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1926
Air Circus Company scatters extra edition of Freeman-Journal from clouds
This afternoon Ray Shifflett, head of the Shifflett Aerial Circus, in his big 250 horsepower Lincoln plane and fliers Murphy and McConnell in two other machines, flew low over Webster City and dropped copies of a Freeman-Journal extra on the heads of astonished pedestrians.
Today's stunt was only a forerunner of the big program he and his four assistants will stage in the city Wednesday.
The extra published by this paper for airplane distribution today was a special carrying a full program of events for Wednesday, together with the announcements of merchants in their trade extension drive. It was a "Trade Extension Green" – printed on green paper and it was eagerly picked up by people in the streets and at home in their yards.
Mr. Shifflett flew especially low over the business district of the city, scattering the papers as he said.
1946
Work clothing will be order of day Thursday
Work clothes will be the order of the day for Webster City businesses and professional men tomorrow morning when there will be a general exodus to the farm from the stultifying confines of stores and offices.
With some of the business men looking forward to a morning of fresh air and work in the open and others already counting blisters, aches and pains, plans have been completed for the judging of the Hamilton County ten-acre corn contest.
A large group of Webster City men gathered at the Chamber of Commerce office last night to receive final instructions from Albert Koolhof and H.M. Nichols on how to pick the corn, weigh it and prepare it for the moisture test.
Nichols opened the "school" of instruction by explaining the procedure to be followed and Koolhof followed up with a general presentation of the day’s work and an emphasis on the value of the closer contacts which will be gained by cooperation between farmers and business men. Several questions brought up last night will be answered tomorrow before the groups shove off and the men will be assigned to the farms on which they will work.
Small world, GI declares
“It really is a small world,” Pfc. Kenneth Bockwoldt of Stanhope, recent enlistee in the army, writes Sgt. Robert Ruhl, the local recruiter.
Bockwoldt is stationed with the 58th signal battalion at Kyoto, Japan and during a recent visit at the Kyoto theatre, he saw Byron Cordes of Kamrar and Dale Hanson of Stanhope.
The Hamilton county soldier writes that his unit has just moved into an art museum where he has an office. He is in charge of getting training films, enrolling men at the Kyoto central school and in the U.S. AFI courses. He is also the company mail clerk and in charge of the library.
1981
'Share a Song' next week
"Share a Song Week" will be observed in Webster City next week, Oct. 11 through 17 with a proclamation signed by Mayor Audrey Warland for members of the Sweet Adelines making it all official.
Members of the Sweet Adelines, the unofficial ambassadresses of singers in the area, are currently rehearsing "Music Making Memories," a program they will present Saturday, Nov. 7.
The proclamation which Mayor Warland signed for them included references to music as "one of the most dramatic vehicles for expressing thoughts, joys and dreams" and added that the "many devotees of the art of music have willingly and generously contributed their time and talent for worthy causes in this community.
1991
Library board studies circulation decrease
Members of the Kendall Young Library Board discussed the decrease in the circulation in the juvenile department at the Tuesday night board meeting.
Library director Cynthia Weiss said that for the months of July, August and September, juvenile department circulation had been going down. She said she wasn't sure why that trend was occurring, but speculated that it is because students are involved in more activities with school starting.
She did say, however, that the adult circulation was holding its own; the record and music cassette circulation was rising; but that the video circulation was down a bit.
Family math night held at Pleasant View
Students in the 4th grade classes in Webster City schools, along with their parents, attended Family Math night held Tuesday evening at Pleasant View school. Those attending broke up into groups to work on three different hands-on activities in math problem-solving skills. Teachers participating in the activities were Doris Abbas, Rosemary Hilton, Dennie Webb, Marilyn Krauss, Kay Harfst and Annette Louk.