Continuously serving Kosciusko County since 1854
Joe Schroeder, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Schroeder, was presented the Garber Award at the annual baseball awards banquet. The award was presented by Curtis Garber, son of the late Avery (Pat) Garber who started the award.
Three teachers at McKinley School, located on North Scott St., have been selected as Outstanding Elementary Teachers of America for 1972. Nominated by the school principal were: Eudora Hively, Charles Hunter and James Morrison. They were selected on the basis of their professional and civic achievements.
Dalton plant manager, Bob Moore, telling us that he's had approximately 50 telephone calls from friends wanting to hire him out as a fishing guide since Bob scored recently on Winona Lake. Also reports that he's been catching them each evening since his luck first turned several weeks ago.
A smouldering muck fire, burning for nearly two weeks past in lowlands just east of the Big Four depot on land owned by Anna Oldfather, is still burning. Last Sunday chief of police Douglass spent the entire day with a force of men in a futile attempt to extinguish the flames. Children are being warned against deep dangerous holes large enough to bury several horses, have been burned under a surface which has the appearance of solidity.
