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I'm posting the older Monitor articles I scan at these links so as not to over-load my main web page.
I will continue to add more Monitor articles down below, as I continue to scan them, along with corresponding information for some of them, so you may need to scroll down on the right side to find some of the more recent articles featured.
OOPS!!! The "fog of war" can really mess things up for family members.
The granddaughter had previously sent me
pix and information about her grandfather and the big "OOPS" some of which I have featured under his link in the WWI web page section - if you are interested.
Bertha L. Sutherland & Donald W. Sutherland - January 9, 1919, Manning Monitor
I looked at Adam Wiese's obituary and it only mentions he farmed and then moved into Manning after retirment.
Maybe there was another Adam Wiese who was this director.
Frank, Adam, Rudolph Wiese - brothers of Anna (Wiese) Mueller
Another brother, Albert, was a teller at the Bank of Manning.
Albert Wiese - Bank of Manning 307 Main Street
Bruno Thompson, Donald W. Sutherland - 401 Main Street
After double checking I only find a Bruno Thomsen.
His
obituary only mentions him being a professional muscian in the area.
Now I often see Thompson and Thomsen interchanged in print as the 2 names sound very similar.
This gives you a little idea of what I struggle with in trying to connect all of the dots and trying to find other information to corroborate things.
401 Main Street
October 1927 - 401 Main Street
One ad like this led me to 4 family members who lived in Manning for a while.
I also found out the correct spelling of the mother, which then helped
me connect to other family members in Manning.
You can read about the Dudgeon family on my obituary page...plus 2 more WWII Veterans now.
January 9, 1919, Manning Monitor
402 Main Street - January 9, 1919, Manning Monitor
Henry W. Meyers married Anna Hansen - a relative to me on the Hansen side of the family.
January 9, 1919, Manning Monitor
Henry & Hazel (Lusk) Meyers 1979
September 1929
Back: Alfred, Marvin, Henry E.
Middle: Tina, Henry W., Anna (Hansen), Ida
Front: Helma, Florence
January 2, 1919, Manning Monitor
January 2, 1919, Manning Monitor
January 2, 1919, Manning Monitor
January 2, 1919, Manning Monitor
January 2, 1919, Manning Monitor
January 2, 1919, Manning Monitor
Interesting perspective - even back then about how newspapers struggled to keep going.
January 2, 1919, Manning Monitor
Interesting military information about 2 Manning Veterans.
January 2, 1919, Manning Monitor
George C. Mohr
January 2, 1919, Manning Monitor
For two of my grandfather August Kusel's sisters, I have very little information about them.
They were married but neither had children and
had moved to California.
I found a little more information about them but still hope to find some obituaries.
January 2, 1919, Manning Monitor
I did not know that Martin Luther Tate, who married Clara Kusel (my great-aunt), farmed in this area.
Clara (Kusel), Martin Tate
Kusel sisters: Clara Tate, Blondina Jarvis, Ida Zender
Couples: Blondina & Blair Jarvis, Ida & Joe Zender, Clara & Martin Tate
Eastern Star certificates
There are currently a handful of businesses where the owners are of retirement age. What will happen in a few years when they close their doors?
Is someone going to come in and take over or replace that business?
Those business men and women who are in the younger generations and citizens who are active volunteers right now, can pat themselves on their backs for what they do, but lose a neighboring business that pays taxes and hires employees and it is going to take more than pats on the backs to keep the community going - at least with the quality of life we currently have.
December 5, 1940, Manning Monitor
May 30, 1940, Manning Monitor
As soon as I noticed this article I remember my mother (Dorothy Ehrichs at the time) telling
me how she volunteered to go up on stage of the high school gym during a reptile show.
She told me she was given a large snake to hold around her neck. All of a sudden the snake started crawling up her sleeve and the girls in the gym started to scream.
I wish she was living to see if she remembered who the other high school girl was.
November 21, 1940, Manning Monitor
November 28, 1940, Manning Monitor
November 28, 1940, Manning Monitor
November 28, 1940, Manning Monitor
December 5, 1940, Manning Monitor
November 28, 1940, Manning Monitor
November 28, 1940, Manning Monitor
For Manning: Gene Strathman
For Manning: Frank Bliefert, Robert Ramsey
This feature continues. How things have changed as to how so many people appreciate or the lack thereof for our country.
November 28, 1940, Manning Monitor
I didn't have Elmer's obituary but found these little blurbs.
They confirmed I had the correct Elmer and also helped me figure out the day he died.
I already had his wife's obituary and will probably find his obituary in the Monitor when I get to scanning that year down the road.
November 28, 1940, Manning Monitor
Elmer Peters of Botna passed away at his home Saturday
evening, October 12, 1957. Funeral services were held in Manning Tuesday afternoon.
Harlan News Advertiser, October 15, 1957
Mr. and Mrs. Don Schrum and Randy of Missouri Valley spent
October 8 in Manning and attended funeral services for Elmer Peters.
Carroll Daily Times Herald, October 12, 1957
November 21, 1940, Manning Monitor
November 14, 1940, Manning Monitor
November 7, 1940, Manning Monitor
November 7, 1940, Manning Monitor
John - son of Julius Rostermundt who had the dairy farm just north of the station.
November 7, 1940, Manning Monitor
This is a continuation of this feature in the 1940 Monitor and I especially like it since it complements the farmers.
