40 years ago

Pierce County HERALD Dec. 23, 1982 Bank office of First National opens at Bay City Maiden Rock farm burglarized Man awarded $299,000 after falling into open auger. Owner had removed safety shield Bay City marina project dropped, time and complexity being blamed

THE ELLSWORTH RECORD Dec. 23, 1937 Pioneer Lady Passes Away Mrs. Jacob Rinehart Dies Monday Morning at age of 84—Funeral to be Held from Clayfield Catholic Church Today.

Born at Unterertahl, Germany on Mar. 27, 1853, her maiden name was Caroline Herbert. Came across at age 19, taking six weeks and six days in all. Settled at New Castle, now Campbellsport, Wis., married Peter Baker at New Castel in 1875. Moved with husband to Salem in 1879. First husband died in 1881.

Married to Jacob Rinehart on May 1, 1883 “at the log church at Clayfield, long since torn down and replaced by another.” Four children born to marriage, celebrated golden anniversary at Clayfield in 1933, with “practically the entire membership of St. Mary’s” there to congratulate. Interment in church cemetery.

Peter Gilles dies after Operation Peter Gilles of Plum City area dies after operation at Red Wing for a ruptured appendix. Funeral held Monday at Catholic Church in Arkansaw, burial at Plum City. Deceased was 57 years old.

130 years ago THE WEEKLY PRESS Published at Maiden Rock, Wis.

Dec. 24, 1892 What Lincoln Said.

After the second battle of Bull Run, Lincoln is said to have exclaimed: “Well, I’ve heard of being knocked into the middle of next week, but I never heard of being pitched into the previous year and a half.”

160 years ago THE PRESCOTT JOURNAL Dec. 24, 1862 Reveries.

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Christmas and the Holidays are near. Can we wish all our readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year? Ah! There are many homes where this shoe will go, where the wish for merriment would sound like mockery. As in olden times the Angel of Death once passed among a people, and the breath of the first-born was stilled, and a Nation woke to wail; so in our midst , the red hand of war has reached out and taken many of our bravest and best, and Sorrow sits by the hearth that once brightened.