Best 3 Cowboys Vie In Prairie du Chien Rodeo
Three world champion cowboys will compete in a 1500 dollar matched riding contest at Prairie du Chien near the Villa Louis on Sunday. Jack Buschbom Harry Tompkins and Jim Shoulders enter riding three bulls and three drones apiece in a key event with a 1500 dollar purse. Buschbom a Cassville rider previously won nine saddles and travels widely. Shoulders 1956 champion bareback rider. Tompkins a former champion bull rider from Texas.
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Prairie DU Chien
Wis
Villa Louis
Jack Buschbom
Harry Tompkins
Jim Shoulders
Buschbom
Cassville
Tompkins
Texas
Shoulders
Henrietta
Okla
Canada
Mexico
United States
Lansing Legion Women Meet for Auxiliary Officers
Lansing Iowa special report says Mrs Alvin Wilde will host the American Legion Auxiliary meeting on Tuesday June 25. Officers to be elected. Nominating committee includes Mrs A R Fredrickson Mrs Art Magnusson and Miss Lydia Fritz. Mrs Wilde to present a lesson on mental illness. Hostess committee features Mrs Ralph Bartels chairman with Arne Helle James Thorsten and Clyde Roeder Jr.
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Lansing
Iowa
Alvin Wilde
American Legion Auxiliary
A. R. Fredrickson
Art Magnusson
Lydia Fritz
School Dist. 73 Sets Annual Meet
Horah Minn special report: The annual meeting of School District 73 will be at the Richard Albrecht home on Tuesday June 25. Officers listed: Martin Horkan chairman Richard Albrecht clerk and Otto Zuynach treasurer.
La Crosse Unit Provides Honor Guard at Camp McCoy
Efficiency ratings rise for La Crosse Service Company of the 426th Infantry at Camp McCoy. A 36 man platoon is chosen to guard Gov. Vernon Thomson during the division review Saturday. First Lt. Wesley Denny will command the guard with Sgt. LC. Palmer Johnson as platoon sergeant. The unit, led by Capt. Francis L. Neubauer, supplies food clothing and ammunition and maintains vehicles and weapons for 103 present of 106 men in camp.
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Camp Mccoy
Wis
la Crosse
426Th
Vernon Thomson
Wesley Denny
LC. Palmer Johnson
Francis L. Neubauer
426Th Regiment
Phillip Lunde
Roger Riese
Jerome Arenz
Francis Neubauer
Richard Betsinger
Robert Gilbertson
Prospect St
32Nd Infantry Division
J.C. Palmer Johnson
River View Drive
Trane Co
Trempealeau 4-Hers Head to Wisconsin Club Week
Sixteen Trempealeau County 4-H members join 14 Frenchville Cloverleaves chorus singers for Wisconsin Club Week in Madison from June 24 27. Awarded trips honor projects in music leadership speaking chorus health and safety home economics junior leadership dairy tractor band livestock electricity and more.
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Sharon Willis
Phyllis Anderson
Blair
Marilyn Call
Strum
Marilyn Hanson
Whitehall
Jacqueline Johnson
Sharon Hardie
Marilyn Smich
Independence
Judy Sobotta
Arcadia
LaVonne Jacobson
Osseo
Doris Johnson
Clayton Call
Dale Hangartner
Ronald Syverson
Roy Hanson
Kenneth Kopp
Galesville
Paul Ringsten
Robert Solberg
Waukon Child 2 Breaks Leg in Car Crash
A two year old child in Waukon, Iowa, suffered a broken leg when a family car driven by Mrs. Leroy Brink overturned on a county road near Waukon. Mrs Brink escaped with minor injuries after losing control on a soft shoulder.
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Waukon
Iowa
Duane Brink
Leroy Brink
Brink
Seneca FFA Youth Wins State Farming Prize
Jack Olson of Seneca Wis won the $75 state farming program award at the state FFA convention in Green Lake. His yearlong program covered dairy beef swine and corn and emphasized soil conservation with terrace work. Olson is active in FFA leadership and is employed in Alaska. Three other Seneca FFA members earned Wisconsin Farmer Degrees at the convention.
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Seneca, Wis
Jack Olson
Tilman Olson
FFA
Green Lake
Jack
Seneca Ffa
Alaska
Glenn Linder
Louis Linder
Eastman
Bernard Zach
George Zach
Orville Aspenson
Norman Aspenson
Seneca
Appeal for books brings strong response for VA hospital
Black River Falls Wisconsin reports an excellent response to its Legion appeal for books for the To mah VA Hospital. Residents may still donate books or magazines through June 25 by contacting Morris Orlich for pickup arrangements. Paperbacks in fiction and nonfiction and reference books are desired.
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Black River Falls
Wis
American Legion Post
Tomah VA
Morris Orlich
Norwalk Lutheran Church to mark 100th anniversary
Norwalk Lutheran Church in Norwalk Wisconsin will observe its centennial with three worship services and a noon dinner on Sunday June 23. Featured speakers will include former pastors the Reverend Petrie Amery and the Reverend Albin Berg of Madison.
