Dr Frederick honored for fifty years of service in Wisconsin
Dr Alexander E Frederick 73 a longtime country preacher in Wisconsin will be honored Sunday at Valley Junction Methodist Church for 50 years of Christian service. The Sparta based pastor served as probation parole officer and legislative representative, was an aide to Taft, practiced law, and conducted hundreds of marriage rites. He and Nina Hubbel Frederick have a daughter Kathryn and three sons Gordon Robert and David, who was killed in World War II.
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Sparta
Wis
Alexander E. Frederick
Valley Junction Methodist Church
Ironton
Cazenovia
Ironton Methodist Church
Frederick
Bureau of Engraving
Washington, D.C
William Howard Taft
Taft
Ashland
Methodist Conference
Rockland
la Crosse County
University of Wisconsin
Georgetown University
Southern College
Monroe County
Madison
U.S
Supreme Court of the United States
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Supreme Court
Justice Holmes
Big Creek
Leon
Valley Junction
Pine Grove
Camp Douglas
Cataract
Kendall
Wilton
Woodlawn
Camp McCoy
Nina Hubbel
Kathryn
Henry Clarenbach
New York City
Robert
la Crosse State College
Gordon
David
Sailor from Bangor Joins Danger Island Eclipse Mission
Frederick P. Puent, 21, radioman on the USS Point Defiance, sails with 40 scientists toward Danger Island 350 miles northeast of Samoa for an October total solar eclipse study. The LSD carries high altitude rockets for radiation work and will operate off the coast during the eclipse as part of International Geophysical Year activities.
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Point Defiance
E. F. Woodhead
United States
Island
Bangor. Wis
Wisconsin
LSD
San Diego
Calif
Danger Island
Samoa
Holmen High School Sets 1958 Term In September
Holmen Wis special report lists Holmen High and Elementary schools opening September 2 1958 with in service days August 27 28 led by Dr Don Wille and Dr George Christensen. Faculty names include Art Sletteland Louise Kerr Robert Hoffman Lorna Mulder Arvid Depp and others. New staff include Mrs Frost Domke and Chrysler.
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Holmen
Wis
Don Wille
la Crosse State College
George Christensen
Winona State College
Art Sletteland
Louise Kerr
Robert Hoffman
Lorna Mulder
Arvid Depp
H. Dean Uhls
Russell Lund
Phyllis Roeber
Wayne Hotson
Yvonne West
Charlene Frost
Charlotte Domke
Dale G. Chrysler
Harold M. Anderson
Gladys Pandler
Board of Education
Oak Grove
Sand Lake
Midway
Palmer Johnson
Julian Olson
John Bijerke
Sam Hagerman
Claude Nelson
Brice Prairie
Angus Hanson
Glen Mulder
John Dettinger
Clara Olson
Gina Bjerke
Mildred Casberg
Contract award for Lansing river harbor project
The Army Engineers office in St Paul awarded the Lansing harbor contract to the St Paul Dredging Co for 68000 dollars. Congress appropriated funds, work to begin soon. The firm previously did dike work for the Blackhawk Bridge reconstruction. Local committee members include John Brophy Crgil Murphy and Harold Baunitz.
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Lansing
Iowa
Army Engineers Office
St. Paul
Freeburg Voters Approve Bond For New School
In Caledonia Minnesota Independent School Dist 298 voters approved a bond issue not to exceed 35000 for a new school. Result was 49 to 4. The district will advertise for bond sale and for bids on the building with completion aimed for part of the 1958-1959 term.
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Caledonia, Minn
Independent School Dist
Freeburg
Dist
Superintendent Talks on Christian Sportsmanship in Ettrick
Ettrick Luther League sets meeting for Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. with Lloyd Anderson, Trempealeau School District superintendent, as speaker on Christian sportsmanship. Lutheran Sunday School to reopen September 7 at 9 30 a.m. Fall church services at 10 30 a.m. Catechetical classes resume with junior class meeting September 4 at 4 p.m. Senior class to meet September 5 at 4 p.m.
