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In Brief
Post Prom don
Junior, Senior Parents send
$15 or $25 donations for Post
Prom to: Cathy Sladek, 4680
Taft Ave. SE, Iowa City, IA
52240. Donations
are needed by December 1,
2003.
Cranston Craft
Show
There will be a craft show
at Cranston Hall, Saturday
Nov. 1st from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Lunch will be available. Please
come and do your Christmas
shopping with us! Cranston
Hall is located southwest of
Muscatine or north of Letts.
Annual auction
St. Mary of Nichols Parish
Hall will be holding their 25th
i annual auction Sunday, Nov. 2.
A silent auction will be held at
1-2 p.m. and the regular auc-
tion follows. Doors open at
noon for chicken & noodle
lunch.
St. Mary's fall auc-
tion
You won't want to miss
this. St. Mary's Church of
Lone Tree will be having their
Fall Auction Sunday, Nov. 9,
at the Lone Tree American
Legion. A silent auction will
be held from 11:00-12:30. A
lunch will be served starting at
11:00 a.m. and the regular auc-
tion will follow lunch at 1:00
p.m. Come and join the fun
and bid on your favorite home-
made pie, cake or craft!
Firemen Auxiliary
have October meet-
ing
Firemen Auxiliary met Oct.
14th at the home of Rose Mary
Lewis with 5 members and one
guest, Virginia Schlapkohl,
present.
Pinochle was played with
prizes going to Marge Wieland,
Hester Larew, Lavon Wisor and
Betty Schnoebelen. Then a deli-
cious lunch was served.
The November hostess will
be Betty Schnoebelen.
Attention book
lovers
Are you reading a good book
or have read a good one you
think others would like to read?
Come and share your love of
books at "The Reading Club"
get-together on the third
Tuesday of each month at 7:00
p.m. in the City and School
Library. Everyone welcome.
Please come!
Columbus City
GospelSing
Sunday, November 2nd, is
the date for the final Columbus
City Gospel Sing of this season.
The concert starts at 7:00 p.m.
The featured singers this month
are Ray and Odell Gilpin from
Hamilton, Illinois. The Sings
will start again next April.
Refreshments will be served to
benefit the camp kids.
On the Backroads
By Ron Rife!
I'm not going to do the usual
Brain Teaser this week because I
want to talk a little longer about
what would have been the answer.
Through 1863, after the losses at
Gettysburg and Vicksburg, on
through 1864, the Union plan was
to gradually put a stranglehold on
the Confederacy. There were
vicious battles at places such as
Cold Harbor and The Wilderness,
but the Union forces gradually
forced their way toward
Richmond, Virginia, the
Confederate Capital.
Although there was sporadic
fighting for a few weeks after-
ward, the war, for all practical pur-
poses, came to an end on April 9,
1865. The opposing armies were
drawn up to do battle at a a coun-
try crossroads in southwest
Virginia known as Appomatox
Courthouse. Before that, however,
Robert E. Lee and Ullyses S.
Grant met to discuss surrender
terms. The terms were agreed
upon and Lee surrendered his
army to Grant.
I was at Appomatox one day
about 15 years ago. It was in the
middle of the summer and it was
hotter than blazes. However, there
were some re-enactors there,
dressed in authentic costumes of
the period. Their wives were
there, too, dressed as women
would have dressed in that day,
with long dresses and bonnets.
The temperature was over 90
degrees and there they were,
dressed in hot clothes, cooking
over open fires. The men were
sweating like crazy in the heat,
but, of course, the women only
perspired. According to the old
tenets of society ladies don't
'sweat.' Maybe not, but they were
wiping a lot of something off their
faces.
There were also some young
men who were hired by the
National Park Service to talk to
visitors about that day at
Appomatox in 1865. They, too,
were dressed in authentic cos-
tumes of the day and also talked in
the vernacular of the day. The one
I heard most was playing the part
of ayoung soldier from a
Pennsylvania unit and he
described how they had marched
up the road and gotten ready for
battle. But, the surrender came
first and there was no battle. It was
a fascinating presentation.
