News: Colby, Wis. (12 Mar. 1959)

Contact: Stan
Email: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Wibben, Orth, Stuttgen, Weiler, Erickson, Laabs, Basler, Brehm, Schaller, Neuman, Goessl, Ohlinger, McCain

----Source: Colby Phonograph (Colby, Clark Co., Wis.) 03/12/1959

Coilby, Wis. - Mar. 12, 1959

Robert Wibben returned home from the Marshfield, Wisconsin Hospital where he underwent surgery.

Mrs. Conrad Orth, Sr., who had been receiving medical treatments at the Marshfield, Wisconsin Hospital, has returned home.

Bernard and Ray Stuttgen, Jerome and Ken Weiler attended the county junior leaders meeting at Greenwood Sunday night.

Almer Erickson of Elrose, Sask., Canada, is visiting his brother-in-law, A. G. Laabs, and wife and other relatives in this area.

Mrs. Wm. Basler of Lomira spent several days at the Hugo Brehm home. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schaller of Chippewa Falls were also recent visitors at the Brehm home last week.

Rilay Neuman of Colby and Irving Goessl of Curtiss are among the eight Clark county delegates of the Clark Electric Cooperative who are attending the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Electric Cooperative in Madison March 11-12-13.

Roger M. Ohlinger, ship fitter fireman, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Ohlinger of Colby, returned to Pearl Harbor, T.H., March 2 aboard his frigate USS John S. McCain after a six-month tour of duty with the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Far East. While with the fleet the McCain patrolled the waters of Formosa during the Quemoy Crisis and later, on December 29, provided aid and relief to the fire-ravaged Japanese town of Kaniya on the island of Amami O Shima.

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