Westview Jr/Sr High
Quarter 1
High Honor Roll
Grade 7
Rachel Bates, Dora Bontrager, Dorene
Bontrager, Lynette Bontrager, Karis
Brewer, Madison Burton, Emily Christner,
Karyssa Davis, Dora Eash, Taylor Eash,
Kloee Fitch, Bronte Fry, Eugene Fry, Julia
Fry, LuAnn Fry, Alana Gingerich, Miriam
Gingerich, Houston Haney, Alisha Hochstetler, Lynita Hochstetler, Seth Hostetler,
Sandra Jess, Aaron Lambright, Jane Lambright, Alyssa Lehman, Jared Lehman,
Logan Lewton, Peyton Martin, Dylan
Mast, Amiah May, Andy Miller, Derek D.
Miller, Derek L. Miller, Jolene Miller, Jordan Miller, Karen Miller, Kevin D. Miller,
Kevin Z. Miller, Loren Miller, Michelle
Miller, Wendall Miller, Dalton Misner,
Sarah Oliphant, Sarah Raber, Brady Roth,
Beth Schlabach, Kevin Schlabach, Rachel Schlabach, Anna Schmucker, Emily
Schrock, Seth Schrock, Jennifer Schwartz,
Leora Schwartz, Maci Schwartz, Adrianna
Sharick, Reagan Sharick, Diane Stutzman,
Alisa Tetzloff, Taylor Trittipo, Kari Troyer,
SueAnn Wagler, DeAnne Wingard, Rita
Wingard, Daryl Yoder, JoDena Yoder,
Karen Yoder, Lori Yoder, Lucas Yoder, and
Sandra Yoder.
Grade 8
Chase Anderson, Karch Bachman, Mary
Beechy, Holly Berger, Blaine Bontrager,
Brenda Bontrager, Brian Bontrager, Dora
Bontrager, Joetta Bontrager, Lauren
Bontrager, Lorraine Bontrager, Norma
Bontrager, Hope Brandenberger, Andrew
Brown, Emily Fry, Kayla Fry, Kyle Fry,
Gavin Gage, Erika Gamble, Asher Gingerich, Karen Gingerich, Shanna Greene,
Gracie Hales, Stephani Hallgarth, Karey
Haney, Kari Hochstetler, Riley Hochstetler, Jeran Hoopingarner, Alexis
Hostetler, Jennifer Hostetler, Christopher
Janik, Derrike Johns, Kaylee Kauffman,
Bradly King, Lisa King, Miranda Kresse,
Jesse Lambright, Yvonne Lambright,
Aaron Miller, Cathy Miller, Derek Miller,
Donna Miller, Geneva Miller, Jacob Miller,
Jarrin Miller, Kade Miller, Kolton Miller,
Kyle Miller, Linda Miller, Michael Miller,
Norman Miller, Sierra Miller, Jared Mullett, John Mullett, Ameera Naser, Brenda
Nissley, Lacey Pamer, Dhruti Patel, Savannah Rang,
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Hometown History
by Carol Anderson
A Commune In LaGrange County
More interesting facts about
LaGrange County and historical events
which impacted local residents can
be found in 7 Score and 10, LaGrange
County’s 150th Year, from the LaGrange Publishing Company. It was
published in 1982.
1836: The year Davy Crockett and
a band of freedom-loving Texans were
killed at the Alamo, the county holds
its first presidential election. Martin
VanBuren, a democrat, gets 150 votes
while William Henry Harrison, a Whig,
gets 128. LaGrange Town plat is laid
out.
1846: Two LaGrange County families leave for Oregon via the Oregon
Trail, which opened in 1842. The first
Teachers’ Institute in the state is held
in the county. Elias Howe invented the
sewing machine.
1860: The county’s population
is 11,350. Lincoln carries LaGrange
County in the presidential election.
The Pony Express is established out
West.
1866: Civil War veterens held a
camp near LaGrange for two days to
reflect on their war experiences. It
is the year that the Ku Klux Klan in
formed. A tornado sweeps through the
northwestern part of the county.
1876: The Centennial Year is
ushered in by a midnight celebration
in LaGrange. Several citizens leave for
the Black Hills where a gold rush is on.
Residents read of Col. George Custer
and 264 soldiers of the 7th Calvary
being killed in the Battle of Little Big
Horn in Montana. Mark Twain’s “Tom
Sawyer” is published.
1893: It was a year of financial
panic and the beginning of a depression which was to last for four years.
There were no bank failures in the
county, but for two weeks in August,
local banks could not get their drafts
cashed by the best banks in New York
and Chicago.
1905: Passenger service begins on
the Valley Line between LaGrange and
Shipshewana. A decision is made to
extend the line east through Ontario
and Mongo, and west to Middlebury.
Springfield and Milford Townships file
remonstrances with the county commissioners banning saloon licenses,
thus making complete the prohibition
of saloons in the county for a period of
two years. An estimated 2,000 hogs
perished in the county from cholera.
1913: Four oak logs are cut which
scale 10,000 feet and sell for $35
a thousand feet. Charles Denning,
RR1 postal carrier, finally gives up
his buggy and got a Ford machine.
Gene Stratton Porter, who has gained
nation-wide acclaim as an author, is to
speak at Corn School.
1916: Shoes going up in price from
15 to 20 cents a pair. Because more
and more automobiles are appearing
on LaGrange streets, an ordinance
is enacted setting a speed limit of 15
miles an hour in town and instructing
drivers to keep to the right and turn
square corners.
1939: Scarlet fever epidemic closes
schools and cancels sports events
and some church services. LaGrange
residents are surprised to see a team
of Alaskan huskies pulling a dog sled
through town. The driver was en route
to the World’s Fair in New York. A
canning factory in Shipshewana turns
out 2,000 cases of tomatoes, and a like
number of green beans and 1,000 cases
of custom products.
1942: Sheriff Glen Eash asks that
all residents of enemy nations turn
over to him all arms, cameras, and
short wave radios in their possession.
One alien responds by turning in a
gun. LaGrange County women make
garments for foreign war relief.