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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.
More pix & information coming...
More pix & information coming...
More pix & information coming...
Another first in Manning!!!
April 10, 1896, Manning Monitor
There were several Loch brothers
who lived in Manning so not sure who these 2 were.
Another first in Manning!!!
April 17, 1896, Manning Monitor
April 17, 1896, Manning Monitor
I would have not guessed this would be another first in Manning!!!
May 1, 1896, Manning Monitor
I often hear people talk about the weather - wind and how it is more windy now than it use to be...
I just ask them - based on what, and then
tell them they just don't know long-term history/weather.
February 21, 1896, Manning Monitor
I would assume that the dust was from barren plowed/tilled farm ground.
A common problem with those farming practices years ago - long before there was no-till.
February 21, 1896, Manning Monitor
Not sure why George Washington's 164th birthday was chosen but quite a program anyway.
February 21, 1896, Manning Monitor
February 21, 1896, Manning Monitor
February 28, 1896, Manning Monitor
Working on Manning's history for over 50 years helps me put together pieces of the Manning puzzle that no one else would be able to do.
This GAR article caught my eye and when I saw Wilson Rugg in the story and it mentioned hotel,
I knew right away it was the Park Hotel and these 3 families all met in January 1896 in that hotel.
I didn't have Josephine's obituary but found a death notice which then
shed some amazing light on more historical parts of the puzzle.
Collier and Thompson in the articles are not from Manning but met in the hotel after arriving on the Milwaukee
RR which at this time was in south Manning, as I've previously discussed in other articles I've featured.
The reason for Collier's visit is his wife, Ethel, was a sister
to Rugg's wife, Josephine.
Then her death notice mentions she is a direct descendent of Charles Carroll, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
So finding and putting together pieces of a puzzle that would not even make a connection to anyone else is what I'm trying to accomplish.
Here is the death notice that tied more of this together and also basic information for the Collier & Thompson couples.
Mrs. Josephine Rugg, mother of W.E. Rugg, instructor in the
Bowman High School and a direct descendant of Charles Carroll, one of the
signers of the Declaration of Independence, died at her home in Bowman last Monday.
Dickinson Press, Dickinson, North Dakota, November 25, 1922
Josephine (Van Fossen) Rugg
Birth 1865 Carlisle, Indiana
Death 1922
Burial Bowman Cemetery, Bowman, North Dakota
Husband: Wilson Rugg
Alfred D. Collier
Wife of Alfred and sister of Josephine Rugg
Ethel (Van Fossen) Collier
Charles Edward Thompson
Wife of Charles
Sarah (Cartwright) Thompson
January 10, 1896, Manning Monitor
January 10, 1896, Manning Monitor
January 24, 1896, Manning Monitor
It is things like this that most people throw away, but if you have items like this - please don't throw them but get them to me to scan and archive!
The Gene Rohe purchases should be shown on the bottom of the diagram along Second Street.
The other lots are correct which are along Sue Street.
I have often wondered what happened to the documents/records of the McPherson Post 33.
Never gave it a thought about their flag and even they misplaced it...
December 5, 1918, Manning Monitor
Click to see the tribute
Click to see the tribute
Recently found Monitor article...
October 16, 1919, Manning Monitor
Robert Schoening - from Larry Vieth collection
October 9, 1919, Manning Monitor
Another First in Manning!
The first model airplane
October 2, 1919, Manning Monitor
Even another First in Manning!
The first auto service station
October 2, 1919, Manning Monitor
October 2, 1919, Manning Monitor
October 2, 1919, Manning Monitor
I sure would like to get my hands on this set of books.
September 25, 1919, Manning Monitor
October 23, 1919, Manning Monitor
Unfortunately no wife's name was mentioned or other relatives so it will be difficult to figure out who they are
related to in Manning.
September 4, 1919, Manning Monitor
I wonder of this quilt exists somewhere "out there?"
August 28, 1919, Manning Monitor
Another Manning FIRST
Charles "Pitts" Gruhn - first Manning person to fly over Manning.
August 14, 1919, Manning Monitor
Pitts Gruhn - in his upstairs apartment along Main Street.
Many people told me about his amazing train setup he had in one of his rooms.
I asked around what happened to it but no one knows.
August 14, 1919, Manning Monitor
Note that the smaller HP number is for the drawbar and the larger number HP number is for the pulley.
I find it interesting the guide they used in the dead-furrow to help the driver steer while plowing...
August 14, 1919, Manning Monitor
I never heard William F. Ohde talk about this disaster his dad saw...
July 31, 1919, Manning Monitor
Ila Rix told me about these tent Chautauquas and how popular they were.
July 3, 1919, Manning Monitor
July 17, 1919, Manning Monitor
July 3, 1919, Manning Monitor
July 3, 1919, Manning Monitor
July 10, 1919, Manning Monitor
I believe this was in South Manning and not at the Great Western Park.
