The social news or gossip columns in the old newspapers are always fascinating to read. A special section in the newspaper was devoted to the social media of the day. The whereabouts of local people and events were often featured in these columns. Here are a few from The News Messenger of Lyon County on March 5, 1909:

Mis Ida Schultz, who has been employed in a mercantile establishment at Sleepy Eye, has taken a position in the store of John M. Hollo.

Three pre-lenten weddings have recently been solemnized at the Catholic church in this city, the contracting parties being Mr. Joseph Savoie and Miss Nelda Paradis, Mr. Joseph Pilote and Miss Laura Paradis, and Mr. Remi Deansy and Miss Mary Schaubroeck. Rev. Father Guillot solemnized the several events.

After the avalanche of snow, the flood. We are not sure but it would be paying proposition for the business men of Marshall, especially those whose basements contain merchandise, to send a gang of workmen down the river below the city to clear obstructions from the river bed, and thus promote the quicker passage of water.

Charlie Middleton is getting ready early for county fair exhibits, and to hear him talk about it, he will take the blue ribbon of the baby show for his new boy that arrived Sunday morning. He is considerately willing to share the glory with his good wife.

Two substantial German families arrived in Marshall last week from Kankakee, with their household goods and farming apparatus, and found hospitable good friends to assist them in moving their goods to their new homes in the country. Mr. John J. Ohde has a wife and three children, and has bought the Carl Zellmar farm near Lynd, and Mr. Christian H. Keller, with a wife and five children, has purchased the old Larabee farm. The ladies and children arrived Saturday evening, much wearied by their journey, and were entertained at the home of Mayor Odell till Sunday morning, when they left for their new homes in Lyon county.

Mr. Haas has completed the purchase of three lots on Main street at the corner of Fourth, and will immediately begin the erection of the new building for the Marshall Creamery company, which will be the largest and finest creamery and ice creamery plant in the northwest.

The photograph featured this week from the Lyon County Museum’s collection shows construction in May of 1909 on the Marshall Creamery Company building on the corner of Main and 4th Streets. In 1919, Matt Langenfeld and Matt Neisen became proprietors of the business. In 1923, they sold the butter making portion of the business to the Producer’s Co-operative Creamery but retained their ice cream business, the Marshall Ice Cream Company, in a new plant on S. 4th. The creamery building along with the Central Hotel next to it were torn down in 1963 to make way for First National Bank’s new building. Today, this building is home to Wells Fargo.

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