Looking Back

              125 YEARS AGO
Hutchimon Herald
(Olivet)
March 20,1890
Ella Dailey of Ohio, daughter of
Mrs. Thomas S. Sharp, arrived at Oliv-et
and will make Hutchinson County
her future home.
Married. -- At the Commercial
House in Menno Friday, March 14,
Henry Roscamp and Mary Dickmann,
Rev. Father O'Hara officiating.
Married at the residence of the
bride's parents in Hutchinson County,
J.H. Crew to Lucia G. Haight on Feb.
23 by Elder O.P. Haight of the Chris-tian
church.
Miss Lilly Bohner has begun the
last term of a nine months school. She
has the good will of the people and
scholars about Milltown.
100 YEARS AGO
Hutchinson Herald
March 18,1915
S.L. Heaton phoned over from
Olivet that they were keeping quite
busy tuning pianos and repairing or-gans.
John P. Bender, 59 years, died
March 15 of heart failure and too
much fat surrounding the heart.
Henry F. Mettler engaged Em. C.
Mettler to build him a big new barn as
soon as spring opens up so carpenter
work can begin.
It looks like there would not be any
first nine-ball team in Menno this year.
G.A. Haisch, the manager last year, is
not here and no one seems interested
enough to spend as much money for a
ball team as the manager did last year.
However Aisenbrey has leased the ball
grounds for his second nine and ex-pects
to scoop in every second nine in
the whole country. Watch his smoke.
The checks are going out fast at the
Menno Lumber Company office to
pay the 10 percent dividend declared
by the board of directors.
March 16 the Pennsylvania, a new
$14,000,000 battleship, the greatest
battleship in the world in cost and
dimensions, will be launched. Uncle
Sam is adding more ships while Euro-pean
nations are having theirs sent to
the bottom.
80 YEARS AGO
Hutchinson Herald
March 21,1935
It is reported that Mrs. John Kramer
has rented her house to Edwin Delzer
and is going to California to be mar-ried.
Ragna Marie Thranum passed away
March 14. She was born May 23,
1902.
Capper's Weekly - Lady motorist
(inexperienced) _ "I've done every-thing
I could think of to this car and it
won't start." Service man - "Did you
choke it?" Lady motorist - "No, but I
sure got mad enough to."
Hildegarde Moeller, teacher in Dis-trict
24, gave her pupils a six o'clock
dinner. The evening was spent in play-ing
games after which she treated them
to ice cream, cake and candy. The dec-orations
were in green to represent St
Patrick's Day. Then her brother War-ner
took them in his car and delivered
them to their several homes.
Two big truckloads of shelled corn
were on the streets early Monday
morning while the drivers were get-ting
breakfast.
It was a nifty looking Ford Joe Ul-mer
and wife brought home from Min-neapolis
for Mrs. Ulmer's sister Miss
DeCamp, who is teaching in Iowa.
Elsie DeCamp came to visit her sis-ter
Mrs. Joe Ulmer and took her new
car home with her.
Stanley Boegler was overhauling
Albert Mettler's tractor.
50 YEARS AGO
Hutchinson Herald
March 18,1965
Mayor petitions are being circulated
for Ted Mehlhaff and R.B. Frasch.
Mrs. Hoyer Anderson returned from
Bridgeport, Conn., where she visited
Morna Anderson who is a medical
technologist at Bridgeport Metropoli-tan
Hospital.
Roberta Jungman attended a brunch
at the home of Sara Brandt in Sioux
Falls, put on by Girl Staters from
Sioux Falls who invited all the other
1964 Girl Staters to this get-together
during the "B" tournament. They will
have another one next Saturday fore-noon
during the "A" tournament.
Rev. Elgin E. Boegler died March 6
at the age of 58 years.
Charles Zeeb, sophomore vocation-al
trades student at SSC at Springfield,
is on the dean's honor roll.
Raymond Mettler of Menno recent-ly
sold one registered polled Hereford
bull each to Dale Kirschenman and
Daryl Heckenlaible, both of Menno.
30 YEARS AGO
Hutchinson Herald
March 20,1985
Mrs. Harold (Olinda) Auch, age 64,
died March 10.
The annual meeting of the Farmers
Union Coop Oil Company was held
March 18. Directors re-elected are
Curtis Ulmer, Alton Nusz and Eugene
P. Auch.
Mr. and Mrs. Alton Schortzman re-turned
from a bus trip to the National
Farmers Union Convention in Phoe-nix.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hora are the proud
parents of a daughter born March 16
named Megan Jane.
Kleo Steffen and Rev. Wenzel were
repairing and cleaning radiators at the
center. Things do have to be fixed and
these gentlemen have the know-how.
15 YEARS AGO
Hutchinson Herald
March 15,2000
Willard and Darlene (Buchholz)
Goehring are celebrating their 40th
wedding anniversary March 20, with
a card shower in their honor.
Greg and Marilyn Liebl announce
the engagement of their daughter
Coleen to Ryan Smith. A May 6, wed-ding
is planned.
Scott and Melody Hecht are the
parents of a son born Feb. 21, named
Joshua Bryce.
A 40th anniversary card shower for
Ken and Ann (Gluenkin) Herrboldt
was requested. They were married
March 18,1960.