MORE SNIPPETS

     We continue with more snippets from a Community Magazine, circa 1927-28. This Boone based publication boasted over 6,000 subscribers per month and featured lots of stories about the Boone area.
     The stories are too lengthy to include in their entirety but we are mentioning some of the things we found interesting and that might provoke some memories for Korner viewers.
     For example, in the early days, our community of parks had just one park, Blair Park, which was located near the current location of Boone High School. Memorial Park was added on the north side and then 200 acres, which eventually became the Herman/McHose Park areas, were added.
     The cover of the November, 1927 issue featured a picture of that year's BHS football captain, Arthur Arrasmith. Inside was a story about athletics and physical education offered in the Boone school system. Coaches Chick Evans and Larry Evans and Athletic Director J.E. Irwin featured.
     Some history of theatre in the Boone community was highlighted in a story. It talks of a Phipps Theatre at Ninth and Keeler Streets managed by Ben Wiley in 1892. That must have been the dad of the Ben Wiley, I, the Kornerman, was familiar with many later years. The younger Ben Wiley was also a theatre/entertainment promoter.
     The Boone County Farm Bureau was prominent. They set a state attendance record at a Farm Bureau Directors meeting in 1927.
     How about the first vibratory phone in the area. It was an 1878 connection between A.J. Barkley's abstract office and the Boone County Courthouse. The first actual phone conversation took place in W.H. Crooks feed store. There were 74 subscribers in 1882. Later, 4,000 names were listed in a directory and there were 40 phone employees out of the office on Seventh Street.
     I bet you didn't know that Abraham Lincoln once owned farm land in Iowa, 120 acres in Crawford County.
     The coldest day ever in Iowa? On January 28, 1873, there was a blizzard and at least one thermometer showed 40 degrees below zero.
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     In the last edition, John Humeston, BHS-78, mentioned the passing of Bill "Boom Boom" Brown of football fame.
     John  Kueck, BHS-61, filled us in on some details via an obituary that appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
     Brown was 80 and played 14 seasons in the National Football League, 13 of them with the Minnesota Vikings. He played in three Super Bowls and in four Pro Bowl games and still holds numerous Viking records as a running back.
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     BOONE CONNECTED DEATHS: Drew Ellen Lorentzen Jones, 75, Chicago/Boone. BHS-60.
.............Evelyn Joyce Marshall Klute, 87, Ames. Formerly of Boone. Married Duane Klute. Seven children survive.........Darrell Leroy Johnson, 74, Webster City/Norwalk. Boone area survivor is a sister-in-law, Mary Jo Johnson of Stratford.
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