Good Fishing Boosts Wisconsin Trout Industry and Tourism
The 1960 Wisconsin Highway map highlights access to lakes and streams, noting trout rearing ponds that attract tourists. Public-spirited citizens and Kopplin and Kinas provided land under a long lease, enabling state funding up to 1500 dollars for navigable water rights. The piece links fishing access to rising real estate values and tax bases supporting schools and teachers.
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Wisconsin
Green Lake
P T A Open House Surprised by Power Outage
An unscheduled blackout during a Monday night P T A Open House disrupted activities as some teachers kept students engaged while lights failed. A pheasant caused a substation fault triggering the outage. light returned and business remodeling continued with shops upgrading interiors and adding coin operated laundry.
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P. T. A. Open House
Serious Accident Near Park In Ripon Injures James Condon
James Condon aged 22 of 703 Watson Street Ripon suffered severe head and facial lacerations and possible concussion after an early Sunday morning crash opposite Hattie Sherwood Park. Found unconscious 39 feet offshore from his car, he had apparently lost control while heading toward Green Lake, struck a power pole, and ended up on the ice near the shore. Officer Herman Rasmussen reported Condon wandered from the vehicle to the water’s edge.
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James Condon
Watson St. Ripon
Hattie Sherwood
Condon
Herman Rasmussen
Green Lake
Accidents and Community News Report From Ripon Area
A collision case involving Condon, a Ripon Motors salesman, required Dr Leininger and Dr Barbour as medical responders with the RIPON Police Ambulance taking him to a hospital in Madison for plastic surgery after a 1959 Ford Thunderbird wreck. Weekend incidents include Hope Ann Haima’s $350 skid into a snow bank and a second crash near Markesan with damages around $360 to Roger Stelter’s car and $150 to Herbert Kohn’s auto. Community events list church gatherings, Rot ary volleyball, and a series of local society activities, plus social visits and a Montello Woman's Club meeting with Hawaii themed program by Mrs. G.M. Stoddard.
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A. T. Leininger
Barbour
Ron Chier
Ripon Hospital
Condon
Ripon Motors
Lloyd Schoephoester
Rasmussen
Madison
Hope Ann Haima
Dalton
Markesan
Schoephoester
Mackford Road
Herbert Kohn
Markeson
Stelter
Kohn
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Fond di Lac
Robert E. Francis
Betsy Francis
Edine Doris Cotter
Lila Eggleston
Selle
van Rhyn's
Bruce's Liquor Store
Bel-Air Club
Louis Cain
Alugh
Ripon
Selle 'S
Roger Stelter
American Legion B
P. W.C
Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church
Rotary
Donald Dickerson
Cancer Society
Whiting
Berlin
Peace Lutheran
Our Lady of the Lake
Federated Church
William Drews
Danny Breivogel
Kenosha
Illinois
Mrs
Pete Cain
Marlo Cain
Milwaukee
S.W. Ritchie
LeRoy Sorenson
Sheboygan Falls
Mrs. Stoddard
Montello Club
G.M. Stoddard
Montello
Middleton
Verona
Dane County Fair Grounds
University of Wisconsin Ag
Bowman Dairy Farm
Jerome Blaska
NEW University
Arlington Farms
Wisconsin Power & Light CO
Madison Gas & Electric CO
Wisconsin Electric Power CO
Successful Farming
Sun Prairie
Milwaurle
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