125 Years
January 2, 1892
The system of free delivery of mail went into effect New Year’s Day. The carriers made but one delivery in the morning as it was a legal holiday. The carriers have the following number of patrons listed: L.E. Kelley, route. No.1, 950; Leroy Michael, No. 2, 820; W. H. Mumford, No. 3, 733. One cent postage will no longer carry a drop letter. It will require two cents. Carriers are not required to deliver mail on premises where cross dogs are harboured.
100 Years
January 2, 1917
Robert G. Taylor, of the furniture firm of O.B. Taylor and Son, left this morning for Grand Rapids, Mich., where he will attend the furniture mart, and also deliver two addresses on Period Styles in Furniture at seminar courses sponsored by the Grand Rapids Furniture Record.
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Hon. J.E. Russell, A.J. Hess, and Harry Hess left New York City today on the liner Panama for a trip through the Panama Canal. They will be gone for some weeks.
75 Years
January 2, 1942
Members of the Von Bora Society at St. John Lutheran Church at their final meeting for 1941 named Mrs. Fred Timeus, president. Mrs. O.R. Strete was elected vice-president; Mrs. Anna Harmon, secretary; and Mrs. Clem Fogt, treasurer.
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Mr. and Mrs. William Kingseed, South Main Avenue, have received a letter from their son, William, Jr., in Hawaii advising that he is alright. The brief letter, carrying a Pearl Harbor postmark, was dated December 10.
50 Years
January 2, 1967
With 3.52 inches of precipitation, last month was the second wettest December here since the Sidney weather bureau began keeping its own records eight years ago.
The wettest was December of 1961 when 3.61 inches of rain and snow fell, according to David Fette, observer at the station north of Sidney. The precipitation last month raised the total for the year to 37.49 inches – only .28 inch less than the long-time average of 37.77 inches.
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County commissioners reorganized Monday by electing Roger A. Elsass chairman and then went into a busy holiday season.
Elsass, who is a Sidney barber living at 704 Lynn Street, succeeds Merton Maxwell, of Jackson Center, in the chairmanship.
25 Years
January 2, 1992
The Sidney High School Band will be playing for some 25,000 people today in Disney World after playing Wednesday at halftime at the Hall of Fame Bowl in Tampa, Fla., to a large crowd.
The Sidney High School Band will be leaving Florida about 10 p.m. tonight, ending a trip which started Dec. 28. The band won “excellent” ratings in the contests which are part of the Hall of Fame Bowl activities for high school bands.
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Two deer did some window shopping in Sidney but went their separate ways after Sidney Police hurried them along.
The two deer, one with an apparent broken leg, appeared to have come from the Village West Apartments area, between Folkerth Avenue and Vandemark Road.
