Christmas

Letters to Santa – Colfax 3rd grade – Mrs. Berndt

Letters to Santa – Colfax 3rd grade – Mrs. Ross

Letters to Santa – Colfax 3rd grade – Mrs. Hart

Letters to Santa – Colfax 2nd grade – Mrs. Ryan

Letters to Santa – Mrs. Mathson’s 2nd Grade

Letters to Santa – Mrs. Cox’s and Mrs. Powell’s 2nd Grade

By Margaret Christianson (Editor’s Note: Margaret Christianson lived in the Colfax area for her entire life until last summer, when she moved to Tennessee to live with her daughter. Margaret’s family moved to a farm on 20th Street, seven miles east of Colfax in the Town of Howard, in 1934 when Margaret was seven years…

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX —  Curt and Marion Knutson are lifelong — or mostly lifelong for Marion — residents of Colfax area. Both have a Norwegian heritage. And both remember one-room schools, Christmas programs,  Norwegian Christmas baking and “talking Norwegian.”

By James Arnold Borofka Editor’s Note: Many people in the Colfax area will remember Arnold Borofka or will know one or more of the 14 children in the Borofka family. Arnold Borofka died December 28, 2013, at the age of 83.  Arnold purchased the first diesel Cockshutt tractor ever sold at the Ridgeland Farmers Union…

By LeAnn R. Ralph COLFAX — For Eunice Freeberg, when the lefse sign appeared in the yard when she was growing up, that meant Christmas would soon be here. Eunice,whose maiden name was Lee, grew up on a farm in the Ridgeland/Highway 64 area one-and-three-quarters miles from Plainview School and graduated from Colfax High School…