Plans For Monroe Health Council Formed In Sparta
About fifty people from Monroe County gathered at Sparta High School to organize a community health council. H. L. Sauerman was named temporary chairman as committees form a constitution and officer slate. The council aims to coordinate health welfare and recreation with broad representation from service groups and professionals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sparta
Wis
Monroe County
Sparta High School
H. L. Sauerman
Parent-Teacher Association
Dora Helen Cline
Ridgeville
Cline
Rotary
Kiwanis
Lions Clubs
Youth Rally Set by Onalaska Methodist Youth
The Western Wisconsin sub district rally of the Methodist Youth Fellowship will be held Sunday at 2 30 p.m. in the Onalaska Methodist Church with about 150 youths. The program includes Pine Lake rally slides recreation hour 5 to 6 p.m. potluck 6 15 p.m. devotional at 7 30. Theme Dont Fence Yourself. Officers elected for the coming year Sandra Mahlum president Carolyn Reay first vice president Richard Thaldorf second vice president James Dolbier secretary Donna Schultz treasurer Jack Terpstra retiring president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Onalaska
Wis
Wisconsin
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Pine Lake
Sandra Mahlum
Carolyn Reay
Richard Thaldorf
James Dolbier
Donna Schults
Mary Terpstra
Jack Terpstra
Spartan Participates In Gigantic Airlift
Pfc. Robert Munger of Spartan, son of Mrs. Anna Munger, with the 31st Dixie Division, is among 8 750 soldiers taking part in a large airlift from Show Field South Carolina to Temple Texas. They will join Operation Long Horn at Fort Hood Texas until April 11. The airlift marks the first such large scale transport of troops and equipment by air. Munger previously was assigned to Camp Atterbury Indiana and will report there for permanent assignment around April 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sparta
Wis
Robert Munger
Anna Munger
Dixie Division
Ft. Jackson
S. C
Show Field
S.C
Temple
Tex
Long Horn
Ft. Hood
Munger
Camp
Atterbury
Ind
Ladies Aid Meeting at Upper Beaver Creek Church
The Ladies Aid of the Upper Beaver Creek Lutheran Church in Blair Wisconsin will meet Thursday. Hostesses will be Mrs. Erick Brynhildson Mrs. Caroline Lien and Theodore Fenny. Mrs. Alvin Severson will present the topic.
Hokah Soldier Is Honor Grad at Fort Ord Automotive School
Pfc Leland W. Zibrowski son of Mr and Mrs Arthur Zibrowski Hokah Minn graduated March 1 as honor student in the Ft Ord California automotive maintenance school Maj Gen R B McClure commander of the 6th Infantry Division praised Zibrowski for leading his class in repairing Army vehicles both in shop and in the field The 21 year old soldier attended local schools and worked at the Trane Company in La Crosse He is home on leave preparing for overseas duty and is completing his first year in service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hokah, Minn
Leland W. Zibrowski
Arthur Zibrowski
Hokah
Ft. Ord
Calif
R. B. McClure
6Th Infantry
Zibrowskis
Minnesota
Trane Company
la Crosse
Trempealeau Valley Homemakers Meet in Blair Wisconsin
Trempealeau Valley Homemakers met at Mrs Arnold Quarne s home with each member bringing a lunch contribution. Mrs Thomas Tenneson and Mrs Herman Zastrow presented a lesson on sewing machine attachments and attendees shared their own attachments.
