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West Hennepin's budding towns included Da -r; Corcoran Township), Armstron (west of where Maple I'San i is today) and Abel (in Maple Grove). Hardly a trace of then remains. r-f 2:) Suburban Neighbors Hesper-Mabel Steam Engine Days Planned In i qu during lY.f The coming of the railroads made the difference between life and death for many communities. FletcJrcr, Other a'tviti'-s include parados on Saturday located on the first stage coach road to St. Cloud, boomed Speciai to the Minneapolis star MABEL.

Mmn. S-nne and Sunday, chic ken dinners. unui me ranroaa was duui two mues to tne norm, wnere Rogers sprang up and took its business and population away. 25,000 visitors are expected ky divers, stajie snows, neii- contests and here Friday, Saturday and a'Pter rld': fireworks Yesterday's Giants By RALPH THORNTON Minneapolis Star Staff Writer San Francisco, Yes, there once was one. Platted beside the Minnesota River near Shakopee by a William Foster in 1854 and named after the California metropolis, it flourished for about 10 years, then reverted to farm land.

Sunday for the fifth annual If today's traveler had to rely on a Minnesota map of jasper-Mabel Steam Engine 1915 preserved in the Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, DaYs- he might wonder if he were in the right state, when sighting i On display and in opera- )Shoe Shinel APACHE PLAZA 't'" I i BARBER SHOP If' I Apoh. Plata th.pemt Of 738-252S INDIES' HAIUCUJTINQ And what happened to Vinland, a hamlet of summer tion at the village on the ilowa border in Fillmore v.Ja JH homes in at the south end of Christmas Lake, such place names as these (population figures in parentheses): In Hennepin County he would find Woodward (29), Rowland (19) and Warwick (26). Besides Gladstone, Ramsey County counted a Cardigan County will be old-fashioned named for the 11th Century Norse settlement on the northeast coast of North America? Or Gladstone, a village at the junction of the Northern Pacific and Soo Line Railroads in New Canada, named in honor of William Ewart Gladstone, the British statesman? And who platted the town of Fountainebleau, near the Minnesota River, another dream town which never got off the ground? COMPLETE KITCHEN ppffii REMODELING (26) and an Irondale. Dakota County's roster of stops included Medart, Idella (22), Wallace (16) and Hazelwood (33), while hidden among the rolling Washington County hills were Langdon and Curry.

Scott County boasted of Merriam (44), Grainwood. Helena (33), Joel (22) and Raven Stream (25). Anoka County had Linwood (22), Jesperson (29), Mort (19), Demarest (24), Tuthill (21), Republic (22) and Cloughi (22). Carver County had its own Coney Island, Benton Jet. (42), and Summitt.

What ever happened to them those suburbs of yester- See Our Model Kitchen hJs-J LU fvMtf WH-SJ sL year ROOM ADDITIONS KITCHEN upan vewy rrtewy iva. CABINETS MILTON L. JOHNSON HOME REMODELING CENTER 2513 Central Av. ST 1-9S49 AfUrhourt: UN 9-6791 Of ST 1-1371; Today, nearly 50 years later, none of the above is still on the map. No list of Minnesota ghost towns is complete without Nininger, founded by Ignatius Donnelly and once a community of several thousand persons which aspired to become Minnesota's state capital.

Today that Nininger is but a memory. Soybeans Over Memory Another is Harrisburg, which existed at 96th Av. N. and West River Road just after the Civil War. A stop on the Red River Ox Cart Trail, it had a large hotel and stores lined Union Square in its center.

Today a soybean field covers the entire site of the former bustling community. Brookdale 9 Glenwood QSt. Anthony iTi fX.ULfcil.LlLlAllJ. It fa KLEENEX gE HARRISON V. JOHNSTON AT HOME Plans to finance two museums NO 'CRAZY' PLANS Edina Man Confers on N.D.

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11. 1964 i Minneapolis: Shingle Creek, Cedar Lake, Lyndale, Richfield and Minnehaha. Richfield alone emerged as an incorporated municipality. TUlHJXTir Other towns and villages whose names appeared in Z1 IIA texmnm once in the morning and once in the afternoon, as an exhibition to get the farmers IrV 1 I I A Vim r1 iff immniu. ZJ StVI OVIft ON REG.

83c LARGE SIZE in," Johnston said. "Sauk Centre, Melrose that area El TOOTHPASTE Crest Ipana I'd come in with two car WE GIVE SIH QREEN STAMPS ED CQUda loads of horses." 3 Colqate Gleem gj DAILY VITAMIN RATION tich Ctpiul Supplioi A -Mil Umti, I -lit Umti C-ll QQc Rtc SMI Limit Two with Coupon The horse business de Pepiodent stripe 48c Limit I Tub with Coupon 3 ST. JOSEPH Re 39c ASPIRIN bab.es clined, and in 1915 Johnston bought a movie theater in St. Paul from "a fellow who didn't have the gumption to Good Until Sept. 13.

