5 years ago

Citizen’s Advocate

Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019

As the old saying goes—one man’s trash is another man’s igloo. Well, that may not be exactly how the saying goes, but for Henning School Librarian Pam Wiese it may have well been. Wiese, along with dozens of volunteers, turned approximately 600 gallon milk jugs into a life-sized igloo for the school library. The creation was in honor of the annual Scholastic Book Fair at the school, which was under the theme arctic adventure.  “In February, when we found out it was going to be arctic adventure, we just started thinking how are we going to make an igloo,” said Wiese. “We got on Pinterest and said, ‘Oh we have to do that.’”

Sheriff deputies reported that a fish house partially fell through the ice on the east side of Rush Lake, northeast of the town of Ottertail and southeast of Perham. The incident was reported at 3:28 p.m. on Nov. 26, near Oak Point Drive. Nobody was in the fish house when the incident took place, according to sheriff deputies.

25 years ago

Thursday, Dec. 1, 1999

The Henning Advocate

The year was 1958 and a young New York Mills High School graduate was about to pay $150 to an employment agency to find him a job in the banking industry. Little did he know that more than four decades would fly by so quickly and that he would find himself retiring this week from his post as Vice President and Office Manager at the First National Bank in Ottertail. Duane Fraki will close the banking chapter of his life this Friday, as he ends 41 1/2 years in that industry.

The Henning pool exploratory committee has been meeting for several weeks and has reached the point of drafting a community survey. The survey, which will be distributed this weekend with the help of local boy scouts, features not only questions on the pool but other parks and recreations needs of the community.

The Henning City Council will have many items on their agenda for their meeting Tuesday, Dec. 7, including the possibility of giving some land to the county. The county intends to pay for the sewer, water and electric lines to be put in on the land. The land is adjacent to the current state of Minnesota building along Highway 108.

50 years ago

Thursday, Dec. 6, 1974

The Henning Advocate

First National Bank’s new drive-in window is scheduled to open next Monday.

The Henning Elementary School and School District 545 have been presented with award certificates in recognition of the school meeting or surpassing the set standards of communicable disease protection among 1973-74 school children, according to the Minnesota Department of Health.

Mrs. Marcella Stone, School Nurse, the school administration and the medical community of Henning were cited as being those responsible for Henning meeting or surpassing the standards set by the Minnesota Department of Health, the Minnesota State Medical Association and the Minnesota Congress of Parents and Teachers, Inc. These standards maintain that 90 percent of the children entering school for the first time must be fully immunized against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and polio and 100 percent be immunized against rubella and measles.

75 years ago

Thursday, Dec. 6, 1949

The Henning Advocate

With no filings for village offices in Henning only 72 voters went to the polls here Tuesday, and had there not been some rivalry for the office of trustee there would have been less.

Henry Holmgren was again reelected for mayor and received 64 votes to Dr. T. J. Theurer’s 3.

There was some unexpected opposition for trustee as incumbent R. T. Nelson nosed out “sticker” candidate M. J. Trana, 31 to 27.

Bert Gray was elected justice of the peace having 15 votes.

The village curfew will here after be strictly enforced in Henning. All children under the age of 16 years will have to be off the streets or out of public places by 9:30 p.m. every evening unless accompanied by their parents or guardians. Parents are urged to cooperate.

100 years ago

Thursday, Dec. 4, 1924

The Henning Advocate

Adolph Sauglow, well known farmer who resides seven miles south of here, was instantly killed in a runaway accident last Friday afternoon. Mr. Sauglow had been in Henning shopping during the afternoon and about 4 p.m. started for home. About a mile out of town, just south of the German graveyard, a couple of horseback riders, trying to pass him frightened Mr. Sauglows team. The horses young and spirited as they were, became uncontrollable at once. Mr. Sauglow was thrown headlong into the frozen ground. In the falling it was thought his neck was broken, but examination by the physicians showed it was not. He was dead when picked up.