46 years ago

HASTINGS GAZETTE July 15, 1976 Need relief on your property taxes? You could get it with something called the circuit breaker tax credit 46 years ago.

The credit, which included a filing deadline of August 31, was based on a resident’s ability to pay. Nonetheless, not all benefited. “It is possible that some taxpayers have failed to make application and therefore won’t be getting some money they are entitled to,” the Gazette reported in the unattributed article from July 15.

Offering a free breathing test for smokers between the ages of 30 and 70, meanwhile, was the Minnesota Lung Association. The Lung Association reported cases of emphysema and chronic bronchitis (the latter an inflammation of the bronchial tubes) at a rate of over one million per year, with diagnosis often delayed until the patient was permanently disabled.

As such, readers could get a free breathing test by heading on over to Hastings Junior High from Monday July 26 through Thursday July 29. The local county nursing service was on board, believing that the Lung Association’s efforts would help with preventative health care.

Shifting north to Washington County, the Gazette reported that children up to six years old could get a health screening for the Denver Developmental Test along with hearing, vision, , immunization, and various others tests if their parents would simply take them on July 15th to the Church of God in St. Paul Park. Benefits included a parental conference with the nurse.

76 years ago

THE HASTINGS GAZETTE June 28, 1946 Indicating a continuing interest in non-political work to benefit Hastings, some 30 organizations hoped that cooperation could take hold and continue, as the initial date for a City Wide Planning group of June 21, had been deferred from its original meeting at Union Hall, in the Community Club rooms.

Meanwhile in terms of moving the county seat, some 1,197 had retracted their signatures on a petition to move the county seat to South St. Paul. The move, which came after an initial 11,506 had signed the petition the change, was thought enough to invalidate the petition for an election to change the county seat.

News from Across the River THE PRESCOTT TRIBUNE November 17, 1921 GOLD MINE LURE FOR 300 YEARS Mexico City Contains Records of the old mine and Prospectors Have Reported Seeing the Ruins, but None Reached Them.

Reportedly hidden in the Sierra Madre mountains of Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico, was an old gold mine tied to “an isolated village” called Old Tyopa. With all the townspeople killed in a raid save an old priest, the survivor had left a map to the site with a Mexican family who had taken him in, the map passing through several hands.

The town where the priest had been taken in was reported as “Auga Fria, on the Faqui river.” Gold from several years of mining had been stored in an old tunnel, due to the impossibility of shipping out. As of 1921, no one had been known to have discovered the treasure, though the town ruins were visible from a place known as “Casa Blanca.”

151 years ago THE HASTINGS GAZETTE August 5, 1871 Treasure Found The story that money was recently exhumed on the island just south of this city, on the Wisconsin shore, by a party digging for geological specimens, is fully confirmed. We are further permitted to state that it consists of old Spanish coins. Or course speculation and conjecture run riot as to how, when, or by whom it was deposited there…–Hudson Democrat 156 years ago THE HASTINGS CONSERVER August 14, 1866 Married. In Hampton, July 29th, 1866, by Geo. Barbaras, esq., Mr. Charles A. Taft and Miss Lucelia E. Bow.

In St. Paul, July 28th, 1866, by the Rev. G. M. Staub, Mr. John Mier and Miss Anna Maria Riter.

In Hastings, Aug. 7th 1866, by the Rev. C. S. Lc Duc. Mr. George Robson and Miss Emily A. Eyre, both of this city.

159 years ago August 3, 1863 God is for the Union.—It was a happy and amusing conceit of a little four or five-year-old boy, who saw a rainbow a few days since, for the first time in his life. His father took him outdoors and showed him a fine one which spanned the sky, and the first exclamation of the child was the inquiry, “Hallo! Who put that there?” the father answered that “God put it there.” After looking intently and delightedly a few moments, he exclaimed again, “Oh! Red, white, and blue! God is for the Union, isn’t he?” That little boy’s head and heart are sound as a Bible. God is indeed for the Union.

Lessons of the Drought. How often have farmers read of the importance of draining, deep plowing, thorough cultivation of the soil and other elements of good husbandry!

And they have said to themselves, this is very good theory, and is very well for others to practice, but my land don’t need such fussing over. Yet, almost every year, in time of drought, we hear them wonder why their corn rolls up its leaves so much worse than that of more careful farmers, and why most of their crops dry badly in mid summer. Has not this been the experience of some the present year? They complain bitterly of the season, of Providence, of everything except their own actions. Now and then they visit other farms where the land is welldrained, where sub-soil plows are owned and used, where ethe manure (fertilizer) heap constantly building and no part of it suffered to waste, and where all the farm implements are kept bright by use; and here they find the crops almost unaffected by drought. Their eyes are opened a little, and they begin to see that there is something in thorough farming. We have no doubt that an inch or two deeper in plowing often repays the farmer a hundred or more dollars annually, in the crops saved from drought, or increased in amount.—American Agriculturist.