10 Years Ago Lee Cottage moved down the Ninth Street Hill in Winona Lake recently leaving Sunday Lane for its new site, in Winona village. The house, built in 1902, will be known as Trail House at its new location, a bicycle shop operated by Rob and Nancy Gast. The Trail House also will have land and lake sports equipment available for sale and rentals. It will be located along the greenway trail, which is scheduled for construction this year. The Gasts expect to open Trail House in May, according to Brent Wilcoxson of Winona Restoration.
25 Years Ago While local pharmacist Joe Mendenhall recovers from a stroke in Fort Wayne Parkview Hospital, some pharmacists from the Kosciusko Community Hospital Pharmacy have been helping out at Mendenhall's Pharmacy on Winona Avenue. Mike Gross, Dennis Mock and Terry Daniels have worked evenings in helping the regular Mendenhall staff keep the pharmacy open.
50 Years Ago When Marine Captain John H. Glenn makes his historic flight around the earth in a space capsule, scheduled for Feb. 13, one of the technicians monitoring his progress will be Edward J. Edwards, 24, a native of Warsaw. Edwards, son of Mrs. Esther Melick DuBois and nephew of Loren Melick, Warsaw, is assigned to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's tracking station on Kaua'i, one of the the Hawaiian Islands. The crew will be in communication with Capt. Glenn for six-minute periods on his second and third trips around the globe. Pathway of the first orbital circuit is south of the island.
75 Years Ago Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Wolford, Warsaw, and Audrey Wagner, Tippecanoe Lake, motored to Jeffersonville recently, were admitted past the military guard line a mile out of the city because a Warsaw soldier recognized them. They visited Mrs. Wolford's brothers. Accompanied by the two soldiers armed with a military pass from Capt. Snyder, area provost marshal, they drove across the bridge over the Ohio River into Louisville and were permitted to drive about much of the city. They found it pretty well deserted, little activity, many guards, and the river almost back to its normal banks.
