Days of Old – 6-25-2014
Days of Old – 6-25-2014
10 years ago
Tribune of June 9, 2004
Timothy J. Emholtz, currently the Superintendent of Schools at St. Croix Falls, will take over the Superintendent of Schools at Glenwood City in 59 days.
Glenwood City native and 2000 graduate of Glenwood City High School, Renee Alleman, 22, will be heading to Armenia for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer.
The long-awaited Oak St. revitalization project is set to start next Monday, June 14.
25 years ago
Tribune of May 17, 1989
An announcement was made last Thursday in which the ownership of the State Bank of Elmwood was transferred to Warren B. Oskey, CEO of the First National Bank of Glenwood.
Hannah Rubusch has handed over the shop keys to Mark Marstad. Hannah and her husband Willard built Rubusch’s Sales and Service in 1949. Barstad, a Boyceville native, bought the business earlier in the month. In the future in the store will be titled J & M Hardware and Auto Parts.
Heather Brown, a 9th grader from Boyceville, was one of four finalists in the Regional Inventor’s Fair held at UW-River Falls on May 6. Her invention was titled “Dynametric Brace.”
50 years ago
Tribune of July 16, 1964
Two people were killed and four injured in a two-car auto accident last Saturday morning at the junction of Highways 63 and 64.
J.C. Lightfoot and Verlyn Yule, Glenwood City, and Mrs. Aaron Pohl, Town of Emerald have filed for the school board.
Raymond Mahoney, Glenwood City, will have the exclusive use of the prefix “Ra-Ridge” in naming all Registered Holstein-Friesian Association of America.
60 years ago
Tribune of June 24, 1954
Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Glenwood City, Wisconsin, will observe the 65th Anniversary of its founding on Sunday, June 27.
Nearly seventy members of the congregation of the Emerald Methodist church gathered at Whispering Pines Lodge on Spirit Lake near Frederick Sunday, for services and a going-away party for their pastor Rev. Rostron.
Monday, August 30, will mark the opening of the Glenwood City-Emerald Public Schools.
The All Star Circus is being brought here under the sponsorship of the Glenwood City Community Club, and will stage two big performances on Monday, June 28, at 2 and 8 p.m. at the high school gymnasium.
A total eclipse of the sun will be visible here on June 30th. Not since 1925 has a total solar eclipse occurred in the Wisconsin area, and not until May 3, 2106, will one occur again.
95 years ago
The Glenwood Tribune
May 22, 1919
Considerable sentiment has developed among the farmers south of town for an electric light and power line. The pleasing information was given that a line will be worked out from the Glenwood City station westward to Emerald and Cylon, serving all the farmers along the way.
Pres. E.J. Schneider, of the Apple River Milling Co., was in Glenwood City Monday, and while he was here final arrangements were completed for the sale of the building and land now occupied by the Inter-State Lumber Co. On the unoccupied portion of the property a modern mill and grain elevator of fireproof construction will be erected.
30 years ago
Boyceville Press Reporter
June 21, 1984
Money – both its income and outflow – was the center of attention during the Boyceville school board’s June 18 meeting. Jill Amundson, district administrator, warned members that something like $100,000 in delinquent taxes will be a significant factor for the 1984-85 school year budget.
Large print books for readers in the third through ninth grade are now available from the Boyceville Public Library, according to librarian Polly Gropen.
Interest earnings on Saving Certificates at the National Bank of Boyceville can become a sizeable bundle of cash. 1.5 year savings certificates have an annual rate of 11.250% and annual yield of 11.734%, while 2.5 year savings certificates have an annual rate of 11.750% and annual yield of 12.278%