"We have to quit looking for intelligent life on Mars, and first find it in the Woke/Cancel Culture community."
Senator John Kennedy - Louisiana
BUT one thing the Manning community has going for it is a lot of people don't give up and just accept the inevitable, as seen with this upcoming community meeting.
So please attend - don't just sit back and point fingers and complain - show up and help come up with some possible solutions to a few of our self-inflicted wounds which unfortunately continue today with the limited number of businesses we still have.
1957 Thrifty Food Market
1957 Frahm
1957 Nissen Poultry Service
1957 Crystal Theatre
1957 Manning Monitor
1957 Manning Elevator
May 23, 1953 confirmation Zion Lutheran
Gerald Schulte, age 81, of Manning, passed away on Friday, April 2, 2021, at Accura of Manning. Mass of the Christian Burial will be at 10:30 AM on Thursday, April 8, 2021, at Sacred Heart Church in Manning. Burial will follow in Sacred Heart Cemetery in Manning. Visitation will be from 5 PM to 7 PM on Wednesday, April 7, 2021, at Ohde Funeral Home in Manning. A Prayer Service will be held at 7 PM, followed by a Rosary.
Gerald is survived by his wife Peg Schulte of Manning; three children: Dean (Janet) Schulte of Creston; Ken (Sherry) Schulte of Maryville, Missouri; and Debra (Louis) Rickers of Underwood; 9 grandchildren: Alison (Casey) Anderson, Nick (Dianna Sims) Schulte, Jessica (Gary) Zimmerman, Rachael Schulte & Ronan Yaacov, Suede Sanders, Benjaman (Melanie) Rickers, Katelyn Rickers, Justin (Emma) Rickers, and Emily Rickers; 4 great-grandchildren: Alexzander and Catherine Anderson, Amelia Zimmerman, and Addison Rickers; his siblings: Robert (Janet) Schulte of Urbandale; Mary (Orville) Eich of Elk Horn, Nebraska; Wayne Schulte of Omaha; Eldon Schulte of Colorado Springs, Colorado; Jim (Sue) Schulte of San Diego, California; Steve (Peg) Schulte of Crystal Rock, Colorado; LouAnn (Dennis) Vulgamott of Jewell; and Sharon (Dan) Snyder of Breda; three brothers-in-law: John (Betty) Neil of Omaha; Joe Neil of Manning; and George (Joni) Neil of Fort Collins, Colorado; and by numerous nieces and nephews.
Fundraiser by Zion Lutheran youth group
2004
Warren Puck, Gerald Schulte
1955 Bud Jentsch barber shop
Fred Grau in window.
Original entryway from north - Gerald changed to east entry.
2004
2004
Dean Schulte MHS 1980
Ken Schulte MHS 1981
Deb Schulte MHS 1987
October 4, 1968 Homecoming dance - Lori Rothfolk & Dean Schulte
One thing he never forgot was saying thank you when you paid him and he always had that addictive smile and chuckle that no one could resist responding in-kind.
History has so much importance in life that most people never realize or know how to use it.
The right side frame shows current and upcoming events and new feature stories I come up with.
Then as I add more material the stuff on the right gets moved down.
Eventually I remove it or the links from the right side frame, and then have them linked on the left called "What's new in 2021."
Click on that link and it will take you to a ton of older material for the year and some from the previous year.
While you are looking at the "What's new" link on the left scroll down to see all of the other links I have there broken down by various categories.
Click on one of those links and you'll be taken to another page that has even more links that are broken down into more specific detail.
This is a very simple system - YOU just have to take a little time to click on the links and read the descriptions.
If I can spend decades providing you with all of this and previous material, you can certainly spend a few minutes and take your time going through all of the links.
Once you work the various links for a while you'll know where to go right away in the future.
I also realize that frames are frowned upon, actually since they were first coded in the mid-1990s, but they work great for my purposes.
I realize frames don't work the best on those
small smart phones and even the slightly larger I-pad/pods or whatever and all I can say is get a nice size computer screen so you can fully appreciate my high resolution scans and
feature stories.
Don't go blind straining your eyes with endless hours on those small devices...
I enjoy my 30 inch computer monitor...even occasionally look at my web page on my 60 inch big screen.
But realize that not all flat screens are created equal. I did a lot of research on screens once my CRT monitors failed, which actually had the best quality for black and white/grayscale pictures.
You need to find a flat screen that rates high in grayscale specs, otherwise you'll have a screen that burns out black/white/grayscale images...sadly like so many laptop screens do.
I have found that my Dell Ultra Sharp has very excellent specs for contrast/brightness and handling grayscale...there are newer models now, so I don't know how they rate.
Thanks,
Dave
All-school reunion, Party on the Bricks - June 18, 19, 20, 2021
Local organizers have announced the 2021 celebration is on. Following suit with other Iowa communities, plans are moving ahead for multiple celebrations June 18, 19, and 20 on Father's Day weekend.
The weekend kicks off June 18 with an All-School Reunion at the Hausbarn-Heritage Park. Entertainment decisions are still being made. The Alumni Association will be seeking contributions to offset the cost of hosting the reunion. Donations may be sent to PO Box 191, Manning, IA.
Manning's 137th Kinderfest will be observed June 19 during the day. That evening entertainment will be found on Main Street where everybody can "Party on the Bricks" with musical entertainers Brad Morgan and the Aged Spirits band.
People are being asked to help support Party on the Bricks with personal donations.
Plans for other weekend events, such as the 100th anniversary of the Chamber of Commerce, are still in the early stages.
Details starting to fill in...
Flying Buffalos - Hausbarn courtyard starting at 9:00 pm June 18
Brad Morgan (Muhlbauer) and his band - Party on the Bricks June 19 + Aged Spirits (Templeton group) - gates open at 6:00 pm
Kinderfest June 19 - 5K road race morning; parade 11:00 am; activities in park remainder of the day
Golf Tournament at M&M Golf Course - June 18 at 1:00 pm
Scratch cupcakes - June 18 on Main Street
Terrace Apartments 50th Anniversary - June 19
June 20 Omlet breakfast
June 20 area Corvette club - car display on Main Street
Joseph Nagl, 77, of 1425 Harriet Avenue, Carroll, died Monday evening, December 12, 1966, of a heart ailment at St. Anthony Hospital, where he had been a patient for three days.
Requiem mass will be read at 9:30 Thursday morning in St. Lawrence Church by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Henry B. Karhoff. Interment will be in St. Mary's Cemetery, Willey. Friends may call at the Sharp Funeral Home in Carroll after 7 p.m. Tuesday. The rosary will be recited at 8 and 8:45 p.m. Tuesday; Wednesday at 3 p.m. by the Legion of Mary, also at 8 p.m. and at 8:45 p.m. by Court Sacred Heart No. 454, Catholic Daughters of the Americas of Templeton.
Mr. Nagl, son of Michael and Crescentia Nagl, was born at Willey January 24, 1889. He lived at home until his marriage to Elizabeth Hansman on May 18, 1915. The wedding took place in St. Mary's Church, Willey, with the late Rev. John B. Baeumler officiating. The couple moved to a farm northwest of Templeton. In 1939, they moved to Manning, where Mr. Nagl went into business; and in 1952, they moved to the present home in Carroll. He was a member of St. Lawrence Church.
