120 Years Ago -1903
The city council in Marcus granted Win. Madden permission to conduct a bowling alley for six months.
Marcus has the neatest telephone central office in this part of the state.
The Union Club of Marcus has rooms over Cisne’s Hardware. They have purchased a billiard table, which is now in use.

115 Years Ago – 1908
The Edmonds-Freeman and Company grain elevator is now open for business. They are paying 42¢ for oats.
Sister M. Ludovica, a Chicago school teacher recently visited relatives in Marcus. She left here seven years ago acid it is her first visit home. She will be remembered as Laura Zembsch.
Oscar Barnes is having a handsome cottage built on the lots east of I-henry Liggett’s residence.

110 Years Ago – 1913
F.E. Booth purchased the garage, owned and operated by L. Florine, at Cleghorn. He will continue to handle the Oakland and Case cars. Florine will take up his former trade of carpentry.
Nels Anderson of Alta visited in the John Bjork home. Nels and John went to school together in the old country.
The Marcus House was built in1876 and is one of the oldest structures in town, It is being razed and will be replaced by a 50’ x 100’ cement block building for the Peters Brothers garage.
The physics class of the public school will have the use of Dr. Loomis’ X-Ray machine during the year.
The Amherst hand will hold a shadow social at Center school on October 2. Ladies will bring supper in two.

105 Years Ago -1918
Women were appointed throughout the state to direct local work.
Mrs. H.H.Lamoreux of Meriden, died September 11th in her home after a long illness.
Lloyd Barnes purchased a choice 160 acres farm a mile from Primghar.
Nearly a solid Business block at Pierson was consumed by fire Sunday evening.
Joseph Georges, Joseph Engleman, Christian Miller, Alfred Bork, Fred Meyer, Leonard Meylor and Forrest Peters were called into service by the U.S. Army

100 Years Ago – 1923
Earl Pfaffle and Edna Knight were united in marriage at Trinity Lutheran Church September
13.
AW. Champod has opened a garage in the Nield building and will do general repairing acid battery work.
Art Harvey caught his hand in a corn binder and cut it badly.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Galigan are the parents of a daughter, Bernice Marie, born September 26.

95 Years Ago -1928
Eight children were confirmed in the Nazareth Lutheran Church Sunday.
W. J. Satterlee was named adjutant of the 11th district American Legion at the state convention at Cedar Rapids.
Mark Bancroft has enrolled in the law department of the state university of Minnesota.
A new corn crib was recently built on the Beck farm east of Marcus.

85 Years Ago -1938
A new soybean expeller was installed in their Quimby mill by the Simonsen Brothers.
Mr. and Mrs. Arley Schmillen are parents of a daughter born September 20.
Berniece Reidemann was married to Lowell Strohn of Howells, Nebraska, in Trinity Lutheran Church Sunday.
L.B. Darling, manager of the Farmer’s Elevator at Cleghorn. announces the establishment of a seed treating and cleaning plant there next year.
Marcus high school football team will play its first game of the season at Cherokee.

80 Years Ago – 1943
Mrs. Henry George, nee Louise Wienk, was honored at a postnuptial shower in the Delmer Drefke home with Mrs. Richard Drefke as assistant hostess.
James Christensen has enrolled as a new pupil in the seventh grade at public school,
Mrs. and Mrs. Harry Hendrickson entertained 18 guests at supper Tuesday in honor of their son, Donald, who is home on leave.
Duane Mossman of Des Moines, spent Sunday and Monday in the parental Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mossman home. Duane is an instructor in the Government Signal Corps School.

75 Years Ago -1948
Sgt. and Mrs. Nicholas (Buss) King and son Frederick of Germany arrived to spend thirty days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom King. Pfc. Thomas King, Jr., arrived a nay later from Korea to spend a 50 day furlough. Jr. has another year to spend and Buss intends to reenlist.
1-loly Name baseball team defeated Remsen St. Mary’s 9-8. Feature of the game was a homerun in with two on base by Dick Bird.
W.H. Daubendiek, 80, died in Germaiiy of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was their making arrangement to bring displaced persons to the United States.
Harvey Miller, who farms one-mile south and one and one-half east of Marcus, was rated second iii the Iowa State WNAX Farmstead Improvement program for 1947-48. He was judged the Cherokee County winner.
Miriam Christensen, Freddie Wilkens. Shirley Dorr, Norman Carlson and Delores Ebert have been appointed librarians for the public school junior high.

70 Years Ago -1953
Cherokee city police and Sioux Valley Memorial Hospital nurses col­laborated as a young Cherokee county mother gave birth to a baby boy in a car near the rear entrance to the hospital. The mother is Mrs. Raymond Glassmaker.
Bob Sand had a bad afternoon on the farm – first a John Deere tractor caught fire and later Bob tangled with a silage cutter. He got a gash on his right arm and thumnb that required stitches.
Edgar 1-lagey was honored on his birthday at a family supper Saturday evening.
The Bun Vista Club held a Galloping Breakfast in the Arley Schmillen home Wednesday.
The Amherst Township Homemakers held their organizational tea in the home of Mrs. Lena Hueser with Mrs. Louis Kirchoff as assistant hostess on Tuesday, September 15. Guests were Mrs. Carmen Dewar and Mrs. Helen Carlson.

