Month: October 2025

150 Years Ago: From the Oct. 28, 1875 Shakopee Argus

Some busy body has had printed and is circulating a bushel or two of election tickets with my name on as Sheriff. I wish to state that I am not a candidate, and that such tickets are circulated contrary to my wishes.

Nic. Schmitt.

125 Years Ago: From the Oct. 25, 1900 Scott County Argus

Last Monday morning at about ten o’clock a vigorous alarm gave the fire department some lively work before they were headed off with the intelligence that the fire was nothing more than a pile of burning rubbish in the rear of the Argus block.

125 Years Ago: From the Oct. 26, 1900 Shakopee Tribune

Miss K. Yost will remove her millinery store from the Reis block to the store in the Lander opera house recently vacated by Mrs. S. L. Hill. She expects to be installed there by the first of the month, and in the very spacious new quarters will be enabled to make a much better display of her large stock of the goods which delight the feminine heart.

100 Years Ago: From the Oct. 30, 1925 Shakopee Argus

The large porch of the Casper Lenzmeier home is being enclosed with glass, Fred Rohlfs having the work in charge.

100 Years Ago: From the Oct. 29, 1925 Shakopee Tribune

While cranking his car at his home last Wednesday evening, Frank White had the misfortune to break his arm at the wrist. It is a painful injury and will force Mr. White to take a vacation for several months.

75 Years Ago: From the Oct. 26, 1950 Shakopee Argus-Tribune

Truck Fire in Schesso Garage

Schesso Brothers garage was threatened by fire late Tuesday night when a blaze broke out in a Northwestern Bell utility truck there.

The fire, discovered at 10:30 by Pat Thielen, police chief, is believed to have been caused by a short circuit in the truck’s electric system. Firemen were promptly called.

The interior of the cab was gutted and the blaze was confined to the vehicle. Other cars in the building escaped damage.

75 Years Ago: From the Oct. 26, 1950 Shakopee Valley News

Owner Arrives From St. Louis To Sign New Plat Allowing Utility Contracts To Be Let

By virtue of Henry Pieper arriving in the proverbial nick of time, the newest platted addition to the City of Shakopee was approved by the city council as they accepted the plat to Doyle and Pieper’s addition at an adjourned meeting Thursday night.

The council had advertised and opened bids for new sewer and water connection in the area a week previous, but could not let the contracts until the plat was accepted.

50 Years Ago: From the Oct. 29, 1975 Shakopee Valley News

Mrs. Jaycees donate $3,000 for equipment

Mrs. Jaycees donated $3000 toward playground equipment at Tahpah Park at their regular October meeting, it has been announced.

Money for the equipment was given the Mrs. Jaycees by their Jaycee husbands for work done at the Renaissance Festival…

25 Years Ago: From the Oct. 26, 2000 Shakopee Valley News

Enrollment up 24% since ’96

1,000 more expected by 2005

Enrollment in Shakopee schools has increased 24 percent since 1996, and that trend may continue with the likelihood of an additional 1,000 students entering classrooms by 2005.

Superintendent Jon McBroom presented School Board members with an enrollment history and 10-year projections on Monday.

In the last four years, he reported, the student population has grown from 3,194 to 3,973. The 9.8-percent increase between last year and this year alone is three times the growth seen in each of the last three years.

The computer program used to generate the enrollment figures takes into account trends over the past several years, McBroom explained. He said the model has estimated that enrollment will top 4,100 next year, with the district reaching the 5,000 mark around 2005-06…

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150 Years Ago: From the Oct. 21, 1875 Shakopee Argus

The school house in East Shakopee is undergoing repairs. A new floor has been put down, the two small rooms made into one for a recitation room, and a cloak room built on in front of the main building. New patent desks are being put in the main school room. The appearance and comfort are greatly improved.

125 Years Ago: From the Oct. 18, 1900 Scott County Argus

Miss Yost finds that her present quarters in the Ries block are too limited for the proper display of her millinery goods, and will within a week or two remove to the store in the Lander block recently vacated by S. L. Hill.

125 Years Ago: From the Oct. 19, 1900 Shakopee Tribune

J. C. Marx installed a handsome new safe in his jewelry store last Wednesday. It is a big bit of furniture, standing five feet high, with a width and depth of four and three feet. Its weight is 3000 pounds.

100 Years Ago: From the Oct. 23, 1925 Shakopee Argus

Dr. F. H. Buck is remodeling his home and will add a breakfast nook, install a hot water plant to replace hot air heat and make other improvements. Among these will be a glass enclosure for the south porch, transforming it into a heated sunporch for the winter months.

