Clark County Press, Neillsville, Wisconsin

December 25, 2013, Page 12

Contributed by "The Clark Co. Press"

Transcribed by Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon.

Index of "Oldies" Articles

 

Compiled by Dee Zimmerman

 

Clark County News

December 1938

 

The Marshfield Construction Co. submitted the low bid on general construction work for the addition to the Greenwood High School. All bids for other work were rejected because they were too high.  The general contracting bid still needs the approval of the PWA, which is furnishing a part of the money.              

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A toy rubber balloon, which apparently had floated over 100 miles through the air, was found by Robert Hansen and Andy Kapusta on the farm of Charles Hansen in Pine Valley, about two and half miles south of Neillsville.

 

A note attached by a string to the balloon stated: “Caledonia, Minn.  If you find this note, please send it to J. M. Graf.”  It was marked ‘Number 8,’ apparently being one of a number of similar balloons sent aloft by Graf.

 

Caledonia is a city of about 1,500 in population and is the county seat of Houston County, the most southeastern county in Minnesota.  It is roughly 25 miles southwest of La Crosse.

 

Young Hansen and Kapusta found the balloon while getting up wood.  They sent word to Graf and are awaiting a reply.

 

Miss Anna Sojka of Pittsville and Anton Adamec of Levis were united in marriage, 10 o’clock Saturday morning, November 26, by Judge O. W. Schoengarth.

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The bride was attired in a floor-length gown of white satin and finger-tip veil.  She wore a corsage of pink roses, white carnations and ferns.

 

Her attendant, the groom’s sister, Miss Bessie Adamec, of Levis, was dressed in a floor-length gown of Nile green chiffon. She wore a shoulder corsage of pink roses and fern.

 

The groom and his attendant, Frank Sojka, brother of the bride, wore navy blue suits and boutonnieres. 

 

Immediate relatives and friends attended the dinner at the bride’s home. The home was decorated in green and white.

 

The young couple will make their home on the groom’s farm in the Town of Levis.

 

A large crowd attended the wedding dance and shower at the Levis Community Hall.  Many useful and beautiful gifts were presented to the couple. The many friends and relatives extend their hearty congratulations.

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New Styles demand New Permanents, $2.60 & up. Also Open Tuesday and Friday Evenings.  At the modern Beauty Shoppe, Phone 126, Neillsville                                                          

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There is no formula for a lasting and happy marriage.

 

That is the conclusion of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Berg of Granton, who last week observed their 62nd wedding anniversary.

 

When confronted with the problem in their home, they pondered for a while; then decided that there really can be no set rule for getting along.

 

“We just have been happy,” explained 87-year-old Mr. Berg, “We raised a large family, worked hard and had not time for troubles.”  Mrs. Berg, who is 82 years old, nodded her head in agreement.

 

The Bergs have found marriage a wonderful experience and they heartily recommended it for all.

 

The Bergs were married in Black River Falls on November 30, 1876.  In those days Clark County was practically a wilderness, they recalled. There were but very few roads and travel was done mostly on blazed trails, which wove a network through the woodland.

 

It was not until three or four years later that logging was carried on to any great extent in the county and was struck later when sawmills made their appearance, Mr. Berg said.

 

At the time of their marriage, Mr. Berg worked in a lumber camp owned by the late W. T. Price, one time congressman from this district.  He had been courting Mrs. Berg, then Amelia Anderson, for “three or four years.”

 

Mr. Berg tells an interesting story about taking the step to the altar.

 

“I burned my right arm when I removed a flaming pot of grease from the top of a stove in the bunk house and threw it outside.”   He related.  “I couldn’t work because of the burns, so a couple of days later I decided it would be good time to get married.”

 

So he did.  He went to Black River Falls, where Miss Anderson was working for H. A. Bright, well known lumberman for that time, and popped the question.  Miss Anderson quickly consented.

 

In review Mr. Berg said: “Fortunes come and fortunes go, kingdoms come and kingdoms go: but the world, and Mrs. Berg and I go on forever.”

 

The couple observed their wedding anniversary last week in the home of one of their eight children, Mrs. Charles Fenske, in Chili.  Many family members were present.

