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THE WEATHERPartly Cloudy. Little Temperature ChangeFergus FaVOL 95 No. 503FOURTEEN PAGESFERGUS FAILSPI,B’A-WA1 tagon millio involv as a over ' NixonIncl are mem): ci villa agcnc been i tries.Anti cuts i tion ii got ii sion « thougl been than 1Se'Mr. and Mrs. Herman SonnenbergStCIreIts 68th Anniversary Day at the Sonnenberg HomeBy TwhipplasherstormlationtowarBy CAI.K DICKEY Area News EditorVERGAS - Mr. and Mrs. Herman Sonnenlierg are ohserv-Inc their 6Kth wedding anniver-sar’ today (Friday) with their nine children invited to make it a mid-winter family reunion.■•We’ll have a big celebration on our 70th anniversary. Mrs. Sonnenberg says.Sonnenberg, 91. and Mrs. Sonnenberg. S3. share mostly pleasant recollections, beginning with the Dec. 20th birthday party for Mr. Sonnenlierg.Amalia (Molly) Sonnenberg was three and a half years oldQuakes JarWest IndiesROCKVILI.K, Md. (AP) — Seismologists at the National Earthquake Information Center report a major earthquake followed by a series of strong after shocks struck an area of the Caribbean Sea about 250 miles southeast of San Juan. Puerto Rico, on Christmas Day.There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, although residents on the island of Martinique said some trem-when she arrived in northern Otter Tail County with her parents in 1890.I got M) cents a week when ! started working out when I was 12 years old. she said.Sonnenherg’s father brought hin* to Otter Tail County from Germany in 1892. as a lad of 14. hiring him out to Karl Kunzc. The elder Sonnenlierg returned to Germany.I I got Sin for my first year’s wages, he says. Fringe benefits 1 included catching and cleaning the fish for his meals, as well as for the Kunzc family. As his living arrangement did not include .shoos he wrapiied gunny l sacks around Ins feet ami legs , He received a 50 per cent increase in his salary to $15 his second year on the )ob.After leaving the Kunzc fam-. ilv he was employed at the Ed King sawmill after which he bought some farm land adja-i cent to another Sonnenlierg farm where he met his wife. No. we’re not related even though our names were the same. Mrs. Sonnenlierg says.Mr. and Mrs. Sonnenlierg were married by Rev. Geo. Kroli. Dec. *fi. 19)1. in her father’s log house in what later became Vergas after portions of the two Sonnenberg farms weresold for the village site. The Sonnenbergs can look out the front window of their present home and see the log home in which they were married. It’s lieen added to a bit. she says, but you can still tell it is a log house.Sonnenlierg farmed until his retirement several years ago. adding to his income by maintaining a stable of stallions and buying and shipping cattle, lie served on local school and church boards over the years and Mrs. Sonnenlierg was active hi church groups and they have been members of St. John’s Lutheran Church many years.The couple’s children, observing the anniversary with them, are: Mrs. Fred (Frieda) Run-kowske. Mrs. Alma Runkowskc. Mrs. Alvina Dcy. Mrs. Evelyn Franklin. Mrs. Harry (Helen) Sauer. Edward and I-avcni Sonnenberg. all of Vergas; Mrs. Elmer (Emma) Renke of Deni and Mrs. Elsie Gill of Seattle, Wash. Mrs. GlU is planning on moving back to Minnesota during the coming summer.Today Mrs. Sonnenberg on-tinues to do all of her housework with the exception of the washing, which Mrs. Fred Bun-(Contmucd on Page 14)TraareascrawlcomplNew limite called ago. 2 on the periocSrw two ir land, said s follow tinns of dnNor inche Bos Now Guart dy re a briopera Ibout stran tional shut tALL IN THE DAY'S NEWSDel were tral a into : milc-| postei Turnj In Washsuspoti-.bo
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Fergus Falls Daily Journal
Fergus Falls, Minnesota, US
Fri, Dec 26, 1969
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