Depot needed at Soo Station

From the Pope County Tribune, Thursday, May 3, 1923.

The Kiwanis meeting was led last Friday at 12:06 at the Rogers Hotel. The three new members, Julius Haugen, Martin Kalton, and William Engebretson were initiated in the typical Kiwanian style. After the usual singing of the inspiring Kiwanian songs and partaking of the splendid dinner served by the Rogers, the speaker for the day, Mr. Miller of the State agricultural school at Morris, took the floor. The next meeting of the Kiwanis club will be held Friday and will be turned over to the discussion of the proposed trunk highway between Starbuck and Westport. 

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From the Glenwood Herald, Thursday, May 3, 1923. 

Glenwood needs a depot at the Soo station. We have talked to our friends from out of town about Glenwood, Beautiful Glenwood and Beautiful Minnewaska. When any of these friends of ours come here to visit us and we go to the station to meet them, the first thing they see is the contraption up there on the Soo Hill that some people call a depot. We hustle our friends into the car or the bus as fast as we can and say nothing. All the time we feel guilty.

A person does not like to say anything about the depot. He hates to advertise the fact that there is no depot in Glenwood. Some time ago, a man was heard to say that Glenwood needed a new depot. He made the mistake of using the word “new.” That would imply that we had an old one. What we have is old, that is true, but it is not a depot. What we need is a depot. 

The Soo line officials have been promising us a depot for the last eighteen years. Eighteen years is a mighty long time. The trouble with us is that we have not been insistent enough. From now on, we shall insist. After showing as much patience as the people of Glenwood have, the Soo Line officials cannot get offended if we should even go a little too far now in insisting that something should be done. 

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From the Starbuck Times, Friday, May 4, 1923. 

The district Deputy for the Modern Woodmen of America in our midst, and is writing members for that society. The Modern Woodmen of America is the largest, the cheapest, and the most practical Fraternal Beneficial Society in the world. Every man should join the Woodmen. You cannot afford to be without. See our rates and compare them with others, or with what you are paying now. Besides being cheaper, we have our Sanatorium for Tuberculosis which is absolutely free to our members. Just think what it would cost you if you had T. B. and you had to pay the expense yourself for 10 months or more at a hospital.