10 Years Ago

HASTINGS STAR-GAZETTE August 26, 2010

ET CETERA (and other things) LeDuc Historic Estate (Star Gazette photo by Chad Richardson) farm • food • fun They explored the grounds, learned more about agricultural adventures of the William LeDuc family, listened to a story or two, met the chickens who now live there, and ate some food.

The crowd came throughout the day to enjoy the Farm, Food, and Fun Day at the LeDuc Historic Estate Saturday.

The day included demonstrations, live farms animals, story time, educational seminars, needlework seminars, crafts, a flea market, bake sale, lunch and more.

One of the highlights of the fair was Hastings historian Dick Darsow talking about eh newly -restored sod-busting plow and the Bateman Plow Manufacturing Co. of Hastings, the original manufacture of the machine (see separate story on 12B).

The blacksmith who helped Darsow, Richard Carlson, also of Hastings, led demonstrations on blacksmithing throughout the day. Botan Anderson of Mystic Prairie Farm demonstrated the use of scythes and made hay by hand in the community garden.

(people in photos: Chloe Deaver; Dick Carlson; Katie Platson; and Julia Schumacher).

Engagements: Trevor Johnson and Christina Birkholz; Theodore Morrison and Danielle Evan; Nicholas Russell and Christine Roerig.

Weddings: Cory Schmidt and Rachel Hakseth on May 22, 2010 at Our Savior’s Evangelical Church in Hastings.

Birth Announcements: Caden Michael Raway on July 17, 2010 to Blaine and Jen Raway of Apple Valley CA…Grandparents are Mike and Jen Raway of Hastings, and John and Barb Bauer of Hastings.

Ilya Wallace Holmes Werner on July 12, 2010 to Jenelle Reibel and Willy Werner of Hastings…. Grandparents are Diane Reibel of Hastings, Ken Reibel of Columbia Heights, , Patricia Werner of Hastings, George Werner of Hastings. Great grandparents are Lawrence and Lorraine Werner, Wallace and Agnes Holmes of Hastings.

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August 30, 1990 Corrections An accident was reported incorrectly in the Aug. 23 issue of the Star Gazette on Page 4A. It should have read: The damage was estimated at $1,050 in a twocar accident Aug. 13 in the Midtown Shopping Center lot. The driver of the cars were…According to Hastings Police, the collision occurred approximately 100 feet from the entrance to the parking lot. The Sutton car entered the parking lot and did not see the Missling car pulling out. The Missling car hit the Sutton car on the right side.

A sports story on Page 14A Aug. 23 incorrectly reported the winnings of arm wrestler John Klemke. He won the Iowa State Fair in 1987, won the Midwest Regionals in 1988 and took second at the state fair and won again at the fair in 1989 and 1990.

Local reservists uncertain of call-up in Mideast crisis (phot) Spec. Kelly Whiteford works on medical records for the army reserve. (Army Reserve Photo).

SUMMARY: It’s unclear when and whether any armed services reserved unites including Hastings residents will be called into active duty during the current crisis in the Middle East. But the crisis has certainly caused a stir among area reservists and recruiting offices.

by Steve Ede, staff writer The wind, heat and sane of the desert standoff in Saudi Arabia is half a globe away. But the massing of U. S. and Iraqi troops across from each other on the Saudi- Iraqi border is having an impact locally.

Last week President George Bush announced the activation of reservists. Neither Bush now the Pentagon specified troop numbers, but estimates out of Washington are around 400,000.

It’s an announcement that’s stimulated every reservist into wondering whether he or she will be traveling in the near future.

Hastings native Kelly Whiteford is an army reservist in the…Medical Detachment. Whiteford recently moved to South St. Paul.

“No, I have not been called up,” Whiteford said… Historical Notes Sept. 1, 1968—Erickson Marine Inc. opens.

Sept. 2, 1852—William and Mahala Felton arrive to run Buckthorn Trading Post. She is the first white woman to settle in Hastings site.

Sept. 5, 1905—First 50 women patients arrive at Hastings State Asylum.

Sept. 2, 1945—Japan surrendered, marking end of World War II.

Local weather Hastings Area Weather Week of Aug. 22-29 Wed. Aug. 22: High 80, Low 52, no precipitation; Thurs. Aug. 23: High 79, Low 60 , no precipitation; Friday, Aug 24: High 88, Low 61, no precipitation; Saturday Aug. 25: High 88, Low 64, precipitation 0.18; Sunday, Aug. 26: High 84, Low 61, no precipitation; Monday, Aug. 27: High 88, Low 65, no precipitation; Tuesday, Aug. 28: High 81, Low 66, no precipitation; Wednesday, Aug. 29: High *, Low 55, no precipitation.

Data compiled by Carpenter Nature Center T- trace of precipitation.

* Not available at press time. 50 Years Ago HASTINGS GAZETTE Thursday, September 10, 1970 Your gift to the Hastings United Fund helps seek cures for heart disease and cancer — and for dozens of other social and medical problems as well.

Funeral Services for Mrs. C. L. Simpson, 60, In Prescott Wed.

Prescott residents were shocked and grieved to hear of the sudden passing of one of their prominent citizens, Mrs. C. L. Simpson, 60 wife of their former druggist, who succumbed while en route to Minneapolis.

Surviving besides her husband are a son Jeff of St. Paul and a daughter Mrs. Darold Wright of Prescott, also five grandchildren.

