Lamoni Rose Hill Cemetery
History of Lamoni - 1999 Newspaper Series by Alma Blair
Alma Blair, Professor of History at Graceland University, published a series in the Lamoni Chronicle entitled Countdown to 2000. Each of the 52 issues in 1999 carried an article he wrote on a different aspect of Lamoni's story. The links below take you to the opening page of the Chronicle that has the article. Many continue onto another page and let you know what page to go to. Be aware that photos or maps may exist on a later page without a note at the bottom to say that. To go to a different page of the same issue use the page controls in the panel above the viewed page.
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- 01/07/1999 1 - Historical Series Intro & A Really Long Time Ago…
- 01/14/1999 2 - Early Years In Decatur County
- 01/21/1999 3 - Early Lamoni Schools
- 01/28/1999 4 - Hazards of History
- 02/04/1999 5 - Maps– Vital to History
- 02/11/1999 6 - Old Lamoni Laws (part 1) [see footnote 1]
- 02/18/1999 7 - Old Lamoni Laws (part 2) [see footnote 2]
- 02/25/1999 8 - Do It Yourself– Then & Now
- 03/04/1999 9 - Medicine (part 1)
- 03/11/1999 10 - Medicine (part 2)
- 03/18/1999 11 - Characters, Persons, & History
- 03/25/1999 12 - Persons (part 2)
- 04/01/1999 13 - Lamoni Architecture
- 04/08/1999 14 - Lamoni Architecture (part 2)
- 04/15/1999 15 - Commercial Architecture
- 04/22/1999 16 - Buildings– Then & Now
- 04/29/1999 17 - Tin Ceilings
- 05/06/1999 18 - South Linden: Glimpses Through Time
- 05/13/1999 19 - More Uptown Business Notes
- 05/20/1999 20 - Old Buildings (part 1)
- 05/27/1999 21 - Old Buildings (continued)
- 06/03/1999 22 - Old Folks
- 06/10/1999 23 - Graduations
- 06/17/1999 24 - The Saints Herald Building
- 06/24/1999 25 - The Herald Office (continued)
- 07/01/1999 26 - A Gentler Age?
- 07/08/1999 27 - The Advertising Game
- 07/15/1999 28 - Entertainment in Lamoni
- 07/22/1999 29 - High Ambition and High Jinks
- 07/29/1999 30 - Some Women (part 1)
- 08/05/1999 31 - Strong Women (part 2)
- 08/12/1999 32 - Strong Women (part 3)
- 08/19/1999 33 - A Bit of This and That
- 08/26/1999 34 - A Corner
- 09/02/1999 35 - Liberty Hall
- 09/09/1999 36 - Liberty Hall Restoration
- 09/16/1999 37 - Lamoni Municipal Utilities
- 09/23/1999 38 - Pre-Lamoni: Lay of the Land (part 1)
- 09/30/1999 39 - Pre-Lamoni: Lay of the Land (part 2)
- 10/07/1999 40 - Early Mail Service
- 10/14/1999 41 - Of Horses
- 10/21/1999 42 - Of Automobiles (part 1)
- 10/28/1999 43 - Of Automobiles (part 2)
- 11/04/1999 44 - Of Automobiles (part 3)
- 11/11/1999 45 - Out of the Mud (part 1)
- 11/18/1999 46 - Out of the Mud (part 2)
- 11/25/1999 47 - Highways & Byways (part 1)
- 12/02/1999 48 - Highways & Byways (part 2)
- 12/09/1999 49 - Notes on Christmas (part 1)
- 12/16/1999 50 - Notes on Christmas (part 2)
- 12/23/1999 51 - Lamoni and the Railroad (part 1)
- 12/30/1999 52 - Lamoni and the Railroad (part 2)
1See
Ordinances 1&2 published in the Lamoni Gazette, Jan 7, 1886, p4, that differ from what the
article lists as numbers 1 and 2.
Ordinance 3 in a later issue also differs.
2Ordinance numbers do not match the city notices published in the 1880s, but the article refers to the "1897 consolidation" which may have been a renumbering and reordering of ordinances that were still on the books.
2Ordinance numbers do not match the city notices published in the 1880s, but the article refers to the "1897 consolidation" which may have been a renumbering and reordering of ordinances that were still on the books.