Remember When March 10

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

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10 Years Ago
March 10 1989

    It looks like two sisters will face each other at the 1989 Kosciusko County Area Spelling Bee.

Janet Dome, a South Whitley Middle School eighth-grader, took the Seventh- and Eighth-Grade Championship title last night in the 77th round, winning with the word "carnivore." Her sister, Debra, a sixth-grader at South Whitley, also was a winner, placing at the top of the Fifth- and Sixth-Grade Spelling Bee on Monday night. Janet took the County Champ title last year in the 38th round, upsetting the 1987 County Champ, Sam Shetty.

25 Years Ago
March 10 1974

    First-place winners of the Carnival Poster Contest held recently at Lincoln Elementary School are Dave Sumpter and Tammy Wiles. Other first-place winners were: kindergarten, Ritt Dalton and Terry Carroll; first grade, Angie Slankard and Emily Holbrook; second grade, Sherry Shipley and Jim King; third grade, Brenda Johnson and Greg Shoemaker; fourth grade, Danny Eckert and Tony Hartman; fifth grade, Jill Frush; and sixth grade, Robin Smith.


50 Years Ago
March 10 1949

    Warsaw's first city-wide style show was presented Monday night at 8 o'clock at the senior high school auditorium with approximately 800 persons attending. This show, sponsored by the Warsaw-Winona Federation of clubs, was staged by local dress shops and department stores. Mrs. Howard M. Scott and Mrs. Arthur DeWispelaere were co-chairwoman of this attraction.


75 Years Ago
March 10 1924

    Russell Shull and George Basile, two Warsaw young men serving in the U.S. Navy at Hampton Roads, Va., returned home on Friday to see Warsaw play basketball at Fort Wayne. They are on 10 days leave. They report that Robert Steinback, Warsaw young man, is studying radio at Hampton Roads.

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10 Years Ago
March 10 1989

    It looks like two sisters will face each other at the 1989 Kosciusko County Area Spelling Bee.

Janet Dome, a South Whitley Middle School eighth-grader, took the Seventh- and Eighth-Grade Championship title last night in the 77th round, winning with the word "carnivore." Her sister, Debra, a sixth-grader at South Whitley, also was a winner, placing at the top of the Fifth- and Sixth-Grade Spelling Bee on Monday night. Janet took the County Champ title last year in the 38th round, upsetting the 1987 County Champ, Sam Shetty.

25 Years Ago
March 10 1974

    First-place winners of the Carnival Poster Contest held recently at Lincoln Elementary School are Dave Sumpter and Tammy Wiles. Other first-place winners were: kindergarten, Ritt Dalton and Terry Carroll; first grade, Angie Slankard and Emily Holbrook; second grade, Sherry Shipley and Jim King; third grade, Brenda Johnson and Greg Shoemaker; fourth grade, Danny Eckert and Tony Hartman; fifth grade, Jill Frush; and sixth grade, Robin Smith.


50 Years Ago
March 10 1949

    Warsaw's first city-wide style show was presented Monday night at 8 o'clock at the senior high school auditorium with approximately 800 persons attending. This show, sponsored by the Warsaw-Winona Federation of clubs, was staged by local dress shops and department stores. Mrs. Howard M. Scott and Mrs. Arthur DeWispelaere were co-chairwoman of this attraction.


75 Years Ago
March 10 1924

    Russell Shull and George Basile, two Warsaw young men serving in the U.S. Navy at Hampton Roads, Va., returned home on Friday to see Warsaw play basketball at Fort Wayne. They are on 10 days leave. They report that Robert Steinback, Warsaw young man, is studying radio at Hampton Roads.

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