10 years ago

PRESCOTT JOURNAL July 19, 2012 Taken into custody after turning himself in, Aaron Schahausen of Minot, North Dakota was charged with the deaths of his three daughters by first-degree intentional homicide, in Pierce County.

Later convicted, he is serving three consecutive life sentences. 25 years ago PRESCOTT JOURNAL “Where the St. Croix Meets the Mississippi” July 17, 1997 Reading the Journal and coming to a story attempting to solve the "Wedding Brandy Mystery," two Prescott residents happily married for 22 years realized that the brandy was there's.

"We don't drink," the long-ago groom said, with many years passing from the time they received said bottle to learning after reading the paper, that it was gone.

Heading down to the police station, they have the brand and open date of December 5, 2000, resulting in a match, and returned property.

"I'm kind of glad the Journal did the story," the groom said. "Because I'd of never known it was missing. Thank you."

July 10, 1997

Quote of the Week: " I just did it." -part-time waitress and Prescott High School student Annie Riley on saving a man's life when he started choking at the Courtyard Restaurant.

July 3, 1997

Making the front page some 25 years ago, a bottle of brandy had ended up in police custody with the words, "Given to us on our wedding night. To be opened on…" Readers were encouraged to share their knowledge of the matter with police. 40 years ago

PRESCOTT JOURNAL July 1, 1982 Coming in for notice from 40 years ago, former mayors were honored at a luncheon hosted by then-present mayor Dean Hauschildt. Appearing together with the current oceholder on the front page were Gordon Falkofke, Lester "Whitey" Schickling, Roy Finley, making four mayors in one place.

Meanwhile, there was a sheri's race to report on the week of July 1.

Running on opposite sides of the party line were Prescott residents Stan Christiansen (Republican ticket) and Bruce Faulhaber (Democratic ticket). But while two men had taken out papers for the oce of sheri, nothing was ocial until papers taken out, had been returned.

"No one has returned papers or filed yet," then county clerk Dave Sorenson reported on the situation for the sheri's race as of early July.

The deadline to file was July 13 at 5 p.m.

June 24, 1982

Coming in for car prices from 40 years ago, a 1981 Plymouth Horizon four door was ocially listed with a value of $6,359, but currently on sale for $5,810 at Bahls Motor & Implement Inc. in Hastings. Other Plymouth Horizons at Bahls Motor & Implements were listed at $5,785 (a savings of $535 compared to list price), $5,999 (compared with a list price of $6,618, and $5,546, the last representing a savings of $401 over the listed price.

Down at the riverside in Prescott, meanwhile, someone had been switching open the tracks at night, thereby risking a wreck. Police were required to keep watch and investigate, lest the unsafe action result in tragedy.

In the meantime, kids were being reminded not to jump from the bridge to the river, the first reports being received June 16. 55 years ago PIERCE COUNTY JOURNAL July 13, 1967 Born March 3 , 1911 in Brasington near Maiden Rock, 57-year-old Ray Wheeler of the County highway department was crushed to death when a road roller he was operating tipped over, on a new stretch of blacktop northwest of Ellsworth in Trimbelle Township.

Clearing himself of the machine when it began to tip on the shoulder (made wet due to a recent rain), Wheeler was crushed when the machine rolled a second time, Find A Grave Memorial ID 43798142.

July 6, 1967

Coming in for notice some 55 years ago was a new cattle barn at the county fairgrounds.

Measuring 120 by 53 feet, the barn was of pole type, and covered with aqua colored steel sheeting on the sides.

The roof, meanwhile, was white, with the barn able to house 150 cattle.

At the same time, Vern Linder of the Ellsworth Coop Creamery was reported to have won the June Butter Contest, with Bernard Holste of Tri-County Dairy taking second and H. G. Sherbrooke taking third.

Finally for the update from 1967, WSURF History Professor Herbert Cedarberg was due to discuss civil rights and racial prejudice at the July 6 meeting of the Pierce County Democratic party.

The program was to be in the Ellsworth courthouse at 6:15 p.m. 70 years ago RIVER FALLS JOURNAL July 10, 1952 A death notice is included for Mrs. Minnie Rodewald, age 75, with a prayer service at the Skari funeral home in Baldwin.

Burial to be in Emmanuel Lutheran Church cemetery, "one mile north of Woodville.

According to information catalogued at www.findagrave.com, Minnie Lena Samuel Rodewald was born July 30, 1877 in Germany, and died July 8, 1952 in River Falls. Married to William Valentine Rodewald, her children included Alma Mae Rodewald Sly, Myrtile M. Rodewald, Carl Rodewald, Harry J. Rodewald, and Edna Rodewald Reinhardt.

Mrs. Minnie Rodewald and her husband are both buried at Lone Pine Cemetery near Woodville, with Find A Grave Memorial ID 170712934.

Also among those in the list of obituaries for July 10 is pioneer resident' Mrs. Lute Green, 98 years old and surviving her husband by several years.

Born April 5, 1854 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Mrs. Green died July 5, 1952 at the home of her son-in-law and daughter.

July 3, 1952

Prescott Wisconsin grocery pioneer Louis H. Brendemuehl dies at 85, having started as a grocery clerk at 14 in Cottage Grove. Interment is in Pine Glen Cemetery, Prescott. 140 years ago PIERCE COUNTY PLAINDEALER July 21, 1882 Condensed News Rail and River News. The St. Paul and White Bear Lake trains on the Duluth road are crowded with pleasure seekers. Death of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln Mrs. Lincoln, widow of the late president Lincoln, died in Springfield, Ill, at 8:15 o'clock Sunday night. She has been very ill for a long time.

Mrs. Lincoln was the daughter of Hon. E. S. Todd, of Lexington, Kentucky, and was born December 31, 1818, in the neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. She was a woman of extreme good nature and a loving wife and mother.