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. For more history of Kosciusko County in the news visit yesteryear.clunette.com

May 20, 1978 — Attila Bardos and Karen Kachilk were named the king and queen of the 1978 Warsaw Community High School junior-senior prom last night. Attila is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Denes Bardos, 119 Argonne Road, Warsaw, and Karen is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kachilk, Rt. 6, Warsaw.

May 25, 1959 — Larry Ruch today reigned as Indiana’s best pole vaulter after winning the event in the state track meet last Saturday and becoming Warsaw High School’s first gold medal winner since Max Truex set a record mile pace in 1954. Ruch is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ruch, 935 E. Clark St., Warsaw.

Back in the day … the east side of Buffalo Street consisted for the most part of one-story frame buildings. In 1875, on the corner was James H. Cisney’s dry goods store, next came Emil Keller’s barber shop, then Lyman Sapp’s drugstore; the next building, the only two-story frame in the row, housed Z. C. Bratt’s shoe store, with a shoe repair shop upstairs, operated by Dan Bratt; then a bakery, for so many years operated by J.J. Varil; next door was located the Van Gilder hardware store. Here among the frame row was a brick structure which housed a clothing store owned by Henry Zekind, later occupied by the Globe clothing establishment. Across the alley were three more frame business rooms, the first occupied by Philip Huffman with a stock of groceries, the second by Hendee & Glessner’s shoe store; the third was a two-story edifice in which was located Mumaw & Peterson’s grocery. Then came the old landmark, the three-story building so long known as Shane’s Corner, later occupied by the Warsaw Candy Kitchen. It is well to remember that the sidewalks in Warsaw’s business district at that time were not to exceed five or six feet in width and were constructed of boards nailed to “stringers.” Cobblestone gutters and hitching racks bordered the walks and a paved street was undreamed of. 

– Compiled by InkFreeNews reporter Lasca Randels