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30 Years Ago - 1989
The “Cold Turkey” reunion scheduled for this Saturday is attracting the interest of persons from all over Iowa. Coordinators for the event have received several phone calls from persons outside the Greenfield area who were extras or who had relatives as extras for the filmings. “Cold Turkey” displays are featured around Greenfield this week. The Heritage Museum will be open special hours on Saturday so visitors can view movie displays and more “Cold Turkey” memorabilia. There will be cold turkey sandwiches served there. Those who have Cold Turkey items they will loan for display can bring them to the Museum during regular hours Thursday and Friday afternoons.
Three-fourths of the people who responded to a survey on building an antique aircraft museum in Greenfield feel that the project is worthwhile. That was the report made to the Antique Preservation Association board at a meeting last Thursday evening. However, some of the favorable responses were qualified with comments that private funds, not government money, should be used for the project.
A three-layered autumn extravaganza concentrated in one busy weekend in Greenfield will open this Thursday with the traditional Pancake Day and GHS Homecoming. Two other events, the Early Wheels of Iowa swap meet and the Cold Turkey Reunion, follow in rapid order.
Bridgewater-Fontanelle will crown its homecoming royalty at a ceremony and dance Saturday evening. The queen candidates, four seniors, and attendants from the other classes, are Jody Martin and Martha Baudler, seniors; Meredith Lantz, junior; Sarah Frese, senior; and Staci Jacobsen, sophomore; Jennifer Johnson, freshman; and Jennifer Swanson, senior.
In an exciting championship volleyball game that went the full five matches, the Greenfield Lady Tigers Saturday won their own invitational tournament, defeating Orient-Macksburg 3-2. The tournament gave the Greenfield team four more victories to hang on their undefeated string. The Lady Tigers had a 7-0 record after Saturday’s action.
60 Years Ago - 1959
The possibility of establishing a county conservation board for Adair County will be explored at a meeting scheduled for next Tuesday, Sept. 16, in the courtroom of the courthouse here. Anyone interested in wildlife conservation and improved recreation in Adair County is invited to attend the meeting. Special invitations are being sent to those who are known to be interested. The meeting is being arranged by a fact finding committee composed of Ivan Johannes, Robert R. Winders, Clare Williamson, Ed Sidey, R.D. Handley, L.c. Wright, Robert R. McDowall, and Dean Roberts.
Ninety-six Adair County farm pond owners received fish for stocking last Thursday at the second visit here this year for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service truck. About 10,000 catfish and bluegills were in this shipment. They were for ponds that were stocked with bass earlier this year. The fish are ordered through the Soil Conservation Service here.
Seventy-three of the 125 baby beeves exhibited at the county 4-H show this year made gains of two Ibs. per day or better for the 125 day feeding period reports Ivan Johannes, county extension director.
Rev. Penn Chambers of Udall, Kansas, has accepted a call to be the new pastor of the Plymouth Congregational Church at Orient and the Hill of Zion Congregational Church. He and Mrs. Chambers moved into the parsonage at Zion Wednesday to begin their ministry. Rev. Clark Howard has been serving as pastor of the Hill of Zion church for the past three years and the Orient church pulpit has been filled during that period by J.R. Moore, Cromwell layman.
The first in a series of Get Acquainted Teas to be held at the Menlo Community School was held Aug. 29 for the kindergarten, first, second and third grades. The purpose of these teas is to get acquainted with the teachers and other mothers. ON Friday, Sept. 5, a tea will be held for the fourth through eighth grades. These gatherings are being sponsored by the Menlo Community P.T.A. and the home room mothers are the hostesses.
90 Years Ago - 1929
A total registration of 251 teachers attended the Adair County Teachers Institute Thursday and Friday from various parts of Adair County at the Greenfield High School building in Greenfield. The faculty of instructors were C.E. Germane, University of Missouri; Emma Watkins and Dr. Thomas A. Gardner, University of Iowa; Mrs. Beth Granville, Iowa State Teachers College; Jessie M. Parker, Inspector of the Department of Public Instruction; Katherine Connelly, of New York City; J.F. Powers and Mrs. Sarah E. Hollister, Chicago. D.W. Turner of Corning gave the address Thursday morning followed by an address by Wyatt Ledgerwood, returned instructor from three years service at Beirut, Syria. Miss Alberta Dyer, musical instructor of the Greenfield schools, had charge of the assembly singing.
“Adair County would never need to buy any potatoes except seed if we would do the thinking part of the job as well as we do the work,” says County Agent Water M. Zellers. “Professor J.S. Marquis and Lyle Raasch of the Bridgewater schools have proved it this hard year for potatoes, as professor J.R. Underwood and the Fords did last year.”
The Wright Construction Company from Des Moines have started work on Federal Highway No. 32 east of Casey on the west end of the paving project. The paving gang had just finished a job near Indianola. The work was started on the west end in order to give as much time as possible for the big fills east of town to settle. The commission is dealing on the purchase of additional land east of Stuart so as to make a wider road in places.
Greenfield’s water supply is satisfactory, according to an analysis report received by the Free Press Friday from the water laboratory division of the State University of Iowa, following a test of two samples taken from city wells. The Des Moines Register recently published a list of towns where the city water supply was dangerous. Greenfield was not on that list. The water here is being treated with Chloride of lime as an extra precaution against infection.
Mr. and Mrs. M.L. Haines were host and hostess at a 6 o’clock dinner Friday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Robertson and daughter, Lavone, of Rio, Illinois, and Mr. and Mrs. Wendall Baier.