Early Files
100 years ago
May 9, 1923
“Come Out of the Kitchen” comedy will be presented on May 22 and 23 by the Seniors. The cast of characters are as follows: Vivan Williams, Jennie Nelson, Lenore Lund, Florence Sanders, Louis Williams, Anton Lund, Lester Lande, Arthur Bergo and Arthur Halland.
Mr. George...
100 years ago
April 25, 1923
Mr. and Mrs. Carl N. Urdahl and little daughter of Medford, spent Sunday and Monday in Northwood and vicinity with relatives and friends, they being guests in Northwood of the Otto Buth, S.N. Urdahl and A.E. Urdahl families. They came overland, bringing with them in...
100 years ago
April 18, 1923
A meeting of Worth County Legion men was held at the courthouse last evening at which time a big “feed” was enjoyed and some boxing and wrestling contests pulled off, which was followed by a business meeting. Constitution and by-laws were adopted. Elected officers for...
100 years ago
April 11, 1923
At the April meeting of the town council, J.E. Amundson was reelected town clerk, a position which he has ably filled for the past 10 years. Marshall J.A. Oleson (Big John), who has served for over a quarter of a century in that capacity, was reappointed by Mayor Sabin...
100 years ago
April 4, 1923
The first big appropriation bill passed at this session of the legislature was by the Senate on the 27th when the Mead bill was passed providing for an appropriation of $450,000 annually for five years to meet the requirements of a gift of $2,250,000 by the Rockefeller...
100 years ago
March 28, 1923
John L. Nicopoulos, who was employed at the Rock Island shops at Manly, was suffocated when he slipped and fell into the pit ahead of a dump load of coal. Nicopoulos was night stationary engineer and had been in the employee of the Rock Island there for 10 years, when...
100 years ago
March 21, 1923
This evening Miss Hilda Huus will be married to Mr. Frank T. Johnson of Lakeview, Iowa. The wedding will take place at 5 p.m. at the home of the bride’s mother, Mrs. Berit Huus. Rev. Carl B. Ylvisaker, pastor of the Northwood Lutheran church, is performing the ceremony...
100 years ago
March 14, 1923
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Witt drove up from Grafton and found the roads in very bad condition, their car being stuck twice in the mud on the new road east of Manly. Mr. and Mrs. Witt will reside in the E.S. Johnson residence formerly occupied by C.S. Willing, whose former...
100 years ago
March 7, 1923
Northwood High School will debate the Clarion High School will debate Clarion High School in a dual debate conducted in the home towns Friday. The local affirmative team, consisting of Jeannette Sabin, Marie Brudvik, and Ferris Hurd, will go to Clarion, while the...
100 years ago
February 28, 1923
Northwood and Worth County citizens were pleased when word was received from Des Moines that Governor Kendall had appointed Attorney M.H. Kepler of this city judge for the 13th judicial district, of which this county is a part. That Mr. Kelper will make a good judge...