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. For more history of Kosciusko County in the news visit yesteryear.clunette.com

Sept. 23, 1976 — It has gone through many changes, including the transition from a Roman Catholic to an Episcopal Church, and the color has changed from red brick to white, but the building on 420 W. Market St., Warsaw, which houses St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, still remains the same basic structure it was 100 years ago when the cornerstone was laid July 4, 1876.

Sept. 22, 1965 — The Kosciusko County Welfare Board Tuesday defied an appealed decision by the State Welfare Department, and two members threatened to resign if the state dictates that welfare recipients receive more income than city employees.

The local board granted a recipient $25 instead of $136 a month ordered by the state agency in a recent appeal case, and board members James Snodgrass and William Chapel threatened to resign.

County board members were perturbed recently when the State Welfare Department reversed a decision of the board to refuse welfare aid to a father of five children with an income of $75 a week. The father appealed the county board’s verdict to the state agency. Within 10 days the appeal was heard in Indianapolis and the county board was told that it must grant the “need” of $136 a month to the father.

Sept. 29, 1857 —  Agnes Teegarden and Harvey Hunt laid out Atwood Village Sept. 29, 1857. The place was first called “Mount Rushka,” but the name was changed by a petition of the citizens in 1865 to Atwood. A post office was established in 1864 with postmaster Ira Hovey.

— Compiled by InkFreeNews reporter Lasca Randels