Surviving are his wife; four daughters, Mrs. L.F. (Germaine) Dominise and Edna Nagl,
Carroll; Delores Nagl, Oakland, California; and Mrs. Ray (Ruth) Thieleke of Urbandale; also six
grandchildren, three great-grandchildren; a brother, Frank Nagl,
and a sister, Mrs. Henry Hoffman, both of Dedham. Four brothers and one sister receded him in death.
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Nagl, 78, of 1425 Harriet Avenue, Carroll, died Friday, January 24, 1975, at St. Anthony Regional Hospital, where she was a patient for eight weeks.
Mass of the resurrection will be celebrated at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in St. Lawrence Church by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Henry B. Karhoff. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery at Willey.
Friends may call at the Sharp Funeral Home, where the rosary will be recited Monday at 3 p.m. by the Legion of Mary, at 4 p.m. by the CDA Past Grand Regents of Templeton, and at 8 p.m. by St. Lawrence parishioners.
Mrs. Nagl, daughter of John and Anna (Greteman) Hansman, was born July 29, 1896, at Willey and spent her early years in that vicinity. On May 18, 1915, she married Joseph M. Nagl at St. Mary's Church in Willey. They spent a year in Carroll and in 1916 moved to a farm near Templeton. In 1940, they moved to Manning, where Mr. Nagl owned and operated a tavern until 1946. Following his retirement in 1952 they moved from Manning to the above address in Carroll. Mr. Nagl died December 12, 1966.
Mrs. Nagl is survived by two daughters, Mrs. L.F. (Germaine) Dominise of Carroll and Mrs. Ruth Thieleke of Des Moines; five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Ann Matt of Omaha, Nebraska, and Mrs. John (Bess) Baglin of Santa Rosa, California; and a brother, Louis Hansman of Chillicothe, Ohio.
Preceding her in death besides her husband were two daughters, Edna and Delores; a granddaughter, Marijane Dominise; three brothers and two sisters.
Mrs. Nagl was a member of St. Lawrence Church and Ladies Guild; Catholic Daughters of the Americas and Past Grand Regents of Templeton; and the Legion of Mary.
With so many distractions we have today, most people don't stop to think about their community in a broader sense, other than what surrounds their own little world as they go about their daily business.
But history can teach us there is so much more...a LOT more than just our own personal existence.
Margaret Frees in back, Aloha (Waterbury) Enenbach in front
1970 Manning General Hospital
Back: Margaret (Lutwitze) Frees, Mary Brennan, Ona Fara
Front: Cleo Singsank, Myrna Snyder, Emily Schelldorf, Sharon (Schrum) Kelderman
When I watch those genealogy websites promote themselves on TV commercials with scenes of someone discovering their grandparents for the first time or other very close relatives, I think about the pictures above...
Most of these ladies are/were grandparents. What better way to preserve the ancestry of a family than to scan these mostly overlooked pictures that are in everyone's
family collections that will someday get thrown by the kids who inherit these pictures of people whom they probably never knew so they just toss them.
This is why I continue to ask people to get their collections to me to scan and archive in the Manning family historical database, where grandparents of hundreds of families will be
preserved long into the future, after the family members have thrown the originals away.
Another aspect is even if kids/grandkids who inherit the family pictures and history keep those things, they won't properly care for old historical items or take the time to correctly and properly digitize them.
Ona had this great old calendar but it is getting very brittle and soon will just fall into pieces, so NOW is the time to digitize it.
I don't have time to merge and fully restore
it right now but will still show you how interesting items like this can be and need to be preserved.
I won't show all of the months but here are a few samples. It is interesting to see when Manning organizations met and also birthdays of some of Manning's citizens.
Note how some are living but others have passed away, OR have moved away from Manning...a peek back into who
some of our past citizens were and organizations that no longer exist today...
Who knows how grain will be handled in the future so having this seal scanned and then documented will explain to someone someday what it is and its purpose.
This is another aspect I make sure to do when I scan items - document as much information about it as I can before there is no one who can...
So while you might think you are preserving your family history, you probably won't be as thorough as I am, and will skip over a lot of the trivial parts which will eventually
get lost to time...Bring your stuff to me so I can scan it and add it to the Manning history puzzle I'm working on.
Dave Kusel
Dan Peters
Dan Peters MHS 1949
Dan Peters Korean War
Lois Wilhelm MHS 1949 - (Mrs. Dan Peters)
Lois Wilhelm
Lois & Dan wedding Zion Lutheran Church 224 Second Street
Lois & Dan
Lois & Dan's children
George & Milda Peters and then later Dan & Lois' home 2001 Christmas display 622 Third Street
When Dan & Lois moved back to Manning, Dan became involved in the community and served as mayor.
Dan Peters (bibs) helping with the Hausbarn reconstruction 1999
Martin Hansen (from Germany) & Dan Peters
Dan Peters & Jim McLaughlin
Dan Peters Hausbarn dedication 2000
Claus Hachmann (original owner of Hausbarn in Germany) with Dan Peters 2001
One of many community meetings Dan attended - 2001
Construction of the Log community center building at the Heritage Park 2003
Dan spraying stain on the walls
Dan staining the walls
Dan painting the walls
Dan staining the restrooms
Construction of the Manning Veterans Memorial Wall 2003
Ken Jensen facing camera, Dan Peters back
Dan Peters
Dan Peters - wall dedication 2003
One suggestion is the hanger was used to dry women's nylon stockings...
I also continue to add more obits to my obituary page, thanks to the generous and hard work of Ann (Voge)...
If you want your family history to become part of the Manning & Family Historical Preservation Database, then please e-mail me so we can start working on the Manning connected
pictures, history, memorabilia, etc. you have.
That way your family history, information, and historical items will be
digitally preserved long after your family name has disappeared completely in Manning.
Speaking of lost - this first picture was found in between a wall in the home at 338 Second Street during some recent renovation.
Fortunately there was a little information
written on the back of the picture to at least know where to start.
I spent quite a few hours cleaning up the scratches and adjusting the contrast/brightness of isolated areas. I cropped it and kept it at a fairly high resolution for the web page so hopefully someone will be able to pick out a parent, grandparent, great-aunt/uncle.
If only Arlene (Kuhl) Pershing was still living. She helped me a lot with Manning history and sent me her pictures to scan from her home in California. I never met Arlene in person but we chatted a lot on the phone...sometimes for hours. She was always amazed at how I could carry on a conversation with her about Manning's history but I explained that I have been studying it for many decades, so it helped me communicate with older people over the years.
Arlene's mother was Bertha (Vollmer) Kuhl, and she provided me with a lot of Vollmer pictures from Paul's generation but she only had one older generation Vollmer picture, who was Mary Vollmer.
Paul Vollmer WWII
Is this Paul Vollmer?
Here is the picture Denise (Hinners) Doyel gave me to scan...
As I've been writing about for 10 years now, how I'm working on a Manning Veterans' history book (2 volumes), and I'm asking Manning Veterans and family members of deceased Veterans to bring me their military pictures and information to scan and add to the database for use in the book - below are a perfect examples of why I have decided to hold off on publishing the book.
There is so much Manning
history about the military aspects of the community that I continue to find in one collection after another.
Items that I've never seen before, knew of their existence, or I had never found to scan, and need to be included in the Veterans' book.
