Phillip Engstrom, Glenfield Soldier,

Back From the Front

Was Wounded on Guadalcanal Last November;

Is Now in San Francisco Hospital

February 4, 1943 - On Sunday evening Mrs. Harold -arson received a telegram from her son, Phillip Engstrom saying he was in San Francisco. Phillip left with Co. F two years ago and was wounded in action in November 1942. Phillip was the only local boy in Co. F, who did not get home before going Overseas.

R.N.A. Installs -

On Wednesday evening the R. N.A. held their regular meeting and installed the officers. Neighbor Gustav Hoggarth was installing officer and Neighbor Irene Gulstad the ceremonial marshall.

The following officers were installed: oracle, Lottie Posey; vice oracle, Martha Paulson; chancellor, Margaret McDaniel; recorder, Augusta Hoggarth; receiver, Lucia Posey; marshal, Elsie Johnson; assistant marshal, Mable Lampert; inner sentinel, Leone Johnson; outer sentinel, Thelma Mitchell; manager, Cecile Stacy; musician, Opal Gutknecht; past oracle, Jennie Sharper faith, Eileen Utke courage, Liddy Hutchinson; modesty, Cecile Stacy; unselfishness, Lorraine Lampert; endurance Olga Larson; and flag bearer, Hasseby Alley.

A nice lunch was served by Margaret McDaniel end Leone Johnson and a social hour was enjoyed.

Community Club Hears Capt. Knott -

Community club met with a packed house in attendance. Harvey Sletten had charge of the meeting and the following program was rendered: suet, Dora Culver and Marlys Christensen; reading, Gerald Papenfuss; vocal numbers, Robert Overbeck; play, "Daughters of Men", by high school. (this play was given in the county contest); flute numbers by Albert Hadey; and a talk by Capt. Ralph Knott, recently returned from Guadalcanal.

A number from McHenry, Juanita and Sutton attended. Everyone was much interested in Capt. Knott's talk and the many parents with sons in Co. F had a chance to get some first-hand information.

After the program baskets and lunch were sold and with donations received netted the neat sum of $53 for the Infantile Paralysis fund. Leo Overbeck was chairman of this drive and was ably assisted by Harland Erickson and Harvey Sletten. Harry Knott and John Lawlor of Carrington accompanied Capt. Knott here Friday evening.

Remember February 5th -

The Homemakers club is sponsoring a card party at the Town hall on Friday, February 5. The adult admission is $1 in War Stamps and high school students 50 cents in stamps. Remember, the Homemakers are boosting for that Pursuit Plane. You're not limited to stamps, you can buy a bond. Come out and help a good cause. The club will serve a free lunch.

The Homemakers club met at the home of Mrs. Harold Larson Wednesday, with Mrs. Zack Posey assisting hostess. Mrs. E. Ryum gave the lesson, "Salads." She served a salad. The hostesses served buns with creamed chicken, pickles and coffee. There were 22 members in attendance.

GLENFIELD

March 20, 1943 - The high school juniors entertained the seniors and the school faculty at a theater party at McHenry Sunday evening and served a two-course banquet-style lunch for them at the school lunch room afterwards.

The room was decorated in pastel colors and candles were used for light.

Members of the senior class are Betty Johnson, Lila Alley, Esther Fadness and Robert Christensen. Esther was unable to attend as she is just recovering from an appendicitis operation at the Sharon Hospital and will be unable to come home this week.

Glenfield Girls' Work Is Appreciated

at Texas Army Camp

May 6, 1943 - Leona Halvorson, high school instructor, and the high school girls received the following note of thanks for the Easter favors they made: "Thank you for the attractive Easter favors you sent for us in the station hospital of Sheppard Field, Texas. The men do thoroughly enjoy such festive touches to the rather dull routines of an army hospital, and we like to supply those touches. This we can do only through the interest and energy of groups like yours, and so we are most grateful to you." It was signed by Dean Suttle, field director, and Miss S. Schramke, assistant field director.

