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10 Years Ago
January 26 1990

    Four students from Kosciusko County received academic honors during the fall semester at Ancilla College.

Ronald Westafer, Bourbon, achieved a perfect 4.0 grade point average; Laura Lamaster, Bourbon, earned a 3.75 or above; and Tina Marrufo and Deborah Seymour, both of Warsaw, received academic recognition for earning grade point averages of 3.0 or above.

25 Years Ago
January 26 1975

    Triton won the Bremen Invitational eight-team wrestling tournament on Saturday with 96 points to clearly outdistance runner-up New Prairie, which had 76-1/2 points.

Triton had but two individual champions, Jerry Bradley at 107 and Don Honeycutt at 169, but it also had five runners-up, and this depth was the difference in the meet.

50 Years Ago
January 26 1950

    Otho "Shorty" Piper, of Winona Lake, and Merl Scoles, of Warsaw, planned to finish their 900-mile airplane flight to Gainesville, Fla., this morning. Piper is the pilot.

The two flying enthusiasts started for their destination at 7:30 o'clock yesterday morning. They were flying in Piper's Cessna and expected to make refueling stops at Nashville and Birmingham.

75 Years Ago
January 26 1925

    If you hear a series of weird siren fire alarm whistle noises tomorrow at 5 o'clock p.m., do not become perturbed. It will probably be the testing of the new Winona fire alarm siren. A.G. Whiteleather announced today that that hour had been selected and firemen notified of the test. "What will happen if there should actually be a fire at the time?" asked one gloom-maker. "There'll be plenty of firemen on hand," he was told.