125 YEARS AGO Oct. 5,1900 The “Two Merry Tramps” Co., arrived this morning and at noon gave a highly creditable street parade, a feature of which was the trick bicycle riding exhibition of H. C. Lefever. The band discoursed some excellent music. The company will appear at the Ferris Grand tonight in one of the most amusing performances on the […]
Opinion
“See You In September” or maybe November The Happenings come to the Showboat
By Tom Tourville I can remember when I was a kid and my local ballroom (Interlaken Ballroom-Fairmont, Minn.) was bringing in a new hot band. It was never a national name, but usually an “A” level group out of Minneapolis. You know, it was not that often that we got a true national headliner at our rural ballrooms. I’m thinking […]
October brings plenty
This time of year, I would normally spout off about falling temps and falling leaves. I could spout off t-shirt worthy phrases like “fall into a good book” or “cozy up with a cozy mystery” or “leaf me alone, I’m reading.” Instead, I am left with a beautiful blip of warm weather and the desire to still be out and […]
A tradition like none other
In local or regional sports, one would be hard-pressed to find more rivalry and tradition than the annual Battle Ax game between Pipestone and Luverne. The history is well-told and known to all who have taken to the gridiron in battle or cheered for the green & white or the red & white from the stands. This past week’s 68th […]
Days Gone By Week of September 29, 2025
125 YEARS AGO Sept. 28, 1900 This is pronounced by all to be one of the wettest seasons known here for years. It seems to rain every time a cloud comes into the sky. The weather man has repeatedly predicted that a clear up was at hand, but the prediction again and again failed to materialize. The mud and rain […]
Kudos to local hospitality
TO THE EDITOR: For several years, the Pipestone High School class of 1965 has held annual parties in August starting on a Tuesday afternoon and ending at lunch the following Thursday. The businesses in the City and County of Pipestone have made our get-together successful again! But this year was special—our 60th reunion. The businesses that helped make it special […]
A First Amendment kind of guy
It seems like I hear a lot of talk about the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which says: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” The references I hear the most tend to focus on the part that says […]
Days Gone By Week of September 21, 2025
125 YEARS AGO Sept. 21, 1900 The enrollment in the Public Schools which reached 570 by the close of the first week of the fall term, rose to 600 yesterday. So far as we can ascertain this is the highest attendance that our school has ever attained. *** During the wind storm yesterday morning a windmill was blown down on […]
Lessons from the garden
By Mary Stoel, Master Gardener Pipestone County master gardener Every year in the garden is a learning experience for me. There is always some new bug or critter to contend with. Moisture issues arise along with temperature changes. And, don’t forget about the weeds. Our garden is growing a bumper crop of weeds this summer. Our garden did not get […]
Alzheimer’s disease impacts many
TO THE EDITOR: Alzheimer’s disease is a growing public health crisis in Minnesota. According to the Alzheimer’s association of Minnesota, there are 102,000 people aged 65 and older living with Alzheimers in Minnesota. Eleven percent of people aged 45 and older have subjective cognitive decline and 166,000 family caregivers bear the burden of the disease in Minnesota. There are 228 […]
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