10 Years Ago

February 3, 2011

Green and Gold Day Declared for Friday! Wear Your Packer pride!

Nona Ready for Superbowl Nona’s Super Bowl prediction Grandma Nona Knows! Weekly Advice and so much more!

Dear Grandma Nona: This year is off to a horrible start. We’ve having an awful time on the farm. Sissy is leaving the convent. Joey is back on the sauce. Who should I take to the Super Bowl?

Gamblin’ in Gilman Nona replies: You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em and know when to fold ‘em!

I’ve done quite a bit of research on the Super Bowl, and I can tell you that it won’t do any good to bet any money on the big game. My neighbor up the street has this contraption on the side of his trailer that allows him to get all these sports channels, and he tells me that it wil be an easy win for the Green and Gold. He may not be much of a provider, but he sure knows sports, and he’s a nice enough fellow. If I have a ladies card day or there’s a pinochle tournament at the social center like there is once in a while, he’ll record Days of Our Lives for me.

But back to football: When I was a younger gal and Ginny Johnson and me would go into town on Friday nights, we were over at the Moose Lodge for a mixer once, and I fell for this guy who was a dead ringer for Ray Nitschke, except I think he had his nose broke one or two more times. Anyway, this guy wasn’t much of a dancer or anything like that., but I liked to hang on his arm, because everyone in Lublin thought I was courting Ray Nitschke. Daddy used to be so proud when he’d go to the feed mill and everyone would carry on about how his daughter had landed Nitschke.

Well, he went along with it, because they’d always throw in an extra bucketful of feed, and he kind of liked being in the spotlight for a change when he’d come to town. There were a few years in there when he wasn’t so eager to own up to being Nona’s papa. Now, even he was referring to me as Nona Nitschke….I knew sooner or later that my bubble was going to burst, and one day the cheese hit the fan, or something like that.

We had this guy in town who prided himself on knowing everything about everything. His name was Weasel Smith. Well Weasel was jealous as heck of my Nitschke, because of all the attention he was getting. No one had asked Weasel for a ride in his new Studebaker for weeks…Now, back to Gamblin’s problems: Between you and me, honey, take the Packers. Nona is predicting a Green and Gold blowout!

And since everyone will be watching the big game anyway, how about some great dip recipes. They’ve all been tried and tested, right here in Nona’s own kitchen.

(Recipes for Seven Layer Dip and Hot Pizza Dip) 20 Years Ago

February 1, 2001 S-B Wrestlers Capture First Place at Independence Invite (photos) Hornet wrestler Tom Paff feels the pain applied by Oriole Paul Kluck in the 275 pound weight class. Kluck, the winner of the MAN Award for the Cadott match, pinned Paff in 4:29.

Oriole Zack Kempf maneuvers for the advantage over Cadott’s Brad Sonnentag at the 119 pound weight class. Kempf decisioned Sonnentag, 2-0. The Oriole wrestlers will see the Cadott wrestlers, along with other familiar faces, again at the Cloverbelt Conference Tournament at Stanley-Boyd this Saturday, Feb. 3.

The Stanley-Boyd Oriole wrestlers took on Cadott at Stanley-Boyd and then traveled to Independence for the Independence Invitational in recent action.

The Orioles traveled to Osseo to take on the combined efforts of the Osseo/Augusta team on Tuesday, Jan. 30. Results of the match were too late for this issue of the Republican and will be in next week’s paper.

28 Years Ago

April 8, 1993 Deano’s Bar & Grill Opens This Week On Broadway (photo) DEAN TINJUM, owner of Deano’s Bar & Grill on Broadway, was pictured here Monday as he took a break while getting ready to open his new business this week.

(story) Deano’s Bar & Grill opened for business on Broadway this week, in what was formerly known as “The Gatherings.”

Dean Tinjum, a local personality, and familiar face at area sporting events, has purchased the building and will run the operation. According to Dean, he plans to serve burgers and fries, along with assorted munchies, including chicken wings, pizza, and cheese curds.

Tinjum graduated from Stanley High School in 1978, and in 1982 he received a degree in business administration from UW-Stout. He studied vocational rehabilitation in post-graduate studies.

40 Years Ago January 29, 1981

Cagers Shatters Century Mark Gilman Pirates Felled, 112-45 It was a game played close to perfection, as least as close to perfection as any S-B high school team may come. The Orioles racked up possibly the highest final score in the school’s history in the process of beating the tar out of the Gilman Pirates, 112-45, last Friday night.

The Orioles could hardly do no wrong against the winless Cloverbelt Conference cellar team. But that wouldn’t explain their obvious desire to break the century mark. Head Coach Ed Andrist said after the game that the team did not run up the score.

“We played our fast break and didn’t press Gilman the entire game. Gilman could have slowed the pace but it didn’t.”

Andrist directed the game with an eye to showing upcoming opponents Fall Creek and Altoona that Stanley-Boyd could score confidently and with regularity….The Orioles played team ball right from the start…Unfortunately for Gilman fans there was no letting up in the third quarter (story continues).

50 Years Ago January 21, 1971 Oriole Basketball Squad Loses To League Leaders, Fall Creek The Stanley-Boyd Oriole basketball squad lost a conference game to the Fall Creek Crickets Friday night at the local gym. The Crickets, who are undefeated for the season, took a 65-34 decision over their hosts.

Coach Larry Norrell said the Orioles kept up with Fall Creek during the first three quarters of the game, but the Crickets domination of the boards turned the tide in their favor.

