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Roger Frantz received the 1986 Warsaw Volunteer Fireman of the Year Award, presented by volunteer captain Max Huffer. Frantz is an eight-year fireman.
The monument standing in the yard of the Leesburg Town Hall is reported to be a mill wheel from the original mill on Levi Lee Road by the Tippecanoe River, run by Levi Lee. He was one of Kosciusko County's earliest settlers and the man from which Leesburg derives its name. The large circular stone was used to grind grain more than a century ago in the mill and has stood on display in Leesburg for the past 30 years, reminiscent of the town's earlier beginning.
The Warsaw Daily Times went to press with an "emergency edition" apparently printed on a mimeograph machine rather than an electrically operated press after a severe ice storm broke the power lines in a radius of 100 miles around Warsaw and suspended service to schools, homes and business in the area.
The Waubee Gravel Co. announced plans to stockpile 10,000 to 15,000 years of marl, a form of lime used as vegetation fertilizer, near a marsh the company owns near Milford. Company spokesmen said the marsh was estimated to have 75 to 100 thousand yards of marl in it. The company was expected to provide a gravel road to the site so the fertilizer could be hauled by trucks and wagons.