WWI & especially WWII was an "all hands on deck" war where everyone: men, women, boys, girls, had to help with the war effort.
George Fischer didn't serve but as this amazing historical card shows that some men and women had to stay behind to grow the crops and raise the farm animals, fix the town and farm equipment, build the weapons of war, and all of the other necessities to keep a country going, or those Americans who were fighting overseas would have been defeated.
Memories that popped up when Larry & Doug Fischer looked over this feature story - specifically this Manpower card below...
George taught auto mechanics during WWII at the high school. This may be why he was not called to serve during the
war, because he was an essential teacher. Only once did George mention this to Doug and he had forgotten about that part of his life until seeing this card up close.
During the war, George had to go to Ft. Dodge and spend a week out of every month for a couple years to teach a diesel class (on the Detroit Diesel).
Larry & Doug Fischer
I've scanned lots of WWII ration stamps but have never seen a V - Fuel Oil Ration coupon used by businesses who sell and deliver fuel oil.
Just in case you don't know what the "V" stands for it means "Victory" which was also a hand gesture of the index
and middle fingers only held up. LONG before the peacenicks of the 1960s adopted that gesture as a sign of "Peace."
George Fischer's gas mileage ration stamp booklet.
Henry & Anna Fischer with baby George in their 1906 Model S Ford
Henry Fischer
The tank on the side was for acetylene gas for the headlights.
Hilda (Hansen) Fischer's side of the family
Peter Hansen, Margaret (Sierks) Hansen, Dora (Hansen) Drehmann, Lucy (Hansen) Andresen
Today what do we see happen to many of our old buildings and historic structures???
A huge excavator comes in and crunches the building into oblivion and then they haul it to the landfill, or the structure is burned to the ground.
"Why they are old useless buildings I hear constantly..."
Then I think about the buildings in Europe/Germany that are a thousand or more years old...our buildings are still in their diapers.
Recycling became a "fad" word in the 1970s and 80s, but if the people even then would have known their history better, they would have realized they were only following in the footsteps of their Pioneer ancestors who wasted nothing and tried to find a use for everything...CASE in point down below.
If a new building was needed where an old one stood, they "simply" moved it to a new location.
If they didn't move it they tore it down to salvage the lumber and most everything else in that structure...sometimes used the old lumber to build the new replacement structure.
I'm old enough to be a part of that recycling era...in the 1960s, dad would tear down old houses and we saved pretty much everything - we even straightened the nails we pulled for reuse! We also tore down/salvaged old farm buildings and salvaged a lot of the flooring and other lumber from the old grade school...so I have a deep appreciation and understanding of what recycling really means.
Moving the old Lincoln No. 3
school house to make room for a new school house.This school house (original Lincoln No. 3 school building) was moved to the farm presently owned by Tim & Joni (Siepker) Kienast who lives in section 5 of Lincoln Township. This building was replaced by a newer country school which was built on the same site - Lincoln No. 3.
While pulling the school house down the road, they got it stuck in the road "V" cut and had to dig out the sides of the road embankment so the schoolhouse could get through.
When they arrived at the Dammann farm, the school house was to be positioned at the top of a hill. Large hay ropes were
hooked to the front of the Oil Pull tractor which was still hooked to the school house. The ropes ran through a series of pulleys
which were attached to another set of pulleys tied to a group of trees at the top of the hill and the 2 smaller tractors pulled on the
ropes going "downhill" to assist the larger tractor going up the hill.
At the very start of moving the school.
Rumley Oil Pull
hooked to the school house - Henry Fischer on ground - George Fischer driving
Another common scene in the countryside years ago.
George & Eddie
Fischer pouring water for the threshing crew 1921
Another thing I know about the people of our past is even though they worked hard most of the time - they also "played" hard.
When there was no TV, or Internet, and even when they got radio, most people had to entertain themselves and their local community.
There were families of musicians and they spent countless hours practicing and then performing in front of neighbors and community
members with some of the local bands who performed around the state and Midwest.
Now the people who were entertained didn't just sit around and drink beer...they danced and boy could most of them really dance well and for hours on end.
Today we mostly watch as couch potatoes, either on a big screen TV or on a small screen with something from the Internet...and much of the time by ourselves or only a few people
around us.
If you were fortunate to live long enough or at a specific point in time you were blessed to participate in community anniversary celebrations.
Besides musical talents Manning
has been blessed with a lot of skilled actors and actresses, from Tent Chautauqua, to skits and plays performed on stages over the decades.
One of the 1981 plays was "Dearie Do you Remember" and skits such as "Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs."
In case you don't know some/all of the actors in the video it starts out with Ruth (Brady) Hiatt - grandmother of Nikki (Foutch)
Sorensen. Next comes Aloha (Waterbury) Enenbach - sister to Cliff Waterbury. Dwarfs: Larry Genzen - son of Virgil & Florence
(Hinz) Genzen, Paul "Herbie" Hiatt - son of Ronnie & Ruth Hiatt, Ray "Sammy" Irlbeck - father of Paul, Charles "Chuck" Hughes -
brother of Mike, Joe Sonksen - husband of Edna (Karsten), Ralph Grundmeier - son of Hugo and Anna (Mergele) Grundmeier, Doug Fischer - our feature story family member.
Now I did not try to list every family member or generation above but wanted to give a "flavor" of who some of the relatives are to the dwarfs.
I also videotaped the 1981 Manning Centennial and need to digitize all of those tapes someday too. I need to get it done
before the video tapes deteriorate - no one knows how long they will last - basically it is magnetic signal on rust.
One thing I
dread is that at the beginning of the video technology, the tapes cost $30 or more, so I used the SLP setting which is the worst
quality setting on the recorder...which now I'm kicking myself for but after spending nearly $3000 on a VCR, camera and
accessories I didn't have a lot of extra money sitting around to buy an endless supply of tapes.
Anyway, here are some
scans I made of pictures that Doug Fischer had in his collection.
I've scanned pictures from other people's collections before but these came from Doug and were taken in front of Manning Motor Company on Main Street...
Staging area for parade - Merlyn Irlbeck farm to the east
Jackie Handlos - I think Pork Queen
Budweiser Clydesdales
Merlyn Irlbeck - Fire chief's car
Barber Gerald Schulte - family
Brother's of the Brush jail
Pete Kuhl band
Larry Fischer piano, George Fischer,
Ralph Grundmeier banjo, Eddie Fischer, Gary Schroeder accordion
Janice Marie (Popp) Kolb age 85 of North Hills, California, passed away peacefully on January 27, 2021.
Janice was born on August 23, 1935, to Elmer and Leora (Martens)
Popp in Manning Iowa. She was baptized and confirmed at Zion Lutheran Church in Manning. She also attended school in Manning.
Complete Obituary can be found on my obituary web page linked on the left.
