5 years ago

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Citizen’s Advocate

I now pronounce you husband and wife, but before telling the new couple congratulations, don’t forget to click unmute on your screen. That was the situation facing Christina and Tyler Wohlwend on Saturday, June 6 as the rural Deer Creek couple officially tied the knot in front of their parents, a photographer and videographer in Eagle Bend, Minn. Meanwhile, their remaining friends and family watched from afar as part of a virtual wedding. The wedding was held digitally to coincide with social distancing guidelines due to the coronavirus. 

The past few weeks have been like a walk down memory lane for Vince and Mari Truax. A staple in the used car business for over 30 years, the Truax family sold their Deer Creek car lot several years ago. However, when that business closed last year, Vince said the family just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to get back into the business of helping match local residents with the vehicle of their dreams.

25 years ago

Thursday, June 21, 2000

The Henning Advocate

With a team of dedicated volunteers staffing it, the Deer Creek Museum opened on May 26. The museum, located in the old Deer Creek Fire Hall, is open each Friday and Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Admission is free. Displayed are newspaper clippings documenting the beginning of Deer Creek, which was called “Neepy Washkish” by Native Americans. Neepy Washkish means “stream of the deer.” Deer Creek was platted by its owner, Francis McNamara and recorded on May 23, 1882.

130 bikers will arrive in Henning Thursday morning during their “Jaunt with Jim” bicycle tour of Minnesota. Organizing the event is Jim Klobuchar, retired Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist. The riders begin and end their 500 mile trek in Vergas, visiting Fergus Falls, New York Mills, Hackensack, Wadena, Henning and Elbow Lake. The bikers will arrive around 8:30 a.m. in Henning and will be served a mid-morning snack by the Women of Today group at the park.

50 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, June 20, 1975

The schedule has been set for the thirty-eight annual Henning Harvest Festival. The Henning Commercial Club has set the schedule for events to be held Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, July 7, 8, and 9. Scheduled for the festival is the local talent show, softball games, a queen candidate program, frog and turtle races, a tractor pull and prize drawings. The Rogers Brothers Show will be on the midway all three days providing rides and concessions.

Climaxing the festival will be the coronation of a new Harvest Festival queen which will be held Wednesday evening. Sixteen girls are vying for the crown worn by Kim Peterson during the past year.

The 1940 graduating class of Henning High School will hold a 35 year reunion on July 19 at 7:30 p.m. at Barkey’s Resort on Otter Tail Lake. Reservations for the dinner and evening maybe made with Mrs. Ray Doolittle or Roland Bjorklund.

75 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, June 16, 1950

There will be a church softball meeting at the Henning school Friday evening after the game. All local people interested in softball lights are urged to attend.

Wind strikes Leaf Lakes area again! A severe wind-storm struck the Leaf Lakes – Ottertail area at 12:45 o’clock p.m. Monday and caused heavy damage in the area, including the total destruction of two large barns. The Advocate reporter took a drive through the storm area and found the greatest damage extending from the east side of Otter Tail Lake through the southwest side of East Leaf Lake. Barns that went down were located on the Richard Kauppi farm, on the county road to Deer Creek. The Moilanen brothers barn and silo were blown down, by the East Leaf sand-bar. Don Bondy reported that his two bath houses went down for the second time this spring. Bill Lee, on the sand-bar, said that his cottages and store were all moved from their foundations. Henning escaped the full force of the wind that was estimated at 100 miles an hour.

100 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, June 19, 1925

C. O. Christenson, Nels Martinson, and Iver Iverson returens last evening from a 4-day 600 mile sight-seeing trip in Mr. Chris Tenson’s Flivver. The trip took them from St. Paul, Stillwater, along the St. Croix to Taylor Falls and north to Pine Country, west to Mille Lacs, Ironton and Brainerd and on home via Wadena. The finest scenery that one could wish to see was reported by the travelers.

Time’s have changed in Henning and the thing that changed the most in Henning is baseball. In day’s gone by Henning put itself o the map as one of the fastest, liveliest, baseball towns in the northwest. The fans of the old team will tell you this. There is plenty of young material here. Many people do not believe in hiring professionals and paying huge sums of money to outsiders when we have good local talent right here.