Clark County Press, Neillsville, WI, April 27, 2011, Page 19

Frank Dwyer last week closed the deal by which he sold his farm in the north-western part of Grant to Marcus Hosely, of Green County. This farm consists of 240 acres of very fine land, with good buildings. It is the old Dwyer homestead and one of the finest farms cleared up in that neighborhood. Consideration was $9,000. The sale was made through the agency of John Welsh.

To go to Sunday school a distance of five miles in mud and water is no small task, yet we have one good young man here in the person of Fred Schnell, who cares nothing for the elements or their work. Come again Fred.

Be sure and vote for the best interests of your home and not allow yourself to be drawn on by a smile, behind, which may be hid a cyclone.

The cheese factory people will build a new structure towards which F. S. Boynton will donate $25 worth of lumber.

William Stewart has taken the job of moving the old Woodman hall from its present location to the lot north of the blacksmith shop where it will be used as a creamery.

Last Friday, May McNamara closed a successful term of school in the Dawe’s district.

Marshfield’s new city hall tower is to be equipped with a 2,000-lb. bell and a large clock that strikes half hours. Our sister city is right in line.

A sample of a rural route mailbox is on exhibition at the post office. It is a simple contrivance without lock or key and has a little red signal board that can be raised to warn the mail carrier that there are letters within for him to put into the mail. The box is made by a Ripon concern.

Neillsville Bock beer will be on tap at all saloons every Saturday during the month of April.

Neillsville Bock beer is for sale in bottlers, 24 quarts at $2.00, or 24 pints at $1.25.

All wishing bottled beers for family use call on Farning & Boullion or ring up No. 105 for the following brands: Pabst, Gettleman, Budweiser and Grand Peerless.

Henry Schroeder has severed his connection with the Warehouse Co. He will now together with Frank Marsh, who recently sold his farm in Pine Valley, put up a new hardware store in the Ring & Youmans building next to the Express office. We wish the new firm success.

About 25 head of heavy draft horses were driven through here on Monday enroute to La Crosse from the Colman farm in Green Grove where they were wintered. The horses were a fine looking lot, weighing in the neighborhood of 1,800 lbs. each.

Some careless lads built a fire by the Black River at Ross Eddy. The wind set it running, driving it dangerously close to L. B. Ring’s barn. Three others who saw the fire did some lively fighting, taking off their coats to fight the fire with. The fire was within a foot of the barn. Mr. Ring has very generously permitted the general public to cross and re-cross his farm in order to get to the river and has repeatedly had his gates left open or broken down and his property otherwise destroyed without protest. If he prohibits t ravel across his land in the future it will be no more than right.

W. F. Scott, of Whitehall, has purchased a half interest in the Greenwood Gleaner. He is a practical printer and newspaper man, so we may expect that Bro. Noyes will find him a valuable partner.

Children and others wishing to pick flowers in my pasture will please come down the road to the house and walk back through on the lane. Don’t climb through the wire fence.

Geo. W. Trogner has the contract for building Gus Hosely’s new residence. It will be one of the finest homes in the city.

Benjamin Babbitt, Boyd, and Mabel Phillips, Thorp; Wm. F. Seelow and Eda Dux, both of Pine Valley

The body of an unknown woodsman was found last week in the East Fork of Eau Claire River. An inquest was held but no trace as to his name was learned, so he was buried at Greenwood.

Thornton Doty, while playing with his toy engine Monday afternoon on the farm in the community of Tay, set the barn and chicken coop afire with both being destroyed. The little fellow had presence of mind enough to chase the chickens out of the coop when he saw it was afire.

John Johnson has finally lost out as clerk of the Town of Levis. He was defeated Tuesday by Alvin Schutte, 86 to 37. This end of Mr. Johnson’s service came about with regret on the part of his old friends and reflected their conclusion that he is no longer able to fill the office with his old accuracy and interest.

Mr. Johnson served the town of Levis as clerk for about 45 years, the longest service in that capacity in this entire section of Wisconsin. He held the office by virtue of meritorious accuracy and interest as his old friends well remember.

Mrs. Salem Weld, formerly of Neillsville is dead at the age of 89. She and her husband, who were practitioners of Christian Science, were the founders and first readers of the local Christian Science Church. They organized the Christian Science Society here in 1912, and in 1917 a Christian Science Church was completed in Neillsville, largely through their efforts. Mr. Weld was a member of the building committee.

Mrs. Weld died February 12, at King, Wis. Christian Science services were held for her at Black River Falls.

Mary E. Weld was born in 1862. She was married in 1885 to Salem E. Weld, who preceded her in death. In 1905, they moved to Neillsville.

After Mr. Weld’s death she made her home at Pleasant View, Concord N. H. and in her later years with her granddaughter, Mrs. Elener Van Horn, at Humbird.

Surviving are three grandchildren, Donald Biggar of Black River Falls, Mrs. Stanley Hall of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Mrs. Van Horn.

St. Mary’s Catholic Congregation of Greenwood, Wis., is constructing a new parochial school. They desire loans in negotiable notes from $500 and up. These notes are guaranteed by the Catholic Diocese of La Crosse and interest at 3% paid semi-annually. For information write to; Rev. J. Novak, pastor of St. Mary’s Congregation, Greenwood, Wis.

The Silver Dome Ballroom will have a Wedding Dance for Wallace Erickson and Norma Lueck on Saturday, April 7^th. The Bob Lipka Orchestra will provide the music.

Saturday, April 14^th will be date of the Wedding Dance for Eileen Kroll and Arnold Buchholz with Johnny Check & His Recording Orchestra.

