Continuously serving Kosciusko County since 1854
10 Years Ago
If Warsaw girls golf coach Bob Turner could describe his team’s season in one word it would be “Cinderella.” And that Cinderella team that advanced to the regional by one stroke and was seeded ninth going into the regional, almost took its glass slipper all the way to the state meet. After placing third at the sectional with a score 10 strokes behind the first-place Columbia City team, the Tigers closed that gap at Noble Hawk Golf Course in Kendallville. Warsaw’s 358 was just one stroke behind the Eagles and 15 strokes behind winner Homestead.
25 Years Ago
Free instruction for fifth and sixth graders in instrumental music is being offered for the first time in the Warsaw Community Schools. As part of the school board’s restructuring of the music program, some 750 students representing 35 classes in nine elementaries have been invited to consider participation in beginning band. Band director Martin Becker and instructors Dan Burton, Phil Eherenman and Donna Person have been traveling throughout the school system to demonstrate instruments.
50 Years Ago
Dr. Lloyd Knox of Winona Lake, was among those who presented FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover a Bible on behalf of the National Sunday School Association recently in Washington, D.C. Dr. Knox is president of the association. The Bible was presented in recognition of Mr. Hoover’s “influence and outstanding contribution to Sunday School work during the past decade.” Dr. Knox is publisher of Light and Life Press at Winona Lake.
75 Years Ago
A crowd roughly estimated at nearly 1,200 wild-eyed, howling and screaming fans were present last night to witness the first donkey softball game in Warsaw. The melee was staged under the new electrically lighted athletic field for the purpose of raising funds to purchase new lighting equipment for the softball diamond next year.
