Potty Passes and Political Meetings Highlight Small-Town Life
A West Delaware High School feature describes creative potty passes used to send students out of class and reduce skippings. The piece notes a drop in out-of-class departures and reflects on local school life. Separately, Chuck Grassley’s visits to weekly editors in Greenfield and Tipton drew tiny crowds, each meeting attracting only one editor.
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West Delaware
Manchester Press
Pam Engelken
Mother Nature
Greenfield
Iowa
Grassley
Clark
Tipton
Heritage Days Showcases Pioneer Skills In Clayton County
The Clayton County Conservation Board hosts a two day Heritage Days at the Osborne Conservation Center near Elkader. Demonstrations include butter churns horse shoeing black powder shooting and spinning with a farmers market and flea market. Buffalo chip throwing is set for Sunday afternoon with free horse rides.
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Osborne
Clayton County Conservation Board
Pioneer Village
Osborne Conservation Center
Elkader
Highway 13
Clayton County Milk Producers
The
Conservation Center
Buffalo
Juvenile Rep Meeting Set in Eldora Iowa
Representatives from 26 states will gather October 6 through 8 at the State Training School in Eldora Iowa for the 28th Annual Western Conference of Training Schools and Juvenile Agencies. Panels discuss Training Schools Past Present and Future and the Juvenile Justice Process in Iowa.
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Eldora
Iowa
State Training School
Football sign sparks pride after Monday night loss
In Independence a Maid Rite shop photo shows Sandy Postel and Donna Hughes displaying a portable sign reading Happiness is a football strike. The image appears in the Independence Newspapers prompting reactions among locals despite the Monday night defeat.
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Sandy Postel
Donna Hughes
Maid-Rite
Independence
Rattlesnakes Liven West Liberty Neighborhood
West Liberty residents report a surge of venomous snakes with 46 rattlers photographed near a local garage. Earlier a Nichols man was bitten by a rattlesnake and hospitalized in Iowa City. LaMar and Alta Wilkerson, now on a ranch out West, sent the 46-snake image from their former neighborhood. overall this spring 140 rattlesnakes were captured within a mile of that area.
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West Liberty Enterprise
Nichols
University Hospitals
Iowa City
West Liberty
LaMar
Alta Wilkerson
Ten students trapped in school music room door jam
Twelve Sigourney High School students were trapped in the backroom of the vocal music room when the door jammed shut. After about thirty minutes, janitor Norman Collins removed an outside window and freed the students with help from the window opening. A photo in the Sigourney News Review showed the students awaiting rescue.
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Sigourney High School
Vocal Music Room
Norman Collins
Sigourney News-Review
Grassley troubles noted by Tipton editor
H E Clark of the Tipton Conservative and Advertiser wrote last month about Senator Chuck Grassley and some problems he was having with his position or issues he faced.
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H.E. Clark
The
Tipton
Conservative and Advertiser
Chuck Grassley
Murder trial set to start in Jesup infant death case
Michael Cecil Craney of Jesup is slated for a Monday jury trial in Buchanan County District Court Independence on first degree murder charges for the May death of his 22 day old son Matthew Robert. Insanity or diminished responsibility defenses may be raised.
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Independence
Michael Cecil Craney
Jesup
Craney
James F. Whalen
Waterloo
Buchanan County District Court
Carroll Engelkes
Buchanan County
David Herrick
Black Hawk County
Engelkes
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
Iowa Security
Oakdale
Mental Health Institute
Daryl Roberts
Cudahy Specialty Foods
Larry
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Donna Jones
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Bohemian Savings Office
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Third St
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Williams Blvd
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Marion
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