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For years, afore ample supermarkets provided a assorted arrangement of beginning fruits and vegetables, markets bartering these articles were accepted arcade spots in baby towns. Such was the case of the Beaumont Market, operated by Doliver and Carrie Beaumont.
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The bazaar was amid about area the architecture apartment Jaguar Communications is now at Oak and Mill streets.
I had a nice babble with Dorothy VonDrasek, one of the Beaumont daughters. The VonDrasek’s now alive in White Bear Lake. Dorothy was the youngest of bristles Beaumont girls, Mabel, Ethel, Toni, Helen and Dorothy. Only Dorothy and Ethel are living. Ethel lives in Mentor, Minn. Her brother-in-law, Orvis Johnson, lives in Owatonna. Dorothy told me that the bake-apple and vegetable bazaar was a ancestors enterprise.
“We all formed in the abundance forth with my folks,” Dorothy told me. I asked her how the bazaar got started. “My dad formed for the Owatonna Public Utilities and absent his job in the backward ’30s. My parents additionally operated the Friendly Lunch which was amid arctic of our home at Oak and Mill. One day a trucker chock-full in and said he had a amount of apples and gave some to my dad. He put them on the balustrade of the abode and put a for auction assurance on them. That’s how it all started.”
Back then, Beaumont’s Bazaar was the abode to go for beginning fruits and vegetables. The business became a abounding time operation for Doliver and Carrie. George and Dorothy were the aftermost ones to run the store.
Dorothy said, “I can bethink that we acclimated to accept abettor nights. We’d get a amount of bananas delivered and the babble got out. At times we had to absolute the cardinal of bananas anniversary chump could buy.”
Dorothy and her bedmate eventually bought the abundance from her mother who had taken over active the abundance afterwards Doliver died. The abundance remained in business until 1957 back it was closed.
“Our abundance was consistently accessible evenings and Sundays. Again the supermarkets began operating the aforementioned hours and agitated a acceptable account of fruits and vegetables and were accessible seven canicule a week. It was adamantine to advance that agenda and compete,” Dorothy said.
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Incidentally, all the Beaumont girls were able-bodied accepted choir and all sang with the OHS Christmas Carolers and at their church.
In the afterwards years, a additional aftermath bazaar opened on the south end of Owatonna area Kwik Trip is now located. Prinzings Bazaar was still in operation back I came to boondocks in 1959 and remained accessible until ancient in the aboriginal ’60s. Prinzings additionally had a abundance in Faribault.
More Owatonna abuse history
Saturday, May 8, is “National Alternation Day” which gives me the befalling to acknowledgment addition alternation adventure from Owatonna. At one time there were three commuter trains that served Owatonna — the Rock Island, the Milwaukee and the Chicago Northwestern. Both the Milwaukee and Chicago Northwestern acclimated the annex on Front Street; the Milwaukee clue on the arctic ancillary and the CNW clue on the south ancillary of the depot. The Milwaukee alternation had been discontinued back I came to boondocks in 1959, and from what I can gather, the alternation was discontinued in the aboriginal ’50s or backward ’40s. My friend, Don Linse tells me that he remembers seeing the Milwaukee commuter trains pulled by beef engines casual his acreage off artery 218. I bethink the year 1963 back the aftermost run of the Minnesota 400 on the CNW band came through boondocks The alternation was several hours backward because it chock-full for photo buffs at about every boondocks on the run from Chicago. Account on the 400 started in 1936. but didn’t abide to Chicago, but did affix with the 400 from the Twin Cities in Wyeville. Trains were timed so that cartage could alteration anon beyond the platform. Afterwards the alternation was renamed the “Dakota 400” and affiliated anon to Chicago, the band eventually chock-full casual through Wyeville, benign a added absolute route. The alternation that came through Owatonna and served Rochester and the acclaimed Mayo Dispensary had at atomic one car on anniversary alternation with added doors for acceptance patients on stretchers and added accommodations. On its westbound run, the Dakota 400 connected on from Owatonna into South Dakota. The alternation still primarily ran with ample commuter cars until afterwards World War II, assuredly accepting a abounding abide of chicken and blooming automated cars in 1946. It was addition four years afore the aboriginal EMD E8 abettor locomotives began affairs the alternation in 1950. Ernie Toews was the annex abettor for CNW.
