5 years ago

Citizen’s Advocate

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

On the brink of closure, the Henning Salvation Army Thrift Store will get a second chance at life—if even just on a temporary basis. Last week, volunteers and employees at the local thrift store that has been a part of the Henning community for nearly 20 years learned the store would stay open until Sept. 30. At the end of September, if the store was deemed profitable enough, it will remain open. 

Henning School will soon get a fresh look to its front entrance. The new entrance will not only feature a more modern and functional look, but it will also improve upon school safety by creating an additional locked entrance to the facility. The entrance will be in a similar location as in the past and will include a portion of the superintendent’s office. 

Six Henning speech students advanced to the section meet last weekend. Grace Weller placed third in Prose and will advance to the state speech meet on Friday at Wayzata High School. Also advancing to the finals was Sam Witt who took fourth place in Extemporaneous Reading. 

25 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, April 7, 1999

Area children were the lucky recipients of candy and treats from the Easter Bunny on Saturday as the annual Easter Egg Hunt was held at the Henning Health Care Center. Several children, ages 1 to kindergarten age, searched the grounds for treats and were awarded prizes for their hunting abilities. The children got to take home all the candy they could find as parents and Henning Health Care residents watched the festivities. The yearly event was sponsored once again by the Henning Women of Today.

Motorists on Highway 108 just north of Henning will find the Canadian Pacific Railway crossing a bit safer these days, since the installation of crossing arms and new, larger warning lights. According to a spokesman at the worksite, the improvement was part of normally scheduled upgrades for local crossings, and took about three weeks to complete. It was pointed out that the crossing arms are expected to make the crossing safer, as are the larger lights—the new ones are 12” compared with the eight-inch models they replaced.

50 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, April 11, 1974

FFA president Jim Frederick presented a trophy and flowers to the chapter sweetheart, Brenda Grefe, who was selected by members.

Surge grand opening drew 250 visitors.

75 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, April 6, 1949

A new church bell will peal out its message in Henning Sunday at 10:55 a.m. when the newly erected bell in the St. Paul Lutheran church will be dedicated. The dedication ceremony will take place outside the new church weather permitting. The bell was purchased by Mr. Harry Klever, Sr. as a memorial to his departed wife. It carries the inscription “Glory to God In the Highest.” The bell weighs 700 pounds.

100 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, April 11, 1924

An alarm of fire was turned in at 4 a.m., which directed the fire department and people to the Henning Roller Mills the interior of which, by this time was a seething mass of flames. Any amount of water could not have saved the mill, but it was needed to save the surrounding property. The mill fire made an exceptionally hot and spectacular fire. It burned only as a mille fire is capable of burning. The origin of the fire can only be conjectured. The mill has not been grinding flour for some time and it was though that the explosion of flour dust was not the cause. It is believed crossed electric wires was responsible. This theory is strengthened because the village was thrown into darkness just as the fire broke out. The Henning flour mill was started by a German in 1886.

125 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, April 12, 1899

Three hundred and seventy-one persons have died in Philadelphia of typhoid fever since Jan. 1, 1899. The shadow of murder hangs over their deaths, which can be laid to corporate greed and political corruption, says a dispatch from that city. These enemies of civilization and of American institutions have poisoned Philadelphia’s water supply. Heretofore it was supposed that only savages poisoned an enemy’s wells. Philadelphia’s fight against her two enemies is for life; for the lives of the young and of those who would easily succumb to disease. So Philadelphia sympathetically watches New York’s struggle for clean streets and for a fine, wide thoroughfare that corporations and politicians would convert into death’s crossing. The most conservative politicians would convert into active physicians declare that 95 percent of the deaths were due to the pollution of the water supply.

How the Heart Beats At Night—The main use of the coverings at night is to give the body the warmth that is lost by reduced circulation of the blood. When the body lies down it is the intention of nature that it should rest, and that the heart especially should be relieved temporarily of its regular work. So that organ makes ten strokes a minute less than when the body is in an upright posture. Therefore, in the eight hours that a man usually spends in taking his nights rest, the heart is saved nearly 5,000 strokes, as it pumps six ounces of blood with each stroke, it lifts 30,000 ounces less of blood in the night’s session that it would bring the day, the na man is usually in an upright position. Now the body is dependent for its warmth on the vigor of the circulation, and as the blood flows so much more slowly through the veins then once is lying down, the warmth lost in the reduced circulation must be supplied by extra coverings.

Spain produces annually about 120,000 pounds of silver, and this amount exceeds the production of any other European country.

At the recent election at Little Falls Editor Chas. E. Vasaly of the Little Falls Herald, was re-elected mayor over N. Richardson by a vote of nearly two to one. The issue in the contest was municipal or private ownership of the electric and water works plant. Mr. Vasaly favoring municipal control, very properly won.