100 years
Feb. 27, 1916
P.J. Scherer has purchased the Grand Theater on the South side of the square from J.B. Lovett and will take charge of the business at once. He expects to open the theater for business either Wednesday or Thursday night and expects to run it as a high class film picture theater.
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Mr. and Mrs. James Tallman, residents of Bennett Heights, reported that today they noticed an aeroplane in that vicinity about 8:30 last night. They say the machine came from the west, circled above the vicinity for some time and then started toward the North. What an aeroplane would be doing in this vicinity is very mysterious.
75 years
Feb. 27, 1941
Fire damaged several used cars and several new stock at the Dixie Auto Parts Co. on North Dixie Highway this morning. The location is outside the city limits but fire extinguishers were sent to the scene which aided the control of the fire.
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The annual World Day of Prayer will be held tomorrow afternoon in the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. O.O. LeMaster is the general chairman . Special music will be part of the service Mrs. Rhoades and Mrs.Gaberson as the main speakers.
50 years
Feb. 27, 1966
For the third straight year the Sidney Kawainis Club has captured first place honors for a club of it’s size in the Ohio area for its achievements. According to word received by Larry Bishop, Lt. Governor of Division 3 Ohio Kawanis. The Sidney Club has been named achievement winner for 1965 and will again be placed in international competition, The club was under the direction of Edwin Frey as president last year.
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New Bremen volunteer fireman have offered for sale a half ton bell which was used to call the fireman when the department was first organized. The bell was in the tower on a building on North main street which was razed to make room for the building that now houses the post office and New Bremen National Bank. Dave Kuck, fireman says, “We want to get rid of it.”
25 years
Feb. 27, 1991
The Battlefields of the Persian Gulf were quiet today. Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, broke by a six week beating in the air and on the ground, bowed to all allied demands and hewed to the cease-fire announced by President Bush. World leaders and American citizens hailed the cease-fire which appeared to bring an end to the Persian Gulf War, and turned to the sober task in reckoning the cost in blood money and hatred. The easy allied victory over the 500,000 man Iraqi Army has allies praising American troops and President Bush. We have exorcised the ghosts of Vietnam and have a new credibility and influence in the region. America’s prestige will be higher than it has ever been.
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