Yesterday’s headlines Project Share raises $20,000 for HHS Developers see growth beyond what is indicated in comprehensive plan School tax levy among the lowest in metro area; District to experience a 9.53 percent increase in taxes Sports: Boys hockey team wins two games Arabians: Area horse trainers have been quite successful

Fate of Coast Guard unit rests on wharf barge plan Moving a wharf barge several hundred feet upstream, from the Mississippi River to the St. Croix River, is creating problems for its owner, Capt. “Whitey” Schickling. And more problems for the Prescottbased Coast Guard Auxiliary, which faces losing its local operations base if the St. Croix location isn’t approved.

The item was on the Oct. 31 agenda of the Lower St. Croix Management Commission Tech Committee, meeting in Hudson…It would be tied up there from Thanksgiving until the first of April when the navigational season begins.

HASTINGS GAZETTE November 26, 1964

DRAWBRIDGE UNABLE TO OPEN SINCE SATURDAY; BARGES WAIT 2 Tows Exchange Barges Under Bridge; Others Refuse Because of Varying Rates River traffic is still tied up as the result of a broken lift beam and a cracked worm gear on the Hastings railroad bridge, prohibiting workmen from opening the bridge.

As of Tuesday afternoon, the tows tied up along the shoreline of the river here had been waiting three days; another day or so of waiting is quite possible, officials at the scene said.

Mailmen ‘arm’ themselves with dog repellent Hastings letter carriers have armed themselves against overly…dogs on mail routes.

The “arms” are push-button repellents which have an effect on dogs similar to that of…. cause no permanent injury, but is guaranteed to discourage the meanest pooch from pursuing with the intent to chomp a postman… Without a whimper, the dog will put his tail between his legs and retreat, the postmen report. Within 10 to 15 minutes, the effect of the repellent wears off, and the dog is back to normal.

Owl in Coop Kills 61 Hens (photo with wingspread) Killed by this owl were 61 laying hens, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Bill Reuter, Rt. 1, Hastings, who are shown holding the bird above the pile of dead hens. The owl apparently managed to get inside the chicken coop by means of a small opening…by the chickens. On Friday morning of last week, Mrs. Reuter went out to feed the hens, and when she opened the first of two doors to the coop, she was startled by the huge bird sitting on the chicken waterer… Many of the dead birds bore signs of the vicious attack by the owl. The rest of the 250 hens in the coop were piled in fright around the outskirts of the building. Mrs. Reuter ran into the house and notified her husband, who then went out and shot the owl with a .22 rifle, firing through the half-inch mesh screen door on the coop. “How much will you give me for the whole pile?” Mrs. Reuter asked the photographer for the Gazette.

100 Years Ago WASHINGTON COUNTY POST November 11, 1920 VOTE FRAUDS WILL GO TO GRAND JURY John Q. Mackintosh, formerly of this city, mixed up in dirty deal Evidence of alleged election fraud in the Seventh ward of St. Paul, involving a republican club and members of election boards, is to be presented this week to the Ramsey county grand jury, it was announced today by William Mahoney, president of the Working People’s league and of the St. Paul Trades and Labor assembly.

Two different violation of the corrupt practices act are set forth in the allegations; one of them a penitentiary offense. In nearly all of the precincts of the Seventh ward, a systematic canvass of voters was conducted within the polling places on behalf of the republican candidates, the grand jury will be told.

Messengers Employed Election clerks employed messengers to carry notices from the polling places to the voters and automobiles were hired to go out and bring in the late ones, witnesses say. Mr. Mahoney said the grand jury will not be given any evidence of ballot box stuffing this week, despite the discovery by J. F. Emme and Carl O. Parsons of a package of marked ballots on the judge’s table in a Seventh ward precinct before the polls had closed Nov. 2.

“We have enough evidence of collusion between election judges and clerks with republican ward workers within the forbidden area of 100 feet of the polling place and a violation of Section 579 of the Corrupt Practices act to bring indictment, I believe,” said Mr. Mahoney.

110 Years Ago STILLWATER MESSENGER November 20, 1909

News from the old country: LOCALS from abroad Scandinavian News: Principal events gathered in the old Scandinavian countries DENMARK No less than 319 Swedes applied to the Danish government for naturalization papers during the past few months.

FINLAND It is announced that General Markoff will be appointed vice-president of the Finnish senate.

The cabinet has decided that the Russian minister of railways shall hereafter have supervisory rights over the Finnish railways.

SWEDEN A flint ax was found in an excavation in Malmo. It is thirteen inches long, and is said to date from the Old Stone age.

The Swedish suffragettes are organizing themselves into societies.

King Gustaf has just made his first official visit to Malmo since his ascension to the throne.

NORWAY About 5,000 Norwegian Americans are going to spend the winter in Norway. About ten percent of them are expected to settle for good in Norway. Nearly all of them have saved money in America and most of them have stayed there from six to ten years. A few have spent as much as forty years there. Quite a few of them come to Norway every fall and return to America in the spring, to resume their work as seamen on the Great Lakes, where 2,000 Norwegians are occupied every summer.