5 years ago

Citizen’s Advocate

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Every Friday morning, 91-year-old Vivian Palm makes her way out of her apartment on Fergus Ave. and assumes her position near the cash register at the Salvation Army Thrift Store. It’s a trip she has made for over 20 years, which often includes an armful of treats for the other volunteers helping in the back of the popular thrift store in town.

Jon Offutt likes playing with fire. In fact, it was the ability to play with fire every day that turned the one-time potter into an award winning glass blowing artist. This week, Offutt will be stopping by the Landmark Center in Henning for a glass blowing demonstration. The visiting artist will be hosting six demonstrations on both Friday and Saturday to show case the art of glass blowing on the road.

25 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, May 5, 1999

With each passing day, the rumble and dust of heavy equipment at work in Ottertail reminds passersby that one day soon the sounds of cheeks, baffles, and the occasional “fore” will be audible from fields and woods that were once home to marginal crops and nut-toting squirrels. The squirrels will likely stay on, as much of the woods interspersed around the 18-hole Thumper Pond Golf Course are mature oaks, but it is for certain that the sandy crop land will be hosting duffers rather than dirt farmers.

Take a trip to Vining these days and the keen observer will find an unusual crop alongside the new Big Foot station: a Ken Nyberg sculpture garden. So far the site features this newly unveiled pliers with cricket, as well as the already well-known coffee cup and giant knot.

This year’s crop of eighth grade students in Henning did not perform as well in the statewide testing as their counterparts did last year, but the fluctuation is not indicative of a problem. Seventy-eight percent of Henning eighth graders this year passed the reading test, which is up from 73 percent last year, the first year such a test was administered in the Henning district. In math, 71 percent passed, which is down sharply from the 84 percent last year and the 79 percent the year prior.

50 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, May 9, 1974

William Bursch of Henning was honored at a dinner meeting of the Mahnomen Lodge No 280 AF and AM last week. He accepted a 50 year Masonic membership certificate and pin.

75 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, May 4, 1949

You don’t buy paper… you buy news

You don’t buy glasses… you buy vision

You don’t buy circus tickets… you buy thrills

You don’t buy awnings… you buy shade

You don’t buy life insurance…you buy education for your children; cancellation of your mortgage; and income for your wife.

You don’t buy membership in the Chamber of Commerce…you buy the cooperation of the most able businessmen in your community to help you solve the community’s problems and yours, to do those things vital to you, which you cannot do alone! Are you a member and do you attend the meetings?

100 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, May 9, 1924

Now that Harry Thaw has been declared sane by a jury, it is well to recall just what he has done in the 18 years since he was convicted of murdering of Stanford White. By hiring expensive and resourceful lawyers, the Thaw family succeeded in saving him from the electric chair. But this was done at a price. That price was the judgement that Thaw was insane. The next thing was to prove him sane enough to be set at liberty. This effort was somewhat retarded by the fact that, having escaped confinement, Thaw cruelly assaulted a boy and was again confined in a hospital for the insane. There he has remained since 1917. Let no one think that all Harry Thaw did was to commit murder. He has shown that he can make justice wobble.

125 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, May 10, 1899

The death of James Taylor, the well known broom manufacturer of Leaf Lake occurred at his home on Thursday night after a week’s illness of pneumonia contracted by a cold. It caused somewhat of a surprise here to learn that “uncle Jimmie” as he was familiarly called had passed away as it was not many days ago since he was seen on our streets.

“Should Married Women Follow Professions?” This is a query put forth by Sarah Grand, the novelist. In reply, it may be said that it all depends upon the married woman’s husband’s ability in the way of providing necessary funds for the running of the house. This opinion has been obtained from a “washday” who is now supporting a husband and six children, and ought, therefore, to be worth something.

A new product, known as “devitrified glass” broken glass brought to a desired molecular condition by a special process of heating has made its appearance in France, according to the report of the United States consul at Lyons. It possesses all the properties of glass except its transparency, and it can be made to assume any form, from paying blocks to the most artistic designs, and to resemble any variety of stone used as constructive material in the form of variegated blocks, it has been tried in paging one of the main thoroughfares of Lyons. The test has been satisfactory. The glass is more durable than stone, is as cheap and is less liable to gather and retain dirt.

The popular idea of the upper class Frenchwoman is, that she is exceedingly fond of dress and style, and the devoted slave of the lates fashions. The serious side of her nature is not so well known. How many readers are aware for instance, that among the Frenchwomen of the better class there is an order numbering eighty thousand members, whose aim is the alleviation of suffering and the general uplifting of their unfortunate neighbors? It is said that more than one hundred thousand Frenchwomen are trained and ready to go on the battlefield as nurses of “emergency sisters,” in the event of war.