Index to Rib Lake History



Index to Photo & Document Collection

Rib Lake Historical Society, LLC

by Robert P. Rusch

Updated to March 31, 2019

Abbreviations:

~ = Westboro

! = Chelsea

Aka=also known as

ASA=also scanned as

CTH-County Trunk Highway

Dba=Doing business as

Et al. = And others

Et ux. = and wife

FDS=Fayette Delos Shaw a/k/a Fayette D. Shaw

Fka-formerly known as

FNBRL-First National Bank of Rib Lake

HMLC=Heidrick & Matson Lumber Company

JJK=John J. Kennedy

K=Contract

L = Letter

LC = Lincoln County

Lka=Last known as

MRPA-McComb’s Racing Park Addition to the Village of Rib Lake

Nka=now known as

P =Photograph

PC = Price County

Pka= properly known as

RLH=Rib Lake History

RLHe = Rib Lake Herald (newspaper)

RLHSoc = Rib Lake Historical Society, LLC

RLLC = Rib Lake Lumber Company

RLPL = Rib Lake Public Library

R.O.W.=Right-of-way

RPR = Robert P. Rusch

STH = State Trunk Highway

TC=Taylor County

TCC-Twentieth Century Club

TRL = Town of Rib Lake

UN = Unidentified

USLC=United States Leather Company

VRL = Village of Rib Lake

W = Writing

WC = Wisconsin Central Railway/Railroad

Volume (Disc) I - #10000-10100

10000-P. Aerial 8-28-1938, Village of Rib Lake & environs

10001-P. Aerial 8-28-1938, Village of Rib Lake & NW

10002-P. Aerial 8-28-1938, Village of Rib Lake & SW

10003-1896 ‘Largest Load of Bark ever hauled to Fayette Shaw’s Tannery’ Rib Lake data

10004-Back side Teamster Herman Wagler

10005-McComb Ave. 1900 to North [from Tram Bridge]

10006-McComb Ave. & Landall to N business brick bank building

10007-Camp #4 NE Wood Lake, Shay Locomotive

10008-Loading Logging Sleigh

10009-RLLC locomotive 67 McGiffert Loader, Rib Lake Lumber Co. Camp 22

10010-RLLC camp # unknown c. 1940

10011-Steam hauler ‘Bob Hess’ ‘1920’ Camp 12

10012-Steam haulder at Rib Lake

10013-2006 Rib Lake Community Map

10013A-Map yellow is location photo 12

10014-P. Steamhauler & peeled hemlock c. 1920

10015-P.unidentified Minn. Logging camp c. 1900

10016-L. RPR to Star News 5-27-05 Steam hauler operations at Rib Lake, 3 pgs

10017-P. Rib Lake steam hauler

10018-P. Rib Lake steam hauler ‘cat bird seat’ photo by Frank Hass, Jack Heindl has negative

10019-P. Bob Hess 1920 in car McComb Ave., Rib Lake

10020-McComb Ave, Rib Lake to north, west side c. 1920

10021-backside of 10020. LB33 to H. Schmittfranz, Chelsea

10022-P. steam hauler & 4 sleigh loads of logs

10023-A Pictorial History of the Rib Lake Area, 211 pgs.

10024-Shaw’s Bark Camp 6-11-1893

10024A-Shaw’s Bark Camp 6-11-1893 complete photo

10025-emails re 10024-Phil Piazza, Renton, WA

10025A-Reply by Phil Piazza 10-6-06

10026-Plat map-T33 R3E [2003]

10027-L. Roger L. Emmerich 9-29-06 ‘German Immigration’ by RPR

10028-P. Sandy Hare & [R] Barbara Moon nee Nelson

10029-P. Father Peter Dickoff Nels ‘Ewald’ Nelson

10030-P. Interior St. John’s Catholic Church

10031-P. Lumber Yard c. 1949, Mill sawed last log 6-1948 view NW

10032-P. ‘Last [truck] load of lumber from the old mill’ c. 1948, Claude Peterson, Medford, WI

10033-P. Matty Janish, Musky 10-17-1948, 46 in. long, 38 lb, North Harper Lake

10034-P. ‘16 lb. musky caught at Harper Lake, Rib Lake’ L. Herb Curran & Frank [Mat] Jarish or Yarish

10035-P. Postcard ‘Ewald Nelson Village’ 3-7-1941.

10035A-Rib Lake Fish & Game Assoc. meeting

10036-P. Leo Stiel

10037-Business card Ronald G. Rusch

10038-James Peterson; Rib Lake logger c. 1930 article ‘My History Is America’s History’

10039-Star News; Railroads in Taylor Co. by Everett A. Rusch with railroad map, 1-5-2000

10040-1913 Taylor Co. Railroad Map

10041-1929 Wis. Railway Comm. – Wis. Map

10042-c. 1905 Railroad map of Wis.-World Atlas, NB line west of Whittlesey not built

10043-Chicago, St. Paul & Pacific Daily interchange report of cars, form 104

10044-Pine Line Map & Brochure

10045-Guide to The Pine Line RPRusch 4-1997

10046-RLH dams 1914 Report of Railroad Comm to Wis. Legislature-T.C. Dams-

10047-Names of Rib Lake Old Timers

10048-RLH camps, Pine, How logging camps were operated, 1868 to 1900 by Ray Bundick, 7 pgs

10048A Pine Camps; How the Logging Camps were operated from 1868 to 1900 by Ray Bundick, Westboro, WI c. 1960. Definition; Pine Camp. A logging camp in Wisconsin or other states which exclusively cut pine, especially white pine (pinus strobes), from the virgin forest leaving all other species of trees uncut. R.P. Rusch

10048B ibid p. 2

10048C ibid p. 3

10048D ibid p. 4

10048E ibid p. 5

10048F ibid p. 6

10048G ibid p. 7

10049-RLH history c. 1990 by Robert Lucia

10049A-Burton Road Map

10050-Rib Lake & Taylor Co. History by Ray Bundick, Westboro c. 1965, 18 pgs, ‘Official list of First Logging Operators in What is Now Taylor Co.’ (see 12607 for expanded and updated version of this document)

10051-Disappearance of Father Menard, by Harry Curran, 9 pgs

10052-History of Rib Lake by Guy Wallace, 11 pgs

10053-History of Rib Lake by Elsie M. Beck, 9 pgs, 1938

10054-‘Railroads-Original Document’ L. 7-21-2005 Jim Welton to RPR

10054A-L. Edwin H. Abbot 8-24-1883

10054B-L. Isaac Biscornet to Edwin H. Abbot 8-30-1883

10054C-L. Edwin H. Abott to Peter Cullen, 8-30-1883

10054D-L. J.C. Wheelock to T.L. Kennan, 9-8-1883

10054E-… to J.C. Wheelock , 9-19-1883

10055-History of Wisconsin Central title page

10055A-Biographies

10055C-Edwin Hale Abbot biography

10056-‘Railroads-Land Grants’, History of Wisconsin Central title page

10056A-G- Text, W.C. Land Grants

10057-Map-T.C. land grant lands 1881

10058-Railroad ‘time table’ 1-3-1892

10058A-time table 1904

10058B-time table 1909

10058C-time table 1920

10058D-time table 1936

10058E-time table 1941

10058F-time table 1960

10059-L. Charles H. Stats to RPR

10060-Railroads-Wis. Central-Governor Wm. Taylor, title page, History of Wisconsin Central

10060A-pg 18 ‘Into the Deep Woods’

10060B-10-1872 inspection

10060C-pg 20

10061-The Westboro Story, 1996, by Ruby Evelyn & Harrold Hatlestad

10062-P. Herman C. Peterson homestead,

10063-P. Alexander Stewart Lumber Company, Wausau, WI 1910

10064-P. Atwood Plant, Park Falls, WI 1910

10065-P. Interior photo blacksmith, Stevens Point, WI 1911

10066-P. Saw filer c. 1910

10067-P. Main Street, Park Falls, c. 1900

10068-P. Neillsville, WI c. 1911

10069-P. Putting in sidewalk at Westboro

10070-P. ‘Wheeler’ STH 13, Westboro c. 1900 ‘George Tombs’

10071-P. Cook shanty-interior-Central Leather Co, Knowlton, WI. 3-24-1910

10072-P. Log Decking & locomotive, Knowlton, WI c. 1910

10073-P. Steam log skidder c. 1910

10074-P. Paul Whitefish Family c. 1900

10075-P. Highway 13 South, Westboro ‘1912-1917’

10076-P. Shovel gang STH 13, ‘South of Westboro’

10077-P. Slusher in up position c. 1912, STH 13

10078-P. Slusher in up position, STH 13, c. 1912, team with fly nets

10079-P. ‘Westboro 13’ c. 1912

10080-P. ‘North of Hannibal’ roadbuilding c. 1912, STH 73

10081-P. Seven teams north of Hannibal c. 1912

10082-P. Breaking plow Horses ‘Kit & Rowdy’ c. 1912

10083-P. Stetsonville-horse pulled roller c. 1912

10084-P. STH 13, N. of Medford, 4 mi. north

10085-P. Wheeled slushers STH 13, c. 1912, Mahner’s swamp

10086-P. Highway building between Jump River & Hannibal c. 1912

10087-P. ‘Hannibal’ wheeled slushers c. 1912, double teamed horses

10088-P. ‘Westboro rd’ STH 13, c. 1912

10089-P. Roadbuilding, 1 mi. s of Westboro, STH 13

10090-P. STH 13, Westboro, double team

10091-P. Team with blankets

10092-P. Claude C. Peterson c. 1940

10093-P. unknown camp Rib Lake, c. 1936

10094-P. Logging locomotive Rib Lake New Wood Country c. 1936

10095-P. Pete Peterson, Emma, Jim Peterson, wife Anna, Wm. Leader, wife Mary nee Peterson, Herman Peterson and wife Ella, c. 1944

10096-Obit. Otto W. Steffeck

10097-Title Page; Clarkson Publishing, Wis. Co. Maps 2002

10097A-Western Taylor Co.

10097B-Middle Taylor Co.

10097C-Eastern Taylor Co.

10097D-SE Price Co.

10097E-Western Lincoln Co.

10097F-Eastern Lincoln Co.

10097G-NW Marathon Co.

10098-2006 Wis. highway map

10098A-Central Wisconsin-Rib Lake

10098B-Map-Chicago-Milwaukee

10099-RLH 1907 ‘Ten Years Ago’ History of Rib Lake from 1897-1907

10100-L. Martha Krugel c.1947 [Great Aunt of Susan Thums nee Marschke]

Volume (Disc) II - #10100-10200

10101-RLHe 1-3-1902 ‘Logging by Rail’

10102-McComb Ave c. 1960 view north, Perkins Ice C. sign on Pharmacy, ‘Upjohn’s Store’

10103-RLH History 3-1886 by Edgar T. Wheelock

10104-June 23, 1900 American Lumberman, The Home of the Hemlock, J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co. A complete copy of this document has been scanned as Doc. #15777.

10105-Feb. 10, 1900 American Lumberman, J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co.—A pg. 2, Winchester Hotel, Medford, Lumber-Hemlock from Rib Lake

10106-Mississippi Valley Lumberman, 4-14-1916, ‘Work on the New Saw Mill at Rib Lake Will Commence at Once’, Camps 9, 11 & 13 –A pg 2

10107-L. Mike Weckworth ‘Bob’—A, Star News 1930 –B, RLLC articles –C, RLLC articles 1931

10108-Map c. 1910-plat

10109-Map c. 1910-plat

10110-Polk’s Wis. S. Gazetteer Rib Lake 1895

10111-Polk’s Wis. S. Gazetteer Rib Lake 1903

10112-Polk’s Wis. S. Gazetteer Rib Lake 1907; 2 pgs

10113-Polk’s Wis. S. Gazetteer Rib Lake 1924

10114~Polk’s Wis. S. Gazetteer Westboro 1895

10115~Polk’s Wis. S. Gazetteer Westboro 1903

10116~Polk’s Wis. S. Gazetteer Westboro 1907

10117~Polk’s Wis. S. Gazetteer Westboro 1924

10118-Modern Woodmen of America, Camp 890, Rib Lake, Pass Report Book 1909 cover page, see RLH-Modern Woodmen Camp 890, Note; 3-2-07-Galen Scharer has extensive file of camp 890

10119-Modern Woodmen of America Social Membership Application; 2 pgs

10120-Modern Woodmen of America 1-27-1909 to Chas Whittlinger & envelope with 1 cent stamp

10121-Modern Woodmen of America camp 890, multiple page members

10122-Deed A.C. McComb, et ux, to Modern Woodmen of America camp 890, $375, 2-21-1901-2 pg

Galen Scharer collection:

10123-RLLC mill c. 1910

10123A-RLLC mill c. 1910 & hot pond

10124-Mill fire 1914

10125-Mill fire 1914-view from north

10126-Mill fire 1914-view from north

10127-RLLC Mill reconstruction 1916

10128-RLLC mill c. 1920

10129-RLLC mill c. 1920 & hot pond

10130-RLLC mill-west side; foreground elevated tramway c. 1920

10131-RLLC McComb Ave ‘Boss’ Office’ & first aid, back; planer building

10132-RLLC mill c. 1948, Bull chain, possibly last log

10133-RLLC McComb Ave. ‘Boss’ Office’ foreground, Tramway

10134-RLLC tramway; right ‘Boss’ Office’; view from Railroad Street, Opie Freeck ‘team drivers Smokey Schopper, Gus Rusch’ c. 1940

10135-RLLC mill c. 1920 aerial, McComb Ave commercial district, H.E. Rusch house

10136-RLLC dry yard & tramway, Ward School, aerial

10137-RLLC Mill, hot pond, Rib Lake Village, view to NW c. 1920 aerial, hemlock bark piles, biplane strut in foreground

10138-RLLC tramway over McComb Ave, view to north from Railroad St, R; planing mill

10139-RLLC tramway & dry yard view from Railroad St.

10140-RLLC dry yard-high piles, dried lumber on tram cars, pile base c. 1925, ‘Louis SEkadlo, 317 N. 2nd St, Medford’

10141-RLLC ‘Last load of lumber from old mill’ 1948

10142-RLLC half empty dry yard about 9-1948

10143-RLLC half empty dry yard about 9-1948, steeple center, Meth. R. Catholic Church

10144-RLLC half empty dry yard c. 1940, steeple center, Meth. R. Catholic Church

10145-RLLC dry lumber-beneath tramway

10146-RLLC log train along Rib Lake c. 1940

10147-RLLC boom divides Rib Lake c. 1920

10147X-hot pond

10148-RLLC logs along Lake Shore Drive, background Bokath house & Village Park; L, tavern ‘Lakeside’, peeled hemlock logs c. 1920

10149-RLLC log rolling into Rib Lake c. 1920

10150-RLLC Rib Lake filled with logs, perhaps peeled hemlock c. 1920

10151-RLLC hot pond c. 1940

10152-RLLC railroad turntable c. 1940

10153-RLLC log train along Rib Lake, NE to Fayette Ave.

10154-RLLC ‘round house’ & water tank

10155-RLLC Water tank-RR on mill north side c. 1920 winter

10156-RLLC mainline to mill

10157-RLLC McComb Ave. view north, ‘Look Out for the [rail] cars’ c. 1920

10158-RLLC locomotive 101 at water tank c. 1940 ‘Chester Curran’ may be atop

10158X-locomotive at roundhouse

10158X1-Chester Curran & locomotive

10158X1A-back 1913

10158X2-Caboose behind caboose is the flats

10158X3-Train along Rib Lake from Fayette Ave.

10158X4-coach

10158X4A-back, Signed ‘Anna May’ perhaps Kennedy

10158-X5-’National Pole & Treating Company’ locomotive

10159-Rib Lake Depot c. 1940

10160-Rib Lake Depot, background St. John’s Catholic Church

10161-Rib Lake Depot-locomotive ‘3’ snow covered

10162-Rib Lake Depot view SW

10163-text Adeline Walbeck explaining 10164, 1927 RLLC reconfigured RR track that had gone to tannery to expand hardwood dry yard

10164-West Rib Lake Village-seen from water tower, red & blue lines orig. route of RR track, yellow line is RR route after 1927, R side of panoramic photo

10165-’Rib Lake in 1910’ left side

10165A-Longer version of 10165

10165B-Longer version of 10165 from north

10166-Bird’s Eye View of Rib Lake c. 1926, former bark yard

10167-former tannery headquarters, Fayette Ave.

10168-Camp 2, ‘US Leather Co. Camp 2’ Jim Hedington [foreman] T33N R3E, Sec. 33 [on Wood River]

10168A-Backside, text by RPR for 1981 ‘Pictorial History of Rib Lake’

10169-1913 plat T33N, R3E showing possible location of Camp 2

10170-1997 plat T33N, R3E

10171-Camp 4

10171A-Backside, typed text by RPR

10172-Camp 26

10173-Camp unknown [no I.D. on photo]

10174-Unidentified camp

10175-Unidentified camp

10176-Unidentified camp

10177-McGiffert Loader, ‘1905 Camp 4, Frank Diesing with Dog’

10178-RR in woods-log pile

10179-Wood RR with lath

10180-Not RLLC other mill in Rib Lake c. 1915

10181-Decking logs NB; overlead pulley

10182-decking logs-cross haul method, NB chain

10183-Tan bark & sleigh c. 1910, ‘1 Frank Diesing, 2 Bert Aitkens L to R’

10184-Woods workers, man on left carries scaling stick & large pencil on right sleeve

10184A-backside, Charlie Talbot & Bert Aitkens

10185-Jammer

10186-2 horse team-sleigh of logs

10187-2 horse team-sleigh of logs

10188-sleigh load logs McComb Ave ‘Modern Café-Eat Anytime’ ‘Geo Braun-Real Estate

10188A-backside

10189-Skidding poles with team

10190-C. Hunter’s camp, 20 logs, 7270 board feet

10191-Jammer ‘Copper River Camp 1912’

10191A-2 teams

10192-Steam Hauler from Camp 12 c. 1920 Bokath Home in back

10193-Steam Hauler & 5 sleighs ‘Brown Studio’

10194-Filing the tank

10194A-back; Albert Aitken with horse, tank held 125 barrels, tank used to make ice roads

10195-tanker being filled with water

10196-Steam Hauler

10197-Elmer Timm & fire wood, tipping sleigh

10198-decking with chains c. 1910

10199-skidding with crawler c. 1940

Volume (Disc) III - #10200-10299

SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING VOLUME III-A: Photo #10200-10258, when originally scanned, resulted in faulty ‘blotched’ images. To correct this, on July 28, 2009, these photos were re-scanned and placed onto Volume III-A, with the exception that the following photos could not then be located: 10244, 10245, 10248, 10249, 10254-10258. The original assigned photo numbers have been maintained.

10200-teamster & team

10201-teamster & team

10202-Camp bunkbeds c. 1940

10203-’logging scene Rib Lake, Wis’

10204-McCormick-Deering crawler

10205-Jammer Loading RR flatcar

10206-Rollways & McGiffert Loader Camp 18

10207-McGiffert Loader

10208-McGiffert Loader

10209-McGiffert Loader

10210-4 men atop boom

10211-armed man on speedster

10212-armed man on speedster

10213-RR track thru snowbank ‘after plowing May 4, 1920’ at Kelnhofer farm; NW 34, 33 2E

10214-star load of logs

10215-2 teams & log sleigh

10216-Last log ceremony 2-1948

10217-felling ‘last pine’ 2-1948, 3 wood wedges stand ready

10218-Rib River, NW SW 28, 32, 3E, ‘Eastbank-Interwald Wis’

10219-Bateau on Rib River, in 2007 this bateau is at Rhinelander logging museum, tent atop square bottom boat, served as cook shanty; log drive on Rib River

10220-family portrait, ‘Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ziegler and their sons; Mr Ziegler was superintendent of the Rib Lake Tannery at one time’

10221-unknown couple c. 1900

10222-8-19-1908 Rib Lake Ladies Club

10223-unidentified dinner group

10224-John Herrem & unknown

10225-1944 women with Holsteins

10226-house moving c. 1910

10227-paving McComb Ave.

10228-paving McComb Ave.

10229-store interior ‘John, Nina, Vern, Jim’

10230-National Hotel – McComb & Railroad Streets, SW corner

10231-Tauber’s Tavern, 2007 Last Chance Tavern, 832 McComb Ave, 427-5546

10231A-Campaign flyer-Frank Tauber for Sheriff

10232-Village not ‘City Hall’, 741 McComb Ave; ‘Herb Curran’ standing in front ‘1921’, ‘Truck is [now] at Slinger, WI’; ‘Fire Dept. organized 1902’

10233-’Electric Lighting Plant at R.L.’ c. 1910; SE corner of Railroad & Church Streets, Later Heindl’s Store;

10233A-backside

10234-’Rib Lake Community Map’ c. 2005 Village street map

10235-Ward School, Church Street, razed c. 1960 Ken Mannel

10236-Ward School south side

10237-High School from McComb Ave., c. 1930; L; blacksmith shop, 2000 ‘Otter Forge’ Landall & Mill Ln.

10238-High School c. 1905, E & N side

10239-1928 RLHS basketball team

10239A-back Rudy Kaske, Peter Mathias, Harold McCallough, Principal McBridge, Carl Marschke, Eyventd Hagen, Bill [William] Schaack, Orville Peterson, Francis [Franny] Schaack

10240-c. 1983 burning high school, front-left bus garage, 2007 Camp 28 restaurant, 720 Hwy 10241-Unknown mill

10242-’Interwald, Wis’ George Kower home-store perhaps

10242A-back side

10243-Inside A.H. Krause & Co. veneer factory, Interwald c. 1910

10244-STH 102 & 13 signs c. 1958; view south to Scott farm

10245-Shoe Factory c. 1960; Glov-Ett Shoes, Gem Products, Inc.

10246-6-9-1935 confirmation class, St. John’s Lutheran Church, Rv. F. Kammholz

10247-’German Lutheran Church’ interior photo, ‘St. John’s Lutheran’

10248-St. John’s Lutheran Church exterior photo

10249-St. John the Baptist Roman Cath. Church SE side c. 1960

10250-United Methodist Church, view east-Church St. c. 1920

10251-United Methodist Church c. 1960

10252-Public Library c. 1960 SE corner of Landall & Pearl

10253-Rib Lake from Rib’s Resort c. 1960, proprietor George Buksa, 720 Holden Rd.

10254-Residents of Village of Rib Lake by Milton McRae; A-C c. 1915

10255-Star News 7-9-1981, ‘Rib Lake Celebrating 100 years of Progress’; SF; RLH History 1981

End of Galen Scharer Collection

10256-Brochure ‘Rib Lake Telephone Company & Cellcom’ c. 1995

10257-P. McComb Ave. c. 1995; Ice Age Days parade float

10258-P. McComb Ave c. 1995 ‘Gehrt’s Bar’ ‘Westboro Warriors’ float

10259-Rib Lake Phone Book 10-2004 to 9-2005

10260-Map 1975 ‘Existing Land Uses’ Taylor Co., WI, Rib Lake Area

10260A-Legend

10260B-Townships

10260C-Medford Area

10260D-Jump River Area

10260E-Lublin Area

10261-Rib Lake Herald v. 66 #37, Aug. 9, 1962 ‘Historical Souvenir Edition’ ‘How-de-do in 62’

10262-Map Taylor Co. 1948; A-Rib Lake area [8-9-1962]

10263-P. RLHS Class of 1925; 1. Agnes Schaack, 2. Prof. Wagner, 3. unknown, 4. Verl Gummo, 5. unknown, 6. Myrtle Taylor, 7. unknown, 8. unknown Radtke

10264-P. RLHS – west side c. 1925, foreground ‘the flats’

10265-P. RLHS 1924 Boys basketball team, Photo owned by Veril Gummo; L-R; 1. unknown, 2. Art Taylor, 3. unknown Seidel, 4. Millard ‘Satch’ Kapitz, Veril Gummo, Walt Mathews, [I.D. uncertain from photo back]

10266-P. ‘Rib Lake Citizen’s Cornet Band’ Taylor Co. Fair 1922

10267-P. Rib Lake Herald Office c. 1900; Herald founder seated, John J. Voemastek, boy in back Herman Talbot

10268-P. Unidentified tavern interior, [bar appears to be the one in 2007 ‘Last Chance’ 832 McComb Ave.

10269-P. Old Central Hotel, 1100 Railroad St., c. 1950 Golden Age Nursing Home; c. 1960 Roger Johnson made into apartments; c. 1980 Rollie & Sue Thums purchased; built c. 1910 by Eliz. Matthias

10270-P. 1900 McComb Ave. north from Railroad St., Tannery smokestacks, photo from tramway

10271-Article ‘The Good Old Days’ Rib Lake Herald c. 1970, work rules, Zachary U. Geiger

10272-Rib Lake Co-operative Creamery Co. stock certificate, 11-30-1926, ‘W.S. St. Claire’ owner, Pres. R. A. Kolb. Sec. Treas. Perry C. Headstream

10272A-Backside, Transfer to John McCrae [or McRae]

10273-Article Rib Lake First National Bank robbery c. 1925

10274-P. c. 1910 McComb Ave.; NB Lutheran Church faces south

10275-P. c. 1920 McComb Ave. – from tramway

10276-P. McComb Ave. ‘Main St’ c. 1950

10277-P. 7-24-1914 Sawmill file, ‘Started at 9:20 a.m.’ view to south

10278-P. Mill c. 1900 view north

10279-P. 1916 new mill under construction

10280-P. 1916 new mill south side; hold for transfer chain; NB right; boilers

10281-P. aerial, lower right-new mill, lower left-transfer bldg, upper left-Machine bldg at 670 McComb, upper right-’roundhouse’, upper center-RR water tank

10282-P. transfer bldg upper left, ‘# of days without lost time accident’ sign, right tramway

10283-P. c. 1920 tramway, center-machine bldg

10284-P. Planing mill SW corner, foreground McComb & Railroad St, then STH 102

10285-P. Planing mill west side c. 1935

10286-P. Finishing mill chimney c. 1915; FD transfer bldg

10287-P. Hotpond c. 1925

10288-P. Hotpond view east

10289-P. Hotpond view north, cupola RLHS

10290-P. Rib Lake ‘The Landing’ by Village Park [end of Ice Road from Camp 9] view west c. 1920

10291-P. Mill-S. side; from Holden’s Resort [The Ribs] c. 1920

10292-P. Mill east side c. 1940

10293-P. Mill NE side c. 1949

10294-Camp 28 Restaurant 10-1995, ‘Old garage becomes restaurant, museum’, Hasty Getaways

10295-L. 1-27-1993 RPR, RL History 1886

10296-Ribbon Cutting at Camp 28 Restaurant

10297-Camp 28 Restaurant to add 12 motel units

10298-Camp 28 Restaurant advertisement 8-29-1995

10299-P. Camp 28 Restaurant c. 1995

Volume (Disc) IV - #10300-10399

10300-P. Camp 28 Restaurant Bar c. 1995-Allen Zondlo with beer, RPR Historical mural on wall

10301-P. Camp 28 Restaurant unidentified couple c. 1995

10302-P. Camp 28 Restaurant unidentified people c. 1995

10303-P. Camp 28 Restaurant motel room c. 1995

10304-Star News editorial c. 1994, Rib Lake is small town America at its best by Laurie Meyer

10305-Star News ‘in the shadow of ‘Ugh’’ c. 1995

10306-unidentified author recalls many incidents

10307-P. Herb Curran 16# fish 1941

10308-P. Herb Curran 16# Fish [musky]

10309-P. Andrew Berg c. 1910 hunter

10310-P. c. 1962 parade Tauber’s Tavern

10311-P. c. 1962 parade bowling alley

10312-P. c. 1962 parade, in back 832 McComb, Tauber’s Tavern, [2007 Last Chance]

10313-P. Arlene Minarciny & Pat Hohl c. 1960

10314-P. Parade McComb east side c. 1950

10315-P. c. 1930 ‘Everything to eat & wear’

10316-P. c. 1920 McComb Ave, west side view north, FWD fire truck c. 1920

10317-P. 1967 Leggy Stewart-RL Lion President & Patricia Hohl

10318-P. 1967 Mink Princess & court, Arlene Minarciny, Barb Wudi, Pat Hohl now Gilge [Mrs. Jerry Gilge], Mary Haenel, Sharyn Schneider now Thompson

10319-P. ‘Eunice Island’ Pine Island view from north c. 1910

10320-P. Unidentified Rib Lake baseball team c. 1915

10321-P. RLHS c. 1910 & students, bank along the flats

10322-P. 9-20-1939 Rock Garden

10323-P. McCormick-Deering Tractor, c. 1938 winter logging, Opie Freek wrote on back ‘Ernie & Carl’

10324-P. Steamhauler & 8 sleighs, 4 unidentified men, NB tarp over steersman c. 1920

10325-P. Steamhauler & 6 sleighs ‘Brown’s Studio’ ‘Rib Lake’

10326-P. Steamhauler from Camp 9 proceeds SW to RR crossing, NB string of flatcars, on left 2007 STH 102, view looks east

10327-Map 2006 Rib Lake Village, Arrow marks site of 10326

10328-P. ‘The road monkey’ Ice Road c. 1910

10328A-back side-text 1981 by RPR

10329-P. Water tank & 2 teams on ice road c. 1910, on top barrel to fill tank with water

10330-History of Rib Lake 7-12-1993 by ‘the owners of Camp 28, Inc’ 6 pgs [originally misidentified as 7-11-1993, correct identification is 7-12-1993]

10331-History of Rib Lake 1938 by Elsie M. Beck, A-G

10332-Rib Lake Herald Sept. 21, 1945, entire paper, ‘$100,000 fire…Planing mill, warehouse, main office go up in smoke’ [9-21-1945]

10333-History of Rib Lake ‘Vocational Agriculture of Rib Lake’ by Orrin Meyer c. 7-1940, 14 pgs

10334-Star News History of Rib Lake 7-15-1976-’Bicentenntial events…’

10335-Last Log, Star News 7-15-1976, account of 1948 cutting final log for Rib Lake Lumber Co., ‘End of Lumbering Era in ’48 recalled’ A-C

10336-Poem ‘Rib Lake is the place’ c. 1930 by Nehls Swanson

10337-P. Logs in Rib Lake-Lakeshore Drive in rear, c. 1920

10338-P. Logs in Rib Lake, rear; boom across lake from Upjohn’s hill

10339-P. team & sleigh with logs c. 1905, ‘Camp 4 Ed Wilson with ax, Bert Aitken, Frank Diesing’

10340-P. Swamp logging ‘Camp 4 area c. 1905’

10341-P. ‘A famous Wisconsin industry’

10342-P. team logs ‘near Camp 4’

10343-P. ‘Charlie Talbot with scale [stick], Bert Aitken next to horse, near Camp 4 [Wood Lake]’ c. 1912

10344-P. Decking crew c. 1910 [chains to roll logs up to top]

10345-P. 2 teams unidentified camp c. 1925

10346-P. 3 skid teams c. 1925

10347-P. crawler skids 7 logs c. 1938 ‘George Sieker’

10348-P. team of oxen pulls wagon c. 1900

10349-P. 4 teams pull tan bark sleigh, Fayette Ave, Rib Lake c. 1910, view from ‘The Flats’ northward, tannery in back

10349A-map, arrow shows photo direction

10350-P. ‘51,600# tan bark 20 cords’ Fayette Ave. view east, possibly Herrmann E. Rusch home on hill

10351-P. bark pilers ‘in what is now Stan’s mink yard’ (pile c. 24’ high; 4 piles behind first)

10352-P. frames

10353-P. loading logs small woods jammer c. 1920

10354-P. Peaker load c. 1920

10355-P. 1912 bears taken on New Wood 250 & 400#

10356-P. Railroad washout on Spirit River c. 1910

10357-P. ‘on old (railroad) line to Spirit Falls’

10358-P. Chester Curran Engineer #101 locomotive c. 1940

10359-P. railroad coach #1310 stuck in snow, Kelnhofer’s cut

10360-P. train at old oil tanks (Former S.A. Konz mill site) c. 1945

10361-P. McGiffert Loader getting water from tender c. 1940 ‘Chester Curran’

10362-P. McGiffert & loading crew c. 1930

10363-P. McGiffert loader ‘Rollways’ c. 1920, Rear right; boom of loader

10364-P. Rollways into Rib Lake, mill in back c. 1920

10365-P. McGiffert Loader

10366-P. Flatcar & logs half unloaded at hotpond, ‘5-27-1948 last log load’

10367-P. Man’s best friend

10368-P. ‘Prince Albert’

10368A-back side text

10369-Postcard ‘Souvenir of Medford, WI’-Winchester Hotel (made of Rib Lake Hemlock) – Taylor Co. Courthouse & Jail – Holy Rosary Church c. 1911

10369A-back side addressed to Anna (Mae) Kennedy 9-27-1911

10370-P. Camp unknown, ‘Kitchen Crew 1937’

10371-P. Camp unknown, ‘1937 Rose-When I was 19’

10372-P. camp unknown, stable

10373-P. camp unknown, stable

10374-P. camp unknown, crew lined up for chow

10375-P.’Lumber Camp between Rib Lake & Merrill’ camp unknown

10376-P. camp unknown

10377-P. camp unknown, R; locomotive tender, NB elevated walkway

10378-P. Camp 10, 7 buildings-some frame-some log

10379-P. Camp 26 & visitor, 11 buildings, upper left, McGiffert loader

10380-P. Mill & rollways into Rib Lake c. 1920

10381-P. ‘Corner in Lumber yard’ c. 1920

10382-P. Perfectly piled lumber c. 1920 NB rain caps

10383-P. snow covered ‘steps’ in piles

10384-P. teamster with tramcar

10385-P. tramcars from McComb Ave – view west

10386-P. lumber piles, NB different lengths, RR tracks in foreground, r; tramway view west

10387-Employee’s Guide, 1946 Rib Lake Lumber Co., Rib Lake, WI, A-M

10388-Statement ‘193_ The Owl Service Station Louis Daus’

10388A-backside signed LP Daus 1-31-34, NB

10389-P. Harper’s Lake – from beach [aka Harper Lake]

10390-P. ‘South Harper Lake’ view NE from beach

10391-P. ‘West Spirit Lake’, aka Big Spirit Lake, aka North Spirit Lake

10392-P. Old STH 102, Stone Arch Bridge, Little Spirit Lake

10393-P. Little Spirit Lake, STH 102, northward along east side, c. 1930

10394-P. Little Spirit Lake, view north; background Price Co. c. 1940

10395-Rib Lake Herald 8-1962 How-de-do in ’62 supplement, see 10261, 8 pgs

10396-P. ‘To Camp 9 1912 steam hauler’ probably sec. 1, denuded land

10397-P. ‘Camp 2 perhaps’ quote from unknown source on back of photo, 5 buildings-log &

frame

10398-P. ‘Camp at Copper River 3-20-1912’ foreground; RR track & telephone wires

10399-P. ‘John Specht foreman, Copper River Camp-east of Athens, 1912’

Volume (Disc) V - #10400-10499

10400-P. 2 teams & log sleigh ‘1912’

Photos 10396 to ___ from black unidentified 2 ring binder of Galen Scharer collection, may be from Surveyor Claussen

10401-P. ‘1912’ log sleighs approach rollways

10402-P. ‘Copper River Camp 1912’ Jammer loading sleighs

10403-P. ‘Camp 5 on Wood Lake branch’ wood railroad & rollway

10404-P. ‘Back of Kelnhofer farm May 4, 1920’ NW quarter, Sec. 34 T 33N R2E

10405-Map 1913 stand atlas of Taylor Co., shows location of photo #10404

10406-P. ‘May 4, 1920’ snow flying from plow on railroad

10407-P. ‘May 4, 1920’ railroad locomotive stuck in snow, Kelnhofer farm, view to SW

10408-P. ‘Starting the cleanup May 4, 1920 tel 73285 R.L. Herald’ left, locomotive, upper left, St. John the Baptist Church, right R.L. Depot view SW

10409-P. 5-4-1920 snow at tramway, above McComb Ave, view north

10410-P 5-4-1920 ‘watch out for the cars’ sign-west side of McComb Ave.

10411-P. 5-4-1920 similar to 10410

10412-P. 5-4-1920 ‘looking north McComb Ave’

10413-P. c. 1915 mill reconstruction south side ‘building the transfer [chain]’

10414-P. c. 1915 ‘Boiler room construction’ rear, mill superstructure, NB unidentified man

10415-P. c. 1915 ‘the finishing touches to the stack’ caboose in front of transfer, view NE

10416-P. ‘air plane view north side of Rib Lake 1918’ sawmill brick chimney-smoking-in foreground, center, hemlock bark stacks at tannery, Lutheran Church faces south

10417-P. east side of McComb Ave. c. 1915, Left to right-motor bike, view SSE, sign ‘Millinary’ perhaps Millinery store maybe

10418-P. c. 1925 McComb Ave, may be July 4; left-’Drugs’-Upjohn’s drugstore

10419-P. c. 1910 ‘Looking north of S. Forest St.’ 2007 map shows no Forest St in Rib Lake, in 2007 is S. Front St., corner of Landall & S. Front St., rear-log pile along tannery railroad spur

10420-P. c. 1920 hotpond, ‘Boom at hotpond’ view north, smoke from ‘train just pulling out of woods’

10421-P. ‘Cabin at New Wood 1912 Williams homestead Good place to hunt’

10422-P. c. 1910 ‘Old dam on Little Spirit Lake’ view east

10423-P. c. 1920 ‘Hy 102 Little Spirit’ view SE, from county line

10424-P. ‘going to New Wood after Bear, Bill Welle, Charles Talbot, C.R.C’ [Cy Claussen maybe]=former Rib Lake area surveyor

10424A-back side

10425-P. 1912 Wood Lake log landing

10426-Rib Lake Herald 2-21-1947 – Title Page – partial

10427-Rib Lake Herald 1-21-1971 Title Page-partial; Steamhauler photo, ‘Camp 9’

10428-Rib Lake Herald 2-4-1971 title page-partial; photo of Hedwig ‘Hattie’ Rusch

10429-Rib Lake Herald 7-8-1971 title page-partial; Indian loco-Timm’s Hill; photo of Timm’s Lake

10430-Map plat 1995 T34 2E, ‘Tim’s Lake’ Price Co.

10431-bylaws (handwritten original) Rib Lake Camp 890 Modern Woodmen of America, May 9, 1903

A-page 2

B-page 3

C-page 2 ½ pin attached to B

D-’#6’

E-backside of D ‘Approved 5-12-1903’

10432-Soo Line Railroad track map Rib Lake – date unknown

End of Dr. Galen Scharer Collection

10433-Merrill Daily Herald ‘Lumber Company at Rib Lake Has Changed Hands’ – largest sawmill in state- US Leather Co. sells-1936

10434-Merrill Daily Herald-RLLC ad for workers, 2 camps will run all summer-1936

10435-Merrill Daily Herald-Ad; RLLC wants men for peeling [perhaps tan] bark & pulpwood-1941

10436-Merrill Daily Herald 9-17-1945 fire destroys planning mill, dry shed & office, RLLC

10437-Book, ‘Wisconsin Central Railroad Lands in Northern WI, ‘A farm for every industrious man’, land dept.-WI Central Railroad c 1903, [hard copy 65 pgs filed RLH-Railroads-Wis. Central]

A.

B.

C-photo S.M. Haight Farm near Rib Lake

D-May 1898 T.C. WI Central Railroad Lands

E-F-T.C. The Garden Spot

G-H-Rib Lake

Joyce Summers collection

10438-Tribute of Julia Hultman by Joyce Summers 2003, A-P

10439-P. Julia Hultman c. 1935

10440-Title Page-Julia Hultman album, Elaine Vanderhoof & Joyce Summers

10441-P. Julia Hultman 2-14-1937

10442-’Julia’s Story’

10443-A-The Hultman Homestead; B-Julia & Fritiof Hultman

10444P. Fritiof Hultman

10445-A-Arland Hultman July 30, 1935; B-Melvin and Arland Hultman

10446-P. A-Julia’s Flowers; B-Iris Garden in bloom, Hultman Lake

10447-P. same woods scene A-winter; B spring

10448-P. A-pasture; B-May 4, 1939 exposure 1 hour 9pm

10449-P. A-winter porch; B-ice damage

10450-P. A-Hultman Farm, 1938; B-The Henning Bergeson Farm

10451-P. A-Arvid Blomberg place Oct. 1929; B. Carl Blomberg Place

10452-P. A-Benny Bergeson Place; B-George Blomberg Place, Oct. 1929

10453-P. A-Fred Anderson House, Levine Rd; B-excavating the basement 6-1931

10454-P. A-Ogema with 2 churches; B-J.A Larson store 8-2-1941

10455-P. Hultman Hill, CTH C

10456-P. A-Price Co. snow plow Jan. 1937; B-car in snow cut

10457-P. A-Lydia & Howard Cutts, Arland & Melvin Hultman 1938; B-plowing snow with old A-frame plow, Martin Johnson drives horses, Fritiof Hultman & Malcolm Cutts on back of plow, Gust Swanson standing by horses Mar 1, 1940

10458-P. A-snow cut; B-hand shoveling snow

10460-P. A-car in ditch CTH C 1938; B-John Lundberg’s car 1938

10461-P. A-WPA (Works Progress Administration) rebuilding CTH C Arthur Swanson as Boss Oct. 1938; B-’Steamshovel’ Hultman’s Corner

10462-P. A-Fred Ahrens truck pulling Hultman’s car out of mud 1938; B-Fritiof Hultman’s 1928 Chevrolet on a Sunday drive

10463-P. A-Arthur Bergeson’s Oct. 1929; B-LeVerne Cutts leaving after week vacation June 1931

10464-P. A-Edwin Blimberg hauling hay; B-Rib Lake school bus CTH C 1940

10465-P. A-Fred Matson delivering mail 1937; B-Fred Matson, mail carrier

10466-P. A-Albert Johnson’s gas truck; B-Howard Berquist’s truck

10467-P. A-W.D. Stevens fixing phone line; B-Emil Soderbeck mechanic Ogema, Mar. 1937 Ford Garage

10468-P. A-Alvin Birkholz milk truck; B-Karl Christoffersen stone mason 1931

10469-P. A-Our stone wall; B-Hultman farm

10470-P. A-Henning Bergeson’s sawmill, run by George Helvey; B-Henning Bergeson’s logs

10471-P. A-sawing lumber, steam tractor, B-pine logs – 3 trucks

10472-P. A-decking logs, Fritiof Hultman on right; B-Fritiof Hultman and Gust Swanson sawing wood cross cutting firewood by hand

10473-P. A-Ford pickup powered saw 5-1930; B-’Sawing at Cutts’ John Lundbert, Gust, Malcolm Cutts

10474-P. A-Henning Bergeson’s Sugar Bush, run by Ray Norlin; B-’Henning’s Sugar Camp’

10475-P. A-’Ginseng Garden’; B-’Sorting Ginseng’

10476-P. A-’digging Potatoes’; B-’Refreshments at haying time-1929’

10477-P. A-Haying for Martin Johnson on the Brown Place, July 22, 1936; B-Howard Cutts haying on the Brown place

10478-P. A-Melvin Hultman raking hay; B-Making hay on Stone Lake meadow, Gust Swanson launching boat 1934, Marsh hay-man with scythe

10479-P. A-Stacking hay; B-hunting, Alex Johnson & Arthur Bergeson

10480-P. A-Demo by professor on pruning apple trees at Hultman’s Apr. 12, 1930; B-Fritiof Hultman, Howard, Gust, Melvin and Adella Hultman

10481-P. A-fox pelts; B-fox pelts

10482-P. A-process fox pelts in Wausau; B-sorting fox pelts in Wausau 1935

10483-P. Cal Johnson demos casting at Kelly’s ball diamond in Ogema; B-Cal Johnson on Stone Lake

10484-P. The Bee 1938 article on Cal Johnson

10485-P. Ernest Heden, State Senator from Ogema

10486-P. Railroad Platform prop, Clarence Helm, Fritiof Hultman & Harry Magnuson

10487-P. A-unidentified politician; B-Norman Thomas, Socialist 9-1934

10488-P. A-Gov. Phillips LaFollette campaigning at Phillips, WI 10-16-1938 -He Lost-; B-crowd

10489-P. A-pensive politician; B-Band shell

10490-P. A-Funerals; B-Garden of Memories cemetery

10491-P. A-Irene Anderson internment July 10, 1929; B-John Levine’s funeral 1929, Norlin School, CTH C, Town of Hill

10492-P. A-funeral of Carl Joel Sander; B-funeral from Norlin School

10493-P. A-funeral of Mrs. Kenneth (Mary) Price Aug. 9, 1931; B-funeral of Mrs. Leonard (Edith) Risberg Oct. 22, 1933 from Ogema Lutheran Church

10494-P. A-Oscar Swan, Herman Nelson, George Blomberg, Charlie Bergeson, Sven Sander; B-funeral of Elmer Anderson Dec. 27, 1936

10495-P. A-’School Days; B-’On the School trail’ 1929, second growth white birch, old pine stumps

10496-P. A-Norlin School, Nellie Cutts, teacher 1934; B-Easter program Norlin School, Apr. 1931

10497-P. A-Norlin School Picnic; B-Enid Blomberg (Carlson) teacher

10498-P. A-Norlin School students 1938; B-Arland & Melvin Hultman dinner pails

10499-P. A-taking 8th grad test at Spirit Center School; B-Melvin Hultman & Wilbert Blomberg 1940, last class to graduate at Norlin School

Volume (Disc) VI - #10500-10599

10500-P. A-county graduation for 8th graders, Phillips Normal School; B-Herbert Magnuson & Arland Hultman 8th grade graduation, Phillips Normal School 1942

10501-P. A-Stone Lake School merry-go-round; B-Stone Lake School Orvin Wilkens teacher

10502-P. A-Hillbillies 4-H club 1939; B-Timm’s Hill fire tower June 18, 1939

10503-P. A-Hultman Lake 1931, Melvin Hultman farm; B-boat house 1929

10504-P. A-Lois Cutts, Alice Wallgren, Gladys Johnson & Nellie Cutts; B-shore

10505-P. Winter sports A-fallen skier; B-sonny & sled 1928

10506-P. A-Irene Briant skiing Feb. 11, 1931; B-Hike & Irene Briant & Sidney on sled

10507-P. A-Arland and Melvin Hultman skiing homemade; B-on sled

10508-P. A-winter port on CTH C; B-wobbly skier

10509-P. A-Billy Ahrens at Hultman’s; B-Melvin Hultman’s icehouse

10510-envelope 10-30-1974, from Julia Hultman, Health Care Center, Menomonie, WI 54751 to Mrs. Ella Lundberg, Ogema

10511-Letter of Julia Hultman to Ella Lundberg 10-29-1974; 10 pages

10512-cover page Price Co. Plat book 1995

10512A-index-site of Town of Hill

10512B-Town of Hill

Album 2 of Joyce Summers collection

10513-P. photo inside Hultman home-’Playing the Victrola’ Irene Briant & Mildred Motley

10514-P. A-Mildred Motley; B-Mr. Brown playing accordion

10515-P. A-boy doing puzzle; B-Arland Hultman, cream separator

10516-P. A-Irene Briant; B-1929 Ogema Hardware calendar

10517-P. A-Xmas tree with candles 1931; B-Xmas tree 1936

10518-P. cows Bonnie & Belle ‘Butchered Nov. 24, 1934’

10519-P. A-Heifer calves in 1929 ‘This calf choked to death in stall same year’; B-cows at the spring

10520-P. A-cows at spring; B-pet dog

10521-P. A-cows; B-cows

10522-P. A-Julia Hultman feeding chickens; B-Arland Hultman feeding chickens

10523-P. A-Art Bergeson with his sheep 1938; B-1933 bear in trap near Hike (Briant)

10524-P. A-Elmer Johnson teamster; B-Gust Swanson & Howard Cutts

Moms & Babies

10525-P. A-Julie and Arland Hultman Dec. 1928; B-Julia & Arland Hultman June 1929

10526-P. A-Emilia Krans et al; B-Ladies Aid 8-8-1929

10527-P. A-Mable Johnson & son Ed; B-Irene Briant

10528-P. A-Minne Brown and Lowell Bergeson 1930; B-Mrs. Harry [Jennie] Magnuson & son Herbert Oct. 21, 1929

10529-P. A-Adella Ahrens & Grace 5-8-1934; B-Adella Ahrens & Billy 1937;

10530-P. A-Phoebe Cutts & kids; B-Adella Ahrens

10531-P. A-Adella Ahrens 1938; B-Arland Hultman, Billy Ahrens, Grace Ahlens, Adella holding Stanley and Mildred Motley, now known as Dixon

10532-P. A-Irene Briant with children Joan, Sidney & Melvin Hultman, black spruce Xmas tree; B-Irene Briant

The Kids

10533-P. ‘Sonny on his 3rd birthday, July 22, 1929’

10534-P. A-Arland Hultman with chickens 1929; B-Melvin Hultman on tricycle & Arland Hultman in buggy 1929

10535-P. A-’Sonny playing the phonograph; B-Melvin & Arland Hultman

10536-P. A-Arland Hultman; B-Arland Hultman

10537-P. A-Arland Hultman 1930; B-Arland Hultman & puppies

10538-P. A-Arland Hultman; B-Melvin Hultman’s 5th birthday, July 22, 1931

10539-P. A-Melvin & Arland Hultman on peeled cedar posts; B-apple picking time 1931

10540-P. A-Xmas presents – perhaps strap on skates; B-Arland Hultman

10541-P. A-Billy Ahrens 1945; B-Grace Adella Ahrens 1934

10542-P. A-Grace Ahrens 1934; Billy Ahrens 1935

10543-P. A-Melvin Hultman with turkey 1935; B-Lowell Bergeson, Adelle Anderson & Elaine Lundberg

10544-P. A-’Sonny’ Melvin Hultman 10th B-day July 22, 1936 & Louise Johnson; B-Melvin Hultman, Louis Johnson & Arland Hultman peeking in back 1936

10545-P. A-Arland & Melvin Hultman in center with sling shot; B-Grace Ahrens & Sidney Briant

10546-P. A-Grace Ahrens 3rd B-day 1936; A-Arland Hultman on 8th B-day, July 30, 1936

10547-P. A-Billey Ahren’s 5th B-day, Sidney Briant, Arland Hultman & Billy 1937; B-Louise Johnson & Alice Peterson 1937

10548-P. A-Elmer & Louise Johnson; B-Melvin & Arland Hultman

10549-P. A-Joan and Sidney Briant 1939; B. Billy Ahrens, Grace Ahrens & Sidney Briant 1939

10550-P. A-Arland Hultman holding Stan Ahrens; B-Dewey & Douglas Ames, Arland Hultman, Herb Magnuson, Lowell Bergeson & Lester Magnuson

10551-P. A-Arland Hultman 13th B-day 1941; B-Elmer Johnson, Louise Johnson, Everett Johnson, Stanley Ahrens, Grace Ahrens, Arland Hultman & Billy Ahrens in back 1941

10552-P. A-Melvin Hultman & Lydia Cutts; B-playhouse

10553-P. A-Stanley & Gracy Ahrens; B-Arland Hultman on raft ‘Duck’ at Harper Lake

Hill Folks

10554-P. A-Hill Folks; B-Claus Berlin July 1930

10555-P. A-August Johnson Jan. 8, 1939; B-Mrs. Levine

10556-P. A-Fritiof Hultman & Harry Magnuson; B-’In Harry Briant’s motorcycle 1927’

10557-P. A-Lydia Cutts, lived to be 98 years old; B-Lydia Cutts at 91

10558-P. A-Howard Cutts in mask; B-Howard Cutts by mail box 1938

10559-P. A-Melvin Hultman & Adella Ahrens 1929 with ‘A Pickeral’; B-Gotfred Enander & Adella Ahrens 1930

10560-P. A-Gust Swanson, Adella Ahrens & Gotfred Enander 1930; B-’When Malmquist was visiting here in 1932’

10561-P. A-Ida Swanson, Fannie Noelin [Norlin] & Ella Lundberg; B-Alice Fredrickson & her mother

10562-P. A-Gust Swanson & Ida Hultman on wedding day, Mar. 18, 1929; B-Mr. & Mrs. Matt Johnson a week after wedding, Apr. 2, 1936

10563-P. A-Mr. & Mrs. Carl Blomberg silver anniversary; B-Christofersens 1935

10564-P. A-Oscar & Fanny Norlin; B-Ida Swanson, Anna Fredrickson, Ella Lundberg; Julia Hultman, Melvin & Arland Hultman & Elaine Lundberg

10565-P. A-Families, Oscar Swan family 1928; B-Fred Strombom family 1929

10566-P. A-Floyd Tripp family 1931; B-Lloyd & Jenny Tripp with Robert Tripp

10567-P. A-Lloyd, Willard, Jenny, Robert, Donald Tripp; B-Magnuson family, Harry Briant & Hultman boys

10568-P. A-Nellie Schmidt, Phoebe Johnson, Martin Johnson, Louis Schmidt, 1933; B-Phoebe Johnson holding Louise, Nellie Schmidt holding Wayne & Martin Johnson holding Elmer

10569-P. A-Phoebe, Louis, Martin & Elmer Johnson; B-Fanny & Oscar Norlin, Bert, Janet, Edith Weckstrom

10570-P. A-Donaldson family; B-Warren Clark family

10571-P. A-George Blomberg family & Sophie; B-Lilly Blomberg with some of her children

10572-P. A-Palmer, Betty & Roy, Wilbert & Lyle Blomberg; B-Alan Blomberg & brother George, Jr.

10573-P. A-George, Mable, Eddie & Alan Johnson; B-George & Mable Johnson

10574-P. A-Swen Sander family; B-Soderbeck family

The Parties

10575-P. A-Harry Magnuson 6-14-1936; B-Arthur Bergeson

10576-P. A-Mrs. Carl Blomberg 1931; B-H. [perhaps Harry] J. Bergeson

10577-P. A-Harold Blomberg; B-Mr. & Mrs. Harold Blomberg wedding

10578-P. A-Harold Blomberg B-day; B-Carl Blomberg party

10579-P. A-Hultman party; B-Julia Hultman, Ella & Elaine Lundberg, Julia Cutts & Sophie Blomberg

10580-P. A-Oscar Norlin’s B-day party 1931; B-Ladies at Oscar Norlins 1935

10581-P. A-Lilas Roche, Bertha Hoase, Rekla Johnson, Rita Roche, Janet Wickstrom; B-Part at Norlins

10582-P. A-Gust Swanson B-day party; B-Gust Swanson’s B-day 1938

10583-P. A-neighborhood party 1937; B-Hultman party 1937

10584-P. A-Lydia Cutts’ 91 B-day 1938; B-day party at Levin’s neighbors

10585-P. A-John Lundberg party; B-Ella Lundberg party

10586-P. A-silver anniversary party Mr. & Mrs. John Westberg; B-Mr. & Mrs. John Westberg

10587-P. A-’party on the stone pile’ at Cutts’ home 1934; B-basketball players in barn at Carl Blombergs, 1931

10588-P. A-Sunday school picnic at Stone Lake; B-picnic at Stone Lake

10589-P. A-gunny sack race at Fox Farmer’s Picnic at Bradley Park in Tomahawk; B-Ladies Aid at Henning Bergesons 1931, Lilly Blomberg with Palmer, Mrs. Axel Larson with Eddie, Elsie Larson, Gladys Norlin, unknown, Jeanette Larson, Sophie Blomberg, Clara Levin, Anna Fredrickson, Ella Lundberg with Elaine, Augusta Bergeson, Edith Bergeson, Christina Bergeson, Jennie Magnuson with Aileen and Herbert, bottom row, unknown, Ida Swanson, Fannie Norlin, Ellen Bergeson, Minnie Brown

collection of Deb & Joseph Tomandl

10590-Deb (Tabor) & Joseph Edward Tomandl address

10591-A Tabor Saga by Clifford Clark Tabor, page D is Spirit Lake History, How Spirit Lake was named

10592-P. Tabor Island on Big Spirit Lake, WI 5-30-1937

10593-P. Tabor Island cabin c. 2000

10594-P. Tabor Island cabin c. 2000

10595-P. Tabor log cabin c. 2000, across from Tabor Island

10596-Westboro; P. Westboro Liberty Bankd, ‘Nelt’s Westboro Bank’ ‘George Tabor Center’ 1915

10597-P. Nelt’s Westboro Band’ 1915, blind Alf Emmet in front row seated 3rd from left

10598-P. Park Falls High School band c. 1915

10599-P. Main Street Dorchester, WI c. 1950

Volume (Disc) VII- #10600-10699

10600-P. 1917 Soo line wreck, Dorchester WI

10601-P. 1917 Soo line wreck, Dorchester WI

10602-P. snow scenes 3-17-1917 Abbotsford-Dorchester, locomotive stuck

10603-P. shoveling out

10604-P. a morning [locomotive] plunge

10605-P. after the plunge ‘mostly snow 3-17-1917

10606-P. 3-18-1917 snow plow at work north of Dorchester

10607-P. 3-18-1917 railroad snow plow north of Dorchester

10608-P. The boys on the Soo Line-not in the trenches (of WWI)

10609-P. shoveling snow-Soo Line

10610-P. ‘going through a snow drift’ Soo Line

10611-P. ‘in the snow’ 3-18-1917

10612-P. Just out of the snow 3-18-1917, locomotive #2401

10613-P. ‘A plunge in the snow’

10614-P. snow plow that did the work 3-18-07

10615-P. snow plow that did the work 3-18-07

10616-P. snow cut, railroad tracks 3-18-1917

10617-Rib Lake History-forest fires, Wood Lake burn 1931, data from Lawrence Schneidger to RPR

Data from Taylor County Historical Society files:

10618-P. c. 1916 CTH C crossing Rib River, view SE to Fritz Martin farm, Rib River Stats Graded School on hill, farm & school in NW NW 18-T32N R3E, ‘PO 4-4-3 (249)’

10619-P. c. 1950 St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Rib Lake, South side ‘P 85-23-15 (o)’

10620-P. postcard ‘Interwald, WI’, unidentified farmstead ‘P85-12-1 (63)’

10621-P. postcard, log sleigh on Rib Lake c. 1910, teamster in skin coat, Rib Lake High School, S side ‘P84-21-21 (69)’

10622-P. c. 1910 firewood dump wagon with team ‘P84-21-19(69)’

10623-P. UN lumber sleighs & teamsters not RLLC, possibly at other Rib Lake mill

10624!P. Grocery, Dry Goods & Feed Store, Chelsea, WI c. 1928

10625~P. ‘The (deer) Hunters’ 11-1909 Westboro, WI

10626-P. 1927 Rib Lake Lumber Co. mill crew, panoramic view at transfer chain

10627-List by Mr & Mrs. Victor Kohn ‘some of the crew are identified’

10628-P. 1916 RLLCo planing mill-west side, under construction, photo from tramway above McComb Ave.

10629-P. c. 1950 ‘Main St’ Rib Lake, actually McComb Ave. view north

10630-Map-Taylor Co- Plat c. 1894, Bogk & Rowland, Milwaukee, title page – entire map under RLH-Title

10630A-T33N R1E

10630B-T33N R2E

10630C-T33N R3E

10631-Map, Taylor Co. Plat c. 1901

10631A-T33N R1E

10631B-T33N R2E

10631C-T33N R3E

10632-Map, Taylor Co. Plat c. 1910, Paetzold & Koehler

10632A-T33N R1E

10632B-T33N R2E

10632C-T33N R3E

10633-P. 1908 Rib River Log Drive, ‘Interwald, WI rolling in’ Town of Greenwood, Taylor Co, WI

10634-P. ‘Camp No. 3, H. Bonneville foreman, Rib Lake, Wis., Feb. 8, 1891’ ‘Scene in Wisconsin Pinery’ on back ‘Logging Camp east of Rib Lake, from Wm. Westberg of Westboro’

10635-’Specifications on First National Bank at Rib Lake, Wis’ Paul Oppermann, General Building Contractor c 1900

10636-Centennial Plate, St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, 6-11-1972, Diamond Jubilee

10637-’Reminiscence of a Lumber Town’ by Kevin Mannel 12-1976, SF-History-RL 12-1976

10638-P. Mill from lake c. 1940, ‘Rib Lake and Saw Mill’

10639-History of Rib Lake 1902-2002, ‘Village of Rib Lake Centennial Celebration’

10640-Map of Rib Lake and environs, by Everett A. Rusch, c. 1995

A-background

B-Heyday

C-tramway

D-H-Misc.

I-O-Map

P-Map center, tannery, RLLC Mill, McComb Ave.

10641-Twentieth Century Club 1900-1960

10642-Twentieth Century Club 1960-1990

10643-Naida E. Wallace Straub (NES) biography

10644-RLH ‘Historical Society-Early Rib Lake Families’ wood front piece Naida E. Straub scrapbook

10645-John Worthington History by Naida E. Straub

10646-John Worthington grave rubbing

10647-P. John J. Kennedy a.k.a. J.J. Kennedy

10648-Biography of John J. Kennedy by Naida E. Straub

10649-P. John J. Kennedy house c. 1900, Rib Lake filled with logs

10650-P. McComb Ave, new North c. 1900, bark piles in back, smokestack from tannery, church Lutheran (facing south)

10651-P. bark piles, view Northwest c. 1900

10652-P. High School c. 1905

10653-P. Pine Island c. 1905

10654-P. Catholic Church, southeast side, & rectory c. 1905

10655-History of John Henry Curran family by Harry Curran 5-1991

10656-Biography John J. Voemastek

10657-Note by Lillian Clifford (Mrs. Eugene Clifford)

10658-Biography of John A. Taylor Family

10659-Biography Patrick Family, by Annette (Patrick) Jahnke 1-1992

10660-Biography John A. Taylor and children

10661-P. Flossie (Page) Wallace, Mother of Naida E. Straub

10662-RLHe Miscellaneous articles c. 1960

10663-P. Roy Meier & Ye Olde Sugar House

10664-Milwaukee Journal, Shirley Martin article ‘Snitz wants to bring home a national AAU title for its leader’ daughter of Ed Martin of Rib Lake c. 1960

10665-Charles Franklin Gummo family

10666-RLH history 7-1981 by Star News

10667-L. 4-22-1902 letterhead of W.H. Osburn Lumber Co. to Edward Van Gliessin [Van Giesen], Esq, signed by Donald Kennedy

10668-statement of W.H. Osburn Lumber Co. signed by Wm. Pringle, 7-27-1901

10669-obit Clifford L. Curran

10670-obit John Dolezalek, Sr.

10671-obit Raymond L. Becker

10672-Autobiography of Adeline (Kaske) Walbeck

10673-Autoiography Edwin Thums

10674-P. Water fight, Rib Lake McComb& Railroad, July 4, 1920s

10675-P. Enola Walty nee Headstream, mother of Roland Walty

10676-P. 1923 6th Grade at Rib Lake Ward School with names

10677-P. 1909 Ward School class, including Hedwig ‘Hattie’ Rusch

10678-P. Mr. Pfeiffer [perhaps Joseph] cutting hay with oxen

10679-P. McComb Ave., view north ‘in year 1900’

10680-P. c. 1930 Methodist Episcopal Church (2007 United Methodist Church, 1300 Church St., 427-3670) south side

10681-Centennial Book – Methodist Church, 1892-1992

10682-Rib Lake United Methodist Ch. 9-13-1992 bulletin

10683-Centennial Book-St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church 1886-1986 by Blossom Mae Sheehan, A-P. c. 1930 St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church northwest (sawmill RLLC in background)

10684-Bulletin, St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church 6-22-1986

10685-A history of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, unknown author, (within Naida E. Straub scrapbook)

10686-P. 2-1948 train leaving McComb Ave for last tree cutting at Camp 28

10687-text, 2-1948 last pine out

10688-P. RLLC razing mill chimney c. 1950

10689-P. c. 1950 RLLC mill chimney remains, foreground-old mill cement floor

10690-John Eckhoff interview

10691-Biography of Ferdinand and Eda Frank

10692-Biography of Mike and Elsie (Krause) Schmidt

10693-Biography of E.C. Getchel, A-E.C. Getchel home, now Kniewel Funeral Home, 933 West St

10694-P. First Rib Lake Village Hall

10695-A History of Rib Lake by Naida E. Straub c. 1988

10696-P. 6 men, peeled hemlock logs c. 1900-Ring marks don every 4 feet apart, length of bark cut

10697-Accident report, 11-15-1938, RLLC of Delaware

10698-Rib Lake Bicentennial festival 1976

10699-P. ‘1888 Jumbo 4 horse load, 22, 291 ft-21 logs-hauled 5 miles, J.J. Kennedy lumberman Rib Lake’, board feet written on each log, eastern white pine logs

Volume (Disc) VIII- #10700-10799

10700-Biography Edwin Forrest Van Giesen to Naida E. Straub-niece of Van Giesen,

10700A-Photo, Edwin Forrest Van Giesen

10700B-see 10700

10700C-P. c. 1893 Wellington Lake (then Worthington Lake) railroad filled in foreground engineered by Edwin Van Giesen, fill deposited 1883

10701-Biography Dio Walty 1877-1964

10702-Students 1896-1897 at Ward School

10703-Students 1893 at Ward School

10704-Students 1915, high school, A-Students 1891, high school

10705-History of Rib Lake 8-4-1933, Mrs. Gustav Bielenberg [this was originally misidentified as 8-14-1933, the correct date is 8-4-1933]

10706-Biography of Meinrad Kathrein, Sr. & Mary Ann Kathrein, by Marie Kathrein Krolnik 3-17-1992

10707-Biography of William & Marie (Schmidt) Silbernagel

10708-Biography of Jake Janda

10709-Biography of Frank Skon

10710-Biography of Ed Prien; obit of Beda C. Prien

10711-P. Beda C. Prien

10712-Biography Beda Caroline Skon Gaspard Prien

10713-Autobiography of Naida E. Wallace Straub

10714- Autobiography of Naida E. Wallace Straub

10715-obit Guy Wallace & Albert F. Prahl

10716-memorial cards for John William Eckhoff and Luthera Mary Neville

(end of Naida E. Straub collection)

10717-P. ‘U.S. Tannery, Rib Lake, Wis’ View from south c. 1900, left, 2 bark piles, Fayette Ave in foreground

10717A-backside of 10717 1 cent stamp

10718-P. ‘Depot Scene Rib Lake, Wis’ c. 1910, left is Kolz Mill, right is a cattle loading ramp, combination caboose & passenger car, train facing SW-heading to Chelsea, Wisconsin Central Railway

(additional material from Naida E. Straub collection)

10719-bulletin; Post Office dedication 9-18-1966, c-Rib Lake postmasters since 6-12-1883

10720-Biography of James Downs, A P. James & Cora Downs

10721-P. c. 1920 Rib Lake Fire Dept., Fwd truck spraying water, x= Jim Downs, Chief

10722-P. The Commercial Hotel at Railroad & Lake (Main) St. c. 1900

10723-Map of Village of Rib Lake c. 2000

10724-Map of Village noting site of Commercial Hotel

10725-P. Rib Lake Creamery c. 1920, at Elm St. & State Rd., ‘Al Schroeder, Last Buttermaker’

10726-Map of Village noting site of Creamery & Commercial Hotel

10727-P. c. 1910 view South from tannery, Lutheran Church, Foreground is Railroad along Fayette St.

10728-History of Rib Lake, 1936, by Guy Wallace, A-U annotations by his daughter, Naida E. Straub

10729-P. Guy Wallace, age 16

10730-Biography of ‘William (Guy) Wallace’, a.k.a. William L. Wallace or Guy Wallace

10731-Diploma RLHS Guy Wallace 5-29-1917

10732-P. c.1910 Rib Lake High School, May pole, foreground; shed roof of Tannery & ‘The Flats’

10733-Biographies of 11 people

10734-’Odd Bits of (Rib Lake history) info by Naida E. Straub

10735-P. Marlin ‘Shoes’ Walback, with sons, L-Kurt, R-Kent, #30 his stock car

10736-Story-Essay by Naida E. Straub ‘Wisconsin the Best of 50, Rib Lake a friendly town’

10737-Biography of Henry Mathias

(end of Naida E. Straub collection)

10738-Map, Railroads of Taylor County, copyright RPR 4-18-1999

10739-History of Rib Lake 12-13-1907, ‘Ten Years Ago’ Rib Lake Herald

10740-Rib Lake Herald 12-13-1907, German Language Stories

10741-Rib Lake History, 12-27-1907

10742-Sketch of Rib Lake Lumber Company mill c. 1920

RPR negatives from Pete Enders collection:

10743-P. c. 1918 Star Load-Camp 9, End of season-load contest winner

10744-P. unidentified mill crew, c. 1926, possibly Rib Lake

10745-P. c. 1925, Log rollway & crew

10746-P. sleight & tanker, 4 horse team, making ice road c. 1925

10747-P. c. 1925 4 log rollways, decking crew, ‘Rib Lake, Wis #27’

10748-P. c. 1925, Rollway & crew, railroad track

10749-P. c. 1925, (same building shown in 10743) ice road maintenance shack, with 5 person crew, possibly Camp 9

10750-P. possibly Camp 5, 6 buildings, c. 1909 [special note: 7-1-2008 – In 1984 Peter Enders identified this photo as Camp 13. He was a highly reliable source and RPR believes the photo to be Camp 13 rather than Camp 5.]

10751-P. RLLC camp c. 1930, elevated walkway

10752-P. c. 1920, 4 horse team, star load of logs

10753-P. aerial c. 1945, Rib Lake Village, mill & dry yard & tannery pond

10754-P. aerial c. 1945, Rib Lake Village, mill & dry yard

10755-P. aerial c. 1945, Rib Lake Village, mill & dry yard & tannery pond

10756-P. aerial Rib Lake Village c. 1950, STH 102 reroute

10757-P. aerial Rib Lake Village 8-28-1938 & environs

10758-P. aerial Rib Lake Village 8-28-1939 & environs

10759-P. aerial Rib Lake Village 8-28-1939 & environs, south shore

10760-P. aerial Rib Lake Village 8-28-1939 & environs

10761-P. aerial Rib Lake Village c. 1950 & Muddy and Little Rib Lakes

10762-P. aerial Rib Lake Village c. 1950 & Muddy and Little Rib Lakes

10763-P. McComb Ave. c. 1980, village water tower, view north, left; Village Hall

10764-P. McComb Ave, John Schreiner c. 1980, L; Post Office

10765-P. C. 1980, Earl Thums sharpening-filing circle saw

10766-P. c. 1980 interior Earl Thums sawmill, Westboro-circle saw & carriage

10767-P. c. 1980 Earl Thums in his sawmill, Appaloosa Ln, Westboro

10768-P. c. 1980 log pile; big tooth aspen, comb for perspective

10769-P. door panel Earl Thums Westboro, WI

John Heisler collection (10770-10804)

(8 x 10 positives & negatives filed under RLH P. by #)

The Heisler collection and the Eileen collection (10805-10825) are the result of the 1981 centennial history work by RPR. RPR had selected photographs processed by Ray Lemmermann and negatives made. The positives were returned to a variety of owners. About 2007 RPR had these negatives digitalized at Duluth and a CD/DVD and positive made. On Mar. 17, 2008, Cindy uploaded each image but could not imbed a number to the photo image. A number was assigned to each photo as shown on the index. The Heisler and Eileen negatives and positives are filed under Photo-Heisler and Photo-Eileen.

10770-P. ‘Rib Lake 1881!’, cutover & burned over, stump filled farm, NB 4-strand wire fence

10771-P. ‘Laying out McComb Ave.’ c. 8-21-1897, Tannery complex in background, 1)A.C. McComb, 2)W.E. Hughes, 3) John J. Kennedy, 4)E.C. Getchel, 5) J. Logan, 6)B.J. Landaal (aka Landall)

10772-P. McComb Ave. looking south from Fayette Ave. c. 1900, R; Bank’s Livery barn, back-tramway over Avenue

10773-P. John J. Kennedy home c. 1900, SE corner of Lake & Second Street, burned Feb. 16, 1903

10773A-Map of Rib Lake showing location of John J. Kennedy home

10774-P. ‘George Clark House & Restaurant’ Clapboard c. 1900, Block 1, Lot 5, original plat of Rib Lake, view west; foreground is 2nd Street, Corner of Church & 2nd Street

10774A-Map of Rib Lake showing location of 10774

10775-P. Clapboard house-same as 10774, view to north, R; 2nd Street.

10775A-Map of Rib Lake showing location of 10775

10776-P. Rib Lake Parade c. 1900

10777-P. Rib Lake Municipal Power Plant, smokestack installation, c. 1910, view SE, Church & Elm Street

10777A-Map of Rib Lake showing location of 10777

10778-P. May pole at High School, view to east c. 1910

10778A-Map of Rib Lake showing location of 10778

10779-P. unknown general store interior, 3 customers & merchant c. 1910

10780-P. firewood wagon & Commercial Hotel c. 1900

10780A-Map of Rib Lake showing location of 10780

10781-P. Commercial House c. 1900, south side

10781A-Map of Rib Lake showing location of 10781

10782-P. mill complex east side c. 1902, L; John J. Kennedy house

10782A-Map of Rib Lake showing location of 10782

10783-P. new lake fill c. 1902

10783A-Map of Rib Lake showing location of 10783

10784-P. ‘Rib Lake Lumber Co.s mill & landing’ c. 1910

10784A-camera orientation map re 10784

10785-P. W.A. Osburn Lumber Co. #3 locomotive, 16 flatcars of logs, c. 1903

10785A-camera orientation map re 10785

10786-P. Teamsters on ice-Rib Lake, c. 1900

10786A-camera orientation map re 10786

10786B-camera orientation map re 10786

10787-P. RLLC Mill from tramway, L; Round house, foreground McComb Ave.

10787A-camera orientation map re 10787

10788-P. ‘Tannery Row’ US Leather Co. office, view west, down present Fayette Ave. c. 1900

10788A-camera orientation map re 10788

10789-P. Tannery c. 1900, view from north, 1) Power plant, 2) Liquor vats 3) dry loft

10789A-camera orientation map re 10789

10790-P. Tannery; liquor vats building c. 1900

10790A-camera orientation map re 10790

10791-P. ‘Osburn Lumber Co’s Camp No. 3, Duncan A. McDonald, Foreman. Rib Lake, Wis, Feb. 1901

10792-P. ‘US Leather Company Camp 2, Township 33 N, Range N 3 E, Sect. 33’, Jim Hedrington, foreman

10792A-camera orientation map re 10792

10793-P. RLLC Camp 13

10793A-camera orientation map re 10793

10794-P. RLLC Camp 7

10794A-camera orientation map re 10794

10795-P. Rollway & Derrick c. 1925

10796-P. Dog in mill yard, view east to RLLC mill c. 1925

10796A-camera orientation map re 10796

10797-P. Snowclad locomotive at Rib Lake depot c. 1910

10797A-camera orientation map re 10797

10798-P. Peeled hemlock on flatcar, McGiffert Loader c.1915

10799-P. ‘Arbor Vitae Logging-1898’ McGiffert Loader, side view

Volume (Disc) IX- #10800-10899

10800-P. 6 men with pickeroons, peeled hemlock logs, c. 1900, NB; 4 foot bark peel cuts on log

10801-P. Graduated but not Educated 1902 Rib Lake Class play

10802-P. Mr. and Mrs. George Clark, c. 1900, early Rib Lake residents

10803-P. Dr. E.A. Lapham, Capt, US Army, Rib Lake physician & surgeon

10804-P. Spoof, west from Medford mill pond

10804A-camera orientation map re 10804

(end of Heisler collection)

(Eileen’s collection-negatives exist for these photos, See SF: RLH P. ‘Eileen’s collection)

10805-P. McComb Ave., view north from STH 102, c. 1950, NB; RLLC Railroad tracks removed from foreground, Gene’s Variety was Old RLLC store

10805A-camera orientation map re 10805, location of Hintz Town & Stumpville

10806-P. Wanigan, cook shanty raft, & Rib River Log Drive c. 1910

10806A-The ‘Wausau’ drive poem from Rib Lake Herald

10807-P. Hintz Town, starting pulpwood log drive to Rothschild Paper Mill (maybe), background Hintz Town sawmill, view probably from ‘Trout Ave’ bridge looking south

10807A-camera orientation map re 10807

10808-P. steam hauler & log sleighs c. 1910

10809-P. RLLC locomotive #3 ‘1913’

10810-P. RLLC Railroad Tracks, unsawn hardwood ties

10811-P. RLLC Railroad Tracks, uncut hemlock forest

10812-P. RLLC Camp 25

10813-P. RLLC Camp 10, foreground; log barn, fire barrels on tar paper roof

10814-P. unidentified cabin

10815-P. Dan Pilon-RLLC Camp Cook

10816-P. RLLC mill fire 7-24-1914, left; hog feed loading device & railroad car of hog feed

10817-P. RLLC 1914 mill fire, view to south

10817A-camera orientation map re 10817

10818-P. RLLC 1914 mill fire, foreground McComb Ave., view to east

10818A similar photo. Quality much improved by Dan Smith in 2015.

10819-P. RLLC new planing mill, view from tramway-eastward, R; stakes in ground; planned addition

10820-P. Peter Clendenning drives team to planing mill, c. 1920, elevated tramway system

10820A-camera orientation map re 10820

10821-P. RLLC Lumber pilers, NB; horse on tramway

10822-P. top; Carl Yorde, Carl Olson, Walt Mathias, piling lumber from tram cart, NB; jack posting 2 boards at a time

10823-P. Rib Lake tannery, view to north, left; bark piles

10823A-camera orientation map re 10823

10824-P. 4 men atop McGiffert loader boom

10825-P. unidentified man & child

(end of Eileen’s collection)

10826-Article from Rib Lake Herald 3-24-1916, Rib Lake Gets the New Mill, RLLC will rebuild its sawmill at Rib Lake

10827-Map 2-1887 Wis. Central Railway Lands Feb. 1887

10828-Map 3-1-1896, Wis. Central Railway Lands

10829-Map 9-1-1897, Wis. Central Railway Lands

10830-Map Taylor County c. 1908, Soo Line Lands

10831-Map Taylor County 1909, Koehler Land Company

(10827-10831 maps are oversize and only a portion of the map was scanned, only northeast Taylor County)

10832-envelope from Christopher N. Barney, Wisconsin Postal History Society, 3913 Dory Court, Franklin, WI 53132-8298

10833-L. Post Office, Report of site locations 1837-1950, Public. #1126, A-B, C-Taylor County map info on post offices

10834-Post office history, Sama & Whittlesey, A-Rib Lake, Urquhart, Brehm & Konz

10835-1913 Plat Book – General location of Sams Post Office, Sec. 18, T 32-3E

10836-Sams Post Office data, A-Konz Post Office data, B-Stephen A. Konz postmaster data

10837-Polk’s Wis. Gazetteer, Konz Town – 1907, A-1909, B-1913

10838-Map-Brehm Post office, SW-SW, 4-32-2E, 1913 Plat Book

10839-Brehm Post Office data, A-Thomas Brehm Post Office

10840-Brehm-1907 Polk’s Wis. Gazetteer, A-Brehm 1909, Josef Probst, ice; John Obowa, carpenter, F. Wudi, teacher; B-1913

10841-Map, John H. Schaack farm, Sec. 20, 33N-3E, Site of Schaack Post Office

10842-Schaack Post Office data

10843-Polk’s Wis. Gazetteer 1907, Schaack Post Office

10844-Map, site of Urquhart Post Office, 28-32N-2E, North side of CTH M

10845-Urquhart Post Office data

10846-Urquhart, Polk’s Wis. Gazetteer, 1907, A-1913

10847-P. July 4 parade, 7-4-1919, Rib Lake Village, from 7-11-1919 Rib Lake Herald

10848-P. 1919, Taylor County State Aid Road Map from Rib Lake Herald

10849-P. Roll of Honor, World War I, Rib Lake, servicemen, Rib Lake Herald, Jan. 11, 1918

10850-tax roll, personal property, Rib Lake Town 1902, alphabetical list of taxpayers

A,B,C, etc.

P-Herman Rusch value $25

F-Osburn Lumber Co. value $84,254

US Leather Co value $103,600

J-Albert Knop value $30

Y-Herm Rush value $25

Z-Herman Rousch

AA-End

10851-tax roll, real property, Rib Lake Township 1902, about 100 pages, page 1 only scanned

10851A-Property-personal & real, types e.g. gold watches & values

10851B-Statement

10851C-7 School Districts, Total tax $5796.79

10851D-Warrant-state tax $1744.62

10851E-Roll, Sec 1, T33N R3E, left side

10851F-Roll, Sec.1, T33N R3E, right side

10852-L. Karen Peterson Baumgartner to RPR 2-15-2008, 20th Century Club disbanding 7-21-2000

10853-Map, Rib Lake Village 1913

10853A-Map, Rib Lake Village, Northeast Portion, 1913

10854-Map, Chelsea, ‘Village’ 1913

10855-Map, Taylor County NE Portion 2008

10856-Map, Marathon Co. NW 2007, Big Rib River log drive route to Rothschild Paper Mill

10857-Kennedy Family Data, A-P

A-John J. Kennedy ‘J.J.’

B-John J. references from Rib Lake Herald 1903-1909

C-Angus [B possible middle initial] Kennedy

D-Hugh J. Kennedy

E-William [J-possible middle initial] Kennedy

F-John S. Kennedy

G-Louis Kennedy

H-Hugh A. Kennedy

I-Allan Kennedy [Allen]

J-Dan B. Kennedy [Long Dan] – probable son of Angus

K-John E. Kennedy – son of Angus

L-Jerry Kennedy-1902 census only

M-John Kennedy [J.M. perhaps]-1902 census only

N-Donald A. Kennedy – son of J.J.

O-William G. Kennedy – son of J.J. [went to law school]

P-Bert Kennedy – unknown, 1907 writes from Meadows, B.C.

10858-tax roll – real property, Rib Lake Village 1903, comprehensive list of real property owners & land descriptions & tax values, first page scanned

10859-Plat Map, Rib Lake Village c. 1900, McComb Ave. & Environs

10860-Plat Map, Rib Lake Village c. 2002, McComb Ave. & Environs & lot owners names

10861-tax assessment roll, Rib Lake Village, 2001, McComb Ave. west side

10862-tax assessment roll, Rib Lake Village, 2001, McComb Ave. east side

10863-Audio-Visual VCR tape of RPR’s interview with Walter ‘Wimpy’ Wilhelms and George Thums, Isabelle Wilhelms, Marlene Thums (nee Gengler), McComb Ave. history, landowners & business owners, 1-27-2002

10864-L. Karen Baumgartner, nee Peterson to RPR 3-8-2002, granddaughter of Ole A. Peterson

10864A-P. First National Bank of Rib Lake; Church Street, view west c. 1910 with list of home occupants; unidentified store, ‘grocery & meats’

10864B-P. Stationery ‘The Busy Bee Café’ Oscar Peterson, proprietor; interior photo; Busy Bee Café exterior, Lot 9, Block D, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

10864C-P. interior of Ma Dodge’s Café, Lot 15, Block D, identification by Karen Baumgartner

10864D-P. ‘interior of Oscar Peterson’s Restaurant’ May be Busy Bee Café, 729 McComb Ave.

10864E-Reverse side of D

Data from Marathon Co. Historical Society

10865-Marathon Co. Historical Society brochure, 715-842-5730

10866-Obit of Mylrea, John ‘Jack’ P. 1885-1963, his invaluable notes & papers of RLLC in 15 volumes at Marathon Co. Historical Society

10867-Autobiography of John D. Mylrea, 1936 Purchased RLLC with others, A-C

10868-Biography of John ‘Jack’ D. Mylrea, A-C

10869-Autobiography of John ‘Jack’ D. Mylrea ‘The Mylrea Family’

10870-L. 8-11-1939, John D. Mylrea to Albert S. Puelicher, Marshall & Ilsey Bank, ‘Rib Lake is largely a hemlock operation’

10871-L. Frank Handeyside, Central Pennsylvania Lumber Company, 1-23-1935, to Mr. J. D. Mylrea, Pres, Thunder Lake Lumber Co, ‘This was the beginning of our purchase of RLLC’

10872-RLLC statement, taxes paid to Lincoln County, 1922-1931, average $42,285.99

10873-RLLC statement, taxes paid to Lincoln County, 1935-1938, total $82,340.51

10874-Article ‘State’s Largest Sawmill Changes Hands this Week’, A.P Woodson, J.D. Mylrea, R.G. Brownell, Frank Handeyside, new owners,

10875-2-5-1936 Art ‘Rhinelander Men Buy 61,000 acres, Take over U.S. Leather Rib Lake Tract Near Wausau’ Chicago Journal of Commerce

10876-’RLLC timber 7-30-1943, hemlock 54.93%, pine 1.8%’

10877-diagram T31 R4E, Land status

10878-diagram T32 R4E, Land status

10879-diagram T33 R4E, Land status

10880-diagram T34 R4E, Land status

10881-RLLC Price of lumber FOB railroad car 1936-1940

10882-RLLC log prices delivered at landing, 11-1-1941

10883-L. H.W. Johannes, General Manager, RLLC, to J.D. Mylrad, V.P. 11-27-1941, buy more logs in Michigan

10884-RLLC labor rates 1943

10884A-RLLC inventory of logs, lumber shipments, by-products

10884B-RLLC store sales, sales-costs-profits of forest products, dry kiln data, 1944 tax data

10884C-Last year RLLC purchased 5,019,569 ft of logs, signed H.W. Johannes, General Manager

10885-RLLC valuation of stumpage, 1-1-1944 for timber logged during 1944, % of logs from Michigan

10886-RLLC daily report, $1,359,614.51 in bank

10887-P. ‘Right Way to Log’ ‘Wrong Way to Log’

10888-P. John D. Mylrea commentary on illustrated logging practices ‘this teamster could easily get his leg broken’

10889-P. swamper or road monkey

10890-P. commentary on taking lunch to lumber jacks

10891-P. 1940 RLLC bull slide

10892-P. RLLC building, RR bridge over New Wood River c. 1940

10893-P. RRLC office, tramway, loading dock

10894-P. mill, camp, 114,800 # of bark

10895-P. six photos, mill & camps

10896-standard contract RLLC & log supplier, 1940s

10897-P. ‘Good yellow birch logs’

10898-P. ‘skidding logs with tractor’ c. 1940

10899-P. 1940 Logs on skidding pan

Volume (Disc) X- #10900-10999

10900-P. 1940 pan skidding by tractor

10901-P. skidding pan logs to branch logging railroad

10902-P. Ken Mayer, office manager, Thunder Lake Lumber Co, & 1940’s camp scene

10903-P. ‘Camp 1’, not Camp 1 from 1906-RPR

10904-P. RLLC camps c. 1940

10905-P. C.C. Lord, RLLC ‘Head Office Man’

end of Marathon Co. Historical Society data

Data from Taylor County Star News Collection by Michael Weckwerth

10906-L. 2-18-2008 Michael D. Weckwerth to RPR

10907-Clippings from Taylor Co. Star News 1922, 1-5-22 to 4-7-22

10908-Clippings from Taylor Co. Star News, 4-7-22 to 11-9-22

10909-Clippings from Taylor Co. Star News, 1-12-23 to 12-14-1923

10910-Clippings from Taylor Co. Star News, 3-28-1924 to 11-24-1924

10911-Clippings from Taylor Co. Star News, 1-19-1925 to 4-16-1925

10912-history-1924 Alphonse Bonneville, from Taylor Co. Star News 2-12-1924

10913- Clippings from Taylor Co. Star News 2-12-1925, RLLC logging heavily, Camp 19 moved; 5-11-1925 fire destroys Jim Peterson’s camp

10914-Clippings from Taylor Co. Star News, 1-14-1926 to 5-20-1926

10915-Clippings from Taylor Co. Star News, 12-3-1926, RLLC off income roll, RLLC is not listed on this year’s income tax roll. Last year company pd $16,988.78 income tax

10916-Taylor Co. Star News, 1-13-1927 to 3-20-1927, RLLC burns waste wood to make electricity

10917-Taylor Co. Star News, 8-24-1927 to 11-24-1927, 18 jobbers

10918-Taylor Co. Star News, 4-12-1928, J.J. Kennedy dies in Portland, Oregon, age 82, born in 1846

10919-Taylor Co. Star News, 3-29-1928 ‘Jim Peterson says lumberjack as good today as 40 years ago’; A-list of employees in camp, 105 men; description of jobber camp; B-camp photos

10920-Taylor Co. Star News, 1-10-1929 to 4-18-29, RLLC record cuts, 10 hrs, 100,965.17 ft hardwood, 171,008 ft softwood ‘there is probably not another mill or crew in Wis. that can match this record cut’; Frank, Ferdinand, RLLC accident; L.P. Lamberty jobber camp; 4 ¾ million ft cut

10921-Taylor Co. Star News, 7-23-1929 to 10-29-1929, RLLC fire train; new planing mill; new dry kiln

10922-Taylor Co. Star News, 7-19-1930 to 5-8-1930, Goodrich (Gill Co) mill burns

10923-Taylor Co. Star News, 12-19-1929, Camp 21

10924-Taylor Co. Star News, 8-7-1930 to 12-11-30, Great Depression hits RLLC

10925-Taylor Co. Star News, 2-12-1931 to 11-17-1931, RLLC mill runs part time; RLLC claims it is income tax exempt as a Delaware Corporation-asks for hearing

10926-Taylor Co. Star News, History of Rib Lake, 3-5-1931, Edgar T. Wheelock, editor of Star News; Rib Lake 1886; excellent history

10927-Taylor Co. Star News, 1-28-1932 to 3-10-32, Walter B. Patrick dies; RLLC owes income tax $38,246.08; text of decision from tax commission

10928-Taylor Co. Star News, 3-31-1932 to 10-27-1932, Court rules RLLC owes income tax; RLLC closes due to Great Depression

10929-Taylor Co. Star News, 7-20-1933 to 10-5-33, RLLC wins tax case in Wis. Supreme Court; planing mill reopens

10930-Taylor Co. Star News, 1-11-1934 to 6-12-1934, RLLC will reopen

10931-Map T32N 4 E, Camps 22, 23 & jobbers & railroad lines, Lincoln County

10932-Taylor Co. Star News, 4-18-1935 to 11-7-35, RLLC to lay 14 miles of new railroad track, Camp 23 operating; RLLC employs estimated 470 men

10933-Taylor Co. Star News, 1-30-1936 to 10-15-36, RLLC changes hands; RLLC safe blown

10934-Taylor Co. Star News, 2-25-1937 to 10-7-37, Camp 25, RLLC safety record

10935-Taylor Co. Star News, 12-9-1937, RLLC deeds 3,360 acres to Taylor County

10936-Taylor Co. Star News, 1-20-1938 to 8-4-38, [NB; 1-1-1939, Rib Lake Herald copies are available – RPR 2-29-08]

(end of collection)

10936-RLLC v. Conway 212 Wis. 412, (RLLC v. Wisconsin Tax Commission)

10937-2007 County forest income data

10938-L. Milton E. Reinke to RPR 3-1-2008

10939-Village incorporation data

10940-Petition for incorporation of Village, April 19, 1902;

A-signatures;

B-Notice of Hearing 4-21-1902 in City of Ashland, legal description of Village of Rib Lake;

C-Surveyors certificate

D-signed John A. Logan, Surveyor

E-Map, Exhibit A, proposed Village boundaries

10941-Census Data, Village of Rib Lake 1902

A-signed John A. Logan 2-28-1902

B-census 1-36

C-census 37-78

D-census 79-120

E-census 121-163

F-census 164-206

G-census 207-248

H-census 249-291

I-census 292-333

J-census 334-376

K-census 377-418

L-419-461

M-462-503

N-504-545

O-546-586

P-587-627

Q-628-670

R-671-713

S-714-755

T-756-799

U-800-843

V-844-886

W-887-929 – Arthur W. Pollatz

X-930-971

Y-972-1015 – Herrmann Emanuel Rusch

Z-1016-1046 – end

10942-Order for Incorporation of Village of Rib Lake, 4-28-1902, by Hon. John K. Parish – data sheet

A-Clerk’s Minutes & order

B-order

C-Notice of qualified electors of referendum on proposed village, signed L.L. Taylor,

M.D., John J. Voemastek, F. [Frank] J. Hintz & proof of publication

D-Oath of inspector of election

E-Oath of election clerks

F-Oath of ballot clerk & statement of result of election, 105 yes, 7 no

G-Affidavit of inspectors

10943-McComb’s Racing Park Addition to Rib Lake plat

10944-L. Suzanne Bamonte to RPR 2-27-2005, re Coeur D’Alene, Kennedy family

10945-10-10-1904 article, Kennedy Bros. Coeur D’Alene

10946-8-29-1903 article, Kennedy & Co. building sawmill at Coeur D’Alene

10947-7-30-1907 Angus & son, John E. Kennedy, Idaho ad

10948-P. ‘Steam Hauler’ Brown’s Studio, Rib Lake c. 1910

10949-P. 4 giant white pine logs-sleigh on McComb Ave., George Braun Sr. real estate office, c. 1910

10950-P. locomotive ‘67’ RLLC, string loaded log flatcars, 2 McGiffert loaders, Camp 22, 1934, NB electric wiring & cattle chute

10951-P. loading yellow birch log on flatcar, stationary jammer, top loader with cant hook, c. 1930

10952-P. massive log piles along wood railroad track, logs ready for rail shipment to Rib Lake, Town of Corning, c. 1930

10953-P. 16 log flat cars, RLLC mill & hot pond in back, view SW from Fayette Ave. c. 1940

10954-’Wisconsin Loggers Meeting’ 3-10-1919, Hardwood Record, Northern Wis. Loggers Assoc Meeting at Rib Lake & steam hauler trip to Camp 9 & 8 photos, 2 pgs

Photos: AA-At Camp 9

B-Group photo at Camp 9, Cook Daniel Pilon

C-4 horse team-Not steam hauler-takes loaded sleigh into Rib Lake

D-empty sleighs on ice road to Camp 9, NB cut-over

E-hardwood section of RLLC yard

F-Steam Hauler

G-Swan explains that 30 below isn’t col

H-RLLC mill from tramway

10955-Annual meeting of Hemlock & Hardwood Men, 2-10-1919, Hardwood Record, P. George N. Harder, reelected President of Hemlock & Hardwood Manufacturers, 3 pgs

10956-Deed, John McCoy to J.J. Kennedy, 12-19-1881, N half, NW quarter, 14-33-2E, First Taylor County deed to J.J. Kennedy from Sara Nuernberger, Asst. Register of Deeds

10957-Deed, Wayne Ramsey et us to J.J. Kennedy ‘Kenneday’, Lot 9, Sec. 26-33-2E, Lot 9 became Kennedy Town, 12-26-1881

10958-map showing location of 10956 & 10957, Kennedy parcels, from 1894 plat book

10959-Deed, G.F. Andrae to J.J. Kennedy ‘of Village of Spencer, Marathon Co’, 14 parcels, 4-5-1882

10960-American Lumberman ‘Wisconsin Loggers Inspect Modern Plant’ 3-1-1919, steam hauler to Camp 9, 3 photos, A-Alley in hemlock yard; B-The party; C-’Phoenix centipede tractor’

10960A ibid p. 2

10960B American Lumberman Annotations.

10960C Annotation location shown by Arabic numeral on article – numbers 1-18

10960D ibid p. 2 – numbers 19-33

10960E ibid p. 3 – numbers 34 and 35

Material from Marathon County Historical Society

10961-P. Thunder Lake Lumber Company mill, 1919-1946, list of personnel, Pres. John D. Mylrea, VP Aytch P. Woodson, Sec. Rudy J. Miller, Woods Super. Edward Synnott; * Mylrea simultaneously VP of RLLC 1936-1948

10962-Colloquialisms of logging & sawmill operations by Jack Mylrea

10963-P. Jack Mylrea, Presque Isle River Bridge, RLLC bought pine & hemlock in U.P. 1936-1944

10964-L. 1-5-1944, Jack Mylrea to Bank

10965-L. 1-7-1944, Bank to Jack D. Mylrea

10966-L. 8-13-1946, Aytch P. Woodson & John D. Mylrea to Bank

10967-RLLC 4-1-1947 daily report

10968-RLLC 4-30-1947 daily report

10969-RLLC 10-1-1947daily report

10970-L. 10-17-1947 to Aytch P. Woodson, John D. Mylrea & Mary T. Mylrea, liquidation of RLLC, Woodson $913,210; Mylrea $447,790

10971-L. 4-6-1948 Wis. Dept of Taxation to RLLC

10972-PRR notes from Chester Curran interview of 5-11-1971, Chester was RLLC train engineer

10973-L. 9-17-1986 John R. Gray to RPR

Bios of Commemorative Biographical Record of the Upper Lake Region, J.H. Beers & Co, Chicago, IL

10974-Bio, O.E. Werner, M.D.

10975-Bio, William Martin

10976-Bio, J.L. Taylor, M.D.

10977-Biol, John A. Logan, Surveyor

10978-Bio, Thomas Brehm

10979-Bio, Hermann M. Koehler

10980-Bio, John J. Voemastek

10981-Bio, John Gamper

10982-Bio, George Braun, Sr.

10983-Bio, Elias L. Urquhart

10984-L. Donald Kennedy (son of J.J.) to Edward Van Giesen, 4-22-1902, on stationery of W.A. Osburn Lumber Co

10985-Receipt, W.A. Osburn Lumber Company, 7-27-1901 to Edwin Van Giesen, $22.45 ‘Dealers in Lumber; timber, lath & shingles’

10986-Cover page 1905 Commemorative Biographical Record, Bio, Hugh A. McDonald, p. 406-407

10987-L. Univ. of Wis. Eau Claire to RPR, 3-10-2005, has Taylor Co. civil case files, 1877-1925

10988-J.J. Kennedy-Manufacturer of and dealer in Lumber, Lath & Shingles, receipt 4-22-1886, to E. (Ernest) Gerstberger

10989-Museum of North Idaho winter 2001 newsletter

A-B.R.Lewis bought mill from Kennedy Bros. 2-20-1904, [Angus & J.J.?], partially

constructed mill on Blackwell Island

B-Map of Lake Coeur D’Alene

10990-Cover page, White Pine, King of Many Waters, by Clarence C. Strong & Clyde S. Webb,

A-Kennedy Bros..were in process of constructing large sawmill [in Coeur D’Alene], sold to B.R. Lewis Lumber Company

10991-info, Kootenai Co, Idaho, Recording Supervisor Cheryl Reed, kcro@kcgov.us

10992-Envelope 10-17-1986, Mrs. W. Kennedy, 139 W. Gray Ct. 103, Spokane, WA 99205 to RPR, A-L. 10-16-1986, Susan Lacy Kennedy to RPR, spouse is William Kennedy, son of Angus

10993-RLHe 5-15-1903, 2 [Kennedy] families leave for Coeur d’Alene [Angus, son John E, J.J. or son Donald?] – Angus Kennedy came to Rib Lake the 9th of August 1882 with his brother, J.J. Kennedy and several men. ‘Year had wet fall & work on sawmill progressed very slowly.’

Summary: J.J. buys mill site, Lot 9, Dec. 1881, and with Angus builds mill in 1882.

10994-Spencer Tribune 4-10-1885, ‘New band saw at J.J. Kennedy’s mill at Rib Lake…’

10995-Articles of Incorporation, W.A. Osburn Lumber Company, 10-27-1900

10996-Articles of Incorporation, W.A. Osburn Lumber Company, 2-13-1901, Railroad for hire

10997-Articles of Incorporation, W.A. Osburn Lumber Company, 2-13-1901, Railroad exclusively private

10996 & 10997 both filed with Taylor Co. Register of Deeds, Railroad language irreconcilable

10998-W.A. Osburn Lumber Company, 5-15-1901, capital stock limit $400,000, signed Donald Kennedy, Sec.

10999-5-6-1902 W.A. Osburn Lumber Company name change to Rib Lake Lumber Company, first use

Volume (Disc) XI- #11000-11099

11000-3-10-1903, Amended Articles of Incorporation, Rib Lake Lumber Company, NB; Donald Kennedy not secretary

11001-3-8-1904 RLLC Articles of Incorporation, new date for annual meeting, third Tues in Aug.

11002-9-5-1906 RLLC Articles of Incorporation, new date for annual meeting, third Tues in July

11003-Post Office Data; Rib Lake, Sams, Schaack, Urquhart

11004-Postcards to Brehm, Wisconsin

11005-Map; site of Brehm, Urquhart, Interwald Post Offices

11006-Urquhart Post Office data & postcard

11007-Brehm Post Office data & photo

11008-Brehm Post Office data & photo 14-32-2E

Karen Baumgartner nee Peterson collection

11009-Karen Baumgartner address

11010-P. O.A. Peterson ‘Ole’ c. 1909

11011-Descendants of Peter Pederson, aka Peterson, father of Ole

11012-Batzer, Taylor, Radtke, Haase connections

11013-P. Rib Lake Cheese Factory, built c. 1919 by Ole A. Peterson, Knute Moen on wagon, route started in Fawn Valley

11014-P. Oscar Peterson

11015-Map, Town of Spirit, site of Peterson farm, later Ole’s golf course

11016-P. Spirit Lake, Ole Peterson in his launch c. 1920

11017-P. Ole Peterson & brother Oscar Peterson cookees inside cook shanty c. 1899, Rib Lake area, washing dishes, great photo

11018-P. ‘Mondeau’s camp 1910’

11019-P. Margie Minn (left), Nettie Dodge, nee Peterson, and Mr. Mondeau, sawing at Mondeau camp c.1910

11020-P. A. McLeod Livery Stable, Rib Lake, c. 1910, rail boxcars in rear

11021-Envelope ‘Busy Bee Café’, Lot 9, Block D. McComb’s Racing Park Addition

11022-P. Busy Bee Café, left, Oscar Peterson, right Charles Dodge, c. 1920, upstairs was used as practice basketball court, upstairs also ‘Opera House’ 2008 ‘Bird’s Nest Bar’,

11023-P. Inside of ‘Busy Bee Dining Room’, left, Oscar Peterson, right Joe Brown

11024-P. Inside of ‘Busy Bee’, left, Oscar Peterson, proprietor c. 1920

11025-Stationery ‘The Busy Bee Café’

11026-P. Inside Ma Dodge’s Café, Lot 15, Block D. McComb’s Racing Park Addition, left Jennie Burke, center ‘Ma Dodge’, right Charles Dodge

11027-P. ‘Home Bakery’, Oscar H. Peterson, cook & owner, location unknown as of 3-14-08

11028-P. ‘Elmer V. Johnson, 11-12-1926’

11029-P. c. 1930, 2 sawyers, double bit axes, probably Ole Peterson camp, Taylor County

11030-P. ‘Charlie Talbert with scale, Lamberti on right’ probably Lambert Lamberty’s camp

11031-P. lumberjack lunch c. 1930

11032-P. jobber camps, possibly Charles Dodge

11033-P. Oscar Peterson and Einer Skon, (lived behind Ole in Village of Rib Lake)

11034-P. 6 men

11035-P. Oscar Peterson ‘cooked in Libby, Montana in army’ c. 1918

11036-P. pumping water c. 1920

11037-P. A flat

11038-P. sawyers ax & band saw

11039-P. ‘tote wagon in background. Used to take groceries to camp’

11040-P. 7 building jobber camp, log & tarpaper buildings, sleigh with hay c. 1930

11041-P. 5 building jobber camp, 1 auto, probably Town of Corning

11042-P. sawyers with cross cut, measuring pole in foreground, ‘Oscar Peterson’

11043-P. ‘in the tunnel’

11044-P. auto crash

11045-P. Oscar Peterson, Model T, c. 1924

11046-P. Oscar Peterson – waiter

11047-P. chopping firewood, right Oscar Peterson, perhaps at Busy Bee

11048-P. Oscar Peterson plucked chickens

11049-P. Oscar Peterson jobber camp, screen house for meats, horses are Prince & Queenie

11050-P. Oscar Peterson, deaf-mute in WWI uniform, ‘no evidence he served, his brother Ed did’

11051-P. jobber camp – cookee

11052-P. jobber camp, plank sidewalks

11053-P. Oscar Peterson sawing red oak

11054-P. Men on gin poles, used to deck logs

11055-P. pet dog in jobber camp

11056-P. I.P. Kiger camp 7-1925, 25 men, 1 woman, 1 girl, buildings covered in tar paper held on by nailer wood strips, ‘jobber camp’ ‘Westboro’

11057-RLHe ‘Chair Factory Assured’, Rib Lake Wood Products, Co, Rib Lake Chair & Manufacturing Company, 2. shipping logs to Rib Lake, O.A. Peterson buys Port Edwards logs, Oct. 21, 1921

11058-Twentieth Century Club 1899-2000, Taylor County Genealogical Society

11059-Twentieth Century Club 40th Anniversary

11060-Twentieth Century Club 25 (Silver) Anniversary

11061-P. 1960 Twentieth Century Club members;

11061A-identification (names) of members of 11061

11062-1934 RLHe ad ‘Henry’s Wedding’ show

11063-P. McComb Avenue c. 1905, left 1. George Braun Sr. real estate & telephone (Lot 4), 2. Upjohn Pharmacy (Lot 5), 3.Restaurant (Lot 6), 4. Millinery (Lot 7), 5. Tailor (Cy Claussen)(Lot 8), 6. Dr. Wickman’s office (Lot 9), 7. Busy Bee Café & Opera House (Lot 10), Block D, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

11064-P. Bank, Lot 1, Block D, McComb Ave., c. 1910

11065-P. Church St., Catholic Church in back;

11065A-ID of building owners, Rib Lake c. 1920

11066-P. ‘Grocery-Meats’, Rib Lake store

11067-P. ‘The Landing’ c. 1906, Rib Lake Village, Right High School, center, Railroad track on logs over lake, left, rear water tower & Commercial Hotel

11068-P. Central Hotel on Railroad St., aka Mathias Hotel

11069-P. 1903 High School & 1927 High School

11070-data re 11069 by Karen Baumgartner

11071-P. Ward School, May Pole c. 1930

11072-P. RLLC c. 1930 tramway over McComb, ‘Green chain goes off to right large timber goes off flat cars’

11073-P. RLLC tramway taken from Central Hotel, left Pete Carson, setter on carriage, x, center Oscar H. Peterson, NB lumber piled 16 ft high

11074-P. Oscar H. Peterson with pan of bread, right, west side of National Hotel, view north to tramway

11075-P. Oscar H. Peterson with huge loaves of bread c. 1920

11076-P. RRLC spreading hog feed ‘Gravel’ in dry yard of mill

11077-P. ‘Oscar Huldar Peterson 1880-1933 playing dinner horn (garbie), played ‘Redwing’ on it to call for dinner, every camp had one.’ jobber camp c. 1920

11078-P. back bar (Last Chance maybe) from Arthur Grassman

11079-P. house moving

11080-P. ‘Al Herchen had bowling alley. Did wall papering. Looks like Rib Lake tourist park. Ole Peterson building with cedar logs –Rib Lake Village contracted’ c. 1920

11081-P. Ole, aka O.A. Peterson, dairy barn 1936, on SE-SE, 22-23-2E, 2008 owned by Desris family, 10 x 20 silo from St. Clair farm near Spirit Lake, foreground is scraper, aka dirt mover

11081A-description on back of 11081

11081B-plat map showing location of 11081

11082-P. Interior of John J. Taylor’s Hardware Store, 1912, (it was sold to Ed Prien c. 1938), probably Lot 9, Block A., McComb’s Racing Park Addition, left is Herman Batzer, right Ed Christensen

11083-P. Interior Taylor Hardware c. 1913, left Herman Batzer, center John J. Taylor, right the Rev. Arthur Sydow, Lutheran Pastor

11084-1924 Confirmation class, St. John’s Lutheran Church, Rev. F. Kammholz, Pastor, 15 confirmands, back row right, Orville Peterson, father of Karen Baumgartner

11085-P. Orville Peterson 1914 at Spirit Farm

11086-P. Orville Peterson in red knit suit c. 1915

11087-P. Orville Peterson c. 1911

11088-P. Orville Peterson and mother, Jennie, nee Batzer

11089-P. Ward School class, 4th grade c. 1920, 30 students & teacher, NB 2 people in one desk

Nancy Ann Kroll collection:

11090-address & phone number of Nancy Ann Kroll

11091-P. c. 1950 Second Street view north, Right; building ‘Bob Gums Apts’

11092-P. c. 1940 Rib Lake, Railroad, Fayette Ave. view east, background – park & cemetery

11093-P. c. 1935 Tramway over McComb, view north

11094-P. c. 1930, RLLC roundhouse, view east

11095-P. c. 1930, RLLC turn table view south, (site in 2008, Camp 28 restaurant parking lot)

11096-P. c. 1930 NE part of tram, RLLC mill in back view east

11097-P. c. 1910 The Fair Department Store, P.E. Marcus, proprietor, view east, Block A, Lot 13, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

11098-P. c. 1910, Rib Lake Village, Lutheran Church facing south, view from tannery; foreground, Bark pile

11099-P. c. 1910, Rib Lake Village, view northwest; top; bark piles, background; hills NW of Village, foreground: West Street

Volume (Disc) XII- #11100-11199

11100-P. c. 1910 Ward School, view northwest

11101-P. Rib Lake depot, c. 1914, view northeast, ‘Ballard’s Ford’; background; west end of RLLC dry yard (Does this refer to A.J. Allard, Rib Lake Village businessman?)

11102-P. c. 1928, McComb Ave. view south from Fayette St., L. Swanson D-X Gas Station, Block B, Lot 12, McComb’s Racing Park Addition; right-building on right, 2-story is Block C, Lot 8 & 9, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, was Brehm Feed Store, Al Hirchen Saloon, Schlais Clothing (to c. 1980), in 2008, Bob Frombach apartments, 749 McComb Ave.

11103-P. c. 1932, Rib Lake Village ‘Maine Street’ McComb Ave., view south; left-building with awning, Lots 9 & 10, Block B, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, in 2008 ‘Last Chance Tavern’, 832 McComb Ave.; 1905 Albert & Martha Marschke Saloon, 1907 Edward Heinrich, 1920 Phillip Goelz, 1939, Mathilda Tauber (see 10231), 1947 Leon W. Olsen, 1950 Gordon L & Virginia M. Gehrt, 1982 Kenneth A. & Carol J. Floyd, c. 1990 Holy Werner

left; building #2, ‘Ice Cream Parlor’, Lot 8, in 2008 owned by Jan Deaton, ‘Little Rib Antiques’, 828 McComb Ave.

left, building #3, Block B, Lot 7, in 2008 Genesis Youth Center, 818 McComb Ave.,

background; Nation Hotel, on Railroad Street

11104-P. c. 1910 McComb Ave, view north, buildings, left #1; Dr. Lapham, #2, Niggeman Store, Block D, Lot 13 McComb’s Racing Park Addition, 1980 ‘Nancy’s Family Store’, #3 (future) Ma Dodge’s Café; right, #1 unknown, #2 open awning, P.E. Marcus ‘The Fair’, #3 bank

11105-P. c. 1949 McComb Ave. view south, buildings, right; Rib Lake Herald office, (Block C, Lot 3) ‘The Sunny Side’ of the street, #1 Zielke IGA (Block B, Lot 1); left Lake Movie Theater (Block A, Lot 13) Construction began Nov. 1945 opened 4-20-1946, seating capacity 394

11105A-P. 4-horse team-wagon of baled hay or straw, c. 1920, background buildings, left 1. Ma Dodge’s Café, 2. Kelnhofer IGA, 3. Rib Lake Herald office & shoe repair & Dr. Baker upstairs; cf remodeling of upstairs in P. 11105

11106-P. c. 1915 McComb Ae. View north, ‘Main Street G558’, buildings; left, 1. Patrial George Braun Real Estate, 2. Upjohn Pharmacy (Block D, Lot 5), 3. Piano Store, 4. First Rib Lake Herald office, dry cleaners, doctor’s office, (in 2008 American Legion, Lot 8), saloon (Lot 9) ‘Shoes & Furniture & funeral parlor’ (according to Nancy Ann Kroll); right, 1. RLLC store (Block A, Lot 2), 2. Post Office, upper was Modern Woodmen of America & dance hall 7 Gilbertson Watch Maker, 3. Lieg’s Store –later Peter Bogumill’s

11107-P. McComb Ave. view north c. 1950, buildings, right-1. Sinclair Gas Station, (2008 Hanke Mobil, Block A, Lot 1), 2. C.C. Lord Bookkeeping, 3. old post office, 4. Mobil Gas Station, 5. Bogumill’s Store (aka The Big Store), left-1. Boy Scouts, 2. old George Braun real estate (Block D, Lot 3), 3. Pharmacy (Lot 5), NB; railroad tracks removed from McComb Ave.

11108-P. McComb Ave. view north c. 1946, right, 1. RLLC store, 2. small office (possibly Braun real estate & later C.C. Lord Bookkeeper), 3. old post office, 4. Bogumill Store ‘Rib Lake, Wis No. C-16’

11109-P. Crew Chief McCloud leading horses; foreground McComb Ave. view northwest, rear-George Braun, Sr. Realty & pharmacy c. 1920

11110-P. inside of Kelnhofer IGA store (Block C, Lot 1, McComb’s Racing Park Add) (in 2008 Ed’s IGA Store) c. 1930, Ruth McCloud & Verl Bokath

11111-P. c. 1910, ‘The Flats’, old high school, Rib Lake filled with logs, view southeast from tannery chimney

11112-P. c. 1930, ‘High School & grade school Rib Lake, Wis. 7’ view south

11113-P. Ward School, c. 1930 view north

11114-P. 7-4-1909 festival, McComb and Landall Streets, Building with balcony is Ma Dodge’s Café & Boarding House, view north-northwest

11115-P. c. 1910, McComb Ave.; building 1. George Braun Realty ‘Farms Cheap’, 2. Pharmacy, 3. 4. 5. X=Print Shop, First Rib Lake Herald Office (in 2008 the bank)

11116-P. McComb Ave c. 1930, Block D., McComb’s Racing Park Addition

11117-P. ‘Rib Lake’s leading barber shop’ car float c. 1940, in front of Block D, Lot 9 (in 2008 Bird’s Nest Bar)

11118-P. car float c. 1940, in front of Block D, Lot 9 (in 2008 Bird’s Nest Bar), building to right, Lot 10, torn down for Rib Lake Village Garage, McComb Ave.

11119-P. McComb Ave. c. 1940, buildings, right; in 2008 Bird’s Nest Bar, Lot 10, middle, Lot 9-’Dr. G.L. Baker’, left, Lot 8 ‘The Tourist Tavern’ ‘On Tap Gettleman 1000 Beer’ in 2008 the Frosted Mug

11120-P. ‘Gustafson Lumber Co’ buildings c. 1930

11121-P. RLLC c. 1940, foreground, planing mill

11122-P. RLLC planing mill fire, 1945, ‘Rib Lake Lumber Co Quality Lumber’, west side of mill

11123-P. RLLC planing mill fire, firemen 1945

11124-P. RLLC planing mill fire, boy 1945

11125-P. National Hotel 1945

11126-P. Public Library 1950, NW corner of Landall & Pearl St.

11127-P. RLLC c. 1944, right is National Hotel

11128-P. RLLC ‘lumber yard’ center is Methodist Church, right is Catholic Church, c. 1940

11129-P. ‘Last Load of Lumber from the old mill’ #56, c. 1948, Claude Peterson Trucking, Medford

11130-P. RLLC complex, east side c. 1940

11131-P. Old 102 Tap flood, Sept. 1941, STH 102

11132-P. Sept. 1941 Rib Lake Village, Kennedy Street, standing Robert Bleck, Sr., standing in house Anna Bleck, nee Rusch, boat rowing north on Kennedy Street

end of Nancy Ann Kroll collection

11133-P. McComb Ave. south from Fayette Ave. c. 1910; left, 1. Lot 9 & 10, Block B, Last Chance Tavern; 2. Lot 8, Janda’s Store

11133A-back of 11133 postcard, 3-12-1914, Bertha P. Rusch (Mrs. Kurth) to ‘Liebe Momma’, Mrs. Ida Rusch

11133B-ibid, English translation

11134-biography Cornelius S. Curtis

11135-biography Cornelius S. Curtis, Wausau paper

11136-Richie, James data

11137-Adams, Abraham A. data

11138-L. 3-20-2008, Karen Baumgartner to RPR, re O.A. ‘Ole’ Peterson timeline

11139-Plat map, T34, R3E, 1890, Price County, Wis

11140-Plat map, T34, R3E, 1910, Price County, Wis, Ole Peterson’s hand drawn ‘discovery’ of Spirit Point, text by Karen Baumgartner

11141-Plat map, T34, R3E 1920, Price County, Wis

11142-Plat map, T34, R3E, 2008, Price County, Wis

11143-History of Rib Lake by Nancy Ann Kroll, 4-17-1994

11144-Rib Lake history notes, 2-15-1946 by Nancy Ann Kroll

11145-’Businesses of Rib Lake’ 4-17-1994, Bob Keegan, Adeline Walbeck, Kay Kleihn & Nancy Ann Kroll

11146-History of Rib Lake from Naida Straub 1991

11147-P. RLLC office door, 3 unidentified women, c. 1940

11148-P. 1940 Robert Bleck, Sr., standing on flooded Kennedy Street, Anna Louise Bleck, nee Rusch on porch of Bleck home, 754 Kennedy Street, Village of Rib Lake

11149-Rib Lake Herald 1939, ‘Poland Again Battles for National Existence-6 maps of Poland

11150-obit. ‘Herman Emmanuel Rusch’ (Herrmann Emanuel Rusch), Rib Lake Herald 1-12-1912

11151-Rib Lake Herald 12-29-1911 ‘Locals’ Mrs. Frank Pollatz visits brother Herman Rusch (Herrmann Emanuel Rusch)

11152-booklet ‘The Story Behind Historic St. Ann’s Church and Cemetery’ by Walter L. Gojmerac, 1996

11153-L. Walter Gojmerac to Pat Gojmerac 9-10-2002 re Orrin Meyer

11153A-Pat Gojmerac address

11154-’Vocational Agriculture at Rib Lake’ by Orrin Meyer

11155-‘A Chronology of the Rib Lake School Forest’ by Keith Zintz

11156-email, James A. Welton to RPR 12-5-2007, RLLC Railroad locomotives, WC 52 & Nancy Hanks

11157-L. Geraldine Strey to RPR 3-22-1008,

11158-obit, Albert W. Sanborn

11159-Map, 1926, Rib Lake Village, Sanborn Map Company

Clippings of Anna Mae Kennedy, all from Rib Lake Herald unless otherwise noted

11160-RLHe 12-8-1955

11161-RLHe 7-17-1936, obit, Edward Talbot

11162-RLHe 12-4-1936 obit, William F. Rudy

11163-RLHe 1946, obit, Carl Yorde

11164-RLHe obit, Martin Krushat

11165-RLHe 1945, obit, Herman W. Johannes

11166-RLHe 11-25-1946, wedding announcement, Polacek-Olson

11167-RLHe 11-6-1944, wedding announcement, Langendorff-Tuvey

11168-RLHe obit, Minnie Conrad

11169-RLHe Pvt. Harrison Talbot, 10-13-1944

11170-RLHe-Obit, Victor Rudolph Gustafson, 3-10-1938

11171-RLHe-Golden Wedding anniversary, Mr. and Mrs. William Banks, 4-5-1937

11172-RLHe-obit 1945, Nick Clerk

11173-RLHe-2-3-1933 Cemetery Assoc. reorganized

11174-RLHe-3-28-1948 Wilderness Fire Tower, Joseph Kauer

11175-RLHe-1934-1935, Twentieth Century Club officers and members

11176-RLHe-Allen Kennedy, fire hose wagon, 11-20-1936, Map shows location of blacksmith shop

11177-RLHe-Rib Lake Village history, 12-13-1937, Rib Lake ‘with the largest sawmill in Wisconsin’

11178-RLHe-P. 5-8-1936, Rib Lake Lumber Company sawmill ‘looking east’, McComb Ave. in foreground

11179-RLHe-6-14-1932, Rib Lake Lumber Company sawmill started up, shut down since 4-14-1932, 150 men employed

11180-RLHe undated (c. 1938) NB forest fire damaged wood from Town of Corning in Lincoln County

11181-RLHe-8-14-1936, RLLC buys warehouse

11182-RLHe-10-23-1936 ‘3 Spot’ derailed

11183-RLHe-3-6-1936, C.C. Lord to Rib Lake

11184-RLHe-P. 4-17-1936 John McRae

11185-RLHe-9-23-1945 RLLC loses planing plant to fire

11186-RLHe-2-6-1948 Last of standing timber being cut

11187-RLHe-2-25-1948 Notice of ‘Last Log’ ceremony, All Rib Lake Village Business shut down

11188-RLHe-2-20-1948, Rib Lake business places to close next Wednesday for woods outing

11189-Milwaukee Journal-2-18-1948, ‘Rib Lake will close to watch fall of tree and end of era, 1,750,000,000 board feet of lumber cut

11190-RLHe-RLLC fells last pine tree, crowd of 400 watch as ‘timber’ is called for last time

11191-Wausau Daily Record-Herald-P. 2-25-1948 RLLC train loading spectators to go to Last log ceremony, background, McComb Ave., Lot 1, Block A, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, 2008 site; Hanke Mobil Gas Station

11192-Wausau Daily Record-Herald-P. 2-26-1948, P. cutting up last log

11193-P. Dio Walty helps fell last log, 2-26-1948, Wausau Daily Record-Herald

11194-P. left to right; R.J. Miller, Manager RLLC, Elmer Taylor, Rib Lake Village President, George Seidel, former Rib Lake Village President, Edward Synnott, RLLC woods superintendent, Wausau Daily Record-Herald, 2-26-1948 plan ‘wake’ of lumber era

11195-RLHe ‘over 300 at outing to watch last tree fall’ 2-1948

11196-RLHe-3-19-1937, P. Frank W. Smith ‘Rib Lake Mail Man’s Snowmobile’

11197-RLHe-2-9-1946-Fire Destroys Lake Theatre

11198-RLHe-12-27-1946, Emil’s Standard Station sold

11199-RLHe-12-27-1946, Little Bohemia restaurant to open 1-2-1947

Volume (Disc) XIII- #11200-11299

11200-RLHe-Little Bohemia tavern being built

11201-P. Millard ‘Satch’ Kapitz

11202-RLHe-’With the Bowlers at ‘Satch’s’ Little Bohemia

11203-RLHe-1-2-1937 Rib Lake Commercial Club meets

11204-RLHe-1-10-1947, Commercial Club holds first meeting of new year with large attendance

11205-RLHe-1945, Victoria Clothing Collection, list of Rib Lake businesses

11206-RLHe-9-17-1947, Lindal’s Station sold

11207-RLHe-9-17-1947, Jorgensen sells shoe store

11208-RLHe-9-17-1947, Olsen Purchases Lot

11209-RLHe-10-21-1938, Bank directors find shortage in bank accounts

11210-RLHe-Lehman-Clendenning new name of post, 2-7-1946

11211-RLHe-Lakeland Shoes, Inc. will begin operation within 4 weeks, 3-18-1948

11212-RLHe-2-13-1948, Curran named to Lakeland Board, Thompson Re-elected President; 11213-RLHe-2-13-1948, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Talbot to Observe Golden Wedding anniversary

11214-RLHe-10-24-1946-Eighth test well fails to produce sufficient water; drilling stopped

11215-RLHe-10-11-1946, Taxpayers interested in test wells and cost

11216-RLHe-12-22-1949, ‘the commercial club has missed the boat so far’

11217-RLHe-Catholic Herald Citizen 1-30-1954, History of our parishes, ‘St. John the Baptist Church, Rib Lake’, P. Fr. Staab, P. The Parish Church

11218-Bulletin 1952, Rib Lake Methodist Church

11219-RLHe-John J. Kennedy photo info

11220-Autobiography George Tlusty, Star News 3-16-1990

Photographs from RPR collections

11221-P. Herman A. Rusch 1982 wearing deer hunting red wool

11222-P. 1982 West Street, former tannery company houses, background is Rib Lake High School

11223-P. 1983 East side of West Street, ex. Tannery houses, 3 houses were identical when built c. 1895

11224-P. 1983, Mihalko’s Clothing Store, 749 McComb Ave., Lot 9, Block C, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

11225-P. 1983 Michael Bernard Kolecheck & Greenwood Baseball Team at the flats

Volume III c. 7-1983

11226-P. 1983, Sunny Hill Resort, STH 102, by Little Spirit Lake

11227-P. Historical Marker for Rustic Road #1, STH 102, 1983

11228-P. McComb Ave. south from Fayette, 1983 Center-Coast to Coast Store, Lot 7, Block B, run by Thomas Carroll; foreground Kristin K.B.L.M. Rusch

11229-P. McComb Ave. Coast to Coast Store; background, movie theater ‘The Lake’, Lot 12.5 and 12, Block A, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

11230-P. 1983, McComb Ave. south from Fayette

11231-P. Mihalko’s Clothing Store, ‘Final Markdown’, Lot 9, Block, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, view northwest

11232-P. 1983, 821 McComb Ave. ‘Mr. Joseph’s Family Hair Styling’, Lot 7, Block C, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

11233-P. 1983, Chet Hierlmeier, Lot 5, Block C, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, Gas Station, 2008 Parking Lot for Zondlo’s IGA

11234-P. 1983, SE corner, Zondlo’s IGA, Lot 1, Block C, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

11235-P. 1983, far left, corner of Village Hall, Lot 12, Block D; center Lot 13, Block D, Former Patrick Shoe Store; right Lot 14, Block D, Nancy’s Family Store, Nancy Ann Kroll proprietor

11236-P. 1983, old Rib Lake Village Hall and fire station, Lot 11 and 12, Block D, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

11237-P. 1983, The Bird’s Nest, Lot 9 and 10, Block D, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, 729 McComb Ave, in 2008 ‘B & A’s Birds Nest’ tavern

11238-P. 1983, American Legion, Lot 8, Block D, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

11239-P. 1983, ‘Virginia’s Basement’, 723 McComb Ave., in 2008 Frosted Mug Tavern, Lot 7, Block D, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

11240-P. 1983, State Bank of Medford, 717 McComb Ave., Lot 6, Block D, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, 2008 Mid-Wisconsin Bank

11241-P. 1983, Rib Lake Pharmacy, 713 McComb Ave., 2008 ‘Ultimate Illusion’ beauty salon, Lot 5, Block D, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

11242-P. 1983-John Schreiner, McComb Ave., rear, left-post office, center, old George Braun, Sr. real estate office, Lot 3, Block D, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, in 2008 Mann-Made Pizza, 709 McComb Ave.

11243-P. 1983, Post office, 705 McComb Ave., Lot 2, Block D.

11244-P. 1983, old RLLC machine shop, SE corner of STH 102 & McComb Ave.

11245-P. 1983, population signed, 945, 1983

11246-P. 1983, old C.C. Lord Accounting Building, 710 McComb Ave., Lot 1, Block A, McComb’s Racing Park Addition; right; partial Hanke Gas Station

11246A-P. old C.C. Lord Accounting Building; right, RLLC store 1-27-1939

11247-P. 1983 old gas station, Lot 2, 3 or 4, Block A, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, Left-partial Bogumill Building

11248-P. 1983, Bogumill Building, Lot 6 & &, Block A

11249-P. 1983, 740 McComb Ave., 2008-Rib Lake Music Center, Old Gamble’s Hardware, Block A, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

11250-P. 1983, Bakery ‘Rainbow Pastry Shop’, Louis Heglmeier proprietor, Lot 11, Block A, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, girl is Kristin K.B.L.M. Rusch

11251-P. 1983, girl is Kristin K.B.L.M. Rusch, Left-Bank, left-2-Lake Theater, Lot 12 & 13, Block A, left-3-The Wonder Bar, right Bakery

11252-P. 1983, old bank, Lot 1, Block B.

11253-P. 1983, left-Little Bohemia, 806 McComb Ave, Lot 2 & 3, Block B, right-on door glass ‘Office, Rib Lake Lumber Co’-office upstairs 1946-1948,

11254-P. 1983, Left-Olde Town Gift & Liquor, 814 McComb Ave, Lot 5, Block B; right-unidentified, Lot 4, Block B, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

11255-P. 1983, ‘Coast to Coast Stores’, Tom Carroll Hardware, Lot 5 & 6, Block B, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

11256-P. 1983, ‘Maudie’s Food and Eats’, Lot 8, Block B, 828 McComb Ave.

11257-P. 1983, Gehrt’s First Chance Tavern, Lot 9 & 10, Block B, 832 McComb Ave., 2008 Last Chance Tavern

11258-P. 1983, Barry’s [Anderson] Body Shop and Mobil Gas Station, 840 McComb Ave., Lot 11 & 12, Block B

11259-P. 1983 Fire ruins old Rib Lake High School

11260-P. 1983, fire ruins old Rib Lake High School, in the rear is Lutheran church

11261-P. 11-1983, Camp 28, view to east

11262-P. 11-1983, Camp 28, view to northwest

11263-P. 11-1983, Camp 28 bunkhouse

11264-P. 11-1983, Camp 28 bunkhouse interior

Plat maps from Taylor County Register of Deeds

11264A-Cover request for Taylor County plat maps

11265-Plat map, c. 1885, Taylor County

11265A-T33-2E

11265B-T33-3E

11265C-T32-1E

11265D-T32-2E

11265E-T32-3E

11265F-T31-3E

11266-Plat map, 1901, T33-R1E

11266A-T33-2E

11266B-T33-3E

11266C-T32-1E

11266D-T32-2E

11266E-T32-3E

11266F-T31-3E

11267-Plat map, 1920, T33-R1E

11267A-T33-2E

11267B-T33-3E

11267C-T32-1E

11267D-T32-2E

11267E-T32-3E

11267F-T31-3E

11268-Plat map, 1925, T33-R1E

11268A-T33-2E

11268B-T33-3E

11268C-T32-1E

11268D-T32-2E

11268E-T32-3E

11268F-T31-3E

11269-Plat map, 1930, T33-R1E

11269A-T33-2E

11269B-T33-3E

11269C-T32-1E

11269D-T32-2E

11269E-T32-3E

11269F-T31-3E

11270-Plat map, 1950, T33-R1E

11270A-T33-2E

11270B-T33-3E

11270C-T32-1E

11270D-T32-2E

11270E-T32-3E

11270F-T31-3E

end of collection

11271-L. 4-1-2008, Geraldine Strey of Wisconsin Historical Society to RPR showing website for Wisconsin Economic Inventory Maps c. 1938

11272-Map 1938, Economic Inventory T33-2E

11272A-Map 1938, Economic Inventory T33-3E

11272B-Map 1938, Economic Inventory T32-2E

11272C-Map 1938, Economic Inventory T32-3E

11273-L. Karen R. Baumgartner nee Batzer to RPR 3-31-2008 re O.A. ‘Ole’ Peterson

11273A-Biography of Ole A. Peterson

11274-info, ‘Spirit Lake’ name origin & change Town of Brannan to Town of Spirit

11274A-Letter by C.B. Nelson, Postmaster

11274B-Prentice News Calumet, 30 year #51, Town of Brannan name change

11275-History of Price County, by William Gumaer, info; Major Isaac Stone

11275A-Town of Brannan [Spirit] history

11275B-Spirit Lake history, by Janet MacDonald Cole, Pioneer Teacher

11276-German Settlement History by Roy R. Meier

Photos from Karen Baumgartner nee Batzer

11277-P. Aerial (from tannery smokestack) view SW, McComb Ave. c. 1910

11278-P. 1922 Ward School, 2nd Grade class, Ruth Batzer, center front row

11279-P. 1928 St. John’s Lutheran Confirmation Class, Pastor Kammholz, left front-Ruth Batzer

11279A-List of Confirmands from #11279

11280-P. 1915 Wooden sidewalk, Village of Rib Lake, Ruth Batzer, view east, Landall & Pearl

11281-P. 1925, O.A. ‘Ole’ Peterson and family

11282-P. 1946 O.A. ‘Ole’ Peterson family, Ruby, Emily, Ruth, John, Orville & Wiley

11283-P. O.A. ‘Ole’ Peterson 1950

11284-P. 1922 Ward School, Orville Peterson, Carl Marschke in front row

of John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea collection from Marathon County Historical Society

Volume I NB; Rib Lake and non-Rib Lake

11285-P. 1907 Monico, WI camp

11286-P. reverse side of 11285

11287-P. Hand operated peed

11288-P. Jack Mylrea & George Hale, Partners 1908

11289-P. Popple River Camp #1, John ‘Jack’ Mylrea & Partner George L. Hale, Good Camp photo

11290-P. 1908 Galloway, WI

11291-P. backside

11292-P. Long Lake, WI 1910

11293-P. Ice Road, 4 house team

11294-P. Long Lake, Jack’s note; Crew walked 2 miles from camp

11295-P. Rail logging in Woods

11296-P. backside, Jack’s notes

11297-P. Tom Sampson ‘A Real Man’

11298-L. 7-24-1912, Flood at Rothschild

11299-P. 1915 Bark peelers

Volume (Disc) XIV- #11300-11399

11300-P. huge pine log, Keopenic, WI

11301-Map, Fox & Wolf River, c Jack’s notes

11302-L. 7-13-1916 Funny letter on conditions of living in camp

11303-L. 1-1915, National German American bank, Wausau

11304-Back – lumber prices

Volume II of John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea’s collection

11305-P. Camp Deerbrook 1909

11306-P. Snowshoe

NB: RPR note; Lots of good text & photos not scanned, info excellent for next book!

11307-L. Railroad velocipedes 1910

11308-backside

11309-P. 1910 Sleigh accident site, NB; earth moving on sleigh route

11309A-backside

11310-P. 1911 Pine River, RR ties without rail, camps, Long Lake, WI, logs & camps are typical

11311-Map Florence County 1941, Jack’s notes

11312-L. Spring forest fire, 1911, Forest County 3 pgs

11313-W. WI lumber jacks by Chester S. Wedberg

11314-P. Hotel Bowler 1913

11315-P. pilings

11316-P. Thunder Lake Lumber Co. office (TLLC) 1910-1946, Rhinelander

11317-P. Danger, Logs unloading, Rhinelander maybe

11318-P. Harry Deering log camp, Gleason, WI c. 1940

11318A-P. teams in camp

11319-P. pilings

Volume III of John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea’s collection

11320-Table of contents for volume III

11321-Newspaper article, O’Melia Recalls Pioneering in Forest

11322-P. Huge white pine, Neopit, WI

11322A-Master white pine, Neopit, WI

11323-Map, Minnesota, Jack’s Notes on 10 million feet of pine sawed in Minnesota and transported to RLLC c 1943

11323A-Aerial photo, Boundary Water Canoe area where RLLC pine was cut

11324-P. Wausau, Big Bulls Falls 1860

11325-Diagram, Kilbourn Dam

11326-P. 1886, booms & sorting works, Eau Claire, WI

11326A-P. Joseph Dessert Lumber Company, Mosinee

11327-P. Joseph Dessert Lumber Company, Mosinee, WI planing mill

11327A-P. Joseph Dessert Lumber Company, Mosinee, WI 1880-1890

11328-Map Drainage area, Wisconsin River, location of Rib Lake is shown

11329-P. Log jam, Wisconsin River, Grandfather Falls, Lincoln Co. c. 1890

11330-P. 50,000 cedar shingles

11330A-P. inside planing mill

11331-P. Arbor Vitae, WI 1906-09

11332-P. Hazelhurst, WI

11332A-P. Hazelhurst, WI unloading works

11333-P. Old RR logging bridge, St. Germain Dam

11334-W. Chequamegon & Nicolet National Forest map & Jack’s notes 3 pgs

Volume IV of John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea’s collection

11335-table of contents for Volume IV

NB: much invaluable non-Rib Lake data not scanned on 4-10-2008

11336-P. John ‘Jack’ D. Mylrea, on temporary logging road bridge, Presque Isle River, RLLC bought ‘few million’ feet of logs from Ahonen Lumber Company for RLLC 1943-44

11337-P. Long Lake camp

11337A-Backside, Police Chief Help

11338-P. 1912 Hale & Mylrea locomotive #1 & excellent woods photo

11339-Map, Menominee River Drainage Locations & camps

11340-P. Peeled hemlock tree

11341-P. Cookee, Hale & Mylrea Company, c. 1915

11341A-P. back, data on sleigh technique

11342-P. surveying 1910

11343-P. Railroad, Hand made grade

11344-P. Pearson, WI

11345-P. Virgin Pine

11345A-Piling

11346-P. Hardwood piling

11346A-Forest Fire, Three Lakes, 1925

11347-P. Top-Camp 25; center photo-Camp 26; bottom-perhaps Camp 22 or 28

11348-P. RLLC Hot Pond & bull chain into mill

11349-P. Log rafts, Thunder Lake Lumber Co

11350-P. The right way & wrong way to carry an axe

11351-P. Trout Fishing & US Forest Service timber deal

11352-P. ‘Good stand of Hemlock & Hardwood’

11353-P. wrong way to skid

11354-P. The Ram pasture

11355-P. Inside cook house

11356-L. 7-23-1932 Governor Phillip F. LaFollette to John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea

11357-L. Wisconsin Supreme Court Mervin B. Rosenberry, Justice 10-30-1925 to John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea ‘Dear Jack… with warm regards to yourself and Mary’

NB: 192? Decision in Wisconsin holding RLLC tax exempt

11358-L. Walter J. Kohler 12-10-1928

11359-L. The Milwaukee Journal’s Fred Luening to John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea 5-29-1918 re Wisconsin National Forest

11360-L. William Mauthe 1-3-1930 to John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea

11361-L. George Vits, Republican Committee 1-15-1930

11362-L. Philip F. LaFollette 12-11-1931

11363-L. 1-15-1932 S.A. Campbell

11364-L. 3-24-1932 National Forest Reservation Commission

11365-Promissory note 12-30-1941 ‘Sundry Collateral’ signed John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea $2000

11366-Promissory note 12-30-1941 ‘Sundry Collateral’ signed John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea $180,000

11367-L. 4-17-1940 John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea VP of RLLC, Jerry Cook of US Forest Service, New England blowdown salvage 2 pgs

11368-L. 4-23-1940 G.D. Cook to John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea, NB; Jack’s candid notes re DEAL

11369-L. 8-9-1941 George W. Mead to John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea re 10,000,000 feet of pine from Minnesota to RLLC ‘We netted $30,000 profit on 2 rafts’

11370-L. 12-8-1941 John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea to L. D. Crusoe, Duluth, South Short & Atlantic

11371-L. Fisher Body Division of GM 12-12-1941, Jack’s note ‘They wanted to sell very bad…’A; sold it for $780,000, bought for $300,000, see below

11372-Contract of RLLC & Fisher Body 12-26-1941

11373-L. 1-3-1942 RLLC’s John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea to Kimberly-Clark Corporation of Neenah

11374-L. 1-3-1942 Kimberly Clark Corporation from Aytch P. Woodson

11375-L. 1-15-1942 Kimberly Clark Corporation from Aytch P. Woodson

11376-L. 9-23-1943 John D. Mylread to A.S Puehlicher, Marshall & Ilsley Bank ‘I am out of Debt of any kind’

11377-L. John D. Mylrea to Herman W. Johnannes, G.M. of RLLC 1-25-1944, ‘It seems ‘screw-ball’

11378-L. 8-11-1939 John D. Mylrea as President of Thunder Lake Lumber Co to A.S. Puelicher ‘Possible sale to US Forest Service’

11379-L. ‘Employees of RLLC 11-15-1944 Wisconsin State Labor Board ‘on 6-13-1944 C.I.O was certified’

11380-L. 12-15-1941 John D. Mylrea to L.D. Crusoe

Volume V of John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea’s collection

11381-table of contents for Volume V

11382-P. Thunder Lake Lumber Co. business card

11383-P. Ted Tinker & John D. Mylrea

11384-P. TLLC 1919-1940 Rhinelander, John D. Mylrea President, Woods Superintendent is Ed Synnott, Secretary is Rudy Mueller

11385-P. TLLC yard c. 1930

11386-P. Ken Mayer, TLLC, later RLLC

11387-P. RLLC Camp c.1940

11388-Article ‘State’s Largest sawmill changes hands this week’, Wisconsin men buy U.S. Leather Co. stock in Rib Lake plant 1936, Milwaukee Journal

11389-Article, Rhinelander men buy 61,000 acres 2-5-1936, Chicago Journal of Commerce

11390-7-3-1943 RLLC, timber volumes, 54.93 hemlock, 1.83 pine

11391-Diagram T31N-R4E RLLC history

11392-Diagram T32N-R4E RLLC Land sale date

11393-Diagram T33N-R4E RLLC Land sale date

11394-Diagram T34N-R4E RLLC Land sale date

11395-W. Collquialism (rest scanned previously)

11396-RLLC 1922-1931 taxes paid to Town of Corning, Lincoln Co. $422,859.95

11397-RLLC taxes paid to Town of Corning 1933-1938 $82,340.51

11398-P. RLLC camp

11399-P. RLLC camp

Volume (Disc) XV- #11400-11499

11400-P. RLLC caterpillar log skidding c. 1940 ‘pan skidding’

11401-P. Ted Tinker, John D. Mylrea and white pine stump

11402-obituary of Ted Tinker

11403-P. Sleigh accident site; P. Frank Robbins of Robbins Lumber Co & Railroad sold to TLLC

11404-P. John Puelicher, Sr. ‘Our Company Banker..’ Tom Sampson-lumberjack

11405-P. ‘Ole Peterson, Station Man 1920’; Was this Rib Lake’s O.A. ‘Ole Peterson?

11406-P. Ed Synnott, Wood Superintendent RLLC c. 1940

11407-P. John D. Mylrea with wife Mary & family c. 1930

11408-P. RLLC office c. 1940 view to NE; Rib Lake in back

11409-P. RLLC tram & west side of mill

11410-P. RLLC planing mill & office

11411-P. John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea temporary logging road, Upper Peninsula, Presque Isle River

11412-P. TLLC Locomotive #5

11413-P. TLLC railroad, Ed Synnott & C.C. Lord

11414-P. George Smith, TLLC Railroad history

11415-P. 30 ton Geared engine locomotive, accident tip over in swamp TLLC

11416-P. 5 Spot TLLC & ‘Pullman’

11416A-Article re 11416

11417-P. Railroad excavations & fill, TLLC

11418-P. TLLC locomotive #9

11419-P. ‘narrow gauge line…’ Milwaukee c. 1945, History of TLLC railroad

11420-P. RLLC ‘Caterpillar diesel’ logs on skidding pan c. 1940

11421-P. RLLC pan skidding – backside view

11422-P. RLLC pan skidding – side view, in back, logs on railroad car

11423-P. building bridle New Wood River, Lincoln County 1940, Pine (Bents) driver on Railroad track

11424-L. 1-7-1944 A.B. Nichols, Marshall & Ilsley Bank to John D. Mylrea, $1,950,000 debentures (bond) to $2,220,000 accounts receivable

(note Marshall & Ilsley Bank = M&I (of Milwaukee, WI0

11425-L. 1-5-1944 John D. Mylrea to M&I $250,000 personal line of credit

11426-L. 8-13-1944 RLLC by John D. Mylrea to First National Bank, RLLC sells U.P. land for $775,000

11427-P. Harold Collins (right), Chet Cone (sp)(left), Giant White Pine, North Wisconsin c. 1930

11427A-P. Close-up of 11427 with identification

11428-Poem ‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling, notes by John D. Mylrea

11429-L. 1-17-1945, M&I to John D. Mylrea ‘you are so close to $1,000,000’

11430-L. O.T. Swan to John D. Mylrea on Mylrea’s retirement ‘You have always been most cooperative’

11431-L. RLLC’s Aytch P. Woodson, President, to self, John D. and Mary Mylrea, 10-17-1947, RLLC cashes out at $913,210 to Woodson, $354,380 to John D. Mylrea, $95,410 to Mary Mylrea

11432-L. Wisconsin Dept of Taxation, 4-6-1948 re to RLLC re audit

11433-RLLC Daily Report 4-1-1947,

11434-RLLC Daily Report 8-30-1947, NB; bark sales 625.95 cords

11435-RLLC Daily Report 10-1-1947

Volume VI of John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea’s collection

11436-table of contents for Volume VI

11437-P. Curtis & Yale Company 1912

11438-P. Wisconsin River flood, Wausau 7-24-1912

11439-P. Dells of Eau Claire

11440-P. Dam – Grandfather Falls

11441-P. Big Logging Wheels

11442-P. C.M. Christianson Lumber Co., Phelps, WI, view north; C.M. Christianson Lumber Co. view west, back North Twin Lake; Paul Abenrothe

11443-P. C.M. Christianson Lumber Co Railroad log cars,

11443A-P. dry yard

11443B-P. train

11444-telegram to John D. Mylrea 1915; form new Langlade Lumber Company

11445-TLLC financial information 12-4-1941

11446-TLLC 12-4-1941 Personnel, bio of John D. Mylrea, bio Aytch P. Woodson

11447-P. RLLC summer skidding

11448-P. C.C. Lord, head of Manufacturing RLLC, Gasoline Pede RLLC railroad

11449-P. RLLC ‘Good Yellow Birch logs’, tractor skidding in winter; back is McGiffert Loader on Railroad c. 1940

11450-L. A.L. Osborn Lumber, Oshkosh, WI 9-19-1938 to John D. Mylrea

11451-Tariff, Robbins Railroad Co. 1-1-1905

11452-Article, Milwaukee Journal ‘Nicolet Forest’ Jack’s proud notes

11453-L. 6-6-1934 Chicago & Northwestern Railroad

11454-L. 9-19-1944 Ahonen Lumber Co. to John D. Mylrea

Volume VII of John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea’s collection

11455-table of contents to Volume VII

11456-P. Log Raft, Pic River, Canada (illustrates type of boom used in RLLC operations-RPR)

Volume VIII of John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea’s collection

11457-table of contents for Volume VIII

11458-Map Nicolet National Forest railroad of TLLC

11459-L. 1-7-1958 John D. Mylrea to Carl Sachse; A-bio ‘VP RLLC cutting 30 million yearly’

11460-L. 1-8-1958 A.E. Swanke, Tigerton Lumber Co. to John D. Mylrea

11461-L. 1-6-1961 John D. Mylrea to George Kenote – 4 pgs; bio; data on RLLC

11462-L. T.S. Dvorak to Harvey Huston 5-15-1961

11462A-Thunder Lake Narrow gauge railroad book review

11463-L. Harvey Hustin to John D. Mylrea, 7-10-1961

11464-Map T41N R8E, Railroads & camp sites

11465-L. 1-19-1946 A.S. Puelicher to John D. Mylrea, ‘You are certainly a grand, loyal friend’

11466-L. 6-3-1941 John D. Mylrea to Arvey Ahonen ‘For $875,000 cash’

11467-P. Marvin Rosenberry, Chief Justice, Supreme Court, ‘A good friend’-says Jack

11468-P. Tractor & ice road plow, John D. Mylrea’s comments

11469-W. John D. Mylrea, May 1963 re bankers

11470-L. Jack Puelicher to John D. Mylrea 6-4-1963

11471-L. Jack Puelicher to John D. Mylrea 10-6-1963

11472-RLLC 11-1-1946 ‘Daily Report’ $1,359,614.51 in bank ‘I am sleeping better’-says John D. Mylrea

11473-P. 7 photos RLLC 1946 planing mill fire ‘Oh Hum!!’ John D. Mylrea

11474-P. Mosinee paper mill logging c. 1940, Gogebic County, Michigan, 2 sleighs pulled by a tractor

11475-L. 11-24-1947 John D. Mylrea to O.T. Swan, autobiography

11476-L. 1956 John D. Mylrea ‘Jack Mylrea collection’ his goals

Add’l material from Volume VI of John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea’s collection

RE Chief Justice M.B. Rosenberry

NB: He participates in decision which determines RLLC exempt from Wisconsin income tax

11477-Deerfoot Lodge brochure; A-’Rosenberry days in Camp 10’; B-miscellaneous photos; C-’Ceasar’ = M.B. Rosenberry; D-P. memories of Deerfoot Lodge; E

11478-’Apologia’ by M.B. Rosenberry, Histody of Deerfoot Lodge

Volume IX of John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea’s collection

11479-table of contents for Volume IX

11480-P. Langlade Lumber Company – LLC c. 1920, interior mill photo

11481-Map 1956 Wisconsin Public Forests

11482-Info Minnesota operations, Mosinee paper mills by John D. Mylrea

11483-P. Ely, Minnesota pulp

11484-John D. Mylrea treasurer, Mosinee paper mill, P. Minnesota

11485-P. Tomahawk Timber Company mill and pond

11486-Data by John D. Mylrea re Tomahawk Timber Company

11487-History of US Forest Fires

11488-P. 1911-1931-1940-1954 ‘Natural Regeneration’

11489-P. ‘Side Ass Jammer’

11490-P. McGiffert Log Loader, excellent front view with John D. Mylrea comments

11491-P. decking logs with John D. Mylrea comments

11491A-’Correct position for Puppers to stand’

11492-P. c. 1940 2 man chainsaw

11493-P. c. 1940 2 man chainsaw in operation

11494-L. 11-11-1925 C.C. Yawkey to John D. Mylrea, ‘is no question it costs more to log hardwood than hemlock’

11495-P. huge white pine, T40-R12E, left-John D. Mylrea age 25, near Butternut Lake, WI

11496-Note by John D. Mylrea, ‘March or April 1932, About the bottom of the depression which started October, 1929’ ‘Babson’s Reports’ 4-25-1932

Volume X of John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea’s collection

11497-table of contents for Volume X

11498-L. 5-26-1952 Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad to John D. Mylrea

11499-L. 6-28-1944 Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad to John D. Mylrea, pulpwood rates from Montana, 2 pgs

Volume (Disc) XVI- #11500-11599

Continued from Volume X of John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea’s collection

11500-L. 12-13-1933, J.S. Weidman, President of Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manufacturers Assoc., to John D. Mylrea ‘You are the outstanding northern operator of the younger generation.’

11501-L. 7-27-1933 Chief Justice Marvin B. Rosenberry to John D. Mylrea

11502-L. 2-22-1944, Robert M. LaFollette to John D. Mylrea re WWII labor shortage

11503-L. 10-18-1956 John D. Mylrea note ‘I had a heart attack’

Volume XI of John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea’s collection

11504-table of contents for Volume XI

11505-Thunder Lake Lumber Company (TLLC) history 4-1929 by Baldwin Locomotives, 4 pgs

11506-P. Rudy J. Mueller, ‘Tops in my estimation’-says John D. Mylrea, presided over closing out RLLC

11507-P. Hot pond, TLLC

11508-P. TLLC carriage

11509-P. TLLC edger

11510-P. TLLC horizontal resaw

11511-P. TLLC cutting maple blanks

11512-P. TLLC chunk wood

11513-P. TLLC store

11514-P. TLLC camp #1

11515-P. TLLC Old 6 Spot

11516-P. 3 photos TLLC & John D. Mylrea comments

11517-P. John D. Mylrea comments ‘It was the custom’

11518-P. RLLC c. 1940 caterpillar, Winter skidding, nice hardwood logs

11519-John D. Mylrea writing ‘White Pine Logs decked on Lake Superior at Havland, MN, Winter 1941-42’ 2 pgs; A-our total profit on rafts was $30,000, logs to RLLC

11520-John D. Mylrea comments on Minnesota white pine for RLLC c. 1940, T63N-R3E; A-Photo of railroad track X=Bear accident site; B-Ed Synnott, John D. Mylrea inspecting Minnesota pine

11521-P. White pine decked on Lake Superior for rafting from Ashland to RLLC, John D. Mylrea notes 1942

11522-P. 1942 ‘Putting hardwood blocks on white pine boom sticks’

11523-P. 1942 Havland, MN beach with white pine decked for RLLC

11524-P. ‘5 million feet white pine decked near Havland, MN 1941-42

11525-P. Raft of logs, Lake Superior, notes by John D. Mylrea

11526-P. Soo Line flat car, white pine logs, from Havland, MN, 1942 to RLLC

11527-P. Louis Maier, Land and Lake Salesman, TLLC, 2 giant white pine at Butternut Lake, Forest Co, Wisconsin c. 1930

11528-Map, Butternut Lake, WI area, Railroads lines in red

11529-Railroad passes issues to John D. Mylrea

11530-P. RLLC ‘Main Line Locomotive’ at McComb Ave., Rib Lake, left RLLC store, right Rear of ‘Round house’ c. 1940

11531-P. RLLC steamhauler, vertical pistons

11532-P. RLLC peeled hemlock on sleigh c. 1920

11533-P. RLLC ‘Main Line Locomotive’ c. 1935; left-Round house; right-north side of mill

11534-P. McGiffert Loader, TLLC c. 1940

11535-P. Left-George Smith ‘Head man TLLC’ Railroad dismanteling c. 1940’s,

11536-Map TLLC railroad, Lake Julia

11537-Article, Rhinelander Logging Magazine (has much TLLC stuff)

11538-TLLC ‘over run’ data by John D. Mylrea

11539-L. John D. Mylrea to Lincoln Co. Board 4-19-1939 ‘We offer for sale $54,000 acres of land..for $1 per acre’; these acres were cut over RLLC lands in Town of Corning

11540-L. John D. Mylrea of RLLC to Walter John Chilsen 6-19-1939, ‘This offer was turned down’

11541-L. General Manager of RLLC to M&I Bank 4-8-1939, ‘We owed US Leather Co $496,000’

11542-L. John D. Mylrea 8-27-1936 to Wisconsin Industrial Commission (financial issues, his role)-3 pgs ‘We carried our own risk instead of buying insurance…’

11543-L. 10-31-1935 John D. Mylrea to A. P. Woodson, Timber Cruise estimates prior to purchase for RLLC ‘We actually cut over 70% more...’-says John D. Mylrea 2 pgs NB; 137,000 ft hemlock of 184,000 total

11544-RLLC balance sheet 9-11-1939 ‘We purchased rest of stock [of RLLC] from [Frank] Handeyside and Brownell, Spring 1935’, [This left Woodson & John D. Mylrea, et us, sole owners of RLLC – subject to mortgages to US Leather Co], value to stockholders $1,440,344.94

11545-’1935’ notes by John D. Mylrea on RLLC purchase ‘Bankers Trust Co was forcing sale of RLLC to reduce indebtedness to US Leather Co, which owned both Central Pennsylvania Lumber Co & RLLC..’ [NB: letter offers RLLC for sale in 1936 – from Pennsylvania Lumber Co.] See Document #11554; page 2-’We spent many days checking, cruising..’;

11546-9-11-1939 RLLC ‘what we thought we might make..’

11547-9-11-1939 RLLC stumpage depreciation charged to cost of production

11548-9-11-1939 RLLC statement #1 and #2

11549-L. 4-22-1936 Aytch P. Woodson to John D. Mylrea, 2 pgs. [codifies deal to buy RLLC]

11550-Contract 11-9-1937 John D. Mylrea and A.P.W. [Aytch P. Woodson] ‘This was very helpful to me in 1937 about the time the First Wisconsin National Bank was getting tough with me…’

11551-11-9-1937 Promissory note, John D. Mylrea to M&I Bank for $60,000; A-Assignment of RLLC stock to John D. Mylrea

11552-9-16-1939 John D. Mylrea note to Ed ‘Bookkeeper’ [finances of wife Mary re RLLC]

Volume XII of John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea’s collection

11553-table of contents for Volume XII

11554-L. 1-23-1935 Frank Handeyside of Central Pennsylvania Lumber Company (CPLC) to John D. Mylrea ‘This was the beginning of our purchase of the RLLC..’

11555-L. 1-26-1935 John D. Mylrea to Frank Handeyside ‘The start of the purchase of RLLC’

11556-L. 1-28-1935 Frank Handeyside to John D. Mylrea ‘Handeyside used to be sales manager of Chas. Fish Lake, Elcho, WI’

11557-L. 2-1-1935 John D. Mylrea to Frank Handeyside

11558-Logging contract of RLLC & Harold Roberts 9-1939 ‘The logger went into the hole’

11559-L. 2-26-1939 John D. Mylrea to Aytch P. Woodson

11560-Contract R.G. Brownell and Aytch P. Woodson, ‘All my interest sold to Mary T. Mylrea’ signed John D. Mylrea

11561-Contract Mary T. Mylrea and R.G. Brownell 12-22-1939; A-Exhibit A

11562-Sale receipt, RLLC stock by R.G. Brownell to Aytch P. Woodson & John D. Mylrea 9-25-1939

11563-Contract John D. Mylrea and Aytch P. Woodson & M&I Bank 12-19-1939

11564-Line of Credit, RLLC & M&I Bank 12-19-1939

11565-RLLC average price per million feet of hemlock, hardwood pine 1939-1940

11566-RLC pine logs cut 1-12-1940 ‘Pine from near Rib Lake’

11567-12-3-1941 timber data to government by John D. Mylrea re ‘Ceiling prices’

11568-Comparative report on hemlock realization 8-31-1938, RLLC

11569-L. 1-17-1940 RLLC by John D. Mylrea to C.C. Yawkey re ‘U.P. logging as compared to Wisconsin’

11570-10-16-1940 RLLC price list

11571-L. John D. Mylrea to Dun & Bradstreet 1-19-1940

11572-L. 1-29-1940 H.W. Johannes to Lake Superior District Power Co ‘RLLC furnished steam to Lake Superior Power Plant in our engine room for which we were paid’

11573-Frank Handeyside, Sales Contract to John D. Mylrea and Aytch P. Woodson for $9000 for Frank Handeyside’s RLLC Stock, 2-13-1940

11574-RLLC promissory note for $9,000 to Frank Handeyside

11575-L. RLLC 9-18-1940 to Herman W. Johannes re Oliver Mining Co

11576-L. 3-20-1041 H.W. Johannes to John D. Mylrea re Ahonen Lumber Co-2 pgs ‘RLLC bought lumber from other mills’ (emphasis added)

11577-L. 7-14-1941 General Motors to John D. Mylrea, offer U.P. timber for sale

11578-L. 7-31-1941 Arvey Ahonen to RLLC ‘We actually worked out several timber & log deals..’

11579-L. RLLC to A. Ahonen 8-4-1941

11580-L. 8-1-1941 General Motors to John D. Mylrea ‘Our horse trading’

11581-L. 8-4-1941 John D. Mylrea to General Motors

11582-L. 8-6-1941 General Motors to John D. Mylrea

11583-L. 8-18-1941 John D. Mylrea to General Motors

11584-L. RLLC labor rate changes 10-15-1041

11585-L. 8-14-1941 RLLC to Dun & Bradstreet ‘We have $209,000 cash on hand’

11586-Notes by John D. Mylrea-timber deal with Oliver Mining Co, TLLC & RLLC 9-1940

11587-L. 8-29-1941 Peterson log purchase in U.P.

11588-11-1-41 RLLC log prices delivered at landing in Rib Lake

11589-L. 11-27-1941 RLLC by Herman W. Johannes to John D. Mylrea re U.P. log buy

11590-L. 12-1941 John D. Mylrea to M&I Bank

11591-L. 12-4-1941 M&I Bank to John D. Mylrea ‘Paid up – first time in 33 years I have not owed money to banks’

11592-L. 1-29-1942 John D. Mylrea to Ahonen Lumber Co

11593-RLLC 12-14-1942, Minnesota Pine Grade Averages, white pine from Havland, MN, profit $61,344.52

11594-L. 6-22-1942 Keweenaw Land Assoc. to John D. Mylrea re Office of Price Administration (OPA)

11595-RLLC sales contract from ‘Tank Division’ 8-27-1942

11596-L. 9-10-1942 RLLC to John D. Mylrea re costs at RLLC

11597-L. 10-2-1942 John D. Mylrea to E.J. Synnott re Lawrence Peterson & Sons. U.P. log offer 2 pgs

11598-RLLC 10-4-1941 to 6-12-1943, operating costs & realization

11599-RLLC 10-1942 Lawrence Peterson logs & timber estimates by Ed Synnott

Volume (Disc) XVII- #11600-11699

Volume XII of John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea’s collection – continued

11600-Note, John D. Mylrea 3-6-1936 deal with Woodson ‘Aytch’

11601-writing, ‘Lawrence Peterson timber, sheet 2

11601A-Sheet 3 Rib Lake, 10-30-1942, recapitulation Peterson timber

11602-L. RLLC by H.W. Johannes, General Manager 10-6-1942 to Peter Stone, office of Price Administration, John D. Mylrea ‘War Time’- 3 pgs

11603-L. 10-19-1942, Herman W. Johannes to John D. Mylrea, timber estimates, Sec. 25, 29, 31, 49 and 43

11604-L. 10-30-1942, H.W. Johannes to John D. Mylrea, ‘Peterson Timber Matter’ Logs from Tula, Michigan

11605-L. 10-24-1942, John D. Mylrea to ‘Mr. Hambly’ General Traffic Manager, Duluth South Shore & Atlantic Railroad

11606-L. 11-16-1942, H.F. Schmidt, Superintendent of DSS&A to John D. Mylrea, ‘Construction of side track’ in UP

11607-L. 11-10-1942, John D. Mylrea, ‘Lawrence Peterson & Sons’ $90,000 timber deal at Tula, Michigan; timber for TLLC

11608-L. 11-24-1942, contract, RLLC & Lawrence Peterson & Sons, Ontonagon County, Michigan

11609-L. 12-4-1942, John D. Mylrea to L.D. Crusoe, Fisher Division, General Motor ‘GMC’ ‘Several thousand acres of timber NE of Ironwood, Michigan’

11610-L. John D. Mylrea 12-12-1942 to R.O. Hambly, DSS&A Railroad, logging in UP

11611-L. L. Peterson to John D. Mylrea 5-20-1943 ‘net loss $2000’

11612-L. 5-22-1943, ‘Lawrence Peterson logs’ ‘2,042,220 feet’

11613-L. 5-24-1932, John D. Mylrea to Lawrence Peterson & Sons ‘the present OPA is not going to grant any increase in lumber ceilings’ WLB = War Labor Board

11614-L. 7-24-1943 Regional Lumber Advisory Committee

11615-L. 5-2-1944, H.W. Johannes to Local Board #1, Selective Service, RLLC normally employs 215 men in the woods, 225 men needed for plant; ‘consider giving all our men a 6 month deferment [from drafting’

11616-RLLC cost of production 8-16-1943 Hardwood and softwood chips

11617-RLLC wage schedule 7-8-1943; Connor Land & Lumber

11618-L. John D. Mylrea to Lawrence Peterson 8-2-1943, ‘War time government controls’

11619-L. 8-3-1943 John D. Mylrea to L.D. Crusoe, ‘would you like to sell more sections of timber west of Porcupine Mountains, Michigan’

11620-RLLC L. Peterson job, costs since 12.5 cent increase ‘115’

11621-L. 8-14-1943, John D. Mylrea to H.T. Smith, Office of Price Adminstration (OPA), ‘116’

11622-L. 8-13-1943, L.D. Crusoe to John D. Mylrea ‘118’ ‘Fisher Body Division’ shows logo ‘I am not inclined to believe that the block of timber you inquire about would contribute very much to your poverty’

11623-Estimate, Fisher Body, UP, tract, John D. Mylrea note re his ‘horse shoed’ this land ‘119’

11624-L. 8-16-1943, H.W. Johannes to Goodman Lumber Co, offer to buy slab wood ‘120’

11625-L. 8-21-1943 H.W. Johannes to Georg Houghton, ‘121’

11626-Realization-fiscal year 1943, RLLC ‘122’, lumber sawed 28,973,117 feet

11627-RLLC Woods Wage Scale 7-14-1943, ‘125’

11628-Logs sold to RLLC, Ahonen Lumber Co. 1-1-1943 to 1-1-1944

11629-RLLC operating statement to board of directors of RLLC, 3-1-1944

11630-L. 3-9-1944 John D. Mylrea to Arvey Ahonen, ‘we can help you work out a plan for taking over Rib Lake’s interest in your company’

11631-RLLC 4-8-1944 payroll, 198 named employees, job title and rate per hour

11632-Cedar pole quote 5-18-1944, RLLC to Page & Hill Co

11633-L. 6-5-1944, John D. Mylrea to L. Peterson & Sons ‘it would be much pleasanter for me to agree to your request’

11634-L. 7-14-1944, John D. Mylrea to H.W. Johannes, ‘Can you make any money on these logs at this cost’

11635-L. 9-1-1944, RLLC. H.S. Morrison to John D. Mylrea re bonds, NB; letterhead ‘RLLC’ Box 719, Wausau’

11636-Logging contract, RLLC & John Ahonen, Ironwood, Michigan, 10-22-1944

11637-L. 10-4-1944, Walter Gorman, President, of Lake Superior Lumber Co. to John D. Mylrea

11638-L. 12-1-1944, H.W. Johannes of RLLC to O.T. Swan, Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Mfr’s Assoc., Menomonee Indian Reservation

11639-White Pine logs purchased from Mead Timber by RLLC, 5,404,480 ft decked on Lake Superior shoreline, Hovland, Minnesota, spring 1943, volume of lumber sawn e.g. 1x4; A-Pg. 2 ‘profit $4.50 per thousand feet’

11640-L. 6-22-1944, John D. Mylrea to A.H. McBeam, Edward Hines Lumber Co., offer to sell timber lands

11641-RLLC, white pine lumber produced from Minnesota pine logs, 8-6 to 8-26-1945, 1,266,772 feet

11642-L. 3-8-1946, John D. Mylrea to Rudie Mueller, 30 cars of birch veneer

11643-L. 5-18-1946, John D. Mylrea to Arvey Ahonen

11644-L. 5-21-1946, Ahonen Lumber Co. to John D. Mylrea (NB; page 2 of letter missing on 4-23-2008)

11645-L. 5-27-1946, John D. Mylrea to Arvey Ahonen

11646-L. 5-28-1946, Arvey Ahonen to John D. Mylrea

11647-L. 12-9-1941, John D. Mylrea to Mr. Hambly, DSS&A railroad, negotiation re rail rates, A-DSS&A eventually put in a satisfactory rate for us and we shipped a lot of logs to RLLC

11648-L. 4-18-1932, J.F. Sisley, VP of RLLC, to TLLC ‘It looks like murder in the first degree’

11649-L. 4-8-1932 W.A. Holt, President of Holt Lumber Co. to John D. Mylrea ‘A fine gentleman and a good operator’

Volume XIII of John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea’s collection

11650- table of contents for Volume XIII

11651-L. 7-14-1948, RLLC be Gen. Manager Rudy Mueller to Elmer Taylor of Village of Rib Lake, land sales

11652-L. 7-15-1948 Rudy J. Mueller of RLLC to John D. Mylrea ‘Question of logs in Rib Lake’

11653-Agreement, RLLC and Village of Rib Lake 7-14-1948, Advance on personal property taxes

11654-Bid, 4-29-1947, L.B. Foster Co. for scrap of RLLC rail, note by Rudy J. Mueller ‘rail made in 1885’; B. bid by Paper Calmerson Co. Duluth; C. bid on locomotive #3, 65 tons at $34.50 per ton is $2,242.50 ‘3-Spot’; D. Locomotive 67 c. 90 tons ‘101 c. 65 tons’; E. Kilroy Harris bid,

11655-L. 12-28-1950, Rudy J. Muller of RLLC to John D. Mylrea ‘RLLC made many thousands of dollars by grinding its slabs and edgings’

11656-Report by Herman W. Johannes, General Manager of RLLC, c. 1944, RLLC finances, 3 pgs, page 1 is missing

11657-RLLC valuation of stumpage 1-1-1944

11658-L. 2-22-1945, John D. Mylrea to H.W. Johannes re RLLC land sales, RLLC by mistake deeded still timbered 40 instead of cut-over land in Town of Corning. This letter discusses safeguards to prevent future mistakes

11659-L. 3-8-1945 John D. Mylrea to Wis. Valley Trust Co.

11660-P. 6-7-1945, John D. Mylrea to Roddis Lumber Co.

11661-L. 6-14-1945, Roddis Lumber Co. to John D. Mylrea

11662-L. 7-12-1945 John D. Mylrea to Roddis Lumber Co

11663-RLLC timber estimates, R2E, Town 49-44

11664-L. 7-21-1945 John D. Mylrea to Roddis Lumber Co. re option to buy RLLC land

11665-L. 7-25-1945 John D. Mylrea to Roddis Lumber Co

11666-L. 10-18-1945, John D. Mylrea to Forest Himes, Mylrea offers up land for sale

11667-L. 12-12-1945 L. Peterson and Sons to John D. Mylrea

11668-L. 12-18-1945, L. Peterson and Sons to John D. Mylrea

11669-Note, Rudy J. Mueller to John D. Mylrea, 1948 sale of RLLC lands in Town of Corning, to National Container Corp, e.g. T33N-R3E

11670-Notice RLLC to Mary Mylrea and John D. Mylrea 12-6-1946, re $260,000 for RLLC stock

11671-Notice, RLLC 12-6-1946, to Mary Mylrea

11672-RLLC notice of special meeting of stockholder, 10-7-1946, signature of Aytch P. Woodson

11673-RLLC Notice of special meeting 9-25-1946

11674-L. 7-13-1946, Roddis Lumber Co. to John D. Mylrea

11675-L. 4-2-1946, RLLC to North Wisconsin [Insurance] Agency

11676-L. 10-16-1946, RLLC, H.S. Morrison to Wisconsin Valley Trust Co.

11677-Note by John D. Mylrea 7-5-1946, ‘$300,000 to be paid on RLLC debentures’

11678-undated RLLC ‘cost of operating 48 hrs per week under 40 hr per week’; document split in two

11679-General Log purchase contract [fill in the blanks] RLLC 1940-1946

11680-L. 6-10-1946 John D. Mylrea to Arvey Ahonen ‘our abstract burned last fall’, refers to 1945 RLLC fire

11681-L. 7-1-1946, RLLC notice to Mary Mylrea et al

11682-L. 7-2-1946 John D. Mylrea and Mary Mylrea to RLLC ‘We offer for retirement and incineration’

11683-L. 7-3-1946 John D. Mylrea to Wisconsin Valley Trust

11684-L. 7-1-1946, John D. Mylrea to Arvey Ahonen ‘you will be able to take care of yourself, without waiting for Lady Luck to bring it to you on a silver platter.’

11685-Notice, RLLC 3-18-1946, Mary Mylrea et al

11686-L. 3-18-1946, Notice to Mary Mylrea et al by RLLC

11687-L. 3-20-1046 John D. Mylrea to Wisconsin Valley Trust

11688-L. 3-20-1046 Mary Mylrea to Wisconsin Valley Trust

11689-L. 3-20-1946 John D. Mylrea to R. J. Mueller

11690-L. 3-20-1946 Mary Mylrea to R.J. Mueller

11691-Cremation certificate; 12-21-1945

Volume XIV of John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea’s collection

11692-table of contents for Volume XIV

11693-L. 11-1-1943 H.W. Johannes to Office of Price Administration re costs of production

11694-L. 12-9-1942, Harold E. Holman, Chief, War Production Board, Lumber Production Section to Local Ration Board re gasoline shortage

11695-L. 4-29-1944 USMC to RLLC re labor

11696-L. National War Labor Board to RLLC 10-4-1944 re union issues

11697-newspaper clipping, John D. Mylrea named company director, Forest Products Division, Economic Stablization Adminstration

Volume XV of John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea’s collection

11698-table of contents for Volume XV

11699-L. 4-19-1951, J.B. Veach to John D. Mylrea re Mylrea’s heart attack

Volume (Disc) XVIII- #11700-11799

Volume XV of John D. ‘Jack’ Mylrea’s collection- continued

11700-L. 4-20-1951 to John D. Mylrea from Joe McCarthy

11701-L. 5-22-1951 Theodore T. Kibler to John D. Mylrea

11702-L. 5-24-1951 M.C. McIver to John D. Mylrea

(end of collection from Marathon County Historical Society)

11703-The Wanigan-newsletter of the Marathon Co. Historical Society, 2008, #1, board and staff members

11704-Star News 1928, ‘Jim Peterson says Lumberjack as good today as 40 years ago’; A-102 names of men in camp

11705-Star News 5-20-1992, Laurie’s Corner, Biography of Iona (Pacourek) Heisler

11706-L. RPR to Marie Krolnik 4-17-2008, 427-5702

Rib Lake High School Commencement programs and announcements

11707-1900; Please note the references to “1st and 2nd primaries” in the 1900 commencement invitation. Ms. Lori Manion, administrator, Rib Lake School District, on 4/24/2017 provided the following explanation for those terms: “Regarding ‘first and second primaries’ in early 1900 education in Wisconsin: Primary school education consisted of two cycles from grades 1 to 4 (first primary) and grades 5 to 8 (second primary). Secondary schools had two cycles from grades 9 to 10 (first secondary) and grades 11 to 12 (second secondary).”

Lori Manion’s explanation means that image #11707 was for an elementary school graduation.

11708-1901 Twentieth Century Club, list of programs and annual programs; 10-4 to 5-11 ‘topics’

11709-1903

11710-1904-Medford

11711-1904

11712-1906

11713-1907

11714-1908

11715-1908

11716-1910

11717-1912

11718-1913

11719-1914

11720-1915

11721-1916

11722-1916

11723-1922

11724-1924

11725-1929

11726-1930

11727-1933

11728-1936

11729-1935

11730-1939

11731-1946

11732-1946

11733-1947

11734-1948

11735-L. Karen R. Baumgartner to RPR 4-28-2008

11736-Plat map c. 1880, T34N, Range 3 East, Spirit Lake

11736A-Plat map 2007, T34N, Range 3 East, Spirit Lake

11737-Plat of Spirit Point 2-18-1911

11738-Plat of Spirit Point revisions c. 1985

11739-Map, c. 2000, Spirit Lakes and Spirit Point

11740-P. Oscar H. Peterson (brother of Ole A. Peterson) mowing Peterson golf course, c.1930

11740A-Map, arrow shows direction of camera-NW- up Spirit River valley

11741-P. Peterson Golf Course c. 1930, Golfers golfing

11742-P. c. 1910 Ole A. Peterson in launch ‘Lovisa’ on Spirit Lake. The card is addressed to his future wife ‘Miss Jennie Pederson, Suring, Wisc.’ ‘say Jennie when you come out here I’ll give you a ride in this boat. I ride in it every day when I’m at the camp as the picture was taken from the side of the camp so you see the camp is close to the lake’ – per Karen Baumgartner

11743-P. Peter Pederson (later Peterson) homestead c. 1900, on site of late Peterson golf course

11744-P. c. 1912, brand new stone double arch bridge at mouth of Little Spirit Lake; second from left, Simon Danielson, had contract to build bridge from township. View NNW, 2008 STH 102, stone bridge razed c. 1975 – see also 10392

11745-P. summer 1907 Ole A. Peterson’s bark camp on Spirit Point, Ole is standing by tree, postcard reads ‘very busy logging, have got over 600,000 [hemlock bark] skidded already and have got about 300,000 more to skid’, Ole to his brother in Canada

11746-P. Hemlock bark pile near Spirit Lake c. 1907. L-R, Charlie & Ed Peterson, August Enander, Victor Larsen, Arvid Enander, [also at p. 26 of Pictorial History of Rib Lake]

11747-L. 4-25-2008 to RPR from Suzanne Bamonte of Tornado Creek Publications re John J. Kennedy

11748-1910 census, J.J. Kennedy (age 63) & household; Jeanette (34), Donald A. (32), William G. (26), Elbert C. (23), Spokane, Washington

11748A-B 1910 Census photocopy re J.J. Kennedy & household

11749-8-8-1919 Spokane Chronicle article re J.J. Kennedy & Black Diamond Rescue Tournament

11750-8-24-1920 article, J.J. Kennedy of Spokane Medical and Safety Board

11751-1920 Census of J.J. Kennedy (John J. Kennedy), Portland, Multnomah, Oregon; J.J. (74), Donald A. (42), Janette (sic) (40), William G. (37), Elbert C. (35),

Photographs donated by Marion Parks:

11752-P. c. 1910 Rib Lake-from tannery; foreground-top of bark piles and tannery houses; left-north end of McComb Ave.; text ‘Dear Emily, the wood shed is open…’

11752A-backside of 11752, to Miss Emily Kerswill, Camp Cleghorn, Waupaca, WI

11753-P. c. 1898, unknown party writes on back ‘Opera House’ [NB-McComb opera house was wood frame-not brick construction-RPR]

11754-P. old high school on Fayette Avenue & 1927 Rib Lake High School addition, north side of buildings

11755-P. ‘Pine Island’ ‘Rib Lake #29’ c. 1930

11756-P. ‘Scene on Rib Lake’

11757-P. ‘Scene near Rib Lake R45’ Midsize white pine trees

11758-print ‘Rib Lake Lumber Co-early 1920’s’ view to west northwest from lake

end of Marion Parks collection

11759-Attorney RPR when Village of Rib Lake attorney stationery; 1972-1980, RLV ‘since 1902, a creative community’

data from Michael Weckwerth

11760-RLLC & Camp articles from Taylor Co. Star News, 1-5-1922; 1-12-1922 log hauler, 4-7-1922 railroad fire apparatus, 3 tank cars

11761-RLLC & Camp articles from Taylor Co. Star News, 6-13-1922 camp 18, Joseph Spoke injured

11762-RLLC & camp articles from Taylor Co. Star News, 11-1-1923, Camp 19, C.R. Peterson, foreman; 4-26-1923, Ole A. Peterson has camp near Wood Lake; 11-15-1923, locomotive #67 of RLLC

11763-L. 1988, Michael Weckwerth to RPR

11764-Feb. 1925, Merrill Daily Herald ‘RLLC logs heavily’, Camp 18-jobbers along STH 64, Camp 19-jobbers along CTH M, Single white pine contains 8963 board feet, 467 growth rings

11765-Merrill Daily Herald 3-2-1925, Edward Scheu jobber camp

11766-Merrill Daily Herald 5-15-1925, forest fires burn 4 section of RLLC-Copper River Land Co cutover land

11767-Merrill Daily Herald 1-23-1929, Lamberty jobber camp

11768-Merrill Daily Herald 1-26-1929, Merrill loses trade

11769-Merrill Daily Herald 4-25-1929, logs in decks escape taxes

11770-Merrill Daily Herald 5-1-1929 jobber camp

11771-Merrill Daily Herald 7-12-1929, RLLC Edward Burgoyne building, 9 miles of railroad into New Wood area; 8-27-1929, RLLC builds new 31 x 60 dry kiln

end of Michael Weckwerth data

11772-Autobiography of Herman Arthur Rusch 1974

Michael Weckwerth data

11773-Judgment of Conviction, Joseph Nevua 3-18-1897

11774-Judgment of Conviction, Mike Schenke, 5-5-1899

11775-Judgment of Conviction, Joseph O’Brien, 5-8-1899

11776-Camp Chronology chart by Michael Weckwerth 5-6-2008, includes info on Camp 9, Camp 10, Camp 11, Camp 12, Camp 13, Camp 14, Camp 15, Camp 16, Camp 17, Camp 18, Camp 19, Camp 20, Camp 21, Camp 22, Camp 23, Camp 24, Camp 25, Camp 26, Camp 17 and Camp 28

11777-Camp 20 data by Michael Weckwerth

11778-Map, Camp 22 & Camp 23 RLLC, Morgan Peterson, Lambert Lamberty, William ‘Bill’ Natzke, Herman Kleinschmidt, Carl Krueger, Gus Luedtke jobber camps

11779-William ‘Bill’ Natzke interview by Michael Weckwerth c. 1980; B-Camp 21, Gus Luedtke camp, Morgan Peterson camp, Lambert Lamberty camp; C-trucks as sleigh haulers; D-move to Michigan

11780-Natzke jobber camp #1 by Michael Weckwerth

11781-Natzke jobber camp #2

11782-Natzke jobber camp #3

11783-Natzke jobber camp #4

11784-Natzke jobber camp #5

11785-Taylor County Star News 1934 articles,

4-19-1934-RLLC personnel T.M. Berfield, Supt, Wm. Lemke, Yard Supt, Wm. Radtke, Sawmill foreman, W.C. Funk, Master Mechanic, John Shepherd, Planing Mill, Anton Klister, Section crews, James Peterson, Woods Supt;

5-10-1934-Six jobbers, Morgan Peterson, Lambert Lamberty. William ‘Bill’ Natzke, Herman Kleinschmidt, Carl Krueger, G. ‘Gus’ W. Luedtke;

6-12-1934, F.W. Warrington, General Manager of RLLC;

5-10-1934, Camp 22 & Camp 23 of RLLC, location & data

11786-L. Michael Weckwerth to RPR 9-14-1988

11787-Taylor Co. Star News entries; 5-3-1945, RLLC ‘The Largest capacity operating sawmill in Wisconsin’

11788-Taylor Co. Star News, 9-30-1945, ‘Rib Lake loses planing plant Saturday’

11789-RLHe 2-6-1948 Last of Standing Timber Being Cut

11790-RLHe 2-25-1948, Last Log J.A. Crowley

11791-RLHe 6-4-1948 Sawing of Last Log

end of Mike Weckwerth data

Photos from Star News files– Did they accompany article #11704 – Jim Peterson – 1928?

11792-P. c. 1925, 14 giant rollways, 2 teams ‘jammer’ [for decking logs], in center track of RLLC railroad, probably Town of Corning, Lincoln Co, Wisconsin

11793-P. c. 1925, ‘The boss, Jim Peterson, showing ‘em how to use an axe’

11794-P. c. 1925, ‘good hemlock in RLLC timber’, probably Town of Corning, Lincoln Co., Wis, virgin eastern hemlock

11795-P. c. 1925 virgin hemlock stand

11796-P. c. 1925 ‘good hemlock recently felled’

11797-P. c. 1925 9 teams of horses

end of Photos from Star News files

11798-P. Postcard - Wisconsin

11799-P. Postcard – Wisconsin, deer & sunset

Volume (Disc) XIX- #11800-11899

11800-P. Postcard – Wisconsin, Camp Randall c. 2000

11801-P. Postcard – Wisconsin, ‘The Wisconsin Northwoods’

11802-P. Postcard – Wisconsin, wood barns in Coolee County

11803-P. Postcard – Wisconsin, autumn view from Timm’s Hill, WI-Longseth home in back. Swan Bros. balsam Christmas trees in fields c. 2007

11804-L. 5-9-2008 Mike Weckwerth to RPR

11805-Title page; RLLC Camp 20 ‘A hardwood & hemlock camp in Lincoln Co., Wis.’ by Michael Weckwerth, c. 1920

11805A- RLLC Camp 20 ‘A hardwood & hemlock camp in Lincoln Co., Wis.’ by Michael Weckwerth, c. 1920

11806-Article ‘William Natzke’s 3rd Logging Camp – a Jobber Camp for the RLLC’ by Mike Weckwerth, c. 2000; H-Map-location ‘Natzke Camp’; I-location of Natzke camp & sleigh roads; J-tote road to Natzke Camp #3; K-camp buildings;

11807-L. Karen R. Baumgartner to RPR 5-14-2008

11807A-partial abstract – Peter Pederson homestead, Spirit Lake, NW-NW, 32-34-3E, Price Co., Wis

11808-deed, J.W. Perry, et ux, to Donald A. Kennedy & Bernard Assmann, 5-14-1904 $930, 3 acres mill site on Lake Coeur d’Alene, Idaho

11808A-Deed, Lucius W. Braman ex ux to Donald A. Kennedy & Bernard Assmann, 8-19-1903 $2500, .23 acre mill site, West Bank of Spokane River

11808B-Notes by RPR 5-15-2008

11808C-recording data, Kootenai County, Idaho, 5-24-1901 to 8-11-1905, Sec. 14, Town 50, Range 4

11809-P. 1959 L-R; Herb Curran, Eddie Mathews (star home-run hitter, Milwaukee Braves)

and Frank Becker

11810-L. Dave Webster to RPR 9-29-1983

11810A-history of CCC Camp Mondeaux 1933-1937

11811-Application, Historic St. Ann’s, Inc. c. 1980

11812-P. St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, c. 1940, South side, razed 1972 – as of c.2008 ‘Good Shepard’ parish

11813-History of our parishes-St. John the Baptist, Rib Lake, Catholic Herald Citizen 1-30-1954

11814-Pamphlet ‘St. John the Baptist Parish’ Diamond Jubilee, 1896-1971

11815-Pamphlet ‘The Sixtieth Anniversary of St. John’s Ev. Lutheran Church’, Rib Lake, WI, 1886-1946

11816-P. St. John’s Ev. Lutheran Church, SW corner c. 1-2007, left is parsonage

11817-1967- ‘A brief history of St. John’s’ [Ev. Lutheran Church of Rib Lake], author unknown

11818-Pamphlet, ‘United Methodist Church of Rib Lake’ c. 1980, author unknown

11819-Baptism records 1-9-1890, etc. circuit including United Methodist Church in Rib Lake, pg. 142-143, 8-26-1891 Catherine Ann Clendenning, daughter of Peter & Ida Clendenning, 6-9-1895, Anna May [Mae] Kennedy, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Kennedy

11820-Church of Christ typed report by Raymond J. Voemastek c. 1973, church property deeded to Village of Rib Lake c. 1973, East side of Pearl St. 2 doors south of Landall

11821-P. St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, east side, c. 1900, RPR collection

11822-typed report ‘St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Rib Lake’, author unknown, c. 1978

11823-Bio. Hugh A. McDonald with source

11824-L. 8-18-1989 Donald J. Simerson to RPR

11825-RLHe 11-2-1906 P. Hugh A. McDonald & P. Frank J. Hintz

11826-RPR Interview notes 8-3-1983 with Clifford L. Curran

11827-obit, Clifford L. Curran, Star News 2-21-1990 & P. 12-30-1908 to 2-15-1990

11828-Article, History of Forest Fire Protection in Wisconsin, Chips & Sawdust, 11-1981

11829-’Taylor County Forest; A gift to everyone’ Star News 12-8-1982

11830-L. De Lorr A. Hayward to Vox Pop in Star News 12-29-1982, Taylor Co. welfare and county forest

11831-L. De Lorr A. Hayward to RPR 6-13-1984

11832-’Picnic 1915 style’ by De Lorr A. Hayward

11833-L. UW-Madison, A.H. Smith to De Lorr A. Hayward 9-22-1927

11834-L. 2-4-1927, Ann Schwanzle to De Lorr A. Hayward & envelope with 2 cent stamp

11835-P. 5-28-1926, l-r, Reuben Wick, Viola Taylor and De Lorr A. Hayward

11836-P. 1925, Little Rib Lake, Orville Peterson splashing De Lorr A. Hayward

11837-P. c. 1915, Rib Lake Village, l-r, Ruth McLeod, Viola Taylor, Henry Wagner, back-east side of McComb Ave, center, Nick Clerf Blacksmith, back right, RLLC roundhouse; foreground, water hydrant

11838-P. Ruth McLeod

11839-P. ‘Andy Karkula & Helen Sekadlo’ Rib Lake Village, McComb Ave c. 1926 Kelnhofer Food Store, now Ed’s IGA, 801 McComb Ave.

11840-P. Gordon Funk, Viola Taylor, Anna Jarosh, Vernon Schroeder

11841-P. 1927 Vernon ‘Sonny’ Schroeder, car plates Wis 92-530D27

11842-P. 1927 Helen Sekadlo, Vernon ‘Sonny’ Schroeder, Viola Taylor, Anna Jarosh, RLT barn in back

11843-P. Viola Taylor ‘Ole’, Helen Sekadlo ‘Sek’, Anna Jarosh ‘Beans’

11844-P. 1927, Anna Jarosh, Helen Sekadlo, cigarette, Viola Taylor, great 1920’s flapper clothes

11845-P. 1927, Viola Taylor on fence post

11846-P. 1926, Esther Christianson, Clara Service, Armella Martin, Helen Wick, Ruth Radtke

11847-P. c. 1926, Walt Mathias, Henry Gorsica, Arnold Krueger, back-Shaw Town house on Fayette, men standing on McComb Ave., store front at 818 McComb Ave.-Genesis Youth Center in 2008

11848-typed report, ‘Economies Resulting from Highway Improvement’. c. 1925 (may be by De Lorr Hayward)

11849-L. De Lorr Hayward to RPR 7-14-1983, Lignum Vitae paperweight from RLLC wood saw guide-12x20x3 lignum vitae guide for band saw-steel could not be used (5-2008-RPR has paper weight)

11850-L. 4-30-1990, De Lorr Hayward to RPR, Rib Lake history

11851-RLHe 8-9-1962, ‘Former teacher tells of earlier Rib River Days’ by Joseph Jantsch, teacher at Rib River School 1915-1917

11852-RLHe 8-9-1962, ‘Fire Department Early History is Recalled by Vets’

11853-RLHe 8-9-1962 ad ‘How-de-do in ‘62’

11854-RLHe 8-9-1962 Gem Products ad & photo

11855-RLHe 8-9-1962 ‘We Remember When’, C.R. Claussen

11856-RLHe 8-9-1962 ‘History of Rib Lake 1904-1925’, by Joseph Clerf

11857-RLHe 6-21-1973 top, front page

11858-RLHe 9-20-1973 final issue

11859-RLHe 8-9-1962 ‘How-de-do-in 62’ front page

11860-RLHe rate card 9-1-1973

11861-Pamphlet ‘Welcome to Rib Lake, Wis’ ‘Where the Ice Age ends & your adventure begins’ c. 2006

11862-P. c. 1910, Rib Lake House Hotel, Lot 10, Block B, McComb Ave., Charles Dodge and horse, back-tannery smokestack

11863-P. 2-1907, Charles Dodge & horse Norvalis

11864-P. locomotive 101, ‘Little Dunc, Thomas T. Gray & Henry Rosenfeldt’ at Rib Lake Depot c. 1910

11865-L. 7-31-1986, John R. Gray toRPR

11866-P. Village of Rib Lake from RLLC chimney, right-lumber piles; center-Railroad Street; left-National Hotel, a.k.a Bonneville Hotel; view west c. 1920 ‘K-680 ‘

11866A-handwritten notes on back

11867-P. c. 1908 Sac Nowak & sleigh, team of oxen and 1 horse, back-cutover land

11867A-back

11868-P. c. 1915 Gray’s Buffet-Thomas T. Gray

11869-P. c. 1915 RLLC locomotive 3, a.k.a 3-Spot, at Rib Lake Depot ‘Scene at Rib Lake Depot 6#’

11870-L. 7-8-1983 John R. Gray to RPR, A-back, B-Map RLV, C-Map RLV, D-Map Tannery & McComb Ave., E-envelope

11871-P. c. 1915, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas T. Gray & family in living room, L-R; Loretta, Frank, Dad (Thomas T.), John R., Margaret, Isabel and Mom

11872-P. Ward School pupils c. 1910;

11872A-Names of Ward School pupils c. 1910, L-R, front row, Michael Karkula, Willie Wolffe, Arthur Hintz, Frank Novak, Irving Prentice, John R. Gray, Willie Van Dorn, Fred Simon, Herman Brandt, Albert Schlicker, Oscar Hanke, Herman Marschke, Norman Halverson, Willie Christianson, Dorothy Trantow, Julia Yaranda, Lucille Prentice, Mary Burseck, Mattie Steare, Jeanette Martin, Ada Radtke, Margaret Clendenning, Gladys Allen, Ella Kolecheck (later Mrs. Headstream), Marion Develski, Rose Hoffmann, Mattie Kennutke, Hanna Winkler, Bertha Ungerer, Martha Sturdder, Martha Marschke, Irene Patrick, Anna Stylles, Hattie Krueger, Esla Bertslauff, Mary Novak, Bertha Pauline Rusch (later Mrs. Walter Kurth), Arleen Rousseau

11873-L. 11-25-1986 Congressman Henry S. Reuss to RPR re Ice Age Trail

11874-typed report ‘Push & Pulls; German Migration to Taylor County, Wis’ 10-21-2006, by RPR for First Annual Dinner Presentation to Taylor Co. Hist. Society

A-P. Wilhelm Gebauer

B,C,D – P. Herrmann E. Rusch & Ida Hedwig Rusch nee Lange

F-1881 Map, Wis. Central Railway lands in Taylor Co.

G-Der Wahreits Freund 29 Oct. 1884

H-Translation of Der Wahreits Freund (does this refer to St. Ann’s Church?)

I-end of English translation, by Hildegard & Loretta Kuse

11875-12-8-1996 German service, Athens

11876-Newspaper fragment –Marshfield Democrat

11877-Little Black Mutual Life Insurance – German policy, 1886

11878-Certificate of Naturalization, Edward Gerstberger

11879-Deed, Wis. Central Railroad to Edward Gerstberger 2-21-1895

11880-Bill of Sale-Henry W. Stelling Manufacturing Lumber, etc. 4-19-1918, to E. Gerstberger ‘by (sic) 66,750 ft. hemlock logs at $9.50’ is $634.03

11881-Bill of sale, ‘J.J. Kennedy, Manufacturer of and dealer in Lumber, Lath and Shingles’ Rib Lake, Wis. 4-22-1886, $25 received of E. Gerstberger for NE-NW, Sec. 31, T33, R3E, signed W.C.R.R. (Wis. Central Railroad) by A.J. Perkins, Agent – (land just north of 2008 Gerstberger Pines, Taylor Co. Park-Preserve)

11882-6-1-1901 order for 8 ft rake for E. Gerstberger

11883-Heimat Schein 4-18-1884, Edward Gerstberger born 1847

11884-Obit, Ernst Gerstberger, 4-8-1915 in German

11885-Baptism Certificate E…Gerstberger, 8-20-1876, place of birth, Hirschberg

11886-P. McComb Ave. c. 1900 view north from tramway; L-building-George Braun, Sr. Real estate; R-building-Nick Clerf, Blacksmith

11887-P. RLLC railroad row composite view 1897-1948, black square is 1 square mile, blue spot is Rib Lake

11888-Map-log railroad route, RLLC Camp 1 to Rib Lake

11889-History of Rib Lake 3-18-1948 by Guy Wallace

11889A-History of Rib Lake 4-2-1948 by Guy Wallace, part 2

11889B-History of Rib Lake by Guy Wallace, typed version of entire report 3-1948

11890-Article; Steam in the Hills; RLLC & Wisconsin’s Last Logging Railroad by RPR 11-29-1985, 16 pgs

11891-L. FHAW to All FHAW members 8-20-1983

11892-RPR notes from Edwin Martin, A-Camp 1 & RLLC locomotives; B-RLLC camps 1-22, RL tannery closes 1-22-1922; C-RLLC depression era excess inventory 60,000,000 board feet; D-RLLC steamhauler camps; E-RLLC camps without railroads; F-Map-general route 1897, First RL logging railroad route

11893-Info re Hillcrest cabin on South Harper Lake – 2008 owned by Dr. Ray & Elaine Hanson; L-7-1-2004 Ray & Elaine Hanson to Ann Kloehn;

A-Address;

B-L-6-22-2004, Ann Kloehn to Hanson;

C-tele 7-12-2004;

D-L. 8-22-2004;

E-7-24-2004;

F-P. Hillcrest 1958;

G-P. Hillcrest 2003;

H-Obit, Louise Perschbacher nee Harder 6-9-2005;

I-Obit, George N. Harder 5-11-1946, Escanaba Daily Press;

J-Bio, George N. Harder 11-10-1934, American Lumberman;

K-Resolution; George N. Harder;

L-P. George N. Harder 1913;

M-George N. Harder data; George N. Harder 1-2-1878 to 5-10-1946;

N-P. c. 1923 George N. Harder & wife (Beryl Crisman Harder) 7-27-1876 to 1-8-1963;

O-data

P-P. Hillcrest c. 1920, R-South Harper Lake

Q-Data

R-P. Playhouse

S-Data

T-P. L-R; Evelyn Harder, George N. Harder, Louise Harder ‘Swimming in Harper Lake’

U-Data

V-P. Harder kids in Spirit River

W-Data

X-P. Louise Harder Perschbacher, daughter Ann Kloehn, Elaine Hanson 8-2004

Y-P. Louise Harder Perschbacher & Dr. Ray Hanson

Z-P. Louise Harder Perschbacher 8-2004

AA-P. ‘The playhouse in 8-2004

11894-RLHe 12-27-1907 ‘From Camp 2’ poem

11895-RLHe 1-24-1908 ‘From Camp 2’ poem ‘We are a jolly set of fellows’ by J.B.A.

11896-RLHe 2-28-1908 tannery improvements sponsored by U.S. Leather Company

11897-RLHe 3-13-1908 ‘Will the W.C. [Wisconsin Central Railway] do it’

11898-Star News 8-5-1974 History ‘Recalls Log Drive on Rib River’ by Samuel H. Thut

11899-Star News 4-14-1966 ‘Watersong’ Landmark in Interwald Leaves Scene, Former George Knower Store at Interwald

Volume (Disc) XX- #11900-11999Lucia

11900-P. 6-20-1982 concrete mill base at Interwald

11901-L. Lyle Kraus to RPR 10-13-1983 re Albert Kraus sawmill on CTH M, NB; P. 11900 60 ft No. on CTH M

11902-Light Plant article, author unknown c. 1980

11903-History 1-1977 Mrs. Ed Prien

11904-Taylor Family History by Hattie Taylor (Mrs. Elmer Taylor) c. 1980

11905-Schaack Family History, A-F.P. Schaack ‘Franny’

11906-P. 5-19-1884, J.J. Kennedy Hotel & Boarding House

11907-Wallace Family History by Naida E. Straub nee Wallace

11908-Autobiography of Barbara Schreiner nee Pfeiffer c. 1980

11909-Autobiograhy of Marie Schmidt nee Silbernagel, a.k.a. ‘Ma Schmidt’

11910-Star News 7-31-1952, History by Mrs. Fred Niggemann, nee Edith Curran

11911-RLHe 6-21-1946 History, St John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church

11912-P. ‘Stanley Gacek Inquest’ c. 1940 wrecked car, McComb & Fayette Ave.

11912A-P. back of c. 1940 old garage, McComb Ave.

11913B-Back old D-X station McComb Ave.

11912C-L-Tauber’s Tavern, in 2008 Last Chance Saloon, R-Antique Store in 2008

11913-L.-Wis. Motor Vehicle Dept to David H. Ruesch, Coroner of Taylor County

11914-List of Groceries, Lambert P. Lamberty 1928, for jobber camp along CTH M, Town of Corning, Lincoln Co.

11915-Bio, William H. Natzke

11916-Article ‘Natzke Donates tract of Newwood Land to UW-SP’

11917-P. c. 1912 Jobber camp of Lambert Enders & Joseph Kauer, logged one 40-North c 1-4 mile of Mud Lake School; top R-Joseph Kauer, Sr., Second; Lambert Enders

11918-RLHe Conservation Club ordered to drop Spirit Lake Water Level’ c. 1960

11919-Map c. 1970 Little Spirit Lake

11920-Map c. 1970 Big Spirit Lake

11921-Map c. 1970 North Harper Lake

11922-P. c. 1910 North Harper Lake view west

11923-Map c. 1970 South Harper Lake

11924-Map c. 1980 Rib Lake

11925-L. Marvin Lueck to RPR 3-18-2004

11926-Notice of Entry of Judgment, Taylor Co. Circuit Court, 4-19-1898, E.J. Anderson v. J.J. Kennedy [John J. Kennedy] $90 plus $37.65 costs, see SF: ‘Law-J.J. Kennedy’ for entire file including offer of judgment.

11927-Hoffman v. RLLC, Wis. Supreme Court 8-1908, 136 Wis. 388, Court sustains money judgment against RLLC – personal injury

11928-Graves v. RLLC, 10-10 to 10-29-1912, 151 Wis. 99, personal injury judgment

11929-Rib River Lumber Co. v. Ogilvie, 113 Wis. 482, ambiguity in contract

11930-File of Taylor County Circuit Court, American Biscuit & Manufacturing vs. J.J. Kennedy, ‘1896’

A-Clerk’s fees $4.90

B-Promissory note $200.00 signed by J.J. Kennedy, original signature, due 7-5-1896

C-back of promissory note ‘for collection’

D-Statement – 912-1896 $173.17

E-back of D, plaintiff’s Exhibit A

F-Summons – served on J.J. Kennedy 11-16-1896

G-Plaintiff’s Bill of Costs $37.63

H-Plaintiff’s Bill of Costs, signed E.H. Schweppe

I-Certificate of Service

J-Summons

K-Certificate of Substitute Service on ‘Miss Kennedy’ by Sheriff William A. Warren

L-Complaint

M-Complaint, pg 2

11931-Abstract of Title NW-NW 9-32-3E – map

A-title chart-Dates and ID of owners, J.J. Kennedy, corporations, etc.

B, C,

D-Requirement to ship lumber off land via Wisconsin Central,

E, F, G

11932-Abstract of Title, NE-NW 9-32-3E – map

A-Title Chart

B-K

11933-Abstract, Lots 1-8, Government lots around Wood Lake, 23-37-3E, Entry 17, U.S. Leather Co., A New Jersey Corporation

11934-Abstract of Title, Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12,13, 14, 15, 16, Block A, Plat of Subdivision of Unplatted part of Block A, original plat of Rib Lake; RLLC sawmill site

A-map

B-Map ‘Main Street’

C-Map

D-Patent

E-Kirk W. Ingham

F-#10, Tax deed 10-25-1880

G-George W. Curtis 2-1-1881

H-John J. Kennedy 8-21-1892, Lot 10

I-John J. Kennedy, 12-26-1881, Lot 9

J-Wayne Ramsay tax deed 2-20-1882

K-Original Plat of Rib Lake 5-23-1895, Lot 9 to J.J. Kennedy 10-6-1900

L-J.J. Kennedy mortgages – 4 of them all in 1896

M-J.J. Kennedy mortgages – 4 of them in 1896

N-3 mortgage satisfactions 1899

O-4 mortgage satisfactions 1899

P-4 mortgage satisfactions 1899

Q-J.J. Kennedy & Flora M. Kennedy to J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co, Lots 1, 2, 3 & 4, Original Plat of Rib Lake, 6-29-1899

R-J.J. Kennedy to W.A. Osburn Lumber Co, 11-13-1901, #58, W.A. Osburn Lumber Co shall be known as Rib Lake Lumber Company [RLLC] 5-6-1902

S-Deed to RLLC of Delaware, 1-16-1925; #61 mortgage $950,000.00 to U.S. Leather Co

T-Deed to Rudolph J. Mueller, et ux, 1-10-1949, Rudy Mueller was last superintendent of RLLC

U-G.A. Gowey Certificate 9-7-1949

V-to Curtiss C. Lord, 5-29-1951

W-continuation

X-to Potaczek Brothers, Scrap dealers

Y-to Olin R. Thompson

Z-AA-Certificates

11935-Abstract, Lot 9, Block 4, Original plat of Rib Lake, part of Govt. Lot 9, 26-33-2E, Linda Stellbrink home, Village of Rib Lake; title chart

A-chart

B-Abstract of Title, Lot 9, Block 4, Original plat of Rib Lake

C-to J.J. Kennedy 12-26-1881

D-tax deed

E-original plat of Rib Lake by J.J. Kennedy & Flora M. Kennedy 5-23-1895

F-4 mortgages

G-4 mortgages

H-Satisfactions of mortgages - 1899

I-4 satisfactions of mortgages – 1899

J-4 satisfactions of mortgages – 1899

K-to J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co, 6-29-1899

L-to W.A. Osburn Lumber Co, 11-13-1901

M-to W.A. Osburn Lumber Co, renamed Rib Lake Lumber Co [RLLC]; #41 to RLLC of Delaware

N-Mortgage $950,000.00 U.S. Leather Co. 1-31-1936

O-to Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert & Jennie Schnelle 7-16-1946

11936-Map 1881 Northern Wisconsin

11937-Map 9-30-1885 ‘Kennedy’s mill’

11938-Map c. 1-1886

11938A-Map RLLC camp sites, General camp locations by RPR, 5-29-2008

11939-Map 8-1890

11940-Map c. 5-1893 O.K. Queary

11941-Map, Wis., c. 1911

11942-Map topo c. 1-1949

11942A-color version of map topo, c. 1949;

B-Village of Rib Lake

C-Wood Lake

D-Harper Lake

E-Tim’s Lake

F-Spirit Town Hall

11943-Map, Price County 1-1976

11944-Map & brochure ‘Rib Lake’ c. 1985, A-4 photos of Rib Lake Village, ‘Cabinet factory’-Roger Johnson, Gem Products, Bros. 2 wood novelties; B-Map, west half; C-east half

11945-Map c. 1945, C.R. Claussen-South Harper Lake

11946-Map c. 1945, C.R. Claussen-North Harper Lake

11947-Map c. 1-1913 Spirit Falls, WI & environs

11948-Map-topo Spirit Falls c. 1940; A-Camp 25; B-Camp 27; C-Tomahawk, D-Grand Mother School; E-Grand Father Dam

11949-Map c. 10-1948 Village of Rib Lake

11949A Enlargement of part of Map c. 10-1948 by “county surveyor” C.R. Claussen showing part of Govt. Lot 6, Sec. 26-33-2E, Village of Rib Lake, part of “Copper Creek” flowing into Rib Lake. Map original as of 4-13-2019 at Office of Clerk of Village of Rib Lake. NB-Ray Budick writes that S.H. Alban on 6-5-1875 built “a dam on Copper Creek than than ¼ mile from Rib Lake upstream near the Rib lake Cemetery, #21972-1

11950-Map & brochure 1996, ‘Rib Lake – Were the Ice Age Ends & Your Adventure Begins’; A-History & ‘Lifestyle’; B-Business directory; C-Business directory; D-Wisconsin’s Ice Age shaped the landscape; E-Map, North; F-Map, South; G-Calendar of events

11951-Map c. 1965, Rib Lake Mobil Service, Fred Klein, owner

11952-P. Aerial RLLC, c. 1925

11953-flyer – ‘Henry’s Wedding’ 1934, A-List of Rib Lake businesses

11954-’Humor for Every Occasion’ by Matt Lamberty

11955-P. Henry S. Reuss

11956-Rib Lake business, RPR notes

11957-Church, Methodist, List of pastors 1892-1923

11958-’The Tree, The Axe and the Plow’ by Eldon Marple, 6-1890, ‘Visitor’

11959-letterhead, Fayette Shaw, Phillips, WI, 1890 Manufacturer & dealer in non-acid hemlock sole leather

11960- 11-2-1898 envelope ‘United States Leather Co’ Rib Lake Tannery, Rib Lake, Wis.

11961-P. 1895 roll crew in Shaw Tannery, No. 1, Rib Lake, Wis by Dake (from photocopy)

11962-’Rib Lake Theatre Owners seek bids for property sale’ Star News 1968

11963-P. RLLC store c. 1948

11964-P. RLHS 1908 graduating class & number

11965-P. 1933 car in snow cut

11966-Emma B. Viegut memorial card-Mannel Funeral Home, 12-23-1903 to 1-30-1980

11966-1-Beda K. Gessert memorial card-Mannel Funeral Home, 6-12-1898 to 4-8-1980

11967-P. sailboat on Rib Lake c. 1910, left-Ward School

11968-P. 1-1959, ‘Ma Dodge’s Restaurant’ razed

11969-9-9-1955 RLLC store razed

11970-Map c. 1981

11971-P. c. 1920 McComb Ave. & Fake street car, old lodge hall & text IDing buildings

11971A-same without annotations

11972-Map, plat 1914 Koehler Land Co.

11972A ibid, Annotated version

11973-L. 2-8-1978, Richard A. Erney to Gene A. Meier

11974-Note by Roy Meier c. 1982

11975-1920 plat map T34N-3E

11976-11-1978’Our Yesterday House’ by Wisconsin Weekend

11977-P. RLLC locomotive 101 on turntable

11978-RLHe 7-24-1952, ‘New Industry is Considered for Old Mill Building’

11979-Abstract, Lot 7, Block 1, Getchel’s addition to North Rib Lake

11980-Star News 10-30-1897, ‘J.J. Kennedy’s mill at Rib Lake was totally destroyed by fire Monday night’.

11980A-Phillips Bee 10-30-1897 & other data on Rib Lake

11981-12-16-2004 Star News ‘Guess what he found from the mill today’

11982-Memo; RLHe clipping, RPR 5-10-02

11983-Map 8-30-1921

11984-P. Joseph Pfeiffer, aka Pfeifer, at his farm, SE-SE, 26-33-2E, cutting hay with team of oxen, c. 1900

11985-P. c. 1910 Andrew Hoffmann (father of Anna aka Mrs. Lawrence Schneider), sleigh & team, NB-box car in rear

11986-P. 1914 RLLC mill fire – flatcars

11987-P. 1914 RLLC mill fire – hopper cars

11987A ‘Enhanced’ version by Dan Smith in 2015. Additional people shown in foreground but photo quality of 11987 is superior.

11988-P. 1914 RLLC mill fire – view south, back-Rib Lake; right-firewood; company windmill in back

11989-P. c. 1920 new RLLC mill, left-machine shop-railroad wheels in front; center-sawmill-west side; right-transfer chain; foreground-standard gauge railroad track to planing mill; sidewalks parallel to McComb Ave.

11990-P. c. 1920 view from Rib Lake to west; right-RLLC & bull chain; center-brick boiler room & brick chimney; left-transfer chain; foreground-steam from hot pond

11991-P. boiler room – interior, left-Joe Probst; right-Frank Diabl, far right-’hog feed’, waste wood chips used as fuel for boilers

11992-P. c. 1925, taken from Upjohn (James) roof, foreground-Fayette Ave.; 2 RLLC railroad tracks, string of empty Russell cars, logs in lake crossed by temporary railroad; vegetative peninsula at mouth of Tannery Creek; rear-pilings in lake to prevent log drifting

11993-P. c. 1920 lumber piles in dry yard, ‘K957’, photo from tramway-view west, standard gauge railroad in center

11994-P. c. 1942, RLLC dry yard, steeples in rear; left-Methodist Church; right-Catholic Church

11995-P. ‘M.E. Church’ ‘1917’

11996-P. c. 1920, St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, South side

11997-P. c. 1950, McComb Ave.-view north, A-’Gene’s Variety’ in old RLLC Store, B-later, C.C. Lord accounting, C-unidentified, D-old post office & lodge, E-H.G. Landall gas ‘Good Will’ station, F-Peter Bogumill locker plant

11998-P. Clearview School c. 1966, right-old RLLC machine shop, view NNE

11999-P. c. 1970 Rib Lake, STH 102, & north shore of Rib Lake

Volume (Disc) XXI- #12000-12099

12000-P. c. 1940 ‘Bridge over Spirit River’ STH 102, rear-Mohr’s Tavern [hidden]

12001-P. c. 1965 Little Spirit Lake & STH 102, right-Albert ‘Happy’ Marschke farm

12002-P. 2-1969 Nursing home under construction, right-McComb Ave.

12003-P. RLLC locomotive 101 on turntable c. 1930

12004-P. RLLC turntable - in 2008 parking lot site of Camp 28 restaurant

12005-P. RLLC ‘roundhouse’ and water tank, view east

12006-P. ‘RLLC mill’ by Elster-Waupaca – right- ‘Roundhouse’ c. 1930

12007-P. D-955 RLLC tramway, white yard office c. 1928

12008-P. gas powered jammer loading flatcar, left-peeled hemlock; right-yellow birch

12009-P. ‘Tannery switch engine’ c.1915

12010-Amended Articles of Incorporation, W.A. Osburn Lumber Co., 5-6-1902 renaming itself ‘Rib Lake Lumber Co’ RLLC

12011-Map 4-18-1952, Railroads, including ‘Kunz Mill spur’

12012-P. RLC chimney, 165 feet

12013-RLHe 7-24-1952 ‘New industry is considered for old mill building’

12014-RLHe 1-21-1949 ‘R.J. Mueller buys Lumber Co. property’

12015-11-5-1983 RPR sketch maps, RLLC mill site; A-Boiler room; B-Railroad track remnants; C-Steam tunnel

12016-L. 7-27-1987, M. Beckwith re 1922-1930 missing gap in Rib Lake Herald

12017-L. 8-5-1987 Wis. Historical Society to Mike Weckwerth – status of Rib Lake Herald

12018-Diagram of RLLC buildings, RPR 1-1989

12019-Note-Ed Thums reports maximum dry yard storage capacity 60,000,000 board feet, notes by RPR

12020-L. Rudy J. Mueller c. 1950 on RLLC stationery, signed by Rudy to George L. Straub

12021-P. Tramway over McComb Ave., view north c. 1935

12022-P. tramway; left-roundhouse; center-machine shop c. 1930; view east

12023-P. 7 people & 7 buildings – Camp 10

12024-P. aerial photo c. 1920, Lutheran Church, north McComb Ave.

12025-P. Aerial c. 1920 RLLC, South McComb Ave.

12026-P. Aerial c. 1920 RLLC; left-strut of biplane

12027-P. McComb Ave. c. 1910 view north

12028-P. McComb Ave. c. 1935, blurred man ‘No C-16 ‘Main Street’ foreground-Railroad tracks, view north

12029-P. 1930 ‘K681’ from RLLC chimney – NW

12030-P. c. 1930 ‘K682’ from RLLC chimney – SW; center-Central Hotel (Mathias)

12031-P. RLLC ‘18’ mill chimney; foreground-McComb Ave.; right-National Hotel

12032-P. c. 1920 steam hauler & 3 man crew, probably at Camp 9

12033-P. c. 1915 steam hauler, steersman in leather jacket

12034-P. c. 1915 sleigh of hardwood

12035-P. c. 1930 from RLLC chimney, all of McComb Ave businesses, view northwest

12036-P. 7 loaded tram cars c. 1940 in dry yard

12037-P. 3 log cars, RLLC c. 1940

12038-P. 1916 RLLC under construction, hole is portal for to-be-built transfer chain

12039-P. Bull chain, 3 jets of water

12040-P. bull chain & catwalk

12041-P. bull chain; back-hog feed conveyor; view NW

12042-P. Hot pond c. 1940 view NE

12043-P. worker using cant hook – bull chain

12044-P. horse pulling log to hot pond, 3 men

12045-P. hot pond; Left-George Straub with bent pike pole; NB-steam from hot water

12046-P. c. 1920 Anna Mae Kennedy & John Heisler at bull chain

12047-P. c. 1940 south side of bull chain, hot pond-wood pilings separated hot water from lake; marsh grass grows in Rib Lake in rear

12048-P. c. 1940 Railroad track on north side of RLLC

12049-P. c. 1940 RLLC mill, center-Timber loading dock, right-machine shop, view SE

12050-P. c. 1944 planing mill, west side

12051-P. Camp 10, 2 log buildings, 4 buildings of lumber

12052-P. Camp 22, Left-Fred Unger, Chris Winkel

12053-P. inside camp bunk house, metal bunk beds, probably Camp 28, left-bench-now in possession of RPR (RPR picked up at Camp 28 c. 1988)

12053A-P. Camp 22, rear-McGiffert Loader

12054-P. Camp 26

12055-P. ‘Logging Scene’ Camp, left-huge rollway

12056-P. ‘rollways’, rear-McGiffert Loader

12057-P. ‘RL K-685’ McComb Ave. from chimney, view NW

12058-P. Wood Lake – 5 men on logs, c. 1920, peeled hemlock

12059-P. steam hauler – umbrella over steersman

12060-P. c. 1910 Tanbark piles – pilers at tannery

12061-P. McComb Ave. c. 1910, NW from mill, right-Nick Clerf’s blacksmith

12062-P. ‘mill tramway’ 4 track yard at transfer chain, c. 1928, NB-1926 room extension to transfer chain

12063-P. Log splashing into hot pond

12064-P. McComb Ave. from Railroad St. c. 1930, tramway over McComb Ave, view north

Photos from RPR collections:

12065-P. Steam hauler ‘5’ & 3 sleighs

12066-P. RLLC locomotive 3 – at roundhouse c. 1948

12067-P. RLLC North side of machine shop c.1940

12068-P. RLLC yard office c. 1940

12069-P. RLLC dry kiln, railroad shed protects lumber while loading c. 1940

12070-P. RLLC catwalk – c. 1946, west of transfer chain & temporary planing mill after 1945 file

12071-P. RLLC load of lumber on way to planing mill – white yard office c. 1940

12072-P. RLLC planing mill under construction c. 1916

12073-P. RLLC complex on McComb Ave. c. 1940

12074-P. RLLC c. 1920 transfer chain, fire hose wheel ‘RV 035’

12075-P. RLLC ‘sawmill at Rib Lake, Wis 31’ planing mill, Railroad loading shed on McComb

12076-P. 1945 planing mill fire ruins, left-south wall of transfer chain

12077-P. 1946 aftermath of planing mill fire, left-south wall of dry kiln; center-south wall of transfer chain, horizontal pipe form temp. planer over transfer chain to boiler room

12078-P. c. 1950 McComb Ave. after removal of tramway; left-McGiffert Loader

12079-P. c. 1920 McComb Ave from tramway, photographer wage with pair of white horses maybe

12080-P. c. 2-1948, passenger loading railroad for trip to Camp 28 for last log ceremony

12081-P. c. 1949 depleted dry yard, rear-RLLC wood storage shed

12082-P. dry yard in its hay day, lower-Archie Clendenning leading team with lumber to planing mill c. 1920

12083-P. RLLC mill c. 1903 newly built railroad, north side of Rib Lake ‘RV 048’

12084-P. RLLC prior to 1914 fire; left-transfer chain; right-brick boiler room [special note: 7-1-2008. This photograph has been rescanned as #12325; the rescanning produces a superior image.]

12085-P. tannery grounds ‘Dinky’, right-Lutheran parsonage ‘EM12’

12085A-P. tannery grounds ‘Dinky’, right-Lutheran parsonage ‘EM12’

12086-P. top-tannery buildings; back-Rib Lake High School

12087-P. tanbark piles, back-RLLC mill c. 1920

12088-P. top-buildings along Church & Main Street; bottom-RLLC complex from the lake

12089-P. ‘Camp 2’ 1906

12090-P. Camp 9, Star load

12091-P. ‘Loading’ sleigh – cross hall method

12092-P. 2 men on flying log, McGiffert Loader

12093-P. McGiffert Loader from empty rollway

12094-P. c. 1910 ‘sawmill & landing’ log rollways into Rib Lake

12095-P. baled hay wagon & 4 horse team, McComb Ave., c. 1915

John Gene Peterson collection:

12096-John Gene Peterson, DOB 9-9-1931 data

12097-P. Herman Christian Peterson & wife Ela, nee Steffeck, 11-1868 – parents of John Gene Peterson

12098-P. Herman Christian Peterson & wife Ela, nee Steffeck, c. 1930 – parents of John Gene Peterson

12099-P. Jim Peterson jobber camp c. 1942, probably Bear Island

Volume (Disc) XXII- #12100-12199

12100-P. c. 1935 at Herman Christian Peterson jobber camp for RLLC, Town of Corning, Lincoln Co, Wis, cooks, Mr. and Mrs. Alwin Frahmann, middle boy – John Gene Peterson

12101-P. RLLC woods train c. 1935

12102-P. Andy Gerlicky with probable Allis-Chalmers cat skidding logs, Town of Corning

12103-P. camp-Herman C. Peterson 1941-42, 10 miles west of Ogema, left-camp home of Mr. and Mrs. Herman C. Peterson & kids

12104-P. truck ‘Kermit Lee, Ogema, Wis’, logs for RLLC

12105-P. 1941-42 Claude Peterson truck load of logs for RLLC

12106-P. 1941-42 overloaded truck – rear jim pole loader

12107-P. 1941-42 James Peterson truck ‘Medford’ trailer of logs from Peterson camp, Ogema for RLLC

12108-P. 1941-42 loading logs on truck trailer, Herman C. Peterson camp – Ogema

end of John Gene Peterson collection

12109-docket 82-2-5 resolution protecting Taylor County camp sites

12110-L. Janet Massey to RPR 4-1982, J.J. Kennedy’s first wife was a McDonald [or MacDonald]

12111-L. RPR 12-19-1982 to Malcolm Rosholt A-F, 1906 Prentice Tannery grounds

12112-L. RPR 2-22-1982 to Malcolm Rosholt

12113-L. RPR 6-23-1981 to Ken Mannel

12114-’Start of Tour’ Rhinelander Logging Museum data sheet

12115-Star News 11-4-1998, ‘Store closing is the end of an era for Rib Lake; Nancy’s Family Store to close after 31 years’, Nancy Kroll, owner, former Zielke Store

12116-Star News 4-27-1983 ‘Rib Lake History is not forgotten’; A-P. RPR

12117-RLHe RLHS Redmen basketball team goes to state; A; B-cartoon

12118-Rib Lake History 1936 by Guy Wallace – 5 parts – NB-typed version is 10728

12119-Rib Lake History c. 1941 by John Doe

12120-Merrill Daily Herald ‘Sawing of last pine brings note of sadness as crowds gather to pay tribute to men of woods’ 2-25-1948; A-photo

12121-RLHe Rib Lake History 8-4-1933 by Mrs. Gustav Bielenberg, ‘The same year of 1881, J.J. Kennedy, Sam Hagen, Mr. Hildreth, Angus McDonald and Frank Johnson came from Spencer…’ camped on shores of Rib Lake, rains, next day estimated timber & chose mill site, in Dec. 1881 first log sawed

12122-RLHe Rib Lake History 3-5-1948 by Mrs. E.E. Van Hecke, nee August May Lindsay ‘

The first mill in Rib Lake was built and running the first day of October, 1881. Timber was supplied from two tracts of land – Weyerhauser and Curtis – extending northeast and a little of the stand west.’

12123-RLHe 3-5-1948 partial list of real estate tax delinquency, Town of Rib Lake; A-Village of Rib Lake

12124-Map 2-2-1983, ‘Thums’ Terror Trail’

12125-Star News 11-17-1888 Wisconsin Central Railway timetable-Rib Lake-Chelsea, 2 trains daily

12126-’The Saga of New Wood Country’ by M.N. Taylor, Wisconsin Academy Review 3-1978

12127-L. M.N. ‘Mully’ Taylor to RPR 2-18-1981

12128-L. 2-11-1981 William ‘Bill’ Natzke to Mully Taylor; A-List of men-former jobber camp employees

12129-’Tales of New Wood’ by Mully Taylor, Part 2, The Daily Herald, Merrill

12130-’Tales of New Wood’ by Mully Taylor, Part 3, The Daily Herald, Merrill

12131-’Tales of New Wood’ by Mully Taylor, Part 4, The Daily Herald, Merrill

12132-’Tales of New Wood’ by Mully Taylor, Part 5, The Daily Herald, Merrill

12133-Map, New Wood c. 1960

12134-Map, New Wood c. 1980

12135-Map, Owens-Illinois ‘hunting’ c. 1970; A-New Wood Industrial Forest

12136-L. 3-27-1989, Myra L. Hill to RPR, A-D, 1930’s fore fire – New Wood

12137-L. 5-27-1981 Merrill Shopper & Foto News ‘The East of the Big Ones’ 12-29-1939

12138-Plat Book, Lincoln Co. 1906 by F.L. Mead;

A-T31N R4E;

B-T31N R5E;

C-T31N R6E;

D-T32N R4E;

E-T32N R5E;

F-T33N R4E;

G-T33N R5E;

G1-T33N R6E

H-T34N R4E Spirit Falls

I-T34N R5E

J-T34N R6E Gilberts

K-T35N R4E

L-T35N R5E Somo Lake

M-T35N R6E No. Tomahawk

12139-Wis. Academy Review-title page, Volume 25 #2 3-1979; A-P. & Bio M.N. ‘Mully’ Taylor

12140-1994 Lincoln Co. Plat Book; A-12 T34, 33, 32, 31-4E

12141-U.S. Leather Co. v. J.J. Kennedy, Volume G, Misc. 134, Taylor Co. Register of Deeds

12142-Public Records, Eau Claire Area Research Center, Taylor County Civil-Circuit Court Records 1877-1925

12143-’Golden Nuggets’ Golden Age Nursing Home 10-1983

12144-Obit 4-5-2007, Frank J. Zondlo 1913-2007

12145-Map, sawmills of Rib Lake Village 6-11-2008 by RPR

12146-Invoice – H. [Henry] W. Stelling to E. [Ernest] Gerstberger $319.13, shingles and other sawing 4-19-1918

12147-Map c. 12-28-1951 remaining railroad trackage – Rib Lake Village

12148-Map3-6-1922 railroad of Rib Lake Village, NB-tracks of RLLC not shown. Tracks shown are Wis. Central-Soo Line

12149-Star News May, 1990, ‘Century-old logging campsite can be seen on the Ice Age Trail’ – McGillis Pine Camp, by RPR; A-Ski Trail Map; B-Map, McGillis Pine Camp, on SE-NW 13-33-2E; C-P.

12150-P. (from negative in Photos-Negative), RLLC – locomotive 101 c. 1946, probably Camp 28

12151-P. (from negative in Photos-Negative), RLLC – locomotive 101 c. 1946, probably Camp 28 – probably same as 12150

12152-P. c. 1940 RLLC diverging railroad tracks in Town of Corning, appears freshly built-new ties without ballast

12153-Abstract of Title to Lot 3 and the N 15 feet front and rear of Lot 4, Block 1, original plat of Village of Rib Lake

12154-Email, Frank Brush to RPR 6-8-08

12154A-P. Aretas Brush

12154B-P. Lily Brush

12155-P. c. 1910 view NW from tannery smokestack; foreground-tanbark piles; next-West Street, NB-4 identical tannery company houses; next-North Front Street; next-(in 2008) CTH D (Kennedy St); back-horizon-glacial hills-max extent of Wis. glacier, c. 12,000 years ago

12156-P. ‘A skidway’ c. 1910, NB-peavey leaning on timber, logs at least 16 ft long ‘Rib Lake’

12157-P. ‘Steam hauler, Rib Lake, Wis, Browns’ Studio’ steersman holding steering wheel, at least 7 log sleighs, c. 1910

12158-P. c. 1940 log railroad flatcars just NE of Rib Lake sawmill; back-Upjohn hill on Fayette Ave.

12159-P. c. 1940 ‘Round House’ west side; Right-RLLC sawmill & water tower

12160-P. c. 1900 ‘McComb Ave., Brown’s Studio, Rib Lake, Wis’; left-Upjohn Drug Store; left #2-furniture; right-’Wisconsin House’ hotel ‘Liquors’-Lot 4, Block A, right nearest-partial-Post Office, Lot 3; rear-tanbark pile-North of Fayette; above-Street Light fixture, NB-4 cross arms of telephone wires

12161-P. c. 1950 McComb Ave., Sinclair and Mobil Gas Stations; foreground-STH 102, view north, Right-Boy Scout building

12162-P. ‘B. Hoye Co. Clothiers’ c. 1910; foreground-McComb Ave.; left-unidentified man & dog-sidewalk is 6 sided paving block

12163-P. c. 1910 unidentified cabin & 3 women-screen door lays against building

12164-P. ‘in the woods’ 2 white tail deer ‘photo by Brown’ Rib Lake

12164A-backside of 12164, June 29, 1908 to Miss Emma Danforth, Omro, Wis. 1 cent stamp

12165-P. c. 1940 ‘Tourist Park’ Rib Lake, Wis, wood pavilion & wood picnic tables; Right-Rib Lake

12166-P. ‘Harper Lake Resort’ ‘Rib Lake #39’, back-east arm-North Harper Lake, center-1936 Chevrolet

12167-P. Rib Lake –east side of RLLC mill complex c. 1930

12168-P. Rib Lake-east side of RLLC mill complex c. 1940

12169-P. Rib Lake-east side of RLLC mill complex c. 1930, steam obscures ‘Rib Lake 11’

12170-P. c. 1960 Rib Lake – old RLLC machine shop, then Stewart’s Lumber Co; Right-STH 102 along Rib Lake

12171-P. c. 1985 Camp 28 Restaurant; foreground-Rib Lake & dock

12172-P. c. 1910 ‘M.E. Church’ Methodist Episcopal Church, foreground-Church St.; above-electric light fixture

12173-P. c. 1906 Ward School – south side, ‘Dear Father, this is a picture of the building in which I teach. Emma’

12173A-backside of 12173, to ‘J.A. Danforth, Omro, Wis’

12174-P. unidentified grammar school students outside of Ward School, 43 students, probably one class

12175-P. c. 1980 ‘Clearview School, Rib Lake, Wis 59-466’, east side, 655 Pearl St, in 2008 Rib Lake Village Hall & Library, on former RLLC lumber dry yard

12176-P. c. 1960 ‘High School, Rib Lake, Wis’ north side-Fayette Ave.; right-older building, left-addition

12177-P. c. 1930 ‘Lutheran Church, Rib Lake, Wis’, north & west sides, left-fragment of parsonage

12178-pamphlet, 10-1977 ‘Taylor County; The Log Cabin Country’ by Roger L. Emmerich, County Clerk;

A-township map

B-’Early Settlement’

C-pg 2

D-pg 3

E-pg 4-Townsip of Rib Lake

F-Population & Immigration; Agricultural & Industrial Development

G-1970 census, 16,958

12179-Map, plat, c. 1940 Taylor County (data is mixture from 1930-1940) – cover page

A-T33N 3E

B-T33N 2E

C-T33N 1E

D-T32N 3E – Interwald

E-T32N 2E

F-T32N 1E – Whittlesey

G-Pocket map - ‘Taylor County 1948’ NE corner

12180-Map, plat, 1953, Taylor County – cover page

A-Taylor County, Marathon Atlas publishers

B-Legal descriptions-illustration

C- Legal descriptions-text

D-Wis. Map, county populations, tax assessment by county, 4th principal meridian

E-T33N R3E

F-T33N R2E – Village of Rib Lake

G-T33N R1E – Westboro

H-T32N R1E – Whittlesey (Ranges 2 East and 3 East are missing from book)

12181-Map, plat, c. 1957, Taylor County – cover page, Marathon Atlas Publishers

A-T33N R3E – Spirit Lake

B-T33N R2E – Village of Rib Lake

C-T33N R1E – Westboro

D-T32N R3E – Interwald

E-T32N R2E

F-T32N R1E – Whittlesey

G-T31N R3E – Goodrich

12182-Map, plat, 1967, Taylor County – cover page

A-Taylor Co. ‘highway map’

B-T33N R3E – Spirit Lake

C-T33N R2E – Village of Rib Lake

D-T33N R1E – Westboro

E-T32N R3E – Interwald

F-T32N R2E – 1970 land sale data

G-T32N R1E – Whittlesey

H-T31N R3E – Goodrich

12183-Map, plat, 1970, Taylor County – cover page

A-T33N R3E – Spirit Lake

B-T33N R2E – Village of Rib Lake & Queenstown

C-T33N R1E – Westboro

D-T32N R3E – Interwald

E-T32N R2E

F-T32N R1E – Whittlesey

G-T31N R3E – Goodrich

12184-Rib Lake area lake names 1913

12185-Rib Lake area lake names c. 1940

12186-Camp 8 site & railroad connection

12187-Camp 8 site on 1913 plat map

12188-Camp 8 site on 1913 map of county

12189-1913 map-Brehm & Urquhart Post Offices

12190-Map – RLLC railroad operations by Dave Tlusty, 12-2007, sites of numbered camps of RLLC after 1905 (purchased by U.S. Leather Co.) – dates of camps being researched and will be updated, RPR – 6-20-08

12191-P. c. 1915 ‘Drug Store Jas [James] Upjohn Apotheke’ [German for Drug Store], 713 McComb Ave., adult on right is James Upjohn, popcorn stand on wood sidewalk; left-window reflection – Nick Clerf Blacksmith Shop across street on Block A, Lot 1, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

12192-P. c. 1905 probably Dr. L.L. Taylor, M.D. and office

12193-P. c. 1900 ‘George Braun dealer in timbered and improved lands’ ‘local agent for WCRR’ [Wisconsin Central Railway] land, rear-stumps, left-firewood (slabwood) & bicycle, Block D, Lot 2, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

12194-P. c. 1905 ‘Commercial House’ Hotel, built by J.J. Kennedy to house mill workers, south side of Railroad Street, NB-fire ladder to roof – building burned; then largest hotel in Taylor County

12195-P. c. 1950 former RLLC hemlock dry yard, view west to partially razed lumber dry shed; foreground-Railroad tracks from machine shop across McComb Ave.

12196-P. c. 1949, remnants of lumber piles in RLLC hemlock yard, view west from tramway; center-loaded railroad flatcar

12197-P. c. 1940 RLLC railroad tracks through hemlock-hardwood stand, Town of Corning

12198-P. c. 1915 ‘Down the Rib, the drive, Interwald, Wis’, 2 men with cant hooks riding peeled hemlock log on Rib River, Town of Greenwood

12199-P. c. 1915 ‘The Drive’ 9 men on log drive in Rib River, left-log rollway

Volume (Disc) XXIII- #12200-12299

12200-P. c. 1910 ‘sawmill-lumber lath & shingles, Interwald, Wis’; left-piles of cedar shingles; right-burned stump, Vic Meyer collection

12201-P. ‘U.S. Tannery, Rib Lake, Wis’ tannery complex from south; foreground-Fayette Ave; Naida Straub Collection

12202-$10 bill ‘The First National Bank of Rib Lake’

12203-P. 9-1982 McComb Ave., left-Mobil Station; Gordie & Virgie Gehrt ‘Last Chance’ tavern; Janda Store; vacant lot; Coast to Coast; Olde Town Gift & Liquor store; unknown, Little Bohemia ‘Bowling Bar & Café’

12204-P. 9-1982 old bank, NE corner of McComb & Landall – upstairs was old RLLC office post, 1946

12205-P. 9-1982 door ‘RLLC office’ in old bank building

12206-P. 9-1982 door ‘RLLC office’ in old bank building

12207-P. 9-1982 ‘Tannery Lane Company’ old tannery building

12208-P. 9-1982 tannery pond, view to north

12209-P. 9-1982 old railroad row, NE NW 28-33-3E, view south from Wilderness Ave.

12210-P. c. 1951, RLLC being razed, right-dry kiln; left-boiler room; view to north from Railroad Street

12211-envelope 4-28-1981 Matt Lamberty to RPR

12211A-Letter, Lamberty was Lamberti

12211B-P. Matt Lamberty

12212-P. Rib Lake Masons Bottle Band

12213-P. 1910 South Harper Lake, view south from 2008 Rustic Road 1

12214-P. 1920 Rib Lake; left-Fayette Ave, view east ‘Scene on Rib Lake, Elster Photo Waupun’

12215-P. c. 1905 ‘City Park, Rib Lake, Wis’ Copper Creek bridge, view south

12216-P. c. 1920 ‘City Park, Rib Lake, Wis’ Copper Creek bridge, new cement bridge over Copper Creek

12217-P. c. 1935 ‘Bird’s Eye View of Main Street’ ‘12’ east side of McComb Ave.; left-bank, on Landall, P.E. Marcus former store ‘The Fair’; vacant lot; Bakery ‘McRae’, hardware store-later Gamble Store-Block A, Lots 8, 9, 10, McComb’s Racing Park Addition; ‘J.A. Taylor Heating & Plumbing’; ‘The Big Store’- later Peter Bogumill’s locker plant – Block A, Part of Lot 5, 6 & 7, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

12218-P. Bird’s eye view from RLLC smokestack, c. 1920 south side of McComb Ave.; left-George Braun; next-Upjohn Drug Store;

12218A-annotated version of 12218

1. George Braun

2. James Upjohn Drug Store

3.

4.

5.

6.

7. Bird’s Nest

8.

9.

10.

11.

12. Niggemann Food Store

13. Ma Dodg’e Café

14. Seidel Food Store

15.

16.

17.

18. RLLC store

19. Haas building

20. ‘The Big Store’ aka Bogumill’s

21. Hardware – later Gambles, on side ‘Merchandise’

---Data subject to confirmation---

22.

23.

24.

25.

26.

27.

12219-P. c. 1940 ‘Spirit River Bridge Rib Lake, Wis. 38’ STH 102 over Spirit River, stone bridge

12220-P. c. 1910 ‘B1657A1 Interwald, Wis’ former Interwald Store – founded by Henry Faust before he moved to Rib Lake; left-George Knower; right-Mrs. George (Cora) Knower

12221-P. c. 1910 ‘A skidway’ loading logs onto sleigh, NB-2 front logs looped by chains on both ends – lifted by jin pole, top loader holds cant hook

12222-P. c. 1910 loading logs onto sleigh, 4 horse team & teamster wait

12223-P. c. 1910 steam hauler & 4 loaded sleighs, steersman sits in front of vertical pistons

12224-P. 1918 Rib Lake ‘nurse corps’

12225-P. c. 1920 rollway at Camp 16, 2 men decking logs, foreground-cant hook

12226-P. c. 1910 ‘EM5’ tannery complex from west; back-’flats’ & Rib Lake High School

12227-P. c. 1910 ‘hay harvest Interwald, Wis’, Team pulling hay wagon and loader, Ed Klein farm; center on ground-’Old Grandma Johanna Wittke’

12227A-text on back by George Knower, ‘Bertha Wittke was my only pupil’

12228-P. 5-19-1884, J.J. Kennedy’s sawmill, ‘view of J.J. Kennedy’s lumbering horses, 47 head, Rib Lake, Wis’ photograph by C.H. Locke May 19th, view north; right-bull chain into Rib Lake, RPR collection – oldest dated Rib Lake photo

12229-P. c. 1885, ‘Jumbo four horse load’ ‘Canadian Peaker’ sleigh load, fur coated teamster & 4 horses, c. 22 logs of white pine, butt label with board feet, e.g. ‘1210’

12230-P. c. 1920 ‘Corner in lumber yard, Rib Lake, Wis’ rear-main smoke stack of RLLC, professionally piled lumber and strips between boards for air drying, tall lumber piles c 20 feet high

12231-P. c. 1980 Alan Blomberg inspecting big cut made for steam hauler in the hills separating the Hultman Lake & Copper Creek watershed. Just north of Ritchie Lake, 1-33-2E. This site marked on Timm’s Hill National Trail

12231A-text – RPR collection

12232-P. c. 1930 McGiffert Loader ‘No. 2’ RLLc, unloaded flatcar being pulled by loader from track behind to loading position; rear-wood water tank; rear beneath tank-railroad trucks to be lowered onto railroad track after flatcar is moved, NB-this type of machine is open for public viewing at the Minnesota Museum of Transportation, Duluth, Minnesota

12233-P. at Camp 18, McGiffert loader and 2 loaded flatcars

12233A-text on back of 12233, 6,000 -8,000 feet per car, 10 man crew assisted Frank Erdman, McGiffert loader master, his goal was 25 ends per day, 2 ends per car, RLLC sawed-on average- 16-18 ends of softwood or 14 ends of hardwood per day. RPR interview of Frank Erdman 1980

12234-P. c. 1930 L-Frank Erdman with cant hook and his ‘hooker’ aka loading helper – who wood hook the logs prior to loading

12235-P. 9-1974 abandoned farm home, SW-SW, Sec. 14, T33N R2E, east side of CTH D

12236-P. c. 1980, ‘Rib Lake Population 782’, STH 102 west side of Village of Rib Lake, left-Robin Ann Paulina Rusch, nka Riggs; right-Kristin Karen Bethany Leona Martha Rusch, nka Strobach

12237-P. 1-1975, remnants of ice road

12237A-text on back of 12237

12238-P. c. 1947 Camp 28

12239-P. c. 1947 Camp 28, speeder top in front on railroad track

12240-P. c. 1947 McGiffert loader at Camp 28

12241-P. c. 1947 The cutover at Camp 28

12242-P. c. 1947 4 loaded lumber cars in hemlock yard, rear-white building is RLLC store

12243-P. c. 1947, 2 men on tramway decline

12244-P. 1947 RLLC hemlock yard, tramway declines to ground level

12245-P. c. 1980, Marinette, Tomahawk & Western Railroad Company boxcar

12246-Map 5-1981 ‘Early roads, trails and mills’ by RPR includes ice roads, tote roads

12246A-Map Ritchie Lake – Sec. 1, T22 2E, Ice road excavation – site

12247-P. 11-1980 Ritchie Lake ice road cut

12248-P. 11-1980 Ritchie Lake ice road cut, Alan Blomberg

12249-P. 11-1980 Ritchie Lake ice road cut, Alan Blomberg

12250-P. 11-1980 old ice road to Camp 9, north side of Ritchie Lake

12251-P. 11-1980 old blaze – witness tree to section line of Taylor-Price County boundary

12252-P. 11-1980 Ritchie Lake, Sec. 1, T33 2E

12253-L. 8-24-1982, Martha H. Rusch to RPR re steam hauler

12254-RLHe 1-8-1904 ‘Largest in the World’ RLLC is the largest hemlock manufacturer in the world

12255-Map 6-2008 Camp 9, ice road cut, tote road route, 1-33-2E, site of Ritchie Pine Camp

12256-Timm’s Hill Trail logo, 1986 version

12257-Star News 6-13-1984, ‘Area railroad logging operations chronicled’ by RPR; B&C – 6-20-1984

12258-Rib Lake High School [RLHS] dedication program, 11-15-1964

12259-Star News 3-19-1986 ‘Rib Lake Redmen earn trip to state’

12260-1986 WIAA Boys Basketball Tournament Program; A-Scheduled games; B-P. Rib Lake High School team & data

12261-Abstract of Title; part of Government lot 4, 32-T34-3E, Price County, [Spirit Lake-river dam site] entry 4, 3-11-1880, Wisconsin Legislature ok ‘flooding dam’, deed to James McCrossen; A-entry 10, pine stumpage contract

12262-2007 Price County Plat Map, ID of Government Lot 4

12263-Star News 6-19-2008, ‘Williams; No hope ahead for reform of school funding system’; P. RPR; P. Mary Williams, State Representative

12264-Memo 6-24-2008, RPR re Thums Store ledger from Carl Thums 1981

A-Andreas Hoffmann

B-William-Wilhelm Martin

C-Josef Dums

D-Josef Dums

E-John Obowa

F-Josef Dums

G-Seidel

H-Louis Bruno

I-Lorenz Thums

J-Josef Dums

K-Seidel

L-Lorenz Thums

M-Joseph Dums

SF-’Thums Ledger’

12265-P. 8-1970, left-Thums Store building; right-Highland School; behind-St. Ann’s Church, view east

12265A-Joseph Thums Store, pg 103 of Pictorial History of Rib Lake 1981

12266-Star News 7-14-2005, ‘Steam powered the logging dream in Rib Lake’ by RPR

12267-P. John Taylor Hardware Store – interior, c. 1910, Star News 4-27-2006

12268-Star News 4-25-2002 L. 1910 Simon Kortenkamp to John & Annie Holscher re Rib Lake Tannery

12269-Article, 12 pgs ‘RLH; Movers & Shakers; Cast of Characters to Early Rib Lake History’ Updated to 6-25-2008, by RPR & Cindy A. Sommer

12270-Map-Sketch by RPR 1-1985, Rib Lake Tannery

12271-Abstract of Title, Lot 16, Block H, Surveyor’s Plat of North Rib Lake [part of former Rib Lake Tannery] 3-13-1959

12272-Abstract-part-SW-NE, 18-32-1E, Stumpage contract for ‘All the hemlock timber’ 7-1-1897 to Fayette Shaw

12273-1909 ‘Hide & Leather Year Book’ by Jacobson Publishing; A-List of Wisconsin tanneries, e.g. U.S. Leather Co in Medford, Mellen, Prentice, Rib Lake, Stanley, Tomahawk

12274-Article, George Corrigan ‘Tanneries & hemlock bark industry in Wisconsin’ 9-9-1978 proceedings of Forest History Assoc. of Wisconsin

12275-Milwaukee Journal ‘Surviving tanneries are doing better now’; A-tanning steps

12276-1901 bark ledger, pg 150 ‘Westboro Tannery; A-Pg 143 ‘Weidrick & Matson Lumber Co. jobbers bark; B-1902 ‘Camp 2 bark shipped to Prentice tannery; C-1901 Pg 45 ‘Westboro, Joseph Trippner; D-Pg. 18 ‘Camp 3-John R. Davis Lumber Co. trains; E-Pg 44 ‘Bark at Ogema shipped to Phillips tannery – as of 1988 original is in the possession of Harry Curran

12277-Deed 6-25-1891 J.J. Kennedy, et ux, to F [Fayette] D. Shaw, Lots 14 & 15, Block H, Surveyor’s Plat of Rib Lake, This conveyance made on condition that [Fayette Shaw] agrees to build…a tannery for the manufacture of leather upon the premises…of the capacity & dimension of the tannery now owned…by T.F.M. & F.D. Shaw at Medford, Wis…the same to be completed & in operation by 1-1-1893. Logging roads to be kept open…

12278-tannery map 12-8-1987 of Rib Lake Tannery complex c. 1924 by Brother Augustine Koffler

12279-L. 12-8-1987 Brother Augustine Koffler to RPR

12280-Taylor Co. Zoning Map 7-29-1937, forestry & recreation districts, [repealed c. 1975]

12281-WWII ‘Sugar Ration Book’

12282-’Public Auction’ sale-auction notice c. 1935 Peter Perusek farm, SW-NW 18-T33N-R3E, 2008 owners are Jay and Cindy Thums

12283-’Push for Rusch’ bumper sticker, 1972, Marlin Walbeck, Chairman

12284-L. RPR to Mike Weckwerth 11-4-1987

12285-History 1-1970 by Ray Voemastek

12286-L. John R. Gray to RPR c. 8-1986

12287-L. Mary Williams to RPR 7-8-1985

12288-Quit Claim Deed 3-2-1916, Carl Gruening to RLLC, o.k. water level in Rib Lake

12289-’Wisconsin Central Railroad Lands’ by Charles L. Colby c. 1882; original-possibly John Van Der Hudf, Spirit, first page scanned, see RLH – Wis. Central

12290-’Railroads of Wisconsin 1827-1937’, Railway & Locomotive History Society, 8-1937 title page;

A-1873 WC Colby to Worchester-Price Co.

1883-Chelsea to Rib Lake

1809 Abbotsford to Athens

1899 Goodrich Junction to Goodrich

12291-History of ‘Soo Line’ Jim Smith 3-1970

12292-L. 12-22-1983, Ray E. Pendergast to RPR

12293-L. Wayne Johnson to Ray E. Pendergast 11-30-1983, Railroad line-Chelsea-Rib Lake abandoned 1951

12294-Soo Line time table 5-31-1925; A-Athens-Goodrich & Rib Lake-Chelsea; B-Spencer-Ashland East; C-Spencer-Ashland West

12295-Ad; Free Show Gem Theatre c. 1930, List of Merchants

12296-Ad; c. 1934, ‘The World’s All Right’ at Rib Lake Armory, List of Merchants

12297-RLHe 3-13-1936 ‘Many Changes in Lumber Company’s [RLLC] office’, List of office staff

12298-RLHe 11-13-1936 ‘Lake Shore Project Finished’

12299-Star News quotes re J.J. Kennedy et al, 11-7-1881, etc.

Volume (Disc) XXIV- #12300-12399

12300-P. c. 1900 locomotive ‘12’, left-RLLC mill – straight bull chain ramp, right-elevated coal dock, far right-piles of ‘hog feed’, sawdust & wood chips, view to southwest

12301-P. Commercial Hotel & addition c. 1900, 8 men, left-fire escape from 3rd floor to ladder

12302-P. Upjohn Pharmacy interior & Anna Mae Kennedy c. 1920, Thelma Upjohn Collection

12303-P. c. 1920 James Upjohn & Anna Mae Kennedy, back of drug store

12304-P. c. 1910 Rib Lake High School with tower, northwest side

12305-P. c. 1920 interior of Ward School, unidentified primary grade & teacher, 34 students, fly paper hangs on string?

12306-P. 3-26-1928, Cast of ‘The Womanless Wedding at Rib Lake, Wis.’; A-RLHe ‘Womanless Wedding-A Big Scream’

12307-P. unidentified minstrel show at Rib Lake c. 1930, NB-A-Advertisements above stage, B-3 cowlings cover foot lights

12308-P. aerial, Rib Lake 9-7-1951, ‘BSC-3H-118’, STH 102 has been renovated thru former RLLC dry yard

12309-P. 2-25-1948 bucking last log, man with dobble-bitted axe driving wood wedges to keep saw cut from closing

12310-P. 2-25-1948 at ‘last log ceremony excursion’ interior of Camp 28 cook shanty-visitors eating, NB-A-Non-insulated exterior walls, B-3 bare electric bulbs, C-Kerosene lamps stand ready on back wall, left-Elsie Wolff, then Anna Mae Kennedy

12311-P. 2-25-1948 at ‘last log ceremony excursion’ interior of Camp 28, cook, Louis Fleming, shows guest his cook stove, kettles hang from ceiling, strainer, fry basket, potato masher hang on wall, far right-Thelma M. Upjohn (Richard), right-Gertrude Dewcz (Gerald)

12312-P. c. 1940 from Rib Lake Village water tower, tannery pond, view northeast

12313-P. c. 1940 from Rib Lake Village water tower, view west; center-homes on North Front Street; back right-town road to Little Rib Lake

12314-P. c. 1960 ‘South Harper Lake’, view south from Rustic Road

12315-P. ‘Methodist Church, Rib Lake, Wis. 1’south side c. 1935

12316-P. RLLC ‘41’ c. 1940, east side

12317-P. c. 1905 teamster & 4 horse team with 2 sleighs

12318-P. c. 1905 firewood (slabs) dump sleigh

12319-P. c. 1905 Rib Lake baseball team, upper right-Bob Hess; upper right #2-Fred Curran; middle right #2-Chester Curran

12320-P. c. 1910, Rib Lake High School baseball team with pennant ‘RLHS’

12321-P. c. 1906 ‘a logging camp’ ‘Rib Lake’ 3 wood frame structures, 18 men

12322-P. 4th of July, see flag on locomotive, foreground-McComb Ave.; center-First ‘roundhouse’; right-chute to load hog feed from RLLC mill

12323-P. ‘The Ice Road’ c. 1908; note-ruts cut into ice to guide sleigh runners, may be ice road to RLLC Camp 2

12324-P. c. 1930 Ward School, painted white with merry-go-round

12325-P. J.J. Kennedy mill with 2 smokestacks, left-transfer; center-brick boiler room; right on horizon-2 tannery smokestacks, view north

12326-P. 7-24-1914 RLLC mill fire – bull chain, note-curved bull chain ramp, lower right-fireman with hose, hand tinted red smoke

12327-P. 7-24-1914 RLLC mill fire, view from south, 3 smokestacks, upper right-tannery sleigh storage building; center-steeple, St. John’s Lutheran Church

12328-P. c. 1920 2 teams with sleigh; rear-jammers for log loading; note-cant hook in rear left log; note-3 layers of chain wrappers

12329-P. c. 1970 ‘Spruce dormitory, Camp Forest Springs, Rib Lake, Wis’

12330-Deed #8603 1-26-1904, J.J. Kennedy & Flora M. deed Lot B of J.J. Kennedy’s original plat of Village to Jennette Kennedy; This is J.J.’s home parcel, home burned in 1903

12331-Deed #33753 J.J. Kennedy et ux, 10-15-1906, deeds ‘Block B’..to Jannette Kennedy, same as 12330

12332-c. 1890, plat map, Price County index; A-notes; B-T34 3E Spirit Lake; C-T34 2E Hultman Lake, NB-Curtis Bros. Co.; D-T34 1E Ogema

12333-Plat book Price County c. 1895; A-ads, Wis. Central Railway; B-T34 3E, Spirit Lake, NB-no Spirit Poin; C-T34 2E Hultman Lake;

12334-Plat book Price County c. 1910; A-Price Co. townships, copyright 1910 Foust & Jungblut, map of Town of Brannan; B-legend; C-T34 3E Spirit Lake ‘Ole A. Pederson’; D-T34 2E Hultman Lake

12335-Plat book Price County c. 1920; A-T34 3E Spirit Lake ‘A.O. Peterson’; B-Ads, Rib Lake Store & Cheese Factory, O.A. Peterson, proprietor, Retail lumber, farm implements & Delco electric light plants; C-T34 2E Hultman Lake

12336-Plat book Price Co. c. 1950; A-town maps ‘Spirit’; B-T34 3E Spirit Lake; C-T34 2E Hultman Lake

12337-Star News 9-20-1945, ‘Lake Theatre will be built by midwinter’

12338-1930 census of Village of Rib Lake, p. 161, #42 Aretas Brush, #43 Lily Brush, #44 Alfred Brush; A-RPR L. 5-29-08 to Frank L. Brush

12339-List of available editions of Rib Lake Herald

12340-Booklet 12-1-1943 RLLC ‘Sawdust’ published by accident prevention committee, RLLC Vol. 1, No. 3

12341-Map 4-4-1981 by RPR ‘McGillis Pine Camp’ SE-NW 13-33-2E

12342-P. 11-1972 Herman A. Rusch (in deer hunting garb) at McGillis pine camp well

12343-3-28-1924 Taylor Co. Star News, re Camp 14

12344-L. 5-15-1989 RPR to Emery ‘Pete’ Peterson

12345-transcript of interview of Morgan Peterson re Rib Lake History by RPR 4-14-1988

12346-L. 2-24-1988 RPR to Richard & Karen Rindt; A-1902 bark ledger, Herman Rendt

12347-L. 2-24-1988 RPR to Harry Curran re bark ledger

12348-sketch map Camp 14

12349-Map 1984

12350-Memo 5-23-1985, agreement of 4-26-1900 authorizing Fayette Shaw to pump tannery waste into Silver Creek at Westboro, Wis.

12351-’Form 104 Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company, Daily Interchange report of cars’

12352-History 7-24-1908 ‘What sort of a place is Rib Lake’ from RLHe

12353-History 1909, ‘The Hard Times’ RLHe re depression of 1909

12354-History-1920 Chapter ‘Rib Lake’ from ‘Reminicenses & Anecdotes of Taylor County’ by Arthur Lattan, pg 194-207

12355-History – 1950, by Milton E. Reinke & autobiography, 9 pgs

Gerome & Marilyn Sjostrom collection, Box 62, Athens, WI 54411, 715-257-9033, Athens, Collection

12356-P. Rietbrock Sawmill, c. 1900, Athens, WI

12357-P. Rietbrock Sawmill

12358-P. Rietbrock Sawmill, Athens, 294

12359-P. Rietbrock Sawmill & tramway

12360-P. Stave & Heading Factory, Athens, WI, c. 1908

12361-P. Steam hauler, Athens, WI ‘1924’, Rietbrock Land & Lumber Co.

12362-P. ‘Logging near Athens’ ‘2337’ steam hauler

12363-P. Athens ‘East Main Street’ ‘looking north’ c. 1913

12364-P. Opera house, Athens, WI c. 1910

12365-P. c. 1910, ‘Business Street’ Athens

12366-P. c. 1912 ‘Street Scene’ Athens, left-Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, center-firehall, right-Trinity Lutheran Church

12367-P. ‘West Main Street, Athens, Wis’

12368-P. c. 1920, Athens Village Square, view north

12369-P. ‘Black Creek Dam’ Athens, dam c. 1911

12370-P. ‘Athens 6-3-1909’, buildings identified

12371-P. ‘Market Day at Athens, Wis’ c. 1910

12372-P. ‘Street Scene, Athens, Wis’ 2330, right-The Athens Printing Co’

12373-P. c. 1907, ‘Helendale Farms’, breeders of fine guernseys

12373A-Back side of 12373-postdate 10-13-1907

12374-P. ‘Black Creek, Athens, Wis’, 6-14-1914, Wyle Bridge

12375-P. 1967, GP 9 Soo Line locomotive at Athens Depot

Jim Welton collection

12376-P. Northwest Lumber Company Mill at Stanley, Wis., Paul Nagel collection, view north across Soo Line tracks

12377-P. c. 1910, Stanley, Merrill & Phillips Railroad motor car Polley, Wis, left-grasshopper

12378-P. ‘Polly’ depot sign on depot, John Clark collection

12379-P. Jump River depot, Stanley, Merrill & Phillips Railroad, locomotive #4

12380-P. Stanley, Merrill & Phillips depot, Jump River, from the south

12381-P. Stanley, Merrill & Phillips Railroad’, locomotive & 2 men

12382-P. steam skidder & 8 men, horse & mess of logs

12383-P. Northwestern Lumber Co. mill, Stanley, Wis, NB round roofs, left-transfer

12384-P. Northwestern Lumber Co. mill, Stanley, Wis, Stanley, Merrill & Phillips, (S.M.& P. Railroad) line of loaded logging cars on side of logging pond

12385-P. Athens Depot. C. 1960

Gerome & Marilyn Sjostrom collection, Box 62, Athens, WI 54411, 715-257-9033, Athens, Slide Collection

12386-P. logging train at Braun Lumber Co. arriving from Goodrich c. 1920

12387-P. end of railroad line in Goodrich, A-Jammer

12388-P. Lumber mill at Milan, Wis

12389-P. Locomotive #7, at Athens, Wis, unidentified woman in white

12390-P. Locomotive & tank care on bridge

12391-P. ‘Logging train going from Athens through Corinth to Abbotsford’

12392-P. snow derailed locomotive

12393-P. Wisconsin Central boxcar ‘George Stoughton & Louis Weber employed by Stallman 5000 cords loaded in one winter’, sleigh load of split cedar posts

12394-P. 4 men on handcar loaded with railroad ties

12395-P. 3 women on railroad bridge overhang

12396-P. ‘1901 Corinth store, saloon & post office John Stallman & sons Anton & Herman now

Sky Lite’

12397-P. ‘Market place’ Athens, c. 1890’s

12398-P. ‘1900 looking west from north side of cemetery’ Athens

12399-P. c. 1990 former railroad right of way crossing STH 97, view northwest

End of Sjostrom collection

Volume (Disc) XXV- #12400-12499

12400-RLHe 11-29-1951

12401-USA Registration card of alien female (under proclamation of the President dated April 19, 1918), issued to Mrs. Wilhelmina Ziermann; A-her mark ‘X’ 7-10-1918; B-fingerprint & photo

12402-P. Westboro, Wisconsin Central depot, 9-15-1964 by William Dreschler, SE side, NB-derail device & sign

12403-P. Westboro, Wisconsin Central depot, 9-15-1964, NE side & 1958 Chev. Left-privy

12403-Booklet ‘Spirit Lakes Centennial’ by Spirit Lakes Improvement Association

A-Table of Contents

B-Text & photo ‘The Peterson home’ (Peter)

C-P. Patrick Cullen

D-P. Emma Olson et al

E-P. P. Bark camp on Spirit Lake

F-P. Ole A. Peterson

G-P. William ‘Bill’ Maes

H-P. c. 1910 route of STH 102 on east side of Little Spirit Lake & 2 arch stone bridge

I-P. Frank Haas, Exxie Schaus, Pat Cullen, Charles Schaus

J-P. family & 4 photos,

K-P. Great boulder in Spirit River

L-P. Fritz Mohr, LeRoy Ziembo cat accident.

M-Acknowledgements

12404-Title Page-’Abbotsford & Northeastern Railroad Co.’ by Larry Easton

12404A-Mile posts – Goodrich extension by Larry Easton 8-16-1982, Copper River Junction [line to Camp 1 – spur removed]

12404B-Contract 6-12-1899 Upham-Wis. Central RR-Copper River Land Co., notes by Larry Easton

12404C-9-5-1917 Summary of Rail and Other track material on the old Copper River Spur, Athens to Goodrich line to be purchased by the RLLC

12404D-Map 1915, Copper River spur railroad lines. Statement of track material loaned Copper River Land Co with [or to] RLLC, ‘This line not used at present. Bridges burnt & brush grown over track. Information from RLLC [line] will be repaired and used again.’ Main line length 28,627 ÷ 5280 = 5.421 miles.

12404E-Map of Athens & A&NE RR 4-25-2006, Thomas Becher

12404F-Map, Athens, Wis. c. 1900

12404G-Map topo, Athens ROW A&NE (Abbotsford & Northeastern), Copper River junction & half mile of spur by James P. Kaysen

12404H-Rib Lake area railroads ‘retirement of Athens to Goodrich line’

12404I-Map, Goodrich, Wis., railroad north of STH 64 ‘Proposed extension of Main track to service Wausau Lumber Co.

12404J-Map 5-1-2006 Town of Halsey T30N R4E, Historical notes, Copper River junction

12404K-timetable 4-29-1917, Abbotsford-Goodrich

12404L-Marshfield Land & Lumber Co. v. The John Weeks Lumber Co. p. 27 & 31 of brief

12404M-litigation map

12404N-8-14-1900 lawsuit notes

12404O-Taylor County 1-1972

12405-Index to Wis. topo maps, NE-Wisconsin; A-index, Rib Lake Area

12406-Ogema A-E

12407-Westboro A-E

12408-Timm’s Hill A-D; A-site of Camp 9 RLLC

12409-Rib Lake A-D, site camp #6 RLLC is erroneously shown (correct location of Camp 6 is in NE ¼, Section 12-33-2E), D-Rib Lake Village enlargement

12409E Map 2-3-1982 Kaysen, Railroads of Rib Lake on 1979 US Quad of Rib Lake.

12409F ibid, James Kaysen’s annotations; RLLC was Wisconsin’s last operating logging line.

12410-Spirit A-D, D-’Wes Meier’ RLLC right of way railroad source – unknown to Kaysen

12411-Wood Lake A-E, D-Camp 4 of RLLC; NB-sites shown as RLLC camps 5 & 10 not accurate-RPR 8-26-08; [Kaysen was outside of his area of expertise, i.e. railroad right of way mapping]

12412-Goodrich A-E

12413-Athens

1.60 mi in Marathon Co.

.72 mi in Lincoln Co.

2.32 miles is distance of Copper River Land Co. spur – Copper River junction to Rib River; B-Goodrich junction [Athens] a/k/a Hemlock junction; C-Copper river junction; ‘1899 Upham Lumber Co. reorganized as Marshfield Land & Lumber Co. 1906 Marshfield Land & Lumber Co sold to Copper River Land Co, a subsidiary of US Leather Co.’

12414-Spirit Falls A-E; D-’Ville’ of Spirit Falls, MT&W=Marinette, Tomahawk & Western ‘1895-1932’

12415-Natzke Camp A-E, Averill Creek junction; D-site Camp 25, site of Camp 27

12416-Fromm Lookout tower A-E; note by Kaysen ‘Note-pictures without 1000’ crossties-need verification on aerial photographs-not complete’; C-Camp 20 location

12417-Hamburg; A-.56 mi RLLC 34-31-4E, NB; RLLC railroad touched Marathon Co. North line

12418-Paper; RLLC numbered logging camps; dates of operation from newspaper references by RP Rusch & Michael Weckwerth, updated to 7-31-2008

12419-Poor’s Register of Directors & Executives p. 856 RLLC of Delaware c. 1945; A-ibid c. 1946, B-ibid c. 1948

12420-L. Daniel T. Mayer to RPR 8-21-2008 re RLLC v. Conway

12421-Rib Lake Herald 5-11-1950 ‘Rib Lake’s Businessmen are happy to greet the tenth district federation of women’s clubs’, list of nearly all Rib Lake Village businesses

12422-Map Soo Line Railroad c. 1887

12423-L. 8-30-2008 Karen Baumgartner to RPR; A-Part of Rib Lake Village map lot owners 1920-30, Kennedy Town; B-ibid-McComb’s racing park addition

12424-L. 8-28-2008 Larry E. Easton to RPR

Lillian Thums, nee Kurek, DOB 8-23-1917, collection

12425-Mailing label, Mr. and Mrs. Anton Kurek, (parents of Lillian) Route 1, Box 292, Rib Lake, WI 54470

12426-2003 plan map, location of Kurek farm, N-half, SW-quarter, 18-33-3E

12427-P. Anton & Francisca Kurek farm, Oct. 1964, view to north

12428-data, Anton Kurek family & children

12429-P. Anton Kurek-Francisca Bialek wedding party 1914, Minneapolis

12430-P. Polish Christmas Card

12431-P. Mszana Dolna, Polska, City near Anton Kurek’s birthplace, Zaokopane, Polan, near Czech borner

12432-P. c. 1960 Anton Kurek’s brother, Ludwig, Kurek farm in Poland, NB-back-Carpathian Mountains

12433-P. Anton Kurek’s sister, Leona, and husband, Josek Lupa

12434-P. 1963 Ludwig Kurek & buggy in Poland

12435-P. Josia Kurek First Communion with candle, Poland

12436-P. Lillian Kurek in Chicago c. 1932

12437-P. Francisca Kurek c. 1930; A-text on porch old Rib Lake home

12438-P. Francisca Kurek in fur coat – ‘1927’ on inside of outer door

12439-P. L-R, Frank, Lillian, Fran, Arthur, Peter, Adolph Kurek

12440-P. old Kurek farmhouse, new northeast

12441-P. old house left-new on right; foreground-CTH C, (gravel)

12442-P. Anton Kurek & new farmhouse, west side

12443-P. doorway & hall into new Kurek farmhouse, Anton was a master stair-builder. NB-curved stairway 9-1964

12444-P. kitchen-Anton built cabinets from home-sawn hardwood 10-1964

12445-P. Anton Kurek sitting on stairs to level two; photos on wall of grandsons, L-R, Ray, Greg & Rolland ‘Rollie’ Thums 10-1964

12446-P. c. 1935 CCC camp #3663, Camp Pattison, WI; Lillian, Frank, Anton & Francisca, Frank & Anton were in CCC-Civilian Conservation Corps

12447-P. c. 1935 L-R Lillian, Frank, Francisca Kurek, Pattison, WI S. Park

12448-P. 1932, Lillian & Frank Kurek graduate from Chicago, IL grade school

12449-P. Kurek farm yard c. 1972, L-R Lillian, Uncle Jack, Anton, Ciotka & Francisca Kurek; Right-blacksmith shop view to north

12450-P. Uncle Jack, Anton, Fran, Ciotka Kurek,

12451-P. Anton & Fran Kurek, c. 1938 car

12452-P. Anton & Fran Kurek c. 1974

12453-P. Herman Arthur Rusch, L-Anton Kurek holding wooden handrail for Bob Rusch (RPR),home, N4863 CTH C 1975, back-outhouse

12454-P. Anton Kurek & Herman A. Rusch sawing firewood at RPR home c. 1976

12455-P. Left-Anton Kurek & Herman A. Rusch – piled polewood awaiting sawing into firewood at RPR home c. 1976, Anton Kurek’s tractor

12456-P. Stephania Kurek funeral 1969 in Poland

12457-P. Brother Ludwig (Ludwika) Kurek, mourning over coffin in Poland, c. 1960, A-Polish text

End of Lillian Thums, nee Kurek, collection

12458-Pamphlet, Medford, Wisconsin Historic Downtown Walking Tour

A-intro

B-U.S. Leather Co, Tannery, Medford

C-P. Depot area c. 1912

D-Winchester Hotel, etc., key to walking tour

E-P. State St, view East

F-P. Depot c. 1975

G-P. Spoof streetcar on Main Street-info on ‘Friends of the Downtown-Medford, Inc.’

12459-P. Former Walter ‘Wimpy’ & Isabelle Wilhelms farm, aerial view c. 1950, east side of Timber Dri., 2-32N-2E, Wilhelms farm 1911-1963

12460-10-2-1969 Eugene ‘Gene’ Clifford ‘Hail & Farewell’ he sells Rib Lake Herald to Dale Troman-Hauser of Athens

12461-Rib Lake Herald front page (partial) 10-2-1969 ‘Athens man new publisher of The Herald’

12462-The Star News 12-11-1975 ‘Tenants Move into Housing Complex’, Rib Lake Hometown Village; P. Gene Clifford, former publisher of RLHe; A-Isabelle Wilhelms & Marie Wilhelms

12463-RLHe 9-20-1973, final edition (part of front page); A-’Finale’ editorial; B-Top of page 3; C-p. 3 ad Dale’s Market (Dale Strobach); D-Classified Ads; E-Spirit Lake Resort ad; F-Real estate sale & legal notices; G-1974 car ad, Buick LeSabre, Luxos hardtop coupe; H-German Settlement; I-J.A. O’Leary, Editor & Publisher RLHe [final edition]

12464-RLHe 9-20-1973 Church of Christ real estate conveyed to Rib Lake Village; A-photos ‘get keys’ George Buksa, Ray Voemastek, Gordon ‘Gordie’ Gehrt, Vernon Bruegl, Walter Wilhelms

12465-c. 1975 Star News ‘Rib Lake Boasts New & Spacious Nursing Home’; Photo of McComb Ave. – aerial; from Railroad Street to Tannery Pond, NB-LR-National Hotel, Upper-mink pens

12466-Star News 4-6-2000 P. Leroy Stewart, Bernard Strobach; A-Adeline Walbeck nee Kaske, Isabelle Wilhelms nee Hoffmann

12467-Agreement for Purchase & Sale, 3-4-1911 Hugo M. Lea & George Heringklee, N ½ - N ½ - SE ¼, 2-32N-2E; A-Recording Data

12468-2007 plat map of above description

12469-P. Wilhelm Wilhelms, wagon & 3 horses on same land

12470-P. Walter ‘Wimpy’ Wilhelms, c. 1985, son of Wilhelm Wilhelms

12471-Catholic Herald V. 129, #16, ‘Corpus Christi’

Pat Hanson of Westboro collection

12472-P. Soo Line at Westboro, last mail car; L-Earl Grittner, Soo Line Train #118

12473-P. Earl Grittner, station agent, Westboro, 5 a.m. c. 1960, rear-telegraph

12474-P. c. 1970 r-Harry Jacquith, Soo engineer of Westboro, compares time with unidentified conductor

12475-P. c. 1945 Earl Grittner’s Soo Line bridge crew at work between Westboro and Ashland, WI

12476-P. Westboro Lumber Co locomotive #3, Vina Evans, R-Mayme Kibbey (Mrs. Harry Jaquith)

End of Hanson collection

12477-Taylor Co. Forest Revenues 1998-2007, average annual net received $111,356.39

12478-Taylor Co. Forest 2004 financial report

12479-Taylor Co. Forest 2005 financial report

12480-Taylor Co. Forest 2006 financial report

12481-Taylor Co. Forest 2007 financial report

12482-County Forest Anniversary dates, Taylor 11-15-1932, #6 in Wisconsin

12483-P. c. 1912 Peterson construction crew & horse teams building STH 13, Westboro, WI

12484-RLHe 10-12-1961 P. old Modern Woodman [Woodmen] Hall being razed. John Haas sport shop recent owner, Lot 3, Block A, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

12485-RHLe 1-1-1963, ‘Happy New Year’ lists Rib Lake Businesses; A-Westboro, Medford, Ogema

12486-Map ‘Rib Lake Depot Grounds’ Ex. X V34 of Deeds, P. 357, Taylor Co. Reg. of Deeds. W.R. Osburn Lumber Company to Wis. Central Railway Co. 8-26-1901, [SW part – match to NE for full map] – mill along Kenney ‘burned’; - RR line Kennedy to McComb ‘temp’

12486A-ibid NE part ‘Exhibit X’ shows; A-dry kilns, 1-23x90.5; 2-19.4 x ?; 3-19.4 x ?; 4-? X 92.7; B-planing mill (partial); C-tramway platform; D-’Unplatted lands owned by J.J. Kennedy; E-limehouse

12487-34 Deeds p. 353, 8-26-1901, W.A. Osburn Lumber Co., a Wisconsin Corporation, Wisconsin Central Railwau Co., a Wisconsin Corporation, Lots 1 & 2, Block D, McComb’s Racing Park Addition to Village of Rib Lake & 100 foot wide strip shown on map ‘Exhibit X’, Rib Lake depot grounds 8-26-1901, [12486 & 12487]

12488-P. RLLC c. 1930, view northwest from lake, left-office, planing mill; right-3-story sawmill ‘fire hole’-boiler room at chimney base; NB-A-unloaded log sleighs on frozen Rib Lake next to hot pond where sleighs were unloaded. B-blower pipe-horizontal- at roof line-center Conveys planing chips to fire hole

12489-Front page of scrapbook ‘Twentieth Century Club’ Rib Lake, WI, Membership Twenty Honorary Membership One c. 1956 – original at Rib Lake Public Library

12490-Citation 1956-1958 Community achievement award

12491-Summary report blank, 1956-1958 community achievement, signed by Mrs. C.J. Tippelt, 2-19-1958

12492-Rib Lake, WI village population-900, thumbnail sketch c. 1955

12493-P. ‘RLLC A-215 Excel & Co. Milw.’ Dry yard & tramway incline, c. 1920, from Railroad St – view north- in vicinity of Pearl Street

12494-P. c. 1955, view north – right-of-way for Pearl Street north from Railroad Rib Lake Ville – through former RLLC dry yard

12495-P. ‘Clinic, Rib Lake, Wis. 94’ 1957 Rib Lake Clinic North and east sides, from McComb Ave.

12496-Newspapers clippings, ‘Work on New Clinic Building Progresses After Quick Start’ 11-1-1959; ‘Shoe Factory Employees Give $150 to Clinic Fund’ 12-15-1956

12497-Handout ‘Rib Lake need a doctor & dentist’ [flyer solicites medical doctor and dentist] 1-24-1957; A-backside clinic floorplant & graphics

12498-P. Rib Lake Clinic Building c. 1958, N & E side –view from McComb Ave., 657 McComb Ave. [in 2008 Hope Hospitce & Palliative Care, Inc.]

12499-P. clippings, ‘Construction of Village Clinic will be started in near future, bids let’ 10-25-1956; ‘Oh what a beautiful day’ 10-25-1956, P. Gottlieb Widmer, Donald W. Meyer, John W. Eckhoff, Eugene A. Clifford [‘Geno’], Mel Sequist, Edmund F. Stamm

Volume (Disc) XXVI- #12500-12599

12500-Clippings re clinic

12501-Leaflet ‘project’ re ‘Our Phoenix’ ‘A community-voted clinic’

12502-P. ‘RLLC, Rib Lake, Wis. K957’ massive lumber in dry yard, view west, NB-partially hidden tramway railroad 10 ft above ground level c. 1920

12503-P. 3 four-horse teams with sleigh load of logs on frozen Rib Lake c. 1910 ‘crossing the lake’

12504-Auction of State Senator ‘Tiny’ Krueger, a clinic fundraiser, 4-6-1957, 432 lbs = $4.58 bid by Walter B. Chilsen, Merrill Daily Herald

12505-Rib Lake ‘Rindless’ cheese labels

12505A-’medium aged-Miss Wisconsin’

12505B-Rib Lake Rind

12506-Rib Lake Herald 4-11-1957, ‘Going, Going, Gone’ for $955.20’ [auction for benefit of clinic at Rib Lake]

12507-Clippings ‘The auction project’

12508-7-4-1957 ‘Dentist will open practice here soon’; P. Dr. Duane D. Powers

12509-P. c. 1957 Rib Lake Clinic from southeast from McComb Ave.

