100 years
Feb.10, 1916
The Sidney Electric Co .has closed contracts for machinery and equipment which when installed will cost in the neighborhood of $50,000. The equipment is for the purpose of enlarging the company ‘s capacity and reserve to take care of its rapidly growing business. A large number of Sidney factories have been connected for electric power and the Sidney Electric Company is now considered to be one of Sidney’s hustling industries.
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Members of the Holy Angels High School alumni at a meeting last evening named the following officers: John Kennedy, President, Rauth Bush, vice-president; Fred Dickas, secretary, and Miss Adeline Amann treasurer.
75 years
Feb. 10, 1941
A call to Shelby County teachers to meet the challenge of the fascist ideology by making democracy work, was made Saturday the annual association meeting of Shelby County teachers and boards of education, by E.C. Ramsey of Washington, former foreign war correspondent and lecturer on world conditions. During the business session of the meeting V.H. Blanke, president of the county teachers, gave a report on the state meeting of the Ohio Education Association.
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Among the Ohio firms receiving contracts today by the Navy and War Departments was the Sidney Machine Tool Company. The contract in the amount of $25,071 was for engine lathes for the Navy Department.
50 years
Feb.10, 1966
A second tank car of chemicals involved in the train wreck at Degraff the night of Jan. 28 was removed this morning by work crews of the New York Central railroad. David Papier, chemist for the Ohio Department of Health said this morning that the tank car contained methacrylic acid a chemical used in the plastic industry. Concern was expressed that nearly a week elapsed before the Ohio Department of Health was notified that chemicals had seeped into nearby creeks and rivers.
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Paul Huelskamp passed the oral examination conducted by the civil service commission Tuesday evening and passed the other requirements to become a member of the Sidney Fire Department according to City Manager John J. Dullea.
25 years
Feb. 10, 1991
While Indians were still roaming Shelby County woods, and settlers were clearing farmland, early ministers were traveling the area writing their sermons in their heads from memorized Bible verses and stopping for worship services under trees. The earliest religious organizations in the county were of the Protestant faith, with many being Methodist. The groups were served by missionary preachers known as circuit rides who traveled among settlements on horseback. The first organized church in Shelby County were the Presbyterians.
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Robert and Sondra Barnhart recently placed a service star in their window to honor Army 1st Lt. Dawn Barnhart. The blue star on a white field surrounded by a red border represents a military person serving overseas in a combat area. Ms. Barnhart is a medical brigade adjutant deployed in the Middle East with Operation Desert Storm. The Shelby County American Red Cross has distributed one hundred of these since the conflict started. Offering these stars to the immediatefamily’s of men and women who serve has been a Red Cross tradition since World War II.
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