100 Years
May 4, 1916
The advisability of a part of all of the Clinton township schools being annexed to the Sidney City school district is being discussed by many parents and interested parties. A petition requesting such annexation has already been signed by a majority of the parents living about Wagner park. A major factor in the thinking is that the township has been obliged to purchase a wagon and haul many of the pupils from the vicinity to the Russell district school, although many of these children are within walking distance of the Third ward school in the city.
75 Years
May 4, 1941
Sidney and Troy High schools placed superior in Division I schools with an enrollment of 400 or more, in the district-state scholarship test held at Miami university in Oxford on Saturday. Sidney students taking first places in the division included: Dorothy Taylor, French I; Lousie Elsner, biology; Homer Schamp and Jerry Toy, tied for first in physics; Laverna Snyder, plane geometry; David Lantz, general science.
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The “Sidney Quiz Kid” who will appear Friday on the Dick Bray sports show from WLW at Cincinnati, slipped in a practice session last evening. Two teams from this city will complete on the program. One team, representing the Iutis club, will be composed of Kenneth McDowell, Lee Harmony, and Bill Rhees. The other team, representing the Daily News, will include Cecil Watkins, Oliver Amos and Tom Potter.
50 Years
May 4, 1966
Sidney Mayor Gerald Billing will be among city heads from five states meeting Friday in Cleveland to hear Vice president Hubert Humphrey and other policy-making officials from Washington discuss federal aid programs.
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Mrs. William Cones Wednesday evening was elected president of Alpha Gamma Chapter, Delta Theta Tau Sorority. Mrs. Hugh Bonnoront, outgoing president, was in charge of the meeting.
Other newly-elected officers are Mrs. George Mitchell, vice president; Mrs. Lloyd Applegate, recording secretary; Mrs. Thomas Kerrigan, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Roger Ruese, treasurer; Mrs. Bonnoront, sergeant-at-arms, and Miss Vera D. Ginn, historian.
25 Years
May 4, 1991
A Sidney woman last weekend placed second in the Business Professions of America national skills competition in Orlando, Fla.
Sherry Pottorf, 2891 Meadowbrook Drive, was the runner-up in the office assistant competition. She also took honorable mention in the office employment skills competition. Nearly 1,000 students from around the nation competed in the various contests.
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Washington (AP) – In the hours after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait last August, deep frustration set in on the White House and the Pentagon: policymakers knew something had to be done, but no one knew what, according to author Bob Woodward’s fly-on-the-wall account.
“There’s nothing we can do,” Woodward quotes Army Lt. Gen. Thomas W. Kelly as despairing. No U.S. ground forces were in the region and Saddam’s forces were massing as though to roll into Saudi Arabia.
