The week mom was born

MINNESOTA REFLECTIONS, our state online history center,  has been digitizing the Pierz Journals, first from 1909 to 1913, and this week adding 3 more years--1914, 1915 and 1916.  Larry and I are thrilled, and we expect if you're here, you think it's cool, too....but really, it was a little town weekly paper with mostly local news and local ads.  Sure, it developed over time, but at first even death notices were hit and miss, depending on when the person died.  Elizabeth Naber's death was written up on the front page, but Joseph Janson's was mentioned only in passing since his funeral was old news by the time the paper was published the next week.  
This link will take you to the July 8, 1915 issue of the Pierz Journal...the week Orlinda Janson, first child of Anton and Margaret (Naber) Janson, was born. 

 Yeah, Math Hesch got the date wrong, but he took advantage of grandpa's expansive mood.  Just look at the mileage he got when he interspersed Janson news into his Buckman Correspondence column that week. Wow! ☺