10 Years Ago Benjamin Scripture, a Tippecanoe Valley High School student, has been named a nominee to the U.S. Naval Academy. He is one of 53 Indiana high school students nominated for admission to the U.S. Service Academies: Military-West Point, N.Y.; Naval-Annapolis, Md.; Air Force-Colorado Springs, Colo.; Merchant Marine-Kings Point, N.Y. 25 Years Ago The 1988 Chamber of Commerce Annual Banquet will be held Jan. 11 at 2517 Wagon Wheel. Speaker for the evening will be James E. Weigand, dean of the School of Continuing Studies at Indiana University. One man and one woman will be honored for their outstanding contribution to the community. The “Man and Woman of the Year” award is co-sponsored by the Times-Union, WRSW and the Chamber of Commerce. The fifth annual Business Award will be presented by Paul Siebenmorgen of Lake City Bank. Max Courtney, Mutual Federal Savings Bank, will present the newest award, the Industrial Appreciation Award. The huge hills of snow and ice that the city dumps behind the old Freshman High School make a great playground for Brandon Conley, 11, and Chris Rennaker, 12. 50 Years Ago A new furnace was installed in the Cromwell School during the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. School officials stated that the old unit failed to heat the building. Glen Whitehead, superintendent of Kosciusko County Schools (which now includes only Claypool and Silver Lake since all others have consolidated into school corporations), conducts his annual task of pulling team names from a hat in deciding first round pairings for the 47th county high school basketball tournament. The first team drawn was Pierceton. The Cubs will face North Webster in the tourney opener next Tuesday night at 6 p.m. in the Warsaw High School gymnasium on East Smith Street. Principals and coaches met at the Steer Inn near Silver Lake last night. Paul Moore, Syracuse High School principal, held the hat. 75 Years Ago Workmen have torn out all the remaining overhead trolley wires on Center and Detroit streets. The electric cars were replaced by modern buses; the first bus operated on the morning of the Fourth of July, 1938. Many Warsawans recall with nostalgia the unique open cars which made regular runs between the Winona Park and Warsaw in the summertime from 1903 until about 1920. During the Winona Assembly’s heydey as many as eight cars would be running at the same time to carry all the crowds. Cars would switch for each other on the stretch of double track formerly located on East Center Street near the Klingel Laundry. The electric line was organized in 1903 with the Beyer Brothers and Sol Dickey.
