PAGING THROUGH HISTORY:A Treasury of Weekly Newspapers
ABBOTSFORD TRIBUNE PUBLISHED IN ABBOTSFORD - 70 YEARS AGO JULY 15, 1954
Boy scouts to sponsor all star circus here July 26
The Abbotsford Boy Scouts announced that they are sponsoring the All Star Circus, which will be held at Abbotsford on Monday, July 26. There will be one show at 8 p.m.
Tickets available for bus to Braves game Sunday
A chartered bus will take baseball fans to Milwaukee, Sunday, July 18, to see a double-header game between the Braves and Pittsburgh. The price is $7.15 for the round trip and includes a ticket in the lower grandstand.
Improvements in school buildings told at meeting
Eighty-eight persons attended the annual school meeting held at the Abbotsford High School Monday evening. Routine business was transacted and the proposed budget of $30,000.00 was voted.
TRIBUNE-P HONOGRAPH PUBLISHED IN ABBOTSFORD AND COLBY - 50 YEARS AGO JULY 11, 1974
Colby school board expenditures are up
A budget for 1974-75 calling for expenditures of $2,087,149.00 was recommended by the Colby Board of Education at its regular July meeting Monday night.
Abby board proposes 1 mill rate reduction
The proposed 1974-75 school budget for the Abbotsford district to the electors at the budget hearing was approved by the board of education at the regular board meeting on Monday. The tax levy proposed for this school year is 16.74 mills.
TRIBUNE -P HONOGRAPH PUBLISHED IN ABBOTSFORD AND COLBY - 25 YEARS AGO JULY 14, 1999
Abbotsford will get $950,000 instead of $465,000 for Hwy. 29
Abbotsford will receive double the money that was previously proposed to repair Business 29 after the DOT abandons the 2.8 mile stretch of road when the bypass opens this fall.
Brothers Keith and Kurt Apfelbeck ordained as priests
Brothers Keith and Kurt Apfelbeck were both ordained as priests in the Roman Catholic Church during a ceremony at the cathedral in La Crosse on June 27. That same evening, Father Kurt said his first mass at St. Mary’s in Colby.
Cherokee Chums celebrate 75th anniversary
Seventy five years have gone by for the Cherokee Chums 4-H Club. The club has grown and changed in many ways but one thing that has remained the same are the values and skills that kids have learned.
MEMBERS OF ONE OF THE FIRST CHEROKEE CALF CLUBS AT THE COLBY FAIR. PICTURED HOLDING THE SIGN ARE LEADER
E.A. BREHM AND THE
ARLAND STAHL. THE OTHERS ARE MEL BREHM, C HARLOTTE HEPPNER, MADELYN WITTE, STELLA HEPPNER AND JOHN S AZAMA, EARLY 20TH CENTURY.
