Continuously serving Kosciusko County since 1854
10 Years Ago
Warsaw Mayor Ernie Wiggins attended the Board of Works meeting in period dress Friday, after greeting school children as Gen. Thaddeus Kosciuszko at Lucerne Park half an hour before the meeting. Wiggins is the first to re-create the character of the county’s namesake. He sported a white shirt with billowing sleeves, a long, gold-embroidered vest and navy blue pantaloons while the city’s business was conducted as usual.
25 Years Ago
This recipe was submitted to the Spotlight Recipe Contest for Broccoli Rice Casserole.
1/2 cup oleo; 1 tbsp. minced onion; 1-1/2 cup water and mushroom juice; 2 (10 oz. frozen pkgs.) chopped broccoli; 1 cup Minute Rice; 1 can cream of mushroom soup; 1 (8 oz. jar) of Cheese Whiz or 8 oz. Velveeta Cheese; 1 can mushrooms; bread crumbs or crushed potato chips or French fried onion rings.
Bring to boil first 3 ingredients. Add frozen broccoli. Cook approximately 3 minutes. Add Minute Rice, remove from heat and let stand 5 minutes. Stir in the soup, cheese and mushrooms. Place in casserole and top with bread crumbs; crushed potato chips or onion rings. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-45 minutes. Cathy Whetstone, Mentone
50 Years Ago
Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Hawley, of Warsaw are home from a vacation in Michigan’s upper peninsula with their son, James, and family, of Union Lake, Mich. At Lake Milikokia, about 65 miles west of the Mackinac Bridge, they occupied a modern 4-room cabin equipped with oil furnace, gas-wood range, refrigerator and large fireplace. The most exciting event for the kids was a trip to a garbage dump about dusk when the bears foraged for their evening meal.
75 Years Ago
Miss Betty Arnold of Valparaiso, senior student at Purdue University and president of the Women’s Athletic Association, visited over the week-end with Robert Strauss, Winona Lake.
Robert Lucas, Frank and Finley Gilworth, and Clifford Sterling have returned to their homes in Warsaw after traveling for several days in Canada and in the east. Mr. Sterling has resumed his position at the Leiter and Ellison Drug Store.
