30 years ago WASHINGTON COUNTY BULLETIN Sept. 17, 1992 Coming in from staff writer Doug Rock in 1992, the answer to whether a tree made a sound, had been asked and answered. “If a tree is taken …
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30 years ago WASHINGTON COUNTY BULLETIN Sept. 17, 1992
Coming in from staff writer Doug Rock in 1992, the answer to whether a tree made a sound, had been asked and answered.
“If a tree is taken from a front yard and someone is there to hear it, does it make a sound? The answer is… YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT!”
It turned out that someone had shown up in the early morning hours of June 12 on a residential street to take away a 20-years-old Black Spruce, claiming upon questioning by the homeowner’s wife that the homeowner had called have it removed. Angrily confronting her husband after a return from the airport, she was asked: “What are you talking about?”
“That’s when I knew something was wrong,” she said. It later turned out a neighbor dispute was involved, and the unhappy neighbor had called for the tree to be removed, rather than being allowed to drive past it and into the backyard.
40 years ago THE WASHINGTON
COUNTY BULLETIN Sept. 30, 1982 Reported in an article by Bulletin staff writer Larry Cortese, the school district transportation director for South Washington County was taking back his resignation. The board had taken no action on the item at a Thursday meeting, with the director still a district employee on vacation. The reason for the resignation? Extreme duress, as he put it.
“The resignation I signed on Sept. 17, 1982 at approximately 4 p.m. in the presence of (the district superintendent) was signed under extreme duress,” he later said. “I hereby withdraw that letter of resignation.” The district, meanwhile, contested claims the transportation director having signed under duress, with different version of
plant in Cottage Grove, 3M had just been fined $500 by a federal judge for a chemical spill that spring deemed to be in violation of the 1899 Federal Rivers and Harbors Refuse Act. Then considered a leader in fighting pollution, 3M had reported the spill of “liquid adhesive, phenolic resin” immediately to regulatory authorities and put $10 million towards pollution prevention.
The maximum penalty under the 1899 law would have been $2,500.
80 years ago THE HASTINGS GAZETTE Oct. 9, 1942 Coming in for war news, meanwhile, was an update that in spite of advance warning the phone exchanges had lit up as soon as the air raid sirens went off for a test blackout in the Twin Cities area—it seems not everyone had heard of it. There were to be no phone calls in the war blackout, it was made known, as this would hold up the Civilian Defense Corps, which had to make at least 50 calls before it could act efficiently.
Writing some 80 years ago, the Reverend R. F. McIlnay of the First Baptist Church in Hastings brought to light a recent obituary he had read for “Miss Faithful Prayer Meeting,” who it was said had died recently at Neglectville “in the State of Worldliness.”
Born many years ago “amid revival fires,” Miss Faithful Prayer Meeting had recently been confined to home, the remains would be brought “to the Judgement Bar of God,” with an inquest held by “the Searcher of all things” into her demise, with suspected treachery on the part of caretakers and professed admirers the suspected cause. “Perhaps this is just one of the reasons why many churches have lost their power of God,” the pastor relates, as “the prayer meeting is the dynamo of any church,” and a confession of one’s individual helplessness. Readers were encouraged to go over in their minds just how many churches of their own acquaintance had no real prayer meeting.
News from upriver at Stillwater 135 years ago THE PRISON MIRROR “It is never too late to mend.”
October 5, 1887 WITHOUT ME Lines by a convict in prison How does the active world go on Without me?
Its laugh of joy, its sign, its groan, The sun, the stars, the rolling moon, The rocks, the rivers, the
his sway, Let there be no heaven, I pray, Without me.
Territorial Dispatch Almost 170 years ago THE WEEKLY MINNESOTIAN October 9, 1852 A letter from Lake Superior says that a wooden skiff was lately found twenty feet below the surface, upon which was resting a mass of copper weighting more than five tons. Two copper tools and several hammers of stone, together with coal and ashes from wood, were lying around it, as fresh to all appearance as though they had been made last year, and yet there was six feet vegetable soil above them, which on being taken out, proved to be at least five hundred years old.