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Memorial Service for Dr. H.C. Arey at the
triangle "park" on Water Street, 1934. °
(Gould house in rear)
on the second floor of the Sampson build
ing, he had been assisted by Mrs. Charles 4 . ,, ,.
` „;: (Augusta) Ice. Now his son Stuart, having
r just completed his medical studies, took
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�= over his father's practice assisted •'
. � ■ , . office by Miss Fern Michael. (MR)
” Miss Fern Michael, about 1940
Edwin (Ned) Aldritt and grandsons (from left): Horace, Alfred and Lincoln, about 1920. (Ned was November 8. The new trunk highway
a sharpshooter in the Civil War, and Horace won trophies for markmanship during and after World
War I.) (No. 7) was recently opened to traffic. Papers touted it as a speedway cutting off at
least 20 minutes of driving time to or from Minneapolis, because it reduced or elimi-
November 29. This was the actual date of the 63rd wedding anniversary of Mr. and nated such hazards as sharp curves, narrow stretches and grade crossings. (HCR)
Mrs. Sherman Smith, although the family and friends celebrated a day later, on
Thanksgiving Day. When they moved to Excelsior 35 years ago, Mr. Smith started a 1935
feed store. Then, in 1926, he took as partners a son and daughter, C.J. Smith and
Mrs. Edna Sampson. They added groceries and called the store the S & S Grocery.
(MR) I
January 14. The E.R.A. of the Thirties stood for the Emergency Relief Association
through which federal, state and local governments divided the expense of certain
1934 relief projects. Representing this organization, Dick Turnham, from Minnetonka's i
north shore, appeared at the Council meeting to ask for a list of work projects in
Excelsior which would qualify. Besides the projects already in progress, the tennis
January 2. Band leader H.O. Carciofini, with his lawyer, maintained that the Village courts on the Commons needed repair, and work was needed on the highway entrance
owed him for 65 concerts and rehearsals, but the Council had said, at the beginning of to the Village. (VC)
1933, that there should be only 63 band nights at $5 each for the leader. It would be
1935 before Mr. Carciofini agreed to settle on the Council's terms. February 13. Fire made this an unlucky day at the Congregational Church. On the
To some extent, the band had been a victim of the Depression. Unlike Hopkins, other hand, it was fortunate that women were there that morning, preparing a dinner
which had cancelled summer band concerts in 1932 because of the economy, Excel- when a faulty chimney caused the fire to break out. Help came quickly. Boy Scouts
sior had managed to pay 27 band members $10 each. But at the end of '33, when joined the pastor in clearing out hymnals and furniture, and Captain Johnson's grand -
townspeople voted against a tax for a band fund, the Council decided that no band children, Anson Mase and Helen Hehl, directed the safe removal of the large painting,
member should be paid. The leader, however, was to receive $5 a night —for 63, not "Christ at Gethsemane," which had been presented to the church by their grand -
65, nights. Mr. Carciofini's year -long quarrel with the Council, over a difference of father. Firemen had the blaze out in three hours. (MR)
$10, makes one wonder what his lawyer got out of it. (VC)
July 4. On this holiday, Excelsior's Frank Mason could also celebrate his recent
May 20. Excelsiorites were stunned by the sudden death, this Sunday afternoon, of appointment as acting postmaster, succeeding Arthur Olson. Already on the eligible
55- year -old Dr. Hugh C. Arey. Thirty years earlier he had come straight from the list of the Civil Service Commission, Mr. Mason expected to receive a permanent
School of Medicine at the University to start a practice in Excelsior. At his office appointment shortly. (HCR)
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