Days Gone By Week of March 16, 2015




125 YEARS AGO
March 14, 1890

The newly elected village officers qualified on Wednesday and the new council held its first meeting yesterday afternoon. The license for selling intoxicating liquors was fixed at $1,000, which was just the right thing to do, and we congratulate Mayor Carson and the entire new village council. The council will not meet again until March 29 at which time the applications for liquor licenses will be acted upon.
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An attractive new sign has been placed on the front of Stanley Bros. land office. The sign is very conspicuous and will certainly attract the eye of all land-seekers to a place where they can find good bargains.

100 YEARS AGO
March 16, 1915

A bottle of cocaine was stolen on Sunday from the office of Dr. A.H. Brown, in this city. A fellow who was seen around the place and who had the appearance of being a dope fiend, is suspected of the theft. The new federal law which became effective March 1 regulating the sale of narcotics is making it very difficult for the dope fiends to obtain the drugs they crave, and they are resorting to theft in numerous instances.

75 YEARS AGO
March 12, 1940

P.E. Cleaveland of this city has taken over the management of the Former Donkin Oil Station on Highway 47, in the west part of this city, and announces that the station will hereafter be known as Cleaveland’s Corner. The new proprietor has installed new pumps and is featuring Texaco products. He also will handle soft drinks, candy and bakery goods, and states that he will still further enlarge his line of goods, if business demands.

50 YEARS AGO
March 15, 1965

The Pipestone Jaycees have decided to donate ten percent of the profits from the advance sales of the tickets for the Harlem Globetrotters basketball game to the Pipestone County Historical Society for the construction of a museum to house the Roe Indian artifacts collection.

25 YEARS AGO
March 15, 1990

Many said this was going to be a rebuilding year for Coach Ed Gustafson and Pipestone, after all four senior starters graduated off last year’s state tournament consolation championship team.

But Coach Gustafson knew he had some fine athletes returning, and he put together a green monster that rumbled through Southwest Minnesota to a Southwest Conference championship, to a District 8A championship, to a 20-2 record before they were stopped Tuesday night by Fairmont in the first round of the Region 2A championship by Maple River Eagles 67-65.