Month: June 2025

150 Years Ago: From the June 17, 1875 Shakopee Argus

Grand opening of the Soda Water season on Saturday next, at the New Drug Store.

125 Years Ago: From the June 14, 1900 Scott County Argus

The office of the Northwestern Telephone company, at Strunk’s drug store, has been much improved by replacing the old single wall office with a neat, modern booth, with double walls and double doors of plate glass. The booth is almost absolutely sound proof. The walls and furnishings are of solid oak.

125 Years Ago: From the June 15, 1900 Shakopee Tribune

The Jacob Ries Bottling Works are working their large force of men ‘till 10 o’clock each evening in order to be able to fill all orders.

100 Years Ago: From the June 19, 1925 Shakopee Argus

Masons Buy Busse Block

An interesting real estate deal took place last week when King Solomon Lodge No. 44, A. F. & A. M., formed a stock company and bought from Emil H. Busse of Minneapolis, the Busse block which the Masonic lodge has rented for several years past. The deed was transferred Friday. There will be no exchanges made in the property, the Masons buying it merely to assure themselves of a permanent hall. The lodge will incorporate later, to handle the property as an incorporation. The price paid was $4,000.

100 Years Ago: From the June 18, 1925 Shakopee Tribune

Firemen Elected New Chief Tuesday Evening

At a meeting of the local firemen which was held last Tuesday evening in the firemen’s rooms at the city hall, the resignation of A. F. Huth as fire chief was accepted and V. C. Stein was elected to fill the vacancy caused by his resignation. At this meeting Nick Vierling was also appointed as first assistant fire chief…

75 Years Ago: From the June 15, 1950 Shakopee Argus-Tribune

Six Rail Crossings Closed to Traffic

Echoes of the objections that arose two years ago when the Railroad and Warehouse Commission ordered the installation of automatic block signals and subsequent closing of grade crossings on the Omaha railroad here, were heard again the past week when citizens discovered they could no longer drive across the track on several streets in East and West Shakopee.

Complying with the Railroad and Warehouse Commission order the rail company has removed the planking and erected barricades on both sides of the track where it is crossed by Pierce and Shumway streets in West Shakopee; and Spencer, Fillmore, Main, Market, Dakota and Prairie streets in East Shakopee.

The system of blockades has eliminated the use of eight crossings that have been in use since the coming of the rail line in 1865 and has the effect of creating 16 dead-end streets, protestors pointed out…

75 Years Ago: From the June 15, 1950 Shakopee Valley News

Sheriff To Quit After This Term

John P. Wermerskirchen, sheriff of Scott county since 1941, yesterday announced his retirement from that office at the completion of his present term. W. B. Schroeder, chief deputy, immediately filed for the office with the “full support and backing” of Wermerskirchen…

50 Years Ago: From the June 18, 1975 Shakopee Valley News

Crewmen worked Saturday in order to get storm sewer lines under the Milwaukee Railroad tracks. Installation of the storm sewer is nearly completed and construction of the actual road bed is expected to begin later this month.

25 Years Ago: From the June 15, 2000 Shakopee Valley News

City campus to be studied

Building purchase nixed, but space need a concern

Putting aside the potentially controversial purchase of a renovated apartment and pizza shop across the street from City Hall as a temporary answer to a space crunch, the Shakopee City Council unanimously agreed last week to study the possible purchase of land for a campus on which several municipal buildings could be housed…

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150 Years Ago: From the June 10, 1875 Shakopee Argus

The Committee appointed by the State Medical Society to investigate the alleged violation of the Code, by Dr. C. Lord of Shakopee, in having presented a bill against the estate of the late Dr. Wakefield for professional services, have decided that, under the circumstances, it was no violation of said Code, and therefore remove the bar to its collection.

125 Years Ago: From the June 7, 1900 Scott County Argus

Mrs. Katherine Yost has made a valuable improvement upon her residence property on First street. A neat front porch has been erected, and the ground enclosed with a new fence.

