5 years ago

Citizen’s Advocate

Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018

Receiving an award is always a nice feeling. Receiving an award at the end of a 40 year career from someone who you looked up to during your time working as a public health nurse—well that’s just icing on the cake. That is the case for rural Henning resident Diane Thorson who recently was honored with the 2018 Barbara O’Grady Excellence award. 

What will the future look like at Willow Creek? The Henning City Council didn’t make any final decisions, but an expansive  study that included nearly 140 pages looked at the pros and cons of several scenarios to keep the facility viable looking into the future. As part of the $14,500 study, Welcome Home Management gave the city three potential scenarios for the future of Willow Creek, including  turning it into all assisted living,  turning it all into independent living and leaving the facility as a half assisted living and half independent living (like it currently is).

25 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, Dec. 2, 1998

When you see the bucket truck out, and the Christmas decorations going up, well, you just know that the one big holiday can’t be far behind. Most area towns donned their holiday attire over the week of Thanksgiving, as was the case in Henning. Absent from the traditional decorations-going-up is, of course, the traditional snow. Lack of snow is good for traveling; however, when travel is easy retail traffic tends to suffer downtown.

Vining’s Bigfoot Gas and Grocery store will be making a big impression when it opens for business—and it will likely be doing it a good two months earlier than first announced. According to Carrie Jorgensen, who was recently named manager of the store, the store should be ready to open in early January. That of course is much earlier than the March or April opening first considered when site preparation began earlier this fall. But with little or no inclement weather to deal with so far, work on the building has proceeded at a steady pace.

50 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, Dec. 6, 1973

Earning honors in the VFW-sponsored Voice of Democracy contest at HHS were Colleen Estes, Kim Peterson, Kevin Gutknecht and Debra Taylor.

Brent Johnson and Dave Brutlag were recently selected co-captains of the Henning Hornet basketball team, according to coach Richard Steensland.

75 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, Dec. 2, 1948

The Women’s Reading Club met and discussed Furniture and Cabinet Woods, this was presented by Mrs. Lawrence Belmont.

The Ottertail Jolly Workers 4-H Club held their monthly meeting Friday at St. John’s Lutheran School basement. Four new members joined the club-Joyce Brutal, Yvonne Lindemann, Ardell Buntrock and Arlene Brutal. Plans were made for a Christmas party. Mrs. Margaret Thorson gave a demonstration on pressing clothing.

100 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, Dec. 6, 1923

More newspaper advertising by banks as a business builder was strongly urged at the recent convention of the American Bankers Association by W. R. Morehouse of the organization’s Savings Bank Division. “Newspaper advertising must be attractive and easily read if it is to produce good results.”

Payment of $20,000 has been made by the Putnam Lumber company of Wisconsin to the family of Martin Tabert of Munich, N.D. who died in a convict labor camp conducted by the company in Florida following flogging administered by Walter Higginbotham, the “whipping boss.”

Claus Schmidt, who lived on the Pete Sorrenson forty north of town, was married to his housekeeper, Mrs. Carolina Meyer, at Fergus Falls last Wednesday. The Schmidts at present will keep a general store at Deer Creek.

125 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, Dec. 1, 1898

Russia, having grabbed all the land that she wants under the menace of war, now asks for a pause in the conversation so that she may say grace over her stolen mutton, says the National Review. Russia is alive to the benefits of undisturbed digestion. In plain English, there is no moral sanction to the czar’s proposals. The source is tainted, their hands are not clean.

Five leading vinegar manufacturers of the state had a conference with Commissioner Lawrence representing the state dairy department, as a consequence of which it is intimated drastic measures will be employed against manufacturers and dealers in illicit vinegar in the next thirty days. The firms represented were the New Ulm Vinegar and Pickle Company, the Northwestern Vinegar Company, St. Paul; H.F. Spink, St. Paul; M.A. Gedney, St. Paul and Minnepolis. They have a combined output of over 40,000 barrels of vinegar yearly.

Anton Trana, who sent to Seattle last spring, returned to Henning for Thanksgiving. He went out there for his health and he is satisfied with the climate having greatly regained his former strength. He will return soon to follow his old vocation, that of a nurse in a private hospital.

A fair correspondent from one of the neighboring towns writes the Advocate that she would like to have a law passed at the next session of the legislature of the following tenor and effect to-wit: “That school boards be required to furnish someone to light the fires for the teachers during the winter months.” Her name is withheld for the present as it might militate against her matrimonial prospects.