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125 YEARS AGO
Aug. 3, 1900
The untidy looking weeds, which are being allowed to grow on many vacant lots in the city, should not be permitted to exist if it is a possible thing to exterminate them. Along the streets and highways they look especially bad and should be destroyed.
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A bright baby boy put in an appearance at the home of D. W. Evans, on the west side, this morning. It is said that the junior County Attorney bids fair to become in every respect as big a man as his father.
100 YEARS AGO
Aug. 4, 1925
Three truck loads of drug store equipment reached Pipestone on Sunday from Watertown, S.D. and were unloaded into the Austin building at the corner of Olive and Frances streets. At this location Clifford D. Duffus plans to open a drug store in the near future.
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An act of vandalism, evidently the work of boys, was discovered Monday morning when it was found that the shelter containing the government weather station thermometers on the roof of the Star office, had been opened, and that one of the thermometers had been broken and the other removed. The matter was at once reported to the local police and also to federal officials at Minneapolis, and no doubt a thorough investigation will be made.
75 YEARS AGO
Aug. 7, 1950
Pipestone’s Gopher league team took a step in the right direction Sunday by defeating Hadley here in the first of a two-out-of-three game series, 6 to 0. The shutout was accomplished on Wally Melby’s two-hitter with the aid of some of the best fielding support of the year by the Bees. The local club was credited with 14 assists and charged with two errors.
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Mrs. Hilda Benson, who has been employed at the S & L store here is relinquishing her duties at that place. On Monday she will take up her new work as assistant matron in the girl’s building at the local Indian School.
50 YEARS AGO
Aug. 4, 1975
Pipestone police officer Greg Christ suffered minor injuries when he was struck by a car. Christ was directing traffic from the Hiawatha Pageant at North Hiawatha and 4th Street when he was struck by the car about 11:30 p.m. Saturday night. The driver of the car, Paul Carlson, was charged with failure to observe a legal direction from an officer.
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Pipestone County finally got some rain last week and it didn’t come a moment too soon. The official total given by the Pipestone Monument station was 1.44 inches.
25 YEARS AGO
Aug. 3, 2000
Minnesota West Technical and Community College – Pipestone campus carpentry students spent last Wednesday at Granite Falls helping residents dig out from the tornado which ripped through the community July 24. Local carpentry instructor Paul Hagen and six of his students assisted residents in the clean up. One of the families the students ended up helping was the Steve and Jackie Kellen family, whose house was in a neighborhood hard-hit.
(Editor’s note: Steve and Jackie Kellen are former Pipestone residents).