12510-P. Mrs. Mable Prien 1946-1948 President Rib Lake Twentieth Century Club

12511-’Visitors to Hobby Show’ 1948, signatures of various Rib Lake people

12512-33 anniversary convention flyer, Wis. Federation of Women’s Clubs, May 10-11, 1950 meeting at Rib Lake; A-Hostesses to Convention, front-4th from right-Mrs. John Voemastek, member of 50 years; B-P. same as A

12513-P. 5-10-1950 interior of Ma Dodge’s Café Golden Jubilee luncheon – twentieth century club, NB-banquet tables, Mrs. ‘Ma’ Charles Dodge, nee Nettie Peterson

12514-P. 5-10-1950 interior of Ma Dodge’s Café Golden Jubilee luncheon – twentieth century club, NB-banquet tables, Mrs. ‘Ma’ Charles Dodge, nee Nettie Peterson, view east toward main door-first floor-on McComb Ave., R-unidentified woman

12515-Plat 12-9-1897 McComb’s Racing Park Addition to Village of Rib Lake, Wis; A-text & signature of A.C. McComb of Oshkosh

12516-’Mrs. J.J. Voemastek is 50 year member in village’

12517-P. 5-9-1950, Twentieth Century Club; L-R; Mrs. Raymond Voemastek, Mrs. Carl Marschke, Mrs. Paul Newberg, Mrs. Clifford Curran, Mrs. Karl Miller, Mrs. Earl Edens

Star News Photo Collection

12518-P. Gondola railroad car, RLLC railroad line, 50+ people on way to last log ceremony; R-Main line; C-spur, caboose in rear; L-(partial) tank car on siding; rear-flat cars on siding

12519-Part of topo map 1979, ‘Wood Lake, Wis’ arrow marks clearing site of RLLC Camp 28 site; 2-25-1948 last log ceremony, mostly in NW-NW, Sec. 32T33, 4E, Town of Corning, Lincoln Co.; A-ibid, shows Wood Lake

12520-Lincoln Co. plat map c. 2005, T33N, R4E, X=Location of RLLC Camp 28

12521-Map 11-27-1983 by RPRusch, Camp 28 site

12522-P. 2-25-1948, white pine chosen for last log ceremony

12523-P. white pine chosen for last log ceremony 2-25-1948, crowd gathering on cutover & slash from logging surrounds site

12524-P. last log ceremony 2-25-1948, cross-cut starts in

12525-P. last log ceremony, 2-25-1948, old-timer wields double-bitted axe above cross-cut – begins to make notch to fell pine

12526-P. Last log ceremony, pine falling; NB-man in background

12527-P. Bucking felled-last log ceremony, NB-3 wooden wedges in cut above cross-cut saw

12528-P. last log ceremony 2-25-1948, visitors eating inside cook house, RLLC Camp 28, NB-plaid plastic table covering, 4 bare electric bulbs, storage shelf along ceiling

James Peterson jobber camp, c. 1922, Town of Corning, Lincoln Co., Wis., producing logs for RLLC Photos probably accompanied Star News article 1928 ‘James Peterson says lumberjack as good today as 40 years ago’

12529-P. ‘part of Peterson camp buildings’, 8 buildings; NB-cook shanty-smoke with chimney; back-hemlock and standing hardwood

12530-P. c. 1930 felling white pine toward wood ‘bullseye’ device, probably Town of Corning

12531-P. Block B, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, c. 1915, numbers above buildings – North to south – 0-Rib Lake Hotel (partial) sign, perhaps confectionary, millinary (sic) sign on telephone pole; 1-Tauber (Last Chance) Tavern, 832 McComb Ave; 2-Jacob ‘Jake’ Janda; 3-Swanson’s Tavern building, multiple businesses, north end insurance, south is tavern; 4-Johnson-Arnold Coast-to-Coast hardware; 5-Lewis J. Scharer Tavern, in 2008 Olde Town Liquor; 6-Wm. Gessert Meat Market, later the Dixie Cup

12532-RLHe 10-12-1961 letter of Gaylord A. Nelson, Governor ‘Governor Nelson tells of State’s Effort to Help’ (find a doctor for village)

Camp 28 Restaurant Photo Collection, Rib Lake, (RPR took digital photos with #628

12533-P. RLLC shay locomotive #1 at Wood Lake log landing; rear-McGiffert Loader; center-flat car with hemlock logs; lower right-pile of peeled hemlock logs; between locomotive & Lake-bark pil from peeling hemlock logs? 7 unidentified men; lower left-crib in Wood Lake; view to NW across Wood Lake filled with logs ‘Log Loading Scene near Rib Lake, Wis.’ c. 1910

12534-P. ‘Yard and Beam Crew, Shaw Tannery, Rib Lake, Wis. 1895, By Dake, No. 2’; overhead-wooden walkway bridge holding steam pipe; view to north

12535-P. RLLC machine shop interior view c. 1920, 4 unidentified men; rear-RLLC locomotive, Building in 2008 is Fisher Creek Pet Foods in SE corner of McComb Ave & STH 102; NB; leather belts from overhead pulley provided power, saw in foreground

12536-P. c. 1925 ‘Donkey Loader – 1st gas engine loader’ loading hardwood logs on Railroad flatcar; 4 unidentified men, tar paper shack over engine

12537-P. RLLC barn-SW side, built c. 1915, 30 x 100 x 40 feet, ‘Can’t Sage Gates, RLLC, Rib Lake, Wis.’ stenciled on gate, 2008 location is home of Florence Schreiner, west side of Tannery Pond.

12538-floor plan, RLLC barn

12539-text-data re RLLC barn, author unknown

12540-P. Dan McLeod and text ‘Dan McLeod, Lumber Company ‘Barn Boss’ 1904-1940

12541-P. c. 1942 RLLC Camp 26; lady sits between root cellar and cook house

12542-P. Camp 28, spring 1946, center building with cupolas, 2 railroad tracks in foreground, 4 log high loading dock

12543-P. Camp 28, spring 1946, same site as 12542, foreground-top of railroad maintenance vehicle

12544-P. 1937, interior of Rib Lake Herald office, Raymond Voemastek, Publisher of the Rib Lake Herald with niece Luann Hyrd, 3 yrs old

12545-P. ‘Volunteer Fire Department 1890’ fire carriage and crew on McComb Ave., view east; rear-Taylor Hardware Store; rear right-Boston Store (2008 site of Bogumill building; foreground-wood sidewalk along west side of McComb Ave.

12546-P. ‘Marschke [Fred] Tavern’, three spittoons

12547-P. Feb. 1901, ‘Osburn Lumber Co’s Camp No. 3, Duncan A. McDonald, foreman, Rib Lake, Wis. Feb. 1901, photo from Dake Studio, Medford, Wis’ 12 men on top of roof, used hay bedding just outside door through which it was shoveled, back-virgin hemlock and yellow birch, back left-bunk house-tar paper covered roof held down by boards, NB-this is not RLLC camp #3

12548-P. ‘[Art] Swanson building 1910’, 2008 site of Genesis Youth Center, McComb Ave., left ‘Barber Shop’, center-unknown, right ‘Harness Shop’, notes on back ‘We owned this building in 1910 and lived upstairs quite a few years, JJV’ [John J. Voemastek, who, with Frank B. Hand, founded the Rib Lake Herald in 1897], this building razed in 1944. It stood between Jake Janda’s store on the left [north] and Johnson’s Hardware on the right [south]. Art Swanson, c. 1930’s, ran a tavern in ‘Harness Shop portion’

12549-P. Camp unknown, probably same camp as #12541, view from hill, single railroad track, camp-long loading platform-this photo mistakenly labled Camp 28 at Camp 28 Restaurant

12550-P. ‘Camp 27-Mike Roiger camp’ 4 unidentified men, 3 camp buildings, NB-railroad track fush with ground, no platform

12551-P. 2-25-1948 citizens fill gondola railroad car to attend last log ceremony, 2008 site of C&G Gas station, rear middle-McComb Ave., flag pole next to Boy Scouts building, right-loading dock RLLC store

12552-P. c. 1900 newly constructed railroad on north shore of Rib Lake-slabwood retaining wall; J.J. Kenedy’s Commercial Hotel

12553-P. 5-4-1912, ‘Rib Lkae Lumber Co’s Mill & Landing, Rib Lake, Wis’ log rollways into Rib Lake, caboose on newly constructed railroad on north shore, NB-curved bull chain into RLLC mill

12554-P. How-de-do in 62 parade on McComb Ave., lead car convertible-Vic Kohn ‘King’ and Beverly Janko ‘Queen’, foreground-Grace Schabel, rear-Avis Kohn, rear, left to right – Olsen Hardware, L.J. Scharer building, [in 2008, Olde Town Liquor], Coffee Cup Café, Little Bohemia, Old Bank building, [new] Lake Theatre

12555-P. aerial of Rib Lake, lower left-Herman Batzer home on Kennedy Street; center left-boxcar on railroad track to roller mill; c. 1925, view to southeast

12556-P. 2-1947 ‘Winter Fishing’ near Copper Creek inlet of Rib Lake; rear-old high school, Lutheran Church, logs on railroad flat cars along north shor of Rib Lake

12557-P. ‘Post Office 1900 on Church St. between Glenzers and Bubes’, on back ‘1900-Old P.O. building in Rib Lake which housed The Rib Lake Herald a few years’

12558-P. unidentified logging camp c. 1900, NB-fish & man with bandaged right hand ‘Bertha Taylor cook’

12559-P. c. 1920 may be McRae’s Bakery, left-Mary Heizler (Kapitz), right-Hilda [daughter of John] McRae [Hagen], lower-Jim Hagen, rear room-NB-upright coffee grinder

12560-P. meal ticket-John McRae’s Restaurant, Rib Lake, Wis. 21 meals for $3.50, meals at all hours, NB-punch out c. 1903-1908

12561-P. John & Nina McRae & family, back-Vernon, Hilda, Jim; lower-Milton McRae

12562-P. Camp # unknown, c. 1925, right-meat house with screens; rear-virgin hemlock; 7 automobiles; foreground-pig

12563-P. ‘Ed Peterson (Marge Nelson’s father) pelling hemlock [bark] in Spirit country’ c. 1915, 4 foot strip of bark pelled from tree, tree will now be felled and more bark stripped off; peeling spud stuck in tree with hat on; Ed sweating-wearing long-sleeved woolen underwear-this is spring work

12564-P. Steam Hauler pulling 7 loads of logs on Rib Lake c. 1908, view to northeast, above engine is Pfeiffer (2008 Ed Melaski farm buildings)

12565-P. 2-1-1888 Palmer’s Camp NB-log building 3 teams of oxen, probably a pine camp-i.e. cutting exclusively white pine logs

12566-P. c. fall of 1948 dry yard, half-empty, left-steeple of Methodist Church, right-steeple of Catholic Church

12567-P. RLLC locomotive #3, 6 unidentified men, rear-dry yard

12568-P. loading hardwood on railroad flatcar; center-tallyman with note pad c. 1935

12569-P. Camp 4 c. 1908 ‘Logging engine, Rib Lake, Wis’, Shay Locomotive & supply car, at locomotive-probably Chester Curran and Bob Hess, Bert Aitken with dog, view east

12569A-left side of 12569

12570-P. c. 1940 log cars in village

12571-P. c. 1940 log cars along Rib Lake

12572-P. c. 1910 ‘In the Woods’ ‘Frank Diesing’ on horse harness

12573-P. 1940 ‘Joe Kauer Camp 24’, caterpillar tractor skidding logs; rear-loading railroad car

12574-P. c. 1940, unidentified camp, horse barns, NB-overhead electric lines

12575-P. c. 1920, south side, Rib Lake Tannery, left-’Pan House’; center-scale building, view north; foreground-Fayette Ave

12576-P. 1940, ‘Entire ‘Turn Table’ – buried under Frank Park Lot’ of Camp 28 Restaurant, correction-turn table sold for scrap after 1948 mill closure; NB-mill & bull chain faintly shown in rear; left-Rib Lake

12577-P. c. 1940 side view McGiffert Loader, machine pulled fresh, unloaded flatcars beneath itself

12578-P. c. 1910 RLLC Shay Locomotive #1 – 9 flatcars full of tan bark, 3 unidentified men

12579-P. c. 1940 recently laid RLLC rail, ties are unsawn logs, no fish plates beneath rail, center-pile of unused rail; rear-cut-over land; NB-uneven, unleveled roadbed

12580-P. c. 1940 2 unidentified lumber pilers, foreground-tram cart; right-tram horse waiting patiently to pull unloaded cart back to transfer

12581-P. c. 1911, Camp #7, railroad to Spirit Falls, Camp buildings out of sawn lumber, tar paper covered roofs, root cellar by railroad tracks, 46 men, 1 grindstone

end of Camp 28 Restaurant collection)

12582-Abstract of Title, Brehm, Edward – SW-SW 7-33-3E; comment; 1) Extensive entries re J.J. Kennedy & corporate land owners, 2) Wis. Central Railroad & Railway & bankruptcy; A-W

12583-Map by Wisconsin Central Railway ‘Rib Lake Depot Grounds’ c. 1912 (depicts RLLC mill which burned in 1913);

A-Part of Title

B-Part of Legend

C-Legend Railroad ‘Release’ dates, i.e. deed land conveyances

D-Konz sawmill

E-Depot

F-Tramway track

G-Pickle Salting Station

H-RLLC mill complex, engine house

I-Dry yard

J-original plat of Rib Lake, NB-truncated railroad spur originally to lake [probably c. 1897 RR line to transport logs to lake]

12584-P. 11-2008 Athens, WI depot south side, view to northeast

12585-Twentieth Century Club primer, undated c. 1905; A-table of contents; B-ditty, K is for Kennedys – my there is a stack of ‘em, yet in other places there is no lack of ‘em, now is our chance to get a good whack at ‘em.

12586-booklet c. 1993 on Gerstberger Pines Nature Trail

Robert Damm collection

12587-P. derailed locomotive STH 13, Chelsea-Rib Lake spur #649, 5-1943

12587A-P. derailed locomotive STH 13, Chelsea-Rib Lake spur #649, 5-1943, top of locomotive, NB-steam under cab

12587B-P. derailed locomotive STH 13, Chelsea-Rib Lake spur #649, 5-1943, foreground-truck debris, ‘Where the people are looking, that’s where the man was…’ inscription on back describing location of dead truck driver

12587C-P. derailed locomotive STH 13, Chelsea-Rib Lake spur #649, 5-1943, ‘picking up the pieces’, railroad crane lifts, truck chassis

end Robert Damm collection

12588-RLHe 7-2-1970 A-G ‘Published by Laurie T. Carlson’ [Carlson takes over from Eugene ‘Geno’ Clifford, owner, editor & publisher]

12589-RLHe 7-14-1949 ‘For your scrapbook-RLHe’ ‘Fourth of July in Rib Lake’ photos – L-upper-color guard on McComb Ave.,

12589-1 P. upper-color guard on McComb Ave., rear – Bogumill Building

12589-2 P. winners of baby contest at left; Mrs. Jay Mauch, Mendota, IL, and Miss Jane

12589-3 P. ‘Ole, Chef Supreme & new village president in front of his float’, in June, 1949, Leon W. Olson, owner of Olson Hardware Store on McComb Ave., was elected president of the village. He replaced Elmer Taylor, who resigned. Sign on truck advertises Olson Hardware

12589-4 P. ‘Dozens of card crowded Harper Lake Resort grounds on Sunday’, Harper Lake Resort, south shore of lake, SE-SW 2, T22N, R2E, owned by ‘Ma’ and ‘Pa’, Mr. & Mrs. Mike Schmidt; view north; back-south end of tavern building

12589-5 P. ‘The Herald’s float, swarming with Herald angels’

12589-6 P. ‘Little Miss Cheryl Scholtz & her dog, Mikey, who drew many a smile in parade; right-pie eating contest on bank steps

12589-7 P. ‘Lower row (left) crowd viewing the races and contests in front of the ‘you know what’ building; rear bduiing with sign, Rib Lake Herald is RLHe office & print shop, Block C, Lot __, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

12589-8 P. ‘(right) small fry with their doll carts in the parade’ rear-then village hall -741 McComb Ave.

12590-aerial of McComb Ave., c. 1975, new Golden Age Nursing Home under construction

12591-RPR Certificate of Election for Taylor County DA 11-14-1972, signed by Harold L. Ruesch ‘Hettie’

12592-L. Larry Easton-Soo Line Historical & Technical Society, Inc, to RPR 1-6-2009

12593-Map ‘Wis. Central Railway’ ‘Rib Lake depot grounds’ with key – through FF

12594-Map 1985 Taylor Co. Geological Survey 45090-B3 CF 100- cover page

A-Rib Lake area

B-Westboro-Chelsea

12595-Chapter XXIX ‘The Black River’ Lumber & Forest Industry of the Northwest, 1898 by George W. Hotchkiss (from Merrill, WI Historical Society) p. 1-History of Taylor County

12596-Map Inman Folz ‘Glacial Geology’; A-western Taylor County

12597-Map Inman Folz ‘Bedrock Depth’

12598-Map Inman Folz ‘Public Lands’

12599-Map Taylor Co. State Highway Comm. 2-1957

Volume (Disc) XXVII- #12600-12699

12600-Map Taylor Co. c. 1877, 4 townships, ‘Charlestown’

12601-P. Star News 5-31-1983, McComb Ave.

12602-P. Rustic Road plaque and map

12603-Taylor County historical sketch 6 pgs c. 1971, by Roger L. Emmerich

12604-Star News 7-1-1976 Taylor Co. centennial souvenir program;

A-P. Taylor Co.Courthouse

B- P. Rotunda

C-P. Circuit Court

D-Jail

J-county officials

L-Declaration of Independence

12605-Biography Dr. C. Kelnhofer, p. 2431 of History of Wisconsin c. 1915;A-B

12606-C. 1885 ‘History of Northern Wis’ p. 1022 Taylor County

A-pg. 1023

B-pg. 1024 ‘Medford’

C-pg. 1025

D-pg. 1026 biographical sketches

E-pg. 1027

F-pg. 1028

G-pg. 1029

H-pg. 1030 – History of Chelsea

I-pg. 1031 – biography of Wellington H. Haight

J-pg. 1032 – History of Westboro

12607-Taylor Co History by Ray Bundick ‘Official List of First Logging Operations in what is now Taylor County’ c. 1965; pg. 19-Rib Lake History – 28 total pages (NB-10050 appears to be an earlier version-18 pages)

12608-P. Eugene ‘Gene’ a.k.a ‘Geno’ Clifford, editor, Rib Lake Herald 5-9-1968

12609-P. c. 1935 left ‘Mother’ Ida Rusch, nee Lange, a.k.a Mrs. Ida Knop; right ‘Aunt Gusta’, Augusta Bartig (Mrs. William Bartig), Bartig farm, Augusta, WI (sisters) Ida is paternal grandmother to Robert P. Rusch

12610-P. rear-Spirit Lake Hotel c. 1910; foreground-St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Ladies Aid Society; arrow is directed to Mrs. Ida Rusch, nee Lange

12611-P. c. 1916, foreground-Alfred ‘Fritzie’ Knop sitting on sleigh, probably at Albert Knop, Sr., farm; rear-4 unidentified women

12612-P. c. 1916 at Albert Knop farm house; top-Anna Bleck nee Rusch, right-Bertha Kurth, nee Rusch, middle-unknown; right-Herman A. Rusch; others unknown

12613-P. c. 1916 Bertha P. Rusch, a.k.a Mrs. Walter Kurth, at Albert Knop farm

12614-P. c. 1916 at Albert Knop farm, left-Robert Bleck, Sr.; middle-Oscar Lemke; right-Arnold Zuther

12615-P. c. 1916 at Albert Knop farm, left-Bertha P. Rusch, right-Leona Maes

12616-P. c. 1910 Class at Ward School, lower right-mart at red is Gustav ‘Gus’ Adolph Rusch

12617-P. c. 1910 Gustav ‘Gus’ Adolph Rusch & dog in garden

12618-P. c. 1918 at Lake Superior shore, Barksdale, WI, left-Bertha P. Rusch, center-unid, right-Hedwig ‘Hattie’ Henrietta Rusch; then employed at Dupont Power Plant making ammunition for WWI

12619-P. c. 1920 at Lake Superior, Bayfield Co, WI; left-Hedwig ‘Hattie’ Henrietta Rusch; center-Marie Seidel; right-Bertha P. Rusch, then employed at Dupont Power Plant, Barksdale, WI

12620-P. c. 1918, mock wedding, L-Tina Pagel, left bride-Hedwig ‘Hattie’ H. Rusch, right-Anna L. Rusch, a.k.a Mrs. Robert Bleck; right bride-Bertha P. Rusch

12621-P. c. 1918, foreground-Bertha P. Rusch, right-Tina Pagel, rear-Mr. __ Olson, proprietor, Olson’s Saloon [in rear]; Mr. Olson married Mrs. Pagel, mother of Tina Pagel

12622-P. c. 1940 at Robert Bleck, Sr., house, 754 Kennedy St., l-Mrs. Bertha P. Kurth, nee Rusch, right-Mr. Walter Kurth

12623-P. c. 1940 Robert Bleck, Sr., house, 754 Kennedy St, Left-Walter Kurth, 6th-Mr. Robert Bleck, Sr., 8th-Mrs. Robert Bleck, Sr., nee Rusch

12624-P. c. 1930 at Albert Knop farm, SE-NW, 19-33-3E, 8198 CTH C, Rib Lake; left-Herman Arthur Rusch, next 1-Albert Knop, Sr., 2-(partial) unid child; 4-man with pipe; right-Walter Kurth, all proudly holding 9 fish

12625-P. c. 1940 Bertha P. Kurth, nee Rusch, rear-cottage at Charles Talbot Resort, Willow Lake, Oneida Co, WI

12626-P. c. 1940 old fashioned Christmas tree, balsam fir with tinsel, home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kurth, Milwaukee

12627-P. 5-2-1917 confirmation class St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Pastor Arthur Sydow, A-writing of Herman A. Rusch listing confirmands

12628-Obit. Kennedy, Donald Angus

12629-Obit. Kennedy, John J. 4-12-1928, ‘Prominent Glengarrian Dies at Portland, Ore.’ From Anna Mae Kennedy scrapbook

12630-Article; ‘Glengarrians Abroad’ Sandon, British Columbia 6-12-899, re wedding of Alex Ferguson to Elizabeth Francis Gillis

12631-A History of the Town of Spirit, Price Co. Wis. first published in the RLHe by Lillian P. Clifford 3-9-1961 – commentary by RPR

Collection of Sheryl Brietzke

12632-A History of Gustav & Anna (Heller) Brietzke by Sheryl Brietzke 2008

12633-Cert. of Naturalization August Brietzke (father of Gustav Brietzke)

12634-in German – family register, marriage data, Gust Brietzke & Anna Heller 9-13-1914 Richford, WI

12635-P. wedding photo, Gust Brietzke & Anna Heller, 9-3-1914, St. Peters Lutheran Ch., Richford, WI

12636-Plat map ‘Spirit’ c. 1990, T34N-R3E, former Brietzke farm (in yellow) E ½-NE1/4, T34-R3E

12637-P. Gust & Anna Brietzke & 12 children 1937 (standing L-R) Victor, Erwin, Arthur, Ema, William & Fred (seated) Gust ‘Dad’ holding Gloria, Anna ‘Mom’ holding Elaine (front row) Raymond, Kenneth ‘Pete’, Caroline & Chester ‘John’; Anna pregnant with Joyce, born 12-13-1937

12638-Poem by Sheryl Brietzke ‘Ode to Anna & Gust’

12639-P. 1958 Robert ‘Bob’ L. Brietzke, Sheryl M. Brietzke, Gerald ‘Jerry’ J. Brietzke, children of Ray Lois (Willet) Brietzke, in yard at Brietzke farm-German Settlement

12640-P. c. 1970 Gust & Anna Brietzke at farm, dog on Brietzke homestead

12641-The Bee 5-30-1996 ‘Brietzke family proud of its brothers; from 1941 to 1953, 8 family members serve in armed forces’

End of Sheryl Brietzke collection

12642-Letter ‘Niedergebra’ 2-1-1948 by ‘Edith’ to Dear Fraulein Knop, re Knop-Mielke family

12643-Letter 2-1-1948 in German (translation is 12642)

12644-List of ‘Lumberjacks that worked for Lambert P. Lamberty’ by Matt Lamberty, Milw. WI c. 1970

12645-Map-Wisconsin ‘Official State Highway Map’ c. 1980

12646-P. Rib River School Joint District #2 ‘Rib River School’ 1937 teachers & students; Town of Rib Lake, SW-NW 18-32-3E

12646A-Names of those pictured in 12646

12646B-2003 plat map – arrow to school site

12647-1950 Price Co. Civil Township map

12648-1950 Plat map T34N-R3E, Town of Spirit, Historic data e.g. former railroads, by H.C. Rhody & Joe Levine – 1945

12649-P. c. 1905, 13 unidentified men building Rib Lake to Spirit Falls Railroad by hand, no road bed, piles of ties on railroad car on rear

12650-Title page, History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881, Chicago; the Western Historical Company

12650A-pg 764 Price Co. Settlement ‘The first white settler in the territory now in Price Co was Major Isaac Stone..’

12651-Wisconsin Rec News, Price Electric Co-op magazine 8-1972, ‘Meier’s Yesterday House’ by Delores Lamoreaux;

12651A-P. Roy & Helen Meier

12651B-P. Albin Johnson log cabin

12652-Article by Roy Meier ‘I remember my day’ 1969 A-J

12653-Historic Preservation Achievement Award Nomination Blank by RPR, 2-24-1982 to State Historical Society of Wisconsin re Mr. & Mrs. Roy & Helen Meier; A-Response 5-11-1982, by William H. Applegate

12654-Flyer 8-13-1983 41st annual Spirit-Hill-Ogema 4-H Fair, Spirit Town Hall

12655-Price Co. map c. 1900, ‘Outline Map of Price Co’ the Kennedy Co, Des Moines

12656-Article ‘German Settlement History’ by Roy R. Meier, Jan. 1973, plus handwritten notes by Roy R. Meier; G-Map routes to German Settlement c. 1-1973

12657-Map. C. 1890 T34N-R3E ‘Sigfried Mier’ land in yellow

12658-Milw. Journal 8-23-1981 ‘You’re king of the hill at Timm’s Hill’; A-’Timm’s Hill was a nobody for many years’, map; B-P. ‘Bass Lake’ from fire tower

12659-Map & brochure c. 1985 Price Co., Wis. Recreation area; A-SE corner of County, ‘Timm’s Hill, State’s Highest Point’

12660-Biography Harry Magnuson 1890-1984;

A-P. Harry & Dad, Carl John;

B-P. sons Herbert & Lester and daughter Aileen, and parents

C-P. Giant white pine near Spirit Lake, L-R, Bernard Swanson, Mr. Anderson, Harry Magnuson;

D-P. Harry Magnuson & pelts;

E-P. Harry Magnuson & wife, Jennie, nee Jacobson;

F-P. Harry Magnuson woodsman, photograph, taxidermist, fox and mink rancher, ginseng grower

G-Six grandsons Edgard, Victor, Lowell, Eric, Craig, Carl – note re Jacob Bjorn

12661-Milw. Journal 1-4-1998 ‘Ashland’s founder trekked 240 miles to give north a voice – Hon. Asaph Whittlesey, snowshoe lawmaker, made for Madison in buckskins’; P. Asaph Whittlesey

12662-1878 Historical Atlas of Wis. ‘Taylor County’

12663-L. 11-2-1936, Division Engineer (Chicago & NW RR, Antigo, WI) to C.T. Kike re C.M. Christianson Lumber Co. of Phelps, WI ‘The Lumber Co. have no more woods [railroad] tracks…’; A-Note by RPR, RLLC is (was) last lumber company with its own functioning railroad transporting logs to its mill

12664-Map c. 1878, Rib Lake area, Westboro, ‘Charlestown Station’ [later Whittlesey], Medford, Historical Atlas of Wis.; A-reduced size

12665-Map, Taylor Co. with 4 townships 1878

12666-Map, Town of Rib Lake – 1913 Standard Atlas of Taylor Co.

12666A-West half of Town of Rib Lake

12666B-East half of Town of Rib Lake

12667-12-30-1987 Foto News-Merrill, ‘Timber’ Courthouse log cut 50 years ago’A; P. Stump; B-Harry Deering & white pine

12668-Map, sawmills in Merrill, WI in 1883, 2-6-1983 Merrill Foto News

12669-Bird’s Eye sketch of Merrill in 1883

12670-Map, Lincoln Co. 1914, west half with railroads

12670A-Map, Lincoln Co. 1914, T34-4E, east half

12670B-Map, Lincoln Co. 1914, T34-4E, west half

12670C-Map, Lincoln Co. 1914, T33-4E, east half

12670D-Map, Lincoln Co. 1914, T33-4E, west half

12670E-Map, Lincoln Co. 1914, T32-4E, east half

12670F-Map, Lincoln Co. 1914, T31-4E, east half

12671-Map, Lincoln Co. 1944, W half by ‘Carr’

12671A- Map, Lincoln Co. 1944, railroads highlighted

12672-Map, Lincoln Co. 1944, T31-4E, west half

12672A-Map, Lincoln Co. 1944, T32-4E, west half

12672B-Map, Lincoln Co. 1944, T32-4E, east half

12672C-Map, Lincoln Co. 1944, T33-4E, west half

12672D-Map, Lincoln Co. 1944, T33-4E, east half

12672E-Map, Lincoln Co. 1944, T33-5E, west half

12672F-Map, Lincoln Co. 1944, T34-4E

12673-Map, Lincoln Co. 1-1981 Department of Transportation

12674-Map, Lincoln Co. 9-11-1974, railroads, Merrill Shopper & Foto News

12675-Map, Lincoln Co. c. 1975, west half

12676-Business card-Patrick Fur Farm, Inc., Michael, Beverly & Kyle Patrick, 2008

12677-P. Aerial-Patrick Fur Farm c. 2008, view to north

12678-Pelt ID card ‘Patrick Fur Farm’

12679-Gojmerac Family Heritage Book by Patricia A. Gojmerac & Rosanne (Mrs. Kendrick Carstensen, Medford)

2-Pat Gojmerac address

3-P. Joseph Gojmerac

5-The story begins

7-Family tree

11-Joseph Gojmerac

13-Charles Gojmerac

15-George Gojmerac, Jr.

17-Albert Gojmerac

19-Dr. Walter Gojmerac

25-P. Remember When

29-P. The Home Farm throughout the years

31-Obit, Goerge, Sr., Charles, Albert, Mary Gojmerac & Mrs. Nick Ceranski

32-Obit, Joseph, Sr., Darlene Gojmerac, T.N. (Nick) Ceranski

--Obit George Gojmerac 1917-2002 Star News, Bernice Gojmerac 1924-2004

--Star News 4-8-2004 P. George in Military Service, Charles, Albert, Joseph, Walter, Joseph, Jr., Deborah J. Gojmerac

--L. Tom Gojmerac ‘Hello, I’m Tom Gojmerac’ in memory of George

12680-L. Dr. Walter L. Gojmerac, 5601 Raymond Rd., Madison, WI 53711, 11-13-2008; A-B-Autobiography of Walter L. Gojmerac; C-Title page ‘Bees, Beekeeping Honey & Pollination’’, bio-Walter L. Gojmerac; D-Title Page ‘What you should know about honey’ by Walter L. Gojmerac

Photos from Gojmerac (Patricia) album

12681-P. George Gojmerac, Jr. farm, W1-2, 12-32-2E, Town of Greenwood, view north, 7-5-1936

12681A-1940 plat map, T32N-R2E, George Gojmerac farm highlighted

12682-P. A young Gojmerac chasing heifers, back-Greenwood Town Hall – east side c. 1936

12683-. 7-1936, Mrs. Goerge Gojmerac, Sr., nee Mary Yarnovich, wading in Wellington Creek, 4 unidentified kids

12684-P. 3-horse team pulling 1 bottom plow, 7-1936, George Gojmerac, Sr.

12685-P. c. 1888, SW-SW-12-2E, then owned by William Martin family, NB-Wellington Creek foot bridge, stumps in field, rear-virgin white pine, log cabin, barn under construction

12685.1 same as 12685-take 2 from Karen Waldo – better quality

12686-P. George Gojmerac, Sr., farm field, 1936, left-Timber Drive running north; rear right-rock pile

12687-P. team plowing; right-rock pile

12688-P. c. 1938 making hay, team pulls hay wagon and hay loader

12689-P. team raking cut hay into windrow

12689A-P. Joseph G. Gojmerac raking hay, c. 1938, 3-horse team

12690-P. 3 girls near windrows

12691-P. Loaded hay wagsin, George Gojmerac, Sr., barn in rear

12692-P. c. 1938 Chev truck and big load of hardwood, ‘Jim Blennert’ – driver, on door-L.C.8206 Al Ruesch, Medford, PSCW (Public Service Commission of Wis)

12692A-Original of 12692

12693-Jan. 2005 ‘Official Building Number Map’ of Village of Rib Lake, ‘The purpose of this map is to maintain an official log of [street addresses] address numbers..’; A-Legend; B-school sites; C-McComb Ave.

12694-Camp Carter flier c. 1948

12694A-P. The farmhouse, f.k.a Ma & Pa Mike Schmidt

12694B-P. ‘A clear sand bottom beach…’ South Harper Lake

12695-P. 5-1992 Mr. & Mrs. Elaine (born Carter) and Max Schaufelberger – 50th wedding anniversary at Chicago restaurant

12696-P. 1958 Camp Carter ‘girls’ at Camp Carter; L-R, 1) Elaine Carter, n/k/a Schaufelberger, 6) Rose Constance Patrick, f/k/a Storina, 9) Dorothy Carlson

12697-P. 8-1958 Camp Carter ‘farmhouse’

12697X-P. ‘Main Lodge at Camp Carter, Harpers Lake, near Rib Lake, Wis. 13’ c. 1950

12698-P. 8-1957 Camp Carter ‘girl’ on horse

12699-P. 1959 L-Dorothy Hebda, C-John Sheldon Patrick, R-Rose Patrick, rear-boat house

Volume (Disc) XXVIII- #12700-12799

12700-P. Rose Patrick’s friends from (Chicago) work, Mary, Anna, Betty, Rose Patrick, Steve

12701-P. 1962 at Camp Carter, Mrs. Rose Patrick tapping a keg; R-John Sheldon Patrick

12702-P. 7-3-2006 L-Mrs. Dorothy Hebda, the first Camp Carter ‘girl’; R-Mrs. Rose Patrick

12703-1972 Taylor Co. Plat Book, front page, Rockford Map Publishers ‘History Notes by RPR’ Camp data primarily from Frank Erdman, 1981

12703A-Taylor County general highway map, east one-half

12703B-Westboro T33 North, Range 1 East

12703C-Westboro-Rib Lake T33N R2E

12703D-Rib Lake T33N R3E

12703E-Chelsea T32N R1E

12703F-Greenwood T32N R2E

12703G-Greenwood-Rib Lake T32N R3E

12703H-Goodrich T31N R3E

12704-Masthead ‘The Herald’ 1-6-1972, and logo ‘Land of the Great Spirit’, ‘Tim’s (sic) Hill, el. 1952 feet, highest point in Wisconsin’, ‘Offices in Rib Lake and Prentice’

12705- Masthead ‘The Herald’ 12-14-1972, and logo ‘Land of the Great Spirit’, ‘Tim’s (sic) Hill, el. 1952 feet, highest point in Wisconsin’, no mention of offices cf. 12704 [J.A. O’Leary, Editor and Publisher]

12706-The Herald 12-21-1972, photos of J.A. O’Leary & Carol O’Leary, et al; owners of Abbotsford-Colby ‘Tribune Phonograph’; Athens-Edgar ‘Record-Review’ & Rib Lake ‘The Herald’

12706A-P. ‘Rib Lake Staff’ Merle Tervi and Mary Lundeen

12707-Envelope 4-2-2009 Beryl Nyberg to RPR

12708-Biography – Isaac Stone & family c. 1980 by Helen Meier (?)

12709-L. 6-20-1977 Bureau of Indian Affairs to Eidar Anderson ‘Isaac Stone b. 3-07-1880, d. 5-6-1949, was the son of James Stone…& Bim we we, b. 1857, d. 8-1905, a Chippewa Indian woman.’ Signed Edmund Manydeeds

12710-Notes by Beryl Nyberg, re Isaac Stone [purportedly first Price County white settler]

[Dennis Kuehling collection]

12711-Envelope Dennis Kuehling to RPR 4-11-2009

12711A-L. Dennis Kuehling 4-11-2009 to RPR

12712-Email, John Johnson to Dennis Kuehling 10-19-2007, re antique postcards dating codes

12713-Autobiography of Edmund Creed, Unity, WI ‘Trials and Tribulations of An Old Pioneer Settler’

12714-P. Hotel Winchester, Medford, WI, [built to prove hemlock construction capabilities] postdate 8-6-1910

12715-P. ‘City Park, Rib Lake, Wis’ bridge over Copper Creek, Lake Shore Drive, postdate 11-5-1907

12715A-reverse side of 12715

12716-P. RLLC mill fire 1914, L-bull chain, view southwards

12716A-postmark 7-27-1914 & text

12717-P. RLLC new mill under construction c. 1916, foreground – RLLC Store

12718-P. ‘In the woods near Rib Lake, Wis’ Shay locomotive, 7 flatcars of logs, ‘Photo by Brown’; superior quality, identical photo scanned as 12821

12719-P. 1910 Rib Lake Village, foreground-top of hemlock, NB-identical tannery company houses along north side of Fayette Ave.

12719A-postcard 2-12-1916 & text

12720-P. Rib Lake c. 1910, view to northeast, railroad log cars; foreground-marsh grass in lake – site of later hotpond

12721-P. ‘steam log hauler to Rib Lake’ ‘c1428’ peeled hemlock logs on sleigh NB-R-RL

12722-P. ‘High & Grade School – Rib Lake, Wis. C-6’ c. 1920, NB-bell tower [tower blew off-RPR]

12723-P. RLLC, Rib Lake, Wis. C-1; RLLC mill on roof ‘Rib Lake’, A-National Hotel

12724-P. ‘The Lone Pine Trail, Rib Lake, Wis. 32’ view northward

12725-P. ‘Lone Pine Trail – Spirit Lake – Rib Lake, Wis. B 244 Excel’ view southward

12725A-postcard 7-18-1941 & text

12726-P. ‘Scene on Spirit Lake B 237’, Big Spirit Lake- off photo to left – island

12726A-Postcard 7-18-1941 & text

12727-P. South Harper Lake C 15’ view from present Rustic Rd. – NB – island

12727A-postcard 7-17-1944 & text

12728-P. ‘South Harper Lake 28’

12728A-postcard 7-28-1948 & text

12729-P. ‘Seidel’s Housekeeping Cottages, North Harper Lake, RibLake, Wis A-197’

12729A-postcard 7-25-1944 & Text

12730-P. Seidel’s Cottages – North Harper Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. 49 (in color)

12730A-postcard 7-21-1952 & text

12731-P. ‘Cottage No. 2, Seidel’s Cottages, North Harper Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. 84’

12731A-Postcard 7-16-1957 & text

12732-P. ‘The Drive, Seidel’s Cottages, North Harper Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. 47’

12732A-Postcard 5-17-1963 & text

12733-P. P. ‘Seidel’s Cottages – Cottage No. 8’

12733A-Postcard 5-23-1963 & text

12734-P. ‘Seidel’s Cottages on North Harper Lake, Rib Lake, Wis.’ view southward

12735-P. ‘Cottage 2 at Seidel’s Cottages, North Harper Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. 44’

12736-P. ‘Office Seidel’s Cottages, North Harper Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. 75’

12737-P. ‘Harper Lake Resort, Rib Lake, Wis. 39’ sign ‘Harper Lake Resort office’, c. 1939

12738-P. ‘Tavern at Harper’s Lake Resort, Westboro, Wis. 90’ c. 1955, ‘Perkins Ice Cream’

12739-P. ‘View of Harper Lake Resort, Rib Lake, Wis. 7’ view westward

12740-P. ‘Cabin #3 Harper Lake Resort, Rib Lake, Wis. C-14’

12741-P. ‘The Bunk House, Harper Lake Resort, Rib Lake, Wis. 57’ NB-Wood rowboat

12742-P. ‘Harper Lake. at Harper Lake Resort, Rib Lake, Wis. C-11’ L-resort dock; rear-Hill planted in red pine c. 1955

12743-P. ‘Cabin #2, Harper Lake Resort, Rib Lake, Wis. 24’

12743A-postcard 9-19-1947 & text

12744-P. Matty Janish, Musky caught Oct. 17, 1948, 46 one-half’ long, 39 lbs. North Harper Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. 69’

12744A-Postcard 8-22-1950 & text

12745-P. From Star News ‘Remember When – A souvenir from Rib Lake’ view westward from Mike ‘Pa’ Schmidt farm – Camp Carter c. 1920

12746-P. South Harper Lake c. 1910, view from present Rustic Road; L-point; R-island

12747-P. ‘Island in Harper Lake, G-552’

12748-P. ‘view of South Harper 3’

12749-P. view of South Harper Lake no. C-15’ L-point

12750-P. ‘Bathing Beach Harper Lake, Rib Lake, Wis’ South Harper Lake c. 1950

12751-P. ‘So. Harper Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. Ester photo, Waupun’ c.1920 NB-Silver Creek Outlet

12751A-postcard 8-13-1939 & text

12752-Hultman Lake

12752A-Postcard 8-11-1938 & text, to Mr. Bruno Beck, 69 Peru St., Berlington, VT.

12753-P. ‘Lily & Violet Cottages, Holly’s Resort, Stone Lake, Rib Lkae, Wis. PO Ogema, Wis. 59’ c. 1958

12754-P. Maple Knoll, Spirit River, Rib Lake, Wis. 39’ STH 102 Stone 2 arch bridge over Spirit River

12754A-Postcard 5-9-1960 & text

12755-P. ‘Spirit Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. No. C-21’ view north, present STH 102, c. 1930 sign – Hiden left of road, ‘Hillsboro Pale’ beer

12756-Gordon Nordgren c. 1955

12757-L. 4-2-2009 Phyllis R. (Mrs. Gordon) Nordgren nee Knop to RPR

12758-L. ‘2007’ by Phyllis R. Nordgren ‘Bits of the history of the Settlement of Harper Lakes..’

12759-’Bits of History of Harper Lakes’ by Ruth Coughlan, nee Knop, c. 1990

12760-L. ‘2008’ by Phyllis R. Nordgren (?); A-note by Phyllis R. Nordgren

12760B-P. Mike & Elsie Schmidt ‘Pa & Ma’; & brick home

12760C-P. ice harvesting

12760D-Harper Lake History by Phyllis R. Nordgren

12760E-P. Bill Schmidt, Herb Curran, Matt Jarish & fish

12760F-P. South Harper Lake beach

12760G-P. Camp Carter History

12761-Article ‘Hillcrest on South Harper Lake’ 3-2008 by Elaine Hansen

12762-L. 3/3/2008 Elaine Hansen to Phyllis R. Nordgren

12762A-P. Elaine & Ray Hansen, P. Louise Harder Perschbacher

12762B-P. Mrs. Harder & the four children in front of playhouse c. 1916; P. the playhouse in 2005

12763-’Our Cottage Story’ by Joyce (Cunningham) Pace; A-G; H-P. Enoch Berg & Al Follett

12764-’Scudder’s On the Rocks’, 2 pg article – Author unknown

12764X-’Lumberjack Stories’ by a child of Mike & Elsbeth Schmidt

12764X1-’Introduction to Bachelor Haven’ by Dennis Kuehling 7-4-2007

12764X2-’Bachelor Have or Pioneer Days at Harper Lake in Taylor County, Wis.’ by Elsbeth Amehlia Margrets Krause Schmidt, a.k.a. ‘Ma’ Schmidt of Harper Lake Resort, a.k.a. Elsie or Ella – edited by Dennis Kuehling

12765-Obit, Albert Knop, Sr. , 5-22-1942 Rib Lake Herald; obit, Mrs. Albert Knop, Sr., f.k.a. Mrs. Herrmann Rusch, f.k.a. Ida Lange; card of thanks, Mr. Albert Knop, Jr.

12765A-P. Albert Knop, Sr., 3-14-1900, & first wife, Ernestina Klatt

12765B-P. c. 1930 Albert Knop, Sr. & second wife, Ida, f.k.a. Mrs. Herrmann Rusch, a.k.a. Ida Lange, on Knop farm – half mile north CTH C & STH 102

12766-Envelope, Taylor Co. Forestry Dept. to RPR 3-31-2009

12766A-Patent – Kennedy Lake real estate 11-13-1985; [‘lost’ – unsurveyed land – RPR]

12767-L. Herbert Magnuson to RPR 2-23-2009

12767A-’Jennie Magnuson 1894-1986’ obituary brochure; B-Poem by Lorelei Dickinson; C-sketch of Jennie Magnuson

12768-’RLH-Movers & Shakers; Cast of Characters to Early Rib Lake History’ Updated to May 4, 2009 – [old version was 12269]

12769-Map- Rib Lake Village 12-1996; by Ayres Associates

A-Lakefront

B-Tannery pond & south; McComb Ave.

C-Original plat area

D-original plat area & McComb’s Racing Park Addition

12770-P. c. 2000 St. Ann’s Church – altar

12771-P. c. 2000 St. Ann’s Church – view from NW, original basswood siding

12772-P. c. 2000 St. Ann’s Church – west side, original basswood siding

12773-P. c. 2000 St. Ann’s Church – NE corner – rear of old Thums store & home

12774-P. c. 2000 St. Ann’s Church – pews & scriptures-altar

12775-P. c. 2000 St. Ann’s Church – Jesus sculpture

12776-P. c. 2000 St. Ann’s Church – interior – view SW nave

12777-P. c. 2000 St. Ann’s Church – sculpture virgin holding adolescent Jesus

12778-P. c. 2000 St. Ann’s Church – nave-stained glass window – interior

12779-P. c. 2000 St. Ann’s Church – bell in belfry

12780-P. c. 2000 St. Ann’s Church – 2 bells in belfry

12781-P. c. 1979 from old water tower, view northwest to RLHS; rear-new water tower prior to construction of grade school

12782-P. c. 1979 upper Michigan, Porcupine Mtns. State Park, virgin hemlock stand; representative of original Rib Lake forest

12783-’Map of the Wisconsin Central Line & connections’ ‘The 1891 Grain Dealers & Shippers Gazetteer’ Wis. Central Railway map

12784-Envelope with 1 cent stamp; Library Commission to Public Library, Rib Lake; ‘report blanks and reference for 1919’

12785-8-1-1918 Rib Lake Public Library Annual Statistical Report, Signatures of Trustees, Mrs. O. Steffeck, Mrs. T. Williams, Mr. O. Steffeck, Prof. Brown, Mrs. G.C. Wickman, President, Mrs. J. Upjohn, Secretary, Mrs. E.C. Getchel, Mrs. A. Allard

A-’Book statistics’, total # of vols. Lent for home use – 3216; list of magazines x= those received

B-Financial statement , receipts = $290.48 = payments

C-form questions – not answered

12786-’Soo Line freight bill’ 10-13-1919; billed from Madison, WI; car initials Penn 5333, ‘3 box books weight 250’; total charges $1.89; to station #1742, Rib Lake, Wis.

A-backside ‘rules’

12787-Bill – from ‘Free Public Library, T.V. Olson, Librarian, Rib Lake, Wis’ 11-11-1910, invoice & order for library supplies - $3.15

12788-voucher 1-7-1919 Rib Lake Public Library to First National Bank of Rib Lake ‘pay to Jas. Upjohn 31 in payment of books & magazines’ signed by Mrs. James Upjohn, Sec; and Mrs. G.C. Wichman, president; Theda B. Williams

12789-printed pages of new books at Rib Lake Public Library

12790-Rib Lake Free Library Assoc. pay to Margaret Clark, $2, signed Mrs. F.G. Bailey, Pres; & Mrs. L.A. Rousseau, Sec; 6-22-1911, ‘paid’ First National Bank, Rib Lake

12791-counter check 7-6-1917, pay to Mr. Cox $9.10; signed Mrs. L.A. Rousseau, sec. library board; signed J.Sig Stone, treas; ‘The First National Bank’

A-back, signed Chas. H. Cox

12792-5-4-1918 ‘Order for Money’ to Mrs. H. Kennedy (Mrs. Caroline, a.k.a. Hugh Kennedy 1865-1937); signed Mrs. Selina Rousseau & Mrs. James Upjohn; $20 charged to library board; A-back signed by Mrs. Hugh Kennedy

12793-voucher 3-22-1919, Rib Lake Public Library to Mary Hazen, $15 ‘salary’ to First National Bank, signed Mrs. James Upjohn, Sec; and Mrs. G.C. Wichman, pres; signed Theda B. Williams, treasurer (a.k.a. Mrs. S.J. Williams); A-back, signature of Mary E. Hazen

12794-Bank Statement ‘Rib Lake Library Ass’n, Mrs. S.J. Williams, Treas’; Jan. 23-Oct. 12, 1920; balance brought forward $37.59; 10 debits $3.55 to $28.41, 1 deposit $200; balance $35.56; First National Bank, Rib Lake, Wis; A-back, math in longhand

12795-Rib Lake Herald 8-12-1965, top half-first page; photos of McComb Ave. parade

12796-P. 5-1910; Twentieth Century Club; 3 dozen + unidentified people; A-back ‘The Century Club’

12797-P. c. 1915 cast at Johnson Hall stage (SW corner McComb & Fayette Ave.) Village of Rib Lake; 41 unidentified people

12798-P. Rib Lake Village, Lakeshore Drive, Copper Creek bridge; SW cemetery corner, view south; c. 1915

12799-P. c. 1920 ‘rollways’, Camp 18, McGiffert loader (see smoke from steam engine) loading railroad flatcars; part of RLLC operations – Town of Corning, Lincoln Co.; ‘1421’ A-Back ‘Rollways at one of the camps of the RLLC’

Volume (Disc) XXIX- #12800-12899

12800-P. ‘Logging scene, Rib Lake, Wis’ RLLC Camp 22, 19 unidentified men; 7 wood-frame camp buildings immediately behind railroad track; right-railroad mainline; rear-McGiffert loader, c. 1935

12801-P. 1914 RLLC mill fire; rear-Tannery buildings; Right-RLLC locomotive & combination freight & passenger car; view to north; right rear-logs in hot pond

12802-P. c. 1910 ‘McComb Avenue, West Side, Rib Lake, Wis’; L-George Braun, Dealer in timbered & improved lands’; Upjohn Drug Store; ‘Furniture’ store; R-’Wisconsin’ hotel; view north

12803-Abstract of Title, first 3 pages, Lot 7, Block D, McComb’s Racing Park Addition to Village of Rib Lake (2009 Damien Jones property); part of Lot 2, Sec. 26, T33N R2E from 5-18-1874 to 12-23-1897

Photos from RPR collection

12804-P. 5 unidentified men; 2 horse teams hitched to log sleigh; rear-log jammers in Rib Lake Village; south end of camp; 9 sleighloads – just north of Rib Lake, view to east c. 1915

12805-P. Pete Lamberty jobber camp 1927 – Town of Corning, Lincoln Co, Wis; 4 wood-frame camp buildings & screened house; front-elevated walkway; P-from Peter Enders; blanket hangs on handrail

12806-P. Freiman’s Landing (east of Wood Lake) c. 1915, rollway along railroad, team & teamster; 3 unidentified men on rollway

12807-P. decking logs – Freiman’s Landing c. 1915, 1 mi. southwest from Wood Lake, from Peter Enders collection

12808-P. Rollway – Freiman’s Landing c. 1915; rear-cut-over

12809-P. c. 1915, Freiman’s Landing shanty & decking crew, Peter Enders collection

12810-P. tanker to spread water for ice road – Freiman’s Landing; rear-shack shown in 12809

12811-P. c. 1920 aerial, dry yard; rear-Central Hotel & Ward School; view to south, source-Matt Stiel

12812-advertisements 11-10-1955 Rib Lake Herald; A-Lakeview Resort, Marty & Inez Vanucha, Big Spirit Lake; B-John Dolezalek, Sr., electrical; C-Jeanette’s Beauty Shop, National Hotel

12813-advertisements 11-1955 Rib Lake Herald; A-Harper Lake Resort,’A Swedish Buffet in Grand Array; B-Fred’s Garage, f.k.a. North Side Garage, Fred Rademacher

12814-Rib Lake Herald c. 1955 New Lake Theatre ad

12815-Rib Lake Herald c. 1955 ‘Borrowing is a nasty habit! Stealing is a sin! Rib Lake Herald ad

12816-’We print everything – but money! Rib Lake Herald ad c. 1960

12817-’Wanted boys & girls’ 9 years & up to register for bean picking, Lincoln Canning Co, Merrill, WI, Rib Lake Herald ad 7-1955

12818-Rib Lake Herald ad 6-1955; A-Weed notice, Village of Rib Lake; notice is herby given to each & every person…to cut or destroy…marijuana that is not grown or cultivated for lawful purposes..signed Wessly Stiel, Weed Commissioner; B-Rib Lake station, State Bank of Medford & hours open

12819-Rib Lake Herald c. 1955 ad, Don & Barney Cihasky, d.b.a. South Side Garage ‘Cities Service Gas and Oil Products’

12820-P. ‘Steam Loader’ ‘Rib Lake, Wis’ c. 1930, McGiffert loader in midst of hoisting hardwood logs onto partially loaded flat car; 7 unidentified men; smoke rising from smoke stack; empty flatcar beneath loader

12820A-backside; to John Erickson, Alma Center, Wis; ‘from Lewis Larson’

12821-P. c. 1910 prior scanning 12718, ‘In the woods near Rib Lake’ ‘Photo by Brown’ Rib Lake Lumber Co. Shay locomotive; 8 loaded logging cars; rear-cedar swamp; 3 unidentified men

12822-P. c. 1910 ‘Depot Scene Rib Lake, Wis.’ combination baggage-passenger car on rear of at least 5 cars; left-Rib Lake depot, east side, Dray wagon & team; far left & rear-S.A. Konz sawmill; right-dry yard & lumber piles, elevated chute to load cattle; foreground-5 rolls of material lay on walkway; view to southwest-toward Chelsea

12822A-backside-postmark Rib Lake 5-31-1912 to Mr. & Mrs. J.C. Pfister & family, Rt. 1, New Holstein, Wis.; text in German schrift; one cent cancelled stamp

12822B-text in modern German (by Clemens Gebauer) - English translation, The Rib Lake train has just left, conveying my best thanks for the Maybell [a spring flower] to Charlestown [Whittlesey, WI]. Hopefully I can next Monday spend a half hour with you to personally thank you for the great [aufererksamkeit]. I will arrive about 9-30 to the little house. With friendly greetings, P.R.W.

12822C Translation of postcard in German language by R.P. Rusch

John Klimeck collection

12823-’Clerk Edwin Knauth Writes History of Chelsea’ 4-9-1959 Star News

12824-’Clerk Edwin Knauth Writes History of Chelsea’ Star News – part 2

12825-’Clerk Edwin Knauth Writes History of Chelsea’ Star News – part 3

12826-’Clerk Edwin Knauth Writes History of Chelsea’ Star News – part 4; ‘Chelsea history final installment’; last Soo Line train 12-27-1958

12827-Map, plat, Chelsea 32N1E 1913, from Standard Atlas of Taylor County; site of Borgemoen’s Store & first town hall noted by RPR

12828-Memorial Book, Royal Neighbors of America, cover page

A-Title page, Camp 704, ‘Hemlock Camp’ Rib Lake

B-Record 1-14-1953 Mary Schaack, et. Al

C-Ibid, 1958 Edward Eckhoff

12829-Pamphlet ‘Royal Neighbors of America 75th anniversary’ cover

A-Title Page

B-Pg. 1

C-Pg. 2 history of Royal Neighbors of America 1895-1970

D-ibid pg. 3

E-ibid – pg. 4 historical desk…

12830-envelope 8-30-1982; Royal Neighbors to Sophia Curran

A-Letter announcing new billing system

B-official receipt for premium and camp dues 12-31-1981 received of Sophia Curran, signed by Lillian Thums, recorder (old method of payment)

12831-Altar cloth ‘Royal Neighbors of America’ partial (original 18’ X 6’)

A-back, ‘This cloth was repaired by Sophia Curran and Esther Lemke 1950

12832-pamphlet ‘Ritual Supplement’ Royal Neighbors of America, undated 16 pages

12833-book; Ritual for local camps of Royal Neighbors of America 1941 edition

12834-annual password 1974; A-back, handwritten note ‘Fraternalism White Rose’

12835-pamphlet ‘Secret work’ Royal Neighbors of America – Supreme Office, Rock Island, IL, form A372; 10m 1-53, cover

A-P. 1 ‘secret work’ ‘The permanent password of the society is 67-78-50-12-7-5-12-25-50-17… [=protection –see 12836]

12836-Key to Cypher; A-back

RPR Photo Collection

12837-P. 1-1984 Steam hauler ice road right-of-way N1/2 6T32-3E, view east; rear-Peche Dr.; Right-old water hole

12838-P. Walter ‘Wimpy’ Wilhelms on right-of-way; left-old white pine stump

12839-P. Walter ‘Wimpy’ Wilhelms on right-of-way; view west

12840-P. ‘water hole 1984’ hand dug hole-naturally filled with water, RLLC crew drew water here to ice the ice road; this ice road led from RLLC mill in village of Rib Lake to Camps including RLLC #2 in 1906

12841-P. 1984 old Westboro high school, north side

12842-P. old Westboro high school, east side; right-Robin Ann Pauline Rusch 1984

12843-P. old Westboro high school, east side; Rib Lake school bus transporting pupils to elementary school building on left

12844-P. old Westboro high school, original wood frame high school

12845-P. old Westboro high school, east & north sides, brick addition to rear; left-(partial) grade school; wood frame portion razed c. 1988; as of 5-2009, brick buildings still stand

12846-P. 1984, Rib Lake Town Hall, south side (L) and east sides

12847-P. STH 102, view west, Right-old town hall; far right-old town garage; town hall razed c. 1988; left-Zondlo tavern & ballroom (metal WWII Quonset hut)

12848-P. STH 64 ‘Goodrich-unincorporated’ highway sign; right-old grade school ‘District #3’; left-tavern & restaurant, view to west

12849-P. 1986 Rib Lake Village former Church of Christ (donated to RLV 9-1973) ‘Laker Social Club’ – senior citizen center, east side of Pearl St.; 2 doors south of Landall Ave; razed c. 1990

12850-P. c. 1936 ‘Louie Horton c. 1936 at Birch Run’, a.k.a. home of RPR, N8643 CTH C, SE NE 13 T33N R2E; @ Peter Kurek – Horton lived there ‘couple years’ in log cabin

12851-P. 12-1986 ‘Rib Lake Town Hall’ front facing south – STH 102 shown; left-sign ‘Township of Rib Lake, Home of Wisconsin’s Rustic Road No. 1’; front-flagpole

Collection of Dorothy Obenhofer, nee Thums

12852-P. 1923 Seewiesen, Czechslovakia (Bohemia) John Denk family, Seeweisen is Village for which Thums family emigrated

12853-P. Mrs. Wenzel Thums, nee Elizabeth Feldegel (Wenzel Thums is family patriarch)

12854-P. Josef Thums

12855-P. Mrs. Joseph Thums, a.k.a Rosalia Dums

12856-P. Peter & Karoline Pfaffl Linzmaier,

12856-A-Back

12857-P. Franz Xavier Wenzel, Teresa Kallross Wenzel

12858-P. Josef Thums by his store; in 1928 Joseph transferred the store & home to son, Carl Thums, and daughter-in-law, Lillian

12859-P. Josef Thums store & home, NE corner Brehm Ave. & Wellington Lake Rd. SW-SW 5-32-2E; c. 1930 NB-’Detour [STH] 102’; Josef Thums opened store in 1892 after emigrating from Seeweisen, Bohemia

12860-P. c. 1930 East side Joseph Thums store-home; R-wood stave silo

12861-P. c. 1925 Rudi Thums at Josef Thums store

12862-P. 11 women celebrating beer; L-R; back-Emma Dums, X, Mrs. Joe Ulczycki, Margaret Dums; front-Mrs. Graumann, x, x, Anna Kraemer, little girl, Dorothy Thums, n.k.a Mrs. Dorothy Obenhofer

12863-P. c. 1930 horse & pony, Joseph Thums farm

12864-P. c. 1930 team of horses hitched to mower, barn addition under construction; 3 unidentified

12865-P. unidentified girl with bike; rear-Wellington Lake Rd, view north

12866-P. 2 unidentified kids with sleigh, sign above ‘Buy Ferrys Seeds’ at Thums store?

12867-P. unidentified boy on McCormick-Deering 15-30 tractor; NB-lugs not tires

12868-P. Sankt Anna Kirche=St. Ann’s Church; north side c. 1920

12869-P. St. Ann’s Church. C. 1940

12870-P. St. Ann’s Church c. 1930

12871-P. St. Ann’s Church c. 1920-church steeple far right; team of horses pulls sleigh east on Brehm Ave.; rear-barn for horses of parishioners

12872-P. Feast of Corpus Christi at St. Ann’s Church, 6-20-1941 procession arrives at church; rear-Josef Thums-later Carl Thums-farm, view SW

12873-ibid, processing heading east on Brehm Ave.; left-Josef Thums barn, view NE

12874-P. ibid, procession returning-walking west on Brehm Ave.; right-driveway into St. Ann’s

12875-P. ibid

12876-P. ibid canopy over priest

12877-P. ibid priest in center holding remonstrance; left-altar boy incense dispenser

12878-P. ibid –walking west on Brehm Ave. past Josef Thums barn; L-R, Joseph Ulczycki, Vince Kramer, Monsignor Smits, unknown, Fr. Klister, Henry Fuchs, unknown, Howard Schilling and Lillian Thums

12879-P. ibid-bishop in center

12880-P. temporary altar & cut evergreens on route of Corpus Christi procession; rear-Josef Thums store-home

12881-P. Military funeral color guard approaching St. Ann’s Church c. 1945, rear-Josef-Carl Thums home, view to SW

12882-P. ibid, at St. Ann’s Cemetery, view to NE

12883-P. horse & foal, rear left-St. Ann’s Church, view west c. 1930

12884-P. confirmands at St. Ann’s

12885-P. wedding couple, with parents

12885A-P. same wedding couple

12886-P. c. 1930 team with sleigh, hidden teamster, Josef Thums farm

12887-P. temporary drivers license for Dorothy Marie Thums 4-6-1946

12888-P. Highland School (NW NW 9-32-2E) Board of Education 1937, L-R-Charles Goodrich, Vincent Kramer; Conrad Roder, Jr., Emil Schwoch

12889-P. 8 unidentified pupils Highland School

12890-P. 8 unidentified pupils Highland School

12891-P. Carl Thums truck, ‘P.S.C.W. C.M.C. LC 7511’ Public Service Commission of Wis. Carl used on his milk route c. 1934

12892-P. Carl Thums ‘Medford Cooperative Creamery Co.’ truck c. 1950

12893-P. 6 trucks c. 1930 on Wis. Ave., Medford – all hauled cream cans to Medford Co-op Creamery; #2 from right-Oscar Mohr, Rib Lake, left of Oscar is Carl Thums; left of Carl is Charles Bahr; Right-Ray McNeely

12894-P. c. 1930 Town snowplow in front of Josef Thums store

12895-P. c. 1930 town plow heading north on Wellington Lake Ave.

12896-P. c. 1930 town plow; rear-Joseph Thums store

12897-P. Greenwood town snowplow – in drift c. 1930

12898-P. 10-11-1938 ‘Nikolai Babies’ Carrie 3y 3 mo; Raymond 1y 10 mo; Rose Marie 6.5 months

12899-P. children on homemade teeter-totter

Volume (Disc) XXX- #12900-12999

12900-P. unidentified RLHS band member with clarinet; rear-St. Ann’s Cemetery; R-Highland School

12901-P. unidentified RLHS students with clarinets at old RLHS on Fayette Ave., Rib Lake

12902-P. unidentified woman with purse; view to south; right-Highland School

12903-P. 2 unidentified nuns – old Rib Lake rectory; St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, c. 1940; left-logs on railroad flat car

12904-P. c. 1928, Carl Thums shingle mill ‘Carl Thums shingle mill once marketed his cedar shakes as far south as Marshfieldd. It is here powere by a 192 Waterloo Boy John Deere tractor

12905-P. c. 1928 Carl Thums shingle mill crew; L-R, Vincent Kramer, Phillip Bonde, Carl Thums, Ben Wudi, Rudy Thums; NB-cedar blocks ready for sawing into shingles

12906-P. c. 1928 Ben Wudi packing shingles

12907-P. c. 1928 Carl Thums shingle mill; NB-town road into spring break-up

12908-P. Town road gradter-junction of Brehm & Wellington Lake Rd. c. 1940

12909-P. Sanborn Map Co. map 12-1926, Village of Rib Lake, black & white, page 1

includes key

index to streets & businesses

overview map

high school

RLLC barns

Ella Street warehouse & Soo Line RR tracks

Gustafson Co. complex & Catholic Church

12909A-1926 Sanborn Map of Village of Rib Lake, page 2, Ella Street east to McComb, Fayette Ave. south to RLLC dry yard

12909B-1926 Sanborn Map of Village of Rib Lake, page 3, RLLC of Delaware mill complex, Railroad to Church St., N. Lake to Main Street

12909C-1926 Sanborn Map of Village of Rib Lake, page 4, dry yard-Railroad St. south to Pine Street, Elm east to Maple Street

12909D-1926 Sanborn Map of Village of Rib Lake, page 5, tannery bark yard, North St. south to Fayette Ave., N. Forest St. east to Tannery Pond

12910-Map showing area of interest to Rib Lake Historical Society

12911-Map 7-31-1862 T33N R3E

12911A-ibid ‘meander of lakes’

12911B-ibid Sec. 26-government lots

12912-Map 7-21-1862 T33N R3E

12912A-’meander of lakes’

12913-plat map-Lincoln Co. c. 1923, T31N R4E, Camp #19 RLLC (first site)

12914-Map 12-1926 Rib Lake Village, Sanborn, N. McComb Ave.

12914A-Map 12-1926 Rib Lake Village, Sanborn, South McComb Ave.

12915-P. Cindy A. Sommer 5-2009 typing-word processing – RRSC, 111 E. Division St., Medford

12916-P. 5-2009 RRSC, rear-Taylor County Courthouse, L-2000 Pontiac Bonneville, R-2000 Toyota Prius

12917-P. RRSC sign

12918-Article-’RLLC numbered logging camps-dates of operation from newspaper references, by RPR & Michael Weckwerth, updated to 5-12-2009 [NB-version 8-5-2008 = 12418]

12919-Partial abstract of title, part of Govt. Lots 1 & 2, Sec. 26, T33N, R2E, not included in any village plat p.1

12919A-ibid, p. 2

12919B-ibid, p. 3

12920-Map 7-21-1862 Sec. 26, T33N, R2E, shows government lots around Rib Lake [NB-entire map Doc. #12911]

12921-Deed 8-18-1893 Curtis Bros. & Co. to John J. Kennedy, Lot 10, Sec. 26 33 2E [eventual RLLC mill site] and other lands [NB-John J. Kennedy has run the mill there from 1881 without owning the mill-RPR]

12921A-Ibid, pg. 2

12922-Deed 6-3-1891, Curtis Bros. & Co. to J.J. Kennedy, Lots 1 & 2, Sec. 26, 33N, R2E

12923-Pamphlet ‘2008 Economic Profile’ ‘Medford, Gilman, Lublin, Rib Lake & Stetsonville’ by Arlen Albrecht, 15 pgs

12923A-Map ‘2007 Taylor County Land Use’

12923B-ibid, Rib Lake enlargement

12924-P. 6-18-2009 RPR at his desk – RRSC – holding speaker for dictation equipment; rear-photo & ad for Edmond Fitzgerald 50 mile ultramarathon [RPR completed this event in 1992]

12925-P. 6-18-2009 RPR – thumbs up – at his law office

12926-P. 6-18-2009 RPR holding volume 6 of Annotated Chronology to Rib Lake Herald & mounted copy of 8-12-1965 ‘The Rib Lake Herald’

12927-P. RRSC sign ‘Rusch & Rusch Law Office, S.C.’ – outdoor sign on law office, 111 E. Division St., Medford, WI, office so operated 1980-7-1-2009

12928-Map-plat-1986 & school sites,

A-Index

B-Taylor Co. lakes & trout streams

C-T31N-R2E, Town of Browning, old Taylor Co. poor farm site N half, NE, Sec. 6

D-T33-R1E

E-T33-R2E, James Lake School

F-T33-R3E, Spirit Lake School, Fawn Valley School, Mud Lake School

G-T32N-R2E, Buddy School, Sunny Knoll School, Highland School

H-T32N-R3E, Green Grove School, Green Meadow School, Rib River School

I-T31N-R3E, Town of Goodrich

J-Taylor Co. East half, county address system index

12929-Map 5-23-1895, ‘Survey of Village of Rib Lake’, by A.S. Russel, Civil Engineer, ordered by J.J. & Flora Kennedy, creates, inter alia, mill lot, plats lots south of Railroad Street, ‘Main Street’, Second, Maple, Broadway, Lake, Church, South Hemlock & Elm Streets & Block A, & 7 numbered blocks and lots, & shows 6 railroad spurs to ‘mill lot’; signatures of J.J. & Flora Kennedy ‘owners of the land embraced in said plat’, witnesses, O.C. Armstrong, D. McLennan, notary-D.McLennan, recorded 6-11-1895, T.C. Reg. of Deeds, A-signatures, B-railroad spurs; C-West portion of survey; sum creates 145 lots; first plat – subdivision – of lots in Town of Rib Lake; NB-area not incorporated as a village until 1902

12930-Abstract of Title – Block 1, Lot 5 & part of Lot 10, Block A; of 5-23-1895 ‘Survey of Village of Rib Lake’; A-part of 12929 plat – lands in abstract highlighted in yellow; B-current legal description [7-1-09 – owners are Jeffrey N. & Julia K. Thums], C-NN, signed Gowey Abstracting, 6-17-2009, NB-owners include, George A. Clark, Rib Lake Lumber Co. of Delaware, John J. Kennedy ‘signed J.J. Kennedy’, Donald J. McLennan, Donald Kennedy, William G. Kennedy, entry 31-$950,000 mortgage to U.S. Leather Co.; entry 35-RLLC sella 4-1-1946 to John Mauch, Jr. with ‘The privilege of getting water through our present [RLLC] system while we continue to operate the same at Rib Lake, Wis…’; summary – in 1905 Donald Kennedy sells [presumably his home] and in 1906 William G. Kennedy [son of J.J. – does same] this is part of Kennedy exodus from Rib Lake!

12931-Star News 6-25-2009 ‘Rusch brothers retire from law partnership’ by Mark Berglund

12932-Star News 6-25-2009 ‘Annotated Chronology of Rib Lake newspaper’ by Donald Watson

12933-Map, 1948, ‘Rib Lake area history work map’ 1948 quad of Rib Lake and other quads showing railroads, campsites, ice-sleigh roads, camps and other historic sites compiled by RPR; this map will change with time – original map consists of 6 quads glued together, 3x5 feet, SF-Map 1948

12933A Portion 1948 Quad Map showing Wood Lake and environs and sites of RLLC Camps 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 13 & 14.

12933B Portion 1948 Quad Map showing environs between Tims Lake & Spirit Lake and branch of RLLC logging railroad into Price County

12934-Map-Taylor Co. highways 1970, ice road, camp location by Frank Erdman

12935-Map 1979 quad ‘Rib Lake, Wis.’ A-RLV north to Harper Lake; B-RLV, Lakeview Park north to Long Lake

12936-Map 2001 Wi. Land forms, UW Extension & WI Geological & Natural History Survey;

12936A-A-figure 1-major landscape regions map showing glacial lobes;

12936B-map-Timm’s Hill-Rib Lake environs;

12936C-’Margin of Chippews, Wisconsin Vallye, & Langlade ice lobes

12937-Map c. 1990 Timm’s Hill National Trail, Ice Age National Scenic Trail – Tower Rd. westward to STH 13, plat map shows landowners; A-west side

12938-Map c. 1988 Ice Age Trail

12939-Map 7-1-2009 ‘Rib Lake Lumber Co. Railroad Operations’ by David Tlusty. Indicates the sites of 28 numbered camps of RLLC & some jobber camps in Taylor, Price & Lincoln Counties, Wis.

12940-map 5-17-1948, Surveyor’s Plat showing subdivision Lot 9-10 of Block A, also Block B of the original plat of the Village of Rib Lake, signed by C.H. Claussen, Co. surveyor

12941-Map 1-1988 DOT NE Taylor Co.

12942-Map c. 2000 Rib Lake Ski Trails

12943-Map Jan. 2, 2004 ‘Rib Lake Ski Trails’

12944-Map c. 2000 ‘Rib Lake Community Map’ Rib Lake Village street map from telephone book

12945-Map c. 1987 ‘Rib Lake area trails’ Ice Age National Scenic (yellow), Timm’s Hill Nationa (Red); A-west & north portion

12946-Map 1977 Chequamegon National Forest (Medford Ranger District) – east portion; A-NE portion

12947-Map 2-17-1997 Rib Lake Village by Worten, Harry A., Rib Lake Surveyor, east half; A-west half

12948-Map 6-948 Rib Lake Village by order of Rudy J. Mueller ‘Last reprint 5-12-1950’; NB-Main Street; NB-lake ‘to be filled in’

12949-Map 1965 ‘Early Vegetation of Wisconsin’ UW-Extension Geological & Natural History Survey; A-back

12950-’1942 Cost of Living’ Seek Publishing ‘1942 Remember When…A Nostalgic Look Back at Time’

12951-’1945 Cost of Living’ Seek Publishing

12952-P. wedding portrait, may be Henry Karl

12953-P. wedding portrait, Joseph Thums, Jr. and Amalie Linsmeier (mail order bride from Germany, person in Park Falls knew of her)

12954-P. wedding party, Top L-R, Carl Thums, Joseph Thums, Jr., Henry Dums; bottom-Anna Kraemer nee Dums, Bride Amalie Linsmeier, Betty Faber nee Wudi

12955-1956 RLHS commencement announcement 5-16-1956; A-members of the class

12956-1956 RLHS Calling card, ‘Ronald Thums’

12957-P. Ronald Thums – 1956, 2009-W2794 Cty. Rd, Curtiss, WI

12958-High School graduation portrait, Dorothy Thums, n.k.a. Obenhoffer, class of 1947

12959-P. 43 people around auto, L-at Carl Thums store warehouse, R-store-partial, South side of building, WWI soldier standing on running board

12960-P. wedding portrait, groom seated, Leo Thums & Anna Hoffmann (mother of Isabelle Wilhelms)

12961-P. wedding portrait, Alex Probst & Loretta (lnu)

12962-P. first communion portrait, Dorothy Marie Thums, now Obenhoffer c. 1937

12963-P. on postcard, 2 WWI American soldiers; Prop; ‘US’ Shop; L-Herman Wenzel

12964-P. ‘Wabeno [Wisconsin] Cornet Band, 17 unidentified men with instruments, upper left-Village Marshal wearing star; row 2 seated, 2 from Left-Joseph Wenzel (father of Lillian Thums)

12965-P. wedding portrait, Carl Henry Thums, Lillian Josephine Wenzel, 1928 (married at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Stratford)

12966-P. wedding party – 7 people with flower girl, 1928, L-R Lillian Wenzel, Carl Thums, flower girl Dorothy Wenzel, Rudolph Thums, Lucille Brust nee Thums, Joseph Wenzel, Caroline Nikola nee Wenzel

12967-P. wedding couple, groom seated

12968-P. wedding couple by ornate chair, John Dums, Sr. and Margaret Kolecheck

12969-P. family portrait, 11 people, L-R bottom, Mary Mayer nee Wenzel (Mrs. Walter Mayer-Chesea), 2. Dorothy Wenzel, 3. Joseph Wenzel, Sr., 4. Caroline Wenzel nee Linsmeier, 5. Margaret Wenzel (later Mrs. Vilas White, 6. Rose Wenzel; top row L-R Lillian Josephine Wenzel (Mrs. Carl Thums), 8. Frank Wenzel, 9. Joseph Wenzel, Jr., 10. Rupert Wenzel, 11. Caroline Wenzel (Mrs. Edmund Nikola)

12970-P. first communicant holding candle, Lillian Josephine Wenzel (Mrs. Carl Thums)

12971-P. first communicant holding rosary, Joseph Wenzel, Jr.

12972-P. WWII soldier – private, Walter Mayer of Chelsea (Married Mary Wenzel)

12973-P. wedding couple, prop-flower basket, Vince Kraemer and Anna Dums - maybe

12974-P. wedding party of 11, 6-19-1948, Lower L-R – 1. Lillian Tilch, Ronald Krueger (Bop), ‘Buck’ Klemm, Delores Vargo, Dorothy M. Thums, Claire Frank Obenhoffer, Robert Dums, Sally Wudi (flower girl), Caroline NIkola, Loel Peterson, Ray Dums

12975-P. wedding couple in front of altar, Kathleen Ann Obenhoffer and Walter Burcan

12976-P. 3 children, L-R Kathleen Ann, Joseph Carl and Donald Claire Obenhoffer 1956

12977-P. boy holding stuffed toy, Joseph Carl Obenhoffer 1956

12978-P. St. Ann’s church c. 1980, NW side

12979-postcard ‘Shrine of St. Ann, dedicated to the Mother of Our Blessed Lady, built in 1882 by the hands of the pioneers, Map-Rib Lake-Chelsea-St. Ann’s

12980-P. c. 1910 ‘Cath. Church & Parsonage, Rib Lake, Wis.’ view facing west

12981-P. 1914 ‘Rev. P. [Peter] Dickopf’

12982-P. 1953 Monsignor Peter Dickopf

12983-P. ‘The Rt. Rev. Msgr. William Smits, pastor, St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Tomahawk, Wis’

12984-P. Corpus Christi processing approaching St. Ann’s Church; flag bearers; L-US; R-papal (white & yellow) (prior scan 12872) view to NW

12985-P. Corpus Christi procession at altar at Highland School, (building at right), rear-Carl & Lillian Thums store; children kneeling – view northwards

12986-P. Corpus Christi procession leaving shrine at Highland School, rear-Carl Thums barn roof

12987-P. unidentified uniformed soldier standing in front of north side of Highland School, school entrance has been temporarily converted to Corpus Christi shrine, NB-crucifix & 3 holy pictures

12988-P. A Corpus Christi dinner – tables on law at east side of ST. Ann’s Church, view east down Brehm Ave., left-standing, Fr. Lapinski, C.P.P.S.

12989-P. L- __ Matyka, right-Louis Thums, standing in front of Corpus Christi altar at east side of Carl Thums store

12990-P. c. 1951 2 nuns & 58 religious education students – sitting on front (east) steps of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Rib Lake

end of Dorothy Obenhoffer collection

Irene (Mrs. James) Dums collection

12991-Title Page, ‘Fruit of the Vine – Increase and Multiply’, a family history compiled by James & Irene Dums, c. 1981-2000

12992-Map of Bohemia [Boehmen-German] 1900 shows Seewiesen-ancestral Thums village

12993-Map ‘200 Jahre Diozese Budweis 1787-1985’

12994-’Die Familie – Johann Denk’ 18 Mai 1995

12995-Ancestry of Wenzel Thums

12996-Ancestral chart of Josef Thums, (son Lorenz Thums)

12997-Ancestral chart of Barbara Thums (father-Josef Thums) 1810-1900

12998-Ancestral chart of Thomas Seidl 2-21-1841

12999-Ancestral Chart of John Obowa, 15 June 1837 Austria, to 3 July 1904

Volume (Disc) XXXI- #13000-13099

13000-Map c. 2000 Bavaria – Bohemia, border region

13001-Descendants of Wenzel Thums-Elisabeth Feldegel

13002-Ancestral chart of Joseph Probst 1864 – 14 July 1944

13003-Ancestral chart of Joseph Probst, II, 15 Apr. 1888 to 22 Oct. 1980

13004-Ancestral chart of Raymond Louis Becker, 14 Mar. 1918 – 6 Mar. 1985

13005-Ancestral chart of Joseph Thums, 18 Sept. 1852 Seewiesen, Bohemia, 9 Mar. 1938

13006-Ancestral chart of Dorothy Marie Thums, 21 Nov. 1929

13007-Ancestral chart of Rudolph ‘Rudy’ John Thums, 10 Aug. 1903 – 22 Aug. 1988

13008-Ancestral chart of Irene Mary Thums, James Gordon Dums

13009-Ancestral chart of Lorenz (Lawrence) Thums 9-8-1861 Seewiesen, Bohemia, to 3-10-1910, married Theresia (Theresa) Seidl (Seidel) – 1866-1938

13010-Ancestral chart of Walter ‘Wimpy’ Wilhelms, 30 Apr. 1921 – 13 Nov. 2002, marries Isabelle Thums, born 28 Feb. 1932

13011-Ancestral chart of Ludwig Dums, 20 Aug. 1843 – 28 Dec. 1936

13012-Ancestral chart of Anna Dums, 21 Jan. 1870 Hammern, Bohemia – 4 Mar. 1943, marries Joseph Woodie (Wudi?)

collection of Irene (Mrs. James) Dums – from 3-ring binder ‘Look at Me’

13013-P. Highland School, SW corner in foreground, c. 1930

13014-P. Carl Thums store, L-R Carl Thums?, Bill Thums, Bob Dillinger?; in store window-poster ‘Jerry’s Seeds’, c. 1930

13015-P. Sept. 1937, Wellington Lake pavilion; rear-Wellington Lake view westward

13016-P. Holzl farm ‘first silo in (Town of) Greenwood – put up by Otto Holzl’s father, John Holzl’ L-R-Emma Haider, Bill Thums, Hedwig Dums, George Haider, c. 1930-in 2009 Randy Holzl farm occupies W ½ - SW ¼, Sec. 3, T32, R2E

13017-2007 plat map, T32N-R2E

13018-P. Mrs. Wenzel Thums, nee Elisabeth Feldegel 1829-1913 ‘Great Grandmother to the Thums & Dums families…’

13019-P. Mrs. Josef Dums, nee Anna Thums 1858-1944

13020-P. Ludwig Dums, Joseph Dums, John Dums, Vince Kraemer, c. 1930

13021-P. John Dums 50th wedding anniv. Henry & Sophie Dums, John & Margaret Dums, Annie & Vince Kraemer, Emma & Joe Dums

13022-P. Joseph (1864-1944) & Mary (1864-1933) Probst, nee Thums, Ann & Joseph Probst, Jr.

13023-P. William (1862-1943) Lyle & wife, Clara, nee Thums (1866-1931)

13024-P. Joseph Thums 1852-1938 ‘built the original pews at St. Ann’s’

13025-P. Rosalia Thums, nee Dums 1873-1924

13026-P. Ludwig & Barbara Dums, nee Buchinger

13027-P. 1984 Mrs. Lorenz (Lawrence) Thums nee Theresia Seidel (Seidl) 1866-1938

13028-P. Lorenz (Lawrence) Thums

13029-P. Frances Hintz nee Seidel 1883-1954, organist at St. Ann’s

13030-P. Jacob Janda & Lawrence Seidel

13031-P. John Obowa & Paulina Gebauer, wedding portrait

13032-P. Emanuel Haider and Amalia ‘Mary’ Obowa, 11-9-1911, wedding portrait

13033-P. c. 1900 Phillip & Thekla Haider. He was the main carpenter in contructing St. Ann’s Church

13034-P. 1911 George Haider family, L-R Emma, George, Sr., George, Jr., Martha, Agnes, Theresa.

13035-Family Group Sheet, George Haider, Sr., & Martha Gebauer, data on 7 children

13036-P. Anton Wudi, I

13037-P. George & Anna Thums, nee Wudi

13038-P. c. 1929 Joseph Wudi home, Clara Wudi, nee Thums, in front; Joe Wudi, Sr., in middle far left; possibly Louie Wudi to his left

13039-P. Christmas 1947, Joseph & Clara Wudi (nee Thums) family; L-R seated-Agnes Wudi, Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Wudi, Katherine Wudi. Standing-Mrs. Gertrude Bruss, Henry, Leonard, Joe Jr., Leo, Carl, Mrs. Rose Ivacic, Mrs. Clara Steinman.

13040-P. 5 sitting on fence c. 1930; L-R Mary Wudi, Bill Thums, Emma Haider, Leo Thums, Angeline Wudi ‘Benny Wudi’s sisters’

13041-P. 7-25-1894 Johanna Weinberger-Andrew Hoffmann wedding portrait ‘dress was green with dark green trim’

13042-P. Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Pfeiffer (formerly Mrs. Andrew Hoffmann, nee Johanna Weinberger); L-R Pete Hoffmann, Anna & Leo Thums, Christina & Johanna Hoffmann, taken at Pete Hoffmann home, in 2009 Bernard, Hilda & George Dums home, N6642 Sugarbush Rd, SW NE, Sec. 8, 32N-R2E

13043-P. c. 1920 John Hoffmann car, L-R, John Hoffmann, Peter Hoffmann, Mary Hoffmann, Johanna, Christina

13044-P. 4-22-1922 John Thums & Theresa Haider wedding portrait

13045-P. sawing firewood on old Lawrence Thums farm, Leonard Thums throwing block, 2008-Richard Thums farm, N6942 Wellington Lake Dr, N half SW quarter, 4-32-2E

13046-P. Margaret Haider, nee Thums, at father, Lawrence Thums, farm, NB-sheep & turkey

13047-P. old STH 102 Gravel pit c. 1920 Lawrence Thums team 3rd from left, Bob Klemm, 2009-Paul Kolecheck, W3956 W. Rib Rd, SW SW 28-33-2E

13048-P. Carl Thums barns after fire c. 1921 view west, 2009-Kurt Schmidtfranz, SW SW 4-32-2E

13049-P. foundation of Anton Wudi barn after fire c. 1921

13050-P. Leonard Thums & dog ‘Darky’ c. 1925 [grandfather-maternal side-Cindy A. Sommer, nee Kolecheck]

13051-P. Lawrence Thums home, on porch roof, L-R, Bill, Frank, Leon, John & Leonard Thums c. 1920, N half SW quarter, 4-32-2E, Town of Greenwood, 2009-Richard Thums home, N6942 Wellington Lake Dr.

13052-P. Lawrence Thums home, on porch roof, L-R, Bill, Frank, Leon, John & Leonard Thums c. 1920, N half SW quarter, 4-32-2E, Town of Greenwood, 2009-Richard Thums home, N6942 Wellington Lake Dr.-NB-lightning rods

13053-P. Giant snowballs, L-R up-Leo Thums, Leonard Thums, lower-Bill Thums, Frank Thums, site-see 13051

13054-P. Elizabeth & Margaret Thums (later Haider) dressed like men, site see 13051, view northwards

13055-P. posing before revolving clothesline; L-R, Joseph Haider (1889-1922), Adolph Aron & Lawrence Thums

13056-P. Mock battle; L-R Adolph Aron, Leo Thums, Lawrence Thums, probably Bill Thums, Wenzel Haider, Leonard Thums

13057-Phillip Haider farm, c. 1925, SW SE 4-32-2E, L-R, Leo Thums, Hedwig ‘Hattie’ Dums, Margaret Haider nee Thums, 2009-Gerard Dudley, W3738 Brehm Ave., This was site for altar for the Corpus Christi procession

13058-P. Otto Holzl peeking thru window, L-R Hattie Dums, Leo Thums, Emma Haider, Clara Thums, on Holzl farm – W half SW 3-32-2E

13059-P. Camp 9 – snow plowing, ice road with team of horses c. 1920, L-Frank Thums, R-Tony Fuchs driving horses

13060-P. Camp 9 c. 1920, water sprinkler, sleigh pulled by 2 horse teams, top-George Lee, driving-Pete Enders, Lawrence Thums team (black & white)

13061-P. 6 sleighs loaded with peeled hemlock – Camp 9 c. 1920

13062-P. Camp 9 c. 1920 2 teams, Bill Thums load in back, far left-Joey McMillan, boss; right-Pete Enders

13063-P. c. 1920 Camp 9, Standing-Joe Enders, Polish guy, unknown, John Thums, Flunky, Dan Pilon-camp cook, unknown; kneeling-Leo Thums, night watchman on steam-hauler from Minneapolis, unknown, Frank Mashack

13064-P. c. 1920 snowplow in rear; L-R-Joey Mcmillon, ..Frischmann, Frank Mashack, John Thums

13065-P. c. 1920 Camp 9 ‘Ralph Burger from Ogema driving his horses, Fox & Colonel. Bill Thums drove these horses.’

13066-P. c. 1920, 17 cords of bark on 1 sleigh, (2 sleighs shown on left), right-logs on sleigh; L-R Wenzel ‘Jim’ Haider, unknown, Frank Thums, Bill Thums

13067-P. c. 1920 Camp 9, loading coal into steam hauler, L-Otto Brehm

13068-P. c. 1920 Camp 9, front of water sprinkler sleigh, L-Bill Thums, R-Oliver Lamberty

13069-P. c. 1920, Camp 16 (may be Camp 9), 8 men on sleigh, front row, Oliver Lamberty, unknown, unknown; seated, unknown, unknown; top-Wenzel ‘Jim’ Haider, Leo Thums, Frank Thums

13070-P. c. 1920 Shaws jobber camp, Town of Corning, Lincoln Co, Wis; mens shanty (bunk house) Leo Thums

13071-P. Oct. 10, 1913 ‘Chelsea 2 Wis’ view north, credit-Frank Skibbie-postcard to Marie Heiringklee; front left-Borgemoen Store-then cheese factory-top later removed

13072-note re Camp 9, postdated 3-28-1988--head lice!

13073-P. c. 1940 interior of Goodman’s Store, Rib Lake, L-R, Albert & Leonard Goodman, child-James Dums, Joseph & Emma Dums

13074-Star News 7-1-2004 ‘Early life along the railroad in Chelsea’

13075-P. c. 1900, R-Highland School; L-St. Ann’s Church, view to SE; rear-virgin forest

13076-P. Seewiesen, Bohemia; rear-Twin spires of Holy Anna Church

13077-P. Altar-Holy Anna Church, Sankt Anna Kirche, Seewiesen, Bohemia

13078-P. Church cemetery, Seewiesen, Bohemia

13079-P. Holy Anna Church, Seewiesen, Bohemia, built in 1721

13080-P. 1991, Holy Anna Church, Seewiesen, Bohemia, statue of St. Nepomuk, patron Saint of Bohemia, In 1945 Seewiesen German people were expelled & village was renamed Javorna

13081-Family tree – Johann Dena – 2 sides

13082-P. c. 1910, interior-St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Rib Lake

13083-P. memorial card, Andreas Hoffmann (in German) ‘Born in Hamen, Austria, 2 Feb. 1871, died at Greenwood, Wis 11 Aug. 1921…’

13084-P. c. 1880 Hoffmann family in Austria, i.e. Austro-Hungarian Empire; Right-Barbara; center back-Andreas; seated-George & Barbara Hoffmann nee Guetz; NB-stucco house sides

13085-P. c. 1940 Frank Wudi as a teacher

13086-P. c. 1920 Model T Ford at gas station – junction STH 13 and 102; right-John ‘Jack’ Obenhoffer – station torn down to make way for Blue Royal tavern, NB-wood wheel-non-pneumatic tire. Hand gas pumps on top of gas storage boxes; attendant pumped gas into glass cylinder on top of upright pedestal beneath ‘red crown.’ Customer inspected gas and saw volume with glass; sign in window ‘Baby Ruth’ candy bar

13087-P. Oct. 18, 2003 Dums relatives living in Sao Bento, Brazil, text in Portuguese

end of 3-ring binder ‘Look at me’

continue with Irene Dums collection

13088-Urquhart Post Office data - post card, site-38-T32N-R2E, north side CTH M

13089-post card ‘Interwald, Wis, Jan. 29 __, Ludwig Dums, Chelsea, Wis’

13089A-reverse

13090-postcard ‘Minneapolis, Minn. Apr. 8, 1913, John F. Dums, Brehm, Wis. RFD from Chelsea’; A-reverse

13091-postcard ‘Eau Claire, Wis, Jan. 10, 1912, Joseph A. Dums, Brehm, Wisc.’, second postmark ‘Brehm, Wis. Jan. 27, 1912 P.M.’; A-reverse

13092-postcard ‘Medford, Wis. Aug. 9, 7.30 P 1909’ ‘Brehm, Wis. Aug. 10, 1909’ Mr. Joseph Dums, Brehm, Wis.; A-reverse

13093-Map 1926 Wisconsin ‘official highway map’ ‘The playground of the middle west’ ‘showing the state trunk highway system’ ‘also the more important county trunk highways’ [scanned at 65% of the original]

A-NW Wis. & Taylor Co.

B-Green area & Taylor Co.

C-W. Wisc. & Taylor Co.

D-Milwaukee – Chicago

E-Lacrosse & map legend

F-enlarged Taylor Co. & environs

G-E endlarged Map & legend

13094-Envelope addressed to Louis Dums, Brehm, Wisc., postdate May 31, 1909; A-reverse postdated ‘Brehm June 1, 1909, Wis’

13095-Ancestral Chart of Wenzel Thums ‘Thums family patriarch in America’ family data sheet

13096-Irene Mary Dums – family history 7-1-2009, notes by Robert P. Rusch

13097-Dust Jacket ‘Historical Atlas’ 9th edition by William R. Shepherd, NB-map of Kingdom of Bohemia, Seewiesen is Ancestral Thums family village, located near Riesberg

13097A-west portion of map and legend

end of Dums collection

13098-Map ‘Central Europe about 1648’

13099-Map ‘Central Europe about 1786’

Volume (Disc) XXXII- #13100-13199

13100-Map ‘Central Europe about 1812’

13101-Map ‘Treaty adjustments, 1814, 1815’

13102-Map ‘Peoples of Austria-Hungary in 1914’

13103-Map ‘Peoples of Central Europe in 1929’

13104-handout – ‘Rib Lake Board of Education Meeting 7-9-2009’

A-Agenda

B-C-Board report for 7-9-09 by Jeff Tortomasi, Superintendent

D-closed session (non-public portion)

13105-handwritten note by Herbert Magnuson to RPR; A-reverse side, sketch of Spirit United Methodist Church; B-The gift tie

collection of Donna (Mrs. Lester) Magnuson

13106-Album ‘My Class Mates’ c. 1930 Rib Lake High School

13106A-P. Helen Elizabeth Berfield

13106B-P. Douglas D. Macbride

13106C-P. Eberet E.H. Taylor

13106D-P. Harold E. Zielke

13106E-P. Emma B. Sekadlo

13106F-P. Kenneth A. Peterson

13106G-P. Irma A. Hanke

13106H-P. Lester F. Martin

13106I-P. ARline M. Radtke

13106J-P. Leo William Radtke

13106K-P. William Berfield

13106L-P.Anita F. Taylor

13106M-P. LaVerne F. Zuege

13106N-P. Clifford J. Hoffman

13106O-P. Regina M. Niggemann

13106P-P. Paul I. Nord

13106Q-P. Evelyn Klister

13106R-P. Joseph E. Pertmer

13107-flyer- ‘Har ‘Ya, friend’ campliments of Rib Lake Dairy Company Co-op, quality American cheese & butter, O.R. Thompson, Manager, Phone 5, Rib Lake, Wis

13108-cartoon ‘Daylite in the swamp’ caricature of logging camp

13109-booklet Jan. 1937, ‘Wisconsin Dept. of Agriculture & Markets Bulletin 180’ 65 pgs

p. 28-P. piking logs into the busy mill at Rib Lake, Taylor Co.

p. 28-P. raft – ‘pulpwood tugged across Lake Superior to Ashland

p. 44-P. Rib Mountain ‘framed in the black shadows of pine trees at Rothschild Park, Rib Mountain, highest elevation in this state, rises 800 feet above the Wisconsin River’ (emphasis added)

13110-P. Norlin School c. 1920, Original location to c. 1990, SE SE 14 34N R2E, c. 1990 moved to James V. & Joyce L. Summers home, NW NE 10 34N R2E & used as ‘Timms Hill Bed & Breakfast’; 9 unidentified people, teacher & students; on back of photo ‘Second Stone Lake School’ but of 10497 Norlin School

13111-Stone Lake School c. 1920, 13 unidentified people; first location NE NE SE 33 3E, later moved to SE SW 9-34-3E (2009 Robert Tripp homesite)

13112-P. Stone Lake School c. 1920, NB-boy holsing chalkboard ‘Dist. 2’; 19 unidentified people

13113-P. building double arch stone highway bridge c. 1910, Town of Brennan (Spirit), Price Co., Wis., 9 unidentified men; buckets for cement; NB-temporary wood supports, Simon Danielson head contractor

13114-P. Deer hunting & butchering party, c. 1915; 13 unidentified people, NB-man holding meat saw

13115-P. 3 men in middle of American flags, prop made to look like end of observation parlor train; NB-short length of track

13116-P. c. 1915 man holding broom, camp cookees (cook’s helpers); 3rd man in rear with pipe, NB-frame building sits on timber base; L-bench

13117-P. c. 1925, 3 dapper suited men, wall hanging tree

13118-P. c. 1915 ‘Hultmans Lake, Wis’ blooming lily pads, rear-evergreen forest, 25 34N 2E

13119-P. c. 1910 unidentified house & 3 people, bicycle on porch

13120-P. c. 1910 unidentified 2 story house, c. 45 people

13120A-reverse postcard, To C.J. Manguson (sic) ‘Would you like to have any of the pictures at Bergersons if so let me know..they are fine. N.J. Nelson, Ogema, Wis’

13121-P. ‘1902’ ‘Wis. Central RR Depot Ogema, Wis’ ‘Photograph postcard 1902, J.M. Colby, Wausau, Wis. No. 3’ locomotive heading south with baggage car & 2 passenger cars; track removed 1989 & ROW converted to Pine Line recreation trail; c. 2005 Ogema Lions Club built smaller, replica depot on site, site NW corner STH 86 & RR

13122-P. ‘Little Rib Lake, Wis’ c. 1900

13122A-reverse of postcard, postmarked Ogema Dec. 5, 4 PM 1910 Wis’ to Mr. Harry Magnuson, Ogema, Wisc. ‘Come over some night and skate. I got a nice skating pond, take Hattie along. Please let me know which night you come. C.M. Bergeson’; 1 cent stamp

13123-P. ‘Public School, OGema, Wis. 3-11’ c. 1910 2 room, 1 story white school with cupola. Horse barn in rear

13124-P. c. 1910 ‘Main Street, Medford, Wis’ view to SE, L-R

Suits the druggist-in 2009 vacant lot south of Kramer Plumbing & Heating, 108 S. Main St.,

Blue Ribbon Bar – in 2009 Uncommon Ground Coffee Shop, 118 S. Main St.

Sign on sidewalk ‘Ice cream’

Aug. J. Benn ‘Drugs’ ‘Ice cream sode’ sign

Next ‘City Hotel’

Next – 2009 Hoffman’s Ben Franklin, 142 S. Main St.,

13125-P. ‘Lumber yard, Rib Lake Lumber Co. Rib Lake, Wis. 6’ dry yard – view to SW-steeples, center-Methodist Church, right-St. John the Baptist Church

13126-’Chequamegon 1944’ RLHS yearbook

13127-’Chequamegon 1945’ RLHS yearbook, owned-shared as students, Aileen & Herbert Magnuson

13128-’Chequamegon 1948’ RLHS yearbook

13129-’Chequamegon 1958’ RLHS yearbook

13130-P. c. 1958 Rib Lake Elementary school band

13131-Book ‘The Danielson Family from Sweden & Norway to Southern Price Co., Wisconsin and related families of Magnuson, Nelson and Peterson’ by Connie May nee Blomberg, Anundsen Publishing Co, Decorah, Iowa, 1998 LC #98,67600, [This book consists of 293 pages; a small part reproduced here]

13132-P. Rib Mountain ‘highest elevanation in the state’ [part of 13109]

end of Donna Magnuson collection

13133-Polish toast used at Zondlos tavern ‘To your health – down my throat’ or ‘Na Zdrowie Zdrowie moje w gardxo twoje’

Benjamin ‘Ben’ Kauer collection

W1220 Wood Lake Ave., Rib Lake, WI 54470, 715-427-3622, wife-Pearl; dad-Peter Kauer; grandfather-Anton Kauer-emigrated from Village of Lis, Bavaria, Germany

13134-passenger list ‘passenger Liste’ steamship ‘Muenchen’ 3-16-1895, A-between deck passengers; NG-Anton, Johann, Josef, Anna & Maria Kauer

13135-P. S.S. Muenchen

13136-P. log cabin built by Anton Kauer at Wood Lake, Taylor Co., Wis. 1899 ‘Grandfather & Dad’s house built for $2.50, the cost of the windows’ SE SE 16, T33N-R3E, as of 7-14-2009 cabin still stands-resided

13137-plat map 1997 T33N 3E, Town of Rib Lake, NB-Section 16, ‘Mud Lake’

13138-tax bill 1917, Town of Rib Lake, NE SE 16-33-3E $8.24, personal property $8.97, paid by Anton Kauer to H.W. Stelling, Rib Lake Town treasurer

13139-cemetery deed 6-6-1910, Lot 10, Block C, Rib Lake Village cemetery sold to Anton Kauer for $5, signed Stephen O. Konz & Philip A. Goelz, A-reverse side, Joseph Brehm, Notary

13140-text of German songs, in Finstrer MItternacht, Mein gutter komerad, roeslein rot, grosser fott, stille nacht

13141-P. 3 dead deer, live dog and 2 hunters, L-R Anton Kauer, Sr., Anton ‘Toni’ Kauer, Jr., rear-2 wheeled carriage

13142-P. 1911 or 1912, Mud Lake Elementary School, Lydia Wieg teacher, unidentified pupils, rear-partial trop of hand water pump, NW NW NE 21 T33N R3E, Mud Lake School closed c. 1945

13143-P. c. 1910 4 men on wood pile, ‘Uncle Tony Kauer, Berthold Seidel, Louie Seidel’, possibly Bertole Hein rear-unloaded sleigh

13144-P. Camp 13 from Peter Kauer, NB-10793 & 10750 are duplicates from other sources

13145-P. ‘Dining out at Camp 13’ A horse has pulled small sleigh (jumper) with the noon meal, lumberjacks were probably more than a mile from camp – hence curbside service

13146-P. c. 1920 3 children & unidentified man at loaded log sleigh near Mud Lake ‘flats’ (in valley in which Mud Lake located); Major sleigh road ran south to RLLC railroad line 1 mile south

13147-P. c. 1910 ‘Water tank sleigh, Camp 13, Schneider’s Landing’; NB-barrel for loading water on top of sleigh, 2 teams of horses pulled tanker – water sprinkled on ice road at rear of tanker

13148-P. c. 1910 Peter Enders & his tow team. This team was temporarily hitched to a regular horse team to tow loaded log sleigh over a rise in ice road south of Mud Lake on Josef Kauer, Sr., farm

13149-P. c. 1920 2-horse team pulling supply sleigh with 6 lumberjacks; ‘Peterson cyclone slashing [wind blown timber in Town of Corning]’ ‘(Charlie Dodge) on the picture’

13150-P. c. 1925 ‘Scheu’s camp east of Camp 14’

13151-P. c. 1940 ‘loading truck east of Co. Hwy M – Lamberty’s [jobber] camp’

13152-P. c. 1925 ‘Harrison Hills [Lincoln Co, Wi] after fire – Peter & Anton Kauer & Hank Becker

13153-P. c. 1930 ‘Scheu’s Landing Harrison Hills’

13154-P. c. 1930 ‘Harrison Hills – Double header [two steam locomotives] hauling logs’ from Alvin Ed Scheu jobber camp

13155-P. c. 1930 ‘Harrison Hills – train headed for Merrill’

13156-P. c. 1922 ‘Steam log hauler, Rib Lake, WIs. c. 1428’ RLLC steam hauler on NE corner of Rib Lake with 1 sleigh of peeled hemlock logs

13157-P. c. 1920 ‘Pete Enders at Schneider’s Landing’ tar paper camp building, rear-cutover

13158-P. unidentified sawmill-scaffold around second chimney

13159-P. 4-18-1934 ‘Everyone Happy’ ‘Zondlo-Brehm wedding’ host of unidentified people-appears to be Left side of larger photo

13160-P. c. 1930 Peter Kauer & Lillian Kurek n.k.a. Mrs. Edwin Thums

13161-P. c. 1920 ‘Miklautsch homestead & family’ 2 story frame farm house & outbuildings, SW SW 15-33-3E, in 2009-Thomas Miklautsch residence; photo probably shows Mr. & Mrs. Blasius Miklautsch and children, Martha, Otto, Mary and William, according to the daughter of William Miklautsch, Mrs. Margie Kropp; building on right-pig barn

13162-P. ‘John Pfeifer, Rib Lake, WI’ Pfeifer leading his ox team pulling wagon with 3 people c. 1910, Pfeiffer farm includes SE SE 23-T33N-R2E, in 2009-Edward Melaski farm

13163-P. c. 1950 ‘crib set made from wood match boxes by Anton Kauer, Sr.

13164-Article ‘Whittles wood chains…’ from Star News, c. 1986 re Pete Enders, Milwaukee

13165-Wood logging chain whittled from white pine by Pete Enders, from 1 piece of wood – no glue!

13166-Mud Lake Reunion invitation by Father John Kauer (a son of Joseph Kauer) 9-2-1951, to Joseph Kauer, Sr., farm-or, if inclement weather-Zondlo Bar & Ballroom. Last two paragraphs in colloquial German – Reunion gibt’s, there’s a reunion, da Muss i hin; I must go there, Zu missa kahn I net affords, I cannot afford to miss it, Wo alte Freund versammle sin, no old friends assemble, Da will ich auch Nam’ recorda, there I want my name recorded, Will schwaetza ueber visle Dinga, they will reminisce about many things, Von alter Zeit, Unsinn und Sinn, of old times, nonsense & practices, Will bilder gucka, Lieder singa, (we will) enjoy old pictures & sing songs. Do muss I nach der Mod Lake hin! I must go to Mud Lake

13166A-reverse of penny postcard 8-2-1951 Mellen, WI to Mr. & Mrs. Anton A. Kauer

endl of Ben Kauer collection

13167-Stationery – Rib Lake Historical Society, LLC, printed 7-14-2009

13168-business card, Robert P. Rusch, Manager, Rib Lake Historical Society

13168A-back side of 13168

13168B-interior of 13168

7-14-2009 – 4:30 p.m. end of initial scanning

13169-Ice Age National Scenic Trail symbol

13170-Map c. 1995 ‘Ice Age Trail & Rib Lake Trail System

13171-Ice Age Trail stationery c. 1990 High Point Chapter, RPR coordinator

13172-flyer ‘Rib Lake Ice Age Days August 7, 8, 9, 2009’

13173-Lambert Lamberty Logging Camp 9-1-1928 to 4-30-1929, Town of Corning, Lincoln Co., Wis., list of staples consumed, list by Matthew Lamberty, this jobber camp had about 70 men

13174-Diploma, Robert P. Rusch, 6-5-1964 Concordia College, Milw., Wis, associate degree; ‘summon cum honore’

13175-Diploma, Robert Paul Rusch, 8-16-1969 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wis, Master of Arts-History

13176-Diploma, Robert Paul Rusch, 6-3-1972, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Doctor of Law (Juris Doctor)

13177-6-16-1972 admission to practice, western district of Wisconsin, Robert P. Rusch

13178-3-26-1984 admission to practice, US Supreme Court, Robert P. Rusch on motion of Frank L. Nikolay

13179-7-2-1976 diploma, Robert P. Rusch, National College of District Attorneys – career prosecution course

Mrs. Robin (nee Peissig) & Daniel Quednow collection

13180-P. c. 1943 portrait, top L-R Mrs. John Skibba, Mrs. Frank (Celia) Becker, Lucille Bertha Becker, a.k.a. Lu Hales; bottom-Mrs. Myron Hanson, child-Toni Hanson

13181-P. c. 1945 Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Becker, family in front of ‘Beckers Tavern’-729 McComb Ave., RLV; rear-L-R, Celia (Mrs. Frank) Becker, Frank L. Becker; front L-R, Robert Becker wearing shirt ‘Stevens Point Teachers College’; Raymond L. Becker, Lorraine Becker, a.k.a. Mrs. Carl Radtke, Lucille Bertha Becker, a.k.a. Mrs. Lucille Hanson, a.k.a. Mrs. Lucille ‘Lu’ Hales

13182-P. 9-1960, Clifford ‘Dippy Dog’ Waldhart wearing huge hat in front of ‘Becker’s Tavern Frank and Celia’

13183-P. 3-1962 interior of Becker’s Tavern, L-R 1. unid, 2. unid, 3. Gladys (Mrs. Robert Bleck) nee Reinhart, 4. Frank L. Becker, 5. Al Gnotke

13184-P. 1-1961 ‘Ma (Celia) Becker’ tending bar

13185-P. c. 1942 L-R Frank L. Becker, Robert C. Becker & Celia Becker, rear-Jorgensen Shoe Store, McComb Ave., RLV

13186-P. c. 1942, L-R, Lorraine and Lucille Becker in front of ‘The Lakeside Tavern’ RLV

13187-P. c. 1942, Lorraine Becker wearing WWII Army uniform (US Army Air Corps), Registered Nurse, in front of The Lakeside Tavern

13188-P. c. 1950 2 unidentified men in front of ‘…n’s bar & pool (hall) & Al Elbert (proprietors)-McComb Ave. RLV

13189-P. c. 1960 Glov-Ett Shoes float proceeding north on McComb Ave. in parade; left-’Gehrt’s Bar’ Gordon & Virginia Gehrt, proprietors, 832 McComb Ave., diagonal parking yellow stripes

13190-P. 4-1957 ‘Taylor Lumber and Fuel’ building, SE corner of STH 102 & McComb Ave.; rear-(Partial) old RLLC mill chimney

13191-P. c. 1947 26 first communicants & unidentified priest, St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Rib Lake, front row center (light hair) Antoinette ‘Tony’ Hanson

13192-P. c. 1950 ‘The fireplace at Camp Carter’

13193-P. c. 1950 ‘Boat landing at Camp Carter’

13194-P. c. 1950 ‘South Harper Lake, Rib Lake, Wis C-13’

13195-P. c. 1938 two women fishing from canoe, foreground-Lucille Becker, a.k.a Lu Hales

13196-P. c. 1910 ‘Rib Lake, Wis #13’ view SW from tannery smokestack, Fayette Ave. runs east to Rib Lake, filled with logs; wooden sidewalk past ‘flats’; rear-Rib Lake High School with cupola

13197-P. c. 1955 car-Rib Lake Dairy truck accident, junction of STH 102 & Fayette Ave., truck upside down on STH 102, milk flowing from milk cans view NE

13198-P. c. 1955 car-Rib Lake Dairy truck accident, junction of STH 102 & Fayette Ave., truck upside down on STH 102; spectators view dented milk cans, view SW

13199-P. c. 1955 car-Rib Lake Dairy truck accident, junction of STH 102 & Fayette Ave., automobile in accident, NB missing right front door

Volume (Disc) XXXIII- #13200-13299

13200-Photo order form ‘Upjohn & Son Drug, Rib Lake, Wis’ ‘E70072’

(end of Mrs. Daniel Quednow collection)

David Anderson collection

13201-P. ‘Rib Lake, Wis K-453’ c. 1930, Rib Lake looking north from railroad & Main Street-RLV-rear-RLLC logging train

13201A-back side of 13201 – ‘Jul. 4, 1930 7PM Rib Lake’ postcard to Mrs. J. Herdegen, 920-36th St., Milwaukee, Wis

13202-P. ‘Spirit Lake, Wis’ c. 1915 Little Spirit Lake – view west from 2009 public boat landing, 6 rowboats

13202A-back side of 13202, postcard addressed to Mrs. Sam Thygeson, Park Falls, Wisc.

13203-P. ‘Miller’s Cottage, Spirit Lake, Rib Lake, Wis K-942’ c. 1910

13204-P. ‘Scene on Spirit Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. K-948’

13204A-back fo 13204, postcard ‘Rib Lake, Jul 23, 1928 8AM’ addressed to Mrs. J. Herdegen, 920-36th St, Milwaukee, Wis., signed ‘Pa & the boys’

(end of David Anderson collection)

Vi Melaski collection

13205-P. ‘Main Street, Rib Lake, Wis’ c. 1950, McComb Ave, view north, L-’Gene’s [Melaski’s] Variety [Store]’ foreground-asphalt patch in street marks former railroad track – THIS IS SUPERIOR QUALITY TO 10805 & 11997

Phyllis Dolezalek collection

13206-P. north side-National Hotel c. 1940, foreground-Railroad Street, RLV, L-Second Street; in 2009 site of Lakewood Credit Union, 1003 Railroad St.

unidentified sources

13207-P. aerial photo of RLLC dry yard, a.k.a. hemlock yard c. 1925, L-strut between wings of biplane

13208-partial front page of RLHe, 4-8-1954

13209-Map c. 1908 Railroads of eastern Taylor Co. & Lincoln & Marathon Co.; shows sites of post offices; Interwald, Greywood, etc., proposed route of railroad between RLV & Spirit Falls to connect with Marinette, Tomahawk & Western RR

13209A-8-4-1901 timetable, Marinette, Tomahawk & Western RR

13210-P. 9-1982 Charles Stats points to railroad track in sidewalk at former RLLC machine shop, SE corner of McComb Ave & STH 102;

13211-P. 9-1982 Charles Stats at old planing mill, concrete machine support; in 2009 yard of Edward Zondlo home, 700 Mill Lane

13212-P. former RLLC dry kiln, SE corner, 10-2009, McComb Ave.

13213-P. tunnel on east side of dry kiln, once held steam pipes from mill, NB-pipe portions thru wall into kiln

13214-P. 1983 close-up of steam pipes into old dry kiln

13215-P. 1983 former RLLC pump house, east side facing Rib Lake, 10-2009 yard of Marlin & Donna Walbeck, 650 Mill Ln, RLV

13216-P. 1983 former US Leather Co. power house, in 1983 ‘Tannery Lane Company’ SE corner, back-old RLV water tower

13217-P. 1983 former US Leather Co. power house, NE corner

13218-P. 5-1982 Wisconsin Central-RLLC Railroad right-of-way. N NE 29 T3N R3E, Town of Rib Lake. See Map Doc. #11268B. view south from Wilderness Ave.

13219-P. 5-1982-from RLLC railroad right-of-way, SW SW 22 T33N R3E, view east from Franz Ave; r-Wilderness Ave, foreground-farm field tilling leaves, faint evidence of ROW

13220-P. 1-1982 old sleigh road through Tamarack Swamp, SE SE T33N R3E, view to NE From Bear Ave., sleigh road part of road from Olson Lake to Rib Lake sleigh road system. Used as late as c. 1922.

13221-advertisement for ice road rutters and sprinkler tank equipment [used to make ice roads] p. 309, 1928 Marshall-Wells Co. catalog

13222-P. c. 1982 old RLLC railroad ROW; in SW SE 13T 33N R3E. Steep grade required Shay locomotive c. 1915. RPR’s dog sits in middle of ROW

13223-assessment of Wisconsin common carrier railroads by State of Wisconsin printed in 1-3-1900 Rib Lake Herald, including Marinette, Tomahawk & Western $115,000; Soo Line $11,300,000; Wis. Central $26,600,000

13224-Camp 28 Restaurant placement c. 1985, left half, 11 historic sites interpreted. Map of non-motarized trails & Timms (aka Timm’s) Hill; A-right half

13225-P. 1983 fire used to raze old Rib Lake High School; L-part of bus garage which was rewmodeled into Camp 28 Restaurant

13226-P. 2 teams of horses pulling sleigh with 8 courses of logs & 5 men; ‘Rib Lake, Wis.’ c. 1905

13226A-backside-postcard dated ‘Rib Lake, 1908 Jul 13 9AM Wis.’ addressed to ‘Mr. John Brink, Medford, Wisc.’

13227-P. ‘American Legion May 30, 1934’ X marks ‘Jeff Daus’ 17 uniformed men & 1 boy scout; 6 partially hidden women in back row

13228-P. 1940 6 adolescent boys swimming in unknown lake

13228A-backside-handwritten note-’John, Herb Lien, Archie, Bob Daus, Hank Galen [Scarer] summer of ‘40’

13229-P. Star News article ‘New proof found that Whittlesey was originally called Charlestown’ 9-7-1994 by RPR; A-p.2 & map showing location of Charlestown

13230-Map 2008 Price Co.-coverpage

13230A-ibid legend

13230B-ibid Hill & Spirit townships

13231-Map 1985 Taylor Co. fishing, Wis. Dept. of Natural Resources-cover

13231A-ibid, Rib Lake area streams shown in red are trout waters

13232-pamphlet ‘You matter to the last moment of your life’ distributed 2009 by Hope Hospice & Palliative care, 657 McComb Ave., Rib Lake – title page

13233-Map 2-22-1995 ‘North Rib Lake Assessors Plat #1’ by David E. Tlusty, RLS, certificate

13233A-ibid-location sketch

13233B-ibid-part of High & West St.

13233C-ibid-part of Fayette & West St. NB-Lots 17-21, each c. 30 feet wide by 175 ft. long. Lots laid out by Fayette Shaw c. 1891 as sites for company hourses for his tannery laborers.

13234-Map-Natzke camps (1-5) c. 1980 by Mike D. Weckwerth camps; 1. 24-31-4E; 2. NW1-4-12-31-4E 1924-1926; 3. N1-2-13-32-4E 26-34; 4. SE SE 12-33-4E 1935-1936; 5. NW NW 11-33-4E 37-41; see 11780-84

13235-Map 9-11-1974 Lincoln Co. railroads by Michael Bailey

13236-Taylor County Star News 1934 RLLC news; A-ibid 1935; B-ibid 1936, Jan. 30 ‘Wisconsin men buy U.S. Leather Company’s Stock in Rib Lake Plant’

13237-Merrill Daily Herald 3-6-1978 ad; Old Faithful Hemlock; for your ‘Old Faithful’ hemlock barn. Plans for a ‘practical’ barn free offer by Hemlock Manufacturers of Wis. & Northern Michigan

13238-Article ‘The Saga of Swan’s Balsams’ by Norma Swan, Forest History Assoc. of Wisconsin, Inc. 9-9-10-1995 Proceedings of Twentieth Annual meeting

13239-Rib Lake Herald 5-11-1950 Rib Lake ‘Business Men’ green 10th District Federation of Women’s Club

Names & residences of occupants in RLV c. 1930 & Maps, 7-2009, of RLV residents c. 1930 by Ruth M. Peterson

13240-L. 8-7-2009 by Karen R. Baumgartner re recollections of her mother Ruth Marie (Batzer) Peterson

13240A-L. 8-7-2009 ‘Karen B’ to RPR

13240B-Names of occupants of RLV c. 1930 on Railroad & Church St.

13240C-misc. notes by Ruth M. Peterson 7-2009

13240D-Map-RLV occupants – Railroad & Church St.

13240E-Map-RLV occupants – Railroad, Main & 2nd St.

13240F-Map-RLV occupants – Maple, 3rd, 2nd Main & Church St.

13240G-Map-RLV occupants – McComb, Pearl St.

13240H-Map-RLV occupants – Fayette, Landall & Kennedy St.

13240I-Map-RLV occupants – Forest, Front, West, High & North St.

13240J-Map-RLV occupants – West, High St & Fayette Ave.

end of maps of RLV residents

13241-P. McComb Ave. c. 1955, far left-Upjohn Drug Store, ‘Perkin’s Ice Cream’; unidentified store (future site of Mid-Wis Bank); tavern ‘Hamm’s beer’; The Bird’s Nest tavern ‘Schlitz beer’; village hall & Red Wing shoe store; rear-village water tower

13242-P. ‘Golden Home’ aka Golden Age Nursing Home, ‘Rib Lake, Wis. 60-12 c. 1960, former Central Hotel, SW corner of 3rd & Railroad

13243-P. c. 1960 ‘Public Library Rib Lake, Wis 102’ NW corner Landall & Pearl

13244-P. ‘Sincerely yours Sig Stone’ c. 1920 pastor at Rib Lake Methodist Church

13245-P. 7-24-1914 RLLC mill burning, 4 men watching, 2 railroad wood chip cars

13246-P. 7-24-1914 lath piles in front of burning RLLC mill; L-RLLC windmill

13247-P. c. 1930 tramway; left-railroad engine house; center-RLLC machine shop; view to east

13248-L. 4-14-1992, Atty. Thomas M. Rusch to Karen Rusch ‘Opinion of Title’ re 2009 Karen M. Rusch residence, 100 West Street, RLV; A-Pg. 2; B-Pg. 3

13249-Abstract of Title to 2009 residence of Karen M. Rusch, 1000 West Street, RLV, Lot 6, Block E of the Surveyor’s Plat of North Rib Lake, part of sections 23 & 26, T33N-R2E; A-through Y

13250-Meier, Carl, NMI, memoirs

13251-L. 4-12-1920, RLLC by S.J. Williams to TC Judge M.A. Buckley re work permit application for Herman A. Rusch (‘Herman Reusch’)

13252-Warranty Deed, 4-2-1884 George & Minerva Robins to J.J. Kennedy $100, Lot 11, 26-33-2E [NB-AS of 2-2-2010 there are 10 governments lots in Sec. 26-33-2E, RPR]

13253-Patent 11-23-1871 State of Wis. To W. [Walter] S. Patrick NE 1-4, SW 1-4, & NSE 1-4, 2-33-3E [probably white pine speculation-RPR]

13254-Patent 11-23-1871, State of Wis. To W. [Walter] S. Patrick, NE 1-4, NE 1-4, 26-33-3E

13255-Patent 11-23-1871 State of Wis. To W. [Walter] S. Patrick, NW 1-4, NW 1-4, 25-33-3E [NB-land then in Marathon County-RPR]

13256-Patent USA 9-10-1885 to John J. Kennedy NW 1-4, NE 1-4, 26-33-3E

13257-Patent recorded 1-29-1889, USA to Wis. Central Railroad Company by Act of Congress 5-5-1864, by Act 6-21-1866, 5-19-1874, multiple parcels T33-2E & T331-3E & other lands, [these lands compensated grantee for lands it should have received but, which the US government had already alienated (sold)-RPR]

13258-Deed 2-11-1895 J.H. & Sophie Brockmann to Herman & Bertha Hanke of Rib Lake, $610 W1-2, NW 1-4, 26-33-2E

13259-Deed, August & Bertha Lohrke to Wis. Central Railway Co. $60, 5-25-1901, A strip, belt or piece of land 100 ft. wide, c-u Gov. Lot 4, 26-32-2E, c-u 2 lines running parallal with 50 ft. from centerline of above-named railroad, as centerline is located, surveyed & staked out over & across said tract, & grantor releases grantee from damages to real estate by reason of constructing & maintaining a railroad on said strip, witnesses-Donald Kennedy & Wm. Pringle

13260-Deed 5-25-1901, Herman & Bertha Hanke to Wis. Central Railway Co. $75, 100 ft. strip-50 ft. either side of centerline as grantees railroad is located, surveyed & staked out, across NW 1-4, NW 1-4, 25-33-2E [RPW for Rib Lake-Spirit Falls-Tomahawk railroad-RPR]

13261-Map portion 7-21-1862, original US Government survey, including Sec. 26-33-2E [site of Village of Rib Lake], data collected 11-1861 by Wm. E. Dougherty, Surveyor, NB-Government lots around Rib Lake

13262-W. ‘1996 Directory of Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church’, Rib Lake, Wis. 100th Anniversary 1896-1996, photos & names of parishioners

13263-Order for Summary Assignment-Estate of Bernard M. Cihasky, died 7-29-1971

13264-Lease 4-18-1958, Gordon R. & Phyllis Nordgren, Lessors, & Standard Oil Co., W 80 feet, A4&5, except N 2 ff of Lot 5, McComb’s Racing Park Addition to the Village of Rib Lake (MRPA)

13265-Satisfaction of Mortgage 6-15-1925 signed in Hebrew by Paulina Marcus satisfying mortgage of Nettie (Mrs. Charles) Dodge re D15 MRPA (Ma Dodge’s Café), Paulina Marcus was wife of P.E. Marcus, d.b.a. ‘The Fair’ Dept. store, A12

13266-Lease, 2-25-1920, Peter & Susan Lieg, Lessors, William A., John O. & Peter B. Bogumill, Lessees, Part of Lot 4 & A 6&7 MRPA, [‘Bogumill’s Store’]

13267-Order for Sale 8-1-1939, ‘In the Matter of Peter Bogumill, Bankrupt’, N 2’ A 5 & A 6&7 MRPA, list of personal property including ‘350 cakes of ice in ice house…’

13268-W 12-9-1937 Star News ‘Rib Lake Lumber Company Deeds of 3,360 acres to Taylor County’

13269-W. 5-14-1942 Star News ‘Mystery surrounds finding of bones in Rib Lake vicinity’

13270-W. 2010 3-1-2010 US Dept of Commerce-census message; A-’Your answers are confidential’; B-E-Questionnaire

13271-P. 1933 1603rd CCC Camp Mondeaux River; A-C-Notes by Robert P. Rusch 3-13-2010

13272-Map 1-2003 Rib Lake School District-arrow shows location of CCC Camp Mondeaux River; A-p. 2 Western part of Rib Lake School District

13273-W. School District of Rib Lake ‘Spring Newsletter 2010’

13274-W- ‘The Hanke History Book’ c. 2000

13274A-P. 1 Map of Germany-Red Circle around Risa, Saxony-birthplace of Carl August Hanke

13274B-P. 2 c. 1890 plat map W 1-2, NW 1-4, 25-33-2E-Carl Hanke farm site

13274C-P. 3 census data

13274D-P. 4 Death Certificate-Carl Hanke

13274E-P. 5 Death Certificate-Charlotte Hanke

13274F-P. 6 P. Herman Frederick Hanke

13274G-P. 7 W. marriage announcement 3-31-1891; ‘Pomeran’ should read Pommern-German for Pomerania; Bertha A. Mielke was from Chorow, Province of Hinter Pommern, then part of the Kingdom of Prussia; in 1945 this part of Germany was given by WWI Allies to Poland.

13274H-P. 8 P. ‘Herman [Hanke] is on farther load [of logs] under the word ‘Pa’; this photo may have been taken c. 1890 at the McGillis pine camp-a camp of the J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co. devoted solely to logging white pine; its well-preserved site is the SE-NW 13-T33-2E, Town of Rib Lake. The 30 men pictured probably were the entire camp crew. The slanting roof-covered in cedar shingles-of a log camp building shows on the right. This site is clearly marked in 2010 along the Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club ‘Nordic’ or Green Trail; the hand dug camp well is clearly to be seen along this trail

13274I-P. 9 P. Herman Hanke playing violin with 3 unidentified musicians; Photo-above table-of unidentified German wearing Prussian military decoration, Eisenkreuz, i.e. Iron Cross; the large wall hanging is a map of the ‘Union Pacific Railroad’. The center photo shows a farmer on a horse pulling a grain reaper. A wood stove is partially seen on left.

13274J-Obituary, Herman Hanke

NB-This wonderful family history is well-written and comprehensive-over 100 pages in length.

13275-Map 1978-1979 ‘Official [Wisconsin] State Highway Map’; A-Center of Map-Rib Lake area-NB-Timm’s Hill spelled with single ‘m’ ‘Tim’s Hill el. 1952 ft, highest pt. in Wisconsin’; NB-’Soo’ line railroad thru Chelsea

13276-Map 7-11-1898 Wisconsin Central Railroad spur into George J. Langenberg brick factory, Whittlesey, WI [RPR drew this image-original at Taylor Co. Register of Deeds]

13277-Map 5-2009 ‘Area of primary interest, Rib Lake Historical Society, LLC; map-post offices and railroads c. 1908’ [This is the back side of R.P. Rusch business card]

13277A-Robert P. Rusch business card 5-2009, as manager of the Rib Lake Historical Society

13278-Map c. 1975 TPC F-18A ‘tactical pilotage chart’ US Defense Mapping Service, part shown-Rib Lake environs-’South’

13278A-Rib Lake North

13278B-Rib Lake Central

13279-P. ‘East Side McComb Ave.’ dubbed street car photo c. 1910

13279A-F-Interpretation by R.P. Rusch 3-15-2010

13279G-Back of original

13280-P. ‘Spirit Lake bridge, photo by Mars’ c. 1910

13280A-Back side

13280-B-C, Interpretation by R.P. Rusch 2-20-2010

13281-P. Ginseng garden in Town of Hill, Price County; W. 2-25-2010 Star News

13282-W. ‘The [Milwaukee] Sentinel’ 11-28-1903 W. ‘Heard in the Hotels’

13282A-W. ‘Our [Rib Lake Lumber Co.] is the largest hemlock lumber producing concern in the world,’ said Mr. [H.C.] Miller of Rib Lake, complete text of article reads:

‘and our cut will be as large this season as last. My opinion is, however, that the lumber cut will be generally considerably less. We expect to put in about 25,000,000 feet of hemlock.

‘J.J. Kennedy, the former owner of the Rib Lake plant, has engaged in the lumber business in Idao, and in company with his sons and borther is building a large mill for the manufacture of pine lumber. A number of his former employees have gone out there and as a result northern Wisconsin will have a considerable addition to the lumbermen operating in Idao pine.

‘Up in our section we have excellent sleighing, as the ground is covered with from eight to ten inches of snow. Snow came too early in the season to make good logging, for the ground was not frozen. However, conditions arew better this year than they were last season.’

13283-W. Decision of Wisconsin Supreme Court ‘Schenning v. Devere & Schloegel Lumber Co.’ 173 W. 20, 12-14-1920

Mary Lou Minarciny, nee Zondlo, collection

13284-W. RLHe 1981, P. 1981 Frank & Luci, a.k.a Lucianne Zondlo, and George, Sr. and Vicky, a.k.a. Victoria Zondlo ‘We’re proud to be partners for 44 years in the Rib Lake area..’ signed Zondlo’s Bar & Ballroom, STH 102 and CTH C

13285-P. 1965, Aerial, Jct. STH 102 & CTH C – view south ‘Zondlo’s Bar & Ballroom, George & Frank Zondlo, Prop., Rib Lake, Wis. Phone 427-3977; in 2010-427-5877, Quonset hut built in 1947

13285A-Backside-signature of Mary Lou Minarciny, nee Zondlo

13286-P. 1968 aerial, STH 102 & CTH C –view to SW-town hall (Rib Lake) in foreground, rear-Mr. & Mrs. George & Vicky Zondlo farm – in 2010 owned by Paul S. Zondlo, W2441 STH 102, 427-3758

13287-P. Little Bohemia Bar & Café & Bowliing Alley, McComb Ave.; rear-Rib Lake National Bank; 2-Partial ‘Coffee Cup Café’ Lot B3; far right-side of Lake [movie] Theatre c. 1955

13288-P. c. 1960 interior of Little Bohemia Bar, A2 MRPA, probably Meinrad Kathrein sitting on bar stool, tile made by Rib Lake Accoustical Tile Company

13289-P. c. 1965 Steve Minarciny, owner of Little Bohemia, 806 McComb Ave.

End of Minarciny collection

Karen Baumgartner collection

13290-P. ‘Sawmill-Lumber-Lath & Shingles, Interwald, Wis’ ‘VM-3’ c. 1910 from Vic Meyer collection

13291-L. 11-9-2009 Karen R. Baumgartner to R.P. Rusch

13292-P. c. 1930 Ole Peterson farm & golf course, Spirit, Wis

13293-P. c. 1930 Oscar Peterson feeding ducks, Peterson golf course

13294-P. c. 1930 entrance to Peterson golf course & home; back-Big Spirit Lake; view west

13295-P. close-up of #13294, ‘entrance’ to golf course

13296-P. c. 1930 Oscar Peterson at back porch of Peterson golf course, written on bench; ‘Some rainy day…more than an…

13297-P. c. 1930 Oscar Peterson mowing Peterson golf course

13298-P. c. 1930 Andrew ‘Andy’ Zondlo with freshly butchered chickens. He served 200 free chicken dinners for grand opening of Peterson golf course

13299-P. c. 1930 Peterson’s golf course, 32-34-3E, Town of Spirit, Price Co, Wis; rear-Spirit River entering channel; rear-Big (a.k.a North) Spirit Lake

Volume (Disc) XXXIV- #13300-13399

13300-P. c. 1930 Peterson’s golf course, view south, rear-Big Spirit Lake

13301-P. c. 1930 Peterson’s golf course, view SW toward Big Spirit Lake

13302-P. c. 1930 ‘Peterson’s Dance Hall at Spirit Lake’ view east from Big Spirit Lake [Is this Wellington Lake, Town of Greenwood, Taylor County, WI? –RPR 3-15-2010] RPR believes this photo was actually taken of the Wellington Lake dance pavilion in the Town of Greenwood, Taylor County, Wisconsin – see comments of Cindy Sommer, #13303.

13303-P. ‘Peterson’s Dance Hall on Spirit Lake, Town of Spirit, Price County, Wisconsin’ from album of Emily Peterson Johnson [Is this Wellington Lake, WI?—RPR] On March 15, 2010, Cindy Sommer personally inspected the Wellington Lake site, and from the lay of the land, including the hills in the background, positively concluded that the photograph actually shows the former dance pavilion on the east shore of Wellington Lake; Cindy believes the photo was taken by someone standing on the west shore of the lake, focusing the camera to the east; she believes the pavilion stood in the NW ¼-NW ¼, Section 4, Town 32, Range 2E.

End of Karen Baumgartner collection

**NB-NUMBERING POLICY---Effective March 22, 2010, multi-page documents will be bate stamped starting with 000001; on page accession number

13304-Abstract of Title-A 8 MRPA former Taylor Hardware

Photos of Robert P. Rusch

13305-P. ‘Rib Lake Roller Mills’ c. 1990, 1213 Fayette Ave., Village of Rib Lake, NE corner

13306-P. ‘Rib Lake Roller Mills’ c. 1990, north side, loading dock

13307-P. ‘Rib Lake Roller Mills’ c. 1990, view to SW, far right-former home of Frank & Evelyn Kolecheck c. 1982-1997

13308-P. former tannery houses, c. 1990, north side of Fayette Ave., east of West Street

13309-P. McComb Ave. c. 1990, southward from Fayette Ave.

13310-P. c. 1990 ‘Last Chance’ bar, 832 McComb Ave.

13311-P. c. 1990 ‘Little Rib Antiques & Collectibles’ store, razed 8-2008, B 8 MRPA

13312-P. c. 1990 ‘Little Rib Antiques & Collectibles’, front entrance

13313-P. c. 1990 ‘Little Rib Antiques & Collectibles’, interior & Janice K. Deaton, proprietor

13314-P. c. 1990 ‘Little Rib Antiques & Collectibles’, interior & Janice K. Deaton, proprietor

13315-P. c. 1990 ‘Little Rib Antiques & Collectibles’ interior, 828 McComb Ave.

13316-P. c. 1990 Bank building, NE corner of McComb & Landall

13317-P. c. 1990 ‘Little Bohemia Lanes’ B2 & former bank B1

13318-P. c. 1990 former McRae Bakery building, later Louis Heglmeier Bakery, A11, vacant lot – A 12, site of former Lake Theatre #2

13319-P. c. 1990 former Rib Lake Public Library, c. 1924-1989, NW corner of Landall & Pearl Street, building in process of remodeling into private apartments

13320-P. c. 1990 George Thums, Jr., Mr. Thums was longtime Village of Rib Lake chief of police-died 1-21-2009

13321-P. c. 1915 ‘High School, Rib Lake, Wis, Elster photo Waupun’; right-original high school with cupola-later blown off; left-high school addition, view south-southwest

13322-P. c. 1930 ‘Scene on Rib Lake, Rib Lake, Wis’ Elster photo Waupun, view south from Lake & Railroad Street toward south shore of Rib Lake

13323-P. c. 4-1983 Soo Line Depot, Prentice, Wis. View east; foreground-original Wisconsin Central north-south track; rear-truck painted ‘Soo’

Photos from old Rib Lake Village water tower

13324-P. 4-1983 Rib Lake village water tower – new – built c. 1980, view NE; right-RLHS; left-Rib Lake Middle School; rear-future site of Rib Lake grade school

13325-P. 4-1983 Rib Lake water tower; foreground-Railing of old water; upper left-Desris farm buildings

13326-P. 4-1983 view north; left-RLHS; right-upper part of Tannery Pond; right-lower John Schreiner home

13327-P. 4-1983 south part of Tannery Pond, Andy Anderson home, 831 High Street, view east

13328-P. 4-1983, foreground-former ‘Pan house’ of Rib Lake Tannery; left-former boiling building-Tannery, view to southeast

13329-P. 4-1983 former ‘Pan house’ of Rib Lake Tannery, foreground-roof of Woodridge Apartments, left upper-former Ida & Herrmann Emanuel Rusch home, 885 Fayette Ave.

13330-P. 4-1983, left-St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church; middle-McComb Ave.

13331-P. 4-1983 view southwest from old Rib Lake Village water tower on West Street; center-funeral home, 933 West Street

13332-P. 5-1983, view southeast from old Rib Lake Village water tower; foreground-old tannery pan house,

13333-P. 5-1983 Tannery Pond, view northeast, right-Andy Anderson home

13334-P. 5-1983, part of Tannery Pond, view northeast, foreground right-side of water tower; left-arch on top of ladder

13335-P. 5-1983, ‘Tannery Lane Co’ sign on east side of building, former Tannery boiler-power plant

13336-P. 5-1983 north side of Tannery Lane Co building, 1990-1993 Micros, Inc., manufacturers of wrist braces

13337-P. 5-1983 old hemlock bark from former Rib Lake Tannery-excavated from Tannery Creek c. 1982, 6’ blue comb added for size

13338-P. 5-1983 old hemlock bark from former Rib Lake Tannery-excavated from Tannery Creek c. 1982, without comb

13339-Abstract of Title; Rusch, Thomas M. real estate, SW NW & S 1-2 SE NW 7-33-3E, 37 pages, bate stamped, p. 6-Henry Klostermann or Klosterman (gave name to creek through site-RPR 3-22-2010)

13340-Abstract of title; part of NW NW, 7 33 3E, in 2010 Anderson, Barry & Sue; entry #19-Henry Klostermann, 16 pages; NB-p. 7 Wis. Central Railroad conveyance obligating grantee to ship over Wisconsin Central [Railroad] lines

13341-L. 11-30-2009 Mike Weckwerth to RPR; re Camp 18 & Camp 19, RLLC

13341A-Map-Plat, Lincoln Co, T31N R4E c. 1923

13342-Map 1887 ‘Map showing the ‘Soo’ line comprising the Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie & Atlantic & Minneapolis & Pacific Railways; NB-Image 13323-Jct. of Wis. Central & Soo Line

13343-Map c. 1900 Wisconsin Central Line, aka Wisconsin Central Railroad; A-Points of shipment, including Rib Lake

13344-W. Star & News 8-14-1897 ‘A.C. McComb, of Oshkosh, who recently purchased a tract of land in the Village of Rib Lake…’ NB-A newspaper in Rib Lake will be started ‘The Rib Lake Hummer’

13345-W. Star & News 10-2-1897 ‘Mr. McComb, the promoter of the McComb race track addition to the village of Rib Lake…’

13346-W. Star & News 10-30-1897 ‘J.J. Kennedy’s mill at Rib Lake was totally destroyhed by fire last Monday night.’ ‘Mr. Kennedy says his whistles will again be tooting in sixty days.’

13347-W. Star & News 10-30-1897, ‘Rib Lake Ripples’ ‘A hard blow to Rib Lake-About 7.30 Monday evening the people of Rib Lake were suprised (sic) to hear the fire whistle,…’ This first sawmill of J.J. Kennedy in Rib Lake burned in 1881. The 1897 fire was Kennedy’s second mill loss. After Kennedy sold his mill & moved from Rib Lake; his former mill burned yet a third time on 7-24-1914.

RPR photo collection

13348-P. RLLC ‘Camp 2, Rib Lake, Wis.’

13348A-Backside, postcard message from Elsie Gilge to Bertha Rusch

13349-P. c. 1930 unidentified Rib Lake jobber camp

13350-P. c. 1930 ‘4 jacks [lumberjacks] by bath house’

13351-P. 12-12-1934 ‘Chas. [Schwikl] with his accordion’; backside reads ‘Chas. Schwikl the cook at Northland camp, taken Dec. 12, 1934’

13352-P. c. 1930 2 unidentified men with horses ‘Shorty’ and ‘John A.’

13353-P. c. 1930 ‘Swede’ at well; NB-hay insulation around well pipe

13354-P. 1938 ‘Lumberjack in spring’ lumberjack holding cant hook on top of pile of cedar telephone poles

13355-P. c. 1930 Otto Skibbe & Herman Waldhart after using 2 man cross-cus saw to fell hemlock

13356-P. c. 1930 ‘Two Swedes’ 2 unidentified men logging cedar; NB-team of horses pulling unloaded jumper into which cedar posts will be piled

13357-P. c. 1935 ‘The cat doing tricks’

13358-W. Map-Price Co. homesteads of Town of Spirit c. 8-6-1980

13359-W. Birth Certificate (in German)

13360-Map 3-2-2010 Camp 13 railroad spur remnant by RPR

13360A-Reverse side-field notes of inspection by RPR & Marvin & Albert Meier

13361-Map 11-3-2009 Camp 10 site by RPR

13361A-P. ‘Camp 10 Rib Lake, Wis’ c. 1913-1916, 6 parallel buildings

13362-Tee shirt-logo, 4-22-2010 Earth Day 1970-2010 – 40th anniversary

13362A-back side

13363-Tee Shirt; Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club, Inc.

13363A- 2005 ‘Bridge Crew Dept.’ Scot Bromann, long-time & innovative club president, had shirts made for volunteers reconstructing Fritz Knop bridge.

13364-Tee Shirt ‘Official Member of Rib Lake 1000 mile club’

13364A-’Bob’ [Rusch], Butch Clendenning’s 2000 running club ‘award’ to join-run 1000 in one year

Dennis Kuehling collection

13365-P. c. 1920 ‘Pine Island on Rib Lake, Rib Lake, Wis 70’ view to south, a/k/a Eunice [Holden] Island

13366-P. ‘Trout Fishing, Rib Lake, Wis’ c. 1907-1910, fly fishing on unidentified stream

13367-P. ‘Little Rib Lake, Wis’ c. 1920

13368-P. peeled hemlock logs filling Wood Lake c. 1908

13369-P. ‘North Harper Lake A Souvenir from Rib Lake, Wis’ photo by Brown c. 1910, view westward from Schmidt farm hill

13370-P. ‘Rib Lake, Wis. #37’ c. 1910 view south from Surek Rd., a/k/a Polak Rd.

13370A-P. cropped version of 13370

13370B-1913 Rib Lake village plat map with red arrows identifying sites shown on photo 13370; [RPR explanatory map 4-23-2010] background left to right; A-2 parts of Rib Lake, B-smokestack from tannery, C-tannery pan house, D-E.C. Getchel’s 3-story home on West St.(in 2010 Kniewel Funeral Home), E-church steeple-Methodist or Catholic (probably Methodist), F-smokestack is S.A. Konz sawmill, G-3 smokestacks are Mathe or Hintz mill

13371-P. ‘Rib Lake, Wis’ c. 1910 view north on McComb Ave.; above-bare bulb incandescent street light suspended over McComb Ave.; left-Upjohn Drug Store, Lemons Furniture; right-fragment of Woodman Hall (A3), Wisconsin Hotel (A4-part of A5, MRPA)-on awning ‘Liquors’, back-top of tanbark pile

13372-P. c. 1914 ‘Rib Lake, Wis. Log jammer’ R-RLLC shay locomotive; center-McGiffert ‘slide-ass’ loader; left-sleigh load of logs being loaded onto railroad flat car

13373-P. c. 1907 Camp 4 ‘logging camp, Rib Lake, Wis’ left-log camp building, NB-2 sky lights; right-railroad box car with cupola; far right-locomotive tender; rear-virgin hemlock

13374-P. c. 1907 probable view of Rib Lake-from east; smoke from RLLC perhaps

13375-P. ‘Tourist camp Rib Lake c. 1522’ c. 1920 Modern Rib Lake village park building standing as of 4-23-2010

13375A-back; note by Mrs. Charles Dodge (Ma Dodge) to her mother

13376-P. ‘Drive around Spirit Lake, Wis. WRC’ view south, rear-Little Spirit Lake; road pictured as of 4-23-2010 is STH 102

13377-P. ‘Public School, Westboro, Wis.’ C. 1940; left-old school-wooden; right-brick high school addition; north side of buildings, wood school razed c. 1990

13378-P. ‘Westboro, Wis. High school #407’ c. 1910, east side facing camera; (RPR collection)

13378A-back; address to ‘Mrs. H.A. McMillan, Rib Lake, Wis’

13379-P. ‘Pine Island, Rib Lake, Wis’ view to north c. 1907; rear-3 smokestacks of RLLC mill (1897-1914);

13379A-back; addressed to ‘Mrs. B.J. Landaal, Spencer, Wis.’ ‘Mar. 30 1907 2 PM Rib Lake’

13380-P. RLLC mill fire 7-24-1914; left-bull chain; right-stream of water from fire house, view to SW

13380A-back- addressed to ‘Mrs. J.G. Hines, Black Creek, Wis’ post mark-Jul, 27, 1914 ‘Dear Nettie, we arrived here o.k. This is a big mill at Rib Lake where the yellow top & cook house & ---ing tent set it almost burnt the tops up. John just got the down in time to save them, we can’t open until tomorrow night as the car isn’t here. Best wishes to all from all..’

13381-P. ‘Rib Lake Lumber Co. Rib Lake, Wis K-955’ foreground-elevated tramway; center-McComb Ave; rear-RLLC mill complex; view to east

13381A-back-postmark Jul 30, 1934 addressed to ‘Mrs. Belle Burk’

13382-P. RLLC mill under construction c. 1916; left foreground-RLLC store building (A1-MRPA)

13383-P. ‘Rib Lake Lumber Company-Rib Lake, Wis A-215 Excel’ c. 1930 south side of dry yard view north

13384-P. RLLC steam hauler pulling one sleigh load of peeled hemlock logs c. 1920; rear-Rib Lake view to SE ‘C 1428’ ‘steam log hauler’

13385-P. 8-29-2009 Phoenix steam hauler (with modified front wheels in place of sleigh runners) – at Edgar, Wis. ‘steam show’; hauler formerly owned by Jones Lumber Co.

13386-P. ‘Tanking the road Rib Lake, Wis Brown photo’ 2 teams of horses pulling water tank sleigh c. 1910

13387-P. ‘The landing Rib Lake, Wis’ c. 1910, Rib Lake entirely filled with logs; r-train of logs along north lakeshore – in 2010 STH 102

13388-P. ‘At the landing Rib Lake, Wis’ ‘#63 WRC’

13389-P. railroad on north side of Rib Lake c. 1940, same view as 13388, NB-foreground-muck has filled into lakeshore

13390-P. ‘Rib Lake Lumber Co, Rib Lake, Wis. K-957’, 11-1935, lumber yard-view to NW

13390A-back-’View of the industry which keeps this town [Rib Lake] going. The monthly payroll is about 25,000. If the mill would close the town would be dead.’- Anonymous

13391-P. ‘Tannery Rib Lake, Wis’ c. 1910, view of tannery from south; l-r, bark piles, pan house, power plant, vat house; foreground-Fayette Ave.

13392-P. ‘Rib Lake, Wis’ c. 1910 foreground-top of bark pile; center-3 dormers in tannery office building; view to SW, church steeples, center-Methodist; right-Catholic ‘St. John the Baptist’-renamed Good Shepherd c. 2005

13393-P. ‘Rib Lake, Wis’ this photo matches its left side to right side of photo 13392; foreground-north side of tannery houses along Fayette Ave.

13394-P. ‘Rib Lake Lumber Co. Rib Lake, Wis C-11’ machine shed with ‘Rib Lake’ painted on roof; r-National Hotel

13395-P. ‘Main Street Rib Lake, Wis No. C-16’ L-RLLC store A1, later C.C. Lord building A2, Woodman Building, old Wisconsin Hotel; NB-this is properly McComb Ave., view north c. 1945

13396-P. ‘Lone pine trail-Spirit Lake-B244 Excel’ c. 1940, view to south past former Olkives Lakeview Resort

13397-P. ‘South Harper Lake Rib Lake, Wis C-15’ c. 1940 view south from Camp Carter, center-Island

13398-P. ‘Scene on South Harper Lake Rib Lake, Wis. B-239’, view south from Camp Carter c. 1970, in 2010, field is red pine plantation

13399-P. ‘Harper’s Lake Rib Lake, Wis C 482’ South Harper; center-island; right-island #2, view to SE c. 1940

Volume (Disc) XXV- #13400-13499

13400-P. ‘Island in Harper Lake..G552’ c. 1910

13401-P. ‘Harper Lake near Rib Lake, Wis’ South Harper, the point from north shore c. 1910

13402-P. view of South Harper Lake Rib Lake 3’ the point, same view as 13401 but 40 years later c. 1950

13403-P. Bathing Beach Harper Lake..’ wood diving platform, view from public beach to east

13404-P. ‘Island on Spirit Lake Rib Lake, Wis 42’ c. 1950 a/k/a Tabor Island

13405-P. ‘Hopper’s Resort, Stone Lake Rib Lake, Wis. 8’ c. 1950

End of Dennis Kuehling collection 4-23-2010

Collection of Robert P. Rusch

13406-Map 11-11-1893 Rib Lake Depot grounds by Wisconsin Central Railroad, penciled notes by RPR 4-25-10

13406A-Pg. 2 ‘J.J. Kennedy’s logging railroad’ portion of this line shown

13406B-Pg. 3 J.J. Kennedy sawmill

13406C-Pg. 4 ‘J.J. Kennedy sawmill & Shaw Tannery’, red line between point B & C shows proposed railroad extension over Tannery Creek

13406D-Annotations by RPR 4-25-10

13406E-Black with white lines version C map – Kennedy’s sawmill & Shaw Tannery (Partial)

13406F-Annotations by RPR c. 2-1-2010 Map original in Vol. C Miscellaneous P. 398, Taylor Co. Register of Deeds Office

13406G-continuation of annotations

13406H-Mill specifications

13406I-ibid

13407-Map, Westboro Depot grounds by Wisconsin Central Railroad (‘RY CO.’) c. 1899, North half-sawmill & tramways

13407A-annotations by RPR 4-22-10

13407B-annotations by RPR continued

13407C-South half of map, Tannery complex

13407D-Annotations by RPR

13408-Map, 1913 Westboro ‘Village’ colored highlights by RPR, NB-Queenstown

13409-Map, Wisconsin pre-European settlement land cover 1832-1866 by Wisconsin DNR

13409A-Notes by Natasha Kassulka

13409B-W. ‘See Wisconsin through the eyes of 19th century surveyors’ by Natasha Kassulka, Wisconsin Natural Resources Magazine, 2009

13409C-ibid p. 2 ‘How it Began’

13409D-ibid p. 3 ‘Under the Cover’ Wisconsin public lands surveying in 1800’s

13409E-ibid p. 6 ‘Interpreting the maps’ Map-Wisconsin soil types, limit of the Laurentide Ice Sheet

13409F-ibid p. 7 Map, current Wisconsin land cover by B.T. Wilson [2009]

13409G-ibid p. 8 Map-Wisconsin pre-European settlement forest density

13409H-Map-Wisconsin pre-European settlement land cover [enlarged version of map 13409] forest landscape ecology lab, UW-Madison

13409I-Key to native vegetation

13410-Title-Record search, Block A ‘Mill Lot’ of original plat of Village of Rib Lake by RPR 1-26-10; J.J. Kennedy’s ‘Mill Lot’ was created by J.J. Kennedy’s 1895 plat of the Village (sic) of Rib Lake. The sawmill of the Rib Lake Lumber Company, Inc. occupied the same site, Entry #1 warranty deed 11-13-1901 J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co., Inc. to W.A. Osburn Lumber Co., Inc. $200,000 [see Doc. #13412]

13410A-reserved

13410B-RPR mill lot title search pg. 2

13410C-ibid, deed to Rib Lake Lumber Co. of Delaware 1-16-1925 see 13413

13410D-ibid

13410E-deed to Rudy J. Mueller 1-10-1947

13410F-mortgages on mill lot

13410G-ibid, $950,000 to U.S. Leather 1-31-1936, This was a purchase money mortgage by Aytch P. Woodson when he and others bought the Rib Lake Lumber Co.

13410H-ibid-mortgage assigned to M&I Bank

13410I-ibid Satisfaction 12-14-1939

13410J-ibid p. 10 4-4-1906 quiet title lawsuit

13410K-ibid

13410L-Map, mill lot, boundaries in yellow from 1913 Taylor Co. standard atlas (Doc. #237)

13411-W. Satisfaction of mortgage 5-16-1906 to J.J. & Flora M. Kennedy, Vol. 23, P. 502 Taylor Co. Register of Deeds mill lot

13412-W. Warranty Deed, mill lot 11-13-1901, J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co., Inc to W.A. Osburn Lumber Co., Inc., Vol. 34, P. 463, Taylor Co. Register of Deeds, mill lot

13412A-P.2

13412B-P. 3

13412C-P.4, Vol. 34 P. 463ff, Taylor Co. Register of Deeds, the signature of ‘J.J. Kennedy’ was written by the staff of the Taylor Co. Register of Deeds office when they transcribed this document into the county records

13413-Warranty Deed 1-16-1925, Rib Lake Lumber Co., Inc., A Wisconsin Corporatioon to Rib Lake Lumber Co. of Delaware, A Delaware Corporation

13413A-P. 2

13413B-M Document in full-NB Legal descriptions, 13413C-Lincoln Co; 13413H-Mill lot

13414-W. Mortgage 1-31-1936 Vol. 73, P. 273ff, Taylor Co. Register of Deeds, RLLC of Delaware to U.S. Leather Co., Inc., $900,000, this was a purchase money mortgage financing purchase of RLLC by Aytch Woodson, John ‘Jack’ D. Mylrea, et. Al

13415-Print-DOT-Wisconsin Public Lands Survey Records 3-17-2010

13415A-Addresses, Wisconsin Commissioner of Public Lands

13416-survey records-original US Government survey of Sec. 12, T33N R2E, Town of Rib Lake, 4-1862 by William Dougherty, data north between Sec. 13 & 14

13416A-between Sec. 7 & 12, 11-16-1861

13416B-between Sec. 11 & 12, ‘Soil Second rate. Timber hemlock & [yellow] birch’

13417-Milwaukee Sentinel 8-27-1903, ‘Northern Fair Big in Promise’

13417A-Glowing claims re farming in north Wisconsin

13417B-’Cut over lands rich in fertility’

13418-W. Definition of cubic & board foot

13419-List of Taylor County sites on National Register of Historic Places-2009, including St. Ann’s Catholic Church & Cemetery, and Mondeaux Dam Recreation Historic District

13420-L. 4-13-2010 Larry Easton to RPR re Henry Rosenfeldt

13420A-9-1950 Henry E. Rosenfeldt retirement article in Soo Line magazine

13421-Map 2010 Price and Taylor County Glacial Geology Surface Relief Map by Chris Borden

13421A-Price County

13421B-Key, Price County

13421C-Key, Taylor County

13421D-Chris Borden business card

13422-sample ballot, election of 4-6-2010 Village of Rib Lake

13423-Deed, 4-5-1882 G. F. Andre to John J. Kennedy, 14 parcels including part of 12-T33-2E

13423A-Deed 11-14-1881 SW NW 36-33-1E, Town of Westboro

13423B-Deed 12-19-1881 McCoy to John J. Kennedy, west half, SE quarter, 12-T33-2E [RPR owns WW SE 12-T33-2E as of 4-29-2010] proposed route of Ice Age National Scenic Trail, this is Kennedy’s first real estate in his name in what will become the Town of Rib Lake

A whimsical comment by Bob Rusch dictated 4/29/2010: I note that I own the NW NE, Section 12, 33-2E – one of the parcels of land purchased by John J. Kennedy on 12/1881. That purchase was part of the c. 1968 acquisition of the Brothers 80 from Leo Kaehne. In addition, I also owned the SW SE of Section 12; I bought that land about 1990 from Marlin and Donna Walbeck, but conveyed the title to my daughter, Kristin; Kristin, now married to Rodney Strobach, continues as the owner to this date.

This means that I bought two of the quarter-quarters sections in the very earliest purchase of real estate by John J. Kennedy – the founder of Rib Lake – in what was to become the Town of Rib Lake. J.J. Kennedy cut his first log in his sawmill on the shores of Rib Lake in December of 1881.

I learned of Kennedy’s purchase of this land on Jan. 8, 2010, when I did research at the Taylor County Register of Deeds Office. I went there that day intending to research mercantile properties along McComb Ave. After I got bored doing that, I argued with myself on whether I should take my ‘valuable time’ to research when and where did John J. Kennedy buy his very first real estate in the Town of Rib Lake. I concluded that since I was retired, I could do whatever I pleased, and I launched into the Kennedy land quest. The discovery of deed #13423B was an electrifying, eureka moment in my life. I take it as a define sign that the Good Lord wants me to do Rib Lake history!

13424-Grantee index notes re J.J. Kennedy’s first Taylor County land purchases – by R.P. Rusch 1-18-2010; 16 pages

13425-Map 5-23-1895 Mill lot with RPR annotations

13426-Final decree in county court for Taylor Co. 2-26-1925; Hon. M.A. Buckley, judge, probates estate of Allan J. Kennedy, deceased

13426A-Homestead is Lot 10, Block A, original plat of Rib Lake, heirs of Allan J. Kennedy; Mary K. Kennedy, his widow; Leonard A. Kennedy, a son; John A. Kennedy, a son; Mayme C. Kennedy, a daughter; Marcella E. Kennedy, a daughter;

13426B-signed Clerk of Court Gladys Stimm

13427-W. option 3-18-1922 farm listing contract by Philip Haider, owner, with John Schreiner

13428-W. Lease 8-9-1955 Edwin P. Daigle & Jean Marie T. Daigle lease Lot 1, Block A, MRPA & Part of Govt. Lot 1 & 2, 26-33-2E to Sinclair Refining Co; ID-4-2-2010 site of Cindy & Greg Hanke Mobil Gas Station-910 STH 102

13429-W. ‘First Lutheran Church, Westboro, Wis. 2009’, ‘Feeding Bodies, Minds & Spirit through Christ; celebrating 125 years of ministry 1884-2009’

13429A-Photos of Pastor Bob Giese and organist Lorraine Killion

13429B-Photos of Council, Ladies Aid & Choir

13429C-P. Pastors Giese & Scott, Exterior of Church building

13429CC-P. 125 Anniversary photos

13429CCC-P. ‘Worship & Youth’

13429D-P. Jordan Scott ordination

13429E-P. Members

13429F-P. Members

13429G-P. Members

13429H-P. Members

13429I-Member addresses

13429J-Member addresses

13429K-Member addresses

13429L-Member addresses

13429M-Member addresses

13430-W. ‘Good Shepherd Catholic Church’

13430A-Title Page 2009

13430B-P. Pope Benedict XVI

13430C-P. Bishops

13430D-P. Father Otto Bucher

13430E-P. Trustees, council, committees

13430F-P. ushers, readers, servers

13430G-P. Eucharistic ministers, sacristans

13430H-Celebrating ministries

13430I-Celebrating ministries

13430J-Celebrating volunteers

13430K-Celebrating volunteers

13430L-P. Celebrating holy week & sacraments

13430M-P. Celebrating holy week & sacraments

13430N-P. Remodeling Good Shepherd

13430O-P. Celebrating religious education

13430P-P. celebrating fall festival

13430Q-P. celebrating fall festival

13430R-P. celebrating Fr. Otto’s 50th jubilee

13430S-Title Page-The families of Good Shepherd Parish

13430T-P. members

13430U-P. members

13430V-P. members

13430W-P. members

13430X-P. members

13430Y-P. members

13430Z-P. members

13430AA-P. members

13430BB-P. members

13430CC-P. members

13430DD-P. members

13430EE-P. members

13430FF-P. ‘We Salute our Military’

13430GG-P. ‘We Salute our Military’

13430HH-P. ‘Those not available for pictures’

13430II-P. ‘Those not available for pictures’

13430JJ-Members of Good Shepherd Catholic Church Names & addresses

13430KK-Members of Good Shepherd Catholic Church Names & addresses

13430LL-Members of Good Shepherd Catholic Church Names & addresses

13430MM-Members of Good Shepherd Catholic Church Names & addresses

13430NN-Members of Good Shepherd Catholic Church Names & addresses

13430OO-Members of Good Shepherd Catholic Church Names & addresses

13430PP-Members of Good Shepherd Catholic Church Names & addresses

13430QQ-Members of Good Shepherd Catholic Church Names & addresses

13430RR-Members of Good Shepherd Catholic Church Names & addresses

13430SS-Members of Good Shepherd Catholic Church Names & addresses

13431-W. ‘The Wisconsin River – An Odyssey through Time & Space’ by Richard D. Durbin-front cover

13431A-Publication data

13431B-P. 38 ‘probably the last log drive on the [Wisconsin] river itself occurred the next year [1916] when the John Week Lumber Compnay made a run from the upper Rib River to their mill at Stevens Point’

13431C-list prepared by RPR re Rib River & tributaries, log drives occurring on and between 3-28-1919 and 4-8-1921

13432-Round paper weight created from lignum vitae (wood) used previously as saw blade guides in RLLC mill. A gift to RPR by Delorr Hayward, Taylor Co. welfare dept head-who had received the paperweight from a client

13432A-side view of paper weight

13433-W. scrapbook prepared by Anna Mae Kennedy containing newspaper clippings-principally from Rib Lake Herald-on sundry Rib Lake events & people 1931-1936-front cover ‘report of the Attorney General 1894’

13433A-autograph ‘Anna Mae KLennedy’ signature –bate stamped 000000

13433AA-enlarged autograph

13433-001-Obit. ‘Bert’ Gearhart 5-28-1931-Star News

13433-002-P. c. 1890 Interwald pioneers building highway-later CTH M

13433-003-Star News ‘Henry Brehm identifies old roadbuilding crew’

13433-004-RLHe 1906 Rib Lake-Westboro ball game poem -’Womanless wedding-A big scream’

13433-005-RLHe 2-12-1932 Mr. & Mrs. Charles Talbot; 3-19-1932 Real estate transfer-former Mac ‘Big Mac’ McDonald saloon

13433-006-1932 Star News ‘Items of interest’ conclusion of Bert Gearhart obit

13433-007-1932 obit. Walter B. Patrick-Woods Superintendent, aka Walking Boss, RLLC

13433-008-ibid

13433-009-obit. A.H. Brush, Superintendent, RLLC 4-7-1932

13433-010-7-6-1932 new patrons for Rib Lake Creamery, cream route from Chelsea to Rib Lake;

13433-011-Tri-county convention of Royal Neighbors of America-Germania Hall, Medford

13433-012-L.A. Drier, butter maker, Rib lake Creamery, joins Commercial Club 11-4-1932

13433-013-RLLC mill suspends operations for indefinite time due to lack of orders – first such closure in 16 years; O.A. Peterson, W.E. Freiberg & Frank L. Becker organize new business for Rib Lake-A ‘Fiber making plant’ a machine will ‘convert soft woods such as basswood, popple & white birch into fiber.’ Factory to give work to about 40 men

13433-014 5-5-1932 Rib Lake Sea Scouts go to camp; Wisconsin Wood Products incorporates; Victor Gustafson, Pres; O.A. Peterson, VP; W.E. Freiberg, Treasurer; Frank L. Becker, Sec.

13433-015 7-1-1932 Rib Lake Commercial Club hosts Taylor Co. Board Members & county officials at Ole A. Peterson’s ‘Spirit Lake Golf links.’; Dr. Ray Mauch, Dentist, Chicago, will open dental office in Rib Lake, 5-15-1932

13433-016 6-3-1935 Rib Lake ‘Little German Band’

13433-017 2-19-1932 Fort Sheridan Army Base names street after Lt. Vernon Holden

13433-018 First at Wendorf’s store in Village, ‘Will put unemployed men to work’; Charles Dodge reappointed marshal, salary $80 per month

13433-019 1-29-1932 Rib Lake businessmen entertain 504 at farm institute

13433-020 20 graduate from Rib Lake High School, RLLC donates a whole section of land (640 acres) to Village for relief workers 5-23-1932

13433-021 7-1-1937 Alumni banquet, Commercial Club meets at Spirit Lake Hotel

13433-022-Rib Lake High School beats Medford in basketball

13433-024-obit, Augusta Hintz-Krueger

13433-025 1932 paving STH 102 with cement through Village to start-including McComb Ave.

13433-026 3-11-1932 Rib Lake High School volleyballers play at Germania Hall in Medford; Ted Kammholz, son of Rev. & Mrs. F. Kammholz, of Rib Lake gets $500 scholarship at UW-Madison

13433-027-Dr. G.L. Becker will relocate to Westby, WI; 12-9-1932 RLLC sawmill will saw its last log on hand & shut down until orders come; ‘When the planning mill runs, steam will be supplied for power & pumps by 2 boilers & when the boilers are not steamed up, steam will be supplied to the pumps by a [railroad] locomotive, the old 60.’

13433-028 1-30-1931 Medford loses in basketball to Rib Lake High School

13433-029 1904 (sic) state school inspector W.H. Hunt recommends Rib Lake create a 4-year high school

13433-030 1906 Twentieth Century Club holds annual banquet

13433-031 7-24-1914 sawmill of RLLC completely destroyed by fire-loss estimated at $50,000

13433-032

13433-033-RLLC offers land; RLLC plowed a lot of pasture land on north side of Village; ‘the same is now available for planting..this land is offered to those in need who will plant potatoes or root crops or garden stuff on it.’ 4-22-1932

13433-034 9-4-1933 fish planted in lakes & streams

13433-035-state funds to pave STH 102 5-12-1932

13433-036-proposal; abandon STH 102 10-22-1933

13433-037-Soo line changed its service on Rib Lake branch from mixed passenger & freight train twice a day to freight train every other day 10-20-1933; ‘[the] Rib Lake Village has a population of 1,180 and the largest sawmill in the state is located here.’ 10-20-1933

13433-038-RLLC supplies lumber for 3 CCC camps. ‘The planning mill of the RLLC has been the scene of feverish activity since orders for this lumber have been booked.’ ‘This activity reminds us of the good old times when the planer used to run 10 to 12 ½ hours a day and sometimes 2 shifts for a long stretch.’ 1933; Rib Lake Cheese Factory leased…’Was a co-operative…’ 10-20-1933-Atty. Clifford Curran visits his hometown, Rib Lake

13433-039-Page Milk Co. leases Rib Lake Cheese Factory 10-12-1933

13433-040 12-22-1933 Royal Neighbors of America install officers

13433-045-Enig (aka Enoch) Berg obit 3-20-1934; RLLC planning mill running 2 shifts temporarily’; ‘The employment office was beseeched with men asking for a chance to go to work..’ 10-6-1933

13433-047 ‘The furniture of the RLLC sales office in Appleton, WI, has been moved to Rib Lake’ 3-3-1932

13433-048-First National Bank of Rib Lake reopens 3-17-1933

13433-050 8-18-1933 RLLC has increased pay from 25 cents per hour to 30 cents, for an 8-hour day; in 1897 the mill [J.J. Kennedy’s] ran 11 hours shifts – 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., with 1 hour off for lunch, and paid $1.50 per day [13 cents per hour]

13433-051 4-7-1933 obit, Hugh A. McMillan-former RLLC woods foreman; born in Lancaster, Ontario

1343-052 9-1933 ‘Forest fires now under control.’ 1,000 men fought fires in Taylor and Lincoln Counties in ‘The New Wood district’

13433-053 9-15-1933 ‘Fire Bug caught’ state mobilizes 450 men to fight forest fire-men housed at new camp at Spirit Falls – equipment brought in from US army (Camp Douglas, Wis); 50-75 men from Rib Lake fighting fire in Spirit Falls area – north of the timber tract of the RLLC

13433-054-obit 8-4-1933 Oscar H. Peterson operated restaurant on McComb Ave. ‘in the Peterson Opera House’ [2010 Bird’s Nest tavern]; 9-15-1933 history of Taylor & Frank Poole Funeral businesses; stockholders of Rib Lake Cooperative Creamery Co. vote to sell

13433-055-toboggan slide at North Harper Lake 2-6-1933; community basketball-Fats v. Leans 3-3-1933

13433-056 1933 Rib Lake High School teaches Latin; Rib Lake masons have musical octet

13433-059-RLLC lumber shipped to Pennsylvania 10-17-1933 to build ccc camp

13433-060 1933 Rib Lake Creamery closes in 3 weeks as part of state milk strike ‘…about 200 pickets invaded Rib Lake but left shortly and there was no disturbance…’

13433-061-story re John Gilge & his wife, Magdaline nee Franz; immigrants from Mocker, Oberschlesien, Germany 1-28-1934

13433-062 3-1934 Jim Peterson will log 1.5 million feet of forest fire burned timber for the RLLC south of Spirit Falls; Rib Lake Lodge #346, Free and Accepted Masons, celebrate 90th anniversary of the Grand Lodge 3-1934

13433-064-Rib Lake Boy Scout troop celebrates 5th anniversary 12-2-1933

13433-067-12-28-1933 Mercury 31 below

13433-068 12-29-1933 Ray Schirmer’s truck burns from small oil stove kept inside to keep passengers warm

13433-069 12-20-1933 state pays RLLC $3,500 to reimburse company for men who fought forest fires in summer of 1932

13433-070 1-18-1934 obit, John Franklin Sisley-former superintendent of RLLC; ex-executive with Central Pennsylvania Lumber Co; ‘Which is a subsidiary of the United States Leather Co.’; Taylor Funeral Service of Rib Lake purchases building in Merrill-Art Taylor will move there

13433-071 50 years ago 4-5-1884 J.J. Kennedy was Justice of the Peace; Ed Blasch proposes waterworks & sewers in Village 1-29-1934

13433-073 4-27-1934 Mrs. Clara Bogumill [aka Mrs. Peter Bogumill] reopens the ‘Big Store’ on McComb Ave-groceries, notions & fresh meats

13433-076 2-21-1934 home talent show-’Henry’s wedding’; 3-20-1974 ‘on Laandal [sic] Avenue..’

13433-078 3-3-1934 Miss DeLorr Hayward accompanies Masonic Octet

13433-079 5-4-1934 Village hires 5 men to plant trees along STH 102 [in 2010 Fayette Ave]; Village elections-referendum for ‘highway bonds’ & ‘Old-age pension’ passes 4-2-1934; 10 years ago 5-1-1924-E.C.Getchel dies-cashier of First National Bank of Rib Lake

13433-080-’The history of the Twentieth Century Club of Rib Lake’…’for many years was the social nucleus of the village’ ; it lobbied for the right of women ‘to serve on school boards, for a county nurse, & to combat the liquor traffic.’ 4-6-1934

13433-081 4-18-1934 new soo line train schedule; mixed passenger & freight train leaves Rib Lake at 7.25 am Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday; train from Chelsea arrives at Rib Lake at 2.50 pm on Monday, Wednesday & Friday; 4-13-1934 fire at RLLC office

13433-082 5-4-1934 RLLC hires 6 jobbers-Morgan Peterson; Lambert P. Lamberty; William ‘Bill’ Natzke; Herman Kleinschmidt; Carl Krueger; C.Q. Luedtke; ‘to log hardwood & hemlock’; RLLC will operate camps 22-N ½ 16 T32 R4E; 23-S ½ 3 32 4E, Lincoln Co; both camps will log 5,000,000 ft; all camps will start 5/10-/15/1934; James ‘Jim’ Peterson is RLLC woods superintendent, aka ‘Walking Boss’

13433-084 reprint of Edgar T. Wheelock’s 1886 history of Rib Lake; J.J. Kennedy owns mill-sawed 12,000,000 ft 1885; 37 dwelling houses, resident population 170; every building but 2 owned by J.J. Kennedy; exceptions-Superintendent D.J. McLennan & General Manager Angus Kennedy; no alcohol sol within Village; good schools-30-40 students

13433-085-Chelsea, Westboro & Rib Lake history 1886-1913 by Oscar Anderson, NB-redundancy in camp numbers; numbered used here do not apply to RLLC after its purchase by US Leather Co when US Leather started over in camp numbers, viz. 1, 2 3, etc; for example-J.J. Kennedy’s camp 19 was in Sec. 10 32 R2E, Town of Greenwood, Taylor Co., c. 1895; cf. Camp 19 of the RLLC was in Sec. 17 T31N R4E, Town of Corning, Lincoln Co., & Ran c. 1925; history of Duncan family, Westboro

13433-086 7-4-1932 Rib Lake Merchants 98 cent sale; Spirit Lake Golf Links July 4 party; 41 inch northern pike from Spirit Lake

13433-087 RLHS baseball team undefeated; Kennedy families of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, send greetings [1932]

13433-089 obit. 1933, Fred Anores Everson-homesteaded east of South Harper Lake; obit, 1933 Mrs. Joseph Probst, Sr., (nee Mary Magdalene Thums)

13433-090 1932 letter by Ernest Zuther-present depression a blessing in disguise

13433-091 6-12-1932 Annual Rib Lake Creamery meeting-now 70 patrons

13433-092 11-1932 new ‘Fiber plant’ built in Village – building 30 x 48 and 20 feet high; obit, Louis Olson, barber

13433-093 RLHS debates; ..that women should have equal rights of suffrage with men in the US

13433-095 obit Hugh J. Kennedy dies in East End, Saskatchewan, Canada 1933; 1-18-1933 obit, Mrs. William Kennedy, nee Christy Ann Ferguson died 1-18-1933 in Chippewa Falls, Wis.; Her late husband, a brother of J.J. Kennedy, died 22 years ago [1911]; 2 children, Anna, Now Mrs. O.F. Olson, of Chippewa Falls, Wis; Earl Kennedy of Calgary, Alberta, Canada; 1 sister, Mrs. Hugh J. Kennedy of Rib Lake; 2 grandchildren-Maxine & Glendon Olson of Chippewa Falls; interment at Forest Hill Cemetery, Chippewa Falls;

13433-096 4-24-1932 obit Hugh McMillan, ‘Had charge of the Knowlton [Wis] operations of the RLLC’; funeral of murdered 3 Fleischmann children at St. Ann’s

13433-097 Obit 12-3-1933 Joseph Hoffman

13433-099 1904 committee finds 3 possible sites for a high school [RLHS eventually built in Govt Lot 2 26 33 2E, on land bought from Donald Kennedy, viz. Fayette Ave. site

13433-100 – 1933 ‘School notes’

13433-101 Spring 1934, RLLC has 120 men in 2 camps, Camps 22 and 23; RLLC mill is busy sawing logs from burnt over area near Spirit Falls; RLLC buying 3 24-hourse power ‘Tractors’ i.e. caterpillar crawlers 6-6-1934; obit 5-31-1934 Mrs. Louis Olson, nee Anna Jari; 6-6-1934 First train load of logs – 14 cars

13433-102 5-18-1934 Mrs. George Fyksen, nee Esther Pries, Marshfield, kidnapped & forced to drive to Chelsea

13433-104 4-13-1934 RLLC news; F.W. Warrington, Gen Manager; Tracey M. Berfield, Superintendent; William Lemke, yard foreman; William Radtke, sawmill foreman; W.C. Funk, master mechanic; John Shepherd, planing mill boss; Anton Klister, Railroad section crew boss; James Peterson, Woods superintendent ‘Walking Boss’ in place of Walter Patrick; 40 hour work week-in woods and mill; 30-35 men work on planning mill; woods work starts May 1; sawmill will start July 1 ‘..when the mill starts up, old man depression will have to move out of Rib Lake, everyone feels better, en’s hopes have been lifted and smiles wreath their faces.’ ‘There is good reason for rejoicing when this plant is operating. It furnishes labor to from 150 to 200 men, besides those employed in the woods to cut the timber and haul it to the mill. The men are paid in cash with no strings tied to it.’

13433-104 obit. Dr. George W. Harrison

13433-105 5-4-1934 obit, Marcus Clark; obit, F. Carl Eck; Ed Hopper building cottages on Stone Lake; Lake View Cemetery Assoc. meeting

13433-106 4-27-1934 RLHS has 29 graduates; Atty. Ted Kammholz speaks

13433-107 6-1-1937 ‘…The oldest building in Rib Lake is the company warehouse south of the sawmill, which was built in 1881.’; Gov. A.C. Schmedeman seeks federal funds ‘to stave off imminent disaster to farmers of northern and central Wisconsin. The governor..saw for the first time a herd of 50 cows being driven 90 miles into Price County in search of pastures and feed.’ ‘About 200 head of cattle from Stetsonville will be brought here in a few days to pasture on the

13433-108-U.S. Government authorizes 19 drought stricken counties – including Taylor- for aid. ‘The maximum feed load is $250.’ 5-27-1934

13433-109-Fr. John Kauer home from Worthington, Ohio, to visit his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Kauer, of Mud Lake

13433-110-The home of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Targos burns-Easter Sunday, 1934

13433-111 O [Olie} A. Peterson buys Kneeland-McLurg sawmill in Phillips 5-4-1934’ 6-23-1934-former Sargent’s, later Peterson, Opera House remodeled [in 2010 Bird’s Nest Tavern]

13433-112 P. son of Bruno Poncek, Westboro, driving team of horse & heifer pulling wagon load of government supplies [anti-drought] hay, story of Poncek’s battling Great Depression 5-1934; Boy Scouts get South Harper Lake land 8-25-1934; 6-30-1934 Interwald Post Office discontinued

13433-113 10-25-1934 RLHS alumni meet

13433-114 6-23-1934 high winds blow down estimated 4,000,000 RLLC timber; 8-10-1934 20 men fight fire in RLLC ‘slashings’ along CTH M, Lincoln County; 8-10-1934 bridge games at Cozy Corn Café

13433-115 7-20-1934 Tri-county convention of Royal Neighbors of America; Mauch-Peromer wedding

13433-116 Margaret Kauer-Richard Hartzheim wedding 7-1934; Esther Stelling-Josesph Frombach wedding 4-30-1934; Jerry Heindl-Mildred Goerhring and Joseph Heisler & Eva Wild weddings

13433-117 George Seidl store remodeled; erected 1899; in 2010 Ed Zondlo’s IGA; C1 MRPA, 8-1934; Sherbeck’s carnival in Village 4-13-1934

13433-118 Mr. & Mrs. Stephen A. Konz of Appleton, WI, accompanied by Mrs. Allen Kennedy of Kenosha, came to Rib Lake to call on friends. ‘Their numerous Rib Lake friends were glad to see them.’

13433-119 Albert Goudman takes over O.A. Peterson’s store [south side of Church St.-former Rib Lake Town Hall-later electric light plant]; RLLC lumber buildings 3 ccc camps 1934

13433-120 RLHS graduates listed; class motto-tonight we launch, where shall we anchor

13433-121 ‘102 to get blacktop; new top to extend from the village to State highway 13’ 8-10-1934; J.B. Rotnour tent show sets up at Ward School grounds

13433-122 10-1934 Dio Walty, dba Rib Lake Cramery, sells out to B.F. Riplinger, Colby, Leon Orange, Gilman; 10-1934 Epworth league reorganized

13433-123 11-1934 Lakeside tavern enlarged, dance floor enlarged from 30 x 30 ft to 30 x 50 feet; 11-24-1934 Ray Warner of Jump River moves his shingle mill to building on Gustafson Lumber Co mill site; Warner has contract with RLLC; RLLC will furnish cedar logs and sell the shingles

13433-124-obit. Joseph Zondlo, survivors-Wife Rose nee Zajac; daughters-Mary, Mrs. Joe Maslonka; Anna, Mrs. Erwing Krueger; Ella, Mrs. Hayward Garlow, Cecilia, Mrs. Stanley Palarczyk; sons-Andrew, George & Frank 11-23-1934

13433-125-Wrestler John Gacek, visits his Rib Lake parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Gacek

13433-126-RLLC general manager, W.F. Warrington, family moving here; 12-28-1934 white pine-52 inches, at the butt, brought to RLLC from Camp 22

13433-127 10-26-1934 – Arthur Andreae fatally injured; 12-7-1934 Soo linie mixed train derailed STH 102 – 1 mile west of Village

13433-128 12-7-1934 heavy snow forces Westboro mailman to use horses

13433-129 12-31-1934 Roy H. Warner’s shingle mill will cut 15-20,000 cedar shingles daily for the RLLC

13433-130-RLLC records 30 below temps

13433-131-Blake Bokath, 15, lost in ‘Newwood’ overnite, 28 below 0; RLLC railroad locomotive blew whistle and range its bell to direct him to Camp 23

13433-132 Leo Konz, 29, son of S.A. Konz, commits suicide at Spring, MO 1-11-1935

13433-133 1-1935 Deep snow & lack of freezing hinders RLLC

13433-134 2-1935 ‘Bark-lots of it’ ‘The largest pile of hemlock bark since the old tannery days is on a RLLC landing near Taylor-Lincoln County line; The pile is 800 feet long and 16 feet high and contains 1300 loads of bark-100 railroad carloads. RLLC has 6300 cords at various landings peeled last summer. RLLC will concentrate 2500 cords at 1 landing for fire protection, since railroad tracks are removed.’

13433-135-Dio Walty seriously injured 11-9-1934; white pine 58 inch in diameter at Camp 22 3-22-1935; 3-22-1935 Western dust storm darkens sky at Rib Lake

13433-136-Deserted Nick Clerf’s blacksmith shop catches fire 3-22-1935 A1 MRPA; skirt & dancing at Rib River School 3-8-1935; 3-15-1935 First National Bank of Rib Lake now capitalized at $50,000; directors-James Upjohn, W.E. Freiberg, Clifford Curran, Leona Sisley, Victor Kohn

13433-137-Old timers immigration dates; August Mielke 1-30-1891; Albert Knop, Sr. 1891; Charles Dodge 1897; J.J. Voemastek 12-3-1897; ice and water over STH 102 at Walty’s farm 2-3-1933; 12-23-1932 First National Bank of Rib Lake robbed; ‘J.J. Kennedy camp to Rib Lake from spencer to build a sawmill in September 1881’

13433-138 Rib Lake lodge of Free & Accepted Masons, No. 346, sponsor ‘St. John’s Day Service’ at Methodist Church 1934

13433-139 5-10-1935 RLLC sends 50 men ‘to their camp at New Wood to do track work, such as laying steel, grading, graveling, building railroad beds…the New Wood camp is said to be the finest of any ever located in northern Wisconsin.’ ‘..This work is preliminary to next fall’s and future years’ operations of the company, and the men will be employed the greater part of the summer.’ Annotation – I believe this refers to a construction (of logging) camp which later evolved into Camp 24 or Camp 25. Both were near branches of the New Wood River and had modern conveniences heretofore unknown to Rib Lake camps, e.q. hot and col water for showers and laundry, single beds and bedding regularly steamed to eradicate vermin

13433-140 5-4-1934 [this mirrors data-article 082 which Anna May Kennedy hand dated 5-4-1964] ‘RLLC will start operations soon’ Plan to operate two camps [22 & 23]; 6 jobbers sign contracts; to start middle of May [of 1934]

13433-141 6-14-1935 ‘Muddy Rib’ changed to ‘Kennedy Lake’ in honor of J.J. Kennedy by state geographic board on request of Rib Lake Commercial Club; 11-30-1936 Bad-mild weather hampers RLLC; ‘The bottom is soft and it is difficult for man and beast to find footing..’ ‘The caterpillar tractors which RLLC bought…in 1935..prove a god-send in keeping the [woods] operations going.’

13433-142 John H. Schaack serves as rural mail carrier for 27 years 6-7-1935

13433-143 ‘city’ basketball team; wedding of Walter H. Mathias to Margaret Lippens

13433-144 4-19-1935 high winds took down power lines leaving Rib Lake area in darkness until RLLC starts ‘the turbine so that Rib Lake, Chelsea, Whittlesey, Medford, Athens soon had light and power

13433-145 RLLC rollways of logs moved – snow underneath 7-3-1935; 7-5-1935 Clarence Banks gets contract to deliver mail on Star route, Rib Lake to Chelsea; 7-26-1935 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Talbot operate Talbot’s resort on Willow Lake in Oneida Co. WI

13433-146 Mr. and Mrs. Joann (john) Gilge celebrated 50th wedding anniversary 6-2-1935; they have 4 children; Julius, Town of Rib Lake [married Martha Rusch]; William, Village of Rib Lake; Ida (Mrs. Ed Kelnhofer); Elsie (Mrs. Dan Colin, Milwaukee); John Gilge & Mary Mageling (sic) Franz were ‘united in marriage at Mooker Aberatesin, Germany, June 2, 1885; they came to America in 1895, arriving at Interwald 6-2-1895 – Annotation by RPR-Their place of marriage may have been the Village of Mocker, Oberschlesien (upper Silesia) 7-8-2010

13433-147 Obit Angus ‘Big Mac’ McDonald; anonymously written history of Rib Lake

13433-148 STH 102 detoured through Brehm (Jct at St. Ann’s Church and Wellington Lake Ave. 7-1935); patrons of Route 1 listed

13433-149 STH 102 redesigned - curves smoothed– at Joe & Henry Niggemann farms

13433-150 Mr. and Mrs. Philip ‘P.E.’ Marcus visit Rib Lake ‘Mr. Marcus came here in 1898 and conducted a general store [‘The Fair’ at Lots 12 & 13, Black A, MRPA-SE corner of McComb & Landall] until 1914 when he and family moved to Chicago’; their daughters, Corinne and Judith, live in Chicago 9-6-1935

13433-151 1935 wedding of Ruth Batzer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Batzer, to Orville Peterson; 9-27-1935 Election of officers, American Legion Auxiliary

13433-152 10-18-1935 wedding of Millard ‘Satch’ Kapitz to Gladys Leffel of Medford; he operates Little Bohemia in Village and is Sec-treasurer of the Taylor County Democratic Party; 10-25-1935 The Rib Lake Armory was packed when Satch Kapitz gave a wedding dance; 9-28-1935 The Lake Side sold by Ed Stamm to Harry Talbot. ‘It is one of the nicest taverns and dance halls in the county.’

13433-153 RLLC general manager, F.W. Warrington, resigns after only 19 months in Rib Lake 9-27-1935, he cites poor health; 8-23-1935 salary of mail carrier for Rib Lake Route 1 increased from $1740 to $2100 [annually]

13433-154 Obit, Charles Whittlinger, 3-8-1936 Peter Beck tavern remodeled [Block D, Lot 7, MRPA] ‘It proves that hemlock is good lumber’; 1-14-1935 Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Wipperfurth leaving

13433-155 9-20-1935 4-H clubs from Westboro, Chelsea, Highland, Sunny Knoll, Rib River & Rib Lake will meet; 2-7-1936 Soo line train snowbound-could not make it through drifts to Chelsea

13433-156-Mrs. Ole A. Peterson & & daughters [and husband] moving to Phillips – Mr. Peterson has purchased sawmill in Phillips 11-9-1935; 2-20-1936 55,522,000 trees planted in Wisconsin in 1935; 10-4-1935 Ladies Aid of St. John’s Lutheran Church celebrate Silver Jubilee – songs include ‘Ach, Bleib Mit Deiner Gnade.’ Oh, Remain with Your Grace

13433-157- Obit. Oscar Mattox; 3-11-1935 Obit, Duncan Angus McDonald, born Glengarry County, Ontario, Canada

13433-158 12-18-1935 Obit, Mrs. Mathias Hohl, nee Magdalina M. Shoudel; 1-22-1936 35 below temperature

13433-159 Obit, Mrs. Mary Kotche nee Sekadlo 2-21-1936; 2-28-1936 Dr. R.G. Mauch, Dentist, who also has an office in Ogema, was stopped by blinding snow at Niggemann’s farms on STH 102

13433-160 2-21-1936 Mr. Gustafson, Rib Lake coal deather, has done his best to fill coal orders for Rib Lake homes; The RLLC will deliver 4 ft of dry hemlock slabwood and edgings at $3.5 per corn and 16 inch green slabwood and edgings at $2.00 per load anywhere in the village.

13433-161 2-21-1936 41 below 0 temperatures

Here ends Anna May Kennedy’s mounted clippings – scrapbook, loose clippings 162-170 continue

13433-162 Sandon, British Columbia 6-12-1899 ‘Glengarians Abroad’ NB-J.J. Kennedy and family from Glengarry, Ontario, Canada

13433-163 4-12-1928 Obit, John J. Kennedy, Portland, Oregon; ‘Prominent Glengarian dies at Portland, Oregon.’ Age 82, father, John Hugh Roy Kennedy, married Flora McLennan; ‘After leaving Glengarry, the late Mr. Kennedy followed lumbering enterprises for many years and spent the better part of his business career at Rib Lake, Wisconsin, where he accumulated a comfortable competence.’

13433-164 Obit, Portland, Oregon, Donald Anous Kennedy-son of John J. Kennedy; widow-Winifred, brother-Bert; sisters, Mrs. Nat McDouglall, Mrs. David Moffat Myers, all of Portland

13433-165 Obit 11-14-1918 at Amelia Saskatchewan, Canada, Stewart Kennedy, son of Hugh Kennedy, nephew of John J. Kennedy

13433-166 ‘hymeneal’ wedding, Hugh Kennedy-Catherine A. Fischer at Ontario House, Cornwall, Canada

13433-167 RLHe 4-27-1945 Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kennedy visit his sister, Anna May Kennedy

13433-168 Obit, Edward Talbot; 7-17-1936 heat wave at Rib Lake

13433-169 4-30-1935 farewell part for Mr. and Mrs. F.W. Warrington, General Manager, RLLC

13433-170 RLHe files for 10-11-1912 e.g. ‘Robert Rusch has begun has apprentice shop (sic) in Eric Gilbertson’s shoe shop

13434-Quote of John J. Kennedy ‘Don’t you believe it for a moment’ when asked if it was true that he intented to leave Wisconsin and go into the lumber business in Idaho. Photocopy of article in ‘Hotels’, Milwaukee Sentinel, 9-17-1903, p. 4

13435-Map 1-1-1905 ‘Rib Lake Depot Grounds’ by Wisconsin Central Railway – title portion

13435A-’Reference’ list of real estate transferred by Wisconsin Central Railway

13435B-sawmill, Commercial Hotel (‘post office’), log pond

13435C-sawmill-McComb Ave.

13435D-Map of entire Depot Grounds – in color (not printable as is)

13435E-The entire map in 4 parts-west to east; west-most section of map, Wis. Central Railroad from Chelsea, mile post 5, charcoal kilns-owner Ernest Earlstein of Chicago, Hemlock & Pine Streets & Block 7, original [1895] plat of Village of Rib Lake

13435E1-Map caption, ‘Wisconsin Central Railroad Map of Rib Lake Depot Grounds 1-1-1905’ depot, sheep pens, ‘reference’ listing railroad property leased or sold

13435E2-RLLC mill and yard complex, ‘tie mill’ = Hintz, later, Mathe sawmill, log pond, Commercial Hotel & post office

13435E3-east-most part of map, U.S. Leather Co. tannery and building complex; Henry W. Voss & John J. Voemastek buildings, McComb’s Racing Park Addition plat

13435E4-tannery complex

13436-’The Chelsea-Rib Lake Branch, 1883-1951’ Part 1 by RPR & Jim Welton ‘The Soo’ The Soo Line Historical & Technical Society, V 27 #4 Fall of 2005 – Cover page

13436A-Article page 1; P. RLLC No. 3 locomotive at Rib Lake Depot 5-1912

13436B-P. 2 map; ‘Log movements from Hovland [Minn.] to Rib Lake; P. Chelsea turntable c. 1890

13436C-P. 3; P. Chelsea c. 1890

13436D-P. 4; P. Chelsea Water tank 9-1917 Map’ c. 1918

13436E-P. 5; P. Chelsea depot c. 1910; P. Chelsea depot 6-13-1939

13436F-P. 6; Map Rib Lake c. 1925 by Rick Johnson

13436G-P. 7; P. Rib Lake depot 9-1917 & 6-13-1939

13436H-P. 8; P. Soo line locomotive 2646 6-13-1939; corrected dates by RPR 5-2010

13436I-P. 9; P. Wisconsin Central trail No. 104 approaching Silver Creek trestle, 6-13-1939, Westboro, WI

13436J-P. 10; P. Soo Line locomotive #2546 at Rib Lake dry yard 6-13-1939

13436K-P. 11; P. Chelsea depot & outhouse 6-24-1964 view north; map; Rib Lake’s Soo – MT&W connections c. 1910

13437-‘Rib Lake Lumber Company’ Part 2 by RPR & Jim Welson ‘The Soo’ The Soo Line Historical & Technical Society, V 28 #1 Winter 2006 – cover page

13437A-Article P. 1; P. Lima built shay locomotive No. 1; RLLC hauling 8 cars of logs c. 1910 [Anmnotations in long hand by RPR]

13437B-P. 2; P. Tallyman c. 1920

13437C-P. 3; P. RLLC mill complex view east; McComb Ave. in foreground c. 1925; P in center is not at Rib Lake; P. lower-RLLC locomotive 101 2-6-2 c. 1920’s

13437D-P. 4; P. W.A. Osburn Lumber Co. [prior to changing its name to RLLC in 1902) No. 3 locomotive climax at Rib Lake hot pond

13437E-P. 5; P. RLLC locomotive No. 3 1946

13437F-P. 6; P. RLLC locomotive No. 67; P. lower Westboro-later Medford Lumber Co – 70-ton Shay locomotive

13437G-P. 7; P. RLLC locomotive No. 101 4-24-1947; P. 3-stall engine house 4-24-1947

13437H-P. 8; P. RLLC locomotive No. 101 switching at hot pond 4-24-1947

13437I-P. 9; P. RLLC caboose 4-24-1947 formerly Wisconsin Central No. 99040; P. Rib Lake 5-4-1912 lake filled with logs

13437J-P. 10; P. 4-24-1947 view northeast from enginehouse; P. center-Chelsea Depot c. 1907; P. right-Chelsea Depot 9-1917

13438-Map 1974, Rib Lake & Environs, UW Press, white is non-forest

13439-Map - Wisconsin Highways 2008

13440-Receipt ‘Rib Lake Music Center’ 5-2010 (in former Gamble’s Store)

13441-$20 bill issued by ‘The First National Bank of Rib Lake’ ‘series of 1929’ signed James Upjohn, President from Wayne Tlusty collection

13441-back side of $20 bill

13442-W. ‘U.S. Leather earns profit of $313,537’, New York Times 2-2-1937

13443-P. 4-2010 ‘Former site of CCC Camp Mondeaux River Co. 1603, 1933-1942’ Town of Westboro, NE SW 11-33-1 West

13444-P. 4-2010 former Rindt 1-room school, 29-33-1E, L-R; Katie Strobach, Beka Strobach, Ryan Strobach, view to SE

From Margaret Nelson collection

13445-P. c. 1910, barn & windmill, Peterson farm 32-34-3E Town of Spirit; L-R; Ole A. Peterson, Nulda Gustafson, Jennie Peterson

13446-P. c. 1910 Cut’s Mill, 7 unidentified loggers on rollway, teamster with team of oxen

13447-P. c. 1912, Hay Creek logging camp between Tomahawk & Tripoli on Old Highway 91

13447A-backside-Partial identifications

13448-P. c. 1915 unidentified wood fram logging camp; teamsters with 7-horse teams

13449-P. c. 1915 unidentified logging camp; large crew with cooks in white; team of white horses; R-rear of empty log sleigh

13450-P. c. 1915 3 unidentified loggers decking logs

13451-P. c. 1915 hog butchering; L-Ole A. Peterson; R-Gust Danielson

End of Margaret Nelson collection

13452-W. ‘Another landmark gone-The Commercial House [Hotel] is no more’ RLHe 2-18-1910 [location of Commercial Hotel shown #13435B]

13453-Access data – US Federal Censuses,

13454-Postcard 3-3-1987 RPR to Mr. & Mrs. Herman & Martha Rusch

13454A-P. St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Rib Lake, south side c. 1950

13455-Email-Karen Baumgartner 2-7-2010 re Bird’s Nest Tavern-f.k.a. Busy Bee Café

13455A-Photo of tavern with roof ornament

13456-Email-Karen Baumgartner 2-7-2010; children of Orville A. Peterson & Ruth Peterson, nee Batzer

13457-’Rib Lake, Wis. Merchants (1921-1930) as remembered by Ruth Batzer Peterson March 2010’

13457A-ibid p. 2, Blocks C&D, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

13458-Map c. 11-11-1921, Rib Lake businesses, Block B&C, McComb’s Racing Park Addition by RPR 2-6-2010

13458A-ibid Block A, Block D

13459-Note 3-25-2010, Karen Baumgartner re Hebrew signature of Paulina Marcus, Taylor Co. Register of Deeds Office, mortgage, V. 63, P. 113 Doc. #78382

13460-L. August 20, 1909, Thomas Brehm, Rib Lake, Wis. To Richard Monthey, Ogema, Route One, quote on mason work

13460A-note by Luann & Darrel Lind 4-1-2010 explaining discovery of Brehm Lettter [13460]

13461-Map 3-26-2010 by RPR ‘Spirit Lake sawmill site’

13462-P. RPR 6-1983, Prentice Depot – view to SE

13462A-ibid, view to west

13462B-ibid, view to west

13463-P. 6-1983 Mud Lake-Kauer barn, view to NW; NB-There are 6 Mud Lake’s in Taylor County]

13464-P. 1981 Albert ‘Happy’ Marschke farm, NW NE 5-33-3E, east side of Little Spirit Lake

13465-P. 1981 STH 102, east side of Little Spirit Lake, view NW

13466-P. 6-1981 American elm trees killed by Dutch Elm disease, Thomas M. Rusch farm, NW SW 7-33-3E

13467-Map 11-2009, Camps 4, 5, 10 & 13, at Albert & Marvin Meier, NB-location of Mud Lake School- T33N-R3&4W

13468-Brochure ‘Welcome to Rib Lake, Wisconsin’ 2009

13468A-back-list of businesses

13469-Biography of John J. Voemastek, 1905, commemorative biographical record of the upper lakes region

13469A-P. 2

13470-Biography of Herman Arthur Rusch, 10-3-1903 to 2-15-1994 by RPR 2-1994

13471-’Where There’s Fire, There’s Family’, Wisconsin Forest History Society newsletter, Fall 2009, by Rolland ‘Rollie’ Thums

13472-P. c. 1910 ‘A famous Wisconsin industry’ 5 unidentified loggers

13472A-back

13473-Postcard 6-13-1988 RPR to Mr. and Mrs. Herman & Martha Rusch ‘A 49 cent postcard made today’

13473A-back P. RPR tractor & wagon on Fritz Knop ski bridge, NW SE 12-33-2E

13474-Email, Matthew J. Reese to RPR 2-13-2010, RLLC locomotive #7, #10009, its history & origins

13474A-P. 2

13474B-PP. the locomotive when owned by West Virginia Northern Railroad

13475-Homestead certificate signed by Benjamin Harrison 6-25-1895 for Siegried Meier, NW ¼, 26-T34N-3E

13476-10-15-1943 ‘A Visit To A Logging Camp Fifty Years Ago’ Merrill Daily Herald by W.D. Lambert, Tomahawk

13477-’A Visit to A Logging Camp in the Year 1943’ 10-15-1943 Merrill Daily Herald by M. [Mully] N. Taylor

13478-’Another Day Another Dollar’ 10-15-1943 Merrill Daily Herald; Ad-Natzke-Scheu loggers

13479-Map 3-26-2010 Glengarry, Ontario, Canada-birthplace of J.J. Kennedy

13479A-ibid, close-up

Mary A. Gebauer collection

13480-P. c. 1920 Polzin’s Place, Whittlesey, Wis. after windstorm; classical gable barn

13481-L. 9-3-1931 Hall Hardware Co. to Mary Gebauer

13481A-Envelope with 2 cent stamp 9-3-1931

13482-P. Mary A. Gebauer c. 1931

13483-P. ‘The Medford Clinic’ c. 1930, S. Wisconsin Ave., Medford

13484-P. ‘Post Office, Medford, Wis’ c. 1930, J.W. Benn Bldg. S. Main St.

13485-P. c. 1925 Medford High School, Clark St.

13486-P. c. 1985 burning Rib Lake Town Hall

13486A-ibid-firemen at ready

13486B-ibid-building collapses, R-Town garage; rear-Alfred Unick residence

13487-P. c. 1980 New Lake Theatre, vacant-windows out

13488-Mortgage John J. Kennedy & Flora M. Kennedy 8-31-1896, to Beals Terry & Co. of Milwaukee, $3,055.65, covers Rib Lake sawmill, hotel, barn, store, [workers’] houses, subject to prior mortgages; 1) $47,442 F N Bank; 2) $15,000 S. Bank; 3) $2,000 Phil Furguson; 4) $5,285 Roundy; 5) $3,302 Pritzlaff, also subject to land contract 8-1-1894 to Fayette Shaw. Vol. 9 of Mortgages, pp. 238-243, Taylor Co. Register of Deeds

13488A-p. 2

13488B-p. 3

13488C-p. 4

13488D-p. 5

13488E-p. 6

13489-Map 10-1939 ‘Phillips 66 war map of the world’

13489A-Assorted views

13489B-Assorted views

William Schreiner collection, d/b/a Rib Lake Roller Mills

13490-Brochure-Poultry Mashes ‘Rib Lake Roller Mills, Rib Lake, Wis’

13490A-Back

13491-L. 11-22-1943 Caloric gas stove works to Rib Lake Roller Mills; Attn-Vicgtor Kohn, Prop.

13491A-enclosure-How to burn coal

13492-Doboy Feeding Efficiency Guide, c. 1980

13493-Doboy Price List 8-14-1978

13494-Check stub, Rib Lake Dairy to Vic Kohn ‘Roller Mills’ c. 1960

13495-P. 1963 3 persons in Rib Lake parade, ‘How-de-do in 62’ L-Victor Kohn

13496-American Red Cross certification card for Victor Kohn 4-15-1935

13496A-back

13497-P. 4 horse team pulling Rib Lake Roller Mills float, McComb Ave-just north of Railroad St.; L-R unknown, unknown, Victor Kohn, rear-small brick building, former RLLC yard office; center-former RLLC dry kiln; R-former William Gessert barn on south side of Railroad St; c. 1960

13498-Receipt, Rib Lake Roller Mills, 10-16-1957, initials J (John) Schreiner

Annual Rib Lake Roller Mills Doboy Day Open House

13499-P. Hooded child draws name from box held by John Schreiner

Volume (Disc)- #13500-13599

13500-P. The lucky winner is—

13501-P. Another drawing, Bill Schreiner holds box of names as his father, John, reads name

13502-P. John Schreiner sitting c. 1970

13503-P. Inside Rib Lake Roller Mills, L-Otto Ziemke; R-Ben Wudi, c. 1970

13504-P. Louie & Regina Czerniak & children c. 1970

13505-P. At the open house; L-R, Henry & Dorothy Steinman, Max & Bessie Scheller, Doboy sales rep Mel Albright

13506-P. talking farming, 3 unidentified men c. 1970

13507-P. can you guess who the salesman is?

13508-P. The ladies coffee corner; rear-’Home’ scale

13509-P. John Schreiner & 2 unidentified farmers c. 1970

13510-P. Mom & 4 beeming kids

13511-P. Lady on scale c. 1970

13512-P. 4 unidentified men ‘Morning Glory’ half gallon paper container

13513-P. 3 boys resting on feed sacks, hand dollies in foreground

13514-P. inside a dairy barn; R-John Schreiner & Sales Rep talking to pipe holding farmer c. 1970

13515-P. inside Rib Lake Roller Mills, John & Bill Schreiner filling 100 pound feed sacks

13516-P. Andy Holzl filling feed sacks; poster reads Red Wind brand linseed oil

13517-Child Labor Permit 6-20-1977 for Robert P. Schreiner for ‘Feed Processing’

13518-P. at cash register, R-L John Schreiner, Mrs. Edna (John) Schreiner, Smiling Stan Olson c. 1970

13519-P. 9-1974 L-R, John & Edna Schreiner, Bob Pansan; foreground-adding machine with paper tape

13520-P. c. 1970 John Schreiner loading sack into back of pick-up truck at loading dock

13521-P. Obit 6-25-1975 Wilhelm ‘Bill’ Krasin-father of Edna Schreiner

13522-Deed 8-3-1977 Mr. & Mrs. John P. & Edna Schreiner to William J. & Laura Schreiner for Lots 7 & 8, Block G, McComb’s Racing Park Addition – Rib Lake Roller Mills site

13522A-back

13523-Bill of Sale 8-3-1977

13523A-back

13524-Chattel Security Agreement 8-3-1977

13524A-back

13524B-’Schedule A’

13525-L. 9-3-1977 Atty. Raymond F. Thums to Mr. & Mrs. John P. Schreiner ‘Krueger, Thums, Tlusty & Hittner’ service corporation

13526-P. c. 1978 on the loading dock; center-William ‘Bill’ Schreiner; back-office of Rib Lake Telephone Company, SE corner of Fayette & S. Front St.

13527-Bill of Sales, Rib Lake Roller Mills-’William Schriner, President’ $10.34

13528-’Fire Prevention Inspection’ report 2-2-1980 ‘check mill, seems to be in good housekeeping order’ /s/ Duane Warner

13529-Newsletter Doboy ‘Keeping Posted’ 2-1988 front page

13529A-P. 3 Bill Schreiner interview re his purchase of feed mill at Hannibal, Taylor Co., Wis.

13529B-back

13530-P. north side of Rib Lake Roller Mills c. 1980

13531-P. interior of Rib Lake Roller Mills, 3 unidentified employees coated in grain dust c. 1980; NB-safety helmets hang-dust-covered-on rear wall

13532-P. long haired unidentified employee making deliveries at farm yard c. 1985

13533-P. c. 1937 1-eyed calf, born on Rib Lake area farm of Edward Christensen-died shortly after birth-as of 5-20-2010, it’s stuffed body remains at Rib Lake Roller Mills

13533A-info re calf-born Nov. or Dec. 1936

13534-P. stuffed body of 1-eyed calf 7-1964 with false, glass eye-since stolen

End of William Schreiner collection

RPR collection

13535-’Blueprint’ for Wilbert Blomberg Builders 7-8-1984 of barn, a/k/a ‘Schuppen’ built for RPR at his home, SW NE 13-33-2E, drawn by Chester ‘Chet’ J. Decker

13535A-north & south side

13535B-East side

13535C-top view – NG-bow string steel rods

13536-P. decking crew with dog c. 1930

13537-P. Lawrence Brandt c. 1930

13538-P. ‘Old Alex Scott’ on horse c. 1920

13539-P. ‘Cedar King’ c.1934, unidentified logger sitting on drey after cutting white cedar poles/posts

13540-P. ‘Albert Northland (Boss)’ c. 1920, carrying cedar log on shoulder

13541-P. ‘Singles’ freshly cut white cedar c. 1920, NB-hollow log

13542-P. ‘Loading shingle butts’ 3 man crew loading railroad flat car ‘No. 216’ with white cedar, Polley, Wis. c. 1920, log carried on overhead line from rollway to flat car, railroad probably Stanley, Merrill & Phillips, a/k/a Slow Motion & Poverty

13543-P. McGiffert Loader ‘Steam Jammer’

13544-P. ‘1930 spring at Rib Lake’ peeled white cedar for electric-telephone poles c. 1930

13545-P. Camp 26 & visitor 9 buildings shown

13546-P. Camp 18 rollways, McGiffert loader

13546A-explanatory data re Camp 18 by Frank Erdman, who worked there as McGiffert loader operator ‘At Camp 18 logs were piled for 2 miles along railroad on each side’ 3 jammers worked at Camp 18 for 3 years, 1) one for RLLC, 2) one for Mosinee, Wis. paper mill, 3) one swing jammer; much of logging done there (Town of Corning, Lincoln Co) by jobbers, including Taylor & Scheu, 28 jobbers, many sleigh roads ran to railroad track

13547-P. ‘Rib Lake, Wis. #87’ c. 1917 rollway at Freiman’s Landing – 1 mile west of Wood Lake

13547A-back, Matt Lamberty writes to Katie Enders

13548-P. c. 1910 RLLC Steam hauler & 7 sleighs, Chester Curran standing third from left

13549-P. ‘Rib Lake, Wis’ side view-steam hauler, 2 unidentified men, NB-sliding door c. 1910, faint smoke from chimney

13550-P. ‘filling the tank’ ‘WRC’. This photo shows a two-person crew using a team to pull water barrel to top of water tank sleigh; wood fired stove inside tank keeps water from freezing. NB-smoke from chimney pipe, non-working horse team protected from cold by blankets; R-ice road, NB-caterpillar tracks on road from steam hauler.

This c. 1910 photo shows two men taking water from Rib Lake to fill a sleigh tanker. The man on the right holds a pole attached to a barrel which hauls water up the inclined ‘ladder’ to the top of the tank where it tipped, pouring its contents into the tank.

The teamster on the left had charge of the horse team which pulled the barrel via a long chain – here hidden by snow.

Every cold night the tanker team would sprinkle water on the ice road to thicken it and ‘repair it’ from the damage done to the ice by the caterpillar tread of the steam hauler. A special crew of the RLLC was routinely assigned to this task. Apart from Rib Lake itself, water holes were built along the ice road approximately one mile apart to provide the crew with additional water. One report indicated that along shaded portions of the ice road 15 inches of ice remained as late as May 1.

The same or a similar photo can be seen at 13551, 13552, 14115 & 16242.

13551-P. ‘Filling the tank’ ‘Rib Lake, Wis’ c. 1910, NB-rope across tanker will pull water barrel for loading into top of tanker

13552-P. ‘Filling the tank #131 Rib Lake, Wis’ W.R.C. c. 1910, on NE shore of Rib Lake, rear left-water tower of RLLC & building on west shore, rear right-high school, piles of logs on lake, slide on right of tank guides water barrel to tanker top, NB-freshly tipped/emptied barrel

13553-P. c. 1917 RLLC mill under construction, R-McGiffert loader on railroad track; foreground-future off-loading site to hot pond; view to SW

13554-P. ‘Mill Scene Rib Lake, Wis #’ c. 1905; rear-3 smoke stacks-metal, McComb Ave in foreground

13555-P. c. 1920 7 loaded flat cars at hot pond; foreground-hog feed & wood blocks trash; view to SSW, water vapor/smoke over hot pond obscures mill buildings in rear

13556-P. ‘Rib Lake and saw mill, Rib Lake, Wis. 11’ c. 1928, saw mill complex along lakeshore, partially obscured by steam, view west

13557-P. ‘Rib Lake Scene, Rib Lake, Wis.’ c. 1920, foreground-rowboat, NB-single brick chimney at mill; rear-steeple, St. John’s Lutheran Church

13558-P. c. 1940 ‘A general scene at Rib Lake, Wisconsin 20’ 16 loaded log flat cars, view SW from Fayette Ave.

13559-P. 1948 ‘Last load of lumber from the old mill, Rib Lake, Wis. 56’ on door of truck ‘Claude Peterson, Medford, Wis.’ center-RLLC machine shop; rear-NW corner of RLLC mill; foreground-McComb Ave.

13560-P. c. 1920 ‘Rib Lake Lumber Co. Rib Lake, Wis. K-955’ mill complex from tramway

13560A-back

13561-P. c. 1940 ‘Lumber yard 6’ dry yard, view SW; right-steeple Methodist Church; left-steeple Catholic Church

13562-P. ‘Rib Lake Lumber Co. Rib Lake, Wis. K-957’ c. 1920, hemlock yard, neat piles of air drying lumber as far as eye can see, view west, in 2010 site is Rib Lake library, Pearl Street

13562A-back, postcard to Mr. and Mrs. W. (Walter) E. Kurth, Milwaukee, Wis, 1 cent stamp

13563-W. A Ditty on the letter ‘K’ printed in the ‘Twentieth Century Club Primer’ c. 1910 ‘K is for Kennedy’s –my there is a stack of ‘em, yet in other places there is a lack of ‘em, now is our chance to get a good whack at ‘em.’

13564-W. Map ‘Timm’s Hill National Trail’ c. 2009 with 2 ‘Points of Interest’ by RPR & Todd Olson

13564A-Back side & contact info for Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club & High Point Ski Club

13565-P. Marliin Walbeck & sons

13565A-back-bios

13566-W. Booklet ‘Directory-Rib Lake United Methodist Church..’ July 2005 cover

13566A-P. Pastors Cheri & John Miskimen

13566B-Photos of parishioners p. 2

13566C-Photos of parishioners p. 3

13566D-Photos of parishioners p. 4

13566E-Photos of parishioners p. 5

13566F-P. 6 Children’s photos

13566G-P. 7 Worship photos

13566H. P. 8 Musical photos

13566I. P. 9 ‘Sharing by Fellowship’

13566J. P. 10 ‘Sharing through Committees’

13566K. P. 11 ‘Sharing through Laughter’

13566L. P. 12 ‘Sharing History’

13566M-P. 13 ‘Sharing Friends & family not available for pictures’

13566N-P. 14 parishioners – names & addresses

13566O-P. 15 parishioners – names & addresses

13566P-P. 16 parishioners – names & addresses

13567-Rib Lake Herald 8-22-1947 Top of page 1, [hard copy at SF-Herald 8-22-1947]

13568-Decal ‘Operation Desert Storm – Support Our Troops’ c. 2005

13569-Map 1-1-1940 World Syndicate Publishing – title page

13569A-North America

13569B-Panama Canal Zone

13569C-Europe

13569D-USSR (Russia) & Baltic States (dashed lines show part of Poland seized by USSR since start of WWII 9-1-1939-RPR)

13570-W. Booklet ‘Twentieth Century Club 1901-1902’

13570A-Title page

13570B-October topics

13570C-December topics

13570D-March 1902 topics

13571-Rib Lake Girl Scout Roster 9-1958

13572-Rib Lake Girl Scout Roster 9-1959

13573-Rib Lake Girl Scout Roster 9-1960

13574-Rib Lake Girl Scout Roster 9-1961

Collection of Alfred Unick

13575-Boy Scouts of America Troop Charter #324, Rib Lake, Wis, 9-30-1961

13576-3-ring binder ‘Troop Records’ BSA-cover

13576A-Divider ‘Troop #24 signed Rolland Thums 1957’

13576B-back of divider

13576C-Minutes 9-24-1964

13576D-back

13576E-Minutes 10-1-1964

13576F-Minutes 10-7-1964

13576G-Minutes 10-22-1964

13576H-Minutes 11-12-1964

13576I-Minutes 12-3-1964

13576J-Minutes 1-21-1969 (sic)

13576K-back divider signed ‘Raymond Thums scribe 1953’

13576L-back cover of 3-ring binder ‘Rolland Thums is Stupid’

13577-W. ‘RLLC of Delaware payroll allotment plan for purchase of Series ‘E’ US Savings Bond’ 1-19-1942

13577A-P. 2 ‘To all employees’

13577B-P. 3

13577C-P. 4 table of redemption values

13578-RLHe 4-2-1948 ad ‘For sale-Hay and logging equipment of every description. Inquire at Rib Lake Lumber Company Phone 22, Rib Lake, Wis.’

13578A-back-ad Harold Stassen for president

13579-family tree-Katherine Deloris Krueger, Eden Prairie, Wis.

13580-Painting (partial) by Don S. Salmela ‘The Phoenix’ i.e. steam hauler made by Phoenix Iron Works of Eau Claire, Wis (it was the steam hauler used at Rib Lake 1906-1924)

13581-W. ‘The Wisconsin Area Research Center Network’

Donations from Stanley Hebda, Jr.

13582-Calendar, RLLC of Delaware, Rib Lake, Wisconsin, Jan. 1945

13582A-back ‘What’s wrong with this picture’ ‘How many things can you find in the picture that are unsafe’ ‘You tell us – and win $100’

13582B-’What’s wrong with this picture’ ‘Last chance to win $100’

13582BB-Ibid-Rescan

13583-Calendar, Jan. 1944, RLLC of Delaware

13583A-back, safety message

13584-Calendar, Jan. 1944, Seidel’s Food Store, G.L. Seidel, Prop. General Merchandise, Phone 512, Rib Lake, Wis.

13584A-back ‘Your health in this woods’ ‘Treatment for snake bite’

13585-Ink blotter ‘Automobile Insurance Freiberg-Trantow Agency, Rib Lake, Wis’ Aetna

13586-W. 1947 Annual report, St. John the Baptist Congregation, Rev. Frederick A. Stock, C.PP.S., Pastor

13586A-Individual offerings

13586B-ibid

13586C-Individual offerings

13586D-individual and CYO group

13586E-grade school pupils-offerings

13586F-ibid

13586G-financial report

13586H-Christian Mother’s Confraternity

13587-W. ‘Paul Bunyan Logging Camp, Eau Claire, Wi’

13587A-’How this exhibit was born’

13587B-History of lumbering in this Chippewa Valley

13587C-Eau Claire – A river crossroads

13587D-transporting logs and lumber

13587E-the end of the harvest

13587F-photos

13587G-photos

13587H-Paul Bunyan logging camp-a recreation

13587I-life in a logging camp

13587J-P. A wanigan

13587K-logging stamps

13587L-the comforts of home-almost

13587M-P. interior –cook shanty

13587N-map-Chippewa River (NB-Silver Creek starts in So. Harper Lake & empties into the Jump River-RPR)

13588-Booklet ‘Paul Bunyan-The Giant Lumberjack’

13588A-Baby Paul arrives

13588B-Sport, the Reversible Dog

13589-Map ‘Appalachian Trail’ 2010 Mt. Katahdin, Maine

13589A-New York area

13589B-Virginia-North Carolina

13589C-So. Terminus, Springer, MT [The Ice Age National Scenic Train thru Rib Lake is modeled after the A.T.-RPR]

13590-P. ‘Sawmill at Rib Lake, Wis. 31’c. 1940, planning mill in foreground, back-smoke billows from stack, ‘RLLC Quality Lumber’

13591-P. ‘RLLC, Rib Lake, Wis. 18’ c. 1930, foreground McComb Ave. & machine shed

13592-P. ‘Sawmill, Rib Lake, Wis. 41’ c. 1930, view west from cemetery across lake

13593-P. boom across Rib Lake, string of unloaded flatcars, logs fill lake for c. 200 feet from railroad, c. 1920

13594-P. 4 men on tramway c. 1915, R-Otto Reinhart Julius Rusch on tram car, X-unknown, Joe Lilly-maybe; L-Max Clendenning, view west

13595-P. c. 1950, Rudy J. Mueller ‘Rudy’ last RLLC manager, RLLC mill being razed; L-mill yard office with WWII sign-honor roll-RLLC employees in military & loyal service; back-elevated building appears to have partially rebuilt board side; R-part of brick building [c. 1952 RPR found RLLC employee medical records]; back tramway & planing mill have been removed; view SE, photo taken on McComb Ave.

13596-P. c. 1951, view NE from Railroad St., L-part of new clinic building on McComb Ave.; former RLLC machine shop ‘Rib Lake’ painted on roof, small brick mill building, RLLC chimney; part of gable of ‘Fire hole/boiler room’ R-former RLLC dry kiln

13597-P. c. 1951 former RLLC smoke stack & part of ‘fire hole/boiler room’, view SE, foreground STH 102

13598-P. c. 1900, Rib Lake Village center from chimney of tannery, view SW, back right-Catholic church

13599-P. c. 1920, south side of Rib Lake Village – aka ‘Kennedy Town’ from planing mill chimney; ‘Rib Lake, Wisconsin K-682’ view west; R-lumber piles in dry yard

Volume (Disc)- #13600-13699

13600-bottle cap, Tlusty Beverage Co., Rib Lake ‘Rib Lake Beverages Root Beer’ c.1960

13601-P. c. 1925, L-National Hotel-north side facing Railroad St.; center-South Side Garage; gas pumps, Gray’s Buffet/Restaurant, R-Central Hotel, a/k/a Mathias Hotel

13602-P. ‘Rib Lake, Wisconsin K-683’ c. 1920, view SSW from planing mill chimney; Fore-center-National Hotel, back-center-Ward School; R-(partial) Central Hotel; rear-J.J. Kennedy built company houses

13603-P. c. 1912 ‘Drive around Rib Lake #138 Wis.’ by W.R. Claussen; center-Germania Hall-later Lakeside Tavern; view west

13604-P. c. 1920, 1104 Church St., in 1986 residence of Dr. D.D. & Star Powers-DDS ‘Lake Street, Rib Lake, Wis-5-’ view west down Lake Street

13605-P. c. 1920, ‘Central Hotel’ view s from Railroad St.

13606-P. c. 1960 ‘Golden Home, Rib Lake, Wis. 60-12’ former Central Hotel now Golden Age Nursing Home, view s from Railroad St.

13607-P. 1905 view east between Sec. 25 & 36, T33N-R2E in 2010 Fawn Ave. ‘The East Road’, buildings on horizon, right side of road, are home & barn of Berthold Hein, NW NE 36 33 2E, see Hein collections for additional photos

13608-P. 1940 ‘Scene on Spirit Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. 30’ STH 102, view north, L-Little Spirit Lake

13609-P. c. 1930 ‘Bridge over Spirit River, Rib Lake, Wis. 15’

13610-P. c. 1930 ‘The Bay, Spirit Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. 34’, Little Spirit Lake, view west

13611-P. c. 1960, ‘Spirit Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. 66’

13612-P. c. 1905, water tower on Lake Street, view north, boom across Rib Lake

13613-P. c. 1960 ‘South Main Street, Rib Lake, Wis. 95’; L-Boy Scout cabin; R-Sinclair gas station; view n on McComb Ave.

13614-P. c. 1920 McComb Ave. northward, 4 tiered telephone poles, R-’The Fair’ P.E. Marcus Store; L-’Groceries’ on awning & ‘Boots & Shoes’ on store front-in 1980 Nancy Strobach store

13615-P. c. 1920 view S on McComb Ave., L-’D-X’ gas sign at SE corner of Fayette & McComb, R-’Little Bohemia Tavern’ later Schlais Clothing Store, NB-not to be confused with Little Bohemia on east side of McComb built c. 1946 by Rudy Kapitz

13616-P. 1945 Rib Lake Volunteer Fire Dept. FWD truck, names on back-’Ed Kenney, Al Hurtgen, Herman Monske, Bill Gilge, Claude Schelly, George Seidel, Ed Martin, John Voemastek, Jim Downs, Herman Batzer, ? Peterson, Art Taylor’ view west to Steeple of Rib Lake High School, R-Lakeshore Dr.

13617-P. 1930 parade on McComb Ave.; Center-RLVFD truck FWD; R-Joe Lilly gas station; view to SW

13618-P. c. 1930 parade float on McComb Ave, R-Frank Becker store ‘Groceries’ on window; X-Joe Lilly gas station; X-Rib Lake Herald office building, top-Seidel grocery store C-1 MRPA

13619-P. c. 1930 car in parade-driving north on McComb Ave, sign 20¢ and 35¢; R-Joe Lilly gas station

13620-P. c. 1952, float on McComb Ave. ‘On the sunny side of the street’ ‘1897-1952’ Rib Lake Herald’ R-Coffee Cup Cake; Center rear-’Kelvinator’ sign on Arnold’s l/k/a Coast to Coast hardware store view NE

13621-Map 6-20-2010 ‘Rib Lake, WI Early Roads, Trails & Railroads’ by R.P. Rusch; composite map of selected tote (wagon-supply) roads, sleigh & steamhauler roads & Wis. Central Railroad 1881-1924

Collection of Agnes ‘Aggie’ L. Bonde

13622-’Miss Agnes L. Bonde return address labels, c. 2000

13623-Part of 1913 Taylor Co. Atlas, Town of Rib Lake, T33N R3E showing Phillip & Elizabeth Bonde fafrm/home-NW NW 10-33N-3E, later Agnes L. Bonde home, N8343 STH 102, Rib Lake, WI 54470-9434, Mud Lake & School locations

13624-Lower Photo-John & Margetha Bonde (nee Lummerding) c. 1880, upper P-ibid homestead

13625-Personal data-John Bonde (7-5-1841 to 5-16-1897) & wife Margaretha nee Lemmerding (9-6-1851 to 8-23-1919), children 1)Elizabeth 1877-1950, 2) Philip 12-1-1879 to 9-10-1962, marries Elizabeth Stirn, 3) Peter 12-26-1881 to 1950, 4) Mary 1883-1930, 5) Theodore 12-8-1886, 6) Clara 7-10-1888 to 5-29-1976, 7) Annie 8-24-1890 to 8-30-1947, 8) Nickolas ‘Nick’ 10-9-1892 to 5-11-1973

13626-P. & Bio, Elizabeth Bonde (1877-1950)

13627-P. & children data of Phillip Bonde 12/1/1879 – 9/10/1962, 10/7/1907 marries Elizabeth Stern a/k/a Stirn, children: 1) John ‘Johny’ 8-22-1908, never marries-lives with sister Agnes L. Bonde on home place; 2) Katherine 5/23/1910 marries Peter Kauer, mother of Ben Kauer 1944-; 3) Isabelle 6-23-1912; 4) Andrew 2/22/1914; 5) Isadore 7/17/1916, marries Clarissa – Joseph 1972, William, Joan-m. David Kestler---Nick Kestler; 6) Marie, marries Ray Schlosser, Jr.; 7) Agnes ‘Aggie’ L. Bonde, unmarried, lives with brother John on home place;

13628-P. Peter J. Bonde b. 12-26-1881, d. 1950, marries Agnes Gurdinger, b. 10-12-1893, children-1) Eleann 10/7/1913-5/2/1928; 2) Marie 11/28/1915-2/3/1978; 3) Raymond 1/24/1917-5/13/1928; Agnes 1/24/1919

13629-P. Mary Rock nee Bonde, 12-7-1883 to 1930, born Township of Maine, Manitowoc Co,Wis. married Peter Rock 1873 to 12-14-1948

13630-P. Theodore Bonde, 12-8-1886, married 2-13-1912 to Genevieve Baugist, 8-15-1891 to 8-21-1934, 15 children – data

13631-P. Clara Bushman nee Bonde, 7/10/1888-5/29/1976, 10/12/1909 marries Andrew Bushman,Sr. 6/20/1883-1/17/1963, 15 children data

13632-P. 12-1953 X-mas tree & nativity scene at Clara/Andrew Bushman home

13633-P. Annie Bonde 8/24/1890-8/30/1947 a/k/a Sister Francis Helen, Holy Family Convent, Silver Lake, Wis. Biography

13634-P. Nickolas Bonde & biography, 10/7/1892-5/11/1973, 6 children data

13635-Golden wedding photo 10-7-1957, top L-R-A) Katherine ‘Katie’ Madeline Kauer nee Bonde, a/k/a Mrs. Peter B. Kauer, children Ben Kauer marries Pearl; B) Isadore Bonde, C) Andrew Bonde, D) John ‘Johny’ Bonde, E) Isabelle, nee Bonde; 1) m. Anton Kauer +1957, 2) m. John Nezval; bottom row L-R; A) Agnes ‘Aggie’ L. Bonde; B) Elizabeth nee Stern or Stirn; C) Philip; D) Marie Schlosser nee Bonde

13636-P. c. 1880 ‘Lizzie Stirn’ a/k/a Mrs. Elizabeth Bonde, photographer F.C. Blatter, Town of Lake, Illinois

13637-P. c. 1920 Bonde farm home-west side NW NW 10-33N-2E. Family picture of Elizabeth and Phillip Bonde and children. Left-Isabelle Bonde, later known as Mrs. Tony Kauer, and n/k/a Mrs. John Nezval; next-Katherine Bonde, l/k/a Mrs. Peter B. Kauer; next-Child held by Elizabeth Bonde-Marie Bonde, l/k/a Mrs. Michael Eichorn; next is Phillip Bonde; then John Bonde, then Isadore Bonde, finally Andrew Bonde.

13638-P. c. 1910 couple standing in front of screened six-sided gazebo on west lawn of Bonde farm home, Gazebo was site of many games of Schafskopk/Sheepshead on warm summer evenings

13639-P. c. 1930 groom-Michael Eichorn holding wedding cake, L-R A) Father Freimann, B) woman, C) man, D) Michael Eichorn holding wedding cake; E) bride, F) woman, Mrs. Eichorn; G) rear right-Peter B. Kauer

13640-P. woman in boots & winter coat; rear-S. Side of Bonde house & gazebo

13641-P. wedding party, L-R, A) Joseph ‘Joe’ Quednow; B) Quednow; C) Bride, Annie Quednow; D) Groom, unknown; E) Flower girl unknown; F) Mary Fuchs nee Quednow; G) John Bonde ‘Johny’

13642-P. c. 1910, hay wagon, horse, 3 women, 2 pitch forks stuck in hay, horse wears blinders & straddles tongue of wagon; L-R, A) Isabelle a/k/a Isabella Bonde; B) Elizabeth Bonde; C) Katherine Bonde

13643-Memorial card-Phillip Bonde 12-1-1879, died 9-10-1962,

13643A-back

13644-P. Marie Eichorn nee Bonde holding her first-born child, Dorena, photo taken thru window of Bonde house

13645-P. wedding party, Mr. & Mrs. Michael Eichorn

13646-P. Michael Eichorn in apron, Marie Eichorn nee Boinde, rear-S. Side Bonde house

13647-P. c. 1910, 12 people at SE corner of Bonde house, L-R, A) Isabelle Marie Bonde, wearing suspenders, washing milking equipment, B) unknown girl; C) woman with hat; D) Mr. Schwab, E) Agnes ‘Aggie’ Loretta Bonde, F) Elizabeth Bonde, G) Katherine Bonde, H) Marie Elinor Bonde; I) ___ Schwab; J) John Bonde; K) ___ Schwab; L) Phillip Bonde sitting cross-legged next to machine with crank wheel

13648-P. c. 1937, right side view Steve Rezutek’s Chevy pickup, rear-SE corner Bonde house; R-man with dog

13649-P. 9-1979 Mr. and Mrs. William & Martha Bonde & girls bike riding

13650-P. c. 1925, 2 nicely dressed women with cane fishing poles, R-Ruth Bonde a/k/a Mrs. Vernon Bonde, Spirit Lake

13651-P. c. 1920 Phillip Bonde barn under construction, left bottom floor-dairy cow space. Large center doorway for equipment, loft for hay, Phillip Bonde used his own mill to saw the lumber for his barn-in 2010 mill owned

13652-P. c. 1921 same barn as 13652, side view-classic hip roof, wooden ladder hangs horizontally on side, This barn destroyed by tornado/high winds c. 1970

13653-P. c. 2000 4 orange clad deer hunters & 2 spike bucks, L-R, 1) Ralph Bonde, Ely, MN, 2) Eddie Panaski, 3) Kenneth Bonde, Milwaukee, 4) Paul Bonde

13654-P. c. 1940, deer hunter, Isadore Bonde, holds rifle next to his bucks hun on an evener. Center-Elizabeth Bonde, Right-Marie Bonde

13655-P. c. 1935 Marie Bonde, a/k/a Mrs. Michael Eichorn, rear-S side Bonde farm home & Gazebo

13656-P. c. 1920, Phillip Bonde’s steam tractor-’Huber’, pulling hay wagon north of Bonde home, 3 men in foreground carry pitch forks to toss hay onto wagon where 2 unidentified women with their own pitch forks will build pile

13657-P. c. 1940 Marie Elinor Bonde a/k/a Mrs. Michael Eichorn in contemplative pose-rear-Bond yard & hand water pump; Phillip Bonde farmhouse has been just electrified-see vertical wires on exterior

13658-P. c. 1985 John & Agnes Bonde

13659-P. 12-2003 Agnes Bonde

13660-P. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Freimann c. 1910, Freimann farm was E ½ - SW ¼, 21 33 3E

13661-P. c. 1960 former Mud Lake grade school

13662-P. c. 1932 ‘Mud Lake Blackface comedians’ outside of Mud Lake school

13663-Wisconsin drivers license issued to John Bonde 6/27/1930

13663A-back signed by John Bonde

13664-P. 3-27-1939 John Bonde using 5 horse team to plow at Bows Washington

13665-L. 6-14-1944 written by child to John Bonde-while in Army during WWII

13666-P. c. 1934 John Bonde holding badger carcass he trapped and stretched, animal pelt

13667-P. c. 1934 John Bonde with wolf or coyote pelts

13668-P. c. 1950 John Bonde’s pelts hung on wall, round skins are beavers

13669-P. c. 1980 Bonde’s pet fox

13670-5-25-1973 Certificate of Baptism for John Bonde-St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Rib Lake, 8-29-1908

13671-postcard to ‘Master Johnie Bonde’ 11-23-1908

13671A-back

13672-postcard ‘taking life easy in Milwaukee’

13672A-postmark 6-22-1935 to John Bonde, 1 cent stamp

13673-probate notice 1-30-1923, application of Phillip Bonde to be appointed administrator of estate of John Stirn

13674-receipt signed by J.J. Voemastek, owner of Rib Lake Herald, 88-8-30, for $2.00 for a year’s subscription to Rib Lake Herald

13675-L. to editor 1-30-1940 by Phillip Bonde re traffic laws

13676-penny postcard 3-5-1948 to Mrs. Phil Bonde from J.B. Courtney & Co.

13676A-price list for carding wool

13677-L. 2-15-1954 Phillip Bonde to Star News – vox pop re timber tax

13678-Inventory & appraisal 10-29-1962 re estate of Phillip Bonde, 7 pages, signatures of Otto Gerstberger, Florian Turba and Franny P. Schaack

13679-Certificate of Death, Elizabeth Bonde nee Stirn, 4-2-1975

13679A-certification by Harold Gowey

13680-Funeral receipt 4-17-1975 signed by Ruth L. Mannel, $1,466.69-funeral of Elizabeth Bonde

13681-wedding article, Clarissa Parent & Isadore Bonde

13682-obit Sister Francis Helen [Bonde]

13683-P. c. 1970 Father Werner Hemmelgarn

13684-P. c. 1958 Father John Kauer

13685-P. c. 1968 ‘Father John Kauer ‘35 years in his priesthood’

13686-P. & clipping ‘Father John Kauer at back of rectory, Mellen, Wis’

13687-card honoring Reverend John Kauer for 25 years in priesthood ‘Amo Christum’ – Love Christ

13688-card ‘25 anno a prima missa’ 25th anniversary of first mass for Rev. John Kauer 1958

13689-P. wedding of Marie & Mike Eichorn-standing before front door of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Rib Lake

13690-P. R-L, Mike Eichorn (bridegroom), Marie Bonde (bride), Agnes Bonde, George Eichorn, Mary Ann Schlosser nee Bonde

13691-receipt – Taylor Funeral Service 11-1-1962, signed by Kenneth O. Mannel

13692-P. STH 102, flooding at Vlach’s Tavern, NE NW 34-33-2E c. 1930

13693-P. c. 1920 Isabelle & Katherine Bonde in Uncle Andrew Bonde’s clothes

13694-P. c. 1943 using block & tackle to soak 700 lb. pig into water barrel as part of butchering; soaking permitted removal of hair & prepared skin to be used as cracklings (fried pork skin)

13695-P. c. 1943 John Bonde with team hauling heaped pile of marsh hay

13695A-note by John Bonde

13696-P. 1943 2 kids on wagon with 5 milk cans

Robert P. Rusch collection-gifty by Ben & Pearl Kauer from estates of John, Philip & Agnes L. Bonde

13697-W. Book-Der Nord Amerikanische Dolenetscher Und Unfehlbare Rathgeber Fur Einwanderere Und Eingenanderte, Philadelphia, Verlag von Schaefer und Korad, 1867 ‘The North American Translator and trustworthy advice for immigrants & travelers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Schaefer & Korad, Printers, 1867

13697A-Inscription, ‘John Bonde 1869’ data re Mrs. John Bonde, a/k/a Margertha 9/1857-8/23/1919

13697B-Names & birthdays. Children of John & Margertha Bonde

13697C&D-Vorrende ‘Forward’ auf Deutsch

13697E-Declination Des Hauptwortes, declination of important words

13697F-Zahlworter, number written as words

13697G-Zeitwort, tenses

13697H-Worter des taglichen zebens, words of Everday life

13697I&J-Gespraeche, speech [German-English phrases-the last/right column ‘Aussaache’ writes in German the pronumciation of the English phrase.] Annotation of John Bonde, carefully prepared to live in an English speaking, new world – RPR 7/6/2010

13698-W. ‘Hand Dictionary of the English & German Languages’

13698A-P. 1 A words, annotation-John Bonde’s progressive values included buying his own German to English & English to German Dictionaries

13699-W. ‘Maerchen und Eqzaehaungen fuer Anfaengsr’ ‘Fairy tales & stories for beginners’, Dic. Heather, publishers, Boston, 1901

13699A-Signatures of Isabella & Katherine Bonde

13699B&C-Poem-Mein Vaterland ‘My Fatherland’

13699D-Poem-Muttersprache ‘Mother’s tongue’

13699E-Poem, p. 136 & 137

13699F-English translation ‘My Fatherland’

13699F2-English translation ‘Mother’s Tongue’

13699G-ibid p. 2

13699H-preface

13699I-ibid p. 2

Volume (Disc)- #13700-13799

Collection of Agnes & John Bonde

13700-W. ‘The Kaiser’s Prayer’ spoof on German Kaiser Wilhelm II, author unknown, found among papers of Agnes & John Bonde

13701-Postcard ‘Washington Tooth Picks’

13701A-back-post stamp 5-23-1934 addressed to Mr. John Bonde

13702-P. 2-24-1939 Packwood, Washington, veneer block on truck caught eye of John Bonde

13702A-Notes by John Bonde

13703-P. ‘Veneer blocks’ 1939 see 13702

13704-P. black bear begging for food-Photo apparently by John Bonde during 1930 trip to State of Washington

13705-P. ‘(Philip) Bonde’s thrash outfit’ c. 1910, L-steam tractor, R-water tanker wagon, tractor powered by belt, the threshing machine, L-R-Elizabeth Bonde, Katherine Bonde, John Bonde, Phillip Bonde, Louie Schoen, hired hand

13706-P. c. 1940 thrash machine in operation

13707-P. c. 1915 thrash machine, L-straw pile

13708-W. ‘Repair Parts List No. 132, steel thresher, feeder, stacker & grain handler’, J.I. Case Co., Inc., Racine, Wis.

13708A-ibid-index

13708B-handwritten notes by unknown writer

13708D-ibid ‘Herb doctor book’ 1939

13709-P. c. 1930 thresher on truck

13710-P. c. 1930 side view-thresher

13711-P. c. 1930 threshing crew in operation, horse drawn wagon conveys oats or wheat, pipe blows straw into barn, man carries bale of grain to grainery (not pictured)

13712-Phillip Bonde farm ledger May 1933

13712A-P. 265, 1938 income from thrashing, e.g. (Albert) Knop (Sr.) 8-18-1938, paid $5.70 for 120 bushels1938 income $323.63, expenses $166.36, net profit $157.23

13712B-p. 266, trucking expenses for 1939

13712C-p. 267, trashing (sic) income for 1939, e.g. Aug. 22, Albert Knop, Sr. paid $5.00 for 108 bushels

13712D-notes regarding lawsuits

13713-W. 7-2-1966 New Baler Registration and Inspection Certificate, John Bonde & Frederick A. Strombom, seller

13714-P. 1977 Agnes Bonde with truck load of gourds

13715-P. 9-1983 wagon load of pumpkins & gourds, L-Ford 8N tractor

13716-P. 4-21-1982 Bonde farmhouse & Ford 150 pickup, late snowfall

13717-P. ibid, piled snow blocks

13718-P. 9-1987 Ford 8N excavating pond south of Bonde house

13719-P. ibid, dirt excavator (full) attached to rear 3-point hydraulic hookup

13720-W. ‘The Little Treasure Chest’ distributed by Mr. Peter Bogumill, d/b/a The Big Store, Rib Lake, Wis.

13720A-back, Ad for Alpenkraeuter [cabbage juice]

13720B-P. 1

13721-P. c. 1960 Seth Warden ‘Homeless’ Rib Lake man’s story-One winter Joe Kauer felt sorry for Seth & let him stay in the Kauer house. Seth was to chop firewood for his board. Seth never chopped any wood that winter, explaining ‘it was too cold’. Nor in spring, since it was ‘too hot’

13722-p. 1958 Seth Warden & his dog, which he taught to ‘sing’

13723-W. newspaper at Menominee, Michigan, article ‘Driver Scoots free as old road sinks, Rib Lake, Wis. c. 1960, the then sunken town road is in 2010 CTH D, south of SW SW 9-33N-R2E, Town of Rib Lake

13724-P. 11-23-1904 World fair at St. Louis

13724A-back-addressed to ‘Mr. Philip Bonde, R.F.D. [Rural Free Delivery] Rib Lake, Wis.

13725-Postcard ‘Part of factory district, Sheboygan, Wis.’

13725A-back, 10-11-1907 text in German shrift

13726-P. c. 1910 Little Spirit Lake, view eastward from channel

13727-P. c. 1905, S.A. Konz sawmill, Rib Lake, center-top of Earl Earstein charcoal kiln

13728-Ad, Moser & Kohlman ‘Complete words & music of the above songs’ c. 1920

13728A-ibid, ‘My Princess Zulu Lulu’

13729-Ad, songs ‘I hate to get up in the morning’ ‘Tell me dusky maiden’

13729A-Back

13730-P. c. 1910 Foster Latimer Lumber Co. yards at Mellen, Wis

13731-P. c. 1910 ‘Rib Lake, Wis., Catholic Church’ east side church & rectory

13732-Religious cards, top-Elle Hamo, I call; middle-Prayers for the Dead, If I; bottom-eternal Father, Jesus, meek

13732A-back, top-crusade, Theodore Stirn; middle-Prayer for benefactors, Peter Fuchs; bottom-Anton Jette, Nick M. Lamberty

13733-top-L. O. Clement, Blank; middle-St. Joseph, Picture-Jesus in the Garden; bottom-O. Clement, picture of angel with chalice, Jesus

13733A-Rose Faber, Joseph Kauer, Sr.; Rose Faber, John N. Pfeifer, Clara Stirn, Fr. Seraphin Oberhauser

13734-picture of Joseph & Jesus as a boy, Mater Dolorosa, Virgin Mary, Picture & article re Father Kauer, Mrs. Joseph Kauer, son=Fr. Kauer

13734A-Philip Bonde, Anton Kauer, Margaret Schneider, Mrs. Ann Kauer, blank

13735-Picture of Jesus feeding lambs, blank, Virgin Mary, picture of Mary Queen of Heaven, Pic-last supper, has gone forth

13735A-Ordination of Rev. John Kauer 5-4-1933, Charles E. Blair, Charles Stirn, Leo P. Schwab, Joseph Edward Bonde, Nick Bonde

13736-Memorial cards, blank, hold high, last supper, Madonna & the Holy Ghost, ‘He Who’, blank,

13736A-Edwin Adolph Walbeck, Theodore Bonde, Elizabeth Bonde, Agnes M. Bonde, Rose D. Schneider, Ralph O. St. Clair

13737-Memorial cards, virgin, Dallmann Funeral Home, James & Karon Dallmann, Virgin with crown, Jesus & lamb, Jesus on cross, Dallmann Funeral Home

13737A-John Joseph Wezval, Aloysius Paul Quednow, Joseph Edward Bonde, Mary E. Schmidfranz, Isadore N. Bonde, Clarissa ‘Cookie’ R. Bonde

13738-Memorial cards, spruce tree, spruce tree, Holy Family, spruce tree ‘Together Again’, Dallmann-Kniewel Funeral Homes, Tom & Andrea Kniewel

13738A-Peter B. Kauer ‘Pete’, Mary Kauer, Anton J. Rezutek, Elmer Alfonse Thieme

13739-P. 7-24-1914, ‘Rib Lake sawmill going up’

13740-P. 7-24-1914 RLLC mill burning, Rear-tannery, NB-3 steel

13741-P. 7-24-1914 smoke colored red

13742-P. 7-24-1914, fire at sawmill aftermath, left-bull chain, view south, NB-lower right men with hose & pathetic stream of water

Karl & Phyllis Schwoch collection

13743-W. ‘Announcing Hein family reunion 7-3-2010

13744-1913 plat map, part of Town of Rib Lake, T33N R32E, highlighted in yellow, location of Berthold Hein farm, red=W. Tetzlaff farm

13745-P. c. 1924 Berthold Hein farm home, NW NE 36-32-2E. notes by Phyllis Schwoch, man in center with straw hat is Berthold Hein 8/7/66-8/12/1944

13745A-Page of explanation by Phyllis Schwoch

13745B-ibid

13746-P. c. 1902 Berthold Hein home, couple in center, L-Berthold Hein, R-Josephine Hein

13746A-explanatory comments by Phyllis Schwoch, people in photo-L-R, Meilke, Olga Hein, age 6; Rudolph Hein, age 10; Berthold Hein, age 36; Frieda Hein, age 4; Josephine Hein, age 27 holding Lydia Hein, 18 months; Eugene Hein, age 8

13747-P. Berthold Hein Farmstead c. 1910

13747A-explanation by Phyllis Schwoch 7-2010

13748-P. c. 1894, L. Josepha Hein nee Franz 1875-1924, center-Berthold Hein, 1866-1944, R-Rudolph Hein 1892-1966

13748A-back

13748AA-explanation by Phyllis Schwoch

13749-P. c. 1890 Gotthold Hein born 10-22-1823, Austrian, Silesia, dies 10-18-1895, Rib Lake, marries Johanna Julianna Poppe, 1822-1895, youngest sons were Konrad & Berthold,

13749A-back

13749AA-explanation by Phyllis Schwoch nee Hein, great-granddaughter of Gotthold

13750-P. 9-20-1922 wedding portrait couple, Eugene Hein, 1-25-1895 to 9-2-1959, son of Berthold Hein, bride-Elsa Anna Minna Tetzlaff 2-27-1903 to 3-17-1974, daughter of William Tetzlaff & Bertha Tetzlaff nee loose, L-Minna Marta Hein, Fred Mielke, Frieda Hein, Fred Radtke, Ernest ‘Ernie’ Tetzlaff, R-seated is Lydia Hein,

13750A-back

13750AA-explanation by Phyllis Schwoch

13751-P. 5-15-1896 wedding couple, Bertha Loose 9-7-1869 to 9-3-1948, William Tetzlaff 11-8-1870 to 7-3-1955

13752-P. c. 1925 William & Bertha Tetzlaff farmstead-view looking north, SE SW 24 33 2E (see #13744), in 2010 owned by Arthur & Marlene Gerstberger, W2606 STH 102, Rib Lake at Ernest Tetzlaff, house siding milled from forgotten pile of white pine left on farm site c. 1885,

13752A-explanation by Phyllis Schwoch

13752AA-ibid

13753-P. c. 1920, Tetzlaff family portrait, lower row-L. William Tetzlaff 11-8-1870 to 7-3-1955, middle-William Tetzlaff II, Right-Bertha Tetzlaff nee loose 9-7-1869 to 9-3-1948, top row-Left-Ernest ‘Ernie’ Tetzlaff 7-11-1899 to 4-24-1976, Right-Elsa Tetzlaff 9-7-1903 to 3-17-1974

End of Phyllis Schwoch nee Hein collection

13754-P. c. 1910 ‘Westboro, Wis. High School’ east side

13754A-back, 2 cent stamp & text by G.L. Kliesner, Ogema, Wis, to Sam Skinner, Endeavor, Wis. 11-10-1915

13755-L. 7-1-2010 RPR to James A. Welton, retired Soo Line train master re Rib Lake-Chelsea train service

13755A-L. 7-7-2010 Welton to RPR explaining second & third class train service between Rib Lake and Chelsea

13756-W. ‘You see-it was this way’ by Walter G. Youngquist, cover, copyright 1986

13756A-Title page, inscription to ‘Ellen’ Kobielush 6-14-1986, Carol Kobielush, N8464 Old Highway 13, Westboro, WI, 715-427-5433

13756B-Introduction

13756C-Ibid

13756D-D

13756E-P. 11-1962 ancestral Youngquist home, Westboro, WI, P. ‘1’ is entitled ‘Center of the world’ & ends at P. ‘67’ The book continues with ‘Old Man Stenberg’ p. 1 thru 28, next 2 p. letter ‘Dear Mr. Stenberg’ P. c. 1916 Mr. & Mrs. Youngquist, next ‘Kindling’ p. 1-6.

13757-W. 1-2010 ‘Wisconsin Lawyer Directory’ cover page

13757A-list of Taylor County & Rib Lake attorneys

Collection of Colleen R. Haas nee Hein

13758-1913 plat map, part of 33N R2E, Konrad Hein farm in yellow

13759-ibid, Berthold Hein farm in pink, William Tetzlaff farm in yellow

13760-Modern map of Central Europe-Hillersdorf-ancestral Hein home highlighted

13761-modern map, part of Czech Republic, Hillersdorf=Holcovice, name of villages changed from German to Czech after 1946 expulsion of Germans

13762-National Archives Order for Copies of Ship Passenger Arrival Records-for Gotthold Hein

13763-Bio. Gotthold Hein, author unknown, family tree

13763A-ibid, page 2

13763B-ibid, page 3, Bio. Berthold Hein family tree

13763C-ibid, page 4

13763D-ibid, page 5

13763E-ibid, page 6, Marthaler family

13763F-Page 7, Eugene Hein bio, & Calvin Robert Hein

13763G-Page 8, Robert Eugene Hein, Colleen Rene Hein, nka Haas

13763H-Page 9, Phyllis Jeanne Hein, nka Mrs.Karl Schwoch

13763I-Page 10, Herman Hein, Eugene Hein

13763J-Page 11, Otto Fritz Hein

13763K-Page 12, James Karl Hein

13763L-Page 13, Robert Hein, Shirley Anne Hein, nka Mrs. Clayton Kauer, Jacqueline Karen Hein, nka Mrs. Alfonz Mitchell, Jr.

13764-P. 11-2-2002, Laying of Hein tombstone, Rib Lake, L-John Hein, Richard Gordon, Sexton, Karl Schwoch, Phyllis Schwoch

13765-P. 11-2-2002 Gotthold & Johanna Julianna Hein tombstone

13766-W. Genealogy of Mohr, Franz & Blennert familes by Alice Schimmelpfenning Wendt-title page

13766A-Ibid, The Franz Family, Gottlieb Franz & Edward Franz

13766B-Ibid, Wilhelm ‘William’ Franz bio

13767-The Mohr family, Moritz Mohr bio., Oscar Mohr

13767A-ibid ‘First Generation’, page 2

13767AA-’page 3’

13767B-Ibid ‘Second Generation’ Fred ‘Fritz’ Mohr, Sr., marries Elizabeth Blennert, Fred, Jr. (Sonny) proprietor of Mohr’s Maple Knoll, Little Spirit Lake tavern

13768-The Blennert family, Balthazar ‘John’ Andrew Blennert, born in Moritzfeld, Austria, bio.

13768A-ibid, page 2

13769-Petition for Naturalization, Louis Mohr 7-3-1939

13770-Family Group Sheet, Blathazar (John, Sr.) Blennert

13770A-Russell Blennert

13771-L. 11-29-1998, Dorothy Franz to Colleen R. Haas

13771A-Magdalena Franz 1864-1947 married John Gilge 1860-1937, children Juluis b. 1888, maries Martha Rusch; William, b. 1891; Emma, b. 1896; Ida, B. 1899; Elsie b. 1903

13772-Certificate of Naturalization, Gottlieb Franz, 11-19-1890

13773-Records of St. Peter Lutheran Church, Greenwood, 1906 & 1907, in German, Robert Franz marries Anna Scheithauer, Julius Gilge baptized

13774-Obit, Elsie Gilge nee Burzlaff, 1900-1991

13775-Obit, William Tetzlaff born Karlshorst, West Prussia, child-Ernest ‘Ernie’ Tetzlaff

13776-Obit, Bertha Loose, aka Mrs. William Tetzlaff, 1945, born 9-7-1869

13777-Obit, Agnes C. Tetzlaff nee Pink, 2-5-1907 to 1-7-1988

13778-P. c. 1940, Mr. and Mrs. William Tetzlaff and children, Ernest ‘Ernie’, William ‘Bill’ & Elsa,

Info re Gotthold Hein and wife Johanna Poppa

13779-L. 10-12-1931 Rudolf Hein to ‘Uncle and Aunt’ [Gotthold], Rudolf was a son of Gotthold’s son who did not emigrate to US; he pleads for help-he is unemployed (Great Depression)

13780-L. 1-27-1948, Hilda & Gottfriel (sic) to ‘Dear Cousins’ The sender is poverty stricken-WWII refugee

13780A-Envelope that contained letter

13780B-page 1 of letter (in German)

13781-Gotthold & Johanna Hein data sheet, P. Gotthold

Conrad, a/k/a Konrad Hein, Sr. & wife Marie Pfielger (sic)

13782-Certificate of Naturalization for Conrad Hein, 1-18-1890

13783-L. 2-19-1949 Hugo Pflieger (sic), aka Pfielger, by Rudolf Kittle to ‘Dear Relatives’, The Pfielger and Hein family relatives were ethnic Germans living in Czechoslovakia after WWII ended 5-1945. These ethnic Germans – about 3,000,000, were brutally expelled and forced to flee to Germany

13783A-envelope sent by Hugo Pflieger ‘Refugee in Zettingen barracks, Glenburg County, Schwabia, Bavaria, American Zone, Germany, Addressed ‘Konrad Hein and Mrs. Marie, born Pflieger and their descendants, Farmer, Rib Lake’

13784-L. 7-5-1949 Oskar & Hermina Flaubelt (son of Karoline Pflieger), In 1946 ‘we were driven from our homeland…we had to leave everything…and were forced to wander from one refugee camp to another..

13784A-Envelope

13784B-L. ‘5-7-49’ is 7-5-1949 in German schrift, Oskar Flaubelt to Mein ‘My Dears’

13784C-ibid p. 2 ‘…von eier lager ins andere wander’ ‘[we] wander from one camp to another’

13784D-ibid p. 3 ‘und so Schliesse ich der brief’ ‘so I close this letter’ signed Oskar Flaubelt, US American zone Bavaria (Germany)

13785-L. in German, R. Kittle, 19 Feb. 1949 to Konrad Hein & Frau Maria born Pflieger and their descendants, ‘Liebe Verwandten!’ Dear Relatives

13785A-ibid, page 2, ‘Rudolf Kittle’

13785B-ibid, page 3 ‘Alter mann…’

13785C-ibid, page 4 ‘Ich Bitte’, Zettingen AM 19 Feb. 1949

13786-Family Tree, Conrad Hein, Sr.

13786A-P. Conrad Hein, Sr.

13787-family tree-Luedmilla Hein & Joseph Vlach

13788-Obit, Rudolph Vlach,12-3-1906 to 8-11-1989

13789-family tree, Josepha Franz, 1876-1924 (aka Josephine) & Berthold Hein 1866-1944

13790-page from Hein family Bible-hand-written German entries including Berthold Hein born 8-7-1866, married 1-10-1891 Josefa Franz in Medford…

13791-history of Silesia, unknown encyclopedia

13792-obit, Berthold Hein

13793-Personal Property tax roll 1890 re Berthold Hein [1 wagon-value $10] et al

13794-obit, Josepha Hein nee Franz, aka Mrs. Berthold Hein

13795-family tree, Rudolph Emil Hein and Ida Klein

13796-obit, Myrtle Ida Amo, nee Hein

13797-family tree (The Hon.) Douglas T. Fox-Sherry Lynn Amo

End of Colleen R. Haas nee Hein collection

V.J. McRae collection, 25683 John Rd., Olmsted Falls, Ohio 44188

13798-P. c. 1920 ‘Rib Lake Citizen’s Bank’ 21 men & 1 woman, far L-standing-holding coronet-Milton McRae

13799-P. 1922 Rib Lake Citizen’s Bank at Taylor Co. Fair, Medford, WI, far R-standing man in suit is possibly John F. McRae

13800-P. c. 1910 Medical doctor interior treatment office in Rib Lake. Horizontal treatment chair awaits next patient, seated physician is possibly Dr. Lapham

13801-P. c. 1920 ‘Bud Bogumill boat’ Inscription on back of photo

13802-P. 3-18-1917 ‘Snow plow that did the work at Dorchester, Wis. March 18, 1917’ Soo line locomotives & snow plow used to reopen mainline drifted shut

13803-P. c. 1910 South side of RLLC sawmill. This mill built by J.J. Kennedy after the fire of 1897 & burned in the fire of 1914. View north. Rear-twin narrow chimnies of Rib Lake Tannery

13803A-ibid-scotch tape removed

13804-P. c. 1920 ‘Rib Lake, Wis N 459’ view northward across Rib Lake. Center-RLLC mill

13805-P. 1920 ‘Pine Island, Rib Lake, Wis. C-2’ view to south

13806-P. ‘McComb Ave, Rib Lake, Wis’ c. 1910 view north at north end of avenue tannery office stands on Fayette Ave with bank pile on horizon. R-’Wisconsin House’ hotel-its awning advertises ‘liquors’; single story building north of hotel displays sign ‘Liquor for sale’; L-James Upjohn Pharmacy-awning reads ‘Drugs’; building to north advertises ‘furniture’; in 2010 the site is occupied by MidWisconsin Bank, 717 McComb Ave.; above-bare electric bulb street light.

13807-W. ‘Combined directory of the Rib Lake & Westboro Telephone Co.’ January 1, 1938, Edw. Eckhoff, Manager; Edward Eckhoff eventually conveyed ‘The Rib Lake Telephone Co.’ to his son, John ‘Tubby’ & his son, Clark; c. 1990 the company was sold to a national company ‘Frontier’ a/k/a Citizens Communications Company; even in 1938 there were typos – Albert Knop spelled his name without and ‘E’; NB-telephone connections to RLLC camps 24 & 25

13807A-p. 2

13807B-p. 3

13807C-p. 4

13808-P. 7-21-1952 St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, north side

13808X-P. c. 1910 ‘Ward School’ merry go round in front, view north

End of McRae collection

13809-Deed 8-12-1897, J.J. & Flora M. Kennedy to A.C. McComb for lands from which McComb’s Racing Park Addition to the Village of Rib Lake was created [MRPA], i.e. plat in center of Rib Lake Village including commercial district

13809A-p. 2 of deed

13809AA-Abstracter’s summary, NB-signature of J.J. Kennedy is that made by Register of Deeds when he recorded (copied from original which went to grantee)

13810-W. Abstracter notes & annotations by RPR re Rib Lake Tannery real estate

13810A-Deed 2-1-1881 E.B. & Nancy R. Ingram to George M. Curtis, Charles F. Curtis, Judson N. Carpenter ‘of Clinton Co., Iowa comprising the firm of Curtis Bros. & Co…’; $2,000 for land including Govt Lots 1 & 2 (future site of Rib Lake Tannery) & Govt Lot 10, 26 33 2E, (future site of sawmill-erected in 1881 by J.J. Kennedy

13810AA-Page 2

13810B-6-25-1891 ‘Conditional warranty deed’ J.J. & Flora M. Kennedy to F. (Fayette) D. Shaw; 20.05 acres with Govt Lots 1 & 2 26 33 2E; this conveyance is made on the condition that second party (Shaw) agrees to…build and erect a tannery for the manufacture of leather upon the premises…of the capacity & dimension of the tannery now owned & operated by T.F.M. & F.D. Shaw at Medford, Wis….to be competed & in operation by Jan. 1, 1893

13810BB-Page 2

13810C-Deed J.J. & Flora M. Kennedy to F.D. Shaw 6-25-1892, Shaw needs more land for the Rib Lake Tannery he is constructing

13811-Map ‘Surveyors Plat of north Rib Lake’ March & April 1946 C.R. Claussen; center of map is former Rib Lake Tannery site

13811A-Abstracter’s modifications showing ‘Absorb-A-Tone Corporation land

13812-’Special Warranty Deed’ 8-18-1892 Curtis Brothers & Company to John J. Kennedy, Govt Lot 10, 26 33 2E, NB-This land includes the site of ‘Kennedy’s sawmill’, therefore-Kennedy obtains titled to the mill he built in 1881

13812A-p. 2-This important deed was not recorded for more than one year

13812B-W. ‘Deeds’ author unknown, explanation of ‘Special st Deed’

13812C-erroneous Affidavit by E.C. Getchel, annotations by RPR to double-check. Check revealed Rib Lake ‘Kennedy’ mill by J.J. Kennedy on 8-18-1892

13812D-Deed 6-3-1891 Curtis Bros. to J.J. Kennedy, conveying Govt Lots 1 & 2, 26 33 2E, viz. tannery site, not sawmill

13813-Quit Claim Deed 7-12-1901, Rib Lake Tannery sold to U.S. Leather Corp. by Fayette Shaw, F. Delds Shaw, Ida A. Shaw, Florence E. Curtis, J. Frank Curtis, M. Kimball, William F. Kimball

13814-Abstract to land on north side of Fayette Ave-at McComb Ave. junction, this abstract set real estate history to Rib Lake Tannery site, including Fayette Shaw, J.J. Kennedy, U.S. Leather, Central & Union Leather & RLLC of Delaware

13814A-p. 2-Harold Gowey bill

13814B-p. 3-legal description page

13814C-p. 4

13814D-p. 5

13814E-p. 6

13814F-p. ‘4’ Atty. Kate Pier mortgage

13814G-p. ‘5’ Ingram to Curtis Bros.

13814H-p. ‘6’ Curtis to J.J. Kennedy, J.J. Kennedy to Fayette Shaw, must build tannery by 1-1-1893

13814I-p. 7 Plat of north Rib Lake 6-15-1893, entry 28 license to Wis. Central Railroad for spur track, 11-9-1897

13814J-p. 8, part of Articles of Incorporation U.S. Leather Co, deed 9-29-1900 ‘Shaw’ to United States Leather Company, a New Jersey Corp.

13814K-p. 9

13814L-p. 10, 9-24-1909 United States Leather Company to Central Leather Company, a New Jersey Corp; 12-1-1909 Central Leather Company to Union Tanning Company, a New Jersey Corp., entry 40 W.A. Osburn Lumber Co. changes name to Rib Lake Lumber Company 5-6-1902

13814M-p. 11, Deed 1-23-1925 Rib Lake Lumber Company to Rib Lake Lumber Company of Delaware, a Delaware Corp.

13814N-p. 12, Union Tanning Company to Rib Lake Lumber Company of Delaware; NB-the Rib Lake Tannery has ceased operations-RPR; Entry 43, mortgage $950,000.00, 1-31-1936, this is a purchase money mortgage when A.P. Woodson, John ‘Jack’ Mylrea, et al buy the stock of the RLLC of Delaware and began operating its Rib Lake sawmill

13814O-p. 13, RLLC of Delaware to Edward Stamm, to build and operate beer distribution building

13814P-p. 14, land sold to George & Sadie Tlusty & Lawrence & Nellie Tlusty 8-7-1945, who operate beer distributorship & bottle soda pop, see 13600 for bottle cap

13814Q-p. 15

13814R-p. 16

13814S-p. 17

13814T

13814U

13814V

13814W

13814X

13814Y

13814Z

13814Z1

13815-Deed 12-1-1909 Central Leather Co. to Union Tanning Co., Rib Lake Tannery & tan bark & timber lands in Goodrich, Greenwood, Rib Lake, Hammel, Westboro & Town of McKinley

13815A-p. 2

13815B-p. 3

13815C-p. 4

13816-Deed 12-31-1909 Central Leather Co. to Union Tanning Co. Medford & Rib Lake tanneries

13816A-p. 2

13816B-p. 3

13816C-p. 4

13817-Deed 3-20-1911 Central Leather Co. to Anton Frozene, SW NW & E ½ - NW ¼, 9 33 R3E, (Town of Rib Lake) $950, 120 acres-probably cut-over land sold to settler

13817A-p. 2

13818-Deed 3-20-1911 Central Leather Co. to Union Tanning Co. conveys extensive lands which US Leather Co. got from Wisconsin Central Railway (which railroad got as land grant from US Govt) in Towns of Rib Lake, Greenwood, Taylor Co. & Towns of Brannan (later Spirit) & Hill, Price Co

13818A-p. 2

13818B-p. 3

13818C-p. 4

13818D-p. 5

13818E-p. 6

13819-Map from 1913 Standard Atlas, Taylor Co., Union Tanning Co. buildings in north Rib Lake

13820-W. Star News, ‘State’s Largest Sawmill Changes Hands this Week’, Wisconsin men buy U.S. Leather Company’s stock in Rib Lake plant, Jan. 30, 1936

13820A-enlarged version

13821-Abstract of Title-2010 residence of Donna L. Walbeck, 650 Mill Ln., Village of Rib Lake, Lot 2, Block A in plat of unplatted part of Block A, original plat of Rib Lake, Wis.

13821A-Map-mill lot

13821B-Map-unplatted part of Block A

13821C-entries 1-4

13821D-entries 5-8

13821E-entries 9-11

13821F-entries 12-15, including Curtis Bros.

13821G-entries 16-19, 8-18-1892 J.J. Kennedy takes title to the mill he built in 1881

13821H-entries 20-23

13821I-entries 24-26

13821J-entries 27-30, J.J. Kennedy mortgages mill

13821K-entries 31-34-add’l J.J. Kennedy mortgages on mill

13821L-entries 35-38-add’l mortgages totaling $125,009.93

13821M-entries 39-42 J.J. Kennedy satisfies mortgages

13821N-entries 43-46 J.J. Kennedy satisfies add’l mortgages

13821O-entries 47-50 J.J. Kennedy satisfies last of mortgages

13821P-mortgage annotatations by RPR

13821Q-entry 51-J.J. Kennedy deeds mill and other lands to J.J. Kennedy Lumber Company, a corporation, on June 29, 1899 (Articles of Incorporation dated June 29, 1899, signed by J.J. Kennedy, A.W. Sanborn and Angus Kennedy created the J.J. Kennedy Lumber Company, see Doc. 13839)

13821R-entries 55-58; entry 55 agreement by J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co for $525,000 to sell to W.A. Osburn, Hugh McCullough, W.H. Humphreys & James Radaker; entry 56-J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co, Inc. deeded to W.A. Osburn Lumber Co.; entry 58-W.A. Osburn Lumber Co. changes name to ‘Rib Lake Lumber Company’ [RLLC]

13821S-entries 59-62; entry 59-misspells Osburn name as Osborn; NB-on 3-25-1906 United States Leather Co. bought the stock of the Rib Lake Lumber Company and thus became its owner; entry 60-dated 1-16-1925, codifies the name change from Rib Lake Lumber Company to Rib Lake Lumber Company of Delaware; the Rib Lake Lumber Co. of Delaware mortgage for $950,000 dated 1-31-1936 was part of the purchase of the company that date by A.P. Woodson and John ‘Jack’ Mylrea and others when they purchased the stock of the Rib Lake Lumber Co. of Delaware

13821T-entries 63-65; entry 63 demonstrates that new owners of the RLLC of Delaware paid off mortgage of $950,000 in less than 3 years; entry 64 shows deed for the mill complex and other lands by RLLC of Delaware to Rudolph J. Mueller; THE MILL SAWED ITS LAST LOG JUNE 4, 1948

13821U-certificate of G.A. Gowey 9-7-1949

13821V-entry 66, deed for Lot 3 of Block A in plat of subdivision of unplatted part of Block A of original plat of Rib Lake, Wis;

13821W-certificate by Harold R. Gowey

13821X-entries 67-68; deed 8-3-1950 permits Potaczek Bros. to begin razing mill buildings

13821Y-entries 69-70; Potaczek Bros. deed part of property but reserve ‘all iron on said premises, except the roof trusses in the old engine room on said premises, the same to be removed within 3 years from the date of this deed’

13821Z-certificate by abstracter

13821Z1-continuation of abstract

13821Z2-entry 71-a map, ‘tracing in 1948 by C.R. Claussen’ showing unplatted parts of Govt. Lots 9 & 10; notes by RPR identifies site of former J.J. & Flora Kennedy home, hot pond and 2010 owners of lake lots on old mill site

13821Z3-entry 72-Rudolph J. Mueller deed to Village of Rib Lake for unplatted part of Govt Lot 10

13821Z4-entry 73-deed of unplatted part of Gov. Lot 9 to Village 2-19-1949

13821Z5-Map, 4-24-1965 by Delmar Houts, Block A-1-A Govt. Lot 10, Sec. 26 33 2E

13821Z6-entry 77-deed to Edward & Mary Zondlo for Lot 3 of Block A in the plat of subdivision of unplatted part of Block A

13821Z7-entry 78

13821Z8-8-5-1971 certificate by abstracter

13821Z9-entry 79

13821Z10-Elmer J. Taylor and Hattie Taylor owners of part of abstracted real estate as of May 7, 1990 (in July 2010, the premises, 650 Mill Ln., are occupied by the ever-cheerful Donna L. Walbeck)

13822-family history notes by Carol Kobielush, N8464 Old 13 Rd., Westboro, WI 54490-9406

13822A-page 2

13823-W. 3-16-1946, ‘proposed revisions of the constitution of the Twentieth Century Club’, dated 3-16-1946

13823A-page 2

13823B-W. 1-20-1970 proposed revision of the constitution & bylaws

13824-W. RPR worksheet ‘Curtis real estate’

13824A-page 2

13824B-page 3

13824C-page 4

13825-Deed 6-1-1881 Curtis Bros, Iowa Corp. buys Govt Lot 10, 26 33 2E, where J.J. Kennedy builds ‘His’ sawmill in 1881

13825A-page 2

13826 Deed 7-17-1890 Curtis Bros. sells NE SW 31 33 3E for $170, this forty was now cut off. It was just south of what is, in 2010, Gerstberger Pines County Park. The park features old growth (‘virgin’) pine hardwood

13826A-modern plat map showing location of Gersterberger Pines County Park and Curtis deeded real estate

13827-Deed 6-3-1891 Curtis Bros. Corp. to J.J. Kennedy, Lots 1 & 2 26 33 2E; these lands are deeded by J.J. Kennedy to Fayette Shaw in 1892 for the Rib Lake Tannery and another part of this land to A.C. McComb in 1897 resulting in McComb’s Racing Park Addition [plat of commercial center of Rib Lake]

13828-Deed 12-26-1894 Curtis Bros. Iowa Corp. to Peter Christianson for $325 NW SW 33 2E

13829 9-7-1900 Curtis Bros, Iowa Corp. deeds to J.J. Kennedy 1440 acres in T32N R3E (Town of Rib Lake)

13829A-page 2, legal descriptions of land sold

13830 Deed 11-27-1905 Curtis Bros. Corp. ‘A corporation of Clinton, State of Iowa’ sells E ½ SW, NE SE, Sec. & SW NE & S ½ Section 17 32 2E, signed by Charles F. Curtis, who, according to Guy Wallace history of Rib Lake, in 1881 made the deal resulting in J.J. Kennedy founding Rib Lake

13831-Deed 6-3-1901 William [J] Kennedy buys 3 commercial lots in City of Medford

13831A-1913 map showing lot sites and part of Medford tannery

13832-Deed 1-18-1902 Christianson & Radtke convey S half, SW quarter & SW SE 24 32 2E tso J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co.

13833-Deed 5-7-1902 John Cerry et ux sells 40 acres for $57.30 tso W.A. Osburn Lumber Co.

13834-Judgment 11-5-1909, RLLC plaintiff v. J.H. Wheelock, et al, quiet title lawsuit by which RLLC extinquishes defendant’s claims to 200 acres of land

13834A-page 2, legal descriptions of lands affected

13835-Judgment 4-4-1906, RLLC v. James Radaker, W.H. Humphrey, Hugh McCullough, Margaret Osborn (sic), widow of W.A. Osborn (sic) et al; the articles of incorporation read ‘W.A. Osburn Lumber Co.’ (emphasis added); RLLC extinquishes defendant’s claims to ‘Mill lot…sawmill, planing mill, dry kilns, trams, store building, hotel, blacksmith shop, meat shop, warehouses, & houses…’ & extensive unimproved timber lands

13835A-page 2

13835B-page 3, signed by John K. Parish, Circuit Judge

13836-P. c. 1905, Westboro, panoramic view looking northwest from SW SW 7 33 2E, foreground dirt road is in 2010 CTH D, & houses in Queenstown, center-Westboro Lumber Co., mill complex & lumber piles; horizon-church steeples; L-Swedish Methodist; center-Swedish Lutheran Chruch (in 2010 First Lutheran)

13836A-backside 2 cent stamp, postmark Westboro, Wis. Nov. 2, 11 AM, text & addressed to Mrs. J.W. Collins, Blue River, Wis.

13837-P. c. 1945 ‘Main Street, Westboro, Wis. C-2, excel P.C. Co. Milw’ view northward on STH 13, center-car turning east on [in 2010] CTH D; R-’Food store’ ‘Bert & Lu’ perhaps Seidal, northward on East side of STH 13-City service gas station; L-part of Rupprisch tavern advertising building & further north-Leinenkugel beer

13838 1934 calendar, ‘Rib Lake Coast to Coast’ store, 818 McComb Ave.; P. Houmas house in March 1984 calendar; handwritten nores in pencil by Herman A. Rusch noting his maple syrup efforts; e.g. 3/16 started to tap; 3/17 220 taps;

13838A-April 1984, 4-1 90 gal (of sap)

13838B-Herman A. Rusch notes

13839-Articles of Incorporation 6-29-1899 ‘J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co.’; Article 1-purpose of corporation; Article 2-headquarters, Town of Rib Lake (NB-there was no village until 1902); Article 3-Capitol stock shall be $100,000…’

13839A-page 2, duties of officers

13839B-page 3, incorporators J.J. Kennedy, A.W. Sanborn, Angus Kennedy

13839C-page 4, signed by Duncan McLennan, notary; NB-Flora Kennedy was born McLennan

Kathy A. Meier Collection – DVD A-Part A: Photos from Rudy Vlach album by his son, William Vlach, of Milwaukee.

All photos believed by Vlachs to be in or around RLLC Camp 22, Town of Corning, Lincoln Co., Wis

On 5/10/1934 The Star News reported that the RLLC would start new camps, #22 and 23. The same paper announced that the RLLC would use many jobber camps, the following photos may be jobber logging.