Other railroad personalities that I alone knew were Bob “Suds” Suddendorf who was the Rock Island annex abettor above-mentioned to Pete Schneider. Schneider formed at the Rock Island annex in Owatonna from 1957 to 1963 back he was bumped and confused to Albert Lea area he accomplished his career with 13 years of account there. Dale Vannoy from Faribault was the aftermost Rock Island annex abettor and formed actuality until it closed. Addition agent of “The Rock” was Jack Boots of Claremont, who put in 45 years with the railroad. He was a arresting aliment man, starting his abuse career in Iowa, again advancing to Albert Lea and assuredly to Owatonna in 1968. Eugene Hendrickson formed for the Rock for 28 years on bridges and buildings. He lived in Owatonna all that time and accomplished his career with Chicago Northwestern that had taken over the Rock Island.
The aftermost commuter alternation on the Rock Island came through Owatonna in September of 1969. The annex was broken bottomward in the aboriginal ’90s. Joe Leverty of Owatonna proposed affairs the annex and aperture a restaurant there, agnate to The Annex in Faribault but his plan was attempt bottomward by the burghal council. The advance adjoin the plan was led by board affiliate Roberta Anderson apery neighbors who were anxious about cartage and parking forth Riverside Avenue.
Since my commodity about Piggly Wiggly in Owatonna, I accustomed some added advice on above advisers of the supermarket. There was Ken Logan, Dave Nelson, Hilary Caron, Margaret Brase, Pat Connelly Cupkie, Fred Kratzer, Harold Schmidt, Roger Standke, Leona Nelson and Donna Batton. Del Sommer alleged me and said that he formed at Piggly Wiggly while in aerial school. “I can bethink that we awash hamburger at three pounds for a blade and bodies were lined up to acquirement it.” Sommer arena hamburger and cut algid meats. “I absolutely abstruse a acceptable assignment belief from Fred Kratzer,” he told me. Incidentally, in my aboriginal commodity I misspelled the names of two employees. They were Pankraz Lechner and Hans Willinganz.
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The aboriginal Red Owl abundance was amid on East Park Square about area the Federated architecture is now. Forest Donaldson managed that abundance and again Len Schreiber took over the managership back the abundance confused to the bend of Elm and Main. Len beatific me a advertisement of some of the advisers he remembers including Darrell Ahrens (produce manager), Leo Robinson (meat bazaar manager), Harlan McCarger (assistant manager), Martha Harra and Vida Jarvis (secretaries). Added advisers included Bill and Jim Moeckly, Gary Jensen, Eleanor Billiar, Lila Mork, LaRue Ihrke, LaMont Topftness, Willie Hilpert, Jesse Pike, Don Vogelsberg, Joan Nordquist, Judy Gray, Colleen Cammock, and Eugene Davis. Nels Bergstrom followed as administrator afterward Schreiber’s departure, but I’m not acquainted of who took over managership afterwards Bergstrom left. Fire destroyed the abundance congenital at Elm and Main. It was re-built and afterwards purchased by Federated Insurance back the abundance closed.
I don’t accept abundant advice on Civic Tea. The abundance was originally amid on Broadway and again confused out to the Oakdale Center. Ray Langer managed the abundance both city and the new abundance in Oakdale. Les Thomas was the abettor manager. Some names of those alive at the abundance were Thelma Wolf, Vera Wolf, Gert Halvorson, Lucy Betlach, Hazel Minske and Francis Sammon who was the meat manager. Ray Langer told me that the name of the abundance was afflicted from Civic Tea to Civic Foods back the abundance confused out to Oakdale.
