10 Years Ago Sesquicentennial Moment: Emmalu Shideler and her husband Hazen operated the popular Double Dip on West Center Street from 1937 to 1955. Two dips of ice cream only cost a nickel. R.R. Donnelley & Sons is hosting an open house Saturday, June 19, as part of the Sesquicentennial and the company's 45th anniversary in Warsaw. Many things have changed since 1959. The 1,400,000 square foot plant has two pressrooms and two binderies and is the largest gravure printing facility in the world. Cari Sherbahn, LeighAnne Dausman, Eric Camden and Jeremiah Geiger are members of Whitko's first-place State 4-H Livestock Judging Championship team.
25 Years Ago A group of Etna Green residents has undertaken the task of rebuilding the baseball diamond at Heritage Park. Hostetler Landscaping, Middlebury, was hired to do the earth work, while volunteers are handling the painting and cleanup. Cardinal Center announced the appointments of Sheila A. Warren as public relations coordinator and Linda S. Ketrow as residential coordinator. Warren was formerly marketing/communications director of the Kosciusko Community YMCA. Ketrow began her new position May 22, having previously served as administrator of Prairie-View Health Care Center. Silveus and Bradway Oil Co., Warsaw, has opened a new location at 215 N. Lake St. called Pit Stop West. Beth Stapleton is manager of the mini-mart and gasoline sales; Ted Bradway, the quick lube center; Ben Bradway, Ben's Auto Service. Owner is Tony Silveus.
50 Years Ago One of the largest horse shows in northern Indiana will be held Saturday and Sunday, May 23 and 24, at the Bourbon Fairgrounds. Appaloosa horses from Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin will be displayed. Sheri Minear, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Minear, Route 2, Warsaw, and her Appaloosa stallion, Chief of Fourmile II, placed first in the children's pleasure class at a point show in Mishawaka this month. Ted Bolinger, Warsaw, rode Gun Hand to first place in the rope race. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hollar, Bloomington, are the parents of a baby girl, Danica Dawn, born Saturday, May 2. Mr. Hollar, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hollar, Warsaw, and a senior dental student at Indiana University, has received a commission in the U.S. Army and is to receive his assignment immediately after graduation in June.
75 Years Ago "Spring means home and community cleaning but how can the community be kept clean with dodgers, handbills and cards so carelessly thrown on our front porches to be blown all over the neighborhood," inquires a Warsaw resident. Warsaw Conservation Club members worked all day Sunday on their fish ponds west of Warsaw near Orion on the Tippecanoe River re-enforcing pond banks against possible washouts and getting ready to raise fish for restocking lakes. Robert Meck, while driving near Clunette, struck a horse belonging to H. Kurtz. Meck said the horse walked directly in front of his car. Kosciusko County Sheep Shearing School will be held at the Warsaw Park Pavilion April 5-6. Clarence Jeffers, Zearing, Ill., national champion, will be here.
