What was making news in our area during this week in years past? The History Museum offers these newspaper excerpts to give you an idea.

June 16, 1900: “The Mishawaka Woolen company, engaged in the manufacture of woolen boots and rubber goods, has called in its traveling force for the season, about three months earlier than usual. This is not on account of overproduction or poor trade, but because the company has already sold everything it can make for this season and therefore is obliged to refuse any more orders until the works at Mishawaka can be enlarged.” — The South Bend Tribune

June 17, 1918: “Every German alien woman in South Bend must register. Beginning to-day and continuing until June 26, all alien enemy women must appear at the local police station, where finger prints will be recorded and an identification card issued, which must be carried by the holders for the duration of the war.” — The South Bend Tribune

June 18, 1922: “If you are looking for a bit of romance in your motor car, you need go no deeper than the paint to find it. There, in the gloss of its body and the sheen of its runner gear and wheels, if they have not lost their polish, is mirrored a story of no little charm that recalls the old coaching days along Fifth avenue with the thud of thoroughbred hoofs and the sportive blast of tallyho horns. The color, or combination of colors, in which your car is finished are anything but modern. They were not selected to suit the whim of fancy of the automobile manufacturer or the foreman of his paint shop. They had their inception a century and more ago when the horse still ruled theboulevard and the high road.” — The South Bend Tribune

June 19, 1936: “Mrs. R. D. King, of Coquillard Golf club, a veteran of 30 years in the golf wars, today overcame a 16-stroke handicap to defeat Mrs. Marshall A. Smith, jr., of Chain o’ Lakes, 3-1, and win the second annual women’s city handicap tournament sponsored by the City Women’s Golf association. The tourney was played on the Coquillard course.” — The South Bend Tribune

June 20, 1949: “Voters who have the power to end the 62-day-old Bendix strike were middle-men in a pincers of literature and words today as Bendix management and officers of Bendix local No. 9, UAW-CIO, presented conflicting interpretations of Gov. Henry F. Schricker’s peace plan. More than 100 union stewards (elected department representatives) voted unanimously Sunday afternoon to ‘accept their officers’ recommendation and reject the governor’s proposal.’ ” — The South Bend Tribune

June 21, 1950: “A three-alarm fire which roared through the second and third floor storage rooms of the bottling house in the Kamm & Schellinger Company Inc., on North Center street in Mishawaka Tuesday afternoon sent three firemen to St. Joseph hospital there and resulted in what brewery officials estimated as about $100,000 damage to the building and its contents. It is believed that fire started from defective wiring or spontaneous combustion.” — The South Bend Tribune

June 22, 1962: “Skin testing of 21,279 children in public and parochial schools in St. Joseph County during the past year turned up 76 with a positive tuberculin reaction.” — The South Bend Tribune

This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: 1950: Fire hits brewery in Mishawka; all off duty firemen called in