Primary election results in Trempealeau County Wisconsin
In Whitehall and Trempealeau county primary ballots Wiley leads Heath by two votes for assemblyman with 1019 to 1017. Other close races include congressman Marlin Hall with 2660, and governor Ralph Goodland trailed Tennell Immell by margin in Trempealeau precincts. Republican ticket totals show La Follette 2016 over McCarthy 1378 for U S Senate. Total votes 3820. several county offices contested with Republicans unopposed.
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Whitehall
Wis
Gece Guilford
M. Wiley
Galesville
Chauncey Heath
Sumner
Osseo
Trempealeau County
Celeee
Wiley
Meath
Heath
Martin D. Brom
Dodge
Scott Hotchkiss
Marlin Hall
Black River Falls
Hugh M. Jones
Bloomer
Ralph Immell
Walter Goodland
Tennell
Goodland
Delbert J. Kenny
Ralph F. Amoth
Otto R. Werkmeister
Robert la Follette
Joseph McCarthy
la Follette
McCarthy
Perry Stearns
Daniel Hoan
Stanley Fajkowski
Howard McMurray
U. S
August Knudtson
Basil Erickson
Martin A. Wiemer
Indean
Marjorie Schaefer
LaVern G. Kostner
Arcadia
Register of Deers
Lester Brenom
Oscar Rennebohm
Fred R. Zimmerman
John M. Smith
Bert O. Hollenbeck
Robert J. Amo
Amo
Donald Smart
Taylor
Merlin Hull
Hull
Hugh Jones
Jackson County
Michael P. Peterson
Carl Monses
Sidney Jensen
Etta Oson
Register of Deeds
Ida J. Stein
David A. Blencoe
Amoth
Werkmeister
Monroe County
Edwin G. Monick
Immell
Kenny
Sparta Breaks Ground for Memorial Park Pool Facility
Sparta Wisconsin celebrated a historic ground breaking for a swimming pool bath and field house at Memorial park. Arthur E Henningsen won the contract after bids with 25 laborers planned. concrete work next week, foundation by mid September, target opening June 1 1947.
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Sparta
Wis
Memorial Park
Arthur E. Henningsen
William W. Goff
Henningsen
Bath-Field House
Bath House
J. J. Seinfelder Company
la Crosse
George Henningsen
Racine
Bull Ersland
O. O. Bergman
Boyum, Schubert and Sorenson
Papenfuss Electrical Company
Sanitary Plumbing Company
Luther College to enroll 650 new students this fall
Decorah reports enrollments exceed capacity as O W Qualley announces a larger than expected class. Government and college housing for GIs is underway with barracks style units and city support. Classroom space may require extended hours and potential use of a downtown building housing the Norwegian American historical museum.
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Decorah
Lather
O. W. Qualley
Lather College
North Beaver Creek Group Meeds Tuesday
North Beaver Creek church members in ETTRICK Wisconsin will meet Tuesday August 20 at 2 p m. The topic The Christian as a Missionary will be presented by Mrs Eugene Herreid. Mrs Arnold Brovold will introduce the cradle roll. The Easterde Quartette of four five year olds will sing. Lunch will be served by Mrs Thomas Twesme and others.
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Ettrick
Wis
North Beaver Creek
Luther Borgen
Eugene Herreid
Arnold Brovold
Galesville
Mrs. Zenke
Mmes
Thomas Twesme
Lars Myriand
Palme: Herreid
Elmer Nelson
Trempealeau County 4-Hers Get Awards
Trempealeau 4-H club members won red ribbons at the La Crosse fair district demonstration contests. Anna Mae Anderson led a solo presentation for Hale and Hardy, Lorayne Hagen and Leona Lebakken teamed for Westway, and Gerald Melby represented Beaches Corners as Trempealeau’s lone boy demonstrator.
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Whitehall
Wis
Trempealeau County
Anna Mae Anderson
Hale and Hardy Club
Lorayne Hagen
Leona Lebakken
Westway Club
Gerald Melby
Beaches Corners
Galesville Principal Attends University
Mr and Mrs Norman Fries with son visit Madison as Fries attends summer school at the University of Wisconsin Fries recently discharged veteran of the navy will be principal of Galesville high school next term Mrs Fries Adeline Redsten of Ettrick taught at Galesville while her husband served in the war
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Ettrick, Wis
Norman Fries
Madison
University of
Bachelor farmer Sedor Torgerson found dead in cottage
Sedor Torgerson aged 62 a bachelor living alone on a farm near Newton Wisconsin was found dead on the floor of his cottage by neighbor Clarence Hanson on Monday afternoon Vernon county coroner Ole Jackson and sheriff Bernard Ammerman ruled the death from natural causes He is survived by his brother Rudolph Torgerson of Viroqua
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Vnroqua
Wis
Sedor Torgerson
Newton
Clarence Hanson
Ole Jackson
Vernon County
Bernard Ammerman
Rudolph Torgerson
Viroqua
Prairie Woman Wins Contest For Treasurer
In Crawford county Wisconsin Mrs Florence Wolcott Ertel won the Democratic nomination for county treasurer by 17 votes in a three corner race over Tillman M Hounsell and Anton E Laskaskie Eastman. Other county officials were renominated without opposition.