MHS 1953: Vera Ahrenholtz, Marlene Anthony, Glenn Branning, Phyllis Branning, Claus Bunz, Margene Drees, Allan Eich, Mary Lou Foley, Daryl Genzen, Loyce Gray, David Grundmeier, Dorothy Hammer, Marlene Hargens, Marlene Jahn, Wilbur Jahn, William Jensen, Ardella Joens, Donna Joens (Salutatorian), Barbara Knaack, Dareld Kracht, Gene Kuhl, Gene Martens (Valedictorian), Roland Meeves, David Muhlbauer, Robert Neubaum, Pete Petersen, Lewis Puck, Merlin Ramsey, Patricia Ramsey, Richard Rix, Corrine Sander, Cleone Schroeder, Colleen Schwiesow, Maxine Sextro, Ruth Sextro, Shirley Sextro, Glenn Singsank, Melvin Sinow, Donna Spies, Norbert Stoberl, Betty Stuhr, Merlene Thompson, Allen Vennink, Shirley Vinke, Roger Vollstedt, Shirley Watson, Myra Weinbrandt, James Wingrove, Phyllis Zerwas
Former members: Dean Aden, Janet Asmus, Carol Bliefert, Joseph Bringleson, Jr., Mary Bringleson, Janet Dau, James Davenport, Michael Farmer, Jack Fuller, Howard Gilman, Roger Hansen, Mary Ann Hass, Richard Henriksen, Mary Ann Holme, Donald Lerssen, Caroline Louisfield, Roger Mentzer, Ramon Meyers, Leo Miller, Charlotte Mishler, Patricia Pare, Janice Popp, JoAnn Ramsey, Betty Remmes, James Rostermundt, Darrel Sander, Lois Sander, Everett Slechta, Arlo Stein, Michael Sullivan, Nadine Walters, Jon Wiemann
Janice Popp & Allen Eich
Janice Popp & Lyle Frahm
Junior Quill and Scroll (1952)
Back: Caroline Louisfield, Margene Drees, Wilbur Jahn, Daryl Genzen, Maxine Sextro
Middle: Donna Joens, Vera Ahrenholtz, Marlene Hargens, Barbara Knaack, Mary Lou Foley, Janice Popp
Front: Richard Rix, Pete Petersen, Gene Martens, Bill Jensen, Claus Bunz, Betty Remmes
Norma Maxine Jentzen, age 92, of Carroll, Iowa, passed away
on Tuesday, March 16, 2021, at her home in Carroll surrounded by her family.
Daughter of Frank & Nora (Jensen) Musfeldt.
Complete Obituary can be found on my obituary web page linked on the left.
1947 MHS graduates: Anna Marie Asmus, Paul Behrens, Delores Dammann, Dorla Eckley, Donna Belle Ehrichs, Letty Frahm, Louise Grau, Marjorie Hansen, Harvey Hargens, Maxine Hinners, William Hoffman, Wilbur Karsten, Bonita Kasperbauer, Michael Kasperbauer, Donn Kelsey, Glenn Kuhse, Don Livingston, Dorothy Lohmeier, Marianne Lyden, Mary McMahon, Lila Mohr, Robert Mohr, Marvin Mordhorst, Louis Muhlbauer, Norma Musfeldt, LaJune Neubaum, Ralph Petersen, Kenneth Pfannkuch, Doris Phillips, Robert Popp, Lola Ress, Bill Sander, Charles Schumann, Leonard Sextro, William Sibbel, Patricia Siem, Donald Stoelk, Bill Strathman, Fern Struve, Bob Suhr, Justyn Sutherland, Robert Wegner, Frank Wegner, Earl West, Eugene Wiese (valedictorian or salutatorian could not be found in school records or the Monitor)
1947 former students: LaVonda Allen, Loa Barnes, Ruby Borkowski, Edmund Claussen, Ronald David, Jim Erwin, Mary Anna Fox, Manfred Funk, Alvin Haberl, Betty Harder, Dale Hell, Shirley Iselin, Marjorie Jacobsen, Grace Joens, Marie Jones, Lloyd Koester, Birnadine Kramer, Mary Lee, Ruth Ann Loneman, Patty Mersman, Donald D. Petersen, Thomas Pittman, Kenneth Robinson, Keith Rohr, Emil Segebart, Roger Slates, Patrick Sullivan, Merlin Umland, Billy Wailes, Larry Wallace
Jefferson No. 6
From the 1982 Aspinwall Centennial history book
John and Anna (Nuttleman) Musfeldt were born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany and married in 1870.
John was born July 27, 1850. At the age of 19 years he was inducted into the Army in the Marines. He served from 1869 to 1873 at a time when the difficulties between Germany and France were settled by war. After his discharge from the Marines he accepted a job as shipwright and beacon tower guard at sea. He served well for five years, when the craving for a change of location and country took him and he made preparations for going to America.
Mrs. Anna Musfeldt was born February 7, 1852. She was educated in her birthplace, confirmed, and grew to womanhood. In September 1875, she met the man of her choice and was married to John Musfeldt. The marriage took place in the city of Dithmarschen where the young couple resided until June, 1882, when they and their three children, John, Fred and Katie, came to America. They came directly to Westside, where they lived for about six months. They then moved to Aspinwall, where they resided for nine years, living in the present Dean Hupp house. Here William, Julius, Hans, and Henry were born.
Mr. Musfeldt followed the carpentry trade. Many a house, barn, granary and other buildings were constructed by the hands of John Musfeldt. One noted building was the Three Mile House, three miles north of Manning on the Swimming Pool Road. He also built the barn still standing on the Melroy Carstens farm west of Aspinwall, then known as the Pepper farm.
From Aspinwall the family moved to two other farms in the area. The first was on Highway 141 (the old Walt Miller farm) where the children attended the Aspinwall School, walking along the old railroad tracks. Frank and Louie later joined the clan; Henry died at the age of 13 in 1903.
Mr. Musfeldt was a man of robust health and figure; a man more than six feet tall. He adhered strictly to his seaman fashion, wearing his earrings as of old, in the old sailor tradition. But it seemed the inland continental climate, in exchange for the healthy sea breeze to which he was accustomed, was too much for him. The intense summer heat affected him in particular and his health began to fail soon after he came here. He passed away January 8, 1904, at the age of 53.
After his death Mrs. Musfeldt and her sons farmed the land for 16 years, and she retired to Manning in 1920. The old home place now is owned by Leland Kienast.
I hope people will look at these new obits and also help proof read them. There are usually some errors in the original obits and through the OCR process I use, new errors can be added.
I proof them multiple times and my mother also goes through them but we won't necessarily know if a name is misspelled or there is a wrong date.
So please help with proof reading so I'll have the most accurate database as possible.
Again, as I've stated before, I hope you don't TAKE the obituaries from my page and then post them on those commercial or other web pages.
They can spend their own time/money and do the work I do and my helpers do to find/scan/OCR/edit/post etc. on their sites.
If you give them my work it only hurts my research. I depend on people finding my web pages and then contacting me to share what they have and I'll share with them - that way
we both gain information.
If you want an obituary for your own personal collection - that is absolutely fine, but just don't give the obits to companies who don't give a whit about Manning - they just want the information to make money from...
August 25, 1932 Monitor Ad
Children's Day
Neubaum Drug Store on right.
Coming this spring Kris (Haskins) Waterbury and her daughter, Alisa Waterbury-Lingle will be opening the "Sweet Treats Ice Cream Shoppe."
They will be making homemade ice cream and also cookies and bars - business hours will be 1 pm to 9 pm Tuesday through Saturday.
They asked city and other organizational leaders what Manning needed and Ice Cream was high on the list, so Kris and Alisa took on the challenge.
Modifications beginning in the various rooms
Old carpet removed.
