Compiled by Helen Reiland THE MAZEPPA JOURNAL, Editor and Publisher: Barbara and Reider Tommeraas
FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1956
Two Businesses Change Hands This Week ARENDT’S RESTAURANT SOLD TO THE CLIFFORD LIFFRIGS Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Arendt have sold their restaurant to Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Liffrig, who took possession last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Arendt, who operated the restaurant for the past 14 months, plan to move to Rochester in the near future, where he is employed. Best wishes for success are offered both the Liffrigs and the Arendts.
HELGERSON’S STORE SOLD TO MR. AND MRS. R.J. TOMMERAAS It will take a lot of doing to all the shoes of Cy Helgerson, popular Mazeppa “storekeeper” for more than 50 years. Mr. Helgerson this week announced the sale of his general store to Mr. and Mrs. Reider Tommeraas Cy Helgerson came to Mazeppa in 1900, after growing up on a farm near Millville. He spent about three years in Canada and one at York’s store in Hammond. His career in a general store in Mazeppa began when he started working Herman Phillips, at $35. a month. About 46 years ago, he went into partnership with the late George Squire. Since the latter’s death in 1943, he has been sole owner. Cy has seen a great evolution to merchandise carried. He well remembers when a thriving business was carried on in coonskin and buffalo furs for both men and women who had to brave horse and buggy rides in the severe winters; horse hide coats and robes. However the store still carries a general line of merchandise suited to the needs of the community. Needless to say, he knows the store business frontwards and backwards, and has been a successful merchant through all the ups and downs of the past century. Cy has been as fine a citizen as storekeeper, through his varied interests. He came to Mazeppa originally because of his interest in music, which the town was noted for. He was a fine trumpet player and was with the municipal band for 35 years, as both player and director. He also used to play in a dance orchestra and on the town baseball team. He has a genuine liking for people and will miss the store as much as it will miss him. It is the wish of The Journal and the community that he and Mrs. Helgerson may enjoy many happy years of retirement.
Area Farms Bracing For 1956 Plowville It is quiet and peaceful right now on the farms of Donald Darcy, Peter Perrotti, Florian Reding, Clarence Arendt and Neil Arendt. These farm families are comparing it to a quiet before the storm however. That’s because thousands of visitors from a wide area will converge on their farms for the Plowville ’56 activities Friday and Saturday, September 14 and 15. The Peter Perrotti farm has been designated as the headquarters area while various soil conservation demonstrations and plowing matches will be held on the Darcy, Arendt and Reding farms. Continued next month.