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10 Years Ago
December 18 1988

    If anyone questions the depth and balance of Warsaw Community High School girls' basketball team they should have watched the free-throw shooting fund raiser conducted recently for girls' athletics. The contest was won by LaDawn Howett who pegged 95 out of 100 attempts. By the way, LaDawn is a senior manager for the team. The No. 1 ranked team in the state did quite well as a whole too.


25 Years Ago
December 18 1973

    The powder has accumulated to 18 inches in open areas with some drifting that has forced school closings in all area corporations, bogged traffic, halted some industrial and business schedules and fouled social events.

Snowed into their homes, area residents are telephoning their employers, schools and friends, creating an extreme overload on United Telephone Co. lines.

50 Years Ago
December 18 1948

    Mrs. Raymond Essig, of this city, contralto, was guest soloist at the presentation of Handel's, "The Messiah" at North Manchester Sunday evening, by the choral society of Manchester College. Others from this vicinity taking part were Richard Anderson, Pauline Anderson, Gwendolyn Young and Jean Helser, of Warsaw and community, and Barbara Longenecker, Leesburg, who were members of the chorus of 300 voices; and Robert Haney, Winona Lake; Roger Kelly, North Manchester, formerly of this city; and Robert Garman, Claypool, played in the orchestra.


75 Years Ago
December 18 1923

    The foundation for the tabernacle to be constructed on the bank of Webster Lake by the Epworth League of the North Indiana Methodist Episcopal Conference has been completed and the contractor is now erecting the framework. The building when completed will be 125 by 70 feet in dimension.