100 years ago
June 3, 1909
Local news
Decoration day was appropriately observed Monday, under the auspices of the W.R.C. Schools were dismissed, business houses ere closed.
June the 6th is Dedication Sunday for the Methodist church. Dr. Stafford of Oskaloosa preaches at 10:30 a.m.
Louck & Bochme are doing a nice business in automobiles this year. They have sold fourteen machines so far.
The Kalona House has as good accommodations as most of the city hotels. If you want to treat your friends right, take them there.
One of M.J. Miller's little boys lost the first joint of a finger in a lawn mower accident a few weeks ago.
Hulda Marie Buel was born in Lockport, New York, June 25th, 1827, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. D. Shaw, near Kalona May 30th, 1909.
She came to Iowa with her parents in the year 1839, settling in Iowa City, there being but four log cabins there at the time.
Rex Louck came home this morning, his years work in Iowa College being done.
J. W. Southwick shipped a carload of good hogs to Chicago Tuesday. Jesse went along with the shipment and on his way back from Chicago will stop off at Davenport.
D. F. Miller is having a lot of tiling done in his field just east of town.
W. S. Mitchell, former Kalona school teacher can't take care of all the good things offered him. Council Bluff's offered him $2000 a year to come there, but he had bought property in Clinton.
Frank Snider is playing snare drum in the band and they say he is going to make a good one.
Snake Hollow
Miss Mary Hofer who is attending school in Cedar Rapids was an over Sunday visitor at home.
Wm. Hesselschwerdt's and Miss Lissie Tice spent Sunday at O.L. Manatt's.
A. Schneider's spent Sunday at Jno. Hintermeister's.
Prairie Dale
Farmers are almost done planting corn.
W. H. Swartzendruber's were visited over Sunday by Mrs. S's. two brothers and others from Henry county.
Last Saturday night we had quite a wind storm which blew down Leo Snider's windmill.
Sharon Center
Geo. Weeber has had a new roof put on his barn.
Our Academy students of Iowa City spent Monday at home. On Friday evening of this week will be their graduation exercise. Omar Yoder is one of the graduates and he is also valedictorian of the class.
This community was saddened last Wednesday evening by a message from Zearing, telling of the death of Lois Mullen, the cause being consumption.
Frank Pierce
Patterson and Bonham repaired N. M. Taylor's deep well the first of the week.
Miss Minnie Maske is sewing at the Tom and John Wagner homes this week.
Herbert deFrance is sawing out a log yard for E. E. Yoder.
R. C. Gosnell has improved the looks of his house with a new porch on the front.
Frank Kline is hauling corn from Jim Ricker's.
West Sharon
Gaylord Rupener is home from school to spend his summer vacation.
Fred Buck and assistant are drilling a well for Will Rowland this week.
Primas Weekes is under the doctor's care at this writing.
Lewis Memler is working for Fred Zager near Iowa City.
Bales and Johnson are sawing out a log yard on the G. Rupener place.
Egypt
Joe Kupka of Riverside is plastering Will Telin's new addition to his house.
Miss Blanche Merchaut will close her spring term of school at Egypt Friday.
Charley Kos and Otto Krotz attended Decoration Day exercises at Richmond.
Miss Ella Horak is working for Mrs. John Soukup and Miss Rosie Knotek is helping her sister, Mrs. Ed Hora care for their big boy.
L.L. Kos and S. L. Barenek with their wives, spent a day fishing and picnicking at the English river.
Richmond
Born to Mr. and Mrs. George Sakay a big girl May 31.
Annie Bopp held Mary Smith clean house Saturday.
The Misses Ethel and Blanche Abby attended a club dance here Saturday evening.
Tillie Rupka is visiting her sister Mrs. Tony Shalla.
The Misses Knotek, Krotz and Chabal visited at Jim Yanskys Sunday.
Adolph Wollrab is working for John Soukup.
Fred Franks and lady friend were in town Sunday.
Prairie Flower
The ent worms seem to be playing havoc with the young corn in this as well as other localities. Some of the farmers have planted their corn the second time.
School at Union and Prairie Flower closed Friday for the summer vacation.
Mrs. Saville is quite ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Will Palmer.
75 years ago
May 31, 1934
Local news
Mr. and Mrs. John Marner are entertaining new twin girls at their home in Iowa County, being born to them last Saturday, May 26th. They will answer to the names of Lois Gayle and Lucille Grace. The Marners live in the West Union neighborhood.
