Continuously serving Kosciusko County since 1854
Stephen Waldeck of Warsaw was one of four Ivy Tech State College North central Region employees who received the Excellence in Education award.
MENTONE - Christine Rhoades, Silver Lake, captured the first "Miss Kosciusko" title Friday night from a field of nine competitors.
Sandra Ballenger will compete as "Miss Beaver Dam Lake" in the Queen of the Lakes beauty contest at the North Webster Mermaid Festival. Sandra, 17, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Ballenger, of Claypool. She weighs 110 pounds, stand 5 feet, 4-1/2 inches tall, has brown hair and brown eyes.
Ben Huff, who resides near Pierceton, came across a local newspaper clipping from the Warsaw Republican in the early '80s in which some local market prices are given as follows: eggs, 7 cents; corn, 30 cents; butter, 6 cents; oats, 20 cents; honey, 15 cents; chickens, $1.55 per dozen; flax seed; $1.10; potatoes, 25 cents; lard, 6 cents; clover seed, $3.60; timothy seed, $1.50 to $2; wheat, 90 cents.