Trempealeau Men Enter Military Duty
Three Trempealeau County youths join the armed forces with induction from Whitehall. James Ralph Mors of Osseo Wayne Curry of Osseo and John Bleisner of Arcadia depart for Minneapolis for military service amid local preparations and notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trempealeau
Whitehall
Wis
James Ralph Mors
Trempealeau County
Minneapolis
Wayne Curry
Osseo
John Bleisner
Arcadia
Rockland Bangor Riding Club Plans Mounted Square Dance
The Rockland Bang or Riding Club aims to perform a square dance while mounted on horses. The club, meeting monthly at Rockland Village Hall, grows from a 1950 start and welcomes all ages without horse ownership. Recent Cataract dance raised 330 dollars for the treasury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockland
Wis
Bangor
Leonard Everson
Ruth Hallock
Mil
Black River Falls Marine Earns Bronze Star
Cpl. Harold Funmaker Jr. of Black River Falls received the Bronze Star Medal from Maj. Gen. G. C. Thomas for leading a fire team during a June 10 1951 assault in Korea. Despite wounds he urged his men forward, routing an entrenched enemy position and ensuring the unit’s advance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black River Falls
Wis
Cpl
Harold Funmaker Jr
G. C. Thomas
First Marine Division
Korea
Ina
Funmaker
Winners In Forensics At Blair High School
Blair Wisconsin special report details top honors in the Blair High School forensic contest. Betty Underdahl and Joyce Siverson won extemporaneous readings and serious declamations respectively, with Gale Toraason and Solveig Arberg taking first and second in humorous declamations. Robert Sexe and Fred Peacock led four-minute speeches, Lois Kuchel and Betty Underdahl won non-original ovations, Darwin Bradley and Lois Kole led original orations, and several participants earned A ratings at Whitehall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blair, Wis
Blair High School
Betty Underdahl
Joyce Syverson
Gale Toraason
Solveig Arberg
Lois Misch
Mary Ellen Oppegaard
Robert Sexe
Fred Peacock
Lois Kuchel
Darwin Bradley
Lois Kole
Darwin
Whitehall
Lois Kolve
Sonja Sexe
Place Of Meetings Changed By Legion In Ontario Wis
Members of the American Legion and auxiliary again meet at the Knights of Pythias Hall after a year at the Community Hall. At the March meeting two dozen Easter favors were prepared for the Veterans Hospital. The auxiliary donated $100 toward a veterans plaque. Lunch committee includes Eva Palen Barbara Resch Caroline Skarda and Lela Wallace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ontario
Wis
American Legion and Auxiliary
Knights of Pythias
Veterans Hospital
Mmes
Eva Palen
Barbara Resch
Caroline Skardai
Lela Wallace
Arcadia High School Career Day Spotlighted by Guest Speaker
Miss Mauree Applegate of La Crosse State College author of Everybody's Business Our Children will speak at Arcadia High School career day on Thursday April 3. The all day event, sponsored by the senior class, features speakers from various vocations guiding the graduating class on course choices for advanced study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arcadia
Wis
Mauree Applegate
la Crosse State College
Arcadia High School
Ontario Juniors Present Mumbo Jumbo Play Thursday
Ontario High School junior class will present the mystery comedy Mumbo Jumbo at the Community Hall Thursday at 8 15 p m The cast includes Shirley Rich Jeannette Calhoun Bettie Thomas Ardyce Rich and others directed by Mrs Marjorie Woods with Lawrence and La Merl Hammon as stage managers
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ontario
Wis
New England
Shirley Rich
Jeannette Calhoun
Bette Thomas
Ardyce Rich
Ruth Haakenstad
Teresa Aynes
Monica DeWitt
Beverly Parr
Joan Melby
Roger Budde
Ernest Meyers
Robert Ferries
Roger Sullivan
Duane Downing
Arthur Brijeske
Keith Jacobus
Dean Teal
Marjorie Woods
Lawrence
la Merl Hammon
Legion Plans Party At Black River Falls
Richard O. Horn announces a joint American Legion and Auxiliary party at Legion Hall in Black River Falls on April 7 at 8 p.m. All Legion hosts invite husbands of auxiliary members and wives of Legionnaires. Entertainment by James Tollefson Enoch Locken and Arthur Solberg. Lunch by Larry Gilbertson Lawrence Jones and Albert Nicolai. Movies and card games featured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black River Falls
Wis
Richard O. Horn
Miles-Hagen Post
American Legion
Auxiliary
Legion Hall
Legion
James Tollefson
Enoch Locken
Arthur Solberg
Larry D. Gilbertson
Lawrence Jones
Albert Nicolai
La Crosse Luther League to Perform at Ettrick
Our Saviour's Lutheran Church of La Crosse will present a program for French Creek Luther League Sunday at p.m. in Ettrick. Ettrick Lutheran Mothers Club meets Tuesday April 1 at 8 p.m. at Mrs. Maurice Casey's home with Mrs. Folkedahl and Mrs. Casey as hostesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ettrick
Wis
Luther
Women Foresters Re-Elect Officers
St. Rita's Court of Women Foresters in Lansing re-elected officers who served the past year. Names include Mrs. Kern Kelleher chief ranger Mrs. Harold Welendorf vice ranger Mrs. Philip Rethwisch recording secretary Mrs. Margaret Guider financial secretary Mrs. James Powers treasurer and Lydia Fritz juvenile adviser.
