Full Shawano Fair Program Sets Exciting Year
The Shawano fair runs September 5 to 7 with a full horse program, midway attractions, and the WLS Barn Dance. Secretary Louis Gutlau booked new vaudeville acts, improvements to the midway, and notable livestock exhibits from Holstein, Jersey, and Guernsey cattle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siuwang
Louis Gutlau
Fair
Feaochetion
Gausce Urie
Goach
Enor Vedro
Lauerage
Holshein
Dersey
Guernsey
Unis
Herge
Boelkte
Shawnett Parle
Young Republican Rally in Sheboygan August 25 26
Event details show a two day Young Republican gathering in Sheboygan on August 25 and 26 with Gov Julius Feil and Speaker Frank B courumott among speakers. Plan includes parade, front rally program by local choir, addresses by Congressmen Charles Haale and others, a Maystes ball, and a banquet to conclude. Local officials and youth delegates from Shawano County participate with Daniel Larson and Tauaon Tu noted among attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vronk B. Courumott
de WL
Gultielson
Ainig
Ables O¢Loas
Ar Anddress
Charles Haale
Allboluch Stuvwano County
Daniel, Larson
Aitormey
Tauaon Tu
Papuibliona
Hartolul A. Steyer
Shawano Vounly Republica Chulrniin
Army convention attracts mixed tribal parade in Osh Koshalieidyr
The county posts drew attention at the Army Boglen convention in Osh Koshalieidyr with a parade featuring the AlbAtovivan Indian brass band. A band from the Menominee Reservation joined the procession along with Trullan tanidens in costume. The Legion committee endorses a plan to send novelty units to represent the state at the national event in Chicago this September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loion
Oconty County
Osh- Koshalieidyr
AlbAtovivan
Ne Oro
Wincovein
Legion
Chicago
Sepan Tauther
Calendar of Coming Events and Notices
A garbled calendar lists community events around Aug 24 to Aug 30, including a festival in Kesheone, social gatherings at Oo club, a council meeting, a garden party, and a cemetery service. Multiple entries mention dates, locations, and group names though several words are unclear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oo Club
Cuosdany
Frones Phurcdh
Waedoosday
Woodhuwe
Soulely
Local People Win Prizes at State Exhibit
Families from this county attended the Wisconsin State fair in Milwaukee where attendance broke records despite hard times. Chief of Police Ralph Wescott supervised over 150 officers during fair week as Sunday’s crowd near 100000 required arranging parking for 11000 cars. The department’s lost and found for children and an outdoor playground near the station helped reunite families, with calls handled by a broad casting system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Ralph Wescott
Wescott
Ralph
Harvester
Sixty Eight WPA Workers to Be Laid Off August 31
The local WPA office reports about 68 workers will be laid off on August 31. County WPA projects employ 386 people. A strict 30 day lay off rule after 18 months work will be enforced, per WPA engineer Hymil Spieth. Public welfare notes 364 workers on August 7, up 22 since month start. Leo Jelinske reports 35 placements in PWA and private jobs in the past month. Domestic work demand exceeds registrations. women are urged to register promptly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WPA
Hymil Spieth
Shuwano Public Welfare Department
PWA
Leo Jelinske
Public Welfare Department
Jelinske
Neopit Youth Dies in Highway 7 Collision
Harold Mahkimetas aged 17 and another Indian youth from Neopit were fatally injured in a head on crash two miles south of Neopit on the Menominee Indian reservation. Mahkimetas died at Keshena Hospital. the drivers, Edmund Duquaine and Frank Lutz, were hospitalized with serious injuries. The case raises federal jurisdiction due to both drivers being Mohs. No charge filed as of Monday.
