Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 120, Number 32, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 20 August 1997 — Page 4

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Years ago... Knights and Ladies of Columbia to organize council in Nappanee

(Information for the 100-75 and 50-years ago segments has been researched and posted by Mary Knobel. The Advance-News staff wishes to thank her for her contribution to the column) 100 YEARS AGO AUGUST 18, 1897 The Knights and Ladies of Columbia are going to organize a council in Nappanee next week, and those wishing to take insurance can do no better than to join • this Order,'the cost having been reduced to $1.50, while the charter remains open during the coming week. Talk to the “tall man” about it Persons arraigned in the justice court on minor charges, to which they pled guilty and the prosecuting attorney’s services were not required, but for which they paid $5 in addition to their fine and other costs, are now clamoring for the return of that sum since a disclosure made last evening in Justice Young’s court. The ruling made was that when the prosecuting attorney is not involved, the fee cannot be added. 75 YEARS AGO AUGUST 17,1922 The town board has placed steel receptacles at convenient places on Main and Market streets for the placing of waste paper that accumulates on the streets and blows around. The town board is to be commended for their thoughtfulness in providing these receptacles, and if our citizens will make use of them, they will aid materially in keeping our streets much cleaner. The Nappanee cider mill will run on Tuesday of each week, starting August 15. Located one mile west of town. Adv. The office force of Coppes Bros. & Zook enjoyed a picnic supper at, the cottage of Mr- and Mrs. John Gopßes /.atv | Wawasce on Wednesday evening, i All report a most delightful time. Two days of celebration and home coming at the new park, formerly known as the Stauffer grove, were planned Tuesday night by the Crime Stoppers... This week’s Crime of the Week comes from the arson files of the Goshen Police Department. At approximately 10:30p.m., Sunday, April 20, the occupants of 623 10th St., Goshen, found their vehicle on fire. The auto was parked in an attached carport, and the blaze spread quickly to the home. The occupants got out uninjured, but the home and the car sustained more than $60,000 in damages. Shortly before the fire, three unidentified teenage males were seen in the area of the blaze, playing with some type of accelerate, and setting small fires. Crime Stoppers wants your help to locate and arrest the suspects in this case. If you have information regarding this arson, and call Crime Stoppers this week, you could receive a cash reward of up to SI,OOO upon the arrest or indictment of of the suspect(s) involved. Remember, you can call Crime Stoppers about this or any other felony crime or fugitive. In Indiana and Michigan, call toll free, 1-800-342-STOP. You will be given a code number, and Crime Stoppers won’t ask your name. Crime Stoppers does not have Caller ID. Crime Stoppers...it works.

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Nappanee Post of the American Legion. The dates were set for Thursday and Friday, September 21 and 22. 50 YEARS AGO AUGUST 14, 1947 Glen Field won the Swartz trophy in the Nappanee Match Play golf tournament Sunday by winning two of the closest matches ever played in this event. The Nappanee City Golf Tournament playdtf'" i at Maxwelton on August 31. The tournament will consist of eighteen holes to be played on that date, both men and women competing for the Huffman trophies. Dinner will be served to all participants on that date. Several improvements required by the state fire marshall’s office have been taken care of during the summer in the high school building. 25 YEARS AGO AUGUST 17, 1972 14-year-old North Wood sophomore David Rosentrater, Nappanee, recently finished participating in a record-breaking group cross country bike tour to the Grand Canyon and back. The cyclists averaged 125 miles per day for a 4,000 mile total between July 3 and August 11. They toured six days week through nine states: from Hartford City, Indiana to Illinois, lowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah and Arizona, then back through Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Hartford City. Nappanee Glass, located at 300 S. Nappanee St., will open Saturday, August 5, offering replacement of all types of glass, low competitive prices, prompt service, pick up and delivery service and free estimates. Specializing in decorative glass. Jim Sutripter'proprietor/ b A lidded 10 YEARS AUGUST 19, 1987 Cpl. Harry T. Peffley, son of Sally J. Peffley, 502 Bison Ridge, Nappanee, was recently awarded the U.S. Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal. He received the award for good behavior and conduct over a three-year period in the Marine Corps. He is currently serving with the 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Monte Flowers, R 2, Nappanee, a second-year graduate student studying agriculture education, has been chosen as a counselor and staff resident for Tarkington Hall on the campus of Purdue University. Staff residents are direct links between the hall manager and counseling staff, and act as advisers to the students and their organizations. This weekend, see “The Untouchables” at the Nappanee Comment ■ staff of the Nappanee ce-News welcomes the on its^^p

