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August 24, 2022, Page 8 Contributed by "The Clark Co. Press"
Extracted by Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon.
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Clark County News
August 25, 1927
Cracked safe at the Big Store
Sometime late Saturday night the Big Store was entered by robbers, the safe forced open, about $200 in cash taken, and 6 valuable ladies’ fur coats stolen. Several suit cases are also missing, apparently taken to carry away the coats in; also a quantity of cigars was stolen. The crime was not discovered until early morning when Mrs. Hanchman, who lives nearby happened to be passing, and noticed the back doors of the store basement were open and gave the alarm. The robbers had evidently gained entrance through an upper window at the northwest corner of the store, as the ladders belonging to the Street Commissioner Wm. Farning, had been brought from the city building nearby and the window has been “jimmied” open. Once inside the building it was easy for the burglars to open the back doors so as to carry out anything bulky.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Schiller were aroused sometime after 1 o’clock that night by what seemed like an explosion, but, deciding that it was only some late traveler’s auto tire blowing out, they did not give any alarm. It is reported that a stranger who drove into the city about 3 o’clock and stopped at the rest room, noticed a bright light in the store, but thought little of it, as frequently businesses leave lights burning all night. The combination on the store safe was entirely knocked out, probably by an explosion following some drilling, evidently by the use of an acetylene torch; the doors had apparently been sprung open as bolts that held it were still locked in place, but a chunk of metal had been splintered out of one of the holes in the opposite door, in to which the bolts fitted. All the cash in the safe drawer was taken; the drawers in the office desk has all be rummaged and the papers turned topsy-turvy, but nothing apparently had been taken, although the disarrangement of records has made some serious difficulties in the bookkeeping department. The fur coats taken were valuable garments and had just been hung in the racks, being goods that had recently been received and opened up.
The surface indications convince most of those who have examined the situation, that the robbery was the work of experienced hands. They went after the cash and goods of high quality so as to get large value in small bulk.
So far as is made public, no clue to the burglars or their whereabouts has been discovered.
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Fine Fair at Colby
County Agent Knipfel and County Superintendent Margaret Van Natta attended the Colby Fair held last week Friday and Saturday, Mr. Knipfel looking after some of the Calf Club and Pig Club work and Mrs. Van Natta acting as one of the judges in the 4H Club exhibits of sewing and baking. They report a fine attendance and some very meritorious exhibits, in certain lines excelling displays seen at many county fairs.
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New Red Owl manager
A. Pudry has succeeded Mr. Severn as manager of the Red Owl store, Mr. and Mrs. Severn going to Rochester, Minn., to take the Red Owl store there. Mr. and Mrs. Pudry came Saturday and the change in managers was made that day.
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August 27, 1942
Frost–but no frost damage Sunday night
Frost, but little, if any, frost damage came to Clark County Sunday night.
No question about the frost. It left ice upon the water down in Columbia, as is reported by William Sollberger’s foxes, whose drinking cups were coated with ice.
It turned the grass stiff and white in the French Beeckler yard down in Levis.
It nipped the tops of tomato plants here and there, and gave a discouraged look to the corn tips on the low land.
It occasioned the flooding of the Calway cranberry marsh, the temperature above which dropped to 33, with no damage.
The temperature at the French-Beeckler place was 31.
But there was a heavy dew, and fog rolled over the cranberry marsh. Tomatoes and cucumbers and corn perked up almost immediately and started to grow again.
So the indication is that Old Man Frost will have to try again if he wants to do some damage around here.
The lowest temperatures recorded recently by the government record kept by Henry Markwardt was 34, and this was reached Sunday night. Since then the temperature has been rising. The thermometer recorded 60 Tuesday morning.
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How Romaine Denk, 4, tried to do family wash
He also put himself through the wringer–and his mother too
Romaine Denk, aged four, is carrying his arm in a sling these days, as the anticlimax of his effort to put himself through the wringer of the family washing machine.
Romaine seized the occasion of a nap on the part of his mother, Mrs. Jerry Denk, to stage his conquest of the washing machine. He knew that his mother worked the thing, so why shouldn’t he? So he went to the wash room, and in some manner unexplained managed to climb up and take out a light bulb. Then he plugged the washing machine in, exactly as he had seen mother do it.
Now to accomplish this Romaine had necessarily mounted the washing machine, as any true washer man would, and next he got down on the agitator, and began putting clothes through the wringer. At this point it is not easy to get an exact picture of what happened. Evidently the machine’s wringer was connected up and the agitator wasn’t.
The wringer worked just fine. The clothes went into it and went through it, and it was enough to rejoice the heart of a four-year-old who wanted to do as the grownups do.
But there was just one trouble; presently Romaine saw something else all mixed up with the clothes, and what do you think that was? It was his arm! His left hand had gone right into the wringer with the clothes, and there it was, sticking out on the other side!
