News: Washburn (1972)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Havlicek, Spiegel, Williams, Kyle, Krutsch, Short, Matuszak, Kuhn, Rodman, Reinart, Wallace, Drew, Kapfer, Berg, Schultz, Simonson

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co, WI) 3/09/1972

Washburn (9 March 1972)

Charles Havlicek Sr., who slipped and fell at his home February 24, has been a patient at Memorial Hospital since then. It was thought at first his back was bruised and sprained but later it was discovered he had a fractured or cracked vertebra. He will be a hospital patient longer the he expected at first.

Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Spiegel visited last week Tuesday evening at the Oliver Williams home.

Mr. and Mrs. Claude Kyle spent Friday at the Lawrence Kyle home.

Dave Krutsch attended the monthly REA meeting at Greenwood Monday. It was postponed from Saturday due to the snowstorm.

Mr. and Mrs. Claude Kyle, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Krutsch and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Short were among those who visited Charles Havlicek, Sr., at Memorial Hospital last week.

Mrs. William Matuszak will entertain the Washburn Homemakers club today (Thursday) with dinner served at noon. Mrs. Ernest Kuhn will present the project, “Chicken around the World.”

Mrs. Horace Rodman will entertain the Cannonville Ladies Aid Wednesday, March 15, with dinner served at noon.

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Reinart drove to Rochester, Mn, Sunday after Mr. and Mrs. Ted Wallace and Mrs. Mildred Drew. Mrs. Ted Wallace is recovering satisfactorily after major surgery on February 18. Mr. Wallace spent three weeks with Mrs. Wallace and Mrs. Drew spent several days with her.

.Mrs. Elmer Kapfer attended the W.S.C.S. meeting at the United Methodist Church in Granton last Thursday afternoon. She was a dinner guest of her cousin, Mrs. Hugh Berg.

Bernard Kuhn Spent three days last week attending an associated milk producers meeting in Chicago. He went by plane from Mosinee and was to return home Wednesday night but due to the snowstorm planes were grounded. Chicago had rain instead of snow.

Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Kuhn took their son, Wedell to Marshfield February 25 where he took a plane to Ft. Jackson, S. C. From there he went to Germany where he will be stationed. He spent a 30-day furlough with his parents.

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Schultz and daughters, Mary Sue and Christie of Franksville and Paul Schultz, Jr. and Linda Simonson of Wind Lake spent the weekend with Richard’s and Paul’s uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. John Reinart and family. They were supper guests Satruday of another uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Reinart. They brought their snowmobiles and enjoyed some snowmobiling in spite of bad weather Saturday.