A visitation was held at the Prock Funeral Home from 3:00 p.m. Tuesday until time for the funeral, conducted Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. in the United Church of Christ, Rev. Willard Sherman officiating. Interment was made in the Pine Glen cemetery.

Atty. General Says Raise Voted By County Board Is Illegal, Against Statutes.

The $3,000 a year raise the Dakota County Board voted themselves on June 2, is illegal, says an option issued Tuesday by the Attorney General’s Office.

The commissioners voted to increase their annual salary from $6,000 to $9,000 a year, beginning Jan. 1, 1971.

The opinion said the June 2 meeting of the county board was not legal because the notification of public meeting did not satisfy the statute regarding such meetings and the action was not published 30 days prior to the opening of filings for office.

In the first instance, the action was taken following the regular meeting, on June 2, which the Attorney General found irregular. The attorney did not list the irregular meeting place or the lack of official notice of the meeting as cause for his decision. The meeting was held in the county welfare office in South St. Paul.

In the second reasoning — The action of the board was taken prior to the 30 day before filing deadline, but was not published in the official county paper until after the deadline.

Apparently the county board can take no action at this time but may re-present the increase at a board meeting at a later date. According to County Attorney J. Jerome Kluck, no action can be taken for two years. Action must be taken between Jan. 1, 1972 and 30 days before filings open for the county board seats.

Kluck said he did not expect the county board to appeal the opinion.

Canoeist Stops Here Enroute From Arctic To Gulf Of Mexico An overnight visitor in Hastings, Tuesday, was Barry Lane, youthful adventurer from Grand Rapids, enroute from the Arctic Circle to the Gulf of Mexico, by canoe.

Lane and his Eskimo companion, Sam Pokeela, camped overnight on the Mississippi River levee here. Pokeela is the third traveling companion Land has had since he started his venture May 27. He has traveled 3,600 miles and has 1,400 left down the Mississippi to New Orleans.

Asked why he took on the unusual venture, Lane said, “It is something I had to do, to be satisfied with myself.” The trip is sponsored by a retired Waverly, Iowa, Industrialist, Vern D. Schield.

Lane and his companions have been living off the land along the way as far as Winnipeg, where “we started seeing people.” Prior to that most of the moving scenery consisted of wild animals, including many polar bears.

Lane says his 16 foot specially built boat weighs 160 pounds so he will be locking through dams on his way south from here.

(photo) Mr. and Mrs. Ray Stoffel, Rte. 2, and youngest grandson, Mike Nicklay, sone of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Nicklay…West 15th, all ride in the 1912 wedding buggy given to Rays mother as wedding present in October, 1912. A harness also went with the buggy as a present. Ray has hung the relic high in a building at his home and got it down for the parade on Labor Day at Vermillion. The Stoffels were dressed in the era of 1912 for the occasion.

114 Years Ago CANNON FALLS BEACON September 14, 1906 The Other Way About “I suppose you are wondering if marriage is a failure.”

“Not at all. A much more perplexing question is up to me.”

“What is it?”

“Is single life a success?”

INDUSTRIAL FAIR and HARVEST FESTIVAL at Cannon Falls Friday and Saturday, October 12 and 13 The businessmen of Cannon Falls extend a cordial invitation to their friends throughout Goodhue, Rice and Dakota Counties to attend and participate in a Harvest Festival and Industrial Fair in this beautiful little city Friday and Saturday October 12th and 13th, 1906.

The entertainment will consist of the best horse races ever given in Goodhue County: a good ball game each day: street amusements and sports, band music: Eminent speakers. Prizes will be given for the best of everything our country friends raise on the farm. The list of prizes will appear in the Beacon at an early date. Make your arrangements to come and have the time of your life.

Don’t forget the date Friday and Saturday October 12 and 13.

LOST: A pointer dog, white and liver spotted. If found on whereabouts of the same known notify Supt. A. W. Newman for liberal reward.

157 Years Ago THE HASTINGS CONSERVER September 8, 1863 MARBLE WORKS.— Mr. Aldrach has arrived in town with men and marble, and is now ready to fill all orders. Shop on Second Street, below Tyler.

FALL GOODS.—Call at Pratt’s and order a suit of fall clothing. You will need it, and you can’t be better suited anywhere in the North-West. Try it and see.

NOTICE.—The next meeting of the Dakota County Agricultural Society will be held in Hampton on Thursday, Sept. 10th. Let there be a general attendance.

Territorial Dispatch 163 Years Ago THE EMIGRANT AID AND JOURNAL City of Nininger, Dakota County, Minnesota Territory October 10, 1857 The Mississippi River.

This is the most important river in North America, and with the Missouri its principal confluent, is the largest in the world. It extends 3,100 miles, and if we regard the Missouri as its continuation it is 4,500 miles long. It would reach from New York across the Atlantic, and extend through France, Germany, Austria, and Turkey in Europe, and penetrate the remote Caspian Sea in Oriental Asia. The average width from the Falls of St. Anthony, in Minnesota, to its delta on the Gulf of Mexico, is nearly half a mile; its average depth 110 feet. It is always navigable to the mouth of the Ohio, and the upper part for seven or eight months in the year. Its course is from north to south, and the trapper descending the river may take with him the furs of the animals that inhabit its source, and exchange them for the sugar, and tropical fruits that are gathered at its banks below.