Theatre. Rated R. Joe Dowd and traveling companion Bill Hart pence have started their motorcycle trip around the border of the United States to raise money for MDA. They hope to complete the ride by August 30. 5 YEARS AGO AUGUST 19, 1992 North Wood High School’s football field was renamed “Andrews Field” in a special dedication service held August 15. It has been named after the late Jim Andrews, a NWHS teacher and head football coach. A fire destroyed the Terry Johns home Monday evening, August 10. Fire departments from Wakarusa, Bremen, Foraker and Plymouth were on hand to keep air tanks filled at the scene. Nappanee Smokey Stovers and the Nappanee EMS were on the scene for just over three hours. The Nappanee All Stars have concluded their final tournament of the 1992 season, which was hosted by Triton. They lost to Triton 5-1. The Nappanee EMS Dept, has received its new ambulance. The diesel-powered unit carries a price tag of $72,000, not including approximately $3,000 worth of equipment. LAST YEAR AUGUST 21, 1996 North Wood High School Principal Louis Bonacorsi has been presented with Northwood Physicians’ “Quality of Life Award.” The Willis Hochstetler family, residing on CRS2 in Nappanee, was honored as “Farm Family of the Year” at the recent Elkhart County Agricultural Society annual banquet. Dial-a-story iwjtetevifQfifs dgainst pigs’' ; " A hungry wolf meets his match in “The TTiree Little Pigs,” this week’s featured dial-a-story on the Nappanee Public Library information line. The free storytelling service is available on a 24-hour basis, and is just one of the options on the line, 219-773-7920. The story changes each Monday.

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NEW TEACHERS—These teachers have been employed to teach in the Wa-Nee Elementary Schools during the 1997-98 school year. Front row, from left: Stephanie Kelly, art, Nappanee and Woodview Elementary Schools; Lori Hahn, grade one, Woodview; and Cathy Gillam, music.

KINDIG & SLOAT ATTORNEYS AT LAW ANNOUNCEMENT It has been the goal of Kindig & Sloat to provide quality legal services to the Wa-Nee community since 1946. To meet the needs of our clients, Kindig & Sloat has maintained offices and staff in both Wakarusa and Nappanee for over 20 years. The Wa-Nee community has prospered and grown over this period, and so has Kindig & Sloat - we now have four attorneys and a staff of five additional full-time employees. In an effort to provide you, our friends and clients, with the increasingly diverse and complex legal services that you require and deserve, our firm will be combining its resources into a single, larger facility. Beginning on January 1, 1998, Kindig & Sloat is proud to announce the relocation of its offices from both Nappanee and Wakarusa to the facility located on the corner of State Road 19 and Heritage Parkway, just north of the Nappanee First Presbyterian Church (currently the site of the Sterling Group, which will be relocating its offices later this year). Our new office will feature facilities for horse and buggy parking and, with its proximity to North Wood High School, is geographically located near the hub of the Wa-Nee community. Kindig & Sloat will continue to maintain a conference facility in Wakarusa for the convenience of meeting with clients who are unable to travel to our new home. The law firm of Kindig 4 Sloat has provided its clients with legal services of the highest quality for the past 50 years. We believe that the unification of our firm’s personnel and resources into one expanded location offers an exciting opportunity for Kindig & Sloat to provide further benefits to you, our clients, for the next 50 years. Loren R. Sloat Brian L. Hoffer Randy J.Spitaels Timothy A. Weaver

