Out of the Past – 12-30-2015

Out of the Past – 12-30-2015

10 years ago
December 28, 2005

Receiving degrees from UW-Eau Claire during winter commencement were  Carl Hagen, Tyler Moen and Jennifer Peterson from Colfax and Wade Schilling from Elk Mound.

Pat Lindgren bowled a 288 game and a 704 series while Troy Kuhn finished with a 744 series in the Thursday Major Bowling League last week at the Viking Bowl.

A proposed timeline for hiring a new high school principal for Colfax was presented to the school board at the December meeting with hopes of having a new principal hired by the April meeting.

25 years ago
January 3, 1991

Kathryn Erickson and Brian Russell of Elk Mound were among 675 students who earned degrees from UW-Eau Claire Dec. 22.

A daughter, Mariah Mae Borofka was born Nov. 2 to John and Linda Borofka of Colfax at Myrtle Werth Medical Center in Menomonie.

Wilmer and Irene Maves celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with their family Dec. 2. They were married Nov. 30, 1940.

First grade students from Colfax Elementary School made edible ornaments for Christmas trees as part of their environmental education studies in December.

35 years ago
January 8, 1981

Colfax farmer Bernard Schindler is testing a small experimental still in his farm workshop with the hopes of efficiently producing 190 proof alcohol that can be used for a fuel substitute. Schindler and his son Andy attended a vocational course taught by Stephen Scoll of Wheeler at District 1 Technical Institute on the subject.

Dr. Dale Winget of Colfax was awarded membership in the Grand Tour Organization of the Parker Chiropractic Research Foundation.

Marjoree Ellen Vincent of Colfax and Kenneth Thomas Shearer of Menomonie were married Dec. 20 at Colfax Lutheran Church.

PFC Roger L. Knutson of Colfax has been awarded a Certificate of Achievement from the Dept. of the Army for outstanding meritorious service as a military policeman.

50 years ago
January 6, 1966

On Jan. 3, Mrs. Lydia Klukas became the first resident of the newly constructed Colfax Area Nursing Home. Shortly after her arrival, she was joined by Mrs. Olga Satter, Mrs. Mary Hoff, Peder Rasmussen, James Gunderson and Maier Olson.

Mary Tomasina Spagnoletti of Elk Mound and Gerald Derby, an instructor at the Colfax junior high school were married Dec. 23 in Madison.

Fireman Apprentice Jerry R. Braaten, USN, of Colfax is back on station off the coast of Viet Nam aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga after a nine day visit to Japan.

65 years ago
December 28, 1950

Donna Mae Wiseman of Colfax and William J. Morissette of Eau Claire were united in marriage Dec. 19 at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Eau Claire.

News has been received here that fourteen year old Jean Erickson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Erickson, all formerly of Colfax, drowned in a car accident in Raymond, Washington.

Former Colfax resident, thirteen year old Nevon Berg, now living in Vancouver, Washington, spent four months in the hospital out there with rheumatic fever and is still recovering from the disease.

100 years ago
January 21, 1916

At the residence of Rev. and Mrs. J.J.Peterson, in the village Monday, occurred the marriage of Mr. Arthur Gibbon to Miss Hazel Snyder, both of the Town of Grant.

A representative of the  Standard Oil Company was in Colfax the latter part of last week and announced that his company will erect an oil tank here soon and will make Colfax a distributing point.

The basket ball game of last Friday evening between the Bloomer and Colfax High School teams was won by the former by a score of 27 to 22. The points for Colfax were made by field goals, Peterson three, Hones and Thompson each two, Amble and Sundstrom each one, Amble making four out of a possible six free throws.