Looking Back

JANUARY 27, 1923

A DUTY-- Have you been vaccinated? If not,it is your duty to yourself, your family, and the public at large to be vaccinated at once. Vaccination has been proven effective. No person who has been properly vaccinated need fear small pox. Go to your physician NOW and be vaccinated, if you have not been within the past few years. If he uses fresh vaccine from Anderson’s Central Drug Store, there is absolutely no danger. Protect yourself, your family, and your town.

More Wapakoneta families are planning to move in the near future. Harry Shulte will move from 206 West Silver street to 602 East Auglaize , into the property recently vacated by MM Ivan Carlson, who moved to a flat above Brown’s Cream Station. MM SS Smith will move from 604 West Benton street to the hoe vacated by MM Shulte, which was recently purchased by Mr. Smith.

Members of the Wapakoneta Council No. 1272, Knights of Columbus of this city are asked to meet at the lodge rooms Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock to go to Botkins to pay their respects to the deceased brother, Rev. Henry Daniel. All members are asked to meet at Botkins at 2:30. Gregor Foos, Grand Knight

FOR SALE-FIVE bungalows, modern in every respect except furnace. Five rooms, bath and toilet,hot and cold water, three lots, big barn. Price $2,000. See Hoopingarner & Veit, Brown Theatre, Phone Main 1920

FOR SALE-- Lard cans and flour sacks. Also we buy lard. Bon Ton Bakery, East Auglaize street.

JANUARY 27, 1948

Funeral arrangements are still pending for Ira Ellsworth Baber, 66, of St. johns Route 1, killed instantly in a farm accident at his home. Dr. Alfred Veit, county coroner, returned a verdict of accidental death when investigations revealed that Mr. Baber was killed while attempting to start his tractor. He was struck by the cross bar on the tractor’s buck rake, sustaining a fractured skull.

MM Ralph Spees, 602 Gibbs avenue, announce the birth of a son in Lima Memorial hospital.

Reverend Jacob Schick, pastor of St. Mark’s church left for Columbus to attend the annual fourday Ohio pastors’ convention, which is to be attended by more than 3000 pastors representing 14 Protestant denominations. No other Wapakoneta pastors were reported attending the sessions.

JANUARY 27, 1973

City councilmen currently are n adoption of a $2.467 million appropriations ordinance to defray operational costs of the municipal government and its various departments. The amount represents a boost of $149,225 over 1972. The largest amount of the increase is reported by the police department appropriation, $19,250 over the 1972 allocation.

MM Virgil Darling and daughter Sharon attended the VFW midwinter conference in Toledo over the weekend. Sharon is District 2 president and has won a trip to the National Midwinter Conference in Washington, DC. She has been invited, by Mrs. Nixon, to a tea party at the White House.

Rich Hines feels, and rightfully so, that fate is and has been against him. Former President Harry Truman’s funeral was on a Thursday. And services for LBJ will be held today, on Thursday. Both are occasions for days off for federal employees. But Thursday is Rich’s regular day off.

JANUARY 27, 1998

Father Clarence Diegelman, 81, of St. Charles Seminary, died January 26. He was born in Auglaize County in November 1916. He is survived by Marie and Henry Puthoff and Helen and Earl Kreitzer, sisters and brothers in law, all of Wapakoneta. Father Diegelman was ordained in 1943 and served in parishes throughout the Archdiocese of Cincinnati until his retirement in 1986.