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CROSBY-IRONTON COURIER
11th annual Ice Fishing Contest
and Scorpion Homecoming Feb. 7
Ironton Bar If you haven’t caught the
Nanook 2-Man Portable
Please contact the Cuyuna
big one this year, then make Fishhouse with two Deluxe Lakes Chamber for more
Stool Races a point to fish the Cuyuna Swivel Seats
information and to purchase
Lakes Chamber 11th Annual
Third Prize: Marcum your raffle tickets at 546Feb. 7
Ice Fishing Contest and PanCam Underwater Camera 8131 or Jessica@cuyuWednesday, Jan. 21, 2015
The Ironton Bar Stool
Races will be held Saturday,
Feb. 7 at Morningside Park
beginning at noon with nearly
30 teams competing. Last year
18 teams entered the race.
Admission is $1 with admission proceeds donated to the
Sno-Serpents
Snowmobile
Club. Gates will open at 11 a.m.
The racers meeting and barstool
inspection is at 11 a.m. at the
Town Tavern in Ironton. If
needed, races will be held on
Sunday, Feb. 8.
Bar stools are mounted on
skis and drag race down a small
hill. Two two-person teams race
down the hill. The winner
advances.
Local media have been
invited to cover the event and
trophies will be awarded for
best costume/design, best wipeout, best design as well as first,
second and third places.
New this year is the
Michelob Golden Draft Light
Beer Garden and Jimmy’s
Pizza is selling pizza by the
slice. The Town Tavern Bar
Stool Race Raffle Tickets are
$1 donation. The drawing will
be held Saturday, Feb. 7 at 6
p.m. at the Town Tavern. Need
not be present to win. First prize
is $500 cash, second prize is
$50 Town Tavern gift certificate and third prize is a $25 gift
certificate. Proceeds from the
raffle will benefit the Ironton
Fire Department.
Sponsors of the barstool
races are Kruger Automotive,
Time Capsule Radio, Michelob
Golden Draft Light and the
Town Tavern.
For more information, contact Steve at 651-200-7825 or
546-5997.
Jaques Art Center
upcoming events
Events coming to the
Jaques Art Center in Aitkin are:
—“Lake Country” is currently on exhibition at the
Jaques Art Center. This is a
beautiful juried show by
numerous artists who entered in
friendly competition with one
another for cash awards. The
show will continue until Feb.
14. Come in and vote for your
favorite for the ‘People’s
Choice Award’.
—Calling all Student
Artists! In April the Jaques Art
Center will have an All Student
Exhibition. If you are a art loving, creative student, preschool
through college, you may want
to enter your art (one piece per
student, please) into this exhibit. Every student will receive a
participation ribbon and be
invited to the Public Opening
Reception on April 11. The
deadline for entry is April 4.
Any art form is accepted. All
2D art must be able to be hung
on the wall.
—Kaleidoscope, Feb. 7, 10
to 11:30 a.m.:‘Cool (and warm)
Colors’ We have a hands on
project ‘Warm Heart—Cool
Hands’ A good mid-winter
class. $10. Scholarships are
always
available.
Kaleidoscope is not just for
kids.
For more information on
any of the classes, or to register,
call JAC at 927-2363.
American Legion
commander in
Brainerd Feb. 3
National
American
Legion Commander, Mike
Helm, will be touring
Minnesota from Feb. 2
through 5 with stops at twelve
American Legion posts.
Commander Helm will
stop at the Brainerd American
Legion Post 255, 708 Front
Street in Brainerd at noon on
Tuesday, Feb. 3 and depart at
2 p.m. After a luncheon, he
will address veterans and others in attendance.
We encourage representatives of the various state and
local media to attend and
report on this event.
If you have any questions,
please contact Post 255
Commander Ed Spilman at
232-0318
or
Brainerd
American Legion Post 255 at
829-2249.
Scorpion Homecoming on
Saturday, Feb. 7 from noon
to 3 p.m. Catching the big
one, medium one, or small
one can all be eligible for
cold hard cash prizes. Come
early, pick a hole, then visit
the vintage Scorpion sleds
and vote for a people’s
choice award.
Ice fishing raffle tickets
are on sale now and only
$10. They make great stocking stuffers! Your raffle ticket also acts as your entry fee
to fish, one ticket per hole.
Bring your family and
friends for a great day on
Serpent Lake in Crosby,
there’s no better way to celebrate Minnesota winters.
Raffle Ticket Prizes
include:
First Prize: Eskimo
H.C.40 4-stroke Propane Ice
Auger
Second Prize: Clam
Remember When?
Excerpts from the Courier files
Goldie Carter, former on Jan. 11 from Vietnam
cook at the Welawebin Lodge where he was stationed with
in Aitkin is now cooking at the the U.S. Army for the past
Friday, Jan. 16, 1920
year.
The annual distribution of Excel Bakery.
