Ten Years Ago Students from Wawasee Middle School and High School, Lakeland Christian Academy, Warsaw Community High School and home-schoolers attended the first Kosciusko County Teens for Life meeting March 22. Next meeting is April 19. Volunteers Brandon Coward, Heidi Bruner, Tom Cleveland and Jamie Scott prepared trees for distribution by the Kosciusko County Soil and Water District. Kosciusko County Archaeology Society chairman Bill Wilson says county historian Ron Sharp founded the organization because there were historical sites in the county that were not recorded. There are 10 known sites where mastodon bones have been found. Potawatomie Indian villages lay along the Tippecanoe River in the central part of the county. Big chiefs from the area were Miami Indian chiefs Flatbelly and his brother Waw-wa-esse. 25 Years Ago Officers for the 1990-91 year at the Warsaw Elks Lodge No. 802: Andrew Farmer, esquire; John Hoffman, treasurer; Tom Clemens, lecturing knight; Sam Sheneman, loyal knight; Robert Huffer, Harold Edwards II, Charles Whitcraft, trustees; James Baker, leading knight; Bruce Kenworthy, exalted ruler; Max Mollenhour, secretary; Oscar Werner, chaplain. 50 Years Ago Kathleen Noggle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie G. Noggle, 314 Porter St., was capped at Throne Hall, Northwestern University. A 1964 graduate of Warsaw High School, she is enrolled at Wesley Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Chicago. Keith Carlin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Carlin, will be in the finals of the Kosciusko County grade school spelling contest as a result of his win in the Monroe School spelling bee. Colonel Likens is his teacher. 75 Years Ago We salute the 1940 sectional basketball tourney champs, the green and white clad Mentone Bulldogs. What a fine game they and the Beaver Dam Beavers put on, winning the admiration of every spectator. The Beaver Dam boys ran into hard luck with there seemingly a lid on the basket. Both were smooth, clean-playing squads, and the county would have been proud to send either team as Kosciusko's representative of the hardwood to Auburn. Bulldog captain Ike Shirey was carried to the dressing room on the shoulders of his teammates, while adoring fans clamored to their sides for back-slapping congratulations, shouting "On to Auburn!" Mrs. Stella Boyd, for many years a clerk at the Bolinger and Stephenson stores here, ate her 73rd birthday dinner with a friend at a downtown restaurant. Her friend, Mrs. Mary Bennett, baked a cake earlier and asked to have it waiting on the table.
