Trail Reading Program Takes La Crosse County Children on 18 Stops
La Crosse County Library sponsors Coulee Country Trails a nine week summer reading trek beginning June 8. Students in grades 1 8 register at Bangor Onalaska Shelby West Salem Holmen libraries receive a card map tracking 18 points of interest as they read books and add colored stickers to the trail.
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la Crosse County
Chet Dien
Coulee Country Trails
Bangor
Onalaska
Shelby
West Salem
Holmen
Big Indian
Grandad Bluff
la Crosse
Mindoro Cut
Hamlin Garland
Veterans Memorial Park
Lake Onalaska
Mormon Coulee
Mt. la Crosse
Dorothy Ryan
Dorothy Dudley
Mildred Bjorkman
William Johnson
Katherine Knudson
Midway
Midway School
Elaine Lutiger
Coulee
Oien
Applications Open for Bangor Sub Clerk Carrier Post
Applications are due by June 9 for ten substitute clerk carrier positions at the Bangor United States Post Office. The La Crosse Civil Service Commission will administer the exam to establish a Bangor eligibility register. Starting pay is 2.33 dollars per hour. applicants must be 18 or older and reside in the Bangor delivery area, with five veteran preference points for eligible war and peacetime veterans.
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United States Post Office
Bangor
la Crosse Board
United States Civil Service Commission
Trinity Lutheran of Sparta plans confirmation service
Trinity Lutheran Church Sparta Wisconsin will confirm 28 members on Sunday June 7 at 10 a.m. The class has completed two years of study under Rev O M Skindrud with a public catechization on Friday June 5 at 7 30 p.m. Confirmands include Beverly Anderson Vonna Arentz Edith Armstrong Patricia Arnold Roger Breitenfield Gloraine Brooks Kristine Brown Linda Cooper Gary Erickson Valerie Erickson Sandra Kay George LaVerne Erickson Richard Erickson David Hanson Nancy Hanson Cynthia Helgeson David Helgeson Richard Howe Sharon Huntington Jay Janzen Anita Lund Mary Mull David Pederson Linda Peterson V Paul Rood Charlene Shutter Stuart Solberg Gerald Syverson.
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Sparta
Wis
Trinity Lutheran Church
O. M. Skindrud
Beverly Anderson
Vonna Arentz
Edith Armstrong
Patricia Arnold
Roger Breitenfield
Geraldine Brooks
Kristine Brown
Linda Cooper
Gary Erickson
Valerie Erickson
Sandra Kay George
LaVerne Erickson
Richard Erickson
David Hanson
Nancy Hanson
Cynthia Helgeson
David Helgeson
Richard Howe
Sharon Huntington
Jay Janzen
Anita Lund
Mary Mull
David Pederson
Linda Peterson
V. Paul Rood
Charlene Shutter
Stuart Solberg
Gerald Syverson
Hixton Taylor Post Changes Fourth of July Plans
Hixton Wisconsin the Hixton Taylor American Legion Post changes its Fourth of July celebration plans The rodeo scheduled for the event cannot appear in Hixton until August so post members will substitute another form of entertainment.
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Hixton
Wis
Hixton- Taylor American Legion Post
Miss Hoogenhouse Ties to Oshkosh Campus School Move
Sparta Wis elementary supervisor Miss Jessie Hoogenhouse will advance to fifth grade during the summer at the Oshkosh Campus School.
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Sparta
Wis
Jessie Hoogenhouse
Oshkosh
Luther College Plans Nine Story Tower Dormitory
Luther College in Decorah Iowa won approval for a nine story dorm costing over 1 million dollars to house 336 male students. The building will rise about 30 feet up a hillside overlooking the Upper Iowa River Valley and will include eight floors of rooms and a top two stories, with a high speed elevator and possible air conditioning.
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Decorah
Iowa
Luther College
Board of Regents
Iowa River
Regents
Altfillisch, Olson, Gray and Thompson
Dairy Day in Ferryville Promises Family Park Event
Ferryville Booster Club schedules Dairy Day on Sunday June 7 with a family day in the park. Activities start at 2 p.m. with dairy queen candidates introduced, 23 entrants, guest speaker on Wisconsin cheese at the World's Fair, music by Jerry Grosskopf, and a 3 p.m. Mississippi excursion stop at Lansing Iowa. A ball game at 8 p.m. and a grand march at 9 30 p.m. with dancing, chicken meals, games for children, and refreshments available. Soldiers Grove also plans a June Daily Month promotion on Saturday June 27.