Crosby-Ironton along with
government garden seeds will
the Wadena High School was
be made this month and anya winner on Saturday at the
one desiring a supply should
District 24 One-Act Play
Thursday, Jan. 19, 1950
immediately write CongressA stubborn blaze Monday Festival. Barbara Aulie of C-I
man
Harold
Knutson,
defied all efforts of the Crosby and Dan Wruck of Wadena
Washington, D. C.
The New Grand lists all Fire Department as the volun- were given the top actress and
their shows this week with no teer firefighters worked to actor awards.
program less than seven parts. save the Sam Brown residence
All shows are priced at 10 and in Lakeview from complete
destruction.
20 cents.
The 85-piece Gustavus Wednesday, Jan. 16, 1980
Wm. Wagoner was able to
Ironton is assured of adebe uptown the other day with Adolphus College symphony
the assistance of crutches. He band of St. Peter will present a quate water supplies for gensuffered a broken leg last concert here on Monday, Jan. eral use and for emergencies
summer and has been trou- 30, at the high school auditori- with completion this past
um under sponsorship of the week of the $140,000 probled with it considerably.
gram initiated two years ago.
Miss May Buchanan of Immanuel Lutheran Church.
Phil Butorac had just Two new wells and a pumpCuyuna returned to her
school duties at Dean Brook accepted delivery of a new house, along with new equipon Monday after spending her truck from the Crosby Motor ment and updating of the
Sales and had driven just two treatment plant are the result
vacation at Cuyuna.
blocks when he collided with of a combined grant-loanDr. J. B. Nixon’s car. The local project long overdue in
Nixon car was extensively the city.
Terry Rydberg of Crosby
damaged but no damage was
Thursday, Jan. 16, 1930
Cupid brought together done to the truck. No one was was the oldest fiddler in the
annual
Bemidji
State
186 couples in marriage in injured.
University Fiddler Contest
Crow Wing County during
held Jan. 12.
the year 1929. Divorces in the
Francis Murphy of North
county in 1929 totalled 30, of
Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1960
Lakeshore, Crosby, has been
which 21 were granted to
An eight-pound, 15-ounce named chairman of the Crow
wives and nine to husbands.
Cruelty and desertion were walleye, caught by Mrs. Bill Wing County Board of
the principal causes for the Jarvela of Trommald, is hold- Commissioners.
ing the lead in its classificaChuck Kraemer, manager
marital rifts.
Mrs.
George
W. tion in the Fishing Marathon of Crosby Super Valu, has
been awarded the “OutstandChamberlain was recipient of pre-contest here.
Crosby-Ironton
High ing Merchandising” Silver
a pleasant surprise Tuesday
morning, when she heard her School basketball team took Screen plaque from Super
name broadcasted over over the first place position in Valu Stores, Inc.
Kenneth Powell is the new
WCCO as the lucky winner the Mid-State high school
of the free Nature's Rival per- conference as they downed postmaster for Deerwood.
Scott Stanfield was named
manent wave. Mooers Beauty Staples, 59-44 on Friday. The
Parlor sent several names Rangers had three players in to WCCO Radio’s “Prep
from the area to the contest double numbers—Draves, 17; Parade” all-state team of the
sponsored by Nature’s Rival M. Stimac, 16; and Abear, 13. week.
James Van Horn, son of
Permanent Machine Co.
T. A. Erickson, State 4-H Mr. and Mrs. Lester Van Horn,
Club Leader, announced that Crosby, is serving aboard the
Crow Wing County is one of destroyer, USS Jenkins, at Wednesday, Jan. 17, 1990
Retiring after three conthe counties that are entitled Pearl Harbor. Van Horn is a
secutive terms on the Jessie F.
to send their county Potato gunners mate.
Ross Lake reports that Hallett Memorial Library
Club winner of 1929 to the
State Fair this fall with all Lloyd Blakesley has been Board, and a tenure spanning
busy installing dial phones in nearly
30
years,
Pat
expenses paid.
The
Deerwood the neighborhood, and every- Hendrickson leaves his posiSanatorium has acquired a one is busy trying to learn tion as financial secretary with
hopes the library will continue
neat little library of its own, how to use them.
to grow and expand.
mostly through the donations
The
Deerwood
City
of patients and their friends.
Council agreed to place a stop
A small traveling library cirWednesday, Jan. 21, 1970
sign on Serpent Road and to
culates among the sanatoriNearly 200 fishermen took construct a 90 degree
ums of the state and arrives
here at regular intervals also. part in Sunday’s Marathon, approach onto Cross Road at a
despite temperatures that public hearing during the
ranged from 15 to 20 below council’s meeting Tuesday,
zero. Five fish were caught in Jan. 9.
the two-hour contest. Steve
A 14-year-old male from
Thursday, Jan. 18, 1940
Dean Simons will be the Stirewalt, Crosby, was first Ironton was taken to Crow
principle speaker at the dedi- prize winner in the largest fish Wing County Jail Monday
evening after he stole two botcation of the new school division.
