Sparta Council OKs Plan of Deepening Perch Lake
Sparta Wisconsin special council meeting approves deepening Perch Lake using 1200 dollars in city funds. Frank Fuenger says contractors Bohl and Linehan will use three scrapers and two caterpillars to remove 91000 cubic yards over 38 acres, at 511 dollars per day, with a one day job time estimate. The panel also considers rebuilding the north dike while awaiting cost estimates.
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Sparta
Wis
Perch Lake Improvement Committee
Frank Fuenger
William Bohl
Cap Linehan
Bohl
Linehan
Perch Lake
Fuenger
Roy Goodman
Harold Daehn
Arthur Eyler
Citizens’ Perch
John Lakowske
Notice of Sale and Public Hearings in La Crosse County
Wisconsin circuit court notices announce a sheriff sale of La Crosse County real estate in November 1958 under a 1958 partition judgment. Also listed are zoning hearings for Edward Young and Patricia Young, proposals for town contracts, probate proceedings for Richard Randall, a summons in Parker v Parker, and bids for fuel oil for the county home and infirmary.
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State of Wisconsin
la Crosse County
Lora Niedercorn
Elmer J. Thoreson
Donna Mae Thoreson
Mabel Erickson
Ivy Onshus
Ella Blihorde
Alma Galstad
Myrtle Williams
Emma Kissler
Wisconsin
la Crosse
Greenfield
Erwin W. Voss
Wis
Mockrud & Skundberg
State Bank
Westby
Section
Township 16
Esther M. Domke
State of
la Crosse County Court
Richard Randall
Eugene A. Toepel
Bosshard & Arneson
Linker Building
Philip G. Arneson
Records of Fines and Sentences in Tomah Area
John Foley Jr. of Tomah, 20, fined 25 dollars and given a six month suspended sentence for assault and disorderly conduct. Probation to Deputy Allen Oss. Other entries include speeding fines for Charles Junior Raymond La Crosse, Thomas Lee Harkner Millston, and Alyn R Johnson Sparta, a 60 day license suspension for Michael Ender Sparta, and a drunken driving case for Marion Thompson Milwaukee. A dehumidifier motor trouble at G J Krause residence, 2321 Sisson Dr, noted as a fire report on Oct 27 at 11:09 a.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Foley Jr
Tomah
Allen Oss
Charles Junior Raymond
R. 1
la Crosse
Thomas Lee Harkner
Millston
Michael Ender
Sparta
Marion Thompson
Milwaukee
Alyn R. Johnson
G. J. Krause
Sisson Dr
Deaths in Wisconsin list Cashton to Galesville
John Munson 64, Cashton area farmer, died after brief illness at Viroqua hospital. Funeral Thursday at Bethany Lutheran Church Sand Hill. Survivors include wife Caroline and five sons Harold Marvin Clifford Palmer, Arthur. two sisters and 12 grandchildren. Other notices include Mrs Orvin Traff 49 Houston. Myrtle Lewis 65 Readstown. John L Spurs 87 Galesville.
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Cashton
Wis
John Munson
Viroqua
Bethany Lutheran Church
Sand Hill
Elmer Larson
Torkelson
Mr. Munson
Crawford County
Lena Horum
Ferryville
Boy Shoots Woman in Purse Hold Up in Denver Suburb
A 10-year-old boy, Kerry Dale Casey, admitted firing a .22 caliber pistol at 32-year-old Mrs. Shirley Orlofsky during a purse robbery near her Denver suburb home. She was wounded in the left shoulder but in fair condition. No charges filed.
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Englewood
Colp
Bill Maraggos
Arapahoe County
Maraggos
Marriage Licenses Granted in Wisconsin Listings
A series of pending marriages includes Lester Williams and Marcell a M Stanek in Vernon County. Ronald Brown and Rena Ames in Sparta. Larry Noyes and Lucille Noth in Wilton. Charles Blackdeer and Mary Jean Roberts in La Crosse. George Sagen and Nancy Haugen in La Crosse. Thurman Towner and Janice Hanson in Onalaska. Rudolph Garbers and Viola Mades in West Salem. Avery Hurst and Leora Sprain in Barre. Arlan Niedfeldt and Lorraine Gartner in Farmington. Lester Frels and Mary Rose Waller in La Crosse. Lee Falls and Lois Smith in La Crosse. Glenn Anderson and Patsy Waughtal in Black River Falls. Donald Greengrass and Eunice Peters in Neopit.
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Larry Noyes
Lucille Noth
9Th St
Wilton
Charles Blackdeer
Onalaska
Mary Jean Roberts
Chicago
la Crosse
George E. Sagen
Winnebago St
Nancy Etta Haugen
Loomis St
Trempealeau
Janice Faye Hanson
Holmen
Rudolph H. Garbers
Viola Mades
Mindoro
West Salem
Avery E. Hurst
la Crescent
Leora Caroline Sprain
Barre
Arlan William Niedfeldt
Bangor
Lorraine Marion Gartner
Farmington
Lester Frels
Mary Rose Waller
Market St
William Lee Falls
Prospect St
Lois Diane Smith
Harvey St
Dynamite Found In E. C. Glass High School Trash Basket
A janitor at E. C. Glass High School in Lynchburg found a paper bag containing dynamite in a trash container. The bag included a cap and a coil of wire with a flashlight battery nearby. Last Thursday a bombing threat had been received, prompting evacuation. the caller suggested a bomb at the school but offered no motive.