13840-P. c. 1935 log rollways, Meier, 0050, see Doc. #13876, A & B

13841-P. Walkway through deep snow to log piles

13842-P. ‘Summer and the living is easy’ Camp ?, at least 10 cars have been driven and parked at camp, R-half screen meat houise. Center-pig eats next to long camp building

13843-P. temaster sits on burlap sack filled with straw, see #13849 for wider view

13844-P. smiling laborer piles sleighs off ground for summer storage

13845-P. teamster-holding reigns-stands on sleigh of very small logs

13846-P. 8-foot cross-cus saws still reigned

13847-P. rollways bracketed the railroad tracks

13847A-P. nice sized logs awaited their railroad ride

13848-P. 6 man decking crew rest; on right is vertical leg of jammer used to pile ‘deck’ logs. Note-sleigh runners on jammer for movement

13848A-P. pulley atop jammer

13848B-P. front view of jammer

13848C-jammer with 30 foot log pile

13849-P. right side of icicle bedecked sleigh water tank; the wood barrel atop tank lifts water to replenish the tank; this tank and team appear to be on top of an iced-over pond; at lower center there is a partly visible hold in the ice through which the barrel passed; twin 14-foot loading logs guided the water-filled barrel from hole to top of tank; those loading logs have here been hung-horizontally-on the right side of the tank; a small wood barrel stove belches smoke and a little heat to warm the laborers

13849A-P. The sleigh tanker shown in photo 13849 being filled with water; R-laboroer standing next to ladder like ‘loading logs’, the bottom of which is inserted into hole cut through ice into pond; teamster bending down next to team of horses which just pulled chain lifting water-filled barrel to top of sleigh; the back of the tanker faces the photographer; refilling eh tanker with water must be about done-note the long chain which the team pulled hangs in a long loop at the rear corner of the sleigh; two round pegs protrude from the lower rear of the sleigh; they will be removed when the crew wants water on the ice road; a small pile of firewood lays in the snowbank between the tanker and team

13850-P. ‘Soo line’ gondola car being loaded with pulpwood; rejected ‘stocks’ lean vertically against railroad car

13851-P. teamster-posing for the photographer-sits atop log at a ‘go devil’-a miniature sleigh holding front of log off the ground (snow); the go devil greatly reduced the strain on the single horse

13852-P. RLLC logging railroad spur-snowbanks parallel tracks attest to regular winter operations; rear L-25 foot high rollways crowd track

13853-P. team of horses ready to pull log sleigh; rear-’slashings’ viz. the cut-over forest

13854-P. 16 foot long hardwood logs on sleigh; log second from bottom is yellow birch

13855-P. A sloppily-piled rollway of logs teeters at the edge of a hill; the small logs in the foreground are pulpwood

13856-P. 3 tar-papered camp buildings, two of which are partially clad with vertical slabwood; teh3 large entrance doors suggest a stable; sleigh parts litter the snow in the foreground

13856A-P. ‘Rudy Vlach on left’ , vertical slabwood camp building; L-Rudy Vlach using 1-man cross-cut saw to make firewood

13856AA-P. unidentified camp-building walls coverd with vertical slabwood; R-camp office sports 2 dormers

13857-P. 6 men huddle around a fire enjoying lunch-this crew was far enough from camp that lunch was brought to them; evergreen boughs provide a make-shift ceiling and wall against wind and blowing snow; logs provide seats; all is quite cozy

13858-P. unballasted logging railroad tracks run just feet away from 3 camp buildings; an overhead telephone line runs to the building in the foreground [The 1/1/1938 Rib Lake & Westboro Telephone directory-Doc. #13807-listed service to Camps 24 and 25] the middle building sports benches where work-weary lumberjacks could shoot the breeze

13859-P. unidentified camp, at least 10 automobiles, mostly 1920’s models; pile of baled hay in foreground

13860-P. unidentified camp, 2 parallel rows of camp buildings; meat storage house in center; 2 1920 autos in snowbank

13861-P. unidentified camp, probably jobber camp, huge icicles hang from roofs

13862-P. c. 1930 STH 102 flooded at tavern, NE corner, NE NW 34-33-2E

13863-P. McGiffert loader; foreground-cedar telephone pole pile

13864-P. unidentified man standing on disheveled rollway

13865-P. Dozer pulling empty sleigh c. 1936

13866-P. horse pulling small loaded sleigh of freshly cut logs-c. 4 foot wide bunk c. 1936

13867-P. c. 1936 pipe smoking lumberjack wearing Stormy Kromer hat, helps load logs on small sleigh

13868-P. 2 man cross-cut crew rest from their labor of cutting camp firewood; they sit on a log atop a spiked pole installed to hold the log they saw

13869-P. saw filer-left hand gripping file-pauses from filing cross-cut saw. The camp mascot dog eyes the photographer c. 1936

13870-P. c. 1936 top loader wearing bib overalls stands atop massive white pine pile

13871-P. c. 1936 sawyer inspects 30 inch white pine he just felled

13872-P. c. 1936 white pine already notched by axe-awaits felling; the smooth bottom of the notch was sawed

End of Kathy Meier collection

13873-W. abstract of title; Lot 9A, Block A, original plat, Village of Rib Lake, aka 507 Lake Street; on 8-9-10 owned by Pat & Dale Seidel

13874-P. ‘North Harper Lake at Schmidt’s Resort, Rib Lake, Wis. A 20 Excel P.C.Co. Milw.’ C. 1940; Mr. & Mrs. Michael ‘Mike’ and ‘Ma’ Schmidt ran resort; SW SE 2-33-2E, view to NW across east bay; NB-homemade wooden rowboats for rent

13875-sew on patch-emblem ‘Herald Devils’ c. 1950 Rib Lake Herald sponsored bowling team whjich regularly played at Little Bohemia Bar & Bowling Alley-806 McComb Ave., This patch attached to shirt worn by Alfred ‘Fritzie’ Knop

13876-RLHe 5-4-1934 reporting on RLLC ‘Woods operations’ for 1934; RLLC will operate two camps staring 5/10-15/1934; Camp 22 will log N ½ 16-32-4E, Chris Brandt foreman, Chris Winkle cook; Camp 23 will log S ½ 3-32-4E, Robert Aitken foreman, George Kollman cook; in addition to Camps 22 & 23, RLLC contracted with 6 jobbers to construct camps and cut atimber owned by RLLC;

1) Morgan Peterson-4,000,000 board feet-Sec. 17 32-4E;

2) Lambert Lamberty will log all ‘remaining timber’ on N ½ 11, Sections 1 & 12 T32-4E ‘about 2,500,000 board feet;

3) William Natzke ‘remaining timber’ S ½, NW NW, Sec. 13-32-4E, 2,600,000 board feet; 4) Herman Kleinschmidt will log remaining timber on NW ¼, 9-32-4E, 1,250,000 board feet;

5) Carl Krueger will log all remaining timber on SW ¼, 9 and SE SE Sec. 7-32-4E, 1,250,000 board feet

6) G.W. Luedtke will log all remaining timber on S ½, Sec. 11-32-4E-’Around 1,800,000 feet’

Each camp, i.e. 22 & 23, ‘Will put in about 5,000,000’ board feet apiece; all camps will be in Town of Corning, Lincoln Co., Wis.; Woods operations are under supervision of Jim Peterson, ‘Woods Superintendent’. All lands described above are color-coded on 13876A & B

13876A-Key to Map

13876B-Map-1934 woods operations of RLLC & its jobbers-color-coded to 13876, overliad on 1944 map of Lincoln Co., by Carr

13877-Map c. 1926 Soo, Rib Lake & Taylor County environs; areas in black (in origin-red) owned by Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co, and ‘offered for sale’

13877A-Medford-Goodrich area

13877B-Jump River-Hannibal, NB-Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railroad

13877C-Gilman-Bellinger area

13878-Rib Lake Herald 12-18-1931

13879-W. 2-1980 ‘Robert Rusch for Taylor County Circuit Judge’ Rusch for judge, Rib Lake, Ken Mannel Chairman

13880-W. ‘Peterson’s Spirit Lake Golf Course’ by Karen Peterson Baumgartner 8-2010

13880A-page 2

13881-P. Aytchmonde Perrin Woodson, aka A.P. Woodson, c. 1930 [he was 1 of 4 buyers of the RLLC in 1936.]

13882-W. Alexander Stewart Lumber Co. of Wausau and bio. Alexander Stewart b. 9-12-1829 by Alfred Martin, The Wausau Herald, 12-25-1900

13882A-Page 2 and Walter Alexander bio.

13882B-Map T33 R3E, c. 1909 highlighting lands of A. Stewart Lumber Co.

13883-W. Joseph Dessert Lumber Co. & bio of Joseph Dessert by Alfred Martin, The Wausau Herald 12-25-1900

13883A-Page 2, painting of sawmill, Mosinee, Wis.

13883B-Page 3, ibid

13883C-Page 2 of bio

13883D-Map c. 1909 T33N R3E, highlighting lands of J. Dessert Lumber Co.

13884-graphics on side of wood crate from Medford Brewery, c. 1935, ‘Medford’s Lager Beer’

13885-Deed 12-3-1885 John J. Kennedy, et ux, to Frietz Mielke, $80, W ½ NE NW 36-33-2E (20 acres) [This was land which Kennedy had cut off, i.e. clear cut since he opened ‘his’ mill in 12-1881. The land was on a town road and was of average fertility and flat. The Mielke family cleared the land of stumps and rocks. As of 9/1/2010, it remains in farm production-RPR]

13886-Deed 10-18-1893, John J. Kennedy, et ux, to Andrew Aitkins, W.J. Mubbs, D. (Duncan) McLennan, et al, as trustees for Methodist Episcopal Church. Block 2, Lot 14 ‘in the Village of Rib Lake’ [NB-the first plat in Rib Lake was created, recorded May 23, 1895 and based on survey work done ‘in the month of May, 1895…’ by A.S. Russel, ‘Civil Engineer.’ See Doc. #12929, original plat of the Village of Rib Lake. The land conveyed by deed, Doc. #13886, was the site for the Methodist church. In 2010 its address is 1300 Church St.

13887 Deed 6-4-1895, John J. Kennedy, et ux, to Duncan J. McLennan, Lot 5, Block A, original plat of the Village of Rib Lake, for $1,[D.J. McLennan was Kennedy’s mill superintendant and occupied this lot as his home. As of 9-1-2010, the lot is the residence of Mrs. Phyllis Dolezalek, 900 Railroad Street. Edward T. Wheelock’s 1886 history of Rib Lake, Doc. #10103, claimed: ‘Every building in the village, but two, is the property of J.J. Kennedy. The two exceptions are the residences owned and occupied by General Superintendent D.J. McLennan, and General Manger Angus Kennedy.

13888-contract dated 9-14-1900 by J.J. Kennedy Company, A Corporation, and W.A. Osburn, Hugh McCullough, W.H. Humphreys, James Radakers, ‘of the State of Pennsylvania’ for sale of company, consideration $525,000, with $25,000 down payment. Buyers take possession ‘as of the morning and on the tenth day of August, A.D. 1900…’

13888A-Real estate descriptions including mills, kilns, trams, hotel, store, meat shop, blacksmith, barns, warehouse and homes

13888B-sale includes extensive lands in the Town of Rib Lake

13888C-sale includes interests obtained by J.J. Kennedy through contracts; A) 8-1-1894 with Fayette Shaw and Wisconsin Central Railroad; B) Wisconsin Central Railroad by John A. Stewart and Edwin H. Abbot with J.J. Kennedy and Fayette Shaw; C) 8-1-1893 Wisconsin Central Railroad Compnay, true and correct copies of such contracts attached as exhibits ‘A’

13888D-Restrictions imposed by contracts on J.J. Kennedy are binding on buyers; when J.J. Kennedy is paid the $525,000 purchase price, he will assign to buyers rights obtained by 9-14-1900 contract, a true copy attached as Exhibit B; [NB-Taylor Co Register of Deeds reports 9-2-2010, Ex. A & B not extant in her files] restrictions on buyers rate of logging until J.J. Kennedy is fully paid

13888E-periodic partial payments must be made by buyers on schedule until entire $525,000 paid by Oct. 1, 1903

13888F-buyers will pay $115,000 in keeping with contracts, Exhibits A & B

13888G-buyers must; A) keep sawmill fully insured; B) By 3-1-1901 remodel sawmill to double capacity; C) keep plant in good repair; D) fulfill contractual obligaton on J.J. Kennedy by Exhibit A & B, e.g. make timely lumber shipments

13888H-If J.J. Kennedy claims buyer fails to meet obligations, J.J. Kennedy shall send ‘a written notice’ to buyers who must correct defaults within 30 days or suffer ‘strict foreclosure’; signed J.J. Kennedy Lumber Company by J.J. Kennedy, president and Donald Kennedy, secretary

13888I-signed W.A. Osburn, et al

13889-Deed 9-5-1900 by B.J. Landaal and Pearl Landaal to Joseph Malkson, $40, Lot 3, Block H, McComb’s Racing Park Addition [‘Landall’ (sic) Avenue is named after grantors]

13890 Deed 8-25-1902 by A.C. McComb and Ella G. McComb to Albert & Martha Marschke, $250, Lot 10, Block B, McComb’s Racing Park Addition [McComb Ave. & McComb’s Racing Park Addition to Village of Rib Lake named after grantors]

13890A-Deed 9-20-1900 B.J. and Pearl Landaal to A.C. McComb, Lot 1, Block H and Lot 7, Block J., McComb’s Racing Park Addition

13891-Deed 5-26-1903, Wisconsin Central Railway Co, et al, to John Meyer of Rib Lake, $200, SW SW 29-T32N-R2E, grantor reserves ‘all the standing pine’ and ‘all coal, iron, gold, silver and other mineral odes’ ‘said premises are part of the lands patented to the Wisconsin Central Railroad Co, by the United States or State of Wisconsin under act of Congress approved May 5, 1864…’ Viz., U.S. Government conveyed every other section of land for 18 miles of either side of railroad as a reward to Wisconsin Central for building the railroad; the grantee, John Meyer, is probably the same John Meyer who successfully sued the Wisconsin Central Railroad, et al, before the Wisconsin Railroad Commission

13891A-Page 2

13892-Quit Claim Deed 9-24-1903 by J.J. & Flora M. Kennedy to H.A. McDonald & George Braun, $1, E ½ SW, W ½ SE, 20-32-3E, (160 acres)

13893-Warranty Deed 9-24-1903 by Donald A. Kennedy, [eldest son of J.J. & Flora M. Kennedy, to H.A. McDonald & George Braun, E ½ SW, W ½ SE 20-32-3E (160 acres); this is the same land covered by Doc. #13892; title unclear as to which Kennedy owned it. Since the grantees reserved no timber, the deeds strongly suggest this was cutover land; the Rib Lake to Spirit Faflls Railroad ran through this section

13894-Lease 4-29-1904 of sawmill by F.J. Hintz to John Mathe and Co., $100 annually with option to purchase, 15 years, c-v Section 27-33N-R2E

13895-mortgage 12-18-1907 C.T. Hintz to John Mathe $1500, Lot 13, Block H, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

13896- 9-24-1909 Quit Claim Deed, United States Leather Co., a New Jersey Corp., to Central Leather Co, a New Jersey Corp., for $1 and other good and valuable consideration, conveyed 143 quarter-quarters (‘forties’) of land in Towns of Rib Lake, Greenwood, Brannan (nka Spirit and Hill equaling 5,720 acres. ‘The grantor has this day become duly and legally merged into and consolidated with the grantee..’ and ‘Grantee has thereby become the owner of all the assets, real and personal, formerly possessed by the grantor..’ ‘it is now desired that such succession in title…shall be duly confirmed by a proper conveyance..’

13896A-Legal Descriptions of land

13896B-ibid

13896C-ibid

13896D-signed the United States Leather Company by President Edwin C. Hoyt, Secretary Fred E. Knapp—US LEATHER CO. BY THIS DEED INTENDS TO CONVEY ITS ENTIRE TITLE-INTERST IN ALL OF ITS PROPERTIES-REAL OR OTHER-IN TAYLOR & PRICE CO, EXCEPT THOSE COVERED BY OTHER DEEDS OF EVEN DATE, I.E. 9-24-1909

13896E-notary-Edward C. Knapp resides at Stamford, Connecticut [NB-The Rib Lake Tannery located on Government Lot 1 & 2, Sec. 26-T33N-R2E, was not included in this deed-RPR 9-1-2010]

13897-W. ‘Wisconsin favorites-ride the Rustic Roads’ 9-2010 Price Electric Cooperative ‘Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News’; P. South Harper Lake

13897A-Page 2

13898-Email, 8-28-2010 Laurel Tanis to RPR re Annotated Chronology of Rib Lake Herald

13899-Map 8-13-2010 12-33-2E owners and boundaries

13899A-ditto 13-33-2E

Collection of Mid-Wisconsin Bank, c/o Dawn Schupp

13900-W. c. 1968 ‘Your bank has grown’ financial resport of State Bank of Medford

13900A-P. Rib Lake station. Bank building, NE corner of Landall & McComb; lower P. interior of Rib Lake station, Francis P. Schaak, Assistant Cashier, Mary Gordon & Donna Budimlija

13901-P. 9-1970 Francis P. Schaak turns first shovelful-begins construction of new bank building-717 McComb Ave., building in rear is Frosted Mug Bar

13902-P. 9-1970 excavation for new bank

13903-P. grand opening of new bank, 2-12-1971; left-F.P. Schaak; right-Donna Budimlija

13904-supplement ‘State Bank of Medcford-grows with the community’ Star News 6-2-1977

13904A-Board of Directors

13904B-1890 ‘Board of Directors’ including-John J. Kennedy, who lived in Rib Lake, was owner of the J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co., of that village, ‘though stern, he was a friendly man, honest and trustworthy.’ Written by Bert Ammacher?

13904C-History of State Bank of Medford, J.J. Kennedy and 9 other members of the board met 7-1-1890 resulting in the birth of the State Bank of Medford, 9-1-1890. It is the oldest and largest rank in Taylor County; ‘due to serious financial difficulties resulting from the Depression, the banks in Ogema and Rib Lake were unable to remain solvent. They were purchased by the State Bank of Medford as branch offices…The Rib Lake branch, purchased June 11, 1935, serves northeast Taylor County. A new building was constructed in Rib Lake in 1971. Deposits of the Rib Lake office on May 1, 1977 totaled $3,699,425.06

13904D-p. 7 history State Bank of Medford continued

13904E-p. 12 ibid

13904F-P. interior view of first State Bank of Medford

13904G-P. tellers include Mary Gordon & Donna Budimlija

13904H-P. old Fayette hotel-razed for State Bank of Medford c. 1960, Medford

13904I-Ad-State Bank of Medford & logo

13905-1981 Star News ad ‘We’re celebrating our 91st birthday; P. Mike Jeffords, Donna Budimlija, Mary Gordon and Patti Weinzatl; P. West side of State Bank of Medford, 717 McComb Ave.

13906-Star News 6-24-1992 ‘We’re celebrating employee appreciation week’ P. personnal at Rib Lake, left to right-Susan Will, Kris Rusch, Patti Weinzatl, Jeanne Fleischmann, Jody Scott and Mary Gordon

13907-Map 8-1989 route of first run around Rib Lake as part of Ice Age Days. ‘Eve of the Ice Age 5 mile run.’ State Bank of Medford generously donated medals to all runners/walkers

13908-Star News 12-18-1991 P. personnel at Rib Lake branch; front-Mary Gordon, Jeanne Fleischmann; back-Patti Weinzatl, Jody Scott and Susan Will

13908A-Logo

13909-P. 12-24-1986 ‘Rib Lake Branch (left to right) Mary Gordon, Patti Weinzatl, Bill Weiland-manager, and Donna Budimlija

13910-P. State Bank of Medford personnel at 1978 bowling tournament; L-R, Donna Budimlija, Ruth Schabel, Barb Raatz, Mary Gordon & Betty Quednow

13911-W. 1984 ‘Branch Week’

13912-Star News 3-27-1987, Two sought in robbery of Medford branch bank

13913-P. guess the weight of the pumpkin contest, 1987 Oct. 29 winner Josh Fuchs

13914-P. 8-1990 parade float

13915-P. 8-21-1992, Kristin K.L.M.B. Rusch, nka Strobach, last day of work

13916-P. c. 1990 Mary Gordon inside vault; bottom-money bags

13917-P. c. 1989 interior of bank-work station ‘Robin’ [Rusch]

13918-P. 10-27-97 ‘cast your vote’ – 4 candidates, Theresa Gibbons (nee Hebda), Mary Gordon, Robin Rusch (nka Riggs), Priscilla Weinke

13919-P. 12-11-99 Priscilla Weinke retirement

13920-P. c. 1999 Packer backers, L-unknown; C-Robin P. Rusch, R-Mary Gordon, rear window to drive thru

13921-P. 10-27-97 All in Green & Gold; L-R Tracy, Theresa Gibbons, Mary Gordon, Robin P. Rusch

13922-P. 7-13-01 drive thru

13923-P. 10-20-99, drive thru window from interior, R-Priscilla Weinke

13924-P. 3-19-98 Bank building in center

13925-P. 12-24-1997 Mary Gordon opening vault

13926-P. 10-27-97, Clowning around in lobby, sitting, L-R-Theresa Gibbons, Robin P. Rusch (upside down), Tracy (unknown); back L-R-Patty Weinzatl, Mary Gordon

13927-P. $100 bills with faces, Mary Gordon, Patricia ‘Patty’ Turba, Theresa Gibbons, Mary Kauer, Robin Rusch

13928-Envelope 2-17-1998 from Robin Rusch to ‘The stellar staff of MWB’

13928A-Valentine Card

13928B-Handwritten note by Robin Rusch

13928C-final page of text, signed Robin

13929-P. 11-1989 Spike Clendenning & Mary Gordon in bank lobby

13930-P. 3-1990 Sue Voemastek & Patti Weinzatl

13931-P. 7-1991 Marlin ‘Shoes’ Walbeck & Mary Gordon

13932-P. 9-1992 Mary Gordon and Karen M. Rusch

13933-P. 7-1992 Kristin Rusch & Carl Rhody

13934-P. 2-1992 Margaret Nelson & Robin Rusch

13935-P. 7-1995 Isabelle Wilhelms & Patti Weinzatl

13936-P. 6-1995 Patti Weinzatl & Mary Ann Rusch

13937-P. 7-13-2001 Lisa Komarek making poster ‘complimentary picnic lunch’; rear-drive thru window

13938-P. 2005 L-Melville Hildebrandt, M-Sheryl Brietzke, R-Harold Rhody

End of State Bank of Medford collection

Susan and Rolland ‘Rollie’ Thums collection

13939-W. ‘Rib Lake Volunteer Fire Department’ ‘Code of Laws’ 1912 [‘organized June 30, 1903’] printed by ‘The Rib Lake Herald 1912’

13939A-Title Page

13939B-Order of business

13939C-Cody of Laws-articles 1-3

13939D-P. 2 & 3 article IV

13939E-p. 4 & 5

13939F-p. 6 & 7, Article V

13939G-p. 8 & 9 Article VI & VII, including – members neglecting dutes shall pay a fine not less than 50 cents

13939H-p. 10 & 11, Article VIII ‘Expulsions’

13939I-p. 12 & 13, Article IX ‘pleas’ e.g., ‘No member shall speak more than twice on the same question.’

13939J-p. 14 & 14, Article X ‘Rights & Duties’ and XI amendments

13939K-p. 16 & 17 fire alarms and signals

End of Thums collection

RPR collection

13940-P. Chelsea, WI, sawmill c. 1900, Star News 8-5-2010

13940A-2003 plat map T32 R1E, probable mill site marked with red X

13940B-1913 Chelsea plat map, probable mill site marked with red X

13941-P. junction of STH 102 and McComb Ave., view to NW from roof of former RLLC machine shop c. 2005; in 2010 Left to right-post office, Mann-made Pizza, Ultimate Illusion Salon, Mid-Wisconsin Bank, Frosted Mug Tavern

13942-L. James A. Welton to RPR 6-30-2010

13942A-Question-How was freight handled & addressed c. 1905, e.g., box car load of lumber shipped from Rib Lake on See Line, then via another railroad to Racine, Wis.

13942B-explanation

13942C-explanation end [NB-Mr. Welton was a life-long employee of the Soo Line]

13943-L. James A. Welton to RPR 7-19-2010 re RLLC-Soo Line Cooperation

13944-One page history of Silesia by Schesier Verein of Milwaukee c. 1990

13944A-Map c. 1935 ‘Die deutschen Ostgebiete und das Sudetenland’, Schlesien/Silesia in yellow; Sudetenland in red; province of Posen in orange; Pre-WWII ethnic German population figures; 1=Bromberg/Karlsdorf; 2=Schoenwalde, ancestral Rusch-Gebauer family sites; Polisa-German boundary since 1945 highlighted in purple

Collection of Phyllis ‘Mrs. Gordon’ Nordgren

13945-P. c. 1910 RLLC shay locomotive has positioned the McGiffert loader at a spacious winter landing. 9 unidentified men stand next to sleigh from which loader lifts 2 logs [Dennis Kuehling AZO 1970-1014 4-16-2010 #1788]

13946-P. Wood Lake at outlet to Wood River-Creek; peeled hemlock float over entire surface, c. 1910; 3 unidentified men sit on logs at right center of picture; virgin forest still clothes the lakeshore; these logs were sleighed onto the lake from which a McGiffert loader will pile them on a flat car for rail transport to Rib Lake-6 miles to the southwest [Dennis Kuehling #1793 4-16-2010]

13947-P. c. 1910 ‘Tanking the road, Rib Lake, Wis.’ 2 men ride sleigh tanker pulled by 2 teams; this crudely constructed tanker has uneven rung ladder on its side [Kuehling #1703]

13948-P. ‘Tannery Rib Lake, Wis.’ c. 1910; spectacular panoramic photo of tannery complex looking north from Fayette Ave. in foreground; L-25 ft high bark piles, pan house, U.S. Leather Co. railroad tracks cross yard; center-twin metal smoke stacks serve power house [see map 1-1-1905 Rib Lake Depot Grounds for scale map. Kuehling #1732]

13949-P. c. 1905 log dump NW corner of Rib Lake; 5 loaded flat cars have been spotted on RLLC track for unloading; piles of logs enxtended c. 300 feet into lake with parallel log stringers permitting more logs from flat car to be rolled to lake; 3 story James Upjohn house stands atop hill where 1902 railroad excavation leaves a raw scar; marsh herbaceous vegetation fills lake in foreground; the WE corned rof lake covered by logs dumped there in winter as part of steam hauler ice road operations [Kuehling #1259]

13950-P. c. 1920 ‘The Landing, Rib Lake, Wis.’ entire west half of Rib Lake filled with logs; string of flat cars await unloading over piles of logs extending to lake bottom; high school cupola rises over treeline; many of floating logs are peeled hemlock [Kuehling ?]

13951-P. c. 1920 steam hauler and one well loaded sleigh of peeled hemlock at Bokath’s landing-NE shore of Rib Lake ‘c 1428’; foreground right-white pine; left-yellow birch logs; NB-log chain wrappers holding vertical side of 16 foot high load of 16-20 foot long peeled hemlock from Camp 9 [Kuehling #1273]

13952-P. c. 1910 ‘Drive around Spirit Lake, Wis WRC’ dirt road approaching Little Spirit Lake from north on now-2010-STH 102; telephone poles stand on lakeside of stone-bedecked highway [Kuehling #1785]

13953-P. c. 1945 asphaulted STH 102 on east side of Little Spirit Lake ‘No C-21’ sign in center hawks ‘Hillsboro Pale’ beer; white painted cedar poles line curve on right; view to north, P. at 2010 location of Follett’s Lakeview Resort, N4930 STH 102

13953A-backside-text of postcard ‘Jul 28 1948’ mother to Mr. Edw. C. Straka, Chicago, IL’

13954-P. c. 1935 ‘Hultman Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. Elster Photo, Waupun’ view from NE shore northward to Hultman farm field [Kuehling #1503]

13954A-back of postcard ‘Jul 11, 1938’ ‘Heine E. to Mr. Bruno Beck, 69 Peru St., Burlington, VT’

13955-P. c. 1950 Hopper’s Resort & Stone Lake beach; R-Wood pier & row boat [Kuehling #1734]

13956-P. 11-4-1926 ‘Tourist camp Rib Lake C 1522 on C 1622’ twin white pillared wood frame building in Village of Rib Lake park

13956A-backside ‘Dear Mother’ from ‘Mrs. Dodge’ [Kuehling #1771]

13957-P. c. 1945 ‘Public School, Westboro, Wis’ north & west sides of brick addition to 3-story Westboro wood frame building; weather vein adorns tower [Kuehling #1782]

13958-P. c. 1905 5 dead whitetail deer-each tagged on ear-await butchering; in rear-brush covered field attest to clear-cut logging in prior decade [Kuehling #1709]

13958A-back, Leon to Fred Rieber, Nov. 10, 1908

End of Phyllis Nordgren collection

Colleen Hein collection

13959-P. c. 1920 L-R Lydia Hein, Joseph ‘Joe’ A. Enders, Minne Marta Hein

13960-Eulogy given for Eugene R. Hein 6-14-1997 by Robert ‘Bob’ Hein

13960A-p. 2

13960B-obit 6-10-1997 Eugene R. Hein

13961-family tree of Robert Carl Hein & Rebecca Ann Hein, nee Fisher; 6-2-1980 ‘The Hein family in Australia’

13962-Obit, Otto F. Hein 5-1989

13962A-Obit, Marie Martha Hein nee Zielke

13962B-Family tree, Otto F. Hein & Marie Zielke

13962C-P. 5-23-1987 Otto & Marie Hein

13963-Family tree, John Robert Hein & Aimee Nanette Hein nee Swenson

13963A-P. 11-6-1961 John Hein & Patti Weinzatl

13964-Family tree, Vilas ‘Bud’ Eugene Glenzer & Marion Joyce Glenzer nee Hein

13964A-Obit, Vilas E. Glenzer

13965-W. Invitation to Hein family reunion-all descendants of Gotthold & Johanna Hein & their 2 boys who came to Rib Lake – Konrad [Conrad] and Berthold

13966-W. Thumbnail sketch of Hein family history by Martin Pytr, Professional Genealogist, Czech Republic, pathfinders.cz

13966A-p. 2

13966B-p. 3

13966C-p. 4

13966D-p. 5 Konrad Hein

13966E-p. 6, Gotthold Ernst Hein

13966F-p. 7 Maria Pfieger-wife of Konrad

13966G-p. 8

13966H-p. 9

13966I-p. 10

13966J-p. 11

End of Colleen Hein collection

13967-P. ‘Main Street, Westboro, Wis. No., 14’ ‘Hoff’, view south c. 1920, Main Street is, in 2010, Business STH 13, at junction of CTH D, Kuehling collecvtion #1801

13968-L. 8-7-2010 Mrs. Kate I. Zain to Mrs. Isabelle Wilhellms, proposing $19,700,000 scam

13968A-enveloope cancelled, Lisbon, Portugal

13969-Map, Lincoln Co., Town of Corning 2010, Merrill area chamber of commerce

13970-Map 1-1977, Chequamegon National Forest

13970A-text

13970B-text-continued ‘Ice Age Trail-part of 600 mile Wisconsin Ice Age Trail being constructed…’

Jack Heindl collection, presented to Rib Lake High School 9-16-2010 in memory of his uncle, Frank Haas

13971-envelope 5-7-1907, Atty. A.N. Andersen to Mr. Frank Haas

13972-Memorial card for Mary Kirch 1-15-1900

13973-P. 3-1-1905, Joe Haas

13974-P. Mrs. Frank E. Poole, c. 1905, NB-wooden sidewalk

13975-P. c. 1910 jacking up Otto Oleson’s saloon, NB-right side of photo shows metal siding of next door building, which may be Scharer’s saloon, Block B, MRPA, McComb Ave.

13976-P. c. 1915, Fred Marschke standing in canoe with prize fish

13977-Star News clipping, Rib Lake High School class photo, 1908, front row, L-R, Emily Kurzweil and Augusta Steare, second row L-R, Ethel Clendenning, Anna May Kennedy, Enola Headstream (Mrs. Dio Walty), Edith Curran (Mrs. Fred Niggemann); back row L-R, Herb Curran, Mary Schneck (later killed in a railroad accident) and Guidose Bonneville (a high quality copy of the 1908 photo is at 14105)

13978-P. c. 1910 unidentified man leaning on entrance door to root cellar

13979-P. 11-17-1911, Alfred Bonneville search party in Town of Rib Lake, the boy was never found

13980-calling cards c. 1910, Guidose J. Bonneville; lower-Albert L. Marschke

13981-P. Dec. 1919, ‘Haas Family’

13982-P. c. 1920; R-Frank Becker holding pole of fish and fishing rod

13983-5-27-1941 RLHS commencement announcement

13983A-front page and signature of Melvin Clendenning, a/k/a ‘Spike’

13983B, class roll, Lucille B. Becker, Ivar H. Blomberg,m Arthur B. Bokath, Melvin H. Clendenning, John C. Fenzau, Geneva R. Frisbie, Kenneth W. Gilge, Virginia M. Goodman, La Rue V. Gummo, Henry W. Hauch, Charles V. Henderson, Lucille F. Hoffman, Cecilia M. Hohl, Donald F. Johnson, Ruth M. Kettleson, Earl H. Klemm, Ervin J. Kofler, Laurence P. Mathias, Pauline Sue Minarcini, Ann Nelson, Annette A. Patrick, William F. Pendergast, William O.J. Radtke, Vernon W. Reistad, Leo R. Resudek, Benedict M. Rezutek, Grace J. Rhody, Agnees F. Schreiner, Marvin W. Smith, Joseph Surek, Elwood B. Swanson, Geanne L. Thompson, Hazel Edith Vlach, Earl H. Walker, Bonita J. Wensel, Harold L. Winkler, Lawrence P. Yanko

13984-W. RLHS commencement announcement, 5-31-19(unknown year), class roll, Charley Clendenning calling card

13984A-front page

13985-W. photo processing order envelope ‘The Home of ‘Quality Finishing’ Upjohn-Kennedy Drug Co. Rib Lake – Wisconsin, 24 Hour Service, Developing – Printing – Enlarging’; c. 1940, NB-The roll of exposed file was sent away for ‘developing,’ the production of photo positives

13986-P. c. 1910 3 men atop water sleigh tanker used to spread water to make ice road; kerosene lamp hangs on front of tanker ready for nighttime use

13987-P. c. 1915 ‘Ner Nicht Liebt Wein, Weib Und Gesand, Der Bleibt Ern Narr Sein Lebt Lang’ Whoever does not love wine, women and song, he remains a fool his whole life long; Left- C ‘Cy’ R. Claussen ?

13988-P. c. 1910 sign reads ‘[Frank] E. Poole Rib Lake’s Furniture House’, probably photograph of Frank E. Poole’s Spirit Lake place

13988A-unidentified girl holding shotgun-larger than her – on steps of place pictured in 13988

13989-fragment of envelope ‘Antigo, Wis. Feb. 9, 1904’ ‘Mr. Frank Hass (sic) Camp 6, Rib Lake W’ NB-this apparently was a sufficient address for Frank Haas at W.A. Osburn Logging Co. Camp 6; back, ‘Rib Lake 2-11-1904’

13990-P. c. 1910 Preparing to smoke fish

13991-P. ‘intended to write today, but could not pick up the pen’

13991A-back, postmark, Duluth, Minn, 1912 to Mr. Frank Hass (sic) Rib Lkae, Wis Taylor Co., 1 cent stamp

13992-P. unidentified log driving dam c. 1910; L-cribs made of logs supported wood & material impounding water on other side of dam; gates (not shown) in center could be opened to allow gush of impounded water to float logs downstream; this type of dam allowed a small waterway to be made usable for driving logs downstream; this photo may have been taken on the Rib, Spirit or Wood Rivers, or Silbernagel or Silver Creek (Taylor & Price Co) – all of which at one time had driving dams built on them

13993-P. c. 1920 Tabor Island on Big Spirit Lake, view to SE

13994-P. ‘Considine’s Cottage’, southmost part of Spirit Point-Big Spirit Lake

13994A-P. repaired stairway

13995-P. c. 1925, view across (west) McComb Ave., L-across McComb Ave-George Kelnhofer Store (2010 Zondlo’s IGA) & ‘Harness Shop’

13996-P. c. 1920 L-Charlie Lack, R-Cecil Talbot (perhaps)

13997-P. c. 1920, L-Herb Curran, R-unidentified man

13998-P. 4-1904, Anthony Haas, Amos Paysee, Tiffly Goodin, photographed in Phillips, Wis

13999-P. c.1905, Bill Duesing and John McDonald playing cards for cash

14000-P. c. 1910 bar inside Rib Lake Hotel, Block 15, MRPA, (in 2010 Barry Anderson’s Body Shop, 840 McComb Ave.) Henry Voss proprietor, sign behind bartender-’Vote for C. [Clement] Kelnhofer for (Taylor Co.) Sheriff’; spittoons on filthy floor

14001-c. 1910 Jake Kapitz tavern

14001A-same tavern-photo from opposite side, NB-no bar stools-patrons stood

14002-P. 7-31-1914 RLLC mill fire (perhaps) 8 men & boys man fire hose standing on top of 2 x 4’s on tram (railroad) car

14003-P. c. 1910 L-unknown, middle-Mac Clendenning, right-Cid Bonneville

14004-P. c. 1912 Clara’s boyfriend

14004A-back-postcard 3-23-1912 to Miss Bessie Swartz, Rib Lake, Wis, 1 cent stamp

14005-P. c. 1920 Francis Janda & Bertha Downs

14006-P. 1918 Rib Lake’s WWI ‘nurse corps’

14007-P. c. 1920 ‘Sleeping Beauty’

14008-P. c. 1925, 7 beer-drinking men; top-2nd from left-Joe Lilly, lower left-Andrew Lilly

14009-P. c. 1930 Frank Jarosh with muskie on back; L-Spirit Lake

14010-P. c. 1020 Andrew Berg with double-barrel shotgun aiming at grouse

14011-P. c.1910 unidentified camp cook inside cook shanty; large coffee pot sits atop wood range in rear-blur on floor is a moving cat

14012-P. c. 1920 Jerry Kapitz in front of Camp 9 cook shanty; R-grind stone sets in stand ready to sharpen dull axes

14013-P. c. 1920 Bob Hess stands on rollway base in front of steam hauler at Camp 9; steam hauler in process of turning around to backup to & pull train of loaded sleighs down ice road to Rib Lake sawmill

14014-P. 1912, 2 man cross-cut team pause in midst of felling tree; Six-foot saw sits horizontally in tree trunk with sawyer’s glove atop

14014A-Back, text in foreign language

14015-P. c. 1910, an unidentified camp crew of 35 men. The white aproned cooks hold a rolling pin and large pan. A dinner horn, a Gabriel, stands upright before the bow-tied trumpeter. The camp blacksmith-his face smudged black, carries his hammer; Rear-tarpaper on camp buildings is held in place with 1 x 6 inch lumber; icicles hang from the eves

14016-P. 1915 ‘1915 in Stump’s millyard-Jos. Jantsch, Photo’ A hardwood rollway dwarfs 2 men

14016A-P. ‘Stump’s mill 1915’ Rib Lake Herald 8-7-1914 reported that [Charles] Stump of Spooner is building a sawmill on the Edward Franz farm-Sec. 20 & 21, T32N-3E-on Wood River; Rib Lake Herald 3-25-1915 reported that Charles Stump delivered machinery to Rib Lake ‘for a small mill and planer’ including a 20 hp ‘Traction [steam] engine’; the mill & cluster of buildings was called ‘Stumpville’

14017-P., c. 1903 newly constructed railroad on northwest shore of Rib Lake; the tracks are laid on fill piled over slabwood; rear-RLLC mill complex

14017A-P. c. 1903, RLLC locomotive facing southwest on row in center of photo #14017; in 2010 the site in the parking lot for Camp 28 Restaurant, 720 STH 102, Rib Lake

14018-P. c. 1903 RLLC 4-4-0 locomotive-same as shown in #14017-pulling boxcar & passenger coach

14019-P. c. 1910 2 partially loaded flatcars at end of poorly constructed woods spur; rear-pulpwood pile

14020-P. c. 1910 8 unidentified workers on loading platform-a pile of ‘junk’ pulpwood-awaits loading on flatcars behind locomotive tender

14021-P. c. 1910 SW corner of RLLC dry yard; L-standard gauge railroad tracks from depot (behind photographer); center-end of elevated tramway divides c. 25 ft. high piles of drying lumber; R-RLLC mill smokestacks

14022-P. c. 1900 RLLC office building at junction of Railroad and Main Street (in 2010 site of Edward Zondlo home, 700 Mill Lane)

14023-P. c. 1895 The Commercial Hotel, aka ‘The Commercial House’ built by J.J. Kennedy to house his mill workers. NB-’Fire Escape’ ladder to third floor window; center-company store & post office, the hotel had 125 rooms and was the biggest hotel in Taylor County before burning

14024-P. Mathias Central Hotel - #1. This is a picture of the first Central Hotel-facing Third Street-right side facing Railroad Street, it burned 2-3-1917; pictured people cluster around the main entrance off Third Street-the entrance off image to extreme left was for ‘transients’ i.e. blue collar mill hands; following the fire of 2-3-1917, the proprietors, Henry & Elizabeth Mathias, immediately rebuilt & reopened on 7-19-1918. The second Central Hotel was sold by Mrs. Mathias-then a widow-after 52 years in business; the building became the first site of the Golden Age Nursing Home, the handwritten caption ‘Commer[c]ial House’ is mistaken. The Commercial House was 2 blocks west and was built by J.J. Kennedy-see image #14023

14025-P. c. 1900 Rib Lake Tannery complex-view to SSE; a small bridge crosses Tannery Creek in foreground; twin smokestacks rise from the power plant (R); the vat house stretches from left to right thru the center (NB-periodic windows in its clearstore are open for ventilation); the ‘rolling mill’ dominates the mill on left; a steam pipe runs from power plant to vat house; behind the pipe, a railroad bridge spans Tannery Creek, see image #13435E-4 for site map dated 1-1-1905

14026-P. c. 1900 child with bonnet in horse sleigh; left-’12-20-[19]05 Dear Bro[ther], sent you a __ today-hope you will get it off. [I] have written you several times. Why don’t you write? Signed Tony

14026A-back-postcard, cancelled 12-20-1905 8 PM Park Falls, Wis., arrived Rib Lake Dec. 21, 1905 2 PM; NB-daily train with postal services between Park Falls, Chelsea and Rib Lake

14026B-P. same at 14026 except dog has replaced child

14027-P. 1918 Rib Lake’s ‘homeguards’-42 men post outside of Lake Theatre, a/k/a Johnson Hall, a/k/a The Armory; in 2010 the site of Gerstberger Rib Lake Florist, 835 McComb Ave; R-glass windows in front of ‘Theatre Barber Shop’; L-entrance to the silent move theater was through the portal. On its left side is a poster advertising ‘Minute Men,’ a movie; far left-a billboard depicts a scene from a movie featuring S.E. Peters in ‘Rail Rider’; farthest left-north side of 2-story wood frame building used in 9-2010 as apartment building, including residence of Nancy Ann Kroll, 827 McComb Ave.

14028-P. 1905, a boy carries his buddy piggy back in front of Ward School, view northwards

14029-P. c. 1902 Church of Christ building under construction on Pearl Street, Lot 17, Block D, MRPA, See #11820 for church history & #12849 for c. 1974 phot after its conversion to ‘Lakers Social Club’

14030-P. c. 1910 William ‘Bill’ Radtke home, SW corner of Pearl & Landall; NB-foreground-well-built wooden sidewalks with bridges across shallow ditches paralleling Pearl Street

14031-P. c. 1910 White haired Joseph Pfeiffer on his sleigh driving his team of oxen northward on McComb Ave; this German immigrant lived 1 mile NE of the Village and used oxen-not horses-for farm & domestic purposes; rear center-Kelnhofers Store-in 2010 Zondlo’s IGA-801 McComb Ave.

14032-P. c. 1915 stores on west side of McComb Ave south from Landall; NB-telephone poles-each with 5 cross arms & 10 wires; a single incandescent electric bulb hangs over the junction of McComb & Landall Avenues

14033-P. c. 1910 suited man stands on Upjohn Hill; in 1902 railroad tracks were cut through hill connecting Rib Lakek with Spirit Falls-Tomahawk & opening rich forest lands east of Rib Lsake for exploitation; in 2010 the site is STH 102 north of Lakeshore Ave.

14034-P. c. 1902 10-man construction crew takes lunch on railroad track they just layed; the site may be on Rib Lake-Spirit main line; a 3-wheeled-hand pumped-section cart provides a handy lunch table; apparently lunch was sent; NB-plates, bowls, basket, cups & large jug

14035-P. c. 1880 ‘trestle work across Butternut Creek’; this outstanding photo shows the Wisconsin Central Railroad under construction near the Price-Ashland County line; a wood trestle was first built to span the valley; fill was then hauled in by railroad &n dumped over the trestle-see fill in rear & foreground; next, a bridge was built over the creek; NB-gap in center of trestle left for bridge; after the filling was completed, tracks were laid on top of fill; this process explains why you see a railroad fill at ‘High Bridge’ NB-standing man & rafted by timbers

14036-P. ‘Ashland Wis.’ c. 1910 P#1 C&NW (Chicago & Northwestern Railroad) depot; P #2, Northern Pacific Railroad & Chicago, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad trains; in 1910 4 first class railroads had lines & passenger service in and out of Ashland; the original line was The Wisconsin Central, whose lline was built through Taylor County in 1873 with a spur to Rib Lake in 1881; it was taken over by the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie (Soo Line); in 2010 all the railroads have forsaken Ashland but for the Soo, now known as Canadian National

14036A-back-postcard cancelled 3-29-1910

14037-Soo Line logo

14038-P. c. 1930 Taylor County Courthouse-view to SE, building constructed 1913; right of courthouse is sheriff’s residence & office (razed 1975); on extreme right part of 2-story Germania Hall is shown

14039-P. c. 1905 ‘W.I. and M. R.R. near Potlach’ Washington, Idaho & Montana Railroad near Potlach, Idaho;

14039A-back-cancelled Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, April 10 8AM [1909] ‘4-9-09 Couer d’Alene, Ida, Hello Frank. Rec’d your card. Glad to hear from you. Here for a few days sight seeing. Write me at Spokane, Wash, c/o Gert? /s/ Tony; this and the next 3 postcards, demonstrate the pervasive interest of Rib Lake Lakers at this time in things ‘out west,’ viz. Western Fever

14040-P. c. 1905 ‘Potlach LBR Co.’s Mill,’ Ida.; R-the 50 ft. silo-like structure was a refuse burner for sawdust and scrap wood

14041-P. c. 1905 spectacular railroad bridge in denuded forest; ‘Bridge No. 23, 14 degrees reverse curve on railroad between Lewiston & Grangeville’ [Idaho]

14042-P. c. 1905 ‘Rock Creek Bluff & [railroad] tunnel in scenic Lapwai Canyon, between Lewiston & Grangeville, Idaho’

End of Jack P. Heindl collection, in memory of his uncle, Frank Haas, 13971-14041

Collection of Rev. Michael Meier and Mrs. Toni Meier

14043-blotter advertising Chicago Lumber Sales Co., 2-1923

14044-Map c. 1915 ‘Parts of Westboro-Chelsea-Rib Lake & Ogema,’ T33 & parts of 34N & 32N, R2 west thru 2 east; maker unknown, legend in faint ink in lower left reads red colored –Westboro Lumber Co. lands; gray colored-Soo Line Co. lands; dashed line equals routes of Westboro Lumber Co. Soo Line Railroad, some roads shown by double lines; ‘Diable Farm’ & Westboro shown in blue – westmost

14044A-center of map

14044B-eastmost

14044C-horizontal view-Westboro Lumber Co. track

Collection of Barbara ‘Barb’ Fredenburg, great-granddaughter of J.J. Kennedy

14045-Pedigree chart of John J. Kennedy and his great-granddaughter, Mrs. Barbara ‘Barb’ Fredembirg, nee Herron

14046-P. John J. Kennedy aka J.J. Kennedy, portrait c. 1890

14047-P. John J. Kennedy, aka J.J. Kennedy, & Marian McDougall, aka ‘Baby Doll’ c. 1915

14048-P. John J. Kennedy and son, Donald Angus Kennedy, c. 1905 in Rib Lake

14049-P. John J. Kennedy c. 1925 standing in front of his home on Vaughn Street, Portland, Oregon, with unidentified man in Scottish dress; the Kennedy’s were prous of their Scottish roots

14050-W. self-made and well-made 10-5-1900 the MIssissippis Valley Lumberman, Minneapolis, MN, Vol. XXXI, number 40, a biography of John J. Kennedy, top half

14050A-Bottom half

14050B-one page version

14051-P. John J. Kennedy c. 1880

14052-P. Mary Flora Kennedy, nee McLennan, aka Flora M. Kennedy c. 1875

14053-P. Christena M. aka Tena Kennedy c. 1890, daughter of J.J. Kennedy, aka Mrs. Nathan Allen George McDougall

14054-P. Jeanette Kennedy c. 1890, daughter of J.J. Kennedy, aka Mrs. Daniel Moffet, aka Jennette Kennedy (so written in 1910 Rib Lake deed)

14055-P. Jennette Kennedy 1901 portrait taken in Root Studios, 243 Wasash Ave., Chicago

14056-P. Christena M. Kennedy & Donald Angus Kennedy, children of J.J. Kennedy, founder of Rib Lake, and Mary Flora Kennedy, 11-1893

14057-P. c. 1905 L-R Anna May Kennedy (9/30-1885-6/18/1962), daughter of Hugh JJ. Kennedy; Willard Kennedy (5/25/1894-1977), son of Angus Kennedy, Harold Allard, ‘Krueger’ & Robin

14057A-back ‘This [photo 14057] was taken in front of your lilac bushes. My oldest brother was visiting there & Harold is his son.’ Text written by someone born Allard

14058-P. c. 1930 L-William G. Kennedy, son of J.J. Kennedy, around campfire with unidentified man

14059-Memorial card-William G. Kennedy (6/15/1880-11/1/1955), Portland, Oregon

14059A-back

14060-Birth Certificate for Christena Maud Kennedy, 9-14-1872, Norwich, County of Chenago, State of New York, parents-John [J.] Kennedy and Mary Flora McLennan

14061-Birth certificate, Elbert Carpenter Kennedy 1-5-1884 at Rib Lake, parents-John J. Kennedy & Mary Flora McLennan

14062-P. 6-26-1901’Whole [J.J. Kennedy] family’ center-man with beard-knees crossed is J.J. Kennedy, 2nd from right-Mrs. J.J. Kennedy, taken on law of J.J. Kennedy home-junction of Church and Main Street, Rib Lake, view east across Rib Lake to cemetery,

14062A-back [to] Jennette [Kennedy], ‘your whole family is on this picture taken when Letitia Shaw was married. I drove them up to Rib Lake’ [from Medford by horse and buggy] ‘taken on the law in front of your house’

14063-marriage certificate, Letitia Weiler Shaw, daughter of Thaxter Shaw & Clemetine A. Shaw, marries Theodore Quinn, Withee 6-26-1901 in Medford

14064-P. 6-26-1901 J.J. Kennedy [front with beard] & wife [far left] with family at porch of their Rib Lake home; front row right-wedding couple, Letitia Shaw & Theodore Quinn

14065-P. c. 1905 R-J.J. Kennedy & son, Donald Angus Kennedy

14066-P. 1893 senior class, Ferry Hill [High School], Chicago, Illinois, Jennette or Christena Kennedy went to high school there since Rib Lake had none at that time

14067-P. 6-1896 Jennette Kennedy

14068-P. c. 1935 Jennette Kennedy, nka Jeanette Kennedy Meyers

14069-P. c. 1890 Christena Kennedy

14070-P. c. 1892 Christena Kennedy

14071-P. c. 1894 Christena Kennedy

14072-P. c. 1898 Christena Kennedy

14073-envelope to ‘Miss Tena [Christena] Kennedy, Rib Lake, Wisconsin’ cancelled 11/16/1901

14074-12-31-1902 wedding invitation by Mr. and Mrs. John Kennedy for daughter ‘Christena’ to ‘Mr. Natt McDouglass’ at Rib Lake, Wis. ‘at home after February third, Waverly, Iowa

14075-Rib Lake Herald article 1-1903 of marriage of ‘Miss Christina [sic] Kennedy of this village & Mr. Nat McDouglass, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.D. McDouglass of Milwaukee..’

14076-P. 12-31-1902 interior of John J. Kennedy Rib Lake home decorated for Christena Kennedy’s wedding there

14076A-back ‘your hold home when Tena [Christena Kennedy] was married

14076-P. c. 1903 ‘portrait of Mrs. Natt McDougall by S.L. Stein, Milwaukee’

14077-pedigree chart of Marion McDougall, born 9-2-1913, Portland, Oregon, daughter of Christena Maud Kennedy

14077A-part 2

14078-P. c. 1900 ‘C.W. St. John Labor Agency, Milwaukee, Wis’ on wall ad for ‘Milwaukee Northern [Electric] Railroad & Map of Wisconsin; agency may have helped recruit workers for Rib Lake

14079-P. c. 1900 Mary Agnes Heidrick, text on back of photo ‘[The Heidricks] are friends from Westboro..had sawmill. Jennette still hears from Mrs. H’

14080-P. 12-1903 Mary Agnes Heidrick, the existence of the last two photos manifests the positive relationship between the leading logging families in c. 1900, Kennedy in Rib Lake and Heidrick in Westboro

14081-P. 9-23-1910 ‘sawmill at Westboro’ ‘Hoff. #7’ The ‘main’ sawmill at Westboro-foreground-mill pond formed by daming Silver Creek in SW SW 7-T33N-R2E; 10 loaded railroad flat cars stood on siding along mill pond ready for unloading; according to Gust Hill’s writing in ‘Westboro 1875-1975’, E.L. Mattson & ‘The Heidrick estate’ sold the mill in 1902 to Pennsylvania investors operating as the Westboro Lumber Co., which cuts its last log in 1922; photo from Dennis Kuehling collection

14082-P. c. 1900 J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co., Inc., sawmill built in 1897-1898; sawmill with two metal smoke stacks occupies center of photo; portion of bull chain apparatus slopes into Rib Lake; R-(partial) west face of J.J. Kennedy’s 3-story wood frame Commercial Hotel; L-2-story wood frame false front Commercial building faces east (in 2010 at SW corner of Railroad and Lake Street); view looks north and tannery twin smoke stacks & buildings can faintly be seen on horizon

14083-P. panoramic view of Rib Lake Village taken from tannery smoke stack looking SSW c. 1905

14084-P. c. 1902 J.J. Kennedy residence in Village of Rib Lake-it stood on south side of Church Street & junction with Second Street; the twin porches are on the north side of the house; note-Rib Lake in the rear

14085-P. c. 1890 one of J.J. Kennedy’s logging camps in Town of Rib Lake; 18 horses and 2 teasms of oxen are proudly displayed by their teamsters who hold their goad sticks above the teams; the camp buildings are well built from massive pine logs at least 2 feet in diameter; metal smoke stacks protrude through cedar shingled roofs; an unloaded sleigh has two bales of hay loosely chained to it

14086-P. c. 1885 a prize winning sleigh load of white pine won plaudits for one of J.J. Kennedy’s crews; the board feet of lumber in numbers is written on the front of each log; the highest visible lumber if 980, 16 feet long, c. 3 feet in diameter, on the small end and c. 4 feet on the butt; this massive load was pulled by horses onto a lake; its weight is breaking through the ice causing water to pool above the ice surface; master photographer Williaim Zeit of Medford made a special trip to Rib Lake to record this feat

14087-P. c. 1890 4 courses of logs fill a sleigh with a 16 foot wide bunk; the 4 horses have just brough the load onto frozen Rib Lake where the logs will be unloaded & floated to the mill come spring

14088-P. c. 1890 a similar scene to photo 14087, except a kerosene lantern hangs from the front of a log; this teamster started from camp before daylight

14089-P. c. 1895 Daniel B. Kennedy, aka ‘Long Dan’, longtime woods superintendent for J. J. Kennedy; on 5/28/1896 he was one of the 3 incorporaters of ‘St. John the Baptist’s Catholic Congregation of Rib Lake’

14090-P. c. 1900 Bess Gardiner

14091-P. c. 1900 Mr. John Gardiner, pioneer lumberman of Spencer

14092-P. c. 1900 Mrs. John Gardiner of Spencer & daughter, Myra, who married John E. Kennedy, son of Angus, brother of J.J. Kennedy

14093-P. c. 9-1905 children of Fayette Shaw, a founder of the Rib Lake tannery; Thaxter P. age 19; Frank S. age 17; Fred G. 15; Harold S. 14; Mary E. 11; J.J. Kennedy conveyed the land for the tannery to Shaw with the legal requirement that Shaw must build tannery in Rib Lake at least as big as Shaw’s tannery in Medford

14094-P. Mrs. Fayette Shaw of Medford, age 70

14095-P. c. 1920 Mrs. Thaxter Shaw

14096-P. c. 1920 Lolita Shaw, child of Mr. and Mrs. Thaxter Shaw

14097-P. c. 1900 Edith & Nora Pringle, their father, Atty. William Pringle, long worked for J.J. Kennedy in the company office & store in Rib Lake; in 1903 Pringle was one of 2 attorneys practicing in Rib Lake

14098-P. c. 1900 Katie Pringle

14099-P. children of Hugh McDonald, shipping clerk for J.J. Kennedy, c. 1900

14100-P. c. 1900 Edward ‘Eddie’ Clark; he drowned in Little Rib Lake; he swam with a bunch of boys across the lake but drowned swimming back

14101-P. c. 1900 this thought-provoking photo has the word ‘farewell’ written on back; was the picture taken of Mrs. J.J. Kennedy bidding farewell to a Rib Lake friend when Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Kennedy moved to Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, in 1907

14102-P. c. 1920 this photo from the Barbara Fedenburg collection has this text on its back apparently written by Christena Kennedy (then Mrs. Natt McDougall) ‘in Rib Lake I [went] back for a visit; bottom row, left, with baby [is] Aunt Addie; second row from top-left- Jennette [Kennedy]; ‘top row-4th woman left with white in waist [is] Aunt Kate, then Mrs. Clark’

14103-postcard of Methodist Church, Rib Lake c. 1950

14103A-back-text by Elbert C. Kennnedy to his brother, William G. Kennedy, ‘Rib Lake, Wis. 4/26/1963 Dear Bill ‘I have so many things to tell you and do while here..’ Elbert C. Kennedy explains his 1953 trip to his birth place, Rib Lake, & visit with his cousin, ‘Anna May Kennedy’

14104-L. 7-29-1963 by Atty. Gene G. Krug ‘To the heirs of Anna Mae Kennedy, deceased’

14104A-enclosure ‘known heirs of Anna Mae Kennedy, deceased’, NOTA BENE: ADDITIONS TO THIS LIST OF HEIRS WERE MADE AUGUST 29, 1963, SEE #14147B.

14105-P. 1908 graduating class of Rib Lake High School; Anna Mae Kennedy in middle row, 2nd from left; top row L-R-Herb Curran, MAary Schneck, Guidose Bonneville; second (middle) row L-R-Ethel Clendenning, Anna Mae Kennedy, Enold Headstream (lka Mrs. Dio Walty), Edith Curran (lka Mrs. Fred Niggemann); first row L-R-Emily Kurzwell, Augusta Steare

14106-postcard c. 1945 ‘Spirit River bridge, Rib Lake, Wis. 39’ STH 102 crossing twin arch stone bridge at outlet of Little Spirit Lake

14106A-back-cancellation 6-6-1953 at Rib Lake; text by Anna Mae Kennedy to her cousin, Elbert C. Kennedy, NB-she signed as ‘Anna May’ (emphasis added)

14107-P. c. 1925 J.J. Kennedy & unidentified woman in mink coat

14108-Kennedy family crest

14108A-back, 1992 Lang Syne publishes history of Kennedy clan of Scotland

14109-RLH ‘recollecting old times’ c. 1930, J.J. Kennedy as related by Peter Clendenning and William Schmidt, indexed as ‘History c. 1/1/1930’

14110-P. ‘Lakeside, Rib Lake, Wis.’ c. 1910, 2 rowboats with 8 passengers, view to southwest to southwest side of Rib Lake

14110A-back ‘your mother’s brother [in] first boat and his daughter [in] second boat’

14111-P. c. 1915 homes on either side of Methodist Church ‘Rib Lake, Wis.’

14112-P. c. 1910 RLLC windmill, east side of Main Street (in 2010 Lake Street), view north. 13 evenly spaced posts driven into Rib Lake support boom preventing logs from drifing from north part of lake; man and woman in faintly discernable rowboat

14113-P. c. 1920 ‘Rib Lake, Wis. K-452’ view south from Railroad & Main Street, RLLC wooden water tower between Rib Lake and Main Street; in 2010 white house pictured is occupied by Mrs. Phyllis Dolezalek, 900 Railroad Street

14114-P. c. 1910 ‘G.W. Jones Lbr. Co.’ steamhauler

14115-P. c. 1910 ‘filling the tank’ team of horses on side of sleigh water tanker have pulled rope hoisting barrel of water to top of tanker; Bert Aitken sits atop tanker ready to drive team

14116-P. c. 1915 11 man crew unload sleigh of tan bark forming a pile 25 feet high with a tan bark cap resembling the roof of a house; bark stored for use in Rib Lake tannery just east of site, see #14117

14117-P. c. 1910 ‘Tannery, Rib Lake, Wis.’ view northward of tannery complex; left-ends of 2 piles of tan bark, three story pan house, twin metal smokestacks rise from power plan

14118-P. c. 1915 north face ‘Central Hotel’ SE corner of Railroad & Pearl Streets; cupola of Ward Elementary School on Chjurch Street peaks over hotel roof

14119-P. c. 1920 First of 5 photos taken from RLLC smokestack ‘Rib Lake, Wisconsin K 683’ view to SW of Kennedy Town; foreground-center-National Hote; right-partial-Central Hotel; center-multi-story Ward Elementary School; rear-identical ‘Company houses’ originally built by J.J. Kennedy employees; right horizon-straight railroad right-of-way extends southwest of Village toward Chelsea

14120-P. c. 1920 ‘K-682’ view west over Railroad Street; right-neat, high piles of lumber on either side of elevated tramway

14121-P. c. 1920 ‘K 681’ view northwest from RLLC smokestack. Left-RLLC lumber piles in dry yard; foreground-2 railroad box cars spotted just west of McComb Ave for unloading; center-long, low building with roof pitched to south ‘pest house’ maintained by Village for quarantine cases

14122-P. c. 1920 RLLC locomotive pulling box and flat car west across McComb Ave; rear-multi-story roller mill at north edge of Village; NB-cleared snow white farm fields extend north to forest glacial hills

14123-P. c. 1920 ‘K-685’ right foreground-RLLC railroad ‘roundhouse’ snow free wheel rout curve northward through wood scrap and sawdust dump, ‘hogfeed’

14124-P. c. 1880 Donald Angus Kennedy, eldest son of J.J. and Flora Kennedy

14125-P. c. 1887 Donald Angus Kennedy

14126-P. c. 1895 top of 4 young men; Donald Angus Kennedy with classmates at Lake Forest, Illinois

14127-Business card for Donald Angus Kennedy c. 1930 ‘The Simms Co., Portland 5, Oregon Realtors, Property Management, Insurance.’

14128-’Map of Greenwood Cemetery, Spokane, Washington’ red line shows route to Block 13, Lot 77, burial site of Flora M. Kennedy, aka Mrs. John J. Kennedy, who died 1/31/1909, and ‘wdas buried out of her home in Spokane, Wash.’ per Rib Lake Herald

14129-pamphlet c. 1950 ‘Greenwood Cemetery – serving the greater Spokane area’

14130-P. c. 1910 ‘Greenwood Cemetery, Spokane, Washington – view from upper terrace’

14131-business card c. 1990 for Susan M. O’Brien, Riverview Cemetery, Portland, Oregon – site of J.J. Kennedy grave

14132-Map of Riverview Cemetery, Portland, Oregon, showing section 4, Lots 378 & 448, containing graves of John J. Kennedy, son Donald Angus, daughter Jennette Myers, et. Al

14133- 4-10-1923 J. J. Kennedy wedding invitation for daughter, Jennette, and bridegroom ‘David Moffat Myers at Portland, Oregon

14134-Memorial card, ‘Jennette Kennedy Myers, Oct. 10, 1874-3/28/1966, Portland, Oregon, vault interment Riverview Cemetery, Portland, Oregon

14134A-back

14135-P. c. 1960 R-Jennette Myers, nee Kennedy; C-Elbert ‘Bert’ Carpenter Kennedy; L-Christena Maud McDougall, nee Kennedy, the 3 siblings outside of Mt. Angel Nursing Home, Portland, Oregon

14136-P. Christena Maud Kennedy, aka Tena, aka Mrs. Nat McDougall c. 1892, aka Tenah Kennedy

14137-’Postal card one cent’ 3-1903 by W.G.A. to ‘Miss Tenah Kennedy-Ferry Hall, Lake Forest, Illinois’ on R.P.O. viz. Railroad post office

14137A-back ‘Don’t you want ot meet me [Nat McDougall] at four?’

14138-P. c. 1920 Mr. and Mrs. Nathan ‘Natt’ Allen McDougall with begging dog on short grass prairie in Montana; a recently constructed cedar shingled residence sports a sheep fence wire enclosed garden; a wooden barrel stands-askance-on the treeless prairie; this may have been their homestead; alternately, it may have been a temporary residence dictated by Mr. McDougall’s far-flung construction business interest such as railroad building

14139-Memorial card-Christena K. McDougall 9/16/1872-1/23/1970 Mt. Angel, Oregon; vault entombment at Mt. Calvary Cemetery, Portland, Oregon

14140-State of Oregon-1948-individual income tax form signed by Elbert Carpenter Kennedy declaring income of $2,426.04

14140A-back

14141-receipt-6-28-1955, Riverview Cemetery, Portland, Oregon, to E.C. Kennedy for Lot 378, Section 4 ‘final payment’

14142-P. c. 1950 top L-R-unidentified boy, Floyd Howe, Donald Angus Kennedy; bottom row-Elbert Carpenter Kennedy, unidentified girl, William G. Kennedy aka Billy Kennedy; William G. Kennedy had previously lost his right hand in an industrial accident

14143-P. c. 1950 L-R-Elbert Carpenter Kennedy holding American flag, William G. Kennedy, Donald Angus Kennedy and Floyd Howe, in-law

14144-Postcard 5-3-1911 to W. [William] G. Kennedy, Fond du Lac, Wis. from Mary Hazen, post stamped Rib Lake ‘Dear Billy, I was certainly surprised to hear from you, for I thought you had forgotten me. What are you doing in Fond du Lac? Isn’t this a great picture? It was a hard times party given by the Twentieth Century Club. No doubt you will recognize a few, signed Mary Hazen

14144A-back

14145-business card, ‘Earl F. Kennedy-Breeder of Registered Boston Terriers and Mexican Chihuahuas, 236 Third Ave. East, Calgary [Sasketchewan, Canada], Earl F. was a son of J.J. Kennedy’s brother, William J. Kennedy, Earl’s mother was Christy Ann Kennedy, nee Ferguson

14146-L. 8-12-1963 Atty. David L. Davies to Atty. Gene G. Krug re ‘Estate of Anna Mae Kennedy, deceased’ re Sarah McLennan, nee Kennedy, sister of John J. Kennedy

14146A-page 2

14147-L. 8-29-1963 Atty. Gene G. Krug ‘to the heirs of Anne Mae Kennedy’ re Sarah Kennedy, sister of John J. Kennedy, aka Mrs. Alex D. McLennan

14147A-page 2

14147B-’known heirs of Anna Mae Kennedy, deceased’ as of 8/29/1963

14148-L. 10-12-2010 Barbara & Edward Fredenburg to Ann K. and RPR re visit to Rib Lake

14148A-envelope

End of Barbara Fredenburg collection

RPR Collection

14149-Map-Kennedy Lake, 7-7-1977 ‘Dependent Resurvey and Survey’ Kennedy Lake, in Sec. 22 33N R2E, Town of Rib Lake, US Dept. of Interior, signed Roger T. Barron

14149A-Ditto-boundary of Kennedy Lake per 7-21-1862 highlighted in pink

14149B-Ditto-boundary of Kennedy Lake per 4-24-1975 highlighted in blue

14149C-Ditto-composite highlighted

14149D-aerial P. c. 2005 Kennedy Lake boundary per 7-21-1862 highlighted in pink

Interpretation: 1862 government survey erroneously showed Kennedy lake having 75 acres of surface water; 1975 survey correctly showed it having 16.5 acres-RPR 10-26-2010; and 2007 Taylor Co. was able to buy c. 17 acres of the ‘omitted lands’ i.p. lake bottom per 1862 survey, from State of Wisconsin and add the land to its county forest

14149X-Sign; this trail section adopted by Robert P. Rusch, High Point Chapter-Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation, c. 1995

14149X1-Horizontal image

14150-W. Wisconsin Central Railroad ‘WC’ eastward extension; Taylor Co. Reg. of Deeds copy request form 10-20-2010

14151-Warranty Deed 8-26-1900 W.A. Osburn Lumber Co. to Wis. Central Railway Co. 100 strip across Govt. Lot 2, 26-33-2E for projected Rib Lake-Tomahawk Railroad, e.e. ‘Eastward Extension’

14152-Warranty Deed 8-26-1901 W.A. Osburn Lumber Co. to Wis. Central Railway Co., 1-Lots 1 & 2, Block D, MRPA, 2-100 foot strip [across] A-SE NE 27, B-SW NW 26-33-2E, ‘50 ft. either side of center line as is now located [by stakes] across above described land See Ex. X’

14152A-’Exhibit A-Map Attached to Deed’ ‘Rib Lake Depot Grounds’ ROW boundaries highlighted in orange by RPR, westernmost portion

14152B-ditto-easternmost portion

14153-Quit Claim Deed 8-31-1901 Wis. Central Railway to W.A. Osburn Lumber Co., land within 100 foot strip (shown in purple in map-Ex. X) within SE NE 27 & SW NE 26-33-2E except spur tracks

14153A-attached Ex. X outlining conveyed lands in purple, west part

14153B-ditto, east part-ending at McComb Ave.

Collection of Bernice Enyeart

14154-W. ‘Account of the Ansorge Family’ author & date unknown-title page

14154A-Chapter 10

14154B-ibid. P. 2 (38)

14154C-ibid. p. 3 (39)

14154D-ibid p. 4 (40)

14154E-p. (51) peeling hemlock bark for tanbark

14155-business card Bernice Enyeart ‘Quilter’

14156-W. ‘Descendants of Herman Carl Klemm’ p. 1

14156A-p. 2 Bertha Louise Staudte

14156B-ditto, p. 3

14156C-’More about Robert Carl Klemm’ p. 4

14156D-ditto p. 5

14156E-ditto p. 6

14156F-ditto p. 7

14156G-ditto p. 8

14156H-L. 10-2010 B. Enyeart to RPR

RPR collection

14157-one foot part-hemlock board ‘car siding’ c. 1930 stamped ‘Rib Lake LBR Co.’

14157A-ditto, stamped letters highlighted in black by RPR 11-4-2010

14157B-cross section NB-tongue & groove

14158-Map 11-5-2010 ‘Rib Lake Lumber Co. Railroads & Camps’ by David Tlusty

14158X-W. ‘Rusch & Rusch Law Office, S.C.’ name plate c. 1999

14159-P. RPR 8-1972 in Taylor Co. Courthouse, 3rd floor office as district attorney

14160-W. Business card-Todd Olson, N739 Park Dr., Oema ‘Timm’s Hill National Trail’

14161-W. pamphlet-Taylor Co. Opportunities for Physical Activities’ 2010 Wellness Coalition of Taylor Co.

14161A-P. 13 hiking-biking-ski trails

14162-2010 ‘Run to the Peak’ finisher’s medallion. Ogema to Timm’s Hill, annual foot race, part of Ogema Christmas Tree Festival

14163-W. ‘Taylor County Church Directory’ 2009 T.C. Tourism Committee

14163A-back

14164-photo envelope-Upjohn & Son Drug Store’ Rib Lake

14165-P. c. 1960 L-R Anna Mae Kennedy, center-Anna Gummo, right-Esther Lemke, preparing to attend United Methodist Church in Rib Lake, SE corner of Methodist Church in rear

14166-Obit. Peter L. Bogumill 4-18-2010

14167-email 3-23-2010 Karen Baumgartner to RPR re Rib Lake merchants

14167A-merchants on east side of McComb Ave. c. 1920-1930 by Ruth Batzer Peterson (Block & Lot numbers refer to McComb racing park addition ‘MRPA’ plat

14167B-ditto, west side of McComb Ave.

14168-warning sign ‘Rib Lake Telephone Co.’ c. 1990

14169-P. ‘Rib River & Rapids, near Medford, Wis’ c. 1911, this site on the Taylor-Lincoln Co. line, SE NE 25-37N-3E, Town of Goodrich, is commonly called The Dells of the Rib River

14169A-back 6-3-1911 message to Henry Wegler signed Robert Dietzler

14170-P. 1916 CTH C Rib River bridge

14171-P. ‘High School Rib Lake, Wis’ c. 1905, west side of RLHS razed c. 1983. Wooden sidewalk on south side of Fayette Ave rises from ‘The Flats’ students on school lawn have erected a may pole, NB-2 rows of firewood stacked on south side of school

14172-P. ‘High School, Rib Lake, Wis. 68’ c. 1930, R-original RLHS without cupola-which had blown off in high winds, L-high school annex built c. 1925, photo from Fayette Ave.

14173-P. c. 1965 ‘Clearview School-59-466’ east side of building faces Pearl St., in 2010 Rib Lake Village Hall and Public Library

14174-P. ‘Clearview School 60-5’ c. 1965, SW corner of building built on former RLLC dry yard, rear-municipal water tower, school closed c. 1990 and converted to library, 655 Pearl St., view to NE

14175-P. c. 1970 ‘Gem Products Shoe Co. 58-97’ NE view from Ella St. & Fayette Ave.

14176-P. c. 1970 ‘Gem Products Shoe Co. 93’ view north from Ella St.

14177-P. c. 1960 ‘Weinbrenner Shoe Factory 67’ sign in window advertises ‘Thorogood’ brand shoes, car on far left is a 1950’s Studebaker, view NE from Fayette Ave.

14178-P. c. 1910 ‘Rib Lake, Wis 3’ view south from Lakeshore Drive across Rib Lake (NB-floating logs) to Pine Island

14179-P. c. 1915 ‘Pine Island 29’ NB-hand tinted green over black & white photo

14180-P. c. 1955 weedy Rib Lake black & white posts mark STH 102 recently built over former logging railroad right-of-way, hill is later site of Camp 28 restaurant-720 State Hwy 102, former RLLC machine shop still sports its dark red paint job

14181-P. c. 1920 RLLC mill complex, photo to SW from Lakeshore Drive

14182-P. c. 1960 ‘Tourist Park 74’

14183-P. c. 1970 ‘Rib River’ photo north from STH 64 bridge, SW SW 24 31 3E, Town of Goodrich

14184-P. c. 1960 ‘Clinic 94’ in 11-2010 building is Hope Hospice & Palliative Care, 657 McComb Ave.

14185-P. c. 1920 south side-United Methodist Church, 1300 Church St., photo north from dirt surfaced Broadway Street

14186-P. c. 1935 ‘Methodist Church 1’ south side, gravel surfaced Church Street in foreground

14187-P. c. 1930 ‘Lutheran Church’ NW corner seen from Fayette Ave.

14188-P. c. 1940 ‘St. John the Baptist Catholic Church’ south side

14189-P. c. 1950 ‘Catholic Church 2’ east side

14190-P. ‘Bar-B-Q Pit, Hopper’s Resort Stone Lake 60’ c. 1950

14191-P. ‘Holly’s Resort on Stone Lake, Ogema, Wis 86’ c. 1960

14192-P. ‘Tavern at Harper’s Lake Resort 90’ c. 1960, sign advertises ‘Parkin [Marshfield] Ice Cream’

14193-P. ‘Veiw of Harper Lake Resort 7’ c. 1960 Mr. & Mrs. Michael ‘Mike’ & ‘Ma’ Schmidt ran this popular North Harper Lake operation for many years. NE NW 11 33 2E

14194-P. c. 1960 ‘North Harper Lake at Seidel’s Cottages, 43’

14195-P. c. 1960 ‘Cottage No. 3 Seidel’s Cottages No. Harper Lake 81’ view to SE, NW NW 11 33 2E

14196-P. c. 1960 ‘Carlson’s Cottages’ [sic], actually Seidel’s Cottages ‘North Harper Lake 49’ view to NW

14197-c. 1930 ‘[south] Harper Lake c. 482, view southward from Enoch Berg Hill-NW NE 11 33 2E. center-island

14198-P. c. 1960 ‘Beach Camp Forest Springs 60-8’ east end of [Big] James Lake NE SW 10 33 2E, view west

14199-P. c. 1960, ‘Scene at Big James Lake 60-6’ view south from Ski & Tubing Hill to beach shown in 14198

14200-P. c. 1920 ‘view near Chelsea, Wis. #502’ town road on south end of Chelsea Lake, SW SE 35 33 1E, Town of Westboro, view to NE

14201-P. c. 1960 ‘Mondeaux Beach-near Medford, Wis’ R-Mondeaux Dam NW NW 24 33 1 West, view NE

Phyllis Schwoch, nee Hein, collection a/k/a Mrs. Karl Schwoch, PO Box 246, Fall Creek, WI 54742

14202-Envelope-Phyllis Schwoch to Robert Rusch 4-22-2010, postal stamp contains photo of Mr. Karl Schwoch

14202A-L. re Hein family

14202B-L. p. 2

14202C-L. p. 3

14202D-L. p. 4 signed Phyllis [Schwoch]

14203-W. quick view-Hein family tree

14204-P. c. 1900 Gotthold Hein 10-22-1823 to 4-22-1902

14205-P. c. 1895 Berthold Hein 8-7-1866 to 8-13-1944 married 1-10-1891; left-spouse-Josephine nee Franz, 5-15-1875 to 2-18-1924, child-Rudolph Hein 1-5-1892

14206-P. c. 1910 Berthold Hein farmsted NW NE 36 33 2E, Town of Rib Lake, view south from town road, Fawn Valley Rd, in 2010 Fawn Ave –just east of Mielke Rd.; Left-original log house, first story white-washed; center-outhouse & clothes on line; Right-grainery with attached machine shed; foreground-recently tilled field, view to SSE

14206A-Explanatory notes by Phyllis Schwoch

14207-P. 1917 Karl Fredrick Schwoch family; lower-Emma Schwoch, aka Mrs. Karl F. Schwoch nee Raasch; Elmer Schwoch; Karl F. Schwoch holding Conrad Goodrich; Clara Good rich holding Audrey Goodrich; Upper-Alfred Schwoch, Paul Schwoch, Theodore ‘Ted’ Schwoch & Emil Schwoch

14207A-Explanation by Phyllis Schwoch

14208-P. 6-18-1913 wedding-Conrad Goodrich marries Clara Schwoch at Karl F. & Emma Schwoch homestead

14208A-explanation

Barbara Becker Collection

14209-W. 1937 RLHS yearbook ‘The Rib Lake-Ite’ cover

14209A-p. 1

14209B-p. 2

14209C-p. 3

14209D-p. 4

14209E-p. 5 Constance ‘Connie’ Rusch, aka Mrs. Connie Szatkowski

14209F-p. 6

14209G-p. 7

14209H-p. 8

14209I-p. 9

14209J-p. 10 Glee Club

14209K-p. 11 Basketball

14209L-p. 12

14209M-p. 13 Girls Athletics

14209N-p. 14 Busy Brownies

14209O-p. 15

14209P-p. 16 Alumni 1930-1936

14210-W. RLHS yearbook 1938 ‘Rib Lake-Ite’ cover

14210A-title p. 1

14210B- faculty p. 2

14210C-seniors, p. 3

14210D-seniors, p. 4

14210E-seniors, p. 5

14210F-juniors, p. 6

14210G-sophomores p. 7

14210H-freshmen, p. 7

14210I-Band p. 9

14210J-Glee Club p. 10

14210K-4H Club p. 11

14210L-student council p. 12

14210M-annual staff p. 13

14210N-photos p. 14

14210O-photos p. 15

14210P-pet peeves p. 16

14210Q-photos p. 17

14210R-photos p. 18

14210S-sponsors-Rib Lake merchants p. 19

14211-W. Westboro High School yearbook ‘Trojan’ 1947-48 cover

14211A-administration

14211B-faculty-Robert C. Becker principal

14211C-Bus drivers, cooks,

14211D-seniors

14211E-Harold Anderson, etc.

14211F-Mary Kenneally, etc.

14211G-Eileen P. Kanen, etc

14211H-senior scope

14211I-Darlene ‘Emma’ Schwoch, etc.

14211J-Class prophecy

14211K-senior class history

14211L-juniors

14211M-sophomores

14211N-freshmen

14211O-junior class

14211P-sophomore class

14211Q-Junior class activities

14211R-Activities

14211S-Glee Club-chorus

14211T-student council

14211U-Library council, etc.

14211V-cheerleaders

14211W-Class officers

14211X-forensics

14211Y-Band & carnival

14211Z-Athletics

14211AA-Band

14211BB-A team and B team

14211CC-Basketball

14211DD-photos

14211EE-Advertising

14211FF-Laabs Dairy, Chase Service Station

14211GG-Hanson Bros., Corner Store, John F. Novak, Kurc’s Tavern, H.J. Grittner Garage, Wrecker Service, Westboro Locker, Rex Tavern

14211HH-Rhyner Tavern, etc. Ogema Businesses

14212-W. Westboro High School yearbook ‘Trojan’ 1950 cover

14212A-Trojan staff p. 1

14212B-dedication p. 2

14212C-P. Robert Becker p. 3

14212D-p. 4 administration

14212E-p. 5 photos

14212F-p. 6 cooks, janitor, Bus drivers

14212G-p. 7 graduates

14212H-p. 8 motto

14212I-p. 9 photos-seniors

14212J-p. 10 photos-seniors

14212K-p.11 photos-seniors

14212L-p. 12 photos-seniors

14212M-p. 13 senior scope

14212N-p. 14 senior scope

14212O-p. 15 senior class will

14212P-p. 16 senior class prophecy

14212Q-p. 17 senior class prophecy

14212R-p. 18 senior class history

14212S-p. 19 underclassmen

14212T-p. 20 juniors

14212U-p. 21 sophomores

14212V-p. 22 freshmen

14212W-p. 23 athletics

14212X-p. 24 cheerleading

14212Y-p. 25 cheerleading

14212Z-p. 26 A team basketball

14212AA-p. 27 A team basketball

14212BB-p. 28 A team basketball

14212CC-p. 29 schedules

14212DD-p. 30 activities

14212EE-p. 31 officers & carnival

14212FF-p. 32 student council

14212GG-p. 33 library council

14212HH-p. 34 forensics

14212II-p. 35 prom

14212JJ-p. 36 Glee Club

14212KK-p. 37 band

14212LL-P. 38 school fun

14212MM-p. 39

14212NN-p. 40

14212OO-p. 41

14212PP-p. 42 autographs

14212QQ-p. 43 autographs

14212RR-p. 44 advertising

14212SS-p. 45 J.C. Poirier

14212TT-p. 46 Hanson Bros-Hause

14212UU-p. 47 Hartwig & Ruesch

14212VV-p. Donaldson & Strombom

14212WW-p. 49 Pechsteins

14212XX-p. 50 Rep Bar & IGA

14212YY- p. 51 Rancho Cafe

14212ZZ-p. 52 Westboro Locker & H.J. Grittner Garage

14212AAA-p. 53 Chase Service Station, Nelson Bros., finis

Material Obtained from Merrill Historical Society

14213-P. c. 1910 log loader-side view, moveable railroad tracks beneath cab of loader permit empty flatcar to be moved from rear of loader to front

14214-P. 1-1908 ‘Sunday’ men’s shanty. Camp 1, Dells Lumber & Shingle Co. near Winter, Wisconsin, reclining lumberjack being shaved. NB-hanging socks, etc. drying

14215-P. ‘Log Hauling machine Phoenix Mfg. Co. Eau Claire, Wis.’ c. 1920 location unknown. Steamhauler pulling two sleigh s loaded with lumber-apparently from a sawmill without a railroad connection

14216-P. c. 1930 two caterpillar tractors pulling 4 sleighs of logs in Township of Harding, T33N R5E, Lincoln Co, Wis. Logs were sleighed to a landing along the railroad track of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad – ‘The Milwaukee Road’ and to a Merrill, Wis. sawmill. Kinzel Lumber Co, 114 S. State St. The glacial hills-now deforested-stretch as far as the eye can see

14217-map composite, locations of sawmills c. 1900 Merrill, Wis; from Ray M. Heckman, ‘The sawmills of Jenny & Merrill, published by Merrill Historical Society

14218-P. c. 1920 ‘Kitchen at R. Kleinschmidt camp’ Town of Corning, Lincoln Co, Wis. Kleinschmidt for many years cut lumber for the RLLC as an independent contractor, i.e. ‘jobber’

14218X-W. ‘Log making hammers’ by Erwin ‘Tiny’ Trantow, Merrill, Wis. 4-1-1987

14218XA-designs & ownership of log marking hammers, NB- #9 ‘JP Rib Lake’

14218XB-ditto p. 2

14218XC-p. 3 designs & ownership of log marking hammers

14218XD-’Merrill [Wis] hammers’ 1884-1918

14219-Rib Lake School District 2010-2011 staff handbook cover page

14219A-p. 1 Table of Contents-Larry Black, District Administrator

14219B-p. 2 Mission Statement

14219C-p. 3

14219D-p. 4

14219E-p. 5 School Days

14219F-p. 6 policies

14219G-p. 7 complaint procedure

14219H-p. 8 Code of student conduct

14219I-p. 9

14219J-p. 10 removing a child

14219K-p. 11

14219L-p. 12

14219M-p. 13 disabled students

14219N-2010-11 calendar

14219O-p. 15 elementary school floor plan

14219P-p. 16 middle school floor plan

14219Q-p. 17 high school floor plan

14220-’2010-11 4 year old kindergarten-questions & answers’ Rib Lake School District

14220A-p. 2

14220B-p. 3

14220C-p. 4 Schedule

14220D-p. 5 door opening

14220E-p. 6 medication

14220F-p. 7 manuscript alphabet

14220G-p. 8 pencil position

14221-cross section-narrow gauge railroad track-from tramway of RLLC

Michael ‘Mike’ Weckwerth collection

14222-W. typed version of Star News (Medford, WI newspaper) re J.J. Kennedy and-or Rib Lake History – 5-3-1879 to 3-15-1884

14222A-5-1-1885 to 2-20-1887

14222B-2-27-1886 to 3-6-1886

14222C-5-11-1889 to 1-11-1890

14222D-12-25-1890 to 11-21-1891, 8-1-1891 tannery under construction

14223-W. typed version of The Phillips Times 8-31-95 to 10-30-87 (J.J. Kennedy sawmill burns)

14224-W. typed version of Spencer Tribune 4-10-1885, new band saw installed in Kennedy mill, J.J. Kennedy insists on steam feed

14225-1902 Lincoln County platbook, 31N-4E,

14225A-32N-4E,

14225B-33N-4E

14226-Bio, William ‘Bill’ H. Natzke, Lincoln County biographies

14227-RLHe 5-7-1920 reports on statewide timber workers strike

14227A-RLHe 1-9-20 4-23-20, Camp 16 operating, 6-25-20, Camp 18 operating

14227B-10-15-20 RLLC sells hemlock pulpwood,12-24-20 Lincoln Co. largest pine tree cut-56 inches on the stump, scaled 1,713 board feet, Camp 9 operating

14227C-1-7-1921 RLLC started another [new] camp to be known as Camp 7, It is located in T32 R 3E, George Curnette is foreman, about 35 men will be employed there, 4-8-21 log drive on Rib River ‘has gone down past Goodrich’

14227D-4-15-21 RLLC had 6 camps operating last winter, RLLC employed 300 men in these camps.

14227E-12-3-1921 RLLC sent McGiffert Loader ‘into the woods’ NB_RLHe between 12-2-1921 & 1-6-1939 largely missing

14228-Star News articles on RLLC 1-15-1922 to 4-7-1922

14228A 6-3-1922 to 11-9-1922

14228B 4-7-1922 Rib Lake News in Star News, including ‘fire train.’

14229-Star News articles on RLLC 1-23-1923 to 12-24-1923

14230-Star News articles on RLLC 3-26-1924 to 11-24-1924

14230A-clipping ‘Bonneville tells of old times in Rib Lake’ 2-12-1924

14231-Star News-RLLC articles 1-19-1925 to 4-16-1925

14231A-clippings 2-12-1925, 5-7-1925-Camp 20 founded, 5-21-1925-fire destroys Jim Peterson’s jobber camp. [RLLC of Delaware created-RLLC no longer operates as a Wisconsin corporation]

14232-Star News RLLC articles 1-14-1926, 2-16-1926 N.G. Harder resigns as RLLC general manager; S.J. Williams succeeds Harder, 5-6-1926 RLLC excavates for 2 new boilers

14232A-12-23-1926 RLLC off income tax roll [see Wi. Supreme Court case-RPR]

14233-Star News RLLC articles 1927, 1-13-1927 RLLC begins to sell electricity to Lake Superior District Power Co.

14233A-clippings, 11-27-1927 RLLC cutting record amounts of timber-hardwood & hemlock, 18 jobber camps operating 2 RLLC camps

14234-Star News-1928-RLLC, 1-2-1928 Emil Thompson-working for jobber Jim Peterson, lost his John Deere & Fordson tractors to fire, 4-26-1928, obit, J.J. Kennedy; 12-19-1928, RLLC sold 6,000,000 kilowatts to Lake Superior District Power Co, steam turbine uses waste wood

14234A-3-29-1926, Star News, ‘Jim Peterson says lumberjack as good today as 40 years ago’ ‘we have been cutting the best hemlock which ever struck an axe.’ ‘It (hemlock) runs a half million feet to 40 acres’ RLLC camps & jobber camps employ 750 men

14234B-employees – 91 named,

14235-Star News 1929 RLLC, 3-28-1929 RLLC planing mill on double shifts. 4-11-1926 RLLC mill record cut, 100,435 feets of hardwood in 10 hours, 9-22-1928, 171,008 ft hemlock

14236-Star News 1929, 7-23-1929 ‘Soo Line now operates Rib Lake branch line’ 7-25-1929 RLLC builds new planing mill, 8-27-1929 RLLC building dry kilns, forests fire fighting train put together-6 water tank cars, hoses & ‘high pressure water ejectors.’

14236A-jobber Jim Peterson feeds entire crew of 117 goose Thanksgiving dinner in camp

14237-Star News 1930, 1-19-1937 RLLC steam hauler operating at Athens, 5-8-1937 Chas. Gill sawmill at Goodrich destroyed by fire

14237A-8-7-1930 after 14 years of continuous operation, Great Depression forces RLLC mill to stop work (9-24-1931 mill resume part time), 12-11-1930 August Krueger killed at mill

14238-Star News 1931, 3-12-1931 Con Curran blinded by dynamite at Peterson camp, 4-23-1931 Peterson camp burglarized, 9-24-1931 RLLC mill resumes operating-4 day schedule, mill operators off and on in fall 1931, see 10-15-1931-stops, 11-4-1931-starts, 11-19-1931 clipping, RLLC of Delaware contests $30,000 back tax assessment for years 1925 to 1929. Wis. Tax Commission schedules hearing

14238A-3-5-1931 reprint of 1886 Edgar T. Wheelock description of Rib Lake ‘..and John [Kennedy] would be perfectly happy if those teamsters would put on [the sleigh] just one more log.’ [more legible copies of 1886 history are at #10103 and 10926]

14239-Star News 1932, 1-18-1932 W.B. Patrick dies obit., 3-10-1932 Tax Commission rules RLLC owes $38,246.08 in back taxes, RLLC argued it had no net income since becoming a Delaware corporation in 1925-NB-in litigation that followed, the Wis. Supreme Court ruled in favor of RLLC – see 10-27-1932 and 7-20-1933-RLLC of Delaware v. Conway, 212 Wis. 412, 249 NW 322, see #10936.

14239A-3-31-1932 mill superintendent A. H. Brush dies, 4-21-1932 RLV hires unemployed, 10-27-1931 RLLC loses tax case in circuit court

14240-Star News 1933, 7-20-1933, Wis. Supreme Court rules RLLC of Delaware owes no tax [see Doc. #10936-RLLC of Delaware v. Tax Commission, 212 Wis. 412, see RL Hist. Soc., SF-Law], 9-7-1933 RLLC joins NRA-common laborer wages rise from 25 cents to 30 cents per hour, 10-5-1933 RLLC restarts planing mill

14241-Star News 1934, 1-11-1934 John F. Sisley, VP, RLLC & President RLV dies, 6-12-1934 RLLC mill restarts-had been shut down since April, 1932, due to Great Depresssion, 150 men employed at mill & 200 in 2 camps (20 & 22), 5-10-1934 RLLC contracts with 6 jobbers to begin cutting in May 1934, [see map 13876A & explanation 13876-3380 acres would be logged in 1934, of which RLLC camps cut 640]; 4-19-1934 VIP’s at RLLC Mill:

General Manager-F.W. Warrington –he resigned 10-17-1935 citing health, and weas succeeded by Frank Handyside

Plant Superintendent-T.M. Berfield

Yard Superintendent-William Lemke

Sawmill foreman-William Radtke

Master Mechanic-W.C. Funk

Planing mill foreman-John Sheppard

Railroad Section crew foreman-Anton Klister

Woods Superintendent ‘Walking Boss’-James Peterson, as of 10-7-1937-E.J. Synnett

C.C. Lord was ‘Bookkeeper’ 8-9-1937

14241A-Map 1934-1935 cutting season-RLLC & jobbers by M. Weckwerth, including railroad spurs [NB-This map shows Wm. Natzke jobbert to cut S ½ 13-32-4E, while that is logical, the 5-4-1934 Star News reports that ‘Wm. Natzke will log…on the S ½ of NW NW 13-32-4E.’ Michael Weckwerth’s map has Natzke cutting 320 acres, the Star News 20. Weckwerth extensively interviewed Natzke, I believe Weckwerth’s account, i.e. 320, more credible-RPR 11-18-2010]

14241B- Map, Lincoln Co. RLLC Camp 20 site 5-7-1925 by M. Weckwerth, map also shows location of RLLC railroad right of way within T32N-R4E, Town of Corning, Lincoln Co.

14242-Star News 1935, 4-18-1935 RLLC will construct 14 miles of railroad track (the new line went into T33-4E, Town of Corning) at cost of $50,000, owns 10 square miles virgin timber, 470 men employed; 10-17-1935 Soo line will run freight train into Rib Lake 3 days per week-Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, ‘The train that formerly ran from Rib Lake to Abbotsford & then Athens has been taken off the road.’

14243-Star News 1936, 1-30-1936 ‘State’s largest sawmill changes hands this week’ ‘Wisconsin men buy U.S. Leather Company’s stock in Rib Lake plant.’, A.P. Woodson, Wausau, John D. Mylrad, Rhinelander, R.G. Brownell, Williamsport, PA, Frank Handyside, Rib Lake, buy RLLC [of Delaware] by buying U.S. Leather Company’s stock; the Merrill Daily Herald, 10433, reports that the U.S. Leather Company owned [all?] the stock of the RLLC. [NB-in 1925 the Rib Lake Lumber Company [RLLC] ceased to be a Wisconsin corporation & began doing business as a corporation of the State of Delaware. Thereafter, the company was careful to identify itself as ‘The Rib Lake Lumber Company of Delaware’. I use the term Rib Lake Lumber Company or RLLC to refer to either corporation-RPR 11-1-2010.]

14243A 1-30-1936 RLLC sold “State’s Largest sawmill changes hands this week,” Star News.

14244-Star News 1937, 2-25-1937 RLLC sets all time safety record, over 1 year of sawmill operating without ‘A lost time accident’; 5-29-1937 Peterson’s Michigan camp struck

14244A-12-9-1937 RLLC donates 3,360 acres of land in Town of Rib Lake to Taylor County, county will assume taxes and enter into county forest crop law with state. Land will be zoned forestry-thereby prohibiting settlement ‘RLLC has the largest capacity sawmill in the state and the largest payroll in the [Taylor] county.’ {NB-this was the start of the county forest-in 2010 c. 18,000 acres. In 1937 county had rumimentary zoning.}

14245-Star News 1938; 1-20-1938 Machine shed at NAtzke camp burns-destroying 2 diesel tractors; 5-19-1938 RLLC accused of price fixing by Federal Trade Commisson along with 24 others; 6-1-1938 RLLC institutes safety flag program; 8-4-1938 RLLC sawmill placed on 4 day per week work schedule, i.e. 32 hrs weekly, lumber market is depressed

14246-RLLC builds addition to its store-which opened 12-31-1936 [NB-it occupied Lot 1, Block A, MRPA. In 2010, C&G Hanke gas station on site, 910 STH 102]

14246-RLHe 1939 articles on RLLC, NB-all of these articles plus more are reproduced in the Annotated Chronology of the RLHe. It is available online at .] 1-27-1939, RLLC general store opened 12-31-1936 (photo), Manager-Walter W. Krueger, Head Clerk-George LeClaire, Clerk-Lillian Lien, Manager of Meat Market-James Noval, store was located where, in 2010, C&G Hanke Mini-Mart, 910 STH 102

14246A- 4-7-1939 RLLC will open new camp – Camp 26, construction start 5-12-1939

14246B

14246C

14247-1940 RLHe articles re RLLC,

14247A- 2-23-1940 Goerge Braun [Sr.] history of Rib Lake arrived 1894, ‘In 1897 Rib Lake was completely convered [by floating logs] and you could walk across the lake in any direction on top of logs without wetting your shoes.’

14247B-3-1-1940 dry kiln has capacity of 3,000,000 ft. annually

14247C-3-8-1940, 3-22-1940 Rib Lake soo line statistics, 2451 railroad cars from Rib Lake in 1939 152 railroad cars of logs to Rib Lake

14247D-5-24-1940 RLLC buying timber near Ironwood, Michigan, 6-21-1940 RLLC buys 5 million ft. of northern Michigan timber

14247E- Camp 25 and Camp 26 operating

14247F-8-19-1940 RLLC moved from Camp 25 back to Camp 24

14247G-11-8-1940 RLLC advertises to buy logs and 1000 cords green elm, oak, birch, maple, 2’ and up – 4 ft. long

14248-1941 RLHe articles re RLLC, 1-3-1941 RLLC sends 40 boxcars of hemlock to build camp in Grant, Illinois, 2-14-1941 Camp 26 closees temporarily-RLLC buys logs from northern part of state to conserve its supplies, 5-23-1941 RLLC constructing new Camp 27

14248A-7-11-1941 RLLC ad ‘156 men wanted-cutting pulpwood at 6 cents per stick’

14249-1942 RLHe articles re RLLC, RLLC short of laborers due to WWII

14249A-mill works 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. 3-13-1942

14249B-5-8-1942 Gov’t buying ‘immense amount of lumber’ O.R. Lutz estimates US Govt will take 85 to 90% of RLLC lumber production. 6-19-1942 RLLC will saw Minnesota pine rafted across Lake Superior

14249C-12-11-1942 US Govt forbids west coast lumber laborers from quitting or taking alternative employment without government permission

14249D-12-11-1942 Govt labor restrictions due to WWII

14250-RLHe 1943 articles re RLLC, 6-25-1943 RLLC builds garage on north side of machine shed to house 2 new semi-trucks; 7-1943 RLLC wage increase, mill workers now get 62.5 cents per hour

14250A-8-27-1943 ad to increase pulpwood production to aid war effort, signed E.J. Synott, Woods Supt. RLLC, Harry Gustafson, Pres, Wis. Wood Products, a Rib Lake company

14250B-10-1-1943 RLLC buying logs in upper Michigan

14250C-12-3-1943 RLLC buys 2 new atkins-hessler electric tree saws

14251-RLHe 1944 articles re RLLC

14251A-6-23-1944 fatal woods accident

14251B-5-3-1944 Rudolph ‘Rudy’ Miller succeeds Herman W. Johannes as manager of RLLC, 8-30-1944 RLLC ‘The largest capacity operating sawmill in Wisconsin..’

14251C-Star news 9-20-1945 RLLC planing mill burns, $105,000 estimated loss

14252-RLHe 1946 articles re RLLC, 4-18-1946 RLLC waste wood deed to make ‘composition roofing’, i.e. chip board

14252A-5-24-1946 gas railroad car on way to Camp 28, 11-22-1946 mill operates 7.30 to 4.30 with 1 hour lunch; 11-1946 mill closes for 4 days so men can go deer hunting

14253-RLHe articles re RLLC

14253A-2-6-1948 last of standing timber being cut. ‘possibly the last big stand of virgin timer in the state…’; 2-20-1948 last log ceremonty on Wedneday, Feb. 25, 1948, Camp 28, Town of Corning, Lincoln Co., Wis. RLLC train conveys 200 well wishers to certmoney and lunch at Camp 18

14253B-clippings-Merrill Daily Herald re last log ceremony-2-25-1948

14253C-5-21-1948 last trainload of logs to mill, 6-4-1948 last log cut at RLLC mill; Jim Downs estimated he has scaled more than 2,000,000 board feet of [RLLC] lumber

14254-Merrill Daily Herald 2-26-1948 ‘sawing of last big pine brings note of sadness as crowds pay tribute to men of woods’ by J.A. Crowleney, his account of 2-25-1948 last log ceremony

14255-RLLC 111-1-1946 daily report

14256-L. 1-23-1935 Central Pennsylvania Lumber Co. to J.D. Mylrea ‘this was beginning of our purchase of the RLLC.’ John Mylrea note

14257-RLLC 10-31-1936 lumber sale prices sold on boxcars per 1,000 feet, hemlock-$22.37; hardwood-$29.93; white pine-$36.17

14258-RLLC 1943 pay scale mill employees

14259-11-1-1941 RLLC log prices delivered at landing [mill] Rib Lake, Wis.

14260-L. 11-27-1941 H.W. Johannes, GM of RLLC, to J.D. Mylrea ‘suggest you try to purchase 2 to 3 million more hemlock [at Ironwood, Michigan]

14261-RLLC 1940-41 log purchase contract form for logs in upper Michigan

14261A-p. 2

14262-RLLC ‘valuation of stumpage 1-1-1944 for timber logged during 1944’

14263-P. RLLC mill-misc. NB-all of these photos were scanned from original at Marathon Co. Historical Society as of #10,891ff

14264-P. c. 1940 RLLC pile driver building RR bridge over New Wood River, Town of Corning

14265-P. 1940 RLLC bull slide and hot pond

14266-P. 1949 tote teams, Oneida and Forest County logging. John Mylrea, superintended 2 logging companies simultaneously, RLLC and Thunder Lake Lumber Co, of Rhinelander

14267-P. safety photo

14268-P. Forest Co. timber 1907-John Mylrea at the time logged there

14269-P. safety photos-driving a team-right and wrong way, under John Mylrea’s leadership, the RLLC had an aggressive labor safety program

14270-RLLC 7-30-1943 by species, estimated remaining standing timber, 199,681,190 ft of which hemlock was 109,687,470 or 54.93% of 3,648,530 or 1.83% pine

14271-1935-38 RLLC taxes paid to Town of Corning

14272-1944 RLLC annual report to board of directo-by Herman Johannes, Manager, RLLC

14272A-p. 3

14272B-p. 4

14273-2-5-1936 Chicago Journal of Commerce & Labor ‘Rhinelander man buy 61,000 acres-take over U.S. Leather, Rib Lake, Wis.’

14274-Map-Lincoln Co, c. 1937 RLLC land cut and sales T31 4E ‘1937 abandoned 1-1338 34-40-S=1480’ [i.e. by 1-13-1938 RLLC sold 34 quarter-quarters totaling 1480 acres; by 2-7-1939 RLLC sold an additional 55 40’s=2200 acres; RPR interpretation-’S’ = sold by RLLC ‘1937’ written within 40 boundary=date real estate tax left unpaid, i.e. land abandoned. As of the date of this map, the land was still owned by RLLC but available for sale; the map was drafted by John Mylrea to keep current on status of RLLC massive Town of Corning land holdings or prepare for possible sale of cutover land to Lincoln Co.

14274A-ditto T32N R4E, ‘abandoned 2-7-1939 405 40’s=16,200 acres’ ‘on tax roll 107-40’s=4,280 ac.’ ‘future release 2 40’s’

14274B-Map Lincoln County c. 2-7-1939 RLLC land status T33 4E ‘1938 abandoned 2-7-1939 155 40’s=6200 ac’ ‘reported cut 5-1-39=check’ ‘reported cut previous = X’ [RPR interpretation-when RLLC ‘abandoned’ land they stopped paying real estate taxes on it. Since it took 3 or more years for the county to take tax title, RLLC had a grace period in which to sell the land. If RLLC found a buyer, it or buyer could pay the back taxes.]

14274C-Ditto T34N R4E [RPR-in 1936 thru 1938, RLLC ‘abandoned’ i.e. stopped paying taxes, on 46 forties, 13 forties were ‘on tax roll’ i.e. R?LLC was current in paying real estat taxes. These lands have annual tax amount penciled in, e.g. [$]70,80,90 [dollars] etc,. 17 forties were for ‘future release’ i.e. the R?LLC anticipated letting these forties go tax delinquent, i.e. go to Lincoln County by tax deed; real estate taxes –as shown on this map-varied from a low of $20 SW SE 32-34-4E, to $90 SW SW 28-34-4E-RPR 11-22-2010

14275-RLLC ‘taxes paid to Town of Corning during ten year period 1922-1932 total $422,859.95 [at that time cutover land had no value to the typical person-thereforfe the RLLC usually stopped paying taxes on a forty as soon as it was cut-RPR 11-22-2010]

14276-Natzke, William ‘Bill’ interview notes by Michael Weckwerth c. 1985, 1936 Town of Corning jobber camp

14276A-1920 & 1921 Copper Creek, Towns of Scott and Corning, Lincoln Co., Wis. River drives by Wausau Paper mills

14276B-RLLC Camp 21 (NW NW 23-32-4E) operated c. 1926-1932 60-80 men stayed at Camp 21

14276C-truck as sleigh haulers in 1930’s, hemlock bark loading, 1922 and 1923 near Camp 18 and Camp 19

14276D-1936 negotiation with RLLC for higher rates-upper Michicgan logging used as lever-Natzke Camp 5

14277-Spec sheet-Natzke jobber Camp #1 by Mike Weckwerth from interview with William ‘Bill’ Natzke c. 1985, who operated 5 jobber camps for the RLLC between 1923 & 1941, in Town of Corning, Lincoln County, Wis – sites shown on mpa are Natzke camps c. 1980, #13234, Natzke Camp #1 1923-1924

14277A-Natzke Camp #2 1924-1926, NW quarter 12-31-4E, 12 men

14277B-Natzke Camp #3 1926-1936, interrupted by Great Depression, North half, 12 & 13 32 4E, 40 men

14277C-Natzke Camp #4 1935-1936, 12-33-4E & east half 11-33-4E, North half 13-33-4E, 40 men

14277D-Natzke Camp #5 1937-1941, 10 and north half of 11, Sec. 3 & 4, Camp buildings on NW NW 11-33-4E, see quadrangle ‘Natzke camp’ #11948A

14278-list of frequent employees of William H. ‘Bill’ Natzke; NB-A ‘swamper’ cut trail to the cut or fallen tree so the teamster could get to it-RPR 11-2010

14279-William H. ‘Bill’ Natzke misc. comments to Mike Weckwerth c. 1985

14280-Bio. William H. ‘Bill’ Natzke born 3-5-1903, p. 123, Lincoln County biographies

14281-L. Myrtle Natzke to Mike Weckwerth c. 1986 re interview of William H. Natzke

14281A

14282-’Natzke donates tract of Newwood land to UW-SP’ Merrill Daily Herald c. 1985; P. William H. Natzke, Daniel Trainer, Mary Williams

14283-explanation and illustration of a framer jammer

14284-William H. Natzke narrative re injuries to employees

14285-Jan. 1937, The Merrill Daily Herald ‘William T. Evjue writes of visit to lumber camps while a guest in Merrill’ visit includes William Natzke camp in Town of Corning

14285A-ditto-part 2

14286-M. Lincoln Co. tote road to Natzke Camp #3 by M. Weckwerth 1-1985, tote road (highlighted in red) ran from town road 36-32-4E 3 miles north, former RLLC in yellow

14287-Map, William Natzke Camp #3, 1926-1936, 13-32-2E, Town of Corning c. 2-1980, excellent depiction of sleigh road system thru section in relation to Natzke Camp #3 and log landing on RLLC track; photo #14294 shows site

14287A-Map-1926, Natzke’s logging Camp #3, 1926-1936 by Michael Weckwerth c. 2-1980

14288-’William Natzke’s 3rd Logging Camp – A Jobber Camp for the RLLC’ by Mike Weckwerth c. 1980

14288A-p. 1 Herman Rusch in 1888 pine logger T32 R4E

14288B-P. 2 RLLC

14288C-P. 3 William Natzke #3 camp NW NW 13-32-4E

14288D-p. 4 Natzke sleigh Roads see map 14287 camp layout

14288E-p. 5

14288F-p. 6 1937 Evjue visit

14288G-p. 7

14288H-p. 8

14288I-Map Natzke Camp #3 site

14289 William E. Daugherty’s Govt survey affidavit 1-30-1862 re T32N-R4E

14289A-Section 5 & 6 notes ‘There is some valuable white pine in the Township but in no large quantities.’ 1-11-1862

14289B-Section 25 & 36

14289C-

14289D

14289E-timber - hemlock, sugar (maple) & (yellow) birth

14290-Merrill newspaper clippings re logging in Town of Corning 1886

14290A-1887

14290B-1888 3-3 Herman Rusch on Copper River has 800,000 ft.

14290C-1889

14290D-1892 jam at Grandfather, Wis. river

14290E-1896

14290F-1897 J.J. Kennedy new mill will have capacity of 75,000 ft per day

14290G-1900

14290H-1901

14290I-1902 Herman Rusch logged on banks of Copper River

14290J-1903 Herman Rusch has charge of camp on New Wood River

14290K-1904

14290L-1905

14290M-1907 Kleinschmidt & Rusch Co.

14290N-1908

14290O-1909

14290P-1910 forest fires are raging

14290Q-1911 log drive on Copper River

14290R-1912

14290S-1913

14290T-1914

14290U-1915

14290V-1916 3-26-1916 RLLC, which for some time negotiated to locate their [new-NB fire of 1914] plant in Merrill, have decided to stay in Rib Lake. Merrill businessmen on 3 occasions went to New York to lobby for mill. ‘It looked for a time as though they would be successful, but a legal question arose as to whether the RLLC, who [sic] bought a great deal of land and timber from the Soo Line, were not bound by contract to haul logs over the Soo Line. This coupled with the fact that they have a tannery at Rib Lake, influenced the directors [of the US Leather Co] in favor of staying in Rib Lake.’

14290W-1917

14290X-1919 RLLC Camp 15

14290Y-1920 RLLC Camp 18

14290Z-1921 RLLC Camp 18 ‘Mr. and Mrs. Rusch are cooking at Barz’s Camp’

14290AA-1921 Fred Smith put in 1,500,000 ft of hemlock [pulpwood] for Wausau Paper Mills of Brokaw on Copper River

14290BB-RLLC Camp 18 1922

14290CC-RLLC Camp 19 1923

14290DD-1924

14290EE-1925 many RLLC jobber camps

14290FF-1925 Rib Lake Co. logs heavily, will cut 40,000,000 ft this year as compared to 27,000,000 a year ago – Camp 19 at 28-31-4 is done and will be moved to 36-T32-4E, a spur has been extended to this new location (11-30-2010 I now belive the one and only location of RLLC Camp 19 as in SW SW 27-31-4E. It was never ‘moved’ it was replaced in May 1925 by Camp 20, built 7 miles northwards, i.e. NE NE 22-32-4E – RPR)

14290FF1-’single tree contains 8,963 feet- giant of Forest County had been growing 467 years-measured seven feet at butt

14290GG-1925 5-14-1925 forest fire burns 4 sections of RLLC slashings

14290HH-1926 5-15-1926 firest fire destroys 100,000 ft of RLLC logs in Town of Corning

14290II-1928 RLLC Camp 21 operating

14290JJ-7-12-1929 Ed Burgoyne builds 9 miles of railroad for RLLC near Lincoln County highway E

14290KK-1930

14290LL-1931

14290MM-1932 April – RLLC closes sawmill and woods operation due to Great Depression

14290NN-4-19-1934 RLLC reopens

14290OO-9-4-1934 fatal accident

14290PP-5-1-1934 forest fires

14290QQ-1935 accidents

14290RR-2-1-1936 RLLC changes hands, 450 men work in woods for RLLC

14290SS-1937

14290TT-1938

14290UU-1939 William Natzke has ruptured appendix

14290VV-1939 RLLC builds Camp 26, RLLC has been operating ‘only one camp for some time’ due to Great Depression’

14290WW-1-17-1940 State constructs 125 ft high Fromm fire tower – now 4 in Lincoln County

14290XX-RLLC camps 24, 25, 26 & 27 operating in 1940

14290YY-5-23-1941 RLLC opens Camp 27, RLLC advertises-wanted 300 bark & pulp peelers

14290ZZ-1942

14290AAA-1943 RLLC raises minimum wage for woods workers from 45 cents to 59.5 cents per hour

14290BBB-1-14-1944 Selver Olson, driving a small tractor, instantly killed

14290CCC-1945 9-17-1945 RLLLC planing mill destroyed by fire (color movies of planing mill fire viewable on )

14290DDD-5-17-1946 Jack Mylrea predicts one year supply of timber left in Town of Corning for RLLC

14290EEE-12-22-1947 RLLC advertises-wanted- sawyers for piece work

14290FFF-2-6-1948 ‘last of standing timber being cut’ 2-25-1948 las log ceremony at Camp 28

14291-P. 1924 Kleinschmidt and Woller jobber camp 1924- NE NE 32-32-4E, Town of Corning, 2 men front row-dark clothes- left-Herman Woller, right-Herman Kleinschmidt, back row L-Kleinschmidt, 9-Ed Kudick and 10. Art Kudick with arms around one another, 11. Mrs. Gust. Kudick, 12. Mr. Gust Kudick, - this jobber camp worked for RLLC & stood just south of present CTH M; buildings are logs – clinched with slabwood, tarpaper roof has 2 open vents

14292-P. 1930’s Bill Natzke owned caterpillar tractor pulling trail of 4 log sleighs, as part of Ntazke jobber Camp 3,

14293-P. one of Natzke’s jobber camps, Town of Corning, c. 1920’s. note chains on rear tire of car, buildings are tar-papered to p& sides

14294-P. 1931 Natzke camp #3. 13 rows of neatly decked logs, the jammer used to pile the logs towers above last pile. A spur of the RLLC rail road snakes in front of logs while the mainline curves northward on left. Map #14287 shows site

14295-P. c. 1930 2 men loading sleigh at a Natzke jobber camp. The main pole of the jammer slants upright with 4 rungs shown. Rungs permitted a man to climb to the the top & free cable which might snarl in top pulley

14296-Check 7-3-1933 $13.27, Bill Natzke to Erwin Weckwerth, father of Michael. Bill saved Erwin’s town of Corning farm from foreclosure by loaning Erwin $200 secured by a handshake

14297-gragment of page from Bill Natzke scrapbook. Photos of Natzke jobber camps, Town of Corning

14297-1-’Bull Cook’ & rear of 1936 Chevrolet behind building

14297-2-two dozers

14297-3-garage

14297-4-two unidentified men

14297A-1-Natzke camp #5, NW NW 11-32-4E c. 1930, note planed horizontal siding & vertical gas pump in front of garage

14297A-2-office-ladder to roof

14297A-3-office

14297A-4-virgin hemlock near Natzke camp #5

14298-P. suspender clasd man at one of Natzke jobber camps, cupola atop roof

14299-P. c. 1930 RLLC officials on inspection trip through Town of Corning. The gas powered ‘pede’ (left) pulled passenger car (right) on RLLC logging railroad. John Sched raises his right hand & humorously threatens to spank the motorman. Ever good humored Bill Natzke, center, laughs

14300-P. c. 1940 Camp 26-12 buildings, Jack Wendt collection

14301-P. c. 1940 Camp 26 bunkhouses with unique 4 foot high cupolas with tilting window for ventilation, foreground-railroad track

14302-P. c. 1940 Camp 26. left-2 horse barns, rear-bunkhouses; center-teamster in between horse team

14303-P. c. 1940 Camp 26 ‘swamper’ holding his pole axe on shoulder with leather mitten. A swamper cleared rudimentary roads so teamsters could skid logs

14304-P. c. 1040 Camp 26; teamster, Chris Nyberg, with husky horse team, which had just skidded logs; note chains from harnesses to ‘single trees’ laying on ground behind each horse

14305-P. c. 1940 Camp 26 caterpillar tractor skidding 10 logs to railroad landing; a taut steel cable attached each log to tractor

14306-P. c. 1940 Camp 26, a tractor skids 9 hardwood logs past an empty tractor returning for more logs

14307-P. c. 1940 Camp 26; a railroad log loader hoists logs onto a pile which obscures a second loader

14308-List of employees & jobber camp jogs by William H. ‘Bill’ Natzke

14308A-block printed version

14308B-ibid p. 2

14309-Bill Natzke interview notes 2-22-1988 by Mike Weckwerth; location of Natzke 5 jobber camps, Town of Corning;

#1 SW NE 24-31-4E

#2 NW SE 12-31-4E

#3 NW NW 13-32-4E

#4 SE SE 12-33-4E

#5 NW NW 11-33-4E

[cross reference: map at 13234 ‘Natzke jobber camps on 1980 plat]

14309A-page 2

14309B-annotations by RPR 12-11-2010

14309C-ibid page 2

14309D-ibid page 3

14310-Natzke Camp 1 spec sheet

14311-Natzke Camp 2 spec sheet

14312-missing Natzke Camp 3 spec sheet

14313-missing Natzke Camp 4 spec sheet

14313A-missing Natzke Camp 5 spec sheet

14314-Barb Friedenburg ‘Kennedy kin Returns to Rib Lake’ Star News 12-19-2010 & photo of Rib Lake Historical Society headquarters

14315-P. c. 1930 bulldozer clearing land on Wilbur Laak farm, Town of Corning, bulldozers made their first local appearance in the 1930’s – revolutionizing rural life

14316-P. c. 1912 ‘loading logs – Sutlif’s camp – near Tomahawk’ Wisconsin; steam powered loader owned by William Bradley-founder of Tomahawk; scene probably on Marinette, Tomahawk & Western Railroad near Spirit Falls

14316A-back

14317-P. c. 1910 Copper River logging dam; party stands next to gate which can be lowered to close dam on north branch of Copper River, Town of corning, SW NE 36-31-4E; dam originally used to drive pine to Wisconsin River; later dam used to drive peeled hemlock to Wausau Papers Co, Brokaw, WI; the peeled bark shipped by rail to RLLC

14318-P. postdated 8-13-1930, caterpillar tractor pulling approximately 7 sleighs of logs on ice road near Iron River, Michigan

14319W. ‘RLLC Camp 20 – a hardwood & hemlock camp in Lincoln County, Wisconsin’ by Mike Weckwerth, c. 1990

14319A-Map, Lincoln Co. Camp 20, 1925 by Mike Weckwerth c. 1-1-1980

14319B-page 1

14319C-page 2, Camp 20 layout

14319D-page 3

14319E-page 4 woods operations

14319F-page 5 railroad operations & layout

14319G-page 6, a final look

14319H-page 7 credits, NB-location map 14241B

14320-Map, Lincoln Co. c, 1894 plat by A.C. Jaquith, legend & abbreviations

14320A-1894 plat map T31N 4E

14320B-T31N 5E

14320C-City of Merrill T31 6E

14320D-Pine River T31 7E

14320E-T32 4E

14320F-T32 5E

14320G-T32 6E

14320H-T33 4E

14320I-T33 5E

14320J-T33 6E

14320K-T34 4E

14320L-Wisconsin & Chippewa Railroad T34 5E

14320M-T34 6E

14320N-T35 4E

14320O-T35 5E – Soo Line

14320P-T35 6E, City of Tomahawk, Bradley & Heatford (sic) Junction

14321-Map, Lincoln Co, 1902 plat by Lewis Foss – Title page

14321A-legend & abbreviations

14321B-T31 4E

14321C-T32 4E

14321D-T32 5E, Wisconsin River

14321E-T33 4E

14321F-T34 4E Spirit Falls, Marinette, Tomahawk & Western Railroad ends 1 mi. SW of Spirit Falls

14321G-T34 5E

14321H-T34 6E

14321I-T35 6E City of Tomahawk & Heafford Junction

14322-Map, Lincoln Co. 1913 plat T31N 4E

14322A-T32N 4E

14323-Map Lincoln Co, 1923 plat by C.H. Paetzold, legend & title page

14323A-T31 N R4E ‘Rib Lake Lbr Co.’ railroad, RLLC Camp 19 site shown – SE SE 28-31-4E, probably location of RLLC Camp 1 highlighted by RPR-SW SW 20-31-4E; 2 ‘camp’ site identified, it is RLLC Camp 18, SW SW 15-31-4E

14323AA-T31N R5E

14323B-Ad- Cloverland Colonization Co.

14323C-T32N R5E, S.M. & St. Paul Railroad

14323D-T32N R4E, right of way of future CTH D shown

14323E-T33N R4E

14323F-T33N R5E ‘New Wood’ & C.M. & St. Paul RR

14323G-T33N R8E, Elm City

14323H-T33 N R7#, M.T.& W. RR & Grundy

14323I-T34N R6E Spirit flowage

14323J-T34N R5E, 3 camp sites shown, served by Milwaukee Road

14323K-T34N R4E Spirit Falls, C.M. & St. Paul & S.St. M. RR [Soo Line] & Marinette, Tomahawk & Western Junction 16-33-4E, i.e. 1 mile SW of Spirit Falls

14323L-Ad-Cut-over farm lands

14323M-T35N R6E, City of Tomahawk, Wisconsin Valley Improvement Co. flowages

14323N-Ad-Overland & Willy’s Knight Automobiles

14324-Map, Lincoln Co. 1944 plat, T31N R4E

14325-Sweatshirt, Rib Lake, Wis., erroneously says ‘Est. 1858’ rather than 1881.

Collection of Estelle & Edward Bohte (including Joseph ‘Joe’ Jantsch collection)

14326-P. c. 1910 farmhouse of Estelle & Edward Bohte, SW SW 13-32-2E, Town of Greenwood, Taylor County, W2728 Wood Creek Ave. Pictured is believed to be then owner Stephen A. Konz & children, including son, Leo, on far right. See 13433-000132. S.A. Konz operated a post office and store in this building before selling it on Dec. 12, 1908 to Friedrich Kaske & moving to the Village of Rib Lake, where Konz constructed a sawmill. C. 1920 S.A. Konz & family moved to Appleton, Wis.

14327-Abstact of Title, W half SW quarter 13-32-2E, Estelle & Edward Bohte farm W2728 Wood Creek Ave, Town of Greenwood, Taylor Co., Wis, patent to Wisconsin Central Railway, agreement on sale of pine, J.J. Kennedy to Curtis Bros., deed to Stephen Konz

14327A

14327B

14327C

14327D

14327E

14327F

14327G

14327H

14327I

14327J

14327K

14327L

14327M

14327N

14327O

14327P

14327Q

14327R

14327S

14327T

14327U

14327V

14328-L. 12-17-2010 by Estelle Bohte, To Whom It May Concern, re Joseph Jantsch, teacher, Rib River Grade School 1914-1917 & amateur photographer who took following photos:

14329-P. 1916 Rib River School ‘Exhibit’

14330-P. 1916 ‘After the program-April, 18, 1916 – Rib River School blackboard in classroom ‘School colors Lavender & Red’

14331- P. 1916 ‘Specimens of student Elsie Jones’ handwriting before & after taking Palmer handwriting course’

14332-P. 1915 ‘1915-down toward the Rib River’ view north on 2010 CTH c, land in foreground-right-was NW NW 19-32-3E-location of Rib River School, at base of hill is shown highway bridge surface over Big Rib River

14333-P. c. 1915 John Dums by steam tractor & giant belt to threshing machine, Joseph Jantsch labeled photo ‘Thums Threshing outfit’ rear-between belts is Rib River bridge (2010-CTH C) view is toward northwest, house behind stem tractor was owned by Frederick ‘Fritz’ Martin, NW NW 18-32-3E, a portion of which land was the site of the Rib River School.

14334-P. c. 1915 Holstein cow with bell around neck, at that time farmers often turned their cows loose after morning milking and allowed cows to graze the deforested countryside, for evening milking, the farmers’ children would track down the cows by listening for the bell.

14335-P. c. 1915 ‘the ‘Rib’ 1915’ a gravel bar in the Big Rib River, Joseph Jantsch wrote beneath photo ‘in the shady woodland, here is where I used to fish for trout after school hours.’

14336-P. 1916 A water wagon sits mid-stream in Big Rib River, Joe Dums operated 4 foot wood handle pumping river water into tank on wagon, horse team would then pull loaded wagon to steam tractor at threshing site

14337-P. 1916 Greenwood town hall, view north on 2010 Timber Drive, in 2010 this classic wood frame town hall has been replaced but its successor still stands on SW SW 12-32-2E

14338-P. 1915 ‘Stump’s mill’ the 8-17-1914 RLHe reprinted a Charles Stump from Spponer is building a mill on the Ed Franz place. The small mill operated for several years using the Wood River as a log pond within the NE NE 20-32-3E, Town of Greenwood. The short-lived mill and settlement was dubbed ‘Stumpville’ In November, 1914, the Rib Lake Telephone Co. extended its line to serve the mill. IN 2010 the site is a ghost town totally reclaimed by forest. By 1921, the mill had cut its last log. The photo shows the mill with a metal chimney & timber side to a waiting wagon in the foreground

14339-P. 1915 ‘Lumber yard at Stump’s mill’ freshly cut lumber was piled to air dry before transported by wagon to Village of Rib Lake railhead for trans-shipment to buyers

14340-P. c. 1915 Yellow birch and other hardwood at Stumpville mill yard

14341-P. ibid

14342-P. labeled by Joseph Jantsch ‘The [C.H.] Stump home’ presumably next to the Stump mill in

NE NE 20-32-3E, Town of Greenwood

14343-P. c. 1915 Golde Stump, presumably daughter of mill owner, C.H. Stump, playing violin. Joseph Jantsch comment beneath photo reads ‘Golde Stump, a girl of refinement in the wilderness.’

14344-P. c. 1915 Golde Stump in front of piano. The music book above keyboard is entitled ‘My Little Girl’ Joseph Jantsch labeled the photo ‘culture in a log cabin’

14345-Map 1913, Hintztown & Stumpville & Rib River School

14346-P. c. 1917 abandoned C.T. (Carl Theodore) Hintz sawmill at Hintztown, NW NW 16-32-3E. Joseph Jantsch wrote: ‘Once humming with industry, now sleeping in rush and decay’; left-inclined bull chain once pulled logs into mill from Wood River

14347-P. c. 1915 remnant of forest fire along Rib River

14348-P. 1915 3 2-horse logging sleighs on sleigh road

14349-P. 1915 Fred Freiboth wearing heavy coat for driving sleigh team, note second sleigh in rear

14349A-ibid – close up of Fred Freiboth

14350-P. ‘1916 with nature’ Paul Kaske stands amongst snow bedecked evergreens

14351-P. c. 1915 4 children standing in center of town road (in 2010 it is CTH C), view northwards to Rib River bridge

14352-P. 1915 picture probably taken at same time as 14351 – but southwards, Fritz Martin mailbox protrudes from snow bank; far left-gate into Rib river schoolyard, Joseph Jantsch wrote regarding plowed town road ‘now the mal carrier can come again’

14353-P. c. 1915 10 students standing on frozen Rib River at NW NW 18-32-3E, photographed eastward from Rib River highway bridge

14354-P. c. 1915 Joseph Jantsch description ‘a new house in the Rib River district building by a new settler who moved away after a few years’

14355-P. c. 1915 Dan Wirkus believed to be standing with Joseph Jantsch (left)

14356-P. 1915 Joseph Jantsch at railing of highway bridge

14357-P. 1915 ‘when nature teaches’ Joseph Jantsch wrote ‘Open water in winter time’ this may be the magnificent – still flowing spring that feeds the Rib River one-half mile north of the Rib River School

14358-P. c. 1915 unidentified town road ‘a mass of mud in spring’

14359-P. c. 1915 St. Peter Lutheran Church, view to NE

14360-P. c. 1917 A. Pampel farmstead, SW NW 13-32-2E, in 2010 home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. & Laurie Schreiner

14361-P. 1917 P. Kaske farmstead, SW SW 18-32-3E, NE corner of CTH C & Wood Creek Ave, in 2010 home is occupied by Joseph Klimeck, view to NE

14362-P. 1917 J. Jantsch identified as ‘The French home’ farmstead on SW NE 24-32-3E, in 2010 owned & farmed by Duane K. Goodhoe, formerly by William Tilch

14363-P. 1917 Fred Martin farm; NW NW 18-32-3E, this special view looks to the NW from Trout Ave., Left-barn; middle-Martin home where Joseph Jantsch boarded 1914-1916; right-Rib River School

14364-P. 1917 Fred Martin farmstead, ‘situated on a hill sloping [northward] to the [Rib] River.’

14365-P. 1917 Mr. & Mrs. Fed Martin and daughter, Erna. J. Jantsch enscribed scrapbook next to photo ‘My boarding place for two years 1915-1917. Never have I received more wonderful treatment than I’ve received here. Three good scouts.’

14366-p. 1916 Mary & Hilda Hauch heating water to clean Rib River School

14367-P. 1916 Joe Hauch & his cousin

14368-P. 1916 Anna Hauch, daughter of Fred Hauch

14369-Map 1-3-1913 Township 32 North Range 2 East, John & H. Hauch land in yellow, Joseph Bohte land in green, A. Pampel land in pink, Greenwood Town Hall in orange, current (2010) CTH M in purple

14370-P. 1916 Town highway bridge across Rib River. View west from Greenwood to Town of Rib Lake

14371-P. 1916 A neighbor party at Jirschele

14372-P. 1916 the Jirschele brothers

14373-P. 1916 Kraus home, Mr. Kraus was a member of the Rib River School Board

14374-P. 1915 ‘The winter frost’ Joseph Jantsch admires hoar frost

14375-P. 1915 boy next to highway snow drift

14376-P. 1915 John Jerman driving Fritz Martin team of horses, a Sunday afternoon sleigh ride party; rear-with legs crossed is Joseph Jantsch

14377-P. 1915 ‘I …the memory of that day’ a memorable sleigh ride party

14378-P. 1918 Erna Martin going for a horse ride; ‘out for a ride’

14379-P. 1917 Fred Peche repairing fence on Fred Martin farm

14380-P. 1916 ‘The Rib River Valley’ NW NW 18-32-3E, Jantsch wrote ‘give me the peace of the country’

14381-P. 1915 Joseph Jantsch & 13 pupils sitting at side of Rib River School for lunch & recess

14382-P. ‘1916 at dinner’ 11 girls eating lunch in shade of the balsam tree, note metal dinner pails

14383-P. 1916 end of the school year bulletin board prepared by Joseph Jantsch; 4 photos & 1 poem; top left-P. about 34 students & teacher Jantsch on south side of Rib River school; top right-P. portrait of Joseph Jantsch; middle-’We are only beginnings’ 14 primary pupils before blackboard; bottom right-P. ‘testing milk in our school’ 5 older boys & Jantsch; left- Poem ‘Good bye’; the closing of our school is near, vacation’s coming nigh, then to my friends & pupils dear, I now must say ‘Good bye’; ‘Good bye’ to one, ‘Good bye’ to all, our school work now is gone; only memories shall those scenes recall, when we worked here as one. Nine months of school have poised again,when first I met you here, I met you here as strangers then, now at friends I hold you dear. All the long bright summer through, may your days be gay, may happiness come to all of you, with fortune smiling on the way. When nature’s book you have studied o’er, and summer days get cool, may all of you as have before assemble back to school.’ 1915 end of Rib River school poem by Joseph Jantsch; Jantsch wrote beneath image 14383 in his scrapbook ‘The memento I gave my pupils.’ Signed J.J.

14384-P. c. 1915 bridal couple Edna Martin and Fred Peche (probably)

14385-P. c. 1915 Miss Freiboth playing organ at private home, note the white stop knobs above her hands, three Christmas cacti sit on a doily covering the organ

14386-P. c. 1915 playing cards, Jantsch wrote beneath this photo ‘a popular Sunday [afternoon] pastime, Nothing stronger [to drink] than water. Young man on left-Alex Poyda, Jantsch’s college room mate.

14387-P. 1918 Joseph Bohte farmstead, SW SW 13-32-2E

14388-P. 1918 after service in the army during WWI, Jantsch returned to visit ‘old friends in the Rib Lake district.’ This photo on the SW corner of the Joseph Bohte home; left to right (front row)-unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, John Bohte, Frances, Angeline, Mrs. Judnic, John Judnic; (2nd row) Christine Schabel, unknown, unknown, Kate Bohte, Grandma Bohte, Mary Bohte, Agnes, unknown, unknown

14389-P. 1918 at S. Schabels, SW SE 13-32-2E

14390-P. 1918 Joseph ‘Joe’ Jantsch seated on Bohte lawn, Left-Ann Bohte, Right-Edna Martin (?)

14391-P. 1916 ‘At Martins’ a ‘bunch party’ at Fred Martin home ‘young’ adults of the community would meet usually once a week; first row-5th from left-Mary Bohte; far right on chair-Ann Bohte

14392-P. 1918 Joseph Jantsch

14393-P. 1918 log rollways in Rib Lake, note RLLC railroad track in foreground; logs were rolled from railroad flatcars, note boom in lake middle preventing logs to float to far parts of 320 acre lake

End of Bohte/Jantsch collection

Rib Lake Historical Society collection

14394 11-12-1874 Westboro sawmill contract, Wis. Central Railroad [W.C.], William S. Taylor, John Duncan, James Ritchie

14394A-p. 2 Mandatory construction & operation, Westboro sawmill, W.C. sells est. 29,000,000 ft. pine from its land grant

14394B-p. 3 requirement-sawmill at Westboro all pine [must be shipped via W.C.]

14394C-p. 4 contract voidable if mill not built-operated

14394D-p. 5 signatures [made by Register of Deeds] – NB-Taylor County named for Wisconsin Governor William R. Taylor, not William S. Taylor

14395-6-25-1891 J.J. Kennedy-Fayette Shaw, aka F.D. Shaw, tannery contract, lands covered – sale of hemlock bark

14395A-p. 2 additional lands

14395B-p. 3 requirement-Shaw must build and operate tannery at Rib Lake

14395C-p. 4 J.J. Kennedy reserves right of way [ROW] for ‘extending the Rib Lake branch of the Wisconsin Central Railway…’ to Spirit Falls/Tomahawk

14395D-p. 5

14396-7-24-1893 contract, here ‘Agreement’ J.J. Kennedy-Curtis Bros. & Co.; J.J. Kennedy sells 15,000,000 ft. pine timer & contracts to cut it into lumber & load lumber on railroad cars ‘at Chelsea, Wis’

14396A-p. 2 Curtis ‘shall apply a certain proportion of each of said payments upon any indebtedness…’ of J.J. Kennedy to Curtis; if J.J. Kennedy owes Curtis nothing prior to 10-15-1894, J.J. Kennedy may void this contract

14396B-real estate descriptions; lumber & shingles made pursuant to this contract ‘are to be considered as separate & distinct…’ from those made pursuant to other contracts between J.J. Kennedy & Curtis

14396C-p. 4, RPR note-this deal of 7/24/1893 must have fallen apart since J.J. Kennedy, on 11/7/1895, signed a warranty deed on the same pine for Curtis-additional interpretation by RPR

14397-8-1-1893 contract, J.J. Kennedy buys 16,626 acres of land from Wisconsin Central Railroad Co.

14397A-p. 2, payment schedule

14397B-p. 3 for 20 years all lumber from these lands must be shipped via Wisconsin Central

14397C-Wisconsin Central may void contract if J.J. Kennedy fails to perform or goes bankrupt or insolvent

14397D-real estate descriptions

14397E-ditto-Wisconsin Central reserves pine

14397F- ditto-Wisconsin Central reserves pine

14397G-real estate descriptions

14397H-p. 9 real estate descriptions

14397I-p. 10 real estate descriptions

14397J-p. 11 real estate descriptions

14397K-p. 12 real estate descriptions

14397L-p. 13, real estate descriptions

14397M-p. 14, comment-16,626.37 acres of land for $74,538.50

14397N-p. 15 ‘Ex. B’ form indenture

14397O-p. 16 ditto

14398-11-17-1895 warranty deed of pine timber, J.J. Kennedy, et. ux, to Curtis Bros. & Company, a corporation, sells outright all pine timber listed on Schedule A

14398A-p. 2, continuation of real estate descriptions, sellers warranties

14398B-p. 3, signatures, NB-this deed conveys pine which was the subject of a complex & conflicting contract or agreement between the same parties on 7/24/1893, see Doc. #14396-the 1893 deal must have somehow fallen through-RPR 1/20/2011

14399-John J. Kennedy’s, et. ux, ten mortgages of 8-31-1896; an analysis by RPR-1/19/2011

14399A-p. 2

14400-copy request form-Taylor County Register of Deeds, identification of date, amount & mortgage of J.J. Kennedy, et. ux, ten mortgages of 8/31/1896

14400A

14400B-the ten mortgages signed by J.J. Kennedy, et. ux, on 8/31/1896 total debt of $85,000.73

14401-8-31-1896 mortgage by J.J. Kennedy, et. ux to Wisconsin National Bank of Milwaukee for $47,442.49; this document appears to mortgage all of J.J. Kennedy, et. ux, lands, including A) Govt. Lot 9 26-33-2E, his home; B) Govt. Lot 10, the sawmill; C) ‘House, hotel, barn, store [company store] houses…’

14401A-p. 2, real estate descriptions

14401B-p. 3 real estate descriptions

14401C-p. 4, additional real estate descriptions encumbered by this mortgage; warranties by J.J. Kennedy, including land, no encumbrances, i.e. other mortgages; description of debt secured on this mortgage- A) promissory note #1-for $42,467.67, payable on demand; B) promissory note #2 for $4,972.83 payable on demand; J.J. Kennedy must pay real estate taxes annually

14401D-p. 5, J. J. Kennedy must A) keep fire insurance $30,000 minimum; B) acceleration clause-failure by J.J. Kennedy triggers total debt due; C) remedies

14401E-p. 5 signatures

14401F-satisfaction of mortgage, 7-17-1899

14402-8-31-1896 mortgage #2 J.J. Kennedy, First National Bank of Milwaukee, $15,000, terms identical to mortgage #1 except subject to mortgage #1, i.e., in case of foreclosure, mortgage #1 must be paid (its creditors ‘made whole’) before #2

14402A

14402B

14402C-this mortgage subject to #1, must keep buildings insured, if failure, mortgagee may insure & charge 10% interest

14402D-signatures-witnesses Angus B. Kennedy & Duncan McLennan

14402E-Satisfaction of mortgage 6-13-1899

14403-8-31-1896 mortgage #3, J.J. Kennedy-State Bank of Medford $2,500, including sawmill & everything appurtenant thereto

14403A

14403B

14403C-subject to mortgages 1 & 2 & a contract 8-1-1894 between Fayette Shaw & J.J. Kennedy

14403D-N.B. J.J. Kennedy was on board of directors of mortgagee State Bank of Medford

14403E-Satisfaction 6-20-1899

14404-8-31-1896 mortgage #4, J.J. Kennedy-Phillip Ferguson of Rib Lake $2,000; Phillip Ferguson is a brother to Mrs. William J. & Mrs. Hugh J. Kennedy-the men are brothers of J.J. Kennedy, see #13433-095

14404A

14404B

14404C-subject to prior (3) mortgage

14404D

14404E

14404F-Satisfaction

14405-8-31-1896 Mortgage #5, J.J. Kennedy-Judson A. Roundy, Wm. S. Peckham, Chas. J. Dexter, Sidney Hauxhurst, d/b/a Roundy Peckham & Co. of Milwaukee, $5,285.67

14405A

14405B

14405C-subject to 4 prior mortgages, same date

14405D-signatures

14405E

14405F-satisfacton 6-31-1899

14406-8-31-1896 mortgage #6, J.J. Kennedy-John Pritzlaff Hardware Co. of Milwaukee $3,302.74, only first page scanned here & thru 14410

14407-8-31-1896 mortgage #7, J.J. Kennedy & E. Frank Beals, Jas. L. Beals, Alex Torrey, E.S. Beals, d/b/a Beals & Torry & Co. of Milwaukee, $3,055.65

14407A-satisfaction 7-1-1899

14407B-satisfaction 5-16-1906, NB-some of original partners (mortgagees) had died, U.S. Leather Co.-which was buying RLLC in 1906- probably insisted in additional title clearing-hence the 1906 satisfaction, - R.P. Rusch 1/24/2011

14408-8-31-1896 Mortgage #8, J.J. Kennedy-George H. Heineman, Joe L. Pollak, David Jenner d/b/a George H. Heineman & Co. $803.82

14408A-satisfaction 6-13-1899, NB-George H. Heineman had extensive lumbering interests in Lincoln Co., Wis. - RPR

14409-8-31-1896 mortgage #9, J.J. Kennedy – Reid Murdock of Chicago, $4,169.85

14409A-Satisfaction 6-13-1899

14410-8-31-1896 mortgage #10, J.J. Kennedy-W.O. Halsted Oil Co., of Milwaukee $1,449.71

14410A-Satisfaction 6-13-1899

14411-7-1-1899 mortgage, J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co, Inc., Milwaukee Trust Co, Inc. $59.103.45 ‘with consent of all the stockholders..’ ‘Payable in gold coin of the USA of the present standard & weight & fineness, on or before 10-1-1901’ plus interest at 6% payable semi-annually, secured by issuance of bonds, NB-form of bond spelled out ‘this bond is one of the series of this date, aggregating $59,103.45 – all alike ‘date, tenor & maturity’ except having preference ‘one over the other, in the order in which they are numbered..’ and all bonds secured by & subject to this mortgage, NB—1) J.J. Kennedy business has now been incorporated as ‘J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co.’ – such incorporation on 6-29-1899; 2) R.P.R. denotes this 7-1-1899 mortgage of $59,103.45 the supermortgage- its proceeds probably used to largely pay off the 10 mortgages of 8-31-1896 & prepare for sale to W.A. Osburn – RPR 1-24-2011

14411A-H is both the mortgage & a trust document. The RLLC contracted to have the Milwaukee Trust Co. to serve as trustee in a detailed & complex relationship. See Doc. #14412 ‘the supermortgage of 7-1-1899’ – comments by R.P. ‘Bob’ Rusch

14411B

14411C

14411D

14411E

14411F

14411G

14411H

14411I-Satisfaction of mortgage

14412-the supermortgage of 7-1-1899 – comments by R.P. ‘Bob’ Rusch

14412A

14412B

14412C

14412D

14412E

14412F

14412G

14412H

14413-6-9-1899 bill of sale – Angus Kennedy sells out to J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co.

14414-6-29-1899 Articles of incorporation of J.J. Kennedy Lumber Company. Purposes- ‘The manufacture of & dealing in all kinds of lumber, lath, shingles, posts, pulpwood, & other wood products.’; ‘the building..& operation of sawmills, planing mills, dry kilns, logging railroads & other mills…’ ‘the erection, maintenance, leasing…’& dealing in store buildings, swelling houses & other buildings…’ ‘operating a general store…’ capital stock $100,000 divided into 1,000 shares of $100 each

14414A-officers duties, & annual stockholders meeting

14414B-incorporators J.J. Kennedy, A.W. Sanborn, Angus Kennedy, notary-Duncan McLennan

14414C-recorded (filed) Taylor County Register of Deeds 7-1-1899

14415-6-19-1899 promise- J.J. Kennedy ‘….hereby promise to deed ….strip of land to the German Lutheran Church’ of Rib Lake ‘As soon as my present mortgages & judgments are discharged…’

14416-6-25-1899 homestead receipt – ‘receiver’s officer Wausau Wis…received of Larry Drinkwine…’$8.00….the balance of payment required by law for entry of south half, southwest quarter & south half, southeast quarter, 14-33-3E containing 160 acres..’

14417-7-12-1899 satisfaction of 23 judgments on behalf of J.J. Kennedy, largest judgment is $150,999.85 to Curtis Bros. & Co. from which J.J. Kennedy purchased his sawmill on 8-1-1892 [NB-J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co. borrowed $59,103.43 via ‘supermortgage’ 7-1-1899]

14417A-page 2, long time business associate Attorney A.W. Sanborn signs as J.J. Kennedy’s agent

14418-7-17-1899 satisfaction of five judgments against J.J. Kennedy by A.W. Sanborn

14419-9-6-1899 hemlock contract – Fayette Shaw & Rousseau & Shephard Co., Inc. [Chelsea, WI sawmill]

14419A-F.W. Shephard-secretary & treasurer signs for Rousseau & Shephard Co.

14419B-legal descriptions of land affected, i.e. 122 ‘forties’ c. 4880 acres

14419C Revised version of hemlock contract between Fayette D. Shaw and Roussea, & Shephard Co.; revised version divides contract into 25 numbered paragraphs, each with a heading drafted by R.P. Rusch

14420-1-4-2011 synopsis of 9-26-1899 hemlock contract by R.P. Rusch

14420A-definition of cord – 2240 pounds of dry ‘merchantable bark’ at scales of Rib Lake Tannery, see 14420B

14420C

14420D

14420E

14421-6-14-1900 timber warranty deed-Stephen Konz to Frank J. Hintz, sells all timber on NW NW & SW NE, 20-32-3E, for $140, 3 year deadline [NB-buyer will build Hintztown sawmill on Wood River – RPR]

14422-7-2-1900 land contract Ramsey Land Co. to Alois Seidl for $800, NW ¼ - 14-32-2E, 160 acres, buyers may not cut hemlock except to make fields-improvements-until all is paid

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Harold Curran Collection

14423-P. 1920 Chester Curran & unidentified man ‘Moder 1920’ with comical float in 4th of July parade on McComb Ave, store in back ‘F.H. Morac…Shoes & Repair, probably not photographed in Rib Lake

14424-P. c. 1935 5 Curran brothers, left to right-Herbert ‘Herb’ Curran, COle Curran, aka Collie Curran, Chester Curran, Ed Curran, Fred Curran, photo not in Rib Lake, cousins Harry ‘Mad’ & Chester ‘Boots’, sons of Herbert

RPR Collection

14425-8-9-1900 land contract, Wis. Central Railway Co. [WC] by trustees Edwin H. Abbot, et. al, to Oscar Erickson of Pullman, Illinois, sells 40 acres SE NE 35-30-2E, 10 year reservation to seller of all ‘pine timber’; reservation of ‘all coal, iron, gold, silver & other minerals..’; $50 down & balance of $171 including interest at 7%; buyer may not cut any timber without written permission of WC until contract paid

14425A-each act of cutting timber ‘shall, at option of WC, be deemed a surrender..of this contract.’ By buyer [NB- WC imposes other draconian conditions on buyer-RPR]

14425B-WC by H.F. Whitcomb & Charles M. Morris

14426-9-14-1900 sale contract, J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co, Inc. to W.A. Osburn, Hugh McCullough, W.H. Humphreys, James Radaker of the State of Pennsylvania for $525,000; all RLLC lumber owned ‘on the morning of the 10th day of August, a.d. 1900 & all saw logs & all horses, wagons, cars, sleighs, logging outfits, camp outfits, blacksmith outfits & all personal property of any kind, nature & description, owned or possessed…[by RLLC] on morning…[of 8-10-1900] except RLLC ‘books of accounts..’ i.e. accounts payable $25,000 downpayment, buyers pay all expenses [of RLLC] incurred in ordinary course of said business & after [8-9-1900]; buyers ‘shall have the proceeds of all shipments made on all business done by…[RLLC]…from & after 8-9-1900; when buyers fully pay $525,000 ‘at the times & in the manner hereafter specified…’ RLLC provides warranty deed [RLLC signed warranty deed conveying mill & other lands to W.A. Osburn Lumber Co., see Doc. #13412

14426A-descrptions of land sold including ‘mill lot’ & ‘the sawmill, planing mill, dry kilns, trams, store building, hotel [the Commercial Hotel], blacksmith shop, meat shop, barns, warehouse, ‘and house [sic] situated therein.’

14426B-land descriptions T33 2E & T32 3E

14426C-T33 3E & NE SW W ½ SW, 6-32-4E, this is 360 acres in Lincoln Co.; when buyer pays seller $525,000 ‘in the manner hereafter specified…’ seller aggress to assign to buyer ‘certain contracts…’ A) contract 8-1-1894 between Fayette Shaw & J.J. Kennedy & trustees of Wisconsin Central Railroad; B) contract 8-1-1893 between J.J. Kennedy, Fayette Shaw & trustees of Wisconsin Central Railroad, copy of 8-1-1893 contract attached & marked ‘Exhibit A.’ [not attached-RPR]

14426D-buyers authorized to cut timber on former Wisconsin Central lands in place of J.J. Kennedy; upon payment of $525,000 as specified in this contract, seller will assign to buyer contract of 9-14-1900, i.e. Exhibit B [not attached-RPR]; seller authorized buyer to log up to 50,000,000 board feet annually pursuant to 9-14-1900 contract; when paid, J.J. Kennedy and/or J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co. shall deposit Ex. A & Ex. B with First National Bank of Milwaukee to be helf in escrow until buyers complete all terms of this contract

14426E- seller sells to buyer all timber on NE NE 1-32-2E, W ½ SW 17-33-3E = 360 acres, with right to spring 1901 to remove said timber; payment schedule 1) $25,000 in cash at signing this contract; 2) promissory notes payable various months from 8-10-1900; A) $25,000 3 months & 6% interest; B)$41,666.67 7 months, C)$41,666.76 11 months, D) $41,666.67 15 months, E) $65,000 payable 2-1-1902,

14426F-F)$85,000 payable 10-1-1902, G) $85,000 payable 10-1-1903, H) $115,000 per Ex. A & B, seller to pay supermortgage 7-1-1899 by 2-1-1902, buyer to pay real estate taxes

14426G-buyer must keep sawmill insured ‘for the full sum a responsible insurance company will insure…’ buyer prior to 3-1-1901 ‘add to & improve sawmill approximately doubling capacity of said mill’ buyer will not cut timber on lands secured by supermortgage of 7-1-1899 unless buyer pays Milwaukee Trust Co. $1 per mill board feet; buyer must complete sellers partially performed lumber sale contracts

14426H-buyer shall hold possession of sellers property, e.g. sawmill, as tenant at sufferance of seller; if buyer breaches this contract, seller shall give written notice & buyer must cure default within 30 days or seller entitled to ‘strict foreclosure’, i.e. buyer loses money paid & real estate; signatures of J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co. by J.J. Kennedy, Pres. Donald Kennedy, Sec.

14426I-all stockholders of J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co. voted in favor of sale on 9-10-1900; W.A. Osburn Lumber Co. incorporated 10-27-1900, see Soc. 10995, 10996, 10997, 10998; W.A. Osburn Lumber Co. changes its name to Rib Lake Lumber Co; J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co. conveys sawmill & other lands by warranty deed dated 1113-1901, Doc. 13412

14227-10-1-1900 nuisance agreement for Westboro Tannery; Fayette Shaw’s ‘right’ to pollute Silver Creek to U.S. Leather Co.

14428-4-1-1901 land contract-Alois to Simon Schwarz ‘Buyer shall not cure nor remove any of the merchantable hemlock nor hardwood’ without written consent of seller; W ½, NW ¼ 14-32N-2E, 80 acres $600

14428A-page 2

14429-5-6-1901 authorization by landowner to railroad (Wisconsin Central) to reroute Fischer Creek-a navigable stream

14429A-Map 5-6-1901 Fischer Creek-new ditch for Fischer Creek bed

14430-8-28-1901 release of damages by J.J. Kennedy & Herman Schneider to P.F. Curran

14430A-page 2, RPR event summary

14431-9-4-1901 W.A. Osburn Lumber Co. grants license (or release) & indemnification to Wisconsin Central Railway for improved trackage at Rib Lake mill

14431A-notary

14431B-Map 9-4-1901 Rib Lake Depot grounds – west ‘depot’

14431C-ibid-center- ‘Burned sawmill’ is former Hintz, later Mathe, mill

14431D-ibid-east-sawmill, planing mill, dry kilns, & dressed lumber shed, carpenter & blacksmith shops, Commercial Hotel & windmill

14431E-ibid, mill complex-color enhanced; new railroad track – authorized by easement, #14431, shown in red

14431F ibid Annotations regarding RLLC mill features keyed to Map 8-4-1902, pg. 1

14431G ibid p. 2

14431H ibid p. 3

14432-9-20-1901 satisfaction of judgment, W.H. Hobbs of Eau Claire releases J.J. Kennedy from $108.58 judgment obtained 12-6-1900

14433-6-5-1905 mortgage by Rib Lake Livestock Association, Inc., to Owen A. Wells. The mortgagor used its 400 acres-including 80 within the 2011 Rib Lake School Forest-for sheep grazing, giving raise to calling the waterway through the parcel as ‘Sheep Ranch Creek’

14433A-Map 6-5-1905 Rib Lake Livestock Association, Inc., lands

14434-2-25-1910 mortgage for $7,800 by Hugo M. Lea et ux to First National Bank of Waupaca, Wis. Covering extensive Rib Lake area lands, including W ½ NE ¼ 15-33-3E – in 2011 part of the Rib Lake School forest

14434A-mortgagee agrees to release on lands which Lea sells provided $4.50 per acre be paid to prior mortgagee; Lea was in 1910 a major Rib Lake area land speculator

14434B-If Lea fails to pay ‘any sum of money’ including taxes, then mortgagee may declare the entire mortgage due

14434C-land may be sold at public auction

14435-1-8-1914 mortgage of Hugo M. Lea of 9-29-1906 to Milwaukee Trust Co. assigned to State Bank of Oshkosh

14435A-page 2

14435B-2-25-1910 First National Bank of Waupaca satisfies mortgage of 2-25-1910 by Hugo M. Lea, et ux

14435C-11-3-1924 partial satisfaction of mortgage-First National Bank of Waupaca discharged, SW ¼ NE ¼, NW ¼ NE ¼, 15-33-R2E from Hugo M. Lea mortgage [Lea had sold parcel to Wesley N. Castle. In 2011 trace part of Rib Lake School Forest.]

14436-4-1-1918 land contract-Hugo M. Lea to Wesley N. Castle, SW NE 15-33-2E=40 acres fro $600 ‘balance of $550’ payable in monthly installments of not less than $6.00 per month.’ & interest at 6%

14436A-2-18-1928 mortgage W. [Wesley] N. Castle to E.W. Thomas $160 W ½ NE ¼ 13-33-2E

14436B-6-13-1929 Satisfaction of mortgage by E.W. Thomas

14436C-11-2-1931 mortgage Wesley N. Castle to E.W. Thomas $650, all land covered in Doc. 14436, in 2011 part of Rib Lake School Forest

14437-3-6-1906 judgment-Rib Lake Lumber Co. Inc. plaintiff v. James Radaker, W.H. Humphrey, Hugh McCullough, Margaret Osburn, widow of W.A. Osburn, Effie, Irene, Armour, Alexander & Mary Jane Osburn, the sole heirs of W.A. Osburn, deceased, defendants ‘it is…adjudged’ A) W.A. Osburn died intestate [without a will[, B) the defendants, Margaret Osburn, his widow, and [other Osburns named] are the sole heirs; C) the Rib Lake Lumber Co. is the owner of [variety of land in Village of Rib Lake and the mill lot together with sawmill, planing mill, dry kilns, trams [see 14438], store building hotel, blacksmith & meat shops, barns, warehouses & houses situated therein.’

14437A-D) plaintiff [RLLC] also owns extensive real estate in Taylor Co. [legal descriptions set forth]

14437B-E) ‘…each of said defendants makes some claim to said lands & the plaintiffs [RLLC] claim is hereby established against any claim of any of the defendants…’ signed John K. Parish, Circuit Court Judge

14438-P. c. 1905 Commercial Hotel-left-ground floor RLLC store; this impressive, 3-story wood –frame hotel was built by J.J. Kennedy to provide lodging for business guests & rooms for his sawmill laborers; it stood c. 400 feet south of the sawmill & c. 100 ft. south of the RLLC storehouse; the west side faces the photographer & a portion of Rib Lake can be seen on the right behind ladder reaching the second story roof; an addition has just been constructed on the left next to plate glass windows, showing the clothing & pottery merchandise of a private storekeeper who rented those premises; note-windows providing light to the 4th story attic

14439-Map & ground floor plan-Commercial Hotel c. 2-1-1904, Arabic numerals set out in feet distances; as of 2-2-2011 the north portion of the real estate once occupied by the Commercial Hotel is the home of Edward Zondlo, 700 Mill Lane

14440-4-10-1906 license-Medford Lumber Co, fka Gibson & Co, to Wisconsin Central Railway

14440A-Map 4-10-1906 Medford Lumber Co. sawmill & railroad track; NB-the license is signed by A.L. Osborn, president, Medford Lumber Co, Not to be confused with W.A. Osburn, president, RLLC

14441-4-26-1909 nuisance agreement-Riparian landowners ‘sell’ Fayette Shaw right to pollute Silver Creek at Westboro

14441A-page 2

14442-4-6-1914 release of timber rights-RLLC by President Eugene Horton surrenders to Union Tannery Co – successor to U.S. Leather Co – timber reservation

14442A-p. 2 signatures-RLLC by Fred E. Knapp, Secretary, & Eugene Horton, president; NB- these signatures made in State & county of New York indicate the office headquarters were now there, probably as a result of U.S. Leather Co, - a new Jersey Corporation – purchase of RLLC in 1906

14443-P. Feb. 1913 ‘Rib Lake Lumber Co.’ locomotive #3, a 0-6-0, a ‘switcher’, switch engines had neither front nor trailing trucks (wheels) thus permitting it to negotiate right track curves & switches; on the company ‘mainline’ from Wood Lake area at least 4 flatcars of hardwood for the Rib Lake sawmill; a woods spur line cuts through the foreground. The manufacturers’ round locomotive nose plate proudly reads ‘American Locomotive Company’ encircling the 3; While all RLLC engines bore identifying numbers, they were not in chronological order. Nearly all locomotives operated by the RLLC were purchased secondhand & continued to bear the number assigned by the prior owner. All Rib Lakers affectionately called the steamer the ‘3 spot’. The RLLC had a locomotive #3 prior to this one; the first #3 was a Climax (the piston slanted diagonally not horizontally), it initially bore the name ‘W.A. Osburn Lumber Co.’ before the corporation changed its name to RLLC on 5-6-1902. A fine photo of this engine is at p. 6 ‘A Pictorial History of Rib Lake.’ At the time of mill closure in 1948, RLLC operated locomotive 101. see page 23 of ‘A Pictorial History of Rib Lake’. Locomotive ‘1’ was a Shay – powered by 2 pistons mounted vertically, see page 68 of ‘A Pictorial History of Rib Lake’

14444-8-3-1913 satisfaction of mortgage notarized by George F. & Rose E. Braun for William Lyle ‘on lands in’ 9-32-2E

14445-3-11-1947 ordering entering 520 acres entered into forest crop lands & adding to the Taylor County forest

14445A-p. 2 land included SW NE 15-33-2E now part of the Taylor County Forest. NB-signature of Aldo Leopold

14446-3-5-1955 order of withdrawal from forest crop law- 5 forties for conveyance to Rib Lake School District to create its school forest

14447-Map 1-2-2008 Rib Lake School Forest & Taylor County Forest in T33-R2E

14447A-page 2, T33-3E showing N half 23-33-3E – in 1976 Taylor County purchased 320 acre tract-including pristine Wood Lake-for expansion of county forest. Unlike certain townships in western Taylor County, which prevented the existence of Taylor County Forest there, the majority of Rib Lakers support the now 17,000 acre public forest & have successfully resisted periodic efforts to sell it & ‘put the lands on the tax roll.’ Actually, various state laws result in the Town of Rib Lake receiving revenue compensating for real estate tax loss.

Ginger Voogd, nee White, Mrs. Richard Voogd collection

1300 S. Washington Ave, Medford, WI 715-748-4525, father was Alfred ‘Pete’ N. White, mother-Verna B. Krueger nee Gerstberger married Albert Krueger

The collection is from Ginger’s Aunt Vera Wallace, in 2011 93 years old in Hartford, Wis., nee Krueger, aka Mrs. Lester ‘Pike’ Wallace of Rib Lake. Pike’s father was Guy Wallace & mother was Flossie. Pike’s sister was Naida Straub. Vera lives next to a daughter, Joann Adkings, 272-370-8927. The collection is originally from Emma Gerstberger, aka Emma Krueger. Emma was Vera’s mother.

14448-1-31-2011 email, Ginger Voogd to RPR

14449-P. c. 1910 probably Albert Krueger farmhouse

14450-P. c. 1910 double wedding party at Ernst Gerstberger farm, NE NW 13-33-3E, Town of Rib Lake; the party appears standing on a plowed future garden spot on the north side of the farm home just south of a town road known in 2011 as Fawn Ave. The house was razed in 2010.

14451-P. 1918 unidentified WWI American soldier

14452-P. c. 1918 unidentified store interior & proprietor, combination wood & coal stove sits in center. Glass display cases feature bottles suggesting a drug store; boy advertises ‘cascarets?’ rear windows read ‘Heath & ? and Colors & C.’; twin kerosene lamps hang from ceiling

14453-P. c. 1910 4 lucky fishermen stand on north shore of [probably] Rib Lake with copious catch

14454-P. c. 1910 2 unid. Boys with their adorned horses, may be Rib Lake

14455-P. c. 1910 4 unid. People, man sports a bowler hat

14456-P. c. 1910 smiling lady, unidentified

14457-P. c. 1910 3 unidentified children in Sunday best, photographer ‘R.P. Brown, Prentice. Wis.’

14458-Memorial Card, 6-6-1922 for Mathilda Gnotke 5-5-1903 to 6-6-1922

14459-Rib Lake Herald clipping ‘Sgt. Rezutek weds Edna Gerstberger’ 6-4-1955

14459A-Obit. Edna Rezutek nee Gerstberger, Star News 2-3-2011

End of Voogd collection

14460-W. 1995 Lakeview [Rib Lake Village] Cemetery index by Taylor County Geneological Society

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The following pages are simply burials listed by years – no location given

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14460-66 1999-2000

14460-67 2000-2001

14460-68 2001

14460-69 2001-2002

14460-70 2002

14460-71 2003

14460-72 2003-2004

14460-73 2004

14460-74 2004

14460-75 Former Rib Lake residents – not buried in Rib Lake

14460-76 Former Rib Lake residents – not buried in Rib Lake

14461-W. 1995 Whittlesey Catholic Cemetery index, aka Our Lady of Perpetual Help [Mutter Der Immer Wehrende Hilfe Kirche]

14461A-cemetery on land donated by August Steiner ‘for Catholic church purposes’ c. 1900. He was a maternal great-grandfather of Robert P. Rusch, Whittlesey Postmaster & born in Schoenwalde, Schlesien, Germay

14461B

14461C

14461D

14461E

14461F

14461G

14461H

14461HH

14461I

14461J

14462-W. 1891 ‘Wausau, Wis. Illustrated’

14462A-P. Curtis Bros. & Co ‘Sash, doors & blinds’ First photo is warehouse, second photo is factory

14463-W. 11-1897 ‘Souvenir Edition’ Wausau Daily Herald

14463A-Curtis & Yale Co. In 1881 the firm of Curtis Bros. & Co. of Clinton, Iowa, incorporated & started its Wausau branch; On 12-29-1892, a new company ‘Curtis & Yale’ was organized & purchased assets of Curtis Bros. & Co.; George M. Curtis is president & came to Wausau in June 1881

14463B-Ad ‘Curtis & Yale Co.’

14464-W. ‘Wausau in 1900’ by George A. Martin, title page

14464A-history of Curtis Bros. & Co. & Curtis & Yale Co.

14464B-P. Curtis & Yale plant #2, Wausau, WI

14464C-history of Cornelius S. Curtis, one of original Curtis brothers, on 4-1-1881 moved to Wausau [His brother, George M. Curtis, is the Curtis who induced J.J. Kennedy to move to Rib Lake. See 1936 History of Rib Lake by Guy Wallace.]

14465-L. 2-2011 Helen Hobl re Historic St. Ann’s, Inc.

14465A-page 2

14466-W. 2002 ‘Wausau Chronicles’ by Mary Jane Uecker Hettiwoa, title page

14466A-’Curtis plant closing in 1962 was a sad day for Wausau’; Cornelius joined his brothers, George & C.F., in 1868 as ‘Curtis Brothers & Co.’ headquartered in Clinton, Iowa; he served as salesman covering 16 states. ‘IT was after a stop in Wausau he convinced his brothers’ to establish a plant in Wausau.’

14466B-Cornelius Curtis died 1916

14467-W. 11-30-1994 Wausau Chronicles – bio.- Aytchmonde Perrin Woodson, a/k/a A.P. Woodson, President, RLLC 1936-1948.

14467A-p. 2 marriage 8-15-1911 to Leigh, only child of Cyrus & Alice Yawkey

14468-W. 1-25-2000 Wausau Chronicles-’Mylrea’s journals provide a look at growth of lumbering.’ Biography of John ‘Jack’ Mylrea – 1885 to 1963 – business partner to A.P. Woodson, part owner & key manager of RLLC 1936-1948

14468A-page 2, In 1936 ‘Mylrea’ & A.P. Woodson purchased the RLLC.

14469-W. 4-25-2000 Wausau Chronicles – ‘The Cyrus & Alice Yawkey house became the Marathon County Historical Society in 1954.’

14469A-page 2

14470-W. 9-8-1994 Wausau Chronicles – biography on Alexander Stewart [The 1913 Standard Atlas of Taylor County shows the A. Stewart Lumber Co. the bulk of the land in Sections 1 & 12, T33N-R3E,-RPR 2-2011]

14470A-p. 2

14471-W. 7-13-1994 Wausau Chronicles – ‘Wausau Lumber barons began as mill hands.’ Bios of Alexander & John Stewart

14471A-page 2, Stewart Park

14472-W. 2-25-2002 Wausau Chronicles – ‘Tenacity of Fromm Brothers Inspires’ The Fromm Brothers lands included the site of former RLLC Camp 19, Town of Corning

14472A-p. 2 Fromm fur farm history

14473-W. 6-27-2000 Wausau Chronicles – Rib Mountain-Native American origin for Rib River

14473A-page 2

14474-W. 2-16-2011 Rib Lake Community Economic Development Foundation – Rib Lake Small Business Appreciation Banquet

14475-W. 1881 A history of Westboro, published in History of Northern Wisconsin, Chicago, the Western Historical Co.

14475A-ibid – A history of Chelsea

14475B-ibid – page 2 ‘within a radius of 6 miles of Chelsea there are 50,000 acres of heavy timbered hemlock lands, which will yield at least 4 cords of bark per acre, which would be 200,000 cords of tanning material.’ [i.e. tannic acid-RPR 2/8/2011]

14475C-page 3

RPR Collection

14476-1981 Rib Lake Centennial plate

14476A-back-Rib Lake History 1981 by RPR

14477-1975 Westboro Centennial plate

14477A-back-Westboro comment by Roy Spieles

14478-1974 Stetsonville Centennial plate

Collection of Joseph ‘Joe’ Desris, Box 400, Rib Lake, WI 54470, 715-427-5678 – assorted clippings from scrapbook

14479-c. 1950 ad ‘Harold O. Ruesch, Republican candidate for reelection to the office of county clerk of Taylor Count’ & photo of candidate

14480-c. 1950 ‘5 generations of Taylor County family’ P. Robert Novak, age 2 months; Mrs. John Novak, Mrs. Richard Stibbe; Mrs. Robert Klemm, Mrs. Chris Martin, age 86

14481-obit, Robert Klemm, Sr.

14482-Fred Peche, Sr., celebrates 90th birthday

14483-P. ‘A. Bonneville Camp for J.J. Kennedy’ photo shows J.J. Kennedy’s Camp 3, 2-8-1891 in Section 16 T32-3E, 35 men; man in fur coat is A. Bonneville, foremen; man behind dinner horn is Edward Franz; far left-Alsie Bonneville with suspenders; photo belongs to Robert Franz; NB-J.J. Kennedy Camp 3 is not to be confused with RLLC Camp 3 established in 1906

14483A-plat map

14484-P. c. 1941 Lee Clendenning

14485-P. c. 1950 ‘reports that the deer herd was seriously depleted by last fall’ antlerless season are disputed by the picture…’

14486-P. c. 1929 ‘Medford youth experience work-out day after Halloween. City marshall Chas. Stellick makes pranksters right out-houses; Stellick was born in Westboro & served as Taylor Co. Sheriff. His daughter, Bernice ‘Babe’ Stellick is a life-long Rib Lake resident

14487-Obit c. 1946 Nicholas Clerf-former owner of Nick’s wagon factory on McComb Ave. A-1

14488-P. Martin Steen family

14489-Obit. ‘Thomas’ W. Andresen c. 1945 ‘District Attorney 22 years’; NB-Andresen was defeated when he ran for DA as a Democrat but elected as a Republican

14490-P. George Braun, 90, and daughter Nora; NB-Braun was a long-time McComb Ave. businessman in real estate office on site in 2011 occupied by Mann-Made Pizza, 709 McComb Ave.

14491-’Bill Eckert, 23, dies Thursday in well cave-in’

14492-’Herbert Peche dies of gunshot wound’ c. 1950

14493-’Mrs. John Bernitt, 96, county’s oldest resident’

14494-’William Wolffs – married 50 years’

14495-’Three are confirmed at Greenwood Lutheran Church’ P. Pastor Roland Ourgel, Mary Pries, Gerald Klemm & Delores Pagel, confirmands, c. 1950

RPR collection

14496-11-23-1894 deed, Wisconsin Central Railroad to J.J. Kennedy, 1849.61 acres of land on condition that all lumber & other forest products from premises must be ‘shipped to market over the Wisconsin Central Railroad…’ during the term ending 7-13-1913…’

14496A-

14496B-Deed cosigned by Trustees since railroad in bankruptcy

14497-7-5-1899 quit claim deed – Home Investment Co. to J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co; this was actually a mortgage satisfaction, J.J. Kennedy’s close client & business associate, A.W. Sanborn, of Ashland, signed on behalf of mortgagee

14497A

14497B

14498-quit claim deed 6-29-1899, J.J. Kennedy, et. ux. To J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co., Inc., covers sawmill & extensive acreage in T 32-2E, T33-2E, T33-3E, plus ‘warehouse, hotel, barn, store & [company] houses theron…’ consideration $5,000, NB-J.J. Kennedy had just incorporated after operating as a sole proprietorship

14498A

14498B

14499-8-24-1900 deed, Fayette Shaw to J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co. for $1, extensive acreage in T33, R 2 and 3E, NB-on 9-29-1900 Shaw sold Rib Lake Tannery to U.S. Leather Co.

14500-1-31-1898 quit claim deed, John J. Kennedy, et. ux, to Fayette Shaw, half interest, extensive acreage in T33 2 & 3E and T32-2E, conveyance made ‘in pursuance to contract’ between parties, entered into 8-1-1893…’

14500A

14501-W. deed 11-13-1901, J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co, Inc. to W.A. Osburn Lumber Co., Inc., consideration $200,000, ‘receipt acknowledged’ sells ‘mill lot’ including sawmill, planing mill, dry kilns, trams [narrow gauge railroad to transport lumber from mill], store, hotel, blacksmith & meat shop, barns, warehouse & [company] houses [owned by RLLC & rented to its laborers], and extensive land in T33-1 & 3E.

14501A-real estate descriptions

14501B-real estate descriptions

14501C-exceptions to warranty of real estate title; railroad r.o.w., schools, churches, highways, land sold to A.C. McComb, deed 8-12-1897 [lots for businesses along McComb Ave.], NB-W.A. Osburn Lumber Co. incorporated 10-27-1900, Doc. #10995; on 9-10-1900 J. J. Kennedy Lumber Co., signed contract agreeing to sell company for $525,000 to W.A. Osburn, et. al, Doc. #13888

14502-8-24-1906 warranty deed, Rib Lake Lumber Co. by A.W. Sanborn, Pres. To Milwaukee Trust Co. $1 [Milwaukee Trust Co. was mortgagee for ‘supermortgage’ of 7-1-1899, Doc. #14412 satisfied 6-14-1901, #14412I] extensive lands T32 2E, 3E and T33, 2 and 3E, signature of F.E. Knapp, RLLC secretary notarized in New York, New York.

14502A

14502B

14502C

14503-11-25-1947 tax deed for 325 real estate parcels sold to Taylor Co. for non-payment of taxes

14503A-descriptions in town and village of Rib Lake

14503B- descriptions in town and village of Rib Lake

14503C-signature of Harold O. Ruesch, county clerk; NB-at that time raw, unimproved, cut-over land had no value-hence owners stopped paying taxes on it. This condition generally continued into the 1970’s, conditions including improved roads, forest regrowth and urban land seekers created a market for land hitherto considered ‘worthless’-RPR 2-22-2011

14504-6-18-1955 quit claim deed, Taylor County to Rib Lake School District, consideration $1200, sells 5 forties in Sec. 15, T33-R2, acquired by tax delinquency for Rib Lake School Forest

14505-6-17-1976 deed, 3.8 acres of Rib Lake School Forest to Taylor County, [for reconsideration of CTH D] signed by Joseph A. Dums, Jr., Michael C. Czerniak, Vernon E. Hanke, Rolland L. Thums, Wilbert Blomberg

14505A

Douglas Thums collection, 8864 Bus. Hwy 13, Westboro, WI 54490, 427-5070

14506-Map 1895 Wisconsin – NB-railroads, not roads, shown, ‘Cram’s Standard American Railway System Atlas’, 1895 Chicago, Wisconsin, north half

14506A-Wisconsin, south half

14506B-Russia-Prussia-Poland

RPR Collection

14507-11-6-1873 Wis. Central Railroad contract with Abram Taylor for Chelsea sawmill and pond

14507A-Map 11-6-1873 Abram Taylor sawmill & pond, Sec. 1-32-1E, Chelsea, Wis.

14508-10-21-1874 Map, Chelsea, WI by Wisconsin Central Railroad

14508A-signature page

14508B-2010 aerial photo, same site

14509-Map 10-1874 Westboro, WI by Wisconsin Central Railroad

14509A-signature page

14510-11-14-1901 Heidrick & Matson Lumber Co. of Westboro, easement for spur track to Wisconsin Central Railroad Co.

14510A-signature page

14510B-Map 11-14-1901 Westboro Railroad track & Heidrick & Matson Lumber Co. tramway, i.e. elevated wood deck to convey lumber from mill, planing mill, boarding house, store & office; new spur shown in red

14510C-ibid, white over black

14511-8-4-1902 easement, RLLC to Wisconsin Central Railroad for new railroad spur to hot pond

14511A-signature page

14511B-Map 8-4-1902 hot pond spur shown in red-RLLC

14512-6-19-1902 timber and hemlock bark contract, W.H. Allen, et. ux and Heidrick & Matson Lumber Co. – covers 120 acres for $327.16

14513-8-24-1900 contract – hemlock bark, Fayette Shaw, et. al to J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co., $1000 consideration covering substantial acreage in towns of Rib Lake and Greenwood

14513A-siganture page

14513B-Map 3-1-2011 by RPR showing quarter-quarters in Sec. 12-33-2E where hemlock bark was sold by contract in 14513 [shown by check mark], and by contract 14514 [shown by red ‘X’] and 2011 landowners including Ice Age Trail Alliance [Rusch Preserve trailhead], Ann K. Rusch and Kristin K.B.L.M. Strobach

14514-2-8-1902 contract for standing hemlock bark by J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co. to W.A. Osburn Lumber Co.; NB-seller kept title to peeled bark, i.e. bark already stripped from tree; NB-the lands affected appear identical to those involved in the Shaw-Kennedy contract $14513; NB-J.J. Kennedy is president of RLLC and his son, Donald, is its secretary

14514A-signature page

14515-6-24-1901 will of Johann Mielke bequeathing to Fritz Reinhold and Bertha Hanke and appointing Herman Hanke executor

14515A-county judge, J.C. Hobbs, order 11-5-1901

14516-1-4-1902 will of Joseph Depstula prepared under auspices of Catholic Order of Foresters – S. John Court No. 823, Rib Lake, Wis.

14517-6-18-1902 care-of-parents contract by Charles & Caroline Seidel, also selling farm personal property, e.g. ‘one gray horse named Bill’

14518-certificate of death-Frank Haas 10-14-1885 to 11-2-1958 [uncle to Jack Heindl & lon-time Little Spirit Lake resident]

Frank Haas photo collection, donated to RLHSo. By his nephew, Jack T. Heindl, born 3-22-1934 in Rib Lake, Apt. 7, 225 Marjorie Ln, Medford, WI 54451, 715-748-6877, Jack’s parents were Peter Heindl and Hazel Irene Heindl nee Haas, l/k/a Hazel Davis,

14519-Jack T. Heindl, age 11, at Little Spirit Lake cottage home of his uncle, Frank Haas c. 1945; in 2011 home owned by Maynard Nelson

14520-P. c. 1920 Frank Haas holding fresh loaf of bread on highway on east side of Little Spirit Lake

14521-P. c. 1920 Frank Haas sawing firewood; R-Herman Marschke, homemade ski lie ready

14522-P. c. 1920 unidentified skier descending Marschke’s hill, snow drifted Knorn road in back; in 2011 land at right is part of Follett’s Lakeview Resort, N9430 STH 102, Spirit Lake [NE NE 5-33-3E]

14523-P. c. 1920 Frank Haas and pet dog at rear of car with spare tire

14524-12-28-1909 envelope from Margaret Haas to Frank Haas, Bovel, Idaho, c/o Camp 8

14525-12-23-1903 letter from Clyde Hime in care of the Friend Hotel, Antigo, WI., to Frank Haas, page 1

14525A-page 2

14526-P. c. 1910 unidentified woman and child outside of Spirit Lake hotel; L-Marschke hill east side of Little Spirit Lake, view north, far left-part of Spirit Lake Tavern

14527-P. outside porch of Spirit Lake Hotel; bench advertises ‘[Mr.] F. [Frank] E. Poole’ ‘Rib Lake Furniture’ [and funeral home; in 2011 part of Rib Lake Music Center, 740 McComb Ave.

14528-ad in 1913 Standard Atlas of Taylor County for William Maes, dba Spirit Lake Hotel & Saloon, RFD No. 1, R. 2, [in 2011 its site is the public boat landing on Little Spirit lake adjacent to STH 102]

14529-P. c. 1915 (probable) interior of bar at Spirit Lake Hotel & Saloon, view from bar shows cash register and back bar – Cy Clausen and Frank Haas reflected in mirror!

14530-P. c. 1915 ibid, large hornet’s nest sits atop cash register

14531-P. ibid, rear-pot belly stove and pipe

14532-P. c. 1920 launch ‘Catherine C.’ on Little Spirit Lake

14533-P. 4 successful fisher-people at dock on Little Spirit Lake; L-Herman ‘wooden shoe’ Marschke

14534-P. c. 1920 Frank Haas in swimsuit, Little Spirit Lake

14535-P. Considine’s Little Spirit Lake cottage c. 1920

14536-P. c. 1920 R-Otto Brehm, center-Rose Street at campsite next to Frank Haas cabin

14537-P. c. 1920 Otto Brehm’s tent

14538-P. c. 1930 R-Frank Becker; L-Al Hertschen with nice catch – 12 fish from Little Spirit

14539-P. c. 1930 Al Hertschen with casting rod shows off his northern pike; R-Frank Haas ‘barn’ at Little Spirit

14540-P. two unidentified boys in hammock in front of Frank Haas cabin c. 1925

14541-P. c. 1930 unidentified cook awaits fresh fish

14542-W. envelope postdated 12-21-1923 ‘Mrs. A. [Anthony] J. Haas, 536 East 43 Street, Portland, Oregon’ to Frank Haas

14542A-L. 12-19-1923 by Tony, Lil and Lillian Haas to ‘Dear Frank’

14543-Bill prepared by Frank Haas for drilling 34 foot deep well at $5 per foot for Kaspar Dguira

14544-Dec. 1951, notes of Frank Haas re 32 foot well dug for Leonard Koffler

14545-bill of Frank Haas for 51 foot well and blacksmith work for Phillip Bonde

14546-P. c. 1910 3 unidentified card players possibly at Spirit Lake Hotel; photographer placed screen in front of window; map of State of Wisconsin hangs on wall

14547-P. 4 unidentified men enjoy their ‘suds’ c. 1915; photo by R.D. Brown of Rib Lake

14548-P. teamster and team at probable Rib Lake livery stable c. 1910

14549-ad-from 1913 Taylor County Standard Atlas – W.M. Banks and Sons – south Side Livery Stable and Dray Line

14550-ibid, North Side Livery Stable, Dodge Bros. proprietors

14551-P. portrait c. 1940 Lee Clendenning in uniform – he died at Pearl Harbor on 12-7-1941 at Hickam Field, Honolulu, Hawaii

14552-P. c. 1940 Charles Clendenning, brother of Lee Clendenning; Charles was wounded at Pearl Harbor on 12-7-1941; Charles and Lee were both mechanics in the 23rd bombing squadron [see #14484]

End of Haas-Heindl collection

RPR Collection

14553-ad 1952 ‘retain Raymond H. Scott as District Attorney of Taylor County…’

14554-Taylor County plat book – 2010-cover

14554A-Map 2010 Taylor County civil townships and incorporated municipalities

14554B-legend

14554C-land description-explanation

14554D-Map, Taylor County roads – east half

14554E-Map, Taylor County roads – west half

14554F-Map-school districts east half

14554G- Map-school districts west half

14554H-map, Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe trails

14554I-Map, Chelsea Lake

14554J-Map, Mondeaux Flowage

14554K-Map, Rib Lake

14554L

14554M-Map T33 Range 3 East

14554N-2 East

14554O-1 East

14554P-1 West,

14554PP-2 West

14554Q-map T32N-R3E

14554R-Map T32N-R2E

14554S-Map T32N-R1E, ‘Whittlesey-Chelsea’

14554T-Map T31N-R3E

14554U-Map T31N-R2E

14554V-Map T31N-R1E

14555-L. 3-10-2010 to Taylor Co. Extension Office, c-o Arlen Albrecht confirming permission of Rib Lake Historical Society to use 14554 materials

14556-7-1-1873 James Ritchie adjudged bankrupt

14556A

14557-3-22-1880 security agreement in Palmer & Clone Westboro sawmill

14558-10-18-1880 Rust-Owen sell Westboro mill site to John Fritzie; the land-NE SE 12-33-1E, later became the Matson & Heidrick & later the Westboro Lumber Co. and included ‘Pennsy’ Ave, named land speculator from Pennsylvania who bought the Heidrick & Matson mill in 1902 and ran it until 1922

14558A

14559-3-16-1881 pine sale agreement – John S. Owen, Henry C. Putnam, sellers, buyer contracts to pay $1375 cash and title to logs remains in seller until payment even though logs floated to sawmill

14560-Analysis of 3-16-1881 contract

14560A-page 2

14560B-page 3

14561-10-6-1881 joint venture agreement – W. & J.D. Curran contract to furnish equipment and pine stumpage to William Keddle-who will cut and drive the logs down Rib and Wisconsin River to Stevens Point, where Curran will saw or sell logs, Curran will reimburse themselves from sale proceed at $1 per thousand plus expenses plus 10% interest

14562-7-6-1882 cash sale of pine – E.C. Urquhart and T.G. Jeffers [Medford businessmen] for $300 sell all pine timber to A.J. Vaught on 80 acres-W ½ NW ¼, 18-32-2E, cash!

14563-9-7-1882 Abrams Taylor buys, $5200, 280 acres to provide logs for his Chelsea sawmill

14564-10-14-1882 overflow agreement – George W. Norton, et. ux, release Sanger & Rockwell & Co. of Milwaukee from damage by flooding Norton’s land – SW 26-32-1E ‘for purpose of driving, running, booming, rafting and sawing logs in all logs which may be put into Black River…’; NB-The Black River was an important log driving waterway; it not only allowed logs to be driven to mills in Whittlesey and Medford, but logs to out-of-Wisconsin mills, e.g. pine from my great-grandfather’s farm in Whittlesey – SE ¼ 26-T32-R1E, were driven to Clinton, Iowa. An historical marker in the city of Greenwood, Clark County, notes Mormons harvested pine along ‘Mormon Creek’ and floated them down the Black and Mississippi river to build the Great Temple at Navarro, Illinois, for the Church of Latter-day Saints.

14565-12-7-1882 pine logging and driving contract; Joseph Dessert and Co. of Mosinee, Wi. hires Thomas and Alexander, viz. ‘T&A’, Newman to cut est. 500,000 feet of white pine & drive logs down Rib and Wisconsin Rivers to booms at Mosinee in 1882-1883. logs must be cut in 12, 14 and ‘mostly’ 16 foot lengths; partial payment; went logs cut and remainder - $7 e.m. – when logs scaled at Mosiness; If logs are marooned on river banks after spring of 1883, such logs must be peeled by Newman & pay 8% interest.

14565A-page 2; marooned logs and prohibition of small diameter logs

14566-11-23-1899 Alvin Pierce buys ‘hemlock timber’ and bark for $30 from Joseph Tripannier from 40 acres—NE ¼ Ne ¼ 19-33-2E [Town of Westboro, Westboro Tannery operates 1885-1902-RPR]

14567-2-2-1900 timber pulpwood and wood sale contract-Peter Bjorkquist, et. ux, sells ‘all merchantable saw timber, tie timber, pulpwood and all other timber of any value of all kings..’ from 280 acres – for $428.75; buyer has 3 years to remove; buyer-Heidrick & Matson Lumber Co, which operated sawmill on Silver Creek – SW SW 7-33-2E; mill sold and renamed ‘Westboro Lumber Co.’ 1902-1922

14567A-witness ‘J.M. Heidrick’

14568-2-22-1901 will – in German – of Susanna R. Richwalski

14568A-Certificate of Taylor Co. Register of Deeds certifying to accuracy of English translation

14569-10-28-1881 Westboro ‘lost’ cemetery reference – NW SW 12-T33-R2E

14570-8-30-1883 timber and camp equipment sale; NB-unique list of personal property to equip a 12-man logging camp

14570A-page 2, e.g. 12 tin pans, 3 oxen, 4 hand towels

14570B Typed List of Personal Property Sold August 30, 1883, as Part of a Logging Camp by Alex and Annie McDonald to D.B. Wylie; the Sale Agreement is Image #14570 and Lists Real Estate in Town 32 Range 3 East, Town of Rib Lake. Annotations by Robert Rusch claim sale was for approximately 12 man pine camp.

14571-P. c. 1910 buffalo robed teamster on Rib Lake; in back-R-James Upjohn house; center-Rib Lake High School; left-shed next to railroad track along north shore of Rib Lake; above horse-roof of tannery building

14572-9-21-1883 Taylor County Board resolution voiding tax deed; chairman is Wellington Haight, after whom Wellington Lake is named

14573-P. 1914 new Taylor County Courthouse – 3rd courthouse on Medford site; right-rear of county jail

14574-11-3-1883 surety bond-$500-for Taylor County Deputy Sheriff Henry Tuttle, cosigned by Wellington Haight.

14575-5-16-1884 James McCrossen vs. St. Croix Lumber & Land Co. and Walter Haase – judgment for plaintiff declaring him owner of land east of Little Spirit Lake – W ½ NW ¼ 3; E ½ NW ¼ 4-33-3E

14575A

14576-6-18-1884 Walter Werner Gearhart leases Chelsea Hotel with option to buy to Anton Kriz; all payments to be made at Medford office of Brucker & Ludloff

14577-P. Front [Main] Street-Medford, Wis. c. 1900, view north past junction with Division St.; R-German language newspaper office ‘advertise in the Waldbote’ – NB-Wald=Forest; Bote=Messenger; 2 story brick building with contrasting darker brick is office of Brucker & Ludloff Co. – German immigrant businessmen

14578-6-25-1884 land contract – Anton Mayer, et. ux, contracts to sell ‘German Evangelical Lutehran Drieeinigreits [Trinity] Gemeide [congregation] two acres in Chelsea for $11

14578A-page 2, Chelsea church history by RPR

14579-6-28-1884 US Government awards pension of $16 per month to civil war veteran, Lewis Brown

14580-1-30-1885 Abram Taylor appoints A.J. Perkins [first mayor of Medford] his attorney to sell his Chelsea sawmill

14580A-page 2

14581-6-3-1884 county treasurer [John H. Wheelock] bond cosigned by J.J. Kennedy making him liable for $40,000

14582-1-2-1885 county treasurer bond of John Gay for $50,000 cosigned by J.J. Kennedy

14583-6-7-1888 deed for W half NW quarter, 30-31-2E by State of Wisconsin to William H. Whiton; USA granted land to state so sale proceeds could fund ‘Colleges for benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts.’

14584-P. c. 1925 farmers making hay by all methods on a Taylor County farm from oxen, to horses, to the tractor

14585-P. 7-4-1904 Medford Building Supply Co. float in city of Medford’s July 4th parade

Estelle Bohte collection

14586-P. 1916 lone fisherman with pole angles for trout in Rib River; view to SE & former steel trestle bridge – on present CTH C highway right-of-way; rear-tall American elms shade the scene; SE SE 32-R2E, Rib Lake, WI

RPR collection

14587-logo Ice Age Trail Alliance 2011, mission statement ‘creating, supporting & protecting the Ice Age National Scenic Trail since 1958’

14587A- address

14588-Map 2-2011 Taylor Co. land info dept. ‘terminal moraine belt of Taylor County’ East half

14588A-west half

14589-Spring 2011 ‘Mammoth tales-A quarterly publication of the Ice Age Trail Alliance’ cover

14589A-p. 2 photo of RPR

14589B-p. 18 ‘long time Ice Age Trail friend helps protect trail…and forest [IAT reroute in Town of Rib Lake]

14590-L. 3-12-2011 Tim Yanacheck to RPR ‘Wolf pack in snowstorm’

14590A-correspondence

Collection of Sandra & Larry L. Zimmerman, W6058 Rindt Rd., Westboro, WI 715-427-3454

14591-1880 census for Westboro, Taylor County, WI

14591A-p. 2 Duncan, John

14591B-p. 3 Bonneville, A.E.

14591C-p. 4 Palmer, G.C. sawmill owner

14591D-p. 5 Gust Skinner, Wellington H. Haight, ‘Hotel Keeper’

14591E-p. 6

14591F-p. 7 Urquhart, E.L. ‘surveyor’

14591G-p. 8

14592-P. c. 1960 aerial photo of Westboro centrum ‘Bud’s 66 Service’, aka Harold ‘Bud’ and daughter gas station pictured on SW corner of STH 13, (then running on Main Street) and CTH D; upper right-3-story Westboro High School with 2 brick additions, 3 churches shown, lower right-First Lutheran, center-Methodist, above-Catholic

14593-Map 1913 Westboro Standard Atlas, Taylor County

14594-Map 1913 Chelsea Standard Atlas, Taylor County

14595-P. c. 1910 Westboro Lumber Co.-west side-carts of lumber line transfer chain here lumber fresh from mill were sorted; horse pulled carts transported lumber on elevated wooden tramway (shown); rear left-mill pond formed by damming Silver Creek

14596-P. c. 1910 steel sawdust & scrap wood burner at Westboro Lumber Co.; inclined tramway conveyed carts of scrapwood to move from mill to burner--platform-along included tramway allowed workers to pick out wood pieces and divert to railroad cars through two chutes (pictured)

14597-P. c. 1910 Westboro Lumber Co. hand piling wood from tramway

14598-P. c. 1910 Westboro Lumber Co. interior of mill; left-carriage riders; center-head sawyer; right-logs fresh from mill pond await transfer onto carriage for initial sawing

14599-P. c. 1910 Westboro Lumber Co. view westward toward Westboro centrum; box cars are loaded with lumber fresh from planing mill (building with clear story); 3 metal chimneys mark Westboro Lumber Co. power plant

14600-P. aerial 2010 Westboro, WI north of CTH D, blue lines=property lines, i.e. lots; thin green line=section lines; photo 14599 was taken 100 feet north of CTH D on Leonard Lane; Westboro Lumber Co. mill pond flooded the marsh along Silver Creek north (above) numeral ‘7’

14600A-P. aerial 2010 Westboro south of CTH D; NB-junction of Fischer & Silver Creeks; the low meadow NW of the junction was the site of the tannery and both Palmer’s and Duncan’s sawmills; the oval pond was part of Cooper (Laabs) Cheese Co. waste treatment. The cheese company buildings were razed c. 2003 and were replaced by 2 mobile homes 1/8 mile north of the pond

14601-1901 Westboro plat map by G.K. Clery, Bork & Rowland publishers; part T33N-1E showing Westboro tannery location

14601A-map key

14601B- Little Black, WI showing site of Davis & Starr sawmill at which substantial Westboro-Rib Lake white pine was sawed

14602-Map c. 1-1-1890 Westboro showing location of John Duncan sawmill-NE NE 13-T33-1E & mill pond dam. The mill was originally owned by Duncan, James Ritchie and William S. Taylor; see 11-12-1874 contract by those three and the Wis. Central Railroad.

14602A-key & title page

14603-P. ‘Hotel Westboro’ c. 1900

14604-P. c. 1900 Westboro band; large horn, i.e. baritone-August Trulin, coronet-Albert Westberg

14605-P. interior of Westboro Telephone office c. 1910, Mike Peterson at switch board

14606-P. c. 1910 ‘Doctor McClure’ office, Dr. George McClure was a graduate of the Rush Medical College of Chicago

14607-P. c. 1905 Westboro sheep ranch

14607A-P. c. 1940 STH 13 overpass above Soo Line railroad, one-half mile south of Westboro, view south

14608-P. c. 1910 unidentified Westboro general store-ad from ceiling touts ‘tangefoot’ fly paper; rear-post boxes; spittoon stands ready in front of wood stove

14609-P. former first grade school converted into Westboro community hall c. 1940

14610-P. c. 1910 Silver Creek at Westboro

14611-P. c. 1920 7 flatcars loaded with debarked hemlock on Westboro & Northwestern Railroad-the Westboro Lumber Co. logging railroad; rear-wood burning locomotive

14612-P. c. 1910 ‘Chelsea -2- Wis.’ View northward on Front Street to junction with county road; a fence and tall flagpole appear to stand in middle of intersection; rear-awning on building reads ‘saloon’

14613-P. 1885 Wisconsin Central Railroad locomotive #36 at Chelsea; Wisconsin Central bought it second-hand in 1875 for service on its Ashland division; The unit served as a switch engine

14614-P. c. 1910 18 happy citizens of Westboro pose for unknown occasion; top-2nd from left-Ernie Peterson; rear-exterior wall of structure is O-G Tongue & groove siding-a then common, cheap, siding often manufactured from hemlock

14615-P. c. 1920 winter-unidentified farmstead; 2 children and their caretakers pose apprehensively; a huge pile of firewood stands ready to heat the two chimney farmhouse

RPR collection

14616-P. Main (Front) Street, Westboro c. 1960 view north, back-steeple, First Lutheran Church

14617-2010 aerial photo of Town of Rib Lake; red line shows route of Timm’s Hill National Trail and Ice Age National Scenic Trail; Spirit Lake area

14617A-Harper Lake area

14617B-East Lake area; NB-trails between CTH C and CTH D closed c. 2006 when landowner, Rolland Thums, withdrew permission

14618 8-13-1885 Taylor Co. circuit court-Linus M. Marshall versus Abram Taylor; adjudgment-order to have Chelsea sawmill sold; S.M. Marshall & Taylor Company is being dissolved.

14619 10-30-1885 ordination certificate in German; Mr. Carl Wayer was authorized to preach, administer sacraments by the German Ev. Synod of the West

14620 10-20-1886 contract, Davis & Starr Lumber Co. will deliver to C.C. Palmer of Westboro ‘one complete band saw mill..’ Palmer will install on SW SW Sec. 7-33-2E [this 40 is future location of Westboro Lumber Co. mill 1902-1922; this ‘band saw mill’ ‘made by E.P. Allis & Co. of Milwaukee..’ may have been used by Westboro Lumber Co. –RPR 3-17-2011] Palmer shall keep and use mill so long as he wants pursuant to another contract between Palmer & Davis & Starr Lumber Co.; if Palmer ceases sawing for Davis & Starr Lumber Co., it may summarily repossess saw

14621 11-22-1886 county treasurer’s bond of John Gay cosigned by J.J. Kennedy; the bond made J.J. Kennedy personally liable for up to $40,000 for malfeasance by Gay & his staff

14622 12-10-1886 contract-J.H. Wheel sells pine stumpage (the right to cut & remove all of the white pine on specified lands) to J.J. Kennedy; deadline for removal was 4-1-1888; since only pine was cut, the logging operations and woods buildings were called a ‘pine camp’; the hand-dug wells and building foundations for the McGillis [camp foreman] pine camp can be seen along the Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Trail, SE NE 13-33-2E

14623 12-28-1886 Albert J. Perkins, Taylor County Clerk, bond, J.J. Kennedy cosigns; Perkins, the first mayor of Medford, was a long-time friend and business associate of J.J. Kennedy; Perkins camped with J.J. Kennedy in summer of 1881 on shores of Rib Lake and helped J.J. Kennedy choose mill site

14624 12-29-1886 contract-pine stumpage, J.J. Kennedy & A.J. Perkins, dba A.J. Perkins & J.J Kennedy, sell all pine on 67 forties to John Paul of Lacrosse; the pine was located west of Medford and too remote for milling at Rib Lake

14624A-p. 2

14625 2-8-1887 option for mining lease authorized digging for ‘purpose of mining iron, copper or other ore…’in Town of Chelsea

14626 2-26-1887 lease for iron-copper mining in Town of Chelsea; Wellington [after whom Wellington Lake is named] Haight and wife, Diana, authorized ‘Chelsea Iron Company’ to prospect on SE ½, Section 1, T32-R1E and agree to 25 cents per ton on all ore shipped [I know of no report of ore of any type found in Taylor County in the 19th century. C. 1975 the Bend Gold Co. unsuccessfully drilled for gold in the Chequamegon National Forest in central Taylor County] The 1901 G.K. Query Taylor Co. plat book showed a ‘mine’ on the north band of the Jump River on NE NE T33-3W

14627 3-3-1886 contract-pine stumpage; partners ‘Perkins & Kennedy’ i.e. A.J. Perkins and J.J. Kennedy, sell all pine on N ½ 17-31-1W to Sawyer & Austin; three months later buyers pay $3500 for ‘trespass’ on adjoining land

14628 7-8-1887 option to lease for iron-copper mine; Adolphus Perry approves exploration on 160 acres in Sec. 6-32-2E, Town of Greenwood; to J.B. Anderson

14629 9-26-1887 contract-Black River Dam & log driving-Joseph Loeffler leases east half, northeast quarter 15-32-1E to Sanger Rockwell Co. (operators of Whittlesey sawmill) for unloading, storing saw logs & driving them down Black River & ‘the right to flood by the use of dams the Black River: Loeffler may add his own hemlock logs to the mix which Sanger Rockwell will drive & buy; such hemlock logs must be ‘sound, straight body cut in such lengths as may be..’decided by Sanger Rockwell & ‘not less than 12 inches in diameter at small end.’ Buyer will pay $2.50 per m. for such hemlock

14629A-p. 2

14630 11-4-1887 contract – James & Jessie Ritchie of Ashland, WI, contract with Davis & Starr Lumber Co. ‘a corporation’ [headquartered] at Lacrosse

1. Ritchie sells extensive pine stumpage in Taylor & Price Co including 2-33-2E [according to the late Allen Blomberg, the lake called ‘Reich’ in N ½ Sec. 1 T33N-R2E was actually named ‘Ritchie’ for an early pine logger – RPR 3/17/2011]

2. Ritchie assigns to Davis & Starr Lumber Co. his rights in a contract with H.P. Anderson of Ogema dated 8-8-1888

3. Ritchie will deliver F.O.B. railroad cars on Wisconsin Central main line ‘above & just below the village of Westboro’ estimated 2,000,000 board feet of pine during logging season of 1887-1888,uch pine Ritchie will cut from T33N-R2E

14630A-p.

4. Ritchie will construct a railroad spur connected to Wisconsin Central main line near Westboro where the pine will be loaded beginning no later than 12-15-1887 for shipment to the Davis & Starr Lumber Co. mill at Little Black, WI

5. pine log specs – ‘All logs to be 12 inches or over in diameter at small end, smooth & straight & averaging not less than 4 logs to the thousand..’ ‘but logs that are smooth & straight & 10 inches in diameter…will be accepted…all tops to be excluded..’

6. payment – Davis & Starr Lumber Co. pays Ritchie $400 per M ‘on the tenth of each month for all logs delivered on cars…’

7. deductions - Davis & Starr Lumber Co. may deduct from money owed Ritchie to settle trespass and/or lien claims of 3rd parties

14630B-p. 3 James Ritchie assigns all money due him to Robert Ritchie; summary-considerable ‘Rib Lake’ pine was shipped to and milled at Little Black; James Ritchie first appeared on the local scene on 11/12/1874 when he and William S. Taylor and John Duncan contracted with Wisconsin Central to build Westboro’s first sawmill, #14394; James Ritchie went bankrupt on 7-1-1873, #14556

14631 1-17-1888 contract – pine stumpage; Alois Mueller to J.J. Kennedy E ½, NE-32-2E, etc.

14632 2-25-1888 contract-pine stumpage; Michael Gallagher to Davis & Starr Lumber Co S ½ NE-28-32-2E [Michael Gallagher was one of the earliest settlers of Whittlesey and a fun-loving Irishman. Since it is St. Patrick’s Day 2011, I share the family story: Mike married my great-aunt, Anna Steiner, who had emigrated with her German parents from Schoenwalde, Silesia, Germany, in 1884. It was a happy marriage with one, big exception: Mike habitually partied at night and would not get up in the morning. Tray as she could, poor Anna could not get Mike to get up and do chores, i.e. milk the cows. Anna pled and scolded, begged and threatened to no avail – Mike kept sleeping in. One day Anna followed through on her threat: she piled firewood under Mike’s bed and lit it! Smoke and heat soon filled the master bedroom, and Mike got up. For years curious visitors to the Gallagher house would ask to see the burn marks in the hardwood floor – RPR 3/17/2011

14633 6-21-1888 contract-hemlock unloading, storage and driving down Black River; Paul Schmacher to Sanger, Rockwell & Co. [Whittlesey sawmill] SW NW 23-32-1E

14634 12-24-1888 contract ‘deed of pine timber’ Joseph Schmidtfranz to J.J. Kennedy SE ¼ 4-32-3E

14635 12-29-1888 contract-pine stumpage; Mrs. Sarah Allen to Davis & Starr Lumber Co, Lot 3-32-33-2E (east side of Wellington Lake) [this is a first – a woman logging contractor – she was married to G.W. Allen and I suspect he was in financial hot water – RPR 3/17/2011]

14635A-page 2

14636 2-5-1890 contract- extension agreement (deadline for pine removal established in contract #14635 extended for one year) – Sarah Allen & Davis & Starr Lumber Co

14636A-p. 2 contractual obligations ‘extended’ to logging season of 1889-1890

14637 12-31-1888 contract – pine stumpage; Gustav Swanson to J.J. Kennedy NW ¼ 8-33-3E

14637A-Map c. 1880-1925 sleigh road through sections 7,8 & 18 T33N-R2E by R.P. Rusch 3-14-2011 [this map shows the route of the sleigh road used by J.J. Kennedy’s crews in transporting Gustav Swanson pine (#14637) to Kennedy’s Rib Lake mill.]

14638 c. 1-28-1889 contract – pine stumpage; Lewis Kammer, et ux. to J.J. Kennedy S ½ NW & E ½ SW 22-33-3E

14639 1-29-1889 contract – sale of Medford business – A.R. Solle to Waldemar Van Nostitz

14640 3-15-1889 contract – pine stumpage; Herman Soderback to J.J. Kennedy SW ¼ 34-33-2E

14641 3-22-1893 contract – lease of company house built for Shaw Tannery workers; F.D. Shaw to William Mobbs, Lot 1, Block F, plat of north Rib Lake. Deed restriction – use of land exclusively for residence, forfeiture of land is used for commercial purposes ‘…such as stores, saloons..’

14642 3-26-1889 contract – pine stumpage; O.C. Larson to J.J. Kennedy SE ¼ 34-33-2E

14643 10-11-1889 contract-pine stumpage; St. Croix Lumber Co. to John Duncan and sons of Westboro ‘Town 33-1East’

14644- 4-17-1889 contract – pine stumpage; Fred Everson to J.J. Kennedy W ½ NW ¼ 12-33-2E

14645-map 3-21-2011 terminal moraine belt of Taylor Co. E 1/3 showing projected reroute of Ice Age National Scenic Trail in Town of Rib Lake

14646 5-7-1889 contract-pine stumpage; Benjamin B. Bennett to J.J. Kennedy N ½ NE & E ½ NW 10-33-3E

14647 11-2-1889 contract-pine stumpage-David Kueber to J.J. Kennedy; NE ¼ 22-32-3E

14648 11-22-1889 contract-Wellington H. Haight assigns timber deed to William Cameron

14649 11-27-1889 contract-pine stumpage; Leonard Dietzman to J.J. Kennedy SW ¼ 32-33-3E

14650 12-7-1889 contract-pine stumpage; Joseph Mueller to J.J. Kennedy NW NW 10-32-3E

14651 12-14-1899 contract; pine stumpage; John A. Ek to J.J. Kennedy SW NE 18-33-3E

14652 12-28-1889 contract; pine stumpage; Karsa Berg to J.J. Kennedy SW ¼ 4-32-3E

14653 5-3-1895 lease assignment for Shaw Tannery house; William J. Mobbs to Caroline Berg, Lot 1, Block F, plat of north Rib Lake

14654-Map c. 5-1-1891; plat of North Rib Lake by F.D. Shaw – A.S. Russel, civil engineer

14654A-highlighted copy 3-21-2011 Fayette Ave., etc. added

14655 P. c. 7-1946 ‘Main St. Rib Lake, Wis. 36’ photo actually shows McComb Ave. southward to National Hotel; right side-’The [Rib Lake] Herald’ building; razed c. 1980; white kiosk holds honor roll of citizens serving in WWII armed forces;

Right side:

Seidel’s Food Store (earlier Kelnhofer), now Zondlo’s IGA store [in 2011 Edward Zondlo, d/b/d Ed’s IGA, 801 McComb Ave.

Landall Ave.

Ma Dodge Café & boarding house

Zielke’s crocery store 9in 2011 Damian Jones coffee shop]

Doctors office, later café & Sheldon Patrick Shoe Store

Village Hall (hidden by recess from road)

Left side:

Kapitz Bros ‘Little Bohemia’ tavern, bowling, pool restaurant

[hidden] bank building

Dentist – Muach, office upstairs of bank

Landall Ave.

New Lake Movie Theatre, built 1946-grand opening 4-20-1946 – Lots 12 & 13, Block A, McComb’s Racing Park Addition (razed c. 1990)-NB-Horizontal marquis without advertising but vertical sign reads ‘New Lake’

Taylor Hardware buildings are hidden

Bogumill building has second story windows projecting over sidewalk

Mobil Gas sign at Gordon & Phyllis Nordgren gas station

14656-flyer ‘See the laugh sensation Henry’s wedding’ armory, Rib Lake, Wis. Feb. 21-22 [c. 1934]

14656A-back ‘Boosters for Henry’s wedding’ ads by area businesses

14657-L. 3-20-2011 RPR to Star News vox pop re Westboro sawmills, John Duncan, James Ritchie, William S. Taylor, August H. Franck and Clarence C. Palmer & Westboro Lumber Co.

14658 8-30-1883 contract-logging (pine) camp equipment sale; Alex McDonald, et. ux. to D.B. Wylie, unique, detailed list of tools, animals & cooking pieces for approximately 12 man camp: 1 stove, 1 camp kettle, 1 tin pain, whistle, 2 saw wedges, 1 jug

14658A- p. 2, 1 iron kettle, 1 porcelain kettle, 24 tin plates, 1 frying pan, 18 basins, 2 dripping pans, 1 skinner, 2 soup spoons, 1 gater, 2 square tins, 1 dozen china plates, ½ dozen china cups & saucers; 1 dozen knives & forks, 12 tin pans, 22 tablespoons, 11 teaspoons, 2 syrup pitchers, kettle covers, 1 butcher knife, 1 chop knife, 1 chop bowl, 17 pair blankets, 8 quilts, 4 lanterns, 1 looking glass, 3 lamps, monkey wrench, saw set & gauge, 3 brace & bits, draw shave, 4 hand towels, 2 grub hoes, 5 new axes, 1 scale stick, 1 piar scales, 1 oil cloth, 1 hand saw, 1 plane, 1 hammer, 1 water pail, 3 wash dishes, 3 swamp hooks, 3 yokes, 2 skidding chains, 1 bunk chain, 6 cant hooks, grind stone, 2 X [cross] cut saws, 2 logging sleighs, 2 pitch forks, 10 axes, 5 lamp chimneys, 2 coffee pots, 2 oil cans, 2 mark [marking hammers] irons, 3 set windows, 1 baker, 3 oxen

Alex, a/k/a Aleck [sic] McDonald also sold D.B. Wylie ‘an undivided one half’ interest in timber stumpage, 28 quarter quarters in sections 20, 21, 28, 29, 32 & 33, T 32N-R3E

14658B-map 8-30-1883 timber stumpage sold highlighted in yellow on 2010 plat map T32N-R3E

14659 Star News 8-31-1944 ‘When Little Black was a big mill town’ brief account & photo of Davis & Starr Lumber Co. at Little Black

14660 ‘Commemorative biographical record of the upper great lakes region’ 1905 Chicago-J.H. Beers & Co. title page

14660A-biography of John J. Voemastek

14660B-p. 2

14660C-bio of Albert A. Gearhart-Chelsea, Wis. Hotel owner, businessman and hemlock pioneer

14660D-p. 2

14660E-bio of Elias L. Urquhart

14661 8-3-1887 contract, pine stumpage; J.J. Kennedy & A.J. Shaw to John Paul-land west of Chelsea-Westboro

14661A-p. 2 legal descriptions

14661B-p. 3 legal descriptions & deadline extension to 1-1-1896

14662 1-30-1890 contract, pine stumpage; George Koker to J.L. Leeper-Henry Sherry, W ½ SE & SE SE 4-33-2E, $109 @ 40

14663 2-26-1890 contract, pine stumpage; A.B. Webb to G.W. Allen, who must pile logs along Wisconsin Central Railroad

14664 3-15-1890 contract, pine stumpage; Fritz Martin to J.J. Kennedy, NW ¼ 18-32-3E

14665 Memo #1, 3-23-2011; from Robert ‘Bob’ P. Rusch, Manager, Rib Lake Historical Society, re-consistent identification of John J. Kennedy, founder of Rib Lake, within Rib Lake Historical Society archives; rule-effective immediately, JJK (without periods) will be the preferred Society form of reference to John J. Kennedy, I ask Cindy Sommer’s ongoing help in typing ‘JJK’ as the assumed property method of identification for John J. Kennedy

14666-Memo #2, 3-23-2011, from Robert ‘Bob’ P. Rusch, Manager, Rib Lake Historical Society, re-consistent identification of Society founder and manager; rule-effective immediately, RPR (without periods) will be the preferred Society form of reference to Robert P. Rusch, dob 6-5-1942

14667-Memo #3, 3-23-2011, from Robert P. Rusch, re-consistent identification of 1) Rib Lake Lumber Co., 2) Camps of Rib Lake Lumber Co.; rule-effectively immediately, the preferred Society form of reference will be; A) RLLC for Rib Lake Lumber Company and/or Rib Lake Lumber Company of Delaware [NB-RLLC came into legal existence on 5/ /1902 when the W.A. Osburn Lumber Co. adopted such; about 1925, the RLLC added ‘of Delaware’ to note its incorporation and operation under the laws of Delaware]; B) RLLC Camp 1, etc. for any of its 28 camps, 1906-1948, NB, do not use #

14668 4-10-1890 contract, pine stumpage, Joseph Dreshler to John J. Kennedy, NW ¼ 30-32-3E, $37.70 @40

14669 7-5-1890 contract, sale of Rib Lake pine by Davis & Starr Lumber Co. of Little Black to Muscatine, Iowa, Sash & Door Co. 557,659 board feet for $13,577.57

14670 7-29-1890 contract, pine stumpage, W.J. Cameron to John J. Kennedy -also spruce, tamarack & hemlock

14671 9-19-1890 contract, pine stumpage; John R. Reeve to John J. Kennedy, SW SW 26-32-2E, rate $2.75 @ 1000 feet

14672 1-2-1891 contract, pine stumpage; Fred Sanftenberg to John J. Kennedy, E ½ SE ¼ 32-32-3E, $100.00 @ 40

14673 4-21-1891 contract, pine stumpage; Fred N. Norton to John J. Kennedy, SE NW 12-32-3E, $385 @ 40

14674 5-4-1892 power of attorney-Clemtine A. Shaw, wife of Thaxter Shaw, Fred M. Shaw, husband of Mae E. Shaw, F. [Fayette] D. Shaw, appoint Thaxter Shaw their true & lawful attorney re property the firm name, to wit., T.F.M.&F.D. Shaw

14674A-p. 2

14675 7-22-1892 contract, sale of hemlock bark piled in woods; J.W. Gray to F.D. Shaw, aka Fayette Shaw, 66 cords for $141.90, E ½ SW 10-33-2E

14676 7-25-1892 contract, hemlock bark sale-James Anderson to Fayette Shaw Rib Lake Tannery This is the first recorded document providing for delivery to Shaw’s Rib Lake Tannery. This contract had 3 tiers; 1) Sale of hemlock bark in woods @ $1.65 per cord; 2) yard bark in woods, i.e., stacked bark in piles along woods road at $.35 per cord; 3) deliver bark to Shaw’s Rib Lake Tannery, 1,000 cords, lump sum price of $1500

14676A-p. 2

14677 8-1-1892 School deed-Franz Rudolph to Town of Greenwood School District #3, SW SW SE 28-32-2E

14678 8-2-1892 contract, remaining hemlock bark sale; James Anderson to John J. Kennedy, 16-32-2E

14679-Memo #4, 3-23-2011, from Robert P. Rusch, re-uniform date entry format into computer; rule-effective immediately, dates typed into the Society computer database will be in numerals, month, day, year separated with a hyphen (-), e.g. 1-1-1906 or 3-23-2011

14680 W. Star News 1-30-1936 ‘All the RLLC holdings, including Wisconsin’s largest sawmill at Rib Lake… changed hands this week.’

14681-P. 11-8-2010 David Judell, Head Librarian, Rib Lake Public Library, with work-study intern, Ms. Beasterfield, at library check-out

Collection of Lillian ‘Lil’ Alberta Pipkorn, nee Peterson, a/k/a Mrs. Henry Pipkorn, DOB 5-17-1922, W4217 CTH D, Westboro, WI 54490, 715-427-5422

14682-W. ‘A Century of Christian Faith & Service’ centennial book of First Evangelical Lutheran Church of Westboro 1884-1984 ‘God First’ title page

14682A-Dedication

14682B-p. 2 P. Pastor Terri Parker, nka Blomberg, P.; church 1984

14682C-p. 3

14682D-p. 4

14682E-p. 5 History-list of charter members

14682F-p. 6

14682G-p. 7

14682H-p. 8

14682I-p. 9

14682J-p. 10

14682K-p. 11 P. Pastor Luther Jacobson & Gloria

14682L-p. 12

14682M-p. 13

14682N-p. 14, P. church council, Ladies Aid

14682O-p. 15

14682P-p. 16 Sunday School history

14682Q-p. 17

14682R-p. 18

14682S-p. 19

14682T-p. 20 P. organists

14682U0p. 21 P. members

14682V-p. 22

14682W-p. 23

14682X-p. 24

14682Y-p. 25

14682Z-p. 26

14682AA-p. 27

14682BB-p. 28

14683-P. 1904 Pastor (wearing white rabbit) and 10 unidentified confirmands at then Swedish Lutheran Church of Westboro

14684-P. c. 1910 August Borgeson & family at rural Westboro farmstead; note well-constructed log home with brick chimney, Huen ? sp., logs & cedar shingle roof; a hammock is strung in the yard between 2 fruit trees

14685-P. c. 1905 unidentified Westboro farm house with 2 brick chimneys, wood siding and carefully laid cedar shingles. A 3-strand barbed wire fence keeps the livestock out of the yard; robust cabbage plants fill the garden

14686-P. c. 1910 Westboro village band; front row-??? Left-Alf Emmet-holding coronet; top row-2 from left-Karl Peterson holding baritone horn; top right-Ernest Peterson with drum

14687-P. c. 1910 Karl Peterson, father of Lillian A. Pipkorn, nee Peterson; Karl married Hannah Tulin

14688-P. c. 1925 Karl Peterson and son, Harold; note auto kerosene headlights and wood spoke wheels

14689-P. c. 1925 Emma Scott, nee Peterson, aka Mrs. Elmer Scott; she & her family long farmed at the junction of STH 13 & 102, SE SW 36-33-R1E; Emma’s great-grandson is Pastor Jordan Scott

14690-P. c. 1925, 2 boys of Karl & Hannah Peterson, Teddy (left) & Benny (right), pose with pet sheep kept for wool; note small trees of cut-over forest

14691-P. c. 1924 debris left from tornado which touched down just north of Chelsea causing at least one death; two children faintly seen in photo center have pulled their coaster wagon named ‘overland’ to foreground and have collected household goods into a pile in front of the wagon; note, e.g., kerosene lantern; the tornado snapped off hundreds of trees-leaving a field of stumps in the background

14692-P. c. 1910 unloading tanbark at Westboro tannery; 4-foot long pieces of bark stripped from hemlock trees was called tanbark; tannic acid was extracted from the bark & provided a key component in the mix to tan leather; bark peeling was May thru July; the fresh bark was stood on end in the woods for at least a month to dry and then taken to the tannery; here the hose has pulled a cart full of tanbark to the yard at the junction of Fischer & Silver Creek; yardmen hold tanbark before piling it

14692-P. c. 1920 sawing slab wood for firewood at Westboro Lumber Co. The horse has just dragged a sleigh full of slab wood to a circle saw set up in the mill yard; A gas-powered engine (shown in part of the left-with man with left hand on engine) provided power to the saw via a c. 35 ft. long leather belt. The hose obscures the view of the saw which cut the slabs into approximately 2 foot long lengths. This firewood was then feed to the 2 men inside the ‘Soo line’ box car for piling and transport to market. The famous dollar sign logo was used for many years by the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Saint Marie Railroad – ‘The Soo Line’

14693 P. c. 1920 gondola car of edging at Westboro Lumber Co., the neatly piled is held in place by a wood & pole skeleton & 15 13 x 52 feet long!

14694-Soo Line logo published on back cover of ‘The Soo Liners Magazine’ 9-1951. The Soo line bought the Wisconsin Central Railroad in 1902 and ran trains through Westboro until 1987

14695-P. c. 1900 Westboro High School. Lil Pipkorn reports the school also housed 7th and 8th grades. While the 8th graders were warm in winter because their classroom windows faced south, the 7th graders – whose windows faced west – would warm up by playing a vigorous game of bean bag

14696-P. c. 1933 Lillian A. Peterson in floral pattern dress in front of Westboro grade school on corner of Second and Center Streets. The school occupied Lots 9 & 10, Block 5, of the original plat of Westboro. The school was later converted into a community center & later razed to make way for the Saint Theresa Catholic Church. That church closed c. 2000 and in 2011 the building awaits remodeling by the Town of Westboro

14697-P. c. 1945 Westboro Community band gets ready to serenade citizens sitting outside the community center

14698-P. c. 1945 another shot of the band. Lil Pipkorn played in the community band and reported it regularly played at community functions and once at the Wisconsin State Fair in West Allis, Wis. The band practiced every Saturday night

14699-P. c. 1960 Karl Pipkorn

End of material in Volume 4

Volume 5 of Rib Lake Historical Society Index to Photo & Document Collection

Continuation of Lillian ‘Lil’ A. Pipkorn, nee Peterson, collection

14700 P. Lillian Pipkorn’s 82nd birthday 5-14-2004

14701-P. Lillian Pipkorn blowing out birthday candles 5-14-2004

14702-P. ibid, Lorrain H. Killion, Lil’s good friend and organist at First Lutheran, cuts the birthday cake

14703-P. 5-17-2004 Lil Pipkorn with her dear friend, Jodie, in her living room

14704-P. 1984 Mr. & Mrs. Henry Pipkorn at altar, First Lutheran Church, Westboro

14705-P. 2002 Gregory & Kate Peterson, Lil Pipkorn’s nephew & niece. Do they show a Swedish heritage?

14706-P. c. 2004 Lil Pipkorn & niece, Dorothy Kussrow, nee Peterson, daughter of Clarence ‘Mike’ Peterson, longtime owner of Westboro Telephone Co.

14707-P. c. 1980, left-Harold Peterson; right-William ‘Bill’ Westberg

14708-sketch 1977 by T. Helmer of William ‘Bill’ Westberg log barn, east side view from CTH C. As of 2011, the structure still stands in SW SW 8-33-2E & is the only log barn left in the area

14708A-Handwritten note by William ‘Bill’ Westberg for Christmas 1977

14709-P. c. 1900 left-James ‘Jim’ Peterson & right-Lester Peterson at picnic, Mondeaux Recreation area

14710-P. c. 2002 left-Steven Pipkorn & right-Lil Pipkorn

14711-P. c. 2002 left-Clarence ‘Mike’ Peterson, center-Kate, and right-Dan Peterson of Cody, Wyoming; above-on balcony-Lil Pipkorn at her home, 4217 CTH D, Westboro

14712-P. c. 2005 table spread for Ladies Aid meeting; left to right-Lil Pipkorn JO Giese, Anita Heniger, and Pastor Robert ‘Bob’ Giese of First Lutheran Church of Westboro

End of Lillian A. Pipkorn collection

14713-W. Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory maps (Boroner Survey) overview

14714-Memo #5 4-1-2011, Robert P. Rusch, re consistent identification of Fayette D. Shaw, aka F.D. Shaw, founder of Rib Lake Tannery c. 1892; rule: effective immediately, 1) Fayette D. Shaw will be the preferred Society form of reference; 2) Cindy will type ‘Fayette D. Shaw’ into indeces, etc. regardless of other spellings, e.g. F.D. Shaw

RPR collection

14715 4-2011 ad in ‘Salesman Sam’ Camp 28 Restaurant, Bar & Hotel, 720 South STH 102, Rib Lake ‘New owners Ted & Jean Koplin look forward to meeting you.’

14716-W. 1972 ‘A Century with Connor Timber; Connor Forest Industries 1872-1972 by Mary Roddis Connor, title page

14716A-P. Mary Roddis Connor

14716B-Map showing Connor mill sites

14716C-P. Robert Connor & William Duncan Connor

14716D-P. Richard M. Connor & Gordon R. Connor

14716E-p. 7 land grant to Wisconsin Central Railroad developed every other section, public land had totaled 2,387,000 acres, selling off at $1 to $3 per acre

14716F- estimates of virgin timber volume in Wisconsin by George Hotchis; pine-130,000,000,000 BM, pine left in 1898, 17,000,000,000 BM, hemlock 12,000,000,000 BM, hardwoods 16,000,000,000 BM

14716G-continued

14716H-p. 47 Davis & Starr Lumber Co. sawmill at Little Black sold 1900 to Connor and moved to Laona, Wis.

14716I-ICC Railroad reports

14717-W. ‘Rib Lake Senior Housing’ c. 2010

14717A-p. 2

14718-W. ‘Gerstberger Florist’ 855 McComb business card 2011

14719 3-31-2011 Star News Vox Pop ‘Winklers say they are for Rib Lake’ by Jay & Sue Winkler, dba American Sport Laminates

14720 3-31-2011 Wausau Daily Herald ‘Local Hispanic Population Triples’

14721-Map c. 1920 Price County, the Kenyon Co, Des Moines, shows railroads & townships

14722 1-13-1893 contract, pine stumpage, William Wotenosky to Arthur Branson $50, E ½ NE ¼ 30-33-2E

14723 1-7-1893 contract, pine stumpage, Paul Schmidt to John H. Koehler $70, N ½ SE ¼, 30-32-3E

14724 3-23-1893 lease, Rib Lake Tannery Co. house; Fayette D. Shaw to Mike Winthers, 30 year term

14724A-p. 2 annotation

14725 3-25-1893 lease, Rib Lake Tannery Co. house, Fayette D. Shaw to M.G. Merdith $25, annual rent after 30 year option to buy

14726 4-19-1893 contract, hemlock logs & bark, O.C. Larson to Fayette D. Shaw $600 SE 34-33-2E

14727 6-1-1893 contract, hemlock bark peeling, piling, yarding & delivery; to Fayette D. Shaw, different payments depending on how much landowner Anderson did, Sec. 16-32-2E, contract provides for bark delivery to Rib Lake Tannery (newly opened)

14728 6-7-1893 contract, pine stumpage, John Stilhdreier (spelling unknown) to John M. Koehler, $250, E ½ NE ¼ 32-32-3E

14729-contract, hemlock bark sale, I.E. Parks to Fayette D. Shaw, $133, contract for 66 ½ cords of hemlock bark already peeled; seller will yard bark, viz. pile in parallel rows so sleighs with ‘wide racks’ may load & convey to Rib Lake

14730 7-12-1893 contract, hemlock bark sale ‘Properly piled’ & loaded on railroad; Frank Gould to Fayette D. Shaw, $500 SE NE 31-33-2E; deadline 10-10-1893 [the Rib Lake Tannery had just opened & needed bark]; cord equals 2240 lbs. as weighed at Rib Lake Tannery

14730A 7-14-1893 contract, sale 12.5 cords hemlock bark; J..A. Perry to Fayette D. Shaw, $3.50 per cord

14731 8-7-1893 contract, sale of hemlock bark piled along town road, F.D. Bonneville to Fayette D. Shaw 16-33-2E

14732 11-23-1893 contract, pine & spruce stumpage; William Franz to M.J. Anderson of Wausau $300 NE 26-32-3E

14733 3-18-1894 contract, pine stumpage-Wisconsin Central Railroad to John Duncan, NW NE & N ½ SW & SE SW & SE ¼ 15-33-1E

14733A-p. 2

14734 4-11-1894 contract, sale of hemlock bark-William Wotnosky to Joseph Tripainer SE NE 30-33-2E, NB-logs not sold

14735 4-14-1894 contract, hemlock bark stumpage, H.C. Shearer to Fayette D. Shaw $400 SW ¼ 30-33-2E

14736 10-26-1894 contract, pine & spruce stumpage-Franz Aigner to John Week Lumber Co., S ½ SW 10-32-3E, timber floated to Stevens Point

14737 11-17-1894 John J. Kennedy Co. signs bond for Taylor Co. Sheriff William A. Warren

14738 12-5-1894 contract, pine stumpage, Eberhardt Bahmes to John J. Kennedy SE NE 31-33-3E

14739 3-2-1895 contract, bill of sale-hemlock & pine timber to Fayette D. Shaw, Thaxter Shaw & Fred M. Shaw, ‘Company partners trading as T.F.M.F.D. Shaw & Co.’

14740 5-20-1895 contract, sale of hemlock bark-Joseph Allie to Fayette D. Shaw NW ¼ 32-33-2E, NB-Fayette D. Shaw has moved from Medford to Boston, Massachusetts

14741 5-25-1895 contract, hemlock bark sale, John A. Perry to Fayette D. Shaw ‘of Boston, Mass’, NE SE 10-33-2E

14742 7-1-1895 contract, sale 125 cords hemlock bark, F.H. Bonneville to Fayette D. Shaw, NE NW 16-32-2E

14743 8-15-1896 contract, John J. Kennedy sells hemlock bark to Fayette D. Shaw, 600 cords from SE NE & NE SE 11-33-3E, NB-John J. Kennedy logging one mile from Lincoln & Price Co.

14744 10-1-1894 contract, hemlock bark sale, Kate P. Bonneville to Fayette D. Shaw, SW SE 2-33-2E, bark estimates by Daniel B. Kennedy

Raymond H. Scott collection

14745-Bottle cap c. 1960 Tlusty Beverage & Bottling Co., Rib Lake from 24 oz. ‘White Soda’ bottle

14745A-label

14746-Star News c. 1973 P. ‘Ruesch Bros. Cigar Factory’ in Medford, Wis. c. 1907; pictured ‘August, Gottlieb & Robert Ruesch; the first Ruesch partnership in Medford was August & Gottlieb Ruesch, cigar makers. Their cigar box graphics are:

14746A-Ruesch Bros. Cuban Hand Made [Cigars] Medford, Wis;

14746B-’Cuban handmade [cigars] superiores & elegantes’.

14746C- ‘the cigars contained where manufactured to retail at more than $.08 each & not more than $.15 each and are so tax-paid.’

An inside portion of the box – which cannot be scanned – read:

‘Mf’d. by Ruesch Bros. After all nothing satisfies like a good cigar.’

David & Earl Ruesch, morticians, operated the second partnership until c. 1970.

Attorneys Thomas M. and Robert P. Rusch operated the third partnership at 111 E. Division St., Medford, from 1890 to 7-1-2009.

14747-business card c. 2000, Attorney Robert P. Rusch, dba Rusch & Rusch Law Office, S.C. [service corporation]

14748 3-25-1893 lease, Tannery Co. house, Fayette D. Shaw to Herman Hauke, 30 years lease with option to buy at lease expiration for $1.00

14748B-p. 2

14749 3-25-1893 lease, Tannery Co. House, Fayette D. Shaw to Andrew Aitken, $25 annual rent

14750 10-23-1893 John A. Stewart, Edwin H. Abbot, Trustees, Plaintiff, v. Wisconsin Central Railroad, Defendant; ‘Petition for adjustment of land grant.’ Wisconsin Central is in bankruptcy. These trustees and receivers seek & obtain court approval to continue sale, lease & management of lands [initially 839,348 acres] railroad received from congress. These lands included every other op section of land in Townships of Rib Lake, Westboro, Greenwood, Chelsea, Goodrich, Hill & Spirit, etc.

14750A-p. 2, Wisconsin Central railroad previously signed an ‘indenture of trust & mortgage’ to plaintiffs authorizing; 1) sell land grant lands & giving trustees wide discretion to invest money, including buying Wisconsin Central railroad bonds [see Doc. #14760 for lease and contract examples]

14750B-p. 3 2) trustees may convey [sell] Wisconsin Central lands for little or no money ‘in order to increase the business of the railroad…’ up to 9-27-1893, 231,884 acres sold, 32,684 acres under land contract; 3) the plaintiffs ‘have for many years past maintained a fully organized land department in charge of a land commissioner…’ to help sell, manage and protect Wisconsin Central land.

14750C-p. 4 574,778 acres remain unsold. Wisconsin Central debroiled in many land disputes and lawsuits; ‘a large quantify of the land claimed by the Wisconsin Central Railroad Co. under said land grant is now in dispute..’ Prayers for court relief

14750D-p. 5 order of court; 1) Henry F. Whitcomb & Howard Morris, receivers [in bankruptcy] are authorized and directed to do all things lawful to ‘complete adjustment of the land grant..’ and ‘acquire titled of record to all lands due..’ Wisconsin Central, e.g. litigate! 2) trustees under the indenture & trust & mortgage of Wisconsin Central dated 1-1-1879 and receivers shall implement ‘the contracts heretofore made by the trustees.’..3) plaintiffs authorized to continue land department and appoint & remove land commissioner…’

14750E-p. 6 4) land commissioner authorized ‘to continue as heretofore negotiations for and sale… of said land, lots & stumpage..’ 5) land sale proceeds – after paying expenses & taxes, shall be paid to plaintiffs as trustees under ‘indenture of trust & mortgage…dated 1-1-1879 to be applied..’ pursuant to such document…6) plaintiffs shall file with court clerk monthly a ‘full & accurate..’ accounting, signed James G. Jenkins, US Circuit Court Judge, Milwaukee 10-23-1893

14750F-p. 7 Robert P. Rusch annotations 4-11-2011; this order validated contracts between Wisconsin Central & John J. Kennedy

14751 5-1-1895 lease-contract John J. Kennedy to Anton Kauer, 40 acres cut-over for $200, receipt signed by Angus B. Kennedy, John J. Kennedy’s brother

14751A-p. 2 [this is high, fertile ground, in 2011 the Zondlo farm & tavern-ballroom]

14752 6-10-1893 contract, sale of all timber on 80 acres; Wellington Haight to Martin Peterson $250

14753 12-30-1893 lease-contract Curtis Bros. & Co., Inc. to Andrew Clendenning, one cut-over forty for $200, ‘the payment to be made to [Curtis] may be paid in person or to John J. Kennedy..’ [this demonstrates continuance of close, positive relationship between John J. Kennedy and his former boss]

14753A-p. 2

14754 5-22-1893 contract, hemlock timber & bark , Ramsey Land Co. & Fayette D. Shaw, 120 acres for $450, deadline 5-11-1898

14755 8-22-1896 contract, sale of hemlock bark, John Week Lumber Co. to T. [Thaxter Shaw], F.M. [Fred M. Shaw], and Fayette D. Shaw & Co. of Medford, extensive acreage in towns of Goodrich & Browning, bark for Medford Tannery; buyers name ‘T.F.M. & F.D. Shaw and company of Medford’

14755A-p. 2, Shaw’s activities must be after seller has cut & removed the pine

14755B-p. 3

14755C-p. 4 annotations by Robert P. Rusch

14755D-p. 5 Fayette D. Shaw was a co-owner of the Medford Tannery but sole owner of the Rib Lake Tannery-Robert P. Rusch 4-11-2011

14756 12-30-1896 contract, pine & spruce stumpage-Jennine V. Morley to Peter Doyle, 5 forties for $120

14757 12-15-1896 lease-contract, Joseph Dessert Lumber Co. to John Schaack

14757A-p. 2 cutover 40 for $120, future site of Schaack post office

14758 1-15-1896 contract, Frank Chvala, et. ux., contracts to care for his mother

14759 2-16-1897 contract, pine & spruce stumpage, J.O. Myers to Peter Doyle, 4 forties for $25

14760 46-1897 lease-contract, Wisconsin Central railroad to Henry Truet, et. al [this is a good example of the complex leave contracts used by seller

14760A-p. 2

14760B-p. 3 buyer may not cut trees until full payment is made

14760C-p. 4 NB-Wisconsin Central did not sell white pine on this land. Wisconsin Central routinely sold pine to mill owners requiring them to ship via Wisconsin Central

14761 4-3-1897 contract, hemlock timber stumpage, Ramsey Land Co. to Fayette D. Shaw of Rib Lake, $238 for 80 acres; contract conveyed ‘all the hemlock timber now standing…’ i.e. bark & logs, deadline 9-1-1898; NB-Fayette D. Shaw is sole buyer for this-product is going to Rib lake

14762 Shaw family tree & business names by Robert P. Rusch 4-11-2011

14762A-p. 2

14763-W. Taylor Co. Tanneries by Margaret & Hildegard Kuse c. 2000

14763A-p. 2 P. Medford Tannery

14763B-p. 3 P. Delos Shaw

14763C-p. 4

14763D-p. 5 Rib Lake Tannery constructed 1892

14763E-p. 6 P. Winchester Hotel-made to advertise hemlock lumber

14763F-p. 7

14763G-p. 8

14763H-p. 9

14764-obit, Fayette Delos Shaw, aka Fayette D. Shaw, aka Delos Shaw, aka, F.D. Shaw, Phillips Bee 8-14-1941, p. 1 column 3, Fayette D. Shaw born 1-25-18962 in Detroit, Maine & died 8-11-1941 in Phillips, Wis. in his daughter’s home

14765-W. ‘Representing citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ 1902 Boston, title page

14765A-history of Fayette Shaw born 10-3-1824, father of Fayette D. Shaw

14765B-p. 2

14765C-p. 3 bio Fayette Delos Shaw

14766 1900 US Census entry for Fayette D. Shaw in Medford, Wis. & family & ‘boarders’

14767 7-21-1870 US Census Middlesex, Mass. For Fayette Shaw & family, including Fayette D. Shaw

14767A-ibid-close-up

14768-W. ‘Phillips fire centennial 1894-1994, Phillips, Wis.’ title page

14768A-table of contents

14768B-’Brick Business Buildings’ one year after Phillips fire in which Fayette D. Shaw’s Phillips Tannery is totally destroyed, Fayette D. Shaw had rebuilt Phillips Tannery worth $150,000

14768C-p. 95, Fayette D. Shaw’s Phillips tannery history

14768D-p. 96, ibid, tannery components described, Leech, boiler, sweat & dry house & roll loft

14768E-p. 97 Fayette D. Shaw manufactures ‘non-acid hemlock sole leather’

14768F-p. 98

14769 4-24-1897 contract, hemlock bark sale, John Molitor to ‘T.F.M., F.D. and Fayette Shaw’ and/or ‘T.F.M., F.D., & Fayette Shaw’ ‘Co-partners trading as ‘T.,F.M., and Fayette D. Shaw & Co.’

14769a-p. 2 Robert P. Rusch annotations, this bark for Medford Tannery

14770 5-12-1897 contract, hemlock bark & timber stumpage, Elizabeth Smith to Martin Connaughty

14771 6-5-1900 lease-contract, Heidrick & Matson Lumber co. to John Fitzie, cutover forty for $200

14772 7-5-1900 lease-contract, Louis A. Leonard to Heidrick & Matson Lumber Co., non-cutover forty for $200

14773 7-18-1900 lease-contract Flora M. Kennedy (spouse of John J. Kennedy) to Martin H. Burke, 80 acres-cutover for $350 [this is to date (4-11-2011) the only time known to Robert P. Rusch where Flora owned land solely in her name. Robert P. Rusch believes John J. Kennedy had land titled in wife’s name to shelter it from his creditors-Robert P. Rusch 4-11-2011]

14774 10-23-1901 lease-contract, W.A. Osburn Lumber Co. [successor to John J. Kennedy Lumber Co.] to Duncan A. McDonald, seven cutover forties for $180 each

14775 6-12-1902 lease-contract, W.A. Osburn Lumber co. to Duncan A. McDonald, eight cutover forties for $157.50 each

14776 9-15-1905 lease-contract, sale of dairy farm home and land-Theodore Lummerding to Albert Quednow, NW NE 29-33-3E, $1700, NB-list of farm animals & equipment

14777-W. 6-23-1900 American Lumberman ‘Among the Wisconsin Hemlock Hills; the Home of the Hemlock’ Article re hemlock lumber, Rib Lake & John J. Kennedy ‘J.J. Kennedy’s Name will go down in lumber history as the pioneer hemlock manufacturer of Wisconsin. He may not have been the first lumberman in this section to make hemlock lumber, but he was the first to make a specialty of hemlock…’

14777A-ibid with RPR notes: in June, 1900, Rousseau & Shepart Lumber Co. operated the Chelsea, Wis., sawmill-once owned by Abrams

Marie A. Krolnik, nee Kathrein, collection

14778-P. c. 1904 Rib Lake Tannery crew of 33 men, man in center of wagon in black jacket over white shirt ‘x’ over shoulder was Joseph Pfeiffer; photo to NW from SW corner of tannery complex; photographer stood where the Fayette Ave. meets Tannery Lane in 2011. Herrmann Emanuel Rusch appears to be man in bottom row, 2nd from left

RPR collection

14779-P. c. 1908 RLLC shay locomotive & combination caboose-weight car on west side of Camp 4, ¼ mile NW of Wood Lake; photographer stood where Ice Age National Scenic Trail traverses site in 2011; Camp 4 was large-boasting 150 men & a 40-foot deep, hand-dug well; view east

14780-P. c. 1945 RLLC locomotive #101 freshly coaled up and resting on the main line in the Village adjacent to McComb Ave; rear right-RLLC store-south wall; In 2011 the site filled by the locomotive is C&G Mini Mart, 910 STH 102, view to NE

14781-P. c. 1910 ‘Swedish Lutheran Church, Westboro, Wis.’ View to NW; in 2011 the proud structure still stands as First Lutheran Church on the west side of Front Stree; the Rev. Robert Giese, Pastor, & Lorrain Ann Killion, organist

14781A-back-hand written message from cousin ‘Cecilia’ to Mr. Stuart Burgeson, Drummond, Wis. ‘We had speaking in church early Sunday evening. I had Swede (sic) & English pieces. I had the ‘welcome’ and I got stuck but I didn’t have to stand & think very long. It was an awful (sic) long program.’

14782-W. 7-30-1895 plat ‘Getchel’s Addition to the Village of North Rib Lake.’ Part of Sections 23 & 26, T33N, Range 2E; NB-The Village of Rib lake was not incorporated until 1902. In 1895 E.C. Getchel was an employee of Fayette Delos Shaw, who had constructed a tannery one quarter mile east of this plat-RPR 5-8-2011

14782A-plat map-15 66 x 120 feet lot either side of Front Street plus 4 60 x 176 lots north of Fayette Ave

14782B-Sworn statement of E.C. Getchel attesting to ownership of platted land & accuracy of plat; dated 7-30-1895, jurat by Taylor Co. Judge Clinton Textor

14783-P. ‘Mondeaux Dam Westboro, Wis.’ C. 1955 view westward across north portion of Mondaux flowage. Rear-U.S. Forest Service building & concession stand

14783A-postcard reverse side, NB-postmark 8-15-1959 Chelsea, Wis. & 4 cent stamp

14784 7-20-1903 contract, saw log stumpage; Hugh D. Kennedy, et al, to Frank Fountain. Timber in Sec. 31, T32N, R4 West; as of 5-19-2011 seller is no known relative of John J. Kennedy

14785-P. c. 1907 ‘steam hauler, Brown’s Studio, Rib Lake, Wis.’, RLLC steam hauler pulling at least 6 peeled hemlock log-loaded sleighs; the engineer is at the controls of this behemoth manufactured by the Phoenix Iron Co. of Eau Claire, Wis.; the usual crew consisted of 3, an engineer, a fireman & a steersman; The steersman sits in front, legs straddling the steering wheel which controls the direction of driving runners. Here a fourth unidentified man-clad in a warm buffalo overcoat-sits next to the steersman; shortly after the US Leather Co. bought the RLLC in 1906, it bought a steam hauler to convey logs from Camp 2. Its location is believed to be in SE NE Sec. 10, T32N-R3E. An approximately 7 mile steam hauler ice road entered Rib Lake through a cut in the lake short at SE SE 26-33-2E. This ice road proceeded NW across Rib lake toward the hot pond, where the logs were dumped. This photo appears to have been taken on Rib Lake.

14785A-back side, post-dated 7-31-1908, Iola, Wis.

14786-Map 6-5-1981 ‘Early Ice Roads, Trails & Mills of Rib Lake’ by RPR, map includes steam hauler ice road to RLLC Camp 2, mills of Stelling & Zuther & Hintztown & Stumpville.

14787-Rib Lake Historical Society, LLC, thank you card cover, draft 1, by William Weber, 1209 7th St. N, Fargo, ND 58102

14788-Map 5-2011 terminal Moraine Belt of Taylor Co., east

14788A-ibid center

14788B-ibid west

Collection of Larry Konz, Appleton, Wis.

14789-biography of Stephan Anton Konz, by Anne M. Konz

14789A-p. 2

14789B-p. 3

14789C-advertisement by Konz Box & Lumber Co, Appleton, Wis. c. 1940, ‘They sold the bark & burned the logs’; Appleton Post-Cresent

14790-biography of Stephan Anton Konz by Mary Konz Fisher

14790A-children of Stephan Anton Konz & Margaret Negele

RPR collection

14791-highway map, Taylor Co. c. 1-1-1988, Rib Lake area

14792-tourist map c. 1-2-1992 ‘Rib Lake Year Around Wonderland!’ Rib Lake Commercial Club’

14792A-’History & Lifestyle’

14792B-’Attractions & Conveniences’

14792C-’A Year Around Wonderland’, calendar of events, month by month

14792D-’Wisconsin Glaciation’

14792E-Map & Legend

14792F-Points of Interest 1-20

14792G-Points of Interest 23-49 [this is the first Rib Lake area Ice Age Trail Map printed locally.]

14793-P. 8-17-2006 Gary Thums-dressed as caveman-’skiing’ McComb Ave in Ice Age Days parade

14794- ‘Friends of the Trail’ ad, Rib Lake Area Nordic Ski Club, c. 2001

14795-’Happy Trails’ membership ad, Rib Lake Area Nordic Ski Club, c. 2001

14796-P. 10-2010 Annual wood cutting bee-RPR home; left to right-Steve Peters, Ron Becker, Rodney Strobach-carrying firewood, Scot Bromann, RPR-tossing firewood, this is the ‘outside’ crew. The ‘inside’ crew is unloading another truck simultaneously

14797-2011 winter newsletter, Spirit Lake Improvement Association

14797A-back

14798-Taylor Co. Resolution & Ordinance c. 11-15-1932 Taylor Co. Board

14798A-p. 2

14798B-p. 3

14799-GIS Map Sec. 1 32 3E-overlay of aerial photo c. 7-1-2010, NB-logging patterns & roads of recent cutting

14799A-ibid Sec. 12, proven location of RLLC Camp 16 shown, NE NW SW 2-32-3E

14800-poster c. 3-1-2011 dinner theatre at High Point Village ‘A Don’t Hug me County Fair’

14800A-center-graphics

14800B-bottom-show times

14801-pamphlet ‘Wisconsin County Forests’ c. 2005

14801A-Wisconsin County Forest acres NB-Taylor 17,597

14801B-P. 1911

14801C-P. 1928

14801D-P. 1988

14801E-Map-Wisconsin Counties with county forest in green

14802-pamphlet ‘Taylor Made ATV Trails. c. 2005

14802A-Camp 8 trail

14802B-Map c. 2005 ‘Camp 8 ATV Trails’

14803-political flyer ‘You can tell a lot about a person by the road they choose to walk’ P. Dana Schultz

14803A-P. ‘Paid for by Schultz for Assembly’ 10-2010

14803B-’Dana Schultz’s heart has always been on a gravel road’

14803C-’Nov. 2 [2010] vote Dana Schultz’

14804-W. ‘Rib Lake School District Staff Directory 2009-2010’ 8-31-2009

14804A-Board of Education

14804B-administration

14804C-High School Instructional Staff

14804D-support staff

14804E-Middle School Instructional Staff

14804F-Support staff

14804G-Elementary Instructional Staff

14804H-support staff

14804I-contracted bus service – additional support staff

14804J-district schools

14804K-alphabetical list of staff-2009-2010

14804L-staff & email addresses, high school

14804M-ibid, middle school

14804N-ibid, elementary school

14804O-ibid, support staff

14804P-Rib Lake School District Staff birthdays

14804Q-ibid

14804R-retiree list

14805-editorial, Star News ‘Rib Lake is doing something right’ 4-21-2011

14806-W. 2010-2011 WKCE Results (fax) School District of Rib Lake

14806A-language arts

14806B-WSAS-grade 3 & 4 graph of test results

14806C-ibid, grade 5

14806D-ibid, grade 7

14806E-ibid, grade 10

14806F-WSAS-combined grades

14807-W. newsletter, Rib Lake Elementary 1-2011

14807A-back

14808-W. 4-17-2011 Rib Lake Board of Education meeting [distributed to board members]

14808A-agenda

14808B-minutes of 3-10-11 meeting

14808C-ibid

14808D-ibid

14808E-ibid

14808F-mintues special meeting 3-21-11 [called to respond to Gov. Scott Walkers slashing school aid from state]

14808G-ibid 3-24-11

14808H-4-2011 board bills

14808I-district administrator’s report

14808J-ibid

14808K-ibid, NB-this packet concluded with 2 pages ‘District Administrator’s Report for closed session on 4-12-2011’ this is not & may not be included-RPR

14809-W. RLHS Scheduling guide 2011-2012

14809A-Mission statement

14809B-graduation requirements

14809C-art

14809D-ibid

14809E-business ed

14809F-ibid

14809G-English

14809H-ibid

14809I-Family & Consumer Science

14809J-Foreign Language

14809K-Mathematics

14809L-Music

14809M-Science

14809N-Social Studies

14809O-ibid

14809P-Technical Ed

14809Q-Work Experience

14809R-Auto Tech

14809S-The 16 career Clusters

14809T-ibid

14810 9-18-1888 license for spur track; Davis & Starr Lumber Co., to Wisconsin Central Railroad for spur to Little Black sawmill; SW SW 1 T30N-R1E

14810A-Map c. 9-18-1888 ‘Davis-Starr Mill tracks at Little Black,’ Wis. Planning mill

14810B-ibid, lumber yard

14810C-ibid, sawmill & bridges over Little Black River

14810D-Mill pond (flowage on Little Black River) log dump into mill pond

14811 3-28-1892 Edward H. Winchester will

14811A-p. 2

14811B-annoations re Winchester Hotel of Medford-built to demonstrate hemlock lumber

14812 6-3-1895 assignment; George Davis to Davis & Starr Lumber Co; Little Black River improvement rights granted by Wis. Legislature on 4-8-1887

14812A-requirement for log slides on dams

14812B-power to collect tolls

14813-c. 4-21-1896 August Friedrick Ludwig Mielke will (in German)

14813A-order admitting will to probate, signed by Clinton Textor, county judge

14813B-will translation by RPR, the undersigned August Friedrick Ludwig Mielke

14814 7-9-1897 land contract-John D. Rowland, et al, sells to George Braun except ‘permanent’ easement for John J. Kennedy ice road

14814A

14815 7-30-1897 power of attorney; Philip Ferguson names Charles Best of Milwaukee re John J. Kennedy mortgage of 8-31-1896

14816 7-16-1897 power of attorney-Jordan A. Roundy, et al, names Charles Best of Milwaukee re John J. Kennedy mortgage of 8-31-1896

14817 8-7-1897 power of attorney, American Biscuit Manufacturing Co. names Charles Best re $423.34 judgment of 12-7-1896 against John J. Kennedy

14818 7-1-1897 stumpage contract-Medford Land & Logging Co. sells hemlock timber & bark to Fayette D. Shaw

14818A-p. 2 once Shaw starts cutting on a forty-must finish in 1 year

14818B-p. 3 if ‘settler’ buys grantor’s land, Fayette D. Shaw must buy bark for $3.25 f.o.b. railroad at Chelsea for shipment to Rib Lake tannery

14818C-land in T33-1E [see bark purchase map] cord of hemlock equals dry & merchantable bark weighed at Rib Lake Tannery at 2240 lbs.

14819 8-30-1897 stumpage contract, Davis & Starr Lumber Co. sells ‘timber’ to Fayette D. Shaw for $11,000

14820 2-8-1897 license for spur track, Thaxter, F.M., Fayette D. Shaw & Fayette Shaw grant Wisconsin Central license for spur track to Medford Tannery [NB-while Fayette D. Shaw was sole owner of Rib Lake Tannery, he was 1 of 4 owners of Medford Tannery]

14820A-jurat of signature for Fayette Shaw at Boston, Mass [father of Fayette D. Shaw aka Fayette Delos Shaw]

14820B-Map 2-8-1897 ‘Medford Depot Grounds 11-3-1893’ showing portion of Shaw Medford Tannery NW NE 34-31N-R1E

14821 7-1-1897 stumpage contract, 10,620 est. cords of hemlock bark; Ramsey Land Co. sells hemlock timber & bark on 4,866.21 acres to Fayette D. Shaw

14821A-exception to warranty tax title lands

14821B-deadline 7-1-1907

14821C-Fayette D. Shaw must buy bark from settlers at $3.25 cord f.o.b. Chelsea railroad for Rib Lake Tannery

14821D-land in 33N-1E

14821E-ibid wide variation in estimates of cords of saw bark per forty, e.g. 20 to 230 cords

14821F-ibid grand totals, acres 4,866.21, hemlock cord estimate-10,620, involved in this stumpage contract

14822 10-4-1897 stumpage contract-Martin Connaughty et ux, hemlock bark & timber to Fayette D. Shaw, deadline 5-1-1900

14823 12-1-1897 tavern sale-Alois Seidl to Max Umsted-building on Fayette Ave, Village of Rib Lake, non-compete clause forbade Seidl from ‘engaging directly or indirectly in this businiess of selling intoxicating liquor at retail in the Village of Rib Lake…for 3 years.’

14824 6-24-1898 stumpage contract-hemlock timber, bark & pine, Lew E. Rock of Chicago sells to Martin Connaughty, deadline 6-24-1902

14824A-p. 2

14825 3-25-1898 stumpage contract-Lew E. Rock of Chicago ‘all the hemlock & pine timber’ sold to Martin Connaughty, 16 forties, Town of Westboro, $1,000, NB-Doc. 14826 Connaughty resells in 2 months at 100+% profit

14825A-p. 2 annotation-$1,500 profit in less than 2 months

14826 5-3-1898 stumpage contract-Martin Connaughty et ux to Standard Lumber Co. of Dubuque, Iowa, ‘All the hemlock & pine’ $2,500; MB-seller Martin Connaughty had purchased same stumpage on 3-25-1898, 40 days earlier, for $1,000, producing a profit of $1,500! The seller was Martin Connaughty & his wife, Ethel, both residing in Medford, Wis.

14826A-p. 2, deadline 3-31-1898 for timber removal, buyer must pay all real estate taxes until stumpage is cut

14827 1-13-1898 partial release of judgment lien against John J. Kennedy real estate 10-26-1896 for $125.62 in Swift & Co., plaintiff, vs. John J. Kennedy, defendant; Attorney A.W. Sanborn of Ashland, Wis., released ‘6 lots 30 x 125 feet facing east of Rib Lake’ [NB-The debt-$125.62-was so small it demonstrates that John J. Kennedy – who was then operating his lumber operations as a sole proprietorship – was near bankruptcy, probably due to the national financial panic of 1896-Robert P. Rusch 5-31-2011]

14827A

14828 3-12-1899 sale contract, A.A. Gearhart of Chelsea to L.A. Rousseau & F.W. Shephard, dbs Rousseau & Shephard Co.; A.A. Geaerhart contracted to sell for $4,990-sawmill, mill furnishings, e.g. lumber buggies, logging apparatus, boarding house, warehouse, barn, store; deal required only $10 down payment but complex plan to try to guaranty payment

14828A-personal property sold

14828B-option to buy store to 1-1-1909

14828C-lease with option to buy

14829 1-31-1898 logging road right-of-way contract; Andrew DeMorris licenses Fayette D. Shaw to build roads & haul tanbark over 80 west of Wellington Lake

14830 4-3-1898 contract; Fayette D. Shaw obtains right for 10 days to operate ‘winter logging [sleigh] road ‘now built.’ West of Wellington Lake; George F. Dutcher to Fayette D. Shaw $5.00

14831 5-1-1898 stumpage contract; ‘hemlock trees’ Annie Darwin sells to Standard Lumber Co., Dubuque, Iowa

14831A-this sale subject to prior hemlock bark sale-John Week Lumber Co. to Shaw Tannery of Medford [ Did Annie Darwin have anything to sell? Cf. Doc. $14832]

14832 4-8-1899 ‘Release of claim to logging contract’ Oliver Darwin to Standard Lumber Co., Dubuque, Iowa re ‘Pedro Merino Lands’ [this ‘release’ appears to negate/void stumpage contract #14831 by Annie Darwin]

14832A-p. 2

14833 5-5-1898 power of attorney, Fayette Shaw & wife, Lavantia [parents of Fayette D. Shaw] authorize Fayette D. Shaw to sign plat creating Village of Perkinstown, Town of Grover, Taylor Co., Wis. (Sec. 33 & 34, T32N R2E)

14833Ap. 2, NB-Elder Shaws living in Boston, Mass.

14834 7-11-1898 easement for Langenberg Brick Co. railroad spur: William E. & George J. Langenberg, d/b/a Langenberg Brick Mfg. Co. authorize Wisconsin Central Railroad operate spur to grantors brick factory at Whittlesey, Wis.

14834A-p. 2

14834B-p. 3 map 7-11-1898 Langenberg Brick Mfg. Co. spur, Whittlesey, Wis.

Ronald Becker Collection, N9286 Long Lake Rd, Rib Lake, WI 54470, 715-427-3332

14835-W. ‘Work items for a comprehensive planning program for Rib Lake, Wis.’ c. 2-24-1965, Wis. Dept. of Resource & Development

14835A-p. 1

14835B

14835C

14835D

14835E

14835F

14835G

14835H

14835I-Map 2-24-1964 Model planning area, NB-hospital & airport

Stephen L. ‘Steve’ Kalmon Collection, N2838 Winter Sports Rd., Withee, WI 715-785-7178

14836-Taylor County Leader; A Republican Newspaper, 9-20-1923 ‘Two Railroads ask right to cut lines.’ The Stanley, Merrill & Phillips Railroad & the Fairchild & Northern Railroad seek to abandon lines

14837-Taylor County Leader ‘Large timber tract sold to RLLC.’ The RLLC bought 1115 forties in Taylor & Lincoln Counties from the Union Tanning Company, 1-20-1925, sale price $356,500.00

14838-W. ‘60 years with the Twentieth Century Club; 1900-1960, Rib Lake, Wisconsin’

14838A-Club History

14838B-program 5-28-1960

14838C-roll call

14838D-roll call

14838E-past presidents

14838F-history-founding of Rib Lake

14838G-club founded Rib Lake Public Library

14838H-club activities 1933-1937

14838I-club activities 1937-1939

14838J-club activities 1939-1941

14838K-club activities 1941-1943

14838L-club activities 1943-1944

14838M-$100,000 fire RLLC 9-15-1945, totally destroys planing mill

14838N-club activities 1945-1947

14838O-club activities 1947-1948

14838P-2-25-1948 last log ceremony, 300 take train to Camp 28

14838Q-club activities 1949-1950

14838R-club activities 1950-1951, Rib Lake Redmen to state basketball tourney 3-15 to 3-17, 1951, first Taylor County team to state; NB-at that time, there were no classes of schools by population, therefore, Rib Lake High School enrollment, c. 500, played against Milwaukee North, division enrollment c. 2,500

14838S-golden jubilee Aug. 8-10, 1952

14838T-Club activities 1953-1954

14838U-club activities 1954-1956

14838V-club activities 1957

14838W-club activities 1958

14838X-club activities 1959

14838Y-Golden Age Nursing Home first anniversary celebration 1-26-1960

14839-W. ‘Grandma Tabor’s Recollections of old days at Spirit Lake’ Lucy Tabor 4-10-1939

14839A-p. 2

14839B-p. 3 ‘Just an old Indian ‘dugout’

14839C-p. 4

14839D-p. 5

14839E-p. 6 ‘an after thought’

14839F-p. 7

14840 2-15-1909 stumpage contract; L.E. Rock sells ‘all timber’ to Medford Lumber Co.; 1000 acres in Towns of Rib Lake & Greenwood

14840A-p. 2 signatures-Medford Lumber Co. by A.L. Osborn, president

14840B-p. 3

14841 4-5-1909 August Steiner, born 7-4-1836, died 1-23-1902 Certificate of Descent

14842 6-8-1909 stumpage contract, Anton Maas sells ‘all timber’ to William Braatz

14843 1-21-1909 stumpage contract, William Braatz sells ‘all timber’ to Stephen Konz

14844 c. 1-1-1909 map, Little Rib Lake by John A. Logan

14845 9-4-1909 land contract, C. C. Morton to Simon Kortenkamp

14845A-

14845B

14846 11-17-1909 care contract: August & Johanna Krueger with son, Charlie

14846A

14847 12-20-1909 care contract; Caroline Mielke with son, Reinhold

14847A-Caroline may enforce with lawsuit

14847B-drafted by E.C. Getchel, perhaps

14848-fall 2010, the Soo ‘Lake Superior Log Rafts’ cover

14848A-p. 8 ‘Wood rafting into Ashland’, Part I by Jim Welton

14848B-p. 9

14848C-p. 10 map, rafting routes across Lake Superior, NB-in the1940’s Rib Lake Lumber Company had pine logs rafted from Hovland, Minnesota, to Ashland; this route is shown

14848D-p. 11

14848E-Aerial photo-log boom in Ashland, WI, harbor

14848F-ibid

14848G-p. 14 Map, Ashland-railroads c. 1930-1960

14848H-p. 15, Map, Ashland-railroads c. 1930-1960

14848I-ibid, p. 16

14848J-p. 25, photo, tug John Roen III

14848K-cover page V. 23, #1 The Soo, magazine of the Soo Line Historical & Technical Society, Winter 2011

14848L-’Wood rafting into Ashland-Part II by Jim Welton ‘P. 8’

14848M-’P.9’

14848N-p. 10

14848O-p. 11

14848P-p. 12

14848Q-p. 13

14848R-p. 14

14848S-p. 15

14848T-p. 16; NB-during the 1940’s, RLLC had pine rafted across Lake Superior & loaded at Ashland & shipped via Soo Line to its Rib Lake mill; that process is covered by this article

14849 2-14-1901 Rib lake Mill sale contract-W.A. Osburn & partners sell mill, etc. to Corporation ‘W.A. Osburn Lumber Co.’ [the grantee later changed its name to Rib Lake Lumber Co.]

14849A-p. 2, this sale included real & personal property grantors acquired from John J. Kennedy 9-14-1900]

14849B-p. 3, signatures [John J. Kennedy’s son, Donald, signed as secretary for grantee, John J. Kennedy himself later briefly worked as ‘walking boss’ i.e., head of lumbering operations, for grantee-Robert P. Rusch]

14850 4-4-1903 lease, Mud Lake School site; Lambert Enders to School District #4

14851 4-10-1903 Right-of-way, Westboro Lumber Co. to Wisconsin Telephone Company for telegraph & telephone lines

14852 5-14-1903 stumpage contract extension; Charles W. Pratt to John Weeks Lumber Co.

14853 5-14-1903 stumpage contract extension; William F. Michaelson to John Week Lumber Company

14854 7-2-1903 right-of-way easement, Medford Pea Canning Company to Wisconsin Central Railroad

14854A-Map SW SW 22-31-1E, Medford-in 2011 Potaczek scrap processing, 510 W. Allman St,

14854B-ibid

14855 7-17-1903 lease contract, Westboro Lumber Company to John Murray, 40 acres cutover land $350

14855A-p. 2 Westboro Lumber Co. by Joseph Kay, president

14856 7-18-1903 stumpage contract; Joseph Niggemann sells ‘Hemlock bark & timber’ to Frank J. Hintz, $1,000 for 160 acres

14857 7-31-1903 stumpage contract; Anna M. James Allen sells ‘all timbers’ to Rib Lake Lumber Company for $950, covering 4 forties

14858 10-15-1903 lease contract, Duncan A. McDonald to the Rib Lake Livestock Association, George Braun, president, & Hugh A. McDonald, secretary, 160 acres for $2,950, in 15-33-2E [this land included part of 2011 Rib Lake School Forest; grantee imported western sheep in ill-fated effort to use sheep to feed on the cutover lands; this effort gave Sheep Ranch Creek its name]

14859 10-27-1903 lease contract Rib Lake Lumber Company sells 40 acres cutover land $400 to Albert Baha, Rib Lake Lumber Company president E.H. Walker, Columbus, Wis. & William Pringle, Secretary

14860 5-4-1904 stumpage contract; John T. Davis sells ‘all pine & hemlock timber’ to John Week Lumber Co. of Stevens Point

14861 3-21-1904 contract, Medford Manufacturing Company grants Wisconsin Central Railroad right to install water line to Black River in Medford

14861A-map

14861B

14862 4-29-1904 lease; Frank J. Hintz leases mill or commercial building site to John Mathe & Company-west side of Village of Rib Lake [Rib Lake Herald, 1-22-1904 reported F.J. Hintz sold his Village of Rib Lake sawmill & equipment to John Mathe of Almond, Wis.]

14863 5-6-1904 cemetery deed, Village of Rib Lake to E.C. Getchel for $2

14864 8-25-1905 stumpage contract, Emil F. Anderson sells ‘all merchantable timber, logs & ties’ to Daniel Pelon, $290 80 acres

14865 5-24-1905 stumpage contract, H.M. Koehler, et. ux, sells ‘all the pine, hemlock, hardwood & other merchantable saw timber’ to John Week Lumber Company [to date, 6-6-2011, this is the first stumpage contract to mention hardwood; heretofore, it had little commercial value-Robert P. Rusch]

14866 9-20-1905 contract stumpage, Ellis Blomberg Pine to Fred Norton, $625 40 acres [I believe this is a record high amount-Robert P. Rusch 6-6-2011]

14867 7-15-1905 cemetery deed; Village of Rib Lake to Mrs. H. Bailey for $2

14868 3-26-1906 right-of-way lease; Fountain Campbell Lumber Co. to Owen & Northern Railroad for alternative mill spur, Donald, Wis.

14868A-annotations

14868B-map 3-26-1906 right-of-way

14868C-map 3-26-1906 Fountain-Campbell Lumber Co. to Owen & Northern Railroad for alternative mill spur, Donald, Wis.

14869 4-2-1906 lease contract George Braun, et al, to Carl Theodore Hintz

14869A-p. 2

14869B-ibid-enlarged size [grantee buying timber land to supply logs for a new sawmill ‘Hintztown’ to be built on NW NW 16-32-3E]

14870 4-4-1906 judgment-Rib Lake Lumber Company fka W.A. Osburn Lumber Co., v. James Radaker, W.H. Humphrey, Hugh MCCullough, Margaret Osburn, widow of W.A. Osburn, & 5 children…’the sole heirs of W.A. Osburn’ who died without a will

14870A-p. 2

14870B-p. 3 [summary-this was a ‘quiet title’ lawsuit, which put of record that none of the defendants had any ‘right, title or interest’ in land & improvements, such as sawmill, planing mill, dry kiln, trams, store, hotel, blacksmith shop, meat ship, barns, warehouses, houses [leased to laborers] of Rib Lake Lumber Company adverse to Rib Lake Lumber Company, viz, Rib Lake Lumber Company had good real title & Rib Lake Lumber Company could sell, mortgage, lease, etc.—Robert P. Rusch 6-6-2011]

14871 4-26-1906 bill of sale for, e.g. 2 cows, 1 white-gray horse, 2 yearling heifers, Adolf Rauschberger to Clara B. Headstream for $200, including 80 acres land

14872 4-30-1906 lease contract, Westboro Lumber Co. sells 40 cutover acres for $310 to Matt Linden & Andrew Maki, grantor reserves right tot build roads & railroads

14872A-p. 2

14873 7-5-1906 contract-State Land & Lumber grants railroad right-of-way to John S. Owen Lumber Co. & grantee grants grantor option to purchase land

14873A-map 7-5-1906 Diamond Lake railroad spur, Town of Roosevelt, Taylor County, Wis.

14874 7-6-1906 dissolution of partnership, J.J. Voemastek & Co. of Rib Lake, signed J.J. Voemastek & J.W. Wagoner

14875 7-25-1906 certificate of ordination, The Rev. A.G.T. Sydow, by Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Wisconsin & other states

14876 11-3-1906 stumpage contract, Joseph Dessert Lumber Co. of Mosinee, Wis. sells ‘all merchantable saw log timber’ on 21 forties near Wood Lake to John Mathe

14876A-p. 2 grantor reserves right to grant railroad right-of-way [Rib Lake Lumber Company builds Railroad to Camp 10—Robert P. Rusch 6-6-2011]

14876B-saw log title

14876C-this contract conflicts with 1-21-1909 stumpage contract to S.A. Konz

14877 12-1-1906 affidavit of Atty. A. W. Sanborn of Ashland, was ‘president of Rib Lake Lumber Company’ on 3-6-1906 to clear real estate title

14878 3-9-1907 contract; Martin & Anna Steen barter food & services to Franz & Theresia Klein for 40 acres, viz. annually, 200 lbs. wheat flour, 200 lbs, rye flour, 5 tons of hay, delivered, 15 cords stovewood, 15 dozen eggs, horse & vehicle, old garden field, manure

14878A-p. 2 drafter George Knower-Interwald ‘Justice of the Peace’

14879 9-9-1907 judgment; Hugo M. Lea, plantiff, v. George C. Champlain & ‘unknown…’ [plantiff’s quiet title lawsuit, holding; defendants barred from any claim to 40 acres-NE SE 2-32-2E]

14880 9-9-1907 cemetery deed, Village of Rib Lake to Eliza Freier, Lot 5, Block A., ‘Rib Lake Public Cemetery’ i.e. Lakeview Cemetery

14881 1-11-1908 right-of-way contract; Mike & Mary Schinker grant 10 year license for ‘logging road’ to Carl Theodore & Frank J. Hintz [the grantees constructed a sawmill at ‘Hintztown’- NW NW 16-32-3E, on Wood Creek and needed a road to reach the railroad & Village of Rib Lake; a cross-country ‘logging’ & sleigh road would be carefully laid out to avoid hills that typically made town roads difficult for horses, i.e., town roads were routinely laid out on section lines, regardless of topography; NB-one word of caution-the terms ‘logging roads’ or ‘roads’ were at this time to refer to railroads, winter sleigh or ice roads as well as roads for wheeled vehicles, see, for example, #14882-Robert P. Rusch 6-7-2011

14882 3-1-1908 deed, John S. Owen Lumber Co. to State Land & Lumber, NB-part of payment was Owen getting renewed rights to use a railroad & cross grantee’s land

14882A-Map 3-1-1908 Diamond Lake Railroad spur

14883 6-24-1908 Rib Lake Lumber Company & United States Leather Company, plaintiffs v. John J. Kennedy & wife, Flors, James Radaker, W.H. Humphrey, High McCullough, Margaret Osburn, widow of W.A. Osburn, Walter, Effie, Irene, Armour, Alexander & Mary Jane Osburn, ‘sole heirs of W.A. Osburn, deceased’ defendants [judgment-none of defendants have any ownership, claim or right to vacant lands of plantiffs in Rib Lake or Spirit townships.]

14883A-p. 2 ‘The relief demanded by plantiffs in this action consists wholly in excluding…defendants…from any lien or interest in this premises…’ on 3-12-1905 John J. Kennedy and wife were in – and apparently residing – in Spokane, Washington, with a son, Elbert Kennedy

14883AA-Spelling Name Correction-Osburn erroneously identified as Osborn

14883B-p. 3 ‘United States Leather Company is a New Jersey corporation, all defendants are in default, i.e. they did not contest lawsuit

14883C-p. 4 W.A. Osburn died without a will, legal descriptions of land involved

14883D-p. 5 ibid

14883E-p. 6 annotations by Robert P. Rusch

14883F-p. 7 ibid

14884 10-3-1900 right-of-way easement, Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company by Fredrick Weyerhaeuser grants 50 foot wide strip to Wisconsin Central railroad for railroad logging spur, SW SE 30N-3W, Town of Roosevelt

14884A-p. 2 annotations by Robert P. Rusch

14884B-p. 3 map 10-3-1908, Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company, aka CL&B Co. spur SW SE 5-30N-3W, Town of Roosevelt, Taylor County, Wis.; NB-’green hemlock’ meant uncut, standing hemlock trees, cf. ‘hemlock & pine slashings’

14885 10-5-1908 quit claim deed, Wisconsin Central railroad sells ‘for the sum of $1.00 the pine timber’ in Section 19, 32-3E to United States Leather Company; ‘…the object of this instrument is to release all claims to said pine timber, which was reserved in said deed to the United States Leather Company of Dec. 1, A.D. 1900.’ [NB-on 9-29-1900 United States Leather Company bought the Shaw Tannery in Rib Lake, see #13249G. IN 3-1906 the United States Leather Company bought the Rib Lake Lumber Company. This quit claim deed (Doc. 14885) cleaned up loose ends by making it clear United States Leather Company did not claim pine stumpage in Sec. 19 (this section has the Rib Lake Town Hall.) Robert P. Rusch 6-7-2011

14885A

14886 11-28-1908 cemetery deed-St. Ann’s Catholic Church, Brehm, Wis. to Julia Wudi [annotation-Brehm, Wis., named for Thomas Brehm, 1884 immigrant, store founder & post-master-Robert P. Rusch 6-7-2011]

14887 12-26-1908 stumpage contract; Gustave Hielschers sells ‘merchantable timber’ to Albert Krause & Elmer Swenson, dba Kraus & Swenson of Interwald, Wis. on 40 acres for $350 [grantees mill stood on SE SW SE 18-T32N-3E, Interwald. NB-this is the first document I have found in Taylor County Register of Deeds Office referring to ‘Interwald’ – Robert P. Rusch 6-7-2011]

14888-A Tree Lovers Poem

14889-dust jacket for book ‘The Road to Damascus’ by George ‘Ole Smoky Lonesome’ Sandal

14889A-incription to above 6-8-11 ‘Bob & Ann, what an honor to be writing a story about you two for Mammoth Tales. You are the ultimate of friends to the Ice Age Trail cause…’

14890-’Rusch Job’ by George Sandal 6/15/2011-article on conservation easements benefiting the Ice Age Trail

14890A-p. 2

14890B-p. 3

14891 T-shirt emblem-the Ice Age 50 Mile Ultra-Marathon-22nd running ‘500 mile club’

14892-W. ‘Ice Age Official Map & Guide’

14892A-Ice Age National Scientific Reserve

14892B-The mural depicts the scene at Kettle Moraine 10-12,000 years ago

14892C-The outwash plain..

14892D-continental glaciation

14892E-Grand Moraine…

14892F-Ice Age

14892G-The Nine units

14892H-Kettle Moraine & camp dolls – port drumlins

14892I-Devils Lake

14892J-Mill Bluff & Horicon Marsh

14892K-interstate

14893-Star News 6-16-2011 ‘Rib Lake couple makes lasting land decision’ by Mark Berglund. Ann K. and Robert P. Rusch grant Ice Age Trail two easements

14893A-photo Robert P. Rusch & signboard ‘Glacial Ice limit during late Wisconsin glaciation’

14894-summer 2011 ‘Mammoth Tales’ cover

14894A-p. 10 ‘Spirit Wood – the wildest area of the Ice Age Trail’ by Drew Hanson.

