ARCHBOLD WEATHER

Golden Notes Of Archbold’s Memorable Past




Ten Years Ago

Wednesday, April 7, 2004

Council received a petition signed by 15 persons, asking it to do something about three allegedly poorlymaintained vacant homes on South Defiance Street.

Village officials have been in contact with the owners of other properties in the community about the appearance of their homes.

Council seeks bids for expansion of the cemetery.

A new record gross was established for the Fairlawn Auxiliary annual benefit, April 1-2. Money received totaled $41,747.40, which was $4,709.43 above the record set in 2002.

Headline– Northwest State Raises Tuition; Now $118/Hour

The Ohio Conference of Mennonite Churches USA appointed Mrs. Phil (Lynette) Bontrager to the Board of Trustees of Adriel, Inc. The board is made up of 12 members appointed by one of Adriel’s sponsoring agencies.

With the issue of Thursday, April 1, the Fayette Review ceased publication.

Deaths– Irene Betty Rupp Liechty, 75, Grabill, Ind.; Lois L. Miller, 80, Wauseon

Leah Meyer, daughter of Mark and Jill Peterson, was named to the dean’s list at Otterbein College.

The middle school quiz team finished third in the second annual Fulton County Junior High Quiz Tournament. Members are Ryan Christman, Emily Fredrick, Justin Hines, Chris Jennings, Brandon Lehman, Greg Matthews, Brittany Proctor, Travis Short, London Smith, Kelly Wasnich. Team advisor is Jan Lindsay.

Carrie Nofziger, daughter of Ross and Jo, is in Connecticut with a Youth Evangelism Service Team. Carrie spent three months in training before going to Connecticut.

Pam Borton, 38, coached the University of Minnesota women’s basketball team to the finals of the 2004 NCAA tournament. It lost to Connecticut 67-58.

Borton grew up south of Fayette and started her basketball career at Zone School. Her coach through junior and senior high schools was John Winzeler, who taught and was principal at Zone.

Travis Jaramillo, 8, son of Sam and Chris, captured third place in the first annual Ohio Grade School State Wrestling Championship Tournament.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

Wednesday, Mar. 29, 1989

Charles “Chuck” Lugbill, a local and national leader in agriculture, is the 1988 Archbold Citizen of the Year. He will be honored at a banquet later this spring.

Lugbill has been involved in Lugbill Bros, Inc., a family business, as a full-time employee since he graduated from AHS in 1945.

He was named president of the agriculture business in 1962 and chairman of the board in 1971.

In spite of lower agricultural cash receipts, Fulton County continued to rank sixth among Ohio’s top agricultural counties.

The Archbold Buckeye has received conflicting reports about the future of the housing project proposed for the village by Messer Development Corp., of Corunna, Ind.

Fred Witte, a councilman, said, “The site has been established along East Lutz Road, on the property presently owned by Ross Wyse.”

Fulton County paid more property taxes than any of the other four Northwest Ohio counties, according to a report prepared by the Ohio Public Expenditure campaign.

Mark Matthews, a glassblower, earned two awards in the Ohio Designer Craftsmen statewide juried contemporary craft competition.

The glasswork of Matthews took the Toledo Area Glass Guild, Dominick and Elizabeth Labino Memorial Award for excellence in glass, and The Watkins Printing Co. postcard award.

Ed Roth is one of four speakers at Bluffton College, May 10, when the college development department sponsors a financial planning seminar. His topic: “Financial Planning in an Uncertain World.”

The final decision on whether to allow Ridgeville Township to form its own water and sewer district, crucial to the installation of a municipal water system in Ridgeville Corners, has been deferred.

Deaths– Lewis Britsch, 93, Archbold; Sylvester Lambert, 78, Lima

Mutterings– According to Lee Iacocca, a gas tax is our greatest untapped source of revenue. Every penny at the pump raises $1 billion a year in revenue, and we barely tax it at all….. All great things mature slowly….. According to Ford Cullis, of the Bryan Times, “Some people have so many ideas, projects, and plans they don’t have time for work, action, and accomplishment.”…. One week ago, top-grade alfalfa hay sold for $70 a ton in Wisconsin. Lasts week it rocketed to more than $200 a ton. The 1988 drought is responsible.

50 Years Ago

Wednesday, April 1, 1964

Two big science fairs in Archbold this weekend have the school and town agog with preparation excitement: the 14th annual Quadri-County Science Fair and 3rd annual Greater Ohio Science Fair (State Fair).

