June 29 10 Years Ago Alumni and friends of the Greater Warsaw Cooperative Preschool are invited to a 25-year anniversary celebration with an open house and balloon launch Saturday. The Preschool was founded in 1977 by a group of parents who saw a need for additional preschool education in Warsaw. The school operates at Walnut Creek United Methodist Church, Ind.15S, Warsaw. The congregation of Walnut Creek United Methodist Church invite the public to their Sunday services at 8:15 and 10:30 a.m. Pastor Frank Beard will continue his May sermon series on “Why Christian Fellowship is Important,” taken from Hebrews 10:19-25. “We have Sunday School for all ages.” 25 Years Ago Jim Bowers, who works in United Telephone Company of Indiana’s downtown office in Warsaw, has been named the company’s winner of the 1987 George A. Steele Community Relations Award. He has worked for the company since 1964. Chris Fluke has been promoted to internal audit supervisor by United Telephone Company of Indiana. She will begin her new duties May 16. She started with United in July 1984 as a junior accountant. Chris is a 1984 Ball State graduate. 50 Years Ago The House of Delegates of the Student American Medical Association elected Duke D. Fisher, 24, Indiana University Medical School junior, vice president at their Chicago convention. Duke is the son of Mr. & Mrs. George Fisher, of near Leesburg. Mr. Fisher is state representative of Kosciusko County. Miss Joyce Rule, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Rule, of Route 2, Silver Lake, is the recipient of the annual “Nurses Scholarship” given by the Kosciusko County Medical Auxiliary. She will be honored at a tea at the home of Mrs. J.R. Baum, of Winona Lake. Joyce has been accepted at the General Hospital in Indianapolis. 75 Years Ago A 60-year-old squaw of the Algonquin tribe, which for many years roamed the Indiana countryside between the Wabash and Maumee rivers, was ordered to leave Rochester today to calm fears of eight persons who charged she had “hexed” members of their families. Police Chief Paul Whitcomb said the complaints insisted many persons have been made ill and that a girl is in a critical condition from spells cast by Mrs. Irene Ray. The accusers demanded that Prosecutor Murray McCarty file federal charges of witchcraft against her. After studying Indiana law, he found no statute forbidding witchcraft. The accusers then asked that Mrs. Ray be exiled. The spells would be broken if she left the community. She and her husband had come to Rochester after having been asked to leave Plymouth.
