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ABBOTSFORD T RIBUNE PUBLISHED IN ABBOTSFORD THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1951
Madison man loses arm in car accident Monday
Floyd Clifton, 46, Madison, was reported in “good” condition by doctors at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield, after he suffered the loss of his left arm between the elbow and shoulder in an automobile accident near Curtiss Monday afternoon.
Clifton was alone in the car, which was apparently sideswiped by a car driven by Carl Erickson, 30, Withee, who is also hospitalized at Marshfield. Neither of the driver was sure exactly what happened, but both were struck on the left arm. Erickson suffered a compound fracture of the left arm above and below the elbow. His condition was also termed “good.”
The accident occurred about 3 o’clock Monday afternoon on Highway 29, almost directly south of Curtiss. Erickson was going west and Clifton was going east. Allen Gosse, a passenger in the Erickson car, was uninjured.
County population drops to 32,459 in 1950 Census Clark County’s official population is 32,459, the Bureau of the Census revealed in a final report on the 1950 census. The census, dated April 1, 1950, shows a loss of 1,513 residents for Clark County since 1940, when the 16th federal count showed 33,972 inhabitants.
New population figures for cities and villages include: Abbotsford, 1,013 (1940, 920); Colby 989 (903); Curtiss 139 (171), Dorchester, 457 (456); Granton 299 (300); Greenwood, 956 (776); Neillsville 2,663 (2,562); Owen, 1,034 (1,083); Unity, 355 (286); Withee, 421 (329).
THE TRIBUNE-P HONOGRAPH PUBLISHED IN ABBOTSFORD WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9, 1981
Abby group looking forward to festival
The Abbotsford Looking Forward group has organized a fall festival, flea market and tractor pull to be held on Abby’s main street the weekend of Sept. 18-20.
The group also met last week to further discuss plans to improve the city’s commercial atmosphere, particularly in the main street area. The meeting resulted in an agreement to invite a state Department of Development official to Abby to given information on forming a development corporation. Those in attendance also agreed to hold a cleanup day soon in anticipation of the festival the weekend after next.
The festival will include flea markets all three days, a display of local 4-H and FFA awards and trophies won this summer, and a tractor pull competition featuring garden tractors and modified minitractors.
The movie “Main Street” was shown at the meeting last week, and generated some discussion among those present — about 15 to 20 people.
Jack Nikolay felt the movie was a waste of time, an opinion he also held concerning the drawings of downtown done recently by two architects.
“What did we accomplish with spending $6,500 to have somebody measure and mark and take pictures and a lot of silly drawings? Has it moved one paint brush or pulled one weed?” Nikolay asked.
Norm Kommer replied, “That’s what we’re here for. One of our first priorities to form a committee to act on the immediate needs of the street. That includes painting and pulling weeds.”
