Looking Back Through the pages of the Wapakoneta Daily News
100 YEARS AGO, JUNE 9, 1922
⬛ Another Wapakoneta industry changed working schedule when the Wapakoneta Wheel Company went on summer time. The big whistle will call the men to work during the next few months at 6 am instead of 6:30 as heretofore, and the time each evening will be extended a half-hour. The factory will close at 5 o’clock each evening. The men will enjoy a holiday on Saturdays. Manager Trau said that the new arrangement will permit the men 50 working hours per week, same as before.
⬛ Auglaize Buick Company, 5 East Auglaize Street, Wapakoneta, Ohio. Phone Main 1866. When Better Automobiles Are Built Buick Will Build Them
⬛ Charles Nichols sold to Lendell Johnson the Ed Reynolds property on West Pearl
Street. Mr. Reynolds will vacate same on June 20th. He and his family are moving to California. Mr. Johnson, who is now living in the flat over the post office, will make some fine changes in the Reynolds property and move there soon after same is vacated. Mr. Nichols also sold the Wm. Doseck farm of 112 acres east of Wapakoneta to Louis Stout, Jerry Campell, and Jos. Veit. Mr. Doseck bought the William Bradford property in Highland Avenue and will vacate the farm and move to town.
⬛ Back to his native hearth after an absence of more than 40 years, James Harrod, aged 96 years, returned last week from California
to make his home in Auglaize County, land where his earliest boyhood recollections were formed. Formerly a resident of Union Township, Mr. Harrod will reside with his daughter, Mrs. Jacob Musser, at Buckland. In addition to claiming the honor of being the oldest native born Auglaize countian, Mr. Harrod’s friends say also that he is probably one of very, very few veterans of the Mexican and Civil wars who will remain. Mr. Harrod was
born in 1826, at a time when Auglaize County was still unformed and Union Township was within the boundaries of Allen County. The aged man still retains possession of good eyesight and declares that he can shoot at a mark with most anyone who wants to compete with him. His hearing and memory are also good. During his residence in California near Los Angeles, Mr. Harrod followed his occupation as a mechanic.
75 YEARS AGO, JUNE 9, 1947
⬛ FOR SALE—NEW 5 room home with full basement, automatic furnace, hardwood floors, inlaid linoleum, double insulation, on large lot at Cor. E. Benton & Bellefontaine Sts. Price $7950. R.F. Stolte, New Knoxville, phone 5-18.
⬛ LAST CHANCE—CANNING pineapple, crate of 16 large. $7.25. Werner’s
⬛ We are pleased to announce the 1947 Miller-built Cadillac Ambulance. Ambulance may be inspected in front of the Funeral Home on Sat. & Sun. Heinl& Son’s Funeral Home
50 YEARS AGO, JUNE 9, 1972
⬛ The sugar sand beaches and crystal clear waters of Paradise Island in the Bahamas are awaiting Mark Bowsher and his wife, Jane, of RR 3, Glynwood Road. They will be guests of Investors Diversified Services, which is hosting them and 33 other multi-million dollar sales achievers and their wives. Bowsher is one of the company’s leading sales representatives, with more than $2 million on total sales production for 1971.
25 YEARS AGO, JUNE 9, 1997
⬛ Almost $500,000 worth of scholarships were given away to Wapakoneta Senior High graduates. Kimerly Copeland and Jonathan Elsass were the big winners, walking away with almost 20 awards combined. Both students graduated in the top two percent of the graduating class. Other top graduates were Kathryn Broy, Stacy Rammel, and Joy Christiansen. The Chrismer Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Elsass. Bethany Unger was a Commended National Merit Scholar, while Kathryn Broy was a National Merit Scholar. Recipients of the Commended Ohio Merit award were Kimberly Copeland, Jordan Sunderland, and Melissa Gill.