This week we include Washington County and Cottage Grove as mentioned by nearby papers, including at Prescott and Hastings just down the road.

Almost 20 Years Ago HASTINGS STAR-GAZETTE January 18, 2001 Hastings girls fall to Woodbury By Tim McKenna, Star-Gazette sports writer The Hastings girls basketball team lost to a tough Woodbury team last Friday night, 58-40….

Lindsey Mace and Kathryn Reuter led the Raiders with eight points apiece, and Reuter led the team with six rebounds… Girls hockey team splits two By Tim McKenna, Star-Gazette sports writer …Raiders beat Woodbury Hastings earned some redemption on Tuesday night by hammering Woodbury, 6-1.

(Erica) McKenzie scored two goals and added three assists, and Leah Truax scored two goals to lead the Raiders.

Ashley Klein and Lauren Chesick scored the Raider’s other goals.

(Leah) Truax scored both of her goals in the first period, as the Raiders built a 2-0 lead…The team will host Park of Cottage Grove on Friday.

35 Years Ago PRESCOTT JOURNAL December 5, 1985 Snowfall Hits New High of 21.1 inches Prescott digs out from record- setting blizzard Yes, the weekend autumn snowstorm Nov. 30 – Dec. 1 was as bad as you thought if you lived here, and worse than what you Prescott folks in the south saw on television.

The snow started Friday morning, continued with only small interruptions until shortly before midnight Sunday. The snow set a new single storm record, 21.1 inches in this area, topping the previous single storm record 20.0 inches set Jan. 22-23, 1962, according to the National Weather Service and reported in the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

On Friday 5.2 inches of snow fell Saturday 7.5 inches and on Sunday 8.4 inches.

49 Years Ago HASTINGS GAZETTE Ronald K. Fuchs, 17 Death By Accident Burial Services Tues.

Shocked and saddened was the entire community Saturday afternoon, Feb. 13, by the accidental death of Ronald K. Fuchs, 17 yearold son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Fuchs, of Washington County.

Ronald was born in Hastings August 8, 1953. The family first resided near Cottage Grove and about 11 years ago, moved onto their present acreage near Afton. He attended the Afton- Lakeland Grade school and at present was a senior at Stillwater high. He was actively engaged in the FFA organization and assisted his parents with the farm operations.

A visitation, with a parish vigil, was held at the Caturia Funeral Home from Monday afternoon until time for the church services Tues., Feb. 16, at 10:30 a.m. in St. Boniface church, with Father Harold Fuchs, O.S.B., a relative of the family, officiating. The children’s choir sang for the services.

Serving as pallbearers were Joseph Fuchs, Kenneth Strassberger, Dick Meier, Jack Shearer, Gary Meier, cousins of the deceased and Keith Jewell.

Surviving Ronald besides his sorrowing parents, are six sisters, Mrs. Al Teuber, (Donna), and Mrs. Glen Howard, (Linda) of Hastings, Mrs. Kenneth Murphy, (Gloria) of Newport, Charlene, Laurie, Cheryle, two brothers, Scott and Terry at home, his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Meier, his paternal grandfather, Anthony Fuchs of Hastings, and a nephew, Tim.

The sympathy of the community is extended (to) the bereaved family in their hour of sorrow.

January 21, 1971 A group of Miesville ladies attended a bridal shower at Hastings Sunday afternoon complimenting Miss Roxann King, a bride of the near future.

Births January 12, 1971 Born to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Prachar, Hastings, a boy.

January 13, 1971 Born to Mr. and Mrs. James Maher, Hastings, twin boys.

January 14, 1971 Born to Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Waller, Welch, a girl.

January 16, 1971 Born to Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Martin, Hastings, a boy.

January 18, 1971 Born to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wagner, Hastings, a girl.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Robinson Jr., Hastings, a boy.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Kim McCoy, Hastings, a girl.

Funeral Services at St. Mary’s Church for Raymond Huss, 66 54 Years Ago HASTINGS GAZETTE December 10, 1964 CG Fireman’s Dance Set The annual Firemen’s Dance sponsored by the Cottage Grove Volunteer Fire Department will be held New Year’s Eve at the Cottage Grove Community Club, the firemen announced this week.

Tickets are now on sale, and may be purchased from any of the firemen.

100 Years Ago WASHINGTON COUNTY POST November 11, 1920 WOODBURY news H. A. Wold and family of Red Wing and Evangelist Rev. J. M. Baitinger of St. Paul were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Meyer on Wednesday afternoon. Dorothy Eleanor and Doris Elaine Wold were christened by the evangelist.

Mrs. A. Holmgren of St. Paul and Dwight McCallum of Minneapolis spent a few days last week at the home of V. E. Munson.

FOUR TOWNSHIP news Mr. John Mechkon of St. Paul visited with Andrew Schaefer’s Sunday afternoon.

Mrs. L. J. Sleer will hold her Auction sale Tuesday, November 16th.

The Four Townships Rural Telephone Company held its annual meeting with their families Saturday night at the home of Chas. Pankonin. Officers elected for the coming year were John Aspmann pres., vice pres. John Kempf, Sec. Herbert Kempf, Treas., George Schindler. Directors Chas. Pankonia, A. Kempf, Axel Swanson, Chas. Schindler was again…for lineman.