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Woodview, Back row: Hope Martin, kinder-* garten, Nappanee Elementary; Mary Clark, 0 * grade two, Woodview; Jennifer VanDerVliet.'i special education, Woodview; and Juliet Bender, grade five, Wakarusa Elementary. (AN photo by Christina Hill) , _

AUTOMOTIVE EQUIPMENT AUCTION Sbumakeri ‘Drive’ .tKen 'Y'\ll blocks north at 1003 North Street, Bremen, Ind. Wednesday, August 27,1997 STARTING AT 10:00 A.M. FORKLIFT - TRACTOR - AUTOMOTIVE EQUIPMENT Minneapolis Moline Mobile Lift, Mod. Y 40,5,000 lb. gasoline forklift with rebuilt engine, large tires, would make excellent yard unit, 8’ mast; IH Cultivision A wide front gas tractor w/excellent rubber, wheel weights, s’Woods belly mower, SN 86631; Jet Clean Mark II Storm Vulcan 300 gal. tank 3 phase cleaner w/positive ignition burner, pilotless, reconditioned one year ago, excel, machine; Like new Am-Pro hyd. head pressure tester w/23 plate tooling package; 1995 FMC Tec Inc. head center guide and seat machine with ball drive tricut tool kit and accessories; 1993 Sioux Model 2075 valve face grinder; Sioux Model 620 valve face grinder; Sioux valve seater & Black & Decker valve seater; Gardener Denver 40 HP, 3 phase screw air compressor, 165 PSI; Dayton 1 HP heavy duty double wheel emery; Cincinnati 20 floor model drill press w/3 phase motor; Hobart Cyber-TIG 11, 500 amp., 3 phase welder stick & gas water cooled torch welding unit; Clerk Weld 100 E wire welder & tank; Large amt. of new Marquette brass cutting tips & rosebuds; Budget single Phase One ton chain fall hoist; Acetylene torch set w/cart & tanks and torches; Sunnen King Pin hone w/accessories; Van Norman portable boring bar with accessory kit; Sunnen rod liner; Huot stack rolling tool box complete; Craftsman small side shelf tool box; Numerous hand tools & other equipment commonly found in a shop; New Chevrolet 4 cylinder engine completely rebuilt electric wheel balancer, heavy duty swivel vise; Numerous steel work benches; Several steel desks; Good DeWalt 740, 10” radial arm saw; Sears Craftsman 10" rolling carpenter’s table saw; Various bolts & numerous engine heads; Bolt bin with many bolts, nuts, etc.; Large steel counter; Steel storage cabinets; Executone 5-line phone system with 9 phones - to sell complete; Cincinnati electric time clocks; 286 Sensor computer by Samsung w/screen, keyboard, modem; Floor 5’ combination safe; 4 Drawer files; Electric cut-off saws; Face grinders; Drills; Wheel pullers; 1995 Grand 30" whjte gas range - pilot ignition; Good 15 HP, 3 phase elec, motor and other elec, motors; Air sand blaster on cart; Hagan insulation blowing unit; Numerous boxes of flexible 8" heating duct; Large amt. of steel fluorescent 4’x2’ lights for suspended ceilings; Allen Syncrograph 1/2 ton distribdtor test machines; Misc. skids of parts; Misc. wiring; Williams suspended furnace, 75,000 BTU; 26’ x 12" x 11” high Ibeam A-frame, to be removed; Other items too numerous to mention. Any announcements made day of sale take precedence over printed matter. Terms: Cash or good check w/ID. Not responsible for accidents Bremen Engines, Inc., Owner Ist Source Bank, Secured Party HAHN AUCTION SERVICE X Office (219) 773-4184 * Roger Hahn. IN Uc. 1AU01001277 Nappanee.lN PM Hahn, W Uc. #AU01012967 ip;