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.

Sept. 1, 1981 — Bill Nay Furniture won both the Class A regular season and post-season city softball tournament. Team members are: Mark Sumpter, Brian Holderman, Aaron Rovenstine, Tony Sumpter, Rob Adams, Al Utter, sponsor Bill Nay, Doug Moore, Jim Coplen, Kelly Fields, Pete Smith, Gary Sponseller, Coach Frank Copeland, Rick and Randy Roberts, Barry Kline and Phil DeGaetano.

Sept. 19, 1974 — Trash and garbage from the city of Warsaw are still being dumped in the municipal landfill on West Center Street and an official with the Indiana Stream Pollution Control Board has ordered the site closed immediately.

The city landfill’s location at the edge of Walnut Creek, which drains into the Tippecanoe River, has been a matter of dispute between the city and the pollution control board for two years.

Sept. 15, 1966 — A former outstanding basketball player for Claypool High School, Pfc. Coye Conley, received a wound to his left arm on Sept. 6 during Operation Hastings in Vietnam, according to word received by Sgt. William Coret, U.S. Marine recruiter.

Conley, the son of Mrs. Hayhazie Swinehart, Claypool, is said to have been treated by the medical unit and returned to duty. He is attached to India Company, Third Battalion, Ninth Marines.

Sept. 20, 1870 — Lake Township was organized Sept. 20, 1870, and was originally the south part of Clay Township.

John Rhoades, with his family, came in 1832, followed the next year by a number of other settlers. One of the oldest pioneers residing in the township was William Leffel, who came in 1840 and settled on a farm. He and his wife had been 50 years married, and were the oldest married couple in Lake Township in the early days.

Enoch, son of John and Catherine Rhoades, was born in October 1837, the first recorded birth.

– Compiled by InkFreeNews reporter Lasca Randels