A LOOK Back FROM THE FILES OF THE STANLEY REPUBLICAN COMPILED BY JOSEPH BACK

10 years ago August 9, 2012

Help Relay meet goal The Stanley-Boyd Relay For Life is just shy of reaching it’s $34,000 goal.

They need your help! Come and join the Diving Divas as they host a “Blind” Volleyball Tournament on Sunday, August 26th at Chapman Park. Play starts at noon with teams consisting of six people. Scoring will be rally scoring with round robin play depending on the number of teams registered. They will be brats and hot dogs, drinks and rawe drinks to purchase. All proceeds will go to the American Cancer Society. Registration fee is $20 per team.

50 years ago August 10, 1972

NOTICE All vehicles, wagons, tractors, etc. (Excluding antiques) that participate in the 1972 Fall Festival Parade must be decorated or they will be refused entry.

There will be NO THROWING candy or other items to bystanders as this is a hazard.

Anyone interested in entering a float in the parade is asked to contact…644-****.

Strictly Fresh A paycheck is what many wives give their husbands over Friday night.

Fall is the time when you get the spring lawnmower sharpening done.

The bee is the one creature which is greatly admired for chasing after his honey.

A bachelor is a fellow who never makes the same mistake once. BOYD AREA NEWS Obituaries Mrs. Mary Felix, age 89, at Sacred Heart Mrs. Alice Meyers, age 89, in Oakland Cemetery.

What Saith the Scriptures?

That this salvation is not the result of our works* is declared in Ephesians 2:3-9: “For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not from yourselves, for it is the gift of God; not as the outcome of works, lest anyone may boast.”

But once a person is saved, this translation says: “This saying is true, and concerning these things I desire thee to insist, they they who believe in God may be careful to excel in good works” (Titus 3:8).

Oh all that would respond to the Saviour’s invitation: “Come to Me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest” (Hebrews 11:28).

*Alternatively stated in Romans 2:13 is the declaration, “for it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law.” The same writer (Paul the Apostle) in considered to have written both Romans and Ephesians.

60 years ago August 9, 1962 NEWS FROM THE BOYD COMMUNITY To Graduate from Marshfield Nursing School Miss Mary Ann Reith, daughter of Mrs. Ester Reith of Boyd, Wis., will be among 36 graduates of St. Joseph’s School of Nursing of Marshfield, Wisconsin on Sunday August 12th. Upon graduation Miss Reith will be employed as a stau nurse on the surgical floor at St. Joseph’s hospital at Marshfield.

Cliuord Taylor Dies Friday of Heart Attack Cliuord Taylor, 72, of Body, died suddenly at 4:30 o’ clock Friday at his home, death being due to a heart attack.

Mr. Tyler was born September 17, 1889 at Knapp, Wisconsin, and he came to Chippewa County with his parents at the age of five, settling on a farm north of Boyd. His married to Caroline Duss took place June 29, 1914 at Stanley, with the later Father Emer ovciating.

Surviving are his wife Caroline; one sister, Mrs. Susan Duss, Stanley, and several nieces and nephews. One daughter preceded him in death in infancy in 1922.

The family resided on a farm north of Boyd until October 1957m, when they moved into the village of Boyd. In addition to farming, Mr. Tyler was also a stone mason.

Services were held Tuesday morning at 9:30 o’ clock at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church with Rt. Rev. Msgr. Hilary A. Leuther ovciating. Burial was in St. Joseph’s Cemetery.

70 years ago August 7, 1952

Highway Signs Are There For a Purpose, Says Police Ovcer “I didn’t see that sign, Officer.”

That comment is heard all too often after a travc law violation or automobile accident, declares an Ovcer of the Chippewa County Travc department.

“Most motorists are pretty observant concerning posted warning signs and pavement markings,” he pointed out. “But some, unfortunately, for themself and for others, they meet on the road, seem to have trained themselves to ignore highway signs.”

A good many highway signs are literally markers of spots where careless motorists have met their deaths,” the Ovcers said.

“Highway signs are required reading matter for the driver who wants to go places safely,” he emphasi zed. They are guideposts to convenient, accident-free travel.”

The county travc authority reminds motorists that there are five basic highway sign shapes: Octagonal—the Stop sign; DIAMOND—the Caution Sign; RECTANGULAR— the sign giving regulations; ROUND—warning that there’s a railroad crossing ahea; and the RAILROAD CROSSBUCK— posted at all highway-rail grade crossings.

“To recognized these signs by their shape and to obey them on sight are primary obligations of any motor vehicle,” said the Officers. “To ignore them may lead to their being signs marking another highway death case.” Visit Camp Ripley Jeu Frazee, Larry Simon, Arthur Gauney and Ira Fisher visited the National Guard boys at Camp Ripley, Minnesota on Friday. The men flew from Eau Claire.

“How’s Fishing?” Waters continue high but good fishing has returned to many waters. Muskies are again active in a number of areas and walleyes and bass show renewed interest in the ouerings of fisherman.

