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"I will try to keep this
up-dated with Iowa and Carroll County news.
I will try to post something every other day or so.
Maybe check it each week and you will be up-to-date on
everything. Please help me out by sending me "news"
items and I will put it on this web site. Thanks
for helping out."
Dale
Tryon
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This is called "team
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This too is
called good "team work."
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Amazing:
Have some fun! Put your curser (mouse), in the photo
and drag it around to create a weird photo. Of
course the subject is our favorite Glidden alum,
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Another Glidden memory:
Send me more, I always enjoy reading these:
With all of the snow that
Iowa has received we are about to have big time
flooding. It has been in the 45 degree range most
of the week and water is starting to show up.
Above, you can see a photo of me standing in my back
yard with flooding already taking place (joke)!
*Greener
Pastures? When I was in High School, someone told
me that if you wanted a nice girl friend we would have
to go to a town close by. In other words, Pastures
were greener on the other side of the fence. Well,
I fell for this. So did my friend, Glen Britt.
We would travel to Scranton, Coon Rapids and Carroll
always on the look-out. Guess we went to Coon
Rapids the most. Glenn ended up marrying a
gal from Coon. My future wife lived in Scranton.
Don't get me wrong, I love my wife and am still happily
married (see photo to the left). However, as I
look back at it, there were a lot of real nice gals in
Glidden too.
*Sports
in general: Probably
my most favorite memory from Glidden High School
days is participating in sports. I had a
lot of great teammates and therefore we were
able to have a lot of wins in football,
basketball and baseball. I'm forever
grateful that my parents encouraged their
children to play sports. With 8 boys and 2
girls in the family, I couldn't count the number
of games that they attended. I don't know
if they ever missed one of our games. For
the most part, we wore #24 on our jerseys.
A lot of our sons, daughters, nieces and nephews, in later years,
wore that same number. Some of my best
friends to this day are my teammates from the
early 50's. The photo to the left shows my
mother trying to teach us how to kick field
goals (joking).
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Chuck
Offenburger, the former "Iowa Boy" that wrote many
great Iowa stories in the Des Moines Register is
still writing from his home in Cooper, Iowa.
Recently, he had a good article about Glidden.
I think you will enjoy this. Just
CLICK HERE |
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Latest News:
*Neva Morris, of
Ames, Iowa, is now the oldest living person in the
United States and 2nd oldest in the world. She
is now 114 years and 302 days old. She lived
just a few houses away from us. Amazingly, she
purchased a new car at the age of 90 and she can
still sing for listeners in her nursing home.
*Elton John will
bring his "Rocket Man--the Greatest Hits live" tour
to Wells Fargo Arena for an April 16 concert.
*Iowa State leaders
ordered Iowa based, Well-mark, to postpone its 18
per-cent insurance rate increase for about 80,000
Iowans on Monday, pending an independent review of
the health insurer's planned premium increase.
*Basketball scores
since March 7th: Men's scores=
Minnesota 88, Iowa 53. UNI wins Conference
title with 67-52 win over Wichita State.
Women's scores= Ohio State 66, Iowa 64.
High School Boys tourney: Carroll
Kuemper knocks off #1 seed D.M. Christian 65 to 53.
*Former
Glidden resident, Lucille Petersen, passed away
Friday evening at the age of 95. Yes, she was
my wife's mother. She was born in Audubon
County, married to Emanuel Petersen and farmed
several years near Scranton. They spent their
retired years in Glidden. She spent her later years
at a nursing home in Ames where she passed away.
What a great woman! She was extremely kind and
loving, a hard working farmer's wife and a great
mother to her two children. She had countless
friends as well as 8 grandchildren and 12 great
grandchildren. SHE WAS THE PERFECT MOTHER IN LAW to
me. She never had a drivers license to
obviously never drove a car. My wife and I
took her golfing with us a few times and she did
enjoy driving our golf cart. Funeral
arrangements are now set. Services will be
held Thursday, March 11th,1:00 at the Glidden Peace
Lutheran Church. Family will greet friends and
family from noon to 1:00. Burial will follow
in the Glidden cemetery and lunch to follow.
*Congratulations to
Glidden/Ralston sophomores, Daniel Van Horn and
Katelynn Kozak. They recently qualified for
State Speech competition to be held in Sibley.
*One of my favorite
sections in the Glidden Graphic is the columns on
100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. It was funny to
read this week that 75 years ago The Glidden and
Scranton girls basketball teams played to a 12-12
tie. Yes, they did have ties back in those
days.
*The Glidden/Ralston
High School basketball teams have now finished their
seasons. The boys finished 11-10. Wade
Hoyle, a junior, led the team in scoring with a 11.3
average and he also led the team in assists and
steals. John Johnson, a sophomore, led the
team in rebounds with 133. The local girls
finished with a record of 5-16. Kristin
Klocksiem, a sophomore led the team in scoring with
11.9 points a game and she also led the team assists
and steals. Morgan O'brien, a junior, led the
team in rebounds.
