneta high school seniors are among the 50 from five states that have been

selected on the basis of academic excellence to receive the Getty Freshman Scholar Award

at Ohio Northern University. They are: Linda Carmean, Route 3; Connie Serr, Route 2; and

Denise Gren, 807 W. Vine Street.

25 YEARS AGO, MAY 20, 1997

⬛ When Garry Neal decided to open a restaurant in Wapakoneta, he had a very specific concept in mind. He wanted a place where

everybody would be warmly welcomed, from the upper-scale businessman to the farmer just

in from the fields. With the opening of Hugo Granny’s Café, 5 W. Auglaize Street, that concept has been realized. A native of Dayton, Neal recently moved to St. Marys and scoured that city for prime location for a restaurant. But

he couldn’t find a more appealing site than the Brunswick Restaurant in Wapakoneta. In the coming weeks, Neal plans to start a delivery service and hopes to offer his guests light musical entertainment.