From our files: May 19, 2019
10 Years ago: May 19, 2009
NEWS: Erika Mader, of Fort Dodge, won $30,000 playing an Iowa Lottery scratchoff game.
SPORTS: The Fort Dodge girls golf squad placed fourth in the Dodger Invitational at the Fort Dodge Country Club.
25 Years ago: May 19, 1994
NEWS: Joyce Simpson was named supervisor of the newly created creative art services department at The Messenger.
SPORTS: Fort Dodge beat Boone 9-2 in girls tennis.
50 Years ago: May 19, 1969
NEWS: Elma Shillington, of Clarion, was asked to submit four of her poems for a new work, “American Mosaic,” an enclyclopedia of poetry.
SPORTS: Keith Pullen, of Fort Dodge, got a hole-in-one at the Gowrie Golf and Country Club.