5 years ago

Citizen’s Advocate

Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2019

In its first state tournament in program history the Henning Hornets went toe-to-toe with the eventual second place finisher Waterville-Elysian-Morristown in the opening round and lost in a dramatic five sets match against BBE in the consolation bracket. The losses end the Hornets’ season with a record of 24-9 in the teams first-ever Henning only girls state tournament.

The City of Henning could be facing an approximate $3.5 million electrical upgrade project in the near future. During its regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, which lasted approximately 3 ½ hours, the Henning City Council heard from Chad Rasmussen of DJR Engineering about a 10-year plan concerning the city’s electrical system. Rasmussen said the last time a similar study was completed was in 1982.

The Henning City Council will seek sealed bids for the former Washateria building that is currently owned by the city. The sealed bids will be due by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 3 with a minimum bid of $25,000. During its regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday night, the council agreed to sell the building to the highest bidder. Individuals who submit a sealed bid and meet the $25,000 minimum requirement will be allowed to raise their bid during the Dec. 3 meeting.  This is the second time in three years that the city council has attempted to sell the building through a sealed bid process. 

25 years ago

Thursday, Nov. 10, 1999

The Henning Advocate

There were no injuries in the collision that took place on Inman Road and Douglas Avenue. Fillmore Trites of Henning was traveling southwest on Inman when he collided with a 1988 GMC pick-up driven by Jacob Bristow of Henning. Bristow’s truck was totaled. Trites was driving a 1999 Ford Windstar minivan which suffered heavy damage. Bristow’s vehicle contained a passenger, Becky Olson, also of Henning. No one was injured in the accident, though off-duty Henning police officer Kyle Hoehne issued Trites a citation for failure to stop at a stop sign. The accident occurred around 3 p.m. on November 3.

Crews will be purging the Henning natural gas pipeline this week, with service to begin on November 15, according to NSP officials. The pipeline above is the beginning of Henning’s portion of the pipeline, which is connected to Perham through Ottertail’s pipeline.

“Veterans Day is a day when Americans come together to honor veterans who have served to defend our democracy, home and abroad,” states Henning VFW Auxiliary president Sharon Vik. In honor of the veterans of Foreign Wars 100th anniversary, the local VFW Auxiliary #7785 will host a soup and sandwich supper for all veterans, spouses or widows on Thursday, Nov. 11. The supper will be held at 5:30 p.m. at the Henning Senior Citizen Center. A short program will also be presented.

50 years ago

Thursday, Nov. 8, 1974

The Henning Advocate

Henning Hornets win district title, finish season in Region 6 competition. The girls ended the season with 13 wins, 5 losses overall. The Wadena girls downed Henning, 52-46, in region play. The Hornets took the district championship with the win over Glenwood and Melrose.

Guse named MVP on Cobber football team. Randy Guse, Concordia’s versatile fullback from Henning, has been named the Cobbers most valuable football player for 1974.

Members of the Henning Commercial Club will hear Richard Donat, president of the Staples Development Corporation at the regular meeting of the club Monday night. The guest speaker will report to the local club on how Staples has come to enjoy recent industrial growth. The need for more progress in the community and for encouraging industry development in Henning was discussed at the last meeting. At that time, it was pointed out that Henning needed to show more aggressive interest and action to attract any small businesses and industry.

75 years ago

Thursday, Nov. 8, 1949

The Henning Advocate

With passports in hand, Henry Grothar of Deer Creek, John Steve, and Herman Meyer of Henning, boarded a transatlantic airliner Saturday afternoon and flew to Germany, where they will visit relatives.

Carl and Roger Stephens have opened their fine new recreation parlor and lunch counter in Henning and will have a grand opening Saturday.

The building is a single story cement block structure with part basement and is attractively finished on the inside. The are three snooker tables and two pool tables as well as two horseshoe lunch counters and a fountain. 

The poorest deer hunting season in years from a “meat” angle came to a close this Wednesday and many local hunters returned without a filling. The larger groups of hunters going to the north woods from here have not returned as yet, but the nimrods who have returned report that the deer are not too plentiful and lack of snow made hunting difficult.

Those bringing deer to the locker plant by Wednesday noon were: Jerome Schempf, Ralph Syverson, Melvin Hendricks, Henry Holmgren, John Peyerl, Melvin Johnson, Herb Anderson and Walt Young.

100 years ago

Thursday, Nov. 13, 1924

The Henning Advocate

Newspapers, preachers and students have agreed that the world is moving at a pretty fast clip. The divorce mill is keeping up with the rest of the human machinery. Moonshine is as common as water in some towns, and high school girls in the larger cities are brazen with rouge and addicted to the use of the deadly cigarette.

But, there is apace in California where the simple life prevails. There everybody attends strictly to his own business; everybody goes to bed by the clock regularly at a certain hour; every man and women is usefully imployed for the day and there are no strikes or lockouts. There is no gossip, no back biting, neither drinking nor smoking, and on Sundays everyone attends service in the chapel. No profane or indeed word is ever spoken in that place in California. But let us proceed. The town is San Quentin, famous as the state prison town.

Last Friday was the day of days. All the grades had a party in their respective rooms, but above all came a surprise party on Miss Slater. It must have been a real exciting event because of all the stampeding reported by Miss Boyum in the room below. It reminded her of the “March of the Ten Thousand.”