100 years ago – 1924
“I have opened a shoe and repair shop in the Leedy building on Paw Paw Street. Your business will be appreciated.” G. T. Holmgren.
Coloma’s Boosters are starting 1924 in the right direction. It has leaked out that a proposition has been made for the establishment of a small factory. Community members are invited to attend the next meeting at the theatre.
Robbers made their getaway with $33 from the Lyle Bishop feed store on West Logan Street.
Read the Classified “Want” Ads. For sale this week are Upright Piano, Fresh Cow, White Oak and Sassafras Posts, and Potatoes.
60 years ago – 1964
Many candidates were pledged to the W. L. Alwood Chapter of the National Honor Society. Among them are: August Pupedis, James Durfee, Sandra Moser, Patricia O’Leary, Randy Kniebes and Susan Young.
Building statistics: 16 new homes, storage building for Twin Cities Container Corp., Butler building for AGRICO, addition to Nilson Furniture, the Hipskind Building Supply, and addition to Chuck’s Gulf Service.
Carter’s Farmers Supplies – You will find it at the “Farmer’s Department Store.”
Mr. and Mrs. Millard (Red) Callendar with sons, Gary and Virgil, visited relatives in Mississippi.
30 years ago – 1994
Tri-City talk – “What will be the 1994 business prospects?” Jim Edwards expects a bumper year. Art Kutchinski expects better business due to government changes.
Superintendent Clifford Tallman assures that efforts are made to provide a safe educational environment. The administration investigates any reported threat to the safety of any student.
The true meaning of Christmas is depicted in the life-size nativity scene. This display is one of twenty scenes inside the Christmas barn at Farmer Friday’s in Coloma.
Coloma won two more basketball games over the holidays. Their record is 6-0 for the season. James Singleton played, despite recovering from the flu.
Submitted by volunteer Sandi Musick Munchow at Coloma Public Library from the Coloma Courier newspapers donated by the Tri-City Record.
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100 years ago - 1924
The new year was noisily welcomed in Hartford, with the din of church bells, the honking of motor horns, and the merry making of young folks who watched the old year out and the new year in. A dance given by the Rebekahs at the town hall was well attended and the usual new year festivities were observed - minus the revelry that has occasionally marked the event in years ago.
Hartford’s first snow storm, aside from December flurries that barely whitened the ground, developed Monday and ushered in the new year with a typical blizzard that has spread a mantle of several inches in depth. The first sleighs of the season were seen yesterday, New Year’s Day, but they were few.
80 years ago - 1944
Attorney Earl Burhans of Paw Paw, guest speaker at the Hartford Woman’s Club, addressed the members on “The University, Its Beginning and History,” sketching the history of the University of Michigan, where he acted as regent for several years. He stated that the school was non-sectarian, the first state university in the United States, and first to become coeducational.
Scrap paper of every description, that for years has been a nuisance to Hartford’s tidy housekeepers, is now in the army. Boy Scouts from the Hartford troop are going to check up on all waste paper by canvassing the village, house to house.
60 years ago - 1964
The Southwest Thursday club recently held a health program at the home of Mrs. Deane Richmond. Roll call was answered with health hints and Mrs. Helen Dick showed two films on cancer. During the business meeting a contribution was made to the fund for two-way radios for the school buses.
Another casualty of winter is utility wires. Telephone lines in the south alley were brought down by ice on Christmas day. The fallen lines served 12 business places on S. Main Street, but only one telephone was put out of order.
Submitted by Librarian Stephanie Daniels at Hartford Public Library from microfilm copies of the Hartford Day Spring.
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90 years ago - 1934
Two large tusks, thought to have belonged to a mastodon or some other prehistoric animal, were unearthed this week by William Barchett while plowing on his farm one mile south and two miles east of Watervliet. Barchett broke one of the tusks with the plow, thinking it to be a root. The tusks are 10 feet long. They are large at one end and taper to a point.
A number of local people attended the golden wedding anniversary dinner in honor of Mr. and Mrs. George Danneffel Sr., at their home in Benton Harbor on Wednesday, Dec. 27. A delicious co-operative dinner was served at noon, followed by a program.
One telephone was added to the Watervliet exchange during the month of December—Fred Vonderheid, No.75-R.
60 years ago - 1964
A seven pound, six ounce baby girl, Ginger Lynne, was born at Community Hospital on Dec. 31 to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Birmele.
1964 entered with a brrrrr! If you heard a cold thud this Thursday morning, it was the thermometer dropping to 18 below. Watervliet residents knew it was cold, but most were unaware just how cold it got. But not Mrs. Rose Norman, always ready with her camera, she caught her outside thermometer in the act at 7:30 New Year’s morning. Rose was accused of throwing ice cubes on the thermometer, until our weatherman Doug Warman reported a below reading.
30 years ago - 1994
Ioyne Ernst was named as Community Hospital “Employee of the Year” at a celebration held in the cafeteria of Community Hospital, Watervliet, Friday afternoon, Jan. 7. For over 30 years, Ms. Ernst has worked as a switchboard operator at the hospital.
The United States Achievement Academy announced that Lisa J. Ashton has been named a United States National Award winner in mathematics. Lisa is the daughter of Bob and Jean Ashton. Lisa, who attends Watervliet Junior High School, was nominated for this National Award by Steve Miller, a mathematics teacher at the school. Lisa will appear in the United States Achievement Academy Official Yearbook, published nationally.
Submitted by Sally Q. Gonzalez from files at Watervliet District Library of the Watervliet Record newspapers donated by the Tri-City Record.
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