Days gone by


1951 – 70 years

The tree planter belonging to the East Mercer Soil Conservation district was in use on the Clarence Fretty farm 7 1/2 miles southwest of Stanton. Nearly 1500 trees were planted as a farmstead windbreak on the Fretty farm this spring by the crew of Clarence Fretty, Harold Buri and Ted Link. Eight rows of trees, each approximately 1,000 feet long, were made up of two rows of boxelder, two of American elm, and one each of buckthorn-honeysuckle, cottonwood, buffalo berry-chokecherry and cedar-spruce. The planter has been used to plant about 45,000 trees this spring, 20,000 in the East Mercer district and 25,000 in the Square Butte Creek district.

1971 – 50 years

Beth Leupp, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin D. Leupp, Camarillo, Calif., recently won the Composers and Authors Competition in Camarillo for her suite titled, “Children’s Reveries.”

Miss Leupp is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Art Leupp of Stanton. She won one of 14 state student winners selected from 193 entries submitted in various categories by both teachers and students whose pieces were evaluated in separate divisions.

The 15-year-old Camarillan is one of only two student winners from the Ventura County district, the Star learned.

1996 – 25 years

The Mercer County Women’s Action and Resource Center recently received $2,000 from the North Dakota Helping HAND (Housing Across North Dakota) program. Funded by the state housing finance agency, the program provided $200,000 statewide to benefit low-income housing initiatives.

This is the first year non-profit entities could apply for the funds. WARC’s funds were among $27,000 given to domestic violence/homeless shelters.

2011 – 10 years

The North Dakota Department of Health is reporting the first case of measles in the state since 1987. The case occurred in an unvaccinated adult male in his 50’s from Cass County. The case most likely contracted measles on an airplane flight. He was not in North Dakota while contagious.

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