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Latest News: *Latest scores: Drake men defeat New Mexico 68 to 62. New Mexico is coached by Steve Alford, former Iowa coach. ISU women defeat San Diego State 87 to 71. *ISU football coach fires two assistant coaches. The quarterback and defensive backfield coach were fired. The also moved the Coordinators to just coaching the offensive line and linebackers respectfully. They will no longer call the plays. Obviously, ISU is looking for two new Coordinators. *We certainly hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving with your families. If interested, here are a few photos taken at our Thanksgiving (held at our house in Ames).
*Marsha L. Simons, 72, of Glidden died Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008, at St. Anthony Regional Hospital in Carroll after a long battle with cancer. Funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Dec. 1, at Dahn and Woodhouse Funeral Home in Glidden with the Rev. Ed Tiedeman of St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Parish in Glidden officiating. Carroll Herald. *Week-end scores: UNI wins their playoff football game over Maine 40 to 15. Basketball scores were Drake lost to Vanderbilt 72 to 57. UNI wins over Auburn 67 to 61. ISU wins over Mississippi Valley State 77 to 59. Iowa defeats Kansas State 65 to 63. In the women's games, ISU loses to Stanford, UNI loses to Alabama , Drake defeats Columbia and California defeats Iowa.
*Which Iowa Company has fared the best and the worst
in the past year? The worst percentage changes
are Principal Financial at -69%, Lee enterprise at
-69% and Winnebago Industries -58%. Iowa's
best performances were by Heartland Express at -1%,
Casey General Stores at -1% and West Bancorp at -5% *Congratulations to Glidden/Ralston senior football player, Trevor VanScoy. He was recently named to the Iowa Newspaper Association All-State (second team). His team finished 5-5 this year. *Glidden resident, Marshall l. Simons, age 72, will have services held for her at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, at the Dahn and Woodhouse Funeral Home. *A Carroll man has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Timothy Sean Neal, 37, admitted that he and others conspired to distribute "ice" methamphetamine in the Carroll area in 2004-05, according to U.S. Attorney Matt Dummermuth. Carroll Herald. *Laughter! Read this in the DM Register: A Carroll woman (I won't mention her name), who allegedly had sex in a men's room during an Iowa Hawkeye football game in Minneapolis last Saturday says that she drank before kickoff and that she has no memory of the man, the stall, or the small crowd that cheered until police showed up. She does remember the humiliation that followed. "It's ruined my life," she said. "Not just the incident by the press." She is a married, mother of three, and has been the target of Internet jokes and prank phone calls since her story appeared in the Twin Cities media and spread across Web sites there and in Iowa. She was fired last week from her job as administrator at a retirement home in Carroll. She says, "she doesn't know what happened, but she don't deny that it did happen because obviously there are police reports." *Tuff times in Iowa too! University of Iowa, ISU and UNI must trim $7 million from their next year's budget. The cuts have been ordered by Governor Chet Culver.
*According
to the Carroll Herald, A Coon Rapids woman died
Wednesday night after her car collided with a nurse
tank. Nancy Faye Johnson, 73, was driving
south on Chestnut Road five miles south of Coon
Rapids about 8 p.m. when her car struck the rear of
a tank being pulled by a tractor, according to the
Iowa State Patrol. An applicator was being
towed between the tractor and nurse tank. An ISP
report said the tank containing anhydrous ammonia
did not have required lighting. *Shonn Green, the University of Iowa's Tailback, has been named "Offensive player of the year in the Big Ten. He had rushed for over 100 yards in every game this fall. *A Drake University star Women's basketball player is one of 34 Nationwide to be selected to receive a Rhodes Scholarship. She is guard, Lindsay Whorton. *Iowa received its first measureable snow on Saturday. Glidden received 2" but Central Iowa received up to 4" of snow. *Gas prices are still coming down in Iowa. Des Moines is still the lowest at $1.59 a gallon. Ames is at $1.64 and I believe Glidden is near $1.65. Gas is still about $2.00 a gallon nation-wide. *Football results for the week-end were: ISU loses to Kansas State 38 to 30. Iowa wins over Minnesota 55 to 0. UNI 34 and Southern Utah 24. Drake wins over Valparaiso 32 to 0. In basketball both Iowa and ISU start out 3 and 0, while Drake and UNI are 2 and 1. *Three G/R students were recently chosen to play for the Southwest Iowa band (Junior High). Congratulations to Bethany Pottroff, Sadie Riesselman and Justin Brant. *Des Moines bucks trend, sees increases in home sales. The Des Moines metropolitan area was one of 28 areas nation-wide to see its median home sale prices climb in the third quarter, squeaking a 1% higher to $155,400.
