Reminisce
Wapak celebrates new pool 71 years after first pool opened
WAPAKONETA - There was a time when the Auglaize River and a few local swimming pools were the places to beat the summer heat. A little more than a century after Wapakoneta was founded that all changed with the opening of the city's first community...
Oil fields relied on nitroglycerin, at dear cost
LIMA - There was a time when the ground trembled - when the city literally shook. Around the end of the 19th century, oil men discovered nitroglycerin and used it to keep their wells flowing in the region. The compound's use in the petroleum...
One special graduation in 1902
LIMA - By today's standards, a mid-June graduation date is late. But in 1902, this day kicked-off the three-day celebration that would mark the Lima High School commencement. And when class members held their 50th reunion, their photo made the top-selling...
Honoring those who died for the cause
LIMA - It's been 100 years, but the local Daughters of Union Veterans continue to remain true to their origins of memorializing the Civil War veterans. In fact, their cause echoes the suggestion that a day should be set aside every year - originally the...
Springtime?s blooming snow
LIMA — Don't be fooled by the warmer temperatures and the chirping birds. Even in springtime, snow can fall. Just ask the folks that lived in 1883 and endured a 16-inch snow on May 21 of that year. It's the stuff of which legends are made....
Dearth Guitar Studio
LIMA — The sound of music filled the air for decades at Dearth Guitar Studio. In fact, many credit the store’s founder, Ron Dearth, with bringing the sound of guitar music to Lima. It was Dearth who fell in love with the sound of the guitar....
Mary Beery taught ?kindness with style?
Should a freshman girl go out with boys in cars? “Is this to ‘ride around?’”Most girls like to ride around with boys. More people see them than if they walk. Word gets around that they’ve been “out with a boy.”...
The politics of Ruth Keating
LIMA — She had earned her political stripes through the administration of Lima’s first city manager, Clarence Bingham. And when his successor, Ira Brower, took the reigns of administration, he made certain Ruth Keating was by his side.Miss...
The daughters of Judge Mackenzie
LIMA — They were the dutiful daughters of Judge James Mackenzie.Ella Grace, Isabel and Mabel Mackenzie knew their place in turn-of-the-century Lima society. Though they may have been raised in privilege, these single ladies spent their adult lives...
Lima?s patriarch passed the torch
LIMA — Furl Williams had a strong sense of right. And at his death in 1993, most folks thought that his rightousness had made a difference in Lima.It was Furl Williams who had questioned the way African-Americans were treated locally, and quietly...
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