ARCHBOLD WEATHER

Golden Notes Of Archbold’s Memorable Past




Ten Years Ago

Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2004

Phil Rich, who served on the Archbold Community Library Board 14 years, was honored at its Monday, Jan. 26 meeting. The last three years he was board secretary.

Diane Tinsman is replacing Rich. She attended her first meeting Monday. She is a native of Archbold and is an AHS graduate.

Chamber members heard about the success of the Bryan Foundation. It has $1.5 million in assets. Archbold has $400,000, and the fund has received estate gifts.

Deaths–Franklin Wheeler, 65, West Unity; Frederick Goertz, 75, Archbold; Paul J. Heckel, 81, Archbold; Leona H. Kutzli, 97, Archbold.

Joel D., son of Lonnie and Carol Short, has been named station manager of WGCS 91.1-FM, the Goshen College radio station.

Headline–Archbold Native Discusses Reaction To Book About “Late-Life Adventures In Sex, Romance.”

Jane Murbach Juska said when people criticize her about the book, “I just let it go.”

Juska said she’s heard that some of her old friends from Archbold love the book; one “absolutely adores it.” It’s now in its sixth printing. So far she hasn’t received a dime in royalties.

A group of AHS boys known at the “Mulletheads” add spirit to the boys basketball games this season. Chants and cheers are their specialty as they fire up the crowd, bringing enjoyment to many fans. Wearing their costumes they are Elliott Aldrich, Ben Ulrich, Joel Wyse, Lane Stopher, Nate Lange, Mike Zimmerman, Nick Boyers, and David Fryman, according to a photograph.

Wendell Newcomb was first; Dale Gautsche, second; and Marvin Nafziger, third, in shuffleboard competition at Fairlawn Haven.

Members of the Archbold Lions Club recently processed 600 pair of eyeglasses donated by area residents.

Headline–Archbold Wrestlers Take Second At Sandusky Duals

Twenty-Five Years Ago

Wednesday, Jan. 18, 1989

Financial help has come to 181 drought-stricken Fulton County farmers. As of Jan. 9, a total of $219,000 in federal disaster benefits was distributed among them.

As the new addition to Northwest Technical College nears completion, the school is ready to embark on another building project.

Current plans call for a Child Care Center directly north of the new student services building.

Council will do a preliminary study on the possibility of providing water to Burlington Elmira.

About 21 residents for the unincorporated communities were on hand at the Monday night council meeting to explore the possibility of Archbold providing municipal water.

Rates charged for natural gas have gone up in the village because the Ohio Gas Company is buying its gas on the spot market.

Fulton County is one of 48 Ohio counties declared a labor surplus area.

An anniversary passed quietly in the Archbold business community. Jan. 1 marked the first anniversary of Tim Kasmoch’s purchase of Yoder Compost.

Edward D. Miller, an accounting major at Capital University, is selected to participate in the Senior Accounting Internship Program.

Archbold is now the pioneering center of a new broadcast radio technology.

At 8 pm, Jan. 12, WHFD ceased to exist. It was reborn as WMTR, Toledo.

Archbold Buckeye advertising was named the winner in The Most Humorous Use of an Advertising Service by Metro Creative Graphics, Inc., New York.

John Baumgartner was elected vice president of the Four County Joint Vocational School Board of Education, Dec. 15.

Wielding hoes, Raymond Schmucker and Dale King attacked the weeds among their soybeans last summer. A few rows apart, they walked, talked, and hoed.

A lifetime of working together was about to end. After 51 years the two had planted their final crop. The farm was sold and retirement loomed ahead.

Deaths–Owen Sigg, 85, Archbold; Sarah Short, 84, Archbold

Dean and Berneda Wyse, West Unity, will arrive in Nepal in late February as Mennonite Board of Missions workers serving with United Mission to Nepal.

Fifty Years Ago

Wednesday, Jan. 22, 1964

Receipts at the Archbold post office reached a new high in 1963, $81,139, compared to $67,785 in 1962.

The Fulton County Board of Education began its 50th year by electing Elmer Welch, Metamora, president, and Sheldon Meister, Swanton, vice president. Other board members are Otto Roth and Frank Guthrie, Delta, and Wm. G. Rupp, Archbold.

The Fayette High School Band, under the direction of Richard Chadwick, received an invitation to participate in the annual Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C., April 9.

