From the Files of the Kosciusko County Historical Society

This is a retrospective article that runs a few times a month on InkFreeNews.

Oct. 24, 1974 – The Glory Barn is presenting a major health problem, County Health Nurse Barbara Clouse asserted at the Board of Health meeting Wednesday night.

In her report to the board, a concerned Clouse stated that although the Glory Barn is not in Kosciusko County, the health problems the county is experiencing with it are getting worse.

Mrs. Clouse reported that diabetics are not taking their insulin and pregnant women are receiving no prenatal or post-natal care. “There is no silver nitrate to put in the babies’ eyes,” she said.

“They are laying dead babies and live babies next to each other on the altars and praying over them to get the live babies to bring life back to the dead ones,” she continued. “There was one woman in our county praying over a baby for four days before the funeral home got hold of it.”

Oct. 22, 1956 – Max Truex, of Warsaw, has set a new American record in the 5,000-meter run.

Truex, now a U.S. Olympic team member, reeled off the distance in 14:22.8 minutes last Saturday afternoon in an Olympic track team practice meet in Ontario, Calif.

Oct. 21, 1836 – Warsaw was surveyed by Christopher Lightfoot, and W.H. Knott, proprietor of the town, filed his plat before Jacob Rannels, justice of the peace, Oct. 21, 1836.

Warsaw was named by Hon. John B. Chapman in honor of the capital of Poland.

Warsaw was in an early day an uninviting location, laid out as it was so near the lakes, the banks of which were skirted by tall tamarack and scrubby oaks.

The first cabin was built of tamarack poles by Matthew D. Springer.

– Compiled by InkFreeNews reporter Lasca Randels