Days of Old – 11-23-2016
Days of Old – 11-23-2016
10 years ago
Tribune of November 8, 2006
Chris Thomason, Glenwood City High School graduate, is a member of the UW-Stout Symphonic Singers set to perform at the world famous Carnegie Hall in New York City November 20.
The Remembrance Wall of Hersey will be dedicated this Sunday at 3 p.m. at the corner of 292 Street and 72nd Avenue in Hersey. This wall is a memorial for all of the Wisconsin Service members who have given their lives in the war against terror.
At its regular meeting on October 2 the city council voted to remove fluoride from the city water supply. But at this Monday night’s meeting, the council was challenged in their decision and asked to reconsider that action.
Ted Marris, 11, of Wheeler received the 2006 Youth Award from Sr. Vice Commander Charles Vandenplas on behalf of the Disabled American Veterans in Green Bay this June. Marris was the candidate who best demonstrated the ‘spirit of Americanism’.
25 years ago
Tribune of October 16, 1991
The Forest Feed Mill opened again last week. Robert Miller of River Falls is the new owner of the mill as he bought it from the Bank of Baldwin after the mill was surrendered to the bank by longtime owners Leroy and Barb Winberg.
Pam Hitz of Boyceville was found guilty last Tuesday on three of four theft misdemeanors she was charged with in connection with her misuse of the Wheeler 4th of July Committee’s checkbook when she served as that organization’s treasurer.
Allied Processing Inc. President Ed Nuebel said last Friday that his plant here will announce soon their switching over to new cleaning compounds that are all completely non-phosphourous.
50 years ago
Tribune of December 29, 1966
The tax roll for the town of Glenwood for 1966 is down a total of $2,679.93 from the total tax roll of last year.
An all time record of adult bucks, and the fifth highest legal deer kill in Wisconsin history, are highlights of the 1966 deer hunting season recently completed. Among the 109,973 deer taken, 67,300 were mature bucks.
A 1965 Mustang belonging to Russell Hammond received considerable damage when it slammed into the rear of a car driven by Mrs. Edwin James last Thursday afternoon, when it was stopped in the road on Q near the Downing dump. Mrs. James had stopped alongside the car belonging to Leonard Frantz, believing that he had trouble with his car. No one was injured.
60 years ago
Tribune of November 22, 1956
Fire, believed to have started from defective wiring, completely destroyed the barn and milkhouse on the Ray Hurtgen farm. Two calves and two yearlings were destroyed in the fire early Monday morning, as were the barn equipment, hay and milkhouse equipment.
The first of the series in the “rat clean-up” program will start in the City of Glenwood on Monday, November 26. On that day rat poison bait will put out at the city dump and several other places in the city in an effort to rid the city of rats that have been causing quite a few problems lately.
Deer hunters from this area, as well as from the state as a whole, are slowly returning from the woods with reports of poor shooting.
95 years ago
The Glenwood Tribune
October 13, 1921
Another addition to Glenwood City’s professional retinue is made in the association of Dr. A. J. McCusker with his brother, Dr. C. F. McCusker, in general medical practice here. The new member is a graduate of the Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery.
Mrs. Emma Warner met with an accident Wednesday near the Forest creamery. She was on her way home from her daughter’s home with her horse and buggy and milk can of buttermilk when her buggy was struck by a car from behind. throwing her and the can violently to the ground. She had no broken bones but one arm was painfully bruised.
The Farmers National Bank is playing the role of host to four Glenwood City High school students today at the National Dairy Show in St Paul. Cashier F. J. Fraizer will accompany them in his Jordan touring car.
35 years ago
Boyceville Press Reporter
November 26, 1981
Rabbit raising is alive and hopping at Honey Bunny’s Rabbit Ranch in Downing. After starting with two does and a buck rabbit a year ago, Gary and Virginia Olson, owners of the ranch, now have almost 200 rabbits, and that number is multiplying like…rabbits.
New crosswalk lines are now on many of the intersections in the Boyceville business district. Painting the lines were Roy McColpin, and Carl Lawson, both from south of Knapp and members of the Menomonie Green Thumbs.
If the past week is any indication, it looks like we will get our share of ice and snow this winter. Icicles have been a common sight on many of the buildings in Boyceville. A sheet of ice covered many windshields on Nov. 23.