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Lynchburg
E. C. Glass High School
Births listed across several Wisconsin towns
Oct 20 to Oct 27 births reported for families in Viroqua Stoddard Black River Falls La Crosse Cashton and surrounding areas. Names include Rock Allen Diane Lynn Jeff Newell Debra Jane and more with parents Mr. and Mrs. listed and locations such as La Crescent Viroqua Viola and Westby.
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David P. Hendrickson
Kane St
Mari Louise Jahnke
Donald Amundson
Stevens Point
Muriel Rasmussen
la Crosse
Rock Allen
Raymond Hoover
Black River Falls
Joyce Lamon
Diane Lynn
Cecil Taylor
Marlene Amborn
Jeff Newell
Carl Pflanz
Kilda Newell
Debra Jane
Gilbert Shilts
Alma Center
Ruby Dollarhide
Kenneth Erickson
R. 1
Stoddard
Betty Brinkher
Frank Sigl
Soldiers Grove
Karen Peterson
Atley Olson
Viroqua
Rita Thompson
Leslie Larson
Westby
Mary Helgerson
Darius
la Farge
Carol Bahr
Fredrick Skrade
Cashton
Cecelia Morovits
Harold Olson
Louise Wedwick
John Paulson
Gays Mills
Avalon Bell
Asbury Minister To Attend National Methodist Conference
The Rev. Winslow Wilson of Asbury Methodist Church will join 600 delegates in Cincinnati for a national conference on The Church in a Working World. He leads Asbury Church and the West Wisconsin Conference Board of Christian Education and will take part Thursday through Sunday with speakers from Yale, Cornell, and major church and industry leaders.
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Winslow Wilson
Asbury Methodist Church
Cincinnati
Asbury Church
West Wisconsin
The
Aluminum Co. of America
E. Wight Bakke
Yale University
John Wilkinson McConnell
Graduate School
Cornell University
William G. Gowland
England
Henry Hitt Crane
Central Methodist Church of
Detroit
Herbert Welch
New York City
Matthew W. Clair Jr
St. Louis
Lloyd C. Wicke
Pittsburgh
Hazen G
Aerial torn from car in Johnson Street incident
Jack Multz reported to police that someone broke an aerial from his car parked in front of his house on Monday night. The incident occurred at 2205 Johnson, and no suspect is named in the report. The case remains under police investigation.
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Jack Multz
Johnson
Mrs Mildred G Atherton Graveside Rites Planned
Christian Science graveside services for Mrs Mildred Gilbert son Atherton will be in Oak Grove Cemetery at 2 p m Thursday. She died in Jackson Michigan on Oct 22 after a career as a La Crosse music teacher and was a member of the La Crosse Music Study Club. Funeral services were held in Jackson on Oct 23. She is survived by an aunt Mrs Millie Bank er of La Crosse and a nephew John Gilbertson of Los Angeles.
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Houston, Minn
Orvin Traff
South Ridge Loretta Cemetery Board
Houston
Leonard Wohlers
Caledonia
Looney Valley Lutheran Church
Steinwand
Silver Lake
Readstown
Wis
Myrtle Lewis
Viroqua
Readstown Church
Bernice Hocking
Ines Lewis
Clarence
Ruth) McCollaugh
Madison
Adolph
Isabel) Everson
Soldiers Grove
Leonard
la Crosse
Mildred G. Atherton
Student Nurse Week Proclaimed in La Crosse
Mayor Milo G. Knutson proclaims October 26 to November 1, 1958 as Student Nurse Week in La Crosse. Nursing students at St. Francis School of Nursing volunteer at St. Michael's Orphanage, La Crosse County Home, La Crosse Home for Children, Oak Forest Sanatorium, and the Bloodmobile.
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St. Francis School of Nursing
la Crosse
City of
St. Michael’s
la Crosse County
la Crosse Home
City of la Crosse
Milo G. Knutson
Wis
Vernon County Budget Approved for 1959 with Higher Levy
The Vernon County Board of Supervisors approved a 1959 budget totaling 2 276 766 43 with 1 245 553 68 for operations and maintenance and 1 031 212 75 for highways a tax levy of 1 011 621 62 up 7 965 38 from 1958 Ray Power chair said the levy is 141 553 under the state limit. Members also elected and reappointed several county officials and committees and rejected wage and Saturday office closure proposals. The Board will reconvene Thursday to finish business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viroqua
Wis
Vernon County Board of Supervisors
Ray Power
Locals Rummage Sale at Concordia Hall
Bargains await at Our Savior’s Choir rummage sale in Concordia Hall Friday Oct 31 starting 9 30 am. Proceeds support church activities at Presbyterian Anna Cronon 248 p m Cass St.