14894B-p. 11 ibid P. Wood Lake

14894C-p. 12 ibid

14895 ‘2006-2007 Guide to Wisconsin’s Rustic Road system’ cover page

14895A-inside cover

14895B-p. 6 Rustic Road R. 1, Taylor County, map-showing Timm’s Hill Trail, P. Long Lake

14895C-p. 13 R-62 ‘Hikers will enjoy the Timm’s Hill National Trail & nearby Ice Age Trail’

14896 email 1-20-2011 Daniel J. Kortenkamp to Robert P. Rusch

14896A-Star News 4-25-2002 ‘Letter from past recalls Rib Lake History’, letter of 1-10-1910 by Simon Kortencamp describing Rib Lake

14896B-letter 1-10-1910 by Simon Kortenkamp to John & Annie

14896C-ibid p. 2

14897-P. 2005 Sunset over Rib Mountain; junction of Big Rib River (originating in Rib Lake) & Wisconsin River in foreground

14898-The ‘Spirit Postcard’ published 11-2010 in German Settlement Historical Society ‘Liberty News’ explaining origin of Spirit Lake name

14899-A brief history of the Rib Lake Public Library; written c. 2005 by unknown author; photocopied from plaque on wall of such library 4-2011

14900-business card, J & P Auto, Inc., Jamie, John & Pat Heiser

14901-2011 logo, Ice Age Trail Alliance, 2110 Main St., Cross Plains, WI 53528

14902-2011 sign; welcome to Schoenwalde – RPR & Ann Rusch grant Ice Age Trail & conservation easements over 160 acres of land in Town of Rib Lake

14902A-Map 12-17-2009 Rusch easement-Ice Age Trail; trail & conservation zones; 12 & 13 33-2E

14902B-Map c. 4-1-2009 Ice Age Trail, Rib Lake reroute-southern option Sec. 12

14902C-ibid, Sec. 13-33-2E

14903-Mission Statement-Ice Age Trail Alliance, 2011; P. Wood Lake, Taylor Co. ‘Trail building highlights’ from p. 2 Summer 2011, ‘Mammoth Tales’ a quarterly publication of the Ice Age Trail Alliance

14904-W. ‘Ice Age National Scenic Trail; Its first 30 years in Taylor County, Wis.’ by RPR 6-23-2011

14905-Symbol, c. 1980-1995, Ice Age National Scenic Trail

14906-Star News 4-7-2011 ‘Rib Lake School Board Approves Teacher Contract’

14907-W. ‘Oak Forest Center, Frederic, Wisconsin, an adult retreat of camp forest springs: 2009, new facility opened next ot Straight Lake State Park

14908-W. ‘Camp 28, Saloon, Bunkhouse & Cook Shanty’ 2009

14908A-p. 2 proprietors Dave & Helen Marcis

14909-Map 2008, Taylor County Snowmobile & Winter ATV Trail Map-Rib Lake Area

14910-W. Camp Forest Springs; Guide for 2010-2011

14910A-p. 2 founded & growing by faith

14910B-p. 3 P. Pat & Karen Petkau, P. Dick & Vivian Angelo

14910C-p. 4 calendar

14910D-p. 5 youth camps

14910E-p. 6 outreach

14910F-p. 7 P. the staff

14910G-p. 8 P. Oak Forest Center, Frederic, Wisconsin

14911-Map ‘Camp Forest Springs’

14912-pamphlet ‘Cross Country Skiing & Snowshoeing, Camp Forest Springs’

14912A-p. 2 welcome

14912B-p. 3 Trail guide & map

14913-postcards-Camp Forest Springs Ski Hill

14913A-ibid night

14913B-winter on the lake front

14913C-Lakeview center

14913D-aerial view-James Lake

14913E-tennis courts

14913F-lake view center

14913G-James Lake

14913H-adventure ministries

14913I-mini-farm barn

14914-Obit. Star Powers, 10-24-2010, aka Mrs. Duane Powers, DDS

14915-L. Michelle Obama to Ann K. Rusch 6-2011

14915A-p. 2

14915B-p. 3

14915C-P. Barack Obama & family

14915D-pledge card

14916-W. ‘Summer school offerings for 2011’-Rib Lake School District, Karen Rusch, teacher

14916A-p. 2

14916B-p. 3

14917 Star News 6-16-2011 ‘The Countryman-work & play’ by Stephen Lars Kalmon

14918-W. ‘Index to Taylor County marriages, 1875-1907’ compiled by Judy Vezzetti, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, 2001, cover sheet

14918A 1-11-1897 marriage date entry for Wilhelm (aka William) Gebauer & Bertha Steiner (maternal great-grandparents to Robert P. Rusch)

14919 3-2011 ‘Taylor County Post Offices: by Sara Nuernberger, Director, Taylor County Genealogical Society

14919A-ibid p. 2 ‘Rib Lake (post office) 6-12-1883 to present..’ First postmaster-Duncan McLennan (brother of Flora Kennedy, brother-in-law to John J. Kennedy-Robert P. Rusch 6-20-2011); ‘Westboro 2-1-1875 to present, first postmaster-Edwin A. Williams’; ‘Konz 12-16-1903 to 6-1910 Stephan Konz’; ‘Sams 2-3-1878 to 6-29-1907 Fritz Martin’; Interwald 5-24-1887 to 6-30-1934 Henry Voss’; ‘Schaack 3-31-1904 to 3-15-1907 John H. Schaack’ NB-Robert P. Rusch had added quarter quarter legal descriptions of post offices-locations in blue

14919B-Map, Taylor Co, showing post office locations

14920-Taylor County census 1900 & 1910

14921-School District of Rib Lake – spring newsletter 2011

14921A-p. 2 a proud success story

14921B-p. 3 district news

14921C-p. 4 calendar

14921D-p. 5 high school highlights, P. Matthew Adams & Ben Bromann

14921E-p. 6 Middle school

14921F-p. 7 elementary school

14921G-p. 8

14922 Map 2-26-2011 old railroad grades crossing STH 64 in T31 R4E, Town of Corning, Lincoln Co., Wisconsin by David Tlusty, RLS, probable Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 1 site, 20-31-R4E

14923-Interview notes 1-25-2011 Harold A. Curran, born 8-25-1915 in Rib Lake by Robert P. Rusch

14923A-p. 2, Ed Curran, uncle

14923B-p. 3 Collie Curran, uncle

14923C-p. 4 businesses on McComb Ave c. 1930

14923D-p. 5 ibid

14923E-p. 6 ibid

14923F-p. 7 ibid

14923G-p. 8 biography of Harold A. Curran, worked for Rib Lake Lumber Company

14923H-p. 9

14923I-p. 10 children & grandchildren of Chester Curran

14924 11-29-1913 right-of-way deed, Wausau Paper Mill Co. to ‘Milwaukee Road’ aka Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co., 50 foot right-of-way through Sec. 23 & 24, T32N-R5E, Town of Harding, Lincoln Co

14924A-p. 2

14925 8-10-1962 Ads for ‘How-De-Do in ‘62’

14925A-Congratulations neighbor

14925B-Gem Products, Inc.

14925C-’Welcome to our 60th Anniversary Party’ Rib Lake Volunteer Fire Dept.

14925D-Rib Lake has come a long way

14925E-Rib Lake Fish & Game Association

14925F-Rib Lake Commercial Club

14926-P. c. 1911 ‘Bridge, Westboro, Wis.’ highway (later STH 13) bridge spanning Silver Creek, remains of logging dam-note rock filled logworks & earth embankment sloping uphill beneath bridge; horizon-multi-storied Westboro High School

14926A-back-postmark 7-7-1911 Westboro, Wis. addressed to Geneva Mauseth, Chetek, Wis.

14927-Map c. 9-1-1933 Lincoln County Forest Fires by Michael Weckwerth

14928-Map c. 1-1-1927 sleigh roads for Natzke Camp #3, Sec. 13-32-4E, Town of Corning, Lincoln County, Wis. 1926-1936 by Michael Weckwerth

14929-L. 11-18-2010 David Tlusty to Robert P. Rusch

14929A-Map 6-30-1918 New Wood River line-part of spur from ‘Milwaukee Road’ mainline through Merrill, Wis, formally named Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co., the New Wood line conveyed logs to a variety of Merrill sawmills

14929B-ibid, Sec. 20-T32N-R5E

14929C-ibid, Sec. 9-T32N-R5E

14930-P. Christmas 2010 Gertrude ‘Geat’ Obowa nee Thums, Fergus Falls, Minnesota

14931-P. c. 1900 Herman Klemm

14931A-P. c. 1910 Bertha Klemm nee Staudte

14931B-Herman Klemm bio

14931C-Bertha Klemm nee Staudte bio

14932-Map 2010 Wisconsin Bicycle Map-cover page

14932A-Rib Lake area, including New Wood area, Lincoln County

14933-feed sack ‘deer corn’

14933A-ibid ‘bagged by Rib Lake Roller Mill, Rib Lake, WI 54470’ [in 2009 William Schreiner, dba Rib Lake Roller Mill, reported his sales of deer corn to hunters & recreationalists rivaled his traditional business with farmers – Robert P. Rusch 6-24-2011]

14934-P. ‘Alethean Tennis Court, Rib Lake, Wis.’ c. 1905 [Alethea-’a female given name-from a Greek word meaning ‘troth’ or Althea ‘a female given name from a Greek word meaning ‘wholesome’ – Webster’s unabridged dictionary of the English Language 2001 [this photo looks east from West Street; right-north side of buildings along Fayette Ave; rear-Rib Lake High School & box car on spur to tannery; left-huge pile of tanbark (hemlock bark piled for use in Rib Lake Tannery) 10 people sit or stand next to a horizontal play wheel; center-two couples face on a packed earth tennis court-NB-1 man wears a dress jacket as he prepared to serve.

14934A-back-postmark Rib Lake 1909 Sept 28 9 A.M.; Dear Alva-’…the court is just back of DeGroats. Poor Mable; How we miss her. They are leaving us by families. Your sister will be next to go. I go to India sometime during the year, Love to All, Sincerely, your friend, P.A. Sherman’

14935 2010 membership list-Taylor County Genealogical Society

14935A-ibid page 2

14936 2010 stationery; Taylor County Forestry & Recreation Dept.

14936A-acres of Wisconsin County Forest, Taylor Co. 17,638.96

14937-c. 11-15-1935 Taylor Co. Resolution creating ‘County Forestry Reserve’ nka Taylor County Forest

14937A-p. 2

14937B-p. 3

14938 11-10-2004 resolution to commit to forest certification by Taylor County Forestry & Recreation Committee, signed Chuck Zenner, Dave Bizer, Mike Roiger & Larry Ziembo (representing Village of Rib Lake)

14939 2008 Finisher’s Award-Timm’s Hill Trudge, 6 mile snowshoe run, 3-2009 made by event sponsors Kathy & Lyle Blomberg, dba Catch-A-Dream Resort, Ogema, Wis [The Timm’s Hill Trudge was created in 1993 as a 10 mile snowshoe run-walk by Ann K. & Robert P. Rusch to promote snowshoeing & the trail. Originally, contestants were bused from Catch-A-Dream Resort at the foot of Timm’s Hill, Price County, to the southern terminus of the Timm’s Hill Trail at the Rusch Preserve in Taylor County. The Blombergs have worked tirelessly to promote snowshoeing, which popularly eclipsed skiing – Robert P. Rusch 6-24-2011]

14940 Rib Lake Herald 8-9-1962 ‘Early Records tell of Village Incorporation’ Village of Rib Lake detached from Town of Rib Lake & made a village by order of circuit judge John K. Parish. Initial village population numbered 1,046. [This article erroneously claims the date of incorporation to be 4-28-1902. While that was the date of the order, the older provided incorporation was subject to a referendum. On 5-29-1902 voters approved incorporation & the vote was reported to the court, See #10939ff. In summary, the probable date of incorporation was 5-29-1902 when voters assented, thereby fulfilling the condition subsequent to Parish’s order of 4-28-1902.—Robert P. Rusch 6-24-2011]

14941-Star News 6-9-1911 ‘A new railroad’ Medford Lumber Co. begins construction of logging railroad leaving Soo Line north of Allman Street and running west. [See 1913 Maps #237-33A & 237-4 showing railroad right-of-way]

14942-Application ‘3rd annual Westboro 5K Trojan Trot’ 7-23-2011

14943-Star News 5-10-2001 ‘Goodrich-Firsthand history of Taylor County’ by Josephine Kropp

14943A-ibid Part 2

14943B-P. c. 1915 Goodrich Hotel & General Store

14944-P. c. 1913 ‘Soo Depot, Medford, Wis’ view eastward-water tower on Second Street & Taylor County Rotunda shown.

14945 P. 6-24-1964 by Larry E. Easton, Medford depot from southwest

14945A-ibid Chelsea Depot, view north, former multi-track yard on right was used to store Rib Lake Lumber Company traffic

14946-P. 10-3-1966 by Emory Luedke, Medford Depot, view from northwest

14946A-ibid, Westboro Depot, view north

14946B-ibid Ogema Depot, view to northwest

14947-W. 11-4-1999 ‘Railroads of Taylor County’ by Robert P. Rusch

14947A-Wisconsin Central Railroad, Medford Lumber Co.

14947B-Rib Lake Lumber Company

14947C-Abbotsford & Northeastern

14947D-line to Goodrich

14947E-Stanley, Merrill & Phillips

14947F-J.S. Owen camps

14947G-Soo Line

14947H-Omaha line, Owen & Northern

14947I-Westboro Lumber Line, aka Westboro & Northwestern Squaw Creek Lumber

14947J-Duncan Pole line, John Duncan of Westboro

14948-Tomahawk Leader ‘Northwoods Living’ 2011, cover page

14948A-p. 29 ‘Timm’s Hill Highest Spot in State; trail available year round.’ ‘A 10-mile non-motorized trail that goes from Price County into Taylor County connects the Ice Age Scenic Trail to Timm’s Hill. It is open year around…’

14949-Easement Agreement 12-24-2009, Charles Bukovcan to James Dillion SW SW 13-33-2E, covers right to construct Ice Age Trail

14949A-p. 2

14950-Finisher’s Award, Kettle Moraine 100 mile run June 7 & 8, 1996, RPR 38th place, time 25:32:55

14951-P. c. 1945 Rib Lake Lumber Company locomotive 101 is steamed up & basks in the afternoon sun just south of the Rib Lake Lumber Company store – in 2011 the site of C&G Mini Mart, 910 STH 102. A cinder catcher has been added to the smokestack in an effort to prevent sparks from setting forest fires. Note the pile of coal freshly heaped in the tender. A 4-inch hose hangs loosely from the tender ready to suction water from creeks to quench the engine’s thirst for water. See 15272 for additional information regarding locomotive

14952-Map 1941 Taylor Co. by The Star News – cover

14952A-back

14952B-Map eastern Taylor Co. Roy Hanson of Merrill drew circle & labeled it ‘Good Bear Area’, NB-Rib Lake, Brehm, Interwald, Goodrich, Little Black & Whittlesey

14952C-Map Central Taylor Co.

14952D-Map Western Taylor Co.

Judy Moxon Collection

14953-Matchbook covers, c. 1950’s, The Star News

14953A-Kotchke’s Arcade-Pool, Billiards & Bowling, Wm. Kotche proprietor, Rib Lake, Wis.

14953B-back ‘Bowl for your health. Ladies invited.’

14953C-Becker’s Tavern-Liquors, Wines, Beer & lunches, F.L. Becker, prop., Rib Lake, Wis. close cover before striking

14953D-back ‘Milwaukee’s Best Brewing Co.’

14953E-Pioneer Tavern, Frank Tauber, Mgr., Rib Lake, Wis.

14953F-back – Pioneer Tavern, A place for good food, whiskey, wine & beer

14953G-Tourist Tavern, Alfons Kollman, Prop, Rib Lake, Wis., Phone 86, close cover before striking

14953H-back, A Gettleman Brewing Co. [Milwaukee] ‘Rathskeller Brew’

14953I-P. ‘Main Street, Rib Lake, Wis.’ c. 1949 McComb Ave., from former railroad crossing (NB- blacktop across street marks railroad removed in 1948); left side: A) Perkin’s Ice Cream’, marks Kennedy Drug Store [moving north] B) ‘Gettleman Beer’ sign marks Tourist Tavern, Alfons Kollman, prop., [in 2011 Frosted Mug, 723 McComb Ave.] C) ‘Schlitz’ sign marks Becker’s Tavern, Frank L. & Cecilia Becker [in 2011 Bird’s Nest Tavern]

14953J-Texaco Service Station – Anthony Novak, prop. ‘Oil-Gas & Cigarettes, Tel, 35, soft drinks’

14953K-back, Texaco Gas Co. logo ‘Repairing – try us’ [ In 2011 the site of Barry Anderson’s Body Shop, 840 McComb Ave.]

14953L-’Pine Tree Pavilion Dancing on Highway 13, Chelsea, Wis., Rose Wendort, prop.

14953M-back ‘Let’s get some beer’ ‘Come and get acquainted’ [with the ‘Guernsey farm’ at SE SW 31-33-2E, the ‘Pine Tree’ at NE NE 36-33-1E, long operated as brothels until closed by D.A. Raymond H. Scott in the 1950’s – Robert P. Rusch 6/1/2011]

14953N-’Evergreen Gardens Tannenbaum Beer on Tap, Good Wines & Liquors, lunches, Walter Frischmann, Shell Gas & Oil, Whittlesey, Wis’

14953O-back ‘if an old man likes a young girl – that’s his business; if a young girl likes an old man – that’s her business; and if they want to get married – that’s their business; and if they want a good glass of ‘beer’ – that’s my business’ [Evergreen Gardens was located on the west side of STH 13 & Whittlesey Ave.]

14954-P. ‘Spirit Lake, Rib Lake, Wis’ c. 1950 double stone arch STH 102 bridge at outlet of Little Spirit Lake; foreground – dock & boast of ‘Sunny Hill Resort’ a bar & grocery to the left of photo, view eastward

14955-Ice Age Trail Atlas, 2011, cover

14955AA-title page

14955A-about the IAT Alliance High Point Chapter

14955B-p. 10, locator map

14955C-Map 23F, Mondeaux Flowage

14955D-Map 24F, Westboro

14955E-Map 25F, Rib Lake

14955F-Map 26F Wood Lake

14955G-Map 27F New Wood

14956 Resolutions, ordinances & minutes of Taylor County Board, resolution No. 3, spring, 1932, ‘for establishing county forest’

14956A 11-15-1932 report of forestry committee, John J. Voemastek, proof of publication, county clerk Fred Herrmann, certificate of no petition for referendum

14957-creation of Taylor County Forest – comments by Robert P. Rusch 5-6-2011, conditional res ‘spring session’ 1932 [see #14956]

14957A-ibid, p. 2 11-15-1935 resolution 13 to create country forestry reserves; Interwald, Greenwood, Westboro & Pershing [see #14937]

14957B-ibid, p. 3

14957C-ibid, p. 4 Annotations

14958 11-15-1932 Taylor County Board elects Franz Markus janitor at $35 per month

14959 c. 1932 taxpayer petition to Taylor County Board ‘to reduce county expenses to a minimum..’ ‘no money for clerical help’

14960 11-18-1932 resolution #21 to fund soldiers and sailors relief commission

14961 2-2-1932 Taylor County Board members, report on mileage & per diem

14962 Taylor County Board 5-2-1933 ‘supervisors entitled to seats’ Edward Blaasch, Village of Rib Lake, E.L. Lamont, Town of Rib Lake, R.H. Aitkens, Westboro, William Tilch, Greenwood, Paul C. Schmoldt, Chelsea; NB-at the time every municipal unit had a supervisor

14963 Taylor County Board c. 5-2-1933 county committee appointments

14964 12-28-1932 petition of Soo Line Railroad to cancel county tax on Westboro Railroad station

14965 c. 1-28-1933 request by county clerk to write off county account at defunct Westboro bank

14966 2-2-1933 resolution #3 to reduce cost of printing lists of county cut-over & tax delinquent lands

14967- Taylor County Board resolution #2 to require sale of county tax delinquent lands to ‘actual settlers’ for use as farms; First National Bank of Rib Lake designated official depository

14968 c. 4-1933 petition of Town of Cleveland to be excluded from Federal Forest Reserve [l/k/a Chequamegon National Forest]

14969- Taylor County Board resolution #13 11-15-1933 to oppose removing highway 102 as state trunk ‘whereas, trail service to Rib Lake has been reduced to 3 trains weekly..’

14970-Taylor County Board c. 6-1-1934 drought relief & work orders [persons getting drought relief money could repay it through work]

14971 c. 6-2-1934 State Geographic Board changed name of Urquhart Lake to South Harper; suggestion to rename Muddy Rib Lake to Kennedy Lake

14972 4-11-1934 letter from State Conservation Dept. re ‘forest fire prevention plan’

14972A-p. 2 ibid, recommendation to ‘hire active, able-bodied man as fire prevention patrolman…’

14973 c. 11-1934 Taylor County Board votes to study county zoning ‘to the end that cost of government be kept down…in areas not adapted to settlement.’

14974 L. 1-28-1935 State Geographic Board to Taylor County Board re change of name Muddy Rib Lake to Kennedy Lake ‘in honor of J.J. Kennedy, a lumberman who founded Rib Lake about 50 years ago.’

14975 c. 5-1935 report of ‘county [poor] farm committee.’ ‘there are 18 paupers at the home at present and all seemed satisfied with the treatment they are getting.’

14976 c. 6-14-1935 resolution 10 by John Demcak to form committee ‘to aid bona fide & industrious settlers…’

14977 c. 6-5-1935 resolution 11 by John Demcak to prohibit sale of county tax delinquent lands ‘to speculators who buy these [lands] solely for the value of the timer thereon..’

14978-report of Taylor County Emergency Relief Administration 11-1934, total families receiving aid 497, individuals 2,003, amount $8,474.73

14978A 12-1934 total families receiving aid 574, individuals 2637, amount $11,510.47

14978B 1-1935 total families receiving aid 667, individuals 3129, amount $13,476.23

14979 6-13-1935 petition Marshfield Clinic re Anton Kurek, Town of Rib Lake, indigent, for payment for Tularemia Treatment

14980 Taylor County Board c. 11-20-1935 adopts country forestry ordinance effective 7-1-1936

14981 Taylor County Board ‘tax budget for 1935’

14981A-ibid part 2, total $193,848.21

14981B-revenues $22,014.86 other than county property tax & highway revenues

14982 5-5-1936 Taylor County Board list of supervisors, Chelsea-Paul C. Schmoldt, Greenwood-William Tilch, Town of Rib Lake-Max J. Zuther, Village of Rib Lake-Millard [Satch] Kapitz, Westboro-Herman Grittner, Sr.

14983 5-6-1936 Taylor County Board committee assignments

14984 4-23-1936 L. Wisconsin Rural Rehabilitation Division to Taylor County Board re drought & opportunity to farmers to ‘work off’ aid repayment

14984A-ibid continuation

14984B-ibid conclusion

14985 c. 4-1936 Taylor County Board votes 23 to 5 to pay 10 cent bounty on woodchucks, petition submitted by Max. J. Zuther, Town of Rib Lake

14986 5-8-1936 Taylor County Board approves bounty of 3 cents ‘for each gopher scalp presented to county clerk..’

14987- P. 1997 Ice Age Trail Access & parking sign, Thums parking lot access

14988-P. 1997 Friends of the Trail sign

14989-P. 1997 Gail Nelson assists skier to sign up for 13k classical ski event-’The Hinderbinder’

14990-P. 1997 David Cihasky – wearing bib #312, and Ed Schultz, Bib #339, awaiting start of Hinderbinder 20k skate ski on Desris field, Village of Rib Lake

14991-P. 1997 skate skiers awaiting start of Hinderbinder

14992-P. 1997 ski trail built on CTH D between county and Rib Lake forest; foreground-Taylor Co. Sheriff’s Deputy [later sheriff] Bruce Daniels, holds shovel & Pastor Robert Linaberry – United Methodist Church-Medford, holds stop sign; left-George Daniels

14993-P. 1997 Taylor County Deputy George Daniels holding slow sign at CTH D allowing skier to cross highway

14994-P. 1997 Ed Schultz approaching CTH D; L-R Carmen & Tom Quednow, Russ Blennert & Pastor Bob Linaberry

14995-P. 1997 a beaming skier double-poles across CTH D – 2 miles from Hinderbinder start

14996-P. 1997 three skiers snowplow to slow for CTH D, rear-Taylor County Forest

14997-P. 1997 Russ Blennert directs Hinderbinder skiers at Ice Age Trail sign at Rib Lake School Forest

14998-P. 1997 Hinderbinder skier approaches Harper Lake Road, race volunteer offers cup of water

14999-P. 1997 Ron Becker, Ice Age Trail bridge over Klostermann Creek at Rusch Preserve – SE NE 12-33-2E, trail expertly groomed & tracked by Mike Quednow; rear-junction of Ice Age Trail & Timm’s Hill National Trail at site of Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 6

15000-P. 1997 snow covered glacial erratic at Rusch Preserve; rear-CTH C, Norway pines in old gravel pit which Robert P. Rusch purchased and donated to Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation on condition a trailhead be maintained and named ‘Rusch Preserve’ in memory of Herman Arthur & Martha Hedwig Rusch, nee Gebauer

15001-P. 1997 Martha Hedwig Rusch – holding pickle – and Mary Becker serving lunch for volunteers planting pine along Ice Age Trail at old Filas farm, NE SE 12-33-2E, tailgate of 1985 Ford F150 pickup serves as lunch table

15002-P. 1997 Kate Bromann with sons, Ben age 3, and Nick age 4, hold shovel and tree spud. Ron Becker-wearing Florida T-shirt-straddles bucket holding c. 100 red pine [pinus resonosa] seedlings to be planted on glacial knob at rear; NE SE 12-33-2E

15003-P. 1997 Jack Heindl-center, black shirt & blue jeans – carries red pine seedlings to hill crest, where combination Ice Age Trail & Nordic [Green] Ski Trails cross, former Filas farm field; last hay cropped here c. 1982 by Adolph Walbeck. Ron Becker & Kate Bromann lead the way

15004-P. 1997 Jack Heindl gives a cheerful thumbs-up to successful red pine plantation; rear center-a faint yellow paint blaze on maple tree indicates route of Ice Age National Scenic Trail

15005-P. 1997 atop glacial knob 400 feet west of CTH C on old Filas farm, happy tree planters ready to empty a final bucket full of red pine, left to right, Nick, Ben & Kate Bromann, Ron Becker, Jack Heindl

15006-c. 2007 business card, Thomas M. Rusch, Rusch & Rusch Law Office, S.C.

15007-Explanation of board feet as of 3-18-2011, Russell J. Aszman

15008-Scribner decimal c scale stick

15008A-ibid

15008B-ibid

15009-W. Eloise Cunningham nee Landaal explains Village of Rib Lake street ‘Ella’ named for spouse of A.C. McComb, creator of 8-21-1897 ‘Plat of McComb’s Racing Park Addition to Rib Lake’ see #10943 for plat, see #10772 for photo of B.J. Landaal, John J. Kennedy, and A.C. McComb surveying Pearl Street, named for spouse of Bernhard J. Landaal, aka Landall Ave.

15010-L. 7-8-2011 George Sandal to Robert P. Rusch, proposed article re IAT reroute in Town of Rib Lake for ‘Mammoth Tales’

15010A-ibid p. 2

15010B-ibid p. 3

15011-Map 11-2011, North central United States, arrow points to Rib Lake

15012-items for Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 26 recovered on 7-10-2011 by Daniel Mathias & Robert P. Rusch; railroad spike

15012A-dinner plate fragment with red flower pattern

15012B-tin can from dump where thousands laid

15013-Map 7-10-2011 Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 26 site, current condition, by Robert P. Rusch – NW SW NW 20-33-4E, Town of Corning, Lincoln Co., Wis., NB-’piss hole’ where men from bunk house urinated rather than going to outhouse, per James Dillon, over 35,000 gallons of urine excreted here from 1939-1946, salt keeps ground bare of vegetation to this day, 7-10-2011. NB-rutabaga garden site atop 20 foot high hill northwest of Camp 26. per Daniel Mathia, rutabagas were a camp staple served with potatoes at all meals. Garden provided a cheap, readily available supply of this popular tuber.

15014-Map 7-12-2011, Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 26 office building location, NW SW NE 20-33-4E, and railroad route between Camp 26 and Rib Lake Lumber Company sawmill using as base map 1949 quad of Rib Lake, NB-black rectangle one-third mile west of camp-marked ‘1’ – is location of log cabin constructed c. 1948 – standing today – 7-12-2011 – named ‘Snow Shoe Lodge’ a private deer hunting cabin

15015-map quad ‘1949’ printed of Rib Lake by U.S. Geological Survey showing Wood Lake

15015A-ibid Rib Lake & legend

15015B-ibid Harper Lakes

15015C-ibid, corner-Price, Taylor & Lincoln Co.

15015D-ibid, Spirit Town Hall

15015E-ibid, Tim’s Lake – all map portions ‘15 minute series (planimetric)’ NB-this map shows the railroad track in place in the Village of Rib Lake but removed east of the Village. This condition existed 1949-195_, therefore the caption ‘printed 1949’ is an accurate date – Robert P. Rusch

15016-Map 2010 official state highway map – Wisconsin –cover page P. Governor Jim Doyle

15016-Rib Lake area – NB-to this day, area east of Wood Lake devoid of state or county highways

From Brad Ewoldt collection 7-2011

15017 8-15-1930 ‘The Rib Lake Herald’ (fragment – 4 sides, local news notes) ad-Jos. Lilly dba Rib Lake Service Station, Stern’s Store, Rib Lake, clothes, furnishing & shades

15017A-ad, Freiberg & Trantow Insurance Agency, Rib Lake

15017B-Ad, Young pigs for sale, RBLC

15017C-ad, Taylor County Fair

15017D-Ad, Dr. E.A. Lapham, Physician & surgeon, Walter Gums, Decorator article ‘Battle Scenes in France’

15017E-Ad, City Meat Market, Wm. Seeley, Prop. Art Herrem, Merchant, tailor and dry cleaner; Dr. C.C. Smith, Dentist; K.J. Urquhart, Attorney, Medford

15017F-demonstration on Albert Yorde Farm, Rib Lake, ‘We are going to fill the tank of the John Deere tractor with fuel you can get at about half the cost of gasoline…’

15017G-ads, T. (Thomas) A. Andresen, District & private attorney; Attorney Oscar Rademacher [Westboro residence], Lake Superior District Power Co.

15017XA-ibid, condensed version of 15017A to include more data

15017XB- ibid, condensed version of 15017B to include more data

15017XE-ibid, condensed version of 15017E to include more data

15017XG-ibid, condensed version of 15017G to include more data

Collection of William Guy Wallace [W603 N. 2nd St., Palmyra, WI 53156

15018 2-28-2011 email, William Wallace to Robert P. Rusch

15019 Biography c. 2011 ‘William Guy Wallace, 7-4-1871 to 9-15-1951, aka Guy Wallace ‘by William Guy Wallace’ born 7-4-1940

15019A-ibid p. 2

15020-obit, 1951 Guy Wallace

15021-inscription page to 1882 Bible study book-George Wallace to Guy Wallace

15022-Bio. of Flossie Belle Wallace, nee Page, by William Guy Wallace

15022A-ibid p. 2

15022B-ibid p. 3

15022C-ibid p. 4

15022D-ibid p. 5

15023-L. 1952 Naida Straub, daughter of Guy & Flossie Wallace, to William Guy Wallace

15023A-ibid p. 2, signed Naida

15024-descendants chart of Emma Krueger, nee Gerstberger and Albert Krueger, husband #1, and Carl ‘Charlie’ Krueger, husband #2

15025-Bio. Emma Krueger, nee Gerstberger, by William Guy Wallace

15025A-ibid p. 2

15025B-ibid p. 3

15025C-ibid p. 4

15025D-ibid p. 5 and photo Emma Krueger c. 1940

15026-obid 12-4-1930 August Herman Krueger, aka August Krueger

15027-handwritten family history notes by William Guy Wallace-including suicide of Ernest Gerstberger, savior of Gerstberger Pines County Park

15028-Bio. Charles Friedrick Herman Kreuger, aka Charlie Krueger

15029-Obit, 10-3-1957 Carl F. Krueger, Rib Lake Herald

15030-P. Carl Krueger, aka Charlie Krueger c. 1940

15031-Obit 10-24-1957 Emma Krueger, nee Gerstberger, aka Mrs. Charlie Krueger, Rib Lake Herald

15032-’Kruegers in America-children of Charles & Emma Krueger’

15032A-ibid p. 2

15032B-ibid p. 3

15033 5-31-1945 wedding invitation Irene Krueger & Albert Beck

15034 5-31-1945 P. Irene Krueger, bride, in front of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church

15035-W. ‘Al & Irene Beck’ by William Guy Wallace

15035A-ibid p. 2

15036-P. 5-31-1945 Mr. and Mrs. Albert F. Beck, stained glass window above ‘St. John the Baptist [Catholic] Church’

15037-Obit c. 11-28-2010 Albert ‘Al’ F. Beck

15038 7-24-1941 wedding invitation and photo of Verna Kreuger & Alfred ‘Pete’ White

15039-P. 7-24-1949 Verna Kreuger & Alfred ‘Pete’ White

15040-P. c. 1990 Alfred ‘Pete’ White

15041 10-5-1946 wedding invitation Armella Myrtle Kreuger & Edward C. Leidy, Jr.

15041A-P. ibid, wedding portrait Armella Myrtle Kreuger & Edward C. Leidy, Jr.

15042-W. ‘The Wallace Family-Pike & Vera & kids’ by William Guy Wallace c. 2005

15042A

15042B

15042C

15042D

15042E

15042F

15042G

15042H

15042I

15042J

15042K

15042L

15042M

15042N

15042O

15042P

15042Q

15042R

15042S

15042T

15042U

15042V

15042W

15042X

15042Y

15042Z

15042AA

15042BB

15042CC

15042DD

15042EE

15042FF

15042GG

15042HH

15042II

15042JJ

15042KK

15042LL

15042MM

15042NN

15042OO

15042PP

15043-Obit, Lester W. ‘Pike’ Wallace 11-27-1913 to 12-3-2001

15044-P. Lester W. Wallace & wife, Vera, nee Krueger, 50th wedding anniversary, Camp 28 Restaurant, Rib Lake

15045-P. The Krueger twins, Mrs. Alfred White & Mrs. Lester Wallace ‘Verna & Vera’ c. 1995

15046-Map c. 1-1-1941 ‘Kruegerville’ area of Village of Rib Lake – junction of High & West Street, by William Guy Wallace, with legend by Robert P. Rusch

15047-P. c. 1938 George Straub, salesman for Ford dealership, Ogema, WI, celebrating 27,000,000 Fords sold

15048-W. ‘Arnold & Ellen Krueger’ by William Guy Wallace c. 2005

15049-P. c. 1930 Arnold Krueger with wood-spoked automobile

15050 1-6-1988 Star News Arnold E. Krueger ‘Resident of the month’ at Rib Lake Health Care Center

15051-Obit, Arnold E. Krueger 6-7-1907, Rib Lake, to 12-31-1993, Rib Lake

15052 1-3-1994 Arnold E. Krueger memorial card-cover page

15052A-text

15053-W. 1953 ‘Krueger Family Reunion’ Rib Lake, WI

15053A-ibid p. 1

15053B-ibid-p. 2

15053C-ibid-p. 3

15053D-ibid p. 4

15053E-ibid p. 5

15053F-ibid p. 6

15053G-ibid p. 7

15053H-W. Milwaukee Journal c. 1948 ‘GI saved by Dutch couple in war, greet them here.’ Story of Victor Krueger, son of August & Emma Krueger

15053I-P. c. 1940 Alice Krueger playing flute

15054-P. 9-1941 flood at 102 Tap; pick-up truck loaded with milk cans being pulled by tractor southwest on Hohl Drive; location NE NW 34-33-2E

15055-P. 9-1941 flood – 4 cars & one truck convoy west on STH 102

15056-P. 9-1941 unidentified man wearing Rib Lake High School team jacket standing at junction of STH 102 and Hohl Drive, rear-outhouses serving 102 Tap, view west

End of William Guy Wallace collection 15018-15056

Robert P. Rusch Collection

15057 business card – Russ Wudi dba Russ’ Coins 7-2011, announcing construction of new store on McComb Ave. replacing Scharer building, razed 6-2011

15058 5-23-1929 Taylor County Leader ‘Soo Line Engine Now on the Rib Lake Branch’ The Wisconsin Central Railroad built to Rib Lake in 1883. In 1902 it became part of the Soo Line. Until May, 1929, the Rib Lake Lumber Company used its engine and employees to pull the train to and from Chelsea, Wis. From May, 1929, to the abandonment of the Rib Lake to Chelsea line in 1951, the Soo Line used its locomotive and personnel on the Rib Lake Branch.

15059-P. 5-2011 Colton and Brendan Riggs-grandsons of Robert P. Rusch-Rib Lake expatriates

15060 2-18-1994 Herman A. Rusch memorial card-cover

15060A-born 10-4-1903 in Rib Lake, died 2-15-1994, the twenty-third psalm [Robert P. Rusch is the 3rd of 4 sons of Herman Arthur Rusch]

15061-c. 1965 Raymond M. Bundick, ‘Historical Memoirs of Taylor County’ cover [author was Westboro resident and avid historian]

15061A-ibid p. 1, 6-5-1875 S.E. Albin builds dam on Copper Creek 1-4 mile from Rib Lake [this is site of Lakeview Cemetery-SW NW 25-33-2E]; 3-20-1875 Ole Oleson builds dam on outlet of what is later named Kennedy Lake-SE SW 22-33-2E. Ole Oleson builds a pine camp 1-4 mile [Kennedy Lake-originally called Muddy Rib Lake] on 4-15-1874. [If Ole Oleson is the same person as Otto Oleson, he may have been Rib Lake’s first permanent white resident. Photo #13975 c. 1910 shows renovations to Otto Oleson’s Rib Lake saloon. The 7-14-1911 Star News reported ‘Otto Oleson of Rib Lake was a Medford caller Monday.’--Robert P. Rusch 7-21-2011

15061B-’Hughey Dam & [pine] camp, the first logging dam in Taylor County, 10-6-1860, patented 10-20-1860; SE SW 13-32-1W [3 miles south of Town of Westboro-on north fork of Yellow River.]

15061C-Dams in Westboro, Mondeaux, Westboro, east & west

15061D-land purchase dates

15061E-ibid

15061F-pine camp layout, original spelling of Westboro was Westborough

15061G-detailed pine camp description

15061H-ibid, ice roads

15061I-ibid, and spring break-up, river log drives

15061J-dams, river rates and sacking

15061K-river drives, skow, stamping hammers, scalping, c. 1864 shanties on Silver Creek by Gus Skinner, Thomas Fitzgerald & Johnie Reader, snow as ‘a borough’

15061L-c. 1871 homesteaders, ‘capitalists’ and ‘lumber barons’ cadwallander ‘the Chippewa Trail’, the plat of Westboro was recorded 11-28-1874 in Chippewa County [Taylor County created 3-4-1875 from territory taken from Clark, Chippewa, Marathon & Lincoln Counties, 7-3-1875 towns of Westboro, Chelsea & Little Black created, i.e. ‘set off’ from Town of Medford by Taylor County board; 7-1873 first train thru Medford, Latton p. 11

15061M-Taylor County population in 1875, 1,849, first white settler in what was to become Taylor County was A.E. Harder, homesteading N ½ NE 34-31-1E, 12-1872

15061N-creation of Taylor County, C.C. Palmer, initial supervisor

15061O-courthouse dispute

15061P-ibid

15061R-Taylor County courthouse construction

15061S-Township creation, Westboro 7-3-1875, Rib Lake from Westboro 1885; John Duncan tram road, i.e. railroad with poles for rails, John Duncan’s sons were William ‘Billie’ and Thomas ‘Tommie’

15061T-Albert Joseph Perkins, (12-27-1830 to 1-1909) first mayor of City of Medford, son Frank M. Perkins ‘Names of Rib Lake old timers’

15061U-ibid

15061V-Rib Lake ‘old timers’ continued

15061W-ibid

15061X-ibid

15061Y-ibid

15061Z-ibid ‘some of the first settlers in Westborough’

15061AA-lumber company acreages, 1912, Rib Lake Lumber Company 5,320 acres in Taylor County

15061BB-history of Westboro, i.e. ‘West Borough’

15061CC-forest fires

Daniel Barnes Collection

15062 c. 1939 Elwin McLeod’s business card ‘Freiberg & McLeod Agency Insurance, Rib Lake, Wisc.’

Collection of Lillion nmi Thums, nee Kurek, a/k/a Mrs. Edwin ‘Ed’ Thums, dob 2-16-1917, and Gregory ‘Doc’ Thums, dob 4-6-1942

15063-P. 1988 Ed & Lillian Thums – 50th wedding anniversary

15064-P. 1938 Ed & Lillian Thums on bridge at Copper Falls State Park, Mellon, WI

15065 1939 Rib Lake High School commencement announcement-cover

15065A-title page, roll

15065B-the class roll-36 students

Helen M. Anderson, Bernice M. Andrews, Donald M. Barnes, Lorraine D. Becker, Ellwood H. Bleck, Ewdin R. Blomberg, Peter L. Bogumill, Helen R. Bokath, Delores N. Danley, Gerald P. Dewsz, Evelyn M. Everson, Isabel I, Frank, Viola H. Freiboth, Anne M. Frombach, Florence A. Fuchs, Raymond E. Gilge, Edward Heintz, Marie M. Hohl, Donald C. Jensen, Harold H. Jensen, Raymond C. Kttleson, Frederick R. Klemm, Amos S. Martin, Anita E. Martin, Louis L. Mihalka, John S. Patrick, Lanita A. Radtke, O.Rogers Reistad, Myrtle E. Rhody, Peter G. Schinker, Ruth Schmidt, Ethel M. Thums, Florian Turba, Evelyn R. Yarish, Alma L. Ziehlke, Christine A. Ziembo

15066-P. 1978 Ed & Lillian Thums 40th wedding anniversary; rear-Altar-St. John the Baptist Catholic Church

15067 3-15-1938 envelope-Rib Lake Lumber Company to Edwin Thums

15067A-Wis. unemployment compensation ‘benefit liability report’ form signed E.C. Edens for Rib Lake Lumber Company of Delaware 3-15-1938 showing weekly wages of Edwin Thums, Feb. 1937 thru. Feb. 1938, ‘Lay-off’ weekly wages as lumber piler ran from $8 to $21.60; at $21.60 per week at 40 hours per week, Edwin was paid 40 cents per hour; by all accounts he was a master lumber piler

15067B-back of form

15068-P. 1950 Edwin Thums walking with snowshoe rabbit he bagged on Gunnar Road-SE SE 24-33-1E

15069-P. c. 1940 rabbit hunters, Left-Edwin Thums, right-Frank ‘Beetle’ Bailey

15070-c. 1960 ‘History of the Rib Lake Public Library’ 1906-1952

15070A-1953-1955 signed Lillian Thums, Director, Rib Lake Public Library

15071-c. 1977 ‘German Settlement History’ Roy R. Meier, published by Clare’s Cranny, cover

15071A- p. 1 & 2, Isaac Stone-discoverer white pine, Siegfried Meier, Founder, German Settlement

15071B-p. 3 & 4, Pastor Ostergren

15071C-p. 5 & 6, River drives to Wausau, Knox Bros.

15071D-p. 7 & 8, Rib Lake Lumber Company

15071E-p. 9 & 10, Pastor Doripat, George Meyer ‘Lightening Rod George’ signed Roy R. Meier

15071F-back-Map ‘German Settlement c. 1890 land tenure

15072 1953-54 Twentieth Century Club program-cover

15072A-Title Page

15072AA-Star Spangled Banner

15072B-Federation Song, officers, committees

15072C-members, monthly meetings

15072D-ibid

15072E-ibid

15072F-The collect

15072G-Our American Heritage

15073 1955-56 Twentieth Century Club program-cover

15073A-mission statement, the collect

15073B-officers, members, committees

15073C-monthly meetings

15073D-ibid

15073E-ibid

15073F-ibid, each of us has a gift

15074 1967-68 Twentieth Century Club program-cover

15074A-title page

15074B-poem & collect

15074C-motto, officers, members

15074D-monthly meetings

15074E-ibid

15074F-ibid

15074G-committees

15075 1964-65 Twentieth Century Club program-cover

15075A-title page

15075B-collect

15075C-officers & members

15075D-monthly meetings

15075E-ibid

15075F-ibid

15075G-a meeting prayer, committees

15076 1965-66 Twentieth Century Club program-cover

15076A-title page

15076B-collect

15076C-officers & members

15076D-monthly meetings

15076E-ibid

15076F-ibid & federation song

15076G-committees

15077 1966-67 Twentieth Century Club program-cover

15077A-title page

15077B-pledge & mission statement

15077C-officers & members

15077D-monthly meetings

15077E-ibid

15077F-committees

15078 1967-68 Twentieth Century Club program-cover

15078A-title page

15078B-theme

15078C-officers & members

15078D-standing committees

15078E-monthly meetings

15078F-ibid

15078G-committees

15078H-ibid

15079 1968-69 Twentieth Century Club program-cover

15079A-title page

15079B-theme

15079C-officers & members

15079D-standing committees

15079E-monthly meetings

15079F-ibid

15079G-ibid

15079H-ibid

15080 10-16-1968 Twentieth Century Club dues receipt for $3 signed Beverly F. Hesse, aka Mrs. S.F. Hesse, treasurer

15081 1969-70 Twentieth Century Club program-cover

15081A-title page

15081B-dedication to Mabel Prien

15081C-officers

15081D-members

15081E-committees

15081F-monthly meetings

15081G-ibid

15081H-ibid

15081I-ibid

15081J-ibid

15081K-ibid

15082 1972-73 Twentieth Century Club program-cover

15082A-title page

15082B-officers & theme

15082C-members

15082D-committees

15082E-monthly meetings

15082F-ibid

15082G-ibid

15082H-ibid

15083 9-19-1972 receipt Twentieth Century Club dues for $6 signed Anna May Meyer

15084 1974-75 Twentieth Century Club program-cover

15084A-title page, 75th anniversary

15084B-officers & theme

15084C-members

15084D-committees

15084E-monthly meetings

15084F-ibid

15084G-ibid

15084H-ibid

15084I-collect

15085 1980-81 Twentieth Century Club program-cover

15085A-title page

15085B-honorary members, theme & committees

15085C- monthly meetings

15085D-ibid

15085E-ibid & collect

15086 1981-82 Twentieth Century Club program-cover

15086A-title page

15086B-members [down to 11, including Mrs. Robert Rusch]

15086C-honorary members, theme & committees

15086D- monthly meetings

15086E-ibid

15086F-ibid & collect

15087 1983-84 Twentieth Century Club program-cover

15087A-title page

15087B-committees & members (now 14) and 8 honorary

15087C-monthly meetings

15087D-ibid

15087E-calendar of events 83-84

15087F-collect & monthly meetings, now at public library

15088 1985-86 Twentieth Century Club program cover

15088A-cover list of 30 and 40 year members

15088B-officers, committees

15088C-members-now 11

15088D-montly meetings

15089 1987-88 Twentieth Century Club program-cover

15089A-title page

15089B-theme & table & contents

15089C-officers & committees

15089D-members [now 10-first names printed for time time]

15089E-monthly meetings

15089F-directory

15090 P. 10-1987 at Twentieth Century Club meeting, L-R, Hattie Taylor, nee Mathias, aka Mrs. Elmer Taylor; Mrs. Richard ‘Lue’ Hales; Lillian, Mrs. Edwin Thums; Sue, Mrs. Raymond Voemastek; Margaret Desris, aka Mrs. John Desris

15091 1988-89 Twentieth Century Club program-cover (attached is leaflet on Wisconsin Federation of Women’s Clubs-’WFWC’ & General Federation of Women’s Club, Hdgr. Washington DC ‘GFWC’

15091A-policies, accomplishments

15091B-emblem & motto & 3 categories of members

15091C-title page

15091D-table of contents & title page #2

15091E-collect, officers, committees

15091F-members [now 9] & selective programs & projects, including ‘Story of Ice Age Trail’

15091G-flag etiquette

15092-P. 10-1987 Twentieth Century Club meeting; L-R, Hattie Taylor, nee Mathias, aka Mrs. Elmer Taylor; Lu Hales, nee Becker, aka Mrs. Richard Hales; Lillian Thums, nee Kurek, aka Mrs. Edwin Thums; Sue Voemastek, aka Mrs. Richard Voemastek; Inez Vanucha, aka Mrs. Martin Vanucha

End of Lillian Thums & Gregory Thums collection

15093 7-23-2011 memo-Rib Lake Twentieth Century Club dissolution by Robert P. Rusch

15094-Rib Lake Herald 4-30-1943 front page-upper left-fire destroys veneer plant at Westboro

15094A-upper right-Friday is last day for huge bond drive

15094B-lower right-S-Sgt. John Eckhoff suggests mothers write

15094C-lower left-R.J. Voemastek appointed postmaster

15095-P. ‘Main St. Rib Lake Wis. No C-16’ c. 1943 McComb Ave. looking north from Rib Lake Lumber Company railroad tracks-NB in foreground-Left-Braun building; Rexall Drugs-Kennedy (originally Upjohn Pharmacy) Drug Store; Gettleman Beer sign on 2011 Frosted Mug Tavern, 723 McComb; Schlitz beer sign on Frank & Cecilia Becker Tavern-2011 ‘Bird’s Next’, 729 McComb; blurred pedestrian; right-Rib Lake Lumber Company general store; C.C. Lord Bookkeeping building; Lodge-Modern Woodmen of America, aka Woodman Hall; Former Wisconsin Hotel; Bogumill building-Lot 6 & 7, Block A, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

15096 8-12 thru 8-14-2011 Ice Age Days, 24th annual, program, left side

15096A 8-12 thru 8-14-2011 Ice Age Days, 24th annual, program, right side

15097 2011 Koplin’s Camp 28 Saloon, Restaurant & Motel flyer

15097A-back

15098 Map 7-21-2011 logging dam sites by Larry Peterson, Taylor County Zoning Administrator

15098A-legend-legal description of dam sites

William G. Wallace Collection

15099 4-15-1998 Star News, Naida E. Straub obituary

15100 4-11-1998 Naida E. Straub Memorial card

15100A-back-James & Karon Dallmann, dba Dallmann Funeral Home

15101-L. 1980 Naida E. Straub to brother, Lester ‘Pike’ Wallace and wife, Vera

15101A-p. 2 Wellington Haight, renamed Wellington Lake, for himself, from Worthington

15101B-p. 3 Blue Royal Tavern

15101C-p. 4 signed ‘Naida’

15102 1904 Rib Lake Public School report card for Victor Van Gieson-Eva Willet, Teacher

15103-P. c. 1910 unidentified farmer & boy with herd of cattle and sheep

15103A-back ‘this is a postal (sic) of cattle which Pa took to Chicago…he got $1308 for the cattle.’

15103B-L. 7-24-2011 William G. Wallace to Robert P. Rusch speculating card may have been written by Albert or Charley Krueger re their father, August Krueger.

15104 11-20-1988 Carl Rhody biography, ‘The Saga of Spirit Valley’ by Dennis McCann of the Milwaukee Journal

15104A-P. Carl Rhody, p. 2

Robert P. Rusch collection

15105-Maps 8-23-2004 Ice Age Trail & line showing ice limit during Wisconsin Glacier 10,000 to 12,000 years ago; Map 163b Village of Rib Lake to South Harper Lake & Rusch Preserve – color

15105A-ibid-black & white

15105B-Map 161b 8-23-2004 Ice Age Trail & line showing ice limit during Wisconsin Glacier 10,000-12,000 years ago; Rusch Preserve east to Taylor County Forest-color

15105C-ibid-black & white

15106-Map 7-14-2011 Rusch Preserve-part S half-NE NE 12-T33-R2E, Town of Rib Lake, Taylor County

15106A c. 1984 ‘Ice Age Trail getting longer’ by Richard Eddleston, Associated Press; beginnings of Ice Age Trail in Town of Rib Lake; P. Robert P. Rusch Camp 6, SE NE 12-33-2E

15107 7-2011 School District of Rib Lake newsletter; ‘Keeping our district alive’ by Larry Black, District Administrator, ‘Our School aids from the state-will shrink by about $356,000 next year.’

15107A-a long-term look forward

15107B-first day of school

15107C-school start up

15107D-student school attendance

15107E-pre-concussion test

15107F-annual notice and 2011-2012 calendar

15107G-annual meeting moved to October

Daniel C. Mathias collection

15108-c. 1920 ‘Henry Mathias, Rib Lake, Wis.’ stenciled shipping label used when rolls of flooring underlayment sent by train to father of Daniel Mathias. Label found 7-2011 by Brad Ewoldt while remodeling home at 1135 Church Street

15109-abstract of title, Lot 2, Block 3, 1895 plat of Village of Rib Lake-Daniel C. Mathias house at 420 Maple Street

15109A-Lot 2 on 1913 map

15109B-deed 12-26-1881 to John J. Kennedy et ux

15109C-plat ‘Village’ of Rib Lake 4-23-1895

15109D-deed-John J. Kennedy to Etta Johnson $575 10-8-1895

15109E-deed to George Braun $450 7-17-1907

15109F-First National Bank of Rib Lake satisfaction by James Upjohn, President, and E.C. Getchel, cashier

15109G-judgment against Mr. and Mrs. Clendenning

15109H-foreclosure 10-13-1923

15109I-Deed 2-10-1928 to Matilda Tauber

15109J-mortgage by Matilda & Frank Tauber

15109K-Deed 3-26-1930 to E.A. Heden

15109L-Koehler Land Co. extension

15109M

15109N-Deed 8-26-1931 to Florence Simerson

15109O-Harold R. Gowey, abstractor

15109P-Satisfaction of mortgage

15109Q 12-8-1939 deed to Henry & Elizabeth Mathias

15109R 4-5-1972 deed to Daniel C. & Dorothea A. Mathias

15109S-Certificate of Abstractor, Harold R. Gowey

15110 6-3-1964 ‘For Mathias, a time to rest’ Green Bay Press Gazette, Daniel C. Mathias retirement

15111-c. 1950 ‘Family reunion held at Central Hotel Sunday’ Eva Ehrenreich, Matriarch

15112-P. 1925 L-Henry Mathias, Sr.; R-Henry Mathias, Jr. wearing cook’s apron-he loved to cook and operated with his wife, Elizabeth Mathias, nee Ehrenreich, the Central Hotel c. 1917-1957. Photo looking eastward from Central Hotel to Rib Lake Lumber Company dry yard. Note elevated tramway & lumber piles

15113-’Descendants of Joachim Mathias’ by John Firkus. Henry Mathias, Sr. and Junior and offspring

15113A-p. 2 Henrietta Mathias marries John S. Kennedy 1-6-1906-see Kennedys-Movers and Shakers at . Progeny of John S. Kennedy listed through 6-16-2003

15113B-p. 3 siblings of Henry Mathias, Sr.

15114-P. c. 2000 John Firkus

15115-P. c. 1930 Daniel C. Mathias & Godfather, Dan Pilon-famous Rib Lake Lumber Company camp cook

15116 12-17-1941 ‘Rib Lake Reader’s Log’ by Rib Lake High School

15116A-history of carols

15116B-sports

15116C-songs remind us

15116D-hunting tales

15116E-class news

15116F-FFA

15116G-poetry

15117-history of Rib Lake 1-2-1940

15118 5-1944 ‘Class of 25 to receive diplomas at Rib Lake High’

15119 5-10-1944 Rib Lake High School commencement program cover

15119A-class roll

15120 5-10-1944 commencement, Rib Lake High School

15120A-announcement, motto, colors & flower

15121-history 1947

15121A-p. 2

Robert P. Rusch collection

15122-P. 7-2011 George J. Zondlo, Jr. in his barbershop, 821 McComb Ave., Block C, Lots 6 & 7, McComb’s Racing Park Addition. George is also a real estate broker-hence the pages of listings on the wall

15123-P. 7-2011 George J. Zondlo, Jr. and impressive deer head mount

15124-P. 7-2011 interior-Zondlo’s Barbershhop-chair ready for next customer

15125-P. 7-2011 Barber chair-Zondlo’s Barbershop, image of photographer (Robert P. Rusch) reflected in mirror

15126-P. 7-0011 sign-’Future home-Russ’ Coins-buy-sell-appraise. Russ Wudi, 715-965-4697, Lot 4, Block B, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, 814 McComb Ave.

15127-P. 7-2011 Russ Wudi’ coin shop site, 814 McComb Ave, former site of Scharer Tavvern-razed 6-2011; building on left is Genesis Youth Center-818 McComb Ave, affiliated with Camp Forest Springs; the stucco rear building is a remnant of the hardware store operated there c. 1920-1980; the building on the right is the rear of the Little Bohemia Bowl & Café, 806 McComb Ave., [editor’s note-images 15122-15127 ar not part of the Daniel Mathia collection but are Robert P. Rusch’s]

15127A-P. 7-2011 south side of Genesis Youth Center building, 818 McComb Ave.; front-cement block portion constructed c. 1995; rear-stucco portion is former hardware store addition to front, which earlier was wood frame; rear-lawn south of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 859 Fayette Ave; NB-digital number 5-12-104 in photo is in error

End Robert P. Rusch collection

15128 1960 ‘Class of 1944 in jolly mood after 17 years of life’ Rib Lake Herald, P. Wilbert Blomberg, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Mathias, Mrs. Dick (Alys Daus) Mueller and Mr. Mueller

15129-Rib Lake High School alumni 1942-45

15129A-p. 2 1944

15129B-p. 3 1945

15130 1944 Chequamegon-Rib Lake High School yearbook-cover

15130A-photo of school

15130B-senior class

15130C-faculty

15130D-ibid

15130E-seniors

15130F-ibid

15130G-ibid

15130H-ibid

15130I-Juniors

15130J-junior photos

15130K-ibid

15130L-sophomores

15130M-ibid

15130N-freshmen

15130O-ibid

15130P-8th, 7th, & 6th grade

15130Q-5th thru 3rd grades

15130R-P. 2nd-kindergarten

15130S-sports & activities

15130T-annual staff

15130U-newspaper

15130V-student council-library

15130W-glee club

15130X-forensics

15130Y-three act plays

15130Z-basketball

15130AA-ibid

15130BB-school spirit

15130CC-Art Schultz & Bob Hess, bus drivers, janitors John Stelling & Carl Yorde

15130DD-junior prom

15130EE-kiddie pictures

15130FF-honor roll (military veterans)

15131-Rib Lake Herald 8-1-1957 Central Hotel sold

End of Daniel Mathias collection

Robert P. Rusch collection

15132-P. Westboro Main Street, STH 13 c. 1950 ‘510’ looking south from junction of CTH D and STH 13; right-Bud Odau Phillips 66 Gas Station, ‘Wear U Well Shoes’ shoe repair, ‘Electric Shop’, next building south is 2-story brick ‘Ruprich’ store; left-east side-’Westboro Locker Plant, fresh & frozen meats & foods, Hardware sporting goods’ (in 2011 building is Peterson Machine & Tool Co, N8882 Bus. Hwy 13); Texaco Gas Station sign in NE corner of STH 13 & then road east to Rib Lake (in 2011 CTH D); horizon-concrete of STH 13 turns SE and then uses bridge to cross soo line railroad [bridge razed c. 1975 when STH 13 rerouted westward around Westboro]

Rib Lake Fire Dept. collection

15133-P. 1963 24-man department in front of combination Village & Fire Hall-741 McComb Ave., wearing hats & buttons celebrating ‘How-de-do in ‘62’; back row-left to right-John Schreiner, Mike Cihasky, Erv Meyer, Paul Hohl, Jack Budimlija, Pete Eckhoff, Barney Cihasky, Keith Zintz, Don Meyer, Harold Zielke, Wes Stiel, George Thums, Duane Warner; front row-Bob Bleck, Al Eggert, Ray Becker, Elwood Bleck, Wayne Bullis, Frank Yanko, Ed Martin, Clarence Tippelt, George Buksa, John ‘Tubby’ Eckhoff, Ed Thums

15134 1962 ad in Herald-partial-celebrating 60th anniversary of Rib Lake Volunteer Fire Department; officers-Edwin Martin, Chief; Frank Yanko, First Assistant Chief; George Buksa, Second Assistant Chief; Clarence Tippelt, Secretary-Treasurer

Rolland ‘Rollie’ & Sue Thums collection

15135-P. June 1938 Thums-Kurek wedding party; left to right-Frank Kurek & Ethel Thums, Edwin ‘Ed’ Thums, groom, & Lillian Kurek, bride, Daniel Thums & Jessie Kurek

15136-P. c. 1936 Lillian Kurek, lka Mrs. Edwin Thums

15137-P. c. 1938 Edwin ‘Ed’ Thums standing; far right-Lillian Thums, nee Kurek, & their children, left to right-Raymond ‘Ray’ Francis (6-31-1939 [Marathon Co. Circuit Court Judge c. 1980-2005]), Gregory ‘Doc’ Edwin (4-6-1942), Rolland ‘Rollie’ Timothy (9-6-1945)

15138-P. c. 1980 Anton ‘Tony’ Kurek, father of Lillian Thums, standing in front of Thums a-frame cottage under construction on South Harper Lake. Tony was a self-taught, master carpenter, who made intricate, dove-tailed joined wood boxes in which to send items to relatives in Poland

15139-P. c. 1984 Francis Kurek, aka Mrs. Anton Kurek, on deck of Thums’ South Harper Lake cottage

15140-P. c. 1984 Thums’ South Harper Lake A-frame

15141-P. c. 1981 view from Thums’ South Harper Lake cottage

15142-P. 10-2000 interior- Thums’ South Harper Lake cottage

15143P. Rolland ‘Rollie’ Thums & his prize walleye c. 1989

15144-P. c. 1999 Susan ‘Sue’ Thums, nee Marschke, holding grand-daughter, Carissa Budimlija

15145 2011 letterhead-Century 21 Dairyland Realty, Medford, Wis., where Susan Thums was record-breaking broker

15146-P. c. 1990 children of Rolland & Susan Thums-right to left-Jay Steven, Bryan Rolland, Tiffany Susan & Wendy Gail Thums

15147-P. 3-1999 Brandon Budimlija participating in Thums family tradition, the Easter plunge, into South Harper Lake

15148-P. 8-1999 Jay & Cindy Thums & Budimlija nieces contemplating ‘Easter plunge’

Robert P. Rusch collection

15149 Map ‘Fall, 1948’ ‘plat of Sec. 26 & W half of Sec. 27, T33-R2E’ ‘Village of Rib Lake’ by C.R. Claussen, county surveyor, W [Wesly] Stiel & E [Elmer] Gilge, Chain(men), i.e. assistants; legend

15149A-center and southern portion of map

15149B-enlargement-SW portion

15149C-center & north portion of map

15149D-Tannery Pond, ‘Copper Creek’ & NE, former railroad shown in green by Robert P. Rusch

15150 11-22-1893 license for spur track-Curtis Bros. and Co. grants right-of-way to Wisconsin Central Railroad to serve Rib Lake Tannery

15150A-Map, Rib Lake Depot Grounds, 10-26-1897 stamped on back of map recorded in miscellaneous c. p. 395 and marked Ex. ‘X’ to 11-22-1893, license for spur track, Curtis Bros. to Wisconsin Central Railroad to serve Rib Lake Tannery; NB-conflicting dates! 1) W.B. Agnew 11-7-1893; 2) Chief Engineer office, Milwaukee 11-11-1893; 3) stamp on back of map, Wisconsin Central lines Chief Engineer’s Office; 4) date license signed, 10-26-1897, 11-22-1893; 5) date license recorded 11-9-1897; 6) companion documents: Kennedy 15151, 11-17-1893 recorded 11-9-1897, Fayette D. Shaw 15152 11-29-1893 recorded 11-9-1893 *15150, 15151, 15152 recorded at 6 PM 11-9-1893;

Robert P. Rusch analysis: The 3 landowners, Curtis Bros. & Co., John J. Kennedy and Fayette D. Shaw, all signed licenses in 11-1893 to extent track to tannery. There was a delay in recording these 3 licenses until 6 PM 11-9-1897. The railroad map used as Ex. X as attachment to 15150 was originally dated A.B. Ahern 11-7-1893 and Chief Engineer’s Office 11-11-1893. But, by the time #15150 was prepared for recordation in the fall of 1897, a copy of the mpa stamped on back Oc. 26, 1897, was used. The map, therefore, in all likelihood, shows track & buildings as they existed in 1897!, Robert P. Rusch dates the map, #15150A, as 10-26-1897

15150B-ibid, white over black

15150C-map center ‘Kennedy’s sawmill’ with dimensions in feet. 5 yard tracks between 1465’ and 2086’ long ran between air drying lumber piles. The center track ran to the lake & ‘hot pond’ where logs were dumped into the water. NB-’J.J. Kennedy’s logging railroad’ spurred off the tannery track & headed northwest. The cartographer did not show the rest of Kennedy’s logging railroad since the Wisconsin Central did not own it. This spur confirms Guy Wallace’s 1936 history that about 1897 John J. Kennedy conceived the idea of a logging railroad and built northwesterly past Kennedy Lake; see #10728

15150D-ibid, white over black

15150E-Kennedy’s sawmill enlargement with dimensions – 145 x165’ max

15151 11-17-1893 license for spur track to tannery- John J. Kennedy to Wisconsin Central Railroad, companion contract to 15150-Curtis & 15152 Fayette D. Shaw

15151A-Map ‘EXH X’ 1-1-1897 Rib Lake Depot Grounds title page – west map portion

15151B-ibid, tannery track, John J. Kennedy’s logging railroad

15151C-tannery complex-all buildings in Govt. Lot 2, 26-33-2E, office, barn, bark mill, sweat vats, leather drying ho. [house], point D shown in red-end point for license

15151D-ibid

15151E-ibid, enlargement 200%, the drying house was on a hill east of Tannery Creek, necessitating a pile railroad bridge. Contrast small size of 1893 tannery to 1913 Standard Atlas, #237-20

15152 11-29-1893 license for tannery spur-Fayette D. Shaw to Wisconsin Central Railroad

15152A-Map 11-11-1893 Rib Lake Depot Grounds-turntable

15152B-ibid, depot, John J. Kennedy’s logging railroad, log track to first Rib Lake log dump

15152C-ibid, Tannery buildings, B to C, licensed area-all in Govt. Lot 2, 26-33-2E [land Fayette D. Shaw acquired from John J. Kennedy on 6-25-1891 on condition Shaw build tannery]

15152D-ibid white-black of A

15152E-ibid, white-black of B

15152F-ibid, white-black of C

15153 3-4-1897 license for spur track to Whittlesey sawmill or to Black River, Medford Land & Lumber Co. to Wisconsin Central Railroad, signed Fred N. Norton, President, and J. B. Ramsey, Secretary

15153A-p. 2

15153B-Map, Whittlesey Depot Grounds 2-18-1897

15154 5-28-1910 flowage agreement-William & Elisabeth Hebert approved Westboro Lumber Co. flooding their land with waters from its mill dam, J.A. Kay & C.C. Lord, Witnesses, were mill officers

15155 6-12-1909 cemetery deed ‘St. Ann’s Catholic Congregation’ deeds Lot 30, Black A, at the ‘St. Ann’s Roman Catholic’ Cemetery to Mrs. Peter Washatka, signed Rev. Francis Trumpeter, president, and Joseph Niggmann, Secretary, ‘Deed #15’ witnesses-Joseph Brehm and Franz Rudolf

15156 1-1-1910 lease-John Meyer of Interwald, Wis., leaves two acres to August Meyer

15157 11-26-1910 stumpage contract-Otto & Attilie Foepler sell ‘all timber’ on S 1/2 , NW & N ½ SW 2-31-2E to Upham Manufacturing of Marshfield, deadline 4-1-1915 for $1100, Upham will sleigh logs to Goodrich-10 miles away-and train logs to Marshfield

15157A-p. 2

15158 3-8-1911 Westboro Lumber Co. surrenders stumpage rights but retains road and railroad rights on W ½ NE ¼, 19-33-2E owned by A.L. Wayne, scrivener’s error says 1 east

15159 P. 3-2011 archives and office of Rib Lake Historical Society-N8645 CTH C, Rib Lake. The Society occupies the lower level of the residence of Lorraine Anne Killion

15160 P. 3-2011 roadway through melting snow to Society office

15161 P. 3-2011 view of pond from Society office

15162 P. 5-2011 Schoenwalde sign on way to Society office; Schoenwalde [German for Beautiful forest], Das Heim Ann & Robert Rusch, the home of Ann & Robert Rusch, Das Dorf Der Familie Gebauer, the Village of the Gebauer Family, In Schlesien, Deutschland in Silesia, Germany.

15163 P. 5-2011 Schoenwalde sign next to prairie planted by Robert P. Rusch along road to Society office

15164 P. 5-2011 home of Ann & Robert P. Rusch adjacent to Society office, SE NE 13-33-2E, Town of Rib Lake

15165 2-4-1911 contract, Westboro Lumber Co. & Arthur Premeau, aka J.A. Premeau; Premeau grants Westboro Lumber Co. right to operate logging railroad ‘where the same is now located.’ Over NE NW and NW NE 13-33-1E. This approved a track running beneath the soo line bridge spanning Silver Creek. That bridge stands-as of 2011-part of the Pine Line Rail-Trail.

15166 4-29-1908 John & Ida Lemke assign their interest in land contract & cedar stumpage contract to former partners, H.W. Stelling, aka Henry Stelling, cedar contract signed by Rib Lake Lumber Company 1-11-1907 on 1) N ½ NW ¼; 2) SE ¼ NW 1/4 , Sec. 15; 3) NW ¼ NE 1/4 , Sec. 16; 4) SW ¼ SW ¼, Sec. 30 32-3E; are grantors-John & Ida Lemke-responsible for the name ‘Lemke’ Creek’ on nearby lands?

15167 5-16-1898 will of Seraphine Tlusty, i.e. all to my beloved wife Mary Tlusty, Frank Schneider, executor, order allowing will

15167A signed MA. Buckley, county judge, order allowing will to probate 5-2-1911, certificate by Judge Buckley authenticating copy

15168 5-31-1911 domestic care contract-Henrietta Radtke-party #1, and Frank Radtke, party #2, Henrietta Radtke conveys her farm to Frank Radtke and Frank agrees to care for her by A) Henrietta & daughters, Bertha & Ella, get 2nd floor of farmhouse; B) Henrietta may use cellar; C) Frank must provide fuel (firewood) and vegetables and a team of horses when Henrietta directs; D) Frank must pay for wedding for Bertha and Ella; E) after the wedding Frank must provide Ella & Bertha ‘a good cow’; F) Henrietta shall not be required to work; if Frank Radtke dies during Henriett’a lifetime, the terms of this agreement shall ‘constitute a lien upon said farm.’; Frank may not sell farm during Henrietta’s liefetime

15169 9-9-1911 Town of Westboro sells Lot 36 of old cemetery to A.J. Emmet-aka Alfred Emmet

15170 11-13-1911 Carl Knop, aka Karl Knop, Sr., a widower, and son, Charlie Knop, aka Karl Knop, Jr., and wife, Bertha, Domestic Care Agreement, consideration-Carl’s farm to Charlie; NW SE 36-33-2E, Carl, born in Germany as Karl, way Robert P. Rusch’s paternal grandfather

15170A-p. 2 ibid, signed Charlie Knop, aka Karl Knop, Jr., and wife, Bertha Knop, nee Kalk

15170B-P. Karl Knop, Sr. and wife, Ernstina 1852-1900, nee Mielke, c. 1895

15170C-W. c. 1995 ‘Knop Roots’ patriarch Karl Knop, Sr., 1852-1930, born in Village of Plotsig, Kreis (county) of Rummelsberg, Province of Pommern (Pomerania), Kingdom of Pruessen (Prussia) [Germany], 4 surviving children, A) Albert Emil Knop, kak Meister Knop, Pa Knop, Albert, Sr., 2-15-1876 to 1942; B) Charles ‘Charlie’ aka Karl, Jr.; C) Martha, Mrs. Alfred Bleck; D) Anna, Mrs. Charles Kalk

15170D-ibid, p. 2, Anna Knop, aka Mrs. Charles Kalk; Albert Knop, Sr., 1876-1942 family tree, Albert Knop, Jr. 1904-1979

15170E-ibid, p. 3, Arthur Carl Knop, 1902-1941; Irma 1900-1981, Mrs. Ray Herman; Alfred ‘Fritzie’ 1913- ; Otto 5-1911 to 1-1912

15170F-Albert Knop, Sr., 1876-1942 family tree

15170G-ibid

15171 1-26-1912 stumpage ‘all timber’ Dodge Bros. by John Dodge to George Braun, SW SW 10-33-3E, $375

15171A 1-6-1912 Joseph Botha grants to George Braun option to buy 80 acres & farm, e.g. 6 cows, 1 heifer, 1 horse, 1 wagon, 1 sleigh, 1 buggy, 1 harrow, 1 plow, all small farm utensils, 1 cream separator, 2 large milk cans, all hay & oats on farm for $2800

15172 2-6-1912 county judge, M.A. Buckley, determines heirs of Phillip Haider, deceased 4-16-1911

15173 1-5-1912 J.L. Janda grants option to George Braun to buy NW NW 28-33-3E for $900; land at junction of Blank & Wilderness Ave-in 2011 part of Gerald & Adrianne Schneider farm

15174 12-13-1911 John Bertognoli grants George Braun & son option to buy SW NW & NE NW 28-33-3E for $1300

15175 4-3-1912 divorce judgment-Malvena & Frank H. Hintz; 1) custody of minor children to Frank; 2) title to Lots 4 & 5, Block J., McComb’s Racing Park Addition, to Malvena & Frank and Carl Theodore ‘C.T.’ Hintz and wife, Bertha, divested; 3) Malvena gets her personal property plus $1200 [Frank J. was in business with his son, C.T. Hintz-e.g. sawmill on west side of Village of Rib Lake and Hintztown. This judgment implies that Malvena got none of the business assets but for $1200 cash plus Lots 4 & 5, Block J, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, i.e. 2 lots on west side of Ella Street, Lot 5 eventually site for Roller Mills – Robert P. Rusch 8-2-11, #10943 map of McComb’s Racing Park Addition]

15176 10-12-1912 stumpage deadline extension – Wisconsin Central Railroad extends to 12-31-1926 deadline for Rib Lake Lumber Company to ‘all merchantable saw timber’ and all pine, hemlock, cedar & spruce on 1) NE NE, 2) NW NW, Sec. 1; 3) NW SE; 4) SE SW Sec. 15; 5) NE, Sec. 25-33-3e [I conclude the inaccessibility of these scattered parcels had made it unprofitable for the Rib Lake Lumber Company and/or its predecessors, e.g. John J. Kennedy, to log these parcels. The Rib Lake Lumber Company logging railroad now reached-or would reach in the near future-within a mail of each of these parcels, making them profitable to harvest-Robert P. Rusch 8-2-2011; NB-the contract was signed by ‘E. Pennington’ aka Edmund Pennington, president of Wisconsin Central Railroad. The ghost town of Pennington, 4 miles west of Prentice, Wis., is named for him, as well as Pennington County, Minnesota

15177 4-23-1908 will of Eugene Duchaine-who bequeaths his entire estate, including Govt. Lots 4, 5 & 6, Sec. 20, 33-2E, to his wife, Nora. ‘Duchien Lake’ lies in the center of Section 20

15178 12-4-1912 stumpage contract-all timber sold by Winniford Mielke, $450 SW NW 14-32-3E to Carl Theodore ‘C.T.’ Hintz; NB-Hintztown sawmill 2 miles to NW

15179 1-20-1913 stumpage ‘all hemlock timber and all hardwood saw logs’ sold by Henry St. Claire $440, W ½, NE, 17-33-3E, to Ernest Gerstberger, removal deadline 4-1-1915 [ironically, Ernest & his father, Edward Gerstberger, save from cutting their own land-now Gerstberger County Park—Robert P. Rusch 8-2-2011]

15180 10-1-1912 as part of deal to exchange lands, Wisconsin Central Railroad consents that Union Tanning Co. [then operating tannery in Rib Lake] may build camps, roads and/or railroad on Wisconsin Central lands in T33-R1W [Town of Westboro] to log or peel bark on adjoining lands.

15180A p. 2, ibid, land descriptions all in 33-1W

15180B-p. 3, ibid, signed by railroad president, Edmund Pennington, and by bankruptcy receivers of the railroad; NB-the Wisconsin Central Railroad had much to gain by this deal-all hides to the Rib Lake Tannery were shipped in by Wisconsin Central as well as all tanned pelts.

15181 2-10-1913 Walter R. Benedict sells stumpage for $350, on NW NE 2-32-3E to Ernst Zuther. NB-Zuther had his own small mill until it was stolen

15182-lease for existing sawmill SW SW 29-32-3E-in 2011 junction of Martin Drive and CTH M- ¼ mile west of Rib River in Interwald – John Meyer to Stephen A. Konz and August Meyer-assigned to A.H. Colien of Oshkosh. NB-S.A. Konz was then operating a substantial sawmill in Village of Rib Lake

15183-4-18-1913 to having to pay half of real taxes Rib Lake Lumber Co. surrendered stumpage rights on lands previously sold to Union Tanning Co.

15183A-ibid p. 2 signatures

15183B-yellow page

15184 4-18-1913 Union Tanning Co. surrenders stumpage rights to Wisconsin Central Railroad to avoid real estate tax obligation

15184A-p. 2 ibid, signatures, Rib Lake Lumber Co. owned by Eugene Horton, President, and Fred E. Knapp, Secretary. Union Tanning Co. by Fred E. Knapp, Secretary, and Eugene Horton, president, & 3rd vice president. Signed in New York, were corporations of both plus US Leather were located

15185 4-18-1913 New Wood Land Co. surrenders stumpage rights to Wisconsin Central Railroad to avoid real estate tax obligation

15185A-p. 2 ibid, signed as to New Wood Land Co. by Eugene Horton, president, and Fred E. Knapp, Secretary

15186 4-18-1913 Rib Lake Lumber Company surrenders stumpage rights to Wisconsin Central Railroad to avoid real estate tax obligations-14 quarter-quarters involved

15186A-p. 2 ibid

15187 6-47-1913 estate of Lorenz Thums, probate order by M.A. Buckley, county judge, Theresa Thums administratix, minor children-Frank, John, Elizabeth, William, Leo, Leonard & Margaretta Thums

15187A-p. 2 ibid estate real property-NW SW & NE SW, Sec. 5, 32-2E; order-personal property to widow, Theresa Thums, B) real property, 1/9 to widow, and each child, subject to widow’s rights of power

15187B-p. 3 ibid

15188 7-20-1908 will, Thomas Polczynsky, Town of Greenwood

15188A-probate order, M.A. Buckley, county judge

15189 11-25-1913 stumpage contract, A.E. Richter to George Braun of Calvary, Wis. $1000; N ½ SW ¼, and NW SE Sec. 7-32-2E, deadline 5-1-1916 ‘all merchantable timber’

15189A-p. 2, ibid

15190 12-11-1913 Taylor Co. Sheriff Clement Kelnhofer swears he ‘honestly, fairly & legally’ conducted public auction of mortgaged property

15190A 9-10-1908 William & Sara M. Pope mortgaged to Lake View Lodge International Order of Foresters, Lot 18, Block C, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, mortgage was bought by George F. Braun

15190B-George F. Braun & his attorney, Herman Leicht, claimed mortgage in default and noticed public auction of property ‘to the highest bidder’; NB-No summons & complaint served on debtor and court proceedings as required by modern law; property, Lot 18, Block C, McComb’s Racing Park Addition is old library building – NE corner of Landall & Pearl Streets

Collection of Carol and Dennis Kuehling

15191 P. c. 1913 ‘Main Street Westboro, Wis, No. 14’ view south on 2011 Business Hwy 13 from CTH D, west. House on right between c. 1940-2000 was Bud Odau gas station; rear-in middle of Main [aka Front] Street is village water pump. A petition in 1891 resulted in the village well sunk in the middle of the intersection of Front & Center Streets. On 3 sides were water troughs for horses. On the 4th side was a dipper for everyone’s use. In 1911 the town board allowed the Silver Creek community band to erect a band stand above the pump-rent was $1 for 10 years. In 1911 Front Street was made part of what would become STH 13, the state insisted the well was a safety hazard & insisted on its removal. The public vehemently resisted all proposals to remove the public water source; the town board eventually had the water works removed under cover of darkness. In 1975 STH 13 was rerouted to a ‘bypass’ on Westboro’s west side and Main/Front Street became ‘Business 13’

15192-P. c. 1950 ‘Main Street Westboro, Wis. C-2’ view north on STH 13 toward junction with Center Street- in 2011 CTH D. The intersection was the site of the famous water well in the center of the road-see #15191; right-the 2-story food store is on the SE corner of Center and Main/Front Streets. The awning reads ‘Bert & Lu’ (aka E. Bert & Lu Etzler) the southward addition advertises ‘flour & feed.’ Until c. 1998, it housed the Radtke grocery store; in 2010 it was remodeled by Douglas Thums into a café-pizzeria. Cities Service Gas Station fills the NE corner lot. A garage featuring Kelly tires & Mobil Gas occupies the hill top on the east side of STH 13. Left-A tavern on the NW corner advertises Leinenkugel beer. The imposing 3-story Ruprich brick building stands on the west side of STH 13. In the distance the steeple of First Lutheran Church stands straight.

15193 P. c. 1900 ‘Saw mill at Westboro, Wis. Hoff #7’ view NW from impounded Silver Creek mill pond of Heidrich & Mattson Lumber Co. mill-purchased in 1902, C.B. Howard Co-Pennsylvania speculators-who operated the mill from 1902-1922 as Westboro Lumber Co.; foreground-flat cars of logs unloaded into Silver Creek mill pond. Bull slide on east side of mill pulls logs into mill. Two chimneys rise above brick boiler room. An elevated tramway on the mill’s south side surrounds the transfer table where lumber is graded and laborers select assigned species by grade and lumber type and load on wagons for transport to outside piles to air dry. Sawdust & slab burner towers over mill on north side.

15194-P. c. 1903 view from east bank of Silver Creek across Westboro Lumber Co. mill pond & sawmill. A railroad track runs parallel west side of Silver Creek & is hidden by a 4-foot high inclined ramp facilitating rolling logs from flatcars into mill pond

15194A-back side, postcard addressed to Mr. Ernest Peterson, Kalispell, Montana, post-dated 7-18-1904, Westboro

15195-P. 9-1912 Westboro Lumber Co dam on Silver Creek forming mill pond, wagon road crosses dam to east side where lumber is piled for drying. A crude A-shaped tower stands in creek-perhaps a youngster diving platform

15196-P. c. 1910 Queenstown addition to Westboro, view west. Truss steel bridge over Silver Creek in center; right-twin steel smokestacks from Westboro Lumber Co. marks planing mill; rear-horizon center-rear of Modern Woodman of America Fraternal hall-Camp 5717-with high school cupola trifle to the left

15197-P. c. 1905 ‘Birds Eye View of Westboro Wis’ same shot as 15196 but photographer moved further east

15197A-backside; postcard post-dated 7-25-1907 addressed to Ernest Peterson, Kalispell, Montana

15198-P. c. 1918 ‘No 20’ Pennsy Ave. & Westboro Lumber Co. viewed from west. North-south Soo Line Railroad tracks in foreground; Pennsy Ave. was a residential street most of whose home tenants came from Pennsylvania with the purchase of the former Heidrick & Mattson mill in 1902. See works of Ruby Hatlestad, who lived on Pennsy Ave. when her father served as engineer for Westboro Lumber Co.; In 2011 Pennsy Ave. is a farm field devoid of any sign of its urban past-NE SE 12-33-1E

15198A-backside-postcard written is Swedish

15199-P. ‘Episcopal Church Picnic Westboro Wis’ c. 1907; the boat is a genuine bateau used in log drives down Silver Creek to Flambeau & Chippewa Rivers; rear-view NW to ‘John Duncan Sawmill’ on NE NE 13-33-1E. In 1873 Duncan, with James Ritchie and William S. Taylor, bought site from Wisconsin Central Railroad on condition they would build a lumber mill & ship via Wisconsin Central; center-Duncan mill pone-flowage on Silver Creek

15200-W. ‘Bateau River Boat’ from Wisconsin Logging Book 1839-1939 by Malcolm Rosholt

15201-W. Westboro Centennial book history of Westboro Episcopal Church

15202-P. c. 1880 The John Duncan, James Ritchie & William S. Taylor Westboro Sawmill, p. 98, Westboro 1875-1975; Duncan bought out his partners & became sole owner-hence the building being sometimes called ‘Duncan’s Sawmill’

15203-P. c. 1920 ‘Wagon bridge Hoff No 11’ Westboro. View to NW-Westboro 3-story School on horizon; The Westboro Lumber Co. logging train tracks are hidden in the foreground running westerly beneath highway bridge-eventually STH 13; beneath bridge was logging dam of Duncan, Ritchie & Taylor – later John Duncan-on Silver Creek. It impounded water for their mill pond. This was the sight for the Duncan-Palmer log battle

15204-W. Excerpt-Duncan-Palmer Log Battle, p. 7, Westboro 1875-1975

15205-P. c. 1930 ‘Silver Creek Bridge-Westboro, Wis’ east side of STH 13 bridge built in place of wagon bridge shown in #15204. bridge in use in 2011

15206-P. c. 1910 ‘high school Westboro, Wis. # 11’ note the artistic wood patterns in the bell tower, the bell & weather vane. A water pump stands ready just outside the main (east) entrance

15206A-backside-postcard to Miss Ruth Elfstrom dated 8 PM 10-10-1911 Westboro from Anna Carlson

15207-P. c. 1905 ‘School house at Westboro’ wooden sidewalk leads west from junction of Third & Center Streets past flagpole & between 2 newly-planted hardwood trees

15208-W. 1975 ‘List of Westboro Public Schools’ p. 16 from Westboro 1875-1975, Last graduating class from Westboro High School in 1967. Wood portion razed c. 1998

15209-1913 standard atlas of Taylor County map ‘Westboro Township 33 North, Range 1 & 2E, scale 400 feet = 1 inch’ note plats ‘Original Town in red’ (plat notarized 11-1874) and additions-Grossman’s, Joseph’s and Queenstown (named for creator)

15210-P. c. 1960 ‘Public School, Westboro, Wis.’ Left-north side of original, wood high school razed c. 1998; right-brick 2-story addition used by the Rib Lake joint school district into the 1990’s. IN 8-2011 the brick addition is privately owned and still standing

15211-P. c. 1950 ‘Scene on Spirit Lake’ man with 4 youngsters sitting in canoe equipped with sail. View northwards. Sunny Hill resort building dimply visible on north shoreline

15212-P. c. 1960 ‘Hopper’s Resort, Stone Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. 8’ resort stood on east shore and went through several name changes, e.g. Pick-A-Dilly, before closing c. 1990

15213-P. 1910 ‘Main Street, Ogema, Wis.’ view north with steeple of First Lutheran Church on horizon; r-hotel McQuire

15213A-backside, postcard to Mr. Sherry Johnson, Unity, Wis., post-dated 4-29-1913 ‘Ogema’ in Swedish?

15214-P. c. 1910 ‘Tripoli Ski Hill’ 12 skiers descend stump-studded snowy hill. Tripoli, Wis. is a small rural community on US Highway 8 in Price County, Wis. known for its strong Finnish ancestry

End of Dennis & Carol Kuehling Collection

15215-Map-1878 Taylor County from ‘Historical Atlas of Wisconsin 1878 by Snyder, Van Vechten & Co., Milwaukee; east half, a body of water shown but not identified is Rib Lake, Whittlesey is ‘Charlestown Station’, Copper and Klostermann Creeks erroneously shown as one. This mistake eventually resulted in labeling Klostermann Creek as ‘Copper Creek’ and to this day – Aug. 1, 2011 – the Town of Rib Lake has two Copper Creeks shown on many maps. South Harper Lake is missing; Westboro & Chelsea post offices shown

15215A-ibid, west half, Taylor County shown with 2 townships, Westboro, Chelsea, Medford & Little Black

15216-Maps-1914 Standard Atlas of Lincoln County, Town of Corning T31-4E

15216A-ibid

15216B-T32-4E Copper River

15216C-T33-4E, every other section Rib Lake Lumber Company

15216D-T34-4E, Spirit Falls, MT&W & Soo Line Railroads

15217-Map, 1991 Lincoln County plat book as index for 8-3-1938 aerial photos, numbers in red=photo numbers at Lincoln County Land Information Dept. e.g. 1-3 = 31-T33-R4E

15217A-ibid T32-R4E

15217B-ibid T33-R4E

15217C-ibid T34-R4E

15218-Map Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 1-probable site- & railroad access right-of-way, 8-12-2011--Robert P. Rusch,

15218A-W. ‘Facts supporting Robert P. Rusch theory that Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 1 located in N ½ SW ¼ 19-31-4E, Lincoln Co., Wis.

15218B-ibid p. 2

15218C-ibid p. 3

15219 8-27-1897 map-plat of McComb’s Racing Park Addition to Rib Lake-highlighted 8-18-2011 by Robert P. Rusch-north part

15219A-ibid-south part, NB-bed of Rib Lake extending much further north than its 2011 location

15220 Map-8-19-2011 Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 5, 8, 13, 10 & 26 sites by Robert P. Rusch, on 1947 Rib Lake topographic map

15221 Map- 8-22-2011 Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 16 site by Robert P. Rusch on 1947 Rib Lake Topographic map

15222-P. 6-2011 Upper L-Kirstin, Trinity, bottom L-R colton & Brendan Riggs

15223 P. 6-2011 Robin P. Riggs nee Rusch & children-left to right-Colton, Brendan, Trinity & Kirstin

15224 P. 6-2011 Trinity Riggs, age 4

15225 6-18-1912 sale contract of Carlson & Dahl general store at Westboro-Ernst L. Dahl to John G. Carlson for $1000; hold harmless & non-compete clauses

15225A-p. 2 stock on hand, including dry goods, hardware, meat, food, Curtis & Yale inventory [Wausau logging & lumber firm] and ‘2 deer heads’

15225B-p. 3 timber inventory ‘sold but not yet paid for’ cedar railroad ties, hemlock ties, 57 for $12.54 or $1254?, accounts receivable $9,059.30, profit made on business to date $2,687.98, exhibit A-accounts receivable $9,059.30 including Westboro Lumber Co.

15225C-p. 3 debts-accounts payable $10,353.62

15225D-Map 1913 Taylor County Atlas – store location

15226 4-25-1913 sale contract for white cedar telephone-electric poles, posts & railroad ties-Jacob ‘Jake’ Kapitz, Otto Heinske & Hughes d/b/a Kapitz, Heinske & Hughes, to Leo Miller of Chicago, detailed price list, e.g. 50 foot pole 7’ on small end $6.50; railroad ties 6 to 7 foot wide by 8’ $.44 each; DOB loaded on railroad cars at Athens, Wis. [Soo Line] ‘This material is located on Copper River Railroad’ [A spur from Athens-Goodrich Soo Line leading to Rib Lake Lumber Company camp 1 in Lincoln County-see Map #15218 ‘about one & one-half miles east of Goodrich…’ NB-Village of Goodrich is 1 ½ miles east of Taylor-Lincoln County Line, Wausau Lumber Co. owned N ½ SE ¼, 19-31-4E per 1914 plat #15216; the Kapitz-Miller white cedar deal shows that good money was being made from the extensive cedar swamps surrounding greater Rib Lake

15226A-P. 2 contract notarized by Charles Miller & witnessed by P.E. Marcus who were father & son-in-law, and d/b/a Taylor Co. Lumber Co.

15227 3-12-1914 common law marriage ‘agreement’ Mike Keglmeier & Theresia Lang

15228 10-13-1906 will-Karl Ferdinand Haenel, testator correctly signed his name with double dots over letter A, an umlaut. Life estate to widow, Christine Frederike ‘privilege’ that she may mortgage homestead only with judge’s permission and finding that she needs mortgage funds ‘to protect her against want’ sexism???

15228A-p. 2 county judge M.A. Buckley ‘admitting’ will to probate, i.e. found no reason to disapprove will 3-27-1915

15229 6-26-1915 Paulina, aka Pauline, Steiner estate ‘final decree’ county judge M.A. Buckley

15229A-p. 2 application of her son, Albert Steiner, administrator, approved; 1) estate value $1584.15; 2) Albert gets $1584.15; 3) missing; 4) residue ‘nothing’; 5) missing; 6) Paulina had no real estate [she & husband Albert, Sr., once owned farm & homestead in Town of Chelsea, E ½ SE 22-32-1E, and previously W ½ SE ¼ 22-32-1E, & donated to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church c. 2 acres for cemetery & church-church moved to south side of highway c. 1985; 7) heirs-A) Ann Gallagher, aka Mrs. Michael Gallagher, daughter; B) Bertha Gebauer, aka Mrs. William Gebauer, daughter [maternal grandmother of Robert P. Rusch, aka R.P. Rusch) C) Louise Steiner, daughter, lka Mrs. Richard Kienzle; D) Albert Steiner, son, administrator

15229AA-p. 2 ibid enlarged -----Q-how was it Albert got everything, NB-no will, sexism???

15229B-P. c. 1890 August Steiner (7-4-1836, Schoenwalde, to 1-23-1902, Whittlesey) & wife, Paulina, nee Steiner, & children, top row-Ann-lka Mrs. Michael Gallagher; August III, 1868-1894; Bertha-lka Mrs. William Gebauer; bottom row L-R; Albert [administrator of Paulina’s estate]; Louise, lka Mrs. Richard Kienzle; Joseph

15229C-Robert P. Rusch memo 3-7-2002 re German obit, August Steiner

15229D-ibid, obit, August Steiner in English

15229E 8-11-2007 ‘First & Last Steiner Reunion’ invitation

15229F-August Steiner, II, 7-4-1836 to 1-23-1902, married Paulina, aka Paulina Meissner; genealogy

15229G 8-31-2006 Star News ‘hydrant represents a monument to cooperation’ Chris Kulinski succeeds in bringing to Robert P. Rusch fire hydrant from Schoenwalde

15230 5-16-1898 Seraphine Tlusty will-entire estate to wife, Mary Tlusty

15231 6-25-1891, recorded 6-13-1892 John J. Kennedy, et. ux, unconditional deed, Rib Lake Tannery site to Fayette D. Shaw without conditions other than John J. Kennedy reserves right to maintain logging (sleigh) road from Harper Lakes region; site in Govt. Lots 1 & 2, Sec. 16-33-2E and consists of 20 5/100 acres per survey of A.S. Russell 5-27-1891

15231A-legal description & logging road (sleigh) reservation-enlarged [in 1891 John J. Kennedy had no logging railroad. Nearly all logs to his mill came by sleigh roads, viz. ‘logging roads’. The sleigh road in question ran along Tannery Creek & crossed both north and south Harper Lake. In 2011 one can still see the large sleigh cut NE of North Harper Lake. NB-this deed, document #15231, was not recorded for almost a year, i.e. 6-13-1892

15231B-Map 8-21-2011-route of John J. Kennedy’s Harper Lake sleigh road & earth excavation ‘cuts’ by Robert P. Rusch drawn on 2010 plat book

15232 6-25-1891 (recorded 7-22-1891) John J. Kennedy et ux conditional warranty deed to Fayette D. Shaw; must, by 1-1-1893, have in operation on Rib Lake premises Tannery same size as Medford. Right to rebuild a dam (& create Tannery Pond). John J. Kennedy reserves right to continue [Harper Lake] sleigh road

15232A- Question-since this conditional deed was signed on 6-25-1891 and recorded 7-22-1891, what was the reason for another deed-Doc. #15231 – with no conditions & recorded 6-13-1892???? The real estate descriptions are identical in both deeds

15233-Map 1913 Taylor County Standard Atlas Rib Lake – ‘Union Tanning Co. Tannery’ [formerly F.D.Shaw] highlighted in yellow

15234 5-5-1916 John J. Kennedy & J.J. Kennedy refer to same man-affidavit of E.C.Getchel, notary, Thomas H. Brehm

15235 9-7-1910 affidavit re Stephen A. Konz & Hugh J. Kennedy and wife, Catherine

15236 12-6-1916 Thomas W. Andresen-D.A. bond [In 1972 I was introduced at a Democratic party meeting as the first Democrat elected as Taylor County District Attorney. This began a dispute between two old-timers over who really was the first Democrat to be elected Taylor County District Attorney. The dispute dissolved when the old-timers recalled that ‘Andresen won when he ran as a Republican and lost when he ran as a Democrat!

15236A-p. 2 ibid

15237 11-8-1910 ballot for Democrat, prohibition and Republican Taylor County candidates-left half; T.W. Andresen was Republican candidate for District Attorney; Albert Steiner, maternal great-uncle of Robert P. Rusch, was Democrat candidate for Clerk of Circuit Court-Steiner lost

15237A-ibid-right half; candidates running as ‘Social Democrat’, ‘Independent Prohibition’, ‘Social labor,’ & ‘Progressive Republican’; NB-The ballot showed 7 columns of candidates, of which Republican & Democrat were two

15238 ‘Locals’ 11-8-1910 Rib Lake Herald upper left of page; Copper River Land Co. ‘is advertising for men for woods work at Athens. Plenty of white pine for everyone’ Taylor County Lumber Co., Charles Miller Manager, has new office…behind The Fair Dept. store, Block A, Lot 12, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, McComb Ave; John Hannifan becomes superintendent of Union Tanning Co.

15238A-lower left, Rib Lake Lumber Company replaces rotary, will band saw

15238B-upper right, ads-Upjohn’s Pharmacy, A. Herrem, tailor; F.E. Pooke, under-taker, embalmer & furniture dealer

15238C-lower right; wedding of Bertha Kalk & Mr. Charles Knop, aka Karl Knop, Jr.; ad-Thomas H. Brehm, for hides & furs

15239 11-18-1948 obit, Albert Steiner (10-28-1874, Schoenwalde, to 1-10-1948, Town of Chelsea) immigrated in 1886, store keeper & post master at Whittlesey; 3 children, Mrs. Anna (John) Gosbee, Chelsea, Mrs. Louise (Al) Henrichs of Medford and Louis ‘Louie’ Frank Steiner, of Abbotsford, (never married-no children). Albert was survived by a sister, Mrs. Louise (Richard) Kienzle, Maywood, Ill; Albert was a grand-uncle of Robert P. Rusch

15239A-P. Albert Steiner c. 1900

15240- Ad ‘Hartwig & Ruesch’ Funeral Home, David & Earle Ruesch, Directors; funeral home was in former Dr. Klement Kelnhofer, DVM, on SW corner of Second & Division Streets, Medford, c. 1945-1970

15241-W 1-08-1904 ‘Largest In the World’ Rib Lake Herald ‘The Rib Lake Lumber Company is the largest hemlock manufacturer in the world. 20,000,000 feet to be cut this season…’

15242-Abstract of Title – NE NE 13-T33-R1E, Town of Westboro; synopsis-this is the single-most history filled 40 in Westboro, site of 1) Taylor, Ritchie & Duncan sawmill; 2) Duncan, then Shaw, then US Leather Co., tannery; 3) Laabs, lka Cooper Cheese Co. factory; 4) Wisconsin Central, lka Soo Line, lka Wisconsin Central, Ltd. Railroad & Mondeaux spur, aka Westboro & Northwestern Railroad; 5) Pine Line Rail-Trail

15242A-Map 8-28-2011 RPR old Westboro businesses

15242AA Patent 5-2-1870 USA to Francis Palms; E3 Palms to Fredrick Weyerhauser 10-3-1875; E5 Edward Rutledge to Wisconsin Central Railroad Company [NB-this is after railroad was constructed. NB-railroad built through Westboro in 1873-Gust Hill ‘Westboro 1875-1975’

15242B ibid p. 2 E8 11-12-1874 Wisconsin Central Railroad Company [Hereafter W/C] to John Duncan, James Ritchie, William S. Taylor; Grantees must ‘build a mill on premises with capacity of not less than 5 million feet of lumber annually’ and ‘not to plat or divide land into village or city lots within 6 years or dispose of any portion of property except for manufacturing purposes.’

15242C ibid p. 3 E13 James Ritchie ‘bankrupt’ 7-1-1873 assignment of his property

15242D ibid p. 4 E15 Quit Claim deed, James Ritchie to John Duncan & William S. Taylor; E20 William S. Taylor, deceased, letters of administration to Carrie T. Taylor 2-10-1886

15242E ibid p. 5, entry 22, John Duncan, et ux, to Wisconsin Central Railroad, 50 foot wide strip either side of railroad spur ‘as centerline is surveyed, located and staked out, constructed or operated over & across NE NE 13-33-1E’ [this is the first of many similar deeds allowing, inter alia, construction of Mondeaux spur, aka Westboro & Northwestern Railroad. This line ran under the Wisconsin Central bridge psannign Silver Creek and was first constructed to serve the Duncan-Taylor mill. Later this spur served the Westboro Lumber Co.—Robert P. Rusch 8-25-2011]; entry 24- $51,000 John A. Duncan, et ux, and son, Thomas Duncan, et ux, to Levi Heidrick, R.M. Matson & Emmet Queen, NE NE 13 [including the former Duncan-Ritchie-Taylor sawmill but not the tannery], Gus Hill writes in ‘Westboro 1875-1975’ A) in 1885 the Duncans built a tannery on the flat east of present cheese factory near Silver Creek…’ B) In 1902 the tannery destroyed by fire and not rebuilt

15242F-ibid p. 6, entry 26-Heidrick, Matson & Company sell former Duncan Tannery for $25,000 to Fayette D. Shaw [Heidrick & Matson Co. hold under contract from Thomas & John Duncan’ i.e. land contract vendee’s interest---Robert P. Rusch 8-25-11]; entry 27-Thomas Duncan, et ux, & John A. Duncan, et ux, for $25,000 sell tannery to Fayette D. Shaw; entry 30-C.F. Heidrick, J.N.F. Heidrick & J.M. heidrich [sic] incorporate Heidrick & Matson Lumber Co. 5-27-1900 ‘for logging & operating railroads in connection therewith…’ i.e. Mondeaux spur

15242G-ibid p. 7 E31 Heidrick & Matson Lumber Co-hereafter HMLC-deeds 66 feet right-of-way for railroad spur to Wisconsin Central ‘railway’ through Section 13 & other sections T331E; entry 32 9-29-1900 Shaws, et al, sell tannery to United States Leather Company, a corporation (hereafter United States Leather Company) sellers-1) Fayette Shaw, widower, 2) Thaxter Shaw, & ux, Clementine A. Shaw, 3) Fred M. Shaw, & ux, Mae E. Shaw, 4) Fayette Delos Shaw, ux, Ida A. Shaw, 5) Herbert L. Drake, & ux, Anna M. Drake

15242H-ibid p. 8; entry 39 7-28-1902 petition, Taylor Co. Circuit Court re death of Levi Heidrick, resident of Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania..

15242I-ibid p. 9

15242J-ibid p. 10

15242K-ibid p. 11; entry 46 4-12-1903 for $140,000 Heidrick & Matson Lumber Co. sell Westboro tannery-which had burned in 1902- and other lands to Josiah Howard [NB-no prior deed to tanntery to Howard from United States Leather Company]

15242L-ibid E48 1-21-1905 Josiah Howard sells land in E46 to Westboro Lumber Co. for $140,000; entry 49-United States Leather Company 8-10-1905 with deed to Joseph Kaye [an officer & major stockholder in Westboro Lumber Co—Robert P. Rusch] that part of NE NE 13 North, and west of Silver Creek, i.e. old Duncan-Ritchie-Taylor sawmill site; entry 50 2-21-1906 Westboro Lumber Co. warranty deed to Wisconsin Central Railway, 100 foot wide strips across NE NE 13 for ‘present or proposed’ ‘Westboro spur’ tracks; [NB-1913 Standard Atlas of Taylor County shows Westboro spur from Westboro to Mondeaux area owned by Soo Line, i.e. Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie railroad. Gus Hill reports in ‘Westboro 1875-1975’ that Westboro Lumber Co. owned & operated as many as 3 locomotives on the Westboro spur until mill closure in 1922

15242M-ibid p. 13 entry 52 3-26-1907 Joseph Kaye and wife, Bessie, sell for $800 the Westboro & tannery site, i.e. land in NE NE 13 north and west of Silver Creek, except A) reserving vats [i.e. wood tubs used in tannery to soak hides] until 8-10-1915 and right to remove vats; B) reserve right through 1908 ‘to continue to pile bark on premises’ i.e. tanbark

15242N-ibid p. 14 entry 54 5-31-1930 Westboro Lumber Co. sells NE NE 13-33-1E to Cornelius Fisher [NB-The Westboro Lumber Co. closed and razed its mill in 1922 and Westboro spur line toward Mondeaux was razed at same time. The spur was regular gauge-not narrow gauge. One of the Westboro Lumber Co. locomotives was sold to Medford Lumber Co. which operated it until its close in 1924—Robert P. Rusch 8-25-2011]; entry 58 6-1-1945 Harry & Joyce Fisher sell NE NE 13 to Labbs (sic) Dairy company-which constructed a modern cheese factory on the site; synopsis of cheese business---

15243 Westboro, WI Cheese Factory NE NE 13-T33N-R1E; synopsis from abstract of title 8-26-2011 by Robert P. Rusch

1) 6-1-1945 Harry & Joyce Fisher for $3,000 sign warranty deed NE NE 13 [40 acres vacant land, though former site of Duncan-Ritchie-Taylor sawmill] to ‘Laabs Dairy Company, Inc.’, reportedly, Laabs Dairy, headquartered in Milan, Marathon Company, had several cheese factories, including a pre-1945 cheese factory north of CTH D and east of Silver Creek in Westboro [SW SW 7-33-2E], the foundation stands as of 8-26-2011

2) 10-1-1945 Laabs Dairy mortgages NE NE 13 for $30,000 to Curtiss State Bank [capital to construct cheese factory on site]

15243A-p. 2

3) Entry 60 3-13-1946 mortgage paid

4) Entry 63 6-28-1960 Laabs Dairy Company and Laabs Cheese Co. mortgage NE NE 13 for $75,000, ‘Paid 8-27-1964’ E67

5) Entry 64 7-2-1945 Wisconsin Central Railway Co. lease to Laabs Dairy Co. premises in Village of Westboro outlined in red or blue on Ex. A (see E65 for description) rent-$45 annually [much of the cheese factory is built on railroad right-of-way]

6) Entry 66 8-8-1964 Laabs Dairy & Laabs Cheese Co. mortgage NE NE 13 for $175,000; E68 mortgage First National Bank of St. Paul 4-15-1966 assigns mortgage Small Business Administration

7) Entry 69 Bankrupt-Laabs Cheese Co. petition filed 4-4-1966, order 5-4-1966

15243B-p. 3

8) Entry 73, Articles of Incorporation 4-10-1935 Laabs Diary Co.

9) Entry 74, order to sell 9-12-1966, Laabs Dairy Co. bankrupt, bankruptcy trustee court authorized to sell for $250 to Small Business Admistration bankrupts real property

A) Parcel 1-Blcok 1, Lots 1 & 2, Queenstown addition to Westboro [this is site of First Laabs Cheese Factory, CTH D & Silver Creek]

B)Parcel 2- NE NE 13-33-1E [new cheese factory] including leasehold Wisconsin Central Railway

10) Entry 77 Small Business Admin. Sells parcels 1 & 2 11-1-1966 to Foremost Dairies, Inc., a New York Corporation

11) E 78 Foremost Dairies sells same 11-14-1967 to R.J. Cooper

15243D-p. 4

12) Robert J. & Virginia B. Cooper mortgage 1-18-1967 for $27,000

13) E. 82 11-15-1966 Warranty deed R.J. Cooper, et ux, to Cooper Cheese Co., Inc.

14) E84 7-3-1974 mortgage-to secure past debt to Central State Bank, Marshfield

15) E. 85 Taylor County Sanitary & Subdivision code

16) E 86, half of 1975 real estate tax $642 unpaid, paid 8-14-1976

17) E92 Cooper Cheese Co. to warranty deed, Associated Milk Producers, Inc. 7-31-1976

18) E93 Certified Survey Map, Charles Offerman #101 recorded 8-18-1977

19) c. 1977 Cheese production ceases, factory closes

15243E-p. 5

20) E. 94 Associated Milk Producers, a Kansas Corporation, sell, warranty deed 4-28-1978, Alfons F., Sr. or Lillian B. Mitchell $24,000, including leasehold interest

21) E. 95 Certified Survey Map 100 Charles Offerman Cheese factory building location 7-16-1977 see p. 6

22) E. 96 Quit Claim Deed Dennis & Nancy McNamara-(unrecorded land contract) to Mitchells 4-22-1981

23) E. 97, Wisconsin Central Ltd quit claim deed to Price & Taylor County 10-16-1989 for Pine-Line Rail Trail and interim use agreement ‘contract for preservation of railroad right-of-way’

24) E. 105 9-27-1996 Mitchell heirs to Price & Taylor Co. 38.79 acres [NE NE 13], co. assumes duty to repair-remove old cheese factory

15243F-Map Westboro Cheese Factory

15243G-p. 7

25) c. 2000 Price & Taylor County ‘Railtrail corridor commission’ raze old cheese factory

26) Entry 107 7-21-200 Rail-trail commission warranty deed premises less pine-line trail, to Douglas A. Thums, who as of 8-25-2011, stores mobile homes & equipment on site, see next photo—Robert P. Rusch 8-26-2011

15244 P. 8-26-2011 west part of NE NE 13-33-1E, mobile buildings on site of former sawmill of Ritchie, Taylor & Duncan, 1945-c. 1977 cheese factory; left-Pine-line recreational trail bridge over Silver Creek, view north

15245 8-31-1925 identification affidavit Clydie Getchel re Fayette D. Shaw

15246 Star News 8-25-2011 ‘The time machine’ 75 years ago 8-27-1936, Wm. Gaab, 25, lost leg at Rib Lake Shingle Mill, operated by his brother-in-law, Phillip Pelkhover [at site of old S.A. Konz sawmill]

15247 9-26-1917 claim waiver-William Maes-onetime operator of Spirit Lake Hotel & Tavern-re Jung Brewing Co ‘from the beginning of the world..’

15248 12-31-1913 domestic care agreement, Edward & Ernst Gerberger

15248A-p. 2 ibid

15248B-p. 3 ibid [Edward & Ernst Gerstberger were responsible for saving another part of the farm, i.e. SE NE 31-33-3E, as virgin forest-in 2011 Gerstberger Pines County Park---Robert P. Rusch 8-28-2011]

15249 c. 6-1-1900 plat-Grossmann’s addition to Westboro

15250 c. 11-1-1904 plat, Joseph’s addition to Westboro created by Joseph & Bessie Kaye

15250A-Joseph’s Second Addition to Westboro, 8-17-1920

15251 c. 10-1-1905 plat-Fitze’s Addition to Westboro created by John & Mary Ann Fitze

15252 10-29-1884 ‘Der Warheits Freund’ ‘Deutsche Kathol, Niederlassung St. Kilian, in Taylor Co, Staat, Wisconsin’ article in Roman Catholic newspaper ‘The Friend of the Truth’ published in Cincinnati, Ohio, re ‘German Catholic Settlement in Taylor County’, while the article calls the settlement St. Kilian, Robert P. Rusch believes it actually refers to St. Ann, Town of Greenwood, German text-second article dated October 23, 1884, Medford, Wis., re Father Josef Wilhelm Ritz, pastor of Holy Rosary Catholic Church, both articles found by Wendy & Randy Budimliza in wall of house they were remodeling in village of Rib Lake in 2005

15252A-p. 2, ibid, English translations by Hildegard & Loretta Kuse

15252B-p. 3 ibid

15253-’Rib Lake & Rusch Railroad-Rib Lake, Wis.’ A whimsical patch by Dennis L. Kuehling presented to Robert P. Rusch on 9-1-2011

15253A-P. 8-20-2011 Dennis L. Kuehling wearing proud American T-shirt, & Robert P. Rusch wearing ‘Technische Universitaet Darmstadt’ T-shirt. Dennis has for years purchased Rib Lake area photos on ebay and has generously allowed the Rib Lake Historical Society to scan them. Thank you Dennis!

15254-Map 1881, ‘Wisconsin Central Railroad Lands’ Taylor County. Shaded lands owned by Wisconsin Central Railroad. Summary-US Government gave Wisconsin Central Railroad every other section of land for 18 miles on either side of its line as a reward/inducement to build the railroad to Ashland, Wis.

15255- Map 3-20-2011 template map; Railroads, Sleigh & Ice Roads & historic sites by Robert P. Rusch 33N-3E

15255A-ibid 33N-2E

15255B-ibid 33N-1E

15255C-ibid 33N-1W

15255D-ibid 32N-3E

15255E-ibid 32N-2E

15255F-ibid 32N-1E

15255G-ibid 31N-3E

15255H-ibid 31N-2E NB-these template maps show only water, railroads & quarter-quarter lines. Other data will be added later as discovered & verified-RPR 9-1-2011

15256-Plat 9-1905 ‘Queenstown addition to Village of Westboro’ part of S ¼ &-33-2E crated by Westboro Lumber Company-signed by J.J. Lingle, Vice Pres. & J. (Joseph) W. Kaye, Sec. Plat named after Emmet Queen-see 15242I, shareholder in Westboro Lumber Company

15256A-ibid-enlargement of entire plat

15257-’Recollections About Westboro Jotted by Resident’ by Mrs. Anna Lucia c. 1975

15258-L. 8-18-2011 Mary Williams, State Representative, to Ann and Robert P. Rusch

Heidi Royal, nee Brehm, Collection, 227 E. Franklin St, Portage, WI 53901

15259-P. c. 1900 Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Brehm, Sr. & Kunnegunda Brehm, nee Hoffman, great-grandparents of Heidi Royal, & postmaster & founders of Brehm, Wis., SW SW 4-32-2E, Town of Greenwood, kitty corner from St. Ann’s Catholic Church. On 7-10-1900 Thomas was appointed postmaster of then created post office. In 1904 Thomas built the Rib Lake Roller Mill & operated a flour & seed store there; in 2011 it is the site of William J. Schreiner’s ‘Rib Lake Roller Mill’ 1213 Fayette Ave, see #10978 for biography. Standing left to right-Joseph, Henry, Otto, Frank, Thomas & Frederick

15260-P. 5-3-1905 Henry & Mary (nee Schneider) Brehm wedding portrait, grandparents of Heidi Royal

15261-P. c. 1930 Henry & Mary Brehm & children; top left to right-Harley, Earl, Marvin & Elmer; lower left to right-Henry, Marie, George & Mary Brehm

15262-P. c. 1928 four generations-L-R Elizabeth Schneider, nee Scheibe, Mary Brehm, nee Schneider, Betty (baby) & Earl Brehm

15263-P. 5-3-1955 Henry & Mary Brehm 50th anniversary

Collection of Robert P. Rusch

15264-P. 8-20-2011 Rib Lake from STH 102-view SW

15265-P. 8-20-2011 Thomas Hebda fishing pier-built by Rib Lake Fish & Game Assoc. view SW from Church Street

15266-P. 8-20-2011 Stacey & Leo Resudek home, 913 Upjohn Road, Rib Lake

15266A-ibid

15267-P. 8-20-2011 United Methodist Church, Church Street, Rib Lake

15268-P. c. 1-2010 Myrtle S. Kuehling, nee Davis, master quilter. Myrtle, aka Mrs. Richard L. Keuhling, mother of Dennis L. Kuehling, began making quilts when she left the farm. Now 95 and residing at an assisted living center in Colby, she makes 3 full-size quilts per week and generously donates them to friends & charities!

15268A-P. ibid

15268B-P. 9-15-2008, Myrtle S. Kuehling celebrating her 92nd birthday with Merle Schaefer & a Harley ride

15268C-P. 8-20-2011 Ann K. Rusch & quilt number approximately 1400, made by Myrtle S. Kuehling

15268D-8-22-2011 Ann K. Rusch thank you note to Myrtle L. Kuehling

15269 8-2011 leaflet-Dr. Susan J. Frazier, M.D., Dr. Frazier practices in Rib Lake & lives in Westboro

15270 8-2011 leaflet-Michelle Brost, family nurse practitioner, at Rib Lake Clinic & Prentice Clinic

15271 7-14-2011 ‘Alice does her homework with local visit’ Star News article on Ryan, John E. & Judy Nelson Berry Farm, W4929 Gunner Road, Westboro. The Nelsons, c. 1980, converted their dairy farm into a successful berry, vegetable & mushroom operation

15271A-bottom of article, P. Alice in Dairyland Katie Wirkus with Ryan & John E. Nelson

15272 8-18-2011 email-Stuart J. Nelson re Rib Lake Lumber Company Locomotive #101 to Robert P. Rusch; see photo #14951

15273-Map c. 1-1-2011 Lincoln County Town of Corning-south; hometown production & premier map co.

15273A-ibid center portion

15273B-ibid north portion, NB-The paucity of roads is in large measure the lingering result of railroad logging of these areas by the Rib Lake Lumber Company. Tower Road, the only north-south highway, was not constructed until c. 1970

15274-Map 8-3-2011-Rib Lake Lumber Company railroad right-of-way by Robert Tripp on Section 20 T34-R3E, Town of Spirit, Price County, Wis. in 1930’s by Robert P. Rusch. Green line shows route identified by Robert Tripp, age 91, based on his observations in 1930’s, although no apparent visible evidence remains in 2011 seen by Robert P. Rusch. Brown line marks confirmed route of Rib Lake Lumber Company spur into area

Collection of Dennis Kuehling

15275-P. c. 1910 ‘Street Scene Westboro, Wis. #4.-’10’ view northward on Front Street [in 2011 Business STH 13] right-barber pole & sign ‘Agency Wisconsin-Laundry’ The infamous town well stands in middle of Front Street at junction with Center Street with building in NE quadrant advertising ‘Restaurant: Meals at all hours’ The Swedish (now First) Lutheran Church stands on horizon

15275A-back of postcard; postmark 8-16-1910 Westboro ‘Westboro, Wis. Aug 16, 1910’ ‘This is a picture of the whole burg we are at. Sincerely yours, Edward Shillen; NB-see #15277 for abstract of title to adjacent land & 1913 map of area shown in photo 15275

15276-P. c. 1945 ‘Main St. Westboro, Wis.’ STH 13 (Front Street) thru Westboro retail businesses ‘Food store’ in SW quadrant of Jct. Center St. & STH 13. Cities service gas station in NE quadrant. STH 13-east side-also sports a ‘garage’ advertising Kelly Tires, & both a Texaco & Mobil gas station. A tavern advertising Leinenkugel beer occupies the NE quadrant, in 2011 it is D & K Corners Bar, 8847 Business Hwy 13. In 2011 the food store building is owned by Douglas Thums & used as The Other Corner pizzeria

15277-P. c. 1930 ‘The lone pine trail. Spirit Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. No. C-2’ giant white pine in cutover land. West side of 2011 Spirit Lake Road-east of Big Spirit Lake, NE NE 6-33-3E

John Dolezalek, Jr. collection, (John Dolezalek, Jr. discovered, in 2011, that he had an invaluable treasure: his deceased father had collected and saved 1930 volumes of the Rib Lake Herald. These were discovered as his mother, Phyllis Dolezalek, went through boxes of memorabilia.

The editions within the John Dolezalek collection exist nowhere else. They are not in the Rib Lake Public Library collection of hard copy, nor in the microfilm collection of the State Historical Society. The Society hopes that the Rib Lake Public Library will have copies of these Heralds added to those collections.

Except for the April 10, and November 20, 1931 copy, which was reproduced here in its entirety, only the front page and the local news of the Herald were scanned by the Society. The Rib Lake Herald in the 1930’s carried international, national and state news, filling pages, and typically making the Herald 10 or more pages long. The pages of international, national and state news have not been reproduced here.

Every major article in the Dolezalek collection has been integrated into the Annotated Chronology of the Rib Lake Herald. That material is word searchable and includes, verbatim, all major articles, obituaries, and matters of general interest.

15278-Rib Lake Herald 4-10-1931 –front page-top, J.F. Sisley elected Village of Rib Lake president; Ole Peterson opens Spirit Lake Golf Course

15278A-ibid bottom, town elections, obit-Mary Mastin, obit-Barbara Wudi

15278B-ibid, p. 2 top

15278C-ibid p. 3 bottom

15278D-ibid, p. 3 top, Gen. Pershing

15278E-ibid, p. 3 bottom

15278F-ibid, p. 4 top, local news, Westboro news

15278G-ibid, p. 4 bottom, fire notice

15278H-p. 5 top, Victor Gustafson Lumber Co., Rib Lake ad, cash Meat Market, J.F. Novak, local news

15278I-ibid bottom, ad-Robert Wenzel-South Side Garage

15278J-p. 6 top

15278K-ibid-bottom p. 6

15278L. p. 7 top

15278M-ibid, p. 7 bottom

15278N-p. 8 top-Whittlesey news, Freiberg & Trantow Insurance ad, Alfred Brush dba Log Cabin Service Station, Greenwood News

15278O-ibid, bottom, First National Bank of Rib Lake – statement

15279-Rib Lake Herald 4-17-1931 [partial] front page top

15279A-front page bottom

15279B-local news-top

15279C-local news-bottom

15279D-local news notes-top

15279E-local news notes-bottom

15279F-back page-top

15279G-back page-bottom

15280-Rib Lake Herald 8-14-1931 [partial] front page-top

15280A-front page bottom

15280B-local news-top

15280C-local news-bottom

15280D-local news notes-top

15280E-local news notes-bottom

15280F-back page-top

15280G-back page-bottom

15281-Rib Lake Herald 9-4-1931 [partial] front page-top

15281A-front page bottom

15281B-local news-top

15281C-local news-bottom

15281D-local news notes-top

15281E-local news notes-bottom

15281F-back page-top

15281G-back page-bottom

15282-Rib Lake Herald 9-11-1931 [partial] front page-top

15282A-front page bottom

15282B-local news-top

15282C-local news-bottom

15282D-local news notes-top

15282E-local news notes-bottom

15282F-back page-top

15282G-back page-bottom

15283-Rib Lake Herald 11-20-1931 [entire paper] front page-top

15283A-front page bottom

15283B-p. 2-top

15283C-p. 2-bottom

15283D-p. 3-top

15283E-p. 3-bottom

15283F-p. 4-top, tax deed notice-list of Taylor County lands to be sold by tax deed unless taxes paid by 6-11-1932

15283G-p. 4-bottom

15283H-p. 5 top-tax deed lands-entire page

15283I-p. 5 bottom

15283J-p. 6 – top

15283K-p. 6 – bottom

15283L-p. 7 – top

15283M-p. 7 bottom

15283N-p. 8-top

15283O-p. 8-bottom

15283P-p. 9-top

15283Q-p. 9-bottom

15284-Rib Lake Herald 12-18-1931 [partial] front page-top

15284A-front page bottom

15284B-local news-top

15284C-local news-bottom

15284D-local news notes-top

15284E-local news notes-bottom

15284F-back page-top

15284G-back page-bottom

15285-Rib Lake Herald 12-25-1931 [partial] front page-top

15285A-front page bottom

15285B-local news-top

15285C-local news-bottom

15285D-local news notes-top

15285E-local news notes-bottom

15285F-back page-top

15285G-back page-bottom

15286-Rib Lake Herald 1-15-1932 [partial] front page-top

15286A-front page bottom

15286B-local news-top

15286C-local news-bottom

15286D-local news notes-top

15286E-local news notes-bottom

15286F-back page-top

15286G-back page-bottom

15287-Rib Lake Herald 1-22-1932 [partial] front page-top

15287A-front page bottom

15287B-local news-top

15287C-local news-bottom

15287D-local news notes-top

15287E-local news notes-bottom

15287F-back page-top

15287G-back page-bottom

15288-Rib Lake Herald 1-29-1932 [partial] front page-top

15288A-front page bottom

15288B-local news-top

15288C-local news-bottom

15288D-local news notes-top

15288E-local news notes-bottom

15288F-back page-top

15288G-back page-bottom

15289-Rib Lake Herald 3-11-1932 [partial] front page-top

15289A-front page bottom

15289B-local news-top

15289C-local news-bottom

15289D-local news notes-top

15289E-local news notes-bottom

15289F-back page-top

15289G-back page-bottom

15290-Rib Lake Herald 7-8-1932 [partial] front page-top

15290A-front page bottom

15290B-local news-top

15290C-local news-bottom

15290D-local news notes-top

15290E-local news notes-bottom

15290F-back page-top

15290G-back page-bottom

15291-Rib Lake Herald 7-15-1932 [partial] front page-top

15291A-front page bottom

15291B-local news-top

15291C-local news-bottom

15291D-local news notes-top

15291E-local news notes-bottom

15291F-back page-top

15291G-back page-bottom

15292-Rib Lake Herald 11-25-1932 [partial] front page-top

15292A-front page bottom

15292B-local news-top

15292C-local news-bottom

15292D-local news notes-top

15292E-local news notes-bottom

15292F-back page-top

15292G-back page-bottom

15293-Rib Lake Herald 3-24-1933 [partial] front page-top

15293A-front page bottom

15293B-local news-top

15293C-local news-bottom

15293D-local news notes-top

15293E-local news notes-bottom

15293F-back page-top

15293G-back page-bottom

15294-Rib Lake Herald 4-28-1933 [partial] front page-top

15294A-front page bottom

15294B-local news-top

15294C-local news-bottom

15294D-local news notes-top

15294E-local news notes-bottom

15294F-back page-top

15294G-back page-bottom

15295-Rib Lake Herald 5-5-1933 [partial] front page-top

15295A-front page bottom

15295B-local news-top

15295C-local news-bottom

15295D-local news notes-top

15295E-local news notes-bottom

15295F-back page-top

15295G-back page-bottom

15296-c. 8-21-1897 Map-plat of McComb’s Racing Park Addition to Rib Lake, Wis.’ color added

15297-Rib Lake Herald 7-28-1933 [partial] front page-top

15297A-front page bottom

15297B-local news-top

15297C-local news-bottom

15297D-local news notes-top

15297E-local news notes-bottom

15297F-back page-top

15297G-back page-bottom

15298-Rib Lake Herald 8-4-1933 [partial] front page-top

15298A-front page bottom

15298B-local news-top

15298C-local news-bottom

15298D-local news notes-top

15298E-local news notes-bottom

15298F-back page-top

15298G-back page-bottom – includes authorative history of Rib Lake 8-4-1933 by Mrs. Gustave Bielenberg in slightly varied version to subsequent reprinting

15299-Rib Lake Herald 8-18-1933 [partial] front page-top

15299A-front page bottom

15299B-local news-top

15299C-local news-bottom

15299D-local news notes-top

15299E-local news notes-bottom

15299F-back page-top

15299G-back page-bottom

15300-Rib Lake Herald 9-8-1933 [partial] front page-top

15300A-front page bottom

15300B-local news-top

15300C-local news-bottom

15300D-local news notes-top

15300E-local news notes-bottom

15300F-back page-top

15300G-back page-bottom

15301-Rib Lake Herald 8-10-1934 [partial] front page-top

15301A-front page bottom

15301B-local news-top

15301C-local news-bottom

15301D-local news notes-top

15301E-local news notes-bottom

15301F-back page-top

15301G-back page-bottom

15302-history-Rib Lake 8-4-1933 by Mrs. Gustave Bielenberg nee Johnson; ‘looking back 52 years’

15302A-p. 2 ibid John J. Kennedy first Rib Lake view

15302B-p. 3 ibid

15302C-p. 4 ibid

15302D-p. 5 ibid Fayette B. Shaw built Rib Lake Tannery 1891

15302E-p. 6 ibid, Rib Lake Tannery closes 1922

15303-Abstract of Title-Westboro parcel 100 feet north of junction with Front & Center Street – point of beginning thence 100 north, east to railroad, 100 south, west to point of beginning = ‘Parcel #1’ General location shown in red on 1913 Standard Atlas of Westboro ‘Westboro’

15303A-Abstract p. 1

15303B-patent p. 2

15303C-p. 3

15303D-p. 4

15303E-p. 5

15303F-p. 6

15303G-p. 7

15303H. p. 8

15303I-p. 9 to Grittner & Ruprecht

15303J-p. 10 Joseph Gittner & Frank Ruprecht, et al

15303K-p. 11 Affidavit of Adverse possession

15303L-P. 12 Hanson Brothers

15303M-p. 13, new description ‘Parcel 2’ immediately north of Parcel 1-34’ east, 100’ north, 34’ west, 100’ south

15303N-p. 14-patent

15303O-p. 15

15303P-p. 16

15303Q-p. 17

15303R-p. 18

15303S-p. 19 to Westboro Farmers Cooperative Assoc. 11-28-1914

15303T-p. 20

15303U-p. 21 Receiver

15303V-p. 22

15303W-p. 23 9-9-1933 tax deed

15303X-p. 24

15303Y-p. 25

15303Z-p. 26 12-7-1940 tax deed to Herman J. Gittner, Jr.

15304 10-2-1904 stumpage contract-Elmer Swenson to Wausau Lumber Co. E ½ SE ¼ 24-32-3E ‘All mercantable saw timber’ until 4-1-1917

15304A-p.2

15305 12-6-1913 land contract-Vlodoslov Tacik buys 40 acres of cutover land for $700 from Jacob Kapitz

15305A-p. 2

15305B-p. 3

15305C-p. 4 signatures-notary Ben Hoey, Rib Lake businessman

15306 3-8-1914 Rousseau & Shephard [Lumber Co. of Chelsea] – dissolution stock holders – J.M. Hixon & T.E. Brittingham

15307 6-6-1914 stumpage contract – S.M. & Owen B. Parkhaus to Westboro Lumber Co., SW-NW, SW ¼, Sec. 13, W ½ NE ¼, SE-NE, W ½ NW ¼, SW ¼, SE ¼ Sec. 14; NE ¼, SE ¼, E ½ NW ¼, NW-NW Sec. 23; N ½ NW ¼ Sec. 24, all in 33N-R1E, ‘All timber 6 inches or over in diameter’ sellers want trees removed so they can burn ‘brush & slashings’ ‘Land will be in condition to seed on [upon] burning’

15308- 7-8-1914 option to buy 120 acres by Georg F. Braun, Sr. to Warren E. Hughes for $100; if land purchased - $1500, Braun gives ‘special attention to actual sellers’

15309 7-21-1914 resurvey Section 25-32-3E for Ed G. Weinkauf by W.N. Allen of Wausau

15310 8-14-1914 land contract bought by Jacob Kapitz from A.E. Richter & George Bruan, Jr. & immediately assigned to Peter Lieg

15310A-p. 2

15310B-p. 3

15310C-p. 4

15311 10-6-1914 Frank G. Skon probate decree

15311A-p. 2 Hiers Eleanne Skon, Beda Skon, Seva Skon, land sold to Peter Lieg

15311B-p. 3

15311C-p. 4 synopsis

15312 12-5-1914 Herman & Minnie Lemke assign land contact to P.J. & Fannie Pleus

15312A-p. 2

15313 12-23-1914 John Rizzi of Brehm sells land contract to Louis Molinari et ux, who ‘signs’ with an ‘X’

15313A-p. 3 40 acres for $550

15313B-p. 3

15314 1-11-1915 George Haider probate decree

15314A-p. 2 heirs, Martha Haider, George A. Haider, Theresa Haider, Emma Haider, Agnes Haider, Clara Heider

15315 4-15-1915 Rib Lake Lumber Company in ‘Sweet heart’ contract agrees to pay half of all real estate tax to Union Tanning Company for stumpage lands

15315A-p. 2 synopsis-probable income tax avoidance plan, NB-Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling that Rib Lake Lumber Company owes no income tax because of interest deductions paid to another corporation of same holding corporation; NB-deal drafted at Rib Lake Lumber Company corporate headquarters in New York, New York

15316 5-15-1915 Rib Lake Lumber Company obligates self to pay all real estate tax on stumpage lands to Wisconsin Central Railway Co.

15316A-p. 2 this mirrors 15315, no comparable contracts-15317 Union Tanning & Wisconsin Central Railway & 15318 Rib Lake Lumber Company & Union Tanning

15317 4-21-1915 Union Tanning obligates self to pay all real estate tax to Wisconsin Central Railway Co. on stumpage lands; Union Tanning surrenders stumpage on 17 forties

15317A-Union Tanning right-of-way rights from Wisconsin Central Railway dated 10-1-1912 for itself & assigned (i.e. Rib Lake Lumber Company) NB-Union Tanning Co. signs this by its 3rd vice president, Eugene Horton, and Sec. Fred E. Knapp, who simultaneously are president & secretary of Rib Lake Lumber Company? NB-document notarized by Arpad Von Barber of New York, New York-who did the same for #15315, 15316 & 15318; question---is Von Barber the attorney for the holding company U.S. Leather??

15318 4-18-1918 Rib Lake Lumber Company obligates itself to pay half of real estate tax to Union Tanning Co. on stumpage lands & releases 3 forties

15318A-p. 2 notarized by Arpad Von Barber at New York, New York, corporate headquarters, NB- comparable documents 15315, 15315 & 15317; 15318 replicates 15315, i.e. Rib Lake Lumber Company will pay half of real estate tax on stumpage lands to Union Tanning Co., except it releases stumpage rights on 3 new forties

15319 10-6-1915 Carolina Yorde divorce judgment-Albert Yorde deserted wife & 9 children; Carolina gets farm NW NE 1-32-2E

15319A-p. 2, children Ernest, Albert, Gustave, Carl, Adolph, Herman, Carolina, Tillie & Lydia

15319B-p. 3 signed G.N. Risjord, circuit court judge; annotation by Robert P. Rusch re eventual no fault divorce – The Rib Lake Herald of 12-25-1931, #15285D, reported that Albert Yorde, Sr., died at Portage, Wis. in the home of his daughter, Lena. Did he have a second family? Was Lena a corruption of Carolina?

15319-RHLE 8-4-1933 ‘Wisconsin Wood Products Incorporates’ officers are Victor Gustafson, O.A. Peterson, W.E. Freiberg and Frank L. Becker. Corporation extensively remodeled former Stephen A. Konz sawmill for a new ‘fiber mill’

15320 businesses of Rib Lake covered by ads or articles in 1930’s Rib Lake Herald, explanatory memo 9-26-2011 by Robert P. Rusch

15320A 8-20-1934 Little Bohemia Tavern

15321 8-20-1934 National Hotel

15322 8-20-1934 Little German Band

15323 8-20-1934 Millard ‘Satch’ Kapitz Insurance

15323A 7-15-1932 ‘I also buy & sell real estate’

15324-8-20-1934 Dr. E.A. Lapham, M.D.

15325 8-20-1934 Indian Point Resort – H.A. Talbot

15326 8-20-1934 Rib Lake Service Station-Joseph Lilly

15326A 8-20-1934 Standard Oil Products, 11-25-1932

15327 8-20-1934 Diamond Service Station

15328 8-20-1934 Freiberg-Trantow Insurance-William E. Freiberg & ____ Trantow. NB-see #13585 for image of its ink blotter ad

15329 8-20-1934 Dr. R.G. Mauch, dentist

15329A 8-4-1933

15330 Clifford L. Curran-Attorney at Law

15331 Oscar Rademacher, Attorney at Law

15332 Millinery Shoppe, Mrs. Emma Voemastek

15332A 11-1-1932

15332B 8-14-1931 ‘new hats’

15333 Victor Gustafson Lumber Co, Victor Gustafson

15333A-enlarged

15334 Arnt Herrem-merchant tailor & dry cleaner

15334A 3-11-1932 enlarged

15335 Frank E. Hebert-lawyer

15335A

15336 Dr. G. L. Baker, M.D.,

15336A 9-4-1931 ‘Physician & surgeon-eyes tested & glasses fitted’

15337 Rib Lake Herald, John J. Voemastek,

15337A

15337B

15337C 5-5-1933

15337D 7-15-1932 ‘Use the Herald Want Ads’

15337E

15338 Upjohn-Kennedy Drug Co, James Upjohn & Anna Mae Kennedy, 9-8-1933

15338A 8-4-1933

15339 Phil Bonde, Threshing, Phillip Bonde

15340 Spirit Lake Tavern, William Maes ?

15341 RLHe ad 9-8-1933, Edw. Blaasch-dealer in Jamesway Barn equipment, Edward Blash

15341A 11-5-1932 ‘drinking cups make more milk Jamesway’

15341B 7-15-1932 ‘Stop Back-Breaking Drudgery’

15342 Lake Side Tavern, Ed Stamm, Prop.

15343 First Class Watch & Clock Repairing, Ray Scheller

15344 Rib Lake Lumber Company, Owner of Rib Lake Lumber Company of Delaware, a state of Delaware corporation, a subsidiary of United States Leather Corporation, New York, New York

15344A-enlargement of article

15345 Westboro Hall Theatre

15346 Soo Line Railroad, aka Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie

15346A 3-11-1932

15347 ‘Advertising is as essential to business as is rain to growing crops’-non Rib Lake ads

15347A

15347B

15348 Harper Lake Resort, William Silbernagel

15349 Legal Reserve Life Insurance, Anna Gummo, Agt.

15350 Ed Hintz Auctions, 8-4-1933 Ed Hintz

15351 George Braun Real Estate, ‘Basswood bolts wanted’

15351A 12-25-1931 ‘Legal Documents’

15352 7-28-1933 Wisconsin Wood Products, Inc., aka Fiber Mill, Attn: O.A. Peterson ‘Ole’

15353 Wellington Lake Dance Pavilion, 5-5-1933, lessees Andrew Zondlo ‘Andy’ & Anton Seidel

15354 Owl Service Station

15355 Westboro Memorial Hall-Town of Westboro-owner ? ‘Junior Prom-Westboro High School’

15356 Service Garage, Verner Silanpa, Mgr.

15357 Niggemann’s Store, Fred Niggeman, et ux, owner

15357A 12-18-1931 toys, nuts, candies, neckties, socks, shirts, towels, ladies silk hose

15358 Ole Peterson’s Opera House, Fred P. Winther-’For Sale-Good business in Rib Lake’ 5-5-1933

15359 Tomahawk Kraft Paper Co., Inc., -ad for peeled balsam pulpwood ‘on public highway within 45 miles of Tomahawk..’ 5-5-1933

15360 Ray Schirmer Trucking, 4-28-1933, Ray Schirmer ‘Poultry, dressed, veal & eggs to Milwaukee or Chicago every Tues. safe & inexpensive’

15361 11-25-1932 Kauer taxidermy, Joseph A. Kauer ‘game specimens mounted-absolutely true to life’

15362 daylight store

15362A 3-11-1932 ‘The finest & freshest groceries’

15362B 12-18-1931 ‘fruits & fresh vegetables’ ‘fresh Christmas candies & nuts’

15362C 12-18-1931 Christmas greetings

15363 11-25-1932 Log Cabin Service Station, George L. Straub, prop., RLHe 11-30-1931 reports Al Brush sold Log Cabin Service Station yesterday to George Straub, Jr.

15364 Garlow Auto Service, ___ Garlow, ‘A fire proof garage’ ‘Chrysler & Willys Sales & Service’ 7-15-1932

15365 Janda’s Store, Jacob Janda ‘Candy is a splendid energy food for children’ 7-15-1932

15365A Ad for sundaes, ice cream, tobacco, groceries, school supplies, notions, etc. 8-14-1931

15366 Sausman Painting & Decorating, Mike Sausman 9-15-1932 ‘Charges very reasonable in keeping with the times’

15367 7-8-1932 Purdy’s Service Station, ___ Purdy ‘full of pep gas’ ‘Auto repair in hands of experienced workmen at 50 cents per hour’

15368 11-11-1932 Lake Superior District Power Company appliances

15369 O.A. Peterson, O. ‘Ole’ A. Peterson ‘I am in the market for hemlock, spruce, tamarack, & peeled balsam pulpwood…’

15370 Frank Tauber Insurance Agency, ‘office in Swanson’s building’

15371 Johnson Farm, Ed Johnson, ‘seed potatoes, Wisconsin cobblers, for sale’

15372 1-29-1932 Knopf Electrical, Jake Knopf

15373 Rib Lake Theatre, aka Armory, Edwin Johnson-motion pictures

15373A 12-19 thru 12-25-1931 3 different movies play, 4-17-1931 RLHe reports M.N. Hutt leased Edwin Johnson Theatre & will soon show talking movies

15374 1-29-1932 Schroeder Shoe Shop, Carl Schroeder, prop. Formerly Winter Shoe Store

15375 Arnold’s Hardware aka Marshall Wells Store, Phillip Arnold, prop.

15376 Gas Engine repairs, Wessly ‘Wes’ Stiel, prop

15377 9-4-1931 Jarchows Hall, Herman Jarchow, Town of Greenwood, NE corner of CTH M & Joe Martin Rd.

15378 Marschke Bros., William, ‘Horses for sale at all times’ Fred ‘Fritz’, Herman ‘Wooden Shoe’ & Albert, Jr. ‘Happy’ Marschke

15379 Johnson Construction, J.M. Johnson, prop ‘General building contractor’

15380 Cash Meat Market, James F. Nowak, prop. ‘Fresh & salt meats’ ‘we pay the market price for beef, veal & hides’

15381 1-22-1932 Gibson & Gibson Barber Shop, ‘Right across the street from the First Natioanl Bank in the Orlando Winter building’

15382 Dr. C.C. Smith, Dentistry,

15383 12-25-1931 Rib Lake Telephone Co., Wm. E. Freiberg, pres., James Upjohn, VP, Ed Eckhoff, Sec., Phil, J. Arnold, J.J. Voemastek, & Mrs. Ed Eckhoff, directors

15384 12-18-1931 Beckers Tavern, Frank L. & Celia Becker

15385 Taylor’s Undertaking parlor, Elmer Taylor, prop. NB-J.J. Taylor had 3 sons, Elmer, Arthur, & Everett, all of whom became morticians. Elmer alone stayed in Rib Lake & the date he became a mortician is unknown

15386 First National Bank of Rib Lake, Wm. E. Freiberg, cashier

15386A 4-10-1931 ‘Bank statement’ at close 3-25-1931 total $405,996.27, F.L. Becker, James Upjohn & J.F. Sisley, directors

15387 9-31-1931 Spirit Lake Golf Links, O. ‘Ole’ A. Peterson, prop.

15388 Rib Lake Roller Mills, Thomas Brehm, Sr., founder

15389 8-14-1931 Rib Lake Co-operative Creamery, R.A. Kolb, pres. Butter factory to c. 1934, switched to cheese

15390 4-11-1931 South Side Garage, Robert Wensel, prop. ‘day & night wrecking service’

--Miscellaneous Ads

15391 Dodge Motor Co, Detroit, New pick-up truck $450, F.O.B. factory RLHe 8-1-1933

15392 Church announcements, St. John the Baptist Catholic, St. John’s Lutheran, Methodist-Episcopal, aka M.E. & Church of Christ, RLHe 8-18-1933

15393 L. 9-2011 Randy Sthokal, administrator, Wisconsin Tree Farm Committee to Robert P. Rusch, -Schoenwalde Tree farm 1122-established 11-1968, Robert P. Rusch’s first acreage was 200 acre parcel in Town of Rib Lake, S ½ NE ¼, N ½, SE ¼, & NE SW 13-33-2E

15393A certificate by American Tree Farm System, signed Shirley Bargander, chair, state tree farm committee

15393B-cover page 7-2011 ‘Tree Farmer’ magazine

15394 Obit 8-4-1933 RLHe Oscar H. Peterson, brother of O.A. Peterson, aka Ole

15395 9-22-2011 L. Robert P. Rusch to Larry Black, administrator, Rib Lake Public Schools

15395A Nomination for 2011 alumni Hall of Fame for Dr. Daniel C. Mathias

15395B Addendum-biography of Dr. Daniel C. Mathias

Photo collection of Robert P. Rusch

15396 P. 9-2011 Lorraine A. Killion home, N8645 CTH C, Rib Lake, downstairs level are office & archives of Rib Lake Historical Society

15397 P. ibid, pond in front of archives

15398 P. ibid, Robert P. Rusch auto, 2002 Toyota Prius, Wisconsin Reg. plate ‘Ran 100’

15399 P. 9-2011 part of Robert P. Rusch ‘Schoenwalde’ tree farm-NW SW 13-33-2E, view southwest, foreground-Red pine planted in 2002

15400 P. ibid, center-partial former Peter & Helen Surek Farm buildings

15401 P. 8-20-2011 re picnic Wood County Park by Ice Age Trail Alliance for landowners & mobile skills crew-event sign

15401A signs in front of Wood Lake Recreational Area, aka county park

15401B-ibid

15401C-ibid, sign re establishment of Wood Lake County Park, leadership roles of Ed Mannel, Ed Ahlers, Brad Reusch and Robert P. Rusch

15401D-sign-Welcome Ice Age Trail Volunteers

15401E-trailer graphics-IAT Alliance

15401F-ibid Mobile Skills crew trailer graphics

15401G-Gerald ‘Buzz’ Meyer, Coordinator, High Point Chapter, Ice Age Trail Alliance

15401F-picnickers toasting

15401G-cooks in front of warming pans

15401H-’Come & Get it’

15401I-The chow line

15402 8-2011 Thomas ‘Tom’ A. Rusch, at CTH C signs ‘Ice Age National Scenic Trail’ & ‘Timm’s Hill National Trail-South Terminus’ at the Martha H. & Herman A. Rusch (his parents) preserve, SE NE 12-33-2E

15402A-Rusch Preserve sign on south boundary ‘Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation’ language made obsolete by name change c. 2008 to Ice Age Trail Alliance

15402B-Mark Kloberdanz holding flagging-preparing to select reroute location of Ice Age Trail

15402C P. 8-2011 ‘Ansierdler Denkmal Wald sign’ ‘Pioneers settlers memorial forest’ on property of Ann K. Rusch, NE SE 12-33-2E; background-mobile skills crew chance appearance at same time Robert P. Rusch took photo!

15402D-mobile skills crew, second from right is Kevin Thusius

15402E-Left-Kevin Thusius gives instructions

15402F-crew starts brushing trail reroute

15402G-’Old Filas Farm’ sign. Sign notes Polish immigrant Peter Filas family laboriously cleared field for dairy farm c. 1910

15402H- red pine sapling-pruned to 8 feet. Robert P. Rusch planted former Filas farm field to red pine-pinus resinosa-c. 1994

15402I-Nordic Ski Trail through red pine plantation

15402J-branches & dried boughs litter ground beneath red pine pruned in winter 2010-11; left-Nordic Ski Trail

15402K-a genuine woods truck-Robert P. Rusch’s 1985 Ford F150 with collector plate-for weight-c. 1900 Rib Lake Lumber Company railroad tail on bed

15403 Ice Age Trail Alliance – mobile skills crew 2011 flier

15403A-back side – NB Rib Lake Aug. 18-21, 2011

15404 c. 1990 stationery for Ice Age Trail-High Point Chapter, Robert P. Rusch was coordinator c. 1986-1998

15405 8-31-2011 L. Wayne Tlusty, president, Village of Rib Lake, to Whom It May Concern-supporting application for grant to Ice Age Trail Alliance

15406 8-31-2011 L. Robert P. Rusch, Manager, Rib Lake Historical Society, LLC, re stewardship funding for Ice Age Trail easement over James Dillon land, Town of Rib Lake

15407 8-20-2011 Ice Age Trail Alliance picnic at Wood Lake-Kevin Thusius speaks

15407A-long-time trail volunteer, Michael ‘Mike’ McCabe, Marshfield, celebrates 70th birthday at picnic

15407B-Randy Myron sings

15407C-Strobach family, left to right-Rodney, Kristin (nee Rusch), Bekah & Katie

15407D left to right-Kristin ‘Kris’ Strobach & daughters, Bekah & Katie

15407E-father & son, Rodney & Ryan Strobach

15407F-Kris Strobach does dishes

15407G-wash those pans…

15407H-Ryan Strobach stretches by camp fire

15407I-sun setting off far east shore of Wood Lake, NB-kayaks on shore

15407J-left to right-Jason Dorgan, who in 2008 ran the entire Ice Age Trail, averaging 50 miles per day, Ann K. Rusch & Rodney Strobach

15408-P. 8-21-2011 glacial embankment trail, selected that date as special bifurcated, alternative trail to Ice Age Trail. Sign on SE NE 13-33-2E, Robert P. Rusch ‘Schoenwalde’ tree farm. Luke Kloberdanz

15408A-left to right-Luke Kloberdanz & Kevin Thusius ready to flag trail route preparatory to archeological study

15408B-Kevin Thusius-has flags-will mark

15408C-Luke Kloberdanz uses orange plastic flagging to mark glacial embankment trail-so named because extreme end of Wisconsin glacier stopped here 10,000-12,000 years ago, forming 30 foot high terminal moraine (i.e. embankment)

15409 c. 1988 Ice Age Trail map, NW Wisconsin, NB-blue line indicating maximum extent of last glaciation, National Park Service

15409A-NE Wisconsin

15409B-SW Wisconsin

15409C-SE Wisconsin

15409D-back side-left top

15409E-right top, map, glacial lobes of Wisconsin glaciation

15409F-right bottom

15409G-c. 1988 Map ‘Glacial Lobes of the Wisconsin Glaciation’ NPS

15409GG-ibid-c. 1988, arrow to Rib Lake

15409H-left bottom-’helping establish the trail’

15410 P. 8-18-2011 New Ice Age Trail on Todd Scholz property-SW NE T33-3E, 100 E. CTH C

15410A-P. bridge frames 2 x 6 treated lumber

15410B-P. bridge unconstructed over St. Claire Creek, right to left-volunteer, Steve McCabe, Thomas ‘Tom’ M. Rusch

15410C-P. cordless drills on bridge beck, rear-Will Sanford

15410D-P. Steve McCabe screws deck

15410E-P. lifting bridge frames into place, more than 100 feet of bridging spanned low, swampy creek bottom

15410F-P. aligning bridge frames

15410G-P. Young studs get tough job-digging post holes by hand

15410H-P. Newly constructed trail-’well done, thy good & truthful servants’

15410I-P. building a switch-back-a sustainable trail design to climb a steep hill

15410J-P. digging a water bar, a depression followed by a rise in trail tread to divert water off trail, Rock pile prevents hikers from cutting the switch back

15410K-cloved volunteer carries dirt-rock from place of too much to place needing it

15410L- volunteers ruck sacks line well-built new trail

15411 8-18-2011 Star News, Rib Lake Ice Age Days-P. of annual parade water wars

15411A-Redneck chariots

15411B-unicyclist

15411C-bean bag tournament

15411D-patriotic float

15411E-hitting the slopes

15411F-antique tractor ride

15411G-velociraptor race-Ellie McEvoy & Tessa Weik

15411H- 4 mile winners-Jeffrey Quednow & Megan Thomas of Eden Prairie, MN

15412 Obituary of Harold F. ‘Mike’ Zielke, 10/29/1939-1/4/2011 ‘…the Ice Age Trail ..in northern Wisconsin where Mike spent so many enjoyable hours’

15413 8-16-2011 L. George Sandul, US Geological Survey, retired, re establishment of Timm’s Hill, Price Co, as Wisconsin’s Highest Natural Point; NB-The establishment took place in 1962 and the high point was then Tim’s Hill. About 15 years later, local historical Roy Meier took it upon himself to spell it Timm, since he thought it looked for prestigious-Robert P. Rusch 9-27-2011

15413A-ibid, p. 2

15414 10-28-2008 Mike Wollmer, Executive Director, Ice Age Trail, to Robert P. Rusch re Timm’s Hill Trail & ‘Southern Reroute’

15414A-ibid p. 2

15414B- 50 year logo-Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation

15415-cover ‘Moon Handbooks Wisconsin’ 4th Edition, by Thomas Huhti 2008

15415A-p. 338 Timm’s Hill

15415B-p. 339 Rib Lake

15415C-p. 340 Jaycee Trail c. 2008 renamed Nordic Trail (Green Blazes) is maintained in Town of Rib Lake by Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club

15416 9-19-2011 Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club-meeting minutes by Gail Nelson, Club Treasurer

15416A-p. 2 ibid

15417-Map 3-2010 Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club, NB-website-

15417A-Membership Application

15418-Photo 9-2005 by Karen M. Rusch, ‘End of Summer’

15419 Map, Lincoln County 2005-06 recreation areas, So. Town of Corning

15419A-ibid north

15420 Map 2011 Lincoln County Snowmobile & winter ATV trails-title page

15420-ibid SW Town of Corning,

Lynn L. Dodge of Lynchburg, Virginia, collection

15421-Descendants chart of Peter & Lovisa Peterson by Karen Baumgartner –cover

15421A-p. 1 ibid

15421B-p. 2 ibid, including Nettie Peterson, aka Mrs. Charles Dodge, Sr., aka Ma Dodge, proprietor of Ma Dodge’s Café

15422-P. 2010 Lynn Dodge, at work

15422A-P. 12-29-1906 wedding portrait, Ole A. Peterson & Johanna ‘Jenny’ Sophie Peterson, Maple Valley, Oconto, Wis.

15423-P. c. 1-1907 Ole & Jenny Peterson wedding reception at Peterson homestead;

Ole & Jennie Peterson-to left of center

Nettie Peterson Dodge to Jennie’s right in photo

Lovisa Pedersen (Ole’s borther) to right of Nettie

Tall man on porch (right) is Simon Danielson

Woman on porch-Anna Marie (Mrs. C.B.) Nelson (Ole & Nettie’s cousin)

Olga Nelson over Ole’s right shoulder (Anna Marie’s daughter)

15424-c. 1910 Map (from #12334) T33N-R3, Town of Brannan, later Spirit, Price County, red arrow shows site for photo 15423-home of Ole A. Peterson, which he acquired from his father, Peter. Ole already owned 320 acres of land, including site of his later golf course ‘Spirit Lake Links’, NB-the map contains gross errors-Spirit Lake Point-over 40 acres of land projecting into Big Spirit Lake is omitted

15425-P. c. 1950 Mr. and Mrs. Ole A. Peterson at Phillips, Wis

15426-P. c. 1920 Ole A. Peterson on his Spirit farm with 2 unidentified women; barn has attached pole to aid in lifting hay into loft; rear-large, well-constructed windmill demonstrates progressiveness of owner, NB-impressive size and architecture of Peterson farm home-#15422

15427-P. 1907 Nettie Peterson, lka Mrs. Charles Dodge, Sr., aka Ma Dodge, as cook at her brother’s, Ole A. Peterson’s, camp at Big Spirit Lake, rear-cook shanty has neat cedar shingle roof but unfinished siding

15428-P. 1907 Ole Peterson’s camp, 12 unidentified men & Nettie Peterson, cook. Building at left is same shown in previous photo – 15427, except cedar shingles now cover siding; this is the only known photo of Rib Lake area camp building covered with cedar shingles. Tar paper was the usual quick, cheap exterior wall covering; NB-American flag wrapped around tree, men hold double-bitted axes and peavey, tool to roll logs. The Rib Lake Herald, 8-9-1907, reported that Ole bought the Waters & Zerbel saw & shingle mill at Spirit Lake. It was the likely source of the shingles. Rib Lake Herald, 5-8-1900 reports Ole driving his logs from Big Spirit into Little Spirit in preparation for drive down Spirit River; Rib Lake Herald 10-1-1908 Ole resumes camp operations at Big Spirit lake; Rib Lake Herald 11-5-1909 Ole has interior walls of his camp plastered

YOU CAN READ ENTIRE ARTICLES ON ANNOTATED CHRONOLOGY TO RIB LAKE HERALD AT FOLDER #2,

15429-c. 1915 A bark camp, L-R-#8-Jennie Peterson, aka Mrs. Ole Peterson, #9-Ole A. Peterson; this was a weekend day ‘a visiting day’; hemlock bark was peeled in late spring hence leaves on trees. The cook shanty bell is seen right-rear over roof. 2 extra window sashes lean against exterior wall

15430-P. c. 1907 Peterson sisters-L-Nettie 7-28-1887 to 4-19-1957 l/k/a Ma Dodge, Right-Jennie 10-3-1889 to 5-31-1979

15431-P. 1901 Rib Lake High School football team & coach; top row-3rd from left is Charles Dodge, Sr.

15432-P. c. 1901 Charles Dodge, Sr.

15433-P. c. 1910 L. Charles Dodge, Sr., right-older brother, John Dodge

15434-P. c. 1907 Left-Charles Dodge, Sr., right-Arthur Willet

15434A-back-post date 10-19-1907, addressee-Mrs. Robert Aitken ‘…Charles [Dodge] is going to take work in the commercial dept.’ /s/ Arthur Willet

15435-P. c. 1915 Charles Dodge, Sr. behind car with registration #B 67-071

15436-P. c. 1930 Charles Dodge, Sr.

15436A-back-he used photo on folders & posters in run for Taylor County Sheriff

15437 1930 photo & text ‘vote for Chas. V. Dodge for Sheriff, authorized & circulated by Charles V. Dodge, Rib Lake, Wis’ this material is on campaign handout-the back side is a mirror, Charles Dodge, Sr. aka Charles V. [Verle] Dodge was often selected by the Village of Rib Lake board in the 1930’s as village constable

15438-P. c. 1930 Mr. and Mrs. Cy Claussn, long-time Big Spirit Lake residents

15439-P. c. 1930 Dorothy Evelyn Dodge 4-3-1912 to 3-21-2007

15440-P. 1947 Dorothy Evelyn Dodge & husband, Allen Ferdinand Tlusty;

Photos of Charles Verle Dodge, Jr., 3/22/1920-4/20/1998; aka Charles Dodge, Jr.

15441-Charles Dodge, Jr. c. 1925, the apex front building in back is the former ‘Wisconsin Hotel’ on the east side of McComb Ave, Block A, Lot 4 & 5, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, view NE

15442-P. c. 1925 ‘Me again’ Charles Dodge, Jr. atop snow pile on McComb Ave. the awning reads ‘Gilbertson’s Place’ a barber pole hangs outside on the former ‘Wisconsin Hotel’ building, Block A, Lot 4 & 5, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, Eric Gilbertson bought these lots 4-5-1925 and sold the north 21 feet of Lot 5 to Peter Bogumill 2-2-1927; left-Bogumill building occupies lots 6 & 7, Block A, McComb’s Racing Park Addition. It has had an illustrious commercial history; built first as a 1 story store, Stephen A. Konz owned from 10-3-1908 to 2-9-1917 and added a second story.

Mr. and Mrs. Konz sold to Peter Lieg, who sold on 1-15-1927 to Peter Bogumill, et al. The building stands in excellent repair-unoccupied on 10-1-2011

15443-P. c. 1910 ‘McComb Avenue, east side, Rib Lake, Wis.’ far right-Stephen A. Konz, et ux, store-before Konz added second story-occupies Block A, Lots 6 & 7, McComb’s Racing Park Addition. On 2-2-1917 Konz sold to Peter Lieg, who sold on 1-15-1920 to Peter Bogumill, et al, nka Bogumills

15443A-back side postdate-8-3-1910 postcard

15444-Rib Lake History 10-11-1912 it seems like yesterday ‘Robert [Ludwig] Rusch has begun his apprentice shop in Eric Gilbertson’s Shoe Shop’ ‘Lieg’s store advertises grapes at only 19 cents a basket for this weekend’

15445-P. c. 1930 Charles Dodge, Jr. on horse on McComb Ave., buildings on rear-left-former Wisconsin Hotel, Block A, Lot 4 & 5, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, barber pole advertises ‘W.S. Calvert’ barber; right-’Woodman Hall,’ Modern Woodmen of America Lodge-upstairs

15446-P. c. 1930 Charles Dodge, Jr. and horse on McComb Ave, behind his shoulder-plate glass window on Woodman Hall, Block A, Lot 3, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, reads ‘post office’, the post office occupied Block A, Lot 3 McComb’s Racing Park Addition for 30 years, 1911 to 1941, when it moved across the street; Woodman Hall was razed 10-1961

15447-P. c. 1930 Charles Dodge, Jr. stands on McComb Ave, then STH 102, which is still dirt, although sidewalks are concrete; buildings in rear-right to left-A) Woodman Hall-window reads ‘U.S. [post office]’, B) former Wisconsin Hotel; SW corner ‘W.S. Calvert’ barber; C) empty lot; D) Bogumill building with 2 bay windows

15448-c. 1928 Charles Dodge, Jr. at soda fountain inside Upjohn-Kennedy Drug Store

15449-P. c. 1930 Charles Dodge, Jr. with pony on Landall Ave., rear buildings-Left-public library in NE corner of Landall & Pearl; right-screened-in band stand just west of alley

15450-P. c. 1935 Charles Dodge, Jr. in band uniform; rear left-public library; right-band stand sits atop concession stand, view to NW

15451-P. 1938 Charles Dodge, Jr. graduation picture

15452-P. 1937 Rib Lake High School basketball team-top-2nd from left-Charles Dodge, Jr.

15453-P. 1943 Charles Dodge, Jr. in US Navy

15454-P. c. 1955 Charles Dodge, Jr.

15455-P. c. 1920 P. ‘Believe it or not by Ripley; Wreath tree-Rib Lake Cemetery’

15455A-back-’Dine & Dance at the Lake Side Tavern, Koehler & Radtke, Props., Phone 52, Rib Lake, Wis’

15456-P. c. 1920 ‘Harper Lake, at Harper Lake Resort, Rib Lake Wis. C-22’ view NW across North Harper Lake to (grass covered) Johnson Hill

15457-P. c. 1930 Little Spirit Lake-east shore; ‘Scene on Highway 102 at Spirit Lake, Rib Lake, Wisconsin A & O Excel P.C.Co. Milw.’

15458-P. c. 1920 Carl Jusits at North door of future Ma Dodge’s Cafe-rear-partial ‘The Fair’ store owned by P.E. Marcus

15459-P. c. 1920 Carl Jusits making hay at Ole Peterson farm-soon to be converted to ‘Spirit Lake Golf Links’

15460-P. c. 1920 Charles Dodge, Jr. on hay wagon, as Carl Jusits and Charlie McLeod team up to pitch hay

15461-P. 8-1962 Johanna ‘Jennie’ Peterson, 5-30-1973, with her mother’s spinning wheel which she gifted to Karen Baumgartner, nee Peterson

15462-P. 11-4-1940 wedding portrait, right-Wiley E. Peterson (11-23-1917 to 11-16-1996) and Olga Skomaroske; attendants Charles Dodge, Jr. and Ruth Peterson

15463 10-23-1948 wedding portrait-John E. Peterson (5-28-1921 to 4-16-1973) & Laverne M. Hataj

Photos of Nettie Dodge nee Peterson 7-28-1887 to 4-19-1957, aka Mrs. Charles Dodge, Sr., aka ‘Ma Dodge’

15464P. c. 1910 Nettie Dodge, left, and unidentified female, at Peterson Spirit Lake farm

15465-P. c. 1924 interior-Ma Dodge’s Café on 5-10-1924 ‘Nettie Dodge’ paid $1500 for building on Block D, Lot 15, SW corner of Landall & McComb. She created ‘Ma Dodge’s Café’ and boarding house & operated it for 33 years. It is one of the heart-warming stories of a genuine ‘people person’ in Rib Lake; right to left-Charles Doge, Sr., center-Ma Dodge, right-Ella Klister?

15466-P. c. 1928 remodeled interior of Ma Dodge’s café, right-Nettie Dodge

15467-P. c. 1930 9 unidentified school teachers who lived at Ma Dodge’s –the second story was a boarding house-with dog ‘collie’ rear-Kelnhofers ‘Daylight’ store, in 2011 Zondlo’s ‘Ed’s IGA’ store, 801 McComb Ave.

15468 c. 1934 ‘Sweet-Orr ‘yellow ticket’ working pants & coat’ coupon for Fred Niggemann General store. This store was just south of Ma Dodge’s café. F. Niggemann operated there, Lot 13, Block D, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, from 1912 to 1939

15468A-back-’the yellow ticket’ work coat is the strongest in the world’

15469-P. c. 1928 Charles Dodge, Jr. and friend ‘Pinky’ arm wrestle at junction of Landall & McComb Ave.; rear-south side of ‘Kelnhofer’s General Store & Meat Market’, built in 1899 on Block C, Lot 1, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

15470-P. c. 1936 Charles Dodge, Sr., and Ma Dodge in front entrance to Ma Dodge’s Café

15471-P. 1942 Ma Dodge-in apron-on her doorstep. Note plants in window & bench allowing all to site on McComb Ave. & watch the world go by

15472-P. c. 1938 Graceful street light poles line McComb Ave., view north, rear-east side of McComb Ave., Scharer’s Tavern, Swanson building & Jake Janda’s store, Charles Dodge, Sr., in Rib Lake constable uniform, is next to his wife, ‘Ma Dodge’ and son, Charles Dodge, Jr.

In 2010 the Rib Lake community save and installed one of these light poles in Lake Theatre park, built across the street.

RPR collection

15473-P. c. 1940 Christmas tree in center of McComb and Landall Ave.; rear left-General Store, in 2011 Ed’s IGA, 801 McComb Ave, partially hidden by tree is Rib Lake Herald office and print shop, which also rented space to Lake Superior District [Electric] Power Company for appliance showroom; NB-Christmas lights strung above street

15474-P. c. 1958 a forlorn, now closed, Ma Dodge’s Café, mourns the April, 1957, death of Ma Dodge. The building was razed in 1963 and in 2011 is a vacant lot

15475-P. 1951 Ma Dodge and daughter-in-law, Mary Lou Dodge (Mrs. Charles Dodge, Jr.) and grandchildren, Laurie (being held) and Lynn L. Dodge. They stand in a wooden air lock built to keep drafts outs of the café and next to a ‘Hills Bros. Coffee’ sign

15476-P. c. 1950 Christmas photo of Ma Dodge;

15476A-back-’to [grandchildren] Lynn & Laurie, from Grandma [Ma Dodge] in her handwriting

15477-P. 1944 Nettie Dodge, nee Peterson, 7-28-1887 to 4-19-1957, known to all as ‘Ma Dodge’

15478-P. c. 1915 Left-Dorothy E. Dodge 4-3-1912 to 3-21-2007

15479-P. 2-19-1942 Mr. and Mrs. Dorothy E. and John E. Corbett at Camp Shelby

15480-P. c. 1943 Dorothy E. Corbett, nee Dodge, in SPAR uniform

15481-P. c. 1944 ibid

15482-P. c. 1952 Ole A. Peterson’s factory in Phillips, Wis. Kneeland-McLurg Flooring, Ole-with W.A. Parkinson & Margaret Kirsohbaum, formed the company in 1934. It took over part of defunct Kneeland-McLurg Lumber Co. Ole A. Peterson then moved to Phillips, where he died 1-10-1965

15483-P. c. 1961 Ole A. Peterson’s ‘Peterson Concrete Corporation’ Phillips, Wis.

15484-P. 1945 Rib Lake Lumber Company planing mill fire. View east across McComb Ave., NB-long fire fighter on roof aiming pitifully small stream of water on blaze

15485-P. 1927 new Rib Lake High School annex-north (Fayette Ave.) side

15486-P. c. 1940 snow piles on McComb Ave., Village of Rib Lake water tower-razed c. 1990, on horizon

15487-P. c. 1940 rare rear view of Ma Dodge’s Café, center-Zielke’s food store-in 2011 Damien Jones’ Graphi Coffee & Tees (Block C, Lot 14), Dr. E.A. Lapham (Block C, Lot 13) and siren tower above then Village of Rib Lake Hall & garage.

15488-P. c. 1930 three Rib Lake High School teachers-boarding at Ma Dodge’s Café-stand in center of McComb and Landall Ave.; rear-right to left-First National Bank of Rib Lake, Marschke’s Soda Water Parlor (It’s Prohibition!); Block C, Lot 2, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

15489-P. c. 1928 9 school teachers pose before Ma Dodge’s Café; rear left-sign next to upstairs entrance advertises ‘heated rooms Nettie Dodge’

15490-P. 1938 ‘Coffee Clutch’ auf Deutsch ‘Koffee Klutsch’ in Nettie Dodge’s kitchen; rear-Ma Dodge

15491-P. c. 1940 pleading for mercy, Constable Charles Dodge, Sr., with begging miscreants at corner of Landall & McComb

15492-P. c. 1910 Dam Tamie Sum & unidentified handler in front of Nick Clerf’s blacksmith shop, Block A, Lot 1, McComb’s Racing Park Addition; NB-Handwritten in chalk on building side-’Prentice versus Rib Lake 12:30, Westboro versus Rib Lake 4:00 p.m.’, baseball games for adult teams

15493-P. c. 1914 Dorothy E. Dodge, age 2, sits on horse, parents alongside (Mr. and Mrs. Charles V. Dodge, Sr.) Charles was camp foreman, Nettie was camp cook. Dorothy lived at camp until she started school

15494-P. c. 1916 Dorothy E. Dodge & grandmother, Lovisa Peterson, tend the chickens

From album of teenage Charles Dodge, Jr.

15494-P. c. 1936 Charles Dodge, Jr. & friends Bill, Tub & Bill, outside Rib Lake Lumber Company building-each holds brownie box camera

15495-P. c. 1936 east side of main sawmill building of Rib Lake Lumber Company-boys stand atop bull chain walkway; rear-twin domed tank care on railroad tracks, view north

15496-P. c. 1936 view from Rib Lake Lumber Company bull chain walkway-’cat walk’ eastward over frozen Rib Lake. Piles in lake to keep saw logs from drifting away from mill. Wood boards divide ‘hot pond’ from unheated portion of Rib Lake

15497-P. c. 1930 ‘Roy’ strides south across Landall Ave; rear buildings-right to left-North wall of P.E. Marcus ‘The Fair’ Block A, Lot 12, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, later Rib Lake Mercantile Cooperative; the two buildings to the back of ‘Roy’ occupy Block A, Lot 3. The dark building was built 10-20-1910 by P.E. Marcus as a store addition and office of the Taylor County Lumber Co, which he operated with his son-in-law, Charles Miller

15497-P. c. 1938 4 horse-pulled dump wagons adjacent to Rib Lake Lumber Company mill. These wagons were filled with scrap wood from the mill, which sold it as firewood. When the team got to a buyer’s home, it backed the wagon to the selected site, the teamster got off & the wagon tripped, dumping the firewood out the back

15498-P. c. 1920 Oscar H. Peterson, born 1-1-1880 in Norra Vi, Oestergotterland, Sweden, died 8-2-1933 in Rib Lake, Brother of Ole A. Peterson & Nettie Peterson. Despite being a deaf-mute, he successfully ran restaurants in Libby, Montana, and Rib Lake.

15498A-P. c. 1920 Nettie Dodge (lka Ma Dodge), left, and unidentified friend standing on McComb Ave. sidewalk at DE corner of ‘Peterson’s Opera House.’ The downstairs included ‘The Busy Bee Café’ run by Nettie’s brother-in-law, Oscar H. Peterson, as proprietor. The second story was a spacious room used for a variety of public shows & events & dubbed ‘The Opera House’ after A.C. McComb’s opera house burned. The Peterson building still stands as of 10/14/2011 at 729 McComb Ave as the Bird’s Nest Bar. It occupies Lots 9 & 10, Block D, MRPA. See Doc. #10864 for Busy Bee Café stationery. See #11022 for a photo of the Busy Bee Café & Opera House building.

This ends the spectacular Lynn L. Dodge collection. Special thanks to her cousin and my friend, Karen M. Baumgartner

15499 9-19-2011 L. Debbie Kenny nee Clendenning to David Judell, director, Rib Lake Public Library, re her Rib Lake grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Malcomb Clendenning and Leona Clenndenning, nee Donner

15499A-ibid p. 2

15499B-ibid, p. 2 signature

15500-Clendenning descendants chart 10-1-2011 by Robert P. Rusch

15501-P. c. 1910 5 school girls at Fenwood, Marathon County, Wis. in home-made dresses-Elinor Umhofer, Margritt [sic] Taleson, Florence Horter, Josephine Miller, & Leona Donna, lka Mrs. Malcomb Clendenning

15502-P. c. 1920 Malcomb Clendenning & unknown man at Front Street, Village of Rib Lake home. Rear-west side of E.C. Getchel home-in 2011, Dallmann-Kniewel Funeral Home, 933 West Street; rear-firewood pile and 2 door outhouse

15503-P. 1910 Dick Taylor (perhaps)

15503A-back-postcard 11-30-1910 ‘Idaho’ by Dick Taylor to Malcomb Clendening (sic)

15503B-ibid-enlarged image

15504-c. 1910 postcard from Malcomb Clendenning [in Idaho, perhaps] to Ed Cooney, Rib Lake ‘…I can now get you a timber claim if you want ½ mile from mine. It will cost you about $150..’

15504A-front side-unidentified (possibly Idaho) village

15505-P. c. 1910 unidentified (possibly Idaho) timber claim cabin

15506 6-24-1908 wedding invitation-Mr. & Mrs. Harry Smith re daughter Flossie L.J. [Smith] to Andrew J. Kaiser ‘at their home-Pasgna, Saskatchewan, Canada, addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Clendenning and family

15507-P. c. 1910 ‘Reading Wheat, N. Dakota’

15508-P. c. 1910 field kitchen for harvest crew in unidentified western grain field

[editor’s note; Mr. Malcomb Clendenning is identified variously with the items in the Debbie Kennedy collection; A) Sometimes by nick-name ‘Mack’ or ‘Mac’; B) Sometimes with a last name spelled ‘Cledening’, not Clendenning: Since the current Rib Lake family members spell the name Clendenning, I will use that throughout this collection---Robert P. Rusch 10-1-2011]

15509-Postdated 11-4-1907 postcard from Archie [Clendenning] to Malcomb

15509A-front-photo ‘Fall Creek in olden times’

15510 4-1-1908 postcard from Archie Clendenning to Malcomb Clendenning

15510A-front ‘tie game’

15511 10-10-1907 postcard to Malcomb Clendenning from Ray Clendenning

15511A-front signed ‘Ray’

15512-P. c. 1918 Raymond ‘Ray’ Clendenning in uniform at unidentified US Army base

15513 5-1911 Lola Clendenning postcard from state of Washington to Malcomb Clendenning

15513A-front-’The old National Bank, Spokane, Wash’

15514 11-1911 postcard from ‘Aunt Theresa’ Columbus, Wis., to Malcomb Clendenning

15514A-front ‘Canning Factory, Columbus, Wis.’ ‘copyright 1911 by H. Montgomery’

15515 3-7-1910 postcard from Leona ‘Lucy’ Donner at Lusk, Wyoming, to Malcomb Clendenning

15515A-painting-woman & airplane ‘the siren’

15516-unmailed, undated postcard addressed to Joseph ‘Joe’ Donner, Rib Lake, by Malcomb Clendenning

15516A-front-’Boating, Mitchell Park, Milwaukee, Wis.’ NB-over-loaded row boats-mat at oars!

15517-c. 1910 postcard to Leona Donner, ‘This is Patrick before he had his curls cut off’ signed Bertha

15517A-front c. 7 year old boy with curls

15518 4-10-1911 postcard from Wellie Clendenning, Columbus, Wis., to Miss Leona Donner, Rib Lake

15518A-front ‘Joyful Eastertide’

15519 9-6-1911 postcard from Jo at Goodrich Star Route to Miss Leona Donner, Rib Lake, stating sender can not get to [county] fair…am out to (sic) far for that’ [NB-rural isolation]

15519A-front-drawing of lady & letter

15520 1-15-1913 postcard to Miss Leona Donner, Rib Lake, from Paul Hassin ‘I am up here in Bayfield [Wisconsin] in a tailor shop’

15520A-front ‘Do I flirt? Cert.’

15521 6-4-1897 ‘Programme’ Commencement exercises of Rib Lake Public School, June 4, anno domini, 1897 ‘not for school, but for life’ cover

15521A-inside p. 2 & 3, presentations by students

1st grade-Herman Talbot

2nd grade-Alex Peterson

3rd grade-Ella Lebard

4th grade-Tena Gilbertson

5th grade-Ella Kaisser

6th grade-Gustav Lans

7th grade-Nellie Timme

8th grade-Edgar Clark

9th grade-Willie Kennedy [William G. Kennedy, 6/15/1880-11/1/1955, son of John J. Kennedy]

10th grade-Ethel Lee

Presentation of diplomas by Mrs. S. [Sam] Hagan, [NB-no mention of 11 & 12th grades-no students enrolled?—Robert P. Rusch]

15522 11-27-1907 ‘list of the dances’ for Thanksgiving Ball by Rib Lake Band & Orchestra Association ‘for benefit of brass band’ supper at ‘McRae’s Restaurant (Woodman Hall) [Modern Woodmen of America Lodge Building on McComb Ave. – Block A, Lot 3, McComb’s Racing Park Addition]; NB-the dance took place at ‘..the Opera House.’ This was the spacious second floor of what is in 2011, the Bird’s Nest Tavern, 729 McComb Ave. The building was bought 4-14-1905 by Hiram Sargent

15522A-inside-list of 24 dances & places for ladies to enter names of gentlemen to whom she promised each dance

15523 6-1-1912 Rib Lake High School ‘Annual Commencement Exercises’ at Grand Opera House-cover

15523A-p. 1 ibid

15523B-p. 2 ibid class officers prosper – H. Burbey, Marie M. McLellan, Lovene G. Rousseau, Jesse A. Krueger; class roll-names above plus Mary Eunice Hazen, John Nicholaus Schaak [6 in graduating class]

15523C-p. 3 ibid, senior class play

15524 5-28-1915 invitation to junior prom of Rib Lake High School at Opera House, tickets $1, extra ladies-25 cents

15525-P. c. 1915 2 men, probably Raymond Clendenning, standing on Rib Lake Lumber Company railroad near junction of Fayette Ave., & Rib Lake, view to NE

15526-P. c. 1920 Rib Lake Lumber Company mill unloading complex & Fayette Ave., from James Upjohn’s roof. A string of unloaded logging railroad cars hugs lakeshore while parallel railroad line is kept open for thru traffic. Photo #15525 was taken at location of unloaded logging car. Far right-Cupola of Rib Lake High School features tall flagpole

15527-P. c. 1920 ‘Harper Lake Cabins, Westboro, Wis.’

15528-P. c. 1950 ‘Lake St. Claire, Rib Lake, Wis. Elster Photo, Waupun’, view NW from what is in 2011 Rustic Road #1

15529-P. c. 1950 ‘Wellington Lake, near Rib Lake, Wis., Elster Photo, Waupun’, view north from bathing beach, left horizon-Dio Walty farm home

15530-P. c. 1965 ‘Weinbrenner Shoe Factory 63’ south & east sides of newly-constructed Rib Lake shoe factory north of Fayette Ave.

End of Debbie Kenny collection

Dennis Kuehling collection

15531-P. c. 1910 Ward School, south & west sides

15531A-back-postcard 9-2-1911 to Miss Daisy Dill Hancock, Wis. ‘Rib Lake…very nice little place.’ Signed Bertha

15532-P. c. 1910 ‘Kinder School, Westboro, Wis. #5’

15532A-back-postcard 10-19-1914 to Miss Esther Engstrom, St. Paul, Minn., in care of Mounds Sanitarium. This was the elementary school

15533-P. c. 1930 ‘Greetings from Westboro, Wis.’ 9 individual photos, beginning top left-clockwise

15533A-Westboro Lumber Co. mill & Silver Creek Pond

15533B-Swedish Methodist Episcopal Church, SE corner of Church Street [CTH D] and Second Street

15533C-Episcopal Church, SW corner of Church Street [CTH D] & Third Street

15533D-High School

15533E-infamous well in middle of Front [Bus. STH 13] & Center Streets

15533F-south view down Front Street-NB infamous well

15533G-view west from Queenstown

15533H- 2 story mercantile building-wood frame

15533I-St. Theresa Catholic Church-wood frame

15533J-back, postcard 11-2-1908 to Miss Evelyn Hutchins, Unity, Wis. signed Mamie

15534-P. c. 1963 ‘Public School-Westboro-Wis. 528’ 3 story wood frame high school with brick addition at rear (west) & 1 story addition to south, view to SW

15534A-postcard 6-24-1914 to Stewart Wilson, Commanche, Iowa, signed Nick Slobola?

Robert P. Rusch collection

15535-P. c. 1907 McComb Ave., east side, Rib Lake, Wis. ‘notice bank building with cross’ far right-Block A, Lots 6 & 7, bought by Mrs. Stephen A. Konz 10-3-1908. Konz adds second story to building & sells to Peter Lieg on 2-2-1917, who leases on 2-25-1920 to John G., William A. & Peter B. Bogumill; NB-across street-sign on roof advertises Dr. L.L. Taylor. He was an M.D. & elected first president of Village of Rib Lake in June, 1902

15535A-back-postcard 12-16-1909 to August Gieske, 812 Edmund St., St. Paul, Minn. Signed Geo. ‘Everything is far more favorable than I expected…[I] have a good [teaching?] position, also a good boarding place.’

15536 1-3-1895 George S. Davis, lumber baron at Eau Claire, assigns to his lumber company, David & Starr, 4-23-1887 franchise from Wisconsin Legislature

15536A-summary of 4-23-1887 franchise; 1) Davis authorized to maintain dam on Little Black River at SW SW 1-30-1E (This is where Wis. Central Railroad crossed the river. The Davis & Starr Lumber Co. operated a large saw mill there. The dam created a flowage which served as a mill pond); 2) Davis authorized to build additional dams upstream from main dam provided each had slopes to allow his competitors to drive their logs downstream; 3) Davis may charge a toll of 25 cents per thousand board feet of lumber on every log driven over his Little Black main dam; 4) The toll constituted a lien against the logs until paid & was legally enforceable

15537 1-23-1902 August Steiner Certificate of Descent; 4 heirs; 1) Albert Steiner; 2) ‘Annie’ Gallagher; 3) Bertha Gebauer; 4) Louisa Steiner

15538 1-21-1909 stumpage contract; William Braatz to Stephen Konz, $153 ‘all timber’ SE ¼ 26-33-3E

15539 6-8-1909 stumpage contract; Anton Maas to William Braatz, $700 ‘all timber’ W ½ SW ¼ 14-32-2E

15540 6-26-1909 map – Little Rib Lake by John A. Logan

15541 11-28-1908 St. Ann’s Roman Catholic cemetery, Lot 11, Block 11, sold for $2.57 to Mrs. Julia Wudi

15542 9-4-1909 land contract – C.C. Morton to Simon Kortenkamp, $1000 SW SE 17-33-3E; summary; 1) possession date; 2) insurance requirement; 3) tax

15542A-continued; 4) repair requirement; 5) acceleration clause; 6) deed in fee simple; 7) forfeiture (‘strict foreclosure’) penalty

15542B-p. 3 signature page; nota bene-see #12268, Simon Kortenkamp’s 1910 letter detailing life in Rib Lake

15542C Map 1913 plat, part T33-R3E, highlighting location of Simon Kortenkamp parcel (in 2011-1/2 mile east of STH 102, north side of Wood Lake Ave.

15543 12-20-1909 care contract, Caroline & Reinhold Mielke provisions 1-12

15543A-provisions 13-22

15543B-signature page, legal description W ½ SE ¼, 25-33-3E

15543C-Map location of house & farm subject to care contract-’R. Mielke’

15544 11-3-1906 stumpage contract-Joseph Dessert Lumber Co. to John Mathe, $18,000 for all merchantable ‘saw log timber’ on 23 forties, plus hemlock bark ‘peeling’ on 3 forties

15544A- 23 forties in T33N-R3E; Dessert had probably previously logged and driven the pine to his Mosinee, Wis. sawmill. Mathe wanted saw timber for his mill in the Village of Rib Lake; 1) payment schedule plus 6% interest; 2) ‘all merchantable saw log timber’; 3) ‘peeling’ this word-inserted only twice-next to 2 legal descriptions, is the only apparent reference to peeling hemlock bark. It implies that Mathe also obtained the right to peel and sell the highly profitable bark to a tannery. It is ironic that this contract-otherwise detailed & precisely written-would be ambiguous where or not hemlock bark was part of the deal; 4) deadline-5-1-1910; 5) Dessert ‘reserved right to grant a railroad right-of-way across ‘W ½ NW ¼ 24-35-2E’ [The Rib Lake Lumber Company later constructed a major part of its railroad system through Section 24]; 6) no cutting until ‘full payment’ made-exceptions

15544B-7) tax provisions; 8) title to logs; 9) ‘time of the essence..’ 10) failure works forfeiture

15544C-11) modification by written ‘separate agreement’ only; signatures & authentications

15545 3-1-1908 John S. Owen Lumber Co. obtains lease renewal for Diamond Lake Railroad Spur-Ex. Stanley, Merrill & Phillips Railroad-from State Land & Lumber Co.

15545A-p. 2 Map

15545B-ibid ‘3-1-1908 Diamond Lake spur ‘Northwestern Lumber Co. Logging Railroad’ part-Stanley, Merrill & Phillips Railroad

15546 3-9-1907 barter agreement-40 acres of land traded for lifetime supply of food, hay, manure, etc. ‘I, Martin Steen, hereby agree & bind myself, my legal heirs & assigns, to give to Frank Klein & Theresia Klein…..for their natural lifetime…’ annually; A) 200 lbs. wheat flour; B) 200 lbs. rye flour; C) 5 tons hay; D) 15 dozen eggs; E) drinking water ‘free pass to my well’; F) use of horse & ‘vehicle’; G) use of 1 acre land & old garden; H) each year Steen will apply Klein’s manure to such land & work it in ‘to the order of Frank Klein or wife’; I) 15 cords of stovewood; J) If 1 of Kleins die, food allotment is cut by half

15546A- ibid, p. 2 signatures of Martin & Anna Steen authenticated by George Knower ‘Justice of the Peace’ [I suspect this document was drafted by George Knower, a non-lawyer. No trained lawyer would purport to allow Steen to bind non-consenting heirs (e.g. children) to fulfill this type of contract---Robert P. Rusch 10-19-2011]

15546B-Map 1913 land subject to barter, NW SW 30-32-3E highlighted in yellow

15547 9-9-1907 Village of Rib Lake sells cemetery lot in ‘Rib Lake Public Cemetery,’ lka Lakeview, to Eliza Freier for $2

15548 9-9-1907 judgment--Hugo M. Lea versus George C. Champlain-quiet title lawsuit re NE SE 2-32-2E

15548A-p. 2 ibid

15548B-Map 9-9-1907 land involved in judgment

Collection of Joyce Pace

15549-P. c. 1881 Wisconsin Central Locomotive #3, a 4-4-0 built in 1871 by Baldwin Locomotive Works & named ‘Weyauwega’ it was a wood burner & pictured here at Ogema, Wisconsin Depot (behind locomotive) with all original equipment. Foreground-wooden sidewalk runs eastward toward Ogema business district & is cluttered with off-loaded freight, including round grind stones used to sharpen axes, etc.

15549A-back, photo interpretation narrative by Wisconsin Central Railroad Historian Roy L. Martin, dated ‘July, 1943’ and in Martin’s handwriting. This photo was in the collection of Joyce Pace’s uncle, name unknown, long-time Wisconsin Central Railroad Conductor residing at Westboro, Wis.

15550-P. c. 1890 Wisconsin Central Locomotive ‘16’ and tender at unknown location

15551-P. c. 1910 two probable Wisconsin Central locomotives following head to head wreck; tender reads ‘241’ location unknown

15552-P. c. 1930 probable Wisconsin Central Locomotive & round house crew of 23. Engineer & fireman pose in front of stone arch doors of round house. Number on sand dome reads ‘2401’ location unknown.

Robert P. Rusch Collection

15553 10-24-2011 Rib Lake School District Annual Budget Meeting Report-cover

15553A 2011-2012 school calendar

15553B-letter from Larry Black, Administrator

15553C-ibid

15553D-Agenda-Annual Meeting

15553E-Revenue & Expenditures

15553F-ibid

15553G-ibid

15553H-ibid

15553I School Debt, enrollment & fund balance

15553J-tax levy history

15553K 8-9-2010 minutes

15553L-ibid

15553M-Salaries

15553N-financial breakdown

15554 10-31-2011 Hebda bridge update & proposal from Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club to Rib Lake School District

15554A-Photos, new Tom Hebda bridge 2010

15554B-P. 10-22-2011 left to right-Russel Blennert, Scot Bromann, Gary Krueger

15554C-P. outdoor leaning center site

15554D-P. Sheep Ranch Creek Bridge 2010

Robert ‘Bob’ Lucia collection

15555-P. c. 1900 Paul Whitefish-portrait by William Zeit. Whitefish was a long-time resident of what became Taylor County, either an Ojibwa or Potawatomie, he was associated with the Indian Settlement, ‘Indian farm’ in the Town of Westboro (at a now non-disclosed site in the Chequamegon National Forest. He is buried in the public cemetery at Perkinstown

15556-P. 5-1920 R-L-Mrs. Josephine Lucia, aka Mrs. John F. Lucia & Mrs. Gust Engstrom, in buckboard returning from shopping in Westboro

15557-P. c. 1950 Mrs. Josephine Lucia, aka Mrs. John F. Lucia

15558-P. c. 1928 Mr. John F. Lucia, Sr., & grandson, Robert I. Lucia. John, Sr., came to Westboro in 1872, making him one of the earliest settlers

15559-Star News ‘Recollections about Westboro jotted by resident’ [Mrs. John F. (Anna) Lucia, Jr. P. 1912 Gay Town School, NW NW 8-33-2E, 12 students with teacher Fannie Hultine, lka Mrs. Gunnard Nelson

15560-Map of Gay Town & Queenstown; part 1913 Standard Atlas of Taylor County, T33-R2E

15561-Star News ‘Like a Fireside Chat’

15562-P. Mrs. John F. (Anna) Lucia, Jr. c. 1971. Anna was a daughter of Gustave & Christiana Pries [image #15576 is the Pries family]

15563-P. John F. Lucia, Jr. c. 1940, photo taken in shack in Chicago where John, for many years, sold balsam Christmas trees he brought there from Westboro

15564-P. c. 1940 John F. Lucia, Jr. – 3rd from left with crew running ‘Downey Brothers Christmas Tree Dealers’ at Madison & Laramie Streets, Chicago

15564A-P. c. 1940 dead deer & coyote were additional props at Downey Bros. Christmas tree yard

15565-P. c. 1940 2 unidentified Chicago boys posing for photo in ‘Santa’s Sleigh’ at Downey Bros. Christmas tree lot. To boost tree sales, Santa came every night. Deer props sport antlers harvested at Westboro

15566-P. c. 1932 Children of Mr. & Mrs. John F. Lucia, Jr., L-R Naida May, nka Mrs. Elmer Hough, John ‘Jack’ Edward Lucia, Robert I. Lucia

15567-P. c. 1950 aerial of farm of Mr. & Mrs. John F. & Anna Lucia, Jr., NW NW 8-33-2E, view eastward, Lucia Road in foreground, rows of mowed hay parallel road

15568P. 10-1963 rolling glacial hills of John F. Lucia, Jr. farm, NW NW 8-33-2E, Lucia dairy cows have closely cropped grass

15569-P. 10-1-1948 Robert I. Lucia feels ‘Pedro,’ a black bear kept as a pet

15570-P. c. 1949 John F. Lucia, Jr. gets a bear hug

15571-P. c. 1945, 1941 International pick-up truck parked next to John F. Lucia, Jr. dairy barn (note hay loft door open) & silo made from local stone

15572-P. c. 1935 Robert I. Lucia gives bottle to newly born sheep. Lucia routinely kept 20 sheep. Jack Bruel sheared flock every spring. The wool was sent away to be made into yarn, which Mrs. Lucia used for socks & clothing

15573-P. 1935 John F. Lucia, Jr., holds nose ring of prize short hair bull. Like most area farmers, Lucias had a bull; artificial insemination did not become common until the 1950’s

15574-P. 7-26-1948 pet fawn inside of screen porch of John F. Lucia, Jr., farm house. Deer kept many years as a pet

15575-P. 5-1916 farm fun-John F. Lucia, Sr., plays drum on wash tub. Grinning teenage girl churns butter. Two adults hold milk funnels-one has darkened face to appear like a negro minstrel

15576-P. c. 1910 Mr. & Mrs. Gustav & Christiana Pries & children; top left-Augusta, lka Mrs. Chester Curran; top right-Otto; baby-Esther Frieda, lka Mrs. George Fixen; bottom-Anna, lka Mrs. John F. Lucia, Jr., the Pries Homestead, SE NW 16-33-2E

15577-P. 1923 Raymond & Hanson logging camp & 35 lumberjacks. This was a jobber cam for the Westboro Lumber Co. near Mondeaux River. Note open vents in tar paper roof

15578-P. 1923 Raymond & Hanson, 30 men & 5 horse teams at hardwood rollway. John F. Lucia, Jr. straddles left-most team. Note 2 sleigh runner ‘Go-devil’ in foreground, one end of logs was chained to cross beam between sleigh runners; a horse rolled the log-loaded go-devil from the place the logs were felled to the rollway. These piled hardwood logs were transported by the Westboro Lumber Company Railroad (a/k/a Westboro & North-Western) to its sawmill on Silver Creek; see map-Image $15579

End of Robert Lucia collection

15579-Map 7-1917 Westboro Lumber Co. Railroad. Base prepared by Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co. (See Line) annotations 11-12-2011 by Robert P. Rusch

Dave E. Tlusty collection

15580 P. 9-10-1989 Tlusty children of Ferdinand & Tekla, nee Reinhart; top row L-R-Alan, Walter, Leon (father of David E.), George (father of Wayne, Village of Rib Lake President in 2011); bottom row L-R-Butch, Franklin, Richard (father of Circuit Judge Jay R.), Lawrence (father of Atty. Jerome ‘Scary’); NB-son Ernest died in 1952, daughter Loretta died in infancy

15581-P. 9-10-1989 spouses of children of Mr. & Mrs. Ferdinand Tlusty & Tekla, nee Reinhart; tow row L-R-Mrs. Alan Tlusty (aka Dorothy, nee Dodge), Mrs. Walter Tlusty (aka Margaret), Mrs. Lawrence Tlusty (aka Nell), Mrs. Ernest Tlusty (aka Elizabeth Molitor); bottom row L-R-Mrs. Leon Tlusty (aka Bernice Fleischmann), Mrs. Richard Tlusty (aka Marge), Mrs. George Tlusty (aka Sadie), Mrs. Franklin Tlusty (aka Betty)

Collection of Stan H. Carbaugh

15582-Map 1902, official railroad map of Wisconsin-Graham L. Rice, Railroad Commissioner, legent

15582A-Central Wisconsin, including 2 lines in Taylor County; A) Wisconsin Central-north-south, & Chelsea-Rib Lake Branch; B) Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul & Omaha (aka Omaha line); NB-Major cartographer error-While Omaha shown running from Chippewa-Taylor County border to north of Medford, tracks never crossed Yellow River at Hughey (4 miles east of Village of Hannibal); NB-The Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie (‘Soo Line’) running east-west through Prentice, Price County, & spur south to Knox Mills. Later, in 1902, the Soo Line purchased the Wisconsin Central; NB-The Abbotsford & Northeastern running to Athens. This line was the product of Frederick Reitbrock, founder of Athens. It was later purchased by the Soo Line; NB-M.T.&W., Marinette, Tomahawk & Western between Tomahawk & Spirit Falls. It was the pride & joy of William Bradley, founder of Tomahawk [editor’s note-I will add B, etc. depending on how large map scans]

Robert P. Rusch collection

15583 Map c. 1980 Taylor County, [easternmost 20 miles], Wis 45070B3-CF-100, US Genealogical Survey, contour interval 40 feet, Goodrich-Medford

15583A-Whittlesey north to Price Co. line, Mondeaux River, Queenstown, Interwald

15583B-north of Taylor County to Prentice, Macky’s Spur, Spirit, Timms Hill, Spokes Hill, old railroad grade, Spirit-Rib Lake

15583C-Brandwood, Worcester (Mile Post 101), Phillips

15584-Star News 11-10-1930 ‘Taylor County men paid a heavy price’; Rib Lake American Legion Post #274 named for Wilford Lehman, infantryman, 127th Division, U.S. Army, died 8-31-1918, France, in WWI; Post #274 is also named for Rib Lake native, Lee Clendenning, died 12-7-1941, Pearl Harbor

15585 4-19-1914 contract, Rib Lake Lumber Company modified deal of 6-25-1912; A) Rib Lake Lumber Company will pay half of real estate tax; B) release stumpage rights-160 acres, 15-33-3E; for benefit of Union Tanning Co., then owner of Rib Lake Tannery; Why did Rib Lake Lumber Company do this? NB-Both Rib Lake Lumber Company & Union tanning were solely owned subsidiaries of United States Leather Company. Was this an accounting, tax-avoidance gimmick?

15585A-ibid p. 2 Rib Lake Lumber Company by Eugene Horton, Pres. & Fred C. Knapp, Secretary

15586 4-13-1914 contract modification, New Wood Land Co., Wisconsin Central Railway, Rib Lake Lumber Company, see Robert P. Rusch annotations on p. 2, NWLC contracts to modify prior deal of 9-25-1912 to require itself to pay all real estate taxes on ‘40’ until stumpage is cut but NWLC did not sign & NWLC had conveyed its rights to Rib Lake Lumber Company – FISHY!!!

15586A-ibid p. 2

15586B-ibid p. 3 Rib Lake Lumber Company by Eugene Horton, Pres. & Fred E. Knapp, Secretary

15587 4-13-1914 Union Tanning Co. modified 9-25-1912 contract to obligate itself to pay real estate taxes for benefit of Wisconsin Central Railroad (‘Railway’)

15587A-ibid, p. 2 Union Tanning Co. by Eugene Horton, 3rd Vice president, & Fred E. Knapp, Secretary

15588 4-27-1914 Union Tanning Company surrenders stumpage rights 27-33-1W to Wisconsin Central Railroad & obligated to pay all real estate taxes until stumpage rights surrendered of record

15588A-ibid p. 2 Union Tanning by Eugene Horton & Fred E. Knapp [who are simultaneously president & secretary of Rib Lake Lumber Company] NB-all 4 deals, i.e, 15585, 15586, 15587 & 15588 notarized by Arpad Von Barber, New York, New York. Question-Is he attorney for United States Leather Company, the holding company of the Rib Lake Lumber Company & Union Tanning & New Wood Land Company???

15589 7-18-1868 bounty land warrant

15589A-ibid p. 2 warrant originally issued to Lt. Philemon C. Wederstrandt for service on ‘constellation’ US Navy; Upon Wederstrandt’s death, court assigned bounty to his administratix, Margaret S. Morse, who sold bounty to C.E. Rittenhouse of Washington D.C.

15589B-ibid p. 3 Register of Wills, New Orleans, Louisiana, Certified that Wederstrandt died there & Margaret S. Morse appointed administratix

15589C-ibid p. 4 C.E. Rittenhouse sold warrant to J.N. Gilbert, et. al, of Chippews County, Wis. 5-19-1868

15589D-ibid p. 5, at request of J.N. Gilbert, et. al, O.E. Porter, register, US Land Office, Eau Claire, Wis., approves issuance of patent to J.N. Gilbert, et. al, in fulfillment of land warrant for 160 acres of land then in Chippewa County, after creation of Taylor County in 3-1875, in Town of Westboro – i.e. E ½ SE ¼ & S ¼ SW ¼, Sec. 13, T32-R2E

15590 8-24-1987 Wausau Daily Herald ‘Walk Across Wisconsin-developer blocks path of Ice Age Trail’ P. Robert P. Rusch ‘Stands on Ice Age Trail near Rib Lake’ at Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 6, SW NE 12-33-2E

15590A-ibid p. 2

15591-logo Ice Age Trail 50 mile run – 2006; 25th anniversary of run in south unit, Kettle Moraine State Forest, Whitewater, Wisconsin

15592-logo c. 2005 Timm’s Hill Trudge Snowshoe Race

15593-logo c. 2008 Rib Lake Snowshoe Adventure-inaugural event

15594-logo c. 2009 Rib Lake Snowshoe Adventure

15595-logo c. 2010 Rib Lake Snowshoe Adventure- event put on by Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club, Inc.

15596-logo c. 2000 Wisconsin High School Cross Country Championships at Rib Lake-event hosted by Rib Lake Ski Club, Inc.

15597-logo c. 2005 Pine Line Marathon-hosted by Medford, WI, Chamber of Commerce, Marathon founded in 1991, Robert P. Rusch & Ann K. Rusch, directors

15598 6-24-1990 plaque ‘Ohio’s First 100 mile Ultramarathon & Run Mohican-June 23, 24, 1990, Robert Rusch 29 [hours] 05 [minutes], This was Robert P. Rusch’s first 100 mile run. His last & twelfth was 9-8-2011 at Grand Marias, Minnesota

15599 4-1992 Dairyland Marathon men, 50-60 year old division award to Robert P. Rusch. In 991 Robert P. Rusch & Ann K. Rusch founded this marathon, which used the former Soo Line right-of-way between Morner Road, Prentice, & Medford. It was Robert P. Rusch’s idea to name the marathon ‘Dairyland’ to recognize the crucial sponsorship of Mike & ___ Wepfer, dba Dairyland Realty. Renamed the Pine Line Marathon in 2000, the event takes place annually the 4th Saturday of April. Robert P. Rusch plans to run the April, 2012, Pine Line Marathon, completing all 21 & making his 200th marathon or ultra-marathon

15600-P. Dairyland Marathon Event Committee 1994, left-right: Robert P. Rusch, Ann K. Dillion, nka Ann K. Rusch, Kathy Weix, Fred Dedcker, Brian ?, State Bank of Medford, Ellen Wepfer, Marsha Nice, Ron Kenyon

15601 10-19-2002 Star News ‘Rusch Sixth in 100K Run’ P. Kristin K. & R.P. Rusch at glacial trail run, Greenbush, Wis.

15602 11-2011 label-Spirit Valley Wild Rice-long grain paddy grown. This variety of food product is packaged & sold wholesale by Rubert, Bettey & Andrew Faufau, dba Spirit Valley, W5414 Wildwood Ave, Town of Spirit, Price County, Wis. The Faufau relocated from Tomahawk to Spirit in 1986 & operate a full-time, diverse food packing company from their home, selling to 170 wholesale customers. They annual tap 4,000 sugar maple trees & make as much as 2,500 gallons of syrup. The Fau Fau’s local retail outlet is Kris & Jim Mann, dba Mann-Made Pizza, McComb Ave.

15603 11-2011 label-’Wild Rice Tomato Soup, Distributed by Spirit Valley, Spirit, Wisconsin’

15603A-back

15604-’History of Taylor County, Wisconsin’ compiled by the 8th grade of Gilman [elementary school], Wis., during school year of 1922-23; Mrs. F. Krueger, Jr. teacher, annotations 11-2011 by Robert P. Rusch, title page

15604A-p. 2 1920 census, Town of Rib Lake-1018, Village of Rib Lake-1020, City of Medford-1881, Taylor County-18945

15604B-p. 13 ‘When I came to Medford in 1873 all there was of the present city was a sign board & a water tank; on the sign board was written ‘Medford, Sec. 67 miles north of Stevens Point.’ The railroad at that time was completed as far as Chelsea

15604C-’Some of the earliest pioneers of Whittlesey were George Norton, Mike Gallapher (sic, should read Michael Gallagher), Linsners & Wilners!’ NB-Michael Gallaher sold pine stumpage to Davis & Starr Lumber Co. 2-25-1888 on S ½ NE ¼, 28-32-2E. In 1884 he married my maternal great-aunt, Anna Steiner, see index to image 14632 for a funny story!

15604D-p. 19 ‘E.C. Getchel [of Rib Lake] served as Taylor County Superintendent of Schools 1890-1892’

15604E-p. 21 School History of Rib Lake & Westboro, including ‘The Rib Lake School was erected in 1882’

15604F-p. 22 history of Whittlesey Schools

15604G-P. 23 history of Rib Lake Herald & Taylor County Fair ‘The lumber for the [first Taylor County fair] building was furnished. Then [1883] by the J.J. Kennedy Lumber Company of Rib Lake…’

15604H-p. 28 Thumbnail history of Chelsea & Rib Lake

15605-L. 11-10-2011 Larry Black, Rib Lake School District Administrator, to board members, letter of resignation. Mr. Black came to Rib Lake c. 2009, succeeding Jeff Tortomasi, who succeeded Dan Boxx

15606-L. 11-15-2011 Roy Gromme to Mr. & Mrs. Robert & Ann K. Rusch, ‘Thank you for donation of 17 acres in NE NE 12-33-2E to Ice Age Trail Alliance for reroute of Ice Age National Scenic Trail; gifted parcel will also allow reconnection of Timm’s Hill Tail & will be named Ann 7 Bob Rusch Preserve

15606A-print by Owen J. Gromme

15606B-print explanation

15606C-envelope

15607-L. 11-14-2011 Mike Wollmer, Executive Director, Ice Age Trail Alliance to Robert P. Rusch & Ann K. Rusch ‘A mammoth thank you.’

15608 11-16-2011 Kevin Thusius, Director of Land Conservation, Ice Age Trail Alliance’ to Robert P. Rusch & Ann K. Rusch

15609 11-12-2011 Ice Age Trail Alliance-’Rusch Easement [sic] acquisition resolution’

15609A-p. 2 ‘Property donation by Robert ‘Bob’ & Ann Rusch, pka Ann & Bob Rusch Preserve

15610-Map 11-12-2011 Ice Age National Scenic Trail, Taylor County, Ann & Bob Rusch Preserve, pka Ann & Bob Rusch Preserve

15610A-Map-Timm’s Hill Trail Junction with Ice Age National Scenic Trail, c. 2000 National Park Service

15611-Map 11-11-2011 proposed Ann & Bob Rusch Preserve-land outlined in red, existing Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve shown in light green. NB-red lien shows proposed Ice Age Trail reroute from Sec. 12 to Surek Lane, Sec. 13, T33N-R2E

15612-Map 11-19-2011 Ann & Bob Rusch Preserve-old growth & timber stand improvement areas

Douglas Thums Collection

15613-P. c. 1950 ‘Street Scene-Westboro-Wis’ STH 13-view north, right-Mary & Gil Rhyner, cars & bar & Standard Oil Gas Station; in 2010 Charles Little, dba The Little House, N8820 Business 13; left-sign on post ‘try out malted milk’ in front of store, off camera

15613A-back, information

15614-P. c. 1980 red painted grocery store, Westboro, SE corner STH 13 & CTH D, Donald Radtke, dba ‘Don’s Shur Fine Foods’ store closed c. 1992, in 2011 building ‘The Other Corner’ restaurant owned by Douglas Thums

15614A-Donald Radtke store calendar 1973, someone has written high & low temperatures for each day of the year

15614B-Jan. 1973

15614C-Feb. 1973

15614D-Mar. 1973

15614E-Apr. 1973

15614F-May 1973

15614G-June 1973

15614H-July 1973

15614I-Aug. 1973

15614J-Sept. 1973

15614K-Oct. 1973

15614L-Nov. 1973

15614M-Dec. 1973

Rib Lake Public Library Collection

15615-W ‘J.J. Kennedy, Lumberman, Spencer, commenced business in this place in 1877, and now represents as large a lumbering interest as any individual in this place…’ History of northern Wisconsin c. 1880

15616-L. 6-19-1902 Treasury Department to L. Sperbeck ‘The application signed by your & your associates 5-28-1902 for authority to organize First National Bank of Rib Lake …which capital stock of $25,000 meeting with approval…’

15616A-p. 2 ibid

15616B-p. 3 ibid

15617 10-25-1902 original order for plates & ‘circulating notes..’ not completed signed H. Bryden, casher, First National Bank of Rib Lake

15618 10-25-1902 certificate of officers & directors relative to payment of capital stock, First National Bank of Rib Lake. Directors-Lee W. Gibbons, Medford, 10 shares, T. [Thaxter] M. Shaw, 10, L. Sperbeck, 25, and H. Bryden, 10.

15618A-P. 2 ibid

15618B-p. 3 ibid [nota bene-This document was not completed]

15619 1-26-1902 organization certificate First National Bank of Rib Lake, capital sock $25,000 in 250 shares at $100 each

15619A-p. 2 ibid names of shareholders

1. Lee W. Gibson, Medford – 10

2. F. M. Shaw, Medford – 10

3. Thaxter Shaw, Medford – 10

4. L. Sperbeck, Medford – 25

5. Charles Thorp, [no residence listed] – 25

6. E.N. Schweppe, Medford – 5

7. K.J. Urquhart, Medford – 5

8. H. Bryden, Neillsville – 15

10. Charles Cornelius, Neillsville – 2

11. S.M. Marsh, Neillsville – 2

12. G.O. Hosely, Neillsville – 2

13. L.L. Hosely, Neillsville – 1

14. D. Hosely, Neillsville – 1

15. S.S. Hosely, Neillsville – 1

16. C.G. Suits, Medford - 5

17. E.H. Walker, Columbus - 25

18. T.R. Begley - 5

19. L.A. Rousseau, Rib Lake - 5

20. D. [Duncan] McLennan, Rib Lake 10

21. J.J. Kennedy [John J. Kennedy], Rib Lake - 20

22. Donald Kennedy, Rib Lake - 5

23. [blank]

24. W.T. Hendren?, Rib Lake - 10

25. Wm. [William] Pringle, Rib Lake - 5

26. H. [Hiriam] Sargent, Rib Lake - 1

27. Geo. [George] J. Kelnhofer, Rib Lake – 1

28. P. [Peter] E. Peterson, Greenwood - 1

29. Stephen [A.] Konz, Greenwood - 1

30. John J. Voemastek, Rib Lake - 1

31. M. Marcus, Medford - 10

32. P.E. Marcus, Rib Lake - 10

33. J.H. Waggoner, Eau Claire? - 10

34. James Gibons, Longwood - 5

35. M. Schorlch, Medford – 5

Total Shares Sold = 250

15619B p. 3 ibid original signatures of all shareholders, including John J. Kennedy ‘Note-those that have signed the Articles of Association are required to sign this page, and they must do so in their own handwriting’

15619C-p. 4 ibid, jurat 1-26-1903

15620-Articles of Association 1-26-1902, First National Bank of Rib Lake

15620A-p. 2, ibid, signatures of 8

15620B-p. 3, ibid, signature of cashier, H. Bryden

15621 2-3-1902 minutes of stockholders meeting First National Bank of Rib Lake, John J. Kennedy, et. al elected director

15621A-p. 2 ibid, H. Bryden hired at $85 per month, signed T.R. Begley, Secretary

15622 3-31-1913 officers & directors First National Bank of Rib Lake certificate-President L. Sperbeck, T.R. Begley-cashier, directors; A)E.H. Walker, Columbus, Wis; B) John J. Kennedy; C) D. [Duncan-brother to Mrs. John J. Kennedy] McLennan; D) Geoge E. Hazen; E) J.H. Waggonter, Eau Claire; F) K.J. Urquhart, Medford; G) L. Sperbeck

15622A-p. 2 ibid signatures

15622B-p. 3 ibid jurat

15623 8-27-1913 Wisconsin Banking Dept. approval certificate ‘Bank of Rib Lake’

15623A 8-24-1903 Articles of Incorporation ‘Bank of Rib Lake’ capital stock $10,000 – 100 shares at $100 each

15623B-p. 2 ibid, top stockholders

C.L. Alverson, Medford, 10

F. [Frank] J. Hintz, Rib Lake, 10

C. Getchel, Rib Lake, 25

George J. Kelnhofer, Rib Lake, 1

[Dr.] L. L. Taylor, Rib Lake, 5

Jacob Kapitz, Rib Lake, 1

A.J. Beranek, Rib Lake, 2

George Braun, Rib Lake, 3

H. [Hiriam] Sargent, Rib Lake, 1

Art Sargent, Rib Lake, 1

M. Christianson, Rib Lake, 1

Father Joseph Heer, 3

Eliza A. Mandeville, Rib Lake, 1

Helena A. De Groat, Rib Lake, 1

Harvey Getchel, Rib Lake, 1

E.C. Getchel, Rib Lake, 32

15623C-bottom, original signatures of each shareholder

15623D-p. 2 ibid, top, jurat by George F. Braun

15623E-Bottom acknowledged by E. C. Getchel & Dr. L.L. Taylor, M.D., nota bene-this is a state bank. Compare John J. Kennedy bank is national bank. For a short time, Rib Lake had competing banks.

15623F 9-2-1903 Taylor County recordation certificate

15624-RLHe 12-6-1924 ‘Twentieth Century Club Celebrates Silver Jubilee’ 1899-1924

15624A-p. 2 ibid

15624B-p. 3 ibid

15625 1-24-1957 ‘Doctor, Dentist Wanted’

15625A-backside ‘Rib Lake needs a doctor & dentist’

15626 RLHe 10-5-1950 ‘Gallery of Memories’

15627 8-20-1970 ‘Baseball old timers’ P. 1933 Rib Lake adult baseball club; Black River Valley League champions; ‘to be honored here Sunday’

15628- Dairyland baseball league 1970 schedule

15628A-back, Rib Lake team manager-Wayne Bullis

15629-RLHe 8-3-1950 ‘The City of Phillips was destroyed by fire the last week of July, 1894’, Fire reports caused panic in Rib Lake ‘Citizens dug huge pits along the shores of Rib Lake south of town in readiness to buy their most prized possessions…’

15630 6-30-1912 ‘F. Niggemann & Co. dealers in General Merchandise’ receipt-sale to Walter Patrick, ½ yard emb. 30 cents, Fred Niggemann ran his store 1912-1932; in 2011 the building is owned by Damien Jones, dba Graphic T’s & Coffee, 749 McComb Ave.

15631 5-11-1967 Star News ‘Zielke’s store at Rib Lake sold to Dale [& Nancy] Strobach’, formerly Fred Niggemann’s general store, 749 McComb Ave, building on Block D, Lot 14, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, Rib Lake Historical Society has the abstract of title to this property

15632-promotional ink blotter ‘Seidel’s House-Keeping Cottages on North Harper Lake. Call Seidel’s Food Store, Rib Lake, Wis.’ store occupied Block C, Lots 1 & 2, McComb’s Racing Park Addition. In 2011 store owner is Ed Zondlo, dba Ed’s IGA, 801 McComb Ave.

15633 5-14-1970 ad, Bud’s IGA, RLHe, in 2011, Ed’s IGA, 801 McComb Ave.

15634 3-29-1967 John [Bud] W. Freek memorial card, front

15634A-inside, John & his wife, Opie, long operated IGA store at 801 McComb Ave.

15634B-thank you card signed by Opie Freek

15634C-p. 2 ibid

15634D-envelope postdated 4-4-1967 to ‘Mr. & Mrs. Duane Powers, Village’

15635-ads 5-14-1970 RLHe Schlais Clothing Store

15635A-the HY Chaparral in Whittlesey

15635B-Rib Lake Roller Mills

15635C-Geoge Tlusty, dba Tlusty Beverage & Bottling Co.

15635D-Ken & Diane’s Spirit Lake Tavern

15635E-Edwin Thums, dba Phillips 66 Products

15636 10-6-1969 Mabel Prien memorial card – cover

15636A-interior

15637 8-3-1950 P. Postmaster Verl Bokath, Robert Bleck & Charles P. Clendenning, clerks. ‘with neckties on…’

15638 9-18-1966 dedication of Rib Lake Post Office

15638A-p. 2 ibid Verl A. Bokath, Postmaster statement

15638B-p. 3 ibid program

15638C-p. 4 ibid list of Rib Lake postmasters & dates of appointment

Duncan McLennan 6-12-1883

Samuel Hagen 12-5-1894

Duncan McLennan 12-9-1898

Addie B. McLennan 12-12-1912

John J. Voemastek 2-25-1914

Elwin McLeod 1-29-1923

Herman Jacob 4-1-1926

John J. Voemastek 7-1-1934

Raymond J. Voemastek 7-15-1942

Verl A. Bokath 6-1-1944

15638D-L. 9-1-1966 Raymond J. Voemastek to Star Powers (aka Mrs. Duane Powers) re Rib Lake Post Office

15638E-Rib Lake’s 4 Post Office sites by RPR 12-6-2011

15639 pre 9-18-1966 invitation by Verl A. Bokath to new Rib Lake post office

15639A-envelope-franked

15640-W. John H. Schaack, Rural Mail carrier, also, Postmaster, ‘Schaack P.O.’ 10-1904 to discontinuance 3-1907

15641-W. 7-30-1940 John McRae, Rib Lake Herald, biography

15642 c. 12-1968 Carl A. ‘Cub’ Zielke, ‘our village bank’ theme re Village of Rib Lake bank c. 1930’s published 12-1968 in Star News

15642A-p. 2 ibid

15642B-p. 3 ibid

15643 ‘Mondeaux Recreation Area’ cover page c. 1980

15643A-Map

15643B-back page

15644 10-4-1966 ‘Prank backfires, dynamite hurts 3’ Milwaukee Sentinel, Bernard Strobach lost right arm, Harvey Rhone lost sign in right eye, & Richard Gordon injured

15645-L. 1-7-1973 Edward Hable to Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Thums re 1930’s re fires near Rib Lake Lumber Company logging in Town of Corning

15646 6-18-1962 Anna May Kennedy 9-30-1886 to 6-18-1962 ‘Blank for reporting death’ to Star News

15647-biography Sarah Curran, 9-30-1887 to 5-9-1963, aka Mrs. Fred Curran

15648 9-7-1967 The Star News masthead – logo ‘Mink Capital of the world’

15648A-’Sale of Holly’s Resort north of Rib Lake on Stone Lake announced’ Mr. & Mrs. Joe Holly sell to Edward Dilly & his son-in-law, Lawrence Plude, dba ‘Pic-A-Dilley Resort’

15649 7-10-1969 Joseph Judnic obituary, RLHe

15650 7-13-1969 ‘Little Bohemia Lanes All go’ RLHe P. interior of Little Bohemia Lanes

15651 7-24-1969 P. Trinity Lutheran Church, Prentice, formed in 1960 from St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, Town of Hill, & St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church of Brantwood, both members of former National Evangelical Lutheran Church

15652 7-31-1969 P. Bruce, Don & Dave Kobielush brothers of Westboro. ‘Two groups will sing in Friday gospel concert’

15653 8-13-1967 ‘PFC Robert Heiser, 19, is area’s first casualty in Vietnam conflict’ RLHe

15654 9-17-1969 ‘Mr. & Mrs. Wessley Stiel, Sr., note golden event Saturday’ RLHe

15655 9-4-1969 ‘Erect new barn on Robert Lamberty farm in Chelsea’ RLHe

15656 10-9-1969 obit. Julius Golder

15657 11-6-1969 Gale Clendenning married, RLHe

15658 11-6-1969 Taylor County board members listed, including Henry Gebauer, Greenwood, Harold E. Zielke, Village of Rib Lake, Ernest R. Tervi, Westboro, Charles P. Nelson, Chelsea

15659 8-12-1976 ‘Fish kill in Rib Lake is widespread’ Star News

15659A-p. 2 ibid ‘dead fish’

15660 5-29-1980 ‘former Rib Lake Herald publisher Eugene R. Clifford dies May 22’

15661 5-29-1980 Eugene R. ‘Geno’ Clifford obit. By Frank Hirsch

15662 5-29-1980 Rib Lake Report by Mrs. Roy [Helen] Meier ‘German Settlement’

15663 5-29-1980 P. Westboro Lioness Club, Mary Kaye, Alice Rau, Lillian Mitchell, Alice Grittner, Elaine Draves, Sharon Coenen, Lois Kinas, Anne Dorn, Exildia Armstrong & Dorothy Hargraves

15664 5-29-1980 ‘Rib Lake Personals’ RLHe

15665 5-29-1980 ad Dale’s [Strobach] Supermarket – Red & White Grocery Store, RLHe

15666 9-26-1980 ‘Journalist Gene Clifford Memorialized’ Star News P. Mr. & Mrs. Lester Magnuson (Donna)

15667 10-26-1967 ‘Down the Road’ by Gene Clifford, publisher of RLHe

15667A-part two, ibid

15668 2-25-1971 P. Jerry Blomberg & Diane Lind, ‘Lake Homecoming’

15669 11-19-1970 ‘Redmen v. Bulldogs’ cover

15669A-Rib Lake High School team-Jerry Blomberg, Lee [Butch] Clendenning, Jerry Gilge, Allen Niemi, Charles Turba, Mike Kofler, Mark Niggemann, Rich Fuchs, Tim Thomas, Bill Becker, Terry Patrick, Mark Stibbe, Greg Brahmer, Jerry Thieme, Randy Blomberg

15669B-Granton Hill

15670 c. 1965 ‘official program’ sub-regional basketball playoffs, Westboro High School v. Abbotsford, Rib Lake v. Athens

15670A-Westboro High School varsity, Dave Gumz, Bob Olah, Doug Niggemann, Jim Lundeen, Dave Welson, Richard Miicke, Duane Koblielush, Bruce Koblielush, Roy Mayer, Joe Grittner, school colors were green & gold; song-Go U Northwestern; nickname-Trojans; Coach-Robert Fischer; cheerleaders-Sandra Hill, Cheryl Komarek, Judy Grittner, Judy Kosek; Manager, Alan Kasovic

15670B-Athens High School

15670C-team records

15670D-game chart

15670E-Rib Lake High School Varsity; George Zondlo, Allen Zondlo, Frank Yanko, Rick [Richard] Gilge, Russ Judnic, Dennis Lind, Dale Seidel, Harvey Mann, Gene Zondlo, Jim Surek, Ed Fuchs, Steve Cihasky; colors-maroon & gray; song-Minnesota Rouser; nickname-Redmen; coach;James Lina; cheerleaders-Marlene Niggemann, Susan Gilge, Barb Scheithauer, Pat Patrick, Pat Becker

15670F-Abbotsford High School

15670G-Back cover-Ad for Parkin Milk

15671 4-9-1956 ‘Robert C. Becker is Board’s pick for school post’ George Tlusty announces Becker as new ‘supervising principal of the Rib Lake Schools…’

15672 11-1964 new Rib Lake High School dedication, photo of new school, Star News

15673 11-12-1964 Rib Lake High School dedication Sunday 11-15-1964 ‘history of the new Rib Lake High School’

15673A- drawing

15673B-floor plan & curriculum & financials

15673C-Board

15673D-ad-’To a progressive community’

15674 8-28-1969 Goodrich School photo ‘Rural District Schools Raise Issue Here’

15674A-bottom ibid; P-Medford High School

15675-P. c. 1960 Mr. & Mrs. Elmer & Hattie Taylor residential frontage on Wellington Lake

15676-P. 7-10-1952 Rib Lake Golden Jubilee float, Elmer Taylor, Claude Shelly, Gordon Kellom, Frank Yanko; back left-Gambles Store, 940 McComb Ave., building to right is former Frank E. Poole mortuary, Block A, Lot 8, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

15677-P. c. 1955 Norman L. Saracoff, who married Barbara, daughter of Mr. Elmer & Hattie Taylor

15677A-back-Campaign literature

15678-bookmark ‘Libraries Have It’

15679-Rib Lake 3 library buildings c. 2005, author unknown, Robert P. Rusch annotations

15680-Rib Lake Herald 8-20-1949 ‘Ramshackle old building predecessor to village’s modern library structure’

15681 2-25-1927 register of attendants at former opening of Rib Lake Public Library, p. 1, 1-20; 6-Catherine Kennedy

15681A-p. 2 21-41; 40 T [Tracy M. Berfield] Rib Lake Lumber Company

15681B-p. 3 42-62; 49-John J. Voemastek

15681C-p. 4 63-83; 77-James Upjohn

15681D-p. 5 Members of Rib Lake library board

15682-P. Rib Lake Public Library, south side facing Landall Ave., RLHe 4-22-1971

15683 6-28-1907 Rib Lake Public Library ‘Annual Statistical Report’ ‘Librarian Anna May Kennedy [niece to John J. Kennedy] paid $4 per month; NB-Rib Lake Public Library was oopen Sunday afternoon, even though state form had no such provision

15683A-p. 2 Rib Lake Public Library open 52 Sundays per year

15683B-p. 3 total budget $67.68

15683C-p. 4 ‘There has been no marked progress until last April when the library was taken over by the town [Village of Rib Lake] and the sum of $200 was donated [by Village of Rib Lake]…’

15684 7-1-1925 ‘Annual statistical report’ Rib Lake Public Library, Village of Rib Lake population 1020, librarian Myrtle Taylor, librarian salary $120 annually

15684A-p. 2

15684B-p. 3

15684C-p. 4 receipts $453.92

15685 12-31-1948 ‘Public Library Statistical Report’ Rib Lake Public Library, librarian-Mrs. Harriet Berfield, population 1042

15685A-p. 2

15685B-p. 3

15685C-p. 4 expenditures $555.55 signed ‘Rose W. Batzer’ (Mrs. H. [Herman] C. [Batzer], treasurer of library board

15686 12-31-1953 ‘Annual Report’ Rib Lake Public Library, volumes [books] 2488

15686A-p. 2

15686B-p. 3 expenditures $1843.10, signed Rose W. Batzer

15687 2-12-1993 annual report of Rib Lake Public Library, librarian Lillian [Mrs. Edwin] Thums

15687A-p. 2 President Rev. John Meyer; board-Mary Ann Rusch [Mrs. Thomas M. Rusch], Jeanette Clendenning, Karen Grzanna, Joan Eisner, Ruth Dishnow

15687B-p. 3 income $21,485.97

15687C-p. 4 expenditures $17,796.45

15687D-p. 5 salaries, Lillian Thums $5647.23; Mary Hebda $2250.97; Aimee Hein $2116.06

15687E-p. 6 signed Lillian Thums

15687F-p. 7 State aid report, total circulation 16,745

15688 5-4-2000 ‘Rib Lake Village & Library boards Plan Joint Effort on Clearview School’ Star News

15689 5-18-2000 ‘Rib Lake School Board Turns Down Village’s Offer to Purchase Clearview,’ Star News

15690 6-2-2000 ‘Clearview School sold for $40,000’ Star News

15691 11-30-2000 Board resolves space dilemma with Village of Rib lake hall & library’ Star News

15692 1908 History of Rib lake, author unknown; J.J. Kennedy, Angus Kennedy, Duncan McLennan, A. MacDonald, S. Hagan & W.E. Young in August, 1881, arrived at Rib Lake

15692A-p. 2 road to Chelsea built; original mill-enlarged several times-burned 10-1897

15692B-p. 3 Wisconsin Central Railroad to Rib Lake in 1883. First Rib Lake School in winter of 1882

15692C-p. 4 Ward School built 1895 & High School in 1904; Sunday School at John J. Kennedy home began in 1882

15692D-p. 5, In 1891 Fayette Shaw built tannery; about this time J.W. Allard started his store, Archie Clendenning his hotel (later Mathias’ Central Hotel), George Clark founder of bakery, A. Bonneville & J. Larson opened livery barns

15692E-p. 6, In 1898 Frank Hintz built his sawmill, selling out to Mathe in 1906. Mill burned summer of 1907. Its planing mill was saved, sold to Carl Theodore [C.T.] Hintz, who remodeled it into a tie mill

15692F-Summary-1908 History of Rib Lake ‘At present [1908], Rib Lake has a population about 1500, 3 mills, a tannery, 11 saloons, 2 livery-barns, 5 general stores, 2 clothing stores, 2 hardware stores, a furniture store, a drug, feed, jewelry store, 2 meat markets, 2 millinery shops, a harness shop, 3 blacksmiths, 4 hotels, a restaurant, 2 real estate firms, 2 doctors, a dentist, a lawyer, a telephone system, an electric light plant, a spacious Ward School & a fine, new high school.’ Editor’s Note-this history can be dated from the author’s statement that Stephen Konz constructed a tie mill ‘earlier this year.’ The RLHe reported 1-10-1908 that the mill was under roof & on 6-12-1908, it was sawing cedar shingles ---Robert P. Rusch 12-5-2011

15693 3-19-1958 ‘Early Rib Lake Stores’ by 8th grade class of Rib Lake Junior High-cover

15693A-p. 2 Post Office

15693B-p. 3 Roller Mill & Creamery

15693C-p. 4 Rib Lake Rindless Cheese, Rib Lake Dairy, [Elmer] Taylor Lumber Co.

15693D-p. 5 Shoe factory, Town road sinks

15693E-p. 6 Albert Johnson farm, Alvin & Emma Lind farm

15693F-p. 7 former Albert Knop farm

15693G-p. 8 Targos homestead, John Schaack home

15693H-p. 9 Raymond Schirmer home, Vlach home

15693I-p. 10 Carl Radtke reminiscences, Anderson-Amandus Johnson farm

15694 8-14-1987 ‘Professional Skateboards begin in Rib Lake’ Merrill Foto News-text

15694A-p. 1987 Tony Kochan & Roger Eckman

15694B-P. workman, by time of this article, Tannery Lane Co. had moved to former Rib Lake Lumber Company Railroad machine shop, SE corner STH 102 & McComb Ave.

15694C-P. ditto

15694D-P. Barb Mitchell

15695-P. c. 1900 John Walbeck, ‘Skogsbusar’, Merrill Foto News 3-19-1986

15696 8-7-1969 RLHe ‘Marlin Walbeck, Rib Lake, wins special 50 lap feature’

End of Rib Lake Public Library Collection

Robert P. Rusch collection

15697-P. 7-4-1913 ‘July 4th, 1913, at Westboro’ ‘Hoff #8’ view north on Main Street

15698 9-18-2011 email, Tom Burg to Everett A. Rusch re Heidrick & Matson Lumber Co., Westboro

15698A-p. 2

15699-’Westboro & Northwestern Railroad 1897-1920’ by Lawrence A. Gueller

15699A 3-1902 Blackwell & Webb Lumber Co. sold to Westboro Lumber Co., Inc.

15699B 7-1920 Westboro Lumber Co. to Westboro & Northwestern Railroad bought by Howland & Waltz Co.

15699C-Railroad equipment roster

15700 2-20-1907 W. John J. Kennedy, et al ‘Kennedy Brothers’ sell partially constructed sawmill in Coeur d’Alene to B.R. Lewis

15700A-p. 2 ibid

15700B-p. 3 ibid

15701 Biography, Albert A. Gearheart, Chelsea, Wis. ‘From 1889 to 1899 he operated a sawmill in Chelsea in which he produced the first hemlock lumber on the liner for the Wisconsin Central Railroad.’ Commemorative biographical record of the upper lake region, J.H. Beers & Co., 1905

15702-W. Jack D. Mylrea, Rib Lake Lumber Company, buys pine near Bruce, Minnesota, rafted to Ashland, Wis., 1940

15703-W. Jack D. Mylrea, Rib Lake Lumber Company, buys pine near Hovland, Minnesota, rafted to Ashland, Wis., 1941-42

15703A-In 1942-43 Rib Lake Lumber Company bought additional 5,000,000 feet ‘our total profit on these 2 rafts of 5 million feet was a little over $30,000.’

15703B-P. April-May 1942, Rib Lake Lumber Company pine logs at Hovland, Minnesota, beach.

15704-’Yawkey & Woodson; who are these people whose names grace so many places…around Wausau?’ biography-Leigh Yawkey-married A. [Aytchmonde] P. Woodson; in 1936 he became major stock owner of Rib Lake Lumber Company with Jack D. Mylrea, et al, 2011-12 annual guilde to Wausau, WI

15705 Roy Vernon Blomberg 5-26-1928 to 10-26-2011, church bulletin, First Lutheran Church, Ogema

15705A-p. 2 & 3, ibid

15705B-p. 4 & 5 ibid

15705C-p. 6 service participants, Pastor Bob Giese, et al

15706-Medford, WI, bird’s eye painting c. 1884, list of churches & businesses

15707 2-25-1868 patent, USA to Mary Wingate, widow of Amos Wingate, Private Captain Thomas Company Georgia Militia War of 1812, W ½ NW ¼, Sec. 2 & E ½ NE ¼, Sec. 3 T32NR2E. ‘Bounty Land’ to veterans

15707A-p. 2 ibid

15708 1-16-1925 deed, Rib Lake Lumber Company to Rib Lake Lumber Company of Delaware; ‘Rib Lake Lumber Company is in process of dissolution’ & Rib Lake Lumber Company of Delaware is sole stockholder of Rib Lake Lumber Company

15708A-p. 2 Taylor County lands

15708B-p. 3 ibid

15708C-p. 4 Lincoln County lands

15708D-p. 5 ibid

15708E-p. 6 ibid

15708F-p. 7 ibid

15708G-p. 8 ibid

15708H-p. 9 ibid

15708I-p. 10 land in Village of Rib Lake, 11 yards, mills…

15708J-p. 11 hemlock bark & hemlock bark on 100 forties Lincoln County land obtained by deed 1-3-1925 from Union Tanning Company

15708K-p. 12 100 strip from Wisconsin Central Railroad & Soo Line 3-13-1918

15708L-p. 13 Dam & flowage rights in Rib Lake

15708M-p. 14 ibid, logging railroads

15708N-p. 15 signatures, S.J. Williams, V.P. & D.C. Estes, Secretary, Rib Lake Lumber Company

Dennis Kuehling collection

15709-P. c. 1907 Ward School – west & south side, view from Church Street

15709A-back- Emma Danforth, teacher, to Mrs. R.P. Jenkins

15710 P. c. 1910 Village of Rib Lake from tannery. Left-St. John’s Lutheran Church facing south; foreground-neatly piled ‘roof’ of hemlock bark; NB-railroad track crossing Fayette Ave. on way to tannery

15711-P. c. 1928 8 posing persons in front of Ma Dodge’s Café; right-Village of Rib Lake band shell north of Landall Ave.; top row-Mr. Cupery, H. Hutchinson, M. Covanaugh, E. Flatter, F. Ward; bottom row-G. Thomas, I. Haack & M. Kaberstein

15712-P. c. 1930 view south of McComb Ave. from Fayette Ave.; right-William Klotche Arcade & bowling alley; left-sign-Blatz & Old Heidelberg beer on 2 story tavern occupying Block B, Lot 10, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, 832 McComb Ave.

15713-P. c. 1940 ‘Stamm Beverage & Bottling Works’ north side of Fayette Ave. at junction with McComb Ave. As late as c. 1960, George Tlusty made & bottled soda water there.

RPR collection

15714-P. c. 1910 Dells of Rib River, SE NE 26-31-1E. Bedrock constricts the Big Rib River at the Taylor-Lincoln County line

15715 Annual budget report, School District of Rib Lake, 10-24-2011 – cover

15715A-School calendar 2011-2012

15715B-district loses $500,000 in govt. funding, including $350,000 less from state. Losses equal 10% of budget

15715C L. by Larry Black, District Administrator

15715D-Agenda

15715E-Revenue & expenditures

15715F-ibid

15715G-ibid

15715H-ibid

15715I-enrollment

15715J ‘Total loss since 2000-2001 = $804,130, or 25.1%’

15715K-Professional staff & salaries

15716-W. ‘Recall attempt of Scott Walker to begin Nov. 15’ P. Governor Scott Walker

15717-’The Taylor County Democrat’ ‘Recall Underway’ 12-2011

15718 2011-2012 ‘Rib Lake Redmen Sports’, cross country, volleyball, track & football schedules

15718A-Basketball, baseball & softball schedules

15719 ‘Rib lake Area’ real estate for sale, fall, 2011, Dairyland Realty North

15719A-P. Susan Thums, leading agent, Dairyland Realty, P. Dan Olson, broker

15720 ‘The Rail Trail Café’ business card, Ogema, 2011

15721 Menu ‘The Rail Trail Café’ Ogema, 2011

15721A-ibid, p. 2 & 3

15722 Pine Line, Price Taylor Rail Trail, brochure 2000

15722A-Map ibid

15723 P. ‘Braveheart’ W. Rib Lake snowshoe adventure 1-2009

15723A-’Snowshoeing leaving its stamp’ 2010-2011 Taylor County winter visitors guide

15723B-ibid, P. Robert P. Rusch at end of Rib Lake Snowshoe Adventure 1-2099

15724 W. ‘Welcome to Rib Lake, Wisconsin’ tourist guide c. 2005

15724A-Restaurants, businesses

15725 9-22-2011 ‘Eartha Naturals; Where Natural is Beautiful’ Star News, P. Kate (Mrs. Scot) Bromann, N8457 County Road C, Rib Lake, proprietress

15725A-grand opening photo

15725B-text

15726-Ad. Ruesch Funeral Service, David E. Ruesch & John L. Hemer, Star News, 8-28-1969, Gibson Street, Medford

15727-Ashtray ‘Rusch, Der edle Holsteiner’ ‘Rusch, the noble Holsteiner’ gift from Germany

15728-Locomotive roster of Rib Lake Lumber Company by Robert P. Rusch with information from Stuart Nelson

15728A-ibid, p. 2 (summary; Rib Lake Lumber Company had 6 locomotives-#1, 2, 3, 67, 101 & 104)

15729-Lifetime membership certificate, Rib Lake Historical Society (to be filled in with name of honoree, number of certificate, date of issue & synopsis of service of honoree to Society). Form created 12-10-2011 by William Weber, Fargo, ND

15729A-Certificate #1 awarded 12-15-2011 to Cindy A. Sommer

15729B-P. Cindy A. Sommer 12-15-2011 with Lifetime Membership Certificate #1, Rib Lake Historical Society

15729C- Certificate #2 awarded 12-15-2011 to Scott Graham Riggs, 12-15-2011

15730-Map 1991 Dairyland Marathon (route shown in red) aka Pine Line Recreation Trail. Medford, Whittlesey, Chelsea, Westboro, Ogema to Morner Ave. – 2 miles south of Prentice

15731-Map NWRPC 1991 ‘Medford to Prentice Rail-Trail’ ‘The Pine Line’ north portion

15731A-south portion

15731B-horizontal view

15732 ‘Ninety runners registered for April’s 20th Dairyland marathon’ Star News, 4-1991; list of registrants including Lee Clendenning, Mark Priniski & Robert P. Rusch of Rib Lake

15732A-Marathon segments.

15733-Map 1997 ‘timber stand improvement’ Robert P. Rusch land in Town of Rib Lake, S ½ NE ¼, N ½ SE ¼, NW SW 13-33-2E. Parcels subject to improvement cuts, i.e. now commercial thinning of trees identified by DNR Forester Emil Falesky, et al, shown in color with date of cutting.

15733A-N ½ SE ¼, 13-33-2E

15734 3-13-1913 ‘Kinzel Lumber Co., city’s newest industry.’ Merrill Dairy Herald. C.J. Kinzel rebuilds former A.H. Stange sawmill in Merrill & begins logging just east of Rib Lake Lumber Company Lincoln County holdings

15735 8-4-1925 ‘To double capacity of local plant.’ A ‘log splitter’ to be installed by Kinzel Lumber Co. –Merrill Dairy Herald

15736-Ad ‘Hemlock & tamarack & all hardwoods…which grow right here in Lincoln County, Wis., are the materials you should use in building your home…’ – Kinzel Lumber Co., Merrill, WI, Merrill City Directory 1915-1916

15737-Merrill City Directory 1915-16 p. 181, manufacturing factories in Merrill, including Kinzel Lumber Co.

15738 7-22-1916 American Lumberman ‘Plant incorporates highest standards’ Kinzel Lumber Co., Merrill. ‘The Kinzel Lumber co. secures its logs from its affiliated company, the Union Land Co…’

15739-Ad ‘Men wanted at our camps on Newwood..Union Land Co., Merrill.’ 6-1919 Merrill Dairy Herald

15740 3-16-1916 Union Land Co. Articles of Incorporation-Lincoln Co.

15740A-p. 2 ibid

15740B-p. 3 ibid – Nota bene—The Rib Lake Historical Society has a large collection of information on the Kinzel Lumber Co. in hard copy, subfile-Kinzel Lumber Co.

15741-Kinzel Lumber Co. Articles of Incorporation, p. 1, recorded 5-1914

Mark Priniski collection

15742-P. c. 1930 Spirit Lake School. Miss Martha Hedwig Gebauer happily taught at this classic one room elementary school in 1928 and boarded ½ mile east at the Otto Olson farm. Her salary was $78 per month. After a local man offered to play the role of Santa Claus at the school Christmas party, she married him and was known as Mrs. Herman A. Rusch. RPR is one of her four sons. The abandoned school building was remodeled into a home by Rib Lake Dentist Raymond Mauch. In 2011 the building is the residence of Mr. & Mrs. Mark & Jane Priniski, N9057 STH 102, Rib Lake. It occupies part of the NW NW 8-33-2E. When the Priniski’s remodeled they found a blackboard behind newer wall covering. The steps of the school faced east. The windows shown in the photo were on the south side. Note the school bell in the roof cupola. A fancy brick chimney on the west served an indoor wood stove. The older school boys carried the firewood to the stove every morning.

15743 3-11-1991 ff Maple Syrup notes by Herman A. Rusch, tapped 75 trees 3-11-1991, tapped 130 trees 3-16-1991, sap collection 3-13 50 gal, 3-14 30 gal. 3-15 0 gal., etc. sap boiling started 3-28

15743A-Batch #7, 120 gallons finished cooking on 4-3-1991, batch #8 finished 4-4-1991, syrup production, batch #1-finished in house, 3 gal. syrup; batch #2-finished in house, 2 gal. syrup; batch #3, finished in house, 2 ¾ gal. syrup; batch #4 finished in house; records representative of non-commercial, amateur producing for family consumption; Rusch Sugar Bush part of the SE NE 13-33-2E, Herman A. Rusch died 2-15-1994 at age of 90

15743B-Total sap, daily records, Herman did not show here the many days of zero sap flow; 50, 30, 28, 66, 98, 154, 100, 5, 70, 100, 166, 114, 30; grand total sap 1,011 gallons; NB-this record in handwriting of Herman A. Rusch found in 2011 in Zuckerhaeuschen by Robert P. Rusch

Collection of Ann & William A. Pauley, 618 Hardin Ave., Aurora, IL 60506

15744 P. 11-2011 former Rib Lake Volunteer Fire Dept. 1959 International Harvester #204 made in 1959

15744A-P. 9-2011 ibid-close-up

15744B-L 12-15-2011 William A. Pauley to Rib Lake Historical Society

Robert P. Rusch collection

15745 12-15-2011 Star News ‘Firefighter charged with conspiracy to commit arson’ Jason A. Schmudlach, 21 year old member of Rib Lake Volunteer Fire Dept. allegedly asked a friend, Cain J. Wojcik, to start fires…

15745A-p. 2 ibid

15745B-p. 3 ibid

Marie Krolnik collection

15746 1908 Rib Lake High School commencement invitation-cover

15746A-address, Guidose Bonneville

15747 6-1-1916 Rib Lake High School Commencement invitation-cover

15747A ‘At the Opera Hall, Rib Lake’ i.e. upstairs-Peterson building, in 2011 Bird’s Nest Tavern, 729 McComb Ave.

15747B-Class roll-Esther B. Hintz, Francis B. Janda, Mayme C. Kennedy, Raymond C. Mauch, Florence May McLellan, James L. McRae, Mabel F. Rainey, Clara Bell Sippy, Gustav E. Skon & Esther L.E. Smith

15748 4-12-1929 Rib Lake Herald front page top, Lambert ‘L.P. Lambert logs big, cut 4,750,000 feet. Over 100 men employed.’ Village of Rib Lake board-Pres. John McRae; Trustees-William Banks, Walter E. Freiberg, William Radtke, A.H. Lindow, Victor Gustafson & August Wegner

15748A-front page-bottom, Bertha Henrietta Kalk, card of thanks, Mrs. Charles Knop, Charles & Fred Kack, Mrs. John Stelling, & Mrs. Ted Popowski; advertisement-’The Big Store’ proprietor-Peter Bogumill, e.g. ‘our stock of Dr. peter Farnic & Son’s remedies, such as alpenkrauter, hair oil, magen starker, uterine tonic is always complete

15748B-p. 2 top Garlic flavored milk

15748C-p. 2 bottom-Eliminate tuberculosis from chicken quarter-NB0this part of Rib Lake Herald was printed elsewhere

15748D-p. 3 top - mystery ship

15748E-p. 3 bottom-’one legged mountain climber’

15748F-p. 4 top-Westboro Financial reports

15748G-p. 4 bottom-ibid, ad-Ed Blasch, ad-Cozy Corner Café, prop. Mrs. Charles Dodge, aka Ma Dodge

15748H-p. 5 top, ibid

15748I-p. 5 bottom, ad-Frank Tauber, insurance, office in Swanson building, in 2011 site of Genesis Youth Center, 818 McComb Ave.; Ad-General Motors cars, Chevrolet $525-$725, Pontiac $745-$893; Oldsmobile $875-$1035; Oakland $1145-$1375; Buick $1195-$2145; LaSalle #2295-$2875; Cadillac $3295-$7000

15748J-p. 6 top Jefferson’s birthday

15748K-p. 6 bottom, Badger State Briefs

15748L-p. 7 top Marked man chap 11 continued

15748M-p. 7 bottom ad ‘Ugly Pimples’

15748N-p. 8 top, Ad-W.F. Thor Garage, Westboro; Ad-Arnt Herrem-Tailor & Dry Cleaner; store location in 2011 is Mann-Made Pizza, 705 McComb Ave.

15748O-P. 8 bottom; Ad-John A. Taylor, prop. Taylor Hardware, 2011 building is Music Store; summons-Fred P. Winther, II, vs. O.A. Peterson, et ux

15748P-Summons, Winther vs. O. [Ole] A. Peterson, Jennie Peterson, et al

15748 1-29-1959 church list; St. Theresa-Westboro, St. Ann’s-Town of Greenwood; Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary-Chelsea; Our Lady of Perpetual Help-Whittlesey; St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran-Rib Lake; Zion Lutheran-Spirit; St. Mark’s Lutheran-Town of Hill; First Evangelical Lutheran-Westboro; Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church; Whittlesey; St. Paul’s Evangelical-Town of Greenwood; Rib Lake Methodist, Westboro Methodist; Spirit Methodist; each listing gives dates & hour of services & pastors’ names

15750 1-29-1959 Rib Lake Herald p. 1 top-’Mail service worse’

15750A-p. 1 bottom ‘court approval postponed’ on sale of the Pine Tree, notorious brothel, NE NE 36-33-1E, Town of Chelsea; ¼ mile north of junction of STH 102 & 13

15750B-p. 2 top-’It’s been more than 3 weeks since abandonment of Soo Line passenger service on the Ashland-Spencer line’; Ads-Dr. Robert L. Pettera, M.D. & Dr. D.D. Powers, DDS

15750C-bottom p. 2, Ad-Robert ‘Bob’ Melaski, dba Bob’s Sinclair Service, in 2011 Greg & Cindy Hanke mini-mart

15750D-p. 3 top, Ad-Gordon Nordgren

15750E-p. 3 bottom, Millard ‘Satch’ Kapitz, The Little Bohemia

15750F-p. 4 top, Ad-Duane Warner & Jack Budimlija, dba Gamble Store

15750G-p. 4 bottom, Ad-New Lake Theatre & Ernie Sunderlin’s LP Gas

15750H-p. 4 center Ad-Jerry Heindl, dba Heindl’s Clove Farm Store; SE corner of State Road & Church Street

15751 4-16-1959 Rib Lake Herald advertisements; Robert ‘Bob’ Melaski dba ‘Bob’s Tire Shop’ 709 McComb Ave., Lot 4, Block D, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

15751A-Mr. & Mrs. Henry Schlais, dba Schlais Clothing Store, 827 McComb Ave., Lot 8, Block C, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

15751B-Lakeside Tavern, 846 Lakeshore Drive

15751C-Fred Rademacher, dba Fred’s Garage, formerly North Side Garage, 835 McComb Ave., Lot 10, Block C, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

15751D-Millard ‘Satch’ Kapitz ‘The Little Bohemia’ bowling & bar, 806 McComb, Lot 2, Block B, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

15751E-Duane Warner & Jack Budimlija dba ‘Gambles’ catalog & retail store, 740 McComb Ave., Lot 9, Block A, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, formerly J.A. Taylor Hardware

15751F-State Bank of Medford, Rib Lake Station, initially 802 McComb Ave., Lot 1, Block B., (originally old First National Bank of Rib Lake building), in 1970 State Bank of Medford constructed new facility at 717 McComb Ave., Lot 6, Block D, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, the new bank building opened in 2-1971; c. 1995 the bank changed its name to Mid-Wisconsin and became one of more than a dozen owned by that corporation

15751G-Robert ‘Bob’ Melaski, dba Bob’s Sinclair Service, a gas station & repair shop, 910 STH 102, Lot 1, Block A, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

15751H-Ernest ‘Ernie’ Sunderlin, dba’s Dri-Gas Service & Appliance Co, LP gas sales, north side of CTH D, 200 feet west of Kennedy Ave.

15751I-Cyril & later his son, Duane, Jorgenson, dba Ogema Locker Service, STH 13, Ogema

15751J-Dr. Robert L. Pettera, M.D., Rib Lake Clinic Building, 657 McComb Ave.

15751K-Dr. Duane ‘D.D.’ Powers, DDS, dentist, Rib Lake clinic building, 657 McComb Ave.

15751L-Lawrence ‘Bud’ Schreiner, dba F.E.U. [Farmer’s Equity Union] Cooperative Shipping Association, Rt. 1, Rib Lake

15751M-Jeannette Rapp, dba Rib Lake Beauty Shop, National Hotel, 1003 Railroad Street

15751N-George, Sr., & Frank Zondlo, dba Zondlo’s Ballroom, SW corner of CTH C & STH 102

15751O-George Tlusty, dba Tlusty Beverage & Bottling Co., Schlitz, Hamms, & Gettleman wholesale sales; manufacturers of carbonated & non-carbonated soda water, Fayette Ave.

15751P-Bob Gums, dba Gums Painting & Paper hanging

15751Q-Millard ‘Satch’ Kapitz & Francis ‘Franny’ Schaack dba Consolidated Insurance Co., in State Bank of Medford-Rib Lake Station, building, 802 McComb Ave., Lot 1, Block B, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

15751R-Art Kapitz & Millard ‘Satch’ Kapitz, dba Little Bohemia Café & Bowling Center, 806 McComb Ave., Lot 2, Block B, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

15751S-Arthur ‘Art’ Schultz, dba Art’s Standard Service, Standard Gasoline & Car Service, 844 McComb Ave., Lot 12, Block B, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, NB-Gordon Nordgren sold & delivered by truck Standard heating oil & gas in cooperation with Art Schultz; later-Nordgren went on his own and ran a gas station at 720 McComb Ave., Lot 2, Block A, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

15751T-Taylor Co. Forestry & Lands Committee, ‘Timber stumpage for sale’ 11-33-3E

15751U-Jerry Heindl, dba Heindl’s Clover Farm, SE Corner of Church & State Road

15751V-Rube Kring & Mel Theilig dba Coast to Coast Store-Marshall Wells Hardware, 818 McComb Ave., Lot 7, Block B, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

15751W-Henry Schlais, dba Schlais Clothing Store, 827 McComb Ave., Lot 8, Block C, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

15751X-Dot & Virgil Miller, dba ‘Open Door’ bar & café, Spirit Lake

15751Y-Bud & Crystal ‘Opie’ Freeck, dba Bud’s IGA Super Market, 801 McComb Ave., Lot 1, Block C, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

15751Z-Roy & [son] Leroy Stewart, dba Stewart’s Lumber & Fuel, fka [Elmer] Taylor’s Lumber & Fuel, SE corner STH 102 & McComb Ave.

Robert P. Rusch collection

15752 4-25-1992 Ad-Second Annual Dairyland Marathon & Volksmarch on Pine Line

15753 4-1992 logo-Pine Line

15753A-Map 4-1992 Pine Line-Medford area

15753B-ibid-Prentice Area

15754 10-9-1988 Ann K. Dillon, nka Rusch, and Robert P. Rusch running Lakefront (Milwaukee) Marathon

15755 Plaque 9-1998 ‘Robert Rusch – the 1,000 Mile Man’ names of 100 mile runs completed

15756 Rib Lake Herald 11-2-1828 front page-top

15756A-p. 1 bottom, bark extract pans from Kenosha tannery shipped to Rib Lake for storage

15756B-p. 2 top, this page & others not printed in Rib Lake

15756C-p. 2 bottom,

15756D-p. 3 top ‘The Double Cross’ a novel, Chap. VIII continued

15756E-p. 3 bottom

15756F-p. 4 top Ad-Willy-Knight Six Cylinder auto $995

15756G-p. 4 bottom

15756H-p. 5 top, Ads-Victor Gustafson Lumber Co., Jacob Janda Store; Dr. G.L. Baker, J.F. Novak ‘Meat Market’

15756I-p. 5 bottom, Ads-Dr. E.A. Lapham, M.D., Arnt Herrem ‘Merchant Tailor & Dry Cleaner’, Dr. G.L. Baker, M.D., Dr. C.C. Smith, DDS, George Braun, Sr., real estate, Phil J. Arnold furnaces

15756J-p. 6 top Ads-Mrs. Charles Dodge [aka Ma Dodge], dba Cozy Corner Café; W.F. Thor garage, Westboro; Philip J. Arnold Hardware

15756K-p. 6 bottom Ads-Kelnhofer & Gilge, dba Rib Lake Service Station; Robert Wenzel, dba South Side Garage; Mrs. John J. Voemastek, dba The Millinery Shoppe; Fred Niggemann, dba Niggemann’s Store

15756L-p. 7 top, Wisconsin State News & leading radio programs

15756M-p. 7 bottom

15756N-p. 8 top, Rib Lake lost & found, Ads-$ to loan, Frank Tauber [owner of Tauber’s Bar]; Ad-Lake Superior District Power Co., our Rib Lake Rep., J.J. Grenfell, will make ‘Dodge Café’ [Cozy Corner-Ma Dodge] ‘his headquarters’

15756O-p. 8 bottom, Ads-Peter Bogumill-cars for sale; O. [Ole] A. Peterson ‘Feed Grinding’; Robert Hess, dba North Side Garage; Freiberg-Trantow Agency-insurance; James Upjohn & Anna May Kennedy, dba Upjohn-Kennedy Drug Co., selling ‘Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea’

15757-Map 1939 ‘Geologic Map of Wisconsin’ Revised 1939 by E.F. Bean, Wis. Geological & Natural History Survey, part-central-Rib Lake area with railroads & ‘border of Wis. drift’, i.e. maximum extent of Wisconsin glacier

15757A-legend & southwest Wisconsin

15757B-southeast Wisconsin

15757C-Northeast Wisconsin

15757D-northwest Wisconsin

15758-shoe horn-’Patrick’s Shoe Store, Leather & Rubber Footwear for the family’ phone 427-3075, Rib Lake, Wis. Rose and her husband, Sheldon, Patrick operated the Patrick Shoe Sotre c. 1965-1975 on the west side of McComb Ave., the building stands in 2012 at 745 McComb Ave., aka Lot 3, Block D, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

Collection of Dennis Kuehling

15759 12-2011 L. Dennis Kuehling to Bob & Ann (Rusch)

15760 P. c. 1910 7 tan-bark piles run westward from U.S. Leather Co. Rib Lake Tannery to West Street. View NW from Tannery smokestack. Six identical 1 ½ store company houses built by tannery and rented to tannery employees cluster around junction of High & West Streets. North Street runs west past N. Front Street and ends on Town Road-in 2012 Kennedy Street, aka CTH D. The vacant land north of North Street is occupied in 2012 by Rib Lake High & Middle Schools. A conspicuous ridge of hills forms the horizon and marks the maximum extent of the Wisconsin glacier

15760A P. c. 1910 employees of Rib Lake Tannery off-load tan-bark from sleigh and construct 25 ft. high row of tan-bark; long rows of tan-bark were stored west of tannery and finished with a gable ‘roof’ of tan-bark, which shed rain. Much tan-bark for Rib Lake Tannery was sleighed in winter, necessitating long-term storage of tan-bark for year-round operation of tannery

15761 P. c. 1907-1914 2 unidentified men sit atop wagon load of tan-bark. Leather thongs on horse harnesses shook with horses’ movements and gave animals temporary relief from flies

15762 P. 11-12-1912 3 log logging camp buildings near Perkinstown, Taylor County, Wisconsin. In Section 20, T32, R2W; Arleigh Larson standing at doorway. John Barth of Chili, Wis., used buildings as a deer camp from 1912-1914

15763 P. c. 1912 10 whitetail deer hang from meat pole at former Larson logging camp at Perkinstown

15764 P. c. 1910 St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church shown in its original location, main doorway facing south. View looks northeast and shows part of Rib Lake Tannery complex at rear

15765 P. c. 1930 ‘Lutheran Church, Rib Lake, Wis. 101’ This is St. John’s Ev. Lutheran Church after building was rotated 190 degrees to face north (Fayette Ave.); L.-part of parsonage; R-on horizon-part of Rib Lake Lumber Company mill complex

15766 P. c. 1910 ‘M.E. Church, Rib Lake, Wis.’ view of south side of Methodist Episcopal Church facing Church Street. The church was Methodist but used bishops-hence the term ‘Episcopal’. The congregation and building in 2012 is known as the United Methodist Church

15767 P. c. 1950 ‘Scene at Spirit Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. No. C-25’ view SW from STH 102 bridge across Little Spirit Lake

15768 P. c. 1950 ‘Harpers Lake Resort, Rib Lake, Wis 55’ 2 wooden rowboats await renters. View Ne toward wooden cabin with screened porch built 25 ft. from lake by resort owner Mike Schmidt

15769 P. 10-2011 wooded shoreline of North Harper Lake. Government Lot 4, Section 2 T33 R2E. A faintly visible line is the excavated former toboggan run from hill top southward to lake, Dennis Kuehling-photographer

Robert P. Rusch collection

15770 P. c. 1970 Taylor County Courthouse, Medford, Wis., north and west sides. Building constructed in 1013 and shown with dome painted. In 1990 paint removed and revealing shiny copper finish. R-north side of sheriff’s residence and county jail-both razed c. 1979 to make way for courthouse addition

15770A-back, postcard dated 6-28-197?, Robert P. Rusch to his Aunt Pauline Gebauer. Print hypes Medford as ‘Mink Capital of the World’

15771 P. c. 1970 City of Medford dam on Black River, 100 feet north of STH 64, SW SW 27-31-1E. c. 1874 sawmill owners erected original wood dam here to impound mill pond. The final sawmill occupying the site just to right of dam was the Medford Lumber Co., which sawed its final log in August, 1926, and closed

15771A-back, postcard stamped 7-20-1971, Robert P. Rusch to his Aunt Paulina Gebauer

15772 P. c. 1930 sign ‘Rib Mountain [is] one of the highest elevations in Wisconsin…’ atop Rib Mountain at Wausau, his ‘mountain’ was dethroned as Wisconsin’s highest natural point by Timm’s Hill

15772A-back, postcard dated 1974; Robert P. Rusch to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman A. Rusch

15773 P. 7-1972 Robert P. Rusch with residential sign ‘Birch Run-Robert & Karen Rusch-welcome’ view from CTH C northwesterly from driveway, SE NW 13-33-2E. contrast next photo at same location 40 years later

15774 P. 1-2012 same location as prior photo, 40 years later. Trees planted in 1975 by Robert P. Rusch

15775 1972 election brochure, Robert P. Rusch for DA

15775A back

15776 P. c. 1948 ‘Main Street, Rib Lake, Wis. 37’ view south on McComb Ave.; L-’Coffee Cup’ café, Kaptiz’s ‘Little Bohemia Bowling, Bar & Café’, Rib Lake First National Bank and ‘New Lake’ movie theatre

15777 P. c. 1930 ‘High School Rib Lake, Wis. 68’ R-original high school constructed 1902. Absent is its bell cupola, destroyed by wind. L-high school addition built 1927. View looks south from Fayettte Ave.

15778 P. c. 1910 Altar-tabernacle, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, Whittlesey, fka Mutter Der Immer Wehrende Hilfe Kirche. The original Catholic Church at Whittlesey was built north of present Whittlesey Ave. and next to the church cemetery on land donated by August & Caroline Steiner, great maternal grandparents of Robert P. Rusch. Eight candles grace the wooden altar above which –suspended on chains from the ceiling – hangs a glass candle holder for sanctuary candle

15779-Rib Lake Herald 11-25-1935 title page-top half

15779A-ibid-bottom

15779B-ibid. p. 2 top

15779C-ibid. p. 2 bottom

15779D-ibid p. 3 top

15779E-ibid. p. 4 bottom

15779F-ibid. p. 4 top, ‘Society’ Ad-Victor Gustafson Lumber Co.

15779G-ibid p. 4 bottom, Ads-Niggemann Store, Dr. E.A. Lapham, Clifford L. Curran

15779H-ibid p. 5 top, local news

15779I-ibid p. 5 bottom, Ad-Millard Kapitz

15779J-ibid, p. 6 top

15779K-ibid p. 6 bottom

15779L ibid p. 7 top

15779M-ibid p. 7 bottom

15779N-ibid p. 8 top, Ad-Rib Lake Theatre, Spirit News, Spirit Lake News, Mud Lake news

15779O-RLHe 11-25-1935 p. 8 bottom Ads-The Lake Side, aka Lakeside, South Side Garage, William A. Gessert, Art Schultz, dba Diamond Service Station, Al Waters, dba Friendship Tavern, Charles Warden, dba Pioneer Tavern

15780-RLHe 2-14-1936 p. 1 top

15780A-ibid p. 1 bottom

15780B-ibid. p. 2 top

15780C-ibid. p. 2 bottom

15780D-ibid p. 3 top

15780E-ibid. p. 4 bottom

15780F-ibid. p. 4 top, ‘Society’

15780G-ibid p. 4 bottom, Ads- Dr. E.A. Lapham, Dr. J.J. Smullen, Ad-Emma Voemastek

15780H-ibid p. 5 top, local news, GEM, aka Rib Lake Theatre

15780I-ibid p. 5 bottom, Ad-Dr. G.L. Baker, Arnt Herrem

15780J-ibid, p. 6 top, Wis. State News

15780K-ibid p. 6 bottom

15780L ibid p. 7 top

15780M-ibid p. 7 bottom

15780N-ibid p. 8 top, Ad-Gem, aka Rib Lake Theatre

15780O-kibid, p. 8 bottom Ad-Rib Lake Herald

RPR Collection

15781-P. c. 1910 ‘Steam Hauler, Rib Lake, Wis.’ ‘Brown’s Studio’ RL Steam hauler pulling at least 7 log-loaded sleighs. Fur coated man next to steersman identified ‘Mr. F. M. Shaw,’ steam hauler enroute to RLLC sawmill, probably from Camp 2

15781A-back-’F.J. Underwood-factory & mill supplies – Jamestown, New York, per Van Dyke Underwood, NB-F.M. Shaw was one of the partners in the Shaw Company, owners of the Medford tannery. See Shaw family tree #14762

15782-P. 12-2011 Dog-Eva Ultra Rusch at Schuppen-barn, Ann & Bob Rusch residence, N8643 CTH C, Rib Lake at dusk

15783-plaque, ‘Wildlife Habitat Development Award, Robert Rusch, 1980 Wisconsin Conservation Districts’, NB-beginning in 1968 with purchase of 200 acre ‘Schoenwalde’ parcel in Sec. 13-T33-R2E, RPR enthusiastically pursues timber stand improvement and trail & wildlife pond construction. See #15733, Map – TSI

15784-Star News, 1-26-2012 ‘Firefighter to stand trial on arson charges’ preliminary hearing held in State v. Jason A. Schmudlach, 21, Rib Lake

15785 Star News, 11-10-2011 obituary, Vera I. Wallace, nee Krueger, aka Mrs. Lester ‘Pike’ Wallace

15786-Star News c. 1975 ‘Wood Lake is a good deal’ editorial supporting Taylor County purchased of 320 acre land parcel around Wood Lake, Town of Rib Lake

15787-invoice 1-13-2011 C&D Lumber Co., Rib Lake, to RPR

15788-Contractor building cards 2011, Bob Frombach, Jr., Henry L. Brandner, Ed Acker, Josh Fallos, Charles M. Meyer, Bill Peterson, Jr.

15789-Rib Lake Village Presidents-partial list – 1937-2011 by Dawn Swenson

15789A-L. 10-25-2011 Dawn Swenson to RPR, NB-Dr. L.L. Taylor, MD, was first Rib Lake Village President

15790-W. ‘Rib Lake Public Library – tree of giving’ 2011

15791-L. 8-31-2011 Larry Black, District Administrator, School District of Rib Lake, to colleagues. Principal Rib Lake High School & Middle School Rick Cardey, Principal Elementary School Angela Woyak, School Board-Jerry Blomberg, Pres., Scott Everson, Vice Pres., Marlene Rymer, Clerk, Joan Magnuson, Treas., Robert Rusch, George Zondlo & Dennis Fuchs

15792-W. Rib Lake School District 2011-12 master schedule prepared by Rick Cardey

15793-W. Rib Lake Elementary Jan [2012] newsletter by Angela Woyak, Principal

15793A-side 2

15794 W. 1-12-2012 ‘Rib Lake High School National Blue Ribbon Schools Recognition Ceremony’ program-cover

15794A-ibid, p. 2 & 3, ‘The U.S. Secretary of Education, Ann Duncan, named 42 high schools nationwide, including RLHS, as a 2011 National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence for academic excellence’

15794B-ibid. p. 4

Karen Baumgartner collection

15795 P. 1908 Spirit Lake Log Drive. View SW from outlet of Little Spirit Lake, SW SE 32-34-R3E, Town of Spirit, Price County. Four caulk-shoed lumberjacks stand on peeled hemlock logs holding pike poles. The log drive from Little & Big Spirit Lake down the Spirit River was under the management of Ole A. Peterson. Foreground-logs nailed together form a chute to guide driven logs into Spirit River and over driving dam, which raised lake water level sever feet. NB-large rock partially submerged in lake. This rock in 2012 lies just east of STH 102 bridge

15796-W. 2012 Winter newsletter, Spirit Lakes Improvement Association

15796A-Back

15797-Map Taylor County Snowmobile-ATV trail map-cover

15797A-Rib Lake area

15798 L. 1-18-2012 Larry Black, Rib Lake School Administrator to Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club

15799-L. 1-15-2012 Rose Marie Kuchinke, Darmstadt, Germany, to RPR – auf Deutsch

15800-L. 1-17-2012 Atty. Corliss V. Jensen to RPR re Guernsey Farm, former Rib Lake brothel

15800A-p. 2

15800B-p. 3

15801 W. 10-4-1952 Summary of Court Proceedings, State of Wisconsin v. Dorothy Baker, finding of house of prostitution

15802 W. 5-23-1957 judgment-State of Wis. v. Eva R. Walker & Dorothy M. Baker, order that ‘Guernsey farm’ property be sold as public nuisance

15803 Deed 12-23-1968 Clara Mason to Frank L. Nikolay & Corliss V. Jensen [conveying former brothel, aka ‘Guernsey Farm’]

15803A-Deed 2-25-1975 Corliss V. Jensen & Frank L. Nikolay to Joseph L. Lamothe, et ux [conveying former brother, aka ‘Guernsey farm’]

15803B-p. 2 signatures

15804-Map c. 1901, Athens, Wis.

15805-L. 1-17-2011 & other times, Lawrence Gueller to and from RPR

15805A-p. 2

15805B-p. 3

Karen M. Rusch collection

[Note-four photos, taken near Muir, Michigan; they show sawmill machinery typical of the era and the Rib Lake area]

15806-P. c. 1910 temporary sawmill in open, L-R; freshly sawed lumber, tanker wagon used to bring water for steam tractor, tractor, saw dust pile; note livestock fence made entirely of pole wood

15807-P. c. 1910 close-up view, L-R steam tractor, belt to saw rig, center-carriage, right-log deck

15808-P. c. 1910 temporary saw operation in woods, L-carriage riders & partially sawed log. Horse teams skidding freshly cut logs to site

15809-P. c. 1910 steam tractor in operation; right-8 x 14 inch timber on carriage, note; a water hose crosses above ground from tanker (not shown) to tractor

Dennis Kuehling collection

15810-P. c. 1910 ‘Bridge, Westboro, Wis.’ steel highway bridge over Silver Creek. Remains of John Duncan logging dam consist of wood cribbing beneath bridge, view to NW; at horizon-3 story Westboro High School

15810A-back-postmark Jul 19 3PM 1911 Westboro addressed to Miss Florence S. 361 Providence Ave., Milwaukee, Wis.

15811-P. 2-4-2012 Dennis Kuehling & friend preparing to go ice fishing on North Harper Lake

15812-P. 12-21-2011 Dennis Kuehling & Alaina & Jed Becker at Zion Lutheran Church Day Care, Unity, Wis

RPR collection

15813-P. 1-2012 President Barack Obama

15814- L. 2012 from President Barack Obama to Ann K. Rusch

15814A-P. 2

15814B-p. 3

15814C-p. 4 & signature

15815-P. aerial ‘proposed Bob & Ann Rusch Preserve’, S ½ NE ¼, 12-33-2E, red line shows proposed IAT Ice Age National Scenic Trail

15816-P. 2011 aerial, Sec. 12-33-2E, show land boundaries. Green reflects primary conifer forest

15817-Map ‘Silent Sports Map’ Price County Tourism 3-2010, trail locations, Price County, Timm’s Hill Trail

15818-Map, Price County ‘Wisconsin-Life’s So Good’ 2008, title page & legend

15818A-Timm’s Hill Trail, Pine Line Trail

15819-W ‘Forest Trees of Wisconsin; How to Know Them’ Wis. Dept. of Natural Resources, reprint from 1928 edition – cover

15819A-Northern white cedar

15819B-balsam fir

15819C-hemlock; 15819D-jack pine

15819E-red pine; 15819F-white pine

15819G-black spruce; 15819H-white spruce

15819I-tamarack; 15819J-black ash

15819K-green ash; 15819L-white ash

15819M-big tooth aspen

15819N-quaking aspen

15819O-basswood

15819P-bluebeech aka muscle wood; 15819Q-white birch

15819R-yellow birch

15819S-black cherry; 15819T-choke cherry

15819U-pin cherry

15819V-American elm

15819W-Ironwood aka hop hornbeam; 15819X-Juneberry or service berry

15819Y-red maple

15819Z-sugar maple

15819AA-red oak

15820-W. McLennan, Mamie Flora 1-1-1886 birth certificate

15821-W. Kennedy, A.B. & Lizzie M. Barden, Nov. 13, 1885, marriage certificate, NB-father of groom was R.R. Kennedy

15822-W. 2-16-2012 Star News ‘National Blue Ribbon School’ Rib Lake, p. 1-top

15822A-ibid p. 1, bottom

15822B-ibid, p. 2 top photo-Jerry Blomberg, board president

15822C-ibid, p. 2 bottom

15823-W. Star News 2-16-2012 ‘Rib Lake hires new superintendent’ by Larry Black, Rib Lake School District Administrator

15824-W. 2-16-2012 Star News ‘Lori Manion hired as new administrator’ P. Lori Manion

15824A-ibid p. 2

15825-W. 2-16-2012 Star News ‘Community helps make Rib Lake a blue ribbon school’

15826-W. 2-16-2012 Star News P. Strobach, Bernard & Jeanette ‘Stormy wedding didn’t stop long marriage’ 73rd wedding anniversary

15826A-P. Strobach family

15827-W. 6-23-1977 Star News ‘Former Rib Lake physician, Dr. Ernst Carstens, dies’

Dennis Kuehling collection

15828-P. c. 1900 Westboro ‘Street scene’ view east on Center Street-modern CTH D, Wisconsin Central Railroad tracks in foreground, second set of track begins eastward turn to Westboro Lumber Co., rear left-team of horses with wagon wait patiently at Westboro Lumber Company office & store

15828A-back, postcard in Finish language to Miss Lillie Kokela, Westbrook, Minnesota, signed ‘Tillie Niemi’

15829-L. 2-20-2012 Dennis Kuehling to RPR

RPR Collection

15830-W. Kennedy, John A., death certificate, DOD 12-13-1884 at Rib Lake, born in Canada, occupation ‘lumberman’ Father-Alex R. Kennedy, burial place, St. Raphael’s Church, Glengary, Canada

15831-census-1880 federal, Spencer, Wis. Kennedy, John J. age 34, wife-Flora age 36; daughter Tina (Christina) age 7, daughter Jennie age 5, son Dan A. age 3. McLennan, Duncan age 34 (no wife lifted), occupation ‘bookkeeper’ born in Canada & Kennedy, Louis age 22, no wife listed, occupation laborer, born in Canada

15832 1880 census, Spencer, Wis. Kennedy, Angus age 28 ‘lumberman’ born in Canada; spouse-Sarah C. age 22 ‘housekeeper’ born in New York; son John [E.] age 4, born in New York

15833-P. c. 1940 ‘sawmill Rib Lake, Wis.’ RLLC log unloading area into hot pond on left (not pictured) half unloaded railroad flatcar. Vented steam rises in front of bull chain rising to level 2 of mill. Open windows on third floor mark saw filing room. Two men re-shingled roof next to horizontal wood chip conveyor. Bare light bulbs hang over unloading deck built with tilt to facilitate rolling logs into lake.

Myrtle Justice nee Peterson collection (Mrs. Guy Justice)

15834-P. Westboro Women’s Christian Temperance Union outing at Hill farm, c. 1910, left to right-’Fannie and her boy, Mrs. McClure, Mrs. Bourgeois, Anna Grittner, Mrs. William Gritner, myself (Lil Peterson?), Mrs. Wahl, Mrs. McCumber, & Ma, three of my kids in back and one of Fannie’s’

15835-P. 8-16-1908 eleven unidentified persons in ‘Sunday best’ at rural Westboro home

15836-P. Frank Ruprich store under construction ‘downtown’ Westboro. Sun umbrella advertises ‘Patek’s Paints-Pur (and) lasting’, view to northwest, pile of 4-foot-long lath piled behind horse awaits installation and plaster

15836A-back-addressed to Arvid Peterson, Westboro

15837-P. 5-24-1938 at Spring Brook School, Westboro, left to right-James ‘Jim’ Rindt, Alvin Peterson, x, x, Lester Peterson and Al Rindt

15838-P. Razing Westboro community building. Site became Saint Theresa Catholic Church, c. 1940-2005, in 2011 church building remodeled into Westboro Library and Town offices, view north

15839-P. Prize bear falls to Angus Peterson, left, and Richard Rindt, Sr., c. 1935. Truck ‘Taylor County Highway Commission’

RPR Collection

15840-Map-plat c. 1920 Taylor County, W.W. Hixson & Co., Rockford, Illinois, cover

15840A-Rib Lake, Westboro, Greenwood, Chelsea

15840B 32N-3E

15840C 32N-3E Interwald

15840D 31N-3E Goodrich

15840E 33N-2E Village of Rib Lake

15840F 32N-2E Brehm

15840G 33N-1E Westboro

15840H 32N-1E Chelsea & Whittlesey

15840I 31N-1E Medford

15840J 30N-1E Little Black

15840K 33N-1W Mondeaux River

15840L 32N-1W Sackett Lake

15840M 31N-1W Murat (Lake Isadore) Medford Lumber Co. Railroad

15840N 30N-1W Holway, Sawyer Dam site

15840O 33N-2W

15840OO 32N-2W Perkinstown

15840P 30N-2W Maplehurst

15840Q Taylor County east half

15840R Taylor County middle

15840S Taylor County west

15840T Taylor County center

15841 P. c. 1905 Buffalo fur clad teamster atop sleigh on Rib Lake, rear-Rib Lake High School ‘Right-James Upjohn (Rib Lake pharmacist) house, view to north

15842 P. c. 1905 Medford downtown-view north on Front (Main) Street. Right-building-’Advertise in the Waldbote’ der Waldbote, German language newspaper published in Medford with large readership c. 1880-1917; center-graceful red brick arches marked ‘Brucker & Ludloff’ building, northeast corner of Main & Division. Building, though empty, still stands as of 3-3-2012. Joseph Brucker & partner, Ludloff, successfully recruited many German settlers to Taylor County

15843-P. c. 1920, hay making on Taylor County farm – horses and oxen help gas-powered tractor pulling hay wagon & hay elevator

15844-P. c. 1914 Taylor County courthouse-shortly after construction. View to southeast. Far right-portion of Taylor County jail, razed c. 1975

15845-Star News 3-1-2012 ‘Numismatist opens shop in Rib Lake’ P. Russ Wudi, dba Russ’ Coins.

15845A-p. 1 bottom, P. new building, 814 McComb Ave- took place of former Scharer Tavern building, razed 2011

15845B-p. 2 top

15845C-p. 2 bottom

Dennis Kuehling collection

15846 P. c. 1910 ‘Park at Rib Lake, Wis. C1418’ village park on NE short of Rib Lake under construction

RPR collection

15847 email ‘Singing with Lutherans’ by Garrison Kellor, 2-22-2012

15847A-p. 2

15847B-p. 3 NB-there is a strong and wonderful Lutheran presence in Rib Lake

15848 Map ‘Snowmobile & Winter ATV Trail Map’ Taylor County 2012, cover and misc. ads

15848A-Map Rib Lake-Westboro

15848B Goodrich-Whittlesey

15848C Ads-34ff location keyed on map by matching numbers

15848D Ads-32-Rib River Bar, 36-Koplins ‘Camp 28’, 37-Greg & Cindy Hanke, dba ‘C&G Mini Mart’

15848E Ads, 33-Dennis Fuchs, dba ‘Foxy’s Cattail Tap’ 34-Mohr’s Bar-Spirit Lake, Zondlo’s Bar

E. Michael Bailey collection, donated to Rib Lake Historical Society, LLC

15849 email, E. Michael Bailey biography 3-1-2012

15850 Map-1-16-1990, New Wood Fire of August & September, 1933, by E. Michael Bailey. Red ‘x’ is location of ‘separate starting points or backfires’ Legend-fire map drawn on Jan. 1965 Wis. Highway Commission Map of Lincoln County, Wisconsin, highlighting by R.P. Rusch 3-8-2012

15850A ibid, New Wood fire shown in entirety – over 30 miles long (US Highway 8 to STH 64) and 14 miles wide (Taylor County line & across Wisconsin River). While Bailey originally dated fire as 1934, after reading annotated chronology of Rib Lake Herald, he agrees with newspaper accounts that fire took place in 1933-RPR

15850B-ibid, east half of Lincoln County, 1893 fire SE of Merrill shown in yellow; July 20-1910 ‘Heineman fire’ NE of Merrill shown in orange; NB-Bailey, working as employee of Wis. Dept. of Natural Resources noted & color-coded; ‘cultural projects’ ‘road & improvement projects’ ‘timber sales’ & ‘possible timber sales;’ undated ‘Skananan fire’ shown in purple

15850C L. 2012 E. Michael Bailey to RPR re forest fire in 1933 Town of Corning, Lincoln County, aka ‘New Wood Fire’, which burned ‘…5 townships, or 115,200 acres’

15850D ibid p. 2

15851 P. 7-15-1948 aerial of Wood Lake, Town of Rib Lake, and eastward across Lincoln line and northward across Price County line. White lines along photo bottom are highways. They connected with curving, narrow white lines which RLLC logging railroads, photo GS-BQ 2-77 T33N-R3 & 4E.

