10 Years Ago
Dec. 27, 2002
Conservation Officer Connie Tikkala is seeking information about two moose that were killed in a clearcut north of Tofte sometime around Thanksgiving. The animals were found lying in close proximity. Judging by their feet, they were goodsized bulls. The animals’ heads were cut off and missing. Aside from one hind quarter, the remainder of the two moose was left behind. “Two trophy animals went to waste,” said Tikkala.
A starving, mangy wolf pack has been getting a little too close for comfort for some residents in Lutsen. Jim Hall, for example, reports that he saw four timber wolves on the road recently. They disappeared into the woods as he drove up, but soon after he got out of his pick-up, he glanced up and saw one approaching. “This wolf was just trotting up toward me,” Hall said. “He got about 15 feet away or so. I hurried up and got back into my truck.”
20 Years Ago
Dec. 28, 1992
Christian radio station KDNW was off the air recently. More accurately, the translator equipment on the hill stopped working. When a station representative opened the door to the shed which houses the translator, he was met by the stare of several pairs of beady eyes lurking in the rafters. Turns out a large family of mice had set up housekeeping in the translator. The station is now back on the air.
By any measure, the 20th annual Grand Marais Christmas Bird Count was a great success. On count day, Dec. 19, 47 different species of birds were found. This is an all-time high, seven more than any previous total.
A new way was tried to open a coconut by some guests from Iowa staying at Golden Eagle Lodge. They took the cast iron frying pan and socked the coconut, which resisted the abuse. It did, however, knock a small hole in the frying pan. They then wrapped the pan in a blanket and tried unsuccessfully again but did manage to get the blanket sooty. Then they gave up and put the cast iron pan back in the cupboard with the other pans. They didn’t say anything when they were checking out, but then one man said they had damaged a frying pan. When Irene went to the cabin after they had left, she discovered the pan with a hole in it. She said she might not have discovered it if she hadn’t been told. If another person had inadvertently put grease in that pan and put it on the stove unaware of the leak it could have resulted in a fire.
50 Years Ago
Dec. 27, 1962
Barbara Anderson will have the thrill of singing Christmas carols around the president’s tree. She left for Duluth and Minneapolis on Christmas Day. There she joined others to go by train to Washington, D.C. to take part in the annual Youth for Christ Capital Teens Convention.
One village home reported the loss of a man’s cardigan, gray and black striped, Sears brand, which was wrapped as a Christmas gift, from under their Christmas tree sometime Tuesday or Wednesday. They hope it fits.
The 1962 CCHS homecoming queen is Sue Peterson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Peterson. She was crowned Friday evening at the Viking- Hermantown basketball game by the 1961 homecoming queen, Charlene Shroyer, who is home for the holidays from Indiana University.
Rev. Winston Sherwick, interim pastor at First Baptist, has accepted an invitation from the Board of Bible School and Youth Work of the Baptist General Conference to write a textbook for Pastors’ Instruction Classes for sixthand seventh-graders. The volume is to be on Christian doctrine, and approximately 160 pages in length. There are to be 24 chapters.
100 Years Ago
Dec. 26, 1912
The liberal blanket of snow that came with Santa Claus is a token of good cheer; to the loggers especially.
Yesterday morning John L. Lundin slipped on the kitchen floor at his home in this village and sustained a fracture of the small bone of his right leg. His ankle is also badly sprained. His injuries are considered quite serious, and it will be many months probably before he will be on his feet again.
For a hard-working farmer’s wife, Mrs. Steve Novak doesn’t have to take the back seat for any of them. Besides her household duties and the care of seven small children, she has trapped two mink and 60 muskrat within the past week, which will bring her $50 or more.
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