Festivities and Parade HHoommee ffoorr tthhee HHoolliiddaayyss Downtown Perrysburg Sunday, Dec. 2 • Noon to 4 p.m. • Parade at 2 p.m. Sponsored by: WelchWeelchlch PublishingPubblilis hihing Co.Co. 130130 LouisianaLouisiana Avenue,Avenue, POPO BoxBox 267267 Perrysburg,Perrysburg, OHOH 43552-026743552-0267 419-874-4491419-874-4491 A SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT–PERRYSBURG MESSENGER JOURNAL & ROSSFORD RECORD JOURNAL P Page 2 — November 28, 2018 — Celebrating the Holidays — Perrysburg Messenger Journal and Rossford Record Journal Kids, “Home for the Holidays” Write your letter to Santa and drop Parade and Festivities off at Santa’s mail- box at: •Write Letters to Santa O~Deer Diner at O~Deer Diner, Noon to 4 p.m. 416 Louisiana •Live Reindeer Avenue, Perrysburg •Free Treats Remember to put your name and re- Noon until supplies last! turn address at the *O~Deer Diner-ice cream cone bottom so Santa can samplers answer your letter. Thank you! *Skotynsky Financial–cider and donuts *Perrysburgers–“Krabby Patties” *Perrysburg Messenger-cookies *Hand Picked in the 419-hot cocoa •Entertainment by Johnny Rodriguez Noon to 2 p.m., on the lawn at the Commodore Building O~Deer Diner also will have a table in front of the •Christmas Bean Bag Toss restaurant during the Dec. 2 parade for kids to Game – Win a prize! write letters to Santa! Noon to 2 p.m. Commodore lawn •Craft Station at Way Library Noon to 2 p.m. •Strolling Carolers Indiana Avenue to Front Street Noon to 2 p.m. •“Home for the Holidays” Parade 2 p.m. •Pictures with Santa Claus After the parade on the Commodore Building lawn VintageVintage116 Louisiana Ave., GrovesGroves Perrysburg 419-931-1010 VVintageintage ffurniture,urniture, hhomeome ddecor,ecor, jjewelry,ewelry, bboutiqueoutique aapparel,pparel, llocalocal aartists,rtists, hholidayoliday ffloralslorals aandnd uuniquenique ggifts.ifts. An Eclectic Vintage Boutique Perrysburg Messenger Journal and Rossford Record Journal — Celebrating the Holidays — November 28, 2018 — Page 3 Page 4 — November 28, 2018 — Celebrating the Holidays — Perrysburg Messenger Journal and Rossford Record Journal PHS graduate, WWII veteran, businessman, past councilman Paul Sargent grand marshal for the ‘Home for the Holidays’ parade this Sunday By Richard gallons of gas. The people were into war produc- Baranowski who seemed to get into trou- tion full bore. We If anyone could be con- ble were ones going to De- made windshields for sidered a living history book troit in hopes of finding a 40mm machine gun of Perrysburg, Paul Sargent job. Many of them were shells, 155 mm How- is one such candidate. To coming from down south. itzers, and other pro- honor Mr. Sargent’s many “As for us, I’m sure my jectiles. When you contributions to our commu- father struggled, but I didn’t fired a projectile it nity over the past 70 years or notice it. I did notice though, didn’t travel through so, the former PHS gradu- that my parents seemed to the air very well. We ate, WWII veteran, village work all the time. Once in a made a nose bullet businessman, local property while we would go fishing at that fit on the end of developer, city councilman, Sandusky Bay. But vaca- the shells which was Chamber of Commerce tions were unheard of. It called a windshield. I founder, and tireless mem- was all survival trying to made $1.25 an hour ber of various boards and stay ahead of the Depres- and all the overtime I civic groups too numerous sion.” wanted. My first to mention, will preside as Even in the middle of check was for $200. I grand marshal for Perrys- nowhere things could be ex- had never seen that burg’s 2018 Christmas pa- citing. Mr. Sargent recalled kind of money.” rade. one night when a Model T The draft was on, Mr. Sargent was born in Ford came careening around but Mr. Sargent had Perrysburg High School 1941 Paul Sargent and his daughter Melissa Sargent. Dunbridge in 1923. His fa- the corner onto Dowling and contracted rheumatic graduate Paul Sargent. ther was in the process of slid into the ditch. fever during his senior while I was away. Route 25 John decided to move the of- he served a term as Presi- building a new automobile “It was still Prohibition. year. had expanded to four lanes fice to Perrysburg and I went dent of the Toledo Board of garage and dealership on the The guys were carrying a “They didn’t know what and the highway took the with him. John was not ter- Realtors and also was a corner of Dowling Road and load of whiskey and driving it was then,” he said. “If