5 years ago

Citizen’s Advocate

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

If someone wants to challenge Kale Misegades to a free throw contest, they may want to rethink that challenge. The 10-year-old from rural Henning is making his second straight trip to the Elks National Hoop Shoot competition in Chicago, Ill. After finishing in third place in the 8-9-year-old age group last year, the Henning Elementary School fourth grader is returning to Chicago, Ill. this weekend for the National Elks Hoop Shoot competition.

On the one year anniversary since the passing of Henning High School student Jacob Quam, a group of approximately 30 people gathered for an early morning game of basketball on Friday at Henning School. The basketball game was just one of several activities at the school on Friday as students, staff and the community remembered the life of Quam.

This week in the Henning Public School library our wonderful custodian Kevin Greenwaldt along with Building Supervisor Robert Brostrom hung a much needed analog clock that is large enough to see from anywhere in the entire library and is a beautiful silver color. Although it might not seem like a great task to hang a clock, this clock is so large that scaffolding was needed.

25 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, April 15, 1993

East Battle Lake this week shows all the signs of winter’s end. The ice is breaking up, stretches of open water are growing larger with each day, and even the days are getting longer—especially now that daylight savings time has arrived. On short order this scene will be punctuated with docks dipping in at the waters’ edge and boats will be skimming the surface while the sport-minded seek their slippery friends from the deep. Ahhhh…spring.

Battle Lake Mayor Bobbi Tamke reported that, although she had made a public appeal for support on the natural gas installation question, no one has so far come forward to help push the matter along. Tamke said she told the community, “you people who want it, (natural gas) you better come forward. I got two calls.” Tamke reported that the matter did not come up for discussion in the council’s most recent meeting, on March 24. An estimated 60 people turned out for an informational presentation on the project two weeks earlier.

Stressing that the meeting at hand was not meant for acting on budget cuts may be and where they might fall, Henning School Board Chairman Dave Stueve convened a special meeting of the board on Thursday, April 2. The task at hand is trimming the budget for next year in anticipation of an estimated $100,000 shortfall. That shortfall would have been avoided had an excess levy referendum passed last fall.

50 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, April 18, 1973

Ken Trosdahl has arrived for duty at Udorn Royal Thai AFB, Thailand.

75 years ago

The Henning Advocate

April 1948

Myron Tollefson, a Henning High School senior, was given a superior rating for his memorized oratory at the district speech festival.

100 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, April 18, 1923

An important business deal was made last week when George Paulson sold his hardware business here to N.J. Eide of Elbow Lake. While Mr. Eide is an experienced man in this line it is understood he will not personally attend to the business here. He is a young man, but it is understood he is old at the hardware business. Mr. Paulson has been in the hardware business continuously without a break, at the same stand, for 37 years.

There was much gossip in society circles over the marriage of Viscountess Northcliffe, widow of the noted publisher, to Sir Robert Hudson, within nine months after the death of her husband. They are on their way to Italy to spend a long honeymoon following the nuptial ceremonies. Viscountess Northcliffe was compelled to relinquish millions of dollars from her late husband’s estate because of her hasty remarriage. A residuary trust fund, which comprised 25 percent of the estate had been set aside for the widow on condition she did not remarry. In addition she lost the magnificent Northcliffe residence in Carleton Gardens and a special sum of $50,000 mentioned in the will.

President Harding purchased his birthplace—a farming North Bloomfield Township, Morrow County, Ohio where as a barefooted boy he spent his childhood days.

125 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, April 20, 1898

President McKinley transmitted the long expected Cuban message to congress on last Monday.

Arrangements have been made to have a Swede school at the school house after the regular term closes.

The loudest shouters for war are often the men who forget the fact, felicitously stated by Captain Mayan of the navy, “Fighting means close relations with those who are trying to hurt you.”

The woman who thinks of nothing but dress is pleasanter to look at than the woman who never thinks of dress.

If the dove of universal peace which a western evangelist says he sees hovering in the air is really at that altitude it is going to drop its olive branch and become very tired before it comes down. There is no country which isn’t at war or talking of war; and the conservative old Chicago Tribune declares that war between Spain and this country actually began with the blowing up of the Maine, and is now being prosecuted with such vigor that the bird is liable to be frightened to death.

War with Spain would cost this nation, it is estimated, $100,000,000 a month. That is a great expense, and the loss of life would be a consideration much more deplorable, but there are some things that are worse than war with all its horrors. War is preferable to tyranny, oppression and dishonor.