Looking Back

              125 YEARS AGO
Hutchinson Herald
(Olivet)
September 11,1890
The total number of stars of which
some knowledge may be obtained by
the optical appliances now available,
according to Prof. Lockyer, is from
40,000,000 to 50,000,000. Of these
only about 6,000 are visible to the na-ked
eye, equally divided between the
two hemispheres.
The ladies of St. Louis make life
a burden to the gripmen on the cable
cars by punching them in the back
with their parasols when they want the
cars stopped.
It is stated that Peter Flemmer who
left Menno a short time ago with his
adopted daughter for Sioux Falls has
returned, and says that he left her in
Chicago.
Andrew Woodmansee has leased
the farm of J.C. Boyles for next year.
Boyles will be a resident of Olivet ear-ly
in the spring.
Elmer George and family removed
to the residence owned by P.M. White
in the southeast part of town.
100 YEARS AGO
Hutchinson Herald
September 9,1915
Olivet had the misfortune to lose
one of its stores. Sam Walter's store
burned to the ground with nearly all
the contents.
We are informed that Otto G.
Schamber has purchased the Spencer
News of editor E.J. Morgan. Schamber
will have the assistance of his brother-in-
law P.O. Seifert who is a practical
newspaperman and formerly was edi-tor
of the same paper but sold out to
go west and take a claim which he still
owns.
It is reported that considerable stock
is dying in Hutchinson County.
Fred Bender Sr. bought Otto Si-mon's
house which indicates that he
will retire from the farm and move to
town.
Andrew J. Mettler sold 12 head of
yearling Hereford heifers for an even
$100 each.
80 YEARS AGO
Hutchinson Herald
September 12,1935
On Sunday evening, Sept. 8, at
Grace Lutheran parsonage, occurred
the marriage of Henry Wohl of near
Menno and Dorothy S. Gross of Free-man,
Rev. Heuer officiating.
T.H. Kirschenman suffered a pain-ful
accident when he received burns in
the face when a small pail of gasoline
ignited. He and Emil Kirschenman
had car trouble, the gas would not
feed into the carburetor, so T.H. stood
on the running board of the car and
poured gasoline in while the car was
moving. The motor backfired and the
fire ignited the gasoline and T.H. was
covered with fire. He had the small
bucket of gas in the wrong hand to
throw and had to drop it fast and in do-ing
so dropped it, burning, inside the
car. T.H. jumped off the moving car
and hurt his head but succeeded in put-ting
out the fire by rolling over.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gunderson at-tended
the wedding of Mrs. Gunder-son's
brother Eldred Hesla of Wakon-da
and Bernice Brooks at Scotland.
Postmaster A.N. Kautz and family
attended the funeral of Jacob Kautz,
53 years old, of Chicago, who was
killed while riding a bicycle in Chica-go,
being run down by an automobile.
The man was a younger brother of Abe
Kautz.
Dr. Kingery says he has had 65 cas-es
of sick horses to doctor and has not
lost one this season.
Albert Bender was plastering the
Henry Quasi corner where Dr. Adams
had his office before he began work-ing
for the government in tuberculin
eradication.
John Hertz and wife are here visit-ing
his sister Mrs. Wellner. John for-merly
went to school in Menno, then
went into the railroad business and
he and Otto Eckert are two passenger
train conductors from the old town of
Menno. Hertz runs out of Sleepy Eye,
Minn., and Eckert from Los Angeles to
Salt Lake City, Jake Heer of Pocatello,
Idaho, is another railroad man from
Menno and may also be a conductor.
50 YEARS AGO
Hutchinson Herald
September 9,1965
Tarrell Miller, 19, has joined the an-nouncing
staff of KYNT, Yankton. He
is a recent graduate of the Broadcast-ing
Techniques Course of the Brown
Institute in Minneapolis, Minn., and
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton R.
Handel.
Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Aisenbrey were
at Scotland for the funeral of Martha
GoekenAug. 28.
The Freeman Courier announced a
daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred
Schaeffer of Menno Aug. 27.
The Marquardt Trucking Service
of Emery hauled the majority of the
Hutchinson County purple ribbon beef
and dairy animals to the South Dakota
State Fair in Huron again this year free
of charge.
Mr. and Mrs. Roland Sayler, Mr.
and Mrs. Reuben Sayler and Mr. and
Mrs. Ted Holzworth spent the week-end
in St. Paul, Minn., where they at-tended
the wedding of Karen Jaehnert
and Paul Emeott.
Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Bezug of
Menno and Mr. and Mrs. Larry Gra-ber
of Freeman spent two days in the
Black Hills.
Maurice Bezug returned home from
California. Bruce Anderson who is in
the Navy came back with him.
30 YEARS AGO
Hutchinson Herald
September 11,1985
Sharyl Kapsch and Jay Herrboldt
were united in marriage Friday, Aug.
30, at Salem Reformed Church,
Menno with Rev. Henry Roemer and
Rev. Raymond Ehrman officiating.
Tamara Ann Aisenbrey and David
Wayne Marquart were married July 13
at Zumbro Lutheran Church, Roches-ter,
Minn.
With the arrival of Stella Seib-ert
from Lodi, Calif., the members
of the Menno High School graduat-ing
Class of 1925 have been getting
together most every day at their re-spective
homes, Out of a class of 11
there are six left, - Clara (Goehring)
Fergen, Helen (Preszler) Headley, El-sie
(Quast) Jungman, Metha (Reiser)
Kuhlman, Stella (Schnaidt) Seibert
and Albert Pfeifle, who due to poor
health, was not able to join the group.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Johnson were
visitors Labor Day Sunday in the
home of their daughter and family,
the Don Guthmillers, in Orange City,
Iowa.
15 YEARS AGO
Hutchinson Herald
September 6,2000
Retired Circuit Court Judge Ernest
Hertz of Menno was presented with
the first annual Fred J. Nichol Award
for Outstanding Jurist by the South
Dakota Trial Lawyers Association
during the association's annual meet-ing
in Sioux Falls June 22.
Donley and Carol Aisenbrey were
married 40 years ago Sept. 11, in Cen-terville.
Beginning July 1, Dr. John Katter
was the new pastor of Olivet and Tripp
United Methodist Churches.