News: Humbird Locals (26 Feb 1944)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Laffe, Cyphers, Zimmerman, Johnson, Funk, Boullion, Reese, Lawrence

----Source: The Humbird Enterprise (Clark Co., WI.) February 26, 1944

Humbird Local Happenings (26 February 1944)

A message to the home folks from Pfc. Arthur Laffe announces his arrival in New Guinea, Feb. 5.

Mrs. Cyphers, from Buffalo, N. Y., who has been visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Edith Zimmerman, left Wednesday for Rockford to visit at the home of her aunt.  Mrs. Cyphers is a daughter of the late Tony Zimmerman.

A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Johnson at their home in this village, Feb. 19.

A number of cases of measles are reported in the community.

Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Funk were down from Augusta one day last week visiting friends.

Capt. Kenneth Boullion and family, who have been at Ft. Benning, Ga., while he was at officers’ school spent last weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Boullion, while enroute to California.  Their daughter remained here.  Capt. Boullion was accompanied by a fellow officer, Capt. Reese, from Arkansas.

Many have been ill with the flu and complications, some quite serious.  Mrs. Lawrence is one of the latest added to the list and is under the doctor’s care.

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Mound Temple Sold

The transfer is reported this week of the Mound Temple property in this village, by Bertha Svirnoff and I. E. Svirnoff and wife of Neillsville, owners of the property in recent years, to Edward G. Johns and L. E. Rodeghier, of Wisconsin Rapids, new owners of the Calway Cranberry Marsh.

The temple is one of the finest properties in the village, and was erected in 1927.  It was used for lodge purposes for a number of years.  It later became a portion of the M. Svirnoff estate of Neillsville. The new owners will use the basement of the building for a cranberry sorting warehouse, and there is report current that the hall in the upper portion will be retained.