We are over half-way through the school year and I have many good things going at LMCS.
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BY BONNIE KAY BALDWIN
LAKE MILLS GRAPHIC
Tyndall Air Force Base is approximately 12 miles east of Panama City, Fla. It is the “base operating unit and host wing of the 325th Fighter Wing of the Air Combat Command.” (Wikipedia) This was also where the eye of October’s category 4 (2 miles/per/hour...
Marie Sweeney must have been excited to be back home in Iowa in October 1938. The former Ottumwa resident was scheduled to appear with her roller derby team in Des Moines the night of October 20. The only Iowan on the team, Sweeney was considered one of the best female players on the Red Squad. The...
BY BONNIE KAY BALDWIN
LAKE MILLS GRAPHIC
From a kitchen table in a Mills Harbour apartment one recent rainy October afternoon, two sisters sat and reminisced about beginning their careers as country school teachers and their later days teaching.
Betty Langpap and LaVonne Leland, maiden name...
It’s unlikely most Iowans recognized the name August Escoffier, the French chef famous for creating the delectable dessert called peach melba. But an Iowa couple living in Paris in the 1920s had crossed paths with the chef and had somehow acquired the recipe, consisting of a peach arranged artfully...
“I have never had a sheet of paper mussed, a chair put out of place or lost the slightest object,” said Tama, Iowa, native Helen Jackson as she spoke about the women she oversaw at a munitions factory near Bourges, France, in 1918. A 1917 graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.,...
“In my opinion, there is no business in the world so large or so complicated that Miss Millar could not handle it with intelligence and success. I have not met with any one of clearer brain, greater tact or clearness.” A wealthy New York businessman couldn’t say enough good things about Anna Millar...
“It’s no place for a young lady,” Agnes Powers’ friends advised her when she announced she was preparing to leave for the northern most regions of Canada in 1929.
The Webster City native and former Des Moines Register reporter planned to travel with a college friend to fulfill their dreams of...
BY BONNIE KAY BALDWIN
LAKE MILLS GRAPHIC
“It all started 35 years ago when Bonnie and I first got married. They had a maple syrup making demonstration at Helmer-Myre State Park (that they went to see). I thought, ‘I could do this.’ I remember my Grandma doing this,” said Pat Maher, Silver Lake,...
“Booze was not the issue at all, it was woman suffrage,” J.R. Kane, newly elected mayor of Charlotte, Iowa, claimed in explaining his win in a city election in 1922.
Women had won the vote through the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution; and that milestone had propelled a rash of female...
“We start out sometimes and find a body but not a trace for identification. But we just won’t give up. We know some mother back home will be glad we stuck to the job.”
It was a gruesome task the American soldier in post-war France recounted for Betty Adler from Davenport, Iowa, in July 1919. The...