Blacksmith to Brantford -

H.J. Hesbeck, who had his blacksmith shop here destroyed by fire April 7, purchased a shop and equipment at Brantford and moved there April 29.

Homemakers Meet -

The Homemakers club met at the W. A. Hoggarth home Friday with Mrs. H. G. Hendrickson the assisting hostess. Mrs. Thomas Hutchinson and Elsie Johnson gave the lesson on clothing. Twenty members attended and three visitors, Mrs. Fred Berndt, Mrs. Sven Holmen and Mrs. Ira Mitchell.

Community Club Program -

Community club met Friday evening with a large crowd attending. The high school commencement will be the last meeting for this season. The only committee appointed was one to sponsor some summer picnics. Mrs. William A. Johnson, Lawrence Utke and Mrs. John Edland.

The following program was given: musical reading, Betty Thompson, accompanied by Mrs. George Gutknecht; duet, Marlys Christensen and Dora Culver, accompanied by Mrs. C. L. Christensen; three songs by the primary grades accompanied by Mrs. C. L. Christensen; reading by Margaret Vandewerker; song by Donald Christensen, accompanied by Mrs. C. L. Christensen; reading by Joyce Vanderwerker; vocal numbers by Robert Overbeck, accompanied by Mrs. Vern Overbeck.

Hail Damages Glenfield-

Grace City Vicinity

July 8, 1943 - Hail did damage in the Grace City-Glenfield area Monday afternoon.

On approximately six sections south of McHenry, occupied by Charles Pewe, Carl Swanson, Thorval Thompson, Hans Werner and a few other farmers, damage was from 50 to 100 percent. The Grace City townsite and Neal Stedman farm were heavily hit.

At Grace City a reported two-inch rain was accompanied by wind and hail which did considerable damage in the town and for a four-mile wide stretch around the town. Hail damage on some Glenfield farms was reported at about 10 percent.

A report on the extent of the hail-struck area was not available yesterday. However, the storm was believed to have struck in full force in the northeastern part of the county and in Eddy County where heavy rain fell, especially in the vicinity of Sheyenne.

Carrington received .24 inches of rain late Monday afternoon with storm conditions prevalent for a brief time.

Much Foster County Land

Purchased by Farmers

Warranty Deeds Since January 1 Show 28, 692 Acres

of Land Have Been Transferred; Land Prices Increased

from 30% to 50% in Two Years, Land Dealers Say

July 8, 1943 -- Respective township acreages sold and average price per acre, according to warranty deeds filed since the first of the year are:

Florance, 975 acres, $6.80; Eastman, 1917 acres, $9.60; McKinnon, 1440 acres, $8.70.

Rolling Prairie, 2960 acres, $8.80; McHenry, 631 acres, $2.50; Glenfield, 3255 acres, $8.

 

 

Damage May Surpass Half Million Dollars

Possibly 25% Barns in Foster County

Were Leveled; Others Damaged

POWER RESUMED AFTER BEING OUT 18 HRS.

Wind Velocity 75-80 Miles Per Hour;

1.71 Inches of Rain Fell

July 15, 1943 - Farms of Foster County which last week farmers looked to for fulfillment of a successful harvest and livestock year today are a mass of devastation from a blitzkrieg of wind, rain, lightning and hail which swept demonically over eastern North Dakota Monday night, possibly hitting Foster County and an area in southeastern Wells County the hardest, and doing damage in this area which may surpass half a million dollars.

Five persons were injured in Foster County and local insurance agencies estimate 25% of barns in the county down and wrecked during the wind and electric storm which struck here shortly after 10 p.m. Wind velocity was estimated at 75 to 80 miles an hour and may have surpassed that east of Carrington and in the Grace City-McHenry-Glenfield area. McHenry was especially hard hit.

