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100 YEARS AGO
June 16, 1925
Lee Brothers 4-ring Wild Animal Circus is scheduled to appear in Pipestone on Thursday, July 2nd. This exhibit is said to carry one of the rarest collections of wild animals in America. Two performances are given daily under a big tent seating five thousand people, a newly added feature being the spectacular exhibition “Cinderella in Jungle land.”
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Jasper Journal: The local fire department was called out last Saturday afternoon when a blaze was discovered in a shed at the Halver Belland property. Although the fire had a good start it was soon put under control. It is thought that the fire started by several small children who were playing with matches.
75 YEARS AGO
June 15, 1950
The new Dairy Bar on Highway 75 and 47 will open for business Friday. Mark Ihlan will be in charge of the eating place, which will specialize in ice cream products, hamburgers and light lunches and root beer.
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Two Pipestone Boy Scouts, Roger Lessin and Bob Beadle, will play in the Sioux Council National Jamboree band at Sioux Falls. The band will play before a crowd assembled to see the Sioux Falls Canaries play Superior, a benefit game from which the Sioux Boy Scout Council will receive 50 per cent of the gross profits.
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Coach Harold Boelter’s Pipestone high school baseball team won the district 8 championship here last night, when they defeated Worthington by a score of 7 to 3. Wallace Melby was on the mound for the Arrows and pitched the entire game. He struck out 11 and allowed four hits. Pipestone will now represent this district in the regional tournament at Slayton.
50 YEARS AGO
June 16, 1975
Laura Willemssen of Lismore was crowned Pipestone County Dairy Princess June 14. Runners up were Samona Groen of Leota and Linda Tuinstra from Pipestone. The three girls will compete at the regional contest.
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Pipestone Jaycees will sponsor an old fashioned 4th of July celebration. Plans are to have a bicycle race in the morning for everyone. In the afternoon there will be a pie and watermelon eating contest, sack races, three-legged races, horseshoe races and possibly a greased pig contest.
25 YEARS AGO
June 15, 2000
Pipestone’s Bernice Dykstra recently published a book of poems. She had them published but didn’t write one of them. The poems were written by Wayne Howe Parsons, Dykstra’s great-grandfather and includes some poems written during his service in the Civil War. He was the telegraph operator on the staff of General William Tecumseh Sherman from 1861 to 1865. General Sherman was so impressed with Parsons’s military service that he wrote a note to General Grant commending Parsons.
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Keith Swenson of Jasper won $5,000 playing the Lottery’s Powerball game. Swenson claimed the prize June 5. The winning ticket was purchased at the Jasper Mini-Mall.