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125 YEARS AGO
Aug. 31, 1900
J. H. Nichols, chairman of the Republican County Central Committee, has written to see if arrangements can be made to have Roosevelt pass through Pipestone on his way to South Dakota. It is not known what route he will take but it is not improbable that it can be so fixed as to bring him here. Of course our local Republicans are enthusiastic over the idea and will do all in their power to get their candidate here and to make the occasion of his coming a political celebration such as has never been approached in this part of the state. If the movement is successful Roosevelt will pass through here on September 10.
100 YEARS AGO
Sept. 1, 1925
Pipestone County will have a strong aggregation attending the State Fair this fall and competing for state honors in Boy’s and Girl’s Club contests. There will be about 1,000 boys and girls taking part in various club contests, at the State Fair and twenty of them will be from Pipestone.
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Pipestone firemen were called upon Friday to assist in fighting one of the most dangerous and threatening fires that have occurred in this vicinity for sometime.
A call was received from the William Pfantz farm about two miles west of Pipestone on the Flandreau road. Arriving on the scene they found a large straw stack and a hog house in flames.
The firefighters were greatly handicapped by the fact that a high wind was blowing the flaming embers close to the house and other buildings. Attention was given to the saving of other buildings.
Cause of the fire was spontaneous combustion. Mr. Pfantz had placed his flax straw on top of an old pile of somewhat rotten straw in the yard.
75 YEARS AGO
Sept. 4, 1950
A hired hand on the B. Cambern farm near Pipestone was treated by a local doctor Friday for injuries he received when the tractor he was driving on highway 47 near the Sunset Drive-in Theatre was struck from behind by a Skelgas truck. Injured but not seriously, was Frank Cooksley.
Charles Knobel, of Pipestone, who was driving the Skelgas truck west at the time of the mishap, was blinded by the sun and failed to see the tractor. Damage to the truck was $150, but damage to the tractor was confined to one of the rear tires.
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The Holland softball team, with Clayton Wilson pitching won the tournament staged at the Playfield here Sunday afternoon and evening. Holland defeated the sponsor team, Ed’s Tin Shop, in an 8-inning tourney opener, 3 to 2. Batteries were Wilson and Raph for Holland, Wussow and Erickson for the Tinners.
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Woodstock — champion of the Gopher baseball league — has now won a place in the state tournament to be held in St. Cloud. Woodstock will play its first state tournament game on Wednesday, May 3.
50 YEARS AGO
Sept. 4, 1975
Douglas Hubers, 15, was electrocuted and killed Friday morning at about 10:20 a.m. Hubers was in the barn at his parent’s rural Pipestone farm using an electrical drill at the time of the accident. It is still now known exactly what caused the fatal shock.
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Joining the Central High faculty this fall is Bill Leslie from Delavan. Leslie will teach social studies at the senior high and also coach B-squad baseball and ninth grade football.
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At a luncheon in Bloomington Sunday, Aug. 24, Al Opland was honored by being chosen as one of twenty Teachers of Excellence in Minnesota. Opland was given a plaque in honor of his selection, an identical plaque was given to the school and will be displayed at Central High.
25 YEARS AGO
Aug. 31, 2000
Local optometrist Dr. Douglas J. Vermeer, who nearly two years ago completed a complete renovation of a Main Street location for his business, was last week given the first Pipestone Chamber “Business Spotlight Award.” The award was just developed by the Pipestone Chamber of Commerce as a way of recognizing local businesses who have bettered the community through good corporate citizenship.
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A move into education four years ago has brought Rochester native Jeff Ehlenz to where he is today; the assistant principal of Pipestone-Jasper High School. For the past two years, he has been a special education instructor, with an emphasis on Emotionally Behavorially Disturbed students. He combined teaching with administration duties and said the extensive work in administrative duties should serve him well at Pipestone-Jasper.