5 years ago

Citizen’s Advocate

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

The Henning Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, formerly the Henning Nursing Home, will be closing. The decision to close the facility was made because the average daily occupancy of the care center has declined in recent years and has reached a point of where it cannot be sustained anymore. 

This summer the Henning School summer lunch program will be expanding from just bag lunches at summer rec, to a community breakfast and lunch every week day in June and from July 8-12.

25 years ago

Thursday, May 26, 1999

The Henning Advocate

High waters this spring are threatening to erode portions of the spit of land forming the legendary Otter’s Tail, for which the county and city are named, and could lead to the river along the lakeside running dry. The Ottertail City Council has discussed the problem in recent meetings and it is hoped the lake association and other volunteer groups might be able to employ a stop-gap solution such as sand bagging until rip-rap can be installed at a low-water time of year. In last Thursday’s meeting of the city council it was explained that the tail was breached once back in the 1960s and the river alongside the lake did go dry for a time.

“Our hope is that we can somehow turn this around. We’re not giving up on this project.” That was the word from NSP representative Mike Murphy Friday, after Perham City Council members Katy Strom, Larry Kempenich and Keith Huntley reversed the decision to allow the natural gas project between Perham and Henning to proceed. This vote was taken at a meeting called by Kempenich and Strom in Perham on Wednesday, May 19. While Perham Mayor Marlin Zitzow said he thought the meeting would just air out some feelings and offer more information, similar to a second meeting Henning city council had called last month, Kempenich and Strom instead used the meeting to make a new motion that Henning build the complete gas pipeline itself and hook up at Ottertail.

50 years ago

Thursday, May 24, 1974

The Henning Advocate

In the largest voter turnout in school board election in the past 20 years in Henning, Wayne Peterson and Derald Cordes were elected to the local board. A total of 365 residents cast their ballots.

75 years ago

Thursday, May 26, 1949

The Henning Advocate

The Park Region Committee at a meeting of the camp committee held at St. Paul’s Lutheran church in Henning decided to purchase the 62 acre island in East Battle Lake.

100 years ago

Thursday, May 29, 1924

The Henning Advocate

“Cameography” is a new art by means of which it is possible to produce the likeness of the human features by the aid of photography in copper, bronze and other metals, and in marble. 

Heat generated by the bodies of chickens roosting in prune trees in an orchard at Marysville, Calif., is said to have saved the fruit blossoms of those trees. At least, trees not used by the chickens were badly damaged.

The machine for condensing buttermilk, which has been installed in the creamery, was running last week and it sure is quite an outfit. It produces a fine powder which can be placed in containers and kept indefinitely. All that is needed is to add water to it and you will have nice fresh buttermilk.

125 years ago

Thursday, May 25, 1894

The Alliance Advocate

About 20 minutes past 2 on Wednesday morning fire was discovered issuing from the roof of the big warehouse of Andrews and Gage elevator. An alarm was at once sounded, and the portion of the fire department soon had the house in position and the engine pumping at its full capacity. It was evident from the start that it was worse than useless to attempt to save the elevator and the efforts of the fire boys were turned toward saving the adjacent property. The heat grew more and more intense as the flames got a firmer grip and at one time it was a question whether Henry Funkley’s building to the south could be saved. There was no wind and the good rain was falling, which the citizens of Henning Amy well have cause for congratulating themselves on.

Little Artmarhoke and Zakriner, the Eskimo twin sisters from Alaska, will soon be taken away from the uncertain climate of New York, and will make their home near Seattle, with Capt. Minot Bruce, their adopted father who brought them here. “What will be the future of these little girls from our most northern possessions? Coming from a primitive race, will they be able to hold their own in our civilized communities? It may be that they will not equal the keenest of the white race, but in all probability they will surpass many of our weaker people,” said a reporter of the Roosevelt’s Rough Riders. “While the Eskimos are simpler, kinder and quieter than our Indians and all together different from the negro, the reason why these little girls are physical and fine featured equally desirable arched by the average New Yorker.”