10 years ago

THE PRESCOTT JOURNAL Nov. 29, 2012 Updating its policy on acceptable student dress 10 years ago, the Prescott School District sought to make certain that clothing worn to school didn’t become a distraction. As such, there were guidelines: “Nothing should be a distraction, safety hazard, or obstruct an administrator’s ability to do his or her job,” the paper noted. With the then current policy from 1996, school board president Mark Helmer questioned not being able to wear a sweatshirt hood in class.

Also on the list for review was the skirt policy, with one board member asking if specific measurements should be added or if “extremely short” would do, with enforcement of policy rules largely left to administrative discretion for interpretation.

40 years ago

PIERCE COUNTY HERALD Nov. 25, 1982 Taking the front page from 1982, the Herald reported that a new bank building was being built in Bay City, and would be a branch of the First National Bank of Maiden Rock. With a 14-by-66-foot building in the works, the bank would replace Hiawatha National, which had moved its new building a few miles west of the village approximately 15 years before.

Down at Maiden Rock, meanwhile, the former elementary school was in view for possible conversion to apartments, if the demand could be found. Some 40 responses or two per unit were needed by the end of the month if the school remodel project was to proceed as proposed.

55 years ago RIVER FALLS JOURNAL Nov. 2, 1967 Visiting River Falls back in 1967, five presidents of universities in South Vietnam were in town as part of a United States Agency for International Development program. Hosted at Wisconsin State University-River Falls were Dr. Anh and Dr. Pahn Hoang Ho, of Can Tho University, along with Father Van Lap of Dalat University, Dr. Tran Quang De of the University of Saigon and the Venerable Tich Minh Chou of Van Hanh University, along with Hoang Csi Binh. Pictured with the visiting professors from South Vietnam were River Falls High School teacher Dale Edlin and Dr. Jim Dollahon, dean of the College of Agriculture at WSU-RF.

85 years ago THE ELLSWORTH RECORD Nov. 18, 1937 Thanksgiving grocery prices change, with a one cent increase in the price of a 28 oz. can of pumpkin, then 15 cents, and a five cent decrease in cranberries, from 23 cents per pound to 18 cents per pound.

A woman in Berlin, Germany reportedly purchases groceries from Lake City, Minn. due to a food shortage in that city. Some 150 items are reportedly purchased. Berlin authorities check garbage receptacles to ensure that nothing is wasted.

The young men and women of St. Francis parish at Ellsworth give a stew supper Sunday evening, to which the public was invited.

Theodore Skog passes away of heart trouble.

100 years ago THE RIVER FALLS JOURNAL. Nov. 16, 1922 Obituaries: Mrs. Mary Dorgan, with funeral at St. Bridget’s and burial in the Catholic cemetery.

Mrs. Eleanore Chinnock, 97, with funeral at the Methodist church and burial in Greenwood cemetery.

Mrs. George G. Ames, on Nov. 13 at St. Paul. Burial to be in Greenwood cemetery.

130 years ago THE WEEKLY PRESS Published at Maiden Rock Nov. 19, 1892 The Perfect Coal.

A Fuel that Burns Everywhere without Chimney or Flue.

Some of the bravest, most inventive minds of the day have long studied over the questions of a cheap clean fuel. Now and then one would think he had succeeded in solving the question, but there has always been some point not considered that would doom it to failure.

But at last a process has been discovered, and the result is a perfect fuel which will burn anywhere, without reference to draught. This fuel is appropriately called carbonite, being almost pure carbon. It sends forth no gases, and is therefore safe and wholesome.