So far as could be determined, the wind blew in from the Bismarck-Mandan area, sweeping in on Bowdon, Heaton, Fessenden, Harvey, and New Rockford where heavy wind was received. Damage around these towns was reported far less than here.

The windstorm reached its height in an area which began at Sykeston extending to the southeastern edge of the Hawksnest, sweeping madly through Carrington in an area east to Rose Hill, southeast to Bordulac, north to Barlow and south to Melville and Edmunds. It ravaged the countryside northeast to Grace City and Juanita and culminated the heart of it at McHenry and Glenfield.

Jamestown and Cooperstown and other towns eastward reported heavy wind but no extensive damage.

First evidence of the storm was appearance of threatening clouds foreboding a rain in the early evening. Rain started shortly before the terrific wind at 10 p.m. and 1.71 inches of it fell before and during the storm.

At 11:30 the storm began to subside. Then a throng of people left their homes to tour the streets of Carrington surveying damage done.

Just what the extent of crop damage will be it is too early to tell. Grain fields and corn were beaten flat, but local agriculturists expect most of it to come back. That which was well headed out may not, however, for much of it was broken.

Sharing loss with barns in the country were many small buildings, granaries windmills and a lot of farm machinery, livestock and poultry which is mounting as reports come in.

Livestock Killed

Livestock and poultry were killed by falling buildings and machinery damaged and demolished by wreckage of buildings.

Farmers whose property damage to barns, livestock and other buildings was not listed in this week's paper may notify the Independent for listing in next week's edition. A partial list appears in this issue on page eight.

Nearly every home and farm in the area has trees down - giant trees jerked out by the roots - and windows blown out, shingles torn off and doors or steps damaged.

Power Out 18 Hours

Carrington was without electricity for 18 hours from 1p:30 Monday night until 5:10 Tuesday afternoon.

Power and communication service was being restored rapidly yesterday.

C.E. Brockmeier, district Bell Telephone company manager from Jamestown, said about 100 Carrington telephones went out of order in the storm but that service on most had been resumed yesterday except in isolated instances, which he expected to be repaired by today.

Long distance service is restored although there is still some repair work to be done. Few poles were down in town with quite a few blown down south and north of Carrington. Worst damage in Carrington was near the post office.

Twenty linemen, four from Fargo, one from Grand Forks and a crew of 15 from Jamestown, were working here yesterday.

P.J. Goss, manager of the Otter Tail Power company, said most of the damage on power lines in

Carrington was caused by falling trees especially cottonwoods. Poles down totaled 117 between Carrington and Kensal, 42 from Carrington to New Rockford, and 35 to Bordulac and Melville. A crew from company headquarters in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, is at work in Carrington and three more crews are working in the country. Service will be resumed fully in a few days.

Gross Family Injured

Four members of the Daniel Gross family, living on a farm 10 miles southwest of Carrington were injured when their house was blown down and wrecked. All other buildings on their farm were demolished.

Mrs. Gross was stunned when the house collapsed and doesn't recall exactly what had happened. She had started with her three children, Yvonne, 7, Jeanette, 4, and Catherine, 1 1/2, for the basement, when the house went down.

Gross, upon returning from Carrington, found her and the children in the yard near a grading machine. All four are in the hospital with the mother and two older children in good condition. They suffered cuts and bruises and shock. The baby was in good condition yesterday.

Moen Cut

A.O. Moen, Union Central Life Insurance Co. representative, was cut in the back by flying glass when the large window blew out in the Buchanan Hotel. He was standing in the lobby.

Plate glass windows went out at Getty's, the Coast-to-Coast store and Fairmont Cream Station.

Chaffee Warehouse Damaged

In Carrington worst damage was done at the Chaffee Brothers Co. warehouse on Main Street near the Northern Pacific tracks. Upper part of the building was wrecked. Parts of the roof flew 400 feet and landed on Main Street.

