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Winona Lake's Clerk-Treasurer Charlene Black surprised just about everyone by taking off to Tennessee and getting married this week. She was reportedly married by a town clerk in Nashville, Tenn., and is now basking in Florida sunshine. The new hubby, John Turner, is a contractor from Ligonier. While their courtship was not a secret, not everyone heard the wedding bells ringing.
Sister Helen, principal of Sacred Heart School, Warsaw, has been notified that the school was awarded second place in the nation in the art category of the 1974 diagnostic tests conducted recently by the national board of examiners, of Kissimmee, Fla.
The Checkerboard Feed Store was a mass of ruins today after being virtually destroyed by one of the most disastrous fires in Warsaw history. Only the brick walls formed a skeleton of the remains of the large 2-1/2 story building located at the intersection of Center and Columbia streets, only two blocks west of the business section of the city and one block south of the senior high school building. Damage was expected to be more than $200,000.
A 3-1/2 pound bass jumped in the boat in an effort to get a pork chunk with which Sammie Galbreath of Pierceton was casting on Ridinger Lake last week, according to the story told by Galbreath and his companion when the brought the bass in. Galbreath states that he was just reeling in the bait and as he lifted it out of the water swinging it over the side of the boat the bass leaped for it and landed squarely in the boat.