*Des Moines school
plan unprecedented cuts. The proposal calls
for slashing an unprecedented $33 million from
next year's budget and eliminates nearly 489
positions, most of the teachers.
*The Glidden/Ralston
school system is in good financial condition
compared to other schools that are in serious
financial shape. . This is according to
Larry Sigel, President of Iowa School Finance
Information Services. He is widely considered
one of the top authorities in the state on school
finances. As mentioned in the Glidden
Graphic.
*Wow, another writer
from Glidden. I now know of at least 8
different people, from Glidden, that had written a
book. The latest is Jim Brinker's book, "West
of Hue - Down the Yellow Brick Road. Jim was a
graduate of GHS in 1964. This is a pe4rsonal
story of a 2/502 Recondo in the 101st Airborne
Division in Vietnam 1970. Vivid recollections of
battles for hills 714 and 882 where 30 brave Strike
Force troopers died are described. It is also
a story of the difficulties of going home and his
ultimate redemption. If interested, you could
order a First Edition for $10.00 or a recent Second
Edition for $20.00, plus $40.00 for shipping and
handling. His address is, James Brinker, 10 Luther
Lane, Dudley, MA 01571. Email address of
Brinker101@charter.net Jim is
currently during vaccine research at Tufts
University. He had previously retired
from UMass. I have seen a copy of the book and
it looks like a very professional job. I'm
looking forward to reading it. Congratulations
Jim.
*Iowa Governor, Chet
Culver, backs adding 4 casinos in Iowa. If
approved by Legislature, the new ones would be at
Lyon, Webster, Taqma and Wapello counties.
This would give Iowa 14 casinos.
*Good boys basketball
in the Glidden area this year. Going to next
week's State tournament will be Carroll High,
Carroll Kuemper, IKM/Manning and CoonRapids/Bayard.
*Future
Health Inc., an electronic health record and
computer software company located on Main Street in
Carroll, has announced the creation of 48 new jobs
here within the next three years.
| Governments, electric cooperatives and nonprofits in Carroll County will be reimbursed for damage caused by ice and snowstorms Jan. 19-26. President Obama issued a disaster declaration Tuesday for Carroll and 11 other counties. The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that Audubon, Calhoun, Crawford, Guthrie, Sac and Shelby counties in the Carroll area as well as Adair, Cass, Harrison, Madison and Pottawattamie were in the order as well. |
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*Jurors struggled
nearly 25 hours before deciding unanimously Tuesday
morning that Mark Becker, not his demons, was
responsible for killing Parkersburg football coach
Ed Thomas. The defense had pushed for an
insanity decision.
*What is the fastest
growing college in Iowa? Would you
believe DMACC (Des Moines Area Community College)?
When you figure in the 6 branches of DMACC, the
college has increased 17% in the last year.
The current enrollment is over 23,000.
Of course, Carroll is one of the branches.
*Sports scores for
week beginning Feb. 28th: Men's scores:
Iowa 73, Indiana 57. Missouri 69, ISU 67
in overtime. Wisconsin 67, Iowa 40. UNI
wins over Drake 55 to 40. Cyclones stun
#5 Kansas State 85 to 82 (in overtime). UNI 54,
Bradley 40. Women's
scores: Illinois State 69, UNI 66. Iowa
68, Wisconsin 60. Oklahoma State 78, Iowa
State 70. Missouri State 95, UNI 79.
Drake 77, Indiana State 58. Iowa wins
over Penn State 82 to 75. Iowa 59, Michigan
54. Illinois State 80, Drake 66.
UNI 85, Wichita State 66. ISU 59, Colorado 41.
Iowa 59, Michigan State 54. Girls State
Tourney: Exira wins Girls
basketball state tourney over Mount Ayr 57 to 55 in
Class 1-A. Mount Vernon beat Manson-NW
Webster 59 to 50 in class 2-A. In 3-A it was
Sioux City Heelan 73 and Waukon 54. Linn_Mar defeats
East Des Moines in 4-A, 38 to 35.
*Congratulations to
Macy Snyder for winning the open class at the annual
Cub Scout Pinewood Derby. Other winners in
various areas were: Joseph Thompson, Jaron
Thompson, Caleb Brincks, Devin Wiederien, Logan
Linde, Quinn Bluml, Austin Snyder, Mason Janssen.
Congrats to all. (Glidden Graphic).
*Okoboji advised to
brace for floods. The popular vacation spot in NW
Iowa could be in trouble if rains dump on the
snowpack. The Spirit Lake area still has 35"
of snow on the ground.
