20 YEARS AGO
APRIL 24, 2000
George Morrison, perhaps the most celebrated Native American artist of his generation, died at the North Shore Hospital and Care Center on the morning of April 17, 2000. Morrison was born Sept. 30, 1919, in Chippewa City near Grand Marais. He was the third of 12 children.
The Minnesota DNR plans to raise about 2.6 million walleyes to stock next fall in state lakes. The target was announced at the annual walleye production meeting last week in St. Paul. Steve Hirsch, fisheries operations manager, said the state plans to produce 121,000 pounds of walleye fingerlings and to buy an additional 4,000 pounds of fingerlings from the private sector. Figuring an average of 21 fingerlings to the pound, the total number of fish is 2.6 million.
The county commissioners voted unanimously to appoint County Accountant Braidy Powers to fill out the term of County Auditor-Treasurer Carol Gresczyk, who announced her retirement last month. Asked what the biggest challenge might be in his new job, Powers said: “Dealing with change.”
50 YEARS AGO
FEBRUARY 12,1970
Fourteen years ago, Mrs. Art Madsen got some national (and even international) publicity when she made her famous trek via snowshoes, dog team, snowmobile, truck, snowplow, and bus from the Canadian side of Saganaga Lake to Duluth to have her baby. The baby, Helen Sue, was born about a week later.
From Raymond Naddy on the Superior National Forest: A bird that can fly under water was sighted on the Temperance River. Mr and Mrs Muehlhausen, using a high powered spotting scope for bird watching, were able to verify that they were looking at a Dipper or Water Ouzel. The Dipper is roughly the color of a catbird and about the size of a robin. It can actually walk on the bottom of fast moving streams and fly under water, using its short rounded wings as it does in the air.
60 YEARS AGO
APRIL 21, 1960
A 9-year-old Schroeder girl was rescued last Monday while playing and swimming with a group of children in the pool at Lutsen Resort. Dean Hanson, 11, of Tofte, swam out and pulled the girl to safety after she ventured out over her head. Just two weeks previously, Ray Cummings had given life-saving instructions, which Dean had remembered and put to good use.
90 YEARS AGO
JANUARY 16, 1930
Chicago Bay Students Get Very Good Marks The pupils of the Chicago Bay School are averaging their marks in Arithmetic at the end of each week. Keith Ellquist and Roy Ojard have an average math grade of “B”. Those who were awarded gold stars in Spelling are Waldemar Soderlund, Dagney Jacobsen, Arvin Arnquist and Robert Jacobsen.
100 YEARS AGO
APRIL 21, 1920
Henry Benson has returned to Flint, Michigan, where he is employed at an automobile factory.
Highway Engineer Smith has a crew repairing the road to the gravel loader. As soon as weather permits it is his intention to commence graveling the new road from the village west.
Do you know you can see just as good a photoplay here as you see in the million-dollar palace in the city?
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