5 years ago

Citizen’s Advocate

Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016

Winter has begun and that means added stress to heating systems and infrastructure across the region. Henning School is no different and some of the district’s aging infrastructure dating back to the mid 1950’s is beginning to show its age. During its regularly scheduled meeting last week, the Henning School Board discussed different options to fix some of the infrastructure that was not  replaced with the school remodeling project in the 1990’s. 

The Henning and Browerville-Eagle Valley girl’s basketball teams wore shades of gray during Thursday’s non-conference game in Henning. The teams wore gray to raise awareness and money for Henning student Shyanne Jacobs. The Henning senior was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer this past summer and members of the girls basketball team wore T-shirts during Thursday’s warm up’s with the saying #ShyanneStrong.

25 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, Dec. 25, 1996

Nineteen Henning School District families, including 51 children, received gifts this year through the Henning Women of Today’s most ambitious Empty Stocking project to date. Carrie Jorgenson, Abbe Campbell and Terri Torgerson chaired this year’s project. Gift deliveries were made last week.

“I don’t know that we had all that much snow, but it was just that it blew where it hadn’t ought to be.” Those were the words of Jim Ahlfs, talking about the snow emergency that started on Monday, peaked on Tuesday and lasted through Wednesday morning. (December 16-18) Ahlfs has been in the business of snow removal for several cities and townships in the area since 1946. “There were roads you couldn’t get through,” he said, noting that he and his crew spent more than two days plowing snow, opening roads and keeping them open. Pat Ahlfs, who maintains a weather station at her home in Ottertail, said she recorded seven inches of new snow. 

50 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, Dec. 30, 1971

First year wrestling coach Mike Ranum saw his squad finish seventh in the annual Long Prairie Tournament.

Eight Red Cross Volunteers received their Red Cross caps and pins in a ceremony at the Henning Nursing home. The new volunteers are Esther Boline, Lillian Brutlag, Kathleen Cloeter, Verona Hursh, Mary Jane Meyer, Hilda Miller, Margaret Shelley and Ruth Smith. 

75 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, Dec. 31, 1946

About 2,000 people were in Henning last Saturday to shop and let their children see Santa Claus and enjoy themselves. 835 bags of candy were given out as the children enjoyed a free feature at the Rex Theater. 

100 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, Dec. 29, 1921

The people of Elmo Township have felt the need of a hall suitable for meetings for some time. This summer a hall has been under construction in Almora and on Wednesday the hall was dedicated by an appropriate program.

That fascinating pastime of chasing a wolf across Clitherall Lake in an auto, resulted in the drowning of Oscar Anderson. Three others jumped clear as the car broke through. The car and Anderson went down in 52 feet of water.

Christmas Greetings from the President of the United States

The Christmas season of 1921 comes to a world which I think we all realize has now set its feet fairly and firmly in the way of rehabilitation and of return to the safe ways of progress and construction.

Our own country may well regard itself as peculiarly fortunate both in its own bounteous resources and by reason of the opportunity which it has enjoyed of making its own good fortune and means to help others.

At this Christmas season, I hope and am very sure that our people will return devout thanks for the blessings that have been bestowed upon them, and renew their pledges of service and usefulness of earnest effort and safe advancement in behalf of the best things in life.

President Harding

125 years ago

The Henning Advocate

Thursday, Dec. 31, 1896

On last Monday, a young horse, belonging to Mr. Peake, died and was forth hauled away to the shore of the big lake. The verdict of the wolves who sat inquest was: “Died of distemper, a disease which in no wise detracts from his excellence as an article of food.”

Not long ago our friend, D.L. Wellman of Rose Lake, became the happy father of a bouncing boy. Their young heir has been named “Milton” commemorative of the fact that he is the first child born in the new town of Milton in Rose Lake Township. He is also the first white male child born in Rose Lake since its organization as a town.

Last week on Friday and Saturday this part of the country was visited by a storm seldom excelled in violence, even in this hyperborean region. On Thursday night there was a fall of six inches of snow and during the following two days the wind blew from the northwest a steady gale, drifting in enormous heaps of loose snow wherever anything furnished a nucleus around which it could gather.