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"Good Neighbors"

By Lawrence & jean Dittmer

Route #1, Box 26, Shelby, Iowa 51570  

Diane and Larry Ehlers with their 7 HP Galloway engine.

The Good Neighbors Group has been threshing for eight years. We started out on Wayne Siebel's farm north of Minden, Iowa. When we outgrew that spot, the group moved to the Pottawattamie Historical Society's Carstens Farm south of Shelby, Iowa.

The farm and many antique items were willed to the Historical Society in 1977 when Henry J. "Hiney" Carstens, Jr., died. The three-generation farm had been in the Carstens family since 1871, when it was purchased from the railroad. All the farm buildings have since been restored by the Society. This year the little homestead was all tidy and mowed with lots of T.L.C. by Phil Schnitker and crew.

The Good Neighbors have maintained the farm equipment, and have been q...

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