Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member
Recorded August 2019
August 4, 2019, About 70 years ago, a tragedy occurred on Lake of the Woods. It was written about in the Roseau Times-Region of June 23, 1949, and I’ll read that article to you today.
Ernest Klema, a Roseau farmer, was instantly killed Friday morning when struck by lightning as he and his friends, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Nelson and William Baumgartner, all of Roseau, were fishing off Rocky Point on Lake of the Woods. The others escaped serious injury…
August 11, 2019, With the big celebration of Polaris being scheduled next week, I thought I’d read a little bit of Polaris History assembled by Irene Olson many years ago. Her research was from several Roseau Times-Region newspapers published between 1944 and 1999.
A June 25, 1944 article tells that Edgar Hetteen invents Electric Power Lift-it will be made at OK Welding and Machine Shop. Edgar, was in charge of the Roseau County garage since Tom Gardner left, and a short time ago Edgar quit to get ready to enter the Navy…
August 18, 2019, With the big celebration of Polaris being scheduled next week, I thought I’d read a little bit of Polaris History assembled by Irene Olson many years ago. Her research was from several Roseau Times-Region newspapers published between 1944 and 1999.
A June 25, 1944 article tells that Edgar Hetteen invents Electric Power Lift-it will be made at OK Welding and Machine Shop. Edgar, was in charge of the Roseau County garage since Tom Gardner left, and a short time ago Edgar quit to get ready to enter the Navy…
August 25, 2019, Last week I read a story about a Roseau business that no longer exists. It was one of many that were featured in the Roseau Times-Region in 1954. Today I’ll read another from the May 13 issue that same year. The title was “Brist’s Jewelry Store Features Quality Items”.
Brist Jewelry store started in Roseau in 1942 when Claud Brist bought the jewelry store operated by E. O. Anderson…
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