Golden Notes Of Archbold's Memorable Past

Ten Years Ago

Wednesday, Feb. 4, 1998

Tex Wyse appears in a photograph surrounded by memoirs from frequent hunting trips. He is sitting in a cabin he built from discarded telephone poles, northwest of Pettisville. In the photo is a stuffed bear Tex hunted in Canada, and on a table is a stuffed mountain lion he downed in Arizona.

Al Kreuz, county commissioner, said Monday he will not seek re-election.

Parents of students in Mrs. Jeanne Pape's second grade class at the elementary school were notified one of the children in the class tested positive for hepatitis A.

Ron Bahler, plant manager at Young Spring & Wire, reported 1997 was a good year for the industry.

A 1 1/2-story home was sold at public auction by Orpha Nofziger, Pettisville, for $52,000 to Tim Grieser.

Sheryl Young has opened a new business, providing pet supplies at 105 Depot Street.

Mark Hall, Toledo, was recently promoted from group rental manager to general manager of Bil-Jax Rental Center Group. He has been with the company four years.

Deaths- Thomas A. Scott, 90; West Unity; Lester Short, 91, Bryan; Douglas H. Winnes, 53, Archbold; Orpha S. Mull, 87, Wauseon; David L. Hoverman, 40, Van Wert; Lowell H. Gunn, 82, Archbold; Evelyn I. Fenton, 67, Wauseon; Nina Beck, 90, Archbold

A full-page advertisement recognizes employees of First National Bank Northwest Ohio.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

Wednesday, Feb. 9, 1983

Council learned Monday evening water use in the village declined in 1982. A slight increase was reported the year before.

School boards in Fulton County will be looking for ways to cut costs since state funding cuts were announced.

Archbold cemetery officials continue searching for owners of unclaimed cemetery lots.

William Lovejoy, mayor, is recovering from a heart attack he suffered at his place of business Thursday noon. He missed his first council meeting Monday night since he was elected in 1972.

Council learned the sewage treatment plant lost $37,000 last year.

Deaths- Margaret H. Fluckinger, 78, Archbold; Orpha Beck, 68, Wauseon; Sarah Faith Mickelson, two weeks old, Stryker; Ura V. Aschliman, 89, Stryker; Estella Short, 83, Archbold

David Lightner resigned as treasurer and business manager of Northwest Technical College. Lightner will become treasurer of the Xenia, Ohio, public schools.

John and Kathryn Graber will celebrate the 25th wedding anniversary Jan. 18.

Mutterings- When Delmar Sauder reordered his Buckeye subscription he said Sauder Village recently received a span of oxen his father Erie Sauder bought in Maine. They were delivered 900 miles by truck and traveled through a snowstorm.... The amount of peanut butter consumed by Americans each year is enough, if spread, to cover the bottom of the Grand Canyon.... In sixteen states it's legal to drive with open containers of alcoholic beverages.... Paul Harvey, columnist, people motivator and public speaker gets $20,000 for a public appearance.

Fifty Years Ago

Wednesday, Feb. 5, 1958

Jack Miller, former AHS athlete, gained a starting berth on the Adrian College varsity basketball team. He is a sophomore.

Kriss L. Stutzman, AHS senior, was selected among seniors in 41 states and the District of Columbia for honorable mention awards in the seventeenth annual National Science Talent Search.

Dedication of the relocated and remodeled St. John's Lutheran Church, Stryker, is Sunday, Feb. 9.

Council set Tuesday, May 27, to hold a special election to vote on issuance of $290,000 in bonds to finance a municipal sewer system and sewage treatment plant.

Council ordered a parking ban on the north side of South St. for one block and on the north side of West Park St., to relieve traffic on Sundays.

Council will secure a state highway permit for a three-way traffic light to control traffic at the Stryker St.-North Defiance St. intersection to replace the present caution light.

Vincent Taylor was re-appointed a member of the Board of Park Trustees for a four-year term.

Aden and Marvin Storrer, brothers, purchased the De- Groff Marathon Station from Virgil DeGroff, in the Lugbill Addition. DeGroff operated the station for seven years and has accepted a position with Liechty Motor Sales.

Janet, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Myers, is a pledge of the Delta Zeta Sorority at OSU.

