This week, we celebrate comraderie by digging into some older archives from the once and present Journal, begun in Prescott, Wisconsin and now greatly expanded, to see what it can tell us about Hastings history. Growing up roughly in tandem but on opposite sides of the Great River divide, Prescott, Wisconsin and Hastings, Minnesota share a good deal in common, but also have their own distinctive identities. May our distinctions not erase the common ground we all call home, as the fallout from COVID-19 and other contemporary challenges continues. 10 Years Ago PRESCOTT JOURNAL August 5, 2010 Thirtieth class reunion for Hastings Class of 1980 The 30th reunion for Hastings class of 1980 is Saturday, August 21st, 2010.

1:00-3:00 p.m.: Kickball Tournaments at Wallin Park in Hastings. Classmates are invited to participate as a player or just cheer on tournament teams. Alcoholic beverages are allowed in the park.

6:00 p.m.: Cocktails, dinner and socializing at Hastings Country Club.

Price includes full buffet dinner, dessert and two-drink tickets Attire is whatever you are most comfortable in.

To register, mail checks for $45/person to Hastings Class of 1980 (Eagan address follows) 30 Years Ago

PRESCOTT JOURNAL September 1990 Bridge Dedication Supplement Bridge Specs: Construction and Design Figures Bid Price $12.377 million; Length 684 feet; Width 66 feet; Clear Channel Width 160 feet; Vertical Clearance Closed (normal water) 32 feet; Concrete 12,200 cubic yards; Steel Bar Reinforcement 900,000 pounds; Steel Girders 3 million pounds; Tiling 50,000 linear feet; Design Time 14 manyears; Construction Time (Prime Contractor Only) 50,000 man hours; Construction Start Date March 15, 1989; Traf- _c Opening September 21, 1990; Dedication September 28,

1990; Contract Completion December 1, 1990.

Box Ads: R. L. Johnson Jewelers, a locally owned and operated company, has served the Hastings community for over

_ve years. We presently have _ve highly quali_ed people

on staff to help meet your needs. R. Johnson Jewelers, Ince, Midtown Shopping Center, Hastings, Minnesota (photo) Richard L. Johnson, President Intek Weatherseal Products Inc.; 800 East 10 Street; Hastings, Minnesota 55033-2299 Bridge builders _nd homes in area

When work wraps up on the new bridge and demolition of the old bridge, Prescott will seem to get smaller, as the many construction workers head back home. But some of them will not have to go far. Two of the project leaders will be staying.

Lunda Construction foreman Mark Gehl has purchased a home in Prescott. He plans on staying, and expects that Lunda will have enough work for him in the area.

Lunda on-site project engineer Duane Davick has moved to Hastings. Moving is not unusual for Davick. In his 11 years with the _rm, he has lived in Iowa and Georgia as well.

Davick also expects to have enough work from Lunda contracts in the area to stay around here. He plans on staying as long as the work holds out.

Davick is already busy on another job. He splits his time between Prescott and Hudson, where he is working on an overpass for the Carmichael Interchange near the dog track. That job won’t be completed until next June, Davick said.

State on-site engineer Jim Helstad are also working at the interchange project.

Ingalls is from Pepin, Wis. and Helstad is from Eau Claire.

60 Years Ago January 7, 1960 Kennedy Throws Hat in Ring January 2 Washington I am announcing today my candidacy for the Presidency of the United States. The Presidency is the most powerful of_ce

in the Free World. Through its leadership can come a more vital life for our people. In it are centered the hopes of the globe around us for freedom and a more secure life. For it is in the Executive Branch that the most crucial decisions of this century must be made in the next four years—how to end or alter the burdensome arms race, where Soviet gains already threaten our very existence—how to maintain freedom and order in the newly emerging nations—how to rebuild the stature of American science and education—how to prevent the collapse of our farm economy and the decay of our cities— how to achieve, without in_ation or unemployment, expanded economic growth bene_ting all Americans—and how to give direction to our traditional moral purpose, awakening every American to the dangers and opportunities that confront us…I believe that the Democratic party has a historic function to perform in the winning of the 1960 election, comparable to its role in 1932. I intend to do my utmost to see that victory is won.

January 14, 1960 BOX ADs: Coiffure Beauty Salon, (illustration) HOURS—9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sat.—9 a.m. to 3 p.m., CLOSED MONDAYS, True Artistry in Every Hair Style Design 211 East 3rd St., Hastings, MN Geneva7-5114 Keepsake Diamond Rings, Johnson’s Jewelry, 209 E. 2nd St., Hastings, GE 7-9115 Hastings Lumber Mart…–is the place to stop-shop and save No Down Payment—36 Months to Pay Here you can _nd everything needed for home building,

remodeling or repairing at prices that mean more value for each dollar spent.

HASTINGS, MINNESOTA, GE 7-4116 Telephone for Your Next Appointment At Dorothy’s Beauty Shop Please phone toll free to Hastings GE 7-4197 McGree Shoes January Clearance, Fall and Winter Shoes, Bargains Galore, Starting January 14th 50 pair Naturalizer Heels, Reg. $12.98, now $7.88; Snowboots, regular $9.95 to $10.95, now $7.88; 90 pair Connie & Jacqueline Heels, Reg. $7.95 to $10.95, now $4.98; 60 pair

Paris Fashion Flats…now $2.98; OUR 98c Counter Many Great Values; 40 pair Connie Wedge Casuals, Reg. $6.95 to $7.45, now $4.88; MENS SPECIALS Moccabouts, Reg. $7.95, now $4.88; 40 pair Pedwins, Reg. $9.95 to 10/95, now $5.98; 30 pair Roblee, Reg. $13.95, now $7.88 Hastings MN.

