- Child’s heart still beats against all odds
- Sophisticated scam hits region
- St. John’s welcomes new associate pastor
- Fortener indulging in radio passion in Indy
- Thomas ‘Allen’ Moneer, Jr.
- Amy C. (Baldauf ) Foust
- Metcalfe's Musings
- Arnzen’s career touched hundreds of youth
- Beck talks immigration to church group
- Rayman’s watercolors selected for art book
- Miller making music for 40 years
- Debra L. Cope
- Arnzen’s career touched hundreds of youth
- Millers wrap up Mediterranean visit
- Kylie Honigford maintains family tradition, heads to Rocky Mountains to run
- Actions will not be forgotten
- Vancrest couple celebrates 69th anniversary, residents pet donkeys
- Laws of Life Essays Part 2
- FFA Food for America
- Westrich immortalized at UT
It Was News Then
One Year Ago
Cloudy skies weren’t overcast enough to keep Ohio groundhog Buckeye Chuck from seeing his shadow when he emerged from his home this morning. According to tradition, that means six more weeks of winter. A somewhat jumpy Chuck came out of his burrow at 7:38 a.m. on the grounds of radio station WMRN in this city 45 miles north of Columbus. With sun peeking through the clouds, he saw his shadow, bringing moans from the crowd that had gathered for the event.
Just three days after the president’s State of the Union address, one of the region’s representatives to Congress delivered a legislative update to his constituents today over breakfast. Fifth District Representative Paul Gillmor (R-Old Fort) was the keynote speaker at the Van Wert Area Chamber of Commerce Eggs and Issues Breakfast at Willow Bend Country Club.
25 Years Ago — 1982
Mayor Edna J. Nolte has proclaimed Feb. 14 “We Believe in Marriage Day” in Delphos. The proclamation has been issued in conjunction with Gov. James Rhodes’ proclamation supporting marriage in Ohio. The city’s and state’s proclamations are a part of a nationwide campaign aimed at recognizing that marriage still forms the structural foundation of society.
Spencerville Village Council rejected increases in all village departments’ operating fund appropriations at Monday’s council meeting. Rollbacks of Village Treasurer Doyt Prichard’s appropriation recommendations came when Prichard told council Spencerville’s projected 1982 budget was approximately $10,000 short of the $130,135 general fund estimate.
50 Years Ago — 1957
Richard Brickner, post commander of the Delphos Post of the American Legion, announced today that the Legion’s annual “Back to God” program will be presented at 2 p.m. Sunday on the CBS television network. Will Rogers, Jr. will narrate the program, “For God and Country.” Featured on the program will be a dramatization of the story of the four chaplains who died heroically in the sinking of the Dorchester in the Atlantic 14 years ago Sunday.
The program for the Delphos Lincoln Day Dinner, to be held on Monday, Feb. 11, has been announced by Richard Thompson. The GOP event, sponsored by the Delphos Republican Club, will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the music room at Jefferson High School. Guest speaker will be Judge James Garfield Stewart of Cincinnati. Stewart, a member of the Ohio Supreme Court panel, is a former mayor of the city of Cincinnati.
Delphos will continue to have two deputy registrars of motor vehicles, one selling the auto license plates and the other drivers’ licenses. Lewis Wiechart has been named to serve as registrar of the drivers’ licenses. John Pitsenbarger will succeed S. H. Wahmhoff as deputy registrar in Delphos for the distribution of the auto tags.
75 Years Ago — 1932
Additional Delphos boys have been enrolled for the C.M.T.C. to be conducted at Fort Benjamin Harrison Ind. next summer. Herman Burger, Richard Gladen, and Urban Schaffner have been added to the list. Captain John Metzner is in charge of the registrations in this city. The camp will be for a period of one month, and the government will bear all of the expenses for the boys who attend, including their railroad fair to and from camp.
Further improvements are being planned for the Hartshorn Cemetery on the banks of the Auglaize River, east of Delphos. Marion Township trustees called upon F. B. Bryan, West Fourth Street, Monday. Bryan, who has been taking care of the cemetery for a number of years, has not been well and is confined to his home at the present time. While there, they made arrangements for work to be done at the cemetery as soon as the weather conditions will permit in the spring.
Plans for the Delphos post office building are now being formulated. Mr. Hart, a post office inspector and representative of the firm of architects, Gramm and Holly, of Toledo, were in Delphos Monday to inspect the site for the office at Main and Second, and to confer with the postmaster with regard to matters at the local office.
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