Golden Notes Of Archbold's Memorable Past

Ten Years Ago

Wednesday, Feb. 18, 1998

Two Archbold residents were recently elected officers of the newly formed United Way of Fulton County. Joyce Frey is president, and Larry Holland, first vice-president.

Todd E. Ziegler was promoted to vice president/branch sales manager of First National Bank Northwest Ohio.

Approximately 24% of the 470 surveys sent out by the Parks & Recreation Dept. have been returned, said Jennifer Kidder, parks and recreation director.

The Archbold Community Library current tax levy runs out in 1999, said Joyce Klingelsmith, director. The library soon will be one of the World Wide Web's newest participants.

Deaths- Marvin L. Nafziger, 69, Kennesaw, Ga.; Marie Rupp, 78, Jackson, Mich.; Elmer J. Weber, 90, Pioneer; Bertha L. Stuckey, 86, Archbold

Kendra, daughter of Tom and Ruth Short, is vice president of the Bluffton College Recreation Club.

Laura Kauffman and Ryan Hovermen, AHS band members, were selected to perform in the All-Ohio bands at BGSU 40th New Band Music Reading Clinic.

The Fulton County Board of Developmental Disabilities and Sunshine, Inc., have reached an agreement that will allow Sunshine to build a group home in Fulton County.

A photograph shows kindergarten students viewing the inside of a semi-tractor when Jim Short brought one to school Tuesday.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

Wednesday, Feb. 23, 1983

Todd, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Berry and Chris, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sterling King, earned the Eagle Boy Scout award.

Ceaphus Schrock was named to the board of trustees of Adriel School, West Liberty. Schrock served on Archbold village council 16 years and is an elder and chairman of the building committee at Zion Mennonite Church.

Lee Graffice, Wauseon, was named director of the Farmers & Merchants State Bank. He also is a Wauseon advisory board member of the bank since January 1981. Graffice owns and operates Tedrow Auto Wrecking, Co. and Graffice Motor Sales, Inc.

Headline- Archbold Buckeye Receives Four State Awards, One National

Deaths- Edwin D. Burkholder, 75, McConnelsville, Ohio; Vernie L. Brock, 74, Archbold; Randy J. Buehrer, 33, Archbold; Lavern C. Funkhauser, 71, Archbold; Otto Wyse, 78, Archbold; Harold Thierry, 62, Wauseon

Erick Lauber has received an Air Force Reserve Officers' Training Corps scholarship.

Matt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Buehrer, freshman music major at Heidelberg College, will play baritone-euphonium in the wind symphony concert.

Anniversaries- 40th, Mahlon and Irene Miller, Feb. 21; 40th, Glen and Elma Rupp Feb. 25; 50th, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph J. Miller

New directors of the Fulton County Cattle Feeders Assn.: Judd McClarren, Doug Kinsman, Lowell E. Rupp. Officers: Randy Stuckey, president; Mike Aeschliman, vice president; Randy Rice, secretarytreasurer.

Doug Krauss, varsity baseball and freshman basketball coach at AHS, was awarded the F.J. Egner Memorial Award at Findlay College for his outstanding coaching ability.

Mutterings- Old age is hereditary and cannot be avoided.... Americans who depend on sheep to count themselves to sleep will be interested to know there are 8 percent less sheep than a year ago in the U.S.... The earth spins on its axis at the rate of 700 miles per hour and is barreling along at about 66,000 miles per hour on its annual 584,000,000-mile trek around the sun.

Fifty Years Ago

Wednesday, Feb. 19, 1958

Fulton County continues to lead the seven-county area in sales tax receipts. Fulton was the only county in the area to show an increase: $9,000. Total collection was $374,166.59.

Sub-zero weather has prevailed in Archbold for several days with the lowest being 10 below zero.

Zone school again took top honors for the second year by defeating Pike 35-31 in the 7th and 8th grade county championship tournament.

C.E. King, county dog warden since Jan. 2, has taken into custody 115 dogs. Good homes have been found for 79.

Joseph, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Baer, attended a junior fact finding conference in Kansas City. The trip was an award for being star poultry producer in his agriculture class last year at OSU.

James, son of Mr. and Mrs. Owen Rice, is enrolled at the University of Kansas.

