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Crosse Sunday Tribune, May 14, 1967 Program For Black Readied River 'Alice' Contest BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis. The parade to start at 1:30 program has been an- p.m. is being arranged by local nounced for the Region 6 Alice Jaycees, and following the pain D3iryland contest in Black rade the girls will return to the River Falls Saturday, May 20. junior high school for further The winner will be announced, interviews, as a group and following a banquet and pro-idividually. Judging is based, in gram in the junior high school part, on these sessions.

gym at 7:30 p.m. A dairy food bake-off is The activities will be- eluded in the program for Sat- gm, however, with registration urday evening after the banquet. QUEENS FOR A DAY These four beauties will each reign for a day as queen of the Madison Imperial Horse Show, May 18 to 21 in the Dane County Memorial Coliseum. Holding a picture of the feature attraction of the show, Arthur Godfrey, and his horse, Goldie, is Alice in Dairyland, Jo Ann Cuperv, who will be queen for Wisconsin Day, Sunday, May 21. The other queens (left to right) and the day on which they will reign are Jeanne Schultz, Little International queen of the University of Wisconsin, Saturday, May 20: Nancy Jane Kephart, Miss Madison, Friday, May 19; and Betty Jo Bussman, UW homecoming queen, Thursday, May for the contenders at 8:30 a.m.! in the junior high school.

They it it The Jackson County dairy will be welcomed to the city at bake-off is Scheduled at 10 a.m. 9 a.m., followed by a group ori- in the junior high school gym, entation session. and the Falls Theater is present- ing an imDairyland Kid- Each girl will be interviewed individually from 9:15 noon, when luncheon served in the First Federal Sav a to ately following the parade. Chil- will be be admitted on presentation of a top, label or wrap- mg Shudastudhome At Job Corps SPARTA, Wis. By June 30 the maximum population of 1,200 corpsmen will be at the McCoy, iJob Corps Center, according to Harry Mills, director of the center.

He said the cost estimates for kids have been telling me the 1967-68 operation of the cen- that if it rains on Easter Sunday ter by Radio Corporation ef It will rain the next six Sundays America Service Co. (RCA) and except for the 23rd of April, have been submitted to Wash- it has. They even claim we had ingtor. and contracts should be a light sprinkle that day. signed soon.

For the first time in over 20 years my menfolk invited me said Steven Udvari will to go looking for on represent the University of Wis- that sunny Sunday. I guess it is consin at the center to serve as the last time I will be asked.coordinator of the We trudged from one end of roje jn testing, evaluation and Tibber Coulee to the other, but review procedures. The educa MINDORO SCHOOL VOTE TO BE HELD MAY 27 MELROSE, Melrose-Mindoro School District will vote Saturday, May 27, on a proposed $225,000 Mindoro Elementary School to replace the one extensively damaged by fire Nov. 30, 1966. Voting will take place in the new high school from 7 to 8 p.m.

If the referendum is approved, construction planning will begin immediately. If it is defeated, the board will then have to let contracts to remodel the present structure and replace the three classrooms and basement which were gutted in the fire. The proposed building would be one story with approximately 14,000 square feet of floor space and will house an academic section only, as the existing gym and kitchen, relatively undamaged in the fire, will be retained. A public information meeting will be held prior to the referendum, the date to be announced. ings and Loan Association Build- some dairy product The Alice in Dairyland com- mittee is planning a tractor-pull-1 ing contest at 1 p.m.

May 21, when prizes totaling $260 will be offered. This is being held in conjunction with June Dairy Month. Entries will be weighed in prior to noon, and prizes are to be given in each of four divisions. The entry fee is $5, and anyone interested may contact the Black River Falls Chamber of Commerce or Chester Brown of Melrose. HIBlWi ONLY only business firm in Liberty (east of Viroqua) is the store-tavern operated by Mr.

and Mrs. Edward Heal. Liberty at one time boasted a sawmill and cheese factory, but the sawmill is long gone and the factory stands Photo. YES, THERE IS A PLACE Lively Times Of Another Era Gone, Liberty Basks In Quiet and I never understood the lan guage they used. I never really caught up to them tional program, to include vocational training, will be operated by RCA under the new con- they tract.

called as they leaped out of the Mills said dropout rates at the car, over the fence and down center have remained high, but through the pasture. As I neared successes, too, have been en- the bank of the stream into cournging. Of the last group of which they peered, they either 2o who took GED (high school hollered, a equivalency tests) 16 earned raced farther out of sight or successful grades and that as else whispered excitedly, Look- more corpsmen are ready for the tests, the score reflects a I shoulted, and got successful program. a withering what-a-dumb-dame look as they sighed, it tt it many of the Mills said, is their first They had a strange 0f success ancj many of tion for trashy rock piles or them feel that with the GED dead logs along stream and spent most of their time here. After over an hour of playing certificate they are ready to the and leave without finishing their vocation- skip and run through Timber aj training, which is regretta- Coulee we went home.