Mr. and Mrs. William Zank, of Pine Valley, celebrated their 50^th wedding anniversary Sunday with a family reunion at their home. The occasion was a complete surprise to the honored couple due to arrangements being made by their children.

Helping to celebrate the occasion were the couple’s eight sons and two daughters with their families. Out-of-towners were sons Charles and Robert of Pekin, Ill., and Louis and Harold of St. Paul. One daughter, Mrs. Gerald (Leona) Janke also made the trip from St. Paul.

Attending from Neillsville were one daughter, Mrs. Francis (Grace) Suckow, and four sons, Ed, Walter, Albert, and Frank. All of Mr. and Mrs. Zank’s 18 grandchildren also were present.

A feature of the table setting was the unique wedding cake baked by Mrs. Floyd Potts.

The bride wore a corsage and the groom a boutonniere, gifts of their granddaughter Ardith Suckow. The couple’s family presented them with a huge bouquet of roses and carnations. Other gifts from the children included two easy chairs and a radio, and their daughter, Mrs. Leona Janke of St. Paul, presented them with an electric stove. Seventeen grandchildren gave them a potted hydrangea.

The Rev. George W. Longenecker, who officiated at their marriage ceremony 50 years ago, was unable to be present.

Mr. and Mrs. Oluf Olson celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on Tuesday, March 27. On Saturday, March 31, a dinner for relatives was held in their honor 12 at the V. F. W. hall with about 75 relatives from all over the state in attendance.

The tables were decorated with gold streamers and beautiful yellow and white bouquets. A golden wedding cake was the centerpiece.

Mr. and Mrs. Olson were married March 27, 1901, and spent the first 14 years of their married life on various farms in northern Clark County and Marathon County and in Abbotsford.

A & P Food Stores Low Prices, Apr. 19 – Apr. 25: Armour’s Corned Beef, 12 oz. tin 48¢; Del Monte Pineapple Tidbits, 9 oz. 48¢; Sunnyfield Rolled Oats, 3-lb. pkg. 34¢; Brach’s Circus Peanuts Candy, 14 oz. bag, 29¢; Philadelphia Cream Cheese, 8 oz. pkg. 43¢; Local Lg. Eggs, doz. 44¢; Neillsville Butter lb. 75¢; Crisco 3 lb. can $1.13

The Prochaska family has sold its food store to Neil Tallefson of Marshfield. The transfer will take place April 30. The transaction ends a business life of almost a quarter of a century in Neillsville. For the elder Robert Prochaska it marks the end of a merchandising career of some 57 years.

Mr. Tallefson, successor to the business, is a family man in his early 30s, the family consisting of his wife and two small children.

The Prochaskas have varying plans. The father of the family, in trade since 1894, has had enough of it and will retire. George, the older son, will enjoy a period of rest and recreation, and will then make some new connection. The son, Robert has no immediate plans, but later will make a new connection. The grandson Richard, son of George, proposes to go to California where he hopes to set down roots. He spent some time there during the military, having friends there, and is encouraged to believe that he will find an opportunity on the coast.

Ten veterans who had completed the Veteran farm-training program of the Greenwood Public Schools received their diplomas at an informal graduation ceremony in the high school Monday evening, April 23. The veterans who received diplomas were Kenneth Worden, Harry Meinhardt, Lester Severson, Jack Rapp, Harold Hendrickson, Joseph Cwikia, Richard Hahto, Leroy Fravert, Clarence Meinhardt and John Speicht.

The diplomas were given by Principal Clifton Fonstad. The graduating veterans were members of the two veteran training classes under the direction of Veteran Trainers Donald Sieg and Robert Pero.

With spring work starting, 12 farms aggregating 850 acres with total sales of $63,350 are included in this week’s budget of realty transfers, as recorded in the office of Register of Deeds, Henry Rahn.

Several local Standard Oil retailers and agents attended a company meeting in Chippewa Falls Tuesday evening. Included among them were: Joe Zilk, Sr., Harry Rosenquist and Cooney Dux.

For years Wisconsin Cheesemakers, the economists said, have been giving cheese consumers a bonus amounting to millions of dollars a year because they must buy their milk on a butterfat basis, but are not able to sell their cheese according to butterfat content.

The law had required cheese men to use only whole milk in making cheddar cheese.

But high butterfat content milk, paid for according to test, would produce a cheese that contained more than the required 50 percent butterfat, to the loss of the cheesemaker.

Cheese men have long asked for the right to “standardize” milk, which means adjusting its fat content to produce cheese that meets legal requirements. Last week the legislature after many years of argument consented. Both houses of the legislature gave their approval to the bill of the Wisconsin Cheesemakers Association, and the governor is expected to sign it.

Director Donald McDowell of the state department of agriculture said the proposal was economically necessary to the Wisconsin dairy industry and will allow the cheese industry to compete with the cheese manufacturers of other states that allow standardization, as well as with other milk processors within the state already permitted standardization. The federal rules also permit standardized milk for cheddar cheese.

Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor Tuesday, April 3, in the Pentagon at Washington. Dying as a hero, he is the eighth soldier to be awarded the Medal of Honor for participation in the Korean Campaign. The presentation of the medal to his mother, Mrs. Nellie Red Cloud, was made by Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The ceremony took place in the Pentagon at Washington.

The Red Cloud family comes from Hatfield. The family home is on the Winnischek place, just south of the Clark County line

A view of the east side of the 500 block of Hewett Street as Neillsville appeared in the late 1940s

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