Bud Strombeck, a resident of Webster Lake, recently caught a beautiful purebred musky. The 23-pound, 8-ounce fish was 46-1/2 inches long. Strombeck caught the musky on light tackle with a small "Rattle Trap" crankbait.
Aug. 20 was Norma Creighton Day in Atwood. After 28 years as Atwood's postmaster, Norman is retiring today. Helping celebrate were Cinda Julian, postal clerk, and Frank Hoffer, manager of the Atwood branch of the Etna Bank.
The most common price for crickets these days is $1.60 per hundred, but fishermen could have found all they wanted today for free in various downtown business establishments and on the sidewalks in Warsaw, provided they like them small in size.
Marshall Tucker, son of Dr. and Mrs. F.C. Tucker, of Claypool, a medical student at Indiana University, was recently notified that he had been chosen assistant professor for the next school year to Dr. Paul M. Harmon, department of physiology in the college of medicine.