Come Celebrate

Whitman

Whitman, ND

Centennial

July 6, 2012

Next Meeting Feb 21, @ 7:00 pm at the Wagon Wheel Cafe in Michigan, ND

New to this webpage: Whitman School Newsletters - scroll down and click on the link.

Two new pages added to the newsletter page!!!!

New to this website: Donor Hall of Fame - Link is below

More Photos added to old pictures page!!!!

New movie added to the photos page!!!

Attention: Help Wanted

If you wish to help in any way contact

Bob Vasichek at bcvasichek@polarcomm.com

A Call for talent!!! - If you have a special talent and would like to

participate in the Whitman Program - Contact the Ed Pawlikowski

at 701-247-2310 or eddyp@polarcomm.com

We are also looking for parade entrants - you may Contact

Dale Mayer or Kenny Shirek

 

If you wish to make a donation to the centennial

committee - Send them to Bob and Carmen Vasichek

PO Box 153

Michigan, ND 58259

Still on the Slough!!!

Home of the Whitman Weasels

Welcome to our website

 

We are also looking for pictures, articles, movies, etc. of Whitman past.

You can either scan them and email them to the webmaster at the address below, or

snail mail them to Bob and Carmen Vasichek at the above address, they will be returned.

 

Come and enjoy good food, good music,

good friends, good times and good

memories that will last another century!!!

 

Aerial View of Whitman

Weather Reports

A Brief History of Whitman

The Soo Line Railroad began construction of roadbed for the Fordville-Drake Line in 1910.

By 1912 they had the first train service. The railroad civil engineer who laid out the lines

and planned where the towns would be was a Mr. E.A. Whitman; so the name was given to the town.

It is also said that the townsite was surveyed and laid out in winter; hence came the slogan,

"Dahlen on the Soo - - Whitman on the slough."

The Farmer's Union Oil Company of Whitman was organized on April 4, 1936. In the spring of

1946, Clarence Pic became delivery salesman. In 1958 the Whitman Fire Protection District

was organized. Fire Chief Ray Skjervem with Asst Earl Johnson had at their disposal a

new fire hall erected in 1959.

On September 29, 1930, the first meeting of the stockholders of the Whitman Cooperative

Elevator Association was held. That same year the elevator and property was purchased

from the Whitman Landf Company. In 1949, a new elevator was built with a 45,000 bushel

capacity.

Answering the recreational needs of the growing community was done in 1925 with the

building of the Community Hall. The $4800 the job took included a piano and a

silent movie projector.

It was the Autumn of 1932 when John Johnson came to Whitman, building a blacksmith shop. In

1950 his sone Earl Johnson began the Johnson Auto Service alongside the original shop.

Two tavern's have adorned Main Street Whitman, Alme's, once Sandal's cafe

and Rysavy's tavern dates back to when Frank Zizka was postmater.

George Lamb began the Whitman Lumber yard then in 1917 his brother, John R., took it over.

It closed in 1949 and merged with the Michigan Lumber Company.

In 1936 it was felt that a central body should be setup to handle town affairs

and as a result the Whitman Commercial Club came into being. This organization

worked smoothly and handled many problems of a public nature. Activity of the club slowed

during the war years because of the call of duty to several active members. A skeleton

organization handled such war duties as bond drives, Red Cross, scrap iron drives, etc.

The first Sarnia postmaster was Embrik Nestegaard, a bachelor who lived in a sod shanty on the hill

across the road from the M.T. Lillehaugen farm. When he resigned in 1898, Tosten

Lillehaigen was appointed. Whitman was born in 1912 and so a post office was erected

immediately, ready for use by 1913.

The schoolhouse burned down on January 14, 1962. The school was originally built in 1914.

Whitman boasted a high school intermitently from 1917 to 1950 and ginally consolidated

with Michigan in 1959.

Whitman wasn't without some of it's own heros, These serviceman were killed in action:

Pfc Frank Rysavy - Killed in action on Boganville Island, March 12, 1944

Pfc Stanley Zizka - Killed in action on Gaudalcanal, November 5, 1942

Pfc Edward G. Sommerfeld - Killed in action in Korea on June 2, 1951

 

Click here to old photos of Whitman

 

Click to View Whitman School Newsletters

Souvenirs are available now and will be available the day of the celebration!!

If you wish to order souvenirs now contact Deb Anderson @ 701-259-2286 or

Doris Karas @ 701-247-2310.

These are the two designs that are available. You can order

Tshirt with either design or sweatshirt with either design.

 

Food vendors will be on Main St.

Enjoy the parade

Raffle for a Nelson County Historical Society Rifle

Chances are $5.00 per ticket, Contact

Whitman Centennial Committee personnel for tickets also,

you may purchase tickets from Paul at the Buckshot Lodge.

Donor Hall of Fame - Click to view

Webmaster: eddyp@polarcomm.com

 

 

 

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