
Flags
A fundraiser for the scouts
Is really great for the town
Gives you such a good feeling
As you are driving around.
For twenty dollars a year
Get a flag for each holiday
Manning looks patriotic
When they are all on display.
They're unlike any others
The colors red, white and blue
Can stir up the emotions
In the folks like me and you.
We think of our ancestors
And of those who served this land
Hear the Star Spangled Banner
Being played by marching bands
Have praise of America
On Manning I like to brag
Pretty easy to do both
When the town is dressed in flags
By: Craig "Spitter" Moeller
07-06-2010



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Please VOTE! Register online at http://www.refresheverything.com Starting September
1st, log in each day to cast your vote for the entire month (Anyone 13 years of age and up can vote) Our Projects:
http://www.refresheverything.com/libraryautomation Pepsi is giving away millions of $$ by accepting 1,000 applications each month in 2010 and then allowing the public to vote for up to 10 projects each day for the entire month. IKM-Manning Schools has submitted 2 projects and needs your help and support during the month of SEPTEMBER. Please spread the word. You will need to register on the Pepsi project web page (you can do this now) so you will be ready to start voting on September 1. This is the Optoma LCD Projector, that you, the voters helped win for the IKM Elementary in 2009 (valued at $600.00). ![]() Over the last 10 years well over $100,000 has been raised by various Manning community and school support organizations to assist with projects such as the recent football stadium and concession stand - money donated by citizens themselves. So the Manning citizens, alumni, and former citizens have been very supportive and generous with their own personal dollars and volunteer time. With projects like the Pepsi program above, we have an opportunity to bring in dollars from outside sources! Fund raising projects like this are nothing new - a look back in Manning's history with 2 examples of what they did to raise money for our school system. The first image shows a 1923 brochure from Alice (Lohmeier) Grau of a magazine subscription to help raise money for something we take completely for granted today - Radio Equipment. ![]() Apparently Belle & Stanley sold the most magazines in a student contest. This next image shows a 1919 flier to promote the Manning School Athletic Association Carnival fundraiser. This flier came from Regilda (Hoffmann) Frazer. ![]() Without the Manning School history book project these wonderful historical items would not have been submitted to me to scan and I would not have been able to show them to you now. |

For those of you who remember Channel II (or "Dave TV" as the kids called it) on Manning cable TV during the 1980s I think you will enjoy this MPEG
video from 1986.

OK - I know this next MPEG will be "corny" to some people - I had completely forgotten that we did this video but every Sunday during the mid 1980s to 1990 we had LIVE shows on Channel II from the studio in the basement of city hall. First there was the Sunday morning church service where each Manning pastor took turns giving a sermon Sunday morning - live. Then in the evening we had the Manning news, next the "Manning Feud" gameshow, and lastly Sunday Night live which was hosted by a different person each week (we even had a phone call-in feature where people could call in and talk live during the program). We had a Valentine's Day show in February 1986 and this next video clip "Little Arrows" was shown during the Sunday Night Live show..

The 4 MPEG clips I made work fine in Windows Media player but if you have problems please let me know the name of the program you are using and what the problem is - Thanks.
Moving forward - the technology improved quickly and prices fell somewhat so I purchased a new VCR and camera about every 2 years. Eventually the portable battery powered VCRs and then cam-corders came about.
In 1984 I filmed the farm sale of Cliff and Helena Tank and below is a MPEG clip of Cliff & Helena reflecting on their life.
If you don't have high
speed Internet then don't bother - this MPEG file is around 30 MBs.
I just purchased some new video/audio capture software and hardware and have to learn all over again how to make these movies clips.
About 14 years ago I bought some hardware and software to make short video clips but because high speed Internet was not available to almost everyone
I could only make 20 second clips and it wasn't worth the time to do this.
Now the video quality of Cliff and Helena is not the best but remember this is long before the digital age, MTV and Youtube.
As I find time I hope to place clips of Manning events I taped over the years on my web page. My biggest goal is to get all of these tapes transferred
digitally because it is unknown how long these old video tapes, some of which are over 30 years old, will last.

From the 2006 Manning Quasquicentennial History book

Back: Allen, James, Becky, John, Gwen
Front: Gretchen, Clifford, Helena, Dian.
Farming was in the heart of Clifford Tank. He farmed the family Century Farm 6 1/2 miles north of Manning.
Clifford was born May 27, 1921, in the family farm house to his parents, Anna (Schroeder) and Louie Tank. This is
where he grew up with his younger sister, Norma (Bourn) and brother, Robert.
Clifford attended the Washington Rural School until eighth grade and then became a full time farmer with his father.
On September 12, 1945, Clifford married Helena Gerdes from Wall Lake, Iowa. Together they continued to evolve
the family farm from a self-sufficient system to a technical modern cattle-feeding business by the late 1970s. In
1984 Clifford and Helena sold the farm to John and Ron Hausman from Halbur and retired to 830 Airport View Drive
in Manning.
Clifford and Helena are the parents of four daughters: Dian Schons from Mahwah, New Jersey; Gretchen (Mrs.
Allen Rowedder) of Jefferson, Iowa; Gwen (Mrs. John Detlefsen) of Manning; and Becky (Mrs. James Venner) of
Breda.
Clifford and Helena have nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren: Melissa (Schons) and Robert Bishop
of Williamstown, New Jersey have one son, Andrew; Tom Schons and his wife Pam of Mahwah, New Jersey; Tracy
and Jennifer (Knueven) Rowedder of Manning have two sons, Blake and Brody. Heather (Rowedder); Dean
Lansman of Jefferson have two children, Morgan and Logan; Dr. Phillip Detlefsen and Dr. Kimberly (Martin)
Detlefsen of St. Michael, Minnesota have one son Max; Matthew Detlefsen of Manning; Sarah (Detlefsen) and Tom Lloyd III of Dallas, Texas; Justin Venner of
Omaha have one son, Braedon Brilles; Jacqueline Venner of Bear, Delaware.
The Tanks have been long time members of the Manning First Presbyterian Church and have remained active in
the community. Clifford now resides at the Manning Plaza living with Alzheimer's disease and Helena continues
to live in their home at 830 Airport View Drive.


