To the editor: Where has all the wisdom gone, long time passing? One difference between Trump and myself is I believe this quote and he doesn’t. “Government is instituted for the common good, for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people and not for the profit, honor ...
Sixty-five years ago one of the favorite things our mother would say to us was, “We’re going to Titonka (or to Wellsburg) Sunday.” Those were the Iowa communities where our grandparents lived. A trip to Wellsburg meant spending a Sunday with our maternal cousins and a trip to Titonka ...
To the editor: On behalf of the Doodle Bug Club of America, I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to the entire Webster City community for the warm welcome and generous hospitality shown to our members during our recent gathering. We were pleased to host riders and families from many ...
Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy received a tumultuous welcome this morning at Fort Dodge. Kennedy, who flew to Fort Dodge from Sioux City, on his way to the national plowing matches at Sioux Falls, S. D., was greeted by 25,000 people at the airport and in the business ...
Recently I ran into a childhood friend who is a lifelong (and successful) farmer. “How’s life in the big city?” he asked, referring to my home in the Des Moines suburbs. I get this query occasionally from rural friends, some of whom cannot imagine living in the city or suburbs. ...
The year I was a junior in high school, four college students were shot on a campus in Ohio. The setting was Kent State, a public university. On May 4, 1970, a rally protesting the expansion of the United States’ involvement of the Vietnam War into Cambodia went sideways; 28 National Guard ...