ADDING TO HER FAME
Menomonie’s parks bask in a flush season. Their soft green mats feel the tingling tread of thousands, bent on a day in the open to lift their vim and vigor. Sunday swarms of seekers of outdoor joy devour the delightful scenic diet that nature lavishly loads on to our platters of parks. From far and near they come for these thrills. And they carry away gladdened hearts and happy recollections. They will want to come again —- they’ve had such a good time. And they will pass that word on others who too may drink deeply with their own eyes the charm that nature has conveyed to these park pictures. All Menomonie’s parks had their fill Sunday. Wakanda won thousands on that day, as it always does on a summer Sabbath when throngs of picnickers wend that way. Tables at Tourist Park tempted many to spread their basket contents. Young and old reveled at Riverside. Many patronized Point Comfort. The charm of Menomonie’s parks is adding to her fame. July 1, 1937 Dunn County News
BOLTS SNAPPED IN TWAIN
While the planing machine in Olson’s mill was running, last Saturday, a bolt that holds one of the huge knives in its proper place became loosened, and before the machine could be stopped the chunks of cold steel began to fly around in a manner not at all pleasant to the men at work in that room. An inspection of the planer after the accident revealed the worst demoralized piece of machinery imaginable. Bolts nearly an inch in diameter were snapped in twain like pipe-stems, and the powerful steel knives were broken or bent to their utter ruin. The edge of one of the knives penetrated the cast iron bed nearly half an inch, and another slashed away a large slice of the heavy oaken frame in its wild flight. Men were working around the machine at the time of the accident, and it is an instance of rare good fortune that no one was injured. July 3, 1875 Dunn County News
UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENON
A beautiful sight was presented to stargazers at about 10 o’clock last Saturday evening. In addition to the comet and the usual array of heavenly bodies, there streamed up from the Northwestern horizon, quite to the zenith, a bright ray of light, appearing like a ribbon or scroll slightly twisted. From the zenith to the southwestern horizon the outlines of the ray’s were less distinct, yet nevertheless easily traceable. Our astronomical reporter being out on a ply, we are unable to explain the phenomenon. July 9, 1881 Dunn County News
LIEDERKRANZ MAKES MERRY
The beautiful weather of Sunday afternoon was enjoyed to the limit by the members of the Liederkranz and their families in a boat ride and picnic on Lake Menomone. Carl Pieper’s steamboat and barge conveyed about three hundred to the Point during the forenoon and a basket picnic was enjoyed by all. After dinner there was singing and band music to while away the hours most pleasantly. Everybody enjoyed the work of the Liederkranz band, a newly organized institution composed of members of other musical organizations, and all members of the Liederkranz. July 23, 1908 Dunn County News
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