A look back in time

30 Years Ago
August 1988
HUMBOLDT — St. Peter’s Lutheran Church will mark its 125th anniversary Sunday. Dr. Oswald Hoffmann, speaker on the Lutheran Hour, a radio ministry, will speak. The Rev. Arlin Alpers has been the pastor for the past 14 years. The church has had three houses of worship since it was established in 1866. The present church, at 10th and Amos, was dedicated in 1959.
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22 — David and Eileen Shannon will be the city grand marshals for the Farm-City Days celebration this weekend. The Shannons operated Shannon’s Hardware In Iola for more than 50 years before selling it in 1977. Maxine and Stanley Dreher, Jr., will be the country grand marshals. Dreher was a Farm Bureau leader when the concept of the Farm-City Days celebration was developed and deserves to be considered one of its founders. They farm about 4,000 acres from their farmstead two miles north of the 54 Drive-in Theater.