15852 P. 7-15-1945 aerial ‘2-78’ RLLC Camp 26 on bottom-center, NW SW NW 20-33-4E

15853 P. 7-15-1945 aerial ‘2-79’; RLLC Camp 26 in bottom left;

15854-P. 7-15-1945 aerial ‘2-80’ RLLC Camp 21 L-center, NE NE 22-32-4E. Former RLLC logging railroad ROW appears as graceful, often curved lines

15855-P. aerial 7-15-1945 2-81, Part of T33 R4E Lincoln County. RLLC logging railroad ROW. Right top-Camp 25, lower center-Camp 27

15856 P. 7-15-1945 aerial 2-82, lower center-RLLC Camp 27 SE SW 27-33-4E, center right-RLLC Camp 26 NW SW NW 20-33-4E. Lighter areas have been logged, dark area in center bottom is virgin timber

15857 P. 7-15-1945 aerial 2-83, right-Wood Lake, left-RLLC Camp 26, at NW SW NW Sec. 20, 7-33N-R4E, Lincoln County, running east & west of Camp 26 is ROW RLLC logging railroad; numerous log piles/dumps along track. Active logging has deforested land for about 1 mile south of Camp 26 – faint white lines indicate bare earth left from summer skidding of logs by bulldozers to railroad spur. The lower right portion of photo is dark-virgin uncut forest; RLLC last camp, 28, would later be built here, south of Wood Lake is a dirt highway stopping at a rudimentary parking lot, at NW NW 19-33-4E; the site of Wilderness lookout fire tower extending northward is a fire lane running into Price County. The Taylor County line running north & south through the photo center is marked by young timber, which has regrown from RLLC cutting, ending about WWII, i.e., 1914-1918. A faint line south of Wood Lake marks a RLLC logging railroad ROW abandoned 30 years earlier

15858 Map quad 1947, Camp 26 site located at former RLLC Railroad track, ROW Shown in orange

15859 Map-1-15-1990 Lincoln County railroads drawn on Jan. 1965 Lincoln County – State Highway Commission Map, by E. Michael Bailey

15859A-West half

15859B-east half

15859C-west half, full size

15859D-east half, full size

RPR Collection

15860 Map 3-17-2012 IAT to RLLC Camp 27, red line showing approximate route of IAT drawn over James Kraysen railroad map

15861 Map 2-18-2011, IAT atlas, Map 27F, New Wood State Wildlife Area – east; RLLC Camp 27

15861A- Map 2-18-2011, IAT atlas, Map 26F, west; RLLC Camps 4, 26, & 27

15861B- Map 2-18-2011, IAT atlas ibid, Map 25F, RLLC Camp 7, Camp in Wisconsin Central Railroad c. 1912-1914

15862 Map 8-19-2011 RLLC Camps 4, 5, 8, 10, 13 & 26 and IAT, annotations by RPR

15863 Map 1978 quad, Natzke camp (part) RLLC Camp 27, old railroad grades, New Wood Public hunting grounds

15864 Map, RLLC Camp 7 & Soo Line railroad (Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie) on 1913 Standard Atlas of Taylor County, Sec. 16, 33-3E

15865 Map 3-16-2012 IAT & RLLC railroads

15866 Map, RLLC Camp 7, 1979 quad ‘Wood Lake’; NE NE 16-33-3E

15867 Map, RLLC Camp 7, 5-2-1981 buildings, railroad & IAT

15868 P. RLLC Camp 7 (1912-1914); Wisconsin Central (Soo Line) railroad in foreground; Left-cook shanty, Right-bunk house, view to SE, NE NE 16-33-3E

15869 Map ‘Class 1 Railroads of Lincoln & Marathon Counties’ c. 1-10-1990; unbroken line- railroad in use broken’ railroad abandoned

15870 Map 3-15-2000 Railroads of Lincoln Co., Wis., by Everett A. Rusch, SW part-RLLC lines shown in red, RLLC Camp numbers in black, Stange & Kinzel lumber Co. (Merrill) shown in brown

15870A-NW part (Spirit Falls) including Marinette, Tomahawk & Western

158701B-NE part (Antigo Junction), Dunfield, Sec. 12-33-7E

15870C-SE part (Gleason & Dudley)

15870D-legend – L

15870E-legend – R

Bruce & Ruby Jaecks collection

15871 W. 1-16-1975 Lincoln County Forestry Dept. to Earl Nietzke re Dunfield

15871A Map 1915 Dunfield & Marinette, Tomahawk & Western Railroad, SE SE 12-33-7E, Town of Birch, Lincoln County, Wis. red line shows 2012 IAT route

15872 ‘Map 30F’ Dunfield Town site, IAT Atlas 2011. IAT on former ROW Marinette, Tomahawk & Western in orange

15873 P. Dunfield, Lincoln County, Wis. c. 1910, SE SWE 12-33-7E, foreground-log Rollway into Prairie River

15874 W. ‘Alta Junction Segment-Wisconsin’ Ice Age Trail’ c. 2011

15874A-ibid p. 2

15875 Map, 1915 ‘Outline Map of Lincoln Co., Wi’ Dunfield & Marinette, Tomahawk & Western highlighted

15876 W. ‘Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club guest book’ 3-2012 from Rusch Preserve trail head

15877-W. ‘The Tannery’ by Mary Knoblock Bodenburg, from the Phillips, Wis., Centennial book, 1976

15878-P. c. 1930 Tractors haul sleighs through denuded Town of Harding, Lincoln County, Wis. landscape, on former railroad right-of-way

Collection of Marlene L. Nickel, nee Krueger, N1771 Catherine Way, Waupaca, WI 54981, 715-924-6377, seeker924@

15879 pedigree chart-Marlene L. Nickels, nee Krueger

15880 Bio. August Herman Krueger & Johanna Bern Ziemke

15881 Map, 1913 Standard Atlas of Taylor County, part of 33N2E, location of Karl/Carl Krueger & W. Krueger farms highlighted

15882 hourglass tree of August Herman Krueger, Sr.

15883 Map 1892 German Empire east half

15883A Map 1892 German Empire west half

15883B 6-20-1895 Town of Rib Lake value of lands & products – August Krueger, et. al. left half

15884C 6-20-1895 Town of Rib Lake value of lands & products – August Krueger, et. al. right half

15884 c. 1895 Militia enrollment, Town of Rib Lake, men numbered 59-87 with occupations. Original at Taylor Co. Register of Deeds

15884A-Kennedy, Hugh A. & Allen highlighted

15884B-ibid, men number 76-116

15884C D.B. Kennedy name highlighted; NB-by law, all men ages 18-45 years were to be enrolled

15885 6-20-1895 census, heads of family-part of Town of Rib Lake, including William Krueger

Collection of Atty. William A . & Jacqueline Grunewald, 465 N. Madison St. Medford, WI, 715-748-7507

15886 Map c. 1891 Wisconsin Central Railroad, east half

15886A-ibid west half, Northern Pacific Railroad to Tacoma & Portland

Collection of Robert P. Rusch

15887 Star News 4-26-2012 ‘Pine Line Marathon; 26 things to know about the Pine Line Marathon’ top half

15887A ibid, bottom half

15888 inscription ‘Robert Rusch 200th marathon; 2012 Pine Line Marathon’ on commemorative blanket from event organizer, Medford Area Chamber of Commerce

15889 plaque 4-28-2012 ‘Congratulations to Bob Rusch on your 200th Marathon’ Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club

15890 4-28-2012 T-shirt inscription ‘Bob Rusch 200 – 200 marathons and still going strong’ August 1988-April 2012

15891 L. 4-28-2012 Kristin Karen Bethany Leona Marathon Strobach, nee Rusch, to her father, Robert P. Rusch, after running with him

15891A-ibid p. 2

15892 5-1-2012 Marathons & Ultra list of Robert P. Rusch upon completion of event #200, totaling 7,500 miles of running 8-1988 to 4-2012

15892A-ibid p. 1

15892B-ibid p. 2

15892C-p. 3

15892D-p. 4

15892E-p. 5

15892F-p. 6

15892G-p. 7

15892H-p. 8

15892I-p. 9

15892J-p. 10

15892K-p. 11

15892L-p. 12

15892M-p. 13

15892N-p. 14

15892O-p. 15

15892P-p. 16

15892Q-p. 17

15892R-p. 18

15892S-p. 19

15892T-p. 20

15892U-p. 21

15892V-p. 22

15893 Map 5-1-2012 section 12-33-2E glacial ice limit during late Wisconsin glaciation 12,000-18,000 years ago (highlighted pink) and Rib Lake Nordic (green) ski & snowshoe trail (highlighted yellow) and ‘You are Here’ at location of kiost at junction of SW NW SE 12-33-2E

15893A legend

15894 obit 2-9-2012 Edna A. Schriener, nee Krasin, aka Mrs. John P. Schreiner

15895 4-14-2005 school forest resolution ‘with some land area designated for natural succession’

15896 school test scores 2011-2012, Rib Lake, Prentice, Phillips, Athens & Abbotsford, Wisconsin Knowledge & Concepts exam

Collection of David & Phyllis Pope, 506 E. Allman Ave., Medford, WI 715-748-3206

15897 P. c. 1920 man in suit wearing 6-sided sheriff’s badge

15898 1918 P. Rufus Pope of Westboro in WWI Army uniform

15899 c. 1919 flag-covered coffin of Andrew B. Wahl, WWI veteran, in nave of St. Theresa Catholic Church, Westboro, Wis.

15900 P. 1919 white hearse conveys remains of WWI soldier, Andrew B. Wahl, to cemetery at NE NW 14-33-1E for reinterment. View to northeast on highway, which is, in 2012, CTH D

15901 P. 1919 band, honor guard & funeral procession behind hearse shown in P. 15902. Note cut-over landscape

15902 P. 1919 reinterment site at Mount Olive Cemetery, Westboro

Collection of Bernard ‘Bernie’ & Mary Wahl, Marshfield

(including materials regarding reinterment at Mount Olive Cemetery, Westboro, WI, of remains of Andrew Bernard Wahl, born 12-7-1892; killed in action 10-31-1918 as Olsene, Belgium

15903 P. Summer 1918, Andrew Bernard Wahl as army private at Fort Grant, Rockford, IL, on left; on right, Dexter Cummings of Westboro

15904 P. Wahl family; top L-R-Ignatius ‘Iggy’, grandfather Mike, Sr., Mike, Jr., middle-Grandmother Anna (mother of Andrew), Margaret; bottom-Sue (holding baby Mary Ann Trepanier), field is pasture at Wahl farm, E ½ NE ¼, 13-33-1W (Town of Westboro)

15905 P. C. 1915 L-R Andrew Wahl, Ben Frauldin aka Ben Franklin, ‘Grandpa’ Mike Wahl, Sr.

15906 P. c. 1905 Mike Wahl, Sr., atop buck board wagon

15907 L 10-17-1917 Andrew Wahl handwritten letter to his mother from Ashland, WI, where he worked on the docks; ‘Don’t forget to pay my [Knights of] Maccabee [a lodge] dues.’

15907A p. 2

15908 L. c. summer 1918, American expeditionary forces to Mrs. [Anna] Mike Wahl, Sr.

15908A ‘The ship on which I sailed [to Europe] arrived safely overseas.’

15909 P. 1918 Andrew Wahl in WWI uniform; leg wrapping was standard

15910 1918 Thanksgiving postcard sent by Anna Wahl to son, Andrew

15910A backside ‘My dear soldier boy…’

15911 Envelope postdated Oct. 20, 1918; Anna Wahl to Andrew Wahl, Company E, 344 Infantry, 37 Division, American Expeditionary Forces [France] returned ‘deceased’

15911A L. 10-20-1918 ‘My dear soldier boy [writes] of ‘Spanish influenza’ epidemic. So many people here dieing from it..’

15911B ibid p. 2 influenza epidemic forced closure of schools, church & all public gatherings at Westboro

15911C ibid p. 3 ‘Pa & Ignatz are digging stones & [blasting] stumps [to clear farm field]

15911D ibid p. 4 ‘Burn this letter from your loving mother’

15911E L. 10-22-1918 to Andrew Wahl from his sister, Sue; letter enclosed in envelope 15911. Sue sends quinine pills

15911F ibid p. 2

15911G ibid p. 3

15911H ibid p. 4 ‘with millions of love & billions of kisses’ signed Sue [Wahl]

15912 Envelope 10-29-1918 from Sue M. Wahl to brother, Andrew Wahl, returned ‘deceased’

15912A L. 10-29-1918 ‘My darling soldier brother’ ‘describes her Spanish influenza attack ‘in bed 11 days’

15912B ibid, p. 2 ‘lots of people dying from the influenza’

15912C ibid p. 3 Benny Franklin going into army – told to go home due to flu

15912D ibid p. 4

15912E ibid p. 5

15912F ibid p. 6

15912G ibid p. 7 ‘they put Herman Grittner in Class I [of draft]

15912H p. c. 1917 L-Herman Grittner holding raspberry pail & Mike Wahl, Sr.

15912I L. 10-29-1918 Sue M. Wahl to Andrew Wahl, p. 8

12912J ibid. p. 9

15912K ibid p. 10 ‘your loving sister, Sue’

15913 11-26-1918 telegram ‘Mr. Michael Wahl, Westboro, Wis. deeply regret to inform you that Private Andy B. Wahl, infantry, is officially reported as killed in action October Thirty First, signed Harris, The Adj. General’ This handwritten message was prepared by Soo Line Station agent at Westboro, Wis.

15914 8-22-1919 Certificate by J. Erwin, Adjutant General, Washington D.C. ‘Andrew B. Wahl’ died with honor in the service of his country 10-31-1918’

15915 Envelope 1-3-1919 William R. Hughes, Chaplain, 148th Infantry to Mrs. [Anna] Michael Wahl

15915A L. 1-3-1919 ‘Your son…was called higher October 31-1918 & his remains were fittingly placed in a select burial place near Olsene, Belgium…signed William R. Hughes. According to Bernard Wahl, Andrew was initially buried with 21 other American soldiers of his unit in a spontaneous cemetery in Belgium (see 15916A-the spot has been fenced by the Belgium people)

15916 L. 4-13-1919 Robert W. Jones, 1st Sergeant, Co. E, 148 Infantry to Mrs. [Anna] Michael Wahl

15916A ibid. p. 2 ‘…owing to misunderstanding or willful disobedience of orders the units of the French Army on our left did not support us.’

15916B Author at Camp Sherman, Ohio, preparing the company for discharge

15917 12-3-1919 postdated envelope from ‘War Department – The Adjutant General’s Office’

15917A L. 12-1-1919 Adjutant General to Mr. Michael Wahl ‘..you request information relative to the return of the body of your son…’

15917B memo; It is the policy of the War Dept. to return to the U.S. the bodies of army dead buried in Belgium

15918 Obit, Corporal Andrew B. Wahl from unidentified newspaper

15919 L. 1-7-1919 Knights of Columbus – on active service with American Expeditionary Forces to Mrs. Michael Wahl ‘He made the supreme sacrifice to free the world of a tyrannical & unjust monarch.’

15919A ibid p. 2

15920 L. 9-11-1920 War Dept. to Mr. Michael Wahl ‘In reply to your letter of 7-24-1920…requesting the remains of your son, the late Pvt. Wahl..’

15921 L. 4-30-1921 graves registration service to Mr. Michael Wahl ‘you will be notified by telegraph of departure of the body from this port…(Hoboken, N.J.)

15922 5-6-1921 State of New Jersey Certificate of Death and Permit

15923 P. 1921 overflow crowd of mourners outside of St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, Westboro, WI, attending committal service for Andrew B. Wahl

15924 P. 1921 flag draped casket of Andrew B. Wahl inside nave of St. Theresa’s Catholic Church

15925 1921 P. casket of Andrew B. Wahl & floral tributes at St. Theresa’s

15926 1921 P. Altar & casket of Andrew B. Wahl at St. Theresa Catholic Church

15927 P. 1921 reinterment site of Andrew B. Wahl Mount Olive Cemetery-Westboro

15928 1921 P. grave site Mt. Olive Cemetery of Andrew B. Wahl following reinterment L-R back ‘Grandpa’ Michael Wahl, Sr., Margaret Wahl, ‘Grandma’ Anna Wahl, Susan Wahl, Ignatius Wahl, Apolonia ‘Lone’ Wahl, Mike W. Wahl, gravestone bears photo

15929 L. U.S. Treasury Dept. allowance of burial expense $50

15930 6-7-1919 U.S. Treasury Dept. ‘Award of compensation’ to Mrs. Anna Wahl …’as dependent mother of the late Andrew B. Wahl.’ $20 per month

15931 6-25-1920 L. service recognition board-State of Wis. to Mrs. Anna Wahl

15932 Eight Acres of Wisconsin, Booklet by Michael W. Wahl (brother of Andrew B. Wahl) 1957, cover 1901 Wahl Balsam Log Cabin

15932A title page

15932B table of contents

15932C preface

15932D Part I, how it began

15932E 1901 Mike & Anna Wahl at Westboro

15932F Wahl farm E ½ NE ¼ 33 1W

15932G Balsam log cabin

15932H equipment stolen

15932I ‘Indians’

15932J Chief John

15932K Westboro Lumber Co. Camp 11, farming

15932L land clearing

15932LL P. c. 1930 Mr. & Mrs. Mike & Anna Wahl & corn field

15932M Dairy herd started with one cow

15932N ‘The half way house’

15932O bull trouble

15932P new home

15932Q forest fire threatens farm

15932R Pvt. Andrew B. Wahl dies 10-31-1918

15932S Susan marries Carlton Miller – Apolonia – Mrs. Trepanier

15932T Anna Wahl dies 12-22-1943

15932U Mike Wahl dies 10-21-1948

15932V P. 1913 Wahl farm-first barn

15932W P. 1925 Wahl farm-new house

15932X p. 1942 Wahl farm-new barn

15932Y P. 1942 Wahl farm-home

15933 1913 plat map, T33N-R1W, Town of Westboro-Mike & Anna Wahl farm highlighted yellow, E ½ NE ¼ 13-33-1W

15934 W. children of Michael ‘Mike’ & Anna Wahl

15934A ibid p. 2

15935 P. c. 1925 L-R Mike & Anna Wahl & unidentified man, view south, Wahl barn in background

15936 P. c. 1915 Andrew B. Wahl & first Wahl log barn with cedar shingle roof

15937 P. c. 1917 Andrew B. Wahl with wavy hair & suspenders

15938 Envelope from Camp Grant Army base, Rockford, IL, 6-27-1918 to Michael Wahl

15938A L. from Andrew B. Wahl to brother Michael 6-25-1918 ‘bayonet drills)

15938B ibid, p. 2

15939 7-4-1918 ‘Independence Day Dinner’ program cover for Co. E, 344 Infantry, ‘USNA’ Camp Grant, IL

15940 Envelope 8-22-1918 from Andrew Bernard Wahl to Brother Ignatz Wahl

15940A back ‘smokes for soldiers’

15941 9-7-1918 envelope from Andrew Bernard Wahl, Hempstead, NY ‘Camp Mills’ to sister, Susan Wahl

15941A L. ‘…we are all packed up & ready to go…[to] France..’

15941B ibid p. 2 ‘our over coats & rain coats are rolled up and put around our [back] packs…’

15942 W. 4-1918 to ‘soldiers of the United States’ signed ‘George R. (Rex, Latin, King), King George of Great Britain

15943 obit card, Andrew Bernard Wahl, ‘Killed in action at Olsene, Belgium, while going over the top, 10-31-1918’

15944 P. wooden grave cross, ‘Wahl, Andrew’ at Olsene, Belgium, cemetery with identification #B10624 & 2831422 assigned by US graves registration service, back-5 additional graves

15945 c. 1918 bulletin, US graves registration service ‘information for the friends of our dead..’

15945A ibid p. 2 ‘Return of bodies from France to U.S. or their permanent burial in France will be made in due time, as may be specifically requested of nearest relative…’

15946 P. c. 2000 headstone, Andrew Bernard Wahl grave at Mount Olive Cemetery, Westboro

15947 1916 map Taylor County, Wis. by C.H. Paetzold

15947A ibid, arrow A points to Mount Olive Cemetery site; arrow B points to Wahl farm site

15948 Abstract of Title, E ½ NE ¼ 13-33-1W, Town of Westboro, ‘Mike & Anna Wahl farm’ 7-24-1902, patent to Wisconsin Central Railroad by act of Congress 5-4-1864 ‘granting land in aid of the construction of certain railroads…’

15948A ibid, p. 2 deed 7-15-1899 Wisconsin Central Railroad Company to Wisconsin Central Railway Company

15948B ibid p. 3 2-15-1902 deed Wis. Central Railway Co. to Michael Wahl for $400

15948C ibid. p. 4 mortgages to S.E. Cody, 11-16-1906, $275, and Frank Huntzicker $550 8-12-1908

15948D ibid p. 5, mortgage satisfactions 9-30-1912 and 9-25-1912

15948E ibid p. 6 mortgage 7-3-1915 $100 to Valentine Detling

15948F ibid p. 7 satisfaction of mortgage 5-14-1918 $400 to Valentine Detling

15948G ibid. p. 8 certificate 7-31-1924

15948H ibid. p. 9 mortgage 7-19-1924 $800 & mortgage #2 7-19-1924 $1000 to Sheboygan Loan & Trust

15948I ibid p. 10 graphics, Section of land & definitions, Link, Chains & Rod, etc.

15949 deed 7-24-1902 Wisconsin Central Railway Co. to Michael Wahl-registration data & signature ‘John Gamper’ Reg. of Deeds

15949A Legal description E ½ NE ¼ 3-33-1W, containing 80 acres more or less…

15949B signatures of pine reservation & reservation of mineral ores, petroleum with right to enter land & explore and mine and right to do whatever ‘reasonably necessary’ to mine

15950 P. summer, 1939 ‘our barn’ Anna & Mike Wahl built a new curved roof barn in 1931 to replace log barn

15951 P. 1948 ‘Grandpa Mike’ Wahl holding Grandson Bernard ‘Bernie’ Wahl, son of Michael W. Wahl. Bernie grew up on the ancestral Wahl farm, E 1/2, NE ¼ 13-33-1W. Saw Uncle Ignatius Washl sell last cow in Oct. 1974, when neighbor Leroy Keepers sold his stock housed in Wahl barn in 1974, the barn fell silent. The beautiful barn built in 1931 stood silent, unused and deteriorating until 2000, when Bernie & wife, Mary, residents of Marshfield, resolved to save it.

15952 P. 8-24-2001 ‘Wahl farm 1901’ sign proudly announces barn restoration!

15953 P. 7-5-2000 SE corner Wahl barn foundation – wall has shifted dangerously

15954 P. 2000 Mason reconstructing Wahl barn stone foundation

15955 P. 2000 SE Wahl barn foundation rebuilt

15956 P. 2000 hydraulic jacks lift threshing floor

15957 P. 2002 south side, reconstructed Wahl barn where triangle repainted as Grandpa Mike painted in 1931

15958 P. 2002 north side – reconstructed Wahl barn

15959 P. 2002 2 white triangles mark sliding door on east side of Wahl barn. Entire barn exterior power washed by Bernie in preparation for restaining

15960 P. 2002 Red handed Bernie beams after day spent restraining barn its original color

15961 P. 2001 twin triangles mark sliding door to former dairy & horse stalls

15962 P. 9-24-2001 barn interior-15 milch cows used the gutter running to west cattle door

15963 P. 9-24-2001 inside of south hay mow wall. A rickety ladder allowed farmers to climb to opening at roof apex where loose hay was conveyed by mobile hay fork which ran on track beneath roof tip

15964 P. 10-31-2008 Bernie Wahl holds ladder as nimble son affixes sign ‘Wahl farm 1901’, celebrating year Grandpa Mike & Anna bought the wild land from Wisconsin Central Railway

15965 P. 9-24-2001 home-made sleigh sits on threshing floor

15966 P. 8-18-2001 Mary Wahl prepares food for reconstruction celebration

15967 P. 8-19-2001 home-made Wahl cookies

15968 P. c. 2000 Wahl farm children’s playhouse built by Bernie Wahl

15969 P. c. 2000 Dare-devil roof climbers repainted ventilators & weather vane

15970 P. c. 2000 ‘Jan 16, 1942, Michael W. Wahl & Michael H. Grittner’ signed interior of barn ventilator-it was a coming-of-age stunt for kids to make the scary climb to write on the ventilator interiors

15971 P. 2000 grass covers site of original balsam log cabin at junction CTH D & Mondeaux Ave. seen from barn roof

15972 9-14-2001 W. Wis. State Fair recognizes Wahl as a century farm.

15972A P. 8-10-2001 L-R Mary, Bernie, Robert, Diana & child celebrate century farm certificate

15972B 1914 ‘Souvenir’ in memory of school days.

15972C ibid p. 2 school No. 3 ‘Wahl’ school, District No. 2, Westboro, Wis. Henrietta Holdorf, teacher; Warren St. John, clerk; Fred Schaack, director; Albert Cummings, treasurer; pupils-Wahl, Egnatz, Michael W. , Margaret, Mike & Joe & Minnie Petitte, Henning & Algoth Johnson, Annie & Herman Granger

15972D-c. 1914 card ‘To my Valentine’ from Apolonia Wahl to brother Egnatz Wahl; card printed in German

End of Bernard ‘Bernie’ & Mary Wahl Collection

Robert P. Rusch collection

15973 centennial book, Ogema, Spirit & Hill, 1876-1976 – cover

15973A-ibid p. 57, Town of Spirit

15973B-ibid p. 59

15973C ibid p. 61

15973D ibid p. 63 P. Marheine School, P. Max Scheller farm, 1906, P. N. Branch Spirit River 1908

15973E P. 65, P. Carl Blomberg-Sophie Danielson wedding 1907

15973F ibid p. 68 Mannel Funeral Home

15973G ibid p.67 P. Albert C. Meier farm 1907

15973H ibid p. 69 A.H. Rohde (sic) farm 1913

15973I ibid p. 70 p. Spirit Valley Creamery 1915

15973J ibid p. 71 P. 1913 Spirit Store

15973K ibid p. 72 P. Gust Donaldson family 1942

15973L ibid p. 73 P. Amandus Johnson log cabin

15973M-p. 75 Spirit Baptist & Zion Lutheran Church

15973N p. 77 p. Norwegian Lutheran Church

15973O P. 79 Spirit Methodist Church

15973P p. 81 P. Magnuson Mink & Fox Farm

15973Q p. 83 Memorial Day

15973R-p. 85 Our Veterans

15974 Town of Hill, Rev. K.A. Ostergren

15974A ibid, p. 88 Ostergren’s Kulla was Tim’s (sic) hill; P. Oscar Worlin & J.F. Bergeson

15974B-ibid p. 89 P. 1898 Bass Lake

15974C-ibid p. 90 P. Hedin Logging crew

15974D ibid p. 91 Ring School

15974E ibid p. 93 P. Ring School 1909

15974F ibid p. 95 p. Norlin School 1915

15974G ibid p. 97 P. Carl Anderson

15974H ibid p. 98 P. 1954 Heikkinen jammer

15974I ibid p. 99 Charles Bergeson

15974J ibid p. 101 John Hultman

15974K ibid p. 102 P. Threshing

15974L ibid p. 103 P. Magnus Pearson

15974M ibid p. 107 ‘Life in the Hills’

15974N ibid p. 108 P. Fred K. Strombom

15974O ibid p. 109 P. sauna

15974P ibid p. 110 Levitt Creek School

15974Q ibid p. 111 George Blomberg, Sr., & family 1938

15974R ibid p. 112 points of interest; Timm’s Hill (sic) of p. 88 (15974A) ‘Tim’s Hill’

15974S ibid p. 113 P. Swan Brothers tree farm

15974T ibid p. 114 Silver [Finnish] Creek Community P. 19234 Lutheran Church

15974U ibid p. 115 Finnish Farmer’s Association Cooperative & store

15974V ibid p. 159 P. 1976, Town boards of Hill, Spirit & Ogema

Collection of Kenneth & Darlene Nowak, 716 Holden Rd., Rib Lake, 427-5796

15975-Bill of Sale 9-30-1919 Peter Lieg to William Bucholz, sells $5.61 food, coat & pencil & takes eggs in trade. Lieg later operated ‘Big Store’ on McComb Ave., Rib Lake, sold out to Peter Bogumill, et al.

15976 Bill of Lading 2-1-1911 Peter Lieg ships via Wisconsin & Northern Railroad to Jack Gibson ‘Morgan siding’ Wis. Hay & oats for 25 cents

15977 Bill of Lading 8-15-1910 Peter Lieg ships via. Wisconsin & Northern Railroad, 220 lbs. meat, groceries & canned goods to reg. Oshkosh at Neopit, Wis. for 28 cents

15977A ibid, back ‘conditions’

Mary Becker, nee Probst, collection

15978 P. c. 1918 RLLC ‘fire hole’; L-Joseph Probst, Jr., R-Frank Diabl, on far right-wood chips, ‘hog feed’ used feed as fuel in furnace of Shaw mill to create steam to run plant and dynamos for electricity. Chutes delivered wood chips & shavings to furnace

Norbert & Rosalie Brost collection

15979-P. c. 1908 at RLLC Camp 6; foreground-Anton Brost, Sr., teamster; center-Fred Grahl; top loader-Fred Busse. The gun pole standing on right hoisted logs on sleigh. The site of Camp 6, SE NE 12-33-2E, is well preserved in the ‘Herman & Martha Rusch Preserve’ and owned by the Ice Age Trail Alliance

Collection of Lyle & Kathy Blomberg, RFD, Ogema, Wi

15980 Map c. 1880, Wisconsin Central Railroad & depots, Dedham=Ogema, Maden=Prentice

15981 W. 1881 ‘History of Northern Wis.; Account of its settlement, growth..Chicago, Western Historical Co., title page

15981A ibid Price Co

15981B ibid pg. 2

15981C ibid, p. 3 Phillips, A.B. Lunt

15981D ibid, p. 4 Worcester

15981E ibid p. 5 Ogema, Mackey Bros.

15981F Taylor Co., created 3-4-1875 by William R. Taylor, Gov.

15981G ibid p. 2

15981H ibid p. 3 Medford

15981I ibid p. 4 Star & News

15981J ibid p. 5 biographies

15981K ibid p. 6

15981L ibid p. 7 Peter Doyle

15981M ibid p. 8 Albert ‘A.J.’ Perkins

15981N ibid, p. 9 Chelsea

15981O ibid p. 10 Abram Taylor

15981P ibid p. 11, Westboro, Bios; Alphonse Bonneville, Peter Campbell, Sterling D. Cone, John Duncan, C.H. Palmer

Collection of Attorney William Grunewald

15982 P. c. 1895 Hotel Winchester, Medford, Wis., built by J.J. Kennedy, et al, to promote hemlock lumber

RPR Collection

15983 c. 1985 ‘Rib Lake Roller Mills’ rain gauge, gift to patrons. John Schreiner, proprietor

15984 April 2012 Plaque awarded to Robert P. Rusch upon leaving Rib Lake School Board after 2 terms. Photo of Rib Lake Elementary School

15985 1901 ff ‘Bark Ledger-U.S.L.[Leather] Co.’, a gift from Kathy Laher to Rib Lake Historical Society, p. 1, John R. Davis Lumber Co. [Phillips, WI]

15985A p. 2 ‘Camp 1 Westboro’

15985B-p. 35 ‘Butternut’ Wis. teamster M. Zimmerman

15985C Notice glued to p. 35 ‘D. and M. Zimmerman have been advanced the sum of $650 on (account) of bark to be delivered by them to the U.S.L. Co., no doubt this bark will be shipped to this tannery...’

15985D p. 55 ‘Bark shipped to Prentice tannery’

15985E p. 150 ‘Westboro Tannery’ begins 8-12-1901 ‘W-C’ means Wis. Central Railroad

15985F p. 157 J.W. Gray 6-16-1902, Westboro, paid $5.25 per cord. Prices paid as shown in this ledger varied-lowest $4.00 to August Neumann, Whittlesey, see p. 46

15985G p. 163 8-4-1902 Lou [Louis] Kennedy ‘teamster’ paid at rate of $5 per cord-received $5.29; 9-8-1902, received $2.46

15985H p. 323 8-14-1976 printed note by Harry Curran of interview with Walter Schneider re RLLC Camp 13, Camp 14, Camp 16, Camp 17 and Tripalia seed used in underwear to prevent lice.

15985I p. 142 Heidrick & Matson Lumber Co. contract bark 8-7-1900

15985J p. 143 8-23-1901 ‘jobber bark’ Westboro, A. Scott, J.L. Peterson, Doncette & Taylor

15986 Obit, Jeannette A. Strobach, Star news, 7-12-2012, aka Mrs. Bernard L. Strobach, 8-28-1921 to 7-2-2012.

15987 3-14-1896 ‘Rib Lake’ Taylor County Star & News, top half, J.J. Kennedy office

15987A ibid bottom half, E.C. Getchel & Shaw Tannery.

15988 4-11-1896 ‘Taylor Co. Garden Spot of Northern Wisconsin,’ Taylor County Star & News, top half

15988A ibid, bottom half, ‘Farmers Affidavits’

15988B ibid, Charles Seidel’s letter re Rib Lake 11-1895

15989 1898 Assesment-tax roll Taylor County, horses, cattle, wagon, watches, etc.

15989A ibid

15990 3-26-1898 Armour Packing v. J.J. Kennedy, notice of sale of execution, judgment $588.82. Public sale of mill & lands scheduled for 4-25-1989 at sheriff’s office, Medford, WI

15990A ibid, legal descriptions of lands to be sold

15990B ibid, legal descriptions signed by Sylvester Nusser, Taylor County Sheriff, NB-The sale did not take place. J.J. Kennedy must have paid the judgment and costs.

Norbert J. & Rosalie J. Brost collection

15991 c. 1908 Anton Brost, Sr., (second from left) deer hunting gang, Town of Corning, Lincoln Co., Wis.

15992 12-17-1947 Norbert J. Brost & truckload from Salem Lake to Frost Veneer, Antigo, Wis.

15993 1954 ‘N.J. Brost Trucking Co., Medford, Wis.’ flat bed truck & logs.

15994 5-1962 Norbert J. Brost semi-truck loaded with Rib Lake cheese for San Antonio and Dallas, Texas. This refrigerated truck took 50 hours to transport Rib Lake cheese to Texas. Brost would back haul produce

15995 1974 ‘The Story of Old No. 4’ ‘Prentice People’ Omark Industries. Photo of fourth hydraulic pulpwood loader built by Leo Heikkinen.

15995A p. 2, P. Leo Heikkinen, founder of Prentice Hydraulics

15995B ibid, p. 3

15995C ibid p. 4

15995D ibid p. 5

15995E ibid p. 6, photo of Old No. 4 restored.

15996 8-31-1996 Leo Heikkinen day – Prentice Progress Days – cover

15996A ibid p. 2

15996B ibid p. 3

15996C ibid. p. 4 A History of Heikkinen Machine Coi.

15996D ibid p. 5 History of Omark, Prentice Hydraulics

15996E ibid p. 6 P. 1940 truck with winch

15996F ibid p. 7

15996G ibid p. 8 P. loaders on Soo Line Railroad flat cars

15997 Abstract of Title, Lot 16, Block D, McComb’s Racing Park Addition to Rib Lake (in 2011 a residential lot in Village of Rib Lake, on SE corner of Landall Ave. & Pearl St.)

15997A cover page, 6-23-1903 p. 1

15997B ibid p. 2

15997C ibid p. 3

15997D ibid p. 4

15997E ibid p. 5

15997F ibid p. 6

15997G ibid p. 7 signed G.A. Gowey, Abstractor

15998 9-10-1952 Appraisal, Lot 16, Block D, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, 1951 assessed valuation $1800, for a house and land, signed G.A. Gowey

15999 P. 7-22-2012 5 years of scanning Rib Lake History, left-Robert P. Rusch, R-Cindy A. Sommer entering image #6,000 office of Rib Lake Historical Society. RPR assigns accession # and handwrites index – Cindy types into computer.

16000 P. 7-22-2012 scanning image #6,000 into Rib Lake Historical Society computer, left-Robert P. Rusch, right-Cindy A. Sommer

16001 P. 7-22-2012 Robert P. Rusch creates index to image #6,000 as Cindy A. Sommer creates computer index – Rib Lake Historical Society Office, N8645 CTH C, Rib Lake.

16003 Iron Washer from Rib Lake Tannery site found 7-22-2012

16004 Black solid substances 2 x 4 x 3 inches, found at Rib Lake Tannery site 7-22-2012, possibly unburned coal intended for boiler

16005 unidentified ceramic cone object, circular at base, 2 ¾’ in diameter at base, 2 ½’ tall, found at Rib Lake Tannery site 7/22/2012, view of base

16005A side view, NB-there were at least 100 of these objects laying on the grounds.

16006-c. 1885, rose painted plate given as present to Albert & Paulina Steiner upon their emigration from Schoenwalde, Silesia, Germany, to Whittlesey, Wisconsin; painted German poem:

Rosen Welken

Marmor Bricht

Aber Unsre

Freunschaft Nicht

Translation:

Roses Wilt

Marble Breaks

But our Friendship not.

16007 P. 6-2012 former Gebauer barns at Schoenwalde, Germany-since 1945 Budzow, Poland

16008 Spring, 2012 ‘Chips & Sawdust’ quarterly newsletter, Forest History Association of Wisconsin, cover

16008A ‘The Phoenix Log Hauler’ by Arley R. Engel

16008B & C ‘The Average load of logs pulled by horses was 5,000-7,000 board feet. The log (steam) haulers pulled 125,000..’

Collection of Faye Amo, nee Kelnhofer, Dorchester, WI

16009 George J. Kelnhofer family tree

16009A ibid p. 2

16010 obit, Mrs. Ida Mathilda Kelnhofer nee Klein, last known as Mrs. Albert Yorde

16011 P. George Kelnhofer & Ida Klein wedding portrait 5-8-1895

16012 wedding invitation 5-8-1895 for George Kelnhofer & Ida Klein

16013 W. 2000 family history note by Faye Amo Kelnhofer

16014 P. c. 1900 Anne Klein & Martin Steen wedding portrait

16015 P. c. 1900 L. Mr. & Mrs. George Kelnhofer stand in front of Chelsea, Wis. home. George holds son Edward. R-Their child, Mildred, holds hand of her uncle, Dr. Clement Kelnhofer, whose horse & cutter stand ready

16016 P. 2000 note of Faye Amo re George Seidel acquisition of Kelnhofer store.

16017 P. c. 1908 Kelnhofer store; wooden sidewalks mark junction of McComb & Landall Ave., Rib Lake. The building is, in 2012, Ed’s IGA, 801 McComb Ave. R-L Edward Kelnhofer, George Kelnhofer, Ida Kelnhofer, Ida Wagler, Olga Klein

16018 P. c. 1908 interior-Kelnhofer’s store & George Kelnhofer behind cash register

16019 1913 Map ‘Rib Lake: from Standard Atlas of Taylor County. Red arrow points to location of Kelnhofer Store, Lot 1, Block C, McComb’s Racing Park Addition to Rib Lake.

16020 P. c. 1908 George & Mildred Kelnhofer preparing to unload wagon through Landall Ave. door of Kelnhofer store

16021 P. c. 1900 8-man crew load peeled hemlock logs on sleigh, top loader George Kelnhofer

16022 P. 1905 Taylor County Board of Supervisors, top row far right-Hugh McDonald, & 4th from right-George Kelnhofer, representing Rib Lake; bottom row-2nd from left-Robert Klemm, representing Greenwood.

16023 c. 1900 P. Right-Edward Kelnhofer, Left-Mildred Kelnofer

16024 c. 1905 P. Right-Edward Kelnhofer, Left-Mildred Kelnofer

16025 c. 1900 P. 8 men pose with beer bottles, top L-R George Kelnhofer, Henry Stelling, Robert Klemm, Rhineholt Mielke, Martin Steen; front row L-R Joseph Scott, proprietor of Wisconsin Hotel in Rib Lake, Frank Joseph Klein & Edward Klein

16026 Family tree of Joseph Kelnhofer, Sr., and wife, Mary Weiss, parents of George J. Kelnhofer

16026A ibid, page 2

16027 P. c. 1900 Joseph Kelnhofer, Sr., & wife, Mary

16028 P. c. 1915 L-R Rozina, Helen & Mathilda Kelnhofer confirmation

16029 Postcard 6-6-1910 Joseph Kelnhofer to brother George Kelnhofer

16029A P. Locomotive X4014, 2x8x8x2 Southern Pacific Railroad; NB-The back of this locomotive was used in front to keep crew from asphyxiation when going through long Californian mountain tunnels

16030 P. c. 1915 Joseph Kelnhofer, Jr.

16031 W. c. 2000 note re Joseph Kelnhofer, Jr. by Faye Amo

16032 P. c. 1910 Clement Kelnhofer

16032A note c. 2000 re Clement Kelnhofer by Faye Amo

16033 P. 1913 Ava Clementina Kelnhofer, last known as Mrs. Ava Lester

16034 obit. 1-23-1957 Dr. Clement C. Kelnhofer (11-22-1875 to 1-1957)

16035 P. c. 1903 Dr. R. E. Sommers School of Pharmacy, Colby, Wis.; back row-4th from left-Clement Kelnhofer

16036 W. Frank J. Klein – Teresa (Theresa) Peche children

16036A emigration information on Klein, Gilge, Steiner & Gebauer families

16036B Map Mocker (Mokre) & Schoenwalde (Budzow) Silesia

16037 P. c. 1900 Frank J. Klein & Theresa Klein nee Peche

16038 P. c. 1915 Mr. & Mrs. Frank J. Klein & children, top L-R Robert, Bertha, Edward, Ida, Anna; bottom-Pauline (aka Mrs. Reinholt Mielke), Olga (aka Mrs. Henry Stelling)

16039 P. c. 1910 L-Anna Klein aka Mrs. Martin Steen & mother, Theresa Klein, nee Peche

16040 P. c. 1910 Gottlieb Peche farmstead-Town of Greenwood (Gottlieb was brother to Theresa Klein nee Peche)

16041 P. c. 1910 Fred Peche farmstead

16042 P. c. 1910 Edward Klein & Bertha Wittke wedding portrait

16043 P. Mr. & Mrs. Edward Klein & children; Ida, Ed, George, Olga, Frieda & Bertha

16044 9-6-1995 Star News ‘George & Frieda Klein celebrate 65th anniversary’

16045 8-27-1930 George Klein & Frieda Zuleger wedding portrait

16046 P. c. 1930 George Bartelt & Bertha Klein wedding portrait

16047 P. c. 1910 Henry Stelling & Olga Klein wedding portrait

16048 P. Mr. & Mrs. Henry Stelling wedding party at reception – dance held in barn shown in rear-NW SW 30-32-3E

16049 P. c. 1910 Mr. & Mrs. Henry & Olga Stelling wedding party. Behind couple L-R; o=Peche, v=Paulina Klein (aka Mrs. Reinhold Mielke), v=George G. Kelnhofer, x=Mr. & Mrs. Frankj J. & Theresa Klein, X parents of Henry Stelling

16050 P. c. 1915 Twins of Mr. & Mrs. Henry Stelling, L-R Clarence & Elmer

16051 c. 1920 L-R Clarence, Elmer & Edward Stelling

16052 c. 1935 Ed & Gladys Stelling wedding portrait

16053 c. 1945 Ralph Stelling, son of Ed & Gladys, confirmation

16054 c. 1960 Mr. & Mrs. Ralph & Phyllis Stelling & children, Nancy, Debra, Kathy, Dennis & Cheryl Lynn

16055 P. 10-23-1907 Anna Stelling & Emil Ziemke wedding reception at H. Stelling farm, on modern CTH C, NW SWS 19-33-3E. Elmer Taylor is to right of house standing in a tree! Front row L-R man with beer, Mr. Kalk, woman with apron-Mrs. Kalk, x=Vera Stelling; wedding party ; Irma Martin & Ed Stelling, bride Anna Stelling & groom Emil Ziemke, Kate Stelling & Charles Kalk

16056 P. c. 1920 Robert Klemm & Cari ___ wedding reception, hat-wearing man with violin, far right-Ed Kelnhofer, balsam trees were cut & placed around wood dance floor made for reception

16057 P. c. 1910 Reinhold Mielke & wife Pauline, nee Klein, & daughter Bertha

16058 7-24-1958 obit Reinhold Mielke, Rib Lake Herald

16059 c. 1925 William Dirking & wife Tellie nee Mielke, Left-Mr. & Mrs. Emil & Minnie Mielke

16060 c. 1920 William Thoni & weife Bertha Mielke wedding portrait. Left- Emma Mielke & Tony Hoffman; Right-Ernest Juse & Mildred Kelnhofer

16061 c. 1920 25th wedding anniversary celebration for George J. Kelnhofer & wife Mathilde nee Klein at farm home – in 2012 farm of Joseph Probst, Sr., NW ¼ 34-33-2E.

16062 9-19-1936 deed by guardian Joseph Hebda to Ida M. Yorde nee Kelnhofer to all land north of ‘Soo line railroad tracks’ of SE NE 33-33-2E

16062A back-signature of Attorney Clifford Curran

16063 5-4-1935 deed by Ida M. Yorde to brother, Arthur G. Kelnhofer to farm NW ¼ 34-33-2E

16063A Map 1913 part of T33 R2E ‘Soo’ line railroad divides George J. Kelnhofer farm. August Mielke farm highlighted in orange

16064 farm home with long porch of George J. Kelnhofer

16064A P. c. 1910 Sleigh at Kelnhofer farm

16065 P. 7-23-1914 Rib Lake Lumber Company mill fire. View from flats north of mill, back-Rib Lake & company windmill

16066 P. 7-23-1914 2 men with fire hose douse Rib Lake Lumber Company mill fire; upper left-’hot pond’

16067 P. c. 1910 ‘Main Street’ actually McComb Ave., view north, right-Woodman Hall & building north of it is Wisconsin Hotel-long operated by Joseph Scott, Lot 4, Block A, McComb’s Racing Park Addition

16067A ibid, enhanced version in sepia tone

16067B ibid, buildings left (west) side of street A) James Upjohn drugstore; Block , Lot , MRPA, later Anna Mae Kennedy drugstore. In 2012 ‘Ultimate Illusion’ hair salon operated by , 713 McComb Ave., red letters A-T to identify buildings.

16068 P. c. 1920 St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Rib Lake, routinely called ‘German Lutheran Church’

16069 P. 1910 Fayette Ave. & new Rib Lake High School-view from tannery smokestack. Far left-portion of dry loft of tannery building

16069A P. c. 1912 United States Leather Co. tannery at Rib Lake; foreground-bark mill roof; center-vat house with bark pipe to cyclone feeder on roof. Two railroad cars loaded with chips, ‘hog feed’ from RLLC mill on siding south of vat house; chips used in tannery boiler room as fuel; far left-gable roof of dry loft where tanned hides hung to dry. Left on horizon-home of Herrmann Emanuel & Ida Rusch

16070 P. c. 1900 ‘Peter Waschtka’s home at Chelsea’

16071 P. Prairie tents as Dallas, South Dakota, a picture postcard to George J. Kelnhofer from son Clement, postmarked 9-1-1929

16072 P. Mr. & Mrs. Otto Olson-’Tavern owner at Ma Dodge’s Café’

16073 P. c. 1910 William Goeltz & wife Ida nee Wagler wedding portrait

16074 P. George J. Kelnhofer funeral flowers at Rib Lake Lakeview Cemetery

16075 12-9-1960 obit Albert Yorde, aka Jorde; second husband of Ida Kelnhofer, nee Gilge

16076 c. 1945 Albert Yorde (x) playing Schaffskopf-Sheepshead

16077 P. 1910 Rib Lake High School band-in high school classroom, arrow marks Edward Kelnhofer

16078 P. 1920 Edward Kelnhofer binding corn with 3 horses

16079 P. 1915 Edward Clement Kelnhofer

16080 P. c. 1912 Robert Ludwig Rusch-center; top left-Emil Krushat, right-Edward Kelnhofer; bottom left-Edward Blaasch, right-John Meyer

16081 P. 1922 ‘Rib Lake Citizen’s Cornet Band’ 1-Mr. Taber, leader, 2. Elmer Taylor, 3. Cy R. Clausen, 4. Kermit Schroeder, 5. Otto Martin, 6. Ernie Bushau, 7&8 father & son, 9. John Taylor, Sr., [checkmark-Bill Goeltz] 10. Kenneth Schroeder, 11. ?? Schroeder, 12. Edward Kelnhofer, 13. John Stelling, 14. Edward Blaasch, 15. Art Taylor, 16. Al Schroeder

16082 P. c. 1920 tramway crew; L-Harold Patrick, unknown, Archie Clendenning, unknown. Tramway was about 12 feet above ground where it left Rib Lake Lumber Company mill & crossed McComb Ave. on bridge. Note unloaded tram car on narrow gauge railroad, view west from transfer chain & wood sorting shed

16082A-

16082B P. c. 1940 Tramway decline to ground level in dry yard; note wood piler atop lumber pile. Next to him is 20 foot high lumber piles are finished off with a sloping roof to shed rain

16083 P. c. 1910 Emil Wiegelt in hunting garb

16084 P. 9-25-1919 wedding party L-R, Mildred Kelnhofer, Elmer Scott, Elsie Gilge, George Hayne, bride Ida Gilge, groom Edward Kelnhofer, Alma Christianson, Eugene Hein

16085 P. c. 1908 Mildred Kelnhofer-center-first row-in her 5th grade class at Rib Lake. Photo taken outside of 1902 combination high & elementary school

16086 P. c. 1910 St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church in Rib Lake, Pastor Sydow. X=Mildred Klenhofer, right pulpit, center top-kerosene chandelier

16087 c. 1915 W. insecticide instructions initialed by Edna Mildred Kelnhofer

16087A backside ‘spelling words’

16088 P. c. 1920 George Seidel & wife Edna Mildred, nee Kelnhofer

16089 P. 1928 interior Seidl’s Store, fka Kelnhofer Store, Left-George Seidl, right (with X) Mildred Seidel, nee Kelnhofer; left side of store-clothign & dry goods; right side-food stuffs & canned goods. NB-tie rods in ceiling can be tightened with turn-buckel; second story was residence for store owners

16090 P. c. 1920 Mildred Seidel, nee Kelnhofer with friend at corner of McComb & Landall Ave.; rear-Marschke’s Tavern at 2012 site of Little Bohemia

16091 P. c. 1913 Arthur Kelnhofer in baptismal clothes

16092 P. c. 1917 Arthur Kelnhofer on Kelnhofer farm

16093 P. c. 1933 Arthur G. Kelnhofer & wife, Dorothy, nee Willet; had 4 children, Robert, Raymond, and twins-Darlene & Donald

16094 10-31-1973 Memorial card for Arthur Kelnhofer

16094A-contemporary portrait of Christ on cover

16095 1964 Rib Lake High School commencement exercises-cover

16095A Announcement

16095B members of class

16096 P. 1964 Raymond L. Kelnhofer

16097 P. c. 1918 wagon load of wood chips, ‘hog feed,’ dumped into wagon at Rib Lake Lumber Company mill

16098 Ida Amelia Gilge, (5/3/1899-7/15/1958 Rib Lake) LNA Mrs. Edward C. Kelnhofer delayed birth certificate

16099 8-20-1942 affidavit of birth by Magdalene Mary Franz Gilge re daughter, Ida Amelia Gilge

16100 W. c. 1950 by Ida Amelia Kelnhofer, nee Gilge, re parents John Gilge & Magdalene Franz from Moker, Upper Silesia, Germany, and children; Adolph, Julius (Married Martha Rusch), William, Amelia, Max, Frieda, Ida (married Edward Kelnhofer), Elsie (married Dan Colin)

16100A ibid, page 2, signature of Ida Gilge Kelnhofer

16101 Map 7-29-2012 Mokre, Poland, until 1945 Mocker, Ober Schlesien, Prussia, Germany

16102 9-18-1919 Edward C. Kelnhofer & Ida Gilge marriage certificate

16103 12-15-1925 Albert Yorde & Ida M. Kelnhofer, nee Klein, marriage certificate

16104 P. c. 1915 Ida Amelia Kelnhofer, nee Gilge 5-3-1899 to 10-8-1989

16105 Memorial Card Ida Amelia Kelnhofer

16105A

16106 W. c. 2000 by Faye Amo, nee Kelnhofer, re life of Edward C. and Ida Kelnhofer

16107 P. 9-25-1917 Edward & Ida Kelnhofer, nee Gilge, & wedding party; L-R Elmer Scott, Mildred Kelnhofer (LNA Seidel), George Hayne, Elsie Conlon, nee Gilge, Eugene Hein, Alma Christianson Olson

16108 P. 9-25-1919 car bedecked for newlyweds, Edward & Ida Kelnhofer

16109 P. c. 1920 A stone boat used for clearing a field; L-R Edward Kelnhofer, Selma Beck, Ida Kelnhofer, Bill Beck; rear-George J. Kelnhofer farm & barn

16110 P. c. 1920 Wedding portrait, Oscar Olson & Alma Olson nee Christianson & party; L-R Peter Christianson, Mildred Kelnhofer, Emma Sanolow (Sydow?), Walter Frieberg, Hulda Radtke

16111 P. c. 1920 Harold Patrick in front of photographer’s wagon

16112 W. c. 7-1937 ‘H. [Harold] D. Patrick drowns in Little Rib Lake’ Rib Lake Herald

16112A ibid bottom

16113 P. c. 1920 William ‘Bill’ Radtke & bride Minnie Batzer & wedding party; L-R Anne Radtke, Edward Kelnhfer, Frieda Krueger, Otto Radtke

16114 P. c. 1920 Michael Schwartz & bride Florence Franck

16115 P. 11-1967 Gilge deer hunting gang west of Phillips, Wis.; L-R Hugo, Walter ‘Wally’ & son, Gilge, Edward Kelnhofer, Alvin, unknown, unknown, Ray, Dennis & Norman Gilge. Hugo, Wally & Alvin were sons of Julius & Martha (nee Rusch) Gilge of Rib Lake.

16116 P. c. 1939 R-L Faye Audrey Kelnhofer & Anna Mae Kohn

16117 P. c. 1939 R-L Faye A. Kelnhofer

16118 5-1943 Pastor O.E. Hoffmann & confirmands at St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Rib Lake. Top row L-R Leroy Greening, Wayne Olson, Leroy Radtke, unknown Vlach, Donald Hoffmann, Allen Hanke, Arthur Graumann, Ewald Graumann, bottom row, Donna Schultz, Faye A. Kelnhofer, Phyllis Hein, The Rev. Otto Hoffmann, Alice Hengst, Aileen Store, unknown Golder

16119 P. 1943 Faye Audrey Kelnhofer as confirmand

16120 3-27-1950 Envelope-St. Joseph’s Hospital School of Nursing, Marshfield, Wis. to Mr. & Mrs. E. Kelnhofer; 16120A Report Card 9-1947; 16120B Report Card 2-1948

16120C Report Card 2-1949; 16120D Report Card 6-13-1949; 16120E Report Card 1949-1950; 16120F Nurse Examination Board

16121 P. c. 1950 Faye Audrey with parents, Edward C. Kelnhofer and Ida Kelnhofer, nee Gilge

16122 P. c. 1950 Viola Ann Bleck

16123 P. 1946 Rib Lake High School Band

16124 P. 1946 Faye Audrey Kelnhofer

16125 P. 1950 Nurse Graduation Class, St. Joseph’s School of Nursing, top row left-Faye Audrey Kelnhofer, RN

16125A 1947 St. Joseph’s School of Nursing, Marshfield, Wis.

16126 P. c. 1950 Gem Products Shoe Factory interior, Rib Lake, Ida Kelnhofer with 4 other employees

16127 8-8-1952 Rib Lake Golden Jubilee program

16128 P. 1952 Jubilee parade on McComb Ave., Gustafson Lumber Co. truck made into a float ‘Sunny Side of the Street’ – a popular weekly column in the Rib Lake Herald newspaper

16129 P. 1952 Menning’s Barber Shop float; rear-McRae Bakery & Restaurant-then faced with brick. Left-Marlin Walback plays accordion

16130 P. 1952 Kathleen Schabel in Jubilee parade passing Gambles Hardware, in 2012 Rib Lake Music Store, 740 McComb Ave.

16131 P. c. 1980 Ida & Edward Kelnhofer

16132 P. c. 1930 log boom divides Rib Lake in half to keep logs wear Rib Lake Lumber Company mill; rear right-Pine Island

16133 P. c. 1920 locomotive with snow plow rests after run of Chelsea to Rib Lake

16133A tender, a foot of snow covers Rib Lake train yard; rear ‘roundhouse’

16134 P. c. 1915 Rib River

16135 P. c. 1915 Rib River ‘135 W.R.C.’ 2 trout fishermen

16136 P. c. 1915 Little Rib Lake

16137 P. c. 1915 ‘Harper Lake’ ‘A photo by Brown.’ View to SE

16138 P. c. 1915 ‘Spirit River Dam’ now defunct logging dam on Spirit River at outlet of Little Spirit Lake.

16139 P. c. 1915 Rural free postman John Schaack in horse-drawn buggy marked ‘R.F.D.’ [rural free delivery] ‘US Mail’

16140 P. 7-21-1909 ‘Flood at Ashland, Wis’ Wisconsin Central Railroad ore dock trestle cuts through city to dock on Chequamegon Bay, Lake Superior

16141 P. c. 1905 ‘High School, Rib Lake, Wis. W.R.C. #74’ SW corner of impressive brick school & bell tower cupola

16142 P. c. 1905 ‘Street Scene, Boyd, Wis.’ for a short time c. 1890, John J. Kennedy ran a sawmill in Boyd to saw local pine in addition to his Rib Lake operations

End of Faye Audrey Amo, nee Kelnhofer, collection

RPR Collection

16143 8-5-2012 modified mission statement of Rib Lake Historical Society, LLC ‘To preserve, promote & publicize the rich history of greater Rib Lake, WI’

16144 P. 7-23-2012 Rib Lake Historical Society, LLC, office & archives, N8645 CTH C, Rib Lake, WI; Rib Lake Lumber Company steam hauler chain greets visitors

16145 P. 7-23-2012 Eva Ultra Schnee Rusch – family dog outside Rib Lake Historical Society office

16146 P. P. 7-22-2012 Cindy Sommer types Index to Photo & Document collection in preparation for scanning; Robert P. Rusch holds U.S. Leather Co. 1902 ‘Bark Ledger’

16147 P. 7-22-2012 Robert P. Rusch writes index information for each item to be scanned; Cindy Sommer enters same into computer

16148 P. 7-22-2012 Robert P. Rusch and Cindy Sommer prepare to scan image #6000; black & white object to right oof Cindy is scanner; with printer next to laptop computer

16149 P. 7-23-2012 Donut Island Pond-just west of Rib Lake Historical Society office & archives; pond & pine plantation created in 2002 on former Peter Surek dairy farm; NE SW 13-33-2E

16150 P. 7-23-2012 Max Dillon tree farm sign

16151 P. 7-25-2012 farm field fragment in rear; red pine planted in 2001

16152 P. 7-23-2012 native red pine rear right

16153 P. 7-23-2012 25 foots white pine have self seeded in across former Surek farm in rear

16154 P. Eva hunts between rows of planted pine

16155 P. pruned pine branches turn red

16156 P. branch pruning wounds will quickly heal

16157 P. dying red branch on white manifests white pine blister rust infection-fatal to tree unless branch pruned

16158 P. tip feavel killed white pine leader

16159 P. healthy white pine leader, i.e. tree top

16160 Eva heads for Donut Isaldn Pond. Yellow flower is birdsfoot trefoil

16161 Eva, part black lab, loves water; tamarack volunteers frame her head

Collection of Faye Amo, nee Kelnhofer, Dorchester, WI

16162 11-13-1896 Battismal certificate of Edward C. Kelnhofer, aka Edward Klement, in German

16163 5-15-1896 Zur Erinnerung an Der Tag Der Confirmation, Edward K. Kelnhofer, Ev. Lutheran St. Johnes Kirche

16163A Seal

16164 12-16-1925 Trav Schein – Albert Yorde & Ida M. Kelnhofer

16164A ibid, bottom

16165 7-3-1898 Baptismal certificate of Eda M. Kelnhofer, Trinity Lutheran Church, Chelsea

16165A ibid, bottom, Church seal in German, Preieinigkelts Kirche, U.A.C. [Unaltered Augsburg Confession]

16166 7-24-1853 Tauf Zevonis Ida Mathilda, daughter of Franz Joseph Klein & Theresa nee Peche, Evangelical Church at Mocker, [Silesia], Germany

16167 5-8-1895 mariage certificate of George J. Kelnhofer and Ida M. Klein, St. Peters Lutheran Church, Greenwood

16167A ibid, bottom

16168 2-13-1897 Elsa Emilia Augusta Schwoch, Errinerung an Der Tag Der Confirmation

16168A ibid, bottom

16169 4-9-1911 confirmation certificate, Theodore Schwoch, St. Johannes Kirche, aka St. Johns Lutheran Church

16169A ibid, bottom

16170 5-29-1885 confirmation schein (certificate), Ernst Berthold Schwoch, Neudammer, Germany

16171 7-13-1949 Envelope from Theodore Schwoch, Aid Association for Lutherans, Rib Lake, to Ernst Schwoch

16172 12-3-1896 Naturalization Certificate for Ernst Schwoch

16172A ibid, bottom Taylor County seal

16173 9-21-2000 Star News ‘Still Going Strong after 100 Years’ Conrad Roder & wife, Bernice, nee Gilge, farm named Century Farm

16173A ibid, bottom P. David & Conrad Roder, Diane Nelson, Kelly Holzl, Bernice Roder, Debbie Roder & Dawn Jensen

16174 W. Gilge family in Germany; ‘Evangelical Parish Mocker, Schlesien’ German church records of Gottlieb Gilge, et al

16175 P. c. 1900 Gottlieb Gilge, father of Johann

16175A W. Descendants of Friedrich Gilge & wife Anna Rosina, nee Lichtbau & son, Gottlieb Gilge

16175B P. Anna Rosina Peche, lka Mrs. Gottlieb Gilge c. 1900

16176 P. c. 1920 Johann Gilge & wife, Maria Magdalena, nee Franz

16177 P. c. 1920 Johann Gilge farmstead, SW NE 31-33-3E, Town of Rib Lake

16178 P. c. 1900 Johann Gilge & wife Maria Magdalena, nee Franz, & children; L-R Julius, William, Ida (baby), Frieda

16179 Maria Magdalena Franz, lka Mrs. Johann Gilge, history written in German schrift c. 1980

16179A-p. 2

16180 P. c. 1920 ‘German Lutheran Church’

16181 P. c. 1920 Fawn Valley Grade School, NW NW 32-33-3E. In August 2015, Phyllis J. Schwoch, nee Hein, reported that she attended the Fawn Valley grade school and the image of the school building shown at 16181 is not of the Fawn Valley grade school.

16182 P. c. 1925 Johann Gilge farm, NB-log barn, SW NW 31-33-3E

16183 P. c. 1934. 1-Elsie Gilge, nee Bertzlaff, aka Mrs. William Gilge; 2-Ida Kelnhofer, nee Gilge; 3-William Gilge; 4-Martha Gilge, nee Rusch; 5-Julius Gilge; 6-Mr. & Mrs. Gottlieb Peche; 7-Johann Gilge, Mrs. Johann Gilge, aka Maria Magdalena, nee Franz; 8-Mr. & Mrs. Kammholz, Pastor at St. Johns Lutheran Church, Rib Lake, present to celebrate Mr. & Mrs. Johann Gilge’s 50th wedding anniversary

16184 P. c. 1940 Mr. & Mrs. Johann & Maria Magdalena Gilge at home in Village of Rib Lake after leaving farm

16185 P. c. 1925 Edward Franz, nicknamed ‘Kaput,’ German for done, destroyed, dead, brother to Maria Magdalena Gilge

16186 P. c. 1920 Mr. & Mrs. Wilhelm & Helena Franz & children, L-R William, Robert and unknown

16187 P. c. 1935 Helena Franz and son, William

16188 P. c. 1930 L-R Louis & Oscar Mohr, children of Theresa, nee Franz, sister of Maria Magdalena Gilge

16189 picture postcard of scenes at Mocker, ‘O.S.’ Ober Schlesien, Upper Silesia, Prussia, Germany; top left-Warenhaus, store; right-Pfarrei, parsonage; bottom left-Gasthaus G. Lichtbau, Inn of Mr. G. Lichtbau; right-Kirche, church

16190 P. c. 1880 Frederick Gilge, spouse & children; brother of Johann Gilge, who remained in Germany

16190A backside-ad for photographer Leopold Munk, dba ‘Troppau’ at Number 19 Teichgasse Street in Jaggersdorf, Mahr (Moravia, a part of the Austria-Hungarian empire just south of Mocker, Prussia)

16191 W. Johann Gilge children; c. 1985

16191A ibid, additions by R.P. Rusch 8-2012

16191B ibid, page 2

16191C ibid, page 3

16192 P. c. 1900 Gustave Muerkoster, in German Army uniform, married to Arma Gilge, daughter of Wilhelm Gilge of Mocker, Germany

16192A back side

16193 P. c. 1900 Mr. & Mrs. Arma & Gustave Muerkoster

16194 3-19-1981 Bertha Puhle, nee Gilge, memorial card in German

16195 Ahnentafel (geneology) Else Wahlers, nee Puhle, note re Gottlieb Gilge

16195A W. Descendants of Julius Gilge & wife, Martha Emilie Rusch, children; Adolf Johann Albert, Elmer & Hugo Carl

16195B p. 2 children; Arthur Wilhelm, Mildred Elsie, Herman Otto, Alvin Richard, Julius Alfred, Walter Rueben ‘Wally’,

16195C Ibid page 3 children; Bernice Violet, lka Mrs. Conrad Roder

16196 P. 9-19-1911 wedding of Julius Gilge & Martha Emilie Rusch; L-R Anna Radtke, William Gilge; Anna Bleck, nee Rusch; Robert Ludwig Rusch

16197 W. Wedding of my sister, Martha Emilie Rusch, to Julius Gilge, by Herman A. Rusch, c. 1980

16198 P. 9-19-1911 wedding portrait Julius Gilge and Martha Emilie Rusch

16199 obit 12-27-1971 Julius Gilge

16200 Elmer Rudolph Gilge memorial card 4-25-2001

16200A back

16201 Herman Otto Gilge memorial card 8-23-1992

16202 P. c. 1915 Martha E. Gilge, nee Rusch, holding child. Ida Gilge, Bertha & Anna Rusch, Frieda & William Gilge

16203 P. c. 1915 Robert Ludwig Rusch, 12-23-1892 to 7-12-1952

16204 P. c. 1943 Hugo Carl Gilge 1/27/1916-9/23/2000

16205 W. 9-2007 Walter Rueben Gilge memorial card

16206 W. 2-5-1992 Autobiography, Walter R. Gilge

16206A P. c. 1944 Walter R. Gilge

16207 P. 1945 Herman Otto Gilge

16208 P. c. 1945 Julius Alfred Gilge

16209 8-5-1994 W. Gilge family tree; descendants of Julius Gilge & Martha Emilie, nee Rusch; Elmer R. Gilge, Hugo Gilge, Arthur William Gilge, Mildred Elsie

16209A ibid p. 2 bottom; Herman Otto Gilge, Gilbert Julius Gilge, Alvin Richard Gilge, Julius Alfred Gilge, Walter Rueben Gilge, Bernice Violet Gilge

16210 P. c. 1945 Bernice Violet Gilge, lka Mrs. Conrad Roder

16211 W. Descendants of William Gilge & Elsie Gilge, nee Bertslaugh

16212 P. 9-28-1919 wedding portrait-Wilhelm (William) Gilge & Elsie Bertslaugh

16213 P. c. 1940 Mr. & Mrs. William & Elsie Gilge

16214 P. c. 1930 Mr. & Mrs. William & Elsie Gilge & children; L-R; Elvira, Kenneth & Raymond ‘home portrait by Dake’

16215 6-5-1975 William Gilge memorial card

16216 6-5-1975 obit, William Gilge

16217 P. c. 1950 Raymond Gilge-son of William & Elsie Gilge, died in a car accident in 1952, leaving three children, Dennis, Elvira & Janice, aka Jeanette Gilge

16218 W. 1992 ‘Historical Writer Jeanette Gilge’

16219 W. 1993 ‘Author [Jeanette Gilge] to be at Medford Library’

16219A cover page 1988 ‘All Things Heal in Time’ Book by Jeanette Gilge

16220 W. 7-15-1993 Jeanette Gilge & Robert Barnes wedding announcement

16221 P. c. 1930 Elvira Edna Gilge high school graduation

16222 P. c. 1935 L-R Mildred Gilge, Elvira Gilge, Jean Mauch, Francis Knop, nka Mrs. Francis Clendenning, Ruth Kemilton; bottom-youngster-Faye A. Kelnhofer; back-pan house-U.S. Tannery at Rib Lake

16223 W. 1924 ‘Train strikes loaded auto-seven injured’ Milwaukee Journal; comments by Faye Amo

16224 P. 1924 site of William Gilge car accident with Milwaukee Road train near Mauston, Wis.

16224A ibid

16225 1910 Ida A. Gilge School [Fawn Valley] ‘souvenir’ cover; P. of unidenfiied man may be teacher, F.J. Wudi

16225A ibid, page 1 [Fawn Valley] public school, District 3, Rib Lake, Taylor County, Wis. F.J. Wudi, teacher. School Board; August Radtke, clerk, Ernest Huhndorf, director; Ernest Gerstberger, treasurer.

16225B p. 2 ibid, pupils, including Ida A., Frieda & Elsie Gilge

16225C ibid. p. 3 & 4 ‘The close of school’

16225D ibid p. 5

16225E ibid p. 6 poem

16226 biography Ida A. (Amelia) Gilge, 5/3/1899-9/25/1919, aka Mrs. Edward C. (Clement) Kelnhofer

16227 P. 6-1912 L-Ida Amelia Gilge at confirmation

16228 6-1912 Rib Lake Herald clipping identifying confirmands from St. Johns Lutheran Church; Edwin Martin, William Marschke, Robert Sabrowski, William Frank, William Gnotke, Ernest Winzel, Mildred Kelnhofer, Sophia Voltz, Anna Peche, Ella Steare, Ida Hein, Frieda Hein, Ida A. Gilge, Anna Rusch, Marie Krushat

16229 9-25-1919 Edward C. Kelnhofer & bride, Ida A. Gilge; L-R Elmer Scott, Mildred Kelnhofer, Geoge Heyne, Elsie Gilge, Eugene Hein, Alma Christianson

16230 P. c. 1920 Armela Mauch, Roman Catholic nun

16231 W. Descendants of Elsie Anna Gilge & Daniel Emmet Conlon

16232 P. c. 1920 Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Emmet Conlon

16233 8-14-1970 obit. Elsie A. Conlon, nee Gilge

16234 P. c. 1980 L-R William Gilge, Ernest Juse, George Stelling

16235 P. c. 1920 P. Kaske farmstead, SW SW 18-32-3E, Town of Rib Lake, tornado damage

16236 P. c. 1930 Wisconsin State Prison, Waupun, Wis.

16236A ibid, front wall

16236B ibid

16236C ibid, back wall

16236D ibid, going to the shops

16236E ibid, ‘cell house’

16236F ibid, dining room

16236G ibid, chapel

16236H ibid, female convicts in flower garden

16237 P. c. 1930 ‘Twine plant, State Prison, Waupun, Wis.’ binder twine was made here & area private facilities from marijuana!

16237A ibid, ‘machine that winds the balls’ of twine

16237B ibid ‘the [binder twine] spinning machine’

16238 P. c. 1915 swing (rotating) bridges over mouth of Milwaukee River, Milwaukee, Wis.

End of Faye Amo, nee Kelnhofer, collection

Dennis Kuehling collection

16239 P. c. 1910 ‘Main Street’ McComb Ave., view south, store on left with boot sign-later Jacob Janda store, Block 8, McComb’s Racing Park Addition; right-store with dog hying on sidewalk-’Brehm’s ed, flour & feed’ for sale, Brehm Feed Store, Lots 8 & 9, McComb’s Racing Park Additon, in 2012, 827 McComb Ave.

16239A back-post date 7-1-1914, Anna May Kennedy writes to father, Hugh J. Kennedy ‘Amelia, Saskatchewan, Canada’ where he had a homestead.

16239B P. c. 1920 St. John the Baptist Catholic Church and rectory-east side facing Railroad Street. Church razed 1972. Rectory moved to Church Street and in 2012 is a private residence.

16239C P. c. 1909 Rib Lake farmer on hay mower pulled by Holstein steers ‘oxen’.

16239D-Back 2-21-1910 Post mark, Rib Lake, addressed to George Billmeyer, Earhille, Iowa, by W. Schindler.

16240 P. c. 1910 Fourth of July firemen float at Village of Rib Lake; Jack McRae in front seat

16240A back-Anna May Kennedy writes to here father, Hugh J. Kennedy, postdated 7-10-1913

16241 P. c. 1910 ‘A Hot Day;’ hosing down McComb Ave. to control dust. Left-Nick Clerf wagon ‘Manufactory’ & blacksmith; rear-Rib Lake Lumber Company tramway bridge spans McComb Ave., just north of Bonneville’s National Hotel at its original site facing east. Octagonal cement blocks form sidewalk in front of Upjohn Pharmacy-in 2012 Ultimate Illusion, 713 McComb Ave.

16241A ‘Mr. Allard & Mr. Claussen’ apparently written by Anna May Kennedy to identify men with hose

16242 P. c. 1910 ‘filling the tank 131’ 2 man Rib Lake Lumber Company crew prepare to sprinkle water on ice road leaving Rib Lake. Man on right holds pole to pull barrel back to water hole once barrel dumps its water into top of water tanker sleigh. Man of left controls horse team that pulls chain pulling loaded water barrel up ramp on right side of sleigh; back- NE corner of Rib Lake; note log piles off-loaded from sleighs on frozen lake – come spring logs will be floated to Rib Lake Lumber Company mill.

16242A Anna May Kennedy writes to brother, Harold A. Kennedy (3/10/1897-10/16/1961) at Colby, Wis., postdated 2-25-1914

16243 P. c. 1916 ‘Rib Lake K 683’ large building in foreground is National Hotel after move to Railroad & Second Street. View from Rib Lake Lumber Company smoke-stack shows entire SW side of Rib Lake, including white 2-story Ward School & over a dozen identical 1½ story company houses originally built by John J. Kennedy

16243A Anna May Kennedy writes to her first cousin, Mrs. Natt McDougal, Portland, Oregon

16244 P. c. 1905 ‘Pine Island, Rib Lake, Wis.’ four women and baby with man in row boat. View to south shore of Rib Lake

16244A Stewart Kennedy (3/16/1891-11/14/1918) writes to Aunt, Mrs. William J. Kennedy, nee Christy Ann Ferguson, at Chippewa Falls, Wis. dated 2-12-1911 or 1917

16245 P. c. 1910 Rib Lake Lumber Company locomotive ‘3’ at hot pond, rear left-at least 6 loaded sleighs of logs rest on iced over Rib Lake after steam hauler pulled them from Camp 6 or Camp 9. Locomotive appears to be 2-6-0

16245A Anna May Kennedy writes to father, Hugh J. Kennedy, at his Canadian farm

16246 P. c. 1910 Rib Lake Lumber Company locomotive ‘3’ coupled to baggage-passenger car at Rib Lake depot; ‘Scene at depot, Rib Lake, Wis. #6’ at the time, Rib Lake Lumber Company used its locomotive to transport passengers and freight on Wisconsin Central\Soo Line track the 5.5 miles to and from Chelsea

16246A The 5 paseengers are identified: Tom Ryan, Joe Dagnal, Tom Gray, Dunk [Duncan] McDonald & H. Rosenfeldt

16247 P. c. 1910 ‘Depot Scene’ NE side of Rib Lake depot mixed freight and passenger train prepares for 5.5 mile run to Chelsea; Dray line wagon and team have delivered freight; Left rear-Stephen A. Konz sawmill; right-cattle ramp to load livestock on railroad cars.

16248 P. c. 1915 Rib Lake Lumber Company locotmovite #3, a 2-6-0 pulling ‘Wisconsin Central’ combination baggage-passenger car on 5.5 mile Chelsea-Rib Lake spur; note smoke stacks for heating stoves fore & aft in baggage-passenger car.

16249 P. c. 1910 Rib Lake Lumber Company locomotive #3 pulls combination baggage & freight car into Chelsea depot; Kelnhofer’s cut-a deep trench through a wind-swept field just SW of Rib Lake, has covered locomotive in snow. View northward on Wisconsin Central/Soo Line main line

16250 P. c. 1910 Rib Lake Lumber Company shay locomotive 1 at SE tip of Wood Lake; McGiffert loader loads peeled hemlock logs on flatcar behind tender. View northwards over logs in Wood Lake.

16250A Anna May Kennedy identifies engineer as Chester Curran, and Bob Hess and Lou Sutterland on picture, she incorrectly calls water ‘Harper Lake’

16251 c. 1934 Rib Lake Lumber Company locomotive #67 struggles with long string of hardwoods through Camp 22, Town of Corning. Left-front of camp buildings & 2 McGiffert loaders stand on side track

16252 P. c. 1916 Rib Lake Lumber Company mill complex under reconstruction after 1914 fire; left-new mill; center-old, pre-fire building; right-new planing mill framed in 16253 P. c. 1925 ‘RLLC Sawmill G-560’ view east from tram across McComb Ave.; right-machine shop; center-mill & transfer chain-lumber graded, sorted & piled onto tram cars; note light-colored roof on newly lengthened building; right-planing mill

16254 P. c. 1920 east side of Rib Lake Lumber Company sawmill with sloping bull chain conveys logs into second story for initial sawing; fog from hot pond obscures boilder house in center.

16255 P. c. 1920 stove wood sleigh; Rib Lake Lumber Company sawed some of its slabwood into 18 inch lengths and sold it to residents for fuel. The ingenious sleigh boy would tilt & dump its load after teamster dismounted and tripped a lever.

16256 P. c. 1930 Rib Lake Lumber Company log pile & railroad spur in Town of Corning

16257 P. c. 1925 Gin pole – rear – loaded sleigh of logs

16258 P. c. 1925 4 horse sleigh loaded with hardwood saw logs. Some sleigh traveled 7+ miles from Camp 9 to Rib Lake Lumber Company mill; sleighs were extensively used for short hauls, e.g., one mile to railroad

16259 P. c. 1910 Fayette Ave. crosses railroad track next to huge log dump into Rib Lake-logs perpendicular to tracs allowed new logs to be rolled 200 feet to open water

16260 P. c. 1910 ‘Crossing the lake’ four-horse teams pull sleighs with 16 feets wide bunks across Rib Lake toward hot pond

16261 P. c. 1910 hot pond filled with peeled hemlock logs; view north to high school; 2 McGiffert loaders stand ready to unload railroad flat cars of logs

16262 P. c. 1930; 3 log flat cars wait for unloading near Rib Lake Lumber Company mill; view SW from Upjohn house roof on Fayette Ave.

16263 P. c. 1930 unloaded log flat car near hot pond; poles driven into lake bottom hold boom, preventing logs from floating away from mill.

16264 P. c. 1940 Kennedy Street cuts through Rib Lake Lumber Company dry yard

16265 P. c. 1940 Railroad lines running through dry yard allowed easy shipment of air dried lumber

16266 P. c. 1940 7 narrow gauge tram cars loaded with green lumber; horses pulled logs from transfer chain to location chosen for piling.

16267 P. c. 1940 ‘Sawmill at Rib Lake, Wis. 31’ Planing mill proudly bears sign ‘Rib Lake Lumber Co. Quality Lumber’ left-loaded tram car awaits horse & teamster to shepherd load into dry yard

16268 P. 1948 ‘Last load of lumber from the old mill. Rib Lake, Wis. 56’. Claude Peterson’s truck took ceremonial last load of lumber to Oneida County, where it was used to build a cabin.

16269 P. c. 1950 Gravel right-of-way for STH 102 has replaced railroad track on north shore of Rib Lake. Fill dumped into lake caused island to rise on left

16270 P. c. 1950 weeds & brush encroach hot pond adjacent to defunct Rib Lake Lumber Company mill

16271 P. c. 1910 Ward School – back entrance

16272 P. c. 1910 Ward School – front entrance off Church Street. Note hand water pump.

16273 P. c. 1910 Sixth Grade class of 41 at Ward School

16274 P. c. 1910 High School, view to SW; note neatly painted out-houses on left

16275 P. 1910 High schoolers do arm circle exercises. View SW toward Rib Lake

16276 P. c. 1928 ‘High School N 346’ 1927 annex next to original high school

16277 P. c. 1910 Methodist, originally Methodist Episcopal Church.

16278 P. 4-14-2012 United Methodist Church

16279 P. c. 1910 ‘Church of Christ’ razed c. 1975; stood 1 house from SE corner of Landall Ave. and Pearl Street.

16280 P. c. 1925 ‘Lutheran Church’; left-parsonage; right rear-top floor of Rib Lake Lumber Company mill

16281 P. c. 1920 McComb Ave., Bird’s eye view from tannery smoke stack

16282 P. c. 1905 ‘McComb Avenue, East Side’ right present-’Rib Lake Music Center’ 740 McComb Ave., note Lutheran Church facing south prior to its turn 180 degrees to face Fayette Ave. left-’Dr. L.L. Miller’ sign

16283 P. c. 1925 McComb Ave., facing north; right-Woodman Hall, Wisconsin Hotel, Bogumills

16283A c. 1910 spoof card P. ‘East side, McComb Ave.,’ interurban ‘Oconomowoc’ dubbed in to appear to run down McComb Ave.,

16283B spoof card, sky scraper rises from Landall & McComb Ave., dubbed onto c. 1910 photo of west side of McComb Ave.

16284 P. c. 1942 ‘Bird’s Eye View Main Street, C-4’ McComb Ave., looking NE; right-’Bogumills’ (‘The Big Store-Dry Goods’ painted on window), J.A. Taylor Heating & Plumbing; rear-old tannery ‘Pan House’

16285 P. c. 1930 ‘Bank corner’ NE corner Landall & McComb Ave., right to left-Rib Lake State Bank, Albert Marschke Tavern, Gessert’s Meat Market, Scharer Tavern, Hardward Store, Swanson Building, Jacob ‘Jake’ Janda’s Confectionary, Talbot’s Tavern, Rib Lake Hotel

16286 P. c. 1910 ‘Rib Lake, Wis. 4’ North bank of Rib Lake filled with peeled hemlock logs; left-Lakeside Tavern & Hall, center-Verl Bokath house

16287 P. c. 1930 Twin tracks of Rib Lake Lumber Company cross Fayette Ave; view east to park & cemetery

16288 P. c. 1920 view NE from Rib Lake Lumber Company smoke stack; center-home built by Hermann Emanuel Rusch, in 2012 home of Robert & Barbara Anderson, 746 Fayette Ave; note-smoke from chimney obscures right side of photo

16289 P. c. 1910 Rib Lake ‘city dray’ wagon 19 unidentified people-mostly women wearing bizarre hats

16290 P. c. 1925 Anna May Kennedy outside of Upjohn-Kennedy Drug Store, 713 McComb Ave., ‘Stationery’ for sale

16291 P. c. 1925; view west on Church Street to St. John the Baptist Catholic Church

16292 P. c. 1925 view south across tramway; rear-National Hotel

16293 P. c. 1930 new Rib Lake Library; NE corner of Landall & Pearl

16294 P. 3-25-1911 view SW from junction of Landall & Pearl

16295 P. c. 1930 ‘City Hall, Rib Lake, Wis. N384’ in 2012, Village garage & public works building, 741 McComb Ave.,

16296 P. c. 1910, house in SW corner Railroad & Lake Street (originally ‘Main’ Street) in 2012 Mrs. Phyllis Dolezalek residence, 900 Railroad Street. View north over wooden sidewalk to Rib Lake Lumber Company mill complex. The real estate abstract has been scanned as Doc. #16364. It contains a variety of useful information, including: 1895-1908 site was owned by Duncan McLennan, JJ Kennedy’s brother-in-law [McLennan was in charge of the office of Kennedy’s lumber operation]. 1931-1945 site owned by Lehman Post #274 American Legion as their Rib Lake headquarters and meeting hall.

16297 P. c. 1910 home & SW corner Railroad & Lake Street (north side of home shown in #16296)

16298 P. c. 1920 Rib Lake Lumber Company water tower on Lake Street- named Main Street in J.J. Kennedy 1895 plat of Rib Lake. View south from Rib Lake Lumber Company smoke stack

16299 P. c. 1930 ‘Rib Lake, Wis. K-451’ view south from Church & Lake Street to Eunice Holden residence on south shore of Rib Lake

16300 P. 1908 ‘Posing in the woods’ Photographer R.P. Brown then resided in Rib Lake

16301 P. c. 1909 9 hunters & 9 deer

16301A back 11-9-1909 postmarked to Mr. William Haag

16302 P. c. 1910 view of ‘The Flats’, in 2012 ball diamond on south side of Fayette Ave., east of Tannery Creek; rear-Lutheran Church facing south. A small traveling circus appears to have put up tents and merry-go-round on the flats.

16303 P. c. 1930 ‘Tourist Camp, Rib Lake, Wis. c 521’ in 2012 site is Rib Lake Village park

16304 12-1979 Star News ‘There were a lot of Memories’ an account of the Rib Lake Fire Department controlled burn of old Lakeside Tavern, in 2012, the site of the Lawrence Kennedy home, 846 Lakeshore Drive, Rib Lake; The Lakeside built in 1912 by Charles Seidel

16304A ibid, page 2, Southwell, ‘Shouse’ Rosenfeldt bought Lakeside in 1946.

16305 P. 12-1979 South side ‘Lakeside Tavern’ sign; fire through roof

16306 P. 12-1979, firemen on roof of Lakeside Tavern

16307 P. 12-1979, fire engulfs Lakeside Tavern

16308 P. 12-1979 7-UP soda sign melts on Lakeside Tavern

16309 P. c. 1914 Rib Lake Tannery; right-tanbark; center-boiler house; left-vat house; view SW

16310 P. c. 1915 ‘view on Silver Creek near Westboro, Wis.’ Hoff #5 View west from STH 13 bridge; fragments of old Duncan log driving dam in creek. Right-south & east sides of Westboro High School

End of spectacular Dennis Kuehling collection, featuring Anna May Kennedy photos. Index prepared 8/29/2012 by R.P. Rusch

Robert P. Rusch collection

16311 P. 9-22-2012 Cindy Sommer & Dennis Kuehling at Rib Lake Historical Society office-archives, outdoor sign

16311A 9-22-2011 The Three Musketeers; L-R Bob Rusch, Dennis Kuehling & Cindy Sommer; outside Society office & archives, Town of Rib Lake

16312 8-16-2012 Star News ‘Rib Lake Ice Age Days Parade’ ‘Remembering Elvis’

16312A Rib Lake High School Band

16312B ibid P. future cowgirl

16312C ibid P. antique car

16312D ibid P. Ugh mobile

16312E ibid P. which way to flowers – Schubert’s True Value Hardware

16312F ibid P. Rib Lake Historical Society float, ‘From Bedrock to Rib Lake Lake’ Robert P. Rusch with grandson, Ryan Strobach in ‘Flintmobile’

16313 P. 8-12-2012 The Flintmobile – Rib Lake Historical Society float in Ice Age Days parade

16314 P. 8-12-2012 Rib Lake Historical Society Ice Age Days float, L-R Emma Severson, Katie Strobach, Ryan Strobach

16315 P. 8-12-2012 Kristin & Rodney Strobach and children L-R Bekah, Ryan & Katie, and cousin Emma Severson, pose by Rib Lake Historical Society logo sign they made

16316 P. 8-12-2012 Rib Lake Historical Society logo sign & revised mission statement

16317 9-3-2012 Rib Lake Historical Society shipping label

16318 Map 10-7-2012 Camp 9 of Rib Lake Lumber Company site, SW NW 38-34-2E, Town of Hill, Price Co., WI, and ice road excavation location on north edge of Ritchie Lake (erroneously termed Reich Lake) Sec 1-33-2E. Ice road connected Camp 9 and Rib Lake Lumber Company sawmill and was used by steamhauler as well as sleighs. Map drawn over 1979 ‘Timms Hill’ OSGS quad by Robert P. Rusch 8-21-2012. Light green line in NW NW 31-34-2E shows known route of logging sleigh road used by Herman A. Rusch, et al, to transport saw logs from Spirit Point to Rib Lake Lumber Company. Dark green circle shows location where Roger Blomberg, Jr., found steam hauler chain c. 1997.

16318A-Map 10-11-2012 Camp 9 & Camp 6 Rib Lake Lumber Company location drawn over 1947 quad map ‘Rib Lake’ by Robert P. Rusch; Camp 6 in SE NE 12-33-2E, Town of Rib Lake, Taylor Co. (root cellar in NE NE); Camp 9 in SW NW 36-342E, Town of Hill, Price Co.

16318B Map 10-10-2012A Camp 9 from Ed Blomberg recollections drawn by Robert P. Rusch

16318C Map 10-10-2012 Tank hole site adjacent to Camp 9 Rib Lake Lumber Company SW NW 36-34-2E; data from Ed Blomberg drawn by Robert P. Rusch

16318D Map 10-17-2012 Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 6 extant features & Ann & Bob Rusch – Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve – Part E ½ NE ¼ 12-33-2E, Town of Rib Lake, WI, extant features are root cellar, log bunkhouse foundation & well hole

16318E Map 10-18-2012 Rib Lake Lumber Company camp 6; site & extant features; Ann & Bob Rusch Preserve, part NE NE 12-33-2E, drawn over David E. Tlusty survey 11-8-2010 by Robert P. Rusch

16319 P. 9-2012 Steam hauler chain found by Roger Blomberg, c. 1997, NW NW 31-34-3E on loan to Rib Lake Historical Society

16320 P. 8-27-2012 Meadow at Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 9 location, SW NW 35-34-2E, Town of Hill, Price County, WI.

16321 P. 8-27-2012 Roger Blomberg at shallow hole left from root cellar of Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 9. Cellar door opened to meadow shown in rear

16322 P. 8-27-2012 tin cans at Camp 9 dump

16323 P. 8-27-2012 artifacts found at Camp 9 dump, L-R Bekah Strabach holds barrel hoop and tin can, Roger Blomberg holds Red Wing pottery style crock shard, Katie Strobach holds tin can & broken Milwaukee Blatz brown beer bottle

16324 P. 8-27-2012 Bekah Strobach holds barrel hoop found at Camp 9. Wooden statue have totally rotted away

16325 P. 8-27-2012 Bekah Strobach holds washing pan found at Camp 9 dump; NB-tin cans at her feet

16326 P. Camp 13, Rib Lake Lumber Company, operated 1916-1921 in NW NW 13-33-3E, Town of Rib Lake, Taylor County, WI

16327 Map 9-9-2012 Camp 13, Rib Lake Lumber Company ‘building diagram’ identifying objects shown on preceding photo by Robert P. Rusch

16328 4-10-1986 envelope addressed to Robert P. Rusch by Herman A. Rusch

16328A L. giving opinion on building on photo 16326

16328B signing by Herman A. and Martha H. Rusch ‘Dad’ and ‘Mom’

16329 O G hemlock siding milled c. 1910 by Rib Lake Lumber Company cross section; siding nailed by carpenter Phillip Bonde on John Smith home, SE SE 12-33-2E c. 1910 and remained in use until 8-2012 when removed by Robert P. Rusch, who had moved home ½ mile south to SE NE 13-33-2E; unstained board fit against tarpaper on side of house. Building owners applied stain or paint of their choice to exterior of siding.

16329A ibid, two pieces of OG hemlock siding fitted to tongue in groove to demonstrate how siding was made waterproof; NB-growth rings-some 1/32 inch apart – result of slow growth in dense virgin forest

16330 4-9-1959 Star News ‘History of Chelsea’ by Edwin Knauth. Typed version 9-2012 Taylor County Historical Society – part 1

16330A ibid p. 2

16330B ibid p. 3 Soo Line last passenger train through Whittlesey, 12-27-1958

16330C ibid p. 4

16331 W. ‘On Road-On Trail Rally-34th annual 4 wheelin with feelin’ 10-16-2012 sport utility vehicle event at Northwoods overland off road motor vehicle park, W1640 Knorn Road, Town of Rib Lake, Section 4-33-3E

16331A ibid back, p. 2

16332 Baptismal certiciate 9-28-1890 Oskar (Oscar) Rusch, born 9-9-1890 in Fairchild, WI, of Herrmann Rusch and wife, Wilhelmine, nee Klatt, St. Pauls (Lutheran) Church at Fairchild, Franz Pollatz & Bertha Dahlke, witnesses. Herrmann Rusch emigrated/immigrated in 1894 with Franz Pollatz, who had married his sister, Emilie Martha Rusch. Herrmann initially farmed at Fairchild, Wi, where Oskar Robert Ludwig and Martha Emilie Rusch were born. After the death of his first wife, Wilhelmine on 6-5-1895, Herrmann moved to Rib Lake.

16333 Die Familie Rusch – Retzlaff; the Rusch-Retzlaff family history, 2-14-1967 by Dr. Walter Hierse, Minden, Germany

16333A ibid-English translation, updated to 1-17-2016.

16333B Map Central Europe 1815-1966; City of Bromberg and River Brahe shown. Also shown ‘Silberberg’ near Schoenwalde, ancestral village of August Steiner, Pauline Meissner and Wilhelm (William) Gebauer

16333C Map Treaty Adjustments, 1919-1926, land including Bromberg transfer to Polan by 1919 Treaty of Versailles

16333D Map; Peoples of Central Europe in 1929. Shows mix of German and Polish ethnic populations around Bromberg

16334 Portrait, Herrmann Emanuel Rusch

16335 Map, 10/6/2012 Bromberg & Karlsdorf, birthplace of Hermann Emanuel Rusch, grandfather of RPR, Schneidemuehl is birthplace of Ida Lange, second wife of Hermann Emanuel Rusch & paternal grandmother of RPR.

16336 W. Historical Relationship, Klatt, Knop, Rusch, Lange families 5-8-1985 by Robert P. Rusch, progeny of Herman Klatt, William Klatt, Martha Knop, Anna Knop, Karl Knop-left side

16336A ibid progeny of Albert Knop (aka Pa Knop, aka Meister Knop), Herrmann Emanuel Rusch, Carl Lange, William Bartig, August Bartig-center

16336B-right side

16337 Obituary Hermann Emanuel Rusch, 1-12-1902, Rib Lake Herald, (born 4-9-1861 Karlsdorf, Province of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire) died 1-7-1912 in Rib Lake, WI

16338 Memorial Card – Hermann E. Rusch ‘in Liebender Erinnerung’ in loving memory, Gestborben aber nicht Vergessen, dead but not forgotten; translation of German – Too soon came this bitter hour, when you were taken from our midst, but piously we repeat; ‘What God does, that is done well’ This work of God fills our emptiness, rest at peace until we see you again.

16339 W. ‘Life of Hermann E. Rusch, 4-9-1861 to 1-7-1912, by Robert P. Rusch 4-29-2002

16339A ibid p. 2

16339B ibid p. 3

16339C ibid p. 4

16340 P. Hermann E. Rusch and second wife, Ida, nee Lange, c. 1896

16341 P. c. 1893 Hermann E. Rusch & first wife, Wilhelmine Auguste Louise, nee Klatt (1-9-1872 Jeselgenau, Prussia, Germany – 1-15-1895 Fairchild, WI); children-L-R, Martha Emilie Rusch 1) L/k/a Mrs. Julius Gilge, born 6-1888 in Fairchild, WI, died 1960 in Rib Lake; 2) Oscar Heinrich Rusch, 9-9-1890 Fairchild, died 3-1-1966 Phelps, Vilas Co, WI, spouse Rose Freimuth-married in 1913; 3) Robert Ludwig Rusch, born 12-23-1892 Fairchild, died 7-12-1952 Mellen, Ashland Co., WI, married Isabella Kraus 1920

16342 W. Hermann E. Rusch family group sheet and wife #1, Wilhelmine Klatt, and their 3 chidren, Martha Emilie, Oscar Heinrich and Robert Ludwig Rusch

16343 M. 1913 Standard Atlas of Taylor County-residential lot in Rib Lake Village sold by J.J. Kennedy, et. ux, 8-6-1903 to Hermann E. Rusch and wife, Ida H. Lange, for $250 on which buyers erect their home, which still stands as of 9-19-2012, owned by Robert & Barbara Anderson, 746 Fayette Ave., Village of Rib Lake

16344 5-28-1905 Erinnerung An Der Tag Der Confirmation; remembrance on confirmation day for Oscar Heinrich Rusch at Evangelical Lutheran St. Johannes (John) Kirche (church) at Rib Lake, G.H. Voss, pastor

16345 P. 8-18-2012 grave of Howard J. Rusch, (2-25-1929 to 8-11-2012) Phelps, WI

16346 Howard J. Rusch obit, 2-28-1929 to 8-11-2012

16347 Memorial Card 8-16-2012 Howard J. Rusch

16347A cover

16348 8-16-2012 Howard J. Rusch bulletin, going home service, St. Paul Lutheran Church, Grafton, WI, p. 1 & 2

16348A ibid p. 3 & 4

16348B ibid p. 5 & 6

16348C ibid cover

16349 P. 6-1980 Rusch siblings at Eau Claire Co. Park reunion; L-R, Anna Bleck, Hedwig ‘Hattie’ Johnson, Herman A. Rusch, Bertha Kurth

16350 P. c. 1980 Parents & in-laws of Robert P. Rusch; L-R, Leona Baumbach, nee Miller, Arthur Baumbach, Martha Hedwig Rusch, nee Gebauer, Herman A. Rusch

16351 P. c. 1990 Boyhood home of Robert P. Rusch, 5947 N. 66th Street, Milwaukee, WI

16352 P. c. 1984 L-R Martha H. Rusch, Mary Ann Rusch, aka Mrs. Thomas M. Rusch, & son Michael Rusch, Herman A. Rusch

16353 P. c. 1980 Rusch Spirit Lake cabin, L-R bottom-Robert P. Rusch & daughters, Kristin Karen Bethany Leona Martha, lka Mrs. Rodney Strobach, Robin ann Paulina, lka Mrs. Scott Riggs, Mary Gebauer ‘Aunt Mary’; top row-Martha H. aka Mrs. Herman A. Rsuch, Thomas Michael Rusch, Heidi, nka Mrs. Paul Wildes, Herman A. Rusch, Joan Rusch, aka Mrs. Gerald ‘Jerry’ Alan Rusch

16354 P. c. 1980 Herman A. Rusch with eldest son, Everett A. Rusch, at Robert P. Rusch sugar bush on Ford 9N tractor

16355 P. c. 1960 Robert Paul Rusch as Granville High School student, Milwaukee, WI

16356 Painting c. 2005 ‘The Gathering’ by Lisa A. Fifield nee Rusch. Painting used with permission, shows Ojibwa bears preparing a meal for the voyaguers.

16356A back-biography

16356B handwritten note

16357 Painting by Lisa A. Fifield nee Rusch ‘Bird Funeral’

16357A Handwritten note by Lisa M. Fifield re comments of Robert P. Rusch of run with his dog Eva

16357B ibid p. 2

16357C water color by Lisa A. Fifield ‘Dance of the Elk Women’

16358 6-10-1893 ‘J.J. Kennedy’ Taylor Co. Star & News reprint of article from ‘Minnesota Lumberman.’ A biography & Rib Lake mill description; bio includes; J.J. Kennedy’s history with Curtis Bros. of Clinton, Iowa & J.E. Carpenter; and B) 1892 Kennedy’s fmill at Rib Lake production; 1) 22,000,000 feet pine; 2) 15,000,000 feet hemlock; 3) 20,000,000 cedar shingles

16359 Map 3-1-2012 Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 14, Camp 16, Camp 17 & Camp 28 locations by Robert P. Rusch drawn over James Kaysen Rib Lake Lumber Company logging railroad map 12411C

16360 Annotations to map 10-1-2012 [16359] Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 14, Camp 16, Camp 17 & Camp 28 by Robert P. Rusch using data obtained from Daniel L. & Keith McCluskey, Harold L. Fliehs & Linne C. Hendrickson during field inspection on 9-20-2012

16360A ibid p. 2

16361 Map 10-2-2012 Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 14, Camp 16 & Camp 17 locations drawn on 1981 US quad ‘Wood Lake’ by Robert P. Rusch

16362 Map 10-3-2012 Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 14, Camp 16 & Camp 17 locations drawn on 1949 US Quad ‘Rib Lake’ black & white copy by Robert P. Rusch

16363 Map 10-4-2012 Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 14, Camp 16 & Camp 17 locations drawn on 1949 US quad ‘Rib Lake’ color version by Robert P. Rusch; NB-Map shows by white a clearing at locations for Camp 14 & Camp 16

16363A

16364 W. Abstract of Title, Lot 5, Block A, original plat of Village of Rib Lake, 2012 home site of Phyllis Dolezalek, 900 E. Railroad St. (see c. 1910 photos of house, #16296 & #16297) 1895-1908 home site of Duncan McLennan, John J. Kennedy’s brother-in-law, Duncan worked in office of John J. Kennedy lumber Co. across the street; 1931-1945 headquarters of Lehman Post No. 274 American Legion; Entry 23 1-22-1941 reflects absorption of First National Bank of Rib Lake by State Bank of Medford

16364A ibid p. 1

16364B ibid p. 2 patent, Govt. Lot 9 26-33-2E sold 12-26-1881 to John J. Kennedy

16364B2 ibid, note-land to north-Govt Lot 10, contains ‘Kennedy’ mill and are owned by his associates Curtis Bros. until 1893

16364C ibid p. 4

16364D ibid p. 5 original plat of Village of Rib Lake 6-11-1895; Lot 5, Block A, sold to Duncan McLennan, with deeds to his wife, Addie B. McLennan, on 11-12-1908

16364E-ibid p. 6 Sale to Ralph R. Dresdan for $2125 implying a relatively expensive hom

16364F ibid p. 7 foreclosure & sheriff’s deed to Herman Rindt

16364G ibid, p. 8 10-14-1931 deed to Lehman Post #274 American Legion

16364H ibid p. 9 1933 unpaid taxes

16364I ibid p. 11 First National Bank of Rib Lake absorbed by State Bank of Medford

16364J ibid p. 12 Lehman Post – now Lehman-Clendenning Post, sells 11-13-1945

16364J2 ibid p. 13

16364K ibid p. 14

16364L ibid p. 15

16364M ibid p. 16 8-4-1949 sale to Summer A. Lewis, et ux

16364N ibid, p. 14 8-24-1945 sale to John J. Dolezalek, et ux, Phyllis M.

16365 8-31-1994 ‘How Charlestown became Whittlesey, Wisconsin’ by Robert P. Rusch, title page 1

16365A ibid p. 2 Wisconsin Central constructions began northward from Colby 4-15-1873 and ended at mile post 10 (aka Worcester) 1-6-1874

16365B 1874 inspection Town of Taylor Co. by Governor William R. Taylor; Charlestown appears on 9-27-1874 time table

16365C 6-2-1877 Worcester-Chippewa crossing railroad gap closed with Ezra Whittlesey ???

16365D Charlestown, Wis. named for Charlestown, Massachusettes

16365E ibid p. 6 Asalp Whittlesey biography

16365F ibid p. 7 Whittlesey dam authorized in 1876

16365G ibid p. 8 1881 description of ‘Whittlesey’

16365H ibid p. 9 2-27-1881 plat of Whittlesey, Wis., recorded in Taylor County by George Norton

16365I ibid p. 19 First timetable to mention Whittlesey, Taylor County, is 10-23-1898

16365J ibid p. 11, initials of author, Robert P. Rusch

16365K 2-27-1882 Plat of Whittlesey, Wis.

16366 Map 8-8-1988 Charlestown-Whittlesey, Taylor Co., Wis. (Part of SW SW 26-32-1E, including passing tract configuration upon abandonment of Soo Line Railroad in 1988 by Robert P. Rusch)

16367 Map 2-27-1882 Plat, Village of Whittlesey, Wis. by A.S. Russell, C.E. (part SE SW 26-321E, Taylor Co., Wis.); highlighting by Robert P. Rusch

16367A ibid, certification by Surveyor A.S. Russell, Civil Engineer

16367B ibid, certification by George W. Norton & Emma Norton, landowners

16367C Acknowledgement by Elias S. Urquhart re George W. Norton, et ux; certificate 12-27-1892 of true & correct copy by Julius Stimm

16368 Map 1-1-1875 Wisconsin Central Railroad & connections, including Worcester, aka Mile Post 101, reached by railroad construction crew on 1-6-1874 and where north construction stalled for more than one year

16368A ibid – Wisconsin enlargement

16368B ibid, annotations by Robert P. Rusch; A) Charlestown, nka Whittlesey; B) Roxbury, nka Westboro, aka Needham; C) Ogema, aka Dedham, not shown. Ogema fired called Dedham for Massachusettes town per Ogema Centennial Book & Historical Album 1976; D) Malden, aka Prentice (junction); E) Worcester, aka Mile Post 101 (2 miles north of Prentice, Price Co.)

16369 W. Asaph Whittlesey Bio. ‘Ashland’s founder trekked 240 miles to give north voice’ 1-4-1998 Milwaukee Journal

16370 W. Taylor County Dams; Report of Railroad Commision of Wisconsin to legislature on water power 1914

16371 – Map c. 4-23-1887 Wisconsin Central Railroad including Rib Lake spur

16372 Map c. 1-2-1900 ‘Wisconsin Central Lines’

16372A ibid close-up-Rib Lake area

16373 title page, History of Wisconsin Central Railroad by Roy L. Martin

16373A ibid p. 29 between 4-15-1873 and 1-6-1874 all track laid through Taylor County

16373B ibid, p. 30 57 mile penoke gap-between Worcester, aka Mile Post 101, Price County & Penoke, Ashland Co., was 57 mile gap, i.e. no railroad from 1-6-1874 to 6-2-1877

16373C ibid p. 38

16373D ibid 1-26-1876 railroad conservation northward resumed from Mile Post 101, aka Worcester, Price County

16373E ibid 6-2-1877 Golden spike at Chippewa crossing, nka Glidden

16373F ibid, bottom of foregoing page

16373G ibid finis. Wisconsin Central Division points moved 1880-1883 Ogema, 1883-1886 Chelsea, 1886+ Abbotsford. Whittlesey named fro Aseph, aka Asaph, Whittlesey

16374 Title page ‘History fo Charlestown, Massachusettes by James F. Hunnewell, 1888

16374A ibid p. 52-53 Charlestown was ancestral home of Colby family involved in construction of Wisconsin Central Railroad

16374B ibid Charlestown ‘Ward of Boston’ 1873-1887

16375 W. 12-7-1895 Star News ‘The Village of Whittlesey was completely wiped out by fire in 1894.

16375A L. Larry Easton to Robert P. Rusch 9-1-1994

16375B Map 1886 Wisconsin Central Line showing Whittlesey and railroad & timetable

16375C ibid stations-Medford, Chelsea, Westboro, Ogema, Phillips, etc. no Whittlesey

Collection of Karen & Neil Peterson Baumgartner

16376 P. 1908 ‘Spirit Lake Drive’ logging dam at outlet of Little Spirit Lake on SW SE 32-34-4E, Town of Spirit, Price County, Wis. Dam has 2 gates which can be raised or lowered to regulate flow into Spirit River. The improveable dam part consists of a crib of logs with a slanting bed of logs placed side by side whith its high potion resting on the crib and its low portion resting on the lake bottom over which earth has been piled to make the bed waterproof. View looks westward and shows 5 unidentified men and giant rock boulder in water. The Ole A. Peterson log drive in in progress. The hill next to the dam has only saplings – all trees cut at least a decade earlier

16377 P. 1908 ‘Spirit Lake Drive’ 6 men with aid of caulked boots stand on peeled hemlock logs; back row L-R-Ole A. Peterson, the ‘Boss’ & log owner, his brother, Charlie Peterson; middle row L-R-Charlie Danielson, Fred Schmidt, Gus Danielson; front-Frank Mushak. Note large rock boulder in Little Spirit Lake anchoring end of chain of logs frunneling log drive to open gate of dam (shown in photo 16376); small cross boards have been aniled to some chained logs to form funnel. The log drive originated 1 mile west on Big (North) Spirit Lake where Ole A. Peterson and crew peeled the hemlock on ‘Spirit Point’, a large peninsula. This tanbark was sleighed to U.S. Leather Co. Tannery in Rib Lake

16378 P. c. 1908 Spirit River meandering past Big (North) Spirit Lake. View SW from Ole A. Peterson farm. Note buildings on east shore of Big Spirit Lake; later Ole A. Peterson will build & operate a dance hall there. On the far (west) shore of Big Spirit Lake is a larger building, probably the logging camp of Ole A. Peterson; this camp is on ‘Spirit Point’ which Ole had ‘discovered.’ The point had not been noted by the original U.S. government survey

16379 P. c. 1925 Ole A. Peterson saw & shingle mill in Rib Lake – formerly Stephen A. Konz sawmill. Building later remodeled to serve as ‘Fuzz Mille’ where Ole & Victor Gustafsn & Marschke family made acoustical tile from popple (aspen) wood.

16380 P. c. 1910 ‘James Water’s Mill’ Spirit Lake, Wis’ This small mill was located one-quarter mile south of Little Spirit Lake in the SW SE 5-33-3E, Town of Rib Lake. View looks south & shows top of dam behind mill, which blocked flowing from Olson Lake and formed mill pond.

Collection of R.L. ‘Larry’ Konz, 2343 W. Prospect Ave., Appleton, WI 54914-8714

16381 Map 1913 Stephan A. Konz sawmill, Rib Lake. In 2012, site is part of Little Rib Trailer Park, STH 102

16382 L. 10-1-2012 R.L. ‘Larry’ Konz to Robert P. Rusch

16383 Biography Stephan Anton Konz by Mary Kenz Fisher 2-1977

16383A

16383B 1896 move to Rib Lake

16383C 1907 new farm home on SW SW 13-32-2E, Town of Greenwood, in 2012 Estelle Bohte home

16383D Move from Rib Lake to Black Creek c. 1915, S.A. Konz dba Konz Box & Lumber Co.

16384 Ad, Konz Wood Products c. 1982

16385 P. Larry Konz, Sr., and sons Dan, Dave, Larry, Jr. – article on 4 generations of Konz business

16386 Ad ‘They sold the bark & burned the logs’ Konz Box & Lumber Co.

16387 Ad, Konz Wood Products 1998

16388 Ad, Konz Wood Products ‘We carry the load’

16389 1-3-2006 The Pros of Konz. Appleton pallet maker celebrates centennial

16389A ibid p. 2

16390 3-19-2006 The Post Crescent ‘I owe a lot to my dad’ bio. Larry Konz, Jr. by Judy Waggoner

16391 P. 8-28-2010 R.L. Larry Konz

Robert P. Rusch collection

16392 P. 10-1991 Robert P. Rusch presenting to Wisconsin Forest History Association, Medford, WI

16392 Star News 12-2-1994 Westboro was a booming lumber town 80 years ago,’ by Ruby Evelyn Harrold Hatlestad, top

16392A ibid, bottom P. Hotel Lundeen

16392B ibid, Dennis Makvin Harold was logomotive engineer for Westboro Lumber Co.

16392C ibid, in 1921 Westboro Lumber Co. ceased operations & sold its locomotive to Medford Lumber Co. Whittlesey was a flag stop, i.e. person waived his/her arms to get passenger train to stop.

16393 P. 9-2012 Rib Lake Historical Society sign and mission statement at Society office, N8643 CTH C, Rib Lake

16394 P. aerial photo Rib Lake Historical Society office & archives 9-25-2012

16395 P. 9-20-2012 ATV party search for Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 14, Camp 16 & Camp 17; L-R Harold Fliehs, Keith McCluskey, Daniel McCluskey, Linne Henrickson

16396 P. 9-20-2012 Harold Fliehs search for Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 17 in Sec. 13-32-3E where he was sure it was located

16397 P. 6-20-2012 L-R Eva Ultra Rusch, Linne Henrickson, Harold Fliehs look for extant sign of Camp 17, recent logging and poppleregrowth made search unsuccessful

16398 P. Danield McCluskey points to site of Camp 17 on west side of Lemke Creek & east of swale in which Dan stands in NE SW 13-32-3E, Town of Rib Lake, Taylor Co, Wis.

16399 P. 9-20-2012 L-R Linne Henrickson & Dan McCluskey in alder-golden rod lowland – proven site of Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 16, west side of Lemke Creek in SE NW 12-32-3E, Town of Rib Lake

14499 ID Camp 16 Rib Lake Lumber Company Site positively located 9-20-2012 by finding its well casing; west of Lemke Creek c. 100 ft. in SW SE NW 12-32-3E

16400 P. well casing, Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 16; Linne Henrickson stands next to bullet riddled steel; c. 100 ft. west of Lemke Creek, SW SE SW 12-32-3E, 9-20-2012

16401 1997 Taylor Co. plat book-locations of Camp 16 & Camp 17, Rib Lake Lumber Company

16401A ibid, Camp 14 location per Harold Fliehs

16402 Map 10-25-2012 Camp 14, Camp 16 and Camp 17 drawn on 1979 quad ‘Wood Lake.’ Camp 14 site per Harold Fliehs, told it was site by forefathers, probable location SE SW 36-33-3E. Camp 17 site-positive location, camp well casing found 9-20-2012. See photo 16400. probable logal description SE SW 12-32-3E. Camp 17 generally and tentatively located 9-20-2012 by Daniel McCluskey per report of father, Charles and boyhood memories. Camp 17 was west of Lemke Creek & NE of swale (swamp); probable location NW SE 13-32-3E. site recently logged over and hard to inspect – no extant evidence found but swale.

16403 P. ‘Eva’ runs former Rib Lake Lumber Company mainline; L-site of Camp 14 per Harold Fliehs, view east 9-20-2012

16404 P. ‘lost log lake’ A sedge meadow SE NE 13-33-2E, 8-2012

16405 P. 8-2012 ibid extreme drought shrinks pond

16406 L. 10-23-2012 Mike Wollmer, Executive Director, Ice Age Trail Alliance to Ann & Bob Rusch

16407 P. 7-2011 Rusch Tree Farm, SW NE 13-33-2E

16408 P. 7-2011 IAT Future route – old gravel pit, SW E 13-33-2E

16409 P. 7-2012 IAT flag-yellow ribbon shows proposed trail

16410 P. Raised IAT path past ‘gravel pit pond’ 8-2012

16411 P. Scott Komarek with small back hoe enlarging pond 9-2012

16412 P. skid steer used to position guide boulders along IAT route 9-2012

16413 P. Robert P. Rusch using lath to secure hay mulch; site seeded, fertilized and mulched to heal 9-2012

16413A P. 9-28-2012 wood shaving & bark used for mulch hauled from Goodrich Lumber Co., new dog, Marley, inspects

16413B P. IAT elevated path above spring water levels

16414 P. wheel barrow at gravel pit pond, drought lowers water table – 6 feet in pond

16415 P. hay & spruce bought mulch 9-2012

16416 P. hill remnant at pit site, disease resistant and white pine-pinus resinosa-planted 2005

16417 P. Eva along IAT elevated patch 9-2012

16418 P. Marley in pond 9-28-2012

16419 P. 10-24-2012 pond filled by 2 inches of rain

16420 plat book 20 Sec. 13-33-2E, etc. & gavel pit pond site

16421 P. 9-29-2012 Marley at ‘grove of Hercules’ SW NE 13-33-2E

16422 P. 9-29-2012 Motor vehicle access road to gravel pit pond

16423 P. tree farm sign-land entered 50 years ago upon purchase by R.P. & Karen M. rusch folloing ruinous logging

16424 P. sign – ‘Welcome to Schoenwalde’ land subjected to conservation easement in 2009

16425 P. 9-29-2012 Knowles-Nelson States Stewardship funding paid part of conservation easement cost

16426 P. 9-21-2012 Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve, SE NE 12-33-2E, Town of Rib Lake-trail head for IAT, Timm’s Hill Trail & Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Trails

16427 P. Trail Sign-Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Trails & Rusch Preserve ‘You are Here’ sign 10-1-2012

16428 P. IAT & Timm’s Hill Trail signs on CTH C, Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve – view south

16429 P. Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve-view north, CTH C 9-21-2012

16430 P. Eva Ultra Schnee Rusch – last photo

16431 P. 9-21-2012 Friends of the Trail kiosk, Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve, SE NE 12-33-2E

16432 P. ibid, sponsors contribute $200 to become Friends of the Trail 9-21-2012

16433 P. kiosk on CTH C, Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve, IAT sign routes hikers on highway pending IAT Trail construction,

16433A Reroute sign, IAT

16434 Map ‘Rib Lake Ski Trails’ ‘Rusch Preserve’ c. 2000, prior to club becoming ‘Ski & Snowshoe Club’

16435 P. 9-21-2012 Martha H. Rusch nee Gebauer dedication sign at Rusch Preserve

16436 P. open Anti ATV gate & Robert P. Rusch 1985 Ford F-150 pick-up at Rusch Preserve 9-21-2012

16437 P. Red pine, pinus resinosa, planted in old gravel pit at Rusch Preserve

16438 P. 9-21-2012 Red pine have thrived at Rusch Preserve despite growning in subsoil 10 feet beneath virgin soil service

16439 P. Campsite fire spot, Rusch Preserve

16440 P. Komarek Well Drilling started drilling 9-21-2012

16441 P. pipe truck, Komarek Well Drilling at well site 9-21-2012

16442 P. 8 a.m. well drilling starts on SE NE 12-33-2E, Rusch Preserve

16443 P. drill truck control panel 9-21-2012

16444 P. 9-21-2012 waste soil & rock & water ejected as well drilled

16445 P. 9-21-2012 well casing added as well depends to 100 feet

16446 P. Black Lab, Eva, loves water

16447 P. new casing placed above old

16448 P. casings being welded together

16449 P. hose inserted to test water quality

16450 P. pebbles & sand from 100 foot depth

16451 P. test water is cold, clear, clean & copious

16452 P. sign ‘Stille Nacht’ [Silent Night] tent sites

16453 P. Komarek Well Drilling, Ogema, Wis., a fourth generation business

16454 P. Brothers Ted & Keith Komarek 9-21-2012

16455 P. Ann K. Rusch & Komarek

16456 P. Packing up to go home 9-21-2012

16457 P. fresh coat of primer painted on self-draining hand pump 9-24-2012

16458 P. mud covers site 9-25-2012

16459 P. pump 2 feet above final grade awaits landscaping

16460 P. Marley, mixed yellow lab-golden retriever, checks stone box built to diffuse unused water from pump

16461 P. 18 yards crushed gravel created smooth walk from winter sports trail (at rear) to pump, now sporting final, brown rustoleum 10-1-2012

16462 P. 8-2007 four sons of Herman A. & Martha H. Rusch, top L-R Robert P. Rusch, b. 6-5-1942, Thomas Michael Rusch, b. 9-18-1943, bottom, Gerald Allen Rusch, b. 7-8-1937, Everett Arthur Rusch, b. 8-12-1929

16463 P. Franz-Josef Gebauer, Gutersloh, Germany, cousin of Robert P. Rusch (left) & Thomas M. Rusch (right) 8-2007

16464 P. Gebauer reunion, Everett A., Gerald A, Thomas M., & Robert P. Rusch with cousin, Franz-Josef Gebauer, Schoenwalde, is name fo former Silesian, Prussian, village where ancestors of each lived. Red fire hydrant from Schoenwalde.

16465 German Christmas card, 2008, from Jan-Peer Gebauer & Ela Ortjohann

16466 P. 8-2007 L-R, Ann K. Rusch & Robert P. Rusch, Marta & Franz-Josef Gebauer

16467 P. 7-2012 L-R Israel & Jeremiah Rusch, children of Michael Christopher Rusch.

Collection of Diane E. Mayer, 7030 N. Poplar Rd., West Bend, WI, daughter of Michael Schwarz, 1926-2011 & Elizabeth ‘Bette’ Buksa, granddaughter of Mike Schwarz, Sr.

16468 Map c. 1910 ‘F. Schwarzrock’ farm, Sec. 19-33-3E, Town of Rib Lake

16469 Map 1913 Fred Schwarz & Fred Schwarz, Jr. farms, Sec. 19-33-3E, Town of Rib Lake

16470 Map c. 1925 Mike Schwarz farm, Sec. 19-33-3E, Town of Rib Lake

16471 W. ‘Schwarz family history’ c. 2010 by Diane E. Mayer, nee Schwarz, p. 1

16471A ibid P. 2

16471B ibid, p. 3

16471C ibid, p. 4

16471D ibid, p. 5

16471E ibid, p. 6

16471F ibid, p. 7

16471G ibid, p. 8

16471H ibid, p. 9

16471I ibid, p. 10

16471J ibid, p. 11

16471K ibid, p. 12

16472 Manifest ‘Verzeichniss’ 3-21-1903 steamship ‘Bulgaria’ sailing from Hamburg to New York

16472A ibid, passengers Friedrich Schwarz, age 51, father, Ida, 42, mother, children-Ida, 15; Mina, 13; Michael, 13; Martha, 9; Olga, 8

16472B ibid

16472C Map c. 1895 Ost und Westpreussen (Prussia)

16473 4-11-1903 list of alien immigrants, S.S. Bulgaria, Port of New York, including Friedrich Schwarz ‘farmer’ & family, in possession of $200; NB-immigrants arrived in US with ‘50 cents’

16474 11-14-1911 Petition for Naturalization, Friedrich Schwarz, Sr.

16474A Naturalization Order 4-3-1912, Taylor Co. Circuit Court, Judge Risjord for Friederick Schwarz

16475 P. c. 1900 Fred Schwarzrock, Jr., 1884-1966. While living in Cape Colony, South Africa. NB-He never shortened his name to Schwarz

16476 P. 1924 Milking cow in log barn at Schwarz’ Town of Rib Lake farm

16477 P. c. 1920 Friedrich Schwarz, Sr., & cow at Rib Lake farm

16478 P. c. 1930 Mike & Margaret Schwarz carrying pails on way to milking

16479 P. 1926 Mike & Margaret Schwarz, baby is first born child, Walter, at Rib Lake farm with Koehler family – Margaret’s relatives from Aurora, Illinois

16480 P. c. 1925 Rib Lake Town Hall, 4 teams ready to work on town roads; R-Mike Schwarz was town road boss & one of his employees was Herman A. Rusch. NB-stable to north of town hall. Herman Rusch often graded the town road past Olson Lake. His horse-pulled grader routinely hit a large rock in the middle of the road. One day Herman decided to dig the rock out. Working all morning with a shovel, Herman had dug a trench around the large rock when his boss, Mike Schwarz, happened by and asked Herman what he was doing. ‘I’m sick & tired of hitting this rock,’ said Herman. ‘I’ll dig it out.’ Mike replied, ‘That’s funny, Herman. I once dug for a day and half and could not reach its bottom.’ Discouraged, Herman filled in the trench & left the rock where he found it.

16481 P. c. 1925 Mike Schwarz & horse team, Ben & Bismarck, aka Biz, puling road grader

16482 P. c. 1895 Ida Leppard, aka Mrs. Friedrick Schwarz, Sr. in Europe

16482A P. c. 1930, Ida Leppard, aka Mrs. Friedrick Schwarz with worn out broom; rear-farm water pump-open doors into sheepshed & gable roof of Schwarz barn

16483 P. c. 1930 child bathing in wash tub-Mike Schwarz farm

16484 P. c. 1930 Friedrick Schwarz, Sr., and wife Ida, center; left-daughter Olga Traezewitz nee Schwarz; right Erv Traezewitz at Schwarz log cabin farm home

16485 P. c. 1910 Left Emil Krushat, right Mike Schwarz

16486 P. c. 1930 Barefoot Walter Schwarz atop farm horse

16487 P. c. 1930 George Joseph Buksa, and infant son, George John Buksa, and wife Helen nee Bucki

16488 P. c. 1930 Andrew Bucki, Sr., family

Back row, left to right-Helen Bucki Buksa, John Bucki, Frank Bucki, Edward Bucki, Mary Bucki Misener, Ann Bucki Rapp

Middle row – Anna Jurzek Bucki, Andrew Bucki, Jr., Andrew Bucki, Sr.

Sitting – Nellie Bucki Smedegard

16489 P. c. 1940 Elizabeth ‘Bette’ Buksa, lka Mrs. Walter Schwarz, with stylish saddle shoes

16490 P. c. 1955 aerial photo – Mike Schwarz farmstead

16491 W. 9-29-1941 Naturalization certificate – Mike Schwarz

16492 W. 10-1-1941 ‘Citizenship papers granted to 44’ including Mike Schwarz

16493 1-14-1980 Mike Schwarz death certificate

16494 1-17-1980 obit, Mike Schwarz & obit. 1983 Margaret Schwarz, nee Frank

16495 W. c. 2010 Frank family history by Diane Mayer p. 1

16495A ibid, p. 2

16495B ibid, p. 3

16496 W. c. 2010 Buksa-Swider family history by Diane Mayer p. 1

16496A ibid p. 2

16496B ibid p. 3

16496C ibid p. 4

16496D ibid p. 5

16496E ibid p. 6

16497 P. 6-18-1930 Helen Bucki & George Joseph Buksa, wedding portrait

16498 P. 1930 George Joseph Buksa, hand crafting timber for new barn

16498A P. 1930 George Joseph Buksa (top, 3rd from left) & new barn under construction

16499 P. c. 1945 George Joseph Buksa farmstead

16499A Map c. 1950 George Joseph Buksa farm NE SW 35-33-2E

16500 Map 1913 Sec. 35, T33N R2E; Mikolay Buksa farm NE SW, Gregorz, aka Gregory, Swider farm SW SE, Stanley Swider farm NE NE 33-33-2E, route of eventual STH 102 until c. 1955 shown in orange

16501 obit, 1961 George Joseph Buksa and sons Michael Buksa & Richard Buksa

16502 Map, Galicia and short history

16503 Star News ‘Bucki family reunion’ 9-14-1985

16504 obit, Frederick Schwarzrock, 7-18-1884 to 4-7-1966 Rib Lake Herald

16505 obit, Ida Wilhelmina Leppard, aka Lepard, lka Mrs. Fred Schwarz, Sr., 6-25-1859 to 5-29-1943

End of Diane Mayer collection

16506 W. 11-2012 ‘The Big Reunion’ ‘Das Grosse Wiedersehen’ Major events in the lives of Gebauer and Rusch by Franz-Josef Gebauer

16507 W. Smola Brothers, Inc., notepad; George, Jr., George II and Brian Smola, 2010

Karl & Phyllis Schwoch collection

16508 W. ‘Some Memories of Fawn Valley State Graded School’ c. 2010 by Phyllis Schwoch – title page

16508A ibid p. 2

16508B ibid, p. 3

16508C ibid, p. 4

16508D ibid, p. 5

16508E L. Phyllis Schwoch to RPR 11-2012 re Fawn Valley School

16508F ibid p. 2

16508G ibid p.s.

16508H ibid p.p.s.

Robert P. Rusch collection

16509 1906 Lincoln Co. plat book, F.L. Mead, Merrill, Wis. title page

16509A 31N 4E

16509B 31N 5E

16509C 31N 6E City of Merrill

16509D 32N 4E, Extensive Marshfield land & lumber holdings to be acquired by RLLC

16509E 32N 5E to Wisconsin River

16509F 33N 4E Extensive US Leather Co. holdings

16509G 33N 5E

16509H 33N 6E to Wisconsin River

16509I 34N 4E completed ‘Rib Lake’ railroad extension to and from Spirit Falls

16509J 34N 5E Tomahawk, Marinette & Western right-of-way

16509K 34N 5E Spirit River junction with Wisconsin at Tomahawk

16509L 35N 4E ‘Clifford’

16509M 35N 5E Somo Lake

16509N 35N 6E Tomahawk & Heafford Junction

George John Buksa, aka George Buksa collection

16510 P. George John Buksa (holding fish) and wife, Florine, at ‘George’s Go Go Bar’ c. 1960; in 2012 site is Frosted Mug bar, 723 McComb Ave.

16511 P. c. 1960 Rib Lake and Pine Island aerial photo. Foreground-Holden Road to George & Faye Buksa’s ‘The Ribs’ bar; in former Eunice Holden residence, Govt Lot. 3, Sec. 26-33-2E

16512 Map 2010 ‘Rib Lake’

16513 P. c. 1980 Dike reconstruction south of Rib Lake

16514 P. c. 1985 Herman A. Rusch (far left) & Das Zuckerhaeuschen maple syrup cooking shack, SW NE 13-33-2E; tarps hung on building blocked cold winds

Robert P. Rusch Collection

16515 W. 10-2012 ‘Mitt Romney & Paul Ryan will Grow the Economy’

16515A backside ‘President Obama will continue to grow government’

16516 W. ‘To Mrs. Lorraine Killion, Thank you for all you have done for our party and our nation’ signed Bill Clinton & Barack Obama 9-2012

16517 W. 11-25-2012 Good Shepherd Catholic Church newsletter

15617A p. 2

16517B p. 3 news & events

16517C p. 4 Women of Faith

16517D p. 5 advertisers

16517E p. 6 advertisers

16518 W. ‘Rusch donation recognized’ & ‘new easement protects 1/3 mile of trail’ fall 2012 Mammoth News. Map – Ann & Bob Rusch Preserve

16519 1995 Ice Age Trail 50 mile run T-shirt logo

16519A 4 logos signify 4 prior run completions

16519B backside-Marathon definitions

16519C Ice Age definitions

16520 P. Cindy Sommer holds c. 1910 steam hauler chain 11-2012

16520A silhouette of c. 1910 steam hauler chain

16520B P. Handmade features of steam hauler chain

16521 11-2012 Rib Lake Historical Society new mission statement to preserve, publish & promote the rich history of greater Rib Lake, Wisconsin

Jeanette Plude nee Bube collection

16522 W. ‘Names Returned to Forgotten Children; Dignity Returned’ c. 1990

Lillian Thums & Gregory ‘Doc’ Thums collection

16523 4-22-1947 State of Wisconsin vs. Wayne Westerman, complaint for criminal warrants by Mr. & Mrs. Walter Gums and Harold Anderson. ‘Did willfully and unlawfully violate sec. 176-32 Wis. Statutes by selling intoxicating liquor to a minor, Robert Gums, age 18, on April 21, 1947 in Taylor County’ ‘Subscribed & sworn to before me this 25 day of April, 1947, signed Edwin Thums, Justice of the Peace’

16524 4-22-1947 State of Wisconsin vs. Vincint (sic) Hohl. Edwin Thums, a non-lawyer, served as a Justice of the Peace for the Village of Rib Lake. He completed this complaint for criminal warrant by filling in the blanks on this form printed by ‘Star News printers, Medford, Wis.’ He then had complaintants sign the document. This commenced a criminal case. The Justice of the Peace would also decide the guilt or innocence of the defendants if they pled ‘not guilty.’ This procedures was abolished c. 1965 when Wisconsin law provided that only a District Attorney or Attorney General could commence a criminal charge

16525 4-22-1947 ‘Report of Conviction Requiring Mandatory Revocation’ [of driver’s license; Robert Marlyn Gums, defendant] signed Edwin Thums, Justice of the Peace, Village of Rib Lake.

16525A backside ‘Order for Issuance of License for Occupational Purposes’ signed Edwin Thums, ‘J.P.’ Justice of the Peace

16526 L. 2-14-1947 Congressman Alvin E. O’Konski to Edwin Thums

16526A L. 2-19-1947 ibid

16527 W. 11-22-1947 ‘…. Outside sales nullify city laws on pistols’ ‘Regulation is possible only by federal action…’ Milwaukee Journal

16528 L. May 1955, Edwin George Thums to Social Security Office, Wausau, Wis. reporting annual earnings; 1949 - $1308.25 ($50 per week); to $3380 in 1954 ($65 per week). Thums drove a fuel oil truck for Kiger Oil Co. of Westboro

16529 W. 10-27-2012 Jeffrey ‘Jeff’ Thums retirement party

16530 W. 10-18-2012 Star News ‘Technology meets craftsmanship at Rib Lake’ re Great Northern Cabinetry, Inc., 749 Kennedy Street, Rib Lake

16531 P. 1983 Rib Lake municipal Water Tower

16532 P. 1983 Lutheran Church and McComb Ave. from municipal water tower

16533 P. 1983 foreground-former ‘pan house’ of US Leather Co. tannery building; back-former 1902 Rib Lake High School and bus garage prior to remodeling into Camp 28 Restaurant

16534 P. 4-11-1982 Fire ruins of former ‘Guernsey farm’ i.e. brothel, SE SW 30-33-2E, Town of Rib Lake

Donation of Karl A. & Phyllis J. Schwoch to Rib Lake Historical Society

16535 Map 1913 Charles Schwoch farm, SE SW 6-32-2E, Taylor County Standard Atlas

16535A Charles ‘Chas’ Schwoch family tree by RPR, 12-26-2012

16535B ibid p. 2

16535C Phyllis J. Hein – Karl A. Schwoch family tree 2-1-2013 from family bible

16536 W. 11-10-1881 School District #4 Town of Chelsea, Taylor Co., Wis. record book from creation of district until 7-6-1909. Book donated 12-1-2012 to Rib Lake Historical Society, LLC, by Mr. & Mrs. Karl A. & Phyllis L. Schwoch, who obtained book from estate of Theodore Schwoch, Jr. of Dorchester. Book consists of approximately 60 pages hardbound and writing through interior margin making scanning of entire page impossible.

16537 Charles Schwoch ‘ledger’ c. 1897-1932; handwritten accounts for Chelsea, Rib Lake and Westboro area settlers and businesses written ch Charles Schwoch in running his general store, e.g. credit for 25 cents to Henry Brandner for homemade ‘kraut.’ Outside cover

16537A ‘Joe Grittner & Ruprich Westboro’ Joseph Grittner was logging contractor ‘1-10-1900’

16537B ‘Christ Martin Rib Lake’ 9-26-1888, credit for threshing

16537C Andrew Hoffman 2-6-1897

16537D Frederich Kaska 11-1-1897

16537E Lorens [Lorenz] Thums 5-9-1899, Lorenz Thums was emigrant from Seewiesen, Bohemia (Austro-Hungarian Empire] and progeny of Thums family

16537F John Bishop 4-30-1888 ‘1 No. 5 steel plow $11.50’; 5-18-1888 ‘Repair to whiffle tree 10 cents’

16537G 4-9-1900 ‘Grittner & Rupprich’

16537H Fred Peche Greenwood 7-1-1901 ‘1 sickle grinder $5.00’

16537I August Ziemke 5-29-1900 ‘credit for labor on house $10.97’

16537 J Henry Brandner 5-8-1900 ‘credit for [sauer] kraut 25 cents’

16537K Carl Gruening-Rib Lake ‘spring for hay rake 10 cents’

16537L Albert Wille 4-11-1900 ‘credit for 4 cows put to bull’

16537M Andrew Peterson’Credit for cutting grain’

16537N Bruno Schwabe ‘1 belt 3x8x10 10 cents’

16537O Lorenz Thums 5-2-1900 ‘repairs to cant hook’

16537P Anton Wudi, Jr. 4-10-1900 ‘1/2 gallon oil 18 cents’

16537Q Thomas Seidl 6-27-1900 ‘5 lbs H nails 90 cents

16537R Christ Fisher 10-1898 ‘interest on plow from Oct. 1899 to 6-19-1900 72 cents’

16537S Town of Chelsea ‘14 foot tubing $1.54’

16537T Rousseau & Sheppard [Lumber] Company 12-11-1899 thru 9-11-1900 ‘to shrink 5 tires $1.25’ [expanding and then shrinking metal wheel rim over wooden parts]

16537U C.H. Kickbrusch [Wausau, Wis. retailer/wholesaler] 2-2-1902 ‘settle up with Kickbrush and paid to them $46.83’

16537V United States Leather Co. 5-9-1901 thru 2-3-1902 ‘repair to 2 sleighs 50 cents’

16537W William Adams 6-2-1901 ‘credit for planting potatos ½ day with team & ? $1.50’ ‘credit for 3 coes to bull $2.25

16537X C.L. Stuhr in account with Chas. Schwoch ‘600 lbs. horse shoes $23.10’

16537Y 8-14-1902 bill from T.F. Williams M.P. Chelsea, Wis. to Chas. Schwoch $15.25

16537Z T.F. Williams 5-27-1902 ‘repairs to buggy 50 cents’

16537AA Thomas Brehm 3-10-1888 ‘credit for 8 tousend (sic) feet of logs $22.00’

16537BB Joseph Dums 10-20-1885 ‘40 skid spikes 60 cents’

16537CC Peter Trojohn 6-15-1896 ‘1175 lbs. of hay $4.12’

16537DD Joseph Loeffler, Jr. 3-1-1900 ‘1 linq (sic) in chain 5 cents’

16537EE Anton Koenig-Rib Lake 6-16-1896 ‘1 iron spring harrow $14.00’

16537FF ‘in account with Theodore [Schowch], Jr. 4-11-1925 ‘postage for sacks & letters 16 cents’; ‘200 lbs. of coal $1.40’

16537GG ‘work done by boys on Hoffmann farm’; 1926 ‘Theo. 5-18 ½ day with tractor…’ Ehner planting potatos 28.5 hours with team’

16537HH Chas. Schwoch in account with Mrs. Clara Goodrich ‘paid for her-received for her’ [Mrs. Goodrich received e.g. $30 ‘county order’ 2-3-1932

16537II ibid ‘1-1-1932 Pasator Gehalt $1.50 [Pastor received $1.50]

16537JJ Elmer Schwoch 1-9-1931 ‘1/2 doz. Eggs 8 cents’

16537KK Mrs. Clara Goodrich ‘paid the taxes on farm $35.71’ 2-26-1932

16537LL Mrs. Clara Goodrich 10-1-1932 ‘hunting license for Connie [Conrad Goodrich] $2.00]

16537MM Mrs. Clara Goodrich ‘10-30-1932 assessment to Aid Association for Lutherans $3.40’

16537NN 1904 cream separator account 5-10-1904 ‘for using my hourse $2.00’

*** NB-The foregoing represents about one-third of the contents of 16357

16538 L 3-20-1925 to Chas. [Charles] Schwoch, Chelsea, Wis. from Svelflohn & Seefelt Co., Milwaukee; receipt for hardward order including whiffel trees = ‘whiff’

16539 10-25-1880 Application for loan to Commissioners of Public Lands, State of Wis. $600.00 by School District #3, Town of Chelsea

16539A 12 voters in School District No. 3

16539B A) Assessed valuation $24,045; B) Resident freeholders [landowners] 12; C) children ages 4-20 10; D) residents 30; E) land cleared 25 acres; F) homesteads 12; legal description of district land [i.e. S ½ T 32 North, Ranges 2 & 3 East]

16539C Map of District and names of landowers of 40 or more acres; signed W.P. Smith, W.H. Robertson, Robert Hess

16539D enlarged district map

16539E Attached letter 11-1-1880 School District #3 clerk W.P. Smith to electors of special meeting to raise money, $300

16540 Contract 3-25-1881 School District 3, Town of Chelsea, & Wellington Haight to; A) build school building and 2 outhouses; B) on 2 acres to be cleared of trees on NE corner NW 35-32-2E; C) $200 to be paid when land cleared and blanace of $450 upon acceptance

16540A pg. 2 D) Deadline 6-1-1881; E) specs- 20x26x12 ft. detailed specifications

16540B p. 3 specs, brick chimney, wainscoting, seats & hemlock post 2 feet into ground

16540C p. 4 signed W.P. Smith, William H. Robertson, Robert Kees, for School District #3; signed Wellington Haight, contractor

16540D p. 5 Floor plan of school to be built for District 3 by Wellington Haight

16540E p. 6 3-25-1881 Surety bond for Wellington Haight, signature of Wellington Haight, Henry C. Shearer & S.B. Hubbell

16541 Deed 6-14-1881 Wisconsin Central Railroad Co. & School District #3 [Town of Chelsea]; land for school building, i.e. 208.71 ft square ‘one acre’ in NE ¼ 35-32-2E

16541A signed Charles Colby, treasurer; Fed Abbot, cashier; Edwin H. Abbot, Trustee

16542 Envelope 7-15-1890 Town Clerk of Little Black, Taylor Co., Wis. to Hermann Klemm, School District #4 Clerk, Town of Greenwood

16543 Cemetery deed 1-22-1894, Town of Chelsea by W.P. Smith, chairman, and Peter Kleist, clerk, to Chas. [Charles] Schwoch, Lot 19, Block 12 in town cemetery ‘expressly for burial purposes & no other’

16544 Bond on school district treasurer John Oehme 9-9-1895

16544A ibid p. 2 & 3, signed Robert Klemm & Herman Klemm, sureties; bond approval signed M. Brahmer ‘direcktor’ (sic) signed Peter Brost, clerk, School District #4, Town of Greenwood

16545 receipt for charges collected by consignee 4-29-1930; 79 cents for ‘1 set of books shipped by railroad to Charles Schwoch at Chelsea; signed E.J. Roehig, station agent

16545A back American Railway Express Co.

16546 Receipt 11-16-1931 Chelsea Cheese Factory & General MDSE Co. ‘oil 48 cents’; 16546A ibid ‘sugar 55 cents, coffee 40 cents, cigar 5 cents’; 16546B ibid 3-17-1932 ‘4 gallons of gas 72 cents’

16547 Receipt 2-18-1932 E.J. Crane & sons, Seedsmen, Medford, Wis. to ‘Schwoch’ $2.04

16547A back ‘For top market prices bring us your poultry, hides, wool, grain, etc.’

16548 Receipt 5-12-1932 Medford Cooperative Company Department Store to Chas. Schwoch ‘Screen 39 cents and staples 5 cents’

16548A back ‘The only profit sharing store in town, Frank Diesing, Mgr’

16549 Envelope 2-1-1933 Aid Association for Lutherans [AAL] to Chas. Schwoch, 3 cent stamp

16549A Receipt for advance payment of $360 ‘on 123 assessments of Branch No. 146 at Rib Lake, Wis.’ signed AAL

16550 Town of Greenwood, Taylor Co., gravel hauling bills

16551 School District 1, Town of Greenwood, ‘District Clerk’s improved general record’ title page

16551A index

16551B annual meeting 7-6-1904

16551C annual meeting 7-5-1910

16551D annual meeting 7-3-1911; NB-minutes of annual meeting appear to 7-9-1927

16551E p. 201 teacher contract 9-7-1909 Catherine Voemastek $40 per month

16551F p. 203 teacher contract 9-4-1911 Emma Lupinsky $42 per month

16551G p. 213 teacher contract Edna Hetfeld $110 per month

16551H p. 215 teacher contract Aloysius Heglmeier 7-28-1922 $100 per month; NB-foregoing all samples of dozens of contracts

16551I Grade certificate, report card on teacher Aloysius Heglmeier on 21 topics by Taylor County Superintendent of Education Emma Lupinsky

16552 L. 12-13-1924 Wis. Treasury to John Dims [Dums], Treasurer, School District 1, Greenwood. Check for $90 ‘being amount owed to you by the state on account of transporation of pupils.’

16553 10-23-1927 minutes of school board District 1, Town of Greenwood, votes to close school for 2 weeks due to epidemic of chicken pox

16554 c. 1924 ‘Big attendance at annual school meeting’ Joint School District No. 1, Village and Town of Rib Lake; school budget of $17,350 for year 1923-24 approved

16555 1949 yearbook cover, University of Wisconsin

16555A p. 47 P. Karl A. Schwoch & fellow members of Blue Shield Country Life Club

End of Karl A. & Phyllis J. Schwoch donation to Rib Lake Historical Society 2012

16556 L. Lori Manion, Rib lake School District Superintendent, to Robert P. Rusch re loss of state school aid from Governor Scott Walker budget

16556A Rib Lake District Historical budget information 2000-2013

16557 North Center Conservancy Trust – Annual report 10-1-2011 to 9-30-2012; cover

16557A ibid p. 1

16557B ibid p. 2

16557C ibid p. 3

16557D ibid p. 4

16557E ibid p. 5

16558 Map 12-8-2012 Copper River spur & sites of Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 1, Camp 18 and Camp 19 by Robert P. Rusch

16558A legend p. 1; Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 19 site – SW SW SW 27-31-4E

16558B ibid p. 2, site of Rib Lake Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 1, NE NE 31-31 4E, Lincoln Co.

16558C ibid p. 3 Railroad bridge over Rib River and logging dam

16558D ibid p. 4 log loading site on Rib River

16558E ibid p. 5 site of Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 13, SW SW 15-31-4E, Town of Corning, Lincoln Co., Wis. Special credit and thanks to Mr. Rich Harding, Athens, WI

16559 P. 12-15-2012 Rich Harding on former Copper River spur right of way; SW SW 28-31-4E, Lincoln Co east side junction Grinder & Greiner Roads, view east

16560 P. 12-15-2012 Rich Harding on former Copper River spur right of way; SW SW 28-31-4E, Lincoln Co east side junction Grinder & Greiner Roads, view east

16561 P. 12-15-2012 Rich Harding atop Copper River spur fill east side Rib River; rear-small snow-covered embankment is west end of former railroad bridge

16562 P. 12-15-2012 Marley the Dog on ice of Rib River at site of former Copper River spur bridge; rear-snow-covered fill of right-of-way leading to Copper River junction and Athens, Wis.

16563 P. 12-15-2012 Rich Harding with bent remnant of old Rib River railroad bridge, NE NE 31-31-4E, town of Corning, Lincoln County, Wis.

16564 P. 12-15-2012 junction of STH 102 and Lakeshore Drive, Village of Rib Lake; north terminus of new pedestrian path along STH 102 – west terminus, Good Shepherd Catholic Church

16565 P. 12-15-2012 asphalt pedestrian patch; rear-STH 102 & Rib Lake; wheat colored mulch covers grass seed

16565A P. 12-15-2012 new pedestrian path, Village of Rib Lake – view SW; right-home of Peter Petkau

16566 L. 12-14-2012 German Settlement History, Inc. by Michael Meier to Robert P. Rusch

16567 P. 12-14-2012 Rusch Preserve sign; SE NE 12-33-2E

16568 P. ibid, right-Timms Hill Trail and beginner ski loop

16568A ibid, 12-17-2012 fresh snow on sign

16569 P. 12-14-2012 new water well installed 12-2012 on Rusch Preserve by Ice Age Alliance. Next to ‘stille nacht’ (silent night) primitive camp grounds

16570 ibid, 100 ft. well furnishes abundant clean, cold water

16571 P. 12-17-2012 hand water pump, Rusch Preserve SE NE 13-33-3E

16572 P. 12-17-2012 Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve sign, CTH C, Town of Rib Lake

16573 P. 12-17-2012 ‘Ice Age Trail Segment Closed’ sign at Rusch Preserve

16574 P. 12-17-2012 Marley Rusch the Dog at Friendship Bridge, NW NE 12-33-2E

16575 P. 12-17-2012 Friendship Bridge takes beginner ski loop over Susan and Rollie Thums driveway

16576 P. 12-17-2012 ‘Snow poles’ maintained by Rollie Thums demonstrates snow depth from Jan. 1 and March 15

16577 P. 12-17-2012 Friendship Bridge path

16578 P. 12-17-2012 ‘Beginner Ski Trail sign-trail is 2 miles long beginning at Rusch Preserve & is the most popular ski & snowshoe trail maintained by the Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club, Inc.’

16579 P. 12-17-2012 Trail arrows, blue blazes indicate beginning ski trail; green indicates Nordic trail; beginning in Village of Rib Lake and looping 14 miles in Town of Rib Lake.

16580 P. 12-17-2012 every major trail intersection is identified by a letter, e.g. A, B, C., etc., and a ‘you are here’ sign

16581 W. ‘Taylor County Beyond Expectations; 2012-13 visitor’s guide’ cover

16582 W. 2012 ‘Fingertip directory’ cover

16582A index

16582B Lester & Roger Mann, dba Mann’s Southside Auto Repair

16582C Chelsea Conservation Club

16582D Chris Mahner, dba Better Built Cabinetry

16582E Russ Wudi, dba Russ’ Coins

16582F Jerry Clark, dba Jerry’s Computers

16582G Cindy & Greg Hanke, dba C&G Mini Mart, Inc.

16582H Steven Kalmon, Jr., dba Mondeaux Dam Restaurant

16582I Koplins’ Camp 28 Restaurant, Bar & Hotel

16582J Inn Between Bar & Restaurant

16582K P. 12-17-2012 Inn Between Bar & Restaurant, Goodrich, Wis., view East; left-STH 64

16582L Hope Hospice & Palliative care, founded in Rib Lake c. 1980 by Barbara Meyer and headquartered in Rib Lake until c. 1998

16582M Smola Brothers, Inc. (Town of Greenwood)

16582N Mahner’s Sales & Service (Town of Chelsea)

16582O Sara Matyka, dba Northwoods Photography

16582P Mr. Ed’s Excavating, Septic Cleaning & Portable Toilet Rentals

16582Q Dennis Fuchs, dba Foxy’s Cattail Tap

16582R Renee & Scott Zondlo, dba Zondlo’s Bar

16582S Kenneth Norgaard, dba North Garden Trees, Rib Lake

16583 11-2007 ‘Badger Postal History’ official publication of Wisconsin Postal History Society – cover

16583A ‘A Jewel in the Forest, The Story of Whittlesey – 54492’ (Taylor County) by Christopher N. Barney & Robert P. Rusch; P. August Steiner c. 1895; P. Asaph Whittlesey c. 1860

16583B ibid, p. 2 P. August Steiner & farmhouse which parlor served as Whittlesey Post Office

16583C ibid, p. 3, Whittlesey postmaster list 5-18-1882 thru 5-5-1948

16584 Map 12-25-2012 site of August Steiner ‘Whittlesey’ post office in SW SE 26-32-2E, superimposed on 1913 ‘Standard Atlas Taylor County’, Rural free delivery, ‘R.F.D.’, postal route shown in red

William Weber collection

16585 German language religious wall hanging c. 1890

‘Dein Wort Ist Meines Fusses Leuchte und ein Light Auf Meinem Wege’ Psalm 119:105

‘Your work is a lamp for my feet and a light for my paths’

16585A ‘Fuerchte dich nicht, denn ich bin mit dir’ – ‘Fear Not, for I am with you’ 1 Moses [Genesis] 26:24

16586 W. ‘Our Father’ & 10 commandments religious wall hanging c. 1925

16587 P. 4-1983 view SE from Village of Rib Lake water tower-right-former Hermann Emanuel Rusch home, 746 Fayette Ave., foreground-former Tannery site

16588 P. 4-1983 view NE from village water tower – Tannery Pond, Kofler barn

16589 P. 4-1983 view north from village water tower; foreground-former Rib Lake Lumber Company horse barn site; center-hay field at future site of Rib Lake Elementary School

16590 P. c. 2000 Medford Depot after 1988 closure, nka Pine Line Depot Café

16591 P. c. 2000 Medford Depot; view to NE

16592 P. c. 2000 Taylor County, Wis., courthouse, built 1913, view to SE

16593 P. c. 2000 Kiwanis Park, Medford, Wis., and dam on Black River, view to NE; in 2012, pedestrian bridge erected through park

16594 Map 8-27-2012 Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 6 and Camp 9 sites, Ice & total and sleigh roads; steam hauler chain discovery site in 2007 by Roger Blomberg by Robert P. Rusch

16595 Map 8-26-2012 Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 9 extant signs by Robert P. Rusch

Collection of Stephen L. Kalmon

16596 W. ‘Rib Lake Co-op will buy store of P.E. Marcus’ Taylor County Leader 8-4-1921. Phillips E. Marcus, dba ‘The Fair’ department store operated in SE corner of McComb & Landall Ave., MRPA Lot A13; in 2013 site of Lake Theatre Park

16597 10-27-1921 ‘200 carloads of logs shipped to Rib Lake’ Taylor County Leader, O.A. ‘Ole’ Peterson had purchased former Stephen A. Konz sawmill

16598 W. ‘May extend railroad east and west through county,’ Taylor County Leader 2-17-1921, The Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul & Omaha had built through Donald, Hannibal & to Hughey in western Taylor County. It graded some right-of-way east of Hughey but never laid track.

16599 W. ‘Tannery Shut down’ 2-2-1922 Taylor County Leader. The Rib Lake tannery never resumed operations

16600 W. ‘New train schedule in effect Ap. 6’ Taylor County Leader 4-3-1927. NB-If a passenger left Medford at 9:18 a.m., the passenger should arrived at Chicago at 9;55 p.m. via the Soo Line Railroad, it was 315 miles between Medford & Chicago. The passenger train averaged less than 26 mph

16601 W. ‘Co-op Creamery at Rib Lake assured’ 3-6-1924 Taylor Co. Leader. The creamery operated for many years at the SW corner of Elm and State Road.

Robert P. Rusch Collection

16602 11-20-2012 P. L-R Franz-Josef Gebauer, Guetersloh, Germany, and Rolland ‘Rollie’ Thums, admire nice Town of Rib Lake doe harvested by Gebauer

16603 W. c. 2008 ‘Hiking & Biking in Taylor Co.’ Ice Age National Scenic Trail, Gerstberger Pines Nature Trail by Taylor County Tourism

16603A p. 2 ibid, The Pine Line

16604 P. 7-10-2012 tents on lawn of Rib Lake High School

16604A ibid, truck transporting ‘luggage’ for bicyclists pedaling Ashland to Madison multi-day tour, ‘Two bicycles and a map’

16604B ibid, bicycles on Rib Lake High School lawn

16604C ibid, smiling cyclists ready for 45 mile ride beginning in Rib Lake, north on CTH C and into Price County

16605 W. ‘Fat Tire Wisconsin; A mountain bike guide,’ 1995, William Chad McGrath and Mark Parman-cover

16605A p. 56 Rib Lake, Deutsche Wiederereingung Brueke, German Reunification Bridge

16605B p. 57 ibid, in 1995 the Rib Lake Ski Club sponsored a mountain bike race, ‘95 Ice Age Classic,’ on its ski trail in Town of Rib Lake

16605C p. 58 & 59 Map ‘Rib Lake Trails,’ 12995 Chad McGrath

16606 Finisher’s Medal, ‘Rib Lake Ice Age Days Velociraptor Run’, an 8 mile trail run held c. 1995-2005 by Rib Lake Ski Club on its ski trail in Town of Rib Lake

16607 Map, April 6, 2005, ‘Open Space Recreation Map & Public Lands’ of Village of Rib Lake, Taylor Co. Land Information office-legend

16607A ibid, SW

16607B ibid, NW, schools

16607C ibid, NE, Lakeview Park & Cemetery

16608 Map 10-15-2007 Safe routes to school proposal, Village of Rib Lake, legend

16608A ibid, schools and proposed Safe routes to school path along Kennedy Street

16609 L. 3-2-2012 Village of Rib Lake President Wayne Tlusty ‘Safe routes to school’ ‘cost estimates & options’

16610 11-2012 promotional calendar ‘The Other Corner, Westboro, Wis’ Restaurant owned by Douglas Thums

16611 P. aerial 8-28-1938 ‘BSC-2-34’Town of Hill town hall & environs; top left-Mackey Spur; center-steam hauler right-of-way on NE NE 6-33-2E, west side of Lucia Road north of Silver Creek, route of log transport c. 1915 from Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 12 and Westboro Lumber Co.

16612 P. aerial 8-28-1938 ‘BSC-2-39’ Spokes Hill and probable Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 12 site, SW SE 34-34-2E, Town of Hill, Price Co., Wis; NB-red dot at woods clearing, red line marks right-of-way of steam hauler. Camp site east of fire land built c. 1935 by W.P.A. between Spokes Hill and North Harper Lake, northwest tip of which in extreme lower right

16613 P. c. 1907 ‘44,800 lbs of bark hauled 7 miles’ to Rib Lake tannery

16613A back-post mark 3-21-1908 to George Thygerson, Park Falls, Wis. ‘Well George, what do you think of that for a load of [hemlock] bark? Write soon, signed Day Banks

16614 P. aerial 8-28-1938 ‘BSC-2-22’ portion of former sleigh road between Rib Lake & Chelsea in 29 and 30-33-2E, Town of Rib Lake

16614A photocopy ibid, old sleigh road route highlighted in red

16615 P. aerial 8-28-1938 ‘BSC-2-98’ Village of Rib Lake and environs, Rib Lake Lumber Company mill complex and dry yards and railroad running east past CTH C

16615A Enlargement of Village of Rib Lake

16616 P. aerial 8-28-1938 ‘BSC-2-99’ north Village of Rib Lake, Rib Lake town hall to Sec. 13-33-2E

16616A ibid 155% enlargement and photo interpretation; 1) red-former steam hauler route to Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 6 & Camp 9; 2) yellow-Rib Lake Lumber Company logging railroad right-of-way; 3) orange-STH 102 right-of-way; 4) green-CTH C right-of-way

Collection of Rib Lake Public Library, David Judell, Head Librarian, from generous gift of Mrs. Max (Marie) Krolnik

16617 W. 6-10-1904 Medford High School Commencement program cover

16617A p. 1, ‘Fourteenth Annual Commencement Exercises of Medford High School to be Held in Germania Hall…’ [This popular building stood until c. 1940 in NE corner of Ogden and South Second Street, City of Medford]

16617B p. 2 program

16617C p. 3 motto colors & flower; 16617D p. 4 graduates-6 in modern classical course; 6 in ‘German course’ and 1 in English course

16617E p. 5 school board, including Elias L. Urquhart, clerk; 16617F p. 6 faculty (4)

16618 6-15-1915 Taylor County Training School Commencement Announcement – cover

16618A p. 1 invitation to ‘Germania Opera’

16618B p. 2 program

16618C p. 3, class roll, including Anna M. Kapitz and Marie L. Gummo

16618D p. 4, officers, flower, color and motto

Robert P. Rusch collection

16619 P. aerial 7-11-1939 ‘BSC-10-54’ Spirit River Valley; Rib Lake Lumber Company logging in process in Lincoln Co, Section 36, T34N, R4E; note log skid trails to log pile along railroad track; top-former right-of-way of Soo Line Railroad had spur to Johnson sawmill on Spirit River; center-Carl Rhody farm

16619A Photocopy ibid with interpretation; pink-active Rib Lake Lumber Company railroad track; orange-skid trails; red-former Soo Line (Minneapolis, St. Paul & Saulte Ste. Marie) railroad right-of-way between Rib Lake and Spirit; blue-Spirit River; yellow-tote road to loggin camps. Compare map 13358

16620 P. aerial 7-11-1939 ‘BSC-28-56’ NE corner Taylor County, green box depicts N ½ NE ¼, 1-33-3E; NB-right (east) of green vertical line is cutover of Rib Lake Lumber Company in Lincoln Co; site of Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 10 shown in NE NE 1-33-3E

16621 P. aerial 7-11-1939 ‘BSC-10-59’ Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 26 in operation, SW NW 20-33-4E, Town of Corning; right-Wood Lake, Taylor County; note vegetation difference between east half of photo, i.e. virgin, uncut forest, and west half, Taylor Co. lands cut c. 1906-1920; curved lines around Camp 26 are Rib Lake Lumber Company logging railroad grades. In 12-2012 piles of earth along former grades west of Camp 26 manifest construction with a steam shovel—RPR

16621A photocopy, ibid; interpretation; red lines show former Rib Lake Lumber Company railroad grades; yellow highlights Camp 26 site

16622 P. aerial 7-11-1939 ‘BSC-10-62’ Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 14 site marked with red dot, NW SW SE 36-33-3E, Town of Rib Lake. Rib Lake Lumber Company railroad mainline transverses photo horizontally; i.e. east-west. Note conspicuous vertical line is W.P.A. fire lane

16622A photocopy interpretation; 1) red dot-Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 14 site; 2) red line-former Rib Lake Lumber Company railroad spur to Camp 16 still visible on photo 16618; 3) yellow line-1939 mainline Rib Lake Lumber Company logging railroad; 4) green line-railroad siding; 5) orange line-W.P.A. recently constructed/cleared fire lane-RPR

16623 Bio. Elias ‘Eli’ L. Urquhart

16624 W. 9-6-2012 ‘Westboro High School Reunion held July 29 [2012]’ Star News

16625 P. c. 1-1917 Soo Line locomotive stuck in snow near Medford ‘no trains fro three days.’

16626 W. 5-13-1937 ‘The Walter Veneer Factory at Westboro was burned to the ground..’

16627 W. 4-9-1881 Taylor County Star & News, John Duncan authorized to dam Silver Creek at Westboro & charge tolls for log driving by Chapter 222 Wis. laws of 1881. This is a memor syummarizing such law by Robert P. Rusch

16628 Deed 10-3-1895 Wis. Central Railroad to John J. Kennedy 360 acres; A) Sec. 9-32-2E SE NW S ½ SE; Sec. 19-32-2E NE SE S ½ SE; Sec. 35-33-2E SW NW W ½ SW, T33-2E, for $1310

16628A ibid, p. 2 condition subsequent; all logs, lumber, bark, posts, poles, bolts or other forest product from such lands up to 7-31-1913 ‘shall be shipped to market over the Wisconsin Central Railroad and thir connections…’

16628B signatures

Collection of John H. Klimeck, b. 3-4-1922

16629 Deed 7-30-1896 Wis. Central Railroad to John J. Kennedy, 200 acres for $930 – grantor acquired by congressional land grant of 5-5-1864; Sc. 11-T33-2E, SE NE; SE SW; SW SE; N ½ SE

16629A ibid, p. 2 John J. Kennedy contracted to buy on 8-1-1893, title reverts if John J. Kennedy fails to ship to market all wood products from presmises up to 7-31-1913 via Wisconsin Central Railroad, except for lumber used by manufacturing industries in Rib Lake

16629B ibid. p. 3 signatures

16630 Memo 1-6-2013 Robert P. Rusch-Why John J. Kennedy buys no Wisconsin Central Railroad lands in 1897-18999; not withstanding continued availability of such lands

16631 W. History of Chelsea, by Edwin Knauth, 4-1959; Taylor County set off 3-4-1875; Chelsea Township created 1875; Town of Greenwood created 11-14-1885

16631A ibid p. 2 Henry C. Shearer first town chairman; 6-13-1877 first saloon license; cf. 1896 for Town of Rib Lake; named for Pres. ___ Colby, president of Wisconsin Central Railroad

16631B ibid, p. 3, railroad wood supply; railroad using wood rails in 1888 ran between Kingsbury & Winchester sawmill & Whittlesey. Merchants and stores of early Chelsea identified

16631C ibid. p. 4 steam hauler at Whittlesey

16631D ibid. p. 5 Borgemoen’s store in downtown Chelsea; 5-3-1910 Chelsea town hall burns; vote 9-30-1911 to choose new town hall site, NE NE 22-32-1E

16631E ibid. p. 6, 1917 Edwin Knauth becomes town clerk

16631F ibid. p. 7 farm numbers; 1910-130 farms; 1959-86 farms; Langenberg Brick Co. opens 1898, employed 20; 1918 Whittlesey Co-op Dairy Co. built a cheese factory.

16631G ibid. p. 8 8-7 & 8-1954 Whittlesey festival ‘2000 people attended’; 12-27-1958 last passenger train, the Soo Line ‘laker’ stopped at Whittlesey and picked up 203 passengers

16631H ibid. p. 9 2-22-1959 Chelsea Conservation Club ice fishing contest, 2100 persons on Horseshoe Lake, door to door sales

16631I ibid p. 10, signed Edwin Knauth, author

16632 P. c. 1960 John H. Klimeck farm, SW SW 18-32-3E, foreground-CTH C; top-stereotypical American elm tree

16632A P. c. 1960 farm in 2012 owned by Mark A. & Sara M. Matyka, SE SW 18-32-3E; note rock piles in fields, then typical dairy farm

Robert P. Rusch collection

16633 W. Wisconsin Woodlands Fall 2012 cover

16633A ‘Sweet Spirit Woodlands; the past, present & future of a woodland’ by Marv & Kristina Meier; story of land in Town of Spirit, Price Co. Wis.

16633B ibid. p. 2

16634 W. ‘Managing your forest for old-growth features’ by Craig Lorimer, Woodland Management fall 1997

16634A ibid. p. 2

16634B ibid. p. 3

16634C ibid p. 4

16635 Map 8-17-1998 Forest management SE NE 13-32-2E

16636 8-17-1998 forest management plan, SE NE 13-32-2E, Town of Greenwood by Richard Lodholz

16636A ibid. p. 2 code

16636B ibid. p. 3 objectives

16636C ibid. p. 4 objectives

16636D ibid. p. 5 objectives

16636E ibid. p. 6

16636F ibid. p. 7 wildlife

16636G ibid. p. 8 summary

16636H ibid. p. 9 map

16636I ibid. p. 10 land exam

16637 L. 1-4-1999 Richard Lodholz, Consulting Forester to Robert P. Rusch

16638 Map 9-1-1998 S ½ NE, N ½ SE 13-33-2E

16638A ibid map 9-1-1998 NE SW 13-33-2E

16639 Forest stewardship management plan by Richard Lodholz for S ½ NE ¼, N ½ SE ¼ & NE SW 13-33-2E, Town of Rib Lake

16639A ibid. p. 2 codes

16639B ibid. p. 3 stand 1 goal-manage for old growth timber

16639C ibid. p. 3 recommendations

16639D p. 4 stand 2

16639E p. 5 stand 3

16639F p. 6 stand 4 & 5

16639G p. 7 stand 6 & 7

16639H p. 8 stand 8

16639I p. 9 stand 9

16639J p. 10 stand 10

16639K p. 11 recommendation

16639L p. 12 summary of practices

16639M Map 9-1-1998 Managed Forest Law map S ½ NE, N ½ SE, NE SW 13-33-2E, Richard Lodholz, forester

16639N land exam

16639O ibid. p. 2

16639P ibid p. 3

16640 L. 8-18-1998 Chris Thies, Biewier Wisconsin Sawmill Inc. to Robert P. Rusch

16640A W. Dairyland Realty brochure 10-2012 cover

16640B Rib Lake real estate offerings

16641 8-10-2012 Ice Age Days Schedule

16642 L. 4-2012 Town of Rib Lake Board correspondences to residents

16642A Annual report for 2011

16642B ibid p. 2

16642C ibid p. 3, signed Joseph ‘Joey’ P. Knorn, Chairman; Ben Kauer, Supervisor; Matt Robisch, Supervisor

16643 W. 8-2-2012 ‘Dan Lind retires as Rib Lake Postmaster’ Star News

16644 W. ‘Price Electric Cooperative director districts.’ P. Michael Meyer, District 1, Towns of Hill, Spirit, Tomahawk and Rib Lake

16644A obit. Robert Knop 8-8-1916 to 3-7-2012, son of Carl & Bertha (Kalk) Knop

16645 W. ‘Hopes & efforts of many lead to marathon success’ Star News. Robert P. Rusch completes 200 marathons or ultra-marathons. P. top-Ryan, Katie, Rodney & Kristin Strobach, Robert P. Rusch, Ann K. Rusch and Robin Riggs, nee Rusch; bottom- __ Behling, Kiarah Behling, Bekas Strobach, Trinity, Colton, Kirstin & Brendan Riggs

16645A 4th place trophy, 4-15-2012 St. Louis, MO, marathon

16646 W. 10-21-2006 ‘Push & Pulls’ German migration to Taylor County, Wis.’ by Robert P. Rusch

16646A ibid, p. 2 P. Wilhelm Gebauer

16646B ibid p. 3 the pull factors

16646C ibid p. 4 Joseph Brucker

16646D ibid p. 5 P. Hermann Emanuel & Ida Rusch

16646E ibid p. 6 summary

16646F ibid p. 7 Map 1887 Wisconsin Central Taylor County Railroad lands

16646G ibid p. 8 10-29-1882 ‘Der Warheits Freund’ ‘The Friend of the Truth’ Cincinnati, OH, German language newspaper clipping reporting Wisconsin Central railroad effprst to recruit and settle German Catholic immigrants in a settlement ‘St. Killian’ east of Westboro in Taylor County, Wis.

16646H ibid, p. 8 English translation [This article probably describes efforts which resulted in the founding of St. Ann’s Church in Town of Greenwood-Robert P. Rusch 1-7-2013]

16646I ibid p. 10 clipping describing efforts of Medford priest, Father Ritz, to open new Cathlic schools and churches in Taylor County. [translation from German language newspaper ‘Der Wahrheits Freund’ by Hildegard & Loretta Kuse]

16647 12-2012 envelope, Clemens Gebauer, Guetersloh, Germany, to Robert P. Rusch

16647A Christmas card-cover

16647B ibid, text in German

16647C enclosure, German newspaper clipping ‘mit Ganz Viel Libe Zur Musik’ ‘With lots of love for music’

16647D ibid Frankenstin-Muensterberger Heimatblatt; organ des heimat kreises Frankenstein/Schlesien

16648 W. Business card & biography, Dr. Susan J. Frazier, MD, Rib Lake Clinic 2012

16649 W. Business card & biography, Ms. Michelle Brost, Family Nurse Practitioner, Rib Lake Clinic

16650 Brochure ‘Knox Creek Heritage Center’ Brantwood, Wis.

16650A ibid p. 2

16651 3-2012 Rib Lake Elementary newsletter

16651A ibid p. 2

16652 W. 3-15-2012 ‘Rib Lake Elementary Board Meeting Report’

16652A ibid p. 2 ‘The Rib Lake Way’ is ‘using the time, talents & resources of our local community members, staff & students’ by Ms. Angela Woyak, Rib Lake Elementary School Principal

16653 W. 5-17-2012 ‘Rib Lake Hall of Fame Grows’ Star News. P. Daniel Mathias, Class of 1944, and John Taylor, Class of 1957, with Larry Black, Rib Lake District Administrator

16654 Certificate of Commendation to Robert P. Rusch from Wisconsin Association of School Boards 4-2012

16655 W. ‘Wolves in Wisconsin’ by Adrian Treves, the Muir Vein, news of the Sierra Club of Wisconsin

16655A ibid p. 2

16655B Wolf Poster Painting ‘Settled in’ by Tim Donovan 2011

16655C Why Wolves. The role of wolves in the landscape

16655D ibid & Timber Wolf Alliance

16655E map-range

16655F Western Great Lakes

16655G About the artist

16656 P. c. 1947 ‘Main St. Rib Lake, Wis. 37’ McComb Ave.-view south; left-Coffee Cup, Little Bohemia, Rib Lake Lumber Company office upstairs; bank downstairs; New Lake Theatre, aka The Laker

Barbara Fredenburg Collection

16657 P. Descendents of John J. Kennedy, founder of Rib Lake; c. 1945 Donald Angus Kennedy 10-30-1876 to 6-1-1961 and spouse, Winifred

16657A P. c. 1940 top R-L – Donald Angus Kennedy, Floyd Howe, brother-in-law to Donald; bottom R-L – William G. Kennedy 6-15-1880 to 11-1-1955; Barbara Howe, Elbert ‘Bert’ Carpenter Kenedy 1-5-1884 to 2-18-1973; Ronald Howe; all are sitting on porch of Mr. & Mrs. Donald & Winifred Kennedy, 3621 Morrison Street, Portland, Oregon. At the time Donald was a real estate broker with Sims Co., Portland

16657B P. c. 1950 Mr. & Mrs. Winifred & Donald Angus Kennedy. NB-Fore comprehensive Kenedy family information, see Kennedys-Movers & Shakers at

16658 History of Rib Lake 1-28-1882, Taylor Co. Star & News ‘Observation of a tramp’ [Edgar T. Wheelock]; Pete McCourt, Fred Barrett & Wheelock visit ‘J.J. Kennedy & Bros. mill at Rib Lake..’; Sleigh road connects Chelsea & Rib Lake. See aerial photo # ___ for partial route; John J. Kennedy’s younger brother, William, served as guide

16658A ibid p. 2 Duncan McLennan, John J. Kennedy’s brother-in-law, is clerk of the firm. The sawmill was not completed [it sawed its first board 12-21-1881] The mill produced 80,000 feet every six hours. William Skinner was mill superintendent, lead sawyers were Ben Wallace & Frank Loehner

16658B ibid p. 3, two boarding houses served the mill, one for day and one for night crews. J.D. Davis & H. [Hugh] D. MiMillen were in charge of boarding houses.

16658C ibid p. 4 ‘The mill from John J. Kennedy and Bro. and their backers, Messrs. Curtis Bros. & Co., own about 70,000,000 of stumpage [white pine]

16659 History of Rib Lake, 3-17-1883 from Spencer Tribune. Taylor County Star & News, Ed [Edgar] T. Wheelcok, Editor & Publisher, Masthead

16659A ibid, now 25 dwelling houses ‘Mr. Kennedy is sole proprietor of the town. Sawmill main buildings 36 x 122 feet. Dairoy capacity of 60,000 board feet; store 26 x 60 feet, with hall on second floor; average monthy sales of $3,000.

16659B ibid boarding house 24 x 40; 2 stories; another a trifle smaller ; winter employees 175-250; with 40 in mill, 35 horse teams and 15 yoke of oxen; in mll yard-10,000,000 ft. of pine and 11,000,000 shingles; in lake-10,000,000 feet of logs-wants 13,000,000. John J. Kennedy has 5 camps and logs shipped 200,000 to 250,000 feet per day

16659C Angus Kennedy assists John J. Kennedy in general supervision of the business; ‘Frank Johnson is General property man and Will [William] Kennedy.’

16659D Railway spur from Chelsea finished to one mile from Rib Lake Telephone between Rib Lake Mill and Chelsea; private school with 25 students

16660 History of Rib Lake 12-27-1884, obituary of John A. Kennedy, born 6-1858 in Ontario, Canada, died 12-13-1884 in Rib Lake

16660A Six years with different employers of Michigan & Wisconsin ‘in the pineries’ 1883-84 in employ of John J. Kennedy at Rib Lake

16660B Poem

16661 History of Rib Lake 7-23-1892 Taylor Co. Star & News, unknown author, John J. Kennedy’s saw mill enlarged. The most marked changes…is the Fayette D. Shaw Tannery & collection of new homes around it. Tannery daily capacity if 550 sides of hides; tannery boarding house built. E.C. Getchel is book keeper and First Lieutenant. New Methodist Episcopal Church under construction

16662 History of Rib Lake 12-3-1892; John J. Kennedy starts his first railroad at Rib Lake – will be about five miles long. Taylor Co. Star & News

16663 History of Rib Lake 6-10-1883 Biography of John J. Kennedy by ‘Minneapolis Lumberman’. Early years in New Yord state contracting for telegraph poles. Moved to Spencer, Wis. c. 1873-1878. Then cut logs for others. Contracted with Curtis Brothers of Clinton, Iowa, to cut logs at Ogema, Wis.

In 1881 contracted to cut logs of Curtis Bros. – which bought 250,000,000 ft. of pine – at Rib Lake.

In 1892, John J. Kennedy’s Rib Lake mill produced; 22,000,000 ft. of pine lumber, 15,000,000 ft. ‘hemlock’, 20,000,000 cedar shingles.

16663A ibid. John J. Kennedy mill specs. John J. Kennedy had ‘picked up considerable pine here and there throughout Wisconsin which he had milled for himself in addition too cutting for Curtis Bros. & Co.

16664 P. Maine Street-Rib Lake, Wis.’ c. 1932 view south on McComb Ave. from Fayette. 3 autos L-R A) 1923 Oakland; B) 1931 Nash; C) Facing photographer 1919 Model T Ford. [note-another copy of this photo scanned & indexed as 11101]; buildings on left:

1. Tauber Tavern, B9, MRPA, 832 McComb Ave., (Frank Tauber, dba Pi-oneer Tavern)

2. ‘Ice Cream Parlor’ operated by Jake Janda c. 1895-1959. B8, MRPA, 8-2008 building razed by Rodney Strobach

3. ‘The Pal Restaurant & Billards’ B7, MRPA, later called Swanson building

4. Phillip P. Arnold, formerly Ed Johnson hardware, B5, MRPA

5. Lewis J. Scharer Tavery, 4-4-1921 to 6-15-1945. B4, MRPA, 3-2011 Russ Wudi, dba Russ’ Coins in fine, new brick building.

6. William A. Gessert, dba Gessert Meat Market, B3, MRPA

7. Albert Marschke Tavern, B2 MRPA

8. First National Bank of Rib Lake, B1, MRPA, next, south Landall Ave. junction

(buildings on right):

9. Brehm Feed Store, C9, MRPA, 827 McComb Ave., in 2013

10. Frank L. Becker General Store, C6

11. Joseph Lilly Gas Station, 1923-1947, first gas station in Rib Lake, C5

12. Ole Winter Shoe Shop, C4, MRPA, later Eugene L. Clifford, ‘Sunny Side of the Street’ last office/publishing place for Rib Lake Herald

13. Kelnhofer Store, first building erected on McComb Ave. [1897] C1, 1926-195 George L. Seidel’s Food Store; in 2013, Ed’s IGA, Ed & Mary Zondlo, proprietors, 801 McComb Ave. This is Rib Lake’s oldest surviving business – 116 years continuous commercial use 1897-2013.

(next, South Landall Ave, rear on horizon – National Hotel)

16664A Envelope 12-2012 D. Troeschel, Czech Republic to Thomas M. Rusch. Rusch bought photo 16664 from Troeschel via ebay

16665 Email re ‘Way freight’ by Stewart ‘Stu’ Nelson

16666 Map, Camp 13, Rib Lake Lumber Company, possible location & Rib Lake Lumber Company logging railroad cut & rail 1-11-2013, Robert P. Rusch, Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 13 possible site, NW NW 12-33-3E, Silver dot on map – Taylor County Forester reports seeing old cans, pottery & clearing 10-2011 as he prepared area for logging;

Map legend – red lines=forest distrcts; green lines=waterways; silver lines=section lines. Gold dot on map is approximate site of Rib Lake Lumber Company railroad excavation through hill and piece of old rail; RR right-of-way running east-west observed by Russ Aszmann and photographed 2011, NW NW 13-33-3E; Gold dot believed to be on RLLC Camp 5 spur.

16666A P. 10-2011 Long-lost railroad track believed to be on spur line to Rib Lake Lumber Co. Camp 5; photo by Russ Aszmann, Taylor Co. Deputy Forester

16666B P. 10-2011 Excavation forming part of railroad grade believed to serve RLLC Camp 5

16666C P. 10-2011 Shadow darkens depressions left from now-rotted railroad ties in former railroad right-of-way believed to have serviced RLLC Camp 5

16667 Map c. 1-2-1922 ‘Lumbering Epoch-Railroads of Taylor County’ by Everett A. Rusch; legend & Rib Lake

16667A Ibid Westboro & Medford

16667B ibid Perkinstown, Gilman & Jump River - west part

16667C ibid Rib Lake-Westboro

Map narrative:

16667D General

16667E Wisconsin Central Soo, Omaha

16667F Medford Lumber Co., Stanley, Merrill & Phillips, Owen & Northern

16667G Eau Claire, Chippewa Falls & Northeastern, lka Omaha; Westboro Lumber Co., Rib Lake Lumber Company

16667H Abbotsford & Northeastern, Squaw Creek Lumber Co, Duncan Pole Line

16668 W. Pommerscher Verein-Central Wisconsin 6-2012 Membership renewal

16668A Envelope & emblem

16669 L. Bernard ‘Bernie’ Wahl to Robert P. Rusch 6-26-2012 p. 1

16669A ibid p. 2

16669B ibid envelope

16670 Map 3-2010 Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Trails

16671 Map c. 1-5-2010 High Point Trail – Timm’s Hill Trail

16672 Poster 8-10-2012 Rib Lake Ice Age Days

16672A ibid – events Aug. 11 & 12

16673 Poster 8-10-2012 Spirit-Hill-Ogema 4-H Fair, top

16673A ibid bottom, donors

16674 Certificate of marriage, Alice Kennedy & Arthur W. Pollatz, son of Frank (Franz) A. Pollatz 12-25-1901, Rib Lake

16674A Registration of Marriage – mother of bridegroom was Amelia W. Rusch

16674B Marriage License by William Martin, Taylor County Clerk

16675 W. 10-14-1940 appointment of James Downs of Rib Lake to Taylor County Selective Service (draft) board

16676 12-10-1942 James Downs certificate of public recognition on Taylor County draft board

16677 W. c. 1950 ‘Black list’ Prohibition against furnishing intoxicating liquors; cover & statute

16677A ibid ‘black list’ form to be filled out and signed ‘by wife of such person, supervisor of such town, chief of police…one copy signed shall be personally served on person prohibited from obtaining liquor.’

16678 ‘Blanchard Trial’ Taylor Co. Star & News 4-7-1900. Jury trial begun against Gail Blanchard for murder of his wife, Elma, on 8-28-1895 in Rib Lake

16678A ibid ‘not guilty’ 4-14-1900. Summary of testimony including Angus Kennedy – lives across street from defendant. Got up at 4:45 a.m. went for my cow to milk her…

16678B ibid testimony of Archie McClellan, village constable, etc.

16678C ibid testimony of Conrad Frank, etc.

16678D ibid, testimony of John J. Kennedy

16678E ibid, testimony of defendant 4-21-1900

16679 Summons to serve as juror - Ann Rusch, by Margaret Gebauer, clerk of circuit court, 12-2012

16679A ibid, back side

16680 jury orientation pamphlet by Judge Ann Knox-Bauer 7-10-2012

16680A ibid back side

16681 Map c. 1-2-1982 Price Co. Recreation area – cover

16681A ibid Westboro, Ogema, Timm’s Hill area

16682 Map c. 1-2-2001 2001 Wisconsin State Highway, cover

16682A ibid - legend

16682B ibid Rib Lake area

16683 Map c. 1980 Taylor County, cover

16683A ibid Rib Lake area

Collection of Helen & David Anderson, Spirit Lake

16684 P. c. 1909 unidentified woman in white dress

16684A ibid back, postcard post-dated ‘Spirit, Wis. June 23, 1910’ to Mrs. Louis Pilz, Lockport, Illinois

16685 P. c. 1908 ‘photo by A.E. Meier’ approximately 50 unidentified people at wedding

16685A ibid, back postcard post-dated ‘Spirit Falls, Wis. 11-8-1909’ Henry & Frieda to Fritz Pilz, Lockport, Illinois with 1 cent stamp

Robert P. Rusch Collection

16686 12-5-1984 ‘Rib Lake Report’ Star News – weekly column by Lou Hales

16686A ‘German Settlement’ column by Mrs. Roy Meier, nee Helen Risberg

16686B ‘Westboro’ column by Mrs. Anna Lucia

16687 Map 1883 ‘Map of The Pine Regions’ [of Wisconsin]. It incorrectly shows the creek flowing into east side of Rib Lake as 4+ miles long commencing in Price County; this error accounts for Town of Rib Lake in 2013 having two separate ‘Copper Creeks’

16688 5-9-1984 ‘The Rib Lake Shopper’ cover by unidentified party

16688A ibid p. 2 & 3, ads Barry & Susan Anderson, dba Barry’s Body Shop; ad Rib Lake Roller Mill

16688B ibid p. 4 James C. Dallmann, dba Dallmann Funeral Service, p. 5 Mannel Oil Company

16688C ibid p. 6 & 7 Pete Peterson, dba Pete’s Service

16688D ibid p. 8 & 9, ad-Nancy Strobach nee Kroll, dba ‘Nancy’s Family Store’; ad-Rib Lake Health Care Center; ad-Herb Schubert, dba Hallmade Memorial

16688E ibid p. 10 & 11 Ad-Rib Lake Improvement Conference

16688F ibid p. 12 Ad-Vernon Hanke, dba Rib Lake Mobil Service

16689 6-25-1965 wanted flyer by FBI signed by J. Edgar Hoover, director of FBI, top

16689A ibid bottom

16690 6-23-1900 Among ‘The Wisconsin Hemlock Mills’ ‘The Home of Hemlock’ ‘J.J. Kennedy’s name will go down in lumber history as the pioneer hemlock manufacturer in Wisconsin. He may not have been the first lumberman in this section to make hemlock lumber, but he was the first to make a specialty of hemlock…’ American Lumberman

16690A ibid ‘At Chelsea’

16690B ‘at Phillips, Medford & elsewhere’

16691 P. 2-1971 Ernest ‘Ernie’ Tetzlaff & Herman A. Rusch building cabinet at Robert P. Rusch home

16692 P. 2-1971 John Dolezalek, Sr., wiring

16693 P. 10-1973 Anton Kurek, Master stair builder, installing curved stairs at Robert P. Rusch home. Left-his grandson, Gregory ‘Doc’ Thums, assisting

16694 P. 9-1971, Anton Kurek, a Polish immigrant, standing in his forest, which he deeply loved

16695 P. 8-1971 Robert ‘Red’ Thums, loading pit run gravel into his dump truck

16696 P. 9-1971 Richard Thums operating JD450 ‘cat’

16697 P. 9-1974 Frank Johnas, one of the first area men to own-operate a bulldozer, works his D8 ‘cat’

16698 P. 9-1974 Frank Johnas bulldozes new logging road through SW NE 13-33-2E; many landowers offer Frank a fixed price ‘Frank, I have $90, go as far as you can’

16699 P. 12-1975 Walter ‘Wimpy’ Wilhelm on Ford 8N pulling steel logging sleigh

Collection of Angels Daniels, nee Synol

16700 9-2009 note Angela Daniels to RPR

16701 P. c. 1950 ‘Bill’s Fine Cheese-Rib Lake Dairy’ building, SW corner Elm & State Road.

16701A 2012 Village of Rib Lake map showing former Rib Lake Dairy-Cheese factory site

16702 P. c. 1950 Rib Lake Dairy pick-up truck outside of WWII Quonset hut-then part of dairy-in 2013 Rib Lake municipal recycling

16703 c. 1950 making cheese in Rib Lake; L-R Sonny Kroll, Ben Yanko, Marlene & William ‘Bill’ Niggemann, dba ‘Bill’s Fine Cheese’

16704 P. c. 1900 Kathleen Niggemann next to Rib Lake Dairy pick-up on large Niggemann dairy farm, NE NE 32-33-2E, Town of Rib Lake

16705 P. c. 1960 ‘Bill’s Fine Cheese’ float in parade on McComb Ave.; Sandy & Billy Niggemann in bed of pick-up hoisting sign ‘you send the milk, we’ll make the cheese’ rear-south side of former Rib Lake Lumber Company machine shop

16706 P. c. 1960 Sandy & Billy Niggemann wearing parade float garb

Collection Of Vi ‘Mrs. Robert’ Melaski, nee Schlais (her parents owned store at 827 McComb Ave., Block 5, Lot 9, MRPA

16707 P. c. 1960 and ad for Schlais Clothing, apparel and shoes, ‘wearing apparel for the entire family, Rib Lake, Wis.’

Collection of Robert P. Rusch

16708 obit, Albert J. Perkins, long-time associate of John J. Kennedy, first mayor of Medford

16709 P. Anna (Robert Sr.) Louise Bleck, nee Rusch and granddaughter, Renee

16710 signature of ‘Herrmann Rusch,’ aka Hermann Emanuel Rusch, from his German Lutheran hymnal in possession of his daughter, Anna Bleck, nee Rusch

16711 ‘Reo news’ Oct. 1941 promotional newspaper for Reo brand trucks – cover page

16711A P. 1940 Herman A. Rusch driving new Reo truck for his employer, Steinman Lumber Co., Milwaukee

16712 1980 campaign poster – Robert P. Rusch for Taylor Co. Judge

16713 ‘Rusch for Judge’ button, 1980

16714 Mortgage 8-1-1975 Robert P. Rusch, et. ux., to State Bank of Medford

16714A back side

16715 Mortgage 2-13-1985 Robert P. Rusch, et. ux, to State Bank of Medford

16716 2-2-1987 ACP practice approval, Robert P. Rusch obtains $104 from Taylor County Soil Conservation Service to plant trees

16717 P. c. 1980 Robert P. Rusch with 100 year old white pine remnant in his woods, SW NE 13-33-2E, Town of Rib lake. Site demonstrates prolific reforestation of white birch, a classic ‘pioneer’ species

16718 9-7-1979 Robert P. Rusch secretary, Wisconsin Woodland Owners Association to initial executive director Floyd Howarter

16718A 8-30-1979 minutes of WWOA executive board

16718B ibid p. 2

16719 L. 9-7-1979 Robert P. Rusch, secretary of WWOA, to John Wolter

16720 P. 2009 ‘Rusch-Kuchinke Wiederuereinigung’ reunion in Darmstadt, Germany; L-R Rosemarie Kuchinke, daughter Ingrid, grandson Jens Kuchinke & wife, Anita, nee Kuchinke, Ann K. Rusch, RPR

16721 c. 1955 ‘Heimkehrer’ Karl Steffens, Minden, West Phalia, Germany, seeks information regarding his son, Hans – Gunter – a soldier in the German army last reported 3-20-1945 near Berlin and believed a Russian prisoner of war

16722 L. 4-12-1948 Emma Seipel, Eau Claire, Wis. to Frieda Heirse [in Germany], granddaughter of Hedwig Nathalie Rusch, sister of Hermann Emanuel Rusch

16723 L. 7-22-1952 Ruth & Reinhold Bonewald to cousin, Frieda [Hierse]. Ruth was born Pollatz, daughter of Franz & Amalia Pollatz, nee Rusch. Amalia was a sister to Hermann Emanuel Rusch

16723A envelope

16724 6-23-1958 Reinhold & Ruth Bonewald to Rosemarie Kuchinke in well-written German

16724A enclosure – picture of Grace Lutheran Church, Augusta, Wis. 6-23-1958 & envelope

16724B partial translation of German letter

16725 1-9-2013 ‘Co-chairs named for River Bend Trail Capital Campaign,’ Merrill Foto News

16725A ibid p. 2

16725B ‘Council to consider purpose of railroad property for River Bend Trail’ Foto News 10-2-2013

16726 Map 1-17-2013 Rib Lake Lumber Company composite railroad lines-partial. Note multiplicity of lines in T33-4E where dozers & steam shovels replaced hand equipment used previously. Black square equals one square mile

16726A ibid railroad lines in Price County included

16727 W. ‘Taylor County Campgrounds’ c. 2010

16727A back side

16728 P. 8-1969 view north on McComb Ave.; right-old Rib Lake Lumber Company lumber dry kiln; center-old Rib Lake Lumber Company machine shop with ‘Rib Lake’ and north painted on roof to aid airplanes; foreground-asphalt patch in road marks former railroad track to planing mill

16729 P. 8-1969 door of old Rib Lake Lumber Company dry kiln then used by Stewart Lumber & Fuel Co. for coal storage

16730 P. 8-1969 brick building formerly Rib Lake Lumber Company fire suppression tools storage

16731 P. 8-1969 ‘Stewart Lubmer & Fuel’ building, formerly Rib Lake Lumber Company machine shop. NB-railroad tracks from McComb Ave., eastward into building

16731A ibid interior

16731B ibid interior

16731C ibid interior – Rib Lake Lumber Company built building in 1915 as machine shop and for repair facility for Rib Lake Lumber Company logging locomotives

16732 P. 8-1969 old Rib Lake First National Bank building, NE corner McComb & Landall

16732A ibid, door ‘RLLC office’ facing McComb Ave., after 1945 fire destroyed Rib Lake Lumber Company planing mill and office; company office moved to second floor of old bank building until company closure in 1948

16733 P. 1969 ‘Little Bohemia Bowling, Bar & Café,’ next building north, ‘Food,’ ie.e Coffee Cup Café, MRPA B3, ‘Old Town Gift & Liquor,’ formerly Scharer’s Tavern, and ‘Coast to Coast Hardware’

16734 P. 9-1969 ‘Rib Lake Town Hall’ NB-town assigned fire number 19/50 and garage and gas pump in rear

16734A ibid south and west sides; town hall built c. 1902 after Village of Rib Lake was created

16735 P. 9-1969 stub of Soo Line railroad wye adjacent to mainline at Chelsea, NE SW 36-33-1E, NB-left-south arm of wye removed

16736 P. 8-1969 remains of Lavern Probst barn destroyed by high winds, NE NE 34-33-2E

16737 P. 8-1969 barn raising bee, Lavern Probst farm, NE NE 34-33-2E

16737A ibid, 16 men in photo

16737B ibid

16737C ibid

16738 P. 9-1969 George Stolp & log barn, SE SW 33-32-1E, Town of Chelsea, structure consisted of two log buildings set 20 feets apart with single roof over 60 feet long

16739 P. 8-1969 pioneer farmstead of; R-log home; L-log barn, of Anton Mahner, NW SW 25-32-1E, Town of Chelsea, fire sign ‘Chel[sea] 25/58’ faces STH 13

16739A ibid log home; NB-north side logs covered by cedar shingles. Three lightning rods on roof

16739B south half of barn (center) has collapsed roof

16739C ibid wood vent through barn roof exhausted cattle moisture

16739D ibid corner of barn shows dove-tailed joints which prevented logs from separating

16739E ibid, bare patch in cedar shingle roof exposes nails

16739F ibid, side of barn with collapsed roof. 10 rectangles in wall are butts of timbers creating a second story floor inside building

16739G ibid, top of barn log shows squared sides created by hewing and hollow circle drilled through logs to admit dole to bind logs together

16740 P. 8-1969 former Brucker-Ludloff building, NE corner of Main & Division Streets, city of Medford

16741 P. 8-1969 ‘Hudson’s Bay Company Receiving station’ 111 E. Division Street, Medford; 1981-2009 Rusch & Rusch Law Office. Receiving station stored mink pelts bought locally when Medford was self-proclaimed ‘Mink Capital of the World’

16742 P. 8-1969 ‘Ruesch Funeral Home,’ 555 West Cedar Street, Medford; operated by brothers, David & Earl Ruesch

16743 P. 8-1969 ‘Frishman Motors’ Main Street, Medford, still advertising Studebaker cars long after company closed

16744 P. 8-1969 ‘Medford Co-op Co.’ SE corner State & Whelen Street, 124 W. State St., north side

16745 P. 8-1969 Soo Line tracks – formerly Wisconsin Central Railroad, running past Medford depot. Rear right-Miller Feed Mill elevator; rear left-Ivan Bootzin Feed Mill elevator

16745A ibid, NB ‘Soo Line’ dollar sign logo

16746 P. 1969 north side freight loading dock to Medford depot. NB-c. 400 foot long concrete walk for railroad passengers

16747 P. 8-1969 ‘Soo Line’ sled awaits winter time use transferring luggage-baggage-freight between Medford depot and train

16748 P. 8-1969 Soo Line caboose on south-bound train on main line built in 1873. foreground-service track c. 1000 feet long on east side of Medford depot.

16749 P. c. 1915 ‘M.E. Church, Rib Lake, Wis. 5#’ Methodist Episcopal Church, 1300 Church Street, Village of Rib Lake

16749A back side post mark 9-8-1917 to Clair Stephenson, Sheboygan Falls, Wis.

16750 P. c. 1940 ‘St. John’s Church, Rib Lake, Wis. Ester Photo, Waupun’ east side of Village of Rib Lake Roman Catholic Church razed c. 1972.

Robert P. Rusch Collection

16751 W. 1984 ‘Sawmilling & sawmills of the Chippewa Valley,’ R.C. ‘Doc’ Brown – cover

16751A ibid p. 10 double cut band saw diagram, similar to that operating at Rib Lake Lumber Company 1916-1948. Band saw blade had teeth on both sides, allowing sawing of log as carriage moved ‘forward’ & ‘backward’

16751B ibid p. 22 band saw & cant showing diagram of how log would be quarter sawed. NB-band saw is turned around wheel on top & bottom (partially below floor)

16751C ibid p. 24 P. sawmill trimmer, machine similar to that which cut off foot of Ferdinand Frank at Rib Lake Lumber Company

16751D ibid p. 23 W. ‘The making of a pine board, lumber grades & piling, railroad ties

16752 Map 1972 Chequamegon National Forest –land ownership – title page

16752A ibid Rib Lake & Chequamegon National Forest in Taylor County & east to boundary, Range 4 & 5 east

16752B ibid, Goodrich & site of Rib Lake Lumber Company camp marked in red. Old Rib Lake Lumber Company railroad right-of-way highlighted in green

16753 W. 1-1937 ‘Wisconsin, Dept. of Ag. & Markets’ bulletin 180 – cover

16753A ibid p. 28 P. ‘Piking logs into the big mill at Rib Lake’

16753B ibid p. 62 Points of Interest – Taylor & Price County

16754 Map Price Co. Plat c. 1900 – cover ‘index’ by Roy Meier

16754A Plat map T34 R3E Brannan

16754B ibid T35 R3E Knox’s Mill

16754C ibid T36 R3E Brantwood, then known as Knox Junction

16754D ibid T37 R3E Town of Emery

16754E ibid T38 R3E, Town of Worcester

16754F ibid T39 R3E, Town of Fifield

16754G ibid T40 R3E, Town of Round Lake & dam

16754H ibid T34 R3E, Town of Hill-Hultman Lake, extensive holdings of Curtis Bros., B.M. Holmes & David & Scharr Lumber Co.

16754I ibid T35 R2E, Town of Prentice

16754J ibid T36 R2E, Town of Hackett

16754K ibid T37 R2E, Town of Emery, Cornell Univ. Lands & logging railroad

16754L ibid T38 R2E, Town of Worcester logging dam

16754M ibidT39 R2E, Town of Fifield

16754N ibid T40 R2E, Town of Fifield, 12 Mile Hotel

16754O ibid T34 R1E, Town of Ogema

16754P ibid T35 R1E, Town of Ogema, ‘Village of Morrison & Diamond’ Morrison last known as Bennington

16754Q ibid T36 R1E, Town of Hackett ‘Village of Worcester, aka Mile Post 101’

16754R ibid T37 R1E, Village of Phillips logging dam & railroad-later John R. Davis

16754S ibid T38 R1E

16754T ibid T39 R1E Fifield & Sailor Creek spur, Village of Coolidge

16754U ibid T40 R1E Town of Lake

16754V ibid T34 R1W Town of Ogema, Jump River & dam

16754W ibid T35 R1W Town of Ogema, Catawba

16754X ibid T36 R1W Town of Georgetown

16754Y ibid T37 R1W Elk River, mill & dam

16754Z ibid T38 R1W

16754AA ibid T39 R11W Fifield, Chippewa River

16754BB ibid T40 R1W, Town of Lake, Park Falls

16754CC ibid T34 R2W Town of Ogema, Jump River Falls

16754DD ibid T35 R2W Town of Kennan, Kennan sawmill

16754EE ibid T36 R2W

16754FF ibid T37 R2W Elk River dam, South fork of Flambeau River

16754GG T38 R2W

16754HH ibid T39 R2W North fork Flambeau, Town of Fifield

16754II ibid T40 R2W Town of Lake

16754JJ inside cover – business card-Wisconsin Central Lines; Frank Henby, Phillips, Wis., ‘Land Agent, Inspector, Wisconsin Central Railroad’; inscription; Property of Leonard Risberg, Price Co. suveryor for 24 yrs. Retired 1965

16755 Map Price Co. 1917 C.H. Petzold – top half, Omaha Railroad Kennedy to Park Falls

16755A ibid south half. Town of Brannan, Village of Knox Mills, Pennington, Brantwood, Worcester (Mile Post 101), Phillips, Wis. logging railroad (John R. Davis Lumber Co.)

16756 W. Registration of Marriage, H.A.B. Kennedy of Rib Lake & Nellie Spencer married 11-1-1896 at Medford, Wisconsin. Bridegroom listed at ‘bookkeeper’ for J.J. Kennedy

16756A W. Registration of Marriage for ‘Hugh A.B. Kennedy, son of A.R. & Katherine Kennedy, to Nellie Spencer; married in 1896 at Medford

16756B ibid NB All three documents furnished simultaneously by Taylor County Register of Deeds upon request for marriage certificate of A.B. Kennedy & Nellie Spencer married in fall of 1896 according to Taylor Co. Star & News. NB-Image 15821is marriage of Angus Kennedy & Lizzie M. Barden on 11-1-1885 in Medford. Bridegroom’s parents ‘R.R. Kennedy’ & Katherine McDonald

16757 P. c. 1940 ‘Spirit Lake Rib Lake, Wis. No. C-21’ view north on STH 102 & Little Spirit Lake

Collection of Irene Dums

16758 P. 1898 Henry I. & Martha (nee Frost) Gebauer & children, Theresa, Emma, Martha (m. Holz 1879-1948), Pauline (m. Obowa 1889-1977), Selma, Josephine (m. Stuttgen), Frank I. (married #1 Minne Berger 1889-1935; #2 wife unknown)

16759 P. Henry Gebauer, I c. 1930

16760 P. Emma Gebauer c. 1910, daughter of Henry Gebauer, I. & Martha, nee Frost

16761 W. Descendants chart for Henry Gebauer, I

16762 W. 3-21-2013 Lakewood Credit Union Annual Meeting Booklet cover

16762A ibid, p. 2 Board & staff

16762B ibid, p. 3 Glenn Harder message

16762C ibid, p. 4 Margaret Ziembo

16762D ibid, p. 5 Treasurer’s Report

16762E ibid, p. 6 Treasurer’s Report

16762F ibid, p. 7 Internal Audit Report

16762G ibid, p. 8 Services

16762H Ad ‘We Care About You’

16762I Ad ‘50 Years of Service – 1961-2011’

End of Irene Dums Collection

Robert P. Rusch Collection

16763 P. 2-21-2013 Star News ‘Northerns warm up cold day on Spirit Lakes.’

16764 P. 4-24-1947 Rib Lake Lumber Company Locomotive 101, Rib Lake Lumber Company locomotive 101 puffs past the 1902 high school & toward the mill in its final years. On right is the north side of the engine house. On the left is a derrick to load coal into tender; When the Rib Lake Lumber Company ceased operations in 1948, its logging line closed, the last logging railroad conveying logs to its owners sawmill in Wisconsin. In 2013, the right-of-way shown is STH 102. A nearby official Wisconsin Historical Marker celebrates the Rib Lake Lumber Company & its predecessors, which milled here from 12-2-1881 to 6-5-1948 – Wisconsin’s longest running sawmill operation in the 19th & 20th century.

16765 P. 4-24-1947 RLLC Locomotive 101 on main line – north side hemlock yard

16765A P. ibid; rear-tramway slants to ground level past lumber storage shed; view to southeast

16766 Graphics ‘Rib Lake, Wisconsin, 1881’

16767 P. 1-10-2013 Dennis Kuehling ice fishing on North Harper Lake

16767A back ‘fish story’ signed by Dennis Kuehling ‘Denny’

16768 P. c. 1910 Farmer riding sickle mower pulled by two oxen; ‘Rib Lake, Wis. Photo by Brown’

16769 Star News 2-14-2013 ‘Online Directory opens up Rib Lake Collection’ P. Cindy Sommer

16769A ibid P. RPR

16770 P. 2-16-2013 L-R James McDonell, in blue & white costume as Scottish Warrior ‘Braveheart,’ Robert P. Rusch, member of Braveheart running team, & Jim’s niece, Mary Ellen. Jim founded Braveheart snowshoe racing series of which Rib Lake Adventure is a member.

16771 Map c. 12-2012 Chicago & Northwestern Railroad in North Wisconsin. Line to Hughey built 1903 & Rib Falls in 1907 shown, from ‘Northwestern Lines’ 2012 Number 3

16771A ibid South Wisconsin

16772 Map 2-1-2013 Whorehouses of Chelsea, Wisconsin c. 1940 by Robert P. Rusch; Machinery Hill, The Guernsey Farm, The Pine Tree

16773 Business card c. 1950 John Dolezalek, Sr., dba National Hotel, Rib Lake

16773A back – ‘Girl with Good Reputation…’

16774 business card 2012, Mid-Wisconsin Bank, 717 McComb Ave., Rib Lake, Customer Service Representative, in 4-2013 Nicolet State Bank headquartered in Green Bay took over

16775 W. James A. Welton, Rib Lake Railroad Historian, ded 2-2013

16775A Obit, James Welton ‘The Soo,’ Soo Line Historical & Technical Society, winter, 2013

16776 Map c. 1-1874 Wisconsin Cetral; Westboro shown as Roxbury ?

16777 L. Robert P. Rusch 11-1-2012 to Larry Easton. Is depot shown on c. 1874 Wisconsin Central Map as Roxbury modern day Westboro ?

Larry Easton collection

16778 Map c. 2-1880 ‘Wisconsin Central Railroad and its connections’

16778A ibid enlargement

16779 Time table 2-1880 Wisconsin Central; Whittlesey & Prentice not shown

16780 Time table 10-2-1881 Wisconsin Central note; log, way freight, through freight & passenger (‘Lake Superior Express’) shown left side

16780A ibid right side

16780B ibid p. 2 left

16780C ibid p. 2 right

16781 time table 5-11-1884 Wisconsin Central. Medford, Whittlesey, Chelsea & Westboro served by 2 freight & 2 passenger trains on work days. Passengers allowed to ride on freight train (in caboose?) as ‘second class.’ Speed of second class trains not to exceed 15 mph. No train service to Rib Lake indicated

16782 Map c. 2-1-1886 Wisconsin Central ‘The Central Line’ spur to Rib Lake shown

16783 Map 5-19-1873 Wisconsin Central & time table; Menasha to Salem

Portage Co. Historical Society Collection

16784 W. 1990 ‘Railroad History of Central Wisconsin’ by Ray Pendergast, Jr.

16784A ibid p. 2, Chelsea

16784B ibid p. 3 snowmobiles

16784C ibid p. 4 memories

16784 W. 1990 ‘Railroad History of Central Wisconsin’ by Ray Pendergast, Jr.

16784A ibid p. 2, Chelsea

16784B ibid p. 3 snowmobiles

16784C ibid p. 4 memories

Robert P. Rusch collection

16785 P. c. 1931 STH 13 bridge over Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie ‘Soo Line’ railroad, Westboro; ‘Crossing of the Soo.’ Bridge razed c. 1973 and was in SE NW 13-33-1E

16785A back – postdated 8-26-1932 Westboro, Willard to Mrs. H.P. Johnson, Glendale, California

16786 W. 9-20-1945 ‘Rib Lake mill loses planing plant Saturday’ Star News

16786A ibid p. 2

16786B ibid p. 3 will rebuild

16787 W. 9-20-1945 ‘Alphonse Mnichowicz buys National Hotel at Rib Lake’ buyer later changed his name to Alfons Mitchell

Collection of Attorney Tim Yanacheck

16788 L. 12-5-2012 Tim Yanacheck to Robert P. Rusch

16788A W. 12-5-2012 ‘Priest vanished in attempt to join fleeing converts.’ Wisconsin State Journal

Robert P. Rusch collection

16789 P. c. 1925 Interwald Store & Post Office

16790 Deed 3-12-1937 Rib Lake Lumber Company of Delaware to Tracy M. & Viola M. Berfield, Lot 11, Block 2, Original Plat of Village of Rib Lake. Tracy was a Rib Lake Lumber Company sawmill executive. The house on their lot may have been heated by steam from the mill conveyed in subterrain pipes

16791 Articles of Incorporation 1-14-1903 Squaw Creek Lumber Co., Village of Maplehurst, Taylor County

16791A ibid p. 2 Signatures of John E. Bast, George N. Blackburn & Alex Laberge

16791B ibid p. 3

16792 Map Price- Taylor County in 2012, area map service, title page

16792A Rib Lake area

16793 Poster, Price County ‘We’ve saved a place for you.’

16793A ibid p.; 2

16794 Map c. 1989-2010 Taylor & Marathon County; map published c. 2010 with much out-of-date data, e.g. Soo Line Railroad

16794A ibid Rib Lake area

16795 P. c. 1990 Bombardier ‘Bombi’ Tractor & groomer bought by Rib Lake Ski Club on trail in Rib Lake

16796 P. c. 1980 Ashland, Wisconsin, pulpwood loading from Lake Superior to Soo Line Railroad cars for transport to paper mills. This process used in 1940’s by Rib Lake Lumber Company to move saw timber from Hovland, Minnesota to Rib Lake

16796A back

16797 P. c. 1980 log raft being pulled past Apostle Islands to Ashland, Wisconsin. Three tiers of boom logs encircle raft from Minnesota or Canada. Right-tourist excursion boat. Center-log pulling raft at c. 2 mph

16798 c. 1925 Medford High School

16799 P. c. 1970 ‘Athletic Field-Medford, Wis.’ rear-high school & annex

16800 P. c. 1910 Fayette Hotel, Medford, Wis. named for Fayette Shaw, Tannery operator. Building razed c. 1968 to make way for State Bank of Medford, 132 W. State Street

16801 P. c. 1925 ‘Main Street South, Medford, Wis.’ Avon Theatre, in 2013 Hoffman’s Fabric, Floral & Craft Store, 142 S. Main Street, view ‘southward’

16802 P. c. 1920 ‘Greetings from Medford, Wis.’

16803 P. c. 1920 ‘Medford Co-opertive Creamery’

16804 P. 1920 ‘Medford Water Works’

16805 P. c. 1940 ‘Forest Ranger Station, Medford, Wis.’ view west across former mill pond

16806 P. c. 1920 ‘Quality and Quantity is our Motto’ spoof – two heads of cauliflower on railroad flat car

16807 P. c. 1940 ‘Methodist Church, Medford, Wis. #4’ razed c. 1972

16808 P. c. 1990 Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, 420 Lincoln Street, Medford, Wis. building built in 1968.

16809 P. c. 1985 Taylor County Memorial Hospital, nka Memorial Health Center, an Aspirus Partner, 135 S. Gibson St., Medford

16810 P. c. 1970 Aerial view northwards of center of Medford, Wis., Sheriff’s residence, jail stands north of Taylor County Courthouse

16810A back ‘Mink Capitol of the World’

16811 P. c. 1960 ‘Scene from Miller Dam, Gilman, Wis.’ site of old logging dam on Yellow River. Taylor County built modern dam c. 1965 – see 16812

16812 P. c. 1970 ‘Miller Dam’ Taylor County built pictured dam c. 1965, creating Chequamegon waters, a flowage.

16813 P. c. 1960 ‘The Fire Place at Camp Carter, Harpers Lake, near Rib Lake, Wis. 14’ in 2013 residence of Max & Elaine Schaufelberger, nee Carter, W2972 Rustic Road No. 1. Westboro

16814 P. c. 1970 ‘Spruce Dormitory, Camp Forest Springs’

16815 P. c. 1970 ‘Scene at Big James Lake Rib Lake, Wis. 60-6’ from Camp Forest Springs ski hill toward swimming beach.

16816 P. c. 1960 screen porch cabin at Harper Lake Resort.

16816A back L. 4-18-1962 Irma Herman, nee Krop, to Mr. & Mrs. Herman A. Rusch

16817 P. c. 1960 Two water skiers on North Harper Lake

16818 P. c. 1960 ‘Mondeaux Flowage’ view north to beach & dam

16819 P. c. 1960 ‘Mondeaux Beach’

16820 P. c. 1960 ‘Mondeaux Flowage’ view from high esker on west shore

16821 P. c. 1960 ‘Rib River’

16822 P. c. 1920 Black bear cubs

16822A ‘Talbot’s Resort, Satch & Velma Kapitz, Tripoli, Wis.’ For many years Talbots operated a fishing resort on the Willow Flowage in Oneida County

16823 spoof photo c. 1970 fish fills canoe

16823A L. 6-23-1974 Robert P. Rusch to Karen Mae Rusch

16824 P. c. 1960 ‘Methodist Church, Rib Lake, Wis. 1’

16825 P. c. 1960 St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Rib Lake’

16825A L. 11-23-1972 Robert P. Rusch to Karen Mae Rusch

16826 P. c. 1960 ‘St John’s Lutheran Church, Rib Lake, Wis. 60-13’

16827 P. c. 1940 St. John’s Lutheran Church, Rib Lake, NB-Rib Lake Lumber Company sawmill in rear

16828 P. c. 1950 Double arch stone STH 102 bridge at outlet of Little Spirit Lake

16829 P. c. 1970 ‘Spirit River crossing’ STH 102 bridge built to replace double arch stone bridge at outlet of Little Spirit Lake. This bridge replaced in 2012. Rear – ‘Hamm’s Beer’ sign at Mohr’s Resort, N126 STH 102.

16830 P. c. 1965 ‘Scene at Spirit Lake’ photographer’s 1957 Chevrolet parked on SE corner of Little Spirit Lake – where public boat landing exists in 2013

16831 P. c. 1966 ‘Spirit Lake near Medford, Wis.’ boat landing on Little Spirit Lake adjacent to STH 102, view west

16831A ibid Color photo of same

16832 P. c. 1975 of Miniature logging camp at Marinette, Wis. in center is model of sleigh tanker used to make ice roads

16833 P. c. 1980 sign atop Rib Mountain, log represented as Wisconsin’s highest natural point until c. 1970 survey proved Timm’s Hill to be higher, 1951 feet

16833A P. c. 1980 ‘Highest Point; evevation 1947 feet above sea level.’ Sign & rock formation atop Rib Mountain

16833B P. c. 1980 Rib Mountain lookout tower

16834 P. 12-6-2007 ‘1 Viking, 2 Packers & Buster’ Christmas photo L-R Robert P. Rusch, Lorraine A. Killion (The Viking Fan), her daughter, Ann K. Rusch

16834A P. 12-6-2007 ibid

16835 P. c. 1990 Schnitzelbank, German folk tune ??? in Wisconsin; singers pick up one new item in each verse; is das wicht ein Schnitzelbank, ya-bas is ein Schnitzelbank

16836 P. c. 1975 Skiers at start of Birkebeiner using old-fashioned side-stepping to climb hill at Telemark Resort, Cable, Wisconsin. The Rib Lake cross-country ski race/event ‘The Hinderbinder’ is a take off & spoof on the Birkebeiner, a historic Norwegian name, ‘Birch leggings’, for birch bark worn on skiers legs

16837 P. c. 1903 ‘High School, Rib Lake, Wis.’

16837A back W. Postmark 9-4-1903

16838 P. 7-1978 Ginny Pendergast at family cabin, former Bill Junk home, on CTH C, SW SW 7-33-3E

16838A P. 7-1978 Robert ‘Bob’ Pendergast at family cabin ‘Poustinia.’ NB-sign along CTH C issued by Town of Rib Lake showing fire number. Town fire numbers were preempted by a county system installed c. 2008

16839 P. 7-1978 Mrs. William ‘Marti’ Bonde & children playing in their yard, SW SW 18-33-3E. Land purchased and planted to forest by Everett A. Rusch c. 1990. The same land was laboriously cleared by hand by J. Kulka, a homesteader, c. 1910

16840 P. 7-1978 Thomas M. Rusch (pictured) & wife Mary Ann completely remodeled former farm home of Leo Kaehne at N8816 CTH C, NW SW 7-33-3E. Photo shows Tom installing new board & batton siding to Kaehne’s old house

16840A P. 7-1978 former Leo Kaehne dairy barn and shed. Twin roof openings allowed admission of hay bales. NB-bare trees are elm killed in Dutch Elm disease epidemic

16840B P. 7-1978 elm tree fatally infected by Dutch Elm disease on Thomas M. Rusch farm. Open field cleared c. 1910 by homesteader H. Klostermann

16840B P. 7-1978 Gravel pit on Thomas M. Rusch property. Forested valley in foreground is route of Klistermann Creek & major ice raod to Camp 9 (1913-1922)

16840C 7-1978

16841 P. 7-1976 ‘Rib Lake Population 902’ along STH 102 east side of Village of Rib Lake

16842 P. 7-1976 Robin Rusch, age 2, nka Mrs. Scott Riggs, ready for Village of Rib Lake Bicentennial parade

16843 P. 7-1976 Bicentennial parage on McComb Ave in front of defunct Laker Move Theatre; rear-former McRae Bakery & Restaurant, then Louis Hieglmeider bakery. Former Taylor Hardward building then Duane Warner’s ‘Promart Hardware,’ in 2013 ‘Rib Lake Music Center,’ 740 McComb Ave.

16843A P. 7-1976 color guard & Rib Lake High School band marching north on McComb Ave.

16843B P. 7-1976 Rib Lake Volunteer Fire Dept. truck #2; Top rider sprays parade viewers with stream of water from portable backpack

16843C P. 7-1976 Camp Forest Springs float. Rear-’The Wonder Bar’ advertises Pabst Blue Ribbon beer in south end of defunct Laker Theatre

16843D P. 7-1976 ‘Rib Lake Golden Years’ float on Chevrolet flatbed truck celebrates famous Village of Rib Lake businesses; Ma Dodge Café, Gessert’s Butcher Shop Dr. Taylor & Baker, M.D., Herrem Tailor Shop, Art Swanson Bowling Alley & Cy Claussen Telephone Co.

16843E P. 7-1976 pony wagon 1776-1976; NB-rear-door in old bank building reads ‘Office-Rib Lake Lumber Co.’ after planning mill fire of 9-1945 destroyed RLLC office, a new office operated until mill closure in 1948 in upstairs of old bank. Just south of bank building is amusement ride on Landall Ave.

16843F P. 7-1976 pick-up truck holds ‘St. John’s Lutheran Church’ float quoting Corinthians II 3:17 ‘Where the Spirit of the Lord Is, There is Liberty’ rear-L-R Scharer building, former Coral Café, Little Bohemia

16843G P. 7-1976 rear of ‘Rib Lake Golden Years’ float celebrating old Village of Rib Lake businesses; Lake Theatre, McComb’s Opera House, Brehm Feed Store, Bewsz Shoe Store, McRae Bakery, (Peter) Bogumill General Store (& locker plant), and Herman Smith blacksmith shop. Rear-L-R – single story storage on site of Art Swanson bar & bowling alley, Coast-to-Coast Hardware (in 2013 ‘Genesis Youth Center’, 818 McComb Ave.) and Old Towne Gift & Liquor in Scharer building, razed in 2011 for Wudi’s ‘Coin Store’

16843H P. 7-1976 Ivan Kauer ‘Rib Lake’s oldest running Ford. Bought 1926 for $475 brand new’ rear-Laker Theatre

16843I P. 7-1976 Owen-Illinois Paper Co., Tomahawk Mill float; rear-Tom Carroll, dba Coast-to-Coast Hardware building

16843J P. 7-1976 Little Black Mutual Insurance Co. & Medford Savings & Loan (later Time Federal Savings Bank) float; rear-Maude’s [Menning] Florist & Crafts

16843K P. 7-1976 Prentice Hydraulic’s float ‘Prentice Rt. 600B’ tree length loaders; rear right-Vanucha’s ‘Old Towne Gifts & Liquor’ in Scharer building

16843L P. 7-1976 Cab for Prentice Rt. 600B ‘Heel boom loader for loading tree length wood’ made in Prentice, Wis.

16843M P. 7-1976 Stan Lato, Democrat, for Assembly

16843N P. 7-1976 R. Mihalko’s Clothing Store, next-Lakewood Credit Union, Menning’s Barber Shop; left-Gorde & Virgie Gehrt, dba ‘Meister Brau Last Chance’ tavern

16843O P. 7-1976 Alfons Mitchell, then owner of National Hotel, making change at Rib Lake Lion’s Club stand on McComb Ave.

16843P. P. 7-1976 L-R Murphy ‘Murf’ Bruegel & Michael ‘Mike’ Kolecheck enjoy a cold one; rear-Tom Carroll runs Lion’s Club stand

16843Q P. 7-1976 Line of semi-trucks ‘18 Wheelers’ end centennial parade

16843R P. 7-1976 cab of ‘Tombstone Pizza’ Medford, Wis; rear-false front & cornice; atop – Scharer building

16844 P. 8-1975 Clarence Baumgartner operates John Deere 450B dozer with six-way blade for Armin Buehler to construct pond in front of RPR & Karen Mae Rusch home, N8643 CTH C, SE NE 13-33-2E, Town of Rib Lake

16844A P. 8-1975 ibid rear-old horse barn

16844B P. 8-1975 ibid rear-Anton Kurek dairy barn roof

16844C P. 8-1975 ibid rear-view east to red pine along CTH C on former Peter Perusek dairy farm purchased at auction c. 1935 by Mrs. Anton Kurek without her husband’s knowledge using her ‘egg money.’

16845 P. 8-1975 Armin Buehler Construction, Medford, excavates wildlife pond at RPR home, N8643 CTH C, Town of Rib Lake, SE NE 13-33-2E, NB-glacial erratic

16845A ibid – backhoe digs ‘core trench’ to backfill with ‘clean’ water impervious clay to form base for dam

16845B ibid L-R John Czarnezki, Taylor Co. Soil Conservation Service, and Armin Buehler, contractor investigated strange wood pieces found four feet beneath soil surface

16845C ibid John Czarnezski holds beaver cut log (NB-pointed ends) recovered four feet beneath modern earth surface which formed part of beaver dam following last glaciation of site c. 10,000 B.C.

16845C-1 c. 1975 wood log cut on both ends by beaver and part of centuries old beaver dam found 4’ beneath current land surface by Armin Buehler, Milan Czarneski and RPR during dam construction at R.P. Rusch home, SE NE 13-33-2E

16845D ibid John Czarnezski and Armin Buehler ponder ancient beaver dam fragment just found on this site

16845E ibid part of core trench; upper right-three foot survey stake

16845F ibid Norbert Brandner operating JD 690A backhoe

16845G ibid Armin Buehler dump truck returns for another load of soil from pond excavation; left-CTH C

16846 P. 9-1975 Excavation of core trench for wildlife pond dam at RPR home, N8643 CTH C, Rib Lake, Armin Buehler contractor

16846A ibid, unfilled core trench

16846B ibid L-Clarence Baumgartner uses bulldozer ‘cat’ to fill trench

16846C ibid Armin Buehler inspects fill

16846D ibid L-R Clarence Baumgartner, John Czarnezki, Robert Plawski, soil conservationist, Armin Buehler

16846E ibid Robert Plawski surveying

16846F ibid Robert Plawski & John Czarnezki; NB-rock on left is in 2013 inundated by pond water

16846G ibid deepening pond site

16847 P. 10-1976 newly constructed RPR wildlife pond water filled; right-dam, view east-southeast; horizon-red pine on old Perusek farm

16847A P. 1-2013 RPR home ‘Waldheim’ aka ‘Home in the Woods’ from frozen pond; view west; NB-Cattails mark shoreline

16848 W. c. 1973 ‘Last of its kind, the Cornell Pulpwood Stacker’ Greater Cornell Area Community Development Association, Inc. Box 786, Cornell, WI 54732

16848A p. 1 ‘History of the Stacker’

16848B p. 2 ibid

16848C p. 3 ibid

16848D p. 4 ibid ‘Cornell’s Origins’

16848E p. 5 ibid P. Jean Brunet, founder of Cornell, and paper mill under construction

16848F p. 6 ibid area historic sites

16848G button ‘SOS’ save our stacker c. 2000 promotion, Cornell, WI

16849 P. 8-1973 Cornell, Wis. Depot on abandoned Chicago, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad ‘Omaha Line.’ Rear-gondola cars on RR track; right-’E.J. Crane & Sons’ building ‘The Farmer’s Market’

16849A ibid view SW from depot to stacker and water tower of paper plant

16850 P. 8-1973 Cornell, Wis. Pulpwood stacker, view to SW, area beneath tip of stacker was ‘pulpwood yard’ once filled with pulpwood cut to c. 2 ft. lengths

16850A ibid, rear-bridge over Chippewa River

16850B ibid, conveyor into slasher building

16850C ibid former canal to slasher, 1973 Chevrolet truck parked over filled area

16850D ibid former concrete lined canal to slasher

16850E ibid canal ends at conveyor

16850F ibid conveyor brought logs up sideways into slasher building where saws cut pulpwood into 2 ft. lengths

16850G ibid sign on side of slasher explained meanings of rings; crew inside pulp plant 600 ft. to south communicated to yard crews by rings

16850H ibid concrete ‘sluiceways’ through yard carried via water 2 ft. pulpwood pieces southward, beneath STH 64 into pulp mill. Yard men pushed in pulpwood into sluiceways as needed

16850I ibid Karen Mae Rusch stands next to four massive cement supports; NB-conveyor from slasher which carried two foot pulpwood pieces up stacker; NB-Huotari Construction of Medford, Wis. Converted stacker grounds into public park c. 1998; Rib Lake resident Scott Bromann was project manager

16850-1 W. ‘Cornell, Home of the Pulpwood Stacker and Brunet Island State Park’ in ‘Chippewa County, Wisconsin’ 2013 Activities & Attractions Guide

16851 P. 7-1972 L-R Joseph ‘Joe’ Sweda, David ‘Dave’ Obey & Robert ‘Bob’ Rusch campaigning. Sweda represented Taylor County in Wis. State Assembly for more than 20 years; Obey served in Congress from 1972-2011, and Rusch was Taylor County District Attorney from 1972-1980.

16852 P. 8-1972 Agnes ‘Aggie’ and Ernest ‘Ernie’ Tetzlaff, lifelong Rib Lake residents

16853 P. 8-1972 L-R RPR enjoys a laugh with Ernie Tetzlaff

16854 P. 8-1972 RPR at Taylor County Law Library, 3rd floor of Courthouse

16855 P. 8-1972 RPR at legislative council, state capitol, Madison

16855A ibid, rear-manual typewriter

16855B ibid

16856 P. 7-1972 stump pulling tripod at Palo, Michigan. Karen M. Rusch pictured

16856A ibid RPR holds cable running to block & tackler to produce mechanical advantage

16856B ibid RPR holds hook to attach to tree stump

16857 P. 7-1972 farmers fence made from white pine stumps near Palo, Michigan

16857A ibid, Karen M. Rusch sits on stump; NB-stump fence reinforced with barbed wire

16857B ibid swirls of grain in 100 year and white pine stumps

16857C ibid white pine (pinus strobus) stump fence

16857D ibid white pine stump fence in use near Cedar Springs, Michigan 6-1972

16858 P. 7-1972 Karen M. Rusch at beaver-gnawed cottonwood tree near Wisconsin River

16859 P. 9-1971 at Medford office of Nikolay, Jensen & Scott, Attorneys. Attorney Raymond H. Scott

16859A ibid Attorney Corliss V. Jensen

16859B ibid

16860 P. 8-1972 center-Duane Watner, dba Gambles Hardware, in trench laying septic system at RPR home

16861 P. 8-1971 Phillips, Wis., Minneapolis, St. Paul & Saulte Ste. Marie Railroad, ‘Soo Line’ depot

16861A ibid

16862 P. 7-1971 log barn near junction of Mitchell Lane & CTH A, Marathon Co., Wis.

16862A ibid five Holstein milch cows

16862B ibid log barn in classic north Wisconsin style; 2 4-sided log buildings joined by common roof; center accessed by sliding door to admit wagons; cedar shake roof

16862C ibid six square holes in exterior wall mark location of interior beams creating floor of second story

16862D ibid log joints exposed as logs pulled apart; NB-barn #16862 originally had dairy cattle on one side, wagon and equipment storage in center and hay store on other side

16863 P. 7-1971 unidenified log cattle barn along CTH A, Marathon Co., Wis.

16864 P. 7-1971 sign ‘Forest Zone – no new settlement permitted’ erected by Lincoln board in cutover SE of Spirit Falls, Wis., Town of Corning, (Town 34 North, Range 4 or 5 East) or Tomahawk, Lincoln Co., Wis., to enforce county ordinance prohibiting new residences in forest zones

16864A ibid L-R Karen M. Rusch, Herman A. Rusch, Arthur and Leona Baumbach exploring Lincoln County cutover near sign 16864. Date writeen in dust on back of Chevrolet; July 3, 1971

16865 P. 7-3-1971 concrete bridge abutment in middle of Spirit River at Spirit Falls, Wis., in 1902 carried Marinette, Tomahawk & Western Railroad tracks to junction with Soo Line spur from Rib Lake, view west

16865A ibid, view south form railroad right-of-way

16865B ibid center abutment turned upside down

16865C ibid view westward – upstream from former railroad bridge

16866 P. 7-3-1971 sign; ‘Owen-Illinois Glass Co. Industrial Forest’ This company operated huge cardboard pulp mill at Tomahawk and owned much of former RLLC lands in Town of Corning, Linocln Co., Wis. Where this sign was located

16867 P. 7-3-1971 road built atop former RLLC railroad grade – view east from Town Avenue, Town of Corning, Lincoln Co., SE NW 19-33-4E

16867A ibid ‘Snowshoe Lodge’ hunting shack (log cabin) built on former RLLC lands just west of Camp 26. Shack still periodically used in 2013

16868 P. 7-3-1971 ‘Meier Springbrooke Farm’ dairy barn on farm of Ray & Helen (nee Risjord) Meier, Town of Spirit, Price Co., Wis NW NE 26-34-3E, NB-wood stave silo; snowfence encloses family garden

16869 P. 3-6-1971 Gerstberger Pines County Park; viewed from CTH C

16870 P. 3-1971 1962 Volkswagon ‘beetle’ on CTH C next to snow drift

16871 P. 3-1971 Agnes ‘Aggie’ & Ernest ‘Ernie’ Tetzlaff farm, SE SW 14-33-2E, Town of Rib Lake

16872 P. 3-1971 Karen M. Rusch and stacked firewood inside her home, N8643 CTH C, Rib Lake, building former John Smith farm purchased in 1968 for $190 (building was then moved to SE NE 13-33-2E)

16872A ibid wool socks dry behind Franklin stove; far right-iron door from Langenberg brick kilns at Whittlesey, Wis.

16873 P. 3-1970 Small snow cover hill ‘Little Rib Mountains’ on west side of CTH C (foreground) SE NE 13-33-2E; prior to planning in evergreens in 1973 by RPR ‘Before photograph’

16873A P. 3-2013 ‘After Photograph’ sign ‘25 years tree farm’ view west from STH 102; NB-small hill in back

16874 P. 3-1970 ‘before photograph’ 1962 VW Beetle at site of future RPR driveway off CTH C; distant hill is site of RPR home ‘Waldheim’

16874A P. 3-2013 ‘After Photograph’ site reconstructed as part of wildlife pond built in 1976 including berm constructed along CTH C; evergreen trees planted 5-1977

16874B P. 1-2013 RPR home ‘Waldheim’ situated on hill pictured in 16874; east side of house

16875P. 3-1970 ‘Before photograph’ L-Everett A. Rusch and children, Henry & Lisa, on RPR driveway site 80 feet west of CTH C, SE NE 13-33-2E; view west; NB-’Sentinel Pine’ on horizon

16875A P. ‘After photograph’ 7-31-2013

16875B P. ‘After photograph’ 3-7-2013, left-sign 50 years tree farm

16876 P. 3-1970 ‘Before photograph’ Everettt A. Rusch & child on site of RPR driveway at future ‘Gebauer Pines’ SE NE 13-33-2E, view west

16876A P. 8-20-2013 ‘After photograph’

16876B P. ‘After photograph’ 8-20-2013

16876C P. ‘After photograph’ 3-18-2013 sign; ‘Maria Gebauer Wald’ (forest 1971)

16877 P. 5-1970 ‘Before photograph’ L-R Martha H. & Karen M. Rusch at newly-cut out loop driveway site for RPR home; SE NE 13-33-2E, view north

16877A P. 11-2012 ‘After photograph’ loop driveway in front of RPR house; rear-garage ‘Schuene;’ all trees shown have grown naturally, view NW

16878 P. 1-1972 ‘before photograph’ view SE down RPR driveway past future Gebauer Pines. Armin Buehler backhoe digs wildlife ponds; on horizon-open fields of Anton Kurek farm, NW SW 18-33-3E

16878A P. 1-2013 ‘After photograph’ view SE down RPR driveway; right-Gebauer Pines planted in 1973; left-clump of 4 basswood (tilia Americana)

16879 P. 1-1972 backhow bucket digging wildlife pond at RPR home (shown on hill); SE NE 13-33-2E; Town of Rib Lake, N8643 CTH C

16879A ibid rear-tar paper shack

16879B ibid, used c. 1965 as horse barn by logger clear cutting Stanley Dyrcz land

16879C ibid Karen M. Rusch

16879D ibid Karen M. Rusch holding Atlas Dynamite Box, prior landowner Stanley Dyrcz liberally used dynamite to blast out stumps as he tried to clear site for farm

16879E ibid view through shack window

16879F ibid John Deere backhoe frames Anton Kurek barn – on horizon

16879G ibid earth snow cover – unfrozen

16879H ibid water table four feet from surface

16879I ibid view west from CTH C

16879J ibid engineer operator Norbert Brandner

16879K ibid flowing water

16880 P. 1-1972 ‘Before photograph’ Karen M. Rusch inspects non-navigable creek filling new pond site; SE NE 13-33-2E, view SSW from driveway

16880A P. 8-21-2013 ‘After photograph’ photo to SW of creek crossing of Rusch driveway; red earth in center marks location of family pet, Eva

Jeff Mauch collection

‘Lulu & Jim’s Place’ for Mr. and Mrs. James Mauch

16881 P. c. 1930 ‘Fred Lietz Spirit Lake Tavern,’ former Spirit Lake Hotel, NW SE 5-33-2E, Town of Rib Lake

16881A P. c. 1990 Spirit Lake Tavern & Tourist Cabin & Schlitz & Gettleman Beer signs. View to NE, Little Spirit Lake in background; gas pump next to steps.

16882 P. 10-24-1997 Spirit Lake Tavern ablaze, James ‘Jim’ Mauch proprietor

16882A ibid, backhoe used to access fire

16882B ibid fire out

16882C ibid ibid next day; back-STH 102; view east

16882D ibid east side of buiding; right-Little Spirit Lake

16882E ibid Old Style beer sign advertises ‘Food’ NB-building was removed and replaced with a public picnic shelter built by Spirit Lake Improvement Association c. 2000; DNR built public boat launch 200 feet north of tavern site

RPR collection

16883 Poster 1-2013 Perkinstown Kids Snowshoe Race

16883A Poster, 2013 Perkinstown Winter Sports Area Snowshoe Race

16884 P. c. 1970 Unidentified snowmobilers at former bath house building, RLLC Camp 26, NW SW 4E, Town of Corning building saved by Mathias family as hunting shack

16884A P. c. 1970 former outside meat aging & storage screened building in Town of Corning, Lincoln County, Wis., at unidentified RLLC camp

16885 Star News 3-14-2013 ‘Young musical leads Westboro worship’ Tyler Andreae, 12 yrs old, organist at First Lutheran Church

16886 P. 5-1970 Herman Smith, longtime Rib Lake blacksmith. His smithy is on the north side of Landall Ave. at junction with Mill Lane. Following Herman’s death, smithy operated by Linne & Alan Hansen, ‘The Otter Tail Brothers’ until c. 2008 when Mike Roiger took over

16886A ibid

16886B ibid Herman Smith at metal grinder

16886C ibid until 2012, Smith had belts and pulleys (pictured) powering the lathe and other machinery. Originally, a steam engine powered this system

16887 P. 3-1970 view north on CTH C showing, right-former Perusek field planted to red pine in 1962 by Anton Kurek and Rolland ‘Rollie’ Thums; left-driveway to RPR home, N8643 CTH C, SE NE 13-33-2E

16887A P. ‘After’ P. 2-16-2013 view north on CTH C, Mailbox of RPR, N8643 CTH C, SW NE 13-33-2E, Town of Rib Lake

16887B ibid ‘Railroad Street’ is RPR driveway, view north to hill crest shown on photo 16887 43 years later

16887C ibid SW NE 18-33-3E, land shown on right side of photo 16887; field planted in 1962 in red pine by Frank Kurek and Rollie Thums; in 2013 red pine trees, 41 on site

16888 P. 3-1970 Karen M. Rusch on CTH C adjacent to SE NE 13-33-2E, view north; NB-trees 8-10 ft. high following clear cut of 1960

16888A ‘After’ 7-30-2013

16889 P. 3-1970 ‘Rib -River School Distrct 2 – 1921’ two room elementary school sold to private party c. 1975. SW NE 18-32-3E, Town of Rib Lake

16890 P. c. 1970 Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, Whittlesey, originally Mutter Der Immer Wehrende Hilfe Kirche. Built on land donated by Silesian immigrants August & Pauline (nee Meissner) Steiner, SW SE 26-32-1E, building razed . 1970 and new church built across street (Whittlesey Ave.)

16890A ibid west side

16890B ibid north side, rear

16890C ibid east side

16890D ibid interior wall mural in nave

16890E ibid front – south side

16891 P. c. 1970 farm home of August & Pauline (nee Meissner) Steiner, SW SE 26-32-1E, left-original Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, Whittlesey. Steiners donated part of their farm for church and cemetery. C. 1902 Steiners moved & transferred farm to daughter and son-in-law, William (Wilhelm) & Bertha Gebauer [see image 15229E for Steiner-Gebauer family history]. August Steiner ran the Whittlesey Post office from the pictured house as postmaster from 1897-to his death in 1902.

16891A ibid south side – front; from 1897-1902 this farm house was the site of the Whittlesey, Wisconsin, Post Office – August Steiner, Sr., Postmaster

16892 P. c. 1970 old August Steiner log barn remnant, SE SE 26-32-1E; rear-steeple – Whittlesey Catholic Church

16893 P. c. 1970 ‘Paulina (Pauline) Steiner’ grave marker, cemetery next to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Cathlic Church, Whittlesey, she was spouse of August Steiner

16893A P. c. 1970 Bertha Gebauer, nee Steiner, 9-2-1867 to 10-15-1918 German language tombstone, translation; Oh, so early you were cut down, and while that is our tragic loss, rest softly in God’s peace until there we see you again. Bertha Gebauer died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Her daughter, Martha Hedwig, was the mother of Robert P. Rusch

16893B ibid L. gravestone of Bertha Steiner – on right – gravestone of her son, Paul Steiner, who also died in 1917. Rear-farm home & buildings of Bertha & husband August, the former farm fields which they laboriously cleared, are in 1970 rapidly being naturally reforested

Dennis Kuehling Collection

16894 P. 3-7-2013 Dennis Kuehling and Ducky ice fishing on Chelsea Lake

16894A P. 3-7-2013 Under water photo of sunfish at Chelsea Lake; Dennis Kuehling has underwater camera

16895 P. c. 1900 ‘Going to Town Rib Lake, Wis.’; man & woman on oxen drawn wagon with solid wood wheels

16896 P. c. 1930 ‘South Harper Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. 23’ center-western island; view south from current Rustic Road One; field in foreground dis in NW NE 13-33-2E; In 2013 it is covered with 50 foot high planed red pine

16896A ‘Scene on South Harper Lake near Westboro, Wis. 1’

RPR Collection

16897 W. Cemetery locations in Taylor Co. list; by Taylor County Genealogical Society 2013

16898 L. Schlais building history, 827 McComb Ave., Part of Lot 7, and lots 8 & 9, Block 10, MRPA, by Violet ‘Vi’ Melaski 3-2013

16898A ibid p. 2

Collection of Gregory ‘Doc’ Thums

16899 P. 6-5-1997 Lillian Thums, nee Kurek, aka Mrs. Edwin Thums, at retirement party as librarian of Rib Lake Public Library for 43 years

16899A ibid L-R Jeanette Clendenning nee Curran, Lillian Thums, Mary Ann Rusch

16899B ibid L-R Isabelle Wilhelms, Lillian Thums, Walter ‘Wimpy’ Wilhelms

16899C fake $100 bill from???? Dolezalek

16899D Star News 6-16-1997 ‘Love for the library gets in her blood’

16899E L. 6-1997 Georgiana Peabody to Lillian Thums; ‘I think the library is the best bargain in the county. Where else is so much available for free..’

16899F P. 6-1997 L-R Edwin, Bryan & Jen Thums, Camp 28 Restaurant; 80th birthday of Lillian Thums

16899G P. ibid Budimlija family, Mr. & Mrs. Wendy, nee Thums, and Randy, L-R Brandon, Elena, Carmen & Ethan, from porch of Camp 28; rear-Rib Lake

16900 P. c. 1910 St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Rib Lake; building razed c. 1972

16900A back –foreign language postcard to Sofi Nystrom, Prentice

16901 P. 5-15-1998 Raymond ‘Ray’ Thums, Marathon Co. Circuit Court Judge, & daughter Kristin

16902 P. Mrs. Wenzel Thums nee Elizabeth Feldegel 1829-1913; mother of Anna Dums, Mary Probst, Catherine Seidel, Clara Lyle, Joseph & Lawrence Thums

16903 P. Lawrence Thums, aka Lorenz, 1861-1910

16904 P. Mrs. Lawrence Thums, nee Theresa Seidel 1866-1938

16905 P. c. 1910 Anton Wudi, Sr., 1842-1922

16905A Painting, Mrs. Anton Wudi, Sr., nee Barbara Handel, 1849-1930

RPR Collection

16905-1 P. 12-1972 view from Robert P. Rusch kitchen picture window, rear-old horse boran on SE NE 13-33-2E

16905-1A P. 1-2013 ‘After’ folder 00

16905-1B P. 8-1975 Waldheim, home of Robert P. Rusch, N8643 CTH C, Rib Lake; kitchen window from which image 16905 was taken is large rectangle to left of arched window

16906 P. 3-1-1948 Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, Whittlesey – view from south

16906A ibid view from SW

16907 P. 6-1968 Tribal logging mill, Neopit, Wis, view from south across mill pond, view to NNE

16907A ibid large saw log on west side of mill

16907B ibid, man with pike pole guiding white pine logs from mill pond to bull slide

16907C ibid, band saw; left-head sawyer sits in his gage

16907D P. 6-1968 peeled saw logs sit on deck inside mill and after leaving bull slide; c. head sawyer eyes up next log to cut

16907E ibid inside saw mill – 2 unidentified workers

16908 W. 3-18-2013 Menominee Tribal Enterprises website history page ‘producers and manufacturers of quality sustainable forest products since 1908…

16909 2010 Wisconsin State Highway Map – NE Wisconsin showing Menominee Indian Reservation & Village of Neopit

16910 P. 9-1973 Rib Lake Post Office, 705 McComb Ave.

16911 P. 9-1973 Melvin ‘Spike’ Clendenning, long-time Village of Rib Lake clerk

16912 P. 9-1973 former George Braun real estate office; in 2013 Mann-Made Pizza, 713 McComb Ave.

16913 P. 9-1973 Arnold ‘Arnie’ Flage, dba Rib Lake Pharmacy, in 2013 Ultimate Illusion, 713 McComb Ave.

16913A P. Karen M. Rusch outside Rib Lake Pharmacy

16913B P. c. 1965 left-former Kennedy-Upjohn Pharmacy

16914 P. 9-1973 Howard Scott, Branch bank manager, on sidewalk of State Bank of Medford – Rib Lake station, 723 McComb Ave.; in 2013 – scheduled to become branch of Nicolet National Bank

16914A ibid view from SE

16914B ibid Howard Scott making a monkey face; rear-’Open’ sign above drive-thru

16915 P. 9-1973 view northward on McComb Ave; left-Arth’s Fun Capitol [Art Swiantek, owner], formerly George Buksa, Jr. dba George’s Go-Go Barn, 723 McComb Ave.

16915A ibid in 2013 Damian Jones dba Frosted Mug Bar

16916 P. 9-1973 American Legion Post – Lehman-Clendenning Post #274, McComb Ave.

16917 P. 9-1973 ‘The Family Bar’ 727 McComb Ave., formerly Peterson Opera House on second floor; in 1950’s Frank & Cecilia Becker tavern; in 2012 ‘Bird’s Nest Tavern’; foreground – 1972 Chevrolet half ton pick-up; NB-enclosed stairwell on south side of building provided access to upstairs apartment; NB-distinctive vertical ???? on SE & NE Roof corners were a unique feature until removed c. 2010

16918 P. 9-1973 Rib Lake Village Hall, 741 McComb Ave.,

16919A ibid

16920 P. 9-1973 Sheldon Patrick dba Patrick’s Shoe Service – Red Wing Shoes, 745 McComb Ave

16921 P. 9-1973 Nancy & Dale Strobach, dba Dale’s Supermarket, 749 McComb Ave., in 2012 Damian Jones, former Graphic T Coffee House, in 2013 it is vacant

16921 P. 9-1973 vacant lot, SW corner of Landall & McComb Ave., former site of Ma Dodge’s Café

16922 P. 9-1973 Ed Zondlo, dba Ed’s IGA, 801 McComb Ave., was vacant lot; in 2013 it is covered by stone addition; former Kelnhofer Store, built c. 1897, longest running commercial site in Rib Lake

16923 P. 9-1973 The Rib Lake Herald, C4 & C5, C4 was previously the office & showroom for Lake Superior District Power (Electric) Company; the Herald’s final edition was 9-20-1973, J.A. O-Leary publisher and editor; Ed Zondlo bought the site, razed the building and in 2013 uses the 2 lots for parking for IGA patrons; NB-far right-former Joe Lilly Gas Statio; in 2013 parking lot for Zondlo’s IGA, until Gene Clifford’s sale of the paper in 1968, its name was the Rib Lake Herald ‘we print everything but money.’ The last two words are missing here – the window broke

16924 P. 9-1973 Louis Menning’s Barber Shop & Lakewood Credit Union, C6 & south 27 feet of C7; 821 McComb Ave.; in 2013 the entire building is owned by Kristine & George J. Zondlo, Jr., the later operated a realty office from the south half and Zondlo’s Barber Shop from the north half

16925 P. 9-1973 Robert & Violet (nee Schlais) Melaski, dba Schlais Clothing & Apparel, 827 McComb Ave., part of C7, C8 & C9 MRPA; in 2013 Robert H. Frombach, dba McComb Ave. apartments; for history see 16898

16925A ibid view south – National Hotel at horizon

16926 P. 9-1973 former North Side Garage, prior site of Johnson’s Opera House & Lake Theatre (#1); in 2013 Marlene Gerstberger, dba Gerstberger Rib Lake Florist, 835 McComb Ave, C10

16927 P. 9-1973 American Legion Lehman-Clendenning Post 274 war memorial ‘Let us remember lest we forget.’ Site 1891-1912 right-of-way for Soo Line Railroad to tannery; Block C, Lot 12, MRPA, NB-north of lot is Fayette Ave

16928 P. c. 1970 Former Peter Bogumill store under reconstruction by John Desris, 728 McComb Ave., Block A, Lots 4&5, MRPA, view to NE

RPR photos Vol. 1 1990-1991

16929 P. 6-1990 rails removed from former Soo Line at Mile Post 332.17, Westboro

16930 P. 6-1990 rails & tie removed from former Soo Line at Mile post 318.90; Marvin Kuenne farm, NE SE 9-31-1E, Town of Medford

16931 P. 6-1990 Ice Age National Scenic Trail (IAT) trail head Chequamegon National Forest STH 64

16932 P. 6-1990 ‘Rib Lake X-Country Skiing’ sign, junction of STH 102 & STH 13

16933 P. 6-1990 African-American volunteers building IAT in Taylor County forest

16934 P. 6-1990 Gary Thums and Herb Schubert on behalf of Rib Lake Fish & Game Assoc. present check to Ron Becker for IAT development

16935 P. 11-1990 Limestone screenings on Pine Line north of Allman Street, Medford

16935A ibid grader levels screenings

16935B ibid screenings level

16936 P. 11-1990 classic Wisconsin dairy farm, Nikkila family, SW SE 7-33-2E, Town of Westboro

16937 P. 10-1990 IAT Bridge under construction over Sheep Ranch Creek Rib Lake School Forest; L-R, unknown, Scott Bromann, Gary & Jeff Thums

16938 P. 10-1990 80 year old Martha H. Rusch fills IAT Map box at RLLC Camp 6

16939 P. 10-1990 Pine Line Mile Post 325.11 (miles from Grand Central Station-Chicago), ballast graded

16940 P. 11-1990 reconstructed Pine Line bridge with guard rails

16941 P. 11-1990 Mile Post 326.69 Pine Line & ‘W’ sign; whistle for highway

16942 P. 11-1990 curved Pine Line follows Fischer Creek

16943 P. 11-1990 Pine Line bridge spans Silver Creek at Westboro

16943A P. 11-1990 Allman Street – southern terminus of Pine Line

16944 P. 11-1990 Pine Line at (on right) former spur to Rib Lake; NB-telegraph poles

16945 P. 11-1990 Pine Line Silver Creek bridge and old Laabs Cheese factory

16946 P. 12-1990 Pine Line ribbon cutting; L-R Attorney Raymond H. Scott, Trail Commission President & ‘Founder of the Pine Line’ & unknown

16946A ibid trail commissioners; L-R Mike Roiger, Dr. John Satterwhite, Wilbert Bromberg, Raymond H. Scott, Byron Eckstrom, Brad Ruesch, Taylor Co. Forestry & Parks Director, ???

16947 P. 12-1990 volunteer painting IAT sign

16948 P. 12-1990 Thums family at dedication of IAT parking & trail head on their land

16949 P. 12-1990 Farmall H tractor pulling bedspring to groom Rib Lake ski trails

16950 P. 12-1990 Pine Line open for snowmobiling

16950A ibid

16950B ibid

16951 P. 12-1990 Pine Line Silver Creek bridge

16951A ibid

16951B ibid

16952 P. 12-1990 IAT Deutsches Wiederveringegung Brueke – German Reunification bridge in Rib Lake School Forest

16953 P. 12-1990 Hartwig Hills sign – named for generous, long-time trail friend, Tom Hartwig

16954 4-1991 gondola being loaded with old rails at Medford

16955 4-1991 Dairyland Marathon Finish Banner, Allman Street, Medford, first such marathon

16956 4-1991 end of track – south side of Allman Street

16957 P. 4-1991 Dairyland Marathon – timers ready

16957A ibid #17 finishes

16958 P. 4-1991 Robert Reiman, winner of first Dairyland Marathon with 20 miles done (at Whittlesey)

16959 P. 4-1991 L-R Jim Sisko, Dave Crone, Lorna Michaels, all of Wausau, run Dairyland Marathon on Pine Line over Silver Creek

16960 P. 4-1990 Dale Niggemann finishes Dairyland Marathon

16960A ibid – a happy two-some

16960B ibid – a relay team of 6 with their railroad spike baton which they carried 26.2 miles

16961 P. 4-1991 Burgers & brats at post-marathon party, Medford City Park

16962 P. 4-1991 Bob Feavel of Appleton is last finisher of Dairyland Marathon

16963 P. 4-1991 ‘Medford to Prentice Rail-Trail’ first, temporary, name for Pine Line

16964 P. 19914 Mike Wepfer, CEO, Dariyland Realty, unloads rusty salvaged flange markers; Soo Line railroad signs placed before immovable objects instructing snowplowing crew to raise the snow plow blade; markers repainted as mile markers for Dairyland Marathon

16964A ibid, saved as tiff

16965 w. C. 1970 Soo Line railroad ‘Report of Hazard of grade crossing collision.’

16965A Back

16966 W. email 3-16-2013, Larry Easton to RPR re naming of Westboro & Stetsonville, Taylor County, Wis.

16966A W. 11-21-1874 ‘[Milepost] 83…has been christianed Westboro,’ by Larry Easton, this is very first use of term Westboro for Milepost 83 on Wisconsin Central Railroad

RPR Collection

16967 P. 6-1991 Charles Little, dba The Little House, N8820 Bus. Hwy 13, Westboro, at site of Soo Line Depot site; bar in background

16968 W. 6-1991 Star News, ‘Rec Trail will be a great tourist attraction here,’ by William G. Youngquist

16969 P. 6-1991 Roller packs crushed gravel on Pine Line; Peterson Concrete of Medford generously donated gravel to finish southernmost three miles of trail.

16970 P. 6-1992 Whittlesey sign along Pine Line; Left-Pot Belly Bar

16971 P. 6-1992 Will Johnson at site of proposed Chelsea bed & breakfast to serve Pine Line visitors

16972 P. 4-1992 Old sleigh logging road excavation NW NE SW 13-33-2E dug c. 1885 to permit pine loggers to pull sleigh across ridge of high land

16972A ibid, site is one-eighth mile west of McGillis Pine Camp

16973 8-31-1992 Membership certificate for Medford-to-Prentice Rail-Trail Association, Inc., signed by Attorney Raymond H. Scott

From Collection of Jerome ‘Jerry’ Sjostrom, Athens, WI

16974 1912 ‘Official Railroad map of Wisconsin’ Railroad Commission of Wisconsin, 15th biennial edition, legend

16974A Taylor & adjoining counties

16974B Milwaukee County

16974C Brown County

16974D Dane County

16974E Lacrosse County

16974F St. Croix County & Twin Cities

16974G Douglas County & Duluth, MN

16974H Chicago, Illinois

16974I Ashland County

16975 c. 1930 Map ‘Wisconsin Railroads,’ Compiled by Clason Map Co., Denver, CO, published by A.J. Nystrom, Chicago, legend

16975A Taylor & Adjoining Counties

16975B Milwaukee County

16975C Brown County

16975D Forest County

16975E Ashland County

16975F Douglas County

16975G St. Croix County

16975H Buffalo County

16975I Lacrosse County

16975J Crawford County

16975K Dane County

16975L Rock & Walworth County

16975M Kenosha County & Chicago

16976 1923 W. ‘Marathon County Farm Journal,’ Wausau, Wis. Title page

16976A Athens Territory, land of clover and dairy cattle

16976B P. Athens village square

16977 8-29-1882 Plat of Village of Athens, formerly Black Creek Falls – Surveyor’s Affidavit

16977A ibid p. L. signed Fred [Frederick] Rietbrock, D.H. Johnson & L.W. Halsey

16978 6-18-1904 Plat of the third Rietbrock addition to the Village of Athens, signed Fred Rietbrock, pres., Rietbrock Land & Lumber Co.

16978A plat map – ‘Holy Redeemer Catholic Congregation’, nka St. Anthony Catholic Church

16978B ibid, back; NB-land gifted to church by Frederick Rietbrock, founder of Athens

16979 L. 7-9-1904 Wm. [William] L. Erbach [a son-in-law of Fred [Frederick] Rietbrock] to A.C. Rietbrock; NB-on stationery of Rietbrock Land & Lumber Co, manufacturers of pine, hemlock & hardwood lumber

16980 1907 pamphlet ‘The Guernseys at Helendale Farms’ Athens, Wisconsin, cover

16980A ibid, p. 2 P. Frederick Rietbrock & p. 3 Helendale Farms

16980B ibib p. 4 & p. 5 P. cattle

16980C ibid p. 6 & p. 7

16980D ibid p. 8 & p. 9

16980E ibid back page

16981 1911 pamphlet ‘The Guernseys of Helendale Farms’ Athens, Wis. Office-700 Cedar Street, Milwaukee, cover

16981A ibid, p. 2 & p. 3 History

16981B ibid p. 4 & p. 5

16981C ibid p. 6 & p. 7

16981D ibid p. 8 & p. 9

16981E ibid p. 10 & p. 11 milk and fat records

16982 Map 1-1-1908 ‘Athens Depot Grounds’ Wisconsin Central Railway – legend

16982A ibid Rietbrock Land & Lumber Co. sawmill

16982B ibid depot & public square

16982C ibid roundhouse & creamery

16982D ibid ice & lime house

16982E ibid Braun & Son sawmill

16982F ibid Athens Mfg. sawmill [Chizek] and ‘Upham Logging Railroad’ spur to Goodrich

16983 Map 1901 ‘Plat Book of Marathon County’, Northwest Publishing House, Minneapolis, title page

16983A ibid Map 1901 outline map of Marathon County, NW corner, Abbotsford to Athens, Abbotsford & Northeastern Railway & Upham Logging Railroad

16983B ibid plat map & T26 3E McMillan

16983C ibid T26 7E Knowlton

16983D ibid T27 4E Stratford

16983E ibid T27 7E Mosinee & Dessert Lumber Co.

16983F ibid T29 3E Corinth & Wisconsin Central Railroad

16983G ibid T29 4E Athens

16983H ibid T29 5E Big Rib Falls

16983I ibid T30 3E Athens

16983J ibid T30 4E Athens, southern half

16983K ibid T30 4E, Athens, northern half

16983L ibid Mosinee; Joseph Dessert Lumber Co.

16983M ibid Colby

16983N ibid Big Rib Falls

16983O ibid Wausau-legend

16983P ibid Curtis Bros. Sash & Door Factory

16983Q ibid Athens-north one-third

16983Q1 ibid Athens-center one-third

16983Q2 ibid Athens south one-third

16983Q3 ibid Athens west

16983R ibid Athens-south half

16983S ibid Wisconsin State Map-Taylor & adjoining counties

16983T ibid patrons directory-Athens

16983U ibid T29 2E Athens east

16983V ibid T26 7E Knowlton

16983W ibid T26 8E USLC Lands

16984 Map c. 1910 ‘Exhibit X, Athens, Wis.’ By Wisconsin Central RR, E.E. Winch & Co. stave factory, east half

16984A ibid [original passenger] depot, west half

16985 W. 1930 ‘Atlas & Farmers’ Directory’ of Marathon Co., Webb Publishing, cover

16985A ibid Title Page

16985B ibid Farmers near Athens Helendale Farms, owners William A. & William L. Erbach

16985C ibid. Farmers near Athens

16985D plat map T30 4E north half

16985E ibid south half, Athens, NB-Sec. 31 ‘Helendale Farms’

16985F ibid south half T29 R2E – Abbotsford & Soo Line Railroad

16985G ibid T29 5E, south half, Rib Falls

16985H ibid T29 5E, north half

16985I ibid T29 4E, north half Athens

16985J ibid Map, Marathon County, west

16985K ibid Map, Marathon County, center

16985L ibid Map, Marathon County, east

16985M ibid, Map, Town of Halsey, west half, T30 4E

From RPR Collection

16986 L. 10-7-1986 Mary & Al Kennedy to RPR

16986A back

16987 W. ‘Steamboats in the Timber’ by Ruby El. Hult, 1952, Caxton Printers, Caldwell, Idaho-cover

16987A ibid p. 51 Tug boats – Kennedy Bros.

16987B ibid p. 52 Second migration of timber industry

16987C ibid p. 87 in 1899 F.S. Robbins Co. from Rhinelander, Wis. Arrives at Coeur d’Alene…

16987D ibid p. 88 ‘Red Roaring Dan Kennedy builds Kennedy mill at mouth of Spokane River in City of Coeur d’Alene [see map – image 16988]; c. 1905 c. 7,000,000,000 board feet of timber bought tributary to Coeur d’Alene Lake;

16987E ibid p. 89 c. 1905 ‘Kennedy Brothers 50,000,000’

16987F ibid p. 101 ‘Bradford Kennedy Co.’ log mark

16988 Map 2-23-1903 ‘Lake Coeur D’Alene’ by Alex M. Lupper, ‘Acres 26,509’ north half; Red arrow added by RPR shows site of Kennedy Bros. sawmill

16988A ibid south half

16989 P. 1-1992 RPR at start of Beargrease snow marathon, Duluth, MN

16989A ibid RPR at mile 17 wearing Herson’s 9 x 29 wood snowshoe

16989B ibid finish line

16989C ibid RPR at snowshoe marathon finish, Lester Park, MN

16990 Award 4-7-13 RPR Men’s 70-74 St. Louis marathon

16991 Map 4-26-2013 Lumber Epoch-Railroads of Taylor County by Everett A. & Robert P. Rusch & John Easterly of Taylor County Land Information Dept, legend & east half

16991A ibid-west half

16992 Obit, Harold A. Curran, 8-25-1915 to 10-14-2012, Star News 10-18-2012. Parents-Chester & Augusta, nee Pries, Curran

16993 Obit, Donaldean Niggemann, 12-13-1927 to 10-13-2012, Star News 10-18-2012, parents-Donald J. Trepanier and Marcella, nee Hochstetler

16994 W. Star News ‘Rib Lake to apply for 3rd Safe Routes grant,’ 3-22-2012, left half and map-proposed pathway from STH 102 north to school compex; (pathway indicated by green dots)

16994A ibid right half

16995 Star News ‘Rib Lake school board reviews 2012-2013 budget adjustment’ ‘Rib Lake lost almost $5,000,000 in revenue for the 2011-2012 budget year…’ as a result of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker

16996 Menu ‘Pine Line Café’ 149 S. Main St., Medford, Wis. Cover 7-2012

16996A ibid, proprietors Brian & Kim Wilson

16997 Winter 2012 ‘Short History of Prentice Hydraulics, Inc.’ Chips & Sawdust, quarterly newsletter, Forest History Assoc. of Wisconsin

16997A p. 2 ibid

16997B p. 3 ibid P. Leo & Norma (Pokela) Heikkinen c. 1950

16997C p. 4 ibid conclusion ‘submitted by Dale Heikkinen’

16998 Marriage Registration, Fayette Delos Shaw & Ida Augusta Krauth, 6-7-1893, Medford, Wis., Rev. R.A. White, Universalist Minister, Chicago, IL 6-7-1893; groom was son of Fayette M. Shaw and Lavania (Ford) and owner of Rib Lake Tannery

16998A ibid Taylor County recordation 6-21-1893

16999 6-10-1895 Taylor Co. Star & News, ‘Shaw-Knauth’ wedding. ‘The grom is a member of the [tanning] firm of T.,F.M. & F.D. Shaw & Co.’; firm’s initials stands for Thaxter Shaw, Fayette M. Shaw and Fayette Delos Shaw

17000 4-9-1881 Taylor Co. Star & News, John Duncan of Westboro gets exclusive rights to dam Silver Creek, etc. Chapter 22, Laws of 1881, State of Wisconsin; annotations by Robert P. Rusch 5-4-2013

17000A ibid p. 2

17000B ibid p. 3 tolls, 25 cents per 1,000 board feet

17000C ibid p. 4

17000D ibid p. 5 Duncan may open others’ dams; immunity

17000E ibid p. 6 4-2-1881 is effective date

Stan H. & Elsie Carbaugh collection, W4911 Perkins Ave., Medford, WI 54451, 715-748-5000

17001 1902 Railroad map of Wisconsin, State Railroad Commission. Legend ‘Wisconsin Central Railroad has 481,618 acres available for settlement.’

17001A ibid Lafayette Co. & surrounding

17001B ibid Kenosha County and surrounding

17001C ibid Crawford County and surrounding

17001D ibid Dane County and surrounding

17001E ibid Milwaukee County and surrounding

17001F ibid Buffalo County and surrounding

17001G ibid Wood County and surrounding

17001H ibid Brown County and surrounding

17001I ibid Ramsey County and surrounding

17001J ibid Taylor County and surrounding

17001K ibid Marinette County and surrounding

17001L ibid Douglas County and surrounding

17001M ibid Ashland County and surrounding

17001N ibid Marquette, Michigan and surrounding

17001O ibid Keweenaw Peninsula

17001P ibid Taylor & Clark County and surroundings

17002 Map 5-12-2013 Camp 13 location – shown by orange dot, NW NW 12-33-3E, on 1979 Wood Lake quad; and extant old railroad ROW to Camp 5, NW NW 12-33-3E, shown by brown line

17003 Map 5-10-2013 Camp 13, RLLC extant feautures by RPR

17004 Map 5-11-2013 Camp 5 railroad spur extant features found 5-10-2013 in NW NW 12-33-3E

17005 Map 5-20-2013 Camp 13 RLLC site & railroad ROW and track discovery site by R.P. Rusch

17006 Map 9-9-2012 Modified 5-10-2012 Camp 13 ‘Building diagram’ modified to show location of camp well casing found 5-10-2013

RPR collection purchased from John Zutavern, W3192 North Ave., Rib Lake, 715-427-3465

17007 P. 7-24-1914 Mill fire, RLLC, view north from Railroad and Lake Street, rear right-US Leather Co. building north of Fayette Ave., [NB-identical images have previously been scanned.]

17007A back-Postmark 11-3-1914; Mrs. M. Peche writes to Mrs. A. [Andrew] Berg, Morse, Wis. ‘Dear Sister; Well I must drop you a card today and let you know that mother is coming [by train] to see you Saturday the 14th. So you can meet her when she comes to Morse. So Good-bye, signed Mrs. M. Peche

17008 P. c. 1910 ‘East side McComb Ave Rib Lake, Wis.’ Spoof, Milwaukee Interurban 1108 showing destination ‘Oconomowoc’ & track dubbed onto McComb Ave. scene; buildings from right to left:

1) Nick Clerf’s ‘Wagon Manufacturer’ & blacksmith shop; in 2013 C& G [Hanke] Mini Mart, Inc, 910 State Highway 102

2) Woodman Lodge

3) ‘Wisconsin House’ Hotel

4) Boston Store, l/k/a Bogumills

5) Frank Poole mortuary

6) Taylor Hardware

7) McRae Bakery & Restaurant

8) Phillip Marcus, d/b/a ‘The Fair,’ department store

Landall Ave junction

9) Bank

10) Marschke’s saloon – with awning

Remaining buildings unidentifiable [NB-identical image of this photo previously scanned]

17009 P. c. 1910 ‘A winter scene at Little Rib’ spoof; a giant, dubbed fish; man in center is Harry Kulstad.

17010 P. c. 1910 woman and 3 children in front of Ward School; RLLC chimney in rear

17011 P. c. 1910 sweater-clad woman in front of Ward School-black building on left; electric poles along Church Street.

17012 P. c. 1910 ‘try the German’s Delight’ nerver and beer 10 cents a glass, on sign in tavern. Frank Haas, Andrew Berg and Cy Claussen at bar. NB image of 3 men is from back bar mirror making printing on wall objects backward

17013 P. c. 1910 ‘caught in Spirit Lake,Wis’ unidentified man holding ‘65.25 lbs.’ muskellunge, aka muskie

17014 P. c. 1910 hunter holding fox

17015 P. c. 1910 hunter standing next to cedar shingled wall displaying 4 fox and pelts

17016 P. c. 1910 hunter with muskrat hides on pelting (drying) boards

17017 P. 1912 fawn and small buck with new horns in velvet

17018 P. 11-1908 3 hunters – 4 deer hung after gutting, ‘trophy’ rack atop pole

17019 P. c. 1910 9 hunters and 13 deer

17020 P. c. 1910 4 hunters and dog, two point to bullet holes in freshly killed black bear

17021 P. 5-2-1912 2 hunters and dog next to 2 large black bear pelts

17022 P. c. 1915 hunter carrying snow shoes and frozen fox or coyote

17023 p. c. 1915 2 hunters and 3 coyote or wolves

17024 P. c. 1925 John Zutavern, Sr., driving car pulling hay rake making hay on his Town of Chelsea, Taylor County, Wisconsin farm

RPR collection, 3RB #2 fall 1982 to 7-1983

17025 P. 7-1982 popple logging, L-R Red Matyka, Walter ‘Wimpy’ Wilhelms, James W. Smola, John Deere ‘one lung’ tractor and unpeeled aspen ‘popple’ pulpwood for Owen Illinois paper plant, Tomahawk, Wis

17026 P. 10-1982 Marlyn ‘Shoes’ Walbeck loads pit run gravel as son Kurt looks on

17027 P. 11-1983 Herman A. Rusch with cant hook on white ash log at Thomas M. Rusch barn & milk house

17028 P. 12-1983 old tote road on RPR farm, NE SW 13-33-3E

17029 P. 12-1982 Herman A. Rusch wraps balsam fir Christmas tree for Divinity-Divine Charity Ev. Luteran Church as son Thomas M. and daughter-in-law, Mary Ann Rusch help

17029A same tree adorns altar, Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin

17030 P. Christmas day 1982, 65 degrees F, home of Mr. & Mrs. Herman A. Rusch and boyhood home of RPR, 5947 N. 66th St. Milwaukee

17030A ibid

17031 P. 12-1982 Mr. & Mrs. Herman A. & Martha H. [nee Gebauer] Rusch

17032 P. 2-19-1983 ‘Rib Lake Jaycees cross country ski race’ poster, $5 entry fee

17032A Steve & Mike Cihasky-#21, and son Dane with beard await race start on Kennedy Street, CTH D, Village of Rib Lake

17032B L-R Karen M. Rusch, Susan & Rolland ‘Rollie’ Thums ready for first ski race, lka Hinderbinder

17033 P. 2-1983 old Rib Lake High School – west side facing ‘flats’ ball diamond, ‘Lion’s Stadium’

17034 P. 2-1983 Cornell, Wis. Stacker

17034A ibid Kristin Karen Bethany Leona Martha Rusch, nka Strobach, on snowbank

17035 P. 3-1983 Karen M. Rusch carries maple sap buckets and daughter Kris plays with hammer. Modified chainsaw with drill in foreground

17035A ibid, Karen M. Rusch cleans bore hole into sugar maple, tap and hammer on snow

17036 P. 3-1983 old sleigh road on SE SE 7-33-3E; Karen M. Rusch and daughter Kris inspect

17037 P. 3-1983 ‘Rib Lake Centennial’ 1881-1981 bridge over Tannery Creek at Fayette Ave.; rear-’flats’ ball diamond and old high school

17038 P. 3-1983 Leroy Stewart, Jr. and Sr., at Stewart Lumber Co. office, old RLLC machine shop, McComb Ave.

17039 P. 5-1983 Earl Thums sawmill, Apaloosa Lane, Westboro, ‘Thick & Thin Lumber Co.’

17039A ibid – interior, saw & carriage

17039B ibid rear-diesel engine

17040 P. 4-1983 photo from old municipal water tower on West Street – view south – St. John Lutheran Church; foreground-old pan house

17040A ibid, new high school

17040B ibid, new middle school

17040C ibid, mobile home park, CTH D

17041 P. 6-1983 Adolph Wille & lime truck; he had lime railroad shipped to Chelsea

17041A ibid, Kristin Rusch chases truck as it spreads lime at her home, N8643 CTH C

17042 P. 6-1983 boyhood home of Herman A. Rusch, built by his father, Herrmann Emanuel Rusch, on land bought from J.J. Kennedy, in 2013 building owned by Robert & Barbara Anderson, 746 Fayette Ave., Rib Lake

17043 P. 6-1983 old tannery power plant building; left-Tannery Creek

17043A ibid, concrete tannery railroad bridge support adjacent to Tannery Creek, tapered cement pillars supported base of tannery building

17043B ibid

17044 P. 6-1983 old hot pond site of RLLC

17045 P. 6-1983 old RLLC pump house building along lakeshore

17046 P. 6-1983 old dry kiln, built c. 1939, RLLC

17046A ibid, steam tunnel

17047 P. 6-1983 old steam tunnel, a network of concrete-lined tunnels housed steam pipes and serviced RLLC mill buildings including home of VIPs on 2nd street

17048 P. 1983 Timm’s Hill Towers

17048A 7-1983 benchmark US Geological Survey-declares Timm’s Hill 1951.5 feet above sea level in 1984. This survey dethroned Rib Mountain at Wausau and officially determined Timm’s Hill as Wisconsin’s Highest Natural Point.

17049 P. 6-1983 Trinity Lutheran Church, Whittlesey, Centennial sign

17049A ibid vacation bible school

17050 P. 6-1983 band saw recovered from Westboro Lumber Co. 1902-1922 dump site

End of 3RB #2 RPR

17051 W. c. 1902 ‘Souvenir Letter, Rib Lake, Wis. To …James Upjohn, druggist

17051A ibid back. ‘The Douglas Publishing Company, Buffalo, NewYork, Wisconsin Central Railroad series BFC’

17051B ibid, back of cover page ‘Rib Lake, Wis…190..’ followed by large blank space designed for sender to write letter. Appears to be ingenious plan by Wisconsin Central Railroad to publish Rib Lake area and help sell the 400,00 acres of land grant land the railroad had for sale

17051C P. c. 1900 ‘B.F.C. Bird’s Eye View’ of Village of Rib Lake. View westward across lake. L-R; 1) homes along Main Street, NKA Lake Street; 2) Sawmill’s windmill to pump water from lake; 3) residence of Duncan McLennan, JJK’s brother-in-law; 4) matched buildings are east side of Commercial Hotel; 5) boarding house for mill workers; 6) 3 smokestacks of JJK’s sawmill, white is steam vapor emitted at mill; 7) on horizon-hill is plart of Terminal Moraine of Wisconsin glacier; 8) white church, St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church in original orientation, steeple on south side

17051D P. c. 1900 ‘McComb Avenue, west side’ view north from 2013 junction with STH 102, buildings L-R;

1) George Braun, Sr., dba ‘George Braun dealer in timbered & inproved lands’ agent for wisocnsin Central Railroad lands. MRPA Lot 3, Block D, Bran building razed c. 1995; in 2013 site owned by Kris & Jim Mann, dba Mann-Made Pizza, 709 McComb Ave.

2) James Upjohn Drug Store, MRPA Lot 4 & 5, Block D, building occupied in 2013 by ‘Ultimate Illusion’ beauty shop, 715 McComb Ave

3) Lemon’s Furniture Store, MRPA Lot 5, No 27.5 ft. Block D, building razed c. 1975 and replaced with State Bank of Medford-Rib Lake Branch, lka MidWisconsin Bank, on 5-1-2013 it became part of Nicolet National Bank, headqauartered in Green Bay, Wis., in 2013 Nicolet National Bank site, 717 McComb Ave.

4) MRPA Block D, Lot 7, on 5-29-1901 A.C. McComb and wife, Ella G., sold lot to O.A. Froseth and A.J. Herren, who built building originally used as tailor and clothing shop; in 2013 building owend by Damian Jones, who rents it, tenant operates ‘Frosted Mug’bar, 723 McComb Ave; building used as a tavern as early as 3-20-1930 when purchased by Peter Beck.

5) 2-story building-top squared and painted white. C. 1900 top floor was opera house after A.C. McComb’s Opera House burned in 1898; lower level was Peterson’s ‘Cozy Café’; in 2013 building ‘Bird’s Nest’ tavern, 729 McComb, Lots 9 & 10, Block D, MRPA

17051E P. c. 1900 ‘McComb Avenue, east side’ single story building far righ later had second story added; c. 1930 purchased by Bogumill Bros; in 2013 ‘Bogumill building’ 728 McComb Ave, Lots 6 & 7, Block A, MRPA; church is St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church facing south

17051F P. c. 1903 ‘high school’ built in 1902, cupola later destroyed by wind

17051G P. c. 1900 ‘Pine Island’ view to NW, 3 chimney’s of RLLC

17051H P. c. 1900 ‘Catholic Church’ and rectory, view to NW

17051I P. c. 1900 ‘A Rib Lake Home’ residence of E.C. Getchel; in 1930’s Elmer Taylor remodeled into Taylor funeral home; later Ken Mannel, James Dallmann & Thomas Kniewal mortician-owners. In 2012 Jeff Hemer, dba Hemer Funeral Home & Crematory Service.

17051J P. c. 1950 ‘city park’ Rib Lake has never been a city. A portion of the township incorporated in 1902 as ‘The Village of Rib Lake.’ This is its park, bridge spans Copper, aka Cemetery Creek where it flows into Rib Lake.

17052 2013 real estate assessment roll for Village of Rib Lake, Page A ibid, MRPA Block A, Lots 1-5

17052B MRPA Block A, Lots 6-10

17052C MRPA Block A, Lots 11-13

17052D MRPA Black A, Lot 14 & Block B, Lots 1-4

17052E MRPA Block B, Lots 5-12

17052F MRPA Block D, Lots 1-4

17052G MRPA Block D, Lots 5-8

17052H MRPA Block D, Lots 9-13

17052I MRPA Block D, Lots 14-15

17052J MRPA Block C, Lots 1-7

17052K MRPA Block C, Lots 8-10

17053 W. 2013 ‘Hometown Village Apartments’ 630 Highway 102, ‘Affordable independent living for seniors and persons with disabilities.

