Clark County Press, Neillsville, Wisconsin

June 20, 2018, Page 10  

Contributed by "The Clark Co. Press"

Transcribed by Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon.

Index of "Oldies" Articles 

 

Compiled by Dee Zimmerman

 

Clark County News

June 1918

 

On the evening of May 29, Rush Hake and Miss Gusta Martens were united in Marriage the ceremony took place at the home of Rev. Grether of the Reformed Church, Rev. Grether officiating.  Mr. and Mrs. Hake left for a week’s trip to Montana and upon their return will take up their residence on the Hake farm.  The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Martens.  She has been employed for some time as bookkeeper at Stelloh Bros. Implement in Neillsville.

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Saturday the condensary ran short of milk cans and was forced to close down until Monday night, at which time a carload of cans was received, and work was started again.  Failure in the milk can supply was caused by a strike in the factory of the can making company.                        

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For Sale: bushel crates at the cheapest price you ever heard of.  I can supply you with them at $1.20 per dozen, well made of good sound lumber. These are the handiest the farm you ever saw. See John Reine for particulars.                                                                                        

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Stelloh Bros. have purchased the Crocker livery barn now occupied by Bert Dresden and are expected to remodel it into a modern building to accommodate their implement business.

 

(The Crocker livery barn was located on the northwest corner of the Grand Avenue & W. Fifth Street intersection. DZ)                                                                       

 

Fred Stelloh is shown standing behind a desk in the office of his business located on West Fifth Street, and the gentleman seated on his left is believed to be Arthur Wegner.  First, Stelloh maintained an implement sales and repair business, later adding an auto sales and service dealership.  The eagle radiator cap ornament shown on the car hood is believed to have been the emblem of a Chevrolet at that time.  (Photo courtesy of Steve Roberts)

                                                

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J.D. Dwyer sold the old M.C. Ring stock farm Tuesday to Bob Rowley of Hillsboro.  It is understood that the consideration was around $30,000.  Mr. Rowley excepts to move up with his family soon and take charge of the farm.

 

(The M.C. Ring stock farm was located on Ridge Road, one mile east of Neillsville and is now known as the Lloyd Meyer farm.)                                                                             

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The recent U-boat attack along the U.S. coast has brought the following telegram from the State Food Administrator Swenson, which reads as follows:

 

“Madison, 11:30 a.m., June 13.  Due to submarines, the losses of sugar and ships, no town or city consumer can hereafter buy more than two pounds of sugar and those in the country five pounds of sugar at a time.  No householder can buy more than twenty-five pounds of sugar for canning purposes except on special permit from any local food administrator, as any violation by retailers will cut off their sugar supply.

 

Each retailer must keep a sugar book for you inspection in which all sales of sugar with name of buyers shall be recorded.  This takes the place of all previous orders.”                  

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A pie and ice cream social will be held Friday evening at the home of Matt Schafer, north of Christie for the benefit of the Red Cross.  Each lady is asked to bring a pie and the gentlemen are urged to come and help consume the pies and ice cream for a small fee.                             

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A Red Cross Fourth of July celebration will be held at Shortville in Winters’ grove.

 

A splendid program has been arranged, including a speech by Wilson Mallory.  There will be races of all kinds, ball games and entertainment for young and old.  A picnic dinner is one event for which all should prepare.  The Shortville boys are making great preparations and the celebration will no doubt prove a particularly enjoyable one.                                                                                                  

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There will be a celebration at Riverside Park, Town of Levis, on July 4th, with a dance in the afternoon and evening with music by the Keller Bros. Orchestra.  Everybody is invited.

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Soda fountains are being hit hard by sugar rationing.  They are cut to 50 per cent.  Ice cream has formerly been allowed unlimited use, but after July first only 75 per cent of sugar will be allowed and where ice cream is manufactured on the premises of any dispenser it will come under the 50 per cent limitation.

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A state geological and natural history surveying crew is now at work in our county, their camp being located east of the city.  They are gathering information for the state.  The boys working on it are for the most part, students at the University of Madison.                                          

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A few days ago, a rather bashful young woman went into a store carrying three chickens.  She inquired of the price of chickens and at the same time put them on the counter.  The clerk didn’t know the chicken’s feet were tied and asked if they would lay there.  She bit her handkerchief and said: “No sir: they are roosters.”

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Your part in the war is to produce as much as possible, consume as little as necessary, and loan your savings to the Government.  Are you facing your task as cheerfully as our fighting men face theirs?

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A certain young lad used one of Bert Dresden’s cars without permission one day last week and as a result was penalized 60 days at hard labor.  He will be put out on a farm to work during that period of time.

 

(It was wartime and with many young men serving in the military, farm labor was difficult to find, so this young lad was a good candidate to help some farmer in need.

 

Just in time for putting up hay, back when the newly mown hay was pitched, one fork at a time, onto the hayrack, then hauled one load at a time by a team of horses to the barn.  The hay was lifted off the hayrack by a hay-fork or slings up into the barn loft.  As many loads as possible were hauled in a day, for fear of rain.  After each day’s haying and evening chores were done, someone needed to crawl up into the hot haymow and move the hay around, leveling it off.  Yes, I would say that young lad’s punishment by working on a farm during haying time was more than fitting for the crime. DZ)

 

June 1948

 

Wisconsin has entered upon its second century of its existence as a state of the federal union.

 

One hundred years ago last Saturday, May 29, President James R. Polk in the White House signed a congressional act, which transformed the wilderness Wisconsin territory of the then Far West into the 30th state of the American Republic.  Last weekend thousands of citizens of Wisconsin gathered in Madison for the formal celebration of that event and for the rededication of the commonwealth to the principals and traditions, which gave it greatness during its first 100 years.

