ARCHBOLD WEATHER

Golden Notes Of Archbold’s Memorable Past


Twenty-Five Years Ago

Wednesday, Jan. 31, 1996

According to a Jan. 24 news release from the Fairlawn Corporation, a major contribution from the Wilbur and Lorraine Wyse family will provide a recreational facility for the Fairlawn campus.

The new building, which will be located south of the nursing home, will be named Wyse Commons in honor of the Wyse family. A plaque honoring the family will be placed in the lobby.

Fairlawn administrator Steve Ringenberg said he is hopeful construction can begin on the 11,550-squarefoot building as early as May. Wyse Commons will include a swimming pool, locker room, store, cafe, shuffleboard courts, fellowship areas and offices for the staff.

The pool will open to the public, if they meet an age requirement, for a membership fee.

Ringenberg said a variety of aquatic programs are planned for the pool as well as exercise programs.

Wyse Commons will face west. Attached to it on the north and south will be 10 apartments occupied by their owners; they will not be rental units. Both oneand two-bedroom units are planned.

The taste of Nafziger Ice Cream won’t change, said Gary Giller, president of Stroh’s Ice Cream, new owners of the Archbold firm.

Stroh’s Ice Cream, Detroit, purchased Nafziger’s as part of the company’s bankruptcy proceedings. The Detroit firm bid $1.2 million for Nafziger’s. “The ice cream will not change, and the name will not change,” Giller said. “It will only get better and increase in prominence. The name is one of the jewels we acquired, and we are not going to change the recipe. And yes, we’ll still have Moose Tracks.”

The Ohio Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated 1,400 county residents were looking for work in November 1995. That’s the highest number of people out of a job since July 1995, when OBLS estimated the total number of persons seeking employment was 1,500.

Small, black containers sometimes described as looking like hand grenades started appearing at Archbold High School this week. They have nothing to do with explosives. They are the first step in the process of testing for radon, the odorless, colorless, tasteless radioactive gas that some theorists link to lung cancer in humans.

Fifty Years Ago

Wednesday, Feb. 3, 1971

Owen Rice, attorney, 409 Vine Street, was selected as Citizen of the Year.

He will be honored at a recognition banquet sponsored by Archbold Lions Club, Thursday evening, Feb. 18. The banquet will be open to the public.

Owen Rice was born Feb. 16, 1900, on a farm south of Farmer in Defiance County, the son of the late Oney and Blanche Rice, and graduated from Farmer High School.

Three local students enrolled at Goshen College are among 34 students teaching in northern Indiana junior or senior high schools.

Joyce, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Verden L. Beck, 609 Pleasant St., is teaching physical education at Northridge High School, Middlebury, Ind.

Jon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dale A. Fielitz, 206 Wilson St., is teaching business at Westview Junior-Senior High School, Topeka, Ind.

Mrs. Emma Jean Yoder Wyse, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T.T. Yoder, 400 Stryker St., is teaching physical education at Wawasee High School, Syracuse, Ind.

All three students graduated from Archbold High School in 1967.

The fifth and sixth grade girls concluded their noon tournament games, Tuesday, Jan. 26. Appearing in a photograph are Ann Dominique, Lisa Short, Marilyn Stuckey, Nancy Fruchey, Rita Liechty, Kathy Schroeder, Cheryl Clair.

Charles Nafziger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Nafziger and a sophomore at Defiance College, is spending the DC Winter Term at Pettisville High School for field experience in education.

John Schrock, Pettisville, presented and narrated slide pictures at the Rotary Club meeting depicting the use of the teen-age center known as The Loft, located in the Metzler Building at the corner of Pettisville Road and State Rt. 2.

Two students from the Archbold High School Band will be among 150 students from 48 Ohio counties to attend the 15th annual New Music Reading Clinic, Feb. 5-6, at Bowling Green State University. From Archbold are Darlene Leininger, bass clarinet, and Patsy Ebersole, bass clarinet. They are accompanied by Thomas Ehrman, AHS band director.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

Wednesday, Feb. 6, 1946

Council discussed the boulevard lighting system proposed for the Archbold downtown business area at the Monday evening meeting. Plans include main street from the New York Central Railroad crossing to Williams Street, including one-half block sections off Stryker Street, Depot Street, and West Williams Street.

