Early Files
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...
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...