100 Years
May 18, 1916
E.J. Griffis has filed suit in common pleas court, asking that the Big Four railroad be enjoined from moving the station building at Dawson to Houston, to replace the one destroyed by fire earlier this week. Griffis claims the building was leased by him to the railroad and they are attempting to remove the building without his consent.
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Archbishop Moeller will be the celebrant for the solemn high mass to be held Sunday morning to observe the 25th anniversary of the construction of Holy Angels church.
75 Years
May 18, 1941
A comprehensive program of improvements at Graceland cemetery is now under way under the direction of Mayor John Sexauer and Rolla Laughlin, sexton, designed to restore some of the former beauty of the cemetery. The heavy iron gates and fence have been removed. A stone entrance has been erected and a low hedge planted along the side. Further improvements on the grounds are being carried out, with the hope all the work can be completed by Memorial Day.
50 Years
May 18, 1966
The Sidney Education Association installed its new officers at a dinner meeting Wednesday evening in the Sidney High School Cafeteria.
Clayton Pepple, assistant principal at Sidney High, and immediate past president, introduced the new officers to the Sidney educators. Mrs. Rita Smith, music teacher at Parkwood Junior High School, will lead the group next year. Robert Conrad, social studies instructor at Central Junior High School, will become the president-elect and will assume the president’s role in 1967-68. Mrs. Clarise Needles will serve as secretary. Mrs. Needles teaches first grade at Central Elementary School. Mrs. Betty Fridley, secretarial teacher at Sidney High, will be treasurer.
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Robert R. Oldham was re-elected chairman of the Shelby county Republican central and executive committees at a reorganization meeting held Wednesday night in the Wagner Hotel.
All other officers were re-elected. They are Sam Milligan, vice chairman; Harold E. Christman, secretary, and Louis H. West, treasurer.
25 Years
May 18, 1991
Effective July 1, the Rev. Daniel L. Mitchell will become the pastor of First Presbyterian Church, 202 N. Miami Ave. The congregation voted in favor of the hiring during a congregational meeting following Sunday’s worship service.
Mitchell will be replacing an interim pastor, the Rev. Thomas Green. The church has not had a permanent minister since the Rev. Guy McIver left the church in December 1989.
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Plans to use an historic home as a private banquet/reception facility got the Sidney Zoning Board of Appeals’ OK Monday.
The board gave conditional use approval to allow a private banquet/reception facility at 429 N. Ohio Ave., the former Way International Fine Arts and Historical Center, previously known as the Whitby Place and the Goode Mansion.
The new owner of the large house, Raymond R. Willis, plans to rent out the first floor for wedding receptions and other gatherings and live on the second floor.
