150 Years Ago: From the Oct. 29, 1874 Shakopee Argus
The members of the Shakopee Social Club will meet in the City Hall on next Saturday evening, at 7 o’clock. All are expected to be present, as important business will be transacted.
125 Years Ago: From the Oct. 26, 1899 Scott County Argus
The old engine in the Jacob Ries Bottling works is being replaced by a new one of double capacity.
125 Years Ago: From the Oct. 27, 1899 Shakopee Tribune
The “kid band”, so-called on account of the members being mostly boys is now a go. Several of the boys have already purchased their instruments and most all the others have them ordered. The band will be one of 22 members and if the boys hold together no doubt in a short time will be able to roll off a few selections.
100 Years Ago: From the Oct. 31, 1924 Shakopee Argus
E. G. Darsow Buys Residence Property
On Tuesday of this week E. G. Darsow, local manager of the King Midas Mill Co., purchased from that company its residence property located on Fourth Street in this city. Mr. Darsow had just recently rented the property and was already in possession at the time the deal was made which made him the owner. By its purchase he and his better half have eliminated for all time the worries incident to the occupancy of a rented home.
100 Years Ago: From the Oct. 30, 1924 Shakopee Tribune
The A. C. Geiger family recently rented the Wm. Spooner residence on Third Street and will move their furniture and household effects to this place the fore part of next week.
75 Years Ago: From the Oct. 27, 1949 Shakopee Argus-Tribune
Bakery Asks Injunction
The effectiveness of a Shakopee Ordinance No. 46 which is intended to regulate and license “transient merchants, hawkers, peddlers and solicitors” is expected to be tested in litigation launched by a Minneapolis baking company, it was learned this week.
An order to show cause was issued Thursday by District Judge J. J. Moriarty and Saturday, Oct. 29, was set as the date for the hearing on the plaintiff’s petition for a restraining order which would prevent the city from enforcing the provisions of the ordinance. The hearing will be held in the Carver county courthouse at Chaska.
J. E. Tappan, Jr., vice president of the Excelsior Baking company, is the plaintiff and he names the City of Shakopee, Earl N. Ploumen, Elmer Dahl and Eugene Dahl as defendants…
75 Years Ago: From the Oct. 27, 1949 Shakopee Valley News
Connolly Again On State Board
Judge F. J. Connolly, Shakopee was reelected a director of Minnesota State Baseball association at the annual meeting Monday night in the Frederick Hotel in St. Paul.
The local baseball leader thus starts his fourth term as a member of the governing body for nearly 100 amateur leagues in Minnesota. Judge Connolly is just completing his ninth year as a director…
50 Years Ago: From the Oct. 30, 1974 Shakopee Valley News
Bi-Centennial committee will sell book
An extremely rare Minnesota book will be reprinted by the Shakopee Bi-Centennial Committee as one of its 1976 projects, Bi-Centennial chairman George Muenchow announced today.
The book is History of the Minnesota Valley, and Sioux Massacre, by Rev. Edward D. Neill.
Originally published in 1882, the book is considered one of the few reliable sources of Minnesota Valley history from that period. It covers early development of all twenty of the counties bordering on the Minnesota River…
The book contains sketches of early settlements and pioneers in each county, as well as a history of the Sioux uprising by Charles S. Bryant.
According to researchers at the Minnesota Valley Restoration project in Shakopee, this book is about the only reliable source of information for counties without separate county histories, such as Scott County…
25 Years Ago: From the Oct. 28, 1999 Shakopee Valley News
New school not needed until fall of 2002
Voters will not be heading to the polls this winter to decide the fate of a referendum for a new grade school in Shakopee.
The latest enrollment projections indicate that the district has enough space to accommodate growth through the next two school years, Superintendent Bob Ostlund announced this week.
A bond referendum initially planned for early 2000 will be delayed at least until next fall, allowing plenty of time for design and construction of a new building…
Using growth scenarios of 5, 7 and 9 percent, district officials have determined that existing facilities will be adequate to house students through the 2001-02 school year. The district recorded an increase of 6.2 percent in enrollment between 1998-99 and 1999-2000. The same level of growth is expected next year.
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