125 years ago
Friday, Aug. 4, 1892
The commissioners of Auglaize, Darke, Mercer and Shelby Counties are holding a joint meeting today in Sidney to consider the Mile Creek ditch. The ditch project also contemplates the deepening of Loramie Creek from Loramies to below Wynant.
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The re-roofing of the court house is progressing rapidly. There are 11,550 pounds of cooper required for the job, and the work of laying it, in all probability will be completed in the next two weeks.
100 years ago
Friday, Aug. 4, 1917
The fire department was called to the gas house on Michigan Street last evening because of a gas explosion. Willoughby Stewart, who lives nearby and was working in his garden, leaned against the building to light his pipe. The resulting explosion blew out the west wall of the building, but Stewart escaped injury. The fire was quickly put out.
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The first physical examinations before the local exemption board were made this morning. The first man up was George Mills, of Sidney, who sailed through the ordeal with flying colors. Dr. H.E. Beebe has been named to assist Dr. Hussey in conducting the physical examinations.
75 years ago
Friday, Aug. 4, 1942
Success in big letters was written as a climax to the first war chest drive of World War II in Shelby County, when tabulations this morning showed the drive had gone well past its quota of $20,000. An avalanche of reports over the weekend sent the campaign past the unofficial total of $21,000, with prospects it might reach $23,000 to $24,000.
50 years ago
Friday, Aug. 4, 1967
Observing an inflated inner tube rolling out of an alley into North Ohio Street followed by a small child, Ronald R. Wiford, 820 Dingman, stopped his southbound truck before hitting either. Wiford was thereby name a “Safe Drive of the Week” in the Sidney Optimist Club Traffic Safety Campaign.
25 years ago
Friday, Aug. 4, 1992
The first calls on a new digital phone system were made by Larissa Himmeger, Jackson Center, Center Pharmacy pharmacist, and James E. Davis, Maplewood, senior vice president of Bank One in Jackson Center. United Telephone Co. Saturday began operation of the new technology allowing calls to be speedier and clearer.
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Photo: New Fort Loramie School Superintendent Larry Ludlow talks with his secretary Joan Hilgefort on his first official day at this new job for the district. As he arrives into the new job, Ludlow must deal locally with state budget constraints on education. He is also involved in a search to hire a new elementary school principal.
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Gregory T. Johnson, 38, of Salem, has been hired by the Sidney City Board of Education as the new principal of Sidney High School. Johnson, who currently serves as high school principal in the Leetonia Exempted Village School District, was employed Tuesday afternoon during a special meeting of the school board.
