From the Files of the Kosciusko County Historical Society.

Editor’s note: This is a retrospective article that runs a few times a month on InkFreeNews.

Information for this retrospective series is courtesy of the Kosciusko County Historical Society.

April 19, 1960 — A two-week argument over where the Sidney town marshal parked his car ended in gunfire Monday afternoon when a Sidney businessman shot Marshal Dominick F. Murda, 42, in the wrist with a 12-gauge shotgun, stating he thought the marshal was “making a move” for his pistol.

Dennie Ward, 48, owner and manager of the Ward Paint and Wallpaper store, is being held in the Kosciusko County Jail as a result of the shooting.

April 18, 1955 — The Wawasee Inn, formerly the Tavern Hotel, erected in 1926 on the south side of Lake Wawasee, was gutted by fire which broke out shortly before midnight. Syracuse Fire Chief James Connolly said today that damage might run as high as $75,000. Only the frame of the two-story building, containing 26 rooms, remained standing today.

April 17, 1922 — As a result of the heavy rain early yesterday, Center Lake and some of the other lakes of Kosciusko County rose 6 inches.

Hundreds of acres of land in Kosciusko County are now inundated by flood waters and considerable damage has been done.

Several farmers who visited Warsaw today said they had given up the idea of planting oats this year because of the delay experienced from rains in the last two weeks.

In many instances, growing wheat in Kosciusko County has been practically drowned out.

From all parts of the county came reports that numerous bridges had been damaged by the high water. A wooden bridge on the A.T. Rockhill farm near Mentone was washed out late yesterday. The bridge south of the Dunham school house in Tippecanoe Township went out last night.

Many carp are being caught by boys armed with pitchforks in the flooded lowlands near this city.

– Compiled by InkFreeNews reporter Lasca Randels