10 YEARS AGO

AUGUST 12, 1999

Grundy Co. Sheriff's Office to conduct 3rd traffic safety program Aug. 16 thru Aug. 22.

The class of "49" presented Janet Slessor at the Reinbeck Public Library a check for $1,000 made possible by Elizabeth Snyder, a member of the class. She was a niece of Emery and Augusta Adair.

Construction for the new Grundy Co. jail addition is now underway.

Sue Hayek, 4th grade teacher, is awarded the Model Classroom Certification. Sue has been cited for outstanding performance in reading education.

Grundy County is focus of October Spotlight Magazine.

Grundy Co. supervisors o.k. quote from Moeller & Walter for bid on a salt/sand site in Conrad at a cost of $14,606.

Alan Karkosh is a candidate for the Soybean Board.

Amanda Wical exhibited the Grundy Co. Champion Breeding animal at the Grundy County Fair.

Mr. & Mrs. Dale Renner will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Aug. 15.

Penne Sienknecht and Kevin Barton announce their upcoming marriage on Aug. 14 in Lincoln.

Lynette Muller and Dan Foster announce their upcoming marriage on Sept. 18 in Newton.

Mr. & Mrs. Jared Hasselman are parents of a son born Aug. 4.

Mr. & Mrs. Kent Wulf are parents of a daughter born Aug. 5.

Pauline Hockemeyer, 75, Reinbeck, passed away on Aug. 4 at Covenant Medical Center.

Arthur Slifer, 85, Grundy Center, died Aug. 5 at the Grundy Co. Hospital.

Jeanne Fleming, 81, formerly of Reinbeck, died May 28 in Nassawadox, VA.

Ike Huber, 82, Grundy Center, died Aug. 6 at the Grundy Care Center.

Rita Robertson recently completed the Pioneer Hi-Bred Professional Internship Program.`

20 YEARS AGO

AUGUST 24, 1989

Lillian Heronimus, 76, Grundy Center, died August 16, of respiratory failure.

Mr. & Mrs. Harold Dielman celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Sept. 6.

Mr. & Mrs. Rhea Carstedt celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. They were married Sept. 2, 1939 in Waterloo.

Mr. & Mrs. James Creswell of Waterloo are parents of a son born July 18.

Mr. & Mrs. David Bolin are parents of a son born Aug. 18.

Don Billerbeck of Reinbeck won a $50 pork gift certificate with the low score of 39 at the Grundy County Pork Producers Tournament.

On Aug. 11 Ying Chow from Hong Kong arrived here as an AFS student for 1989-1990 school year.

Thelma Witzel, 67, Reinbeck died August 16 of cancer.

Tena Raske, 83, Grundy Center, died Aug. 17 in Grundy Center.

Clara DeVries, 73, rural Grundy Center, died August 20 of an aneursym following surgery.

Melissa Volken, 6, and Brandon Volkens, 4, of Gladbrook, were crowned 1989 Kinderfest King & Queen.

30 YEARS AGO

AUGUST 30, 1979

Reinbeck Community School began classes for the 1979-1980 year on Thursday, August 23, with a total of 69l students.

Robert Isenhower, resigned his postiion with Reinbeck Schools after 15 years of teaching. Isenhower is leaving the system to enter private practice.

The Monk Law Office of Grundy Center and the Reinbeck Law Office of DeWolf, Beard & Sweet will merge beginning Sept. 1, 1979. The new firm will be known as DeWolf, Beard, Monk & Sweet and will maintain offices in Reinbeck, Grundy Center and Dike.

Judy Oettchen of Beaman and Henry Mentel, Jr. Gladbrook, were united in marriage on Aug. 18.

Funeral services for John Wittgreve, 59, well-known Reinbeck farmer, are pending at French Funeral Home. Mr. Wittgreve died Aug. 28 at the Veteran's Hospital in Iowa City.

