News from Days Past

120 years ago

1888

Frank Crockett and Dr. L.E. Robinson have been exchanging places of residence this week, the Doctor moving into the Main Street property purchased by him of Mr. Crockett, and the latter to the premises on East Forest also owned by Dr. Robinson.

110 years ago

1898

Will Sellinger broke his leg during the Lambert fire.

A gang of men was busy setting poles for the phone line between Clyde and Vickery. Will Hess had the contract for the job.

A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Jake Hummel; and sons to Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Persing, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Ohler, Mr. and Mrs. S.A. Sampsel and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Babcock.

Elizabeth Burger died at the home of her sister, Mrs. George Eberhard, in Seneca County.

Mrs. J.H. Soden, 40, the mother of 10 children the youngest of whom was 14 days old, died at her home on Piety Hill.

90 years ago

1918

J.E. Baker of the North Ridge road had an experience happen to two horses in a 3-horse team, while harrowing, that has seldom occurred. The horses bit at one another and got their jaws locked together in such a way that it was almost impossible to separate them. A veterinary was called and treated the teeth wounds. The jaws of neither animal were broken.

Orrin G. Franks was killed while flying in the U.S. Aviation Corps at Wichita Field, Texas.

Mrs. F.L. Miller was called to Tiffin by the serious condition of her sister.

Sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. Alton Drown and Mr. and Mrs. Matt Persing.

Local deaths reported were: Mrs. Hiram M. Roberts; Mrs. Nancy Myers Reiff; and Janet Winifred Jordan.

80 years ago

1928

Creditors of Clydesdale Motor Truck Co., which went into the hands of a receiver in Sept., 1925, received checks at approximately seven cents on the dollar. The Commerce Guardian Trust and Savings Co. of Toledo was the receiver.

Two farm houses, the nine-room Charles Streeter house and the William P. Foley home on Limerick at the end of Race St., were destroyed by fire.

Daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs. Erbin Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sayles and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Jerrard; and a son to Mr. and Mrs. John Homan.

Local deaths reported were: Morgan C. Sanford; Mrs. Elizabeth Setzler Dick; Mrs. Ida Tuck Sharp; William De Vanna; and August Wott.

70 years ago

1938

Lester Whiley sustained a broken left leg, near the ankle. He was on the ground, backing the tractor up to hitch it to the disc, when the frame of the tractor caught him between it and the disc.

Joseph Pocock opened his grocery and general store at Vickery in the new building he erected across the street from the Vickery postoffice.

Daughters were born to Dr. and Mrs. A.A. Maike, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rock and Mr. and Mrs. Eldron Layton; and a son to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Leggit, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Roberts and Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Yeckley.

Local deaths reported were: Mrs. Anna C. Harnden, 78; Joshua M. Underwood; Sarah Ann Bowers, 78; and Miss Mary Tripp.

60 years ago

1948

Three residents of the Colvin Rest Home at Galetown reached a wonderful old age. They were William Masonbrink, 93; William Neuschler, 94; and Wesley Burr, 87. All three had birthdays the first week of April.

Daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Rine and Mr. and Mrs. Cloyd Payne; and a son to Mr. and Mrs. Norman Weilnau.

Local deaths reported were: William Earl Walden, 26; Charles Beachel, 87; Elwood Earhart; and Leroy Metzger.

50 years ago

1958

Charles Singleton, manager of The Clyde Theater, announced the theater would close on April 13 due to lack of patronage. The building was rented to the congregation of the local Deliverance Tabernacle.

Daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs. John Cullen, Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Stinogel, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Burkett, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Thompson and Mr. and Mrs. Darl Noftz; and sons to Mr. and Mrs. Cletus Kaugman, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Corbin, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde D. Strausbaugh, Mr. and Mrs. William Nemoyten, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Farrar, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Keegan, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Smetzer, Mr. and Mrs. Merle Nause, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Posey and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Nicholson; and twin sons to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wylie.

Local deaths reported were: Miss Grace Margaret McCormick; Mark Owen Scott, one of twins born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scott; Mrs. Ralph (Irene) Vesey, 63; and Alton (Tom) Whitney, 71.

40 years ago

1968

Winfield "Bud" Turley attended the annual two-day Fire School at Bowling Green State University.

The first legal step for the extension of Woodland Ave. to Limerick Road was taken by Village Council when it passed a motion authorizing Village Manager Warren Curtis to write Sandusky County Commissioners asking their cooperation and participation in the proposed project.

Daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Hoover and Mr. and Mrs. James Lee; and sons to Mr. and Mrs. Hillard Meadows, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Plotner, Mr. and Mrs. William E. Huss and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Weisz Jr.; and twins, a daughter and a son to Mr. and Mrs. Hermis Johnson.

Local deaths reported were: Mrs. Frank (Barbara Lochotzki) Beier, 85; Mrs. M.I. (Lida Walden) Wiedle, 79; C. Arthur Werth, 76; Joseph Mills, 60; Mrs. Irvin (Betty Coe) Raifsnider, 47; Myrtin Close, 72; Nelson C. Hurst, 69; Arthur Churchill, 83; Mrs. Charles (Pearl Sibbrel) Lowery, 87; William E. Pearson, 74; Oren V. Brugger, 67; Charles Large, 51; infant Victoria Straub; and Mrs. Robert (Grace Robinson) Zimmerman.

30 years ago

1978

A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Bouyack; and sons to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Dirlam, Mr. and Mrs. James Greenslade and Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Miller.

Local deaths reported were: Mrs. Clarence (Helen Stout) Noftz, 55; Mrs. Howard (Eunice Humberger) Dickman, 76; Roger L. Bays, 31; Kenneth R. White, 40; Mrs. Lewis (Wanda Hubbard) Bivens, 60;

20 years ago

1988

The 50th anniversary of the dedication of St. Paul's Lutheran Church was held.

The dispatcher's window in the Clyde Police Department office was moved from the rear of the office to the lobby to make the dispatcher more accessible to the front entrance of the building.

Local deaths reported were: Mrs. Clifford (Pearl M. Close) Eshelman, 87; Mrs. Buford (Anna J. Slater) Rakes, 74; Mrs. William (Frances Wymer) Dudrow, 83; Mrs. Floyd (Zella M. Estep) Rine, 76.

10 years ago

1998

Mikyle Karr was seriously injured during a wild game feed at Whiteman's Grove. Children were swinging at the event and warned to discontinue their activities to avoid someone getting injured. A little while later, Karr's father heard a child scream, not knowing it was his own son. The boy's left femur bone was broken in two and required three surgeries and was confined to a spike body cast for 13 weeks.

Sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. Jason Musser and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Garvin.

Local deaths reported were: Connie A. Maynard, 42; Nellie DeJohn, 78; Clarence C. Snyder, 72; Ethel N. Maye, 88; Samuel Dean Bennett, 70; Harold A. Schmitz, 91; Helen Woessner, 69; Willard L. Fry, 89; John Bloxson, 53.

1 year ago

2007

During the Clyde Council, members stressed that a new Code of Conduct policy adopted by the Clyde Recreation Board also applies to adult teams using park facilities. The council voted 5 to 0 to approve the park code of conduct. The policy also applies to adult teams as well.

On April 14, Sandusky County Habitat for Humanity will break ground on its newest project and it will be on Church Street. Local residents Karen Sawyer and Walt Frazier are co-chairpersons of the 2007 Habitat house project.