Bruce News-Letter (Newspaper) - March 25, 1948, Bruce, Wisconsin VOLUME 41 NO 24 MUCK RUSK COUNTY if tt IMS ESTABLISHED U Bruce Girls Basketball Team Wins Rhinelander Trophy The Bruce Girls Basketball team on Sunday night tae undefeated Northwest Champions by winning the 1948 Two strong teams Antigo Rhinelander had their hopes shattered when Bruce defeated them in the hut round of the tournament Saturday night the Bruce team played Antigo a class A school representing people Antigo was quite confident of their team and Bruce seemed an easy victory Antigo made two field goals the opening minutes of the first quarter and then the Bruce team somewhat inspired by the fine support of the crowd settled down to a tight game and held them to six points while scoring fifteen of their own Our score of 15 to 6 made us elegible io play for the Championship Sunday Bruce took the floor against the Rhinelander A team Just before going on the floor the team was given the added incentive that they would receive a trophy if they won The first half Bruce scored 11 points and did not allow Rhinelander a point When the team went out the second half a bit travel worn and more than tired from playing on the huge gym the Rhinelander team started to score Bruce held the lead all the way to end as Champions with the score 16 to 11 Forty-two teams were represented in the combined grade and girls tournament The team not representing the school wore blue shorts and white shirty purchased by each player for the tournament A week before the trip found the girls busy with two candy sales The from them with several kind tions financed the team on their trip SERVICES HELD DENNIS SMITH TODAY FOR AT Community Briefs WINDFALL Two Hundred Attend Rod And Gun Tuesday Evening Services will be held this afternoon for Dennis Meyer who would have 2 years old on July 7 Death followed j an operation for removal of his tonsils Dennis is survived his father two sisters and two brothers His mother the former Helen Hanson died a couple of years ago IMPORTANT CHANGE IN FISH SPEARING REGULATIONS No spears may be used in daytime from March IS to May 1 for fishing purpose Spears are at times at night Mr and Mrs Leon for the sons Sunday at Lew j Gross in this district last week land home j Busy 4-H club wiH Mr and Mrs Floyd and j at the Ralph Triplett home on children of Hawkins sprat Sunday at j IB the Amiel Benson home j helping with Mrs Chas Lindner spent Friday j mt place In was collecting for the Red Cross The young folks were at a card party Tuesday evening at the Lyall MacArthur home Mr and Mrs Fred Vreeland and baby of Birchwood Mr and Mrs Leon Vreeland and Mrs L Vreeland called at the Roy Vreeland home on Sunday afternoon The Dramatic Club met at the Amiel Benson home Monday evening Mrs Elmer Long was called to Sentinel Ash while Oscar has gone to the Veterans in III r WINDFALL COUPLE TO SILVER WEDDING AND HOLD OKN HOUSE On Sunday April 4 Mr and Mrs Guy Tatro win observe their silver anniversary wiH be held from 2 p m until evening serious illness of her mother t noon and returned Sunday While away the team stayed at the home of Mhs Titus in Minocqua Members of the team making the trip Berniece Clausen Darlene Doughs Shirley Hayden Pat Kenyon Margie Lundgren Joanne Nelson Frankie Gwen Scales Joan Spears Patsy St Louis Anne Valiquette Darlene Wisherd and Coach LewElyn Titus Ceremony Unites Couple Saturday At the First Baptist church of Waukesha on Saturday March 20 Miss Ramona Reichel daughter of Mr and Mrs George Reichel became the bride of Victor James DeLellis Mr and Mrs Don brother and sister-in-law of the groom were their attendants After the ceremony a reception was held at the Goff Hotel tor friends and relatives The bride wore a grey gabardine suit with navy accessories and was given in marriage by her brother Clayton The young couple will make their home in Waukesha where they are both employed Joyce IMayou received third plice in the spelling contest in i last Saturday j