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September 11, 2024, Page 9 Contributed by "The Clark Co. Press"
Extracted by Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon. Index of "Oldies" Articles |
The Good Old Days
September 14, 1944
Tree is loaded
Judge Oscar Schoengarth has on his home place a tree so loaded with apples that he has been obliged to support it with many props. The limbs are almost completely covered, so that little but apples are visible. He does not know the variety, but he knows that they are good apples and that it pays to keep them sprayed and well cared for.
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Our boys with the colors
Mrs. Walter Frank, the former Alma Phillips of Merrillan, has received the Purple Heart awarded to her husband, Walter Frank, now in a hospital in England. Their child of two years, little Carol Lynn, has never seen her father.
Ward Stoddard of Alma Center is now in a hospital at Auburn, Cal. He was brought there by transport plane from Iran, where he was seriously injured some time ago. Members of his family in Alma Center recently talked to him by phone.
Pfc. Joe Shoemaker, son of Mrs. Frank Shoemaker of Alma Center, has sufficiently recovered from his head wound so that he is back in action in New Guinea.
The Van Gordens have a Canadian relative, Sgt. K. Craig, a Canadian Highlander, who has been overseas five years. He recently wrote to Mrs. H.H. Van Gorden of Merrillan, and sent his regards to Red, Kenneth and Bruce.
Pvt. Leonard Johnson, whose wife is now in Black River Falls, is in a hospital in England, recovering from shrapnel wounds in the side and arm.
Sgt. Ray Bailey of the Black River Falls community, now in New Guinea, has been wounded three times in battle. He has been in the army four years, of which 3 1/2 years have been spent in and around New Guinea.
Lt. Freda Binzer is back with her mother, Mrs. A. A. Binzer of Black River Falls, after spending 14 months as a nurse in Alaska and British Columbia. She hopes that she will not have to repeat her former experience, when she spent half a day at the ration board to get herself fixed up for points and received a telegram the next day ordering her to Alaska at once. She hopes this time to use the points that she gets.
Pvt. Tilma Thompson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Thompson of Hixton, has been seriously wounded in France. He is in a hospital in England.
S/Sgt. Ellsworth Waller of Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Waller, is back in active duty in France, after having recovered from wounds.
T/5 Lyle Jacobs of Black River Falls is hobbling around on crutches in England, having been strafed in a foxhole in France.
Mrs. Ed. McNulty of Black River Falls has received a beautiful straw bag from her brother, Pfc. Martin Malchow, who is in Italy. It is beautifully woven of different weights of straw and looks like a big purse but can carry a lot of the things that women put into such bags. A woman, writing about this bag for the Banner Journal of Black River Falls, says that the bag will carry a lot of “cargo.” That is the first time The Clark County Press has known of an adequate description for the assortment which women carry in their bags.
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September 2, 1954
Learn new ways in new building
With a big voice talking to them wherever they may be
When pupils enter new Neillsville high next Wednesday, some of them may look for the old home base, but they won’t find it. The old home base was the pupil’s desk, with a seat which went up and down, a sloping top upon which to work, complete with groove from which pen and pencil did not roll to the floor, compete also with personally owned under side upon which gum might be securely parked and with a back which furnished the skeleton of similar home base for the pupil just behind.
This old home base was personal property, sort of. It was where the pupil belonged, and it belonged to him. When the last bell rang, he was supposed to be there, at his desk, in the assembly room, ready for the day’s work and ready to be counted.
Fresh without a base
But Neillsville’s new high school is fresh without this old home base. You may hunt from one end to the other of this large building, something like a quarter of a mile, more or less, and you won’t find a single desk like the home base described above. When Superintendent Peters and his helpers moved equipment from the old building to the new, they paid no attention to the old desks. These desks are in the old assembly room right now, lonely and forlorn. A few of them may find a place in the rooms of the upper grades, but mostly they will be left to the old memories of generations of Neillsville’s boys and girls, now men and women, to whom they were home base in the old days. What will become of them? You tell. They belong, like many who once sat in them, to a day which is passing.
No assembly room, either
The old assembly room, too. That is gone, and there is nothing exactly like it in the new building. When the kids gather for the first session, they will not go to an assembly room, where a faculty member will sit in front of them, with an eye upon their presence or their absence, upon their doings and their misdoings. As a single group, they will not see Mr. Lauscher all day or be seen by him. He will be in an office or a classroom, and they will be scattered around in various places. The old days of the high school as one big family, with its members joining in a united morning session, have gone with the horse and buggy.
But are the children of the modern day without a base at all? They have one. It is a locker, one of some 400, ranged along the corridors. Each pupil had his own, with a key for it. In it he keeps such books as he does not take home for study, and in it he puts his overcoat and hat, if he wears a hat. To and from this locker he will come and go throughout the day, as his need may dictate. It will serve him both as a clothes closet and as the shelf which was part of the old school desk.
