Out of the Past- 12-21-2016
Out of the Past- 12-21-2016
10 years ago
December 20, 2006
Plans for a 40-foot expansion of the Commercial Testing Lab were presented to the Colfax Village Board Dec. 11. The expansion is planned for the east side of the CTL Foods building along Pine Street.
Colfax Farmers Union continues to stand on solid financial footing, a small group of stockholders learned during the 63rd annual meeting Dec. 13 at Colfax High School. Sales for the fiscal year were $6.6 million.
Congratulations to Breanna and Matt Riste for a great 2006 Garden Tractor pulling season. Both pull for Hook n Go, Gopher State and Dairyland Associations, which takes these kids all over the states of Wisconsin and Minnesota.
25 years ago
December 19, 1991
Members of the Colfax Woman’s Club decorated Tower Park with Christmas lights and other ornaments Dec. 7. The decorations include one light for each of the 1,149 residents of Colfax.
This week’s edition of the Colfax Messenger features a special Christmas section, “My Best Christmas,” that includes stories written by elementary students taught by Ruth Satter, Leona Ubbelohde and Debbie Berndt.
The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be at Colfax Lutheran New Year’s Eve.
35 years ago
December 24, 1981
Colfax seventh grader Randy Dreger, a member of the Colfax Comets, won the 4-H Dunn County Speak Off held at the Farmers Union building in Menomonie December 15. He is the son of Raymond and Petra Dreger.
Richard Martzke, Colfax school administrator, has been hired by the VTAE Dist. One Board to serve as Menomonie Area Coordinator. Martzke, who gave his resignation to the Colfax school board during a special meeting Dec. 9, reportedly was earning $33,000 a year at Colfax.
Robin Lausted, a student at Elk Mound High School, has sold more ads for the yearbook at $815 in sales than the entire Moundonian staff sold in 1979-80. All together, 29 students on the yearbook staff have sold $3,190 worth of ads. The cost to publish the Moundonian will be $4,000.
50 years ago
December 22, 1966
Judging of the lighting effects was completed Tuesday evening, and according to the judges, the John Hammers rated first place in the contest; the Ken Reeds, Sr., second; and the Dr. G.S. Holter residence was third.
Early Sunday morning, three Colfax youths were injured in a car mishap on I-94 one mile east of Menomonie. Steve Klossner’s car, which he was driving, was rammed in the rear by a semi-truck driven by Mel Myers of Circle Pines, Minn. The crash caused Klossner’s car to burst into flames from which Ann Mortenson, Glenn Johnson and Rodney Johnson, who were passengers, received severe burns. All were taken to Memorial Hospital in Menomonie. Klossner was uninjured, but his car was termed a total wreck.
Residents in Colfax contributed $1,286.05 in a one-day drive for the United Way Fund December 16. The sum collected in Colfax makes the grand total for Dunn County $32,712.83.
65 years ago
December 20, 1951
Baldwin was unable to cope with Colfax’s high flying “Vikings” in a Middle Border game at Baldwin last Friday night, the powerful red and white aggregation’s big team controlling rebounds at both ends of the court to win easily by the score of 75 to 28 in a game that saw coaches Poppy and Kittle throwing in reserves freely in an effort to stop the tide.
The Children of the Junior Department of the Colfax Lutheran Church, numbering 122, from the kindergarten through fourth grade, will present their Christmas program, “The Kingdom of the Christ Child” on Sunday, December 23, at 3 p.m. The program for the Senior Department of the Sunday School will be held at 10 a.m.
The old Hay River bridge on country trunk highway FF four miles north of Wheeler will be replaced by a modern structure with improved approaches next year. A $47,139 contract for construction of the new bridge has been approved by Lt. Governor George M. Smith. The contract was awarded to R.C. Hinman of Glenwood City, the low bidder.
100 years ago
December 22, 1916
Coal thieves are abroad. Lock the wood house too.
Choose Christmas Gifts from the “Little Paris Shop.” For the least possible expense, you can buy Merite Jewelry both artistic and of real worth. — Colfax Store Co.
Mrs. J.B. Russell had the misfortune to take an ugly fall last Thursday evening as she stepped out to empty some ashes and suffered a broken bone in her wrist.