Hope to see you at yet another Dunseith reunion in the near future; the last one was so very special, with Verena Gilllis doing the dinner, and Pete Gillis.
Geri (Metcalfe) and Chuck Munro
Gary,
I loved Sharon Gerdes’ posting on “Being Green” and would like to tag onto the bottom of it.
Most of us kids who lived in the country wore jeans or bib-overalls until they weren’t worth patching anymore. We had patches over patches over patches again, sewn on by our Mothers, and it wasn’t called Being Green or Recycling. It was getting all you could from what little you had. When they weren’t worth patching anymore, or you grew out of them, they were washed and put in a rag box for future patches.
We had a few rules at home. 1 – You did not wear patched clothing to town (no exceptions)! 2 – When you got home from town you changed back into the old home clothes (again, no exceptions). 3 – Expect something unpleasant if you got a hole in your better clothes.
But even with all the talk about Being Green or Recycling, times have changed. You’ve heard that “They just don’t make ‘em like they used too.” In general, manufacturers apparently don’t care what their product is like. Take clothing – I’m sure most everyone has bought an item of clothing (looked OK in the store) only to find on a closer look at home that a hem is already coming loose. Or it comes loose the first time it’s washed. I personally have no qualms about taking something back for a refund or trying again with a second item. OK! I’m off my soap box now. Take care.
Dale Pritchard (63)
I received more information on that old threshing crew picture I sent in
a long time ago. I sent the picture down to Willow City and Tracey
Nerpel Hall posted it in the Cenex. Some old guy was able to name
another one of the crew. He said #3 could be Charley Schultz instead of
Everett and #4 is Henry Durdle. He asked who the rig belonged to. If he
knew that he probably could name all the guys. I don’t think we’ll find
an answer to that. Thanks to _________ Sanderson (93 Years young).
Thanks.
Mary Knutson
Thank you Mary,
Do you realize the mileage we’ve gotten out of this 80 year old picture and the amount of exposure it has gotten too. It has also brought back good memories to so many of the more senior folks too. Collectively over the past year we have slowly identified these folks.Thanks to Neola too, for taking this down to a resident at the Good Samaritan home for him to identify several of these folks too.Numbers 5 and 6 are the only two left to identify. We won’t retire this one just yet until these two guys are identified.Gary
1932 Willow City threshing crew
4th Row: (1)Boone (Lady), (2)Jim Egbert, (3)Charley Schultz, (4)Henry Durdle
3rd Row: (5)??, (6)Andrew Stockburger, (7)??
2nd Row: (8)Dave Eurich Sr., (9)George Egbert
1st Row: (10)Dave Eurich Jr., (11)Arnold SchultzJoke of the dayPosted by Allen Richard (’65): Midland, MI.
Two blonds were sipping their Starbucks when a truck
went past loaded up with rolls of sod.“I’m going to do that when I win the lottery,” announced Blond #1.“Do what?” asked Blond #2.“Send my lawn out to be mowed.”
