10 Years Ago Kristi E. Young, originally from Pennsylvania, took on the duties of executive director of the Syracuse-Wawasee Chamber of Commerce Jan. 26. The North Webster Community Center will be ready for occupancy by March 1. 25 Years Ago There are four teams in the Warsaw Ladies Basketball Regional Saturday: Warsaw, Columbia City Eagles and the forgotten teams Winamac Warriors and Prairie Heights Panthers in the first game. Starting for the Lady Tigers (22-0) are Nicole Ryman, Ginnette Dunwell, Dana Creighton, Liza Reed and Angie Johnson. 50 Years Ago A typical winter scene in this county can be witnessed on many of our 101 lakes as the popular sport of ice fishing captures the limelight. One of the most popular lakes is Palestine on Ind. 25 and conservation officers say it is nothing to see from 350 to 450 fisherman unite on the lake on a warm Saturday or Sunday. Jack Smith, Wabash, came to enjoy the weekend and catch bluegills. Ann Louise Purdum, 17, a junior at Milford High School, has completed 16 hours of dual piloting and 20 hours of solo flying to achieve her private pilots’s license Friday at the Goshen Airport. She was one of the youngest to ever solo at Goshen at 16. Her sister Janet, 14, is presently taking flying lessons. Their father, Charles, has flown for 20 years and has a private, commercial and instrument rating. 75 Years Ago From former Warsawan Clem Chinworth, now at Roann, comes the following letter to the Times: “I see in the Daily Times dated Jan. 9 the account of Cary and Walter Groninger excavating a basement and finding a skeleton Saturday. This is no surprise to me for I can look back many years ago when the very place they were digging used to be a cemetery. I used to pass that place when very small and seeing the graves was looking for something supernatural to happen there. My grandfather, Robert Chinworth, died Jan. 4, 1879, in the house which Tom Groninger owns at present near there. He had bought that farm from a man by the name of Baker four years before his death. The spot was then an old cemetery, some bodies had been removed even then. Buildings on that farm are the oldest of any standing in the Orion neighborhood for grandfather even when I was young had put the second roof on them, both barn and house. My father and uncle, William and John Chinworth, drove a dray line in Warsaw 70 years ago. We lived on South Columbia Street near the old bung factory in the house that belonged to the Pauls around the corner from the old Hibler home. I remember the pretty red-haired daughter of the Pauls named Tuela.”