I always like to take pictures when a business gets started.
People need to see the hard work and effort it takes to get a business going. You should be able to appreciate it
more once it gets going.
I also like to show the history of a building which shows how Manning is and has always been on the move with lots of people willing to take a gamble and invest in our community...NOW all of us need to give our support to this family, for without them and all of the other individuals and families who have businesses in Manning, we wouldn't have this amazing community we have today.
Manning people get things done IN SPITE OF the intrusive federal government we have today.
1939 southwest corner as seen in the above picture.
Front side along Main Street.
Front side along Main Street.
Fires were a constant threat back then - December 16, 1933, fire in the adjacent Lewis Reinhold building.
There was a
lot of smoke damage to the Rober Wehrmann store.
It was also a multiple alarm fire with the Manilla Fire Department assisting.
I believe this was the grand opening - note the patriotic flags!
Even after a devastating fire - Manning never gives up!
March 11, 2021
Military and patriotic caps sold at TDG
Lots of room for expansion
Lots of room for expansion
More patriotic items
I also try to photograph and document as many renovation and excavation sites as I can because there will usually be a piece of history buried there.
Such is the case of the work on the old Casey's site. I knew the history of that corner as having a business there since the early 1900s which sold gas.
Not until the last day of digging did I happen to come at the right time to see a footing that baffled the excavation crew they ran into while digging, but I knew right away why it was there.
I also noticed a single clay block from that footing so I grabbed it and will mark it with the historical information so people in the future will know it isn't just an old masonry block.
Follow the link below to see why I saved this block from the concrete crushing machine.
Also coming in this feature I'll show some history that was "buried" in the Manning Library and came close to getting away from us.
Because of the future move to their new location, I have been in contact with various people involved with the Manning Library.
Based on decades of experience, I know what happens when a business or organization moves - lots of history ends up getting thrown away, either intentionally or
accidentally.
I also want to try to scan items in the library that I had not yet had the chance to do so over the last several decades, before things
get boxed up for storage.
During one of the e-mails exchanged,
out of a fluke it was mentioned that they discovered a Schuetzen Verein record book which they described as the 3 mile house...WELL the number 3 really caught my eye, but I
figured it was a typo and they meant 5 instead.
Well after e-mailing back for confirmation I found out the it was indeed a record book for the Three Mile House which was 3 miles north
of Manning on West Street.
I imediately hurried into town to pick up the book so I could look it over and scan it.
This is another Manning organization that I've been trying to find more pictures and information about BUT I NEVER dreamed that someday one of the record books would show up.
Fortunately there was a hand-written note stuck on the book which explained exactly how it got to the library.
Alvan Hansen, whose dad was Henry and a director of the 3 mile house, took the book to Claus Bunz for safe keeping in 2002.
Then when Claus ended his business, he took the
book to the Manning Library, explaining the path it took without being thrown away.
After scanning the book and the official documents and newspaper articles, I discovered that the 3 mile committee donated any money left over after the sale to the Manning Library.
When they discovered this book during the inventory process at the library, it was thought the book really belonged to the
Hayes Township 5 mile house northwest of Manning, but once I explained that the 3 Mile House was a different Verein and that the funds left over were donated to the Manning
Library, I strongly encouraged them to make sure it stays with the library.
I have run into a number of inside pictures of the 3 mile house building and also know about a part that was used as a lean-to wing on the main building.
Remember that that Manning also had a Schuetzen Verein in the city limits...many of you will remember as the old Firemen's Hall - that structure was originally built by the
Manning Verein.
The stone wording was saved by the Ohde family and John currently has it displayed on his lawn.
So here is the story about the Drei Meilen Haus that I've gathered over the last 40+ years.
1910 August Horn membership - secretary August Eikmeier
In Memoriam
Honorary Member of the Three Mile House Schützen Verein
From the Oeser family collection.
Wedding celebration held at 3 mile haus - Wilhelmine Holltorf & Herman Eikmeier
Lean-to shed from the 3 Mile Haus structure.
Because of all the custom combining and farming my Kusel family has done on most every farm in the area at one time or the other, starting with my dad and his brother who formed
Kusel Brothers, I've had many situations where I was able to talk to a lot of old farmers over the decades who knew a lot of area history.
Case in point...we custom farmed the Karsten farm, owned by the Harold & Bernice (Karsten) Schroeder family.
One day while visiting with their son, Dave, and his parents, out of the blue the subject of an old shed came up (shown above).
As soon as I heard 3 mile house in the conversation I
became ecstatic and walked over to the building with Dave.
It was interesting to see how it was built and once had a swinging overhead door that had been permanently
nailed shut when they moved the shed to the Schroeder farm.
First entry in this book 1928 was written in German - the rest was in English.
It is not known what happened to the original record book - maybe it will show up some day.
Last entry - the Verein disbanded in 1949 - all funds left over were donated to the Manning Library.
Controversies are nothing new and even back then there were challenges between Manningites.
Legal actions resolved
Besides the legal documents, there were also some interesting historical items kept in the book.
Amazing little booklet that has the constitution and by-laws.
1st page
last page
Some other trivia I found out from various people in the past...
Elaine (Karsten) Struve's ---- grandparents - Bill Ruhde and his wife ran the 3-mile house.
The 3-mile house was on the Southwest corner of the Intersection (northwest corner of that section of land).
3 miles north of highway 141 on West Street in Manning.
Ed & Anna (Hell) Hinze ran the 3-Mile House at one point in time.
So if you have inherited an old record book that your grandfather/great-grandfather had and is connected to Manning - PLEASE contact me so I can scan it and do some
background research on it.
It is NOW or NEVER - once I'm gone and all of the other older folks who might have information on a specific topic are gone - then all of that history
will be gone forever, so let's preserve it NOW!!!
I was able to purchase most of the collection, but a few of the letters got away from me - I can't compete against the pocketbooks of collectors, who for the most part don't care about the history behind an item but they just want it for their specific collection.
I want to gather this history but for the MANNING collection.
Once I get some time to lay it all out I'll be showing examples of the various business names Salinger went through,
some background, and other aspects of who he was and also try to make a point with that period of time to what is going on in today's world.
Here are a few samples...
Note the "teaching" part
Visitation Sunday, February 28, 2021, at 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm Zion Lutheran Church, Manning, Iowa
Visitation will resume on Monday, March 1 at Zion Lutheran Church
Service Monday, March 1, 2021 at 10:30 am Zion Lutheran Church
Burial at the Manning Cemetery following services.
Margaret died early Friday morning, February 26, 2021, at University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska.
Visitation Sunday, February 28, 2021 at 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm Zion Lutheran Church, Manning, Iowa
Visitation will resume on Monday, March 1 at Zion Lutheran Church.
Service Monday, March 1, 2021 at 10:30 am Zion Lutheran Church.
Burial at the Manning Cemetery following services.
Margaret died early Friday morning, February 26, 2021 at University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska.
Funeral Service is Monday, March 1, 2021 at 10:30 AM at Zion Lutheran Church, Manning, Iowa **Face Masks and Social Distancing are Required**
Officiating are Pastor Jonathan Conner and Pastor Robert Riggert
Music "In The Garden" "Jesus Loves Me" "Here I Am, Lord" "The Old Rugged
Cross" "Take My Life And Let It Be" "Borning Cry"
Timothy Conner, Organist, Zion Lutheran Choir
Casket Bearers are Ben Backhaus, Nick Backhaus, Jared Hoffman, Aaron Dixon, Jake Foley, Tim Barr, Tanner Potter and Elijah Backhaus.
