Holmen Explorers Scout Trek Returns From Canadian Canoe Trip
Sixteen Holmen Explorer Scouts and ten adult leaders completed a 14 day canoe trek into Quetico Provincial Park Ontario entering at Prairie Portage. The group camped near Agnes Lake portaged between lakes and observed bears deer and various birds. They returned via Ely Minnesota toured the Ely Forest Service Center and shared trip contacts with Explorer adviser Charles Olson.
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Holmen
Wis
Quetico
Ontario
Canada
Prairie Portage
Basswood
Burke
Sunday
Meadows Lakes
Agnes Lake
Agnes River
Skeet
Ely
Minn
Gust Block
Ely Forest Service Center
Charles Olson
Lifesaving School Set At Sparta in Wisconsin
The annual zone lifesaving and swim instructor course will run at the Sparta municipal pool from Monday June 29 to Friday July 3. Instructors led by Ted Benzier will offer two three hour lessons daily with attendees from nearby counties and Monroe County. Last year 23 completed the course and applicants must be 18 or older and good swimmers. Senior lifesaving will be taught and a current senior lifesaving certificate is not required. Upon completion, students earn American Red Cross lifesaving and swimming instructor certification.
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Sparta. Wis
Sparta Municipal Pool
Ted Benzier
Monroe County
Army To Have Prominent Part In Dairy Days Sparta 1959
Camp McCoy will contribute to the 1959 Dairy Days in Sparta Wisconsin with an Army display in Memorial Park featuring a 10 ton prime mover weapons and military vehicles. Maj Gen Waldemar Breidster will lead the mammoth parade as marshal riding in a convertible, followed by the post Army band and the 70th Division band. The Sparta Headquarters and Headquarters Troop 2nd Reconnaissance Squadron National Guard will have a parade float to boost recruitment.
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Sparta
Wis
Camp McCoy
Memorial Park
Waldemar F. Breidster
32Nd Infantry Division
Post
70Th Division
2Nd Reconnaissance Squadron
National Guard
Work On Hospital Reaches 1st Floor
WAULKON Iowa work on the new east wing addition to the Veterans Memorial Hospital has reached first floor level. Concrete pouring will start as soon as the joists are in. In July work will begin on the smaller addition at the south side of the hospital.
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Waulkon
Iowa
Veterans Memorial Hospital
Bloodmobile to Visit Camp McCoy in Sparta Wisconsin
The Red Cross Bloodmobile will conduct two visits at Camp McCoy on Monday June 29 and Tuesday June 30 starting at 8 a.m. each day for two full days. Sparta Red Cross Chapter Gray Ladies and volunteers run the center Monday with Tomah Chapter taking over Tuesday. The 82nd Engineers at Camp McCoy have pledged many volunteers and strong recruitment is expected from other post units.
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Sparta
Wis
Red Cross Bloodmobile
Camp McCoy
Sparta Red Cross
Tomah
82Nd Engineers
Badger State Tobacco Co Ends Season at Soldiers Grove
Soldiers Grove Wis The Badger State Tobacco Co warehouse winds up another season of sorting about 800000 pounds of cigar raw material crosses the sorting tables The company employs 60 local residents as the 1958 crop finishes and 1959 crop is planted Manager buyer John Iverson warns growers not to useMH30 sucker control spray as reaction prompts a return to hand suckering for sale of their crop
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Soldiers Grove
Wis
Badger State Tobacco Co
Badger State
John Iverson
Iverson
Sunday Dairy Days Celebration at Coon Valley
Final day of the Sparta daily Days event in Coon Valley features a chicken and ham dinner and bazaar organized by St. Marys Catholic Church with services starting at 11 a.m. local time.
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Sparta
Coon Valley
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Residential Area Being Created near Columbus
Work has begun near Columbus to develop a hillside into a new residential area with at least four summer homes. Most excavation is finished and basements poured, with some framework erected on several foundations. The site lies under a mile from the Columbus bridge.
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Lansing
Iowa
Columbus
Columbus Bridge
La Crosse Guardsmen form boat unit at Camp McCoy
La Crosse companies of the 32nd Infantry Division consolidate as Company A a boat transportation unit of the 157th Transportation Battalion under a new pentomic organization chosen for its location on the Mississippi River. Capt. Francis L Neubauer leads 210 men with recruitment under way to reach 293. Training at Camp McCoy covers basic tactics field drills and amphibious concepts while the unit awaits deployment with LCMs and a 36 foot control boat.
