News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Monday December 29th 2025
Case remains cold 104 years
More than 300 people came and helped close out our fourth season in the cemetery with the “Horrors of Dracula.” Other than the mosquitoes, it was a perfect night–beautiful weather and a big, bright Harvest Moon. Look for our season opener next Memorial Day weekend. Thanks to all of you who have supported the cemetery in so many ways.
By Tim McCall
BY SUE HUNTER WEIR
At 5:50 p.m. on Tuesday, March 25, 1912, a man checked his suitcase at the Milwaukee Road Depot. The following morning Carl Soder was on his way to work when he found that same man lying dead behind a billboard in an empty lot on 23rd Street and Lyndale Avenue South. He had been shot through the heart. An old-fashioned revolver, a Marlin 32, was at his feet. The coroner ruled his death a suicide.
The “mystery man,” as the local papers dubbed him, was wearing a tailor-made suit and had a gold watch and chain, a penknife, a stickpin, his luggage claim check and $106.27 in his pockets. All of the labels other than a few laundry marks had been removed from his clothing. He had a handkerchief monogrammed with the initial “R,” and the letters L.E.E.… Read the rest “Case remains cold 104 years”
Entries and Eaters welcome to 16th Annual Green Tomato Cook-Off
BY CLAUDIA SLOVACEK
The 12th and 13th Avenue Community Garden invites all gardeners, cooks and neighborhood residents to partake in our 16th annual Green Tomato Cook-off. It will be held once again at St. Paul”'s Lutheran Church on the corner of 28th Street and 15th Avenue South in Midtown Phillips on Thursday, October 20th. The facility is handicapped accessible.
Every year we gather at the end of the growing season to celebrate our fall harvest and to squeeze every last ounce out of our gardens. Usually the first frost of the season has occurred and now gardeners have an abundance of green tomatoes. We encourage you to find a recipe using green tomatoes, make the dish, and bring it to share.
We have CASH prizes for three categories of entries: 1) Sweets like pies, tarts, and ice cream (one of our all-time favorites was green tomato ice cream); 2) Savories, like stews, soups, casseroles, frittatas, empanadas, and spanakopita; and 3) Sauces/condiments, including salsas, chutneys, and the like. We even had green tomato beer one year! If you don”'t have any green tomatoes but want to bring a dish to share, we also welcome dishes of Minnesota harvest theme: rice, apple pie, etc.… Read the rest “Entries and Eaters welcome to 16th Annual Green Tomato Cook-Off”
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