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10 Years Ago

August 14 1994

    INDIANAPOLIS - Bourbon's Sheila Monesmith was named second-place winner in the Indiana State Fair's youth talent competition.

She competed with approximately 21 others in the senior division female vocal solo category. She sang "Magnify the Lord." Monesmith represented Kosciusko County in the competition after winning the division in July at the county fair.

25 Years Ago

August 14 1979

    Five high school journalists from Tippecanoe Valley High School took part in the 14th Annual Ball State University Journalism Workshops this week. Attending the workshops were Laura Mowrer, Shelly and Sheryl Stokes, Marilyn Earl and Sharon Surface.


50 Years Ago

August 14 1954

    Sfc. Bryan W. Leitch, of Warsaw, was one of Indiana's 10 top recruiters honored at a luncheon in the Indianapolis Athletic Club where Lt. Gen. William B. Keanx, commander of the Fifth Army, awarded permanent possession of a plaque for recruiting efficiency in a nine month contest covering 13 mid-west states.

Indiana's 55 recruiters for the army and air force enlisted a total of 4,590 in the nine-month contest period. Sgt. Leitch was responsible for 148.

75 Years Ago

August 14 1929

    Ninety members of the Tippecanoe Lake Country Club were present at the bridge and dancing party at the club Thursday evening. Seventeen tables of bridge progressed with Mrs. Zanders, of Syracuse, winning first prize for ladies, Mrs. Ferguson of Kentland, second for ladies, Mr. Walters, of Goshen, and Herschel Leiter, of Warsaw, were the men prize winners.