10 Years Ago Baseball fans and history buffs are bringing back the game the way it used to be played by such teams as the Warsaw Fleetfoots around the time of the Civil War. Gen. Reub Williams, editor of the Northern Indianian newspaper, was team president. The Times-Union will sponsor the 2004 version of the Fleetfoots. The first game is scheduled May 8 at the fairgrounds against the Village at Winona Blue Laws. Fleetfoots manager Mike Beezley says there are 10 members on the team. The terminology has changed from the 1860's: club nine means team, ballist is a player, hurler is a pitcher, aces are runs, match is a game. Celebrating 25 years with R.R. Donnelley are Tena K. Williams, Joy V. Gunter, Robert C. Hanson, Roger S. Ransbottom, Myron L. Vining and Adessa Williams. 25 Years Ago Receiving awards at the Baker Boys Club are Caleb and Matt Churchill, Jared Shaw, Luke Reed, Jim Rose, Mike Wills, Ryan Hoffman, Paul Nowak, Mike Walls, Zack Ferguson, Bill Halpin, Jeremy Sumpter, Ryan Winter, Tim and Pete Harter. Kosciusko County Extension Office employees are Vic Virgil, county agent, 15 years; Joan Younce, home economist, six months; Karen Lowry, 4-H youth, one year; Merdena Lister, office manager, 25 years; Betty Davis, secretary, seven years. Extension Homemakers include Carol Baker, president; Julia Frush, first vice president; Doris Hackworth, second vice president; Louise Nichols, past president; Carlyn Cox, president-elect; Annabelle Anglin, Gerry Pickett, secretary; Hendrene Schutt, Betty Hinton, treasurer. 50 Years Ago David Barnett, Warsaw High School junior, won the state championship in humorous interpretation at the annual state speech contest Saturday in Columbia City. Frank Kliewer, senior, placed second in original oratory, missing first by just one point. Michaele Hodges, Warsaw High School senior and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Hodges, will represent Warsaw Junior Achievement as she competes for regional and national championships in Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. Donald Snyder, a J.A. advisor, will accompany Hodges as chaperone. Hodges was recently named “Best Salesman of the Year” of the six Warsaw Junior Achievement companies. 75 Years Ago The old Moon homestead, now being razed at the southwest corner of South Buffalo and Winona Avenue, was built by Andrew J. Bair, a Warsaw pioneer who came to this city in 1835, according to his son Frank, 79. “My father built that house long about 1850 and reared a family there before I was born. When I was born, we were living in a small residence my father had later built on the location now occupied by the Warsaw Feed Store of Ernest Hull on South Buffalo Street. Among my boyhood playmates still living in or near Warsaw are Pete Fogle, 78, and Schuyler Ball, 73.” Dr. J.M. Byler, kindly and well-known Warsawan, celebrates his 92nd birthday anniversary March 5. He lives with his daughter, Sarah Young, and is frequently seen strolling along one of Warsaw’s boulevards.
