5 years ago

Citizen’s Advocate

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

The May Ottertail City Council meeting began with a Variance Hearing regarding Dollar General’s request. At the April meeting, Allen Chase of Dollar General began the process of requesting a variance to build a store at the corner of County Road 1 and Highway 78. A variance was needed because the total percentage of impervious surface of the property once the store and parking lot is built would be greater than the 30% the ordinance allows.

The Landmark Center was abuzz on Tuesday night for Henning CHAT’s annual bike rodeo. The group gave away 52 helmets, eight new bikes, served 160 hot dogs and 93 kids in all registered for the event.

25 years ago

Thursday, May 19, 1999

The Henning Advocate

The Ottertail Lions helped in a big way recently with the building of a sign at the entrance to the new Glendalough State Park, which is located about 12 miles southwest of Ottertail just off Highway 78 or about 12 miles west of Henning on County Road 16. The new 12-foot steel sign was built at a Cass Lake fabrication company with the Ottertail Lions contributing $5,000, making their group the major contributor to the cause.

Less than a week after the Perham City Council voted 3-2 in favor of going ahead with the Henning natural gas project, two of its members this week have called for a special meeting to reconsider the action. Perham council members Larry Kempenick and Katy Strom called for the meeting, which is set for 5:30 p.m. today, Wednesday, May 19, at Perham City Hall. In the joint Perham-Henning meeting held May 11, it was Kempenick and Strom who voted against proceeding with the project. “I’m not worried,” commented Henning Mayor Dick Johnson. He said he believes the session will be used to “clear the air” among council members there who might still have questions about the project’s feasibility.

50 years ago

Thursday, May 17, 1974

The Henning Advocate

New officers of the Henning chapter of Future Homemakers of America (74-75) are Ruth Thalmann, president; Nadine Quick, vice president; Debra Taylor, secretary; Nancy Cordes, treasurer; Cindy Stueve, parliamentarian; Deb Cloeter, historian; and Joyce Smith, recreation.

75 years ago

Thursday, May 19, 1949

The Henning Advocate

Arion Award winners for this year were Duane Lokken, chorus and Audrey Peterson, band. The music students themselves vote on the candidates.

100 years ago

Thursday, May 22, 1924

The Henning Advocate

There isn’t a boy but wants to grow

Many and true at heart,

And every lad would like to know

The secret we impart.

He doesn’t desire to slack or shirk

Oh! Haven’t you heard him plead?

He’ll follow a man at play or work,

If only the man will lead.

Where are the men to lead today,

Sparing an hour or two,

Teaching the boy the game to play

Just as a man should do?

Village and slums are calling come,

Here are the boys, indeed,

Who can tell what they might become

If only the men will lead?

Motor and golf and winter sport

Fill up the time a lot.

But wouldn’t you like to feel you’d taught

Even a boy a knot?

Country and home depend on you,

Character most we need;

How can a boy know what to do

If there isn’t a man to lead?

Where are the men to lend a hand?

Echo it far and wide,

Men who will rise in every land,

Riding the “Great Divide.”

Nation and flag and tongue untie

Joining each class and creed.

Otter Tail County boys would do right

But where are the men to lead?

125 years ago

Thursday, May 18, 1894

The Alliance Advocate

At 10 years of age country lad on a backwoods farm on Prince Edward Island. At 13 he had become a clerk in a country store at a salary of $30 a year. At 18 he was a college student, supporting himself by working in the evenings as a bookkeeper. At 20 he had won a scholarship in the University of London, in competition with all other Canadian students. At 25 he was professor of philosophy in Acadia college, Nova Scotia. At 38 he was appointed president of Cornell University. At 44 he is chairman of President McKinley’s special commission to the Philippines. In this summary is epitomized the career of Jacob Schurman. It is a romance of real life such as is not unfamiliar in America.

In far off Bombay, on the shores of the Arabian Sea, is the most elaborate hospital for animals in the world. This hospital has its in-patients and its out-patients and is as comprehensive in its plan of work as any hospital for the relief of distressed human beings. Cattle, horses and dogs are taken as in-patients and among the out-patients almost every living thing is treated except man. There are about forty buildings large and small, within the hospital grounds.