125 Years Ago: From the June 8, 1900 Shakopee Tribune

A strange case is baffling our physicians at the poor house. One of the inmates named Thomas Dunn, a young man of about 28 years, has subsisted on clear water exclusively for 4 weeks, without eating a morsel of anything, his nature being so constituted that even stimulating drinks are nauseating.

100 Years Ago: From the June 12, 1925 Shakopee Argus

Colonel John C. Coolidge Given Sanico Range

Especially Manufactured Product Of American Range Corporation Shipped To President’s Father In Plymouth, Vermont

Noting from a recent interview with Colonel John C. Coolidge, father of President Coolidge, which appeared in a recent issue of the Literary Digest, in which he expressed a liking for a stove in preference to other methods of heating, the American Range Corporation of Shakopee was prompted to present him with a specially made Sanico wood and coal range.

The presentation was made at the State Fair grounds in front of the grand stand last Monday afternoon before a vast concourse of people assembled to celebrate the huge Norse-American Centennial in the Twin Cities. The nation’s Chief Executive Calvin H. Coolidge, and the presidential party were on the platform when the presentation was made by Miss Elizabeth K. Ries, mayor of Shakopee, to the President, through his secretary, for his father, Col. John C. Coolidge…

100 Years Ago: From the June 11, 1925 Shakopee Tribune

Semi-Pro Team to Play Sunday

Belle Plaine To Oppose Local Semi-Pro’s at Riverside Park June 14.

The 1925 baseball season will be officially opened at Riverside Athletic park in Shakopee next Sunday, June 14, when the local semi-pro team will oppose the strong Belle Plaine semi-pro aggregation. Wm. Ries, president of the Shakopee Baseball association and manager of the team, has informed us that the semi-pro team that will represent Shakopee this year will consist of many players who will be new to the local fans and that all of these players come to Shakopee highly recommended as being able to display a good article of the national games—baseball.

Mayor Elizabeth K. Ries will throw the first ball which will officially open the season at Riverside Athletic park next Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock sharp…

75 Years Ago: From the June 8, 1950 Shakopee Argus-Tribune

Fire Hits Old School House

Razing of the old public school structure here got a “near assist” Friday afternoon when fire broke out in the athletic equipment room in the basement of the old structure.

The blaze was discovered by M. L. Regan who that day began his duties as night watchman on the project. Regan had been on the premises only a short time when, at 5:45, he noticed smoke pouring through the gaping widow holes of the old building…

75 Years Ago: From the June 8, 1950 Shakopee Valley News

Historical Group Makes Fall Plans

Plans for the fall meetings of the Scott County Historical Society were formulated at their regular monthly meeting Monday evening in the courthouse. Mrs. Robert Ferru, chairman of the fall tour, announced the names of the speakers and historic sites to be visited on the tour. Mrs. Donald Ries, president of the society, will open the meeting with a historic summary. Mrs. Roman T. Schumacher will speak on the old Pond mill, William Duffy will relate the history of the Faribault house and Julius Coller will sketch the colorful past of the old Murphy house.

50 Years Ago: From the June 11, 1975 Shakopee Valley News

Lack of law library at MCIW draws legal action from MCLU

Minnesota Civil Liberties Union (MCLU) today announced that it has filed suit in United States District Court in Minneapolis, challenging the fact that women prisoners at the Minnesota Correctional Institution for Women in Shakopee do not have access in law library facilities at the institution…

25 Years Ago: From the June 8, 2000 Shakopee Valley News

County census count a success

With apparent ease, the counting of Scott County residents is expected to be completed this week. But appearances can be slightly deceiving.

The ahead-of-schedule completion of field work for the 2000 U.S. census in the county is the result of the job done by a group of “enumerators” – paid employees who go out into the field and collect census forms that were not mailed back. They have logged long hours and are staunchly determined to make sure every address they have is included in the decennial census.

This week, local census officials said the count of county addresses is 95 to 98 percent complete, with just information from a relatively few to be gathered.

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