Looking Back at October 3

Dawnn Bahr, Randy Olafson and Virginia Werner completed undergraduate degree requirements to graduate from Bemidji State University at the conclusion of second summer session.

50 YEARS AGO

Army Specialist Four Lowell E. Kalar recently spent a 30-day leave here. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kalar, 1711 First Ave. E.

Mr. and  Mrs. Earl Cousineau, 1530 Ninth Ave., announce the marriage of their daughter, Earlene Helen, to Robert Harold Williams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Williams, 622 12th Ave.

PFC Allan J. Soboleski, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Soboleski, 1116 First Ave. E., returned today to Fort Hood, Texas, after a two-week furlough.

Mr. and Mrs. Warren Peterson, Minneapolis, began the day by planning to do some shopping in a Minneapolis store and only stopped their car upon reaching the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Beggs, Loman Route, about 9 p.m. It was a pleasant surprise to both parents and daughter as no previous plans had been mentioned.

60 YEARS AGO

“Retirement is going to give me a chance to enjoy the things I like,” C.E. Gildersleeve, former Mando guard, said following his separation from the company Sept. 15.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Smith, 1111 Eighth St., announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Maxine Joyce, to Ormond Z. Cooper, son of Mrs. Muriel Braden Indianapolis, Ind.

William Holenko, 1004 Eighth St., has been receiving treatments of pneumonia at Falls Memorial Hospital.

“I’ve made a lot of friends here and I don’t like to give them up.” That was the comment of George Hillmon who has retired from the Mando guard force. He and his wife plan to return to Crookston where they were married 34 years ago and where they raised their kids. Mr. and Mrs. Hillmon moved to the border city from Crookston in September, 1944.

70 YEARS AGO

William Babineau, for several years a Mando kraft mill employee, has resigned his position, sold his house and is on his way to defense plants in a trailer house built by himself.

Leonard Milette, Keyes Arcade, is confined to Littlefork Hospital following an appendectomy.

Theodore Wayne are the names chosen by Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Tilander, 616 Fourth Ave., for their son born yesterday at the Northern Minnesota Hospital.

Mr. and Mrs. Lars Forsell, 14th Street and Second Avenue East, announce the birth of a son today at their home. David Lars will be the child’s name.

Compiled by International Falls Public Library