10 Years Ago Warsaw Community Public Library invites you to celebrate the Sept. 7 anniversary of the birth of Anna Mary Robertson, “Grandma” Moses. She was born in 1860 on a farm in Washington County, N.Y., with three brothers and a sister and one of her duties was to keep her younger sister, Celestia, from crawling too close to the woodburning stove. She met and married a man named Thomas Salmon Moses. They purchased a farm near Eagle Bridge, N.Y. in 1905, where he died there after 39 years of marriage. She passed away Dec. 13, 1961, at the age of 101. 25 Years Ago Brad Blanton, 10, son of Douglas and Deborah Blanton, Warsaw, displayed a 22-inch beefsteak tomato weighing 2 pounds, 13 ounces. Seniors Greg Montgomery and Kelly Collier and junior Jules Lin are three of 1,800 student council leaders and faculty advisors who attended the 53rd National Association of Student Council Conference this summer in Prairie View, Ill. With increased traffic around the county immunization clinic on the second floor of the courthouse, the rotunda has become a source of major concern. A number of safety measures are being considered after county health nurse Barb Clouse insisted something should be done. 50 Years Ago Eva Brubaker received the club championship trophy at the Rozella Ford Community Golf Course Ladies Golf Association awards dinner at Petro’s Restaurant. Jackie Cook was runner-up. Brubaker joins former champions Julia Boles, 1961, and Mary Alice Estep, 1962 and 1963. Dorothy Snyder and Jean Rathbun won the Pat Latta sportsmanship trophies in the nine- and 18-hole groups, and Norma Pinkerton was chosen as the most improved golfer. Jane Grossnickle was 18-hole handicap champ and low putter with 16; Pat Hauth, nine-hole handicap champ. Low putting honors in the nine-hole went to Betty Ruth Evans, 15; Margaret Stutzman, 16; Marjorie Mitterling, 17. 75 Years Ago The most elaborate advertising medium ever seen in Warsaw was “The Biggest Little Show on Earth,” a four-ring mechanical circus on wheels sponsored by the Beechnut Company, which played in front of the Knight Drug Store. The show was equipped with a public address system. Spectators were amused by the parade, which rotated around the four rings, the wild animal act, gorgeously arrayed trapeze artists, performing elephants and bears and free samples of Beechnut gum.
