The Austin Daily Herald from Austin, Minnesota • 21

LONDON 'S 41 Minnesota Salutes The State of MINNESOTA On It's Statehood CENTENNIAL 100 YEARS PROGRESS SPELTZ GRAIN COMPANY i 3 hair drugs kfcrX ADAMS MINNESOTA MINNESOTA'S CENTENNIAL YEAR 4 if Low Tax Rate ACILITY A MODERN This Advertisamant by the Read The Classified Ads k' meas doses Southern Minnesota's largest cel ebration the Blooming Prairie 4 Jamboree is an outgrowth of a celebration started 10 years ago to mark an industrial expansion The old celebration known na tionally as the Soybean estival marked the opening of the soy bean processing plant financed by private capital and the armers Cooperative Elevator But a prob lem in manufacture brought claims against the company and the eventual closing of the plant 4 So with no soybean industry the Commercial Club evolved the 4 Jamboree which attracts thou Tirrmirmrn a quiet business that changed slowly over the years Nelson and his wife run the store today both are fairly heal thy and put in the same long hours that have become accus tom with the small store opera tor 'A Recent $400000 School 7 Expansion HIGH RONT STORE The London general store "operated by Mr and Mrs Nordall Nelson hasa high front Just ike the buildings in television westerns landala pioneer since 1922 said went away mad at the land Blocker was employed by Pay ne to supervise the growing busi ness He worked with the great influx of settlers in 1925 and 1926 getting them settled on the 20 acre farms which were enough for one family Today the 20 acre farm is still the basic unit and many growers have their fields stretched over all parts of the Hollandale area Hollandale is one of the young est communities in this part of the state and a popuUr tourist a'itotiKoiSSKisO toe vegetable industry is sandwiched to on four aides by the corn belt farms of Southern Minnesota are all and in take 30 to 45 if New Sewage Disposal Plant Now in Progress BLOOMING PRAIRIE 1958 A portion of ths' Blooming Prairie business district on the old Highway 218 now the main street of the village LONDON GROCERS Mr and Mrs Nordahl Nelson are shown at their London Myrtle General Store Nel opened the first general store in London in 190 1 and he's been at it ever since THINGS' HAVE CHANGED Earl Erckenbraek Ad ams druggist says things'have changed in the 50 years he has been a druggist He retired from com pounding of drugs in GOVERNMENT CHURCH PACT CIUDAD TRUJILLO Dommlnl can Republic (J) A new pact hit been signed between the Dom inican Republic and the Roman Catholic Church under which gov ernment funds will finance work of Catholic technician! in welfare project was established at fust about the same time the State of Minnesota was admitted to statehood judge Makes Youth Cut Off Sideburns SALT LAKE CITY tfl Judge Willis Ritter dig these El vis Presley sideburns When a 17 year old juvenile appeared before him for sentencing on a misde uoTge Ritter ord ered him taken to the Salt Lake County jail for a hair cut andshave explaining that he pass sentence until the youth ap peared with a presentable cut Hawaiian Ukes Sent rom Pennsylvania HONOLULU (fl One of Haw best known the was introduced here ori ginally by the Portuguese and lot of fhem are still being import ed Many ukelelea offered for sale here come from a manufacturer in Nazareth Pa I Rood Is Built to Minion CHOL CHOL Chile tf) Heavy rains during about half the year made travel virtually ImpcartbW over a muddy road serving this village A Mafyknofl tnisatonarf the Rev rederick Hegarty' East Orange aasembJerf his and their equiposetA in three days bmlt a bc all weather road to the next town Hollandale gained fame aa Min nesota's Garden of Eden The man who made the compar ison said Hollandale was tmrivfl ed in its capacity to produced cer tain vegetables and it does Thirty thousand tons of potatoes 10000 tons of onions 000 tons of cab bage and 200 tons of asparagus from land that was once a huge moaqulto infested swamp called the Geneva swamp Tbs area wu a paradise for muskrats and ducks who lived on the dense vegetation that grew in the sweet peat muck soil bottom But twe men with vision uw the potentional In this a warn and started to do something about it The first McMillen of Minneapolis who owned a large part of the swamp dug a ditch in 1909 which today la the main drainage ditch But this ditch and its laterals moved only the sur face water Invested la Ditches' A decade later George Pay ne and associates of Omaha un dertook the task of reclamation and spent $3 million on a system of ditches and tils lines that cov ered thousands of miles Big plows and rollers turned the earth inside out and the ditches carried awgy the six Inches of water that covered the i present town site This exposed the