70 Years Ago February 1, 1950 FOR THE RECORD: Although not a “local” newspaper, the River Falls Journal front page from February 1, 1951 includes a picture in the upper right corner of Mary Lou Binkowski of Elmwood (Pierce County) along with “John Klisiewicz, of Stanley,” as being successful candidates for royalty at the “annual winter carnival held at the Teachers college last weekend.” It is further related from River Falls that “Queen Mary and King John” were sponsored by the FFA, with microfilmed pdf images of said front page available for remote order and electronic delivery through the UW-River Falls Archive and Research Center at the Chalmer Davies Library, UW-River

Falls.

80 Years Ago January 31, 1941

In the midst of war… VALENTINE DANCE Stanley, Boyd, Cadott and Chippewa Falls, please take notice of a CYO dance on February 9, at the Legion Hall in Thorp. We would like to see you all attend this dance.

St. Hedwig’s Boys’ and Girls’ Club CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our heartfelt thanks to all our neighbors and friends who helped us in the recent illness and death of our husband and father. We especially wish to thank Rev. Sprengler for his comforting words, Anton Long for his singing, the pall bearers and those who sent floral offerings or helped in any way. Mrs. Ernest Baumgarten Harold Baumgarten Mr. and Mrs. Max Schultze Mr. and Mrs. John Miller Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Wright Mr. and Mrs. Bert Cardinal 100 Years Ago January 21, 1921 Recognizing the value of a live American Legion post to a community, the civic authorities of Dubois, Pa. have not only aided the local post by speaking a good word for it but also have arranged for the municipality to pay four fifths of the rent on the post’s club rooms.

A true American Legion romance culminated in the marriage of Roy E. Patrick and Miss Estelle Agans, both charter members of the Frederick Phillips Post, of Council Grove, Kas. To be sure that the ceremony was sufficiently Legionnaire, the services of a minister, also a charter member of the post, were obtained.

110 Years Ago January 28, 1911 SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Hon. C. B. Culbertson spent Monday and Tuesday in Minneapolis.

Secretary C. D. (Chester Delos) Moon of the N. W. L. Co. has been in town this week.

Born to Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Paddock on Friday the 27th inst, a son.

P. H. Giese spent Sunday in Boyd.

Dr. E. F. Burns was in Boyd Thursday.

Miss Gida Reiten spent Sunday at Colfax.

Miss Lida Geitz was in Eau Claire Monday.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Wedin Tuesday, Jan. 24, a boy.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Lindeman on January 25, a son.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. John VanderRyt on the 23rd, a son.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ben H. Wold on Friday, January 21, a son.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Hans Huus on January 22, a daughter.

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120 Years Ago February 2, 1901 Abroad: Minor officials put to death in China over the previous year’s revolution as those higher up or with armies behind them are reportedly left alone to prevent civil war from breaking out. European demands overcome U.S. objections as to the execution of said minor Chinese officials.

Nearer to home in the Fox River Valley of Wisconsin: PURSUE A WILD MAN.* People of Hayton, in Southern Wisconsin, Frightened by Horrible-Looking Creature Chased him through forest Strange story of a man who thinks he is a murderer and lives in solitude for fifteen years Hayton, Wis., Jan. 31.— [Special]—The village has been thrown into a state of excitement over the appearance of a creature, evidently a man, but so utterly unkempt and fierce in aspect as to baffle description. Devoid of clothing, but covered with a thick, matted growth of hair, he presented an appearance that, although decidedly grotesque, sent a thrill of horror through the spectators. The creature walked at a rapid pace toward the Manitowoc river. When he reached the stream he waded through the water, which was above his neck and icy cold.

Recovering from their momentary terror men banded together and with dogs and guns started on the trail, which led to the river, but was here abruptly lost and the men were compelled to proceed up the stream to the bridge. The dogs soon took up the scent and led the party over fences, plowed fields and meadows to the large swamp north of the village. Hither and thither through thickets and brakes bounded the creature, eluding the dogs which at times seemed close upon it.

Throughout the entire afternoon this sort of chase kept up. The forest rang with the deep baying of the dogs and hoarse shouts of men. The sun set and twilight deepened into dark. Still the hounds pressed eagerly forward, and the men, loath to relinquish their as best they could in the gathering gloom.

Suddenly the dogs doubled on the trail and slunk cowering and whimpering to their masters, refusing to advance, and the men were about to about to retrace their steps when suddenly they heard a cry indescribably dreadful. Deep and guttural, it seemed to embody a menace of fierce hate and vengeance that struck terror to the hearts of the men, and as if by one accord they fled from the dreadful presence, not halting until the shelter of the village was reached.

Today a larger and better- equipped party entered the swamp and scoured it from end-to-end, but the creature was not found.

The older residents think the creature is a man named Kustwind and tell a story of how fifteen years ago this winter a German emigrant but lately arrived was severely injured. Kustwind, who thought he had killed the fellow, in his despair and fright fled to the woods and remained there in hiding, only venturing forth at night. It is thought the long period of seclusion crazed him.

*Although the story attributes this to a man named “Kustwind” who fled years earlier and certain (rare) genetic conditions can result in a fur-like coat on humans, this is also how accounts of “Bigfoot” were catalogued prior to 1950, when the term was first coined from large tracks at a construction site in California, the tracks later turning out to be a hoax. Not all such tales are as easily explained, however.