Clubhouse manager Rory Hermsen, left, and Chad Rembold, who sits on the city's Valley View Golf Course Committee, go over logistics prior to the Fall Souper Golf Scramble Saturday morning, Oct. 3. As many as 22 four-player teams were expected to play in the 18-hole competition, which includes nine pin prizes for the men and nine for the women, courtesy of support from the larger Freeman community. Hermsen said the event will also feature a variety of soups made by local ladies to be enjoyed by participants during lunch.

Loren Tschetter unloads corn in a field owned by his brother, Larry, just southwest of Freeman on a crisp morning Friday, Oct. 2. Tschetter said he was "very satisfied" with his own corn and bean harvest, which he says yielded 40 bushels of beans and 180 bushes of corn. The dry weather is allowing many farmers to complete the harvest quickly. 

For many people who lived in the Freeman area in the 1980s and 1990s, this — the interior of The Cornerstone — is a familiar site. The Cornerstone Steakhouse opened along Highway 81 on September 29, 1978 and was built "to glorify the Lord," according to Quentin Groves, president of the corporation that established the business as both a restaurant and a place for regular gospel music. In its earliest years The Cornerstone was open Tuesdays through Sundays for both noon and evening meals. 

Donna Zeeb holds a scrapbook recalling this history of the Bingaman Store building that served the community of Olivet for many years. Today the building stands on the grounds of Pioneer Acres and serves as the Women's Building during the annual Power Show. Every year there is a new theme/exhibition designed to target the women. "The men have their thing; we thought there should be something for the women," said Zeeb, who helped establish the rotation display in 2001. These year's theme? Hair. 

The Freeman Missionary Church is pictured on a beautiful fall morning in late September.

Tony Paul, who is in his second week of work with Central Farmers Cooperative, unloads corn at the Freeman elevator Monday morning, Sept. 28. With the dry conditions of summer and fall, the harvest is in full swing across the region.

Kevin Waltner visits with other guests at the 2020 Menno Pioneer Power Show late Saturday morning, Sept. 26 — the first day of the two-day event that every year draws several thousand to the Menno community. The Power Show includes featured vintage tractors, cars and steam engines, a host of vendors and exhibitors, a flea market, demonstrations, food, activities for children and more, all taking place on the sprawling Pioneer Acres on the north side of Menno. 

Mike Weier, left, of Sioux Falls and Samuel Borntrager of Trimont, Minn., work with a hay threshing demonstration on the first day of the 2020 Menno Pioneer Power Show Saturday, Sept. 26. The show runs through 3 p.m. today and on Sunday. 

Flags are flying at half staff in honor of the late Supreme Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who died on Sunday of complications from pancreatic cancer. Ginsberg is lying in state at the U.S. Capitol today.

This photo appears to have been taken sometime after or around 1953, shows the east side of Main Street, where a drug store and the U.S. Post Office once stood. Today those buildings are occupied by State Farm Insurance and Strasser Law Office.