Red Cross nurse finishes her workThis article appeared in the Rock County Herald on Dec. 21, 1934.Pupils in Magnolia Consolidated School given physical examinations this week by Miss Marian ClarePupils in the Magnolia Consolidated School, 123 in number, were given physical examinations the fore part of this week by Miss Marian Clare, Red Cross nurse, subsequent to similar inspections this month in Luverne public schools. Having completed her work in the county, Miss Clare will leave tomorrow on her return to St. Paul. At Magnolia the nurse found 35 children with temporary dental defects, 30 with permanent ones and 19 with teeth troubles that had been corrected. Sixteen pupils suffered faulty vision, while 10 had received corrective treatment for it. There were four with skin defects, four with impaired hearing and 10 who were 10 percent underweight. An extra session of the local home hygiene class was held Saturday evening in the library basement, and the final examination was given Tuesday. Nine ladies took the final test. They were Mrs. Edith Leicher, Mrs. Grace Welzenbach, Mrs. Verna Alwin, Miss Catherine Gainey, Mrs. Rose Larson, Mrs. Mary Marr, Mrs. Katie Norton, Mrs. Ida Wiggins and Mrs. Anna Cornish. Members of the class are so pleased with the course of training and its practical merits that they have decided to continue the class after Miss Clare’s departure. It is hoped that a Red Cross loan closet can be established here in the future, so that sick room necessities might be kept in a central place and loaned to homes where there is illness, as the occasion demands. The final meeting of the Red Cross nursing activities committee was held yesterday. A conclusive report was given covering the public health service rendered this fall by Red Cross nurses, in the examination of pupils in many of the public schools in Rock County. This work was sponsored by the Rock County chapter of the American Red Cross. There are a variety of health pamphlets that may be obtained free of charge at the Luverne Ladies’ rest room. They deal with various diseases, healthful living, care of babies and child training. Donations to the Rock County Historical Endowment Fund can be sent to the Rock County Historical Society, P.O. Box 741, Luverne, MN 56156. Mann welcomes correspondence sent to mannmade@iw.net.

10 years ago (1994)"Only a single Hills resident has come forward to express interest in filling the vacancy on the Hills City Council. Preston Ver Meer has indicated he would like to serve the 10-month term that is available. Ver Meer must be appointed by the Hills Council. The vacancy is the result of Berdell Bush’s resignation from the council." 25 years ago (1979)"Glen Paulsen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Paulsen, left for Japan on Sunday evening for a six-month study period with a foreign exchange student program. The program is entitled "Open Door for International Friendship."50 years ago (1954)"More than 500 people called last Saturday morning, afternoon and evening at the Blue Ribbon Hatchery to inspect its new quarters and the all-new hatching units installed there the past week. The crowd ran way beyond expectations, said owner Carl Ruud and Bud Bush, of the growing business firm." 75 years ago (1929)"Adrian is probably the smallest town for its size to install the movie-tone in its theatre. These new wrinkles cost all the way from $10,000 to $18,000 to install." 100 years ago (1904)"Two more lonely bachelors have been discovered since last week and the best of it is that both are good workers and neither much over 30.One of them is Lars Hovland, who is so handy with carpenter’s tools, that he would have a snug nest erected before the honeymoon was over. If some nice healthy "norsk jente" would meet him half way, Lars would join the benedicts.The other one is Torkel Dokken who would make a good looking and kind "Lord and Master." It’s a cinch that he would have been snapped up long ago, if he had not been out of town so much. A proposal, however, would reach him at Hills."

Bob and Twila Kirsch returned on Saturday from spending a week at Freeport in the Bahamas. The weather was very nice there. A group of friends took Gertrude Steinberg out for supper Friday to help celebrate her 80th birthday. Ray and Lois Nelson attended the 10-year open house at Minnesota Veterans Home in Luverne Sunday afternoon. Monday, Joanne Goehle went to Russell to watch Andrew Carmany play basketball. Thursday, she attended the girls’ basketball game in Beaver Creek to watch Katie Hadler’s basketball game. Don and Edyth Briggs attended the 6th district annual Robert Burns Pipes and Drums annual dinner in Sioux Falls Saturday night. Dick and Audrey Heidenson spent most of last week in Brandon, house and dog sitting the Ray Heidenson place while they were away in Florida. Saturday night Ray and Lois Nelson attended the Sioux Empire Barbershop Festival at Jeske Auditorium in Sioux Falls. Choruses and quartets from 10 towns performed. Tuesday dinner guests in the home of Chuck and Rheta DeBoer were their daughter, Susan and Seth Hofman, Melvin, Iowa. Thursday, Joanne Goehle attended the funeral of Hilda Schmidt at St. John Lutheran Church in Luverne. Vic and Fran Sandager attended the Parkinson’s support group meeting in Sioux Falls Wednesday afternoon when the group enjoyed a New Year’s session. Lois (Mrs. Howard) Hoyme was released from Sioux Valley Hospital in Sioux Falls and is now recuperating at Tuff Memorial Home. Opal Swanson fell last Friday just before entering Tuff Village and fractured her femur. She is hospitalized at Sioux Valley Hospital. Tuesday night Bethlehem Lutheran Church’s delegates, Wendell Ericksons and Ray Nelsons, attended the annual meeting and supper of the Tuff Home Corporation at the Tuff Home dining room and chapel.

