10 Years Ago The 2000 NTPA Super Semi Grand National High Points Champion was fielding telephone calls earlier this week, none of them high-profile interviews. Mike Metzger was also manning the dispatch station at Metzger & Sons Trucking just south of town on Ind. 15. The “Liberty Belle” has seen little National Truck Pulling Association action this year. He will appear in Tomah, Wis., and return to the Kosciusko County Fairgrounds for the NTPA Super Semi Nationals in July sporting a new paint job ... a swinging Liberty Bell against an American flag. 25 Years Ago This recipe is for Dutch Apple Bread and was submitted by Francine Busch, Warsaw, in the Spotlight recipe contest. Ingredients: 1 stick oleo; 1 cup white sugar; 2 tbsp. sour milk, 1 tsp. soda, 1/2 tsp. salt, 2 cups flour, 2 cups chopped apples, 1 tsp. vanilla, 2 eggs. Topping: 2 tbsp. oleo, 2 tbsp. sugar, 2 tbsp. flour, 1 tsp. cinnamon. Cream oleo and sugar. Add eggs. Combine soda and milk; add to creamed mixture. Add salt, flour, vanilla and fold in apples. Put in loaf pan (greased). Combine topping ingredients and spread on top. Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes at 325 degrees. 50 Years Ago Jill Sullivan will be carrying the hopes of the host town when she competes as “Miss North Webster” in the Queen of Lakes beauty contest at the North Webster Mermaid Festival. Jill, 18, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kip Sullivan. Sponsored by the North Webster School, she has brown hair and blue eyes, stands 3 inches over 5 feet and weighs 110 pounds. 75 Years Ago One thousand trees have been planted on the new Boy Scout reservation near North Webster. This represents the first step in a program to make this 157-acre reservation a botanical paradise and a wild life haven. It is planned to establish every specie of worthwhile vegetation that will grow in this locality including trees, shrubs, plants and wild flowers.