65 Years Ago -1958
Marcus Township school district will sell seven rural school buildings and their contents at Public Auction on Tuesday, October 7.
Mrs. Vernon Grauer attended the Flower Show Judging Contest at Laurens for three days.
Harry Prins, a missionary from Japan and Bill Carlson, a missionary from the Congo, were guest speakers in the Meriden Free Church Thursday and Friday evenings and Sunday morning and evening.
Bonnie Rupp, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Rupp, is a patient at Methodist hospital in Rochester, Minn., receiving treatment for an ankle injury in an auto accident. Linda Rupp, also injured in the same accident, returned home after receiv­ing treatment.

60 Years Ago -1963
Richard Brittain is the new mechanic at Nagle’s Chevrolet and has been a repairman for over 25 years. He and his wife moved here from Fall City, Nebraska.
Former Marcusites, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Tapp and Bonnie have moved from Sioux City to Phoenix, Arizona, to make their home.
1964 Chevrolet will go on display Sept. 26 all over the nation, including Nagle Chevrolet in Marcus.
Kenneth Irwin was elected president of the Marcus Community School Board Monday night. Kenneth Irwin was elected to succeed Dr. M. R. Nelson as president.

55 Years Ago -1968
Tim Boever enlisted in the U.S. Army and departed September 3 for Fort Lewis, Washington.
Herb Stowater entered the Veterans Hospital Sioux Falls for a checkup of his back injury.
Mrs. Harry E. Hendrickson, 69, nee Alverda Faye Kinton passed away September 13. She is survived by her husband, two sons, three sisters and a brother.
The Marcus high school band traveled to Ames Saturday where they joined 44 other bands and played individually and in unison during halftime of the Cyclone- Buffalo football game.
Mr. and Mrs. Rocky Bork of Hawar­den announce the arrival of a 6 lb. 15 oz. son, Kelly Wayne, born Sept. 7.
Marion Bird underwent major sur­gery at Sioux Valley hospital in Cherokee last Wednesday.

50 Years Ago -1973
The Cleghorn Lions Club will observe their 25th anniversary no September 27.
Miss Pat O’Brien of Oelwein is the new girls physical education teacher at Marcus.
Rev, and Mrs. Fremont Faul of Salem, Oregon, are spending a month with their daughter and son-in-law here, Hope and Lyle Schlenger. Rev. Foul was the Methodist minister at Marcus in the 40’s.
Mr. David Bolfik is the leader of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes here.
James Mayer was elected reporter for the fourth grade class at Marcus Public. John Meehan was elected president.
Mrs. Peavey is the new head lunch cook at the Marcus Community School.
Plans for the 25th anniversary observance of the Cleghorn Lions Club were announced at the regular meet­ing. The event will be held Sept. 27.

45 Years Ago – 1978
Julie Chapman, Meriden Cleghorn high school senior, has been named a semifinalist in the National Merit Scholarship competition. She will take another test to qualify as a finalist.
Barbara Lowe of Maxwell, Iowa, and Randy Tentinger, Marcus, were married at 7 p.m., August 15, in a garden setting ring at the home of Barb’s parents.
Mrs. Marilyn Hawkins is the new 4th grade teacher here. 11cr husband, Rick, is the Cherokee County forester and they have moved into a house in Marcus.
Superintendent Leland Anderson of Meriden -Cleghorn announces a total enrollment of 320 pupils with 130 in high school.

40 Years Ago –1983
Helen Schnepf of LeMars and Larry Weber of Marcus were united in marriage Saturday, August 27, in St. James Catholic Church, LeMars. They will make their home at LeMars.
Superintendent Leland Anderson announced that M-C’s total enrollment is 272.
Mrs. Lens Foods II Class at Marcus has fourteen boys and eight girls. They are canning and washing dishes. Both the boys and Mrs. Lens are enjoying the class.
The Varsity girls volleyball team at Marcus has a 3-1 record after defeating Floyd Valley. Sue Rosener made 90 percent of her serves.
Cleghorn Community Co-op Oil will hold an Appreciation Day Friday. September 23, with a free lunch from 11:00 am. to 2:00 p.m. with many specials offered.

35 Years Ago – 1988
Homecoming candidates for MMC are Kent Hollenbeck, Tim Roethler, and Ted Henke for King and Gina Bindner, Ali Smith and Tammy Robinson for Queen.
Mr. and Mrs. Jens Haahr returned from a ten day trip to Nebraska and Colorado where they visited family members and friends.