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The Harrison Elementary boys basketball team won its third straight Boys' City Championship Feb. 24 at the Tiger Den by defeating Sacred Heart 27-21. The Huskies broke a school record with 12 wins this season: Daylon Blosser, Caleb Light, Peter Shepherd, Ben Linky, Austin Moore, Emily Readle, Cassie Dishman, Lantz Garrett, Keelan Simpson, Nick Poe, Patrick Karczewski, Brandt Walcott, Nick Harman, Larry McClelland, Chris Leek, Megan Scherer, Karissa Junker, Montana Plummer, Katie Schenkel, Hannah Crane, Aaron Humphrey, Ben Gavin, Roberto Martinez, Nick Simpson, Josh Anglin, Zack Linky, Matt Reinholt, Kaci Slough, Taylor Braumberger, Courtney Brandenberg, head coach Craig Helfrich, assistant coach Brian Linky. Josh Anglin led with 11 points and four rebounds.
25 years ago
The First Christian Church, 202 West Main St., Warsaw, has called Ronald and Dee Ann Sams to the ministry at the church effective March 27. His first sermon will be April 2. The Sams come to the church from a 15-year ministry with the Center Christian Church in Mays, Ind. Sams has been in Christian ministry since 1959.
Warsaw Senior Citizens met March 13 in Center Lake Pavilion with a carry-in meal shared by 111 people. Esther Emmens, president, gave the invocation; Doris Slaymaker was featured speaker; Carol Anders entertained with readings and piano solos. Door prizes were given to Anna Menzie, Gert Kuyper, Anna Williamson, Florence Ross, Chauncey Emmens, Katheryn Griffith, Don Shoemaker, Everette Miner, Hazel Brallier, Norma Sadlon, Dewey Garver and Pauline Gross.
50 years ago
Christina Archer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Archer, will represent Leesburg School in the seventh and eighth-grade spelling contest in Warsaw. Bruce Smith was runner-up. Steve West, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. West, will represent the fifth and sixth-grades. Diane Yoder was runner-up.
Herbert Knouff will retire March 1 after more than 37 years of continuous service with the Warsaw district of Northern Indiana Public Service Co. He began his utility career in 1926 as a stoker in the gas plant. He advanced to groundman-operator in 1959. He and his wife Elberta live at 1002 Smith St. in Warsaw.
Ardel Hanna was named Kosciusko County's "Outstanding Young Man" at the Jaycee "Bosses' Night" banquet. Leonard Bibler was given the "Outstanding Jaycee Award" and Herbert Mann, the "Outstanding Jaycee Committee Worker Award."
75 years ago
Announcement was made from their winter quarters in Rochester that Cole Bros. Circuses will go on the road this season as a 20-car unit and will open under canvas here May 1. Jess Adkins and Zack Terrell, Rochester, organized Cole Bros./Clyde Beatty Circuses here five years ago and Robbins Bros. Circuses last year. Clyde and Harriet Beatty, wild animal trainers who held top billing with the Cole Bros. Circus last season, will appear at the San Francisco World Fair 40 weeks starting Feb. 18.
Earl E. Longfellow, Warsaw, has invented an appliance for use in bone surgery consisting of a skeletal wire passed through the fragments of the bone. Beads, attached to the wire, passed around the fracture, and a clamp on the wire holds the fragments in place. He filed a patent application September 16, 1936, assigning rights to Harry Herschel Leiter of Warsaw.
