Clark County Press, Neillsville, WI, April 26, 2017, Page 11

The Neillsville Armory has been remodeled and redecorated, putting in restrooms, new offices for the officers of the local Guard Company, new chairs, and remodeling the state.

In celebration of this new change that has been made in the Armory, which was built in 1892, and which held its first Grand Opening on January 1, 1893, the Neillsville Lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose is sponsoring a big dancing party to celebrate the second grand opening of this old Neillsville landmark, which has held many successful dances and shows.

Thursday night, April 8, will bring to the people of Neillsville and the surrounding community an evening of splendid music and dancing, to be provided by Menning’s 11-piece Orchestra of Appleton, an evening to long be remembered by those who enjoy good music.

Arthur Dominie and Hazel Strey, Town of York; Joseph Mertens, Hixon and Hilda Rasmussen, Longwood.

Father & Son Banquet, Tuesday, April 6, 6:30 p.m. at Methodist Church, Good Eats, Fine Program; Tickets, $1.00 per pair, available at Sheddan’s Variety of Eva’ Fashion Shoppe.

The Clark County Conservation League has constructed a trout “hatchery” at Greenwood near the joe Brown property where 5,000 baby trout will be placed about May 1. Water from a large spring flows into a 7 by 9 cypress tempering tank from which it passes to three tanks 18 by 4 feet inside a building. It is said the trout will be 7 or 8 inches long by fall.

The Al’ Board lunch, which has been making a number of improvements lately, last week installed several new tables along the north side of the railcar. The work was done by Art Kunze and is a fine addition to the restaurant.

A Town of Washburn farmer was fined $100 and costs or six months in the County Jail on Saturday when he appeared before Judge E. W. Crosby on a charge of having unstamped liquor in his possession. The arrest was made by three Wisconsin liquor agents, who charged that they had found a 10-gallon still with coil and a quantity of moonshine on the farm.

A large crowd from the Gorman community attended the surprise party on Mr. and Mrs. John Bayuk who celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary at the Catholic Church Hall Sunday night.

A certain peppy group of Neillsville high School girls display so much interest in the finer things in life that their activities are considered worthy of mention. These young women are extremely busy with schoolwork, home duties and Scouting, yet find three or four hours each week to devote to church work. They constitute the choir, work in the Sunday school, and Young People’s Society, and during the week, slip into dust and tidy the church. Several of their latest plans include the raising of money to have the piano tuned and planting the church garden, thus beautifying the grounds, and supplying fresh flowers for the services.

Marian Calway and janet North issued written invitations to about 90 of their friends and teachers for an informal dancing party, which was held at the newly remodeled opera house Friday evening. Lawrence Dorst furnished the latest popular music by attaching a loud speaker to his electric phonograph. The hours at dancing and the refreshments served by the hostesses were thoroughly enjoyed. Tripping the old-fashioned circle two-step, called by Alice Lound, and Evelyn Bieneck added much to the evening’s merriment.

Laurence Millard, county superintendent, has been selected to sponsor a marble-shooting contest for Clark County in connection with a statewide contest being put on by the WPA and the Milwaukee Journal.

It is tentatively planned to hold three preliminary contests in Clark County, at Neillsville, Owen, and Greenwood, with the finals being played in Neillsville. Winners of the contest will take part in a district contest at La Crosse, and the district winner will go to the state contest at Milwaukee.

(The sport of “marble-shooting” has long fallen along the wayside. Only the elderly remembers that spring-of-the-year pastime, which meant taking a special “shooting-marble,” aiming it at a circle of marbles on a smoothed-out area of ground. Each contestant knelt on their knees, aiming, and using their thumb to trigger the shooter-marble in hand to knock marbles out of a circle made in the soil. Some games were played with each person keeping the marbles that he or she had hit out of the circle, which I never got into, I played only for fun. DZ)

Rev. E. H. Vornholt, former pastor of the Reformed Church in Neillsville, will be here on business connected with the Indian School for a few days and will speak at Kiwanis Club Monday evening. He is now pastor of the Reformed Church at West Concord, Minn.

Rural electrification took a long step forward at an all-day, and evening meeting at Loyal Monday when the Clark Electric Cooperative was officially organized. Forty men, representing the area to be served by the largest electric cooperative in the state, met with the signers of the articles of incorporation of the REA cooperative, and proceeded with the business necessary to get this project under way. The articles of incorporation, were recently signed by Herman Blair, Ed Luchterhand, Wallace Landry, Milton Page, and Theodore Humpke all Clark County men.

Fishing licenses are now in the hands of agents in Clark County, Clerk Calvin Mills announces. Old Licenses expire May 1st. Licenses are required by anyone using any rod or pole to which a reel is attached.

(Using a cane pole with a fishing line tied to one end, with no reel, didn’t require having a license for fishing. DZ)

The North Side city park, which has been farmed for a number of years, will be seeded, and put into shape this summer. It is also planned to plant more trees and lay out a playground and baseball diamond. This work was started a number of years ago, but was laid aside for work deemed more necessary at that time. Other projects planned for the summer are the opening of two roads, from Bruley and 9th Street to 13th Street and Prince Street, just east of Emery Street at the west end of the park.