Harold and Marilyn Smith were stranded in Michigan City two days after leaving Chicago in a 40-inch snowfall. It took them two hours to travel eight miles.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

Wednesday, Feb. 22, 1933

Ora Nofziger, 37, died in Memorial Hospital, in Wauseon, Monday morning, at about 5 am from injuries received when struck by a falling chimney while assisting the Archbold volunteer fire company in fighting a blaze at the L.G. Moine farm home Saturday noon.

Frank Miller, Maumee insurance agent, was the victim of thugs who held him up in his car near Sharples, robbed him of $45 and slugged and securely tied him.

Hundreds attended the Archbold Community Institute Saturday evening. Speakers gave fine talks and record crowds attended programs in the auditorium.

Someone entered the Central Amish-Mennonite Church after the services Sunday and stole the Bible from the pulpit; also the water pail and cups, and the rug from the pulpit. Later the woodshed was broken in and a kerosene can was stolen. S.D. Grieser, pastor, says he hopes those who took the Bible will use it properly.

Married- Fred Short and Janet Arnos Feb. 12. They are living on a farm near Stryker.

The special short term Bible School and evangelistic meetings are in progress at the Amish-Mennonite Churches: Central, Lockport, and Clinton, all near Archbold.

Charles Frysinger, cobbler at Malinta, will hereafter refuse to repair shoes while gypsy women are around. He was engaged at his work when a pair of the wanderers entered his workshop and asked to tell his fortune. He talked to them and when they left he found that his purse containing $7 was missing.

Prohibition may be a failure as some say, but here is a generation of young people who do not know what drunken insolence was.

Wisconsin farmers are putting buggy poles on their automobiles and driving their cars with horses, thus saving tax and gasoline, and still using their cars.

100 Years Ago

Tuesday, Feb. 18, 1908

Mr. and Mrs. O.E. Lauber entertained a party Friday evening. There were games and refreshments.

Evansport- Mr. and Mrs. Fred Posey entertained last Friday evening. The Buehrer Orchestra provided the music entertainment.

The rural mail carriers out of Archbold have mailbox troubles. One of their biggest problems in winter is picking pennies and loose change from frosted mailboxes.

Fred Wetzel of Route 11 has devised a good scheme. He provides each box with a clothes pin and requests that pennies and letters be put in the jaws of the pin. He says the invention works, sometimes. But when a patron sits by the stove and sends his dog to mail the letters, some times the dog brings the pennies and some time he scatters them, like seeds.

Wetzel believes rural route patrons ought to provide themselves with stamps and treat the mail carrier as they would like to be treated.

Joel Beck went to a cow sale in Williams County. He didn't buy one because they sold from $45 to $91. Joel says the farmers in Williams County have cows on the brain.

The Fayette church that was struck by lightning three times and then consumed by fire will be rebuilt.

George F. Huit thinks he has his share of misfortune. He has a sick wife, a newly born infant, bedfast mother, a business partner is laid up with a sprained ankle, and the other children have the usual ailments. He says he has enough to keep busy.

Friday, Feb. 21, 1908

In olden times there were leap year parties in Archbold to which the maidens invited the men. Now there is very little doing socially. One young lady gave the reason, "Ah! The boys won't come, no how." The young folks of this generation have their intellectual faculties too well to enjoy such childish things as parties. To them many of the simple pleasures, superstitions, and beliefs of other days are silly.

Can anyone tell why the high and sandy ground near Brush Creek, east of Archbold, was ignored and the town built in the worst swail and mud hole in German Township.

Mrs. Katie Hibscher sold her home on Lincoln Street to Mrs. Frank Grime for $900.

A group of automobilists will pass through here Sunday. They left New York Wednesday noon to go to Paris by way of Alaska and Siberia. The distance is over 20,000 miles.

Louis Colon plans to build a cement block residence on his farm, near the Tiffin River.

Bean Creek flowed over the bridges for a few days. The canal called the Bean Creek improvement shoots the water down to the Williams County line where it piles up and overflows the surrounding country. If Williams County would get busy and continue the improvement to the Maumee River, it would be a good thing.

Some people are like curs. They bark at every strange person or idea that comes to town, just for the pleasure of hearing their own voice.

George Leininger says if the bonds are made for long hence and his land has equal drainage rights with others, then he is in favor of a sewer to Brush Creek.

He thinks the next generation can pay for the sewer as this generation has cleared the land and made it what it is.

George is certain that the next generation will find a few thousand dollars easier to pay than the few hundred that would have been paid thirty years earlier.