Hatfield Women Help Uncover Major Canadian Gemstone Field
Two Hatfield Wisconsin rockhounds Vio let Teeples and Barbara Carlson discover a large agate weighing at least 500 pounds near Jellico Ontario. The Canadian government will operate the 6000 square mile Thunder Bay District site as a rock hunters paradise with permits.
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la Crosse Tribune
Hatfield
Wis
Canada
Violet Teeples
Barbara Carlsen
Miss Teeples
Thunderbird Museum
Miss Carlsen
Ontario
Wisconsin
Morrison
William Heatlie
Miss Carlson
Thunder Bay
Lake Mipigen
Port Arthur
Mecca
Sparta to Host KP Centennial Observance in Wisconsin
Sparta Wisconsin will host one of two Wisconsin centennial events for the Knights of Pythias as lodge members gather at KP Hall on Saturday December 7 at 730 p.m. High officers Ralph Freeze Edward Kuelper and Grant Oesen bach will attend with about 200 knights expected. A 30 candidate class including seven from Sparta will be initiated on the Rathbone Bible once owned by Justis Rathbone.
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Sparta
Wis
Wisconsin
Order of Knights of Pythias
Milwaukee
Ralph Freeze
la Farge
Edward J. Kuelper
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Grant R. Oesenbach
Justis H. Rathbone
Knights of Pythias
KP Lodge
Rathbone
Deerfield
N.Y
Lima
Ohio
Sparta Lodge
Ettrick
Arnold Bro
W. Main Street
Sign Board of Directors of
Farm Bureau
Peace Corps Volunteer From Viroqua Starts Turkey Assignment
Judith K. Johnson of Viroqua begins a two year Peace Corps tour in Turkey. She joins 31 volunteers who left Nov 13 to work in education health home economics and social welfare alongside 37 others already in country.
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Judith K. Johnson
Kenneth Johnson
R. 4
Viroqua
Peace Corps
Turkey
Ministry of Health
Ettrick Legion Auxiliary Shifts Meeting Date
Ettrick Wisconsin date change for the American Legion Auxiliary meeting to Friday at 8 p.m. from December 16 to December 13. Members to bring coffee coupons redeemable for toys to Terpening Grocery by December 12.
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Ettrick
Wis
Ettrick American Legion Auxiliary
Blair commercial club meeting postponed to December 4
Blair Wisconsin announces the Blair Commercial Club meeting set for November 27 is rescheduled to Wednesday December 4. The change affects local business leaders and participants planning to attend.
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Blair
Wis
Blair Commercial Club
Ex Jackson Road Boss To Be 84
Olaus Overlien former Jackson County highway commissioner for 25 years will celebrate his 84th birthday on Monday December 2 at the Jackson Home in Black River Falls. Born December 2 1879 in a nearby lumber camp he worked as a logger and ran a threshing business before being named highway commissioner in 1922 and kept the post for a quarter century. He has three daughters and two sons with families in California Wisconsin Michigan and Illinois.
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Black River Falls
Wis
Olaus Overlien
Jackson
Overlien
Millston
Black River
Irving
William Tibbitts
North Bend
Blanche Buegler
Pasadena
Calif
Jack
Eileen) Skidmore
West Bend
John
Irene) Marvin
Niles
Mich
Earl of
Mosinee
Calmer
Elmwood
Meeting Canceled by Whitehall Music Mothers Club
Mrs. Everett Guse, president of the Whitehall Music Mothers Club, announced no meeting on December 3. The group will hold the next gathering in January.
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Whitehall
Wis
Everett Guse
Whitehall Music Mothers Club
Food Handlers Training Meets Set At Viroqua
Four training meetings for food handlers are planned in the Courthouse Annex in Viroqua on Tuesday and Wednesday December 3 and 4 with sessions at 2 30 and 7 30 p m Both public and private sector workers handling food in schools hospitals and institutions are urged to attend The program is conducted by the Viroqua Board of Health Vernon County public health nurses office and the State Board of Health divisions with speakers Roy K Clary Kenneth K Thiede David Wolfert Betty McSwain and Dr Joseph Syty.
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Viroqua
Wis
Viroqua Board of Health
Vernon County Public Health Nurses’ Office
State Board of Health
Roy K. Clary
Kenneth K. Thiede
David Wolfert
State Health Department
Betty McSwain
Vernon County
Joseph Syty
Trempealeau County Tax Apportionment Totals Set
State and Trempealeau County taxes totaling 1 037 879 30 are apportioned among 15 towns four villages and six cities based on equalized valuation. The distribution includes 82 995 13 from eight county school districts and 462 920 81 in other county taxes among numerous units with Whitehall and Arcadia among the larger sums.
