Looking Back Through the pages of the Wapakoneta Daily News

100 years ago, November 29, 1921

Thursday being Thanksgiving, many people didn’t feel like attending a football game,

hence when the Wapakoneta Elks and their visitors, the Bellefontaine 11, went out on Kolter Park in the afternoon they found no crowd. The

strenuousness of a Thanksgiving dinner and a football game were evidently too much for the fans for one day. There was no game.

HEADLINE: Nierengarten confesses to murder of Scot Kershaw in a B&O Freight Car on November 20th—confession made to Auglaize County Officials at Lima Police Station after Dead Man’s keys had been Shown Him…. Later signed transcribed confession.—withstood continual grueling for four days, but finally yielded when all breaks went against

him—search for gun and property of dead man—bank book found—confession in full “Guilty.” Such was the brief response of Harold Nierengarten, 20-year-old Lima bellhop at his arraignment before Justice of the Peace R.C. Herrmann at 10:55 o’clock Saturday on the charge of taking the life of Joseph Scott Kershaw, Lima veteran of the World War, in a B&O boxcar near Cridersville. The silence of death fell upon the small knot of people in the office

of Sheriff Ewing, where the arraignment took place, as the single word fell in a whisper from Nierengartens’s lips.

After You Try the Rest Try the Best Noon Day Plate Lunch 25 cents, Wannamaker’s Lunch. Cigars, Tobacco, Candies, Fruit, Oysters,

Good Eats. Open Day and Night

Country Sausage is just what you have been looking for, also pudding and blood pudding, and all other pork guaranteed to be pure. Will butcher today. Phone your order in early. R.

Hollenbacher, Prospect 1603.

75 years ago, November 29, 1946

Colonel John Culleton, brother of Miss Catherine Culleton, elementary school principal who is well known to many in this city,

has received the French award of the Croix de Guerre with the Silve Star. He is assigned as

senior state instructor for the Army Organized Reserves in Vermont with his offices located

in Montpelier, Colonel Culleton has served 37 years in the army. He is a native of this city, He

served both in World War I and World War II.

Insurance All Kinds. Come in….gals. Come in….men, Need Insurance—just Say When! Marshall “Beny” Koenig, S. Blackhoof,

Jackson 1214

50 years ago, November 29, 1971

The home of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Herman, 611 West Mechanic Street, is one of the five homes to be visited on the Christmas Tour of Homes on December 5. The tour is sponsored by the Junior Service League. This large gracious home was built in 1914 by Theodore Tangeman, who lived there until 1935. The Hermans purchased the home in 1949, and it was used both for home and office until 1961. At that time the office space was remodeled and made into a large family room. The kitchen has been updated, but the original beveled glass

entrance door, dark oak woodwork, and original fireplace have been retained. Yule Decorating was done by Flowers by Dudley.

A fire at Koneta Rubber Co., 410 Park Street, Saturday, destroyed 37 rolls of cardboard, according to the Wapakoneta Fire Department. Damage to the building was estimated at $5000 and the loss in supplies was set at

$250. The cause of the fire was undetermined, firemen said.

A Memorial Day Service, honoring departed members, will be held by the BPOE , Lodge No. 1170, on December 5, at the Elk Lodge. Special music will be provided by guest

singers, the Harmonette, a volunteer group form Fisher Cheese Company. An oration honoring the departed brothers—w.r. Brown. W.R. Maxson, Robert Ungerer, F.J. Purdy Frank Esser. Ralph Groll, C.J. Heinl, and C.M. Cornell, will be given by Rev. Paul Steele, pastor of First

United Methodist Church.

25 years ago, November 29, 1996

Students in grades five through eight at St. Joseph School test-drove their hand-made foodmobiles, vehicles made from various foodstuffs, as part of a science class project,

The Auglaize County Community Cancer Information Center, located at 711 Gibbs Avenue, will be open on Tuesdays and Thursdays for holiday pick-up items. American Cancer

Society Christmas cards cookies, and cashews, may be purchased at the site until Christmas.