Continuously serving Kosciusko County since 1854
Mitch Rader has accepted the appointment to the position of clerk-treasurer for the town of Leesburg for the term beginning Jan. 1, 1988. Current clerk-treasurer Becky Hartman had said she did not wish to continue the duties for an additional term.
Hal Harting and Dave Essig, journeymen craftsman at the Warsaw Division R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company, received major awards for suggestions submitted through the firm's employee suggestion plan. Essig received a $2,010 award for a suggestion involving a procedural change in preparation of film negatives. Harting received awards totaling $1,270 for a suggestion dealing with a machine modification in the bindery where he is employed.
Glen Longenecker, principal of Leesburg high school, announced between halves of the Leesburg-Pierecton basketball game that the Leesburg school was cooperating with Warsaw city schools in helping to load the Friendship Train with canned foods for Europe's hungry children.
Selling $100,000 worth of Overland and Willys-Knight autos in eleven months in the Warsaw territory has given the Munson Brothers' Garage of Warsaw second place in the volume of sales contest of more than 224 dealers operating under the Overland Toledo, Ohio, distributors.
