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99 years ago
in 1921
There was an honest-to-goodness racing day at the Trumbull County fair and thousands of people were pleased with the heats of good racing presented in four events, three trots and a pace.
There was little of the "settle-back-and-hold-em-in" style of driving and three of the races went after split heats, the first event requiring five heats to pick the winner.
The 3:19 trot was the feature contest of the day and the last event on the program. Sam Boyd of Warren piloted Virgie Todd, O.A. McLaughlin's black mare through to victory in the second, third and fourth heats after Dempsey of Detroit had cropped the first heat with his Alta Coast II. Boyd had to drive for his place in every heat and there were neck and neck finishes a plenty among the money horses. The fourth heat was a thriller with Virgie Todd two lengths in the lead on the upper turn into the stretch and Alta Coast trotting along on all city cylinders. Alta Coast cut down Virgie Todd's lead into the stretch and came under the wire, only the tip of a nose behind in a whipping finish.
80 years ago
in 1940
Police were continuing to keep a watchful eye, but not a 24-hour-per-day vigil, on the Prime Steak House, South Park at Clinton, which had lost through revocation its D-4 night club liquor permit. Safety-Service Director Ray Schryver stated an officer was not kept in the restaurant permanently (as had been the case previously) but was making periodic checks.
He reported that orders were issued to check all places where licenses had been suspended for violations.
Police Chief B.J. Gillen said it was impossible to keep a man at the place for 24 hours as his force was not adequate.
"I cannot spare a man for full duty on that kind of an assignment," Gillen declared.
Only two men were on duty in the "flats" district on each of three eight-hour periods per day.
25 years ago
in 1995
Trumbull County, it was reported, could inadvertently be home to part of a new Youngstown prison if plans came through for a 1,500-bed privately owned, medium-security prison that would straddle Mahoning and Trumbull counties.
Youngstown City Council was to hold a special meeting to consider selling its share of the former General Fireproofing Property, also known as GF Corp., to Corrections Corporation of America.
The city's property totaled 130 acres in Mahoning and Trumbull counties, said Jeff Chagnot, director of economic development for the city of Youngstown. The land was near the Youngstown Country Club and residential Logan Way in Liberty.
Chagnot said the private prison company approached the city in July about the possibility of the Youngstown site.
Liberty trustees and residents feared losing township property to annexation, but also grew angry when they saw an advertisement selling the property as a possible site for a flea market.
The annexation request was turned down by the Trumbull County commissioners in June 1994 and was still being considered by the 11th District Court of Appeals.
10 years ago
in 2010
Ten-year-old Natalie Giralomo may have had one of the most unique methods of training her pet chicken, Chick-Fil-A to "fly."
Giralomo, whose bird competed in the annual Chicken Flying Contest during opening day of the Great Geauga County Fair, said she trained Chick-Fil-A on her trampoline at home.
While she didn't take home the title, the chicken managed to "fly" a distance of 12 feet before fluttering to the ground.
"It's fun to watch a chicken fly," she said, holding her hen, but admitted, "yeah, it would be fun to win."
Temperatures reaching into the 90s did not stop a large first-day crowd from filtering into the Great Geauga County Fair, billed as Ohio's oldest county fair. Visitors also packed into the Small Grandstands to witness one of the fair's most popular events, the Chicken Flying Contest, despite the absence of the popular longtime master of ceremonies, Cleveland meteorologist, Dick Goddard.
Visitors lined up with their best hens and roosters waiting for their chance to see how far their birds could "fly."
-- Compiled from the archives of the Tribune Chronicle by Emily Earnhart.