Having found actual copy online that can be traced to The Stanley Journal as Stanley’s first printed historical written (in English, that is), we backloaded this look back edition with material from before the REPUBLICAN came in May 1896, and now within the public domain. Should anyone reading know where actual paper copies of said Journal are or the microfilm, this office would love to hear about it.

10 Years Ago

March 9, 2011 FFA Alumni Travel To John Deere Harvester Works (photo) On March 1, 40 members of the Stanley-Boyd FFA, Alumni, and community members went to Moline, Illinois to the John Deere Harvester Works for a combine factory tour. They also went to the John Deere Pavilion and John Deere store.

School board refuses to extend teacher contracts By Daniel Williams The Stanley-Boyd Board of Education made it very clear last Monday at one of the most attended meetings the board has seen in recent history that they were not going to extend teacher contracts for another year.

Around 50 faculty members and their family members came to the board meeting and collectively voiced their opinion about Governor Walker’s budget repair bill and the implications that it would have on teacher benefits and rights. The teachers, all wearing red in part of a statewide campaign, sat quietly in the back of the room as their union representative Robert Seidl, spoke to the board about the teachers’ wish to extend their contracts for another two years.

The statement was not accepted warmly by the school board, especially due to the fact that the response from the union came during open session. The board had created a prepared statement while in closed session immediately before the open session started…As Stanley- Boyd Superintendent Jim Jones alluded to, the district is about to find itself having to find $630,000 to cut in the next budget.

That crisis has been recognized by the local teacher’s union. “Governor Walker’s bill will throw this district into chaos,” said Seidl. “Education will worsen if this bill passes.”

“Our teachers have seen increased hours and around $3,000 in salary cuts,” said Seidl. “All of these issues have been dealt with through collective bargaining.”

Special Education Program to be reshaped By Daniel Williams The union contracts weren’t the only controversial area of the school board’s agenda last week. The issue of reshaping the Special Education Program was one of the topics that brought a punch from concerned parents wondering if their child was going to be sent to Thorp for school.

The idea has been tossed around during school board meetings for the past couple of months to bus students to Thorp to combine services and save money in that regard. That idea was scrapped and is beginning to look like the new idea is to combine the elementary and high school programs into one large program (See, “Reshaped,” on Page 3) at Badgerlink… No layoffs planned at Stanley- Boyd schools By Daniel Williams With the budget repair bill still in the midst of a stalemate, the concern is whether or not layoffs will affect families in the Stanley-Boyd area because of the bill not being passed. Governor Walker has said for several weeks now that the equivalent of the savings that have been lost because the bill didn’t pass on time is around 1,500 state workers being laid off…(story continues).

40 Years Ago

March 19, 1981 Students of the month at middle school: Robin Nye and Denise Twet Burning Permits Required Due To Lack of Snow With the arrival of spring, burning permits are again required. Due to the lack of snow and drying out of the forest fuels, our spring fire season is here.

50 Years Ago

March 25, 1971 Connie Smoczyk To Practice Teach In Ireland A number of future teachers who will be graduated soon from Wisconsin State University – River Falls began the last phase of their college careers with student teaching during the spring quarter.

Miss Stanley Chris Smoczyk with front page photo.

60 Years Ago

March 16, 1961 O’Stanley cartoon, with shamrock: “Shure now, laddie, an’ aren’t we all?

70 Years Ago March 22, 1951 Snow! Snow! Snow! How in the Heck Do You Shut It Off?

Sonny, don’t let granmdpop put one over on you – this winter is as ornery as any he had to go through…Upward of 12 inches of snow buried spots made bare bye bare by successive thaws… 80 Years Ago March 21, 1941 Country Correspondence BOYD Mrs. John Knar and daughter Dorothy of Stanley, visited at the Nick and John Willkom homes Sunday.

Joseph Shakal, and son Henry, left for Kenosha, to visit the former’s son-in-law, Mr. Pozazyski, who is seriously ill of double pneumonia.

