January 3, 1924 - reprinted June 19, 1996Glenn Wade of Winside was given the decision over Frank Buresh of Dodge, whose parents live in Clarkson, after two hours and thirty minutes of wrestling at Pilger. The match was rather slow and listless throughout. Apparently both wrestlers were afraid to take a chance and try to get a hold. Nearly the whole of the two hours and thirty minutes was spent on their feet and several times Referee Ed Reetz of Norfolk had to prod the grapplers up in an endeavor to make them wrestle.
Mrs. Barbara Papousek, one of the early day settlers of this county and who had been making her home in Howells, passed away in death following a lingering illness. The deceased attained the ripen age of eighty-three years and spent the sunset days of her life at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Hampl in Howells. She was a native of Bohemia and came to this county a good many years ago. Burial was held from the Hampl home in Howells with interment into the Boh. Nat. cemetery on the west of the city. Mrs. Papousek is survived by one son, James Papousek, residing southwest of Clarkson, and one daughter, Mrs. Frank Hampl, of Howells.
Dr. A.J. Hebenstreit, who practiced medicine in Howells has decided to locate at Juneau, Wisconsin, his home state. The doctor was called to the bedsde of his mother at Shullsburg, Wisconsin, and while there has learned of the excellent opening at Juneau caused through the death of one of the physicians of that city.
We find ourselves in the grip of extremely frigid weather brought upon us by a severe blizzard. The ground is covered with snow and in numerous places drifts may be found measuring a height up to five feet. Train service has been greatly demoralized all over the country and there were no trains on this branch at all. Rural mail carriers are also greatly handicapped in serving their patrons. An attempt was made to make the mail route but all the carriers after being out for some time were forced to return on account of the snow barriers. Tuesday having been a legal holiday, the mailmen had a vacation and spent the day with their families, making the first complete trip of the week over the routes yesterday with teams. On Tuesday morning the mercury in numerous places registered as low as 16 degrees below zero.
Should the old proverb, that whatever you do on New Year's day, you will do all year round, turn out to be true, than our schools will have a bad year for the rest of the term. The school opened on January first with only five teachers out of thirteen on the job, they being Prof. Hohn, Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Misses Martha Bukacek and Albina Musil. The other teachers, Misses Boyd, Meyer, Hall, Pravitz, Dunham, Mrs. Douglas, Mrs. McCarty and Mrs. Reinecke were not able to reach here in time on account of the snowbound trains. It is reported that more than one-half the pupils were absent from school on the opening day.
Some culprit who much be envious of autoists for some reason or other scattered a lot of shingle nails and tacks along the main street in front of Zelenda Bros'. garage. Ed Zelenda found a few along the sidewalk and as he was picking them he noticed that the road was littered with the tire puncturers. The tracks [sic] were picked up and the autoists escaped a lot of tire trouble. The miscreant who commits anything of this kind should be looked up and given severe punishment.
Beginning with this week, the local general merchandise stores will close every evening at 6:00 o'clock with the exception of Saturday. This rule has been practiced by Clarkson merchants for several years and will remain in force until the first of April.
An item reported too late for last week's issue of The Press was the marriage of our old friend, Rudolph Sobeslavsky, who set out on the matrimonial sea with Miss Josephine Novotny. The marriage was performed at Council [Bluffs?], Iowa. The young lady whom Rudolph has chosen as his companion for the rest of his days, hails from Wymore, Nebraska, and has been employed with Mr. Sobeslvsky at one of the Omaha packing houses for some time. We are informed that she is a refined young lady of exemplary habits and is well thought of. Rudolph is the eldest son of Mrs. Anna Sobeslavsky of this city and we are pleased to number him among our best friends. He is a butcher by trade. Mr. and Mrs. Sobeslavsky will establish their home in Omaha.
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