When I tell people how one thing connects to another and how I'm able to tie even more things together when people get their old Manning items and family history to me - I can show exactly how and why with more examples.
Lately the names of Dwight Parkinson, N & B Motors, and now Francis Brennan have come into the mix...
More items have come from the family of Erv Bauer.

While I'm discussing connections - starting in 1970, my mother was the Manning Housing Director for both Terrace Apartments and then later Elm Crest Apartments.
Over the decades she had a number of maintenance men, one of whom was Erv Bauer. Mother had the utmost respect for Erv and the job he did. He was conscientious and a very friendly person and mother just loved the job he did, as well as the residents of the apartments. I remember visiting with Erv and he told me how much he enjoyed working for and with mother and I learned what a great person he was.
When I approached him in 2013 about his military service, he let me scan his 5 albums and then came out to our house to work with me on the captions for the pictures. It was so much fun to work with him and visit with him.

Again, this is why I bury myself in Manning's history - because of all of the connections my family and I have with Manning's past.


This license plate holder came from the Erv Bauer collection and adds more to the N & B articles posted down below.
Here are 2 more items from the Bauer collection that expand on the history of Manning's past businesses.

Manning Creamery meat cleaver & tenderizer

Patent April 8, 1907

Complements of Manning, Creamery, Manning, Iowa


Manning Trust & Savings Bank
I have lots of pix and early history of the building that once housed this business, but won't go into details now.
This building still stands on the corner of Third & Main Streets.
From my understanding is that the building and property is being turned over to the city and will hopefully get restored.
Originally it was the Bennett Bank, then the name changed to German Savings Bank.
During WWI, the anti-German animosity forced a name change to Iowa State Savings Bank.

Next I'll add more information about Dwight Parkinson.
Again, I'm going to mention the importance of people with Manning memorabilia and history to get it to me to scan and document.
ALSO, the importance of accuracy with the spelling of names and information.
When I first was given some information about N & B Motors and the name Dwight "Parky" Parkinson came up, I thought the last name looked familiar. I searched for Parkinson but nothing came up in my database.
Now with another newspaper article found I was searching more in my database and accidentally spelled the name Parkison and voila, I found 2 files about Dwight. It was in a folder that I scanned a businessmen feature from the Monitor.
The name was misspelled Parkison but is of Dwight Parkinson.
Here is the recent article Connie found that caused me to search more and stumble on to the Monitor article, also shown below, along with a picture from the paper.

Dwight "Parky" Parkinson has sold his feed store to George Scott of Dow City. Scott also purchased the Farmers Elevator at Denison.
Russ Clark former manager of the Dow City Elevator will manage the Denison elevator and the feed business at Denison. Parkinson will be a district manager for the Purina Company with his residence at Denison.
Carroll Daily Times Herald, February 5, 1953

DWIGHT PARKINSON
A resident of Manning 15 months, Dwight E. "Parky" Parkinson, 41, of the N & B Motors, Inc. has become an active citizen, aiding in civic undertakings and taking important roles in chamber work.
Born and educated in Des Moines, Parky was connected with the Ralston Purina company for 10 years in the capacity as employee and dealer. He came to Manning from Denison in January 1959.
Parky and his wife, Alice, have one daughter, Cynthia Ann, who is five and will start school here next fall.
Affiliations of this week's businessman include membership in the Manning Chamber of Commerce, American Legion and the JRH Club.
Parky is a navy veteran, having served 42 months during World War II.
Note: the original spelling in the article was Parkison


More items from the family of Erv Bauer to be preserved in the Manning Museum...

Connie came through again and found these articles that provide more information about Erv Bauer's old items...
Sanitation Company Formed at Manning
The Manning Sanitation Company has been formed, to effect systematic collection of household refuse. Arlo LaRue Hodne, Jr. is operating manager. The company will furnish 20-gallon garbage cans to subscribers, and collections will be made twice each week.
Carroll Daily Times Herald, March 1, 1960

Buys Hatchery
Roger Nissen, owner of Nissen's Poultry Service here, has purchased the Farmers' Hatchery at Coon Rapids, and will expand his business throughout southern Carroll County. Jim Cady will be hatchery manager for Nissen at Coon Rapids.
Daily Nonpareil, July 31, 1953 Roger Nissen Sells Partnership Interest
Glen Jensen and Gerald Schroeder have purchased the interests of Roger Nissen in the Nissen Poultry Service and Hatchery.
The three men formed a partnership March 1, 1955. Mr. Nissen sold his interest because of ill health. The new owners will change the name of the firm in the near future. Mr. Nissen has not made any plans for the future as yet.
Carroll Daily Times Herald June 4, 1956


There was also this little snippet of information next to the Sanitation article, so I grabbed it.
Now I know where Francis had moved to after leaving Manning.
I actually have a picture of him, and thanks to Connie & Jim, I now have his obituary - shown below.


