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Stacyville Today
In this brief history we shall not endeavor to go into
detail of the pioneer life, which has been so expertly dealt with
in the "Atlas of Mitchell County", published in 1911,
but rather we shall try to depict Stacyville as it is today, July
4, 1956. We dedicate our humble efforts to the Bicentennial History
Committee of 2056, who, will look back a hundred years hence and
probably wonder how we ever managed to drive such queer contraptions
as our two-toned, sleek lined, high power automobiles. Our present
air planes which travel a thousand miles (more or less) per hour,
will likely be placed in a museum hangar. The farmers modern tractors
will be as out-moded as the old "pot-bellied" coal stove
which we have replaced with our ful oil or gas furnaces. Even
the trah heap will be composd of our deep freezes, automatic dishwashers,
garbage disposals, radios and television sets, all of which will
be dug up much in the same manner that we unarth the dinosaurs
of centuries ago. - and so "time marches on".
Stacyville Baseball
Club
Baseball is as old as America itself and no doubt the
sport was enjoyed in Stacyville long before any records were kept
or memoies of the players can reach back. From Interviewing many
of the older players one would almost believe that there isn't
a square foot of the town that hasn't been at sometime or other,
a baseball diamond and that every male citizen has been "up
to bat".
The one team that every ardent baseball fan agrees made early
history was Jack's Colts. This team was organized in 1920 and
managed by Jack FAAS until the time
of his death when Art WOLF took over
the management. Some of the players of that team are still residents
of Stacyville or the surrounding community - some have moved away
- and a few are in baseball heaven.
Some of the "yarns" that are told about players of the
early teams here include one about Bill SALSBURY,
who still practices law in Osage. Bill was a right fielder and
in trying to retreive a long fly ball knocked into the creek,
is said to have come up with a five pound pickerel instead of
the ball. In attempting to throw a fast ball to first base, Milt
MCGHAN put so much speed and force
behind it that it knocked over a couple of tombstones in the cemetery.
As baseball players come and go, the old team broke up and a new
team was organized known as the Stacyville Baseball Club which,
is still the name of the club today.
Stacyville 4-H Clubs -
Girls
The first Stacyville township girls' 4-H club called
the "Stacyville Busy Bees" was organized in May 1928.
There were 15 girls: Miss Leona MAYER, Martha BRUMM (Mrs. Gilbert
WEBER), Genevieve BRUMM (Mrs. Clyde LINDBERG),Mary REDING (Mrs.
Alfred PITZEN), Anna REDING (Mrs. Ruben KRAMER), Alvena REDING
(Mrs. Adrian BROWN), Bertilla HALBACH (Mrs. Irvin MULLENBACH),
Agatha HALBACH (Mrs. Marvin HEIMER), Bertha BLAKE (deceased),
Margaret FREUND (Mrs. Norman HANSON), Catherine FREUND (Mrs. Leonard
BRANDEL), Gertrude PITZEN (Mrs. B.T. HARTNELL, Jr.), Marie HEIMER
(Mrs. Gilbert BLAKE), Rosella THEOBALD (Mrs. Will GERHART), Genevieve
THEOBALD (Sister Angelita). Miss Priscilla HALBACH was the leader.
The 1928 and 1929 projects were food, canning ad baking. The 1930
project was clothing, sewing, etc. The club was inactive in 1931,
1932, and 1933.
The Stacyville 4-H club was reorganized in 1934. No records could
be found of 1935. In 1936 the club was named the "Stacy-Stars".
Then from 1940-1944 the club was inactive. In 1944 it was reorganized
and called "Stacy-Aces" which is still its name today.
In 1955 the club had grown to 38 members. This being too large
a group to work with, it was necessary to divide the club into
two separate clubs. This was done by taking those on the west
side of Broad Street to form a club called the "West Stacy-Aces"
with 20 members, and with Mrs. Ben HEMANN and Mrs. Rueben KRAMER
as leaders.
The ones belonging to 4-H on the east side made the "East
Stacy-Aces" with 18 members, having Mrs. Herbert BRUMM and
Mrs. Sy PITZEN as their leaders.
Stacyville 4-H Clubs - Boys
The Stacyville boys 4-H club was organized at approximately 1923.
Ray and Irven MAUER, Alfred and William PITZEN, Clayton and Elmer
CLAUSEN, Lawrence and Leander SCHRANDT, Othmas WEBER, Cyril BODENSTEINER
and Carmen LANG formed the membership. Harold SKEELS, County 4-H
Assistant was the leader. All baby beef calves raised by the 4-H
boys were sold at a sale held at Des Moines.
For a period of time the Club was inactive and in 1936 it was
reorganized. The County Extension agent, Harold GEIGER, assisted
with the reorganizing of the group. Delphin HEMANN assumed the
leadership of the group from 1936 to 1939. For a period of two
years again the group was inactive nd i was in 1947 that they
reorgaized adopting the name of "Stacyville Jolly Jacks"
under the leadership of O.E. JONES. In 1949 Delphin HEMANN again
became the leader.
American Legion - Hale
Penney Fuller Post 569
Hale Penney Fuller Post 569 was organized August 12, 1921,
and named after Hale Penney FULLER who died in France on October
15, 1918. He was the son of Tom and Emma PENNEY FULLER. The following
were present at this meeting ad also became Charter Members: Ren
ANDERSON, Nicholas ADAMS, Jacob ADAMS, Henry ADAMS, William BLAZER,
Ferdinand DURBIN, John FREIN, Joseph FREIN, Ben HARTOUGH, Arthur
HEIMER, Joseph HALFMAN, George HALFMAN, Anton HEMANN, John ISAAC,
Dr. George KREPELKA, John A. LOECHER, Michael MAYER, Frank MAUER,
MAthew MILLER, Joseph MERTEN, Gage METZ, Joseph SIMON, Barney
WAGNER, Arthur WEBER, and Wm WOLF.
The first meeting place wa on thesecond floor of the Joe Falk
store. In 1945 the Methodist church was purchased for $2500 and
converted into a meeting hall and equipped with an up to date
kitchen.
American Legion - Auxiliary
The Auxiliary of the Hale Penny Fuller Legion Post was
organized in December of 1921 and the charter was applied for
in November of 1921. The permanent charter was issued on June
26, 1922. There were thirteen charter members: Mrs. Mary ADAMS,
Mrs. Laura ANDERSON, Mrs. Hattie HARTOUGH, Miss Rose FREIN, Mrs.
Tillie FULLER, Mrs. Mary HARTNELL, Mrs. Alvina HEMAN, Mrs. Martha
HEIMER, Mrs. Velesta KREPELKA, Mrs. Lizzie MAUER, Mrs. Christine
SIMON, Miss Mattie WEBER, Mrs. Agnes BARWIND.The first meeting
was held December 30, 1921, in the Legion club rooms which were
located in the basement of the Monitor office.