10 Years Ago Students from Warsaw Community High School pushed almost 50 shopping carts full of approximately 9,000 items from the school to Combined Community Services this morning as a community service project. Freshman class president Mallory Kendall said the theme, “Cans Across America,” was the idea of assistant principal Jennifer Shepherd. Providing carts were Marsh, Owen’s, Wal-Mart and Lowe’s. Warsaw Area Rugby Football Club’s high school girls team continued its undefeated season, defeating Bloomington 65-0. Team members are Maude and Angele Marandet, Rebekah Taylor, Jennifer Logan, Holly Ormsby, Louise Cracknell, Ashley Keifer and Heather Schomburger. 25 Years Ago Presbyterian Preschool teacher, Mrs. Wentz, and her class toured the Hoosier Water Company filtration plant. Workers showed children the purification process, gave a demonstration on chlorine safety and passed out coloring books for classroom studies. The Syracuse-Wawasee Flotilla committee has been working since October and has set July 1 for the 1990 flotilla. Members are Diane Stell, Kay Caskey, Ernie Rogers, Jon Sroufe, Lil Cook and Marilyn Cole, chairperson. Jason Chalk, Pierceton Elementary, and Shannon Turman, South Whitley Middle School, earned certificates from the American Meteorological Society and will appear on WANE-TV, Channel 15 News, Fort Wayne. Tippecanoe Valley’s Christopher Tucker was given a U.S. Marine Corps certificate of achievement. 50 Years Ago One of the developments in making Dalton Foundries the “Foundry of the Future” has been the research done in the melting of iron by use of an electric furnace. Two new 600 kilowatt electric refining furnaces will be put into operation in the gray iron department. Iron will still be melted in the cupola, but the molten iron will be placed in the furnace for refining instead of moving directly to the molds. Each furnace will hold seven and one-half tons of molten iron. Triton High School’s basketball team coached by Tony Newell is one of 16 teams in the state to survive regional competition, winning the Logansport regional. 75 Years Ago Warsaw existed as a village until March 8, 1854, when the commissioners of Kosciusko County, in response to a petition of residents, granted the request for permission to incorporate and establish a town government. Population was 752. Election to incorporate under a city charter was held on April 19, 1875; result, 278 in favor, 200 against. Election of city officers May 4, 1875: late Judge Hiram S. Biggs, first mayor; Charles H. Ketcham, Marsh H. Parks, clerk; Samuel B. Clark, treasurer; Joseph A. Wright, marshal; James Wynant, assessor; Edmund J. Greene, attorney; Caleb Hughes, civil engineer. Population was 2,400 (census of 1870). East Warsaw, founded in the 1860s by Hon. William (Billy) Williams, Judge James S. Frazer, Dr. Jacob Boss and J.D. Thayer, comprised of territory east of what is now Reed Street, was not in the corporate limits of the Town of Warsaw until annexed in the 1870s.
