Winchester Mayor Calls Halt To Gambling Parties And "Girlie" Shows;
Mayor Ralph West leveled a blast at the Phi Delta Kappa fraternity organization and other social clubs which feature stag nights and "girlie" shows at the conclusion of Monday's hearing in Winchester city court on charges filed by the club's president of assault and battery against four Winchester men during a "free-for-all" at the club.
Winchester Journal-Herald, March, 1957.
Works Projects Administration (W. P. A.) Accomplishments In Randolph County Since It's Start In 1935.
Paved or improved 46 miles of roads, streets and alleys.
573 local men and women have been employed.
Construction of a covered grandstand seating 250 people at the Goodrich Park ball diamond.
Construction of a 9 hole golf course and club house at Beeson Park.
Construction of a swimming pool at Goodrich Park.
Winchester Herald, June 1940.
Leonard's Drug Store.
Forrest and Kathryn Leonard came from Elkhart, Indiana in 1940 and started in the drug business in Winchester by buying the Lewis and Elliot store located at 114 West Washington St.
In February of 1942 the store was almost completely destroyed by fire and they moved to 107 South Main to the rooms formerly occupied by the Miller-Jones shoe store.
Employees today are Mrs. Edith Magner, Miss Naomi Timmons, Miss Mary Norris and Keith White.
Winchester Journal Herald, January, 1947.
In 1947, Winchester High School's Jr. Varsity basketball team's name was the "Bees."
Also in 1947, on April 28, Horace "Pop" and Edythe Sullivan announced the "Grand Opening" of their new restaurant at 730 West Washington St. They would keep their first restaurant, the "B&B" on North Main open for another 2 years, closing it by 1950. I'll have more on the Sullivans later.
Problem with pool repairs.
The Goodrich pool opened Tuesday for a few hours and then closed when black asphalt resurfacing material, furnished by a Texas firm, began to break up and stick to the swimmers.
Dick Valandingham, the pool manager, said that the deep area and the inner circle, the wading area, have been repaired and they may start filling the pool late Saturday evening.
Winchester Journal-Herald, June, 1957.
Winchester's First Mini-Mall, 1916
Located at 120 South Meridian St. in the three story Canada Block were three businesses. The Hecker and Doyle Ford Automobile Agency, The Union Heat, Light and Power Co. and the S.E. & O.O. Fraze Undertakers Parlor. Coming in the center door, the Union office was on the right, Fraze on the left and down a short center hall the Ford agency was in the back half of the building.
New cars came from Detroit on The Big 4 Railroad in crates and were unloaded at the freight depot behind Graft's grain elevator on North Main St. They were then taken to the Ford garage where they were uncrated and assembled by the mechanics.
By making just one stop you could pay your utility bills, buy a brand new Model T Ford and on your way out, make your funeral arrangements.
Up until 1925 the word "Block" was used to describe a building of two or more storys with two or more business rooms on the first floor: Canada Block, Engle Block, Davis Block etc. The Canada Block today is home to The Muncie Mission-Attic Window.
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