Looking Back

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125 YEARS AGO
Hutchinson Herald
(Olivet)
May 22,1890
James McClain reports a little wire-worm
working in his cornfield that
eats the ge'rm out of the kernel of seed
and as a.-consequence he will have to
plant 20 acres over.
Susan B. Anthony will speak at an
equal rights convention to be held in
Olivet May 27. An evening session
will be addressed by Mrs. M. Sey-mour
Howell. Both ladies are cel-ebrated
speakers, being well known
throughout the United States and no
one should fail to hear them whether
believing in giving women the right to
vote or not.
An average of five feet of water
is estimated to fall annually over the
whole earth; and assuming that con-densation
takes place at an average
height of 3,000 feet, scientists con-clude
that the force of evaporation to
supply such rainfall must be equal to
the lifting of 322,000,000 pounds of
water 3,000 feet in every minute, or
about 300,000,000-horsepower con-stantly
exerted.
100 YEARS AGO
Hutchinson Herald
May 20,1915
Move your farm nearer town by
buying an Indian Motorcycle from
Emanuel C. Mettler.
An exchange tells of a new way to
kill gophers. Take a bottle of gasoline
and some cotton to the field. When
you see a gopher go in a hole, wet a
bunch of cotton with gasoline, put it
down in the hole and cover the hole
well with dirt. The gasoline fumes kill
the gopher.
Mrs. Andrew Orth and Mrs. Bellon
went to Phoenix, Ariz., to be present
when Wm. Orth graduates.
Jacob Kromberg sold his house to
Jacob Diede for $3,250 and will build
another soon.
After an illness of about two years,
G.A. Haisch passed away May 12 at •
80 YEARS AGO
Hutchinson Herald
May 23,1935
Carolyn Frasch, a junior at Yankton
College, will present a piano recital in
the high school.
Helmuth Mettler was out in the
country and saw Emil Schoenfish's
12-year-old boy doing a good job of
planting corn all by himself. He also
plowed over 100 acres with their Mc-
Cormick-Deering tractor.
A farmer who bought seed corn
of O.F. Carlson brought in a sample
that was about two inches high above
ground, but the roots were long, one
being seven and a half inches long.
The corn came from some of Carl-son's
relatives near Beresford. The
cold weather caused the roots to grow
while the plant above ground did not
make much headway. Warm weather
in June will bring such corn along in
fine shape.
50 YEARS AGO
Hutchinson Herald
May 20,1965
Sally Handel of Menno will per-form
on the pipe organ at a recital at
the Forbes Hall Auditorium on the
Yankton College Campus. She is a ju-nior
sacred music major and is study-ing
organ with Dr. Evelyn Hohf, pro-fessor
of sacred music and Dean of
Yankton College.
Eva Ulmer passed away May 14 at
74 years of age.
Mrs. Chris Sogge died at the home
of heFdaugnlefTrivermillion.
Mrs. George Baney died at 71 years
of age~~
Mrs. Ruben Nusz wishes to an-nounce
the forthcoming marriage of
her daughter, Veronica Kay, to Delmar
J. Schoenfish, Sunday, June 20.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Hauck of Avon. Mrs. Hauck
(Maureen Heer) is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Philip Heer of Menno.
30 YEARS AGO
Hutchinson Herald
May 22,1985
A baby boy was born to Tim and
Jean Reiners May 20 named Tony Lee.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Zeeb are the par-ents
of a son, Timothy Earl, born May
6.
15 YEARS AGO
Hutchinson Herald
May 17,2000
Rhonda Larson and Jim Isaak an-nounce
their engagement and upcom-ing
marriage planned for Aug. 26.
There were many people at the Ed
and Shirley Auch auction sale in Oliv-et.
It was reported that the house sold
to Mr. and Mrs. Silas Wannamaker of
Delmont for $16,100.
Gary Herman of Menno started
as Hutchinson County Emergency
and Disaster Services Director on
April 1. With 33 years experience on
the Menno Fire Department, he re-cently
decided to branch out and dis-cover
what else he could learn about
emergency services by becoming the
Hutchinson County Emergency and
Disaster Service Director. The posi-tion
was previously known as the Civil
Defense Director. Herman started his
new position after Civil Defense Di-rector
Ed Magera retired.