Helen Mears Art Essay Theme Set for County Contest
The Wisconsin Federation of Women's Clubs named the theme What I like best about the world we live in for both the Helen Mears art and essay contests. Jackson County eighth graders may enter once per contest with entries due March 1 to county chairmen. Art entries are judged on originality design and execution and must be mounted on 162 by 204 inch boards. County winners five per class advance to Ninth District. essay 350 to 500 words handwritten single side with narrative reminiscence or biographical content. Cash prizes awarded county and district. district winners advance to state.
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Black River Falls
Wis
Helen Mears
Wisconsin Federation of Women’s Clubs
Jackson County
Mauston HS to Present Yale Music
Mauston High School choirs and glee club present a Christmas music program Tuesday at 1 p.m. in the high school gym with city grade school and junior high students attending. A half hour Christmas skit follows Wednesday for fellow students, then carol singing. Grade school students sing at West Side School Wednesday afternoon with class parties. Seventh and eighth graders will donate care packages instead of exchanging gifts.
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Mauston
Wis
Mauston High School
Glee Club
West Side
Blair Children Recover From Heart Surgery
Three Blair area children aged five to a high school senior recovered from heart surgery within the year. Ann Marie Anderson, a Blair High senior, was released Nov. 29 after surgery Nov. 18 to repair two heart holes and insert a plastic tube. Bobby Buckmiller, 5, had a Dec. 9, 1959 operation in Minneapolis to repair a heart wall defect with heart lung machine support. Arden Nelson, 8, had two Madison exams Jan. 19 for a heart wall break and will return to Madison for an April checkup.
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Blair
Wis
Blair Area
Ann Marie Anderson
Blair High School
St. Mary’s Hospital
Rochester
Minn
Ann Marie
Alden Trones
Archie Buckmiller
Bobby
Minneapolis
Variety Club Heart Hospital
Arden Nelson
Norman Nelson
Madison
University Hospital
WV Riders Club Elects New Leaders
Ettrick Wisconsin Valley Riders and families attended a pot luck supper and Christmas party at Ettrick Community Hall. Officers named include president Dale Allen Whitehall and vice president Wayne Erickson Ettrick. Directors are Ben Erickson Ettrick Oran Bue Hegg and Lawrence Johnson North Beaver Creek. A shadow social is planned for Jan 14. New members listed: Emil Skroch Janice Lori Kosek George Gamroth William Cantrell and Dr and Mrs K W Helghfson and daughters Whitehall Independence Eau Claire.
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Ettrick
Wis
Wisconsin Valley Riders
Ettrick Community Hall
Michael and
Patrick Allen
Whitehall
Dale Allen
Wayne Erickson
Darrell Lorch
Blair
Leland Torkelson
Franklin
Ben Erickson
Oran Bue
Hegg
Lawrence Johnson
North Beaver Creek
Vernon Men Plan Vernon County Development Group
A Vernon County committee studying a Vernon County Industrial Development Association will recommend an organizational plan at a courthouse meeting Wednesday night January 11. The effort aims to involve men and women from all county towns to explain the association’s purpose. The temporary committee includes N. F. Leifer Dr Warren Otterson Richard Endicott Irvin Ellefson Bill Werth and Robert Fredrick.
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Viroqua
Wis
Vernon County
N. F. Leifer
Warren Otterson
Westby
Atty
Richard Endicott
Hillsboro
Irvin Ellefson
Bill Werth
Robert Fredrick
Memorial group named for Miss Annie Wylie in Black River Falls
A four member committee of the Black River Falls Women’s Club business women department will plan a memorial for Miss Annie Wylie one of the city’s first librarians. Contributors total 124 dollars and the librarian died last summer at age 87.
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Black River Falls
Wis
Business Women's Department
New Lisbon High Presents Christmas Concert
New Lisbon Wisconsin the music department at New Lisbon High School will present its annual Christmas concert on Wednesday December 21 at 8 p m in the high school gym Lynn Pritchard will direct the band and boys glee club Mrs Pritchard will direct the high school girls glee club the junior boys glee club and the junior girls chorus
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New Lisbon
Wis
New Lisbon High School
Lynn .Pritchard
Veterans Groups Sponsor Christmas Party at To mah Veterans Hospital
Sparta Wisconsin veteran organizations the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post the Cooties and auxiliaries hosted a Christmas party for 136 patients at the Tomah Veterans Hospital. They delivered gifts and decorations while seven Sparta city band members provided music.
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Sparta Veterans of Foreign Wars
Tomah Veterans Hospital
Mmes
Adron Littlejohn
Douglas Finn
Frank Colossi
Sparta Vfw
Cootlettes
T. E. Dredge
Sparta
Wis
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
Sparta City Band
Walter Peterson
Robert Allen
Lloyd Pederson
Orlo Shoemaker
Don Strait
Byron Hart
Eugene Orness
Ralph Osborne
A. E. Frederick
Frank Colessi
VFW
Dudley ‘Lathrop
Lillian Hinds
Eva Brown
Louis Scherer
Trempeleau County Sets Equalized Valuation At 72.66 Million
Trempleau County Board in annual session fixed the equalized valuation at 72,659,560 dollars. Fifteen towns represented 56,092 residents within the county.
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Trempleau
Whitehall
Wis
Trempealeau County Board
Tomah Vicar to Be Ordained in Eau Claire
Tomah vicar Donald D. Cole of St. Marys Episcopal Church will be ordained to the priesthood by Bishop William W. Horstick at the Episcopal Cathedral in Eau Claire on Wednesday December 21 He was ordained a deacon in June 1960 and serves St Johns Episcopal Church in Mauston His parish has purchased the T R McCaul residence as a rectory and he will move into 606 Pear St Tomah A reception will be held December 28 at Lakeside Lodge from 1 to 5 p.m.
