A Glance Back in Time

By EVELYN LONG –

90 years ago, May 11, 1922:

“Irene Menges, 20, was res­cued Fri­day from an iron sheeted shed on the farm of her father, Jacob Menges, near Galion where she was said to have been impris­oned for two years. Sher­iff Edward Knap­pen­berger of Craw­ford County and the county mar­shal released the girl from captivity.”

“Last Fri­day evening the annual recep­tion, attended with all the dig­nity, and splen­dor befit­ting the occa­sion, was given the seniors by the juniors at the K of P Hall. The hall proper was dec­o­rated in the junior col­ors of old rose and sil­ver and the din­ing room in the seniors col­ors of green and gold. The menu was fruit cock­tail, wafers, chicken salad, sand­wiches, dev­iled eggs, olives, nuts, cof­fee, ice cream and cake. Helen John­son was toast­mas­ter; Orville Philbrook greeted the senior girls; Rachel Vaughan greeted the senior boys; Ger­ald Beitler, the junior girls and Bernar­dine the junior boys.”

A son was born to Mr. And Mrs. George Irons on April 26.

The gro­cery depart­ment of The Peo­ples Store Com­pany, part of what is known as the largest busi­ness house in Mor­row County, was sold to V. L. Mered­ith of Ashley.

“The sec­re­tary of the monthly stock sales, Ray Curl, has money that belongs to a party leav­ing prop­erty for sale and he wishes the party would come and get it.”

60 years ago, May 8, 1952

Pic­tured was the 1952 May Queen and court. The court was seated on a throne on the school’s base­ball field. Pic­tured were Donna Hart, queen, Betty McGraw, retir­ing queen, Diana Main, Son­dra Jenk­ins, Car­men Sue Den­nis and Julia Kay Snider, flower girls; Gary Tay­lor, crown bearer; Joanne Fricke, Ber­neta DeLong and Betty Mosher, seniors; Jeanne Rengert, Mar­i­lyn Boger and Judith Wit­ter, juniors; Betty Bow­man and Helen Ziegler, sopho­mores and Bar­bara Soulier and Ann Thomp­son, fresh­men The Card­ing­ton Pirate base­ball team blanked the Iberia Pres­i­dents 11–0 to win their eighth con­sec­u­tive Mor­row County High School base­ball cham­pi­onship. The shut out was the third straight for Cardington’s mound staff. Brad Lan­don was cred­ited with14 strike outs dur­ing the six innings.

Mor­row County Com­mis­sion­ers pur­chased 4.67 acres of land adjoin­ing the Mor­row County Hos­pi­tal from Ruth New­son as the site for the Children’s Home.

The 55 piece CArd­ing­ton High School band was lay­ing its spring con­cert. A trom­bone solo was to be played by Frank Curl and a brass quar­tet, Ver­non Heim­lich, Jeanne Rengert, Jon Sel­l­ars and David Burggraf was to play with the band accompanying.

James Mur­phy and Ella Stone were play­ing a flute and clar­inet duet accom­pa­nied by Eve­lyn Fricke.

Rex Rid­dle of Iberia was named pres­i­dent of the Mor­row County National Honor Soci­ety. Char­lotte Pat­ter­son, Card­ing­ton, was vice pres­i­dent; Ray­mond Linn of Johnsville, sec­re­tary and Mil­dred Downs, Johnsville, treasurer.

Bird­song Auto Sales adver­tised a 1951 Buick Rive­ria with 11,000 miles at $2,395.

30 years ago, May 17, 1982

Card­ing­ton school stu­dents were prepar­ing for their spring art show. Pic­tured were Diana Cal­bert, Rose Keller, Rod Jenk­ins, David Baker, Mike Smith, and Brett Lam­bert, mak­ing preparations.

Card­ing­ton FFA mem­bers were work­ing on the log cabin in the Card­ing­ton Park.

They were rebuild­ing the porches, pour­ing con­crete, refill­ing the space between the logs, etc. Pic­tured were David Minturn and Matt Sherman.

Kathy Mat­tix received the Harold Vay­hinger Award at Ohio North­ern Uni­ver­sity made to grad­u­at­ing seniors cer­ti­fy­ing in all grades, K-12, most exem­pli­fy­ing the ideals and capa­bil­i­ties nec­es­sary for future suc­cess as a teacher.

The Jeri-Ann Drive In was erect­ing a new facil­ity on West Main Street. It was to have 1600 square feet of floor space and was to be oper­ated by Mr. And Mrs. Steve Maceyko and was to be open year round.

Gov­er­nor James Rhodes was plan­ning to attend the Fes­ti­val of Thanks Memo­r­ial Ser­vice on June 13. Work­ing on the king and queen con­test for the ser­vice were Roy Fox, Holly Fox, Vickie Ullom and Mar­ilee Augenstein.

Dr. Willaim Deffin­ger, Marengo physi­cian, was hon­ored on his retirement.

Named Out­stand­ing CHS seniors were Jeff Elliott and Mag­gie Flora.

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