Early Files
100 years ago
July 30, 1925
A meeting of the Uneedem Girl’s sewing club of Kensett township was held at the home of Ole I. Harmon, with the Harmon girls, Gail, Gern and Dorothy, being members. Marie Mostrom demonstrated appropriate clothes for the fair, and Gail Harmon and Evelyn Gullickson...
100 years ago
July 23, 1925
Northwood markets: Hogs (top), $12.90; New Corn (80 lbs. best) 92 cents; Creamery butter, 47 cents; Dairy butter, 37 cents; Eggs, 29 cents.
Mr. and Mrs. W.O. Ebert drove to Freeborn Lake, Minn., where they met Mr. Ebert’s brother, Henry and his father Fred Ebert of...
100 years ago
July 16, 1925
Worth County citizens of Norse ancestry established an unprecedented record in many ways when a crowd estimated at 5,000 or more of this number assembled here in honor of their departed forefathers in commemoration of the 100th year since that little one-masted sail...
100 years ago
July 9, 1925
At least three young men from Northwood and vicinity will take advantage of the splendid opportunity offered by Uncle Sam to spend 30 days in summer camp at his expense. To date Lynn Elmer Jenson, A. Leland Johnson and Joyce Leland Ranum have made application and been...
100 years ago
June 25, 1925
At 8 p.m. Thursday evening the 100th signer placed his name upon the contract for next year’s Chautauqua and the audience under the big khaki tent was given the news that in 1925 for the 18th time the Redpath-Vawcer people would float their banners in Northwood.
The...
100 years ago
June 25, 1925
The Wm. Buchanan family, of Northwood, and the Hamersly family of Rockford, left Sunday for Chesterton, Indiana. They visited on the way at Center Point, Iowa, and DeKalb, Illinois, and in Indiana, were guests in the James and Claude McQuatters home.
On Tuesday evening...
100 years ago
June 18, 1925
Beginning Monday, the Northwood post office windows will all be closed at six o’clock. Heretofore the money order department has closed early but the general delivery and stamp windows have been kept open until after six.
Not for several years has Worth County...
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...