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Tomah
T. R. McCaul
Pear St
Lakeside Lodge
Courtyard of Holiday Concerts and Meetings
Courteous schedule listing Christmas and school music events across multiple towns. Tomah high school concert in HS Auditorium New Albin Community Club ladies night Stoddard Pleasant Valley PTA meeting Black River Falls Taylor Blair New Lisbon Wilton all in late December with times from 2 p m to 8 p m.
Muskrat Standoff Grips Sparta Sheriff in Wisconsin
Sheriff Dewey Reinstra cornered a muskrat in a window well near St Patrick's Church in Sparta Wisconsin. The animal leaped at him prompting a firm response with a billy club. No injuries reported.
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Sparta
Wis
Dewey Reinstra
St. Patrick's Church
Sheriff Reinstra
Rat
Blair Lutheran Women Approve New Church Group Alignment
Blair Wisconsin First Lutheran Ladies Aid votes to adopt The American Lutheran Church Women constitution and renames as First Lutheran Church Women. They approve the 1961 budget, plan gifts to Nyen Rest Home Trempealeau County Hospital and decorate a Broadway display at Kolve Chevrolet, and move meetings to Tuesday.
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Blair
Wis
First Lutheran Ladies Aid
American Lutheran Church
First Lutheran Church Women
ALC
Nyen Rest
Trempealeau County Hospital
Kolve Chevrolet Inc
Hospital Auxiliary Plans Cookie Sale in Mauston
Hess Memorial Hospital Auxiliary will hold a Christmas candy and cookie sale in the Bank of Mauston community room on Tuesday starting at 2 p.m. Proceeds aid hospital auxiliary activities and community health programs.
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Hospital Auxiliary
Mauston
Wis
Hess Memorial Hospital
Bank of Mauston
SG High School To Appear On Coulee Crossroads TV
Spring Grove Minnesota local high school choir will appear on WKBT TV La Crosse program Coulee Crossroads at 6 30 p m Tuesday.
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Spring Grove
Minn
Coulee
Wkbt-Tv
la Crosse
Doerre Hardware Ad Promotes Wide Gift Range
Local ad lists gift ideas including astronomical telescopes, binoculars, Case XX knives, Shakespeare tackle, archery gear, portable power tools, Swedish ice auger, barometers, thermometers, car compasses, skates, sleds, skis, hand tools, Browning guns, and electric cooking appliances at 302 Pearl St Adv.
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Doerre Hdw
Pearl St
Yale Story Depicted By NA Children
NEW ALBIN Iowa Sunday school programs in the area churches include Mt Hope Presbyterian Union City Township at 7 30 p m and Peace United Church of Christ Crooked Creek at 8 p m on Friday Dec 23 Christmas Eve programs follow at St Peter s United Church of Christ New Alblia 7 p m and St Johns Evangelical Reformed Wheatland 7 30 p m with two films at St Peters Dorchester Methodist Church also hosting a 7 30 p m Christmas Day program.
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New Albin
Iowa
Mt. Hope Presbyterian Church
Union City Township
Peace United Church of Christ
Crooked Creek
St. Peter’s United Church of Christ
New Albia
St. Peter's
St. John's Evangelical and Reformed Church
Wheatland
Dorchester Methodist Church
Hi League Plans Christmas Carol Service at Church
The Hi League will meet at 7 30 p m on December 21 at the church for caroling. Members will exchange 50 cent gifts and share a luncheon after the songs.
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Blair
Wis
Whitehall Cub Scouts Award Ceremony Highlights 1960
Whitehall Wisconsin Cub Scout Pack 78 held its monthly meeting with achievement and fiftieth anniversary awards. Recipients included Peter Speerstra, David Granlund, and Ken Thoreson receiving Gold and Silver Arrows, Wolf and Bear Badges, plus Bobcat Pins. Fifty year awards honored many boys for sharing, learning, fitness and helping others.
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Whitehall
Wis
Peter Speerstra
David Granlund
Gold Arrow
Ken Thoreson
Marty Swenson
Silver Arrow
Kurt Johnson
James Beck
Randy Lee
Freddie Ekern
Mark Olson
Tommy Erickson
Mike Teigen
Edward Ausderau
Cubmaster
William Klevgard
Wayne Knudtson
Craig Hamilton
James Smith
Gregory Warner
Thomas Erickson
Michael Teigen
Keith Johnson
Tommy McKeever
Bradley Guinn
Eliot Solsrud
Matt Swenson
Kenneth Thoreson
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Soell's
Sparta Public Schools
Parkers Metal
TWE
Parkersburg Rig and Reel Company
Parkersburg Asian Corporation
Parkersburg
West Virginia
Peter Nelson
Vernon
Eugene Brennan
St. Mary's Hospital
Evelyn Ostrander
Ray Paul
Peter Bomber
Flora Hill
New Lisbon High
VA Hospital
Leslie C. Erickson C
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co
Uety
Donald Cole
Eau Claire
Town of
Arcadia
City of
State Supervisors of Assessments
State Department of Taxation
Trempealeau County
Wilton
Sherry Hemstock
Susan Hiles
CANDY
Sweet Shop
Caledonia St
Monroe County Infirmary
Danny
Betty Jane Parsneau
Jimmy Wells
W. W. Sutton
Wisconsin
Blair Lutheran Women
SG High School
Yale
Stums
Roger Bieri
Gary Knudtson
Robert Baughman
Donald Lewis
Charles Oberlander
Gamble
Nelson Funeral Home
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