The Ladies Aid Society of the Lutheran church served dinner and supper that day in a tent between the old bank building and the Bugle office. The noon dinner menu (price at 35 cents) was: Stewed chicken, gravy, cold meats, baked beans, potatoes, cabbage, corn, salad, pickles, jelly, pie, bread and butter, coffee or iced tea. The supper menu (priced at 25 cents) was: Cold meats, potato salad, egg salad, sauce, cake, cookies, biscuits, butter, coffee or iced tea.

The decorated auto parade that day was the first ever in the history of Humboldt County. Laila Hanson won first with "Goddess of Liberty." Second place went to "Barney" Helmen with the float for the Gangestad & Helmen Drug store and third place went to "The Iowa Farmer in his new Case Car" by Frank Ries. In Calithumpians - Ed Kinseth was first with a barber outfit.

The Ladies Aid cleared over $200.00 that day on their wonderful meals. The Bode baseball team won both of their games, defeating Livermore 7-5 and Ottosen 5-4.

Marring the celebration was a cyclone which hit the barn on the John H. Aure farm that evening about 10 p.m. (south end of main street) (Seval Holden farm - 1981) and also the Chris Rossing barn (Conrad Rossing - 1981) one and one half miles southwest of town.

Humboldt Mutual Insurance Association: The Bode Bugle - August 15,1890: Capt. T.A. Rossing made a trip into Norway township last week in the interest of the Farmers Mutual Insurance Co. (Note--Other news items would make reference to Capt. Rossing, Ole K. Grefstad, Andrew Gullixson making trips to Ottosen or other towns in the interest of the insurance company.)

This is the beginning of what is today the Humboldt Mutual Insurance Association. It was organized in Bode, Sept. 25, 1886. Andrew Gullixson was the first President. T.A. Rossing purchased the first policy and incidentally had the first claim, in the amount of fifteen dollars. The first annual report of the association showed receipts of $125.00 for premiums paid on policies. When it became a county wide organization there was a name change and the office was moved to Humboldt. When the association moved into their present headquarters at 513 Sumner Ave. in Humboldt, in 1959, they had $31,000.00 insurance in force. Oscar Grefstad of Bode was a one time secretary-manager, at the Humboldt office.

The 1880 Agricultural Census for Delana Township: (Note - This data for the agricultural census of 1880 was obtained from a microfilm at the State Historical Society of Iowa Library at Iowa City, Iowa) Unfortunately the enumerator's penmanship leaves much to be desired. Too, the reproduction on the film is very faint so it was only with the assistance of my daughter Rachael Davis and a staff librarian that we were able to decipher the following about my grandfather Lars J. Gangestad.

"After thoughts."  The unimproved acres must have been the slough land and the virgin prairie grass which had not, as yet, been broken to the plow. My grandfather purchased the land in 1874 and my father told that as a lad he helped, in the following years, to drive the oxen in breaking the virgin sod where the town of Bode now stands. -- Leon M. GANGESTAD