Honorary Casket Bearers are Sarah Dixon, Lindsey Backhaus, Emily Backhaus, Kaia Backhaus, Sasha Backhaus,
Jami Davidson, Jessica Hoffman, Larissa Potter, and Mandi Backhaus.
Interment at Manning Cemetery, Manning
Margaret Louise, daughter of Marvin and Elaine (Schnack) Andersen, was born November 21, 1941, in Harlan, Iowa. She grew up near Corley on the family farm. When she was in the eighth grade, they moved to another farm near Jacksonville and Margaret graduated from Irwin High School.
On December 4, 1960, Margaret was united in marriage with Dennis Backhaus at Bethlehem Lutheran Church near Jacksonville. Four sons were born to this couple. For a short time, Margaret and Dennis briefly resided in Omaha where she studied nursing. In 1961, they settled on the present family farm south of Westside. In December of 2020, the couple celebrated 60 years of marriage.
Margaret was a very active member of Zion Lutheran Church in Manning. She was a member of the choir, Ladies' Aid and LWML. For several years, she taught Sunday School and was Superintendent for Sunday School and Vacation Bible School. Together, she and Dennis made numerous nativity set figurines for VBS. Margaret enjoyed the farm life. She quilted with the Busy Thimbles and excelled at gardening, canning, baking and cooking. Her cream puffs, chocolate chip cookies, angel food cake, and caramels were family favorites. When her boys were young, Margaret sewed most of their clothing. In the early 1980s, the family was featured as the WOWT Farm Family of the Week. She was an expert euchre player. Her love as a mother-figure extended to the foreign exchange students they hosted.
In April of 2019, Margaret was diagnosed with leukemia which she strongly fought. On Friday, February 26, 2021, Margaret passed away at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, at the age of 79 years.
Margaret is survived by her husband Dennis Backhaus of Westside; four sons: David (Diane) Backhaus of Liberty, MO; Rodney (Kristin) Backhaus of Manilla; Jerry (Carla) Backhaus of Westside; and Bill (Jenny) Backhaus of Griswold; 10 grandchildren: Sarah (Aaron) Dixon, Benjamin (Lindsey) Backhaus, Emily Backhaus, Elijah Backhaus, Kaia Backhaus, Sasha Backhaus and fiancé Jake Foley, Nick Backhaus and fiancée Jami Davidson, Jessica (Jared) Hoffman, Larissa (Tanner) Potter and Mandi Backhaus; 7 great-grandchildren: Brayden, Audrey, Elizabeth, Jayden, Paiton, Noah and Amelia; Her siblings: Darlene (Tom) West of Kimballton; Ed (Vickie) Andersen of Kirkman; and Joyce (Merlene) Ostebee of Audubon; and a brother-in-law Duane Deist of Audubon.
She was preceded in death by her parents and two sisters: Judith Deist and Pat (Tom) Custer.
**The family respectfully requests that memorial donations be directed to the Zion Lutheran Church Audio/Visual Equipment Fund or to Leukemia Research**
Harry Backhaus farm
Be sure to watch the 1988 bowling video linked at the end of the story. The file is over 2GBs so it may take some time to download.
I converted this video to MOV format. The MPG format I used with Allen Dammann's tribute caused problems for some people opening them.
If anyone has bowling league team pictures, both adult or school, and anything related to the history of Manning bowling - please let me know so I can scan
what you have and add it to the Manning historical database.
Otherwise you just as well throw it away because after working on Manning history
for well over 40 years, I've seen one collection after another get thrown away by family members who inherit their parents/grandparents stuff, who then either then throw
those things away or put them in a box which gets lost and then thrown by the next generation.
Blunt but the facts that 99% of our history is already gone...
Then others will tell me that they already have their stuff digitized - but from my decades of experience, it is more than likely low resolution quality and then they'll lose the data because they don't take all of the extra steps I do to safely preserve and back it up, both on-site and off-site like a safe deposit box in the bank like I do.
So if you want your family/Manning history preserved in the Manning database I'm constantly working on -
send me an e-mail or give me a call...
Thanks,
Dave Kusel
BUT every now and then someone will find my web page and e-mail me and usually is looking for pictures and information I have about their "American" relatives, but they usually don't have pictures and information connected to the family here.
Finally someone from Germany contacted me who is able to help me with pictures and information I have questions about.
So over the next several weeks I hope to share more pictures and information between this fellow and hopefully anyone who is related
to this family will contact me so we can add even more information and pictures...here is the story.
These pictures came from the Hoffmann, Claussen, and Vinke collections I've scanned.
Here are a few pictures he has confirmed and provided more information.
The old pix are from the Hoffmann/Claussen collection
Willi Buhmann - grandfather to my contact in Germany
Now owned by my contact in Wrohm, Germany, who is a Buhmann descendant.
Here
are pictures of the house today he just sent me after several rennovations.
earlier rennovation
earlier rennovation
2021 restoration
Reimer und Katharina Buhmann with Dog Hasso (picture contact in Germany has in his collection)
He told me this home is in Wrohm, Germany, the old home of Hermann Buhmann
Hermann was a son of Reimer and Katharina Buhmann.
Hermann's brother, Ernst, was the father of Willi and grandfather of my contact.
Hermann and Ernst's sister was Else (Buhmann) Gehlsen.
Hermann Buhmann (picture contact in Germany has in his collection)
Ernst Buhmann Golden Wedding in 1977
My contact thinks this was the home of Else (Buhmann) Gehlsen in Wrohm, but is not 100% sure.
I also asked my contact to confirm and connect Reimer Buhmann from the Hoffmann collection.
Reimer Buhmann - confirmed as the same person listed above in the Buhmann family tree.
back side of photo
If you are related to these Manning familes and have old pix and information and can help us, please e-mail me.
11:34 am
12:01 pm
12:02 pm
11:55 am
The bluejays were having a blast in the snow...
11:56 am
I haven't seen such a windless/calm snow event for many decades...
I'm clearing Dave Schroeder's yard 1980 with our snowblower and JD 4440.
Obits usually don't have much military information but give very basic information, so I'm still hoping that Veterans and family members of deceased Veterans will contact me and work with me to get more details and pictures.
Now fast forward to sometime in the late 1970s when one day a car drove up on our farmyard and a guy gets out. I immediately recognized him as
"Larry" but didn't know his last name.
I was surprised at how he didn't look as tall as I remembered, since I was now fully grown.
He knew me by name and introduced himself as Larry Owen from Carroll and told me he was tracking down teachers he remembered from his time here at Manning and for some reason I must have made a good impression on him all those years ago that he wanted to look me up too.
Unfortunately, some kids would tease and were mean to the Special Ed kids as I think back, so I must have NOT been one of them...I certainly don't remember being mean and actually didn't think of them any different than all the other kids we played with on the playground.
Larry sent me several of the pictures to scan that he took of school staff he had tracked down and were from his time here at Manning. I wish now I would have asked him if I could have scanned his notebook that he was keeping that had the list of people he wanted to meet up with and take their pictures...the list was long and he told me the names of the ones he was able to locate and close enough to drive to and meet...here are several of the people that treated him kindly as a student that he went to meet over a 5-year period.
