Wapakoneta Daily News
NOVEMBER 11, 1922
▪ The Puetz Wholesale Tobacco & Confectionery Company will move into larger quarters, Chas. Puetz, main shareholder in the company, as purchased the building and lots owned by the Theodore Dickman heirs on Park street and a new building will be started in the ear future. In making this change and in enlarging the capital and quarters of the company, Mr. Puetz said that he business of the concern has increased so greatly in the last two years that the change was necessary. All of the garages and other buildings used by the company are said to be filled with stock. The property purchased from the Dickman hers, Mrs. C.A. Stueve, Mrs. Catherine Frech, of this city; Mrs. Anna Gunther of Toledo; and Mrs. Lulu Murphy, of Dayton, is located on Park street and includes the buildings now occupied by the Oen Garage and auto accessory store and the Harsh Tin shop. Mr. Oen has no other location and has not decided what he will do in the future. The old frame building which is now occupied by Mr. Oen in his Auto Accessory department will be torn down first and Mr. Oen will move his accessories into the brick building now occupied by the main garage. A new brick building 150 feet by 20 will be erected on the site of the old building. This building will have a watercut brick front, Mr. Puetz said that there would not be any contract given but that he would supervise the structure himself. He gave as his reason the difficulty in securing material, and said that he believed he could get the structure finished sooner by personal supervision. As soon as business conditions warrant the front of the building occupied by Oen’s garage will be torn away and the building entirely remodeled. Mr. Puetz also owns several vacant lots and says that he will build here, and as the new Wahrer garage will also be built on Park street, businesses will be directed in that direction. The deal between Mr. Puetz and the Dickman heirs was put through by Hoopingarner & Veit.
▪ Thanks, to the ladies of Wapakoneta, to the school children of the parochial and public schools and every man and organization that in any way supported or endorsed the $100,000 bond issue, for the voters placed their approval on the new high school building at the polls when they polled a vote of almost two to one om favor of the bond issue. The need of the bonds or the improvement of the educational facilities was most apparent and every phase of the need was presented to the voters. And now the children of the rural districts will not be refused admittance to Wapakoneta’s educational facilities. This means that a bigger business may result if we can but bring the country trade to Wapakoneta with the student body, The vote was 1437 for and 732 against.
▪ Destruction of the plant of the Koch beverage & ice company, the old KK brewery, was threatened in a nasty blaze which started in a storage room adjoining the office of the plant, when a wooden case used for pop bottles, which had ben branded during the afternoon with the imprint of the company’s name, smouldered into flames and spread to all floors of the big plant. The loss on the building and contents was estimated by Karl Koch, manager, in the neighborhood of$10000. No insurance was carried on the property, and the loss is complete. Firemen strung four lines of hose to the building, and used the contents of the chemical extinguisher. It was necessary to get out the ladder wagon when it was found impossible to get at the flames hat had attacked the higher floors and cupola of the building.
NOVEMBER 11, 1947
▪ A son, weighting eight pounds and five ounces, was born to MM Alfred Lunz, south of Wapakoneta at Lima Memorial Hospital. The Lunzes are now the parents of two daughters and one son.
NOVEMBER 11, 1972
▪ The Auglaize County Board of Health has announced the hiring of Edward Doseck as the supervising sanitarian for the Auglaize County General Health District, Dr. Robert Oyer said. Doseck has had 22 years of experience in public health in Auglaize, Shelby, and Allen counties, and has had college work in this field. He will assume his duties November 30, replacing Robert Monnin.
NOVEMBER 12, 1997
▪ Normally when she’s done working at Astro Lanes at night, Mary Ellen Moore doesn’t stick around to watch her son, Mike, age 21, bowl….but for some reason that she isn’t even sure of, Mrs. Moore decided to stick around one night last week. She’s glad she did. When Moore let the last ball go of his game….only a solid 10 pin was left standing, giving him a score of 299. Any score between 298 and a perfect 300 is considered an honor score in bowling and is rewarded with a commemorative ring from the American Bowling Congress. Moore’s previous best game was a 279 a few years ago when he was in junior high. He also had a 699 series as a junior bowler.