Humeston News

It's not even officially winter, and Iowa's small towns already have sloughed off their first snow-related headache of the season.

NEW JOBS Thomas Hromatka was promoted to executive vice president at First Federal Savings Bank of Iowa.

Since Nov. 7, Wayne County authorities have arrested six men and two women on various illegal drug and weapons charges.

I have been to Snyder's! This is an elegant store in the southern Iowa town of Humeston.

Patricia Kuhlman, of Garden Grove, reported that a Zeba solar fencer had been taken and the electric fence around her property on North Front Street in Humeston had been damaged.

Megan Cline and Josh Stafford were united in marriage May 16, 2009, at the Lutheran Church of the Cross in Altoona.

Activity report: 09/29/09 to 09/30/09: Civil papers processed, 6; motor vehicle theft, 1; animal complaint, 3; motorist assist, 1; warrant served, 1; assault, 1; criminal mischief, 1; contacts, 60; total miles patrolled, 338; inmates booked into jail, 3; jail population, 21.

The Weldon School and Alumni Banquet was held June 27 at the Weldon Community Center.

The LeRoy Alumni and Friends banquet was held June 6 at the Humeston Community Center.

The Wayne County Sheriff's Office arrested Shane Robert Downs, 20, of Allerton following the report of a party near 35th and Liberty.

As a transplant from Iowa City, I thought Weldon was in Clarke County because Robinsons has so many Weldon customers.

John Kyte Homestead, Part II Robert Jamison and his wife Christina, and his wife's brother, John Kyte, were Clarke County's first permanent settlers in 1850.

Teresa Glade of Corydon reported to Corydon Police that someone had taken a wheelbarrow from her yard.

Railroads have played an important part in moving people and goods in the United States since the mid to late 1800s.