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Remember When August 22

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10 Years Ago

August 22 1995

    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.


25 Years Ago

August 22 1980

    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.


50 Years Ago

August 22 1955

    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.

The Times-Union newsroom floor and stairways were infested with crickets, and so were the city hall and other buildings. Hundreds of crickets were picked up in a sweeper outside the fire station. Paul Jackson, county agent, said he could think of no reason for all the crickets, other than that they must be hatching in cracks of buildings.

75 Years Ago

August 22 1930

    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.