This Week In Galion’s History

By Noel Lizotte

Inquirer Cor­re­spon­dent

Galion has a col­or­ful and lengthy past. The events noted in this col­umn are taken from the Galion Inquirer archives from years ago. The focus will be items of per­sonal or com­mu­nity inter­est from 10, 25, 50 and 75 years ago.

The week of Novem­ber 14, 2002

Mar­ion L. Moser cel­e­brated 90 Birth­day! Her pic­ture was printed in the paper in honor of this mile­stone. The Galion Honor Soci­ety par­tic­i­pated in a Veteran’s Day remem­brance cer­e­mony. Kevin Daw­son gave the keynote address and Tiffany Grib­ble placed flow­ers on the memo­r­ial. The Galion His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety learned about pre­serv­ing old doc­u­ments and avoid­ing harm­ing the papers in the process.

Harry Pot­ter and Cham­ber of Secrets was show­ing at the movies. The Galion Inquirer sold for 50 cents per copy. The Stock mar­ket reported on stocks of inter­est: ATT 13.52, CSX 27.94, PPG 46.10, Gen Elec 25.10 and Ver­i­zon 37.51.

Galion Police Lt. Lyle Chasse pre­sented a well­ness pro­gram for safety of cit­i­zens to city coun­cil and received council’s back­ing. City Finance Direc­tor Bill Bauer explained the Gen­eral Rev­enue Fund to City Council.

If you didn’t want to cook din­ner every night this week, you were in luck. Galion had two din­ners going on this week: the Knights of Colum­bus Fish Fry – Adults $6, chil­dren $3 and the Amvets Spaghetti Sup­per “all you can eat, dona­tions $5”. Mean­while, the United Way cam­paign reached the 54% mark — folks were feel­ing generous.

The week of Novem­ber 14, 1987

Recent North­mor grad­u­ate, Brenda Litt was pic­tured with her top prize win­ning Simmental-Hereford calf. He sold for $750 at the Huron County Fair­grounds FFA auc­tion. She was headed to a national com­pe­ti­tion in Kansas City.

If you were in the mar­ket for a new car or truck, Jack Steel Ford located at 702 Charles St, adver­tised a 1988 Ford F150 truck for $9,412. They also had a 1988 Mus­tang GT for $13,991.

The weekly TV Sched­ule had 27 chan­nels listed includ­ing HBO, ESPN, CNN and Life­time. If you couldn’t find any­thing to watch, Geyer’s Super­Valu gro­cery store adver­tised video­tape rentals for 99 cents. That’s VHS. For shop­pers, JC Penny’s Uptown Galion store offered 5% – 30% dis­counts on all clothing.

In school news, North Ele­men­tary stu­dents Dusty Sweitzer and Der­rick Sher­mann were pic­tured mak­ing stone soup in a play pre­sented to classmates.

An inter­view with Galion­ite, Melanie Hull, dis­cussed the ins and outs about dog sled rac­ing and her prepa­ra­tion for rac­ings in Ohio and Michigan.

The week of Novem­ber 14, 1962

Big­ger util­ity poles were installed on square by city work­ers. The exist­ing poles were too slen­der to sup­port the weight of new traf­fic sig­nals that were going to be installed soon. City Safety Ser­vice Direc­tor Pail W Will­helm lifted a 4.5 month water ban. The recent 2.18 inches of rain­fall raised water lev­els in Amman Reser­voir to capac­ity. Thus end­ing the crit­i­cal water shortage.

National Book Week was observed at the Galion Pub­lic Library. Mrs. James Gill, head librar­ian planned sev­eral events to raise pub­lic aware­ness. Among other activ­i­ties, Mrs. Robert Phipps pre­sented a pro­gram. Atten­dance was expected to be high.

Appar­ent good news for hunters; the rac­coon and opos­sum hunt­ing law was changed. New reg­u­la­tions lim­ited hunt­ing to night hours but raised the bag limit to 4 rac­coons per day. News­pa­per reports did not give the pre­vi­ous bag limit.

The City Loan & Sav­ings Com­pany adver­tised “$4 is the total cost on $100 loan, for 3 months time to repay”; arrange­ments were made by stop­ping in at 106 Hard­ing Way East. Another good deal for cof­fee drinkers was adver­tised: Fol­gers cof­fee 2 lb can for 95 cents at Neff Broth­ers Market.

The week of Novem­ber 14, 1937

The talk about town as all about the new movie, “Heidi” and the Shirley Tem­ple edi­tion book, was on sale for 50 cents each at Caledwell’s, located at 121 S Mar­ket. The movie was shown at State The­atre between Novem­ber 14–16.

The local busi­ness adver­tise­ments included one from Bianchi’s “A Wal­green sys­tem drug store”. They had Vick’s Vapor Rub for 27 cents, Dr. Lyon’s Tooth pow­der for 17 cents, and Lifebouy soap, 2 bars for 15 cents. Also Dick Lower at 204 Hard­ing Way East adver­tised hat clean­ing ser­vices, since “Your Hat Plays an Impor­tant part in your appearance”.

In sports, the Galion foot­ball team lost 11 seniors to grad­u­a­tion this sea­son. The big game this week was against Shelby. Per­haps most impor­tant to many peo­ple, Galion was in first place for the league title, while Shelby was in last.

In other school related news, South School PTA planned a card social, led by Mrs. Her­bert Durtschi.

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