20 YEARS AGO
JANUARY 8, 2001
Hunters and their families who have been feasting on venison steak already had a hunch, but the official word from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is that the year 2000 firearms deer harvest was among the top five on record. Hunters harvested 193,079 deer statewide, an increase of 27,913 deer (17 percent) compared with 1999. The harvest in the Northeast Region was up 42 percent, to 31,748.
The temperatures during this past December were a good example of the saying “Be careful what you ask for, you might get it.” For the last couple of years, folks have been moaning about the lack of a real winter. Too mild, too warm, and on and on. This last month fixed that! There were only three days in the entire month that stayed above zero for the entire 24 hours. From December 9 through December 12, the temperature was below zero for the entire period. The low for the month was 24 below zero on Christmas Eve. There were six days that went down to 20 below or colder.
30 YEARS AGO
JANUARY 7, 1991
The whereabouts of a 16-year-old Stearns County boy who was last seen driving a 1980 blue Dodge pickup truck found abandoned on the Bally Creek Road December 9, remain a mystery. The St. Martin boy has been missing from home since November 19. The truck, which was stolen, was found stuck in the mud off the Bally Creek Road. The hood was slightly open, the keys were in the ignition, the driver’s door was open and the passenger door was locked. The truck started and ran.
60 YEARS AGO
JANUARY 5, 1961
The new homecoming queen of Cook County High School will be crowned at a festive coronation ceremony Friday evening in the high school gymnasium, between the early game and the regular homecoming game. Last year’s homecoming queen, Bobbi Zimmerman, will come from Hamline University to place the crown on the new queen, whose name will be revealed that evening.
The chief of the Conservation Department’s forest nursery program, Ray Clement, estimates that 1960 will go down as a “very good year” for Minnesota’s Christmas tree industry. He estimates that approximately six million Christmas trees were cut in Minnesota this year with about five million of those being shipped out of state.
85 YEARS AGO
JANUARY 9, 1936
Who says ads aren’t read? Henry Brockway advertised for a lost dog. The day after the paper came out, a female dog came to his place looking for a home, and the following day gave birth to six puppies.
115 YEARS AGO
DECEMBER 29, 1906
From the London Times: KITES USED FOR METEOROLOGIST OBSERVATIONS Twenty-three years ago, Englishman Douglas Archibald started using steel wire with modern kites to achieve greater flying heights. Recently, a series of six kites in tandem, employing nine miles of wire, achieved a height of about four miles above the earth. When the ground temperature was 40.8 degrees F, the highest level kite temperature was 13 degrees. The wired kites are good rivals of hot air balloons for lofty observations.
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