It's rather a unique story about
the house Lee and Grant used to
discuss the surrender, too. It was
owned by a man named McLean.
Now, Mr. McLean was not a
native son of that area. He had
lived ,further north in Virginia
before the war. In fact, he lived on
a farm that became part of the
scene for the First Battle of Bull
Run, the first major battle of the
war, on July 21, 1861. After get-
ting his house shot up during that
battle he sold his farm with the
intention of moving far enough
south so the war wouldn't get to
him any more. Little did he know
that just a few months less than
four years later his house would
take a place in U. S. history as the
war he sought to escape ended
there.
-OTB-
I had a nice phone call from
Ray Marner last week. I didn't
actually talk to him. We were out
when he called, but he left a mes-
sage on our answering machine
about my Sally Rand column. He
said that he had seen Sally Rand
do her show, also. I think he said
he saw her in the Chicago Theater.
It would have been several years
after she performed at the
World's Fair. I doubt if Sally is
still alive by now, but it's nice to
know that Ray and I are still plug-
ging ahead. Sorry about the Cubs,
Ray. I thought when they went
back to Wrigley with a 3-2 lead
and their two aces on the mound
they'd get the job done. But, look
at it this way. At least they took
the Marlins to seven games while
my Yankees could only take them
to six.
-OTB-
"The Thought For The Week
this week might be used as a rea-
son why I avoid interstate high-
ways and much as possible and
stick to the back roads and going
through the towns. The Thought
is: "The journey is the reward."
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Lone Tree resident upset at construction on Perkin[
So! Who made a colossal mis- think someone could have si
take on the construction of
Perkins Street?
We will probably never know,
but it was a huge mistake that will
cost taxpayers a lot of money for
a long time. I would say it was the
engineering firm, otherwise why
was there at least 3 feet of dirt
excavated out and two+ feet of
roadstone hauled back in to
replace it?
I've been around construction
for many years and have never
the "Red Flag."
Only one council person
I'd seen was anywhere to be see
and he is in the engineering fi
There were two city employ'
standing around with their ha
in their,pockets every day.
Can t anyone see a mista
when they are looking right at i
Please, let us, the public, l
an explanation about it.
Bill Schlapk
107 N. Perkins St
seen the likes of this. I would
Area vets to be honored
Area Veterans will be honored
by Heritage Christian School on
Veteran's Day, Tuesday,
November l lth from 10:00 to
11:00 AM at HCS, 2709 Dubuque
Street NE, North Liberty. Lloyd
Johansen is the featured speaker.
Jordan Cannon, a graduate of
HCS and soon to leave for h:aq,
will be Honorary Guest. Color
guard under the direction of Tim
Soggy bills * from page 1
when the new ones were installed.
"If they mis-read the meter
when they took it out, there will
be a problem right there" Hayes
said.
Despite the hike in many bills,
Mayor Havel said there are still
many things the city doesn't know
yet. There are still things to work
out, but it will come at another
time.
No decision was reached at
last week's meeting, but the topic
is one some on council would like
to pursuit further.
In other business, the city:
• heard from Mike Hart
regarding the painting of the new
Wise will open the ceremonieS,
Instrumental groups un
direction of Lynn Jansen, 1
Heritage Singers directed by Li
Mysnyk will perfoV
Refreshments will be served pri
to the program.
All area veterans are
For information, call
Christian School at 626-477"I
heritage-christian-school .com.
water tower
• Set Nov. 1 as the
date for well digging at
(Park will be closed) _i
• approved resolution 200i
UU, approving plans, specifi0
tions and form of contract for 1
water tower project
• reviewed three bids for t]
water tower project
• approved the bid ff0
Maguire Iron, Inc. out of
Falls, SD. for the amount
$443,900 for the water tower
ect
• discussed animal con
issues; towers and antennas; PbI.A'
in South Park; Sub-Division,
cemetery brush pile.
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