This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 11 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Humeston New Era
Location
Humeston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1986
Page
4
Editor names Joy Trembly Heston Minnick Ericson Fry Dale Kent listed for Saint community school coverage. The piece highlights local educators including Rania Trembly and Jennie Ericson among staff, with focus on community education efforts.
Tony Lee Jones born May 17 1967 has three brothers and a sister, enjoys basketball, reading, swimming and biking, and will attend Graceland after graduation. Shane Alan Woods born June 12 1968 in Des Moines loves hunting, cruising weekends, and aims to graduate then seek work. Ronald Ray Hofmann born February 17 1967 in Corydon plans to farm after graduation, with four brothers and two sisters and a penchant for restoring old equipment.
The Mormon Trail boys finished sixth in Class C at the Rocket Relays in Eddyville and sixth in Class B at the Big Red Relays in Centerville. Mike Hiatt led MT with a 1600 meter best of 4:56.13 and a 3200 meter time of 10:39 at Eddyville, while at Centerville he improved the 1600 to 4:52.09 and 3200 to 10:31.75, with multiple runners earning top two finishes and MT posting 29 points at Big Red Relays.
MT senior Jodi Heston spent last semester at Citizens State Bank Humeston learning banking duties and customer service. She says the experience boosted her confidence and taught difficult balance, credit and debit decisions, confirming her interest in a business career and plans to study at AIB for court reporting or banking.
Boni Joy pursues career education in the high school office this semester. She enjoys the work, gains experience with typing and computers, and learns to operate a word processor and other computer tasks. Boni plans to use this knowledge in further education and chose the field for the opportunity to work with programs.
Cherene McBroom at Humeston Medical Clinic enjoyed meeting people and learning new tasks while front desk duties. Susan Jamison at Humeston Citizens State Bank values serving the public and applying on the job lessons to future work, planning ongoing education.
The Mormon Trail honor club met to set the spring award schedule due to test conflicts. Seniors will receive medallions and certificates at the May 18 commencement with underclassmen receiving theirs next fall. Officers elected for 1986 87 are Debby Dent president Amy Kelley secretary Ann Wagner treasurer.
Robin Douglass announces a schedule of senior activities and track events. May 8 senior breakfast at 9:30 a.m. Graduation rehearsal at Humeston at 9:45 a.m. Senior trip at 12:00. May 9 girls at Mt. Ayr Invitational at 4:30. May 9 Redette Relays at 4:30. May 12 girls district track at Greenfield and junior high conference track at Wayne at 4:00.
The Mormon Trail girls placed seventh at the Lions Invitational in Seymour as Seymour won with 133 points and Central Decatur was runner up. Connie Petty earned two second place medals with a shot put of 29 feet 4.4 inches and a discus of 90 feet 1.4 inches, MT’s top finishes. MT also had fourth through fifth place finishes across relays and sprints and will compete in three meets this week before district action at Greenfield next Monday.
Mormon Trail junior high girls placed in 11 events at the Little Warhawk relays, finishing first with 146.5 points. Interstate 35 took second with 92, followed by Martensdale-St. Mary’s, Wayne, Prairie City/CTA, Central Decatur, and Mormon Trail. Kristi Hitt led with a 100m dash third and anchored several relays. teammates earned multiple third, fourth, fifth, and sixth place ribbons. The MT squad prepares for Chariton and Wayne Invitation meets this week.
Lamont defeated Mormon Trail in both girls and boys golf last Tuesday. Girls score 259 for Lamont to 317 for MT with Jenny Ericson 73 leading the Saints and Lamoni co-medalists Cheryl Hough and Lori Clark with 64s. Boys score 243 for MT to 195 for Lamont, Jim Roe 51 tops MT, Lamoni’s Todd Sturgis medalist at 42. The Saints wrap up the regular season with trips to Central Decatur and Mount Ayr later this week.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.