Polio Drive Allocates Emergency Funds to Crawford County
Prairie du Chien Wisconsin reports one polio case in Crawford County has cost $2,400 and requires ongoing care. The National Foundation sent $1,100 advance as chapter records show four emergencies totaling $3,750 over four years. Victim is six year old Lorna Jane Burkhalter, hospitalized in La Crosse.
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Prairie DU Chien
Wis
Crawford County
National Foundation
B. A. Kennedy
Prairier du Chien
Foundation
Lorna Jane Burkhalter
Marvin Burkhalter
Kennedy
la Crosse
Rev Janssen Invited as Guest at Northern Baptist Assembly
Rev. La Janssen has been invited as a convention guest for the leadership and layman conference at Green Lake. The Northern Baptist Assembly will discuss national church problems and leadership needs of northern Baptist churches. Janssen has done outstanding rural and youth work in the Baptist church.
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Warrens
Wis
la Janssen
Northern Baptist Assembly
Green Lake
Churches of the Northern Baptist Convention
Janssen
Baptist Church
Warrens Minister Attends 1 Day Meeting
Warrens Wisconsin Reverend Lawrence Janssen attends Wisconsin Ministers Council meeting in Green Lake. Mrs. Fred Barber and Rev Janssen drive there and return with War ren youths from a week at the Northern Baptist assembly. Names listed include Jack Cook Jim Cook Terry Popenfuss Junior Markin La Verna Streeter Dan Barber Glenda Oaks Jack Maasen.
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Warrens
Wis
Lawrence Janssen
Wisconsin Ministers Council
Green Lake
Fred Barber
Jansen
Northern Baptist Assembly
Jack
Jim Cook
Terry Popenfuss
Junior Markin
la Verna Streeter
Dan Barber
Glenda Oaks
Jack Maas
Ellen Barber
Lois Janssen
Tomah
Kenneth Jensen
Norman Anderson
No Workers Needed At Camp McCoy Vacancies Filled
Camp McCoy Wis civilian personnel director E C Pelshaw says all post vacancies are filled and no new applications will be accepted until further notice Press notices will announce any future vacancies Authorities are satisfied with the response to staffing efforts
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Camp Mccoy
Wis
E. C. Pelshaw
Four Organize New Writing Organization at Whitehall
The Creative Writers formed in Whitehall with four charter members Eva John Kuhn president Clara Berdan Ruth Rogers and Betty Epstein as members. Marcella Relyea and Lucy Morken plan to join later. They join Wisconsin Rural Writers and attend Green Lake convention Sept 6 9. Everett Long of Chicago is an honorary member.
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Whitehall
Wis
Creative Writers
Eva John Kuhn
Clara Berdan
Ruth Rogers
Betty Epstein
Millston
Marcella Relvea
Lucy Morken
Taylor
Wisconsin Rural Writers Association
Green Lake
Agric Instructor Completes Vacation
Holmen Wisconsin special report Mr and Mrs Harold Mattison have returned from a two week vacation to northern Wisconsin Minnesota and Canada. Mattison is the vocational agriculture instructor at Holmen high school. The trip covered 150 miles to a gold mining town in Canada with camps at Red Lake. They visited Kenora Port Arthur and Fort William and stopped at International Falls Hibbing and Duluth in Minnesota.
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Holmen
Wis
Harold Mattison
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Canada
Mattison
Holmen High School
Red Lake
Kenora
Port Arthur
Fort William
International Falls
Hibbing
Duluth
La Crescent stores take on new look
The old country type store is fading from La Crosse as Robert Bacon adds a 36 by 80 foot cement block self service grocery. The enlarged John S. Harris store at Main and Walnut held open house with refreshments for the public.
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LA Crescent
Minn
la Crosse
Robert Bacon i
Main
Walnut Streets
John S. Harris
Marks 90th Anniversary in Waukon
George A. Waters celebrated his 90th birthday July 24 at home in Waukon Iowa. He remained active and passed his automobile license test last year. Born to Irish immigrant parents who homesteaded in Ludlow township his family has long ties to the area. His wife and three sons including Ralph an World War I casualty are noted with relatives in Minnesota and Iowa.
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Waukon
George A. Waters
Waters
Robert Waters
Ireland
Ludlow Township
M. H. Waters
Austin, Minn
B. G. Waters
Austin
Minn
Ralph
Allamakee
Ralph D. Waters
Apple Festival Planned for September 30 in La Crescent
A civic orchard committee in La Crescent announces an apple festival set for Saturday September 30 highlighting the district’s crop. D. C. Webster leads the apple display and offers a large trophy. Melvin Hickenbotham chairs the event. Last year’s parade queen contest and coronation ball may not return this year. Duchess apples ship out as the first truckload, led by the Vollenweider Brothers orchard with 60 baskets.
