The Prescott Cardinals defeat the Elk Mound Mounders 34-15 to advance to Level 3 of the WIAA playous.

Anna Mercord of Malone Elementary makes the state speaking contest, being the first place winner in the elementary division (fifth and sixth grades) of the county context.

Reported in a story by Louis Garcia was the news that the library had a goal of returning to 53 hours.

“Each year with inflation, and kind of flat funding over the several years that I’ve been here, we just haven’t been able to keep up with the cost increases, and something had to give," library director Jane Enright was quoted as saying at the time.

Jim Sheily catches a 44-pound, 24-inch northern pike after a 20 to 25-minute fight using a six-and-a-half-foot spinning rod and open face spinning reel. Ordinarily a catch and release guy, the fact that the fish “really swallowed the lure and was bleeding " meant that it was going to die, with fish of such size usually found much further north. Sheily called Scott Miller Taxidermy of Prescott to have the fish mounted, the biggest he’d reeled in over 42 years.

25 years ago

PRESCOTT JOURNAL Oct. 23, 1997 The Prescott Journal hires three new stau members, these being Ryan Brandle, Pauline Barnes, and Jama Rawn. Brandle comes to the Journal with a degree in graphic design, having grown up in Hastings and Ellsworth. Barnes and her husband have two children and recently purchased a home in Prescott. Rawn is the daughter of owner/publisher Gary Rawn, having grown up in the business and served in a variety of roles.

Snow parking coming soon Parking on city streets between the hours of 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. is not allowed during the winter months to allow city crews to plow snow. Be prepared as this restriction begins Nov. 1. Violators may be ticketed and towed.

40 years ago PIERCE COUNTY HERALD Oct. 28, 1982 The Bill Bergeron band and Ellsworth’s “Great Pretenders" are to be featured Nov. 5 at Proch’s Ballroom.

The Pierce County Herald invests in a new computer called a Compugraphic MCS system, designed for high speed typesetting. Publisher Jay Griggs calls it “a substantial investment" in the newspaper. Reports are that the computer will be used for “keeping subscriber lists, preparing mailing labels, doing bookkeeping, mailing out bills and other functions in the newspaper ovce." Further details were to be published in an ad the follo wing week. JIMTOWN CORNER Locals.

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Svec tour with the senior citizens of River Falls.

Election politics from 40 years ago Stan Christiansen (Republican) contested the Sheriu’s Ovce with Bruce Faulhaber (Democrat ).

Warren Brandt (Democrat) of Prescott contested the district attorney’s ovce with Brian Alton of River Falls (Republican).

Milt Sorensen (Republican) faced David Scott (Democrat) for the ovce of county treasurer.

Gary Eloranta (Democrat) faced ou with Dr. E. R. Jonas (Republican) for Coroner.

55 years ago RIVER FALLS JOURNAL Oct. 26, 1967 A four mil tax increase is deemed “probable " for River Falls as the city budgets are set up. “Mill" relates to thousandth and is a function of decimal notation. Multiply the rate by 1,000 and you get the amount per $1,000 in property value. A home assessed at $14,000 could expect to see a tax increase of $56 under a projected four mil increase from 1967.

70 years ago PRESCOTT JOURNAL

Joyce A. Rademacher, of Hastings, marries Dale R. Meier of Prescott on Oct. 23 at St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran in Hastings. Edward Diezel, age 67, passes away after a long illness and will be buried in Chicago. Mr. Diezel lived with his wife and daughter “in the other house on the Stan Christianson place." 127 years ago THE WEEKLY PRESS Published at Maiden Rock Nov. 7, 1895 Died-Oct. 31, 1895, at her home in Bay City, Wis., Mrs. Musa (Harding) Doughty, of Brights Disease, aged 22 years, six months, and seven days. Mrs. Doughty was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Harding. She leaves a husband and two children, her father, mother, four brothers and four sisters, and a host of friends to mourn her loss.

Local and Otherwise. The Ellsworth telephone company is extending its line to this city. This will put us in hello communication with Ellsworth, Martell, El Paso, Rock Elm and Maiden Rock. 160 years ago PRESCOTT JOURNAL Lute A. Taylor, editor and publisher Oct. 22, 1862 Flotsam and Jetsam. No Six-by Bob Eden. Dear Lute:-On Monday last I thought I would pay a visit to the city situated on two lakes, the fair Capital of the State ofWisconsin. Accordingly at 9:45 a.m. I embarked on the cars, clad in clean linen and integrity of purpose, and was soon sliding smoothly along through the fine timber that covers the Western shore of Lake Winnebago. The day was fine-clear and sunny-and just cool enough to make traveling-we had almost said agreeable-but at least tolerable; the woods were rich in their fading autumnal beauties, the last euort of the year at (happy) tints, and surely its most successful one; air clear and pure, the blue sky overhead unspecked by cloud of mist, and the blue waters of the Lake rolling up in many a shady bay, almost to the track beneath us. Why should autumn be called the melancholy time of year? Seed-time, and harvest have succeeded one another, and the year puts on its autumn glories; and even as his deeds gild and glory the memory of a good man, and add a lustre to the declining years of his life, so nature, having accomplished her work of benefiting man with a bounteous harvest, arrays herself gorgeously in ripe fruit and fading leaf…But come, we shall never get to Madison at this rate. “Fire up there, Mr. Engineer. Let her smoke." Whiz, rattle, jolt, jerk, snatch, jump, roll, sprawl, skim, blunder, round curves, through cuttings, up grades, down grades, no grades at all. Quick change, and her were are looking across Lake Monona at Madison; a long piece of embanking over part of the Lake, two bridges, do, do, and we are in Madison…(to be continued) Oct. 15, 1862

Items.

-Sam Fifield is making the Polk Co. Press a live paper. It is growing to be a power in that county.

A CARD. Mrs. L. A. Mudgett, M. D. Respectfully informs the Ladies of Prescott, that she will attend to those who may wish the professional aid of one of their own sex. Mrs. M. having received a regular medical education, and been in active practice for the past eighteen years, believes she is able to administer remedies on scientific principles, and in the most complicated forms of disease. Mrs. Mudgett will explain to Ladies the diseases to which each part of the womanly organi zation is liable, by means of a fine Modele de Femme, designed expressly for such purposes. Ladies will be visited at their residences , at all hours of the day and night, if desired.

Residence on Broad Street, pink house, opposite the Maxson Mill Prescott, July 23, 1862

(doctor said to have good and large follo wing)