November 7, 1940, Manning Monitor
A tradition over the years is when a neighboring farmer died or became sick/wounded, the neighbors would help plant or harvest his crop.
This was no exception but the first time I've run into picking the corn by hand...
November 7, 1940, Manning Monitor
WPA = Works Progress Administration
The old high school gym along 141 was also a WPA project.
The original concrete steps & sidewalk next to the gym was a CCC project (Civilian Conservation Corps) - as told to me by William F. Ohde.
October 3, 1940, Manning Monitor
Iowa 46 sign in front of Twin Gables - later the location of the orignal Caseys Store in Manning.
October 3, 1940, Manning Monitor
Orlo & Melvin Nissen - Lyden Studio photo shoot
Continuation of this feature in the Monitor
September 5, 1940, Manning Monitor
September 5, 1940, Manning Monitor
September 12, 1940, Manning Monitor
Unfortunately I don't have any actual team football pictures scanned for this year.
I have them for the year before and year after, so I have some good images for most
of these players - just not this year.
If anyone has old Manning sports teams pictures - please let me know so I can check to see if I have them and get the ones I don't have.
September 12, 1940, Manning Monitor
September 12, 1940, Manning Monitor
1939 Leroy's first year FFA project - Ivan Opperman back left
September 19, 1940, Manning Monitor
While this may seem unusual and amazing, I've run into a number of reunions like this.
I've been adding various articles like this
to the obituaries of the corresponding family members.
These articles add to the "life's story" about that person.
September 26, 1940, Manning Monitor
I haven't been able to figure out which Armstrong this was but it later was the home of Lawrence & Mildred Sporrer and family.
September 26, 1940, Manning Monitor
April 4, 2026
Manning Centennial book: The Champlin station on the east edge of Manning was built in 1936 by Herman Behrens, who operated it as a Texaco station.
Behrens sold the station in 1949 to Ralph Grundmeier.
Champlin Petroleum Company from Oklahoma purchased the station from the Texaco company in 1958, giving Manning the opportunity to use Champlin petroleum products.
Ralph Monson, Manning, had the tankwagon service, providing the farmers and local customers with gasoline, diesel fuel, and heating oil.
In 1962, Grundmeier sold the business to Jerry Johnson of Manning, and it was then called Jerry's Oil & Service. Monson continued to run the tankwagon service.
The station was purchased by Lynn Stein of Manning in April, 1975, and the name was then changed to Stein's Oil & Service.
Monson sold his tankwagon service to Stein's Oil & Service in January, 1976, and Lynn has continued this service to the present time.
As soon as I saw this ad, I immediately remembered that we had a cat house made out of a stoker - never knew what it was originally.
August 29, 1940, Manning Monitor
It is hard to see in this 1972 cropped image but the green box next to the stoop is the stoker converted to a cat house.
August 29, 1940, Manning Monitor
August 22, 1940, Manning Monitor
August 8, 1940, Manning Monitor
August 15, 1940, Manning Monitor
Cotton Blossom Singers 1929
When I was scanning 1938 Monitors I was reading about farmers digging deeper wells and major water concerns in Manning.
This was following the drought of the Dust Bowl days.
Now I read about extreme rains in August in 1940.
I recall the extreme wet weather of 1993 that ended in a major flood in August.
This seems to follow the extreme weather patterns - drought then flood and back to drought as seen over time.
August 15, 1940, Manning Monitor
July 18, 1940, Manning Monitor
July 18, 1940, Manning Monitor
413 Main Street - July 18, 1940, Manning Monitor
August 1, 1940, Manning Monitor
I remember stories about the chinch bug infestation and the use of creosote and oil around the borders of fields.
August 1, 1940, Manning Monitor
August 8, 1940, Manning Monitor
I doubt many people today know about how active Emil Ewoldt Post 22 was in the past.
Here is just one little example.
July 4, 1940, Manning Monitor
July 4, 1940, Manning Monitor
Warren Bartels with his son Lonny
Warren Bartels
Warren Bartels during the 1981 Manning Centennial parade
June 27, 1940, Manning Monitor
June 27, 1940, Manning Monitor
He was serving on the Wake Island at the outbreak of World War II, where he was taken captive and held as a Prisoner of War for 44 months.
We have the advantage of knowing how WWII ended, but I wonder what would have happened if the US had not entered WWII.
Something we'll never know and endless debates could go on about the "what ifs."
June 27, 1940, Manning Monitor
Full-page ad
June 13, 1940, Manning Monitor
June 13, 1940, Manning Monitor
June 13, 1940, Manning Monitor
June 13, 1940, Manning Monitor
I have no pictures of the 1940 bridge work but here are a few from 2020.
This was actually one of the few projects I covered that someone didn't yell at me
for taking pictures.
This crew was so nice that I ran home to get my leaf blower to blow away the leaves that kept blowing onto the concrete during the pour.
For some reason their blower wouldn't start...
June 13, 1940, Manning Monitor
It is amazing at how many situations like this where a farm worker is injured while working with a horse or bull.
I'm adding some of these incidents to the obituaries of these people.
These little articles add to the life's story about that person.
June 13, 1940, Manning Monitor
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
106 served in the Civil War
1 served in the Indian War
5 served in the Spanish American War
350+ served during WWI
650+ 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
29 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.
