Clark County Press, Neillsville, WI, March 20, 2013, Page 17

If you want superior laundry work done, let us send it to the Winona Steam Laundry for you. Basket sent every Wednesday and returns Saturday morning. Leave orders at the barber shop or call Phone 103 and your laundry will be collected and delivered. R. Townsend

Neillsville Bock beer, brewed from the finest hops and malt money can buy, and stored six months in ice-cold cellars, now ready in bottles. 24 bottles for $1.25 delivered.

Bargains at The Big Store: 13 lb. pails of Jelly 60¢; 5 lb. stone jar of Preserves, 38¢; 20 lbs. Granulated Sugar $1.00; 25 lbs. Cane Sugar, for cakes $1.

The Granton Basketball team went to Neillsville Saturday to have their pictures taken. If the pictures prove to be as good as they play, they will be all right.

The Shortville farmers have purchased the Lange Creamery and skimming station at Shortville, paying $1,450 for both and will operate them this summer. On Oct. 1st the creamery will be moved to the present site of the skimming station near Galbreath’s store. The farmers are putting up ice for the creamery. They expect to begin making butter soon.

It will be of interest to the public to know that he La Crosse Water Power Company intends to Park the entire shore line about the newly created lake at Hatfield. The length of waterfront following the various indentations, bays and coves measures over 20 miles, all high shore, with many beautiful groves of pine and oak.

A fine continuous driveway is planned around the lake, crossing the river at Hatfield and again below Dells Dam. Brush and scrubby timber will be removed and the entire tract, comprising about 1,000 acres, will be further beautified under the direction of a competent artist.

Lots of acreage properties, with shore rights, will then be offered to the public at very reasonable prices, subject only to regulations regarding the care and preservation of the standing timber and park features.

N. C. Foster of Fairchild is in Chicago conferring with capitalists regarding the establishment of a denatured alcohol plant in his section. If one is established, chances are that it will be located in some small town around Fairchild.

Fairchild & Northeastern Railroad Co. is erecting a new $7,500 steel bridge over Popple River at Owen.

Monday night, Night Policeman James Wedding commenced his duties, the system of boxes having been installed during the day. Wedding goes on duty at 7 o’clock, patrolling the business portion of the city until 11:30. At this time he starts on his rounds of the city. His route starts at the city hall, thence past Trogner’s mill and the following points: Tragsdorf & Zimmerman’s store, G. C. Youman’s residence, court house, O’Neill House, Gust Anderson’s corner, Pete Gaden’s corner, depot, North Side School, Tourigney’s Warehouse and then to the Merchant’s Hotel corner. This round he is supposed to make three times each night.

Twelve boxes have been put up. Wedding carries with him a clock with 12 keyholes. Each of the twelve boxes contains a key, which fits in a particular key home, and one turn on the key automatically registers on a slip of paper the time each box was visited. Each day the city clerk opens the clock and renews the registry paper. Sixteen boxes were purchased by the city, so that four more can be installed if occasion requires.

Among the show places of the town are the farms of M. C. Ring, late expert politician, and the Youmans Farm Company.

Mr. Ring’s place is about two miles from the city and he has made it a specialty to breed and rear Shetland ponies, Red-polled cattle and Hampshire Down sheep.

The Youmans farm is equipped with a creamery of its own. There are a number of other large farms. The peculiarity of these farms is that, although they are both known as “fancy farms” they are making money for their proprietors.

It has been said that the difference between a farmer and an agriculturist is that a farmer makes his money on the farm and spends it in town, while the agriculturist makes his money in town and spends it on the farm. If this definition is strictly applied, both M. C. Ring and G. C. Youmans must be classed as farmers, but they live in town and their farms look like those usually owned and operated by “agriculturists.”

It is reported that Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius will return from Boston in a short time.

As being reported this third week in March that the sugar bushes are being opened up and sap is running lively. It is said that Homer Downer at Granton has 900 trees tapped already. William Wilson, north of the city, also has a large number of trees tapped.

