Looking Back

•Band Concerts will be held at the City Park for the next six weeks on Wednesday at 8 o’clock by the 48-piece high school band.

•Obituaries this week: Matilda Nau, Frank Little, and W. W. Albright.

•James Collins returned home Friday evening from Burlington hospital where he underwent an appendectomy.

•The Navajo Indian Quartet will sing at the Presbyterian Church on June 12.

•This week at the Alamo: “Good News” starring June Allyson and Peter Lawford and “Saddle Pals” starring Gene Autry and Champion Jr.

1973

•Scholarships awarded: Roberta Wolfe - $200 from NLEA; Lewis Worden - NL Bank Award; Gloris Patterson- NL Medius Club; and Tammy Morrow - $400 from NLEA.

•Obituaries this week: Mrs. Lydia Johnson and Gerald H. Strack.

•Donna O’Neill is the first woman COE (Central Office Equipment) repairman for the telephone company.

•Mr. and Mrs. Gene Shacklett announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter Karilyn to Mr. Jon Prottsman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Prottsman.

•Norman and Evelyn Claud observe their 25th wedding anniversary on June 11.

1998

•Lois Caldwell accepted a citation from Gov. Branstad on behalf of the New London Care Center Care Committee. Other members of the Care Committee are Freda McKinnon, Helen Bishop, Darrell Abrisz, and Betty McNeeley.

•Obituary this week: Mary Louise Whitham.

•Drew Kelly signs with Iowa Wesleyan College to play football.

•Tiger baseball is winless.

2013

•NLHS High Honor Roll: 12th-Justin Hill and Shannon Sanderson; 11th-Samantha Anderson, Sarah Holtkamp, and Addie Lounsbury; 10th-Autumn Blain, Mercedes Crossett, Tristan Kadel, and Cameron Watson; 9th; Brandi Allen, Morgan Christner, Summer Miller, Kennedi Schulte, and Hannah White.

•Obituaries this week: Betty A. Jackson, Carol Ann Totemeier Baron, and Harold Reed.

•An article about New London’s famous romance novelist Arlene Hale was in this edition.

•Quincy Porter pitched five innings against Van Buren. They had a sixth inning rally that cost the Tigers the game, 5-3.