Looking Back Through the pages of the Wapakoneta Daily News
100 YEARS AGO, JUNE 5, 1921
■SPECIAL! Vegetable wagon will be at the corner of Willipie and Auglaize streets Saturday afternoon and evening with plenty of: Extra fine leaf lettuce at 15 cents per lb. or 2 lbs. for 25 cents. Special for tomorrow only. Also fine Radishes, new Beets, new Peas, Cottage Cheese, Beefsteak Tomato plants, and other varieties. For extra orders, please call Prospect 1603. R. Hollenbacher
■ To the June Bride. An American Beauty Iron. $8.50. Smith Bros. Electric Co.
■ The clean-up campaign just completed in the city has cost $150. It required eight days to complete the work and the city dump has been considerably increased in size, thus aiding in a direct manner the efforts being made to establish a park and public playground on the city property between the river, B&O railroad and Harrison and Auglaize streets. The city is in fair condition at the present time as to cleanliness, but it’s a question as o how long it will last. There are several local conditions that exist yet and C.L. Mueller, city health commissioner, stated that they are to be attended to.
■ Wilbur Bailey, a former resident of Wapakoneta who at one time conducted a grocery store in the room which is now the Vaudette theatre, is a visitor in these parts. Mr. Bailey has been a resident of California for eight years. He is staying with his brother, Arthur Bailey, east of St. Johns.
75 YEARS AGO, JUNE 5, 1946
■ St. Paul’s Evangelical and Reformed church has joined with other surrounding and outlying churches in the project of sending heifers to war torn and hungry Europe. The Evangelical and Reformed church of St. Louis is sending money to the seven churches in the local group who will use the funds to buy heifers in their community. Those men in charge of the committee work are Clinton haw, Adrian Kah, and Carl Presar.
■ In addition to the Doctor of Divinity degree given to local pastor George Weissling, the second of such degrees awarded at Wittenberg College was given to the Reverend S. Spees of Philadelphia, a son of the late MM Floyd Spees of Highland Avenue, this city.
■ Merchants tell us that they are besieged by out of town buyers who try to get things which cannot be purchased in the buyer’s own communities. Most stores refuse to sell scarce articles to people from out of the community as they feel their first duty is to the local people, but it is hard to always distinguished.
50 YEARS AGO, JUNE 5, 1971
■ A $10 million cable television system, designed to include provisions for such future ideas as shopping by TV, has been announced for Dayton. Don Shuler, president of Wapakoneta-based Cypress Cabe TV of Ohio, Inc, is also president of the new firm.
■ The family of MM Elmer and Mary Louise Neumeier, 3 W. Silver Street, has been busy attending graduations the past few weeks. Their daughter, Sister Barbara Neumeier, CPPS, received a Bachelor of Science in secondary education, from the University of Dayton. Another daughter, Bonita, has just completed her college career at Edgecliff, in Cincinnati, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Welfare, minoring in psychology. Nancy graduated May 23, 1971, from St. Joseph High School. She will continue her studies at Miami Valley School of Nursing, in Dayon. Lastly, Teresa, who has been attending Baylor University Medical Center, in Dallas, will graduate in a post graduate course in nursing, specializing in intensive care and major trauma.
25 YEARS AGO, JUNE 5, 1996
■ The Wapakoneta municipal tree commission recently completed work on a $5820 Urban Forest Management grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. The funds allowed 30 large street trees to be pruned and also permitted the city to ire a forestry intern for 720 hours of maintenance labor. The commission hired as its intern Micah Sitzman. Michah began his work in mid-september and continued through mid-may. During the past eight months he pruned trees where the commission has completed plantings since 1993—some 600-700 trees. He also completed other work, such as repairing damaged trees, planting trees, removing dead trees, and watering trees. During the last six weeks o the project, Tony Helmstetter assisted as well, devoting much of his time to Evergreen Cemetery., pruning and mulching plant there. He also fertilized several hundred street, park, and school trees. Sitzman and Helmstetter will be juniors at Wapakoneta High School this fall.