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  • Collection: Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives

Modern salvage : The Alter Co., one of Council Bluffs' newer industries, uses the very latest equipment in its scrap salvage operation. Here an old car body is being put into a press. It will come in bales.

Two cranes . . . are needed to set up king-size baling shear at the Alter Co. scrap-metal yard here. --Nonpareil Photo.

Processess various metals. Alter Company leases 10-acre site in Bluffs for a new plant. October 3, 1962
Halt work on Alter Co. Plant. November 23, 1962
Talking business . . . Alter Company in operation. January 20, 1963
Modern salvage. May 5,…

Female child sitting with her dog, a chow chow.

Alcatraz features stony features . . . from the Golden Gate bridge in the background, or Fisherman's Wharf. --(AP) Wirephoto

Agriculture.
In tight farm money market. Land bank offers an alternative. March 30, 1980
Production loss expected. Federal agency offers to buy wheat at $3.99. April 8, 1980
Farm loan interest up. April 22, 1980
Isu economists discuss 1985 farm…

Implement dealers . . . like this one in Harlan, are well-stocked with merchandise this time of year, but sales are dragging somewhat. Farmers in Southwest Iowa, like those everywhere, are finding money together to get -- even at today's usurious…

The new children's library . . .provides a new setting for the world of children's books. Note how the shelf areas, reading tables and the circulation department are all designed to fit "little people." - Nonpareil Photo.

Bartlett, Iowa

Only Remaining Evidence...of former stage coach station at Bartlett is this pile of rocks from the fireplace.

Snow Covers Walk...to the front door of the empty Bartlett School building. Residents want to clear the path and reopen the doors as a community building.,

Once A Busy Spot...Bartlett's Burlington Railroad Depot opens only once a day now when a single train stops in the tiny Fremont County town. At the left is the garage, at the right, the grain elevator, two of the communities four businesses.

photograph of three-story brick school building in Bartlett, Iowa

Barntsen, Gregory
Attorney; Smith, Peterson, Beckman & Willson

Greg Barentsen[sic]

Gregory G. Barntsen

Head shot of Gregory Barntsen, with beard, in front of law books

Photo of Gregory Barntsen, cropped from larger photo

Architect's artistic rendering of Barn'rds fast food restaurant
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