Continuously serving Kosciusko County since 1854
Whitko High School student Richard Jason Thomas received the only gold medal in the United States in the 21st Exhibition of World School Children's Art in the Republic of China Art Competition.
Sue Ellen Mabie, a student nurse in the Indiana Central School of Nursing, was recently crowned the Central Indiana Lung Association's Miss Christmas Seal for 1975. Sue Ellen was named Miss Christmas Seal from among six student nurses, each representing a school of nursing in Central Indiana. Miss Christmas Seal was graduated in 1974 from Mentone High School. As Miss Christmas Seal, she will make radio, television and other public appearances to aid the promotion of the current Christmas Seal campaign.
A registered Guernsey cow, Fawn, of Busy Biddy Farms, owned by H.O. Stouder, South Whitley, produced 9,645 pounds of milk and 470 pounds of butterfat, according to the official herd improvement registry record release by the American Guernsey Cattle Club.
One of the best known baseball names in this section of the country may appear in a big-league box score next summer if Cleo Wysong makes good when he goes south with the Chicago White Sox in February. The news has just reached here that Cleo, who has just turned his majority, has affixed his signature to a contract of the Chicago team and will travel southward with them early in the spring. He is now engaged in teaching school near Milford Junction and has arranged for a substitute when he leaves.
