Memories Gone By

News from Browerville's Past

25 Years Ago

August 24, 2000

After years of limited interest and tax forfeitures, interest in Sylvan Shores has increased and there are not very many lots left for sale. Betty Marotzke, manager of Sylvan Shores, said that out of the 2290 lots only seven are still available through the state. Ten lots are sill being held by the DNR. The average lot went for $1000-$1500 for every half an acre. Lakeside lots went from $9000-$17,000.

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Pictured is the chapel, a monument of faith and love for the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the patron of the Novitiate. An imposing sculptured medallion of the Sacred Heart (seven foot in diameter) adorns the front of the chapel. It was in the coldest day of December of 1990 that a group of Sisters of the Society Saint Pius X, an international Religious Congregation of the Roman Catholic Church, arrived in Browerville to take up their abode at the former St. John’s Hospital.

75 Years Ago

August 24, 1950

“How come these chow hounds eat so many spuds?” asked Ret. Howard Bebault of Co. A, 194th Tank Bn., of Long Prairie. What a way to get battle conditioning but it is all in a day’s work for men of the 194th in field training at Camp Ripley. Other men pictured are Ret. Walter Borgen of Browerville and Ret. Laurel Brudin of Long Prairie.

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Last Sunday, the Browerville OTW ball team lost their chance to win the championship by dropping the first playoff game to Grey Eagle 8-1. The boys held Grey Eagle scoreless until the fourth inning, when they scored five runs on four hits, one walk and an error. The boys discovered a new twirler on the team, “Knuckle Ball” Zins on the mound in the sixth and he held the Eagles to one hit.

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