17053A Side 2, back

Gift of Valorie Dubois, 5017 261st Lane, Wyoming, MN 55092

17054 W. 1937 ‘The Rib Lake-Ite 1937’ Rib Lake High School yearbook-cover

17054A Amos Martin inscription to Elsie M. Beck

17054B ibid, August Reistad, John H. Liebig, Jr.

17054C p. 1 Title Page, P. Rib Lake High School, Board of Education, President John Downs, Clerk John McRae, Treasurer Mrs. G.L. Baker

17054D P. 2 faculty-Felicia Cassidy, James E. Branton, George Shepherd, Russel Way & Lucienne Manney

17054E P. 3 photo of seniors – Kathryn Arnold, June Barnes, Carl Haverson, Evelyn Hein, Alice Bokath, Leroy Holmes, Edward Bloedow, Robert Hess, John Eckhoff, Dorothy Kalk, Leonard Goodman, Ruth Kammholz

17054F P. 4 ibid, Maxine La Londe, Frank Matyka, Howard Lamont, Peter Mihalka, Lillian Lien, Mildred Mittwoch, Edward Marschke, Geraldine Probst, Jean Marsh, Gladys Ploeckelman, Angeline Martin, Gerald Radtke,

17054G p. 5 ibid Bernard Rosenfeldt, Elvera Talbot, Constance Rusch, Valeria Warner, Michael Schinker, Agnes Ziemke, Agnes Seidel, Lee Clendenning, Arthur Frieboth, Ina Julmala; NB-34 seniors – each had nickname published with photo

17054H p. 6 photo of junior class

17054I p. 7 photo of sophomore class

17054J p. 8 photo of freshman class

17054K p. 9 photo of band in gymnasium

17054L p. 10 photo of glee club

17054M p. 1 photo of basketball team

17054N p. 12 photo of baseball & football teams

17054O p. 13 Girls Athletic Assocation & Pep Club

17054P. p. 14 photo of ‘Busy Brownies’ 4-H Club; photo of Irene Patrick

17054Q p. 15 photo of Miss L. Goerz, Miss Elsie M. Beck, Mrs. K. Peterson

17054R p. 16 Alumni, names of classes of 1936 thru 1930

17054S p. 17 inscriptions

17054T p. 18 inscriptions

17054U p. 19 inscriptions

Dennis Kuehling collection

17055 P. c. 1910 logging sleigh with buffalo robe clad teamster near Stetsonville, WI

17055A back-postcard 10-7-1911 Mrs. A. Porschwitz to Mrs. Herman Salzwedel, Medford, WI

17056 P. 1910 ‘Horse power threshing at Wm. Giese farm’ near Rib River Falls

17056A back-names of neighbors making up threshing crew

17057 P. spoof potatoes ‘this is the kind we raise in Rib Lake’ c. 1910

17058 P. c. 1910 ‘Scene on Chelsea Lake’ Town road on NW side of Little Chelsea Lake, SW SE 35-33-1E

17059 P. c. 1910 ‘View near Chelsea, Wis’

17060 P. c. 1928 ‘Lucky 13, Westboro, Wis’ view SE on STH 13 from Soo Line Railroad bridge to Fischer Creek, SE ¼ 13-33-1E

RPR Collection

17061 P. 1970 Taylor County Courthouse & WWI monument; sign-’Welcome to Taylor County – You are among friends’

17061A back

17062 P. 1980 Mondeaux Dam bathing beach and snack bar, NW NW 24-33-1E

17062A back

17063 P. c. 1990 two back-packers on Ice Age National Scenic Trail on esker at west side of Mondeaux Flowage, SW ¼ 24-33-1W

17063A back

17064 P. c. 1990 3 people on Gilman, Wis, swinging bridge over Yellow River, 24-31-4W

17064A back

17065 P. c. 1990 ‘Scene from Miller Dam, Gilman, Wis’ a life-size nativity scene in a hay barn

17065A back

17066 P. c. 1990 Hugh Warner Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2977 building in Jump River, Wis.

17066A back

17067 P. c. 1945 ‘RLLC 35’ dry yard & tramway descending to ground level just south of Railroad Street; view to NW

17067A back 7-1-1955 postcard to Everett A. Rusch from RPR

17068 Map 12-31-2005 Soo Line – former Abbotsford & NE through Town of Johnson, T29N R3E by Thomas Becher

17068A ibid, Town of Rietbrock, T29N R4E

17068B ibid, Town of Bern, T30N R3E

17068C ibid, Town of Halsey, T30N R3E, Soo Line, former Upham Logging Railroad, aka Goodrich extension, Copper River Spur shown in orange

17069 Map 6-5-2013 Copper River spur, in orange, Soo Line to Goodrich (former Upham Logging) in red, Rib Lake Lumber Co. in green; RLLC Camp 1 & Camp 19 sites by R.P. Rusch on James Kraysen US topo maps

17069A Map 6-5-2013A, Copper River Spur, sites of Camp 1, Camp 18, and Camp 19, RLLC, by R.P. Rusch using James Kraysen topo maps, Athens, Goodrich and from lookout tower

Donation of Valarie Dubois

17070 P. c. 1910 ‘The Business Street, Medford, Wis.’ View SE on Main Street, first building on left is ‘Mauer Bakery’

17070A back – postcard by Con Niggemann to Mrs. N. Massong, 5-16-1911

17071 P. c. 1900 ‘Hotel Winchester, Medford, Wis.’ Built of hemlock lumber supplied by J.J. Kennedy of Rib Lake to prove major buildings could be constructed from hemlock

17071A back-postcard from May Elliot to Florence Stephan, Arnesbury, Mass. 1-6-1907

17072 P. c. 1950 ‘Clausen’s Resort, Spirit Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. 37’

17072A back-postcard from B. Baker to Louise Leclair, Austin, Minn. 8-15-1956

17073 P. c. 1950 ‘Bridge over the Spirit River, Rib Lake, Wis. 39’ Double arched stone bridge on STH 102 at outlet of Little Spirit Lake; building at rear was Fritz Mohr’s ‘Maple Knoll’ tavern operated in 2013 by Greg Mohr, N126 STH 102

17074 P. c. 1970 Main lodge and beach – Camp Forest Springs, on James Lake, Rib Lake

17074A back-postcard – Carolyn to Mr. & Mrs. Berlyn Lenord, Ellsworth, Wis. 8-2-1972

RPR collection

17075 Map 6-6-2013 Lands owned by Marshfield Land & Lumber Co. in 1900 in T31N r3E, (now Town of Goodrich) highlighted in red; Yellow line shows road claimed by John Weeks Lumber Co.

17076 Decision of Wisconsin Supreme Court 12-7-1900 in Marshfield Land & Lumber Co., Plaintiff-Appellant, vs. John Week Lumber Co., Defendant-Respondent, 108 Wisconsin Reports 268, p. 1;

17076A p. 2 ibid

17076B p. 3 ibid;

17076C p. 4 ibid

17076D p. 5 ibid

17076E p. 6 ibid

17076F p. 7 ibid

17076G p. 8 ibid

17077 Case summary, Marshfield Land & Lumber Co. vs. John Week Lumber Co., 108 Wis. 268 by RPR

17078 Brief of Attorney Cate, Lamorex & Park, attorneys for John Week Lumber Co., 1900 – cover

17078A ibid p. 30 & 31, ‘The plaintiff in this action perpetrated all this wrong and violation of right and disregard of law and order of the court, thorugh its principal manager, Governor William H. Upham, to gratify a contemptible spite’

17078B ibid p. 32 & 33

17078C ibid p. 34 & 35

17078D ibid p. 36 & 37

17078E L. 6-9-13RPR to Heidi Acker Yelk of Wisconsin State Law Library

17079 P. 2-1-2013 L-R Kirstin & Colton Riggs, RPR, Brendan & Trinity Riggs, Katie, Behak & Ryan Strobach, Ann K. Rusch

17080 Star News 5-30-2013 ‘Changing the world; one fingerprint at a time’ Valedictorian speech of Linnea Blomberg

17081 Star News ‘Body of Anita Bucki found in Goodrich’ 5-16-2013

17081A ibid continuation

17082 Star News ‘Memorial Health Center Recognizes Employee Years of Service’ P. Ann Rusch

17082A Employee Recognition Banquet

17082B ibid p. 2

17083 obit, Ruth Sunderlin, Star News 5-16-2013

17084 obit, Ethel Ziemke, nee Steen, Star News 5-16-2013

17085 W. Nicolet National Bank, 717 McComb Ave., Rib Lake, business card. Nicolet took over and subsumed Mid-Wisconsin Bank in May of 2013

17085A back

17085B Letter 3-12-2013 from Nicolet National Bank

17086 Star News ‘Building Relationships helped Ruesch Build Forestry’ 5-23-2013, Brad Ruesch resigns as Taylor County Forester

17087 Star News ‘Area Memorial Day Services’ Rib Lake, American Legion Post 274, Lehman-Clendenning; Jump River, Hugh Warner VFW Post; Spirit, American Legion Post 452; Westboro Premeau-Schauss VFW Post 7817

17087A ibid Gilman; Medford; Lublin & Stetsonville

17087B ibid, list of Taylor County residents killed in action

17088 Ad, Little Bohemia Bowling Center, Bar & Restaurant, Millard ‘Satch’ Kapitz, c. 1950

17088A ibid top

17089 P. 5-1-2013 Everett A. Rusch on SE SW 18-33-3E, over his right shoulder is old steam hauler ice road to Camp 9

17089A ibid, Rusch points to opening where ice road ran

17089B ibid , Everett A. Rusch on side of excavation made by RLLC 4 foot deep, 20 feet wide and c. 100 feet long, maintaining a level ice road through a low hill

17089C ibid

17089D ibid, negatives for photos in C-2 binder

17089E ibid

17090 Ad-High Point Village at base of Timms Hill, 2013, ‘Hill of Beans’ restaurant, Lyle & Kathy Blomberg, proprietors

17091 Map 2013 Wisconsin highway, Rib Lake-Timms Hill

17092 Map 2012 Rustic Road 62 near Timms Hill

17092A ibid, Rustic Road 1, Town of Rib Lake

17092B ibid cover page

17092C ibid final page

17092D ibid ‘What is a Rustic Road’

17093 P. c. 1910 ‘A Jump River View from Westboro, Wis.’

17094 P. c. 1920 McGiffert ‘steam Loader’ placing hardwood log on railroad flatcar it has partially pulled from behind itself

17094A ibid, back, postcard 1-26-1920 by W.H. to Mr. Emil West, Brandon, Wis.

17095 Memorial Card 4-17-2013 Franklin ‘Frank’ C. Frasher, born 7-25-1938 and photo. Frank was a dear friend of the Rib Lake Historical Society and was awarded a lifetime membership award on 4-2-2012

17095A back

17096 Map 3-24-2013 Railroads of Taylor County by Everett A. Rusch, augmented by RPR, east half

17096A ibid west half

17096B ibid top

17097 P. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden

17097A back, inauguration souvenir

17098 W. 3-21-2013 Lakewood Credit Union annual meeting report

17098A P. 2 staff; Margaret Ziembo, Aimee Hein, Nancy Kreklau, Cynthia Edwoldt, Kathy Holmes & Ginger Hendrickson; board-Glenn Harder, Herbert Schubert, Margaret Ziembo, Mary Kauer, William Schreiner, Beverly Tesch, Tammy Mann

17098B p. 3 Chairperson’s Message

17098C p. 4 President’s Report

17098D p. 5 Treasurer’s Report

17098E p. 6 ibid

17098F p. 7 Auditor’s Report

17098G. p. 8 ads

17099 2013 Cross Country Ski & Snowshoe Guide –cover

17099A Rib Lake data; Timms Hill data

17099B Trail locator map

17100 W. 2013 ‘Pommersher Verein Dedicates immigrant memorial Marker’ Merrill Foto News; P. Duwayne Zazow

17100A ibid p. 2

From Russ Aszmann collection

17101 Map Camp 13 RLLC site & old railroad grade 6-14-2013 by Russ Aszmann, Taylor Co. Forester

17101A ibid close-up Section 12 & Section 13, Town 33 North, Range 3 East.

17101B ibid

17102 P. 2013 Camp 11 well casing & pan relic at camp site with GPS coordinates of site by Russ Aszmann, Taylor Co. forester

17102A ibid R.P. Rusch standing in pit of Camp 11 root cellar

17103 P. 2013 old RLLC railroad excavation in NE NW 13-33-3E by Russ Aszmann, Taylor Co. forester. GPS coordinates- Lat. 45 degrees, 21’ 8.92’ North, Long. 90 degrees 3’ 42.99’ West, view to east; just behind photographer lies a remnant of old railroad track

Attorney William Grunewald collection

17104 W. Star News 6-19-1999 ‘Meandering the Scenic Pine Line Trail’ by Laurie Meyer

17104A ibid, p. 2

17104B ibid, photos

17104C ibid, photos

17105 W. Star News 6-16-1999 ‘Logging Camp Cooking’ by Corey Borchardt, Cole Marschke & Aaron Stibbe

17105A ibid part 2

RPR collection

17106 W. Business card, Tammy Westfall, Grace Fritch, dba The Ultimate Illusion, ‘your hair styling experts,’ 713 McComb Ave, building originally Upjohn-Kennedy Drug Store

17107 W. Abstract of Title, Catherine Kriehn real estate, Lots 9 & 10, Block A, McComb’s Racing park Additon to the Village of Rib Lake, Title Page & title highlights by RPR

17107A ibid p. 2 map

17107B ibid p. 3 5-18-1873 to 2-1-1881; land acquired by George M. Curtiss, Charles F. Curtiss & Judson E. Carpenter [land includes mill site where J.J. Kennedy builds ‘his’ sawmill in the fall of 1881]

17107C ibid p. 4 6-1-1881 land to Curtis Bros. & Co., a corporation, which deeds land and sawmill to J.J. Kennedy on 8-18-1896. On 8-31-1896 mortgages land to 10 parties due to his desperate financial plight

17107D ibid 8-12-1897 J.J. Kennedy & wife Flora M. sell off portion of land – not mill complex – to A.C. McComb; 10-18-1897 A.C. McComb & wife Ella G. McComb sell Lots 9 & 10, Block A, MRPA

17107E ibid p. 6 11-11-1901 to Edward Gomoll & John A. Taylor [later known as Taylor Hardware store]

17107G ibid p. 7 estate of Ed Gomoll

17107H ibid p. 8

17107 I ibid p. 9

17107J Ibid p. 10

17107K ibid p. 11 estate of John A. Taylor

17107L ibid p. 12

17107M ibid p. 13 to Ed & Mabel Prien

17107N ibid p. 14 4-28-1959 to Duane Warner [dba The Gambles Store]

17107O ibid p. 15

17107P ibid p. 16

17107Q ibid p. 17

17107R ibid p. 18

17107S ibid p. 19

17107T ibid p. 20

17107U ibid p. 21

17107V ibid p. 22

17107W ibid p. 23

17107X ibid p. 24

17107Y ibid p. 25

17107Z ibid p. 26 7-20-1981 to John Desris

17107AA ibid p. 27

17107BB ibid p. 28 Map Lots 9 & 10, Block A, MRPA

17107CC ibid p. 29

17107 DD ibid p. 30 Herbert O. Schubert & Karen J. Schubert, dba Rib Lake True Value Hardware

17107EE p. 31 end signed 3-8-1990 Gowey Abstract & Title

17107FF P. 2013 Ray Liebl, Manager, Rib Lake Music Center, with former student, Lavonne Bickler, who looked him up after 41 years to say ‘thank you’ for the accordion lessons in Menomonie Falls, Wisconsin in 1956.

17108 P. ‘Mondeaux Dam Westboro, Wis. 60-8’ c. 1950. Dam built c. 1935 by W.P.A. near site of former logging dam on Mondaux River, Town of Westboro, Taylor Co.

17109 P. ‘Court house, Medford, Wis. A-1022’ c. 1940, west side

17109A envelope from Phyllis Schwoch to RPR

17109B L. 7-1-2013 Phyllis & Karl Schwoch to RPR

17109 C ibid

17110 Star News 1-13-1940 ‘Interesting history of Whittlesey prepared by students as project for observance of Wisconsin’s centennial year, by Mrs. Ann Gosbee, nee Steiner

17110A ibid part 2

17110B ibid part 3

17111 Map 4-1988 Burlington Northern Railroad & connecting lines, Wisconsin & surrounding area

17111A ibid legend

17112L. 3-7-1969 Gaylord Nelton to RPR

17112A envelope

17112B L. 1-24-1969 Senator William Proxmire to RPR

17113 4-15-1996 logo, Boston Marathon 100th anniversary. RPR qualified to participate with a 3:27 finish at Grandma’s Marathon, Duluth, in 1994

17114 ‘R-1’ Rustic Road #1 sign

17115 L. 5-31-1969 RPR to Taylor Co. Board of Supervisors re CTH D extension

17115A L. 6-9-1969 to Highway Dept. by Gordon Hamrick re CTH D extension

17116 L. 1-2-1969 RPR to Camp Forest Springs re CTH D Extension

17116A L. 1-31-1970 Richard M. Neale, president, Camp Forest Springs, to RPR re CTH D extension

17116B P. Camp Forest Springs c. 1969, James Lake beach & ‘Main lodge’

17116C ibid back

17117 L. 7-29-1969 RPR to the Milwaukee Journal re public lands

17117A ibid p. 2

17118 L. 9-8-1970 Earl M. Kilby, Taylor Co. Zoning Administrator, to Martin Steen re unlicensed auto junkyard

17118A envelope

17119W . Rib Lake Telephone Directory, 9-1979 cover, Rib Lake Telephone Co.; NB-when scanning remainder of this telephone book, the bottom three lines of text has been cut off as it was too large to fit in scanner.

17119A ibid p. 1 John W. Eckhoff, president & manager, Jean B. Eckhoff, secretary

17119B ibid. p. 2 long distance, 17119C ibid p. 3

17119D ibid p. 4, 17119E ibid p. 5 USA map-telephone areas

17119F ibid p. 6, 17119G ibid p. 7

17119H ibid p. 8, 17119I ibid p. 9

17119J ibid p. 10 Statement of non-discrimination, 17119K ibid p. 11 Map of Rib Lake Telephone Co. boundary

17119L ibid p. 12 Alphabetical listing A-B, 17119M ibid p. 13 B-C

17119N ibid p. 14 C-E, 17119O ibid p. 15 E-G

17119P ibid p. 16 G-H, 17119Q ibid p. 17 H-I

17119R ibid p. 18 J-K, 17119S ibid p. 19 K-L

17119T ibid p. 20 L-M, 17119U ibid p. 21 M-O

17119V ibid p. 22 O-P, 17119W ibid p. 23 P-R

17119X ibid p. 24 R-S, 17119Y ibid p. 25 S-S

17119Z ibid p. 26 S-T, 17119AA ibid p. 27 T-T

17119BB ibid p. 28 T-V, 17119CC ibid p. 29 V-Y

17119DD ibid p. 30 Y-Z, 17119EE ibid p. 31 Rib Lake snapshot, presently 3 industries, a wood working plan, shoe factory and cabinet factory…

17119FF ibid p. 32 Westboro snapshot, 17119GG p. 1 yellow pages

17119HH p. 2 ibid, 17119II p. 3 ibid

17119JJ p. 4 ibid, 17119KK p. 5 ibid

17119LL p. 6 ibid, 17119MM p. 7 ibid

17119NN p. 8 ibid, 17119OO p. 9 ibid

17119PP p. 10 ibid, 17119QQ p. 11 ibid

17119RR p. 12 ibid, 17119SS p. 13 ibid

17119TT p. 14 ibid, 17119UU p. 15 ibid

17119 VV p. 16 ibid, 17119WW

17119XX back cover

17120 9-9-1969 envelope 10 cents airmail stamp ‘First man on the moon’ first day of issue

17121 W. 10-5-1991 ‘Forest products transportation by river, rail & road’ Sixteenth anniversary meeting, Forest History Association of Wisconsin – cover

17121A biography of Patricia Schroeder, Cari Van Planck, John Berg, Charles Stats, Larry Easton, Ed Beaumont, Robert P. Rusch

17121B ibid Photos

17122 W. ‘Development of the Mondeaux Dam & Recreational Area’ by C.S. Planck 1991

17122A ibid p. 2

17122B ibid p. 3

17122C ibid p. 4

17122D ibid p. 5

17122E ibid p. 6 Photo of dam 1939

17123 W. ‘William H. Bradley, Tomahawk & the Marinette, Tomahawk & Western Railroad’ by Charles H. Stats, 1991

17123A ibid p. 2

17123B ibid p. 3

17123C ibid p. 4

17123D ibid p. 5 photos

17123E ibid p. 6 map

17124 W. ‘A Brief look at Wisconsin Logging Railroads’ by Larry E. Easton, ‘in 1878 a tramway was under construction by J.J. Kennedy at Spencer, Wis…’

17124A ibid p. 2

17124B ibid p. 3 The RLLC operated a two-truck Climax locomotive around 1903…

17124C ibid p. 4

17124D ibid p. 5

17124E ibid p. 6

17124F ibid p. 7

17124G ibid p. 8

17124H ibid p. 9

17125 W. ‘Medford’s Wisconsin Central Railroad; It’s birth, death & renaissance as the ‘Pine Line’ by RPR 1991

17125A ibid p. 2

17125B ibid p. 3 Map

17125C ibid p. 4

17125D ibid p. 5

17125E ibid p. 6

17126 Star News 7-3-2013 ‘Finding Serenity at Wood Lake’

17126A P. Wood Lake near beach

17126B P. view east near lake

17126C P. hiking trail

17127 P. ‘Hwy 13 overpass at Westboro, Wis. Mieves Phillips’ cement STH 13 bridge over Soo Line, view north, SE NE 13-33-1E, c. 1935. Bridge razed in 1972. Railroad right-of-way became in 1990 ‘The Pine Line’ public recreational trail

17128 Star News ‘Medford’s Wisconsin Central Railroad; its birth, death & renaissance as the ‘Pine Line’ by RPR 1-8-1992, title page top

17128A ibid bottom, logging dam rendition

17128B ibid p. 2 top

17128C ibid p. 2 bottom

17129 Map 3-23-1991 Village of Prentice & railroad tracks by Northwest Regional Planning Commission

17129A Proposal for comprehensive plan, Medford-to-Prentice ‘Pine Line’ trail 3-23-1991 page 1

17129B ibid page 2 NB-due to lack of funds, Price-Taylor Rails to Trails Commission did not authorize proposed plan. RPR

17130 W. 4-10-191 meeting minutes, Price-Taylor Rails to Trails Commission

17130A ibid p. 2

17131 Map 1971 Western Wisconsin bicycle escape guide, Wisconsin Dept. of Tourism – cover

17131A ibid, Medford-Westboro-Ogema-Prentice-Phillips

17132 W. 2013 Chili recipe and notes by John Rumler, W1177 Fawn Ave., Rib Lake

17132A ibid p. 2

17133 W ‘The State Bank of Medford Celebrates 100th Anniversary,’ 1990-cover

17133A & B ibid P. J.J. Kennedy, E.H. Winchester, C.L. Alverson; 17133B ibid p. 3 bios of J.J. Kennedy & E.H. Winchester

17133C & D ibid p. 4 bios John Carstens, W.P. Price, Albert J. Perkins, Frank Wolelka, Dr. T.M. Mill & Joseph Hammel; 17133D ibid p. 5 P. original bank building

17133E & F ibid p. 6 P. Vincent Hirsch; 17133F ibid p. 7

17133G ibid p. 8 P. Medford; 17133H ibid p. 9 P. Rib Lake bank building

17133I & J ibid p. 10 P. State Bank of Medford – 1990-Medford, SW corner of Whelen & State Streets; 17133J ibid p. 11 P. STH 13 plaza

17133K ibid p. 12; 17133L ibid p. 13 P. Ron Isaacson

17133M ibid p. 14; 17133N ibid p. 15

17133O ibid p. 16; 17133P ibid p. 17 list of employees

17133Q & R ibid p. 18 officers 1990; 17133R ibid p. 19 Board of Directors in 1990, including Raymond H. Scott & Walther W. Meyer, M.D. – In May, 2013, it was bought out, absorbed & renamed as part of Nicolet National Bank, headquartered in Green Bay, Wis. – RPR

17134 W. 2011 ‘St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, celebrating 125 years in God’s grace’ – cover

17134A ibid p. 1 P. Jim Heffner, pastor, Darlene Nowak, organist

17134B ibid p. 2

17134C ibid p. 3 P. Council, Ladies Society, Choir

17134D ibid p. 4

17134E ibid p. 5 P. members

17134F ibid p. 6

17134G ibid p. 7

17134H ibid p. 8

17134I ibid p. 9 submitted photos

17134J ibid p. 10 members addresses

17134K ibid p. 11

17134L ibid p. 12

17134M ibid p. 13

17134N ibid p. 14

17135 W. 4-21-2013 Sunday Bulletin, St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, Rib Lake -cover

17135A ibid p. 1; 17135B ibid p. 2

17135C ibid p. 3 Questions & Answers; Baptism;

17135D ibid p. 4

17135E ibid p. 5 Scripture lessions

17136 W. 4-14-2013 Sunday Bulletin, St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, Rib Lake –cover [Easter Sunday]

17136A ibid p. 1; 17136B ibid p. 2

17136C ibid p. 3 Questions & Answers

17136D ibid p. 4 Scripture lessions

17137 W. ‘WELS-Church Extension Fund’ Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, Milwaukee

17137A ibid back

Shirley Pleus collection

17138 P. c. 1940 ‘Main Street, Westboro, Wis. C-2’ Two-story building on right purchased c. 1945 by Harold & Elizabeth Pernsteiner who lived upstairs while operating general store on first floor. In 2013 building owned by Douglas Thums, dba The Other Corner Restaurant

RPR Collection

17139 W. 6-2013 ‘Spirit Lakes Improvement Association 2013 Summer Newsletter’ by Phyllis Kolecheck

17139A ibid back cover

17140 P. c. 1940 ‘Bridge over Spirit River, Rib Lake, Wis. B-243’ This 2-arch stone bridge by Simon Danielson carried STH 102 over the outlet to Little Spirit Lake

17141 Poster of play ‘Don’t Hug Me’ 2013. Lyle & Kathy Blomberg, dba High Point Village at foot of Timms Hill

17141A Playbill ‘Don’t Hug Me’ & 17141D back, NB-’Hill of Beans’ is name for restaurant at High Point Village & Tom Neale; 17141C ibid acts & scenes

17142 Map 8-2012 Ice Age Trail by National Park Service, Dept. of the Interior. NW Wisconsin and Timms Hill National Trail

17142A SW Wisconsin & legend

17142B NE Wisconsin

17142C SE Wisconsin & ‘Kettle Moraine’

17142D Wisconsin’s Glacial Landscape

17142E Glacial lobes

17142F A Trail to Explore, The Glacial Landscape

17142G National Scenic Trails

17143 Logo – Northwoods Snowshoe Championship 1991-2010 Duluth, MN

17143A back, How Cold Was it -- E.g. 1991-30 degrees F., 1994—30 degrees F [snowshoe marathon 26.2 miles, Lester Park, MN]

17144 Flyer 9-3-1984 Mondale & Ferraro appearance at Merrill, WI

17144A ibid invitation signed by Walter F. Mondale

17145 obit. 10-18-2012 Star News for Clayton Kauer

17146 obit 10-18-2012 Star News for Bernadine ‘Bernie’ Brahmer, nee Scheithauer

17147 W. 2013 ‘Master List of Wisconsin Logging Railroads’ by Timothy Sasse, online at sassmaster.tripod.tayl.html, S.M.&R, John S. Owen, Medford Lumber Co., Westboro Lumber Co.

17147A ibid Upham Manufacturing Co., Rib Lake Lumber Co., ‘Rib Lake has the distinction of being the last ‘true’ logging railroad.’ ‘Rib Lake was also the only known company in the state that during its period of operation had a Climax, Luma & Heisler locomotive.’

17148 W. 7-8-2013 Annotation of Timothy Sasse ‘Rib Lake Lumber Co.’ by RPR

17148A ibid

17148B ibid

17149 P. c. 1890 ‘Black River Scene, Medford, Wis.’ Four unidentified men on river

17149A back side post-dated 2-2-19__ to Earl Baxter, Whittlesey, Wisc.

17150 L. 7-17-2006 Lawrence G. Peterson, Taylor Co. Zoning Administrator, to Attorney Gene Krug re Dehn v. Hartwig v. Oberle

17151 L. 10-3-2008 RPR to Taylor County Sheriff’s Dept. in re the marriage of Oberle

17151A enclosure – subpoena for Barbara Thompson

17151B ibid signed RPR

17152 2-21-2013 ‘Hinder Binder Ski Race Results’

17152A ibid

17152B ibid photos

17153 W. 7-2013 ‘Chips & Sawdust,’ newsletter, Forest History Assoc. of Wisconsin, No. 1, Vole 38 – cover

17153A ibid ‘Passing of the Pines in the Chippewa Valley,’ by W.W. Bartelt, p. 1

17153B ibid p. 2 1880 estimate of pine in 9 river basins, e.g. Black River, 10,000,000,000

17153C ibid p. 3

17154 P. 11-5-1913 two does, whitetail deer, ‘At evening W.R. Claussen Copr. 1912’ at Westboro, Charcoal on stump in foreground

From James ‘Jim’ Scott collection

17155 P. c.1970 west side of Taylor County Sheriff’s Residence, NE corner of Ogden & South Second Street, Medford, building razed c. 1976

17155A ibid right-residnece, left-Taylor Co. Jail & dispatch center behind glazed first floor tiles

17155B ibid children’s initials in attic, e.g. Audrey Brost 1936

17156 P. c. 1970 Taylor County jail interior; second floor cell block housed up to a dozen non-violent inmates, i.e. ‘Huber law’ prisoners, with work release privileges

17156A ibid bed frame

17156B ibid bunk & dining room

17157 P. c. 1970 Taylor County Jail first floor; one person cells made from sheet metal with ventilation ports

17157A ibid, shelf for food tray

17157B ibid wire mesh to prevent prisoners from passing items

17157C ibid, levers to unlock cell doors

17157D ibid, backside of cells opened to communal room

17157E ibid, light bulb in protective cover

17157F ibid, shower & toilet room – NB-Rib Lake Historical Society has additional unscanned jail photos – all with negatives

RPR collection

17158-P. c. 1930 ‘Scene in city park, Medford, Wis. #5’ Modern concrete dam on Black River replacing logging dam built c. 1875

17158A P. 7-15-2013 ‘After photo’ identical view as 17158; NB-white pipes in foreground hold flag staffs on celebrations, e.g. 4th of July, Memorial Day, etc.

17158B P. 7-15-2013 Same view but slightly to east; original Semple sawmill stood in 1875 at right. Its successor, Medford Lumber Co., closed in 1924. White building on horizon is fertilizer plant of Medford Cooperative, Inc.; view NNW-left-steeple of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church

17159 12-31-1903 easement; Westboro Lumber Co. to Wisconsin Central Railway to construct additional railroad tracks to serve its Westboro sawmill. Attached map ‘Exhibit A’, is Doc. 17160

17160 Map c. 12-31-1803; Westboro Depot grounds by Wisconsin Central Railway; caption

17160A ibid; Westboro Lumber Co. sawmill, dam on Silver Creek, tramway

17160B ibid, depot, U.S. Leather Co. spur and logging spur beneath Wisconsin Central main line; NB-entire map original at Taylor County Register of Deeds, Miscellaneous F, Page 123

17160C ibid, legend, U.S. leather ‘main spur’ connection to Heidrick & Matson Logging Railroad

17160D ibid; building 8 identified as warehouse; part of old John Duncan sawmill and site of Duncan, Taylor & Ritchie mill built in 1875; unidentified building in NE corner of map is probably U.S. Leather Co. Tannery.

17161 P. c. 1940 Rib Lake Lumber Co. Camp 24; RLLC locomotive 3 pulls gondolas loaded with pulpwood, Matt Pollard collection

RPR Collection

17162 7-18-2013 Star News, Neal & Isabel Olkives 60th wedding anniversary, a key to long marriage is to never let the honeymoon end

17163 1881 ‘Excerpts from History of Northern Wisconsin,’ Chicago’s western historical co. cover

17163A title page NB-this entire volume in the permanent collection of the Rib Lake Historical Society

17163B Map 1881 Taylor County and environs

17163C Taylor County created 3-4-1875, approved by William R. Taylor, Wisconsin governor

17163D county officers

17163E Medford

17163F right-of-way Wisconsin Central Railroad cut 1873

17163G James Semple sawmill built 1874

17163H biographies

17163 I ibid e.g. Elias Cleveland

17163I2 ibid, Albert J. Perkins

17163J ibid, Chelsea

17163K ibid, Wellington H. Haight, for whom Wellington Lake is named

17163L Westboro, first settled in 1874

17163M Price County, first settler Major Isaac Stone 1860, Wisconsin Central Railroad reached milepost 101, later Worcester, fall, 1873

17163N Price County organized 3-3-1879, named for William T. Price, Wis. State Senator at time Price County was organized

17163O Phillips, biographies, e.g., A.D. Lunt, Wis. Central Land Agent

17163P ibid, e.g. G.W. Sackett, for whom Sackett Lake is named. Worcester, aka Mile Post 101

17163Q Ogema, J.K. Ostergren [the spelling within this text is ‘J.K. Ostergen.’ I have changed the spelling in the index to Ostergren to make it conform with numerous prior entries within this index.-RPR 8-11-2013], aka Pastor Ostergren, a member of the Wisconsin State board of Immigration, resides in Ogema. ‘The Various names for Timm’s Hill, Wisconsin’s Highest Point,’ by Robert P. Rusch 7-30-2013

17164 Map 4-9-1917 Medford Depot & Lumber Co. and environs by Wisconsin Central Co., Exhibit X, easement, misc. K. P. 263 Document 58663, Taylor County Register of Deeds

17164A ibid

17165 7-8-2013 ‘Counties with largest gain in tourism dollars’ Taylor Co. featuring Ice Age Trail. The Business News, Vol. 9, No. 7, Wausau, WI

17166 2013 ‘Fromm Brothers Fur & Ginseng Farm’ added to Wisonsin State Register of Historic places,

17166A W. 2012 ‘Wild Ginseng regulations & guidelines for a sustainable harvest, DNR, Madison, WI

17166B ibid, back

17167 10-1-1881 ‘WDRR on Kennedy’s Bros. [saw] mill in Town of Chelsea, is being rapidly pushed forward…’ Taylor Co. Star & News. This is the first article in newspaper reporting on Kennedy Brothers sawmill and –by inference – the founding of Rib Lake.

17168 8-20-1881 ‘C.C. Palmer has purchased the [saw] mill property formally owned by D.S. Cone…’ at Westboro, Taylor County Star & News

17169 1-24-1902 ‘George Braun, Dr. R.L. Taylor & F.J. [Frank Joseph] Hintz have been named as a committee to look after the incorporation of Rib Lake as a village…’ Taylor Co. Star & News

17170 7-25-2013 ‘Mann enters insanity plea,’ Star News. Heidi Mann, 37, of Rib Lake, charged with attempted murder.

17170A ibid p. 2

17171 7-25-2013 ‘Mining focus shifts to Mondeaux’ Star News

17172 7-25-2013 ‘Rib Lake starts its change toward post-season with weekend sweep.’ Star News. P. Jeff Ziembo

17172A ibid. p. 2

From Robert ‘Bob’ A. Enders collection

17173 Map Lambert Enders farm & Mud Lake School, NE NW 21-33-3E, [highlighted in pink] from c. 1925 Star news plat

17173A ibid, entire congressional township T33 R3E, Taylor County

17174 7-10-2013 email Robert Enders to RPR

17174A 8-8-2013 Lambert Enders family tree

17175 7-23-2013 ‘The Enders family story; Lambert’s & Margaret’s legacy,’ by Robert ‘Bob’ A. Enders, cover

17175A table of contents

17175B p. 2 ibid

17175C p. 3 dedication ‘To Nic C. Enders, my father’

17175D p. 4 introduction

17175E p. 5 ibid

17175F p. 6 decision to leave Germany

17175G p. 7 Map of Germany

17175H p. 8 arrival in Belgium

17175I p. 8 Lambert’s crossing of the Atlantic

17175J p. 10 arrival in New York

17175K p. 11 home in Michigan

17175L p. 12 Calumet & Hecla Mining Co.

17175M p. 13 Life in Chicago

17175N p. 14 P. Chicago stockyards

17175O p. 15 1893 Chicago world fair

17175P p. 16 P. steamer trunks

17175Q p. 17 marriage

17175R p. 18 journey to Wisconsin

17175S p. 19 naturalization

17175T p. 20 choosing Rib Lake

17175U p. 21 ibid

17175V p. 22 1913 map – farm

17175W p. 23 Mud Lake

17175X p. 24 First Ender’s log cabin

17175Y p. 25 life on the farm

17175Z p. 26 P. Lambert Enders farm

17175AA p. 27 Joseph Kauer

17175BB p. 28 Anton Kauer

17175CC p. 29 P. Nic Enders skating

17175DD p. 30 P. Elmer Zirngibl

17175EE p. 31 P. Mud Lake school

17175FF p. 32 ibid

17175GG p. 33 Mud Lake school students

17175HH p. 34 ibid

17175II p. 35 John Kauer poem

17175JJ p. 36 Roman Catholic faith

17175KK p. 37 P. Nieder Mehlen, Germany

17175LL p. 38 St. John the Baptist Catholic Church

17175MM p. 39 P. St. John the Baptist Catholic Church

17175NN p. 40 P. Margaret Enders first communion

17175OO p. 41 Katherine Lamberty

17175PP p. 42 P. Johann Peter Enders and family

17175QQ p. 43 St. Nicholas day

17175RR p. 44 family lumberjacks

17175SS p. 45 RLLC Camp 9 & Peter Enders

17175TT p. 46 P. Lamber Enders at RLLC planning mill

17175UU p. 47 P.

17175VV p. 48 P. Peter Enders

17175WW p. 49 Joseph Lamberty worked as cook at RLLC Camp 11 & Camp 18

17175XX p. 50 Lumberjack’s alphabet, Lamber Lamberty jobber camp

17175YY p. 51 World War I

17175ZZ p. 52 RPR comments

17175AAA p. 53 ‘Un-American sentiment’

17175BBB p. 54 ‘Wideawakes’ Boys Club

17175CCC p. 55 John Tilch

17175DDD p. 56 Jerome Themar

17175EEE p. 57 ‘Alien Enemies’

17175FFF p. 58 Oliver Becker

17175GGG p. 59 Prohibition

17175HHH p. 60 Move to Medford c. 1920

17175III p. 61 The next generation

17175JJJ p. 62 P. Themar-Enders wedding

17175KKK p. 63 Leo Seidl-Marie Enders wedding

17175LLL p. 64 The roaring twenties, Albert Peissig

17175MMM p. 65 P. Albert Peissig-Christine Enders wedding

17175NNN p. 66 P. Joseph Enders-Minnie Hein wedding

17175OOO p. 67 St. Patrick’s Day 1930

17175PPP p. 68 The Great Depression

17175QQQ p. 69 P. Margaret Brost, Anna Themar, Marie Seidel, Christine Peissig, Gertrude Zirngibl

17175RRR p. 70 Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC] Nic Enders job

17175SSS p. 71 P. Peter Enders-Marie Wendleberger wedding 1936

17175TTT p. 72 P. Nic Enders-Angela Mielock wedding 1939

17175UUU P. 73 World War II

17175VVV p. 74 P. Trudie & Elmer Zirngibl

17175WWW p. 75 D-Day

17175XXX p. 76 P. Leo Seidel’s funeral

17175YYY p. 77 Mud Lake reunion 7-21-1948

17175ZZZ p. 78 P. Mud Lake reunion 7-21-1948

17175AAAA p. 79 Lambert Enders’ final years

17175BBBB p. 80 P. Lambert Enders c. 1950

17175CCCC p. 81 Lambert Enders death 1958

17175DDDD p. 82 The Legacy Lives On

17175EEEE p. 83 Wedding portrait – Lambert Enders & Margaret Hambach

17175FFFF p. 84 Lambert Enders genealogy

17175GGGG p. 85 Margaret Hambach genealogy

17175HHHH p. 86 Lambert Enders-Margaret Hambach children*

17175IIII p. 87 Lambert Enders-Margaret Hambach grandchildren

17175JJJJ p. 88 references

17175KKKK p. 89 ibid

17175LLLL p. 90, Robert ‘Bob’ Enders contact information – finis –

17176 P. c. 1898 Lambert Enders log house at Mud Lake constructed year of his arrival near Mud Lake

17176A ibid, c. 1915 log cabin being reshingled. NB-new frame of Lambert Enders’ residence in rear

17177 P. c. 1906 second Mud Lake farm house – owners Lambert & Margaret Enders on porch. Children-L-R, Anna, Joseph, Margaret (held by Lambert), Christine (held by Margaret), Marie, Katherine & Peter

17177A P. 7-21-2013 ‘After’ 113 years later.

17178 P. c. 1910 Lambert Enders Mud Lake farm buildings view to SE

17178A ibid, log barn

17179 P. c. 1915 Mud Lake settlement, Section 21 & 16, T33 R3E, Rib Lake, view weast down modern Wood Lake Ave. Left from horizon – Mud Lake school with 4 windows, Lambert Enders farm, Peter Lamberty farm, [foreground[ ‘Peter Fuchs No. 76’ mailbox; right from horizon – F. Heller residence, Joseph Kauer farm, Anton Kauer farm, in 2013, home of Ben & Pearl Kauer, 1224 Wood Lake Ave.

17180 1913 Standard Atlas of Taylor County, plat map of 21 & 19, T33 R3E, red arrow shows position of photographer of photo 17180

17181 P. 7-31-2013 ‘After’ Mud Lake settlement

17181A ibid, view west on Wood Lake Ave

17181B ibid

17181C ibid, old Peter Fuchs farmhome, NE NE 21-33-3E

17181D ibid, view west from Fuchs’ yard

17181E ibid, SW SE 16-33-3E, old Joseph Kauer farm – view west

17181F ibid, W1310 Wood Lake Ave.

17181G ibid

17181H P. 7-31-2013 Old Lambert Enders farmhouse NE NW 21-33-3E, W1355 Wood Lake Ave.

17181I ibid, Rock pile on old Enders farm; rear-old farm buildings

17182 P. 1917 Lambert & Margaret Enders & children, L-R – Nicholas ‘Nic’, Katherine (Tilch), Marie (Seidl), Peter, Margaret (Brost), Anna (Theman), Anton, Christine (Peissig), Joseph, Gertrude (Zirngible) stands between parents

17183 P. c. 1910 Wood Lake unidentified man on buckboard. Land recently denuded of all merchantable trees, ‘a cutover’, view east.

17184 P. c. 1915 Postmaster John H. Schaack on his R.F.D. (Rural Free Delivery) route; see map at 17180 for route of mailman who delivered to mailboxes

17184A back – Peter Enders to Joe Bell. See Doc. 10843 and 10842 for map and data on Schaack Post Office

17185 P. c. 1916 Nicholas ‘Nic’ Enders collecting map sap on Enders farm

17186 P. c. 1910 Lambert & Margaret Enders rest with children, L-R – Christine, Margaret, Nicholas, Marie & Anton

17187 P. c. 1915 Enders family sleigh, Anton – under horse, Margaret, Christine, Peter, Marie & Nicholas under sleigh

17188 P. c. 1918 Mud Lake as ice skating pond; Nicholas in front with legs spread apart with siblings and neighbors. NB-’Mud Lake’ used here refers to either of two small ponds in SE SE 16-33-2E, Town of Rib Lake. There are six other ‘Mud Lakes’ in Taylor County and throughout Wisconsin

17188A List of Taylor County Mud Lakes. Rib Lake’s Mud Lake is three acres in surface, 6 feet max. depth and supplied with water through seepage

17189 P. 1918 Nicholas Enders in Wideawakes (wide-a-wake) uniform pretending to be a WWI doughboy. This club for boys was sponsored by the Farm Journal, which sold the pretend uniform.

17189A Certificate of membership for Nicholas Enders in the Wideawakes

17190 P. 1918 Lamber Lamberty (left) and Peter Enders in WWI uniforms

17191 P. c. 1911 Nicholas Enders with puppy on porch. Note wash tub and rudimentary wash machine

17192 P. c. 1911 Enders children, L-R back – Katherine (Tilch), Peter, Anna (Themar), Joseph, middle row – Marie (Seidl), Margaret (Brost), Christine (Peissig), and Anton, front-Nicholas

17193 P. c. 1918 Enders family ice house where they stored ice cut from Mud Lake; here ice blocks have been sleighed from Mud Lake and boys are pushing them into sled where they will be insulated with sawdust taken from pile behind horses.

17194 P. 1916 view west of Mud Lake settlement, farms from right to left- Lamber Enders, Lambert Lambery, (on horizon) Peter Fuchs, (on north side of town road), Kauers

17195 P. c. 1914 Enders first car at Mud Lake – L-R – Peter (driver), Joseph, rear-Anton & Nicholas; Peter Enders says he bought his first car for $175; see Doc. 17234

17196 P. c. 1920 St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Rib Lake

17196A back postdated, Katherine Enders to Sister Emma Enders

17197 P. c. 1903 Katherine Enders first communion

17198 P. c. 1906 Peter & Anna Enders first communion

17199 P. c. 1904 L-R – Mathew, Nicholas & Lambert Enders first communion – brothers L-R, Oliver & Peter sit

17200 P. c. 1890 Probable sisters of Lambert Enders; handwritten on back of photo; ‘right; Mrs. [Anna Marie Enders?] Fuchs and left Mrs. [Katherine Enders?] Lamberty.’

17201 P. c. 1910 Mud Lake School, rear-Lambert Enders frame farmhouse, on horizon-Peter Fuchs farmstead, view east

17202 P. c. 1910 Mud Lake school, NW NE NW 21-33-3E, left side faces north.

17202A P. ‘After’ 7-21-2013 Right-all evidence of Mud Lake School gone

17203 P. c. 1913 ‘First day of Mud Lake School’ students-L-R – Anton, Nickolas, Christine, Marie & Margaret Enders stand south of town road in front of school – modern Wood Lake Ave. unidentified students & teacher next

17204 P. 1914 Mud Lake School students;

Girls (top row L-R) Amelia Messal, Wanda Schacht, Justine Dennis, Marie Enders, Susan Dennis, Marie Kauer, Margaret Enders, Amelia Fuchs. (bottom row L-R) Lucille Lamberty, Lydia Schacht, Christine Enders, Marie Lamberty, Betty Fuchs, Rose Kauer

Boys (L-R) Babel Kauer, Oliver Lamberty, Joseph Kauer, Tony Fuchs, John Kauer (father), Lambert Kauer, Anton Enders, Albert Schacht, Frank Fusch, Nicholas Enders

17204A back ‘Remembrance of 1914, [teacher] Marie McLillan’

17205 1917 Mud Lake School Souvenir, cover P. Ann Rindt, teacher

17205A p. 1 Dear Pupil…

17205B p. 2 Mud Lake School, District No. 4, Town of Rib Lake. School Board – Joseph Kauer, clerk; Anton Kauer, director; Peter Lamberty, treasurer.

Ann Rindt – teacher, pupils, Margaret Enders, Wanda Schacht, Anton Fuchs, Mary Lamberty, John Kauer, Lydia Schacht, Nick Enders, Stella Kulka, Anton Kauer, Paul Schacht, John Bonde, Lucy Lamberty, Christine Enders, Joseph Kauer, Elizabeth Fusch, Rose Kauer, Anton Enders, Albert Schacht, peter Kauer, Bennie Fuchs, Lambert Kauer, Katherine Bonde, Margaret Kauer

17205C p. 3 The road of learning

17205D p. 4 But still….; p. 5 the texts….

17206 1919 Mud Lake School Souvenir, cover

17206A p. 1 Dear Pupil…

17206B p. 2, Emma Brandl, teacher, pupils – Isabel Bonde, Katherine Bonde, Anton Enders, Bernard Fuchs, Elizabeth Fuchs, Anna Jaehn, Anton Kauer, John Kauer, Margaret Kauer, Rosie Kauer, Adela Messal, Agnes Schneider, Marie Schneider, Albert Schacht, John Bonde, Anton Dudek, Nicholas Enders, Christine Fuchs, Frank Fuchs, Otto Jaehn, Elizabeth Kauer, Lambert Kauer, Peter Kauer, Stella Kulka, Herman Messal, Lorenz Schneider, Adolph Schacht, Lydia Schacht, Paul Schacht

17206C p. 3 The close of school

17206D p. 4 As time…; p. 5 They say….

17207 c. 1917 Mud Lake School report card for Nicholas Enders, grade 4, Cecilia Kress, teacher

17207A back, parental signatures

17208 P. 1915 8 hanging deer ‘Medford, Wis.’

17209 P. 1922 Joe Enders calling lumberjacks to dinner with Gabriel Horn, RLLC Camp 18

17209A P. 1922 Joe Enders, cookee, butchers hog, RLLC Camp 18 in rear. Cook at Camp was Dan pilon and his pet dog ‘Toots’ looks on. The other cookee, cook helper, was Herman A. Rusch

17210 Map 12-2007 ‘Rib Lake Lumber Co. Railroad Operations,’ by David Tlusty. RLLC Camp 18 site of last two photos, highlighted.

17211 P. 1923 Nicholas Enders (in white apron) as cookee at jobber camp; cart holds split fire wood for stove

17211A p. 1923 Right-Nicholas Enders & unknown man, both in white aprons, work as cookees, cook helpers, at jobber camp. Note 5 logs create wall of cook house.

17212 P. 1918 probably RLLC Camp 18. White aproned cook holds Gabriel. From Peter Enders collection who worked at Camp 18.

17213 P. ‘Star Load’

17214 P. c. 1930 logs are piled, or ‘decked’ until sleighed or hauled to the mill. Lambert Enders is on top row second from right. His son, peter, is on the top row second from left, and son, Joe, on the far left with bent arm

17215 P. c. 1915 Lambert Enders on white horse; son Peter is younger boy near top with hands in pocket

17216 P. c. 1915 A water tanker or ‘sprinkler’ pulls into Freiman’sLanding, to which logs were sleighed to be placed on railroad flat cars for transport to sawmill. Farmer Freiman’sforty, the SE SW 21-33-3E, was bisected by the RLLC railroad. The tanker periodically sprinkled water on the sleigh road

17217 P. c. 1915 Cook shanty at Freiman’s Landing. Note stove pipe through roof. Lambert Enders is pouring coffee while son Peter sits holding double-bitted axe. Shovels were used to remove horse manure from sleigh road lest it catch sunrays and melt the surface.

17218 P. c 1915 Peter Enders rests against tar-papered cook shanty at Freiman’s Landing

17219 1948 quad map, dark line running east of Rib Lake is Soo Line, which joined the Marinette, Tomahawk & Western. A brown colored RLLC logging railroad spurs off in Section 20 and runs east past Freiman’s Landing, located where major Mud Lake sleigh road junctioned with railroad. Rib Lake native Ted Deitzler had the uncorroborated opinion the RLLC Camp 3 was in SW SW 3-33-3D. A red Arabic numeral 3 marks the approximate spot.

17220 P. c. 1918 A Phoenix steam hauler owned by RLLC pulls sleighs of hardwood from RLLC Camp 2, Camp 9 or Camp 12. Note the snow has been plowed off the track. The sleigh runners ran in ruts cut into the ice road. Snow plowing helped keep runners within these ruts

17221 ‘The Phoenix Steam Hauler,’ by RPR 6-2013; article written for Taylor County Historical Society Museum

17222 P. c. 1918 RLLC stream hauler at NE edge of Rib Lake with sleigh of peeled hemlock

17223 P. c. 1918 Joe Enders on pine log in Rib Lake. Note rear-pilings about 5 feet apart held cable preventing logs from drifting to far places in 320 acre Rib Lake

17224 P. 11-11-1918 Lambert & Margaret Enders 25th wedding anniversary (standing in back row, left to right) Nicholas, Margaret Brost, peter, Joseph, Katherine Tilch, Anna Themar, Anton. (seated left to right) Marie Seidel, Lambert, Gertrude Zirngibl, Margaret, Christine Peissig

17225 P. c. 1919 Katherine Tilch, nee Enders, child – Fred Tilch, Joseph Tilch.

17225A wedding portrait 7-2-1917, Katherine Enders & John Tilch

17226 P. 7-2-1917 wedding party, seated- John Tilch & Katherine Enders, groom & bride; top-Anna Enders Themar, Joseph Bell, William Tilch & Kitty Lamberty

17227 P. c. 1915 The Carl Schacht family, NW NW 21-33-3E, in 2013 all buildings gone – Christmas tree plantation of ‘Doc’ Galen Scharer

17228 P. 8-24-1924 wedding party; Bride-Marie Enders Seidel, groom-Leo Seidl; L-R top-Christine Enders Peissig; Carl Seidel, Joseph Enders, Margaret Enders Brost

17229 P. 8-7-1929 wedding portrait; Minnie Hein & Joseph Andrew Enders, Highland Park, Michigan

17230 P. c. 1925 Nicholas ‘Nic’ Enders playing with spaniel and cat. The home-made stand supporting geranium reads ‘The Cudahy Packing Co.’ a business at Cudahy, Wis, still operating in 2013.

17231 P. c. 1932 Nicholas Enders typing on an Underwood typewriter while working as deputy Register of Deeds, Courthouse, Medford, Wis.

17232 P. 7-16-1948 Mud Lake Reunion, Father Kauer, center, with clerical collar, wrote the invitations in German & English

17232A P. 1948 Katherine Enders Lamberty, Anna Enders Fuchs, and their brother, Lambert Enders, in Milwaukee

17233 1923 Autobiography of Nicholas Enders for English 1923-1924 Medford High School, cover

17233A p. 1 ibid

17233B p. 2 ibid

17233C p. 3 ibid

Collection of RPR

17234 2-27-1978 Interview of Peter Enders by Robert P. & Herman Arthur Rusch

17234A p. 2 ibid Freiman’sLanding

17234B p. 3 ibid Wood Lake dam

17234C p. 4 ibid water tank for ice roads

17234D p. 5 water holds for ice roads

17234E p. 6 Peter Klostermann farm

17234F p. 7 ice road construction

17234G p. 8 12-14 inches of ice for road

17234H p. 9 Knop farm hill required extra teams

17234I p. 10 sleighs sank on Rib Lake

17234J p. 11 Rib Lake log boom

17234K p. 12 locomotive pulled boom

17234L p. 13 log salvage every summer

17234M p. 14 first sleight out at 3;30 a.m.

17234N p. 15 ice raod-temporary bridges

17234O p. 16 skidding logs –sawyers & swampers

17234P p. 17 J.J. Kennedy ‘it was still cheap timber’

17234Q p. 18 1912 Mud Lake forest fire

17234R p. 19 immigrants & cattle in box cars

17234S p. 20 1914 car new for $175 – finis –

17235 Map 2-27-1978 Camp 13, RLLC by Peter Enders. NB-the earth and stone foundation of the cook and sleeping shanty were clearly visible in spring of 2013 udring RPR & Russ Aszmann’s inspection; see prior scanned data

17236 P. c. 1975 Camp Forest Springs main lodge –winter sports

17236A back ‘The main lodge houses dining hall, wash rooms, trading post, game area and offices.’

17237 P. c. 1900 ‘Rib River Scene, Medford, Wis.’ Dells of the Rib River, NE SE 25-31-3E, Town of Goodrich, view looks upstreat one-half mile south of modern STH 64 at the Lincoln County line. This is the only place in Taylor County wehere the Rib River flows through bedrock

17237A 8-8-2013 ‘Adventuring to the Goodrich Dells’ Star News text

17237B ibid Rib River beneath dells

17237C ibid Photos by Mark Bergland

17238 8-8-2013 ‘Memorial Parkway Update’ ‘The Rib Lake Community Club is disbanding..’ P. Linda Kathrein, Dick Gordon, Mary Gordon, Mike & Deb Turner, Jean Anderson and Dorothy Scharer

17239 8-8-2013 Shirley Thieme obit, 1945-2013, Star News

17240 8-8-2013 Mabel Blomberg, nee Stolhammer obit, 1926-2013, Star News

17241 12 Railroads of Taylor County

17242 Summer, 2013, Explore Wisconsin’s Railroading History through the Kaysen Map Collection’ Columns, Wisconisn Historical Society Newsletter

17243 Map 3-4-1875 Taylor County upon creation of Medford Post Office, Stetsonville, Chelsea and Westboro, East half

17243A ibid West half, NB-Price County not shown since it had not been created yet.

17243B

17243C

17244 Map c. 1873 west part of Lincoln County when Westboro was on Lincoln County line; map predates cration of Taylor County in 3-1875, center-NB-Merrill shown by prior name, i.e. Jenny

17244A ibid, red arrow points to Rib Lake

17244B ibid, showing ‘Worcester’, aka Mile Post 101 where Wisconsin Central Railroad construction halted for 18 months beginning in 1873

17245 obit, Gladys Bleck, nee Rinehard, 1936-2007 Star News 3-8-2007

17246 ‘Tombstone Pizza is ultimate made in Wisconsin’ Star News 8-5-2013

17246A p. 2 ibid

17246B p. 3 ibid

17247 ‘Weathershield has its roots in Wisconisn’ Star News 8-15-2013

17247A p. 2 ibid

17247B p. 3 ibid

17248 ‘Ice Age Legacy Fuels Modern Industry,’ Star News 8-15-2013, Steve Mann, dba Wisco Stone, Rib Lake

17248A p. 2 ibid

17248B Wisco Stone business card, Nathan Miller, Vice-President

17248C Ad-Wisco Stone beauty through imperfection c. 2010 p. 1, 5 photos of stone installed

17248D ibid p. 2

17248E c. 2011 picture postcard 4 photos

17248F ibid back.

17248G business card, Steve Mann, owner, Wisco Stone

17248H ibid back

17249 Ad-Kenneth Norgaard dba North Garden Trees, Star News 8-15-2013

17250 Map 8-16-2013 distance ‘as crow flies’ between RLLC Camp1 and sawmill, 12 miles

17250A Map 8-17-2013 railroad route between RLLC Camp 1 and Rib Lake as used, e.g. 50 miles

17251 W. RLLC Camp 1 Special Railroad Connections to Rib Lake, R.P. Rusch 9-22-2013

17252 Map 8-18-2013, RLLC Camp 2 location per Ted Dietzler & Frank Erdman c. 1980

17253 Map 1957 ‘Rib Lake Hiking & Ski Trails Information,’ 31 sites along Ice Age Trail or Jaycee Ski Trail, published in 1997 Taylor County plat book

17254 P. c. 1900 McComb Ave, right-post office in Woodman building; Modern Woodman of America sign partially shown; next-’Wisconsin House’ hotel; next; Bogumill store.

Left-Lemon Furniture Store; in 2013 Nicolet National Bank, 717 McComb Ave.; next-buliding still stands in 2013; ‘The Frosted Mud,’ 723 McComb Ave.; next-Peterson’s Opera House; building still stands in 2013 as ‘The Bird’s Nest,’ 729 McComb Ave.

View looks north to Fayette Ave. At rear-black objects are hemlock bark piles; i.e., tanbark, for tannery

17254A back-postcard addressed to Theresa Petract, Antigo, WI

17255 8-19-2013 Thrivent Financial for Lutherans postcard to Rusch household

17255A invitation to annual picnic for Taylor County chapter

17256 ‘Antique Tractor Ride,’ Star News 8-15-2013, photo of Camp 8 flowage, Town of Rib Lake

17257 ‘Our Wisconsin-Premier Issue’ cover

17257A ibid p. 2

17257B ibid p. 3 – table of contents

17257C ibid p. 4 ‘Frank’s Hill’

17257D ibid p. 5

17258 Map c. 5-1900 Railroads of Lincoln, Marathon Counties, source unknown

Collection of Dennis Kuehling

17259 P. ‘Steam Hauler, Rib Lake, Wis. Brown’s Studio’ four men, man in fur coat is Fayette Delos Show, publicity shot, 6 sleighs c. 1909

17260 P. ‘Rib Lake & Pine Island,’ 3 people, view of log boom on Rib Lake, RLLC railroad track in foreground – in 2013 site of STH 102 & new walkway.

17261 P. 2013 Morgan Rose Thums

17261A 7-2013 Thank you note after high school graduation party

17261B envelope

Bernard and Andrew Wahl collection

17262 Camp list – Westboro Lumber Co., Camps 9-22 by Bernard ‘Bernie’ Wahl and brother Andrew B. Wahl 6-2013. Color codes and legl descriptions by RPR

17262A Map 8-20-2013 Medford Lumber Co. sites on 1913 plat, Part of T33N-R1E. Lcoation os Westboro Lumber Co., Camp 9 (green dot) and Camp 10 (red dot), route of Westboro Lumber co. logging railroad highlighted in yellow

17262B ibid, part of T33N-R1W, Westboro Lumber Co. Camp 11 site at brown dot, Camp 12 site at orange dot, Camp 13-no Camp 13; Camp 17 & 17 at blue dot, Camp 15 & 16 missing, & 19 green dot, Camp 20 yellow dot, Camp 21 black dot, Camp 22 red dot, new 20 tan dot

17262C Map 1980 plat T33N-R1E, site of Westboro Lumber Co. Camp 9 (green dot) and Camp 10 (red dot)

17262D ibid T33N-R1E, site of Westboro Lumber Co. Camp 11 (brown dot), Camp 12 (orange dot), no Camp 13, Camp 14 & 17 (blue dot), Camps 15 & 16 missing, Camp 18 & 19 (green dot), Camp 20 (yellow dot), Camp 21 (black dot), Camp 22 (red dot), new Camp 20 (tan dot)

17262E L. 8-9-2013 Bernard ‘Bernie’ Wahl to RPR

17262F ibid back

End of Wahl Collection

17263 W. 8-9-2013 Rib Lake Ice Age Days flyer

From James Scott collection

17264 P. c. 2000 former Attorney Oscar Rademacher barn, SE SW 8-33-1E, Town of Westboro, in 2000 owned by Earnest Kremeyer, view north from CTH D

RPR collection

17265 8-1-2013 Ann K. Rusch retirement card as Registered Nurse at Rib Lake Clinic and Memorial Health Center from Dr. Lori Lee, MD

17265A ibid p. 2

17266 8-1-2013 Ann K. Rusch retirement card from co-workers

17266A ibid p. 2

17267 8-1-2013 Ann K. Rusch retirement card from daughter Laura Severson and husband

17267A ibid p. 2

17268 8-1-2013 Ann K. Rusch retirement card from Michelle Brost, et al.

17268A ibid p. 2

17269 8-1-2013 Ann K. Rusch retirement card from brother-in-law Thomas M. Rusch and Mary Ann Rusch

17269A ibid p. 2

17270 8-1-2013 Ann K. Rusch retirement card from sister Barbara Weber and brother Rick Killion

17270A ibid p. 2

17271 L. 3-7-1969 Gaylord Nelson to RPR

17271A P. Gaylord Nelson

17272 L. 1-6-1970 Warren P. Knowles to RPR

17273 P. 1910 ‘The Old Way-The new way of hauling logs to mill. Medford, Wis.’ The ‘old way’ is clearly a staged, humorous scene, taken in the mill yard of the Medford Lumber Co. The steeple shown belonged to St. Paul Lutheran Church, 321 N. Park Ave.

17274 W. ‘Pleistocene Geology of Taylor County, Wis.’ By John W. Atto, 1993, Wisconisn Geological & Natural History Survey – cover P. Mondeaux Flowage

17274A ibid p. 2 title

17274B ibid p. 3 published as pubic domain

17274C ibid p. 4 table of contents

17274D ibid p. 5 table of contents

17274E ibid p. 6

17274F ibid p. 7

17274G ibid p. 8 abstract. During the last part of the Wisconsin glaciation, the Laurentide Ice Sheet reached its maximum extent in north-central Wisconsin between about 25,000 and 10,000 years ago….

17274H ibid p. 9

17274I ibid p. 10

17274J ibid p. 11

17274K ibid p. 12

17274L ibid p. 13

17274M ibid p. 14

17274N ibid p. 15

17274O ibid p. 16 ice marginal ridges

17274P ibid p. 17

17274Q ibid p. 18 diagram-ice walled lake

17274R ibid p. 19

17274S ibid p. 20 photo ice walled lake

17274T ibid p. 21 laminated off-shore sediment

17274U ibid p. 22 Map-Mondeaux Flowage

17274V ibid p. 23 Black River lobe

17274W ibid p. 24

17274X ibid p. 25 Map-Jump River fire tower

17274Y ibid p. 26 Map-Whittlesey

17274Z ibid p. 27 Photo-ice walled lake

17274AA ibid p. 28 Wood Lake moraine

17274BB ibid p. 29

17274CC ibid p. 30 references

17274DD ibid

17274EE ibid p. 31 index to quadrangles

17274FF back-explanation of front, P. of esker surrounded by water

17275 P. c. 1900 Bedrock Geology of Wisconsin, UW-Extension

17276 2-5-1984 ‘Lakers’ social club, Star News

17277 W. Daniel ‘Dan’ McCluskey interview notes 8-22-2013 by RPR

17277A ibid p. 2 RLLC Camp 28

17277B ibid p. 3

17277C ibid p. 4 tanbark made up to WWII

17277D ibid p. 5

17278 8-25-2013 Lorraine Anne Killion ‘Q.E.D.’ note, upon completion of proof-reading for Rib Lake Historial Society

From James ‘Jim’ Scott Collection, generously donated to Rib Lake Historical Society on 8-26-2013

17279 9-1-1954 Medford Directory by Midway Telephone Company, front cover

17279A title page

17279B Ad-Tlusty Beverage & Bottling, Rib Lake

17279C Ad-O&N Lumber Co., Westside Grocery, Mr. & Mrs. Melvin Ruesch, Strebig Auto

17279D Ad-Earl & David Ruesch, dba Hartwig & Ruesch Funeral Home

17279E Ad-Rib Lake Cheese Co.

17279F Ad-Dr. W.W. Meyer, MD, et al., dba Medford Clinic & Hospital

17279G Ad-Gilbert Ruesch & Gottlieb Widmer, dba Widmer & Ruesch, NB-remainder of directory unscanned

17280 P. c. 1905 ‘High School, Medford, Wis.’ At the NE corner of Clark & Third Streets, razed c. 1975

17280A back, postdated 5-6-1909 to Geneva Mauseth

17280B P. c. 1905 ‘High School, Medford, Wis.’

17281 c. 1942 ‘War Ration Book Four,’ USA office of Price Administration issued to Theodore H. Steffen, Medford, Wis., cover

17281A ibid back

17281B ibid interior, ration stamps

17282 P. c. 1980 Soo Line boxcar on siding adjacent to mainline in Taylor County by James Scott

17283 c. 1960 ‘Soo Line Railroad’ complimentary Kleenex eyeglass tissues. Cover with poem:

‘Clean your glasses

Shine ‘em too

You will have a smile

If you ship and travel Soo.’

17283A ibid back

17283B ibid inside, instructions

17284 P. c. 1980 Soo Line Railroad depot at Ashland, Wis. After sale to city and converted to offices and restaurant. Photo by James Scott

17285 c. 1970 emblem; ‘Post 147, American Legion, Medford, Wis.’

17286 c. 1970 Bonspiel button ‘Medford Curling Club’ issued to long-time member Ray Blakeslee

17287 c. 1970 campaign button [Gordon] Kniskern [for Wisconsin] state superintendent [of education]; at the time he was the principal of Medford Senior High School

17288 c. 1928 label ‘Dells of Wisconsin Butter,’ Prentice Cooperative Creamery Assoc., Prentice, Wis. ‘Wisconsin, the cream pitcher of the nation.’

17289 c. 1950 ‘Heidl’s Clover Farm Store, Groceries, Meats, Fruits & Vegetables, Phone11, Rib Lake, Wisconsin’ promotional thermometer and picture of Jesus. Store located in SE corner of Lake & Elm Streets in Village of Rib Lake.

RPR collection

17290 8-22-2013 ‘Historic St. Ann’s to Celebrate 125th Anniversary Sept. 1’ Star News

17291 Ad Hemer Funeral Service, Jeffrey C. Hemer and Jolene K. Sjemraj, directors, Rib Lake and Medford

17292 obit. Galen Scharer, Sr. 4-28-1924 to 8-15-2013. Star News. Galen was an enthusiastic booster of Rib Lake and an extraordinary friend of the Rib Lake Historical Society; he generously loaned his extensive private collection of Rib Lake material to the Society of scanning

17292A Lifetime membership certificate to Rib Lake Historical Society for Galen Scharer, Sr.

17292B Memorial Card, Dr. Galen R. Scharer, Sr., cover

17292C ibid p. 2 & 3

17292D ibid p. 4 family roses – spouse-Dorothy; children & grandchildren

17293 business card, Susan & Jerold J. Clark, dba Jerry’s Computer 8-2013

17294 invoice, Mark Schreiner, dba Rib Lake Roller Mills, Inc. 8-9-2013

17295 Ad Kurt Walbeck, dba Outdoor Bound with Kurt Walbeck

17295A ibid, back

17296 pamphlet ‘Spirit Reservoir’ by Wisconsin Valley Improvement Co. c. 2013. Map-dams & reservoirs on Wisconsin River

17296A ibid Map of Spirit Reservoir

17296B ibid text

17297 location memo, RLLC Camp 3, by RPR 8-23-2013, camp was in SW SW 22-33-3E, Town of Rib Lake

17297A Map 8-28-2013 Camp 3 site, RLLC by RPR

17297B Map 8-28-2013 RLLC Camp 3 (established 1906), general location within SW SW 22-33-3E, drawn on 1953 plat map by R.P. Rusch

17297C P. 8-28-2013 Road sign, Frank Dr. & Wilderness Ave.

17297D P. 8-28-2013 R-view north, Franz Drive; R-SW SW 22-33-3E, RLLC Camp 3 established in 1906 was located in open field; at horizon-Franz family farmstead

17297E P. 8-28-2013 view east from Franz Drive across SW SW 22-33-3E; at horizon-notch in tree line marks old right-of-way of RLLC railroad, which ran from that spot to photographer from 1906-1908.

17297F P. 8-28-2013 view NE from Franz Drive; south side of Franz farmstead

17297G P. 8-28-2013 Dorothy M. Willner, nee Franz, points to depression at her feet; collapsed hand-dug well from RLLC Camp 3

17297H P. ibid; higher grass growing in well depression

17297I P. ibid; view toward southwest; at horizon-junction of Wilderness Ave. & (on right) Franz Drive.

17298 W. ‘Rhinelander Logging Museum’ c. 2013. The bateau on display was used on Rib River log drives; last drive was in 1926. RLLC railroad was last Wisconsin logging line to operate. Data from displays in museum 8-16-2013

17298A back

17299 W. ‘CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) Museum’ Rhinelander, WI

17299A back

17300 W. ‘The Story of the Lumberjack Steam Train; All aboard for Camp 5’ [logging museum, Laona, Wisconsin] by Jeff Terry, 2011 – cover

17301 P. c. 2010 The Laona & Northern ‘Lumberjack Special’ on Rat River Bridge, Laona, WI

17301A back

17302 W. Announcement of induction of William Duncan Connor, Sr., into Wisconsin Forestry Hall of Fame 8-16-2013 at Camp 5, Laona, WI

17303 Bio. William Duncan Connor by Mary Connor Pierce

17303A ibid p. 2

17304 Program 8-16-2013 P. William Duncan Connor, Sr., & induction & biography

17304A ibid p. 2

17305 P. 2013 Camp 5 Museum buildings, Laona, WI

17306 Pamphlet ‘Lumberjack steam train’ Laona & Northern

17306A ibid p. 2

17306B ticket for train

17307 P. 8-28-2013 Rib Lake Town Hall

17307A ibid town hall sign

17308 P. 8-28-2013 Rib Lake town garage

17309 P. 8-28-2013 CTH C at Rib Lake Town Hall

17310 P. 8-28-2013 Ann K. Rusch and mother, Lorraine A. Killion in van

17311 P. 8-28-2013 ATV sign on CTH C, Taylor County highways opened to ATV usage in June, 2013

17312 P. 8-28-2013 heifers at James R Packenham barn, SW NW 19-33-3E. Barn built c. 1918 by then farm owner Albert Knop, Sr.

17313 Ad 2013 Robert ‘Red’ Thums, dba Robert Thums Trucking

Steven Fliehs collection; historic photos by Cyrus ‘Cy’ R. Claussen, aka ‘C.R.C.’ of Rib Lake area; 76 negatives from this collection were chosen by R.P. Rusch and ALL PHOTOS SAVED IN TIFF FORMAT by Sara Nuernberger in 7-2013 and assigned temporary ID numbers 001, 002, etc. The images were assigned permanent assession number, starting with 17314 (formerly 001) when transferred into Rib Lake Historical Society Photo & Document collection; final image is 17394 (076)

17314 P. c. 1930 Claussen cabin & covered ginseng bed on Big Spirit Lake. In 2013 location address is N9393 Spirit Lake Road, Rib Lake, WI 54470

17314A Upjohn-Kennedy Drug Company, Rib Lake. Wis. Photo order by C.R. Claussen c. 1920. Film development 10 cents, prints 5 cents each. Cy’s handwritten notes were added after his order was delivered to him

17315 9-17-2013 email by Sara K. Nuernberger with short biography on Cyrus R. Claussen

17315A ibid with annotations

17316 P. 1905 L. Charlie Talbot holding scaling stick and large pencil hung from sleeve, & Bert Aitken, long-time RLLC woodsman

17317 P. c. 1905 Two unidentified lumberjacks, holding cant hooks, in front of huge white cedar tree

17318 P. 1905 Horse team skidding logs. Harness proclaims ‘Frank Diesing’ as proud owner. Man in center is Bert Aitken

17319 P. 1905 White team skidding a 12’ yellow birch log; left-teamster; center-Bert Aitken; Right-swamper, who cleared paths to logs, holds double-bitted axe

17320 P. 1905 team has pulled now unloaded sleigh of tanbark; Man second from left is Bert Aitken; picktured sleigh was small, holding about 2 cords, used to move tanbark from spot where it was cut in summer and loose piled for drying. The pictured tankbark pile was temporary; 20 or more cords would be loaded on a large sleigh for the tannery

17321 P. c. 1905 Four horse team pulling sleigh of mostly peeled hemlock logs

17322 P. c. 1912 Right-commercial buildings on east side of McComb Ave; H.A. Fleming, dba ‘The Arcade’ on Lot 4, Block B, MRPA; in 2013 lot owned by Russ Wudi, dba ‘Russ’ Coins’ 814 McComb Ave.

Building to left is Ed Johnson Hardware Store, built 1911, with owner’s residence on second story. It was last owned by Tom Carroll, dba Coast-to-Coast Hardware & razed c. 1980 and replaced by Genesis Youth Center, 818 McComb Ave., on Lots 5, 6, 7 & 8, Clock B., McComb’s Racing Park Addtion to the Village of Rib Lake

17322A P. 1983 same buildings as 17322; Left-Tom Carroll, dba Coast-to-Coast Hardware; right-Inez Vanucha dba Olde Town Liquor (in Scharer Building)

17323 P. c. 1912 Four men and bartender at pool table probably at H.A. Fleming’s ‘The Arcade’, B4, MRPA

17324 P. c. 1912 Three men at bar, probably ‘The Arcade.’ Sign ‘Try the German Delight, nerver & beer 10 cents a glass’ Photographer in bar mirror

17333 P. c. 1912 Photographer – hand on camera tripod- takes self portrait and two patrons and bartender, probably at ‘The Arcade’

17334 P. c. 1920 from airplane (left-portion of wing) left to right-lath piles and wood scrap from RLLC; top-Lutheran parsonage and stable; center-Fayette Ave. crosses Tannery Creek; right-railroad tracks serving Rib Lake tannery

17335 P. ‘Rib Lake, Wis.’ C. 1915 clear, smooth ice of lake

17336 P. c. 1920 woman at wheel of like-new convertible

17337 P. c. 1920 like-new convertible with roof up

17338 P. c. 1920 Three women sitting on back of railroad caboose

17339 P. c. 1920 recently hand-shoveled snow along Soo Line railroad tracks at Kelnhofer’s cut, NW NE 34-33-2E, half mile SW of Village of Rib Lake, view to SW

17340 P. c. 1910 Six foot high snowbanks at Kelnhofer’s cut. NB-railroad tracks

17341 P. c. 1910 baggage & 2 passenger cars of ‘St. Paul, Minneapolis & Saulte Ste. Marie’ railroad, aka Soo Line, snowbound in Kelnhofer’s cut

17342 P. c. 1910 RLLC locomotive 2 works to extract snowbound Soo Line passenger car from Kelnhofer’s cut

17343 P. c. 1910 RLLC locomotive producing copious white smoke tries to pull snowbound caboose through Kelnhofer cut. NB-standing man

17344 P. c. 1910 crew of men hand-shovel snow off railroad tracks at Kelnhofer’s cut, view to SW

17345 P. c. 1910 RLLC Shay locomotive 1 pulls combination passenger-box car in woods operation. Long hose to siphon water fromcreek hangs beneath cab

17346 P. c. 1910 2 piles on left in RLLC filing room; left-band saw blade; overhead-rollers to help move & handlw 40 foot long band saw blades; NB-owl graffiti drawn in chalk;

Man on right is probably RLLC executive

This filing room located on top floor of RLLC mill where clear story windows provided much natural light.

17347 P. c. 1910 Left-foreman & right-visitor, stand behind sort words, i.e. system of horizontal moving chains in RLLC sawmill. A cant (a port of a log with one sawed side) has been moved by sortworks to a rip saw machine or horizontal resaw, i.e. a horizontal band saw. The machine is labeled; ‘No 208 Berlin Machine Works, Beloit, Wis.’

17348 P. c. 1910 Filer, holding pliers & measuring device, adjusts ‘set’ of band saw in filing room of RLLC sawmill. NB-small jack beneath band saw blad. Cam operated saw vise holds band saw blade still

17349 P. c. 1910 top wheel of band saw apparatus in RLLC sawmill. An identical well was positioned about 20 feet below photo. The band saw revolved between these two 8 foot in diameter wheels. NB-lower right-the guilde prevented the blade from wobbling as it sawed. Worker on left is head sawyer; he makes & implements initial, crucial decisions or how to saw logs when it enters sawmill.

17350 P. c. 1910 man with fur jacket sits on edge of head sawyers ‘box’ containing his seat. Man on left sits on carriage which conveys logs past the band saw blade at left center.

This usual sawdust covered spot in the RLLC sawmill has been cleaned for the photographer.

NB-at last 7 bare light bulbs augment natural light.

17351 P. c. 1910 9 man crew tosses tanbark to be piled in massive 30 foot high stack at Rib Lake tannery

17352 P. c. 1910 worker stands atop cable shaped roof of tanbark of partially piled stack of hemlock bark in storage yard just west of Rib Lake tannery. NB-carefully laid alternating pieces of tanbark create 90 degree pile corner on left

17353 P. c. 1910 two completed piles of tanbark stand behind pile under construction in foreground. Standard gauge railroad tracks ran between piles to allow railroad access. Snow has been plowed off Village of Rib Lake ‘West Street’ in foreground

17354 P. c. 1920 Auto pulls toboggan north on McComb Ave. past RLLC sawmill, village water tower stands in center; building on right was RLLC Machine shop; it still stands in 2013 as Wisco Stone Products, 670 McComb Ave., Steve Mann, president

17355 P. 8-1916 RLLC ‘Saw mill from Lake’

17356 P. c. 1926 RLLC mill complex, view from cemetery; Lakeshore Drive in foreground

17357 P. c. 1920 ‘St. Claire Lake #10’ view eastward across St. Claire Lake to Walter St. Claire’s farm, SE SW 6-33-3E, where grain threshing is occurring

17358 P. c. 1920 ‘Harpers Lake #8’; South Harper Lake, Hillcrest cabin & Mike Schmidt farm on hill; left-road shown is now Rustic Road #1. In 2013 Hillcrest cabin is owned by DR. Ray Hanson of Marshfield

17359 P. c. 1920 ‘Harper’s Lake #12’ ‘CRC’ view NE across South Harper Lake; horizon right-Mike Schmidt farm; center-H. Jones farm; two boat houses hug the north short; twin elm trees crown the hilltop of the Schmidt farm, SW ¼ 2-33-2E

17360 P. c. 1920 ‘North Harper #13 CRC’ view east across north Harper Lake. A two-story white boathouse sits on east shore

17361 P. c. 1920 ‘North Harper Lake #14 CRC’ east shore of North Harper Lake with two-story white boathouse

17362 P. c. 1920 ‘Harpers Lake #11’ view north across westernmost part of South Harper Lake. In 2013 swimming beach & public boat launch is just off photo on right.

Note distinguishing twin els on hilltop of Schmidt farm; owned & operated in 1950’s by Mr. & Mrs. May & Elaine (nee Carter) Schaufelberger, dba Camp Carter. It flourished, providing fun, rustic vacations ‘in the north woods’ for business women from Chicago, who usually took the Soo Line railroad to the Westboro depot where Elaine picked them up

17363 P. c. 1920 ‘North Harper Lake #10’ view from east of east shore of North Harper Lake, at least two boats ply the waters, the southernmost is powered by a gas engine and is leaving a wake. The knob of cleared, grass land in the center is the home of Dr. Gary Krueger & wife, Lori, in 2013, N9213 Rustic Road 1, Westboro

17364 P. c. 1930 ‘Tourist Camp Rib Lake, Wis’ tourist shelter with vertical log siding, Rib Lake village Park, two men & dog relax on bench

17364A P. ‘After photograph’ 9-7-2013

17364B ibid note size to which trees have grown

17365 P. c. 1930 ‘view from Tourist Park #2 CRC’ initials stand for Cy. R. Claussen. 167 foot high smoke stack of RLLC on horizon. View west across Lakeshore Drive to Rib Lake, partially filled with logs

17366 P. c. 1925 two men & 13 northern pike

17367 P. c. 1930 12 trout laid atop April 30, 1927 edition of Milwaukee Journal & ad for gas, ‘a perfect motor fuel.’

17368 P. c. 1925 well-dressed couple hold 8 northern pike

17369 P. c. 1925 Claussen cottage & boat house; SE corner of Big Spirit Lake, SE NE 6-33-3E, view to SE

17370 P. c. 1925 view to NE across south arm of Big Spirit Lake from Claussen cottage

17371 P. c. 1925 hunter with new white cap & child next to black bear he bagged

17372 P. c. 1925 bewhiskered man with lever-action rifle; dog & fish hung on hand pulp

17373 P. c. 1920 two children on tricycle & child in scooter; clapboard house with swing on porch

17374 P. c. 1920 woman holds chubby baby

17375 P. c. 1920 young woman reads book on lawn

17376 P. c. 1920 woman with large hairpiece holds twig in photographer’s studio

17377 P. c. 1920 trout fisherman holds cane pole in stream

17378 P. c. 1920 view east from shore of Rib Lake at east end of Church Street. Fisherman holds 5 large fish; left rear-posts run eastward to cemetery shore, holding logging boom to contain logs near RLLC

17378A ibid three men

17379 P. c. 1920 man wwearing tie holds two walleye on stringer

17380 Two women shiver in cold car in winter in farmyard

17381 P. c. 1920 three women show off latest swimsuits as admiring girl looks on

17382 P. c. 1920 Four women in sheer stockings stand on west side of McComb Ave., on south side of Braun building, Block D, Lot 3, MRPA; rear right-RLLC train ‘roundhouse.’ Sign on Braun building reads ‘Batteries repaired-electric-shop-C.R. Claussen’

17382A ibid, same four women have put their backs toward photographer to show off jackets

17383 P. c. 1915 High School hill picnickers, Killinger & Claussen families. Rear-boomed logs in Rib Lake. In 2013 site is ‘Camp 28 Saloon, Bunkhouse & Cook Shanty,’ 720 STH 102, Rib Lake. The Rib Lake High School occupied site from 1902-1985.

17384 P. c. 1915 north Spirit Lake from Claussen cabin. The far shore is NE NW 6-33-3E. The graceful tiny needles of a hemlock tree are silhouetted against the lake.

17385 P. c. 1920 car parks on recently plowed town road. Left-boards nailed to fence create a snowfence

17386 P. c. 1920 Hunter displays his trophy coyote standing on south side of Braun building; in 2013 it is the site of Mann-Made Pizza, 709 McComb Ave.; rear right-lodge building of Modern Woodman of America

17386A ibid, view east behind RLLC complex

17387 P. 11-1911 Part of search party looking for Alfred Bonneville. Rib Lake Herals 11-17-1911 reported; last Saturday Alfred Bonneville deer hunted with Henry Matthias and left Henry at RLLC Camp 4 and explained that if he did not return to Camp 4 he would be at (nearby) Camp 5. A short time later Matthias heard a gun shot and hollered ‘Al’ but got no reply. The next day Matthias learned Alfred never appeared at Camp 5. A massive search began for the next several days. Alfred was never found or heard from. See Annotated Chronology of Rib Lake Herald for more information at

17388 P. c. 1920 a raised flower bed at Clauseen’s North Spirit Lake cabin

17389 P. c. 1920 man in bathing suit stands in canoe

17390 P. 2-25-1922 Claussen house in Village of Rib Lake, view SE on Church Street; rear right-St. John the Baptist Catholic Church; in 2013 house still stands at 1207 Church Street, owned by Michael J. Siroin, its address is 1207 Church Street; its legal description is original plat of Village of Rib Lake, Lot 2, Block 4

17390A Map 9-10-2013 plat; original plat of Village of Rib Lake; Lot 2, Block 4 highlighted in yellow

17390B P. ‘After photograph’ 9-7-2013 former Claussen home

17390C ibid

17391 P. 2-25-1922 Three adults stadnign on snowy sidewalk between Claussen home at 1207 Church Street and its eastern neighbor, 1201 Church Street. Right-steeple of Methodist Church

17392 P. 2-25-1922 unidentified man wearing bowtie standing on east side of residence at 1207 Church Street, Village of Rib Lake

17393 P. 2-25-1922 unidentified boy and man with briefcase standing on wooden sidewalk in Village of Rib Lake

17394 P. c. 1930 getting ready to picnic, lady stands on table as friends look on

End of Steven & Luanne M. Fliehs collection of historic photos by Cyrus ‘Cy’ R. Claussen

RPR collection

17395 Map 1993, Pleistocene Geology of Taylor County by John W. Attic, legend

17395A & B ibid; map symbols

17395C Glacial phases and ice flow direction (arrows); D thickness of Pleistocene sediment

17395E cross section-legend; F topography along cross section A-A

17395G topography along cross section B-B (exaggerated 83 times)

17395H cross section index;

17395I Map Rib Lake & Westboro

17396 W. 2013 ‘Motels, cabins’

17397 W. 2013 Rib Lake attractions

17397A ibid p. 2

17398 W. 2013 Gerstberger pines nature trail

17398-1 Introduction & p. 1

17398A ibid p. 2 & 3

17398B ibid p. 4 & 5 windfall hemlock

17398C ibid p. 6 & 7 yellow birch

17398D ibid p. 8 & 9 leopold bench

17398E ibid p. 10 & 11

17398F Map – Gerstberger Pines

17399 9-5-2013 obit. Vera Hoffmann 1933-2013

17400 P. c. 1910 ‘Public School, Ogema, Wis. 3-11’

17400A postcard 12-13-1911 to Selina Samuel

17401 P. c. 1910 ‘W.C. Depot, Smith’s residence & school house, Ogmea, Wis.’ View west on current (2013) STH 86 from Pine Line. W.C. stands for Wisconsin Central

17402 P. 1907 ‘Saw mill, Ogema, Wis.’ B.M. Holmes built sawmill in 1874 after Wisconsin Central (WC) built past site in 1873. View SW across mill pond formed by dam 50 feet east of WC tracks shown on right.

[mill pond shown on map 2013 Price County Recreation & Auto Tour Map, #17404C]

The pictured sawmill sawed 200,000 board feet of lumber between 1874 and 1893 as estimated by F.W. Sackett in his unpublished work, ‘A Quarter Century of Price County.’

According to the Ogema, Spirit, Hill Historical Album, ‘The mill was located on the south side of the pond and employed about 75 men. It burned down March 10, 1923. The home of Alex Nelson is on the right.’

17402A back, postcard 8-22-1908 to Charles Gay

17403 P. c. 1900 man wearing key chain at Holmes sawmill, Ogema, Wis. Boiler room built of brick. Sawmill has clear story for ventilation and light.

17404 Map, Price County 2013 ‘Recreation & Auto Tour Map’ cover

17404A ibid legend

17404B ibid Spirit Lake, Timms Hill, Ogema, Pine-Line

17405 Star News ‘Young Hawks make strong statement’ [Rib Lake & Prentice school districts feature a joint team in football & cross county, the ‘Hawks’

17405A ibid ‘Timms Hill always a tough first meet.’

17405B ibid photo

17406 Star News ‘Faith still shines at Historic St. Ann’s Anniversary Mass’ 9-5-2013. Photo of Fr. Gerard Willger

17406A ibid P. Church exterior

17406B P. ‘Historic St. Ann’s celebrating 125 years, 1888-2013’

17407 P. 7-20-2013 Four girls selling kool-aid for 50 cents a cup at 3rd & Church Streets, Rib Lake. Dennis Kuehling took photo and labeled it ‘Rib Lake Young Business Woman’s Club’

17408 Star News ‘Longevity Awards’ Rib Lake School District. Photo of Debbie Zondlo, Jeff Probst, Jim Dobbs, Chris Pilch, Dick Iverson & Velma Mann

17408A ibid ‘Perfect Attendance’ Photo of Mike Thums, Garrett Anderson, Neva Boxx, Jennifer Hackbarth, Chris Polacek, Lori Pomeroy & Debbie Zondlo.

17409 Star News 9-5-2013 ‘Church Directory’ NB-Zion Ev. Lutheran Church, Spirit, is missing

17410 9-10-2013 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, ‘Logging company billed for blaze.’ DNR Bills Ray Duerr Logging of Rib Lake for $600,000 for 7422 acre fire

17410A ibid, p. 2 worker [Steve Hanke] tried to fight fire. Photo.

17410B 9-16-2013 Star News ‘Logger billed $600,000 for negligence.’

17410C 9-19-2013 ‘Logger claims no negligence’

17410D ibid, ‘Logger says state fire bill unfounded’

James ‘Jim’ Scott collection

17411 P. c. 1930 Medford Depot and water tower, ‘Soo Line;’ view to NW. Depot closed by Wisconsin Central (railroad) limited 1989.

17411A logo Wisconsin Central Ltd. created in 1987, bought from the Soo Line the Spencer to Ashland line, which passes through Taylor County, i.e, Stetsonville, Medford, Whittlesey, Chelsea & Westboro. It sold the same line in 2001 to the Canadian National Railroad, which eventually sold it to the Canadian Pacific Railroad, which operated the line as far north as Medford 2013.

17412 P. c. 1925 Medford Public Library north side facing Perkins Street, with curved parking area. The City of Medford was able to build the library because of a gift of money from the Andrew Carnegie estate. It was one of hundreds of ‘Carnegie libraries’ built across America.

17412A ibid, c. 1940 Parking area and flagpole removed. c. 1995 library closed upon opening of Frances L. Simek Memorial Library at 400 North Main Street. Former library became Medford Area Chamber of Commerce, 104 E. Perkins Street

17413 P. c. 1985 ‘Soo Line’ mainline (center) at site of former Chelsea depot. View to NW

17413A ibid, gondola car on house track once on west side of depot while mainline ran east of depot.

17413B ibid Adolph Wille agricultural lime pile east of spur track. Note telegraph/telephone poles which railroad used until track abandonment in 1989 when right-of-way converted into the Pine-Line, a public recreation trail

17413C ibid view NE to coal bin; left-outhouse which served depot, once painted in Soo Line colors-cream & dark red.

17413D logo Soo Line [railroad] initially Soo Line was a nickname for the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Saulte Ste. Marie railroad. In 1961 it absorbed the Wisconsin Central & Minneapolis, South Shore & Saulte Ste. Marie railroads and formally adopted the name the Soo Line Railroad.

17413E logo- The Hiawatha, a passenger train of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, ‘The Milwaukee Road.’ The north woods Hiawatha ran through Merrill until c. 1972. The Milwaukee Road went bankrupt in 1980 and was sold to the Soo Linie in 1985.

The Merrill to Tomahawk line was purchased on 10-11-1982 by the Wisconsin Central Ltd., which decided to abandon its Medford to Prentice railroad in favor of its newly-acquired Merrrill to Tomahawk route.

17414 c. 1920 Commercial advertisements from City of Medford

1. Dr. C.E. Nystrom, MD

2. August J.E. Benn

3. Dake Studio

4. Dr. F.J. Martin, DDS

5. R.H. Musselman

6. Kostner Bros, dba Model Store

7. Roberts & Maloney Real Estate

8. Jacob Shapiro, dba The Fair

9. Loeb-Hammel Real Estate

10. Ruesch Bros.

11. The Sun Newspaper

12. Herman Leight Atty.

13. Max Bach Printing

14. J.W. Bewn Abstractor

15. The First National Bank of Medford, L.N. Gibson, President

17414A ibid –center 16. L.E. Simerson, Prop. Hotel Fayette

17. Dr. F.C. Travis, DDS

18. Otto Eggert, dealer in hay, flour & feed

19. Paul Michler

John Bauernfiend, Tailor

17414B ibid – bottom 20. E.R. Jacobs, plumbing & tinsmithing

21. Jacob Hartman, dba Riverside Hotel

22. Anton Raod-Private auto livery ‘We cater especially to guests of Hotel Fayette’

22. E.O. Paquet, groceries

23. Max Bach real estate

24. P.C. Ludovic & Joseph P. May, dba The Syracuse, billiards

25. Haigat’s Livery

26. Blatz Beer

27. Hy. Hierlmeier’s buffet

28. H. Frindell, hides & ginseng

29. Medford Co-operative Co.

30. Bert Hinkel, dba Hotel Fayette, livery

RPR Collection

17415 9-18-2013 ‘Lincoln House slated for demolition,’ Merrill Foto News. Historic three-story brick hotel

17415A ibid

17416 P. c. 1970 Spearhead Point Picnic & Campgrounds at Mondeaux Flowage, Westboro

17417 obit, 9-19-2013 David A. Kathrein 10-3-1962 to 9-17-2013

17418 9-19-2013 Star News ‘Good things wait at the end of the trail.’ Douglas Thums, dba Rustic Trail Supper Club, Westboro

17418A ibid p. 2

17418B Photo of Chef Chris LaFernier

17418C Ad, 2013 Douglas Thums, dba The Other Corner, photo of building

17419 8-31-1996 ‘Leo Heikkinen Day,’ Prentice Progress Days, Prentice, Wis.

17419A ibid Gov. Tommy G. Thompson commendation

17419B The Leo Heikkinen story

17419C ibid p. 4

17419D ibid p. 5 Omark-Prentice Hydraulics

17419E ibid

17419F ibid p. 6

17419G ibid p. 7 William T. Ostling

17420 W. 9-12-2013 ‘The Flambeau Flyer’ newsletter of Flambeau River Papers, Park Falls, Wis.

17420A ibid p. 2

17420B ibid p. 3 ‘Omamacare’

17420C ibid p. 4

17421 c. 9-27-2013 ‘The Muir View; news of the Sierra Club of Wisconsin’ ‘Wisconsin Wolves in the Crossfire’

17421A ibid p. 2

17421B ibid p. 3

17422 P. c. 1945 ‘The Point, Spirit Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. No. C-20’ Excel postcard, Milwaukee. View south from STH 102

17422A ibid back postdate; 4-28-1947 Meta ___ to Mrs. Fred Laumer, Edgar, Wis.

17423 P. 2013 Pres. Barack Omama & wife Michelle ‘To Mrs. Lorraine Killion, on behalf of First Lady Michelle Obama and myself, thank you for your leadership and support.’ Signed Barack & Michelle Obama

17424 Ad 2013 Lester & Roger Mann, dba Mann’s Southside Auto Repair

17425 Ad 2013 Chelsea Conservation Club

17426 Ad 2013 Kate Penny Bromann, dba Eartha Naturals Salon & Spa

17427 Ad 2013 Russ Wudi, dba Russ’ Coins

17428 Ad 2013 Scot Bromann, et al, dba Huotari Construction, Inc.

17429 Ad 2013 Greg & Cindy Hanke, dba C&G Mini Mart

17430 Ad 2013 Stephen Dennis Kalmon, dba Mondeaux Dam

17431 Ad 2013 Jerry & Patty Strebig, dba Rib River Bar & Grill

17432 Ad 2013 Paul ‘Squid’ & Marie Quednow, dba Spirit Lake Bar & Grill

17433 Ad 2013 Dennis ‘Foxy’ Fuchs, dba Foxy’s Cattail Tap

17434 Ad 2013 Scott & Renee Zondlo, dba Zondlo’s Bar (and Ballroom)

17435 Ad 2013 Golden Living Center, Rib Lake

17436 Wikipedia 2-20-2013 ‘Rib Lake, Wisconsin’

17436A ibid p. 2 history & demographics

17436B ibid p. 3 2000 census

17436C ibid p. 4 references

17436D ibid p. 5 external links

17437 9-12-2013 Star News, ‘Bohte family farm marks century milestone.’ Top

17437A ibid, bottom, Photo of Estelle & Joseph Bohte

17438 9-12-2013 Star News ‘Blessed to be a blessing’ Trinity Ev. Lutheran Church of Chelsea marks 125 years, top

17438A ibid, bottom, photo of Rev. Randel Jeppesen

17439 9-12-2013 Star News ‘Deputy recovering after gunshot. Deputy Chad Kowalczyk was shot Sunday evening. Alex Schneider held on $1 million cash bond.’

17440 P. c. 1940 P. ‘South Harper Lake A-196 Excel P.C.Co. Milw.’

17441 P. c. 1940 ‘Pine Island, Rib Lake, Wis. C-2’

17442 P. c. 1940 ‘Scene on Spirit Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. No. C-25’ Little Spirit Lake

17442A ibid back postmark 6-19-1943 Kay to Miss Benston

17443 Business Card, 2013 Grace Fritsch and Tammy Westfall dba The Ultimate Illusion

17444 P. c. 1975 Camp Forest Springs Main lodge & beach on St. James Lake

17444A ibid, back

17445 1902 & 1903 tax valuations of major real & personal property of RLLC & US Leather Co. (tannery) in Village of Rib Lake, RLLC $122,254, Tannery $137,600

From Marvin Meier collection

17446 L. c. 7-2-1977 Carl Meier ‘to all descendants of Albert C. Meier & Emma H. Meier…’

17447 L. 1987 Carl Meier presented to Tim Meier for editing & publication of ‘Life in these United States.’

17448 W. 2005 ‘Know your family history. A short outline & quiz about the ancestry, relatives & descendants of Carl & Olga Meier.’ P. 1 Siegrid Meier, Eva Falikowski, Frederick Henry Marheine

17448A ibid, p. 2 Andrew Harold (1835-1886), Albert Carl Meier (1860-1919)

17448B ibid p. 3 Theodore Rhineholt, Carl Meier (1907-1988) aka Carl Meier

17448C ibid p. 4 Ruby Hatlestad

17448D ibid ‘Answers’

17449 L. 9-28-1989 Swedish-American Historical Society to Roy Meier re Amandus Johnson log cabin, aka Ye Olde Yesterday Home

17450 W. 2006 Tim Meier’s foreward to Memoirs of Carl Meier

17450A ‘Memoirs of Carl Meier’ (1907-1988), father of Marvin Meier. The memoirs, photos & appendix total 128 pages. Only its first page was scanned here. RPR 10-3-2013

RPR Collection

17451 Medal 1988 ‘Eve of Ice Age Walk & Run’ made for first annual Ice Age Days fest in Rib Lake

17451A back, Medford is misspelled

17452 Map 2013 ‘Perkinstown Ski & Snowshoe Trails Taylor Co., WI’

17453 Map 2013 ‘Perkinstown ATV Trails’

17454 P. 9-7-2013 P. Former company house built c. 1895 by J.J. Kennedy for mill employees at 1135 Church Street, view south to Rib Lake (photo negative is F8)

17455 P. c. 1920 ‘Bank Corner, Rib Lake, Wis.’ Mercantile buildings on east side of McComb Ave;

1. First National Bank, 2-story brick building on Lot 1, Block B, MRPA, on NE corner of Landall & McComb Ave.

2. ‘A. Marschke’ on awning of Marschke tavery; Lot 2, Block B, MRPA. In 2013 site is Little Bohemia Bar & Bowling, 806 McComb Ave.

3. Unidentified 2-story frame building on Lot 3, Block B, MRPA

4. Scharer Tavern building on Lot 4, Block B, MRPA. In 2013 Russ’ Coins, 815 McComb Ave. NB-radio antenna pole on roof held wire antenna to building to the north

5. Johnson Hardware building; in 2013 Genesis Youth Center, 818 McComb Ave.

6. Swanson Tavern & office building. In 2013 part of Genesis Youth Center, 818 McComb Ave.

7. Janda’s Store, in 2013 vacant lot

8. Tabor Tavern; in 2013 Drink Slingers Tavern, 832 McComb Ave.

9. Rib Lake Hotel, Lot 12, Block B, MRPA; in 2013 Barry Anderson’s Auto Body Shop

17455A Envelope postdated 10-8-2013 from Czech Republic conveyed photo 17455 from ebay seller D. Trueschel

17455B After photo, 10-3-2013 Left, Little Bohemia replaces A. Marschke Tavern

17455C ibid 10-3-2013 left to right, Genesis Youth Center, 818 McComb Ave.; Russ’ Coins shop built in 2012; Little Bohemia Bar & Bowling built 1947; Former First National Bank

17456 10-10-2013 obituary Gregory Hanke, 1858-2013 in Star News

From ‘Katie’ Katherine Strobach collection

17457 Leaflet ‘Winter Fun for the Whole Family’ Camp Forest Springs, N8890 Forest Ln., Westboro

17457A ibid, back ‘Community Days 2012’

From RPR collection

17458 6-30-2013 ‘Making Memories at Mondeaux’ Star News, Steve Kalmon, dba Mondeaux concessioner – top

17458A ibid bottom

From ‘Katie’ Katherine Strobach collection

17459 c. 1940 booklet, ‘photographs’ ‘Souvenir of Rib Lake, Wis.’ A blank album with 20 pages for photographs

17459A homemade envelope ‘to Grandpa From Katie’

17460 Brochure ‘Rib Lake Redmen Sports 2013-2014 cross county, track, volleyball, football

17460A ibid, back, basketball, boys baseball, girls softball

17461 P. 10-3-2013 cross county meet at Erbach Park, Athens, Wis., including ‘The Hawks,’ a joint Rib Lake-Prentice school team

17461A ibid, summer trail map

17461B ibid, Marathon High School runner leaping creek

17461C ibid, left Katherine ‘Katie’ Strobach, bib 260, sprints to finish

17461D ibid, L-Mrs. Laura Hoffert, RLHS coach & friend; R-Katie Strobach. These teammates glow in the euphoria of a race well run!

17461E ibid Katie meets mother, Kristin Strobach, nee Rusch, as hidden sister’s hand touches back

17461F ibid, L-R Bekah, Katie & Kristin Strobach after race

RPR collection

17462 P. 9-29-2013 Lorrraine Anne Killion, nee Dongoske, born 4-8-1920, faithfully & effectively serves as proofreader for The Rib Lake Historical Society since its inception in 2009

17462A ibid, Lorraine Killion, red pencil in hand, proofreads updated Annotated Chronology of Rib Lake herald at her home, N8645 CTH C, Rib Lake

17462B 2013 Christmas letter authored and signed by Lorraine A. Killion

17462C L. 9-22-2013 RPR to Stephen Kalmon re Lorraine A. Killion, proofreader

17463 P. 10-8-2013 Little & Big Mud Lake, SE SE 16-33-3E, on Bernard ‘Ben’ & Pearl Kauer estate

17464 P. 10-8-2013 L-R Albert ‘Alb’ Meier & Brother Marvin Meier

17464A ibid

17465 10-8-2013 sign ‘Shay Locomotive railroad grade – Rib Lake Lumber Co – 1910’ ‘Ice Age Trail – Wood Lake Segment’ NW NE 24-33-3E, Taylor County Forest

17465A ibid, view west, L-R Marv Meier & brother, Albert, straddle Ice Age Trail as is descends steep hill on right-of-way of RLLC railroad

17466 P. 10-8-2013 Marley, Ann & Bob Rusch’s yellow lab, checks old outhouse at former cabin for fire tower warden, NE NE 24-33-3E. The ‘wilderness’ fire tower stood ¼ mile east in Lincoln County, NW NW 19-33-4E on a hill 1711 feet above sea level until c. 1950 when it was moved to Town of Browning, Taylor County, NW NE 1-31-2E, where it stands in 2013

17467 P. 10-8-2013 old concrete corner abutment for wilderness fire tower at NE NE 19-33-4E

17467A P. 10-8-2013 US Coast & Geologic Survey reference point marker set 1952 at site then wilderness fire tower, NE NE 19-33-4E, Town of Corning, Lincoln County, Wis.

17468 Map c. 1986 Proposed Ice Age Trail shown by red line through Town of Corning, Lincoln Co., drawn by Gary Werner, over US Quad Maps, legend & SW ¼ of Map;

17468A ibid SE quarter of map, New Wood state hunting grounds, RLLC Camp 27 site, 27-33-4E

17468B ibid NE quarter of map, RLLC Camp 25, site, NE NE 23-33-4E

17468C ibid NW quarter of map, Mud Lake, see 17463, Wood Lake, Wilderness fire tower site, see 17467; old RLLC Shay Locomotive grade shown in green, NE NE 24-33-3E

17469 P. 10-8-2013 sign on truck ‘Wisco Stone’ ‘Beauty through imperfection’

17470 2013 Steve Mann business card, President of Wisco Stone

17471 P. 10-8-2013 Wisco Stone Co. factory & office, in orirignal RLLC repair shop, SE corner of McComb & STH 102, Village of Rib Lake

17472 P. 10-8-2013 interior & office, Wisco Stone Co.

17473 P. 10-8-2013 cut stone ready for market, Wisco Stone Co.

17474 P. 10-8-2013 pallets of stone, Wisco Stone Co.

17475 P. 10-8-2013 field stone cut into inch thick pieces, Wisco Stone Co.

17476 Rib Lake School District Annual Newsletter, fall 2013, p. 1

17476A ibid p. 2 budget

17476B ibid p. 3 message from Angela Woyak & Rick Cardey

17476C ibid p. 4 Hall of Fame inductees; Dr. Kate Alden, nee Schreiner, Joseph ‘Pep’ Simek; Ronald Simek

17477 P. 9-20-2013 L-R Edward ‘Ed’ Scheller, Karen R. Baumgartner, nee Batzer & Marv Meier at N5262 Town of Corning, site of cabin built on site of RLLC Camp 28

17478 P. 9-20-2013 Remnant of gable roof of RLLC Camp 28 bunk house, last RLLC Camp, closed in 1948

17479 P. 9-20-2013 Ed Scheller at RLLC Camp 28 bunk house ruins, SW NE 32-33-4E, Town of Corning, Lincoln Co., Wis.

17479A James Kaysen Wood Lake quad map portion showing site of RLLC Camp 28 & tracks of RLLC logging railroad

17479B P. 9-20-2013 modern cabin built on top of portio of site of RLLC Camp 28

17480 1994 Plat map T33N-R4E, Town of Corning, Lincoln Co., Wis; sites of RLLC Camps 24, Camp 25, Camp 26, Camp 27 & Camp 28 & Bill Natzke jobber Camps 4 & 5 shown

17481 Map 1-6-1970 by Michael Bailey, ‘Tower Road Project Area’ Part T32 & 33N, R4E, showing former RLLC right-of-way & tower under construction

17481A ibid, annotations by R.P. Rusch, e.g. site of RLLC Camp 28 shown in red

17482 Map 9-20-2013 Scheller expedition notes by R.P. Rusch over RLLC Railroad operations map

17482A L. Edward Scheller to Karen Baumgartner 1-2013

17482B ibid p. 2

17483 P. 9-20-2013 Karen Baumgartner & Marv Meier at junction of Tower Ave. & Private drive to RLLC Camp 24

17484 Map 1979 ‘Spirit, Wis.’ Quad; SW part of Lincoln Co. building shown in NW NE 5-33-4E is probably remodeled original building of RLLC Camp 24

17485 P. 9-20-2013 clearing & flag; part of RLLC Camp 24 site

17486 Map 10-21-2013 sites of RLLC Camp 24 & Camp 26

17486A ibid, enlarged RLLC Camp 24

17487 P. 9-20-2013 remodeled probable original RLLC Camp 24 building

17487A ibid, Marv Meier at SW Corner

17488 Map 1978 part ‘Natzke Camp, Wis.’ Quad showing RLLC Camp 25 & old RLLC railroad grades

17489 P. 9-20-2013 junction of RLLC railroad grades; left to Camp 25; right to Camp 27, view NE, SE SE 21-33-4E

17490 P. 9-20-2013 Ed Scheller points up former RLLC railroad grade to Camp 21 site, NW NW 23-33-4E, Town of Corning, Lincoln Co., Wis.

17491 P. 9-20-2013 RLLC Camp 25, original building – south side; Karen Baumgartner & Marv Meier stand in part of gravel pit excavated since RLLC abandoned site

17491A ibid, SE building corner

17491B ibid, close-up

17492 P. 9-20-2013 RLLC Camp 21, NW corner of original building

17492A ibid, interior; photographed through missing window pane

From Ronald ‘Ron’ Lewis Becker, b. 4-27-1955

17493 P. 1-1974 Terry Patrick snowshoes to old Camp 25 shack carrying cooking & cleaning water from Shea (Shay) Creek

17494 Map 10-19-2013 RLLC Camp 25 by Ron Becker & R.P. Rusch

17495 P. c. 1974 annual Christmas-New year snowmobile outing to Camp 25; Ron & Marty Becker, Kevin & Terry Patrick, Kevin, Charlie & Donnie Radtke, Gary Nelson & Bill Niggemann, Jr., would spend a week roughing it in original camp building. Photo shows gravel pit hill then just east of Camp 24 buildings

17496 P. 1-1974 RLLC Camp 24 building interior; water pails upside down atop firewood. R-L Kevin Radtke aka ‘Rubber Head’, person in red flannel is Gary Nelson ‘Kong’

17497 P. c. 1974 RLLC Camp 24 building – west side

17497A ibid, ladder to roof

17498 P. 1-1974 Edward ‘Ed’ Hebda, semi-nude, splitting firewood at Camp 24 at -10 degrees Fahrenheit

17499 P. 1-1974 snowmobile atop old RLLC logging railroad bridge remnant, Town of Corning, Lincoln County, Wis; L-R Bill Niggemann, Jr., Mike Eisner, Ron Becker. Photo probably of New Wood River Bridge, ¼ mile north of Camp 25, SE SE 15-33-4E (see map 17488)

17500 P. 9-20-2013 Old RLLC railroad grade used in 2013 as access to Camp 25; ¾ mile SW of camp

17501 P. 9-20-2013 Hemlock-hardwood regrowth from RLLC c. 1935 logging ¾ mile SW of Camp 25

17502 L. 3-25-1917 Jana Peterson, daughter of Ole A. Peterson, to her mother, Jennie, on stationery ‘Ole A. Peterson – Dealer in Timber & Cut-over Lands, ties, posts, poles & summer resort lots.’ Jana says ‘…Ole is still running two camps…’

17502A ibid, p. 2 Swedish language postscript translated ‘write soon’ & ‘live as well’

17503 Map 10-22-2013 Ole A. Peterson jobber Camp site (1916-1917) shown on Kaysen Wood Lake quad map by R.P. Rusch

17504 Map 1979 Wood Lake quad, SE quarter

17505 P. 9-20-2013 Karen Baumgartner inspects site of her grandfather, Ole A. Peterson, 1916-1917 jobber camp, SW SW 17-32-4E, Town of Corning, Lincoln County, Wis. Ole served as a ‘jobber’ cutting timber owned by RLLC & sent to its Rib Lake sawmill on RLLC railroad track

17506 P. 9-20-2013 earth ridges in foreground from 90 degree angle – marking corner of 1916-1917 Ole A. Peterson camp building

17507 P. 9-20-2013 Ed Scheller & Karen Baumgartner hold wash basin fragment just found on site, SW SW 17-32-4E. Other camp artifacts, e.g. metal stove pipes, also found

17507A scan of wash basin recovered from 1916-1917 Ole A. Peterson camp

From Karen Baumgartner, nee Batzker, collection

17508 “Ole Peterson and the Rebirth of Phillips’ Lumber Industry,” Phillips & Northeastern Railroad, by John Berg 2017

17508A ibid p. 2 P. Ole Peterson

17508B ibid p. 3

17508C ibid p. 4

RPR collection

17509 P. aerial spring of 2011, NE SE 11-33-3E, site of RLLC Camp 5

17510 Map 10-23-2013 RLLC Camp 5 approximate location shown on 1947 Rib Lake quad map by R.P. Rusch

17510A ibid

17511 L. 10-18-2013 Dept. of Corrections to Judge Gary Carlson re inmate George Webb

17511A Judgement of Conviction of George E. Webb, 2011 CF 10 Count 2

17511B ibid, count 2

17512 P. 4-1994 Dairyland Marathon & Volksmarsch Committee meeting at Wepfer (aka Dairyland) Realty Office, Medford; R-L, Ron Kenyon, Marsha Nice, Ellen Wepfer, Brian ??, State Bank of Medford Employee, Fred Decker, Jim Flood, Kathy Weix, Ann K. Dillon (lka Rusch), Robert ‘Bob’ Rusch. Flood & Ann Rusch were co-rail directors. Missing from photo was Myron ‘Mike’ Weber

17513 P. 4-1994 15 seconds before marathon start; Morner Road, Price County, left-Fred Decker, Wis. National Guard, readies shot gun

17514 P. 4-1994 3 hours, 6 minutes & 17 seconds after starting a 26.2 mile run, Jeff Crembough finishes first at Allman Street, Medford.

17515 W. Dairyland, nka Pine Line, marathon, founded in 4-1990 by Mike Wepfer, Ann Dillon & Bob Rusch

17516 Bib #250, Dairyland Marathon, 4-1992

17517 W. 4-25-1992 ‘Event News’ by R.P. Rusch ‘Second annual Dairyland Marathon & Volksmarsch.’ NB ‘The last glacial period ended 12034 years ago’

17517A ibid p. 2

17517B ibid p. 3 ‘our primary purpose is to encourage healthy lifestyles and promote the area (non-motorized) trail systems…including the Ice Age National Scenic Trail and the Timms Hill National Trail

17518 Map 4-1993 Dairyland Marathon on the Pine Line

17519 W. ‘Pine Line Pine Cone’ 4-1993 by R.P. Rusch

17519A Marathon award, hade from local railroad track 1999

17520 Ad 4-1993 ‘Third Annual Dairyland Marathon & Volksmarsch’ top

17520A ibid, bottom

17520B ‘Pine Line Marathon one of spring’s first signs,’ 2013 Taylor County fall-winter visitor’s guide

17521 c. 1910 hemlock O G wood siding made by RLLC from ubiquitous Canadensis thsuga in virgin forest around Rib Lake, WI, front

17521A ibid, side, NB tongue & groove shape allowed water-tight application. Annual growth rings show 1/16’ average growth in width of trunk – typical slow-growth of species & site conditions

17521B ibid, back side, NB lumber was not planed, this was a cost-saving feature consistent with cheap sale of product

17522 2013 family calendar by Robin Riggs, nee Rusch. Wisconsin Dells restaurant supper; L-R ?? Riggs, Robin Riggs, Bekah Strobach, Rodney Strobach, Kristin Karen Bethany Leona Martha Strobach, nee Rusch; Ryan Strobach, ?? Riggs, R.P. Rusch (blue shirt), Scott Riggs, Kirsten Riggs, Katie Strobach (with glasses), Ann K. Rusch, nee Killion, Trinity Riggs

17522A ibid p. 2 ringing in the New Year, joyous January bond fire

17522B ibid, January 2013

17522C ibid Happy Valentines

17522D ibid February 2013

17522E ibid animal rescue farm

17522F ibid March 2013

17522G ibid RPR 200th Ultra Marathon

17522H ibid April 2013

17522I ibid Weinie roast-Waldheim

17522J ibid May 2013

17522K ibid RPR birthday – #71

17522L ibid June 2013

17522M ibid Wisconsin Dells

17522N ibid July 2013

17522O ibid RPR & daughter

17522P ibid August 2013

17522Q ibid Waldheim picnic grounds, SE NE 13-33-2E, N8643 CTH C, Rib Lake

17522R ibid September 2013

17522S ibid Annual Rusch wood bee ‘Norman Rockwell experience’ by Robin Riggs

17522T ibid October 2013

17522U Top photo L-R Thomas M. Rusch, Franz-Josef Gebauer, RPR & Jan-Peer Gebauer; lower left-Kirsten Riggs, Ann K. Rusch; center-RPR & twin Riggs boys; right-Katie holds cousin

17522V ibid November 2013

17522W ibid We love snow photos

17522X December 2013, Robin Riggs made this great calendar

17523 Map 4-26-1981 RLLC Camp 11 and R.P. Rusch notes from Albert ‘Happy’ Marschke hike

17524 Map RLLC Camp 11 site shown on 1947 Rib Lake quad, black & white copy

17525 P. 4-26-1981 Albert ‘Happy’ Marschke farm; left-Little Spirit Lake; SE NE 5-33-3E, view north

17526 P. 4-26-1981 L-R Robert Marschke & father, Albert ‘Happy’ Marschke on old RLLC railroad grade west of RLLC Camp 11

17527 P. 4-26-1981 Albert ‘Happy’ Marschke on 10 foot high hill on RLLC railroad grade, see map 17523

17528 P. 4-26-1981 Robert & Albert Marschke point to old skidway logs in swamp on south side of old RLLC railroad grade

17529 P. 4-26-1981 Robert & Albert Marschke on old RLLC grade west of RLLC Camp 11

17530 P. 4-26-1981 Albert ‘Happy’ Marschke in Taylor County forest

17530A ibid, next to old white pine stump

17531 P. 4-26-1981 L-R Albert ‘Happy’ Marschke & R.P. Rusch with debris at RLLC Camp 11 site, SW SW SW 3-33-3E, it may be ‘modern’ junk left from Cliff Larson’s cabin built after Camp 11 abandonment

17532 Map 4-26-1981 RLLC Camp 11 site & Cliff Larson’s cabin by R.P. Rusch

17533 P. 4-26-1981 Albert ‘Happy’ Marschke with 3 railroad bents remains on old Wisconsin Central –Soo Line-railroad grade north of RLLC Camp 11

17534 P. 4-26-1981 Robert Marschke notes porcupine bung at base of yellow birch where porcupine spent his winter

17535 Legal descriptions RLLC Camp 1-28, 1906-1948 by R.P. Rusch & Michael Weckwerth 10-25-2013, Camps 1-14

17535A ibid, p. 2 Camps 15-28

17536 Descendants of Siegfried Meier 1832-1914 & Eva Falikowski, by Marvin Meier, et al 10-25-2013

17537 Descendents of Albert C. Meier, 1860-1919 & Emma Hulda Marheine 1869-1954

17538 Sign 2012 ‘Stewardship-funded in part by the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship program’ state of Wisconsin recreational land acquisition funds. This program has made possible the purchase of land or easements in the Town of Rib Lake for the Ice Age Trail

17539 W. 1-1996 ‘On the Trail of the Ice Age; A hiker’s & biker’s guide to Wisconsin’s Ice Age National Scenic Reserve & trail.’ By Henry S. Reuss, Gilbert Tanner, Philip Dinsmoor & Robert Hellman – cover

17539A title page

17539B Map 1-1979 Wisconsin Glaciation & reserve units

17539C photo of Ray Zillmer

17539D P. 60 Rib Lake segment

17539E p. 61 ibid, east lake segment

17539F p. 62 ibid

17539G p. 63 ibid, Mondeaux

17539H p. 64 ibid, Chequamegon National Forest

17539I p. 65 ibid, Jerry Lake

17539J back cover

Karen Baumgartner collection

17540 L. 9-27-2013 Karen Baumgartner to R.P. Rusch

17541 4-24-1952 ‘Mill owner predicts bright future for lumber industry,’ the Bee, Phillips, WI

17541A ibid, a typed transcript p. 1

17541B ibid, p. 2

17541C ibid, p. 3

17541D ibid, p. 4

17542 P. 9-20-2013 R.P. Rusch inspects wash bowl found at Ole A. Peterson’s camp site, Town of Corning, Lincoln County, WI

17542A Map 11-16-2013 Location of Ole A. Peterson 1917 camp shown on 1947 Rib Lake quad

17543 Lincoln County Trail Map c. 2012 – cover

17543A ibid legend

17543B ibid Town of Corning

17543C ibid Town of Tomahawk

17543D ibid Ice Age Trail – west

17543E ibid Ice Age Trail – east

17543F History of Ice Age Trail

17543G History of Hiawatha Trail

17544 Map Autumn 2013 [Wisconsin] statewide programs & locations

17545 Map 11-10-2013 RLLC Camp 2 – possible location; clearing shown on 1947 Rib Lake Quad Map at NW SE 3-32-3E

17546 P. c. 1902 ‘High School, Rib Lake, Wis.’ taken shortly after construction in 1902

17546A ibid, back, postcard postmarked 9-27-1911; Mrs. Clark to Mrs. M. Christensen

17547 2016 Timms Hill Trudge t-shirt

17548 White birch bark fragment – exterior

17548A ibid – interior

17549 W. c. 1907 ‘Taylor County, Wis., und seine aussichten..’ [T&C & its prospects], Taylor Co. Immigration Association, Medford, WI, offices & directors, Franz Markus, Charles Thorp, W.G. Withers, Hermann Leicht, H.M. Koehler, Kortmeyer Printing, Milwaukee, WI; a 26 page booklet in German, well-illustrated, designed to recruit Europeans to settle in Taylor County.

17549A ibid, final page ‘neve ansiedler sind in Taylor County wilkommen.’ [new settlers are welcome in Taylor County]

17549B ibid, p. 1

17549C ibid cover

17550 Map c. 1902, Wisconsin Railroads, Counties & Towns

17550A ibid, Taylor County enlarged, Broederville, nka Jump River. ‘Hemlock’ on Black River in Clark Co.

17551 ‘Memories of Jacob S. Summy’ compiled by Mary Summy in 1977, title page

17551A ibid p. 189 Rib Lake sawmill

17551B ibid p. 190-191 Hemlock slabs for pulpwood

17551C ibid p. 192-193 Bogumill store

17551D ibid p. 194-195 My Shaack loosing job at RLLC

17551E ibid p. 196-197

17551F ibid p. 198-199 piling lumber at RLLC

17551G ibid p. 200-201 Elmer Tim

17551H ibid p. 202

17551I ibid p. 204-205 Lake Superior Power & Light

17551J ibid p. 206-207 Art Roeber suicide

17551K ibid p. 208-209 The Depression

17551L ibid p. 210-211 Bob sled with heater

17552 1999 ‘Vascular Plants of Taylor County, Wisconsin,’ by Douglas M. Fields, cover

17552A ibid list of figures

17552B ibid list of figures p. 2

17553 Map 12-1-1910 Squaw Creek Lumber Co. proposed railroad, maker unknown; original at Taylor County Historical Society

17553A ibid right-of-way highlighted

17554 Map ‘1923-1933’ John S. Owen Lumber Co. logging railroad; Towns of Lawrence & Hawkins, Rusk Co., WI, maker unknown; original at Taylor Co. Historical Society; J.S. Owen Logging line branches off S.M.&P railroad north of Jump River

17555 L. 11-20-2013 John Boehner to RPR, p. 1

17555A ibid p. 2

17555B ibid p. 3

17555C ibid p. 4

17555D ibid envelope

17555E National Republican Congressional Committee, Survey p. 1

17555F ibid p. 2

17555G ibid p. 3

17555H ibid p. 4

17556 L. 11-21-2013 Stacey Labrec to editor, Star News; ‘Remembering a Rib Lake Tragedy 50 years later.’ Death of William ‘Bill’ Niggeman, dba ‘Bill’s Fine Cheese’

17557 c. 1975 soda water bottle label ‘White Soda’ bottled by McNamara Beverage & Bottling Co., Inc., Rib Lake, Wis

17558 W. 2014 ‘Motels, Cabins, Lodges, Restaurants, Bars, Caterers.’ By Medford Area Chamber of Commerce

17558A ibid p. 2

17558B ibid p. 3

17559 2014 ‘The Old Sawmill’ by Don Rhody. A history of historic Johnson’s sawmill along the Spirit River in SE NE 24-34N-3E, Town of Spirit, published in ‘Liberty School News’, November 2013

17559A ibid p. 2

17559B ibid p. 3 ‘last sawing with lead sawyer Dick Kring 1980.’

17559C ibid p. 4

17560 12-2013 Newsletter, Taylor County Geneological Society p. 1

17560A ibid p. 2 12 Taylor County Railroads

17560B ibid p. 3, Sanborn maps

17560C ibid p. 4

17560D ibid p. 5 Membership list

17560E ibid p. 6

17560F ibid p. 7 news clippings

17560G ibid p. 8

17561 1895 ‘Taylor County-A concise historical-topographical description’ [written in German] ‘Taylor County-Kurzgesaszte, historisch, topografishe schilderungen’ By Taylor County Advancement Association, Jacob Schiro, Pres.; John Gamper, Secretary; Fred Norten, Treasurer; Waldbote Druckerei [Herald in the Woods printing Co.] Medford, Wis, title page

17561A ibid p. 1 ads; Joseph Hammel, J.M. Maier, O.D. Pollard, Dumke Bros; Taylor Co., Lage location, organization bevoelkerung, population

17561B ibid p. 2-3 oberflaeche [overview]; bopen [soils]; wasserablauf [water courses]; klima [climate]; bauholz [forestry]

17561C ibid p. 4-5 Straszen [streets]; fabrication [factories]; holzfaellen [lumbering]; landwirtschaft [farming]; landerein [land types]; schulen [schools]

17561D ibid p. 6-7 farm reports-productivity-testimonials; A.O. Russell, M.L. Jackson, Fred M. Norton

17561E ibid ads; Jocob Shapiro, Tailor; ad; Henry Mauer, baker

17561F ads; Ramsey Land Co; Paul Scholz; W.P. Price; Vesper & Hoppe; W.O. Smith

17561G ads; Wesle Bros; Otto Griesser; Wm. Kurz; Meinecke Toy Co; Albert J. Perkins; State Bank of Medford, Directors J.J. Kennedy, E.H. Winchester, Albert J. Perkins, C.L. Alverson, J. Hamel, Otto Martens, C.S. Suits

17561H Ads; Carson, Prairie, Scott & Co; Merricks; Morrawetz & Co.

17561I Ads; Wisconsin Central Railroad; Grosste Ernten in Wisconsin [the largest harvests in Wisconsin] ‘What mankind has done-other men can do again.’

17561I-A English translation

17561J Ads; Shaw Tannery [‘daily 1300 hides tanned’ ‘Cutover land sold cheap’], T.M. Miller, C.A. Andresen, Clara Andresen

17561J-A Translation of 17561J

17561K Ads; Val. Blatz Brewing Co.; Hy Tappe, Theo Ziegler; R. Kiessling; John Bix; F. Bach; Julius Mauer; Nic Bauer; H. Muenzner; John Deutes

17561L Ads; David Adler; W.P. Maxwell; Various Milwaukee companies

17561M Ads; George Elvis; Fred Hartwig; John Carstens; T.Fredricks; Der Waldbote; Star News; Elias Urquhart; John Shimonek

17562 11-21-2013 ‘A happier day; JFK visited county during 1960 election’ Star News

17563 P. 6-2011 Soo line train along Mississippi River

17564 Obit, 10-27-2013 Ruth Ann Marschke

17564A ibid p. 2

17565 7-14-2013 ‘Die Schoenwalder treffen sich nicht mehr. Vortriebene zeihen einen schlusstrich on their meetings.’ [The Schoenwalders will meet no more. Expelees pull the final curtain on their meetings.] Guetsloh, Germany, newspaper

17566 1979 ‘Direcotry of members’ Forest History of Wisconsin title page

17566A ibid p. 2 officers

17566B ibid p. 3 member names

17566C ibid p. 4

17566D ibid p. 5

17566E ibid p. 6

17566F ibid p. 7

17566G ibid p. 8

17566H ibid p. 9

17566I ibid p. 10

17566J ibid p. 11

17566K ibid p. 12

17566L ibid p. 13

17567 L. 1976 Frank N. Fixmer to RPR re Forest History Association

17567A Forest History Assoc. membership card 1979 to RPR

17567B P. c. 1900 tannery interior-slub tables

17568 1956 ‘The wildlife resource of Wisconsin’ Wis. Conservation Dept. title page

17568A ibid p. 2 game pyramid

17568B ibid p. 3 fish

17568C ibid p. 4 wildlife numbers

17568D ibid p. 5

17568E ibid p. 6

17568F ibid p. 7

17568G ibid p. 8

17568H ibid p. 9 fishery

17568I ibid p. 10

17568J ibid p. 11

17568K ibid p. 12

17568L ibid p. 13 Man’s impact on environment

17568M ibid p. 14

17568N ibid p. 15

17568O ibid p. 16 map 9-1-1956 Wildlife management

17569 1-14-1970 letter, Town of Greenwood to RPR

17569A Tax notice SE NE 13-32-2E $26.75

17569B 1969 real estate tax info on 40 acres without buildings

17570 1-15-1970 envelope, Town of Rib Lake to RPR

17570A tax notice SW NW 11-33-2E, $17.85 forested 40

17570B tax notice NW SE 12-33-2E, $14.28 & NE SE 12-33-2E, $18.74, forest & some farm field

17570C tax info on both parcels, signed by Florian Turba, town treasurer

17571 c. 1970 Peter Peterson, dba Pete’s Service credit card receipt to RPR for $2.25

17572 11-3-1970 Sears Roebuck receipt to RPR for $16.44

17573 1969 ‘My automobile record book’ -cover

17573A ibid p. 1 6-1969 gasoline bought for a Volkswagon ‘Beetle’ 55 horsepower owned by RPR

17573B ibid p. 2 5-1970 costs for ‘trip north’ i.e. to Rib Lake

17574 12-4-2013 ‘Lincoln house last of Merrill’s old hotel buildings,’ Foto News

17574A ibid photo of interior-lobby

17574B ibid photo of lounge

17574C ibid

17575 W. 12-2014 elected officials-addresses

17576 W. 12-2014 Dawn R. Swenson, Rib Lake Village Clerk business card

17577 Map 1929 ‘railroad Map of Wisconsin’ WI Railroad Commission

17578 10-28-2013 ‘Annual Report’ Rib Lake School District

17578A ibid p. 2

17578B ibid p. 3

17578C ibid p. 4

17578D ibid p. 5

17578E ibid p. 6

17578F ibid p. 7

17578G ibid p. 8

17578H ibid p. 9

17578I ibid p. 10

17578J ibid p. 11

17578K ibid p. 12

17578L ibid p. 13

17578M ibid p. 14

17578N ibid p. 15

17578O ibid p. 16

17578P ibid p. 17

17578Q ibid p. 18

17578R ibid p. 19

17579 P. Wisconsin Barn 12-2014 ‘Our Wisconsin’ cover

Collection of Hurd Windows & Doors – Scott Albers, VP Operation’ Administration & April Lucas, Directory of Marketing

17580 12-2014 business card, Hurd Windows & Doors

17581 12-17-1919 ‘Tannery sold for box factory’ Star News, beginning of Hurd Co. in Medford

17582 Map, Medford Tannery buildings –composite from 1913 Standard Atlas of Taylor County

17582A ibid enlargement

17583 P. c. 1950 aerial of Hurd Millwork Co., view to SE; right-Medford Curling Club

17584 W. Winter 1993-1994 ‘Have-U-Hurd Wood Windows’ 75th anniversary

17584A ibid ‘75 Incredible Years Cause for Celebration’

17584B ibid ‘A message from Ken Hallgren-President & General Manager’

Note #17585-17594 were scanned into TIFF format as Arcadia #3 (they were negatives) they are also located in folder on desktop of Computer #5 as TIFF files

17585 P. aerial Hurd Co. & Medford centrum, view north c. 1960

17586 P. c. 1925 Hurd office interior-4 workers

17587 P. c. 1925 Hurd employee moving wood stock with dolley

17588 P. c. 1925 three Hurd employees-note band saw hung from ceiling

17589 P. c. 1930 foreground-Arthur Salzwedel-later mayor of Medford, at work in Hurd plant

17590 P. c. 1930 five employees in Hurd plant

17591 P. c. 1925 wood worker, Hurd Co., he is cutting boards to length; cuttings fall on floor

17592 P. c. 1930 two employees in Hurd boiler room

17593 P. c. 1930 two employees in Hurd plant; foreground-pile of partially assembled product

17594 P. c. 1930 two employees at loading dock of Hurd plant

17595 W. 1924 ‘German boy torn to pieces at Hurd plant’ Star News, Otto Obschernois, millwright, fatally caught in belt

17596 P. 5-1-1949 Hurd Millwork Corp. burns to ground putting 265 men out of work, plant later rebuilt

17597 5-12-1960 ‘Medford Industrial leader Harry Hurd to be cited’ Star News

17598 4-30-1960 George F. Meyer invitation to Harry Hurd gala

17598A speech text of George F. Meyer

17598B ibid p. 2

17598C ibid p. 3

17598D ibid p. 4

17599 5-12-1960 Harry Hurd gala guest list

17599A ibid p. 2

17600 5-1970 ‘Harry Hurd, 90, retired Medford industrialist, dies at Merrill.’ Star News

17601 W. c. 1995 one-page history of Hurd Millwork, author unknown

17602 2014 ‘Taylor Co. History Project-Hurd Windows & Doors, Inc.’ by Scott Alberts, introduction & timeline

17602A ibid p. 2 1949-2006

17602B ibid p. 3 elaboration on timeline data 1908-1986

17602C ibid p. 4 1987-2006, employment rates

17602D ibid p. 5 WWII, local, state & national recognition

17602E ibid p. 6

17603 P. 11-2-1921 Medford Co-op Creamery at Medford dedication

End of Hurd Millwork collection

From collection of the Star News, Medford, Wis, Carol O’Leary, owner/publisher, Brian Wilson, news editor

17604 P. c. 1925 William H. Conrad, Publisher, the Star News used ad on his car when going to auctions, etc.

17605 P. c. 1940 William H. Conrad, publisher, the Star News

17606 P. c. 1925 lady in car sporting Star News ad ‘want ads-sale ads’

17607 P. c. 1925 Clerk at Star News office with Underwood typewriter

17608 P. c. 1920 two men holding 14-foot cornstalk in front of Star News office, ‘Taylor County’s leading newspaper’ Left-William L. Conrad, publisher; Right-corn grower

17609 P. c. 1930 Frank Hunt, printer, in front of Star News office window ‘The paper with the want ads.’

17610 P. c. 1930 Frank Hunt proudly holds want ad page wearing ink-stained clothes from pressroom; ten additional Star News employees pose

17611 P. c. 1960 Hubert Pelham, Pressman-at Star News

17612 P. c. 1960 Linotype operator at machine-Star News press room

17613 P. c. 1960 Hubert Pelham, pressman at work, the Star News

17614 P. 2-6-1975 Bob Anderson, editor, & Bert Amacher, senior publisher, the Star News

17615 P. 12-19-1968 Christmas wreath at Star News snow-clad building

17616 P. c. 2000 Brian Wilson, hired as sports editor, later news editor, the Star News

17617 P. 5-29-1980 Eugene R. Clifford, ‘Gino’, former publisher of the Rib Lake Herald accepts award at Wisconsin Press Association Convention

17618 Map, Wisconsin c. 1-2-1890, lumbering sites published in Robert F. Fries ‘Empire in pine; the Story of Lumber in Wisconsin 1830-1900,’ Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison, WI 1951

17618A Title page ibid

17619 P. c. 1940 Rib Mountain tower over 600’ over countryside; ‘Wausau’s Aquatic Race Course, Lake Wausau…’ In the 1970’s Timms Hill’s newly-found elevation of 1951.5 ft. above sea level & nearby Pearson Hill at 1950 feet demoted Rib Mountain, at 1942 feet, to be 3rd place among Wisconsin’s Highest natural points.

17620 W. 2-7-1918 Medford Lumber Co. ‘Log scale slip’ for hemlock logs bought from Charlie Stimm. Stamped ‘paid’ 2-16-1918; NB-company’s form had column for hemlock in 10, 12, 14, 18 & 20 foot lengths; pine No. 1 & No. 2 & basswood, birch, maple, oak, elm & ash

17621 P. 1992 Kristin K. Rusch, nka Mrs. Rodney Strobach, wearing Rib Lake High School basketball uniform

17622 P. c. 1910 ‘Residence in Second Ward, Medford, Wis.’ palatial house in ‘aristocracy hill,’ at South Second Street & Perkins Ave.; huge garden & greenhouse next to 3-story residence. Round tower held water to assure pressure for upstairs bathroom. In 2013 building still stands as the second house south of Perkins Ave. on the west side of So. Second Street.

17623 P. c. 1910 ‘Front [Main] Street looking north, Medford, Wis.’ Right-’Ed Thiedemann, Dentist’

17624 P. c. 1910 East side of Main Street at junction of State Street, Medford, WI; left-J.W. Benn building; center-City Hotel

17625 P. c. 1950 junction of State & Main Streets, Medford, WI; left-State Bank of Medford in NW corner of intersection; view north…Christmas decorations

17626 P. c. 1930 ‘Fayette Hotel, Medford, Wis.’ on SW corner of Whelen & State Streets

17627 P. 1914 Second Taylor County Courthouse under construction; left-first courthouse; right-sheriff’s residence & jail

17628 P. c. 1940 ‘City Hall, Medford, Wis.’ on NW corner of Whelen & State Street

17629 P. c. 1930 ‘The Medford Clinic, Medford, Wis’ building on west side of junction of State Street & Wisconsin Ave., view west

17630 P. c. 1950 ‘Forest Rangers Station, Medford, Wis.’ on west side of former mill pond. Residence for head of Medford unit, Chequamegon National Forest. Rear-towern of St. Pauls Lutheran Church, 321 N. Park Ave.

17630A P. 3-28-2013 Ritchie Lake, Section 1-33N-R2E, Town of Rib Lake. Named for early pine logger James Ritchie, in 1874 co-owner of Westboro sawmill with John Duncan and William S. Taylor. Hemlock boughts in foreground. In 1948 US quad map erroneously idenfified lake at ‘Reich’ P-#264 Arcadia

17631 P. 3-28-2013 branch of eastern hemlock; NB-dainty needles

17632 P. c. 1945 ‘Bathing Beach, Harper Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. 8’ A white-painted diving platform on South Harper Lake; woman in wooden rowboat

17632A ibid; back postcard 7-20-1947, Sid Lodscall to Ray Catanyaro

17633 W. ‘Stray Bands & Dream Dancers; Indian farm & Potawatomie settlement in Central Wisconsin during the late 19th and early 20th Century,’ Edgar S. oerichbauer, editor, Burnett Co. Historical Society c. 1980 title page

17633A ibid p. 1, Indian farms, Taylor County

17633B ibid p. 2, Taylor County Star & News 8-8-1896

17633C ibid p. 3 Paul Whitefish, et al

17633D ibid p. 4 Map c. 1888 plat of Town 33-R2W, Town of Westboro, Taylor County, showing Indian farms in Sec. 1 by Edgar S. Oerichbauer

17633E ibid p. 5 game arrest 3-17-1905; Roy Spieles, informant

17633F ibid p. 6 small pox epidemic

17633G ibid p. 7 farms abandoned c. 1908

17633H ibid p. 8 Kansas Reservation; dream or drum dance

17633I ibid p. 9 interpretation

17634 3-14-1887 stock certificate ‘The Medford Union Mining Company’ to Frank Browdosky, 50 shares, signed A. [Albert] J. Perkins, Presidence & E.H. Winchester, Secretary

17634A Information re Medford Union Mining Co. Articles of Incorporation signed by John J. Kennedy, et al. ‘Copper Mining’ by unknown author, undated

17634B information re Bohemia Mining Co., Yellow River Mining Co., Chelsea Iron Co.

17634C Information re Medford Land & Mining Co; John J. Kennedy, et al, incorporators.

17635 Map 12-18-2013 ‘Ice Age National Scenic Trail’ by Tiffany Stram

17636 Map 12-18-2013 ‘Timms Hill National Trail,’ Rusch Preserves & Ice Age National Scenic Trail-Rib Lake Segment-to be constructed in 2014, by Tiffany Stram

17636A ibid color enhanced

17637 1-17-2014 envelope US Dept. of Agriculture to RPR

17637A ibid back logo

17637B ibid ballot for Farm Service Agency, Taylor-Price County

17637C ibid Ballot envelope

17638 9-24-1936 ‘Rebuilding dams gets new start in Taylor County; 18 dams listed by local men for possible WPA projects

17639 10-15-1936 ‘18 Taylor County Dams on WPA [Work Progress Administration] possible list’ Star News

17639A ibid proposals 7-18

17639B Carl Peterson note c. 11-1937 on SW SW 17-33-1E, site of Westboro Lumber Co. dam on Westboro Lumber Co. stationery

17640 L. 12-11-1936 WPA to William H. Conrad re proposed dam on Pine Creek

17641 L. c. 12-1-1936 J.H. Slais to William Conrad re porposed WPA dam at Rib River dells

17642 L. 5-18-1937 B.J. Jehrman to William Conrad re abandonment of CCC Camp on Mondeaux River

17642A ibid p. 2; NB-Moneaux CCC Camp at NE SW 11-33-1W was operational by 8-1933 and about 1.5 miles from Mondeaux dam

17642B ibid p. 3 handwritten reply by Doctor Martin (?) to William Conrad

17643 5-18-1937 Telegram B.J. Jerhman to William Conrad re abandonment of Mondeaux CCC Camp

17644 5-19-1937 Telegraph B.J. Jehrman to William Conrad

17645 5-21-1937 Governor Phillip F. LaFollette to Walter J. Rush re abandonment of Mondeaux CCC Camp

17646 5-27-1937 L. Robert LaFollette, Jr., US Senator, to William Conrad. In 2013 US Forest Service sign at camp location reads; ‘former site of CCC Camp Mondeaux River Company 1603-1933-1942’ see photo 13443

17647 P. ‘Deuschland 2013’

17648 P. 2013 Hohenzollern [a royal family of Germany 1871-1918] Castle in Badenwuerttemberg, Germany

17648A history of Hohenzollern Castle and October, 2013, German calendar

From the collection of John ‘Jack’ & James ‘Jim’ Peterson collection, Medford, Wis

17649 P. 1950 James George Peterson 1887--, patriarch of Peterson companies, RRLC walking box c. 1934

17649A ibid c. 1825 at Peterson jobber camp, Town of Corning, Lincoln County, Wis

17649B ‘Medford Farmer of Middle Class in Governor’s Race’ Milwaukee Journal c. 1940. Peterson lost ot Julius Heil

17650 P. c. 1938 James G. Peterson and wife, Anna, nee Berg, at their Medford are farm home

17651 P. c. 1920 Anna Peterson

17651A ibid with sons, Morgan & George

17652 ‘Re-elect directors at Creamery here…’ Star News 6-16-1938. ‘Medford Cooperative Cramery, World’s largest patron-hauling creamery…’

17653 P. c. 1930 Morgan Peterson at farm with King & Cub (or Duke & Charlie) both Percheron horses, preferred by Petersons for their toughness & work ability

17654 P. c. 1944 James Richard & John M. Peterson in WWII ‘uniforms’

17655 P. c. 1941 Peterson logging camp in U.P.

17655A ibid cookhouse interior

17655B ibid side jammer loading truck

17655C ibid

17655D ibid

17655E ibid ‘cat’ used for skidding

17656 P. 1940 Bear Island Peterson logging camp

17656A P. boat ‘The Fin-Mackkrew’, used to pull logs off Bear Island and load on its deck; yellow birch logs taken to Ashland, then by Soo Line to Mellen for veneer plant.

17656B – image 17656 scanned at higher resolution

17656C – image 17656A scanned at higher resolution

17657 P. 1940 Devils Island, Wis.

17658 Map ‘Apostle Islands’ and tip of Bayfield County, Wisconsin; Bear Island is NW from Oak Island

17659 P. 1940 ‘Trolling Feet, Bayfield, Wis.’

17659A ibid Bayfield Fish Co.

17659B ‘Top of Wis. Terrace’

17659C Bayfield covered in mud as a result of heavy rain

17660 P. 1970 L-R Helen Grlicky, Morgan Peterson, Florence Peterson, nee Hessefort

17661 c. 1960 Star News ‘Peace Corps county-Terry Petersons to serve in Brazil…’

17662 P. 1980 R-L Morgan Peterson, Florence Peterson and daughter, Nancy

17662A ‘Morgan Petersons note Golden event…’ 1980

17663 P. 1940 ‘Typical Lake Superior Fishing Station’ Apostle Island, Bear Island, have a ‘fish camp’ when Petersons logged it in 1940

17664 P. 1940 Old Indian burial grounds, Madeline Island

17664A ibid

17665 P. 1948 James Peterson & Sons Co. gravel crusher & truck in Taylor County pit

17666 P. 1970 James Peterson & Sons D9 cats pushing 1000-hp scraper building tailing pond at Tilden, Michigan

17666A L. 10-24-1972 ‘Jerry’ to James Richard Peterson

17667 11-2013 Peterson Concrete, Medford, WI promotional calendar

17668 1-1996 ‘The Classics; A collection of stories about logging & farming’ by Angie S. Peterson, self-published, cover

17668A title page P. L-R James G. Peterson, Mrs. James G. Peterson (Anna), Morgan Peterson, Mrs. Morgan Peterson (Florence), George Peterson, Mrs. George Peterson

17668B ibid Dedication

17668C ibid Foreward p. 3

17668D ibid p. 4

17668E ibid p. 4

17668F ibid Table of Contents, NB-Reaminder of book in hard cover at Rib Lake Historical Society & Peterson family

17669 P. 1949 Hueckman gravel crusher owned by ‘James Peterson & Sons’ at work in Taylor County pit. Steam shovel loads back, material shifted, and remainder crushed in round circle in center. Diesel-powered machine could be driven down highways; [NB-P. 17669 & others have been TIFF scanned within batch 4 of Arcadia photo collection in 2014]

End of Peterson family collection

17670 Map c. 1913 ‘Wisconsin’ by Geo. F. Cram, Chicago, Ill, found within 1913 Standard Atlas of Taylor County

17670A enlargement showing Bear Island

17671 Map 10-18-2005 Rib Lake Ski, Snowshoe & National Trails, title

17671A ibid legend

17671B ibid Section 1-33-2E, Timms Hill Trail

17671C ibid Section 12 & 13

17671D ibid Detail of Rusch Preserve

17671E ibid Section 10 & 11, Camp Forest Springs

17671F ibid Section 15, School Forest, & Section 22, county forest

17671G Best overall single 2005 map

17672 L. 12-31-1971 Donald Euclide to RPR

17673 L. 11-8-1971 Milan Czarnezki to RPR

17674 L. 11-1-1971 Donald Euclide to RPR

17675 W. 1971 Want more ducks ---wildlife nurseries

17676 L. 4-6-1972 L. 4-6-1972 Thomas M. Lee (DNR) to RPR

17677 L. 10-6-1940 Embankment cross section, US Dept. of Agriculture

17678 12-15-1970 Taylor Co. Contractor List

17678A ibid envelope

17678B L. 10-22-1971 Sep Virnig to RPR

17679 W. ‘Shallow Water areas for Wildlife’ 4-1966 ACP practice

17680 L. 3-8-1972 James Evrand (DNR) to RPR

17681 L. 3-16-1972 RPR to James Evrand

17682 Map c. 3-16-1972 proposed dam site SE NE 13-33-2E, by RPR

17683 Map Dugout pond USDA c. 3-1-1971 right half

17683A ibid left half

17684 Map c. 3-17-1972 possible dam-pond sites in 13-33-2E by RPR on 1948 quad ‘Rib Lake’

17685 W. ‘The Farmer & Wildlife’ cover

17685A ibid cartoon

17686 L. 2-28-1972 RPR to Earl Sandleback

17687 L. 12-10-1971 Edmund M. Brick (DNR) to Earl Sandleback ‘no permit would be required’

17688 L. 2-23-1972 RPR to Edmund M. Brick

17689 L. 12-8-1971 William Sayles (DNR) to RPR

17690 L. 3-9-1970 Richard Knitter (DNR) to RPR; ‘since the pond will be created by a dam across a non-navigable stream, no permit will be needed…’

17691 L. 11-4-1971 RPR to DNR

17692 L. 12-4-1971 RPR to Armin Buehler

17693 L. 12-29-1972 Karen Rusch to Donald Euclide

17693A ibid p. 2

17694 L. 11-3-1971 RPR to Milan Czarneski (ASCS)

17695 L. 7-26-1971 John Donatell (DNR) to RPR

17696 L. 4-19-1971 Milan Czarneski to RPR

17697 L. 12-1-1971 RPR to Morgan Peterson, dba James Peterson & Sons, Inc.

17698 L. 11-17-1971 Morgan Peterson, dba James Peterson & Sons, Inc., to RPR

17698A ibid envelope

17699 Map 3-3-1972 pond sites 1 & 2, 13-33-2E by RPR

17700 L. 12-4-1972 RPR to Robert Thums, dba Thums Construction

17700A W. 4-16-1971 ‘Agreement to do soil & water conservation work’ signed RPR and Taylor County Soil Conservation District & Town of Rib Lake by Marlin Walback, chairman

17701 Map 2-15-1972 Pond 3, SE NW 13-33-2E, with Gerbil Island by RPR

17701A ibid ‘Wildlife aids’

17702 Diagram 2-24-1972 Dam for SE NE 13-33-2E ‘side view’

17702A ibid front view

17702B ibid top view

17703 W. 4-5-1971 ASCS ‘Practice Approval’ farm V-404 RPR

17704 L. 5-20-1971 USDA to RPR

17704A ibid envelope

17705 L. 1972 Donald Euclide, REAP (Rural Environmental Assistance Program) sign up

17705A ibid back p. 2

17705B ibid envelope

17706 11-7-2013 ‘Rib Lake book club finds Stillwater runs deep’ Star News; P. book club-Dorothy Scharer, Deb Turner, Kathy Peterson, Sandy Grundman, Ann orthmann, bonnie Szydel, Judy Cihasky, Joan Magnuson, Virginia Petersmann, Jean Stolzenburg

Donation by Rolland ‘Rollie’ Thums

17707 Handmade metal hooks made by Anton ‘Tony’ Kurek at his blacksmith shop on his farm, N 1/2- SW ¼, 18-33-3E, Town of Rib lake c. 1930-1960; swivel hook-2 parts turn independently

17707A another view

17707B ibid, grab hook remade from note & bolt made for Kurek’s Ford 8-N tractor

17707C ibid Standard chain hook; if placed over a chain and pulled, it will pull (slide) tight

17707D ibid, grab hook made to fit snugly only the link of a chain

17708 obit. 12-19-2013 Elsie Gerstberger, nee Kretschmer, Star News

17709 6-3-2014 National Republican Congressional Committee to RPR, envelope

17709A ibid, John Boehner to RPR

17709B ibid back side

17709C National Republican Congressional Commmittee membership card to RPR

17710 1-2-2014 ‘Telling Taylor County’s Story’ RPR writes history for Arcadia Publications. P. Sara Nuernberger, Roger Emmerich & RPR, Star News

Dennis Kuehling collection

17711 P. Wisconsin State Bird; the mosquito, Colex Pipiens

17712 P. c. 1910 RLLC stam hauler and sleigh of logs – top 5 tiers are peeled hemlock from Camp 9 approaching Rib Lake; steersman sits in front ‘the catseat.’ House on horizon on Park Road north of Village of Rib Lake park

17712A ibid TIFF, no number showing

17713 P. c. 1930 view east from bathing beach, South Harper Lae

17714 P c. 1960 ‘Spruce Dormitory, Camp Forest Springs, Rib Lake, Wis. 60-9’

End of Kuehling collection

17715 2008 ‘The Story of Camp Forest Springs-50 Years 1958-2008’ cover

17715A ibid table of contents

17715B ibid p. 1

17715C ibid p. 2

17715D ibid p. 3

17715E ibid p. 4

17715F ibid p. 5

17715G ibid p. 6

17715H ibid p. 7

17715I ibid p. 8

17715J ibid p. 9

17715K ibid p. 10

17715L ibid p. 11

17715M ibid p. 12

17715N ibid p. 13

17715O ibid p. 14

17715P ibid p. 15

17715Q ibid p. 16

17715R ibid p. 17

17715S ibid p. 18

17715T ibid p. 19

17715U ibid p. 20

17715V ibid p. 21

17715W ibid p. 22

17715X ibid p. 23

17715Y ibid p. 24

17715Z ibid p. 25

17715AA ibid p. 26

17715BB ibid p. 27

17715CC ibid p. 28

17715DD ibid p. 29

17715EE ibid p. 30

17715FF ibid p. 31

17715GG ibid p. 32

17715HH ibid p. 33

17715II ibid p. 34

17715JJ ibid p. 35

17715KK ibid p. 36

17715LL ibid p. 37 Board of Directors & missionary staff

17715MM ibid back cover-address

17716 2013-2014 Camp Forest Springs Visitor - cover

17716A ibid p. 1

17716B ibid p. 2

17716C ibid p. 3

17716D ibid p. 4

17716E ibid p. 5

17716F ibid p. 6

17716G ibid p. 7 Oak Forest Center

17717 W. 2013 Camp Forest Springs Adventure Ministries -cover

17717A ibid p. 1 & 2

17717B ibid p. 3 & 4

17717C ibid p. 5 & 6

17717D ibid p. 7 & 8

17717E ibid p. 9 & 10

17717F ibid p. 11 & 12

17717G ibid p. 13 & 14

17717H ibid p. 15 – back cover

17718 W. 2013 Camp Forest Springs – Gap Year Program

17718A ibid p. 2

17719 W. 2013 Camp Forest Springs Custom Expeditions

17719A ibid p. 2

Diane Briggs collection

17720 1-1-2014 obit. Viola Sternhagen, nee Bleck, born 2-17-1930 in Rib Lake, died 12-25-2013 in Allouez, Wisconsin

RPR collection

17721 2013 biography of Dr. Susan J. Frazier

17722 2013 biography of Michelle Brost, MSN, FNP-C

17723 P. 5-1907 ‘Having Axes to Grind’ Star News P. of Medford-Browning Woodman Brass Band, Modern Woodman of Americal. Top row, from left; ?Emil Shimonek, Mr. Schroder, John Allman, Bert Croff, Tom Andresen, Fred Hartwig, Bill Klaviter, George Krakenberger, Christ Ziemer, Charles Martin, Frank Gruetzner and Ted Hartwig; second row; Bill Roberts, Geoge Heimerl, George Stephenson, R.H. Musselman, W. Haight, L.L. Urquhart and Ted Berger; bottom row; Henry Kraemer, Bob Pries, Al Waldhart, Herman Schueneman, Emil Zimmerlee, Adolph Boetchen, Gottlieb Thut, Henry Suter and Fred Ruesch

17724 P. c. 1910 Modern Woodman of America in uniform, Town of Borwnin Chapter, Outside of Town Hall

17724 ibid TIFF, no number showing

17725 W. Charter, Socialist Party of Wisconsin 4-18-1934 to Branch of Browning, Taylor County, Wis; signed Al Benson, State Secretary with golden seal ‘Socialist Party of Wisconsin’ printed seal ‘Socialist Party-workers of the world united.’ [this framed charter hung for decades in the Town of Browning town hall and was saved by Chairman John Ruesch c. 2000.

17725A ibid TIFF, no number showing

17726 1-2-2014 ‘Mann gets 25 years in mental facility’ The Bee, Heidi Mann conviction. Also ‘Schneider pleads not guilty in shooting, ‘Alexander J. Schneider, Westboro, pleads in Taylor County court

17727 1-2-2014 ‘Army Corps of Engineers will not work with DNR on iron mine study’ The Bee

17728 Rib Lake Historical Society, LLC, modified stationery

17728A modified business card

17728B ibid back

17729 W. Holy Rosary Cathlic Church – Parish History, by unknown author-obtained from Medford Roman Catholic Church 1-3-2014

17729A ibid p. 2

17729B ibid p. 3

17729C ibid p. 4

17730 1905-2005 ‘Our Journey through Faith, a history of the Diocese of Superior’ cover

17730A Holy Rosary, Medford, photo of education center

17730B ibid Altar & text by Fr. Gerard Willger

17730C ibid p. 89, Chelsea, photo of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church

17730D ibid p. 100, photo of St. Peter & Paul Church in Gilman

17730E ibid p. 116, Lublin, photo of St. Stanislaus

17730F ibid p. 117, photo of interior

17730G ibid p. 118, photo of Holy Rosary Church in Medford

17730H ibid p. 119

17730I ibid p. 117, Rib Lake, St. John the Baptist

17730J ibid p. 118 photo of St. John the Baptist

17730K ibid p. 146 Stetsonville, Sacred Heart

17730L ibid p. 147

17730M ibid p. 156 Westboro, St. Theresa

17730N ibi p. 137 Whittlesey, Our Lady of Perpetual Help [fka Mutter der Immerwehrende hilfe kirche] August Steiner donated part of his farm for church site

17730O Envelope, 12-31-2013 Paula Gebauer

17730P L. 12-12-2013 Paula Gebauer to RPR, August Steiner, on 4-24-1881 completed First Communion instruction under Priest Rieger at the Catholic Church in Schoenwalde, Germany. August’s occupation is listed as a ‘Haesler’, i.e. a small farmer

17730Q 4-24-1881 First Communion instruction certificate for Bertha Steiner, signed by Priest Reiger

17730R ibid translation

17731 ‘Go Jump in Rib Lake’ Rib Lake ice dip 1-4-2014

17732 1-4-2014 Rib Lake Snowshoe Adventure – glove given to all participants

17732A ibid back

17733 Star News 1-9-2014 ‘An Adventure of Fun’ P. snowshoe at Camp Forest Springs, sponsored by Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club, Inc.

17733A ibid bottom, race results with Finishers’ names

17734 12-30-2013 ‘Our Family Tree’ Rusch-Riggs family tree by 6 year old Trinity Riggs, with great-grandmother Lorraine A. Killion at tree head

17734A ibid

17735 12-16-2013 Karen M. Rusch Christmas letter

17736 P. 1-2010 Rib Lake Tannery Pond from Karen M. Rusch home

17737 P. 12-2013 Kate, Scot, Nick & Ben Bromann

17738 Christmas Card, 12-2013 Ted & Cathy Waskowski

17738A cover

17739 L. 12-20-2013 Luann Lind, President, German Settlement Historical Society, to ‘Dear Member of GSHI’

17739A enlarged ballot for board member position of Karen Johnson & Luann Lind

From Memorial Health Center Collection

17740 7-15-2008 ‘Memorial Health Center; a history by Stephanie Dray, cover

17740A ibid p. 1

17740B ibid p. 2

17740C ibid p. 3

17740D ibid p. 4

17740E ibid p. 5

17740F ibid p. 6

17740G ibid p.7

17740H ibid p. 8

17740I ibid p. 9

17740J ibid p. 10

17740K ibid p. 11

17740L ibid p. 12

17740M ibid p. 13

17740N ibid p. 14

17740O ibid p. 15

17740P ibid p. 16

17740Q ibid p. 17

17740R ibid p. 18

17740S ibid p. 19

17740T ibid p. 20

17740U ibid p. 21

17740V ibid p. 22

17740W ibid p. 23

17741 c. 12-2012 ‘History –Memorial Health Center’ by unknown

17741A ibid p. 2

17741B ibid p. 3

17741C ibid p. 4

17741D ibid p. 5

17742 4-2012 Timeline – Memorial Health Center

17742A ibid p. 2

17742B ibid p. 3

17742C ibid p. 4

17742D ibid p. 4

17742E ibid p. 5

17743 4-6-1875 Medford – First Election commemorative plate

17743A ibid text on back

17744 Star News 1-9-2014 ‘Racing for the Win’ & ‘Best of Show’

17744A ibid, Mary Burke article continued

17745 2012 Pennant ‘Rib Lake Redmen’ & Indian creed logo

17746 2014 Business card ‘Peterson Concrete’ ‘No Waste’ Medford

17747 P. Joseph Brehm flour & Feed Store; McComb Ave., Rib Lake

17747A After P. 11-1989 ‘Rib Lake Report’ Star News 2-15-1979

17748 1-2014 ‘Log Cabin News’ Taylor Co. Historical Society, cover

17748A ibid p. 2, Medford history, Margaret M. Ryan

17748B ibid p. 3

17748C ibid p. 4 Peter C. Anderson claims to be Taylor County’s first farmer

17748D ibid p. 5

17748E ibid p. 6 recipes at Polish dinner

17748F ibid p. 7 2014 calendar of events

17749 P. 2001 Martha Hedwig Rusch, nee Gebauer, and 4 sons; L-R Everett ‘Evie’ Arthur Rusch, Robert ‘Bobby’ Paul, Thomas ‘Tommy’ Michael, Gerald ‘Jerry’ Allen Rusch

17749A ibid

17749B 2014 invitation to Gebauer family reunion

17750 W. ‘2013 Tax Notice-Town of Rib Lake’ tax rate data for Town, County, State, School & Northcentral Technical College

17751 W. 2014 ‘Perkinstown Winter Sports Area’

17751A ibid p. 2 map

17752 W. 2013 ‘Perkinstown Winter Sports Area’ Chequamegon Nicolet National Forest

17752A ibid p. 2 map ‘Perkinstown Ski Trail’ 2013

From Steve Fleming, Jump River collection

17753 (Arcadia 318) P. Lafollette Bridge over Jump River c. 2000

17753A as jpeg, in color

17754 (Arcadia 319) Jump River Town Hall

17754A ibid jpeg, in color

17755 (Aradia 320) Rose Wanrzyniak

17755A ibid jpeg in color

17756 (Arcadia 321) Hugh Warner

17756A ibid jpeg in color

17757 (Arcadia 322) P. c. 1900 ‘Sawmill and pond, Medford, Wis.’

17757A ibid jpeg

17757B ibid back

17758 (Arcadia 323) P. 1952 Soo Line Railroad Track

17758A ibid jpeg

17759 (Arcadia 324) P. ‘Rib Lake, Wis’

17759A ibid jpeg

17759A-1 ibid, RLH Soc. Duplicate photo with handwritten notes

17759A-2 ibid postmark 7-11-1907

17759B (Arcadia 325) ibid Panoramic photo Part B ‘center’

17759C ibid jpeg

17759D (Arcadia 326) ibid panoramic photo Part C west side of Rib Lake Village, photographed from bark pile

17759E ibid jpeg

17760 1-2014 Finishers Medal ‘Rib Lake Snowshoe Adventure’ put on by Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club, Inc. at Camp Forest Springs 1-4-2014

17761 Ad c. 1937 ‘Rib Lake Lumber Co. of Delaware, Rib Lake, Wisconsin, Manufacturer of Hemlock & Hardwood’

17761A ibid jpeg

17762 Sketch ‘Rib Lake Lumber Company-early 1920’s’ by unknown artist

17762A ibid jpeg

17763 (Arcadia 329) Civil Townships of Taylor County with dates of creation

17763A ibid jpeg

17764 8-22-2001 ‘Logging a Lake’s past to finance its future,’ the Country Today. Story by Leah Thompson about recovery of lost saw logs in Rib Lake.

17764A ibid p. 2

17764B ibid photo A boom on a barge pulling logs from former hot pond port of Rib Lake

17765 8-22-2001 ‘Lumber was big in Rib Lake’ The Country Today. P. Wood river at Hintztown-Town of Greenwood

17766 Map 3-24-2013 Railroads of Taylor County-Lumberjack epoch by Everett A. Rusch, revised 2013. Shws some sleigh roads & steam hauler ice roads, east one-third Locates Suther, Spirit Lake (watermelon), Hintztown & Stumpville

17766A ibid center one-third

17766B ibid west one-third

17767 W. ‘Medford United Medford Church, A history of’ c. 2-2010 author unknown; Winchester Hotel razed 1920 and lumber used to build Medford Methodist Church and others

17767A ibid p. 2 pastors

17767B ibid p. 3

17768 Calendar, May 1948. 5-21-1940 RLLC operates last train with logs to its sawmill. It is final running of a logging railroad in State of Wisconsin

17769 Calendar, June 1948. 6-3-1948 RLLC takes final log into its mill and saws last log, thereby ceasing sawmill on site begun on 12-21-1881

17770 2014 Spirit Lake Improvement Association Newsletter

17770A ibid p. 2

17771 1916 Chimney brick, standard brick within its 167’ high chimney in use 1916-1948; saved after razing. Note; height 4.5’ outside length; 6’ measured on curve of brick, 5.5’ inside lenbth; 5.5’ thick (i.e. distance between inside & outside edge) – top view

17771A ibid bottom

17771B ibid side; inside (i.e. surface against smoke)

17771C ibid side; thick (NB-vertical striations)

17771D ibid side; outside

17771E ibid side; inside (surface damaged) Note; white motar on some surfaces; note; some sources claim chimney was then highest in Wisconsin

17772 P. Soo Line diesel locomotive on SLHTS Feb. 2014 calendar

17773 2014 bottle cap ‘Point well made’ from soda water bottle from Stevens Point brewery

Dennis Kuehling collection; glass negative collection of photos by John Barth from Garth Barth estate 10-29-2011; positives prepared by Sara Nuernberger

17774 c. 1900

17774A Pa ‘Kops Hotel’ and ‘H. Kops Saloon’ Unity, WI

17775 P. c. 1910 Model T Ford & trestle bridge over river, two hunters aim gums, probable location is Sawyer Avenue over Black River, SW SE 36-31-2W, Town of Grover

17775A P. After photo 4-25-2014

17776 P. 11-22-1911 old Larson’s logging camp used as John Barth gang deer hunting camp in Town of Grover, Taylor County; either Sec 20, T31N-R2W or Sec 20, T32N-R2W

17776A ibid, from postcard

17776B back, Larson’s old camp, Section 20, Perkinstown 11-17-1912, Arleigh standing

17777 P. 11-22-1911 four hunters eating inside camp

17778 P. 11-22-1911 8 hunters and 13 deer hanging from pole at old Larson logging camp

17779 P. 11-22-1911 10 hanging deer at old Larson logging camp

17779A from postcard, sepia

17780 P. 11-26-1911 ‘Ready to break camp’ written on sleeve of negative; 4 men preparing to leave deer camp. A deer hide is nailed to dry on the cabin’s side; the deer provided camp meat.

17781 P. 11-26-1911 ibid, freshed skinned hide

17782 P. 11-22-1911 buck pole at deer camp; hunters with guns

17783 P. c. 1910 pile of deer, including 8-pointer

17784 P. c. 1910 John Barth, amateur photographer, Chili, WI

17785 P. c. 1920 John Barth, Chili WI, driving 1916 Model T Ford following Barth’s death, Model T stayed in his former barn until auction sale in 2011, when car sold for $2,000

17785A Notes, 2011 Dennis Kuehling re Garth’s 1916 Model T

17786 1913 Standard Atlas of Taylor County T31N-R2W in Section 20, possible site of old Larson logging camp used by John Garth deer hunting party on 11-22-1911

17786A ibid T32N-R2W Section 20

17787 P. c. 1905 Pile of 5 dead deer, including 8-pointer ‘Rib Lake, Wis.’

17787A ibid back post dated 11-19-1908 Leon to Fred Rieber

17788 P. c. 1940 ‘Office Seidel’s Cottages, No. Harper Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. 75’

17789 Business card, J.A. Hurtgen, proprietor, ‘The Star Recreation Parlor’ billiards, tobacco, ice cream, soft drinks (NB-Prohibition 1920-1933) newsstands & novelties. The business card used a 5-pointed star symbol rather than the word star. This business occupied Block B, Lot 4, McComb’s Racing Park Addition to the Village of Rib Lake. About 1920 the building housed H.A. Fleming’s ‘The Arcade.’ See Claussen-Fliehs photo 009 for exterior photo. Other images in same collection are interior, including a self-portrait of C.A. Claussen. C. 1930 the site was occupied by S. Scharer tavern, razed in 2012. Russ Wudi’s coin shop was built there.

17789A back, risqué story ‘1-1-1926 Rib Lake, Wis. January 1st, 1926 Deer Sister…(signed) Chickie’

17790 business card, c. 1950 Alphonse Mnichowicz, Prop. ‘National Hotel & Tavern’ Rib Lake. He had his name changed to ‘Alfons Mitchell’

17790A ibid back ‘just a beer story’

17791 business card c. 1950 A.F. Mnichowicz, Prop. Lka Alfons Mitchell ‘National Hotel & Tavern’ Rib Lake

17791A ibid back ‘The Jones Boys’

17792 Business card, c. 1960 John Dolezalek, Prop. ‘National Hotel,’ Rib Lake

17792A ibid back ‘Instruction for the new dial telephones’

17793 W. 2014 ‘Free Resident Guide’ Price & Taylor Counties

17793A ibid Price County History

17793B ibid Taylor County History & communities

17793C Map 2014, Parks & Recreation & key

17793D Bike & Snowmobile trails & ATV Trails (bikes are non-motorized snow bikes with balloon tires)

17794 Map 2014 ‘Bear Crossing Ski & Snowshoe Trails’ Trails on James and Lori Livingston’s residence, N ½ SW ½, 10-31-1N, Town of Hammel

17795 P. 1-2014 Carol & Dennis Kuehling at Hill of Beans Restaurant, Timms Hill

17795A P. Timms Hill 1-2014 from Hill of Beans Restaurant across frozen Bass Lake

17796 P. 1-2014 L-R Cindy Sommer & Ann Rusch enjoying lunch at Rusch home ‘Waldheim’

17797 W. Lillian A. Pipkorn 5-7-1922 to 1-29-2014 ‘Service of Worship’ First Lutheran Church, Westboro

17797A ibid p. 2 & 3

17797B ibid p. 4 & 5

17797C ibid p. 6 Confession of Faith & 7 ‘God be with you’

17797D ibid p. 8 photo L-R unidentified, Lorraine Killion, Lillian Pipkorn, Mrs. Peterson & Jo (Mrs. Robert) Giese

17798 obit, Lillian Pipkorn, Star News 1-30-14

17798A ibid, Memorial card p. 1

17798B ibid, pg. 2

17799 obit, Agnes Wudi, Star News 1-30-2014

17800 obit, Lillian Thums 1917-2014, Star News 1-30-2014

17801 Memorial Card, Lillian Thums – cover

17801A ibid inside

17802 1-24-2014 Meeting Minutes, Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club, Inc.

17802A ibid p. 2

17803 Membership Application, Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club, 2014

17803A Map 2014 Rib Lake ski & snowshoe trails

17804 2-1-2014 Forest History Association of Wisconsin ‘Woodchips’ ‘Rib Lake’s Lumbering Era 1881-1948’; a video in five parts

17805 W. 2-2014 ‘Remembering When’ Price Electric Co-op, incorporated 7-9-1940

17805A ibid cover 2-2014 Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News

17806 W. 5-8-1930 Ole Peterson opens golf course. ‘Peterson planning to open new golf course on beautiful Spirit Lake farm.’ Star News

17806A P. c. 1915 ‘Spirit Lake House.’ Hotel on Little Spirit Lake. Beer barrels and cases labeled ‘Jung Brewing Co.’ litter laun. In 2013 site is public access to lake from STH 102.

17807 W. 5-8-1930 ‘Sawmill at Goodrich burns’ Star News

17808 P. c. 1940 McCornick-Deering caterpillar tractor skidding approximately 20 freshly-cut hardwood logs in Town of Corning, Lincoln County, Wis. while 2 lumberjacks with cant hooks stand on log chained to dray, pan or sleigh. A heavy-duty bumper and stell plate with dozens of air holes for engine cooling protects radioator.

17809 2-15-2014 Taylor Co. Democratic Party meeting at Jump River

17810 2-2-2014 Superbowl party, Camp 28 Restaurant, Rib Lake

17811 Articles of Incorporation 2-19-1906 Medford Lumber Co. p. 1

17811A ibid p. 2

17811B ibid p. 3

17811C ibid p. 4 [NB Medford Lumber Co. mill in Medford sawed last log in 1926 – see photo in RLH Soc. Photo & Document Collection]

17812 W. 1-20-1912 Medford Lumber Co. increases authorized stock from $150,000 to $200,000

17812A ibid, Wis. Secretary of State certified receipt

17813 1-2-1941 Certificate of filing, Wis. Sec. of State

17813A 10-30-1940 Resolution dissolving Medford Lumber Co. signed by J.S. Alexander, Vice Pres., Wausau, Wis

17814 W. 1-1-1995 recycling ‘Mandatory recycling program’ Rib Lake Area Recycling

17814A ibid. p. 2

17815 Map 1-2-2014 Lakes of Taylor County, east half

17815A ibid west half

17816 Map 2005-2007 Snowmobile & Winter ATV Taylor County, title page

17816A ibid, Rib Lake area

17816B ibid legend

17817 2014 Flyer, Perkinstown Winter Sports Area

17817A ibid p. 2

17818 ‘Taylor County Beyond Expectations’ 2013-2014 Fall-Winter Visitors Guide’ cover

17818A p. 4 Perkinstown Winter Sports Area history, photo of new chalet

17818B p. 6 ibid

17818C p. 10, ibid, ATVs legal on roads

17818D p. 30 Making maple syrup

17818E p. 32 ibid Brunner sugarbush

17818F p. 34 Pine Line Marathon

17818G Ad, Perkinstown Winter Sports Area

From Memorial Health Center, an Aspirus Partner

17819 Trademark 2013 (aka Medford hospital)

17820 P. Dr. Conrad Esadore Nystrum c. 1910, pioneer Medford Physician

17821 biography of Conrad Esadore Nystrum 6-5-1869 to 10-5-1923

17822 c. 1925 sketch ‘The Medford Clinic’

17823 P. c. 1925 US Mail truck on State Street with Medford Hotel in back. Water of Black River flood area

17824 P. c. 1925 The Medford Clinic facing Wisconsin Ave. at its junction with State Street

17825 P. 9-14-1960 Memorial Hospital of Taylor County ground-breaking

17825A 10-29-1959 ‘Memorial Hospital assured by $285,580 total tallied Thursday,’ Star News, Photo of Raymond Scott, Werner Pflugshoeft, Bernard Dassow

17826 P. c. 1961 ‘Memorial Hospital Medford, Wis.’

17826A ibid back

17827 P. 1962 Memorial Hospital Board

17828 P. 1962 First doctors of Memorial Hospital; top L-R Dr. Walther Meyer, Dr. James Keuer, bottom L-R Dr. Lester Nystrum, Dr. Ray Nystrum

17829 P. Memorial Hospital after second floor added in 1967

17830 Memorial Hospital architech’s sketch of proposed second floor addition [NB #267 tiff scanned]

17831 P. c. 1970 Eugene Arnett, Administrator of Memorial Hospital

17832 c. 1975 W. ‘Patient Information’ Memorial Hospital of Taylor County, Inc. cover

17832A ibid photo of Eugene Arnett, Administrator

17832B ibid history

17832C ibid P. color uniforms

17833 P. c. 1980 ‘Medical Center’ Medford Clinic stood just east of Memorial Hospital on Gibson Street. It provided doctor’s offices and examination facilities

17833A ibid back ‘Mink Capital of the World’

17834 Map c. 2000 Medford Community – Medford Clinic highlighted

17834A P. c. 1970 original operating room, Memorial Hospital

17835 2013 Annual Report, Memorial Health Center - cover

17835A ibid P. Gregory A. Olson, President & CEO

17835B ibid Mission

17835C ibid financial

17835D ibid lifestyle revolution

17835E photo, aerial

17835F patient survey

17835G sketch 2014 remodeling

17835H provider directory

17835I end page

RLH Soc. Collection

17836 P. 1910 ‘High School, Westboro, Wis.’ NB-hand water pump in yard

17836A ibid back, post dated 9-1-1911 8 p.m.

17837 P. c. 1935 McComb Ave. looking north. Boardwalk crosses dirt street between sidewalks. Car on left is Model T Ford 3-door; there was no door next to the driver’s seat. Buildings; Left side;

1) Cy R. Clausen, Electric battery repairs

2) Upjohn-Kennedy Pharmacy; in 2014 the Ultimate Illusion Beauty Shop, 713 McComb Ave.

3) unknown

4) unknown

5) ‘Tourist Inn’ ‘Food & rooms’ in 2014 Frosted Mug tavern, 723 McComb

6) 2-story building was Peterson’s Opera House

7) unknown

8) unknow

9) Ma Dodge’s ‘Café’

Right side:

1) ‘Eat Any Time’ ‘Day or Night’ rooms

2) George Braun Real Estate

3) Woodman Hallf with ‘post office’ on first floor

4) Wisconsin House Hotel, awning reads ‘shoes’, Gilbertson Shoe sale & repairs

5) Bogumill building

6) ‘People’s Meat Market’

7) ‘Hardware’; in 2014 Rib Lake Music Center, 740 McComb (NB-photo obtained in 2014 via Ebay from Czech Republic)

17837A seller’s envelope from Czech Republic

17837B Czech Easter card used as packing

17837C ibid back ‘Ceska Republika’

17838 P. 2-2014 sign ‘Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve – Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation’ sign erected upon dedication of hiking, skiing and snowshoeing trailhead in 1990 at SE NE 12-33-2E; named for parents of Robert P. Rusch, Martha Hedwig Rusch, nee Gebauer, and Herman Arthur Rusch

17839 P. 2-2014 Michael ‘Mike’ Quednow’s groomer parked at kiosk at Herman & Martha Rusch Preserve

17840 P. c. 2005 Pine Line depot at Medford. Built in 1912 by Soo Line & closed 1989 by Wisconsin Central Ltd. Remodeled by Larry Demark into restaurant c. 1991-2000.

17841 2-14-2014 Valentine card RPR to Ann Rusch – cover

17842 2-14-2014 Valentine card Ann Rusch to Bob Rusch – cover

17842A ibid p. 2

17843 Map 12-5-1987 Ice Age Trail & RLLC Camp 4, Camp 5 & Camp 7 sites by Gary Werner consulting with Robert P. Rusch [original in Vol. 1 IAT scrapbook

James ‘Jim’ Scott collection

17844 cover – 4 Seasons Photography

17844A ibid, photo of Black River c. 2010

17844B ibid

17844C ibid former Attorney Oscar Rademacher barn, Town of Westboro

RPR Collection

(from 35mm file I-2)

17845 P. 1-2014 Rustic Road No. 1 – winter near St. Claire Lake

17845A ibid sign ‘Rustic Road R1) next 5 miles’

17845B ibid Rustic Road near Harper Lake, SW NW 11-33-2E

17846 P. 1-2012 sign Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve – Trailhead Parking, Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation

17846A 2-1-2014 (RPR 35mm film I-8)

17846B ibid

17847 P. 1-2014 signs ‘Ice Age National Scenic Trail’ & Timms Hill National Trail – southern terminus – Rusch Preserve

17848 P. 1-2014 sign ‘Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve – Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation

17849 10-2013 name tag ‘Bob Rusch-High Point Chapter (IATA)-Yellow Blaze Club’

17850 P. 1-2014 sign ‘Glacial embankment trail – follows terminus of Wisconsin glacier; SW NE 13-33-2E

17851 P. 2-1-2014 Mike Quednow grooming at Rusch Preserve

17851A ibid view north on CTH C

17852 P. 2-1-2014 Mike Quednow with snowmobile & groomer at Rusch Preserve kiosk

17853 W. 1-2014 Congressman Sean Duffy to ‘Dear Friend’

17853A ibid questionnaire part 1

17853B ibid part 2

17853C ibid part 3

17853D ibid part 4

17853E ibid part 5

17854 L. 12-27-2013 RPR to Sean Duffy re IAT

17854A L. Sean Duffy employee to RPR

17855 P. c. 1910 ‘Scene near Rib Lake, Wis V.T. 7’ Virgin timber including hemlock, thusga Canadensis on left

17855A ibid back Meta to Mrs. Fred Laumer

17856 W. Rusk Co., Wis. history ‘Historic Rusk County’ A guide to the past

17856A ibid p. 2

17856B ibid eastern third

17856C ibid middle

17856D ibid western third

17857 2-25-2014 ‘The Star News Shopper’ p. 1 ‘Tax Refund Celebration’ Gun sale

17858 P. c. 1900 Rib River Dells ‘Rib River Scene, Medford, Wis.’ a half mile long stretch of the Big Rib River runs through a rocky gorge at the SE NE 25-31-3E, Town of Goodrich

17859 Plaque ‘Bob’ Rusch-Trail Builder’ c. 1996 gift upon RPR’s resignation as coordinator of the High Point Chapter-IAT. Bob’s relationship with the IAT began with an unexpected phone call in May of 1984 from Gary Werner, who wondered if Bob had any interest in assisting in the construction of the IAT through Taylor County.

17859A ibid ‘Thank you from the High Point Chapter-IAT.’ Bob was instrumental in naming the High Point Chapter. In the 1980s the High Point Grinding Company was owned by a resident in the Town of Hill, Price County. The company was named for High Point, Carolina. Bob felt the name fit to a T a chapter that would include Wisconsin’s highest natural point, Timms Hill. Bob served as the first president, i.e. ‘Coordinator’ of the High Point Chapter from its creation in 1985 until his resignation in 1996. In that timeframe, the chapter constructed over 35 miles of certified trail in the form of the Wood Lake, Rib Lake, and East Lake segments of the IAT, and the Timms Hill Trail

17859B P. 2-2014 Robert P. Rusch

ICE AGE NATIONAL SCENIC TRAIL (IAT) MAPS AND DOCUMENTS C. 1984-2014 FROM SCRAPBOOKS OF RPR; scanned beginning 2/2014 at archives of Rib Lake Historical Society.

17860 Ice Age National Scenic Trail (IAT) 1987 scrapbook ‘IAT 1’ by RPR – cover page

17861 11-8-1987 RPR memo; IAT beginning in Taylor County since Adam Cahow in 1976

17862 Map 6-1986 ‘Rib Lake Wis IAT Guide’ East half

17862A Map 6-1986 ‘Rib Lake Wis IAT Guide’ west half

17862B Map 6-1986 ‘Rib Lake Wis IAT Guide’ cover

17862C Map 6-1986 ‘Rib Lake Wis IAT Guide’ back

17862D Trail Guide note

17863 P. 8-1987 bulldozing IAT as hiking and skiing trail in Rib Lake School Forest

17863A ibid identical view 1-1988

17864 P. 1988 Rib Lake Jaycee Cross Country Ski Trail Map

17865 P. 11-1987 sign; IAT –East Lake segment ‘Wis. Conservation Corps’

17866 11-1987 Karen M. Rusch painting yellow blazes in Taylor County Forest

17867 Map 1987 IAT six segments in Taylor County, Wood Lake, Rib Lake, East Lake, Fischer Creek, Chequamegon and Timms Hill

17868 Map c. 1988 Taylor Made Escapes in Rib Lake area

17868A ibid cover

17868B ibid Jaycee Trail

17868C ibid Map, Rib Lake Hiking & Ski Trails (IAT)

17869 W. 9-19-1987 Wood Lake segment dedication IAT, cover

17869A ibid p. 2

17869B ibid p. 3 consenting landowners

17869C ibid p. 4 IAT Council solicitation

17870 L. 8-10-1987 Edwin Ahlers, Chair of Taylor County Board, invitation to IAT dedication and pig roast

17870A Map

17871 W. ‘Trail Distances’

17872 Map Plat, Rib Lake, T33N-R2E, IAT and proposed northern loop trail (never built)

17873 9-18-1987 Marshfield News Herald ‘IAT snakes its way to completion’

17873A ibid p. 2

17874 Map 9-1985 ‘The Ice Age Trail’ ‘built and maintained by the Ice Age Trail Council..’ ‘supported by the Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation’

17874A Official logo, Ice Age National Scenic Trail in 1980s

17875 W. ‘Timms Hill National Trail’ memo by RPR 1986

17876 9-25-1986 The Bee ‘local effort earns national designation from ski trail.’ Right half

17876A ibid ‘The Bee’

17877 P. 10-1986 Blomberg Bridge over creek between Hultmann & Stone Lakes, Price County, conveying the Timms Hill Trail; L-R Ann Dillion, kna Rusch, Kate Bromann, Martha H. Rusch, Scot Bromann, Karen M. Rusch, Herman A. Rusch; bridge donated by Town of Rib Lake that had used it to right-of-way Fawn Valley Roal over Layman Creek

17878 Memo ‘Happy Hikers;’ history of Blomberg Bridge, former Fawn Valley road in Town of Rib Lake

17879 ‘Blomberg Bridge’ memo 1986 by RPR

17880 P. 10-1986 L-R Ann Dillon carrying Swede saw on Timms Hill Trail, and daughter Laura, NKA Mrs. Chad Severson

17881 pamphlet c. 1987 ‘Discover Wisconsin’s IAT’

17881A ibid p. 2 IAT Council membership form (NB-address was home of Gary Werner, council’s only employee)

17881B History of the Trail

17881C Exploring the Trail

17882 L. 4-12-1987 Gary Werner IAT Council Coordinator, to ‘trail council & foundation leaders..’ (NB on IAT Council Letterhead)

17882A ibid p. 2

17883 L. c. 12-1987 Gary Werner to RPR

17884 Envelope 11-6-1987 from Gary Werner & ‘Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation’ Sheboygan, Wis. (Up to this point, the Foundation used as its address that of Attorney John Zillmer, Milwaukee. The Sheboygan address was that of Terry Kohler)

17885 L. c. 6-1987 Gary Werner, ‘proposal for American Hiking Society Service trip to build IAT in Chequamegon National Forest

17886 Map 1988, Chequamegon National Forest

17886A ibid cover ‘Trails’

17886B ibid

17887 Map c. 1989 ‘Chequamegon National Forest-IAT’ Medford Ranger District, 15 points of interest

17887A ibid cover

17888 L. 11-19-1986 Gary Werner to RPR re Fischer Creek Trail segment

17888A ibid p. 2

17888B enclosure

17888C 1986 Award ‘Friend of the Ice Age National Scenic Trail, Rib Lake, Wisconsin’ made by RPR for landowners & volunteers

17889 Plat map, 11-17-1986 T33-R1E, Town of Westboro, Gary Werner shows in dashed red line proposed Fischer Creek segment (construction on Firscher Creek segment in August 1987 came to abrupt half when key landowner revoked her ‘handshake agreement’)

17890 Map 9-22-1987 IAT-established & six proposed portions, the Tomahawk Leader

17890A ibid Sierra Club volunteers here. Ice Age Trail project in county, trail construction at Grandfather Falls segment, IAT, Lincoln County

17891 9-23-1987 Wausau Daily Herald ‘Sierra Club Makes Friends blazing trails’ construction of IAT at Grandfather Falls

17891A P. Rafeala Schuler ‘clearing the way’ ibid

17892 9-8-1987 ‘Birch bark nature notes’ by Allan Bell. First IAT ‘Hike-A-Thon’ ‘take a walk on the wild side.’

17893 9-11-1987 ‘Snakes delay Obey’ US Rep. David Obey hikes with David Phillips, IAT Coordinator for Lincoln County

17894 Map c. 11-1987 Wisconsin State Parks, Forests & Trails

17894A ibid ‘State trails’ (11 listed, IAT absent)

17894B ibid IAT

17894C ibid Ice Age Reserve (a parcel of land showing ‘outstanding’ glacial evidence)

17895 9-27-1987 Milwaukee Journal ‘Clearing ahead; 45 miles of IAT ready’ Grandfather Falls segment built

17895A ibid ‘to the west in Taylor County, 7 out of state volunteer trail builders from the American Hiking Society hacked a 3-mile patch in August.’ (referring to aborted construction of Fischer Creek segment.)

17896 9-12-1987 memo Washington-Ozaukee County chapter created

17897 9-30-1987 ‘IAT-Trail’s future hinges on public’s support.’ Capitol Times

17897A ibid p. 2

17898 10-3-1987 IAt ‘take a walk on the wild side.’ Flyer for first walk-a-thon, idea of Terry Kohler to raise money for IAT through pledges

17898A ibid back

17899 9-30-1987 ‘Wild’ walk to benefit IAT,’ Capitol Times

17900 Map 9-30-1987 IAT Hike-a-thon segments

17901 L. c. 9-20-1987 ‘Dear Hiking Enthusiast’ hike-a-thon instructions from Foundation, signed by Gary Werner

17901A ibid p. 2 IAT ‘Timms Hill Segment’ route of 10-3-1987 hike-a-thon. NB The Ice Age part 1 trail foundation recognized the Timms Hill Trail as a segment of the IAT

17901B ibib Map c. 9-20-1987

17902 9-30-1987 ‘IAT Hike-a-thon Saturday’ Star News, map

17903 L. c. 9-4-1987 Terry J. Kohler to ‘Take a walk on the wild side’ ‘Dear Friends of the IAT’

17903A envelope ‘Hikers Participation Packet’

17904 10-9-1987 ‘Walk on the wild side-short report’ by Terry J. Kohler

17904A financial recap

17905 10-8-1987 Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation summary of financial condition

17906 L. 11-11-1987 Terry J. Kohler to RPR re hike-a-thon

17906A 10-8-1987 ‘Hike-a-thon a success for IAT’ Star News; ‘a 10 year plan to complete the IAT…’

17906B decal ‘take a walk on the wild side’ sponsor

17907 L. 11-3-1987 on Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation letterhead by Gary Werner to Ida Scott re Scott land purchase; photo of Foundation personnel in 1987; President-John R. Zillmer; Vice President-Norman C. Hoth; Vice President, Trail Asst. Secretary-David L. Kinnamon; Vice Pres. of Financdes-Terry J. Kohler; Vice Pres. of Government; Henry S. Reuss; Secretary-Donald J. Beyer; Directors-Alan Dunwiddie, Ody J. Fish, Warren P. Knowles, Robert P. Rusch, Richard E. Teschner, Julius J. Werner, Steven A. Wolfgram; Trail Coordinator-Gary Werner

17907A ibid Map S half, SW quarter 25-33-1E Taylor County

17908 9-11-1987 Invitation to IAT council annual meeting in Manitowoc County

17909 11-3-1987 ‘Group will push state to buy more old rail lines for trails,’ Milwaukee Journal

17910 ‘Klingbeil Cabin’ memo c. 12-1-1987 by RPR

17910A ibid p. 2

17911 P. c. 12-1-1987 Klingbeil cabin in Medford, moving crew; L-R Ann Dillon (with videa camera), Gary Thums, Scot Bromann, RPR

17912 P. c. 12-1-1987 Forklift placing Klingbeil cabin on flatbed truck; L-R Gary Thums, RPR, Scot Bromann (operator), by Ray Lemmermann

17913 P. c. 12-2-1987 Klingbeil cabin in Village of Rib Lake on new decking

17913A P. ibid Scot Bromann building deck

17914 P. 12-3-1987 Rollie Thums operates tractor pulling Klingbeil cabin three miles to IAT site

17915 12-5-1987 IAT council board of directors meeting, handwritten notes by Gary Werner, his residence addess is shown as IAT council

17916 W. 10-1987 ‘IAT on Department of Natural Resources lands’

17916A ibid p. 2

17917 emblem ‘Timms Hill Trail’ 1986 Ice Age Trail system, National Park Service modified this proposal

17918 P. 11-1987 a logging road bulldozed over old tote road to McGillis Pine Camp – NE SW 13-33-2E, Town of Rib Lake. Typical of logging roads then designated as IAT in Town of Rib Lake (NB-In 2014, IAT Alliance began relocating and rebuilding the IAT on dedicated pathway 18 inches wide

17919 L. 10-3-1989 Dick Angelo, Executive Director, Camp Forest Springs, to RPR

17920 W. c. 12-1987 ‘Timms Hill – High Point Ski Trails’ headed by Lyle Blomberg

17920A ibid Map ‘In addition to ski trail, the High Point Ski Club was instrumental in developing a ski-hiking trail between Timms Hill and the IAT…’ ‘beautiful hemlock-hardwood forests’

17920B Map c. 1-1987 Timms Hill Trail and Timms Hill County Park by Lyle Blomberg; High Point Ski Club trail system & Timms Hill County Park. (portion designated Timms Hill Trail is highlighted in pink in 2014 by RPR) ‘Tim’s Lake’ is named for Timothy Cahan, early pine logger.

17921 Pamphlet 1-1957 ‘Wisconsin’s Rustic Roads; a positive step backwards’ NB- In 1987, Joseph Sweda, State Highway Commissioner and previously Taylor County assemblyman, was a member of the Rustic Roads board. Sweda, at the urging of RPR, was instrumental in having the board desiganate Rustic Road No. 1 in Taylor County.

17922 P. 12-12-1987 IAT in active Walbeck gravel pit, in 2013, land was purchased by IAT Alliance through the outstanding efforts of Kevin Thesius. Kevin convinced the National Park Service to provide purchase money after the board of the Wisconsin DNR refused; the majority of the board were appointees of Gov. Scott Walker and opposed buying anything but a narrow trail corridor. Land located at N ½ SE ¼, and SE ½ NE ¼, Section 7, Town 33N, Range 2E.

17922A ibid IAT destroyed by earth moving and logging equipment

17922B ibid large logging & diesel ‘buncher & feller’ used to skid logs down the IAT

17923 Memo 12-17-1987 ‘concerns’ by RPR

17924 L. 3-8-2014 RPR to Kevin Thesius

17925 L. 12-7-1987 John R. Zillmer, Pres. Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation, to directors

17926 W. 1987 Wisconsin Act 98 published 12-7-1987. Inter alia, the act designated the Ice Age National Scenic Trail a state scenic trail to be known as the ‘Ice Age Trail.’

17926A ibid p. 2

17927 P. 12-1987 Rib Lake Jaycee & cross country trail map, colored arrows and blazes designate different trails, some of which shared a corridor; yellow identified the IAT; green the Jaycee Trail, renamed ‘Nordic’ c. 1995. In 2014 the Alliance began building in Rib Lake a separate corridor for the IAT

17927A P. 12-1987 IAT & Jaycee Trail sharing corridor in Rib Lake School Forest; note yellow and greel blazes

17928 L. 12-10-1987 Helen & Roy Meier to RPR. Roy Meier single-handedly rewrote history. After Tim’s Hill was officially determined to be Wisconsin’s highest natural point in the 1970s, Roy added a second ‘M’ to make the name more appropriate, in his opinion. His new spelling was ‘Timms.’ The new spelling caught on and by 2000, was commonly used. (see 17929 & 17930.)

17928A Plat Map c. 1889 by unknown cartographer of portions of Town 34N-R2 & 3 West, Price County. Approximate route of Timms Hill Trail drawn in red by RPR in 1989. NB-No ‘point’ of land is shown on Spirit Lake. Tim Gahan owns the SE SE Sec. 2, 34N0R2E; the unnamed lake in Sections 1 & 11 is now ‘Tims Lake.’ The highest part of Timms Hill is in the N ½ NE ¼, 11-34-2E.

17928B ibid; Map , east one third, including Knox Mills and James Ritchie SE SE 34N-R2E – pine logger who gave his name to lake along the Timms Hill Trail in Section 1, 33-2E.

17928C ibid Map center third, including Ogema and Prentice Junction

17929 Map 12-23-1987 Rib Lake Ski Trails

17929A 1-20-1988 ‘Pleasantly surprised by condition of Rib Lake area cross country ski trails,’ Star News. Letter praising Timms Hill Trail – ‘The views were astonishing…’ by Mark Zondlo, Marshfield, WI

17930 12-1987 ‘Chips & Sawdust,’ newsletter of Wisconsin Forest History Association.

17930A ibid IAT

17930B P. c. 1902 12 men build Wisconsin Central Railroad extension east from Rib Lake; its right of way was used for the IAT in 1987 to present nar RLLC Camp 7.

17931 W. 9-1987 ‘A Hike Through History.’ By Henry S. Reuss, in Wisconsin Natural Resources. National Park Service certified IAT now totals 175 miles.

Timeline:

1971 – Congress establishes Ice Age National Scientific Reserve

1975 – Ice Age Trail Council formed

1980 – Congress ads Ice Age National Scenic Trail to 1968 National Trails Act

17932 L. 12-1987 Marbeth Beuther, nka Woodke, to RPR

17932A 1987 newsletter, Sierra Club, Fox Valley, Wisconsin, chapter

17932B ibid IAt construction news. Sierra built several miles of IAT near Rib Lake.

17933 P. 1-1988 sign; ‘Come Walk Through Time,’ erected at STH 13 wayside near Westboro, WI, by Wisconsin Conservation crew on 6.5 mile East Lake segment, which they helped build. The Wisconsin Conservation Corps was made up of juveniles from the Wsiconsin State School at Irma, Lincoln County; the program was managed by David ‘Dave’ Phillips, longtime IAT board member and activist; timeline – 1-1988, East Lake, Rib Lake & Wood Lake segments opened over 25 miles of IAT between STH 14 and Tower Avenue in Lincoln County.

17934 12-27-1987 flyer, Porcupiner ‘Porky’ ski races at Timms Hill.

17934A ibid Map 12-27-1987 4th annual Porcupiner ‘Porky’ ski races at Timms Hill

17935 P. 12-1988 Timms Hill, elevation 1951.5 feet, Wisconsin’s highest natural point seen from south across Bass Lake

17936 P. 12-1988 Race start of Porcupiner Ski Race on Bass Lake

17937 P. 12-1988 Scot Bromann (L) & Max Dillon, pause at Timms Hill Trail sign. Existing High Point Ski Club trail from Timms Hill south to Garden of Memories cemetery was renamed Timms Hill Trail

17938 P. 12-1988 Kate Bromann skis Timms Hill Trail blazed with red paint. NB-signs show Timms Hill Trail open for skiing and hiking

17939 P. 12-1987 Ann K. Dillon skis Timms Hill Trail in Timms Hill County Park

17940 P. 12-1988 ‘Highway to Heaven’ a steep hill on Timms Hill Trail

17941 P. 12-1987 classical and skate ski ruts on Timms Hill Trail on then Illinois Paper Co. land one mile south of Timms Hill

17942 P. 12-1987 Ann K. Dillon skate skis up hill on Timms Hill Trail

17943 P. 12-1987 Ann K. Dillon, nka, Rusch, leads pack of ‘Porky’ ski race skiers to finish line on Bass Lake. Timms Hill Trail in background. Partnering with the High Point & Rib Lake Ski Club immensely aided the IAT construction. It brought of pool of enthusiastic, energetic persons to build and maintain both the IAT near Rib Laek and the Timms Hill Trail. This pool was dimished c. 200 when the IAT decided to eschew wide trails – many former logging logs - in favor of a footpath 18 inches wide.

17944 10-1988 metal medallion given to each runner or walker on eve of the Ice Age event, a 5-mile run-walk around Rib Lake held annually as part of Ice Age Days. NB-Medallion noted IAt & Timms Hill Trail

17944A ibid back

17945 1986 proposed Timms Hill Trail logo ‘Ice Age National Scenic Trail System.’ A hemlock tree, represents the dominant virgin forest tree in the region. Timms Hill, with its observation towers above Bass Lake.

17946 1990 pamphlet ‘Timms Hill National Trail’ Note Pewaukee address of the Foundation. The logo incorporated changes made by the National Park Service when it approved the pathway as the very first national side-connecting trail, pursuant to the 1968 National Trails Act.

17946A ibid Map 1990, Timms Hill National Trail

17947 ‘1990 Timms Hill Trail, National Trails System.’ Logo approved and manufactured by Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service

17948 Memo ‘Innovations’ by Robert P. Rusch 10-1988

17948A P. 12-1988 Gary Thums with snowmobile he used to groom East Lake segment by dragging two used Christmas trees

17948B P. 12-1988 Karen M. Rusch holding ‘Hard-Easy’ sign

17948C P. 12-1988 signs being painted in home of trail activist. The pointed ‘Bromann’ sign will point the way to the home of Scot Bromann, president, Rib Lake Ski Club

17948D P. 12-1988 Gary Thums stands next to donation box

17949 ‘Ice Age Trail link inspected by Dave Obey,’ Wausau Daily Herald. Congressman David Obey (D. Wausau) was a strong environmentalist and ardent support of the IAT

17950 1-18-1988 Memo, Gary Werner to RPR

17950A ibid enclosed ‘Proposed trail relocation’ west of Mondeaux Flowage. Map drawn by Adam Cahow, retired professor of glacial geology, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Adam worked tirelessly and carefully chooseing IAT locations. He built, signed and maintained the first IAT in Taylor County.

17951 L. 1-12-1988 Dr. Adam Cahow to Jim Thomas, Chequamegon National Forst re ‘Ice Age Semi-primitive area.’

17951A ibid p. 2 signed ‘Adam’

17952 Map c. 2001, Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest ‘Ice Age National Scenic Trail’ cover

17952A ibid Legend

17952B ibid Mondeaux, east trailhead

17952C ibid Ice Age Semi-primitive area

17952D ibid Ice Age Semi-primitive area & Jerry Lake

17952E ibid West trailhead

17952F ibid Chippewa Lobe Loop Trail

17953 W. ‘National Trails System Map & Guide’ c. 1995

17953A ibid IAT

17953B ibid Appalachian

17953C ibid National Scenic Trails

17953D ibid

17953E ibid National Historic Trail Iditarod

17953F ibid Trail of Tears

17954 Map 1986 Chequamegon National Forest – Medford unit - IAT legend

17954A ibid NE, NB-cartographer took great liberty in dreaming up IAT route east of forest

17954B ibid NW – Jump River

17954C ibid SW – Lublin

17955 1994 High Point Chapter information form

17956 W. 4-4-1994 Cooperating landowners – High Point Chapter – p. 1

17956A ibid p. 2

17956B ibid p. 3

17956C ibid p. 4

17957 Map c. 2-1990 Rib Lake Area Trails – IAT, Timms Hill Trail & Jaycee Trail.

17957A Map 5-2-1990 McGilles Pine Camp

17958 9-19-2004 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ‘Making a mountain out of Timms Hill.’ By Dennis McCann

17958A ibid p. 2 P. Blomberg Bridge, fka Fawn Valley Road Bridge

17959 1997 draft – management plan – East Lake segment of IAT, Taylor county Forest, by Wayne Tlusty – cover

17959A ibid p. 2, signature lines of members; Brad Ruesch, county forester; Steve Clark, IAT field representative; Wayne Tlusty, author-professional landscape architecture, UW Extension; Tom Gilbert, National Park Service; Mike Ecker, High Point Chapter; Kathy Bero, exective director of Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation; Mike Roiger, Taylor County Forestry Commission Chair; Wayne Lato, Taylor County Forestry Commission Member; Tim Peterson, Taylor County Forestry Commission Member

17959B ibid p. 3 Table of Contents

17959C ibid p. 4

17959D Map 1997 ‘Inventory and analysis’ IAT – East Lake by Steve Clark, east half

17959E ibid west half; NB-At this point remainder of plan not scanned, original documetns in RLH Soc. Archives

17960 L. 3-9-1998 Dr. Wayne Tlusty to Robert P. Rusch, East Lake segment of IAT management plan

17961 L. 6-11-1998 Brad Ruesch, Administrator, Taylor County Forestry, Parks & Recreation

17962 6-16-1998 Memo, Steve Clark, IAT northern field representative to Robert P. Rusch, possible quotes for news release

17963 L. 3-17-1998 Robert P. Rusch to Wayne Tlustry

17964 L. 8-5-1998 Robert P. Rusch to Christine Thisted, IAT Park & Trail Foundation

17964A ibid p. 2

17964B ibid p. 3

17965 1997 ‘Taylor County Forest. Management plan for East Lake trail corridor segment of the Ice Age National Scenic Trail.’ Cover

17965A ibid p. 2 letter by Wayne Tlusty

17965B ibid p. 3 resolution 9-5-1997 adopting the East Lake Ice Age Trail management plan into the county forest, 10 year plan

17965C ibid p. 4 review and approvals, signatures. NB-This plan is 75 pages long. Only the first 4 pages are scanned here. An original document in the Society archives.

17966 Map 6-1-1997 ‘Enjoy Wisconsin’s Ice Age Trail.’ Rib Lake, East Lake segments and Timms Hill National Trail. cover, proposed by Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation, est. 1958

17966A ibid History of High Point Chapter. High Point Chapter organized in 1986 to include portions of Taylor, Price & Lincoln Counties.

17966B Map

17966C Area motels, campgrounds & restaurants & Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation, Inc., membership form, PO Box 425, Pewaukee, WI (NB-Later version of this map was printed 8-8-1999. There the foundation’s address was 207 E. Buffalo St., Suite 515, Milwaukee, WI)

17967 Map c. 1995 ‘Rib Lake, Wis. Ski Trails’ by Ray Lemmerman, dba Smudge Printing, north half

17967A ibid south half

17967B ibid text, application form, Rib Lake Area Nordic Ski Club

17967C ibid, cabins, Kris’s, Thums, Trail farm & Catch-A-Dream

From folder ‘IAT Misc c. 1987-1993’ RLH Soc.

17968 9-14-1987 application for certification Wood Lake segment of IAT by Brad Ruesch, Taylor County Forester

17968A signature of Regional Director, National Park Service

17968B Map 9-1987 Wood Lake segment memo IAT by Gary Werner

17969 c. 1989 mailing list for High Point Chapter, 23 members

17969A ibid p. 2

17970 1-20-1989 L. Gerald D. Baumann, Exec. Director, Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation, Inc. to Robert P. Rusch

17970A 9-4-1988 Sheboygan Press ‘Windway Among Historic Places.’ Site of Foundation board meeting

17971 1-31-1989 L. Pat Miller, National Park Service, to Robert P. Rusch re distances of certified segements of IAT in Taylor County

17971A signed Pat Miller

17972 L. 1-24-1989 Robert P. Rusch to National Park Service re trail certifications – High Point Chapter

17972A W. ‘Trail distances within High Point Chapter’ by Robert P. Rusch; NB-Timms Hill Trail ‘10 Miles’

17973 1989 ‘Chippewa Moraine unit – a national scenic reserve – draft master plan summary. DNR.

17973A Map ‘Chippewa Moraine Unit, a national scenic reserve’

17973B text

17973C ibid

17973D ibid

17974 11-1-1989 WDNR to concerned citizens. Planning hearing Chippewa Moraine, national scenic reserve

17975 4-4-1989 L. Robert P. Rusch to Ramon Parks re IAT

17975A spring 1989 newsletter, American Hiking Society, re trail signs made at Rib Lake High School

17976 9-26-1989 Wisconsin Conservation Corps. re current job opportunities

17977 11-1989 ‘On Tour in Taylor County,’ Silent Sports Magazine re IAT

17977A ibid

17977B ibid

17978 12-13-1989 ‘Slow going for IAT.’ Milwaukee Journal

17978A ibid Map ‘route of IAT’ by Journal Graphic John Pincard

17978B 12-15-1989 cover letter, John R. Zillmer ‘care free citizen’

17979 L. 1-10-19990 Adam Cahow to Ice Age Park & Trail supporter re Chippewa Moraine, national scenic reserve.

17979A Natural Resources board – DNR

17979B comments on Chippewa Moraine master plan by Adam Cahow

17979C Map c. 12-6-1989

17979D ibid comments by Adam Cahow (NB-in the 1970s and 80s, Adam Cahow worked untold hours laying out and building IAt in Chippewa & Taylor County, he drove a beatup station wagaon loaded with tools, signs and bedding-Robert P. Rusch 3-17-2014.)

17980 L. 1-11-1990 David Kinnanow, Senior Vice President, Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation, to Spencer Black re IAT destruction by Chippewa County

17980A ibid p. 2

17980B ibid p. 3

17981 2-21-1990 Robert P. Rusch to Milton Reinke, Wis. State Forester, re recollections of Rib Lake c. 1950

17981A ibid signed by Robert P. Rusch

17982 2-21-1990 ‘Recollections of the Rib Lake, WI, area’ by Milton Reinke, Wis. State Forester. Transcription of the recording done at Rusch Law Office in Medford. Pine-’probably made up less than 6% of the timber resource volume’ in the virgin forest near Rib Lake.

17982A ibid RLLC, after cutting prevalent timber, type changed from hardwood-hemlock, to aspen & white birch

17982B ibid RLLC said 13,000,000 board feet of timber sawed in Rib Lake

17982C ibid Ma Dodge’s Café, Village of Rib Lake

17982D ibid

17982E ibid Porcupines, John Marcon, Warden

17982F ibid bear traps

17982G ibid effect of fire

17982H Gerstberger Pines

17983 4-24-1990 list of officers and directors, Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation p. 1

17983A ibid p. 2

17983B ibid p. 3 Gerald D. Baumann, Exec. Dirctor.

17984 Spring, 1990 ‘Pathways across America; A newsletter for national & historic trails) p. 1

17984A ibid Tim Gilbert named head National Park Service officer of IAT

17984B ibid

17984C ibid

17984D ibid

17984E ibid

17984F ibid

17984G ibid

17984H ibid

17984I ibid

17984J ibid

17984K ibid

17985 Autumn-Winter 2013-2014 Pathways Across America, a publication for the National Trails System - cover

17985A ibid National Historic Trails

17985B ibid p. 2 National Scenic Trails

17985C ibid p. 3

17985D ibid p. 4

17985E ibid p. 5

17985F ibid p. 6, Photo of Gary Werner

17985G ibid p. 7

17985H ibid p. 8

17985I ibid p. 9

17985J ibid p. 10

17985K ibid p. 11

17985L ibid p. 12

17985M ibid p. 13 Letter by Gary Werner

17985N ibid p. 14

17985O ibid p. 15 back

17986 4-24-1990 Minutes of directors meeting, Windway Kohler. P. 1

17986A ibid p. 2

17986B ibid p. 3 Timms Hill trail certified c. 3-21-1990. ‘…the directors [of Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation] unanimously voted to thank directors Rusch & Reuss as well as the local chapters for efforts resulting in this certification...’

17986C ibid p. 4

17986D ibid p. 5

17986E ibid p. 6 signed Thomas Dought, secretary

17987 6-7-1990 L. Gerald D. Baumann to Robert P. Rusch

17988 7-6-1990 Wisconsin Counties Association to Edwin Ahlers re videotaping IAT

17989 8-1-1990 L. Robert P. Rusch to J.I. Case Co. re bulldozing the IAT to permit cross country skiing.

17990 9-1-1990 J.I. Case Co. to Robert P. Rusch

17991 1-24-1991 L. Thomas Drought to Robert P. Rusch

17991A consent by Robert P. Rusch to increase board from 24 to 30

17992 1993 list of officers & board of IAT

17992A ibid p. 2

17992B ibid p. 3

17992C ibid p. 4

17992D ibid p. 5

17992E ibid p. 6 staff, Nancy Sandstrom, Ex. Dir.; Gary Werner, Director of Planning & Protection; Steve Clark, Northern Regional Coordinator

From IAT Merger file

17993 W. 8-11-1989 ‘Proposal for merger’

17993A ibid p. 2

17994 L. 8-14-1989 John R. Zillmer to Doc. Werner, et. Al, re reorganization

17995 L. 8-17-1989 Thomas Drought to IAT Council Directos re proposed new bylaws

17995A restated Articles of Incorporation of Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation, Inc.

17995B ibid p. 2

17995C ibid p. 3

17995D ibid p. 4 Board members

17995E ibid p. 5

17996 10-16-1989 W. New bylaw provision; membership in IAT council

17996A ibid p. 2

17997 3-20-1990 David Phillips to IAT Council Directors re merger problems

From IAT minutes file

17998 4-13-1993 L. Robert P. Rusch, High Point Chapter Coordinator, to Steve Clark

17999 4-13-1993 minutes – High Point Chapter – IAT Council p. 1, (Mountain bike race on Rib Lake segment)

17999A ibid p. 2, Mountain biking is permitted with landowner and chapter approval

17999B ibid p. 3, Pine Line Duet Duathalon – 53 mile event celebrates national trails day [Robert P. Rusch & Steve Clark team up against Jim Sisko & ???]

17999C ibid p. 4

17999D ibid p. 5 ‘Adam Cahow single-handedly laid out the [Taylor County Ice Age] trail in 1973.’

18000 list – Attendees at 4-7-1993 High Point Chapter meeting

18000A ibid p. 2

18001 11-10-1994 letterhead – Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation, Inc.

18002 L. 11-17-1993 RPR to Town of Rib Lake board

18003 4-29-1988 Easement IAT; RPR to Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation for IAT construction and property protection p. 1

18003A ibid p. 2 Trail for hiking and skiing

18003B ibid p. 3 cutting of standing timber prohibited except ‘selective harvest…’

18003C ibid p. 4

18003D ibid p. 5

18003E ibid p. 6 signed RPR & Karen Rusch

18003F ibid p. 7, signed John R. Zillmer & Thomas Drought

18003G ibid p. 8 drafter David Kinnamon

18003H ibid p. 9 legal description; 200 ft. wide over existing trail

18003I ibid p. 10 ‘This Ice Age Trail easement agreement conveys to the Foundation a right-of-way and conservation easement for those portions of the Ice Age Trail and its Timms Hill side trail…[emphasis added] [NB-The Timms Hill trail was-is a part of the IAT and the Foundation-RPR 3-20-2014.]

18004 Map 9-19-2011 13-33-2E with legal boundaries shown in yellow

18004A ibid Map modified 3-20-2014 by RPR to show former route of Ice Age Trail (in green) and Timms Hill Trail (in red) as described and built in foregoing easement of 4-29-1988 – image 18003

18004B Map 3-20-2014 old & new IAT & Timms Hill Trail routes in 12-33-2E by RPR [NB-old routes in existence to 5-3-2008, i.e. effective date of Rollie Thums trail closures, see image 18005.]

18005 L. 3-6-2008 Rollie Thums to Buzz Meyer & Tim Malzahn closing IAT & Timms Hill Trail on Thums land between CTH C & CTH D, Town of Rib Lake, effective 5-3-2008.

18006 P. 4-14-1970 Six prepare to assist RPR in hand painting red pine at SE NE 13-33-2E. L-R, unknown, unknown, Terry Rebholz, Mrs. Terry Rebholz, Bruce Lindahl, unknown, view east*** as of 4/13/14 photo missing, not scanned; photo is mounted in an album with other photographs of the creation of Waldheim in 1969. Album probably at Bob’s home***

18006A P. 4-15-2014 same view as prior photo, 18006 *** missing not scanned

Dennis Kuehling collection

18007 P. 1906 RLLC Camp 2

18007A back, divided back used 1907-1914 by printer

18008 P. c. Chelsea, view north on Front Street to junction with county road (left); commercial buidings, NB-tall wood flag pole to left of water trough

18008A Azo stamp box – 4 triangles used by printer from 1904-1914

18009 P. c. 1950 ‘Main St., Westboro’ view north on then Highway 13; left-tavern ad ‘Old Style Lager’ in 2014 VFW Hall; rear-’Kures’ tap; right-’Robin Hood floor feed mixing and grinding’; NB-’cyclone’ separator on roof-a dust collector for catching byproducts of grinding oats; cars L-R: 1940 Oldsmobile Coupe; 1937 Hudson ‘Terraplane’; 1951 Mercury Club Coupe; 3 gas station on east side of Highway 13; City Service, Standard & Texaco

18009A back 7-14-1950 ‘Ashland & Spencer’ railroad post office; postcard was stamped on moving Soo Line train between Ashland & Spencer

18010 P. c. 1950 view south on Highway 13 in Westboro-right-junction of CTH D & Phillips 66 gas station, operated by Bud Odau until c. 1988; left ‘Westboro Locker Paln’ with Chevrolet panel truck;

18010A back Exc stamp box printer used 1939-1950

18011 2008 ‘Westboro Town & Country Days’ T-shirt

18012 P. 6-4-1914 ‘Hemlock, Wis. flood scene’ Black River in flood over dam at curren ghost town of Hemlock, Wis., Clark County, wreaked remnant of former N.H. Withee grist mill, which had stood south of dam. The Black River begins at Black Lake, four miles west of Rib Lake

18013 1-1880 History of Hemlock, Wis., in Clark County Press

18014 5-1-2013 ‘Good Old Days’ Old hemlock dam washing away, Clark County Press

18014A P. 1953 remains of Hemlock dam. Village only had Baxter Shaw boarding house, 2 houses, and lumber mill ‘run by Mr. Limprent.’ (millwright)

18015 P. 1953 ‘present appearance of old hemlock dam’ Theodore Withee, former resident.

End of Kuehling collection

18016 7-7-1912 Invoice to RLLC for #3 grade hemlock lumber 13/16’ thick, in 6, 8 & 10’ widths and 10-16’ lengths at $10 per thousand to be shipped to Janesville, Wis. via Missour Pacific boxcar

18016A L. 3-19-2014 Chippewa Valley Consignment Shop to RPR

18016B L. 4-13-14 RPR to Chippewa Valley Consignment Shop

18017 1970 Elm wood board. Tree harvested by RPR after Dutch Elm disease killed it

18017A back, Annotations 1-21-2014 by RPR

18018 2014 Wis. Auto Registration plate IAT 50 [Ice Age Trail 50 mile trail Ultramarathon, RPR has completed 15]

18018A ibid 1998 Registration plate

18018B T-shirt logo ‘Ice Age Trail 50 mile endurance run’ ‘500 mile club’ awarded to Robert P. Rusch upon his tenth completion

18019 W. ‘Logging’ by George Koshak

18019A ibid p. 71, hemlock specs in virgin Rib Lake area forest

18020 W. 2013 ‘Rib Lake School Forest Trail Guide’ by Tom Kopecky, cover & map

18020A ibid stations 2-7

18020B ibid stations 8-14 Tom Hebda bridge

18020C ibid stations 15-20

18020D ibid stations 21-25

18020E ibid photos - students

18021 P. 1912 Westboro Lumber Co., planing mill crew

18021A ibid back, postmark 7-7-1912 Westboro to John Hultin

18022 P. c. 1910 ‘Greetings from Westboro, Wis.’ 9 separate photos

18022A ibid mill Westboro Lumber Co.

18022B ibid Catholic Church

18022C ibid Queenstown

18022D ibid High School

18022E ibid Main Street

18022F ibid Swedish Lutheran Church

18022G ibid ‘Swedish Church’

18022H ibid Episcopal Church

18022 I Commercial buildings

18022J back, postmark Westboro 3-13, to John Holsinger

18023 W. ‘Historic St. Ann’s, Inc.’ 2-2014 125th year celebration 9-1-2013 P. procession at cemetery; leading-George Dums

18023A ibid, p. L. church interior 2014, signed Helen Hobl

18023B ibid membership form

18024 map 1910 Chicago & North Western Railroad system

18025 Map 1895 Railroad; Milwaukee Lake Shore & Western

18026 Map 1926 Railroad; Milwaukee Road – construction dates, Newwood 1914

18027 Cartoon 2014 ‘Marly’

18027A P. 2014 Marley, a yellow lab & Golden Retriever mix; wonder pet of Ann & Bob Rusch

18027B P. 9-2013 Marley at Walnut Pond, NW SW 13-33-2E

18027C P. 12-2013 Marley at winter Rusch family bonfire

18027D P. 12-2013 Marley plays hockey on Rusch Pond; L-R grandkids Ryan Strobach, Kirstin Riggs & Beka Strobach

18028 P. 9-8-1990 Main Street Gym relay team, Medford: L-R, Allen Venzke, Robert P. Rusch, Mike Baker, Kathy Weiz, Todd Baker; 12th American Odyssey Marathon, starting in Marathon and ending in Athens, Marathon County, Wisconsin. The team finished in 3 hours, 40 minutes.

18029 P. c. 1980 view NE from Rib Mountain

18029A ibid back

18030 1978 matchbook – University of Wisconsin Badgers – cover

18030A1978 UW Badger football schedule

18030B ibid

18031 4-2014 ‘Price Electric Cooperative - Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News’ cover

18031A ibid ‘Pines to Poles’ Wis. red pine (pinus resinosa) used for utility poles p. 2

18031B ibid p. 3

18032 Lori A. Manion, District Administrator, School District of Rib Lake, 2014

18033 4-21-2014 Tricia (Mrs. Karl) Kissinger email to Robert P. Rusch

18034 L. 4-25-2014 Mary Burke, Candidate for Wisconsin Governor, to Robert P. Rusch

18034A ibid p. 2

18034B ibid p. 3

18034C ibid p. 4

18035 P c. 1925 ‘Noll cottage, Spirit Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. K 951’

18035A back, postcard 9-8-1926 J. Al. to Switz Hornier, Brookville, Ohio

18035B 4-2014 Spirit Lakes Improvement Assoc. postcard

18035C ibid Annual meeting notice ‘review of algae study grant’

18036 4-17-2014 ‘Earth Day’ Star News ‘Grass Grazers & Family Raisers’

18036A ‘Goodrich family trades conventional for sustainable’

18036B ibid P. Jason & Katrina Julian farm ‘Family makes commitment to long-term agricultural practices’

18036C ibid

18036D ibid P. Aaron Julian

18036E ibid P. Jason & Katrina Julian farm in Town of Goodrich

18037 obit. Earl Thums, Star News 4-17-2014

18038 4-29-2014 Price-Taylor County Bar Association meeting notice

18039 Ed Thiel, dba Ed’s Lawn Care, business card

18040 P. Bertha Rusch, lka Mrs. Walter Kurth, c. 1918

18041 P. c. 1915 4 women posing in front of Albert Knop, Sr., farm in Town of Rib Lake; L-R unknown, Bertha A. Rusch, unknown, Anna Rusch (lka Mrs. Robert Bleck, Sr.), unknown; in 2014 farm house is residence of Mrs. Anna Packenham, 8198 CTH C, Rib Lake

18042 P. c. 1915 L-R Anna Rusch, Bertha Rusch & Tina Pagel with ‘Old Belle’ on Albert Knop, Sr., farm. He was stepfather of Anna & Bertha Rusch

18043 P. c. 1915, 4 unidentified women play in channel between Little & Big Spirit Lakes

18044 P. c. 1915 8 unidentified people on top of an unloaded, heavy-duty logging sleigh with a 16-foot bunk at the Ernst Zuther farm in the Town of Rib Lake

18045 P. 5-1936 L-R Irma Herman, nee Knop, Helen Knop, nee Schmidt, & Anna Bleck, nee Rusch, at unknown farm

18046 P. c. 1922 Bertha Rusch & 3 unknown people swim in Little Cedar Lake, Washington County, Wis.; at the time Bertha worked at Toma’s Resort

18047 P. c. 1930 Walter Kurth nets suckers from Cedar Creek near Jackson, Wis. a helper would beat the water to drive the fish

18048 P. c. 1925 Mr. & Mrs. Walter & Bertha Kurth

18049 P. 1923 Mr. & Mrs. Walter & Bertha Kurth at Cornell, Wis. Bertha was born 5-6-1902 in Rib Lake, daughter of Ida (nee Lange) & Herrmann Emanuel Rusch. She married Walter Kurth on 10-6-1923 at David Star Lutheran Church, Jackson, Wis. It was a double wedding with Emma Zuther of Rib Lake and Bill Ellerman. Walter was born 4-2-1899 and died 9-19-1966 and known to all as ‘Wally’

18050 P. c. 1940 Walter Kurth, always fun-loving, hides behind a tree next to his North Milwaukee home

18051 P. c. 1933 Herman A. Rusch boxes at August Kurth farm near Jackson, Wis.

18052 P. c. 1944 L-R Robert Bleck, Jr.; Herman A. Rusch, Walter Kurth & Elwood Bleck, then in US Army, pose at Kurth’s Sheboygan, WI, home

18053 P. c. 1950 L-R Bertha Kurth, Ardene Krueger & unknown woman

18054 9-8-1990 L-R Allan Venzke, Robert P. Rusch, Michael Baker, Kathy Weix, Todd Baker, Main Street Gym relay team, American Odyssey Marathon, Marathon to Athens, Wisconsin.

18055 1990 Timms Hill Trail, Ice Age National Trail System, from sweatshirt

18056 8-8-2014 Advertisement ‘Taylor County’ by Robert P. Rusch

18056A ibid ‘Images of America-Taylor County’ by local author Robert P. Rusch, published by Arcadia Publications, Mt. Pleasant, South Caroline, America’s largest pubisher of local histories

18057 4-2014 ‘Log Cabin News’ Taylor County Historical Society. Photo of railroad tower at Polley at junction of Wisconsin Central (after 1909-Soo Line) & Stanley, Merrill & Phillips

18057A ibid p. 2 history of Medford by Margaret Ryan, Part II

18057B ibid p. 3

18057C ibid p. 4 Germania Hall in Medford

18057D ibid p. 5 Hides from South America came to Shaw Medford Tannery

18057E ibid p. Laura Ingalls Wilder

18058 pamphlet ‘Taylor County Historical Society Museum’ 2014

18058A back ibid p. 2 sites on National Register of Historic Places; 1-J.W Benn building; 2-Indian Farm; 3-St. Anns Catholic Church & cemetery (1888); 4-Jump River Town Hall (1915); 5-Medford Free Public Library (1915) aka McKinley Town Hall; 6-Mondeaus Dam Recreation Historic District (1932); 7-Taylor County Courthouse (1914); 8-Medford Post Office (1936)

18059 P. 1-2014 RLLC Camp 6 bunk house site; 30-foot long ridge of snow marks remannat of bunk house foundation. On SE NE 12-33-2E, Town of Rib Lake. Site owned by Ice Age Trail Alliance, which is petitioning Dept. of Interior to list it on the National Register of Historic Places

18059A ibid, same photo as prior image except red arrows added pointing to end points of Foundation

18059B P. 11-26-1911 dirt piled against base of hunting shack log cabin in Sec. 20, either 32N-R2W or 31W-R2W, Perkinstown, Wis. after wood rots, an earth berm will mark building location.

18060 Map 4-1-2014 ‘Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Trails’ approximate location of RLLC Camp 6 shown in Rusch Preserve & Trailhead

18061 P. 1-2014 ‘Welcome to Schoenwalde’ sign explaining IAT trail & conservation easements granted to Ann & Robert P. Rusch. Sign adjacent to Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club ‘Nordic’ trail on NW SE 12-33-2E

18062 Map Spring 2014 ‘Rib Lake segment getting closer to reopening’ amended IAT easements approved by Kristin ‘Kris’ & Rodney Strobach. IAT Alliance buys 156 acre former Walbeck property in Town of Rib Lake

18063 Spring 2014 ‘Land Protection 101; IATA’s criteria when acquiring property’ Mammoth News, newsletter of IAT Alliance

18064 L. March 2014, Memorial Health Center Foundation to ‘Friends’ effective 5-1-2014; Memorial Hospital inMedford name changed to Aspirus Hospital Medfordd

18065 pamphlet Mary Williams State Representative

18065A back, ibid p. 2, map 87th Assembly District

18066 4-3-2014 Town of Rib Lake Annual Report of Karen Schneider, clerk

18066A ibid Town Board report p. 2

18066B ibid p. 3 dust control

18066C ibid p. 4 disbursements total $493,929.84

18066D ibid p. 5 2013 taxes real estate $995,271.66

18066E signed Joseph P. Knorn, chair; Ben Kauer, supervisor; Matt Robish, supervisor

18067 P. c. 1900 ‘Westboro, Wis’ view south on Main Street, Town pump stands in middle of road at junction with modern CTH D; right-clothing store & Hotel Lundeen

18067A back, ibid postcard 9-12-1910 Ed Hill to Miss Margaret Wolf, Chicago

18068 P. unidentified painting ‘Greetings from Westboro, Wis.’

18068A back ibid postcard 8-9-1910 Ruth Hanson to Miss Geneva Muaseth (her teacher)

18069 P. c. 1905 Atwood Lumber Co. sawmill at Park Falls, Wis. Huge refuse-sawdust burner

18069A rear ibid postcard 2-22-1909

18070 P. c. 1905 Edward Hines H. & H. (Hemlock & Hardwood) Co., Park Falls, Wis.

18071 Map 2010, Wisconsin State Highway map, cover & back P. Governor Jim Doyle & First Lady Jessica Doyle

18071A ibid p. 2 portion between Rib Lake & Park Falls

18072 2014 Rib Lake Public Library board member emails

18073 W. 4-21-2014 Public meeting notice, Village of Rib Lake

18074 W. 2-24-2014 Notice of foreclosure sale, land in original plat of Rib Lake

18075 Star News 5-1-2014 Pine Line Marathon Results 4-20-2014

18075A Half marathon results, including Katie Strobach, age 14, and Elizabeth Wilson

18076 W. ‘Beyond Expectations, Taylor County.’ 2014 Visitor’s Guide, cover

18076A p. 2 Taylor County parks

18076B ‘Finding Serenity at Wood Lake’

18076C ibid

18076D ‘Adventuring the Goodrich Dells’

18076E ‘Mondeaux Dam’

18076F ibid

18076G ibid photo of Mondeaux flowage

18077 W. 5-8-2014 ‘Rustic Trail Supper Club’ Westboro, Wis. date night menu. Business owned by Douglas Thums in conjunction with his ‘Other Corner’ restaurant, opened c. 2010.

18078 Poster ‘Rustic Trail, right off the Rail Trail’

18078A Menu 2014

18078B ibid Starters & Friday fish

18079 P. 5-2014 sign Snowmobilers Welcome, The Rustic Trail, full bar, full menu

18079A ibid, right, unknown, center-Chef Chris, left Diane Dittrich

18079B ibid Diane Dittrich & Douglas Thums dining at The Rustic Trail

18080 L. 4-18-2014 Republican National Committee to RPR, p. 1

18080A ibid p. 2

18080B ibid p. 3

18080C ibid p. 4, signed Reince Priebus

18081 2014 Republic District census

18081A ibid part 2

18081B ibid part 3

18081C ibid part 4

18082 Map 3-8-2014 Copper River Land Co. line from 3 Kaysen maps with R.P. Rusch notes. Locations of RLLC Camp 1 and Camp 19 shown

18083 P. c. 1957 Sunny Hill Store & Gas Station on STH 102; store & resort located 400 feet west of Spirit River dam. Note Martin house & Little Spirit Lake in rear

18084 W. 10-23-2013 ‘Rib Lake Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony’ Ronald & Joseph Simek and Dr. Kate Alder inducted

18084A ibid p. 2

18085 Map 2-5-2014 Ice Age Trail – Pine Line & East Lake segments

18086 Map 2-5-2014 IAT – East Lake, Rib Lake & Wood Lake segments

18087 Map 2-5-2014 IAT Wood Lake & Timberland Wilderness and Camp 27 segments

18088 Ad 2014 ‘High Point Village’ W3075 Cty RR, Ogema, at foot of Timms Hill, Kathy & Lyle Blomberg, owners

From collection of Kathy & Lyle Blomberg

18089 P. c. 1985 Lyle & Kathy Blomberg

18090 P. c. 1985 Lyle Blomberg with lake trout

18091 P. 1994 Lyle Blomberg, dba Blomberg Christmas Wreaths in former Rhody hardware building in Ogema

18091A ibid NB-metal wreath frames on table, evergreens are local balsam fir

18092 P. 1992 Lyle Blomberg after tipping tractor over while mowing at Swan’s Christmas tree plantation

18093 P. 1994 Lyle Blomberg at ‘Catch-A-Dream Inn,’ which he and Kathy built at foot of Timms Hill

18094 P. c. 2000 Catch-A-Dream Inn entrance

18095 P. 1994 Catch-A-Dream Inn interior, guests sit before massive open fireplace made from local field stone. Tables at right give diners spectacular view of Timms Hill

18096 P. 1994 Lyle & Kathy Blomberg in their private kitchen within Catch-A-Dream Inn

18097 P. 1994 One of five rental cabins built by Lyle. Kathy Blomberg next to Catch-A-Dream Inn and making up High Point Village

18098 P. 2014 Menu from Hill of Beans, breakfast

18098A ibid lunch menu

18098B ibid drinks

18098C ibid Friday night fish fry

18098C-1 6-2014 ‘Our Wisconsin’ magazine cover

18098C-2 Table of Contents

18098C-3 Kathy Blomberg, dba Hill of Beans Restaurant, L-R Gayle Larson, cook; Laura , server; Kathy Blomberg, owner.

End of Lyle & Kathy Blomberg collection

18099 W. 2003 ‘Through the Eyes of the Eagle,’ illustrated by Patrick Rolo & Lisa A. Fifield, nee Rusch, cover

18099A p. 2 biography of Georgia Perez, author

18099B p. 3 title page

18099C p. 4 Diabetes Prevention stories

18099D p. 5 Lisa A. Fifield, nee Rusch, co-illustrator, Native American from Minnesota

18099E p. 6, flying eagle illustration

18099F p. 7 text; Indian boy named Rain that Dances

18099G p. 8

18099H p. 9

18099I p. 10 See bald eagle

18099J p. 11

18099K p. 12

18099L p. 13

18099M p. 14

18099N p. 15 Eagle says I am sad

18099O p. 16

18099P p. 17

18099Q p. 18

18099R p. 19

18099S p. 20

18099T p. 21

18099U p. 22

18099V p. 23

18099W p. 24

18099X p. 25

18099Y p. 26

18099Z p. 27 Why did this make you sad

18099AA p. 28 Many sick…with diabetes

18099BB p. 29

18099CC p. 30

18099DD p. 31

18099EE p. 32

18099FF p. 33

18099GG p. 34

18099HH p. 35

18099II p. 36

18099JJ p. 37

18099KK p. 38

18099LL p. 39 Bio. Lisa A. Fifield, nee Rusch, ‘Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin, Black Bear Clan..’

18099MM p. 40 back cover

18100 W. 2003 ‘Knees Lifted High’ illustrated by Patrick Rolo and Lisa A. Fifield, nee Rusch, cover

18101 W. 2003 ‘Tricky Treats,’ illustrated by Patrick Rolo & Lisa A. Fifield, nee Rusch, cover

18102 W. 2003 ‘Plate Full of Color,’ illustrated by Patrick Rolo & Lisa A. Fifield, nee Rusch, cover

18103 W. 8-2-2014 Concordia University, Milwaukee, notice of Class of 1964 reunion to RPR, front

18103A ibid, back

18104 P. c. 1910 ‘Atwood Lumber & Manufacturing Co.’ Park Falls, Wis, sawmill on west bank of Jump River

18105 W. 3-2014 Lake Pine Village, Prentice, Wis, ad

18105A ibid back, government subsidized rent

18106 W. 3-2014 ‘Price Electric Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News,’ cover

18106A ibid p. 4 Map 3-2014 Price Electric director district

18106B ibid p. 22 Wisconsin Concrete Park article, creator of statues was Fred Smith, was born Fred Schmidt, in Town of Spirit

18106C 2000 sign; ‘Before digging or driving stakes, please call your electric cooperative’

18107 W. 2014 ‘Price County in Northern Wisconsin’ Snowmobile Trails Assoc. Inc., cover

18107A Map Timms Hill & snowmobile trails 2014

18107B legend

18107C ads, ‘Scott & Renee Zondlo, dba Zondlo’s Bar, LLC; Spirit Lake Bar & Grill; Mohr’s Bar, LLC

18108 Map c. 1992 Timms Hill National Trail by Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation, Pewaukee, Wis. Points of interest, RLLC Camp 6, special access trail

18108A ibid, 1990 logo and data

18109 Map c. 1993 ‘Timms Hill Ski & Snowshoe Trails,’ by Lyle Blomberg

18110 W. c. 2004 ‘Highpointers Club, PO Box 529, Northfield, MN 55057’ membership brochure

18110A ibid back, official list of state high points

18111 P. c. 1930 ‘McComb Ave., Rib Lake, Wis.’ with 13 story sky-scraper superimposed as a joke in location occupied on 5-9-2014 as Ed’s IGA, 801 McComb Ave.; building to far left was George Braun’s real estate office; site in 2014 is Mann-Made Pizza, 709 McComb, next ot it was Upjohn-Kennedy Drug Store, the pictured building in 2014 is Ultimate Illusion Beauty Shop, 713 McComb.

18112 P. c. 1905 ‘Scene on Rib River, Rib River Falls, Wis.’ 16 men posing & fishing on natured bedrock with ‘Lincoln log’ wooden dam in back, which creates mill pond for Rib Falls Lumber Co. in this Marathon County scene

18112A back, postcard to Art Desser, Edgar, Wis. ‘Dear Brother, I received your letter and will send your gun Monday. I am so that I can work again. The new planing mill started today. I am working on the Rib River cleaning logs out left during the divide. We had a big flood same as last fall.’

18113 P. c. 1910 ‘Catholic Church, Westboro, Wis.’ In 2014 the site is the Westboro Public Library, W4941 Center Street

18113A back, postcard 3-14-1917 E.M. MacDonnel to Reverend Sister Mary, St. Margargrito Convent, Alexandria, Ontario, Canada.

18114 3-2-2014 Marlin A. Walbeck memory card

18114A back

18115 Map 3-21-2014 Rusch Preserves & Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Trails, Sec. 12, Town 33 North, Range 2 East, vertical

18115A ibid horizontal

18115B Section 1

18115C ibid Section 13

18115D ibid – legend

18116 W. 4-12-2014 Ann Rusch, Certificate of Achievement, 30 years of service, Ice Age Trail Alliance

18116A ibid RPR

18117 5-28-2014 Alexander Severson, Graduation announcement, US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado

18117A front, ibid logo

18117B ibid, sketch, Chapel at academy

18118 5-18-2014 Micah Wildes graduation party, home of Pual & Heidi Wildes, 3117 S. Lexington Blvd, Eau Claire, WI 54701

18119 W. ‘Welcome to Greywood’ Liberty School News, 5-2014 Vol. 16, Number 1; Map 3-2014 Greywood, Price County, Wis. c. 1910

18119A ibid p. 21, P. c. 1910 Peter Johnson sawmill, view to NE; P. c. 1910 Peter Johnson sawmill crew

18119B ibid p. 22 P. c. 1910 Boiler Room of Henry Walstrom basket factory

18119C ibid p. 23, P. ‘The Landing’ near Peter Johnson’s sawmill [RPR note-In 2014 the concrete foundation of the Peterson Johnson sawmill stands in the pasture of the Wayne L. Johnson farm; this foundation is between the Spirit River and CTH YY in SE NE Section 24, 34N-R3E, Town of Spirit]

From collection of German Settlement Historical Society, Inc., N894 German Settlement Rd, Ogema, WI 54459, the Rev. Michael Meier, President

18120 5-2014 ‘Liberty School News’ Vol. 16, Number 1, Newsletter of German Settlement Historical Society, Inc., cover page

18120A ‘Mother’s Day Snow’ by Harold Rhody, ibid p. 2

18120B p. 3 ibid

18121 W. ‘Greywood (aka Graywood)-Johnson’s mill’ photo album by William ‘Bill’ Hoffman; photographs of Wayne Johnson, title page

18121A Greywood Post Office, SE NE 24-34-3E in home of Peter Johnson as covered by Carl H. Rhody in the Saga of Spirit Valley

18121B ibid p. 2

18121B1 W. Greywood Post Office established 2-26-1906; discontinued 3-30-1907, first postmaster was Peterson Johnson, notes by Michael Meier

18121B2 Graywood Postal History by Chris Barney

18121C Map, Town of Brannan (lka Spirit) historic sites by Carl Rhody, c. 1970 Johnson’s mill (Greywood)

18121D c. 1900 Town of Brannan (34N-R3E) plat map

18121D1 ibid annotated copy by RPR, 1) Peter Johnson residence were Greywood Post Office located; 2) George Meyer property; he was plantiff versus Wisconsin Central & Soo Line Railroad in proceedings before Wis. Railroad Commission where he won ruling that line a common carrier that had to provide him railroad service; 3) Big Spirit Lake showing original surveyor’s and cartographer’s errors omitting Spirit Point; 4) farm & residence of Ole ‘Olie’ A. Peterson, entrepreneur, 3-time millionaire, who converted his farm into a golf course; 5) location of Village of ‘Spirit’ and C.B. Nelson’s Spirit Post Office, established 1-11-1895. C.B. Nelson appointed firsts post master & served until his death on 6-18-1939.

18121E Map c. 1920 Town of Spirit Plat T34N-R3E shows ‘Spirit Point’ and lots platted there by Ole Peterson

18121F P. Village of Spirit, c. 1909, L-R Art Johnson house, Cook’s Dance Hall, C.B. Nelson Store containing ‘Spirit’ Post office

18121G P. c. 1896 Mr. & Mrs. Peter Johnson

18121H P. c. 1930 Arvid Johnson (son of Peter) and silver fox on his fox farm

18121I P. c. 1930 Arvid Johnson & fox kits on his Town of Spirit fox farm

18121J p. c. 1910 Peter Johnson sawmill

18121K P. c. 1910 Peter Johnson’s sawmill crew

18121L P. c. 1910 interior of Peter Johnson’s sawmill

18121M P. c. 1910 ‘Rib Lake Lumber Co.’ log loader on railroad flat car. Rails on flat car allowed loader to move length of flat car. At least 8 log loaded flat cars. Unidentified locomotive, 0-6-0 (possibly) pulling foredescribed consist, probably to Rib Lake sawmill. Left-spur track passes log landing ‘near Peter Johnson sawmill’. Pile of peeled cedar utility poles in center. The locomotive RLLC #3, a 0-6-0; the same locomotive is shown on image 14445. That image shows ‘American Locomotive Company.’ On the front plate and ‘Rib Lake Lumber Co’ on tender.

Spirit Falls was 3.5 miles from Johnson sawmill via railroad right-of-way. Unconfirmed reports that the MT&N owned the track up to 2 miles from Spirit Falls at which point Wisconsin Central/RLLC began.

18121N postcard dated 6-17-1910 Hemlock bark piled in gondola car near Greywood, Price County, Wis. Teamster and team haul wagon of tanbark to gondola for loading. Postcard inscription; ‘Greetings from Edgar Johnson to Albert Johnson,’ sons of Peter Johnson

18121O P. ‘Aug. 1927’ Stella Johnson in middle of Railroad tracks, rear-Peter Johnson sawmill

18121P P. Railroad adjacent to Peter Johnson’s sawmill

18121Q P. c. 1915 log piling crew with Peter Johnson on right

18121R P. c. 1915 Piling logs, horse pulls chain from other side of pile

18121S P. c. 1915 Tie hewer with broad axe; rear-tie pile; ties have 2 hewed sides; NB-hewer while working stands on log and hopefully misses feet

18121T P. c. 1915 tie hewer atop cedar holding broad axe

18121U P. c. 1915 tie hewer shaving snuff. Two broad axes in cedar; note-hewer has chopped into side of cedar to have scrap wood fall off as he chops straight line

18121V P. c. 1915 tie hewers at home in the woods; note-round grinding wheel to sharpen broad axes

18121W P. c. 1915 Peterson Johnson’s sawmill, view to SW with Spirit River on left. In foreground, laying horizontally is metal smokestack to be erected at sawmill.

18121W-1 ibid metal smokestack with spark arrester being lifted into place

18121X P. 1908 Herman Jahn’s threshing machine

18121X-1 ibid ‘Yellow fellow, Avery Mfg. Co., Peoria, IL’ awning over steam tractor’s cab

18121Y P. 1908 School #1 in District 4, Town of Brannan (Spirit)

18121Z P. 8-1927 ‘Spirit Basket Works’ L-R Mabel Johnson, 2 unidentified children, Stella Johnson

18121AA P. c. 1910 Norwegian Lutheran Church, view west from cemetery SE SW 3-34-3E

18121BB P. c. 1910 view west from Norwegian Lutheran Church, SW SW 3-34-3E; Left-hoem of Richard Maubeine

18121CC 6-20-1914 ‘Quarterly Convention of Price County Unions of Farmer’s Equity Scoiety held in Spirit June 10th’ Phillips Times

18121DD P. c. 1920 C.B. Nelson’s Store & Post Office at Spirit, Wis.

18121EE W. Peter Johnson-Olivia ‘Charlotta’ Olson family group chart, Wayne Johnson, grandson

End of German Settlement Historical Societey Collection

18122 Map 1947 US Quad ‘Rib Lake, Wis.’ including black dot in SW NE 24-34-3E nothing Peter Johnson residence-former location of Greywood Post Office; ‘Logging trak’ marked with dashes is former railroad of Wisconsin Central/Soo Line/RLLC/M.T.&W Railroad

18123 P. 5-14-2014 former route of steam hauler ice road between RLLC sawmill & Camp 2, view west from Peche Drive .2 mile north from Layman Ave, Town of Rib Laek, SE SE 6-32-3E

18124 P. 5-14-2014 field immediately east of P. 18123; all evidence of ice road is lost

18125 P. 5-14-2014 route of old ice road north from Trout Ave. into SW SW 7-32-3E, ice road crossed Trout Ave .1 mile easet of CTH C

18126 Map 5-14-2014 red arrow poinits to ice road route just south of P. 18126. Ice raod met Big Rib River and proceeded east by southeast through its valley to avoid hills. This ice raod was a major sleigh route to haul saw logs to Rib Lake from the Town of Greenwood. It crossed CTH C going north by northwest north of Trout Avenue.

18127 Map 5-14-2014 extants evidence of former ice roads near Rib River drawn on 1947 Rib Lake quad map; A) Brown line on route of portion of steam hauler ice road c. 1906 between RLLC sawmill and Camp 2 (see 18123); B) red line identified by Fredrick Hengst as route of old (ice) road running SE through SW SW 5-32-3E; road could not be discerned on 5-14-2014 by Robert P. Rusch, probably due to logging; c) green line on route of portion of ice road used by sleighs on SW SW 7-32-3E (see 18125

18128 W. 1934 ‘A Study of Wisconsin’ ‘Its resources, its physical, social and economic background’ Wisconisn Regional Planning Committee, Phillip F. LaFollette, Governor, cover

18128A Title Page

18128B Introduction by Phillip F. LaFollette

18128C Index

18128D ibid

18128E Map 1931 Photographic diagram of Wisconsin, Loyal Durand, Jr.

18128F Map Maximum Glaciation of US

18128G P. 113 Public School System in Wisconsin

18128H P. 114 Public water supply – Rib Lake

18128I P. 151 Map Health-Pollution of private water supply; T.C 25-50%

18128J P. 163 Map, industrial pollution of streams

18128K P. 166 Map, existsing state parks

18128L P. 178 Map, Wiscosin drainage (river) districts

18128MP. 213 Map 1931 farm income; T.C. $988; farm land value; T.C. $0 to 24 per acre in 1930

18128N P. 216 Map conservation; tentative land use problem regions

18128O P. 220 Map resettlement areas

18128P P. 221 ‘lumber industry’ in 1907 hemlock cut exceeded white pine for first time in Wisconsin

18128Q Map 6-1932 virgin timber stands in Wisconsin; NB Town of Corning p. 223

18128R P. 224 Map 1882 Wisconsin native vegetation

18128S p. 225 Map 1932 Wis. vegetation and virgin timber

18128T P. 229 chart, Wis. lumber production

18128U P. 240 Map 1934 Wis. county forests; NB T33N-R2E

18128V P. 243 W. Aldo Leopold ‘game management’

18128W P. 274 zoning and resettlement

18128W-1 P. 275 ibid philosophy

18128X p. 278 Map Wis. zoning status

18128Y p. 338, map, electric power transmission 1920

18128Z map 1934 electric generation – Rib Lake steam plan (in RLLC)

18128AA Map 1934 railroad abandonment [NB Hughey-Medford is in error – line never built per Robert P. Rusch 6-6-2014] p. 377

18128BB chart railroads in Wis. p. 431

18128CC Map 12-1-1934 p. 479 CCC camps in Wis. [Perkinstown, Mondeaux & Jump River] Robert P. Rusch 6-6-2014

18128DD Map tax delinquencies by county; T.C. 20-30% p. 501

From Dennis Kuehling collection

18129 P. c. 1910 Chelsea Depot & Wisconsin Central passenger train; 1 baggage car and 1 passenger car. View to NW; rear right-water tower where Black River flows beneath track; NB-4 tracks

18130 ‘The Wisconsin Central; A centenntial view.’

18130A Map 1972 Menasha

18130B Title page

18130C P. Judge Charles Reed

18130D P. Leonard H. Murray

18130EWisconsin Central Founding

18130F Gardener Colby

18130G P. Charles L. Colby, Colby namesake

18130H P. Waupaca depot

18130I P. Mile Post 101, Worcester

18130J P. Elijah B. Phillips

18130K ‘All locomotives bought after 1882 came equipped to burn coal’

18130L Map c. 1900 Wis. Central

18130L-1 Ibid color map

18130M Chicago connection

18130N P. Edwin H. Abbot

18130O Owen cutoff 1904-1908

18130P Bibliography

18130Q ibid

18130R P. Whiting Paper Mill

18130S back cover

18131 ‘Foster’s & Nobody Else’s’ The N.C Foster Enterprises by William ???? cover 1980 [photocopy at RLH Soc.]

18132 Rib Lake Cooperative Creamery, Rib Lake, Wis, one pound net, pasteurized. 8 x 11 inch treated paper to be used to package butter

18133 P. 1908 Interior, Swedish Baptist Church, Ogema, Wisconsin

18134 ‘Owen, Wisconsin; A commemorative history 1923-2002’ cover [copy at RLH Soc.]

18134A Title Page John S. Owen Lumber Company sawmill built 1893

18134B P. logging train trestle over Wisconsin Central tracks east of Owen millpond

18135 ‘Rails Into the Pines; the Chippewa River and Menomonie Railway’ in R.C. ‘Doc’ Brown, 1960 Chronotype Publications, Rice Lake, Wis. cover

18135A Title page

18135B Dedication

18135C Biography ‘Doc’ Brown

18135D Map 1980 Chippewa River & Menomonie Railway by R.C. Brown

18135E P. Chippewa Trail

18135F ibid

18135G P. American log loader (1885-1887)

18135H P. 12 & 13

18135I p. 14 & 15

18135J P. 16 & 17

18135K P. 18 & 19

18135L P. 20 & 21

18135M P. 22 & 23

18135N P. 24 & 25

18135O P. 26 & 27

18135P ibid

18135Q ibid

18135R ibid

18135S ibid

18135T ibid

18135U ibid

18135V ibid

18135W ibid

18135X ibid

18136 P. Rib Mountain from Lake Wausau c. 1980

18137 5-10-2014 First Place Award, male 70 & over, Journey’s Marathon, Eagle River, Wis., to RPR

18138 5-10-2014 Bookmark from Daniel Lechmeier, dba Dan’s Dog Eared Books, Medford

18139 1-2010 W. Timms Hill County Park brochure, Price County tourism

18139A ibid back

18140 7-26-2014 invitation Friends of German Settlement picnic

18141 4-5-1906 US Postal Service order establishing Graywood Post Office

18142 3-11-1907 US Postal Service order Graywood Post Office, discontinued

18143 Lent 2014 Photo of Pope Francis

18144 Walter Averill, memo 6-4-2014 by RPR re Averill employment as bookkeeper for RLLC c. 1936-1948

18144A 6-4-2014 Gordon Stevenson email re Walter Averill, his grandfather

18145 Michelle Brost, MSN, business card 2014

18146 Susan J. Frazier, MD, business card 2014

18147 Map 6-1-2014 Upham Logging railroad & Copper River spur & RLLC Camp 1, James Caysen & Robert P. Rusch, drawn by Carson Wilder

18148 P. 6-2-2003 George Sandul, thru-hiking Appalachian Trail

18148A ibid biography of George Sandul

18149 W. 12-6-2013 George Sandul ‘how Timms Hill dethroned Rib Mountain as Wisconsin’s highest point.’ [permission topublish being sought on 6-13-14]

18149A ibid p. 2

18149B ibid p. 3

18149C ibid p. 4

18149D ibid p. 5

18149E ibid p. 6

18149F ibid p. 7

18149G ibid p. 8

18149H ibid p. 9

18149I ibid p. 10

18149J ibid p. 11

18150 8-2-2001 2001 Passport - cover

18150A ibid signed RPR with photo

18150B ibid stamp 10-10-2001 Amsterdam Schipol airport

18151 P. c. 1949 ‘Seidels’ Housekeeping Cottages, North Harper Lake, Rib Lake, WI. 22’

18151A ibid back postdate 8-6-1949 Alice & Frank Winkler to Mr. and Mrs. Richter, Chicago

18152 L. 6-1-2014 Harry Reid, US Senate Majority Leader to RPR p. 1

18152A ibid p. 2 Koch Brothers

18152B ibid p. 3

18152C ibid p. 4 signed Harry Reid

18152D ibid p. 5

18152E ibid p. 6 W. ‘Our Senate is not for Sale’ refrigerator sticker-magnet

18153 W. 4-29-2014 Rib Lake High School Fine Arts Night, middle school band number

18153A p. 2 ibid program

18154 P. c. 1992 L-R Caroline & Everett A. Rusch, Ann K. Rusch & Lorraine Killion at Waldheim, home of Ann & Bob Rusch

18155 W. 8-25-1991 ‘The Schellers – from the old World to the New World by William Hoffman’ NB-This multiple, extensive history of the Scheller family currently living in the Town of Spirit and elsewhere will not be scanned until question of copyright is clarified –RPR 6-13-14

18155A Index to ‘The Schellers’ by William Hoffman

1 Map ‘Europe in 1871’

2 Karl August Scheller, patriarch

7 Carl Augusst Scheller, emigrated 1882

9 Carl George Scheller accidentally shot Patrick Connolly

11 Max Otto Scheller

12 Max Clarence Scheller

13 Theodore Oswald Scheller, photographer

16 Otto Heinrichs

17 Friedrike Hendrich

18 Lawrence Scheller, stone mason

21 William ‘Bill’ Hoffman

22 MP Leisnig, Germany and Schoederstadt

23 Map, Town of Brennan, Scheller Homesteads

26 family tree

26-10x Genealogical data prepared by William ‘Bill’ Hoffman

105 Map of Wisconsin

108 History, Carl Scheller family by Edward M. Scheller

109 Twelve generations chart

118 Poem ‘The lumbering era’ by Fred W. Rhody

127 Homestead deed to Carl Scheller 1892

136 Will of Max Scheller, Sr. 9-13-1941

18156 P. c. 1908 ‘Wisconsin River & Paper Mill, Rhinelander, Wis’ view north across Wisconsin River and over Soo Line

18156a back, postdate 10-25-1909, Les to E.M. Strait

18157 Poster 9-6-2014 Taylor County Courthourse dedication

18158 9-11-1914 Star News ‘The dedication & big success’ a new 2-story brick Taylor County Courthouse takes place of original courthouse built in 187_

18159 W. 9-9-2014 Taylor County Courthouse Rededication Ceremony program

18159A ibid p. 2

18160 P. c. 1950 ‘Spirit River Crossing’ STH 102 bridge at Little Spirit Lake outlet into Spirit River. Pictured bridge at same location as Donaldson’s stone arch bridge. At rear is Mohr’s Tavern

18161 6-26-1914 Star News ‘training school graduates twenty’ Like many counties, Taylor County operates a ‘normal school,’ so named because it met state standards as a teacher’s college

18162 P. c. 1940 ‘View of Harper Lake Resort, Rib Lake, Wis. 7’

18163 W. 2-1-2014 Lillian A. Pipkorn Memorial service

18163A ibid p. 2 & 3

18163B ibid p. 4 & 5

18163C ibid p. 6 & 7

18163D ibid p. 8, photo L-R unknown, Lorraine Killion, Lillian Pipkorn, unknown, Jo Giese

18164 Memorial Card – Lillian Pipkorn

18164A ibid p. 2

18165 W. Card for Lorraine Killion 2014

18165A ibid signed Michael Rusch & family

18165B P. Michael & Melissa Rusch, Israel & Jeremiah Rusch

18166 3-8-2013 envelope, Brianna Killion to Lorraine Killion

18166 Artwork

18166B L. Brianne Killion

18166C P. 2013 Brianna Karen Killion Heck and husband Erik

18167 W. ‘Weber family homestead 1889-2014’

18167A ibid signed William & Mark Weber

18168 8-1-2013 Ann Rusch 35 year retirement plaque – Aspirus Medford Hospital & Clinics

18168A L. 5-15-2014 Aspirus Medford Hospital & Clinics to Ann Rusch

18169 5-1-2014 W. ‘The Muir Jiew – news of the Sierra Club in Wisconsin.’ ‘Grove Boundary reorganization.’

18169A ibid p. 2 ‘from the chair.’

18169B ibid p. 3 ‘the celebrate the 50th anniversary of Wilderness Act’

18169C ibid p. 4 ‘The vluae of your volunteering’

18169D ibid p. 5 ‘Discovering the penokees’

18170 P. Taylor County Courthouse c. 2000

Collection of Susan J. Thums – ‘The Camp Carter Collection’

18171 W. 2014 ad-former Camp Carter estate for sale; map SE 1-4 2-33-2E, Town of Rib Lake

18171A ibid P. Harper and Long Lakes frontage

18172 Map 1914 Elsbeth & Mike Schmidt farm, SE ¼ 2-33-2E, after purchase by Elaine & Max Schaufelberger, ‘Camp Carter’

18173 signature of Elaine Carter on 1936 ‘The book of Camp Fire Girls’ Camp Fire Girls, Inc., New York, New York

18174 P. 7-1959 Elaine Carter on right & unknown lady stand in front of ‘Lanser’s’ store

18175 P. c. 1975 Elaine Carter and two freshly caught fish in living room of Camp Carter

18175A ibid Elaine Carter admires fish

18176 8-24-2004 envelope addressed to Elaine Carter at her Chicago, IL, address and forwarded to Camp Carter address; W2922 Rustic Road, Westboro, WI 54490-9470

18177 W. c. 1990 Max Schaufelberger commemorative certificate

18178 P. Max Schaufelberger

18179 Schitzerland decorative plate. Max Schaufelberger was born there and spoke fluent German

18180 Envelope 8-26-1978 addressed to Mr. & Mrs. Max Schaufelberger, Camp Carter, Harper Lake, Westboro, WIs 54490

18180A L. from Michael & Vera, dba The Red Barn

18181 L. 8-15-1954 to Elaine Carter from apparent camp owner complaining about blacks (highlighting added)

18182 L. 3-19-1998 Helmut Schiller to Liebe Tante Elaine (Dear Aunt Elain)

18182A Translation from German

18182B Helmut Schillers’ address

18183 c. 1950 Photo brochure ‘Camp Carter; the camp for business girls’ side 1

18183A ibid side 2

18184 L. c. 1950 Elaine Carter, camp director ‘Camp Carter, the farm camp for business girls…’ $37.50 per week

18185 Brochure c. 1950 ‘Carter Estates’ est. 1946

18185A ibid p. 2 Hiawatha train from Chicago to Wausau

18185B ibid p. 2

18186 W. ‘Memo from Elaine Carter’

18187 Stationery ‘Camp Carter estate for business women’

18187A ibid

18188 Carter estates guest registration c. 1960 ‘$52 per week ‘for congenial, refined girls…’

18189 W. c. 1960 Carter Estates ‘Your Horoscope at a Glance’

18190 W. 1952 handwritten note card for Muriel Landy, Chicago, for July 4 weekend, $19.50

18191 W. 8-2-1952 ‘Camp Carter’ registration form for Rosemary Porzell, Chicago, with 20 listed camp activities

18191A ibid for Ruth Stenno, Hammond, Indiana

18192 P. 10-1959 4 unidentified Camp Carter girls outside of veranda of main camp building; the former Mike Schmidt farmhouse

18192A P. 1959 Elaine Carter at far left with 12 campers; girl in foreground holds life preserver reading ‘Camp Carter’

18193 Map c. 1950 Wisconsin – Things to See

18193A ibid – legend

18194 W. c. 1950 Parlor game notes by Elaine Carter on Chicago hotel stationery

18194A ibid p. 2

18194B P. c. 1950 Chicago Gold Coast beach at Oak Street. The vast majority of Camp Carter girls came from Chicago

18195 1969 ‘Carter Estate News’

18196 P. 9-1959 Campers in hammocks in front of Camp Carter main building

18197 6-1973 ‘Camp Carter Estates Newsletter’ Rates $55 per week. Greyhound bus-Chicago to Westboro $26.15 round trip

18198 P. c. 1973 four campers washing dishes at hand water pump

18199 Week’s menu at Camp Carter

18199A Labor Day weekend menus

18199B 4th of July weekend menu

18199C special menu for diabetics

18200 P. 8-1969 5 Camp Carter ‘girls’ prepare a picnic lunch

18201 1937 Instructor’s Manual; life saving and water safety. Cover. Elaine Carter taught the course at a Chicago swimming pool

18202 1940 pamphlet ‘A tenderfoot learns to ride’ cover, from Camp Carter

18203 P. c. 1959 Outside bowling at Camp Carter

18204 c. 1950 notes written by Elaine Carter on proper use of bow & arrows

18204A Pamphlet ‘The Goodrich Archery book’ cover

18205 Pamphlet ‘First Aid’ from Camp Carter

18206 P. 1959 dock used at current Dr. Hansen cottage & swimming beach on South Harper Lake used by Camp Carter

18207 P. 1959 dock used at current Dr. Hansen cottage & swimming beach on S. Harper Lake used by Camp Carter

18208 Pamphlet ‘Table Tennis Rules’ - cover

18209 W. ‘Play Hurl-O-Dart’ cover

18209A ibid side 2

18210 Small bore rifle target with bullet hole from Camp Carter

18211 W. American Badminton Assoc. official rules, cover

18212 W. Schuffleboard official rules p. 1

18212A ibid p. 2

18213 W. Field Croquet rules

18214 P. 1959 bundles of evergreen seedlings to be planted at Camp Carter; rear-Camp Carter lodge, old Mike Schmidt farmhouse

18215 P. 1959 Allen Hanke on Ford tractor mowing Camp Carter field

18216 W. ‘Summer Camp Songs’

18217 P. Fall 1959, person atop hill at Camp Carter

18218 W. ‘Do you need some new games’

18219 W. ‘The mock orchestra’ and ‘Jenkins says; Camp games in Elaine Carter’s handwriting

18220 W. ‘And the lamp went out’ text for reader and notes for actor in a pantomime

18220A ibid back

18221 P. 1959 Elaine Carter in front row left – and 12 campers and child on steps of Camp Carter main building

18222 W. Send help sign

18222A ibid back ‘Do Not Stop’

18223 P. 1958 S. Harper Lake Camp Carter dock. Camp owned 60 feet of frontage

18224 P. 1959 View of S. Harper Lake from Camp Carter frontage

18225 W. 5-16-1925 ‘The Literary Digest’ found among Elaine Carter’s things at Camp Carter 6-2014

18225A ibid back, photo shows well-appointed kitchen & bathroom

18226 W. 11-1959 ‘The Guardian; for leaders of Camp Fire Girls.’ [NB World War II began in Europe in 9-1939.]

18226A ibid p. 2

18226B ibid p. 5 ‘wear the emblem of the rank you have earned’

18227 Merit badges which Camp Carter attendants could earn – drama

18227A Campfire building

18227B Axmanship

18227C bowling

18227D boating

18227E fishing

18227F tennis

18227G first aid

18227H table tennis, i.e.ping pong

18227I Croquet

18227J diving

18227K nature

18227L horsemanship

18227M volleyball

18227N riflery

18227O Archery

18227P carpentry

18227Q hiking

18227R cycling, biking

18227S badminton

18227T back side

18228 W. c. 1923 ‘Song book; Sandstone Camp, Green Lake, Wisconsin.’ Cover, this girls’ camp left a profound impression on Elaine Carter

18228A ibid p. 4 & 5 ‘Now’s the time for camp girls’

18228B ibid Elaine Carter’s handwritten lyrics ‘We love you oh sand stone’

18229 P. 6-22-2014 Camp Carter main lodge and dormintory. Building was Wisconsin home for Max & Elaine Schaufelberger and former farmhouse built by Michael ‘Mike’ Schmidt c. 1920.

18230 L. 6-2014 Democratic National Committee to Lorraine Killion, N8645 CTH C, Rib Lake

18230A ibid P. President Barack Obama and pet dog & note ‘Dear Lorraine’

18231 7-9-2014 Merrill Foto News ‘Mark Bucki to serve at least 34 years in prison for wife’s murder.’

18231A ibid p. 2

18232 7-9-2014 Merrill Foto News ‘Wolf quota lowered.’

From Phyllis Nordgren nee Knop collection

18233 P. c. 1930 L-R Albert Knop and his father, Karl Knop

18234 P. c. 1930 sitting L-R Albert Knop & his father Karl Knop. Standing Albert’s daughter, Irma Knop, lka Mrs. Ray Herman, akak Irma Bertha Martha Knop 4/1908-3/1981 holding her daughter, Ardeen, lka Mrs. Herman Krueger

18235 W. 6-2014 children of Albert & Ernestina Knop;

Ella 10/1902-11/1902

Albert 9/23/1904-6/17/1979

Arthur Carl 8/1906-4/16/1941

Irma Bertha Martha 4/1908-3/1981, lka Mrs. Ray Herman

Leona 3/1908-1/10/1920

Otto 5/1911-1/1922

Alfred ‘Fritzie’ 12/16/1913-4/30/1988

18236 P. 6-2014 Phyllis Nordgren, nee Knop, at home of Ann and Bob Rusch

18236A Map 1913 plat of T33N R2E, with site of Mike & Elsbeth ‘Ma’ Schmidt farm highlighted. Mike & ‘Ma’ Schmidt were the maternal grandparents of Phyllis Nordgren

18237 W. c. 1970 ‘Bachelor Haven’ or ‘Pioneer Days at Harper Lake’ by Elsbeth Amelia Margreta Schmidt, nee Krause, aka ‘Elsie or Emma’, aka ‘Ma’ Schmidt

18237A ibid p. 2

18237B ibid p. 3

18237C ibid p. 4

From collection of Kathleen D. Krueger

18238 L. 12-21-2006 Kathleen D. Krueger to Francis Clendenning nee Knop, aka ‘Frannie’

18238A ibid p. 2 Knop & Krueger genealogy

18239 Pedigree chart for Francis ‘Franny’ Martha Knop b. 7-13-1920, prepared by Kathleen Krueger

18240 W. Mielke, August Frederick Carl (11/30/1847-2/15/1896) descendants list by Kathleen P. Krueger

18240A ibid p. 2 Marschke

18240B ibid p. 3 Hannifen

18240C ibid p. 4

18240D ibid p. 5

18240E P. c. 1938 Francis ‘Franny’ Martha Knop, lka Mrs. Charles Peter Clendenning (b. 7/13/1920)

18241 W. Knop Family Roots, Knop genealogy by Phyllis Nordgren, nee Knop. Patriarch Karl Knop, marries Johanna Mielke c. 1990

18241A ibid p. 2 Kalk, Phyllis Nordgren

18241B ibid p. 3 Jeanette Johnson

18241C ibid p. 4 Ida Hedwig Lange, aka Mrs. Herrmann E. Rusch

18241D ibid p. 5 William Bartig

18242 P. c. 1929 rear-Albert Knop & his father Karl Knop; front-Irma Knop, lka Mrs. Ray Herman, and her daughter Ardene, lka Mrs. Herman Krueger

18243 W. ‘Schmidt family roots’ by Phyllis Nordgren, nee Knop, patriarch Michael Schmidt (9/9/1849-9/3/1919) married Maria Wenzel; their son, Michael William ‘Pa’ Schmidt (11/2/1884-10/30/1968) married Elsbeth Krause, lka ‘Ma’ Schmidt

18243A ibid p. 2 children of Shirley Silbernagel, lka Mrs. Vernon ‘Peanuts’ Olson

18244 W. ‘Krause family roots’ by Phyllis Nordgren, nee Knop

18245 P. 6-2014 Phyllis Nordgren, nee Knop, with cousins, Robert Paul (standing) and Thomas M. (sitting) Rusch

18246 L. 7-2014 Phyllis Nordgren nee Knop to Robert P. Rusch

18246A ibid p. 2

18247 W. ‘Bachelor Haven’ pioneer days at Harper Lakes in Taylor County. By Elsbeth Schmidt, aka Ma Schmidt

18247A ibid p. 2

18247B ibid p. 3

18247C ibid p. 4

18247D ibid p. 5

18247E ibid p. 6

18247F ibid p. 7

18247G ibid p. 8

18248 W. 2014 Phyllis Nordgren return address

18249 W. ‘Bits of history of Harper Lakes’by Ruth Coughlan nee Schmidt

18249A ibid p. 2, F. Everson farm

18249B ibid p. 3, Donald Everson

18249C ibid p. 4, Camp Carter

18249D ibid p. 5 ice harvest

18249E ibid p. 6 Rustic Road #1

18249F ibid p. 7 sheep

18250 W. ‘Lumbering stories’ by Ruth Coughlan nee Schmidt, Enoch Berg

18250A ibid p. 2 Charles Haglund

18250B ibid p. 3 Steve Heindl

18250C ibid p. 4 Charlie Hall

18250D ibid p. 5

From collection of Jeanette K. Johnson, nee Knop

18251 L. 10-31-1989 Jeanette K. Johnson, nee Knop, to Robert P. Rusch

18252 Knop Genealogy form by Jeanette K. Johnson, nee Knop, 10-31-1989, et al, re Kasrl Knop (1851-1930)

18252A ibid Albert Emil Knop 2/15/1876-5/1942

18252B ibid his step children

18252C ibid albert William Ludwig 9/22/1904-6/17/1979

18252D ibid Gordon Nordgren

18252E ibid Timothy Hanahan

18252F ibid David Nordgren b. 9-25-1959

18252G ibid Allen James Knop, b. 5-8-1939

18252H Michael Arthur Knop b. 5-4-1941

18252I Arthur Carl Knop 8/6/1906-4/16/1941

18252J Francis Charles Johnson, b. 5-24-1915

18252K Bruce Frank Dulak, b. 8-12-1929

18252L Mark Tarverna, b. 11-22-1951

18252M Possla Carlos Anderson

18252N Ray Herman

18252O Albert Krueger

18252P Carl ‘Ziggy’ Duenkel

18252Q Kenneth Herman

18252R Alfred ‘Fritzie’ Knop 1913-1988

18252S Alfred Unick, b. 6-6-1946

18252T John Stelling

18252U Charles Knop, b. 1888

18252V Charles ‘Ollie’ Knop, Jr., b. 2-1-1926

18252W Harvey Knop, 3/23/1913-5/2/1986

18252X John Knop, b. 2-26-1916

18252Y Robert Knop

18252Z Harold ‘Harry’ Knop 2/28/1918-3/2/1987

18252AA Charles Clendenning, d. 12-29-1970

18252BB Alfred Bleck by Marjorie Cadagon

18252CC Jack McGahan, by Marjorie Cadagon

18252DD Charles Kalk (1886-1972) by Dorothy Kalk Fitzpatrick

18252EE William Krause (1906-1970)

18252FF Clarence Freiboth (b. 1916)

18252GG James Fitzpatrick (b. 1921)

18252HH Marvin ‘Chuck’ Kalk b. 1928

18252II Foster Kalk (b. 1930)

Robert P. Rusch collection

18253 P. c. 1910 Martha Knop & Alfred Bleck wedding portrait. Martha was a sister to Albert Emil Knop, ‘Pa’ Knop, and to Anna Kalk, nee Knop

18254 P. c. 1938 Harold ‘Harry’ Knop & Irma Knop wedding party. L-R Francis ‘Franny’ Knop, lka Mrs. Charles Clendenning, Pearl Jarchow, bride, Irma Jarchow, bridegroom, Harold Knop, unkonw, Alfred ‘Fritzie’ Knop

18255 P. 1928 Confirmation class, St. John Lutheran Church, Rib Lake, Rev. Kammhnolz, pastor. Middle row, third from right is Alfred ‘Fritzie’ Knop, rear-rectory

18256 P. 11-1966 L-R Herman A. Rusch, Alfred ‘Fritzie’ Knop & Ray Herman butchering deer in Knop’s home in Rib Lake

18257 P. c. 1926 Irma Martha Bertha Knop, lka Mrs. Ray Herman (4/16/1908-3/26/1981)

18258 P. c. 1928 Irma Knop & Ray Herman wedding portrait

18259 P. c. 1940 children of Ray & Irma Herman, L-R Ardene (b. 1929), Audrey & Kenneth Herman

18260 P. c. 1931 Ardene Herman, lka Mrs. Albert Krueger

18261 P. c. 1938 Ardene Herman, lka Mrs. Albert Krueger

18262 P. c. 1940 Ardene Herman, lka Mrs. Albert Krueger

18263 P. c. 1939 Audrey Herman, lka Mrs. Carl Duenkel

18264 P. c. 1942 Audrey Herman, lka Mrs. Carl Duenkel

18265 P. c. 1944 Kenneth Herman

18266 P c. 1950 Ray & Irma Herman & children, L-R Audrey, Kenneth & Ardene

18267 P. c. 1950 Allen James Knop

18268 P. c. 1947 Patricia ‘Patty’ Knop, lka Mrs. Bruce Dulak

18269 P. c. 1920 Bertha Paulina Rusch, lka Mrs. Walter Kurth

18270 P. 1929 Herman A. Rusch & Martha Hedwig Gebauer wedding portrait

18271 P. c. 1945 L-R Robert P. Rusch & brother Thomas M. Rusch

18271A ibid back, ‘Tommy & Bobby Rusch’ written by mother Martha H. Rusch

18272 P. c. 1945 Bernice Gilge confirmation photo, lka Mrs. Conrad Roder

18273 P. c. 1950 Bernice Gilge high school graduation, lka Mrs. Conrad Roder

18274 P. c. 1942 L-R Robert Bleck, b. 1886, Gustave ‘Gus’ Rusch, Harold Bleck

18275 W. Children of Robert Bleck, Sr. (b. 1886) & Anna Louise Rusch (1899-1988); 1. Harold, 2. Lucille, lka Mrs. Herbert Weber, 3. Viola, lka Mrs. Harold Sternhagen, 4. Elwood Herman (3/10/1921-4/9/1994), 5. Robert A. (2/26/1926-11/9/1995)

18276 W. children of Harold Bleck & Anna Mae Weinsinger; 1. Robert, 2. Ronald, 3. Richard

18277 W. Children of Robert & Nancy Bleck; 1 Kathy, 2 Kim

18278 W. Children of Herbert Weber and Lucille Bleck; 1 Luanne, lka Mrs. Alan Bengston

18279 W. children of Alan Bengstone & Lucille Weber; 1, Deanne Bengston, 2. Scott Bengston

18280 W. children of Harold Sternhagen to Viola Bleck; 1. Deborah, 2. David

18281 W. children of Elwood Herman Bleck & Isabel Irene Frank; 1. Patricia Ann, lka Mrs. Lawrence ‘Larry’ Judnic; 2. Lind Darlene, lka Mrs. Allen Eugene Scheithauer

18282 P. c. 1925, top L-R Harold Bleck, Elwood Herman Bleck, bottom, Lucille Bleck, lka Mrs. Herbert Weber

18283 W. Children of Lawrence Judnic & Patricia Ann Bleck; 1. Tina, 2. Teri, lka Mrs. Ronald Fawcett, lka Mrs. Damien Jones; 3. Angela, 4. Heather

18284 W. children of Ronald Fawcett & Teri Judnic; Avery Shae

18285 W. children of Damien Jones & Teri Judnic; Athena

18286 W. children of Allen Eugene Scheithauer & Linda Darlene Scheithauer; 1. Michele Renee, lka Mrs. David Dahl; 2. Lisa Ann, lka Mrs. Randal Dohrwardt; 3. Jeffrey Allen; 4. Kari Jo, lka Mrs. Ronald Wright

18287 W. Children of David Dahl and Michele Scheithauer; Dakota David

18288 W. Children of Randall Dohrwardt & Lisa Ann Scheithauer; 1. Brett Joseph; 2. Wyatt

18289 W. Children of Jeffrey Scheithauer & Jessica Jaznor; 1. Corissa; 2. Casey; 3. Rhonnie Jo

18290 W. Children of Robert A. Bleck (2-26-1926 to 11-9-1995) & Gladys Ann Reinhardt; 1. William; 2. Carol; 3. Jay; 4. Renee, aka Mrs. Komarke

18291W. children of William Bleck & Chong; 1. Christie Marie; 2. Amanda

18291A W. Descendants list of Robert Bleck, Sr. & Anna Louise Rusch by RPR

18291B ibid p. 2

18292 P. c. 1944 Afred ‘Fritzie’ Knop & Lucille Bleck

18293 P. c. 1944 Harold Bleck & wife, Anna Mae, nee Weinsinger

18294 P. Robert Bleck; infant son of Harold & Anna Bleck

18295 P. 6-24-1944 Elwood Bleck & Isabel Frank wedding portrait

18296 P. c. 1949 Patricia Ann Bleck, lka Mrs. Lawrence Judnic

18297 P. c. 1935 Viola Bleck, lka Mrs. Harold Sternhagen

18298 W. Summer 2014 ‘Wisconsin is well-positioned to meet EPA’s new carbon pollution limits’ Clean Wisconsin Defender

18298A ibid p. 2

18298B ibid p. 3

18299 2014 ‘Concordian’ cover

18299A ibid ‘What’s in a name’ p. 16

18299B ibid Definition of Concordia

18300 5-7-2014 ‘Thrivent volunteers and community members help clear River Bend Trail,’ Merrill Foto News.

