A LOOK Back FROM THE FILES OF THE STANLEY REPUBLICAN COMPILED BY JOSEPH BACK
30 Years Ago September 12, 1991
Wulterkens Receives Master’s Degree From UWStout Diane Wulterkens, Rt. 2, Stanley was the recipient of a master’s degree in guidance and counseling at graduation ceremonies held August 2nd at UW-Stout.
Diane is the wife of Rick Wulterkens, Stanley and daughter of Mrs. Marjorie Genisio, Schaumburg, IL. Wulterkens, who has three children, Sam, Stuart, and Ben, is employed by the S-B School District as high school guidance counselor.
Railway Historical Society Plans Fall Train Excursion To Stanley Bus Available To New Brighton For People Planning Train Trip The National Railway Historical Society is planning an old-fashioned Fall Color Railroad Excursion to Stanley on Sunday, Sept. 29th.
This is a rare opportunity for area residents to experience a unique travel experience, the sort of trip which our forbears enjoyed on many a Sunday afternoon. It will be exciting for those who are mesmerized by they all too familiar highway landscapes, to view terrain just out of automobile travelers range and open up a whole new terrain along regular travel routes. The views from these railroad tracks were probably as familiar to our ancestors as the highways are to us today, and vice versa.
The train will depart New Brighton, MN at 8 a.m. and travel to Stanley, arriving here at 12:30 a.m. The train will depart Stanley at 2:30 p.m. and arrive back in New Brighton at 6:30 p.m. making a 250mile round trip. This trip was sold out last year so don’t put off making your reservations. Cost of the Sunday excursion is $59.
Telephone Directory Recycling Program Underway In County Area residents are being challenged to take their old telephone directories, to recycling sites between now and Sept. 30th.
Directories may be dropped off at ShopKo Stores in Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls or at the Northern States Power Company’s Recycling Center on Railroad Street, Wednesdays from 7-8a.m 40 Years Ago September 17, 1981 Bomb Threat At Middle School Ends Classes Early Tuesday (photo) Stanley Police Chief Tom Thornton joins the last of high school personnel and sever- al firemen leaving the build ing after a bomb threat was called into the middle School Tuesday. Students at the high school and middle were forced to evacuate the building at about 2:25 p.m. Staff Photo.
(story) Classes at the Stanley- Boyd High School and Middle School were ended about one hour early Tuesday, when a bomb threat was called into the Middle School office.
According to Stanley Police Chief Tom Thornton, a call was received at the Mid- dle School office at 2:15 p.m., stating a bomb had been planted in the school, (continued on page 6; page 6) and would go off in 25 minutes.
Chief Thornton arrived on the scene between 2:20 and 2:25 p.m., and shortly thereafter, High School Principal Henry Kurth made the announcement to evacuate the building. According to Kurth, the high school was evacuated by the students in 64 seconds.
At 3 p.m. a search was made for the bomb by members of the Stanley Volunteer Fire Department, Stanley Police Department, the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Department, and several school officials. No bomb was found, nor did a bomb explode at any time.
Buses arrived at the school at about 2:40, and students were transported home early. The building was reopened at 3:45 p.m. The threat forced the cancellation of football practice and the late activity bus.
Thornton said that penalties for bomb threats included fines and a jail term. Kurth said that several students were expelled from Chippewa Falls schools last year for turning in bomb threats, and that one student went to jail. He also said when the person who made the call is found, that expulsion proceedings against them would probably begin.
Thornton said police are still searching for the caller. Anyone with any information is asked to contact the Stanley Police Department.
Board of Education President Ron Flaaten said that several parents had contacted him in regards to the threat. Questions were asked about a possible state statute prohibiting students returning to school for 24 hours after a bomb threat. Flaatten said Kurth contacted the Department of Public Instruction and the state Fire Marshall’s of- fice, and both groups assured Kurth that there was no such law on the books.
50 Years Ago September 23, 1971 SCOOTING AROUND STANLEY with JOE One thing we can say about the football game Friday night is that we certainly saw a wonderful exhibition on the football field, unfortunately, it was not put on by the football team, but the Stanley-Boyd band. I don’t know if the band can improve, but we certainly hope to see the football team improve as this Friday they take on Gilman in their second of four home games. This will also be parent’s night.
