Compiled by Helen Reiland
THE MAZEPPA JOURNAL, Editor and Publisher: Barbara and Reider Tommeraas
FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1956
Mazeppa School Consolidated
After five years of planning and extremely hard work on the part of Supt. F.G. Eimmerman, the board of education and citizens’ groups, the Mazeppa public school is consolidated!
Word was received just as The Journal was going to press Thursday morning by John Webster, clerk, for Dean M. Schweickhard, commissioner of education---and this is one of the few times the editors were glad to “hold the presses.”
Mr. Schweickhard’s letter read as follows;
This is to acknowledge receipt of the resolution adopted by the school board of Joint Independent School district No. 141-50.The district now has an area of 58 sections and an assessed valuation of $813,086. There will be an elementary enrollment o 195 pupils in grades 1-6 and a secondary enrollment of 139 pupils in grades 7-12.
Biggest Event In Local History Readied
Much has been heard in recent weeks of Plowville, to be held on five farms north of Mazeppa, Sept. 14-15. But just what will mean a crowd of 15,000 people, at least---at the matches on the Clarence Arendt, Neil Arendt, Florian Reding, Peter Perrotti and Donald Darcy.Parking facilities will have to be provided,
To police the event, these groups have been called on; sheriff’s office at Wabasha; state highway patrol; Rochester & Wabasha National Guard. Rochester Red Cross with a mobile unit and first aid station at the site.
It means the preparation of mountains of food by various church and civic groups—including Bellechester and Mazeppa Catholic Aids, the Zumbro Falls Methodist Aid, Mazeppa American Legion auxiliary. Pity the purchasing committee---who don’t want to run short of food, but who won’t wake in the night with nightmares of ordering too much.
As Harold Severson, publicity chairman stated, “For two days next month, this town will be the agricultural capital of Minnesota”. It’s a friendly little town with a group of businessmen who believe in promoting worthwhile events. Last year Mazeppans celebrated their town’s hundredth anniversary with a gala two day celebration. Earlier this summer they put on a dairy festival that attracted thousands of visitors.
And in the words of Mr. Sand: “We’re not saying this deal will put Mazeppa on the map. Mazeppa already is on the map. However, a great many people who had never heard of our town will get a chance to what Mazeppa is like. We think it’s one of the finest small towns in the state.”
Along The Side
It sounds most interesting—and the likes of which won’t be seen here for a good many years---what a project it’s been this week trying to move in just one of the rural school houses(with one still to go.) Such a roundabout route had to be taken; telephone and light wires taken down and the truck breaking down…the bridge on the south end of town received a new coat of pain from the county recently.
THE MAZEPPA JOURNAL, Editor and Publisher: Barbara and Reider Tommeraas
FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1956
Mazeppa School Consolidated
After five years of planning and extremely hard work on the part of Supt. F.G. Eimmerman, the board of education and citizens’ groups, the Mazeppa public school is consolidated!
Word was received just as The Journal was going to press Thursday morning by John Webster, clerk, for Dean M. Schweickhard, commissioner of education---and this is one of the few times the editors were glad to “hold the presses.”
Mr. Schweickhard’s letter read as follows;
This is to acknowledge receipt of the resolution adopted by the school board of Joint Independent School district No. 141-50.The district now has an area of 58 sections and an assessed valuation of $813,086. There will be an elementary enrollment o 195 pupils in grades 1-6 and a secondary enrollment of 139 pupils in grades 7-12.
Biggest Event In Local History Readied
Much has been heard in recent weeks of Plowville, to be held on five farms north of Mazeppa, Sept. 14-15. But just what will mean a crowd of 15,000 people, at least---at the matches on the Clarence Arendt, Neil Arendt, Florian Reding, Peter Perrotti and Donald Darcy.Parking facilities will have to be provided,
To police the event, these groups have been called on; sheriff’s office at Wabasha; state highway patrol; Rochester & Wabasha National Guard. Rochester Red Cross with a mobile unit and first aid station at the site.
It means the preparation of mountains of food by various church and civic groups—including Bellechester and Mazeppa Catholic Aids, the Zumbro Falls Methodist Aid, Mazeppa American Legion auxiliary. Pity the purchasing committee---who don’t want to run short of food, but who won’t wake in the night with nightmares of ordering too much.
As Harold Severson, publicity chairman stated, “For two days next month, this town will be the agricultural capital of Minnesota”. It’s a friendly little town with a group of businessmen who believe in promoting worthwhile events. Last year Mazeppans celebrated their town’s hundredth anniversary with a gala two day celebration. Earlier this summer they put on a dairy festival that attracted thousands of visitors.
And in the words of Mr. Sand: “We’re not saying this deal will put Mazeppa on the map. Mazeppa already is on the map. However, a great many people who had never heard of our town will get a chance to what Mazeppa is like. We think it’s one of the finest small towns in the state.”
Along The Side
It sounds most interesting—and the likes of which won’t be seen here for a good many years---what a project it’s been this week trying to move in just one of the rural school houses(with one still to go.) Such a roundabout route had to be taken; telephone and light wires taken down and the truck breaking down…the bridge on the south end of town received a new coat of pain from the county recently.