*The fiscal Year 2011
budget was discussed by the Glidden City Council
recently. Included in the recommended budget
are public works capital improvement
recommendations, three percent employee wage
increase, two percent water rate increase, and a $20
increase in Aquatic Center family memberships.
This information was found in the Glidden Graphic.
*Iowa has always been
the front runner for "best" girls basketball
tournament. They are at it again this
week. I notice that there are no teams within 50
miles from Glidden. Apparently, this is not a
"hot-bed" area for good girls basketball?
Exira, a team from G/R's district is one of the
closest teams from Glidden. Others are
Audubon and Manson.
*The
Glidden/Ralston school needs to decide how to make
up 10 missed days. I understand that a couple
of days will be made around Easter, which were
previously holidays and they will add the other 8
days on to the end of the school year. Any
more missed days would be extra time added onto each
school day.
*Congratulations to
Kenneth Sherer. I received the following
message today: Some Glidden news
for this week. Kenneth Sherer will be 98 years
young Monday March 1st. Kenneth long time
Glidden and Carroll County Resident is known for
his "wit" and joke telling. With this event
coming up I quote my uncle as saying" I wont be
98 I'll be minus 2. A lot of folks know Kenneth
was with the bank in Glidden for many years.
He remains in his home and still talks about
planting potatoes. His nephew Kimball
Smith and niece Kathy Smith Shaner.
*Wow!
We have had 80+ straight days with a 5" (or more)
depth of snow in Des Moines. NW Iowa still has
a depth of 30" of snow and Ames has a snow depth of
20". Hope we have a slow melt, but
yet we are anxious for much warmer temperatures.
Never before has I had ice-cycles on my house that
went all the way from the eve spouts to the ground.
It has now actually happened even though my photo
does not show the bottom of them. See photo to
the left.
*Iowa Legislators
mull online poker. Plan to legalize the gambling
in-state could bring Iowa $11.5 million a year in
revenue. Iowa would be the first state
in the nation to allow legal in-state internet poker
under a proposal being developed by legislators.
On-line sports betting is also under consideration.
*Nearly 300 Des
Moines teachers were notified Friday that their
positions would be eliminated next year as
part of an anticipated $33 million budget shortfall.
*Conservationists
worry as pheasant numbers plunge in Iowa. The
number of pheasants killed in Iowa, in 2005, were
806,601 and the number killed in 2008 were 383,000.
Flooding has been the biggest culprit and more
flooding is predicted for this spring.
*Two more of Iowa
Governor, Chet Culver, campaign staff members have
left. One was because of tension with the
first-term Democrat, the other to take a different
job in state government. A couple of others
had left a couple of months ago.
*The movie,
"Crazies," is now out. It was filmed in Lenox,
Iowa. About 400 of the 1,400 Lenox
residents showed up for a premier showing of the
movie, reserved only for Lenox people.
*Iowa's warmest
temperature has been 35 degrees in February this
year. This is the first year in history that
Iowa has not had a temperature higher than 35 for
the month of February. In fact, last year we
had a day of 60 degrees.
*Des Moines police
officer is charged in assault case is fired. This
incident "has embarrassed all employees of the Des
Moines Police Department, especially those who wear
the uniform and who have worked so hard throughout
the years at building and maintaining the
community's trust." as per DM Police Chief
Judy Bradshaw. Found in Des Moines Register.
He was charged with sexually assaulting a woman in
his patrol car this month.
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*Iowans okay with cut
in superintendents. To save money there
is a proposal in Iowa to cut the number of
superintendents to one per county.
*Iowa finally misses
a predicted snow storm. Central Iowa was to
get 4 to 6 inches last week-end, but we escaped with
nothing. It all went to the South of Des
Moines.
*Basketball scores
this week, starting with Feb. 21st: Men=
Drake 90, Cal-State Northridge 80. UNI upset
by Evansville, 55-54. ISU finally wins with a
78-74 victory over Nebraska. Drake loses to
Missouri State 75 to 59. Northwestern 74 and
Iowa 57. Drake loses to Evansville, 56 to
53. UNI 61, Illinois State 55. Colorado
75, ISU 72.Women=
Bradley 63, Drake 55. Northwestern 72, Iowa
66. UNI 73, Creighton 57. Iowa 76 and
Indiana 64. ISU 57- Kansas 54.
Indiana State 70 and UNI 62. Creighton defeats
Drake 77 to 57. ISU 48, Kansas State 39.
*Former Glidden 1954
graduates, Bob Allen and Merrill Larsh got together
last week in Las Vegas. Bob said that it was
nice to see his old friend Merrill, who lives in Las
Vegas, but it was for only a short time. I
understand that Merrill's parents are still living
in the Las Vegas area. I think Bob Larsh is
now 98 and his wife shortly behind. Of course,
they are former Glidden residents. Allen said
that, while in Vegas, he showed the experts on how
to play blackjack. I need proof on that one!
