Compiled by Joseph Back

10 Years Ago May 19, 2011

Andy Anderson was here – or not!

From the Editor’s Desk, by John McLoone I was stabbed right in the back Friday night. Not literally, but with words that wounded me worse than a physical knifing ever could.

I was told by a reader

that I need to find some

new material to spice up my column. For the sake of this column, we’ll call this acquaintance Andy Anderson. Now, Mr. Anderson assures me that he is a faithful reader of mine, so I take this criticism hard. And he just kept it coming, despite the tears that were rolling down my cheeks.

“You need some new experiences,” he said. “It’s getting stale.”

I’ll admit I’m not the most exciting guy. I don’t work in a dangerous environment

where all kinds of exciting stuff happens to you on a daily basis, like say you would if work at a prison.

And I don't exactly live my

life on the edge. This person who we are referring to as Mr. Anderson (would like to see exciting exploits mirroring his own life)…I let his words, as much as they hurt, sink in, and I took it all with a grain of salt. I intend to take his critique to heart and I vow to work harder to live the life of the modern adventurer.

What’s my tee time?

20 Years Ago May 17, 2001

Adult BB League Awards Scholarships to S-B Students (pictures Bobbi Jo Knar and Jessica Cance) Four Girls Competing For Miss Stanley; Queen Contest Ticket Sales Underway (photos) As Stanley Steamer Days approaches, four girls are hoping that they will be the next Miss Stanley, and to that end, are selling Stanley Steamer Days tickets. The girl selling the most tickets will be the new Miss Stanley. This year’s contestants are Heather Halterman, Lindsey Hendrickson, Colette Hoyle and Alison Knar.

Heather Halterman is a sophomore at Stanley-Boyd High School and is the daughter of Buzz and Diane Halterman of Stanley.

Heather’s hobbies and interests include volleyball,

basketball, softball, snowmobiling, car shows, being with friends, painting and singing in choir.

Her future plans include going to school for police science and one day becoming an FBI agent or being a big city EMT.

“I would like to be Miss Stanley because this is something I have wanted all

my life and I could honor the town of Stanley well,” Heather

said. "I have good manners

and poise and I speak well with any age or type of people. I am also responsible so I can handle almost anything.

Lindsey Hendrickson is a sophomore at Stanley-Boyd High School and is the daughter of Kevin and Jody

Hendrickson of Stanley.

Lindsey’s hobbies and

interests include golfing,

swimming, hanging out with friends, singing and spending time my family.

Her future plans include attending college after graduating from high school.

“I would like to be crowned Miss Stanley because I think it would be fun to meet new people who are outgoing that are representing their towns,” Lindsey said.

Colette Hoyle is a junior at Stanley-Boyd High School and is the daughter of David and

Theresa Hoyle of Stanley.

Colette’s hobbies and interests include dancing, cheerleading, art and singing.

Her future plans include attending technical college for cosmetology.

“I think it would be a great experience to represent my town,” Colette said.

Alison Knar is a sophomore at Stanley-Boyd High School and is the daughter of Bill and Lora Knar of Stanley.

Alison’s hobbies and interests include golfing,

playing softball, scrapbooking and being around friends.

Her future plans include attending college after graduation, but at this time unsure of her major.

“I think I would represent the town very well," Alison said. "I am very involved in many extra-curricular

activities in and out of school, have a gpa over 4.0, and I

am a big people person. This would be a great opportunity to meet new people and be more involved in the community.

30 Years Ago May 16, 1991

Birthday ad (childhood photo)

Happy 50th Ronnie. Love,

Mom & Alfred Orioles’ Links Team Sees Lots Of Action As Weather Warms (photo) Kurt Girard and Dave McManus have been leading the Stanley-Boyd golf squad all season long, Here Kurt and Dave are pictured before

hosting a match at Whispering Pines. McManus was medalist

on the day with 45, Girard followed with a 49.

