Looking Back
Through the pages of the Wapakoneta Daily News
100 YEARS AGO, MAY 25, 1922
⬛ I want to rent a six or seven room dwelling house. Must be modern. Possession by July 1. M.C. Doty, Doty Dry Goods Co.
⬛ BUSINESS ROOM FOR RENT—ON South Blackhoof Street near T&OC Co. RY. Phone Garford 1827
75 YEARS AGO, MAY 25, 1947
⬛ The board of directors of the Auglaize County Society for Crippled Children held a special meeting early this week with Arthur Katterheinrich, chairman, in charge. He gave a report of the Easter Seals sales, which totaled $2389.69. It was decided to purchase an audiometer (to check hearing) and a telebinocular ( to check eyes) for use by Mrs. Pauline Menges in the county schools and Mrs. Nell Kohler in the city schools. A wheel chair is to be bought for a crippled child who is a metal body corset. There are also two glandular cases which the society is going to take care of financially this summer. All the children are from Auglaize County.
⬛ Carl Hutcheons has been named manager of the Wapakoneta Swimming Pool for this season and has announced the opening day, weather permitting, for Decoration Day. Following the parade in the morning of Decoration Day, the band members will inaugurate the 1947 swimming season after which the pool will be opened to the public that afternoon at 1:30. A new paint job has been given the entire pool, the inner section being green, while the deck is brick red. A new bottom has bene put into the deep end of the pool and the adjoining surfaces have been repaired. Lifeguards for the 1947 season have been named by Mr. Hutcheons and they will be Tom Mckeever, Mickey Schnell, and Barbara Chesbrough. A 1:30 opening hour has been established for each day with the closing hours set at 10 pm, with the exception of Saturdays when the pool will close at 5:30 pm.
⬛ Memorial Day Plans—nice Geraniums in bloom—50 cents. Beautiful Combination Plants. Nice assortment of cemetery plants for urns. Cemetery wreaths. Phillips Flowers
⬛ Thrifty Buyers shop at Abbey’s Market and save. Nice golden ripe bananas! Fresh fruits and vegetables daily. If you want canned goods, we have that, too. Open 7 days a week. 02 N. Wood St, across from Wapak Auto Supply Co.
50 YEARS AGO, MAY 25, 1972
⬛ Sister Mary Bernard Reichert, teacher at St. Joseph High School, was recently notified that she is the recipient of a grant enabling her to attend a six-week Summer Institute in Astronomy at Sam Houston State University Huntsville, Texas. The university is approximately sixty miles from Houston, where NASA is located. Sister Mary Bernard is completing her 4th year at St. Joseph, where she is head of the science department and teacher of physical sciences.
⬛ Don Stahler caught a 21-pound, 69-inch long sailfish recently while deep sea fishing out of the Bahia Mar Yacht Basin, Fort Lauderdale. Don will receive a citation from the fishing festival committee.
⬛ Dick Kohlrieser is a man of many sides. He not only has a menagerie of animals, such as a llama, donkeys, a camel, and dogs, which he takes on the road as an entertainment act. He now is in the laundry and dry cleaning business. He and Robert Katterhenry of St. Marys and Bud Spieler, Celina, are opening up their establishment, the Lake Country Fabric Care Center west of St. Marys Sunday.
⬛ Buckland Middle School students who have made the All-a honor roll during the school year are Cathy Carterin, Karla Troy, Steve Army, Kathy Reynolds, Renee Carpenter Chris Cummings, and Cindy Lucas.
25 YEARS AGOL MAY 25, 1997
⬛ The laws of gravity were the subject matter for students at Buckland Elementary School on Tuesday as firefighters from Wapakoneta dropped eggs from the department’s aerial bucket truck. Students packaged eggs in an assortment of containers in an attempt to keep them from breaking, and many were successful.
⬛ Rachel Becher, 6th grade student at New Knoxville Elementary School, is one of 12 statewide finalists in a voter registration poster contest sponsored by Secretary of State Bob Taft. Taft will host the finalists at a June 13 reception in Columbus and will announce the winners in two age groups. More than 300 students participated in the contest.