LETTERS To the Editor Veterans’ graves deserve respect Respect for our deceased Veterans: I’m writing to express my comments and how upset I am with the kind of people who steal flags from the graves of Veterans. I make sure flags are on the graves of all my relatives… It’s really sad to think that people can be so disrespectful or cheap that they can’t purchase flags for their own relatives or friends, but steal them from others. This is really a sad situation when people can stoop so low. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

Mary Overman, Altoona

25 Years Ago

July 6, 1995

New hires: Andrew Johnson comes to G. Rollins and Sons, Inc. as a farm consultant; Peter Ginter, PAC, Joins the VMC Staff at Thorp Center New Item Included In This Week’s Edition The Republican staff is always looking for new items of interest for our readers. Sue Reedy, an employee at the Republican, has started a new item to be called “Sue’s Tips”.

The new “Tips” column can be found elsewhere in this week’s edition. Please let the staff at The Republican know if the column is of interest to you.

40 Years Ago

July 10, 1980

New Doctor To Join In Stanley Medical Center Facility; Dr. Kenneth R. Carrell To Join Staff August 1 (photo) Named to Outstanding Young Men of America (photo) A local man, Al Brown, has been selected as one of the outstanding young men of America for 1980….

Stanley Queen To Attend Miss United Teenager Pageant (photo) Miss Lisa Ann Roque…daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Roque of Boyd, Wisconsin, has been selected to be a state finalist in the 1980 Miss United Teenager Pageant to be held at the Winona University at 7:30 p.m. on August 4, 1980. The Pageant is the Official Statewide Finals for the Miss Teenager Pageant…

50 Years Ago

July 9, 1970

The NEW ARRIVALS The following births were recorded at Victory Memorial Hospital during the past two weeks: June 24 – Son to Mr. and Mrs. Roderick Urquhart, Milwaukee June 26 – Son to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lisiecki, Lincoln St., Stanley; June 27 – Son to Mr. and Mrs. Dale Booth, Lincoln St., Stanley; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Lancour, Rt. 1, Boyd.

On July 1 a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Szymanski, Rt. 3, Greenwood.

A daughter was born July 3 to Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Lee, Rt. 2, Stanley.

M r. and Mrs. Alex Cance announce the birth of a grandson Steven James, to their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Duane Cance, on June 28 in Eau Claire.

Grand Opening Winners Announced (photo) Don Plummer is shown here presenting the grand prize given during the grand opening of his new Coast-to-Coast store, a portable TV set to David Jankoski. Dave is accepting the award on behalf of the actual prize winner, his wife, Pat.

60 Years Ago THE BOYD TRANSCRIPT Friday, July 8, 1960

Examinations For Rural Mail Carrier Open An examination for Rural Carrier for the post office at Boyd, Wisconsin, will be open for acceptance of applications until July 26, 1960, the Commission announced today.

Applicants must take a written test for this position. They must have resided within the delivery of the office for one year immediately proceeding the closing date of the examination. In addition, they must have reached their 18th birthday on the closing date for the acceptance of applications… Box Ad: BE A WISE SHOPPER! Buy where you want your Service! KORDAHL JEWELERS, Stanley, Wis.

LUTHERAN BIBLE INSTITUTE SITES NEW CAMPUS The Lutheran Bible Institute of Minneapolis is proceeding with excavation this week for a new campus in Golden Valley, four miles west of downtown Minneapolis…

70 Years Ago July 6, 1950

Walter Brovald speaks! ‘Your Editor Gets Behind The 8-Ball’ Well the first month of my eight-month plan to reduce my weight is past. Official scales pegged me at 270 – the same as when I announced my intentions in this column. At first I suspected that the scales had been rigged against me, but looking back over the month I guess maybe I haven’t done as well as I might have in self-control. Well, there are seven more months, aren’t there?. // A SHORT-SHORT STORY FOR THIS PAPER’S READERS It is 7:30 on a cool, clear Saturday evening. You decide to take the family car out for a short spin, and you leave town on highway 29. With your window open a bit to admit the fresh air, and the hum of the tires against the dry pavement, you begin thinking, for some reason or another, that perhaps you should have gotten more out of life; you’re 44 years old and getting that middle age “paunch” which marks the aging man.

While your thoughts continue, your foot becomes heavier and heavier on the accelerator until you are speeding: there is no conscious fear because the highway ahead lies straight and almost free of traffic. Besides, your car is in good condition – just checked a few days ago by your favorite garage man….

And suddenly you see a car in front of you and desperately shield yourself from the impact you know is coming.

When they extricate you from the wreckage you hear them say that the driver of the other automobile is dead….ALWAYS be careful when you are driving.

80 Years Ago July 5, 1940

MRS. L. G. MOON DIES AT SAND POINT, IDAHO/ A telegram received here by Mrs. George H. Hipke on Monday evening announced the death of her mother, Mrs. L. G. Moon (born Catherine Lockwood) at her home in Sand Point, Idaho, aged 78 years. Mrs. Moon was one of Stanley’s earliest and best beloved pioneer women. She was the only daughter of Rev. and Mrs. James Lockwood of Eau Claire. One brother, W. L. Lockwood, a prominent Eau Claire banker, died several years ago. She was married to L. Gilman Moon, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Moon, and they came to make their home in Stanley, where Mr. Moon was identified with the management of the North Western Lumber Co. They built and occupied the first home in the Moon Park District, then a wilderness, the home now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Jack Amacker.