Rev. Arthur Koehler of South St. Paul delivered a sermon at St. Jude Lutheran church Sunday.

WHAT THEY PAID: A grocery ad sample Cut Price Grocery, O. L. Anderson, Prop., M. O. Madson, Mgr.

COFFEE— Our best blend, per pound…40c Santos, per pound…35c. Three pounds for $1.00 SUGAR— Per pound…13c. One Hundred pound sack…$12.75 SHREDDED WHEAT— Post Toasties, 2 packages… 25c Corn Flakes, 2 packages… 25c Puffed Rice and Wheat, 2 packages…25c.

SOAP— Palmolive, Crème Oil, P. & G. Naptha, 3 bars…25c.

APPLE BUTTER— Large Jars…27c.

Snow Flake and Hunt Perfect Baking Powder, 1-pound cans…23c.

Large Box Ad: Have You Seen That new G. M. C. Truck we have at our Garage? It sure is a dandy. Come in and ask for a demonstration.

Bring you FORD TROUBLES to us and let us fix you (up) with repairs or extras for your Ford car.

A Ford Tractor is as handy a machine as you can have on the farm.

“We will treat you right.”

Cottage Grove Garage, Geo. H. Bahls, Prop.

Rectangular Ad: Modernized Home Heating at Low Cost The cost no longer stands in the way of enjoying an efficient, healthful, modern heating plant. The comfort of having your ENTIRE home well heated in the coldest weather with the cleanest and most healthful heat –warm moist-air—at a low fuel cost is brought within reach of every home by The Waterbury Seamless Pipeless Furnace It is easily installed in the basement or a small excavation under the house. Takes but a few hours time to do it. Because of the seamless feature of the Waterbury Pipeless Furnace no gas, smoke, dust or dirt can enter the rooms.

Costs less than other types of furnaces. Has no heat-waste—the water or air pipes. Welded steel body. Burns ANY KIND OF FUEL. Delivers all the heat through a single register directly into the rooms without waste. It’s the utmost in heating economy.

Schneider Brothers, Lake Elmo, Minn.

On the Wrong Scent Half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness. They think it consists in having and getting, and in being served by others. It consists in giving and in serving others.— Drummond.

120 Years Ago WASHINGTON COUNTY JOURNAL December 7, 1900 —List of Patents granted to Minnesota Inventors this week. Reported by C. A. Show & Co., Patent Attorneys, Washington, D. C.—F. Benjamin, Mildred, Crank Wheel. P. L. Crowe, Duluth, Mechanism for raising and lowering grates. A. Davis, Duluth, Log Loading Device. H. B. Steele, Malden, Counterbalance for explosive engines. C. Ulrich, Duluth, Lifting Device for invalids.

For copy of any of the above patents send 10c in postage stamps with date of this paper to C. A. Snow & Co., Washington, D. C.

Also 120 Years Ago THE MIRROR December 6, 1900

Stillwater, Minnesota PRISON updates Chaplain Chas. Corcoran, with Rev. J. H. Brannan of St. Paul, were callers at the prison this week.

Instead of the regulation Thanksgiving cigars each man was made the recipient of a package of mixed candy.

J. W. Lawrence, our genial chief clerk in the front office, spent Thanksgiving with friends in Duluth.

The new bridge connecting the engine room with shop I is both ornamental and useful and enables visitors to pass through all the buildings without passing to Main street. Also 120 Years Ago THE BROAD AXE Across the Mississippi River in West St. Paul December 13, 1900 Following is an extract from a pamphlet with the above title, by Rev. Joseph Crooker, published by the American Anti-Imperialist League, of Chicago: “A political doctrine is now preached in our midst that is the most alarming evidence of moral decay that ever appeared in the American history. Its baleful significance consists, not simply of its hatefulness, but in the fact that its advocates are so numerous and prominent.

“It is this: a powerful nation, representative of civilization, has the right, for the general good of humanity, to buy, conquer, subjugate, control and govern feeble and backward races and people, without reference to their wishes or opinions.

This is preached as the Gospel of Christ. It is proclaimed in executive documents as American statesmanship. It is defended in legislative halls as the beginning of a more glorious chapter in human history. It is boastfully declaimed form the platform as the greatest act in the regeneration of mankind….But how came these men to know so clearly the mind of the Almighty?… Is this the gospel of Jesus? Then let us repudiate the Golden Rule…”

140 Years Ago THE STILLWATER LUMBERMAN December 3, 1880 Business Cards.

G. F. SABIN, Attorney at Law, Marine Mills, Minnesota.

ALEX DONALD, M. D., Homeopathic Physician and Surgeon. Specialty: Chronic Diseases.

M. F. GOODWIN, Physician and Surgeon. All calls promptly attended to day or night. Office next door to Schupp’s, upstairs. Stillwater Minn.

H. R. MURDOCK, Attorney at Law and Real Estate Agent. Office over First National Bank, Stillwater, Minn.