Coaches, Francis Miles & Kermit Tannatt next to the stage of the old gym.
Francis M. "Mike" Miles, principal and coach at Fremont-Mills Community School, Tabor, Iowa, has been named superintendent there. He replaces G.O. Mason, who resigned. Miles formerly was a teacher and coach at Manning High School in 1954.
Carroll Daily Times Herald, March 1, 1960

Francis Michael "Mike" Miles PhD
Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership at Northern Arizona University passed away in Phoenix on Wednesday, February 26, 2014, at the age of 84. Dr. Miles was born on September 18, 1929, in Livermore, Iowa, to Eugene and Anne Miles.

Following graduation from Livermore High School, Mike received BA and MA degrees from Wayne State College and the University of Nebraska, Omaha. He worked for 16 years as an educator in Iowa, starting out as a teacher of mathematics and a coach of basketball and track. His skill as a coach helped the Tabor girls' basketball team win the state championship. Mike later served as a principal and as superintendent of schools in Tabor and Riverside, Iowa.

While working on his doctorate in school administration, Mike worked for the Kenosha, Wisconsin school district as an assistant superintendent for planning, budgeting, and data processing. Mike soon discovered that, although he loved numbers, his true passion was working with students. After finishing the doctorate degree he brought this passion to Northern Arizona University where he became a professor of educational administration in 1969. During his 35 plus years of working for NAU, Dr. Miles, while always teaching, also served as chairman of the Educational Administration, Supervision and Foundations department; director of field-based programs; director of the Arizona Assessment Center; and area coordinator, Educational Administration, Supervision, and Foundations. Mike was one of the first directors when NAU established the Center for Excellence in Education and was instrumental in establishing most of the regional offices for Northern Arizona University off campus courses.

Dr. Miles received many awards and certificates in recognition of his service, including Arizona's Distinguished Administrator of the Higher Education Division, Northern Arizona University's Distinguished Faculty Award, and an Award for Excellence, Educational Leadership from the Center for Excellence in Education. Dr. Miles participated in numerous professional and academic associations at the local, state, and national levels; presented and led many workshops; chaired and served on many doctoral committees; and authored or co-authored numerous publications in the areas of educational leadership, school business management, the assessment process, and school personnel. Dr. Miles also utilized his various skills and interest in education as a consultant on subjects including school accounting and planning, superintendent searches, and educational team building. Dr. Miles was well known for his caring interest in helping others reach their fullest potential.

Mike is survived by his wife Ann A'Lee; daughter, Laurie (Sam) Levy, Minneapolis, Minnesota; son, Dan (Nancy) Miles, Seattle, Washington; son, Patrick (Mary Jo) Miles, Amherst Junction, Wisconsin; grandsons Aaron, Matthew, and Miles Levy, Minneapolis, Minnesota; sisters, Virginia Miles, Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Marjorie Miles, San Francisco, California; and his former wife, Mary Ellen Miles, Flagstaff, Arizona. He is also survived by his step-daughters Diana Perez and Stephanie Crow, Goodyear, Arizona; step-granddaughter, Amanda (William) Walthers, Phoenix, Arizona; step-grandsons, Seth, Dillon, and Colton Crow, Goodyear, Arizona; step-great-granddaughters Annabel and Payton Walthers, Phoenix, Arizona; step-great-grandson Billy Walthers, Phoenix, Arizona; brother-in-law Nyle (Maureen) BeDillon, Centennial, Colorado; and sister-in-law Anne (Kent) Griffen, Casa Grande, Arizona.

Always the educator, Mike donated his body to science, hoping that he could in some way contribute to finding cures for heart disease and Alzheimer's. Anyone wishing to make a donation in his name could contribute to the American Heart Association, the Alzheimer's Association, or to Hospice of the Valley. Memorial services will be announced at a later date.
Arizona Republic, March 9, 2014

Additional information: Francis M. "Mike" Miles, principal and coach at Fremont-Mills Community School, Tabor, Iowa, has been named superintendent there. He replaces G.O. Mason, who resigned. Miles formerly was a teacher and coach at Manning High School in 1954.
Carroll Daily Times Herald, March 1, 1960


Manning Sanitation Company - D.E. Parkinson
From the 1981 Manning Centennial book...
F.D. Ross & Co. was sold to N & B Motors in 1959, who in turn sold the firm to Dwight "Parky" Parkinson.
He discontinued the business after about one year.
The building is now owned by the HMC Corporation and houses the Plastico manufacturing company.

If you know more about Dwight and his business, please e-mail me.


