5 years ago

Citizen’s Advocate

Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019

As he towers above his pen pals at Henning School, Private TJ Rinicker cracks a smile as he is asked about everything from his favorite food at basic training to what it was like to see the ocean. After graduating from Henning School in the spring of 2018, Rinicker joined the Marine Corps and spent his fall at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, Calif. With his younger brother, third grader Justin Redfield among the students in Stephanie Jorgenson’s room on Dec. 20, Rinicker talked about his experience at basic training and what led him to a career in the military.

A former teacher and coach at Henning High School who spent one year on the Hornet sideline before moving on to coach a state championship football team in Wisconsin has died.Harlen E. Sunsdahl spent just one year in Henning but carved out an undefeated season in football and saw the varsity Hornet basketball team lose only six times in the 1969-1970 school year

25 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, Jan. 6, 1999

A new business opened in Henning this week when Jerry and Lidia Reyes, opened Reyes Refrigeration on Douglas Avenue. The business specializes in residential and commercial heating and cooling systems.

After breaking ground for construction just four months ago, Vining’s Big Foot Gas & Grocery store is slated to open for business on Friday, Jan. 8.

50 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, Jan. 3, 1974

Supt. Jens Ree told the Henning Board of Education at its regular meeting that his efforts to conserve on the schools heating fuel supply earlier in the winter may result in the school running short before the end of the term if allocations are cut as suggested. The school received its allotment of 7,000 gallons in December and expects to receive 14,000 gallons during January, Ree said, but officials have informed him that future allocations may have to be cut 20 percent, which may result in the school running short before the end of the year, he said.

75 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, Jan. 6, 1949

A crop of 99.87 bushels per acre won the corn growing championship in this country it was learned today. Mr. Lester Young of Henning is the corn grower who has made this outstanding yield in this locality in competition in which over 5,000 farmers in 22 states and Canada participated according to officials of this biggest corn competition.

100 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, Jan. 3, 1924

Travelers report that the price of a room in a first class hotel in Vienna is anywhere from 5,000 to 40,000 crowns a day. Forty percent of this goes to the municipality. A similar tax is imposed on the charge for heating rooms and there is a tax of 10 per cent on the cost of meals.

Several valuable train loads of oriental silk have passed through Otter Tail county in the past on the main line of the Northern Pacific, but the most valuable cargo of this kind went through on the Great Northern last Monday and Tuesday. The consignment valued at $12,000,000 came from Seattle in four special trains consisting of five baggage cars each and were under heavy guard.

125 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, Jan. 5, 1899

Marriages

Kilhan Guck and Anna Fielder

Edwin Hanson and Julia Hoff

Ben Kimber and Grace Whiting

Arthur Frazee and Bertha Leonard

An exchange explains why a locomotive is like a woman and is called “she.” They wear a jacket, an apron, have shoes, hose and drag a train behind them; have a lap, need guides, ride wheels, will turn out for pedestrians and sometimes foam and refuse to work, they attract the meant, sometimes act very contrary and it always takes a man to manage them.

Dear Brother,

I have been laid up from a vaccinated arm a couple of days, so I have been unable to perform my duty. I was not sea sick, although our boat made some big jumps, but nearly all the others were sick.

Havana is quite a sight with the dark grey Fort Morrow. Every house is built of four feet thick walls and with barred windows and iron doors, just like old fashioned prisons. The people of that town that is the greatest part are more like animals than human beings, although we were welcomed and treated fruits of all kinds.

I am now 150 miles from there and the trip was certainly a celebration for the natives. At every little station big crowds had gathered and bands played American airs. Shots were fired by Cuban infantry. The train was loaded with fruit and when we reached Pinar Del Rio a grand displacement of fireworks greeted us.

The whole country appears like a grand garden with all kinds of trees growing luxuriantly the names of which I did not attempt to learn for there was everything from a palm tree to a fern.

We are now camped on a battle ground one mile from Pinar Del Rio. The land is high and airy and just back five miles are the Pinar Del Rio mountains. By the way one mile from camp is a ravine where 600 Cubans slammed nearly 5,000 Spaniards.

I do not regret that I enlisted so long as I may keep by health. The heat here at present resembles the heat of the north any July, but the nights are cool.

I will close for this time with greetings to friends and love you you,

I am your brother,

William Lundquist