1908: Hickory Dickory Dock, News questions clock
By Wally Smetana, From the Files
Monday, January 28, 2008 12:04 PM CST
Sunday, Jan. 28, 2007
UW System Board of Regents approves sabbaticals for eight University of Wisconsin-Stout faculty members in the 2007-08 academic year. Those on leave for the first semester are Desiree Budd, psychology; Brian Fitch, English and philosophy; and Mingshen Wu, mathematics, statistics and computer science. Ken Welty, education, was awarded a second semester sabbatical. Taking a full year sabbatical will be Rajiv Asthana, engineering and technology; Susan Eberhard, rehabilitation and counseling; Mahshid Jalilvand, social science; and Geoffrey Wheeler, art and design. Regents grant sabbaticals to recognize and enhance teaching efforts and excellence. To be eligible for a sabbatical, faculty members must have completed six or more years, or the equivalent, of full-time instructional service...
Installed as officers of the Dunn County Northern Lights Barbershop Chorus are Gary Thorson, president; Dave McNaughton, music/performance VP; Randy Knaack, membership VP; Darrell Hoepner, marketing/PR; Dennis Webster, secretary; Art Harelstad, treasurer; and Juel Smith, board member. Paul Iverson of Menomonie received the Barbershopper of the Year award and Thorson, of Colfax, was presented the Diligent Dan award...
Heather Lotts, daughter of Sharon Lotts of New Auburn and the late David Lotts, and Robert Kneeland, son of Sally and Bryan Kneeland of Menomonie, announce their engagement...
Eau Claire Memorial’s boys’ basketball team downs Menomonie High, 54 to 36...
Hubert D. “Hub” Fisher, age 85, of Menomonie, a highly regarded master bricklayer and stone mason whose work can be seen throughout the area, died Jan. 24 at his home. He was president of the Menomonie Lions Club in 1975-76 and was instrumental in the development of the club's game park... UW-Stout’s women’s basketball team went on an 11-2 run to close out the first half and the Blue Devils went on to avenge their only conference loss of the season with a 65 to 52 win over UW-Eau Claire Wednesday at Johnson Fieldhouse...
Local author Fran Lynghaug of Downing releases her book, “Horses of Distinction.”
The book is endorsed by national horse registries that contributed much to the book and were supportive of her accurate portrayal of their breeds... Son, Benjamin Paul, born Jan. 19 to Hollie and Luke Helminski of Menomonie...
Jill Gengler named administrator of the Colfax Area Nursing Home. A native of New Auburn, she is a graduate of UW-Eau Claire, where she studied health care administration. The nursing home is licensed for 69 beds and has 89 employees...
Kristina Maves of Elmwood and Jeffrey Labs of Menomonie were married Saturday, June 17, at Christ Lutheran Church in Menomonie. Pastor Peter Friberg officiated...
Colfax High's girls’ basketball team rolls over Mondovi, 49 to 25, to take a commanding lead in the Dunn-St. Croix Conference. The Vikings currently have a 15-0 record... Cenex stations in Menomonie donate $3,000 to the Menomonie School District through the “Fuel Your Schools” program. For every gallon of fuel sold in Menomonie in 2006, Cenex donated a half cent to the school district.
Wednesday, Jan. 26, 1983
Dunn County supervisors by 25 to 2 vote approve a three-year work agreement between Dunn County and the Dunn County Joint Council of Unions. The agreement impacts some 350 employees. Supervisors Stanley Anderson and Francis Eiseth cast the “no” votes while supervisors Robert Stanton and Marvin Saxton were absent. According to John C. Krizek, county administrator, employees over the three year period will receive an approximate 14 percent ($1.43 per hour) wage hike: 1.5 percent in 1983, six percent in 1984, and 6.25 in 1985. The agreement says the county will pay dental insurance premiums retroactive to Jan. 1, 1983. Additionally, retroactive to Jan. 1, the county will pay 100 percent of the single plan health insurance premium and 95 percent of the family plan premium...
Bank of Menomonie employees promoted to vice president are Myron Engeldinger, Arden Alexander and Robert Mersch. Larry Barnhart named an assistant vice president and Karen Fruit and Kathy Fahey elevated to officer level. Named to the bank’s board of directors by stockholders are Gene J. Heymans Sr., chairman of the board; E. J. Heymans Jr., president; R. L. Mersch, vice president; and D. L. Goodrich, D. J. Goodrich and L. D. Mersch...
Jeff Brunner of Elmwood, Royce Keehr of Spring
Valley, Marty Peterson of Menomonie and Chris Wisemiller of Boyceville selected to play on the North squad in seventh annual North-South Shrine football game. The game will be played July 23 at Titan Stadium in Oshkosh...
