Today in Whitehall-area History

October 11, 1972

                  The Whitehall city council Monday awarded Rudy Rombalski a building permit to construct a house and garage in the Fredrickson addition.

October 11, 1962

                  Ernest Sletteland has closed his Men’s Store operation located at the corner of Main and Dodge streets and turned over the building on a lease basis to Stanley Trovatten, proprietor of the Variety Store. Trovatten, who has operated a variety store in Whitehall for 21 years, will continue in his former location and expand into the Sletteland building.

October 11, 1952

                  Mr. and Mrs. Oswald Klomsten have received word that their son, A.2.C. Oswald Klomsten Jr., who is with Detachment 4, 528th Aircraft and Warning Squadron in Japan, was recently taken ill with pleurisy and moved by ambulance to a hospital. He is now improved. Ozzie, who is a radio technician and has been stationed in Japan for eight months, was advanced to the rank of corporal a month ago.

October 11, 1939

                  J.P. Kloety, brother of Henry Kloety of The Times workforce, has taken over management of the Texaco Service Station, which includes the shoe and harness shop.

October 11, 1929

                  An untidily dressed man, accompanied by an attractive-appearing woman, went into the Solsrud store Friday afternoon, occupied one of the clerks for a length of time, then left without making a purchase. A short while later it was noticed that two velvet dresses were missing. The pair of shoplifters had made a successful getaway.

October 11, 1918

                  The board of health closed the schools, churches and all entertainment places last Friday, following action by the state board on account of the prevalence of Spanish influenza in many places in the state. No pronounced cases of the disease are reported in this community, but the action of the board is approved as being a wise precaution.

October 11, 1906

                  Peter Simonson of Pigeon Falls lost several sheep last fall and again this fall either by wolves or wolves in sheep’s clothing. He has the pasture well fenced against four-legged animals, but says it takes a mighty high fence to exclude two-legged animals from making assaults upon his sheepfold.

October 11, 1894

                  Pigeon Falls — A.C. Gilbertson has his residence near completion and will soon take up his trade as harness and shoe maker in the village.

October 11, 1885

                  G.M. Scott and Chas. Quackenbush returned Sunday from a trapping trip up Pigeon Creek. They report having caught 75 rats and three mink in three nights.

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