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December 13, 2023, Page 9 Contributed by "The Clark Co. Press"
Extracted by Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon. Index of "Oldies" Articles |
Clark County News
December 15, 1938
Hockey teams to meet Sunday for first game
One of the first games of organized hockey in Neillsville in recent years will be played between the Neillsville Flyers and the Neillsville Blue Birds, two local teams, at 2 p.m. Sunday.
The Flyers, organized last Sunday afternoon, are arranging a schedule of winter play; while the Blue Birds, organized a day later and composed of high school students, also are seeking games. The Flyers are negotiating dates with teams in Thorp and Greenwood.
The starting lineup for the Flyers in Sunday’s game was announced by Manager Henry Ott as follows: goalie, Donald Paulus; right wing, Orville Jake; center, Orlando Rude; right defense, Dwayne Felser; and left defense, Robert Wagner.
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Gifts for the first baby born in 1939
New Year edition of The Press will sponsor a local baby derby
In its New Year edition The Clark County Press will sponsor a local baby derby.
The first baby born in 1939 will be the recipient of gifts which will be listed in the New Year edition. These gifts will come from advertisers. Further extended details will be announced next week.
As a starter, The Press will give a year’s subscription to the happy couple bringing the first baby into the world.
The exact area to be covered by the baby derby will be announced next week. The probability is that it will cover the 23 southern towns, extending from the east county line to the west county line, and from the south county line to the northerly limits of Butler, Mead, Warner, Beaver and Unity, thus including those five towns.
For further details of the great baby derby, watch coming editions of The Clark County Press.
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Plan wood chopping contest, dog derby
Second annual event to be held within six weeks
The second annual woodchoppers contest and dog derby will be held in Neillsville either late in January or early in February under the sponsorship of the Junior Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with merchants of the city, it was announced by Everett P. Skroch at the Children’s Christmas party last Saturday.
The two events which last year were combined on February 5 with special sales by the merchants, was one of the highlights of the year’s community events, and drew spectators from miles around. The event was won last year by Julius Martens of Pine Valley.
The woodchopping contest is expected to bring together experts of the double-bladed axe from all over the state to compete in the county which once was figuratively alive with the ringing of axe blades.
Childhood “mushers” were given notice by Mr. Skroch to groom their pet dogs for the competitive grind.
Other arrangements, including committee appointments and detailed plans for the gala midwinter sports events, are yet to be made.
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Harold Shaw is “found” missing for seven years
Almost a year too late to quiet the worries of his mother, Harold Shaw, missing seven years, was heard from by his brother, Ted Shaw last week.
The note, mailed from Los Angeles, was meager in its information concerning Harold’s mysterious disappearance seven years ago following an automobile accident involving a car in which he was riding enroute from Fargo, N.D., to visit his wife in Montana.
For the years that passed members of the family made constant search for him. And Harold’s mother, the late Mrs. Loren Frank, who died last New Year’s day, never gave up hope that he might be found. She spoke of him many times daily, and carried to her grave the wish that she might see him once more.
The note apparently was written at Harold’s dictation by an employee in a Los Angles, Calif., hospital, in which, the note stated, he had been lying for two weeks. His injuries, among other things, included a fractured right arm. His condition was not considered serious, and he expected to be dismissed from the hospital within two weeks.
Whether he had been in another automobile accident could not be learned from the letter. He apparently was unaware of his mother’s death, and no explanation for his disappearance was given. Members of the family believe that he might have been a victim of amnesia and that the shock of another accident had brought back his memory.
Members of the family have replied to his letter and are awaiting further word.
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Children and grownups alike crowded around Santa Claus when he paid his annual pre-Christmas visit to Neillsville last Saturday afternoon for the annual Children’s Christmas party, sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce with the cooperation of merchants and professional men and women. On the truck with Santa (above) is Richard Becker, high school band director, who led community singing. Only a small portion of the crowd assembled is shown. (Press photo Dec. 15, 1938)
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December 23, 1948
Yule mailings highest in local post office history
Letter mail is up over 17,000 Parcels, both incoming and outgoing, indicate a very Merry Christmas
If heavy mails mean anything, this will be the merriest Christmas in the history of Neillsville.
For the local post office is struggling–almost swamped, in fact–under the heaviest Yule mailing in its history.
In the last two weeks the mails have been building up to a crescendo and that crescendo was reached Monday to the accompaniment of creaking backs, strength-sapped arms and hot, tired feet.
Parcels at peak
The post office has been piled high with parcels and lighter mails for the last two weeks. But, to those who have been sweating over it in the work room of the post office, it seemed that for every three sacks of mail they moved, four took their place.
Incoming parcel post, for instance, reached the highest point in history Sunday morning, according to Postmaster Louis W. Kurth. Three truckloads of parcels –more than 100 sacks–were brought in.
