ARCHBOLD WEATHER

Golden Notes Of Archbold’s Memorable Past




Ten Years Ago

Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2006

Archbold School Board decided to ask voters for a $1.1-million, five-year emergency property tax levy.

Curtis Johnson, Fayette, Warren Kahrs, Wauseon; William O’Neil, Lyons; and Gene Patterson, Delta, were named to the 23rd Agriculture Hall of Fame.

Within a couple of months, the Fulton County 911 system will be able to pinpoint the location of any caller, even callers using cellular phones.

Today the 911 system has three special trunk lines to receive calls from landlines or cellular phones.

50th Anniversary–Fred and Helen (Potts) Grisier, Sept. 1, 1956; Walter and Lillian (Drewes) VonDeylen, Aug. 22, 1946

Brad, Stacey, and Troy King brought home outstanding honors from the Ohio State Fair.

Candidates for county Fair Queen are Danielle Burkholder, Sarah Heilman, and Lydia Mohr. Junior Fair King candidates are Michael Roesner and Scott Lydon.

Letterwinners returning to the Blue Streak volleyball team are Lauren Rupp, Tara Gustwiller, Alexa Kennedy, Laura Wyse, Adrianne Lange, Dani Newman, Lauren Kern.

An etching titled “Storytime” was accepted by the Archbold Library Board in honor of Jon R. Trudel, an AHS graduate.

Six new additions to the Archbold Area School staff, Jodi Biederstedt, Kent Vandock, Lori Yoder, John Brooks, Mary Grassbaugh, and Melanie Dianda– began yesterday.

The single teaching addition to Pettisville schools is Maggie Enderle, Archbold, who will teach fifth and sixth grade science in the elementary.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

Wednesday, Aug. 21, 1991

If construction moves on schedule, Archbold scout groups and others such as senior citizens who use the Ruihley Park Scout Cabin, will have a new log-style home on the same location next year. Lee Short presented drawings and floor plans for the new building at the Aug. 14 meeting.

While world leaders appear shocked by the overthrow of Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Jack Lauber has been predicting such a move for some time.

“It was just a matter of when and how,” said the 1952 AHS graduate. Lauber has been a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin since 1967.

A smoke detector saved two lives when fire attacked the Bill Arthur residence at 603 North Defiance Street early the morning of Aug. 14.

Theodore “Ted” Ripke and Donald Kleck filed petitions to run for Archbold Area School Board of Education on Friday, Kleck and Lynn Aschliman, who filed earlier this month, are incumbents.

Beverly Emch and Jane Stevens, high school home economics teachers, attended the All Ohio Vocational Education Conference, Aug. 12-14, in Cleveland.

Degrees–Lisa (Miller) Burkholder, daughter of Carl and Judy Miller, St. Leo’s College, Key West, Fla., July 26; Douglas Alan Nafziger, University of Toledo

Deaths–Elsie Shade Hinderer, 101, Wauseon; Breva McLaughlin, 93, West Unity; Genevieve Stuckey, 71, Pettisville

Mutterings, by Orrin R. Taylor–”The greatest invention of mankind is compound interest,” said Albert Einstein….. Last year, 1990, a total of about 3.5 million people visited the great Ohio State Fair….. Ohio’s 241- mile super turnpike started operating in 1955 and is a handler of great amounts of cars and trucks.

Final cost of the Archbold Quasquicentennial celebration is in the neighborhood of $22,000. The celebration committee started out with a $10,000 budget.

Nancy Sauder Bontrager, PHS ‘85, and a Goshen College graduate, returned to her home community to head the North Clinton Mennonite Church, Wauseon.

Fifty Years Ago

Wednesday, Aug. 24, 1966

J.H. Spengler, superintendent of schools, said enrollment could exceed 1,100. When the school year ended in May, enrollment was 1,094.

For the first time in the history of the Ohio Department of Education, an emergency office has been established to help districts who are short of teachers to find additional staff members.

Archbold has a complete staff of 50 teachers and 19 non-teaching employees.

Howard Grieser, of near Wauseon, told Commercial Club members at the Monday noontide luncheon, there is a possibility of expanding and improving the landing strip in the Lugbill area.

Mr. Grieser has a sod landing strip on his farm southeast of Archbold, which he said is usable all but about two weeks in the year.

Mr. Henry Huner, who has been employed by the O.P. Kluepfel Jewelry business since 1959, has purchased the business. Mr. Kluepfel will continue his optometry business.

John Holian, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. John Holian, Sr., 409 South Defiance Street, graduated from Bowling Green State University with magna cum laude honors, Saturday, Aug. 24.

The Fulton County Board of Education has received a resolution from Defiance County for a .86-mill levy to construct the proposed Four County Vocational School. It will be constructed in a central location of the four-county area of Fulton, Williams, Henry and Defiance counties.