18301 W. Rusch-Freimuth-Lugar family history notes by Evelyn Eileen Lugar, nee Rusch on 9-27-2007

18301A ibid p. 2

18301B ibid p. 3

18301C ibid p. 4 Oscar Rusch

18301D ibid p. 5

18302 L. 5-15-2014 Aspirus Medford Hospital & Clinics to Ann Rusch

18302A Ann Rusch 35 year retirement award (6-1-1987-8/1/2003)

18303 Business card, Susan J. Thums, Century 21, Dairyland Realty North

18304 W. 6-28-2014 Weber family homestead centennial invitation

18304A ibid back

18304B ibid map

18305 W. Sheep Ranch 6-12-1914, Taylor County Star News ‘New Industry for Westboro’

18306 P. c. 1950 ‘Hopper’s Resort, Stone Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. 8’

18307 7-22-2014 ‘131st annual Taylor County Fair’ Star News top half

18307A ibid bottom half

18308 Ad ‘Nelson’s Berry Farm’ Star News 7-22-2014, John E. Nelson, W4929 Gunner Rd, Westboro

18309 Ad ‘Apply today for openings in Medford $12.50 per hour starting wage’ Weather Shield Premium Windows & Doors

18310 P. c. 1950 ‘Mondeaux Beach’ Mondeaux Dam Recreation Area

18311 Business card, Steve & Lisa Kalmon dba Mondeaux Dam Lodge

18312 6-25-2014 ‘Volunteer to go the extra mile for River Bend Trail’ Merrrill Foto News

18312A ibid p. 2

18313 W. 1-15-1995 ‘Rib Lake Area Recycling’ ‘Mandatory Recycling Program’

18313A ibid p. 2

18314 2001 W. ‘You’re in the dairy business’ Wis. Milk Marketing Board

18314A ibid p. 2

18315 Map c. 1-2010 Taylor County Lakes by Star News

18315A Lake index part 1

18315B ibid part 2 NB-6 ‘Mud’ lakes, 3 ‘Long’ lakes, 2 ‘Reich’ lakes

From collection of Marlene Holtz courtesy of Russ Wudi

18316 8-26-1936 Rib Lake Herald

18316A

18316B

18316C

18316D

18316E

18316F

18316G

18316H

18316I

18316J

18316K

18316L Local news

18316M Anton Kurek farm auction

18316N John Holzl estate

18316O Gem Movie Theatre

18316P Lewis J. Charles for District Attorney

18316Q Taylor County Normal School ad

18316R Church news

18316S Victor Gustafson Lumber Co.

18316T Dr. E. A. Lapham, MD

18316U Dr. G.L. Baker, MD

18316V Local News

18316W Mark J. Hirsch, County Clerk

18316X Mechanical Pitcher

18316Y Temperance Women

18316Z What to Eat and Why

18316AA How to Sew

18316BB U.S. Warfare strikes

18316CC Fashions

18316DD Coal, Steel & Glass

18316EE This is a beach

18317 7-24-2014 ‘Ziembo’s walk-off single beats Wausau, keeps Rib Lake unbeaten’ Star News. Photo of Jeff Ziembo

18317A ibid p. 2

18318 P. 7-23-2014 Thunderdown in the underdown mountain bike race, Merrill Foto News

18319 W. c. 1920 ‘Reminiscences and Anecdotes of early Taylor County.’ By Arthur J. Latton, book cover. This is the first history book on Taylor County.

18319A P. Arthur J. Latton

18319B ibid foreward; NB-This 224 page book is available at Rib Lake and Medford Public Libraries

18320 P. 8-5-2014 ad ‘Images of America Taylor County’

18320A W. 8-5-2014 Ad ‘Introducing Taylor County by Robert P. Rusch’

18320B ibid back ‘Order today’ Arcadia publishing information

18321 P. c. 1906 Rib Lake Lumber Co. steam hauler on snow-covered ice. Handwritten text; ‘Rib Lake, Wis. 3-9-1906, here is one of the curiosities up here.’ Signed Esther. This steam hauler was the smallest and first one purchased by RLLC from Phoenix Iron works of Eau Claire, Wis.

18321A back of postcard dated 2-11-1907, addressed to Mr. Percy Kylls, Red Wing, MN

18322 W. 8-5-2014 ‘Taylor County’ by Robert P. Rusch - cover

18322A ibid cover page

18322B ibid Library of Congress control number

18322C ibid, Table of Contents

18322D ibid, acknowledgements; NB-Other than Arthur J. Latton’s book, this is the only single volume Taylor County history, albeit a pictorial history.

18322E ibid back of cover page

18322F Ad for ‘Taylor County’ in summer, 2014 ‘Chips & Sawdust’

18323 P. 8-8-2014 ‘Taylor County’ book sales at Rib Lake Ice Age Days. Taylor County Historical Society sold book from stand located on law of Genesis Youth Center on McComb Ave. Photo shows RPR with sign

18323A ibid, Ryan Strobach outside book sale tent

18323B ibid, RPR and daughter, Robin Riggs and Robin’s daughter, Kirstin Riggs

18323C W. 2014 ‘Don’t lose your place in history’ Arcadia Publications

18323D ibid, back

18323E W. ‘Meet Robert P. Rusch, author of ‘Taylor County’

18323F W. ‘Taylor County logs history in new book’

18323G L. 7-22-2014 Jacel Egan to Carol O’Leary, Star News

18323H 8-7-2014 ‘Local author unlocks Taylor County history in book’ Star News, by Mark Berglund, part 1

18323I ibid part 2

18323J 8-7-2014 ‘Hemlock is still under-appreciated in modern logging,’ Star News by Mark Berglund

18323K W. 8-8-2014 flyer ‘Rib Lake Ice Age Days,’ part 1

18323L ibid part 2

18324 P. 7-24-2014 ‘Westboro Bridge work underway’ Star News

From Dennis Kuehling Collection

18325 P. 7-19-2014 Silver Creek and old Laabs Cheese Co. lagoon eastward from former Soo Line Bridge

18325A ibid Old tile floor of former Laabs Cheese plant in Westboro

18325B remnants of 1927 Highway 13 bridge over Silver Creek being razed; view westward form former Soo Line bridge

18326 10-1992 sign ‘500 trails-one great idea’

18327 W. ‘Owen, Wisconsin; A history in honor of Owen’s 50th Anniversary as a city’ author unknown. Photo of same popple in 1870; founding of J.S. Owen Lumber Co.

18328 Map 7-24-2014 Popple River & tributaries by Dennis Kuehling shown in blue, Black River shown in black

18328A ibid back, historical notes by Dennis Kuehling

18329 P. 1947 Ice fishing on Rib Lake where Copper Creek enters lake

18329A P. 1947 cars parked along Lakeshore Drive, Rib Lake

18330 P. 1952 parade on McComb Ave; car float; rear-former Rib Lake Lumber Co. store bulidign with 1939 addition attached to south dide. RLLC store building on Lot 2, Block A, McComb’s Racing Park Addition to the Village of Rib Lake.

18330A ibid ‘Fjeldheim’s son’ in bathtub on float in front of former RLLC machine shed; behind shed is massive 167 foot high brick chimney of former RLLC

18330B ibid float has sign reading ‘This is a horse’

18331 W. ‘Fred Smith’s Wisconsin Concrete Park’

18331A ibid back

From Duane Heldstab collection

18332 P. c. 1935 Martha Pautenberg log home, Town of Westboro

18333 P. 3-28-1937 wedding portrait, Ida & Art Heldstab

18334 P. 1941 Jump River flood; LaFollette bridge destroyed at Jump River on STH 73

18335 P. 6-7-1929 Heldstab’s farmstead in Town of Westboro

18336 P. c. 1935 Art Heldstab atop logs on flatbed truck, registration plate ‘1643F’ Wisconsin; Gin pole loader on left piled logs with help of horse team pictured

18337 P. c. 1980 L-R; Albert ‘Al’ Knop and his step-brother, Herman Arthur Rusch, at Harper Lake; NB-wood rowboat in need of new tar to seal cracks

From Karl & Patricia ‘Trish’ Kissinger, ‘The Mike H.F. Zielke collection’

18338 History of Rib Lake by Mrs. Gustav Bielenberg, introduction by RPR 8-10-2014

18338A 8-4-1933 History of Rib Lake by Mrs. Gustav Bielenberg p. 1

18338B ibid p. 2 First issue of Rib Lake Herald 12-10-1897

18338C ibid p. 3 J.J. Kennedy built Taylor County’s largest hotel, The Commercial Hotel, 125 rooms

18338D ibid p. 4 Guy Wallace account. Tannery produced 1050 sides of finished shoe leather daily

18338E ibid p. 5 Star News account of 1886

18338F ibid p. 6 Giant white pine cut at RLLC Camp 22-butt log measured 52 inches across

18338G ibid p. 7 Poem; ‘Young Folks Don’t Forget the Old Folks’

18339 9-27-2014 Notice of Assessment-Spirit Point addition, Lots 27-31, Karl D. Kissinger and Patricia E. Kissinger

18339A ibid Lot 32

18340 P. 7-2014 Trish & Karl Kissinger at their campfire on Big Spirit Lake

18340A ibid L-R Karl Kissinger, Ann K. Rusch, Patricia ‘Trish’ Kissinger, nee Zielke

18340B ibid view north from Kissinger dock-Big Spirit Lake-left horizon shows red pines planted on former Ole Peterson golf course

18340C ibid view south from Kissinger dock-center-Tabor Island

18340D ibid; Karl Kissinger at ‘1938’ stone in his cabin – constructed by Bernard Kuna in 1938 for Dr. G.L. Baker, MD

18340E ibid, Karl sits near distinctive log cabin outer wall

18340F ibid interior; living room of Kissinger cabin

18341 8-4-1939 Rib Lake Herald article on construction of ‘new cottage built by Doctor and Mrs. G.L. Baker on Spirit Lake is now completed and furnished.’

18342 c. 1940 ink blotter printer by vendor for ‘Dr. G.L. Baker’

18343 Map c. 6-1-1950 ‘North Spirit Lake’ aka Big Spirit Lake by the Clarkson Co., The black square indicating the location of the former Dr. Baker cottage is circled. Its new owners, Mr. & Mrs. Harold Zielke, have written their first names ‘Harold & Thea’, north half

18343A ibid, south half

18343B Map c. 6-1-1950 Big Spirit Lake, north half, RPR annotations, locations shown with red numerals:

1. ‘The channel between Little & Big Spirit Lakes’ It was dredged c. 2000.

2. South fork of Spirit River

3. Former site of Ole Peterson farm and c. 1930 golf course; planted in red pine c. 1955 by new owners, Herbert & Lester Magnuson

4. As late as 1957, remains of a log cabin boat house stood; built by Ole Peterson c. 1920 to ferry visitors from Little Spirit Lake through the channel to Ole’s dance pavilion, which stood near the boathouse. Thomas M. Rusch recalls seeing remains of Ole’s wood launch with onboard engine rotting on the shore in 1957

5. Site for new lake home chosen by Magnuson brothers for their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry (1890-1984) & Jennie Magnuson, nee Jacobson

7. In 1957 Herman and Martha Rusch moved a mobile home to this site. In 1980 it was replaced by a wood frame cottage used by ‘Herm and Mart’ until 1989.

8. The Annabelle and Fred Nichols cottage used for decades by a couple residing in Manitowoc.

9. Log cabin cottage built by Bernard Kuna, a Luthuanian immigrant, in 1938 for Dr. and Mrs. G.L. Baker. Cottage purchased by Theo & Harold Zielke and later conveyed to their grand-daughter, Patricia, and husband Karl Kissinger.

10. In 1957 this once large wood frame cottage with wooden stairs from the lake was in disrepair and abandoned.

11. ‘Spirit Lake Point’ peninsula surrounded by Big Spirit Lake on 3 sides. Government surveryors erroneously entered it as part of the lake. Ole Peterson on 2-18-1911 recorded the ‘Plat of Spirit Point’ within the Price County Register of Deeds and created 85 residential lots along its shoreline.

12. While Clarkson Map Co. labeled the forest ‘mixed hardwood and pine,’ it had mistaken dense stands of hemlock for pine.

13. A year-round high volume spring on the lakeshore provides fresh, potable water to many who come for it by boat.

14. County Line

15. ‘Tabor Island’

16. Long-time popular ‘Lakeview’ resort with rental cabins, bar and restaurant. Last operated by Mr. and Mrs. Neal and Isabel Olkives to c. 1995.

17. Until c. 1960, lake cottage of local surveyor and photograph Cyrus ‘Cy’ R. Claussen

18343C Map c. 6-1-1950 Big Spirit Lake, south half, with annotation sites

18344 ‘Map of Spirit Lake’ April 1913 drawn by Frank Henry. Parcel shown by red pencil offered for sale by Elmer L. Nall 4-1-1955. This map was probably drawn at request of Ole Peterson, whose renamed ‘residential’ and ‘sunset acres’ are labeled in the NW ¼ 32-34-3E.

18345 Real estate ‘Spirit Point’ ad by Elmer L. Nall dated 4-1-1955 offers ‘over 8,000 feet of lake frontage suitable for subdividing…’ Price $20,000 ‘this property lies west of the golf course, ‘sunset acres’…’

18346 Real estate ‘Sunset acres’ ad by Elmer L. Nall dated 4-1-1955 offering ‘over 130 acres… ‘formerly nine hold golf course’ Price $15,000 for the 170 acres with ‘modern cape cod house’ This acreage was former farm & later golf course created by Ole Peterson

18347 Map ‘Spirit Lake Centennial’ c. 1985 Spirit Lakes Improvement Association’ East half

18347A ibid West half

18347B Legend

18347C p. 1 Spirit Lake Centennial booklet

18347D p. 2

18347E p. 3

18347F p. 4

18347G p. 5

18347H p. 6

18347I p. 7

18347J p. 8

18347K p. 9

18347L p. 10

18347M p. 11

18347N p. 12

18347M Map Spirit Lake area in Rib Lake quadrangle ‘Printed 1947’

18348 Map 1-1-2014 Western Taylor County by Western Taylor County Tourism Economic Development Council

18348A ibid legend

18349 8-144-2014 Annmarie Foundation names of new members to its board, Price County Review

18350 Map c. 1-2007 Taylor Co. Land Use by Pri-Ru-Ta RC&D Council, Inc.

18351 6-25-2014 ‘Volunteers go the extra mile for River Bend Trail,’ Merrill Foto News

18351A ibid p. 2

18352 Map 8-1-2014 Leadville Trail 100 Map

18352A Logo ‘Leadville Trail 100-the Race Across the Sky’ on sweatshirt obtained by R.P. rusch upon completion of eventin 1991

18352B ibid ‘Robert [Rusch] 28 [hours] 18 [minutes] 14 [seconds]

18352C ibid ‘America’s highest 100 miler’ elevation profile, ‘Leadville, Colorado elevation 10,152 ft’ This was the second of 12 100-mile runs completed by R.P. Rusch between 1990 and 2002

18353 Map 8-2-2014 Price County ATV

18354 P. c. 1905 Rib River Dells ‘Rib River Scene, Medford, Wis.’

18354A ibid back, postmarked 1-11-1911

18354B Map 9-20-2014 Dells of Rib River (red arrow), RLLC Camp 1 site (brown arrow) by RPR

18355 6-19-2014 ‘Lidice Remembered’ 31st annual Czech-Slovak Festival, Price County Review

18355A ibid p. 2

18355B ibid p. 3

18356 c. 2013 Mass Prayers and Responses

18356A ibid p. 2

18357 Envelope 5-17-2014 from Christa M. Rusch, aka Mrs. Roger Rusch

18357A L. 5-17-2014 Christa, Roger & Robert G.S. Rusch to Robert P. Rusch

18357B P. 5-2-2014 Robert G.S. Rusch upon receipt of Bachelor of Arts, Florida University

18358 6-12-2014 ‘County needs to make investment in Pine Line Trail,’ Star News, photo of Pine Line Bridge

18359 6-12-2014 ‘County Committee Cool to volunteer labor,’ Star News, Pine Line Trail governance

18360 P. ‘Wisconsin’ 4 posing cows

18361 6-12-2014 ‘End of an era as Velma Mann retires,’ Star News

18362 6-12-2014 ‘Whittlesey gears up for festival’ Star News; photo of c. 1914 Das Eulen Haus (the Owl’s House) & boosters in Whittlesey

18362A ibid p. 2

18362B ibid p. 2 bottom half

18363 Map c. 2000 Taylor County, Taylor Made Escapes

18363A ibid Rib Lake area

18364 6-5-2014 Karen M. Rusch to Robert P. Rusch ‘Happy Birthday’

18364A ibid p. 2 photo along IAT ‘V for Victory’

From Collection of Russ Wudi

18365 P. Anton Wudi, Sr. (1842-1922), pioneer settler near St. Anns Catholic Church reading the Rib Lake Herald of 4-16-1913. He was a German speaker from the Austro-Hugarian Empire and the patriarch of the illustrious Wudi family, many still residing in or near Rib Lake in 2014

18366 P. 4-6-2014 Russel F. ‘Russ’ Wudi holding 8-1938 edition of The Rib Lake Herald, which he helped save after its 2010 discovery during renovation of Zondlo’s Tavern & Ballroom; photographer inside his ‘coin’ shop at 314 mcComb Ave. Russ, born 3-26-1952, is a great-grandson of Russ Wudi, Sr.

18367 Business card 2014, Russ Wudi, dba Russ’ Coins. Born and education in Rib Lake, Russ moved to Californai where he successfully owned and operated a manufacturing business. IN 2012 he returned to Rib Lake, built a home on Surek Land and a beautiful new store building for his ‘hobby’ coin shop. In 2014 he tore down the descrepit former Nordgren gas station and built a bakery on McComb Ave.

18367A 8-28-2014 Autobiography of Russel ‘Russ’ Wudi

18368 W. 2014 ‘Festival fun in Taylor County’ right half. Photo 2012 L-R Ryan Strobach and Robert P. Rusch on Rib Lake Historical Society parade float ‘from Bedrock to Rib Lake’

18368A ibid left half

18369 8-14-2014 ‘Rib Lake Ice Age Days’ Star News, right half

18369A ibid left half, Photo ‘Robert Rusch signs a copy of his new county history book’

18370 Ad 8-2014 ‘Introducing Taylor County’ by Robert P. Rusch and Arcadia Publishing

18370A ibid back

18371 P. 8-10-2014 R-Robert P. Rusch shows new book ‘Taylor County,’ at Taylor County Historical Society booth at Ice Age Days

18372 L. 8-12-2014 Marvel Lemke to Robert P. Rusch

18373 P. 8-9-2014 W. Promotion for ‘Taylor County,’ a pictorial history of Taylor County published August 2014 by Arcadia Publishing and authored by RPR

18373A ibid, online order info

18373B P. 8-9-2014 Taylor County Historical Society booth selling ‘Taylor County’ at Ice Age Days

18374 P. 8-9-2014 L-R Sara Nuernberger, Shirley Werner, Corliss Jensen, Carol and Dennis Kuehling

18375 P. 8-9-2014 Carol and Dennis Kuehling with banner ‘Celebrate the history of Taylor County through vintage images’

18376 Map 9-21-2001 S.M.&P. line, i.e. Stanley, Merrill & Phillips Railroad by David Jankowski

18376A W. 9-21-2001 ‘The Stanley, Merrill & Phillips Railroad’ by David Jankoski, in ‘The History of Stanley area’ proceeding of the 26th annual meeting of the Forest History Association of Wisconsin, Inc. cover

18376B ibid title page Photo of Engine #4

18376C ibid p. 2 (page also scanned as map S.M.&P line #18376)

18376D ibid p. 3 1902 S.M.& P arrives at Hanibal

18376E ibid p. 4 stockholders list

18376F ibid p. 5 ‘The grasshopper’

18376G ibid p. 6 9-14-1920 last log cut by Northwest Lumber Co. of Stanley, WI mill

18376H ibid p. 7 railroad ceases all lines in 9134

18377 Map 1976 original vegetation cover of Wisconsin by Robert W. Finley, UWEX; interpretation by Robert W. Finley

18377A history of the map and its interpretation

18377B techinques used in constructing the map

18377C legend; boreal and mixed conifers and deciduous; NB-’c’ light green color; hemlock, sugar maple, yellow birch, white and red pine

18377D ibid deciduous & wetland

18377E Map Milwaukee area

18377F map Superior area

18377G map Apostle Islands area

18377H Map Taylor County and environs; NB-all of Tayulor County forest was predominantly hemlock (shown in light green) westland forests, e.g. white cedar, were scattered throughout Taylor County. A small stand of aspen is shown west of Mondeaux river – probably the result of blowdown. The fourth and only forest type shown for Taylor County was ‘J’, i.e. sugar maple, etc.

18377I Map Madison to Illinois border

18377J Same map published in ‘Manging Wisconsin’s old-growth’

18378 W. Book; Soo Line Railroad 2-25-1985 to 7-31-1985, Medford, WI ‘yard check’ title page

18378A ibid p. 1 2-25-1985 Soo Line from 1901; inventory of freight cars showing car owner, e.g. ‘Soo’ Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie, or ‘SP’, Southern Pacific and car number. Wood siding within Medford yard in which car was located. NB-image ‘a’ recorded cars at 4 locations; i.e.

‘Tannery Main’; spur east of main line south of Perkins Street;

‘Hurds,’ spur serving Hurd Millwork Co. west of main line

‘Harvey,’ spur serving Harvey Millwork believed adjacent to Hurds;

‘Veneer,’ it is unknown whether veneer described a spur or freight, e.e. veneer saw logs

18378B ibid 2-26-1985; largely similar data to ‘A’ except car 5040 on creamery spur which served the Medford Creamery. NB-The original book is in hardcover at the library and archives of the Rib Lake Historical Society and consists of c. 90 pages.

18379 W. 8-31-2014 ‘The Catholic Communities of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Whittlesey, and Holy Rosary, Medford,’ parish newsletter cover

18379A L. Father Gerard Willger to parishioners

18379B Our Lady of Perpetual Help liturgical roles

From collecton of Neal & Isabel Olkives)

18380 pamphlet ‘Olkives Lakeview Resort, Big Spirit Lake, Rib Lake, Wis’ c. 1981

18380A ibid rates and description

18381 P. c. 1980 Isabel & Neal Olkives behind bar at their Lakeview Resort

18382 pamphlet ‘Lakeview Resort, Big Spirit Lake’ Martin and Inez Vanucha and ?? Nelson owned the resort c. 1950

18382A ibid back, photos of main lodge (tavern, restaurant & gameroom) and cottages

18383 P. c. 1950 Lakeview Resort, N9503 Spirit Lake Rd. Resort established in ‘Early 1950’s’ by Martin and Inez Vanucha, who sold it in 1968 to Richard and Flo Adema, who sold it in 1978 to Neal & Isabel Olkives

18384 1984 ‘Saving the fish on Spirit Lake,’ Star News

18384A ibid p. 2

18384B ibid p. 3 Gary Becker, Herbert Magnuson, Otto Enslin and Neal Olkives &

18384C ibid homemade aerator

18385 P. 1983 unidentified persons playing horseshoes on ice in front of Olkives Lakeview Resort

18386 W. c. 1984 ‘Fun on the ice normal at Spirit Lake Resort’ Star News

18387 9-1-2014 note on closing of Lakeview Resort by Neal Olkives

From collection of Spirit Lake Improvement Association

18388 P. Spirit Lake Improvement Association 2015 calendar – cover

18388A ibid P. people & fish

18388B P. Scenes

18388C P. dogs

18388D P. kids

18388E P. landscapes

18388F P. wedding

18388G P. eagles

18388H P. tubing

18388I P. Trophy muskies

18388J P. weiner roast

18388K P. history

18388L P. boats

18388M P. loon and animals

18388N P. mission statement

From Lorraine Killion collection

18389 Map ‘Election 2014 Master Map; Democratic National Committee’

From Dennis & Jill Fuchs collection

18390 P. 8-31-2014 Foxy’s Cattail Tap, junction of CTH C & M, Town of Greenwood

18390A P. ibid

18391 P. 8-31-2014 Mr. and Mrs. Jill and Dennis Fusch, dba Foxy’s Cattail Tap, tavern interior

18392 P. 8-31-2014 Jake Fuchs, son of Dennis and Jill Fuchs, inside Foxy’s Cattial wearing T-shirt celebrating its 50 year history

18392A P. ibid, tavern operated by Mel Budimlija and parents, who in 1975 fought of would-be armed robbers

18393 P. 8-31-2014 highway sign; tavern gots its name ‘Cattail’ since it was built on fill over a tag alder and tamarack swamp

18394 P. c. 1970 L-R Vic Meyer, Mel Budimlija and Carl Brandner outside of tavern

18395 P. c. 1960 Ethel Klimeck nee Bartelt and Rosella Peche, nee Holbach, outside newly constructed tavern below sign; ‘Tannenbaum beer; brfewed and bottled by Marathon City Brewing Comp;any, Marathon, Wisconsin.’

18396 P. c. 1960 L-R Bonnie Fuchs, Fran Fuchs ‘Foxy Little One,’ and Don Fuchs, and ‘Uncle Cliff.’ Photo taken from behind bar

18397 9-1-2014 envelope; Foxy’s Cattail Tap to Robert P. Rusch

18397A L. ibid history of site of Foxy’s Cattail Tap

18397B ibid signed ‘Foxy’ aka Dennis Fuchs

Robert P. Rusch collection

18398 P. c. 1900 ‘Rib Lake, Wis’ view looks southwest from atop tanbark piles; top of one in foreground. Three cupola roof of Shaw, later US Leather Co, office building on north side of Fayette Ave in center; on horizon-Methodists Church in center and St. Johns the Baptist Catholic Church on right

18399 Magazine 2014 ‘Wisconsin’s Whitetail Classic’ by Wis. Buck & Bear Club – cover

18399A Map 2013 Wisconsin; deer harvest by gun 255,083; such deer shown county by county

18399B Map 2013; bow harvest of deer 81,628 shown by county

From collection of Sara K. Nuernberger, Dr. Hildegard Kuse and Dr. Loretta Kuse

18400 2014 pamphet ‘A walk back in time; a self-guided walking tour of some of Medford’s historic houses.’ By Sara K. Nuernberger, Dr. Hildegard and Dr. Loretta Kuse – title page

18400A ibid p. 2-3 George W. Adams

18400B ibid p. 4-5 Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Lasage, F.W. McIntyre

18400C ibid p. 6-7 Sindleton B. Hubbell, 127 E. Division St., Dr. Clement Kelnhofer, Plughoeft & Hartwig Funeral Home; Earl & David Ruesch Funeral Home; Robert P. Rusch and Thomas M. Rusch, attorneys, apartments 1980-2009

18400D ibid p. 8-9 ‘Aristocracy Hill’ Fayette Shaw and son Fayette Delos Shaw, Thaxter Shaw and son Fred Manson Shaw; Mr. & Mrs. Thaxter Clemintine Shaw; Albert J. Perkins & son Frank

18400E ibid p. 10-11 Mr. & Mrs. Fred Manson & Mae Shaw; Dr. Lester E. Nystrum

18400F ibid p. 12 Charles Thorp; Fayette Delos Shaw & wife Augusta Krauth, 526 S. Second, #12

18400G ibid p. 13-14; Map 2014 Medford ‘Historic home walking tour’

18400H ibid p. 15 Fayette Delos Shaw #12, Paul Newburg #13

18400I ibid p. 16-17, Attorney Thomas Andreson #14; Fred Manson Shaw #15; Joseph Loeb #16; Attorney Herman Leicht,’ ‘Der deeutscher Advokat’ #18

18400J ibid p. 18-19 Walter Koehler; August J. Benn; Professor Sommers

18400K ibid p. 20-21 Louis Carstens

18400L ibid p. 22-23 Theodore Berger; Roy Mussecmean; Julius J. Maver

18400M ibid p. 24-25

From the collection of Trish Kissinger

18401 W. 9-1-2014 Trish Kissinger, nee Zielke, to Robert P. Rusch; ‘Photos taken by my dad, Mike H.F. Zielke of Rib Lake area.’

18401A P. 1963 Harold Ziekle stands at junction of McComb and Landall Ave. For many years, he, with his wife, Theo, and son, Mike, operated a popular general store ‘Zielkes’ on Lot 14, Block D, MRPA. In 2014, the building still stands, owned by Damien Jones, with the street address of 749 McComb Ave.

18401B P. 1963 Harold and Theo Zielke at cash register of their general store ‘Zielkes.’

18401C P. c. 1945 Harold and Theo Zielke in their store shortly after they acquired it from Fred Niggemann on 11-15-1939

18401D P. 1963 Theo and Harold Zielke have apparently bundled up to walk from Zielkes.

18401E P. 1964 Harold Zielke selling a red wool shirt

18401F P. 1967 Florence and Bertha Zielke working in dry goods at Zielke’s store.

18401G P. 1967 Harold Zielke in Zielke’s with tape measure hung over his neck ready to sell clothing

18401H P. 1967 Harold Zielke ties up a sale he has wrapped in white paper. The string being in a large ball over the counter

18401I P. 1967 Harold Zielke with son and grandson, both named Michael, ‘Mike’

18401J P. 1967 Theo Zielke stands outside of Zielke store holding trophy muskie she caught on Big Spirit Lake

18401K P. 1967 Harold & Theo Zielke in the dry goods section of Zielke’s store

18401L P. 1967 Theo Zielke selling fabric; ‘2 skeins of yarn for 49 cents’

18401M P. 1967, Theo & Harold Zielke with son Michael, ‘Mike’ at store cash register

18401N P. 1970 former Zielke store, now owned by Dale & Nancy Strobach; Sheldon Patrick operated the Shoe Store on left in former Dr. Lapham clinic

18401O P. 1967 After 29 years in business, Theo & Harold Zielke sell their general store at 749 McComb Ave.

18402 hemlock lumber; board 12 foot wide and three-quarter inch thick, probably sawed c. 1898 at J. J. Kennedy sawmill at Rib Lake. Herbert Schubert recovered board in August, 2014, when house in which it served as sheathing, board nailed to 2x4 structure lumber and to which siding would be nailed was razed. House stoo on SW corner of Railroad and Front Streets and was probably built shortly after building lots there were created by A.C. McComb’s 1897 Racing Park Addtion to the Village of Rib Lake was platted. Side view with steel nail impeded.

18402A ibid 7.75’ wide hemlock board with portion of hemlock bark attached to side of board; circle is a knot

18402B ibid, circular hole is from unsound knot; i.e. a fragment of dead tree limb which fell out of board when sawed

18402C ibid; side view of 10’ hemlock board showing 2’ wide lighter color stripe whne 2x4’ to which board was namiled prevented discoloration, i.e. darkening….

18403 Map 4-1-1915 Lakeview subdivision of Big Spirit Lake by Frank Henry

18403A ibid-enlarged text; NB-signature of Ole A. Peterson ‘O.A. Peterson’

18404 P. c. 2012 Aerial of Spirit Lakes with lot lines

18405 Deed 9-10-1915 Ole A. Peterson, et ux to C.R. Claussen, lot of Lakeview subdivision

18405A Map 9-23-2014 by RPR; Peterson-Claussen parcel in 6-33-3E

18406 Deed 10-31-1932 Emil & Alma Podell to C.R. Claussen, et ux, part of Gov’t Lot 3 east of 6-33-3E

18407 Deed 4-13-1933 Frank H. Wood et ux, to C.R. Claussen, et ux, Lot 2 & 3, Lakeview subdivision

18408 Deed 11-15-1954 C.R. Claussen, aka Cyrus Claussen, et ux, to George V. Witt et ux, part of Gov’t Lot 3, Lakeview subdivision

18409 Deed 9-18-1954 C.R. Claussen to Emma Claussen ‘to create joint tenancy’

18410 Deed 4-30-1962 C.R. Claussen et ux to Lester L. Arnold et ux, Lots 1, 2 & 3, Lakeview subdivision

18411 P. c. 1950 ‘Lily & Violet cottages, Holly’s Restore, Stone Lake, Rib Lake, Wis.’

18412 Map 9-18-2014 Timms Hill Trail by Tiffany Stram – dashed red line shows trail route north of Rustic Road. Timms Hill Trail and Ice Age Trail south of Rustic Raod and west of CTH C were abandoned when landowner revoked permission, part 1

18412A ibid part 2 Timms Hill Trail between Reich (Ritchie) and Stone Lakes

18412B ibid north portion of Timms Hill Trail, ending at Timms Hill, Wisconsin’s highest natural point, ‘benchmark 1951,’ Pearson Hill shown as same elevation

18413 9-11-2014 ‘Rib Lake Bakery looks to rise to challenge,’ Star News

18413A ibid Photo of new Rib Lake Bakery

18414 9-11-14 ‘Celebrating 100 years under the dome’

18414A ibid left side photos-Sara Nuernberger, Fr. Gerard Wilger, Maddie Brost, Roger Emmerich, Bob Rusch

18414B ibid right side photos – Jim Metz, Taylor Co. Board Chair; State Senator Jerry Petroski and Representative Mary Williams

18415 ‘Celebrating 100 years under the dome’ 1914-2014 supplement to the Star News of 9-6-2014; cover page top half

18415A ibid bottom half

18415B ibid p. 2

18415C ibid bottom; ad-Nikolay, Jensen & Scott-attorneys

18415D ibid p. 3 top; Photo 1912 Taylor Co. Board; Stanley Teclaw, John Gamper, William Ziet, Elias Urquhart, Henry Mauer, Albert Schmeiser, W.V. Prouty, Louis Benoit, Carl Herman, William D. Molitor, Ole Oleson, John Slais, Joseph Probst, Max Bach, Ferdinand Duesing, John Mischler, Ole Erickson, Phillip Schupp, Joseph Brehm, E.E. Hoots, Otto Ruesch, Carl Radtke, Adam Packwicz, Wiliam Kaye, Frank Fountain-not pictured

18415E ibid bottom

18415F ibid p. 4 top Photo of courthouse 7-4-1888

18415G ibid bottom

18415H ibid p. 5 County board chairman

18415I ibid bottom

18415J ibid p. 6

18415K ibid bottom

18415L ibid p. 7

18415M ibid bottom

18415N ibid p. 8 list of judges

18415O ibid photo of 3rd floor circuit courtroom

18415P ibid p. 9 2007 renovation

18415Q ibid bottom

18415R ibid p. 10 history

18415S ibid bottom

18415T p. 11 history

18415U ibid bottom

18415V ibid p. 12, list of Register of Deeds, Treasurers, County Clerks & Sheriffs

18415W ibid bottom

18415X ibid p. 13 photo of DA Kristi Tlusty and Sheriff Bruce Daniels

18415Y ibid photo of Treasurer Sarah Holtz

18415Z ibid p. 14 list of district attorneys; John K. Parish, G.W. Adams, S.A. Corning, George Adams, Martin A. Buckley, Herman Leicht, John B. Haggerty, Kenneth J. Urquhart, Thomas W. Andresen, Louis J. Charles, Paul W. Oreissen, Thomas W. Andresen (acting), Clarence Simon, Louis J. Charles, Raymond H. Scott, Corliss V. Jensen, John O. Olson, Robert L. Brandner, James P. Seidel, Arthur Thetor, Allen R. Brey, Shawn M. Mutter, Mara Johnston, Karl J. Kelz, Kristi Tlusty

18415AA ibid

18415BB ibid p. 15 photo of 1876 courthouse

18415CC ibid bottom

18416 L. 7-8-2014 Jim Metz, Taylor County Board chair to RPR, former District Attorney

18417 Ad 9-6-2014 Rededication of Taylor County Courthouse

18418 W. 9-6-2014 Taylor County Courthouse Rededication; Photo of Courthouse in 1913, 1914, 1920 & 1934

18419 9-6-2014 program-Taylor Co. Courthouse rededication ceremony-cover

18419A ibid

18420 Map 9-25-2014 Timms Hill Trail by Todd Olson

18420A Cover

18421 Map 9-26-2014 Rusch Preserves future conditions by Kevin Thesius

18421A P. c. 12-25-2013 Rusch Preserves and environs; NE ¼ 12-33-2E; green circles at NW & SW corners

18422 Map c. 9-24-2014 North Country National Scenic Trail, Chequamegon-Nicolet segment

18423 ‘Rib Lake Homecoming 2014’

18423A Carter Hopkins & Rachel Wilhelm

18423B Katie Strobach & marching band

18423C P. Lisa Schubert

18423D P. David Hoffland

18424 Ad 9-23-2014 ‘Will be bying fresh balsam boughts.’ Kathy & Lyle Blomberg, dba High Point Wreath Co.

18425 8-19-1920 envelope-Treasury Dept. Ninth Federal Reserve District liberty loan,Central Committee, Minneapolis, MN, official business to Mr. Jno. B. Badger, Interwald, WI

18425A ibid L. E.C. Kibbee, War Loan Organization Savings Division to Dear Fellow Citizen; you can purchase a United STaets Government Security guaranteed as to principal and interes and loss of any kind

18425B L. George Knower, Postmaster, Interwald ‘To our patrons.’ Letters intended to raise money to pay for WWI government expenses.

18426 Bill-Randy Thums, dba Randy Thums Trucking & Excavating 9-15-14

18427 Bill-Robert Thums Trucking 9-21-2014

18428 Bill-Granberg Brothers, Inc. 9-18-2014

18429 9-18-2014 ‘Thank you Gov. Scott Walker’ Star News

18430 9-29-2014 sign ‘Ox Barn’ made by Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club for erection at Max McGillis pine camp site at SE NE 13-33-2E

18431 c. 1960 soda water bottle from Tlusty Beverage, Rib Lake. Motto; Treasure the pleasure of being thirsty. In 1945 George Tlusty, formerly a Whittlesey school teacher, bought the small bottling plant on the north side of Fayette Ave at its junction with McComb Ave in the Vilage. He bottled soda water in 18 flavors there – 2 non-carbonated – until selling out in 1974. His son, Wayne Tlusty, is, in 2014, Village president

18431A ibid

18431B ibid back

18431C ibid back

From Edward Scheller collection

18432 Driver’s Application for employment

18432A ibid back W. Edward Scheller employment history; 1969 Owen-Illinois Corp. operator of large cardboard mill at Tomahawk and owner of tens of thousands of acres of forest lands. 3-1986 to 1-1987 Owens-Illinois bought out by ‘holding company’ K.K. R., which sold off forest lands to make quick profits. The Tomahawk plant then had 3 owners in quick succession; A) Great Northern Nekoosa – 1-1987 to 3-1990; B) Georgia Pacific Corp 3-1990 to 1-1991; C) Packaging Corp of America (PCA) 1-1991 to present.

18433 W. ‘Corporate Successors to Owens-Illinois Corporation’; A) 3-1986 KKR Holding Co; B) 1-1987 Great Northern Nekoosa Co. C) 3-1990 Georgia Pacific Co.; D) 1-1991 Packaging Cporation of America (PCA)

18434 L. 11-20-1996 John T. Schewe to Tenneco Packaging thanking Ed Scheller for forest management assistance

18435 Map 10-12-2014 RLLC Camps 10 & 24 site; Krueger jobber camp site; probable sleigh routes to Peter Johnson sawmill – drawn on James P. Kaysen railroad map, ‘Spirit, Wis.’ 1979 quad; also shows division point of Wis. Central and M.T.&W. railroad

18436 Map c. 1-5-1975 Silvicultural Management zones on Owen-Illinois lands in Town of Corning, Lincoln Co., RLLC Camp 24 site 5-33-4E

18436A ibid RLLC Camp 26 site 20-33-4E

18436B ibid RLLC Camp 28 site SE NE 31-33-4E

18436C ibid RLLC Camp 15 site, SE NE 5-32-4E; RLLC railroad grade next to Camp had a dangerous downgrade for heavily loaded trains heading to Rib Lake sawmill. At Carl Rhody’s, train crew locked all brakes on cars to slow train, but this could lead to wheels not turning and sliding on track, i.e. ‘playing with dynamite’; RLLC Camp 23 site; SW SW 3-32-4E

18436D ibid RLLC Camp 22 site, NW NE 16-32-4E, one of Ole Peterson’s jobber camp sites; NE NE 19-32-4E

18436E ibid RLLC Camp 21 site; SE SE 15-32-4E, Natzke & Luedtke jobber camps; RLLC Camp 22 NW NE 16-32-4E

18436F ibid RLLC Camp 23 SW SW 3-32-4E, Lamberty Camp SE SE 2-32-4E; Camp 26 creek grade (not RLLC Camp 26)

18436G ibid RLLC Camp 27; SE SW 27-32-4E

18436H ibid RLLC Camp 25; NW NW 23-33-4E

18436I ibid

18437 Map 1951 quad ‘Athens, Wis’

18437A ibid Goodrich and site of RLLC Camp1

18437B ibid Interwald and A) then site of Rib River fire lookout tower, SE SE 24-32-3E; B) Green Meadow School SW SW 35-32-3E; C) Green Grove School SW SW 29-32-3E; D) Buddy School; NE NE 26-32-3E; E) Sunny Knoll School SE SW 28-32-2E; F) Ford over Rib River on Section line between Sections 10 and 11

18438 Map 1951 ‘Hamburg, Wis.’ Quad NW portion

18438A RLLC ‘Camp 19’ shown SW SW 19-31-4E; ‘Fromm Lookout tower’ NE NE 36-31-4E

18439 Map 1950 ‘Spirit Falls, Wis.’ Quad SW portion …..

18439A RLLC ‘Camp 25’ shown NW NE 32-5E, (former Milwaukee Road line from Merrill, Wis.)

18439B ibid Spirit Falls’ SW SW 3-34-4E. 10 extant buildings shown

18440 Map 1947 Quad ‘Rib Lake, Wis.’ RLLC camp sites drawn in by Ted Dietzler, long-time Rib Lake resident and employee of RLLC, SE portion; 1) RLLC Camp 2 SW NW 9-32-3E; 2) RLLC Camp 3 SW SW 22-33-3E; 3) RLLC Camp 4 NE NE 13-33-3E; 4) RLLC Camp 14 SE SW 36-33-3E; 5) RLLC Camp 5 NE SE 11-33-3E; 6) RLLC Camp 26 SW NE 20-33-4E; 7) Ole Peterson jobber camp site at Ed Scheller NE NE 19-32-4E; 8) RLLC Camp 8 SE NW 25-33-3E

18440A ibid; NE portion; 1) RLL Camp 5 NE SE 11-33-3E; 2) RLLC Camp 10 NE NW 1-33-3E; 3) RLLC Camp 11 SE NE 9-33-3E; 4) RLLC Camp 13 NW NW 12-33-3E; RLLC Camp 24 NW NE 5-33-4E

18440B ibid SW portion; 1) Rib River School; 2) Fawn Valley School

18440C ibid NW portion; 1) RLLC Camp 6 SE NE 12-33-2E east of Klostermann Creek; Ted Dietzler on this map claims Camp 6 is .5 miles NE of Sec. 12 site and on west side of St. Clair Lake; visible, extant camp remains confirm SE NE 12-33-2E to be location of Camp 6, Robert P. Rusch 10-24-2014; 2) RLLC Camp 9 SW NW 36-34-2E, Dietzler erroneously claims site is .5 miles east; visible, extant evidence and report of Alan Blomberg 3-22-1981 confirms SW NW site; 3) RLLC Camp 12 NW SE 34-34-2E as of 10-22-2014 precise location of RLLC Camp 12 cannot be precisely located. A variety of sources suggest that Camp 12 was in Section 34-34-2E near Silver Creek – Robert P. Rusch 10/24/2014

RPR collection

18441 Pamphlet 2014 ‘High Point Village’

18441A ibid back side ‘Hill of Beans Country Café’

18442 Map 10-23-2014 Darwin Whyte fatal accident site, 3-31-1914 wreck-RLLC Steam hauler

18442A L. 10-23-2014 RPR top David Mickelson re map 10-23-2014

18442B ibid side 2

18443 W. 2014 ‘Timms Hill County Park’ sign in sheet. By Price County Forestry & Parks Dept.

18444 W. 1999 inscription by Lisa Rusch Fifield, American Indian painter

18444A biography Lisa A. Fifield

18444B ibid p. 2

18445 L. Lisa A. Fifield, nee Rusch, to RPR c. 2000

18445A 1997 painting ‘The Woodlands Loon Woman’ by Lisa Fifield

18445B ibid, explanation

18446 2014 Robin Riggs, nee Rusch, and her four children

18446A P. 2014 ‘Sisters’ L-R Kirstin & Trinity Riggs

18446B P. 2014 ‘Brothers’ Colton & Brendan Riggs

18447 Map 5-3-1947 Taylor County Deer yards, public lands and snowmobile trails; title page

18447A ibid p. 2 legend

18447B Rib Lake-Goodrich; Westboro-Medford

18447C Perkinstown

18447D Jump River-Gilman

18448 2014 ‘Back Road Beauty’ Rustic Road #1, Lacrosse Tribune

18448A ibid p. 2

18449 9-18-2014 ‘Rib Lake earns top rating on state report card’ Star News – top

18449A ibid bottom

18450 9-18-2014 ‘Schmidts gather at Harper Lakes site,’ Star news, photo including Phyllis Nordgren, nee Knop

18451 L. 4-14-2000 RPR to Fr. K.J. Michalski, Parish priest, at Budzow (formerly Schoenwalde) Poland re Gebauer & Steiner family history

18451A ibid same letter in Polish

18452 Map of Poland 1999-cover

18452A ibid legend

18452B ibid index of places

18452C City of Bydgoszcz, in German Bromberg, includes former village of Karlsdorf, where Herrmann Emanual Rusch, aka Herrmann Emanuel Rusch was born 4-9-1861. City awarded to Poland after WWI

18452D Portrait Herrmann Emanuel Rusch c. 1896

18453E P. c. 1893 Herrmann Emanuel Rusch aka Hermann Emanuel Rusch, 4-9-1861 to 1-7-1912 and first wife, Wilhelmina August Louise Klatt and children, L-R A) Martha Emilie Rusch, lka Mrs. Julius Gilge; B) Robert Ludwig Rusch; C) Oscar Heinrich Rusch, aka Oskar Heinrich Rusch, born 9-9-1890; NB-photo taken in Augusta, Wis, near which they farmed until Wilhelmina’s death, ASA 16341

18452F Map 1996 Poland, SE portion; A) Slask-Schlesie-Silesia; B) Wroclaw-Breslau; C) Zabkowice Slaskie-Frankenstein; D) Budzow-Schoenwalde; NB-Blue line-Polish-Czech border

18453 Map c. 1985 Zabkowice Slaskie (in German-Frankenstein, Schlesien) Silesia, Poland, title

18453A ibid Village of Budzow (until end of WWII, Schoenwalde, Silesia, Germany and home of Gebauer family)

18453B ibid, Gebauer annotations

18454 L. 4-21-2002 Josef Michalski to RPR in Polish

18454A email 8-17-2014 by Chris Kulinski translating 18454

18455 2014 Christmas card from Poland-cover

18455A ibid Halina Eifler-Macura writes in German from Srebrna Gora, Polska. Until 1945 it was the Village of Silberberg-next to Schoenwalde, Germany, ancestral Gebauer home site

18455B Envelope with Polish stamp

18455C ibid, return address

18456 church record, 1-12-1875; marriage of Pauline Gebauer, daughter of _____ of Schoenwalde to August Billner

18457 Church record, 4-20-1875 marriage of Caroline Gebauer of Schoenwalde to Anton Wenzel

18458 1-18-1876 marriage of Joseph Gebauer from village of Roth-Waltersdorf to Louise Langer of Schoenwalde

18458A 1-21-1871 marriage of Albert Meissner to Anna Gebauer

18459 L. c. 6-2002 Chris Kulinski to RPR-translating records obtained from Fr. Josef Michalski (German language records from St. Laurentius (St. Lawrence) Roman Catholic Church, Schoenwalde (since 1945 called Budzow.)

18459A ibid p. 2

18460 L. 10-21-2002 Jan Eifler, father of Horlina Eifler-Macura of Budzow, Poland, to RPR in German re Gebauer family history

18460A ibid envelope

18460B Translation by RPR

18460C ibid p. 2

From Dennis Kuehling collection

18461 Memo 10-9-2014 ‘Unity, a northwestern railroad,’ by Dennis Kuehling; a 3.5 mile long logging railroad running out of Unity, Wis c. 1893

18461A 1895 plat map, Town of Colby, Clark Co., Wis showing right-of-way of Unity & Northwestern Railroad. It passed through lands of D.J.S., i.e. D.J. Spaulding, lumberman fromm Black River Falls and Upham Manufacturing Co. owned by William Upham of Marshfield

18461B ibid, 1997 plat map showing general route of Colby & Northwestern Railroad

From Kathy Blomberg collection

18462 W. 11-1-2014 Ad ‘Don’t Hug Me I’m Pregnant.’ Kathy & Lyle Blomberg dba High Point Village, W3075 County Road RR, Ogema, WI 54459

18463 10-28-2014 Tomahawk Leader ‘Wisconsin Public Television filming in Ogema for High Point performance’

18464 Ad 12-7-1933 ‘Womanless Wedding’ sponsored by the Ogema and Spirit area

18465 Timms Hill County Park ‘Visitor’s Booth’ 9-29-2014

18465A ibid 10-1-2014

18465B ibid 10-2-2014

18465C ibid 10-8-2014

18465D ibid 9-22-2014

18465E ibid 9-24-2014 visitor from Philippines & Norway

18465F ibid 9-26-2014

18465G ibid 9-28-2014 ‘Ecuador’ ‘Great Trails’

18465H ibid 10-6-2014 ‘Keep up the non-commercial specs.’

18465I ibid 10-11-2014 ‘Not often do you find all this neatness in one location’

18465J ibid 10-14-2014 ‘#24 high point. Very nice!’

18465K ibid 10-20-2014 ‘Love all the hemlock.’ Nick Jensen, Bemidji, MN

18466 Red ribbon in Timms Hill

18467 W. c. 2014 P. & explanation; McGiffert loader at Lake Superior Museum, Duluth, MN

18468 Map 1929 ‘Railroad Map of Wisconsin; Railroad Commission of Wisconsin’ title SW Wis.

18468A ibid SE Wis.

18468B ibid NE Wis.

18468C ibid NW Wis. Rib Lake & environs

18468D ibid Northern Wis.

18469 10-23-2014 W. John Hein Vox pop ‘Rib Lake retiree cautions against getting in the cut, cut, cut mentality. Star News.

18470 P. c. 1930 ‘City Hall, Rib Lake, Wis’ east side of newly-constructed village hall and utility garage at 741 McComb Ave. NB-commercial buildings on both sides

18471 W. 10-23-2014 Barry Anderson, dba Barry’s Body Shop, 840 McComb Ave., Village of Rib Lake, repair estimate form

18472 Map c. 10-1-2013 RLLC Camp 3 well depression (red dot) drawn on quad map ‘Wood Lake.’

18473 Map 11-9-2014 Dynamite Hill, SE NE 5-32-4E on quad map by Robert P. Rusch

From collection of Dr. Mark Reuter

18474 5-13-1998 Star News ‘After 51 years of practicing medicine Dr. Meyer to retire, sort of, this week. Photo of Dr. Walther Meyer and father, George Meyer, in 1947

18475 W. Dr. Walther Meyer Medford medical practice; 1948 begins at Medford clinic; 2-21-1962 begins at Medford hospital; 5-14-1998 stopped clinic practice; 1998-2009 Medford nursing home practice

18476 10-27-2014 invoice J&P Auto Inc. 744 Mill Ln, Rib Lake, operated by John & Patricia Heiser and son Jamie

18477 10-2-2014 Star News ‘Ogema Christmas Tree Festival’ top

18477A ibid bottom photo of Ilene Becker and Rib Lake Bakery float. Photo of ‘Run to the Peak’ starting 10 mile run to Timms Hill

18478 10-20-2014 Map Wood Lake and Taylor County Forest Timber sale 9-14

18478A Sale data including IAT protection

18478B Map 2-5-1990 timber sale map

18478C ibid estimated volumes

18478D Map c 1-2-1970 by Emil Falacky, Taylor County Forester, ‘proposed timber sale #1; NB-The images demonstrate dramatic changes in county forest timber sales

18479 10-13-2014 email, Karen Baumgartner to RPR re Gem Theatre

18480 2-20-1967 Postmark Rib Lake, 4 cent stamp ‘Project Mercury’

18481 10-10-2014 List of participants; Rusch wood cutting bee outside crew; Jay, Rollie, Gary Thums; Rodney STrobach, Scot Bromann & Ron Becker. Inside crew; Jeff, Hope & Greg ‘Doc’ Thumas, Kris, Katie, Ryan & Bekah Strobach; chef-Ann K. Rusch

18481A ibid back timeline of pick-up loads of firewood arriving for piling by inside crew in Ann & Bob Rusch home

18482 11-2014 P. Gov. Scott Walker & challenger Mary Burke, Wisconsin Energy News-cover

18482A 9-30-2015 Democratic Park membership card of Robert P. Rusch

18483 2-16-2014 Star News ‘Foxy’s Cattail celebrates 60 years’ Photo of Dennis Fuchs

18484 10-22-2014 ‘Taphouse’ planned; Anson & Gilkey demolition underway

18484A ibid p. 2

18485 Map 1-2-1965 part of Govt. Lot 10 by Charles Offerman

18486 11-6-2014 Star News obit, Victor Zentner 1937-2014

18487 11-8-2014 poster ‘2nd annual fall fun fundraiser for building fund for Community Church’

From collection of Lisa A. Fifield, nee Rusch

18488 painting ‘Gathering of the Iroquois’ by Lisa A. Fifield, nee Rusch. Lisa is a nationally known artist who learned painting through vocational training following a mid-life illness. Lisa is an enrolled member of the Oneida Indian Nation of Wisconsin. The Iroquois Confederation consisted of 5 tribes; Seneca, Mohawk, Cayuga, Onnabunga and Oneida. For painting annotations see 18489.

18489 1-29-2010 email, Lisa A. Fifield to her father, Everett A. Rusch, explaining two of her painting: 1) ‘Oneida Nation Indians of Wisconsin’ and 2) ‘Gathering of the Iroquois’. This painting is on display at the tribal office at Oneida, Wis.

18489A ibid p. 2

From collection of Dennis Kuehling

18490 P. c. 1918 ‘Abbotsford, Wis.’ 8 cross arms hold 8 telephone lines each

18491 P. 1909 roundhouse, Wisconsin Central Railroad; rear-Coal dock about 40: high allowed coal railroad cars to be pulled to top and unloaded. Abbotsford ROW for Wisconsin Central was cleared in 1872. Soo Line leased line in 1909.

18492 Map 4-2-2014 Rib Lake Lumber Co. Camp 1 & Upham Logging Railroad & A&NE by RPR, James Kaysen and Carson Wilder

18493 c. 1917 ‘Accountant’s remarks,’ part of valuation of Abbotsford & Northeastern railroad, aka Wisconsin Central, Athens-Goodrich branch, aka Upham Logging Railroad

18494 W. Winter 2014 Abbotsford & Northeastern Railroad, cover ‘The Soo’ a publication of the Soo Line Historical & Technical Scoiety

18494A ibid p. 2

18494B ibid ‘Abbotsford & Northeastern (A & NE) railroad, part 1, p1

18494C ibid p. 2

18494D ibid p. 3 Map A & NE c. 1960

18494E ibid p. 4

18494F ibid p. 5 map Athens, WI c. 1901

18494G ibid p. 6 P. Rietbrock sawmill

18494H ibid p. 7 ‘A&NE started in 1889’

18494I ibid p. 8 We took over A&NE in 1910

18494J ibid p. 9 A&NE owned only 4 flatcars

18494K ibid p. 10 P. factory made barrel ‘Heads’

18494L ibid p. 11 P. Abbotsford

18494M ibid p. 12 Map of Abbotsford 1900-1911

18494N ibid p. 13 P. of Abbotsford depot

18494O ibid p. 14 Ceres roller mill & Helendale Farms; William Erbach arrives in Athen 1896

18494P ibid p. 15 Photo of William Erbach, son-in-law of Frederick Rietbrock

18494Q ibid p. 16 depots

18494R ibid p. 17 depot floorplan

18494S ibid p. 18 end of part 1

18495 W. Spring 2014 Abbotsford & Northeastern, cover, The Soo

18495A ibid, the Abbotsford & Northeastern, p. 11, the Upham Logging Railroad by Robert P. Rusch, et. al; in 1899 William Upham buys 36,000 acres of timber east of Medford (Goodrich, Taylor County)

18495B ibid p. 2, Upham builds ‘Goodrich branch.’ Copper River spur to Rib Lake Lumber Co. (RLLC) Camp 1 in 1906

18495C ibid p. 3, Goodrich, WI service

18495D ibid p. 4 old Vanderbuilt, i.e. #999, sold to RLLC

18495E ibid p. 5 biography of William Upham. Rib River Logging Co. v. Upham Manufacturing 1907 decision; Goodrich-Athens line is common carrier case began when Upham refused to transport logs of RLLC in 1906.

18495F ibid p. 6 Map 4-2-2014 Upham Logging Railroad by James Kaysen & Robert P. Rusch

18495G ibid p. 7 Photo of logging line ‘cheap’ construction

18495H ibid p. 8 Photo of locomotive #1000 in 1909

18495I ibid p. 9 Upham sells out to Copper River Land Co in 1906. In same year US Leather Co buys Copper Land Co.

18495J ibid p. 10 Photo of Goodrich, WI

18495K ibid p. 11 ‘Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 1 and its remarkable railroad to Rib Lake by Robert P. Rusch

18495L ibid p. 2 (11)

18495M ibid p. 12 RLLC buys steam hauler in 1904

18495N ibid p. 13 RLLC Camp 1

18495O P. 14 Abbotsford named for Edwin H. Abbots of Boston & Milwaukee

18495P ibid p. 14 Gad ice road, end of part II

18496 Summer 2014 ‘Abbotsford & Northeastern,’ cover ‘the Soo’

18496A ibid p. 2 Abbotsford & Northeastern Park III by Robert P. Rusch, et al

18496B ibid p. 3 RLLC locomotive #999 (old Vanderbilt) & #1000

18496C ibid p. 4 Goodrich line abandoned in 1933

18496D ibid p. 5 in 1957 3 day a week service from Athens to Abbotsford

18496E ibid p. 6 Braun Brothers

18496F ibid p. 7 Photo of Athens Depot

18496G ibid p. 8 Photo of locomotives

18496H ibid p. 9 Photo of locomotives

18496I ibid p. 10 Timetable Goodrich-Athens

18496J ibid p. 11 Athens track removed 1971, end of part III, end of article

18497 Soft maple (acer rubra) lumber with bark. Darker brown side of lumber has faded due to exposure to sunlight.

18498 L. 11-5-2014 Ingrid Kuchinke to RPR; Cousin Rosemarie Kuchinke died 10-20-2014 in Nuernberg, Germany

18498A ibid p. 2

18498B ibid, translation by RPR

18499 11-21-1874 Stevens Point Journal ‘Lumbering on the Wisconsin Central Railroad.’ Alfred Lunt reports sawmills built in Sec. 62, Stetsonville, Sec. 65 Little Black, Sec. 67 Medford, Sec. 79 unknonw and Sec. 83 Westboro. Numbers show miles from Stevens Point via Wisconsin Central Railroad

18500 11-28-1874 Stevens Point Journal ‘A new town’ Westboro was named

18501 3-16-2013 Larry Easton to RPR; Westboro, Taylor Co., named for Westborough, a suburb of Boston, MA

18502 9-6-2014 ‘Early Taylor County Settlement seen through maps and documents’ A sppech by RPR at rededication of Taylor Couinty Courthouse, title page of handout package

18502A logo, Wisconsin Central Ltd

18502B Map ‘Early vegetation of Wisconsin’ 1965 UW-Ex. (ASA 12949)

18502C Map 1906 Wisconsin Railroads shown in red; NB-railroads between Hanibal and Whittlesey shown as never completed

18502D Map 1874 ‘Wisconsin Central Railway’ NB-Medford, Charlestown (lka Whittlesey), Chelsea and Roxbury (lka Westboro)

18502E Map 1878 Taylor County & Wisconsin Central Railroad & depots; NB-four townships, NB-erroneaous mapping of Copper and Klostermann Creeks

18502F Map 1881 Taylor Co. remaining unused railroad land grant lands shown in back (previously scanned as 15254)

18502G Map 3-1896 Wisconsin Central Railway Lands (ASA 10828)

18502H c. 1907 ‘Taylor County Wisconsin und saue Aussichten’ (Taylor County, Wisconsin and its prospects) Taylor County Immigration Association

18502I 1895 ‘Charles Seidel’s letter, Rib Lake, Taylor County, to Frederick Abbot, Esq. Land Commissioner. Published by Wisconsin Central Railroad as land sales campaign (previously scanned as 15988B)

18502J Map Rib Lake c. 1925 (ASA 13436F)

18502K ibid 1898 Tax assessment roll for Towns of Greenwood, Rib Lake, Westboro; NB-horses, cattle, mules & asses, sheep, swine, wagons, carriages and sleights and gold and silver watches

18502L ibid NB-painos, bank stock, merchants stock money, accounts, leaf tobacco, logs, lumber, bucycles, land (previously scanned as 15899A)

18502M ibid Map c. 1910 Railroads & post offices of Taylor County

18502N ibid Map c. 1920 Stanley, Merrill & Phillips Railroad by Paul Nagel

18502O ibid Map 1913 ‘outline map of Taylor County’ Standard Atlas of Taylor County; railroads highlighted in black by RPR

18503 Map c. 1924 ‘The S.M.&P railroad, route of the Stanley, Merrill & Phillips Railway by Paul Nagel

18504 L. 11-11-2014 Wisconsin Department of Corrections to Judge Gary Carlson re State v. George E. Webb

18504A W. 11-6-2002 Revocation Order & Warrant

18504B W. 1-24-2003 Judgment of Conviction, case 2001CF45

18504C ibid case 2001CF31

18504D W. Judgment of Conviction after revocation of probation

18504E W. Judgment of Conviction, case 2001CF10

18505 P. c. 1910 ‘Soldier’s home street car station, Milwaukee’

18505A back ibid postmark 3-31-1913 to Francis Landon

From Betty Jane Quednow nee Gerstberger collection

18506 plat map 1913 Ernst Gerstberger farm, E ½ NW ¼, 31-33-3E, Town of Rib Lake

18507 P. c. 1950 Ernst & Gertrude Gerstberger farm from NE

18507A sketch map 11-21-2014 by RPR identifying buildings on 18507

18508 Wedding portrait 7-11-1907 Ernst Edward Gerstberger & Gertrude Thone

18509 W. Children of Ernst & Gertrude Gerstberger ***not scanned, need to create***

18510 P. c. 1920 Ernst Edward Gerstberger, the man who saved Gerstberger Pines, a Taylor County Park since c. 2000.

18511 P. c. 1905 Mr. Anton & ___ Thone and children; top L-R William ‘Bill,’ Gertrude, lka Mrs. Ernst Gerstberger; Anna; bottom L-R Mrs. Anton Thone; Mary, Anton Thone holding Agnes

18512 P. 1926 Gertrude & Ernst Gerstberger next to brand new 1929 Dodge won by Gertrude as drawing held at Rib Lake Farmerss Institute, an annual event

18513 P. c. 1936 trip in 1926 Dodge to Yellowstone National Park; L-R Gertrude Gerstberger, Phillip Bonde, Mrs. Elizabeth Bonde, registration plat Wis35 7848

18514 P. c. 1940 Ernst Gerstberger farmstead looking SW from Fawn Valley Rd. NB-windmill above well

18515 P. c. 1940 Two blooming apple trees on north side of Ernst Gerstberger farm house. The 2-acre field betweenhbouse and Fawn Valley Rd was routinely planted to rutabagas and mangels, which were mill by hand into small pieces for cattle feed

18516 P. c. 1945 Mr. & Mrs. Anton Thone, parents of Gertrude Gerstberger

18517 P. c. 1920 L-R Gertrude Gerstberger and neighbor Mary Borcher

18518 P. c. 1950 popular Zondlo Tavern dart ball team; L-R Joe Pertmer, Ken Hein, Ray Ziembo, Sonny Gerstberger and Anton Quednow

18518A back ibid stamp ‘The (Rib Lake) Herald, Sunny Side of the Street, Rib Lake, Wis.’

18519 P. c. 1950 ‘Zondlo’s Bar & Ballroom, George & Frank Zondlo, proprietors.’ In 2014 it still occupies the SW corner of CTH C & STH 102. The ballroom is a WWII Quonset hut

18520 P. c. 1960 George Zondlo, Sr. & patron Sonny Gerstberger inside Zonldo’s Tavern; back-ad for ‘St. John’s Lutheran Church annual Pancake Super’ featuring potato pancakes and sausage made, prepared an seved by men of the Rib Lake church.

18521 P. c. 1960 Glendon ‘Sonny’ Gerstberger nursing a beer at Zondlo’s

18522 P. c. 1935 Glendon ‘Sonny’ Gerstberger at age 12

18523 P. c. 1935 Arthur ‘Art’ Gerstberger and mother Gertrude. Like many Rib Lkae young boys, he moved to Milwaukee to find work, later returning with his wife Marlene and daughter Nancy.

18524 P. c. 1942 Weekly Sunday Schafrkopf (Sheepshead) card game at kitchen table at Gerstberger farmhouse; Top L-R Otto Gerstberger, Angie (aka Mrs. Otto Gerstberger), Emma (aka Mrs. Phillip Ziembo), Alice (aka Mrs. Tony Ziembo), Glendon ‘Sonny’ Gerstberger, Gertrude Gerstberger, Edna (aka Mrs. Julius Rezutek); at table L-R Mary Bocher, Tony Ziembo, Ernst Gerstberger, Mary Bocher’s boyfriend; NB-poker chips awarded to game winners and ‘cashed in’ at the end of the card game

18524A An inset on picture frame ‘Rib Lake Dairy, Rib Lake, Wis.’ the frame was likely a give-a-way to patrons

18525 P. c. 1938 Esther Gerstberger (nka Mrs. Bill K. Luckman) L-R daughter Arlene (lka Mrs. Robert Mandery), Betty Gerstberger (lka Mrs. Anton quednow), daughter Helen (lka Mrs. Ernst Kohler); NB-photo taken at back doorway of Gerstberg farmhouse, which was razed c. 2010, the log cabin portion was disassembled, moved to Colorado and rebuilt in the Rocky Mountains as a recreational cabin

18526 W. 11-22-2014 ‘A Tribute to Ernst Edward Gerstberger for saving the Gerstberger Pines by RPR

18527 P. 4-16-2014, Vol. 14 photos of Rib Lake Historical Society, J4, Robert P. Rusch was photographer; sign-Gerstberger Pines County Trail

18528 P. 4-16-2014 Vol. 14 photos of Rib Lake Historical Society J4; Robert P. Rusch yellow lab ‘Marley’ inspects old growth forest at Gerstberger Pines

18528A ibid base of white pine, pinus strobus, over 4’ DBH (diameter at breast height);

18528B ibid; Leopold bench along trail through mixed hardwood (hard maple, yellow birch) and conifer (principally hemlock, Tsuga Canadensis) forest – a true glimpse of the original, uncut high land forests of Rib Lake in 1860

18528C ibid green boughs of hemlock in the foreground

18528D ibid, Marley in grove of hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) Gerstberger Pines; NB-park named for about a dozen super elevated white pines which stood above all other trees, even though hemlock, not pine, dominated the historic & current forest there.

18528E ibid

18528F ibid close-up of hemlock needles-dainty, half inch long

18528G ibid, yellow birch frame the photo

18528H ibid large and small hemlock dominate site

18529 5-2-2014 Robert P. Rusch poses in front of his firewood pile in his home Waldheim (home in the woods)

18530 Map c. 11/1/2014 Taylor County ATV/UTV Routes - east half.

18530A ibid west half

18531 W. 1894 Linz, Austria & Jordan Kajetan marker, biographesches denkmal (biographical memorial)

18531A ibid family tree (in German) of Marko Zo Markus. NB-the Markus family were early settlers of Medford where they built a palatial home on present STH 13

18532 W. Index to Arthur J. Latton’s Reminiscenses and Anecdotes of Early Taylor County. Index prepared by Darlene Heier

18532A ibid

18532B ibid

18532C ibid

18532D ibid

18532E

18532F

18532G

18532H

18532I

18532J

18532K

18532L

18532M

18532N

18532O

18532P

18532Q

18532R

18532S

18532T

18532U

18532V

18532W

18532X

18532Y

18532Z

18532AA

18532BB

18532CC

18532DD

18532EE

18532FF

18532GG

18532HH

18532II

18532JJ

18532KK

18532LL

18532MM

18532NN

18532OO

18532PP

18533 P. c. 1943 ‘The Bay-Spirit Lake No C-18’ view west from STH 102 across Little Spirit Lake-not a single cabin to be seen

18533A ibid back, postmark 4-9-1943 to Betty Rivers, Port Edwards, WI

18534 W. 11-2014 Christmas cookies preorder form, Russ Wudi, dba Rib Lake Bakery

18535 11-14-14 Cindy Hanke, dba C&G Mini Mart, cash register receipt, gasoline $2.99 per gallon

18535A Russ Wudi, dba Rib Lake Bakery, 10-13-2014 cash register receipt

18536 2-6-2010 email Matthew J. Reese to RPR, RLLC locomotive #7 history; In 1904 West Virginia Northern Railroad bought from Baldwin Locomotive Works a 2-8-0 ‘consolation locomotive’ at an unknown date several years later it sold it to the Rib Lake Lumber Co.

18537 10-27-2014 Annual report, School District of Rib Lake-cover

18537A ibid p. 2

18537B ibid p. 3

18537C ibid p. 4

18537D ibid p. 5

18537E ibid p. 6

18537F ibid p. 7

18537G ibid p. 8

18537H ibid p. 9

18537I ibid p. 10

18537J ibid p. 11

18537K ibid p. 12

18537L ibid p. 13

18537M ibid p. 14

18537N ibid p. 15

18537O ibid p. 16

18537P ibid p. 17

18537Q ibid p. 18

18537R ibid p. 19

18537S ibid p. 20

18538 10-88-2014

18539 10-13-2014 ‘Tracking Wisconsin Voucher money’ in last decade $139 million went to support private schools. Lacrosse Tribune

18539A ibid p. 2

18540 W. 10-27-2014 Rib Lake School Finances Analysis by Thomas M. Rusch, p. 1 ‘State aid paid to Rib Lake School District in 2004-2014’

18540A ibid p. 2 total property tax levied by Rib Lake School District

18540B ibid p. 3, total staff & total budget

18541 P. c. 1930 ‘Scene on Spirit Lake G-556’ view north to SE coast of Spirit Point of Big Spirit Lake

18541A ibid, back postmark 8-3-1934 son to Mrs. B.J. Drahl, Chicago, Illinois

18542 W. ‘Gerstberger Pines Nature Trail’ by Arlen Albrecht and Russell Assmann c. 1995-cover

18542A ibid p. 1 Gerstberger Pines purchased in 1993

18542B ibid stations 1,2 & 3 land purchased in 1892 by Ed Gerstberger, father of Ernst Edward Gerstberger

18542C Leopold bench, windfall hemlock

18542D largest hemlock in Gerstberger Pines is 29 inches in diameter and estimated to be 255 years old; P hemlock shelf fungi

18542E W. pine c. 105 feet tall and 32-38 inches in diameter

18542F yellow-bellied sapsucker

18542G Map c. 1995 Gerstberger Pines County Park

18542H Contact information

18543 Letterhead, Rusch & Rusch Law Office, S.C. this ‘service corporation’ had Attorney Thomas M. Rusch and his brother, Attorney Robert P. Rusch as partners from 1980-2009.

18544 11-4-2014 email re Enoch Berg (bachelor residing at South Harper Lake) from Sara Nuernberger

18545 Map 12-1-2014 Taylor County Snowmobile & ATV Trails – west half

18545A ibid east half

18546 11-4-2014 Herbert & Karen Schubert, dba Rib Lake True Value, credit card receipt of RPR

18547 W. ‘Up North Premier Dining Guide’ fall 2014-cover

18547A ibid High Point Village-Hill of Beans coffee shop

18548 flyer 11-1-2014 ‘Don’t Hug Me-I’m Pregnant’ a play put on at High Point Village

18549 Map 4-21-2000 ‘Wood Lake Ave. Forest Home’ of Everett A. Rusch, W2348 Wood Lake Ave, Rib Lake; Everett, a retired electrical engineer and draftsman, created this map whith his computer, it features tree types he has fostered and carees for since he moved to the site, S ½ SW ¼ 18-33-3#, in c. 1990; The ice road sleigh & RLLC steam hauler route is shown by a dashed line. West half.

18549A ibid east half

18549B ibid old steam hauler ice road to Camp 9

18550 Baggage tag of Soo Line, ‘M.St.P& S.Ste.M.R.R. Co.’ Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad Co. c. 1950

18551 hemlock lath from RLLC, side view, recovered from house razed in 2013 in Village of Rib Lake. RLLC routinely salvaged lath from wood from which lumber could not be made. Lath was unplanned and 1 ½’ high, 1/3’ thick and 4’ long

18552 Randy Thums, dba Randy Thums Trucking & Excavating. Invoice 8-19-2014 to RPR

18553 P. 1980 Wisconsin Concrete Park, Phillips, Wis. Town of Spirit native Fred Smith, aka Fred Schmidt, built concrete figures next to his tavern. In 2014 it is a nationally acclaimed ‘folk art’ site

18554 P. 6-18-1968 Garden Homes Ev. Lutheran Chruch, Milwaukee, Wis, site of wedding of Karen Mae Baumbach and RPR

18555A ibid back

18555 1929 $10 bill by First National Bank of Rib Lake, Wisconsin; ebay starting bid of $875 in 11-2014

18556 P. c. 1960 Rib Mountain with flowage of Wisconsin and Rib Rivers in foreground

18557 Ed and Mary Zondlo, dba Ed’s IGA, cash register receipt 11-27-2014

18557A ibid 11-10-2014 NB-5 percent senior discount given every Monday

18558 L. 5-24-1983 Mr. & Mrs. Ron Bauer to RPR re legal services

18559 L. 3-3-1986 Kevin & Sue Melvin to Robert P. Rusch re legal services

18560 11-14-2013 Erma Vlach 1915-2013 obituary, Star News

18561 12-14-2013 Arlene Krakenberger 1911-2013 obit. Star News

18562 6-9-2013 L. Robert P. Rusch to Heidi Ackewelk, Wis. State Law Library, re Marshfield Land & Lumber Co v. John Week Lumber Co.

18563 obit 11-20-2014 Ardith Vlach 1941-2014, from Hemer Funeral Service website

18564 VHS Tape 12-24-1987 Peter Enders & Herman Rusch intereviewed re Rib Lake logging, steam hauler & ice roads c. 1905-1920 by Robert P. Rusch. VHS tape in RLH Soc. collection

18564-1 Table of Contents of VHS tape

18564A Peter Enders interview notes 12-24-1987 and annotations 12-16-2014 by R.P. Rusch p. 1

18564B ibid p. 2 RLLC Camp 5 & 6 peeled cedar poles for half cent each to Kapitz & Heinske

18564C ibid p. 3 RLLC Camp 12-sent home 2-2-1912 ‘no snow’

18564D ibid p. 4 RLLC Camp 12-hired as teamster ‘you wil be second man out’

18564E ibid p. 5 as he rode sleigh down the steep hill it went ‘jerk, jerk, jerk, etc.’ road monkey had attached snubber cable

18564F ibid p. 6 maintaining ice road at -40 degrees F at Camp 9

18564G ibid p. 7 Peter skipped every other water hole

18564H ibid p. 8 Anton Kurek paid with moonshine

18564I ibid p. 9 it took 4-6 horses to pull rutter

18564J ibid p. 10 makeshift bridges for ice road across Klostermann Creek

18564K ibid p. 11 Fellers, swampers and skidders job descriptions

18564L ibid p. 12 hemlock logging paid $1 for 1000 board feet to cut logs to length. Average 13.5 logs to 1000 board feet

18564M ibid p. 13 log stamping, Camp 7 foremen

18564N ibid p. 14 sawing with 2-man cross-cut saw

18564O ibid p. 15 three sequences of local logging; 1) pine cut; 2) hemlock; 3) everything left, aka ‘hardwood’

18564P ibid p. 16 lost pine logs - salvaged

18564Q ibid p. 17 Camp 13

18564R ibid p. 18 ‘Ole Peterson went bankrupt honest.’

18564S ibid p. 19 Lambert Lamberty camp

18564T ibid p. 20 box social at Mud Lake School

18564U ibid p. 21 J.J. Kennedy had a red beard

18564V ibid p. 22 ‘Johnny, you killed me’ said railroad brakeman to engineer

18565 P. 10-30-2014 Erbach Park sign, Athens, Wis, site of Hawks Cross-Country section meet-18 teams from north Wisconsin

18565A P. Hawk girls cross-country team; L-R Katie Strobach, Cassy Kurth, Erin Probst, Coach Lisa Enders, Sheridan Kalander, Kimberly Cummings, Hailey Wudi & Sierra Lake

18565B Katie Strobach contemplating race strategy

18565C Katie Strobach with coach Lisa Enders from Prentice

18565D P. ‘getting checked in’

18565E P. Head coach Lee ‘Butch’ Clendenning & Katie Strobach

18565F P. team space allotments

18565G P. ready for the start

18565H P. The leaders

18565I P. Katie Strobach having fastest run of 2 year career

18565J P. Katie sprints to the finish

18565K P. Katie 1 minute after finish. She ran 8 minute miles over 3 mile cross country course

18565L P. Katie with her very proud grandfather, Robert P. Rusch

18565M P. time to buy T-shirts for Katie, Bekah and Ryan Strobach

18565N W. 2014 Hawks cross-country team-Prentice & Rib Lake High Schools; 2014 schedule ‘Don’t worry about a course map-just follow a Hawk.’ Top row-second from left is Katie Strobach – left half

18565O ibid right half

18565P ibid center

18566 W. ‘Back Road Beauty’ 10-13-2014 Lacrosse Tribune-Town of Rib Lake-Rustic Road No. 1

18566A ibid p. 2

18567 Postcard 7-24-1908 Prentice, Wis. & 7-27-1908 Whittlesey, Wis. to Miss Joyce Knower, Interwald, Wisconisn

18567A ibid back P. Masonic Temple, Chicago, Illinois

18568 12-2014 Taylor County Genealogical Society newsletter ‘Taylor County Leader’ newspaper 7-3-1919 to 7-11-1929 available at Medford Public Library

18568A Membership List

18568B ibid

18568C Wisconsin Genealogical Soc. & Atlas of the German Empire

18569 P. c. 1916 ‘Star Load’ from RLLC Camp 9; camp housed 50-60 men per Peter Enders.

Just before spring break-up, Hugh McMillan, Camp 9 foreman, declared a contest for the Star load of logs. The contestants were the 3 loading crews at Camp 9. Loading crew foremen were: 1) Fred Steinman from Town of Greenwood; 2) Charlie Kalk from Fawn Valley; 3) John Brahmer from Interwald. George Lee, of Medford, is the teamster holding the rains. The two men holding the guide lines are Joe Enders and Oliver Lamberty of Mud Lake. They served as ‘hookers,’ hooking chains to logs which were hoisted to the top of the sleigh by the horse team in back. The hoist ‘jammer’ is partially shown in back.

This Star Load made 42,000 board feet of lumber at the Rib Lake mill.

The Star Load took one day to put together and won a prize of 35 cents of tobacco and bragging rights for its crew.

Using the 9-mile long ice road between RLLC Camp 9 and the mill, the four hourses shown pulled the huge load without help, except for Knop Hill (SE NE 24-33-2E) where the steam hauler aided the horses by pushing the rear of the sleigh.

For two weeks the sleigh was on display near the Rib Lake Village Park. From there the load was moved without horses onto Rib Lake, where it broke through the ice and settled to the lake bottom. Data from Peter Enders, written 12/18/2014 by R.P. Rusch

18570 P. 3-8-2007 Jerry Blomberg holding bottle from Camp 9 junk pile

18570A ibid Camp 9 junk pile

18571 W 12-2014 ‘The night the cat and snow plow fell through the bridge,’ by Michael Meier, Liberty School News V. 16 #3

18571A ibid p. 2

18571B ibid p. 3

18572 2-7-2013 obit, Richard Tlusty, Star News

18573 2-7-2013 obid, Theresa Damrau, nee Mann

18574 P. c. 1960 Mondeaux Dam

18574A ibid back

18575 4-10-2014 obit Ruth Schabel, nee Hasselbeck, Star News

18576 P. 2010 Ann & Robert ‘Bob’ Rusch

18577 W 12-31-1979 Wisconsin District Attorney’s Association membership card for Robert Rusch

18578 Business card, c. 1982 Attorney Robert P. Rusch

18579 W. c. 1996 business card ‘Vierradenmuehle’ Germany

18579A ibid back

18580 W. c. 1996 German sales receipt ‘Schild Schonwalde’

18581 W. c. 1996 Address for Silesian Historical Society

18582 W. c. 1996 business card-Dietrich-Bonheffer haus, Berlin

18583 W. c. 1996 ‘Der Herr Ist Mein Hirte Psalm 23’

18584 P. c. 2005 Katie Strobach & sister Bekah

18585 W. c. 2010 Robin Rusch, L.G.S.W. business card-Relate Counseling Center

18586 Ad c. 1980 Eau Claire All Malt Lager Beer

18586A ibid Six 12 oz. bottles for $3.59

18587 5-2-2013 obit, Agatha Meski nee Yanko, Star News

18588 5-2-2013 Obit, Alene Schmittfranz, nee Reinke

18589 c. 1910 Hardwood flooring ‘Korrect Make Brand’ Phillips, WI

18590 c. 1940 Chicago and Northwestern Railroad matchbook cover ‘Route of the 400 Fleet-400’s serve Wisconsin, Minnesota & Upper Michigan’

18590A ibid, inside map ‘Chicago and Northwestern line and connections’

18590B ibid, enlarged map

18591 P. c. 1900 ‘St Johns Church, Rib Lake, Wis. G-561’ aka St. John the Baptist Catholic Church & Rectory, view to NW

18591A ibid back Czech language writing. Photo purchased in 2014 on ebay from seller in Czech Republic

18592 2014 Christmas card-Map Wisconsin-Democratic Party of Wisconsin

18592A ibid, interior

18593 11-15-2014 Invitation to Aspirus Medford Hospital & Clinics-ribbon cutting ceremony-cover

18593A ibid construction stats and facts

18594 4-11-2013 obit Arthur Gerstberger 1926-2013, Star News

18595 4-25-2013 Obit, Robert Tripp 1921-2013

19596 4-11-2013 obit, Marion Peterson, nee Kestler 1925-2013

18597 L. 12-3-2014 Thomas M. Rusch to Wisconsin State School Superintendent Evers re Governor Scott Walker School funding cuts

18597A ibid –chart –Rib Lake School District data 2004-2015, financial data prepared by Brian D. Patunke, DPI

18597B emails-Thomas M. Rusch & Brian D. Pahnke

18597C ibid

18598 W. c. 1-30-19__ ‘Return to Catholicism’ by Charles Ernest Trudell, a former priest

18599 Map 1913 Standard Atlas, T33N R2E showing C.E. Trudel, aka Charles Trudel as owner of NW NE 16

18600 Warranty Deed 2-5-1910 Taylor County Land Co. to Charles Ernest Trudell, N ½ NE ¼ 16-33-2E for $720

18600A ibid p. 2

18601 c. 1920 Plat map T33N R2E

18602 P. c. 1914 Rib Lake Lumber Co. Camp 6 was similar to Camp 13 pictured. L-R; cook shanty, bunk house, office, horse barn, root cellar

18602A ibid, modified for IAT use.

18603 W. Outwash Valley graphic on Rusch Preserve

18603A ibid

18603B ibid

18604 P. 4-28-2012 RPR completes marathon #200 on Pine Line at Medford, WI, and family celebrates; L-R top row, Tyan, Katie, Rodney & Kris Strobach, Bob & Ann Rusch and Robin Riggs; bottom ___, __ Behling, Bekah Strobach

18605 P. c. 1900 one-room log cabin school, probably in Town of Rib Lake, Taylor County, Wis. 19 students surround teacher; object in her folded hands. The building is roofed with cedar shingles, made of logs hand hewed with a broad axe and surrounded by virgin forest

18606 c. 1910 L-R Mariel Lemke, Martha & Alfred Bleck, unknown, Paul Krueger stand on dirt-packed rural road in Town of Rib Lake. A long pile of hemlock bark, i.e. ‘tanbark’ is behind Alfred piled in the road ditch. A small iron truss bridge covers road ovedr creek behind which is a 2-story barn

18607 P. 1930 four men wearing knickers tee off on Ole Peterson golf course newly built on former Peterson dairy farm in Town of Spirit, Price County, Wis. In 1950 site was planted in red pine by new owners, Herbert & Lester Magnuson

18608 Map 12-20-2014 steam hauler accident site map; Darwin Whyte killed 3-3-1914 when RLLC Steam hauler was unable to brake on steep decline causing loaded sleighs to jackknife against steam hauler crushing fireman to death by R.P. Rusch

18609 ‘Rib Lake Lumberjack’ 8-13-1957 Milwaukee Journal re Dio & Rolland Walty by Bill & Eva Barrick

18610 c. 1925 P. Medford Cooperative Creamery, Medford, WI

18610A ibid back, postcard to Bertha Rusch, then working at Cedar Lake Resort ‘Thomas’ Hotel’ ‘Dear Birdie’

18611 P. c. 1914 Herman A. Rusch confirmation photo at parents farm home, now N8198 CTH C, Rib Lkae

18612 P. c. 1915 Mrs. Albert Knop, nee Ida Lange, fka Mrs. Herrmann Emanuel Rusch & step-son ‘Fritz’ Knop

18613 P. Alfred ‘Fritz’ Knop c. 1913

18614 P. c. 1940 CTH C looking north from Knop Hill, SE NE 24-33-2E. Until 3-1922 RLLC steam hauler ice road crossed CTH C where auto shown and ascended long incline requiring help from horse teams, e.g. when ‘star load’ pulled by 4 horses, needed to have steam hauler push sleigh

18615 6-4-1942 P. Albert William Ludwig Knop, with beloved team of horses on farm of father, Albert ‘Pa’ Knop, S ½ NW ¼, 19-33-3E, Town of Rib Lake

18615A P. c. 1942 Knop dairy barn built c. 1920 from timber sawn on W ½ SW ¼ 7-32-3E

18616 P. c. 1944 L-R Walter Kurth, Alfred ‘Fritz’ Knop and unknown man on Knop farm, Town of Rib Lake

18617 P. c. 1943 12 foot high snowbanks on north side of STH 102 at Herman Bloedow’s farm, SW SE 19-33-3E

18618 P. c. 1940 Gustav ‘Gus’ Rusch and children, Raymond, Ronald and Barbara in Village of Rib Lake with hunting dog, a springer spaniel

18619 P. 11-1982 ‘Herman A. Rusch & Fritz Knop display their buck.’ Star News

18620 P. 11-1966 L-R Ray Herman & brother-in-law Herman Rusch butcher deer in Ray’s basement

Alfred ‘Al’ Unick collection

18621 c. 1910 Successful hunter Otto Ziemke with giant black bear carcass

18622 P. 1959 Top L-R Eddie Mathews, Star batter for then Milwaukee Braves baseball team; Ken Coyle, conservation warden; Howard Debrien, Price County conservation warden; bottom L-R unknown, Del Crandell (with glasses & hat), Braves catcher; Johnny Logan (with bandaged foot), Braves shortstop; & Bill Barnes, student warden. All were ‘roughing it’ at Harry Curran’s cabin, originally built for fire warden manning Wilderness Fire tower

18623 11-20-2014 Hattie M. Knop, nee Stumpf, aka Mrs. Fritz Knop, 11/15/1923-11/20/2014 memorial card

18623 ibid inside

18624 W. 9-9-2011 Kuenzel-Stumpf family tree by Dennis David Buechel,

18624A ibid p. 2 Hattie Margrete Stumpf

18624B ibid p. 3 Hattie Margrete Stumpf marriage in 1943 to Roy Larsen

18624C ibid p. 4 children of Hattie & Roy Larsen; a) Darlene Larsen, nka Mrs. Alfred Unick DOB 9/8/1946; B) Kathleen Larsen born 11/21/1957, nka Mrs. John Erwin Stelling; Hattie’s second husband was Fritz Knop, 12/16/1913-4/30/1988

18625 P. c. 1924 Hattie M. Stumpf baby picture, lka Mrs. Fritz Knop

18626 P. c. 1980 Hattie with brother James ‘Jim’ Stumpf

18627 P. c. 1945 Hattie & first husband Roy Larsen

18628 P. c. 1948 Mr. & Mrs. Roy Larsen & daughter Darlene

18629 P. c. 1955 Hattie & daughters Darlene & Kathleen

18629A P. 5-1961 ibid

18629B P. c. 5-5-2000 Hattie Knop at Cutts homestead in Town of Hill. NB-wood-fired kitchen stove and electric lamp hang from ceiling

18629C P. c. 11-1967 Hattie Knop and second husband Fritz Knop with Sue Unick (nka Sue Nehls)

18630 P. c. 1960 L-R Francis ‘Fran’ Clendenning, Fritz & Hattie Knop, arrival in Honolulu.

18630A P. ibid Luau, L-R Hattie & Fritz Kno p& Francis Clendenning

18631 P. c. 1971 Mr. & Mrs. Fritz & Hattie Knop on Hawaiian beach

18632 P. 1983 Mr. & Mrs. Hattie & Fritz Knop celebrate silver anniversary

18633 P. 12-1973 Fritz Knop as Santa, Hattie Knop and Angie Stelling

18634 P. 5-1986 Hattie & Fritz Knop at home, 825 Kennedy Street, Rib Lake

18635 P. L-R Hattie Knop and Mary Lynn Kutzke cutting up cabbage to make sauerkraut at home of Alfred & Darlene Unick, N8050 CTH C, Rib Lake

18636 P. L-R Alfred Unick, Hattie Knop holding birthday cake, Sue Nehls & Nick Nehls

18637 P. 6-24-2000, Hattie Knop with hair curlers holding Donnie Nehls

18638 P. 6-1999 L-R Randy, Emily & Nicholas ‘Nick’ Nehls displaying quilts Hattie Knop made for them

18639 P. 10-15-2000 L-R Alfred Unick with Ford 2N tractor, Hattie Knop with Donald & Emily Nehls on Honda ATV

18640 P. L-R Mary Kutzke, Sean Schriener, Tarek Scott, Andrea Schreiner, Hattie Knop & Randy Nehls getting ready to blow out birthday candles

18641 P. c. 2012 Hattie Knop beams at great-grandson, Donald ‘Donnie’ Nehls

18642 P. 5-23-2010 Hattie Knop with great-grandkids; Emily Nehls, Donald Nehls (in front) and Tarek Scott

18643 P. 5-23-2010 Hattie Knop nee Stumpf, fka Mrs. Roy Larsen and Mrs. Fritz Knop, 11/15/1923-11/20/2014

18644 c. 2015 Pen & ink drawing ‘St Johns Lutheran Chruch, Rib Lake, Wis.’

18645 obit 11-22-2014 Jeanette Clendenning, nee Curran, lka Mrs. Melvin ‘Spike’ Clendennnig, 12/17/1924-11-19-2014

18646 Jeanette Clendenning nee Curran memorial card-cover

18646A ibid p. 2 Photo of Jeanette Clendenning

18647 W. 11-22-2014 ‘Service of Death & Resurrection: of Jeanette Clendenning, Rib Lake United Methodist Church-cover & back

18647A ibid p. 2 & 3

18648 c. 1960 ‘Milwaukee Road’ conductor’s emblem ‘C.M.St.P & P’ (Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific); F.W. (Frederick alter) Killion of Jacobson, Minnesota, grandfather of Ann K. Rusch, wore this emblem

18649 12-4-2014 Obit Frances Clendenning, nee Knop, 7/13/1920-11/25/2014

18650 W. 11-29-2014 Memorial Card Frances ‘Fran’ M. Clendenning-cover & back

18650A ibid p. 2 & photo

From Lee ‘Butch’ Clendenning collection

18651 P. c. 1910 top-unknown, second row left, ___ Kalk, brother of Bertha Ann Martha Kalk, father of Foster ‘Hups’ Kalk, right __ Knop, aka Charlie Knop

18652 1-7-2015 Pedigree chart of Frances Martha Knop, aka Mrs. Charles Peter Clendenning, father Charles ‘Charlie’ Knop; mother Bertha Ann Martha Kalk 7/17/1887-1958, chart typed by Kathleen D. Krueger and handwritten modifications done by Robert P. Rusch on 1/7/2015

18653 P. c. 1948 L-R Harry Knop, John Knop, Frances Knop lka Fran Clendenning, Robert Knop, Bertha Ann Martha Knop nee Kalk, aka Mrs. Charles Knop, Harvey Knop, Charles ‘Olie’ Knop, Jr.

18654 P. c. 1985 L-R Frank Clendenning nee Knop and good friend Isabelle Bleck

18655 P. 8-1982 L-R Harvey, Robert, John, Fran, Harry Knop at family reunion at Harvey Knop farm west of Glencoe, Minnesota

18655A ibid back Fran’s handwriting ‘Fritz [Knop] is missing but he did attend the reunion’

18656 P. 1982 L-R Delonis ‘Mrs. John Knop’, Robert Knop, Fran Clendenning holding Jenny Clendennig

18657 P. c. 1980 Melvin ‘Spike’ Clendenning and wife Jeanette vacationing in Venice, Italy

18658 P. c. 1965 L-R Fran & husband Charles ‘Chuck’ Peter Clendenning (9/5/1915-12/29/1976), Albert ‘Al’ Knop and Ray herman at social event at Chelsea Conservation Club

18659 P. c. 1995 L-R Lenard ___, Fran’s significant other from Pittsville, Fran & brother Robert Knop outside her Rib Lake home, 983 North Front Street

18660 P. siblings, Charles ‘Ollie’ Knop, Jrs., with his 80th birthday cake, Fran & Robert Knop

18661 W. Surviving children and grandchildren of Karl & Ernestina Knop by Robert P. Rusch & Lee ‘Butch’ Clendenning on 1/8/2015

18662 Map 1913 T33N- R2 & 3E, plat from Taylor County Standard Atlas, Knop & Kalk farms highlighted. Map legend, 1913 ownership;

1) Albert Emil Knop farm, aka Pa Knop or Meister Knop, yellow highlighted SW NW 19-33-3E;

2) Charles ‘Charlie’ Knop farm, orange highlighted, NW SW 36-33-2E;

3) Kalk farm, pink highlighted, W ½ SE ¼ 30-33-3E

2015 residental locations:

4) Robert P. Rusch, NE NE 13-33-2E

5) Thomas M. Rusch, NW SE 7-33-3E

6) Everett A. Rusch, SE SW 18-33-3E

7) Lee ‘Butch’ Clendenning, NE SE 14-33-2E

18663 P. 7-13-1995 Fran Clendenning at her 75th birthday bash at Rib Lake park

18664 P. c. 1995 L-R Donna Budimlija, aka Mrs. Ernie Budimlija & Fran at new Glarus, Wis, bus trip

18665 P. 4-2001 R-L Fran Clendenning & friend

18666 P. c. 2002 L-R Fran Clendenning & Ethel Ziemke next to Lamers Tour bus; this was Fran’s last bus tour

18667 P. c. 2004 Fran Clendenning and her beloved fishing pole & dog ‘Scout’ at Minocqua

18668 P. 1-28-2011 L-R Lee ‘Butch’ Clendenning and a granddaughter McKenna Johnson, and his beloved mother Frances ‘Fran’ Clendenning, nee Knop

18669 Map c. 12-2007 Rib Lake environs. Timms Hill, Ogema, Goodrich, Ice Age Trail

18670 Statement c. 1891 ‘To J.J. Kennedy, Dr., Dealer in and manufacturer of Lumber, Timber, Lath and Shingles, also dealer in general merchandise.’ 3 entries;

hem(lock) 6120 ft @ 3.00 = $18.60;

bass(wood) 2310 ft @ 5.50 = $12.70;

pine 760 ft @ 7.00 = $5.22;

total $36.52

Image 18670 is partial confirmation of a portion of an early Rib Lake history by _______ reporting that in 1880 J.J. Kennedy had a chance meeting with George Curtis, who proposed a hybrid deal:

1) Curtis would finance and own a sawmill to be built at Rib Lake.

2) Kennedy would be in charge of the Rib Lake operations.

3) Kennedy would be authorized and allowed to buy timber of his own, which he could have milled at Rib Lake in Curtis’ sawmill with Kennedy being allowed to keep the profits. [NB-The abstract to the Donna & Marlin Walbeck home in the Village of Rib Lake is built on the mill site of the RLLC. The abstract shows that J.J. Kennedy took title to Govt. Lot 10 (which included the mill site) on 8/18/1892, recorded 8/21/1893.]

18671 W. 4-22-1886 receipt; ‘J.J. Kennedy, Manufacturer of and dealer in Lumber, Lath & Shingles, Rib Lake Wis. _____ 188_ [8 printed lines appear on form]’ Here form has handwritten data:

Rib Lake, Wis. April 22, 1886

$25.00 received of E. Gerstberger, twenty five dollars for NE ¼ of the NW ¼ Sec. 31T33R3E, W.C.R.R. Co. (Wisconsin Central Railroad Co.] signed A. [Albert] J. Perkins, Agent

18671A 1913 plat map NE NW 31-33-3E highlighted; from Taylor Co. Standard Atlas – land Ernst Gerstberger bought on 4-22-1886 from Wisconsin Central Railroad

18672 P. c. 1909 ‘Scene near Westboro, Wis. No 5006’ 6 sleighs loaded with large pine logs, hand colored at landing

18672A ibid back Postmark 2-23-1910 ‘Westboro’, Ellie to Amanda Anderson, Ellsworth, Wis.

18673 P. c. 1909 Batcam in river; 14 men on shore using pike poles to push pine logs. ‘Scene near Westboro, Wis. No. 5214.’ [NB-Ebay offered this for sale in 2014, identical photo with printed text ‘Scene near Westboro’]

18673A ibid back postmark 3-7-1910 Westboro; postcard in Swedish; Clarence to Mrs. Axel Anderson, Ellsworth, Wis.

18673B ibid, English translation

18673C identical postcard except text on scene reads ‘Log drive near Wausau, Wis.’

18673D ibid, back, postcard by April to Leonard Klug, Douglas, Wyo. Postmarked Sept. 24, 1909, Wausau, WI

18674 5-2-2013 Christina Wudi obit 5-21-1916 to 4-29-2013, mother of Russ Wudi

18675 10-1-2014 sticker; ‘I run like a girl-try to keep up’

18676 W. 10-2014 Financial history 2005-2014 Rib Lake School District demostrating over $800,000 loss of state aid during Gov. Scott Walker term

18677 ‘Silent Sports’ 2-2015 cover

18677A ‘Embracing the cold and snow’ by Jane Stotz, p. 1

18677B ibid p. 2 ‘A warm bus at Rib Lake’ skiing Timms Hill trail from Rusch Preserve

18677C ibid p. 3 finis

18678 W. 2-3-2015 children and grandchildren of Phyllis Nordgren, nee Knop, and Allen Knop b. 5-8-1939

18678A children and grandchildren of Michael Knop b. 5-4-1941

18679 L. 2-3-2015 Phyllis Nordgren to Robert P. Rusch re ‘Taylor County’

18679A ibid p. 2 Jerry Rusch

18679B ibid p. 2 Gale Clendenning and Kenneth Herman

18679C ibid p. 3 Arden Krueger

18680 W. Mail return sticker; Phyllis Nordgren nee Knop

18681 1-21-2015 Receipt for music lessons at $5 each by Darlene Nowak dba Rib Lake Misic Store to Ryan Strobach

18682 2014 Barry Anderson dba ‘Barry’s Body Shop’ 840 McComb Ave, Rib Lake, business card

18683 10-13-2014 Ed Zondlo, dba Ed’s IGA, 801 McComb Ave, cash register receipt for $55.69

18683A ibid credit card sale receipt for $55.69

18684 Map 1997 Wisconsin Highways-cover

18684A ibid Rib Lake & environs

18684B ibid Photo of Governor Tommy Thompson

18685 10-27-2015 Gerald ‘Jerry’Rusch to Robert P. Rusch envelope

18685A L. ibid ‘Vielen Dank’ i.e. many thanks

18685B ibid p. 2 Thanks for ‘Taylor County’

18686 Map 9-24-2014 Timms Hill Trail, High Point Ski Trails by Todd Olson

18686A ibid

18687 Map 2-12-2015 Timms Hill Ski & Snowshoe Trail north of CTH C by Kathy Blomberg

From collection of Gerald ‘Jerry’ Rusch

18688 RLLC made wrench recovered from ‘3 spot’ logging locomotive in 1948 by Jerry Rusch & given to Rib Lake Historical Society

From collection of Foster ‘Hup’ Kalk

18689 Map 2-13-2015 by Robert P. Rusch; part of Town of Rib Lake; 1) probable site of first home, lka Mrs. John Stelling and parents; 2) probable second home, lka Mrs. John Stelling; using 1913 Standard Atlas of Taylor County-plat map-as base

18690 W. 5-19-1964 ‘It isn’t like it used to be.’ A biography by Verna Marx of Mrs. John Stelling, aka Alvina

18690A Submission page to English class, Medford High School

18690B Forward

18690C Bio. p. 1

18690D ibid p. 2

18690E ibid p. 3

18690F ibid p. 4

18690G ibid p. 5 Albert Knop neighbor

18690H ibid p. 6

18690I ibid p. 7

18690J ibid p. 8 Ida Knop nee Lange burial

18690K ibid p. 9 Clothes homemade from flax

18690L ibid p. 10

18690M ibid p. 11 ‘Where cobwebs grow, no beau does go’

18690N ibid p. 12

18690O ibid p., 13 Alvina meets her later husband, John Stelling

18690P ibid p. 14 finis

18691 Peter Enders & Herman Rusch interview 2-27-1978 by RPR; NB-green numerals keyed to annotations. Steam hauler ice roads

18691A ibid p. 2 rocking

18691B ibid p. 3 extra team Knop hill

18691C ibid p. 4 loads broke through

18691D ibid p. 5 Camp 6 tanbark

18691E ibid p. 6 hot pond

18691F ibid p. 7 booms

18691G ibid p. 8 booms pulled by locomotive

18691H ibid p. 9 mill changeover

18691I ibid p. 10 SA Konz mill

18691J ibid p. 11 deadheads-log salvage

18691K ibid p. 12 spotting

18692 Narrow gauge railroad track from RRLC tramway. NB-red pain is not authentic

18693 2-20-2015 W. ‘Annotations to Peter Enders & Herman Rusch 2-27-1978’ interview by RPR. Average sleigh load of logs 8000-10000 board feet

18693A ibid p. 2 ice road thickness

18693B ibid p. 3

18693C ibid p. 4 sprinking water

18693D ibid p. 5 ice up to 14’ thick

18693E ibid p. 6 straw as braking material

18693F ibid p. 7 sand

18693G ibid p. 8 rocking the sleigh to start

18693H ibid p. 9 4 horses

18693I ibid p. 10 Knop Hill

18693I-1 Map 3-8-2015 steam hauler ice road between Rib Lake and RLLC Camp 6 and Knop hill where an extra team of horses was maintained to help loaded sleighs over grade by ROR using 1913 standard atlast of Taylor County

18693J ibid p. 11 wind effect on lake

18693K ibid p. 12 sleighs broke through ice

18693L ibid p. 13 Rib Lake ‘ridge’

18693M ibid p. 14 sleigh sank

18693N ibid p. 15 fett hook, quick release

18693O ibid p. 16 tanbark

18693P ibid p. 17 hot pond

18693Q ibid p. 18 boom

18693R ibid p. 19 rope booms

18693S ibid p. 20 rope booms pulled by locomotive

18693T ibid p. 21 ‘laying into the collar’

18693U ibid p. 22 hardwood sinks

18693V ibid p. 23 mill changeover-saw set

18693W ibid p. 24 narrow gauge tram ‘carts’

18693X ibid p. 25 dry yards, pine, hemlock & pine

18693Y ibid p. 26 pike poles

18693Z ibid p. 27 piling or ‘piles’

18693AA ibid p. 28 logging railroad

18693BB ibid p. 29 log salvage, ‘deadheads’

18693CC ibid p. 30 spotting

18693DD ibid p. 31 330 AM teamster start time

18693EE ibid p. 32 stuck sleigh

Collection of David & Helen Marcis

18694 P. c. 1926 ‘Rib Lake Lumber Co. of Delaware’ mill and yard crew. 162 men; 6x36’ photo, each man number but identifications lost as of 3-5-2015. Southmost (right) photo portion, men posting at SW side of transfer chain building.

18694A ibid unidentified mill foreman #88, sits on transfer-tram car ‘cart’

18694B ibid men pose on tramway. Single bare incandescent light bulb hangs from pole, view north

18695 11-1926 W. ‘Service’ lumber stock list and pamphlet by B. Heineman Lumber Co, Wausau, WI, cover & back

18695A ibid p. 1

18695B ibid p. 2 & 3 birch ad

18695C ibid p. 4 & 5 Teddy Roosevelt quote

18695D ibid p. 6 & 7, hard maple ad

18695E ibid p. 8 & 9, 4-4 to 16-4 birch

18695F ibid pine tree poem

18695G ibid dry hardwood stock list; ash, birch, soft maple, elm and basswood

18695H ibid hard maple, rock elm, hemlock $30-$35 at 1,000 No. 1, 2 & 3 grades, hemlock for crating ad

18695I ibid p. 16-17 basswood ad

18695J ibid p. 18-19 soft maple and soft elm ad

18695K ibid p. 20 admonition to salesmen

18696 9-1927 W. ‘Service’ B. Heineman Lumber Co. of Wausau, WI, cover & back page

18696A ibid ‘Twelve good selling ideas’

18697 W. c. 1927 ‘Business reply card’ to B. Heineman Lumber Co, 122 W. Washington St, Wausau, WI

18697A ibid back

18698 W. 4-1929 ‘Service’ B. Heineman Lumber Co. cover; ‘All men are born equal. It is their own fault if they do not die that way.’

18699 W. 7-1929 ‘Service’ cover pledge of allegiance in original form

18699A ibid p. 15 hemlock ad $30-$250 at 1,000

18700 W. 8-1930 ‘Service’ B. Heineman Lumber Co, Wausau, WI cover & back

18700A ibid p. 1

18700B ibid p. 2-3

18700C ibid p. 4-5

18700D ibid p. 6-7

18700E ibid p. 8-9

18700F ibid cartoon ‘Mr. Business’

18700G ibid dry hardwood stock list

18700H ibid ‘special hemlock’ complete list of all items-dimension of boards & timber

18700I ibid p. 16-17

18700J ibid lawyer joke

18701 2-25-2015 P. Loram locomotive ‘Big Yellow’ visitor passes through Merrill

18701A ibid p. 2

18702 P. 1974 RPR, Taylor Co. District Attorney 1972-1980 at county law library, third floor, Taylor County Courthouse

18703 P. 1978 RPR holding daughter Robin, Karen M. Rusch holding daughter Kristin next to their Chevrolet pick-up at north 69th Street in Milwaukee

18704 P. 9-22-1998 CTH C parking lot at Rusch Preserve

18704A ibid, the ‘Cat D7R’ belonged to Peterson Construction of Medford and had just mounded earth for the ‘Friendship Bridge,’ the larges ski bridge in the lower 48 states

18705 P. 9-22-1998 Scot Bromann and sons inspect excavation for Freindship Bridge

18706 P. c. 1998 installing posts at Rusch Preserve for signage

18706A ibid, sign ‘Ice Age National Scenic Trail’ aka Ice Age Trail, aka IAT

18707 4-28-2012 book by Robin Riggs, nee Rusch, ‘Bob’s 200th Marathon’ cover

18707A ibid saying re self-mastery

18707B ibid Photo of Kirstin, Colton, Trinity & Brendan Riggs

18707C ibid Photo of RPR at mile .5, Allman Street, Medford, WI

18707D ibid P. RPR running statistics

18707E ibid P Pine line trail leaves Medford

18707F P. Katie Strobach and friend, Beth Wilson, walked half-marathon

18707G ibid P. Ryan, Kris & Rodney Strobach

18707H ibid P. RPR at Pleasant Avenue, Medford

18707I ibid P. Mile 3, RPR wears fanny pack with water bottle

18707J ibid P. Chelsea

18707K ibid P. Trinity Lutheran Church, Chelsea, where Robin Riggs was baptized

18707L ibid P. Bob at Mulberry Avenue

18707M ibid P. Bob followed by unknown marathoner

18707N ibid P. signs

18707O ibid P. sign; 7545 miles, Bob’s combined marathon and ultra marathon event distance

18707P ibid P. ‘Chatting up a storm’ mile 14

18707Q ibid P. mile 15

18707R ibid P. Ann Rusch, Ann has lavished support on Bob, crewing him at most events. Ann did Bob’s first marathon with him, the Parvo Nurmi, Hurley, WI

18707S ibid homemade signs

18707T ibid Bob and daughter, Kris, mile 23

18707U ibid Bob at Pleasant Avenue bridge

18707V ibid Rodney Strobach, holding child upside down; his daughter Jodi Behling, nee Strobach, and granddaughter watch

18707W ibid Center Avenue, mile 24

18707X ibid Katie Strobach and Beth Wilson doing half marathon

18707Y sign with handprints of Bob’s grandchildren

18707Z ibid Bob, after 5 hours and 8 minute finish, celebrates 200th marathon with children, grandchildren, Rodney Strobach and Jodi Behling [Bob’s fastest marathon was at Duluth, MN, in 1996; 3:27, which qualified him to run in Boston’s 100th anniversary marathon

18707AA ibid P. Medford, WI views

18707BB Pine Line Marathon Finisher’s ribbon and medal, 2015

18708 W. ‘Northwoods Snowshoe Championship’ Duluth, MN 1991-2010 sweatshirt, front

18708A ibid back ‘How cold was it?’ at start of snowshoe marathon

18709 P. 11-2014 RPR finishes his 223rd marathon, Norwalk, WI. Marley wears the ribbon and 2 runners smile

18710 P. 3-1995 L-R Lorraine Killion and sister Jane Carlson, wearing WWII Red Cross uniform, maintain aid station at mile 4 of Timms Hill Trudge Snowshoe event, Town of Spirit, Price County, WI

18711 P. 2013 Lorraine Killion holds granddaughter, Kimberly Southern

18712 P. 2013 President Barack Obama ‘Member of Obama’s Honorary Kitchen Cabinet’ given to Lorraine Killion, a thoughtful democrat

18713 3-3-2015 Phyllis Nordgren, nee Knop, envelope to RPR

18713A L. 3-3-2015 Phyllis Nordgren to RPR

18713B L. 2-28-2015 Gale Clendenning to Phyllis Nordgren re siblings of Francis Clendenning, nee Knop

18713C ibid p. 2 Harvey Knop, son Ronald Knop

18713D ibid p. 3 Harvey Knop, daughter Karen, aka Mrs. Gary Vogt

18713E ibid Charles ‘Ollie’ Knop – no children; Robert Knop – son Kirk

18713F ibid Harry Knop marries Irma; children Nancy, aka Mrs. Charles Bowman and Jerry Knop

18714 P. c. 1908 taken from Rib Lake Tannery smokestack looking southeast. Fayette Ave is parallel with wooden sidewalk and stairs. Impressive Rib Lake High School has long firewood pile on south lawn.

18715 Winter 2014-15 place mat, ‘Taylor Co, Winter Wonderland’

18716 Timms Hill Trudge, finishers medal, 2010

18717 1913 plat of Little Black, info on Ghost towns of Englewood, Hubbill & Offhaus

18718 12-1-1910 Ad by Squaw Creek Lumber Co ‘The best place to buy a home today is in our Maplehurst Colony, Taylor Co’

18719 W. ‘History of Hannibal, Wisconsin’ by Darrel & Hazel Story 1948-cover; Rib Lake Historical Society has a hard copy

18720 W. 4-1937 ‘Muskie’ newsletter of Camp Mondeaux River, NE SW 11-33-1W, Town of Westboro, cover

18720A ibid p. 2 of leadership ‘forestry personnel and staff’

18720B ibid p. 2 ‘Forestry’ Mondeaux Dam under construction

18720C ibid p. 3 Camp education & book review

18720D ibid p. 4 ‘Mess hall chatter’

18720E ibid p. 5 Names of 41 camp attendees and their nicknames

18721 6-16-1992 ‘Rib Lake United Methodist Church celebrates its 100th anniversary,’ Star News

18721A ibid p. 2, Photo of Faye Curran, Dorothy Hargreaves, Exhilda Armstrong and Irene Lueck

18722 8-9-1989 ‘Assumpion Parish centennial slated for Chelsea Church.’ Photo of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Roman Catholic Church, built in 1914, parish formed in 1887

18722A ibid p. 2; photo of altar and Pastor Linus Evers, C.PP.S.

18723 W. ‘Chelsea Iron Company’ data from Taylor County Register of Deeds

18724 W. Fall 1974 ‘Historical facts of the churches of the Westboro Community (1879-1974) by Carol M. Kobielush-cover

18724A ibid table of contents

18724B ibid Swedish Methodist Episcopal Church, organized 6-24-1890

18724C ibid 8-29-1902 Articles of Incorporation

18724D ibid Epworth League

18724E 1941 merger of English Methodist Church of Westboro

18724F 1970 building turned over to Camp Forest Springs

18724G ibid

18724H ibid Episcopal Church

18724I ibid Baptist Church

18724J ibid Saint Theresa’s Catholic Church

18724K ibid First Catholic Church building in Westboro 1906

18724L ibid 1908 members

18724M ibid

18724N ibid 1956 members

18724O ibid

18724P ibid list of priests, new church building, in 2015 Westboro Public Library

18724Q Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church 1884-1959, nka First Lutheran

18724R ibid Church building built in 1891

18724S ibid 1923 English used in books

18724T ibid

18724U ibid list of pastors

18724V ibid ‘minority groups’

18724W ibid p. 22 finis

18724X Map, Westboro Church locations by Carol Kobielush

18725 2-2015 sign; 3 km (kilometers) to go – 23 km classic skate ski race; part of Hinderbinder ski event held at Camp Forest Springs by Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club, Inc.

18726 ‘Sylvan 1938’ yearbook from Westboro High School

18726A ibid, p. 2, photo of Westboro High School; Elmer Scott, Anna Lucia, Dio Walty, board of education

18726B ibid p. 21; Ads including L.W. Ewans, Westboro Restaurant

18726C ibid p. 22 Ads

18726D ibid p. 23, 10 Rib Lake ads, including RLLC Store & Upjohn-Kennedy Drug Store

18726E ibid Rib Lake Dairy Co ‘Quality Butter’ & Gambles Store, Ed Prien, Proprietor

18727 Placard – ‘Hay-Agents will lock and seal all doors, and conductor will place in rear of train next to caboose & carefully watch car while in transit.’ Soo Line Railroad c. 1920?

18728 W. ‘Village of Polley; memories are all that remain,’ magazine article; author and source unkown

18728A ibid p. 2

18729 1974 ‘The Rise & Fall of Westboro’ by Thomas E. Volkmann, self published; original in possession of Taylor County Historical Society, title page

18729A ibid p. 1 John Duncan tramway (railroad with wooden rails)

18729B ibid p. 2 Queenstown

18729C ibid p. 2 high school closed in 1968, ‘Westboro Lumber Co. moved out in 1923’

18729D ibid p. 4, in 1974 STH 13 bypass was built

18730 P. 12-6-1936 office building of RLLC Camp 25, Town of Corning, Lincoln County, Wis; in 3-2015 building is owned and operated by Michael ‘Mike’ Patrick of Rib Lake as a hunting shack. View shown is north and west sides; on the left is apparent garage

18730A ibid south and east sides of same building; NB-in right foreground is a wheelbarrow-type device to move firewood-now empty

18731 9-2014 Nicolet National Bank-Rib Lake office; receipt to RPR for 11 cent loan payment

18732 1-12-2015 email of Dennis Scheithauer and 17 other Rib Lake residents to Frontier Communications complainign about poor internet service

18732A ibid p. 2

18732B ibid p. 3

18733 1-21-2015 email of Franz-Josef Gebauer to RPR (in German)

18734 1-12-2015 email of Franz-Josef Gebauer to RPR. Text from St. Lawrence (St. Laurentius) Roman Catholic Church, Schoenwalde, now Budzow, Poland; 1) 1-12-1875 marriage of August Bittner to Pauline Gebauer, daughter of Anton Gebauer; 2) 4-20-1875 marriage of Anton Wenzel to Caroline Gebauer, daughter of Anton Gebauer

18734A ibid 1-15-2015; 3) marriage of Joseph Gebauer, son of Joseph Gebauer, to Luise Langer; 4) marriage of Albert Meissner to widow (wittfrau) Anna Gebauer, daughter of Bonifaz Krieger.

18735 P. c. 1910 ‘Sawmill dam, Westboro, WI.’ View north from Silver Creek to Westboro Lumber Co. mill smokestack. Spillway shows head of about 5’ of water; dam is wooden and has rollway from hidden railroad spur into pond behind dam. Apparent tramway bridge to convey green lumber for piling south of Silver Creek spans the creek

18736 Postcard 6-28-1907 to Miss Joyce Knower, Interwald, WI, with 1 cent stamp

18736A back, ibid, color cartoon ‘cleaning house’

18737 postcard 12-4-1911 ‘Auntie to Miss Glyds Knower, Interwald, WI

18737A back, ibid, ‘Silver Creek Falls, near Salem, Oregon’

18738 12-31-2014 ‘Pancake breakfast to benefit River Bend Trail,’ Merrill Foto News

18739 2014 Tax notice – Town of Rib Lake, County, State, Rib Lake School & North Central Technical College changes 2013-2014 shown

18740 RPR Ancestral Chart prepared 12-17-2003; chart goes back 4 generations

18741 August Steiner & Bertha Steiner, nee Meissner history by RPR 2-26-2002; letter to Christopher Barney

18741A ibid p. 2

18742 1-25-1902 obituary, August Steiner in German language newspaper, Der Waldbote

18742A ibid English translation

18743 2003 Biography, Martha Hedwig Rusch, nee Gebauer, and autobiography of RPR

18744 Biography of Herrmann Emanuel Rusch, 4-9-1861 to 1-7-1912

18744A ibid p. 2

18744B ibid p. 3

18744C ibid p. 4

18744D ibid p. 5

18745 Biography, Herman A. Rusch (10-3-1903 to 2-15-1994) ‘in loving tribute of Herman A. Rusch’ by RPR; 2-1994-cover; photo of Herman A Rusch in his new truck ‘Steinman Lumber Co.’ North Holton Street, Milwaukee

18745A ibid p. 2

18745B ibid p. 3 photo of ‘duck hunting on Rush Lake, WI’

18745C ibid p. 4 ‘A pair of shots and a hatchet’ Milwaukee Journal 1955

Mary Ann Polacek, nee Haluska, collection by Gary & Debra Polacek

18746 Map c. 1925 Haluska (now Polacek) farm highlighted, W ½ SE ¼, 29-33-2E, Taylor County

18747 P. Charles & Emily Polacek, parents of Tom Polacek, c. 1920, while residing in Lewistown, Montana

18748 P. Mary Ann Haluska c. 1920 wih pet sheep

18749 P. Anna Herman, nee Haluska, sister of Mary Ann Haluska, with pet sheep on Haluska farm; note herd of sheep in background

18750 P. 8-17-1930 Ann Herman at Wood Lake

18750A ibid NB-cutover land in back

18751 7-2-1984 ‘Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Polacek recognized’ in Wausau Daily Herald for contribution to Statue of Liberty

18752 P. view SE from Polacek farm, gutted buck hanging, Tom Polacek panel truck which he used to haul kids to Fawn Valley school. Frank Erdman barn at rear

18753 P. c. 1950 Linda Ruesch, teacher, outside of Fawn Valley School

18754 P. 1947 Buck shot by Tom Polacek and propped up; Christmas trees Tom Polacek annually cut; Tom and his brother-in-law Ray Scheuer would take and sell in Chicago

18755 P. John Haluska, brother of Mary Ann Haluska, in Chicago park c. 1930

18755A P. 1932 ibid, with son, John Haluska, Jr. ‘Johnny’ on roller coaster ‘taxi car’

18756 P. c. 1930 L-R Charles ‘Charlie’ Polacek, Ernest ‘Ernie’ Golder and unidentified man at Polacek farm; at right is grainery, oats were processed on second floor by kids stirring to dry them; oats then taken to Rib Lake Roller mill for grinding and mixing with corn and minerals for feed for cattle and horses

18757 P. stave silo on Polacek farm made from 6’ wide wood boards enclosed by steel cables.

18758 P. Haluska kids atop hay wagon, father with hay fork used to throw hay on wagon, pose with grandmothers

18759 P. John Haluska, ‘Grandpa,’ pitching hay on wagon as man on top holds reins

18760 P. c. 1922 Mary Ann Haluska and brother John, ride hay wagon while their father, John Haluska, Sr., holds 3-tine hay fork

18760A P. 1934 ‘a good jag of hay; tripod at right used to dry hay

18761 P. 1934 ‘Hay makers John and dad and George.’

18762 P. c. 1930 Elsie Golder at Golder farm, SE NE 29-33-3E

18762A Map c. 1925 Julius Golder farm highlighted. Silo shown was made of short pieces of wood installed horizontally

18763 P. 1934 Mrs. Ernest Ziemke and son Edward. NB-wash hanging on clothes lilne

18764 P. c. 1925 Mike Haluska eating outside of log cabin

18765 P. c. 1935 unidentified driver in car; rear-man in front of thresh yard, opening in middle Haluska barn

18766 P. c. 1934 Ann Herman, nee Haluska, at Haluska barn on one of frequent visits from her Chicago home

18767 P. c. 1920 John Haluska, Sr.

18768 P. c. 1930 unidentified woman, Frieda Golder, wearing wood coat with genuine fox collar

18768A P. 1934 John Haluska, Jr., and Edward ‘Eddy’ Ziemke sitting next to rabbit hutch

18769 P. R-L John Haluska holding reins, Mike Haluska stands on wagon and ___ Golder in farm field

18770 P. Mike Haluska rides a farm horse

18771 P. John Haluska, Jr. rides bareback

18772 P. c. 1950 L-R Tom Polacek drives Farmall tractor, neighbor Julius Golder poses with 8’ high corn stalk, and Douglas Polacek operates corn binder

18772A Mary Ann Haluska in corn field

18772B George Haluska, Mary Ann Haluska’s brother and avid farmer, checks corn c. 1940

18773 P. threshing oats; man tosses bundle of oats into threshing machine; pipe blows straw into Polacek barn; c. 1945

18773A ibid; oat threshing crew taken from silo roof; long leather belt from Farmall tractor powere threshing machine

18774 P. c. 1937 Log loading crew of RLLC including: Mike Haluska (second from right), Harry Knop and John Schreiner, Town of Corning, Lincoln Co., Wis.

18775 Map. c. 1960 by Robert Becker, family names of current landowners of former RLLC lands in T33N-R4E, Town of Corning, Lincoln County.

18776 P. c. 1940 ‘sawmill at Rib Lake, Wis. 31’ RLLC planing mill with sign ‘Rib Lake Lumber Co. Quality Lumber’ new railroad spur on north side of planning mill, which has new expanded roof over loading dock on south

18777 P. c. 1940 standard gauge railroad track through RLLC dry yard.

18778 P. c. 1940 wind damage-RLLC hardwood yard-NW portion, lumber blown off piles scattered over standard gauge railroad track; view west

18778A ibid; rear 2 lumber cars

18778B ibid, view from piles

18778C ibid, view west toward Little Rib Lake, NW ¼ 37-33-2E

18779 Map; Rib Lake & environs featuring RLLC buildings and yard c. 1925 by Everett A. Rusch; part showing NW corner of hardwood yard (scanned previously as 10640)

18780 p. c. 1940 probably RLLC dry yard; teamster with loaded tram car

18780A ibid combination narrow and standard gauge railroad track ini unknown dry yard

18781 P. c. 1930 Marenisco, Michigan, Chicago & Northwestern Railroad station

18782 P. 2-1957 Tom Polacek working for Bud & Ken Glenzer logging in Upper Peninsula

18783 P. 2-1957 Tom Polacek driving logging truck in Upper Peninsula of Michigan

18784 P. 2-1957 grapple dozer unloading Glenzer logging truck ‘B-2’

18785 P. c. 1960 George Haluska and old Tom the horse skidding logs on the farm

18786 P. c. 1960 Skid road on Polacek farm – winter logging

18787 P. c. 1950 Andy Zondlo and wife, Rose, and daughter at logging camp where Andy cooked near Watersmeet, Michigan

18787A P. ibid

18788 Christmas card c. 1940, Gertrude Mielke taught school at Fawn Valley School. The Clarence Mielke far was in Section 35, T33N-R2E

18789 P. Roy Risberg, with his ham radio equipment, sign reads ‘radio station’

18790 6-6-1942 Receipt by the Medford Clinic to Thomas Polacek for $1.15

18791 P. c. 1945 Mrs. Emily Howard, nee Heffner, with husband in WWII uniform

18792 Mary Ann Polacek newspaper clippings – examples 4-16-1945 Chicago Tribune ‘Allies capture Kaiser son and Gen. Mackensen

18792A ibid 2-21-1945 photo map of Iwo Jima

18792B ibid 8-14-1945 ‘Japs Accept Peace terms’

18792C ibid map ‘Japan’s holdings in Pacific’

18793 P. 1945 basketball game in Westboro High School gymnasium; spectators crowd onto stage and balcony

18794 P. c. 1963 Mike Polacek, third man from right, at RLHS Junior Prom held in gym on Fayette Ave.

18795 Receipt c. 1950 by ‘Rib Lake Dairy’ to patron #21 for 6 lbs of butter for $3.96, each patron had an identification number, the Polacek’s were #30

18795A ibid back

18796 P. c. 1960 ‘Pete’ Peterson and his Polaris Colt snowmobile; in rear racers lap Rib Lake annual snowmobile race course

18797 P. 1970 R-Otto & wife Angie Gerstberger at Zondlo’s Tavern, then owned by George, Sr. and Frank Zondlso, whose joking motto was ‘rough figuring’

Ben & Pearl Kauer, nee Johnson collection; photographer Joseph Kauer, father of Clayton Kauer

18798 P. c. 1920 men skeet shooting; in foreground-hand pump for ‘We-No-Nah gasoline’

18799 P. c. 1920 16 people; according to Ben Kauer, his grandmother, Marie Kauer, is in the top row, fifth from left

18800 P. c. 1920 Apiary owned by Anton Kauer, Sr., who often bartered honey for other items; he had new swarms of bees delivered by train to Rib Lake

18801 P. c. 1920 collapsed log barn on side of Mud Lake. Anton Kauer’s first barn. Anton arrived at Mud Lake 3-1895 from Dorfiess, Germany, near the Czech border

18802 P. c. 1920 person shooting gun on Lake 10, aka Devils Lake, NE NE 10-33-3E; Ben Kauer caught a large ‘Devil fish’ there, which broke his line after giving his companions a scare

18803 P. c. 1920 11 boys, a man, dog and Anton Kauer, Sr., house; Anton built the house, using home-grown lumber, for $2.20, which he paid for windows. Man holding rifle is Lambert Kauer, uncle of Ben Kauer.

18804 P. c. 1920 shooting bottles on Wellington Lake, right-Lambert Kauer

18804A ibid 3rd from left is Anton ‘Tony’ Kauer, Jr.; right-Peter B. Kauer, Ben’s father

18805 P. c. 1920 skiing east of Anton Kauer’s barn, Fuchs, Lamberty, Enders and Kauer families

18806 P. c. 1920 team of horses pulls sleigh load of ice blocks to ice house; right-teamster and horse prepare to cut ice from Mud Lake; view northwesterly from Anton Kauer farm, SE SE 16-33-3E

18807 1913 plat map, part of Town 33N, R3E from Standard Atlas of Taylor County, Joseph Kauer, Sr., farm highlighted & upper & lower Mud Lakes

18808 P. c. 1920 man stands next to upturned stump; rear-wood tripod is part of stump-pulling operation, which fell over and killed Lambert Kauer at age 15 during end of school year picnic at Mud Lake when Lambert climbed up it to show off.

18809 P. c. 1920 three men stands next to magnificent white pine, pinus strobus, at least 4 feet in diameter and without a branch for at least 30 feet; center-John Kauer

18810 P. c. 1920 Probably Alvin, John and Ed Scheu at Scheu jobber camp

18811 P. c. 1920 a hose-drawn sleigh brings lunch from camp; 19 men break for lunch; men sit on logs in front of fire drinking hot coffee

18812 P. c. 1920 team pulls sleigh loaded with at least 9 gunny sacks of oats

18813 P. c. 1920 2 men rest against empty sleigh bunks; rear-cutover forest

18814 P. c. 1920 2 men sit atop sleigh load of logs; chains secure bottom 4 tiers of logs while logs on top of chains pull them tight

18815 P. c. 1920 6 men log decking, i.e. piling, crew poses; twin unlined poles provide base on which pull log sideways to toop of pile; two cables which were attached to end of log hand vertically; on right-2 wood poles of jammer used to secure cables sit on wood base on ground; left-part of completed log pile towers over scene

18816 P. c. 1920 19 men pose on top of log pile

18817 P. c. 1920 teamster sits above tongue of log sleigh

18818 P. c. 1920 2 men pose aside sleigh load of logs while scaler uses scale stick to measure diameter of logs; left-man holds arm full of hay for rear team; leather should pad on horses read ‘Jos. A. Kauer’

18819 P. c. 1920 2 men and a boy pose in front of sleigh loaded with small diameter logs; sleigh road has been plowed; logs on right side have shifted in transit and hang from wrapper chains on side of load

18820 P. c. 1920 tanker sleigh pulled by 2 horse teams pulls into shack at Freiman’s Landing. Metal smokestack in shack emits smoke from heating fire. Man on top tanker stands in front of rope used to pull barrels of water to top of tanker when they spill the water into the tank. The wooden barrel sits on tanker.

18821 P. c. 1920 3 men stand outside of RLLC Camp 13 building; tar paper covers the bottom sheating boards. A long wooden bench hangs on side of building, waiting for spring to provide a spot to rest, smoke and talk

18822 P. c. 1920 man with shotgun pets one of his hunting dogs outside of two log building abutted to each other; left-a glass skylight sits on tar paper roof; right-a crude ladder leans against building and above a metal bed stands; its metal wire latticework is lighlighted by the snow behind it.

18822A 6 man ‘jug band’ hams up playing a tune; L-R man holding primer whistles; seated man bands on pan; man plays jews harp; man stums a crude base at bottom of which are metal plates; man wearing hat backwards pretends to play accordion on tin container; hum strum-pole with metal pans on bottom, bang up & down; hit pan with a stick

18822B ibid ‘band’ with 6 musicians; man holds 6 ft saw blade and rubs with stick

18823 P. c. 1918 5 lumberjacks and a white-aproned cookee holding a Gabriel, a dinner horn, stands between cook and bunk house of RLLC Camp 13, which operated 1916-1921; both buildings are of wood frame construction with horizontal lumber sheating nailed to the outer wall; to make the water waterproof, tar paper in 3 foot strips were added with a 1 inch board nailed over the tar paper joint

18824 P. c. 1927 6 man and a visisting boy pose at a logging camp building made of 6 tiers of logs. Both a metal smokestack and skylight protrude through roof; right-Alvin Scheu, camp in Lincoln County with his brother, second from right-Ed Scheu, 3rd from right is Peter B. Kauer

18825 P. c. 1920 a camp firewood making crew pose behind a ‘misery whip,’ i.e. a 2 man cross cut saw. Steel lifting tongs, also ice tongs, lean against the yellow birch log; as a man pulls on the handles on top of the tongs, the tooth at its base is pressed harder into the log. Two men sport corn cob pipes while plaid shirted man pets his dog. 2nd from left is Anton ‘Tony’ Kauer, Jr.

18826 P. c. 1920 RLLC logging locomotives work hard to pull 12 cars of hardwood southwesterly past John H. Schaack’s sawmill; lumber piles which stand on left-SE SW 20-33-3E. view to NE, John Krauz barn on horizon right, see map 18807. Railroad historian James Kaysen labeled the site ‘Spirit Falls junction’ since the RLLC logging line-on which pictured train is operating, joinged the former Wisconsin Central line to Spirit Falls.

18827 P. c. 1920 RLLC logging train steams past box car on parallel siding; a long inclined ramp running to right from box car may have been used to unload horses

18828 P. c. 1920 5 man crew loads hardwood logs on Central Pennsylvania flat car. Man wearing suspenders holdes cables used to lift logs on to flar car. Man on left holds cant hook, an ingenious wood pry pole with hinged curved metal arm used to roll logs. Man on left with cant hook is Anton ‘Tony’ Kauer, Jr. 1897-1967

18828A ibid log loading crew shows off by hanging on log lifted about 18 feet above ground by sweivel pole loader shown on right. A horse pulled the cable through the pulley lifting the log while the horizontal arm was pulled over the railroad flat car where the log was placed.

18829 P. c. 1920 3 men stand on pile of hardwood logs next or railroad siding.

18830 P. c. 1920 barn raising bee, possibly at Anton Kauer, Sr., farm, SE SE 16-33-3E.

18831 P. c. 1910 logging sleigh with special tongue-unknown man

RPR collection

18832 DVD-1981; RPR narrates history of Rib Lake as still photos showing part of Rib Lake Centennial. DVD also includes movies;

1) 1936 color movie by University of Wisconsin Extension; RLLC Camp 26 and railroad line,

2) 1945 planing mill fire narrated by Elmer Taylor,

3) 2-1948 last log ceremony and meal at Camp 28 by Elmer Taylor

Ben Kauer Collection

18833 P. c. 1900 unknown European Man

18833A ibid back; C. Pietzner photographer, Vienna, Austria, with double eagle emblem representing Austrian & Hungarian Empire

18834 9-2-1905 Anton Kauer certificate of citizenship renouncing allegiance to Franz Joseph, Emperior of Austria, by Taylor County Circuit Judge John K. Parrish

18835 11-5-1902 mortgage, John Kauer to Frank J. Hintz for $145, NE SE 16-33-3E

18835A ibid, back, signed by Johann Kauer

18835B ibid promissory note; $145 at 7% interest

18835C c. 1895 Kauer immigrant at Mud Lake near a charcoal-blackened stump holding scythe

18836 9-19-1904 assignment of mortgage; Frank J. Hintz to Edward Gomall

18836A ibid back

18837 2-18-1907 mortgage, Anton Kauer and wife, Marie Kauer, to Helen Baker for $125 SE SE 18-33-3E

18837A ibid back

18838 P. c. 1910 unknown well-dressed man with fancy watch fob

18839 2-2-1916 mortgage note; Anton & Marie Kauer to John Koehler, ‘J.H. Koehler’ for $300 at 6% interest, 8% after due date. Two federal revenue stamps totaling 6 cents

18840 10-4-1912 Nick Clerf blacksmith bill to Anton Kauer, e.g. new horse shoe for 40 cents

18840A ibid 5-2-1916 handwritten note ‘Alles bezahlt 27 Juli 1918’ (German) all paid 7-27-1918

18841 Itemized bill by Nick Clerf of work done for Anton Kauer beginning 3-24-1910

18842 2-2-1912 Quit Claim Deed, John Kauer, ‘Johan Kauer,’ to Anton Kauer, NE SE 16-33-3E, Joseph Brehm, notary, Carles L. Talbot, witness

18842A ibid back

18843 P. 4-11-1914 passenger train at Whittlesey ‘[train] #112 at Whittlesey,’ Wis. Soo Line had a second railroad track at Whittlesey which allowed southbound trains to pass northbound trains. Photographer stands outside of Eulen Haus tavern – NB-hitching rail on left, looks to southwest

18843A ibid back, postcard 4-11-1914 11 AM Whittlesey to ‘Miss Anna Kauer, Rib Lake, Wis.’ Stamp missing

18844 6-27-1918 Quit Claim Deed, Anton Kauer to Maria Kauer, SE SE and NE SE 16-33-3E, Thomas H. Brehm, notary, John Tilch and Marie Enders were witnesses

18844A ibid back

18845 P. c. 1925 ‘North Dakota Threshing Crew.’ Like many Rib Lake young men of the times, they found temporary farm work on the prairie.

18846 7-22-1929 mortgage, Marie Kauer to Rose Schneck, $600, E ½ SE ¼, 16-33-3E

18846A ibid back, John W. Benn, notary and Taylor Co. Register of Deeds

18847 7-11-1931 insurance certificate to Peter B. Kauer by National Mutual Benefit, Madison, WI

18848 5-6-1942 Lakeview Cemetery Association ‘perpetual receipt’ $175 to Peter P. Kauer, signed by William Lemke, Herman Batzer and Evald Nelson

18849 1956 Marie Kauer estate papers, p. 1 Order by E.J. Neuerschwander, Taylor County Judge, on motion of Herman Leicht and Raymond Scott

18849A ibid p. 2 Dorothy Rusch authentication of record, clerk of county court

18849B ibid p. 3 Deed 3-30-1943 Joseph Kauer to Peter Kauer, SE SE & NW E 16-33-3E and NE NE 21-33-3E, Francis Schaack, notary

18849C ibid p. 4 will; Marie Kauer 8-2-1938, remainder to my son, Peter Kauer

18849D ibid p. 5, will witnesses; Clifford Curran and Florence Zielke

18849E ibid Order of Judge Clifford Curran

18849F ibid, estate inventory

18849G ibid p. 2

18849H ibid p. 3

18850 Obit, Joan McCluskey 1932-2015, nee Roiger, Star News

18851 ‘Pine Line Marathon results 4-25-2015’ Star News, part 1

18851A ibid part 2, Katie Strobach (7:11:1) age 15, her first marathon

18851B P. Katie Strobach starts marathon at 5:10 am

18852 P. Katie Strobach, 4-25-2015, at her first marathon, the Pine Line, with her friend Beth Wilson (right)

18853 A fet hook, a ‘quick release’ chain link

18854 P. c. 1905 ‘a skidway,’ two cant hooks rent against 8 white cedar poles in a virgin confier swamp at Rib Lake. Handwritten note by ‘lottie’ dated 4-29-1907; Had another snow storm Saturday and the ground is white yet, enough snow for sleighing..’

18854A back ibid, post dated 4-29-1907, Rib Lake, and 5-1-1907, Milltown, Wisconsin, to ‘Miss Belva McWilliam.’

18855 W. 5-2015 ‘A short hike to history’ by Robert P. Rusch

18855A ibid p. 2

18855C ibid p. 3

18856 4-16-2015 Star News ‘Redmen Pirates track soak up the win at Abbotsford.’

18857 5-24-2015 ‘A mammoth mystery’ Journal Sentinel, P. ‘Boaz Mastadon.’

18857A ibid p. 2 ‘UW researcher unravels century old wooly tale behind origin of prehistoric bones.’

18857B ibid p. 3 ‘Mastadon or is it a mammoth?’

18857C ibid p. 4 Map ‘Getting to the bottom of the bones.’

18857D ibid p. 5

Dennis Kuehling Collection

18858 P. 4-1957 County Road D, NE NW 12-33-2E, mysteriously turned over and sunk, leaving a pond behind

18858A c. 1970 plat map showing sunken road site

18858B P. 2014 County Road D rebuilt over sunken portion

18859 P. c. 1910 Charley Brown sawmill in Abbotsford, Marathon Co., Wis.

18859A Dennis Kuehling’s story of Charles Lee Brown trade of the pictured sawmill for a wild 40 acres of land

18860 P. 1975 Fritz Knop and Phyllis Nordgren on McComb Avenue celebrating ‘Still Alive in ‘75’

18861 Phyllis Nordgren letter to Dennis Kuehling ‘The history of the Harper Lake Resort’

18861A ibid, pg. 2

18861B P. Harper Lake Resort c. 1954

18862 P. c. 1908 Abbotsford & Northeastern Railroad; steam locomotive on bridge

18862A back postcard, 8-7-1969 Milan, Wis. Lynn to Max Walther, Medford, Wis.

18863 3-25-2015 History of hemlock, Clark Co, Wis. By Dee Zimmermann, Clark Co. Press – top

18863A ibid bottom, P. hemlock dam site on Black River, four miles north of Greenwood

18864 P. c. 1908 ‘Roundhouse, Abbotsford, Wisconsin’. At horizon on right is portion of coaling tower

18865 Spring, 2015, ‘Court gives Ma’iingan a reprieve’; federal court overturns US Fish & Wildlife rule removing wolf from endangered species act

18865A ibid p. 2

18866 Spring, 2015 ‘Eight Circuit Rules that 1837 Treaty precludes Lacey Act’

18866A ‘Mazina’igan, a chronicle of the Lake Superior Ojibwe’ masthead

18867 Map 3-2015 ‘Ojibwe ceded territories and members of GLIFWC.’

End of Dennis Kuehling collection

18868 4-2015 ‘We’re number one; Wisconsin’s Rustic Road system starts in Taylor Co,’ Beyond Expectations – Taylor County

18868A ibid page 2

18868B ibid cover

18869 P. 3-2015 Sign ‘Pine Stump’ on SE NE 13-33-2E

18869A ibid Remains of white pine stump about 150 years after its cutting, 3’ high x 3’ across, black charcoal on inside is evidence of forest fires

18870 3-9-2015 ‘Rib Lake, Wisconsin, from Wikipedia, the free enclyclopedia.’ cover

18870A ibid p. 2 statistics

18870B ibid p. 3 history

18870C ibid p. 4 2000 census

18870D ibid p. 5 median income

18870E ibid p. 6 links

18870F ibid p. 7 end.

Collection of Gwen D. Clendenning

18871 P. c. 1995 Jeanette Clendenning, nee Currant, and husband Melvin ‘Spike’ Clendenning

18872 P. c. 1930 Lee Clendenning, Archie Clendenning (son of Peter), Wife Verna, nee Dietrich, Charles ‘Butch’, father of Lee, Melvin ‘Spike’ Clendenning

18873 9-28-1938 Obit of Peter James Clendenning; born 8-24-1860 at Apple Hill, Ontario, and died 9-23-1939

18874 P. 1960 L-R Chester Curran, wife Augusta ‘Gusty’ Curran, nee Pries and Grandson Corky Nebeker

18875 P. c. 1900 Augusta Pries, lka Mrs. Chester Curran, and sister Esther Pries

18876 P. c. 1910 Esther and Anna Pries

18877 P. 1905 L-R Frieda, Augusta and Esther Pries

18878 P. c. 1915 Frieda Pries and brother Otto Pries showing off potatoes at Westboro farm

18879 P. c. 1940 Augusta Curran on snowshoes

18880 P. c. Augusta Curran (4th from left). Women’s club meeting at Ma Dodge’s Café in Rib Lake. Walls are pressed steel sheeting painted white. A clothes rack has three bundles of coats just back from the dry cleaners.

18881 P. c. 1950 Augusta Curran in her living room on Pearl Street

18882 P. 8-1962 Chester and Augusta Curran

18883 P. 1966 Chester and Augusta Curran and granddaughter Gwen D. Clendenning

18884 P. c. 1920 L-R unknown, Christina Pries (center), aka Mrs. Johann Pries; daughter Esther Zysken

18885 P. ‘1910’ 3 ladies posing with huge hats

18886 P. c. 1910 smiling baby wearing shiny shoes

18887 P. c. 1910 5 apprehensive children; L-R Marie, Albert, Lillian, Esther and ‘Audrey or Herbie’ Lien

18888 P. c. 1910 ‘Front Street, Medford, Wis’ view south of Main Street from junction with State Street; building on right is ‘1885 Schultz & Solle Hardware’

18888A ibid back, postcard dated Jan. 11, 1913, Medford & ‘received’ Westboro Jan. 11, 1913, Augusta Pries to Brother Otto Pries

18889 P. 7-24-1914 burning RLLC sawmill; view south from 2015 Ice Age Pavilion. Hog feed, i.e. wood sawdust, shavings and scrap in foreground

18889A ibid view east from current Dawn Swenson house

18889B ibid view north

18889C ibid 2 locally made box cars for hauling wood scrap north of burning sawmill; L0boom of log loading derrick

18890 P. 1918 2 American sailors, one is Arthur Krushat, of the USS Franklin at Norfolk, Virginia naval yard

18891 P. Augusta Curran and daughter Lorraine, lka Mrs. Homer Nebeker. Photo taken at new Rib Lake Tourist Park

18892 P. c. 1920 Esther Lemke & unknown man

18893 P. c. 1930 13 women standing on front steps of Rib Lake National Bank building, NE corner of McComb & Landall Ave. Names on back of photo are Esther Lemke, Edith Niggemann, Augusta ‘Gusty’ Curran, Nettie Dodge (aka Ma Dodge) and Elsie Kohn

18894 P. c. 1915 L-R Peter J. Clendenning, Verna Clendenning nee Dietrich (lka Mrs. Archie Clendenning), her son, Lee Clendenning, James ‘Jim’ Hannifen

18895 P. c. 1920 L-R Charles ‘Chuck’ Clendenning, born 9-5-1915, and brother Lee (died at Pearl Harbor on 12-7-1941), on rocking horse as brother ‘feeds’ the horse

18896 P. c. 1930 Charles Dodge and Lee Clendenning on Railroad Street

18897 P. 1920 RLLC dry yard crew; left-Ray Clendenning, unknown, Archie Clendenning, unknown; standing on unloaded tram car used to haul green lumber from RLLC mill to dry yard, view west [NB-Image 16082 is same photo but identifies first man as Harold Patrick]

18898 P. c. 1920 Verna Clendenning nee Dietrich, aka Mrs. Archie Clendenning

18899 P. 1915 Charles Dodge holding horse outside Nick Clerf’s blacksmith shop, McComb Ave.

18899A ibid, Charles Dodge with hose standing next to a picket fence

18900 P. c. 1915 ‘Rib Lake, Wisconsin’ view east down Church Street from junction with Maple; in distance are large wagons, which may be parade floats.

18901 P. 1925 Charles Talbot and Archie Clendenning

18902 P. 7-1-1909 2 men in Rib Lake baseball uniforms

18902A P. 7-1-1909 2 men in Rib Lake baseball uniforms

18903 P. c. 1920 Arthur Talbot (left) and Roy Talbot posing with dog, snowshoe and guns

18904 P. 1930 Guy Charles Kulstad, age 5 months, sitting in wicker rocking chair

18905 P. c. 1920 Anna Dietrich nee Rozelle, aka Mrs. Charles Dietrich

18906 P. c. 1930 Marlin Curran and unknown girl

18906A Memorial card for Marlin Leo Curran, nickname ‘Churney,’ once Taylor County Sheriff, 9/18/1923-1/2/1968

18906A ibid, Memorial card for Marlin Leo Curran-cover

18906B ibid, cover

18907 9-4-2007 Obit for Lucille Curran, nee Skue, lka Mrs. Harold Curran

18908 P. 1920 4 men with railroad hand care ‘George Fykson, Chester Curran and Fred Curran’\

18909 P. c. 1920 2 buildings, RLLC Camp 14, on either side of RLLC main line railroad track in cutover forest. Camp 14 operated 1918-1924.

18909A Memo 6-5-2015 RPR re RLLC Camp 14 and photo 18909.

18909B Part of 1947 US quad map of Rib Lake showing probable location of RLLC Camp 14 in NW SW SE 30-32-3E.

18910 P. c. 1926 McGiffert log loader, left, with Archie Clendenning seated inside and 6 RLLC loading crewmen on partially loaded flat car. The car previously loaded is partially shown on right. Beneath the McGiffert loader is an empty flat car, which will be loaded next.

18911 P. c. 1920 2 men with cross cut saw, hardwood log and cant hook in the cutover forest.

18912 P. c. 1930 RLLC railroad ‘roundhouse’ for locomotive storage; view east over 3-way switch; right-water tower and sawmill

18912A east side of RLLC roundhouse; view west. RLLC main line in foreground with piles of lumber in dry yard at horizon. Line of buildings on McComb Ave; tank cars may be part of RLLC forest fire suppression outfit.

18913 P. c. 1938 mess hall interior, CCC camp, possibly in Town of Westboro. Three wood burning stoves and stove piles line up in the center of the room.

18914 P. 1950’s, Jill Nebeker

18915 P. c. 1932 children of Chester and Augusta Curran; L-R Harold Curran; small girl is Jeanette Curran, lka Mrs. Melvin Clendenning; Lorraine Curran, lka Mrs. Homer Nebeker; Marlin ‘Churney’ Curran.

18916 P. 1942 Jeanette Clendenning, nee Curran, Rib Lake High School graduation photo.

18917 P. 1943 5 girls in front of RLLC tramway; center-Jeanette Curran

18918 P. c. 1948 L-R Jeanette Curran, DeLorr Brehms on a Chicago street.

18919 P. c. 1940 Jeanette Curran high school photo

18920 P. 1952 Rib Lake High School class reunion at Harper Lake Resort; lower left 2nd-Jeanette Curran

18921 P. 1963 In Gwen D. Clendenning enjoys her Christmas presents.

18922 P. c. 1945 Melvin Harold ‘Spike’ Clendenning in WWII uniform

18923 P. 1967 Rib Lake High School 25th class reunion at Little Bohemia, top row, 3rd from left is Jeanette Clendenning, nee Curran

18924 P. c. 1967 L-R Judge Peter J. Seidl, Dorothy Rusch, Court Reporter and Jeanette Clendenning, nee Curran, probate register and Star News article

18925 P. 1980 center-Jeanette Clendenning, nee Curran, and friends Maggie and Roy Nelson, cross-country skiing

18926 P. 1962 Ed’s IGA bowling team; Judy Vlach, Julane Kutzke, Ervice Biersack, Fran Clendenning, Isabelle Wilhelms, Jeanette Clendenning, nee Curran, inside Little Bohemia

18926A P. 1984 Jeanette Clendenning, nee Curran, atop camel while vacationing in Egypt

18927 P. 1986 ‘Clendenning retires as register in probate’ Star News; Photo of Jeanette Clendenning and Laurie Rogers-Hartl.

18927A Star News article Jan. 1986

18928 P. 1988 Spike & Jeanette Clendenning at Munich’s Hofbrau Haus

18929 P. 9-1988 Spike and Jeanette Clendenning at outdoor café at St. Mark’s Plaza, Venice, Italy.

18930 P. Spike & Jeanette Clendenning smiling at rear of yard gate, 830 Pearl St, Rib Lake, Wis.

18931 1990 ‘Friends of the Library,’ Star News, P. L-R Karen Grzanna, President John Meyer [pastor of St. John’s Lutheran Church], Mary Ann Rusch and Jeanette Clendenning

18932 P. 1980 Jeanette Clendenning and pet dog ‘Ginger’ in living room at Christmas.

18933 P. 1992 Spike and Jeanette Clendenning vacation at cliffs of Moher, Ireland.

18934 P. Spike & Jeanette Clendenning at kitchen table

18935 P. 3-16-1976 ‘Meatball Saturday’ at Rib Lake United Methodist Church social hall; L-R Faye Curran (aka Mrs. Harry Curran), Pat & Jeanette Clendenning

18936 P. 1998 R-L Cindi and Jeanette Clendenning at Christmas

18937 P. 5-31-2007 ‘Wreath laying’ Star News, Jeanette Clendenning at Rib Lake Memorial Park

189381-10-1963 Radio telephone operator permit for Jeanette Clendenning

18938A ibid, back

18939 c. 1-1-1966 certificate by Taylor County Sheriff Marlin Curran appointing Jeanette Clendenning as Taylor County ‘Deputy Sheriff’

18939A ibid, back, signed Jeanette Clendenning

18940 7-15-1956 postcard Jeanette Clendenning to parents Mr. & Mrs. Chester Curran

18940A ibid front

18941 L. 8-3-2008 Marion Blumreich to Jeanette Clendenning

18941A ibid envelope

18941B Photo in letter; Jeanette Clendenning, nee Curran, in c. 1938 standing beneath RLLC railroad bridge with head sticking above tracks.

18941C Photo in letter; Jeanette Clendenning, nee Curran, sitting on RLLC Railroad bridge in c. 1938. Beneath the railroad ties is a hug wood timber having flat sawn surfaces facing up and down; the sides are naturally occurring curved still showing cut marks left by axes removing the bark. The ties are likewise shown only on top & bottom and are untreated.

18942 P. 9-2009 Rib Lake High School class reunion; L-R Jeanette Clendenning, Marion Blumreich, and Augusta Freiboth in Camp 28 Restaurant

18942 1905 Rib Lake grade school yearbook ‘Souvenir Christmas Greeting’ cover

18942A ibid 1905 Rib Lake grade school yearbook ‘Souvenir Christmas Greeting’ p. 1

18942B ibid1905 Rib Lake grade school yearbook ‘Souvenir Christmas Greeting’ p. 2 ‘public school district no. 5, Rib Lake, Taylor Co, Wis, Myrtle E. Gay, teacher; Arthur J. Latton, county superintendent; pupils: Gusta Pries (lka Mrs. Chester Curran); Anna Everson; Harry Everson; Willard Allie; Alice Everson; Harley Mattox; Raymond Peterson; Emilie Peterson; Ethel Peterson; Henry Peterson; Wilbur Allie; Clarence Mattox; Otto Pries; Frieda Pries. School Board-Nels Peterson, director; Fred Peterson, treasurer; Edward Thomander, clerk; NB-Rib Lake School District #3 may have operated the James Lake School, SW NW 10-33-2E, in 2015 the building stands on the south shore of James Lake and is used as a lake cottage

18942C ibid 1905 Rib Lake grade school yearbook ‘Souvenir Christmas Greeting’ p. 3 ‘While shepherds watched…’

18942D ibid. 1905 Rib Lake grade school yearbook ‘Souvenir Christmas Greeting’ p. 4, Christmas poem

18942E ibid 1905 Rib Lake grade school yearbook ‘Souvenir Christmas Greeting’ p. 5

18942F ibid 1905 Rib Lake grade school yearbook ‘Souvenir Christmas Greeting’ p. 6

back cover

18943 1939 ‘Vox Scholae’ (Voice of the School) Rib Lake High School yearbook-cover

18943A ibid p. 1, printed name cards of students

18943B ibid p. 2 name cards

18943C ibid p. 3 Photo of Rib Lake High School

18943D ibid p. 4 Photo of faculty

18943E ibid p. 5 ‘classes’

18943F ibid p. 6 Photos of seniors; Helen Anderson, Bernice Andrews, Donald Baines, Lorraine Becker, Ellwood Bleck, Edwin Blomberg, Peter Bogumill, Helen Bokath, Delores Dauley, Gerald Dewsz, Evelyn Everson, Isabel Frank

18943G ibid, p. 7 seniors, Viola Freiboth, Ann Frombach, Florence Fuchs, Raymond Gilge, Edward Heintz, Marie Hohl, Evelyn Jarish, Donald Jensen, Harold Jensen, Raymond Kettleson, Frederick Slemm, Amos Martin

18943H ibid p. 8 seniors, Anita Martin, Louis Mihalka, Sheldon Patrick, Lanita Radtke, Myrtle Rhody, Peter Schinker, Ruth Schmidt, Ethel Thums, Alma Zielke, Christine Ziembo

18943I ibid p. 9 Senior Class history; in 1933 there were 52 in the class; in 1939 there were 36

18943J ibid p. 10 prophecy

18943K ibid p. 11 Photos of junior class

18943L ibid p. 12 photos of sophomore class

18943M ibid p. 13 photos of freshman class

18943N ibid p. 14 ambitions

18943O ibid p. 15 sports

18943P ibid p. 16 football

18943Q ibid p. 17 basketball

18943R ibid p. 18 boxing and baseball

18943S ibid p. 19 basketball – team 2

18943T ibid p. 20 punsters

18943U ibid p. 21 Activities

18943V ibid p. 22 band and glee club

18943W ibid p. 23 Girl Scouts & Boy Scouts

18943X ibid p. 24 miscellaneous photos

18943Y ibid p. 25 punsters

18943Z ibid p. 26 miscellaneous photos, including hot pond

18943AA ibid p. 27 student quotes

18943BB ibid p. 28

18943CC ibid p. 29 commercial sponsors

1) Frank Handyside (RLLC Pres, RLV Pres.)

2) Rib Lake Lumber Co. (‘RLLC’)

3) Rib Lake Lumber Co. Store (general store)

4) First National Bank (McComb & Landall)

5) Creamery

6) Rib Lake Herald

7) G.L. Seidel (rented ‘housekeeping cabins’ on North Harper Lake)

8) Ed Eckhoff (Telephone Co. owner)

9) Drug Store (Anna Mae Kennedy, pharmacist)

10) Lake States Power Co.

11) Dr. Baker, MD

12) Dr. Mauch, DDS

13) Art Schultz (D-X Gas Station)

14) Power Co (Lake Superior District Power Co.)

15) Gamble Store (Hardware)

16) Frank L. Becker, Village Clerk, with wife Cecilia, who ran tavern

17) Alphonse Coleman

18) Carl Radtke

19) National Hotel & Beauty Shop

20) George Straub

21) Fred Niggemann

22) Blake Bokath

23) Rib Lake Roller Mills (ground feed & sold farm supplies)

24) Louis Menning (Barber)

25) Millard ‘Satch’ Kapitz (tavern & politician)

26) W.S. Calvert

27) Shoe Shop (Jorgenson’s shoe store?)

28) Gem Theatre (movies)

18943DD ibid p. 30 autographs

18943EE ibid p. 31 autographs

18943FF ibid p. 32 autographs

18944 1941 ‘Vox Scholae’ Rib Lake High School yearbook-cover

18944A signed Jeanette Curran

18944B Faculty;

1) George Schmitt, Commercial

2) Eleanore Theisen, Social Science and English

3) Evangeline Vold, English

4) Russell Way, math, science & German

5) George Shephers, Manual arts, science & math

6) Orrin Meyer, agriculture

7) Veronica Carmody, social science & English

8) Donald Engli, principal & English

9) Clarence Sperdel, Band

18944C p. 2 ‘Brain pumpers’

18944D p. 3 Photos of seniors; Lucille Becker, Ivar Blomberg, Arthur Bokath, Melvin Clendenning, Clarence Fenzau, Geneva Frisbie

18944E p. 4 photos of seniors; Kenneth Gilge, Virginia Goodman, La Ru Gummo, Henry Hauch, Charles Henderson, Lucille Hoffman

18944F p. 5 photos of seniors; Cecilia Hobl, Donald Johnson, Ruth Kettleson, Earl Klemm, Ervin Kofler, Lawrence Mathias

18944G p. 6 photos of seniors; William Midboe, Pauline Minarcini, Ann Nelson, Annette Patrick, Bill Pendergast, William Radtke

18944H p. 7 photos of seniors; Vernon Reistad, Leo Rusedek, Benedict Rusedek, Grace Rhody, John Seidel, Agnes Schreiner

18944I p. 8 photos of seniors; Marvin Smith, Joseph Surek, Elwood Swanson, Geanne Thompson, Hazel Vlach, Earl Walker

18944J p. 9 photos of seniors; Bonita Wenzel, Harold Winkler, Lawrence Yanko

18944K p. 10 Class history, 39 in Class of 1942

18944L p. 11 prophecy

18944M p. 12

18944N p. 13 Class Will

18944O p. 14 Photos of junior class

18944P p. 15 junior class history

18944Q p. 16 Photos of sophomore class

18944R p. 17 sophomore class history

18944S p. 18 photos of freshman

18944T p. 19 what we will be doing next year

18944U p. 20 ibid

18944V p. 21 favorite songs

18944W p. 22 sports

18944X p. 23 photos of basketball

18944Y p. 24 photos of basketball record

18944Z p. 25 photos of basketball squad B

18944AA p. 26 photos of basketball squad B record & cheerleaders

18944BB p. 27 photos of boxing

18944CC p. 28 photos of baseball & track

18944DD p. 29 photos of kittenball

18944EE p. 30 activities

18944FF p. 31 photos of band

18944GG p. 32 photos of girls’ glee club

18944HH p. 33 photos of boy’s chorus

18944II p. 34 photos of Future Farmers of America

18944JJ p. 35 Photos of annual staff

18944KK p. 36 photos of newspaper staff

18944LL p. 37 photos of Girl Scout Troop

18944MM p. 38 photos of Boy Scout Troop ‘We soon had a cabin on South Harper Lake’

18944NN p. 39 pet peeves

18944OO p. 40 ibid

18944PP p. 41 calendar; e.g. Nov 18 German Thanksgiving dinner

18944QQ p. 42 ibid

18944RR p. 43 miscellaneous photos

18944SS p. 44 sponsors-advertising

18944TT p. 44 name cards of students

18944UU p. 45 sponsors-RLLC Store; Consolidated Insurance; Dr. R.G. Mauch, Dentist; Rib Lake Dairy, butter & cheese; G.L. Seidel, cottages on North Harper Lake

18944VV p. 46 ibid, Jorgenson’s Shoe store (on McComb Ave south of village hall)

Victor Kohn dba Rib Lake Roller Mills

Art Schultz, dba D-X Service Station & Ice Cream Parlor, SE corner of Fayette & McComb

Wesley Steil, dba North Side Garage, used cars, radio repair (2015 site of Veteran’s Park on McComb Ave)

Ed Prien, dba Gamble Store

Elmer Taylor – Taylor Funeral Home

Gustafson Lumber Co; paint, lumber fuel

Rib Lake Station-State Bank of Medford (NB-had taken over Rib Lake National Bank since 1939)

18944WW p. 47 ibid; Goodman’s ‘Quality Grocery-Choice Meats’ (SE corner of Church & Elm St)

Seidel’s Food Store (on McComb Ave-2015 site of Ed’s IGA)

Millard ‘Satch’ Kapitz, et al, dba Little Bohemia Tavern

Opie Freeck, dba Opie’s Beauty Shop (in National Hotel Building)

Rib Lake Herald

Tourist Tavern (2015 site north of Nicolet National Bank)

LSDP Co. (Lake Superior District Power Co)

Frank & Lucille Becker, dba Becker’s Tavern (2015 site of Bird’s Nest on McComb Ave)

18944XX p. 48 ibid; Koehler & Radtke, dba Lakeside Tavern ‘Dine & Dance’ (north shore of Rib Lake)

E.F. STamm, dba Stamm Beverage & Bottling Works (north side of Fayette at McComb)

John P. Novak, Jr ‘Electric Shop’ shop in legion building

Harold Zielke’s store, groceries, dry goods, notions, furnishings

Lake Theatre – motion pictures

Upjohn-Kennedy Drug Co, Anna Mae Kennedy, Proprietor (2015 site of Ultimate Illusion on McComb Ave)

Compliments of Tomahawk Laundry

Leo W. Radtke ‘Plumbing & Heating’

Wilbert Cohler, dba Bert’s Texaco Service – gas, candies, pop

18945 history of Rib Lake by Eddie Clark gleaned from Rib Lake Herald 5-27-1898, Vol. 1, No. 25. While this typewritten version was put together apparently by a student about 1940, it is based on a written history in the Rib Lake Herald of 5-27-1898.

18946 The Village J.P. (Justice of the Peace) by Linne Hansen, Wisconsin Outdoor Journal, largely based on events in the Village of Rib Lake.

18946A ibid p. 2 P. George A. Clark c. 1890

18946B ibid p. 2 P. former home of George A. Clark

18947 ‘We make it the Spezzal Kreesmas’ by Linne Hansen, Nov-Dec. 1988 Wisconsin West-cover

18947A ibid p. 2

18947B ibid p. 3

18947C ibid p. 4

18947D ibid p. 5

18947E ibid p. 6

18948 ‘A Poacher Repents’ by Linne Hanson, Nov-Dec 1987 Wisconsin West-cover

18948A ibid p. 2

18948B ibid p. 3

18948C ibid p. 4

18948D ibid p. 5 ‘By Linne Hansen from Rib Lake, who is a free lance writer, an apprentice blacksmith & a Dept. of Natural Resources Hunters Education Instructor’

18949 First grade class 1930-1931, Ward Elementary School, Rib Lake

18949A List of Students Names;

1. Unknown

2. Mary Olecheck

3. Bobby Batzer

4. Helen Maslonka

5. Unknown

6. De Lorr Brehm

7. Junior McLeod

8. Jenette Curran

9. Galen Scharer

10. Sophie Olecheck

11. Sidney Brong

12. Bob Barnes

13. Unknown

14. Unknown

15. Bee Brandt

16. Vernon Anderson

17. Loretta Ploeckelman

18. Unknown

19. Leonard Kofler

20. Marlin Sampson

21. Melvin Olson

22. Garland Lehman

23. Unknown

24. Earl Reistad

25. Unknown

26. Gerald Rhinehart

27. Russel Bullis

28. Unknown

29. John Bucher

30. Raymond Thums

31. Bob Daus

32. Margaret Stiel (probable)

18950 W. Children & siblings of Chester Curran by RPR 6-11-2015

End of Gwen Clendenning collection

Collection of Colette Froehlich, nee Kauer

18951 Ben Kauer, aka Bernard Anthony Kauer, son of Peter Bernard Kauer, son of Anton Josef Kauer, son of Anton Kauer, Sr, son of Christof Kauer, family tree by Colette Froehlich

18952 P. c. 1915 log home built 1895 by Anton Kauer, Sr., and wife at Mud Lake, SE SE 16-33-3E following immigration from Germany. Using local trees for logs and used lumber from former logging camps, the Kauers paid only $2.50 for materials, i.e. new windows. The foundation was originally cement poured into trenches the dimensions of the house later, the dirt between the trenches was excavated to form a basement. The exterior was later covered by new siding. In 2015 the building is the residence of Bernard ‘Ben’ Kauer and wife Pearl and has an address of 1223 Wood Lake Ave, Rib Lake.

Persons shows L-R Rose, born 1905; Elizabeth, lka Mrs. Carl Rhody; Tina, lka Mrs. Marion Blair; Marie, aka Mrs. Anton Kauer, Sr.; Anton Kauer, Sr; Joseph, John [Editor’s note – was Anton, Jr. not on this picture?]

18952A 5-12-1905 Anton Kauer, Jr. report card from Mud Lake School; signed by Margaret Staffon

18952B ibid back; ‘A good worker but slow.’

18953 P. c. 1913 Peter Bernard Kauer (8/20/1907-10/4/2003) sites on chair in front of buggy seat mounted on top of homemade sleigh. Rear-stumps dot fenced pasture.

18954 P. c. 1920 Mud Lake School, Town of Rib Lake, NE NW 21-33-3E, exterior with teacher and 21 students

18955 Karte des Bezirkes Kaaden c. 1890 (Map of the District of Kaaden, Austro-Hungarian Empire)

18955A ibid – enlarged Village of Dorfles circled in red, Eger River highlighted in blue; borner of German ‘Konigreich Sachsen’ (Kingdom of Saxony) shown in green

18955B ibid Map annotated showing in green letter place names since former District of Kaaden became part of Czechoslovakia in 1945, i.e. Kaaden became Kaden; Sebastianberg became Sebestrana; Eger River became Ohre River; Karlsbad became Kavloy Very

18955C Map 2014 Czechy-Czech Republic highways - cover

18955D ibid Kadan (German Kaaden) area. Purple dot at site of former Village fo Dorflies, ancestral home of Kauer family. In 2014 area is a military reservation showing little information

18956 Map c. 2015 Central Europe penciled ‘X’ marks general location of Dorfles now called an unknown Czech name.

18957 Map Deutschland und die Deutscher in Ostmittel..Europa (Germany and the Germans of East Middle Europe). Pencil dot shows general location of Dorfles. It was in the German speaking area called the Sudetenland.

18958 Map of Central Europe c. 1900. ‘X’ marks general location of Dorfles. In 2015 its location is part of the Czech Republic.

18959 3-16-1895 (in German) Passenger list of steamship Munich, from Bremen German to Baltimore-cover, signed Josef Kauer

18959A ibid, passengers between decks included Anton Kauer, Johann Kauer, Josef Kauer, Anna Kauer, Maria Kauer

18959B ibid officiene des Dampfers ‘Muechen’.

18960 ‘Descendants of John Bonde’ by Colette Froelich nee Kauer. NB-’Isabelle Mary Bonde married Anton Joseph Kauer (the 3rd) 10-16-1934

18961 P. c. 1940 Anton Joseph Kauer

18962 P. c. 1910 John Bonde and wife Margaret nee Lummerding

18963 P. c. 1920 ‘Bonde’s thrash outfit’ Phillip Bonde, son of John Bonde took his thrashing machine from farm to farm in the Town of Rib Lake. On right is a water wagon, its long handle was attached to a pump to draw water from local streams.

18964 P. c. 1915 unknown Meyer, of Pittsburgh, PA, a Kauer relative by marriage

18965 P. c. 1915 Kauer relative

18966 P. c. 1915 man on right is Joseph Kauer

18967 P. c. 1915 unidentified woman

18968 P. L-R Anna Payamps nee Kauer; Anton ‘Tony’ Kauer, Marie Kauer nee Branal; Marie’s husband Anton Kauer

18969 Family tree of Marie Ann Payamps, daughter of Anna Mary Kauer, by Colette Froelich

18970 P. Gustave ‘Gus’ Payamps, married Anna Mary Kauer, lived in Philadelphia, PA

18971 P. great-grandmother of Clayton Kauer and husband; she was Native American (Chippewa)

18971A P. ibid

18972 P. unknown man with watch fob

18973 P. unknown sitting man next to John Kauer, Ben Kauer’s great uncle

18974 P. unknown woman

18975 P. young woman posing with book in German ‘Jeal Frau Ihre Eigene Schneiderin.’ (Each woman is her own tailor.)

18976 P. L-R unknown; Johann Kauer, Ben Kauer’s bachelor great uncle; unknown

18977 P. sitting man

18978 P. man with bow tie in front of plastered wall

18979 P. Christof Kauer in military uniform. He was born in and lived in Dorfles, a German speaking village in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. According to Ben Kauer, he served ‘in the Prussian Army.’

18980 W. ‘Descendants of Christof Kauer’ by Colette Froelich

18980A ibid p. 2

18981 P. c. 1915 A Mud Lake school outing. Bottom row L-R; Peter Bernard Kauer; Frank Fuchs; Peter Fuchs; Katie Fuchs; unknown; top row L-R unknown, unknown, teacher Margaret Staffon, unknown, unknown

18982 P. Clayton Kauer’s great grandmother holding sickle

18983 P. boat on Mud Lake; persons L-R; all unknown except man-John Kauer, Ben Kauer’s great uncle

18984 P. Phillip Bonde on his threshing machine. On left is the water wagon used to supply water to steam powered machine

18985 P. 2 boys play with dead bucks. 38-55 rifle shown used by Tony Kauer to shott deer; he came upon bucks fighting; when he shot and killed one, the other continued fighting until it was shot.

18986 P. 3 boys playing with rifles

18987 P. c. 1910 Anton Josef Kauer (8/23/1867-6/20/1918) and wife Marie Francis Kosett (12/23/1874-5/2/1942) and children L-R; Elizabeth, aka Mrs. Carl Rhody; Rose, lka Mrs. Carl Faber; Christina, lka Mrs. Marion Blair; John Kauer; Joseph Kauer

18987A ibid, same people but without wife Marie Francis

18988 P. Calendar shows March, 1911; 3 children stand in home interior with torn picture of Montgomery-Ward mail order building hands on wall

18989 P. c. 1911 girl in orchard

18990 P. c. 1925 7 girls and women all in white dresses; center bottom row-Catherine Kauer, lka Mrs. Lawrence Van Hecker

18991 P. Rose Kauer, lka Mrs. Carl Faber in homemade ‘Canoe’ on Mud Lake

18992 P. L-Anton Kauer and R-son ‘Tony’ Kauer with 2 dead bucks; rear-2 wheel buggy waits for horse

18993 P. Tony Kauer in apiary which once had 200 hives

18994 P. c. 1930 Ben’s uncle, John Kauer, with girlfriend Cecelia Kress, who taught at Mud Lake School. Rear right-Model A Ford which came out in 1928.

18995 P. woman with girls holding kittens

18996 P. 3 girls L-R Annette Rhody, lka Mrs. Mike Cullen; Katie Rhody; lka Mrs. Dennis Schlais; Mary Ellen Rhody, lka Mrs. Mike Zielke; all are children of Carl Rhody and wife Elizabeth, nee Kauer

18997 P. 4 unidentified females

18998 P. woman with pet deer next to salt block

18999 P. 4 women around fruit tree; L-R Elizabeth Kauer, lka Mrs. Carl Rhody; Catherine Kauer, lka Mrs. Lawrence Van Hecker; Rose Kauer, lka Mrs. Carl Faber; Christina Kauer, lka Mrs. Marian Blair, pointing rifle

The Kauer Collection will continue starting at image 19145

Photographic Collection: TIMMS HILL TRAIL UNTIL APRIL 19, 2015. All photos taken by Robert P. Rusch, except #19127-19132 by Mark Berglund

19000 P. Official logo ‘Timms Hill Trail – National Trails System 1990.’ Prepared by the Dept. of Interior, National Park Service upon its certification of the Timms Hill Trail as the first national side trail pursuant to the 1968 National Trails Act on 3-23-1990.

19001 P. Preparation memo

19002 P. A portion of the Timms Hill Trail in Price County shortly after construction in 1986

19003 ibid

19004 P. Timms Hill Trail sign on north side of CTH D in the Town of Spirit. Dew covered hay field on Wilbert Blomberg farm

19005 P. A view of the former George Blomberg farm from the Timms Hill Trail

19006 P. Scot and Kate Bromann hike the Timms Hill Trail past a white birch tree showing a red blaze used to identify its 10-mile route

19007 P. Blomberg bridge carries the Timms Hill Trail across a creek between Hultman and Stone Lakes. The bridge was manufactured in 1904 by the Milwaukee Iron Works and used as a highway bridge on Fawn Valley Road until 1985, when it was declared unsafe. The Town of Rib Lake donated it to volunteers building the Timms Hill Trail including Wilbert Blomberg and John Heiser who moved it in 1986 to its new site and reconstructed it

19008 P. L-R: Scot Bromann stands next to Dan Dillon, who is photographing the Helms Creek hay meadow from the Timms Hill Trail.

19009 P. The Timms Hill Trail is marked by homemade red-tipped signs across a hay meadow ¼ mile north of Garden of Memories Cemetery.

19010 P. L-R Scot Bromann and Meade Maxwell ‘Max’ Dillon take a breather from skate skiing in Timms Hill County Park

19011 P. View northward across Bass Lake showing the tip of the Timms Hill observation tower and the higher state fire tower atop Timms Hill, Wisconsin’s highest natural point at 1951.5 feet above sea level

19012 P. 1988 signage for the Ice Age Trail, Timms Hill Trail and beginners ski trail along CTH C at the Rusch Preserve, SE NE 12-33-2E; all three trails, at the time, shared the first quarter mile of trail.

19013 P. 1991 sign in Timms Hill County Park: ‘Timms Hill National Trail. This is the northern terminus of the Timms Hill National Trail. The Secretary of Interior, Manuel Lujan, Jr., designated the 10-mile path on March 23, 1990, as the first side trail pursuant to the National Trail Systems Act. Volunteers from the High Point Ski Club constructed the trail southward from this point in 1986. The trail is open for non-motorized public use to its junction with the Ice Age National Scenic Trail in Taylor County.’ The six trail volunteers shown include: L-R Lyle Blomberg, unknown, Bob Rusch, Steve Clark (Northern Coordinator of the Ice Age National Scenic Trail), unknown and unknown

19014 P. 1992 Steve Hovarth, a highly accomplished ultra runner, using the moniker of ‘Fat Rabbit,’ and Martha Rusch, nee Gebauer, stand next to a 1985 Ford pickup being used in the construction of the Adirondack shelter in the Rusch Preserve adjacent to the CTH C. The Herman and Martha Rusch Preserve is named for her and her husband.

19015 P. Ann Dillon gets a kick out of Lyle Blomberg’s whimsical hat sporting the horns of a spiked buck. Lyle constructed the northernmost three miles of the Timms Hill Trail and for more than 20 years groomed it for skiing.

19016 P. The official ‘pregnant triangle’ signs for the Ice Age and Timms Hill Trail form part of the signage at the Rusch Preserve.

19017 P. The newly-constructed Adirondack shelter at the Rusch Preserve

19018 P. ibid

19019 P. ibid

19020 P. c. 1993 Long Lake resident Ron Becker, for many years, led construction crews maintaining the Timms Hill Trail southern environs. Here he operates a front endloader conveying crushed gravel used to smooth the trail tread at the Rusch Preserve

19021 P. This 14-foot wide wooden bridge uses steel girders to span Klostermann Creek at the Rusch Preserve and has been named ‘Becker Bridge’ for its chief architect, Ron Becker. Paint blazes adorn a nearby tree: red for Timms Hill Trail, yellow for Ice Age Trail and blue for Beginner’s Ski Loop

19022 P. The Adirondack shelter at the Rusch Preserve provided a perfect setting for a trail system map routed by Bob Rusch; the ski trail beginning in the Village of Rib Lake now known as the Nordic Trail, is here identified on the legend as the ‘Jaycee Trail.’ The Rib Lake Junior Chamber of Commerce was then an active community organization for people under 36 years of age.

19023 P. Gleaming wood makes up the super structure of the newly-constructed Becker Bridge spanning Klostermann Creek

19024 P. Adirondack shelter at Rusch Preserve. The ski trail map shows the over 20 mile long complex of trails south of the Timms Hill Trail

19025 P. Fresh snow has dusted a groomed portion of the Timms Hill Trail; grooves called ‘tracks’ are on the right for classical skiing while recently made snowshoe tracks cover the rest of the trail

19026 P. Robin Rusch, nka Mrs. Scott Riggs, snowshoes through a white cedar forest on the Timms Hill Trail

19027 P. Close-up view of 8x8 routed ski trail map showing complex trail system between the Timms Hill Trail and the Village of Rib Lake. The ‘you are here’ sign points to the location of the Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve. The trail legend fails to show the beginner trail shown as a blue painted loop extending to the left (west), from CTH C.

19028 P. Trail related signage along STH 13 at its junction with Highway 102

19029 P. Ann Dillon and her son Michael pause on the Becker Bridge to view Klostermann Creek; beneath them can be seen portions of the 2-foot high steel girders once used in the Rib Lake High School between 1902 and 1985.

19030 P. c. 1996 L-R Christine Thisted, Ann Dillon and Kathy Bero pose at Timms Hill County Park; Kathy was then the executive director of the Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation and was succeeded in that office by Christine Thisted.

19031 P. The recently groomed trail gracefully curves through the Rusch Preserve. The signage in the rear indicates the Highway 13 wayside is 10.75 miles by way of the Ice Age Trail and Timms Hill is 10 miles by way of the Timms Hill Trail

19031A P. L-R Ann Dillon, Kathy Bero and Christine Thisted pose in an outwash valley in the Rusch Preserve used by the Timms Hill Trail and Beginner Ski Loop; the valley was created by massive quantities of water running off of the melting Chippewa Lobe of the Wisconsin Glacier about 10,000 years ago

19032 P. Ron Becker is dressed for cold weather as he operates his ski-doo snowmobile pulling a groomer through the Rusch Preserve. The Timms Hill Trail has become a popular ski and snowshoe trail since it is groomed at least every Friday, weather permitting, during the winter, assuring a superb trail surface

19033 P. 1994, twelve snowshoers line up at the Rusch Preserve to run the entire 10-mile course of the Timms Hill Trail in the first Timms Hill Trudge. The man on the right is Chris Duply, the inventor of Good Thunder Snowshoes. The Timms Hill Trudge snowshoe race and walk is held annually on the second Saturday in March.

19033A P. Ann Rusch enjoys a leisurely stroll on snowshoes through a beautiful stand of white cedar. The Timms Hill Trail has grown into one of the most popular snowshoe destinations in Wisconsin.

19034 P. Bob Rusch installs a sign reading ‘Your Host – Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club.’ This hardworking group, along with Todd Olson and Lyle Blomberg, groom the entire Timms Hill Trail for skate and classic skiing. The same route is open to snowshoers and well-behaved dogs. The southernmost one mile of the Timms Hill Trail is shown on the map, as well as the route of the Ice Age Trail as it existed in 1995; the IAT has now been rerouted to a more scenic course, showing off spectacular glacial landforms.

19034A P. This 8x8 routed map stood in the Adirondack shelter at the southern terminus of the Timms Hill Trail. It has color-coded routes for the six different but intersecting ski & snowshoes trails, including the Timms Hill Trail in the Rib Lake region. The ‘You are here’ sign points to the Rusch Preserve on CTH C

19035 ibid

19036 P. Hardworking trail volunteer Ron Becker uses a chain saw to notch a bridge timber to be installed on Weix Creek on the Timms Hill Trail. A front endloader holds the steel frame of the bridge in the background. Bridges on the Timms Hill Trail are built for tractors that are used to mow the trail every summer. Weix Creek is named for long-time trail volunteer Kathy Weix.

19037 P. Ron Becker directs Kevin Radtke operating a front endloader in positioning the new Timms Hill Trail on Weix Creek. The steel bridge frame will be covered with an attractive wood floor. The steel bridge frame is a recycled drag once pulled by snowmobiles to groom the Timms Hill Trail; it proved too heavy for grooming and was recycled into a bridge!

19037A P. ibid, a triangular shaped piece of metal in the foreground served as the hitch to connect the groomer to the snowmobile when the steel structure had previously been used as a snow groomer. In 2015, the bridge built on the former groomer is an attractive wooden structure, giving no hint to trail users of its former life

19037B P. the longest bridge on the Timms Hill Trail was constructed in 1996 under the leadership of Ronald Becker. His support crews painted: ‘1996 Becker’s Bridge’ on the steel I-beams used to span Klostermann Creek in the Rusch Preserve. That beautiful brook is a ‘navigable waterway’ and the Army Corps of Engineers has approved the bridge construction.

19037C P. Ann Rusch inspects a pile of railroad ties to be installed on the Weix Bridge under construction. The old steel culvert that had previously served the trail has been removed and is temporarily stored in the background. A smooth surface of crushed gravel surfaces the Timms Hill Trail. The Timms Hill Trail was constructed according to then applicable trail standards. Construction to those standards has many benefits: it allows regular mechanical maintenance of the trail, winter grooming for both skate and classic skiing; trail users may conveniently walk side by side

19038 P. Ron Becker puts crushed gravel next to a red painted ‘money box’ at the Rusch Preserve. While trail use is absolutely free to any user, many generously donate. The machine Ron is operating was supplied by the National Park Service for the High Point Chapter of the Ice Age Trail. It was part of a plan to establish ‘equipment cache’ across the state to aid in trail construction and maintenance. Unfortunately, the cache program was abandoned.

19039 P. Ron Becker operates the front endloader supplied by the National Park Service in trail maintenance on the Timms Hill Trail. Here the handy machine hauls a large boulder. The Timms Hill Trail is closed to all motorize traffic, except maintenance vehicles.

19040 P. This shows a portion of the ‘Rib Lake Nordic Ski Trails’ on signs in use during the 1990’s. Major trail intersections were labeled ‘A, B, C, etc’ and keyed to ‘You are here’ signs. The trail shown in red is the southernmost portion of the Timms Hill Trail. The popular Adirondack shelter at the Rusch Preserve is at the spot labeled ‘Highway C parking.’ The southern terminus of the Timms Hill Trail is at that spot.

19041 P. Neatly routed mile markers have been erected along the Timms Hill Trail. Here Ann Rusch stands next to mile 3. A smaller version of the official Timms Hill Trail logo serves as an ‘assurance marker’ at the top of the mile post.

19042 P. ibid. Ann Rusch sits on a boulder conveniently located next to milepost 7. The numerals are painted in red, the color used in paint blazes marking the Timms Hill Trail.

19043 P. One popular feature of the Timms Hill Trail is that it is open to well-behaved dogs. In this whimsical photograph, Ann Rusch is shown teaching her dog, Buster, to drive her 1985 Ford F-150 pickup used in trail maintenance. The gun rack behind this happy pair holds ear protection and a hand saw. A red painted wrench, a yellow screwdriver, and a wooden sanding block sit on the dashboard used as a mobile work bench.

19044 P. An important maintenance necessity is the annual mowing of the Timms Hill Trail. Here Bob Rusch operates his 1940 Ford 9N tractor, which is pulling a 6 foot wide brush hog, which mows the trail of tall grass as well as woody-stemmed vegetation. The tractor has been modified with a steel plate on its front that serves as a brush guard to prevent damage to the radiator. A single headlight brightly shines through the brush guard.

19045 P. Trail volunteers come in all ages. Here, on the left, is Lorraine Killion, nee Dongoske, next to her sister, Jane Carlson. Both are wearing authentic WWII Red Cross Auxilary nursing paraphernalia. In this 1994 photo, they are shown running a food and water station on Johnson Avenue in Price County; they served as smiling hostesses to participants in the inaugural ten-mile-long Timms Hill Trudge snowshoe race. Note the orange slices, M&M and Milky Way candy on the trail-side table.

19046 P. 22 excited snowshoers wearing bib numbers for the inaugural Timms Hill Trail snowshoe event line up at the start at the Rusch Preserve. It is 1994 and modern metal snowshoes have replaced their wooden predecessors. This hearty group will snowshoe the entire 10-mile long Timms Hill Trail. Nationally acclaimed ultra runner, Donna Perkins, wears bib #71. Next to Donna, wearing bib #56, is Kathy Blomberg, and next to her, wearing bib #89, is Buzz Meyer, head of the High Point Chapter of the Ice Age Trail.

19046A P. Kathy Weix and Jim Brieske snowshoe the final few feet to the finish of the inaugural Timms Hill Trail snowshoe event. While the Timms Hill Trail runs at the base of Timms Hill, shown in the background, the final quarter mile of the Trudge finishes across Bass Lake. Note the upended wooden snowshoes that mark the route for the snowshoe races from the Timms Hill Trail to the finish line. While both Kathy and Jim are accomplished ultra runners, having completed runs as long as 100 miles, the Timms Hill Trail Trudge has evolved into a broadly based event. Under the sponsorship of Lyle and Kathy Blomberg, the Timms Hill Trudge now includes shorter snowshoe events, which are highly popular for recreational snowshoers. The black & white structure atop Timms Hill is a State of Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources fire tower, which is manned during the times of high fire danger.

19047 P. This sign, ‘The Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve,’ stands adjacent to County Highway C at the southern terminus of the Timms Hill Trail. The Preserve honors the parents of Robert Rusch; Martha, nee Gebauer, was teaching at the nearby Spirit Lake one-room school when, in 1926, she met her future husband, Herman Rusch. Both had parents who had immigrated from the Kingdom of Prussia in Germany and were operating small dairy farms in Taylor County.

19048 P. This early morning photo shows the Rusch Preserve adjacent to the CTH C. Four trail-related signs are shown left to right: 1) Timms Hill National Trail, south terminus; 2) routed wooden sign noting three trails using signs indicating a single route through the Rusch Preserve, the Ice Age Trail, the Timms Hill Trail and the Beginner’s Ski Loop; 3) a ‘Friends of the Trail’ sign displays the names of individuals who have donated $200 or more; 4) the Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve sign includes an arrow pointing to off-highway parking. Local trail supporters believe this well laid out facility is Wisconsin’s most attractive and user-friendly trailhead.

19049 P. Signs adjacent to CTH C one-quarter mile south of Rustic Road #1 in the Town of Rib Lake. The 57-acre parcel there, owned by the Ice Age Trail Alliance, consists of the Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve and the Ann & Bob Rusch Preserve. The southern terminus of the Timms Hill Trail begins there at CTH C and runs on the same path with the Ice Age Trail for 1/8 mile.

19050 P. The Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve sign also refers to the ‘Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation, Inc.’ IAT mentor Ray Zillmer’s idea was to not only build a walking path across Wisconsin but to establish a long linear park along the trail. About 2000 the Foundation’s name was changed to the Ice Age Trail Alliance.

19051 P. A smiling family of four have parked their car on the Rusch Preserve and put on their skis. The Rusch Preserve is not only a convenient and highly popular way to access the Timms Hill Trail, but it also serves as a trailhead for the extensive ski trail system operated by the Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club. When the original parking lot built at the Rusch Preserve proved inadequate to meet parking needs, a second off-highway lot was created in 1998. Both lots are regularly filled to overflowing on a winter weekend.

19052 P. One-half mile west of the Rusch Preserve, and one-eighth mile from the Timms Hill Trail, stands a ski and snowshoe bridge, which is the longest and highest in the lower 48 states. The bridge is shown here under construction crossing the private driveway of Susan and Rolland ‘Rollie’ Thums. Long steel I-beams were donated by Scot Bromann and Huotari Construction. The bridge allows a safe, scenic and road-free way for skiers and snowshoers to complete the highly popular two-mile ‘Beginner Ski Loop.’

19053 P. ibid. The Friendship Bridge is shown under construction. The piles of treated lumber shown in the foreground will provide the final surface for skiers using the bridge on the Beginner Ski Loop. Users on the nearby Timms Hill Trail get a nice view of the Friendship Bridge through the woods.

19053A P. Rock Thums uses the hydraulic loader on his pulp truck to place used railroad ties on of the Friendship Bridge. Trail volunteers from the Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club on the bridge include, 3rd from left-Russell Blennert; Scot Bromann, center; and Mark Thieme wearing the Wiconsin baseball hat.

19054 P. The Timms Hill Trail at the Rusch Preserve runs past the site of Rib Lake Lumber Co. Camp 6. Camp 6 was one of the 28 camps operated by the lumber company after its purchase in 1906 by the US Leather Co. until close of operations in 1948. Camp 6 housed approximately 50 men between 1911 and 1914. While the small percentage of the virgin forest that consisted of white pine had already been cut prior to the establishment of Camp 6, the camp was busy harvesting all of the remaining trees of which hemlock predominated. The hemlock trees were felled and stripped of their bark during the months of May and June, when sap was running, and the bark could be easily peeled. After air-drying, the bark was shipped by sleigh to the Rib Lake Tannery to produce tannic acid, the essential ingredient used there in tanning.

19055 P. Four primitive campsites at the Rusch Preserve provide fire rings and rudimently facilities for campers. These two campers have erected their tents in the background. Camping is free and available on a first-come, first served basis, except for the Heilige Nacht campsite, which is reserved for through hikers on the Ice Age Trail. This sign touts the Friendship Bridge as ‘America’s longest ski & snowshoe bridge at 43’ 3’; the sign should have said the longest and highest ski & snowshoe bridge in the lower 48 states. The bridge was built in 1999-2000 by the Rib Lake Area Nordic Ski Club, which has since changed its name to the Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club.

19056 P. (not dictated)

19057 P. The sign proudly announces: ‘Friendship Bridge-Sue & Rollie Thums-Rib Lake Area Nordic Ski Club, Inc.-September 23, 2000.’ Sue & Rollie Thums are the landowners who generously consented to the construction of the bridge as well as an extensive ski & snowshoe system on their rural property. Note the small blue sign reading ‘Beginner Trail;’ the Beginner Trail runs on the same route as the Timms Hill Trail for over a half mile before completing a two-mile loop. The Beginner Ski Trail is the single most popular trail in the extensive Rib Lake system.

19058 P. Three members of the Rib Lake Ski Club complete construction of the Timms Hill Trail by applying a coat of environmentally friendly natural oils to the wood. L-R: Scot Bromann, President of the Club; his son Nick operates a sprayer. Charter member, Dr. Gary Krueger, DDS, stands at right.

19059 P. Snow is abundant on the Timms Hill Trail. Here Mr. & Mrs. Chad and Laura Severson skate-ski while their daughter, Emma, looks backward. Skate skiers have no kick wax on their skis and propel themselves across the groomed trail, much like an ice skater does on ice.

19060 P. Every year the Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club celebrates the arrival of spring with the ‘Slush Cup’ run on the Timms Hill Trail. Here smiling runners, including, L-R, Bob Rusch, Kathy Bromann, unknown, Jane Holms, and Debbie Quednow, stride to the Timms Hill Trail from the Hill of Beans Restaurant building in the rear.

19061 P. Scot Bromann stands in the center of the former root cellar for Rib Lake Lumber Co. Camp 6. When operating, the root cellar had a deep hole dug into the side of a hill, a wooden roof with several feet of soil on top, a wall with an entrance door facing away from the hill. Since the logging camp had no electricity, there was no mechanical refrigeration. A root cellar kept stored food items relatively cool during the summer and prevented their freezing during the winter. The depression in which Scot is standing is much less deep than it was since the earth on top of the now deteriorated roof has partially filled the excavation.

19062 P. Almost a mile of the Timms Hill Trail north of Rustic Road #1 is built on the route of the Old Tote Road. It was a wagon trail used from approximately 1889 to 1922 to carry food and supplies to logging camps, including RRLC Camps 6 and 9. Prior to those camps, the tote road serviced ‘pine camps’ where only white pine was cut. Those portions of the Timms Hill Trail on the Old Tote Road are marked with silver blazes in addition to the standard red blaze.

19063 P. A small but growing number of Wisconsinites enjoy the sport of ultra-marathoning. An ultra marathon is a running race longer than the 26.2 mile marathon. Periodically ultra marathons are run on the Timms Hill Trail, including ‘Gahan’s Gallop.’ Runners begin at Timms Hill, running the entire length of the Timms Hill Trail to the Ice Age Trail and from there to STH 13 and back to Rib Lake. The distance is about 35 miles. Here ultra runner, Bob Rusch, left, poses with his mentor, Tom Bunk.

19064 P. ibid. Ultra runners Tom Bunk-left-wearing a sweatshirt advertising the glacial trail run annually held at Greenbush, Wisconsin, on the Ice Age Trail. That event features both a 50K and 100K run. Right-Bob Rusch manages a sweaty smile after completing 50K, i.e. roughly 31 miles.

19065 P. Kids love winter sports on the Timms Hill Trail. Here 5 year old Katie Strobach, left, snowshoes while her cousin, Emma Severson, skis.

19066 P. An old wagon wheel stands next to the Old Tote Road sign on the Timms Hill Trail. Horse-pulled wagons ‘toted’ supplies to camps. Nearly a mile of the Timms Hill Trail beginning noth of Rustic Road #1 is built on the very route of the Old Tote Road. The tote road began in the Village of Rib Lake and ran at one time as far north as the Village of Spirit in Price County.

19067 P. Trail blaze colors used in the Rib Lake area. Here a trail legend for an outside trail map displays the 10 colors used on trees to mark the route of non-motorized trails. Red is used to mark the Timms Hill Trail.

19068 P. ibid.

19069 P. This open gate protects the Timms Hill Trail leading north from Rustic Road through Section 1 in the Town of Rib Lake. Note the heavy concentration of skate ski marks on the trail surface. In 2010 the Patrick family of Rib Lake purchased the entire section of land from the Plum Creek Lumber Co. While the Patrick family generously allows trail use from January 1 until September 1, the trail is closed during fall to avoid conflicts with family members hunting. During the latter period, users of the Timms Hill Trail use the alternative CTH C to proceed northward.

19070 P. Red blazes clearly indicate this is the route of the Timms Hill Trail north of Rustic Road #1. The silver blazes beneath the red indicate that this portion of the Timms Hill Trail utilizes the route of the 100-year-Old Tote Road for its course. The tote road was a rough wagon road used by horse teams to deliver supplies to area logging camps.

19071 P. North Wisconsin generally experiences good snowfall between December and March. Here piles of snow block the entrance to the Adirondack shelter at the Rusch Preserve. The photographer’s camera flash illuminates reflective signs.

19071A P. ibid. Note that the modern website has come to the aid of the trail. is the website for the Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club. Longtime Timms Hill Trail supporters Todd and Keri Olson maintain a beautiful website devoted exclusively to the Timms Hill Trail at ; the latter website includes a copy of the trail log maintained by the Olson’s where the Timms Hill Trail crosses their property at Hultman Lake. A review of the visitor’s log reveals that the trail experiences heavy use with visitors coming from throughout the world. Bear in mind that since the visitor’s log is at mile 5, trail users must either hike there from the south or the north, in either case involving a trek of 5 miles.

19072 P. While the Timms Hill Trail is normally thought of running through the northern hardwood forest, it does, in fact run through a mixed forest of conifers and hardwoods. Here Marley, the mixed yellow lab and golden retriever of Ann and Bob Rusch, looks up the Timms Hill Trail in early morning while evergreens, including hemlock, spruce, balsam and pine, provide a lush green to the landscape. The adjacent hardwoods include sugar maple, red oak, ash and both white and yellow birch.

19073 P. The world’s friendliest dog, Marley, waits for morning users to catch up on the Nordic Ski Trail just south of its connection with the Timms Hill Trail. The green blaze on the tree in the background tells us that this is the Nordic Trail, which connects the Timms Hill Trail to the Village of Rib Lake, where trail users can find supplies, food, drink and lodging.

19074 P. The southmost one-quarter mile of the Timms Hill Trail passes through the Rusch Preserve owned by the Ice Age Trail Alliance, fka ‘The Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation.’

19075 P. ibid

19075A P. ibid

19076 P. Well-behaved dogs are welcome on the Timms Hill Trail. While most Wisconsin snowshoe or ski trails forbid dogs, users of the Timms Hill Trail are welcome to bring theirs. The policy has created no problems and provided many dogs with their first taste of freedom to run without a leash. The black spotted dog in the foreground is literally jumping for joy.

19077 P. The Adirondack shelter and kiosk at the Rusch Preserve are maintained by the Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club. This hardworking club grooms the southern portion of the Timms Hill Trail in addition to their 20 mile trail system ending at the Village of Rib Lake. In return the IAT Alliance allows the club to operate trails on its land. The club generously bore most costs in building the heavily-used parking lots on the Rusch Preserve. For many years the IAT Alliance has had a close, mutually-beneficial working relationship with the Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club.

19078 P. in 2008, landowner Rolland ‘Rollie’ Thums revoked the handshake agreement allowing both the IAT and the Timms Hill Trail to cross his extensive real estate holdings south of Rustic Road #1 with the exception that the Timms Hill Trail could remain open from Dec. 15 to April 1 for ski and snowshoe purposes. The handmade sign shown here was erected by Rollie adjacent to Rustic Road #1. The mobile skills crew will begin constructing an alternative path for the Timms Hill Trail and the IAT in May of 2015.

19079 P. The Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club enjoys bonfires. Here one of their fires illuminates the parking lot at the Rusch Preserve on March 11, 2006. The revelers included the oldest member of the club, Lorraine Killion, then age 85.

19080 P. ibid. Three members of the Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club are silhouetted against the bonfire at the Rusch Preserve while the last twilight makes silhouettes of the red pine on the far ridge. The new route for the Timms Hill Trail, which is being built in May, 2015, will be on top of that ridge.

19081 P. much of the Timms Hill Trail runs through magnificent hardwood forest. Here the grassy trail passes through a middle-age stand of hard maple, aka sugar maple, as maple syrup can be produced from its spring sap. Four miles south of Timms Hill the trail passes through a ‘sugar bush’ operated by Mr. & Mrs. George Beaumont. Trail visitors there will see sap buckets collecting the sweep sap containing anywhere from 1-4% sugar in late February or March.

19082 P. In 2011 the IAT Alliance partnered with trail supporters Ann and Bob Rusch to have a well drilled at the Rusch Preserve. Here the newly-installed all-weather pump is inspected by super-dog Marley. The three primitive campsites in the forest behind the pump merit a sign reading ‘Stille Nacht tent sites.’ Stille Nacht are the first two words in the famous German Christmas carol Silent Night.

19083 P. Fall is a particularly spectacular time for the Timms Hill Trail. For several weeks in September and October, the hardwood trees are awash in vibrant colors while their leaves turn red to bright orange and yellow.

19084 P. ibid. Tourists from throughout the State of Wisconsin and elsewhere flock to the northwoods to see spectacular fall displays of color as the leaves change. Here the Timms Hill Trail runs through a veritable tunnel of colored leaves. Tourist traffic at Timms Hill County Park is typically so heavy during fall weekends that it is impossible to find a parking place and sometimes impossible to drive into the park.

19085 P. Here the Timms Hill Trail makes a sweeping turn into the Rusch Preserve. The 57-acres of the Rusch Preserve are lushly covered with a spectacular old-growth hardwood forest shown here. Deed restrictions and the commitment of the IAT Alliance protect the forest from cutting.

19085A P. ibid. Note the snowshoe marks on the Timms Hill Trail at the right.

19086 P. A cap of snow covers the Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve sign. The Alliance-owned property is easily accessed off of CTH C, which in turn junctions with STH 102 to the south or STH 86 to the north.

19087 P. Here Bob & Ann Rusch’s mixed lab and golden retriever Marley sticks his nose into the snow to catch a good scent. The kiosk operated by the Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club provides a visitor guest book, pamphlets, maps and other trail information. The snow-clad horizontal pole to the rear is part of the so-called Brandenberg Gate. Note the red blaze on its right side indicating it is the route of the Timms Hill Trail.

19088 P. Marley, the mixed yellow lab and golden retriever of Ann and Bob Rusch, stands on the beautifully groomed Beginner Ski Loop just west of its junction with the Timms Hill Trail. The Friendship Bridge is in the rear. A beautiful dusting of snow covers the red pine branches on either side of the popular trail.

19089 P. Here is a spectacular photo of the Becker Bridge across Klostermann Creek by which the Timms Hill Trail crosses this former trout stream. The photo was taken 3/3/2013 and a healthy bed of snow supports the skate and diagonal ski trail that passes through the Rusch Preserve at this site.

19090 P. Mrs. Earl Finkler, aka Chris, regularly skate skis on the Timms Hill Trail. Here she stands next to a snow-covered picnic table at the Rusch Preserve with her pet malamute husky mix.

19091 P. The last rays of a winter sun illuminate the site of RLLC Camp 6 at the Rusch Preserve. The Timms Hill Trail ski & snowshoe routes pass immediately in front of this historic location. Efforts are underway to petition the Dept. of Interior to add the site to the National Register of Historic Places.

19092 P. Morning sunshine adds a happy note to the site of RLLC Camp 6 located at the Rusch Preserve. A sign in back notes the location of the site of a bunk house which housed approximately 50 lumberjacks. A remnant of an old water pail from the camp hangs from the sign on the far side.

19093 P. Skiing does not get any better than this. Here the superbly-groomed snow supports ample room for both classical and skate skiers.

19094 P. A remnant of a metal water bucket hangs on the sign at the site of RLLC Camp 6: ‘Bunkhouse site – earth rectangles show dimensions of log building.’ Dirt was routinely heaped against the exterior bottom boards or logs of camp buildings to provide insulation during winter. While the lumber or logs used in the buildings rotted away and was totally lost, the rectangular shaped earth piles still clearly demonstrate the size and location of camp buildings.

19095 P. Here are combined Timms Hill Trail, Nordic Trail and Beginner Ski Loop descend from the west side of the Rusch Preserve into an outwash valley. The valley was created approximately 10,000 years ago by massive streams of melt water flowing off of the Chippewa lobe of the Wisconsin Glacier.

19096 P. The red and silver blazes clearly demonstrate that this is a portion of the Timms Hill Trail. While red blazes are used throughout its 10-mile course, silver blazes are added to that portion of the trail built on top of the 1885-1922 tote road by which horses pulling wagons conveyed supplies to area logging camps.

19097 P. The yellow lab, golden retriever mix dog, Marley, has his left feet planted in the track constructed for classical skiers, while his right feet stand on the level groomed trail made for skate skiers.

19098 P. Steve Peters, a spry 60-year-old living along Rustic Road #1, daily walks or skis the Timms Hill Trail with his dog, Rosie. Here Steve stands next to the handrail of the Lappe Bridge named for an area resident who generously remembered the Timms Hill Trail in his will.

19099 P. The Timms Hill Trail passes several important historic sites. The notch in the foreground was made to create a lower route for the steam hauler to pull sleighs of logs during its operation to Camp 9 in Price County between 1916 and 1922. The steam hauler ran on a road of ice at least a foot thick, laboriously built and maintained by nightly applications of water from a tanker sleigh pulled by horses.

19100 P. Steve Peters’ pet Rhodesian ridgeback, Rosie, looks down the Timms Hill Trail, which is here beautifully clothed by dozens of hemlock trees. Eastern hemlock is a slow-growing, shade tolerant tree that can reach up to 450 years of age. Hemlock was the singlemost common tree in the virgin forest of Taylor County.

19101 P. The dainty needles of hemlock trees stand out against the brilliant white snow on top of Ritchie Lake. This glacial pothole lake in Section 1 along the Timms Hill Trail is totally undeveloped and solely reachable by way of the Timms Hill Trail.

19102 P. The Timms Hill Trail official logo proudly notes that the trail was added to the National Trail system as America’s first national side trail in 1990. The evergreen tree on the logo represents hemlock, the water stands for Bass Lake, which touches the base of Timms Hill on which summit the current observation tower stands.

19103 P. The beautiful groomed snow conditions on the Timms Hill Trail are largely the result of three hardworking men, Todd Olson, Lyle Blomberg and this man, Mike Quednow. Here Mike poses next to the powerful Viking snowmobile on which is mounted his Stihl chainsaw just in case he encounters a fallen tree. The snowmobile pulls a groomer, which levels, restructures and smooths the snow to form a perfect route for winter sports enthusiasts. The Timms Hill Trail has earned an excellent reputation for its consistent great trail conditions due to these three men who routinely work from dawn to dusk grooming.

19104 P. This is a portion of the 2014 version of the ski & snowshoe map prepared by the Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club. An identifying letter, A, B, C, etc, is assigned to each important trail junction and is paired with a ‘you are here’ sign at the trail site where the sign is located. The pink area in the upper right is the Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve.

19105 P. A light dusting of snow produces this magnificent snow scene at the Becker Bridge across Klostermann Creek in the Rusch Preserve. The bridge conveys a combined Timms Hill and Beginner Ski Trail over the valley and waterway. Klostermann Creek owes its name to Heinrich Klostermann, who operated a small pioneer dairy farm approximately ½ mile from the bridge site. On 3-18-1902 Klostermann bought 489.86 acres of land for his farm for $2,500.

19106 P. Interpretive signage identifies the bunkhouse site of the former RLLC Camp 6 located at the Rusch Preserve. Note the remnant of the old metal water pail hanging on the second sign. It was found on-site. The camp dump containing dozens of rusting tin cans is located nearby.

19107 P. Marley is a 3-year-old yellow lab-golden retriever mix who lives with Ann and Bob Rusch. Here Marley looks intently across a portion of the Timms Hill Trail gently clothed in a soft winter snow as the morning sun shines on towering evergreens.

19108 P. A soft cap of snow highlights the IAT and Timms Hill National Trail signs at the Rusch Preserve. While the trees in the background are red pine, aka Norway Pine, and the state tree of Minnesota, they have been widely planted in north Wisconsin since the 1940’s.

19109 P. Two delightful dimples of snow highlight the poles holding the Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve sign.

19110 P. ibid. A recent light snow has all but made invisible County Highway C running past the Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve.

19111 P. Soft white caps of snow accent the Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve sign. A tall white spruce touches the sky on the east side of County Highway C at the horizon.

19112 P. A setting winter sun sends its soft golden rays across the Timms Hill Trail. A tired family pet dog follows its master as he snowshoes home.

19113 P. Bob Rusch, by surprize, met these men camping at the Rusch Preserve while Bob was mowing the Timms Hill Trail. Bob returned with his wife, Ann, and a cooler of wine and beer. All enjoyed a great time around the campfire. The men had just hiked the entire 10 miles from Timms Hill by trail. Note their walking poles and tent in the background.

19114 P. After razing the derelict remains of an old beer bar, Lyle & Kathy Blomberg built this magnificent home and restaurant they operate as the ‘Hill of Beans’ Restaurant. In addition, they rent three delightful cabins, one of which can be seen nestled in the woods behind the restaurant. The curving town road in the foreground barely separates the facilities from Bass Lake just to the right of the photographer.

19115 P. Glacial lakes are common along the Timms Hill Trail. Nearly every county in Wisconsin has a lake named ‘Long.’ Pictured here is Taylor County’s version.

19116 P. ibid

19117 P. In 2008 the High Pointers Club of America held their national convention at Timms Hill. Each year this group of hiking enthusiasts climb to the high point of a state. Their register, pictured here, is at the start of the 96 steps leading to the top of the Timms Hill tower.

19118 P. You can inexpensively rent a paddle or rowboat at Catch-a-Dream Resort on Bass Lake run by Lyle & Kathy Blomberg. Here their dock points directly at Timms Hill, Wisconsin’s highest natural point. Note the state fire tower at its very zenith.

19119 P. Bass Lake is a delightful glacial kettle lake at the base of Timms Hill. A small but neat sand beach can just be seen on the lake edge in the center of the photo. This glacial kettle lake was formed when a chunk of ice in a melting glacier melted away at a slower rate than the ice around it. This delay in melting kept the glacial deposits of sand, gravel, rock and earth from settling, where the slower melting ice stood. When the giant ice cube eventually melted, it was lower than the terrain around it and filled with water.

19120 P. Pines, cedar, spruces and balsam are evergreens providing spots of green foliage among the vibrant fall colors of hardwood trees on Timms Hill. Bass Lake is in the foreground. The northern terminus of the Timms Hill Trail is at the top of Timms Hill. Note the small sand beach on the right.

19121 P. Lily pads cover shallow portions of Bass Lake. A sandy bathing beach connects Timms Hill Trail to the lake at the base of Timms Hill in the center of this photo.

19122 P. Here the green-blazed ski & snowshoe trail route enters the Rusch Preserve from the south. In 2015 the Ice Age National Scenic Trail will be built just 100 feet to the west of this site.

19123 P. Trail signage marks the southern end of the Timms Hill Trail at the Rusch Preserve adjacent to the County Highway C in the Town of Rib Lake, Taylor County, Wisconsin.

19124 P. Freshly-fallen red pine needles cover a brown-stained picnic table at the Rusch Preserve. Wooden steps lead up the hill to a primitive campsite nearby. Both are adjacent to the Timms Hill Trail.

19125 P. The Ice Age National Scenic Trail and Timms Hill National Trail signage at the Rusch Preserve.

19126 P. On 3-20-2015 John McFadden, right, enjoyed his visit to the Hill of Beans coffee shop. He met proprietor Lyle Blomberg (left), and his wife Kathy. In 2014 John was appointed superintendent of the Ice Age National Scenic Trail, the North Country Trail.

19127 P. Bass Lake and Timms Hill seen from the white picket fence of Hill of Beans restaurant. Halloween pumpkins decorate two pillars of the fence - from collection of Star News

19128 P. You can feel the serenity surrounding Little Bass Lake in this photo. The view looks southward from Timms Hill to the Hill of Beans restaurant faintly seen on the far shore. An early winter snow has touched the evergreens with a hint of what is to come - from collection of Star News

19129 P. The Timms Hill Trail ends at the very top of this tower. The observation tower atop Timms Hill affords a spectacular view of the glacial forest and fields that surround Wisconsin’s highest point - from collection of Star News

19130 P. Naturally occurring meadows appear at several points along the Timms Hill Trail. They are frequently the result of grass and sedges taking over the sites of former beaver ponds. Here the meadow along Timms Hill Trail just south of the Garden of Memories Cemetery provides a stunning view of tamarack in the background. The green tamarack needles are just beginning to turn color as winter approaches. This meadow is on either side of Helms Creek. One never knows what might catch your eye while hiking the Timms Hill Trail. Here small spots of melting snow highlight green ferns and spectacular white and orange fungi - from collection of Star News

19131 P. Several unnamed glacial lakes provide a breathtaking, totally unspoiled view along the Timms Hill Trail. Here a glacial pothole lake surrounded by a bog nestles against the Timms Hill Trail 1 ½ miles south of Timms Hill. In time and if left undisturbed, the vegetation in the foreground will eventually grow over the lake - from collection of Star News

19132 from collection of Star News

IMPORTANT NOTES – photographs 19127-19132 were taken by Mark Berglund and generously loaned for use in this collection by him and his employer, the Star News of Medford, Wisconsin.

Editor’s note: the foregoing index to photos #19000-19126 of the Timms Hill Trail was dictated by Robert ‘Bob’ P. Rusch on 4/20/-4/23/2015 and transcribed by Cindy Sommer.

Continuation of Kauer collection from 18999

19133 c. 1930 3 Christmas dolls beneath classic balsam fir Christmas tree at Peter Kauer farm house. NB-single electric light bulb on ceiling. Peter had gas generator for electricity for a vacuum pump milking machine and ran an electric line 400 feet to cousin Joe’s farm. Commercial electricity came to Mud Lake in the 1940’s thru electric cooperatives made by Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ‘New Deal’ legislation.

19134 c. 1950 grandmother Mary (Maria) aka Mrs. Anton Kauer, Jr., and three grandchildren of Carl Rhody & Elizabeth Kauer. L-R 1) Kathy Rhody, lka Mrs. Dennis Schlais; 2) Diane Rhody; 3) Mary Ellen Rhody, lka Mrs. Mike Zielke

19134A Map c. 1925 plat of Mud Lake environs. Mary Kauer is owner of Anton Kauer homestead, E ½ SE ¼ 16-33-3E. Joseph Kauer owns land adjacent to the west.

19135 P. c. 1952 a typical Sunday afternoon Kauer family get-together; top-Mary Ellen Rhody

19136 P. c. 1925 Rose Kauer on horse-drawn hay mower, lka Mrs. Carl Faber.

19137 P. c. 1935 Carl Faber, Ben Kauer’s uncle, with his Model A Ford. Registration plate is Wisconsin 1925. NB-canvas side curtains in place of windows.

19138 P. c. 1930 Judy Kauer, lka Mrs. Jay Lancaster, and brother Francis Kauer feed pet deer. Francis was Clayton Kauer’s younger brother

19139 P. c. 1919 Alongside Anton Kauer’s original log home; L-R 1) Peter Bernard Kauer; 2) Rose Kauer, lka Mrs. Carl Faber; 3) Anna Payamps nee Kauer and her children; 4) Maria Payamps; 5) Marcella Payamps.

19140 P. c. 1920 L-R 1) Aunt Elizabeth, aka Mrs. Carl Rhody; 2) unknown; 3) Aunt Rose Payamps nee Kauer

19141 P. c. 1940 Peter P. Kauer’s pet bear Buster with cousin Marie Oceda holding c. 1890 German made military rifle – bolt action – 30-40 Krag; rear-Mud Lake

19142 P. c. 1941 Joseph ‘Joe’ Kauer, Ben’s uncle and Clayton Kauer’s father, poses with his deer rifles, deer and freshly cut Christmas tree. Joe lost his arm in an accident at Rib Lake Roller Mills and long served as lookout at Wilderness Fire Tower. Joe died in 1951.

19143P. c. 1950 R-Clayton Kauer with 2 does hung from pole; center-Judy Kauer, lka Mrs. Jay Lancaster and sister Francis Kauer with yearling deer.

19144 P. c. 1940 Otto Faber at son’s (Carl Faber) home at Wellington Lake; its siding looked like brick. Otto holds his 30-30 deer rifle and a yearling, frozen stiff as if standing.

19145 P. c. 1930 5 unidentified people in front of barns on the Mary Kauer farm, SE SE 16-33-3E (Mary was Anton Kauer’s widow), aka Marie

19146 P. c. 1920 Joseph (Josef) ‘Joe’ Kauer, brother of Anton & father of Clayton, with violin

19147 P. c. 1915 Anton & Mary Kauer farmstead; right-cow barn, rear-Mud Lake, left-Model T Ford with ‘pumpkin’ differential

19148 P. c. 1920 Anton & son Peter Kauer apiary. Peter had as many as 200 hives and sold honey from 1950-60 for $1.00 per gallon

19149 P. c. 1940 Mary Ann Kauer’s pet deer – its white nose is milk

19150 P. c. 1925 At Scheu jobber camp, Town of Corning. Brothers Alvin & John Sheu cut for RLLC; John’s wife and children are pictured

19151 P. c. 1925 Teamster and log sleigh, jammer at right had 4 poles to steady upright to which a horizontal beam was hinged; beam held horse pulled cable to lift and pile logs

19152 P. c. 1928 man attends engine of Model T Ford while holding rifle. Registration plate ‘Wis. 197180 [19]28.’ A deer hunter with ammunition belt checks rifle as boy and woman watch

19153 P. 1920 Anton Kauer plays coronet at camp. Behind him is a sleigh load of tanbark. In rear left is a railroad flat car. In center is a jammer pole in which steel rungs were driven to allow a man to climb to the top.

19154 P. c. 1925 Marie Bonde at parents home on STH 102. Marie married Mike Eichorn.

19155 P. 5 people in winter clothes outside of Phillip Bond home, NW NW 20-33-3E. One sled has side stakes to permit firewood to be sledded.

19156 P. Porcupine, a ‘porkie,’ in tree top

19157 P. c. 1925 lumberjack with pet dog at Scheu jobber camp. Barrels held kerosene to fuel lamps. Vent on roof had 4 panes of glass to serve as sunlight.

19158 P. c. 1925 right-Alvin Scheu on pile of hardwood logs at Scheu jobber camp. Pile was adjacent to railroad track operated by RLLC.

19159 P. c. 1925 jammer on skid to permit it being pulled to new log pile site. Note 3 cables hanging from jammer’s horizontal boom (out of sight) atop. Paired cables were attached to end of log to be lifted while horse pulled other end of cable; cable ran through pulley on boom.

19160 P. c. 1925 Scaler holding scale stick stands on top of recently felled yellow birch. Sawyer’s cut 3 2’ pices from tree trunk – which is hollow – for splitting into campfire wood.

19161 P. c. 1925 crew at Freimann’s Landing, where sleigh road from Mud Lake ended next to RLLC logging railroad. Two snow shovels and a cast iron frying pan hang from wood heated tar paper shack. The hills have been totally deforested into ‘the cutover.’ Five men, left to right – 1) man leans on cant hook used to roll logs; 2) man holding out tin cup for coffee; 3) a ‘road monkey,’ an old man whose logging days are over, employed to tend the sleigh or ice road; e.g. remove manure which, if left on ice, would melt a hole there. Here he pours coffee from a porcelain coffee pot while holding another tin cup; 4) Tony Kauer, Ben Kauer’s uncle, sits on bench in front of 3 pails; 5) Lawrence Schneider holding double billed axe.

19162 Map 6-25-2015 Friemann’s Landing location, SE SE 21-33-3E and route of Mud Lake sleigh road existing c. 1915 drawn by R.P. Rusch on 1947 US Quad of Rib Lake.

19162A ibid –drawn on 1979 US Quad of Wood Lake showing contour lines

19163 P. c. 1915 Lawrence Schneider poses next to road monkey’s tar paper shack at Friemann’s Landing. NB-cutover in rear.

19164 P. c. 1920 Josef ‘Joe’ Kauer proudly poses outside his trapping shack on which he nounted homemade skis, a pistol & dagger, 50+ muskrat traps, clip on ice skates, and crossed deer rifles. Josef was Clayton Kauer’s father. He cradles a single shot 22 rifle he bought new for $2.50 with hard earned money from trapping.

19165 P. c. 1920 Joe Kauer holds the 22 rifles he used to dispatch trapped animals. He proudly wrote ‘trapper’ on his shack and hung 3 mink, 3 muskrat and 15 weasel skins (ermine) on stretcher boards for 3 days to dry.

19166 P. c. 1920 John Kauer, uncle to Ben, holds swarm of bees he is moving to make a new hive in his apiary.

19167 Kauer family tree by R.P. Rusch 7-1-2015

End of Kauer collection

Collection of RPR

19168 Map 7-4-2015 RLLC Camps 14, 15, 16 & 28 on 1979 US Quad ‘Wood Lake’ by R.P. Rusch

Alfred ‘Al’ & Darlene Unick Collection

19169 Wooden box containing shotgun cartridges-US mail to Gamble Store…Rib Lake.

19169A side

19170 Ward School 1916-1917 3rd Grade class. Miss Annabelle McLeod teacher, with names of 41 pupils

19171 Order form, Herman C. Batzer, Rib Lake agent for Standard Oil Co. c. 1920’s

19172 P. c. 1960 snowmobile, Curtiss ‘Butch’ Taylor, Lee & Keith Krueger

19173 P. Norman Kutzke 1907-1972

19174 Military Records of Roy V. Larson. 10-17-1918 Order of Induction into military service

19174A ibid Honorable discharge 2-4-1919

19174B ibid Enlistment record

19175 Baptismal certificate 12-16-1913 Alfred Herman Karl Knop [Fritzie], born 12-14-1913, son of Albert Knop and Albertine, nee Klatt; baptismal sponsors were Mrs. Ida Rusch, Herman Rusch and Karl Knop, Jr. signed Arthur Sydow, pastor, St. Johns Evangelical Lutheran Chruch in Rib Lake

19175A envelope

19176 12-16-1913 Alfred Knop birth certificate

19177 10-10-1959 marriage certificate, Alfred H. Knop and Hattie M. Larsen, nee Stumpf.

19178 4-30-1988 death certificate for ‘Alfred Herman Carl Knop,’ (sic).

19179 1907 ‘Souvenir’ cover

19179A p. 1 ibid Public School District 4 (aka German Settlement School), Brennan, Price Co., Wis, school board; Albert Meyer, clerk; John Larsen, director; August Krueger, treasurer. 36 pupils, including Roy Larsen.

19179B p. 2 ibid ‘The Close of School’

19179C p. 3 ibid

19179D p. 4 ibid

19180 P. c. 1915 L-R Roy Larsen, ‘Mother Mrs. Larsen, Myrtle, Larella, Joel, Aunt Lisa, Clifford & James Larsen.

19181 5-23-1908 flyer ‘The Brookdale Farm, a drama in four acts.’ Presented by home talent of Brannan in Larsen’s Hall.

19181A ‘Larsen’s Hall’ 8-28-1909

19182 1923 Chamberlains Almanac-cover

19182A ibid p. 2

19182B ibid p. 3

19182C ibid

19182D ibid

19182E ibid

19182F ibid

19182G ibid

19182H ibid

19182I ibid

19182J ibid

19182K ibid

19182L ibid

19182M ibid

19182N ibid

19182O ibid

19183 P. 1943 Zion Lutheran Church confirmation class and parishioners in front of church on German Settlement Road

19184 1-12-1959 Stetsonville Farmers Union Cooperative of Medford, Wis. – certificate of capital contribution by Roy Larsen

19185 3-25-1963 car invoice, $3,259.83 sold to Herman Smith, Rib Lake

19186 Pry bar ‘Rib Lake Roller Mills,’ Vic Kohn, proprietor, Rib Lake, Wis’ c. 1950

19187 Little Bohemia Café menu

19187A ibid p. 1 & 2

19187B Bar token c. 1960 Bird’s Nest Bar, Rib Lake

19187C back, ibid, ‘good for 30 cents’ or one beer. Sometimes given out by bartender when someone had bought a round of drinks to show person had one coming for free

19188 Rib Lake Lumber Co. ‘Safety Rules’ cover

19188A ibid p. 1

19188B ibid p. 2-3

19188C ibid p. 4-5

19188D ibid p. 6-7

19188E ibid p. 8-9

19188F ibid p. 10-11

19188G ibid p. 12-13

19188H ibid p. 14-15

19188I ibid p. 16-17

19188J ibid p. 18

19188K RLLC payment record form

19189 ‘Safety Award, 1936 Rib Lake Lumber Co.’

19189A Mechanical Pencil ‘Rib Lake Lumber Company’

19190 Campaign poster ‘Nominate Ernest A. Heden as Republican Candidate for Congress.’ Heden was longtime state senator from Ogema.

19191 L. 8-14-1909 R.R. Howell & Co. to Ogema Lumber Co.

19192 1962 Button ‘How-de-do in 62’ Rib Lake homecoming festival, printed is the name ‘Fritz Knop’

19192A 1961 Post prom party ‘alibi card’

19193 Business card, Peanuts & Shirley Olson, dba Harper Lake Resort

19193A back ibid ‘Good bye cruel world’

19194 Business card, Ole A. Peterson, dba Spirit Lake Country Club, ‘Golf, boating & fishing.’

19195 Pin ‘Rib Lake Lumber Co – without accident 4 years’

19196 Business card, Tom ‘Buffalo’ Hebda, Guide Service, c. 1980.

19197 11-13-1981 permission card by Elmer J. Taylor allowing Ted Dietzler to hunt on Sec. 28 T33N-R4E, former RLLC lands. Elmer was Village of Rib Lake mortician and president.

19198 Rib Lake High School basketball schedule 1961-1962

19198A back ‘New Rules’

19199 Seidel’s housekeeping cabins on N. Harper Lake – ruler ad

19200 Peter Bogumill, dba Bogumill Lockers, c. 1950 Christmas present pencil.

End of Alfred & Darlene Unick collection

19201 c. 1950 wall thermometer ‘Frank & Cecelia Becker’s Tavern, Liquors-wines & beer, Rib Lake, Wis.’ at the time it was a strong local tradition for merchants to give patrons presents at Christmas. In 2015 the former Becker’s tavern operates as the ‘Bird’s Nest,’ 729 McComb Ave.

19202 Map 1991 Taylor & Lincoln County, Rib Lake area.

19202A ibid Town of Corning

19203 Map 5-27-2015 Rib Lake segment project area by Ice Age Trail Alliance

19204 Map 5-27-2015 Rib Lake project – new trail route in Section 12, T33 R2E

19205 ‘Rib Lake Segment’ Taylor County May 27-31, 2015 project safety net

19205A ibid p. 2

19205B ibid p. 3

19206 5-27-2015 Construction notes, Rib Lake section by Ice Age Alliance

19206A ibid p. 2 trail standards

19206B ibid p. 3 geology- ‘…includes a dramatic walk atop a steep knife edge of the terminal moraine

19206C ibid p. 4 linear notes

19206D ibid p. 5 Baumann Bridge

19206E ibid p. 5 50 foot boardwalk

19206F ibid p. 7 Knop Bridge

19206G ibid p. 8 ‘very pleasant…’

19206H ibid p. 9 25,000 lbs of rock…

19206I ibid p. 10 photo of twisted pine

Alfred ‘Al’ & Darlene Unick collection

19207 ‘Journal No. 2, Ogema Lumber Co.’ Ogema, Wis. 1-3-1906 to 5-1-1907. Introduction – This leather bound book is 4’ tick, 12’ wide and 17 ½’ long. It codifies the daily expenses of the Ogema Lumber Company, ‘OLC.’ Each page has a printed number (1-640) and a handwritten date. On the left of each page are four vertical columns; 1) lath; 2) shingles; 3) lumber; and 4) checks. In the center of each page is a column for ‘entry,’ i.e. the nature of transaction and parties involved. On the right side of each page are four vertical columns; 1) price; 2) items; 3) yard CR (credit?); and 4) Yard DR. (debit?). The journal was purchaed by Al Unick at a garage sale with no further documents nor details. The Unick’s intend to donate this journal to the German Settlement Historical Society on 7/25/2015. R.P. Rusch

19207-1 ibid p. 2 of introduction

19207A ibid p. 2, Jan. 3, 1903, Westboro Lumber Co. bought 6,000 ‘pine cull shingles’ at $1 per 1000; $6 entered under yard credit. These are white pine wood shingles typically used for a roof or side of a building.

19207B ibid ‘Wolcott Bros.’ are frequently entered throughout the journal. I assume they were salesmen or lumber brokers. In this entry 11 sizes of ‘rought hemlock’ lumber to ‘shipped to Bair & Cook’ Co. of Ladoon, Iowa for $212.66 by railroad B.E.R.M.1? number 7589. The Wolcott Bros. could also work as ‘lumber contractors.’ The lumber contractor owned and cut the timber and contracted with a saw3mill to have lumber sawn. This type of contracctor paid the mill for sawing and sold the lumber on the open market. This journal contains details of each lumber transaction. Here is what is said regarding the first line of the ‘Cwolcott Bros’ transaction of 1/3/1903: 1) 3200 board feet of lumber; 2) consisting of 100 pieces/boards; 3) each board was a 2x6x16’; 4) each board was #1 grade, i.e. no knots or defects; 5) the tree type was hemlock, ‘hem,’ tsuaga canadiensis; 6) the boards were rough ‘rgh,’ i.e. not planed; 7) these 100 boards had a value of $45.60; 8) the value was calculated at $14.25 per 1000 board feet; 9) the 11 listed sales totaled $212.66.

19207C ibid 1-6-1903 United States Leather Co, which then opered many area tanneries, including one in Rib Lake, bought an unspecified number of 2x12x14’ #1 grade hemlock boards totaling 1000 board feet. Since these boards were 14’ long they were priced at $14 per 1000 board feet. Note the 16 foot long 2x6 hemlcok boards were priced at $14.25, an extra $.25 per 1000 board feet.

19207D ibid Feb. 28, 1903 paychecks to eight employees of the Ogema Lumber Co. for month of January; the following were apparently common laborers; 1) P.S. Carlson paid $1.56 per day for 17.5 days= $28.88; 2) Fred Anderson, $1.17 per day for 23.5 days – 41.12; 3) William Despius, $1.75 per day for 21 days =$36.75; 4) Peter Roberts, $2.25 per day for 20.25 days=$45.56; 5) Joe Surgrey, $1.65 per day for 18 days=$29.70; 6) August Skaterberg, $2.50 per day for 24 days=$60.00; 7) Carl Soderstrom, $1.65 per day for 18 days-$29.70; 8) Carl Alders, $1.50 per day for 20.75 days =$31.13; total $302.84 to yard DR account.

19207E ibid 2-28-1906 to 24 listed persons not on a per day basis; 1) P.A. Carlson $28.88; 2) Fred Anderson $40.62; 3) William Despius; $36.75; 4) Peter Roberts $45.56…22) Olaf Petterson, ‘1/2 on [for] logs $66.83; 23) Victor Hult $105.86 [this high pay could be for camp foreman or top loader.] 24) A. [Alber] J. Blomberg $160.00 [Alber Blomberg was a Swedish immigrant and is the patriarich of the current large and influential Blomberg family.] Total $879.78 to Yard CR account.

19207F 5 men were paid wages ‘Log A.C.’ i.e. log account; 1) Joe Swegney 20 days on log landing $34.40; 2) Victor Hult 53.25 (no explanation) ‘@30.00-33@35’ $105.86

19207G ibid 1-21-1906 planed and rough hemlock to S.A. Kurtz, Lisbon, Iowa via St. Paul, M&D Railroad car #17242.

19207H ibid 1-21-1906 planed ‘S&E’ hemlock to Oelwin, Iowa

19207I ibid 1-30-1906 sale of $628.85 unspecified lumber from ‘yard’ to D.M. Dulmer Lumber Co. with discounts ‘Disc.’ Via ‘flat card 13544 & 10914. Since railroad not specified it probably was a Wisconsin Central which served Ogema Lumber Co. mill

19207J ibid sale to A.F. Mekelburg $784.83 unspecified product from ‘yard’

19207K ibid 2-6-1906 refund $10.98 for ‘overcharge’ to A.B. Baxter & Co., Auking, Iowa, ‘as the order calls for 74 cent rate’ for railroad shipment/

19207L ibid $6 sale of birch flooring and siding to John Patterson, local man living in Section 4.

19207M 2-11-1906 resawed hemlock to Hand Lbr. Co., MaQuokota, Iowa, via O.M.& St. Paul railroad (Omaha, Minneapolis & St. Paul) car #22934 for $281.29

19207N ibid mill cull (yellow) birch sold to A.F. Meckelburg $104 via Wisconsin Central, ‘WC’ car 13956 free on board ‘F.O.B.’ Milwaukee

19207O ibid 2-16-1906 Ogema Lbr. Co. buys logs from Andrew Carlson; 1) 173 hemlcok logs-17,830 board feet, $4 per 1000 bd ft =$71.32; 2) 40 basswood logs-2440 bd ft @$7.50 per bd ft=$18.30; 3) 40 birch logs-4320 bd ft @$6 per bd ft=$25.92; 4) 24 Elm logs-2490 bd ft @$6 per bd ft=$14.97; NB-hemlock is the cheapest log.

19207P ibid 2-21-1906; planed hemlock & ship lap sold to G. Hembright, Tiptow, Iowa, shipped on Chicago, Burlington & Quincex Railroad car #10272=$227.17

19207Q ibid 2-26-1906 expenses paid by Ogema Lbr Co; 1) telephone ‘mess(age)’ call to Westboro=$.35; 2) ‘Frt’ expense & mess=$18.83; 3) 500 stamped envelopes=$10.60; 4) ½ cord firewood=$1.38; 5) G.G. Enostrud (travel) expense to Sheboygan, WI=$37.72; 6) interest paid to State Bak=$86.33; total is $156.46.

19207R ibid 2-28-1906 Ogema Lbr. Co. pays area settlers to use their horse teams & sleigh haul tankbark. Rate of pay varies from $.70 to $1.04 per cord depending on distance; 1) J. Bjorklund 20 cords, 590#, rate $1.00=$29.26; 2) O.J. Larson 87 cords, 140#, rate $1.00=$87.06; 3) Chas. Auley 72 cords, 1810#, rate $1.00=$72.80; 4) Franz Johnson 61 cords, 2030#, rate $.70=$43.33; 5) Chas Alm 65 cords, 1940#, rate $.100=$65.98; 6) August Johnson 26 cords, 730#, rate $1.00=$26.33; 7) L.J. Eck 104 cords, 320#, rate $1.00=$43.33; 9) A.J. (Anders Johann) Blomberg 154 cords, 2070#, rate $1.04=$160.00

19207S ibid 2-28-1906 meals at $.25 each for Chas. Alm paid by Ogema Lbr. Co. to J.R. Anderson

19207T 3-2-1906 planed hemlock boards sold via ‘Wolcott Bros’ to Cedar Rapids Lbr, Iowa; shipped on Illinois Central car #75257. Price varies $13.25 to $15 per 1000 board feet.

19207U 3-5-1906 Ogema Lbr sells $221.51 hemlock to Illinois Co. and pays $5.00 commission (to Wolcott Bros?)

19207V ibid Ogema Creamery Associiation buys cull rough hemlock

19207W ibid 3-13-1906 pine lumber sale W. Bros, Oneida, Iowa; 12’ wide #3 pine 10-16’ rough; price $18.75 per 1000 board feet. Ship via C.G.W, Chicago & Great Western Railroad.

19207X ibid spruce hauled to Ogema; 8.75 cords, probably to be used as pulpwood, i.e. making paper.

19207Y ibid 3-2-1903 hemlock 24 10’ boards planed, ‘S&E’, to 1 11/16’ thick; shipped via Minneapolis & St. Louis railroad to Iowa City, Iowa.

19207Z ibid 3-12-1906 O.F. Nyberg sells tamarack 1095 for $4.50 per 1000 bd ft

19207AA ibid 2-26-1906 A.B. Baxter & Co paid $5 per railroad car commission, ‘Com on cars.’

19207BB ibid 3-17-1906 maple logs sold at $5 per 1000 board feet, elm $6, basswood $7 and hemlock $4 by Olaf Peterson.

19207CC ibid 4-1-1906 commission of freight charges paid to Wolcott Brothers by Ogema Lbr. Co.

19207DD ibid 4-18-1906 35’ cedar poles bought at $1.50 each by Ogema Lbr. Co.

19207EE ibid 4-8-1906 logging camps #1, 2 & 3 operated by Ogema Lbr. Co.

19207FF ibid O.J. Hult paid $54.75 for peeling 782 20’ long cedar poles

19207GG ibid 4-11-1903 Ogema Lbr. Co. pays premiums on 5 insurance policies totaling $431.45.

19207HH ibid 4-11-1906 Wolcott Bros. paid commission, ‘com,’ of $10 on sale on $326.96 shingles sold by Ogema Lbr. Co. to Lbr. Co in Chicago, IL, shipped in Chicago and Northwestern car #62430. NB-this is the first expessed commission in this journal to date. RPR.

19207II ibid 4-17-1906 Unexplained payment of $20 to Wolcott Bros. by Ogema Lbr. Co. NB-It may be that Ogema Lbr. Co. pays its commissions to Wolcott Bros. quarterly. Ogema Lbr. Co. appears to have booming sales of cedar poles and posts which are peeled only in the spring.

19207JJ ibid lengths of 10;, 12’, 14’ and 16’ appear to be standard lengths for 2’ thick boards sold by Ogema Lbr. Co. To date, no sale of longer 2’ boards are reported in this journal. RPR

19207KK ibid 4-20-1903 Studebaker Co., long maker of wagons and later automobiles, of Markle, Indiana, pays 60,000 #1 hemlock lath shipped via Erie Railroad car #94832.

19207LL ibid 4-21-1903 Ogema Lbr. Co. pays freights charges of $610.27 for 12 railroad cars on sales brokered by Wolcott Bros.

19207MM ibid hemlock #1 floorinig sold for $14 per 1000 board feet by Ogema Lbr. Co. NB_hemlcok flooring sold for same price as ‘maple.’

19207NN ibid 5-2-1903 expenses; telephone $.25; printing $4; 1 horse $60; hay $7.49; interest ‘Ann. Note’ $90.00 paid by Ogema Lbr. Co. NB-this concludes portions of the journal of the Ogema Lbr. Co. ending at p. 50. An additional 550 pages were not reviewd. The journal ca be seen at the German Settlement Historical Society in Spirit, WI.

RPR collection

19208 Flyer ‘140th Anniversary of the Town of Westboro – top half; Ads-Rodney Strobach, dba Rodney Strobach Trucking; Tony Matyka-ATV sales; Kent Schmidtfranz-snow plowing; Michael Ecker, dba Pro Electric

19208A ibid bottom half

19209 ‘The Taylors’ by Prue Justus 1988-title page

19209A ‘Melvin N’ Molly Taylor, founder of Trees for Tomorrow and wife Wilhelmine ‘Billie, introduction

19209B ibid

19209C ibid Trees for Tomorrow history

19209D ibid p. 2

19209E ibid p. 3

19209F ibid p. 4

Dennis Kuehling Collection

19210 P. 1910 Peter Fritz general store interior, Unity, WI. Building burned in 2009, then Ray Gurtmer, dba Ray’s Market.

19210A ibid back side

19211 P. Front Street (later STH 13) Colby, Wis, c. 1910 at junction with Clark Street. Buildings L-R, 1) Forest Hotel & Salon, birth place of Dennis Kuehling; 2) Perske & Cutts Hardware store; 3) Peter Fritz general store, lka Ray’s Market; 4) Unity State Bank; 5) August Wiede’s Meat Market; 6) Unity Post Office – survived Unity commercial district fire of 1-1909 since it was brick; NB-on Front Street is 3-horse team pulling a wagon.

19211A ibid back side

19212 P. 2-16-2002 Residence of Barbara & Robert Anderson, 746 Fayette Ave, Rib Lake Village, birthplace of Herman Arthur Rusch

19212A ibid

19212B Deed 9-20-1911 Herman Rusch, dying of Bright’s Disease, deeds family residence to his wife Ida.

19212C 8-6-1903 J.J. Kennedy, et ux, deeds residential lot to Herrmann Emanuel Rusch, aka Herman Rusch, who built his home there with wife Ida. In 2015 building is home of Barbara & Robert Anderson, 746 Fayette Ave., Rib Lake, WI.

19212D Map 1913 showing lot owned by ‘Ida Rusch,’ aka Mrs. Herrmann Emanuel Rusch, following his death

19213 Map c. 1955 ‘Assessor’s plat’ north village of Rib Lake, Herrmann Emanuel Rusch lot highlighted in yellow, 746 Fayette Ave.

19214 Memo 3-26-2012 RPR writes re his grandfather, Herrmann Emanuel Rusch and his Rib Lake home.

19215 4-9-2015 ‘Voters say yes to school referendum for energy upgrades at Rib Lake, approved on 506-429 vote’, Star News.

19215A ibid p. 2

19215B Referendum fact sheet, Rib Lake School District

19215C ibid p. 2

19216 4-9-2015 Star News ‘County wants to keep things casual; Forestry Committee cool to setting an over-detailed Ice Age Trail Agreement. P. Tim Malzahn, director, trail operations of the Ice Age Trail Alliance

19216A ibid p. 2

19217 4-9-2015 Star News ‘Joe Sweda leaves legacy of public service.’

19218 2015 Medford School District Newsletter, ‘What does local control mean.’ P. Pat Sullivan, administrator.

19219 P. 2015 Ann K. Rusch nee Killion

19220 4-2014 L. Rib Lake Town Board

19221 Annual Report, Rib Lake Town Board

19221A ibid p. 2, signed Joseph Knorn, chairman; Ben Kauer, supervisor, Matt Robisch, supervisor

19222 P. c. 1920 ‘Rib Lake Lumber Co, Rib Lake, Wis. K 957’ dry yard – view westward from 2015 site of Rib Lake Library, 655 Pearl St, center-tram car tracks

19223 sign for RLLC Camp 6 site along Ice Age Trail by R.P. Rusch 2015

19224 Sign for ice road and star load to be erected Rusch Preserve, NE NE 12-35-2E.

19225 P. 2015 Land protected by North Central Conservancy Trust.

19225A ibid invitation to annual summer meeting 8-8-2015

19226 4-2015 Taylor County Democratic Party Newsletter, p. 1

19226A ibid p. 2

19226B ibid p. 3

19227 3-19-2015 obit Albert ‘Alb’ Meier (1933-2015)

19228 3-19-2015 Star News, ‘Feud continues, board supporters rally, residents speak in favor of Vilalge Board as Norgaards continue criticisms of operations. P. Ken Norgaard and P. Wayne Tlusty, president of Rib Lake Village Board.

19228A ibid p. 2

19229 2015 Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club membership form and mission statement to promote wellness, enhance environmental sensitivity and recognize local history by maintaining a cross county ski & snowshoe trail from Rib Lake to Timms Hill, Wisconsin’s highest natural point, for free public use.

19230 Map 3-2010 Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Trails.

Ben Kauer collection donated to Rib Lake Historical Society

19231 1904 German language book, ‘Durch Wind and Wogen.’ (Through wind and waves), Germania Publishing Co, Milwaukee, WI. Cover page page. ‘home library, published quarterly by Germania Publishing Co, subscription price was $4 per annum.

19231A ibid title page with stamp Koseph Kosch, PO Box 87, Rib Lake, WI

19231B ibid p. 1 of 404 pages Eine Seemanns tolnter, a sailor’s daughter.

19232 1912 German language book ‘Dad Ende der Titanic.’ (The end of the Titanic.) A 200 pages book describing the building and first sailing of the steamship Titanic and its sinking in the north Atlantic, taking the lives of 1500.

19233 postcard ‘View of Scenic Rib Mountain, Wausau, Wisconsin’ c. 1940.

19233A ibid side 2, ‘Rib Lake State Park consists of 324 acres and this area is located on the highest officially known geographical point in the state.’

19234 5-4-2015 Obit Bernard Strobach (1922-2015), Star News

19235 P. ‘Crossing the Lake.’ c. 1910. 3 sleigh loads of logs pulled by 4 horses on Rib Lake

19235A back side; 1910 Rib Lake post mark; ‘Howdy Bro, looks good and it’s a great country, signed Jess, addressed to Elmer Wilcox, Renselliar, Indiana.

19236 Map 5-4-2015 Timms Hill Trail and points of interest by Tiffany Strum from RPR data

19237 5-30-2015 ‘Timms Hill Trail 25th Anniversary Celebration Event, 3:30 pm Timms Hill County Park.’ Trail history, geology, county park and uses.

19237A Sign ‘Timms Hill Trail, designated 5-3-1990 by National Park Service as America’s first national side trail.

19238 6-4-2015 ‘25th Anniversary of Timms Hill Trail celebrated as work continues on Ice Age Trail.’ Star News – top; P-Bob Butler.

19238A ibid bottom

19239 2-17-1889 Application for certification – Timms Hill National Trail by High Point Chapter of Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation, Inc. signed Robert P. Rusch, coordinator, High Point Chapter and member of the board, Ice Age Park & Trail, Inc. p. 1

19239A ibid p. 2 hemlock is official tree of Timms Hill Trail

19239B ibid p. 3 uses ‘The trail is open for non-motorized use including hiking, skiing & mountain biking.’

19239C ibid p. 3 signed Robert P. Rusch as duly authorized to represent submitting agency.

19239D Attachments to petition, Trail Guide, Rib Lake, Wisconsin.

19239E ibid map 1989

19239F ‘Historic & Geological features’

19239G ibid

19239H 1-23-1989 L. Peter Bartelt, Price County Forest Administration

19239I Timms Hill Trail route drawn on US Quad Map ‘Rib Lake’

19239J ibid Timms Hill Trail south terminus.

19239K High Point Ski Trails by Price County Recreation Dept.

19239L ibid back

19239M south terminus & Rusch Preserve

19239N directional arrows

19239O Becker Bridge site

19239P Historic markers for Camp 6

19239Q P. Trail divergence at Camp 6

19239R Stone Lake esker

19239S Blomberg Bridge

19239T Norlin 1-room school

19239U Timm’s Hill

19240 Timm’s Hill Trail logo used on application for certification 2-17-1989 except date was removed and left blank

19241 **not scanned** L. 1990 US congressman Henry Reuss to Manuel Lujan, Jr, re delays in certification of Timms Hill Trail.

19242 L. 3-21-1990 Manuel Lujan, Jr. Secretary, Dept. of Interior to RPR; ‘…it gives me great pleasure under the power granted in Section 3(a)(4) and (6) of the National Trails System Act, to designate the 10-mile-long Timms Hill Trail as a Side Trail to the Ice Age National Scenic Trail and therefore a component of the National Trails System.

19243 4-19-1990 news release – National Park Service ‘Wisconsin Breaks Ice – Interior Secretary Adds First Side Trail to National Trails System.’

19243A ibid p. 2

19244 ‘2015 ‘Join us for the 2015 trail building season.’ Ice Age Trail Alliance.

19244A ibid Rib Lake Mobile Skills crew May 27-31, 2015 and Sept. 15-20, 2015.

19245 2015 ‘Planned Giving’ Ice Age Trail Alliance

19245A ibid p. 2

19246 2015 ‘I crashed the server’ Ice Age Trail Endurance Runs. Beer can holder celebrating computer failure when massive effort to register for Ice Age Trail 50 mile race caused computer shut-down.

19247 P. c. 1950 ‘Sunny Hill Resort on Spirit Lake.’ Outlet of Little Spirit Lake and Stone arch bridge on STH 102.

19248 P. c. 1905 St. John the Baptist Catholic Church and rectory, Rib Lake.

19248A ibid p. 2 postcard ‘1909’ to Ellen Munson, Kingsburg, California.

19249 P. c. 1905 ‘Church of Christ, the little church round the corner, Rib Lake, Wis.’

19249A ibid side 2 postmarked 1-3-1907 Rib Lake & 1-13-1907 Kingsburg, CA, NB-10 day delivery.

19250 Post office records. John H. Schaak appointed postmaster of Schaak Post Office, SE SW 20-33-3E, Town of Rib Lake 3-31-1904, Schaak post office was discontinued on 3/15/1907

19251 Map 7-25-2015 site of Schaak Post Office. Its rural free deliver, ‘RFD’ route highlighted in orange as shown on 1913 Standard Atlas of Taylor County.

19251A Dobbins’ legend lives on by Margaret Tauber. A story of Postmaster John H. Schaak and his horse

19251B ‘Farewell’ poem of John Henry Schaak upon loss of his RFD route through Town of Rib Lake.

19251C Dobbin’s Smile by Margaret Tauber

19251D ibid p. 2

19252 4-23-2015 ‘County land deal draws fire-county buys 77.2 acres near Rib Lake for Kennedy Lake access, trails and logging.’ Star News

19252A ibid p. 2 top

19252B ibid p. 2 bottom; RPR addresses county board

19253 4-23-2015 ‘New County Board members,’ Star News. P. James Gebauer, Jason Julian & Judge Ann Knox-Bauer.

Brad Gilge collection

19254 2-15-2015 Brad Gilge email to RPR re Johann Gilge & wife Magdalena, nee Mohr.

19254A ‘Verzeichniss’ ship’s manifest 5-12-1894 Johann ‘John’ Gilge and wife Magdalena, nee Mohr, Kaske, Roda?; Paul, Marie & Franz; and Mohr, Oscar and Alois. All are listed as having a former residence at Mocker, Schlesien (Silesia).

19254B ibid translation from German by RPR

19254C ibid Kaske family of Greenwood.

19255 1913 Standard Atlas map of Section 31-33N-2E showing Johann ‘John’ Gilge farm, SW NE (red) and his son Julius Gilge’s farm, NW SW (orange) and wife Martha, nee Rusch.

19256 P. 4-20-2015 David Mickelson at sign; ‘Glacial ice limit during late Wisconsin glaciation 12,000-18,000 years ago. It is along Nordic Ski & Snowshoe Trail (green) and future IAT in NW SE 13-33-2E. Fore map of this site showing maximum extent of Wisconsin glacier see 15893.

19257 5-25-2015 Dr. David M. Mickelson email to RPR re location of maximum extent of Wisconsin glaciation 12,000-18,000 years ago.

19257A P. Glacial debris covering glacial lake in Alaska, ‘your (RPR) home site, [SE NE 13-33-2E, Town of Rib Lake] probably looked about like this 20,000 years ago.’

19258 P. 4-20-2015 Rock at east bifurcation of Ice Age Trail, NE SE 13-33-2E, note stone.

19258A ibid, same rock, note vertical dividing line through rock right side (east on ground) is pegmatite, a coarse cestalline granite or other high-silica rock occurring in veins or dicks.

19258B ibid, the portion of the rock at right is made up of large feldspar & quartz crystals, i.e. pegmatite.

19259 P. 4-20-2015 local rock moved to yard of R.P. Rusch home, N8643 CTH C, Rib Lake, SE NE 13-33-2E. Two layers of feldspar & quartz (white in color) surrounded by former basalt rock metamorphasized into hornfels (gray in color). Differential weathering leaves veins of white material protruding from hornfels.

19260 rock explanations by Dr. David Miceklson 4-20-2015.

19261 3-9-2015 ‘Big Rib River,’ Wikipedia

Phyllis Schwoch collection

19262 L. 7-23-2015 Phyllis Schwoch nee Hein to RPR; ‘history…that’s your middle name.’

19262A ibid p. 2

19262B envelope

19263 print ‘Rib Lake Lumber Company – early 1920’s.’

19263A ibid annotated version; L-R 1) RLLC water tower; 2) planning mill and loading platform along railroad track for ongoing shipments…

19264 1918 RLHS commencement exercises program cover

19264A ibid program interior – 10 graduates;

1. Arthis M. Krueger

2. Mildred V. Poole

3. Margurete F. Gummo

4. Mary Kroshat

5. Ella M. Steare

6. Chester M. Ferro

7. Ernest J. Tetzlaff

8. Clarence C.D. Smith

9. Mike T. Simmon

10. Wiley Ward Wickman

The following three ‘entered Naval service’ in WWI:

Leonard Kennedy, Eddie Janda, Clare Funk

19264B 1x3’ social calling card for Ernest J. Tetzlaff. NB-commencement exercises were scheduled for ‘Opera House,’ a two-story building with restaurant & post office on the first floor and a large public meeting room on the second floor. In 2015 the building still stands with apartments upstairs and Owl’s nest taern on street level, 729 McComb Ave.

19265 3-5-2015 Invoice by Jerry & Susan Clark, dba ‘Jerry’s Computer’s.’

19266 2015 official Timms Hill Trail, 2000 made by National Park Service. The pictured tree represents northern hemlock, tsuga canadiensis, trail’s official tree

19267 2010 ‘Timms Hill Trudge’ snowshoers #1 bib for annual event offering 3 or 7 mile snowshoe and headquartered at Catch-a-dream resort of Kathy & Lyle Blomberg

19268 ‘Forest Trees of Wisconsin; How to Know them’ Wis. Dept. of Natural Resources-cover

19268A Hemlock (tsuga Canadensis)

19268B & C Red or Norway Pine (pinus resinosa) and White pine (pinus strobus)

19269 P. 2000 Buster chewing dog treat. Ann & Bob Rusch’s pet.

19270 4-14-2014 ‘Tannery; Hemlock & Fayette Shaw history of Taylor Co.’ by Dr. Loretta Kuse and Dr. Hildegard Kuse.

19270A ibid p. 2 Taylor County tanneries

19270B ibid p. 3 Delos Shaw, aka Fayette Delos Shaw

19270C ibid p. 4 P. Medford & Perkinstown Tanneries

19270D ibid p. 5

19270E ibid p. 6 Dangerous work & hemlock lumber

19270F ibid p. 7 In 1889 Bert Gearhart ‘…was the first to specialize ini hemlock (lumber).

19270G ibid p. 8 P. Winchester Hotel… ‘was built to show what actually could be done with that [hemlock] lumber.’

19270H ibid p. 9 hemlock sidewalks

19270I ibid p. 10 P. Leila Winchester

19270J ibib Perkinstown tannery burned down in 1895.

19271 Interview notes re Foster ‘Hop’ Kalk (1930-2/12/2015) RPR and Lee ‘Butch’ Clendenning recorded on 2 audio cassettes p. 1

19271A ibid p. 2 Union caused RLLC increase for sawmill laborers from $.35 per hour to $.65 per hour c. 1940.

19271B ibid, in 1949 Foster Kalk went to Manitowoc, WI and got a job building boilers at $1.10 per hour.

19271C ibid ‘Double cousins,’ Karl, aka Charles, aka Charlie Knop married Bertha Kalk. Bertha’s brother, Charles ‘Karl’ Kalk married Anna Knop, sister of Charles ‘Charlie’ Knop.

19272 Wikipedia 3-9-2015 ‘Rib Lake, Wisconsin’ title

19272A ibid p. 2 Rib Lake location

19272B ibid p. 3 demographics

19272C ibid p. 4 census

19272D ibid p. 5 photos-library, fire station and welcome sign

19273 6-5-2015 Carrier’s statement. RPR overpaid in stamps for postage. Karen J. Lemke, rural US postal carrier voluntarily refunded $.25

19273A ibid back side

19274 Map 10-30-2003 ‘Rib Lake Ski Trails.’

19274A ibid back ‘Welcome to Rib Lake, Taylor Co. Photo of Friendship Bridge

19275 1-22-2015 Obit Ronald L. Simek

19275A ‘Ronald Simek’ Star News

19276 1-22-2015 Obit Mary A. Polacek nee Haluska

19277 P. c. 1960 ‘High & Grade School, Westboro, Wis. 66-3’ In the center the original 3-story Westboro High School stands. About 1945 the 2-story brick gym and shop building was added. The one-story brick building on the left was an elementary school built c. 1950.

19278 P. 1920 ‘Harpers Lake c482.’ View eastward across South Harper Lake. Somehow saved from logging, a super elevated tree stands above the cutover forest on the horizon. At left, a cleared farmer’s field touches the lakeshore.

19279 5-28-2015 Thank you card from Karen Riggs to Ann & Bob Rusch

19279A Kimberly Bosch, nee Riggs, thank you

19279B P. 5-2015 8 kids on golf cart with Ann Rusch

19279C ibid Colton Riggs with Marley Rusch.

19280 8-1937 ‘Civilian Conservation Corps, Sixth Corps Area, Sparta District.’ cover

19280A ibid title page ‘The official district annual for 1937.’

19280B ibid CCC Camp Mondeaux River, Westboro; history of 1603rd Company.

19280C ibid, NB-The original of this book is in the Minocqua Museum.

19281 P. c. 1910 ‘The Square, Westboro, Mass.’ This suburb of Boston lent its name in 1875 to Westboro, WI.

19282 L. 8-2-1948 Frieda Hierse, nee Pabst, Minden, Germany; ‘Dear Cousin Pollitz’ (sic) [to Emilie Martha Pollatz, aka Mrs. August Frank] or possibly to a daughter/sons Hattie, Arthur, Freda (Frieda), Anna, Ida, Frank A, Emma or Ruth (for full names see ‘Descendants of Ludwig Rusch, #19284.) Frieda Heirse and her family left their home in eastern Germany in 1945. It is not known whether they fled before the Soviet (red) army or were expelled by Poles after the Potsdam Agreement awarded the German provinces of Pommers (Pomerania) and Schlesien (Silesia) to Poland. The Hierse family ended up in the city of Minden, West Phalia – part of the Britisch zone of occupation.

19282A A copy of original German letter using pre-WWII schrift, cursive writing. RPR writes to Paula and Clement Gebauer to translate the letter into modern style of letters.

19282B reply envelope

19282C personal letter to Bob & Ann Rusch

19282D Hierse leter in contemporary German letters

19282E Translation by RPR

19292F ibid by Roger A. Rusch

19283 10-13-1942 ‘Observe 65th Anniversary’ Eau Claire, WI newspaper. Photo of Frank A. Pollatz and wife Emilie, nee Rusch.

19284 ‘Descendants of Ludwig Rusch’ daughter Amalia ‘Emilie’ Martha Rusch, married august Franz Pollatz

19284A ibid p. 2 4th generation includes Dr. William F. Elbert, Rice Lake, WI, in 2015 a retired dentist.

19284B ibid p. 3 Arthur Walter Pollatz info, married Alice Kennedy of Rib Lake

19285 ‘Children of Arthur Walter Pollatz and wife Alice, nee Kennedy.’

19285A ‘Husband’s family’ Alice Kennedy was born in Nebraska.

19286 ‘Pollatz genealogical history’ and children of Franz ‘Frank’ A. Pollatz and wife Amalia ‘Emilie’ Rusch

19287 Descendants of Franz Pollatz and wife Maria Krueger includes August Franz, aka F.A. Pollatz, who married Emilie Martha Rusch

19287A ibid Chart showing Dr. William A. Pollatz has additional middle name of ‘Rusch.’

19288 ‘Children of August, aka F.A., Pollatz and Emilie Martha Rusch’

19288A ibid

19289 L. Roger A. Rusch to RPR 4-1-2002

19289A 6-1884 manifest, ‘Passenger list’ of Steamship Hapsburg (aka Habsburg) which landed at Baltimore, Maryland, included: #181 August Pollatz, age 33, occupation ‘laborer’, [aka Franz Arthur or F.A. Pollatz. His wife was Amalie ‘Emilie’ Martha Rusch, sister of Herrmann Emanuel Rusch, who is passenger #637. Their children, Arthur Pollatz is #638, age 4 ½, and Frieda, age 2, is #639. #200 is Herrman Emanual Rusch, age 23 ‘laborer.’

19290 W. Definition of Hapsburg, the ship which brought Herrmann Emanuel Rusch to Baltimore 6-1884.

19291 L. 12-6-1991 Roger A. Rusch to RPR re sisters of Herrmann Emanuel Rusch; Pollatz and Dahlke

19292 12-22-1911 Emilie Martha Pollaz, nee Rusch, visits her brother Herrmann Emanuel Rusch in Rib Lake. Rib Lake Herald.

19293 1-12-1912 Obit Herrmann Emanuel Rusch died of Brights Disease at 10:55 pm on 1-7-1912 at his Rib Lake home. Frank A. Pollatz, a brother-in-law from Fairchild, and Arthur and Frank Pollatz from Mellen, nephews, attend the funeral.

19294 Descendants of Hattie Amanda Pollatz, aka Mrs. John Walter Elbert

19294A ibid p. 2

19295 L. 4-26-2006 RPR to Roger A. Rusch re Pollatz family and Herrmann Emanuel Rusch

19295A ibid p. 2

19296 11-16-1995 RPR to Mrs. Bertha Kurth nee Rusch and Pollatz families

19297 5-28-2002 memo by RPR; Dr. William F. Elbert is the son of Hedwig Pollatz

19298 5-28-2002 L. RPR to Dr. William F. Elbert

19299 L. 12-25-2015 Ingrid, Jens & Tina Kuchinke to RPR- translation from German;

Dear Bob & Ann, We wish you a Merry Christmast and everything joyful in the new year. Hopefully you are healthy. Dear greetings from Neurnberg.

19299A P. 11-2015 Emma Kuchinke

19299B P. 11-2015 Lotte Kuchinke

19299C P. 11-2015 Emma & Lotte Kuchinke

19300 L. 12-4-1991 RPR to Roger A. Rusch re Arthur Pollatz

19301 12-3-1902 Rib Lake Herald reports on marriage of Arthur W. Pollatz and Alice Kennedy

19302 P. 1917 person #7 may be Franz August Pollatz, aka F.A. Pollatz

19302 P. c. 1945 ‘Rib Lake Lumber Co. Rib Lake, Wis. C-1’ view to woutheast showing McComb Ave. by at least 5 railroad tracks. The building in center is machine shop-still standing in 2015 and occupied by Wisco Stone Co – has ‘Rib Lake’ with north arrow painted on its roof to guide aircraft.

19303 P. 1914 ‘Rib Lake Mill Fire.’ Fireman holds pathetically small hose and tries to put out fire; the curved bull slide which pulled logs from lake to mill is partially collapsed. View to northwest from lake. The red color was applied by hand to the photo.

19304 2015 business card of Jason Julien, dba Legacy Horse Logging

19305 2015 ‘Strolling back in time’ historical walking & biking tour of the Bearskin Trail.’ By Minocqua Museum – cover.

19305A ibid p. 1 mile 1

19305B & C ibid p. 2 trestle & p. 3 fatal accidents – man left to die since he had no money.

19306 Map c. 2014 Bearskin State Trail.

19307 W. process of cutting hemlock trees and tanbark making by RLLC by Carl H. Rhody, p. 32 ‘Spirit Falls Logging Boom Town.’ & p. 33

19307A ibid p. 34 bark drying & p. 35

19307B ibid p. 36 & p. 37 Photo of Bill Fisher & Henry Rhody and large 4’ long pieces of tanbark

19307C ibid – cover

19307D ibid title and autograph ‘Carl H. Rhody’

19308 2-2015 ‘One Voice’ First Lutheran Church bulletin, Westboro, cover

19308A ibid Photo of Bob Giese, pastor

19308B ibid Help Bob Giese to move

19308C ibid p. 3

19308D ibid p. 4

19308E ibid p. 5

19308F ibid p. 6 August calendar, parishioner birthdays

19308G ibid p. 7 August church events

19308H ibid p. 8 back page

19309 8-2015 Price Electric Cooperative News – cover

19309A ibid Price Electric Coop celebrates 75 years starting 7-9-1940

19310 W. Ice Age Trail Alliance – Board of Directors nominees

19311 c. 2014 ‘Moraine View State Recreation Area.’ Cover – map extent of Wisconsin glaciation in Midwest

19311A ibid p. 2

19312 P. Joan and Herb Magnuson – 8-1-2015 50th Anniversary party at High Point Village

19313 6-14-2015 Good Shepherd Catholic Church bulletin – cover

19313A ibid p. 2 Father Otto Bucher memo

19313B ibid p. 3

19313C ibid p. 4

19313D ibid p. 5 advertisements

19314 c. 6-12-2015 Russel Francis Wudi memorial card

19314A ibid back

19315 5-2015 ‘A short hike to history’ by RPR in Liberty School News – title page

19315A P. photo of RLLC Camp 13

19315B Historical markers to be placed along Ice Age Trail

19315C cover page

19316 P. c. 1950 Sunny Hill Resort on Spirit Lake, Rt. 1, Rib Lake, Wisconsin. These are the 11 house keeping cabins usually rented for a week long summer vacation – with no running water.

19317 2015 Nicolet National Bank currency envelope.

19318 Check from Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club to Robert P. Rusch 7-29-2015 from Nicolet Nationla Bank still uses former Mid-Wisconsin bank checks

19319 7-25-2015 P. L. Everett A & Thomas Michael Rusch; both are avid model airplane builders, next to their model 2 engine of WWII ‘Mosquito’ named ‘best of show’ at HObbyland Flyers fun-fly near Abbotsford

19319A ‘Wisconsin’s flying trees’ in WWII by Sara Witter Connor - cover

19319B ibid back page

19319C ibid p. 100 quote of Orville Peterson’s son, Ole A. Peterson, formerly resident of Rib Lake

19319D ibid P. of Orville Peterson in Phillips, WI c. 1945

19320 3-19-2015 ‘Karen Rusch donates family quilt to Rib Lake Library. Quilt made by mother Leona Margaret Bombach, Aunt Sophie Scott and sister Jane Bombach Laswell

From Peg Papoe collection

19321 P. ‘J.J. Kennedy’s Camp No. 5, M. [Matt] Gillis foreman. Rib Lake, Wis. – Feb. 8, 1891. Winter Scene in Wisconsin Pinery.’ Two camp log building sit c. 25 feet apart but alighted straight with each other. Two teams of horses and 1 ox shown. The entire camp crew of 29 men pose. Photo may have been taken at Matt McGillis’ camp at SE NW 13-T33N-R2E. Photo shows buckboard 4 wheel wagon to convey supplies on tote road

Heidi Royal Collection

19322 P. c. 1900 Thomas Brehm, S, and spouse Kundigunde

19323 P. c. 1900 Thomas Brehm, Sr. and wife Kunigunde, nee Hoffman and children; L-R Joseph, Henry, Otto, Frank, Thomas Jr. and Frederick

19324 Map c. 1900 Plat T32N-R2E, Town of Greenwood, Brehm Post Office SW SE, and Urquhart Post Office

19325 P. c. 1910 L-R St. Ann Catholic Church and Highland School, NW NE 9-32-2E

19326 P. 1911 wedding portrait of Thomas Brehm, Jr. and Catherine Simon

19327 L. 8-20-1909 Thomas Brehm (Sr) to Richard Monthey (sic) [should read Manthey] on Thomas Brehm store letterhead. ‘I have talked to Mr. Wm. Wagner…’ re plastering

19327A ibid

19328 Map 1913 Plat T32W-R2E showing Brehm Post Office and store site, SW SW 9-32N-R2E, Town of Greenwood

19329 Post cards stamped 8-9-1909 and 4-10-1913 Brehm, Wisconsin.

19330 2-15-1979 ‘Rib Lake report’ on Joseph Brehm flour & feed store ‘Star News.’ In 2015 store building stands as apartments at 827 McComb Ave, Rib Lake.

19331 Map 1926 Wisconsin Highways published by State of Wisconsin, [the entire map has previously been scanned as image 13093A-F] Image 19331 is a portion of that map with the Village of Brehm highlighted in yellow.

19332 July-Sept 1898 Account of items sold by Joseph Thums to Thomas Brehm, Sr. in German

19333 May 20-June 1898 account of items sold by Joseph Thums to Lorenz Thums and number of logs hauled to Rib Lake.

Robert P. Rusch collection

19334 P. c. 1950 ‘North Harper Lake at Seidel’s Cottages, Rib Lake, Wis. 43’

19334A ibid back postmark 9-2-1959 Lucille S. to Louise Thielke

19335 4-27-2015 Order appointing Robert P. Rusch to Condemnation Commission of Taylor County

19336 Cover 3-2015 ‘Up North Action’ magazine. ‘High Point Village to host Timms Hill Trudge-snowshoe race/walk 3-7-2015.’

19336A ibid P. Kathy & Lyle Blomberg, ‘Timms Hill Trudge will challenge snowshoers.’

19336B Ibid ‘USA Today has rated Timm’s Hill trails as one of the 10 best places for snowshoeing in the nation!’

19337 3-7-2015 Timms Hill Trudge registration form.

19338 L. 2-20-2015 Stephen Lars Kalmon to Robert P. Rusch re his 3 volume history ‘Our Home, Taylor County.’

19339 9-22-2013 ‘The Twelve Railroads of Taylor County’ by Robert P. Rusch. The version of this document updated 1/26/2019 contains major revisions, including an impressive colored map of the 1933 forest fire commonly referred to as the “New Wood Fire.” In addition an article from the Rib Lake Herald dated 4/22/1922 is included describing the newly assembled RLLC logging railroad forest fire consist.

19340 Map 5-2011 ‘Terminal Moraine Belt of Taylor County’ by Steve Kalmon & Taylor County Land Information Dept, adapting work of Dr. John Attig, east half

19340A ibid west half

19340B ibid, map modifications explained by Steve Kalmon

19341 6-23-2011 ‘Ice Age National Scenic Trail; Its first 30 years in Taylor County,’ by Robert P. Rusch

19342 2-2015 ‘Taylor County Democratic Party newsletter’

19342A ibid back, Photo of Phyllis Pope

19343 P. 4-1947 RLLC locomotive 101, Baldwin 1911, under steam and ready. The RLLC logging railroad will last one more year and will be the last logging railroad to operate in Wisconsin, according to James Kaysen, railroad historial. On right is a spur cabstan sporting the crest design of the Wisconsin Central, which was built to Rib Lake in 1883. At far right is the engine house and on the left is the RLLC store. In 2015 the store site is the junction of STH 102 and McComb Ave.

19344 Railroad track cross section from RLLC line. ‘Mens Third Place in 50-59 age group’ from the 1999 Pine Line marathon.

19345 Map 2012 Highways at Rib Lake & environs

19346 8-19-2015 ‘Ribbon cutting scheduled for River Bend Trail’ Merrill Foto News

19346A ibid p. 2

19347 L. 8-13-2015 Aquaeter to Rib Lake Historical Society re proposed collocation on an existing communication tower. Potential effects on historic properties.

19347A ibid ‘Topographic map USGS quadrangles of Rib Lake & Westboro. A tower location, NW SE 32-33-2E (former Rolland Walty farm)

19348 P. c. 1910 ‘Maine St, Watertown, Wis.’ Milwaukee Interurban #4109 passing 2-story brick building with sign ‘Deutsches Dorf,’ German village

19348A ibid back, postmark from Watertown, Wis. 9-5-1910

Collection of Phyllis Schwach, nee Hein

19349 8-14-2015 Hein, Tetzlaff, Schwoch, Franz & others family history by Phyllis J. Schwoch, nee Hein

19349A ibid p. 1 preface

19349B ibid p. 2 the Gottlieb Franz family

19349C ibid p. 3

19349D ibid p. 4 Gotthold Hein family

19349E Map 1913 Plat R33-R2E. B. Hein is Berthold Hein land.

19349F ibid p. 5 Tetzlaff family

19349G ibid p. 6

19350 P. c. Gotthold Hein 10-22-1823 to 4-22-1902

19351 c. 1895 Josephine Hein nee Franz and husband Berthold Hein holding their son, Adolph Hein

19352 P. c. 1920 L-R Louis Mohr, (12/26/1886-4/28/1976) and brother Oscar Mohr (8/17/1884-8/19/1949)

19353 P. c. 1925 Konrad Hein, I

RPR Collection

19354 L. 8-1-2015 Democratic National Committee to Lorraine Killion, N8545 CTH C, Rib Lake, WI

19354A P. L-R President Barack Obama, former presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, and (center) Michelle Obama

19355 P. c. 1945 ‘Scene on Highway 102 at Little Spirit Lake, Wis. 42’

19355A back ibid postmarked 6-10-1947 to Mrs. Grace Laumer

19356 L. 8-11-2015 Victoria Rusch to Robert & Ann Rusch, p. 1

19356A ibid p. 2

19356B envelope

19356C ibid back

19356D P. 8-2015 Victoria ‘Vicky’ Rusch

19356E P. 8-2015 L-R Ryan Strobach, Vicky Rusch, sister Lisa Fifield, nee Rusch, Kris Strobach, nee Rusch and Ann K. Rusch

Ben Kauer Collection

19357 Book cover ‘Songbook for Volunteer Fire Departments’ in German ‘Liederbuch der freinilligen Feuenwehr’

19357A ibid signature of Anton Kauer

19357B ‘Title page’ in festive service – a collection of drinking, patriotic and folk songs – for volunteer fire departments

19357C W. Salamander defined in 1939 German-English dictionary

19357D siganture of ‘Anton Kauer’ and ‘Fire department songs’

19357E song Bundeslien and Stolzes Ziel (proud goal)

19357F ibid ‘Defense Service’ and the firemen

19357G ibid ‘one for all and all for one,’ ‘do you want to be a fireman’

19357H ibid song of the life saving broderhood

19357I ibid ‘The good comrade’ ‘Let us remain friends’ ‘True Brotherhood’

19357J ibid a drinking song

19357K songs of the Fatherland ‘God protect our kaiser and our land,’ ‘Innig breibt met Hapsburgs Throne Oesterreichs rereint.’

19357L ibid

19357M ibid

19357N ibid ‘the watch on the Rhein’

19357O ibid continued

19357P Allgemeine Kneipflieder, assorted drinking songs

19358 W. 1943-1952 ‘Notes of occurrences at W 9x5 Wilderness [fire] tower’ by Joseph A. Kauer, towerman

19358A ibid Map c. 1945 Wilderness Fire tower, SE NE 19-33-4E, Wood Lake & access road by Joseph A. Kauer

19358B ibid annotations ‘Towerman cabin’ NW NE 24-33-3E, by RPR 9-1-2015.

19358C ibid Table of Contents

19358D ibid ‘telephone rings’

19358E ibid ‘tower shadow 6-22-1949

19358F ibid ‘Readings’ directions to landmarks calculated from Wilderness fire tower; the rotating direction device which the towerman used has the technical name, ‘Alidade.’

