10 Years Ago “You’ve Come A Long Way, Bruce!” Happy 70th Birthday! From everyone at Petro’s GM Showplace Congratulations, Miss Preschool MaKenna Leek! Happy Birthday to Jerry Black (Aug. 5) and to his grandson Nate Wiseman (Aug. 6)! With Love From Your Family 25 Years Ago Allen L. Myers, formerly the principal at Columbia Township School, Columbia City, has been named principal at Warsaw Middle School. Myers, 38, Rt. 1, Columbia City, has a bachelors’s, master’s and educational specialist’s degrees from Ball State University and a secondary principal’s license from Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne. For the past five years, he taught industrial and physical education, driver’s education and coached cross-country and track at Huntington Community Schools. In the 1977-78 school year, he was secondary principal at Bennet High School in Marion. 50 Years Ago Pierceton volunteer firemen and auxiliary members reported that they sold more than 50 gallons of homemade ice cream at their social last Saturday. They also reported the ice cream was all sold in about two hours. Money received will be used to purchase equipment for the department. Cleon Marsh, Pierceton band director, announced that the band will perform in Pierceton July 12 and in Warsaw July 19 during Pioneer Days. Plans are for the group to take a day at Lake Michigan or Chicago. Director Marsh reported that the band received 281 points out of a possible 300 for second in the Mermaid parade. 75 Years Ago Pupils of Mrs. Robert Haymaker’s fourth grade of East Ward School toured the newly equipped Kincaide Bakery, owned and operated by Arden Kincaide. The children witnessed the complete operation of the plant and were instructed in the making of bread and pastries. Each was given a sample pastry and a drink “on the house.” The shop has just added new, modern, up-to-date equipment. More than 2,000 persons throughout the county toured the bakery last Sunday during its open house. Credit for this large record-smashing crowd was given to a full page announcement of the event published exclusively in The Daily Times.