Paced by Kevin Callahan, Mark Anderson, Steve Schermerhorn and Matt Smith, Menomonie High's swimming and diving team downs Chippewa Falls, 86 to 41...
Mike Gilligan, son of Rose and Rex Gilligan and a senior at Colfax High School, named January “Youth of the Month” by Menomonie Optimist Club...
Eight winners selected at annual Dunn County 4-H Speak-Off. Champions are Mary Millar and Mike Sipple, both Spring Brook, senior division; Randy Dreger and Beth Higbie, both Colfax Comets, intermediate division; Tammy Simon, Elk Meadow, and Jeremy Dreger, Colfax Comets, junior division; and Mark Sipple, Spring Brook, and Annette Schlottman, Midway Meadow Larks, novice division. Winners advance to the Western Wisconsin 4-H Talent Explosion...
Dunn County supervisors confirm the appointments of Bernice Wolterstorff, Knapp, and Sylvester Hilson, Route 4, Menomonie, to Dunn County Housing Authority. They replace William Watland and Joseph Petryk...
Son born Jan. 18 to John and Diane Casper of Menomonie... Deborah A. Engeldinger and Duane R. Kothlow, both of Menomonie, were married Jan. 15 at Peace Lutheran Church in Menomonie by Pastor Robert Bipes...
Wednesday, Jan. 22, 1958
More than $1,500 in prizes, including a 12-foot Shell Lake boat, outboard motor and repeater rifle, will be offered at the second annual ice fishing contest on Upper Tainter Lake reports L. E. Stevens, president of the Northwest Rod and Gun Club. O. K. Hedlund of Boyceville is general chairman of the event...
Out of six national awards for research made by the American Technical Society, two went to Stout State College faculty members, both former students of William J. Micheels, head of the industrial education department at the University of Minnesota. The two from Stout are Ray A. Wigen, director of graduate studies, and Robert S. Swanson, associate professor of industrial education. Both received their doctorate from the University of Minnesota...
Donald Goodrich Sr. of Menomonie elected chairman of the Dunn County Chapter of the American Red Cross...
New members of Thespian Troupe 211 at Menomonie High School are Lynda Lund, Phil Gugel, Sharon Hassett, Kay Jarvis, Pat Kraft, Linda Larson, Jean Knight, Georgene Wisner and Lois Walter... Margaret Solberg and Leonard Krueger, both of Boyceville, were married Jan. 3 at Grace Lutheran Church in Connorsville by the Rev. W. M. Ave-Lallement... Unable to maintain a one-point lead with five minutes left in the game, Menomonie High cagers drop 54 to 51 decision to Hudson. Mike Henry paced the Maroons with 14 points. Friday night, the Maroons host Rice Lake...
Jan Stevens, Dunn County’s Dairy Queen, is one of 19 visiting queens who will be guests at the 1958 St. Paul Winter Carnival that opens for a week starting Friday, Jan. 24...
Sons born to Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Dohms Jr., Route 3, Jan. 16; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Culver, Menomonie, Jan. 19... Carl Olson of Menomonie elected chairman of the board by directors of The Kraft State Bank at the annual director’s meeting following the annual meeting of bank stockholders. Other officers elected are Wm. R. Kraft, president and cashier; H. B. Hendrickson, executive vice president; Henry Bates, vice president; Robert E. Sipple and Dagney L. Berg, assistant cashiers. Stockholders re-elected the following directors for 1958: Herman Halvorson, G. E. Sipple, Joe Cramer Jr., Louis Pechmiller, Ole Halvorson, Henry Bates, Carl Olson, H. B. Hendrickson and Wm. R. Kraft... Willis E. Donley of Menomonie elected president of the Dunn-Pepin Bar Association...
Pound cello package of frozen Rupert northern pike fillets is 39 cents at Don’s Super Valu; California jumbo size celery is 19 cents a stalk; 14-ounce bottle of Heinz ketchup is 23 cents; tender steer beef hind quarters (cut and wrapped) are 39 cents a pound; quart jar of Miracle Whip salad dressing is 49 cents; half gallon of Flav-O-Rich (assorted flavors) ice cream is 89 cents...
Six Menomonie men were among 27 inductees taken into the armed services during 1957 by the Selective Service Board. They are Walter J. Roland Jr., Earl Lehman, David Olson, James Zeilinger, Ivan Smith and Donald Boettcher... Rev. R. L. Ferch, pastor of the EUB church in Menomonie, named Dunn County chairman for the 1958 Brotherhood Week observance.
