Looking Back

Through the pages of the Wapakoneta Daily News

FEBRUARY 8, 1923

■ Hoopingarner & Veit, realtors, announced that a deal had been completed whereby the Leonard Howell residence on Hoopingarner street was sold to Peter Schneider, Mercer County resident, who will move to this city. The Howells will move to Lima. Arley Lotridge, residing on Silver street, has purchased through his firm the William Haman cottage property on Benton street. The house has been occupied for several months by MM Merrill Miller and family. MM Lotridge expect to move into this place. The Haman family moved to Lima.

■ Boys and girls had a merry time on the old Auglaize River Tuesday evening after the ice had been declared strong enough to withstand a burden, the near zero weather of Sunday and Monday having congealed the waters to a thickness that made it safe.

■ Charles David, the son of MM David Siferd, is seriously ill. This morning his condition was critical as he lay in spasm, but by the afternoon he seemed slightly improved.

FEBRUARY 8, 1948

■ Hank Williams, husky ballplayer from the village of New Hampshire, soon plans to leaver for the west coast, where this season he hopes to play ball in the Pacific Coast League.

■ At the initial meeting this year of the Midwestern Chapter of the Ohio Society of Professional Engineers, George Shuster, 303 East Mechanic street, Auglaize county engineer, was elected president of the organization for 1948.

FEBRUARY 8, 1973

■ A dinner for the captains of the local March of Dimes campaign was given at Brown’s Restaurant. Those in attendance were: chairman Mrs. Ruby Lee, Mrs. John Carr, Mrs. Edwin Roth, Mrs. Paul Fisher, Mrs. Clem Fisher, county chair Cecil Hicks, Mrs. Hicks, Wapakoneta co-chairman Miss Helen Brunn, Mrs. Paul Boehringer, Mrs. Ralph Schulze, and Mrs. Earl Clark. Those who were unable to attend were Mrs. Tom Rickert, Mrs. Thomas Harrison, Mrs. James Kohlrieser, and Mrs. Bill Ankerman.

■ Dr. John Haehn has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Hauss-helms Foundation. He is a graduate of the Ohio State University and has been engaged in the practice of optometry in Wapakoneta for the past 17 years. He resides at 103 Logan street with his wife Helen and eight children, Lisa, John, Jr., Debra, David, Edward, Daniel, Kevin, and Katherine. Dr. Haehn joins James Weger, Vincent Hudson, Robert Lietz, and N. Thomas Cornell on the board.

■ Oliver Kuck, 71, retired manager of Welfare Finance Corp., died February 6 at Cypress Gardens, Florida. Mr. Kuck, who retired April 1971 as manager, joined Welfare Finance as assistant manager to Stanley Brandewie in 1948. He was promoted to the position of manager in 1959, and later became vice president of the corporation. Mr. Kuck had been employed by the county auditor’s office from 1935 to 1943. In 1943 he was elected Auditor and maintained that position until 1948.

FEBRUARY 8, 1998

Ed and Alvina Ruppert Roth, 111 East Benton street, will celebrate their 6oth wedding anniversary February 16. They are the parents of nine childrenrose Mary Tobias, the late Carolyn Widner, Dick Roth, Ellie Zuber, Karen Cozad, Ron Roth, Melinda Trinosky, Steve Pope, and Monica Bounds. Roth is retired from Superior Tube Co. Mrs. Roth is a homemaker.