State Man Creates Art Works From Pine Logs
Jerry Holter of Clam Lake Wisconsin carves lifelike figures from single white pine logs for his crossroads store museum. He builds eight foot Indians and bears, selling works from 600 to 5000 dollars and drawing letters from across the country. Cadotte statue commission in Cadott shows his craft's reach. Cadotte settled in Wisconsin 135 years ago.
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Clam Lake
Wis
Jerry Holter
Wisconsin
Crossroads
Holter
Jerry
Ashland County
Rockford, Ill
Antonio Stradivari
Chequamegon National Forest
Tish
Lynne
David
Cadott
Jean Baptiste Cadotte
Cadotte
Sparta School Enrollments Edge Down in Latest Figures
Sparta Area School District presented updated enrollment numbers showing 2624 students K-12, down 24 from last year and 83 from 1969-70. K-6 total 1331, junior high 651, high school 642, with various staffing and cost rankings noted by Superintendent Keith Martin.
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Sparta
Wis
Keith Martin
Sparta Area
Board of Education
Cooperative Educational Service Agency
CESA
Tomah
Albertus Anderson
John Alexander
Thomas Keal
Black River crime rate gains amid police budget talks
Lynn DeLong of Black River Falls police reports monthly cases up to 167 from 125 last year with a five percent rise in serious crime. He notes improved recovery rates and asks for six full time plus one part time officer as 13 parking ordinance amendments are authorized. Fire Chief Fred Schoonover presents a $96,000 1974 budget for a 26 member department.
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Black River Falls
Wis
Lynn DeLong
Public Safety Committee
City Parking Authority
Fred Schoonover
Monroe County Civil Defense work night at Gordon Stelter farm
Monroe County Civil Defense Services hosts a work night at farm home of CD director Gordon Stelter in Tomah from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday September 1 to repair and service the communications truck and related equipment.
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Tomah
Wis
Monroe County Civil Defense Services
Gordon Stelter
Stelter
Minneapolis JH Schools To Start Busing Sept 5
About 2,800 students across eight Minneapolis junior high schools will begin a court ordered desegregation busing plan next week. Busing stays within contiguous areas. longest ride about 25 minutes. The program aims to mix races and economies, with goals of minority representation in staff and student bodies.
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Minneapolis, Minn
Minneapolis
George H. Dahl
Superintendent of Schools
Dahl
Crosstown
Anthony
Bryant
Franklin
Jefferson
Jordan
Lincoln
Phillips
Ramsey
Earl Larson
Larson
Suspended Welfare Aide Appeals State Board Decision
Earl Dutton of Sparta has appealed in Dane County Circuit Court the Wisconsin State Personnel Board ruling upholding his suspension as a Monroe County Public Welfare Department case aide. He was suspended Feb 14 1973 for transporting a 13 year old hitchhiker under department supervision, later charged with delinquency of a minor and convicted of disorderly conduct after a no contest plea. The Personnel Board sustained the department and Dutton seeks review in Dane County.
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Sparta
Wis
Earl Dutton
Circuit Court
Dane County
Wisconsin State Personnel Board
Dutton
Monroe County Public Welfare Department
Wausau
State Personnel Board
Public Welfare Department
FHA To Close Chaseburg Sewer Loan
The Farmers Home Administration will close its loan and grant package for Chaseburg Wis sewer and water project Friday Sept 7 at 10 30 am in the village hall The total project cost is 465000 with FHA financing 290000 state grant 122000 and village funds 53000 Village president Otto Martine Davy Engineering Co La Crosse as consultant and John K Flanagan La Crosse as legal counsel
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Chaseburg
Wis
Farmers Home Administration
FHA
Otto Martine
Davy Engineering Co
la Crosse
John K. Flanagan
Sheriff to Speak on Drug Problem in Caledonia
Houston County Sheriff Jerry Olson will discuss the drug problem at St. Marys Auditorium Caledonia at 9 p.m. Tuesday Sept 4. The free public talk is sponsored by the Catholic Daughters of America.
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Caledonia
Minn
St. Peter's Catholic
Loras_ J. Watters
St. Mary's
Caledonia, Minn
Houston County
Jerry Olson
St. Mary’s Auditorium
Catholic Daughters of America
Five Holberg Sisters Buried in 1880 Typhoid Diphtheria
In Sand Creek Cemetery Burns Wisconsin five Holberg sisters died in 1880 from typhoid fever or diphtheria. Katy 11 Lucy 14 Ernestine 5 Josephine 20 and a fifth sister are marked by worn stones. Parents R W and L M Holberg buried elsewhere. Harry Pfaff and Charles Dessner restored the stones amid crumbling sections. A 1920 gate and fence stand at the cemetery entrance.
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West Salem
Wis
Sand Creek
Burns
la Crosse County
R.W
L.M. Holberg
Katy
Lucy
Ernestine
Josephine
Pioneer Cemetery
Harry Pfaff
Charles Dessner
County picks $50,000 for road work survey
Jackson County Highway Commission authorized up to 50 000 dollars for a survey and plans to repair a trunk road in North Bend and curb erosion by the Black River. The move accompanies talks of a new bridge with La Crosse and Jackson Counties.
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Black River Falls
Wis
North Bend
Jackson County Highway Commission
la Crosse
Jackson
Jackson County Health Commission
Donald Delebo
Eugene Krohn
Richard Holder
Harvey Gilbertson
Victor Erickson
Philip Merrill
James Hagen
Russell Schroeder
Jackson County Joins Mississippi River Human Services Center
The Jackson County Board adopted an ordinance to join Trempealeau and Buffalo Counties in the Mississippi River Human Services Center at Independence. A 14 member board will oversee the center with four members from each county and two from St. Francis Hospital La Crosse and Trempealeau County Hospital. It will become operative in December.
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Black River Falls
Wis
Jackson County
Trempealeau
Buffalo
Mississippi River
Independence
St. Francis Hospital
la Crosse
Trempealeau County Hospital
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Tri-State News
Jennings Breitenfield
Anderson
Fred Herrman
Roger Buswell
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Patricia Kerling
Breitenfield
Keal
Kerling
Buswell
Alexander
Mance
Martin
Bob LaPlaunt
Saginaw River
Essexville
Mich
Black River
Eric Stutz
Blair
Blair Sportsmen's Club
Mabel, Minn
Jane Eickhoff
Pam Erickson
Mabel
Minnesota
Tri-State Briefs
Veterans Administration Hospital
Kenneth Rudkin
Joseph Mantino
Sylvester Dinger
Raymond Peth
Robert Wolfe
Monroe County
Ray Harris
Chris Anderson
Warrens
Sheriff's Posse
John Miller
Wyeville
Tomah Area
Citizens Band
Civil Defense
Posse
Wrs
John Solberg
Leland Chenoweth
Mabel Olson
Northern States Power Co
Judy de Mars
Eau Claire
NSP
Board OK
Jackson To Join Services Center
New Lisbon
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