By Lillie and Don Nelson“Our Northwest Corner-1979” (tan book)Lars “Louie” Johnson was born in the Sogn region of Norway in 1852. In 1867, he...

100 Years Ago March 20, 1925F. E. Hunt, who has sold bananas and strawberries and Prince Albert and Copenhagen and other things for the Thief River Grocery Co. up this way...

100 Years Ago March 13, 1925Here’s How It Happened, By John A. Stahlberg: I can't remember it all. I don't know anything about it except by hearsay. And, tho it is...

 By Estelle Nordine“Our Northwest Corner-1979” (tan book)Nels Gustaf Ehrenstrom was born October 28, 1861 on the Island of Faro, Sweden. He was the...

Ella Erickson By Ella Erickson“Our Northwest Corner-1979 (tan book)When I was 19 years of age, I embarked on a great adventure. I left my homeland...

100 Years Ago March 6, 1925Kittel Aamodt and Roy Halvorson pleaded guilty to manufacturing moon, Tuesday evening in Judge Watts’ court and were given jail and fine...

By Gloria Swanson“Our Northwest Corner-1976”From 1912 until the fall of 1929, Kittson County was the home of Frederick McKinley Jones, self-taught...

100 Years Ago February 27, 1925A. F. Spjut was very ill last week. He has been ailing for a long time but last week he was in a very critical condition. The last reports...

By The Children“Our Northwest Corner-1976”Nicholas and Vasilka (Babyak) Boychuk departed from a small village near Bucuresti, Romania, about 1903....

100 Years Ago February 20, 1925C. 0. Haugeland can still hold his own altho he is up around the 70 year mark. He has hauled between 50 and a hundred loads of wood this...

“Our Northwest Corner-1976”“A flood of word pictures come cross my mind when I think of Dad,” said one of his daughters. Vivid memories of a man on...

100 Years Ago February 13, 1925They had a fire on the Donaldson mail route a week or two ago. Jacob Hanson was driving the mail, as he did not go...

100 Years Ago February 6, 1925The big event of 1925 took place last Saturday evening when the married men met the single men at the local hall for...

By A. Carlson“Our Northwest Corner-1976”My Grandparents Christine and Bengt Westerberg immigrated from Sweden and settled on a homestead east of...

By Arthur Cummins“Our Northwest Corner-1976”The E.J. Cummins family immigrated to Minnesota in the spring of 1900. They settled on a farm pretty...