Six children were born to them, Lawrence, Lockwood, Kathryn and Mary, now of Sand Point, Idaho; Sarah of Kansas City and Margaret, Mrs. Hipke of this place. The family left here about 30 years ago to take up their residence at Sand Point. Mr. Moon died there several years ago.

The deceased was a devoted and capable wife and mother, possessed of many excellent qualities.

HIPKE AND THE GAS TAX Hon. George H. Hipke, Member of the Assembly from Chippewa County, was one of three Assemblymen who wrote and sponsored the introduction of Bill 9-A, in the last session of the legislature, which restricts the use of the state gas tax to the use of local government units in the state for the building and maintaining of roads which was the purpose for which the law was originally passed. But the politicians at the state house found this large fund useful for other purposes and were devoting it to the promotion of other activities…

100 Years Ago July 2, 1920

A DELUGE OF RAIN FLOODS MANY CITY HOMES/ Sewers Prove Inadequate and Cellars Flooded in Highest Parts of the City/ One of the heaviest and most disastrous rain storms which has visited this region in several years flooded the city and surrounding country on Monday afternoon. The rain came down in blinding sheets but unaccompanied by wind, otherwise the damage would have been much greater. For a period of two or three hours it came down in chunks till the streets were flooded with water, the sewers having proved unequal to the demand. As a result, the cellars of the entire town, having sewer connections were flooded. This caused no end of inconvenience… The people of the lower part of the city have become accustomed to this trouble with every unusual rain storm but never before did the water back up to even the residences on Franklin St.

It is only a question of time till the city will be compelled to increase the capacity of its trunk line sewers.

102 Years Ago June 14, 1918

Page eight, bottom right L. G. MOON DIES.

Word was received here on Tuesday of the death of L. G. Moon. Mr. Moon was the eldest son of the late D. R. Moon and one of the pioneer residents of Stanley. He was elected first President of the Village of Stanley. He built the first residence in the Moon Park District, it being the residence now owned by Dr. E. F. Burns. Mr. Moon resided in California for several years and had been in declining health for some time.

Anti-German war propaganda:… The climax of Germany’s underhanded war on the United States came in 1913, more than a year before the outbreak of hostilities in Europe. This was the enactment of what is known as the Delbruck law… In plain words, this law, and the application of it, mean just this: A German goes into court in this country and solemnly foreswears allegiance to the Kaiser and pledges his word—the temptation was to say, “of honor”—…Then he goes around to the German consul and says….(treachery) this creature who swears allegiance to the country which gives him an opportunity to make a real living and to become somebody in this world , and at the same time swears secretly to be true to Germany—is turned loosed to work his will, while Americans go carelessly about their business and refuse to see the danger in the arrangement… (Note well: In order to fight and kill others, it is first necessary that a people believe it is in the right on the matter, so that demonization of opponents and rejection of their humanity was/is a necessary pretext for getting otherwise ordinary citizens to take part in slaughter. Put simply, to be German or of German descent in World War I America was to be suspect—no other evidence was needed in the public mind. This is a fallacy termed essentialism, cousin of dualism).

120 Years Ago July 14, 1900

A TERRIFIC STORM./ A Great Electrical Storm Passed Over Stanley Early Tuesday Morning./ A Most Brilliant Display in the Heavens, Leaving Destruction In Its Wake./ The most terrifying storm recorded in the annals of this locality occurred late Monday night and early Tuesday morning. It consisted largely of electrical display and accompanying explosions in the heavens. Aroused from sound slumber by such unusual disturbances, a large proportion of the population of Stanley was badly frightened. The bombardment in the heavens has seldom been equaled in severity in these parts, the explosions following each other in quick succession and accompanied by one uninterrupted glare of light.

The storm was accompanied by very little rain and wind. Damage was reported by lightning from various places in the vicinity. The most severe being at the North Western Lumber Co’s barns. A bolt struck the chimney on the south end of the old barn, riddled the transformer which was close to the chimney, then followed the wires all through the barn, destroying the insulation and cutting wires at frequent intervals. Two valuable horses were killed in widely separated stalls in the old barn while the current transferred by wire to the new barn knocked down and badly stunned five other horses. Barn Boss, Fred Rick who sleeps in a room directly under the transformer received a severe shock but soon recovered. Some of the pranks performed by the current are worthy of study. Transformers and fuses were burned out all over the city./ Can’t Hold America Down.

“Why sir,” said the geologist, “the ground you walk on was once under water.”

“Well,” replied the friend, who is nothing if not patriotic, “it simply goes to show you can’t hold America down.”— Washington Star.

The Professor’s Conundrum.

“Professor,” they said, “give us a deep metaphysical conundrum.”

“Well,” he said after a moment’s thought. “when is ‘which’ ‘what?”

They gave it up.

“When it is neither,” explained the professor.

And when they had studied it out they understood.— Chicago Tribune (‘which’ is an English relative pronoun, ‘what’ is the question pronoun, and ‘who’ can be for either relative or question use. Let ‘who’s’ omission then, be the key clue).