5 years ago

Citizen’s Advocate

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

The Otter Tail Central boys golf team finished in fourth and the girls team finished in third place in Section 6A. Noah Chase and Jackson Nyhus advanced to state on the boys side, while Grace Nyhus advanced to state for the girls team. 

Majorie Quammen and Marlene Wahlin have retired from the Henning School District. Quammen has been an English teacher for 48 years, including 39 years at Henning School. Wahlin has been a music teacher at the school district for the past 18 years.

Henning Mayor Darren Wiese and Trinity Center member Elaine Dubel unveiled the commemorative marker in honor of the former church being listed on the National Registry of Historic Places. The unveiling took place at the Trinity Center annual meeting on Saturday. 

25 years ago

Thursday, June 2, 1999

The Henning Advocate

Henning School Board Member Dale Koski was present to hand out diplomas to the graduating class of Henning High School on Sunday, May 30. Performing together for the last time, the senior members of Henning’s Choir sang “The Hero” as a packed gymnasium of family and friends looked on with tears of happiness and smiles of joy.

What for decades has been the driveway to the Lueders’ farm in Ottertail was transformed last week into one of Ottertail’s growing number of new streets. Plans call for a public railroad crossing on the road, which will connect lots along the southwest side of Buchanan Lake with Highway 108.

The Perham-based Quadrant waste incinerator fared very well through the legislative process. Gov. Jesse Ventura passed a $3 million funding request for the facility upgrade in a emergency bonding bill. But there’s still a lot of work ahead before the retrofit can take place, Hanan said. There’s an application process through the Office of Energy Assistance, contracts with Land O’Lakes who has purchased steam from the incinerator in the past and the transferring of permits. Hanan doesn’t expect any problems since he’s been in contact with all those groups while lobbying for the Quadrant funding. The funds should be available in July.

50 years ago

Thursday, May 31, 1974

The Henning Advocate

A public meeting was held at the Vining School so that area residents could hear about the proposed railroad abandonment of the Burlington Northern Line between Battle Lake and Wadena.

75 years ago

Thursday, June 2, 1949

The Henning Advocate

Editor and Mrs. Larry Mathiason have sold their newspaper, the Battle Lake Review, to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Anderson of Wahpeton. The new owners have already taken possession. The Mathiasons have made no definite future plans.

100 years ago

Thursday, June 5, 1924

The Henning Advocate

An insane man giving his name as John Fossen was picked up last Thursday night in Paddock Township by A. L. Halvorson. The man acted queerly and was unmistakably insane. The insane man told the judge that he came to this state 36 years ago and to Otter Tail County six years ago. He said he was 73, but looks 10 years younger; he admitted he was insane, and said he could not sleep nights and was continually seeing devils, big and little. He then asked Judge Frankberg that he wanted somebody to shoot him. He has now been committed to the Fergus Falls State Hospital.

125 years ago

Thursday, June 1, 1894

The Alliance Advocate

The Chicago authorities are taking precautions against the burning of the Chicago river. The various gases, oils, etc. emptying into it form the pipes and sewers of the large city makes the “river” a veritable fire trap.

S. M. Owen as publisher of Farm, Stock and Home, has been sued for libel in the sum of $70,000 by a Minneapolis insurance concern. This journal is in the habit of warning its readers from any fake companies that may spring up.

Letter From a Cat

Dear Editor:

I herby take my pen in paw to say, Can you explain a curious thing I found the other day?

There is another little cat who sits behind a frame, And looks so very much like me You’d think we were the same. I try to make her play with me, Yet, when I mew and call,

Though I see her mew in answer, She makes no sound at all. All to the dullest kitten It’s plain enough to see That either I am mocking her, or she is mocking me.

It makes no difference what I play. She seems to know the game; Fore every time I look around I see her do the same. And yet no matter though I creep On tip toe lest she hear, Or quickly dash behind the frame, She’s sure to disappear!

Over one third of the business portion of Staples is in ashes. The fires tarted from an overturned lamp in Henry Schulz’s tailer shop of First Avenue. The flames spread so rapidly that he was compelled to fly, leaving a large stock of goods behind. The flames rapidly spread to adjoining buildings and in a very short time they were entirely beyond control.