The Mail-Journal, Volume 26, Number 31, Milford, Kosciusko County, 16 September 1987 — Page 17

From the Syracuse Police log —

v Mannequin used as observer

The following information was obtained from the log of the Syracuse Police and Fire Departments: SEPTEMBER 9 1:24 a.m. — Caller requested an officer patrol a certain area as the caller is being followed 7:05 a.m. — Request received for an officer to check on three persons walking on SR 13 south 4:10 p.m. — Report received of a minor accident involving a school bus and a car on the Elkhart-Kosciusko County Line Road and CR 750E 4:25 p.m. — Moped dealer called concerning the new law 6:44* p.m. — Caller reports skiers are using a mannequin as observer and gave the boat number 7:14 p.m. — Lake patrol officer reports the skiers must have seen hinrcoming as they were not skiing and the mannequin was up Tinder the deck of the boat 7:48 p.m. — A key ring was turned in after being found near a business SEPTEMBER 10 8:11 a m. — County Highway

It happened ... in Milford

10 YEARS AGO, SEPT. 14,1977 Two area companies, ChoreTime Equipment, Inc., Milford and Weatherhead, Syracuse, will mark 25 years of operation with open houses this week end. The Chore-Time Equipment, Inc., began operating from a garage in Milford and is now an international company. Evelyn and Albert Stricklin, Dewart Lake, found edible puffball mushrooms September 8, in tile ue»ai< Lake ukvu. Mr. and Mrs. David Bess of 212 S. West St., Milford, are the parents of Joshua David, born Saturday, Sept. 10, at 7 a m. in the Goshen Hospital. Their first child weighs seven pounds, eight and a half ounces and is 20 inches long. The Milford Senior Citizens met Sunday, Sept. 11, at the fire station for their monthly meeting. Eighteen senior citizens met for the 'potluck dinner and were entertained by a slide presentation of president Gladys Coy’s trip to Mexico and Guatemala. 20 YEARS AGO, SEPT. 13,1967 Members of the Milford Chamber of Commerce are spearheading the town’s third annual Fall Festival which is set to run from September 25 through the 30th on the town’s Main Street. Dean Troup is president of the chamber of commerce. Dr. H. C. Snyder, Milford dentist, received his 50-year pin from Ancil Geiger post 226 commander Dan Levernier on Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Larry Ryman of Milford entertained at a birthday party Saturday evening for their daughter, Tammy, who was four years old September 13. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Beer, Milford, are the parents of a daughter, Heidi, born September 9 in the Goshen hospital. She weighed six pounds, ten ounces at birth. She has two brothers and five sisters, John, 7, Phil, 6, Teresa, 13, Janet, 11, Peggy, 10, Christi, 9, and Heather, 3. Mr. and Mrs. William O. Troup of r 2 Leesburg are the parents of a daughter, Cristine Lynn, born at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Sept. 11, at the Goshen hospital. She weighed seven pounds, twelve ounces at birth. She has a sister, Angela Leona, two years old. Steve Weisser and Dale Beer graduated from Sam’s Technical Institute in Indianapolis on September 8. Both boys are 1965 graduates of Milford high school.

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Department informed the department that Old Road 30 between CR 650E and SR 13 would be closed at 9 p.m. on September 14 and would be closed for five days 10:10 a.m. — Call received requested a person be picked up if he is located 4:22 p.m. — Call received wanting an officer at a busiress concerning harassment “ 6:48 p.m. — Loud music is reported by caller, on South Main Street 10:02 p.m. — Minor property damage accident is reported at Sea Nymph 10:07 p.m. — Man called and reported he has a busted water main and needs the water shut off SEPTEMBER 11 11:03 a.m. — Business called requesting an officer 6:28 p.m. — Caller requested assistance in contacting a person 7:23 p.m. — Request from a caller to know if pregnant women needed to wear seat belts 9:41 p.m. — Report received of a vehicle partially in the roadway and is headed east in the west bound lane

30 YEARS AGO, SEPT. 12,1957 The first meeting of the ParentTeachers Association of the Milford schools was held Tuesday evening at the elementary school with approximately 150 attending. The president, Mrs. Glenn Brown, welcomed the group and Rev. W. Harlan Smith gave the invocation. A cornet solo was given by Dennis Rumfelt accompanied by Joe Judkins at the piano. Twenty-foiK members of the Silver Thimble club met with Mrs. E. C. Gerber and Miss

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SEPTEMBER 12 2:14 a.m. — Report received of a domestic problem on Warner Road and an officer is requested 2:50 a.m. — Caller requested the police department to locate a vehicle 1:58 p.m. — Loud music is reported by a caller on West Brooklyn 7:43 p.m. — Theft is reported by a caller > 9:09 p.m. — Caller reports a fight on East Pearl Street 10:29 p.m. — Caller reports a fight is taking place in front of a residence on South Huntington SEPTEMBER 13 12:22 a.m. — Call received of a person who failed to return to a location 3:25 a.m. — Officer is' requested on Boston Street to check a burning smell 9:23 a.m. — Caller reports the missing person has returned home 11:56 a.m. — A person came to the fire station with a cut foot 3:30 p.m. — Report received of loud music playing on Brooklyn Street

