Grapefruit sized snowflakes

Oct. 18, 1962 – Glenwood High School band students were marketing their 33 1/3 lp album, featuring such numbers as West Side Story, 1812 Overture and Finlandia. For the price of $3.50, students would sell a record and a school calendar.

Hunters could stop at Callaghan’s Our Own Hardware for water repellent caps, advertised at 99 cents, a suede cloth gun case at 77 cents, a German-made rifle at $19.88 and Remington 12 gauge shells at $2.49 a box. 

Showing at the Glenwood Theatre was Rome Adventure, starring Troy Donahue, American teenage girls’ number one heartthrob, Suzanne Pleshete, Angie Dickinson and Rossano Brazzi.

Gladys Turnquist was named the Farwell correspondent for the Tribune. 

The Lowry firemen posed for the Tribune in their new uniforms. Pictured were Chuck Thompson, Jim Dingwall, Cliff Mork, Clarence Erickson, Joe Chermak and Chief Tony Chalupnik.

Oct. 19, 1972 – Mrs. James Barsness of Glenwood was honored by the Minnesota Historical society at its 23rd annual meeting in St. Paul. Mrs. Barsness, a prime mover in the development of the county’s historical society, was named an honorary life member of the state group.

Workmen of the Soo Line Railroad were pictured in the Tribune placing a 33-foot, 14-ton railroad trestle on the Hwy. 28 overpass east of the city. Two trestles over the highway had previously served the railroad, but the elimination of passenger service to Glenwood determined the need for just one. 

The Villard school was celebrating homecoming. Royalty for the event included king and queen, Roger Searcy and Linda Majerus, and Debbie Bailey, Joan Reichmann, Steve Pfeninger and Jeff Gaffaney. Brandon put the damper on the festivities, however, by defeating the Mallards in Little Eight Conference play.  

Oct. 21, 1982 – A cool, wet fall put area farmers behind schedule with their annual harvest. Field corn was showing as much as 35 percent for moisture content. Soybeans were also behind schedule with tilling process way behind the norm as well. Dick Oeltjen of the ASCS (Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service) was quoted as saying,  “We’ve basically lost October. That’s how far behind we are.” 

A Tribune feature on Glenwood’s grocery stores showed that generic food items were gaining in popularity. One local grocer credited the lack of national ad campaigns for the lower cost, and hence the popularity, of such items. 

Glenwood Lakers  volleyball team claimed victories over New London and Starbuck. Among those participating in the sport for the local school were Kathy Morris, Charlie Morgan, Karla McCrory, Becky Hegna, Deb Schuett, Kris Schwerin, Sam Mattson and Tricia Butler. 

Oct. 19, 1992 –  Pictured in the Tribune were the first signs of winter. The Glenwood area was greeted with its first snowfall of the year as temperatures dipped into the low 20s. 

The final half of real estate property taxes for 1992 were due. In comparing the taxes paid by residents in 855 Minnesota cities, Glenwood residents ranked 43rd in 1992 for paying the highest property tax. The only other city in Pope County which had a higher tax rate was Villard. 

The Glenwood-Lowry school board studied a presentation from Ehlers and associates on a new state law; districts with debt service greater than 10 percent of the total net capacity would qualify for the break. Schools excluded from this act were cooperative secondary facility schools, which included Minnewaska Area High School. 

Oct. 21, 2002 – The corn harvest in Pope County, which was proceeding steadily until an early snowfall late last week, will likely pick up steam as fields dry out this week, and producers are expecting yields in some areas to reach bumper-like levels. 

According to regional extension educator Bob Stommes, last week’s winter preview “definitely is going to slow things up a bit. When things are damp, the combines can’t handle the wet crops well enough to move the produce on through.” 

The first snowfall featured fat, floating flakes. Flakes the size of grapefruits were falling on Glenwood, much to the surprise of both pedestrians and motorists. Several vehicles slipped off the road in the sloppy conditions. 

Oct. 22, 2012 – Paul Gerde, chairman of the Pope County Board of Commissioners, cut the ribbon last Tuesday morning, officially opening the newly constructed north entry to the Pope County Courthouse. The dedication ceremony and ribbon cutting attracted a good crowd including county staff and members of he community. The project began construction last June and restored the north entry to its original 1930s-era architecture. 

Bad luck with the weather was the last of the bad luck for the Lakers. Good fortune befell the Lakers throughout the game. In the end Minnewaska made just enough plays to topple the Bulldogs and even their record at 4-4. 

There are seven county financial workers and one case aide in Pope County; Oct. 17 was their day. At their regular board meeting on Oct. 16, county commissioners voted to support Gov. Mark Dayton’s proclamation of Oct. 12, 2012 as a County Financial Worker and Case Aide Day in Minnesota.