10 Years Ago Silver Lake Days: Queen-Hilary Kiser, with escort Bill Roark; Cutie King and Queen-Spencer Kissel and Ashley Nichols, Silver Lake; parade grand marshal-Liz Surface, Silver Lake. Warsaw’s Denny Hepler, owner/professional at Raccoon Run, leads all competitors and is in 10th place to qualify for the 90th annual Indiana Open. He leaves Friday, July 15 for Scotland to participate in the Senior British Open. Warsaw Community High School graduates Jake Brodhead, Jon Clevenger and Chris Hanson are recipients of the Payne Stewart Award to continue their golf career in college. 25 Years Ago The Warsaw Community Library board received two design options from InterDesign Group architects Joel Blum and Fred Brames. The first option calls for renovation of the 1917-era facility, which was last remodeled in 1966, and would add 21,000 square feet to the present 14,000-foot facility. The addition would extend into the present parking lot, and would require demolition of the existing 1924-era Masonic Building on High Street and the Detroit Street rental house for the construction of a new parking lot. The second option calls for construction of a 31,000-square foot facility at a new location. The board will decide which option it will pursue by Sept. 10. Construction of the building is slated to start in June 1991, with opening to the public by December 1992. Dennis Lawson, Wabash Valley Library Network coordinator, will serve as a liaison between the library and the architects. 50 Years Ago The Hastings Store, five miles southwest of Milford, will be razed due to its deteriorating condition by present owner Harold Fox. The building has stood in its present location for more than 70 years, serving the Hastings community as a general store, post office and meeting place. Sam Estep sold everything from yard goods to farming equipment in the general store; outgoing mail would be hauled each day by horseback to Milford. Matt and James Biller and Noah Tusing were in charge of hauling mail between the two communities. The brick Hastings School still stands. David Lee, son of Dr. and Mrs. Wendell Lee, Warsaw, had one of the highest scholastic tests in the nation at Culver Military Academy. 75 Years Ago Dale Copeland, 19, Warsaw, told police his 1929 Chevrolet Coach became caught in the street car tracks and he lost control of the machine. After going over the lawn on the west side of North Detroit Street, the car struck a telephone pole near the Greiger grocery. The car was badly damaged; Copeland escaped injury.
