99 years ago in 1920:

* The Hon. W.B. Kilpatrick, one of Trumbull county’s most prominent and most honored Democrats, and one of the duly elected Cox delegates from the 19th District, was not to attend the National Democratic Convention at San Francisco.

Ever since he had entered public life, Mr. Kilpatrick had been a consistent advocate of prohibition. He was elected mayor of Warren, member of the Legislature and member of the Constitutional Convention because, among other things, of his position on the temperance question.

He was a good Democrat and had been a supporter of that party, a friend of Gov. Cox for many years and to further Gov. Cox’s ambition to become president, ran as a candidate for Cox’s delegate from this district, defeating Mr. Holbrook for that position.

But that was before Gov. Cox came out in opposition to the 18th Amendment, which clamped the lid on the United States.

This move of Gov. Cox that apparently aligned him with the more or less “wet” interests was too much for Kilpatrick and for this reason he would not attend the convention.

50 years ago in 1969:

* County maintenance employees were cleaning up the courthouse offices of Mrs. Violet C. Whitman, Trumbull clerk of courts, in an effort to rid them of pigeon lice and unhealthy conditions.

The workers were ordered by the county commissioners to undertake the cleanup after Mrs. Whitman reported several of her staff members had been bitten by the lice and warned she would not “tolerate” any pigeon problems that summer.

The Domestic Relations division of the clerk’s office on the second floor of the courthouse was closed while maintenance crews fumigated the rooms and began the cleanup work.

Warren Deputy Health Commissioner Lyle Biddlestone inspected the offices with Commissioner Lamar Young and said they were “filthy” due to the lack of custodial care.

James Matash, building maintenance supervisor, had been heading a remodeling program for the courthouse that had concentrated primarily on the third floor. He said once that floor was cleaned up, the program would move to the second floor.

25 years ago in 1994:

* Plans to open a magnet school for the arts in Trumbull County at the former LaBrae Middle School in Braceville fizzled when organizers learned they would not have enough students to fund the program.

Pamela Smith-Hood of the Trumbull County Board of Education said 12 school districts agreed to send a total of 50 children of the arts academy — only half of the 100 students needed to launch it. Districts were required to pay $3,100 per student and parents were asked to contribute $400. Districts also would have lost state funding for each student enrolled in the magnet school.

“I feel everyone did absolutely the best we could, but now we’re in the reality of the situation,” Smith-Hood said. “We cannot pull this off with local school dollars alone.”

The arts academy would have provided a full-time curriculum to fifth- and sixth-graders with an emphasis on visual and performing arts.

Trumbull County Schools Superintendent Elizabeth Graban said her office would make a “major concentrated effort” to secure funding through the state Legislature by asking for a line item in the budget. State funding, she said, had provided for a magnet school in Columbus.

10 years ago in 2009:

* U.S. Rep. Timothy J. Ryan has announced the U.S. government had made available an additional $20.7 million to Ohioans unemployed as a result of the continued national economic crisis.

About $1.6 million was to help about 700 workers affected by the layoffs at the Chrysler Stamping Plant in Twinsburg, which was scheduled to close when the automaker emerged from bankruptcy. Similar dollars had been funded (in March) to help workers from other Ohio plants, including General Motors Lordstown.

The government also made available $19.1 million in Trade Adjustment Assistance funding, which offered a variety of benefits, including job training, income support, job search and relocation allowances, a tax credit to help pay the costs of health insurance and a wage supplement to certain re-employed trade-affected workers 50 and older.

— Compiled from the archives of the Tribune Chronicle by Emily Earnhart