100 Years Ago  September 17, 1926Miss Vog says that the Indians at Warroad are all talking of lots of snow and much cold weather this coming winter. They say that winter...

100 Years Ago  September 10, 1926There is a bear skin on display at the Press Office at Strandquist. Mr. Bear, when he in habited that skin was a big, black brute weighing...

100 Years Ago  September 3, 1926There was considerable excitement in town about 8:30 Tuesday evening, when local federal officers attempted to apprehend Emery Smith, who...

100 Years Ago  August 27, 1926Ben Snow of near Stephen was one of the first to try threshing out there this year. He threshed a 25-acre field of barley that yielded 25...

100 Years Ago  August 20, 1926Benson Lockwood some time ago had his ankle sprained and had to hobble around the home with the aid of a crutch. Coming home the other day...

100 Years AgoAugust 13, 1926If the party who took a jar of Kranks Lemon Cream will bring it back, no questions will be asked. The party is known and there will be trouble...

100 Years AgoAugust 6, 1926A large crowd attended the Oslo church picnic west of Halma Sunday. TheKarlstad band was there to help out on the program. Martin Lager...

100 Years Ago  July 23, 1926The management of the Halma State Bank has completed arrangements to move that institution up to Lancaster. The territory here is so very much...

100 Years Ago  July 16, 1926Halma celebrated another victory over the Karlstad ball toss Sunday afternoon. After playing five innings of nice ball, Areless for Halma and...

John LagerBy Caroline (Lager) Erickson John Lager, a farm boy, and son of Per and Christine Lager, was born September 12, 1888, at Lancaster,...

100 Years Ago  July 9, 1926An unusual accident occurred Wednesday, last week, when the little five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Knut Roisland of Erie suffered a severe cut...

By Olive Younggren I was born on February 13, 1909, at Northcote, Minn., to parents Oscar and Mulvina Berg Younggren.  I’m the youngest of the...

100 Years Ago  July 2, 1926The local boys lost two games last week that they did not expect to lose. There is no alibi for them either. They played poor baseball in spots....

100 Years Ago  June 25, 1926The elevator at Strandquist burned Wednesday night, the cause of fire unknown. The elevator, 2000 bushels of grain, flour and coal and nearly...

100 Years Ago  June 18, 1926Killed in accident while preparing to grind feed last Saturday afternoon at 1:30, John Walfred Nygren, son of Mrs. Louis Nygren living six miles...