The Mail-Journal, Volume 4, Number 10, Milford, Kosciusko County, 14 April 1965 — Page 3
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20 Years Ago — April 12, 1945 The junior-senior reception was held Saturday evening at the Westminster hotel at Winona Lake with 71 in attendance, that number including the 24 seniors and their class sponsor, principal W. Harold Young; the 24 juniors and their class sponsor, Mrs. Arlo Beiswanger. Mr and Mrs Arthur Wise are the proud parents of a baby girl, Janice. weighing nine and half pounds, bom Aprd 9 at the McDonald hospital. Pfe. Richard Harris of Mi: .> : has been awarded the combat infantry badge "for action against the enemy of United States of America and the satisfactory perforfnance of duty" according to a special dispatch to The Miif »rd Mail He is the husband of Mrs Evelyn Rose Harris of Leeso ; .and the son of Mrs Kathrvn Harris - The marriage of Harold Beer, son of Mr an i Mrs. Otto Beer, ansi Mis-. Betty Jane Felkner was s->h*m.not-ed in the home of her parents. Mr. anti Mrs F Felkner of, In< 1
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,pobs. Saturday. Mrs. Everett Butrick suffered a fracture of the large bone of the right arm at the wrist when she fell while descenting the stairway in her home She was carrying John Nutting, year-old son of Mr and Mrs. Jack Nutting of Elkhart, who suffered no injuries due to the fall. Mr and Mrs. Nelson Ryman are spending this week in Elkhart with Mr. and Mrs John Byland Mrs Robert 'Geraldine Louise' Stumn. 26. died Saturday at the hone of her father. James Biller of five miles southwest of Milford. Sun ivors are the husband. t'other, one-daughter. Joan, aged 8; SIX brothers; four sisters: and. one halfsister to 1 ears Ano — April IS, 1935 ss e.y. - Oster daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward Oster, 'and Pau: Kegebesn, son of Mrs. Lena KereS’in. of -Hast.no-. were married in Valparaiso Saturday. April 6 ■ ■ Ixv-burg. is i > have a new mtin- . ■ erecting the stn; mire are already un jer way. The old hotel and tele-
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phone building and a large house are being razed to provide z site for the new building, which will also house the fire fighting equioment. New students in the Milford elementary grades are Doris Anglin, first grade: Floyd Krofp, second grade: and Paul Mathews, fourth grade. Mr. and Mrs. Amos May w’ho have been living in. Leesburg with her father have moved into the home just south of the Milford Lumber and Coal Co. office. Miss Florence Lucille Troup, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ’Milo Troup of north of Milford, and Vera Sechrist of Elkhart, were quietly married Saturday in their newly furnished apartment at. Elkhart. Truman Cox has purchased the Milford Dray Service from Walter Lippincott Jack Manges acted as toastmaster at the Leesburg junior-senior banquet held Saturday evening in Warsaw! 40 Years Ago — April 16, 1925 Mr and Mrs. Charles P. Poe entertained Mr and Mrs. A R. Zentz and daughter Frances, and Mr. and Mrs Eugene W Felkner at a luncheon Sunday evening. • The ladies of the Missionary So< ty of the Christian church-will serve a .Jitney supper at the Johnston Case Saturday • F J Kern has made a number of improvements at his' .dog: kennel on south Main street Mr Kern is a hreede’- of German police dogs Mrs Claudia Closson of Milford was Selected as. treasurer of the district Rebekah lodge at the district
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meeting held at Warsaw on Wednesday of last week. Deaths this week include: James Murphy, 58, of northwest of Leesburg: Theodore C. Rush. 58, of Goshen. formerly of Milford; George W Fisher. 77,. of Milford. Miss Esther Cooper, a student at North Manchester college, spent the Easter vacation with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Emory Cooper. A baby daughter was recently born, to Mr. and Mrs. George Fox of west of Milford. Little Mary’ Ellen Wright entertained a number of her little friends on Saturday afternoon commemorating her third birthday. 50 Years Ago — April 15. 1915 Sherman Locke has again become proprietor of the Emeline street blacksmith shop. The former proprietor. Ama Hollar, will move on his farm, and Omar Stump will be retained as helper Mr. and Mrs J. B. Leonard, of Wakarusa were ■ visiting with Mr. and Mrs. J. S Shaffer over Sunday. Mr and Mrs. Leonard formerly were Milford people Deaths reported this week were: J W. Russell of Adell. lowa, a nephew of T. R. and S J? North of Milford; Mrs David C. Nancy Jane Brumbaugh. 77, of near Gravelton: Jacob Hattie. 73. of Goshen; and Michael Welbaum. 96. of Kilboura. Wis . formerly of Milford Mrs James Hinkson of Packerton was the guest of her daughter. Miss Erba Hinkson, at the home of Mrs. Albert Weyburn. and attended the high school musical Friday evening Josiah Estep & Son have erected a new gasoline filling station in front of their garage. Milford- now has five’ stations where automobile- may be .supplied with gasoline without the man at the wheel leaving his seat.