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Prairie DU Chien
Wis
Florence Wolcott Ertel
Crawford County
Tillman M. Hounsell
Soldiers Grove
Anton E. Laskaskie
Eastman
Donald C. McDowell
Lester R. Daugherty
Ulysses Day
William J. Rider
Arden Adams
Larry E. Peterson
William M. Patterson
Register of Deeds
Goodland
Immel
Kenny
Martin
McCarthy
Senator la Follette
Congress
Stevenson
Miller
Hoan
Frank J. Antoine
Eugene P. Moran
Robert J. Waller
Arlen O. Aspenson
Evelyn Nash
Marguerite Rogers
Teachers Go To Work Shop In Sparta Aug 22 23
Monroe County teachers attend a work shop at East Beaver Creek school Sparta on Aug 22 and 23 led by Miss Ollie Swanson superintendent. Mrs Ethel Hubbard conducts the session to ready teachers for the new term. All under contract for 1946 47 who did not attend summer school or La Crosse session must attend. Miss Elma Sholes supervising teacher in charge. Miss Betty Greenfield resigns as rural supervising teacher. successor unnamed. An institute for all rural and state graded teachers will be at Sparta high school Aug 27 and 28.
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Sparta
Wis
Monroe County
East Beaver Creek
Ollie Swanson
Ethel Hubbard
la Crosse
Caledonia priest named KC chaplain in Winona council
The Rev. R. E. Jennings pastor of St. Thomas Pro-Cathedral in Winona was named chaplain for Knights of Columbus council 639 Winona at a special meeting last week. Father Jennings is a son of James Jennings of Caledonia Minnesota.
Whitehall approves bids for water pump and treatment plant
Whitehall Wisconsin city council accepts Fairbanks Morse bid 2294 for a water pump deliverable in 90 days and Permutit bid 12386 for treatment plant equipment. They also authorize 55000 water revenue bonds at 2 percent, maturing 1949 through 1978. Four home-building permits issued and pole lighting plan funded jointly by school and baseball club. Ice house removal near mill pond ordered.
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Whitehall
Wis
Fairbanks Morse & Company
St. Paul
Permutit Company of
New York
S. P. Hall
Eau Claire
Barcus Kindred and Company
South la Salle Street
Chicago
Omer Olson
W. H. Blundy
Russell James
Lester Forseth
Mill Pond
Emil Anderson Dies In Auto Crash Near Melrose
Emil Anderson 32 died instantly when his Ford truck collided with the end of a platform truck on highway 54 one fourth mile north of Moalince VR BFR Be. The incident left Anderson's car a total loss with a broken neck. Funeral services were held at Little Norway church. Anderson was WWII veteran, son of Mr and Mrs Even Anderson.
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Black River Falls
Wis
Little Norway
Emil Anderson
Highway 54
Moalince
VR Bfr Be
Anderson
Rose Marie Hartmann
Hartmann
R. C. Hartmann
Burt
Neil Collins
Even Anderson
Irving
Raymond P. Huss
Pederson Promoted to Staff Sergeant in Germany
Robert Pederson son of the G N Pedersons formerly from Whitehall now in Stuttgart Germany has been advanced to staff sergeant in charge of the accounting department in his office at the base.
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Whitehall
Wis
Robert Pederson
G. N. Pedersons
Kenosha
Stuttgart
Germany
Lutheran College Summer Series Sets Aug 13 and 20 Talks
Decorah Iowa Special program director Dr. O W Qualley announces two remaining convocation programs at Luther College. On Aug 13 Prof Michel Franck of Pacific Lutheran College will lecture on Russia and Danube area issues and panel duties at New York University. On Aug 20 Prof William J Peterson of the University of Iowa will discuss Luther Decorah and the Iowa centennial, with note of his Mississippi river history work Steamboating on the Upper Mississippi.
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Decorah
O. W. Qualley
Luther College
Michel Franck
Pacific Lutheran College
Parkland
Washington
Russia
Danube
Franck
New York University
Lengyel
William J. Peterson
State University of Iowa
Peterson
Upper
Mississippi
Mockrud Wins Assembly Race In Vernon Co
Vernon county results show Arthur Mockrud winning the Republican assembly nomination with 2 128 votes to Jerome Wheelock 1642. Gulbrandsen leads district attorney race 2557 to Seige 1242, Daffinrud 801. Moon tops sheriff field with 1720 votes. Ammerman second with 1241.