*Carroll
County seized 28 horses from a rural Glidden man
Thursday in an alleged neglect case and this morning
began legal action to recoup transportation, care
and treatment expenses. Eight stallions and 20
mares and foals were removed from Tom Hall by the
Sheriff's Office. I read this in the Carroll
Herald newspaper. *The Sac County REC and the Glidden REC are about to merge. They would then be named "Raccoon Valley Electric Cooperative. *Congratulations to Docia and Arthur Linde. They recently celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. *Team captains were named to the 2008 G/R football team. They were Trevor VanScoy, Weston Conner and Dan Clausen (all seniors). Junior, Lee Schon was also named a captain. Congratulations guys and thanks for giving us another nice season. *Football scores: ISU loses to Missouri 52 to 20. Iowa wins over Purdue 22 to 17. UNI defeats Indiana State 42 to 0. Drake loses to Jacksonville 42 to 7. *Congratulations to G/R swimmer for competing at the State Swim Meet. She actually swims for the Carroll team who has a swimming/working/agreement with G/R school system. She competed in 4 different events. *Congratulations to G/R English teacher, Diane Thelin. She was nominated for an Education Award for Excellence in Education. This award was given by the Iowa State Education Association. *Basketball scores: Drake loses to Butler 58 to 48. UNI wins over Denver 61 to 56. ISU wins over Loyola-MaryMount 67 to 55. *Iowa average student debt is highest in U.S. The average debt of students graduating with loans is now $26,208. New Hampshire has the second largest debt and Alaska is 3rd highest. Utah has the least amount for debts at a figure of $13,266. *Shannon Rew faces up to 10 years behind bars and a lifetime as a registered sex offender after the 37 year old had sex with a teen age boy. Offender calls the match with teen 'perfect.' *Government jobs in Iowa soar, mainly in education. Iowa has a 11% increase in the last 14 years. *Shawn Johnson says yes to 2012 Olympics. She is the West Des Moines gal that won 4 medals, including a gold in the balance beam. *Rockwell Collins to cut 175 positions in its Cedar Rapids location. This announcement makes more than 1,000 announced layoffs by Iowa manufacturers in the last month. Whirlpool announce earlier that they are eliminating 440. *Do you think politicking is over in Iowa. Nope. Former Arkansas Governor, Mike Huckabee will be in Iowa this week at two different locations for a book signing.
*CARROLL COUNTY ELECTION RESULTS; *Football scores: Iowa upsets #3 Penn State 24 to 23. ISU loses a tuff one to Colorado 28 to 24. UNI defeats Missouri State 42 to 0. Drake wins over Morehead State 42 to 0. *Democratic Barrack Obama won the Iowa vote over Republican, John McCain. Obama won by a 9% margin. This was about the % that was predicted by earlier polls. 72% of the Iowa registered voters did vote.
*GLIDDEN
- Residents weren't the only ones getting a first
look at the new fire station on Saturday. *Can you believe that the weather in Iowa got up to 81 degrees yesterday and it is November? Glidden had a high of 76 on Monday. Unfortunately, it is suppose to get to the 50's and maybe the 40's in the next couple of days. *Congratulations to long-time resident, Lloyd Davis. He will soon be celebrating his 90th birthday. *Carroll and Coon Rapids/Bayard of Carroll County are still making ground in the State football playoffs. Carroll defeated Webster City 41 to 26 and will next play at undefeated Clear Lake on Friday evening. Coon Rapids/Bayard defeated CAM 38 to 14 and will play undefeated Stanton on Friday night.
*Gas prices in Iowa have slipped down to $1.89 a gallon (in Des Moines) and $1.95 in Ames. I understand that Iowa has cheaper gas than any other state other than Kansas.
*In case you are wondering farmers in Iowa are averaging 172 bushels of corn per acre. *Glidden/Ralston loses in sub-state football game to #1 rated Stanton, 70 to 14. Oh my! *ISU loses to Oklahoma State 59 to 17. Iowa loses to Illinois 27 to 24. UNI defeats Western Illinois 30-6. *Who is the highest paid Iowa employee? Kirk Ferentz, the Head football coach at the University is first with a salry of $2,870,000 a year. Second is Donna Bahensky , CEO of University of Iowa Hospitals.
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Glidden Photos:
These photos were taken at the 2004 G/R All-School Reunion: (1) Ed Walkup, (2) Lanny Larsh, (3) Gordon MacDonald, (4) Eunice and Mary, (5) The Gregory's and Nielsen's, (6) Glen Britt, Dick Nielsen and Dick Onken. |
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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 etire 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.
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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. 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. |
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Dale and Janet Tryon Family Slide shows: |
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Glidden/Ralston All-School Reunions: |
Glidden Memorial Days Celebrations: |
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Lucy Petersen 90th '04
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