Frank Hemp owns a rare old violin that was made 128 years ago, according to the label inside of the instrument. It reads: “Georg Gutter Atorf im sachsichen Voightland, 1809,” done in the Latin script. This violin belonged to Mr. Hemp’s great-grandfather, and was brought to America by his father. About five years ago, Theodore Hemp took it to Milwaukee to have it repaired and was told by an artist in that line that he knew of only one other instrument of this make, which was manufactured about a year later.

The Junior Chamber of Commerce, through its secretary Everett Skroch, announced this week that it will continue its drive for funds to promote free outdoor moving picture shows in Neillsville once a week for 22 weeks through the warm months.

Under the present plans it was said the free shows would be shown on one of the side streets.

(The movie “screen” was often the side of a building that had been painted white, light color. DZ)

Representatives of the newly formed golf club corporation, which is buying the Hawthorne Hill Country Club, appeared before the city council Tuesday night to request a donation of $500 from the recreational fund to assist them in completing the transaction. As an inducement to the city, the aldermen were informed that the golf course would be opened to children free of cost six mornings a week where the young people could learn and play golf under the supervision of a professional.

Francis Welsh, who was the first to address the council, stated that the golf course was being purchased at a cost of $5,300 and that between 24 and 35 $100 shares had been sold up to date. He asserted that the group was having difficulty in raising the balance, but said the deal could be put over with a $500 lift from the city. He pointed out that the course would have to be abandoned unless help is received immediately, and declared it was an asset of great value to the city. Art Russell, who told the council he never played golf, said he favored the project.

Other speakers were Everett Skroch, secretary of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, and William Campman. They emphasized the importance of preserving the course as a matter of civic pride and value.

A special meeting of the council has been called for Thursday evening, 7:30 p.m., at which the question of whether the money is to be contributed will be settled.

(We now realize how close it became that the present Neillsville Country Club course project could have been abandoned due to lack of funds. Golfers within the community appreciate the convenience of a nearby course, and many enjoy other provisions that the club offers. DZ)

Chili Welcomed the Wide World with Newly Paved Main Street and Main Approach with a ribbon-cutting October 27, 1956.

Spry’s Elevator; Gateway Lumber Co.; Rusch Garage, Otto & Irwin; Chili Implement Co.; Chili Milk Pool Cooperative; McNaul Garage, Cities Service; Haslow’s Hardware; Chili Cooperative Shipping Association, Harold Montag, Mgr.; Puscheck Building Service for Butler Steel Buildings; Central State Bank, Paying & Receiving Station for Chili Community.

Clocks throughout Wisconsin will be turned ahead an hour April 28 as a result of Tuesday’s voting, which gave daylight saving time a 150,000-vote endorsement.

Largely, industrial centers of the state carried the issue, with rural areas voting heavily, but futilely, against it.

Clark County went a little better than three-to-one against daylight saving time. The balloting was for, 2,155; against 6,778.

Arthur Carl, Neillsville building contractor, has received the contract for erection of the new Schultz Bros. Co. variety store, at the corner of Hewett and Fifth Streets.

Mr. Carl expected to start razing the old Schultz building on the corner Wednesday. All of that building will be torn down except portions of the south and east walls which will be used in the new building.

Plans are for a completely modern store building to be on the Schultz-Schoengarth location, with full basement. It will be one-story high, with slightly higher-than-normal walls in order to blend in with the two-story structures around it. The size will be 66 by 100 feet.

Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Haslow have purchased the Chris Olsen farm and plan to move there the last of May. The farm, located east of Loyal, was formerly the Clair Lyon farm.

“Youth and Beer” is the title of an address to be delivered by Clark County’s Assemblyman Corwin C. Guell of Thorp over a network of state-owned radio stations Tuesday, April 22, at 5:30 p.m.

Guell, co-author to the controversial “21-year beer law,” now in “Legislative Forum” program, will be heard over the Auburndale state station on 930 kilocycles.

Neillsville will be in its festive best next Thursday, April 25, for the band festival, which will draw 15 or more music units from 10 schools of the Cloverbelt conference.

Highlights for the public will be a gigantic parade of bands in the afternoon and a concert by massed band, and chorus in the evening at the Neillsville High School auditorium.

Last Saturday, Jon Swenson was selected as Neillsville High School’s outstanding senior athlete. Swenson is the third to receive this honor awarded each year by the Neillsville Chamber of Commerce.

The A&W Root Beer Stand and The Penguin were favorite “hang-outs” after school in the spring. The Penguin located along Hwy. 10, near the intersection of South Hewett Street. The above mid-1960s photo taken of some high school students standing by the Penguin; (left to right): Ronny Svetlik, Ken Carl, Bill Knoff, Dick Schoengarth, Ron Marden, Steve Mabie and Ken Lindekugel. (Photo courtesy of Bob Boysen)

Shop “The Little Shoppe,” in Greenwood for a complete selection of Infants & Children’s Wear, and for Women, Mojud Hosiery in all new spring colors & a Grand Selection of New Cotton Dresses.

(The younger generations would probably wonder, “What were cotton dresses?” Back then, when women weren’t employed outside the home, they wore colorful dresses made of cotton cloth for doing their daily household work. Cotton dresses were easily laundered. It was the era before women wore blue jeans, if you can imagine that. DZ)

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