TEN YEARS AGO
Thursday, Aug. 12, 1971
Twenty-four young women from the area will be candidates for the title of Miss Whitehall. They are: Carol Ellison, Jeanne Woychik, Sue Klimek, Marilyn Guse, Beth Speerstra, Linda Erickson, Nancy Sendelbach, Jane Windjue, Heidi Thompson, Carolyn Hegge, Olinda Borreson, Sharon Isaacson, Emily Christopherson, Emily Peterson, Sally Boehm, Pam Koepke, Nancy Knudtson, Karla Toraason, Debbie Humphrey, Natalie Anderson, Joyce Lamborn, Barbara Bensend and Judy Borreson.
Clark Berg of Whitehall received a master of science degree in audio-visual media during summer commencement exercises at La Crosse University Friday. Berg teaches English and coaches football at Whitehall High School.
A gift of life from a late Whitehall resident was featured in a recent La Crosse Tribune story. A Readstown mother, Mrs. John Derickson, was the recipient of a transplanted kidney from Virginia Everson, who died two weeks ago as the result of an automobile accident. It was the second kidney transplant to be performed at La Crosse Lutheran Hospital.
David Almlie, the son of Pastor and Mrs. S.L. Almlie, formerly of Pigeon Falls, was ordained into the ministry Sunday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Lisbon, N.D.
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Thursday, Aug. 11, 1966
Dr. R.L. MacCornack Sr., 78, a physician and surgeon in Whitehall for 40 years, died at his home last Wednesday. After serving in Alma Center, in the Army during World War I, and in Janesville and Blair, “Doc Mac” became associated with his older brother, Dr. E.A. MacCornack, and Dr. N.S. Simons, with whom he built the clinic here.
The Pigeon Creek Evangelical Lutheran Church will mark its 100th anniversary Aug. 20-21. Two days of special events are planned.
The Whitehall school system is seeking to fill one vacancy before the start of the school year later this month. Alfred Hanson has resigned his position in the junior high school to further his education.
Archie Dworschak of Independence was the winner of the color television set offered in the Pure Oil Lucky Car Contest.
Trempealeau County Traffic Officer Milo Johnson and two state patrolmen apprehended a fugitive sought by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Monday. Ronald Lee Howard of Duluth was held briefly in the Trempealeau County Jail.
A discussion on how to increase the efficiency of city well No. 1 occupied most of the city council’s August session Monday night.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Thursday, Aug. 16, 1956
Paul Van Horn was appointed a justice of the peace by Mayor Clarence Kaas Monday evening, and his appointment approved by the city council in its regular monthly session that night.
Trempealeau County ranks 56th in the nation in the number of milk cows kept. Los Angeles County, California, ranked number one with 104,914, followed by Wisconsin’s Marathon County with about 15,000 fewer animals. Dane, Dodge and Clark counties in this state also ranked in the top ten. Trempealeau County had 36,302 cows, according to the 1954 agricultural census figure.
The Odd Fellows Hall has been improved, with most of the work done by the members, according to Noble Grand Ray Shanklin. Re-sealing the floor was done by Ben Engen, while Curtis Carlson, Eddie Hermanson and Shanklin transported the chairs to Peterson Implement for spray painting; Earl Young performed the painting.
Two candidates made visits to Whitehall the past week. Perry Hull, editor of the Banner Journal in Black River Falls and a candidate for the Ninth District Congressional seat, stopped Thursday here. Robert C. Zimmerman paid a visit Tuesday on behalf of his candidacy for Secretary of State.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Thursday, Aug. 13, 1931
Theo. B. Olson will offer a Chevrolet Tu-Door and other valuable prizes during a four-week campaign to acquaint his customers with the many farm and home appliances he offers. During the campaign there will be demonstrations of all the lines of merchandise Mr. Olson sells.
There will be a barn dance at M.J. Larson’s this Saturday night. Music will be by Idle Wild’s five-piece orchestra. Admission is 50 cents for the gents, free for the ladies.
The Independence News-Wave reports that Phillip Roskos, manager of the Golden Rule Oil Station, is a married man, although they have not been able to find out the date when the event was done. His wife is the former Eleanor Johnson of Bruce Valley.
Miss Martha Kulig and a girl friend arrived last Saturday from Ann Arbor, Mich., for a visit with her parents, Attorney and Mrs. John Kulig of Independence. Miss Kulig is a nurse at the university hospital at Ann Arbor.
SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Thursday, Aug. 16, 1906
Ed Schaefer has tobacco leaves measuring 19 by 29 inches.
Dr. J.M. Smithe went to Taylor Monday to take advantage of the last two days of the open trout season.
Assemblyman Ekern joined a trout-fishing party composed of Congressman John Esch, State Sen. Thomas Morris, ex-State Sen. John Gaveney, and Messrs. John Muir and E.A. Kersting at Arcadia Monday. By arrangement, no politics was talked on the outing.
Bert Baker hauled his gasoline yacht up from Independence Saturday. The craft plies the beautiful waters of “Say-can’t-you-catch-on” Lake here.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
Thursday, Aug. 18, 1881
When the crops are threshed and money becomes plenty, there’s to be more fun on the Whitehall trotting park than you can shake a stick at.
We had the pleasure of taking a seat with T.H. Earle behind his matched team of bays for a few miles drive into the country one day last week. If we had the available wealth just at present, we would buy that team, for they are just our ideal of horseflesh.
H. Dryer and W.P. Wolcott, two La Crosse sportsmen, came in on the Monday morning passenger. After registering at the Exchange Hotel they departed for the rich chicken fields in this vicinity. They had the necessary equipment, and will eat quail and rattlesnake on toast for a week.
Jens Hagestad, president, and K.K. Hagestad, one of the directors, of the Ettrick Scandinavian Mutual Insurance Company, were in town Monday, returning from Erick Nelson’s place near Pigeon Falls. They settled with Mr. Nelson for a loss sustained during the storm on the fifth, when he had a barley stack struck by lightning and burned.