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Ferryville
Wis
Joanne Hoffland
Wisconsin
Jerry Grosskopf
la Crosse
Mississippi
Lansing
Iowa
Elmer’s Hall
Soldiers Grove
Spring Grove Man Works on Paper Chromatography Project
In Decorah Iowa the Iowa Academy of Science grants 200 to Dr George E Knudson of Luther College for conductivity detection methods for paper chromatography. Thomas Henzler a Spring Grove Minnesota student will work on the project this summer and assist in a high school science program on campus. He will begin graduate study in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin next fall.
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Decorah
Iowa
Iowa Academy of Science
American Association For the Advancement of Science
George E. Knudson
Luther College Department of Chemistry
Thomas Henzler
Spring Grove
Minn
Luther College
Knudson
Henzler
University of Wisconsin
Rauk Elected Club President
SPRING GROVE Minn Raymond Rauk was elected president of the Spring Grove Commercial Club He will be joined by Donald Snyder as vice president Carlton Trehus as treasurer Ove Fossum Sr as secretary Dr L A Knutson United Fund and Hollis Onsgard as industrial committee chairman.
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Spring Grove, Minn
Raymond Rauk
Spring Grove
Farmington Firemen Plan Annual Dance
Farmington Volunteer Fire Department sponsors its third annual dance at Nelson's Log Cabin in Bangor on Saturday June 6. The event is the department's sole fundraiser to keep operations going with music by Syl Liebl.
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Mindoro
Wis
Farmington
Minnesota to Host Record Highway Bid Setting
The Minnesota Highway Department announces the largest highway construction setting in state history for June 12 with 21 trunk highway projects totaling about 16.2 million dollars. Bids are due 9:30 a.m. at the central offices in St. Paul, surpassing the previous 14.3 million dollar record from March 20. Projects cover 71 miles of highways, 24 bridges and related works.
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Minnesota
Minnesota Highway Department
St. Paul
Vernon County Mental Health Planning Committee Inaugural Meeting
The Vernon County comprehensive mental health planning committee will convene at 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 3, in the courthouse annex. Dr. Robert A. Starr is temporary chairman. George H. Spencer of the State Department of Public Welfare will speak on the committee’s work.
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Viroqua
Wis
Vernon County Comprehensive Mental Health Planning Committee
Robert A. Starr
George H. Spencer
Division of Mental Hygiene
State Department of Public Welfare
Spencer
Former Hesper Pastor and Family Set for Formosa Mission
Rev. David Lee former Hes per and Burr Oak Lutheran pastor will sail July 30 from San Francisco with his wife Lorain Muir and three children Richard Betsey and Maribeth for missionary work in the China area. They will stop in Honolulu Kobe and Hong Kong before sailing to Taipei for a year of language study. Richard will attend an American school and two daughters a Chinese nursery school. They will be commissioned as missionaries at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Wells Minn on July 12.
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Mabel
Minn
David Lee
Hesper
Burr Oak
Taipei
Formosa
Richard
Maribeth
Betsey
Lees
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Wells
Latin American Leader to Stay With Blair Farm Family
Mr and Mrs Hensel Berge of rural Blair will host a young Latin America farm leader for three months this summer as part of a Wisconsin farm family exchange program.
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Blair
Wis
Hensel Berge
Wisconsin
Farewell Party Honors La Crosse County Home Agent Edith Brace
Mrs Edith Brevig Brace the retiring La Crosse County home economics agent was guest of honor at a farewell party hosted by the La Crosse County Adult 4 H Leaders Association. She will continue part time until September when a new agent starts.
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Edith Brevig Brace
la Crosse County
Charles Brace
Holstein-Friesian Association of America
Lone Rock
Brace
Harvey Piske
4-H Leaders Association
Mrs. Brace
Floyd Jones
Bangor
la Crosse
Monroe County
Spartan class of 1914 alum living in Wisconsin honored
John W. Kress Sr. 71, a Sparta Tomah business veteran of 40 years, is among 77 surviving members of the 1914 University of Wisconsin graduating class. He attends the June 5 8 reunion weekend as a member of the Half Century Club. The Kress Rehwehr scholarship grants $500 yearly to Sparta and Tomah seniors.
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Sparta
Wis
John W. Kress
Tomah
University of Wisconsin
Kress
Viroqua
Cashton
Kendall
West Salem
Kress- Rehwehr
David Colbert
Michael Tickler
Merrillan Fire Department Sponsors Street Dance
Merrillan Wisconsin fire department plans a Saturday street dance on June 6 from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Music will be provided by Karlstad's Mountaineers and feature performer Johnnie Gard.
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Merrillan
Wis
Merrillan Fire Department
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