By: PAULDING COUNTY HISTORY MUSEUM
40 Years Ago
From the Paulding Progress of Nov. 14, 1984:
Most of the work on replacing Five Span Bridge near Junction is complete. ODOT expects to open the bridge possibly the day before or after Thanksgiving.
Stokely’s Finest Foods, Oconomowoc Canning Company, announced the appointment of Alan Griffiths as plant manager of the company’s tomato processing operation at Paulding.
The Paulding County Visiting Nurse Association announces a new service: hospice care.
John Paulding Historical Museum will demonstrate the step-by-step processing of a hog at its Old Fashioned Butchering Day on Nov. 17. Activities during the day-long process include grinding sausage, rendering lard, shredding corn, husking corn and making soap.
The Paulding Kiwanis Club deserves a “thank you” for opening up the Community Center election night. Facilities were excellent for spectators, workers and news personnel.
A retirement party in honor of Sheriff John L. Keeler will be given by the Paulding County Sheriff Reserves at the Antwerp American Legion Hall. All friends, relatives and the public are invited to come and celebrate this special event.
75 Years Ago
From the Oakwood News of Nov. 17, 1949:
The face of Ohio will be greatly changed within the next decade as the proposed super highway turnpikes are constructed. Already, Ohio’s newly appointed Turnpike Commission has chosen the tentative route for the first of these great roads across the northern part of the state. Four alternate routes for future consideration have been outlined. Ohioans may expect to be using the first turnpike super highway by the end of 1953.
The annual County Wide 4-H Achievement Program will be held in the Payne School auditorium this evening. All awards not paid at the fair will be even at this time. Every member who has completed his or her project will be even a certificate and all first, fourth and eighth year members will be given pins.
From the Paulding Progress of Nov. 17, 1949:
The John Paulding Post VFW is conducting its Sixth Annual Feather Party Wednesday evening, Nov. 23, at the Paulding Armory. Fifteen live turkeys and 80 live chickens, ducks and geese will be given away during the evening entertainment. Forty-nine local merchants are cooperating in the annual turkey event.
Paulding-Putnam Electric Co-op’s new $100,000 building is nearing completion, according to manager Herb Monroe.
County Agricultural Agent W.C. Barrett will be the principal speaker on the “Little Red Barn Program” to be heard on WOWO and WOWO-FM radio stations Saturday morning.
Showing this week at the beautiful Paulding Theatre: Paramount’s Western epic “El Paso” plus “Jungle Jim” with Johnny Weissmuller; “The Great Dan Patch” and “Prairie Pirates” with a Disney cartoon and news; and gala holiday show “Easy Living” starring Victor Mature and Lucille Ball.
125 Years Ago
From the Paulding County Republican of Nov. 16, 1899:
Corn, corn, nothing but corn. The farmers are really happy over the immense crop.
In Broughton, the cribs just finished by DeLaet & White will store nearly 50 carloads of grain when full.
From the Payne Reflector of Nov. 16, 1899:
David Jennings, an old pioneer of Paulding County, died at his home, the City Hotel in Payne, last Saturday. He had always been an active businessman, having conducted a livery stable and hotel at his own property on the corner of Laura and Bailey streets for a number of years.
At the beginning of this month the Home Telephone Company reduced its tolls to 10 cents a talk anywhere in the county. You will find their Payne office at the Bank Drug Store.
The slot machines are receiving the attention of the officers in many places over the state. They are among the most persistent robbers of the country and should be suppressed everywhere.
Bell Telephone at the Welcome Drug Store. Clear and plain. Only 15 cents to talk to Paulding and 10 cents to other places in the county.
The scenery for Gaut’s Opera House is about finished. It will be the finest in the county as it is all done in oil and hand painted.
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