Golden Notes Of Archbold's Memorable Past

Ten Years Ago

Wednesday, Nov. 26, 1997

Headlines- Buchhops Thankful For Support Of Family And Friends.... Kids Get First Look At New Elementary School Monday

LaMar Printing has relocated to 209 N. Defiance St. from 108 Depot St. The business is co-owned by Bernard "Sam" Lucas and his wife, Nancy, Bryan. They also own and operate Century Press, Bryan.

Mark and Laura Bronson opened Bronson Plumbing, Elmira.

TCI Cablevision officials will appeal a decision from the Federal Communications Commission ordering them to carry the low-power television station WDFM on the local cable system.

An excavation crew is taking down the old gas station building on S. Defiance St., Nov. 18. Council purchased the building from the Breniser Trust to make way for a new parking lot.

Deaths- Elvera Badenhop, 86, Napoleon; Dorothy Spengler, Archbold; Delores E. Witmer, 80, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Virgie M. Gautsche, 91, Fort Wayne; Kathryn Kutzley, 77, Wauseon

Morgan Dominique and Elise Manahan, 9, look through some of the gifts offered for sale by Parks and Recreation during a program at the Scout Cabin in Ruihley Park, Nov. 15.

Kirsten Rich is a member of the College of Wooster marching band.

Honor Society members were initiated at Pettisville: Adam Pennington, Linde Kauffman, Mary Short, Jenny Wyse, Amanda Short, Erin Weber, Katie Linehan, Steve Nafziger, Cory Rufenacht, Vanessa Stutzman, Charlie Grieser, and Barry Hoylman.

Churches have volunteered adult and youth group members to appear in the Festival of Lights live nativity.

Varsity letterwinners returning to the Archbold High School basketball court are Aaron Kauffman, Eric Grieser, Tim Krauss, Chad Nofziger, Joe Delaney, and Tad Aschliman.

Park board learned that the Athletic Boosters will not manage and staff the Memorial Park concession stand next spring and summer.

Dustin Bernath led the DARE Youth Traveling Bowling League Nov. 16 with a 256 game and 657 series.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

Wednesday, Dec. 1, 1982

Was it football or mudball Friday at Springfield? The Blue Streaks squared off with West Jefferson on a gridiron of mud. Archbold lost a 6-0 heartbreaker to the Roughriders but still is state runner-up, a feat that gives Archbold citizens another reason to be extremely proud.

The question of what to do to improve the Archbold Swimming Pool was the topic of a two-and-one-half-hour meeting of the Archbold Park Trustees.

Larry Zuvers was promoted by Robinair Division, Kent- Moore Corp., Montpelier, to accounting and data services manager.

Pettisville High School pride swelled once again when its yearbook, The Lariat, brought home its third straight Buckeye Award. Shirley Short is the advisor.

Bene't Lauber and Clark Skinner, AHS students, were finalists in the 1982 Bowling Green State University philosophy contest.

Harry Wahl, a resident of Fairlawn Haven, raises and lowers the American flag each day, rain or shine. He is a WWI veteran who moved to Fairlawn from Defiance.

Deaths- Eva G. Hernandez, 53; Evelyn I. Hasselschwert, 56

Jack Arthur and Kevin Coressel were named to the All-Northwest District football team. John Downey, AHS coach, was voted Coach of the Year.

Mutterings, by Orrin R. Taylor- The world's biggest solar power plant, costing $141 million, is a pilot unit in the Mojave Desert 12 miles southeast of Barstow, Calif. Another, ten times larger also is under construction ... There is an old saying, "Misery loves company," and there is plenty of it to talk about ... The New Yorker magazine asks, "Why do all the clerks in health-food stores look so unhealthy?"

Fifty Years Ago

Wednesday, Nov. 27, 1957

Headline- Market Millions Of Pounds Of Turkeys From This Area

Several million pounds of dressed and live turkeys have gone from the Archbold area to meet the demands of buyers for the Thanksgiving and fall market.

Totaling the figures means that 4,375,417 pounds of dressed turkeys, one-and-onehalf million pounds of live turkeys, plus another 845,000 live turkeys have gone from this area to meet the demand.

Consumption for 1957 has been up about 30 percent according to Virgil Rupp of Eicher & Sons, Inc., where they have dressed 269,160 birds in the large processing plant that employs 67 regularly.

Wilmer Eicher, Sr., of Wilmer Eicher & Son, has marketed approximately 1,500,000 pounds of live turkeys through other outlets.

Orval Wyse of Wyse Bros. Turkey Hatchery reports they have raised a total of 700,000 turkeys for the market this year, 500,000 of which have been sold.

Kenneth Aeschliman of Archbold Seed & Grain has raised 300,000 turkeys for market this fall.

