July 6, 2022, Page 8

 Contributed by "The Clark Co. Press"

 

Extracted by Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon.

 

Index of "Oldies" Articles

 

Clark County News

 

July 7, 1927

 

Health Center here Tuesday, July 19

 

The county child health center will be held in Neillsville Tuesday, July 19, at the courthouse. Dr. Louis E. Boutelle will be present to examine children and give advice to the mothers. Miss Florence Hoesly, health center nurse, will attend as usual.

 

“Begin to get your child ready at the age of two years instead of six,” says Dr. Ansbacher, New York child hygiene expert. “You can buy his books and equipment half an hour before the school bell rings, but it takes years to get his body ready.”

 

Dr. Cora S. Allen, director of Wisconsin’s child welfare bureau, says the investigations show three fourths of the children are physically deficient, that one third are malnourished, and almost 95 percent have dental caries and unhygienic mouths.

 

“Our progress isn’t shown so much in the number of defects we correct,” she says, “as in the number who are property reared and are without defects.”


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Many shooters here for the Fourth

 

Good attendance and high scores were a feature of the tournament at clay targets held here on the Fourth, and artists from the scatter gun from a dozen Wisconsin cities as well as two Chicago experts were here to compete.

 

It was no one’s match until the last shot was fired. First place was won by W. Dangers with 96 breaks out of a possible hundred. B. Kellenbenz of Eau Claire was second with 93, closely followed by Ed Kutchera with 91.

 

The local gun club plans to hold this shoot annually.


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Getting ready for mail delivery

 

The work of placing name posts at the intersections of all streets in Neillsville has been completed. The posts are metal, as are also the signs with the names of streets on them and are durable and good looking. The work of numbering the houses will follow and when this work is done Neillsville will have complied with the regulations necessary for securing mail delivery.


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Granton Holstein Club

 

The Granton Holstein Club will meet with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Beals on Friday evening, July 18th.


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A corsage presented by coworkers the night before accompanied Mrs. Ivan Lauscher, retiring business manager at Memorial Hospital Memorial Home, to work last Friday on her final day in the office.

(Press photo, July 6, 1927)


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July 9, 1942

 

Six new automobiles

 

Certificates authorizing the purchase of new cars were granted to six Clark County residents recently by the war price and rationing board. Those receiving the authorizations were: Joe L. Ackerman of Curtiss, Emil J. Marten of Unity, Frank Morgal of Willard, Charles E. Seif of Neillsville, George Lundahl of Abbotsford, and Dr. William A. Olson of Greenwood.


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Progressives to meet

 

A meeting of the county progressive organization will be held in Allard’s Hall, Greenwood, at 8 p.m., Wednesday, July 15. Organization and plans for the fall campaign will be discussed.


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Cuts forehead

 

Rodney Turner, a small son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Turner, fell while playing on a pile of tile near the Turner home, cutting a gash in his forehead.


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High school instructor gets army appointment

 

William Conlee, mathematics and business economics instructor in the Neillsville High School for the last four years, has been appointed a student instructor in the army air corps. He left last Friday for Scott Field, Ill., where he is taking a three month training course preparatory to receiving a permanent appointment. Mrs. Conlee, the former Josephine Deutsch, will remain in Neillsville for the present. She has taken up residence in the Mrs. Rose Schiller apartment on State Street.


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Little man with darts has poorer aim

 

June retained its title as the “Month of Marriages,” but the little man with the abbreviated sarong and darts had poorer aim this year. A total of 37 licenses for June marriages were issued in the county clerk’s office this year; three less than were issued in June 1940, or in June 1941. However, it brought the six month total above the 100mark for the first time in recent years. Up to July 1, 101 marriage license applications had been made in Clark County this year. This compares with 92 for the six month route in 1941, and 87 for the first half of 1940.

 

In 19 of this June’s 37 marriages, the male was in the 20 to 26 year age group.


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July 3, 1952

 

Scouts enjoying life at Lake Arbutus camp

 

When it rains, they just duck in between the drops

 

Fourteen Neillsville Boy Scouts attended the camp at Lake Arbutus last week and the Cub Scouts are spending three days, July 1 to 3, at the camp. In spite of the rain and storms the boys managed to swim and hike and didn’t get too wet. Jim Haas was camp director and Mrs. Earl Schultz was mother and cook.

 

On Saturday the Brownie Scouts will go for a one day camp. Diane Seif will be director with Marilyn Haas as assistant. The camp counselors will be Donna Rae Peterson and Caryl Seif.

 

Sunday the senior Girl Scouts will leave the camp. This will be the troops of Mrs. Ralph Rosenberg and Mrs. Jake Hoesly. About 20 girls will attend this camp.


