20 years ago

SOUTH WASHINGTON

COUNTY BULLETIN July 10, 2002 Planning work on nine streets some 20 years back, improvements in St. Paul Park were due to come to an area of town shaped like a right triangle, bordered on the south by Ninth Avenue, the west by Portland Avenue, and the north by Hastings Avenue, the last of which would not be touched. A map contained with the article by Sarah Spencer showed road weight limits from seven to 10 tons. But while the improvements to cost some $834,000 dollars had the assessment policy changed for a 75 – 25 split between residents and general bond, not everyone happy on the project to cost $69 per front foot.

“What’s going to happen if we don’t get new roads?” Gary Johnston asked. “Will somebody fall through a hole?” Another resident thanked the council.

“I’m one of the residents that met with Barry,” Kim Vollner said. “On behalf of the residents, I’d like to take time to thank him.”

With the city having just 60 days to take advantage of the street bid made to it, “time is of the essence,” City Administrator Barry Sittlow told the assembled council and residents at a June 21 meeting.

30 years ago SOUTH WASHINGTON COUNTY BULLETIN August 20, 1992 With one year needed to balance enrollment in district elementary schools, ISD 833 elementary manager Stan Hooper told the school board that students might need to be bussed across boundary lines.

With grade levels shifting enrollment weekly and most parents with their children in a school “preferring overcrowding to moving to another school” per Hooper, time was needed, the article by Judy Spooner related from 30 years ago.

August 13, 1992

As to coaching changes come fall, there would be plenty, an article by sports writer Neil Tardy made known. Among those changes were new faces at Park and Woodbury High schools.

It’s kind of unproductive to be out reviewing coaching candidates when all you have to offer are part-time coaching positions,” athletic director Mark Porter was quoted as saying. “There’s still a lot of hiring going on that will take place in the next two weeks. That’s just the way it is.”

40 years ago THE WASHINGTON COUNTY BULLETIN July 15, 1982 Coming in 40 years ago, a 10-day trip to Europe to attend a waste to energy seminar by Woodbury’s City Administrator Jim Lacina’s got a cool reception from the city council.

Not included in meeting materials or the packet furnished to reporters, the item had been brought up towards the end by Lacina, who stated that he was willing to front $1,000 of the projected $2,000 cost as well as using vacation time for the trip planned September 30 through October 10.

Staff writer Mike Halko said Lacina “should unpack his bags,” based on the Woodbury city council’s initial reception to the idea. No resolution was made on the matter.

50 years ago THE WASHINGTON COUNTY BULLETIN July 6, 1972 Northern States Power wanted to build an additional transmission line thought town, but the Woodbury Council said ‘no’ in a piece by Ginny Jensen for the Bulletin some 50 years ago. “We’ll start cooperating with you when you start cooperating with us,” council member Stan Olander was said to have told NSP, bringing up a village request related to Woodlane Drive that NSP hadn’t complied with, resulting in the need for a road detour.

The rejected line was to have run through the southwestern corner of Woodbury, stretching some 33 miles in all, from Prairie Island to Red Rock.

Meanwhile in other big corporation news, 3M had been indicted” for a March 20 spill at its Chemolite plant into the Mississippi River, Ann Haule reported. A U.S. district attorney reported that the discharge “was accidental,” the maximum penalty as such being $2,500. Charges had been brought under an act to protect Rivers and harbors, with 3M stating that it had undertaken preventative measures on its own accord as a result, and questioning if the federal government was really attempting to recognize and encourage such efforts, or instead harassing cooperating companies, on the grounds that a “resurrected” statute allowed it to.

70 years ago RIVER FALLS JOURNAL July 3, 1952 Prescott Wisconsin “grocery pioneer” Louis Henry Brendemuehl dies at 85, having started as a grocery clerk at 14 in Cottage Grove. Interment is in Pine Glen Cemetery at Prescott.

Born to Franz Friedrich August Brendemuehl and Marie Haberstadt Brendemuehl on February 25, 1867, Mr. Brendemuehl was one of at least five children, several relatives buried at Cottage Grove Cemetery.

120 years ago WASHINGTON COUNTY JOURNAL Motto: “Independent and Impartial” December 6, 1901 Treat the Cows Well. It does not pay to make dairying subservient to any other work on the farm.