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Viroqua
Wis
Jerome H. Wheelock
Arthur O. Mockrud
Westby
Martin Gulbrandsen
M. N. Daffinrud
Morris Moon
Mockrud
Assembly
Wheelock
Oscar Molland
Gulbrandsen
Larry Seige
Daffinrud
Moon
F. F. Neumann
Donald J. Kummer
Berlie Moore
Homer V. Rabbitt
Ole Jackson
Verl W. Pool
Vernon County
Walter S. Goodland
Immell
Retinebohm
Zimmerman
Seecretary
Smith
Houston County Tour of Orchards Planned in August
Houston County orchardists will tour several farms starting at the Vollenweider orchard in La Crescent at 8 a m on Thursday August 22. Wayne Hanson County Agent says participants will view new equipment prune methods and fertilizer trials on Minnesota varieties with stops at Nelson Skemp Leidel and other orchards and guidance from Dr. Leon Snyder University Extension horticulturist.
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Caledonia
Minn
Houston County
University Farm
St. Paul
College of Agriculture
Madison
Wis
la Crescent
Wayne Hanson
Vollenweider
R. H. Roberts
Wisconsin
Minnesota
George W. Nelson
Archie Skemp
Leidel
Leon Snyder
Brownsville Soldier Sees Japan Service
Vernon Fitzpatrick son of Mrs D Fitzpatrick Browns ville serves with the 1st cavalry division in Japan after 12 months overseas He also served with the 5th cavalry regiment and previously with the 43rd and 97th divisions He wears the Asiatic Pacific theater ribbon the Philippine liberation ribbon and the good conduct ribbon Sgt Gerald Koenig arrived home after a year with occupation forces in Japan and expects his honorable discharge at Fort Sheridan Illinois soon
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Caledonia
Minn
Vernon Fitzpatrick
D. Fitzpatrick
Brownsville
1St Cavalry Division
Nippon
Fitzpatrick
5Th Cavalry Regiment
43Rd
97Th
Gerald Koenig
Nurse Marie Waldenberger Takes 10 Day Vacation
Miss Marie Waldenberger, a general staff nurse at the Veterans hospital in Wadsworth Kansas, spends a ten day vacation with her parents Mr and Mrs Leo Waldenberger and family in New Amsterdam Wisconsin. A St Francis School of Nursing La Crosse graduate, she has been with the Wadsworth hospital ten months and this is her first visit home since then.
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Margaret Hansen
R. N
Cashton
Wis
Transcontinental Western Airlines
TWA
Kansas City
Army Nurse Corps
Conrad Hansen
Cashton High School
St. Francis School of Nursing
la Crosse
New Amsterdam
Marie Waldenberger
Veterans Hospital
Wadsworth
Kans
Leo Waldenberger
Waldenberger
Wadsworth Hospital
Hans R Biegel Wins Monroe Sheriff Nomination in Primary
In Sparta Hans R Biegel won the Republican nomination for Monroe County sheriff defeating William W Goff and William Pelz with 1669, 1365 and 757 votes respectively. He resumes as county traffic officer after military service as major and provost marshal at Camp McCoy. No Democratic or Socialist candidates, so general election is uncontested.
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Sparta
Wis
Monroe County
Hans R. Biegel
Biegel
William W. Goff
William Pelz
Tomah
Camp McCoy
Bert C. Johnson
Roland Schell
Melvina Sheriff Contest Ends In Three-Way Tie
In Melvina the sheriff race produced an eight to eight to eight vote split among candidates H. R. Biegel William Goff and William Pelz. No candidate secured a majority.
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Sparta
Wis
Melvina
H. R. Biegel
William Goff
William Pelz
McCarthy Leads in County Vote. State Races Highlight Ballots
McCarthy receives 1,994 to 1,498 for rival McCarthy in Monroe county totals. Starns has 150 votes. Attorney general races show Martin 1,561 Dieterich 1,677 Rune 362. W H Stevenson tops Fred J Miller 2,101 to 1,222. Other GOP totals include Rennebohm 2,622 Zimmerman 2,942 Smith 2,748 Leverich 3,084. County incumbents win solid support on Republican ticket.
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Dieterich
Martin
Jackson County
Robert la Follette
U. S. Senate
McCarthy
Stearns
Rennebohm
Zimmerman
Smith
J. E. Leverich
Monroe County
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Cork
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Japan
Vernon Co
California
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South Third Street
Monroe
Hans Biegel
L.R. Johnson
D. A
Lester R. Johnson
Larry D. Gilbertson
Cleveland
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Knapp
Gilbertson
Casper
Cap” Waller
Oswald H. Johnson
Erwin E. Homstad
Hans Hanson
Asseme
Vroqua
Sidney Greenstreet
Peter Lorre
Three Strangers
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Gary Cooper
Ingrid Bergman
Saratoga
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