Days of Old – 5-4-2016
Days of Old – 5-4-2016
10 years ago
Tribune of April 19, 2006
A pick-up truck driven by Rodney Simonson of Clear Lake struck the home of Alvin and Helen Jeske on April 12. The driver apparently experienced some medical problem and lost control of the vehicle. The local ambulance took him to the hospital.
The Glenwood City School District was given honorable mention recognition in the category of Team Sportsmanship by the WIAA for its performance at the State Boys Basketball Tournament last month.
Faced with declining enrollment and a proposed budget shortfall of over a half million dollars, the Boyceville school board took action to close the deficit at its monthly meeting Monday night. Superintendent Dennis Rettke recommended not purchasing a new school bus, not replace one retiring teacher’s position, laying off two teachers, and to eliminate at least one bus route.
25 years ago
Tribune of March 27, 1991
After nine weeks of weekly meetings and numerous other committee meetings, the Glenwood City Community Task Force completed its homework and presented its research and recommendations to the school boar Monday night. The task force’s recommendation was that the district should embark on a building/remodel project that would cost $4.25 million.
According to Fire Chief Dale Mounce, both fires, one to a house and the other to a pole shed, were ignited by lightning strikes. Both places are located on County Highway F, one in the Town of Sherman and the other about a mile north of Highway 170.
On Tuesday, April 2, Wisconsin voters will decide on a proposed constitutional amendment relating to state financial participation in housing programs for persons with low or moderate income. The question on the ballot will read: “Affordable Housing. Shall a new provision be created in section 10 of article VIII of the constitution, permitting the state to acquire, improve or construct housing for person of low or moderate income?”
50 years ago
Tribune of June 2, 1966
The ninth annual summer recreation program will be starting on Monday, June 13, with registration for beginning, intermediate and advanced swimming lessons.
More than 1.5 million nuisance telephone calls are made each year. The local commercial manager for General Telephone company suggests the best remedy of them is still the same: hang up. Customers who receive these calls frequently should contact the Telephone Company’s business office with information about the calls.
60 years ago
Tribune of May 3, 1956
The neighbors turned out a week ago Monday to plow, work and seed about ten acres of land on the Louis Dahl farm south of Glenwood City. Mr. Dahl, who was a patient for about four weeks at St. Luke’s Hospital in St. Paul, has now returned home and was well pleased to see his seeding done.
King Richard Jorgenson and Queen Sara Lauber will reign over the Junior Prom on Saturday night, May 5.
This area is again back in baseball, due mostly to the efforts of Vince Spoth of Boyceville who signed up players from Glenwood City, Connorsville, Menomonie, Wheeler, Knapp and Boyceville to put Boyceville back in the four team Dunn County League after an absence of about five years. The three other teams in the league are Eau Claire, Menomonie, and Wheeler.
95 years ago
The Glenwood Tribune
March 31, 1921
John Stockley, aged about 72 years, was found dead in the woods near his home on the Lindefield farm northeast of Emerald in the town of Glenwood last Friday. He had been missing since March 19. He had his axe and mitts with him and had evidently died of apoplexy. He had lived in the vicinity for about thirty years, and was highly respected.
Glenwood City will be deluged with fair artists next Wednesday when the Lawrence College Glee club, comprised of 36 young ladies, arrives. They are scheduled for an entertainment at the opera house at 8:15.
At a meeting of the Stephen S. Curry Post No. 168, American Legion, held at the city hall Tuesday evening, plans were discussed for a big Fourth of July celebration to be put on by the Post here. The matter of a women’s auxiliary was also discussed, and the boys were unanimous in stating that they would welcome such an organization here.
35 years ago
Boyceville Press Reporter
May 7, 1981
A small Piper single airplane crashed at the Boyceville airport May 1. Fortunately the pilot, Ron Sutliff of Hudson, was not injured. Sutliff, a beginning pilot with only 22 hours experience, was attempting his first solo run.
Boyceville’s airport has a good chance of being blacktopped in the near future as a result of May 4 action taken by the village board, the first presided by Joe Petryk, president.
Boyceville will host a cystic fibrosis bike-a-thon between 1 and 4 p.m. May 2.