With Dr. Harry D. Henry reading the single ring service, Miss Vera Davis and Mr. Earl Kennard were united in marriage at the parsonage in Iowa City. Mrs. Kennard is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Davis of Union township. Mr. Kennard is on the son of Mrs. Frank Kennard of Oxford. He graduated from the Kalona high school in 1932.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Teets, Mrs. Nellie Edmondson and Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Reif enjoyed a picnic dinner at the Iowa City park in company with Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Manatt, the Helen Osborne and Helen Robinson, and Logan Reif. The occasion was to celebrate the birthdays of Mr. Manatt, E. H. Reif and Mr. Teets.
Thursday noon, May 24th, Mrs. L. O. Gingerich pleasantly surprised her daughter, Louella, on her birthday by inviting in four of her girl friends for dinner. The guests were Elva Bender, Ruth and Mildred Thatcher, and Dorothy Votruba.
Miss Lala Hochstetler was pleasantly surprised at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Hochstetler, when friends came in to help her celebrate her birthday, May 29.
Mr. and Mrs. Herb Beachy and Rosemary in company with Miss Alma Miller and Frank Speidel of Iowa City picnicked along the Wapsipinicon River.
On June 5th, there will be a piano recital presented by the pupils of Catherine Friese Walker. Students are Richard Snodgrass, Paul Fry, John Nayadley, Donald Hesselschwerdt, Gloria Nayadley, Jean Fry, Mary Grady, Alfred Grady, Treva Hesselschwerdt, Carolyn Fry, Jane Kallaus, Charles Snodgrass.
East Union
Gordon Miller, Stanley Plank, Omar Hochstedler, Emery Rhodes, and Jacob Swartzendruber returned home Tuesday night from Goshen, Indiana where they had been visiting the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. John Stutzman and Mr. and Mrs. Chris Gingerich were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Art Gingerich of Wellman.
Prairie Dale
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hershberger entertained the following at Sunday dinner: Sherman Miller and children, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kneppa and Donald; Mr. and Mrs. John Knepp and children and the Misses Fanny and Emma Yoder.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Miller and family, Harvey and Mary Gingerich spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hostedler.
Frank Pierce
Mrs. Tom Fleming was taken to one of the hospitals in Iowa City for treatment last Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Maske and Mrs. Leslie Ihrig and son spent last Monday in Davenport. The affair was in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Maske's wedding anniversary.
Richmond
Mrs. Joe Triska is helping care for Mrs. Kate Kiefer.
Mrs. Dan Jordan's fractured arm is getting along fine.
Mrs. Vic Malichky is some better.
Miss Dorothy Soukup of Riverside visited Mrs. Al Sharp Sunday.
Miss Margaret Sakulin of Iowa City visited her parents here Saturday night.
Evergreen
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Miller are the happy parents of their first born, a seven pound son, born to them last Saturday. He will answer to the name of Arlen Dale. Both Mrs. Miller and son are getting along fine. Mr. and Mrs. Jake P. Miller and family and Mr. and Mrs. Jacob B. Yoder, called to see the new grandchildren Sunday.
Vern Moore is building a new barn and fence.
Brush
Fern Hershberger is entertaining the mumps at the present time.
Mr. and Mrs. Isaiah Litwiller were Sunday visitors at the Roy Rensberger home.
Mrs. George Reber spent Monday at the John Hershberger home.
Egypt
Paul Knotek of Denver, Colorado has been visiting the past week with friends and relatives here.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Krotz and daughter visited Saturday night at Horak's.
Tony Capp left last Monday morning for Cedar Rapids for a few days stay.
Pilotburg
Several of the farmers are putting in soy beans. Pastures are very dry and needing rain badly.
Mrs. Carl D. Anderson had a few little girls come to help Wenona celebrate her 5th birthday Sunday afternoon. They were Clara Belle Turnipseed, Antoneete Fisher, Betty Joann Gilbert, and Eileen Kennard.
Last Saturday evening about midnight, Mrs. Esther Hamilton's brooder house with 600 chicks burned. The oil stove had been giving trouble, but she thought it was repaired. The light glared into her room awakening her. She gave an alarm over the telephone and some help came.
Prairie Flower
Earl Smith shelled corn for Arthur Wiley Friday.
Miss Arlys Myers spent several days last week at the Raymond Hasty home.
Mrs. Troy Forinash and son spent Friday with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Bert Rittenhouse.
Milton Maas is putting up his alfalfa hay this week.
Kalona Hi Observer
Editor-in-chief: Elda Bigelow
Asst. Editor: Helen Snodgrass
Music: Muriel Michel
Sports: Myron Levy
This is the last edition of school news that will appear in the Kalona News for this school year. It has been a pleasure to write the notes that the public was invited to read each week.
Now that our play is over we added up the amount taken in and found the total to be $79.90.
