Gobble Gait 2000 A Success (photo by Randy Roberts for Star-Gazette) HHS freshman Chad Germscheid pins an entry number on the back of junior Nate Parker prior to the start of the Gobble Gait 200 8K race, which was held Thanksgiving morning in downtown Hastings. Food and monetary donations from the event got to Hastings Family Services.

Motto: “Where the St. Croix Meets the Mississippi” Caution to hunters along the St. Croix St. Croix National Scenic Riverway Supt. Hugh P. Beattle would like to remind hunters along the St. Croix River to make sure they know the location of the boundary between Minnesota and Wisconsin. Unlike fishermen who may fish from bank to bank with a valid license from either state, hunters are allowed to hunt only in the state for which a license has been issued. In general the state boundary is the center of the main river channel.

Prescott to get new bridge in 1988 Replacement of the Highway 10 bridge at Prescott is in the 1988 state major bridge program. Mary Beekman, District 6 DOT said this week. The bridge will be ready for bid letting in 1988, with work expected to begin the same year.

There are several possible funding sources, Beckman said, including federal discretionary funds such as those slated for the new bridge at Wabasha.

The Prescott bridge probably will be a bascule-type opening with two center sections opening vertically, rather than the present lift type bridge. The highway department is negotiating with the Coast Guard on pier length required. The bascule opening is less costly than a lift bridge, Beekman said.

Highway engineers are still refining alignment at the main street intersection. Plans will be available for a public meeting at Prescott, although a date hasn’t yet been set.

56 Years Ago HASTINGS GAZETTE November 19, 1964 Priest is 90 Next Week (photo: “Oldest On-the-job Pastor in the St. Paul Archdiocese”) Rev. Antony Kaesen, pastor of the St. John the Baptist church at Vermillion, is now serving his seventh pope* and has served all five of the archbishops which the St. Paul Archdiocese has ever had.

Just one week shy of the 90-year milestone, he is the oldest on-the-job pastor and may well hold some record for serving the same church continuously—for 53 years (church building present for 51 of those 53 years).

*effectively since Pope Leo XIII, enthroned in 1878.

Conservation Speeches In Washington County Heard Supervisors of the Washington County Soil and Water Conservation District conducted a soil conservation speaking contest last Saturday, with junior and senior entrants all using as their topic, “Soil and Water Conservation—How Will It Affect My Future Recreation?”

Winners in the junior class were Bruce Rydeen, first; Kenneth Rydeen, second; and Peggy Swanson, third. Weston Belz, only senior entrant, was awarded first place.

The winning contestants will take part in an area contest Nov. 24 at the Moose Ball at Waite Park, Minn. Winners from the area contest will compete in the state contest the fore part of January.

100 Years Ago WASHINGTON COUNTY POST March 18, 1920, Volume 1, Number 2 Arthur S. Kinney, managing-editor Motto: “A Servant of the People” The People’s Paper National Nonpartisan League State Program 1. Exemption of farm improvements from taxation.

2. Tonnage tax on ore production.

3. Rural credit bank operated at cost.

4. State terminal elevators, warehouses, flour mills, stockyards, packing houses, creameries and cold storage plants.

5. State hail insurance.

6. A more equitable system of state inspection and grading of grain.

7. Equal taxation of property of railroads, mines, telegraph, telephone, electric light and power companies, and all public utility corporations, as compared with that of other property owners.

National Program 8. We demand that the government refuse to return to private hands ownership or operation of those public utilities owned, operated or controlled by the government during the war.

9. We demand that the conscription of wealth begun by the government through income and excess profits shall be continued and increased, that surplus wealth may be compelled to pay the money cost of the war.

ANSWERING THE SOCIALIST CHARGE The Milwaukee Leader, organ of the powerful Socialist party in Wisconsin, which elected Victor Berger to congress and who was not seated because of alleged disloyalty, is against the Nonpartisan league in Wisconsin, fearing that it threatens the Socialist party control. In a recent editorial the Milwaukee Leader said: “The Nonpartisan league voluntarily should keep out of Wisconsin, where there is a strong Socialist party, and the League splits up the progressive forces by its presence.”

