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Remember When March 11

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10 Years Ago
March 11 1988

    A proverbial shot to the ego may have been experienced by Janet Dome, from South Whitley Middle School, as she correctly spelled "hypodermic" Thursday night to win the county junior high spelling bee.


25 Years Ago
March 11 1973

    Wayne Love Motors, Warsaw, says for $2,298, they can make it cold in July. They are introducing the lowest list priced factory air conditioned car build in America - the '73 Gremlin.


50 Years Ago
March 11 1948

    Judy McWhorter, Leesburg, captured first-place in the 4-H club poster contest sponsored by the Kosciusko County Rural Youth club, it was announced by the county Extension office. She will receive $6 toward a trip to the Purdue 4-H Round-Up or the 4-H club camp at McClure Lake this summer.


75 Years Ago
March 11 1923

    We know now why Warren Powell was so worried about that old hen last fall while Mrs. Powell was visiting in Chicago. Readers will remember: Warren allowed the flowers to freeze and lost the family pet, a dog, and all he had left was one old Ancona hen, but that hen lays six and seven eggs each day; at least Warren finds that many in the nest and he says none of the neighbors' chickens ever lay for him.