Posted by soder33 on August 23, 2011 at 11:54:44 from (156.98.4.11):
I was at the Nowthen Mn Threshing Show on Sunday and saw something I had never seen before. It was a 1955 Farmall Super MTA with Electrall package mounted to the side of the tractor and running off a belt with a matching bailer using a General Electric Motor to run it. I don't think many of these were sold, as I have never saw one before. There also were outlets on the generator unit on the tractor that could be used for backup power or for running electric power tools. Neat idea, but it must of failed.
How this town got it's name of Nowthen is interesting too. Nowthen, began in 1876 when local resident Jim Hare wrote to Washington D.C. requesting a post office in Burns Township Minnesota. Because there was already a Burnstown post office in Minnesota, the department asked for other suggestions for a new name. Hare, who prefaced everything he said with the word "nowthen", included the word "Nowthen" at the end of the suggested list of names. The post office department approved that name for the post office and dismissed all the other suggestions.
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