Looking Back at October 3

10 YEARS AGO
Born to Michael and Denise Hedtke today was a son Nicholas Calahan Koll Hedtke, weighing 7 pounds, 11.4 ounces and measuring 21 1/4 inches.
Members of the Creative Writing Club formed by Rainy River Community College instructor Doug Blumhardt include Brenda VanGuse, Liane Lehtinen, Roberta Larsen, Rosemond Kucera, Georger Falkler, Brandon Biggs and Karen Rigdon.

25 YEARS AGO
Members of the Bronco boys’ varsity cross-country team are Tony Turenne, Mike Turenne, Sam Barker, Eric Aili, Chad Hemstad, Hans Schumacher and Darwin Krantz.
Members of the Bronco girls’ varsity cross-country team are Linda Benedix, Robin Oveson, Amy Erickson, Cari Rostie, Ann Erickson, Kristi Ganter and Heather Wright.

40 YEARS AGO
Rev. Evans, 74, retired pastor of Zion Lutheran Church, and more recently assistant pastor of First Lutheran Church, died today at Memorial Hospital following a long illness.
Mrs. Matilda Hilke celebrated her 88th birthday today at Falls Memorial Hospital by sharing cake with the other patients and staff on the third floor of the hospital. Mrs. Hilke and her roommate, Mrs. George Amidon, are both recuperating from broken hips and have been referred to a number of times as “hippies.”
New members of the Senior Citizens Center are Pearl Brenhaug, Marie Kubis, Mrs. Alex Enzman and Elmer Schoute.
Mr. and Mrs. John Dalton III, 1414 11th St., attended funeral services Tuesday afternoon at Calvary Lutheran Church, Bemidji, for his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Anna Akre, 88, who died Saturday in Bemidji Hospital.

50 YEARS AGO
A daughter was born today at Falls Memorial Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Anderson, 422 Ninth Ave., 8 pounds, 3 1/2 ounces.
Wesley Thomas celebrated his 75th birthday by watching the Milwaukee Braves whip the New York Yankees 13-5. Viewing of the game at the International TV Cable Corp. office on Third Avenue was a birthday present for the bed-ridden multiple sclerosis victim, and he “couldn’t have received a better one.” He is a resident of Falls Nursing Home.
James Pagadas was elected president of the Koochiching Men’s Garden Club at the annual meeting last night in Art’s Furniture Store.
Winner of the enameled, cast iron frying pan given away at the open house of the newly-remodeled North Wind Gift Shop was Mrs. Howard Carpenter of 609 Fifth Ave. Mrs. Carpenter chose a red one. It is a Danish import.

60 YEARS AGO
Mrs. E.J. Carriveau was named president and A.D. Gordon was elected secretary of the bridge section of the Rainy Lake Golf and Country Club.
John Bahr, 14, motorcycle accident victim, will be released from the Falls Memorial Hospital in about a week.
New officers of Brownie Troop 2 are: Mary Ellen Graham, president; Sandra Holmberg, vice president; Geraldine Rasmussen, secretary; Christine Savard, treasurer; Barbara St. Pierre, scribe.
Local gardeners winding up their harvests have discovered many horticultural oddities this fall. The two latest pranks by Mother Nature were reported today by Peter Hegg, 515 Fifth St., and John Saumier, Old Highway 11. Hegg grew a cabbage on which he counted 36 individual heads on one stalk. Saumier discovered that two of his radishes he had overlooked had grown to mammouth size. One weighed 4 1/4 pounds and the other 2 1/2.