30 years ago October 1, 1992

Bouncing back from a loss to snare a win against South St. Paul, the Hastings Raiders prevailed against the Packers with a final score of 24-7 some 30 years ago. The writeup by staff writer David Welch also made note that more big plays were needed as the Raiders were due to host Park on Friday in the St. Paul Suburban Conference, with the winner earning a shot at the Conference Title.

Responding to “recent negative portrayals” in the press, meanwhile, a group of 200 Hastings youth gathered to express themselves in the Senior High Parking lot on Thursday. Recent press had brought attention to drinking in Hastings, leading to questions of whether the local youth were different than other youth, the young people demonstrating in effective self-defense. Among their wants was a place to gather that was positive in atmosphere, eliminating or else lessening the prospective use of alcohol due to boredom.

Obituaries: Helen C. Dieter, age 90, of Hastings. Born May 10, 1902 to Albert and Pauline (Rozak) Falk, she married Norman Dieter in 1922 in South St. Paul. She was also a member of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish and the Council of Catholic Women.

Alice F. Iverson, age 89 of Hastings. Born June 16, 1903 in Minneapolis to James W. and Melissa (Bracy) Stokes, she was a 1921 graduate of West High School. Employed by two bakeries and a hotel, she married Herman Iverson on May 11, 1935 in Wisconsin.

Majorie Blakley of Lake City. Born in Carrol Iowa, she married Robert Blakley on May 24, 1944, moving to Read’s Landing in 1979. Employed as a nurse at Rochester State Hospital until it closed, she also worked at the Minnesota Veteran’s Home in Hastings.

Evelyn A. Bohlken, age 81 and the widow of George Bohlken. She was a member of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church.

80 years ago

October 9, 1942 Marvin Gergen, age 17 of Vermillion Street, is drowned in a barge mishap at 7:45 p.m. Tuesday as he was trying to secure a barge to its mooring at the Municipal Barge Terminal in St. Paul. Unable to swim, Gergen worked as a deckhand on the towboat Demopolis, with efforts by a fellow crew member to save Gergen being unsuccessful. A member of the St. Boniface

165 years ago THE EMIGRANT AID AND JOURNAL City of Nininger, Dakota County, Minnesota Territory, September 26, 1857 Our Election There appears to be some confusion in regard to our State and Territorial legislative functions this fall. The Territorial powers must continue in force until the first Monday in December, when the State authority takes their place, if the Constitution is accepted by the people.

The present Territorial officers will continue to hold their offices, provided the Constitution is adopted, until they give way to the State authority. But in case of the defeat of the Constitution, it becomes necessary to have Territorial officers selected to carry on the government, and therefore they must be chosen as usual.

On Tuesday, Oct. 18th, both elections are to take place, two separate ballots being required. The qualifications for voting for Territorial officers are the same as heretofore. Under Sec. 17th, Art. 15th of the proposed State Constitution ”every white male inhabitant over the age of 1 years, who shall have resided within the limits of the state for ten days previous to the day of election, may vote for all officers to be selected under this Constitution.” And must also have lived ten days in the Precinct where he votes. And no other class of persons can

December 5, 1857

Is the Sun inhabited?

Sir John Herschel concludes that the sun is a planet abundantly stored with inhabitants; his inference being drawn from the following arguments:–On the tops of the mountains of sufficient height, at an altitude where clouds very seldom reach to shelter them from the direct rays of the sun, are always found regions of ice and snow. Now, if the solar rays themselves conveyed all the heat on this globe, it ought to be hottest where their course is least interrupted. Again, aeronauts all confirm the coldness of the upper regions of the atmosphere. Since, therefore, even on our earth, the heat of any situation depends on the aptness of the medium to yield to the impression of the solar rays, we have only to admit that, on the sun itself, the elastic fluids composing its atmosphere, and the matter on its surface, are of such a nature as not to be capable of any excessive affection from its own rays. Indeed, this seems to be proved from the copious emission of them; for if the elastic fluids of the atmosphere, or the matter contained on the surface of the sun, were of such a nature as to admit of an easy chemical combination with its rays, their emission would be much impeded. Another well-known fact is, that the solar focus of the largest lens thrown into the air will occasion no sensible heat in the place where it has been kept for a considerable time, although its power of exciting combustion, when proper bodies are exposed, should be sufficient to fuse the most refractory substances. Thus from arguments based solely on the supposed physical constitution of that luminary he deduces the somewhat astonishing idea that the sun is inhabited.