Remember When January 12

July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.

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10 Years Ago
January 12 1991

    AKRON - Akron School recently received the School Improvement Award presented by H. Dean Evans, superintendent of Indiana's Department of Education. The School Improvement Award is presented in recognition of demonstrated significant improvement in the following four areas during the 1989-90 school year: Mathematics proficiency, ISTEP total battery score, language arts proficiency and attendance rate.

To qualify for the award, a school must show improvement in two or more of the four areas. Akron School demonstrated improvement in each of the four areas.

25 Years Ago
January 12 1976

    MILFORD - The Old Hotel, an 86-year-old downtown Milford landmark, was gutted by a five-hour fire that halted Lakeland School District buses for two hours.

Volunteer firemen from Milford, Syracuse, Nappanee and Leesburg were called to the scene to extinguish flames that started in the basement and burned up through the second floor of the hotel via side walls.

50 Years Ago
January 12 1951

    Dale Miner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Miner, Warsaw, has accepted a position with the Civil Aeronautics Authority as aircraft communicator in Alaska. He is now en route to a CAA school in Oklahoma for instruction prior to going to Alaska.


75 Years Ago
January 12 1926

    Two Warsaw dog fanciers came back Sunday with silver cups and blue ribbons from the Howard County pet stock show held at Kokomo last week.

Dr. J.M. Jennings was the proud possessor of the Rotary Club silver cup won by "Coral Bead," first in the 1-year-old and younger class over all breeds. Earl Beebe, through his dog, "Bugle Bee," won a silver cup and first prize in the purple ribbon breed contest over the novice and all American. [[In-content Ad]]


10 Years Ago
January 12 1991

    AKRON - Akron School recently received the School Improvement Award presented by H. Dean Evans, superintendent of Indiana's Department of Education. The School Improvement Award is presented in recognition of demonstrated significant improvement in the following four areas during the 1989-90 school year: Mathematics proficiency, ISTEP total battery score, language arts proficiency and attendance rate.

To qualify for the award, a school must show improvement in two or more of the four areas. Akron School demonstrated improvement in each of the four areas.

25 Years Ago
January 12 1976

    MILFORD - The Old Hotel, an 86-year-old downtown Milford landmark, was gutted by a five-hour fire that halted Lakeland School District buses for two hours.

Volunteer firemen from Milford, Syracuse, Nappanee and Leesburg were called to the scene to extinguish flames that started in the basement and burned up through the second floor of the hotel via side walls.

50 Years Ago
January 12 1951

    Dale Miner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Miner, Warsaw, has accepted a position with the Civil Aeronautics Authority as aircraft communicator in Alaska. He is now en route to a CAA school in Oklahoma for instruction prior to going to Alaska.


75 Years Ago
January 12 1926

    Two Warsaw dog fanciers came back Sunday with silver cups and blue ribbons from the Howard County pet stock show held at Kokomo last week.

Dr. J.M. Jennings was the proud possessor of the Rotary Club silver cup won by "Coral Bead," first in the 1-year-old and younger class over all breeds. Earl Beebe, through his dog, "Bugle Bee," won a silver cup and first prize in the purple ribbon breed contest over the novice and all American. [[In-content Ad]]
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