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Norwalk
Wis
League sets fest in Ettrick area strawberry social
ETTRICK Wis Special by league will hold a strawberry and ice cream social Sunday June 23 at 8 p m The public is invited.
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Ettrick Area
Ettrick
Wis
Blair Mill Dam Being Repaired
Lake Henry at Riverside Park is being drained as Anderson brothers install more efficient gates in their Blair Wisconsin mill dam.
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Blair
Wis
Henry
Riverside
Anderson Brothers
Clerk H M Johnson attends state county clerks conclave
Trempealeau County clerk H M Johnson traveled to Janesville for the annual state convention of county clerks, staying from Sunday through Wednesday as the meeting remained in session.
Cashton Girl To Join Sister In Germany
Dor is Kamperschroer travels to Regensburg Germany to join sister Betty who teaches children of American families in an elementary school. They plan a summer tour through Germany Holland Switzerland France and Scandinavia. Dor will return in late August and teach English at Merrill High School after two years at Hillsboro. Their mother Mrs Theodore Kamperschroer teaches at Elm View School and a sister Virginia is a Cashton High School junior.
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Cashton
Wis
Doris Kamperschroer
Regensburg
Germany
Betty
Doris
Holland
Switzerland
France
Merrill High School
Hillsboro
Theodore Kamperschroer
Elm View School
Virginia
Cashton High School
86 Tots Attain Perfect Attendance
In Holmen Wisconsin 86 of 107 pupils in summer Bible school at Holmen Lutheran Church completed classes. The program ended with a closing program and pot luck dinner. The children gave a special offering to Ephphatha Church in Fairbault Minnesota, a church serving the deaf and blind.
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Holmen, Wis
Holmen Lutheran Church
Ephphatha Church
Fairbault
Minn
Rural Allamakee County names 1957 58 teachers by township
Special report lists 53 rural Allamakee County schools and their teachers for 1957 58 term. Names appear by township including Center Fairview Franklin French Creek Hanover Iowa River Jefferson Linton Ludlow Lafayette Russell Lansing Makee Howard Lycurgus Paint Creek Northwest Union City Clear Creek Harmony Wheatland Union Prairie Emmett Helming Southwest and Union townships with assigned staff.
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Waukon
Iowa
Allamakee County
Center Township
Hazel Hennessy
Marion de Witt
Loretta Mullarkey
Gladys Tolander
Fairview
Florence Kinley
Franklin—Curtis Webster
Iva Reineke
Rench Creek
Maude Butler
Rosewall
Bernice Deeny
Josephine Larson
Hanover
Alice O'Neill
Margie van Horn
Beatrice Collins
Alma Pfister
Iowa River
Frances Blake
Dorothy Welper
Jefferson
Lorna Winters
Melba Erickson
Thelma Berg
Irene Brainard
Mildred Trappe
Lansing
Leone Powers
Sylvia Hogan
Makee
Carol Hanson
Hanson
Margaret Deal
Howard
Loretta Cassidy
Lycurgus
Paint Creek
Ella Thompson
Northwest
Union City
Harriet Bechtel
Clear Creek
Evelyn Wiemersinge
English Beach
Marjorie Stockman
Harmony
Ruth Freiberg
Wheatland
Union Prairie
Martha Hawke
Emmett
Carol Kiesau
Helming
Mabel Palmer
Southwest
Eleanora Berns
Youth Fellowship Sets Ice Cream Social Date
Lansing Iowa special news notes the Youth Fellowship group of the EUB Church has set June 26 for its annual ice cream social at the church.
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Lansing
Iowa
EUB Church
St Marys of CV Annual Picnic and Bazaar Planned
St Marys Parish in Coon Valley Wisconsin will hold its annual picnic and bazaar on church grounds with a sunlit chicken and ham dinner served from 11 a.m. to all served. Advance dinner tickets are available at Kersha s Grocery and St Marys School La Crosse. Activities include bazaar food sale fish pond and competitive games with entertainment throughout the afternoon.
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Coon Valley
Wis
St. Mary's Parish
Kersha's
St. Mary
Blair Sportsmen Clean Up Park
Members of the Blair Eturk Rod and Gun Club will meet at the cabin in Riverside Memorial Park Sunday at 1 pm for a park cleanup. Richard Stone, club president, asks members to bring baskets for litter removal.
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Blair Sportsmen
Blair, Wis
Blair-Eturick Rod and Gun Club
Riverside Memorial Park
Richard Stone
Picnic Sunday St Peter's Reformed Sun Day School
New Albin Iowa The annual picnic sponsored by St Peter's Evangelical and Reformed Sunday School is scheduled for Sunday at noon at the city park with attendees urged to bring picnic baskets and enjoy a community event.
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New Albin
Iowa
St. Peter's
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