25 Years of Celebrating
the Past

The days leading up to Valentine’s Day were quite busy in grade schools. How many readers remember taking a shoe box, and decorating it...

During the years when recovery from the Great Depression was part of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the Civil Conservations Corps was a...

Teacher's Rules for 1872: 1. Teachers each day will fill lamps, trim the wicks, and clean the chimney. 2. Each morning, teacher will...

Before the age of Facebook and Twitter, women relied on various clubs to meet their social needs. The late 1800’s to mid-1980’s was a...

Dad was always buying and selling draft horses as well as saddle horses, and we were supposed to break and train those he bought, to...

The Courting Buggy When a young man took a fancy to a particular lady, he would come to call on her, or "come a courting" . This dating...

1896 - from the Clarion Monitor Did it ever occur to you that Clarion makes an excellent showing in all that goes to make a good to live...

Map from 1875 ALDRICH, Listed as a post office from 1882 to 1891 in Wright County, but the location not found. (Believed to be north,...

Clarion, Iowa – August 1925: The US Postal service has announced free delivery of mail. To comply with their regulations, our streets...

BACK IN THE DAY In 1928 Clarion started discussing the need for an airport. It wasn’t until 1940 that a vote carried to build an airport...