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10 Years Ago
October 2 1990

    Julie Brown was named one of five winners in Time Temporary Services annual scholarship contest.

The $500 award may be used toward tuition costs or other school expenses. Brown, the daughter of Gale and Helen Brown, is a freshman at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

25 Years Ago
October 2 1975

    Rosa Michael celebrates her 100th birthday on Oct. 1 and has been appropriately selected as the Times-Union Calendar "Girl" for October. A longtime resident of this county, she has lived at the Timbercrest Home in North Manchester since March of this year.


50 Years Ago
October 2 1950

    William J. Braddock, exalted ruler of the Warsaw Elks, and Arthur DeWispelaere, secretary, attended a meeting of officers called by the Indiana State Elks Association Saturday and Sunday at the Antlers hotel in Indianapolis. Others who went from here were: Ray Miner and Dr. Virgil McCleary, past exalted rulers, and Oliver R. Bodkin Jr., esteemed lecturing knight of the local lodge.


75 Years Ago
October 2 1925

    According to a letter received by the Warsaw Daily Times, members of the Leesburg High School have taken up the new fad of wearing overalls. The letter reads as follows: "The boys of the Leesburg High School have taken to the overall fad. Monday morning one of the boys appeared at the schoolhouse wearing overalls. The students were astonished to see them but at noon several pairs of the new suits appeared in the study hall. The boys also wear large red handkerchiefs around their necks, and the one who appears most as a farmer is the most popular. The lads call themselves 'hayshakers.'"