THE TIME MACHINE

From past files of The Star News 10 YEARS AGO

February 14, 2013

At Monday’s city council committee of the whole meeting, aldermen gave preliminary approval to a plan for the Kossner-Dietzler VFW Post 5729 and Ladies Auxiliary to construct a gazebo in the State Street minipark. The park was developed on the site of the former Medford Armory when that building was demolished in 1989. Over the years the park was developed with flower beds, walking paths, benches and a flag pole. A gazebo has always been part of the park plans, but had never been built.

25 YEARS AGO

February 18, 1998

Rib Lake District Administrator Dan Boxx told school board members last week that they should consider holding a building referendum next fall. Instead of proposing exactly what that project would include, he recommended the board set up a citizens committee to study current facility needs and decide what kind of a building would meet those needs.

50 YEARS AGO

February 15, 1973

Dr. Jim Kotowski, director of physical education at the University of Wisconsin-Medford center, has announced that men’s fitness classes will begin Thursday, Feb. 22, in the campus gym. The course will include nine Thursday night sessions from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The class will be limited to 14 men, age 26 and over and there will be a nominal registration fee.

75 YEARS AGO

February 12, 1948

Five Medford merchants went over to Merrill Tuesday and recovered part of the goods stolen from their stores in recent weeks. The loot was part of a whole truckload of shoplifted merchandise discovered at the farm home of Mrs. Ruby Swemke, just off highway 107 a mile west of Merrill. A party of six had been making a wholesale job of shoplifting at Medford, Merrill, Wausau, Antigo, and Tomahawk. They were all arrested at Antigo following an attempt to get away with a bathroom scale from a store there.

100 YEARS AGO

February 15, 1923

The strong wind Tuesday night piled up and packed the loose snow which had fallen earlier and practically stopped traffic on the railroads and sleigh roads in this section. The only locomotive reaching Medford since Wednesday night until the plow came today was the one pulling the flanger plow.

125 YEARS AGO

February 12, 1898

The Medford Minstrels are billed to appear at Opera hall on Thursday evening, February 17, and at McCombs opera house, Rib Lake, on Friday evening, the 19th. All we can say of this coming event is that the members of the company are rehearsing very faithfully, and that their efforts in the past have been conspicuously successful.