Remember When April 14

Posted Wednesday, December 31, 1969 7:00 pm

10 Years Ago

April 14 1996

Nicole Radford, North Webster fourth-grader, is the winner of the 1996 Kosciusko County Historical Essay Contest.

For her winning essay, titled "Epworth Forest," Radford will receive a $100 government bond. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Radford.

25 Years Ago

April 14 1981

A local woman, Wilma Noel, Warsaw, was one of 50 state winners in the Hawaiian Pineapple Cruise Contest. Noel's recipe for pineapple upside down pie won her $500 and a chance to be one of 10 Grand Prize winners of an expense-paid seven-day inter-island cruise trip for two in Hawaii. She read about the contest in a magazine, entered and, much to her surprise, won.

50 Years Ago

April 14 1956

Jim Stouffer, of Pierceton, has been awarded basketball numerals at Michigan State College, where he is a freshman.

Stouffer, an outstanding Pierceton High School all-around athlete, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Stouffer. His father is principal of the Pierceton school.

75 Years Ago

April 14 1931

According to the 1930 census reports on Kosciusko County, just released from Washington, the acreage of cultivated land in this county has increased since 1925 more than 7,000 acres.

The report is in part as follows: Crop land in 1930, total, 194,742 acres; 186,494 acres in 1925. 171,698 acres harvested in 1930 and 167,284 acres harvested in 1925.