ARCHBOLD WEATHER

Golden Notes Of Archbold’s Memorable Past




Ten Years Ago

Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2004

Tony and Charity Pelletier, Pittsburgh, Pa., take their son, Berkley, 16 months old, on a sleigh ride in the family heirloom, during a holiday visit to their grandparents’ home of Ken and Kathie Bedell, according to a photograph.

Council elevated the fire department chief position to full-time with a salary of $50,945, effective Sunday, Feb. 1. Jim Wyse, mayor, appointed Andy Brodbeck to the post. Brodbeck has been chief since the death of Richard H. Erbskorn in December 1995.

Mark Hagans, village solicitor of civil matters, swears in Kenny Cowell as the new member of council. Cowell was the unanimous choice of councilmen Monday night, Jan. 19, and was sworn in immediately, according to a photograph.

It’s so like Cecily Rohrs of Ridgeville Corners, when given the opportunity to shine, she turns the spotlight away from herself onto another and a cause she backs.

One day, she completely surprised herself when a letter arrived from the Detroit Lions, the National Football League team in Detroit, Mich., informing her she was selected a finalist for the William Clay Ford Community Quarterback Award, which recognizes people for their volunteer work.

50th Wedding Anniversary– Rodger and Nancy (Nafziger) Jaggers, Stryker, were married Jan. 31, 1954.

All pregnant women and new mothers are welcome at the winter session of “Shape- Up-For Motherhood.”

Deaths–Lucie V. Thierry, 98, Archbold; Roy Wheeler, 99, Edon; Harley Beck, 95, Archbold; Hazel E. Knapp, 81, Archbold.

Keri Badenhop (15) looks for a teammate to pass the basketball in recent action. Ranked fifth in Div. III, the Streaks remain undefeated at 12-0, 4-0 in NWOAL, according to a photograph.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

Wednesday, Jan. 11, 1989

School board took its first step toward putting a tax levy request before voters for construction of classrooms for special education.

Lucas Daniel Durham claims the title of 1989 First Baby of the Year within the Archbold/Pettisville school districts. Parents are Dan and Nancy.

Without taking a vote, members of the Archbold Planning Commission agreed Monday evening it may be time for a serious review of the Archbold Zoning Ordinance.

For the second consecutive year, projected budget figures at Pettisville Local Schools ran to the negative.

Board members signed a resolution to join Fulton County schools in forming a special entity with the power to levy taxes. At this point Switzer said, the intent is to construct classrooms at Wauseon and conduct classes there.

Ten persons presented the German Township Trustees copies of petitions signed in Burlington-Elmira asking for Archbold water. Over 100 persons signed the two water request petitions.

Fred Witte is the first administrator of the newly formed Archbold Area Chamber of Commerce. The chamber will continue the weekly Monday noon luncheons, which the Commercial Club sponsored for many years, as well as two evening dinner meetings, one in the fall and one in the spring.

It will cost $6,859,977.12 to provide residents of the Village of Archbold with the municipal services they have come to expect for the coming year.

A photograph shows Orrin R. Taylor giving his impressions of John F. Kennedy to Archbold sixth grade students Billie Jo Schnitkey and Chad Nicholls.

60th Wedding Anniversary– Lawrence and Lucretia Rupp, Dec. 25, 1988.

Robert G. Frey is an instructor for a Personal Property at Auction Seminar, Orlando, Fla., Jan. 23-25. His topic is heavy equipment at auction.

Deaths– Harley D. Sauder, 73, Archbold; Martha L. Schultz, 85, Archbold; Roger W. Miller, 45, Archbold; David McClory, 57, Archbold; Lillian M. Clevenger, 66, Amboy, Ill.

Fifty Years Ago

Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1964

Headline–Resources $48 Million In Nine County Banks; Archbold Banks Continue To Lead

County residents bought more automobiles and trucks in 1963 than in any previous year, according to Dorothy Whitaker, clerk of courts.

Three thousand chickens are being cooked, boned, and canned, and five tons of lard will be canned at the Mahlon Miller farm, northeast of Archbold, this week, by volunteer workers from 16 Mennonite churches in this area. Labels were prepared for a total of 10,000 cans.

Statewide voting caused a presentation Tuesday night of co-champions of Ohio Horse of the Year plaques to Coffee Break and B.F. Coaltown at the U.S. Trotting Association annual dinner banquet in Columbus.

Renee Luyendijk, The Hague, Netherlands, a kindergarten teacher, is staying in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Spiess for six months.

