Historical Happenings 2/2026
Compiled by Helen Reiland
THE MAZEPPA JOURNAL, Editor and Publisher: Barbara and Reider Tommeraas
FRIDAY, AUGUST 3,1956
Area Farms Bracing For 1956 Plowville-continued
Darcy for example, operates a 200-acre farm. Volunteer workers will construct seven or eight terraces, build a pond, construct a drop spillway, and fill in gullies. Perrotti’s farm will have about 3,000feet of the installed to drain a wet area.
As usual, the Plowville program will include contour and level land plowing matches. The winner of these two contests will be eligible to compete in the national contest to be held in Iowa this year.
Darcy moved on his present farm a year ago last fall but the Darcy family has been in Chester Township for a long time.
Don is quite proud of the fact that the Darcy family has been conservation minded for a long time. In fact, it was one of the first to sign up for a program of soil conservation practices.
Like a growing number of farmers, Darcy and Perrotti feel that soil conservation farming is man’s remedy for the results of his extravagance. There’s a lot hilly land in Chester Township. Consequently you’ll find a great deal of contour tillage protecting gentle slopes from erosion.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1956
Dist. 109 Joins Mazeppa School
Supt. F.G. Eimermann and the board of education have had a busy summer, including remodeling, hiring teachers and attending county commissioners’ meeting.
Monday the Goodhue county commissioners at Red Wing set all of Dist. 109 (Maas), into the new district at Mazeppa. The valuation of this one district represents a sizeable part of the Mazeppa total.
Tuesday at Wabasha, the commissioners heard seven petitions of farmers wishing to transfer out of Mazeppa. Part of John Ring’s land was set into Mazeppa and part into Lake City.
Wednesday, the Olmsted county commissioners set the farms of William Siems and Amos Ondler from Dist 89 to Dist. 50.
Remodeling on the Munger building has been completed and will house the agriculture and industrial arts departments.
The board decided recently to transport all the children to Mazeppa. In order to accommodate them until a new school can be built, the Dist. 73 (Cliff) and Dist. 54 (Goetsch) buildings will be moved to the local grounds. Each grade will have a separate room. There will be an enrollment of 182 in grades one through six and 140 in the high school.
Vacancies for teachers are now in the process of being filled.
LOCAL MAN TO ATTEND PRIVATE TV MEETING
Donald Schreader and other Cargill representatives in this area will meet at the Hotel Leamington in Minneapolis, Aug. 10 to take part in one of industry’s newest sales techniques---closed circuit television. A special program will be conducted by Cargill Hybrid Corn for its salesmen, as part of the company’s education and research program.
THE MAZEPPA JOURNAL, Editor and Publisher: Barbara and Reider Tommeraas
FRIDAY, AUGUST 3,1956
Area Farms Bracing For 1956 Plowville-continued
Darcy for example, operates a 200-acre farm. Volunteer workers will construct seven or eight terraces, build a pond, construct a drop spillway, and fill in gullies. Perrotti’s farm will have about 3,000feet of the installed to drain a wet area.
As usual, the Plowville program will include contour and level land plowing matches. The winner of these two contests will be eligible to compete in the national contest to be held in Iowa this year.
Darcy moved on his present farm a year ago last fall but the Darcy family has been in Chester Township for a long time.
Don is quite proud of the fact that the Darcy family has been conservation minded for a long time. In fact, it was one of the first to sign up for a program of soil conservation practices.
Like a growing number of farmers, Darcy and Perrotti feel that soil conservation farming is man’s remedy for the results of his extravagance. There’s a lot hilly land in Chester Township. Consequently you’ll find a great deal of contour tillage protecting gentle slopes from erosion.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1956
Dist. 109 Joins Mazeppa School
Supt. F.G. Eimermann and the board of education have had a busy summer, including remodeling, hiring teachers and attending county commissioners’ meeting.
Monday the Goodhue county commissioners at Red Wing set all of Dist. 109 (Maas), into the new district at Mazeppa. The valuation of this one district represents a sizeable part of the Mazeppa total.
Tuesday at Wabasha, the commissioners heard seven petitions of farmers wishing to transfer out of Mazeppa. Part of John Ring’s land was set into Mazeppa and part into Lake City.
Wednesday, the Olmsted county commissioners set the farms of William Siems and Amos Ondler from Dist 89 to Dist. 50.
Remodeling on the Munger building has been completed and will house the agriculture and industrial arts departments.
The board decided recently to transport all the children to Mazeppa. In order to accommodate them until a new school can be built, the Dist. 73 (Cliff) and Dist. 54 (Goetsch) buildings will be moved to the local grounds. Each grade will have a separate room. There will be an enrollment of 182 in grades one through six and 140 in the high school.
Vacancies for teachers are now in the process of being filled.
LOCAL MAN TO ATTEND PRIVATE TV MEETING
Donald Schreader and other Cargill representatives in this area will meet at the Hotel Leamington in Minneapolis, Aug. 10 to take part in one of industry’s newest sales techniques---closed circuit television. A special program will be conducted by Cargill Hybrid Corn for its salesmen, as part of the company’s education and research program.