10 Years Ago Ashley Nichole Cook, daughter of John and Marie Cook, Mentone, was selected to participate in Nationals 2001 Miss Jr. Teen Indianapolis pageant competition Sunday. She is a junior at Tippecanoe Valley High School where she is junior class secretary, a varsity cheerleader and is active in several organizations. She has been in 4-H for seven years and is a graduate of Barbizon School of Modeling.
25 Years Ago A Motley crew with a rattling church bus and truck load of battered canoes rumbled into Warsaw recently after surviving some Canadian canoe adventures. Among the adventurers of this year's 10 days on the Montreal River with Tom, Sara and Dawn Maze were Warsaw residents Gary Lyon, Ted Bolinger, Mark Jensen, Rob Weed, Nick Koedyker, Dave and Steve Thompson, Joe Kizer, Dan and Eugenia Fulkerson, Steven and Sonia Ashton, Merl Heckaman, Jim Young, Kevin Boggs, Brandon Hepler, Rick Crews, Naomi Robinson and Susan Henkel.
50 Years Ago Nothing like being number one! That's what Mrs. William Pittenger of Warsaw was out of 457 bowlers in the Warsaw Women's Bowling Association. Smashing through 96 games last season with an average of 160 for the Holiday Lanes bowling team, she brought home the High Average Pin recently.
75 Years Ago A cheering throng, conservatively estimated at 5,000 persons, jammed Jefferson Street at Warsaw's Pennsylvania depot, to greet Republican Presidential Candidate Alf M. Landon when he made a brief appearance here aboard his special train en route to Maine. Here Governor Landon was given a rousing reception as he struck at New Deal policies on the eve of Maine's march to the polls. Landon's stop in Warsaw was made possible through efforts of District Chairman Morrison A. Rockhill of Warsaw. Rockhill accompanied Landon from Chicago to Warsaw and introduced him to the waiting crowd in this city.
