Mike Hanson

Annie Shelland worked tirelessly to get the state of Minnesota to financially support rural education. She traveled to St. Paul and lobbied the Legislature so… Login to continue reading Login…

In December of 1901, four out of the seven council members and officers in Koochiching (I. Falls) were involved in the liquor business and there… Login to continue reading Login…

James Vincent was a former resident of both International Falls and Ranier.

Slim testified that he had owned 25 or 30 Home Lite chainsaws and he described them as “no good” because they weren’t self-oiling; “you had to jet pump it all the time.” If the guys were working hard and fast and forget to pump it the first thing you knew all the chains burned out and the bar, too.As the story goes, Slim met a gentleman from Chicago who was looking for a job as a mechanic.

Slim remembered that there was always wood to be skidded and after the use of horses was phasing out he had a 420 Cat Ziegler.

Slim and his wife Mary had what he termed a big house and he allowed that his mom was living with them because according to him “she just didn’t get along with dad.”At the time he was working a night shift trucking timber; he went to work at 4 p.m.

How Slim ended up in Chicago in 1928 was a bit of an event; he had neighbors that had a sister living there and her husband could get a job for him and his buddies at a new golf course.