TUESDAY TREASURES!

Here's an item that is currently on display at the Nobles County Historical Society Museum. And just the thought of where it came from makes my mouth start to water.

This item is a wood bread slicer with metal blade from the Lang & Haas Bakery in Worthington. It was used in the bakery in the 1940s and 1950s. An ingenious design, when you look at it closely, to keep the bread slices even.

But the bakery wasn't just a place to get bread. There were donuts, long johns, twists, candy, caramel apples ... so many treats to choose from. What was your favorite thing to buy at the bakery? ... See more

MAIN STREET MONDAY!

Going alphabetically, Wilmont is up next in the parade of Nobles County Main Street scenes.

This photo is from a postcard that was postmarked 1909, so the photo was likely taken in 1908.

Wilmont -- the town -- was established in 1899, its name (kind of) based on the township in which it was located. Willmont Township -- note the different spelling -- had come into being in 1878, its name the result of a general disagreement, one group wanting to call it Willumet, the other wanting to call it Lamont. Willmont was the compromise.

The railroad came to Willmont Township in 1899, when the Burlington Railroad surveyed a new route extending northwest from Worthington. The railroad's right-of-way man, Thomas H. Brown, selected the site for a new town, naming it Wilmont supposedly to distinguish it from the township.

By late 1900, the town of Wilmont had two churches (Presbyterian and Catholic), three saloons and at least 20 other businesses.

As of the 2010 Census, Wilmont's population was at 339 people. ... See more

SUNDAY BEST!

The Grand Parade and Great Gobbler Gallop are over, but King Turkey Day weekend continues.

The last item on the schedule of events is probably the Country-Western Service, a Turkey Day weekend tradition, at First Lutheran Church. (It begins at 9 a.m. today -- posting this a bit early to give time to get there if so inclined!)

So here's a photo of First Lutheran Church -- then known as the Swedish Lutheran Church -- when it was under construction in the early 1900s at 12th Street and Fourth Avenue in Worthington. Note the intrepid builders standing on top of the steeple.

It is Worthington's oldest functioning church building, still proudly standing just outside the edge of the downtown business district. ... See more