FIRST INDIAN IN MAJOR BOWL GAME
Navy’s Dave Sjuggerud will be the first Menomonie athlete to compete in a major football bowl when the Middies, number two rated in the country, tangle with Texas, the top team in the country, in the Cotton Bowl, on New Year’s Day. The game will be nationally televised from Dallas, Tex., over the CBS network starting at 12:45 p.m. CST. Sjuggerud was hurt early in the Army game, the Middies last regularly scheduled contest, but is expected to play against Texas. This will be the big 6-4, 210 pounder’s final collegiate game of his career as he will graduate from Annapolis in June. (Editor’s Note: The Navy quarterback was future NFL Hall of Famer Roger Staubach) – January 1, 1964 The Dunn County News
HUNDREDS HAVE TOBOGGAN CRAZE
Menomonie is the victim of an epidemic — tobogganing. Hundreds in the city are afflicted with it. Crowds at the slide will testify to the popularity of this wholesome winter sport. Young and old enjoy the iced chute, that in a quarter turn of the second hand, lands its toboggan load far out on the icy floor of Lake Menomin. Sunday was a big day for the treasury. The receipts totaled $15.35, next to the largest of any day. New Year’s Day has the lead. At that time more than $18 were turned in. The sport adds daily to the numbers who enjoy it. The slide is open evenings 7 to 10 and Saturday and Sunday afternoons from 2 to 5. January 10, 1907 – The Dunn County News
RAISING MONEY FOR SPEEDWAY
Plans are progressing for lively times on the Lake Menomin Speedway, though nothing definite is ready for announcement. An effort will be made to interest Eau Claire horsemen in a race meet with the local sportsmen. Indications are now favorable to putting the project through. Money has been contributed by Menomonie business men for the good of the sport and in this way quite a sum has been raised by the enthusiasts on fast horse racing. Among those interested in the move are Paul C. Wilson, Ben Carter and W.A. Scanlan. The speedway is a clear, straight half mile across Lake Menomin, east and west. It is ideal for fast stepping on the ice. January 7, 1909 – The Dunn County News
SCHOOLS HONOR LINCOLN’S BIRTH
The grades of the city schools will honor the Lincoln birthday centennial with appropriate exercises Friday afternoon, February 12, at the Memorial. The program will consist of patriotic music, recitations, talks and lantern slides. Two members of Wm. Evans post, G.A.R., will give reminiscent talks on the great martyr president. The four lower grades will hold their exercises at 1:30, followed by the four upper grades at three o’clock. The North Menomonie grades will have their program in the hall at North Menomonie on the same day. January 21, 1909 – The Dunn County News
THE ARMY OF WOOD BUTCHERS
The magnitude of the lumber operations of Knapp, Stout & Co. is not generally known to the outside world. The labor and capital required to supply their mills with logs is immense. This winter’s campaign among the pines is expected to bring forth 65,000,000 feet of logs. To cut this vast amount, the company employ in their sixteen lumber camps not less than 500 men. In addition to these there are ten camps run by jobbers, or men cutting and banking logs on contract. Thirty-five double teams are employed hauling supplies to the various camps. About fifty-five horse and mule double teams, and seventy-five yokes of oxen are required in the camps to haul the logs to the stream. The amount of forage and provisions necessary to subsist this small army for three or four months we have no means of computing, but it must all be hauled to these remote points in the wilderness. To direct these vast operations, and bear the responsibility of their management require not only experience, but also the most vigorous mental and physical endowments. For many years this difficult and laborious task has devolved upon Capt. Andrew Tainter; and though the snows of many winters have whitened his hair somewhat, he is still possessed of the same tireless energy, the same indomitable will that has characterized him through life. He is the moving spirit in this particular department, and he knows no rest or relaxation till he brings the logs down in the spring. January 19, 1878 – The Dunn County News
Source: Dunn County Historical Society