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Remember When July 31

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10 Years Ago
July 31 1988

    Warsaw Community High School's Brad Szymanski was named as an honorable mention selection on the Indiana High School Baseball Coaches All-State team for 1988.

Szymanski, a junior, helped lead the 26-10 Tigers into the state tournament semifinals this year with an 11-3 record and a sparkling 1.57 earned run average. He also added one save.

25 Years Ago
July 31 1973

    Kroger shoppers in this area will get some economic education with their grocery orders this summer, David L. Coleman, representative of the food chain, said.

Grocery sacks - some 60 million of them across the country - have been imprinted with a message which tells shoppers the facts about what goes into the food dollar they spend in supermarkets.

50 Years Ago
July 31 1948

    Smith Field, privately owned air port belonging to Howard Smith located one-half mile north of Municipal Airport on Ind. 15, has installed a complete set of night-landing lights.

First night flights from the Smith field were made Wednesday night as the lights were tried out and inspected from the air by Junius VanCuren and Jack Doswell, instructors.

75 Years Ago
July 31 1923

    While A.C. Humke was in a corn field on his farm north of North Manchester he saw a spot in the field where the corn was apparently dead. He investigated and found that lightning had struck there a few days before. There was a hole in the ground and the corn immediately about the hole was scorched and withered, while farther away it showed less effects of the lightning. Twelve years ago in practically the same spot lightning killed a horse owned by Mr. Humke.