Wow! It’s been so cold that no Villager ventures out. They did go on their weekly shopping trips, however, and they came home with bags of every size. They wanted to be prepared if they were snowed in.This week the Villagers received their library card and proceeded to make a trip to the Garden Room to pick out a book. I chose the one about the Congdon Mansion. The Mansion is known as Glensheen and open to tours by the University of Minnesota who were given the mansion. It’s boggled my mind to see such a beautiful and gracious home on the shores of Lake Superior being built in the 1900s. How long did it take? So I picked the book "Secrets of the Congdon Mansion" and am reading more about it. February hours are 9 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 7 and Feb. 21, and 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10. We have books for all ages.Maintenance Day was Feb. 21 and so we invited Ed and Stan for dinner. Since the Chinese New Year was the next day we celebrated with chopsticks, fortune cookies and pizza. The only one I saw who achieved using the sticks was Ed. He was quite adept at it. We thank them for their help. I can’t remember which guy’s fortune cookie read "You will met someone special at a social event."We all shared in a wonderful birthday party. Sarah was 92 years old. Her daughter Judy made jelly roll with ice cream filling, both chocolate and white. There were lots of guests and we managed to eat six of the strawberry and chocolate delicacy as we visited with old friends.On Saturday morning we watched a film of Ingrid Bergman’s. It just happened that Rosella served pie on National Pie Day. Opal Swanson fell in front of our building as she was coming to get her hair done. She cracked a bone but surgery is not necessary. She’ll have to spend some time to heal at the nursing home. We all want to wish her the best and get well soon. Carolyn’s spent a few days with Jill in Austin. The Village Circle met in the Garden Room. Our regular schedule kept us busy.I’ll keep you posted.

After enjoying a week of beautiful weather and getting used to our sweaters and lighter jackets the weatherman decided that was enough of that! Sunday morning freezing drizzle and snow showers were predicted and of wind would blow. This became a reality Sunday afternoon and was predicted to continue into Monday with you guessed it, strong winds with six to eight inches of snow. We will soon know what else may be in store for us. Whatever it is, it can’t be that bad as we’ll be a whole month closer to spring!There was no school in the Hills-Beaver Creek Schools on Monday. The staff had an in-service meeting. They couldn’t have picked a better day as our weather was cold, snowing and the wind, of course, was blowing as usual. Steen Reformed Church cancelled their worship service Sunday evening because of the inclement weather. Winnie Scholten underwent surgery at Sioux Valley Hospital in Sioux Falls on Thursday. She returned to her home on Friday. Laura May Bosch’s sister and husband, Ron and Alice Ehrisman retired. They were living in Wagner, SD. They have moved and are now residents of Dow Rummel Village in Sioux Falls. Lori Scholten underwent surgery on Tuesday at Sioux Valley Hospital in Sioux Falls. Parent Teacher conferences for Hills-Beaver Creek Schools are Thursday, Feb. 12. The high school students will be dismissed at 11 a.m. and the elementary school at 11:30 a.m. Mildred Keunen and Jo Aykens were dinner guests Sunday at the home of Joyce Aykens in Worthington. Other guests were Paul and Carole Aykens and Susan Veldkamp and her daughter, Jadeyn, all of Orange City, Iowa. Judy and Pete Boeve, Sioux Falls, were Sunday visitors in the home of her mother, Henrietta Huenink. Paul Aukes, son of John Aukes, Hardwick, was a Thursday afternoon caller in the Orrin Aukes home. The family of the late Curtis Paulsen had their Paulsen family Christmas at the Daryl and Marie Paulsen home, which was part of the Paulsen homestead, on Jan. 17 and 18. From a distance came Gary and Carlotte Paulsen, Ogden, Iowa, and their children, Kevin and Jenny Paulsen and children, Matthew and Lindey, Kendal and Kim and children, Conner and Courtney, all of Ogden; Gary’s daughter, Kelly Fishback and family, Kylie and Dylon, Vermillion, S.D., Steven and Sherry Paulsen and family, Tyler, Tanner, Trevor and Tarra, Hills, and Clark and Suzanne Paulsen, Brandon, and Mildred Paulsen. There were 24 family members present for a 5 p.m. dinner and gifts. Those coming from a distance were overnight guests. Sunday morning they all enjoyed breakfast together before they left for their homes. Where does the time go? It seems to me that we just observed New Year’s. Now the holidays have all been observed and in a few days the entire month of January will be a thing of the past. Time seems to go faster all of the time. Time is one thing they have not been able to make a permanent change for. We can change our clocks but time never changes. Philosophers have explored space. They have not explored time. It is the unexplainable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it, nothing. The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning … and your day is magically filled with 24 hours. It is the most precious possession. And no one ever receives either less or more than you receive. Moreover you cannot draw on the future. You can only waste the passing moment. You cannot waste tomorrow, it is kept for you. You cannot waste the next hour, it is kept for you. You have to live on this 24 hours of daily time. Out of it you have to spin health, pleasure, money, content, respect and the evolution of your immortal soul. Its right use, its most efficient use, its most effective use, is a matter of highest urgency. Everything depends on time.Commitment is a state achieved by having your yesterdays all filed away, your present in order and your tomorrow’s subject to instant revision.We all have the same amount of time to accomplish our goals. Good luck!