Matilda Graff at the Hattie Hotel in Goshen, Friday evening, Sept 6. Mrs. Joseph Rassi and Miss Edna Graff, sisters of the hostesses, were guests. Members of the Milford Grange enjoyed a picnic dinner Sunday at Waubee lake pavilion. There were about fifty present The afternoon was spent in contests and visiting. Mrs. Donald Ahrns was the winner of one contest. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. “’Felkner at a fish fry at their lake

SEPTEMBER 14 9:52 a.m. — Officer requested the animal control officer gA to a business * 2753 p.m. — Caller reports the restrooms at the railroad park are plugged up 3:54 p.m. — Caller requested information 4:52 p.m. — Property damage accident reported at the Amoco Station SEPTEMBER 15 2:42 a.m. — Kosciusko County requested the Syracuse Fire Department assist with a barn fir Con US 6 8 a.m. — Caller requested he would like to see an officer at a business 10:29 a.m. —• Report received of loud music near Washington and Mill Streets .12:30 p.m. — Man called to report that someone broke into his home 2:59 p.m. — Report received of a car fire, north on SR 13 by the ball diamond 4:58 p.m. — Property damage accident reported on Washington Street

cottage recently were Mr and Mrs. L. J. Felkner, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Felkner, Joan Kay and Jimmy. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dale Doty and family are spending this week in Valparaiso where he is employed in the construction of a church. If conditions are satisfactory, the Doty family may move to that city in the future. Prince Pica Earest Beth, a 4-year-old Holstein cow, was shown Tuesday afternoon on the Hsreld a<.,;2;;cp fawn " mile south of Etna Green She holds the national milk and butterfat production record. Co-owners of the cow are Harold Gawthrop and his father, Carl, r 1 Milford. 50 YEARS AGO, SEPT. 16, 1937 Vern Wysong, Ronald Brown and their families enjoyed a vacation at Dewart lake, last week. Several Milford young couples attended the closing dance of the season at Tippecanoe lake, Saturday evening. Miss Johnnie Bretherick of Milford, who was employed at Syracuse during the summer, has hopes of being crowned “Miss Indiana” during the state's Indian celebration, to be held at Syracuse the latter part of this week.

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AT PLETCHER/WEST RIBBON-CUTTING — Taking part In the Monday night ribbon-cutting at the new Pietcher/West Furniture Store addition in Nappanee, from left, are Muriel Callander; Mayor Robert Callander; Will Wilson, president of the Nappanee Chamber of

Ribbon-cutting for Pletchers/West

Pletcher Furniture Village, located on West Market Street in downtown Nap-, panee, held its formal showing and ribbon-cutting of its new Pletchers/West on Monday night. The public showing was also held on Tuesday night of this week. The new 10,000 square foot addition to one of north central Indiana's oldest furniture retail outlets attracted a large audience of viewers and furniture manufacturers. There was soft live music as entertainment and a drawing for $5,000 worth of furThree Generations The Pletcher family has been in the furniture business in Nappanee for 54 years, encompassing three generations. The original business was started by the late Clayton Pletcher, and was continued through the post-World War II years by Clayton's son Lavern Pletcher. Richard Piet cher, the son of Lavern and Lenore Pletcher, now heads the family business which includes a complex of 30 buildings covering over 130,000 square feet of space in Nappanee and includes Amish Acres and The The reckoning Most of us get what we deserve, but only the successful will admit

House Across the Street. The company’s annual Art Festival attracts artists from throughout the United States. Speaking to a large audience just prior to Monday night’s ribbon-cutting, Richard Pletcher said, “It has been a mere three years and 11 months since we stood for a similar ceremony in the main store to celebrate our 50th year in business by opening the Century Show Place. None of us, I’m sure, envisioned then that tonight we would assemble in this magnificent structure amid the breath-taking beauty of this Drexel Heritage home furnishings Gallery.” Pletchers/West is directly across Locke Street west from the firm’s main store. The building, featuring a white Jeffersonian collanade over 230 feet long with 30 columns, houses a Drexel Heritage Gallery, Ficks Reed Front Porch, Gallerie Laßarge, and The Corporate Collection The modern setting is connected internally with the Owls’ Nest Antiques housed in the

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historic John Hartman house. Mr. and Mrs. Hartman, of the Hartman Bros, department store, were one of Nappanee’s leading early merchants. The Drexel Heritage Gallery is one of only 120 in the country, and the nation’s first designed for a free-standing building. Drexel’s high quality furnishings take up to 44 steps to finish. Drexel is one of the few furniture manufacturers to maintain its own finish laboratories. ‘ Proof of Drexel’s commitment to Pletchers, is the appearance at the Monday night ribbon-cutting of Charles Wilson, vice president of sales; Thomas Skipper, director ot store anu Gallery Deveiupment; Jack Nunn, regional sales director from Kingwood, TX; Chuck Horton, Jr, Drexel Heritage representative; and Mrs. Melanie B. Dunn, whose vision transformed Pletchers/West into its stunning gallery. Also on hand for the opening and ribbon-cutting were a large number of Nappanee community citizens, as well as Mayor Robert Callander and his wife Muriel;

Will Wilson, Nappanee Chamber of Commerce president; and Harold Hoffer, Chamber executive secretary. Over 1,500 fabrics are displayed in the design center where interior designers and their clients will custom design upholstery pieces, select carpeting and correlate wall coverings.

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