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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1946
Page
8
A local clash in Sparta Wisconsin over Friday night store openings versus Saturday night closures. Chamber of Commerce backed Friday closings while some merchants kept Saturday hours. Farm representatives organized petitions urging shops to resume Saturday night hours to serve farmers in the trade area.
Two Allamakee county insurance firms held their annual meetings in Waukon on Monday. Officers for the Scandinavian company include Pladson as president and Eilert Ellefson as vice president. Alexander Grangaard and E. Christenson chaired as treasurer and director. A. J. Steffen was elected a gent of the German Mutual Insurance association. Other officers include Hans Meer as vice president and J. E. Meier as secretary treasurer with Dan Goettel, Herbert Fritz, H. O. Buntrock, Henry Vonderohe, and Benjamin Schulte among the directors.
SPARTA Wisconsin Special reports six taken off Monroe county old age assistance rolls in May while two were added. Frances Connelly director of the public welfare department notes total expenditures reached 11 597 50 for 408 cases including 200 for two burials. Three dropped from aid to dependent children totaling 28 cases. Ed expenditures for aid were 1 343 50 with no change in the blinded list of 11 recipients totaling 317 dollars.
The Green Mound Cemetery Society celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with a program at Clifford Lambert's home in Onalaska. The gathering honors long time members and officers while recounting the society history and cemetery improvements at Green Mound, which now lists about 3106 graves.
CAMP MCCOY Wis Special The separation center will operate in June with an expected load of 300 discharges daily under Col Newton G Bush. The facility processes enlisted men with 24 months service by June 30 for discharge or routing. May totals included 11 049 discharged and 1 411 enlisted plus 79 officers in a single day, a new high since January.
L. J. Schansberg plans to sell his Whitehall area home north of Whitehall on highway 53 while staying on the old home farm nearby. His oldest son Odell plans to relocate from St. Paul to the former O. J. Galstad farm two miles north of Whitehall on highway 53. Mrs. W. C. Barnette traveled from Madison to join her husband in Mason City after a visit with her daughter.
Ettrick Lutheran parochial school will open for enrollment at Ettrick state graded school Monday at 9 a.m. A four week course will be presented with Mrs. N. C. Twesme as teacher.
W P Bamber city registrar recorded 36 births six deaths and eight marriages in May in Sparta Wisconsin.
Monroe County 4-H clubs are represented at district club camp in Prairie du Chien. County agents and leaders assist with camp preparations while listing clubs and members from Daneville Sparta Star Valley Warrens Mayflower Warrens Tomah and others including Johnson and Shattuck families.
Trempealeau county farmers purchased eleven 18 foot by 10 foot steel corn cribs from the Commodity Credit Corporation through the Triple A office in Whitehall. Each crib, part of the Ever Normal Granary program, costs 200 dollars F.O.B. Whitehall and will hold 2,000 bushels of corn. Recipients include Milan Cox, Wm Matchett Osseo, Howard Kopp, Emmons Bros, Leo Betz Galesville, and others in Strum Blair Dodge and nearby areas.
The Tri County Dental Association plans its annual meeting at Riverside Park Blair on Saturday June 8. Dentists from Jackson Buffalo and Trempealeau counties will attend and officers will be elected.
Spartan graduate Donald Abrahamson son of Mr and Mrs R F Abrahamson completed studies at Stevens Point Teachers college Thursday returning to classes after military discharge.
Sparta Wis special report credits Dr C S Phalen for attending the most births in Monroe County in 1945 with 132 births and 25 deaths. Tomah Dr W H Cremer attended 97 births and 45 deaths. Sparta doctors also figure prominently with several counts across the county. The city of Sparta totals 451 births 122 deaths and 119 marriages according to W P Bam ber registrar. Miss Ethel Sowle Tomah reports 20 births 41 deaths and 55 marriages.
Rev. Sverre Hammer of Swea City Iowa arrives in Westby Wisconsin to conduct confirmation services at the Methodist church with confirmants Marilyn Stor bakken and Natalie Larson. Hammer formerly led the Westby church for eight years and resigned last October to lead Swea City. The church has been without a pastor since then, with plans for a new pastor after the June Methodist conference. Mrs. Hammer and four children accompany him and will visit local friends.