Funeral services for Darrell Ayer, Sr., 91, Reinbeck, were held Aug. 29, at Lead, South Dakota. Mr. Ayer died at Parkview Manor on Aug. 24.

Frank Mamminga, 64, Grundy Center, died on Aug. 25.

Mr. & Mrs. Jack Wittgreve are parents of a son born Aug. 23.

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Greiner are parents of a daughter born Aug. 22.

Mr. & Mrs. Chris Roberts are parents of a daughter born Aug. 26.

40 YEARS AGO

AUGUST 28, 1969

Mr. & Mrs. Dean Larsen have purchased the Susie Miller estate house for a price of $17,250.

Reinbeck Town Council has purchased the William White property on Broad St. for $4,250. The entire area will be graded and made into a parking lot.

Herman Bern, 84, died at Schoitz Hospital on Aug. 25.

Dr. & Mrs. Raymond Null are parents of a son born Aug. 21.

Reinbeck Community School opened with a total enrollment of 774 student. This is a decrease of 22.

Winners of Reinbeck's tennis tournament were: Dorothy Raney, Mrs. Ray Berner, Jerome Verduyn, Kerry Bolt and Don Dutcher.

William Berryman, 61, died Aug 17 at John Warner Hospital in Clinton, ILL. following a short illness.

Peg Danielsen, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Elvin Danielsen, graduted from Patricia Stevens Career College in Omaha, during the week-end.

Services were held Monday for Norman Draper, 71, Traer, who died at Allen Hospital.

50 YEARS AGO

AUGUST, 1959

Dr. C.H. Bartruff, 71, died of a heart attack at his home on Aug. 23.

John R. Claussen, 50, a farmer south of town, was supposedly killed by an overturned tractor and found 3 days later.

Mr. & Mrs. Wendell Eike, school teacher, purchased the Martin Juhl house in south Reinbeck for $12,750.

Paul E. Robinson has sold his 72 acre farm in Grant Twp. to Clifford Gregory, manager of the Dike Cooperative elevator for $350 an acre.

The sale of Mrs. Marcus Linder estate house was made to Mr. & Mrs. Friedly of Dike for $7,000.

Iowa's famous Jack Rule of Waterloo, won the first Oak Leaf Country Club annual Invitational Tourney on Aug. 23.

Mr. & Mrs. Lester Meewes are parents of a son born Aug. 21.

Cheryl Bordwell of Belle Plaine and Roger Strohbehn of Reinbeck, were married on Aug. 19.

Mrs. John Vest, 72, Gladbrook, died on Aug. 18.

Audrey Claussen of Gladbrook and Thomas Kuhl of Beaman were married Aug. 14.

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Wildemuth of Taylorville, ILL are parents of a son born Aug. 11.

Sgt. & Mrs. David Lau of Morrison, mourn the loss of their son born at the Grundy Hospital on Aug. 21.

Mr. & Mrs. Merle Conradi of Sumner, are parents of a girl born Aug. 23.

Mr. & Mrs. Jack Ramsey are parents of a son born Aug. 22.

60 YEARS AGO

AUGUST, 1949

Grundy Co. to get $148,000 in federal funds for a new hospital. Committee received plans for a 32 bed structure with groundbreaking to be in the early spring of 1950.

A new house has been started on the A.C. Loeppe farm near Hicks, being tenanted by Mr. & Mrs. Virgil Creswell.

Sylvan Ames has purchased the unimproved 80 acre farm of Mrs. Elmer Geiter, near Lincoln, for $250 an acre.

Mrs. Geiter then purchased the Kiewiet 80 acres adjoining her farm near Grundy Center for $225 an acre.

Mr. & Mrs. Clayton Burdick have purchased the home of Mr. & Mrs. Cliff Martin in west Reinbeck for $5,000.

Purchase of the Sohpus Larsen lot is under way for $600. Mr. & Mrs. Martin plan to erect a ranch-type house on this lot.

