Iowa Recorder
Greene, Butler co., Iowa
Dec 11, 1929

Reflections from the Recorder's Mirror
Happenings of the Years to Refresh the Memory
Items of Interest to Our Readers-Reminders of Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years Ago.

Ten Years Ago
Prof. Tyler and Oliver McGee were in Minneapolis the first of the week looking after some desks and seats for the high school and made a purchase and the same will surely arrive and be put in place for school to open not
later than next Monday. The whole quarters of the Union Lodge Hall will be used.

Oliver McGee came home, Monday, from Meservey, Iowa, where he had been several days closing up business on his large farm near that place, which he sold last fall during the land boom. Mr. McGee's crop of corn this year is estimated at 13,000 bushels, which we understand has been contracted. The present price of corn is around $1.25 per bushel, and by doing a little figuring it will be seen Mr. McGee will not be worried as to where the money is coming from to buy Christmas presents with.

Greene is fortunate in having the light plant run by water power. In other towns where steam plants are used and so much coal burned, the lights are being shut off early and every saving made possible. Again we are
fortunate in having quite a good supply of coal in most of the places of business and homes, and enought to run the school and church.

A card from the Ed Perry family finds them nicely located at Huntington Beach, Calif., and with a request that the Recorder be sent to their place, No. 1344 Main street. Mr.s Perry's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Erick Johnson, also live at that place.

We hear Miss Leone Van Eman recently sold her pony and outfit to a party in Waterloo. This fine little piece of horse flesh was exceptional and the new owner can congratulate himself on securing him. With Leone going
away to college there was no one to use or give him the attention he deserved.

The old electric piano in front of the Crystal theatre has done service ever since the theatre was built, winter and summer, has been taken inside. It has set out side in the cold and snow long enough.

While wrestling with Bert Ramsdell at the Soesbe gym, Monday, evening, Charley Pixley had his arm broken.

Twenty Years Ago.
Des Moines has a population of 107,962, according to the new city directory.

Jennie Christmas bade goodbye to her friends in Greene, Tuesday, and departed for Pierre, S.D., to visit her sister before going to Athol, idaho, where she will make her home.

Miss Isabelle Boyd, now located at Durant, Oklahoma, where she is one of the faculty in a large state college, was a Greene visitor last Saturday and Sunday, making a hurried trip to her old home in Bennezette township.
She returned to Oklahoma Sunday.

Lou Greene has a bran-splinter-fired new piano in his home and his neighbors all seem to know it. Lou must have on the loud pedal.

Mrs. D.H. Ellis goes to Minneapolis this week to join her husband. They have rented a furnished flat there for the winter and will leave their home here just as it is for the present.

Mr. and Mrs. A.E. Austin presented one of those matchless Schiller pianos to their daughter, Mrs. James Ramsdell.

Joe Payette and sister, Miss Bena, are about to leave this climate for a warmer place, and will likely leave for California soon.

Geo. A. Carney "hove in" from Bristow, Monday evening, with a red nose and all humpted up like a farrow heifer at the northeast side of a straw pile on a frosty morning. George says this kind of weather is too much for him and that he and family will skidoo for California, probably next week, where they can bask in the bright sunshine and watch the "monks" play tag way down in Jungle town.

Bob Van Eman has leased the Glodery store building, which will soon be vacated by the Belle Clothing Store, and is planning on putting in a fine new three chair shop. In connection he will carry a complete line of cigars,
and the back part will be partitioned off for bath rooms and the like.

Barber business has taken on a boost, for Green & Green have rented the room across the street and will also get all "dolled up."

Thirty Years Ago.
Robert Grewell of Charles City, an experienced cigar maker, is here at work for Bob Van Eman, who has opened a cigar factory at his barber shop, and expects to go into the business quite extensively, putting out reliable goods and a straight forward business. In this way a cigar factory will pay.

Parno's Jewelry Store will, without doubt, be the center of attraction on Saturday evening. Mr. Parno has fitted up a fine revolving tree electrical display, and we can verify the statement that it will be the finest ever seen in the city.

On Sunday evening at his home south of town, came the final summons to Samuel McRoberts, after a lingering illness of many months. Deceased had been confined to his home for many months and had been gradually failing. Samuel McRoberts was born in county Armaugh, Ireland, Nov. 26, 1835.

Mr. and Mrs. Vern Cave are the happy parents of a nine pound boy, born Monday morning, Dec. 11, 1899.

Albert Lea is having a scourage of small pox.

Iowa Falls is soon to open their new opera house. It cost $40,000 and is considered to be one of the finest in Iowa.

The Waterloo papers announce the marriage of Alice Ettinger, which occurred in London, England, last week. She has married a rich man's son, who is also a singer.

It is reported that county supervisor, John Wade, has organized a lumber company and will engage in the sale of lumber, coal, farm machinery, wagons, buggies, etc. in the new town of Dougherty. It is needless to say
that if John goes into the business he will have unlimited capitol, and that with the large and favorable acquaintance he has in that vicinity, he will make a success of the enterprise.