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Ettrick
Wis
Ettrick Luther League
Lloyd Anderson
Trempealeau
Ettrick Lutheran Sunday School
Five Camp McCoy units depart for Fort Riley after summer training
The first wave of more than 2,300 Camp McCoy support troops will leave Sept. 2 returning to Fort Riley, Kan. Five units including the 444th Transportation Company and the Infantry Detachment depart after aiding about 60,000 National Guard and Army Reserve troops. Further detachments follow on Sept. 3 and Sept. 22, reducing remaining personnel to about 2,000.
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Camp Mccoy
Wis
Ft. Riley
Kan
444Th Transportation Company
Olan Nugent
Isional Infantry
William R. Parmigiani
Provisional Artillery
George F. Stradar Jr
437Th Army Band
Thomas G. Reid
Camp Carson
Colo
88Th Ordnance Detachment
EOD
531St Transportation Company
Wisconsin
578Th Ordnance Company
First Ordnance Detachment
64Th Ordnance Detachment
Family To Hold Reunion In Viroqua
The annual Tryggestad family reunion will be held Sunday in Eckhardt Park Viroqua. A family tree will be drawn up at the meeting and all persons are urged to be present for the 2 p.m. program. Those who wish to participate should see Beatrice Small on arrival at the pavilion.
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Melrose
Wis
Tryggestad
Eckhardt Park
Viroqua
Beatrice Small
One of Nation's Best Ropers to Compete Sunday
A jackpot calf roping contest will be held Sunday at Harry Thuenen's Hidden Valley Ranch north of Onalaska on Sand Lake Coulee Road. The show starts at 2 p.m. Ropers from the Midwest including Indiana Illinois Ohio and Arizona will compete with Mel Potter of Tucson Arizona among the top entrants ranked seventh in the Rodeo Cowboys Association standings.
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Onalaska
Wis
Harry Thuenen
Hidden Valley Ranch
Sand Lake Coulee Road
Midwest
Indiana
Ilinois
Ohio
Arizona
Mel Potter
Tucson
Ariz
Potter
Rodeo Cowboys Assn
Bad Ax Luther League Hosts Family Gathering
The Bad Ax Luther League sponsors a family gathering at the Odean Johnson farm ten miles west of Viroqua on Highway 56 Sunday at 2 p.m. Local Luther League members invite families to join the event.
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DE Soto
Wis
Bad Ax Luther League
Odean Johnson
Viroqua
Trempealeau Valley church hosts Halverson farm social
Blair Wisconsin special report notes the Trump Coulee Circle of Trempealeau Valley Lutheran Church sponsors a socials event at the Halverson brothers farm home on Sunday afternoon in Blair.
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Blair, Wis
Trump Coulee
Trempealeau Valley Lutheran Church
Halverson Brothers
New Invention Promises Easy Yard Care With Hose Nozzle
Robot Gardener offers a simple weed and crab grass killer along with insect control using a hose nozzle. The device is advertised as affordable at $4.95 and is available at Doerre Howe, 302 Pearl.
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Doerre Howe
Exchange Student From India Speaks at Lansing Church Event
Per veez Rustmaji, an exchange student from India, will speak at a Lansing Lutheran Church social at the Edwin Erickson home Sunday evening. He stays with the Robert Gronna family and will travel to Harvey Grubers near Monona. rain plan moves the gathering to the parish house.
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Lansing
Iowa
Perveez Rustmaji
India
Lansing Lutheran Church
Edwin Erickson
Rustmaji
Robert Gronna
Harvey Grubers
Monona
Proxmire Speaks At Elroy Park Picnic
Former Senator Olaf H. Johnson and Senator William Proxmire will speak at the Juneau County Democratic picnic at Elroy Park on Sunday. Johnson is the Democratic candidate for state senator in the 31st district which includes Vernon, Juneau, Monroe, Adams and Marquette counties.
