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10 Years Ago
June 17 1992

    Bourbon volunteer fireman Mark Shirey recently competed in the Second World Firefighter Games in Las Vegas, where he won a medal in the 50-yard backstroke swimming event.

He also competed in the 50-yard freestyle and butterfly and in the 100-yard individual, where he placed seventh, 10th and seventh, respectively.

25 Years Ago
June 17 1977

    Contestants winners have been announced for the first annual Frog Jump held at Leesburg Days.

Winners for 20 and Under are Davy Smoker, Leesburg, frog-Frantom, first (seven feet, seven inches); Rob Wildman, Warsaw, frog-Green Streek, second (six feet, six inches); and 21 and over winners are Rick Thomas, Warsaw, frog-Fred, first (10 feet, two inches); Woody Everly, Warsaw, frog-Leapen Leana, second (seven feet, seven inches.)

50 Years Ago
June 17 1952

    Betty Bowser, a junior at Leesburg High School, has been entered in the "Queen of the Lakes" beauty contest at North Webster, as the representative of that school. She has brown hair, blue eyes, weighs 125 pounds and is 5 feet, 4 inches tall.


75 Years Ago
June 17 1927

    Two years ago when two Warsaw girls returned the costumes which they had worn in a Kiwanis play, they sewed in their names and addresses. Two girls in Monmouth, Ill., next wore the costumes and corresponded with them. These two girls will arrive in Warsaw Saturday evening to visit with the Warsaw girls. Neither girl now lives in Monmouth and neither one know that the other is coming. They are Josephine Beal, Chicago, who will be the guest of Katherine Kintzel, and Florance Johnson, Washington, D.C., who will be the guest of Donnabelle Harmon.