HARLAN -- Verlee Shupe, 100, Harlan, died September 18 at Elm Crest Assisted Living.    Services will be held Wednesday, Sept. 25 at 11 a.m. at Grace Baptist Church in Harlan with burial in the Merrill’s Grove Cemetery in Fiscus.  Visitation is Tuesday, Sept. 24 from 2-8 p.m. with family greeting friends from 5-7 p.m.

    IOWA CITY -- Along with a telephone used by Alexander Graham Bell; a 1960 Greensboro, Alabama, lunch counter; Dorothy’s ruby slippers; and Muhammad Ali’s boxing gloves, visitors to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., last spring also may have seen a Hawkeye.    University of Iowa senior Emily Lefeber spent the spring 2019 semester as a daily programming intern at the famed museum.

    HARLAN – The Harlan Community Schools Board of Education will feature one challenged race as Allyson Bendorf has filed nomination papers to challenge incumbent Joni  Larsen for the District 5 board position.    Nomination papers were due to the school board secretary by 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19.

    HARLAN -- The Harlan Community is ready to celebrate homecoming this week, under the theme Retro/50’s Diner -- Groovin’ Our Way to Victory.    There’s plenty of excitement in the air as the Harlan Community Cyclone football team readies to meet ADM in a Friday night match-up, hoping to get another win after starting its season 3-1 with wins over Denison-Schleswig, Carroll and Atlantic, and its lone loss to non-district Sergeant Bluff-Luton

    ELK HORN -- The Spartans will look to Cage the Cougars Friday night as Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton celebrates homecoming this week culminating with the football game versus CAM, beginning at 7 p.m. in Exira.    The game is just one of a number of activities during the week.

    HARLAN -- The annual Teal Out held at Harlan Community High School’s volleyball game Tuesday evening, Sept.

    WALNUT -- Gladys Petersen of Walnut will mark her 90th birthday on September 29. Her family would like to honor her with a card shower. Cards will reach her if sent to 410 Pacific Street, Apt. 7, Walnut, IA 51577.    Her family includes daughter and son-in-law, Jackie and Dan Riessen, Avoca; three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Gladys’ son is the late James Petersen and her husband is the late Lloyd Petersen.

    ATLANTIC -- Marvin Lynn McCool, 92, Atlantic, died Tuesday, Sept. 17 in Omaha, NE.    Services will be held Saturday, Sept. 21 at 3 p.m. at Burmeister-Johannsen Funeral Home in Shelby with burial of ashes at a later date in the Layton Township Cemetery in Walnut.  Friends may call Saturday from 2-3 p.m.

    PORTSMOUTH -- Albert Peter “Pete” Stein, 70, Portsmouth, died Sunday, Sept. 15 in Omaha, NE.    Services will be held Friday, Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. at St. Mary Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church Fellowship Hall in Portsmouth with private burial of ashes in the Cass Township Cemetery in Portsmouth.  Visitation is Friday from 4-7 p.m.