Back issues › 1990s
Thursday, August 26, 1993
Volume 83, Number 13. Typed from the bound volume.
Front page
Ellery loses its last bakery
Kurtz Bakery closed its doors Saturday, three years after Nell Kurtz left for Seattle. Pat Lindgren, who has kept the bakery open since, is moving to Glasgow, where her sister lives.
For the first time since 1911, Ellery has no bakery.
People lined up on Main Street before seven for the last loaves, and by nine the shelves were empty. "I'd have kept going if I could," Pat said. "It's too much for one person, and there isn't a second one."
The building is for sale. Pat has asked anyone who has a cake pan at home with a Kurtz Bakery label on it to keep it.
School news
School opens Monday
Ellery School opens Monday, August 30, with 52 students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. The school has two new teachers.
Elevator report
Grain prices
Prices paid at the Ellery elevator Wednesday:
| Grain | Per bushel |
|---|---|
| Spring wheat | $3.14 |
| Barley | $1.70 |
| Durum | $4.10 |