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Thursday, February 20, 1936
Volume 25, Number 38. Typed from the bound volume.
Front page
Forty-seven below
The thermometer on the bank corner showed 47 below zero at seven o'clock Sunday morning, the coldest reading anyone in Ellery can remember. It has not been above zero in nineteen days. Trains are running hours late, and the school bus has not gone out since the first of the month.
Coal is short at the yard. The dealer asks that no family take more than a week's supply at a time until the next car arrives.
Obituaries
Halvor Ostrem
Halvor Ostrem, who homesteaded north of Ellery in 1910, died at his home Friday. He was 71. He came from Norway as a young man and farmed in Dakota before taking up his claim here. Survivors are his wife, Inga, and four sons. Services were held at the Lutheran church, with burial in the Ellery cemetery as soon as the ground allows.