ARCHBOLD WEATHER

Golden Notes Of Archbold’s Memorable Past




Ten Years Ago

Wednesday, July 4, 2001

Council will stand behind its decision to limit parking in the downtown to three hours.

Working together, LaRoy Martinez, Jr., and Joe Wyse, will teach bicycle safety at the Carp Fest.

Garrett Tinsman has been appointed vice president of manufacturing at Sauder Woodworking, replacing J.R. Grieser, who is retiring after 39 years with the company.

Earns Degree– Wendy S. Coon, AHS ‘97, Eastern Mennonite University; Erica L. Wyse, AHS ‘97 Milligan College, Tenn.

Deaths– Alta C. Spiess, 96, Archbold; Terry “Bull” Myers, 56, Kenton

Residents of the state of Ohio aren’t doing well in the battle of the bulge. According to figures released June 15, nearly 20 percent of Ohioans were overweight in 1999, which was an 80 percent increase since 1990.

Maghan Beck, AHS track standout, recently signed to run for Tiffin University.

Sam Hornish Jr., sophomore IRL standout, preserved his championship points-lead June 30 with a second-place finish at Richmond International Raceway.

Lee Klinger, 5, races motorcross at a track in Delta, June 30. He took third place in the 4- to 6-year-old division. He is fifth in the Motorcross Racing Association points race.

After taking third at Toledo on June 22, Tully Esterline, Pettisville truck racer, has commandeered second place in the 2001 ARCA points race.

Bill Beck will judge the Fiddlers’ Contest at Sauder Village, July 14.

A photograph shows Bob Montgomery working with a Russian interpreter during services in Kiev. Montgomery is a Pettisville graduate.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

Wednesday, July 9, 1986

An unnamed local industry is interested in purchasing seven acres for expansion in the Archbold Industrial Park, according to Fred Witte, councilman.

Bluffton, Ohio, is a community of about 3,300 residents and is like Archbold in many ways. It has offered tax abatement in the form of a reinvestment area since January 1982, according to Porter King, mayor.

The Sauder Woodworking production line damaged by fire June 21 is back in operation, according to Verden Beck, plant superintendent.

Jorunn Lilloy, an AHS 1975-76 Norwegian exchange student, is visiting Archbold with her parents on a three-week tour of the U.S. She lived with Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Spiess.

Angela Gautsche, 13, earned a sonatina medal from the National Guild of Piano Teachers during competition, June 8.

Surprises are in store for children this summer at McLaughlin Public Library when story hour begins July 14.

Fairlawn Heights offers a new concept of living at the Fairlawn campus. The second floor, above the activity area and front lobby at Fairlawn Haven, has been remodeled for independent living. Open house is July 20.

The Archbold Industries slow-pitch softball team qualified for the Class C USSSA state tournament over the weekend.

The seventh annual Carp Festival boasts the return of the 5K and 10K runs. The youngest group is for runners 15 years and under.

Mutterings, by Orrin R. Taylor–Accountability is not hardware. It is software we were born with our hearts and hands…. California has growing pains. It still attracts

1,237 new residents every day…. Several generations of travelers to Europe still are faced with signs that read “Yankee, Go Home.”… Alligators were placed in the endangered species list in 1967. Now they are off the list after multiplying rapidly in the southeastern part of the nation.

Fifty Years Ago Wednesday, July 12, 1961

George W. Woodward, Dover, has been employed as psychiatrist and director of the district mental health clinic for the Maumee Valley Guidance Center, Inc.

Roger Allen Wyse, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Wyse, Rt. 2, West Unity, drowned in about 30 feet of water about 75 feet off the south shore of Clear Lake, Ind., Tuesday afternoon about 5:15 pm.

Roger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Miller, has been discharged after two years of military service– the last 13 months in Korea.

Archbold schools will complete six weeks of summer school, Friday, July 14. There were 273 students enrolled, 82 more than last year, and the highest enrollment in the four years of summer classes, according to J.H. Spengler, superintendent.

Joe Short, 17, son of Mr. Virgil Short, living east of Stryker, is in Williams County General Hospital, Montpelier, with a broken pelvis received when a load of corn he was delivering to the Stryker Farmers Exchange turned over Saturday morning.

More than half of all the taxes collected at county courthouses in Ohio last year went to schools, according to James A. Rhodes, state auditor.

