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Past In Review for April 3 By JACK R. WEBER Jr.jweber@the-review.com Friday Apr 3, 2020 at 12:01 AM
100 YEARS AGO (1920)
— Citizenship and civil government were being taught in all grade schools. In answer to a criticism that many boys and girls dropped out of school before they had a chance to study those subjects, Superintendent B.F. Stanton prepared 12 lessons being taught to all grades that were flexible and adapted by teachers to the age of their pupils. Three lessons on work detailed the necessity and reward of labor as well as discussions on property, wealth, community and civic pride. The state, the nation, lessons on citizenship and American ideals were taught in other lessons.
— Five- and six-room houses built by the U.S. government in an attempt to alleviate a housing shortage in Alliance were for sale on Liberty Avenue, Grace Street, Morgan Avenue, Wade Avenue, Waugh Street and Devine Street.
— Homer Albaugh, recently elected clerk of council by members of Sebring Council, tendered his resignation. It was accepted, but no successor was yet named.
— The French China Co. in Sebring announced it was to build a brick stack at its plant 125 feet in height.
— It was noted that Alliance, much like other cities in this section of the country such as Canton and Cleveland, were suffering through a roller skate famine as there were no roller skates available for sale anywhere in town.
— The Crimson Flower, a dainty, well-printed volume of poems by Mount Union alumnus Charles B. Galbreath was received by the college. The book contained a poem titled In Flanders Fields, an answer to the notable poem of the same name by Lt. Col. John McCrae. Galbreath’s patriotic lines had been published in many papers throughout America as the best reply to the soldiers’ high appeal. Galbreath, a former state librarian, included 28 of his poems on patriotic, human interest and nature themes in his book.
75 YEARS AGO (1945)
— Charles J. O’Brien, a 1933 graduate of Alliance High who later was a standout athlete at Mount Union and earned a law degree from Notre Dame, had been promoted to captain and and was awarded an Air Medal with oak leaf cluster after completing 21 missions as a flight commander with a flying fortress squadron in the Mediterranean.
— Alliance’s Pfc. Lester Ruff was awarded the Silver Star while serving with an infantry unit at Luzon.
After waving his companions to cover, Ruff advanced on a Japanese bunker in the hills of Damortiz and cleared it of the enemy.
— Two Alliance men — Sgt. Richard E. Riley, a member of the Rainbow Division of the Seventh Army, and Pfc. Stanley Jordan, a member of the 69th Division of the First Army — were each awarded the Combat Infantryman’s Badge.
50 YEARS AGO (1970)
— William Bill Dantzler, an active Alliance citizen and former outstanding football player, died at the age of 60 at Cleveland Clinic following a four-week illness. An investigator for the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, State of Ohio, he was an honorary member of the Alliance Auxiliary Police. An outstanding football player in high school and college, Dantzler was a member of Alliance’s undefeated 1932 team and was the only team member to play two entire games in one day. A World War II veteran, he was a past commander of the Louis Dixon Post 369 American Legion, His wife, Elizabeth L. Dantzler, was teacher at South Lincoln Elementary.
— The Alliance City Band, the city’s oldest musical organization, was preparing for its spring concert under the direction of Peter Synnestvedt, a professor of music at Mount Union.
First performing at the railroad station in February 1861, Mrs. Dorothy Henschen was to join the group, which was primarily a marching unit in its early years, during the spring concert as the band’s first harpist.
25 YEARS AGO (1995)
(NOTE: Materials for this year were not accessed from microfilm files at Rodman Public Library prior to its temporary closure due to the coronavirus pandemic.) Never miss a story
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