Before taking up jogging as a new year’s resolution you should know this — jogging can become an addictive behavior. This may explain why we see joggers pounding the pavement at all hours of the day and night and in all sorts of weather, even extreme conditions that keep postal service employees from their appointed rounds. Addicted runners undoubtedly need our help, but are afraid to ask. According to a University of Wisconsin study, which was published in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience, "run-loving mice showed much higher levels of activity in brain regions that also light up when mice addicted to cocaine or nicotine don’t get their daily fix." The white mice in the program were selectively bred to love running, and we can only suppose their tiny sweatbands and color-coordinated jogging outfits set them apart from the drug-addicted mice, a surly and less desirable group. Although many of us can readily identify with a "chocolate buzz" or a "shopper’s high," it’s difficult for many of us to imagine a "runner’s high." If anything, we’re suspicious of joggers who apparently can live without sleeping late or automatically jumping into a car whenever they leave the house. It’s easy to distrust runners. If joggers tell us that it feels good to have their lungs bursting through their rib cages, to have their hearts beating at four times their normal rates and to have their legs feel like knotted ropes at the end of a run, they would probably lie about other things too. Pain and fun were never intended to be synonymous. Joggers’ apparent failure to pay attention to their physical pains may be the reason why more people are collapsing in perfect health than ever before. It’s not that I’m unfamiliar with running. With a stopwatch in one hand and as many chocolate chip cookies as I could hold in the other, I once ran three-fourths of a mile and back in 1974. It turned out to be the longest morning of my life. The run immediately followed a determined walk, another first in my life, over the same section of gravel road. The walk was relatively unremarkable and lasted 30 minutes. Inspired by this physical accomplishment, I decided to run the same distance. After all, running looked easy when other people did it. Unfortunately, there were witnesses even though the isolated rural road rarely had traffic on most days. It seemed as though every time I sat down on the edge of the road to catch my breath and boost my stamina with a cookie, a vehicle would stop and someone would yell, "Do you need a ride?" They all asked — the neighbors, the UPS guy and the fuel delivery truck driver. "I’m fine," would be my gasped response. "I’m just running. Trying to get — some exercise." In addition to having shortness of breath, it was difficult to answer their questions with a mouthful of cookies. The running portion of my new exercise regimen that morning lasted one hour, twice as long as it took to walk. Running hardly seemed worthwhile. According to the stopwatch, it definitely didn’t save time. Ever since that exhausting day in 1974, I have wisely followed the advice of Robert Maynard Hutchins — "Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes. " Just say, "No!"

