Today in Whitehall-area History

May 14, 1974

                  After a motion to grant an off-sale liquor and beer license to Clipper's IGA failed to get a second, the Whitehall city council last week Tuesday voted five to one on a secret ballot against the license.

May 14, 1963

                  A Brownie Mothers’ Tea was held at the Our Saviour’s Lutheran Sunday school building Tuesday evening. Mrs. S.B. Ivers, Girl Scout troop consuntant for Whitehall, was the principal speaker. Also speaking to the group were School Administrator John Brown and the Rev. O.G.  Birkeland. Brownie officers are: Kristine Gabriel, president; Sally Boehm, vice president; and Emily Peterson, reporter. Leaders are the Mmes. Robert Everson, Marvin Olson and Orrin Evenson. Members of Brownie Troop committee are the Mmes. Thomas Toraason, Sidney Borreson and Boyd Relyea.

May 14, 1950

                  Vic Nelson doubled to score Joe Nelson in the bottom of the ninth Sunday, giving Pigeon Falls a 9-8 win in its Trempealeau County Baseball League opener. Don Jacobson and Doc Larson homered for the victors; Dave Larson had two doubles.

May 14, 1936

                  The United Lutheran congregation is preparing for the scores of delegates that will attend this weekend’s La Crosse Circuit Luther League convention in Pigeon Falls.

May 14, 1926

                  Saturday marked the closing of five schools. Forty-one pupils from the Brookside, Sunny Slope, West Lincoln, Carpenter and Irvin Coulee schools wrote final examinations at the Irvin Coulee schoolhouse. A group of schoolgirls from Whitehall had a picnic in the afternoon on the hillside near the school, which added much enjoyment to the working pupils. Teachers taking charge of the examinations were Miss Lottie Davidson from Sunny Slope, Miss Millie Everson from Irvin Coulee and Miss Florence Dissmore from Brookside. The teachers worked hard all day Saturday and part of Monday marking papers.

May 14, 1914

                  Hale — A subscription list is in circulation to purchase an organ for the Pigeon Creek church. O.P. Huskelhus has $20 on his list, while there are two or three other circulators.

May 21, 1903

                  Gene Runkle, who held a position of weighing the mail for the past 60 days, returned home to Independence Thursday. 

May 14, 1891

                  Wm. Lennon has caught the spirit of improvement and is building an addition to his house.

May 14, 1880

                  Pigeon Falls — J. D. Olds talks of a trip to Colorado and other distant places. To the  average American patriot there is nothing more pleasing than viewing this great Union from some cloud splitting peak of the Rocky Mountains. If Congress desires the applause of the nation, just they go to work and raise I don't care how much money for the people to go sight-seeing with, and then will go up such a shout of thanks as once made the hills of Shen and Mizpeh tremble.