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Sep 28, 2022, Page 8 Contributed by "The Clark Co. Press"
Extracted by Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon.
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Clark County News
September 29, 1927
Malicious mischief nearly serious
Last Thursday on the farm of Mat Matkovich near Willard, a horseshoe which had been concealed in a bundle of corn was run through a silo filler, damaging the machine to the extent of $100 and greatly endangering the lives of several children who were in the silo spreading and tramping down the silage. The machine is owned by Mat Dergance, chairman of the town of Hendren, and it appears as if the mischief was done for the purpose of breaking his silo filler. It might easily, however, have resulted in much more serious consequences as the jagged pieces of the horseshoe and the broken filler knives came through the blower with great force and no doubt would have killed or severely injured those in the silo if they had been struck, but fortunately no one was hit. The rascal who carried out this mischievous deed deserves severe punishment.
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Leo Miller manager at cash hardware store
Mrs. J.G. Elston came up from La Crosse last week to make arrangements for carrying on the Cash Hardware Store, and hired Leo Miller as manager, Mr. Miller taking charge Monday morning. He has had a great deal of experience in hardware business, being employed at one time in the store by Mr. Petersen and later was for some time employed in the Balch Hardware store. He has a large experience in general business and has a wide acquaintance in this locality.
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Oct. 1, 1942
Four inches of snow falls here
Ends an “unusual” growing season; storms down corn in area
An “unusual” growing season was stopped short with a killing frost here last Wednesday night, and was followed by the earliest snowfall in the memory of most local residents—four inches on September 26.
The frost signaled the end of a period of waiting for farmers hereabouts, most of whom had been unable to get on corn ground because of heavy rains of the previous weeks. Some farmers already had started filling silo—and a very few had finished the job. But, by and large, silo filing has become the feverish farm activity of the week.
Already hard pressed by a definite shortage of experienced help, farmers were struggling against the increased difficulties brought by a week of rainfall and high winds, finished off with the four inch snowfall.
Corn is down so badly in many fields that use of a binder is out of the question; while in some other fields where use of a binder can be made, the corn can be cut by a binder drawn only in one direction.
Other snow flurries may have come earlier in Clark County, but the four inch snowfall of September 26 is the earliest heavy snowfall recorded in the records kept by Mrs. Markwardt.
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Overturns four times; car shears pine tree
A car owned by Werner Jenni of Neillsville and driven by Al Catlin, a Loyal youth now working at Jenni’s service station, sheared off a six inch pine tree in front of the Mrs. Otto Zank farm, about a mile west of the city, last Thursday.
Traffic Officer Harry Frantz said young Catlin apparently lost control of the car when its wheels struck the soft, rain-soaked shoulders of the highway. The car overturned four times, he said, clipping off the pine tree as it went. The left front door “was folded up like an accordion,” the traffic officer said. The car, in other respects, was damaged extensively.
But Catlin suffered only minor shoulder and arm injuries.
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Sept. 25, 1952
Lots of kiddies in the kindergarten of the Neillsville public schools
The oncoming children swamped the arrangements for the kindergarten at the opening of the public schools this year. Perhaps most swamped of all was Miss Tessie Rybicke, the experienced teacher, who has for a few years handled the kindergarten all by herself. With about 75 children on hand this fall, she was obliged to call for help, and on Monday morning of this week she was relieved of the kindergarten work on the North side, that having been taken over by Mrs. Helen Smith.
This photo shows Miss Rybicke with the children of the kindergarten class. Bottom row, left to right: Nancy Volz, Lucy Jake, Jerry Horswill, Mary Lee Reams, Richard Zank, Sandra Free, Patsy Zager. Second row: John Raine, Theresa Hagedorn, Jimmy Resong, Jimmy Seif, Roger Ingold, William Nemitz, Gary Zickert. Third row: Steven Gress, Robert Hill, Wayne Gress, David Svetlik, Judy Kren. Fourth row: Jeffrey Gall, Jimmy Imig, Daniel Ferguson, Nellie Freezy, Gerald Howard, Mike Frie, Alan Carl. (Press photo September 25, 1952)
Miss Rybicke with the children of the North Side kindergarten. Bottom row: Barbara Svetlik, Patty Gluch, Douglas Heimstead, Dennis Evanson, Jimmy Keller, Jeffrey Schwantes. Second row: Robert Krultz, Darwin Poler, Sandra West, Jeannine Lynch, Stephen Drescher, David Thornton, Mary Hoffman, Dick Urban, Jo An Grether, Linda Graves. Third row: John Gassen, Robert Karl, Stanton Galstad, Karen Stewart, Sheri Matheson, Judy Campbell, Jerry Foote, Lloyd Johnson, Kevin Langreck, Jimmy Urban. Fourth row: Victor Price, Margaret Darling, Jill Briggs, Angie Jo Olson, Francie Blodgett, Darwin Smith, John Kapusta, Gregory Mallory, Melvin Hemp, Robert Ebbe. Fifth row: Mike Rychnovsky, Charlene Schlimme, Arthur Krause, David Schmidt, Catherine Bremer, Sandra O’Leary, John Frank, Sandra Siebert, John Bergemann. (Press photo September 25, 1952)
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Sept. 28, 1972
Fall and frost arrive together
The first frost came coincidentally with the first day of fall, during the night last Thursday, but it was the earliest frost in this area in the last nine years, and a full week earlier than the average frosts in the last 17 years.
