Excerpts from past Tracy newspapers
Nov. 10, 1955 — Fire of unknown origin threatened a garage and burned a pile of baled hay on the Caeser DeBlieck farm occupied by Don Morin Thursday. The fire department halted the blaze and saved the greater portion of the garage.
Obituaries: Al Muedeking, Carl Anderson
Nov. 11, 1965 — Conrad Rettmer, former Tracyite now serving as program director for the Pillsbury Citizens Service in Minneapolis, has been appointed director of the Western Community Action, Inc., the anti-poverty agency for Lyon, Lincoln, and Redwood counties. Rettmer, graduate of Tracy high school and son of Mrs. Lena Rettmer of this city, holds a B.S. degree from Mankato State college and has served as teen program supervisor of the Minneapolis neighborhood social agency since 1962.
Obituaries: Denton Howard, Sophia Prokasky, Gilbert Furan, Clyde Moore, Ross Main, Harold Rykhus
Nov. 13, 1975 — Dan Swedzinski of the Milroy High School FFA Chapter captured honors and placed second in the state competition in the 1975 Oats Improvement Program sponsored by the Quaker Oats Co. An awards banquet was held by the company recently at Granite Falls. Swedzinski was the District 10 winner with 125.09 bushels per acre and 600.45 pounds of grain protein per acre.
Obituaries Mrs. Rich Anderson, Mrs. Jacob Gieser
Nov. 5, 1985 — Dr. Jack VonBokern’s optometry practice has new owners as of Nov. 1. Dr. VonBokern will remain in Tracy, but will spend his time with his other business. American Doctors of Optometry. P.B.R. Optometrist, Ltd., bought the practice and have hired a full-time optometrist. P.B.R. Optometrist has offices in Redwood Falls, Springfield, Windom and now Tracy. “All our offices receive the same treatment,” says P.B.R. optometrist Dr. Roger D. Pabst. “We have a doctor at all of our offices.” Enter Dr. Steven J. Peterson from Arlington Heights, Ill. He’s the doctor who will be in the Tracy office.
Obituaries: Bernadette Caron, Mildred Miller
Nov. 8, 1995 — Who are tomorrow’s leaders? Perhaps this year’s high school sophomores. Casey Marie Schmidt, a sophomore at Tracy Area High School, was recently selected to attend a Hugh O’Brien Youth Leadership Seminar next spring. Schmidt was one of six students in John Coulter’s Social Studies class who filled out an application form offered to sophomores across the state. Faculty members and administration chose Casey Marie as the winning essay writer. She will attend the weekend seminar sometime between March 24 and June 18, 1996.
Obituaries: Martha Osland, Viola Trewartha 2005 — N/A
Nov. 11, 2015 — Scott Johnson is the new grain procurement specialist at the CHS office in Tracy. But don’t expect to always find him behind his desk on South St. “There will be some days that I’m not in the office at all,” says Johnson, who began working for CHS Marshall Regional this summer, after a 27-year career with Cargill.
Obituaries: Robert Jones