*The Pleasantville
school District in Southern Iowa has decided to be
the first school in Iowa to try a 4-day school week.
They will start this policy next winter.
*Iowa voters turning
away from support of Obama. 46% of Iowa Adults
now think he is doing a good job and 38% of
Independents think is is doing a good job.
These figures are a little bit below the National
averages.
*According to the
Glidden Graphic there is storm debris help for
eligible households. Up to $5,000 per eligible
household is available. I understand there are
a lot of criteria for being eligible for these
funds?
*I subscribe to the
Glidden Graphic and find it a nice local paper to
read. One of my favorite articles to read is
the one titled news from 100 years ago, 50 years
ago, etc. This week it mentions that Larry
Tryon scored 60 points in two games to help Glidden
win twice over Scranton. Manning won the
conference that year (1960) with a record of 6-0.
Glidden finished 5-2.
*Iowa native, 30 year
old Jason Momoa has won the role of playing "Conan"
in the next Conan movie. He is from Norwalk.
*The trial is
continuing for Mark Becker who is accused of killing
Head football coach, Ed Thomas. Becker sought
spiritual help for his schizophrenic hallucinations
two weeks before he fatally shot the coach, a
distant relative testified Friday. Becker's
attorney has recommended that he be innocent because
of insanity. Article from Des Moines Register.
*Congratulations to
the following winners at the recent Glidden-Ralston
Science Fair: Cierra Steingbach, Hannah
Streeter, Drea Grossman, Andrew Wittry, Sara Sparks,
Brady Danner, Maria Van Horn, Oliver Conner, Anna
Determann, Sadie Riesselman, Morgan Brosh, and
Tanner Venteicher.
*Speed related
traffic deaths on Iowa roads are lowest in the
nation. Iowa recorded 412 fatalities, with 41 related
to speed in 2009, a federal report shows.
Arkansas was second best and New Jersey was third.
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* Plans
are now under way for the next Glidden/Ralston
All-School Reunion. It will be held Friday,
August 6, 2010, at the Lincoln Club, (formerly Mr.
D's), in Glidden. The 1959 class is in charge
of this function and the 1960 class is being
honored. Anyone is welcome, but it is
important that you notify the people in charge and
do this as soon as possible. See the enclosed
attachment to the left. This is always
such a nice event for the folks that attended
Glidden/Ralston High School. I'm glad that the
committee is getting the word out early. Good
luck Joyce and Shirley, I hope that you have a great
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Memories of Glidden days in the 1940-1950's:
Dale
Tryon
Moving
to Glidden: I think often of when I
moved to Glidden from the big city of Defiance.
This
was in 1944. I
was in the 4th grade. A person can only wonder
what the Glidden folks thought when this old pick-up
came into town with six boys on the back of it.
Probably not a good sight. My dad had purchased a
hatchery-feed store on main street and of course, the
boys would spent many days working there. In the
photo, front row: Jerry, Gaylord and Larry; Middle
row is Bill, Ray and Dale and Clarence and Dorothy
are in the back.
Christmas Caroling:
Each Christmas season, I always think back to the
times when the youth of the First United Methodist
Church would go Christmas Caroling. Other church
groups would join us. I couldn't sing a lick then
and I still can't. Guess I would "mouth" it, so
others would think I was singing. Someone in the group would
usually have hot-chocolate for us after our caroling.
A lot of fun! In the photo to the left you have
members of the Methodist Church that would have others
join them. Front row: Sally Moore, Jean Hall
and Doris McKinley. Middle row: Carol Moore, Dick
Nielsen, Lanny Larsh and Ken Philo. In the back
row are Gary Williams and Bob Shoemaker. Not
sure where I was at, but was usually in this youth
fellowship group?
Sledding: The "Roberts" hill was located on
the Drug Store and would go West from there. We
would start running from the Fisher home, and sled for
about 3 blocks. We would have many races, some for
distance and some for speed. Sometimes we would
get on another's back. Lots of fun. A good
time was had by all. Someone would usually invite
us over for "hot chocolate" after the sledding.
Goats:
I can't confirm this story (or can I)? Back in
the 1950's, some ornery boys put 3 goats in the High
School on Halloween. Someone painted numbers
1,2, and 4 on them. I understand the school closed
down for a couple of hours as officials were looking for
#3. Of course, there never was a number 3.
Again, I'm not sure of this story, but it sounds like a
good story to me.
Roberts
Drug Store: Ramon Farley (class of '53)
reminds me of the popularity of Roberts Drug store.