Seventeen years ago Pink Van Gorden started keeping a record of the first killing frost on a wall in the H.H. Van Gorden & Sons mill in Neillsville. According to this record, the average frost date for this area in 17 years is September 28.
The earliest killer in that period came on September 12, 1963; the latest, October 14, which came two years in a row—1969 and 1970.
The first frost came last year on October 12, which was the second latest date in nearly two decades of Van Gorden’s records. In that period, the frost has been delayed until October in but six of 17 instances.
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Pumpkins, pumpkins. With the largest weighing 128 pounds, these are the product of the Joe Spangler (above)residence, Neillsville. Spangler is shown with three of the elephant-sized pumpkins on of which there were six in the beginning. He had sold three just before this picture was taken. The pumpkin which Spangler’s right hand rests is the largest, and the seeds from this one will be preserved for planting next year. The pumpkins were grown from seed brought here from near Stratford by Joe Magadanz, the town of Loyal. (Press photo September 28, 1972)
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County shakes storm, 3.43 inches rain in two days
Clark County Wednesday was shaking off the effects of severe storms which dumped 3.43 inches of rain on the area in 48 hours and created havoc with communication lines.
Heaviest rainfall came overnight Monday and Tuesday, when 2.04 inches of rain fell while lightning cracked like a lion tamer’s whip. While there was no serious lightning damage reported in this area, it caused a bundle of trouble for the Badger State Telephone company.
Roads and highways in many locations of Clark County were inundated; but County Highway Commissioner Marvin Hemp said that no serious undermining or washing was done on state and county trunk roads.
At the Winnebago Children’s home bridge over Black River where the United States geodetic survey maintains instruments, the river level had risen Tuesday to a peak of 14.25 feet. Normal measurement there is between 2.50 and 3.50 feet.
Local streams crested shortly before noon Tuesday; but there was some apprehension that flood waters from northern Clark County and Taylor County where the Black has its source, might send the river further out of its banks in the low-lying areas.
At the Rychnovsky Bros. car lot opposite their garage on West Fifth Street (Highway 10, west), two new cars slid partway down a washaway created by Goose Creek. Normally a placid, even dusty, ditch which long since has been covered up, Goose Creek rose from its banks. Pressure of water from the retaining reservoir on the north edge of Schuster Park, eroded fill over the top of a heavy concrete slab covering the creek at the Rychnovsky lot. The slab was tilted and slid end up into the stream.
R.H. Van Gorden, who with his brother Heron (Pink) owns and operates H.H. Van Gorden & Sons, put his diking system into operating condition to avoid flooding of the fertilizer plant at the north end of Clay Street. The water of O’Neill Creek, which runs past the plant, was receding Wednesday after peaking inches below the danger point there. Van Gorden, however, was fearful from upstream Wednesday might still back up O’Neill Creek and poise a threat.
A 30-foot top piece of the holding dam on O’Neill Creek at the Hewett Street bridge, went out. Just how seriously the remainder of the dam might have been affected awaits further inspection. This dam has withstood the pressure of huge ice cakes during spring breakups for more than a half century.
A number of telephone circuits in Neillsville were out intermittently Tuesday as a result of the storm. It was reported that about 150 pairs of lines had been saturated by moisture because of an apparent break in the lead cable cover. The problem was traced to the area of the Clark County highway garage and service had been reestablished on most lines before the close of the day Tuesday.
Probably the worst result of the heavy storms has been the effect on harvesting of crops. Farmers have had a serious problem getting their hay and oat crops harvested because of seemingly continuous moisture during the harvest season. Much of these crops, indeed, have not been harvested at all. In some instances, oats were cut and blown back onto the field.
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