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Whitehall
Wis
Trempealeau County
Cial
Eleva Strum
Trempealeau
Blair
Independence
Osseo
Galesville
Union Free High School
Gilmanton
Buffalo County
Albion
Town of Arcadia
Burnside
Caledonia
Chimney Rock
Dodge
Town of Ettrick
Gale
Hale
Lincoln
Pigeon
Preston
Sumner
Town of Trempealeau
Unity
Village of
Ettrick
Pigeon Falls
Strum
Village of Trempealeau
City of Arcadia
City of
City of Galesville
City of Independence
City of Whitehall
Monroe Demos Call Off Meet
Monroe County Democratic Chairman Lester Mitby announces all official party functions are cancelled for December due to President Kennedy's death. The Sparta meeting scheduled for December 4 is postponed after notice from State Chairman J. Louis Hanson. The event was planned before Kennedy's death.
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Sparta
Wis
Monroe County
Lester Mitby
Cashton
Pres
John F. Kennedy
Mitby
J. Louis Hanson
Mellen
Pres. Kennedy
Screening Tests Results Reported
Sparta Wis. The visual screening test by the Sparta Lions Club, released by President Richard Tock, shows 49 percent wore glasses. In acuity tests seven percent failed right eye, twelve percent failed left eye, and twelve percent failed color. Vision tests had seven percent fail right eye and five percent fail left. The test was open to all, including deer hunters.
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Sparta
Wis
Sparta Lions Club
Richard Tock
Gifts Of Wisconsin Cheese Featured By Local Company
Wisconsin Premium Cheese Inc. of La Crosse offers twelve gift assortments of Wisconsin natural cheeses. Prices range from 2.85 to 6.95 per box including postage, with shipping nationwide and well-packaged selections. Customers can call 47148 for literature or order at retail locations carrying the products.
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Wisconsin
T. D. Solie
Wisconsin Premium Cheese, Inc
la Crosse
Solie
Minnesota motorists face safety check results from 1963
A Minnesota Highway Department report shows 39 142 vehicles received a 10 point safety check in 1963. Of these about 35 percent needed immediate service for items such as lights brakes exhaust and tires. National checks totaled 3.5 million with faulty lights the leading issue.
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Minnesota
Minnesota Automobile Dealers Association
Auto Industries Highway Safety Committee
Look Magazine
Blair Man Turns Hobby Pheasant Raising Into Busines
Arthur Mathson of Blair Wisconsin started raising pheasants in 1946 for fun. It has grown into a lucrative venture producing 1500 to 2000 birds yearly for gourmets and regional restaurants. The family breeds, hatches, and cares for pheasants along with bantams sheep hunting dogs and a pony. Mrs Mathson, skilled hunter, shot a buck opening day of the 1963 Jackson County deer season.
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Arthur Mathson
Blair Area
Mathson
Rosa
Janel
Greg
Brent
Blair
Wis
Mathsons
Galesville Merchants Set Christmas Shopping Hours
Galesville stores announce extended hours for December shopping season. In addition to regular Friday evenings, shops will stay open Wednesdays December 4 11 18 Mondays December 16 23 and Thursday December 19. Santa Claus opened the season Friday November 29.
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Galesville
Wis
Santa Claus
Savings Bond Sales In Allamakee County Reported
WAUKON Iowa October sales in Allamakee County totaled 61075 dollars with a ten month sum of 624894 dollars or 83 percent of the county quota reported by Fred O Ri ley chairman.
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Allamakee
Waukon
Lowa
Fred O’riley
Volunteer Savings Bond
Allamakee County
Coon Valley Legion to Host County Council Meeting
Coon Valley Wisconsin The Vernon County Legion Council meets at 8 p.m. Thursday November 5 at the Coon Valley Post clubrooms hosted by the local American Legion post.
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Coon Valley Post Entertains Council
Coon Valley
Wis
Directors Meet in Tomah Wisconsin
Monroe County unit of the American Cancer Society conducts a directors meeting at the Bank of Tomah on Tuesday December 3 at 8 p.m. The briefing notes the local group as the organizers and venue for the gathering.
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Tomah
Wis
Monroe County
The
American Cancer Society
Bank of
Amendment Hearing Set In La Crosse
The Wisconsin Public Service Commission plans a 2 p.m. December 3 hearing in La Crosse on an amendment to Karlton K. Keppel’s motor carrier license to haul milk from Monroe and La Crosse Counties to La Crosse Milk Producers markets. Other actions include license amendments and assignments for Walter J. Zirk and J. Kendall, and partial assignment of Gerald Annas’s license to Arnold Hovey.
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Wisconsin Public Service Commission
PSC
Karlton K. Keppel
la Crosse
Keppel
Monroe
Wonewoc
Juneau County
Juneau
Sauk
Wisconsin Dairies Cooperative of
Union Center
John P. Hotek
R. 2
Hillsboro
Cyrial J. Hotek
Gerald Annas
R. 1
Whitehall
Arnold Hovey
Annual Banquet For Township Officers Slated
Caledonia Minn The Houston County township officers banquet is set for Thursday Dec 5 at 730 p m in St Peters Church Hall Hokah Robert Rupp managing editor of The Farmer magazine will be the featured speaker He was among 24 agricultural leaders who visited Russia and Berlin this summer under the people to people program to foster cross national understanding He will give commentary with pictures
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Caledonia
Minn
Houston County Township
St. Peter’s Church Hall
Hokah
Robert Rupp
Farmer Magazine
Rupp
Russia
Berlin
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