10 Years Ago Kenneth and Inette Courval visited their grandson, Cody King, at Pierceton Elementary School Sept. 7 to tell the students about Native Americans of the Eastern Woodlands and how they would grow wild rice in swamps and use canoes to go through the swamps and collect the rice. They described the tradition of dancing with flags and rattles made out of horns, deer legs and feathers. Sandie Pence and Becky Whiteman are the owners/operators of Sweetbriar Tea Room, 404 S. High St., Warsaw. Nicholas Lowman, 2, son of David and Angie Lowman, Milford, was named second runner-up in the New Star Discovery Pageant. 25 Years Ago Cousin Clem: “The history of Indiana must be woven to include the Potawatomi Indian tribe, which was part of the Algonquins. There were possibly eight or nine tribes totally, with the bands having at the most 150 members, with a total of 1,200 members. They were mostly located along the Tippecanoe River, starting at the head waters near Oswego in Kosciusko County and going through Fulton and Marshall counties around Maxinkuckee and Twin Lakes; one tribe located near South Bend were known as the Great Lakes Potawatomis. Shirley Martinsen, Warsaw, took part in the three-day convention of the Longaberger Basket Bee held in Columbus and Dresden, Ohio. 50 Year Ago Warsaw’s Municipal Airport is becoming one of the busiest spots around town. Recently there were 15 transient planes at the airfield at the same time. This was one of the largest groups ever assembled at the airport at a particular time, according to manager Eldridge Sheetz. Major John T. Williams, U.S. Air Force, and his family are being welcomed as new residents of the Warsaw community. He is the liaison officer for the Indiana Wing, Civil Air Patrol, and said that he and his family are very happy to be assigned to the beautiful lake county. 75 Years Ago City authorities are warning street crossers about the Winona interurban track rail at the corner of Buffalo and Center streets, where the tracks are exposed and set high pending the expected blacktop paving of the street. Mrs. Frank Dinius, wife of the unemployment-relief administrator, was injured when she tripped. Heat caused expansion in the cement of East Winona Avenue near Dalton Foundry, causing the pavement to buckle and break in a wide crack clear across the highway. Missing from threshing season is the old familiar sound of the steam engine’s whistle, all the farm work now taken up by tractors and combines. No more does a lumbering steam engine belch forth great clouds of smoke. Seldom does a gang of men sit down to a farmer’s table spread with goodies as we used to on the “patch.”