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Concordia Hall
Our Savior’s Choir
Anna Cronon
Presbyterian Church
12Th
Cass
Crude Bomb Tossed Into Walnut Creek Fire Station
A lead pipe bomb was tossed through an open window of the Walnut Creek fire station and exploded causing damage but eight occupants escaped injury. Police suspect juveniles were responsible.
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Walnut Creek, Calif
Walnut Creek
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Harry Schwalbe
Lacrosse County Home and Infirmary
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J. B. Brenner
Harry Sween
Justice Court
Monroe County
M. P. Brown, Inc
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John Spors
Galesville
John L. Spors
Zion Lutheran Church
Norman Benson
Pine Cliff Cemetery
Smith Mortuary
Hammerstein
Germany
Spurs
United States
Susie Williams
Milton
Edith Spors
Sheboygan
Wilfred
Ethel) Volla
W. A. Ball
Casey
Lester Williams
Whitetown
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Marcella M. Stanek
Wellington
Ronald E. Brown
Rena D. Ames
Glenn Anderson
Patsy Waughtal
Donald Greengrass
Eunice Peters
Neopit
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Einar Waermo ‘Kor
Royal Academy of Music
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Sweden
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16Th and Ferry Sts
Stevens Point, Wis
Black River Falls, Wis
Viroqua, Wis. Vernon Memorial Hospital
Asbury
Vernon County Board
Vernon County Hospital
Herbert Egeness
George Johnson
Oscar Stellner
Frank Slama
Martin Gronning
Hugh Clark
Chester Erlandson
Halver Allness
Stanley Navy
M. J. Reidt
Paul Mockrud
Moses Marshall
Hills
Boro
Joseph Levy
Marshall
Citizens For Sieinie Committee
Philip G. Kuehn
Financial Statement
Coen Eee
Robert C. Zimmerman
Secretary OF State
Sam Jacobs
Washington, D.C
Marlin Sendlin
Texo
Dolores Stots
William Pochler
Lawrence Burness
Richard Doll
Joe Lundeen
Paul Nogie
Washington
D.C
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D.C. W. D. Johnson 403Rd Street
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Harry Lee
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Peking
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Alexandria
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William Ryan
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Belford Lawson, Jr
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Edward Baker
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Richard O'Hare
Carl Levin
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al Hamilton
Lew Carliner
Leo Goodman
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Edward Cooper
Louis Phillips
New York
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J.C. Turner
Charles Murray
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David Lloyd
Thomas Lynch
Marion Holsey
David Williams
Chevy Chase
Maryland
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Elinor Goodspeed
Arvo Wille
Reginald Zalles
Bethesda
Edward Hollander
Alfred Paul Washington
James Francis Reilly
Felton Johnston
Paul Porte
Harold Green
J. A. Greco
Milwaukee, Vic
Joseph Adams
Charles LaFollette
Centreville
Seymour Rubin
J. Pessel
Clayton Fritchey
Arlington
Vincent Rock
Silver Spring
Paul Douglas
Arthur Goldbere
Harry Plotkin
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Oncor Chapman
Patten Houston
Tomas Albert E. Arent
Albert Greenfield
Philadelphia
Penn
Gey Ford
Som Ei
Arnold Mayer
Plizabeth Christmas
Warren Wattles
Mary Evelyn Kay
Raymond Goldsmith
Albert Horstman Dayton
Ohio
W.L. Clayton Houston
Texar
Otto Schaler
J. L. Howghtering
Miss Frieda Hennock
Monroe Karasik
Walter Surrey
Ruth Solow
New Staebler
Ann Arbor, Michie
Dorthy Pettee
Arlington, Virginia
Jed E. Dudley
W. Elmer Harbor Showanee, Oklahe
Hermane Kohimeyer
New Orleans
Charles Murphy
Ors, H. Bonetti
Lodi
Leslie Biffle
Bruce Sumdiun
Kenneth Peterson
James Carey
al Kartnet
Eric H. Newbouer
Shorewood, Wis
George Weaver
William Roberts
Martin Friedman
Joel Wolfen
John O'Donnell
Warner F. Meitr
Fort Atkinson, Wis
Co. K. Otto Son Prairie
Eleanor D. MacKa
Arnold S. Looder
Theodore H. Silbert Chew
York City
A.M. Lompley
Wilma F. Elway
Oregon, Wis
Frank Cowley
Falls Church
Robert Nathan
Jesse Ward
Washington, D
Cheshe A
Sen
Joe. Clark
Jon Lawger
Milwaukee, Wis
John W. Roche
Charvin Broverman
Stanley Gerwirtz
Wr. Zindar
Maurice Rosemblatt
Albert Woll
Milton Dronheim
Robert Hinckley
Sen. Forte Clemente
A. J. Howes
Elmer Walker
Victor
Cambridge, Wis
Eric Peterson
Carl Hubndortt
Albert Whitehouse
Richard Leonard Washington
Esther Peterson
Leonard Lesser
John Howving
Streed
Gerhard You Arket
Harold Greenberg
Bethesda, Maryland
Joseph Roitbard
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
J. E. Libhermann
Milwaukee, Wisconsi Railway
Lebtor
St. Paul
Minnesota
Thibeookee, Wi
Steir
Roland J. Jenni
Wisconsin Supreme Court
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