77 years ago May 25, 1945 Home from Germany Sgt. Raymond S. Seidling, infantryman, who had been a prisoner of war in a prison camp for 104 days, returned to his home in Boyd, Saturday morning. He will visit his sister, Mrs. Earl Knapp, while on a 60-day furlough.

78 years ago September 9, 1944 Funeral: Flight Ovcer Curtis Lund killed in plane accident at Ephrata Air Base in Washington.

Farewell Part Held for Mr. and Mrs. Gust Lange; Residents 31 years The members of the Presbyterian congregation gave a farewell party in the church parlors Wednesday evening in honor for Mr. and Mrs. Gust. B. Lange who are moving to Cornell the first of next week…Mr. and Mrs. Lange have taken part in all civic, church and fraternal activities and Stanley’s loss will be Cornell’s gain… Their children, two daughters and two sons, who have grown up here will also be missed, even though some of them have stablished homes elsewhere.

Mr. Lange has purchased the Carl Gilder’s Hardware Store in Cornell and they purchased Mrs. Porter’s House, where they will make their home.

Butter Supply Down Americans will not have as much butter as they want this year, primarily for two reasons: The supply is down and the demand is great, the War Food Administration says. Average per capita supply before the war was 16.7 pounds and this year it is about 11.9 pounds.

War Letters: Second Lieutenant Henry C. Zais; Sergeant Robert Baldwin; PFC. Willard C. Mortenson 80 years ago August 7, 1942 Three teenage boys aged 16, 17, and 19 were paroled to the State Board of Public Welfare after pleading guilty to stealing tires at Stanley and elsewhere.

STANLEY FUTURE FARMERSAND 4-H CLUB SCORE AT THE FAIR Jim Peterson placed first, La Moine Anderson Second, 4-H Club Has Credible Booth Members fo the Stanley Chapter of Future Farmers of America were very successful in showing their baby beeves at the Northern Wisconsin District Fair this week. In the senior heifer class of baby beef, Jim Peterson placed first and La MoineAnderson was second. Inthe senior beef steer class, Duayne Troyer placed first, Lawrence Troyer second, Robert Peterson third and La Moine Anderson fourth. In the class for the best fitted feed calf Duayne Troyer placed first, Lawrence Troyer second, and Jim Peterson third. In the Showmanship class for baby beef, Duayne Troyer again won first , Jim Peterson second and Lawrence Troyer third.

4-H Club members of the Stanley Country are also represented at the Fair. The Wolf River Valley Club led by Mrs. Harry Witt has a very creditable booth and the Witt boys have exhibited lambs which at this date have not been judged. Emery Nelson exhibited his Holstein bull calf and placed 9th in a class of 13 very strong contestants. David Nelson showed a junior Holstein heifer calf and placed first. The Nelson boys are cousins from Colburn.

Forced Savings May Become Necessary Plentiful Cash and Scarcity of Goods May Cause Inflation. War Plans Dragging.

…The Government, in both its legislative and executive branches, has so far shown remarkable ability in avoiding grips with the forced savings issue…There is still another argument which the forced savings advocates use persuasively. When the war ends, war productions will naturally end— and there is going to be a difficult period while we made the adjustment from a war economy to a peace economy. If the people have money saved, the argument runs, adjustment will be eased. To quote Business Week again, it would “act as a kind of automatic unemployment insurance”…so don’t be surprised if the government tells you one of these days that you’re going to have to save a definite percentage of your earnings.

EMPLOYMENT OFFICE HERE The United States Rubber Company, which has charge of the engineering department of the new ordnance plant soon to be opened between Eau Clair and Chippewa Falls, will open a temporary employment ovce at the City Hall, Saturday, August 15. The ovce will be open until nine p.m. Applications for employment will be received for both men and women. Watch for further announcement next week.

At Washington: Senator Wiley introduced a resolution in the Senate urging all United States Senators and Congressmen to pledge onethird of their $10,000 salaries to the purchase of war bonds.

Henry C. Schultz, age 81 and a former attorney, dies at his home in Cadott on July 29.

126 years ago August 8, 1896 Sawmills shut down.

The sawmills of the Northwestern Lumber Company in Eau Claire and at Porterville* and at Stanley have closed down, owing to the dullness of business. Other mills in the vicinity are expected to do the same in the near future.

*located along the Chippewa River State Trail south of Eau Claire, the trail itself being largely composed of an old rail line.

Elsewhere: The trans-Atlantic steamship companies say the passenger travc has been very satisfactory this season, although there are have been better years.

A Kentucky divorce case ended with shocking suddenness the other day. During the trail the husband was stricken with sunstroke, and the wife threw up the case and went to the hospital to attend him.

A prehistoric city, which apparently had a population of over 200,000, was discovered recently in Mexico by J. R. Reiley, an American archaeologist. This ancient city is situated in a narrow valley between two high ranges of mountains. Nearly all the buildings are of brown stone, and are in a state of almost perfect preservation (where the place this refers to was is unclear).

Elk have all but been exterminated in this country, and the report of a herd of 11 having been seen north of Mary’s peak, near Corvallis, Oregon, recently excited comment in the far northwest.