Ned and Jim M. Proved to be very good help over at the hall Monday morning for they were fooling around and the committee put them to work peeling spuds.
Well, school is over and I will have no more chatter to write. What I'm really trying to say is Toodle Loo, So-Long, Good bye, Adios.
The Kalona grades played Middleburg in baseball Thursday afternoon. Curtis Figgins was pitcher and captain of our team. Earl Hershberger was umpire and Bert Southwick base umpire. The final score was 16 to 4 in favor of Kalona.
50 years ago
June 4, 1959
New arrivals
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Slabach are the parents of a daughter, Kathleen, born June 1.
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Hostetler are the parents of a daughter, Judith Yvonne, born June 1.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Paulsen of near West Branch are the parents of a son born May 30. Mrs. Paulsen is the former Delores Fry.
Local news
Mr. and Mrs. Eli S. Miller, Sara, Shirley, Ellis and Gary left Tuesday for Sarasota, Florida where they will attend the wedding of their son and brother, Paul on June 6.
Miss Charleen Gascho, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Gascho, Connie Hershberger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Hershberger and Phyllis Semler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Semler are in the graduating class of students at the mercy hospital school of Nursing.
M. B. Ehrenfelt is recuperating with a broken wrist and bruises after having fallen at his home, while shingling a roof.
Mrs. Dennis M. Miller and Marlene Garber were honored at a surprise birthday party June 2 in the Miller home, when neighbors gathered for a wiener roast and supper. Those sharing the occasion with the honored guests were Dennis M. Miller, Eddie, Judy and Dennie, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Garber.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Chody and Randy and Mrs. Lyle Fry were in Muscatine Sunday. Mrs. Chody's sister Karen Bermel is a member of the 1959 graduating class.
AC Ronald Spicher, who has been stationed at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas is enjoying a two weeks visit with his mother, Mrs. Velma Spicher.
The Kalona Softball league will start the 1959 summer season on Tuesday evening, June 8 at 7:45.
Four teams are entered in the league:
Al's Skelly: Al Neuenschwander, mgr.
Duane's Feeds: Duane E. Yoder, mgr.
Reifs: JD Boyd, mgr.
Kalona Builders: Ron Weaver, mgr.
Officer Fry nearly hit by speeding car
Edwin G. Ropp was sentenced in Mayors court Monday to 30 days in the county jail for reckless driving.
Other fines: Robert Lee Miller was fined $12.50 for having a loud muffler, and Joseph Mahlon Gingerich was fined $17.50 for speeding.
Richmond
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Welte Sr., and Richard Welte of Richmond will leave Wednesday for Denver, Colorado where they will visit with their daughters and husbands: Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Knoll and family and Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Perkins.
Louise Kallaus returned to her home Friday after staying with Mrs. Norman Kallaus at the Mayo Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota.
Mrs. Alphonse Kleopfer attended the Alumni banquet of Mercy nurses at the Mayflower Inn in Iowa City on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ten Eick of Iowa City visited Sunday evening at the Al Selement home. The occasion was Al's eighty-third birthday.
Bayertown
Mr. and Mrs. Don Maas are the proud parents of a new son.
Raymond Zook is the owner of a Plymouth.
Mr. John Sleichter is the owner of a new Nash.
Miss Hazel Shenk is on the sick list.
Friends of Master Terry Halter are glad to know he is recovering nicely from his serious operation.
Mr. and Mrs. John Sleichter visited relatives in Monroe, Wisconsin over the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bailey, Mrs. Rose Sleichter and son Robert and Mrs. Gertie Bailey spent Saturday evening at Joe Halters.
Pilotburg
Betty Yoder has returned home from Asbury College for summer vacation.
Freddie Scott has been having the measles.
Max Stransky attended his 8th grade picnic at Lake Darling last Sunday.
The last day school picnic is being held at the Browns school today, June 1. The school will be discontinued this fall.
Mrs. Lydia Horak and Harold entertained at dinner Sunday.
IMS 1959 Graduates
Larry Bender, Keith Blosser, Jerry Blough, Duane Brenneman, Robert Bontrager, Carolyn Sue Detweiler, Robert L. Eash, Keith Gingerich, Nelson Gingerich, James Gnagey, Marilyn Graber, Richard Graber, Glendon Hathaway, Viola Marie Helmuth, Carroll Hershberger, Edwin Jay Hershberger, Mary Lavonne Hochstetler, Jim Hochstetler, Frances D. Hoylman, Ila Jean Kennel, Wally G. Marner, Janice Ann Miller, Phyllis Miller, Sherilyn E. Miller, Treva Ann Miller, Robert Lewis Moberly, Willard D. Moore, Richard Nice, Larry Piper, Donald E. Rensberger Lydia Ann Schrock, Hazel Schumann, Junior Stoltzfus, Kenneth L. Swartzendruber, Ray Swartzendruber, Carolyn Troyer, Linton Weaver, Carl Yoder, Elwin Yoder, Larry D. Yoder, Laura Lee Yoder, Leanne Yoder, H. Marcus Yoder.
