Looking at Life as It Used to Be
A column tracing life across decades from 1906 to 1960, noting travel, farm prosperity, local hires, and marriages. It lists prices from 1906 and recalls events and people across 25, 10, 5, and 1 year intervals, including obituaries, commencements, and civic notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherina Niemeyer
Grace Lutheran Church
Arnold Thalacker
Ted Olmstead
Tripoli High School
Northen Illinois University
de Kalb
L. J. Magnall
John Magnall
Utica
Ill
Dennis Olejniczak
Ed Olejniczak
Iowa State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Bremer County Court Records Show Numerous Real Estate Transfers
Bremer County District Court records list multiple property transfers and boundary details. Notable entries include Law versus Dale Spear, transfers to Wartburg College by Lawrence Bahlmann and others, and several deed actions across Waverly Sumner and Denver with revenues ranging from 55 cents to 22 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Bahlmann
American Lutheran Church
Wartburg College
Harmon & LeValley
Waverly
Robert R. Gersonde
Marriage Licenses Issued to Local Couples
Gordon LeRoy Balvant twenty three of Waterloo and Patricia Rose Mills twenty three of Waverly. Earl A. Watson of Waterloo and Lela Reasland of Sumner. Donald Buchholz twenty three of Waverly and Judy Ann Cordes twenty one of Fairfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon LeRoy Balvant
Waterloo
Patricia Rose Mills
Waverly
Earl A. Watson
Lela Reasland
Sumner
Donald Buchholz
Judy Ann Cordes
Fairbank
Timions Transfer Land To Chamberlain for $1 Acreage Details
Louis F Timion and wife sell to Chamberlain Corp for one dollar. Described property is west half of six acres of the southeast percent of northwest quarter of section 23 township 91 range 13. Revenue listed as 17.60 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles A
Coretta A. Burkhart
Gersonde
Sumner
Lewis Mohling
Dayton C
Henrietta L. Wright
Ney
Selvet
South
West
Albert G. Fay
John W. Fay
ReVern Holm
Cecil A
Erma D. Feller
Bremer County
Richard V. Leslie
Waverly
Robert H. Kuhrt
Kenneth J
Rose Kuhrt
Louis F. Timion
Chamberlain Corp
Retired Teacher Lillith Darby Ended 48-Year Career
Lillith Darby Allison has retired after 48 years in teaching. Early in her career she walked three miles to and from school from her Clarksville area home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillith Darby
Allison
Miss Darby
Clarksville
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lee Eisenhart
Socoro
N. M
Floyd Fitch
Chris Buhr
Louise Leege
Russell Meyers
Boone
Meyers
Olson Chevrolet
Ray Jacobsen
Hagenbuch
West Union
Alvin Blasberg
St. Matthew's Lutheran Church
W. H. Packels
County Board of Supervisors
Betty Ann Gunderson
Alma Gunderson
Clermont
Duane F. Holm
Fred Holm
Tripoli
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Postville
Edwin H. Fink
Walter Reed Hospital
Washington
D. C
Alameda
Calif
Viola F. Dodd
J. F. Dodd
Erhardt E. Rucker
William Nolte
Warren Township
St. John’s Evangelical and Reformed Church
Siegel
John Sassmann
FORD
WM. Ambrose
Tripoli, Iowa
Bremer ‘County District
State Bank of Waverly
Dale Spear
Law
Walter Sauerbrei
Wesley
Willis Sauerbrei
Northeast
Clyde E. Benton
Janesville Lumber Co
Janesville
Marie Gindt
John H. Schroeder
Paul Schroeder
Prestien
Denver
Taha
Howard M. White
Iowa
National Water Well Assn
Adams
Hammond
Flo
Heating and Bock
Post Office
Eugene Shouts
Ray H. Fink
William A. Kuker
E. F. Puhlmann
St. Peter's Evangelical and Reformed Church
George Barnes
Tripoli Community School Band
L. Gwen Lemley
Post Office Department
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Standenburg- Krueger
A. Thalacker
Tripoli Woman’s Club
Asa T. Martin
Elieisenhart
William B. Hale
Jonathan A. Hale
Lewis 8
Hanchett
Robert Brotherton
Augustus Cowles
Henry J. Wynhoff
James M. Bean
Henry Eifert
Samuel P. Hale
Fred W. Bull
John A. Hale
John J. Fink
Wesley H. Bockhaus
William A. Buckley
Paul Voetmann
L. L. Moeller
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