5 years ago

Citizen’s Advocate

Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019

Tyson and Kale Misegades placed second at the regional hoop shoot contest in Iowa City, Iowa on Saturday. The brothers competed against state champions from Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois in the North Central Region. Tyson and Kale each made 22 of 25 shots to place second in their respective age categories. They are the sons of Randy and Becky Misegades of rural Henning.

The Salvation Army Thrift Store will officially close its Douglas Ave. location in Henning on March 23. That was the word Lt. Anthony Nordan of the Fergus Falls Salvation Army received last week from the Salvation Army headquarters in the Twin Cities.

25 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, Feb. 17, 1999

Traveling to Henning last Friday, Rep. Bud Nornes and Sen. Cal Larson met with the public at the Hornets Nest in downtown Henning. Posing with the legislators are current Mayor Dick Johnson, former Mayor Dave Holmgren and Hornets Nest employee Kari Miller. The legislators were making a tour of the region last weekend, talking with their constituents in many towns.

After almost a week of sleuthing and digging, Steve and Lisa Cordes (with their daughter Hannah) came up with the medallion on Friday morning. They had been searching for the medallion since Saturday’s first clue. Lisa said she had dug up several places across Henning until they began to pinpoint the location of the prize behind what had been most recently known as J & J’s Cafe and Viking Video. On Friday, they worked on the last clue, began digging and came up with the prize. The medallion was wrapped in a clear plastic bag and was buried just under the surface of a snow bank behind the buildings. The Cordes family won $500 in Henning Lucky Bucks from the Henning Chamber of Commerce.

50 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, Feb. 21, 1974

Those winning awards at the Henning March of Dimes Snowmobile Marathon were Harriet Flow, Arlene Deckert, Polly Wallace, Jim Reineke, Chuck Christianson, Gareld From, Grant Smith and Mari Volden.

Colleen Estes of Henning won the district Voice of Democracy speaking contest sponsored by the VFW.

75 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, Feb. 24, 1949

Victor Hardt, who has done such a fine job with local school music groups, has tendered his resignation to the school board effective with the closing term. Mr. Hardt plans to attend Columbia University in New York City and work for his doctor’s degree in music.

100 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, Feb. 21, 1924

The Henning Doran Debate resulted in a victory for the Henning team. The Henning team upheld the affirmative view of the question: Resolved, the European Immigration to the United States to be Prohibited for a period of five years. The judges decision was 2 to 1 in favor of Henning.

Edna Peterson was awarded the bronze medal offered by the Illinois Watch Company for the best essay on Lincoln.

E. A. Lueders attended the state convention of druggists held in Minneapolis last week.

Mrs. Anton Belmont had the misfortune to get her hand in the power washing machine one day lsat week and lacerating it quite badly.

125 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, Feb. 23, 1899

C. P. Lindgren and family returned from Eagle Bend Saturday where they have been during the illness and death of Mr. Lindgren’s father P. Johnson. A telegram was received announcing that the old gentleman was dead at the age of 75 years of age.

A Joplin Missouri paper says that a woman preacher at that place recently stopped in the middle of a discourse and picking up a Bible said she was going to throw it at a man who was unfaithful to his wife. As she swung her arm forward every man in the church but one ducked under the seat. After giving the man who stood the test without flinching a good puff, as the newspapers call it, the preacher learned that he was a deaf mute. The revelation was a little discouraging until the dodgers explained that they had seen a woman throw a stone at a hen and knew mighty well she would not hit the fellow she was throwing at and dodged as a matter of necessity not of conscience.

William Midtag, a well-to-do farmer of Effington has visited Henning several times recently with a view to putting in a plant for making brick. He was in town last Friday and Saturday and announced that he had purchased the necessary machinery and secured the N.P. right-of-way near C.P. Lindgren’s and he will also lease or buy a tract of land adjoining on which to place the works.

A peculiar instance of a fisherman eating dinner with a dead man came to light the inquest over the body of O. Carlson at Ashland, WS. At noon Carlson, who had been feeling ill for several days sat down to the table to eat dinner. He must have died soon after, for he was leaning his head on his hands when his partner, Olson came in. Olson took no particular notice of Carlson except to speak to him and proceeded to cook dinner. This he placed on the table and seated himself opposite the corpse, asking it to join him. He did not eat, because he had been ailing for two or three days, so Olson ate his dinner in silence. When he had nearly finished, Carlson’s brother-in-law came in and discovered boy the staring eyes that Carlson was dead.

German physicians say that no professional bicycler has a perfectly sound heart. As nearly the whole masculine population is affected by the nicotine habit, one may query whether there is any casual connection between the latter fact and the former. As the alcohol poison goes to the brain, so does the tobacco poison go to the heart, possibly predisposing its victim to injury fro many strain upon that organ.