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.

Oct. 25, 1978 — Students now have a voice in decisons administrators make at Warsaw Community High School.

Student council members said in a meeting last Wednesday that they intend to work more closely with the school administration. One way this will be accomplished is through the new “Principal’s Advisory Committee” established by Principal Ray Green over the summer.

Student members of the committee are George Lambros, Mike Cusick, Kim France, Cindy Hathaway, Jeff Derf, Holly Rookstool, Amy Dalton, John Duncan, Scott Huffer, Laci Bardos and Kevin Kosins.

Oct. 29, 1964 —The South Shore Inn on Lake Wawasee was destroyed by fire at 3:53 a.m. today. Loss of the 60-room, two-story, 44-year-old structure was estimated at a quarter of a million dollars.

The landmark was owned by Commercial Investments Inc. of Gary and was one of the two remaining hotels on Indiana’s largest natural lake. Johnson’s Hotel, located near the State Fish Hatchery, remains.

1859 —Silver Lake is the only village in Lake Township. It was surveyed and platted by Jacob Paulus March 8, 1859, and until the completion of Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan Railway, was one of the most prosperous towns in the county. The original name was Silver Lakeville, but the latter syllable was dropped.

Jacob and Daniel Paulus were the first merchants of the village and in their log store house the first post office in the township was located. Jacob was postmaster and kept mail in a dry-goods box.

– Compiled by InkFreeNews reporter Lasca Randels