Girl Selects Delegate To Minnesota Girls State
Shir ley Wiese a junior at St Peter s Parochial High School was chosen as the Minnesota Girls State delegate to be held in St Paul in June. Her alternate is Kathleen Feldmeier of St Peter s School. The unit will sponsor a poppy poster contest with the annual poppy sale and contribute 3 to the Red Cross drive. The April meeting is postponed to April 17 with an Americanism program planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shirley Wiese
St. Peter’s
Minnesota
St. Paul
American Legion Auxiliary
Miss Wiese
Kathleen Feldmeier
St. Peter’s School
Red Cross
Everett Slinde
Gustaf Radtke
Bernard Kerrigan
Trempleau Circuit Court Calendar Lists 28 Cases
Whitehall district calendar shows 28 cases including three divorces Constance Smith vs Arnold Smith Lorraine Kratch vs Chauncey Kratch Elvira Doelle vs Willifred Doelle with Lawrence Doelle as inter pleader Executors of Jennie Paetow contrast collection actions against Amundson and Kube A jury case added involving W Zeck Eau Claire vs Marshall Bergerson Osseo Circuit Court schedule set for April 1 1951 Judge Leonard F. Roraff presiding Nine criminal and twelve civil actions are listed with various overages and continuations plus citizenship petitions by Susanna Berglund Eleva and Karen Knutson Whitehall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constance Smith
Arnold Smith
Lorraine Kratch
Chauncey Kratch
Elvira Doelle
Willifred Doelle
Lawrence Doelle
LaVern G. Kostner
Henry Vogel
Jennie Paetow
Alfred M. Amundson
F. C. Kube
Peter Kupietz
W. A. Zeck
Eau Claire
Marshall Bergerson
Osseo
Whitehall
Wis
Anton J. Kulig
Circuit Court
Ernest Suchla
Clarence
H. Johnson
Arcadia Town
Susanna K. Berg‘lund
Floyd Arneson
Emery Wiverstad
Houston Plans War On Rats
Hokah Minnesota residents hear Frank Fairbanks Houston ty weed commissioner outline a rodent eradication plan. The Warfarin poison will be placed in garbage dumps and other rat hotspots. Mayor W. W. Becker backs the proposal and will raise it at the Hokah Village Council meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hokah
Minn
Frank Fairbanks
Houston
Fairbanks
W. W. Becker
Family Fetes Hokah Man, 85
Four generations of Rudolph Maurer’s family gathered in Hokah Minnesota to honor his 85th birthday. Attending were Maurer’s daughter Mrs Sam Ender and her daughter, Mrs Herbert Wilmow, and another relative Mrs Volmow and her daughter Sharon plus relatives from Dresbach Eau Claire Wisconsin Winona and Arizona. Maurer, born in Switzerland, spent most of his life on a Hokah area farm and both he and his wife have been ill this winter but plan Easter church attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hokah, Minn
Rudolph Maurer
Maurer
Sam ‘Ender
Ender
Herbert Wilmow
Volmow
Sharon
Schawley
Dresbach
Henry
Henry of ‘Eau Claire, Wis., Mrs. Ralph Carney, Winona, Rudolph Jr
Arizona
Ella Jakobitz
Eau Claire
Switzerland
Minnesota
Hokah
Clark Nixon Speaks at De Soto Methodist Church
Clark Nixon of La Crosse was guest speaker at the De Soto Methodist Church morning worship Sunday. No services were held at Red Mound and Retreat churches due to road conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DE Soto
Wis
Ark Nixon
la Crosse
de Soto Methodist Church
Red Mound
Ettrick Marine Attends Oslo Olympics Trip