In a recent speech at Minneapolis Victor Berger said: “Did the Nonpartisan league hope by stealing the livery of the capitalist class they can do something for the workers and farmers? Six men voted to seat me in congress after I was elected by the workers.

WHAT’S WRONG WITH IT?

The program of the Nonpartisan League is published this week at the head of our editorial column and we ask our readers to tell us in their own way what is wrong with it…from all the knocks the League is getting we are inclined to think we have overlooked something and we want you to help us find it.

110 Years Ago STILLWATER MESSENGER November 13, 1909 DISAPPEARS AGAIN.

Frank Erickson of Point Douglas Has Again Absented Himself.

Frank Erickson of Point Douglas, who disappeared from his home last August, but was discovered in Stillwater in a restaurant, has again disappeared, leaving his home on October 26, 1909, and up to date nothing has been learned of his whereabouts. His family would be pleased to secure any information that would lead to the discovery of his whereabouts.

Brief Mention: Short Items of News in General Dr. Burfiend of Afton was in the city on business Wednesday.

The choral club starts out with a membership of over a hundred voices.

A marriage license has been issued to Clarence M. Kemp and Jessie F. Cummings, both of Cottage Grove.

J. T. Tear again tells of his success in raising sunken logs in the river near Pine City. It seems strange that someone cannot be found to take them from the bed of the St. Croix river from Stillwater north forty or fifty miles. Millions of feet of good logs can be had and it is the duty of the war department to have them removed.

Forgiveness.

Nothing is more moving to man than the spectacle of reconciliation. Our weaknesses are thus indemnified and are not too costly, being the price we pay for the hour of forgiveness, and the archangel, who has never felt anger, has reason to envy the man who subdues it. When you forgive, the man who has pierced your heart stands to you in the relation of the sea worm that perforates the shell of the mussel, which straightway closes the wound with a pearl.—Jean Paul Richter.

126 Years Ago WASHINGTON COUNTY JOURNAL November 9, 1894 Vol. 1, No 1, Nelson and Nedmeier, Publishers Motto: “Independent and Impartial” COMMUNICATED Editor JOURNAL: I am not going to attempt writing a newspaper article, but I have a few ideas of my own that I desire to express and know of no better way to express them than through the columns of the JOURNAL, so I beg you to grant me the necessary space.

We all know that Stillwater has been going downhill, so to speak in an industrial way for some years, and we have all been manufacturing plans to avert the catastrophe which must inevitably follow unless something is done. I have a plan and it is just this: Call a mass meeting of our citizens and if it is possible organize a stock company of cooperation association with a capital stock of say $200,000 divided into 1,000 shares of $20 each, payable in installments of $3 per share when the stock is taken and $1 per month until it is paid for. I know it would take four years to get it paid up but if we had started something of this kind when the Northwestern Manufacturing and Car company failed some years ago we would have at least something to take the Car company’s place, whereas we have nothing. I think if men of business experience in whom the people had confidence, could be placed in charge of the affairs of an association of this kind if organized, there would not be such trouble in securing the required amount of stock for the erection of a number of factories of different kings, and after they began manufacturing it would not prove a very hard task to find a ready market for the goods manufactured. Many of our working men would take at least one share of stock…and arrangements could be made so that men employed in the woods could pay for their stock when they come down river in the spring. As soon as sufficient capital could be secured a factory of some kind could be started….I remain Yours, etc. LABOR.

Rt. Rev. Abbot Bernard was born in Austria in 1848, emigrated to America in 1868, and in the same year entered the Order of St. Benedict. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1872; after his ordination he officiated as professor and monastical prior at the mentioned institution and was later on transferred to St. Paul, where he was successively assistant priest and pastor of the Assumption church for eleven years. Upon the resignation of Rt. Rev. Alexius Edelbrock he was elected his successor as abbot, which position he retained for four years, until death called him to his eternal reward…(continues on).