The Mail-Journal, Volume 5, Number 47, Milford, Kosciusko County, 25 December 1968 — Page 10

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SANTA AND FRIENDS — ‘Old Saint Nick’ made an appearance Saturday afternoon in the lobby of the Pickwick Theatre in Syracuse. The several youngsters in the above photo are abcut to assure Santa that they are worthy of his nocturnal visit. (Note the angelic-like expressions on their faces.) Santa confided in this photographer that he likes to make last-minute checks on all the little boys and girls to see if they have been good throughout the year.

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20 YEARS AGO, DEC. 16, 1948 Miss Betty Ann Cunningham left Hamilton, Bermuda, Monday afternoon and will arrive at New York city on Thursday. On Friday she will leave for Milford, arriving here Saturday morning. She will visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Cunningham, until January 30. Miss Martha Ruch and Mel-' burn Rapp have taken over the management of the Syracuse Cleaners,. formerly owned by the late Spencer Heerman. Miss Ruch and Mr. Rapp took charge of the establishment on December 6. Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Bird are the parents of their second daughter, Gayla Grace, born Friday at 3:54 p.m. at the McDonald hospital. She weighed six pounds and nine ounces. A son, New Lewis, weighing seven and one half pounds, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Speicher, Monday afternoon at ■ 3:10 at the Goshen hospital. Victoria Leigh is the name of the daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Victor Beer Sunday morning at the McDonald hospital. She weighed nine pounds. Mrs. John Clause attended a one o’clock luncheon given bv Mrs. Franklin Wagner at South Bend Saturday for twenty district associate matrons of the order of Eastern Star. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kasper and daughters, Clariece and Dorjs, are leaving Friday for a two weeks’ visit with Mr. Kasper’s mother. Mrs. Mary Kasper, at Orlando, Fla.

Blessings of Christmas

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30 YEARS AGO, DEC. 22, 1938 Jesse Crowl of near Dewart Lake and Mrs. Virginia Greiner of Staunton, Va„ were married at the home of her daughter, Mrs G. H. Long of Warsaw. After spending the winter in Florida, Mr. and Mrs. Crowl will return to their home near Dewart Lake. Jean and Virginia Hursey are planning to spend a part of their Christmas vacation with relatives at Cromwell and Ligonier. Roy Treesh, local contractor, was the low and successful bidder on a state highway grading job located near Bloomfield. Mr. Treesh is purchasing some new equipment for this job which he expects to start early next spring Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Sparklin have ordered the Milford Mail sent to a number of their friends as Christmas gifts. Special subscription cards explaining the gift and naming the donor have been mailed from this office. W. O. Scott, who had planned to spent Christmas with his son Frank Scott and family of New Jersey, will not make the eastern trip, until a later date. Sixty relatives are expected to be present at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Graff on Christmas eve at which time the annual Graff Christmas party will -be held. Old Santa will be present to distribute the gifts and refreshments in keeping with the season will be served.

Mr. and Mrs. Dale Sparklin of Goshen spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Coy.

40 YEARS AGO, DEC. 13, 1928 The great champion steer of the 1928 international livestock exposition owned' by Clarence Coecke, 12 years old, of State Center, lowa, brought $7 a pound on the auction block at Chicago last week. The purchasers were J. C. Penny Co., of New York city. Miss Lina Schori and Mrs. John Custer, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. John D? Baumgartner, planned a surprise on their parents, who had been married 44 years, on Sunday evening. They took to the home roast chicken and r-all the trimmings which was enjoyed by a number of close friends of the family who had been invited to join in the dinner with them. Among the .guests were Mr. and Mrs. Mathew Weisser, who presented Mr. and Mrs. Baumgartner with a bouquet of pink and white carnations. The locating committee of the Church of the Brethren, meeting at Wabash, announced that North Manchester had been selected for the 1929 national conference to be held some time in June. This conference will attract between 20,000 and 30,00 members of the church. Frank Parrish who returned last week from Georgia left his mother feeling much improved. Mr. Parish and family made the trip to Georgia on account of the illness of his mother. Mrs. Frances Gawthrop left Sunday for Arlington Heights, 111., where she will spend the remainder of the winter with her son, Warren Gawthrop, and family, She was accompanied to Illinois by her son, making the trip in his auto. 50 YEARS AGO, DEC. 19, 1918 Ortie Leemon, who is now in France, wrote a letter recently to his little sister in Milford and enclosed a beautiful kerchief which was the needle work of a French lady. It is a beautiful present and doubtless will be