For many years I have been collecting old Manning photos and history and also Manning family history.
Most of the old-time pioneer family names are gone. The great-grand & grandparents and parents are gone. The decendants
of these pioneer generations who probably lived here during their youth have moved away and along with them they took the old family and Manning photos and information.
Over the years this information has probably been divided up by even more younger generation descendants AND
worst of all some of it probably thrown away.
In order to preserve what is left of Manning's and your family's history connected to Manning we need to get these
old pictures and information sent back to Manning to scan and put into a database.
Some of the family members who are interested in their genealogy and history have been doing so but they really
aren't properly preserving it.
The only way to preserve it long-term is to get high resolution scans of pictures
and the stories and information placed into a community database. This way there will be a back-up of their information
and also a way to collectively compare information from this database.
Duane Monson's family history is featured at the link above and shows some of the community pictures he has in his family albums.
Quite often genealogists e-mail me to help them figure out how other people who lived in the community are connected
to their family. Many times I go to the database I have collected from other families and can help make those connections.
So if you don't share your pictures and information I won't be able to help others find you.
If you want your family history and old pictures to become part of Manning's historical database please e-mail me manningia@davidkusel.com and we'll see what we can work out.
Please remember that right now I'm working on a specific Manning Veteran's history book project.
So this would be the first place for you to start!!!



These are the types of historical pictures we want to use in the future Manning Veterans' history book.
But unless you are willing to help out and come forward with these interesting things they'll never be documented
in our Manning book.
Please e-mail me about your Veteran things manningveterans@davidkusel.com
Christian Wulf was the son of Nicholas & Matilda (Kusel) Wulf. Christian was married twice and I'm fairly sure this is his second wife, Amanda Wilhelmina Frahm. I'm not familiar of the details of where Chris and Amanda were born and lived but Chris is buried in Deloit, Iowa. Chris' maternal great-grandparents were Christian & Dorothea Kusel who brought the Kusel family to eastern Iowa in 1854 from Prussia, and to the Manning area in 1873 or 74.

And you thought your coaches were tough - how'd you like to have a Carroll County Sheriff, Manning Chief of Police, and Manning police officer be part of your coaching staff???
Click to read about the very sucessful youth football program in Manning and the great volunteers that make it happen.





Note: Without the Vollstedts and Kienasts sharing their pictures for the Manning School History book project and other historical projects I work on I wouldn't be able to share these things with you.
The same will hold true for the future Manning Veterans' history book.
If you don't come forward then I won't
be able to showcase as many Manning Veterans, both here and in the history book.


You can also read about several other members of the "Manning family" who recently passed away on my Memorial web page. Click here



Buhmann/Vinke pictures from out-of-town residents and Dean Hoffmann.
Also: comparison of low resolution scanning mistakes many people make.

If you have old Manning family and Veteran photos to share please email David Kusel
Karen Gottsch is looking for information on the Fred & Matilda (Gottsch) Wiese family.
You can find her post and other posts by clicking on the link called "The Manning Exchange" on the left side frame.

Just as a reminder: the Manning History book committee is now starting a Manning area Veterans' history book
project.
Most people connected to the Manning schools did not submit any school pictures and information - YET if you purchased a
school history book you'll soon find out that there are tons of pictures and information for hundreds of
students and the schools as a whole in that 544 page book with color pictures.
For those of you who have this school book I know you'll be going back to it quite often to see who graduated
when and with whom for years to come.
So 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.
IF you have offered to submit pictures and information there is no better time than to do it now.
IF you have offered to help with the project please work on those things you agreed to do.
IF you say you don't have time - how much do you need? Like the school history book project, the Veterans' book
will be a 4 or 5 YEAR project before it is published.
IF you don't think that it is important to publish a Manning Veterans' book then please consider that 4 of the last 5 Manning people
to pass away were Veterans. What would our nation be like without their service?
How many communities do you know that 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 now 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.

By now some of you have seen or received a school history book.
I hope you are happy with the results - I am!!!
The quality of the images/pictures, especially the color is fantastic.
This school book will give you an idea of the quality that will be in the Manning Veterans' history book.
One thing you will probably notice in the school book is that your picture is probably not in there unless you or someone else submitted it along with their pix. Not even 1 person per grade submitted school pictures but because I have been collecting Manning history for over 30 years and there were a few individuals and alumni members who submitted pictures we were able to come up with a good sampling for each class. Of course if everyone would have submitted pictures and information we would have never been able to fit it all in the book. Even though your picture may not be in the school book if you take a look at the 3 sample pages down below there are around 170 different students and teachers alone. Some pages have less pictures and others have more.
Will you help with the Veterans' history book project? The same may hold true with the Veterans' book - 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 are 2 examples. We will eventually get more pictures and information for these Veterans 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. 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 have spoken to Louie by phone and he is working on more pictures
and information - also for his brothers.
Louis Boell, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Boell, was inducted into the U.S. Army March 8, 1951, and received his honorable discharge March 4, 1953, serving in the Korean War. He became a life member of the V.F.W. Post 3517 at Manning, and served as Commander of post for two terms, 1972 1974. He is presently commander of the Manilla American Legion Post 132.

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
38 served in the Civil War
1 served in the Indian War
2 served in the Spanish American War
224+ served during WWI
550+ 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
25 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