In 1965, Ballou Stub Heigele, pictured above, took over his familys harness, leather and upholstery shop in the 200 block of South Street.
Four generations of the Heigele family ran the business that was begun in 1904 by Stubs grandfather, Phillip.
As a side note, Stubs father, Ballou P. Heigele, brought Scouting to Iola even before the Boy Scouts of America was formed as an official organization in 1910.
In 1909, Ballou P. Heigele was a physical education director of the YMCA in Monmouth, Ill., where he became interested in the movement that…
