Out of the Past – 11-9-2016
Out of the Past – 11-9-2016
10 years ago
November 8, 2006
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.
The Village of Colfax budget for 2007 includes a $20,000 installment on the loan to purchase the old Cenex warehouse designated as the future home of the municipal maintenance shop and possibly other village facilities.
Due to a typographical error, the amount contributed by the Village of Colfax to the Dunn County Economic Development Corporation in 2006 was incorrectly reported as $140,000. Colfax gave the organization $1,400 this year. The proposed amount for the 2007 budget is $1,450.
25 years ago
November 7, 1991
Just a short while after Pember Construction finished installing new curb and gutter Pine Street between East River and First Avenue, the handiwork was covered by the season’s first major snowfall. Wet snow fell on Halloween, Oct. 31, then turned to rain which fell most of the day Nov. 1 before switching back to snow again overnight. Colfax was on the edge of the big storm which deposited about 27 inches of snow on the Twin Cities area. A number of area events had to be postponed for a few days, including Elk Mound’s play-off football game with Fall Creek and the sectional volleyball tournament at Colfax.
Big fish have been hitting the hooks of anglers at the 22-Mile Ford bridge on the Red Cedar River. Arden Loew, 10, Colfax, caught a 38.75 inch northern that weighed 13.75 pounds. Arden’s dad, Martin Loew, said his family has pulled four fish 30 inches or more out of the river in the last month.
As of Nov. 4, only one official application has been received for the vacancy on the village board created when Loren Dressel resigned after being transferred to Indiana by Uniroyal. Beverly Schauer of 605 Third Ave. turned in an application to John Jahr, village clerk.
35 years ago
November 12, 1981
Holstein triplets were born November 5 on the David Larson farm, Route 1, Colfax. There were two heifers and one bull.
The Colfax Village Board voted Nov. 9 to pay three emergency medical technicians to stay in town the opening weekend of gun deer season (Nov. 21-22) in case an ambulance is needed. They will be paid $4 an hour for each of two 10-hour days. Five firemen also will be paid $4 an hour to be on call for two 10-hour days that weekend.
The Elk Mound Village Board voted unanimously Nov. 9 to deny a request from Harold Yates of Air Communications of Wisconsin, Inc., Eau Claire, to put a radio tower on top of Mound Hill Park. The tower would have provided two-way radio communications for the company’s clients.
50 years ago
November 10, 1966
From Winding Up the Yarn: It probably isn’t generally known, but the Town of Otter Creek is really in big time stuff … It seems that by the process of a “machine,” the township was chosen as a portion of the United States from which election results are fed into a computer to early determine the final result of the election. Mrs. Arthur Grabow has been selected to cover the election (as she did in the primary election when 25 ballots were cast), call CBS News in New York and report the results as quickly as possible following the tabulation of the vote.
The regularly scheduled farmer class at Plainview will meet on Wednesday, November 16, at 7:45 p.m. and attend a dairy clinic in Menomonie.
Farmers’ Store Country Kitchen Bread — four loaves for 99 cents. Finest Peas — eight 15.5 ounce cans for $1.
65 years ago
November 8, 1951
Approximately 200 people gathered at the North Running Valley Lutheran church Sunday afternoon to help the Ladies Aid observe their fiftieth anniversary.
Farmers of Dunn County will hold a county-wide rally at Menomonie on Saturday, December 1, to discuss declining farm prices, federal farm programs, attacks on cooperatives by certain national groups, and problems of increasing cooperative patronage. Committee members from Colfax are Ed Iverson, Alf Lee and Jerry Twedt; from Connorsville, Emil Beyer; from Wheeler, Denver Olson.
The Colfax football team lost to Spring Valley Friday night 6 to 0. The win put the Cardinals in a tie for third place in the conference, while Colfax ended with a three wins and three losses for the season.
100 years ago
November 10, 1916
While at work on the new lumber shed for Midland Lumber Co., last Friday, Ernest Wheeler had the misfortune to take a bad fall from which he escaped miraculously. In trying to pass a fellow workman on a scaffold, he stepped on a board that gave way and precipitated him to the ground about seventeen feet below where he stood, but he caught a board in passing.
Frank Sweet, who for several weeks has been experimenting on the proposition of securing an artesian well just outside the village limits to the east, informs us that the project had to be abandoned, as they struck granite at a depth of 300 feet.
Little Russell Christianson got his finger jammed in a door at the school house Monday, receiving a deep laceration of the member.