CLEANING UP
Twenty-one members of the Red Cedar 4-H club picked up trash in the Cedar Falls area last Monday. As part of their ecology project, the members stuffed garbage bags full of cans, paper, bottles and roadway refuse and filled pickup trucks with the collected waste. Following the morning pick-up projects, the members roasted hot dogs and picnicked in Cedar Falls. April 21, 1976 Dunn County News
ICE GOES OUT IN TIME FOR DEADLINE
An annual event — and one that is taken to mean spring has arrived — is the passing out of ice from Lake Menomin each spring. Everyone in Menomonie keeps an eye on the lake during the ice breakup in the spring, and some years ago Olaf Noer, druggist and Martin Hanson, former postmaster, became the closest observers, when these two used to bet cigars on the date that the ice would be out of the lake. It became an annual wager and Mr. Noer started keeping a record on the days the ice left the lake for each year. R.A. Zimmerman, who succeeded Mr. Noer as operator of the Noer Drug store, Main and Fourth streets, displays a sheet of statistics in a book, showing that almost invariably the ice bas been out of Lake Menomin before April 13. That was true again this year. Sunday the big sheet of ice started to break away helped by a steady wind and melting sun and by the “deadline,” April 13, the ice had gone. Mr. Zimmerman points out in the records where the ice had left the lake one year by April 1. Here are some of the dates showing when the ice was out of the lake: 1932, April 11; 1930, April 5; 1929, April 9; 1928, April 5; 1927, April 1; and 1925, April 6. April 15, 1937 Dunn County News
CALLS HALT ON FAST DRIVING
Considerable comment is being occasioned by fast automobile driving on the new Wilson Avenue pavement. It is hard for those in control of machines to resist the temptation to hit up a good clip in coming down the avenue, and in some instances, it is claimed, the rate of speed has bordered on the danger line. The law limits the rate to fifteen miles an hour and requires drivers to slow down at dangerous crossings. Marshal Cook gives notice that the law will be enforced. April 11, 1912 Dunn County News
SISTER OF STOUT STUDENT RESCUED
On the passenger liner Titanic which went down off the banks of New Foundland early Monday morning were Dr. and Mrs. W.E. Minahan of Fond du Lac and the doctor’s sister, Miss Daisy Minahan of Green Bay. Mrs. Minahan is a sister of Miss Dorothy Thorpe, who is attending Stout Institute. A message received by Miss Thorpe yesterday morning from Fond du Lac stated that advices had been received to the effect that Mrs. Minahan and her sister were saved and are now on board the Carpathia. The Pioneer Press yesterday morning printed the following special from Fond du Lac: “A fortune teller, it is said, told Dr. Minahan, a reported victim of the Titanic disaster, that he would lose his life on his second trip abroad. The doctor before sailing with his wife and sister increased his insurance $35,000. He was returning from his second trip.” April 18, 1912 Dunn County News
SHOOTS BULL TO SAVE HIMSELF
Wilson Creek Valley, April 25 — Emil Eiseth had a very close call when he was attacked by his bull in the pasture as he was going to drive him home. Mr. Eiseth most probably would have been killed had it not been for his son, Arthur, who arrived just in time with a gun. He had to shoot the bull to save him. A doctor was called at once. Mr. Eiseth is still in a very critical condition. April 27, 1922 Dunn County News
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