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Sep 21, 2022, Page 8 Contributed by "The Clark Co. Press"
Extracted by Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon.
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Clark County Press, Neillsville, WI
Clark County News
September 22, 1927
Celebrated Golden Jubilee Sunday
Last Sunday St. Mary’s congregation celebrated the 50th anniversary of the completion of its first church. In spite of the inclement weather the church could barely hold the crowd that gathered for the occasion. Much time and labor had been spent to beautify the interior of the church for the event. The sanctuary with its beautiful white stone altars and its statues real creations of art, tastefully decorated with many floral designs, was truly an inspiring sight to behold.
At 10 o’clock Solemn High Mass began, with Father Weber as celebrant, assisted by Father Frye of Greenwood as deacon, Father Novak of Willard as subdeacon and Father Dorrenbach of Marshfield as master of ceremonies.
The choir sang Leonard’s Mass in B flat in a very pleasing and impressive manner. Father Dorrenbach preached the sermon. In an eloquent manner he presented to his hearers the symbolic meaning of the various parts of a church and its interior furnishings. He also recalled some of the more important events of the past fifty years, closing with a strong appeal to the present generation to equal if not surpass the sterling faith and cheerful generosity of the past generation.
Services closed with Solemn Benediction following the Blessed Sacrament.
After services, dinner was served to about 600 people in the church hall. Great credit is due to the ladies for the good dinner they had prepared, and the splendid way the large crowd was served.
The afternoon was spent in social visiting, games and amusement, all seeming to enjoy the time most heartily. In the evening supper was served. Others who were present, besides those mentioned were Fathers Braun of Black River Falls, Eisenman of Lima, Frisch of Elmwood and Raschke of Fairview.
St. Mary’s Catholic Church (Press photo Sept. 22, 1927)
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Bootleggers’ bonds are forfeited
Matt Roder and Joseph Bohman of the town of Richfield, bondsmen for John Land, defendant in a federal liquor case resulting from a raid on the Log Cabin Inn at Klondike, near Marshfield, have gone to Superior before the federal court as the result of Lang’s disappearance. They face the loss of $2,000 posted as bonds.
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Wooden wedding
Mr. and Mrs. August Mueller were very pleasantly surprised Tuesday evening, September 6th, when at about 8:30, friends, neighbors and relatives came with baskets laden with goodies to remind them they have been married five years. The evening was spent in dancing and visiting. Eske’s orchestra furnished the music and Mr. Martin Dankemyer “called” for the square dances.
Mrs. Mueller was appropriately dressed for the occasion. At 11:30 a charivari was given them and at twelve a delicious picnic lunch was served, after which everyone danced into the wee hours of the morning. Everyone left at 3:30 feeling they had all had an enjoyable evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Mueller received many beautiful and useful gifts, as well as a beautiful white wedding cake that was decorated to fit the occasion, which was given by Mrs. Mueller’s mother.
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September 24, 1942
Walks half mile with a fractured arm
Her left arm fractured below the elbow, Elaine Wood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wood of the town of Seif, walked a half mile Monday.
The arm was fractured when she slipped and fell from a slide at the Wildwood School, where Elaine is a student. She believed at first that she suffered only a severely sprained wrist. She struck out from the school toward her home, a mile away; and when she had covered half the distance, she found her father filling silo at a neighbor’s place.
Mr. and Mrs. Wood drove her into Neillsville in a car they borrowed on the spot, and the fracture was reduced.
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Sell $146 in stamps at Victory Concert Monday
George Tibbett has another ball with a famous baseball player’s signature; and the United States Treasury has an additional $146.45. Both were the result of the first Victory concert, presented Monday evening in the armory by the high school band.
Grover Cleveland Alexander, one of baseball’s immortals, autographed Mr. Tibbett’s ball before the program started. And now it rests beside two other balls in the family home. What’s on the other two? The signature of the great Christie Mathewson is on one; and the other bears the autographs of Leo Durocher and Joe Medwick, former St. Louis Cardinal stars now with Brooklyn’s Daffy Dodgers.
The $146.50 was the total of sales of war stamps at the concert. The program was free, and the only requirement was that each person attending buy at least a 10 cent war savings stamp.
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He can’t go to party, so party comes to him
Robert Cummings invited his friends to help him celebrate his thirteenth birthday last Sunday. Since his friend, George Crothers, could not attend his party on account of a fractured bone in his leg, Bob decided to take the party to George, so guests, birthday cake, ice cream, and all marched down the road to George’s house, where he enjoyed the fun even though he could not take part in the romping. Robert was riding downhill in the cart with George on the previous Sunday when the accident occurred.
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September 18, 1952
Home fans will see the Warriors
First look of the season at game with Owen on Thursday night
Coach Richard Berndt will unveil his 1952 Neillsville High School grid team tonight (Thursday) for home fans when they take to the Neillsville Athletic field against Owen.
Game time for this Cloverbelt league opener is 8:00 p.m.
With a good showing at Mondovi (a loss 60) behind them, the Warriors have drilled this week on weaknesses which showed up in their offense and defense last Friday night.
