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...

100 Years Ago  June 4, 1926One day of the school year that the pupils look forward to is the annual school picnic. The Karlstad school is planning to have one on Friday,...

100 Years Ago  June 4, 1926One day of the school year that the pupils look forward to is the annual school picnic. The Karlstad school is planning to have one on Friday...

100 Years Ago  May 29, 1926Prof. G. A. Magnuson and family left Friday by car for Bemidji where they visited Miss Georgine Haugh, and on Saturday, they went to Grand...

100 Years Ago  May 22, 1926There are more than forty million Dads in America, the American Boy's best interests ought to be pretty well looked after, but in that...

By Mrs. Carl Gatheridge          Douglas Cameron, son of Hugh and Malitta Cameron, was united in marriage to Bessie Elvira Moore, daughter of...

100 Years Ago  May 15, 1926Fathers play the old "Game of Life" for all that is in them, but always according to the rules that every boy understands as "being square."...

100 Years Ago  May 8, 1926The world is full of them. He bluffs his boy, He bluffs society, He bluffs his God, He even fools himself into believing he is "as good as the...