When we talk about preserving the quality of milk in hot weather we must remember that some milk keeps better than others. I mean by this that there are different grades of resistance to the action of degenerative bacteria, and that some milk will keep sweet and pure longer than other kinds under the same conditions. How is this to be accounted for? One would naturally ask. First the healthfulness and vigor of the cow in a great measure warrants the healthfulness and purity of her milk, as does the character of the food she eats. Pure, healthy milk will not sour or taint prematurely unless under the most adverse atmospheric conditions. One frequent cause of a rapid degenerative change in milk is hot weather, a cause that is too often overlooked, is the overheating of cows prior to milking. To rush cows into the stable from the pasture night or morning is to excite them sufficiently physically to heat their milk to a feverish point, quickly undermining its quality. So in order to preserve milk in hot weather, aeration, ice and cold water are a mockery unless the cows are kept cool and free from irritation.

A Straw Ice House. It Costs But a Few Cents to Build One That Will Answer All Ordinary Purposes.

A straw ice house will do good service, if properly made, and the surplus straw stack of many a farm may thus be turned to good account. The cheapest sort of a framework which need not be tightly boarded up will answer. The floor should be leveled up and a drain consisting of a trench partly filled in with stones dug in to carry off melt water. Entrance should be through a long passage with several air locks to effectually cut off air currents. All surface water must be conducted away from such a stack and hogs kept out or they will burrow in and admit air to the ice.—Theron L. Hiles, in Ohio Farmer.

Upriver at Stillwater 125 years ago THE MIRROR Put out by the inmates of the Stillwater Prison.

Motto: It is never too late to mend. August 5, 1897 A certain school of scientists having concluded that crime is a disease germinating from the actions of microbes, are now hunting for the latter. We would advise them to examine a five-dollar gold piece if they are earnestly in search of the pest. We will guarantee that such microbe if discovered will be a highflyer, with gold trimmings and a pair of diamonds for eyes.

151 years ago THE HASTINGS GAZETTE August 12, 1871 Minnesota news The annual fair of the Washington County Agricultural Society will be held at Cottage Grove September 21st and 22nd. Col. John H. Stevens, of Minneapolis, delivers the address.

The Stillwater Gazette learns that Arthur Duncan, of that place, drowned himself at Wood River, 5th inst., while under the influence of liquor.

160 years ago August 17, 1862 The U.S.-Dakota War breaks out over treaty obligations not being met. Nearby Hastings is saved by a man named “Indian John,” a scout for Henry Hastings Sibley and buried in St. Luke’s Episcopal Church cemetery.

A full 374 treaties entered into by various parties (largely the federal government but also predating it) can be viewed in a scanned original at www. digitreaties.org, preserved in both cursive and printed formats.

Territorial dispatch 170 years ago THE WEEKLY MINNESOTIAN August 7, 1852 The Northwestern Indians— Past, Present, and Future A great change is about to take place in the condition of a large proportion of the most powerful nation of Indians of the North-West, residing entirely within the borders of the United States. We, of course, allude to the Dakotas. Large and powerful bands, or we may say federal divisions, of the Dakota, are now about to assume a more intimate connection with the government than has heretofore been allotted them. The Sissetonwans, the Warpetonwans, and the Warpekutees have never, until now, been participants in the bountiful annuities which the United States annual distributes to those…of whom she has, from time to time, acquired her national domain; while by the Treaty of Mendota, the Mdewankantonwans have their annuities largely increased over the trifling stipend of fifteen or twenty thousand dollars, paid them annually since 1837, for the lands which now constitute the older settled portions of Minnesota. By recent advices from Washington, there is scarcely a doubt that Congress will, before its adjournment, appropriate the sums necessary to make the first payment under the treaties of Traverse des Sioux and Mendota. If this be done, the payment involving the disbursement of about $600,000 in money, and considerable in goods and provisions, will, in all probability, be made the coming fall. Of this immense sum, the Indians have already stipulated that $500,000 and upwards shall go to the payment of debts due their traders. This, of course, let it fall into whose hands it may, will mostly go out of Minnesota as it comes—in boxes, leaving no beneficial effect of its brief advent among us behind. The remainder will mostly go to pay debts contracted since the treaties were negotiated, or will be taken care of, per stipulation, by the officer of the department, to defray the expenses of removal.

(Both the above treaties and payments would later be revoked and annulled, with the Dakota banned from Minnesota for a time following the U.S.—Dakota War of 1862. More on this period of Minnesota state history may be found at https://www.usdakotawar. org).