Baseball Team Defeats Cadott 13-3 Tuesday To Sweep Series 40 Years Ago May 17, 1981 Received First Holy

Communion (photo) Sunday, May 3, Holy Family Parish witnessed the First Solemn Communion of thirty-two youngsters. They are pictured: first row (l-r) Ronald Shakal, Jennifer Schneider, Heather Chwala, Stacy Miller, Terry Sonnentag, Tracy Herrick, Charlotte Shock, Kevin Goodman, Kurt Freese, Betty Goodman. Second row – Sheila Seng, Ben Miland, Ann Halterman, Eric Penk, Tanya Endru, Dennis Gruba, Laura Casing, Tom Wohld, Michelle Jankoski, Michael Sakach, Carolyn Sloviak. Third row – Nicole

Twet, Stacy Fazendin, Michelle

Sloviak, Charles Moore, Larry

Bohl, James Kott, Wendy Mahr, John Wundrow, Terry Nichols, Donald Dreke, Krista Karlen. Back row – Rev. L.

Kaiser, pastor, Mrs. Helen La Blanc and Sister Martinella, teachers.

(Note: whereas the western church tends to restrict first communion to

the age of reason around 7, the Eastern-rite Catholic churches and the Chalcedonian Orthodox administer baptism, chrismation/confirmation, and communion in a single ceremony when children are still infants. The difference between eastern and western practice relates both to tradition and Scriptural understanding. Both early and later communion are considered valid in the Catholic Church

according to the rite being used).

50 Years Ago May 27, 1971

Business English Classes

on Self-Improvement Kick!

Ty-Dyeing – – A New Thing in Art Senior Home Ec Girls Experiment with Spring Tea Engaged: Trudy Sondgerath to Donald Barth Also: REPUBLICAN

MOVES… (photo with owner Joe

Fazendin driving fork lift)

60 Years Ago May 18, 1961

UW Professor To Be Graduation Speaker Here

(picture) PROF. GEORGE W. Sledge of the University

of Wisconsin college of Agriculture will be the main speaker at the annual Stanley high school commencement exercises Thursday evening,

May 25.

Prof. Sledge will speak on the topic “ A New Dawn in Your Day.” When he addresses the 69 graduating seniors.

A graduate of North

Carolina State at Raleigh, Prof. Sledge received his doctor

of education degree from

Michigan State university in 1954. He has been active

throughout his professional life in FFA and agricultural

activities, and early in his career served as a vocational

agricultural instructor in North Carolina for three years (story continues).

70 Years Ago May 24, 1951 A HOPE FOR SUCCESS AND PROFIT IN THE LEGION’S NEW

UNDERTAKING Given a new lease on life, the

Central Planning Committee, at a hastily organized meeting last week, authorized the American Legion to carry on operations at the Chapman Park ball field this summer. It was an eleventh-hour formality to make possible the organization and operation of a senior night-playing baseball team, and made possible the fulfillment of plans set up

by the Legion when it was a question of whether there was a Central Planning Committee at all.

The Legion will have

full charge of the park this season and it is through that

organization that all financing

will be handled, with any

profits, at the end of the year, to be turned over to the

central committee…It is now the entire city’s hope that the Legion will enjoy a successful and profitable season at

Chapman Park conducting the business so as to make the park and athletic contests there as great an asset as they can be to the city and area.

Let Sewage Disposal Contract for $209,000, Hope

For Early Start Ground will be broken “within thirty days: for the city’s sewage disposal plant, it was revealed at a special

meeting of the city council Monday night. The announcement came with only one “if” attached. Plans for immediate commencement of construction will go ahead if the bonding firm, Shaughnessy

& Co., St. Paul, does not seek a renegotiation on bonds.

The firm's bid for the revenue bonds which will finance construction of the sewage disposal plant was good only until May 1. It is barely possible that the company could ask for renegotiation on the bonds, but city officials area hopeful that financing under the present arrangements may be carried out.

A meeting of the council tonight (Thursday) with a representative of the bonding firm will be devoted to matters of financing the plant.

90 Years Ago May 31, 1931 ORANGE AND BLACK

Published in the interest of the Stanley High School One day a student in Latin wanted to know if the E PLURIBUS UNUM*

inscribed on coins means “One More.” Maybe the latter motto would not be entirely out of place in this dollar-chasing republic. Then too, it could voice the triumph with which one receives a dollar, or even a nickel these days.

