From the Past Files Of The Marcus News
120 Years Ago -1903
Miss Eliza Barrett was married to Frank Porter on Wednesday. November 4. at 8p.m. in the home of her sister, Mrs. Bert Brown of Tilden. They will make their home on a farm in Amherst.
John Knox has resigned the city clerk’s office and a successor has not yet been appointed.
115 Years Ago – 1908
J.F. Collins is putting new scenery into the opera house and has greatly improved it since he owned it.
CI. Bass of Marcus has purchased a residence at Morningside and will soon move his family there.
110 Years Ago – 1913
Mrs. IC. Thompson and Mrs. Armand Naffzigger and her two children were Sunday dinner guests in the L.W. Barnes home.
Mrs. George Turner of Cherokee visited with her sister, Mrs.
H. C. Loomis and her brother, Leslie Leonard, who is in the Loomis hospital
William Countermine, 71. of Cleghorn passed away in his Liberty township home Sunday, November 9. He is survived by his second wife and three children from the first marriage. Burial was in Marcus Amherst cemetery.
105 Years Ago -1918
Mr. & Mrs. Perry Miller departed for Los Angeles, California to spend the winter.
The telephone company completed laying 900 feet of underground cable at a cost of $1,200. It will insure better telephone communication regardless of weather.
A room over the First National Bank has been fitted up by the Red Cross for nurses when off duty.
100 Years Ago – 1923
Bonita. the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Auchstetter, is seriously ill with pneumonia.
Maude Scott, Mabel Toomey. Mary Costello and Claire Dalton were guests at a slumber party in the Keleher home.
L.J. McGivern and Dr. R.P. McDonald attended the father-son banquet at Cherokee. L.J. responded to a toast, ‘What fathers expect of their sons”
95 Years Ago -1928
The Cherokee County vote on November 6 was the largest ever recorded. Seven hundred eighty-four votes were cast at Marcus with Hoover getting 340 and Smith 429 for president. For Governor of Iowa, Hamill 299, and Housell 435.
Armistice Day, the 10th anniversary of the end of the World War, was observed here Monday, November 12.
Marcus football team played their annual Armistice football game vs. Cleghorn and won 12- 6.
85 Years Ago -1938
Reginald Anderson and Charles Rae will participate in the Golden Gloves tournament at LeMars November 21-21 and 25.
Newlyweds. Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Brownmiller. will entertain relatives and friends at a dance in the Japanese Gardens.
Rev. D.K. Burley, former pastor at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church at Anthon for eight years. arrived in Marcus to take charge of Holy Name Parish.
80 Years Ago – 1943
October 7 was the first big snows-storm of the season, accompanied by a wind that caused many high drifts and the closing of roads.
Mr. and Mrs. William Ohlendorf moved Wednesday from their home in Amherst to the home which they purchased in Marcus.
Helen Jenkins and Mrs. Vernon Nelle left for Fresno, Calif., on Monday afternoon where Mrs. Nelle ‘will join her husband and Helen will seek employment.
Mary Georges returned from Great Falls, Mont., Monday to care for her mother, Mrs. Ida Georges, who is ill.
75 Years Ago -1948
A large group of men from Marcus and Al ton pooled their tractors, pickers wagons, and elevators on the David Kerr farm and picked the 110 acres of corn while Mr. Kerr is in the at Le Mars hospital.
Mrs. Howard Johnson, an officer for the county Tuberculosis Association attended the dinner and meeting of that association at Cherokee.
John Snyder fell from a building at his farm, chipping several of his lower vertebrae.
A birthday dinner and supper honoring .Mrs. Walter Barnes on her birthday was held in the home of Mrs. Blanche Pitts Oct. 31.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Nielsen and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nielsen were joint hosts and hostesses at a hard time party Nov. 7 at the Walter Nielsen home.
70 Years Ago -1953
David Birch, seven-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Birch, had the misfortune to break two bones in his right arm in a fall from a tree at his home Saturday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Weber of Remsen are the parents of a son born Oct. 13 at the Sacred Heart Hospital in Le Mars.
Dr. M. F. Joynt, Marcus doctor, will be honored at a testimonial dinner Nov. 10 marking 43 years of faithful service to Marcus and community.
Mr. and Mrs. Calmer Olson of LeMars are the parents of a daughter, Beverly Lynn, born Oct. 9 at the Sacred Heart Hospital in Le Mars. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Merle Weicht of Marcus.
