Wind and rain storm hits Pope County

From the Pope County Tribune, Thursday, July 10, 1924

Miss Edna Wollan of Glenwood has started a ladies’ class in gymnasium work here. The classes are held at the Lakeside Pavilion every Tuesday and Friday afternoons for one hour, starting at 3 o’clock. Already Miss Wollan has many of the fair in her class, with many more coming in as the work goes on. There is a small fee charged, but which is very reasonable considering the value that one gets in attending a class regularly. Miss Wollan needs no introduction to Glenwood and vicinity or recommendation as to her fitness for the work she is under taking, as she is known to be one of the best instructors in physical training and calisthenics that can be found anywhere in the country and has held some very high positions in this line of work throughout the northwest and middle west. 

A wind and rain storm hit Pope county on Sunday night. In the southern and eastern part of the county the wind did not do so much damage, but in the northern part considerable damage was done to the ripening fields as they were laid flat by the storm. The latest reports are that the fields have straightened up again to some extent, although where the grain is real heavy, it will not rise again.

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From the Glenwood Herald, Thursday, July 10, 1924

The two barberry scouts who are surveying Pope county for barberry bushes are also watching wheat fields for any development of black stem rust. So far slight traces of black rust have been found in three localities. At all places, it was still in the red spore stage and the infection was apparently only over a small area. During their stay in Pope county they will check up on properties on which common barberries previously have been found, to make sure that the bushes have been destroyed and that no sprouts have appeared. Most of their time, however, will be occupied in visiting the farms. They have been instructed to call at every farm in the county, notify the owner or tenant of the presence of barberries where bushes are found, and persuade him to have them removed.

Guide signs to direct tourists to free camping places and in the official yellow and black color combination are being erected by the Minnesota Highway Department, according to a recent bulletin. Besides uniformity some official standing is afforded by the state signs it is explained. “What can be done with money raised locally to pay for such signs?” asked the treasurer of the local committee in one town. “Spend it for better equipping the camp,” was the reply from the department.

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From the Starbuck Times, Friday, July 11, 1924

Farmers Complain of Cream Thieves (Hoffman Tribune) – At least three farmers in the vicinity of Hoffman are minus several dollars worth of cream, to say nothing of three perfectly good cream cans, as the result of the operation of thieves who made good their escape with the bovine product last Wednesday night. In order to profit from this experience other farmers are taking the necessary precautions to guard themselves from becoming the victims of similar depredations. The identity of the thieves has not been learned, and no trace found of their direction of disappearance.

Dr. Opheim was re-elected and A.P. Norby was elected to take the place of W.C. Torgersen at the annual school meeting at the schoolhouse last Saturday evening. There were 43 votes cast of which Norby received 22 and Torgersen 21. Torgersen’s report showed the school district is now entirely free from debt for the first time in more than two generations. Last week he paid to the State of Minnesota, $7,000, covering the last of the bonds held by the state, together with $14 interest from July 1.