Mr. & Mrs. William Flockhart are parents of a son born 18.

Mr. & Mrs. Clarence Hoeg of Hudson are parents of a girl born Aug. 23.

Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Loonan, near Voorhies, are parents of a daughter born Aug. 20.

Mr. & Mrs. Vernon Hirsch are parents of a son born Aug. 23.

Reinbeck School is one of fifteen selected for advanced Vocational Agriculture.

70 YEARS AGO

AUGUST, 1939

Reinbeck to have Bowery dance at Labor Day Fiesta. Dance Chairmen Cecil K. Robinson and Harley Ingols have secured a 30x90 platform for the street dance, with music by Red Cross. Rides and shows are also booked for the day.

Dinsdale School to open on Monday, Sept. 4 for a half-day session.

Reinbeck Consolidated School will open on Tuesday, Sept. 5 for a morning session.

Fire destroyed a large barn and 60 tons of hay on the farm occupied by Russell Mastain. The farm is located one mile east of Voorhies and is owned by John Mastain.

Work is starting on the second story of the new brick building on Main St, being erected by Martin Martinsen (now owned by Kathryn Grupp).

The new home of William Kelley is being shingled this week.

Leo Heid, a Reinbeck mechanic, has opened a garage in Dinsdale and contracted the care of the 4 new Dinsdale school buses. He will carry a line of auto parts and tires. Robert Palmer's black-smith shop is in the rear portion of the building.

The Voorhies School Board will sell odds and ends at a public auction on Aug. 28. The board is building a new, modern and up-to-date school to be finished by Sept. 4.

Entire cost of a new well at the rear of city hall in Reinbeck will cost about $3,000. It will be in use in two weeks.

Some streams in Grundy County to get 2,000 bullheads from state fisheries.

The Albert Bros, Henry, Ed, and Charles, have rented their 317 acre farm to Harold and Irvin Staker for five years. They plan to move to Reinbeck.

Dike School will open on Monday, Aug. 28.

Construction started this week on a corn elevator or annex set of buildings at the Farmer's Cooperative Elevator in Dike. Capacity of new building will be 35,000 bushels.

Ellen Pedersen of Fredsville and Andrew Groote of Grundy Center were married on Aug. 24.

80 YEARS AGO

AUGUST, 1929

Mildred Downey of Morrison and Robert Myers of Toledo, OH, were married on Aug. 14 in Chicago.

Governor Hammill will be at the Grundy Co. Fair on Sept. 4.

St. John's Lutheran School will open on Monday, Sept. 2, with Mr. William Borcharding of New Orleans in charge.

The Congregational Church will undergo repairs on the building for a cost of $1,600 which will include new fireproof roof, the steeple to be torn down and interior to be redecorated.

Grundy Co. taxable value $80,000 less than in 1928. Reduction in assessments on farm lands cause decrease in total valuation of county for 1929.

Mr. & Mrs. C.R. Bartlett and son, Ronald, have leased the Windsor Cafe and will open Thursday for a free lunch. The Bartletts are from Garden Grove, IA. where they just sold a hotel and cafe.

Henry Tank has filed a petition in Bankruptcy court. He lists $3,000 in liabilities and claims no assets.

Fire destroyed a large barn and silo on the Ed Gethmann farm near Gladbook.

Jonas Shafstal, Morrison, is tearing down the house that has been occupied by the Jack McIntyre family.

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Stum of Chicago, are parents of a girl born Aug. 23. Mrs. Stum is the former Marian Taylor.

90 YEARS AGO

AUGUST, 1919

This is the last issue of the Courier under present management. On Monday, Sept. 1, 1919, the paper will be transferred to Thomas J. Emmett and Leroy A. Moser.

Henry Ehlers of near Dinsdale purchased the H.A. Wilson farm from H.D. Brown for $450 an acre.

The Lamb farm owned by H.A. Wilson, was sold at auction to Loren Lorenzen of Dysart for $403 an acre.