Dr. and Mrs. L L. Norris returned mine on Friday from a month’s vacation trip, touring Mexico and the southern states with their son, Dr. Paul Norris of St. Louis, Mo.
Harold’s Rexall Drugs of Marcus ‘ill hold a grand opening this Friday nd Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Anton Anderson returned home Thursday evening after spending a week visiting relatives at Slayton, Hinkley, Hibbing and Duluth, Minn.
65 Years Ago -1958
Mrs. Al Bork, 49, of Phoenix, Ark., died Oct. 29 after an illness of two years duration.
Leo and Billy Wendt of Marcus aie members of the LeMars Barbershoppers, a choral group which is planning a special. program for Saturday evening.
The Sisters on the faculty of Holy Name were guests Sunday afternoon at a tea and reception given in Cathedral Hall. Also attending were Mrs. Alice Harder, Mrs. Win. Collins, and Mrs. Rose Kestel. The occasion commemorated the 125th anniversary of the founding of the ‘Sisters” congregation.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Johnson of LeMars recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.
Al/c and Mrs. Charles Roberson of Homestead, Fla., are the parents of a son, David Allen, born Nov. 1.
60 Years Ago -1963
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Letsche are the parents of a son, Steven Frank, Nov. 2, 1963.
Cy Brownmiller is ill at his home and will be confined to bed for a week or longer.
Dr. John Curry, son of Mrs. Alice Curry and the late Bernard Curry of Marcus, has joined Dr. R.C. Randall in the practice of medicine at Santa Maria, Calif.
Ray and Chuck Sand are attending the annual convention of the Western Seedmen’s Association in Kansas City this week.
Carl Kuehn returned home Tuesday from St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Sioux City where he had undergone eye surgery last Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Ladenthin will be in Iowa City this weekend where they will attend a pharmacy seminar at the University of Iowa and the dedication of the new College of Pharmacy building.
55 Years Ago -1968
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Hohbach of Cleghorn are parents of a daughter born Oct. 27, 1968. She has been named Denise Ann.
Mrs. Jack Clarkson was dismissed from Floyd Valley Hospital Sunday after undergoing an appendectomy.
Fifteen good neighbors, relatives and friends gathered at the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Harm Seggerman Saturday afternoon, Oct. 26, with combines, wagons, tractors, and trucks to harvest 70 acres of soybeans, due to the illness of Mr. Seggerman.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Petrich of Cleghorn will observe their fiftieth wedding anniversary at an open house in the Cleghorn Presbyterian Church parlors Sunday afternoon.
Bill Bass returned home Saturday after a medical checkup at the clinic at Rochester.
Mrs. George Erickson, 78, of Marcus passed away at Cherokee Friday after a lingering illness.
50 Years Ago -1973
Lea Treinen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Merle Treinen, is teaching in a school for mentally challenged children in Beit She’an, Israel.
Carl Heesch was admitted to Floyd Valley Hospital in LeMars Tuesday morning.
Marcus ended the football season Friday night to become co-champions of the Little Sioux Conference.
45 Years Ago – 1978
Keith Brannon, a Marcus senior, has been selected to the 1978 McDonald’s All American High School Band. Two students Irom each of the 50 states make up the 100 piece band. They receive all expense paid trips to New York City to participate in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade and to Los Angeles for the Pasadena Rose Bowl Parade.
reshman students enrolled at the University of Iowa from Marcus are Dennis Brady. Sandra Goth, Susanne Knudson. Steven Mitts, Russell Pallesen and David Schnoes.
40 Years Ago –1983
Mrs. Shirlee Nelson of rural Marcus was runner-up in the “Cook of the Month” contest sponsored by Better Homes and Gardens. She entered her Creamy Carrot Casserole recipe.
Cleghorn City Council has purchased a truck from the state highway Department for $3,700.
35 Years Ago – 1988
Tracee Voetberg. Amy Cronin. Kristy Pearson, Greta Smith and Tammy Robinson were chosen as basketball cheerleaders for MMC.
Lynne Glackin of Marcus is student teaching in Orchard Hills at Cedar Falls. She is a student at UNI.
30 Years Ago – 1993
Jim Harman will be honored on his retirement Irom Community Co-op Oil on Friday. November 19, at an open house.