Nissen's Poultry Service

J & S Feed Service had its origins in 1955, when Glen Jensen, Gerald "Jerry" Schroeder, and Roger Nissen began a three-way partnership in a business called Nissen Poultry Service. It was located in the old Puck Implement building at the north end of Main Street, near the intersection with Front Street.
This is the block building that Orland Fara used to store supplies for Manning Ag Center.
Tom Doyel has converted it into a home now.


Manning Trust & Savings Bank - now Templeton Savings Bank of Manning

These are just a few examples of Manning historical items I've found/purchased/collected over the decades and hope more things like this will be returned to Manning and given the museum.

So please don't throw/sell those old Manning memorabilia items but get them to me so I can scan them and document the information about them, and also please try to remember who/how you got them, so I can credit the source/s for posterity.
Thanks,
Dave


I hope that I'm finally reaching more Manning connected folks who are willing to get the old Manning "stuff" they have to me so I can scan it and document it.
Recently the Bauer family brought some old druggist bottles to Denise Doyel at the bank and wanted them to go to the Manning Museum and requested that these bottles are credited to their dad, Ervin, who found them decades ago.
Below are 3 of the different druggists bottles and I'll be following up with more background on them once I get through all of the e-mails with links to more information.
Realize these businesses are from the late 1880s to early 1900s.
Connie, one of my Manning helpers, has really come through in finding where some of the business owners moved to and more information about them.
I started with the 1981 Manning Centennial book and found some basic information which helped Connie find more information online.
Now this takes a lot of time and work to scan, find, and compile this into a feature story but well worth it.

I hope by showing these little Manning stories that they will encourage more people to dig out that old Manning stuff they have buried in their closet or attic, and get it to me so I can work with it, and if they don't want it back I'll make sure it goes into the Manning Museum.

I don't have time to go into all of the details but want to briefly mention the OCR software I use to open digital images and convert them to editable text.
When I purchased my first scanner in 1994, it came with a software that would OCR images (Optical Character Recognition).
It was HORRIBLE, I was just learning to type with my $15 typing software and I could hunt and peck faster than all of the recognition errors those early programs had.
At first these early programs cost around $1000 but when I upgraded them each year it was only in the lower hundreds...But, BOY, did they improve them!!! The version I have now of Omni Page is sometimes 100% accurate. They even made it possible for the program to recognize italics and odd size text and also ignore the little blemishes and dots.
This program saves me hours of work when OCRing stuff.
Sadly, there hasn't been an update for many years, I think mostly due to the fact that very few people care about or use this technology anymore, compared to a couple of decades ago.


John Lewis & Amandus Herman Grau


R. Randolph Rogers


C.J. and Frank Schroeder

Below is how I can connect obituaries and information that is otherwise just old information about a person or topic that you can find on the Internet, but the people who post that basic information won't have the Manning connections since they don't go into deeper details about that person, like I can and do.
The first part is the obituary that was published...notice there is NO mention of Manning.
Thanks to Connie who has lots of sources on the Internet, she can find other information that ties and expands on an obituary or topic, such as the druggist bottles shown above.

Again, this is why I wish more people would work with me and share the old Manning history they have so I can scan it, compile & connect it to other aspects that are a part of Manning's past...

R. RANDOLPH ROGERS

BURIAL Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California
Mausoleum, Columbarium, First Floor, Section 64, 4 up, 6 across


In Berkeley, March 17, 1937, R. Randolph Rogers, beloved husband of Fannie E. Rogers (married April 19, 1889 in Woodbury, Iowa), and loving father of Mrs. Della Borman of Oakland, Elba W. Rogers of Berkeley, and the late Verna Johnson and Howard Rogers of Hayward.

A native of Clarksfield, Ohio, aged 72 years, born September 1864. A member of Sycamore Lodge No. 129, I.O.O.F. of Hayward.

Funeral services were held Friday, March 19, 1937, at 2 o'clock p.m., from the Garden Chapel of the Pratt Mortuary, 1044 C Street, Hayward. Incineration private.

He lived in Walnut, Iowa, in 1900.

Manning connections:
R.R. ROGERS SELLS STORE IN 1898

The Monitor October 21, 1898
We take this means to announce to the people of Manning and vicinity that we have purchased the drug and Jewelry business of R.R. Rogers.
C.J. Schroeder is well-known here as a first-class watchmaker, and he will look after your wants in the jewelry department. Frank P. Schroeder has had years of experience in the drug business.
Manning Monitor August 1, 1956

R.R. Rogers, a druggist of Manning, made an assignment Wednesday to U.C. Rogers for the benefit of his creditors.
The liabilities, we understand, are quite large.
The Carroll Sentinel August 28, 1896


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