Clark County Press, Neillsville, WI

November 13, 1996, Page 32

Transcribed by Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon.

Index of "Oldies" Articles 

 

Good Old Days  

 

By Dee Zimmerman

 

Republican & Press

 

November 1869

 

A Good Bargain – Wm. T. Hutchinson, real estate agent, offers for sale a choice lot of No. 1 farming lands in Town of Eaton, in the county, two and a half miles from Eaton’s mill on Black River, said tract containing 520 acres, will be sold at $3.75 per acre; one quarter cash down balance in three or four year payments, at six per cent interest.

 

Arch Day’s Dance: The ball given at Arch Day’s Hotel, six miles south of here, last Friday night, was a success.  About thirty couples were present.  The supper was served in excellent style, Arch keeps a good hotel.

 

Hunting Excursion – A party of gentlemen from Sparta passed through town the other day on a hunting excursion in our county.  The party consists of Capt. J. D. Condit, Charles Farnham, B. M. Masters, S. N. Dickinson, O. L. Irwin, Capt. G. A. Fisk and Wm. Wright.  We learn that they are now quartered up in an old logging camp on Cawley Creek and have had the wonderful good fortune to killing one deer. 

 

Pork and salt for sale; by the barrel, by seeing Uncle Dan Gate’s flour and feed store.  Hewett & Woods are building at their new mill on the Humbird road, two new houses, one to be used as a warehouse and the other for a hotel.  The travel on that road is constantly increasing and it is deemed practicable to start a hotel at his place for the accommodation of travelers.  (That later was called Hewettville, by the Wedges Creek Dam.)

 

Hubbard House – The old Union House in this village has lately been opened by Joseph Head, and the name changed to Hubbard House.  The building is one of the oldest in the town and though its outward appearance, is not very inviting, guests will find the “in wards” well provided for.

 

Eli Mead was authorized to keep and maintain a ferry across Black River, above the mouth of the East Fork, and a license was granted to him for the purpose.

 

Notwithstanding the hard times George Lloyd & Co. are putting in a logging crew on Rock Creek.  They expect to get in about two million feet this winter.  Free Lindsay will log on the East Fork this winter.  He too, hopes to have two million feet of logs on the bank by spring.

 

November 1881

 

The Gates – O’Neill building, as our contemporary styles the building owned by Mr. James O’Neill in last weeks issue, is nearing completion, and adds greatly to the appearance of that portion of Main Street.

 

Henry Klopf has just returned from Chicago with the finest stock of jewelry and watches ever brought to this place.  His stock of rings and pieces of jewelry is of the very latest and cannot fail to please any desiring purchase of anything in that line.

 

The new span put in on the Black River Bridge, here, is the best part of that structure and the piers having been securely built and filled to the top with stone (as they should have been before and as they would have been had it not been for the howl that was sent up by certain parties because it would cost the town a few dollars, or hundreds of dollars,) there is now no danger of another washout.  To actually insure the structure against damage by flood, however, it should be raised at least four feet above its present level.  Had a log jam formed on that bridge on the water that wrought the damage referral to above, and which is liable to happen in the future, there would not have been anything left either the piers or the old bridge.

 

As our village is fast assuming the appearances of a real town, why should we not incorporate?  Under a charter granting it corporate powers, many advantages would follow.  At present, necessary improvements are not made for the simple reason that they benefit over village only, while if such improvements were made, though of a public character, they must be made from the funds of the Town of Pine Valley.  It is true that this proposition has, heretofore, been rejected by the voters of the village, but the advantages to be obtained by incorporating were not generally understood or the result would have been opposite.  (Neillsville became a city in 1882)

 

Robert Christie and Peter Gullingsrud shipped their teams and camping equipment for Lake Superior Country, in the region of Superior City, where they intend operating in lumbering the coming winter, last week.

 

Last Monday morning Henry Myers, of the popular firm of Myers Bros., druggists of this village, received a love tap from the “near” hind foot of his pet horse, with which he was playing, that had the effect of making him a little tender on the corresponding “off” member of his body since that time. 

 

November 1911

 

The marriage of Margaret Schlinsog to August Schlinsog occurred Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. at Maple Works church.  The young couple will go house keeping at the groom’s father’s farm.

