10 Years Ago Sesquicentennial: 1947 Warsaw Times-Union carriers were Charles Freeman, Jack Evans, Jerry Craig, Max Long, Marvin Mahoney, Jim Hall, Danny Lowman, Richard Taylor, Richard Schafer, Dean Horrick, Bill Miner, Don Light, Kenny Schaaf, Jim Frush, Don Truex, John Schue, Alan Hartman, Max Truex, Charles Morehead, Carl Parker, Larry Brown, Don Millington, Jim Babcock, Denny Mulcahy, Dale Long, Roger Fellows, Harold Brown, Carlton Woodyard, Larry Woodling, Larry Mulcahy, Bob Hartman and Bing Woodling. 1948 Daily Times carriers were Roddy Bauer, Dale Long, Jerry Craig, Kenny Mollenhour, Larry Pinkerton, Charleton Woodworth, Charles Hartman, Charles Freeman, Max Truex, Jimmy Poor, Charles Morehead, Danny Lowman, Richard Taylor, Richard Shaffer, Larry Mulcahy, John Gresso, John Evans, Kenny Schaaf and Billy Wyman. 25 Years Ago Warsaw Police Department promoted Lance Grubbs, a 12-year veteran, to lieutenant; Steve Adang, to sergeant; Terry Polston, to corporal; and Burdell Blackburn to lieutenant. Colene Foreman, volunteer at Prairie View, has been chosen as District II Teen Volunteer of the Year and will be honored in Indianapolis Sept. 18. She is a freshman at Warsaw Community High School. Tim Haines and Carrie Howie were chosen as Homecoming King and Queen during halftime of the Warsaw/Wawasee football game. Ed and Huldah Brandenburg donated apples from their garden to Combined Community Services. In 1987 they supplied nearly 8,000 pounds of fruits and vegetables to CCS, and are close to that again. 50 Years Ago Sept. 13, the “old gang” of the Winona Railway will gather at the Girl Scout Cabin at Center Lake for a reunion. The oldest living employee, Charles Sigler, 85, of North Bay Dr., began working with the company when it started in 1903 as master mechanic, later becoming general superintendent until retirement in 1942. Andrew “Jack” Engle, Warsaw, was a conductor from 1920-1934. William K. Mollenhour of the Times-Union was a railroad employee when he was young. The last train to be run over the Winona Railway line between Warsaw and New Paris and back again took place on May 31, 1952. 75 Years Ago Capt. Milo Snyder of Warsaw’s National Guard Company has selected a new site for the rifle range, four miles east of Warsaw on the old North Winona Lake Brethren Church farm occupied by Tennant Taylor. Warsaw’s 52 soldiers dug pits, set up targets, mowed 600 yards of range, cut down trees and were shooting in the afternoon. The building for the target and equipment storage shed was moved from the old site on the north side of Pike Lake. A charity horse show will be Aug. 25 and 26 by the Elks Lodge, with proceeds going to a fund to correct vision of needy children. Prizes total $2,500. Four boys unlocked the door of the Franklin School in Seward Township, stole five boxes of chalk, bundles of drawing paper and scattered sand over the floor.