In Latin we are doing a considerable amount of reading in addition to grammar work.

We have read, among lesser

stories, the story of the exploits of Perseus in bringing back

the golden fleece. Although

Perseus antedates Paul Bunyan

by several milleniums, we believe the same Annanias gave them publicity.

The Latin 2 class is reading Caesar’s Commentaries on his Gallic Wars and receiving detailed information regarding the various parts of ancient Gaul. There is some satisfaction in being able to read grown-up Latin that has not been simplified for high

school reading.

100 Years Ago May 20, 1921

Voice of the People THE BEAUTY SPOTS OF STANLEY It is with a feeling of regret and sorrow that we see the beauty spots of Stanley pass away from us, and they have

passed from us so quickly that

we have not realized it.

The first summer of my

stay in Stanley, some eight years past, we used to take our lunch into the so-called Crane's grove. Was there ever

a prettier spot near Stanley, with its beautiful maple trees, tall and stately? The following summer by steps led me to the same place. Lo! and behold the beautiful trees were gone. Nothing but stumps stared me in the face. I cannot say with what feeling of regret I saw this (progress of civilization?)

Where to go now. Another

beauty spot I discovered. I

called it the Brookside park… (sold for pasture; Boone’s dam out as well). Now where shall we go? The only places left now are the cemeteries and they are rather bleak looking and not at all suitable for an afternoon off. Some have

suggested that the old mill

pond would make a fine little

lake and that trees could be planted along the shore. A good suggestion. But is it only to be a suggestion only?

J.N. Midtlien 110 Years Ago May 20, 1911 CLEAN UP NOTICE All residents and owners of real estate within the limits of the City of Stanley are hereby ordered to clean up all refuse such as garbage, broken bottles, glass and crockery, discarded cans, manure and ash piles, and all other rubbish which is located on property owned or occupied by you or upon the streets and alleyways adjacent to such property. And if this order is not fully complied with before the 20th day of May 1911 such work as is hereby ordered will be done under my direction and charged on the tax roll of the city against such property.

Given under my hand and seal this 1st day of May 1911.

J.N. Cunningham, Health

Officer. SCARLET FEVER

Many Cases In and About Stanley. Quarantine

Regulations Disregarded.

DANGER IN THE

SITUATION The Outlying Towns

Disregardful of the Rights of

the Public in Not Enforcing Law.

The Republican is in

possession of information which indicates that there is an alarming disregard of the law in the matter of quarantining scarlet fever, especially

in the outlying towns. There is well authenticated

information of several cases in the city also which have

not been quarantined or where quarantined, the quarantine has not been enforced.

There have already been several deaths in the country and it ought not to require

further evidence to convince people that scarlet fever is a

dangerous disease. The facts that the disease is in a mild form makes it the more to be dreaded because that it is not easily recognized and diagnosed until it reaches the dangerous infectious stage. It is the history of such disease epidemics, that the disease germ grows more virulent as it is transmitted from individual to individual.

If present conditions

continue, The Republican will

perform the unpleasant task of publishing detailed information regarding conditions where the disease has been allowed to go unquarantined and the unpleasant consequences which have resulted.

CONDENSED NEWS Jackson Bendt, aged three years, fell from a second story window at Kenosha and struck the top of his head on a concrete walk. Doctors says he will live.

120 Years Ago May 18, 1901

Ordinance No. 28 An ordinance repealing

ordinance No. 23 providing for

the assessment and collection of a poll tax.

The Common Council of the City of Stanley do ordain as follows: Section 1. Ordinance No. 23 entitled “An ordinance providing for the assessment

and collection of a poll tax” is hereby repealed.

Section 2. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Notice for Publication.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Land Office at Eau Claire Wisconsin, April

26, 1901 Notice is hereby given that

the following named settler

has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support

of his claim, and that said proof will be made before

the Register and Receiver at Eau Claire, Wis. On June 14, 1901. Viz: Mary Moore, heir of Mussy Stafford, deceased of Thorp, Wis. For the NE ¼ of NW ¼ Sec. 34 T. 28 N., R. 4 W (continued with land witnesses).