Out of the Past – 5-4-2016
Out of the Past – 5-4-2016
10 years ago
May 3, 2006
Royalty at the Colfax High School prom April 29 were Travis Blomberg and Andrea Styczinski, king and queen; along with Logan Kiekhafer, Anna Bethmann, Nathan Stobb, Stephanie Velasquez, Cara Shane, Shane Berge, Shannon Steinke and Dayne Hahn.
Mike Schindler was recently honored by the state Department of Natural Resources for his ten years of service as a snowmobile safety instructor.
The Elk Mound school board has hired Dan Pedersen as the boys basketball coach. Pedersen is the head football coach and previously served as the head basketball coach from 1979 to 2002.
25 years ago
May 2, 1991
Tuck-pointing to repair the Colfax Municipal Building has begun. The contract was awarded to Boedeker Construction for $16,600.
An open house will be held at Holden Lutheran Church on May 5 to thank volunteers for their help in repairing the church after it was vandalized in January.
The Colfax Comets 4-H Club is sponsoring a drawing and essay contest, “Moms and Dads are Special.” Drawings will be displayed at Kirkwood’s IGA after judging, and the top essays will be published in the Colfax Messenger.
35 years ago
May 7, 1981
Vicky Leah Scharlau, Alice in Dairyland, will be the keynote speaker at the Colfax FFA banquet May 14.
Construction begins this month on a new Trinity United Methodist Church in Elk Mound at a cost of $400,000.
Competing in the Class A trombone solo, Tony Alms, Colfax senior, was awarded two superior ratings at the State Music Festival in Eau Claire May 2.
50 years ago
May 5, 1966
Judge William Bundy will be the featured speaker at the Civic Club meeting May 16. The meeting will start with a 6:30 dinner at the Sportsmen’s Cafe, after which the group will retire to the auditorium.
County crews started working on East River Street, Balsam and Pine Streets and Fourth Avenue Tuesday morning.
Sunday afternoon, Homer Knight was preparing to plow on his farm near Norton when he somehow fell from the drawbar on his tractor and sustained a double fracture of his right leg.
65 years ago
May 3, 1951
A meeting of the Colfax Rod and Gun Club drew 100 members in the municipal building basement last Thursday to discuss the annual fishing contest.
On May 16, the following Colfax High School students will be inducted into the National Thespian Society, an organization devoted to the advancement of dramatic arts in the high school: Patsy Ackley, Jerry Pierson, Irwin Omtvedt, Helen Olson, Dwight Stevens, Ruth Ann Olson, Billie Ellingson, Dewane Barum, Betty Nygaard, Donald Stevens, Jimmy Gehring, Roland Samuelson, and Shirley Severson.
Deadline is May 15 for signing cucumber contracts. Contact G.R. Thompson at the Colfax Station; Hjalmer Lind at the Albertville Station; Van Cartwright at the Elk Mound Station.
100 years ago
May 5, 1916
The Colfax Municipal Building, costing $23,000, is now under construction.
Advertisements in the Colfax Messenger cost 5 cents per line with a minimum charge of 25 cents. The fee for publishing Cards of Thanks is 50 cents.
The Colfax Village Board’s Streets and Bridges Committee let the job of moving the old jail to T. Braaten, at $10, same to be moved when grading is finished around the municipal building. Among the bills paid was $10 to the St. Paul Insurance Company for insurance on the building.