90 Years Ago March 20, 1931 HURON Locals The caucus for the Town of Colburn was held at the Huron School Monday. Bill Zubal, who has been employed at Cornell, returned to his home last week.

100 Years Ago March 18, 1921

WOULD HAVE CHILDREN GET ACQUAINTED WITH HOME Rev. Dunbar Emphasizes the Need of More Home Influence in Life of Child, at High School Monday Suggesting that parents of the community unite on a home period for the children of the community, Rev. R. S. Dunbar, Pastor of the Methodist Church emphasized the need for more home influence in the life of the children of the community. The time required in school, supplemented by the lure of the streets and the movies makes home the place least frequented by the average child outside of his sleeping hours which are generally too short.

110 Years Ago March 18, 1911 OBITUARY Hutchinson A good man dies, but his memory lives.

Burt Hutchinson passed down the western hillside to the beautiful valley of rest, on Jan. 25, 1911 at his home in Duluth, Minn. He leaves a wife, four children, a mother, Mrs. A. Hutchinson and a sister, Mrs. B. F. Ritter of Duluth. Mr. Hutchinson was a Stanley boy, having grown from boyhood to manhood in that city…(Married Cora Bjesecker of Mondovi in 1892, laid to rest in Riverside Cemetery).

120 Years Ago March 16, 1901

Locally: John E. Moore, law enforcement officer, murdered in line of duty.

THORP Locals The murder of Mr. Moore of Stanley caused quite an excitement here. There were some who felt like taking the murderer out and hanging him. Others were sorry that hanging is illegal in this state. There was a rumor floating in the air/that a crowd from Stanley was coming to take vengeance upon him. If they had come there would have been but little opposition to them here. The sympathy of the whole community goes out to the family of Mr. Moore.

BEFORE Mr. Bridgman came: Material in the public domain at Chippewafalls.advantage- preservation.com.

125 Years Ago DAILY INDENDENT Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin Publisher: Thomas Jefferson (T. J.) Cunningham March 17, 1896 CITY NOTES AND NEWS L. G. Moon, of Stanley, was in the city yesterday between trains.

E. X. Adams, of Boyd, was in the city yesterday attending the convention.

Louis I. Roe, general manager of the Northwestern Lumber company’s plant at Stanley is in the city attending the Republican convention.

September 22, 1895

Our Country Cousins STANLEY Locals (from the Journal) J. A. Morris, of Chippewa Falls was in the city Saturday on business. Mr. Morris is thinking of opening up a branch store here in the near future.

Chester Hiler has opened a first-class photograph gallery two doors down south of the Lytal (Lytle) House and is turning out some fine work. It will pay you to give him a call.

Attorney Craig, of Boyd, was in town on legal business Wednesday. Mr. Craig called at the Journal office (owned in part by Mr. Cunningham) and subscribed for the Journal. Mr. Craig knows a good thing when he sees it.

General Manager H. F. Whitwam and A. R. Horn of the Wisconsin Central passed through the city Friday on their special train going to Milwaukee after attending the Minnesota State Fair.

J. R. Perkins one of our enterprising citizens is to build him a fine home. He has purchased the two lots on the southeast corner of Emery and Carpenter (Third Avenue) Street.

One thing that Stanley people want badly are some new sidewalks from the Company’s store to the Wisconsin Central depot (now the Marine parking lot). The sidewalks are in a horrid condition, all loose and some places there are no boards at all. This looks bad for the stranger coming to the city with the thought of going into business. It is an evil that can be easily remedied and without much expense.

The Stanley Manufacturing company (in whose historic storefront this section is being typed) is making a number of decided improvements about their heading factory and other property on the southside. A new fan and cyclone has just been placed to collect the dust. A new tram-way has been built from factory to the new warehouse a distance of 300 feet and the headings will be run on a car from the mill to the warehouse. They have also completed a warehouse 24x80x12. It will contain goods awaiting shipment.