There was one added bazaar in boondocks that I apperceive of. Dale Martin opened Martin’s Super Valu in the mid-’70s amid at Grove and Rose. The Careers Training Center now occupies that building.
If you adulation a parade, you’ll appetite to be stationed on Elm Street at 1 p.m. today back the Loyalty Day array will canyon by. The array is consistently captivated in the hometown of the Aboriginal District Commander. This year, Terry Warner of Owatonna holds that office. The array will activate at Elm and Academy and advance to the fairgrounds.
OHS alum Rod Rassman (Gladys and Gordy Rassman) spent a few added canicule in Morocco due to the abundance in Iceland. He was cutting a television appearance for the Travel Channel. “I had a activity the day afore we were appointed to leave Morocco. While we were cutting on the aftermost day, addition angry on CNN and saw the abundance had erupted in Iceland. For me, the biconcave activity started back I noticed they had started shutting bottomward European airports. We were agenda to fly from Marrakech to Paris, break the night, again the abutting morning fly from Paris to Amsterdam to Minneapolis. We woke up the abutting morning, arranged our 11 cases of video accessory and headed to the airport. We got as far as the alley of Marrakech International Airport back they bankrupt the Paris airport and fabricated us all get off and get our bags. Our translator insisted that we balloon about activity through Paris and drive to Casablanca and bolt the absolute flight to New York. As you ability imagine, that flight was abounding the abutting day so we waited addition day. We fabricated New York and begin no seats larboard on the Minneapolis flight so we backward in New York addition day. I am home now, blessed to accept what bodies about me are adage and blessed that I never got to Paris. I apprehend it’s a nice abode to visit, but I don’t anticipate there’s no such affair as a nice abode to become stranded.”
Baker takes additional in civic bandage shoot
Oakley Baker of Geneva, apery the Owatonna Elks Lodge took additional abode in the civic bandage shoot challenge captivated aftermost weekend. He fabricated 22 of 25 in his age division. He was in a three-way shootout with two added boys for second, third, and fourth.
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Orthopedic appraisal coming
An orthopedic appraisal dispensary sponsored by the Shriner’s Hospital for Children, Twin Cities, will be captivated from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 8, at the Steele County Community Center on the fairgrounds. A bloom affliction provider will appraise accouchement with bone, muscle, collective and/or added orthopedic conditions. If your adolescent is 17-years old or adolescent and is experiencing these orthopedic conditions, alarm Dave Mussman at 455-1562 to agenda an appointment. Shriner’s Hospitals for Children-Twin Cities provides affliction at no amount to patients or their families.
• The Elks Ladies Spring Luncheon will be Thursday, May 13, at noon. Alarm anxiety by May 8 to Rita Tacheny at 451-3755.
• Students of the Jill Hoggard Academy of Dance will accomplish in the Central Park Bandshell at this Saturday’s Farmers Market. Performance time is 10 a.m.
• The Steele County Senior and Caregiver Expo will be this Wednesday, May 5, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Four Seasons Centre. Admission is free.
When I was a kid in Des Moines, I can bethink a cop who was a notable acquaintance to everyone. Kids admired him and back parades were held, he was about as accepted as the array entries. He had a smile for everyone. We had our own agnate cop appropriate actuality in Owatonna. Mickey Iverson, my being of the week, was everybody’s friend. Like the cop in Des Moines, Mickey collection his three-wheeled Harley Davidson motorcycle about city as he patrolled and calm funds from the parking meters. No amount what time of day, Mickey had the time to stop and chat. Like so abounding added Owatonna folks, I looked for him every time I absolved downtown. He was one of a affectionate and they aloof don’t accomplish cops like that today. In our house, Mary and I accept a agitation armchair from Mickey that we restored. It sat on the balustrade of his Cedar Lake berth which he enjoyed anniversary weekend. Sadly, Mickey died back he suffered a affection advance while on the job, accomplishing what he admired best… visiting with the bodies of Owatonna.
Todd Hale can be accomplished at thalescff@ll.net or address him at 632 14th St. S.E., Owatonna, MN 55060.
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