The Day Creamery Co. in the Town of Levis, paid 32.23 cents for butter fat for February; an independent creamery paid 28¢. Some difference

The milliners at The Big Store are as busy as can be to have the largest and newest ladies’ hats for their opening. The hat patterns were all taken from the best of imported hats.

Over 60 families in Clark, Wood, Marathon and Jackson counties have entered into lease purchase contracts with the United States government for good farms in the better farming areas of these counties.

(After the 1927 economic crash, many farms were abandoned and not paid for, becoming government property. DZ)

The Marathon County Fish & Game club has ordered 100 cottontail rabbits in Greenburg, Kan., for delivery at Wausau about March 1. The rabbits will be released in various parts of the county.

Neillsville automobile dealers are cooperating in making National Used Car Week a success by offering many excellent bargains in rebuilt cars at attractive prices. Seif & Byse, Welsh Chevrolet Co., and Fred Stelloh are among those dealers.

Nearly 10,000 catalogues, weighing 3 ½ pounds each, were distributed in Clark County this week, making a total of over 30,000 pounds or better than 15 tons. Sears-Roebuck distributed theirs by trucks at local post offices, from where they went out by mail, while Montgomery Ward had a crew of men who made house-to-house deliveries. The cost of this advertising to the two catalog houses was over $10,000. They also use large advertising spaces in papers where they have stores.

This will be the last year of the teachers training course at the Neillsville High School. City Supt. D. E. Peters announced at the parent-Teachers meeting the evening of March 2. He said all teachers’ training courses in high schools are being dropped as a result of action taken by the state superintendent. It is possible that the county normal schools may also be abolished, leaving training almost entirely to the state teachers training colleges.

Henry Naedler has on display at the Standard Parts and supply company office and showroom a fine large collection of Indian relics, which he has assembled over a long period of years. He began gathering these relics when he was a boy on his father’s farm in Jefferson County, but most of them we picked up on the Wm. Naedler farm south of Neillsville. The collection includes a variety of spearheads, arrowheads, Indian hatchets and tomahawks. The arrowheads are said to have been given shape through stone being heated to a high temperature, and the sudden application of cold, which allowed layers of it to be peeled off, the various tribes shaping their arrowheads differently. Another theory holds that the Indian is not the originator of these implements, giving as a basis for this opinion the fact that many arrowheads have been found in countries where no Indians held forth.

Clark County is being over-run by foxes, which not only kill game birds, but are getting so numerous that they raid chicken roosts, and down near Humbird Claire Chatten reports they have been killing geese. Greenwood hunters have killed quiet (quite) a number lately, but the hides are not worth much. Many think there should be a bounty.

Rev. Peter Weber, who has served as pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Neillsville for nearly 24 years, submitted his resignation to Bishop A. J. McGavick of La Crosse, effective as of March 25, 1938. This step was taken because of continued ill health. Father Weber was popular not only with members of his own church but those of other faiths in the community, many whom had visited him in recent months and hoped his health might improve.

The new Catholic Church here was built in 1924 during the pastorate of Fr. Weber. Several years ago his health began to fail and, although somewhat improved last fall, the heart ailment became more serious again recently, and he went to Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire where he is presently. Before coming to Neillsville he had served as pastor of the Catholic Church in Waumandee.

The last dray horses have passed out of the picture in Neillsville, with the team disposed of by A. Hauge and Son, recently.

The Wisconsin legislature at its last session passed a law, which makes it illegal to throw burning cigarettes, cigars or matches from moving automobiles and also prohibits smoking in an auto, which is not equipped with an ash tray or a receptacle for the receiving of ashes. Other states could well follow that movement. The educational program relative to prevention of forest fires has certainly achieved great results.