I front off of the building. ribly interested when it member of the Appraiser Route 25. Mr. Sargent’s too fast because the Perrys- walked too far, my knees Dad had built a new service came to business matters. Board of the Maumee Wa- family moved there shortly burg constable was chasing swelled up. I was deferred station and garage and ex- That was too boring. He’d tershed Conservancy Dis- after he was born. them. They unloaded the three times. Finally, they panded the restaurant and love to run a full-page ad, trict. Mr. Sargent retired in “In 1924 my father booze, which was in five- came out with something bar into a nightclub. I took whether he had the money or 2013. opened a Paige-Jewett auto- gallon cans and hid them in called Limited Service and I over the service station and not. I became his sales man- From garage mechanic to mobile dealership,” Mr. Sar- the cornfield to pick up later. was drafted in February of the garage. ager, gaining confidence. I machinist, restaurant-owner gent said. “The Paige was These fellows were not dan- 1943.” “In 1946, Virginia and I was in my own town and to realty broker and sales, the luxury model and the gerous; they just were trying Mr. Sargent eventually bought three acres on the knew the neighborhood and and later president of his Jewett its cheaper counter- to make a living. My dad found himself at Camp corner of Maple Street and community I was selling.” own real estate agency, Mr. part. In 1927, Dad added pulled their car back on the Blanding, Florida. Due to Boundary. There was a In 1960, after reaching a Sargent attributes much of Reos. They made a four- road but I think the police his garage experience, he house already on the corner population of 5,000 Perrys- his success to his father’s door sedan called the Flying eventually rounded them was assigned to a trucking and we moved into it. To let burg transformed from vil- example. Cloud. The dealership also up.” regiment, working as a me- you know how prices have lage to city. Hiring practices “He told me, ‘just treat doubled as a repair garage Mr. Sargent lived on the chanic. He was later as- changed, we paid $10,000 changed and Mr. Sargent be- people right.’ And my wife and gas station. There was southern boundary of the signed to help establish a for the whole piece, al- came chairman of the com- was always a big help. We also a lunchroom, which my Perrysburg school district. motor pool for the camp’s though it was considered mittee to set the rules for worked side-by-side for a lot mother ran. The business He was the first to be picked military police. ‘out in the country’ then. I Civil Service testing for city of years.” was called the Midway up in the morning for school Corporal Sargent was wanted to develop the rest of jobs. Mr. Sargent’s wife Vir- Garage, it being seven miles and the last to be dropped discharged late in 1945 and the property and planned to In 1966, Mr. Sargent ginia died earlier this year. halfway between Maumee off. He graduated in 1941. returned to his job at City run a street between Maple began working for George Now at 95, Mr. Sargent still and Bowling Green.” In 1942 he married Virginia Auto Stamping. and Locust. But there was Garn. He and Mr. Garn drives and gets around on Mr. Sargent remembered Sarver, also a 1941 PHS “About three months later some controversy about formed Garn Realty Inc. as his own. His daughters, how it was at this rural out- graduate. They set up they went on strike,” he property lines and there partners and Mr. Sargent be- Melissa and Andrea live post in the 1920s and ‘30s as housekeeping in a first-floor remembered. “It was a wasn’t enough room for the came president. George sold nearby and look after him, he was growing up. apartment of a house on the bunch of damn foolishness. street. I ended up dividing insurance as Garn Insurance although Mr. Sargent runs “Route 25 was a two-lane corner of Findlay and Fifth. It was six months before I the land into lots and sold Agency, which was a sepa- his own errands, often visits highway. There was little “The rent was $17.50 per could get my tools out of them.” rate entity and Mr. Garn the library and lunches out truck traffic, but cars were month,” Mr. Sargent remem- there. In the meantime, Mr. Sar- stuck pretty much to that frequently with Perrysburg plentiful. During the De- bered, “and we got the first “I went to work for gent and his wife took over while Mr. Sargent handled friends. pression there was a lot of month free because we Haskin’s White Truck.