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10 Years Ago

June 14 1995

    LEESBURG - Jamiee Smith of Leesburg will compete for the title of Miss Indiana Teen USA at the Porter County Exposition Center in Valparaiso.

Smith is the daughter of Shirley Smith. She attends Monarch Christian Academy in Winona Lake, where she will be a senior next fall.

25 Years Ago

June 14 1980

    A postman, who carried letters on the same route for two decades and was a familiar face to both local residents and courthouse employees, was honored at a retirement party at the Elks Lodge in Warsaw.

Howard Swinehart, 56, of Warsaw, joined the Warsaw Post Office as a letter carrier in 1951 and after 28 years of service, retired on Nov. 17, 1979.

50 Years Ago

June 14 1955

    Eleven new initiates, pledged to Kappa Kappa Kappa sorority at the home of Mrs. James Johnson, South Union Street, were Alice Ann Steel, Betsy Dalton, Jo Ellen Hartman, Lynn Menzie, Susan Van Osdol, Mary Beth Hartman, Mrs. Melvin Carlson, Mrs. Cecil Armstrong, Mrs. Eugene Kinch, Mrs. Allen Rasor and Mrs. Seth Lewis.


75 Years Ago

June 14 1930

    Bernard Cunniff, manager of the Wawasee Hotel and Country Club, has made arrangements for a landing field near his hotel in order to accommodate guests who desire to journey to Lake Wawasee by plane. The Moore farm, located near the hotel, was purchased last year for landing purposes and this year additional ground has been secured in order to make the landing field larger.

The field will be large enough to accommodate planes flying between Chicago and Cleveland, Chicago and Indianapolis and other points.