10 Years Ago W.H. Mershon, son of Aaron J. and Lydia Duryea Mershon, Warsaw, entered the Union Army at age 16 on Sept. 13, 1861, Co. I, 30th Regiment of Indiana Volunteers in Fort Wayne. He was the military band leader in Chicago when the train bearing the body of President Lincoln stopped there. In 1894, he founded the Mershon School of Music in the Warner Building on Washington Street in Warsaw. In 1903, Mershon was asked by Gov. Winfield T. Durbin to help dedicate the Indiana monuments in Shiloh National Military Park. 25 Years Ago Florence Miller used the $200 gift certificate she won from a drawing sponsored by Heartline Center at Owen’s Supermarket on West Market Street. Alan Grindle retired from Zimmer June 30 after working there for 21 years. He will now be working as a limo driver for Top Class Limo, which is the same firm that picked him up at Zimmer on his retirement day and took him to a dinner at the VFW. Gary and Elaine Morrow, Warsaw, and daughters, Angela and Jolene, were winners of a grandfather clock at Reinholt’s Town Square Furniture anniversary sale. Leonard Biggs, manager of Black Bros. Midwest, 1420 W. Armstrong Drive, Warsaw, announced the company’s acquisition of a rubber roll builder and vulcanizer. It can process 25 rolls from eight to 136 inches long and up to 16 inches in diameter at one time. 50 Years Ago Fifteen new teachers will be joining a faculty of 162 when the Warsaw Community Schools open Sept. 1. They are: Senior High – Robert Hoehn and James Dick; Junior High – Janet Allen, Keith Clark Cook and Maurice Lehman; Freshman High – Judy Howard; Atwood – Charlotte McCleary, Eloy Pacheco and Gertrude Groesbeck; Adams (formerly Center Ward) – Mary Ann Spray; McKinley (formerly East Ward) – Mary Hand and Donna Poland; Jefferson (formerly East Wayne) – Linda Truman and Gary Mohler; Lincoln – Carole Koos. Washington School (formerly West Wayne) and Madison (formerly West Ward) remain the same. Enrollment is expected to exceed 3,800. Cecil Burris, 704 N. Harrison St., has a beautiful rose garden with 120 bushes of 75 to 80 varieties. 75 Years Ago Maple trees in Kosciusko County, especially Warsaw and Silver Lake, have become infected with the cotton maple scale, a tiny brown insect. On the branches of trees forms a small tuft of white resembling cotton, which is where insects are laying their eggs. County Agent Joe Clark said the affected branches should be trimmed from the tree as soon as possible. A water safety program, conducted by the local Red Cross chapter, is being started. Interested persons are asked to register at the county nurse’s office in the courthouse.
