10 YEARS AGO
JANUARY 2, 2010
Record number of gypsy moths were found in Minnesota. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture announced its gypsy moth monitoring program captured almost 28,000 moths in 2009. That is more than twice the previous high of 12,000 moths caught in 2008. Nearly 99 percent of the moths collected were in traps from northeastern Minnesota.
50 YEARS AGO
JANUARY 1, 1970
The Duplicate Bridge Club winners for December 1969 were Holly and Janet Nelson (first place), Gerri Futterer and Gene Cathcart (second place), and Tom Lind and Doris Bushman (third place). The next card session will be at the Charles Futterer home.
FEBRUARY 5, 1970
Johnson’s Big Dollar Store has Grand Opening Days Grand Marais opened another modern city-like supermarket this week. Theodore, Tumsey, and Paul Johnson and their wives were on hand to greet visitors with coffee, donuts, and other free gifts. Bouquets of flowers from the community decorated the bright new store.
Camping gear and other equipment belonging to George St. Clair, a New York drilling contractor, used for mining exploration in the BWCA was impounded by US Forest officials last Thursday. The equipment was brought by plane from the Howard Lake site where it had been cached. The Isaak Walton League has gone to court to block an attempt by Mr. St. Clair to proceed with drilling operations. St. Clair maintains he holds mineral rights and should be allowed to proceed.
60 YEARS AGO
MARCH 10, 1960
Adolph Moe, formerly of Grand Marais, played the role of a rescue captain in a real life drama on the Atlantic off the Florida coast last week. A 40-foot shrimper, the Sally B, sank in 80 feet of water after her water pumps failed. The stricken vessel had radioed for help, and Moe, who captains another shrimper, the Southern Cross, went to the rescue. The four-man crew was saved just before the vessel sank.
90 YEARS AGO
FEBRUARY 20, 1930
News from Colorado Springs, Colorado: A heavy snowstorm swept over a Rocky Mountain zoo and caused a seven-foot boa constrictor snake to freeze solid. The zookeeper sadly sent the frozen snake to a taxidermist to be stuffed. As the taxidermist placed the point of his knife into the snake’s head, the snake opened its eyes. The man jumped and his assistants ran for the hills. As a quiver ran down the snake’s body, the snake’s tail swished furiously from side to side. The snake fully recovered and happily returned to his favorite tree at the zoo.
1930 Census to put us in Goldfish Bowl: Questions will leave no secrets unrevealed. How many women in America are working outside the home? How many families own radio sets? How many people own their own homes? At what age, are most people married for the first time?
100 YEARS AGO
MARCH 10, 1920
Come on, you toe-frosted robin, come on.
The roads were blockaded by the snow storm last Wednesday night and the strong winds that followed, making drifts in places six feet deep. The county snow plow with a crew of six men has been working its way west and reached Cramer Tuesday evening. They are expected to return to the village this evening. The road is now open from here to Cramer, but the Lake County Road is not passable as yet, so it is hard to say when through traffic can again be resumed. No mail has been received here since Wednesday last week.
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