30 years ago October 22, 1992 The Raiders played for Conference Title against St. Thomas, attempting what no team in 30 years had been able to accomplish. Made known by writer Jane Lightbourn, the …
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30 years ago October 22, 1992
The Raiders played for Conference Title against St. Thomas, attempting what no team in 30 years had been able to accomplish.
Made known by writer Jane Lightbourn, the Crisis Nursery of Dakota County worked with families in crisis to develop “a child centered program” and thus prevent child abuse.
Readers were reminded to set their clocks back one hour on Sunday at 2 a.m., as it was time to “fall back” from summer.
The Hastings Jaycees assisted the Crisis Nursery by collecting a video library, requiring VCR’s to play tape.
80 years ago
October 30, 1942
Writing in the “Sermon for the Week,” Rev. R. F. McIlnay calls on his readers to encourage themselves anew in God’s Word. Saying that homes are being broken up and a time of shifting sands in motion, Rev. McIlnay asks that the readers of his column take time to read Ephesians 5:22-23. Going on to say that married life of Spirit-filled believers “is a wondrous illustration of Christ and His Church,” he goes on to ask a question: which home would the children of the couple remember?
105 years ago THE DEMOCRAT Published at Hastings, Minnesota November 2, 1917
General Le Duc Dies Tuesday Hastings oldest pioneer passes on at the age of 95 Had been one of the men who laid out the town General William Gale Le Duc died Tuesday after an illness from which he had suffered scarcely a week. Pneumonia caused his death at the age of 95. The funeral services will be held from St. Luke’s Church at 2:30 Friday. Mr. Le Duc was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, in 1822, and came to Minnesota in 1850. He started a saw mill in Hastings in the early fifties and soon became wealthy. Mr. Le Duc joined the army as a captain. His ability as an officer was recognized and he became a brigadier general during the war. After the war Mr. Le Duc returned to Hastings, and has taken a prominent part in local, state, and national affairs ever since. He is survived by one son, William B., of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. A. V. Gardner, Florence G. and Alice S. of Hastings. General Le Duc was one of the four original proprietors of Hastings in the early fifties. Having helped lay out the town of Hastings he perhaps has been more closely connected with the development of Hastings than anyone else. Coming here when Hastings consisted of but a few huts he watched Hastings grow into a substantial city. It was largely through his efforts that Hastings developed the way it did in the early days. Mr. Le Duc was the original promoter of the Hastings and Dakota Railroad. In 1868 this railroad was constructed and Mr. Le Duc helped in the construction. In 1877 he was appointed United States Commissioner of Agriculture and it was through his progressive idea along this line that he gained such wide distinction. He brought the sugar cane industry to the United States and also introduced other plants now acclimated in the United States. The Bureau of Animal Industry and Forestry Division were originated from him. From 1890 to 1895 Mr. Le Duc was in the treasury department of the State of North Carolina. Mr. Le Duc was honored by the University of Minnesota by being given a certificate as a master farmer in recognition of his great services to the country in the way of agriculture. With the passing of General Le Duc Hastings loses perhaps the most prominent citizen. No other one man probably did as much for Hastings as he. Mr. Le Duc spent much of his energy and great ability in the building up of our city in which he spent most of his life. To state all the things that he did for use would take columns to enumerate. He loved Hastings and took great pride in its development. It has often been said of him that he was too square in his business and too honest in his politics to prosper materially. He was a gentleman of the old school, a man who placed his honor above all material things. He was the soul of honor. His word was the final court of appeal. Nobody ever questioned it. Mr. Le Duc’s aged figure on the streets of Hastings will long be remembered. In spite of his advanced age he would walk down town the same as ever. Though 95 years of age he had been in fair health up to the time of his death. Hastings owes so much to General Le Duc that the memory of him will live as long as there are inhabitants of our city. His life was part of the history of Hastings. The wonderful old gentleman will be missed by all of us and he will be remembered until “the world shall be again a woodland wilderness.”
130 years ago
THE DAILY GAZETTE
November 27, 1892 The death of Mrs. Galop breaks her poor husband’s heart. They had been married nearly fifty-four years and have raised a family of children. Mr. Galop is now eightyone, and has been blind for thirty-six years, but for one of his age he is a hearty man, heretofore enjoying life as well as most people, always happy and busy. He has earned a living for several years in Windom by sawing wood, and often sawed a cord a day during the past year, something that younger men think they could not do, and many would not try to do.—Windom Reporter.
(No obvious grave marker is listed at Find a Grave, but one Margaret Ann (Crosler) Gallup is listed in Waseca County, neither the details or location matching the above description. The original entry and additional information was sourced from page 3 of the November 24, 1892 Windom Reporter, upon a digital archive review. Mrs. Galop is said elsewhere on the page to have lived on Third Avenue in Windom and died of heart failure, further information not available via computer).