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Clark County Press, Neillsville, Wisconsin December 21, 2011, Page 10 Contributed by "The Clark Co. Press" Transcribed by Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon. Index of "Oldies" Articles
Compiled by Dee Zimmerman
Clark County News |
December 1896
The men who are excavating the basement under the ONeill building were compelled to blast the dirt on account of its having frozen so hard during the previous cold spell, and many people, hearing the explosions have watched anxiously, expecting at each explosion to see the building tumble.
County Treasurer elect, E. P. Houghton, arrived in this city Saturday with a wagon load of household goods, which he unloaded into the house on Court Street formerly occupied by William Zassenhaus. Ed is certainly not used to city life and is not acquainted with the neighborhood into which he has moved, where has dwelled the notorious Cy Stockwell, Homer Root, and the Press editor J. H. Tifft. He is moving with a cold winter coming on and a lack of wood panic going on in the town.
The linemen on the Marshfield & Loyal telephone line have reached Spokeville and the wires are being strung almost as fast as the poles are set. The new line follows the Central Railroads right of way.
The rail gang engaged in constructing the new line had an experience Saturday afternoon while on their way out. The Central train was moving at a rapid speed when the end stakes on the flat car, holding a number of telephone poles, gave way. The railroad car was occupied by three men at the time and when the poles commenced to roll and shift, the scene became a lively one. The end of the boxcar, next to the flat on which they were, had a stove in it, a portion of the roof was knocked off and two of the men took desperate chances by leaping from the train. Frank Ziemer, who lives on the north side, remained and as a result was struck on the head by one of the poles. An ugly gash on his head required thirteen stitches to close the wound. Philip Jacob, one of the men who jumped, sustained slight injuries.
Married at the residence of the brides parents in the Town of Mayville, November 25, were John Zimmer, Jr. and Miss Bertha Schmidt. They will reside on Mr. Zimmers farm near the Reseburg post office.
A number of Black River Falls merchants have made an agreement not to purchase or sell any more cigarettes after their present stock is sold out. This is a very commendable movement, but would have been more commendable had they agreed to destroy what they had on hand.
Mrs. Orson Cornwell of Pine Valley died Wednesday morning, December 16, 1896 of heart disease at the age of 61 years and four months.
Mrs., Cornwell was born in Lewis County, New York. She was married to Orson Cornwell in Jefferson County, N. Y. in 1857. In the spring of 1866 they came to Clark County and settled on the farm just west of the city limits, where they have since resided. One daughter, Mrs. Robert Garvin, is the only child.
The funeral services will be held in the Unitarian Church Friday morning at 10 oclock. The remains will be laid to rest in the city cemetery.
John Wilbur, aged 106 years, lacking one month, died Monday at the home of his son, Charles, near Loyal. He was of Holland descent and was born in Saratoga, New York, in the year 1791. He was twice married, both wives being Indian women. When the Stockbridge Indians were moved to a reservation in this state, his first wife being of that tribe, he came with them in 1834 and was one of the early pioneers in this new country. In 1859 he moved onto a farm in the town of Charleston, Calumet County. After the death of his first wife, he married a woman of the Mohican or Brotherton Tribe. They came to Clark County with their two sons 12 years ago and Mrs. Wilbur is still hale and hearty at 79 years.
He was the oldest person in this part of the state and could remember many incidents of the War of 1812. He was a voter in the first election of James Monroe. His extreme longevity may be partially accounted for by the fact that he never used stimulants or tobacco. The funeral occurred Wednesday and the deceased was buried in the Dodgeville Cemetery.
If a man can pay his taxes, buy Christmas presents, furnish his family with wood to keep them warm during this cold winter and procure the other necessaries of life and wear a smile he is a good one. But this has all got to be done, before wearing the smile.
Lazy people should take Rocky Mountain Tea. It gets them out in the morning. Sold by C. C. Sniteman Company
The Unity schools were closed last week until after the holidays, the reason being the sad ravages which diphtheria is playing in the midst of the little village. Two children have been called away from each of two families.
Tom Robinson, the veteran blacksmith who has made the anvil ring out merrily in this city since its founding, has decided to drop the hammer and give the business up to a younger man and has leased his shop on the North Side to L. D. Ruddock, who is well known in the blacksmith business.
Dr. Lacey who has been in practice in this city with Dr. Esch for a number of years, sold out his practice to Dr. Conroy of Chicago, and last week took departure for Arizona, where he goes for the benefit of his health.
December 1946
Miss Roselyn Plautz, daughter of Mrs. Mary Plautz, Willard, and Frank Pakiz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mirko Pakiz, Willard, were married Saturday, November 30, at the Holy Family parsonage at Willard with the Rev. Bernard Ambrozic officiating. A wedding dance was held at the East Side Hall at Willard on Saturday.
Donald Winn and his brother, Bernard, have purchased the GI Cab Company, local taxi service, from Vernon L. Guy. They took possession Friday morning. Mr. Guy said he expects to remain in Neillsville temporarily. Donald Winn had, until his purchase of the cab company, been plying the barber trade in Neillsville. His brother, Bernard, has been hauling milk on a Granton route.
A foxhunt open to all sportsmen of Clark County will be held Sunday, December 15, according to an announcement by the Rock Dam Rod and Gun Club. The hunt will assemble at the Rock Dam resort at 9 a.m. The Rod and Gun Club, sponsors of the event, announces that 25 dogs have been registered and asks all hunters, who wish to bring their own dogs.
The teachers of the public schools of Neillsville will receive a cost of living bonus, effective with the first of 1947. The bonus will be 7 percent of monthly salaries of $200 and more, and 10 percent of salaries of less than $200.
The action was taken by the local school board at a special session held last Friday and the information will reach teachers prior to the Christmas holiday.