 

The children include: Mrs. Lottie Tauschek for Marshfield, Arthur O. Berg of the Town of Fremont, Mrs. Fenske, Mrs. Nettie Heils of Los Angeles, Price Berg of Sullivan, Ind., Mrs. Pearl Cole of Granton, Vernon Berg of Los Angeles, and Hugh Berg of Granton.  They have nine grand-children and three great-grandchildren.

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Friends and relatives paid their respects to Otto and Augusta (Schoengarth) Walter, of Neillsville on their 65th wedding anniversary this past Monday, Dec. 26.  For a honeymoon, the couple took a 28-mile trip in a home-made jumper-sled over rough roads cut through deep woods.                                                    

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A relic of the early days of Clark County when the call of “timber” echoed through the wood lands and the spring drive was more than a legend was dug up in Five Mile Creek last week by a WPA crew.

 

The relic was a 16-foot length log, which apparently was cut sometime between 1870 and 1880.  On one end was the stamp “PSD,” which the State Land Office has informed County Forester Allen C. Covell, was the registered mark of P. S. Davidson, lumberman, who operated in the Town of Hewett in the 1870’s.

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Alfred Hauge and Charles Bradford, as partners, established a dray and freight line in 1900.

 

In 1902 A. Hauge bought the Bradford interest.

 

In 1903 dry maple wood was added; which then sold at $1.50 per cord.

 

In 1910 a coal line was added, followed by the addition of wholesale and retail oil in 1911, with deliveries by tank wagon and team.

 

In 1913 a platform transfer truck was added, one of first trucks in Neillsville.

 

In 1917 a second truck was added and a downtown office was opened.

 

In 1919 another truck was added to meet growth of the business.

 

In 1920 a filling station was added by installing pumps at the downtown office.

 

(The downtown office was located in 200 block of West Seventh Street. DZ)

 

In 1925 a modern service station was built at the intersection of Hewett & Division streets.

 

In 1926 furnace oils were added to meet the demand growing out of the introduction of oil burners, this addition made complete fuel service.

 

In 1927 Alfred Hauge died, business being conducted thereafter by son, Ed Hauge with his mother Carrie, as non active partner.  In 1937 Hauge’s last team of horses were sold and replace by trucks. The firm now has four trucks and three employees.

 

Shown above are two teams of horses with their teamsters by barns on the Hauge property along

Goose Creek west side of State Street where the family’s residence was located at 300 State Street

  

November 1948

 

The Rev. William Lautenbach has resigned and been released from the Zion Lutheran Church at Granton and Christ Church at Chili, and will be going to a rural Lutheran pastorate near Mayville.  He will leave the Granton pastorate in January and this will of necessity terminate his temporary service to St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Neillsville.

 

Mr. Lautenbach’s service to the Granton church has extended over about four years. The family consists of five, there being three children.                                                                             

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Marriage Licenses Issued: William J. Balicki, Neillsville and Martha M. Pawlak; Anton Hribar, Willard and Pauline Francel; Walter Hribar, Willard and Clara Routar                                

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The transfer of ownership of the W. R. C. Hall in Neillsville into the hands of Wilson-Heintz Post, No. 2241, Veterans of Foreign Wars, headed a list of 23 property transfers in Clark County recorded last week.

 

Title of the W. R. C. Hall was passed on to the V. F. W. post through its officers, Mrs. Maud Bollom, president; Marie White, secretary and Sadie Strand, treasurer, upon majority vote of the membership.

 

The V. F. W. paid $2,500 cash for the property, located on South Court Street between Fourth and Fifth Streets and the veterans organization also assumed the responsibility for expenses incurred in repairs recently made on the building.  The transfer was completed November 18.

 

Acting for the V. F. W. were Millard F. Cole, Mike Krultz, Jr., and P. C. Ludovic.  The purchase included all furnishings and furniture in the building, but excepted a steel filing cabinet.       

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Mrs. John Perkins entertained at a pink and white shower at her home Monday night in honor of Mrs. Kenneth Olson.

 

Guests were Mmes. Ivan Lauscher, Joe Urlaub, Anthony Svetlik, Frank Svetlik, Laurin Mallory, Harold Imig, Gerald Schmidt, Albert Holt, Hubert Quicker, and Elmer Counsell, and Misses Stella Davis and Daphne Beeckler. Prizes for bridge were won by Miss Stella Davis, Mrs. Hubert Quicker and Mrs. Frank Svetlik.