Thursday, Jan. 16, 1933
The Elk Mound and Connorsville Cooperative Creamery associations made 852,195 pounds of butter during 1932, it is revealed by adding the output of the two as given in the separate annual reports. A total of 525,711 pounds of butter was made at Elk Mound and 356,484 at Connorsville. The Elk Mound plant had a net profit of $2,132.47 for the year. A gain of 18,652 pounds of butter over that of 1931 is reported by the Connorsville creamery for 1932. Almost all of the butter made there is shipped to Jersey City, N.J. Highest paid patrons are F. C. Sutliff, John P. Dale, T. E. French, Sam P. Kraft, W. A. Schlough and William Owen. Receipts for 1932 totaled $66,962 against $63,629 in disbursements. The creamery has 149 patrons...
Dick Smith, an amateur boxer from Wheeler, outpointed Francis Andress, Eau Claire, in the golden gloves tournament sponsored by the Elks club at Eau Claire. Both boxers are in the welterweight class... The Golden Rule store installed a 17-foot yellow and blue neon sign with the name “The Golden Rule” in red letters. The sign weighs 250 pounds and is the second to be placed recently in that block on Main Street. The Olympia a short time ago installled a new electric sign over its entrance...
Arthur Kelley, a student from Dunn County in the sophomore long course at the Wisconsin College of Agriculture, appointed a member of the dairy cattle committee for the 14th annual Little International Livestock Show and Night Horse Show to be held during Farm and Home Week in Madison...
The third big test of the month for the Menomonie High School basketball team presents itself for the quint when it faces the Purple and White squad of Eau Claire High School there Saturday evening. Chippewa Falls wrote a defeat on the Maroons’ books last week in defeating the locals, 23 to 17... Home town folks who saw Stevens Point Normal’s quint perform were surprised to see such a powerful and fast machine as the visitors presented. With 12 players seeing action, the visitors rolled to an easy 47 to 31 win... John E. Duesing, representative of the Travelers Insurance Co. in Menomonie, elected president of the Travelers “Redskins” organization. This honor came to him at a meeting of Travelers agents from Wisconsin and Minnesota in St. Paul... Two packages of Chesterfield “They Satisfy” cigarettes are 25 cents at Red Owl Food Store; sugar-cured bacon squares are six cents a pound; three oval cans of Van Camp’s California sardines are 25 cents... Large audiences enjoyed the six plays produced in the Northwestern Wisconsin Dramatic Festival at the Memorial auditorium. A dramatic specialist from the University of Wisconsin acted as judge. The winner was not announced but will be given later. Represented in the contest were Clark, Pierce, Sawyer, Pepin, Douglas and Dunn counties.
Thursday, Jan. 23, 1908
The town clock in the manual training tower is not losing any of it simple beauty, but its usefulness is becoming questionable. A timepiece is of little value that does not keep the correct hour to the exact minute. The four-faced hand-swept dial is trying to cheat Father Time and is deceiving only the trusting public. Missing a train or an appointment may be an important event in a man’s life, but the tardy clock is merciless. The train may be speeding around the curve as you get to the top of the depot hill. When you turn back the hands seem to mock. They feature all the virtuous and time-honored principles of punctuality and make excitable men say things that are not recognized in the moral code...
Fred L. French, age 49, died suddenly last night at his home in this city. The sudden and unexpected summons comes as a shock to his many friends, some of whom who were not aware that he had been ill. Mr. French was born in Menomonie and had always made this city his home. For a quarter of a century he was bookkeeper and cashier of the Bank of Menomonie, retiring from active business in June 1906. He entered the banking business in 1880 with his father, S. B. French. The bank later came into the possession of A.Tainter & Son, and he became assistant cashier... The second of the series of card and dancing parties of the Commercial Club at the gymnasium was most enjoyable for the large number present...
Another star event of the basketball season is booked at the school armory when the Stout five lines up against Company C of Hudson and the Menomonie highs play the Stillwater high.... The open winter is blocking all the ski tournaments scheduled in this part of the country and followers of the sport are praying for the covering of white...
Plans are under way for a Five-Sunday baseball league for 1908 and Menomonie is one of the teams in the league. Manager Stori and Irving Gray of the Blue Caps have already begun to get other cities interested in the plan and it is striking favor. The proposed league will include the teams of Hudson, River Falls, Menomonie, Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls — all strong diamond aggregations and with particularly bright prospects for the coming season. The arrangement of the schedule would bring a game on the home grounds every other Sunday... Elected officers of the Menomonie Mutual Fire Insurance Co. by directors are E. Marks, president; Louis Ehrhard, vice president; George Gallaway, secretary; A. Quilling, treasurer. |
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