Erie J. Sauder will present pictures of Paraguay and tell of the work being accomplished there at the Friday, Aug. 26 meeting of Archbold Rotary Club.

Richard Schultz arrived home Sunday to be with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Orlo Schultz, having completed three years of Army service in the Panama Canal Zone.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

Wednesday, Aug. 20, 1941

The weather was perfect for the greatest celebration, the Diamond Jubilee, honoring the town’s 75th anniversary. It brought the largest crowd to the village since its incorporation. Every bit of standing room in the downtown was taken. It was difficult to get around on main street. Cars were parked on terraces.

The parade was a mile long with over 100 entries. Some exhibits were horse-drawn, and there were old-time vehicles and eight marching bands. The Archbold Town Band, augmented by many former members, played a two-hour concert.

The crowd remained until a late hour; most concessions operated, and business places were packed with customers, and hundreds visited the antique displays.

A record of seven family reunions was held in Ruihley Park, Sunday, Aug. 17.

County citizens will be surprised to learn the county will soon be out of debt.

The last of the Delta viaduct bonds will be paid on Sept. 1, and Fulton County will be out of debt.

Mayor Victor G. Ruffer, Eli Shibler, and Dewey Rupp played with the McCune American Legion Post Band at the Ohio American Legion Convention in Youngstown, Monday.

Mr. Milton Schantz suffered a broken ankle bone painting a house in Napoleon when the ladder slipped.

Rev. and Mrs. H. H. Amstutz received letters from their son Harold Amstutz, who, with his wife and little son are stationed as missionaries at Blukwa, Belgian Congo, in Africa. They spoke of getting their little boy settled in school. The letters were short but passed the censorship board without deletions.

Resolutions favoring the name of Fort Defiance have been adopted by directors of the Defiance Chamber of Commerce.

The city grew up around Fort Defiance, established by Mad Anthony Wayne in 1794, and for a time the community carried the name Fort Defi- ance until after the year 1821.

Probably a high spot of the great Diamond Jubilee celebration was the “Made In Archbold” display in the huge tent, which attracted thousands of visitors. The display showed what keeps the town growing and booming in good and bad times.

It was worth the trip to town alone.

100 Years Ago

Tuesday, Aug. 22, 1916

There was an Army truck in town Wednesday. It was so constructed that power was distributed to the front and rear wheels. It was built to carry five tons.

They are very busy at the Archbold and Elmira Glove Factory. They could sell many more gloves if they could make them faster.

All westbound cars on the T&I Railroad were delayed until 3:30 pm, Saturday afternoon, because of the great rain storm that prevailed from Wauseon to Toledo. Water was six inches deep in the streets of Wauseon. Many telephone and telegraph wires were blown down, and much corn was flattened between Wauseon and Napoleon.

Complaints and reports from around the area are that school teachers have resigned to take position elsewhere at better pay.

At Hudson, Mich., several old paved streets are being resurfaced with an asphaltcement mixture, which transforms the old thoroughfares to smooth, noiseless streets.

People are giving more attention to getting some pleasure out of life. The increased crowd that comes to Archbold Thursday evening to hear the band play testifies to the efforts of the people to get some music out or life. Better come to town and hear the band. It’s free.

Good roads and automobiles and trucks are helping to bring first-class amusements to country people. A canvas theatre traveling out of Akron is making one-night stops in small towns, which is drawn by large auto trucks.

At the last minute, Congress became liberal with Army and Navy appropriations and voted $267,559,000 for the maintenance of the regular Army and National Guard. The public must foot the bill.

Friday, Aug. 25, 1916

The following were confirmed as special police during the two days of the Homecoming with special instructions that they obtain uniforms: Alex Grime, E.F. Nofzinger, George Priest, J.W. Waldvogel, and George Claire.

Seven weeks of married life is enough for Bessie Beck, of Bryan. She has filed a petition in the Williams County courts for divorce from her husband William Beck, alleging that he treated her cruelly.

Officials are again agitating for an electric railroad from Fort Wayne to Bryan to connect with the T&I Railroad. Such a road ought to be a very profitable property.

The Deutchland ship reached Germany Aug. 23. The first undersea boat to cross the Atlantic in spite of the British blockade and to return to Germany has accomplished the feat.

The sister ship, the Bremen, has not been heard from for weeks. The Deutchland came to America with a load of valuable drugs, dyes, and mail. She returned with a load of rubber and copper.

The merry-go-round is here and began operations, Wednesday evening. It will stay until after the Golden Jubilee celebration.

An unusual number of campers traveling with wagons stopped in Archbold. They seem all to have money and patronize the merchants liberally.

Manufacturers say that sauerkraut will be more expensive this year because of a shortage of cabbage.



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