Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member
Recorded November 2018
November 4 From the September 1, 1955 issue of the Roseau Times-Region comes a story about the Jacklin Mill in Roseau, which apparently was being dismantled that year.
Old Mill Part of Local Life. 1893 was a long time ago and a lot of changes have taken place since then. People and landmarks have come and gone in Roseau…and one of the most prominent and long lasting of the lot is fading into the past…not just in memory, but actually—board by board. It’s the “Old Mill”; flour mill, saw mill, public gathering place and “town clock”…
November 11 On this Veteran’s Day, a story about some of the men being sent off to military training and war 100 years ago as the Great War went on. An article in the April 26, 1918, issue of the Badger Herald-Rustler described the group being sent that day. Three of those men didn’t get to come home alive and their names appear on the monument at the Roseau Veterans Park. They were Charley Rosser, Winner, Theodore Jallo, Roseau, and Lewis E. Besserud, Fox. I’ll read from the article:
Eighteen Roseau county draftees have been called to leave for Camp Dodge today. They will be joined at Crookston by the Pennington, Red Lake, Marshall and Clearwater contingents and leave this evening for St. Paul. There will be 82 men out of Crookston…
November 18 This story comes from the July 7, 1955 issue of Roseau Times-Region. The heading was “Wind Storms Cause Damage in County”.
Violent winds, accompanied by heavy rains, some hail, glowering clouds and tornado conditions, ripped through Roseau County last Thursday night, destroying buildings, ripping out huge trees by the roots, breaking huge areas of forests and heavily damaging electrical and telephone lines. No loss of life or injury were reported, however…
November 25 In 1918, Roseau County had many young people involved with World War I, and many casualties. It’s hard to imagine the anxiety of parents in those days when you had to wait weeks sometimes to get a letter to or from your son knowing they were in dangerous places.
Besides that worrying, there were many regulations that affected people on the homefront, too. Many of them had to do with food. In the spring of 1918, the Badger Herald-Rustler notified the public of some of the restrictions on flour and sugar at the time…
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