80 Years Ago January 11, 1940 Box Ad: Walbridge & Engelbert, Directors of Funeral Services. Call E. E. Leseman, Phone 177 or Hastings Phone 811.

100 Years Ago PRESCOTT TRIBUNE March 4, 1920 A soldier coming home from Europe before air travel Mid-Atlantic, Jan. 15, 1920 Dear Mrs. Castelloe:— I am writing to my friends now so as to save time when I get home or then it will mean hard and study work…We were in a big storm last night and we are having a very strong headwind to go against yet. The waves are about 50 feet high and the nose of the ship goes up and down that far. It is not very pleasant to say the least. I shall never take such a trip again in the winter.

Sincerely, Henry S. Evert Local updates!

Several young people from here were Hastings visitors Sunday.

A sleigh ride party went to Hastings Friday night. All report a _ne time.

120 Years Ago PRESCOTT TRIBUNE

February 1900 Of Local Interest February 2 Several from this city attended the ball at Hastings Wednesday night.

Hanson Bros. of Hastings are _lling the ice house with the

pure ice from Lake St. Croix.

February 9 Mr. Morse, of Hastings, was in town last Wednesday on business.

When the Republican party meets the speeches of Abraham Lincoln in the next campaign it will _nd that the gulf between Lincolnism and Hannaism (so named for McKinley’s campaign manager Mark Hanna) is so great that the admirers of the former cannot be followers of the latter. —W. J. Bryan (McKinley’s 1896 opponent).

February 16 Mr. L. H. Voight and family, of Hastings, Minn., were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Buschman of this place last Sunday.

157 Years Ago THE HASTINGS CONSERVER Volume 3, Number 17 August 4, 1863 DIED. At Waterville, Le Seur County, Minn., July 30th, 1863, JULIA MARIA, infant daughter of Chas. A and Helen S. Baker, aged 5 weeks and 3 days.

WAR NEWS: Mayor Opdyke has vetoed the ordinance passed by the Common Council of New York city, during or just after the riot, to pay $300 for the exemption of each conscript in that city.

THANKSGIVING before thanksgiving: A Proclamation by the President of the United States.

It hath pleased Almighty God to hearken to the supplications and prayers of an af_icted people, and to vouchsafe to

the army and navy of the United States, on this land and on the sea, victories so signal and so effective as to furnish reasonable grounds for augmented con_dence that the union of

these states will be maintained, their constitution preserved, and their peace and prosperity permanently preserved.

But these victories have been accorded not without sacri _ce of life, limb, and liberty incurred by brave, patriotic, and loyal citizens…Now, therefore, be it known, that I do set apart Thursday, the sixth day of August next, to be observed as a day of national thanksgiving, praise and prayer, and I invite the people of the United States to assemble on that occasion in their accustomed places of worship, and in the forms approved by their conscience, render the homage due to the Divine Majesty for the wonderful things he has done in the nation’s behalf, and invoke the in_uence of his

Holy Spirit to subdue the anger which has produced and so long sustained a needless and cruel rebellion, to change the hearts of the insurgents, to guide the counsels of the government with wisdom adequate to so great a national emergency,

and to visit with tender care and consolation throughout the length and breadth of our land all those who, through the vicissitudes of marches, voyages, battles and sieges, have been brought to suffer in mind, body, or estate, and family, to lead the whole nation through paths of repentance and submission to the Divine Will back to the perfect enjoyment of union and fraternal peace….ABRAHAM LINCOLN (Note: The above apparently preceded another Thanksgiving declaration by Lincoln in the Fall of 1863, later _xed at its

present date during World War II).

DULL.—Now that the farmers are busy at their harvest business is comparatively dull, although strangers might fancy that we were bestirring ourselves considerably. Most of the laborers engaged on the new buildings have left for the _elds, and they are consequently gaining slowly.

Territorial Dispatches 163 Years Ago THE EMIGRANT AID JOURNAL Nininger City, Minnesota Territory, July 18, 1857 Volume 1, Number 4 Editor A. W. MACDONALD …In reply to this toast, Mr. Donnelly spoke as follows: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: There is scarcely any necessity for a response to this toast. The town speaks for itself. Look around you and while you consider the present, recollect the past. One year ago the morning of the 4th of July dawned over the farm lands of Messrs. Caleff, Bassett and Stone. Now it rises upon a town of _ve hundred inhabitants. He that would have prophesied

one year ago that on this day such a sight as that before us, would have been regarded as a false, perhaps as a crazed prophet…What does it lead us to expect for the 4th of July, 1858? What can we not, from such a commencement, expect from the future? There is one thing that gives me a special (especial) pleasure to-day;–I refer to the presence in our midst of various ladies and gentlemen from Hastings; especially my friends Dr. Foster and lady. Today is the commencement of a union which will yet be inviolable. Nature has pointed out the necessity for a great town near the mouth of the St. Croix, tapping the extensive agricultural region back of us, and on the direct road from our great shipping port, Superior City, to the Iowa line and the bend of the Minnesota River. The boundary lines of Nininger and Hastings even now touch each other. With their mutual growth they must eventually become one, and united they will form one of the greatest cities of the North West. All petty rivalries must eventually sink into the bosom of common interest, and with commingled advantages, enterprise and intelligence they will march on to supreme greatness….Why is Chicago, Chicago? Not the lake, for hundreds of miles of coast share that advantage; to the rich _elds of Illinois, for they have ten thousand outlets. It is her _fteen railroads. And what has built and concentrated then there, but enterprise far-seeing,–far-reaching enterprise. The multitude little perceive the great forces at work. They see only the results….The building of the proposed railroads (in Minnesota) will change the whole relation of things. River navigation will sink in importance, and the future of our cities must depend upon the concentration of trade and travel within their boundaries. Those who halt in negligence can never regain their lost advantages….Let us therefore join hands and work together.