Cadet Nurse Jean Peterson of neapolis is spending a few days at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs H Peterson The Thornapple Merrymakers are sponsoring an Easter Backet Sunday evening the of March at 8 p m as a farewell party for the Ed Kopras family Stanley Szura and John Antczak of Weyerhauser and Gilbert Nelson helped Ed Kopras on Friday and Saturday haul had to his new farm he has rented in the Rusk Farm community South Galey Lake Arthur Sempf Daughter and Mr Charles Eggert Saturday evening with Mr and John McLean Donald McEathron was a at the Arthur Sempf home on afternoon It looks like spring is here We it's here to stay Robins were seen in our Sunday morning BRUCE LEGION MEN BOWL AT GREEN BAY SATURDAY Robert Zielke Nelson Chick Hendricks Don Paulson Vince Walker Les Arey Lee Potter George Gibson Rod Woodmansee and Paul Suski all members of the Bruce American Legion Post went to Green Bay Saturday to bowl on a Legion meet Thirty-five herds were on test in the Rusk County No 1 in which 595 cows averaged 512 Ibs milk and 23.6 Ibs butterfat 100 Cows were dry and 90 cows were on the list which produced 40 Ibs or over of butterfat as Herbert Vierling Roy A Daniels Rensc Spoolhoff Lyall McArthur Glenn Mattison Seth Moore Ike Ryall W J and Sydney Graves each 1 Arthur Ryall Henry Harry E Burcalow Harold Iverson George Coon Paulson Bros Howard Blomberg Bernard each 2 Otto Foss and Walter Son each 3 Lester Hilten Jack Serley Wm Cabanowski Emil Mayer Son Audie Christiansen Jr and Louis Doom each 4 Delbert Doom 5 Gordon Bernard 6 Floyd Graves 7 Chick Hendricks was high point Harold Clausen 8 and C F Quade man for the meet with a score of 279 Son For the small herd class the herd CONTEST of Jack Serley of Exeland was first EVENING with a herd average of 37.7 Ibs for 13 grade brown swiss Harry E Burcalow Bruce 30.0 Ibs for 14 registered holsteins and Ike Ryall Bruce 28.1 Ibs for 13 prade seys For the large herd class the herd of Harold Clausen of Bruce was first with a herd average of Ibs for 16 registered and grade Tester Hilten Bruce 33.3 Ibs for 20 grade guernseys and Gordon Bernard 33.2 Ibs for 16 The individual for the month was owned by Lester Hilten of Bruce The production of this grade sey was 1140 Ibs miHc test 63.8 Ibs B F Serley Exeland grade brown swiss 1639 Ibs milk 3.9 f teat 59.9 Ibs B F Delbert Doom grade holstein 1257 Ibs mile test Ibs B F Paulson Bros Bruce guernsey ibs milk test 59.1 Ibs B F Floyd Graves Bruce 1079 test 58.3 Ibs B F Delbert Doom Broee grade 1326 milk teat B Harry E nMHIiii tbn mim BM B F tett B F loHa milk teat B P aty ANNUAL FORENSIC ON WEDNESDAY MARCH 31 AT BRUCE HIGH SCHOOL The Annual Forensic contest will be held in the English room at Bruce Hign on Wednesday evening March 31 at 7 o'clock The first and second place winners of this contest will compete in the District Forensic meet at Eau Claire The following people will take part in this Delaine Zamber Eunice Daniels Darlene Douglas Arlene Karis Shirley Smith Louise Woodmansee Original Lois Klinger Blanche Charles Canaday Berniece Clausen Eleanore Vera Mae Keith Gregory Spears Joan Four Minute Ann Valiquette Betty Wuethrich tic Marjorie Reese Mae Shirley Humorous Arlene Eke LeiU Mania Peterson Fat fit Loon There win be a charge to town Mud Brook Valley Charley Taylor had a crew of rams uu anil a large pile of wood Considerable sickness with colds in the Valley We picked up the following news en Monday Mrs Claire Gillette had ar operation at the Ladysmith hospital for tumor Mrs John Alvord has returned from Minneapolis and is at the Burt home at Bruce route 1 Jack Pulaski has a steam engine and is sawing several thousand feet of lumber A new large barn will be the result Cutting of timber at Ryner Lumber camp has ceased for this season Mrs McEathron has been suffering with a bad cold Her husband could hardly speak Monday with a sore throat but is improving Easter Sunday Services at Island Lake at 2 o'clock in the afternoon At Lake in the