Out of the Past – 11-18-2016
Out of the Past – 11-18-2016
10 years ago
November 22, 2006
Tower Park in Colfax will be the setting for the 11th annual Living Nativity December 3. The Colfax Chamber Choir, directed by Carrie Cooley, will provide the music. Eleanor Kvelland is the program director.
Chris Lunn, registration agent at Express Mart, reported that last year’s total for the gun deer season was 844, and that this year, Express Mart had registered just under 600 deer for the first two days.
The Colfax Village Board approved contracting with MSA Professional Services of Rice Lake for $5,100 to prepare a concept budget plan for remodeling the former Cenex warehouse for village use.
25 years ago
November 21, 1991
Community members gathered in the Popple Creek area to cut wood for Brian and Dick Johnson November 13. Brian was injured in a corn-picking accident November 6. An estimated 35 to 40 people helped cut and split between 50 and 55 cords of wood.
The Colfax Village Board approved a request from the Commercial Testing Laboratory for permission to place a promotional banner above Main Street in connection with the business’s 40th anniversary. Commercial Testing planned to display the banner from May of 1992 and into the summer.
The Colfax Area Business Association encouraged area residents to stop at their local businesses to sign up for a chance to win a free turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. All together, 37 participating businesses were listed as sponsors.
35 years ago
November 26, 1981
New officers for the Colfax Kiwanis Club are Delmar Kressin, president; Dale Winget, outgoing president; Dean Fodness, vice president; Ray Johnson, second vice president; Don Brecke, secretary; and Jim Ackerlund, treasurer.
The Colfax Kiwanis Club has scheduled a basketball exhibition by the Green Bay Packers on February 17.
The Colfax Village Board added $15,000 to the 1982 budget to purchase a street sweeper. The village’s existing sweeper does little except move the dirt around. Most sweeping this year was done by hand.
50 years ago
November 24, 1966
Beryl Brinkman, daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. Lewis Brinkman, has just returned to Colfax after an eleven-month trip to Europe and North Africa.
Seems mighty early or rather suddenlike for placing Christmas decorations on the main street but of course it isn’t. That season crops up pretty fast once deer hunting is underway and Thanksgiving has passed. Anyway, workmen have the green roping, together with the center ornaments, in place; the colored lights will be on each night from now until Christmas, and as soon as the tree at the triangle is loaded with bulbs, the job will have been completed for this year.
Thanksgiving Turkey Trot, Friday, November 25, at the Colfax old gym. Couples 25 cents. Singles 15 cents. Begins at 8 p.m. Sponsored by Grant 4-H.
65 years ago
November 22, 1951
The 85th anniversary of the Holden Church ladies’ aid will be celebrated at 2:15 P.M. November 25.
Harold Puhl of Colfax is the winner of the coffee contest at Barstad’s Super Market, the event sponsored by the Winston-Newell Company. In the contest “I like whole bean coffee because …” Mr. Puhl was selected the winner. He received an electric coffee grinder.
The Colfax fire department was called to the August Beyrer farm Saturday afternoon when a fire broke out in a wood pile in the basement of the farm home. Neighbors and friends rushed to the scene, and with the aid of the Colfax fire laddies, the damage was confined to smoke damage.
100 years ago
November 24, 1916
Advertisement: 5 cents will start a bank account. Join our Xmas Banking Club. $63.75 next Christmas — Bank of Colfax
Meeting of the village council November 20: Ordinance against spitting on sidewalk, in public places, etc., carried on roll call, all voting aye.
G.I. Gunderson, Colfax’s Thomas Edison, recently made shipment of 126 gasoline foot-feeds for automobiles of which he is the manufacturer and patentee. He also has a patent pending on an automatic clutch release.