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Elroy
Wis
Olaf H. Johnson
Westby
William Proxmire
Juneau County
Elroy Park
Johnson
Vernon
Juneau
Monroe
Adams
Marquette
Blair District Schools Open New Term August 28
Blair Wisconsin Joint District 1 begins a new year on Thursday August 28 with classes at 8 45 a m and dismissal 2 p m Regular classes start Friday Kindergarten sessions run 9 to 11 a m at Reynolds School Nurse service begins with Mrs Alice Hulett half-day. Plans include shop and home economics remodeling and new four room addition ready by fall 1959.
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Blair
Wis
Archie Buckmiller
Reynolds
Allice Hulett
Taylor
State Dept. of Public Instruction
Cashton Priest Observes 25th Anniversary
The Rev. Francis Disher of Sacred Heart Parish Cashton marked his silver sacerdotal anniversary with a Solemn High Mass at 10 a.m. in a newly decorated church. Clergy from area parishes attended, including Msgr. Urban Baer and Msgr. Chester Rappella. A reception followed, with benediction concluding the day.
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Aloysius Trzebiatowski
St. Josephat’s
Oshkosh
Ake
Vincent Schwartz
St. Joseph’s
St. Joseph's Ridge
Msgr
Urban Baer
Eastman
Chester Rappella
Green Bay
T. D. Szymanski
Appleton
Minn
J. A. Szupryt
Menasha
Frank Brick
Sparta
Roman Papiernik
Wonewoc
Alois Zinthefer
Middle Ridge
Aloysius T. Baumann
St. Mary’s Ridge
Leo H. Novitt
Ss. Peter and Paul's
Pine Hollow
Michael Mertens
Viroqua
Thomas F. Garthwaite
Holy Cross Seminary
la Crosse
Disher
St. Mary’s
Manitowoc
White Lake
St. Casiner
Portage County
Amherst
Cashton
Sacred Heart Parish
Al-Min Shopping Center Begins 50 by 100 Foot Expansion
Black River Falls Wisconsin special report notes the Al Min Shopping Center has begun constructing a new 50 by 100 foot all steel building adjacent to the current facility. The addition will serve as a sales and storage room for the center.
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Black River Falls
Wis
Al-Min
Whitehall Nurses Honor Physicians and Wives Dinner
Whitehall nurses from Community Hospital and MacCornack Clinic hosted a dinner at Club Midway honoring Dr. R L Mac Cornack Sr Dr N S Simons and Dr Robert L MacCornack Jr for their years at Whitehall’s medical center The doctors wives attended as guests with numerous local nurses listed as attendees.
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Whitehall, Wis
Community Hospital
MacCornack Clinic
R. L. MacCornack Sr
N. S. Simons
Robert L. MacCornack Jr
Whitehall
Petra Larson
Judith Steen
Esther Johnson
Stella Mathson
Mmes
Joseph
Stoddard Church Mission Fest Services
St Matthew's Lutheran church in Stoddard Wisconsin will hold mission festival services at 10 am and 2 pm on Sunday A dinner will be served by women of the congregation The morning speaker is Rev Paul Koch of Fox Valley Lutheran High School Appleton Wisconsin The afternoon speaker is Rev Reuben Kettenacker of Nodine Minnesota
Substitute pastor conducts services at First Baptist Church
K. D. Berdan will conduct 11 a.m. service at First Baptist Church in the pastor Rev. Harlan Larsen's absence on vacation. Dr. L. L. Patterson of Arcadia, a church member, will lead the 8 p.m. service. Horace Grover led the regular Thursday evening service.
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Whitehall
Wis
K. D. Berdan
First Baptist Church
Harlan Larsen
L. L. Patterson
Arcadia
Horace Grover
100 Plus Register For Recognition In Fillmore County
More than 100 residents aged 80 and over have signed up for Pioneer Recognition Day to be held Sunday August 24 at 4 p m in Preston. The Fillmore County Fair hospitality committee will present special distinction awards from the registry. Visitors may register August 21 23 from 9 a m to 5 p m at Rooms A and B in the courthouse with separate books for visitors and residents over 80. The east courthouse entrance avoids stairs.
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Preston
Minn
Fillmore County
Fillmorama
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