Manning, Iowa July 3 & 4, 1914

A.J. Rushenberg, coupler and R.H. Wheeler, pipeman making a fast coupling.
Service Coupling race running 50 feet --- best three out of four -- 4, 4, 4 1/5, 4 2/5 seconds.

Manning, Iowa July 3, 1914 Interstate Tournament

This tournament was held on the present day (2002) location of Standard Oil. It was a pasture and highway 141 was not in Manning yet.

Interstate Firemen's Tournament in Manning, Iowa July 3 & 4, 1914

Manning in the Association Race -- distance 200 yards service coupling.
Manning & Harlan tied for the Association Cup.

Harlan, Iowa June 18 & 19, 1913

Firemen's tournament in Sioux City, Iowa July 16 - 19, 1912

Manning's Relay Team July 22 - 24, 1914 in Maquoketa, Iowa State Tournament.

Charles McLaughlin, Arthur Goettsch, Everett Dyson, ??

First: Manning --- Time 1:33 1/5 seconds (new record)
Second: Grand Mound, IA.
Third: Lost Nation, IA.

Red Oak, Iowa in 1910 --- Manning's First Tournament.

George Dethlefs married Ida Roggendorf and they had two children: Kenneth & Bernice.
George & Ida ran the Klean Klose Shop and later Kenny joined the business.
Kenneth & Virginia have two children: JoAnn & Georgia.
Bernice married William F. Ohde and they have four children: Ruth, Linda, William G., and John.

G.H. (Grover Herman) Grau, the youngest son of twin Detlef and Sophia Grau. He was born January 12, 1873, died in 1918 at the age of 45. He was married to Emma Kracht on April 17, 1895.
They had three sons; Walter, who served in the medical branch of the U. S. Army from 1916 to 1919, Amandus, who was a doctor in Denison, and Robert, who was a doctor in St. Paul.

State Tournament