Mrs. Daryl (Elaine) Roth and her seven-month-old son, David, are at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Myers, having arrived there Saturday afternoon after a hurried flight home from the troubles brewing in the Panama Canal zone. Her husband Daryl is in the U.S. Air Force.

Some homes and apartments occupied by American military personnel were burned.

Ohio is the 25th state to become completely organized in soil and water conservation districts.

Fred Grisier, Stryker, will have a display of Civil War guns and discuss their history at the Friday, Jan. 24, Rotary Club meeting.

A 45-room 37×120 addition, to cost $300,000, will be constructed this year at Bryan Hospital.

Nearly 2,000 different makes of automobiles have been produced since the industry first started.

Max E. Smith has been elected to the board of directors of KAJC-FM, Indianapolis, Ind., and named program director of the radio station.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

Wednesday, Jan. 25, 1939

Competing in a national competition of towns with a population of 50,000 or less, the Archbold Buckeye tied for third place in the “Best Weekly Newspaper” class.

V. Fred Grime, Monmouth, N.J., son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Grime, has joined the Monmouth County Publishing Company as office equipment head.

The following enjoyed a sleighing party, Thursday evening: Misses Flora Dimke, Sadie Miller, Helen Stamm, Wilma Miller, Eileen Grundish, Mary and Kathryn Winzeler, LeDema, Alta, Charlotte and Wilma Spiess, Mr. and Mrs. John Schlatter, Dale Stevens, Victor Miller, Ervin Wyse, John Baumgardner, and Wilmer Short.

R.O. Rychener, of Memphis, Tenn., has sent a second check, this time for $10, to the AHS basketball squad for a treat for all the members of the team for their splendid second victory over Wauseon.

Mr. Rychener was a member and captain of the local team during his high school days, and later was captain of the University of Michigan basketball team. He still is greatly interested in the success of the local team, especially in reference to wins over the rivals from the county seat.

The Archbold Ladder Company is erecting a 60,000-gallon water tower to supply the fire protection system of the woodworking factory.

Patrons of the Ohio Gas Light & Coke Company will have natural gas service by Aug. 1.

100 Years Ago

Tuesday, Jan. 20, 1914

Up at Corunna, a station west of here on the Lake Shore Railroad, they have a big scandal. Rev. H.B. Mason, 29, pastor of the United Brethren Church, left a wife and three children and eloped, ran away, with Miss Lulu Shaffer, daughter of George Shaffer, of Corunna.

This is about the only thing that ever happened to put that town on the map.

Another man was killed at Mina, east of Edgerton, Monday night. Ira Wenser, 25, a fireman, stepped from the cab of this engine, which was at the coal chute, and walked across the track, just in time to be struck by an east-bound fast train No. 43.

In spite of the effort of local agitators who seem to take keen delight in terrifying women and children, the smallpox scare is abating.

Several persons are telling tales along the railroad line about the terror of Archbold people. It is said an Archbold man held his breath while going through Wauseon on the car and held it so long he could breathe no longer.

Sixteen miles north of Archbold the sleighing was fine last week.

There will be a change at the City Drug Store, Feb. 1. Bert Mull of Bryan is to assume the ownership of Emil Shibler. Mr. Shibler retires because of his health. The name City Drug will be retained.

Friday, Jan. 23, 1914

Uncle Sam is astounded to learn that 300,000 American farmers have been induced to go to Canada by advertisements in country newspapers. Stranger still stands out that very few of them want to come back.

Mr. Bruehlman of Archbold has done so well in Canada that he would be considered rich in his hometown.

Placed in the Bryan jail in November on a charge of intoxication, Mr. Walter, an umbrella mender, not only finds himself still in jail but also the subject of rivalry between officials of Williams and Fulton counties as to his custody.

An Archbold woman who paid $19.50 for a coat in the city can buy the similar coat made by the same hands in the same factory with all the trimmings and style in Archbold for $8.99.

A series of railroad wrecks coming in rapid succession seem to enforce the public plea for steel in place of wood coaches.

The quantity of oil found in an Archbold well was not enough to satisfy the speculators. At Bryan better results were obtained but the speculators got cold feet.

An Archbold man fed his hens stale bread from the bakery. He has quite a number less to feed now.

Abraham Lincoln never dodged an automobile, never held a strap in a trolley car, never pushed a button for a light, never appeared in a moving picture, and yet Abraham Lincoln died only 48 years ago.



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