flat table land and the area wjMopcn ed tata The firstseUlers as is the pre dominately national group today wen Dutch They knew bow to raise vegetables and those who survived the first yean became well to do growers But the early days wen no easy irst a drought and then an August frost wiped out Payne and bis company and many of the growers left the land frost wu the last straw Blocker a Hol A Good Place to We Are Proud Of Our Community And We Hope You Will Visit Us During AUSTIN (Minn) HERALD 21 'X A TAOPI RESIDENCE This Is the home of Mrs Hanna Nelson of Taopi one of the eldest settlers in Taopi ADAMS COMMERCIAL CLUB nv olks Congregated in London General Store cist for 50 yean Erckenbraek started his career as a high school boy of 12 in his store in Parkers He ran errands waited on customers answered ttoeiielenhcne exchange zWv When his lorida Earl Erckenbraek for SO yean a member of the Minnesota Phar maceutical Assn was the young est druggist in the state when he joined in 1908 just 21 yean old tp a rr uAtwwu'wffM aua fhft TXtattm sity of Minnesota pharmacy school that year Erckenbraek ex plained had taken a job in St Paul when I joined" Erckenbraek and other 50 year members were honored last month by the state group re gret I able to attend the he remarked had to take life easy since suffer ing a coronary in Sold Store to Son the heart brack sold the store to his son James now a salesman for a vet erinary medicine company The store's still open while being of fered for sale Erckenbraek had been working in St Paul when a woman men tioned a drug store in the south ern part of the state was for sale funny he remarked how liti tie things can change your life I had received a letter from a friend in Adams telling me the store wu for sale psked the woman what town and she said and that it was a good Erckenbraek said howI here and went into business on a shoe Times Haye Changed Things have in 50 yfears in the drug business In 1908 all prescriptions azuLtinctur JM wey tompounded the drug gist and they had to be careful in handling potent strychnine Today the drugs ured out in tablets he said It minutes to mix a prescription Back in the old days we also mixed veterinary medicines There was one foul smelling mixture that I mixed in a big tub outside in back of the atofe I used a hoe to stir that Erckenbraek re called In the old days the allied line were not as important in a drug store as today although wallpap er used to be a big item Ercken brack and Pooler and Wold in Austin used to purchase wallpap er in carload lots to get a better price Recalls Old SodtT ountain And the soda fountain wu a big department in the old store Prob ably was a mistake for druggists to take the soda fountains out but no one has them now he said some of these stores I find the drug departments he lamented in his almost 50 years in Ad ams Erckenbraek hu mixed medicines for seven doctors And there has always been at least one veterinarian in the town Erckenbraek the only druggist in the area When he started there were stores in Le Roy Stacyville Lyle McIntyre Taopi and Dexter Now Adams and Grand Meadow have the only druggists outside of Austin in the area Although he has been a pharma bh a vacation took over the drug Only Business He Knew the only business I ever knew I sort of grew up in drugs" know Adams has the rep utation a tough town but it is a real nice community Erckenbraek said those ourth of July celebrations in the old days were Jmown throughout the state" remember the first year I wu here I opened the store for a big day at the fountain and one of the first customers was a man I knew in St Paul al ways been telling me how tough his home town was and when he walked in the store I knew he had been telling about Adams" While July 4 was a' big day in Adams the opening of the fishing season was a bigger day for Erck enfarack He loves' fishing al though in recent years he has been unable to get awiy I was younger I would hire a relief man and take the family up north fcf he related gar dening is my only hobby love to get outside with a hoe in my hand That wayf I can quit' wHfen I get I regret coming to Adams 48 years he said re lying to a final question a nice town Adams Grows Out of a Busy Trading Post Several years before Adams was incorporated on March 2 1887 it wu a flourishing trading post with a good school and a railroad station A man named Mathias Krebs bacfi was probablv ieroutstaSig pioneer iedetir Adams" as he brought in the first threshing ma chine seeder and mower and own ed the first span of hortes in the township At the time of incorporation the name Mathiu Krebsbach became the first president The first Coun cil was composed of Carr AKnutson and Michael Krebs bach Since those early days: the vill