THE TIME MACHINE

From past files of The Star News 10 YEARS AGO

March 22, 2012

The Rib Lake Village Board heard concerns at its March 14 meeting from a resident about reoccuring flooding problems with her basement. Tammy Downing, who lives on Pine St., told the board that she has had issues with her basement filling with water caused by a backed-up drain due to problems at the sewage treatment plant. Downing said her basement had filled with water on Tuesday night (March 13) and she called public works director Kevin Radtke who went down to the plant, discovered a pipe was plugged up, corrected the problem and the water then drained out of her basement.

25 YEARS AGO

March 19, 1997

The Medford School District recently received word that an appeal to the Department of Public Instruction has been renewed claiming that the use of the Indian logo and Nickname, Red Raider, is a violation of the state Pupil Discrimination statute. The complaint was brought by Nancy Wycliffe, on behalf of herself as a resident of the district and her son who was a student in the school district.

50 YEARS AGO

March 23, 1972

Celebration of the first mass at the newly constructed St. John the Baptist Catholic church, Rib Lake, will take place Saturday night at 8 o’clock. The pastor, Rev. Richard Girt, C.PP.S, will read the service. The structure, a complex replacing a wood frame church and rectory houses the church proper, a large hall and the rectory. T-shaped, the 100x60 foot church is banked by a 96x40 foot hall and a 40x90 foot rectory. The edifice was erected by Urban Steel, Wausau, general contractor. Father Girt said total costs including furnishings will figure at $250,000.

75 YEARS AGO

March 20, 1947

C. O. Deuel, owner of the Gilman telephone exchange and lines, has added another line to his telephone holdings. He has taken over and is now operating the Rusk County Rural Telephone Co. line between Sheldon and Conrath; it now serves 20 patrons, and Deuel is adding 38 now and will be able to take care of more later, to bring the line up to 150 patrons. He will have a toll line into Ladysmith also.

100 YEARS AGO

March 23, 1922

The date of the city election is April 4, which is a week from Tuesday. The officers whose terms expire this spring are as follows: Mayor Herman Dumke, Treasurer Al Martens, Assessor Adam Christman, Justice of Peace M.W. Ryan, and one of the two aldermen from each ward as follows: 1st, Louis Carstens; 2nd, John Giese; 3rd, J. H. Wheelock.

125 YEARS AGO

March 27, 1897

Jack Pipe, one of Medford’s Liverymen, was in our burg Monday. Mr. Pipe is one of the model liverymen of Wisconsin. The Rib Lake Mercantile Co. have just added to their stock a nice line of the latest styles of ready made clothing and gents furnishing goods. They now have the most complete general store to be found anywhere in this part of the county and are selling good goods at bed rock prices.