The team is heavily dotted with freshmen and sophomores, and as green as a necktie on St. Patrick’s day. But against Mondovi their spirit and aggressiveness kept them completely in the running. They could have tied, or even won, that game had they been given a break or two.
The squad has been somewhat listless in drills this week; but this is believed to be a natural aftermath of their all-out effort in their opening game.
Coach Berndt promises nothing against Owen. The north county team has a liberal sprinkling of veterans and is hungry for victories after two lean seasons.
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Klabon, Beeckler win in the county plowing
Ted Klabon of Withee and William Beeckler of Granton will represent Clark County at the state plowing contest which will be held at Whitehall Saturday, September 20. Mr. Klabon placed first in the level land plowing contest which was held on the Ed Gruenke farm Tuesday. William Beeckler placed second.
The contour plowing contest was won by William Beeckler with Emmett Johnson of Greenwood placing second. Five contestants took part in the annual plowing contest. In addition to the above mentioned, the group included William Joyce of Christie and Norman Thorson of Withee.
Peder Lund, Wausau, district conservationist; Ed Baker, Eau Claire, district erosion control agent; and Walter Bean, Black River Falls, county agent of Jackson
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You see here the new officers of the Chamber of Commerce, standing in front of the entrance to the new Chamber offices. At the left James A Musil, reelected president, is thanking and congratulating Herbert M. Smith, newly elected vice-president, who, at his request, is being relieved of his duties as secretary. Elmer Georgas, third from the left, is the new treasurer, who is congratulating John Bergemann upon the latter’s election as secretary. The new offices are on the second floor of the building occupied by the Northern States. The offices have been donated to the Chamber, rent-free, by Herbert Brown, owner of the building. (Press photo Sept. 18, 1952)
September 21, 1972
Earthquake rattles dishes here
Ron Ziegler of Rt. 3 Neillsville was ready to place an angry call to his refrigerator repairman last Saturday morning. Around 12:20 a.m. cups, saucers and dishes rattled in the family China closet and Ziegler blamed it all on an unbalanced refrigerator.
The next morning, Ziegler found that he had felt an earthquake, centered more than 200 miles south of Neillsville.
In checks with the sheriff’s department and county traffic officers no local complaint or call was received on the earth tremor. But further to the south, places were flooded with worried, anxious inquiries.
According to preliminary calculations, the center of the quake was in the Sterling, Ill., area, 50 miles east of Davenport, Ia. Clocked at 12:22 a.m., an Iowa seismograph pegged the tremors at between 4 and 5 on the Richter scale. A reading of 6 or higher usually implies property damage; the 45 reading generally is enough to crack plaster.
Neillsville resident Ziegler said that he felt the “vibrations” for 15 to 20 seconds.
“I was just sitting at our snack bar. All was quiet or I wouldn’t have heard the jingling of the China in the China closet,” Ziegler said. The Iowa seismograph recorded waves for about 11 minutes.
According to Dubuque, Ia. newspaper accounts, reports of shaking buildings, shifting furniture and cracked dishes poured in.
Ziegler may have thought his refrigerator was on the blink, but a woman in Dubuque said she thought she “had suffered a stroke,” while an area college student wondered “why a roommate was exercising upstairs at such an odd hour.”
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Service notes
Pvt. Robert C. Abramczak, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester S. Abramczak of Rt. 3, Thorp, recently underwent ANT platoon testing at the Hohenfels Training Area in Germany.
The test, which was conducted by the 3rd squadron of the 3rd Armored division’s 12th Cavalry evaluated the efficiency of an individual and his platoon under simulated combat conditions. Pvt. Abramczak also received training with the M60 machine gun, the 20mm cannon and the M79 grenade launcher.
Pvt. Abramczak who has been overseas since July 1972, is regularly stationed near Budingen, Germany, as a scout in the 3rd squadron’s Troop A.
The private is a 1970 graduate of Thorp High School.
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No UFO, only bright light; but sight mystifies Johnsons
“If I saw a little green man from outer space sitting on the fender of my car, I’d keep my mouth shut about it.”
Such is the feeling of at least one local man.
So Mr. and Mrs. Harold Johnson, who own and operate the Castle Hill Supper Club south of Merrillan, are keeping still about sighting a flying saucer, or an unidentified flying object.
But they can’t help wondering where that exceedingly bright light came from that shone through the trees, seemingly halfway up Castle Mound behind their supper club.
Of course, they didn’t see any little green men, either. They stood on their front lawn watching the bright light for several minutes. A car? Or a person with a flashlight? Or a bright flare?
None of the above, assert both Johnsons. The light was absolutely stationary; it didn’t move, wobble or jiggle or drift downward.
Rather, after the light had been visible for an estimated 10 minutes, it gradually began to lose its brilliance and finally faded away.
Mrs. Johnson said there was no noise like a motor, no nothing.
The sighting the Johnsons had, they hasten to tell one, came the night after a sighting of a UFO in the Wausau area.
Don’t suggest swamp gas to the Johnsons. Who ever saw swamp gas halfway up a Wisconsin mound.
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