Days of Old – 3-9-2016
Days of Old – 3-9-2016
10 years ago
Tribune of February 22, 2006
Five Boyceville and four Glenwood City wrestlers qualified for the WIAA Individual State Tournament Friday and Saturday. Boyceville wrestlers are Aaron Kersten, Steve Kurschner, Jordan Hessler, Erik Sutliff, and Matt Duerst. Glenwood City wrestlers are Taylor Manor, Jon Standaert, Kevin Ashleson, and John Thatcher. The Boyceville wrestling team also clinched a berth in the Division 3 State Tournament.
Due to insurance and construction costs, it does not look like the Village of Wilson will have a fire station.
At their meeting on Monday, the Boyceville school board approved extending superintendent Dennis Rettke’s contract and hiring Julie Wathke as Community Education Director.
25 years ago
Tribune of January 30, 1991
Nelva Bandelow of Menomonie, who works as a secretary for the Menomonie-Boyceville Farmers Union, was reunited with her son Bruce Rehberg that she had given up for adoption 26 years ago. Rehberg started looking for Nelva in 1985 and finally found her last October.
Two suspicious fires that happened near Boyceville last Friday morning are under investigation by the Dunn County Sheriff’s Department. On Friday there was a house fire on the Thomas and Roger Turchany farm in the Town of Hay River, and a shed fire on the Frank Kalnicky farm in Tiffany Township. Over the past several years, the Boyceville Department has responded to several old building fires that have been suspicious.
‘Caller ID’ is a telephone device currently being introduced in Illinois and a few other states. For a small additional monthly charge, this device is attached to your phone and when your phone rings, the number of the calling party appears on a little display screen. Telephone company officials have stated there’s been a dramatic reduction in complaints about obscene phone calls in places where the service is available.
50 years ago
Tribune of March 31, 1966
Richard Rosen, Emerald, is the new president of the Board of Directors of St. Croix Valley Cooperative Dairies of Glenwood City, that held their annual meeting at the elementary school here on Monday evening.
439 books have been added to the Glenwood City Public Library recently.
Wayne Koene and four FFA members (Richard Smith, Henry Krueger, Dale Mounce, and John Schug) attended a DeKalb corn awards banquet in Chippewa Falls on March 21. This banquet was to honor vo-ag students who had made the best record on the crop growing analysis sheet. The top student from Glenwood City on a total score was Richard Smith with a score of 93. He had received a special wall plaque. Other boys received pins and certificates for adequate records.
60 years ago
Tribune of March 8, 1956
Robert G. Varnum and William E. McEwen won Tuesday’s judicial primary election for Circuit Judge for the Eighth Judicial Circuit.
Miss Maureen Steffen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Steffen, Glenwood City, has been chosen to represent Glenwood City high school in the Good Citizenship Pilgrimage contest for 1956.
About 50 gallons of coffee, together with the doughnuts and other edibles, was given away last week by two Glenwood City firms. The Glenwood City Co-op Services’ annual Universal Milker Clinic was held on Friday. John Deere Day was put on here last Saturday afternoon by Keyes Auto Sales.
95 years ago
The Glenwood Tribune
February 3, 1921
Nearly two million pounds of ice cream was received at the Glenwood City Dairy Union facility, and over 600,000 pounds of butter manufactured.
W. F. Weaver & Co. have immediate plans for the remodeling of their present quarters, First and Oak streets, into a two-story, fire-proof building, construction to be of brick or stone. Mr. Weaver informs us that his business has proven so satisfactory since he started it last year as to justify this step.
The new Glenwood City library and reading room in the city hall opened this week, and will hereafter be open to the public from 7 to 9 on Monday and Wednesday evenings.
Glenwood City’s new motorized fire engine arrived last Friday. It is a Waterous, made in St. Paul, and is dandy – modern and up-to-date. It is equipped for use with both chemicals and water, and not only will it take water from the city hydrants, but from wells or cisterns.
35 years ago
Boyceville Press Reporter
March 12, 1981
A high school library book characterized by a parent as “filthy” and containing “the kind of talk you don’t even hear in a bar” was condemned by Boyceville village board at its March 9 meeting. In a unanimously passed motion, board members agreed to request that school officials take action to have that book “Headman”, a novel about street gangs in Los Angeles by Kin Platt, and others of its kind banned from the school library.
Kelly Swenson was named the new Snojammer Queen for a 1981-82 in Boyceville. She is the daughter of Jim and Karen Swenson, Rte. 1, Downing.
Junior Hedlund, representing Hedlund Equipment, received a plaque in recognition of outstanding sales achievement in the past year from Robert White, the chairman of Van Dale, Inc. Van Dale is a manufacturer of farmstead, mixer-feeder and waste management equipment.