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The Beetles won the Major League Tournament championship in the Warsaw Girls Softball League this summer. Members of the championship team are Naomi Miller, Angie Sprouts, Angie Schultz, Shanon Marsillett, Heather Home, Kim McGuire, Rachel Shaffer, Julie Fribley, Jenny Berry, Trisha Hanes and Melanie Silver. Coaches are Fred Fribley, Cindi Knepper, Chanda Kline and Cathy Sincroft.
RICHMOND - Jerry Nelson of Burket, a farmer who put down his hoe and picked up his clubs for the Indiana Open Championship, wowed the crowds by firing a tourney-low 67 to give him a tie for the lead Thursday at the Forest Hills Country Club.
Lucille Deaton, daughter of Ross Deaton, of near Silver Lake, was graduated Sunday afternoon from the Methodist Hospital School of Nursing at Fort Wayne. Commencement exercises were held at 3:30 p.m. at the Wayne Street Methodist Church, in Fort Wayne, for the class of 24 graduates.
The night blooming cactic which is the property of Mrs. C.A. Rovenstine of Atwood and which bloomed last Saturday night was sure a thing of beauty. Rovenstine noticed about 6 p.m. that eight of the blooms would open that night and she telephoned to quite a number of her friends and to the people who were spending the summer at Crystal Lake and Beachwood and people began coming about 8 p.m. and many came at 2 in the morning to see the beautiful blossoms. Among the crowd was a florist from Chicago who remarked it was the first time he had ever seen one of the night blooming cacti in bloom.