Yes, it was really a teen-age hang-out. Farley
mentions how he would take a bag of peanuts and
mix them in a soda. Personally, I can still
remember Kathryn taking our order for the
popular, famous "cherry cokes," and the "lemon
milk-shakes."
Roller
skating: Jim Moore (class of 1954)
reminds us
of the times
when we used to go roller skating in Carroll, at the
Parkview Skating Rink, owned and operated by Charlie
Ludwig, every Saturday night. Jim says he used to like
to go early so he had plenty of time to get a bite to
eat at Jim & Vincent's soda shop before going skating.
Then after skating was over at 10:00 PM he would get
together and go to Pauline's restaurant on Hwy. 71 south
of Carroll and have hamburgers and fries before going
home. After he turned 15 Charlie hired Jim as an asst.
floor manager under the older floor manager, Bill
Heller, who later on in life became the Carroll Police
Chief, when his father retired from that position. No
question about it, Joe Brumbaugh (class of 1953),
was the best skater in the County. Of course, the
rink and Pauline's has long been closed.
Junior
High parties: We
had lots of parties at various homes. I'll
never forget the "lost shoe" game.
This one was held at the Anita Steininger
(class of '53) home. We had
a group of about 8 boys and 8 girls. The
boys were told to leave the room. The
girls then took off one shoe, put them in a pile
and they left the room. The boys were told
to go back to the main room and to pick out a
shoe. Whoever this shoe belonged to would
determine their partner in future entertaining games.
With my memory being what it is, I can't remember
who's shoe I picked. Anyway, I guess It worked out okay!
However, from this point on, I always made
notice of what shoes the girls wore, so if they
ever did this again, I would get the partner
that I wanted. Unfortunately, they never
did this again. Those brown and white
"saddle shoes" are still in my mind!
I can also remember having parties in the
basement of Marilyn DeWees' (class of
'54) home and at the Nancy Fisher (class
of 1954) home.
Grade school games: I can remember
quite well the games that we would play at
school, during the noon hours: Some of
them were (1) Red-rover, Red-Rover; (2)
Green-light, Red-light; (3) Softball; (4) Jacks;
(5) Drop the hanky; (6)Hide and seek; (7) Anny
Anny over; (8) "Horse" in basketball; (9) Line
tackling was always a favorite. Lillian
and Mary Conner (class of '53)were really
fast to catch and tackle. (10) Marbles. It
seems like brothers Don and Glenn Sabus
(class of '53 and '54) were pretty good.
Ironically, I collected marbles throughout my
life and sold them last year after collecting
about 10,000 of them. I sold them to one
person, at a garage sale for over $1,000.
Remsburg ball field: How many remember
that the first Glidden baseball field was about
1/4th of a mile South of town in the so-called
Remsburg farm? I can remember, back in the
1940's when we young ones would chase foul
balls. If we returned the foul ball to the
game, we would get a reward of 5 cents.
I can remember that the fast, Don Blinn
(class of '53), was my biggest competition for
the foul balls. How dumb we were, we should have kept the ball
as it was worth about 50 cents in those days.
The next baseball field was built in the late
1940's and was located 1/2 mile West of town.
It is now located near the High School.
Shetland
ponies: I don't remember the farmers
name, but this farmer owned several shetland
ponies and he would let anyone ride them.
It was located one mile West of Glidden and on
the South side of the road.
We would have races with the ponies. In
fact the main race might have been the race to
the farm, as we knew some of the ponies were
faster than others. As I recall, "Saulty"
Shoemaker and Lanny Larsh (class of
'53) two of the better riders. This was a very
popular hang-out.
Outhouses: I hate to admit it, but
back in the 1940's and 1950's you would see how
many "outhouses" you could knock over on
Halloween. Now as I think back, this was a
dumb thing to do. I don't think I was ever
involved in knocking one over, but I remember
several young boys bragging about how many they
were able to knock over. I'm glad folks
don't do it anymore. Well, maybe they
would if there were still "outhouses."
*Class
Play: Our 1953 class presented
the play, "One foot in Heaven." Ken
Philo and Sheryl Conner (both from the '53
class) had the lead parts. I think I had
the smallest part in the play and I probably
only got that part because my dad was President
of the Glidden School Board at that time?
This event was one of the most "fun" times that
I ever had at Glidden. It was really fun
to laugh at those who goofed up and I'm sure
they laughed at me when I goofed up on my one or
two lines that I had to memorize?
Egg Plant: I
will never forget working at the local egg
plant, which was run by Paul Junker. Many
times I would get the call at 4:30 in the
morning to go load an entire semi-truck with
full cases of eggs. I can't remember how many
the truck would hold (maybe 250 cases) and they
each weighed about 60 pounds. Yes, I was
tired when I got to school. This is
probably why I did so poor in my classroom
work?? Ha! Friend, LeLand Bender
(CLASS OF 1952), also worked there.
