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10 Years Ago
March 31 1987

    Six months after the rest of the high school basketball world started its season, Warsaw Community High School all-American Rick Fox got his first taste of prep competition in Landover, Md.


25 Years Ago
March 31 1972

    Paul Eckert, son of Rev. and Mrs. Peter Eckert, Warsaw, recently captured first place speech honors at Indianapolis in statewide competition. Eckert, a student at Warsaw Community High School, received a $350 scholarship plus a winner's trophy.


50 Years Ago
March 31 1947

    We were crossing the alley by Breading's Friday morning when a young fellow approaching with two companions from the east suddenly ducked down and snatched a $10 bill from the bricks. He made two more quick grabs and picked up two more hunks of currency which looked like a sawbuck and a finn. The lettuce gatherer moved swiftly and halted only when an city resident shouted at him with vigor, hustled up to the collector and relieved him of the easy sugar.


75 Years Ago
March 31 1922

    Twenty-one persons who attended a play at the Seward township school last night were mud-bound and forced to spend the night at the Theodore Parker country home near Yellow Creek Lake because last night's rain had made the roads almost impassable.