150 Years Ago: From the Feb. 17, 1876 Shakopee Argus
Miller’s safety platforms and patent couples are soon to be attached to the passenger coaches on the St. Paul & Sioux City railroad.
125 Years Ago: From the Feb. 14, 1901 Scott County Argus
L. A. Guilbert was down from Henderson Tuesday, and conveyed his interest in Guilbert’s restaurant and confectionery store to M. O. Davis, who has been managing the business since it was started three months ago. Mr. Guilbert was accompanied by his brother-in-law, Mr. Didra, also of Henderson.
125 Years Ago: From the Feb. 15, 1901 Shakopee Tribune
Henry Kohls, of the firm of Lauer & Kohls, took his departure last Tuesday on a trip to the western coast. He will visit with the Shakopee colony at North Yakima, and spend some time looking over the country around Seattle and Tacoma. His stay will be of indefinite length, probably running well into the spring.
100 Years Ago: From the Feb. 19, 1926 Shakopee Argus
Senior Band Will Reorganize
Plans for the reorganizing of the Shakopee local band are under way, and a meeting of members of that organization will be held this evening to select a committee to go before the Commercial club at its regular meeting next Monday evening and ask for cooperation in reestablishing the baud as a permanent organization. There is every reason to believe that the support asked for will be given and that Shakopee will again have its own local band to represent it. This will in no way conflict with the development of the Boys’ band recently organized and it is probable that the city can boast of possessing two local bands, a senior and a junior organization, within a short time.
100 Years Ago: From the Feb. 18, 1926 Shakopee Tribune
Bridge Plans Now Complete
Cong. Aug. H. Andresen Introduces Bill to Permit Construction Across River.
This office is in receipt of a letter from Congressman August H. Andresen, in which he enclosed copy of a bill which he introduced a few days ago to permit the State of Minnesota to construct a new bridge across the Minnesota river at Shakopee.
As the matter of the construction of this new bridge which is to cross the river at Holmes street in this city is uppermost in the minds of residents of this community, Tribune readers will be especially interested in the bill introduced by Congressman Andresen in the House of Representatives on February 5, 1926. The bill was referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce…
75 Years Ago: From the Feb. 15, 1951 Shakopee Argus-Tribune
Shakopee Joined To New Bell ‘Dial Network’
Long distance telephone service will be speeded up through raw switching apparatus that now gives Shakopee operators direct connections, through Minneapolis, to a long distance dial network that includes about a thousand cities in the United States.
E. G. Leibold, Northwestern Bell manager here, said the new method of “operator dialing” makes it possible for Shakopee operators to dial directly the numbers in distant cities that are connected to the network.
75 Years Ago: From the Feb. 15, 1951 Shakopee Valley News
Rahr Plant Uses Over 10 Per Cent Of State’s Malting Barley Output
Minnesota growers of the 27,700,500 bushels of barley used for malting in 1950 were paid a high premium per bushel over barley sold on the market for feeding purposes, Frank Kiewel, Little Falls, president of Minnesota Brewers Association, reported this week.
Shakopee, one of the leading malting barley producing communities in the state, likewise had a large stake in the production of malt last year.
According to records of the Rahr Malt Co. here, one out of every nine bushels of malting barley processed in the state last year went through the Shakopee plant of the Rahr Company…
50 Years Ago: From the Feb. 18, 1976 Shakopee Valley News
Bicentennial wagon train will stop March 3-5
Minnesota will take part in a Bicentennial Wagon Train Pilgrimage to Pennsylvania, it was announced this week by the Shakopee Bicentennial Committee. Shakopee will be visited by a prairie schooner on March 3, 4, 5.
25 Years Ago: From the Feb. 15, 2001 Shakopee Valley News
ADC terminates 350 Shakopee jobs
ADC Telecommunications terminated 419 employees in the Twin Cities in the past two weeks, including 350 at its Shakopee plant…
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One reply on “Remember When – Feb. 14, 2026”
Enjoy reading your articles every week. Very interesting. My dad was Dan Sebald. If you remember him and his wife was June. They were active in the community in Boy Scouts. If you have any information on that.