It was his job to "oil" all of the eggs before
they were put into the cases. I still call
him "OIL-E." I also have fond memories of
playing in the grassy area between the Methodist
Church and the Egg Plant. Glenn Britt
and John Parrott (both of the class of 1954)
were playmates in these games.
Flying
Turkeys: Can turkeys fly? You
bet they can, but only so far. I'll never
forget at Thanksgiving time the Glidden business
folks would donate turkeys. They would
release them from the tops of the downtown
buildings. People would then chase after
them and whoever caught one or ran one down
would keep it. Don't think I ever caught
up with one of them, but we all had a great
time. I remember, Dick Onken (class
of 1952), being a guy with much "speed" chasing
these birds.
Boy Scouts:
Glidden has always a strong Boy Scout program.
They still do to this day. I read where
Glidden recently named a few to be "Eagle"
scouts, the highest designation that the Scouts
have to offer. We met in the
basement of the city hall. I never made it
too far in their schooling, but I can still
remember their 12 "laws," and I try to live by
them. They are: Trustworthy, Loyal,
Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient,
Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean and Reverent.
I remember Ken Philo and Bobby Shoemaker
(class of 1953), working their way up pretty
high in the Boy Scout organization. Boy Scout leaders, keep up the good work, as
this is a very worthwhile thing to do.
Wellers barn:
Back in the early 1950's, Glidden High School
had many outstanding basketball teams. One
of the big reasons for this was the Bill
Weller (class of 1951) Barn in East Glidden.
We used to play basketball games in the
hay-mound of this barn. There were many
times that someone would fall out the side of
the barn to the ground and also fall in the hole
in the middle of the floor where you would climb
to the upper level. A lot of hurts, but
also a lot of great times! I see by the
recent photo to the left, that they now have a
basket outside of the barn.
Games with bicycles: We had three games
that we played with bicycles while in grade school
and junior high. (1) Tag, (2) "Ditch-em"
and (3) Hide and seek. Sometimes we had teams
and sometimes we were on our own. Boys would
be boys. The hide and seek was usually played
in the evenings when it was real dark. Once me
and my partner hid on top of a town building with
our bike up there with us. Hiding inside of
someone's garage was also a favorite place. A
lot of fun!
Cheap gas: I'll never forget the days,
back in the early 1950's when we could get gas at 25
Cents a gallon. I would usually pull into the
gas station and order $1.00 of gas. It would
last us for a week or so. The gas station
attendant would not only pump the gas for you but he
would also check your oil, clean your windshield and
even check the tires if you wanted. Oh, how
times have changed. My dad had an old Nash and
a pickup that we would borrow. The gas station
was run by the Shaner family. The photo
to the left shows a gas station similar to the
Shaner station. One of our
favorite things would be to "drag main." My
first car that I owned was a 1948 Chevrolet which I
purchased when I went to college.
Old
Gymnasium: Our class of 1953 was
fortunate enough to have had the chance to play
basketball in the old gym as well as the
new gym. We were in Junior High in 1947
and 1948 . In 1949 the new gym was built
and we were freshmen at the time. The old
gym had very little sitting room. They had
a stage at the South end and a balcony to the
West end. The wall was pretty much the
"out of bounds," on the North and East sides. I
can still remember when we were in grade school,
we would have "teams" and play during the noon
hour. The winner would have bragging
rights for the day. Of course, the old
gymnasium has since been turned into classrooms.
To the left is a photo of the team that played
in both gyms.
Collectibles: As you get older, a person
wishes that they had saved more items from their
youth, especially photos. Fortunately, I did
save marbles that the Glidden boys would compete
over. I wasn't any better than the next person, but
did win a few that I saved. Then I added to
this list from attending auctions, etc. I
eventually had about 10,000 saved. I guess I saved
anything that I played with, such as toys, comics,
ball cards, etc., To this day, I still have around
70,000 ball cards, approximately 100 autographed
photos of famous ball players asnd movie stars, about 100 horse statues, well
over 200 small cars (especially hot wheels).
See photos below. I sold my marbles this past
summer. The items that have "Glidden" stamped
on them are the most meaningful to me.
Luckily, I saved a couple of school year books and
some items from the Hatchery that our family had as
a business. I'm sure you folks all have some
collectibles that you have saved through the years?

City
Hall: Remember all the good times that we
would have at the local city hall? Lots of
parties! I'll never forget the good times that
we had dancing. Unfortunately, I never took
dancing very serious. I really never took time
to learn how to dance. I guess I thought that
if I wasn't very good at something, I would not do
it. I always admired the way some of my
friends could dance. Curt Hofstad, Ken
Philo and Dick Nielsen were some of the better
ones. We had many other activities at the city
hall. I'll never forget the night that the
trio of Roger Parrott, Bill Tryon (class of 1950)
and Bill Weller (1951), performed their act of
"them bones." (see photo to the left).