1964 wwiniii run it." He followed the theater business with a try REG. 1.49 at a small loan comDanv. HUNDREDS OF but he got out of that be 99 COLD HAYFEVER CAPSULES. CONTAC Harrison V. Johnston, 73, learned to ride a bucking bronco when he was 10.

"My uncle said any kid my age had bones so limber they wouldn't break, no matter what, so he'd help me up on the horse," said Johnston, 4401 Browndale Edina. "He was right, too. Took me 72 years to break my hind leg. I was trying to do that dance where you go under the pole yeah, the limbo last year at a party I gave for some White Earth Indian Reservation people. "Then when I went out to look for my car in the dark afterward, I fell into a hole.

Broke my hip, wrenched my knee and hurt my ankle and shoulder. Doctors at Rochester said it probably started to break while I was trying to dance." Johnston walks without a cane now, and he says, "If I got scared bad enough I could probably run," but he hasn't tried the limbo lately. Box of 24 HERSHFY BARS Almond Just in Time For School Lunches Limit 2 AQUA NET HAIR SPRAY cause "it was too tough on poor people." RaCK.Tn.SCHODL Dressed in hieh heeled mm am er -m mm BARGAINS boots, a flannel shirt, jeans and a cowboy hat. and with out a dollar in his pocket, Johnston applied for a selling HERE ARE A FEW 400 COUNT Wide or Narrow Lined job with Lyle Culvert Co. in 1919.

"The man who owned it asked whether I knew any S3 NOTE BOOK FILLER thing about culverts. I said New Low Price 98c Value 'What are they?" He ex No Limit AUEBl I MEN'S I LOW HAY FEVER BRACER PEPSODEM KtiisiL TOOTH "oc? TIQI CTC BRUSH Laxative" I ADLl I BOHLEOFIOO "39 21 88 plained them, and I told him I could sell horses and cattle. 'Then you can sell he and 800 INCHES ROCKET 500 Count FILLER PAPER promised me $60 a month." CELLOPHANE I A DC MADE BY VALUE II IMrC 3M He thought it probably would be better if North Dakota Gov. William Guy and other state officials came to talk to him last week about his planned gift of two museums to North Dakota instead of his going to Bismarck to see them. 72 3 or 5 Hole Binder $1.49 VALUE The culvert selling business got better and better.

Johnston began investing his money, and in 1956 he retired owning 12 corporations; "Twelve corporations isn't that a helluva note for an old cowpuncher?" he laughed. Johnston, whose only formal education was a few winters in grade school when he wasn't needed on the CARTRIDGE PEN ST. ANTHONY STORE ONLY SHEAFFER PLUS 5 EXTRA CARTRIDGES I PLASTIC Nothing Crazy "Being handicapped now, I'm putting the burden on them (the North Dakotans) to round up some bids for the plans. I'm going to approve them, though. They might want something round or FREEZER CONTAINERS Want to Have More Fun at Home? ranch, said he doesn't "right ly know how come I have all that money.

I didn't rob no banks for it, though." He was married 1918 to FREE! FREE! FREE! BEATLE PICTURE SSSS. BILLFOLD SIZE, FREE WITH SCHOOL SUPPLY PURCHASE OF OR MORE Jover. Square now at a stenographer from LeSueur IHfii I I SSJ0 WEST BROADWAY I I II Then now's the time to shop COMBINATION BICYCLE LOCKS Jusl in tint (or shol opening. $1.00 Valu. 77 a whom he met at a party.

Johnston and his wife, Beatrice, lived together in the stone house he had built in Edina until she died in 1959. 533-2121 I 1 1 1 1 1 I I I I SUPER BLUE BLADES GILLETTE Re 69c A Pkg. of 10 fctJ Size 1 i CHILDREN'S SCHOOL crazy like you see at the World's Fair." Johnston, who estimates he is "worth $6 million or more," wants to do something for North Dakota because he grew up there. Born in St. Paul, he moved to a ranch near Medora, N.D.

(site of one proposed museum) in 1899, when he was nine. "My father bought ranch, but mother wouldn't leave St. Paul, so he had to put my uncle in charge of it. I went to live with him," said Johnston. In 1907 the elder Johnston gave the ranch to Harrison's uncle after a crash in the cattle market "so he wouldn't need to support a bunch of cowhands." The uncle traded the ranch for the Rough Rider Hotel in Medora, and 17-year-old Harrison set out on LUNCH KITS Around Polyethylene DISH PAN Full tizo, (oppor color, htavy duty, durable.

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