Memories Gone By

News from Browerville's Past

25 Years Ago

January 11, 2001

Mike and Heidi Iten have been in the funeral directing business for nearly nine years. They purchased the building that is currently the Iten Funeral Home in 1996. Joseph Iten and Charlie Hyde first started the business. Back in those days the funeral home was also a furniture store. They bought the business from the Wodash brothers. After Joseph Iten got into the funeral business, his family name has been in the business ever since.

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The Konetzko family line has been in the meat marketing business since the turn of the last century. In 1966, Ed and Jean Konetzko quit farming and decided to go into the meat marketing business when the opportunity arose. The building they rented was called Plotnicks which was a meat market before they rented it. The meat business is still going strong today for Lee Konetzko. In 1977, he took over the family business and bought the building his parents were renting.

75 Years Ago

January 11, 1951

At an air base in Japan, Gerald F. Patri, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Patri, Browerville, was recently promoted to the grade of Sergeant in the United States Air Force. Sgt. Patri enlisted in the Air Force in June, 1918, and is presently assigned to duty as a mechanic on WB-29s in the 512th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, flying weather missions over the North Pacific.

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Ex-county Treasurer George Lehner, who was arrested December 27 and charged with misappropriation of public funds, appeared Friday afternoon before Justice Frank Haskin in a preliminary hearing held in district court chambers in the courthouse at Long Prairie. Otto H. Lackmann, teller at the Bank of Long Prairie, testified that Mr. Lehner brought to the bank a number of checks that totaled $1501.08. In exchange, he issued a cashier’s check in the amount of $1500 to Lehner, giving him the $1.08 in cash. The amount is what is short in the treasurer’s office.

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