Early Files
100 years ago
April 29, 1926
E.L. Linder has been in business in Northwood for 28 years and to celebrate the anniversary he announces a shoe sale at his store for one week. Mr. Linder has a reputation for giving exceptional bargains at sales held in the past.
Mrs. Clarissa V. Kean, widow of the...
100 years ago
April 22, 1926
Sheriff H.L. Gullickson offered a confiscated booze runner’s Cadillac roadster at public auction in Manly last Saturday. High bid on the car was $225.
Word comes from Luther College at Decorah that Glennys Tenold, son of Mr. and Mrs. O.A. Tenold, has been appointed...
100 years ago
April 1, 1926
Fire of unknown origin completely destroyed the school building at Grafton. Principal. Littlelle discovered that the building was on fire when he was hearing the recitation of a class in a second floor room. He rushed outside to find the upper south wall and roof of the...
100 years ago
April 8, 1926
Fire completely destroyed the frame dwelling house on the county poor farm three miles west and one mile north of Kensett. There were nine inmates at the home at the time and all were taken to places of safety and without injury. Arrangements have been made for the...
100 years ago
April 1, 1926
Mayor E.M. Sabin was elected to succeed himself in the municipal election Monday. C.H. Dwelle, candidate for treasurer to succeed himself, was elected without opposition. K.O. Vold was re-elected assessor and councilmen J.K. Ofsthus, A.O. Rye, L.J. Thompson, E.N. Love...
100 years ago
March 25, 1926
Twenty-four fiddlers of old-time music met in a friendly contest Wednesday night in the Dwelle and Odd Fellow halls in Northwood to pick the best old-time fiddler in this section and to compete for more than $200 in cash and other prizes. The contest was sponsored by...
100 years ago
March 18, 1926
Marion Dwelle, seventh grade pupil in the Northwood school, will represent Worth County at the Register’s state spelling contest in Des Moines. With 21 contestants, 5 from Fertile, 6 from Hanlontown and 10 from Northwood and it took 2 hours and 15 minutes for Marion to...
100 years ago
March 11, 1926
Rudolph and Walter Nystuen, of the Lake Mills vicinity, drove over Tuesday to do some buying and attend to business in Northwood.
Miss Martha Bell, of Glidden, is again with the Mrs. Littlefield millinery this season. Miss Bell has many friends in Northwood who...
100 years ago
March 4, 1926
F. Van Hooser, of near Kensett, for the second time this winter, is under arrest and lodged in the county jail, charged with having intoxicating liquor in his possession. His arrest was the only one made as a result of a series of raids made Saturday night by local and...
100 years ago
February 25, 1926
Zane Grey’s “The Vanishing American,” an epic of the red man, was scheduled to be shown at the Northwood Theatre. Manager Haight predicted good houses each evening of the show.
Emilio Macios, a Mason City Mexican, was arrested at Manly Tuesday evening, he had just...