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The Rotary Club has scheduled its own club Christmas party for Saturday night, December 18. Twenty-five cent gifts will be exchanged. The party will be held in the Merchants Hotel.           

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Mr. and Mrs. Earl Luchterhand are now at home on their farm near Greenwood, following their honeymoon.  A shower was given them last Thursday evening, with a floor lamp as the chief gift. The guests played sheepshead and other games.

 

The young people were married November 14 at Webster S. D., home of the bride. The wedding took place in Tabor Lutheran church. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob A. Johnson and the groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Elder Luchterhand of the Granton community.

 

The bride is a graduate of the Roslyn High School and attended college at Aberdeen, S. D.  She has been teaching the past five years.                                                                                                     

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Good Old Style Lutefisk Lefse Supper, also meat balls, mashed potatoes, gravy, cabbage salad, bread & butter, coffee & cake.  Served Home Style at the American Legion Hall, Saturday Dec. 18; prepared under the supervision of Mrs. John Gullickson, $1.00 per person.  Everyone is welcome!                       

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Herman Hediger is spending the holiday season in Switzerland, where he has two sisters and three brothers.  He had intended to go to Europe by boat this winter, but received last Thursday a wire giving the news of the death of Paul Harder, brother of Mrs. Hediger. So he changed his plans and went by plane, hoping to reach there in time for the funeral.

 

Mr. Hediger has some business matters to care for in Switzerland, including arrangements in connection with his Swiss chateau, which he has started on Grand Avenue.                                    

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Paul Light, Twin Cities newspaper columnist, tells a story about Priscilla Mike and her deer hunting experience, which escaped local notice.

 

He wrote:  “Fourteen-year-old Priscilla Mike was probably the youngest hunter in the Wisconsin woods during the deer season.  She’s a Winnebago Indian and is a popular student at Neillsville High School.

 

Adult hunters of her tribe broke tradition by permitting Priscilla to go along on an expedition to shoot deer.

 

“It was a six-point buck she dropped with her first shot.”

 

(Editor’s note: The next time we see Jesse Mike, Priscilla’s papa, we’re going to find out whether our memory is playing tricks. The vague recollection is that we had a report that Jesse, a crack shot with rifle and bow, failed completely to get his deer this season.)                                                                                   

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Clark Hatton put a little reverse English on the “Acres of Diamonds” lesson last Saturday.

 

Readers will recall that the lesson of this widely-read declamation is that one who travels afar in search of wealth finds that far greater riches have been at home, under his nose, all the time.

 

Well, Clark, a Town of Eaton farmer living southwest of Greenwood, traveled 8,000 miles in the last three months.  He drove from coast to coast.  He had nary a bit of trouble, not even a flat tire.

 

He came home Saturday night and on Sunday morning he jumped into his car and struck out for Willard.  He got as far as the Willard Cheese factory and lost control of the car on the icy highway.

 

The car went end-over-end in the ditch.  There was one consolation Mr. Hatton didn’t receive as much as a scratch.

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Ben Turner, age 81, died Monday, Dec. 20, in the Rahm home at Loyal. Services were conducted Wednesday afternoon in the funeral home at Loyal.  Interment was in the York Center Cemetery.

 

Mr. Turner was born in Pine Valley, son of Avel and Arville Turner.  He was one of 10 children.  The other nine preceded him in death.  Of the children, two were girls and eight were boys.  Of those becoming adults, Warren died at Loyal two years ago; Abie in the Town of York five years ago; Frank in the West some 10 years ago; Mrs. Tom Garvin in Portland, Ore., 12 years ago; William in the Town of York some 20 years ago.

 

Ben, after his father’s death, lived with his mother on a farm in the Town of York and worked the place.  He never married.

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With Heavy snowfall lacking hereabouts, the skating rink on O’Neill Pond, near Hewett Street, has been more popular than ever this winter.

 

The city, with Mike O’Leary in charge, has been keeping the pond in good shape during the season and the warming house has been kept comfortable for skaters.  The result has been that children in larger numbers than before have found recreation on the O’Neill Creek skating pond.

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