It took me two days to get my A request was renewed feet warm and easily $8 worth more paperback books and mag- of medical attention to subdue azines for use at the center. Collections of reading materials THE THOUGHT IS WARM my soosing sinuses. I never did see the trout we may be left at the Chamber of went looking for, but office. times I smelt something funny. Times Pa's Day First With Day coming the day after the opening of the trout season, I believe I will get undivided attention on Sunday.

Times Woodent Help And then there was this fellow Radiological Test Course Set In Sparta Some of the medallions Wilton fourth graders made of their mothers may not be overly flattering, but the thoughtfulness is there, and warm. Pointing with pride at the art work is Billy Warner. Vocational Show Set At Bangor High BANGOR, first spring vocational show will be held in the shop department of Bangor High School, Tuesday, May 16, starting at 8 p.m. TTiere will be demonstrations in woodworking and finishing, care of lawn mowers, electrical work, welding and drafting. A talk will be given by Sgt.

Ralph King entitled does the military expect of a high school Sgt. King, stationed at Ft. Ord, is on a furlough and visiting the Levi Berger family and his son, Lonnie, who will graduate this year. James Bruha, apprentice coordinator of the La Crosse area, will speak on apprentice program and the high school A section of the new high school addition to also be used for industrial arts will be open to the public. La Verne Korb is the industrial arts instructor of Bangor High.

Children's Choir Plans Concert In Prairie Du Chien PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, By ROBERT C. GEHL (La Crosse Tribune Staff Writer) LIBERTY, Wis. Of course, a place called Liberty another old-timer, who moved sides into the area and into the area when he was two he says the place was already years old. One customer who recalls the Today only a busy cross- dances enlarged upon roads store and tavern on High- stOTy by COmment- W3y 56 T6 I'! ing that mean that every- the West fork of the fViov Vmr roqua on Kickapoo River. The hospitable store called when his dad was a boy around 1885.

Too many years have passed, however, for even the old-timers to recall the events leading to time they had a drink they had! the establishment of the pioneer settlement, and eventually the the searcher must turn the pages i a i a ipj i Heal said he understood keepers are Edward (Ed) Heal was once called history books. and his wife, who have operated which was traceable. the business 21 years. which may The influx of pioneer settlers limes have really changed have been related into the area apparently began and nearly all the old the once in 1855. The influential No one appeared too certain pioneer was Allen Rusk, who is what denomination the church recorded as the first settler had been, but it seems to have within a one-mile radius of are gone Heal says.

Gone, too, are any traces of the old saw mill. The old church has been torn down, and the or a two-story brick cheese factory stands vacant. And the old-timers who are still around best recall the exciting times when dances were leld upstairs in the store-tav-ithe store, and he recalls ern. AMMO TRUCKERS first get lung decided stead. Sure enough, two weeks later he died of Dutch Elm disease.

Lisbon Times Go, Girl, Go At the commencement St. 40-voice choir will present a concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 16, in the Prairie du Chien High School Auditorium. The choir of boys and girls from St. School for Exceptional Children at Jefferson, is making its first concert tour.

Proceeds from the one-week tour will enable men tally retarded children in Southwest Wisconsin to attend the Southwest Badger Camp at Wy State Park in August The choir will arrive in Prairie du Chien at 10 a.m. Tues- IGuard will hold its first reun-jing of members still living are Jay May 16, and members will ion Sunday, May 28, in the Black asked to contact Lawrence be guests of families in the city American Legion Jones, Box 405, Black River Falls, 54615. World War I Outfit Plans First Reunion BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis. lever held by the outfit, Men of the original Company whereabouts of many of the vet-1 erans is unknown. Anyone know- SPARTA Wis who gave up smoking so that he class in th'e use of radioloe'icai get lung cancer.

