Six women take a hike to Alexandria

From the Pope County Tribune, Thursday, Nov. 2, 1922.

Hilda, Herbert and Edwin Jacobs left Saturday morning for Wisconsin to visit with their sisters. They expect to be gone for a week.

  Genevieve Riley, Esther and Sylvia Wollan, Florence Susag, Norena Dankers and Myrtle Barsness hiked to Alexandria Sunday. They started at 11:00 a.m. and arrived there at 4:00 p.m., having walked all the way. They took a taxi home.

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From the Glenwood Herald, Thursday, Nov. 2, 1922.

Hjalmer Rud Holand, who first translated the inscription on the famous Kensington rune stone, and who now has possession of the stone, lectured at the high school auditorium at Alexandria Tuesday evening on this important chapter of American history, and also showed a number of relics found in the neighborhood which are supposed to have belonged to these fourteenth century explorers.

  At the last annual meeting of the Pope County Farm Bureau held last Saturday, H.L. Gorder of White Bear Lake was honored with re-election to the presidency for the third consecutive term.

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From the Starbuck Times, Friday, Nov. 3, 1922. 

Celebrate Halloween In The Village Lockup. Six young men of the village spent Halloween in the village lock-up according to Marshal Bill Yarger when they refused to keep their fun within the limits prescribed by the marshal. The marshal says he did not object to anyone rolling wagons about the street, if that was necessary to work off their surplus energy, but he drew the line at the destruction of property and warned all boys against this. The young men who spent the night in the lock-up were released in the morning, and no charge was placed against them.

  Letters have been sent out by the Wells-Hanson Co. announcing that their stock of merchandise will be sold out and the building and goods not sold by the first of the year will be offered for sale in a lump. The company is a corporation and some of the stockholders live in Morris where they had a store which was sold a year ago.

  It was indeed sad to hear the news on Saturday morning, that Harold Olson’s dwelling house in Hoff caught fire last Friday and burnt to the ground. We have not heard the real origin of the fire, but it is reported that it started near the chimney. Some furniture was saved, but their clothes and furniture upstairs were destroyed by the fire. It was very hard luck to lose their house and especially at this time, when winter is approaching.