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Remember When July 17

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10 Years Ago
July 17 1988

    Word has it Warsaw Mayor Jeff Plank's home was affectionately wrapped with a few rolls of toilet paper last weekend. The vandals didn't think the residence was enough, though. Word has it they also TP'd the family cat.


25 Years Ago
July 17 1973

    Seven members of the Mentone Cadette Girl Scout Troop 266 have returned home following a seven-day bicycle ride-camping trip to Paw Paw, Mich.

The girls making the trips were Theresa Bentley, Leslie Senff, Crystal Ross, Lisa Owens, Robin Secrist, Virginia Wireman and Jackie Walton. The leader is Mrs. Shardene Ross.

50 Years Ago
July 17 1948

    Sheriff Ray Henderson assures us that he does not habitually get his hats out of garbage cans. The only time he ever did was when the wind blew a regular store-bought creation off his head and into the receptacle in the alley near the jail, he declares. The boys in a nearby shop caught him in the act of fishing the hat out and said they'd furnish him headgear rather than see him stoop to such means of acquiring a lid.


75 Years Ago
July 17 1923

    After years of work here the local post office has been given motor power by which stamps on letters are now cancelled by motorized machinery at the rate of 1,100 per minute. The motor is a great convenience to the postal clerks who heretofore did that work by hand.