1915~~Ninety Two Years Ago

APRIL 1915

Man escapes from jail by tying little strips of wood together and reaching the keys. Other prisoners chose not to escape.

Column called “Merely Mentioned” which is the town gossip

Newspaper novels continue
Column called The Country Round About stating interesting news gathered in and trimmed down by wide awake correspondents of the news-press

MAY 1915

Streets may be paved during present summer
Clean up day next Monday
Man slips on log while fishing and drowns at dam
Baseball games
All is ready for the library opening
Formally dedicated on May 11, 1915

Courthouse news includes marriage licenses and wolf bounties paid.

Man dies from chiropractic treatment

150,000 pike fry released by the old boat landing.
53 graduate from Lincoln High
Winning slogan for Thief River Falls:
“You’ll come back to Thief River.”
It was selected from a group of 150 essays.



JUNE 1915

Move Central School
Over crowding
Enrollment
Knox 337 students, 8 rooms, 42 per room
Washington 405, 9 rooms, 45 per room
Central 384, 8 rooms, 48 per room
Lincoln 351, 30 per room
State board of Education states 20 is max.

Free County Maps
Pennington becomes dry
St. Hilaire woman seriously hurt in runaway
Horses spooked by fluttering cloth
$50,000 in damages to the Thief River Falls Grocery

TRF to have another paper. It will be 16 pages, published during the first week of every month and the first issue will be out about July 10. It is called Loken’s Store News.

A band of roving gypsies traveling in six wagons and two buggies arrived in town Thursday and began a canvas of the city telling fortunes. Several of the female members of the band pretended to be magicians, and clearly demonstrated the fact when they picked the pockets of several residents. They were headed out of the city and left for Bemidji. It has been learned that this same band has been chased from practically every place at which they have stopped.

JULY 1915
Frank Toudell drowned in river. Drink and worry caused loss of mind. High water and swift current make recovery of the body impossible at this time.

State board looking for site for women’s reformatory. Thief River Falls considered.

Automobile contests are an absolute violation of the law

TG Moi Kills Alma Gutterud in jealous rage then sends bullet through his own head.

21 years ago, (1894)
Chicken thieves busy; Farmers are indignant.
Strawberries scarce this year.

Notice to dog owners. All dogs must have collars and a 1915 license.

AUGUST 1915
Hanson and Barzen to sell lumber yards
City to purchase private dam
Northern Hotel and Cigar Factory burned to the ground

Special election to be held September 30 to vote on buying the private dam for $88,000

SEPTEMBER 1915
New Hospital is formally opened. Physician’s Hospital is a corporation. It cost $20,000 to build.

School opens for fall with 1,254 students
Third Theater to open. The Princess Theater

Voters will not agree to buy the dam site

Prominent farmer killed At Angus
Eye witness states he was about 7 rods from the track when the collision occurred. The man was standing up in his car. The train stopped about 7 telegraph poles later.




Pennington called the “baby county of the state”

OCTOBER 1915
Early churches are:
Scand avian
Methodist
Lutheran
Catholic
Presbyterian


Soo line present building completed in 1914 for $60,000.

Schools
First year, 3 month term
Kids sat on planks resting on powder kegs
Ten kids, eight of them are the LaBree family
The first school was a small log cabin in the grove west of the iron bridge.

Later named District 107
School was on Third Street
West side school records 1891 but the first taught year was 1883.

Sends out notice in paper for anyone having 12 lots to sell for building. Presently the two schools are on a small lot with a store also on the property.

Central school was built on 12 lots. Property was $1,240

Knox was a different school district. Consolidating of District 57 and District 107 happened in 1900. Now all schools were in District 18.

1908 Present Knox building and the addition to Central
1902 Washington built
1911 Lincoln High

East side of town called Red Lake Rapids
City incorporated in 1896

HOSPITAL
Before the Physician’s Hospital, there was a place called a hospital but it was more like a place where the sick and injured could be treated, than a hospital. The building was located at the north end of Red Lake Boulevard and with its meager equipment available, the institution did all that could be expected. It was called Bethany Hospital

Main Avenue has fire scare. Blaze starting in the meat market threatens old landmarks.

NOVEMBER 1915
New city editor for paper announced.

DECEMBER
Saloons close.
12 3 1915 Ella Elvina Rye is born