Golden Notes Of Archbold's Memorable Past

Ten Years Ago Wednesday, Nov. 17, 1999

Lynn Aschliman is president of the recently formed Black Swamp Arts Council. Tim Yoder, treasurer; Mike Salisbury, Stryker, secretary.

Council agreed to ask the Fulton County Economic Development Department to recommend improving Co. Rd. 24 to the state line.

Norfolk Southern Railroad has paid the village one fine for blocking intersections.

Rupp Aviation, fixedbase operator at the Fulton County Airport, has taken over the Davis College flight training program. Jeff Rupp, one of the principals of the local firm, said the transfer was effective Nov. 1.

Toledo Edison crews are installing new high voltage lines along Clyde’s Way, Co. Rd. 22.

Brenda Stamm Smucker, AHS graduate, was named a University of Illinois College of Education William E. Albin and Charlotte C. Young scholar, Oct. 29.

Samantha Natcher, two years old, had fun with a bingo card at the Ridgeville Corners feather party Saturday, according to a photograph.

Deaths–Donald F. Bible, 81, Stryker; Audrey Miller, 79, Fairview, Mich.

A birthday advertisement says that Zeno Miller will celebrate his 50th birthday Nov. 29.

Jessica Sauder was surprised Nov. 6, when her sister Rachel flew home from Salem, Ore., to see Jessica run at Scioto Downs in the state cross country meet.

School Board approved spending $15,727 to establish a fiber-optic connection between the middle and high schools. Marchers of the year of the Blue Streak marching Band are Alicia Fether, trumpet, and Josh Voll, trombone.

Twenty-Five Years Ago Wednesday, Nov. 21, 1984

David A. Gravel, 34, Toledo, has been named the new Archbold postmaster. He will be sworn in Saturday.

School board was told AHS students who are collegebound scored better than average on the ACT test.

Commercial Club officers are Todd Grisier, president; Otto Myer, vice president; Edward Leininger, secretary; Pat Kennedy, treasurer.

First National Bank of Northwest Ohio acquired the Ridgeville Corners Dime Bank of Northwest Ohio.

Julie Hodges, AHS sophomore, has been named outstanding sophomore in the Hugh O’Brian Youth Foundation, according to Gene Rupp, principal.

Fulton County chapter of the American Red Cross has moved to its new office at 732 South Shoop Ave., Wauseon.

Two properties in Archbold were sold at Sheriff’s Sale, on the steps of the Fulton County Court House Monday morning. The properties were owned by Louis Bosco, defendant. Parcel one, a home and lot 15 in Manor Park, was purchased by Lee Short, Defiance, for $44,000. Parcel two, 1.17 acres located on the south side of the 600 block of Stryker Street, formerly Chalet restaurant, was sold to Beatrice Companies, Chicago, for $73,000.

A historic photo shows field workers crating potatoes in 1906 on the Gideon Rychener farm, on Co. Rd. 22, now owned by Charles Kinsman. The photograph was submitted by Earl Rychener, Pettisville, greatgreat grandson of Christian Rychener, who was the first Rychener to live in German Township. He and his wife were the first white couple to marry in the township. Christian’s photograph appears in the photo feature.

Bob Strickler now holds the Findlay College Oilers and Hoosier-Buckeye Collegiate Conference record for extra points kicked in one season. Strickler also was named to the HBCC and National Athletic Intercollegiate Association District 22 teams.

The 5-11, 190-pound freshman was named first team offensive place kicker and second team defensive place kicker. Also playing football for the Oilers, mostly with the junior varsity, is Roel Galvan, sophomore.

Efrain Canales, Jr., 14, won a second round TKO over Scott Loven, of Wauseon, at a boxing event sponsored by the Maumee Boxing Club Nov. 10.

Mutterings, by Orrin R. Taylor–A Jewish physician who accompanied Christopher Columbus in 1492 saw a wild turkey and shouted “Tukki,” which in Hebrew means big bird.

Since that time Tukki has become turkey except in the south where they still make it sound like tukki.... The Broadway area in New York City has 38 theatres.

Fifty Years Ago Wednesday, Nov. 11, 1959

Donald C. VanBuren, Fulton County common pleas court judge, will relate experiences with Col. Wm. Cody at the Commercial Club father son dinner Thursday evening. VanBuren was associated with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show and knew Johnnie Blain, sharp shooter, and Annie Oakley, Chief Iron Tail, and Chief Long Knife. He will bring a few exhibits such as pistols used in the famous circus, which thrilled the millions.

Wilmer D. Rupp, Jr., senior at Oberlin College, is participating in the student woodwind ensemble concert, Nov. 13.