Carlos Bernath, a local grocer, spoke to guests at the Monday Noontide Luncheon. He said food is an important item in every family budget, and much effort is required to keep all foods fresh and moving rapidly by train and truck to reach all types of markets.

Mutterings, by Orrin R. Taylor–If you’re solvent enough to be a poor credit risk, your rating is normal….. Delinquent adults have much to do with delinquent children….. In the good old days before there was a school attendance law, many big boys stayed in the eighth grade a number of years. The smart ones said they were held over by public demand.

Deaths–Arthur J. Liechty, 67, Archbold; Anna Frey, 80, Archbold; William Detter, 73, Archbold

Seventy-Five Years Ago

Wednesday, Jan. 18, 1939

Simon Waldvogel, 70, bled to death shortly after struck in the shoulder by a piece of a buzz saw blade, which burst while buzzing wood near Lockport.

Mrs. Waldvogel got him home, ran to the gas station at the intersection on Rt. 20, and called for help. When she returned home he had bled to death.

H.S. Winzeler, 63, died Thursday in Los Angeles, Calif. He founded The Ohio Art Co. in Archbold, and later moved the business to Bryan.

Mike Farkas was apprehended by Harley Loveland, sheriff, Oct. 29, with 65 gallons of hooch.

Four hundred Missouri rabbits were released in Fulton County last week by Howard Segrist, game warden. Segrist reports 300 full-grown pheasants from Urbana will be delivered in February and released in various parts of the county.

D.W. Burkholder, Peter and Levi Ziegler left Monday for Sarasota, Fla. They will stay two months or longer.

Edgar Sauder, motorcycling with another friend, is in Florida, and writes, “We are having the time of our lives.”

Simon R. Rupp and family plan to move to a farm near Union City, Pa., where they will do general farming on 205 acres.

E.C. Lauber, township recorder, said there were 25 deaths and 54 births in German Township in 1936.

A photograph shows employees of the Lugbill Livestock Action and restaurant: Violet Frey, Berneda Nofziger, Velma Short, Dorothy Nofziger, Lillian Short. Dorothy also operates the cash register and sees that customers are served and kept satisfied.

100 Years Ago

Tuesday, Jan. 13, 1914

Saturday while hauling buzz poles on the Niece farm, Simon Short’s sons drove over their farm bridge across Brush Creek. The planks slipped and both fell in to the bridge. It took 13 men two hours to get things straightened out.

John S. Schlatters’ new house near the Reformed Church is finished. The house was started about the middle of October and completed by Eli Recklau. Mr. Schlatter will move in about a week. A barn was begun on the property, Friday.

An Edgerton man moved to Iowa 12 years ago. Last Christmas he gave a dinner and presented each of his four children with $100,000 in land.

They say he kept plenty back for himself. Now how’s come our father never did that to us? Some of us must have exercised bad judgment in selecting a father.

Instead of losing a day and making a trip to Wauseon to pay taxes, just send the county treasurer a signed bank check and let them fill out the amount of your taxes. Or send to the county treasurer a request for a statement, then buy a draft at the local bank for the amount and send it to the treasurer. Or send a post office money order. It is an easy matter to pay your taxes– if you have the money.

Pick out 20 young men and not more than five of them are making an effort to save money. Indications are that the poor house of the future will need to be six stories.

Twelve homeless men passed the night in the Archbold calaboose, Sunday. Two sat up in the depot and one walked all night to keep from freezing.

Friday, Jan. 16, 1914

A Missouri merchant set a gun trap for burglars and then forgot about it. His funeral, two days later, was one of the largest in the history of the county.

Archbold and surrounding country is now in the midst of one of the greatest smallpox scares in history. The disease is said to be within about seven miles of town.

It is reported that they have the disease at the home of the Mohrs, near Pettisville.

Smallpox has been the topic of conversation in Archbold for several days. Archbold school board has publicly endorsed the vaccination theory by ordering all teachers and pupils to be vaccinated under penalty of dismissal from school.

Automobiles are now being made for less than $400. When they get real cheap, will they be as popular as the low-priced bicycles? When bicycles got cheap, the demand for them diminished.

Before you send money to the famine sufferers in Japan, you might give a few handouts to the white hoboes that sleep in the village calaboose these cold nights.

One of the prettiest girls in Grand Rapids says she steams and sweats her face regularly once a week over her mother’s washtub.

Please, please, please come and settle, I need the money.–Andrew Shibler, cobbler.–adv.



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