I don't know if he was able to finish his quest but I know he had fun doing it.
Ruby (Struve) Edmunds - school nurse
Hugo Jahn - school janitor
Eileen Thompson - school teacher
Larry Rowedder - PE
Every year since that time Larry Owen came to visit me at our farm, he has sent me a Christmas card/note.
I kept every one of them and have scanned a couple from the later years to his last one this past Christmas.
I knew right away something was seriously wrong, as he repeated
his words several times.
Larry worked at the GE plant in Carroll for decades - I forget now how many until the plant closed. Then Larry worked at the Carroll School as a janitor.
Based on his Christmas messages he had a great outlook on life and seemed to be happy most of the time but sadly, his life had a number of challenges too, with several of his siblings fighting with and dying from Cancer and now it got him in 2021.
Larry Eugene Owen, age 71, of Carroll, IA, passed away on Friday, February 19, 2021 at Regency Park in Carroll.
Visitation Wednesday, February 24, 2021 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
There will be a prayer service at the funeral home at 6:30 PM on Wednesday evening during the visitation.
Mass of the Christian Burial Holy Spirit Catholic Church Thursday, February 25, 2021 10:30 AM Carroll.
The casket will be moved to Holy Spirit Church at 9:30 A.M. on Thursday where visitation will resume until 10:15 A.M.
Mass of the Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 A.M. on Thursday, February 25, 2021 at St. John Paul II Parish - Holy Spirit Church in Carroll with Fr. Kevin Richter as Celebrant. Music for the mass will be by Jane Heithoff and Duane Handlos. Casket bearers will be Matt Owen, Mike Owen, Quentin Buswell, Don Buswell, Tanner Teague, and Scott Mikkelsen. Burial will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Carroll.
Friends may call at the Dahn and Woodhouse Funeral Home in Carroll after 5:00 P.M. on Wednesday where there will be a Christian Wake Service held at 6:30 P.M. The casket will be moved to Holy Spirit Church at 9:30 A.M. on Thursday where visitation will resume without greeting the family until 10:15 A.M.
Those in attendance at Larry's visitation and Mass are asked to abide by Covid-19 guidelines and facemasks are required at the funeral home and at the church.
Larry was born on September 29, 1949 in Carroll, Iowa, and was the son of Lewis and Frances (Lehrter) Owen. He is a lifelong resident of Carroll and graduated from Carroll High School in 1971. Larry worked for General Electric in Carroll beginning when they opened in 1972 until its closing in 2010. He then worked for Carroll High School as a janitor until he retired in 2017. He was a member of Holy Spirit Parish. Larry enjoyed reading, playing pool, collecting, taking photos of family and friends, visiting with people, and spending time with his family.
Larry is survived by his mother Frances Owen of Carroll; his siblings and their families: brother, Dan Owen (Diane) of Carroll; brother, Dave Owen of Scranton; sister, Donna Haley of Carroll; a brother-in-law, Don Buswell of Carroll; several aunts, nieces, nephews, cousins, and other extended family members.
Larry was preceded in death by his father Lewis; and two sisters: Connie Owen and Kathy Buswell.
2007 card from Larry
2018 card from Larry
2018 Christmas card
Note how Larry visited people in the Carroll Nursing Homes - he obviously loved people.
He also enjoyed playing pool each afternoon with his 3 friends.
I'm not showing this last message for shock factor but to show how even fighting with reduced cognitive abilities, he still remembered me and thought of me as his "best friend."
I hope everyone has a friend like Larry...they are hard to find, especially life-long friendship.
The last time I spoke to Larry in person, was about 3 years ago when I was in Carroll going into a business when all of a sudden I saw this tall guy crossing the street and heading my way.
I stood there and as he came closer I said "Larry" and he looked at me and said "David," he was out for one of his walks he talked about in his 2018 card.
I know that this Christmas I'll sure deeply miss getting a Christmas card from "Larry."
Amazing Pioneer roots that provided the building blocks for this nation - like so many old-time Manning families!
Nishnabotna froze over.
City crew kept busy this winter
February 4, 2021
Live long enough and you see one extreme weather event after another.
While we haven't had anywhere
near record amounts of snow this winter in the Manning area...but this is definitely
the coldest extended spell of near zero to below zero temps we've had in decades.
This winter is more like I remember when I was a kid.
I forget the exact year and I didn't take pictures but it was during one winter before 1985, when one evening we had sustained winds of 50+ MPH out of the northwest, and the
actual temperature was minus 27, and as I recall the wind chill was minus 80 - if you remember the year or have pictures, please let me know.
We still had our old farm house that had no insulation like most old farm houses of the past. The bathroom was on the southeast part of the house and that
night the water in the toilet bowl froze solid.
I even had plastic fastened to the first story on the outside of the house, along with hay/straw bales stacked
up to cover the first story. At that time our new windbreak trees were less than 5 feet tall, so they did no good to block the wind.
Needless to say, I saw something I had never seen before when I went outside the next morning. The winds had subsided and as I walked around the yard, there were sparrows, starlings, and all kinds of song birds lying dead all over. Some of them must have tried to fly to find a warmer location near a building but probably died mid-flight.
I wish I had pictures to show, so people can realize how difficult our feathered creatures have it during some winters.
I've been feeding my song birds for decades. If you start feeding your area birds now, once you have started you MUST NOT stop feeding them until the winter is over.
Birds are creatures of habit and will get dependent on the food you give them, so if you stop all of a sudden once the weather warms up a little, some of them will not go back to searching on their own and will die.
I thought it would be interesting for people to hear sounds that they may not have heard before or realized how super cold temps affects things around us.
Take a look and listen to some sounds and sights that I recorded February 15, 2021, around 10:30 pm when it was MINUS 20 degrees Fahrenheit.
10:23 pm
Most of what you see venting into the air is steam.
A semi tanker loaded with soybean oil heading out to its destination.
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The biofuels standard establishes a minimum level of biodiesel to be blended in the state's diesel fuel pool, gradually increasing over time. Beginning in 2022, the legislation ensures that biodiesel comprises 11% of the diesel pool and provides tax credits for higher blends. The program expands to 20% biodiesel blends, or B20, in future years. The legislation also establishes new retail income tax incentives for fuel marketers and provides funding for biodiesel projects through the Iowa Renewable Fuels Infrastructure Program. Financial support for renewable fuels would also be made available from the Rebuild Iowa Infrastructure Fund.
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12:30 am minus 22
One of the nurses at the hospital told me her car sensor registered minus 28 early this morning.
You know it's cold when the snow "squeaks" as you drive on it.
You know it's cold when the snow "squeaks" as you walk on it.
When we tore down the old house and built the new one in 1985, I wanted a wood burning stove for 3 main reasons.
We grew up in a house with no insulation, and various
sources of heat that was warm right next to it such as a kitchen stove we stoked with wood and cobs, and several different radiant heat oil burners, and occasionally mother would turn on the electric oven and leave
the door open to help heat the kitchen.
For heat upstairs there was a vent in the floor you could open/close if you wanted heat to rise into your room.
So I wanted to make sure the new
house had plenty of heating options. One is the natural gas furnace and the other a wood burning stove with blower.