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Beryl Bailey of near Junction, shot off the end of his ' thumb while playing with a rifle Sunday* Mrs. Edgar Searer of South Bend * visited with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Lentz, and family recentt ly. > During the month- of March there were 51 births in the county and 28 deaths. Last year during the same month there were 58 births and 34 deaths. : MRS. BABCOCK ’ HONORED ON BIRTHDAY Mr and Mrs. Lloyd Kammerdiener. Syracuse, entertained at a surprise birthday party Sunday afternoon. April 4. for the latter’s moth- ' er, Mrs. Catherine Babcock, in her ■ home. / . Guests were Miss Martha Ruch. Miss Rose Rapp. MissJEthek Bowser and Miss Goldie Newcomer anti Mrs. Hazel Dausman. ail of whom had worked with Mrs Babcock at the Wawasee Restaurant 25 years ago. Also present were Mrs. Babcock’s ’ granddaughters, Tonda Miller and Cathy Kammerdiener. 1 LAKELAND YOUTH DIRECTORS MEET ; The directors of the Lakeland 5 Youth Center, Inc . held their monthly meeting! Sunday evening, April 4. ? at the Center at. Syracuse. The president, Paul Moore,_ pre-' 1 sided at the meeting. Dates for coming events were announced; spring six* .‘tacular. May 29. and open house. May- 16. 2 to 5 p.m. Parents are urged to attend open - house with their children. The next meet:ng will be May 2.
WMSA Has All Day Meeting The Women’s Missionary Service Auxiliary’ of the Wawasee Lake- ' side Chapel met at the church April 8 for an all day meeting. Mrs. Arlee* Sommers led in group singing and Mrs. Wayne Sommers gave the devotions using the subject. "Surely He Has Bourn Our Grief and Carried. Our. Sorrows." The pot luck dinner was served by the hostesses, Mrs. Everett Wel:ty and Mrs. Ely Fry, to 13 women i and eight children. The president Mrs. Floyd Rheinheimer presided at the business meeting. The women spent the day knitting bandages and quilting. $ . NEAL CORYS OBSERVE 25th ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs. Neal Cory and Dave i of r 1 Milford.were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Weisser and sons and Mr. and Mrs. Lee Cory at Hora’s restaurant at Warsaw on Sunday. April 4. The occasion was in honor of Neal Cory's birthday on April 6 and the Neal Corys’ silver wedding anniversary on April 7. On Saturday night Mr. and Mrs Neal Cory and Dave were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Weisser at the senior fish fry. Busy Homemakers Meets With Mrs. Ralph fusing • Busy Homemakers club at Milford met Wednesday afternoon-. April 7, at the home of Mrs. Ralph Tusihg. President Mrs. Frank Charlton' opened the meeting and "America the Beautiful" was sung. Mrs. Glen Treesh led.in repeating the club creed. For meditations Mrs Tusing read the Easter story from the 20th chapter of John. Health and safety lesson on "Families Guarding Against Accidents" was given by Mrs. V ernon May. Garden helps were presented by Mrs. Glen Pinkerton. Mrs, May gave the history of the song of the month. "Vive Lamour". . 4 1 An interesting lesson on color -corn; binations of wearing apparel was given by Mrs Glen Treesh. Fourteen members answered roll call by w'earinc their new Easter hats made from kitchen gadgets. First prize went to Mrs Harvey Hollar: second Mrs Mace Hol'af: and third. Mrs ’ Vernon May. Two guests present were Lori Al-, ten and Teresa Stump. The meeting closed with the club collect. Mrs. Tusing and co-hoste<s.' Nirs. Harvey Hollar, served refreshments. • , The next meeting will be with Mrs. Forrest George. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Ott of r 1 have returned 'to their home from a winter vacation' in San . Juan, Tex ; J
Wednesday, April 14. 1965
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WIN AWARDS — Ronald Hibschman and Marion (“Doc") Miller, above, salesmen for McCormick-Cut-ter, Inc., Chevrolet agency in Syracuse. were honored with membership in the company’s Legion of Leaders sales organization and the Honor Club. The two salesmen were honored at a meeting of ’ Chevrolet salesmen
Discuss Parking At Syracuse Meeting