He SStl tr dvTl to chew toothpicks in defense will begin in the Courthouse Annex at Sparta at 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 16. The instructor will be A) Sperger of Tomah. The course will last 16 hours and will train persons in the exer- use of instruments which detect rises of an eastern charm school radioactivity such as might nHnrToteavinc forCamn the director warned the gradu-. possible in a nuclear attack or 2 11h Store in Viroqua ates about the manners of the in accidents involving transpor Tnv is moving to a new location.

1 moved to Waco, Tex The supermarket will move In Texas the unit entered fed- abou, to a new build. River Falls Clubhouse. Company was a volunteer -------------------unit of 130 Jackson County men Viroqua Market organized at the outbreak of World War I. They drilled on the local fairgrounds for one Plans June Move VIROQUA, Wis. The At- tation of radioactive materials by highway, air or rail.

Anyone interested in the untrained. your escort every chance to be the director advised. stay in the car Defense Director Gordon until he has time to open the ter or the office, door for you. eral service as Company 107th Ammunition Train, in the course is asked to contact Civil (hen npwl formed 32nd I I II I AM rt I try (Red Arrow) Division. However, more homes are needed, said Don Knapp, president of the Crawford County Association for the Mentally Retarded.

Sister Miriam Terese is direc tor and Sister M. Julietta the accompanist for the choir. Membership in the chorus at the largest school for retarded children in the Midwest is voluntary. Rehearsals are sched ing at the corner of Decker and outside of work and schoo Rock Streets, where more park- incr cnann ic avoiUMn peHOdS. ing space is available.

Also, the new building, being erected by Duane Dagget of in Stoughton, will have more floor present Liberty. Rusk was born Feb. 6, 1825, in Perry County, Ohio, and first Edmund Randles, 59, was 'and bom about 1 mile southwest of fln'-' ln ln settled on roaring times at the dances Sat- jn 1855, urdav James Fred Sutherland, 76. who is Randles lived in the area until been the first set- really from over on the East five years ago, when he moved Town of Lihertv hut over and to the the Town of Liberty, but old Lister School some five he u.p several miles distant as the crow flies. He recalls visiting the stored Kickapoo but his wife relates that nearly every time they had a dance they had a fight.

I got some broken down knuckles in those he recalls. Charley Cooley, also 76, is I north of the crossroads hamlet. Other early settlers in the with his grandmother when he of was but five years old. 7 Brookwood HS Seniors To Help 'Govern' County ONTARIO, Wis. -Seven Brookwood High School seniors will participate in governs the county Monday, May 15.

They will report at 9 a.m. to 80 the courthouse in Sparta for a a full day of activities. Each delegate will be briefed on the duties of his office and will take part in the actual operation of torium, 8 p.m that office. George W. Wise, uel Graham, Samuel Fish, Stephen A.

Fish, James Schooley, James W. Hunter, John W. Church, Frederick Groves, Stanley Stout, H. L. Turner, R.

H. Bucanan and Cincinnatus Ward. it it it But it was due to the efforts of Allen of Jeremiah McLain Rusk who was governor of Wisconsin from 1882 to the Town of Liberty was organized in 1858, and it was Rusk who suggested the name. The first town officers elected in 1858 were Allen Rusk, chairman; Samuel Graham and George Martin, supervisors; Samuel C. Fish, clerk; John R.

Joseph, treasurer; and Rusk and Graham, justices of the COULEE CALENDAR MONDAY, MAY 15 Houston, style show, in- peace, dustrial arts exhibit, HS Audi torium, 8 p.m. Sparta, public hearing on In Rusk also spent two terms in the Wisconsin Assembly. The first child born in the interchange, city town, Oct. 28, 1855, was J. son of Allen and Mary Rusk.

The first marriage united Stanford Hanchett and Ann Harris in 1855. if it it The first death recorded in the town was that of a child of TUESDAY. MAY 16 Prairie du Chien, St. Coletta School choir concert, HS Audi- School board elections in Cale- Named by the student body donia, Hokah, Spring Grove Martin, and the child after an election campaign Mabel, Minn. were Larry Hubbard, Hatfield, public card party, Elizabeth Savall, clerk: Tom Club, 8 p.m.

Baker, treasurer; Darrell Ziet- Bangor, spring vocational low, district attorney; Jill Mel- show, at high school, 8 p.m. by, clerk of court; Mary Olden burg, register of deeds; and Mike Giese, sheriff. WEDNESDAY, MAY 17 Whitehall, annual school fair, at high school, 7 p.m. The program is sponsored by THURSDAY. MAY 18 the Monroe County Council of Kenneth Steen of Tomah, who if already in has completed a course in ra- They sailed for England the restaurant and starting to diological monitoring at Battle February 1918 and crossed the space than the present store, order, wait and Journal Houston, annual was buried in the old Martin Cemetery near the Martin home about three-fourths miles north of the present crossroads.