age hu progressed until today it has of 735 and has' a a Lutheran and Catholic churches a grain elevator public and parochial schools and a week ly newspaper It ls located on the Milwaukee Road 18 miles south east of Austin As early as 1897 a complete wa ter system 'with pumping station was installed In 1902 the village built a complete sewer system and already had a volunteer fire department Long before the village started taking shape on Nov 26 1859 the Little Cedar Lutheran Church was organized Mainly respond l1 A 4ha rwrtarleaHAn wraa Rev Clausen Iowa who conducted tfftrst aer' vices The new nam ed the 'church for the creek flow 1 ingnearby I The Catholic church and school of the Sacred Heart and Adams i were wimped arouna me turn or the century wih the school pro ceeding the parsOTiagii ini eiwth built in'1902 IRST IN HOLLANDALE i This almost nw truc tura is the first business place In Hollandale a com munity founded in 1922 It has always housed a gro eery store and cafe Mormons Build Sputh of Equator HAMILTON New Zealand (J) a gleaming new Mormon temple built a hill at nearby Tuh ikaratnea and a 40 building col lege erected by the church in the same area' were dedicated The $8 million Mormon project pro viding the first temple south of the equator whs built entirely by donated labor Recreational acilities: Naw Park DavatopMawV Canciatt Tea! Courts Coniarvariea Club Haata Ushtad AtMatlt ield Residential and Commercial Buildings and Building Sites Available Exodus Only 10 of Original Belief PITTSBURGH (fl In the cur rest Issue" Of the Journal of Bibli cal Literature Dr Georg Men denhall of the University of Michi gan cites i extensive new findings show that the number of Is raelites in the desert after the exo dus from Egypt was not the tra ditionally believed 600000 but about 6000 1 Erckenbraek State's Youngest Druggist a Half Century Ago Ji When customers in 1901 drop ped in at General Store in London it was just that a general store handled shoes cloth ing dry goods boots almost anything that a farming family needed" Nordall Nelson recalls Nelson opened the first general store in London and still at it But today the store handles groceries of a different type than the 1901 variety everything is packaged but in those days we got food in bulk sugar and crackers for Nelson recalled Educated 4 Children 4 Tliel year old store owner nev er regretted the grocery business pdf my four children through college and all are now grown' and married so the store has done some In the summer time during the warm weather Nelson sometimes wishes he had Jb6' farmtog' This grocery store his idea Two brothers John and William' Thykeson suggested the grocery business and Nelson agreed to go into partnership with them A few years later he bought them out and the store then has been his He moved to the pre sent site 'in' 1920? Likea People He likes people and talking to the customers that come in some of his customer bad since the beginning 57 years ago in particular stands out in his mind in his many years of business have more self service now whereas in the old days the store keeper got most of the goods for the Nelsonaid one ortyro robberies in the early other than that the store pretty much was Revival of Native aith Seen in Asia NEW Cam The nationalism sweeping Asia has talk' en on a which insists that native faiths be rw vived and kept says Bishop JU j' jah Manikam of the Evangell cal Lutheran Church of South to dia He said this new poees a treraendoue obstacle to Christianity Blooming Prairie Boasts South State's Top estival sands' of 4 boye and girls from I Dodge Steele Mower and ree i born Counties and boasts one of 1 the big parades This year the celebration will be July 18 20 with the same for 1 mat as in other years The parade i and talent contests win be the main features and a new award i program is being studied by the' sponsors right now I The soybean plant wasn't the I first industry in Blooming The flour mill was one of tte pioneer firms and there has always Jbeeai an elevator The irst NatidSfal I Bank was started in 1875 and the' creamery expanded three times was organized 66 years ago i The Associated Grocers Co oc cupies the old hemp mill started during World War and Bloom ing Prairie is also a construction center headquartering Lysne Con struction one of Southern Minne sota's largest firms Population of the town is about 2000 liteiRJW 't: Soturddy May 10 1938 Hollandale Gains ame as Minnesota's Garden of Eden Chief Taopi Earlv Convert to Christianity Taopi a railway junction in Lodi Township rWM 'named in honor of Taopi (Wounded Man) chief of tbe armer band of the San tee Sioux Indians who died In March 4869 Chief Taopi was one of the first converts to piristianty at the Red wood