Looking Back Through the pages of the Wapakoneta Daily News

100 YEARS AGO, MAY 11, 1922

⬛ School Enumeration Next Week—under the new state law regulating the taking

of the City Schools Enumeration to be taken in May, the census enumerator will call upon

every home next week to secure necessary information. The enumeration must be taken under direction of the attendance officer of the

schools and will call for the following data: all unmarried youth between ages 5-18; all feebleminded, epileptic, blind, crippled, and deaf children. We hope our people will co-operate cheerfully and willingly with the enumerator, Mr. J. Scheirer.—c.c. Nardin, Clerk of Board of Education

⬛ The total for the Legion Memorial Home fund drive has been brought up to one half the amount needed, or $13,000. The work will be

continued by a “mop up” committee of Five Legionnaires, and when this portion of the canvas is done, the committee will set afoot an entirely new plan.

⬛ Chas. Burden, 83, veteran of the Civil War, has been examined by Dr. F.C. Hunter of

the Pension Board, for an increase of pension. Comrade Burden served in Co. C , 57th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and now resides at 712 Murray Street. His condition is such that he is entitled to the maximum pension.

⬛ Wapakoneta streets are to be painted with traffic lines as an experiment in solving the traffic problems which have confronted officials for several years past. The city will buy the paint and the Boy Scouts will put the lines on the bricks under the supervision of Scoutmaster Cleve Davis. Lines are to be painted on each

side of the street, marking off stalls for machines which will cause them to set at an angle of 45 degrees from the curb. The aim will be to

secure more space in the center of the streets when machines are parked on both sides.

75 YEARS AGO, MAY 11, 1947

⬛ Five slot machines were confiscated Sunday afternoon at 5:30 when state liquor officials

conducted a raid on the local Fraternal Order of the Eagle lodge rooms. The machines are being

kept in the city jail and the officials are investigating the infraction of the liquor law.

⬛ Funeral services for the late Caroline Kinstle Mcfarland were held this morning at 9 o’clock at St. Joseph’s church. Mrs. Mcfarland was the widow of S.W. Mcfarland, who was for

many years president of the Peoples National Bank.

50 YEARS AGO, MAY 11, 1972

⬛ Elaine Fisher, daughter of MM Ralph Fisher, Route 5, has been named valedictorian of the 1972 graduating class of St. Joseph High

School, while Scott Bailey, son of MM Ronald Bailey, 728 W. Auglaize, has been named salutatorian. Elaine plans to continue her education at Bowling Green State University, where her intended field of study will be Spanish.

Scott has enrolled at Ohio State University in the College of Arts and Sciences.

⬛ The retirement of Mona Lucas has been announced, effective December 27, when she will have completed 35 years as an administrative assistant in the Light and Water Department. Miss Lucas was a 1931 graduate of Blume High School. Mona has served under: Louis Helpling, Wilbur Fleming. George Anderegg, Walter Harrod, Richard Brading, Ralph Siferd, Milton Wehner, Max Schlatter, and Maurice Bryan, Sr.

⬛ Thomas Gregg, 310 West Mechanic Street, died May 10. He was 79 years old. Mr. Gregg, a veteran of World War II, served as a public accountant for more than 50 years, retiring in 1970. He is survived by his wife, Florence Anderegg Gregg, children, and grandchildren.

25 YEARS AGO, MAY 11, 1997

⬛ At a recent meeting of the Buckeye Farms Tractor organization, Scott Steinke presented Bud Hengstler a gas can that has a toy tractor

on top as a practical joke. It seems that Bud always runs out of gas at the annual Buckeye Farms Antique Show, scheduled this year from

May 23-25 at the Auglaize County Fairgrounds. Ford tractors and Dearborn equipment with Pennsylvania-built engines will be some of the featured attractions at the 8th annual show. A

consignment auction featuring a large array of antique tractors machinery, and farm -related items will be hosted by auctioneers Dick Alexander, Steve Egbert, and Steve Myers on the

Saturday of the event. There will also be demonstrations of woodcarving, broommaking, wheat threshing, and the operation of an oldfashioned working sawmill.