30 Years Ago March 31, 1989 Mrs. Cora Rasmussen will celebrate her 90th birthday. Keith and Jo Anne Sash will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Raynard Lage will celebrate their Golden Wedding Anniversary. Leta Stauffer, 95, Gladbrook, passed away at the Westbrook Acres Nursing Home. 40 Years Ago April 6, 1979 Ehrig-McTurk Legion Post of Gladbrook has chosen its delegates to Boys State. The delegates are Joey Wegner and Randy Oettchen. The alternate delegate is Bill Petersen. The Harold Beichley family lost a large barn, due to fire, on their farm Thursday morning, March 29. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Mohr (the former Rachel Feltz) are the parents of their first child, a son, Andrew John, born March 31. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Robert Feltz of Gladbrook and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Mohr of Wyoming, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Utterback of Gladbrook announce the engagement of their daughter, Barbara Ann, to Mr. Dennis Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Smith of rural Gladbrook. Mrs. Kathryn Wahl McDowall, 86, former Gladbrook resident, passed away Thursday in Sibley. Mrs. McDowall worked 31 years in the Gladbrook office of the Iowa Electric Light and Power Co. For many years she was secretary of the Gladbrook Public School Board. Janet Kay Littlefield and Thomas Lynn Grove were united in marriage March 3. Janet is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Littlefield of Sac City and Tom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Grove of Gladbrook. Linda Mitchell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Mitchell, and Curt Bacon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marley Bacon of Garwin announce their engagement and approaching marriage. 50 Years Ago March 28, 1969 Mr. and Mrs. John McGowan announce the engagement of their daughter, Janet Lee, to Joel G. Brekke, son of Mrs. Pearl Brekke and the late Orville M. Brekke, Sr., of Union. A May wedding is planned. The Golden Anniversary Birthday of the American Legion was celebrated Thursday night, March 20. Twenty-six Post members were eligible for their 50 Year Pin: Ray Hooper, John Lynch, Alfred Luethje, Roy Meier, Arnold Rohweder, Ed Claussen, Albert Dierks Sr., Hans Dreessen, Roy Kline, Henry Wilken, Lee Engel, Walter Hermann, Herb Barfels, Charles Busch, Carl Denbow, Edwin Eggers, Ernest Evens, John Evens, Robert Evens, Edward Gloe, Emil Jipp, Melvin Nelson, George Pappas, Freeman Pippert, Henry Sebbert and Harry Seydel. 60 Years Ago March 27, 1959 A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hiter of San Pablo, California on February 10, their second child, a son. Mrs. Hiter is the former Phyllis Clemann of Gladbrook. Mrs. Evan Goos passed away Monday evening enroute to Iowa City hospital after suffering a set back following a recent operation. Ed Fredricksen, 49, passed away from a heart attack at the home of friends in Toledo where he had gone for dinner. 70 Years Ago March 25, 1949 At a recent meeting of the Board of Education it was decided to have a week of spring vacation. School will close for that vacation on Friday, April 8 at 3:40 p.m. and reconvene on Monday, April 18, at 9:00 a.m. Graveside services were held Sunday afternoon at the Maple Hill Cemetery for the three day old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Hass that was born Thursday afternoon of last week at the Deaconess Hospital. The little Miss weighed 2 pounds and 12 ounces at birth and was named Cynthia. She passed away on Saturday. 80 Years Ago March 24, 1939 Monday’s Des Moines Register carried an official publication signed by M. L. Hutton, State Conservation director, that there would be no fishing allowed in the Union Grove Lake, south of Gladbrook, during the year of 1939. Fishing in the lake is illegal and those caught doing so will be punished as the law provides. Late Friday afternoon the Sunnyside Cafe, owned by C. L. Rash,was sold to Walter Leslie, of Waterloo. 90 Years Ago March 28, 1929 The Lincoln Highway west of Tama, near the indian Reservation, which has been closed since the high waters of last week, was opened to traffic Tuesday. The old road still was under water and a dozen teams were kept on readiness to pull motorists through the low places. It did not take Fred Rowden very many months to learn that he did not care to peddle ‘tummy and other remedies through the country. At least it seems that this is the case as he sold the agency for the Raleigh Remedies to James Wheeler, who lives in Dutch Row in east Gladbrook, Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Artz, of Beaman, are the parents of a daughter, Doris Louise, born Sunday night. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Yetley, of Garwin, are the parents of a daughter, born Wednesday afternoon at the Deaconess hospital. Friday afternoon as Henry Harms, accompanied by Lester Engel, was returning to town on the last lap of Rural Mail Route No. 2, he attempted to cross the Northwestern tracks at the Koster farm southeast of town, and was met by a freight engine which had crept upon them unnoticed. The train was a few rods away when the boys noticed and the car was thrown in reverse but the engine died a suden death with the front wheels on the track. The engineer put on the emergency brake and brought the engine to a sudden stop. It hit their vehicle, the fenders and the front wheel were broken as the car was pushed off the tracks. The boys escaped with no one injured. The boys have promised the Northwestern and themselves that they will stop, look, and listen before they attempt to cross another track.