5 years ago

Citizen’s Advocate

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Four decades have gone by since the year 1979 when four young men left East Leaf Lake, north of Henning, entered Otter Tail Lake by canoe and paddled all the way to Hudson Bay. Dennis Weidemann authored a book, “This Water Goes North,” which chronicles their adventure from May 8 in Otter Tail County and ending at York Factory trading post, on the southwest side of Hudson Bay, on July 12, 1979.

There is perhaps no more common dream job for a young child than becoming a firefighter­—that is of course if becoming a professional athlete is off the table. But few children are ever able to see their dream fulfilled as a firefighter when they grow older. For Henning High School alums and natives Jon Eckhoff and Jake Williams, the dream of becoming firefighters was recently fulfilled when they were installed as the latest members of the Henning Fire Department.

Maggie Cronk and Ashley Ladwig have been crowned as East Otter Tail County Midwest Dairy Association Princesses.

25 years ago

Thursday, June 16, 1999

The Henning Advocate

Nine 4-H clubs from around Otter Tail County participated in the 27th Annual Field Day and Softball Tournament sponsored by the Henning Chamber of Commerce, on Saturday, June 12. Featured events included tug-o-war and ended with the Heinola Hustlers taking top honors to keep the traveling plaque again with a total of 267.5 points. Butler 4-H took second with 252.5, while Eagle Lake and Henning Leaf Lakers tied for third with 197.5 points each. In the tug-o-war divisions, taking home the trophy for first place Sr. Team was Eagle Lake/Barnhard. The Jr. division winners were Heinola Hustlers.

After a year of working toward revitalizing the Henning business community, the Henning Star City Economic Development Committee this month accomplished its first identified goal: to have the City of Henning hire an economic development director. “I’m not here to tell the community of Henning what they need,” said Henning Economic Development Director Don Patrick, “I’m here to help them accomplish the things they see that they need.” Such is Patrick’s outlook on the newly created part-time position, which he took over June 1.

50 years ago

Thursday, June 14, 1974

The Henning Advocate

Who was the first President to: 1. Send a US Navy Destroyer hundreds of miles merely to pick up his dog? 2. Have his White House Chief of Staff indicted and tried for criminal offenses? 3. Decline full compliance with a subpoena? 4. Increase his family’s net wealth from a few thousand to many million dollars during a period of years when he was never off the public payroll? 5. Agree to deliberate non-atomic fire bombing of civilians? 6. See his Appointment Secretary sent to jail? 7. Help arrange for a closer relative to finagle a $200,000 loan made while the Chief Executive was in office? 8. Who’s Attorney General was later indicted? 9. Have been involved previously in a court suit charging him with gaining Federal Office though fraud?

Answers:

1. Franklin D. Roosevelt

2. Ulysses S. Grant

3. Thomas Jefferson

4. Lyndon B. Johnson

5. Franklin D. Roosevelt

6. Harry S Truman

7. Franklin D. Roosevelt

8. Warren Harding

9. Lyndon B. Johnson

75 years ago

Thursday, June 6, 1949

The Henning Advocate

A Boy Scout wiener roast will be held at Lindenwood Park on Leaf Lake starting at 5 p.m. Free lemonade and coffee will be served, but you are requested to bring three wieners.

100 years ago

Thursday, June 19, 1924

The Henning Advocate

The regular Soo freight, north bound last Wednesday afternoon, met with a bad accident owning to a broken wheel, about a mile south of town. Three box cars and the caboose left the rails. The coupling to the caboose broke early, but the box car connections held, bumping the cars over the rails and ties were badly battered for this distance. The caboose went down the embankment and landed right side up. The caboose contained a couple of passengers and the trainmen, to the amazement of all they were not injured.

Boys returning from the Boy Scout Camp on Anna Battle Lake, report having a good time. Over 60 boys have enrolled at the camp and all are fine fellows. The boys are busy making the log cabin, which they expect to finish in the near future. The environment and exhilarating lake breezes had an effect on the boys appetites. We must pity the poor cooks.

The Northwest Angle, that point of Minnesota that sticks up north from the international boundary in Lake of the Woods, is being settled this spring. It consists merely of timber land, principally cedar, spruce and tamarack, and some of the quarters have considerable value in timber. Soldiers with more than 19 months of service can prove up with seven months residence. Those who have no military service must put in three years before they can prove up. Filings are made at the US Land Office at Crookston, Minn.

125 years ago

Thursday, June 15, 1894

The Alliance Advocate

At 7:25 last Friday morning, a jubilant lot of excursionists assembled at the Henning depot, ready to board the special train which was to carry them on a sight-seeing trip to Duluth, commonly called the Zenith city. The excursion commenced at Wahpeton and, like a rolling snow ball, it assumed larger proportions as it progressed along the line. It required 23 passenger coaches to accommodate the crowed, and it is estimated that 1,500 persons were on board. Committeemen were sent out from both Duluth and Superior to meet and pull the visitors to their respective towns and all sorts of inducements were plied-from free boat rides to a free lunch.

James J. Jeffries, another sturdy young giant, has come out from the west to whip champion pugilists (boxer). At the arena of the Coney Island Athletic club last night he defeated Robert Fitzsimmons, world’s champions in two classes —middle weight and heavy-weight in 11 rounds of whirlwind fighting. He came to the ring a ranked outsider and left it the acknowledged master of the man he defeated.