Another reason I wanted the stove was for supplemental heat when the electricity cuts off.
The last reason is I also spent time in Aspinwall with my grandparents, and Louie Ehrichs had a forced air stove that burned coal, wood, cobs, etc.
I remember hearing grandpa rocking the shaker early in the morning to remove the ash and then re-stoke the stove...so I would run down to help - I wanted to rock the shaker arm and I loved
the smell of cobs while stoking the stove.
It originally had a glass window, but as it aged it cracked, so I made a steel plate to replace it.
I heat the whole house without running the natural gas furnace
because of the way I have the basement set up. I have 2 intake vents in the cold air duct return that pulls off the heat and through the furnace fan central air ductwork.
Then I put in 2 exhaust fans in the basement ceiling, one of which is a small squirrel cage fan, and both of them
blow the air from the basement ceiling and up to the living room on the first floor.
This helps to keep the excess heat in the basement moving to the upper level.
The wood I burn is mostly from trees that die or blow down in our windbreak and then I replace them with new trees. The other source is from the city brush pile, where there is an endless source of wood of all kinds...while hardwood trees such as oak and ash are the best source of heat, I burn every type of tree and large branch shrubs.
Now for fun - see if you recognize this sound and what made it...most people have never heard this sound today, but if you are old enough you should recognize the sound -
especially if you grew up on a farm.
I'll post a video and tell what it is in a few days to see if anyone figures it out...
Mass of Christian Burial is pending for 90 year old Wes Nulle of Manning.
Wes died late Wednesday,
February 10, 2021 at Manning Regional Healthcare Center, Manning.
Looking South on Ann Street February 2021
If you had the right snow pack and good sled you could make it down to the Julia Street intersection.
I was reminded that in the 1950s, the kids used South Main Street and rode their sleds down that huge hill toward the Willow Creek bridge.
If anyone has pictures of sledding at either one of these sites, please let me know.
I have pictures of thousands of different types of activities/events from Manning's past but
I don't have one picture of sleigh riding on the weekends in Manning.
More pix coming when I find time...
In January of 2018, I created this historical perspective linked below about recreation in Manning and also information and graphics for the current proposed project for the Rec Center.
It shows how projects don't get done overnight and also how very important volunteers and donations are to every project.
Update on the Hillside Splash project
On May 15, 2018, the city council approved $400,000 in matching funds for the proposed Hillside Splash project.
JEO Consulting has been working on design ideas and a proposal to complete this project in 3 phases.
Phase 1 will begin in 2019-20 with construction beginning in 2020-21, or as soon as funds are raised.
A zero-depth pool with some play features are planned in phase 1, with the slide aspects in phase 2, and a spray pad for phase 3.
Click on the link below to see some very interesting history on how Manning achieves so many amazing things and is now working on another unique project.
Oh the Fun of playing in the Sun (1968)
1909 cartoon about 2 boys nabbing their friends' clothes while "skinny dippin.'"
I'm working on a list of names of Manning citizens (now deceased) whose vision made it possible for Manning to have a Recreational facility.
They made it possible for the continued expansion into an outdoor pool addition in 2020 - sadly they'll never get to see this new addition, but we will forever be grateful
for their efforts that began over 40 years ago.
List of citizens no longer with us who made the Rec Center possible.
Jean & Gene Wiese - Gene secured the $50,000 LR Nelson grant, MCF member - use of their soil mover - Jean was a Rec Board member
William F. Ohde - Manning Community Foundation member - countless hours with various aspects of construction.
Willis Puck - countless hours with various aspects of renovation - drove the Puck skid loader.
Curt Struve - various aspects - co-rec center board member.
Barry Kusel - various construction aspects - rec center board member.
I'll add more names as I think about this topic and do some research in my database.
Korean War Veterans continues
For those of you who are occasional visitors to the Manning Exchange - please make sure to click on the "archived articles" section where previous featured stories are kept.
"Let it be known that he who wears the military order of the purple heart has given of his blood in the defense of his homeland and
shall forever be revered by his fellow countrymen."
George Washington, August 7, 1782
Just as a reminder: the Manning History book committee continues to work on a Manning area Veterans' history book
project.
For those of you who are Veterans or have/had Veterans in your family - will you come forward?
The history book committee will do their best to get as many pictures and information about the 1000+ Manning Veterans
but we can't do it all by ourselves.
How many small communities do you know have published 5 history books? The first one was the History of Manning 1898, then the 1981 Manning Centennial book, next the 2006 Manning Quasqui book, and most recently the 2009 Manning School history book. Probably the last book to be published will be the upcoming Manning Veterans' book - unless someone comes forward in the next generation to take over these projects after I'm gone. Will you help with the Veterans' history book project? If you are a Manning connected Veteran or are presently serving and do not submit your military connected pictures and infomation you probably won't be in this once-in-a-life-time Manning Veterans' history book. With a limited number of volunteers we can only do so much on our own but will try to get pictures of as many Veterans as we can. There are over 1000 Manning Veterans so we have a long ways to go before the book can be published.
Manning Veterans are slowly coming forward and below is another example. We hope to eventually get more pictures and information for Mike to put in the book but for now this is what I have to show to you.
One thing that many Veterans and people who are submitting information have not fully understood is that this next
Manning history book is specifically a Veterans' only book. It won't be like the Centennial or Quasqui history books were,
where there is a Veterans' section along with other community aspects. We are aiming for a 2-volume book (around 1090 total pages) which will really be unique!!!
This book will be ALL Veterans' information (and the post auxiliaries) - hence it
won't be a "Name, Rank, and Serial Number" only history but we want a complete history for each Veteran.
For instance - below is Louis Boell's picture and the information
that was published in the Veteran section of the 1982 Aspinwall Centennial history book. It has the basic
information but we are looking for more and I spoke to Louie by phone and he sent more pictures
and information - also for his brothers.
To see what Louis submitted click on the link underneath "Are you a Manning Veteran" shown below.
Note: we also want some family background such as parents and grandparents. All too often you will only see just the Veteran's name with their basic military information but without the family connections it will be difficult for future historians and genealogists to know for sure who this person belongs to.
Please e-mail me about your Veteran questions manningveterans@davidkusel.com
1 Manning citizen served in the War of 1812
60+ served in the Civil War
1 served in the Indian War
5 served in the Spanish American War
350+ served during WWI
600+ served during WWII
87+ served in the Korean war era
65+ (more names need to be found) served in the Vietnam era
55+ (many more names need to be found) served from 1975 to present
28 paid the ultimate price with their lives defending the U.S. Flag
We are starting the Manning Veterans' history book project
Don't wait until you see "Deadline" or it WILL be too late!!!
Click to read promos for the Veteran book
If you simply don't want those old family pictures you inherited please don't throw them - send them my way.
A lot of times I can recognize a face or location in those old pix.
One thing to keep in mind while you are looking for pictures - if they are glued in old scrap books please do NOT try to pull them out or cut them out. I can scan the whole page of the scrapbook and crop out the pictures you want to use in the book. If you attempt to forcibly remove the pictures you will probably damage them and when I scan them that damage will probably show up. This means I'll either have to use my graphics program to touch up the damage which can take a lot of time, or if they are badly damaged I just may not even take the time to scan them.