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Francis L. Neubauer
157Th Transportation Battalion
la Crosse
Camp McCoy
Palmer Larson
Anton Lund
CWO
Eugene Rogers
la Crosse Tribune
Wis
32Nd Infantry Division
National Guard
Pentomic
Mississippi River
Trane Co
New Boat Transportation Company
Lawrence Carl
David McCabe
Ronald Patros
Neubauer
Ralph Secrist
Paul Tanke
Tanke
French
Alan Halverson
Melvin Kuscher
Robert Gasson
Boat Transportation Company
Stainless Pazo Piles Relief Claims Without Surgery
Advertises Stainless Pazo suppositories and ointment for swollen piles promising relief in minutes. Claims to stop pain and itching, shrink swelling, promote tissue healing, with immediate comfort and multiple actions in doctors tests. Says results occur without surgery and offers money back.
New Lisbon Schools to Add Six New Faces in September
New Lisbon Wisconsin announces six new teachers joining the district next September across subjects including Margaret Hitchcock in girls physical education, Donald Klink in English and social science, and Robert Paulson in physical education among others. Several staff members are carried over from last year, with assignments spanning elementary to high school, plus rural school staff at Hustler Orange Mills and Oak Hill locations.
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Margaret Hitchcock
Donald Klink
Robert Paulson
Morris Severson
Roberta Severson
Ronald Chase
H. N. Newman
Lloyd Benrud
Gladys Nuttall
Ellen Buttner
Mary Ormson
Adeline Kijak
Mary Beranek
Hustler School
Vernie Sheffield
Luella Mortensen
Anna McMahon
Hazel Venderburg
Orange Mills
Service Commission Grants Several Licenses, Changes
The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin announces multiple carrier license actions. Assignments involve Jake Kabus to Clarence Haugen in Whitehall, and Norman M. Olson to Raymond Chapiewsky in Sparta. Amendments and other assignments affect Richard Keene, Tomah, Russell Larson, Norman Braaten Readstown, Lester Johnson Cashton, Thelma Fredrick and Vernon Burke, and Thelma Burke. A June 30 hearing in Madison covers Arthur Nelson La Farge for a dump truck amendment and a July 10 hearing in Black River Falls covers Huffman Trucking La Crosse for intrastate merchandise transport deals.
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Whitehall
Wis
The
Public Service Commission of Wisconsin
Jake Kabus
Clarence E. Haugen
Commission
Madison
Arthur Nelson
la Farge
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Washington
Racine
Kenosha
Waukesha
Arthur Overgaard
Elroy
H Turner and Son
Boscobel
Black River Falls
D. R. Mattie
Huffman Trucking
la Crosse
la Crosse Gamble Co
G E H S Boy Wins State Dairy Event
Ronald Solberg a 15 year old Gale Ettrick High sophomore won the Wisconsin Junior Dairymen contest at Elkhorn finishing ahead of 199 rivals. He earned a trophy with Riley Emmons taking third and multiple Gale Ettrick classmates accompanying him on the trip.
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Galesville
Wis
Ronald Solberg
Gale-Ettrick High School
Elkhorn
Ronald
Melvin Solberg
Riley Emmons
Emmons
Wisconsin
J. 0. Beadle
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Fred Ray
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Arnold Every
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William Finn
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Robert Gerwitz
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Lyle Henthorne
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Robert IndaMil
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Burleigh Keller
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Net Kiedrowski
Keith Krause
Larry Lewis
William Lichtie Jr
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Wayne Meter
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Bernard Nelson
David Nelson
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Ralph Lebakken
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Philip Lunde
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Charles Mathy
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Jon Meyers
Damiel Mihailovic
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William Miller
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Robert Mueller
Harold Muenzenberger
Richard Nelson
Donald Oines
Rodger Olson
Ronald Parker
Sylvester Peplinsky
Alvin Poker Jr
Gerald Powers
Harold Pretasky
Dien Rand
Henry Reger
Kenneth Rochert
Richard Roth
Roderick Sand
Thomas Schneeberger
Douglas Schober
James Schreier
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Rachel Pritchard
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Roy Simpson
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Arbin E. York
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Mattie Krotsman
Margaret Fischer
Elva Rowe
Audrey Anderson
Mary Jean Cauley
Westinghouse ‘School
Clark-Bracken, Inc
Dial
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Norman M. Olson
Raymond Chapiewsky
Russell A. Larson
Norman E Braaten
Readstown
Lester Johnson
Cashton
Christiana
Vernon County
Math Leis
Floyd Holter
Thelma Fredrick
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Kenneth and
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Westinghouse
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