Enforcement of Archbold’s two-hour parking ordinance in the downtown business district will start today, and continue every day, under provisions of the ordinance council passed several years ago.

The 100th anniversary of St. John’s Lutheran Church, Ridgeville Township, will be observed by the congregation Sunday, Nov. 15.

The home of A.O. Fagley, West Street, was sold at auction to George Kramer Friday afternoon for $6,700.

The William Nofziger home at the corner of Vine and East Williams streets, was sold at public auction Saturday to Roy Stutzman for $10,000.

Fifty Plus Five division of Hayes Industries, Inc., West Unity, closed its operation Tuesday because of the steel shortage.

The old New York Central station at Bryan has been leased to Thaman & Fox, Inc., operators of the elevator, for storage purposes.

Deaths–Velma M. Weber, 39, Archbold

Weddings–David Sauder and Sharon Nofziger

Brenda Pursel, junior at Lakeland College, Sheboygan, Wis., will appear in the cast of Medea. She has appeared in several plays at the school.

Mutterings, by Orrin R. Taylor–The chicken that runs across the highway today– proves it wants to live dangerously. .... Every modern home has lots of switches– but not the kind that spare the rod and spoil the child. .... It’s rather unhappy to see our indulged children suffer boredom.

Seventy-Five Years Ago Wednesday, Nov. 14, 1934

Judge C.E. Peck, Bryan, has dismissed charges against F. Maurice Bruns and Victor J. Silliman, at one time officials of the defunct State Exchange Bank, Stryker.

Archbold firemen answered an alarm from the Robert Leininger farm home northeast of town. The roof had caught fire probably from sparks from the chimney. It was the fourth run in the fast few years firemen have made to the Leininger farm.

The Archbold Buckeye was the first newspaper in Fulton County to give election results to its readers.

The severity of last summer’s drought gave the U.S. its smallest corn crop since 1881.

The Golden Rule is very old, but with so little use it’s just as good as new.

The church supper and school fall festival Friday evening at the schoolhouse attracted many villagers. To entertain the crowd there was a minstrel show, animal show, medicine show, games, etc.

The old-fashioned fellow who thought it was a sin to have colored buttons on a horse harness, left a grandson who has silver tire covers.

100 Years Ago

Tuesday, Nov. 23, 1909

Joseph Grime, William Harsch, Jacob Ehrat, William C. Leininger, and surveyor Robasser, Wauseon, appraised Chris Yoder’s benefits in the German Township ditch improvement, south of the corporation line.

They decided that he should pay $30 for the benefi ts in the ditch, which was $10 less than Yoder offered to give to settle it. The cost of the arbitration committee comes from the township.

Danny F. Wyse has rented the room over Spoerli & Baer’s and will open a tinker shop. He hopes to move in today.

Jenetta Grime fell at the skating rink Saturday evening and received a severely sprained arm.

Herbert F. Palmer, veterinarian, Chicago, was in Archbold Saturday showing Clarence Bucher, veterinarian, how to treat hogs for cholera. A number of hogs were treated free of charge to the owners, to see how the treatment will work in this territory.

Joel Stine, 65, was found dead upon the floor of his chamber at his home, two miles east of Elmira, Sunday morning. Mrs. Stine went to do the chores and heard nothing. When she went to call him for breakfast she found him cold with the target rifle across his body. She would allow no one to touch the body until the coroner arrived. Joel had been sick about three years with no hope of improvement.

A well-fed man seldom wants a divorce. No man wants to lose a good cook. There is always love in a house when the grub is good.

Land agents are trying to interest Archbold capitalists in Louisiana sugar cane farming propositions.

Friday, Nov. 26, 1909

Sheriff Grime of Williams County attached the restaurant stock of E.B. Carr, Blakeslee, $785.32, the amount due the county on the Aiken tax for selling near-beer in a dry county. Carr got the product from Fort Wayne.

When you come to pay your taxes this year, you will find the lack of saloons in Archbold will cost one-third of one percent on each one hundred dollars valuation. If your valuation is $300, it will cost you one cent to have a local option.

The Zion M.E. Church, near Edon, is to be sold at public auction Dec. 1. There are 28 M.E. pulpits in the division without pastors. There also are 157 empty Baptist pulpits in Ohio.

German Township can rent the new steamroller to Wauseon contractors at good rates. It will help pay for itself.

When the minister said, “Behold the prefect man,” every member of the congregation became cross-eyed looking at themselves.

Believing the best of a man will in most instances incite him to do his best.

A man is in no condition to settling down until he has settled up.

When a government fails to protect the weak from the strong, it has failed as a government.

In the past five years the Delta Condensory has paid out over a million dollars for milk.