Kalona High School Graduates
Joyce Altenhofen, Kirk A. Fry, Janette E. Graper, Robert E. Miller, Michael L. Niffenegger, Jeanette L. Rhodes, Linda Kay Russell, Ralph D. Speas, Tom W. TeBockhorst, Arlene M. Yoder
Kalona High
Senior Interview
Linda Russell, alias Liz, is one of the shortest members of the senior class. February 10, 1941, was the lucky day for her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Russell. At present she stands at 5 ft. 2 in. weighs 110 pounds, and has black curly hair. She is secretary of student council, treas. Of F. H. A., and was an attendant to the homecoming queen and was a first team cheerleader.
School-wise, her favorite subjects are typing and Government. Football is her favorite sport and is an avid S. U. I. football fan. Her favorite actor and actress are Marlon Brando and Susan Hayward, respectively. Fats Domino tops her favorite male singer list and Connie Frances rates No. 1 in the female bracket.
25 years ago
June 4, 1984
New arrivals
Twin sons were born May 19 to Ryan and Deb Hartley of South Carolina. Patrick Dean weighed 4 lbs. 11 oz. and Nicholas Paul weighed 4 lbs. 3 oz. Grandparents are Robert and Paul Hartley of Kalona.
James and Louella Schneider of Riverside are parents of a son, Peter James, born May 21 and weighing 4 lbs. 2 oz. Grandparents are Vernita and Elmer Schneider, Catherine and Marvin Simon, all of Riverside.
Mr. and Mrs. David Lee Miller are parents of a 2 lb. 4 oz. daughter, Judith Rose, born May 22.
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Miller of Leogane, Haiti, are parents of a 6 lb. 12 oz. daughter, Nicole Cherie, born May 24. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Willis Miller and Mr. and Mrs. J. Wesley Hochstedler.
Eugene and Annette Ritter of Harrisonburg, Virginia, are parents of a 7 lb. 3 oz. son, Jason Scott, born May 25. Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. L. Glen Guengerich.
Darrel and Sylvia Yoder of Ephrata, Pennsylvania, are parents of a son, Jesse Weaver born June 5, weighing 7 lbs. 9 oz. Grandparents are Frank and Ada Yoder of Kalona.
Local news
Mr. and Mrs. Perry E. Bontrager of Kalona announce the engagement of their daughter, Viola Elaine to Glen Dale Coblentz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Coblentz of Kalona.
Janet F. Erb, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lowell (Lola Faye) Erb of Wellman and Doyle Geyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne (Shirley Geyer of Oxford, exchanged wedding vows June 2.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Stutzman of Rt. 1 Kalona will celebrate their thirtieth wedding anniversary June 10.
Evan L. Beachy, 23, is in stable condition at University Hospitals, Iowa City, where he was taken following a car-tractor accident June 2 near Kalona.
Steve Showalter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Darrel (Janet) Showalter of Kalona and Annette Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Duane K. (Sharon) Miller of rural Wellman are among nine students awarded $400 scholarships from the Washington Federal Savings & Loan Association.
Carol Brenneman, daughter of Keith and Mary L. Brenneman, has returned home after studying at the University of Barcelona, Spain.
Shirley Wehr of Richmond took a first place award for her pencil drawing in the Lenten Art display at the First Presbyterian Church in Ottumwa.
The improved and expanded Kalona Golf Course will re-open for Kalona Golf Club members June 13.
Richmond
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Rotenburger and Lucille were guests at the Harry Karnes home in rural Washington for their daughter Crystal's graduation party.
Don and Betty Saforek of Davenport and Dorothy Salladay of Iowa City were Sunday evening luncheon guests at the Blanche Saforek home. In the afternoon they attended the 130th year anniversary celebration of Holy Trinity.
Pleasantview
By Dorothy Mishler
The apartments east of the residential unit are occupied now.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hemphill and Ruth Ulch recently moved into the new apartments.
We are sorry to report that one of the maintenance men, Evan Beachy, was injured in a car-tractor accident on Highway 22 Friday evening and is a patient at University Hospital.
Pat Maach, Dot DeRonde, Judy Kingery and Vi Yoder of Newton, Roman and Shirley Gingerich visited Verna and Lando Gingerich.