Reader letters correct chuck wagon race claim vented
Letters from readers challenge The Country Today on July 22 for misstating Wisconsin’s first chuck wagon race at Dunn County Fair and recall earlier events in Monroe and Chippewa counties. Editors note Wisconsin had first such event by the Mid-America Chuck Wagon Racing Association. locals share memories of fairs at Galesville New Auburn and Tomah with details on facilities and dangers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunn County
Wisconsin
Tomah
Monroe County
Monroe County Fairgrounds
Dunn County Fair
Mid- America Chuck Wagon Racing Association
The
Country Today
Galesville Fair Association
Canada
Sires Announce Five Barn Meetings Across Wisconsin
MABC Select Sires names five barn meetings in Western Wisconsin with show times at 8 p.m. Today at Mel Low Farms New Richmond and Clare Lea Holsteins Alma Center on Thursday. Friday features Elk Creek Acres Richard Miller Farm Menomonie and Saturday Jim and Pam Endvick Farm Boyd. Contact Roy Poss for details.
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Wisconsin
Mel Low Farms
New Richmond
Clare-Lea Holsteins
Heller Farms
Alma Center
Elk Creek Acres
Richard Miller
Menomonie
Jim
Pam Endvick
Boyd
Jefferson man sentenced after bilking farmers
Winston D. Judd of Jefferson, the first person convicted by a jury under Wisconsin's 1981 Organized Crime Control Act, was sentenced to five years in prison and fined $90,600. He, 69, was convicted June 17 of racketeering for bilking farmers in Ashland Chippewa Pierce Polk and Walworth counties of $43,500 between 1981 and 1985 over silos never delivered by Cropmaster Inc.
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Winston D. Judd
Jefferson
Wisconsin
Don Hanaway
Judd
Walworth County
Robert Read
Elkhorn
Hanaway
Cropmaster Inc
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Vonda van Dyke
the Country Today
Vanda
Harv Prott
Rebecca Miller
Greater
Tomah Area
Galesville
Roy
Pioneer
Chippewa County
New Auburn
Ray Paulson
Bloomer
Paulson
Steve Mergen
Madison
Mabc-Select
Mrs
Roy Poss
Massey Ferguson
Ashland
Chippewa, Pierce, Polk and
Walworth
John Deere
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S. Medford
Travis
Lawrence Anibas
Alma Cent
Richard Baskin
Eau Galle
Jack Cutter
Conrath Elmdale Cheese Factory, Inc
Dennis Glocke
Manawa
Allan Hazuga
Stanley Lorn Ketter
Campbellspor
Tom Klinger
Mediore
Kevin Ladsten
Blan
James Ruggles
Withee
Spokeville
Loyal
Sharon Stencil
Athens
Lloyd Stankel
Hawkins Dean Swanson
New Aubi
Brian Weis
Roberts Eries
Travis Calf Milk, Inc
Christie Call
Travis-4
Eillsville
International
Hydro
Williams Truck & Tractor Rt
Platteville
USKY
MUSKY
Rustout
Husky Farm Equipment Ltd
Chilton WI
Construction & Desi
MidAmer Co., Inc
Watts Rd
P.O
Marth Wood
Shaving Supply
Box 139
Marathon
Eau Claire, WI
Lester's
Lester Prairie
Harvestore
A.O. Smith Harvestore ® Products, Inc
Brave Harvestore Inc
Arrow Harvestore Systems, Inc
Mmeth
Eau Claire
Bill
Viola Sales, Inc
Prairie Farm
Lewis
Almena
Chippewa Falls
Ullv
Jack K
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Durand
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