10 Years Ago Eddie Hatfield of Hatfield Electric Co. volunteers his services on the county fairgrounds every year, making sure the electricity gets to where its supposed to go. For his untiring work he was presented a lifetime pass to the fair during opening ceremonies this week. Ironically, he has terrible trouble with portable power. Every day at 5 p.m. the battery in his walkie talkie runs down. He can hear people talking over the unit but cannot respond. He works over the equipment overnight and by 8 a.m. it miraculously returns to full power.
25 Years Ago Lee Harman, principal at Washington Elementary School the past eight years, was named as assistant superintendent in charge of personnel for the Warsaw Community Schools. Harman replaces Jerry Seese, who resigned some time ago to accept a similar position with the Mishawaka School Corp. No replacement for Harman in the Washington School position has been decided.
50 Years Ago Owen Price, of Bourbon, is home from California and Arizona. He attended the Church of the Brethren national conference at Long Beach, visited his daughter, Mrs. B. Boles, and Family at Modesto, and the Harold Young, Wayne Stuntz and Robert Stuntz families in Phoenix.
75 Years Ago Fire, which threatened the entire town of Silver Lake at 3:30 Wednesday morning, destroyed a barn, a machine shop and a hen house with 100 hens and a Ford V-8 auto belonging to C.M. Wedrick with a loss of around $3,000 covered in small part by insurance. The barn contained a quantity of feed. This and machinery in the shop was destroyed. The barn was a 30x40 foot building, the machine shop was about the same dimensions. The hennery was about 16x30. All were new buildings in excellent condition. The auto parked in the barn is believed possibly to have started the blaze.
