Looking Back

60 Years Ago Items taken from the Morris Sun of June 10, 1952 Kenneth Ross and Larry Riemer, both of whom were among the 1952 graduates of Morris High School,...

60 Years Ago Items taken from the Sun of June 3, 1952 The Reque Ladies Aid, one of the oldest organizations of its kind in Stevens County, had its final...

60 Years Ago Items taken from the Sun of May 27, 1952 Three Stevens County homemakers appeared on the Home Program Achievement Night style show at the West Central School...

60 Years Ago Items taken from the Sun of May 20, 1952 Pvt. James F. Thedin left Thursday evening of last week for Ft. Knox, Ky., after spending a five-day...

60 Years Ago Items taken from the Tribune of May 9, 1952 Miss Corinne Woolridge, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L.R. Woolridge of Morris, was graduated from Bethesda Hospital School...

60 Years Ago Items taken from the Tribune of May 2, 1952 Connie Neuman, sophomore student in Morris High School, was announced Wednesday as winner of first place in the...

60 Years Ago Items taken from the Tribune of April 1952 The Ground Observation Post at Donnelly has received operating instructions for participation in a Civil Air Defense Training Exercise...

60 Years Ago Items taken from the Tribune of April 18, 1952 Shirley Wilts, Chokio, a member of the Eldorado Hustlers 4-H Club, has been chosen as the 4-Her to...

60 Years Ago Items taken from the Tribune of April 11, 1952 The annual district 21 high school Music Contest and Festival will be held at Morris April 18 and...

60 Years Ago Items taken from the Tribune of March 28, 1952 Eleven Morris high school students earned "superior" ratings in district speech competition at Chokio Tuesday and thereby earned...

60 Years Ago Items from the Tribune of March 21, 1952 Carol Smedstad, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max Smedstad and a junior in Morris high school, had been chosen...

60 Years Ago Items taken from the Tribune of March 14, 1952 George W. Beise, former Stevens County attorney, former municipal judge in Morris, and for 52 years a prominent,...

60 Years Ago Items taken from the Tribune of March 2, 1952 The Stevens County Highway Department's new 10-ton truck arrived last week Thursday from New York City. Little time...

This issue marks my first anniversary of editing the Looking Back column. With that I am doing something different this week. As many of you know, our community lost a...

60 Years Ago Items taken from the Tribune of February 22, 1952 Sgt. Kenneth E. Kussatz, of Donnelly received congratulations from Major General Robert N. Young, division commander, after graduating...