Out of the past
April 29, 1896
The glee club of Ohio Wesleyan University, of which Carl N. Sharp, of this city, is president, will do the singing at the National Oratorical Association meeting at Topeka, Kans., May 5.
E.O. Gump, of this county, was one of the guards appointed at the meeting of the new board of penitentiary managers yesterday.
100 years
April 29, 1921
Margaret Kaser is leading today in the popularity contest being conducted for the Queen of May by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Frances Potter is second and Zylpha Harmony, third.
M.B. McKee, chairman of the committee in charge of arrangements, said today that a special car on the Western Ohio will leave here at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, to carry the 50 members of the Sidney Kiwanis Club who will be attending the intercity meeting to be held in Dayton. The Kiwanis orchestra and quartet will accompany the local group.
Organising obits
Shelby County Genealogical Society member Nancy Abels, of Fort Recovery, searches microfilm copies of the Sidney Daily News at the Amos Memorial Public Library as she indexes obituaries from 1967 for the Shelby County Genealogical Society. Abels was at the library on Tuesday, April 27. She has already indexed obituaries from 1964, 65 and 66. Abels is a Holy Angels High School graduate.
Luke Gronneberg | Sidney Daily News
Shelby County Genealogical Society member Nancy Abels, of Fort Recovery, searches microfilm copies of the Sidney Daily News at the Amos Memorial Public Library as she indexes obituaries from 1967 for the Shelby County Genealogical Society. Abels was at the library on Tuesday, April 27. She has already indexed obituaries from 1964, 65 and 66. Abels is a Holy Angels High School graduate.
William Binkley and his eclectic pen
By Albert Binkley Dickas, Ph.D. - For the Sidney Daily News
Editor’s note: in conjunction with the 200th celebration of the establishment of Sidney, the Sidney Daily News will be publishing a year long series about the city’s history.
SIDNEY Anyone intrigued by the history of mankind is well aware individual chapters are often punctuated by rivalries of one nature or another: In commerce Pepsi Cola vs Coca Cola; in sports University of Michigan vrs The Ohio State University, and in family relationships the Hatfield and McCoy conflict. And then, there was the 36 year-long rivalry conducted by William Binkley against anyone or anything attempting to interfere with his perceived responsibility to print the truth as editor of a weekly newspaper.