10 YEARS AGO
OCT. 12, 2007
If all goes as planned, students at Birch Grove Community School will be using their new timber frame outdoor classroom soon. The structure, which was built by a class at North House Folk School with timbers purchased by Birch Grove, was successfully raised last week by a hard-working volunteer crew of school staff, parents and community volunteers.
The halls at the middle school have been decorated with blue and white balloons, and students and faculty dressed up special each day for the big Homecoming festivities that culminate with the football game at 7 p.m. Friday versus the Chisholm Bluestreaks. Activities include a Powder Puff football game, Homecoming bonfire, Pepfest and a dance.
20 YEARS AGO
OCT. 13, 1997
A semi drove off the road at Judge Magney State Park on the afternoon of Oct. 7. The truck had reportedly been swerving since crossing the border at Pigeon River, and an unidentified eyewitness said that it even swerved into the left lane before cutting back and driving straight into the woods. A number of large pine trees were broken off by the fully loaded truck which was hauling over 45,000 pounds of wood pulp bales. The driver seemed coherent and in fair condition when pulled from the truck by rescuers, and a small cut on his left hand was the only obvious injury.
Charges are being considered against as many as four adults who were involved in an Oct. 3 brawl that stretched from the Harbor Light Supper Club to a nearby motel. According to the police report, two adults visiting town and four local adults were asked to leave the Harbor Light when they got into the fight at about 11:25 p.m. in the restaurant parking lot and spilled into the Super 8 Motel lot where a caller said “people were jumped.” Investigators are still seeking more details of the incident.
50 YEARS AGO
OCT. 12, 1967
We’ll just have to get busy and send Ray Hansen Jr. a new can of cookies as the one he had was destroyed by shrapnel one night in Vietnam. According to his dad, no one was hurt and that’s what matters!
While walking across a piece of the old CCC camp property which they purchased, Richard Raiken came upon an old abandoned well into which a huge wolf had fallen. The evidence around the well proved he had put up a terrible battle for survival, but the wolf lost out.
The first real taste of winter pounced on this area last Sunday when several inches of snow fell in certain areas of the Gunflint Trail.
90 YEARS AGO
OCT. 13, 1927
Clarence Tofte and Ernest Godin caught a wolf one day last week.
Mrs. Archie Johnson and Miss Mildred Berg are cooking at the road camp north of Tofte.
The scow Limit arrived in Tofte this morning, bringing the Tofte coal for the schoolhouse. S.W. Ficklin is there with his truck hauling the coal from the dock to the schoolhouse.
S.C. Murphy returned last night on the bus from a week’s stay in Duluth. While there he was fitted with a new pair of glasses.
John Johnson Jr. of Colvill is having good luck with his trapping, having caught three wolves and two foxes in two weeks.
We believe that Babe Ruth could whip either Dempsey or Tunney if the referee would let him take his bat into the ring with him.
New snow fence for erection along the Minnesota trunk highways, is being shipped out from the factory at an average rate of three car loads a day, according to a state Highway bulletin. Cook County will receive its quota before the end of this month. A number of additional snow plows have also been purchased.
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