• • Last week one of those unforgiveable errors happened. An engagement announcement was brought into our of- fice that was false. Pranks may be pulled on someone, but when it involves publication in a public newspaper, it then becomes slanderous, and the party doing so may be prosecuted. This prank has caused a great deal of discomfort to the parties involved. Because of the seriousness of this, I ask the party who made this prank, to personally apologize to the parties involved. Please, it is an order.
60 Years Ago September 21, 1961 Boyd Lions Back Scout Fund Drive BOYD LIONS are laying plans for the annual Boy Scout Fund Drive which is slated for October 17.
The Lions efforts last year produced excellent results and it is hoped that this year’s drive will prove equally as productive.
Dr. Douglas Sallis is the general chairman of this year’s drive with attorney Philip Meadows acting as advance chairman in charge of contacting all business establishments prior to October 17th.
Seven “Team captains” volunteered their services for the drive at the regular meeting of the Boyd Lions which was held at the Harmony House last Tuesday evening. These “captains: are Art Riplinger, Sam Mitchell, George Burke, Charles Hofkes, Boney Mc-Quillan, Norb Licht, and Bob Goetz.
Each “team” will be com- posed of four or five Lions and will solicit in areas assigned to them, contacting about 25 people per team.
A kick-off breakfast is planned for team members and captains at 6:00 a.m. October 17th at Karlen’s Café. Breakfast will be served “free” to the whole Lion crew but the Tail Twister will be on hand to levy any necessary fines to help defray the cost of the food.
Guard Called Up; To Report Oct. 15 MEMBERS OF Wisconsin’s 32nd “Red Arrow” division will be assembling on or about October 15 to move into federal service at Fort Lewis, Washington.
The call – up follows by only two weeks a preliminary alert issued September 6, which ordered the 32nd Division to step up their training program and recruit new men.
A second National Guard Division, the 49th Armed of Texas, has also been called into federal service. Two other guard division were alerted Sept. 6 but have not yet been called.
ACCORDING TO latest dispatches, the 32nd is to be stationed at Fort Lewis while the 49th Armed will go to Fort Polk, Louisiana.
It is expected that the callup and subsequent movement to Fort Lewis have not yet been received here in Stanley though they are expected within a day or two.
Local Reaction: Calm to ‘Shook-Up’ The phone kept ringin in the orderly room—headquarters of Stanley’s Battery A – after the announcement of the National Guard mobilization Tuesday.
S/Sgt. Harold Isenberger kept answering: “No, we don’t have anything in the way of definite orders yet." But par ents, wives, and Guard members kept calling.
The radio was tuned to the Milwaukee Braves-San Francisco Giants baseball game. Somebody hit a home run.
“I seem to have lost track of the game all of a sudden,” Isenberger noted.
School had just been dismissed. Pretty soon a group of kids bounced into the orderly room. One of them was Isenberger’s son. He parked his books on the desk and turned to his dad. “You going overseas?” he wanted to know.
Sgt. Isenberger explained that as far as he knew, nothing that drastic was in the works at the present time.
“It’s a grand-slam homer.”
The radio announcer got excited telling about Willie Mays’ four-bagger off the slants of Warren Spahn, which sent the Giants in front by 7 – 2. Nobody in the orderly room got excited.
Two Guardsmen knocked on the door. They had just gotten through their day’s work at the Stanley Company.
“What’s the scoop?” they asked.
“There’s the windup by Spahn…” the radio said.
Again, Isenberger explained that all he knew was what had come over radio and television newscasts. Official orders wouldn’t be in for a couple of days yet.
The two guardsmen-one of them just recently married-had a couple of other questions. “Where do your dependents stay?” one of them asked.
“Right at home is the recommended place,” Isenberger told them.
“I wish I knew when we’re leaving,” said the other. “I’d quit my job tomorrow.” There was a young man who apparently had visions of a short vacation before changing his civilian clothes for a GI uniform.
Another group of youngsters popped in. “They announced it at school,” they said. “Mrs. —— told it to the eighth grade, and Mrs. —— didn’t say anything, but everybody knew it anyway.”
The Braves started a rally. But in Stanley, at least, nobody cared right then.
Men of Battery A – and their relative s and friends – were understandably much more concerned with their personal futures. The call-up means separation from families and jobs. It probably means considerable hardship for many of the men. It means some big holes in the pattern of community life.
But, apparently, it’s the price that has to be paid in order to meet threats to world peace.
