Remember When 2.22.2014
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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Dick McCleary, Warsaw, displays a “Sagamore of the Wabash” award from Indiana for his many years of work in scouting. Since 1982 he has mentored 55 Eagle Scouts. He was nominated by Jean Northenor, who has been involved in scouting for many years. The Sagamore of the Wabash award was created during the term of Gov. Ralph Gates who served from 1945 to 1949. The term sagamore was used by the American Indian Tribes of the northeastern United States to describe a lesser chief or great man among the tribe to whom the chief would look for wisdom and advice. It is the highest honor the governor of Indiana bestows and is a personal tribute to those who have rendered a distinguished service.
25 Years Ago
James M. Ratcliffe, 63, has been elected vice president of R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company, North America’s largest printer of catalogs, newspaper inserts, magazines, books, directories, computer documentation and financial printing. Ratcliffe and his family are headquartered at Donnelley’s corporate office in Chicago.
50 Years Ago
Claypool High School basketball team, led by Dale Shively, Larry Evans, Charlie McKenzie, Herb Gunter, Coye Conley and Larry McKenzie, has won its first Kosciusko County High School Basketball Tournament by defeating Pierceton, 69-65, in the championship game before a thrill-packed crowd at the Warsaw High School gym. After 47 years, emotions were high. Cheerleaders Barbara Heckman, Beth Frantz and Marcy Bouse won the “Fred McKown Trophy.” The team won the coveted “silver horseshoe” which passes from one team to another. A big bonfire brightened the sky at Claypool. Times-Union correspondent, Mrs. Robert Warren, reported, “The town seemed to come alive as cheers, songs and yells filled the brisk night air.” Principal Carl Sands announced school would be dismissed after a victory meeting Monday.
Victory did not come easy for the Knights; it was “nip and tuck” all the way. Phil Rhoades had the winning shot. Coach Tom Miller attributed the success to a solid team effort; “they are a good bunch of boys and easy to work with.”
75 Years Ago
Mr. and Mrs. Marion Latimer, living two and one-half miles southeast of Mentone, will celebrate the anniversary of their 58th year of married life together Jan. 13. They are possessors of a large handwritten essay, framed under glass, copied by Metcalfe Beck of Leesburg Jan. 30, 1860, that was first published in the Western People’s magazine 105 years ago. It was presented to Mrs. Latimer’s father, Washington Bybee, who was one of the county commissioners at the time the courthouse was constructed. At the time the Latimers moved into their present home in March 1882, two families, those of John and Robert Smith, were moving from Kosciusko County to Kansas. The Nickel Plate Railroad had only been constructed to a point adjoining the Latimer farm. He assisted in loading the Smith household goods upon the first freight car. Lyndes Latimer, near Mentone, and Mrs. Roy Smith, Warsaw, are the only two children of Mr. and Mrs. Latimer.
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Dick McCleary, Warsaw, displays a “Sagamore of the Wabash” award from Indiana for his many years of work in scouting. Since 1982 he has mentored 55 Eagle Scouts. He was nominated by Jean Northenor, who has been involved in scouting for many years. The Sagamore of the Wabash award was created during the term of Gov. Ralph Gates who served from 1945 to 1949. The term sagamore was used by the American Indian Tribes of the northeastern United States to describe a lesser chief or great man among the tribe to whom the chief would look for wisdom and advice. It is the highest honor the governor of Indiana bestows and is a personal tribute to those who have rendered a distinguished service.
25 Years Ago
James M. Ratcliffe, 63, has been elected vice president of R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company, North America’s largest printer of catalogs, newspaper inserts, magazines, books, directories, computer documentation and financial printing. Ratcliffe and his family are headquartered at Donnelley’s corporate office in Chicago.
50 Years Ago
Claypool High School basketball team, led by Dale Shively, Larry Evans, Charlie McKenzie, Herb Gunter, Coye Conley and Larry McKenzie, has won its first Kosciusko County High School Basketball Tournament by defeating Pierceton, 69-65, in the championship game before a thrill-packed crowd at the Warsaw High School gym. After 47 years, emotions were high. Cheerleaders Barbara Heckman, Beth Frantz and Marcy Bouse won the “Fred McKown Trophy.” The team won the coveted “silver horseshoe” which passes from one team to another. A big bonfire brightened the sky at Claypool. Times-Union correspondent, Mrs. Robert Warren, reported, “The town seemed to come alive as cheers, songs and yells filled the brisk night air.” Principal Carl Sands announced school would be dismissed after a victory meeting Monday.
Victory did not come easy for the Knights; it was “nip and tuck” all the way. Phil Rhoades had the winning shot. Coach Tom Miller attributed the success to a solid team effort; “they are a good bunch of boys and easy to work with.”
75 Years Ago
Mr. and Mrs. Marion Latimer, living two and one-half miles southeast of Mentone, will celebrate the anniversary of their 58th year of married life together Jan. 13. They are possessors of a large handwritten essay, framed under glass, copied by Metcalfe Beck of Leesburg Jan. 30, 1860, that was first published in the Western People’s magazine 105 years ago. It was presented to Mrs. Latimer’s father, Washington Bybee, who was one of the county commissioners at the time the courthouse was constructed. At the time the Latimers moved into their present home in March 1882, two families, those of John and Robert Smith, were moving from Kosciusko County to Kansas. The Nickel Plate Railroad had only been constructed to a point adjoining the Latimer farm. He assisted in loading the Smith household goods upon the first freight car. Lyndes Latimer, near Mentone, and Mrs. Roy Smith, Warsaw, are the only two children of Mr. and Mrs. Latimer.
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