25 years ago

THE PRESCOTT JOURNAL

June 18, 1998

Named Miss Prescott 1998, Alexsis Marshall would represent the city for the coming year. Taking the concept of “Minnesota nice” to talk about “Prescott nice,” Marshall said Prescott was “a nice place to live and work, visit, raise a family, and so on” during onstage questioning prior to the judge’s decision. Helping Marshall represent Prescott would be First Princess Ridelle Kittleson and Second Princess Beth Magnan.

Falling in its first game at state, the softball team closed out the season against Greendale, with Greendale’s pitcher Hautula throwing 15 strikeouts to keep Prescott without runs. The Prescott softball team had amassed a 44-3 record over the past two years prior to closing the season against Greendale.

Quote of the Week:

“If we already had industrial park land, my guess is this would be a no brainer,” City Administrator Richard Schultz on the city’s quest to attract a major business

50 years ago

PIERCE COUNTY HERALD

June 21, 1973

Playing the lead in “Caddie Woodlawn” as put on by the Dunn County Historical Society, Lissome Lesa Heise was the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Heise of Ellsworth and Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Cummings, Beldenville.

Making the front page for a weekend canoe outing, meanwhile, several Ellsworth residents had recently gone seven miles on the Red Cedar River, journeying from Cedar Falls to Menomonie. Recounted with a group picture they were Larry Gutting, Steve Gutting, Paul Lund, Dean Kees, Dennis Kees, Dan Dodge, Don Kees, and Ken Gutting.

Further up the front page, Dennis Kees was pictured with a 5-pound, 23.25-inch long trout he had caught at El Paso June 14, having seen the fish in the Rush River earlier and “determined to catch it.”

Kees was on a two-week leave from Fort Bliss at El Paso, Texas.

Taking a trip to Columbia for school 50 years ago, was Cheryl Kirkeeng of Ellsworth, learning the customs and family life of northern South America while living with a host family. The address for her stay from 1973 was Avenida 4a N, #26N-34 in Cali Colombia, for those who wished to write.

85 years ago

THE RIVER FALLS JOURNAL

June 23, 1938

Recounted in Badger Tales, an American Elm tree on the farm of Edward Howel had been tied in a knot as a seedling and was 11 years old in 1938, reportedly doing well.

Correcting the record for those believing rumors, meanwhile, R. E. Spriggs of the River Falls Citizens Council clarified that the Citizen’s Council had nothing to do with a recent meeting on Taxation and Health Freedom that had been held at the college auditorium.

Obituaries

Lyle Randall, age 45, on Tuesday at St. Paul. Unknown if born in area, but majority of life spent near River Falls, with the Randall Farm a landmark for many years.

He later returned from St. Paul to manage the Randall grocery store in the Stewart establishment. Funeral from Church of the Assumption at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, with interment in Calvery cemetery.

John G. Redford, 69, of Milwaukee. Born Feb. 11, 1869 on a farm in Waukesha County. Attended the predecessor to UW-Whitewater, before spending four decades in the railway mail service.

Interment in Greenwood cemetery, where he expressed a desire to be buried while visiting relatives in River Falls several years prior.

130 years ago

THE WEEKLY PRESS

Maiden Rock

June 17, 1893

ARE WE CIVILIZED?

We are accustomed to hearing and reading much about our high state of civilization; and if a vote were taken to decide the matter we would undoubtedly be voted the most civilized people on the face of the earth. In political elections, the candidates having the majority of the votes are declared elected. This is right because it is only a question of majority’s but a majority vote on questions of fact settles nothing. Ignorance, superstition, bigotry, cruelty, and crime, in a thousand forms exist and a majority vote to the contrary would not affect the fact one particle…The administration of exact justice insures the inherent rights of every individual; and under its benign influences, intelligence becomes diffused among the masses and in proportion to their attainment of useful knowledge do they advance in the scale of civilization…Knowledge, which is the fruit of even justice, is of slow growth…when full and complete education shall become general and men form the habit of regulating their actions based on equity, then will jails and state prisons and reformatory institutions disappear and men may talk of their high and rapidly advancing civilization.

155 years ago

PIERCE COUNTY HERALD

Vol. 1, No. 18

May 21, 1868

Ellsworth and Prescott Stage Line!

1. C. Truitt would respectfully announce to the public that he is running a Stage Line between Prescott and Ellsworth, leaving Ellsworth Tuesdays and Friday’s at 6 o’ clock a.m. arriving in Prescott at 12 M—*

Leave Prescott at 1 p.m. and arrive at Ellsworth at 7 p.m.

Persons having business at Prescott or any intermediate points will find this a cheap and reliable conveyance.

1. C. Truitt

*Probably “meridiem” or “meridian,” and meaning “noon.”