James L. Sellers, 61, was found dead in his apartment above his photographic studio Monday. When he had not been seen at his place of business, Monday, George Kramer, police chief, and Marvin Fether investigated and found the body in his easy chair.

Headline–Church Of Nazarene Buys St. John’s Edifi ce

Deaths–Harman R. Rupp, 77, Alvordton

Mr. and Mrs. Maynard C. Wyse have purchased the home and shop building of Mr. and Mrs. R.M. (Jim) Gearing, Orlando, Fla., at 314 Ditto Street.

Mutterings, by Orrin R. Taylor–An optimist solves crossword puzzles with a pen…. Have you heard about the ardent gardener who had to quit because the hardest thing he tried to raise were his knees?… If you have a teenage son, you must expect to learn he is “going steady” as soon as the first whisker appears…. Obeying traffic regulations is another way of enjoying a longer life.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

Wednesday, July 1, 1936

The Archbold Buckeye weekly newspaper was awarded first place in general excellence by the National Editorial Association last week. The Buckeye was chosen because of its quality of appearance, construction, and content, which make an outstanding newspaper.

A yoked team of oxen was sold in the auction ring at the Lugbill Livestock Sale, Monday. The oxen were well broken and came from the southern part of Ohio. They were sold by C.H. Zigler and bought by Peter Derr, Napoleon, who intends to put them in the parade at Napoleon, July 4.

Democrats in session at Philadelphia last week renominated Franklin D. Roosevelt president, and John N. Garner vice president as their standard bearers for the 1936 presidential election to be held in November.

Shirley May, 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Roth, was fatally burned Sunday at their home northwest of Archbold.

Richard Aubry, who has been employed at the Archbold Airport since it was opened, has been appointed in charge of the Bureau of Aeronautics exhibit at the Great Lakes Exposition in Cleveland.

Mr. and Mrs. Archie Graber will be the speakers Sunday in the morning service at the Defenseless Mennonite Church.

100 Years Ago

Tuesday, July 11, 1911

An electric locomotive, similar to those used on the eastern terminals of steam and electric lines, will soon be in operation on the Toledo and Indiana Railroad.

The Archbold ball team seems to be overconfident to the effect that they give the opponent chances toward the last of the game.

The Toledo Federation of Charities asks Delta people to care for some poor children from the city during the hot weather. Delta people who take them may have some experiences with itch, sore eyes, and city cussedness.

One hundred guests fled from a Cincinnati hotel fire in their nightclothes, which must have been embarrassing to those who travel without nightclothes.

The ten-year-old son of Roy Kuhns, near Stryker, met with an unusual and painful accident Saturday, when the end of a finger was bitten off by a horse.

The lad was giving the horse its regular feed of oats, using his hat for a measure, when the horse dived greedily into the oats, getting hold of the boy’s finger.

Henry Gerig, of Lauber Hill, suffered sunstroke one day last week.

Governor Harmon says those who accept public office to serve the public, and then sell out to private trusts, are guilty of treason. The fault is primarily with the small and dirty politicians who bleed so mercilessly before election that when in office the man must turn thief in order to get even.

There is a Chicago woman who wants to get rid of a husband whom she won on a bet. The moral is: never bet.

Friday, July 14, 1911

During the storm Tuesday, lightning struck the Sam Aeschliman barn. There was some smoke but there was no fire to be seen.

The gable end was damaged and a lot of siding and shingles knocked off.

Mr. S. Walters says that in the corner of one of the 124 cases of eggs shipped from Wauseon to Archbold, he found three chicks peeping out of the shells. He took one home and will try to raise it.

Leave your orders for huckleberries at the Hub Market by Friday noon.– adv.

Menno Short is trying to decide whether to use water or steam to heat his new $3,000 farmhouse.

Hundreds of men have been laid off along the Lake Shore Railroad because of an order to reduce expenses 10 percent.

Some 50 motorcyclists passed through Archbold from Chicago. They were headed for Buffalo. The tour was to advertise a model of one of the motorcycles.

The Church of God, which was struck by lightning and burned to the ground at Montpelier, will not be rebuilt. The members are few, old, and widely scattered.

Secretary Wilson thinks it doesn’t pay a farmer to raise wheat on land worth more than $75 an acre. He says the land could be more profitably employed to produce corn to feed more hogs.

Heber Bros., Greater Shows will be in Archbold, Wednesday evening, July 19. It’s three big combined shows of minstrels, circus, and Vaudeville. It will be under a mammoth waterproof tent.–adv.



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