Mission on the Minnesota ri ver and at the time of the Sioux outbreak 1862 was friendly to the whites and aided in rescue of many 1 The Taopi anning Co incor porated in 1875 occupied 5200 ac res of the choicest land in the state in central Mower County Set Aside Lots Taopi was situated on this farm and when the village was platted the farming company set aside two lots or church purposes one lot for school and one lot for the vill age town also streets and alleys This plat is practically intact except that one addition was made which was called Miller ad The story has been told that one man had the urgent desire to be the first one to have a house erect ed in the newly platted town He had lumber hauled and ready to start building on a Monday morn ing however another man also had the same desire and had a build ing built about one half mile west of the plat and over the weekend had it hauled onto a lot he had previously' bought started the first year and for sev eral years was a thriving business as previous to this people took their wheat to McGregor Iowa to have it made into flour On Sept 9 1867 the first rail road to operate in Mower County reached LeRoy On October of that year a railroad was com pleted from Owatonna to Austin and for a short time a stage coach was operated from LeRoy to Aus tin But later this year the rail road was completed and a freight car from New York to? Minnea polis passed over this road Crossed Milwaukee Tracks In 1837 the railroad from Hay field to Dubuque Iowa was com pleted and crossed the Milwaukee railroad at Taopi This road now the Chicago Great Western railroad still maintains a passenger train going once a day in each direction five days a week Taopi was a thriving place for many years with two elevators do ing a large volume of business Later hay was also shipped from here' and livestock was shipped to Chicago and South St Paul Speaking of hay' shipped' 6 Taoui recalls one 4 year old girl who came to Taopi in 1879 with her parents Mr and Mrs Peter Anderson from Denmark Her memory is of how the Jiay was She is Mrs Annie Ug lum Adams who says her parents came to Taopi in August of 1879 Their plans were to have been in Taopi on a certain day but they arrived one day earlier' so that her brother was not at the depot to meet them However 1 they found a neighbor who was in town with his team of oxen and who agreed to take them to the 'farm of the brother Mrs Uglum remembers the oxen ride as she rode in the wagon and the adults walked She also recalls that there were no roads when you wanted to go some place you struck off in the general direction of the place you wanted to go The first school organized in Taopi was in 1877 taught in a pri vate home by Miss Ida Wells Later a frame building was put up and in 1907 a two room frame building was built and replaced with a two toom brick building In 1914 the present four room build ing was built At the present time ikfiva minils UIVkV CUV V14XJ CIMVMW WWVS1VJ attending school here wit) the high school and junior high school pu pils attending Adams i The Taopi post office was es tablished in 1875 and the village was also incorporated this same year and re incorporated in 1909 The present officers of the vill age are Arthur Lagervall May or William Henderson loyd Kiefer and James Boe council men Mrs Raymond Webber clerk and Mrs John Johnson 1 treasurer I Taopi has been lucky in that I they have never had a serious disaster Although there have been I five fires in the past 'orty years which have burned down a building each time But there was never a loss of life Several serious accidents have been recorded at the road comer east of town at the cemetery cor ner and also at the railroad coss ing the village At one time there were four fatalities at one time at this crossing Two serious railroad accidents have occurred one over 50 years ago when two trains collided at the crossing One or two crew members of the trains were kill led Another accident occured op the railroad siding and one man 1 was killed This accident was over years ago I The population at Taopi has nex I er been much ever two hundred But for the past thirty years the population has decreased until now there are about 100 The village has felt the results of 'good roads and the trend to larger communities and at this time has only one general store aB garage a and pale Em'' 1' aU Bill Rs tldJXLUMlMUlil fl ui Illllllf IIIIIII I Dgw 'H I 'I I siaH EK! i BW TW I AK aS 'Si war BffW 'IkBftalwRMwIt ate aBM BISm Sri KBBkI flW 1 1 ImiIIIh 7 ft A 'r a 4 'i Al a 1 6 A IV at 110 wlr XJ iI fiUr jfe JjA 1 iv 1 a 1 Sv Sagger jJZf MXtaai a A ft A 14 4 4" "a '5 'Z fl I (iKlBtC I oMx sta few lilt 1 11 Iiniiiia ''I 'J WH1! 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