 

With a gigantic and colorful parade, with speeches by the great of Wisconsin and the nation, with fireworks and other manifestations of pride and consciousness of the state’s history and accomplishments, the second century of statehood was greeted and acknowledged.

 

Acting Gov. Oscar Rennebohm, addressed the assembled crowds at the weekend celebration in the capital city, reciting the mixed national and cultural origins of the population stocks, which settled and built Wisconsin and declared:

 

“From many lands and climes, they came to Wisconsin, men of strong government as well as free homes.  Their industry and thrift and unyielding perseverance have added much to our material development.”

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Allen Linster, son of Mr. and Mrs. Allie Linster of Weston, and Gordon Vine, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Vine, Granton, received their degrees Sunday from the River Falls Teacher’s college.

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A softball game will be played under lights on the new lighted athletic field Thursday night between Dick’s and Russell’s teams of the city softball league.  League President Ray Klein said the game would be played Friday in event the weather would cause postponement of Wednesday’s formal opening of the field.  A twilight softball game between two city women’s teams is scheduled to precede the Dick’s – Russell’s game.

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Jack Kruger, 20, of Loyal escaped without injury when a whey truck he was driving overturned on Highway 13 near Manville on Friday afternoon.  Mr. Kruger was attempting to pass a cattle truck when his truck hit a hump in stretch of black top.  He lost control of the tractor-trailer, hitting the ditch on the left side of the road and continuing about 125 feet before tipping over.  The truck was owned by Norman Luchterhand, also of Loyal.

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The annual Strawberry Festival will be held in Alma Center Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

 

Highlights in the festival will be an address at 2:30 p.m. Sunday by S. R. Newell of Washington, D.C., assistant administrator of marketing and production of the department of agriculture; a carnival throughout the festival; and the awarding of many prizes, including an 18-month-old steer and a 250-pound hog.

 

Prizes will be given for the largest family attending; oldest couple; couple attending from farthest away; for oldest costume worn on Sunday; racing; short cake eating; milk drinking, and other events.

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The William Simek family is caring for nine foster babies, the little bunnies who were left orphans by the machinations of cruel fate, and a stray collie.  The collie ripped off the cover of the pen of the Simek’s pet rabbit Saturday and dispatched Mama Rabbit to a better world.  The baby bunnies, so young, their eyes were not yet opened, seemed likely to suffer their mother’s fate, but the Simek’s procured some doll bottles that have been keeping the little family alive with judicious feedings of milk.  The “Mama” bunny was given full and solemn funeral attention by the Simek children.                                                 

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Jerry and Larry Ehlers go to the head of the class this week for bringing a good story to The Press office.  This is about the way they told it:

 

“Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ehlers and children, Jerry, Larry, Ronda and Adele, Grandma Ehlers and Mr. and Mrs. Ehler’s infant son were returning to their home in Levis from Merrillan, Sunday evening when a small buck with velvet on its horns came out of the brush toward them.  They drove past the deer but returned  for a closer look.  Larry whistled and the deer responded by coming close enough to the car so that the children could pet him, which attentions the deer seemed to enjoy very much, before the Ehler’s family continued on their way home.”

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The Shroeder Shoe Shop building on West Sixth Street has been sold to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Begley of Neillsville, who plan to transfer the location of their tavern there on or before August 12.

 

Mr. Schroeder will continue to operate his shoe repair business there for the time being.  However, the Schroeders moved from the apartment on Seventh Street, Tuesday.

 

(The former Schroeder Shoe Shop building has been occupied under various taverns names since 1948 and presently is known as Drippy Creek Saloon II. DZ)                           

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Two trainmen escaped injury early Monday night when five cars of an Omaha Railroad freight train were derailed a mile east of Columbia, in the Town of Hewett.

 

Approximately 1,000 feet of track was torn up as a brake beam on a loaded coal car broke loose.  The beam evidently swung under the wheels of the car, this derailing it, according to Carl Miller, road-master.  Damage and repair work was estimated to run into several hundreds of dollars.

 

Rail service to Neillsville from the west was at a standstill for about 20 hours.

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Blucher Paulus has sold the realty and business of the Neillsville Bottling Works on Fifth Street.  The realty has been bought by Roy Montgomery, with the business to be conducted under the management of Chester Lewis, who comes from La Crosse.

 

The business has been in the Paulus family for 28 years, conducted from 1920 to 1944 by James Paulus, until his death when it was taken over by his son Blucher.                                     

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Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Botnen celebrated their18th wedding anniversary Wednesday, June 16, when their friends and relatives from Neillsville and Black River Falls joined them in skating at Hatfield.  The occasion was also the 21st wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Albrecht.  Mrs. Botnen, her husband, and son Dale took part in the “Trio Skate” of the evening.                                                          

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Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Braun are making their home on a farm near Greenwood following their honeymoon.  The bride is the former Doris Bauer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bauer of Greenwood.  The groom’s parents are the Benedict Bauers of Greenwood.

 

The wedding occurred on June 12 at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church in Loyal.

 

Attendants were Mrs. Margie Reuth, matron of honor; Miss Creen Sepper of Chicago, bridesmaid; Nancy Johnson, flower girl; Herald Braun, groomsman; Bernard Reuth, bestman, and Tommy Braun, ring-bearer.

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Neillsville Cab Service available to the baseball grounds on game day, or night.  Call phone #400, single, 25’; couple 40’.                                                                                

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Trap Shooting, Every Sunday –

Murphy’s Tavern, On Lake Arbutus

Regular Meals Served

Sandwiches – Potato Salad

Served Only on Thursdays & Sundays.

Fried Spring Chicken on Saturday Nights.

*Boats & Motors for Rent

*Minnows For Sale

*Cottages For Rent, by Day, Week or Month.

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