The increase has been granted upon a friendly basis, and not after any urgent representation. There had been some amicable discussion, but no formal application to the school board.
The bell of the South Side Grade School strangely rang on a recent night, and rang and rang and rang. It was late, long after any school hours and it was on Friday, November 29, when there was no school anyhow. The bell had no business ringing. Some, residing on the hill, heard it a little, and wondered. But they did not wonder much as they did not do anything about it.
That bell was ringing because there was a man inside the school building. He was inside and he thought that he could not get out. He had been working there busily, did not know that he was locked in until his work was done and found the building locked. All the doors were locked. The windows seemed to resist his effort, too. So, with darkness falling, he went to the bell rope and rang it as a last resort. He hoped thus to summon help and to make his escape.
Nobody knows exactly how long he rang it. To him it seemed an hour. In his predicament every minute was long. And every minute grew longer when nobody paid any attention. Minute after minute he rang and then waited.
He watched for somebody to approach the building, so that he might call out. But nobody came. Later, a few remembered the strange ringing of that bell, but it made no great impression at the time. The neighbors thought it a little odd; if they thought anything at all that the old recess bell should be ringing at suppertime.
Finally the prisoner gave up. He concluded that it was up to him to go out the hard way through a broken window. Just how he did emerge is not a matter of record. But it was through a window, and it involved a fall to the ground.
This story has a certain moral. It is that anybody having any business in the public school buildings needs to make sure that he has protected his exit. The schools have a very definite rule that those having business in the school building, not otherwise in use, shall lock the door upon leaving. That was the situation on the occasion in question. On that afternoon two teachers had gone to the South Side School and had done some work. Taking their departure, they were carefully obedient to the instructions they had received. They locked the door and they locked the man in, no knowing he was without a key.
The man who was locked in was Arnold Swenson, a piano tuner of Sheboygan. Since good piano tuners are scarce, there might have been some thought that this valued gentleman had been locked in to make sure of keeping him on the job. But that was not the case. He just became victim to a general rule, which, except in this unhappy instance, works out to the protection of the school buildings.
Shop at Zimmerman Bros. for Mens Christmas Gifts! mens Ties, 65’ to $1.50; Socks, 25’ to $1.00; Variety of Gloves, 75’ to $6.57; Leather Belts, $1.00 to $3.50; Paris Garters, 55’ to $1.
Just Arrived! The New 10-Tube Sparton Radio-Phonograph; Not only does this new Sparton Radio Phonograph give you finer domestic reception, more powerful short-wave and better reproduction of records but it is built for FM (Frequency Modulation.) Come in, see and hear the new Sparton at Bolloms Appliances, West Seventh Street in Neillsville
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Rush are living in a cabin on Division Street while waiting for the completion of their new home on South Grand Avenue.
Gus Deutsch has been engaged as janitor at the Neillsville City Hall and will take over his new duties January 1st.
Marriage Licenses:
Arlene Christie, Neillsville and Harold Lobner, Milladore;
Wanda Rahn, Town of Hoard, and Arthur Behringer, Town of Longwood
Wanda Short, Town of Washburn, and Fred Pretsch, Town of Washburn
Louise Ott, Neillsville and Francis Kipp, Marshfield
Wanted at Once! 30 bricklayers, 5 months steady employment, $1.75 per hour, 48-hour week, best of working conditions, will furnish room free of charge. Apply at Consolidated Water Power & Paper Company, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.
George Haskins moved his house last Tuesday from the Town of Grant to a lot on East Fifth Street, in Neillsville. The house was moved from a location about seven miles north and east of Granton, a distance of 15 miles in six hours. Crowds of Christmas shoppers stopped to watch as the house traveled along Hewett Street and made the turn at the corner of Fifth Street. Mr. Haskins expects to put it on a foundation in the spring. Andrew Lewis, with whom Mr. Haskins is working, furnished the moving machinery.
Another house moved recently is one with a long history of usefulness. It was brought from the North Grand Avenue Road to a lot on North Hewett Street owned by Ray Larson. The last occupant of this house was W. H. Crandall, who was known in the community as the bird man, from his knowledge of birds and bird lore. Arthur Gress sold the house to Mr. Larson and plans to put another house on the same lot.
Mrs. Amelia Boeck Schwanebeck was born in Germany July 23, 1863 and died in Sherwood December 9, 1946, at the age of 83 years, 5 months and 16 days. Amelia Boeck was married to Herman Schwanebeck in Germany. They then moved to Nebraska, where they lived for 9 years, before coming to Sherwood in 1902.
To this union were born seven children. The husband and two children preceded her in death. Those who survive here are two daughters, Martha, Mrs. Clarence Freedlund, Elsie, Mrs. John Fluegel and three sons, Max, Paul and Charles, all of Sherwood; 23 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren; a brother, Chas Boeck and a sister, Anna Meister, both of Nebraska.
A Christmas party was given at the Armory Saturday evening for employees and officials of the local Weidenoff plant, with the members of their families and sweethearts.
Feature of the party was the presentation of checks covering the regular monthly bonus based on production and also a Christmas gift. The checks are understood to have ranged in amount from $5 top $150, or thereabouts, depending upon length of service and wage received.
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Construction of the South Side School was completed in 1875 for a cost of $7,000. The building housed all grades, including the high school department, which was formally organized under the State Free High School Law in 1878. However, high school classes were held in Neillsville as early as 1873. The first class, consisting of only three students, graduated in 1875. The school building faced State Street, near the East Fourth Street intersection. In 1905 a new high school facility was built; west of the South Side School, so large that it housed the Neillsville Public Library for some years. (Photo courtesy of Bill Roberts collection) |
Enlargement of the Student Section below.
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