Early Files
100 years ago
June 11, 1925
The first 25 cents supper of the season will be given at the golf Club House Thursday for the benefit of the club. Come and bring the family.
C.N. Haugen and son Elmer, of Pelican Rapids, Minn., drove down last week for a visit in the home of the Hon. G.N. Haugen, and...
100 years ago
June 4, 1925
Carl Bolender’s Studebaker car was taken from a street in Mason City where it had been parked while the owner and his friends attended the theater. Searchers found the car two miles from Mason City with the speedometer showing that it had been driven about 65 miles.
Not...
100 years ago
May 28, 1925
Thirty-four graduates, representing the 1925 finished product of Northwood High School, were given diplomas as part of the commencement exercises held at the Northwood Theatre. The address of Dr. Gaeusch, of Iowa State University, is pronounced the best of all...
100 years ago
May 21, 1925
A real thriller at the Northwood Theatre Saturday evening- Lincoln J. Carter’s play, “The Cyclone Rider,” made into an interesting film story. It is said to “knock ‘em off their seats” in the big scenes.
Booster Day specials-Pure raspberry preserves, 25 cents, Muencher...
100 years ago
May 14, 1925
Tenold- A large crowd attended the Y.P.L.L. rally at Amund Groe’s Sunday evening.
The first visitation of gypsies for the 1925 season struck Northwood in four large automobiles. They were given but scant courtesy in Northwood and soon moved on to Albert Lea.
Grafton- C...
100 years ago
May 7, 1925
Miss Gordon, the teacher in District No. 6 of Union Township, has been re-engaged for the ensuing year at a wage of $10 per moth, this extra sum being paid by the patrons. This school has had an extra large attendance and Miss Gordon has handled it with such excellent...
100 years ago
April 30, 1925
Something unusual in the annals of railroading so far as Northwood is concerned was recorded the first of this week when a check of the daily business at the joint Rock Island and M. & St. L. Passenger stations revealed that only one ticket on either road had been...
100 years ago
April 23, 1925
The attendance was good and there was an unusually interesting program given at the monthly Civic League meeting. Rev. C.B. Ylvisaker gave an excellent talk on the problems and needs of the community.
The government thermometer in Northwood showed 87 degrees above...
100 years ago
April 16, 1925
Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Sharp and children returned Tuesday morning from Mexico, Santa Fe and Hannibal, Mo., where they had visited over Easter with relatives.
The sixth grade of the Northwood schools were taken to Mason City and shown through the immense plant of the...
100 years ago
April 9, 1925
After many false starts and hitches during the session the senate and house of the Iowa legislature yesterday agreed upon a federal aid road bill and a gasoline tax bill. Both houses have passed the measures and all that remains is for Governor Hammier to affix his...