100 Years Ago: From the Oct. 22, 1925 Shakopee Tribune

Bowdish’s Install New Electric Sandwich Machine

During the past week the Bowdish Confectionery installed a new Butter Kistwich sandwich-toasting machine. This machine is electrically equipped to toast sandwiches of all varieties. It takes only a minute and a half to prepare a ready-to-serve toasted sandwich on this machine…

75 Years Ago: From the Oct. 19, 1950 Shakopee Argus-Tribune

County Must Build or Close Old Jail

Faced by the choice of either closing the present county jail or building a new and adequate structure to replace it, the board of Scott county commissioners has chosen the latter course and on Nov. 7 residents of the county will be afforded the opportunity to vote in a bond issue to determine what action is to be taken by the commissioners…

75 Years Ago: From the Oct. 19, 1950 Shakopee Valley News

Homecoming Fire Touched Off Early

Shakopee’s annual homecoming celebration got off to a premature start when unknown persons touched off the Homecoming bonfire at 2:15 Wednesday morning. Only a few hardy individuals that got to the fire saw the configuration instead of the hundreds expected when the fire was to have been lit tonight. However, the entire student body at the school moved yesterday to help the freshman class assemble another pile of burnable material, and the bonfire will be held tonight as scheduled.

50 Years Ago: From the Oct. 22, 1975 Shakopee Valley News

Gifted education program sought by school district

At their last meeting, the School Board of District 720 took another step toward developing a program for gifted education in Shakopee.

The proposal, presented by David Anderson, Senior High English teacher and Robert Kieber, Senior High Social Studies teacher, calls for a three year program in English and social studies for the senior high and supportive programs throughout the district.

If plans go well the program would begin in the fall of 1976…

25 Years Ago: From the Oct. 19, 2000 Shakopee Valley News

Replica of Lincoln’s coffin to be on display

A replica of Abraham Lincoln’s coffin will be on display at the Ballard-Sunder Funeral Home in Shakopee on Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. A historic presentation by the Scott County Historical Society is planned from 7 to 8 p.m., as they will discuss the Lincoln funeral as well as funeral customs and rituals of that time period…

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150 Years Ago: From the Oct. 14, 1875 Shakopee Argus

Mrs. J. Ley will sell her stock of Millinery at cost for eight days only, as she intends to move away from Shakopee.

125 Years Ago: From the Oct. 11, 1900 Scott County Argus

A large new ware house is being erected upon the west side of the mill.

125 Years Ago: From the Oct. 12, 1900 Shakopee Tribune

A new plate glass front is going in the clothing and shoe department of Kohls & Berens’ store. The plate is 96×88 inches and this will allow of an entrance at once side. Bert. Schneider and Wm. Schmidt are doing the work.

100 Years Ago: From the Oct. 16, 1925 Shakopee Argus

Fred Stelten sold his pool hall Monday to Henry Green who took immediate possession and will continue to conduct it.

100 Years Ago: From the Oct. 15, 1925 Shakopee Tribune

Local Postoffice Installs 161 New Pattern Lock Boxes

During the fore part of this week, Postmaster P. J. Schwartz completed the installation of 161 late pattern combination lock boxes in the local postoffice. These new lock boxes were installed in the space formerly occupied by 160 of the old call boxes and the window used to serve the patrons of these call boxes.

The installation of these newest type of lock boxes and the other general improvements that have been made in the local postoffice during the past few months, make the postoffice in this city one of the finest in this state, excluding, of course the postoffices in the twin cities.

75 Years Ago: From the Oct. 12, 1950 Shakopee Argus-Tribune

Public School List Largest in History

Delayed for several weeks because of construction difficulties Shakopee’s public school opened Monday with the largest enrollment in the school’s history. Although additional registrations were still expected in the high school and grades the total enrollment for the opening day was 534 as compared to 504 for the first day of the 1949 term…

75 Years Ago: From the Oct. 12, 1950 Shakopee Valley News

Pour Footings At Rahr Plant

Work on the large addition to the grain elevators at the Rahr Malt Co. is well underway as large crews of the McKenzie-Hague-Simmons Co., general contractors, are now on the job.

This week, work was pushed on pouring the two-foot thick concrete footings which extend under the entire structure. The elevator addition is the same width as the present grain storage facilities and will extend 100 feet eastward from the present elevator. Height of the structure will be 130 feet…

50 Years Ago: From the Oct. 15, 1975 Shakopee Valley News

Minnesota Valley Mall schedules spring opening

Watson Centers, Inc. announced this week a March, 1976 opening schedule for the Minesota Valley Mall Shopping Center.

