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Pages from the Past 10/14/09

Posted: Oct. 13, 2009

100 years ago - 1909

The Lisbon Watson and Will Holstein-Freisan Stock Farm on North Lisbon Road, (Mail Route 18), offered fine breeding bull calves for sale.

Harvey Jeffery married Louise Hartkopf in a big wedding in Lisbon. The Rev. C. A. Tuttle, a pastor at the North Lisbon Methodist Church performed the ceremony.

50 years ago - 1959

St. James Catholic Church taught eight school grades with three nuns and three lay persons, with a total attendance of 288 students - an increase of 23 from the previous year. Former Lannon resident Sister Mary Denis was the principal. Divided into six classrooms, the class breakdown was: 47 students in first grade; 45 students in second grade; 37 students in third grade; 35 students in fourth grade; 30 students in fifth grade; 36 students in sixth grade; 28 students in seventh grade; and 30 students in eighth grade.

25 years ago - 1984

Scott Tetzlaff hit a league-leading .478 for the Sussex Land O' Lakes baseball team.

An original teacher at Hamilton High School was inducted into the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Athletic Hall of Fame. He was a lineman on the Stevens Point football team.

10 years ago - 1999

Casey's custard shop opened in Lannon.

Lisbon inquired about a possible merger with Merton, but was turned down.

The average price for self-service gasoline was at a 3-year high, at $1.31 a gallon.

Sussex's Sean Congdon was stationed in Kosovo.

5 years ago - 2004

There was an expected 80 percent area turnout for the presidential election of George Bush against John Kerry.

Tom Schwarz and Melissa Tetzlaff were the homecoming king and queen at Hamilton High School.

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