evening at 8 nun A group of neighbors helped Cos celebrate his birthday last Tuesday evening Art Benson returned home from the hospital Sunday Connie Wienert of spent the week end Mrs Chas Paddock and Elsie spent last Wednesday in Rice Lake Mr and Mrs Carl Lind of Spooner spent a day at Jens this week There will be church services Good Friday afternoon at 2.30 CORNELL WINS JUNIOR HIGH TROPHY AND GETS GATE RECEIPTS The Junior high basketball team did net fare well after the first game They lost to Cornell and in the evening the lost to Chippewa Falls Cornell did well They kept the gate receipts allowed no expenses for competing teams and got the trophy LA UK The first robins ware welcomed Mr and Ben Host and Bennie Vtt Sunday afternoon Mr and Mrs Jacob Geisler and family visited at the Robert Geisler home in Tony Sunday Mr and Mrs Ralph Patrick and family visited at the Carl Geisler I ome Sunday Mr and Carl Geisler and family visited at the Clifford Thompson home Sunday evening Mr M Mr and Mrs Carl and Jackie of Ranne at I W The Wisconsin State Capitol and Deer For the commission and its friends have been talking about the desirability of legislation which would give the commission the power to institute a system of controlled deer hunting so that surplus animals could be cropped from particular areas with greater precision The legislature however when not actively hostile has been to such appeals officers of the Wisconsin Conservation tried an unusual means of getting legislative support for such a statute Chairman Clarence Searles of the advisory organization conducted party of a dozen senators and assemblymen through one of the worst deer problem areas of consin the wild country in central Wisconsin embracing of Wood Jackson and Juneau counties Bumping along over town roads and fire for a distance of about oa trip of heavily deer yards rained TAKE Mr and Mrs Don Martindale have purchased the Moon place and will move this week has bought the Francis Scott house in Bruce Mr and Mrs Carl Bates of St Paul week end guests of relatives here Mrs Joe Tabat who spent the in Milwaukee has to her home here Mr and Mrs Max Stevens visited nt the Howard Martindale home in Ladysmith Sunday Mrs Albert was in our for the Red Cross on Monday Albert Stevens instated a milker in the Frank Stevens barn Monday Falls and tree plantations Urge of relatives in Chippewa Chetek Sunday All members of the makers Club was present at the meeting at the Harold Martindale home Wednesday A lesson on furniture was given the committee Plans were talked over for our centennial banquet The next meeting win be at the York home Wednesday March 31 This is an all day meeting Pot luck lunch Mrs Walter Atwood and Mrs Guy Moon visited at the Harold BoDman a home on Wednesday afternoon The Midway Club met with Mrs Lara Smith on of week The next meeting will be Thursday April 1st with Mrs Clara Potter was Sunday supper at the Herbert Goff home Ed Rusk County farm Hews And Views Ed Sink County Agricultural Agent Albert J Zahradka Erosion Control 4th Largest in the State Over people attended the dairy exposition that was held at the Ladysmith Milk Producers garage this last Monday and Tuesday March 22 and 23 The highlight of the demonstrations was the managed and udder demonstration put on by Warner extension dairyman of the college This stration well other displays end demonstrations put on by the college and the state department brought out a variety of favorable comments from the dairymen agricultural leaders and educators alike The specialists from the in attendance George Warner Extension Dairy Husbandry Evert Wallenfeld and Fred Steckelberg Dairy Industry Clarence Westphal Entomology division E G Burns W Spreiter Roper C H Neitzke R C Swanson of the Agricultural engineering division The state dairy j inspector Mr Anderson and Mr Tretsven of the American Dairymen s association were also in attendance with their booth The dairy exposition held at smith was considered the fourth largest