Celebration plans gain pace for homecoming event
Plans for a homecoming celebration began last December and have grown steadily. Hundreds of invitations have gone out to former residents to return for the event, with well over 300 local citizens involved or slated to participate.
May 1929 Linked to Hudson Bay Railway Tale
A May 1929 account discusses Nan Shipley's story Whistle on The Wind about expansion of the Hudson Bay Railway. It recalls a snowbound train at mile 466 during a typhoid outbreak and a rescue by two relief trains, with 40 people trapped including two women.
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