Well, that made Romaine yell bloody murder. He yelled so loud that Mrs. Jerry Denk jumped up with a jerk. What was that baby up to? She rushed to the yells, and found junior being put through the wringer. As once she felt as though she was being put through the wringer herself, but she had no time to analyze her feelings. She released that wringer in no time at all, and pulled Romaine out into the clear.
Then came a wild dash to the doctor’s office to see whether Romaine’s arm was all in one piece. Which meant that Romaine, having mixed with a wringer immediately mixed with an Xray machine. But the second machine was kinder than the first. It did not wring the baby’s arm, but it told the pleasant story that the arm was all in one piece and that Romaine, after a little spell, would be able to tackle another wringer or anything else which was loose around the place.
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Four day event closes Tuesday
Exhibits, contests, free acts attract attention
The 70th annual Clark County Fair, concluding a four day run Tuesday night, was a success.
While checking receipts had not been completed Wednesday morning, officials of the sponsoring Clark County Agricultural Society had gone far enough to determine that the fair has “at least made expenses.”
However, Ernest Vine, treasurer, reported that gate attendance was “somewhat lower” than last year, when four days of fine fair weather and the first Sunday fair in history, combined to bring out record crowds.
Cool weather this year was believed to have acted as something of a brake on attendance, while tire rationing and the lateness of threshing may also have contributed.
County Agent W.R. Marquart, in charge of the junior division, reported that 152 boys and girls had enrolled in the annual junior camp held in conjunction with the fair. While the number was only about half of last year’s enrollment, the juniors made up in fun what they lacked in numbers.
But as it was, several thousand persons passed through the well filled exhibit buildings and livestock barns, jammed the midway and took in the free acts before the grandstand.
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August 21, 1952
Girls who looked goofy played golf that really was goofy
They wore crazy hats and drove from a pony and rode on a hearse
“Hats and more hats” was the theme of the ladies’ day Jamboree at the County Club Thursday. Ladies from Neillsville and other clubs from towns around here spent an all-day session at golfing. The morning was given to more serious golf but after lunch had been served in the club house the afternoon was devoted to “goofy golf.”
The hats were all kinds and were assembled in most cases to resemble something else besides a hat. One hat has a poke brim on both sides of the head and a face on both sides, too. The wearer was heard to say that the face on the side where the back of the head was supposed to be much better looking of the two faces.
Mrs. Laurence Langreck wore a mound of snow on her head with a sweatered and capped doll riding a toboggan in the snow.
Mrs. Arnold Gustman has something that resembled a tubful of artificial flowers on her head.
Mrs. Sadie Haight looked like old Kris Kringle himself in purple shirt and shorts and on her head a fur hat hung with all the bright colored ornaments from a Christmas tree. Mrs. John Schiesel wore a creation made from a nice white mop with a gold pot scraper or “chore girl” down the middle and finished with a wide streamer or red ribbon on the back. Mrs. Victor Anderson’s hat proclaimed, “lit up” and it was just that at intervals, but in an altogether abstemious way.
The hats weren’t the only part of the fun. Each golfer had to “tee off” astride a wooden horse with bright blinking red eyes. The feet of the golfer were to be in the stirrups and the ball hit with a wooden mallet. Some of the girls of course preferred to ride sidesaddle. Edna Georgas hit the ball with such a professional swing that it caused everyone to wonder where Edna has learned to play polo.
Further along the golfers had a swing in which they had to sit while hitting their ball. And then on hand was an old-time hearse that went out and picked up the “dead ones” as they got tired and dropped out of the game.
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Goofy gear on goofy gals for Goofy Golf. Local beauties all dolled up at the ladies’ jamboree at the County Club last Thursday. They are, left to right: Mrs. Victor Anderson, Mrs. Arnold Gustman, Mrs. John Schiesel, Mrs. Sadie Haight and kneeling, Mrs. Laurence Langreck and Mrs. Mary Lee. (Press photo August 21, 1952)
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John Mrotek of the Loyal Flying Eagles won the county championship in the tractor contest, and is representing Clark County at the State Fair. John showed great skill and accuracy in putting a tractor through its paces. His competitors were boys who had won their way through local contests –Reuben Garbisch of Granton, Robert Tichy of Loyal, Neil Broeren of Thorp and Leland Mayenschein of Butler. (Press photo August 21, 1952)
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August 24, 1972
Hay overheats; save Loyal barn
Smoke was discovered coming from the Dave Anderson barn in the city of Loyal when Tom Lindner was driving past Monday afternoon, About the same time the Andersons’ seven year old son stepped between bales of hay and singed his foot. The Loyal volunteer fire department responded to the call and remained at the scene well into the next forenoon. The upper portion of the barn was charred and damaged, but the fire did not reach the basement of the 132 by 36 foot structure; nor were the silos damaged. The milking equipment, including vacuum lines and tanks, was removed, with only the stanchions, drinking cups and the barn cleaner remaining in the building. The 25 head of cattle were taken to the Oscar Fricke farm, where they remained after the evening milking. No estimate was given of loss of hay.
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