ETTRICK Wis two week parochial school to start Monday at St Bridget’s Catholic church with two Franciscan sisters from La Crosse in charge of instruction.
Arnold Jindrick will join Sparta High School as band instructor. With his arrival two vacancies persist for the 1946 47 term including an assistant to the superintendent and an English teacher. Jindrick comes from Arcadia after two years in Sparta’s planning and will conduct six weeks of instruction before school starts. Gordon Sayner continues as band instructor until Jindrick arrives. Frederick Stephenson resigned to a former post. He served with the 76th Infantry division band and plays trumpet.
Galesville Wisconsin special: J O Beadle announces officers for next fall at the annual Parent-Sons party. New officers are Jack Hunter president William Suttie vice president Ian Wason secretary Vernon Bell treasurer Charles Deeren student council Arvid Evenson sentinel. 135 attended with music by the FFA quartet and talks on FBI work by John Quinn.
Norwalk Wisconsin special report says a Catholic sister school in the high school serves 35 children under Sisters M. Lourde and M. Theodota of St. Rose convent La Crosse. The school closes Saturday with first communion at St. Augustines church Sunday and the sisters will move on to Ashland after teaching here.
Colonel Larson in charge of the municipal playground reports an average of 55 attend each forenoon, joining games and contests in the park and at the rear of the playgrounds. He also oversees the bathing beach noting cold water and delayed swimming lessons until warmth returns, but the beach remains in good condition with a long sloping sandy shore.
Doris Anderson of Blair Wisconsin wins the first Ina H Butler Citizenship Award from Burridge D Butler Prairie Farmer and WLS honoring her community service leadership and ambition She plans college clerking before graduation and was among the top scholars in Trempealeau County.
Chaplain Theodore Pfeiffer of Camp McCoy will give the address at the second service Under the Trees during the 1946 season Sunday night on the courthouse lawn. D Sayner will lead the platform and Spar ta Municipal band will supply music.
Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Lee superintendent and matron of Trempealeau county asylum along with R. F. English Arcadia E. N. Kleven Strum and Will Nichols Trempealeau trustees attended the annual state convention for asylum boards in Madison from Tuesday through Thursday.
Col. David L. Robeson, recently transferred to Fort Sheridan as post surgeon after four years at the same post, was a visitor there last Wednesday accompanied by Mrs. Robeson.
Richard D. Isensee, a member of the 1946 Sparta high school graduating class, has enlisted in the air corps. He has already enrolled in flight training at Chanute Field, Illinois.
Col Stanley G Eaton, Hinsdale Illinois, executive officer at Camp McCoy since June 1944, was relieved from active duty. Col Eaton, a World War I veteran, praised for humor and leadership, will revert to inactive reserve. He and Mrs Eaton live in Tomah with three sons serving in the war. He plans to help care for five grandchildren.
City Engineer O A Bergman has begun surveying Oak street between Spring and Court streets to determine lines and grades for sidewalks curbs gutters and a new white way. Naser and Evans will perform the work after completing Water street paving. The Oak street project triggers a broader paving plan but paving will not occur this year.
Grant Oesenbach, who began a taxi service in Sparta in 1939, has expanded to eight cabs and moved into the former Walt Riley Chevrolet garage on East Oak street. He equipped the shop with automotive servicing gear, employs four mechanics for custom and service work, with D F Peterson as shop foreman. The front office was redecorated with new chrome furniture.
Elmer Kellogg of Readstown has bought the Edith Groves residence in the town’s south part on highway 14. Mrs Groves has sold her household goods and will move to Chicago.
Peter L. Marsolek aged 63 died of brain laceration and basal skull fracture after a fall from the rear hotel steps to the sidewalk in Independence. A inquest jury returned a verdict of death by accident after brief deliberation. The incident occurred June 1 and he died June 3 at Whitehall hospital. Witnesses described his unconscious state and the path of his final drive prior to the accident.
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