The large barn and contents on Mrs. John Stuckey’s farm, 1 1/2 miles south of West Unity, was destroyed by fire of unknown origin at 3 am, Sunday morning.

Voters in the seven school districts in the eastern part of Fulton County voted down the proposed reorganization plan at a special election Tuesday.

Mary Lauber, formerly of Archbold, and a school teacher for 21 years at Anchorage, Alaska, reports she survived the earthquake that struck that city Saturday night. To date there are 100 deaths.

Edwin C. Lantz, Pettisville, received word his brother, Harold D. Amstutz and wife Jane, missionaries, were evacuated from Equatorial Sudan, Africa, to Nairobi, Kenya, near the center of the continent. They will join their son Mr. and Mrs. David Amstutz, missionaries to the Belgian Congo, at Arua.

Harold has recovered from a bullet wound to the upper left arm that occurred when traveling with a military convoy whenever he traveled, as ordered by the government.

Thomas Nolan Stahl, Swanton, was named assistant engineer of Toledo Edison. His wife is Carol Sauder, of Archbold.

DeRoyce Hornish, AHS ‘53 and a Wauseon science teacher, received a $1,000 scholarship from the National Science Foundation.

Arthur Leininger was the final bidder on the Dan Sauder home, 207 South Defiance St., which sold at public auction Saturday afternoon for $5,000.

Military addresses appear for Steve Grime and Ronald Leu.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

Wednesday, April 5, 1939

Ora E. Lauber exhibits a tax receipt for Nov. 24, 1859, issued to Christian Lauber, Jr., his grandfather. At that time the county courthouse was in Ottokee.

Archbold’s popular library is used by school children of all ages, and they come from Elmira and Zone in special school buses.

R.D. Horst, a county engineer, has completed his budget calling for $100,000 for 1939 roadwork in Fulton County. Stone, asphalt and labor are the big expense items.

Early reports show the hospital drive has brought in $1,500. Five hundred persons are taking part in the drive.

Council granted an 11- year franchise to the Ohio Gas, Light & Coke Co. Council also passed a three-year rate agreement.

The house and lot in Pettisville belonging to the Schrock estate was sold at public auction, Wednesday, to Rev. H.H. Amstutz for $1,250.

Clair Helmmushner, charged with driving while intoxicated, was confined to the county jail for 60 days and to stay in jail until all costs are paid.

R.T. Knode and children of Battle Creek, Mich., visited in the E.A. Murbach home over Sunday. Mrs. Knode and children motored in her father’s car to Youngstown to visit her sister, and the car was stolen.

The Ed. Rose family has rented the home of Harry Nofziger farm, east of Burlington, and moved there last week.

100 Years Ago

Tuesday, March 31, 1914

J.C. Leu purchased the Clingaman store at Elmira and will embark in business in that village. He has rented his farm.

A Bryan ice cream parlor will not allow smoking or men to wear hats while at the tables.

The Wauseon Expositor has a new Intertype machine to set lines of type for the newspaper. Roy Mockler, of Archbold, is the operator.

Bryan barbers will charge 15¢ for a shave.

The State of Ohio will no longer allow employees of candy factories or ice cream foundries to use tobacco.

Most men have decided to be smooth shaven. Cleanly shaven men are now in the majority.

Swanton’s new lighting system cost about $15,000. It was turned on last week. The electricity is supplied by the Defiance Power Company.

Double-decker busses are becoming popular in some places. A single deck would be popular between Archbold and Ridgeville Corners.

Mr. Andrew Grime broke his arm while at work at the Bryan Condensory. Friday.

Friday, April 3, 1914

Hugh Whitehorne, son of George, is attending business college in Toledo.

The undivided half interest in the lot jointly owned by Jacob Gype and the Odd Fellows Club has been purchased by Jacob Ehrat.

William Group, son of Dan, formerly of Archbold, was taken to St. Vincent Hospital in Toledo. He was there two weeks and broke out with the smallpox, exposing a number of patients.

There are several persons who are not in favor of swatting the fly. The screen door maker, the manufacturer of milk can covers, the fly paper maker, and the fly poison seller would be in an awful fix if all the flies were swatted.

The old firm of Whitehorne Brothers is now entirely out of business. The last of its stock was sold at auction last Saturday.

The roadside near Pettisville was set on fire, and it got in Ben Eicher’s field and nearly got the buildings.

The oven is in place and Jacob Fenstermaker will soon be ready to turn out bread. The Stuckey Restaurant will soon be ready to open in the same building as the bakery.



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