Lenox Time Table (Newspaper) - October 27, 1999, Lenox, Iowa Celebrating 125 Years of Service to the Lenox Area USPS 310020 Iowa 50851 THE LENOX VOL 125 to decide one winner in city election on Tuesday library issues included on ballot TAYLOR October 1999 44 A candidate will be elected to one position on the Lenox City Council when voters visit the polling places on The city election ballots show unopposed races for mayor and two council Stan Curtis is the only listed candidate for while present council members Robert Halligan and Toni Rechsteiner are the only candidates for their council A third council position will be determined by That term is now held by Jerry who did not file as a candidate for Those casting votes should write the candidates name in the blank and also put an X in the box beside that The polling place for City of Lenox voters is the Lenox American Legion Polls are open from 7 until 8 Library proposals concern tax levy On 2 voters will also decide on the fate of two petitions for the Lenox Public Library One petition is to cut the library board from nine to seven The second petition is regarding a 27 cent levy per on taxable value of real estate property of Lenox for the purpose of increasing the annual operating budget of the Lenox Public For the owner of property with assessed valuation of passage of the petition would result in a tax increase of less than per Seven run for five Clearfield spots In polls will be open on Tuesday from at the Clearfield City Seven candidates are running for the five Clearfield City Council The candidates are Sharon Julaine Ray Wesley Glen John Pirtle and Jim Jerry Abarr is running unopposed for the Mayors LOOKING AHEAD 28 Lenox City Waterworks will be flushing please avoid doing laundry to meet at Town 29 End of first quarter for Lenox school students LHS football at College Springs South 30 First day of hunting season in Iowa Sharpsburg Fire 69 at Sharpsburg City Hall Mercer Center Church fall 11 2 Bedford Nursing Rehab Center open 13 Remember to set clocks back one hour for end of daylight savings 31 Sharpsburg Presbyterian Church harvest proclaimed Trick or Treat hours 1 Lenox vocal students in conference vocal festival at 2 City polls open 7 8 at Lenox American Legion 3 LHS football team in first round of Class A football site and time to be Lenox High makes football playoffs for fi second consecutive season TIGERS ARE IN A 5513 Lenox victory over th Class A playoff berth as the P this Friday at College Springs South Page will give Lenox a 72 overall record and a 70 district Both those marks are identical to last years aPPearance i the THE FIRST ROUNn The playoff game will be played most likely at afternoon fames are allowed if both schools agree and most A playoff game against an team guarantees Lenox of a home field playoff major upSs m the fnal week of the the champions from districts closest to the Lenox area all follow L in the That I if the f THE REST OF THE PLAYOFF finals on unless an afternoon game K agreed upon at the with Class A games scheduled for and Pm Dme P 19 amin the UNI IF IT WAS OVER the high school football season would have ended after games played the Class A District champions GMG Garwin Lenox River Val ey cS Wist Q North Mills Southeast BEST GUESSES Lenox school officials believe the Iowa High School Athletic Association will try to avoid another unless geography dictates otherwise An opponent will most likely come from the list of Southeast or The most opponent from the list of district champs would be Manning or All the guessing will be overcome Saturday when the playoff will be known morning 25 h of the High Marching Band arc very familiar with the musical scale but they confronted a scale of a different sort last hand was at Crestland Cooperative in so the winner of the Guess the Weight of the coud be The of the band was exactly raffle Sner ws Jean By the the means the average weight of a band member is 132 Drought conditions bring rapid but precipitation needed after dry spell On a mild autumn southwest Iowa residents can look to the setting and watch the fog settle But thats not its And lots of Much of southern Iowa was enjoyed an October that has featured mild temperatures often times with highs in the 70s and dry Real dry For the month of Lenox has received precipitation that has totalled only of an according to cable television weather Marilyn James of Lenox keeps a daytoday chart of weather conditions of Her records show that the last significant rainfall was in early September when more than two inches of rain fell on 7 and In the past 40 Lenox has received total rainfall of only according to A United States Depart ment of Agriculture drought map that shows recent conditions puts southwest Iowa in the extreme drought On the USDA the southwest corner of Iowa is given a drought rating of With that numerical a rating is a moderate A ban on outside burning has been called in several Iowa but a burning ban for Taylor County is apparently not in the Lenox Fire Chief Reldon Huntington reports that there have been no serious fires in the recent and he generally does not foresee the need for a burning WEATHER MAKES FOR RAPID HARVESTS The mild weather has been an asset to grain producers in the Combines have been able to make rapid progress in harvesting corn and soybean According to the USDA crop 58 percent of Iowas com is with last vears mark at 49 percent and the average at 36 Moisture content for corn has averaged 18 according to When it comes to the crop report indicates that 90 percent of the crop has been In its crop USDA also issues a warning about the dry Dry conditions have added to the fire hazards when grain producers take to their fields in Pheasant hunters prepare for Saturdays opener Within a month or pheasant hunters will be able to give the most important report on southwest Iowas pheasant The pheasant and quail hunting seasons begin Saturday at 8 Traditionally there are literally hundreds of visitors in Taylor County for opening Just what opening day will bring for hunters remains a rather large question An early harvest could be beneficial to those seeking pheasants and although mild temperatures may bring a negative to the prospects for good Nice weather often results in pheasants flushing wild out of shotgun The annual Iowa Department of Natural Resources preseason count this year fails to result in solid In the southwest corner of the August roadside count of pheasants indicates a slight increase in bird The August count resulted in a rating of up from a year The quail count was down while the count of cottontails increased by a The picture resulting from the count is very different in south central In that the pheasant population has decreased by 20 according to the while the quail population has increase more than four The story is worse in west central where the counts indicated that the pheasant population took a drop of more than 40 percent since last year Each year the Iowa Department of Natural Resources uses a roadside survey to assess its upland game The August Roadside as it is is conducted on sunny with a heavy dew on the between August of each Most upland particularly hate to be On mornings with a heavy hen pheasants bring broods to the roadsides to dry off before they begin This tendency allows the birds to he counted and reproduction can be evaluated by counting the number of broods Survey routes are 30 miles long and are entirely on gravel biologists and conservation officers drive their assigned at 1015 and count the and In there are 21030 mile routes driven every August to assess Iowas upland game conferences on 1112 The Lenox Community School District will be conducting conferences from to on and from 8 to noon on During parents are able to pick up the students report card and visit with the respective By parental and teacher contact a better understanding of academic responsibilities by the student can be Conferences for grades K 6 will be scheduled con These will be 15 minutes in Parents are asked to respect that 15 minute time limit as teachers have a very tight schedule to sec all Conferences at the high school for grades 712 will be conducted in the gym on II and in the classrooms on On parents may enter the north doors to the gym to pick up report the report cards will be picked up in the business Parents may visit a students If the teachers should be parents may feel free to have a cup of coffee and a cookie while waiting in the It is the desire of the school administration for the parents to plan on being at the conferences on either Thursday or School officials would like to sec a high percentage of parents participate in the so they will get to know the who are responsible for your students Ralph Rogers 1927 1999 The man who guided de velopment of what was known as the new Lenox Junior Senior High building and grounds passed away on Ralph Rogers was super intendent of the Lenox School District for 22 He took that position in shortly after construction of the present Lenox High building was Funeral services for Ralph Rogers were held A full obituary is inside this or fall Daylights Savings time Ends at 2 on 31 Set clocks BACK ONE HOUR
