The word “plumbing” comes from “plumbum,” the Latin word for lead. That’s a load of hooey. “Plumbum” clearly denotes someone who has a bum crack that is precisely vertical. If you’re the type of person who enjoys perpetual torment, then repairing the plumbing in an old ...
Last October, we were into soybean harvest, when I got a call from Fritz Busch. Fritz is a friend and a reporter for The Journal. Every so often he calls to see what’s going on with farmers. Right then, the destruction of our soybean market by the Trump administration was newsy. Fritz came ...
Volunteers are seldom seen and rarely heard from, but they make an enormous difference for many local non-profit organizations. Any amount of time someone donates is helpful. Just an hour a week doing a simple task might help to create possibilities. It might lead to accomplishments that ...
Just a couple weeks ago, in a meeting room filled with concerned parents, the New Ulm School Board made the decision to cut the school district’s budget by $1.98 million. The cuts included a combination of elimination and reductions of both school programs and staff. Officials said the ...
We have begun learning about Bonnie Jean (Madden) Davis, whose life journey began on a rural Lynd farm. Her journey took her away for years before returning to a career teaching kindergarten in the Marshall Public Schools. Her life on the family farm helped prepare her for all that followed. ...
The following excerpt is from a bound book, “I Remember: Decade by Decade” by World War I veteran and one-time editor of the Marshall Messenger, Wilbur Peterson. Peterson was born in Marshall in 1898 and passed away in Nevada in 1988. Peterson also published his stories and letters from his ...