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Redwood Falls, Minn. —
1961—50 years ago
• Mayme Wester was honored for her 35 years as a Northwestern Bell Telephone operator. She started in 1917 at a switchboard in a room above a hardware store.
• Work started on an $18,000 remodeling of the Lincoln School hallways, and bathrooms, which were retiled, and had the plumbing redone.
• Frank Revier, 80, of Morton, displayed an 1857 Bible originally owned by William Tracy, an Irish immigrant who came to the United States in the 1850s. According to Revier family legend, the Bible was hidden under a pile of refuse in 1962, when the family had to abandon their home during the Dakota/U.S war.
• The June 29, 1961 Redwood Gazette features a front-page story about how tourism was starting to pick up around the Walnut Grove area due to a series of childrens’ books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, who once lived there.
The Redwood County Historical Society was in the process of creating a roadside marker commemorating the spot near the original Ingalls sod house.
• While spraying corn, a Morton teen was badly burned when he attempted to free a plugged nozzle with mouth suction, and got a mouth and throat full of liquid nitrogen.
1986—25 years ago
• Stuart Anderson, 93, former owner of Stu’s Grocery, was still active in the community, taking part in the annual Ramsey Park Day festival.
• Jan Petersen’s 1932 Chevy Deluxe Coupe was named the Peoples’ Choice winner at the Four-Wheel Wanderers car show during the Minnesota Inventors Congress.
• The Redwood County 4-H held its first horse show at the new horse arena next to the county fairgrounds.
• The first of three informational meetings about a proposed pairing of the Gibbon, Winthrop, and Fairfax schools was held.
•Jeffrey Schmidt of Redwood Falls, a junior at Mankato St. University, placed 56th out of over 7,500 runners in the Grandma’s Marathon in Duluth, with a time of 3:31:53.
2001—10 years ago
• Local legislators were confident the Republican-controlled House and Democrat-controlled Senate could work out some agreement to prevent a state government shut down.
• The RV school district changed its hours so that school would start about 15 minutes earlier, with Reede Gray Elementary School students starting at 8:25, with middle and high school starting at 8:30 a.m.
• For the third time in as many years, Laura Moseng advanced to the National High School Rodeo Finals.
• If the streets seemed a little dustier, it was because of the streets themselves: construction crews ground clouds of asphalt off Highway 19 to be recycled as the base for roads elsewhere.
• After three years planning and saving, local Boy Scouts headed off to visit the scouts national camp in New Mexico.
1961—50 years ago
• Mayme Wester was honored for her 35 years as a Northwestern Bell Telephone operator. She started in 1917 at a switchboard in a room above a hardware store.
• Work started on an $18,000 remodeling of the Lincoln School hallways, and bathrooms, which were retiled, and had the plumbing redone.
• Frank Revier, 80, of Morton, displayed an 1857 Bible originally owned by William Tracy, an Irish immigrant who came to the United States in the 1850s. According to Revier family legend, the Bible was hidden under a pile of refuse in 1962, when the family had to abandon their home during the Dakota/U.S war.
• The June 29, 1961 Redwood Gazette features a front-page story about how tourism was starting to pick up around the Walnut Grove area due to a series of childrens’ books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, who once lived there.
The Redwood County Historical Society was in the process of creating a roadside marker commemorating the spot near the original Ingalls sod house.
• While spraying corn, a Morton teen was badly burned when he attempted to free a plugged nozzle with mouth suction, and got a mouth and throat full of liquid nitrogen.
1986—25 years ago
• Stuart Anderson, 93, former owner of Stu’s Grocery, was still active in the community, taking part in the annual Ramsey Park Day festival.
• Jan Petersen’s 1932 Chevy Deluxe Coupe was named the Peoples’ Choice winner at the Four-Wheel Wanderers car show during the Minnesota Inventors Congress.
• The Redwood County 4-H held its first horse show at the new horse arena next to the county fairgrounds.
• The first of three informational meetings about a proposed pairing of the Gibbon, Winthrop, and Fairfax schools was held.
•Jeffrey Schmidt of Redwood Falls, a junior at Mankato St. University, placed 56th out of over 7,500 runners in the Grandma’s Marathon in Duluth, with a time of 3:31:53.
2001—10 years ago
• Local legislators were confident the Republican-controlled House and Democrat-controlled Senate could work out some agreement to prevent a state government shut down.
• The RV school district changed its hours so that school would start about 15 minutes earlier, with Reede Gray Elementary School students starting at 8:25, with middle and high school starting at 8:30 a.m.
• For the third time in as many years, Laura Moseng advanced to the National High School Rodeo Finals.
• If the streets seemed a little dustier, it was because of the streets themselves: construction crews ground clouds of asphalt off Highway 19 to be recycled as the base for roads elsewhere.
• After three years planning and saving, local Boy Scouts headed off to visit the scouts national camp in New Mexico.