Fox hunters in the Metamora area report bagging 13 of the pests. The pests have been raiding poultry houses.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

Wednesday, Feb. 8, 1933

The Sunday Schools of German Township will hold a rally at St. John's Reformed Church Sunday afternoon, 2 p.m. The meeting will unite the Sunday Schools into an organization for their own local work, and an organization of this kind has not functioned in this township for years, although at one time it was one of the most flourishing.

In 1900, taxes paid on all farm property in Ohio averaged 49¢ per acre. Farm real estate had an average value of $42 per acre, wheat sold at 71¢ per bushel, and prices of other farm products were on a proportionate level.

The funeral of Anna McLaughlin Reed, of Franklin Twp., was Monday. Last year she fed 109 wanderers of all races and colors. She allowed no hungry person to leave her door. Her favorite poem was: "Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man."

Marshal Henry Nofzinger used the new sidewalk snowplow Tuesday morning. It is a horse-drawn apparatus and quickly removes the deep snow from village walkways, saving citizens much extra work.

New York Central railroad is making a reduction in the number of persons employed, which will result in some changes in Fulton County.

The S.D. Miller farm was sold at public auction Tuesday afternoon. There was one bid, $7,400, which was made by S.H. Nicols, Toledo, representing the insurance company holding the mortgage.

John Rich and son Clarence, Adolph and Fred Stamm motored to Stuttgart, Ark., last Wednesday, and returned home Sunday evening. When they left Arkansas the Easter lilies were in bloom and when they arrived home the temperature was near zero.

It is during times of dull business that the hometown newspaper is appreciated. With little to occupy the minds, and that mostly unpleasant thoughts, the hometown newspaper comes bringing cheerful items about people known and liked; about friends and relatives; about things of vital interest to the individuals and community. It is this time of year that subscribers read everything in the Archbold Buckeye, and wish there were more. That is why such a sincere effort is put forth to make the Archbold Buckeye fill the needs of the community. Each subscriber and advertiser helps to make the Buckeye better.

100 Years Ago

Tuesday, February 4, 1908

Henry Werder and Peter C. Burkholder have purchased very desirable lots south of the Vernier mansion, on South Defiance Street. They plan to erect handsome dwellings.

Elmira- Peter Seiler has erected a windmill on his farm, south of here last Saturday. This is the highest mill in the neighborhood. It is 45 feet tall.

Ervin Grime lost his horse last week. It was found dead in the barn. This was Mr. Grime's only way to navigate other than walking.

C.C. Roth sold a team of horses to Elmer Rychener for $330.

John Waldvogel has been appointed deputy marshal during Wm. Ruff er's illness. John does not like the job very well, but will do his best.

The winter storm of Saturday caused many telephone wires to break and disrupt service.

Before Uncle Sam throws any stones at the Portuguese and Belgian slave trade in Africa, he had better wash his hands of the chain-gang system in the southern states, Uncle Sam and the entire Christian world has nothing to say of others when many thousands of men are working in chains for no pay in our own country.

DEFENSELESS MENNONITE Church in Archbold. Revs. Daniel and Eli Rupp, pastors. Testimony meeting every Sunday evening 7:00 to 7:30. Preaching at 7:30. All are welcome.- adv.

Church attendance was slim Sunday. It doesn't require much of a storm to keep some people from church, and some stop for no reason.

Friday, Feb. 7, 1908

Evansport people are busy cutting ice and storing it for next summer use.

A block of new buildings will be erected this spring for the Peoples State Bank Co. Stockholders agreed to do their part in building up a fine block this coming summer. The building committee selected was Joel Rupp, John H. Miller, S.C. Nofzinger, E.E. Hallet, D.W. Nofzinger, and Henry Carey. S.C. Schantz is chairman of the committee.

The Levy building will be sold in the near future, and plans arranged at once to start building.

The efforts put fourth by our farmer friends to aid in building up the town, and add a business institution, that will be of much good to many citizens of the town and surrounding community.

Milk is a very scarce article in town. Henry Hirsch has a quart sent down every morning on the T&I from Schantz's farm for his pet cat. This wonderful animal was to have been entered at the annual cat show in Chicago last week.

Ed. Crossgrove is building a barn on his lot just opposite from the M.E. Church.

Daniel Roth brought his hogs to town Monday; they weighed 6,920 pounds.

Mrs. Huffman entertained the German Thimble Club.

Miss Hannah Buehrer entertained the South Side Club Tuesday evening.

Miss Ethel Harsch is the new assistant bookkeeper at the Hub Grocery.