July 12, 2007

News from the Past

75 years ago

July 11, 1932

The annual 4-H club picnic, which was held at the fairgrounds Monday, was a gala day for the club members and their parents.

Over 450 attended this event. The clubbers began to arrive at the grounds at 9 and by 11 the group was practically all there. A full program had been arranged for the day.

July 11, 1957

50 years ago

Two more car accidents, one taking the life of a Hastings, Minn., man, have occurred within our midst this past week. Most serious of the two happened last Thursday evening on Highway 29, four miles north of Prescott.

A 1957 model car driven by Kenneth Schiller, 27, of Hastngs went out of control on a curve at supposedly high speed and careened into a ditch, striking a huge stump and continuing to roll into a farmer's field.

Schiller was thrown frm the car and died at the scene of the accident. Lucille Hendricks, a passenger in the car, was rushed to the Hastings Memorial Hospital where she is recovering from injuries sustained. The car was considered by authorities as a total wreck.

Early Wednesday morning of this week, a car was forced off the road on Highway 10 four miles east of Prescott during a freak incident. In this case the driver suffered only minor injuries even though the car was about as totally wrecked as it could be.

July 15, 1982

25 years ago

The only lively action at the Monday, July 12, Prescott City Council meeting was when Mayor Dean Hauschildt shook a bag of new shiny pennies, paid in protest to the $3 boat launching fee.

"We can count pennies," he added

The jingling fee was accompanied by a letter from Oak Grove resident Allen Evans who asked why a seasonal permit couldn't be paid. The matter was referred to the Parks Committee where it has been discussed before with the requests turned down. Prescott residents pay no fee.

July 10, 1997

10 years ago

Downtown Prescott may be losing two storefronts if the City Council approves the planning commission's granting of a special use permit to Ron and Jinny Pierce.

The Pierces own the building at 106 and 110 Broad Street North. For the past year they have attempted to interest retailers in the storefronts and have even opened their own business, Jinny's Dolls, in one of the storefronts.

The Pierces have decided to convert the storefronts to residential apartments and made that request during a formal public hearing on the matter last Monday. The upper floor of the building is already used for rental apartments and the Pierces feel that they would have no problems renting the converted ground floor.

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