Part of the roof of the Carrington Motor Co. fell in. Driveways were ripped from the Farmers elevator and the Carrington Potato Co. A small house belonging to Louis Fritz was wrecked; small storage building to the rear of the Gatehouse Drug went down, and a garage on the place occupied by A. C. Mouser. A brick chimney on the east corner of the Red Owl building went through the roof of the Stambaugh Tire Shop and also took out the rear end of the building. Roof of the office at the O & M elevator, torn off, was being repaired by a crew yesterday.

Trees went down at nearly every home, many of them pulled out by the roots. Debris from wrecked trees and buildings blocked some streets Tuesday morning.

At the Coyle Fornshell place on the west side of town the barn went down. The end of it hit a 1933 Chevrolet sedan, slicing it from front to rear. Barn fragments were carried nearly 100 feet. The Dewey Day garage was flattened.

Electricity delayed action at several business houses. Machinery in The Independent Shop was out of action Tuesday. The Carrington Bakery lost a day and night's work because of lack of power. In the locker plant at Beck's grocery no damage was done by the power shut-off.

A box car on the Northern Pacific tracks near the coal docks was blown down the tracks near the depot where it struck wreckage from Chaffee Brothers building and was lifted off the track and set upright beside it.

At the Lydia Lange farm near Sykeston a 50-pound house plant was carried through the broken windows. Wallpaper was ripped from the walls of the houses at the Jesse Stambaugh farm.

When the barn at the R. H. Gaunska farm went down gopher poison was scattered around. Thirty of his hogs ate it and died.

Partial Survey

Oscar Erickson, Foster County Farm Security administrator, Tuesday drove east on No. 7 to Glenfield, north to McHenry, then south to the Foster County line, west to Melville and north to Carrington, and in that area, counted 44 barns, completely damaged which he could see from the road.

From 15 to 20 percent hail damage is reported in the Melville area. Grace City had no hail and none was reported in the Carrington area.

At McHenry the Ladies' aid hall and the Catholic church were blown down. Roof and north wall of the Crane-Johnson Lumber Co. was wrecked and the roof blown off the Ed Alfson elevator. No residences were leveled but many were damaged. Farms were hit badly with the Charley Pewe barn one of the few left standing in that area.

Grace City Depot Gone

The Great Northern depot at Grace City is completely demolished; the Lorris Sandvold home was lifted off its foundation and put down in the next lot. Almost every home in town has its roof partially off and windows gone. Scarcely a tree is left standing in town, with practically all small barns and garages down. A great number of livestock was killed and injured by falling buildings. All high line poles in town and in the country nearby were down Tuesday.

The O. J. Lundby machine shed was blown down at Sykeston, and roofs were lifted off grain bins. Gardens and grain fields are flat from pounding rain.

Melville was considerably damaged. Buildings went down in town, and a multitude of trees and other damage was caused.

At Glenfield many barns and buildings north and west of town went down. A small amount of stock was reported killed. The town resembled Tuesday the morning after Halloween.

Kensal Damage Less

Kensal damage was less severe. Folks there minimized their damage when reports of destruction in nearby towns were heard. They were on the edge of the main storm area.

At Barlow chimneys were blown off homes, doors and windows of homes wrecked, trees down, hayracks and wagons smashed, miles of telephone lines down.

Steeples of two churches were wrecked at Bordulac and much wind damage to buildings was done.

At Edmunds a terrific storm broke trees, put electricity out and killed poultry.

One of the finest farms in Foster County, the W. A. Rosenau property in Rose Hill Township, two barns, two silos, a granary and windmill went down in the onslaught of wind. The house, left standing, was damaged, and two small granaries were intact.

Twelve cases of broken win-chargers had been reported to J. M. Schaffer, local dealer.

Adolph Huff, farmer southeast of the Hawksnest, said he had lived on his farm since 1902, and that he'd never seen such a storm. His wife and daughter, who were out in the storm in a car, were not injured.

