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From the Files: May 3

Compiled by Jerome Christenson | Winona Daily News

1983

RUSHFORD, Minn. — Television used to be a dirty word in education, but in the Rushford schools, it has become a teaching tool.

Along with computers, printers, audio and video recorders and video discs, television is providing Rushford students with an early look at tomorrow.

“I really think high technology is the wave of the future in education,” said Rushford superintendent Dennis Rislove.

Rislove said that with careful planning and supervision, educational television and computers can bring unexpected worlds to the fingertips of Rushford students.

As an example, he said a small rural school district like Rushford, through the use of educational television and its membership in the Minnesota Educational Computer Consortium, can offer courses such as advanced math, for which no district teacher is certified.

“Over a period of years, the entire staff has become comfortable with computers, and all teachers are using them in one way or another,” Rislove said. “This is the fourth year we’ve taught computer programming, and we have two sections with 35 to 40 students participating.”

1958

DURAND, Wis. — A

17-year-old Plainview, Minn., youth, arrested when he was found drinking beer in an Arkansaw, Wis., tavern, has been prohibited from entering the state of Wisconsin for 10 months unless he is accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Pepin County Deputy Sheriff George Plummer told the court that when he noticed an automobile with Minnesota license plates parked outside the tavern, he went in to investigate and found the

17-year-old drinking beer.

Wisconsin state law provides that while Wisconsin residents 18 or older may drink beer in Wisconsin, Minnesotans must be 21 to drink beer in the state.

The tavern keeper, Raymond Heit, was arraigned before Judge Riedner on a charge of permitting a minor to drink beer and was fined $100 and costs.

1933

J.S. Reeve, 83-year-old Winona angler, was caught waist deep in quicksand on Beaver Creek Monday morning and had to be pulled out by two other fishermen, but it did not keep him from continuing his fishing and making a limit catch of 15 trout.

Mr. Reeve was fishing the banks of Beaver creek near Beaver with his son Fred about 7 o’clock. Fred went upstream and his father down. The elder Reeve got caught in the sand and sank in to his waist before his cries were heard by two other fishermen, who pulled him out with the aid of a plank.

His son said that he did not believe the quicksand was over waist deep at that point, for his father had been in the sand for nearly half an hour and had not sank any deeper. Included in the elder Reeve’s catch was a trout that measured 20 inches.

1908

The Polish people of Winona, in mass meeting assembled last evening, unanimously adopted strong resolutions protesting against the outrageous treatment of the Poles by the Prussian government. The meeting was held in the basement of St. Stanislaus church, which was filled. The orchestra was present, and a program was carried out. This included musical numbers and also declamations and stirring addresses were made by Rev. Fathers Kupferschmidt, Cara of Pine Creek, Wis., Burnat and Pacholski.

1883

August Kumart and Henry King of Hillsdale were on trial this afternoon before Judge Story, on the complaint of William Reynolds, a colored man, for an assault upon him with an axe and clubs.

1863

On the 1st day of May we were shown some stalks of pie plant fully large enough for use, which were grown in the nursery of Mr. Norman H. Stevens, on this prairie without the aid of hot beds. Vegetation of all kinds has been very forward this spring. We notice that in some of our gardens peas, corn and other garden plants are growing freely.

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