Fire Destroys Farm Home Near Cashton
Cashton Wisconsin fire destroyed the eight room two story home of Mr and Mrs Edward Marx four miles west of Cashton early Sunday as two children alerted the family. Seven buildings burned including the house and woodshed while the barn survived with burn holes in its roof. The Irv Edwards Rural Fire fighters of Sparta provided water. Loss estimated 12000 to 15000 with partial insurance.
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Cashton
Wis
Edward Marx
Mary
Laurie Hauser
Irv Edwards
Sparta
Marx
Death notices for Mabel A Baker and Norbert E Pieper
Mabel A Baker of 1135 Main St died in a local rest home Sunday morning Oct 4. She was born in Oakdale Wis and spent 36 years with Standard Oil in La Crosse retiring in 1954. Services Tuesday at 1 30 p.m. at Dickinson Funeral Home with burial at Oak Grove Cemetery Tomah. Norbert E Pieper 51 of 2855 S 21st Terrace was found dead Sunday evening Oct 4 with death ruled a self inflicted act by the La Crosse County coroner. Schumacher Funeral Home in charge.
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Mabel A. Baker
Main St
Oakdale
Wis
Tomah
Standard Oil
American Oil Co
la Crosse
Orders of Eastern Star and White Shrine
Christian Science
Dickinson Funeral
Jackson Street Chapel
Oak Grove Cemetery
Norbert E. Pieper
S. 21St Terrace
la Crosse County
Schumacher Funeral Home
Helen Hayes views life story film ahead of birthday
New York AP Helen Hayes who turns 70 this Saturday attended a rare advance birthday event a preview of her life story film Helen Hayes Portrait of an American Actress The 90 minute National Education Television production will air at NET Thursday night Hayes at 6 when she began on stage at age six and has friends and well wishers at a Museum of Modern Art screening.
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New York
Helen Hayes
National Education Television
NET
Miss Hayes
Museum of Modern Art
Tri State Deaths Mark Rural Wisconsin Obituaries
Hulda Mann 86 formerly of Caledonia died Oct 2 in a Janesville hospital after living with a daughter since 1965. Funeral Tuesday at St. Johns Lutheran Caledonia with burial Evergreen Cemetery. Survivors include daughter Walter Corsario 10 grandchildren and six great grandchildren along with three sisters and one brother. Cora Rose 67 of Tomah died Oct 3 at home with funeral at Tomah Congregational Church of Christ. Burial Oak Grove Cemetery. Survived by husband Paul and three brothers. Herman Frey 72 of Camp Douglas died Oct 3 in Tomah hospital. Funeral Tuesday at Bethel Baptist Church Seneca with burial St Peters Lutheran Cemetery Seneca. He chaired Byron town board for 30 years and served on Monroe County Board 25 years. Survived by wife Georgia. two daughters Edna Georgeson and Joanne Jones. two sons Doug and John. three sisters and four brothers. 13 grandchildren and one great grandchild. Palm er M Moilien 88 of Coon Valley died Oct 4 in La Crosse hospital. Services Oct 6 at Upper Coon Valley Lutheran Church with burial church cemetery. Survived by two sons Irvin and Arnold. two brothers Joseph and Oscar. nine grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
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Caledonia
Minn
Hurley White
Brownsville
Chicago
Steffen
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Richard Speltz
St. Patrick’s Cemetery
Rosary
Ambrose White
Joan Niebling
People’s Natural Gas Co
Vicky
Janet
Debbie
Steven
Joseph Adduci
Ronald Fredricks
William Breslin
San Franciscco
Calif
Westby
Wis
Oscar Rude
Viroqua Hospital
Westby - Coon Prairie Lutheran Church
H. O. Aasen
Coon Prairie Cemetery
Anderson Funeral Chapel
Ole Rude
Agnes Struxness
Wendall
Nordahl
Eau Claire
Alvin
Henry
Palmer
Leif
Tomah
Cora Rose
Paul
Ted Pearsall
Adams
Sam
Leo
State of Washington
Camp Douglas
Herman Frey
Bethel Baptist Church
Seneca
Robert Morris
St. Peter’s Lutheran Cemetery
White Funeral Home
Frey
Byron
Monroe County
Georgia
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Joanne Jones
Doug
John
Celia Nelson
Loren Weiss
Alma Frey
Janesville
Walter
Fred
Warrens
Arnold
Brainard, Minn
Coon Valley
Palmer M. Moilien
la Crosse
Upper Coon Valley
John Moilien
Greenfield
la Crosse County
Sofia Berg
North Ridge
Irvin
Joseph
Oscar
Mrs Duane Schneider Dies at 70 in Mauston
Mauston Wisconsin Mrs Duane Schneider about 70 died Friday October 2 at her home Her body was willed to the University of Wisconsin for medical research There will be no service
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Mauston
Wis
Duane Schneider
University of Wisconsin For Medical Research
Fond du Lac County Clerk Arnold Sook Dies at 73
Funeral services will be held Tuesday for Arnold Sook Fond du Lac County Clerk who died over the weekend. Sook, 73, served 16 years as county clerk and had won renomination in the September primary before deciding not to seek re election. He previously served as county sheriff and undersheriff and was among the top GOP vote getters in the county.