highly appreciated by the young sister when she considers from whom the present came and under what circumstances. Donald Dubbs, who has been critically ill at Camp Grant, Rockford, 111., for the past three months, is considerably improved and his relatives now believe that he will recover. His wife and mother have been with him for several months. A man tells of a country editor who started out poor 20 years ago and has retired with the comfortable fortune of $50,000. This money was acquired through industry, economy, conscientious efforts to give full value, indomitable perseverance and the death of an uncle who left the editor 849,99.50. Miss Anna Rodibaugh makes her two brothers, G. R. Rodibaugh of North Webster and B. I. Rodibaugh of Buck Creek, a Christmas present of The Milford Mail for one year. « Mrs. Jonathan Cripe died at her home north of Syracuse .at 7:30 Monday morning of influenza - pneumonia. Short funeral services were held at the home Wednesday afternoon at 2:30. Mrs. Forest Nickler and brother, Clayton Webber, went to Fort Wayne on Saturday morning to spend a few days with their sister, Miss Pearl Webber, Mr. Webber has just recently returned from the U.S. navy. Kenneth Stump Graduates MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Captain Kenneth H. Stump, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth H. Stump of Nappanee, has been graduated from the air university’s squadron officer school at Maxwell AFB, Ala. Captain Stump was specially selected for the 14-week professional officer course in recognition of his potential as a leader in the aerospace force. The captain is being reassigned to Langley AFB, Va., as an instructor pilot. A graduate of Nappanee high school, he received a BS degree from Purdue university. He was named a distinguished military graduate and commissioned there upon completion of the reserve officers training corps program. He has been on duty in Viet Nam. Captain Stump’s wife, Verla, is the daughter of Estpn B. Clayton of 606 Front street, Syracuse.

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Fairfield Board Rejects Bids Members of the Fairfield board of school trustees meeting in regular session December 18 rejected bids received on November 19 on athletic facilities and authorized the re - advertisement of bids to include lighting the field as an alternate. The board also hired Margaret C. Greer to teach elementary at Millersburg the second semester. A proposal and detailed information was received from Charles Phillips on a sprinkler system for the football field. No action was taken pending further study. Authorization was given for the installation of an electric transformer to enable the school to host community fish frys. Appropriations within the functional accounts from unexpended appropriations were transferred so that all accounts would be in the black at the end of the budget year. The board authorized the investment of $100,900 from cumulative building funds in treasury bills. Personal leaves were granted to William Putorti on November 27 and Daryl Umbower on December 13. Professional leaves were granted to Lloyd Harrell to attend the annual meeting of IAPSS on January 9 and 10 at Indianapolis; and John Secor and John Andrews to attend the DESP national convention at Las Vegas on April 14-18. Dr. Evelyn Carswell, Tuscon, Ariz., consultant for Fairfield’s Title 111 ESEA project on curriculum development, reported on her activities within an evaluation of the project. Routine reports on the progress of the new building from Maurer. Van Ryn, Ogden and Natali, Inc., the school nurse and Marvin Ward, were received. The next regularly scheduled meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. on January 14. Joins Husband In Turkey Mrs. Timothy James has completed her semester work at Indiana university and spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earle Waltz at Lake Wawasee. On Sunday Mrs. James left via air for Istanbul, Turkey, to join her husband, Pfc. James, who is stationed there for years with the armed forces.

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