60 Years Ago
Celebrating the 62nd anniversary this week of the opening of Globe Clothing Store in Iola, Louis Schlanger, who founded the store in 1901, at the age of 19, well remembers the gas boom days of Iola’s early history. At that time there were no electric lights in Iola, no paved streets and no sewage system, but some 4,000 more people than there are today. The store’s two employees, Clark Huber and Eddie Lewman, have been on staff for more than 40 years. Mr. Schlanger’s son, Louis Joseph Schlanger, has managed the store for the past 18 years.
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Howard Gilpin, chairman of the Allen County School Unification Committee, reported to the Kiwanis Club that in his opinion the county could not be divided into more than three unified school districts to meet qualifications provided by law. Gilpin said the law’s idea is not to consolidate schools but to create taxing districts which would contain enough pupils and enough assessed valuation to make sensible and economical administrative units. The law provides that each new “unified” district must contain certain minimums in numbers of pupils, grades taught, square miles of area, and assessed valuation.
