5 years ago

Monday, Jan. 7, 2020

Citizen’s Advocate

Christmas came early for Perham 180, and with it, a life changing amount of money to help local residents during some of the most trying times of the year.  St. Helen’s Episcopal Church requested and recently received $5,000 from the Episcopal Church that will be divided between Perham 180 and Someplace Safe in Wadena. 

Lisa Augustus has spent just about her entire life in the healthcare field. She has worked as a nurse at a long-term care facility to hospice and everything in-between. After taking a brief hiatus from the medical field, Augustus is back at a place she considers home—an assisted living and independent living facility in Henning.

25 years ago

Thursday, Jan. 8, 2000

The Henning Advocate

At times, it seemed this day would never come in Henning. The natural gas project finally reached the groundbreaking stage in late July after many setbacks. Crews from the City of Henning and Perham as well as NSP representatives and Mueller Pipeline, put their shovels to the ground and officially open the project. Crews have spent much of the late summer and fall around Henning and the outlying area, laying the popeline in preparation for gas flow. The pipes were purged and the first hook-ups began in mid-November.

This fish couldn’t get away—luckily, this fisherman won’t have to spend the rest of his life telling about the one that got away. Don Peterson caught this twenty pound northern on West Leaf Lake this past week. He had seen the fish three times before finally landing the big prize. Ice fishing finally began in earnest in the last few weeks, as temperatures began to stabilize at a cooler plateau and the ice could begin to form a thick enough layer on the lakes. Despite a warm up over New Year’s weekend, the fisherman are headed out to land themselves a trophy winner like this one.

50 years ago

Thursday, Jan. 9 1975

The Henning Advocate

Some 7,262 persons had a birthday or an anniversary made just a bit more special at some time in the past 25 years during which the Henning Birthday Show on KWAD Radio gave away that many birthday or anniversary cakes on that number of broadcast. “The old candelighter” of the Birthday Show, Ralph Webster of Henning, gave away his final cake on December 31 as he gave the 25-year-old birthday wheel a final spin to determine the 7,262nd winner before the show went off the air.Although Webster has completed 25 years, four months and two weeks as the host of the Henning Birthday Show, he will remain with KWAD of Wadena and be associated with a daily noon weather show.

75 years ago

Thursday, Jan. 5, 1950

The Henning Advocate

Rescue operations of northern pike in the springs at Gourd lake has been going full blast this week. With the assistance of state crews 700 northerns were rescued Monday and placed in Middle Leaf Lake. A total of 275 were taken out Tuesday and placed in Lake Ethel before the crew “froze out” by the bitter cold. The fish ran from eight inches to two feet in length.

Jim Hanson reports the ice harvest was completed last week in record time and that 2,000 cakes were put up. He added that it was the best ice he has ever seen come out of the lake.

The local fire department was called out Saturday afternoon to the home of Loe Niema. A small fire in the bath house, which was recently remodeled, was extinguished. The inside of the building was seriously damaged.

100 years ago

Thursday, Jan. 4, 1925

The Henning Advocate

“Youth must be served” and the vanquished alumni basketball five conceded victory with good sportsmanship to their conquerers last Wednesday night. There was a fine attendance at the contest, which showed the intense rivalry and interest that was known to exist between the two factions. The former net stars of the Black and Orange who performed so creditably on the court were: Owen Thompson, Harvey Chrsitenson, Marvin Skorheim, Virgil Walker, (all of ’24) Cyrus Barker ’20, and Selmer Drage ’22. At the contest, the game promised to be one of these hair-raising, heart-thrilling, see-saw affairs. The first quarter was fast and clean. Close guarding accounted for the low score and at the whistle, the count was 5-4, high school. The high school, much more soon worked their team work to a good advantage and forged to a slight lead. At the midway mark, the former luminaries still found themselves on the small end of a 15-12 high school. The physical condition of the losers was a big item in determining the result, and take the defeat in sportsmanlike manner, 29-18 high school.