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Harold Mahkimetas
Neopit
Highway 7
Menominee
Mahkimetas
Edmund Duquaine
Keshena
Duquaine
Frank Lutz
Shanwno
Lutz
Shawano
Weither
Mader
Gresham
Hemane Duquaine
Leonard Hartwig
Larson
Shawano County
United States
E. L. Anchenbrewer
Lyle Davenport Post 114 Elects Officers for 1940
David W. Salzman of Tilleda was chosen commander of Bowler’s Lyle Davenport post 114 American Legion. Other officers elected include Herman Gam milweldt as vice commander Treptow as adjutant and finance officers Mattie B. Miller chaplain C V L Nygren historian Albert Marquardt service officer Paul J Gutt and Herman Radyn as sergeants at arms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David W. Salzman
Tilleda
Lyle Davenport
American Legion
Bowler
Herman, Gammilweldt
Treptow
Mattie B. Miller
C. V. Lnygren
Albert Marquardt
Paul J. Gutt
Herman Radyn
Woodlawn Cemetery Society Meeting Date Change
The Woodlawn Cemetery society will meet on Wednesday August 30 instead of September 6. The change is announced by secretary Mrs Charles Erdman due to the county fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodlawn Cemetery Society
Charles Erdman
Menominee Indian Harvest Festival Opens on Friday
The Menominee Indian Harvest Festival opens at the Keshena fair grounds on Friday and runs through August 25 to 27. Highlights include the Menominee pageant Lure of the Unknown in the Keshena bowl, Indian pony races, la Crosse, and dancing with Irv Lutz and Frances Mae along with pow wow music by the Menominee band.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midwest
Keshena Fair Grounds
Menominee Indian Athletic Club
la Crosse
Ric Lake
Green Bay Green Sox
Wausau
Neopit Indians
Irv Lutz
Stevens Point
Frances Mae
Poultry Meetings Planned Across Wisconsin in September
Twenty nine meetings announced by Ralph Ammon head the state's poultry program review. Producers hatcherymen and traders will discuss revisions to the supervised hatchery program egg marketing state grading and other poultry marketing concerns. Shawano session at the courthouse Friday September 1 begins at 1 80 PM. Final hearings on a new program slated for late September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph #. Ammon
State Department of Agriculture
Wisconsin
Shawano
Court House
Annual Festival at Leopolis Harvest Fair and Dinner
St Marys church hosts the Leopolis annual festival on Sunday September 3 with dinner served from 11 30 a m to all served supper at 5 p m a baseball game at 2 30 p m band music concessions stands and dancing in the Annugement hall inviting all county residents to a standout harvest season event
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leopolis
St. Mary's Church
St. Mary’s Parish
Births and admissions in Shawano area hospital notes
Births list two newborn boys for August nineteen and August eighteen to Goeths and Hernan families. This week enters names include Karolus Lane Bahr Armitage Sears Luiz Gehnt Jersey Klemp Reese Schultz Going Framness Hunter and others. Harriet Gibbs of Ripon visited her Gibbs brother and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goeths
Shawano
G. Hernan
Jean ‘Karolus
Kenneth Lane
Walter Bahr
Claude Armitage
Pulcifer
Katherine Sears
Frank Luiz
Ewald Gehnt
Cecil
Rt. 1
Myrtle Jersey Klemp
Mattoon
Robert Reese
Navarino
Rt 1
Marvin Schultz
Louis Going, Jr
Pulitfer
Nestor Framness
Gillett
Paul Hunter
Baltimore
Maryland
W. R. Scheider
Jerry Mayhew
Frank Spiegel
Tigerton
Hulds Treptow
Harriet Gibbs
Ripon
W. H. Gibbs
C of C Directors Oppose Wolf River Dam Plan
At a special Chamber of Commerce meeting directors voted to oppose a bill to establish a reservoir and dam on the Wolf river. They instructed secretary C W Romlow to notify the state legislature. They argued the bill would cede all Wolf river rights to a private company and allow downstream control via future dams, hurting the river system and local faring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Wolf River
C. W. Romlow
Lily
Embarrass
Red River
Evergreen
Ford Dealers Hold Used Car Clearance
Ford dealers nationwide launch an early used car clearance sale starting August 15, announced by J. J. Henderson of Shawano Motor Car. The event aims to let buyers secure better cars before vacations and Labor Day, running through September 30 with national and local ads. Shawano prepares a special display with signs and banners used by Ford dealers across the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford Dealers
J. J. Handerson
Shawano Motor Car Company
Ford
United States
Henderson
Shawano Hosts Friday Teachers Institute at High School
On Friday August 25 County Sant A Pahr will hold a teachers institute in Shawano at the high school gym. All prospective Shawano county teachers for the coming school year are expected to attend. Miss Zach and Mr Kroll supervising teachers will aid in conducting the program and teachers will examine newly marketed teaching materials.
