As Alta (Muhl) Johnson celebrates her 100th birthday on Aug. 5, we received this photo of her family. Front row, left to right, parents Peder and Cora Muhl. Their children behind them, left to right, Alta, Lowell, Carroll and Mary Lou.

From the Mascot Files

100 Years Ago
(July 28, 1922)

12 farmers organize
farm loan association
Twelve farmers from the vicinity of Minneota organized a National Farm Loan Association last week. They ask for loans aggregating $88,000. Farmers interested in securing first mortgage loans at a minimum rate of interest gathered at the office of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank in Minneota last Thursday evening and organized a branch of the Federal Land Bank of St. Paul.

Get-Together Club
places visitor benches
The Get-Together Club of Minneota decided to place benches and chairs for the benefit of tourists on the park grounds. The benches and chairs were placed on the south side of the river. It was a fine, public-spirited thing for the club to do.

75 Years Ago
(Aug. 1, 1947)

Streets repaired, but
sewer project delayed
Black-topped streets in Minneota were repaired and sealed by a crew of workers during the past week, but one street, the block between M-G-T service station and the Buysse Motor Company, which was scheduled for blacktop, was not touched because the contemplated sewer project had not gone through as originally planned. The street repair work was done by a Granite Falls firm. Engineers met with the Village Council on Monday about adding new sewers and water mains, as well as overhauling the entire sewer system.

Applications open
for post office clerk
Applications are now being accepted for probational appointment to the substitute clerk position in the post office here. The basic rate of pay is $1.04 per hour. Applicants must be citizens of the United States. The age limits are 18 to 50, except for veterans and person in the Federal Service who are War Veterans Indefinite employees. Applicants must pass a written test, which required about four hours.

Local baseball team
loses to Marshall, 6-3
If Minneota's ball team hadn't bobbled the ball at very critical moments in last Wednesday evening's game against Marshall, the score might have been entirely different, but as it was, errors more or less lost the game for the local club, the final score being 6 to 3. The Minneota team had six errors chalked up against it and Marshall came through with but one. The county seat aggregation connected on 14 of Hanson's offerings, one for three bases and one for two, but he kept them well scattered. Minneota sluggers hit Marshall's hurler eight times.

50 Years Ago
(July 27, 1972)

Sixth annual golf
tourney is July 30
The sixth annual Countryside Golf Club tournament is set for this weekend. Prizes valued at over $1,000 will be handed out to the winners in the various events, plus trophies in each flight. There will be a limit of 108 entries. An entry fee of $13 must accompany reservation. Dave McClellan of Marshall is the defending champion.

State Fair 4-H Club
demonstrators listed
There were 45 4-Hers from the area that participated in Oral Demonstration Day last Thursday in Marshall, demonstrating their favorite projects. Ten demonstrators were selected by the judges to present their demonstrations at the Minnesota State Fair in August. Those from Lyon County were: Jolynn Buysse of Westerheim, whose demonstration was titled "My First Love Affair" and Julie Buysse of Westerheim with "Mass and Make." Selected as an alternate was Roberta Larson of Island Lake with "Read All About It."

Rotary Club hears
Boulton on watershed
The Minneota Rotary Club heard John Boulton explain developments in the Yellow Medicine Watershed program at its weekly meeting last week. Boulton, who farms west of Taunton, heads the water management program for the counties of Lyon, Lincoln and Yellow Medicine.

25 Years Ago
(July 30, 1997)

Heavy rain causes
damage to school
The local high school and elementary school complex floors, as well as some educational materials sustained substantial damage after last Thursday evening's rainfall. Rainfall collects on the roof of the elementary school and also part of the high school roof before running off into the vacant area in the center of the school and then has no place to go. The water, when enough is received to fill the pit in the center, is then forced to flow under the door leading to the school, and then flows northeast in the building, flooding some of the elementary floors. Some of those rooms were covered with one inch of water and materials stored on the floor were ruined.

Dorenkamper retires as
Kiddie Parade organizer
Doreen Dorenkamper, who has headed the Kiddie Parade for Boxelder Bug Days for the past 13 years, has announced her retirement from that position. Dorenkamper is being replaced by Diane Myhre and the G-M-T Women of Today.

Bug Days buttons
to be on sale soon
The Boxelder Bug Days committee has announced that Bug Days buttons will go on sale Aug. 4-8. Darlene Muhl and Karen Swedzinski are in charge of button sales, and that are staging a city-wide button sale for those dates. During the week, the purchase of a button will entitle you to sign up for free prizes, including $5 Minneota Bucks certificates, Boxelder Bug Days t-shirts, Boxelder Bug Days mugs, and Boxelder Bug Days note cubes. The cost of a button is $3.

Nagelhout donates
carved boxelder bug
Ev Nagelhout presented a beautiful hand-carved red and black wooden boxelder bug to the Boxelder Bug Days committee to be used as the grand prize for the Boxelder Bug races. Ev has done a lot of carving over the years and has made many creations that have become keepsakes.

This Day in History
July 28

1609 - The English ship Sea Venture, commanded by Adm. Sir George Somers, runs ashore on Bermuda, where the passengers and crew founded a colony.

1914 - World War I begins as Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.

1945 - A U.S. Army bomber crashes into the 79th floor of New York’s Empire State Building, killing 14 people.

1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson announces he’s increasing the number of American troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000 “almost immediately.”

1976 - An earthquake devastates northern China, killing at least 242,000 people, according to an official estimate.

1984 - The Los Angeles Summer Olympics opens.

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