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Newspaper
Shawano County Journal
Location
Shawano, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1939
Page
5
Shawano residents, relatives, and visitors fill weekend with visits to households across Shawano and nearby towns. Dozens named include Zinglers Leopolis, Gillers Green Bay, and Werbelowers. events cover birthdays, illness recoveries, travel to Milwaukee and Chicago, and local lodge meetings plus high school cinema program.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Dilley and their son have returned to Minnesota after spending several days visiting Mrs. Dilley’s sister Mrs. Arnold Schauder.
The High School lists 121 honor students for the first semester, including 75 girls and 46 boys. Notable leaders include Anna Brunner for freshmen, Hildegarde Siegel for sophomores, Ir vin Druckrey for juniors, and Walter Eberlein for seniors with top scores ranging from 95.25 to 90.00 across classes.
County agents announce applications for state forestry department trees to be planted for forestry purposes on wasteland or thinned woodlands with no young natural seedlings. Farmers receiving trees must plant with reasonable care and keep livestock away after planting.
The Crescent Theatre presents two strong shows tonight and tomorrow February 16 14 including Jane Withers in The Arezon Wildcat and Gracie Fields in Smiling Along plus a Terrytown cartoon and news segment Saturday bargain matinee 2 30 Jack Randall in Land of Fighting Men with evening shows 7 and 9 and a 10 30 preview of Kentucky Sunday through Tuesday features Loretta Young Richard Greene Walter Brennan in a Technicolor picture and a Wednesday Thursday Friday double feature Four Omnis in White with Florence Rice Una Merkel Ann Rutherford Mary Howard Alan Marshal Kent Taylor Buddy Ebsen plus Mr Moto’s Lr warning with Ricardo Cortez Virginia Field and John Carradine News
Mrs. William Buss a longtime pioneer of Grant died Sunday February fifth at her son Emil’s home after years of heart ailment She was eighty one years four months and twenty seven days old Born in Germany on September eight one of ten children she married William Buss in November 1876 The couple had ten children and she was survived by twelve grandchildren a great grandchild and a sister Funeral services were held Thursday at Zion Lutheran church in Caroline with Rev R Stubenwell officiating Pallbearers were Robert Krueger Robert Frank Walter Harold and Ervin Buss
Mrs. Anton Heins 74, died February 8 after a fall at home. Funeral services were held Saturday at the Heins residence in Seneca with Elder Cooley of Eau Claire officiating. Surviving are five daughters Olga L T High Trina Emma Thelma and two sons Paul and Wallace, plus a world war casualty son Ervin and several siblings.
Mrs. Cari Hall 93, longtime Washington town resident, died Feb 5 in Appleton after a stroke. Born Germany 1845, she married Carl Hall in 1873 and lived in Cecil Fond du Lac and Appleton. Survived by four children, 19 grandchildren, 20 great grandchildren. Funeral held in Appleton. interment in Rienzi cemetery Fond du Lac.
The state highway commission reports 132 Wisconsin children died in 1938 from traffic accidents. Sixty four died in car crashes, 83 were hit while walking or running into roads, twelve were bicycle riders 19 or younger, and four infants are listed among the fatalities. Half the deaths occurred in cars, with the rest due to driver negligence or children darting into streets.
The state highway commission cites skids or blowouts as the cause of 53 deaths and 13 percent of serious accidents in 1938. More than 1,300 crashes occurred. The text urges careful driving on ice or snow, noting brakes alone are insufficient and recommends slow entry to curves and gentle acceleration.
The state highway commission of Wisconsin used enough lumber in 1938 to build an old fashioned planed road for over a mile for wooden directional and warning signs. A total of 40,000 board feet of lumber was used plus another carload received as 1939 work began. The sign shop produced 19,600 new signs in 1938 along with 2,000 steel signs at Waupun prison. Wooden signs are made in Madison with about 100 different types needed to mark Wisconsin highways.
Classified ad lists a house and lot with full basement offered by W J Dolan at 2450 dollars with small down payment and balance like rent. Also advertises CERTIFIED WIS HY BRID SEED CORN from Roman Muskovitch & Sons Shawano Wis with prices per bushel and delivery details. Church notices from Peace Evangelical and Reformed Church include service times, sermons, catechism classes, and ecumenical events.
Sunday February 19 finds Christian Science Churches focusing on Mind as the Lesson-Sermon theme. The Golden Text quotes Be ye all of one mind from I Peter 3 8, urging compassion, love and unity as expressed in Romans Philippians and other cited passages.
A list of Sunday services and church activities in Shawano. Christian Science Society, St John’s Episcopal, Sacred Heart Catholic, Methodist Episcopal, Gospel Tabernacle and related events with times, masses, sermons, classes and meeting notes. Includes dates for upcoming activities and special services.
St James Lutheran Church Andrews at Randall St Rey Walter M Schroth pastor calendar for the week of February 19 to 25 lists services in English and German, Sunday school, choir rehearsals, and Lenten services with times and activities including registration, institutes, and council meeting.
Local notices celebrate birthdays for Emily Kasper of Shawano on February 16, Janette Jean Weigel of Shawano on February 19, and Mary Jane Ledvina of Oshkosh on February 21.
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