Trees, small and large, were mowed down and yanked out by the roots at Holcomb's grove.

Sam Schmid, Barlow farmer, who sat the storm out in a pick-up truck, reports "it was pretty rough riding."

A trailer shack, belonging to the Union Central Life Insurance Co. and located two miles south of Carrington, was carried 200 feet and smashed.

Probably the hardest hit in the Dover neighborhood were Pat Laughlin and Andrew Nolz. On the Pat Laughlin farm the roof of the house was badly damaged when the garage crashed into the dining room and kitchen. Cupboards and dishes were broken while the cooking stove was found some distance away on the prairie. They also suffered the loss of 400 chicks and several head of cattle when the barn blew over and landed on them.

The roof of the barn on the Andrew Nolz farm was lifted off, leaving piles of hay exposed. A windmill on the Nolz farm also blew down. The roof of the Bill Watson farm house was badly damaged when a barn door landed on it. Bedrooms upstairs there must tie redecorated. Mr. Watson spent part of last week building himself a new hay rack and during the storm the rack was lifted and whirled in such a way as to damage several other pieces of property and then was itself completely smashed when it landed several rods away from the farm buildings. Other farmers in the Hebron area suffered similar damages.

Practically everyone in the community suffered some losses. Severe roof damage was reported at the Lang and Prentice homes, caused chiefly by the hard driving rain. Machine shed on the Wilfred Berg farm was blown away and windows were broken at the Aljets and Louie Pfann homes.

When the house at the W. W. Lentz farm near Carrington was partially wrecked the family took refuge behind a water tank in the yard, lying down beside it until the storm was over.

1943 Wheat Loan Rates

Increased l0ยข a Bushel

July 15, 1943 - Wheat loan rates for 1943 have been increased 10 cents per bushel over the values for the 1942 crop, according to F. L. Aljets, chairman of the Foster County AAA committee.

Wheat growers may borrow $1.36 per bushel on the 1943 crop of No. 1 dark northern spring wheat, $1.14 on No. 2 amber durum, and $1.06 on No. 2 red durum. Loan values on other grades and classes of wheat produced in 1943, and eligible for loan will vary according to grade and quality. Additional allowances ranging from 1 to 7 cents per bushel will be made for hard wheat with protein contents from 13 to 16.5 percent or over.

Market value of No. 1 dark northern spring wheat now is $1.24 but an increase has been forecast on this. No. 2 amber durum market value is now $1.23 and No. 2 red durum $1.20.

Rye produced in 1943, and stored on the farm, grading No. 2 or better, or rye grading No. 3 solely on the factor of test weight but otherwise grading No. 2 or better, will have a loan value of 75 cents per bushel.

The loan values for eligible 1943 barley stored on the farm have been established at 75 cents per bushel of 48 pounds for No. 1 barley; 73 cents for No. 2; 70 cents for No. 3; 67 cents for No. 4; and 60 cents for No. 5.

Flax loans to eligible growers for their 1943 crop will average at least $2.70 per bushel. The minimum basic loan value for No. 1 flaxseed at the Minneapolis market has been set at $2.85 per bushel.

Seven cents per bushel storage allowance will be advanced at the time the loan is completed on all farm-stored wheat and flax. Loan values for warehouse-stored rye and barley are computed at 7 cents per bushel less than for farm-stored barley and rye.

Any producer who has not exceeded his farm wheat acreage allotment, or with respect to whose farm no payment deductions have been or will be made under the 1943 agricultural conservation program for failure to meet 90 percent of the 1943 war crop goal, will be eligible for a loan on his 1943 wheat production.

Any producer of rye, barley or flax in 1943 with respect to whose farm no deduction from payments have been or will be computed under the 1943 ACP for failure to meet 90 percent of the 1943 war crop goal shall be eligible to obtain loans in these crops.

Source:  Glenfield History 1886 – 1987 Page 85