ees met at the town hall Tuesday evening. April 6. and discussed the [ posing of several Syracuse streets for parking on one side of the street only. Dan Ganger, -police chief, handed board .president.. Brv-on -Connolly a letter in which -he recommended - that sopth Front. John, south Lake.: south Harrison, south Main, anti the 100 to 200 block of east Pearl .streets, be posted for one side of , the street parking. ■ ! Mill street and north Huntington from the alley up the hill should, have on parking signs. The. board! and chief Ganger agreed to take the matter under advisement and will ‘report at the next meeting • f Clerk - treasurer Walter Calnon 1 read the fife department contract ' for the first .quarter expenses to be ! sent to the township trustee. The j, amount was $4,259. Mr. Calnon also * said there will be a-new ordinance go into effect in June, which will j * provide a fund tiiat can be used for , ' new street- improvements. He said several. Syracuse streets should be . widened since when they-[Were laid out, horse were in use. They are .hot wide enough for to-J day's traffic. ; - r Nir. Connolly talked about the upper parking lot needing a guard rail and the cost will be’studied and a report given at the next mating. Also discussed was trimming of the ■
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and their wives of the South Bend zone held Thursday, April 1, at Jhe South Bend Elks club. It is the fourth consecutive year i Mr. Hibschntan has been so honored i and the first year for Mr. Miller. At- • tending with the above men wen* Mrs. Miller and Elaine Sagger of i Millersburg. i
I old trees in front of the town hall, as I they are not safe. . Fire chief Bill Hess said he had. been studying plan's oh a water hydrant. to be placed near the Huntington street bridge to punp water from tlie jiam area for use in fires, either in the uptown area or for faci»ry fires in the area. The cost of ; such a hydrant would be SSOO and would be’ paid for from water companv funds He said such a hydrant would allow ' the pumps to furnisii < from 800 t> I.OCp gallon per minute .of water... Nlft’' Calnon asked town alto, fey Robert Reed to write the necessary letters to obtain permits to pHce the hydrant at the dam. Mr. Connolly said he had been asked about recent letters in the P&per edneernin ■ gthe lake level and-the dam. he wanted the public to know the town lias nothing to do with the dam and lake level, that is set by the Indiana Waterway Commission at Indianapolis. It was also brought out that the V. S. government. Department of the InAlso maintains a gauge at the Front street bridge which is. checked regularly. Bill Hess asked the citizens of the eommunitv be asked again to be very careful of. grass fires. The fire department spends many dollars on ntr.s to these fires set carelessly that is needed for new fire .equipment. At the next meeting Mr. Hess will have the figures on the cost of runs to these needless fires. Attending the meeting wsre clerktreasurer Walter Calnon; town attoniev Robert Reed: board members Byron Connolly. Willard Nusbaung I-or>’n Ix>rigenbaugh. and \ernon Beckman; street and water commissioner Walter Hagerdon: and g Hess, 1 . 'T. T. L. Kline. Jo.- Hughes. Stanley Insky, and Mrs Betty 'Dust.
1965 Safety Check To Be Held In Syracuse •' The Syracuse police department ■a ;11 aga n participate in the Indiana Safety Giedc, the program has-been approved by Chief Dan Ganger and town board president Byron Connolly Chief Ganggr stated there will be several gas stations set up as check stations also a check- lane .will be set tip on east Benton' street- bei tween Huntington and Harrison ; streets. Individuals who wish to i have their cars checked wjill be able Ito do so by driving behind the fire I station and contacting an officer, (check is scheduled to run from May ’ Ist to June 30th. A time schedule will be' published ■at a later date. Chief Ganger v lies to advise all area motorist that this iS a volun- < tary safetv. check, no ariests are made for auto defects, warnings are issued so as to be able to tabulate to defects and. to show the ones that are repaired and made safe for the summer driving ahead. The Syracuse police urges - all » motorists to join the circle of safety, check your car. check your driving, check accidents Leesburg Successful Farmers 4-H Club Meets By Ann Tusing The April 4 meeting of the Leesburg Successful Farmers was opened by the president. Bob Tusing. The 4-H pledge was given by Jay Berkey and* the American pledge was _ g.venby Larry Kammerer. ’The roll call was taken, with 35 > answering. The minutes of., the last meeting were read and approved I Jake Tusing, our leader, gave Out record sneets and bther material. I Larry Perrin gave the health and I safety report on Heroin. The meeting was then adjourned ‘ and refreshments of pop and cookies were served by Ron. Connie and j.m Monevheffer and Barbara and ■ Betty Vanator. The next meeting will be held at the home of Bob and I .Ann Tusing on May 10.
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