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Tony and Helen Smith, taken Oct. 5, 1931. Courtesy Mary Smith.

Staff at Iverson’s Grocery on 5th st. Note the GN 1964 calendar, Lut-

fisk sign, and the prices on the ribs. ‘Crazy Days’ attire, from left to

right: Harly Michaels, Bob Stoebe and Walt Anderson.

Background is the 1927 North Dakota State School of Science football team. The picture was taken in front of Morton Hall in 1927. Although not everyone is shown, in the front row are Russell Brady, Albert Nel-son, Marvin Strubel, Gordon Canham, Clifford Johnson, Captain Frank Sykowa, Captain Edwin Achter, Glen Walrath, Allan Weed, Wilbur Lunday and Coach Earl Bute. In the back row are Elmer Butcher, Don-ald Aird, DeLos Williams, Walter Eidem, Joseph Skovholt, Kenneth Eckes, Louis Schmitt, Orville Persons, Heenan Summerville, Anthony Peschel and Howard Wilson.

Verla and Bob Frank, taken in the mid-1930s. Courtesy Sharla (Frank) Nor-dick.

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Thulen’s Meat Market in 1933. Proprieter Carl Thulen is leaning on the counter on the far right side of photo.

Jim Foertsch, nephew of Peter P. Krump, is shown with the milk wagon that went door to door and delivered milk in Hankinson. Photo was taken around 1938.

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Above: This is a Rose Club 4H float from Richland County taken in 1939. A photo submitted by Mary Smith shows Ray Ward, Don Kub, both back row, Elroy Smith, Wolter Baumann and Lyle Smith in front.

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At the time this photo was taken in the early 1900s it was known as the Wahpeton Indian School. Now it is known as Circle of Nations.

The city of Wahpeton is shown in August of 1962, notice how little the city is devel-oped just north of the college. The middle of the picture is the oval in front of Old Main on the NDSCS campus.

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Twins Verla and Vernon Frank on their First Communion, courtesy Sharla

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Gustva and Minnie Krause. Courtesy Mary Smith.

This barn was built in 1932, the first year they had

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west of Wahpeton and three-quarters of a mile north.

Courtesy Mary Smith.

Attached is a photo of five classmates from the Fairmount class of 1944, who enlist-ed in the U.S. Navy together after they graduated. They stayed together through boot camp and then were sent to their assigned ships. ‘This photo was taken by my grandmother (Mabel Frank) at the Breckenridge depot as they prepared to depart after being home on leave from boot camp. The men from left to right are John McConn, Lloyd ‘Pete’ Christensen, Vern Frank, Lowell Kolbe and Harold Bernard. Vern was raised in Tyler, Lowell was raised in Fairmount; not sure about the other three but probably raised near Fairmount as well,’ said Karen Muehler. After the service Vern moved to Wahpeton, married and worked for Citizen’s/Wells Fargo Bank. Lowell moved to Wahpeton, married and worked for the Great Northern/Bur-lington Northern Railroad. Pete married, worked for the railroad and lived in Breck-enridge. Vern was on the U.S.S. Hadley Destroyer when it was bombed by kamikaze planes; Lowell was on the U.S.S. Piedmont.

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The photo above is a time-lapse picture of the Vertin bulding, said Steve and Maggie Vertin. ‘What isn’t easily visible in the first photo of that three photo collage is the personnel of Vertin & Bentley. I’ve enlarged that photo unfortunately I can accurately identify/describe only one person in each group: the third person from the left is my grandfather, Joseph Vertin Sr., born 1876, died 1973. Joseph joined his older brother Matt in business after Matt Vertin’s business interest was destroyed in the famous early 1900s fire in the Miksche-Vertin general store (a photo of the Miksche-Vertin build-ing ablaze is mounted on the wall in the Wilkin Bar and Eatery). After Matt moved west to California shortly afterward, Joseph Vertin Sr. and his friend Bill Bentley partnered in a general store --- with Vertin focusing on furniture and Bentley on groceries. In later years as both businesses grew, Joseph Vertin Sr. acquired the entire building in this photograph--- and Bill Bentley relocated one storefront to the south in what used to be Synder Drugstore (now Thrifty White). The fifth person from the left (or middle person in the right hand group) is Bill Bentley, a well known and highly respected city merchant of the first half of the 20th Century. In addition, Bill was a skilled writer and in later years wrote a detailed account of the Miksche-Vertin fire for the local newspaper (Gazette Telegram). The Miksche-Vertin building prior to its destruction by fire, was located directly east/across the street from the former First National Bank Building (now Miller Realty/Heartland Insurance) on the site that is now the parking lot for Jubilee Foods.

Time lapse sequence of the Vertin Building in Breckenridge, courtesy Steve and Maggie Vertin.

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Wahpeton on Highway 13 in the mid-1940s. Courtesy

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Robert Smith and Elroy Smith with a load of jack rab-bits in their car. This photo was taken about 1950. Courtesy Mary Smith.

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The Marcus and Catherine Peschel family is above. In the back row are Joseph, John, Anna, Frank, Mary, Peter and Mark. In the front row are Marcus, Cyril, Cecelia, Amy, Anthony and Catherine. Courtesy Cliff Hermes.

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tesy Cliff Hermes.

The Krump family. In the back row are Petre J., Henry, Katherine’Kate,’ John M., and Margaret ‘Maggie.’ In the front are Grandpa and Grandma Krump and Adolph. Courtesy Cliff Hermes.

The Circle of Nations superintendent’s resi-dence. Courtesy Lise Erdrich.

Grandpa and Grandma Hermes, Jacob and Anna Hermes. Courtesy Cliff Hermes.

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PHOTOS BY DAVID GOERNDT The date Jan. 28, 1977 is a time that will long be remembered in the Twin Towns, it was when the Stratford Hotel Fire occurred. It is a tragic yet amazing story due to termperatures and wind chill. Above and below, the Wahpeton Fire Department bat-tles this horriffic blaze. Pictures courtesy Sean Rumble.

The Hermes family is above. In the back row are Nick, Leo, Frank, Carl, Mary, Katie and Tracy. In the middle row are Joe, Grandpa Jacob, Grandma Anna, Adolph and Caroline. In the front row are Eddie, Al and George. Courtesy Cliff Hermes.

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