Orders came through from Washington for the abandonment of eight more CCC camps in Wisconsin as part of a closing up of 291 camps in the United States to bring expenses within the budget allowed. This will leave about 1,200 camps in the United States still operating. The new order involves the dismissal of about 3,000 camp officers and civilian officials.

Camps, which will be closed in Wisconsin are those located in Independence, Tomahawk, Hayward, Laona, Phelps, Grandview, Minocqua and Mount Horeb. It will be recalled that the CCC camp in Globe was closed a short time ago, crippling forest fire protection in Eau Claire and Clark Counties.

Mr. A. C. Wagner is planning on opening a new and larger restaurant in the former Balch building on Hewett Street north of his present location.

Blueprints have been drawn for a dining room on the east side, 23’ by 43’, kitchen in the middle of the building and tap room at the west end with side entrance where plate lunches would be served also. Mr. Wagner, his wife, three sons and daughter have been successfully operating their present restaurant for a number of years.

There is a big difference between the demands made for services on the part of the city today as compared to the horse-and-buggy days; Alderman C. B. Dresden informed us. These all cost money, and just where to draw the line is a matter that calls for tact and careful consideration. If people want less spent on street cleaning, lighting, snow removal, policing, poor relief, old-age pensions, workmen’s compensation, unemployment insurance, library, park and other items, then taxes might be reduced.

Mr. Dresden recalled in the old days the city had one policeman, who also was street commissioner and looked after the opera house.

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Felser have begun remodeling their home on the corner of West and West Fourth Streets. Mr. Felser, who is employed with H. P. Ghent, built a porch at the Ghent shop and with the assistance of relatives and friends; he added it to the east end of his house Sunday. Other improvements will follow.

A crew of men from the Humbird section has been traveling by truck to Hay Creek, north of Tioga, where they are brushing 20 acres of land, which will be flooded by the new lake to be created by a dam that will be constructed at that point. (The preparations were being made for Rock Dam Lake. DZ)

Ruggles, the pal of a dozen boys on South Hewett Street and one of the friendliest and happiest dogs in town, was killed by a car Monday. Ruggles would run and play with the boys, take part in their games, run after sticks or balls and was a general favorite. The boys feel they have lost a real friend and mourn his loss.

Several Dane County farmers, unwilling to scrap their old family cars merely because they became outmoded, are converting them into useful pieces of farm machinery. By taking out the car engine for the power unit and combining it with a used truck transmission, a considerable number of the farmers are reported to have made farm tractors at a very small cost. Such tractors, they find, are suitable for doing such work as plowing, disking, harrowing, and for pulling grain binders and mowers.

The Lakeshire Cheese Company plant in Loyal will cease to take in milk after March 31, 1938, according to notices given patrons and drivers last week.

No official announcement has been made by Lakeshire officials up to this time, as to their future plans for the plant.

The Lakeshire plant there is one of the largest in the state. It is reported that because the plant is not receiving enough milk, it is the reason for the action taken by the Lakeshire officials.

The business section of Neillsville was given the first thorough street cleaning of the spring season during the past week.

A crew of men with shovels and brooms cleaned up the sand put on ice last winter along with other filth, which was gathered up and hauled away. The high winds of the past week caused quite a lot of dust to be blown about, making the cleanup advisable.

With batten board siding, this was the logging camp home of Harrison Sterns, his wife, child and mother-in-law. Sterns was one of several relatives employed in N. C. Foster’s operations. The accommodations were at a camp north of Fairchild in the 1880s, now Town of Foster. N. C. Foster Enterprises was instrumental in the economic growth of the Fairchild area in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Foster founded and owned a railroad, which branched out different directions from Fairchild. Clark County’s towns of Foster were named after N. C. Foster, as he bought government land in that area to log off, transporting logs out by rail to his saw mill and for distribution out of the area. One railroad line ran northeast of Fairchild, with loading platforms at mentor, Tioga, Gorman, Willard, Owego, Greenwood, Shilling, Coxie, Bright and Owen, where it ended.

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