Sept. 2, 1926
Samuel Henry Ponsford, one of the pioneer settlers of Clearwater, passed away at St. Raphael’s Hospital in St. Cloud on Thursday morning following an operation a few days earlier. Mr. Ponsford was born in England and came to America at age 6. His family soon came to Clearwater as some of the earliest settlers. He died at 79 years old.
While returning home from the tent meetings on Thursday night Mrs. Anton Lingren met with an automobile accident near the Ernest Olson home. Mrs. Lingren had her attention turned from the car for a second and as a result ran off the road and tipped over. Her daughter and two small girls were also in the car. One of the girls received some bad cuts for glass, but the others were not injured.
The evangelistic meetings held by the Swedish Mission Church closed on Sunday evening. The meetings were very well attended and enjoyed, and many were converted.
Aug. 22, 29, 1946
Last May, the program committee for the Improvement Club Planned a flower show for Tuesday Sept. 3, at the Library. "If your flowers are not all dried up, bring them to the library and help us to make a good display." Three prizes are offered for the best arrangement of center pieces for the dinner table. The business meeting will start at 3 p.m. Roll call to be answered with the name of your favorite flower. There will be time to discuss your flower troubles. A 20 cent lunch will be served.
Miss Helen Locke received notice last week that she has been selected to teach school in Germany the coming year. She will report in New York the fore part of September for sailing orders.
The privilege of operating motor vehicles on the streets and highways of Minnesota was forfeited by 1,364 drivers in July. Wright County contributed two revocations and one suspension to the state’s total.
A flower show was held by the Improvement Club on Tuesday afternoon. The club was hoping for a good display of flowers, so they asked everyone involved to bring out your blossoms to the show. The business meeting started at 3 o’clock.
C.A. Hausken, station agent, was hit by a car Saturday night on the street near the Hart Cafe. Mr. Hausken was thrown down by the impact and dazed. His legs from his knees down were badly bruised and ankle was injured. He was given medical attention and taken to his home. With the assistance of Mrs. Hausken and a daughter, he has been taking care of his work at the Soo Station, but is quite uncomfortable. The driver of the car that hit Mr. Hausken, stopped at once and gave aid and assistance.
Henry Leonhardt, 53, of Chicago, was taken with a heart attack while swimming in Lake John Thursday evening and died. Efforts were made to revive him without success. The Family, who were vacationing at a Lake John resort, left on Friday with the body for Chicago where funeral services were held.
Aug. 22, 29, 2007
Highway 24 construction was on track for completion by mid-November, and that couldn’t come fast enough for a couple of businesses that were losing sales because of the road closure. The 12.6-mile stretch of highway between Annandale and Clearwater was closed to through traffic since June 18 when the $14 million upgrading project began.
A man and his wife were arrested Tuesday, Aug. 14. They were suspects in 14 armed robberies, two of them in Annandale. James N. Dahlager, 26, of Sacred Heart matches the description of a man who walked into Coady’s Liquors the evenings of July 16 and July 25, wearing a baseball cap and wielding a silver semi-automatic hand gun.
Former Annandale-South Haven State Rep. Mark Olson R-Big Lake, who was convicted of domestic assault in July, was sentenced Thursday, Aug. 16, by a Sherburne County Judge. Olson was sentenced to 90 days in jail.
Several inches of rain that fell in August can’t repair the drought damage to Wright County’s corn crop, a farm official says, but it will help save the soybeans. both crops were expected to fall beneath average because of the lack of moisture during the heat of July.
The Interstate 35W Bridge collapse, and the overall decay and safety of our bridges and roads, added urgency to the discussion about the need for a special legislative session. Now Minnesotans have suffered another huge setback. People lost loved ones in flooding in southern Minnesota. Raging waters destroyed homes, businesses, roads and bridges.