Green Bay Press-Gazette from Green Bay, Wisconsin • Page 5

Green Bay Press-Gazetto Wednesday, Feb. 1 9, 1 975 A-5 i i uj r- lit. ok. lit! VI tef' 1 store. Ken and wife, Mary Lou, have operated the store for over 10 years and moved to Middle Inlet from South Dakota.

Stocks Up Frank Mike, left, a Middle Inlet native, stocks up with provisions at Ken Jacomet's country general Wecome to Middle Inlet 5 t(m i win iiiiiiii mi mm iiimim S. 'il 4. tered the floor covering business. Their children go to school in nearby Crivitz. ski hill also a favorite of local children and adults alike, 't I ducted in the Middle Inlet Town Hall.

"Sfls." In i .7 1 town hall was hard to find among the mountains of hardwood bolts heaped at the Middle Inlet siding. Frank Mike is a man to explain the remnants of a molybdenum mining venture out on Moonshine Hill, the quarry era when Middle Inlet provided granite blocks for rococo architecture and presidential monument. He saw recreational developers optimistically clear and initiate a ski slope called Fun Valley, now enjoyed only a playground for local "zip, walk a mile" local Regarding the disability that has failed to discourage this modern woodsman, Frank Mike said he was engulfed one day by a whole truckload of tumbling logs. He fought to the surface but at a price. Since the mishap, his left leg refuses to track true.

The three, inlet streams, Lower, Middle and Upper, figured prominently in early logging operations. Today, Frank Mike confides, they remain native trout waters above Middle Inlet and provide good brown trout fishing below where they converge and flow into Lake Nocque-bay. Ken and Mary Lou Jacomet, behind the Country General store for 11 years, hail originally from South Dakota. Typical Middle Inlet boosters, Ken recently refurbished the building at Highway 141 and county highway opened Middle Inlet Inn to provide a needed restaurant service in the community. Like the Baileys and Vern Hillescheim, the Jacomets believe they are in the "Middle" of something good.

Ken Behrend flows through the community of Middle Inlet. 1 1 Convert Citizen Vern Hillescheim, also a resident of Middle Inlet by choice, now operates in the community as an auto body renovator. By JOHN LEE Press-Gazette Stctt Writer MIDDLE INLET What other northern community has not one, not two but three namesake streams gurgling its praises? For anyone hazy at geography, Middle Inlet is halfway between Crivitz and Wau-saukee, where Highway 141 is cross-patched by three trout streams. Most arresting of these picturesque brooks is Lower Middle Inlet, bordering a wayside rest stop adjacent to the business community. Middle Inlet has hard-core boosters like Ken and Mary Lou Jacomet, operators of the Country General store; Jerry and Barbara Bailey, purveyors and installers of carpeting and linoleums; Vern Hillescheim, auto body renovator.

These are convert citizens, resident by choice. Then there is the resident breed, not necessarily typified by Frank Mike. About once a week this Bun-yanesque character comes out of the woods above town to visit the Jacomets and stock up on vittles. In slouch hat, checkered wool shirt and steel-capped boots, he arrives not behind a blue ox but at the wheel of a well conditioned Olds. At the store, Frank Mike inspects the merchandise, fingering a stubble beard and favoring a gimpy leg in his movement from aisle to aisle.

That chore completed, Frank will talk about his woods and progress in felling the 45-foot pines on order for a log cabin contractor dbwn Crivitz way. A native born and bred, Frank recalls when P-G Photos by iks i' FX mil A Namesake This is one of the three inlet streams that i fe fc 't. i In Business Barbara Bailey and her husband, Jerfy, came to Middle Inlet from Indiana three years ago and en Welcome Sight Skiers in- vade the community for the slopes at Fun Valley, a sleepy i-' vi i KMtf-i. la. A i I Government The town governmental business is con- iff if '(Ci'j.

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