30 Years Ago May 26, 1989 Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Oaks are the proud parents of a son, Kabel Wm. Oaks, born May 19. He is welcomed home by two brothers. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Coons, Kansas City, Missouri and Mrs. Marjorie Oaks and the late Floyd Oaks, Gladbrook. David and Janie Strickler of Holland are the parents of a son, Justin Charles, born on May 8. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Murell Ralston, Lincoln, and Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Strickler of Grundy Center. David and Jayne Goos, Newton, Iowa, are the parents of a daughter, Stephanie Janine, born May 17. Stephanie is welcomed home by a brother, Bryan, 3. Maternal grandmother is Eunice Grube of Osage. Paternal grandparents are George and Pat Goos, Gladbrook. High School Valedictorians and top graduating seniors from Tama and 21 other Eastern Iowa counties were recently honored as “Best of Class 1989” by KWWL-TV, Channel 7. Christine Sievers of Gladbrook-Reinbeck was among more than 120 students featured by KWWL as “role models of excellence” for their fellow students. 40 Years Ago June 1, 1979 Refined Water & Air, Inc., under Harold Ridout, will be opening soon in the old cafe building on 2nd and Washington Street of the business district. Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Oettchen of Beaman announce the engagement of their daughter, Judy Ann, to Henry Crawford Mentel, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Crawford Mentel, Sr., of Gladbrook. Robert Dean Niedermann, Gladbrook, has had charges of a sawed-off shotgun dismissed. The state made a motion for dismissal. 50 Years Ago May 23, 1969 Mr. and Mrs. Jim Olinger, now of Eldora, but former Gladbrook residents, are the parents of a new daughter born May 20. She has a sister, Debbie, age 8, and as sister, DeAnne, age 10. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Schrader are the maternal grandparents. Neighbors, friends, and relatives joined together to work the ground and planted 75 acres of corn, Thursday of last week, at the home fo Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Hill. Mr. Hill had just returned home from the hospital and is still undergoing treatment and was unable to accomplish the necessary farm work. The Hill farm is located 3 1/2 miles northeast of Gladbrook. Mr. and Mrs. Merlyn Wrage are the parents of a boy named Shain David. He has two sisters, Stacy and Sharri. Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Blass, of Ealy, announce the engagement of their daughter, Linda, to Dennis Baumeier, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Baumeier of rural Gladbrook. Students of the Gladbrook Community School will end their 1968-69 school year at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, May 29. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Eggers are the parents of a daughter, born May 21. She has been named Sarah Jane. Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hoekstra and paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Merlyn Eggers, all of Gladbrook. Memorial Day Services will be held on Friday, May 30, at 11:00 a.m. in Maple Hill Cemetery, three miles north of Gladbrook. 60 Years Ago May 22, 1959 Mr. and Mrs. Loren Emke are the parents of a daughter born early Wednesday at the Evangelical Hospital in Marshalltown. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert (Ted) Wentzien II, of Lincoln, became the parents of a daughter, May 20. She has been named Tracy Ann. The wedding of Judy Sherman and Leon Schulz has been postponed until a later date due to illness of the bride-to-be. Miss Sherman underwent an appendectomy at the hospital Thursday morning of this week. The wedding was to have been Sunday, May 24. Saturday, May 23 has been named Poppy Day and all citizens are urged to observe the day by wearing memorial poppies in tribute to the nation’s war dead in a proclamation issued today by Mayor Agnes Barger. Word was received here this week by relatives of the death of Mrs. Anna Martin of Florida. Mrs. Martin was a former resident of Gladbrook and would have been 87 next month. 70 Years Ago May 20, 1949 Wednesday and Saturday, May 25 and 28 was set aside as Poppy Days in Gladbrook in a proclamation issued today by Mayor L. H. Thomsen. Victory Raymond Murty, 19, of near Green Mountain, passed away Tuesday at Evangelical Deaconess Hospital where he had been a patient but one day. He had been ill since the first of the year. Three Marshalltown residents, Joe, Max and Jimmy Radcliff, were credited with saving the lives of an unidentified Gladbrook couple about 5 p.m. Sunday at Sportman’s Lake near Montour. The Gladbrook couple was fishing from a boat when it capsized. The woman did not know how to swim and the man was unable to rescue her, according to the reports. The Radcliffs were fishing in a nearby boat and pulled the couple from the water. The couple was too frightened to give their names and left the scene immediately, the Radcliffs reported. Ann Halverson, wife of Harold Halverson, local agent of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad, passed away at the Iowa Tuberculosis Sanitarium Hospital in Oakdale on Tuesday. Mrs. Halverson had been a patient at the hospital for some time. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hooper this week announced the approaching marriage of their daughter, Maxine, to Cleon Schoel. 80 Years Ago May 19, 1939 Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Viering, of Beaman, are happy over the arrival of their second child, a daughter, born Saturday. Poppies, America’s flowers for remembrance will be brought to everyone in Gladbrook on Poppy Day, Saturday, May 27. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Junge will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. 90 Years Ago May 23, 1929 While leading a bull about noon Saturday at his farm two miles north of Toledo, Jesse A. Moffett, well known Tama county farmer, was injured severely when the bull became angry, knocked him down and trampled him. Marshal Hauschildt arrested Glen Elliott who was drunk, on the street, in a maudlin condition, Wednesday evening and took him before Justice of the Peace, J. V. Miller.