Elgin No. 3

Struble School

Newspaper Articles in chronological date order


LeMars Sentinel, January 10, 1898

STRUBLE: (Special Correspondence)

Following is the statement of Miss Bauma, of money collected and expended
for the Christmas exercises: Amount collected, $20.70. Paid out for candy,
$5.65; nuts, $4.40; presents of pupils, $4.70; trees, $1.25; decorations for
trees, $2.15; material for candy sacks, $.80; color fire for tableaux, $.60;
muslin and tacks, $.60; oil, $.15. Total $20.30. Balance on hand, $.40.


LeMars Sentinel
Dated 31 December 1909

STRUBLE: (Special Correspondence)
Our school kids have two weeks vacation. The teachers, Miss Anna Kieffer and May Atkinson are spending their vacations at their homes in Remsen.


LeMars Globe-Post, September 12, 1927

STRUBLE: (By Special Correspondent)

Struble Public School opened Monday with Mark Lovelle and Miss Alice
Mandelkow as teachers.


LeMars Globe-Post, Monday, April 30, 1934

STRUBLE: (By Special Correspondent)

Struble schools enjoyed a vacation the past week due to an epidemic of
measles.


LeMars Globe-Post, Thursday, Oct. 29, 1936

STRUBLE:

Miss Elizabeth Schlesser took Miss Martha Kuebler, normal training class, to
visit schools in this vicinity, Thursday.


LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
December 23, 1952

STRUBLE:  A fine program was presented by the pupils of the Struble school Friday night with a large crowd present.  Lunch was served and a nice sum realized.  Mrs. Ione Reese and Miss Dorothy Steffe are the teachers.


LeMars Daily Sentinel
August 2, 1985

The first all school reunion for former Struble school students was held July 4 with a noon luck dinner at the schoolhouse in Struble.

Former teachers, students, spouses and family members attended for an afternoon of sharing pictures and memories.

The Struble school was closed in May 1964, with all students transferred to LeMars community schools.

Five former teachers at the Struble school were present for the reunion.  They are: Alice Mandelkow Anderson, Elk Point, South Dakota; Helen D. Nicholson, of Struble; Bobbie Moritz Mentzer, Eden Prairie, Minn.; Emma Kloster, LeMars; Nora Vlotho, Harley.

Former students [pictured]  who attended the Struble school before 1949 are: Mabel Mueller, LeMars; Evelyn Nicholson, LeMars; Don Nicholson, Struble; Jennie VanVoorst Dobbert, Seney; Helen Moran Beernink, LeMars; Madeline Whitaker Trpkosh, Mt. Vernon; Edith McDougall, LeMars; Rose Long Bolser, LeMars; Francis Long, LeMars; Helen Mandelkow Vogel, Lake Isabella, Calif.; Alice Mandelkow Anderson, Elk Point, S.D.; Dolores Mueller Coad, LeMars; Lawrence Wilde, LeMars; Ruth Brunken Jurgenson, LeMars; Don J. Nipp, Riverside, Calif.; Robert E. Nipp, Falls Church, Va.; Shirley Mandelkow Jelken, LeMars; Regina Ottmanns, LeMars.

Others attending but not pictured: Steve Ohm; Gary Ohm; Nancy Ohm Wiltgen; Cathy Ohm Stetson; Fern Detloff; Clara Klave; Maxine Ohm; and Doris Hauser. 

Former [pictured but not shown here] students from 1949 until the school closed in 1964 are: Sue Hauser Buss, LeMars; Beverly VanBuskirk, LeMars; Carolyn Boyson Hoke, Mt. Vernon; Barry Jurgensen; Jim Lehrman, Struble; Jim Mentzer and Lynn Buss, both of LeMars.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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