John Harsted of Eau Claire has the contract for building their new store (now 126 years old and currently still occupied). It will be a handsome brick building. The first floor will be 26×50 feet with a 12foot ceiling, And will be used for a store room in which they intend to carry a full line of fancy and staple groceries. The upstairs will be used partly as a store room and the front will be fitted up into offices and rented. They intend heating the building by a furnace which will be placed in the basement and expect to move in about Nov. 15. This will be the first brick building in Stanley (and still standing!).

Parties of men up from Eau Claire the fore part of the week were looking for a site to build a hotel. They were very much pleased with Stanley and thought the prospects for a new hotel were good. They are thinking of building a two-story brick block across from the Stanley Manufacturing Co.’s new store and more than likely before snow flies we will see the new hotel well under way.

THE OLD SETTLERS From the Stanley Journal.

We spent a day pleasantly in Boyd this week. We made the acquaintance of Albert Butscher (buried as of 2021 at Edson Union Cemetery), Dr. McDonald, E. X. Adams, Harrison Chubb, Herman Bear, Maxx Kann, A. Archambeau, Arthur Chubb, Robert Patten and many other of the early settlers of the village.

Mr. Butscher, who is one of the very earliest settlers, and we are told the first merchant in the town of Edson (original owner of 224 South Center Street, Boyd), entertained us very pleasantly. He spoke of the early days of the town, of old neighbors and their struggles to clear the great forests and make for themselves a home. Some of them have been very successful, others crossed the dark river before their hopes were realized. The world seems to have smiled on Mr. Butscher. He has one of the very finest stores in the village and a lovely home. He is very much interested in the development of Edson, and says that the next twenty years will see it the richest agricultural district in northern Wisconsin. He would have liked to see the Journal printed at Boyd, but “however,” said he, “if The Journal will keep our great resources before the people that will satisfy me. Put me in a good ad, and boom Edson.”

Harrison Chubb welcomed us heartily. He is a pleasant gentlemen of the old school. He told us he was past seventy, but he did not look it.

He is a great democrat and an admirer of Cleveland. We are told that twenty years ago Mr. Chubb took an active part in politics. He represented Edson several times on the county board and his neighbors say that he made a model officer. He has a pleasant home in the village and is enjoying the fruits of a well-spent life.

We dropped in on E. X. Adams, the present chairman of the town, and found him very agreeable. He is one of the early merchants, has a fine store and appeared to be doing his share of the business. He said, “Young man, when I came here this was a vast wilderness from here to Lake Superior, and right here where this store stands I have brought down many a fat buck.” Mr. Adams delights in hunting the deer and always arranges for a month’s sport when the season comes.

December 4, 1892

Personal and General The certificate of incorporation of the Stanley Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran congregation was filed in the office of the register of deeds yesterday. The incorporators are Ole H. Thorp (also spelled “Thorpe”), John Loh, Hans H. Berg, John A. Hoedal and Carsten Olsen.

Edward Geissler, who was killed by a falling tree on Tuesday last, lived in the town of Tilden, and was 26 years old. He leaves a wife and two children. An inquest was held on the body by a jury selected in Cadott and a verdict rendered according to the facts.

A LONG TIME AGO, on the banks of a River gone by…

CHIPPEWA UNION AND TIMES February 21, 1867 Lands for the Landless, Homes for the Homeless!

20,000 ACRES Of land lying in Chippewa, Eau Claire, and Dunn counties, which were selected at an early day and comprise the finest farming lands in the Chippewa Valley. Selections have been made with reference to SOIL, PRAIRIE, TIMBER and WATER, which is offered at low figures; and to actual settlers, who will improve the land LONG CREDIT and LOW INTEREST Now is the time to buy high rich prairie for grain farms-meadows where thousands of tons of hay is ready for the scythe, for stock and dairy farms. Call and get a description of the lands.

L. C. Stanley Chippewa Falls, March 1st, 1866.