70 Years Ago
June 1948
9 Next Saturday the Old Carlyle School will be put up on the auction block and sold to the highest bidder. The sale will bring to a close the second oldest school district in Allen County and erase the last physical vestige of one of the most influential pioneer communities in this area. The building probably will be torn down and hauled away. The land upon which it stands was donated to the district by Dr. J. W. Scott, father of the late Chas. F. Scott. It is located about a half mile west and one and a half miles north of the present Carlyle post office. It was opened several years before the Civil War and has been in almost continuous use until this spring. The building was used as a church on Sundays, as a classroom when school was in session and was the center of nearly all community life.
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The sewer connection to the industrial area east of Iola which is costing the city about $17,000, is now about 50 percent completed. It will serve the M & M Packing plant, the sales pavilion, Mikolite factory and other users in that area. It is understood that a new small industry will open there shortly after sewer facilities are provided.
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15 Allen Countys welfare department and many others in the state will be in a critical financial condition soon if the method of distributing state funds is not altered, according to Mrs. Pauline Flynn, county welfare director. She wants state funds to be distributed according to need, to the number of welfare clients, as federal welfare funds are distributed. Instead, state law provides that state funds be distributed according to county population and assessed valuation.
19 Walter Fees of Iola has been chosen as the Midwestern floor manager for Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York and will help steer his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination at the convention which opens Monday at Philadelphia.