Dave (Bluejay) Maatala tles of wine from the Spalding
building at Cuyuna this comwas the lucky winner of the House and attempted to steal a
ing Friday evening.
Henry
Johnson
of Scorpion Stinger, first prize car owned by Barry Nelson.
Twenty-one boys and girls
Deerwood sold his 80-acre offered in the Serpent Lake
participated in the Cuyuna
farm to William Ringhand of Fishing Marathon.
James Plut returned home Range Knights of Columbus
Anoka who will take possession on April 1.
Glen Sempel was elected
president of the Bay Lake
Sportsmen’s Club.
Anthony “Tony” Wasserbauer
For Sale — Washing
machine, equipped with gas
engine.
95 years ago…
65 years ago…
35 years ago…
85 years ago…
55 years ago…
25 years ago…
45 years ago…
Take-Out
W elcome
Memorial
Benefit
Happy Hour: 2-5 p.m. Daily
Kitchen Open Tues-Wed-Thur-Fri Nights!
Homemade
Pizza Daily!
local free-throw competition
Saturday. Winners moving on
to the next level of competition are: Chris Mace, Curt
Bordwell, Craig Blood, Lucas
Hintermeister, Steve Exsted
and Carrie VanHorn.
book, “Cuyuna Country: A
People’s History, Volume I,”
rolled off the presses recently.
Orders for the book are being
taken, and the first copies of
the 2,000 numbered first edition should be available within the next two weeks.
15 years ago… 5 years ago…
Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2000
Overall winners in the
Lions Youth Outreach contest
sponsored by the Cuyuna
Range Lions and Bay Lake
Lions are sixth grade students
Jody Bjerkness, first place and
Nicole Stofferahn, second
place. They earned personal
cassette players at the District
5M9 Lions Convention.
Students earning belts in
Theresa Dehning’s Tae Kwon
Do class include Matt Tidel,
green belt; Luke Wink, purple
trim; Brianna Freeburg,
orange; Calvin Skeim, blue;
and Britnee Freeburg, orange.
Members of the Cuyuna
Country Heritage Preservation Society watched as their
Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010
Peter Lueck and Emily
Anderson reigned as king and
queen of the 2010 CrosbyIronton
High
School
SnoDaze.
Mark Hoge scored his
1,000th career point during
Friday’s basketball victory
over Proctor. He hit a midrange jumper early in the
game for the milestone.
The Cuyuna City Council
held its regular meeting on
Jan. 7 and discussed the proposed park/ball field with City
Engineer Wade Jackson of
WSN.
Longtime Crosby resident
Henry Oberg celebrated his
99th birthday yesterday.
75 years ago…
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Fourth Prize: Maucieri’s
Bar & Bistro Wild Game
Dinner for six people
Fifth Prize: Overnight
stay and free buffet for two at
Grand Casino Mille Lacs
Sat., Jan. 24 • 11:30 a.m.-6 p.m.
Burger
Night
Courier Crossword
Hot Turkey Sandwich
TOWN TAVERN IN IRONTON
BAKE SALE, SILENT AUCTION
& SMEAR TOURNAMENT, 11:30 A.M.
w/mashed potatoes, gravy,
stuffing & cranberries
A-Y-C-E SPAGHETTI FEED, $8
or Fish or Shrimp
All proceeds go to help defray medical expenses
Cash donations accepted at any Wells Fargo Bank
Fri., Jan. 23• 5-7 p.m.
“Where old friends meet and new ones are made”
USE ALLEY FOR BACK DOOR PARKING
DOWNTOWN CROSBY • 546-5465
Hours: Monday-Saturday 9 a.m. to Close
Sunday 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Dine-in Specials
MONDAY-BURGER NIGHT, 5-9
Hamburger, $3.49 • Cheeseburger, $3.99
Bacon Cheeseburger, $4.49
Served with Fries or Tots.
TUESDAY-PASTA BOWLS, 5-9
Meeting
room
available…
Call to
reserve!
House Pasta Bowl, $6.49
Chicken Alfredo Bowl, $6.99
WEDNESDAY-WING NIGHT, 5-9
6-Piece, $4.95 • 12 Piece, $9.95 • 18 Piece, $14.95
THURSDAY, RIB NIGHT, 5-9
1/2 Rack, $8.95 • Full Rack, $15.95
FRIDAY, WALLEYE BASKETS, 5-9
Walleye Basket, $10.95
SATURDAY, STEAK DINNER
8 oz. Sirloin w/Mashed Potatoes & Veggie, $9.95
Coming Soon…Golf on Ice
Sat., March 7 • Stop in for details
Super Sunday Football Party
Sun., Feb. 1
Happy Hour Pricing & Specials
Meat Raffle,
Saturdays
3:30 p.m.
Crosby Fire Dept.
Charitable
Gambling
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