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LA Crescent
Minn
D. C. Webster
Melvin Hickenbotham
Fred Rumsey
H. W. Seidel
Ralph Jones
Bill Carroll
Ken Shepardson
Russell Hess
Vollenweider Brothers
Sergeant Gets 7 Day Leave For Bavarian Holiday
Sergeant Erving B. Johnson of troop A, 16th Constabulary Squadron, Berlin post, will take a seven day leave at Garmisch Partenkirchen in Bavaria. The site offers seven hotels with nominal charges, tennis, golf, boating, fishing, mountain trips to Kreuzeck and Zugspitze, and nightly entertainment. Johnson arrived in Berlin in May 1948 and serves as reconnaissance squadron sergeant.
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Whitehall
Wis
Erving B. Johnson
Milo Johnson
Strum
Berlin
Germany
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
U. S. Army
Europe
Johnson
Bavarian Alps
Kreuzeck
Zugspitze
16Th Constabulary Squadron
New Service Station Opens on STH 33 in Ontario
Herbert Clark occupies a new 32 by 50 foot cement block service station on STH 33 in Ontario. A second cement block station of similar size opens, while a prior Clark station is now managed by Ed Berg. Don Jones opens Don's Drive In root beer stand on the same highway.
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Ontario
Wis
Herbert Clark
Clark
Ed Berg
Don Jones
Don
Milwaukee Nurse Spends Vacation with Genoa Relatives
Margaret Malin of Milwaukee is on vacation from nursing duties staying with her parents Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Malin in Genoa Wisconsin.
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Genoa
Wis
Margaret Malin
Milwaukee
A. J. Malin
Eleven Monroe County Enlistees Reported in July
Report from M Sgt Joe E Lange cites eleven enlistments from Monroe county during the first 25 days of July. Air force recruits from Sparta Wilton Warrens and Kendall head to Lackland Air Force Base for 13 weeks training, while army enlistees from Sparta and Kendall join the 10th Infantry Division at Fort Riley for 14 weeks.
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Army
Howard P. Duxberry
Robert L. Scheppke
Manuel E. Sanders
Marvin E. Sanders
Sparta
Duxberry
Scheppke
Transportation Corps
Manuel
Marvin Sanders
Field Artillery
Rodney W. Bell
Kendall
Herbert A. Thompson
Route 2
Tomah
Corps of Engineers
U. S. Army
10Th Infantry Division
Fort Riley
Kan
Air Force
Monroe County
St Patrick’s Parish Plans Onalaska Church School Convent
Architects Boyum Schubert and Sorenson design a modern four classroom school for 125 students plus a 250 seat church and adaptable social room at St Patrick’s Onalaska. The complex includes a nine nun convent and living quarters, with future expansion options and a Summer bazaar fundraiser set August 6 at Brice Prairie.
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St. Patrick’s Catholic
Onalaska
Wis
Diocese of la Crosse
St. Patrick’s Church
Hunter's Lodge
Brice Prairie
Boyum, Schubert and Sorenson
Robert Hackner, Jr
Decorah Midshipman Completes Six-Week Naval Cruise
Midshipman Charles Rob. Carlsen of Decorah Iowa, a University of Minnesota student, disembarks from the heavy cruiser USS St Paul in San Francisco after a six week naval reserve officers training corps cruise to Hawaii and San Diego. The program trains cadets in shipboard duties and includes visits to Pearl Harbor and social events. Naval ROTC operates at 52 colleges to feed officers into the navy and marine corps reserve.
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Decorah
USNR
Hjalmar Carlsen
University of Minnesota At
Minneapolis
St. Paul
San Francisco
Calif
Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps
Hawaii
San Diego
California
Pearl Harbor
Navy
Naval and
Marine Corps Reserve
Regular Navy
Naval Academy
Lovelace Eikens Legion Auxiliary Elects New Officers
At the annual Lovelace Eikens Legion Auxiliary meeting in Caledonia Minnesota new officers were elected. Mrs Donald Sheehan was named president with Mrs Ralph Eiken as first vice president. Other officers include Mrs Bud Marnach second vice president and Mrs Ozzie Peters secretary. Additional appointments cover roles in Americanism girls state essay contest poppy posters community service rehabilitation child welfare and more with Mary Ellen Marnach handling publicity and other members named to various committees.
