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By Pages From The Past 11/25/09

Posted: Nov. 23, 2009

100 years ago - 1909

So many sugar beets are being shipped on the Bug Line to Menomonee Falls that the line is thinking of using side tracks in Lannon to store the loaded gondolas.

Sugar beet planting is a big cash crop in Lisbon.

Edward Caesar was peppered with buck shot while hunting with friends in the Lisbon Township Whitehead Swamp area.

50 years ago - 1959

Oil for your basement furnace cost $14.30 a gallon, delivered.

The Sussex Home and School club held a card party as a get-together and a fundraiser. There was a game and door prizes.

Sussex and Lannon did not issue a single home building permit in the first nine months of the year.

The Rev. Edward H. Langdon was the pastor of the Sussex Methodist Church.

25 years ago - 1984

The Miss Robinette of the Sussex Robinettes Baton Corps was Kelly Geschke.

A car crash demolished the Lisbon Central Cemetery stone monument marker.

Joyce Schieffer was the winner of the local annual chili cookoff at McLaughlins' barn.

H&H Auto sought approval by the village for its planned facility on Waukesha Avenue.

Hamilton High School cheerleader Sue Stadler was invited to the Aloha Bowl in Hawaii.

Walter Mondale ran against Ronald Reagan in the presidential election. Sussex, Lisbon and Lannon votes went to Reagan.

10 years ago - 1999

St. Alban's Episcopal Church planned an addition to the Guild Hall.

The members of the Lisbon Town Board were Chairman Jerry Schmitz, Supervisors Ron Evert, Pete Chycinski, Dan Meissner and Dave Gettelman, plus teacher Rebecca Plotecher.

5 years ago - 2004

Walgreens broke ground and was well into the construction of its new Sussex store.

Lisbon's electors, at a special town meeting, voted 40-32 to spend up to $1.5 million for the new firehouse south of Richmond School.

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