Looking Back - Do you remember when...

  Information for 100, 75, 50 and 25  year news briefs was researched and gathered by Renee Geving and Cec McKeig from Cass County newspaper archives at the Cass County Historical Society. 

100 Years Ago

July 14, 1921

   It’s a funny sort of a combination, but if a man paints the town red, he often gets a black eye during the performance.

   Marriage licenses this past week; Clarence Kinkel and Sadie Carpenter of Longville and Frank Crown and Ish-ta-day-bow of Onigum.

   J. M. Green of Remer is now employed as Cass County Surveyor.

 75 Years Ago

July 5, 1946

   Hilbert Countryman, south Boy River, guided for some fishermen most of the week.

   The Remer Busy Bees 4-H Club meeting for June was held in the new 4-H building.

   Flying a Piper Cub plane from Illinois to vacation at Lyon’s Verndale on Girl Lake were Lynn Whitmore and Pat Fitzgerald of Mendota.

50 Years Ago

July 15, 1971

   The Turtle Lake 4-H Club planted Norway pines around the Chippewa National Forest sign south of Walker on Hwy. 371.

   Human beings, like chickens, thrive best when they have to scratch for what they get.

   Mr. and Mrs. John Daniels of Remer announce the upcoming marriage of their daughter Sue Ann to Alan Weaver, son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Weaver of Longville.

25 Years Ago

July 3, 1996

   Parents Corey and Phyllis Wake announce the arrival of Easton Ford Wake, 7 lbs. 4 oz, 20 ½” long. Grandparents are Richard and Kathy Wake and Glen and Janice Campbell and Herb Papenfus.

   Rose Neururer has moved to the Bemidji area where she will share a home with her brother-in-law Leroy Campbell. Rose has lived in Federal Dam most of her life. She enjoyed story-telling, including many stories of her family history and of ghosts that she personally encountered at the “Putnam House,” where she lived in Federal Dam.

   The DNR urges motorists to watch out for turtles. Spare a turtle on a Minnesota road and you may race it at the Longville turtle races and be a winner.