Remember When July 17

Posted Wednesday, December 31, 1969 7:00 pm

10 Years Ago

July 17 1994

Tippecanoe Lake Country Club Ladies Bridge Group had its luncheon Wednesday.

The hostesses for eight tables of bridge were Martha Brumfield and Mary Gradle. Winners for the week were Dottie Murphy, Marie Johnson,Ruth Phillips, Irene Bucher, Amber Christianson, Shirley Bricker, Vivian Fulford, Nancy McNoldy, Brumfield and Gradle.

25 Years Ago

July 17 1979

The winners in the beard contest held Monday evening on the courthouse lawn were Steve Sausaman, best partial beard; Tug Warner, best full beard; and Eugene Davis, best character beard.

50 Years Ago

July 17 1954

Judy Rodocker, 16-year-old junior at Etna Green High School, survived a starting field of 18 beautiful contestants last night to be crowned centennial Hostess Queen before an estimated 4,000 persons who filled the amphitheater bleachers at the county fairgrounds. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Kinney.

Sally Phillips, 18, of Warsaw, and Francie Study, 19, of Beaver Dam, were selected as the queen's attendants.

75 Years Ago

July 17 1929

Two Winona Lake young women, students at the summer school, were treated to a surprise "joy ride" on the Warsaw fire truck when an alarm came in from Winona at 9:30 Wednesday night. The young women, said to be Dorothy Yeager and Kathleen Harter, were visiting with truck drivers Lawrence Stokes and Linc Hay when the alarm sounded. The drivers jumped on, sounded the siren and said, "Let's go," and away they went.

Arriving at Winona Lake it was found that the call was a false alarm. The photographic school was making a demonstration of flashlight power outside of the school building. Fourteen large sticks, 15 inches high, were burning, and to persons residing on King's Highway, who turned in the alarm, it appeared like a big fire.