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County
Sant. A
Pahr
Shawano
Ium
Shawano County
Zach
Mr. Kroll
Installation of the County Legion Set for Sept 1
At a county council meeting the American Legion posts set September 1 for officer installations for all posts and auxiliaries. The event will be in Keshena at the Community hall or the Keshena bowl, weather permitting, with Neopit post hosting and Milwaukee officials attending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
Keshena
Keshena Bowl
Neopit
Frank Greenyn
Gil Stordock
Jim Burns
Milwaukee
A. W. Pitt
Freemont
Oshkosh
Chicago
Arthur Braun
Shawano
Shawano County Legion
Ghorge Merrill George Merrill
Merrill
Funeral Rites for John Spang Held
Funeral services for John Spang who died Friday were held at Manning Funeral Home and Sacred Heart Catholic church at 9:00 Monday. Father Henry Halinde presided with burial in Sacred Heart cemetery. Pallbearers named. Spang born in Germany March 31, 1864, came to the U.S. at age two. He married Anna Hartel. lived on a Richmond area farm for 30 years and farmed 50 years total. Survived by widow and son George of Richmond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Spang
Manning Funeral Home
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Henry Halinde
Sacred Heart Cemetery
Lester Qwen
Joe Stark
Robert Grade
Roman Muskovitch
Sam Dodge
George Johanna
Germany
Peter Spang
Anna Hartel
Richmond
George
Local Apeary Looted by Thieves
Unusual burglary targets Walter Althaus apiary south of Shawano on highway 22. About $100 in honey and equal value in fixtures stolen from 18 hives. Bees present in frames. undersheriff Otto Druckrey and District Attorney James Larson investigated after the Sunday night theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Althaus
Shawano
Althaus
Highway 22
Otto Druckrey
James Larson
Shawano Public Schools to Open on Sept 5th
Shawano Public Schools will open Tuesday September 5 with regular classes at 3 40 a m Pupils report to their schools with equipment for the day The first faculty meeting is Monday with 87 faculty members attending New staff includes Portia Stone Louis Zabradka Fredricka Ansorge James Miracle Margaret Perry and A Martin plus expanded duties for the orchestra and band programs A new marketing and salesmanship course will be offered to upperclassmen with Mr Kerrill directing the new work and Shlimovitz overseeing band activities
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Portia Stone
University of Wisconsin
Lincoln School
Louis Zabradka
River Falls State Teachers’ College
Fredricka Ansorge
James Miracle
Oshkosh State Teachers’ College
Margaret Perry
A. Martin
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Washington Lake
Green Bay
Smith-Hughes
Kerrill
Shlimovitz
Hie
Miracle
Yeggs Blow Safe At Green Valley Farmers Elevator
Yeggs blew open a safe at Green Valley Farmers Elevator around 1 06 am Saturday. Outer vault opened but inner money box untouched. intruders fled in a nearby parked car after Lotto fired shots. Investigators seek two or more suspects and a man posing as a power company representative in Navarino and Shawano County.
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YEGGS
Green Valley Farmers Elevator
Green Valley
Mitchell Lotto
Lotto
Lottos
University of Wisconsin Freshman Courses In Shawano
Freshman courses from the University of Wisconsin may be taken in Shawano if a class of 20 or more forms. An instructor will teach the full freshman year at Shawano High School, with sessions in the high school building under university supervision. Students should report to the high school office to organize and arrange classes for the coming year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Wisconsin
Shawano
Morris corn roast draws large Morris County crowd
The Morris corn roast drew a very large crowd on Tuesday with speakers E. J. Cashman of New Richmond and Paul Alfonsi of Peace addressing the attendees. Tigerton and Morris provided a baseball game as part of the day’s activities. Ted Abrahamson presided over the Morris club events.
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Morris
E. J. Cashman
New Richmond
Paul Alfonsi
Peace
Tigerton
Ted Abrahamson
Morris Club
Reunion of Shawano High School's First Graduates
Fifty years after Shawano High School graduated three pupils they held a reunion at the home of Mrs. Emma Sohr, formerly Emma Schneers. Also present were S Nichol of Oshkosh and E B Wirth of Arizona. They recalled the early history and hope to meet again next year for the 51st reunion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shawano High School
Gillett
Emma Sohr
Emma Schneers
Heart sale here Saturday to aid Volunteers of America
The Wisconsin division of the Volunteers of America holds a Heart sale Saturday in support of the charity. Overseen by Dr E L Schroeder the mayor and a local group including Drs Frank Schneers and G G Gee, it will run from Hotel Murdock with Dorothy and Rachael Nommensen managing finances. The organization, founded in 1896 by Gen Ballington Booth, aims to foster self reliance through homes and programs for the aged, women, children, and former prisoners, inviting youth to sell Hearts.
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Wisconsin
Volunteers of America
Chamber of Commerce
E. L. Schroeder
Frank Schneers
Anna Nagel
G. G. Gee
M. J. Wallrich
H Lane
Murdock
Dorothy
Rachael Nommensen
Ballington Booth
Volunteer
Prison League
H J Rose Named To Bankers Post
Herbert J. Rose cashier of the Shawano National Bank was named vice-president of group three of the Wisconsin Bankers Association. Officers of groups three and six will sponsor three consecutive evenings of meetings starting Sept 7 in Janesville Stevens Point and Eau Claire with guest speakers John Carter of the Metropolitan Opera and William A. Irwin of the American Bankers Association New York. Local banks will distribute guest tickets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert J. Rose
Shawano National Bank
Wisconsin Bankers’ Association
Janesville
Stevena Point
Eau Claire
John Carter
Metropolitan Opera
William A. Irwin
American Bankers Association
New York
Chicken Dinner and Concert at White Clay Lake Church
A chicken dinner will be served at Whiteley Lake Lutheran church on Sunday August 27 starting 11 30 AM by the ladies of the congregation. At 2 15 PM a Hayes male quartet will give a free concert. Everyone is invited with no charge for admission, but a free will offering will be accepted.
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Whiteley Lake Lutheran Church
Hayes
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Kesheone
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Henry Sherbeck
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White Clay Lake
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