THE TIME MACHINE
From past files of The Star News
10 YEARS AGO
January 13, 2011
Firefighters with the Stetsonville Fire Department were called out at 8:05 a.m. Saturday, January 8 to a shop fire at W5319 Elm Avenue. The fire was located at the Jascor Kitchen Cabinet Shop owned by Greg Jascor. Firefighters found an interior wall of the shop had started fire caused by a wood stove. Firefighters were able to bring the fire under control in a short time.
The entire interior of the shop was damaged, along with all the power tools, tools, benches and lumber located in the shop.
Firefighters were on the scene for about 1.5 hours. The Taylor County Ambulance Service and Sheriff’s Department also responded to the fire.
25 YEARS AGO
January 17, 1996
Medford’s Public Works Committee met January 8 to talk graders with Acting Director of Public Works John Neubauer.
A five-year contract with Peterson Heavy Equipment to lease a new grader and to purchase a $6,000 wing (with a $500 installation fee) for it was considered by the Committee and recommended to the Common Council for approval.
The rental cost of the 140 G Cat Grader the Committee is looking at would be $40 per hour for the first two years, plus a $1,000 setup and delivery fee. For the last three years of the contract, the rent would be $44 per hour plus a $1,100 setup and delivery fee.
Neubauer estimated that the City will need about 120 hours of service from the rented grader, costing the City an estimated $4,800 for each of the first two years of the contract.
The current grader the City is using is 28 years old and has poor hydraulics, according to Neubauer.
50 YEARS AGO
January 14, 1971
Basing its ruling on the concept of freedom of religious choice, the Wisconsin Supreme Court at Madison overturned a lower court ruling that Amish parents must send their children to a public high school.
“Although education is subject within the constitutional power of the state to regulate, there is not such a compelling state interest in two years’ high school compulsory education as will justify the burden it places upon the appellants’ free exercise of their religion,” Chief Just E. Harold Hallows wrote for the 6-1 majority.
75 YEARS AGO
January 10,1946
An organization meeting to form a Medford Post of Veterans of Foreign Wars was held Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock in the agriculture room of the Taylor county courthouse in Medford.
Sixty ex-servicemen of World Wars I and II were present at the meeting and forty nine of these have signed as charter members of the Medford post. It is expected that more members will join within the next 90 days, the time which has been allotted for charter membership.
100 YEARS AGO
January 12, 1921
The buildings formerly occupied by the Olson garage and the Potash factory are being remodelled and made into an up to date ice cream factory. Mr. Win Suits of this city is undertaking the business and we understand that a $4000.00 equipment of the most modern ice cream making machinery has been ordered and will be installed in about four to six weeks. The market for this product should be good in this vicinity and the business promises to grow into a good as set for the city, as the reputation already made by Suits’ ice cream should guarantee an early demand.
125 YEARS AGO
January 11, 1896
New York Sun: The spectacle the large Boer republic presents to-day is the result of inexorable conditions that make the sturdy burghers, who turned the great wilderness into a land of Christian homes, deserving the sympathy and helpfulness of other nations. They are the children of their surroundings. Their forbears, carving the civil liberty that was denied them in the more favored region of the Cape Colony of to-day, passed out into a land overrun with savages and dangerous wild breasts, and which nature leaves waterless most of the year.
Remember When — January 2002