MINUTES OF THE HILLS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITYJANUARY 13, 2004Arlen Leenderts, Vice President of the Hills EDA called the meeting to order at 7:15 P.M. Board present: Arlen Leenderts, Jim Jellema, Keith Elbers, and Linus Svoboda. Absent: Dana Dahlquist. Employees present: Connie Wiertzema, EDA Secretary and Joanne Goehle, EDA Treasurer. Guest present: Brenda Winter-Hills Crescent. Motion by Jellema, seconded by Elbers to approve of the minutes of December 8, 2003. Motion carried. Motion by Svoboda, seconded by Jellema to approve payment of the December expenditures. Motion carried. Damon Eisma attended the City Council meeting at 6:15 P.M. to discuss and review the Declaration to Create Southern Hills Condominium. The Board will request Eisma to correspond with the current Southern Hills Apartment tenants to explain the EDA’s plans for the building. Elbers informed the Board that he has obtained quotes for insuring the condos. No further business, meeting adjourned at 7:30 P.M. Connie J. WiertzemaEDA Secretary(1-29)

Carolyne Yother, 88, Weslaco, Texas, formerly of Luverne, died Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2004, at John Knox Retirement Village in Weslaco. Burial at Pleasant View Cemetery, rural Luverne, will be at a later date. Carolyne Kruse was born to Henry and Minnie (Borchers) Kruse on Dec. 3, 1915. She was the granddaughter of pioneers, Christian and Katrine Borchers who homesteaded in the Pleasant View area in 1873. She graduated from Luverne High School, Westmar College and earned a master’s degree in education from the University of Colorado. She taught in Merrill, Clarion and Newton, Iowa, before going to Worthington where she taught English and journalism for 10 years. She later taught psychology and was on the staff of the dean of students at Northern Illinois University at De Kalb, Ill. While serving as vice principal of a Cheyenne, Wyo., high school, she married Wayne G. Yother. Following the death of Mr. Yother in 1970, she returned to Luverne. She moved to John Knox Retirement Village in 1989 in Weslaco. Her combined interest in history and journalism prompted her to assume much responsibility for the material in the Rock County History Book of 1976. Mrs. Yother was an active member of the Love of Christ Lutheran Church in Weslaco; PEO, past Matron of the Order of Eastern Star and past president of the Luverne Community Hospital Auxiliary and Pink Ladies. She was also active in the Bicultural Museum Guild of Weslaco. Survivors include two stepsons, Larry (Gail) Yother, Bloomfield, Conn., and Mark Yother, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; three nieces, Audrey Jervik, Sioux Falls, S.D., Ruth (Richard) Opsata, Luverne, and Sandee (Ed) Battier, Birmingham, Mich.; and three nephews, Donald Edmundson, Sioux Falls, Dan (Valerie) Kruse, Eagan, and Rodney (Janet) Sorenson, Springdale, Ark. Mrs. Yother was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Wayne, three brothers and three sisters.

Mearl Nelson, 78, Ah-Gwah-Ching, formerly of Hills, died Friday, Jan. 16, 2004, in Ah-Gwah-Ching.A memorial service was Saturday, Jan. 24, at Calvary Lutheran Church in Willmar. Burial will be at a later date. His remains have been donated for medical study to Mayo Clinic. Mearl Emlin Nelson was born to Nels J. and Ida Rebecca (Moe) Nelson, Hills, on Dec. 5, 1925. His family moved to Kandiyohi County in 1932. He graduated from Willmar High School in 1943. He farmed with his brother, Reuben, until entering the Army Transportation Corps, serving in Korea during 1951-52. He worked for Allstate Feeds and as assistant manager for Supersweet Feeds. He married LeeAnn Goos on July 8, 1956. He retired in 1970 due to health. From 1978, he was in several nursing care facilities. Mr. Nelson served on the school board of District #780. He also served on the Resident Advisory Council of the Minnesota Veterans Home, Minneapolis, and most recently, at Ah-Gwah-Ching Care Center near Walker. He was a member of American Legion Post #167. He was an avid hunter and fisherman. Survivors include his wife, LeeAnn Nelson; two daughters, Dayna (Jack) Winter, Huron, S.D., and Dara Nelson, Walberberg, Germany; two grandchildren, Anna and Jay Winter; one sister, Anne (Carl) Kunnari, Brimson; one sister-in-law, Harriet Nelson, Willmar; and numerous nieces and nephews. Mr. Nelson was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers, Albert, Rueben and Vernon Nelson, and four sisters, Selma Nelson, Clara (Walter) Cogelow, Evelyn (Ludwig) Loven, and Ingeborg (Gerhard) Tollefson.