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

March 15, 1923

   At 11:30 on Monday night, fire was discovered in the storeroom of the round house at Federal Dam. It had burned quite a bit but was put out by our brave firemen.

   Charlie Tabaka drove the north line school bus for John Yochum Monday as John went to Boy River on business.

   Officers for Inguadona township were elected Tuesday: Supervisor Swan Skoglund; Clerk George F. Calvert; Treasurer Hazel Peterson; Assessor Wm. Hull; Constable Alfred V. Lillyquist; and Road Overseer Nels Larson.

75 Years Ago

March 5, 1948

   Thirteen inches of snow fell Friday and Saturday of last week in Cass County. The wind piled the snow into 5- and 6-foot drifts. The storm was the worst since 1941.

   Monday evening friends shivareed the newlyweds, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Sonstegard at the Day home on Mule Lake.

   Rodney Struss, Leonard Johnson, Leonard White and Glenn Campbell signed up for the Navy last Wednesday.

50 Years Ago

March 8, 1973

   Cecelia McKeig was guest of honor at a pink and blue shower at the Federal Dam school house. Hostesses were Ardene Lego, Doris Gish and Bobby Jean Smith. 

   Linda Russell is home from her studies at Moorhead State College for the quarter break.

   Mert and Ardene Lego went to Iowa to see their son Doug who is attending school there.

25 Years Ago

March 10, 1998 

   Swanson’s Bait Shop & Gas of Hackensack has finished its expansion project that nearly doubles its current facility.

   After two consecutive harsh winters that killed whitetails by the thousands, buried pheasants, and killed owls, our wildlife is getting a much needed break this year.

   Thomas Larson of Johnson’s Marine of Longville has received the OMC Master Technician rating after a five-day instruction course.