It was just hysterical!
Tackle football: Without a doubt we had
many good athletes in our class. We got an
early start in 5th grade when we would form football
teams. Games were played during the noon hour.
Our artist of the class was Ken Philo.
I remember that he cut out numbers to staple to our
t-shirts. I was number 12. Amazing how I
can remember that, but could never remember class
work? Without any pads, we would actually
tackle the ball carrier and had live blocking.
Maybe, this is a reason why we finished our senior
season undefeated? Philo, incidentally went on
to become a successful graphic artist for a company
in Pennsylvania. Some of the hard-nosed
players from this team were: Don Blinn, Ken Philo,
Ramon Farley, Curt Hofstad, Don and Glen Sabus,
Romaine Prior, Dale Tryon, Doug and LeRoy Turner,
and Gordon MacDonald ('53 class). At least they were the
ones that were members of the undefeated 1952 team.
The grades ahead and behind us never had a chance
against us.
*Other
games as kids: Norm Rudi, (class of
1944?) reminded me that as youngsters that "kick
the can" was their favorite. Another
favorite was "capture the flag."
"Any-over," and "kickball" were two
other favorites. Of
course, he reminded me that their basketball
team was maybe the best to ever play at Glidden.
I think we will need to do some research on
that?? Ha!
*Iowa
State Fair: For years and years my folks
would take the family to the largest State Fair
in the United States, the "Iowa State Fair"
My wife and I still go down for a day each year.
I received the following memory message from Jim
Moore (1956), a great story:
Remember the Iowa
State Fair in 1949 or 1950? Our family would go
to the fair every year and always parked Dad's
truck in the same yard, about 2 blocks outside
of the main entrance to the Fair Grounds.
One of those 2 years my Mom took my brother,
Bill and my sister Marian off to see something
while I stayed with my Dad. After awhile Roy
Rogers and Dale vans appeared and they wee
letting the kids line up to sit in the saddle on
Trigger. When it became my turn, I didn't want
to get off, and Roy told me that if would get
down so some more kids could sit on Trigger, he
would give me one of his lariats. I agreed and
got one of his lariats, and to this day it is
still packed away in my garage. I remember that
a few years ago, when I was a police officer in
New Orleans, I was bragging about having this
and the guy I was talking to wanted to see it. I
took him to my home and showed it to him. He
looked it over very carefully and said, "I'll
give you $5,000.00 for it. I refused and I still
have it. What a great treasure this is to me.
Drive-In Theater: Remember
the good old times that we had at the drive-in theatre
just East of Carroll? A lot of people called them
"passion pits," or "finger bowls," and many other
things. I know more than once, we would hide
someone or two in the trunk of the car so that they
would get in free. Lot's of good memories
2nd in State:
One of my favorite memories is when our Glidden
High baseball team finished second in the State
and this was in 1950 when all schools in Iowa
were in the same class. Maybe Glidden's
best athletic team ever? The tournament was held
in Mason City and we won the first two games in
the tournament and then lost to Davenport
Central in the finals. High School
enrollments (top 4 grades) in those days was Glidden
129 and
Davenport 3200. Buss Parrott, a great Glidden
fan, telephoned the game back to Glidden (play
by play) and it was going out to folks on Main
Street in Glidden. Loud speakers were put
on corners of main street. After the game,
there was a three-mile car-caravan meeting
the team. Then the Glidden folks met the
team on main-street with about 1,000 folks
present. A celebration followed with many
speeches, etc. Below, are some of the
photos that were taken of this great event.
Coach Jim Crimmings is shown and the last one is
a photo of the players involved. I think 7
or 8 of these athletes went on to play college
baseball and a few had offers to play pro-ball.

"I will add to my memories each week. You may add
yours too. Thanks."
Dale
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Following is a list of Glidden folks that have passed
away in year 2010:
Melvin Petersen, 85
Gidvert "Goodie"
Goodmanson III,
90
Mildred Mabel Stuhr, 89
Eva Mae Heuton, 80 Robert
G. Hulsing, 87
Lucille Mariam Petersen, 95
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Did you
know this about Glidden?
*Former
Glidden resident Ralph G. Neppel was a "Medal of honor,
winner? He was a leader of a machine-gun squad
defending an approach to the village of Birgel, Germany,
on Dec. 14th, 1944, when an enemy tank, supported by 20
infantrymen, counterattacked. He held his fire
until the Germans were within 100 yards and then racked
the foot soldiers beside the tank, killing several of
them The enemy armor continued to press forward,
and, at the point-blank range of 30 yards, fired a
high-velocity shell into the American emplacement,
wounding the entire squad. Sergeant Neppel, blown 10
yards from his gun, had one leg severed below the knee
and suffered other wounds. Despite his injuries and the
danger from the onrushing tank and infantry, he dragged
himself back to his position on his elbows, remounted
his gun and killed the remaining enemy riflemen.