Marine Sgt. Curtiss Briggs stationed with the State Department at the Moscow embassy writes his mother that he attended the Oslo Olympic games after a three day visit to Stockholm and an overnight in Helsinki while en route back to Moscow. He has served on guard duty at the embassy for over 14 months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ettrick
Wis
Curtiss Briggs
State Department
Moscow
Irene Briggs
Oslo
Stockholm
Sweden
Helsinki
Finland
Briggs
Heroic Phone Girl Honored In SG Thursday
Mrs. William Gander, Soldiers Grove telephone operator who stayed at her switchboard during the 1951 flash flood, will receive the Theodore N. Vail Medal and $500 at a Thursday banquet in Luther Memorial Church. The award honors outstanding community service by telephone workers and is given to about three people nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soldiers Grove
Wis
William Gander
Gander
Theodore N. Vail
Luther Memorial Church
Bell Telephone Company
United States
Utica Farmers Mutual Telephone Company
Clinic Auxiliary at Gays Mills Plans April Membership Drive
The Gays Mills Clinic Auxiliary formed to support the new clinic announces plans for activities and a concentrated membership drive in April. The group hopes to raise funds to equip the clinic through its projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gays Mills, Wis
Gays Mills Clinic
Also Mentioned on This Page
Monroe Health Council
Gertrude Googwind
State Board of Health
Beata J. M. Geiger
Ray Shannon
Division of Children and Youth
State Public Welfare Department
Community Council
Methodist Fellowship Meeting
Spartan
Ladies Aid
Pfc. Zibrowski
Tremp’leau Valley Homemakers
Gieur Space Club
Peterson
Secs
Circuit Judge Club
Philip G. Arneson
Leonard Roraff
WKBH
25Th Division
725Th Ordnance Company
Morley L. Torgerson
Morris Torgerson
Bremerton
Wash
Buford Dahlberg
Viola, Wis
Chris Dahlberg
la Farge
Richard W. Hess
B. C. Hess
Farmville
725Th
Dahlberg
Torgerson
Hess
U. S. Army
Plan
Ton Stuber
Bessie Everson
Norman Root
Leo Ammerman
Ronald Ammerman
Virginia Sheppler
Jack Hack
Dawn Fuchs
Rockland Village Hall
BRF Marine
Harold Funmaker
Ontario High Juniors
Women Foresters
St. Peter’s Catholic High School
Hokah AL Auxiliary
Trempleau Circuit Court
John Couture
Gration Kulas
Mississippi
Theodore J. Pierzina
Budd Todd Jr
James Tomashek
Winona
Todd
Charles Scholidon
Selma A. Remmenn
Milwaukee
Christ and
Helmer Iverson
Harold Remmenn
Shelby Mutual Casualty Company
O. J. Eggum
Remmenn
Iverson
Highway 93
Independence
J. E. Garaghan
William D. Mitchell
Windfall
Lee van Vleet
Allyn van Vleet
Alma Center
H. E. Sharp
Strum
Eleanora Troffat
W. E. Schroeder
Blair Grocer
Snip
Waldemar Heck
Raymond Tranberg
Highway
Ruth Young
Leslie Young
Highway 53
Ettrick Township
St. Paul Mercury Indemnity Company of
Lennartz Trucking Service
Hixton
Anna ‘Cooper
Richland Center
Milwaukee Automobile Insurance Company
Louie Larson
Lillian Cornwell
Harry Severson
Cora J. Severson
Farmers Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
Alex Blaha
Eugene Halama
Don Letendre Jr
Roman Kampa
Basil J. Erickson
U.S. Fidelity and Guaranty Company
Bank of Osseo
Ervin B
Verna E. Johnson
Clark Nixon
Ettrick Marine
Ganterts
South Third St
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