Another cemetery was in existence nearby by 1884. The early day post office was referred to as office on because it was always con. located in the home of the per- High Time! Glad to see our only satellite finally getting proper respect. The moon has always been just moon. Just an old everyday noun like the broom, the pail, the mud puddle, the scrub brush.

Always lower case. But Sunday in AP news: Surveyor 3 took a hard swing at the Creek, has been added to English Channel to France a Arnold Ramsett is the the staff of instructors for the month after disembarking in manager. course. His first class will be in the Tomah-Oakdale area. Persons interested in this course may contact Stelter or the Tomah police department.

BLAIR, Wis. The poppy sale will be held in store Blair Saturday, May 27, according to Alice Stumpf, chairman. the American Legion, with the hi sch0oi choir, school son who was postmas annual cooperation of county officials. 8 p.m. The students will be luncheon PBinAV MAV iq guests of the sponsoring Legion posts Great Britain.

The unit served in the Alsace Sector and took part in several offensives, including the Meuse- Argonne. The men hauled munition in Nash quad trucks to The Monroe County Civil De- forward positions at night with- fense auxiliary police, radio out lights, often under enemy personnel and the Tomah Hia-! shellfire, watha Valley Communicators The roads were more often put their training to use recently than not nearly impassable. Sure to come up for reminisc-! state police in controlling traf- Now that Partonf? cars the at the reunion will be the ex on the verge of colonizing ing of the EQuity Livestock Auc- perience of Martin Thompson of It, better capitalize it and Market. Their performance was eval uated as a test for efficiency. drop from in front of it.

Imagine saying going to the Europe on my Crawford County Independent Bids Being Sought Northfield. Thompson on one dark night got lost and drove his truck into the German lines at Chateau Thierry. He escaped, however, and got back to his buddies intact. Incurable If you watch television com- After the Armistice of Nov. For Lighting Field WHITEHALL, Wis.

Bids mercials a lot you undoubtedly will be received for a lighting 11, 1918, Company remained have come to the conclusion (as system on the Whitehall High with the Army of Occupation I have) that they now have pills School football field until 8 p.m. on the Rhine River until May that will cure almost anything, Monday, May 22, when they are of with the possible exception of to be opened. Hokah. grade school concert, 8 p.m. Ontario, public lunch and ter and therefore the office was moved about.

The Liberty Post Office was first established in the residence of John R. Joseph in 1859 or 1860 and his wife was the bake sale, Baltz Building, after- ir st postmaster. Succeeding noon and evening. SATURDAY, MAY 20 Black River Falls, were Mrs. M.

J. Wolford, Mrs. M. A. Davis, Mrs.

regional Wolford again and Allen Rusk, Alice in Dairyland contest, pa- who held the job in 1884. rade at 1:30 p.m. SUNDAY, MAY 21 Melrose Mindoro, tion of new high school, 1:45 p.m., open house to follow. 1919, when the unit, along with the entire 32nd Division, re- the Watusi, the Frag, the Jerkj and other teen-age music. Chronicle jucation, Whitehall, As this is the first reunion.

Bids may be mailed to Ralph turned to Camp Douglas for dis- iRasmuson, Clerk, Board of Ed- charge. COZY COMFORT CORNER Half-a-dozen chicks rest warm and easy on the soft-as-down back of a rabbit. The scene is the Zoo In Lincoln Park. UPI Telephoto. Girl Scouts Hope To Go To Canada GALESVILLE, Wis.

Senior Girl Scouts will hold a rummage sale Saturday, May 20, in the garage at the L. J. Schilling home. The girls hope to raise money enough to take advantage of an invitation from the Canadian Girl Guides to use the Guide Camp adjacent to the exposition grounds at Montreal, Canada. Lesser trips are being planned in case not enough money is raised for the Canadian tour.

it it The first school was in the residence of George P. Martin, and it was taught by Emily Clauson. The first sawmill in this immediate area was operated by William C. Groves on the West Fork of the Kickapoo River just north of Liberty. The only two churches in the town prior to 1884 were the Methodist Episcopal and United Brethren.

One of the striking features of the town is its numerous springs. Early day historians reported Indian mounds of large animals, birds and reptiles at neighboring Viola, while a contemporary reports additional mounds three-fourths of a mile west of Liberty Store..