I believe that the Lyden family owned it for a while which would have been located
where Shorty Sextro later owned the farm ground property.
I can't find the information in my database right now.
June 26, 1919, Manning Monitor
I would guess that a lot of these contestants from out of town
came in on one of the 3 RRs Manning had at that time.
June 26, 1919, Manning Monitor
403 Main Street - June 26, 1919, Manning Monitor
June 26, 1919, Manning Monitor
3 miles north of Highway 141 on West Street
I have never run into an outside picture of this 3 mile haus building
Inside Three Mile Haus (Drei Meilen Haus)
Honorary Member of the Three Mile
Haus Schuetzen Verein
June 19, 1919, Manning Monitor
Arnold & Luella (Kahl) Brus
John and Goldie (Stammer) Meeves
Goldie
May 22, 1919, Manning Monitor
Radeleff was a very prominent family during the Pioneer years in Manning - they had 9 children
May 1, 1919, Manning Monitor
Charles is the oldest boy - back row
William, Francis, Charlotte, Henry, Charles Theodore Radeleff, Robert, Anna (Georgius), Rosalie, George
We are getting close to the "Roaring 20s"
May 1, 1919, Manning Monitor
April 24, 1919, Manning Monitor
I wonder if this incident was ever told to his family?
It is the little stories like this that will make the Manning Veterans history book an amazing book someday.
So sad that more living Veterans won't come forward to include their stories in this future book.
April 17, 1919, Manning Monitor
Fortunately, when I scanned Wayne Ranninger's collection, this picture was in there...
Wilmer Ranniger with his Uncle William Lorenzen 1943
Henry Septemes Bailey
December 18, 1918, Manning Monitor
April 10, 1919, Manning Monitor
February 20, 1919, Manning Monitor
April 24, 1919, Manning Monitor
Now I see there were Victory Loan buttons
I thought this was interesting to show the boys fishing and climbing through a window in their "confirmation suits."
April 10, 1919, Manning Monitor
April 10, 1919, Manning Monitor
March 27, 1919, Manning Monitor
March 20, 1919, Manning Monitor
March 6, 1919, Manning Monitor
March 6, 1919, Manning Monitor
Joe Stangl (originally from Carroll, Iowa) March 13, 1919, Manning Monitor
William Sinow
William & Lisetta Sinow - Lisetta married John Derner - some of you may remember Roland Derner & Linda Derner
Alfred Emil Brockmann's obituary did not mention Manning but he was in the automotive business for 21 years, before he began farming.
I don't
know where his garage was in Manning but will keep watching for more information...
March 6, 1919, Manning Monitor
Sometime before 1915
The back side of the Joyce Lumber Company with the post piles (now southeast edge of the city park).
The horse and wagon are on South Main Street.
The tracks that head out east are roughly Park Avenue today.
It is little tidbits of information like this that are VERY important to include in obituaries - for future genealogists and historians.
Sadly, today, more people aren't even
having an obituary published...so sad to basically fall off the face of the Earth.
Here is a partial obituary:
Thanks to Jim Stoffers, he found the census records that list Albert & Caroline (Stoltenberg) Puck as Clara's parents. I'll watch for their obits in the 1907 & 1916 Monitors (respectively) for their obits when I get to those years.
February 20, 1919, Manning Monitor
Henry Lohmeier
Back: Velma Weber, Raymond
Middle: Willis, Amos, Bernice Samar, Alvin, Ruby Rose
Front: Henry, Bonnie Watters, Minnie (Rostermundt)
February 2, 1921 Henry & Minnie
Willis Lohmeier (right)
Amos "Skip" Lohmeier
1923 Raymond Lohmeier
Ray started working for the RR when he was 18 years old (1923). Became foreman in Manning.
Worked for the Great Western which later was bought out by the Northwestern in the late 1930s.
Went to Council Bluffs around 1960 - Foreman in Council Bluffs
Worked for the RR 48 years and retired around age 66
Top: Hugo Albertson (engineer)
Bottom: Louie Redden (fireman), Ray Lohmeier
Herman Gotch - February 20, 1919, Manning Monitor
302 Main Street - February 20, 1919, Manning Monitor
I'm finding quite a few letters written home by Manning WWI Veterans and ran across one of the longest written letters
I've run into that was written by Bernard "Clem" Dultmeier.
He and his two brothers, Frank
and Henry started Dultmeier Manufacturing in Manning. Sadly that huge building burned down last year.
If you are interested then go to either the WWI section or the obituary page and click on Bernard Dultmeier...the letter is long but he really gives the reader an idea of what it
was like to fight during WWI.
402 Main Street - January 16, 1919, Manning Monitor
324 Main Street - January 16, 1919, Manning Monitor
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.