Front page photo shows Charles Jacoby, Clearwater, Fla., and son Leroy, Fayette, with catches (in front of boat hanging 19 fish).

Leroy Jacoby and Dan Myers, Fayette, left for Florida by motor Nov. 9, and Leroy returned by airplane, Tuesday evening, Nov. 19.

Leroy spent several days fishing with his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jacoby, residents of Clearwater. They fished out of Tarpon Springs with best results, and also in Tampa Bay near the great bridge, but no luck there.

Thanksgiving: May we all give thanks for the riches we enjoy, the freedoms which are ours, the right to worship how, where, and when we wish, and the right to walk the earth in dignity and peace and enjoy the countless blessings which are a part of our American heritage.

In honor of the 61st birthday of Miss Inez Herch, Mrs. J. L. Fricke entertained Tuesday afternoon: Mrs. Aaron Roth, Mrs. Uriah Miller, Mrs. Henry Seiler, Ruth and Evelyn, Mrs. Maryann Brace, Miss Ida Seiler.

Mrs. Sophia Ziegler was the Sunday dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Impton, Bryan, honoring their Golden Wedding anniversary. Other callers in the afternoon from the Archbold area were Mr. and Mrs. Jay Ziegler, Mr. and Mrs. James Ziegler, Mrs. Mildred Lovejoy and children, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Fether, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Nofziger and LaMonte.

William E. Lovejoy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl O. Lovejoy, and Arlene A., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russel F. Schultz, Archbold, were married 2:30 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 3, 1957, at the St. John's Evangelical and Reformed Church. N. B. Wierwill, pastor, officiated at the double-ring ceremony.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

Wednesday, Nov. 30, 1932

Through the continued efforts of Peter Eicher & Sons, buyers and shippers of poultry and eggs, farmers in this community have aided in supplying thousands of pounds of poultry to New York City and eastern markets.

Thanksgiving week, Eicher & Sons shipped nine carloads of live poultry, approximately 150,000 pounds.

Stryker village officials have made plans to have Marshal Farber feed the hoboes, or knights of the road, who stop over daily in the village lockup.

J.S. Fenstermaker makes wet snow shoveling easier by covering the shovel with paraffin.

Married- Louis E. Bernath, Elmira, and Carrie Kutzli, Wauseon

Barney Oldfield, a famous auto race driver formerly of Wauseon, escaped injury in an automobile accident about midnight last Wednesday, four miles north of Waterloo, Ind., on Rd. 27.

Oldfield was driving a new Plymouth Six sedan with Cullen Landis, motion picture director and actor, in the front seat and Ralph Biddy, Detroit, in the rear seat. Oldfield was driving about 40 miles an hour when his car skidded off the road into a ditch and turned over.

Biddy, employed as a cameraman for a picture entitled "Hell Divers" that the party was making, was hurt when a 359- pound camera slid down on him as the car turned over. He was taken to St. Joseph Hospital, Fort Wayne, Ind., and found to be suffering from a dislocated shoulder and perhaps a slightly splintered shoulder bone.

Oldfield and Landis were unhurt.

Glen Rupp, son of Mr. and Mrs. Noah Rupp, has been called to resume his work in Washington, D.C., as a page in the House of Representatives, a position he held last year.

T.L. Parker, AHS principal, gave an address before the Napoleon Exchange Club Wednesday evening.

The manufacturer who puts rubber tips on lead pencils profits by people's mistakes.

100 Years Ago

Friday, Dec. 6, 1907

Council discussed the matter of purchasing the electric light plant. The sellers talked about $15,000 for the plant, while council could not talk of nothing above $9,000. So long as there is that difference it is no use to talk.

Weston has done much to show that a man who has taken care of himself is a better man at 70 than he was at 30. No man is older than he thinks and just as energetic as Weston and is ready to walk a race for money with any man of his age.

Fred N. Yedica moved from his farm near Springhill to the Dimke house. Fred did well at farming.

It looks like old times to see Jacob Valiton around the main street with wooden shoes. There was a time when people wore wooden shoes to church in Archbold but that is now out of style. Jacob says he never gets cold feet when he has on his wooden shoes.

Rod and chain belonging to hay press. Lost on or near state road. Finder please return or notify Elmira Elevator Co.,- adv.

There will be several more new buildings and improvements in Archbold next summer, including another new bank building. The knockers will see as many faults with the next buildings as with the last. "Satan always finds work for idle hands."

Saturday was an unusually large market day. Hitching posts were all filled and some horses tied to other rigs. Merchants did a thriving business.

L.P. Vernier is a recent convert to the idea of paving North Defiance St. He says he is now ready to sign and let his greatgrandchildren pay for it.

Friday was hay market in Archbold. At one time 28 loads of hay and empty racks were in sight.