Clark County Press, Neillsville, WI

June 6, 2007, Page 4

Transcribed by Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon.

 

 

Legion Hall time capsule recalls the news, and more, of 1948

 

A new Legion Hall building was big news in Neillsville back on Sept. 30, 1948, according to The Clark County Press issue of that date, one of the items found in a time capsule that was opened last week.

 

The time capsule had been inside a solid-granite cornerstone of what is now the old and vacant Legion Hall building in downtown Neillsville.  It was opened this past Memorial Day by current Legion members, including Commander Rick Thoma, during a brief ceremony in the new Legion Hall that opened this year on the south side of the city.

 

Leaders in the Neillsville Legion Post 73 back in 1948 obviously believed in the timelessness of news.  Not only did they include a copy of the Press heralding the dedication of a new Legion Hall on Oct. 2nd, 1948 but they included copies of the then-current editions of the Marshfield News-Herald and the Milwaukee Sentinel.

 

Those Neillsville Legionnaires also thought highly of local businesses.  Rolled up safe and sound in the newspapers were the letterheads of a variety of merchants.  Long gone, but still fondly remembered by some of the elder Legion members and others during last week’s capsule opening, were former local businesses such as Gluck’s Sports Shop, the Coast-to-Coast Store and Svetlik’s Ford dealership.

 

Sniteman’s Drug Store, on the other hand, was one of the few businesses continuing to this day.

 

Henry Naedler was the mayor of Neillsville at the time, it was noted last week.

 

Last, but not least, Thoma and Louis Albrecht, a past Commander of the Legion, took note of a list of members of the Legion in 1948, including Paul Albrecht, Louis’ father and the post’s Ladies Auxiliary. 

 

 

 

Louis Albrecht, a past Commander of Post 73, holds up a Sept. 30, 1948 issue of The Clark County Press, one of the items that had been placed in the cornerstone of the old Legion Hall building in downtown Neillsville when it was dedicated nearly 60 years ago.

 

 


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