Nor will the pupils in the new high school miss the count or be missed by it. Even without the eye of the principal upon them, the youngsters of today will find that the school people have found a way. They will be counted just as thoroughly and just as often as the old times were counted in the old days. They will find that there just isn’t any way to beat the school game.
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This is the classroom of the agricultural department, with John Perkins, the ag teacher, seated at the table. The ag department is conveniently arranged, with the classroom, the shop and the testing room in an attached group. (Press photo Sept. 2, 1954)
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September 12, 1974
Four enlist in Army; two are sisters
Four area women recently enlisted in the U.S. Army, according to local enlistment Sergeant Jerzy Bilski of the Neillsville office.
The four new recruits are Janet Uerling, 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence T. Uerling, Rt. 2, Colby; Cynthia Strieter, 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James P. Streiter, Rt. 2, Colby; June Uerling, 24, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence T. Uerling, Rt. 2, Colby; and Sue N. Neuenfeldt, Rt. 1, Dorchester.
The Uerling women are sisters with June previously active in the U.S. Army.
Janet, Cynthia and Sue are 1974 graduates of Colby High School, with Janet and Cynthia expecting law enforcement training in the service. Sue will receive training for the administrative branch of the Army while June enlisted without an assignment.
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Highway 10 construction; spring start
The Wisconsin division of highways recently announced that an evaluation of current state highway funds has made it possible to construct a portion of the proposed improvement of U.S. Highway 10 between Neillsville and Granton in 1975. The project had been deferred because of the very critical shortage of highway revenues resulting from the fuel crisis and inflated price of gasoline which decreased highway gas tax revenues earmarked for highway construction.
A district engineer, based in Eau Claire, said this will mean that the most critical section can be reconstructed. Construction will begin near the fairgrounds in Neillsville and extend easterly about 5.3 miles to a point about 1.5 miles west of county trunk “K.” Construction will begin in the spring of 1975 and be completed in the fall. Through traffic will be detoured during construction. State highway 73 and County Trunk K will be used for the detour.
Financing of the rest of US Highway 10 to the east county line in subsequent years is still indefinite, the engineer said. Unless additional highway revenues become available in the near future, it appears that improvement of all or part of the remaining section to the east will not be possible until 1977 or later. However, right of way will be acquired on this section.
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Every year, someone is honored in Granton, with the honor held importantly by receiver and Granton citizens alike. This year, Carl and Darlene Storm, owners and operators of a Granton tavern, received the award. The couple will be the center of attention at the Granton Fall Festival, September 13, 14, and 15. (Press photo Sept. 12, 1974)
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September 14, 1994
Library waiting for concrete plans
Americans with Disabilities Act funding from the city.
Alderman Merna Koula reported that the library will receive less than they had anticipated because Schuster Park must also be brought up to ADA standards.
“If the government would stop throwing us curves balls...the way ADA standards are now, the park has to be taken care of,” she said.
“When do we know what we get?” asked Della Thompson.
Koula was unable to answer that.
In other business the board voted to use funds from the repair and maintenance line to paint the exterior of the library and refinish the ramp.
The entry of the children’s library also needs repair.
Board members estimated that the library as it would need to be used for two more years and so they voted to make the necessary repairs.
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City gives land for parking
The Neillsville School District last week got the extra parking space that it had asked for.
The Neillsville Common Council, in its Sept. 8, 1994, meeting, gave to the school a small parcel of city-owned land that is to be converted into an extension of the existing parking lot. The plot of land, approximately 100 by 70 feet of grassy knoll, is located just west of the parking lot fronting the high school section of the school district’s building complex. The land rises from the parking lot grade to within 36 feet of the city water.
The area of land should provide between two and three rows of up to 50 to 60 extra parking spaces.
Walter Wetzel, school board president, came before the city council last month, requesting the land so that additional parking could be provided in that area of school parking.
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Neillsville 7th grade volleyball team. (Row 1, left to right) Meredith Imler, Belen Catalina, Erin Christensen, Brittany Vandeberg, Kira Inderberg, Tanya Reinart; (Row 2) Stacey Armitage, Melanie LaValley, Krystal Gerhardt, Shannon Janicki, Corrie Perkl, Amanda Mueller, Amy Rakestraw; (Row 3) Amanda Bryan, Frances Slezak, Amanda Gallagher, DeeAnn Voit, Rachel Schoen, Nicole Carl, Emilie Ponerleau and Amanda Woods. Coaches are Mary Hartung and Lee Ann Henchen. (Press photo Sept. 14, 1994)
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