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Remember When February 29

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10 Years Ago
February 29 1990

    Playing tennis or racquetball can be hazardous to your health, especially if your ball ends up on the ceiling. Just ask Lynn Caraway. As we hear it, she was out getting some early-morning exercise when her ball went over the protective netting and landed on the ceiling over the offices. But that wasn't going to stop her. Caraway climbed up on the ceiling, which is not meant for walking on. She promptly fell through and dropped 8 or 9 feet to one of the offices below. Fortunately, Caraway was not injured. She reclaimed her ball and returned to her workout.


25 Years Ago
February 29 1975

    Sabrina Handgen has been crowned the spelling champion at Warsaw Junior High School following the school spelling bee held last week.

Sabrina is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Handgen, Valley Springs, Rt. 7, Warsaw. Representing Leesburg Elementary School, she was the Kosciusko County spelling champ in 1974.

50 Years Ago
February 29 1950

    Cleo D. Snyder, Pierceton, has been elected historian of the Purdue University chapter of Phi Eta Sigma, national scholastic honorary for men students who maintained high scholastic standing during the freshman year. He is enrolled in the school of chemical engineering at the university. Snyder is a graduate of the Pierceton High School and was a member of the high school basketball team.


75 Years Ago
February 29 1925

    A number of people in Warsaw felt an earthquake at about 8:30 Saturday evening. To most of those it was a distinct wavelike motion not unlike that produced sometimes by a heavy train going through on a railroad.

While many felt the tremor, probably none was aware of the cause until radio broadcasters announced the earthquake a few minutes later from their stations.