From the Files of the Kosciusko County Historical Society

Editor’s note: This is a retrospective article that runs a few times a month on InkFreeNews.

Information for this retrospective series is courtesy of the Kosciusko County Historical Society.

May 25, 1973 – Ind. 15 will be re-routed out of the Warsaw downtown area this summer and the city will take over maintenance of Old U.S. 30 through the city, it was decided during a meeting of city officials with State Highway Commission representatives in Fort Wayne Thursday.

Lee Rush, Fort Wayne State Highway district engineer, told Mayor Paul (Mike) Hodges and other city officials that the state would re-route Ind. 15 on Detroit Street and Winona Avenue, taking it away from Market Street and Buffalo Street in the downtown area.

May 23, 1973 – Flames that licked away six Warsaw electrical contractor licensing examinations have kindled suspicions of yet another government cover-up.

Monday night members of the Warsaw Common Council learned during a public meeting that members of the city’s electrical contractor licensing board, James Breading, Philip Dennie, Donald Shireman and Eddie Hatfield, had destroyed by fire four examinations they gave to themselves for licenses. A total of six examination papers and results were destroyed.

May 25, 1965 – Hunters may use their bows and arrows and guns to pursue their sport of killing wild hogs on the Walter Blocher game preserve (about four miles east of Silver Lake) until midnight, Sept. 30.

This was the compromise settlement agreed upon by the defendant and neighbors who had filed a complaint for an injunction to halt the importation and hunting of boars on his property.

Adjoining property owners and neighbors filing the complaint against Blocher’s maintenance of the wild boar preserve were Guy and Leone Aker, Russell Bauer, Dr. Elbie V. Herendeen, Junior Rule and Guy and Ruth Cripe.

May 24, 1962 – Lee Harman and Jenny Bartlemay were crowned King and Queen of the Warsaw High School junior-senior prom Wednesday night at the Elks Club. Both are seniors.

– Compiled by InkFreeNews reporter Lasca Randels