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10 Years Ago

December 4 1996

    NORTH MANCHESTER - Five local students are members of the A Cappella Choir at Manchester College.

It includes Julie Brown, daughter of Michael Brown, Leesburg; Debbie Kibbe, daughter of Robert Kibbe, Pierceton; Shawn Kobb, son of Kenneth and Millie Kobb, Nappanee; Michele Shrider, daughter of Paul and Lorna Shrider, North Manchester; and Brandy Waldridge, daughter of Marlen and Terri Waldridge, Warsaw.

25 Years Ago

December 4 1981

    Pfc. David W. Fren, son of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip D. Fren, Syracuse, has been decorated with the Army Achievement Medal at Fort Hood, Texas.

The medal is awarded to soldiers below the rank of colonel for outstanding achievement or meritorious service and acts of courage which do not meet the requirements for award of the Soldier's Medal or Army Commendation Medal.

50 Years Ago

December 4 1956

    Trappers have been bagging quite a number of muskrats hereabouts the past few days. Clarence Taylor captured a good sized beaver near his home at Orion on Tippecanoe River, three miles west of Warsaw. The wily beavers are unusually hard to snare. Beaver pelts are bringing around $12.


75 Years Ago

December 4 1931

    Donella Cochran, of Winona Lake, and a pupil in the Warsaw High School, was the successful participant in a county grand golf medal oratorical contest held at the Church of God in Leesburg. This contest, the first of its nature to be given in Kosciusko County, was under the auspices of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

Subject of Cochran's winning oration was "No More Strangers or Foreigners."