Mr. L.J. Lawrence, Wauseon, representing the Toledo Edison Company, was present at the meeting to discuss suggestions of his engineering department. He said the plans as proposed would install lampposts with goosenecks carrying brilliant lights. The posts will be staggered at points on alternate sides of the street. The lights will give 50 percent more light than the present system.

The Toledo Edison plan offers a lighting system just like Delta, with the posts 18 inches to 2 feet from the curb.

Archbold firemen answered a call to the Walter Stamm farm, one mile north of Archbold on Rt. 66, Saturday morning at 9:20, where flames destroyed a large hog house and contents. No stock was lost, but a quantity of oats and corn was destroyed as well as a trailer. Firemen saved an adjoining corncrib and kept the flames from reaching the large modern barn.

Miss Viola Miller is confined to her bed as result of a leg injury sustained in an automobile accident, Jan. 21. She was riding in a car with her brother, his wife, and their guest, Thomas R. Reed of Dixon, Ill., when the car collided with an automobile driven by Robert Dominique. Both cars were badly damaged. Viola was the only one injured, suffering torn ligaments and injured kneecap. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Miller.

Mr. Lawrence Ringenberg spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ringenberg, and other relatives. For the last four years he has been teaching at Ohio State University, but has resigned to accept an assistant professorship in mathematics at the University of Maryland.

Rupp Hatchery at Delta, operated by Elroy Rupp, was entered sometime Monday night. The 350-pound safe was hauled to a creek nearby, where thugs broke it open with a sledge and remove the contents.

Willard G. Miller started a freight service Jan. 23. It operates between Stryker, Archbold, Pettisville, and Bryan.

Wilbur Rupp, Toledo, New York Central engineer, died in the Bryan Cameron Hospital last Tuesday from effects of a fall that fractured his skull. He climbed onto the locomotive to oil the bell when he fell, his head striking the engine or a rail.

100 Years Ago

Wednesday, Feb. 2, 1921

Wonser & Schaaf have purchased the meat market and grocery of R.P. Wyse and are now in possession. Both members of the new firm have had experience in the line of table and household supplies and are able to conduct a business that ought to be satisfactory to the patrons. The store will be called The Corner Market.

While working on a winch used in elevating logs from a vat at the local basket factory, Alfred McClellan had the ends of two fingers pinched off.

You no doubt have found the taxes this year higher than ever in the village of Archbold, so you may know the facts as to who gets the increase we publish the following. Please note the village of Archbold is receiving for the year 1920 less taxes than for the past five years. Your extra tax money goes to the state of Ohio and for road purposes of all kinds. Archbold taxes have decreased from 6 mills to 5.6 mills.

It should be noted that the state tax for 1920 is 3.3 mills. Of the state tax, the schools of the county receive 2.8 mills in addition to the local levy.

Mr. Seth L. Rupp is circulating a petition to gravel the mile of road east of town known as the Rupp Gravel Pike. The road runs from Stotzers Corners to the Henry County line.

Three buildings burned at Elmira Tuesday evening. The blacksmith shop of Ed. Schong and Chris. Leupp was burned together with the building on the north just opened by Lytle Steensen as a barber shop, and Moses Lower’s residence on the south of the blacksmith shop.

Fire was discovered in the vacant upper rooms of the blacksmith shop, which quickly spread to the barbershop and Lower’s residence.

Villagers rallied and saved all the contents of the barbershop and some of the tools from the blacksmith shop. All of the household goods were saved from the lower floor of the Lower’s house and a few things from upstairs. This is the third time the Lowers have been burned out. They feel that they are having more than their share of troubles.

The 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hagelbarger of near Kunkle was fatally scalded last Monday, when the child pulled the plug of the washing machine. He was terribly burned around the body and died a few hours later.

The Duroc swine breeders of Fulton County met at the courthouse in Wauseon last Monday, and perfected a county organization. Twenty seven men were present. Mr. Zale Borton of West Unity was elected president. Mr. Robert Reynolds of Swanton was elected vice president; Mr. N. Mossing, treasurer; and Banty Huber of Pettisville, secretary.