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Looking Back

30 years ago May 4, 1990 Mr. and Mrs. Noel Boldt, Gladbrook, will celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary with an open house. Gertrude Baumeier and Morris P. Bruene were united in marriage on Saturday, April 14 at the Gladbrook United Methodist Church. 40 years ago May 9, 1980 Last Monday evening the Gladbrook Chapter of The National Honor Society held its induction ceremony. New members are Barb Boll, Scot Storjohann, Ed Ohrt, Lisa Wendel, Beth Hatcher, Mary Knaack, Dorcas Woebbeking, Chris Goos, Carma Hortsmann, Pia Carlson (Honorary member), and Lynn Schoel. Debra Luethje, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Luethje, has been selected by Ehrig-McTurk Unit #127 Legion Auxiliary as their representative to Girls State. The 500 Marathon winners for the year were Sandy Landt, Dorothy Landt, Virginia Parsons and Iva Lorenz. The 500 Marathon is sponsored by the Gladbrook Community Women’s Club. Fred K. Bruene, 92, of Gladbrook, died Thursday, May 1. Burial was in Gethmann Cemetery. Born April 17, 1888, near Gladbrook, he was the son of Karl and Emilie Keiser Bruene. On January 26, 1916, he was married to Luella Benz. They farmed near Beaman for 14 years, then moved to the family farm home near Gladbrook where they resided until moving to Gladbrook in 1946. Lisa Shull and Lynn Dennis Moeller were married Saturday, April 12. Parents of the couple are Mrs. Loenard Gaskill of California and Mrs. Ina Moeller of Gladbrook. 50 years ago May 1, 1970 Tuesday afternoon friends, neighbors, and relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Boege plowed and harrowed 235 acres at their farm four miles southwest of Gladbrook. Mr. Boege has been ill for the past three weeks and unable to do any farm work. There were 36 units working at the farm and 134 bottoms turned 162 ft. of ground every time they made a round. Sergeant Dean H. Hoppe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hoppe, R. R. 2, Gladbrook, is a member of a unit that has earned the U.S. Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with “V” device for valor. The 187th Communication Squadron at Pleiku AB, Vietnam, was cited for meritorious service from July 1968 to July, 1969 for furnishing direct communications and air traffic control support to U.S. and Vietnamese units during air strikes against enemy forces. St. Boniface Catholic Church in Garwin was the scene of a Nuptial Mass that united Alice Lorraine Murty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Murty of rural Traer, and Pfc. Ralph E. Morris, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Morris of Reno, Nevada. 60 years ago April 29, 1960 Mr. and Mrs. Otto Schmidt announce the engagement of their daughter, Lois, to Roger Eggers, son of Arnold Eggers of Gladbrook. A spring wedding is planned. The First Methodist Church was the scene last Friday evening of the wedding of Mina Mae Dahms, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Dahms, of Toledo, and Melvin Wayne Knaack, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Knaack of Gladbrook. Miss JoAnn Marie Steinmeyer, daughter of Mrs. Leland Bingham and the late August Steinmeyer of Grundy Center, became the bride of Cecil Gordon Wrage, son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Wrage of Grundy Center, Wednesday evening April 20. Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Delfs of Traer announce the approaching June 11 marriage of their daughter, Mary Louise, to Don Kliebensrein, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Kliebenstein. Planning a June wedding are Mary Ann Shumek, LaPorte City, and Donald H. Gloe of Gladbrook. Parents of the couple are Mr. and Mrs. William Shumek, Waterloo and Mr. and Mrs. Hilton C. Gloe of Gladbrook. The Board of Directors of Gladbrook Improvements, Inc., at a meeting held this week, approved a public offering of shares of stock to those people of the community either interested in bowling or better recreational facilities for the youth and adults of the community. Mr. Ray Zoffka, of Ogden, is planning to equip and operate a modern 8-lane bowling recreational center in Gladbrook if a suitable building is provided for his rental and eventual purchase. 70 years ago April 28, 1950 James Wolfe of Hampton was named town Marshall of Gladbrook by the council this week. Mr. Wolfe will take over his duties on Monday, May 1. Two Gladbrook oil stations were broke into and a total of $7.00 taken from them over the weekend. The stations robbed were Ray Schwabauer’s Phillips “66” and Raymond Schoel’s Standard Station. The burglars broke the panels of the rear door of Schwabauer’s station Friday night of last week and took $5.00 from his cash drawer. Authorities were baffled by the fact that two other $5 bills were left in the drawer along $1 bills and change. A total of about $30 was in the drawer. Sunday night Schoel’s station was broken into and $2.00 in change taken. Several more dollars of small change was left behind. Mrs. Violet Osborne, Gladbrook’s census enumerator, ende a lot of speculation this week when she reported the unofficial count of Gladbrook at 852. This is 93 less noses than were counted in Gladbrook during the 1940 census. The Music Department of the local school returned from the State Contest at Charles City with three first ratings and one second. The entries and their ratings: Concert Band-Division I; Girls Glee Club-Division I; Brass Sextet-Division I; Mixed Chorus-Division II. 80 years ago May 3, 1940 Twenty-eight of Gladbrook’s young people will have completed their four year high school course and receive their diplomas at commencement exercises in the High School auditorium Friday evening, May 24th. Those who will receive diplomas are Mildred Eggers, Morris Bruene, Merle Bruene, Ruby Crouch, Melissa Stauffer, Pearl Schulz, Frances Wolfgram, Wilma Williams, LaVerne Flamme, Dorothy Pappas, Wayne Baumeier, Victor Sebbert, Doris Goettsch, Arthur Broeker, Marjorie Seydel, Richard Goette, Ray Landt, Cedric Onstott, Lawrence Henry, James Engel, Dorothy Ploen, Erma Haack, Leon Lage, Harold Kienzle, Cleon Schoel, George Lorenz, Jr., Ervin Dahms, and Wilbur Kroeger. Gladbrook lost to Tama in the finals of the county baseball tournament which was held at Montour the past Wednesday and Thursday. Opal Schwartz is now working steadily on the switchboard of the local telephone company and Louise Engelland has taken her job as “popcorn girl” at the theater. 90 years ago May 2, 1930 William Cohrt, the new city Marshall, went on duty Thursday morning taking the place made vacant by the resignation of J. H. Hauschildt, who held the position three years. The Northern is sorry to learn that John Reno, who has been superintendant of the Gladbrook schools the past two years has decided no to return to Gladbrook next year. Mr. Reno has been offered a better position.