First In Fifty: Tuesday was moving day and Thursday will mark the opening of Dunlap's first new post office site in 50 years. The brick, aluminum and stone building, decorated by a planter running most of the front width, is being leased to the…
A Large Crowd . . . fills the new Dunlap Livestock Auction complex as Jim Schaben calls at a cattle sale. Spectators now have individual seats; information regarding cattle weights, numbers and prices is flashed on electronic "scoreboards"; and…
Recreation Hopes . . . focus on this six-acre lake at the east edge of Dunlap. Part of the Mill-Picayune Watershed Project, it was recently stocked with fish.
photo of "Two Brothers" statue at Boystown, with one boy carrying another boy on his back. On the pedestal:
"He ain't Heavy Father...He's m' brother."
Boys Town
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Sitting Amid The Rubble...of what hours earlier had been her mobile home is Sharon Sheppard of Braddyville. The woman, her husband and their daughter were not at home when the Thursday tornado hit, virtually destroying the town of 200 near the…
Mayor Carl VanFossen...stands along Highway 71, where a tornado spent most of its destructive force in the town in Braddyville last March. Few buildings have been rebuilt along main street.
Admiring. . . the shrine he designed to honor Our Lady of Fatima is Msgr. N.A. Gaul. The shrine stands atop a hill at Little Flower Haven Rest Home at Earling where Msgr. Gaul resides. It is lighted nightly and the three signs, Rosary, Sacrifice and…
A large colorful monument to the Blessed Mother Mary stands on a hill overlooking Earling. The monument, in front of the Little Flower Haven Nursing Home, was constructed by Msgr. N.A. Gaul, 81, a resident at the home. The curved structure, of…
Joe Feeney, with Sr. M. Petrine O.S.J. as accompanist, sings at the dedication ceremonies at Little Flower Haven Nursing Home in Earling, Iowa. John Wageman is in the background.
Little Flower Haven . . . rests on a hilltop site at the edge of Earling. The front and south wing of the nursing and retirement facility are seen here.