FIRST AID COURSE SLATED TO START SEPT. 28 The initial meeting of the First Aid Class will be held Thursday, September 28, at eight o’clock p.m. at the Junior high school (old high school) in the cafeteria.
Movies on the new method of artificial respiration will be shown by Dr. A.W. Overgard. The First Aid books will be available.
THE COURSE in First Aid will run for six weeks and will last for two hours each meet- ing. A certificate will be issued to each one who attends at the finish of the course.
70 Years Ago September 20, 1951
Wednesday Hour Set Aside For Church School Instruction Provisions for religious day school instruction in local churches were approved by the Stanley Board of Education at its meeting at the high school on September 10.
Requests from parents, priests, and pastors of the city were considered and the hour between two and three o’clock Wednesday afternoons was reserved for church religious instruction at the church of the student’s choice.
The weekly instruction period opportunity will be used, it is understood, by most local churches. Students without religious affiliation, will not, of course, be affected by the board’s provision. Attendance at the religious schools will be a personal obligation.
Joseph Duss, 67, Dies At His Home Joseph Duss, 67, died suddenly Monday morning from a heart attack. Funeral services were Thursday morning at 9:30 at St. Joseph’s Catholic church in Boyd, with Msgr. Hilary Leuther officiating. Mr. Duss was born in Kaukauna, October 26, 1884. During the last 47 years he has lived in the town of Delmar, the past 21 years he has lived at the Peter Mahal, Jr. home. Surviving are one sister and five brother; Mrs. Clif ford (Caroline) Tyler, Delmar; John, George, Leonard, and Peter H. Duss of Delmar and Steve of Sheldon. Several nieces and nephews also survive.
Rosary was recited Wednesday evening at the Supple Funeral home, Boyd.
Funeral Rites for Ida Vandenberg Held Here Friday Funeral services for Ida Vandenberg were held Friday morning at St. Mary’s church. Father Ralph Geissler offered the requiem mass. Miss Vandenberg died Monday, a few minutes before midnight, at Wisconsin General Hospital, where she had been a patient for several weeks and many times in years past.
Although Miss Vandenberg had suffered illness for many years, she was well known in Stanley community for her personality and active life, despite the handicaps of her illness. Her sense of humor and her ability and thoroughness in all her undertakings, made her a singular character in her long battle for health.
Born in Outagamie county, October 17, 1904, the daughter of Mathilda and the late A. J. Vandenberg, she grew up on a farm, coming to Stanley in 1919 with her parents.
A deeply religious person, and one who enjoyed religious reading, she devoted much time to finding out about church history and the Spanish influence and background in New Mexico (living there for three years).
120 Years Ago September 14, 1901 PRESIDENT IS SHOT Anarchist Fires Twice at Mr. McKinley, one bullet taking effect.
AT PAN-AMERICAN FAIR Would-be assassin Approaches While President is Shaking Hands with the Crowd.
WEAPON IN A HANDKERCHIEF Miscreant threatened with immediate lynching but is Protected by Officers. GIVES NAME OF LEON CZOLGOSZ Buffalo, N.Y., Sept. 7.—In the presence of thousands of people President McKinley ws shot down by an assassin a few minutes after 4 o’clock yesterday in the Temple of Music at the Pan-American exposition grounds.
THINK ALL DANGER IS PAST President’s Recovery will be Slow but Sure WOUNDS ARE HEALING.
Test Does Not Show Slightest Trace of Blood Poisoning— Czolgosz’s Case.
Milburn House, Buffalo, N.Y., Sept. 12, 6:20 a.m.— The President has had a comfortable night. Pulse, 122; temperature, 100.2 P.M. RIXLEY, M.D.; GEORGE B. CORTELYOU, Secretary to the President.
Buffalo, N.Y., Sept. 12.— President McKinley’s family, friends and attendants no longer have the least doubt of the recovery of the executive, though the physicians have not as yet made official declaration of it because they are constrained by conservative professional regard for that one chance in a hundred of a relapse which might arise from some unknown or unforeseen and utterly remote course… FIGHT FOREST FIRES.
Glen Flora, Ingram, and Terry are Threatened.
Glen Falls, Wis., Sept. 7.— Glen Flora Ingram and Terry are all threatened with forest fires. The people have turned out and are all busy fighting flames that are feeding upon windfalls and underbrush, and the only means they have is with pails and wet cloths and things are looking very doubtful.