While there is no exact check on the number of incoming or outgoing parcels. Postmaster Kurth asserted that there was little question but that this year’s Yule mailings have been the heaviest in the history of the Neillsville post office.
As an indication of that is seen in the letter cancellations for the last two weeks. These ran 17,220 ahead of the same pre-Christmas period of last year.
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Eaton man puts reverse English on old lesson
Clark Hatton put a little reverse English on the “Acres of Diamonds” lesson last Saturday.
Readers will recall that the lesson of this widely read declamation is that one who travels afar in search of wealth finds that far greater riches have been at home, under his nose, all the time.
Well, Clark, a Town of Eaton farmer living southwest of Greenwood, traveled 8,000 miles in the last three months. He drove from coast to coast. He had nary a bit of trouble–not even a flat tire.
He came home Saturday night, and on Sunday morning he jumped into his car and struck out for Willard. He got as far as the Willard Cheese factory and lost control of the car on the icy highway.
The car went end-over-end and landed on its side in the ditch.
There was one consolation: Mr. Hatton didn’t receive so much as a scratch.
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December 12, 1968
New director at Wedges’ Creek
Dr. Donald Jenkens of Aurora, Ill., will begin his duties as director of Wedge’s Creek Research Farm on January 1.
Mr. Jenkens has purchased the Gordon Frantz house on Grand Avenue in Neillsville. His wife, and two children, a daughter, 16, and a son, 14, plan to arrive in Neillsville during the school break in January.
Dr. Jenkens will fill the research farm vacancy left by Greenie Jackson.
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Calvary receives 30 new members
Thirty new members were taken into membership in the Calvary Lutheran Church during the morning worship hour Sunday.
Those taken in, either by transfer, reaffirmation of faith or adult confirmation, were, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Allen; Mr. and Miss LeRoy John, David, Lucinda, Nancy, Robert and William; Mrs. Milda Limbachs; Mrs. Orvin Martin, William and Craig Benson; Mrs. Frank Mazola; Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Nagy, Frank, Sandra, John, Milda and Marie; Mr. and Mrs. Ben Stehr; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Weichelt. Joel, Jeffrey, Philp and Kathryn; and Gordon Zickert.
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Roland Jenni
Jenni named Chamber head
Roland Jenni, Neillsville florist, was elected president of the Neillsville Chamber of Commerce at a meeting of the board of directors last week. He succeeds Jerry Opelt.
Elected vice president was Tom Wavrunek, manager of the Clothing Cupboard, Inc., local men’s and boys’ ware store. He succeeds Atty. Wayne W. Trimberger, who stepped aside for the election of Jenni.
Elected secretary was Jana Marden, who succeeds her boss, Herbert Rhoades of The Clark County Agency, who has held the position for the last two years.
Jenni said that he will name appointive officers and committees at the next meeting of the chamber.
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An unusual Christmas tree forms the centerpiece of the Christmas decorations in the Arbutus Cafe. It is a “Scholarship Tree,” the first to come to Neillsville and one of but 50 to be cut this year from the demonstration forest of the Wisconsin Press Association south of Eagle River. Mrs. and Mr. George Olishkewych, owners of the Arbutus, frame the picture of the Scholarship Tree above. (Press photo Dec. 12, 1968)
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December 11, 1975
Four rings taken from jewelry; reward offered
A reward is being offered by a Neillsville jewelry store for the return of four gemmed rings taken from a display window in the store last Friday evening.
According to Gary Corey, owner of Corey’s Diamond Jewelry, sometime during the evening business hours on Friday at approximately 8:00 p.m., culprits entered his store and removed a tray with four rings from a revolving display in the front window.
Value of the four rings, all termed “cocktail rings” because of their unusual design and setting of many stones, was place at $1,300 by Corey.
Corey told The Press that a window closing the front display from the rest of the store may have been opened accidentally during the busy hours Friday evening. It is believed that the thief reached through the sliding glass partitions and grabbed the first tray from the motorized revolving display.
The Clark County sheriff’s department as well as the Neillsville city police department are investigating the incident.
Citizens have been told to be on the alert for people who would not normally show rings of this style or cost wearing rings of this type. Anyone receiving a ring of this nature should be alert for a hot Christmas present.
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Santa will visit in Granton on Saturday
Santa Claus will be in Granton at 1:30 Saturday, in the village hall. Free movies at 2:00 p.m. followed by Santa’s candy.
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Two Warriors named by UPI
Two Neillsville Warriors were named to the United Press International All-State football team, announced this week.
Jeff Vine, all All-Stater on the Associated Press selections, was named to the defensive second team; and John Donahue, selected on the AP second team as an offensive back, was named to the third team by the UPI.
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