THE TIME MACHINE

From past files of The Star News 10 YEARS AGO

June 20, 2013

More than 99 percent of high school basketball players lose the final games of their senior year during the WIAA tournament.

For Medford’s Katie Messman, getting one last victory was the perfect capper to a busy week as a Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association all-star.

Messman and her Division 2 North teammates earned a satisfying 85-71 victory over the South in Friday’s WBCA All-Star Game at JustAgame Fieldhouse in Wisconsin Dells. The South had some star power, led by Wisconsin’s Miss Basketball Samantha Terry of Baraboo, but the North’s defense put the clamps on Terry and her teammates early and led from the second quarter on.

“We played good defense,” Messman said Tuesday, one day after attending her orientation at UW-River Falls, where she intends to play collegiately. “They had Miss Basketball, but we shut her down pretty well. That really helped us.”

25 YEARS AGO

June 24, 1998

Huotari Construction of Medford was selected as the general contractor of the $5.5 million Gilman School building project.

According to Gilman Superintendent Tom Fuhrman, the board selected Huotari based on the company’s reputation for doing good work.

Fuhrman pointed out that Huotari had completed several projects in the Gilman area including the Gilman Clinic and Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church.

The three finalists in the decision for a general contractor for the project were Huotari, Boson of Marshfield and Market and Johnson of Eau Claire.

50 YEARS AGO

June 21, 1973

The Medford city council Tuesday night authorized the Shaughnessy Co., St. Paul, Minn. to provide public sale purpose notes for $600,000. The loan will cover portions of costs of the sewage treatment plant addition, a new city garage, a waterworks well and pump station, street improvements, and water and sewer lines.

75 YEARS AGO

June 24, 1948

Emil Weix, manager of the Medford plant of the Oconomowoc Canning company, announced this week that packing of the 1948 pea crop would be started Monday, June 28, and that he anticipated the trial runs would be completed by the middle of the week at which time the factory would swing into full time production.

100 YEARS AGO

June 21, 1923

Herman Beilfus, successful farmer of the Town of Deer Creek, and clerk of that town has purchased the Stetsonville Co-oper-Co. stock, business, fixtures and real estate, located at Stetsonville. Mr. Beilfus was one of the stockholders of the company and a member of the board of directors. He is already in possession of the property. He is already in possession of the property. The price named is $18,300.

125 YEARS AGO

June 25, 1898

Sheriff Nusser and attorney Schweppe transacted business at Milwaukee Tuesday and Wednesday.

Miss Letitia Shaw returned home from the Milwaukee- Downer College last week for the summer vacation. Arthur Latton, Victoria Logan and Mary Pope returned from the Stevens Point Normal school yesterday for the summer vacation.

Otto Dumke, brother of Paul and Herman Dumke, our popular cigar makers, came over from Winona last Sunday morning and spent the day here with them.

Geo. Wilson, who is now conducting the leading hotel at Perkinstown, was in the city Thursday in search of servant girls. He reports business very satisfactory at that place.