 

Last Saturday Emil Manthey and Vern Jast were hunting deer northwest of the city and when Manthey shot at a deer, his rifle exploded.  The gun was blown into small pieces, and Manthey suffered slight injuries to his hand.  It was a fortunate escape from severe injury. 

 

Monday afternoon there came near being a serious   railroad crossing accident as the 5:05 passenger came in.  The train had slowed down for the Hewett Street crossing and as it came to the crossing an unknown man drove across in a hay rack.  The train barely missed striking his wagon.  There is such a thing as raising some precautions when driving across a railroad track.

 

The title of a new firm has entered the city’s business circles this week.  John and Grover Huntley have purchased the store of D. Dickinson.  John has had much experience in the grocery business of Frank Hemp.

 

There is a large fresh stock of the genuine Northwestern cutters and sleighs at Seif & Stelloh’s.

 

The Wisconsin highways will profit directly from the state’s new motor tax law, which, beginning Jan. 1, 1912, increases the fee for automobiles from $2 to $5 and motorcycles from $1 to $2.  Nearly three-fourths of this money which amounts to about $100,000 a year will be expended on highway repairing in the respective counties and one-fourth is added to the state highways.

 

Why would it not be a good thing for some enterprising person to fix up a skating rink on the pond made by the new dam on O’Neill Creek this winter?  If the ice is kept free from the snow and flooded occasionally, the young people should be glad to pay a small fee for the use of the ice.  There is no more healthful sport than ice skating and the opportunity for a good rink is unusually good.  The arc light already on the bridge would afford light and warm resting quarters could be arranged at little expense, and at the same time the rink would not interfere with the ice harvest.

 

Clark County Press

 

November 1941

 

The cheese curing room at Shortville Cheese factory is being modernized.  Rudolph Wahlen is installing an electrical cooking system in his cheese curing room.  The room is insulated with redwood bark and electrical equipment is being installed so that the temperature of the room will remain at 40 degrees regardless of outside temperatures.

 

Wilbur Anderson and Lawrence Stanley, Neillsville, have been named winners of a scholarship for the 1941-42 farm short courses at the University of Wis.

 

Neillsville Co-op and Greunke Dairy revise their manufacturing from butter to cheese, adapting to changing markets.

 

Neillsville Milk Products Co-op turned out their first lot of cheese on Nov. 6.  They have installed new equipment, principally a vat, a press and a curd mill, with other equipment coming later.  The Greunke Dairy has installed three vats for cheese on or about Nov. 15.  Herman Hediger took a look at the cheese situation a month ago and actually bought a vat, but the recent trend of prices has caused him to reconsider.

 

County Board News:

 

Total levy is down $32,000 for 1942.  County Levy is set at $317,618.13 with an average county tax of $7.42 per 1,000 of assessed valuation.  Voting to discontinue the county poor farm in the Town of York; authorizing the purchase of police radio equipment and appropriating $3,000 for that purpose.  Abandoning the County identification bureau set up for two years with Fred Dangers of Neillsville at the head.  Re-electing Otto Weyhmiller as county highway commissioner; Wm. Deuermeyer of Loyal, Wm. Schlinsog of Mead and Wm. Zank of Pine Valley as members of the county highway committee; Oluf Olson, Sr., to his 25th term as court house janitor; and John Peterson of Neillsville, county service officer. 

 

Hewett Game Refuge of 3,520 acres is set up.  The Hewett game refuge, comprising an area of approximately 3,520 acres of land in the Towns of Hewett and Mentor, has been established by order of state conservation commission, effective Nov. 22.  It will remain a game refuge for a period of five years.  As a game refuge, it will be unlawful for any person to set traps or have in possession or under control any gun or rifle unless it is unloaded and enclosed within a carrying case.

 

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If you stand under a good tree, you’ll get good shade.

 

Translation:

 

Pick your spots wisely.

 

Country Proverbs

 

Compiled by T. Bubba Bowdean

 

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C. C. Sniteman Drug Store at 528 Hewett Street, circa 1930;

 It was an election year as the Kohler banner indicates.

 

 


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