in attendance of the 21 shows riven this far throughout the state since January 5 The committee from the university that cradled the caravan idea anticipated a total state attendance of according to Prof to date of over people have the caravan The final figures will be well over the mark A vote of thanks is extended trom the college and the county extension offices of the three cooperating unties Rusk Barron and Sawyer to the for their splendid to the L through out this community for their donation and support Outstanding support was also given this program by our school administrators tional agricultural departments veteran trainers the quality com- of the county the personnel and management of the Ladysmith Producers Cooperative and our farm people County Agent Sirek was informed that a new record was set in setting up exhibits and taking them down This was due to the efficient help and cooperation of all persons taking part which is a fine showing of community spirit Mr and Mrs Francis Scott and were Bloomer Monday Virginia Walker Helen Nelson LaVera at EM spent Ow week end at their homas TW with home returning to of starvation At one point man dark t- May of arrived FOUR STATE CONSERVATION PERSONNEL AND LEADERS SPEAK MOVIES ALSO SHOWN Two hundred people attended of moat successful Rod sad Gun Chib meetings ever held in Bum at the gymnasium on Tuesday evening Talks were given by Bert Dahlberg who is making a study of the deer Lewis area Clarence Wistrom of the division All talks were very informative and interesting County Forester Audie discussed the deer in Rusk county The movies were in charge of Mr Kings tad of the Ladysmith Ranger Station After the meeting a lunch was U the Rail m aad Mm en Saturday Mrs Prad at CAMERON YOUTHS DIE INSTANTLY IN WRECK AT CHETEK MONDAY Barron county's second and third traffic deaths of the year chalked up by the grim reaper early Monday morning after a crash on highway 53 south of in which two Cameron youths lost their and a third was critically injured Glenn Sykes son of Mr and Mrs LeRoy Sykes of Canton and Robert Pieper son of Mr and Mrs Walter Pieper of Cameron were the of the accident being killed almost instantly when their ear by Pieper crashed at high speed Into tttt rear of a milk track driven by Charles Matteon of Donald Olson also of Cameron was reported today still in serious at the St in wreck a few minutes after two o'clock Monday morning curred about four miles south of on highway 63 on a straight stretch of road near the Carlson Poultry Farm The Sykes ear with Pieper at the wheel apparently crashed into the rear of the slow moving milk truck at a high rate of speed shearing the top of the car nearly off and pinning the into the wreckage Sykes and Pieper in the front seat were instantly killed and Olson in the rear was also severly rut and bruised suffering several broken bones and internal Injuries in addition to severe shock Mattson who was starting on his daily route for Abbott's Dairies said that he was moving at about 30 miles per hour whites the speedometer oa the wrecked car was found to be stoA above the 100 mark Funeral services for Glenn were held on Wednesday afternoon from the Faith Lutheran church at Cameron with the Rev E B son of Cameron officiating and burial was made in the Sumner cemetery The boy who recently celebrated his 31 at birthday had recently been discharged from the honors were rendered at the grave by the Pieper post of the American Legion ITe is survived by his a brother Dale Sykes and two sisters Mary and Janet all at home Services for Robert planned for Thursday afternoon two o'clock from Faith Lutheran church The Rev E S will officiate and burial will be made in Pine Grove cemetery with the Cameron Legion post con- ducting military rites at the Pieper who was also 21 is survived by his and one sister Rice Lake Carl Lind of Spooner was a Brace caller Tuesday Mr and Seiner Alvey wire Fan Claire callers on Monday den of Lake U at DM few Dr amd Mrs R J H