Stripped of its infantry protection, the tank was forced
to withdraw. By his superb courage and indomitable
fighting spirit, Sergeant Neppel inflicted heavy
casualties on the enemy and broke a determined counter
attack.
*Did
you know that Glidden once had a college in town?
To the left you can see an early photo of the
"Business College," that was in business from 1890 to
1901. I think this photo was taken in the early
1900's. The building was located in the block
where Joe Herman and Jim Platt lived. Tuition was $5.00
per term and students could stay in local residences for
around $9.00 a month. The building was later used
as a High School until the existing one was built in
1922.
*Did
you know that Brig General Paul W. Tibbets, who flew the
B-29 plane that bombed Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945 had
Glidden ties? His mother was from Glidden and her
first name was Enola Gay. This is the reason that
the plane was named Enola Gay. Of course she was a
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History of Glidden:
The first
resident of Glidden and Carroll County (unsettled
country in the Iowa territory), was Enos Buttrick. This
was in the late 1840's. He had moved up from
Missouri to Iowa and traded with the Indians. I
guess he lived along the river to the North of what is
now Glidden.
Glidden
was named after a railroad man from Illinois by the last
name of Joseph Farwell Glidden. He had spent some
time around the area in the late 1860's. He
invented "barbed-wire" of which he got a patent on it in
1874 a year after he invented it.
The
Glidden school system was started in 1868 and in 1957
Ralston joined the school system and it is now know as
the Glidden-Ralston School System.
Glidden
(in year 2,000), had a population of 1,253. The racial
make-up was 99.20% white, 0.08% African American, 0.24%
Hispanic, 0.32% from 2 or more races, and 0.16% Native
Americans. For every 100 females there are
87 males. The median income for a shousehold in the city
is $35,333 and gthe median income for a family is
$48,026. 51% are German, 10% are Irish, 7% are
English, 6% are Danish, 3% are Dutch, 3% are Norwegian,
2% are Swedish, 1% are Scotch Irish, Italian, French or
European.
It was
1868 that a depot was built in Glidden as was a fire
station and a post office. The fire department had
16 volunteers as well as 800 feet of hose to work with.
Shortly after that a hotel was built as well as
many residences. In 1870 the population was 177.
The village of Glidden received the name of an
incorporated town on October 2, 1873. J.O. Havens
was the first Mayor.
The most
serius fire in Glidden's history occured on Christmas
day, 1883 when nine buildings were destroyed. The
fire began in a drug store. Following are a few
photos from the early years of Glidden:




Photo 1=
1909 main street, photo 2= 1912 East side of Glidden
main street, photo 3= 1890 Glidden Business College,
photo 4= 1930's Green Gable Camp, photo 5= Eaqrly 1900's
West side of main street, photo 6= Glidden Chautauqua,
photo 7= 1868 Glidden depot, photo 8= Glidden Graphic in
early years, photo 9= 1868 hotel, photo 10, Late 1860's,
photo 11= 1904 burned down, photo 12= 1880??, photo 13=
Not sure, photo 14= 1870 Presbyterian Church, photo 15=
mid 1890's West side of main street, photos 16 and 17
are two of the earlier "nicer" homes built in Glidden. 18=
1910. 19= Depot. 20= Residencial
photo. 21= Residencial photo. 22=Tobacco shop. 23=
Hardware. 24= Photo of Charles S Noble, 1840-1920.
25= Nine attractice Glidden gals. 26= Glidden Main
Street, 1894.
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Dale and
Janet Tryon Family Slide shows: |
Misc. Slide
shows: |
Misc. Glidden
Slide-shows: |
Glidden/Ralston All-School Reunions: |
Glidden
Memorial Days Celebrations: |
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Lucy Petersen 90th '04
Trip
to West Point 2005
State
Fair, 2005
50th Anniversary,2006
Lucy Petersen 92nd '06
Adventureland+Fair,'06
2006
Tryon X-mas
50 yrs of family photos
2007 CR Golf Tourney
2007 Tryon X-mas
Trip
West 2008 |
Okoboji Slide 2005
Hendrickson Party '05
WBB Tourney
trip, '07
John Wayne's 100th '07
Iowa Straw vote '07
FB,
ISU vs. IOWA '07
Reiman gardens |
Athletic teams, 1950's
Glidden photos 1950's
Football Champs 2005
Winter Storm 2007
Photos of 1953
class
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Reunion 2003
Reunion 2004
Reunion 2005
Reunion 2006
Reunion 2007
Reunion 2008 |
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009 |
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