In 1938, the Ohio Sugar Company, a sugar beet refinery founded in Ottawa in 1912, expanded to include a fertilizer manufacturing plant and an alfalfa-dehydrating mill. That year, the company had 10,000 acres of beets contracted for the fall harvest.
In the fall of 1928, five county schools had football teams: Columbus Grove, Continental, Leipsic, Saints Peter and Paul, and Pandora.
The Pandora and Gilboa school districts consolidated in 1951 after the Ohio Department of Education ordered the closure of Blanchard High School in Gilboa due to low enrollment