Days of Old – 5-18-2016
Days of Old – 5-18-2016
10 years ago
Tribune of May 3, 2006
Fire destroyed the barn on the Jim and Carol McCarthy farm on Highway W in Springfield Township on Wednesday forenoon.
The Glenwood City common council discussed the mold that has been found growing in the basement of the city hall. While the mayor placed the problem into a committee for study, the council did discuss finding space for those offices outside of the basement until the problem is resolved.
Richard Lake of Hay River, died Friday afternoon while working on some farm equipment in a freak accident. A piece of metal from the hammer he was using broke off and pierced his chest, rupturing his pulmonary artery.
25 years ago
Tribune of April 10, 1991
Allowing themselves a fair amount of latitude and leeway, the Glenwood City School Board passed two carefully-worded motions at Monday night’s meeting. The board approved the motion to build a six-grade elementary school with administrative offices and a gymnasium, close the Glenwood City elementary school, retain the use of St. John’s and renovate the Jr.-Sr. high school.
Two former town chairmen regained the position in last Tuesday’s spring election. Both men lost the chairmanship two years ago but are back, Gerald Mitch in the Town of Glenwood and Herb Lake in the Town of Hay River.
Voters in last Tuesday’s election overwhelmingly rejected the “Affordable Housing” amendment to the Constitution which would have made Wisconsin one of the last states allowed to build and refurbish private housing for the poor.
50 years ago
Tribune of June 16, 1966
Wallace A. Lindholm has been named the new Superintendent of schools for the Glenwood City school system, and will take over his new duties as administrator of the school system on July 1.
Al’s Phillips 66 Service Station will hold an open house all day Friday, June 17, with free coffee and doughnuts, prizes and gifts. The open house will commemorate the changing to the Phillips 66 line of products.
The Glenwood City Tribune last week Friday installed a Miehle V36 automatic cylinder press. The press, which will print a sheet of paper up to 14×20 inches, will be a valued addition to the Tribune’s expanding commercial printing department and will provide a press for color printing.
Rev. Donald O. Wesener Pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran church here and of St. John’s Lutheran of Boyceville for the past four years, has terminated his pastorate here and left Monday to accept a call at the Lutheran church at Tigerton, Wisconsin. No interim pastor has yet been selected or the two churches.
60 years ago
Tribune of May 17, 1956
Special dedicatory services will be held on Pentecost Sunday, May 20, for the new St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church at Boyceville.
At a special meeting Monday evening, the City Council took action to put an end to the trouble caused by dogs running loose in the city.
Any dog found running loose will now be caught and impounded and if they are not claimed within five days from the time of their capture, the dogs will be destroyed.
38 seniors will graduate at the commencement ceremony on Monday evening, May 21 at the high school gymnasium.
Jerry Lark placed second in the Pole Vault on Saturday at the Menomonie Little Olympics track meet. The track team is proud of Jerry, who set a new school record of 9’ 6”.
Glenwood City Prom King Richard Jorgenson crowned Sara Lauber as prom queen, and they reigned over the “Underwater Fantasy” themed prom held on Saturday, May 5.
95 years ago
The Glenwood Tribune
April 14, 1921
E. D. Payne, who has completed a course at the Goodyear plant at Akron, Ohio, and is now going through the Exide Storage Battery plant in Minneapolis, will return soon and start in the tire and battery repair business in the second story of the Ward Hardware Co. building.
Another development in the Marie Schroeder attack was written late Saturday when Lupe Rinconnes confessed that he assisted Frederico Ortego in planning and executing the attack on Marie Schroeder and witnessed her murder.
The Y. P. S. of the Norwegian Lutheran church are having a modern screened porch built on the parsonage on Maple Street. Carl Landberg is doing the work.
35 years ago
Boyceville Press Reporter
May 21, 1981
A 1978 Impala owned by Albert Larson switched out of park or neutral, about 10 a.m. May 18, the accelerator jammed and the vehicle rammed into a parked freight car, according to Ella DeLong, a passenger in the car. DeLong, who was not seriously injured, was seated in the car waiting for Larson to pick up some seed at the Cenex Warehouse.
Boyceville’s School Board voted unanimously at their May 19 meeting to borrow funds if necessary to pay teachers the full salary as promised under their contracts.
The Boyceville Class of 1981 will be graduating at commencement ceremony on Friday, May 22, 1981 at 8 p.m.