By: PAULDING COUNTY HISTORY MUSEUM
25 Years Ago
From the Paulding County Progress, Oct. 20, 1999:
Five outstanding business and professional leaders were honored at the Paulding Chamber of Commerce banquet. Ron Eakins of R&B Fabrications in Charloe was named Small Business Person of the Year; Stan Searing, Leadership Award; Don Foltz Jr., Young Entrepreneur Award; Don Schweller of Schweller Electric and John Henry Kauser of Kauser Trucking, Silver Success Award.
Work is quickly progressing on the new county animal control facility. The structure, being built by Tri State Solarcrete, is located next to the existing dog kennel.
Decision time on a new jail facility is fast approaching for county officials, who have just two months to ready a bond issue before the spring primary filing deadline.
The fourth annual Family Life Day was Oct. 9 at the Paulding County Fairgrounds. Many events were scheduled throughout the day that appealed to the entire family, including a petting zoo, and COSI On Wheels.
Sonny Bashore of Paulding is building a stone frame for the new sign at the John Paulding Historical Museum.
50 Years Ago
From the Antwerp Bee-Argus, Oct. 16, 1974:
The cornerstone will be laid Sunday, Oct. 20, for the new sanctuary of the Antwerp United Methodist Church, presently under construction. The former sanctuary was razed in January 1973 and its cornerstone, which was laid in June 1900, was kept and laid in this new sanctuary.
“Are all the kids in Antwerp weird?” was the question raised Friday by an out-of-towner who saw scores of Antwerp youth wearing long dresses and slicked down hair. The occasion was Fifties Day at school and at the football game, with students and parents wearing or appearing like people did in the 1950s.
Payne Grange will meet Oct. 25 with a weiner roast and potluck supper at 6:30 p.m. Regular meeting will follow. Everyone come dressed for hard times.
Paulding County Hospital now has radiologist service four days a week, helping the medical staff with diagnoses and treatment of patients. Of the 297 laboratory tests available in any laboratory, the Paulding County Hospital lab can perform 90 percent of these tests in the hospital, sending out only the more sophisticated testing, for which results are received the following morning.
100 Years Ago
From the Paulding County Republican, Oct. 16, 1924:
First Style Show a brilliant success and proves to be quite popular. The business men of Paulding put on their first Style Show at the Grand Theatre Monday and Tuesday evenings. The event was largely attended and the crowds of people present are enthusiastic concerning the displays made and the way the show was conducted. The show was promulgated and managed by the National Amusement Co.
The merchants making the displays were: Bostleman, Ladies ready to wear and wraps; Miss Mary Sutton, the same; Mrs. Hardesty and Mrs. Wentz, millinery; George R. Bailey, shoes; C.E. Crowell, living room furniture; Greer’s Drug Store, toiletries, cosmetics and cameras; R.C. Leslie, electrical dealer, provided the outfit for the lighting effects and the Paulding Green House the flowers for decorative purposes.
The suits, wraps, millinery and shoes were shown on living models. Those showing for the Bostleman dry goods store wore hats from the Wentz Hat Shop, many of which were made and designed in the shop. The models were Clela Geyer, Madeline Leinard, Verdean Taylor, Louise Bybee, Donna Clementz, Vernice Barnes, Aneta Barnes, Catherine Geyer, Pauline Armstrong, Mary Finley, Blanche Klingler, Genevieve Ruff, Fern Treese, Lola Ragan, Alice Bybee.
Children’s Wear: Edna Margaret Treese, Jean Weigel, Phyllis Bashore, Ellen Bashore, Laura Bybee, Louise Weigel, Alice Bybee, Elizabeth Weigel, Mildred Kinaman, Margery Bailey.
For Greer’s Drug Store: Dorothy Straw, Kodak Girl; Helen Schmidt, toiletries; Ellen Ray Guerin, candies.
Miss Suttor’s models wore hats from the Hardesty Millinery Store and six of them presented shoes from the Bailey Shoe Store. Miss Sutton’s models were Mrs. Dorothy Busteed, Mrs. Harvey Dye, Mrs. Ruby Point, Alice Deisler, Nina Baughman, Bernice Iler, Fay Cadwallader, Seneveda Treese, Irene Kimmey. Children’s wear: Anna Louise Guerin, Ellen Ray Guerin, Catherine N. Miller, Lucile Bailey, Emily Suttor, Frances Suttor, Annabelle Suttor, Evelyn Kinaman. Mrs. Joe Dye assisted in arranging the costumes and make-up. Miss Ware, a professional model connected with the company directing the style show, exhibited one suit Tuesday evening. She wore a black velvet dress and coat from Suttor’s, hat from Hardesty’s and shoes from Bailey’s.
150 Years Ago
From the Paulding Democrat,, Oct. 15, 1874:
A Good Livery Stable, J.A. Fergerson, Proprietor. Persons stopping at the Paulding House can have their teams put up, watered and well-fed at this Stable, on the most reasonable terms. Hack runs daily to and from Emerald Station, in time for passengers to take the trains.
New Gun Shop! In Paulding, Ohio: Pyle & Mallonee, would respectfully inform the citizens of Paulding and vicinity that they have just opened out in the building formerly occupied by Elias Shafer, a Gun Shop, near Barnes Saw Mill, where they may be fund at all working hours, busily engaged in repairing old guns and manufacturing Double-Barreled Shot Guns and Rifles, Guns, Pistols, Revolvers, etc.
Real Estate: Town Property in the Village of Paulding, Lot 67, good house on Main Street, plenty of fruit, stable, out houses, well, etc., price $1,200. Four lots on Main Street and the largest and best mansion in the town, barn and so forth, all new and well furnished, price $2,500.
To Whom it May Concern: The books and accounts of the Paulding Plain Dealer and the Paulding Journal have been placed in our hands for settlement. All those having accounts in either of those books will call on the undersigned and make settlement, either with cash or note, as those books must be settled up. – G.W. Potter.
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