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Caledonia
Minn
Lovelace-Eikens Legion Auxiliary Post
Amed
Donald Sheehan
Ralph Eiken
Bud Marnach
Ozzie Peters
Leo McCormick
I. C. Gengler
Helen Steffens
Charles A. Dorival
Josephine Merzenick
Emma Burns
Anna Flynn
William Alberts
B. A. Qualy
Myron Foss
Eve O’brien
Bonnie Dunum
Mary Ellen Marnach
Paul Matushek
Gerald Koening
Catherine Schummers
Middle Coon Valley Aid Meeting Planned for Aug 2
Members of the Middle Coon Valley Ladies Aid society will meet at the Rinaldo Berg home at 7 p.m. Hostesses are Mrs. Orbin Berg, Mrs. Rinaldo Berg and Mrs. Sam Olsen.
Legion Auxiliary At Stoddard To Meet In August
The Stoddard American Legion auxiliary will hold its August meeting at the Laura Bakken home Wednesday afternoon. Hostesses are Mrs. Laura Bakken and Mrs. Eleanor De Gear.
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Stoddard
Wis
New York Visitors Pay District Calls in Minnesota
James Gillispie of New York City and his mother Mrs. James Gillispie Sr of La Crescent stayed with the Charles Sauer family in Hokah and visited his daughter with the Kellys in La Crescent.
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Hokah, Minn
James Gillispie
New York
N. Y
la Crescent
Charles Sauer
Gillispie
George Kelly
Stoddard Family Takes Two Week Vacation
Stoddard Wisconsin Mr and Mrs Burt Larson and son Wayne spend two weeks vacationing at the home of Mrs Larson s parents Mr and Mrs Harry Haakenson in Madison and at Radisson Wisconsin.
Legion Auxiliary Installs New Heads In Lansing Post
Beck-Strong-Glynn unit of the American Legion auxiliary held installing services in Lansing Iowa with Martha Barthell as installing officer and Edith Magnusson as installing sergeant at arms. Leona Powers became president. Margaret Anderson vice president. Emma Cooper secretary. Olga Magnusson treasurer. Marie Kerndt historian. Gretta Gee chaplain. Dorothy Bartels sergeant at arms. Gee chaired refreshment. Kerndt won attendance prize. Unit earned a superior unit citation and has been superior since 1937. six past presidents serve on the board.
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Lansing
Beck-Strong-Glynn
American Legion Auxiliary
Martha Barthell
Edith Magnusson
Leona Powers
Margaret Anderson
Emma Cooper
Olga Magnusson
Marie Kerndt
Gretta Gee
Dorothy Bartels
Gee
Hillsboro Teacher Accepts Principal Post in Rewey
Hillsboro resident Mr. William Colburn has left Hillsboro to become school principal in Rewey. He will attend a Madison principal's clinic August 7 to 11. Colburn taught commercial subjects at Hillsboro High School for two years.
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Hillsboro
Wis
William Colburn
Billy
Colburn
Rewey
Madison
Hillsboro High School
Whitehall Reservist Gets Call to Active Duty
Raymond Slaby of Whitehall, a naval reserve member, reported to Minneapolis for transfer to Great Lakes training. He is the first local naval reserve member called since the Korean War began.
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Whitehall
Wis
Raymond Slaby
Naval Reserve
Minneapolis
Great Lakes Training Station
Four Warren Women Attend State Baptist Party
Four Warren women were among 350 guests at the annual state Baptist women’s party held at Green Lake from July 19 to July 23. Mrs. O. O. Potter, Mrs. John L. Sherk, Mrs. Eunice Eberdt, and Mrs. H. B. Gross attended the session.
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Warrens, Wis
Warrens
Green Lake
O. O. Potter
John L. Sherk
Eunice Eberdt
H. B. Gross
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Rod
Evelyn Claffey
National Infantile Paralysis Foundation
Palmer F. Davgs
H. H
Prairie
Au . Theatres
Fon
Carmen Miranda
Nancy
Rio
Abbott & Costello
Pardon My Sarong
Vernon
Black River Falls
Tartan
Quarti
China
New Writing Organization
Rice - Olsen
DIAL
Leroy F. Eikens
Houston County
Eikens
National Rural Youth Committee
The
Farm Bureau
Mayville Township
Mel Hickenbotham
Hugh M. Fanning
32Nd Infantry Division
Kenneth Savacool
128Th Infantry
Viroqua
128Th
Savacool
632Nd
Rene
Fanning
J. P. Lorrilard Tobacco Co
National Guard
Jewel
Vern Dale
Joseph M. Bach
Ilth Streets
Middle Coon Valley Aid
Sectea Avtec
St. Joseph
Legion Auxiliary
Lansing Post
Penstix
Fifth Ave
Act
Warren
Scotts
Uieers
Kroner
Adam
Pearl St
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