Messenger- November, 2024 THE MAZEPPA JOURNAL, Editor and Publisher: Barbara and Reider Tommeraas FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1956 DEMONSTRATIONS FEATURED AT WILLING WORKERS MEET The South Mazeppa Willing Workers 4-H club held their monthly meeting Feb. 21, in School Dist. 76. JC Pfeiffer, club president, called the meeting to order. Patsy Tupper, secretary read the minutes of the last meeting. The treasurer read his report and bills were paid. After the meeting, Daisy Pfeiffer passed out the records. Delores Sommerfield then gave a demonstration “Making Egg Salad.” Jane Reiland gave a demonstration on “Gardening”, and Bob Vihstadt gave a project talk entitled “Health Food.” We then played games and had lunch. Nancy Radtke, Reporter Shortest Poem of the Week The cutest sight in town these days, of course. Is Gay Gahlers and daughters with their horse. FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1956 Obituaries NORMAN KUEHL Norman Theodore Kuehl of Rochester, formerly of a farmer in the Mazeppa area, died early Wednesday morning enroute to St. Mary’s hospital. He had been ill with polio the past four years and was 31 years old. Mr. Kuehl was born March 13, 1924, at Mazeppa and lived there until moving to Rochester four years ago when he became ill. He married the former Beatrice Ann Briggs Oct. 6, 1951. The couple’s home is at 715 Sixth Ave. NW. They have one child Julie. Also surviving are Mr. Kuehl’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Emil Kuehl of Mazeppa. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Trinity Lutheran church, Rochester with the Rev. W.W. Eifert officiating. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery. WALLACE RICHARD HALL Wallace Richard Hall, 81 years old died at South Gate, Calif. Jan. 29. He was born near Mazeppa, and worked as a printer in Mazeppa until 1905, when e moved to Glen Ullin, N.D., where he published a community paper for 25 years. He moved to California 26 years ago. He leaves two daughters, Irma Hall and Mrs. Lucille Kirk of California; four sisters, Mrs. Maria Cole of Zumbro Falls, Mrs. Hiram Thompson of Conrad, Mont., Mrs. Earl Hansen f Napa, Calif. and Mrs. Clarence Cornell of Moorhead, Minn., and one brother, Prosper of Potlatch, Idaho. He was a member of the Masonic Order. Burial was in Inglewood Park cemetery at South Gate. Story of the Week The young man was eating dinner at his girl’s house, and could not enthuse enough about the roast, rolls and dessert. “Well, “his girl replied, “Those recipes were handed down from my grandmother to my mother, to me. That’s the way they caught their future husbands.” So, after dinner, the young man took his girl for a ride, parked on a lonely county road, and announced he was out of gas. “I didn’t think you’d pull an old trick like that,” she cried in exasperation. “That,” said the boy friend “is an old recipe handed down from my grandfather, to my father, to me. That’s the way they got their future wives.