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Fond DU Lac
Arnold Sook
Sook
Vietnam War Grinds On With Rising Border Threats
Saigon reports progress in pacification and Vietnamization yet warns the war grinds on. North Vietnamese divisions lurk along Cambodia Laos borders while Viet Cong influence persists. U.S. forces shrink to small units as Vietnamization advances and South Vietnamese troops take more combat roles.
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Cambodia
Laos
Demilitarized Zone
South Vietnam
United States
Michael S. Davison
Hamburger Hill
Nixon
Congress
U.S
Davison
Military Region 3
South Viettnamese
Do Cao Tri
North Vietnam
Sihanoukville
Births at Memorial and St Josephs Hospitals
At Memorial Hospital in Tomah on Sept 29 a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kidd of Camp Douglas R 1. On Sept 30 a daughter arrived for Mr. and Mrs. Richard Trachie of Camp Douglas R 1. At St Josephs Hospital Chippewa Falls on Oct 2 a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Akan of Chippewa Falls R 5, with Carol Kerska formerly of La Crosse noted.
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Henry Kidd
R. 1
Camp Douglas
Lillian Brown
Richard Trachie
Carol Williams
Chippewa Falls
Wis
Patrick Akan
Carol Kerska
la Crosse
Stray Shot Injures Girl Near Viroqua
Linda Lou McClurg five year old daughter of Kenny and Mrs McClurg suffered a gunshot wound to the leg from an apparent stray bullet while playing in her parents yard near Seas Branch Lake six miles from Viroqua Wisconsin. The bullet entered above the knee and she was treated at Vernon Memorial Hospital and released.
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Viroqua
Wis
Linda Lou McClurg
Kenny McClurg
Seas Branch Lake
Vernon Memorial Hospital
Jean Sarver
Inez Young
Monroe County Hospital
Sparta
Oshkosh
Texas
Miss Young
Tomah Memorial Hospital
Roger Kintope
Carl Kintope
Violet Kintope
Monroe County
Kintope
Marvin H. Jerdee
N. 2
Tomah
Jerdee
Cataract
Printz Creek
Geraldine F. Flood
Humbird
Loy
Linda
Black River Falls
Fairfax man’s body found after Lake Julia fishing trip
The body of Louis J. Baruffi, 43, of Fairfax Virginia, was recovered Sunday from Lake Julia where his boat was found overturned about three hours after he departed to fish.
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Rhinelander
Louis J. Baruffi
Fairfax
Lake Julia
Nine Injured In One Car Crash Near Wyeville
Sparta Wisconsin report details a head on collision on STH 21 near Wyeville injuring five Oshkosh State University cheerleaders and four others after their delegation returned from a Stout State University game. Several victims were hospitalized in La Crosse and Tomah facilities with head cuts, leg injuries, and a possible brain concussion.
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Sparta
Wis
Oshkosh State University
Wyeville
Oshkosh
Stout State University
Menomonie
Farrell Sousek
Shirley M. White
Zeb. D.speaks
Brandon
Miss
Las Speaks
Mrs. White
Tomah Memorial ‘Hospital
la Crosse
Kathy Zimmer
Madison
Tomah Hospital
Dana Wechler
Sturgeon Bay
Linda Scheil
Wisconsin
Nancy Frett
Dawn Strausser
Speaks
Evelyn Peterson
R. 2
Tomah
Speak
Peterson
Mabel Schmitz
Tomah Memorial Hospital
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