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Thrills a plenty in two tight games

 

Athletics win one, lose one – stir fans to their soles

 

Baseball fans who follow the Neillsville Athletics got their money’s worth in thrills last week; for the A’s split even in two of the top thrill makers of the season.

 

Thursday night they eked out a 4 to 3 decision from Owen in a game protested in the sixth inning. Sunday night they dropped a 13inning Cloverbelt league tilt at Chili, 7 to 6.

 

But those games showed that they have picked up added strength in the persons of Lowell Dvorak, pitcher, and Larry Thayer, second baseman, both from the Alma Center High School squad of the past spring.


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 Tom Winters was once lost in Youmans House

 

As a lad he could not find his way and John S. Dore took him to the door

 

Thomas Winters, one of the old old-timers of Neillsville, was once lost in the big Youmans house. He recalled it with delight when he saw in The Press that the old house is being razed.

 

Tom was a mere boy. His father had sent him to John S. Dore, the builder and owner of the house, with a paper to record. Tom definitely remembers from this incident that Mr. Dore was an early register of deeds.

 

Tom waited while Mr. Dore made the record. Then, with the paper again in his possession, he started to find his way out. The young boy was accustomed only to the small log houses of the early day. So he felt in a maze as he left Mr. Dore’s office. He wandered around, and presently found himself back in Mr. Dore’s office.

 

Tom says that Mr. Dore, a large man, shook with laughter, declaring that the lad was not accustomed to a house so large. Then Mr. Dore showed the boy to the door.


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Local sailor, home from a year at the front, brought himself back to his family, and brought many other things, including several pieces of shrapnel, buried within him and not visible in this picture. You see his mother, Mrs. L. J. Chapman, seated, and his father standing at the right. On the wall back of Bud’s head is a Korean flag, given him by a friendly South Korean. Pinned to the bottom of the flag is the embroidered scarf, given him by the mother of the Korean boy whom he befriended. To the right is a fancy embroidered coat of silk, bought in Japan, and behind Bud is a silk dressing gown which cost him $3. On the lower stand are pieces from the large set of Noritake China which Bud bought in Japan for his mother. On the radio at the rear are various items of brass, including two opium pipes and two spoons, taken from North Koreans. (Press photo July 3, 1952)


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July 6, 1972

 

Local groups to serve at the fair

 

The Clark County Fair Association announces that the Neillsville Lions Club will have charge of the sale of the tickets at the main gate at the fair, July 31 through August 6, and also will be in charge of auto parking and provide a night watchman for the grounds.

 

The Wisconsin National Guard unit stationed at Neillsville will police the grandstand area during performances.

 

The senior league of the Calvary Lutheran Church of Neillsville will be in charge of the popcorn concession under the grandstand.

 

The Business and Professional Women’s Club of Neillsville will supervise the fine arts building.


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City crew gets a short reprieve in street work

 

The Clark County Highway Department gave the Neillsville city crew a “reprieve” of about two weeks’ duration this week. Francis Laatch, public works director, said that he had been informed that the county highway department has delayed the moving of its blacktop plant from Christie to the northern part of the county. The city is preparing a few blocks of blacktop and soil cement before the plant is moved.


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Accordion music featured at party

 

Mrs. Luis Lesar of Willard was to entertain residents of Memorial Home with her accordion playing at Wednesday afternoon’s monthly birthday party. Those in charge of planning the July Red Cross volunteer sponsored party were Mrs. Elmer Georgas, Mrs. Leo Wasserburger, Mrs. Everett Skroch, Mrs. A. J. Kotchy and Mrs. Edward Greeler. Seventy-five to 80 persons were expected to attend.

 

Those honored for July birthdays were Carl Yankee, Leo Kraut, Ely Bogdonovich, Albin Meyer, Frank Miller, Vivian Hagie, Joseph Zahn, Ernest Campbell, Charles McConnell, Alphonse Touska and Mary Johnson.

 

Other July activities at the home will include singing and games on the 12th and bingo on the 26th. Church services will be conducted as usual.


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 Willard store has new owners

 

Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Murphy of Milwaukee have purchased the general merchandise and feed store at Willard from Mr. and Mrs. Ed Perko and took possession last Wednesday morning. The Murphys have five children, two girls and three boys.

 

Mr. and Mrs. Perko are moving in the near future to their home in the town of Seif. The Perkos operated the store for 27 years.


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Lake Arbutus gives out with some mighty fine fish, as Forest Larsen of Neillsville proves with this big walleye. The fish caught June 29 measured 32 inches and weighed 8 pounds, 14 ounces. (Press photo July 6, 1972)

 

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