Looking Back Through the pages of the Wapakoneta Daily News

100 YEARS AGO, JULY 21, 1921

■ Dr. J.R. Cannon is re-organizing his office room in the Hunter block and will soon face Auglaize Street with his entire set of rooms. He has rented the room formerly occupied by the Postal Telegraph Company’s office and will use that as his operating and laboratory room. The waiting room will be fitted up in what is now used as the operating room. Harry Loth will occupy the present waiting room with his insurance offices.

■ A large new smokestack was installed today at the plant of the Wapakoneta Wheel Co. on place of the old one, which has deteriorated to such an extent that it crumbled in places. The new stack is 65 feet long, about four feet in diameter and weights two and a half tons. Muth Bros. of Dayton and their gang of workmen did the work with special equipment, raising the huge stack by mean of a rope and pulley arrangement. Speedy work was done on the job, the workmen arriving Tuesday evening and completing the job the next day.

■ Unless some-wall-eyed individual pulls another boner and lets the water over the dam in the Auglaize River each spring in the next three or four years, it is possible that there will be some excellent fishing in the old Auglaize round about here. Last Sunday four cans of this years catch of bass were emptied into the river at the brewery bridge, it being estimated that there were at least 2000 of the fish in the four cans. Another bunch of little fellows emptied at the same time consisted of four cans full of Marblehead catfish. There were several thousand of the cats in the consignment and in a couple of years they will be large enough to make pan fish. All of the fish came from the St. Marys hatchery and were brought over by a crew of local fishermen who had arranged for the transportation by truck. The truck broke some of the speed limits in making the trip from St. Marys to the brewery bridge.

75 YEARS AGO, JULY 21, 1946

■ William Reed and V.A. Knudegard were in Columbus where they visited the Ohio State Aeronautics Commission and conferred with the state aeronautical director concerning the forthcoming approval of Port Koneta as an authorized school for G-I’S free flight plan. Final approval is expected in two or three weeks. Any veteran, of any branch of service, is entitled to take advantage of this course of one year of schooling under the G-I Bill of Rights.

50 YEARS AGO, JULY 21, 1971

■ Two area girls have been named to the dean’s list at Edgecliff College, Cincinnati. They are Miss Theresa Koenig and Miss Bonita Neumeier. Miss Koenig, a senior, is daughter of MM William Koenig, Jr., 701 Dearbaugh. Miss Neumeier, daughter of MM Elmer Neumeier, is also a senior.

■ For Neil it was just another day at his NASA office in Washington, D.C., much like ay other business executive’s day. Meetings with the Federal Aviation Agency and with members of the Defense Department made up the second anniversary of the Eagle landing. But July 20, 1971, was an ordinary day for the first man on the moon. “Just a standard day,” Neil said. “We handled a corral of problems,” he added. “Solving problems is NASA’S job.” Neil and his family are going to Houston for the Apollo 15 take-off next week, he told the WDN. Although Neil said he has no plans for coming to Wapakoneta for the museum opening next year, he said that he always enjoyed returning to Wapakoneta. And in Wapakoneta, Chamber of Commerce president and Mrs. Ed Ewing hosted a small luncheon for the Steve Armstrongs at the Chalet.

■ A civil service examination will be given at 7:30 pm, August 12, for the position of patrolman in the Wapakoneta Police Department. Starting salary for probationary policemen is $6,930, and increases to $7,560 after the one year. Any interested parties should contact Chief Bill Wolfe.

25 YEARS AGO, JULY 21, 1996

■ Three new building administrators were hired by the city board of education, two of whom were promoted from within the district and the third from outside. In her second administrative transfer in a month, Julie Miarsgolden was named middle school principal. Golden had been named Cridersville Elementary School principal in June. Her assistant principal will be Carl Metzger of Delphos.

David Tester was hired as Cridersville Principal. Tester had been employed as a teacher at Northridge Elementary School. New teachers hired included: Julia Clark/home economics; Michelle Law/special education; Sheri Place/ middle School language arts; and Colleen Baum/gifted instructor.

Looking Back is compiled by Everett II