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Remember When Feb. 19

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10 Years Ago
Feb. 19 1988

    Dennis McCarthy received a jacket from Fred Gilliam and a ring from Jim Landis for bowling a pair of perfect games this season. McCarthy rolled the first 300 game Nov. 16 and then accomplished the same feat Dec. 14. The awards are presented to bowlers who roll perfect games at the local lanes.


25 Years Ago
Feb. 19 1973

    Miss Diana Lynn Cleveland, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Donald J. Cleveland, of the Free Methodist Church headquarters, Winona Lake, recently was elected Snow Queen at Spring Arbor College, Spring Arbor, Mich., where she is a student. Don Scott, youth minister of the Free Methodist Church, was her escort.


50 Years Ago
Feb. 19 1948

    Roy E.K. Bowen, Warsaw postmaster, announced Wednesday that two new commemorative stamps are now on sale at the local post office. One of the stamps commemorates the 100th anniversary of the discovery of gold in California.

The other new stamp honors the famed Negro, Dr. George Washington Carver.

75 Years Ago
Feb. 19 1923

    Appearing before the city council Monday evening the representative of a street sweeper company told the city fathers that the city can save $500 or more yearly by purchasing a street sweeper to be used in the place of men with brooms. He promised to submit an estimate of cost and saving to the council at a later date.