The enclosed mall community shopping center’s exterior shell is visible from U.S. Highway 169 on the southwest edge of Shakopee.

In announcing the opening schedule, Lynn Donohue, a spokesman for the Watson firm, noted several recent developments that made a spring “76” opening possible…

Existing tenants in the center include a 20,000 square foot Juba Super Valu (three times the size of the present facility), a 19,000 square foot Pro Mart Home Improvement Center and a 12,000 square foot Dueber’s Junior Department Store.

Watson has announced the signing of an 8,000 square foot Snyders Drug store.

25 Years Ago: From the Oct. 12, 2000 Shakopee Valley News

There’s no place like home

Current site selected for two-story city library

The committee charged with finding a site for a public library in Shakopee has decided that the current site works just fine.

Last week, the City Council unanimously accepted the commission’s recommendation that a two-story library be built on the existing site, and that remaining buildings on the so-called library block be purchased as they become available for future expansion, parking and green space. The council also accepted the committee’s recommendation that a temporary site be leased for one year while the library is under construction…

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150 Years Ago: From the Oct. 7, 1875 Shakopee Argus

The citizens of Shakopee are requested to meet at the City Hall on Friday evening, the 8th inst., at 7 ½ o’clock, to make arrangements to successfully carry out the project of repairing the Ferry Road. Let all turn out, for a good road there is greatly needed.

125 Years Ago: From the Oct. 4, 1900 Scott County Argus

Since last Sunday there can be no doubt in the minds of the hotel men that the new bicycle path is a benefit to them. Over 150 wheelmen were in town at the opening of the new path, and of this number 53 registered at the Occidental, 50 at the Central, 29 at the United States, and 54 at the Oriental hotels.

125 Years Ago: From the Oct. 5, 1900 Shakopee Tribune

The Northwestern telephone company has installed a new switchboard in their Shakopee station in the Strunk drug store, with fifteen shutters. The new line to Minneapolis has been added, and a new one south, which enables the Strunk’s to call up Jordan, New Prague, and other towns along that line without first calling up Minneapolis.

100 Years Ago: From the Oct. 9, 1925 Shakopee Argus

Plastering will begin next week on W. L. Anderson’s new bungalow which is being rushed to completion before winter arrives to stay.

100 Years Ago: From the Oct. 8, 1925 Shakopee Tribune

Very Large Apples Grown in Shakopee and Vicinity

Thos. McDevitt, who resides two and one-half miles south of Shakopee, stopped at this office Monday morning with some very fine apples which were part of this year’s crop grown on his farm. They were unusually large specimens of the Wolf River variety. Mr. McDevitt left three of the apples with us which we have placed on display in our office window. The largest of the apples left at our office measures 14 ¾ inches in: circumference and 3 ¾ inches deep at the core…

75 Years Ago: From the Oct. 5, 1950 Shakopee Argus-Tribune

Pigeon Raiser Writes Story

An article by W. B. Schroeder, Shakopee pigeon raiser, got the lead spot in the October issue of the American Pigeon Journal. One of his photographs illustrating the story also was used as the cover piece.

Schroeder’s story concerned the work of L. M. Smith, St. Louis Park, who has been raising English Pouters since 1900. The Pouter, Schroeder said, is one of some 300 pigeon varieties which hold the interests of pigeon fanciers.

75 Years Ago: From the Oct. 5, 1950 Shakopee Valley News

Voters To Act On Bond Issue

Scott county voters will be asked to approve two bond issues totaling $130,000 at the general election Tuesday, November 7. The money, if approved, would be used for a new jail, sheriff’s residence, and an addition to the courthouse for office space…

25 Years Ago: From the Oct. 5, 2000 Shakopee Valley News

Walgreen’s, new DQ heading to Co. Rd. 17

Shakopee is gaining more than new residents these days. New businesses continue to eye the city.

On the northwest corner of Marschall Road and Vierling Drive, construction workers are building quarters for a Dairy Queen and Walgreen’s store. The DQ will be located north of Video Update on the west side of Marschall Road. Kitty-corner from that work, workers from S. M. Hentges are working on the widening of Vierling Drive and County Road 17. They are adding turn lanes to accommodate traffic flow onto and off the roadways. The new turn lanes are expected to be ready this fall.

In the Shakopee Valley Marketplace, the development anchored by Target at the intersection of Marschall Road and 17th Avenue, a Kindercare child-care facility is being proposed for the open site near the intersection of 17th Avenue and Sarazin Street…

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