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Newspaper
Wingra Park Booster
Location
Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1926
Page
1
Mrs. George Fisher of 212 Harrison Street slipped on a frozen sidewalk near Harrison and Moores Wednesday, sustaining a broken arm. She was rushed to General Hospital where initial checks showed no lasting injuries, but further elbow investigations followed.
80 year old Nat Cramton fell at Van Arsdall’s after hitting his head on a slick abutment. Mrs Arsdall heard the thud and found him bleeding heavily. Dr Harper ordered rest for a few days and termed the gash unlikely to be serious. Cramton, a well known city figure, was found on a couch with head wounds.
On Monroe Street mysterious masses appear at night with men’s voices rising. Pedestrians and motorists on the 1800 block report strange sounds and broadcasting from West Lawn Avenue area. A Crosley Avenue receiving set allegedly transmits programs heard within blocks, stirring local comment about the airwaves.
Snowblanketing Madison spurs skating growth at Wingra Park and Vilas and Mendota lagoons. The city district opens six west side sliding hills from 4 to 9 p m on weekdays with auto access restricted to protect skaters. East side hills also reserved for safe coasting.
Daily goods line the shelves of 10th ward merchants with delivery options and near by stock. Residents are invited to patronize local stores and enjoy complete local inventories. New water works reservoir finished aside from grading. water main laid on Western street for Dudgeon school. H E Rice filed for a 6500 building permit at 252 Kendall. Mrs Otto Schmidt filed a 175 garage permit at 2106 Keyes.
Local merchants who funded the first Wingra Park Booster issue are thanked by the publishers for supporting the community paper. The list includes Monroe Radio, Imperial, Barnimore Co, E. E. Welsh, Wilhelio and Gilles Hardware, Menges Pharmac ies, Randall State Bank, Blackhawk Motor Co, John Jordan, Electric Home Bakery, Hersh's Grocery, Orchid Beauty Shop, Paris Food Shop, and others, with readers urged to support these businesses.
Mrs Matilda Cleveland recalls Wingra Park thirty years ago near 1822 Madison Street. She notes farmland west of the University in 1896, few neighbors, and early families like Westover, Outhouse, Post, and Doukle. Monroe Street was Verona road, pavement unknown, and the old hall on Grant Street hosted social events and elections.
In November the water department pumped 33.8 million gallons from its Knickerbocker Street well, accounting for 20 percent of the month's total water output.
A city water reservoir at Sunset Point road is completed and planned as a woodland park. By summer the large tanks will be awned and the site landscaped with trees shrubs and lawns. Work began about a year ago to store city water in two main sections.
An 1846 sketch describes a family leaving their Pennsylvania home with eight year old girl in tow. They travel to Keokuk, Iowa Territory, endure a northern winter, then a spring journey up the Mississippi to Galena, Wisconsin, before reaching Madison.
The Wingra Park Booster, first issue published by two Wingra Park boys, Wallace Wilson as managing editor and Robert Cool as editor. Three thousand copies distributed in Monroe and Regent streets area. No subscription charge for now. The paper covers feature articles editorials news and ads with six columns and a four page Christmas Edition. Plans for future publication await success and merchant support.
The West End Grab club, founded in fall 1898 by Mrs P E Turneaine, unites university connected members for social and literary programs. It numbers 126 members with officers for 1926 1927 including L J Markwaldt president and Mrs W I Meek vice president.
Six year old Mickey Fitzgerald son of Mr and Mrs Mickey Fitzgerald of 2405 Rugby Road was saved from a fatal fall by Mr George Adams who climbed the house under construction and pulled the child from a window fifteen feet above a rock and timber pile. The boy’s cramped hands nearly failed him before the quick intervention saved him.
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