19358G ibid telephone numbers

19358H emergency fire crew, Anton Kauer, Peter B. Kauer, Joseph F. Kauer, John Bonde, Lawrence Van Hecker, Marion Blair, Albert Quednow, Anton Quednow, Walter Schneider, Lawrence Schneider, Louis Daus, Dr. Mauch, Carl Marschke, Oscar Olson, Albert Goodman, ‘can get 10-15 men’

19358I ‘men to and from Camp 26 5-14-1943 to 5-28-1943

19358J ibid men who worked putting out fires

19358K ibid 1948-1951 new radios and power and serial numbers

19358L ibid 1946 longest time worked – from April 5 to May 18. Longest on tower April 4 to May 18

19358M 1943-1950 ‘time including leave’

19358N ibid ‘began work and ended 1943-1950

19358O 4-29-1948 jammer [probably McGiffert loader on RLLC tracks]

19358P 5-13-1943 etc, deer, bob cat, dog, fawn, bear, bees

19358P-1 ibid

19358Q 5-15-1943 ‘weather’ ‘saw 3 rampiles fall’ ‘very strong winds’

19358Q-1 ibid 5-25-1945

19358Q-2 ibid 4-8-1947

19358Q-3 ibid 4-3-1948

19358Q-4 ibid 5-3-1949

19358Q-5 ibid 9-28-1950

19358R 4-20-1943-1950 towers and mobile units contacted

19358S ‘radios used at Wilderness’

19358T Set number of radios

19358U ‘radio code’

19358V ibid District call letters

19358W ‘Land marks’

19358X precipitation 1942 30-92

19358X-1 ibid p. 2 1943 28.30

19358X-2 ibid p. 3 1944 20.48

19358X-3 ibid p. 4 1945 24.54

19358X-4 ibid p. 5 1946 27.75

19358X-5 ibid p. 6 1947 21.40

19358X-6 ibid p. 8 1948 20.63

19358X-7 ibid p. 9 1949 24.06

19358X-8 ibid p. 10 1950 20.29

19358X-9 ibid p. 11 1951 30.25 [NB-no data collected for winter months]

19358Y 1943-46 ‘Wild fires reported, location & area burned & causes’ [NB-of 18 fires documented, 10 ‘caused by train,’ probably RLLC railroad

19358Y-1 p. 2 1946-1948

19358Y-2 p. 3 1948-1950

19359 P. c. 1910 3 lumberjacks employ ‘cross-haul’ method to load logs onto sleigh. L-R 1) teamster who has horse team pull chain; 2) top loader-man with cant hook directs logs to spot he chooses; 3) ground man uses cant hook to keep log to continue to roll up 2 poles to top of sleigh.

Ben Kauer collection

19360 P. c. 1946 ‘Main St, Rib Lake, Wis. No. C-16’ McComb Ave – view north. Village’s commercial heart is vibrant.

19361 Lorraine Anne Killion note card 2014

19361A L. Brianna Heck to Lorraine Killion

19361B painting of Lorraine Killion’s cottage on Lake Clitherall, MN

19362 3-12-2015 ‘Rib Lake taking another look for sunken logs.’ Star News.

19363 P. Jan. 2005, inaugural Rib Lake Snowshoe Adventure.

19364 P. Jan. 2015 Robin & Scott Riggs with children, 373 Colton, 2444 Kirstin, 2445 Trinity & 374 Brendan, after finishing Rib Lake Snowshoe Adventure

19365 Jan. 2015 P. L-R Ryan, Katie, Bekah Strobach with finishers medals, Rib Lake Snowshoe Adventure of Forest Springs

19366 3-2015 Timms Hill Trudge Snowshoe award

19367 Timms Hill Trudge shirt

19368 Map c. 2005 Timms Hill Trail and Ice Age Trail, Rib Lake and environs

19369 Logo Ice Age Trail Alliance

19370 P. c. 1960 Bar-B-Que pit, Holly’s Resort, Stone Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. PO Ogema 60

19371 P. 5-28-2015 4 Ice Age Trail volunteers including Christina Hanson, build new Ice Age Trail route at Rusch Preserve

19371A ibid 8-24-2015 Ice Age Trail Alliance, 125 volunteers contributed 2530 hours.

19372 L. 9-1-2015 Ice Age Trail Alliance – mobile skills crew building Rib Lake segment on Sept. 15-20, 2015.

19372A ibid p. 2

19373 Map Rib Lake segment project area, May 27-31 and Sept. 15-20, 2015.

19374 Map 9-3-2015 Taylor County ATV-UTV routes, eastern Taylor County

19374A ibid western half of Taylor County

19375 W. Taylor County newspapers and census available at Medford Library via microfilm, 2015 Taylor County genealogical society newsletter.

19376 Map May and Sept. 2015 Rib Lake project – IAT construction of Rusch Preserve to Bear Ave.

19377 May 27-31, 2015 construction notes, Rib Lake IAT trail allowance, mobile skills crew p. 1

19377A ibid p. 2

19377B ibid p. 3

19377C ibid p. 4 Timms Hill Trail, north to Rustic Road is a future undertaking of the IAT Alliance

19377D ibid p. 5 Bauman Bridge

19377E ibid p. 6

19377F ibid p. 7 Knop Bridge

19377G ibid p. 8

19377H ibid p. 9

19377I ibid p. 10 Bear Avenue

19378 May 27-31, 2015 Rib Lake segment ‘project safety net’

19378A ibid p. 2

19378B ibid p. 3 photo of poison ivy

19379 6-5-2015 L. ‘thank you volunteers-rock & roll on Rib Lake segment.’ Photo of 4 volunteers carrying rock for trail wall, 2nd from left is Christina Hanson, Rib Lake native

19379A ibid p. 2, ‘Thanks Rodney Strobach for use of his tractor to move rocks.’ ‘Bob Rusch for his work piecing together permanent protection for the trail in Taylor County.’

19379B ibid

19379C ibid

19380 L. Tim Malzahn 5-12-2015 ‘Held building new trail in Taylor County May 27-31, 2015.’ Photo ‘Old Tote Road’ at Bauman Bridge, Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve, SE NE 12-33-2E.

19380A ibid p. 2

19380B ibid p. 3

19381 Map 2015 Certified Survey Map, part of NE NE 12-33-2E by David Tlusty showing proposed route of Timms Hill Trail to Rustic Road No. 1

19382 Map 7-14-2015 Tim Malzahn ‘Trail Sections 24-31 alternative route location for IAT NW SE 33-2E

19382A ibid Legend

19382B 7-14-2015 note by Tim Malzahn

19382C Modified map as approved by Taylor County as Certified Survey Map #2307.

19383 2014 W. ‘We Grow Organics – community supported agriculture’ pamphlet p. 1

19383A ibid p. 2

19384 L. 12-17-2014 Franz-Josef Gebauer to Robert P. Rusch

19384A ibid Engish translation; ‘Dear Ann & Bob, In this mail is the translation by Paula [Gebauer] in the attachment. Can you read and understand it? Or should we rewrite it more clearly?

Paula & Clemens visited us Sunday afternoon. Clemens brought a CD of a concert by the mens singing society. He participated in the concert but had trouble standing so long and learning the new notes.

We wish you, your entire family, a beautiful and restful Christmas. Stay healthy in 2015 and special cordial greetings to Lorraine [Killion, Ann’s mother].

We sent you a package in the mail on history from the local press and a special picture paper of the 25th anniversary of the reunification (‘wiedervereinigung’) of Germany.

The Christmas piece from our catholic church Saint Friedrich, a fredwork ‘laubsage’), i.e. fretwork is an interlaced, angular design per Webster’s dictionary). It is handmade and enclosed. The artist is Hans Pollmeier from the Village of Friedrichsdorf. Hans’s favorite sport is ‘going.’ As a young person he became successful.

The best wishes from Marita & Franz-Josef.’

19384B ibid p. 2

19385 English translation of Gebauer marriage records from St. Laurentius Church (18734 & 18734A) **not scanned as of 9/20/15

19386 4-24-1881 First communion certificate for Bertha Steiner, born 9-2-1867 at ‘Schoenwalde’ daughter of August Steiner, signed by Father Rieger at ‘Schoenwalde.’ [NB-This is the first time Robert P. Rusch has seen a German document writing at Schoenwalde with ‘oe’ rather than an umlaut (two periods above the letter o). This first communion certificate was prepared by Father Rieger in Schoenwalde on 4-24-1881 and passed to Bertha, who died in Whittlesey in 1918 of influenza, later to her daughter, Martha Hedwig Rusch, nee Gebauer, and later to her son, Robert P. Rusch.

19386A English translation of document **not scanned as of 9/20/15

19387 2014-15 grant application for Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club by Russ Aszmann for $7,270.47.

19387A ibid p. 2

19387B ibid p. 3

19387C ibid p. 4

19387D ibid p. 5 cost estimates

19387E ibid p. 6

19387F ibid p. 7 map

19387G ibid p. 8 map

19388 9-2-2015 ‘Ribbon cut for River Bend Trail,’ Merrill Foto News

19388A ibid p. 2

Qathryn Brehm collection

19389 P. c. 1940 US Post Office on ground floor of Woodman Hall, Block A, Lot 3, McComb’s Racing Park Addition to the Village of Rib Lake. Unidentified man crossing McComb Ave & woman walking south on side. In 2014 Russ Wudi built and opened a new building, ‘The Rib Lake Bakery.’ On 12-12-1941 the Rib Lake Herald reported that the US Post Office would be moved across the street to the J.J. Voemastek building after 30 years.

19390 P. c. 1940 Voemastek building, Block D, Lot 6, McComb’s Racing Park Addition, about 1942 the US Post Office moved here. In 2015 the site is the Nicolet National Bank on McComb Ave. J.J. Voemastek, for many years, was Rib Lake postmaster and owner of the Rib Lake Herald. His wife, Emma, ran a millinter shop – note its reference on the plate glass windows. Her ad in the Rib Lake Herald of 11-1-1932 (15332A) offered flowers as well.

19390A P. c. 1940 ibid 3 long-time buildings on McComb Ave; L-R Former Lemmon Furniture Store building occupying Lot 5, Block D in McComb’s Racing Park Addition. Here its picture window advertises ‘Soft Drink, candies & tobacco.’ Later used as a residence for the Clendenning and Becker family. Lee ‘Butch’ Clendenning recalls the back yard littered with human teeth, which had been thrown out by Dentist Mauch, who once had an office in the building. The building in the center is the Voemastek building, owned by John J. Voemastek, editor of the Rib Lake Herald, and his wife, Sara, who was a seamstress. In 2015 both buildings are part of the site occupied by the Nicolet National Bank at 717 McComb Ave.

19391 P. c. 1940 John J. Voemastek, owner and editor of the Rib Lake Herald from 1897 to 1934, when his son, Ray, became manager & editor. Paper sold on 1/22/1940 to L.L. Arnold. See biography #10980. During times after a Democrat was US president, he was appointed Rib Lake postmaster.

19392 P. c. 1940 unidentified man stands in main entrance off of McComb Ave to Woodman Hall.

19392A, ibid

19393 P. 1898 ‘German Band’ in Town of Greenwood, Taylor Co., Wis., William Zeit, Medford photographer. Thomas Brehm, Sr (1st row left-cornet); Frank J. Brehm (2nd row 2nd from right-piccolo-age 15); Thomas Brehm, Jr, (top row 4th from left-bass horn); Henry Brehm (top row, 2nd from right).

19394 P. c. 1925 4 unidentified persons in front of ‘The Interwald Store,’ long owned by George Knower

End of Qathryn Brehm collection

19395 Map 2014 Bike trails in Northwest Wisconsin, Wis. Dept of Tourism

19396 W. 2014 Pine Line Trail & other bike trails

Phyllis Schwoch, nee Hein, collection

19397 P. c. 1935 Fawn Valley School, NW NW 32-33-2E, Town of Rib Lake

19398 4-9-2015 Envelope, Phyllis Schwoch to RPR

19398A ibid teachers at Fawn Valley School included Miss Rusch, Evelyn Olson, Mrs. Schueneman, Emma Ziemke, Dorothy Dodge, Walter Tlusty, Kathryn Meyer

19398B ibid

Ben & Pearl Kauer Collection

19399 Abstract – NE SE 16-33-3E, p. 1

19399A ibid p. 2 8-6-1846 United States to State of Wisconsin Warranty Deed 3-13-1882 Elbridge Fifield to Curtis Brothers & Co. $14,050.06 and other land

19399B ibid p. 3 Warranty Deed 3-18-1882 Ira Millard to Curtis Bros. & Co. $15,000 and other land; Warranty Deed 9-19-1899 Curtis Bros. & Co., a corporation of Iowa, by C.F. Curtis, Vice President & C.M. Curtis, Secretary to Toney Unger $1120 and other land

19399C ibid p. 4 Warranty Deed 11-5-1902 Frank J. Hintz and wife Marvena to John Kauer; $200 for NE SE 14-33-2E; mortgage 11-5-1902 Johann Kauer to Frank J. Hintz $145.

19399D ibid p. 5 Quit Claim Deed 2-12-1912 Johann Kauer to Anton Kauer; 2-4-1916 signed Walter Koehler, dba Koehler Land Co.

19399E ibid Continuation by J.W. Benn, p. 6

19399F ibid p. 7 Quit Claim Deed 6-19-1918 Anton Kauer to Maria Kauer (spouse); mortgage 7-22-1929 Maria Kauer ‘single’ to Rosa Schneck $650.

19399G ibid p. 8 signed J.W. Benn

19399H ibid p. 9 patent 2-28-1881 State of Wisconsin to E.G. Fifield & Ira Millard; mortgage 6-15-1955 Maria Kauer to Land Bank Commissioner $1000

19399I ibid p. 10 Satisfaction of mortgage 9-25-1935, Rosa Schneck to Maria Kauer

19399J ibid p. 11 certificate of abstracter 7-26-1935, signed Elias L. Urquhart

19400 8-10-1935 Mortgage, Maria Kauer to the Land Bank Commissioner, E ½ SE ¼, Sec. 16, 33-2E

19400A ibid p. 2 signed Maria Kauer & Peter Kauer

19401 P. Double teams of horses pull sleigh load of logs near RLLC Camp 19 which operated 1923-1925.

19402 P. c. 1925 ‘Mud Lake gang’ use boards to paddle boat

19403 P. 1-21-1941 wedding portrait, L-R Peter B. Kauer & Katherine Bonde (sitting), Isabelle Madeline, nee Bonde, Anton ‘Tony’ A. Kauer, uncle of Ben

19404 P. John Kauer, brother of Peter, ranched in Wyoming & worked at A.O. Smith, Milwaukee; built log cabin on Rocky Creek in Town of Spirit in 1962.

19405 P. c. 1915 Rosa Mayer, Pittsburgh, PA, sister of Maria Kauer

19406 P. c. 1900 L-R Anton Kosch, brother of Maria Kauer, and man in Austrian Army uniform

19406A ibid Anton Kosch, brother of Maria Kauer

19406B ibid back, postcard in German shrift post-stamped Wien, i.e. Vienna

19407 P. c. 1910 Joseph Kauer home, quarter mile west of his brother Anton’s farm

19407A ibid back, postcard to Joseph Kauer in German shrift writing

19408 P. 1913 Deer heads mounted on home wall; calendar from James Upjohn’s Drug Store, Rib Lake, ad reads ‘Is your liver slow and sluggish? Medford’s Black Draught (beer).’

19409 P. c. 1940 Marion Blair & his 8-point buck and right front fender of Dodge car

19410 P. 1923 child taking bath in wash tub

19410A ibid, back of photo has German ‘here you sit.’

19411 P. c. 1925 Teckla Brandner

19412 P. c. 1925 pupils in Mud Lake grade school; L-R center row-Catherine Bonde, lka Mrs. Peter Kauer; Martha Miklautsch, lka Payne; top row 5th from left-Lambert Lamberty, killed at age 15 at Mud Lake school picnic-he fell from log gin pole jammer; center row 4th from left ‘x’ on chest is Martha Miklautsch, lka Payne

19413 P. 4-1939 Carl Rhody, groom, and bride Elizabeth Kauer, sister to Peter B. Kauer, & flower girl Elaie Kauer, lka Roskos

19414 P. c. 1945 children of Carl & Elizabeth Rhody; L-R Mary Ellen, lka Mrs. Mike Zielke; Annette Rhody, lka Mrs. Mike Cullen

19415 1960-61 Town of Rib Lake financial report; orders 1-102

19415A ibid orders 57-164

19415B ibid orders 165-270

19415C ibid orders 237-303; 1960 taxes, school district valuations, Jt. 1 Rib Lake, Fawn Valley, Rib River, Jt. 1 Westboro, tax settlement to county for general advertisements, welfare advertisements, signed Fred Vlach, chairman, Fred Radtke, supervisor, Andrew Zondlo, Laverne Zuege, clerk, Florian Turba, treasurer, George Buksa, Sr, assessor.

Lee ‘Butch’ Clendenning collection

19416 P. c. 1910 John A. Taylor Hardware Store; in 2015 the building site stands at 740 McComb Ave owned by the estate of the late Catherine Kriehn, dba Rib Lake Music Center.

19417 P. c. 1910 Carl Kalk farm, W SE 30-33-3E. The family has a fenced garden in the foreground. Carl emigrated from the province of Pomerania (Pummern) Germany

19418 P. c. 1939 Lee Clendenning rests on Spirit Lake, his deer rifle rests against a spiked buck and his dog, Muffy, enjoys petting. Lee died in the US Navy at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 12-17-1941

19419 P. c. 1943 Mr. & Mrs. Edwin & Ruth Stelling

19420 P. c. 1943 Carl Maes while stationed at Norfolk, Virginia

RPR collection

19421 Obit. 9-24-2015 Anna M. Mayer (1926-2015), daughter of John Gosbee and Anna T. Steiner

19422 ‘Working on the Boardwalk’ 9-24-2015 Star News. Rib Lake Middle School students under Becky Hebda build Ice Age Trail; Photo of Dennis Kuehling

19422A ibid part 2

19423 P. c. 1903 ‘Rib Lake High School’ prior to its bell tower being blown off by high winds

19423A ibid, back, addressed to Ellen Munson.

19424 ‘Tornado kills twelve in twisting diagonal trip across Taylor County’ 9-25-1924 The Taylor County Star News

19424A ibid p. 2

19424B ibid p. 3

19424C ibid p. 4

19424D ibid p. 5

19425 ‘A visit to Westboro’ 2-23-1895 Taylor County Star & News

19426 ‘In Loving Memory of Raymond H. Scott’ 9-22-2015 funeral booklet

19426A ibid p. 2

19426B ibid p. 3

19426C ibid p. 4

19426D ibid p. 5

19426E ibid p. 6

19426F ibid p. 7

19426G ibid p. 8

19426H ibid p. 9

19427 ‘Obama 08’ campaign pin button, Barack Obama for President in 2008

19428 10-2015 ‘Hawks Cross-Country-no half times-no time outs-no substitutions’ Photo of team-2nd row from top-3rd from left is Katherine ‘Katie’ Strobach

19428A ibid bottom

19428B ibid, with identification of team members:

1. Kristine Gedde

2. Ajia Maki

3. Zane Mencheski

4. Josh Probst

5. Katherine Strobach

6. Malcolm Monnroe

7. Lisa Schubert

8. Leah Borchardt

9. Raejana Wright

10. Eli Komarek

11. Adam Dums

12. Aidan Anderson

13. Julie Schubert

14. Erin Probst

15. Donald Dums

16. Sierra Lake

17. Cassy Kurth

18. Kimberly Cummings

19. Sheridan Kalander

20. Nick Eisner

21. Hunter Gedde

22. Troy Komarek

23. Jesse Isaacson

19429 P. c. 1910 ‘Saw Mills, RLLCo. Rice Lake, Wis’ not to be confused with the Rib Lake Lumber Co.

19430 P. 1910 ‘Hatten Lumber Co. Mill, New London, Wis’

19431 2015 ‘Taylor Co. Visitor’s guide’ cover

19431A ibid ‘Silent on the snow’

19431B ibid Timms Hill Trail

From Susan Schindler collection

19432 1945 scrapbook ‘Taylor County Service man’ prepared by Dorothy Gojmerac, lka Kain – cover

19432-1 ibid p. 2 inside cover, Taylor County Fair ‘Superior’ award

19432-2 ibid p. 3 Newspaper clippings on 4 sons of George Gojmerac of Rib Lake with photos serving in US armed forces in WWII

19432-3 ibid p. 4 39 war dead from Taylor County is US Army in WWII

19432-4 ibid Edward Nowak, Elmer Dahl, Stanley Dahl, Steve Majkowicz, John Majkowicz

19432-5 ibid Raymond Tiffelt, Alvin Tippelt, Frank Tippelt, Vernon Tippelt, Loren Warner, Raymond Warner

19432-6 ibid Joe Zaborowski, Leo Zoborowski, Aloys Zaborowski, Norman Anderson, Frank Maslowski, Bill Fahrenbach, Delmar Fischer

19432-7 ibid Edward Cypher, Jermome Cypher, Raymond Cypher, Chris Heling, Ensign W. Weihrouch, Jr., henry Wojdyla, Rolland Strasburg

19432-8 ibid Lauretta Ploeckelman, Gladys Ploeckelman, Bernard Johnson, Aloise Ustianowski, Vernon Langteau

19432-9 ibid Louis Luscher, Albert Boxrucker, Walter Boxrucker, Warren Ahlers, Alfred Buyatt

19432-10 ibid Don Urquhart, Bob Guy

19432-11 ibid Andrew Grlicky, Richard Brost, Edward ‘Scottie’ Meyer, Steve Mravik, Glendon Resech, John Louis Piwoni, Joseph S. Piwoni

19432-12 ibid Raymond Brost, Bob Brost, Bill Brost, Joe Brost, Richard Brost, Lawrence Brost, all sons of Anton Brost

19432-13 ibid Pearl Niemuth, Mary Grlicky, Lucille Hirsch, Edward Kloth, Jr., Harry Curran, Paul Allman, Maurice Anderson, Ernest Krueger, Jr.

19432-14 ibid Gerald Malchow, Louis Malchow, Harvey Nelson, Michael Prasnicky, Martin Prasnicky, sons of Alois Prasnicki

19432-15 ibid Betty Lou Qualheim, Bob Qualheim, Lester Foster, Art Ludwig, Dale Starkey

19432-16 ibid Lawrence Mathias, Jolly Armstrong, Frak Rau, Constantine Rau, Gebhart Rau, William A. Lazarz

19432-17 ibid Faith Brahmer, Elizabeth Brahmer, Marion Wessel, John Clarkson, William Kolesar, Artie Duebner

19432-18 ibid Son of Mrs. Violet Myers, Buddy Baer, Edward Sigmund, Frank W. Stauber, Frederick Stauber, Carl H. Stauber

19432-19 ibid Russell W. Adamczuk, Edward Heintz, Howard W. Latton, Harvey Glamann, Clarence Glamann, Roy Poellot

19432-20 ibid Ray Kautzer, Herman Rehbein, Arvin Sell, Buddy Anderson, Louis A. Yanko, Herman C. Heller, Thomas M. Crosley

19432-21 ibid Harold Gowey, John Gowey, John Willner, Carl Engstrom, William Bryan, Joseph Smigla

19432-22 ibid Andrew Horvath, Joseph Horvath, Jr., Frank Horvath, Earl Smith, Paul Anderson, Walter Guziak, Stanley Szaflarski

19432-23 ibid Wilbert Reiter, Louis Reiter, Jr., Arthur Reiter, Ralph Klemm, Ed Ketelhut, Ervin Evenson

19432-24 ibid Michael Bednarczyk, Stanley Bednarczyk, Arnold Frischmann, Raymond Schmidt, Lloyd Schmidt

19432-25 ibid John Przybylski, Clarence Streit, Bil Brost

19432-26 ibid Richard Glidden, Leo Glidden, Clarence Glidden, Vernon Slidden, James Kalasardo, Charles Schmidt

19432-27 ibid Alvin Grant, Eugene Lewan, Lee Beadles, Galen Brunner

19432-28 ibid Lavergne Dombkiewicz, Jean Dombkiewicz, Francis Duffy, Arlene Rusch, Caroline Scott, James Gary

19432-29 ibid Clarence Strebig, Gordon Reierson, Lee Beadles, Leonard Hall, Edward Czech

19432-30 ibid Donald Syryczuk, Andrew Mann, Jr., Owen Hanson, Peter Kapszukiewicz, Lawrence Kapsukiewicz

19432-31 ibid Ensign Reuben Hackbart, Eldon Hackbart, Alexander Zaksewicz, Martin Torgerson

19432-32 ibid Leonard Ploeckelman, Elmer Ploeckelman, Donald Ploeckelman, Melvin Ploeckelman, Henry Warner, LeRoy Warner

19432-33 ibid Milton Werner, Leon Werner, Edward Werner, Peter Schultz, Howard Moyer, Charles Moyer

19432-34 ibid Vernon Wetzel, Milford Smith, Peter Dmytro, Mike Dmytro, Walter Dmytro, Leo Dmytro

19432-35 ibid Henry Warner, Alfred Peters, John Mulholland, Richard Baughman, James Hink

19432-36 ibid Richard Courchaine, Roman Tylka, Robert Paustenbach, Herbert Anderson

19432-37 ibid James Hein, Ivan Biederman, Joseph Scholz, John Ziehlke, Jr., Reinold Rickert, Harvey Draeger

19432-38 ibid Clarence Mayer, Donald Mayer, Arthur Mayer, Alfred Mayer, Ernest Viergutz, Thomas Panetti

19432-39 Lee Beadles, Mrs. John Corbett, formerly Dorothy Dodge

19432-40 Emil Schmeiser, Frank P. Hirsch, Melvin Baughman, Kenneth Truax, Louis Zaborowski.

19432-41 Ernest Westrich, Jr., Donald Westrich, James Heim, Denis Kronfuss, Carlyle Klossner.

19432-42 George Kasparek, Edward Demianiuk, Phillip Demianiuk, Eugene Demianiuk, Russell D. Sandley, Gerald N. Couillard

19432-43 William Klein, Stanley Symbol, Burdette Taylor, Warren Taylor

19432-44 Warren Ahlers, Jack Ahlers, Edwin Ahlers, Frank Zuber, Theodore Zuber, Stanley Zuber

19432-45 Oliver Paquet, Eugene Cole, Raymond Cypher, Willis Pleus

19432-46 Harvey Hartman, Hartley Blumenstein, Clarence Bingham, Floyd Querin, Lawrence Querin

19432-47 Edmore Strebig, Ralph Jensen, Emil Miller, Jr., LeRoy Warner

19432-48 John Anderson, Matthias Poehnelt, Theron Hinkel, Oliver Pinkert, Donald Bischoff, Walter Albrecht

19432-49 William Bundick, Orie Bundick, Edward Bundick, Clare Peterson, Cecil Grow, Raymond Gajda

19432-50 Arthur Mittenzwei, Bennie Joos, Marvin Galler, Edward Plochocki, Carroll DeQuasie, Clifford Wennerstrand

19432-51 Walter Resudek, Alan Bierce, Stanley Zwijacz, Lauren McFetridge

19432-52 Kenneth Olds, James Gaab, Richard Iwaszko, Leroy Hanson

19432-53 Ervin Frenzel, Roman Dietzler, Orval Silbaugh, Charles Porter

19432-54 Casey Szepieniec, Henry Szepieniec, Elmer Kuss, Holger Thompson, Clifford Hurd

19432-55 Claude Bormann, Alvin Jarchow, Harvey Bormann, Claus Meyer, Melvin Bormann, Arthur Van Den Heuvel

19432-56 Chester Washington, Harvey Washington, Albert Washington, Arthur Washington, Emmett Zentner, Joseph Scholz. Note the 4 sons of Lavina Washington. Each had been born and raised in the Town of Hammel, Taylor County, Wis. and were part of a small group of blacks residing there. A lake near their home was called Nigger Lake until the Taylor County Board of Supervisors named it ‘Matt Ochs’ in the 1970’s.

19432-57 Arthur Koffarnus, Hubert Koffarnus, Herman Koffarnus, Lawrence Koffarnus, Clarence Koffarnus, Melvin Gebert

19432-58 Fern Steevens, Beverly Frederick, Neva Boeckler, Morris Washatka, Clyde Delos Berry. Military authorities had reported Morris Washatka killed; after he emerged from the jungles of Luzon in the Philippines, he suggested that his parents keep his death notice as a souvenir.

19432-59 Bill Heimerl, George Gallup, James Gaab, Norman Bolz, Elmer Knoll, Sylvester Dietzler

19432-60 Edward Turek, Clement Turek, Leo Turek, Charles Schmid, Theodore Turek, John Heldstab, Ervin Van Den Heuvel, Douglas Heier, Jim DeGidio

19432-61 Hans Krausse, Fred Krausse, Redmond Granzoe, Norman Miller, Edward Potocnik

19432-62 William Koch, Jr., Henry Crook, Albert Koch, Glenn Cole, Jans Nielson, Frank Podlack, Dale Panetti

19432-63 Norman Wicke, Frank Erl, Vilas Kastner, Lester Kastner, Lyle Huebner, Erland Blomberg

19432-64 John Best, Jean Urquhart, Pat Shereda, Lawrence Pernsteiner

19432-65 Robert Corbett, Lawrence Koffarnus, George Zocher

19432-66 Kenneth Graham, Harry Shewczyk, Edward Wardynski, Richard Palm

19432-67 Stanley Allaback, Richard Williams, John Casolari, Alfred Heindl, Virgil Wilke

19432-68 Johnnie Annen, Marlin Carlson, Lynn Nelson, Edgar Carlson, Douglas McCarthy, Ralph Wooland, William Kalson, Steve Kalson

19432-69 Lance Nowak, Fritz Wuethrich, Lloyd Schubert, LeMoyne Krueger, Robert Becker, Galen Gehrig

19432-70 Orland Woodbeck, Frank Majkowicz, Herb Bruegl, Thomas Totzke, Edwin Totzke

19432-71 Donald Gunn, Wilbur Gunn, Shannon Gunn, Sherlon Gunn, Cletus Bierman, Harley Bierman

19432-72 Raymond Boxrucker, Walter Hendzel, Leroy Donaldson, Dean Wearns

19432-73 Edmund Tytor, Leo Glidden, Oliver Pinkert, Fred Evans, Charles Buehler. Note that Edmund Tytor lost his life by drowning while a prisoner in a Japanese ship transporting him to Japan when the ship was torpedoed by the US Navy.

19432-74 Clinton Buyatt, Robert Keefer, Collins Conrad, Melbourne Yates, Jr., Ervin Van Den heuvel, Arthur Van Den Heuvel

19432-75 Wayne Hugoboom, Hebert Pelham, Glen Borman, Anthony Gengler, Melton Michalewski

19432-76 Raymond Brunner, Lowell Maxam, Rosabell Hempel, Fred Kostick, Lyle Zastrow

19432-77 Raymond Tkaczuk, Richard Blazer, Frank Kala, Edward Masiewicz, Lunceford Oliver

19432-78 Gerald Stendel, Reinhold Strebe, Albert Leader, George Leader, William Dietzler, Arnold Ogle

19432-79 Kenneth Smith, Frederich Beyer, Robert Koehler, Stanley Wojcik, Casmir Wojcik

19432-80 Ervin Berndt, Warren Warner, Ray Ehrich, Russell Sheire

19432-81 Robert Dodge, Edgar Nazer, John Graham, Frank Schwartz

19432-82 Ruth Hoene, Albert Mravik, Sidney Anderson, George Waldhart

19432-83 Harold Bokath, Blake Bokath, Orrin Bokath, Roger Brunner

19432-84 Adolph Kurek, Steve Michalewski, Stanley Davis, Joseph Zwijacz

19432-85 Walter Panetti, George Poulda,

19432-86 Harold Natzke, Clifford Curran

19432-87 Alvin Bierce, Joseph Sotak, Herman Baehler, Walter Guziak, Fred Nadler

19432-88 Theodore Adams, Kenneth Adams, Wayne Hugoboom, Calvin Rigg, Thomas Davis, Gordon Smith

19432-89 John Kraemer, Wayne Kraemer, Kenneth Kraemer, Dave Kraemer, Raymond Kraemer.

19432-90 Harry Hierlmeier

19432-91 Elmer Van Buren, Walter Mudgett, Jr., Elmer Kroeplin, Arthur Haas

19432-92 Clyde Schneider, Orville Hall

19432-93 Melvin Baughman, Alvin Olson, James Gary, LeRoy Strebig, Vernon Sigmund, Ed Sigmund

19432-94 Emmett Learn, Howard Learn, Jr., Bennie Joos, Robert Lange, Louis Kotlowski

19432-95 Pearl Peterson, Ruby Sharpe, Norman Johnson, Robert Dietzler, Carl Judnic, Dale Starkey

19432-96 Herbert Mueller, Leo Pawlowicz, Peter J. Hirsch, Malcolm Anderson

19432-97 Robert Janke, Frank Zak, Arthur Janke, Ray Mnichowicz, Bob Krueger, George Hirsch

19432-98 Glenn Anderson, John Anderson, Earl Anderson, Virgil Schlais, Nick Kaplar

19432-99 Louis Gilman, Raymon Mathias, Orlin Anderson, Lawrence Mathias, Edward Jensen

19432-100 Arnold Gengler, Myron Glodoski, Alois Rindt, Andrew Lehnen, Thomas Pirus, Lucas Pirus

19432-101 George Butor, Edward B. Ciok, Henry Schwarting

19432-102 Herbert T. Canon, Melvin Budimlija, Duscan Budimlija, Phil Simonson, William Pleus

19432-103 Victor Kaszubowski, Stanley P. Zwijacz

19432-104 Carlyle Klossner, Henry John Wilson

19432-105 Edwin Odau, Joseph Zwijacz, Alvin Schneider, Robert Krueger

19432-106 Richard Barta, Alexander Abramowicz, Norman Paul, Kenneth Sommer

19432-107 Harvey Viergutz, Frank Shewczyk, Melvin Gallistel, Peter Pancyrz, Ed Siudak, Ken Thiede

19432-108 Albert Mravik, Herbert Peche, Kenneth Lindow, Gertrude Premeau

19432-109 Sons of Anton S. Brost; Richard Brost, Lawrence Brost, Bill Brost, Joe Brost, Robert Brost, Raymond Brost, Harold Couillard

19432-110 Gene Faber Arthur Ehmke, Anton Quednow, Charles Ziegler, Holger Thompson

19432-111 Bill Willett, Melvin Hengst, Ben Brunner, Samuel Bahr, Donald Ertl, Wesley Roberts, Harold Lange, Robert Werner

19432-112 Donald Obenhofer, Russell Bullis, Harry Shewczyk, Frank J. Lomatsch, Lawrence G. Mathias

19432-113 Don R. Urquhart, Clarence Millikin, Sylvester Pernsteiner, Roberta Bruegl, Jeanne Bruegl

19432-114 Harvey Hartman, Bill Scharrschmidt, Ed Scheuerell, Charles Schmidt, Ed Boxrucker, Pete White, Leon Baumer, Donald Buehler, Lee Casey, Herbert Goerg, Gordon Heier, Jack Armbrust, Norbert Brandner, John Dettmering, Karl Dettmering, Elmer Dorava, Vernon Emmerich, Gene Fetzer, Wallace Harstenstein, Benedict Hoffman, Raymond Kohn, John Krueger, Roland Liske, Tom Markus, George Neumueller, Claire Paur, John Peterson, Verdie Querin, Robert Werner, Adam Bieniek, Harvey Clark, Clarles Stiel, John Taylor, Orland Westrich, Orville Koehn

19432-115 Edward L. House, Edward J. Timberlake

19432-116 Norman J. Frenzel, Karl Schwoch, Harry Gehrig, Jr.

19432-117 Merle H. Habeck, Gerald W. Zastrow, Violet M. Schlais, Morguerite Olson, Leon Smedegard, Sylvester Pernsteiner

19432-118 Frank A. Szomi, Robert Doberstein, John C. Rickaby, Andrew N. Boneski, Lambert Brost, Harold Clemans

19432-119 Elwood Bleck, Harvey Stelling, Arthur Schmidt, Loren McFetridge, Del Fischer, Alfred Heindl, Raymond Dums, John Blomberg, Chester Brahmer, Lowell Maxam, William Midboe, Karl Nichel, Billy Ziembo, Casper Anderson, Art Reiter, Walter Brooks, Alfred Knop, Ode Lemke

19432-120 Walter Brooks, Ervin Kautzer, Edward Quednow, Betty Upjohn, Elmer Fenzau

19432-121 Bethel Leischer, Donald Pernsteiner, James Bernitt, Eudell Dahl, Orlando Ackerman, Arthur Graumann, Eugene Cummings

19432-122 Charles Mayer, John Mudgett, Daniel Satonica, Edward F. Hraby, Mike Gwiazdon

19432-123 handwritten note of Dorothy Gojmerac

19432-124 Melvin Franz, Walter Schneider, Lawrence Turba, William Hess, Alvin Cole, Jens Neilsen, Leonard Wudi, Leo Wudi, Arthur Jepsen, George Wilhelms, Gehrman Radtke, Herman Steinman, Francis Fuchs, Lawrence Yanko, Melvin Budimlija, Ralph A. Klemm, Raymond Hoffman, Joseph Fuchs, Thomas Bube, Louis Thums

19432-125 Frank Matyka, Charles Gojmerac, Melvin Budimlija, Benedict Rezutek, Louis Kosek, Frank Roiger, Arthur Freiboth, Albert Franz, Leonard Schreiner, John Eckhoff, Edward Eckhoff, Jim Matyka, Albert Gnotke, Aubrey Brahmer, John Blennert, Jr., Frank Bohte, Stanley Hebda, Frank Yanko, Peter Mikalka, Jr., Raymond Gebauer, John Szurek

19432-126 Esper C. Jepsen, Gottlieb Wiegel, Descan Budimlija, Bill Ziembo, Jim Matyka, Alfred Heindl, Frank Lomatsch, Foster Freiberg, John Synnott, Walter Gojmerac.

19432-127 Robert A. Bleck, Glendon Hoffman, Vernon Olson, Alfred Heindl, Albert L. Gojmerac, Aaron Brahmer, Mark pink, Ernest Tetzlaff, Julius A. Rezutek, Frank Yanko, Robert A. Bleck, Jr., Charles P. Nelson, Gerald Dewsz, Charles Gojmerac, Joe Gojmerac, Albert Gojmerac, Walter Gojmerac, Louis A. Yanko, Albert Schreiner, James Johnson, Robert Johnson, Thomas Johnson.

19432-128 Harry Curran, Lorraine Becker, Albert F. Franz, Charles V. Dodge, Cecil R. Grow, Joseph R. Rizzi, Wally Dums, Aaron Brahmer, Andrew Mann, Jr., Joe Pertmer.

19432-129 George Thums, Sr., Anna Thums, Daniel J. Thums, Joseph A. Lenk, Anthony ‘Cap’ Seidel, Gerald Dewsz, Lawrence koffarnus, Steve J. Kuna, Jim Matyka, Carl P. Knorn, Eugene Hilber, Jerome Dietzler

19432-130 Russell Bullis, Aaron Brahmer, Donald Obenhofer, Catherine Matyka, Lucy Matyka, Christina Gojmerac, Dorothy Gojmerac, John Gacek, Stanley Szaflarski, Leonard Schreiner, Andrew Mann, Jr., Lawrence G. Koffarnus, Tony Hohl

19432-131 John Szurek, Louis Kosek, Aaron Brahmer, Walter Dums, Gottlieb Wiegel, Frank Smith, William Rogers, Goerge Gojmerac, Walter Gojmerac, Jerry Dewz, Pete Eckhoff, Fred Jensen, Ralph Jensen, Donald Jensen, John Hebda

19432-132 – back cover - end

19433 1945 W. Jim Carter Ford ‘Valuable papers’

19433A 1985 Ford warranty information – cars & light trucks

19433B 1985 Ford F-150 pickup truck window sticker

19433C ibid ‘owner card’

19433D ibid back

19433E ibid maintenance schedule

19433F ibid speed control

19433G ibid 1985 series 150-350 truck owner guide

19433H cassette stereo tape player and radio guide

19433I 4-11-2007 auto-owners insurance co. ID card to Robert P. Rusch

19433J P. 10-3-2015 RPR’s Ford F-150 at work hauling supplies for Bekah’s Bridge, a pedestrian bridge built for the Ice Age Trail at SW NE 13-33-2E

19433K Bob Rusch rests on his Ford F-150 next to hay bales to be used as mulch on the Ice Age Trail; the dog is his best friend, Marley.

19434 2014 button ‘Timms Hill-Wisconsin’s Highest Point-Ogema, WI’ from Ogema Christmas Tree Festival

19435 Abstract (30 year) 12-33-2E ‘Rusch Brothers 80’ cover N ½ SE ¼

19435A ibid p. 2 patents 1-30-1873 to Samuel Wallace & #3, 5-20-1885 to Angus McDonald

19435B ibid p. 3 3-18-1964 Leo Kaehne to Taylor County for highway deed

19435C ibid p. 4 Leo Kaehne 3-13-1969 to Robert Rusch & Karen Mae Rusch, Thomas M. Rusch, Gerald A. & Joan Rusch, Everette A & Nina Rusch

19435D ibid p. 5 Forest Crop Law order 11-20-1979

19435E ibid p. 6 3-13-1880 corrected order

19435F ibid p. 7 Managed Forest Law map 5-13-1988 by Forester Emil Falasky

19435G ibid p. 8 Easement to Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation 4-9-1990 ‘for access by foot, bicycle, snowshoe or ski…’

19435H ibid Map of Ice Age Trail in 1990

19435I ibid Judgment of Divorce, Robert P. & Karen M. Rusch 3-26-1991

19435J ibid Mineral Claim statement by Robert P. Rusch & Thomas M. Rusch 12-31-1992 ‘claimants claim mineral rights pursuant to W.S. 706-057(6)

19435K ibid Gowey Abstract Certificate 11-30-1998

19435L ibid Resolution including abstracts of title – Corliss V. Jensen

19435M ibid cover

19435N ibid

19435O ibid

19435P ibid

19436 P. c. 1910 ‘mill scene – Rib Lake, Wis.’ Rib Lake Lumber Co. mill complex just prior to its destruction by fire on 7-24-1914

19436A ibid photo on postcard

19436B ibid back post date ‘1912’ Clarence Banks to Esther Kyle

19436C ibid, with numbers keyed to annotations

1) Wisconsin Central Railroad track built in 1902 toward Spirit Falls near which it junctioned with railroad from Tomahawk, the Tomahawk & Western

2) A top loaded railroad box car used to haul wood scrap to US Leather Co. tannery at Rib Lake, where scrap was burned for fuel

3) A cyclone bin used to blow wood scrap and sawdust from mill to box car

4) Rib Lake

5) Lumber piled into railroad flat car

6) Team of horses pulling dump wagon of wood scrap sold by RLLC & delivered throughout village to homes and businesses as firewood

7) Timber loading dock where lumber cut in sawamill was loaded onto railroad cars

8) Cyclone bins on top of sawmill where sawdust and wood scrap was blown for temporary storage

9) Three metal smoke stacks with a cage-like device on top to catch embers in an efforst to prevent fires

10) Planing mill

11) Planing mill where vertical 2x4’s are on outside and siding on inside of building

12) Wood scrap dump wagon parked next to building for easy loading

13) Wood sidewalks on both sides of McComb Avenue

14) Utility pole with four cross arms for telephone and electric lines

15) Transfer chain building where freshly sawn lumber was graded and sorted

16) Elevated tramway where horse-drawn narrow guage tramcars conveyed lumber westward over McComb Ave on bridge to dry yards where it was piled for air drying

19437 L. 12-15-1990 Attorney Everett B. Hale to Robert P. Rusch

19438 sign ‘Strobachs’ stone’ for Ice Age Trail in SW SE 13-33-2E, Town of Rib Lake where Kris Strobach donated trail easement

19439 W. Badger State Industries sign shop, Stanley, Wis.

19440 sign; Star Load from RRLC Camp 9 in 1916 and photo; sign erected in NE NE 13-33-2E where IAT crosses the old ice road

19441 sign; Ice Road 1911-1922 and photo of RLLC steam hauler

19442 sign; forest history of NW SE 13-33-2E, where IAT crosses Ann Rusch land

19443 Sign ‘Welcome to the Rusch Preserves’ 2015, IAT trail head SE NE 13-33-2E

19444 sign ‘Old Gravel Pit’ explaining IAT passing through former gravel pit in SE NE 13-33-2E

19445 sign ‘Heilige Nacht campsite’

19446 sign ‘Old growth forest’

19447 sign ‘Outwash valley’

19448 sign ‘Rib Lake Lumber Company’ site 1911-1914 on Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve SE NE 13-33-2E

19449 sign ‘Ole Tote Road’ to RLLC Camp 6 and Camp 9, SE NE 13-33-2E

19450 sign ‘Strobachs’ stone’ Kris Strobach donated IAT easement SW SE 13-33-2E

19451 sign ‘Stille Nacht’ (silent night) campsites on Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve

Collection of Karen Mae Rusch

19452 pamphlet ‘St. Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church’ in Warsaw, Poland, 2015, p. 1

19452A ibid p. 2

19453 P. c. 1950 ‘Taylor County Courthouse, Medford, Wis.’ View to NE from South Second St.

19454 P. c. 2000 runners line up in Ogema for the ‘Run to the Peak’ i.e. 10 miles to Timms Hill, held every September as part of the Christmas Tree Festival

19454A RPR at Timms Hill Park shelter after completion of ‘Run to the Peak’

RPR Collection

19455 8-19-2003 CSM #1545 Plat of lots 16-18 on west shore of Olson Lake, NW NE 8-33-3E, Town of Rib Lake

19455A ibid p. 2

19456 9-19-2015 ad ‘Olson Lake’ 2015 Live Public Auction

19456A ibid ‘All five lots have deeded road access…Spirit Lake, Timms Hill, the Ice Age Trail, an expanse of public lands and the Village of Rib Lake are all close by.’

19457 Obit. 10-29-2015 Susan Lee Tlusty nee Premeau (9/24-1946-10/23/2015)

19458 ad ‘High Point Village Presents ‘Don’t Hug Me – We’re Married.’

19458A ibid, back, cast-Kathy Blomberg, Sue Crane, Tom Neale, Lyle Blomberg, Steve Swan

19459 W. ‘The Phoenix Log Hauler’ by Arley R. Engel, c. 1960

19459A ibid p. 2

19460 W. Wisconsin’s County Forests – Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow’ c. 2010 Wis. Co. Forest Association

19460A ibid P. Timms Hill

19460B ibid Map, Wis. counties with county forests

19460C ibid photo 1911

19461 Ad 2015 ‘Free Cookie’ Rib Lake Bakery

19461A ibid, back

19462 P. c. 1925 ‘Rib Lake Sawmill, Rib Lake, Wis. No. C-24’ view westward across Rib Lake

19463 L. 9-2015 Forest Springs Camp & Conference Center by Pat Petkau re Christmas dinner theatre. NB-Facility was formerly Camp Forest Springs.

19464 L. 9-24-2015 Ice Age Trail Alliance to Ann and Robert P. Rusch and 2015 IAT trail construction in 13-33-2E. Photo of Rib Lake students

19464A ibid p. 2 special thanks to Bob & Ann Rusch for their generous financial donations and all things trail.’ Photo of IAT crossing old tote road in SW SE 13-33-2E

19464B ibid p. 3

19464C ibid p. 4

19465 W. Timeline of construction of RLLC sawmill in 1916 by RPR.

Collection of Nancy & Joel Genisio generously donated to the Society

19466 L. 11-11-2015 Joel & Nancy Genisio to Robert P. Rusch

19467 ‘The Trojan 1954’ yearbook of Westboro Schools – cover

19467A ibid title page

19467B ibid faculty

19467C ibid Administrator-Principal-Stanley Gabrielsen; Board of Education; Regis Niggemann, Martin Dvorak, George Niggemann, Walter Ahlers, Sam Scott; Assistant Principal-Wilbur Gierl

19467D ibid faculty, Anne Horvath, Milton Madsen, Mrs. Foster Freiberg, Lawrence Bates, Ramona Byrne, Richard Davis

19467E ibid Grade faculty-Miss Ljungquist, Miss Mayer, Mrs. Neimi, Mr. Madsen, Mrs. Buchmiller; bus drivers-Mr. Kiger, Mr. Zimmberman, Mr. Andree, Mr. Andreae; Cooks-Mrs. Pipkorn and Mrs. McCarthey; cook & Janitress-Mrs. Shamberg; janitor-Mr. Saegner

19467F classes

19467G Annual staff-S. Woolsey, B. Beard, S. Dvorak, D. Rhyner, W. Hrvat, D. Dygart, B. Andree, D. Smith, J. Nelson, E. Mayer, J. Mayer, E. Czerniak, M. Brander, M. Bahnsen, R. Hoffeditz, R. Christoffersen, G. Walters, G. Hanson, J. Bursik, G. McCumber, Mrs. Freiberg; senior class officers; R. Christoffersen, W. Hrvat, S. Dvorak, B. Andree

19467H ibid dedication June Freiberg

19467I ibid students Margie Bahnsen, George Hanson, Ervin Mayer, George Walters, Doris Smith

19467J ibid Donald Rhyner, Marlene Brandner, Shirley Dvorak, Gerald McCumber

19467K ibid Shirley Woolsey, Jake Bursik, Robert Christofferson, Edwina Hrvat

19467L ibid Delores Dygart, Rose Hoffeditz, Barbara Andree

19467M ibid Junior Class officers – B. Beard, E. Scott, D. Annala; Photo of junior class;

E. Scott, E. Schmidt, R. Andrea, D. Shamberg, W. Rhyner, N. McNamar, W. Winkler, G. Rhyner, J. Nelson, V. Zentner, G. Leischer, K. Kinner, R. Hanson, R. Brander, W. Knight, D. Annala, D. Arkola, S. Krause, S. Smrstick, D. Annala, J. Grittner, B. Beard, M. Homer, K. Keepers

19467N P. sophomores; 1st row- M. Priest, J. Zocker, A. Andree, D. Shamberg, M. Maier, C. Premeau, Class Advisor Mr. Gierl, 2nd row-E. Czerniak, J. Poncek, J. Hebert, J. Moyer, D. Robertson, A. Knight, B. Krause; 3rd row-D. Ellison, J. Goricks, J. Kock, R. Smith, W. Peterson; class officers-D. Robertson, E. Czerniak, B. Krause, M. Maier

19467O P. freshmen; 1st row-J. Peterson, B. Leisher, D. Peterson, E. Schmidt, P. Kelly, L. Mahner; 2nd row-J. Ellison, W. Leischer, J. Mayer, S. Brandner, S. Knight, E. Homer, A. Homer; 3rd row-L. Andreae, D. Scott, S. Engstrom, L. Spiels, J. Czerniak; class officers-D. Scott, L. Andreae, S. Brandner, W. Leischer, Miss Horvath

19467P 7th & 8th grade-top row-Mr. David, P. Ellison, V. Annala, V. Smith, A. Koeppe, R. Hanson, S. Manske, K. Stauber, Mr. Madsen; middle row-S. Sieminski, A. Rhyner, W. Annala, A. Hebert, A. Maatta, B. Kosek, D. Krause, R. Kalinoski, D. Kaye, D. Dohm, J. Hill, J. Zimmerman; bottom row-J. Walters, S. Sieminski, J. Soper, A. Scott, J. Peterson, K. Kelly, J. Peterson, D. Andree, D. Dean, K. Franks, P. Seidel, R. Krause, J. Poncek, J. Roiger, absent.

19467Q 3rd & 4th grades-top row-B. Carlson, M. Grittner, E. Smith, G. Sherfield, D. Dean, E. Kobielush, D. Rademacher, J. Koch, K. Spieles; middle row-G. Smrstick, L. Walters, P. Scott, D. Kobielush, B. Krueger, B. Bacholl, L. Raiten, J. Soper, J. Everson, B. Seidel, L. Zimmerman; bottom row-H. Rau, B. Mayer, J. Annala, S. Peltier, C. Peterson, J. Peltier, L. Winchel, R. Maatta, E. Peterson, B. Peterson, absent-D. Beard; 5th & 6th Grades-top row-S. Mayer, P. Grittner, D, Dvorak, M. Annala, N. Pipkorn, M. Peterson, L. Smrstick, J. Hanson, D. Kock, K. Peterson; middle row-R. Hill, M. Roiger, B. Kobielush, J. Van Zile, E. Zentner, J. Van Zile, D. Peltier W. Leischer, M. Kuna, E. Maatta, M. Scott; bottom row-B. Wennerstrand, D. Edens, J. Wacek, H. Krause, D. Edens, M. Priest, M. Arkola, B. Winchel, S. Peterson, K. Arkola, V. Mayer

19467R 1st grade-top row-L. Hebert, L. Leischer, G. Smrstick, B. Wacek, D. Cypher, D. Kobielush, R. Niggmann, P. Mayer; 2nd row-M. Everson, D. Hill, D. Hill, D. Kestler, B. Wahl, J. Christman; bottom row-J. Warczytowa, R. Winchell, T. Peterson, R. Behling, M. Andree, H. Francks; 2nd & 3rd Grade-top row-D. Kelly, D. Rademacher, E. Rhyner, A. Peterson, D. Zentner, D. Heldstab, S. Olah, J. Raiten, G. Mayer. 2nd row-W. McGesick, K. Dean, V. Ochodnicky, C. Christman, N. Kilby, K. Kuna, D. Kosek, B. Fischer, J. Kobielush, J. Christman; bottom row-E. Kosek, M. Kobielush, K. Seidel, K. Ellison, J. Walters, S. Premeau, S. Wahl, K. Wahl, S. Mayer, N. Peterson, E. Peltier.

19467S School calendar

19467T Activities

19467U Basketball

19467V Basketball

19467W Basketball

19467X Basketball champions

19467Y Baseball

19467Z Cheerleaders

19467AA Girls baseball & band

19467BB Band

19467CC Mixed chorus & glee club

19467DD Library & Forensics

19467EE Sewing & Home Economics, FHA

19467FF FFA (Future Farmers of America)

19467GG Homecoming, Freshmen initiation

19467HH Junior Class Play

19467II Advertisements-Bert C. Alm, Farmer’s Elevator, Baurer Dairy Bar & Grocery, Medford Laundry, Jentzsch Realty & Auction Service, Rineharts Café, National Hotel & Tavern, Log Cabin Filling Station, Rancho Café, Bob Scholl Furniture, Bud’s Service Station, Ogema Tractor Co., Peterson Barber Shop & Confectionary, Chase’s Service Station, Schief’s Barber Shop, Hartwig & Ruesch Home Furnishings, Hartwig & Ruesch Furniture & Funeral Service, Art’s D-X, Johnnie’s Bar, Schmidt the Clothesman, The Eggert Co., Ben Seidel Corner IGA, Ogema Locker Service, Northern Auto Supply Co., Brandner’s Market, Harper Lake Resort, Senate Hotel & Café, Hempel’s Shell Service, Mueller’s, Flambeau Milling Co, Koffler Implement Sales, Erv & Ruth’s Bar, Wood Creek Tavern, Grittner’s Texaco Service, Westboro Locker & Hardware, Oleson Paint Store, Joe B. Miller, Farmers Union Co-op, Ed Priens Gamble Store, M.W. Dvorak.

19467JJ Advertisements-Marshfield Book & Stationery Co, Hause Bros., Price Electric Cooperative, Inc, New Lake Theatre, Paul Michler & Son, Doberstein Distributor Co., Tlusty Beverage Bottling Co., Taylor Funeral Home, Leicht, Curran & Scott, Hurd Millwork Corporation, WIGM WPRP, John & Mary’s Bar, Gelhaus & Brost, Inc., V.A. Thomas & Sons, Coast to Coast Store, The Star News, Gruener’s Bakery, Pechstein’s Shoe Store, Medford Co-op Creamery Co, Eckland’s Shoe Store, Newburg’s Apparel Store, Little Bohemia, Medford Co-op Store, Peterson Buick Co, Gil’s Tavern, Lakeview Resort, Zondlo’s Bar & Ballroom, Rib Lake Roller Mills, Laabs Dairy Co, Beintker & Hug Imp. Co, Josten’s.

19468 1994 flyer ‘Celebrate with us – Westboro High School 40 Year Reunion’ Marlene Rhyner, contact person

19469 1955 ‘The Trojan’ Westboro school yearbook-cover

19469A ibid P. of Rindt Hill; view westward from ‘village’ of Westboro, signed Stan Gabrielson, principal

19469B ibid Note by ‘Anne,’ a teacher

19469C ibid title page

19469D ibid Photo of class officers & annual staff

19469E ibid Board of education-Regis Niggemann, Martin Dvorak, Vienna Lucia, Sam Scott, Steve Olah; photo of Stanley Gabrielson, principal

19469F ibid Photo of faculty; Mrs. Foster Freiberg, Miss Anne Horvath, J. Robert Lay, Richard David, Mrs. Keith Zintz, Mr. Lawrence Bates

19469G ibid Grade faculty-Miss Richardson, Miss Ljungquist, Mrs. Niemi, Mrs Buchmiller, Mrs. Carstensen; Maintenance staff-Mr. Zimmberman, Mr. Andree, Mr. Kiger, Mr. Andrae; Mrs. Hebert, Mrs. Pipkorn, Mr. Saenger

19469H ibid School calendar

19469I ibid senior class photos-Glenn leischer, Diana Annala, Ronald Brandner, Nona McNamar, Kenneth Keepers

19469J ibid senior class photos-John Nelson, Doris Arkola, Robert Andreae, Dale Shamberg, Shirle Smrstick

19469K ibid senior class photos-Beverly Beard, Richard Hanson, Jean Grittner, Keith Kinner, Delores Annala

19469L ibid senior class photos-Elsie Schmidt, William Knight, Victor Zentner, Janet Hollister

19469M ibid senior class photos-Elizabeth Scott, Wayne Rhyner, Gordon Rhyner, Shirley Krause

19469N ibid senior class Will and History

19469O ibid senior class prophecy

19469P ibid Junior prom

19469Q ibid Junior class-standing-D. Ellison, A. Knight, R. Bergman, J. Moyer, J. Hebert, J. Koch, J. Zocher, J. Poncek, E. Czerniak, W. Peterson, J. Gorichs, Mrs. Zintz; sitting-S. Hollister, P. Priest, G. Swensen, M. Sulko, A. Andree, D. Shamberg, M. Maier, C. Premeau.

19469R ibid Sophomore class-standing-J. Ellison, D. Peterson, W. leischer, J. Mayer, K. Beard, A. Homer, E. Homer, P. Kelly, J. Czerniak, P. Sherfield, L. Andreae; sitting-S. Knight, J. Peterson, B. Leischer, S. Engstrom, L. Speils, E. Schmidt, S. Brandner, D. Scott.

19469S ibid Freshman class-standing-Mr. Lay, J. Mahner, J. Poncek, A. Scott, E. Cummings, J. Hanson, J. Roiger, J. Frankki; middle row-B. Koch, A. Koeppe, J. Uerling, S. Sieminski, R. Hanson, R. Wimer, A. Hebert, W. Annala; sitting-P. Olson, J. Soper, A. Werner, J. Andree, J. Storm, R. Bergman.

19469T ibid 7th & 8th grade-first row-D. Krause, E. Maata, W. Leischer, K. Kelly, P. Ellison, M. Peterson, J. Peterson, J. Peterson, D. Edens, J. Hill, C. Woszynski; 2nd row-V. Smith, K. Frank, J. Van Zile, D. Peltier, R. Krause, S. Grittner, P. Seidel, B. Bachall, M. Arkola, B. Kosek; 3rd row-Miss Richardson, P. Grittner, E. Zentner, J. Hanson, D. Andree, N. Pipkorn, K. Stauber, M. Priest, J. Walters, C. Dean; 4th row-A. Rhyner, D. Kaye, H. Krause, N. Maata, D. Dohm, L. Smrstick, D. Dvorak, V. Annala, M. Annala. Basketball team.

19469U ibid 3rd & 4th Grade-standing-K. Dean, D. Kosek, W. McGesick, B. Krueger, J. Soper, D. Zentner, D. Kobielush, V. Ochodnicky, A. Roiger; middle row-G. Mayer, D. Beaerd, S. Peltier, E. Kosek, B. Fischer, L. Downing, D. Rademacher, C. Peterson; sitting-J. Devine, G. Smrstick, L. Walters, J. Annala, E. Rhyner, H. Rau, D. Kelly, E. Peltier. 5th & 6th Grade-standing-Mrs. Buchmiller, R. Kobielush, D. Koch, M. Roiger, J. Wacek, D. Dean, E. Kobielush; 2nd row-B. Mayer, V. Mayer, J. Hanson, M. Scott, J. Koch, K. Spiels, E. Smith, R. Sherfield; 3rd row-L. Zimmerman, J. Van Zile, R. Wennerstrand, D. Edens, L. Raiten, R. Bacholl, R. Hill, J. Everson, B. Seidel, B. Carlsen; 4th row-P. Scott, B. Peterson, A. Chapman, E. Peterson, J. Peltier, S. Peterson, K. Arkola, S. Mayer, K. Peterson, M. Grittner, R. Woszynski.

19469V ibid 1st, 2nd & 3rd Grades-top photo, top row-Mrs. Neimi, R. Cypher, C. Pipkorn, J. Warcyztowa, B. Bosteder, R. Zimmerman, J. Andree; 2nd row-D. Niggmann, J. Kolby, D. Kestler, H. Francks, B. Carlson, J. Lundeen, M. Everson; bottom row-D. Cypher, F. Bosteder, G. Smrstick, D. Gumz, B. Olah, J. Sherfield; lower photo-bottom row-M. Andree, N. Peterson, S. Mayer, R. Behling, L. Hebert, B. Wahl, P. Mayer, D. Hill, T. Peterson; 2nd row-D. Hill, K. Seidel, K. Ellson, J. Walters, R. Woszynski, S. Premeau, D. Kobielush, R. Niggemann, L. Leischer; top row-D. Heldstab, J. Raiten, N. Kilby, J. Kobielush, W. Wacek, S. Olah, M. Kobielush, K. Wahl, S. Wahl.

19469W ibid Girls physical education classes

19469X ibid Boys physical education class and G.A.A.

19469Y ibid Boys baseball

19469Z ibid Boys basketball A-team and B-team

19469AA ibid Boys basketball player photos

19469BB ibid Snap Shots

19469CC ibid Cheerleaders, Julie Poncek, Liz Scott, Donna Shamberg, Jean Hanson, Betty Krause, Bernice Leischer, Bonnie Koch, Patsy Kelly.

19469DD ibid Junior play

19469EE ibid FHA (Future Homemakers of America)

19469FF ibid FFA (Future Farmers of America)

19469GG ibid photo collage

19469HH ibid Library Club & Forensics

19469II ibid Glee Club & Band

19469JJ ibid autographs and Pep Band

19469KK ibid Advertisements

19469LL ibid Advertisements

19469MM ibid Advertisements

19469NN ibid Handwritten notes

19469OO ibid handwritten notes

19469PP ibid handwritten notes

19469QQ ibid back cover

19470 W. 8-10-1996 ‘Reunion-Westboro High School Trojans Class of 1957, Class of 1956’ cover

19470A ibid bios, Larry Andrae, Arlene Andree, Keith Beard, Elaine Czerniak, Jerome Czerniak

19470B ibid bios, Dale Ellison, James Ellison, Stanley Engstrom, Shirley Frankki, John (Jack) Gorichs

19470C ibid bios, Sharon Hollister, Arthur Homer, Ernest Homer, Arlie Knight, Jerry Koch, Betty Krause

19470D ibid bios, Bernice Liescher, Lee Mahner, Marianne Maier (deceased), Joan Mayer, James Moyer, James D. Peterson

19470E ibid bios, Eva G. Schmidt, Donna Shamburg, Patty Sherfield, Richard Smith, Leroy Spieles

19470F ibid bios, Margie Sulkko, James Tlusty, John Zutavern.

19471 ‘Forest Plans of North America’ printed in 2015, Elseview Publications, Amsterdam, Jacek P. Siva, et al, editor, cover

19471A ibid ‘Rib Lake School Forest’ by Scott Mueller, et al, p. 1 Management, setting & background

19471B ibid p. 2 Map of Rib Lake School Forest, Section 15, T33N-R2E

19471C ibid p. 3 Planning environment & methodology; a road through a pine stand

19471D ibid p. 4

19471E ibid p. 5 Outcomes of the plan

19471F ibid p. 6 sustainability issues

19471G ibid back cover

19472 W. 2015 ‘2015 Facility Maintenance Projects,’ Rib Lake School District

19472A ibid p. 2 history of maintenance projects funded by referendum approved property tax increase after several cutbacks in state public funding under Governor Scott Walker

19473 P. c. 1990 foremer Chicago, St. Pauls, Minneapolis & Omaha dining car and caboose turned into the Choo-Choo Bar at Superior, WI. This railroad once served Donald, Hannibal and Hughey in Taylor County

19474 L. 11-2015 by Aspirus Medford Hospital & Clinics announcing Dr. Keith Bratulick manning the Rib Lake Clinic in place of Dr. Susan Frasher

19475 P. c. 1910 ‘Westboro from iron bridge at time of flood.’ Photo looks north from 2015 CTH D highway bridge. Portion of Westboro Lumber Co. sawmill at extreme left. Its dadm on Silver Creek creating a mill pond has washed out at right. A bridge over Silver Creek allowed freshly sawed lumber to be moved by horse pulled tramcars to the right bank of Silver Creek where 20-foot high piles of lumber air dry.

19475A ibid back; postcard by ‘grandma’ to C.F. Bonneville postdated at Westboro

19476 P. c. 1955 ‘Scene on Rib Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. 72; view northeasterly across Rib Lake shows tops of at least three pilings once holding boom to prevent logs from floating southward, away from RLLC mill, which closed in 1948. At left is a recently constructed STH 102 using former RLLC railroad grade. Homes mark north side of Lakeshore Drive

19477 W. 2015 National Woodlands magazine of the National Woodland Owners Association - cover

19477A ‘Deer have a serious impact on forest regeneration’ by David Tenebaum, p. 1

19477B ibid p. 2

19478 11-26-2015 ‘MMA donates to Rib Lake pathway project,’ Vernell Van Hecker, Bob Carpenter, Dawn Swenson & Gregg Olson, Star News

19479 W. 2010 ‘Forest County, Wisconsin Visitor guide’ cover

19479A ibid ‘Wabeno’ Wabeno logging museum features items from the A.E. Rusch Lumber Co and a Phoenix

19480 ***not scanned as of 12/13/15 W. ‘Taylor County’ post offices;

1) Schaack, postmaster John H. Schaack, opened 3/31/1904, discontinued 3/15/1907, ‘Mail to Rib Lake.’ Post office located in farm home of postmaster John H. Schaack in SW SE 20-33-3E

2) Victoria Kleist, appointed postmaster of Goodrich Post Office on 2/12/1931.

3) Elizabeth Giles appointed postmaster of Whittlesey post office on 8/27/1976.

4) Herman Jacob reappointed postmaster of Rib Lake post office on 6/20/1930

19481 P. c. 1910 ‘Aerial’ view of Rib Lake Village, SW from tannery. At rear-L-R Ward School, Methodist Church steeple, Catholic Church steeple

19481A postmark 8-27-1912 ‘Charley’ to Miss Lottie Holtzman

19481B similar photo taken from lower elevation. Note top of tanbark pile in foreground.

Ben & Pearl Kauer collection, Batch #3

19482 P. c. 1920 Kauer barn foundation under construction, view NW across Mud Lake valley

19483 P. c. 1920 Kauer barn roof being shingled; left-Mud Lake

19484 P. c. 1920 pet deer and new Kauer barn

19485 P. c. 1920 a Kauer shoveling sand and making cement for new Kauer barn

19486 P. c. 1920 beams erected on new Kauer barn

19487 P. c. 1920 pet deer on Kauer farm

19488 P. c. 1920 3 couples

19489 P. c. 1925 unidentified logging camp. On horizon-hardwood-hemlock forest, half clear-cut

19490 P. c. 1925 Huge piles of logs next to railroad track. Left-a steam powered log loader sits on top of timbers

19491 P. c. 1925 parallel timbers had served as base for log pile; rear-large log pile surrouned by cutover; center-10’x10’ warming shed

19492 P. c. 1930 caterpillar tractor skids logs to log pile; skidding horse waits

19493 P. c. 1925 group of people on railroad track dwarfed by hug log piles

19494 P. c. 1925 logging camp cook with white apron and 5 lumberjacks

19495 P. c. 1925 3 men pose in cutover

Ben & Pearl Kauer collection, Batch #4

19496 P. c. 1930 3 unidentified women play sheepshead (schafskopf)

19497 P. c. 1930 unidentified boy poses before snow clad spruce tree

19498 P. c. 1930 unidentified woman sits on wooden porch; left rear is iron ore dock on Lake Superior

RPR collection

19499 P. c. 1910 crew loads hadwood logs into gondola railroad car near Tripoli, Wisconsin. A teamster and his team (on left) uses a derrick in the cross-haul method to lift logs; in center-a single horse has pulled, ‘skidded,’ another log. Note stumps dot countryside of the clearcut background

19500 W. c. 2000 the Brucker-Ludloff building; ‘one of Medford’s most historic buidings,’ by Hildegard & Loretta Kuse

19500A P. c. 1890 ‘Jos. Brucker & Co. building on NE corner of Main & Division Streets, Medford. In 2015 the vacant brick building in Medford’s oldest commercial structure, built c. 1886.

19501 P. c. 1900 Joseph Brucker, 3rd from right

19502 W. ‘History of Wausau,’ P. c. 2000 former home of Aytchmonde P. Woodson, 1936-1948, president of Rib Lake Lumber Co. of Delaware, central Wisconsin 2015 visitor’s magazine p. 60

19503 9-6-1915 elected officials in Taylor County, Taylor County Genealogical Society newsletter, 12-2015, Town of Chelsea, William Gebauer, chairman

19503A ibid, Village of Rib Lake, Joseph Brehm, president; Town of Rib Lake, Carl Radtke, chairman; Town of Westboro, J.A. Premeau, chairman

19504 P. c. 1930 ‘Logging scene, Rib Lake, Wis.’ narrow access road cleared over felled tress through deep snow to allow logs to be skidded

19504A ibid, postcard 8-7-1935 Catherine to Mr. & Mrs. B. Beck, Burlington, VT

19505 P. c. 1910 ‘Madison, Wis. from Lake Monona’ view of capitol toward the northwest

19505A back ibid 10-9-1912 L.A. to Beryl Cox

19505B receipt from vendor to ‘Schoenwalde’ (R.P. Rusch)

19506 L. 12-4-2015 Reince Preiebus, chairman, Republican National Committee to RPR re 2016 congressional district census

19506A ibid p. 2

19506B ibid p. 3

19506C ibid p. 4

19506D ibid District census cover

19506E ibid part 2

19506F ibid part 3

19506G ibid part 4

19506H ibid part 5

19506I ibid part 6

19507 12-2015 envelope, Wisconsn Democracy campaign to RPR

19507A L. Matt Rothschild, ‘dear friend.’

19507B ibid p. 2

19507C donation form

19507D back of envelope

19508 2015 P. PCA, Packaging Corporation of America, mill at Tomahawk. Former Owen-Illinois Corp. manufacturer of cardboard

19509 11-19-2015 Obit-Eveline L. Nyberg, 1916-2016, Star News

19510 11-19-2015 Obit-Herbert J. Brandner, 1913-2016, Star News

19511 W. 2015 Welcome to Rib Lake, info on businesses in Village in 2015

19511A ibid p. 2

19511B ibid p. 3

19511C ibid p. 4

19511D ibid p. 5

19511E ibid p. 6

19511F ibid p. 7

19512 W. ‘2013 Taylor Co. Economic & Workforce Profile,’ State of Wisconsin, cover

19512A ibid p. 2

19512B ibid p. 3

19512C ibid p. 4

19512D ibid p. 5

19512E ibid p. 6

19512F ibid p. 7

19512G ibid p. 8

19512H ibid p. 9

19513 W. ‘Welcome to Our Lady of the Holy Rosary & Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Whittlesey)’ cover

19513A back, ibid Photo of churches

19514 P. c. 1940 ‘Cottage 7 at Seidel’s Cottages on North Harper Lake’

19515 W. ‘River Bend Trail of Merrill,’ cover

19515A ibid, map 2015-east & legend

19515B ibid, west

19516 Map 2015 Lincoln County ‘Underdown Recreation Area’ cover

19516A ibid Ski Trails

19516B ibid Bike & Hiking Trails

19517 P. c. 1905 Teamster on logging sleigh pulled by team of oxen and 1 horse through cutover.

19517A back postdated 1909 to Mr. & Mrs. Taylor, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho

19518 P. c. 1930 Fayette Ave crossing RLLC railroad track on north shore of Rib Lake

19519 1925 Christmas card signed ‘Mary’

19519A envelope postmarked Rib Lake 11-5-1927 to Miss Bernice Holst, Emmet, North Dakota

19519B ibid 12-21-1931

19520 P. probable Westboro Lumber Co mill c. 1907 with 3 metal chimneys & blower pipes to cyclone unit

19520A back, postdated Westboro 9-9-1907, Fred B. to Earnest Peterson, Kalispell, Montana

From Jake Walcisak collection

19521 W. Taylor County Dept to RPR

19522 Map 10-20-2014 Taylor County Forestry Dept timber sale 9-14

19523 P. 11-16-2015 Jake Walcisak & UTV in Taylor County forest

19524 Map 12-2-2015 ‘Slusher piles’ by Jake Walcisak. Green dots indicate location of earth ridges, ‘slusher piles,’ left from 1906 construction of RLLC logging railroad through hill crest

19525 Map 11-16-2015 Slusher piles by R.P. Rusch

19526 P. 11-16-2015 excavation through hill made in 1906 for RLLC logging railroad, SW NE 23-33-33E

19527 P. 11-16-2015 Jake Walcisak points to shusher pile on south side of old RLLC railroad right of way

19528 P. 11-16-2015 Jake Walcisak stands on top of shusher piles about 1 foot high on north side of old railroad right of way

19529 P. 11-16-2015 Jake Walcisak points to diverging low slusher piles

19530 Map 12-2-2015 Wood Lake landing by Jake Walcisak. Green dot on south shore of Wood Lake indivates location of old log landing where RLLC McGiffert loader pulled logs from lake and located them on flat cars for shipment to RLLC sawmill

19531 Map 11-16-2015 Wood Lake railroad landing by RPR. Green arros show photograph orientation

19532 P. 11-16-2015 man-made flat land surface leveled c. 1905 as railroad landing on south shore of Woos Lake ‘C’

19533 P. 11-16-2015 ‘D’ Jake Walcisak points to former RLLC railroad log loading site; right-Wood Lake. NB-red paint on white birch marks current logging boundary.

19534 P. 11-16-2015 RPR stands on old RLLC railroad right of way just east of Wood Creek; left center-Wood Lake faintly shown

19535 Map 12-2-2015 Jammer Hill by Jake Walcisak. Green dot in SE SW 1-33-2E is the RLLC historic site

19536 Map 11-16-2015 Jammer Hill by R.P. Rusch

19537 P. 11-16-2015 Jake Walcisak on Jammer Hill, SE SE SW 1-33-3E, kneeling in trench and hands pointing to sides of trench

19538 P. 11-16-2015 V-shaped trench facing north on Jammer Hill

19539 P. 11-16-2015 long depression in earth, i.e, ‘trench’ running from photographer to white birch tree on Jammer Hill

19540 P. 11-16-2015 Jake Walcisak standing in ‘trench’ halfway up Jammer Hill

19541 P. 11-16-2015 white birch tree in ‘trench’ near top of Jammer Hill

19542 P. 11-16-2015 view north, at upper left is SE corner of Jammer Hill; flat area in foreground probable site of former RLLC railroad right of way and log loading facility including a derrick, known locally as a ‘jammer.’

19542A Diagram of A-frame jammer

19543 P. 10-14-2015 American Sports Laminate building, 630 McComb Avenue, Rib Lake. Former dry kiln for RLLC

19543A ibid south side of former dry kiln. The white structure at left is an addition built c. 1970

19543B ibid, a window placed on south side of former kiln c. 1980 during extensive remodeling of former kiln to create a residence for its owner, Jay Winkler, d/b/a American Sports Laminate

19543C P. ibid, the original exterior walls of the kiln were brick. Note that its west side – at left – had 3 tall doors – here painted white

19543D P. ibid original brick south wall of former kiln atop cement foundation

19543E P. ibid east side of former dry kiln, 8’x16’ cement block-here painted brown-during remodeling were mortared into 3 9’9’ wide by 11’ high exterior access doors and a white painted standard size door built into the middle of the new cement block wall

19543F ibid The stacked wood 5’ long items are plywood from which skateboards have been cut

19544 P. 11-2015 skateboards made at American Sports Laminate hang on interior wall – now painted white – of old RLLC dry kiln

19545 P. 11-2015 interior of old RLLC dry kiln. Right wall is one of 3 tile walls creating 3 separate drying room. Left is west wall facing McComb Ave. The wood door was inserted into the former 9’9’ by 11’ doorway which was mortar shot with 12 x 16 cement blocks following closure of the dry kiln in 1948.

19546 P. 11-2015 1 of 3 drying rooms in former dry kiln. Room is 10’ wide x 15’ high, view west. In 2015 building owner Jay Winkler has both his residence and factory (American Sports Laminate) in former dry kiln and extensive additions built after RLLC mill closure in 1948. Jay’s punching bag and recreation equipment is pictured

19547 P. 11-2015 hold in interior tile wall of old dry kiln

19548 P. 11-2015 celing in old kiln buiding was installed post mill closure in 1948 except for upside down railroad track pictured

19549 P. 12-7-2016 Railroad track in concrete over old steam tunnel on east side of RLLC dry kiln

19549A ibid, 2 railroad tracks 4’8.5’ apart (standard gauge)

19549B ibid, cement blocks fill former 9’9’ door to dry kiln; railroad track led to each of three such doorways

19549C ibid, inside of former steam tunnel

19550 Poster ‘Ice Age Trail Alliance-2016 Mobile Skills Crew Trailbuilding Events’ Rib Lake May 18-22 and July 26-31

19551 W. Timms Hill Trail, an ‘Anomaly.’ The Ice Age Trail…has one of only two national connecting trails, an odd little category in the National Trail system Timms Hill Trail was intended to connect a national scenic trail to a point of interest.’ ‘The Ice Age’ in ‘America’s Great Hiking Trails,’ by Karen Berger 2015

19552 1-9-2016 ‘Rib Lake Snowshoe Adventure’ gloves given to participants

19553 Rib Lake Snowshoe Adventure award to 70+ men by Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club

19554 Pamphlet 2016 Forest Springs, formerly Camp Forest Springs, camp and conference center, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing.

19554A ibid map 1-9-2016 ‘trail guide’

19554B ibid, route of Rib Lake Snowshoe Adventure 10 kilometer event highlighted in yellow

19555 P. 8-2014 James Dillon enjoys outdoor cooking at his 40-acre retreat, SE SW 13-33-2E. Dr. Dillon, PhD, resides in Atlanta, Georgia

19555A P. at Dillon cabin in the Rib Lake woods, L-R Jim & sons, Carl and Jeff, with dog Marley, 12-2014

19556 P. 8-2015 James Lake home enjoyed by, L-R Chad, Lara, Emma, Nick and Alex Severson

19557 P. 6-2014 Cousins clowning around, Trinity Riggs and Ryan Strobach

19558 P. 7-2014 at outlet of South Harper Lake, twins Colton & Brendan Riggs, Crystal, Minnesota, dip their feet into Silver Creek

19559 Map 1-21-2016 Ole Tote Road 1885-1922 by RPR on an 1885 plat, Tote Road Hill, McGillis Pine camp and RLLC Camp 6

19560 P. 4-2015 Ann Rusch & granddaughter Bekah Strobach, prepare picnic at Schoenwalde, the Rusch family Rib Lake home

19560A P. 4-2015 Robert ‘Bob’ Rusch & daughters, L-R Kris Strobach and Robin Riggs

19561 Map 12-23-2015 Rusch Preserve Welcome by Ice Age Trail Alliance

19562 Map 1-4-2016 Ann & Bob Rusch Preserve by Ice Age Trail Alliance

19562A ibid – color coded

19563 W. 1-5-2016 Dr. Joseph Zondlo, Hall of Fame Induction

19563A ibid p. 2 Photo of Joseph Zondlo

19564 c. 2000 ‘Its the Law’ Woodland Magazine. Photo of Bob Rusch

19564A ibid p. 2

19564B ibid part 2, page 1

19564C ibid part 2, page 2

19565 Book 1937 ‘Railroads of Wisconsin’ by James Kaysen – title page

19565A ibid Wisconsin Central Raiload – built 1873 through Medford and Westboro

19565B ibid 4-1-1909 Soo Line leases Wisconsin Central

19565C ibid Soo Line built to Knox Mills, Price County, 1899

19565D ibid Marinette, Tomahawk & Western Railroad built to Spirit Falls in 1894; abandoned in 1932

19565E ibid RLLC railroad 1902 connects to Marinette, Tomahawk & Western, ‘…it was never operated and was abandoned shortly after, probably in 1903.’

19565F List of private logging railroads operating in 1936 in Wisconsin by James Kaysen, p. 70 of ‘Railroads of Wisconsin.’

19565G

19566 W. Rib Lake to Spirit Tote Road, by R.P. Rusch

19566A P c. 1915 tote road wagon loaded with hay on McComb Avenue in Rib Lake.

19567 12-31-2015 obit. Dennis Fuchs 1952-2015

19568 12-31-2015 ‘County calls for tougher water rules,’ Star News

19568A Map 11-2011 ‘Average well yield-Taylor co’

19569 10-2014 P. trick-or-treating, L-R Ryan & Bekah Strobach, Colton & Trinity Riggs, Katie Strobach, Kirstin & Brendan Riggs. Rear-home of Mr. & Mrs. John Hein, Fayette & Kennedy St, Rib Lake

19570 Painting, Angela Merkel, Time Person of the Year, 2016

19570A ibid

19570B ibid ‘The choice’ ‘Europe’s most powerful leader.’ P. 49

19570C ibid, person of the year, Angela Merkel, p. 2

19571 10-1-2015 ‘Wiedervereinigung. Wir feiern mit ganz Duetschland 25 Jahre Wiedervereinigung (we celebrate with all Germany the 25th anniversary of reunification) ‘Leistung aud Leidenschaft’

19572 12-31-2015 L. Lakewood Credit Union to RPR ‘Audit Statement’

Dennis Kuehling collection

19573 P. c. 1910 ‘Westboro, Wis. #400’ view northward on Main Street, in 2016 business highway 13; right-’Palace saloon’ on horizon – steeple of First Lutheran Church

RPR collection

19574 W. ‘Adventures on Wisconsin’s Ice Age Trail’ 2015

19574A ibid, author Kristine Rued-Clark to Dennis Kuehling

19574B ibid P. Congressman David Obey

19574C ibid Mondeaux esker segment

19574D ibid P. Mondeaux dam

19574E ibid Mondeaux esker

19574F ibid p. 118 map 1-2-2016 Ice Age Trail-glaciation by Wisconsin glacier

19574G ibid meeting Jason Dorgan

19574H ibid Photo of Jason Dorgan

19575 W. ‘Price County History,’ by David Deda…

19575A ibid p. 2

19576 button ‘Trump for President 2016’

19576A ibid Donald Trump 2016 campaign hat

19576B L. Dennis Kuehling to RPR 12-25-2016

Heidi Royal Collection

19577 P. 1908 Frank & Mary Noeth Brehm wedding party; L-R bottom-Marg Terch, Franz Brehm, Mary Noeth, Agatha Seidel; top-Biesing, Tom Brehm, ‘Voemstock’, Prahl

19578 P. c. 1910 Joseph Brehm, dba Brehm’s Flour & Feed Store. In 2016 the building still stands at 827 McComb Ave

19579 P. 1907 Joseph & Elizabeth Niggemann wedding portrait

19580 P. 1911 Thomas ‘Tom’ Brehm and bride Catherine Simon

19581 P. 4-1909 Frank Brehm & bridge Mary Noeth

19582 P. 10-15-1907 Joseph Brehm and bride Elizabeth Niggmann and wedding party

19582A ibid names keyed to photo; NB-Niggemann appears to be the preferred spelling

19582B ibid same photo with names shown

19583 P. 1920 Jerry Brehm and bride Mary Schneider

19584 P. 1908 Joseph Brehm

19585 P. c. 1900 St. Ann’s Catholic Church & Highland School in SW Corner of Brehm & Wellington Lake Rd

19586 P. 1905 Henry Brehm and bride Mary Schneider

19586A P. 1955 Henry & Mary Brehm, nee Schneider

19586B P. c. 1925 Henry & Mary Brehm, nee Schneider, and children

19587 P. 1935 Marvin Brehm and Antonia Neder

19588 P. 1928 Mary Schneider, nee Earl, and 3 other people

19589 P. c. 1895 Thomas Brehm, Sr., and wife Kundigunda

19589A P. c. 1899 Thomas & Kundigunda Brehm and 6 children

Collection of Judith Damm, aka Mrs. Robert Damm

19590 Map 1913 Frank & Ida Rudolf farm, aka Franz Rudolph, SE ½ 18 and 32N, R2E, Town of Greenwood. The Urquhart post office was initially Rudolf Post Office with Franz as postmaster

19591 W. 1-27-2016 Judith ‘Judy’ Damm, granddaughter of Franz & Ida Rudolf

19592 P. c. 1890 Franz Rudolf and wife Ida, nee Schwidt

19593 P. 1902 Rudolf farm house and family. The steps shown led to second story and were exclusively used by postal patrons. Top row-George Rudolf; middle row-Franz, Paul, Ida Rudolf, Hilda Schwidt holding baby; front row-Joe, Mary & John Rudolf

19593A Handwritten notes behind image 19593 ‘George (Rudolf) always came to Medford by horse and buggy. Paul (Rudolf) rode a bicycle.’

19594 P. c. 1906 Rudolf farmstead with new wood frame barn built in 1905. Photo inscribed ‘Six miles west of Interwald’

19595 P. Wednesday 2-25-1948 ‘Away to the woods,’ Rib Lakers climb into gondola car to attend last log ceremony at Camp 28. In 2016 the site is C&G Mini Mart, 910 STH 102, Rib Lake.

19596 W. Rib Lake Lumber Co. fells last pine tree; 2-25-1948 Milwaukee Journal

19597 W. 2-25-1948 ‘Rib Lake turns out to see the end of its logging era.’ Milwaukee Journal

19598 W. 2-25-1948 ‘Last monarch of forest to fall at Rib Lake.’

19599 P. 2-25-1948 ‘Dio Walty helps fall last pine’ Star News

19600 W. ‘Pine was 210 years old’ Star News 2-25-1948

19601 W. ‘Plan observance’ Star News 2-25-1948

19602 P. 2-25-1948 August Schopper on RLLC tramway; narrow gauge tram cars

19603 P. 2-25-1948 P. 1 from Damm scrapbook; water tank & RLLC samill; RLLC train to Camp 28 at ‘Storms Landing’; disembarking at Camp 28, last pine awaiting its fate

19603A ibid

19603B P. 2-25-1948 6 photos, p. 2 of Damm scrapbook; people around last pine; Bill Berfield starts chopping; notching the pine; pine falling to ground

19603C ibid

19604 P. 2-25-1948 photos from Damm scrapbook; Joe Knorn cutting butt log of last pine; cook shanty; McGiffert loader being refueled with firewood; McGiffert loader lifts 2 logs onto flatcar; top loader with cant hook

19604A P. 2-25-1948 Camp 28 cook shanty

19605 P. 2-25-1948 photos from Damm scrapbook; Lester Helberg from Stetsonville skidding logs at Camp 28; Jim & Bill Bernitt, Alfred Neurnberg and Hilmer Dietze; bridge over McComb Ave for tramway, view east

19605A ibid

19605B P. 2-25-1948 McGiffert loader just east of Camp 28 does its thing for public attending last log ceremony; NB-people by box car in foreground; view east

19606 P. 2-13-1940 man on old railroad tie pile-Damm sawmill

19606A P. 3-2-1938 3500 railrod ties cut & piled at Damm sawmill in Stetsonville

19606B P. Christ Waldhart handling railroad tie at Damm sawmill

19607 W. 1938 ‘Damm Brothers buy Stesonville mill,’ Edwin & Harold Damm buy Harry Rhyner mill. Star News

19608 W. 1943 ‘Emergency crew keeps mill running,’ Star News

19609 1936 Six photos of Stetsonville mill, peeling hemlock ties & edger

19609A ibid

19610 1937 Six photos; slabwood saw & elevator; Soo Line tracks through Stetsonville

19610A ibid

19611 1941-42 small unidentified logging camp, sawmill & logging truck

19611A ibid

19612 c. 1940 Carl Fink camp on Flambeau River west of Phillips, Price County; ‘The Bridge’ built by bulldozer across Flambeau River

19612A ibid

19613 c. 1939 A. Damm, Mr. Fischer, Herbert Damm & Harold Damm push load of cedar posts on Soo Line tracks at Stetsonville

19614 P. 1947 Clifford Fischer of Medford with 4 cords of hemlock pulpwood on small flatbed truck in front of Damm Brothers sawmill office

End of Judith Damm collection

19615 Pamphlet 2015 ‘Men 18-25 register. It’s quick-it’s easy-it’s the law,’ Selective Service System, side 1

19615A ibid side 2

19616 pamphlet 2015 ‘Preparing makes sense,’ ‘Get ready now’ Homeland Security, side 1

19616A ibid side 2

19617 L. 1-2016 Jeff & Lynn Tortomasi to Ann & Bob Rusch

19617A pg. 2

19618 2-13-2016 ‘The Battleground shifts’ Wall Street Journal. Photos of Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio, all hopeful presidential candidates

19619 1-27-2016 ‘Election 2016; path to the White House’ Wall Street Journal

19619A Photos of Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio

19620 12-24-2015 ‘Fire towers to get the axe under DNR plan’ Star News

19621 12-24-2015 ‘Rib Lake High School Christmas Concerts,’ Star News; photo of choir performance, including Ryan Strobach

19621A ibid P. soloists Katie Strobach & Andrea Schreiner

19622 12-24-2015 obit. Evelyn Edna Schauss 1920-2015

19623 8-2015 ‘Authors who are members of the Forest History Association of Wisconsin’

19624 2015 ‘Congressman Sean Duffy proudly representing Wisconsin’s 7th District’

19624A ibid side 2; Photo of Sean Duffy

19625 2015 ‘Growing gray wolf populations unlifely to affect deer stocking,’ David Tenebaum, National Woodland Magazine

19625A ibid ‘Some facts about wolves’

19625B ibid cover

Phyllis Schwoch collection

19626 L. 8-14-2015 Phyllis Schwoch to RPR

19626A ibid p. 2

19626B P. Fawn Valley School, p. 142 of 1982 Pictorial History of Rib Lake

19626C ibid p. 3

19627 Gotthold Hein 10-22-1823 to 4-22-1902 family tree by Phyllis Schwoch, Konrad Hein, Sr.

19627A ibid continuation

19628 Berthold Hein family tree, 12-5-1860 to 8-13-1944

19628A ibid continuation

19629 5-16-1945 ‘Rib Lake High School-class of 1945 commencement exercises’ program

19629A ibid p. 2

RPR collection

19630 c. 1940 ‘Rib Lake Lumber Co. 3 years without accident’ pin. Awareded to Ewald Nelson and donated to the Rib Lake Historical Society by his daughter, Mrs. Barbara Moon

19631 obit. Veronica Schaack Carle 4-19-1924 to 2-5-2016

19632 Memo-Ritchie Lake, aka Reich Lake 2-11-2016 RPR p. 1

19632A ibid p. 2

19632B ibid p. 3

19632C ibid p. 4

19632D ibid p. 5 addendum

19632E 1947 US Quad map ‘Rib Lake’ part showing Reich Lake

19632F ibid –showing Ritchie Creek & Reich Lake

19633 1996 ‘The Westboro Story’ by Ruby Evelyn Harrold Hatlestad, cover

19633A ibid title page

19633B L. 9-30-1996 Ruby Hatlestad to Martha H. Rusch

19634 Trivia created by R.P.R. and Cindy Sommer at the request of Jim Mann, dba Mann-Made Pizza. It is one of a series of ‘Rib Lake Trivia’ found under ‘Trivia’ at the Rib Lake Historical Society website

19635 Map 2-20-2016 US Republican & Democratic senators; red is republican held; blue is democratic held

19635A ibid part 2

19636 Names of Village of Rib Lake board

19637 L. 3-18-2002 RPR to Todd Waldhart, ‘Preliminary Opinion of Title’

19637A ibid p. 2

19638 L. 2-3-2016 Sara Robisch, Rib Lake School District to RPR

19639 P. c. 1910 John Schaack, long-time Town of Rib Lake postman in RFD, ‘Rural Free Delivery’ buggy with team of horses

19640 1-21-2016 ‘Zondlo inducted into Rib Lake Hall of Fame’ Star News; Photo of Lori Manion, Dennis Zondlo and Dr. Joseph Zondlo

19641 2-18-2016 Hinderbinder ‘Official race results’ top

19641A ibid bottom

19642 Obit. 2-18-2016 Arnold Flagel 1934-2016

19643 2-14-2016 Envelope, the Riggs to RPR & Ann Rusch

19643A ibid Homemade valentine

19643B ibid

19644 W. 2-18-2016 Rib Lake High School & middle school honor roll, including Ryan, Katherine & Bekah Strobach

19645 W. 2-18-2016 Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club seeks grant for groomer

19645A ibid, photo of Rollie Thums

Dennis Kuehling Collection

19646 P. c. 1940 Central Hotel, Henry Mathias proprietor. In 2016 building is apartments in SW corner of Railroad & Third Streets

19647 P. c. 1910 intersection of McComb & Landall Ave marked by overhead light bulb. L-R store selling watches, ‘Groceries,’ books & shoes, later Ma Dodge’s Café; at horizon is tan bark pile at tannery; right-girl on wood sidewalk in store owned by P.E. Marcus, dba ‘The Fair;’ a hand plow sits on sidewalk in front of hardware store owned by J.H. Taylor.

19648 P. 1910 ‘Train entering Westboro, Wis.’ going north over Silver Creek and Westboro Lumber Co. logging railroad

19649 P. 4-1-1943 fatal truck-train crash on STH 13. At 930 am Peter Neitzel, driving a semi truck coming sough from park Falls drove into the side of a Soo Linie locomotive going east to Rib Lake. Photo looks westward; in foreground is Dennis Kuehling (boy), his mother Myrtle and her sister-in-law Regina, Mrs. Wayne David. Photo by Dennis’ father, Richard. Note small size of saw logs. It’s the middle of WWII and the RLLC is importing over 50% of its saw logs from non-RLLC sources to try to meet the huge shortage of lumber.

19649A W. 4-1943 ‘Driver killed as truck crashes Soo Line engine,’ Rib Lake Herald.

19650 Map 2-25-2016 Ole Tote Road (in red), steam hauler ice road (green), Timms Hill Trail (orange) and steam hauler or sleigh excavations (purple) in Section 1, T33N, R2E, by RPR on 1947 US Quad.

19651 Map 1947 probable RLLC Camp 2 site shown as clearing, SW NE 9-32-3E on US Quad

19651A ibid RPR annotations

19651B Map 3-1-2016 RLLC Camps 2, 4, 7, 10, 13, 14 and 16 sites which are shown on 1947 US Quad of Rib Lake as a small white clearing surrounded by green/forest. Site of Camp 15 shown as green/forest but with a black dot indicating building. Camp 3 site is within a 30-acrew white/field area

19651C 1947 Quad map covering same area as 19651B

19652 Interview of Roy Meier in 1979, p. 1 of abstract, Wisconsin State Historical Society

19653 3-2-2016 estimate by Barry Anderson to repair car owned by Ann Rusch which struck a cat, $997.00

19654 L. 2015 Michael & Toni Mier ‘All the best in 2016’

19654A ibid back

19655 L. 2-2016 ‘Historic St. Ann’s, Inc.’

19655A ibid p. 2 events

19655B ibid p. 3 membership fees

Judy Damm collection

19656 P. 1936 Damm sawmill, Stetsonville, ‘peeling hemlock ties.’ L-R J. Jakel, E. Richwalski, Mickey Geiter, Ed Augustine.

19657 P. 1937 Soo Line ‘thru freight’ steaming south in Stetsonville; left-hemlock ‘tie cuts.’

19658 P. 1938 hemlock ties at Damm sawmill

19659 P. 1942-42 office and tool shop, Damm Logging Camp, Cadott, WI

19659A ibid, barn and bunkhouse

19659B ibid Ted Klatt & log sleigh

19659C ibid, sawmill

19659D ibid, L-R cook shanty, bunkhouse

19659E ibid, Glen Wagner & tie cuts

19660 P. 1942 Depot, Stetsonville, WI, view south from Damm sawmill

19661 P. 1945 Edwin H. Damm, with load of basswood lumber from his Stetsonville mill for Post Co, Owen, WI

19662 P. 1948 Slabwood elevator dumping into Arnold Bobbe’s International truck at Damm sawmill

19663 P. 3-3-1948 Hans Rein has freshly cut railroad tie on shoulder, he will carry it up ramp on right into ‘wabash’ boxcar at Damm sawmill

19663A ibid, Joe Levine, Soo Line tie inspector

19664 p. 2-1949 Damm Brothers Lumber Co. offices, Stetsonville, WI

19665 P. 12-1949 Lumber piled to air dry at Damm Brothers; note protruding ‘stairs’ on higher piles

19666 P. 2-25-1948 railroad water tank and RLLC sawmill; note ice from tank

19666A ibid, flat cars loaded withlogs

19667 P. 2-25-1948 spectators for last log ceremony riding in gondola

19668 P. 2-25-1948, disembarking at Camp 28; caboose on right

19668A ibid, as Joe Fleischmann looks, spectators disembark from boxcar

19669 P. 2-25-1948 the last white pine awiting its fate

19669A ibid

19669B ibid, crowd gathers

19669C ibid; notching begins as Bill Berfield and Francis Schaack watch

19669D ibid, tree falling

19670 P. 2-25-1948 Joe Kohn, at left of cross cut saw, severs the butt log

19671 P. 2-25-1948 locomotive refuels McGiffert loader

19671A ibid 2 logs at a time

19671B ibid, top loader with cant hook

19672 P. 2-25-1948 Lester Helberg of Stetsonville, center, skidding logs; he holds the horses’ reins.

19672A ibid Helberg behind skidding team

19673 P. 2-25-1948 ‘4 pm, back at mill’ L-R Jim & Bill Bernitt, Hilmer Dietze and Alfred Nernberger stand on tramway on west side of shed that temporarily protects loaded tram cars from the elements. At right are tram cars going directly from transfer chain to dry yard

19673A ibid, August ‘Augie’ Schopper walks between empty & loaded tram cars. On left is temporary storage shed and in back is west side of transfer chain building with metal chimney rising from boiler house

19674 P. 2-25-1948 view westward from temporary storage shed on tramway. Tracks on right exit the shed while tracks on left come directly from transfer chain in rear center; small shelter stands on the west end of bridge spanning McComb Ave.

19675 T-shirt 2016 Timms Hill Trudge

19676 Email 3-8-2016 by Johnathon Holmgren re death of his father while snowshoeing in Timms Hill Trudge

19677 Bib assigned to Robert P. Rusch for Timms Hill Trudge

19678 2-2016 ‘Annual Rendevous is a shoe-in’ Milwaukee Journal by Brian E. Clark. Story about ‘the 3 Mikes,’ Mike Peplinski, Mike Flynn and Mike Jadrich, who have done all 19 events

19678A ibid p. 2 Lyle & Kathy Blomberg, dba High Point Village

19678B ibid p. 3 Photo of snowshoers competing in Timms Hill Trudge

19679 Finisher’s Award, Timms Hill Trudge 2016

19680 1913 Ad for sale of hemlock lumber by Westboro Lumber Co

19681 ‘Roosevelts Forest Army; A History of the Civilian Conservation Corp’ cover, by Perry H. Merrill. Book in archives of Rib Lake Historical Society

19682 P. 2015 L-R Colton, Brendan, Trinity, Kirstin Riggs, Bekah, Ryan & Katie Strobach-calendar cover

19682A P. Grandkids of RPR

19682B P. Great grandmother Lorraine Killion

19682C P. Familie Rusch Heist sie alle herzlichst Willkommen. Rusch family wishes you heart-felt welcome

19682D P. 2015 RPR and grandkids

19682E P. July 4, 2014

19682F P. 12-2014 Snow much love – snowshoes at Rusch’s. NB-all photos and layout by Robin Riggs, nee Rusch

19683 P. c. 1910 ‘Westboro, Wis. #402’ view westward from Queenstown; Westboro Lumber Co on right

19683A back, Marie Luxem to Florence Luxem

Brian Smith collection

19684 L. 2-17-2016 Brian Smith to RPR re immigrants from Mocker, Silesia, Germany who settled both in Alabama and Rib Lake-Greenwood; Peche, Kaske, Klein, Lassman, Mucke, Kaske, Gilge, Wittke, Scheithauer & Franz

19684A ibid p. 2

19685 W. 2-17-2016 Mocker immigrants Wittke & Kaske, from Brian Smith

19685A 10-20-1870 marriage certificate in German; Carpenter Gottlieb Wittke and Johanna Kaske, nee Meise

19685B ibid p. 2

Larry Easton collection

19686 L. 2-16-2016 Larry Easton, Soo Line Historical & Technical Scoiety to RPR

19686A ibid, drawing-Junction City, Wis, depot where Wisconsin Central, later Soo Line, and Milwaukee Road crossed

19687 Map 8-14-1910 Donald, Wisconsin, by Wisconsin Central-Soo Line Engineering Dept - caption

19687A ibid, Fountain-Campbell Lumber Co, sawmill, loading dock, warehouse, boarding house, swellings (7 of them) and 1 church

19687B ibid Junction at mile post 337 (measured from Chicago) Wisconsin Central and Omaha Line, ‘Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad

19687C ibid dwellings and church

19688 Map 3-27-2016 Omaha Railroad right-of-way incompleted remnant in NW SE 4-T31N-R1E, Town of Medford, by RPR

Alfred & Darlene Unick collection

19689 P. c. 1928 ‘Rib Lake Public Library N385’ In 2016 building stands on the NE corner of Landall & Pearl Streets and is apartments

19689A ibid back ‘Flora’ to Marie Imig, postmarked 8-13-1929

19690 W. 3-23-1939 The Taylor County Star News ‘Rib Lake Barber found dead in his shop.’

19690A ibid ‘Escapes injury when locomotive jumps track’ John Herem, fireman

19690B ibid ‘Rib Lake Boxing team beats Marathon City’

19690C ibid ‘Mrs. Eunice Holden, 82, Rib Lake, dies’

19690D ibid ad, Chevrolet

19690E ibid ‘John Hayward, 63, Rib Lake, dies.’ Was engineer on Rib Lake-Chelsea line

19690F ibid Ad O&N Lumber Co, Medford

19690G ibid ‘Rib Lake Boy Scout Troop entered in First Aid test’

19690H ibid Ad, Strebig Auto, Medford

19690I ibid, free old time dance

19690J ibid wanted hemlock tie cuts Damm Bros. Stetsonville

19690K candidate for Town Board, Rib Lake & Westboro

Robert P. Rusch Collection

19691 P. c. 1925 ‘Wausau’s Aquatic Race Course,’ Rib Mountain in background. Stilized image of ‘mountain’

19692 P. c. 1905 Bird’s eye view of McComb Ave from tannery smokestack. ‘Livery’ stable, Rib Lake & first Mathias Central Hotel

19693 3-24-2016 obit, Helen Alvira Dyrcz, nee Hengst (1927-2016) Star news

19694 3-24-2016 obit. Ruth M. Judnic, nee Fleegal, (1921-2016)

19695 W. 4-2-2016 ‘Donald Trump’s Voters Guide’

19695A ibid p. 1

19695B ibid p. 2

19695C ibid p. 3

19695D ibid p. 4

19695E ibid p. 5

19696 W. c. 4-2-2016 ‘When it comes to violating your 2nd amendment rights you might by surprised which republican candidate is most like President Obama

19696A ibid p. 2, photo of Donald Trump

19697 Map 4-1-2016 Price County Recreation & Auto tour, page 1 of 6

19698 W. 2016 Price Electric Cooperative mission statement

19699 W. Price Electric Cooperative 7th Anniversary booklet (1940-2015) cover

19699A ibid p. 1

19699B ibid p. 2 Coop incorporated 7-9-1940, history, ‘spite lines’, by commercial utiltities

19699C ibid p. 3 timeline 1950-59

19699D ibid p. 4 timeline 1960-69

19699E ibid p. 5 timeline 1970-79

19699F ibid p. 6 timeline 1980-85

19699G ibid p. 7 timeline 1990-99

19699H ibid p. 8 timeline 2000-2009

19699I ibid p. 9 timeline 2016-2019 photo of Michael Meier

19699J ibid p. 10

19699K ibid p. 11 statistics

19700 W. 2015 ‘Timms Hill County Park & Recreation Area’ cover

19700A ibid back, Timms Hill National Trail

19701 W. 4-2016 ‘Which of these 3 people said…’

19701A ibid back, photo of Donald Trump

19702 1-14-2016 ‘The Rib Lake Snowshoe Adventure’ Star News, photo of Josie Scheithauer

19702A ibid, list of finishers

19703 P. 1908 ‘Posing in the woods’ two whitetail deer

19703A ibid pack, postcard, Mr. Gummo to Elmer Blume

19704 W. 3-17-2016 Vox pop ‘Open letter to James Edming urging protection of ground water.’ By RPR

19705 W. 3-17-2016 ‘Don’t roll back water protections’ Star News editorial

19706 Cartoon, Donald Trump & Ted Cruz

19707 3-17-2016 ‘County approves funding for Rib Lake groomer’ Star News

19707A ibid, part 2

19708 3-17-2016 ‘Rib Lake Drama Club presents ‘Million Dollar Baby’ - title

19708A ibid part 1, photo of Emma Colson

19708B ibid p. 2 photo of Katherine Strobach

19708C ibid p. 3 photo of Kylie Jo Wiese & Keesha Lucia

19708D ibid p. 4 photo of Andrea Schreiner, David Howard & Ajia Mako

19709 W. 3-17-2016 ‘Tearing down walls to built learning.’ Star News, photo of Rick Cardey

19710 W. 2016 ‘Rib Lake School District; Together for children.’ Newsletter narrated by Lori A. Manion

19710A ibid p. 2 Jon Dallman message

19710B ibid p. 3 middle school news

19710C ibid p. 4 Accountability reports

19710D ibid p. 5 summer school

19710E ibid p. 6 athletics

19710F ibid p. 7 post-prom and Community Learning Center (CLC)

19710G ibid p. 8 calendar

19711 P. Robert P. Rusch 3-1-2016 ‘It’s a necessary and effective ally combating terrible anti-environmental legislation’ Bob’s comment re River Alliance of Wisconsin

19712 W. ‘Grow, hope, celebrate’ holy week schedule for Wisconsin Synod Lutheran Churches near Rib Lake - 2016

19712A ibid back

19713 W. ‘The Real Estate Review’ Spring 2016, Dairyland Realty-cover

19713A ibid p. 2 ‘Rib Lake area’ photo of Susan Thums

19713B ibid p. 3 waterfront properties

19713C ibid p. 4 Businesses including Rib Lake Music Store, 740 McComb Ave ($49,000) and Rib Lake Restaurant ($97,000)

19714 P. c. 1950 ‘Sunny Hill Resort on Spirit Lake, Route 1, Rib Lake, Wis.’ In 2016 site is campground between STH 102 and Little Spirit Lake at outlet.

19715 ‘Meet your friends on the trail’ Merrill Foto News 3-9-2016, photo of River Bend Trail

Judy Damm collection

19716 P. 1951 Damm Bros sawmill flatbed truck with logs for Stetsonville mill

19717 P. c. 1950 decking logs at sawmill; Albert Damm, George Cypher, Willard Jollins

19718 P. 3-9-1933 Damm Bros sawmill, Stetsonville, WI

19719 P. c. 1950 sawing logs; Damm Bros mill; Albert Damm, Ed Damm, sawyer and Christ Waldhart

19720 P. c. 1950 front; log carriage; Ed Damm, sawyer behind circle saw. Sharp circle saw hangs ready from rafters.

19721 P. Trimmers and edgers at Damm Bros sawmill; Art Reiter & Clarence ‘Bud’ Brunner

19722 P. 3-21-1936 500,000 ft of lumber piled in yard of Damm Bros sawmill

19723 P. 7-19-1939 Melvin Fischer & Albert Damm load cedar on railroad cart for cabin

19724 P. c. 1945 hemlock tie cuts piled along Soo Line by Damm Bros sawmill

19725 P. 10-12-1939 Shorty Plisch readies wrapper chains to secure truck load of lumber from Damm Bros sawmill

RPR collection

19726 3-16-1923 Rib Lake Herald, Alfred Unick generously donated this copy of the newspaper to the Rib Lake Historical Society. It is the only known extant edition dated 3-16-1923; p. 1 top

19726A ibid bottom

19726B ibid p. 2 top

19726C ibid p. 2 bottom

19726D ibid p. 3 top

19726E ibid p. 3 bottom

19726F ibid p. 4 top

19726G ibid p. 4 bottom

19726H ibid p. 5 top

19726I ibid p. 5 bottom

19726J ibid p. 6 top

19726K ibid p. 6 bottom

19726L ibid p. 7 top

19726M ibid p. 7 bottom

19727 P. c. 2010 Franz-Josef Gebauer and Rusch Brothers; L-R Everett, Gerald, Thomas & Robert Rusch, red fire hydrant bought by RPR in Budzow (Schoenwalde)

19728 2-19-1923 Rib Lake herald p. 1 top, Rib Lake Citizen’s Band at Woodman Hall

19728A ibid p. 1 bottom, Church of Christ and Stone Lake news

19728B ibid p. 2 top, ‘Wisconsin News’

19728B-1 ibid Ad Chevrolet for $525.00

19728C ibid bottom ‘Unrestrained passions of religious intolerance and racial hatred’ by Henry Allen, Governor of Kansas (re Ku Klux Klan)

19728D ibid p. 3 top preprinted insert ‘The Strength of Pines’ a novel

19728E ibid bottom

19728F ibid p. 4 ‘The Rib Lake Herald, pubished every Friday. John J. Voemastek, Publisher, $2.00 per year’

19728G ibid bottom Louis Fleming, cook at Camp 18

19728H ibid p. 5 top, Ads for hemlock ties by Ole Peterson and Braun Bros of Athens. ‘At our landing in Rib Lake’

19728H-1 ibid Ad, Rib Lake Coop Merc. Co

19728I ibid, bottom, Ad ‘The First National Bank, Rib Lake, Wis.’

19728J ibid p. 6 top, preprinted page eg. ‘Radio-how storage battery operates.’ Ad-Chicago Daily Tribune by mail, 1 month for $.50

19728K ibid bottom

19728L ibid p. 7 preprinted page ‘French troops arrive in Essen’ (Germany)

19728M ibid bottom, ‘US gives indemnity plan’ ‘Negotations are begun with France..’

19728N ibid p. 8 top Ad ‘Your cows not you – pay for this silo’ Orlando Winter, Agent, Rib Lake

19728N-1 ibid Ad Brehm Bros Molasses feed

19728O ibid bottom Dr. F.J. Martin, Dentist, Medford; Dr. E.A. Lapham, Physician & Surgeon, Rib Lake, hours 1-4 pm and 7-8 pm daily except Sunday & Tuesday; Ad-’Movies at the Armory [every] Saturday night.’; Ad-kerosene John Deere tractor with lugs and ‘dependable power for your belt machines’ $675, Ole Peterson, Rib Lake

19728O-1 ibid Ad, full size

19729 ??

19730 7-23-1919 Rib Lake Herald p. 1 top ‘Proposals for new village hall’

19730A ibid bottom ‘To be married Lambert Fusch & Helen Gates of Chicago.’ ‘Anti-saloon league address at M.E. Church’

19730B ibid p.; 2 preprinted page ‘Former emperor ill’ ex-Kaiser William II in exile in Holland

19730C ibid bottom ‘can send mail to Germany’ mail service resumed

19730D ibid p. 3 Ad-movie ‘The Green God’ at Rib Lake Armory 8;15 on Saturday.

19730E ibid bottom Visitor at Mr. & Mrs. Otto Rusch; RLLC installing ‘electric fire alarm system’: 18 boxes through yard, machine shop and planing mill

19730E-1 Ad-Brehm’s flour & feed store

19730E-2 Ad-Upjohn’s Pharmacy

19730E-3 Ad-E.M. Kelnhofer ‘Staple & Fancy groceries…’

19730F ibid p. 4 preprinted page, ‘Badger State Happenings’

19730G ibid bottom ad ‘Grape-nuts’

19730H ibid p. 5 preprinted page ‘Missing link found in Congo?’

19730I bottom ibid

19730J ibid p. 6 Taylor County Fair Sept. 2-3-4, 1919 premium list

19730K ibid bottom

19730L ibid p. 7 preprinted page

19730M ibib bottom Ad-’tired, nervous mothers-Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.’

19730N ibid p. 8 Ad portable electric generators for sale-Ole Peterson, Rib Lake

19730O bottom ibid Ad-Attorney Thomas Andresen, ‘Lawyer, Medford, Wis, office in courthouse.’

19730O-1 Ad-John Taylor Hardware Store

19731 2016 Calendar, Spirit Lake Improvement Association-cover

19731A Assorted Spirit Lake area photos

19731B ibid

19731C ibid

19731D ibid

19731E ibid

19731F ibid

19731G ibid

19731H ibid

19731I ibid

19731J ibid

19731K ibid

19731L ibid, Dr. G.L. Baker cottage, Spirit Point

19731M mission statement

19732 c. 1915 McComb Ave businesses viewed to the NE from roof of Upjohn Pharmacy. Facing photographer, R-L-1) Peter Lieg Central Merchandise, meat, clothing department, flour & feed store, lka Bogumill building; 2) J.A. Taylor Hardware; 3) John McRae Bakery and Restaurant; 4) P.E. Marcus General Merchandise, ‘The Fair;’ 5) National Bank of Rib Lake; on horizon-steeple of St. John’s Lutheran Church, steel chimney of tannery & pan house of tannery

19732A ibid back side postmarked 8-5-1916 Interwald, Wis. to Jennie Shaffstall, Copenish, Michigan

19732A-1 transcription

19733 4-20-2016 postcard Richard Pulcher to Robert & Ann Rusch

19733A ibid, back, special meeting notice; Taylor County Dems will raffle off two hunting rifles

19734 4-7-2016 ‘Taylor County Voting Results’ Star News, Donald Trump 2,100; Ted Cruz 1889; Bernie Sanders 1278; Hilary Clinton 850

19734A ‘Trump Draws Energetic Crowd in Rothschild’ Photo of Donald Trump

19734B ‘Sanders calls for ‘Revolution’ at Wausau Rally’

19735 obit, Richard Stewart (1955-2016)

19736 ‘Taylor County Presidental Primary Voting Results’ Star News 4-7-2016; photos of Bernie Sanders, Hilary Clinton, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump

19736A ibid Town and Village of Rib Lake

19736B 4-6-2016 ‘Sanders, Cruz claim [Wisconsin] victories’ Wausau Daily Herald. Wisconsin Presidental primary results. Photo of Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz

19736C ibid Democrats - Sanders 56%, Clinton 43%; Republicans - Cruz 49%, Trump 35%, Kasich 14%

19737 ‘Rib Lake Kohl Fellowship Winner Matt Robisch Connects with Life,’ Star News 4-14-2016

19737A ibid, phtoo of Matt Robisch in bank class at Rib Lake High School

19737B ibid

19738 9-1-2013 P. ‘Historic St. Ann’s 125th Anniversay mass’ photo of DVD of event.

19739 P. c. 1928 ‘High School, Rib Lake, Wis’ Elster photo, Waupun

19740 obit, William ‘Bill’ Mathias, Star News 3-31-2016

19740A ibid, bottom

19741 W. 3-2016 Donald Trump doesn’t have the character to be president by Our Principles, Alexandria, VA

19741A Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump

19741B ibid Donald Trump pretends to care about you

19741C ibid Trump repeatedly conspired…

19742 P. c. 1910 Farmer on horse-drawn hay cutter

19742A ibid back, postmarked in Westboro 8-22-1912, Carl S. to Ernest Peterson, Libby, Montana

19743 ‘History of Whittlesey.’ 4-2016 by Sara Nuernberger in ‘Log Cabin News,’ Taylor County Historical Society

19743A ibid part 2, George Langenberg brick yard in 1898. In 1904 Das Eulen Haus

19743B ibid part 3, 9-1891 Mutter der Immer Wehrende Hilfe; Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church builts on land donated by Albert Steiner, Sr., new church built across road in 1964. In 1918 Louis Steiner operated a blacksmith shop.

19744 P. c. 1950 abandoned RLLC Sawmill ‘Rib Lake scene’ Trees shown on lakeshore where logging railroad ran 1902-1948

19745 L. 4-18-2016 Mike Wollmer to RPR

19746 W. Ice Age Trail Alliance – 2015 yearbook and 2016 guide – cover

19746A p. 1 Photo of Mike Wollmer

19746B p. 2 High Point Chapter-Taylor Co.

19746C p. 3 Northwoods Chapter-Lincoln Co.

19746D Map 4-18-2016 Ice Age National Scenic Trail-Trail Chapters

19747 W. 2015 Annual Report, Ice Age Trail Alliance - cover

19747A p. 1 L. Mike Wollmer, Executive Director, Land Protection

19747B p. 2 Trail development & finances

19747C p. 3 summary

19748 W. ‘2016 What’s on tap’ cover

19748A p. 1 schedule-mobile skills crew-Rib Lake May 18-21 and July 26-31, 2016

19748B p. 2 ibid

19748C p. 3 ibid

19748D p. 4 ibid

19748E Photos of Rib Lake & Wood Lake segments

19748F Map July 26-31 mobile skills crew Wood Lake & Rib Lake segments.

19748G P. Chequamegon National Forest 7-10-2014 maintenance needs

19748H P. 2015 Tim Malzahn

19749 W. 2016 Executive director’s report – IAT p. 1

19749A p. 2 ibid

19750 Spring 2016 Ice Age Trail Connections newsletter dedicated to Ice Age Trail hosts

19750A p. 2 ibid

19751 W. Ice Age Trail Land Protection

19751A complex owner pattern

19751B who protects land for the trail

19751C Who owns land, land under the trail, total miles built as of April 10, 2016 is 655 miles

19751D land acquisitions by year

19751E Miles protected by year

19751F Pause to celebrate

19751G Land acquisition efforts

19751H current land holdings

19751I Maps 2-25-2016 IAT easements

19751J Map 4-26-2016 IAT fee land ownership

19751K The future

19751L ibid

19752 Map 3-1-2016 Rusch Preserve; SE NE 12 33-2E by George Sandul-legend

19752A parking

19752B Scheithauer bridge

19752C Becker bridge, Baumann’s Bruecke, junction of Klostermann and Cahow Creek

19753 L. 4-11-2016 George Sandul to RPR, story of map 19752

19753A p. 2 ibid, field work 3-11-2016

19753B p. 3 ibid, methodology

19753C p. 4 ibid, signed cartographer-emeritus

19754 4-29-2016 George Sandul measurement of valley height east of Klostermann Creek

19755 W. 2-14-1988 6th Annual hinderbinder cross country ski race

19756 P. 2-16-2008 Hinderbinder ski race. Start at Desris field at junction of Little Rib Road and Kennedy Street

19757 P. 2-16-2008 right-race director Gary Thums

19758 P. 2-16-2008 Gary Thums starts classic skiers

19759 P. 2-16-2008 Skier 705

19760 P. 2-16-2008 Ann Rusch at timing board

19761 P. 2-16-2008 Gary Thums starts skate skiers, rear-former Ole Peterson dairy farm

19762 P. 2-16-2008 Wausau Nordic Ski jacket

19762A High school skiers from Wausau Nordic Ski Club

19763 P. 2-16-2008 and Dale Niggemann, elite racer, bib 621

19764 P. 2-16-2008 L-R Marl Temme, Gary Krueger & Scot Broamnn, president of Rib Lake Nordic Ski Club, race timer at rear

19765 Map 2-16-2008 Route of Hinderbinder 20K ski race highlighted in pink

The Chet, Bernie, Greg & Lorraine Brahmer collection)

19766 c. 1920 Menasha Mfg Co yard at Goodrich, Wis. rear-buildings in downtown Goodrich, Section 26, T31N-R3E, Taylor County, Wis.

19767 Map 1913 Goodrich & Interwald area, Taylor County, by George H. Ogle & Co. In 1913 Standard Atlas

19768 P. c. 1910 Steam loading [railroad] cars near Goodrich, Wis. The steam equipment appears in a shed-like wooden building on sleigh runnders on the right. The railroad tracks were formerly part of the Abbotsford and Northeastern, now Soo Line

19769 P. 1911 Flood, Interwald, Wisconsin. The waters of the Rib River had risen toward the Interwald Store & Post Office owned by George Knower

19770 Map 1913 Interwald and environs, T32N-R3E, Town of Greenwood, Taylor County on 1913 Standard Atlas

19770A Map Town of Goodrich, T31N, R3E, ibid

19771 P. c. 1910 The Interwald Store. Man with horse drawn wagon loaded with steel milk cans

19772 P. c. 1910 steam engine train 50 foot long powering threshing machine near Interwald. Mound of straw has loader to its top in center

19772A P. c. 1910 woman tends hose feeding water to steam tractor. Farmer on pile of yellow birch firewood at right

19773 P. c. 1910 ripe rye in front of possible railroad track and farm; Greetings from Interwald, Wis.

19774 P. c. 1910 ‘Kraus and Swenson sawmill, lumber, lath & shingles, Interwald, Wis. Sawmill on Albert Krause farm at SW SE NE 28-32N-3E. In 2016 the cement base once holding sawmill machinery can be seen on the north side of CTH M

19774A P. 1910 Veneer factory. A. Krause & Co., Interwald, Wis. Worker on left holds eighth inch thick layer of lath being peeled from hardwood log

19774B P.; 1910 yard and exterior of Albert Krause mill

19774C P. c. 1915 strips of veneer air dry spread on top of parallel logs at Albert Krause mill

19775 P. c. 1915 18x45 inch strips of veneer air dry in holders standing on edge at Albert Krause mill

19776 P. c. 1910 Colien’s mill, Interwald, Wis. tall metal chimney has mesh at top to intercept sparks

19776A ibid, 5 men atop slabwood (wastewood)

19776B ibid, narrow gauge tram car conveyed logs into mill; rear right-bundles of lath

19777 Wagner’s Mill, Interwald, Wis. sawin crew, man holds bag of chewing tobacco

19777A ibid

19777B ibid, piles of lumber air dry at right

19777C ibid R-L; Joseph Brahmer, 4th from right, A. Mann

19778 P. c. 1910 In the white cedar woods at Interwald, Wis. Slim Wilson, foreman, and his wife the cook. The camp cut rot resistant white cedar for posts, poles & shingles

19778A ibid, foreman Slim Wilson and crew in cedar swamp

19779 P. 4 men and two dogs pose on huge log skidded by horses, man on ground is tallyman, who holds a scale stick to compute board feet of lumber of log

19780 P. c. 1910 horse team has pulled debarked hemlock log to decking pile. Behind man at right is a cord, a pile 4x4x4’ of tanbark, hemlock back bound for tannery. Note chains, part of equipment to pile logs using the cross-haul method

19780A ibid the horse team has pulled log to pile where it will be rolled to the top using the cross haul method. The single horse will pull chain running through a pulley attached to tree above tanbark pile

19780B ibid fur-coated tallyman holds his note paper in front of log being rolled to top of log pile by chain pulled by horse shown in image 19780B

19781 P. c. 1910 The Scheuer-Poleszymski Logging Co, Interwald, Wis. Note, teamster is about 12 years old

19782 P. 1909 North Bridge, Interwald, Wis. The Town of Greenwood bridge spanned the Rib River, probably at current Wood Creek Avenue. Note, beneath bridge piles of logs are on river bank awaiting spring log drive

19782A Map 5-4-2016 North Bridge and South Bridge, probable sites shown on map, Taylor County Trails to Adventure c. 2005

19782B ibid c. 1910 Rib River beneath North Bridge cloaked with peeled hemlock logs driven downstream

19782C Map 5-3-2016 North and South Bridge locations on 2014 plat map

19783 P. c. 1910 Eastbank on Rib River. In 2016 river drive was in NW SW 28-32-3E

19783A **not scanned as of 5/12/16 P. 2016 ibid, same scene 106 years later

19784 Map 2014 Taylor County plat book, T32N-R3E, showing two parcels owned by State of Wisconsin for fish management, the Rib river has a rare, self-sustaining, healthy trout population

19785 Map 11-9-2009 County road map, Taylor County, Wis. by TC Extension office, east half of the Big Rib River is highlighted in yellow. The Rib River starts at the outlet of Rib Lake and empties into the Wisconsin River beneath Rib Mountain, from which it drived its name.

19786 P. 1903 Week’s 1903 log drivers on Rib River, Wisconsin. The John Week Lumber Co annually drove the Rib River for many years

19787 not scanned as of 5/12/16 – Bob to write out synopsis of decision

19788 P. 1916-17 log drivers take a tobacco break at South Bridge over Rib River

19789 P. c. 1910 Log drivers at dinner sitting at South Bridge on Rib River. George Knower, photographer and postmaster at Interwald Store, added his name to the photo.

19790 P. Wanigan, barge-like platform with tent serving as mobile kitchen on shore, bateau on right; man with apron is Jack Kirsten, bull [chief] cook.

19790A P. ibid Bateau in Rib River, Wanigan in back

19791 South Bridge, The Drive, note stone-cement retaining wall on end of bridge

19792 P. c. 1910 lunch time, cookee pours coffee from huge coffee pot as second cookee offers more sausages and third cookee washes dishes

19793 P. c. 1910 Wanigan rests in slack water, man lies down on collapsed canvas tent. Equipment fills duffel bags.

19794 P. c. 1910 Wanigan boats. Two wanigans, flat bottomed, wood boats about 6’ across and 40’ long with sloping prow and stern, are tipped on their sides, two workers hold buckets of tar and straddle bateau. A bateau used on Rib River log drives is in Rhinelander at the logging museau in 2016. The two men are retarring wood joints to make craft waterproof.

19795 P. 1909 Bateau is turned upside down next to Week Lumber Co camp along Rib River

19796 P. c. 1910 virgin hardwood

19797 P. c. 1910 Greetings from the Big Woods, Itnerwald, Wisconsin. Fink referred to Carl Fink, an Interwald logger

19798 P. c. 1910 Feier Abend, German for time to quit work. Carl Fink’s Jag (crew). These German terms reflected the German origins of many settlers at Interwald, which is German for in the middle of the woods.

19799 P. c. 1910 on the way to the timber along the banks of Rib River at Interwald, Wis. Rehbein was a local logger.

19800 P. c. 1910 Man at right has double pitted ax and stands in front of hemlock bark piled into cords, tahnkbark laborers were paid by the cord, hence this neat 4x4x4’ pile.

19801 P. c. 1910 Man second from right on peak of log pile is Bill Jarchow, holding a cant hook.

19802 P. c. 1910 The photographer, George Knower, wrote Greetings on the negative. He misspelled tamarack, a common tree dominating many swamps.

19803 P. c. 1910 Logs and lumberjacks down on the Rib River, Interwald, Wis.

19804 P. c. 1910 Interwalders-the Roigers, Interwald, Wis. Vertical boards on building at rear create odd appearance. The building may have been storm damaged, hence the man holding a hammer.

19805 P. c. 1910 Pulp drive on Stearn’s Creek, Interwald, Wis. Balsam and-or spruce pumpwood will be made into paper.

19806 P. c. 1910 The drive rolling in, Interwald, Wis.

19806A ibid, driver drives with cant hooks and one with 20’ long pike pole.

19807 P. c. 1910 Down the Rib – on the drive. Two drivers use pike poles to ride log.

19808 P. c. 1905 Down the Rib River, Interwald, Wis. Man at left has jacket covered with decorative buttons

19809 P. 1910 driving on the Rib, Interwald, Wis. Robert Thaanze balances on log with cant hook

19810 P. 1910 Wencel Scheuer, a settler residing on the S half of NW quarter, Sec. 29, 32N-3E, rides a pine log

19811 P. 1910 the Drive, Interwald, Wis. drivers use a peavey, a tool with a sharply pointed end, to avoid log jams

19812 P. c. 1910 Tony Brahmer and Albert Steiner, Town of Greenwood farmers, wear caulk boots on The Drive-Down the Rib

19813 P. c. 1920, RLLC locomotive 101 with tender loaded with coal is turned 180 degrees on the company’s turntable. In 2016 the site is the STH 102 parking lot of Camp 28 Restaurant, 720 STH 102, Rib Lake.

19814 P. 1916 The new sawmill for the RLLC is under construction at left. The building at right center shows exterior, vertical studs built in 1897 following a fire in 1897 which destroyed the sawmill. The same building survived the mill fire of July 1914

19815 P. c. 1940 Piling green lumber to air dry in the RLLC dry yard. A horse has pulled the narrow gauge tram car of lumber to the site. The laborer at right uses a board inserted into the pile as a fulcrum by pushing one end of the board down so the other end rises to his partner atop the pile

19815A P. c. 1940 The RLLC dry yard. IN foreground is narrow gauge tramway descending from the bridge across McComb Ave to ground level at left

19816 P. c. 1910 A fur coated steersman sits on the catbird seat and straddles the steering wheel of the RLLC steam hauler. Vertically mounted pistons powered the caterpillar tracks which pulled sleighs which runners ran in ruts cut into the ice road

19816A ibid, Steam hauler easily pulls 5 log loaded sleighs of logs laid parallel to keep future piled logs off the ground.

19817 P. c. 1910 Filling the tank. A water tanker sleigh worked nearly every winter night spilling water from spigots to build up to 2’ of ice on the steam hauler ice road. The tanker needed to stop every mile to get more water, which would be obtained from water holes. The rear team was unhitched from the front and used to pull a rop pulling the water barrel up a slide to the top of the tanker where it tipped and spilled its water into the tanker.

19818 P. 2-1-1881 Palmer’s pine camp, Sag Early, foreman. Two yoke of oxen and 23 men spend the winter cutting white pine, at the time the only tree in Taylor County with sufficient commercial value to merit logging. Two identical log buildings had tar paper roofs held down with 1x4’ boards. One building was the bunk house and the other the cook house. A smaller, unpictured building served as camp office and sleeping quarters for the foreman.

19819 P. c. 1910 Front Street, Whittlesey, Wis. 11 miles west of Interwald. R-L Das Eulen Haus or The Owls House, first floor tavern, second floor dance & meeting hall, Sorensen’s store, Blacksmith shop, and Caput Hall, unidentified 2 story building. About 1915 Martha Gebauer, lka Mrs. Herman Rusch, joined with other friends to mail postcards to Interwald post office and generated enough mail to induce the postal authorities to keep Interwald post office open.

End of Brahmer collection.

19820 Camp 7 relics, Prince Albert Tobacco can, one of many found. Patented July 30, 1901. Camp operated from 1912-1914

19820A ibid, horseshoe, note holes for shoeing nails

19820B ibid, concave metal object with hole driven through it.

19820C ibid rectangular copper sheet metal

19821 Camp 28 relics, lump of coal from locomotive. Camp operated from 1946-1948

19821A ibid, handle from cooking pan

19821B metal can and star trade mark, delicious spiced luncheon meat with natural juices.

19822 Map 4-28-2016 Camp 2 site location, 1906-1908, SW NW 9-32-3E

19823 Map 4-30-2016 Camp 7 site location 1912-1914

19824 Map 5-1-2016 Railroad spur to Camp 8 1912-1914, NE SE 23-33-3E

19825 Map 5-2-2016 Camp 28 1946-1948

19826 P. c. 1950 Scene on Highway 102 at Spirit Lake

19827 L. 5-6-2016 Ice Age Trail Alliance to RPR re trail building

19827A ibid, Map 5-18-2016 Rusch Preserve

Ilene Becker Coleman collection

19828 Map 1913 Village of Rib Lake-showing 2016 site of Rib Lake Bakery, occupied in 1913 as Wisconsin Hotel, Block A, Lot H, McComb’s Racing park Addition to Village of Rib Lake

19829 P. c. 1910 McComb Ave, Rib Lake, Wis. View north from RLLC. Building at right was Nick Clerf’s blacksmith shop and wagon factory

19830 P. c. 1940 Two unidentified men outside of Bogumill Store. Everything to Eat and Wear. Block A, Lot 6, McComb’s Racing park Addition to Village of Rib Lake

19831 P. c. 1938 McComb Ave paving crew pours cement on what was STH 102. Buidings across street are, L-R 1) Woodman Hall, 2) former Wisconsin Hotel; in 1937 US Post Office was on the first floor, 3) Bogumill Store

19831A ibid, building at right is former Wisconsin House hotel. It was razed in 1945 for Mobil gas station built by Hector B. Lindal

19832 P. c. 1946 parade on McComb Ave, Mobil Gas station constructed in 1945 by Hector B. Lindal; in 2016 site is the Rib Lake Bakery, 723 McComb Ave

19833 P. 3-2016 Rib Lake High School track team, longest row in center L-R, Managers Katie & Bekah Strobach

19833A ibid spontaneous expressions

19833B ibid track coach Kevin Weiss frowns for cameraman. Lee (Butch) Clendenning was assistant coach.

19833D ibid, photo at Rib Lake High School outdoor track

19833D ibid, indoor practice

19834 Unidentified metal logging artifact, patent March 6, 1883, found on 5-19-2016 by person building Ice Age Trail on Ann Rusch quarter quarter, NE SE 12-33-2E, Town of Rib Lake, top view

*** Not scanned as of 6/5/16***

19835 P. of 9 foot round rock found 5-20-2016 by Wanda Brown during Ice Age Trail construction on Ann Rusch 40, NE NE 12-33-2E. Rock swirled in glacial melt water against bedrock creating smooth curved surface. Rock carried by glacier from original site of creation to discovery site in Town of Rib Lake where it was deposited as glacier melted

19836 4-13-2006 A street car named Killion. Star News. Westboro church organist loves to tell a story or two. P. 1, photo of Lorraine Anne Killion

19836A ibid, p. 2 photo of Lorraine and husband Loren Killion

19837 obit, Lorraine Anne Killion, aka Mrs. Loren Killion

19837A ibid p. 2

19838 W. death notice, Lorraine Anne Killion 5-21-2016 in Star News

19839 P. 5-12-2016 Lorraine Killion and daughter Ann Rusch eating smelt, Tradition Continues, by Star News

19840 P. c. 1995 Lorraine Killion and sister Jane Carlson wearing WWII Red Cross outfits and manning aid station for Timms Hill Trudge 10 mile snowshoe race

19841 P. c. 2011 Lorraine Killion

19842 P. c. 2010 Lorraine Killion and nephew Jeff Carlson with his birthday card

19843 P. c. 2010 Lorraine Killion home at N8634 CTH C, Rib Lake

19843A ibid, interior of Lorraine Killion home, her beloved piano.

19843B ibid, kitchen

19843C ibid, view from kitchen, the Turtle

19844 P. c. 2010 L-R Karen Killion, Lorraine Killion and Briana Killion

19845 P. c. 2015 Rick and Lorraine Killion at Medford nursing and rehab center

19846 P. c. 1990 children of Lorraine Killion, L-R Ann (aka Mrs. Robert Rusch), Frederick ‘Rick’ Killion, Barbara (aka Mrs. Bill Weber).

19847 P. 2014 Lorraine Killion seated at her weekly bridge club. Members L-R 1) Billie Brunn, 2) Maggie Gebauer, 3) Liz Archibald, 4) Ann Rusch, nee Killion, 5) Myrtle Czeshinski, celebrating her 100th birthday, 6) Mary Lou Costello, 7) Shirley Werner (aka Mrs. Corliss Jensen)

19848 P. 1943 Loren Killion wearing US Navy uniform

19849 P. 10-2-1943 Lorraine Killion wedding portrait, formerly Lorraine Dongoske

19850 Map c. 2002 Rib Lake Area Ski Trails

19850A ibid legend

198515-19-2016 Rib Lake Middle School recognized for musical achievement at state, Star News, photo of Anna Hoffland

19852 5-19-2016 Robisch, Orthmann combine for a half century of band, Star News

19852A ibid Photo of Matt Robisch & Ned Orthmann

19853 Obit, Hattie E. Taylor, nee Mathias 1911-2016

19854 Mary Hoeft announces bid for Congress, Star News 5-19-2016

19855 P. 3-2016 Mellen [Wisconsin] Union Cemetery

19855A ibid tombstone of Robert Ludwig Rusch. Wisconsin Cook 107 Suppy Tn. 32 Division. WWI, 12/23/1892-7/12/1952

19855B ibid, L-R Robert Paul Rusch and Robert Guenther Rusch

19855C ibid, L-R Roger Rusch and son Robert Guenther, Roger’s wife Christa and cousin Robert Paul Rusch

19855D P. c. 1925 L-R Robert Ludwig Rusch, sons Richard (father of Roger Rusch), and Ross (never married) and wife Isabelle

19856 P. 4-2016 Friends of Fred Smith, Phillips, Wis. Born Fred Schmidt and reared in Town of Spirit, Price County, Wis.

19856A ibid, Nationally acclaimed concrete folk art by Fred Smith

19856B ibid

19857 Map 5-23-2016 c. 1935 Yorde farm using former RLLC Camp 18 buildings by Kenneth Yorde

19858 2016 Whittlesey Lions Park baseball diamond. Baseball and softball schedules - cover

19858A ibid, Whittlesey Lions Club officers 2016-17

19858B ibid 9-10 year old Little Leaque schedule

19858C ibid 10-12 year old girl’s schedule

19858D ibid 6-8 year old t-ball schedule

19859 2016 Watch Towers Fading Away, Taylor County leaving fire towers behind. 2016 Taylor County Visitor’s Guide, Star News

19859A ibid part 2

19860 Map c. 1936 Karlsdorf bei Bromberg, ancestral Rusch family village formerly in Province of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire by Bundesant fuer Kartographic and Geodaesie.

19860A Annotations by RPR **not scanned as of 6/5/16** Bob must write this

19860B Legend

19860C 2016 German flag

19860D Map 1946-2016 Poland, Bydgoszcz is city known in German as Bromberg, part of which was village of Karlsdord, from which Rusch family members emigrated to America.

19860E Map 1919-1939 Polish Corridor, strip of land near mouth of Vistula (German Weischsel) River; formerly separated Germany from East Prussia and given to Poland by Treaty of Versailles in 1919 to provide Poland with access to Baltic Sea. Ancestral Rusch Village of Karlsforf was within Polish corridor.

19861 5-6-2016 Support our Public School, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel by Mary Young, et al

19861A ibid p. 2

19862 c. 2015 Aerial photo – summer site of RLLC Camp 7, NE NE NE 16-33-3E, Ice Age Trail shown in yellow

19862A ibid in winter

19863 P. c. 1945 View of South Harper Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. 3, view south from 2016 Rustic Road No. 1

19863A P. c. 1945 South Harper Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. C-13, view to south showing north side of cabin, owned in 2016 by Mr. & Mrs. Harold Pace of Indiana

19863B ibid, back side of picture postcard postmarked 5-31-1947, Nora & Al to Henry Barney, Polo, Illinois

19864 5-26-2016 Lorraine Killion Memorial card – cover

19864A ibid, Photo of Lorraine Killion

19865 Lorraine Killion – First Lutheran Church bulletin 5-20-2016 - cover

19865A ibid

19866 Lorraine Killion death certificate.

19866A Sympathy card from Jay & Cindy Thums

19866B ibid p. 2

19867 W. 2014 Eastwood, Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Campground fact sheet

19867A ibid p. 2

19868 W. 2014 Spearhead Point, Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, campground fact sheet

19868A ibid p. 2

19869 P. 3-2016 Robert P. Rusch at home of Darlene & Al Unick with historic items to be scanned

19870 c. 2010 From the Pineries to the Present – Heritage Area – Shawano & Menominee Counties, tourist brochure.

19870A W. The Great Hemlockery of Northern Wisconsin. A compilation of newspaper accounts and other data by RPR – cover page. RPR coined the word ‘Hemlockery.’

19871 P. c. 1915 Heindl’s Store, a small, wood building served Kennedy Town at the SE corner of Church and Elm Streets in Rib Lake. Toasted corn flake boxes dominated the top shelf, while stacks of cookie were behind a glass door labeled ‘National Biscuit Company.’

19872 5-2016 Liberty School News. Vol. 18, Number 1, edited by Michael & Toni Meier, p. 1

19873 Electricity comes to Knox Mills, by Joyce Bant, p. 9, Vol. 18, Number 1, Liberty School News, 5-2016.

19873A ibid p. 2, Rural Electrification Act of 1936

19873B ibid, p. 3 Lind family buys electric appliances in 1943

19874 A lead printing block of a tiger’s face with the word Tiger spelled backward acquired in 1973 by RPR upon discontinuance of Rib Lake Herald, front side

19874A ibid back side

19875 W. 5-20-2016 by RPR re glacial grinder stone found by Wanda Brown of St. Croix Falls, Wis. as she built Ice Age National Scenic Trail in Town of Rib Lake.

19875A P. 5-20-2016 Wanda Brown and grinder stone she found **not scanned as of 6/5/16**

Alfred ‘Al’ Unick collection

19876 6-7-1951 Sunny Side of the Street, weekly column in Rib Lake Herald, covered stories on Frankie Bieniek, Art Marschke and Cliff Waldhart.

19877 8-2-1951 Old RLLC mill to be razed, Rib Lake Herald

19878 8-2-1951 Soo Line given permission to remove tracks between Chelsea and Rib Lake, Rib Lake Herald

19878A ibid, bottom

19879 8-2-1951 Repair bee at dam set for Saturday, Rib Lake Herald

19880 P. c. 1990 Ted Dietzler

19880A ibid p. Dietzler’s cabin in Town of Corning

19881 c. 1940 Harper Lake Resort, Rib Lake, C-8

19882 c. 1935 Camp 22 RLLC, 20 lumberjacks in front of 6 camp buildings. McGiffert loader on side tracks, mainline at right

19883 P. c. 1955 Mr. John Stelling and wife Alvina and grandson John Harvey Stelling

19884 Spoof Postcard post-dated 8-8-1912 Whittlesey, WI

19884A ibid back side post marked 8-8-1912 at Whittlesey, WI mailed by George to Mr. F.E. McNamar.

19885 P. c. 1940 Ervin Stelling and Ruth Stelling

19886 P. c. 1940 L-R Ervin Stelling & John Stelling; R-L Alvina Stelling & Bertha Knop

19887 P. c. 1942 Herbert Stelling in WWII Army uniform

19888 P. 1-6-1944 Leroy Melmo & Lee Waldhart in hospital clothes at Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio

19888A P. 1-6-1944 Lee Waldhart drinking Coca-Cola by dayroom, Patterson Air Force Base

An assortment of articles from the Rib Lake Herald 6/25/1952 thru 5/223/1958.

19889 6-26-1952 ‘Another Attempt to Remove Deadheads from Rib Lake’, Rib Lake Herald

19889A ibid, Ad-The Little Bohemia, Millard Kapitz, proprietor.

19890 7-24-1952 New Industry Considered for Old Mill Building, Rib Lake Herald

19890A ibid, bottom

19890B 7-24-1952 Old Depot Razed, Rib Lake Herald

19891 1-17-1957 Ad-Farm Institute January 24, at Rib Lake High School, Rib Lake Herald

19892 6-12-1958 P. Marshall-Wells Stores, Rube Kring & Mel Theilig owners, former John Taylor Hardware Store, 740 McComb St, Rib Lake Herald

19893 6-12-1958 Soo Line Hearing Appeal to Oppose Soo Line Railroad Attempt to Discontinue all Passenger Train Services between Spencer & Ashland. Rib Lake Herald

19894 10-2-1958 Photo of smokestacks from ole RLLC 167 foot chimney. View to south. Left-old boiler room without roof already razed. Right-old RLLC machine shop, building in 2016 is Wisco Stone Co.

19895 12-18-1958 Ad-Sunderlin’s Dri-Gas Service & Appliance Co, Ernest Sunderlin, owner, Dri-gas referred to propane; Mr. & Mrs. John Haas dba The Sport Shop, The Rib Lake Herald

19895A 12-18-1958 Ad-Upjohn Drug Store & Bud’s IGA Super Market, The Rib Lake Herald

19895B 12-18-1958 Ad-Louis Heglmeier, dba Rib Lake Bakery, The Rib Lake Herald.

19896 1-15-1959 Church directory including St. Mark’s Lutheran, Town of Hill, Price County, Rib Lake Herald

19896A 1-15-1959 Ad- Rib Lake Herald, Eugene Clifford, editor & publisher, The Rib Lake Herald

19896B 1-15-1959 Ad-Dr. Robert Pettera, et al, & Service Directory, The Rib Lake Herald

19896C 1-15-1959 Ad-Fred Rademacher, dba Fred’s Garage, fka North Side Garage. In 2016 site is Gerstberger Florist, 835 McComb Ave.

19897 1-22-1959 Golden Age Nursing Home to Open, formerly Henry & Elizabeth Mathias, dba Central Hotel, Rib Lake Herald

19897A 1-22-1959 photo of Golden Age Nursing Home, Rib Lake Herald

19897A-1 1-22-1959 Grand Opening Ad, Golden Age Nursing Home, Mr. & Mrs. Floyd Ford, proprietors

19897B 1-22-1959, Ad-Duane Werner & Joel Budimlija, dba Gambles Hardware

19897C 1-22-1959, Ad-Bob Melaski, dba Bob’s Sinclair Service Station

19898 2-12-1959 Farmer’s Institute Plans are Shaping, Rib Lake Herald

19898A ibid Ad-Rube Kring & Mel Theilig dba Coast to Coast Hardware

19898B ibid, P. Ann T. Gosbee, nee Steiner, Mrs. John Gosbee, teacher at Fawn Valley School, gets BA after 18 years effort.

19899 3-26-1959 George Thums is appointed new village Chief of Police, Rib Lake Herald

19899A ibid, Ad-Martin & Inez Vanucha dba Lakeview Resort on Big Spirit Lake

19900 7-2-1959 County Schools graduates from Fawn Valley, Rib River, Greenwood, Whittlesey & Westboro had 21, Rib Lake Herald

19900A 7-2-1959 Ad-Barney Cihasky dba South Side Garage, & Mrs. George Thums, Legion Post bake sale

19900B 7-2-1959 Ad-Rib Lake Fish & Game Association

19900C 7-2-1959, P. Laverne Zuege barn raising bee c. 1949. Barn razed c. 2010 by Rodney Strobach to make way for his new truck repair shop

19901 1-8-1959 Abandonment of Trains Leads to Curtailed Mail Service. Passenger service on the Soo Line railroad – Ashland to Spencer line is permanently stopped. Rib Lake Herald

19901A ibid part 2

19901B 1-8-1959 Westboro News, depot service, Timber Stand Improvement

19901C 1-8-1959 Ad-The Soo Line Railroad Jan. 5-6, 1959, will discontinue all passenger service between Ashland and Spencer, Wis. Train #118 last run at 7:15 pm from Ashland Monday, Jan. 5, Train #117 will make its last run from Spencer at 8:00 am Tuesday, Jan. 6, 1958

19902 1-29-1959 Ad-Rib Lake Station-State Bank of Medford, Rib Lake Herald

19902A 1-29-1959 George A. Tlusty, dba Tlusty Beverages & Bottling Co.

19902B White soda label from Tlusty Beverage & Bottling Co.

19903 4-30-1959 P. Old Gustafson Lumber Co. Sheds Burning, ‘Quarter Million Dollar Fire,’ Rib Lake Herald

19903A ibid P. St. John the Baptist Catholic Church near fire

19903B 4-30-1959 Ad-Thank You-Rib Lake Cheese Co.

19903C 4-30-1959 Ad-Bob Gums dba Painting & Paper Hanging

19903D 4-30-1959 Ad-Joe & Lil Holly dba Holly’s Resort on Stone Lake

19903E 4-30-1959 Ad-Carl Henricks dba A&W Drive-In

19903F 4-30-1959 Board Warns of Abuses at Dump

19904 5-28-1959 Taylor County Teacher’s College graduates 26, Rib Lake Herald

19904A 5-28-1959 Arvid Blomberg, well known Spirit farmer, is buried

19904B 5-28-1959 Ad-C.C. Lord Accounting, Bookkeeping & Tax Preparation

19904C 5-28-1959 Ad-Corpus Christi Celebration-St Anns Church

19904D 5-28-1959 Ad-New Lake Theatre-Movies, 50 cents adults, under 17 is 25 cents

19904E 5-28-1959 Ad-Norman Rhyner & Herome Cypher dba Westboro Locker Plant

19904F 5-28-1959 Ad-Grand Opening, Roy Stewart, Sr, dba Stewart’s Lumber & Fuel Co.

19904G 5-28-1959 Ad-Louis Heglmeier, dba Rib Lake Bakery & Zondlo’s Bar & Ballroom

19905 6-25-1959 Summer Guests-Seidel’s, Carlson’s Cottages. Holly’s Resort & Harper Lake Resort, Rib Lake Herald

19905A 6-25-1959 Ad-Stewart’s Lumber & Fuel Co.

19906 4-3-1958 New medical doctor is coming to Rib Lake, Dr. Robert Pettera

19906A ibid, bottom

19907 7-26-1962 Ad-Party at Spirit Lake Tavern. Music by Adolph Walbeck, Fred Mielke, proprietor, Rib Lake Herald

19907A 7-26-1962 Ad-Schlais Clothing Store

19907B 7-26-1962 Ad-Bud & Opie Freeck dba Bud’s IGA Super Market

19907C 7-26-1962 Ad-Heindl’s Clover Farm Store

19908 8-2-1962 P. How-De-Do-in ’62 committee, L-R Elmer Taylor, Keith Zintz, Gene Clifford, Ed Martin, John ‘Tubby’ Eckhoff, Frank Yanko, George Buksa, Rib Lake Herald

19908A 8-2-1962 Village Trustees Okay Plan for Sewage Plan – this was to be the first municipal sewer system for the Village of Rib Lake

19908B 8-2-1962 P. Marlin ‘Boots’ Walbeck champion stock car racer

19908C 8-2-1962 Ad-Frank Yost, new proprietor of Seidel’s Resort & Ad-Lillian Thums, Thums Oil Products

19908D 8-2-1962 Ad-Dick & Thelma Upjohn dba Upjohn’s Store

19908E 8-2-1962 Ad-John Dolezalek dba Johnnie’s Electric

19908F 8-2-1962 Ad-Don Coleman dba Spirit Lake Tavern & Bill Niggemann dba Bill’s Fine Cheese

19908G 8-2-1962 Ad-Millard ‘Satch’ & Velva Kapitz & Annie Talbot dba Talbot’s Resort on Willow Flowage

19908H ibid Ad-Roger Johnson da Roger’s Service Center [Sinclair gas station]

19908I ibid Ad-Vernon Hanke, Mobil products distributor

19908J ibid Ad-George & Frank Zondlo dba Zondlo’s Ballroom & Bar, Ad-Paul Ochodnicky dba Paul’s Standard Service Station, Ad-Jeanette Nelson dba Rib Lake Beauty Shop in National Hotel, Ad-Al Peissig dba Bottle Gas, Television & Radio Sales & Service, Ad-Virgil & Dot Miller dba The Open Door on Spirit Lake

19908K ibid Ad-Harold Zielke da Zielke’s Store

19908L ibid Ad-Joe & Esther Frombach dba Hiway C Grocery

19908M ibid Ad-Emery Peterson dba Pete’s Auto Service & Ad-Wilbert Blomberg, Patz Barn Cleaners

19908N 8-2-1962 Ad-Peterson Concrete Products Corp.

19909 8-2-1962 Your invitation to ‘How de do in ‘62’ homecoming festival

19909A logo and official program for How de do in ’62, Friday, Aug 10 and Saturday, Aug 11

19909B ibid Sunday Aug 12 program

19909C Ad-Jim Schabel dba Jim’s Tap

19909D Ad-Gordon & Virginia Gehrt dba Gehrt’s Bar

19909E Ad-John P. Schreiner dba Rib Lake Roller Mill, 1213 Fayette Ave

19909F Ad-Louis Heglmeier dba Rib Lake Bakery

19909G Ad-Sheldon Patrick dba Patrick’s Shoe Store

19909H Ad Joe Daniel dba Daniel’s Service Station-Mobil gas

19909I P. New clinic and Clearview School

19909J Ad Ziggy & Audrey Duenkel dba Harper Lake Resort

19909K Ad-Herman Smith dba Smith’s Welding Service [blacksmith]

19909L Ad Lou & Marcella Trojnar dba L&M Bar

19909M Ad-The Lakeside Tavern

19909N Ad-Carlson’s Sweet Spot, South Harper Lake Candy & Ice Cram store by beach

19909O Ad Lakewood Credit Union

19909P Ad-John ‘Tubby’ & Pete Eckhoff dba Rib Lake Telephone Co

19909Q Ad Alfons & Lillian Mitchell dba National Hotel

19909R Ad-Mel Budimlija dba Cat Tail Tap (junction of Hwys M & C)

19909S Ad-Rube Kring dba Coast to Coast Stores

19909T Ad-Adolph & Margaret Vlach dba 102 Tavern

19909U Ad-Duane Warner dba Gambles – the friendly store

19909V Ad-Ruth Stelling dba Little Bohemia Cafe

19909W Ad-Bogumill’s Market ‘for a fine cut of meat’

19909X Logo-How-de-do in ‘62

19910 8-9-1962 ‘Fire Department Early History Recalled’ Photo of Fed Curran, first chief of fire dept

19910A ibid p. 2 Photo of Edwin Martin, current fire chief

19910B ‘Former teacher tells of earlier Rib River Days’ by Joseph Jantsch, teacher at Rib Lake school from 1915-1917

19910C ibid continued

19910C-1 ibid continued

19910D P. c. 1900 John J. Kennedy, ‘founder of the community known as Rib Lake’

19910E ‘We Remember When’ a history of Rib Lake by Mrs.Gustav Bielenberg compiled by 1938 sixth grade class taught by Elsie M. Beck [summary, in 1991 J.J. Kennedy & 3 other men came from Spencer to Westboro by train; they walked from Westboro to the shores of Rib Lake where ‘they camped on a point of the lake.’ They chose the mill site ‘on the exact spot of the present mill’ i.e. Rib Lake Lumber Co. mill site of 1938. The first sawmill was built at Rib Lake in the fall of 1881 and it cut its first board on 12-2-1881. Photo of mill being razed

19910F ibid continued part 2

19910G 8-9-1962 History of Rib Lake by Joseph Clerf, part 1

19910H ibid continued part 2

19910I History of Rib Lake by C.R. Clausen, 8-9-1962

19910J Ad-Gem Products, Manufacturers of Glov-Ett by Dodson Comfort Shoes

19910K ‘Governor says howdy’ Governor Gaylor Nelson

19910L Obit. Ernest Heden

19910M P. Karen Gilge, queen of how-de-do in ’62, photos of Hollie Heindl and Mary Yanko

19910N 1902 records tell of incorporation

19910O Rib Lake Herald 66th year-list of owners; John J. Voemastek, Ray Voemastek, L.L. Arnold, Floyd B. Nehls, Gene & Lillian Clifford

19911 P. South Harper Lake near Rib Lake, Wisconsin A-96

19912 8-6-1962 Dr Siegfried Hesse buys Pattera’s practice; stays permanently

19912A Historical sketch of the Rib Lake School History, Jan. 1905 new high school opens

19913 9-6-1962 ‘Assembly races stir interest in fall primary’

19913A Weekly with Walbeck

19914 9-20-1962 ‘Gambles store changes hands, Duane Warner now sole owner’

19914A Ad Rolland Walty dba Have Tubes Will Travel-radio & TV repair

19914B Ad Little Trading Post at Trails End Resort on Wood Lake

19915 RHLe 3-28-1963 ‘Village to Buy old Tile Factory Building’

19915A ibid bottom

19915B Ogema Hills might be new state park

19915C Vote on New School Building on Monday

19916 RLHe 2-20-1964 ‘Sportsman’s Club Buys Aerator’

19917 2-20-1964 P. Marlin Walbeck with special truck to transport his stock car

19917A John Schwarz is buried

19917B Carl Henrickson sells A&W Drive in to Ken & Reka Wagner; Ad A&W Root Beer

19918 7-8-1965 Poster – Still Alive in ’65 celebrates village

19918A New Post Office to be built in Rib Lake

19919 1-13-1966 Obit Frank Baier, Sr.

19919A 1-13-1966 Obit Herman V. Wiitala

19920 1-27-1966 Obit William Wolff, born in Mocker, Germany

19920A 1-27-1966 Ad-Butch Ward dba Butch’s Tavern in Lake Theatre building

19921 2-10-1966 Taylor Co Historical Society meets in Rib Lake

19921A 2-10-1966 ‘Women face morals charges, arrested in Westboro home [The Guernsey Farm on STH 102]’

19922 2-17-1966 Bakery building on McComb Ave, previously served as bakery, restaurant & rooming house

19922A 2-17-1966 Ad George Tlusty dba Tlusty Beverage & Bottling Co

19922B Ad-John & Madlyn Sabo dba Coast-to-Coast Store.

19922C Ad-Emmery ‘Pete’ Peterson dba Pete’s Auto Service (next to Herald office on McComb Ave)

19922D Ads for Dr. D.D. Powers, Rolland Walty, Ken Wagner & Andy Zondlo

19923 2-29-1968 ‘Vanuchas sell Lakeview Resort, buy former Nite Owl Tavern’

19923A Ad-Eugene Clifford for county board

19923B Ad-Dale Strobach dba Dale’s Market

19924 3-3-1968 Steve Minarciny dba Little Bohemia-Bowling & Restaurant

19924A Ad-3-3-1968 Ad Earl & Norma Maes dba Harper Lake Resort

19924B Ad-Barney Cihasky, dba Barney’s Deep Rock Service in former Standard Station

19925 3-21-1966 ‘Westboro School District Proposal Goes on Ballot’

19925A Ad-Ken & Reka Wagner dba Chalet Motel

19926 3-28-1968 ‘From our files 4-28-1913, The Village of Rib Lake electric light plant will now operated only to 1 AM

19926A Ad-Gladys & Al Rabehl dba Bear Bar on Little Spirit Lake

19926B Ad-Henry Gebauer for county board

19927 4-4-1968 Service directory; S.F. Hesse, MD; Dr. D.D. Powers, dentist; Andy Zondlo, livestock dealer

19927A School referendum passed

19928 4-18-1968 Ad by Taylor County Forestry & Lands Committee ‘timber stumpage for sale’

19929 4-25-1968 ‘Soo Depots closed’ at Ogema, Westboro, Stetsonville & Dorchester

19929A 4-25-1968 Ad-Lakeview Cemetery Association

19930 5-2-1968 ‘Dean named as Medford campus again approved’

19931 5-23-1968 P. Patricia Lou Ziembo

19931A ‘Ruesch infant baptized Sunday’ Mr. & Mrs. Elmer Radtke drove to Wisconsin Rapids to attend baptism of granddaughter Debra Ann Rusch..’ (sic)

19931B ibid Michael Kolecheck saved from drowning

19932 P. c. 1910 2 freshly peeled 4 foot long pices of hemlock tanbark lay before 10 workers. Man at right holds bark peeling spud. Hatchet, used to cut bark into 4 foot sections, lays on ground. Peeled hemlock logs at left and pile of hemlock tanbark at right. Shiny peeled hemlock log in foreground

19933 P. c. 1930 ‘South Harper Lake C-17’ view SW from current Rustic Road No. 1. In 2016 the pictured meadow is stocked with 60 foot high red pines totally obscuring view of lake

19934 P. ‘Rib Lake K-680’ c. 1920 aerial photo, RLLC dry yard, Railroad Street, National & Central Hotel

19935 Map 1913 Village of Rib Lake, with tannery, RLLC & railroad.

19935A Map 1913 Village of Rib Lake, NE portion, including Ida Rusch lot.

19936 P. 1-1-2000 Wedding, Robert P. and Ann K. Rusch, nee Ann Kathleen Killion. A ‘kransekake,’ Norwegian wedding cake, is between them.

19937 ‘Arlyss Sampson making kransekake for family events for 30 years,’ Fergus Falls, Minnesota newspaper

19937A ibid, photo of cake, the kransekake

19938 c. 1995 color drawing of street car number 1333 ‘Bryant to 38th’ by Everett A. Rusch

19939 Zoning permit 4-25-2012 by Lawrence O. Peterson, Taylor County Zoning Administration

19940 P. c. 1944 ‘Spirit Lake No. c-21’ STH 102 on east side of Little Spirit Lake

19940A ibid back side, postmarked 9-8-1945, Fred Koch to Thomas D. Doyle

19941 P. c. 1979 William Arthur Weber & spouse Barbara Jane, nee Killion, and sons, John Andrew Weber (11-16-1970) and David Loren Weber (9-25-1972)

19942 P. 6-5-2015 Robert P. Rusch & German birthday cake ‘alles gute zum Geburtstag,’ everything good for the birthday.

19943 Obit Elmer Gerstberger 1-2-1921 to 3-3-2016

19943A ibid pg. 2

19944 W. 2016 Steve & Michelle Schreiner custom laser engraving and sandblasting

19944A ibid p. 2

19945 W. 4-24-2016 descendant list of Frederick Scheithauer, Sr. ‘Fritz’

19946 7-23-2016 poster ‘Westboro Swap Meet’ part 1

19946A ibid part 2

19947 7-10-1925 Rib Lake Herald, page 1 top

19947A ibid page 1 bottom

19947B ibid pg 2 top

19947C ibid pg 2 bottom

19947D ibid pg 3 top

19947E ibid pg 3 bottom

19947F ibid pg 4 top

19947G ibid pg 4 bottom

19947H ibid Ad-Singer Sewing Machine, John A. Taylor, Rib Lake, Agent

19947I ibid Ad, Mrs. Charles Dodge, dba Cozy Corner Café, lka Ma Dodge’s Cafe

19947J ibid Ad, Fagg’s Billiard Parlor

Collection of Kenneth Yorde

19948 Map 9-22-2016 by Kenneth Yorde, RLLC Camp 18, SW SW 16-31-4E, Extant Camp 18 structures in 1945 when Ken and his family lived in old cook house.

19948A ibid, map legend, pg 1

19948AA ibid, map legend continued, pg 2

19949 [save for quad map]

19950 [save for RPR photos of 9/22/2016]

19951 P. c. 1943 L-R Priscilla ‘Peach’ & Kenneth Yorde. Rear-former cook house for RLLC Camp 18 used by Ken’s parents, Carl & Elsie Yorde (nee Scheu) as residence c. 1931 through 1948.

19952 P. c. 1940 Elsie Yorde holding son LaVern, ‘Butch.’ At rear is old Camp 18 cook house.

19953 P. c. 1940 Yorde children on roof of old Camp 18 cook house. NB-large original window c. 3x8 foot on side of building

19954 P. c. 1947 L-R; Roger ‘Butch’, LaVern, Priscilla ‘Peach,’ and Ken Yorde with lunches packed for school. Rear-screen door and window on Camp 18 cook house, then Yorde residence

19955 P. c. 1944, L-R; Ken, Roger ‘Butch,’ LaVern, Priscilla ‘Peach,’ standing on old RLLC railroad right-of-way, then a road. White pine in rear is lime.

19956 P. c. 1942 rear-pump house building. The RLLC and Yorde’s both used a gas powered engine to pump water. Roger ‘Butch’ towers over his younger brother Ken Yorde. Both stand on packs of cedar shingles to be used to reshingle old Camp 18 buildings.

19957 P. c. 1943 brothers Roger ‘Butch’ (left) and LaVern Yorde sit on overturned wheelbarrow in front of pile of firewood. At rear, L-R, end of 2-story hay barn and horse barn showing 2 windows and a vent in its gable end.

19958 P. c. 1945 Yorde children sitting in front of original RLLC Camp 18 barns. Left-part of 2-story hay barn; center-part of cow barn with vertical window; right-horse barn; all buidings of wood frame construction.

19959 W. Rib Lake Lumber Company Camp 18 – The Renaissance. Information on the Yorde farm.

Collection of Dennis Kuehling

19960 P. 1913 Two boys display 36 barn (Norway) rats and 12 mice they trapped.

19960A back postmark 2-13-1913 Unity, Wisconsin. Written by Emma to Mrs. C. Kammerman at Cecil, Wis. ‘I thought I would send you a postal of George and Sherman and the rats and mice they trap here…’

19961 P. 1907 38 cords of hemlock bark pulled to Phillips Shaw Tannery by horse team on sleigh.

19962 P. Postdated 12-8-1913 Chelsea, WI commercial district

19963 P. Postdated 11-11-1914. A reverse image of Westboro, WI, commercial district. Intersection of Center Street and modern CTH D has fence around water well in center. Well was removed when STH 13 routed through town. Rear-steeple of First Lutheran Church.

19964 P. c. 1905 view NE from atop Upjohn Pharmacy of Rib Lake commercial district (McComb Ave); R-L Bogumill store, J.A. Taylor Hardware, McRae Bakery P.E. Marcus ‘The Fair,’ National Bank on NE corner of Landall & McComb. On horizon-smokestack and top floor of tannery pan house

19965 P. c. 1920 Interwald, WI. Former Interwald store building and post office owned by George Knower. Unidentified men and sheep in foreground.

Collection of Greg Brahmer

19966 Ledger ‘fall & winter 1907 sales-cash’ by George Knower at his Interwald, Wis. general store. – cover

19966A ibid pg. 1 9-18-1907 Fishbeck butter 20 cents..

19966B ibid pg. 2 9-30-1907 Upham Mfg. Co. 7 pounds of nails for 25 cents.

19966C ibid pg. 3 9-22-1907 Paul Kaske, peanuts for 10 cents, apples for 5 cents; Fred Scheidhauer, aka Scheithauer, candy 5 cents, cartridges 20 cents

19966D ibid p. 4 9-24-1907 John Lemke, oil 13 cents, pencil 7 cents; Louis Distelhorst, propane 13 cents, wick 5 cents

19966E ibid pg. 5 9-27-1907 Will Jarchow, broom and 2 brushes 50 cents, Ernest Peche soap 25 cents, matches 5 cents, tobacco 15 cents

19966F ibid pg. 6 9-28-1907 Bob Franz, snuff 5 cents, tobacco 15 cents, Adolf Kraus, 2 lbs of oatmeal for 10 cents; Martha Peche, candy 10 cents, peanuts 10 cents

19966G ibid p. 7 9-29-1907 Mary Gorichs 2 yards flannel 12 cents, hose supporters 12 cents, 1 spool of thread 5 cents, gum 2 cents; Mrs. Joe Martin molasses 35 cents, vinegar 30 cents, oil 52 cents, ginger 10 cents; McClusky, aka McCluskey, needles 5 cents, shoe thread 5 cents, pencils 11 cents

19966H ibid p. 8 10-2-1907 Johnnie Fishbeck hose 12 cents, threads 5 cents

19966I ibid p. 9 J. Skibbe, tablet 5 cents, buttons 5 cents, envelopes 3 cents, pencil 10 cents, laces 10 cents, Steinman, shirt 30 cents

19966J ibid p. 10 10-6-1907 Richard Stibbe, lamp 35 cents, (tobacco) plug 25 cents, smoking 7 cents, cartridges 20 cents, coffee 16 cents, candy 5 cents; Albert Jarchow, pipe 30 cents, candy 32 cents

19966K ibid p. 11 10-6-1907 Will Peche, cob 5 cents, hearts 5 cents; Martha F. Peche, gingham $1.00

19966L ibid. p. 12 10-8-1907 Mrs. C.W. Kraus, sugar 25 cents, coffee 16 cents, honey 10 cents, starch 6 cents, candy 4 cents

19966M ibid p. 13 10-9-1907 Mrs. Fishbeck, wood socks 50 cents

19966N ibid 10-19-1907 John Meyer cookies 12 cents, wax 4 cents, comb 12 cents, shirt 50 cents; Gottlieb Peche, oil 13 cents, matches 5 cents, candy 5 cents

19966O ibid 10-20-1907 Johnny Fishbeck, stove polish 20 cents, 5 peppers 10 cents.

19966P ibid 10-24-1907 Louise Distelhorst, 2.5 yds gingham at 10 cents per yard-25 cents

19966Q ibid 10-25-1907 Steinman Brothers, primers 25 cents, powder 20 cents, lead 10 cents; Mark Knower, chocolate drops 15 cents.

19966R ibid 10-27-1907 T. Polczynski, syrup 20 cents, plug (tobacco) 5 cents; Charles Kraus, feed $1.65, W. corn $1.80, rice 25 cents, sugar 21 cents, candy 1 cent, coffee 16 cents; Stibbe, flour $3.20, feed sacks 4 @ $1.65=$6.60, corn $1.80, middlings $1.55.

19966S ibid 10-29-1907, camper, envelopes 10 cents.

19966T ibid 11-4-1907 ‘travelers from Los Angeles’, 2 dinners and 2 horse feeds 70 cents

19966U ibid 11-6-1907 John Lemke, corn $2.02, 2 gals oil 26 cents, cinnamon 5 cents, barrel $1.00

19966V ibid 11-7-1907 Oscar Mohn, horse enc. 15 cents, sticking plater 20 cents.

19966W ibid 11-10-1907 ‘campers’ 2 jackets $1.00, armlets 14 cents, cob pipe 5 cents, pencils 10 cents, envelopes 20 cents, 1 jacket 50 cents, time book 6 cents, s. strings 10 cents, d. (darning) needle 1 cent, matches 15 cents; ‘campers’ mittens $1.00, plus 25 cents, envelopes 10 cents, writing paper 15 cents

19966X ibid 11-10-1907 ‘campers’ 2 pipes 50 cents, pipe stems 5 cents; ‘campers-Brown,’ candy 25 cents, postals 3 cents.

19966Y ibid 11-10-1907 ‘campers’ cards 10 cents, pipes 10 cents, tobacco 3 cents; ‘campers’ soap 16 cents, candy 10 cents, peanuts 5 cents, shirt 50 cents; ‘campers’ pipes 50 cents

19966Z ibid 11-11-1907 Wausau Lumber clk ‘Ludwig’ cookies 12 cents

19966AA ibid 11-16-1907 ‘campers’ 2 pipes 30 cents, envelopes 5 cents, plug 10 cents, pencils 2 cents, tablet 10 cents, comb 12 cents, gloves 12 cents, mitts 25 cents; ‘Jew campers,’ tobacco 45 cents, needles 5 cents, thread 10 cents, socks 50 cents, gloves 62 cents; it is not clear if ‘campers’ referred to individuals recreating, e.g., temporary living in a tent, cooking over a campfire and fishing in the Rib River. Later entire on the ledge use ‘campers’ to refer to workers in area logging camps-RPR. ‘young camper at sawmill,’ pencil 5 cents, handkerchiefs 5 cents, buttons 5 cents, matches 2 cents; ‘Fred camper,’ oil cloth 10 cents, gloves 25 cents, pencil 8 cents, candy 10 cents, cards 15 cents.

19966BB ibid 11-16-1907 ‘campers,’ postals 20 cents, gold leaf 20 cents, pipe 25 cents, pencils 10 cents, envelopes 4 cents, candy 15 cents; ‘campers,’ snuff 5 ents, tobacco 15 cents, shirt $1.25.

19966CC ibid 11-19-1907 ‘campers,’ mirror 10 cents, salve 15 cents, pencils 10 cents; ‘hunters,’ butter 50 cents, lard 25 cents, cigar 5 cents

19966DD ibid 11-24-1907 ‘strangers,’ gloves 12 cents, comb 8 cents, paper envelopes 3 cents, snuff & box $1.05, safety pins 8 cents, yarn 5 cents, pencil 5 cents; ‘campers,’ tablet & envelope 10 cents, cigar 10 cents, old yarn 7 cents

19966EE ibid 11-27-1907 ‘forgotten sales yesterday,’ Hannah Sheidhauer (Scheithauer), soap 25 cents

19966FF ibid 11-29-0907 Mrs. J. Hippe, lard 25 cents, yeast 5 cents, brush 5 cents, sugar 50 cents, syrup 20 cents, rye flour $1.25; 12-1-1907 2 ‘campers’

19966GG ibid 12-1-1907 Fred Kraus, tobacco 13 cents, overalls 75 cents

19966GG-2 ibid 12-7-1907 Joe Martin, pipes 5 cents, corn $1.60, 3 oil 39 cents, ‘lumberjack matches’ 5 cents

19966GG-3 ibid 12-7-1907 ‘lumberjacks,’ cards 24 cents, pipe 5 cents, cards 27 cents, pipestein 5 cents, card 6 cents, tobac 7 cents, cards 10 cents, cigars 15 cents, shoe strings 4 cents, tobacco 30 cents; note repetitive sales of ‘cards.’ Probably 4 different men were buying them-RPR

19966HH ibid 12-14-1907 Herman Lemke, oil 3 gal 10 cents, mustard 14 cents, yeast 5 cents, gum 5 cents, tablet 10 cents

19966II ibid 12-15-1907 ‘campers, John Hawkins Camp 7 Seymour & Knower,’ Oscar Danielson, Ole Holm and others (Week [Lumber Co] camp).’ Combs 2=14 cents, rubbers [boots] $1.25, cards 25 cents, cigars 25 cents, mirrors 2=20 cents, envelopes 7=7 cents, shirt $1.00, Christmas cards 15 cents, handerchiefs (sic) 15 cents; ‘campers’ as used here refers to workers at logging companies. The John Week Lumber Co logged and drove logs on the Rib River for many years-RPR 10-11-2016.

19966JJ ibid 12-20-1907, Ed Klein & G. Wittke, candy pail 75 cents, pencil boxes 30 cents, Xmas stocking 20 cents, tinsel garland 29 cents, yeast 5 cents, top 10 cents, cornacupias (sic) 24 cents, whistle 5 cents, peanuts 17 cents, books 4, book 25, wire fasteners 5, ball 5, candy 17, candles 10, socks 25, stockings 30, handkerchiefs 35, suspenders 30, chair 30, snare wire 5, harmonica 5, cookies 12, plug (tobacco) 10, F.F.A. tobacco 42, brush 12, herrings (fish) 70, necklace 92; items apparently to decorate for Christmas and as gifts-RPR 10-11-2016

19966KK ibid 12-20-1907 Mrs. McCluskey [Christmas shopping] dolls 5 cents, tinsel garland 24 cents, necklace 10 cents, knives 24 cents, chair 30 cents, cornucopias 12 cents, whitels 10 cents, book 1 cent, hickory nuts 7 cents.

19966LL ibid 12-24-1907 Ignatius Fuchs, walnuts 81 cents, candy 35 cents, filberts 35 cents, popcorn 20 cents, peanuts 10 cents

19966MM ibid 12-25-1907 Week Lumber Co, nails 35 cents, apples 10 cents

19966NN ibid 1-18-1900 Otto Scheuer, 2 pks cards ‘I suppose for John Meyer’ 20 cents, 1 box colors 5 cents, half pound standard tobacco 15 cents

19966OO ibid 1-19-1908 Ole Holm ‘et al’ envelopes 10 cents, cards 4 cents, molasses 21 cents, sheepskin socks 55 cents, pen holder 5 cents, pens 5 cents; ‘campers (2 strangers),’ cards 22 cents, ccards 9 cents, envelopes 5 cents, pipes 15 cents, combs 14 cents, candy 10 cents, tablet 5 cents

19966PP ibid 1-21-1909 Gottlieb Wittke 100 [pounds] Id corn $1.60, 100 pounds oatmeal $2.00; August Meyer Hemning ‘chgd’ [charged] 90 cents

19966QQ ibid 1-24-1908 ‘Weeks cook, et al’ [cook from John Week Lumber Co and others from this lumber camp], gold leaf (tobacco) 40 cents, standard (tobacco) 15 cents, cigar clippings 30 cents

19966RR ibid 1-30-1908 Fritz Haas, plug (tobacco) 20 cents, yeast 14 cents, saleratus 8 cents, raisins 14 cents, sugar 2 cents, coffee 20 cents, macaroni (sic) 10 cents

19966SS ibid 2-3-1908 Weeks [John Week Lumber Co] (lunch carrier), F.F.A. tobacco 5 cents [the man taking lunch to lumberjacks of the John Week Lumber Co stopped and bought tobacco-RPR 10-13-2016]

19966TT ibid 2-9-1908 ‘campers Hobart & Seriso et al,’ Valentine 25 cents, 6 post cards 31 cents, comic valentine 3 cents, cob pipes 25 cents

19966UU ibid 2-21-1908 Gladys Knower, slate pencil 2 cents; Annie Lebano, soap 25 cents, syrup 20 cents, Blano (sic) 25 cents, thread 12 cents, candy 5 cents

19966VV ibid 2-24-1908 Joseph Wittke, corn $1.65, lamp chimney 10 cents, oil 13 cents; camper, tobacco 10 cents, matches; August Heilscher, pencil 1 cent, oatmean 25 cents, tablet 5 cents, butter 66 cents [balance forwarded] $610.92. [This ends the ‘Fall & Winter 1907 Sales Cash’ ledger of George Knower, dba Interwald General Store-RPR 10-13-2016.] NB only pages selected by RPR were reproduced here; over one half of the pages in the ledger were not scanned here.

19967 Ledger of George Knower, dba Interwald General Store ‘Sales charged 9-1907 to 2-14-1908 - cover

19967A ibid 9-18-1907 Ski Webb, salt 15 cents, fly paper 5 cents; Max Knower 1 badge pin Interwalder [man from Interwald in German] 60 cents [6 identical pins charged to John Fishbeck, C.W. Kraus, Herman Lemke, Ed Klein, Albert Jarchow, Mike Brahmer, Emil Anderson.]

19967A-2 ibid 9-20-1907 Week Lumber Co, 10 pounds of nails 35 cents, butter $1.77

19967B ibid 9-23-1907 Franz Rudolf, Alsike clover 10 pounds for $1.50, red clover 10 pounds for $1.70, timothy grass seed 10 pounds (no price shown)

19967C ibid 10-1-1907 Week Lumber Co, 8 dozen eggs at 18 cents a dozen $1.44

19967D ibid 10-12-1907 Albert Jarchow, chocolate 15 cents, candy 10 cents, hunting license $1.25

19967E ibid 11-10-1907 Mark Knower, shirt $1.00, coveralls 75 cents

19967F ibid 11-25-1907 Leon Mombro, salmon 15 cetns

19967G ibid 12-4-1907 Herman Lemke, 1 barrel of salt $1.50; Max Knower, shoe strings 2 cents

19967H ibid 11-9-1908 Week Lumber Co, 5 gallons oil 65 cents, for log scaler, crayon 5 cents

19967I ibid 2-8-1908 Week Lumber Co, 8 bars soap 50 cents

19967J ibid 2-21-1908 John Fishbeck, 1 pair shoes 45 cents, Franz Rudolf, popcorn 20 cents [this ends the sale charges ledger by George Knower, dba Interwald General Store].

19968 P. c. 1910 Catholic Church, Westboro, WI, interior. NB-pews have railing dividing them in half.

19968A ibid postcard postdated 11-20-1912

Herbert Magnuson collection

19969 Certificate 6-13-1929 by Free & Accepted Masons of State of Wisconsin creating Lodge #346 in Village of Rib Lake; A) Worshipful Master-Clarence C. Smith; B) Senior Warden-Frank J. Hayward; C) Junior Warden-Orrin Reistad, part 1

19969A ibid introduction

19970 7-2016 Masons of Rib Lake; a short history; interview notes of Mason Herbert Magnuson by Robert P. Rusch

19970A ibid p. 2

19970B ibid p. 3 Herbert Magnuson geneology

19970C Magnuson homestead map

19971 W. 1914 Rib Lake steam hauler fatal accident

19971A Rib Lake herald article 3-6-1914 re fatal steam hauler accident killing Darwin Whyte on 3-3-1914 in Section 1, 33N-R2E

19972 7-22-1926 Charter, Rib Lake Council No. 306 Fraternal Reserve Assocation - top

19972A ibid officers; President-Guy Wallace; Vice Pres-George Stelling; Secretary-Willaim Johnson; Treasurer-Hy Davidson; Sergeant, Doorkeeper, Messenger, Judges; 27 charter members, including Constance Rusch, lka Connie Swatkowski

Alfred ‘Al’ Unick collection

19973 c. 1920 Ad, Henry A. Fleming, pocket protector ‘headquarters for the best liquors & cigars, Rib Lake, Wis.’ Fleming Bar & Pool Hall, ‘the Arcade,’ was on Lot 4, Block B, MRPA, see photo 17322 (Fliehs 009), on 10-18-2016 the site is Russ Wudi’s coil appraisal shop

RPR collection

19974 c. 1920 postcard ‘Greetings from Rib Lake, Wisconsin’

19975 P. ‘Birdseye view of Rib River, Wausau, Wis’

19975A ibid, back, postmark 2-15-1938 to Mrs. John Boehm

19976 P. 7-2016 Steve Cihasky at site of old RLLC hot pond points to location of ‘R’ imprint on butt of hemlock log just recovered from Rib Lake. Last logs dumped into Rib Lake for RLLC mill occurred in May of 1948.

19976A P. 7-2016 3 logs recovered from Rib Lake after at least 64 years. Log in foreground still has its hemlock bark

19977 Butt of hemlock log recovered from Rib Lake on 7-2016 bearing two ‘R’ imprints from log hammer. ‘R’ mark is 1 3/8’ high and 1 1/8’ wide and may have been made to identify logs sold to Rib Lake Lumber Co from Rice Lake, Wis, Upper Peninsula of Michigan or Northern Minnesota where RLLC bought logs to augment supply of local logs for its Rib Lake sawmill.

19977A ibid, cross section of hemlock log 7 inches from butt sawed on 1-20-2016. NB-tiny annual growth rings suggest tree grew in virgin timber with heavy comnpetition for water, sunlight and nutrients.

19978 Small end of hemlock log bearing two ‘R’ stamps. Length of log at time of recovery was over 20’ as were 2 companion logs.

19979 fragment of hemlock bark after at least 68 years in Rib Lake.

19980 10-20-2016 Star News ‘Village vots to help show off Rib Lake’s past.’ Photo of Robert P. Rusch displaying photo of A.C. McComb and John J. Kennedy laying out McComb Avenue in Village of Rib Lake in 1897.

19981 8-16-2016 Gilge Family Tree by John Gilge, part 1

19981A ibid part 2

19981B Note by Jim & Gale Gilge 10-24-2016

Collection of Priscilla ‘Peachy’ bermann, nee Yorde, aka Mrs. Herbert Bergmann

19982 Albert Yorde family history papers; spouse-Karolina Enders, and children

19982A 3-19-1895 Auskvenfte (information) from Evangelical Church in Heilersdorf, Austria (document in German)

19982AA ibid, English translation by Frances Burrow

19982B 10-23-1886 Albert Yorde Declaration of Intention to Become a U.S. Citizen

19982C 11-4-1891 Albert Yorde Certificate of Naturalization

19982D 10-15-1907 Marriage Certificate of Albert Yorde & Minna Kutzke

19982E children of Albert Yorde & Karolina Enders

19982EE ibid p. 2 ibid p. 2

19982F Map 10-29-2016 Yorde real estate at Rib Lake; shown on 1913 Standard plat map. Yorde spelled three ways; Yorde, Jorde or Gorde.

19982G 1905 Census-Rib Lake re Albert Yorde and children

19982H 6-12-1898 Edward Yorde enlistment oath into US Army re Spanish-American War

19982I Edward Yorde Veteran’s history

19983 Children of Carl W.E. Yorde and Elsie Edna Ella Scheu

19984 Children of Priscilla Yorde and Herbert Bergmann

19985 Children of Kenneth & Francine Yorde; Lorraine Yorde & Carl Nelsen

19986 Cemetery information re Carl Yorde, et al.

19986A ibid

19987 ‘Who came when to United States’ re Albert Knop, et al.

19987A ibid p. 2

19988 History of Rib Lake 1924 Rib Lake Herald by Alphonse Bonneville [Editor’s note-Actual date of construction of Kennedy sawmill on shores of Rib Lake was 1881-RPR. See Doc. #10912 for photocopy of history dated 2-12-1924.]

19989 Children of Adolf Yorde (1882-1928) and Minne nee Kutzke

19990 Children of Norman Kutzke and Mary Heindl, including stepson Alfred Unick

19990A P. Norman Kutzke farm c. 1980, SW SW 19-33-3E

19991 Children of William Tetzlaff and Bertha Loos

1) Ernest 9/11/1897-4/24/1976

2) Elsa 2/27/1903-9/17/1974, l/k/a Mrs. Eugene Hein; daughter is Phyllis Schwoch, nee Hein

3) William 1/9/1906-2/3/1950

19992 Children of August Mielke and Bertha Tetzlaff

19993 History of Rib lake compiled from newspapers by Priscilla Bergmann, nee Yorde

19993A ibid p. 2

19993B ibid p. 3

19993C ibid p. 4

19994 P. 1949 Priscilla ‘Peachy’ Yorde confirmation photo

19995 P. 1954 Priscilla ‘Peachy’ Yorde high school graduation

19996 7-23-1955 Merrill Daily Herald, ‘to make home in Medford; Priscilla Yorde marries Herbert Bergmann’

19996A ibid p. 2

19997 P. 7-23-1955 Wedding photo; Priscilla Yorde and Herbert Bergmann with parents

19998 P. 7-23-1955 Priscilla Yorde in wedding dress with Irene and Anita

19999 ‘Nominate & Elect Herbert Begmann Taylor County Clerk, Democrat’

20000 P. c. 2005 Enjoy the Ice Age Trail at STH 13 & 102

20001 Map c. 2000 Ice Age & Timms Hill Trail near Rib Lake, National Park Service

20001A Map c. 2000 National Scenic Trails in United States, National Park Service

20001B W. 2000 Wisconsin Glacial Landscape

20002 Not scanned as of 6/28/2016

20003 Map 7-1990 Rib Lake Segment, Ice Age National Scenic Trail, Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation - legend

20003A ibid, Village of Rib Lake & environs

20003B ibid, East Lake to school forest

20003C ibid, CTH D to CTH C

20003D ibid, trails adjacent to CTH C

20003E ibid, trails adjacent to CTH C

20003F ibid, text, historic, scenic, geological, & other noteworthy sites along trail - top

20003G ibid, text, historic, scenic, geological, & other noteworthy sites along trail – bottom

20004 c. 1995 Map, Ice Age Trail Rib Lake & East Lake segments and Timms Hill Trail, Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation - cover

20004A ibid p. 2

20005 c. 2001 pamphlet, Guide to The Ice Age National Scenic Trail-Rib Lake Segment & Timms Hill Trail by Robert P. Rusch

20005A ibid Map & p. 1

20005B ibid p. 2 & 3

20005C ibid p. 4 & 5

20005D ibid p. 6 & 7

20005E ibid p. 8 & 9

20005F ibid p. 10 & 11

20005G ibid p. 12 & 13

20005H ibid p. 14 & 15

20005I ibid p. 16 & 17

20005J ibid p. 18 & 19

20005K ibid p. 20 map of McGillis Pine Cap & p. 21 Timms Hill Trail

20005L ibid p. 22 map of Timms Hill Trail & p. 23 RLLC Camp 2

20005M ibid p. 24 Ritchie Lake & p. 25 Steam hauler cut

20005N ibid p. 26 Blomberg Bridge & p. 27 Highway to Heaven

20005O ibid p. 28 Timms Hill, fka Ostergren’s Kula & p. 29 credits

20005P Map

20006 Pamphlet c. 2005 IAT, National Park Service - cover

20006A ibid map, Glacial lakes of Wisconsin

20006B ibid Glacial lobes

20007 Map 10-30-2003 Rib Lake Ski Trails, Rib Lake Ski Club; NB-Ski Trail and IAT use the same pathway

20007A ibid – cover Welcome to Taylor County Rib Lake

20008 Rib Lake Reroute Project Route; a new Ice Ag Trail route from Rib Lake school forest to CTH C

20009 Map 11-19-2014 Estimated Structure Needs Rib Lake Segment of reroute

20010 L. 12-9-2014 Reroute planning by Tim Malzahn

20010A ibid W. Rib Lake segments reroute estimated costs are $139,554

20011 P. 2014 Ann Rusch cooks breakfast for a smiling Tim Malzahn

20012 P. 2014 Robert P. Rusch and his beloved Stihl chainsaw

20013 P. 6-23-2013 sign Appalachian Trail

20014 P. 6-23-2013 sign Appalachian Trail

20015 P. 2013 sign Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Trail

20016 P. 6-27-2013 sign Welcome to Schoenwalde

20017 P. 6-27-2013 Tree farm sign on Rusch land

20018 P. 2013 Mike Wollmer, executive director of Ice Age Trail Alliance and Ann Rusch cook at Segerdahl, home of Lorraine Killion, for Ice Age Trail open house

20018A P. 2014 L-R Kevin Thusius, Ice Age Trail Alliance director of land conservation, Mike Wollmer & Ken Spellman at open house

20019 P. 2014 Kevin Thusius

20020 P. 2014 L-R David Tlusty, Registered Land Surveyor & Buzz Meyer, High Point Chapter Coordinator

20021 P. 2014 Mike Wollmer

20022 P. 9-13-2014 Kevin Thusius presents award to Ann Rusch

20023 P. 1-2015 Bob Rusch’s car, Ran 100, at Rusch Preserve

20024 P. 1-2015 sign Martha & Herman Rusch preserve, named for parents of Robert Rusch

20025 P. 1-2015 Timms Hill Trail-south terminus, at Rusch Preserve

20026 P. 1-2015 Timms Hill Trail sign, blazes red for Timms Hill Trail, and silver for Old Tote Road at north side of Rustic Road No. 1

20027 P. 3-2016 2 feet of snow atop glacial embankment sign

20028 P. 3-2016 Mike Quednow grooms trails for Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club

20029 3-2016 Map of ski trails and Rusch Preserve when it was 35 acres in size.

20030 P. 3-2013 Ann Rusch & Tim Malzahn at Waldheim, home of Ann & Bob Rusch

20031 P. 7-2016 Ann Rusch provides cold Huber Bock to Timms Hill Trail campers at Stille Nacht campground.

20032 P. 2014 Mobile Skills crew at Rusch Preserve

20033 P. 2014 Mike Wollmer

20034 sticker I help build the IAT

20035 P. 2014 L-R Steve Peters & Dennis Kuehling at Camp 6 site

20036 sticker-Mobile Skills Crew

20036A banner-Welcome IAT Volunteeers

20037 P. 6-2014 Mobile Skills Crew doing preliminary IAT construction on Rusch Preserve

20038 P. 6-2014 Mobile Skills Crew taking break at Heilige Nacht campsite

20039 P. 6-2014 L-R Jason Dorgon, board member, & Jerry Sazama, retired Chippewa County attorney, at Wood Lake cook tent

20040 P. 6-2014 Mobile Skills Crew members enjoy supper at Wood Lake

20041 P. 10-2014 Timms Hill Trail sign at CTH C crossing

20042 P. 10-2014 Timms Hill seen from Bass Lake

20043 P. 10-2014 Timms Hill fire tower

20044 P. 3-2015 John Madden, superintendant, IAT for National Park Service sign in at base of Timms Hill tower

20045 P. 4-2015 Initial blue flagging for Timms Hill Trail and brushing by Robert P. Rusch on Rusch Preserve

20046 P. 4-2015 Initial blue flagging for Timms Hill Trail and brushing by Robert P. Rusch on Rusch Preserve

20047 ibid, stakes are south boundary of Scheithauer parcel

20048 P. 6-2015 Dave Caliebe

20049 P. 6-2015 Dave Caliebe

20050 P. 6-2015 Dave Caliebe

20051 2015 Mobile Skills Crew schedule; May 27-31 and Sept 15-30 at Rib Lake

20052 P. 5-27-2015 Ice Age Trail event sign at Rusch Preserve

20053 P. 5-23-2015 Dennis Kuehling (right) & fellow Mobile Skills Crewman

20054 P. 5-2015 sign; Forest Stewardship, Kristin Strobach nee Rusch forty, SW SE 12-33-2E

20055 P. 5-2015 4WD diesel tractor, generously loaned by Kris & Rodney Strobach, sorts stone

20056 P. 5-2015 Lee ‘Butch’ Clendenning powers come-a-long to move stone

20057 P. 5-2015 Tim Malzahn and fellow Mobile Skills crew move rocks

20058 P. 5-2015 Buzz Meyer, right, and fellow Mobile Skills Crew member build retaining wall for Ice Age Trail

20059 P. 5-2015 Retaining wall and beautiful new IAT on Strobach parcel. Well done.

20060 P. 9-18-2015 Kris Strobach and Marley admire 'her' retaining wall

20061 P. 9-2015 Mobile Skills Crew trailer

20062 P. 9-2015 Mobile Skills Crew trailer

20063 P. 9-30-2015 Marley is dog that boosts morale

20064 P. 9-29-2015 Middle school students build Ice Age Trail

20065 P. 9-18-2015 Kris Strobach on her land; gorgeous new Ice Age Trail

20066 P. 9-18-2015 Kris Strobach on her land; photo negative at Rib Lake Historical Society R4. Caption on photo reads: ‘9/18/2015 Kris Strobach’s beautifully managed forest makes a spectacular, almost magical route for just-constructed Ice Age National Scenic Trail.’

20067 P. 9-18-2015 L-R Kris Strobach & Rachel Riehle of Wausau

20068 P. 9-18-2015 Bob Rusch & daughter, Kris Strobach, nee Kristin Karen Bethany Leona Martha Rusch

20069 P. 9-18-2015 Mike McCabe of Marshfield & long-time IAT supporter

20070 P. 9-18-2015 Mobile Skills Crew lunch time; Marley loves petting from Kevin Thusius

20071 P. 9-18-2015 Tim Malzahn, center, at Mobile Skills Crew lunch

20072 P. 9-18-2015 Tim Malzahn and brand new IAT on NW SE 12-33-2E

20073 P. 9-18-2015 Marley is thinking

20074 P. 9-18-2015 Circuit Court Judge from Dodge County is a skier and loves Mobile Skills Crew. His Honor is Steven G. Bauer, Dodge County Justice Facility, 210 West Center, Juneau, WI 53039, phone 920-386-4050, fax 920-386-3587.

20075 P. 9-2015 Buckets are an indispensible trail building tool

20076 P. 9-2015 Using lopping shears to remove protruding branches from path is a finishing touch

20077 P. 9-2015 David Caliebe takes meticulous notes

20078 P. 9-20-2015 Tim Malzahn with hikers OK, no horses nor ATV signs

20079 ibid; signs temporarily nailed to trees

20080 P. 9-20-2015 A tired but happy Tim Malzahn jokes with Mobile Skills Crew as they say adieu at Sunday noon

20081 P. 10-14-2015 Scott Komarek with his skid steer prepares to build Timms Hill Trail from Rustic Road No. 1 south 200 feet to Scheithauer bridge.

20082 P. 10-14-2015 Front end loader on trailer

20083 P. 10-14-2015 Rustic Road No. 1

20084 P. 10-14-2015 New Timms Hill Trail route after first pass by Scott Komarek

20085 P. 10-14-2015 Scott Komarek with first of 3 truck loads of crushed gravel to build a smooth Ice Age Trail

20086 P. 10-14-2015 Timms Hill Trail built no wider than the machine

20087 ibid; crushed gravel packed and reflecting in the setting sun

20088 P. 10-14-2015 4 pm; Ryan Strobach proudly displays shovel and rake he used to complete Timms Hill Trail north to Rustic Road No. 1

20089 P. c. 11-1-2015 Craig Zirngible, owner of C&D Lumber, loads used railroad ties on Bob Rusch's 1985 Ford F-150

20090 P. c . 11-7-2015 L-R John Hein & Butch Clendenning with railroad ties for Scheithauer bridge base

20091 P. c. 11-7-2015 front-Steve Peters & Butch Clendenning; back-Dennis Kuehling & John Hein, carry railroad tie to Scheithauer bridge site

20092 P. c. 11-20-2015 base for Scheithauer bridge covered by early snow

20093 P. 10-2015 John Hein after mounting sign at Camp 6 site at Rusch Preserve

20094 P. 10-2015 John Hein after mounting sign at Camp 6 site at Rusch Preserve

20095 P. 12-5-2015 L-R Lloyd Keuhling, master carpenter from Colby, & Butch Clendenning at Rusch barn, 'deu Schuppen,' prepare to construct Scheithauer bridge for Timms Hill Trail; negatives in T-6

20096 P. 12-15-2015 Lloyd Kuehling eyes 2x12x20 treated yellow pine for stronger sign; 'marathons are just for kicks' celebrates 200th marathon or ultra marathon for Bob Rusch

20096A P. 12-15-2015 father and son, Dennis & Lloyd Kuehling

20097 P. 12-5-2015 Butch Clendenning saws 2x12 pieces for spacers between 5 stringers

20098P. 12-5-2015 Butch Clendenning saws 2x12 pieces for spacers between 5 stringers

20099 P. 12-5-2015 Scheithauer bridge frame of five 2x12x20’s completed. L-R Butch Clendenning, Ann Rusch, Dennis & Lloyd Kuehling

20100 P. 12-14-2015 Ryan Strobach bolts hand railing posts to bridge frame

20101 P. 1-15-2016 Tim Malzahn tests bridge decking

20102 P. 2-2016 L-R Bekah & Kris Strobach move bridge out of barn.

20103 P. 3-2016 Randy Thums (in cab of hoe) loads bridge on trailer; L-R John Hein & Dan Thums

20104 P. 3-2016 Scheithauer bridge on trailer ready for 3 mile trip to site; L-R Butch Clendenning, Dan Thums, Tom Rusch & John Hein

20105 P. 3-2016 bridge lowered by backhoe onto crib of railroad ties; crew holds guide ropes; L-R John Hein, Dan Thums, Tom Rusch & Butch Clendenning

20106 P. 3-12-2012 Ryan Strobach, holding drills, completes railings

20107 P. 3-12-2016 far right-Ryan Strobach, holding carpenter’s square; above-Dennis & Cathy Scheithauer, for whom bridge is named, with some of Dennis’ children and grandchildren

20108 P. 4-2016 North approach to Scheithauer Bridge under construction

20109 P. 4-2016 George Sandul, retired US Geological Surveyor, surveying Rusch Preserve in preparation to create detailed, scale map

20110 P. 4-2016 George Sandul

20111 P. 4-2016 George Sandul at RLLC Camp 6 site

20112 P. 4-2016 ‘Trail reroute’ sign at Rusch Preserve

20113 4-18-2016 Dave Caliebe checks flagging on Butler property for future Timms Hill Trail

20114 P. P. 5-19-2016 Volunteer, using 4WD diesel tractor generously loaned by Kris & Rodney Strobach, moves rock in grapple at rear to future retaining wall site, ‘the Palisades’

20114A 5-19-2016 The handy grapple holding the stone was manufactured by a Rib Lake craftsman at Rodney Strobach's local garage & truck repair shop.

20114B 5-19-2016 Some of the boulders used in Timms Hill Trail construction weighed more than 400 pounds a piece.

20115 P. 5-18-2016 second growth hemlock on NW SE 12-33-2E

20116 2016 Mobile Skills Crew trail building events for May 18-22, 2016 in Rib Lake

20117 P. 5-18-2016 sign-Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve

20118 P. 5-19-2016 moving boulders with the grapple. The tractor operator is Jerome Converse, W8339 R&W Townline Rd, Whitewater, WI 53190, phone 262-473-7304.

20119 P. 5-19-2016 Boulders – temporarily stored atop the hill

20120 P. 5-19-2016 Roughing in the Timms Hill Trail at broken balsam

20121 P. 5-19-2016 Bob Funk holds brake rope as volunteer puts boulder in place

20122 P. 5-19-16 Bob Funk puts brake rope around tree

20122A P. 5-19-16 Buzz Meyer puts boulder into position for downhill ride

20123 P. 5-19-16 under constant control by Bob Funk & brake rope, boulder glides downhill

20124 P. 5-19-16 boulder lowered into its permanent position in retaining wall

20125 P. 5-19-16 Jason Dorgan, blue hat with yellow stripe, and the retaining wall gang

20126 P. 5-20-16 L-R Bev & Bob Butler, Jason Dorgan, admire spectacular new trail. Butler’s generously donated both a trail and conservation easement for the Timms Hill Trail.

20126A P. 5-20-16 Tamara Funk, far left, steadies brake rope as her father, Bob Funk, far right, watches boulder move down a 200 foot run

20127 P. 5-20-16 brand new Timms Hill Trail

20128 P. 5-20-16 brand new Timms Hill Trail

20129 P. 5-20-16 Tim Malzahn is first person to tent at Heilige Nacht campsite

20130 P. 5-19-16 Wanda Brown, St. Croix Falls, WI, holds grinding stone she uncovered while digging IAT tread on Ann Rusch’s forty, NE SE 12-33-2E.

20130A P. 5-19-16 Grinding stone next to leather wallet for perspective

20130B P. 5-21-16 approximate location where grinding stone was found, NW NE SE 12-33-2E, Town of Rib Lake

20130C P. Pot hole and grinding stone from c. 2005 Ice Age Trail pamphlet by National Park Service

20130D Map 6-1-2016 Interstate Park in Minnesota, location of numerous pot holes and grinding stones, arrow shows location of grinding stone found by Wanda Brown on 5-17-16

20131 P. 5-22-16 Dave Caliebe (right) says good-bye as Mobile Skills Crew breaks camp

20132 P. 5-22-16 Mobile Skills Crew trailer

20133 P. 5-22-16 Mobile Skills Crew trailer

20134 L. 5-23-2016 RPR to Tim Malzhan

20134A Log Cabin County sketch by Ellen Nibbelink

20135 P. 5-23-16 First hikers to use new trail through Rusch Preserve to Rustic Road. Jim & Judy Kennedy of Waunakee begin hike to Timms Hill at 8 am

20135A P. 5-23-16 Jim & Judy Kennedy of Waunakee on hike to Timms Hill

20136 P. 5-23-16 Jim & Judy Kennedy pose on ‘the Palisades’

20137 P. 5-23-16 Jim & Judy Kennedy on new Timms Hill Trail and temporary IAT at Rustic Road No. 1

20137A email 5-25-2016 Jim & Judy Kennedy to Mike Wollmer re May 23 meeting with Bob Rusch

20138 P. 5-23-16 New boardwalk on Ann Rusch forty, NE SE 12-33-2E

20139 P. 5-23-16 new step stone and unnamed bridge on Kris Strobach forty, SW SE 12-33-2E

20140 L. 7-8-2016 Tim Malzahn to Ann & Bob Rusch

20140A ibid back, Map 7-25-2016 Mobile Skills Crew Rib Lake & Wood Lake project sites

20140B ibid 7-25-2016 Mobile Skills Crew Lake Eleven project site.

20141 P. 7-2016 Mobile Skills Crew members do stone work near kiosk on Rusch Preserve

20142 P. 7-29-2016 Ryan Strobach admires new inviting steps of new IAT and THT in Rusch Preserve

20143 Map 7-29-2016 ‘inviting steps’ new IAT & Timms Hill Trail in Rusch Preserve by RPR

20144 P. 7-31-2016 ‘inviting steps’ new start of IAT & Timms Hill Trail at kiosk, Rusch Preserve

20145 Memo, Tim’s [Malzahn] Masterpiece re inviting steps by RPR

20146 P. 7-31-2016 ‘inviting steps,’ IAT & Timms Hill Trail blazes

20147 P. 7-31-2016 ‘inviting steps’ and Brandenburg gate

20147A memo by RPR on ‘inviting steps,’ Tim’s masterful stone work which nicely separates skiers and hikers

20148 P. 7-31-2016 view through Brandenburg Gate, Rusch Preserve

20149 P. 7-31-2016 sign ‘Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve’

20150 P. 7-31-2016 IAT temporary route on ski trail at Rusch Preserve

20151 P. 7-31-2016 Camp 6 bridge on Ron Becker 1995. A ski and utility bridge at Rusch Preserve

20152 P. 8-1-2016 sign-Timms Hill Trail-hiking route-Rusch Preserve on Rustic Road 1

20152A ibid spiffy signage

20153 P. 8-1-2016 THT built with crushed gravel

20154 P. 8-1-2016 posts for new kiosk at Rustic Road

20155 P. 8-1-2016 Brandenburg gate and, right, ‘inviting steps’ at Rusch Preserve

20155A ibid

20156 6-22-2017 IAT & Timms Hill Trail trail register from Kuehling’s kiosk, Rusch Preserve-cover

20156A ibid, entry #1, George Sandul, Wausau, maker of register box, and thru hiker & IAT volunteer

20156B ibid p. 2 8-22-17 “Ken Holmes, great job on trails.”

20156C ibid p. 3, entry 9-19-2017 “An outstanding additional feature (interpretive) to the IAT. Congratulations. By far, the best I have seen since leaving Sturgeon Bay on 28 July, 2017 (thru-hiker to St. Croix State Park) signed J.J. King, Jackson, Wyoming”

20156D ibid p. 4 Lloyd & Dennis Kuehling

20156E ibid p. 5 11-24-2017, the Ice Age Trail is beautiful. It was so much fun to walk on it. It is also cool that I did this hike because my great-grandma and great-grandpa are the starters of this so it’s cool. Signed Trinity Riggs, age 11.

20156F ibid p. 6, 11-24-2017 Scott Riggs, Crystal, Minnesota

20156G ibid p. 7 12-22-17 “Great experience at mile 0 on IAT.” Signed Jim Dillon, Decatur, Georgia.”

20157 L. 1-17-2018 Bob Funk IAT Alliance board member to RPR

20157A ibid cover P. trail and construction

20157B ibid envelope NB-IAT logo

20157C ibid logo and mission statement

20158 2018 “60 years” logo, Ice Age Trail Alliance, fka Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation, established in 1958

20159 L. 3-15-2018 Mike Wollmer, executive director, IAT Alliance to RPR

20160 2018 Ice Age Trail Alliance 2018 Mobile Skills Crew Events

20160A ibid back

20161 P. c. 2017 Pike Lake Unit, Kettle Moraine State Forest on IAT

20161A ibid back, Observation Tower in park on IAT donated by family

20162 Sticker “Friends of Pike Lake,” Pike Lake Unit, Kettle Moraine State Forest

20163 P. c. 2017 Candlelite snow trail, Friends of Pike Lake

20164 Map 2016 Washington Co, Wis. “Park & Trail Map” cover.

20164A ibid Map IAT at Pike Lake

20164B ibid IAT between Hartford & Slinger

20164C ibid IAT through Monches & Loew’s Lake

20164D ibid IAT “units” of Kettle Moraine State Forest, islands of state land in metropolitan SE Wisconsin

20165 W. Spring 2018 “Heart Prairie Region-Part II.” The Schuppernong Journal

20165A ibid p. 2 In hand digging a well, pioneers found a tamerack tree 85 feet below the surface in Wisconsin. In 1975 RPR had a dam constructed at his home when a backhoe uncovered an entire beaver dam of mud and wood showing clear signs of beaver nawing beginning 4 feet beneath the earth’s natural surface. The Rib Lake Historical Society preserves a beaver cut 18” long and 5” in diameter round wood log found by backhoe.

20166 Ancient beaver cut wood log, 3” in diameter and 16” long with pointed ends found by RPR in 1975 4 feet beneath the surface of then existsing natural earth surface. Log was part of ancient beaver dam uncovered by backhoe operated by Armin Buehler hired by RPR to construct a dam and flowage over tag alder wetland approximately 250 feet west of CTH C and 100 feet north of RPR’s driveway leading to his home at N8643 CTH C in SE NE 13-33-2E, See 20167 for map dated 3-30-2018 by RPR. Log is in collection & archives of Rib Lake Historical Society and has been varnished for preservation.

20166A ibid side of log

20166B ibid p. 3

20166C ibid p. 4

20166D ibid point of log

20166E ibid other point of log

20167 Map 3-30-2018 Site of ancient beaver dam log discovered in 1975 4 feet below the earth’s surface by R.P. Rusch when constructing a dam at N8643 CTH C in SE NE 13-33-2E. Beaver log is scanned as 20166.

(*** saving for Ice Age Trail material – to 20199)

20200 P. c. 1990 Mr. & Mrs. Herbert & Priscilla Bergmann, nee Yorde

20201 P. 1955 Priscilla Bergmann’s homemade creations

20202 P. c. 1960 children of Herbert Bergmann and Priscilla Yorde

1) Susan

2) Cindy

20203 P. c. 1930 Elsie Yorde nee Scheu and son Richard, ‘Dickie’

20204 P. c. 1940 L-R Mr. & Mrs. Elsie & Carl Yorde & son ‘Butch,’ and Mrs. Irene Winkler; in rear; former RLLC Camp 18 building

20205 P. 4-1944 Butch, Lavern & Kenneth Yorde on Farmall tractor with steel lugs-not pneumatic tires

20206 P. 1948 Farm home of Carl & Elsie Yorde, Town of Corning, Lincoln Co., Wis

20207 P. c. 1935 ‘Slim’ & ‘Butch,’ Yorde sitting on milk cans at their farm home; rear-pile of cedar shingles for reroofing former RLLC Camp 18 buildings used as Yorde farmhouse and barn

20208 P. c. 1951 L-R Donald, David & Lorraine Yorde in front of new dairy barn on Carl & Elsie Yorde farm.

Carl & Dorothy Nelson, nee Yorde, collection

20209 c. 1920 jobber lumber camp of James Peterson cutting for RLLC in Town of Corning, Lincoln County, WI

20210 P. 9-11-1930 Heigel Construction Co paving near STH 13 near Medford

20211 P. 9-14-1930 Mengel Construction Co celebrates completion of paving STH 13 at Medford

20212 P. 1928 James Peterson jobber camp for RLLC decking, i.e. piling, hemlock logs with horses, Town of Corning, Lincoln Co, WI

20213 P. 1927 James Peterson jobber camp for RLLC – portion of buildings and crew

20214 P. 1927 ‘Headed back to work after dinner’ James Peterson logging crew, Town of Corning, leaves lunch spot in forest to return to afternoon of work

20215 P. 1927 James Peterson’s jobber camp for RLLC leaving shortly before spring, huge log piles will be moved to Rib Lake sawmill via railroad

20215A P. c. 1927 James Peterson jobber camp for RLLC in Town of Corning, Lincoln Co, WI, ‘bird’s eye view,’ photographer has labeled the buildings: ‘blacksmith shop, hay shed, barn, barn, bunk house, bunk house, cook shanty, office.’

20216 P. c. 1905 Two men gutting freshly-caught trout. Note fly rods.

20216A ibid, back, 8-20-1909 postmark to Belva McWilliam, Milton, WI

20217

20218

20219 Star News 9-15-2016 ‘Our Lady of Perpetual Help celebrates 125th anniversary,’ fka Mutter der Immer wehrender Hilfe.

20219A ibid photos

20220 Map 1916 ‘Rib River Land Co’ Medford. Wild lands, improved and partly improved farms. Taylor Co. by C.H. Paetzold

20220A check 6-11-1919 First National Bank of Wausau by C.H. Paetzold for $4.00

20220B ibid, back side

20221 Abstract of title, Former Henry Klostermann, now Thomas Rusch farm. N ½ SW, Sec. 7, T33N-R3E, Town of Rib Lake, p. 1 3-15-1874 patent to Wisconsin Central Railroad Co.

20221A ibid p. 2 land contract dated 5-21-1894 to J.J. Kennedy; deed 1-31-1899 to Fayette Shaw

20221B ibid p. 3, Deed 8-24-1900 J.J. Kennedy Lbr. Co to Fayette Shaw

20221C ibid p. 4 Deed, Wisconsin Central Railway to Fayette Shaw

20221D ibid p. 5 Deed-Fayette Shaw to E.C. Getchel

20221E ibid p. 5 Deed 3-12-1902 H.S. Hughes, Jr to Henry [Heinrich] Klostermen [Klostermann]; Deed 5-12-1911 ‘Henry Klosterman’s widower to John Culjan. [should this read, Henry Klosterman, widower, to …”]

20221F ibid final decree 10-20-1916 ‘In the matter of the Estate of Henry Klosterman, deceased.’ [no mentio nof a widow or spouse, but heirs; 3 sisters and nieces and nephews, each received a fractional share of the real estate. Signed by W.A. Buckley, county judge

20221G ibid Deed 11-27-1916 Louise Eidman and other heirs to Henry F. Eidman & Henry Vogelpohl

20221GG ibid Bernard J. Swanson & wife Hannah to Marie Draxler. Swanson’s allowed to occupy premises up to 4-1-1933 rent free…also to remove ginseng planted thereon.

20221H ibid Deed 5-22-1972 Leon W. Kaehne, single widower, to Thomas M. Rusch, single person

20221I ibid Deed 5-1973 Thomas M. Rusch to Mary Ann Rusch, his wife [to create a joint tenancy]

20221J 1913 plat map, H. Klostermann homestead & Klostermann Creek highlighted by Rib Lake Historical Society on 1-21-2016. NB-No streams or creeks named on original map

20221K ibid 1913 Map showing total length of Klostermann Creek and Copper Creek flowing into Rib Lake (highlighted in blue)

20221L ibid Map identifcal to K except showing creek long eastern boundary.

20222 not scanned – saved for Klostermann documents from Reg. of Deeds

20223 P. c. 1940 Sunset over Lake Wausau showing Rib Mountain

20224 Brochure 2015 ‘Rib Mountain State Park’

20224A ibid p. 2

20224B ibid p. 3 map

20224C ibid p. 4 map legend

20225 P. c. 1915 Antigo Lumber co. sawmill, Antigo, WI.

20225A ibid back, postmarked 5-1-1915

20226 P. c. 1940 boom of logs in Lake Superior at Ashland, WI

20226A ibid back, ‘logs are brought across Lake Superior to Ashland, Wis. and then shipped by rail to the mills.’

20227 P. c. 1950 ‘Boat landing at Camp Carter,’ South Harper Lake

20227A ibid back, postmarked 8-11-1950 addressed to Reverend Robert Weis

20228 P. c. 1905 ‘City Park, Rib Lake, Wis.’ Bridge over Copper Creek inlet to Rib Lake.

20228A ibid back, postmarked 8-10-1907 Mabelle Adams to Magina Walker ‘8-15-1907 this used to be the park’

20229 P. c. 1908 Nine photos of Westboro, Wisconsin.

20229A ibid back, postdated 9-18-1909 Aunt Rose to Anna Everson

20230 P. c. 1960 ‘Clinic, Rib Lake, Wis. 94’ Newly built medical clinic on west side of McComb Avenue

20230A ibid back, postmarked 7-7-1961 to R. Schoppe, Bensenville, Illinois

20231 8-16-1916 Star News ‘Training School Announcement,’ aka Taylor County Normal School. ‘The school offers a one-year or two-year course.’ Martha H. Gebauer, lka Martha Rusch, completed the one-year course and began teaching at Spirit Lake School c. 1927 at $70 per month

20232 Star News 8-23-1916 Langenberg Brick Co at Whittlesey shipped 50 railroad cars of brick to Park Falls.

20233 Star News 8-23-1916 RLLC new sawmill ‘is rapidly nearing completion’ after 1914 fire. ‘The mill will be 260 feet long and 60 feet wide and equipped with two band saws…’

20234 Star News 5-10-1916 County board members William Gebauer of Whittlesey, representing Town of Chelsea; Joseph Brehm, Rib Lake, chairman; John Schreiner, Town of Greenwood

20234A ibid p. 2, Ernest Zuther, Town of Rib Lake; J.A. Premeau, Town of Westboro.

20235 ‘John J. Kennedy, founder of Rib Lake,’ by Mary Schultz, published in ‘Log Cabin News,’ Taylor County Historical Society newsletter, Volume 22, Issue 4, 9-2016

20235A ibid p. 2

20235B ibid p. 3

20236 Memorial card for Mary Becker 11-4-1913 to 7-19-2016

20236A ibid, back, Photo of Mary Becker with her husband and family on dock in front of her home on Long Lake.

20237 Obit, James Poirier 1955-2016 Star News 10-13-2016

20238 Star News 10-13-2016 ‘Crowds come to say goodbye to longtime Mondeaux Manager, Steve Kalmon.’

RPR collection

20239 ‘The Romance of Wisconsin Place Names,’ by Robert E. Gard, Wisconsin Historical Society - cover

20239A ibid, title page

20239B ibid, p. 278, explanation of origin of place name for Rib Lake. Per RPR, this explanation is erroneous.

20240 Origin of the place name for Rib Mountain set forth within Robert E. Gard’s book The Romance of Wisconsin Place Names. “The ojibwe word for this hill…was O-pic-wan-a or O-pi-gegan-ama, maning “rib,” “back,” “his back.”

20241 P. c. 1929 ‘Rib Mountain State Park, highest elevation in Wisconsin, elevation 1940 feet.’

20241A ibid, back ‘Rib Mountain, 4 miles west of Wausau, elevation 1940 feet, the highest point in Wisconsin, is practically a solid mass of white rock…’

20242 P. c. 1914 ‘Overlooking Rib River from Rib Mountain.’

20243 P. c. 1950 Rib Mountain and junction of Rib and Wisconsin Rivers (a flowage)

20243A ibid, back, ‘Town of Rib Mountain’

20244 10-2016 ‘Lorraine Killion election report,” Democratic Party of Wisconsin re presidential election, Donald Trump v Hillary Clinton, 11-8-2016

20244A back side, ‘Time sensitive election report’

20245 P. c. 1970 McComb Ave, Upjohn’s Store, Standard Gas Station & municipal water tower

20245A ibid, back postdated 7-22-1974 to George Bannick

20246 W. 6-2016 ‘Life at repurposed Camp 18,’ an autobiography by Kenneth Yorde of growing up at former RLLC Camp 18, Town of Corning, Lincoln County, Wisconsin.

20246A ibid p. 2

20247 Fall 2016 ‘Mammoth Tales,’ Ice Age Trail Alliance quarterly magazine - cover

20247A ibid p. 2 Mike Wollmer’s directors report.

20247B ibid p. 3

20247C ibid p. 4 Wisconsin map showing Rusch Preserve in Taylor County.

20247D ibid p. 5 Ann & Bob Rusch make third land donation, their neighbors Dennis & Kathy Scheithauer, Kyle Patrick, Bob & Bev Butler. Photo of trail crossing outwash valley in Rusch Preserve

20247E ibid p. 7 Wood, Rib and Jerry Lake segments

20248 5-2-1896 Shaw v Kirby, 93 wis. 379, 67 N.W. 700, Decision of Wisconsin Supreme Court re homestead exemption

20248A ibid p. 2

20249 ‘Reminiscenses; a History of Medford’ by Pat Mallaley c. 1900, printed in ‘Log Cabin News,’ Taylor County Historical Society Fall 2016

20249A ibid p. 2

20249B ibid p. 3

20250 P. 2015 Robert ‘Bob’ Rusch in Wisconsin River Alliance for end of year brochure

20251 P. L-R Karen, Robin & Herman Rusch at Herman’s 90th birthday party on 10-3-1993.

20251A p. Herman & Martha Rusch with 4 sons; L-R Robert, Thomas, Everett & Gerald, and Gerald’s grandson Ian

20251B P. Herman Rusch and grandson inspect birthday cake

20251C P. Rusch brothers, L-R Everett Arthur, Gerald Allen, Thomas Michael and Robert Paul in 1993

20252 P. c. 1992 Robert and daughter Robin Rusch. Bob is holding VHS camcorder

20253 P. 12-1998 Martha Hedwig Rusch nee Gebauer at her 90th birthday party with sons L-R Gerald, Everett, Robert & Thomas

20254 Envelope 6-3-2016 Karen Rusch to Robert Rusch

20254A Karen Rusch’s birthday wishes to Robert

20254B P. 3-2010 ‘Early dawn’ taken by Karen Rusch from her home of Tannery Pond at sunrise in Village of Rib Lake

20255 L. 6-1-2016 Atty. Bruce Marshall to all Price-Taylor County Bar Association members

20256 P. c. 1950 The Bay, Little Spirit Lake

20256A ibid back postdated 6-22-1953 to Jay Mauch

20257 P. 9-17-2013 Herbert Magnuson holds onto steam hauler chain found by Roger Blomberg c. 2012 in forest near NW tip of Big Spirit Lake, Price County

20258 P. 9-14-2013 Herbert Magnuson holding broken RLLC steam hauler front runner which his father, Harry, recovered c. 3-5-1915 at site of fatal steam hauler accident in Section 1, T33-R3E

20259 P. 8-16-2013 tanker sleigh at Camp 5 history museum at Laona, WI. Barrel was submerged in water, pulled up incline by horse team and tipped upside down into top of sleigh. Sleigh sprinkled water to make or repair ice roads.

20260 6-16-2016 Star News ‘Rib Lake Library gets a boost; Rib Lake picked by state as July ‘Library of the month’ top

20260A ibid bottom

20261 c. 1952 Photo of cars along newly-constructed STH 102 at NE edge of Rib Lake and 200x100’ island of mud, which appeared as fill, was dumped on highway right-of-way

20262 8-15-2016 email by Kristin Strobach ‘notes of RPR re posed picture c. 1915 G.W. Jones Lumber Co, Wabeno, WI pulling 25 sleighs loaded with saw logs

20262A P. c. 1915 G.W. Jones Lumber Co., Laona, WI, pulling 25 sleighs of logs

Karen Baumgartner collection

20263 W. Ole A. Peterson (1882-1965) timeline, p. 1 1882-1909

20263A ibid p. 2 1910-1919

20263B ibid p. 3 1919-1920’s

20263C ibid p. 4 1921-1931

20263D ibid p. 5 1932-1939

20263E ibid p. 6 1941-1962

20263F p. 7 death 10-9-1965 family lore speaks of Ole ‘going broke’ 3 times before he made his fortune;

1) WWI railroad ties

2) Kneeland-McLurg, Phillips, WI, flooring company receivership

3) Loss of Spirit Lake farm (golf course); creditor foreclosed moretgage and Ole could not pay (Karen Baumgartner is daughter of Ruth Batzer, nee Peterson, and granddaughter of Ole)

20264 7-5-2016 W. Descendants of Ole A. & Jennie (Pederson) Peterson.

20265 7-21-2016 email, Karen Baumgartner to RPR re Peterson Concrete Products

RPR collection

20266 P. c. 1929 ‘City Hall, Rib Lake, Wis. No 384’ This combined village hall and municipal garage still stands in 2016 as the ‘village garage/public works’ department, 741 McComb Ave.

20267 P. 1948 ‘last load of lumber from the old mill.’ RLLC rear-machine shop, which in 2016 is the office and plant of Wisco Stone Co.

20268 P. c. 1940 Wissota Dam & Hydro Plant, Chippewa Falls, Wis. 18

20269 L. 10-23-1903 M.L. Lemon, dba Lemon Furniture, Notions & Undertaking, to Kiel Table Co, Kiel, Wis. Lemon’s store.

20269A ibid, text of letter

20270 W. 7-13-2016 The Star News ‘made in Wisconsin’

20270A ibid p. 2 ‘building a better board; American Sports Laminate ships its products around the globe.’ Jay and Sue Winkler, dba American Sports Laminate, manufacture from old RLLC dry kiln building, 630 McComb Ave.

20270B ibid p. 3 P. Jenny Reichert

20271 L. Price Electric Cooperative 1940-2015, 75th anniversary booklet - cover

20271A ibid inside cover

20271B ibid p. 1 incorporation 7-9-1940

20271C ibid p. 2 ‘spite lines’

20271D ibid p. 3

20271E ibid p. 4 1960

20271F ibid p. 5 1970 downburst 7-4-1977

20271G ibid p. 6 1980

20271H ibid p. 7 1990

20271I ibid p. 8 2000

20271J ibid p. 9 2010; photo board, including Michael Meier ‘District 1, Rib Lake, Hill, Spirit & Town of Tomahawk’

20271K ibid p. 10

20271L ibid p. 11

20271M ibid p. 12

20271N ibid p. 13

20271O ibid back cover

20272 W. Spring, 2016 Soo Line mile posts, pulibcation of Soo Line Historical & Technical Society archives, ‘Stanley, Merrill & Phillips Railroad,’ by Laird Ross, page 1

20272A ibid, map 2016, Stanley, Merrill & Phillips Railroad, by Laird Ross

20272A-1 ibid p. 2

20272B ibid p. 3, photo of motor car No. 20 ‘the grasshopper’

20272C ibid p. 4 credits

20273 Map c. 1908 Bromberg and village of Karlsdorf (Karlsforf bei Bromberg) (Kapusciska) from which Herrmann Emanuel Rusch emigrated on 6-12-1884 (date he landed at Baltimore, Maryland)

20273A ibid, location ‘Karlsdorf’ highlighted in red

20273B ibid southeast corner of map showing Weichsel (Vistula) River

20273C ibid NE corner of map, including legend (Zeichewklaerung) original publisher Reichsamtes fuer landesaufnahme, republished bundltamt fuer kartographie and geodasie)

20273D ibid NW corner of map – forest & fields – Province of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia

20273E ibid “Ancestral Rusch Village; Karlsdorf bei Bromberg”

20274 c. 6-2016 note by Christa, Roger & Robert Rusch to Bob, Ann & Marley

20275 W. 1-14-2017 Hierse-Rusch relationship chart by RPR

20275A Email 6-19-2016 Wolfgang Hierse to RPR re Rosemarie Kuchinke, nee Hierse

20276 [save for Rosemarie Kuchinke obit]

20277 c. 1940 Sawmill at Rib Lake; Rib Lake Lumber Co, Quality Lumber, 31” L-R planing mill (partially hidden), 3 vents, identifcal brick vents above dry kiln, which had three long, narrow chambers, tramway, newly installed “cyclone” tube to move planing debris eastward to boiler room.

20278 P. c. 1946 ‘Main Street, Rib Lake, Wis. 36’ view south on McComb Ave. R-L The (Rib Lake) Herald building. The north half is occupied by the newspaper and print shop, the south half appears vacant. A white bulletin board is a World War II honor roll. At left the ‘Laker’ new brick move theater stands in the SE corner of McComb & Landall.

20279 P. c. 1950 ‘Weinbrenner Shoe Factory, Rib Lake, Wis. 63’ in 2016 the building, now vacant, still stands in the NE corner of Kennedy Street & Fayette Avenue.

20280 P. c. 1950 ‘High School, Rib Lake, Wis. 68’ view south from Fayette Avenue of 1906 high school and 1927 annex, both razed in 1983.

20281 W. 8-12-2016 ‘Around the World with God’s Word,’ Family Vacation Bible School, St. Pter’s Lutheran Church

20281A ibid p. 2

20282 Map 11-10-2000 Rib Lake Ski Trails

20282A Membership Application – Rib Lake Area Nordic Ski Club.

20283 P. c. 1910 probable Westboro Lumber Co camp, decked saw logs being piled on logging railroad flat car

20283A ibid, back postmarked 4-14-1910 to Lina Carlson, Worcester, Mass

20284 W. 2016 Susan J. Frazier, MD, Rib Lake Clinic-biography

20285 W. 2016 Michellse Brost, Family Nurse Practitioner, Rib Lake Clinic

20286 11-13-2016 Phyllis Schwoch, nee Hein (1929-2016) obit, Star News

20287 P. c. 1910 ‘Knower’s at Interwald, Wis. in the good old summertime.’ Center building is post office and George Knower’s general store & residence

20287A ibid back postmarked 1-28-1911 Interwald ‘Knower’s studio,’ Wis – Rare Photo Post Cards, rural and farm, industrial & forest, camp & game.

Theresa Overbeck, nee Obowa, Judy Gregor, nee Obowa and Mary Obowa, OSF, collection

20288 Descendants of Robert Gebauer, Town of Greenwood pioneer (c. 1820-1864)

20288A ibid p. 2

20288B ibid p. 3

20288C ibid p. 4

20288D ibid p. 5

20288E ibid p. 6

20288F ibid p. 7

20288G ibid p. 8

20288H ibid p. 9

20288I ibid p. 10

20288J ibid p. 11

20289 11-14-2016 Invoice of Robert Thums Trucking

20290 2016 – logs recovered from Rib Lake by Steve Cihasky

20291 *** not scanned as of 12/1/2016*** Map, 2016 Timms Hill Trail – America’s first National Side Trail, by Ice Age Trail Alliance

20292 Map, 12-18-2016, Rusch Preserve, including SE NE 12-33-2E, hiking route of Timms Hill Trail built in 2016 and temporary route of Ice Age Trail, by Ice Age Trail Alliance

20293 9-26-2016 email, Dept. of Interior-March 1990, Timms Hill Trail designated First National Side Trail pursuant to 1968 National Trails Act, April 20, 1990 iditarod anvik designated second National Side Trail by National Park Service, Dept. of Interior

20293A ibid p. 2, 2012 designated side trails:

3. Capt. John Smith

4. Chester River

5. Susquehanna River

6. Upper James River

7. Upper Nanticoke River – 2015

8. Selma.

20294 2016 Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club guest book. Congratulatory comments regarding new Timms Hill & Ice Age Trails

20295 ‘Its time Wisconsin invest in its K-12 public schools,’ by State Senator Julie Lassa (D-Stevens Point), 11-23-2016 The Record Review, Athens, WI

20296 ‘Support state’s public schools,’ by Mary Young, 11-23-2016 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

20296A ibid p. 2

20297 2-5-1966 Criminal complaint, State of Wisconsin v Leslie Smith, on 2-5-1966 in Town of Westboro the defendant did be an inmate of a place of prostitution, ‘the Guernsey farm.’

20298 Criminal complaint, St v Ann Berry, on 2-5-1966 in Town of Westboro the defendant did feloniously offer to have non-marital sex for money to wit’ defendant at ‘the Guernsey farm’ offers to have sexual intercourse with Robert Dillingham for $5.00

20299 Criminal complaint, St v Clara Mason, on 2-5-1966 in Town of Westboro…keep a place of prostitution, ‘The Guernsey farm.’

20300 Transcript of preliminary hearing, St v Leslie Smith, Clare Nelson and Ann Berry, before Peter Seidl, county judge, John Olson for state, John Nikolay for defendants, 2-11-1966 p. 1

20300A ibid p. 2 Agent for Dept. of Taxation, Division of Beverages & Cigarette tax Ribert Dillingham called as witness

20300B ibid p. 3

20300C ibid p. 4 Agent found Guernsey farm . 9 miles east of junction of highways 13 and 102 on north side of 102

20300D ibid p. 5

20300E ibid p. 6 attorney argument

20300F ibid p. 7

20300G ibid p. 8 two women came out

20300H ibid p. 9

20300I ibid p. 10

20300J ibid p. 11 DA appears upset

20300K ibid p. 12 women inspects penis

20300L ibid p. 13 ‘it will be $5 for a straight one…’

20300M ibid p. 14 she washed my penis

20300N ibid p. 15

20300O ibid p. 16

20300P ibid p. 17 court ‘let’s conduct ourselves as gentlemen…’

20300Q ibid p. 18

20300R ibid p. 19

20300S ibid p. 20

20300T ibid p. 21

20300U ibid p. 22

20300V ibid p. 23

20300W ibid p. 24

20300X ibid p. 25

20300Y ibid p. 26

20300Z ibid p. 27

20300AA ibid p. 28 ‘in hearings like this the rules of evidence are somewhat relaxed’ says Judge Seidl

20300BB ibid p. 29

20300CC ibid p. 30 state called Donald Pate

20300DD ibid p. 31

20300EE ibid p. 32 Ann Berry age 42

20300FF ibid p. 33

20300GG ibid p. 34 ‘I am Clara Mason, that is my name’

20300HH ibid p. 35 DA summarizes evidence

20300II ibid p. 36 Nikolay argues against bindover for trial

20300JJ ibid p. 37 court binds over all defendants for trial

20300KK ibid p. 38

20300LL ibid p. 39 court adjourns

20300MM ibid Court Reporter certification

20301 5-6-1966 Taylor County clerk of Court minutes;

1. St v Clara Mason, defendant changes plea to no contest;

2. St v Leslie Smith, changes plea to no contest

3. St v Ann Berry, defendant fails to appear, $500 bond forfeited, bench warrant issued

20302 9-6-1966 Taylor County Clerk of Court minutes, St v Ann Berry; defendant changes plea to no contest and sentenced to six months prison

20303 9-6-1966 Sentence – St v Ann Berry ‘sentenced to Wisconsin State House for women at Taycheedah at hard labor for not more than 6 months, sisnged Allen Kinny, judge

20304 5-6-1966 sentence imposed and stayed; St v Clara Mason, sentence to confinement at Wisconsin State Prison for Women at Taycheedah for not more than 1 year, sentence stayed, defendant placed on probation for one year, pay costs of $9.50

20305 5-6-1966 sentence imposed and stayed; St v Leslie Smith, sentence to confinement at Wisconsin State Prison for Women at Taycheedah for not more than 1 year, sentence stayed, defendant placed on probation for one year, pay costs of $9.50

Lavern & Marion Yorde collection

20306 1-1992 ‘Five generations of Logging History,’ by Sharon Thatcher. ‘The Timber Producer,’ Tomahawk, WI – cover

20306A ibid p. 2 photo of Marion & Lavern Yorde, Any Rusch & Eddie Fink

20306B ibid p. 3

20307 c. 1993 ‘Former Rib Lake residents respond to history project.’ Edward Yorde, first soldier buried at Rib Lake Cemetery, Star News, p. 1 top

20307A ibid p. 2

20308 12-11-2016 Minneapolis Star Tribune, “Climbing high in Wis., Timms Hill, the highest point in the state, offers snowshoeing, skiing, plus spectacular views.” By Melanie McManus.

20308A ibid part 2

20308B ibid part 3 “Where to stay – High Point Village”

20310 Map 1916 legend, Taylor Co. by C.H. Paetzold, 14x24 inch in color, in storage at Rib Lake Historical Society

20310A ibid NE corner of Taylor County

20310B Ad, ibid, T.H. Brehm, dba Brehm’s Flour & Feed Store

20310C Ad, ibid, Medford Lumber Co ‘Old Failthful Hemlock & Lath.’

20310D Ad, ibid, Ruesch Bros. Cigar Manufacturers “Cuban Hand Made – leading 10 cent cigar, Medford’

20310E B&W version of 1916 Paetzold map of Taylor County showing erroneous mapping of Copper Creek

20311 Map 1919 Lincoln County by Paetzold, published by the Ev. Lutheran Colonization Co – color; shows Milwakee Road running north through T33N-R5E, a ‘proposed Minneapolis, Merrill & Marinette’

20312 Map 1914 Lincoln Co. by Paetzold, Loeb-Hammel Realty– top

20312A ibid bottom

20313 Map 1926 Lincoln County by Paetzold, shows RLLC railroad to Camp 19 and environs, Milwaukee Road into T33 & T34N-R5E.

20313A ibid Milwaukee Road to camps in T34-R3E

20314 Map 1918 Wisconsin Highway marked routes, Paetzold, top p. 1

20314A ibid, bottom, page 2

20315 c. 1928 Panoramic photo, RLLC mill complex viewed from west showing planing mill, junction of McComb Ave & Railroad St, and indentations left when railroad track had been removed from hemlock dry yard.

20315-1 c. 1928 view to northeast of tramway crossing McComb Ave. RLLC mill, transfer chain & machine shop.

20315-2 c. 1928 RLLC hemlock yard in foreground. Commercial district along McComb Ave. in upper right.

20315-3 c. 1928 View to northwest across west portion of Rib Lake Lumber Co. hemlock dry yard. In foreground is narrow gauge tram car loaded with freshly-sawn lumber ready for piling.

20316 c. 1928 Panoramic photo, RLLC mill and yard crew of 158 men. Photo reads “Rib Lake Lumber Co. of Delaware” reflecting recent corporate name change adding “of Delaware.” Railroad tracks in foreground come from transfer chain building in rear where freshly-sawn lumber was graded and sorted as it was piled on transfer cars

20316-1 c. 1928 RLLC mill & yard foreman Tracy Berfield sits on unloaded tram car sitting on transfer carriage, which moved horizontally, allowing transfer car to be off-loaded on selected track. In back is transfer chain building where lumber was graded and sorted and at far left is the clerestory third floor of the lumber mill.

20316-2 c. 1928 continuation of panoramic photo showing entire RLLC mill & yard crew of 158 men sitting on tramway

20316-3 c. 1928 Final portion of panoramic shot of RLLC mill & yard crew.

20317 c. 1928 Panoramic photo, RLLC logging railroad to hot pond

20317-1 c. 1928 Boom of logs float in part of Rib Lake, heated in winter to prevent freezing, the “hot pond.”

20317-2 c. 1928 View south across Rib Lake with hot pond at right. Note vertical pilings driving into lake to support a boom to prevent logs from drifting away from sawmill.

20317-3 c. 1928 Tannery Creek’s inlet into Rib Lake has created a delta of debris. Overturned wooden rowboat in foreground.

20318 Annotations by Robert Rusch 2-17-2017 regarding 3 panoramic photos taken in 1928 at Rib Lake Lumber Co., images 20315, 20316 & 20317. Annotations consist of 21 pages.

20319 c. 1910 metal screwdriver reading on handle “F.E. Poole Furniture & Undertaking, Rib Lake, Wis.” [Frank E. Poole]

20319A ibid back

20320 P. 9-10-2016 Mr. & Mrs. Dennis & Carol Kuehling; Dennis is a stalwart of the Rib Lake Historical Society and has loaned hundreds of photos for scanning

20321 Packers 30, Bears 27 Icing It, Wausau Daily Herald 12-19-2016

20322 12-19-2016 “Funding, Not Fear, Needed in CWD Fight.” top

20322A ibid bottom; NB-state gave $250,000,000 to New York invsetors to help build Milwaukee Bucks new venue

20323 12-15-2016 “River’s Edge Bridge, the final connection” continuous east side trail opens soon [in Wausau]. Wausau City Pages

20324 c. 1920 P. “Locks-Berlin, Wis.” part of the Fox River canalization, from Portage to Omro, Wisconsin

20324A ibid, back 1-18-1923 post card

20325 P. c. 1910 RLLC sawmill prior to 7-24-1914 destruction by fire. These mill buildings were constructed after the fire of 1897.

A. View is east across McComb Ave at 2016 site of STH 102

B. Forced air “cyclone” system at left rear deposits wood scrap into railroad car for use at Rib Lake Tannery.

C. Horse team pulls tip wagon delivering firewood to customers.

D. Railroad track at left is part of 1902 Wisconsin Central extension to Spirit Falls.

E. Sawmill faintly seen at back.

F. Foreground center: Pile of air-dried lumber on railroad car near planing mill.

G. Elevated tramway at far right.

20325A ibid back postmarked 10-24-1914 to Arthur Tratz, Tigeron, WI

20326 “Timeline re sale of J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co. and creation of “Rib Lake Lumber Company.” By RPR

20327 c. 1948 “Lumber Yard, Rib Lake Lumber Co. Rib Lake, Wis. C-3” Although one log-loaded railroad car must still go to the mill, the piled lumber inventory in the hemlock yard is depleted. The last log will be sawed on 6-4-1948.

20328 6-4-1948 “The sawmill of the Rib Lake Lumber Co. will cease operations today.” Rib Lake Herald. Elevated tramway featured narrow gauge railroad conveying fresh cut (green) lumber to the yards for air drying. The elevated track in the foreground at right spanned standard gauge railroad on the ground. Steeples of- center-United Methodist Church and right-St. John the Baptist Catholic Church.

20329 Aerial map of Village of Rib Lake between Pine Street and Landall Ave with lot lines 6-2015.

20330 “Trump the Exile” President Trump’s grandfather was expelled from Germany in 1905. “This Week” 12-2-2016.

20331 12-15-2016 “Stop the war on public education.” Star News editorial.

20331A ibid Governor Scott Walker cartoon

20332 Ad in 1913 Standard Atlas of Taylor County. “Kapitz & Heinske-Real Estate, Forest Products, Commission Merchants.” Rib Lake.

20332A ibid North Side Livery Stable, Dodge Brothers, Proprietors.

20332B ibid Der Waldbote (Forest messenger newspaper) Franz Markus, editor, Medford. (German weekly newspaper)

20332C ibid Westboro Livery Sales, Exchange & Feed Stable. W.N. Myer

20332D ibid Westboro Lumber Co, manufacturers of hemlock lumber, cedar shingles, basswood siding & hardwood lumber.

20332E ibid George Braun & Son, real estate, loans & insurance. Rib Lake.

20332F ibid Taylor County Lumber Company, manufacturers of hardwood, hemlock & pine. Phillip E. Marcus, proprietor & [son-in-law] Charles Miller, manager. Rib Lake.

20332G ibid John J. Voemastek, publisher, the Rib Lake Herald, est. Dec. 10. 1897.

20332H ibid Hotel Kearney, L.S. Kearney, proprietor, Hannibal, Wis.

20332I ibid Adolph Daue, well driller, Rib Lake, Wis.”

20332J ibid W.M. Bans & Son, dba South Side Livery Stable & dray line. Our bus meets all trams. Rib Lake, Wis. [its building stood on the south side of Railroad Street, just west of Mathias’ Central Hotel.]

20332K ibid Gust Land, butter manufacturer, Chelsea, Wis.

20332L ibid James Upjohn, dealer in drugs, medicines, toilet articles, paints, oils, wall paper, books, stationery & fancy goods, Rib Lake.

20332M ibid Stephen A. Konz, forest products & general merchandise, Rib Lake.

20332N ibid Medford Veneer Co. rotary cut veneer, Medford.

20332O ibid John S. Owen Lumber Co., manufactures of all kinds of lumber, Owen, Wis.

20332P ibid Hotel Martin, George Martin, proprietor, Chelsea

20332Q ibid Adam Adler, Temperance Saloon & Billard Hall, Gilman.

20332R ibid August Radtke, proprietor of Rib Lake Creamery, manufacturer of creamery butter, Rib Lake.

20332S ibid Central House [hotel], Henry Mathias, proprietor, Rib Lake.

20332T ibid Theo Engstrand, real estate & farmland, general manager, Lake Trading Co., Rib Lake.

20332U ibid, Frank Ruprich, dealer in dry goods, groceries, shoes, farm implements, Westboro. [in 2016 the massive two-story “Ruprich” brick building still stands on the west side of business highway 13, downtown Westboro.]

20332V ibid M.G. McNamar, dealer in dry goods, groceries & hardware, Whittlesey.

20332W ibid ‘Medford Building Supply Co., sash doors, blinds, mouldings, hemlock lumber, lath, shingles, etc. Medford.

20332X ibid Rib River Land Co., manufacturers of all kinds of lumber, farm lands for sales, dealers in general merchandise, Goodrich.

20332Y ibid, Phillip Marcus, proprietor “The Fair Dept. Store,” dealer in general merchandise, logs, lumber, forest products & timber lands, Rib Lake. [former Taylor County Lumber Co., Rib Lake]

20332Z ibid C.H. Haenel, blacksmith & wagon maker, Whittlesey.

20332AA ibid William Maes, proprietor of Spirit Lake Hotel & Saloon, RFD No. 1, Rib Lake.

20333 P. 1913 Standard Atlas Taylor Co. of Chelsea Creamery, August Lange, prop. Building stood along Black River west of Trinity Lutheran Church.

20334 P. John J. Voemastek, 1913 Standard Atlas.

20334A P. Dr. Clement Kelnhofer, DNS, Village of Rib Lake food store founder & Taylor County sheriff.

20335 P. 11-2016 L-R Trinity, Colton & Brendan Riggs enjoy climbing beneath a log over Timms Hill Trail at the Rusch Preserve.

20336 Memo 12-26-2016 size of RLLC dry yards c. 1925-1948. Hemlock yard (yellow) 21 acres; hardwood yard (red) 38 acres; per David Tlusty, Registered Land Surveyor, total RLLC dry yard acreage was 59 acres. [base map 1925 Rib Lake & environs, Everett Rusch, #10640.]

20337 Obit, Anne M. Packenham, nee Brandner, 1917-2016. Born in Whittlesey. On 6-16-1937 she married Emil Packenham. Resided on former Albert Knop farm, S ½ NW ¼, 19-33-3E, Town of Rib Lake until 2013. Star news 12-2016

20338 Obit, Doris Romig, nee Kolecheck, born in Rib Lake on 3-14-1932, died 12-21-2016 in Gilman.

20339 W. 2015 Yearbook – Ice Age Trail Alliance – cover

20339A ibid, High Point Chapter – Taylor Co. “hemlock represents our chapter because of the many large hemlocks that line some of our most scenic sections of trail.”

20340 2017 Wisconsin Registration plate for RPR “Ran 100”

20341Map c. 1-1-2017 Rib Lake & environs Ice Age Trail

20341A ibid New Wood Wildlife area

20341B ibid Mondeaux area

20341C ibid Western Taylor County area

20342 c. 1930 “Clausen’s Resort, Spirit Lake, Rib Lake 37”. C.R. Claussen’s place on big Spirit, SE from Tabor Island.

20343 W. “State Senator Jerry Petrowski” 2016 legislative update

20343A ibid P. Governor Scott Walker

20344 Map 12-22-2016 Timms Hill Trail-America’s First National Side Trail, Ice Age Alliance.

20345 1-2017 envelope to RPR conveying get well cards

20345A Trinity Riggs get well card

20345B ibid Colton Riggs

20345C ibid Kirstin Riggs

20345D ibid Robin Riggs nee Rusch

20346 P. c. 1925 “Rib Lake, Wis. 380” aerial of hemlock yard, Railroad Street, National & Central Hotels

20346A ibid back postmarked 6-11-1930. Mrs. P. Buckholz to Mrs. Henry Moeckler, Thiensville, Wis.

20347Maps, Wisconsin 1998 UW Press-Explorers Routes; 1620-1680, show delles of Big River River as Fr. Menard’s death site in 1661

20347A ibid, land & resource conflicts showing Taylor County within claims of both Menominee & Ojibwe tribes

20347B ibid, “From Germany to Wisconsin”

20347C ibid, “German Ethnicity 1740-1990”

20347D ibid, “Glacial Landscapes”

20348 W. McCaskey safe register p. 1

20348A ibid p. 2

20348B ibid p. 3

20348C ibid p. 4

20348D ibid p. 5

20348E ibid p. 6

20348F ibid p. 7

20348G ibid p. 8

20348H ibid p. 9

20348I 12-31-2016 L-R: RPR and Ryan Strobach, curator, Rib Lake Historical Society, with McCaskey safe register donated by Mike & Debbie Turner; paper slips hold names of people & organizations.

20348J 12-31-2016 McCaskey safe register believed from Rib Lake Lumber Co.; paper slips shown contained, inter alia, names of employees whose time cards were stored in register - current theory.

20349 12-25-2016 Ann & Bob Rusch Christmas letter

20349A ibid, enclosure map 8-1-2016 of Rusch Preserve

20350 5-20-1948 Star news “Herman Carstensen confesses murder,” 15 hours after he confesses, defendant found guilty, sentenced and on the way to prison.

20351 6-3-1948 “Rib Lake mill saws final log today.” Star News. Mill had employed 150-160 men.

20351A Calendar of events, Rib Lake Lumber Co. 1948;

1) 2/25/1948 last log ceremony

2) 5/28/1948 last logging train to Rib Lake

3) 6/3/1948 last lumber sawn

4) 6/5/1948 expected cessation of boiler use & electric generation.

20352 Ad – Rib Lake Dairy Co-op, Star News 6-3-1948

20353 Ad – O&N Lumber Co, 1 of 28 stores; O stood for John S. Owen, founder. Star News 6-3-1948

20354 Ad 6-3-1948 Millard Kapitz heads Rib Lake Legion Post, Star News.

20355 6-10-1948 “Mrs. Tracy Berfield, Rib Lake, dies Monday.” Star news. Tracy had been RLLC mill & yard foreman; moved to Rib Lake in 1926.

Dennis Kuehling collection

20356 P. c. 1910 loggers cutting white cedar for piles or pilings

20357 P. c. 1910 “At Mike Baltus camp, Stratford, wis.” “22,120 [board] feet” on sleigh

20357A back, ibid postmarked 1-6-912 to Arthur Krause, Bloomer, Wis. “sleigh is 8 feet wide with 14 foot bunk.” “they have ice roads.”

20358 P. 1-31-1907 “steam log hauler at work, Medford, Wis.” color

20359 P. c. 1905 steam hauler stopped for coal. Black line may be hose for water.

20359A back ibid postmarked 3-3-1910 Fremont, WI

20360 P. c. 1910 two teams and tanker sleigh. Pole protrudes from water barrel used to spill water into tank.

20361 P. c. 1905 Wisconsin Land & Lumber Co., Hermansville, Michigan. Camp 28; 2 parallel log buildings with connecting roof, a “dingle.”

20361A back ibid postmarked 7-22-1907 Hermansville, Michigan.

20362 P. c. 1990 pulp wood stacker at Cornell, WI

20362A back ibid text. Stacker built in 1912 in England; last operated in 1971.

20363 P. c. 1910 Schultz Spur, Lincoln County, Wis.

20363A back ibid postmarked 6-13-1914 to Mrs. Joe Harkner, Tomahawk, Wis.

20364 P. c. 1910 Sunday morning washing at camp.

20365 P. c. 1910 loading logs on sleigh. Note bunk is wider than sleigh.

20366 P. c. 1910 left-wanigan, flat bottom boat with white tent on river; right-cook tent on shore

20367 P. c. 1910 “log jam, Dells Pond, Eau Claire, Wis.” – color

20367A back ibid. City of Eau Claire once produced 300,000,000 board feet of lumber annually.

20368 P. c. 1900 postcard by American Immigration Co. Bay & Bridge Streets, Chippewa Falls, Wis… “the farms of Northern Wisconsin have the best of everything.”

20369 P. c. 1905 farm shed in the cutover. Farmer, wife, kids & dog between log cabin & barn. Note rampikes in back field.

20369A back ibid postmarked 10-6-1910 Fairchild, Wis.

20370 P. c. 1910 Wagon load of cedar shingles.

20371 P. c. 1915, classic Wisconsin barn under construction. Stone foundation, heavy timber super-structure, gable roof.

20372 P. c. 1905 classic log barn in cutover. Two parallel log buildings with connecting roof.

20373 P. c. 1910 farmer atop hay wagon, wife with hay fork, hay loader at back of wagon.

20374 P. “Uncle Ned with Bing & Shorty.” Farmer on hay rake; horse team with fly netting.

20375 P. A stump fence

20376 P. 1914 Model T Ford.

20376A back ibid, RPR “Bob” to parents, Mr. & Mrs. Herman A. Rusch.

20377 1871 – The Wisconsin Central Railroad – A Centennial View” by William Durrwachter. Cover.

20377A ibid Map Lake Butte des Morts

20377B ibid title page

20377C ibid Phots of Judge George Reed

20377D ibid Photo 1871 Leonard Murry, Soo President.

20377E ibid Garner Colby

20377F ibid Elijah Phillips & Charles Colby, first train-Stevens Point 1972.

20377G ibid 1872 train to Colby

20377H ibid 1877 St. Point-Ashland done

20377I ibid Photo of Worcester – Mile post 101

20377J ibid 1878 Charles Colby, president.

20377K ibid After 1882 all new locomotives bought to burn coal.

20377L ibid Map c. 1900 Wisconsin Central

20377M ibid track crosses Omaha

20377N ibid reorganized company

20377O ibid 1908 Soo Line buys Wisconsin Central stock

20377P ibid bibliography

20377Q ibid Wisconsin Historical Marker

20377R Map 2013-2014 Wisconsin Highway, route of Wisconsin Central as buit in 1870’s highlighted in yellow

20377S ibid, “Fox Cities and vicinity” route of Wisconsin Central in 1870 superimposed over original

20378 1-12-2017 “Rib Lake Snowshoe Adventure,” 10K results, Star News

20378A ibid, 5K results

20378B ibid, start

20378C ibid, #2910

20379 W. 1969 “Schoenwalde, Soddies & Stoneboats; A History of the William Gebauer Family,” by Pauline Gebauer with notes and aids by Karen and Robert Rusch – title page

20379A ibid cover

20379B ibid Table of Contents

20379C ibid p. 2

20379D ibid Ancestral Village of Schoenwalde

20379E ibid military

20379F ibid Albert Steiner store

20379G ibid flax weavers

20379H ibid august Steiner deed 1894; Bertha Steiner married William Gebauer in Whittlesey 1-7-1897

20379I ibid Franz Gebauer comes to America in 1887

20379J ibid Franz Gebauer was a stone mason; 1888 William Gebauer goes to Akron, Colorado

20379K ibid building soddies on prairie

20379L ibid homesteads

20379M ibid 1902 William & Bertha move to Wisconsin

20379N ibid stoneboats

20379O ibid William Gebauer, Town Chairman; Paul Gebauer deed 5-12-1917; Bertha Gebauer deed 10-15-1917

20379P ibid Normal School

20379Q ibid Martha Gebauer marries Herman Rusch 2-1929

20379R ibid Pauline Gebauer at Lublin

20379S ibid 1922 Martha in high school, William Gebauer sells Whittlesey farm

20379T ibid 1923 William Gebauer marries Mary Wayman

20379U ibid 8-29-1931 William dies

20379V ibid 1935 Mary Wayman Gebauer moves to Ohio

20379W ibid Map 1886 Silesia & Schoenwalde

20379X ibid Map Schoenwalde & Silberberg

20379Y ibid Map Whittlesey c. 1908; Steiner & Gebauer farms

20379Z ibid Map plat 1900, William Gebauer farm W ½ SE ¼ 26-32-1E & Albert Steiner farm E ½ SE ¼ 26-32-1E

20379AA Photos from Bertha Steiner album; taken in Germany c. 1883; Franz Messner & son & stone masons. Probably neighbors in Germany; August Steiner & wife Pauline; L-R Albert, Anna (lka Mrs. John Gosbee), August Jr, Bertha (lka Mrs. William Gebauer), Joseph, child between Pauling & August was Louis Steiner

20379BB P. Bertha Gebauer nee Steiner; William Gebauer

20379CC P. William Gebauer farm buildings c. 1901; Wilhelm & wife Bertha in foreground; P. 1966 ruins of Albert Steiner log barn; in distance-Pauling Gebauer & Karen Rusch

20379DD P. 1966 Old William Gebauer house where Martha Rusch was born; former Steiner store

20379EE P. Bertha Gebauer nee Steiner tombstone; 9-2-1867 born in Schoenwalde – 10-15-1917 died in Whittlesey at Our Lady of Perpetual Help cemetery; P. 1967 Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Mutter Der Immer Wehrende Hilfe Kirche (c. 1902-1960), on land donated to church by August Steiner “for so long as used for Catholic Church purposes…”

20379EE-1 Church Deed 4-4-1892 Joseph Steiner to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church-Whittlesey

20379EE-2 obituary August Steiner 1-31-1902 Taylor County Star & News; 7-4-1836 born in Schoenwalde, Germany – 1-24-1902 died in Whittlesey, WI

20379FF Geneology of August & Pauline Steiner, nee Meissner

20379GG Geneology of Franz & Carolina Gebauer

20379HH Geneology of Franz Albert & Augusta Gebauer, nee Heimann

20379II Geneology of John Julius & Rosa Gebauer, nee Florian, aka John Gebauer, Jr.

20379JJ L. 8-5-1984 “Franz & Caroline Gebauer,” dates of immigration of William Gebauer to US 5-28-1885; Franz Sr 6-10-1887; William filed on quarter section at Akron, Co 11-12-1887

20379KK Geneology of Franz Gebauer Sr family with birth & death dates by Betty Gebauer 8-5-1948

20379LL Certificate of Death of August Steiner (7-4-1836 Schoenwalde – 1-23-1902 Whittlesey)

20379MM Registration of Death of August Steiner (7-4-1836 Schoenwalde – 1-23-1902 Whittlesey)

20380 Robert P. Rusch Ancestral Chart

20381 c. 1900 Prussian Provincial coat of arms; Silesia

20381A ibid Posen

20381B ibid Pomerania-Pommern

20381C ibid West Prussia-Westpreussen

20382 c. 1900 Coat of Arms – Austria

20383 W. 10-21-2006 “Push & Pulls; German migration to Taylor County, Wisconsin by Robert P. Rusch”; p. 1

20383A ibid p. 2

20383B ibid p. 3

20383C ibid p. 4

20383D ibid p. 5

20383E ibid p. 6

20383F ibid p. 7

20383G ibid German Catholic settlement in Taylor County, Wis “St. Killian,” possibly St. Anns Catholic Church, Greenwood, 10-29-1884, Der Warheits Freund, Cincinnati, Ohio, German text

20383H ibid English translation

20383I ibid signed Hildegard & Loretta Kuse, translators

20384 W. 7-23-2002 “Photographs of Schoenwalde” by RPR

20384A ibid p. 2

20384B ibid p. 3, Map of Schoenwalde c. 1880, Province of Silesia, German Empire

20384C ibid - legend

20384D Photos in Schoenwalde, now Budzow, Poland 10-2001

20384E ibid

20384F ibid Map c. 2002 Party Germany, Poland & Czech Republic, arrow to Budzow, formerly Schoenwalde

20385 W. 11-21-2003 Memo; Expulsion of Gebauer family from Schoenwalde by RPR p. 1

20385A ibid p. 2

20385B ibid p. 3

20385C ibid p. 4

20385D ibid p. 5

20385E ibid p. 6 Interview of Paula & Clemens Gebauer by Ann Rusch on 11-2-2003

20385F ibid p. 2

20385G 1939 phone book for Schoenwalde, Germany, 1469 inhabitants p. 1

20385H ibid p. 2, 10 Gebauers had telephones

20386 Map, land tenure, Schoenwalde, Germany c. 1939 p. 1; “Felix Gebauer”

20386A ibid p. 2, 4 Gebauers shown; Alfred, Berthold, Heinrich & August (father of Franz-Josef Gebauer)

20387 7-2003 Frankenstein-Muenstberger Heimat Blatt, magazine of country of Frankenstein, Silesia; “a photo of the expulsion [of civilians] from Frankenstein.” [The expulsion of Germans from Schoenwalde occurred in 1946 – Polish authorities required Germans to walk to the county seat of Frankenstein, where they were put on trains and moved to western Germany.] text beneath photo 1946 in Frankenstein of the little which the expellees were able to carry, much was stolen by Polish authorities.

20388 P. c. 1890 William Gebauer

20388A P. c. 1905 at Whittlsey logging camp; L-R Mr. Reinholt, Bill Reinholt, William Gebauer, Albert Steiner (Uncle Albert), Anna Steiner (Aunt Anna), as written by Martha Rusch, nee Gebauer

20388B P. at log cabin near Whittlesey c. 1905 L-R; Paul Gorichs, Wiliam Gebauer, Rudolph Neumiller, Mr. Gorichs, notes by Martha Rusch nee Gebauer

20388C Martha Rusch nee Gebauer wrote the name of her father “William (Wilhelm) Gebauer”

20388D P. William Gebauer c. 1928

20389 Map Colorado 2008 showing Akron, 100 miles west of Denver where William Gebauer & siblings homesteaded

20390 Map plat nar Akron, Co showing SW SW Section 5, Town 2 North 51 West, Wililam Gebauer homestead

20391 P. c. 1900 Franz Gebauer Jr homestead, just south of William’s; boy at lower left is William August Gebauer, son of Franz Gebauer Jr and father of Charles Gbauer; man on horse 2nd from left is Franz Gebauer Jr; NB-cattle & sheep grazing on native “buffalo grass.”

20392 Map 8-14-2006 Gebauer homesteads SW of Akron, Colorado by Charles A. Gebauer on 1990 plat “Washington County, Co”

20392A “legend”

20393 Map 8-15-2006 Extant features-William Gebauer homestead by Robert P. Rusch; on 8-15-2006 Ann & Bob Rusch, grandson of William Gebauer, with Betty & Charles Gebauer, grandson of Franz Gebauer Jr, found extant features of the William Gebauer 160 acres, SW ¼ SW ¼ Section 5, T2N R53W; location “2” on map was stone foundation 20 x 57 feet of William & Bertha Gebauer home. Martha Rusch, nee Gebauer, said her mother, Bertha, nee Steiner, could see the graves of two of her children buried in the garden. Site “1” is a 12 inch depression 3 x 7 feet, the probable grave site. --RPR

20394 Photos 8-14-2006 at William Gebauer homestead SW of Akron, Colorado by Robert P. Rusch with Ann Rusch, cousin Charles & spouse Betty Gebauer. View northeast from junction of road V & 35 of SW SW, Section 5 T2N R53W, William Gebauer homestead

20394A ibid NE cornerpost of William Gebauer homestead

20394B ibid view north standing on stone foundation of former William & Bertha Gebauer house. Note valley to north were children’s graves were clearly visible from the house. Trees on horizon mark old home site, currently owned by John B. Gebauer NW NW Section 5.

20394C ibid, stone foundation 57 x 20 feeet of fromer wood frame home of William & Bertha Gebauer

20394D ibid, in foreground-depression of former garden marking graves of children of William & Bertha Gebauer

20394E ibid Ann Rusch holding glass fragment, nail and unknown objects found at William Gebauer home site.

20394F ibid remmant of stone walls of 12 x 12 building. View north shows valley along north boundary of William Gebauer homestead.

20394G ibid Betty Gebauer trees. The site is otherwise native low grass prairie naturally receiving very little moisture to grow trees.

20394H ibid, Charles holds rusted barbed wire woven to make “rope,” perhaps used to stabilize wooden fence corner

20395 1932 obituary of William Gebauer

20396 P. c. 1930 home of William Gebauer & second wife Mary Wayman. After poor health forced William to sell his Whittlesey farm, W ½ SW ¼ 26-32-1E, he bought the pictured house, SW NW 11 T31N R1E, one mile north of the City of Medford on the east side of STH 13.

20397 P. 2002 Holy Rosary Catholic Cemetery, Medford

20397A ibid Medford, population 4350

20397B ibid grave stone; Father William Gebauer 1864-1932 (born 12-20-1864 in Schoenwalde, Germany; died 8-29-1932 in Marshfield, WI)

20397C ibid Daughter Pauline C. Gebauer 1901-1974 (born in Akron, Co, died in Milwaukee, WI)

20397D ibid Daughter Mary A. Gebauer 1904-1986 (born 7-9-1904 in Whittlesey, WI, died 11-17-1965 in Milwaukee, WI)

20397E ibid Albert Steiner, 1874-1948 & Anna Steiner 1880-1945

20397F ibid Martha Hedwig Rusch, nee Gebauer 12-16-1908 to 3-30-2000

20398 P. 2005 L-R Rusch brothers, Thomas (Tom), Gerald (Jerry), [Franz-Joseph Gebauer], Robert (Bob) and Everett (Ev).

20398A L-R front row-Tom & Bob Rusch, Marita & Franz-Josef Gebauer, Ev Rusch; back row-Kristin Strobach nee Rusch, Bekah Strobach, Heidi

20398B ibid, additional new faces L-R front-Ann Rusch, Susan Thums; rear-Paul Wildes, Joan Rusch, Lorraine Killion, Gert Obowa, Gert’s niece Mary, Karen Rusch; top-Rolland Thums

20399 P. 12-26-1998 Martha Rusch’s 90th birthday with sons, L-R, Jerry, Everett, Bob & Tom

20399A email, RPR to Gail Nelson re Steiner & Gebauer history; why William Gebauer left Colorado for Wisconsin

20399B ibid p. 2

20399C obit. Marie Jochimsen nee Steiner 12-15-2017

20399D ibid p. 2

20399E ibid p. 3 Marie’s mother was Anna Louise Steiner, aka Mrs. John Gosbee.

20400 c. 1920 “Spirit Lake from Miller’s Hill G-548”. The Miller family operated a small resort on Big Spirit Lake featuring a major year-round spring flowing from the base of a hill and 20 feet into the lake. When dissolved oxygen plummeted into lake water during winter, fish congregated where the spring water poured into the lake

20400A ibid back

20401 8-1-1926 “Zinschein 400 marks,” certificate for 400 marks issued by German city of Frankfurt. At the time Germany was devastated by catastrophic inflation which contributed to Nazi party coming to power.

20401A ibid back

20402 Map 2013 Price & Taylor Counties, Area Map Service, Cincinnati, Ohio - cover

20402A Rib Lake & environs

20403 12-13-2016 Memo by R.P. Rusch; Rib Lake Post Office established 6-12-1883, Duncan McLennan (brother-in-law) of John J. Kennedy), first Postmaster

20403A 9-18-1966 pamphlet; Dedication of New Rib Lake Post Office

20403B ibid p. 2

20403C L. R.P. Rusch to Arvin Springer

Collection of Ray E. Pendergast, Jr. & Rib Lake Public Library

20404 Ray Pendergast Jr. signature on scrapbook he made featuring his earlier work for Soo Line Railroad

20405 P. 1978 Ray E. Pendergast, Jr. with locomotivie 705 of which he was engineer, Auburndale, Wis.

20406 P. 1978 Soo Line single track at Rocky Run Hill

20407 10-2-1975 “bicentennial choo-choo,” Star News, Ray E. Pendergast, Jr., engineer of Soo Line locomotive at 1976 crossing of State Street in Medford, WI

20408 Photo & biography of Edward J. Pendergast. Employed as fireman by Wisconsin Central in 1887; he became engineer in 1857 on Rib Lake-Chelsea line where two crews worked between those points.

20408A c. 1895 Edward Pendergast and locmotive #221

20409 BLM logo (Brotherhood of Local Engineers)

20410 11-26-1923 “Notice of Promotion,” Ray Pendergast, Sr. promoted from fireman to engineer

20411 c. 1965 A History of the Soo Line Railroad, built to stimulate competition, Soo opened a new rail route east.

20411A ibid p. 2

20411B ibid p. 3, Soo Line leased Wisconsin Central in 1909

20411C ibid p. 4 Ads

20411D ibid p. 5

20411E ibid p. 6, Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic

20411F ibid p. 7

20411G ibid p. 8

20412 10-12-1885 time table. “Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie & Atlantic,” (for line eventually between Ladysmith & Prentice.)

20413 c. 1920 Ad “Soo Line to study geography”

20414 c. 1915 Ad “Soo Line” “I Aint Mad at Nobody”

20415 P. 3-1975 Ray E. Pendergast, Jr. with snowpacked tram #18 which he engineered from Ashland through Taylor County to Marshfield.

20416 W. 5-1976 “Soo Liner, from the beginning, a proud heritage.” A history of the Soo Line.

20416A ibid p. 2 Soo Line Railway Co created in 1961 - chart

20416B ibid p. 3 Wisconsin Central History

20416C ibid p. 4 line to Chicago

20417 5-23-1975 “Truck-Train crash kills area man.” Star News. Jerry Jochimsen killed by Soo Line train on CTH M

20418 P. 1914 Raymond Pendergast, Sr. on the left

20419 W. 1936 “Saves woman’s life in crossing accident.” Raymond Pendergast, Sr. saved life of Mrs. Max Bock

20420 1936 Statement of Raymond Pendergast, Sr. re fatal accident on 1-30-1936 near Hewitt, Wis.

20420A ibid p. 2

20421 P. 1940 Raymond Pendergast, Sr. and locomotive 116 at Ironwood, Michigan

20422 telegram 9-30-1964 Soo Line confirms Raymond Pendergast, Sr. will retire that day when his train arrives at Stevens Point

20423 W. 9-1964 “Train accident hero retires,” Raymond Pendergast, Sr. retires after 51 years and 6 months service to Soo Line

20424 Soo Line #1592, 9-24-1964 “Proceed at reduced speed between mile post 258 and 260 between Stevens Point and Junction City due to track maintenance work.”

20425 5-9-1922 Clearance cart issued at Park Falls to conductor & engineer of extra Soo Line train #2407 on form “United States Railroad Administration-Director General of Railroads,” and “Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad.”

20425A ibid issued at Glidden, Wis by Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co.

20426 W. 9-29-1964 Railroad telegram re train handling; Soo Line conveying train car with oversized load, USN “Missile launcher for Weehawhen, New Jersey; see this car is handled very carefully…”

20427 P. 1938 Raymond Pendergast, Sr. near platform above cow catcher of locmotive 5002. Note the horizontal “cat walk.” He saved the life of Mrs. Bock by navigating the walk and holding her from falling off the moving locomotive.

20428 P. 3-19-1964 Stanberry Bridge accident. Note overturned railway cars

20429 P. c. 1940 Derailed railway cars viewed from atop box cars. Note three boards running on top of middle of cars which allowed brakemen to walk on job from car to car to turn the vertical wheel setting the brakes of each car, one at a time.

20430 P. c. 1945 A wooden Soo Line caboose has been moved in to help clear a still steaming wrecked steam engine.

20431 P. c. 1948 Soo Line train #26 leaving Chippewa Falls yard, Raymond Pendergast, Sr. is engineer. One of the largest locomotives on the Soo Line.

20432 P. 2-5-1949 Wreck of Soo Line train #144 at Murry Siding, Wis, north of Ladysmith.

20433 P. 1940 Iron ore train at Hoyd, Michigan, near city of Ironwood.

20433A P. 1922 L-R Raymond Pendergast, Sr. and Robert Borwick pose with brick on Soo Line caboose near Tyler Forks, Iron County, Wis. “when the Soo Line railroad would spot a caboose on a spur track for employees for the deer season to be used as a mobile cabin,” Ray Pendergast, Jr.

20433B P. 1922 ibid

20433BB Map showing “Tyler Forks,” Iron County, Wisconsin c. 2016, Until c. 2010 former Wisconsin Central Railroad Mellen-Hurley branch, ran through this ghost town.

20433C 2013 Wisconsin highway map. Former Soo Line track still shown between Prentice and Ashland. Arrow points to site of photo, where Tyler Forks River crossed, now abandoned Mellen-Ironwood Soo Line Track.

End of Pendergast collection

20434 Map 1922 Price County, by C.H. Paetzold, SE portion; Ogema, Prentice, Worcester; Soo Line Rib Lake-Spirit Falls through Brannan, i.e. Town of Spirit, Knox Mills

20434A ibid SW portion, Pennington. NB-heavy black line shows state trunk highways

20434B ibid, center-east, logging railroad Phillips into Oneida County

20434C ibid, center-west; Phillips, Lugerville, Coolidge

20434D ibid NE portion; Round Lake dam & legend

20434E ibid NW portion; Park Falls, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha; Kennedy & Kaiser

20434F ibid legend

20435 12-8-2016 “Oak wilt confirmed in Price County,” Star News. Oak wilt is an easily spread disease fatal to all Wisconsin oaks which, as of 12-2016, has not been found in Taylor County.

20436 c. 1945 Mike & Helen Schmidt, dba “Harper Lake Resort, Rib Lake, Wis. C-8” pictured is the office & tavern, on the NE corner of North Harper Lake.

20436A ibid “Cabin #2 C-12” Note homemade wood rowboat in lake

20436B ibid “Cabin #3 C-14” Each cabin was unelectrified but featured a screened porch. Dozens of these rustic “Ma & Pa” resorts dotted Rib Lake and environs in the 40’s and 50’s. By 2000 all were gone.

20437 6-18-1930 Panoramic photos “Wisconsin County Normal Schools, Washington, DC via Baltimore & Ohio Railroads, W.F. Christ, Conductor.” Rightmost portion.

20438 Map 8-1-2016 “Rusch Preserve” by Kevin Thusius. The IAT Alliance owned property in Sec. 13, T33-2E, Town of Rib Lake, Taylor County, was created by three land donations.

1) 30 acres by Robert P. Rusch c. 1995, to wit, Martha & Herman Rusch Preserve;

2) 17 acres c. 2005 to wit Ann & Bob Rusch Preserve;

3) 2.6 acrew Scheithauer purchase & Kyle Patrick easement donated by Robert P. Rusch in 2015;

4) Robert P. Rusch in 2015 negotiated a donation of both a trail and conservation easement from Bev & Bob Butler.

Everett Rusch Collection

20439 P. 6-2016 Collapsing barn in Town of Spirit, about a quarter mile SW of junction of STH 102 & 86.

20439A ibid. Headwaters of Bad River at ghost town of Morse, Wis. Iron County.

20440 Map c. 1925 Rib Lake & environs – unfolded version. Yards and buildings of Rib Lake Lumber Co and United States Tannery & commercial buildings in Village of Rib Lake, westernmost portion. NB-same map with brochure by Everett Rusch scanned as #10640 [folded]

20440A ibid, United States Tannery yard and buildings [closed permanently in 1922].

20440B Commercial structure of north part of McComb Ave.

20440C ibid “Map Key”

20440D ibid Map legend – colors & symbols

20440E RLLC mill complex, hot pond and hemlock dry yard

20440F Soo Line Depot, south part of RLLC hardwood dry yard [NB-unfolded portion of 20440 stored at Rib Lake Historical Society, LLC. Copies are for sale from Everett Rusch of Rib Lake.]

Robert Rusch collection

20441 Map 5-12-1895 “Chicago & Northern Railroad” operated by Wisconsin Central Railroad.

20441A ibid – time table, Altenheim & Grand Central Station

20442 Map 1969 Chicago railroads & highways – Chicago Motor Club – legend

20442A ibid – downtown Chicago

20442B ibid – cover

20443 W. 11-2007 “Badger Postal History, A jewel in the forest; the story of Whittlesey 54492” by Christopher Barney & RPR - cover

20443A ibid p. 1 Photo of Asaph Whittlesey & August Steiner

20443B ibid p. 2 Photo of Steiner-Gebauer farm house, was the post office

20443C ibid p. 3 List of postmasters from May 18, 1882to Sept. 12, 1946; August Steiner 8/27/1896-9/11/1987; and 1/17/1898 to death on 1/23/1902

20444 P. 11-1-2005 Rusch brothers, Everett, Gerald, Robert & Thomas

20445 W. 10-19-2004 RPR comments for UW Law School reunion

20445A ibid – cover

20446 1-2008 “Running Times” cover

20446A “On the trails with Bob Rusch”

20446B ibid p. 3 photo of Bob Rusch snowshoeing to Timms Hill

20447 W. 8-1995 “Running has profound effects on the farthest reaches of our lives.” By Goerge Sheehan, in “Runners World.”

20448 W. c. 1900 “Maple sap bit for small chain saw” by Herman Rusch, found in 2016

20449 2016 calendar photos by Robin Riggs, cover. L-R Colton, Brandan, Tinity, Kirstin, Robin Riggs; Kris, Katie, Ryan, Rodney Strobach, Scott Riggs

20449A P. 2015 Rib Lake bakery

20449B P. 2015 Brown bag game, Katie and her mother, Kris Strobach

20449C P. 2015 Lorraine Killion in nursing home with grandchildren

20449D P. 2015 Picnic at Schoenwalde

20449E P. 2015 St. Louis Zoo

20449F P. 2015 Cousins-Strobachs & Riggs

20449G Super St. Louis

20449H ibid

20449I P. 2015 Waldheim-Home of Ann & Bob Rusch

20449J P. Tom, Ev & Bob Rusch at Waldheim

20449K P. 2015 Christmas at Karen Rusch’s

20450 P. c. 1935 McCormick-Deering caterpillar tractor skidding logs for RLLC in Tn of Corning

20451 P. c. 1900 pair of oxen pull sleigh loaded with tanbark; teamster carries goad stick with pointed end to prod animals. Two parallel rows of hemlock bark 4 ft long are piled against poles of sapling trees in front & back

20451A back ibid postmarked 8-11-1911 addressed to Edwin Roth, jokes-“just arrived here at Marshfield with that team [shown] on the other side. It’s pretty slow.

Dennis Kuehling collection

20452 P. 6-19-1911 A steam-powered steel wheeled tractor, “Old Rosie” broke through a bridge at Noisy Creek, Marathon County, Wis, while pulling wagon loads of lumber from Doud Sons & Co. sawmill at Village fo March Rapids to railroad near Stratford. The fireman and engineer were scalded to death by the steam.

20452A Map c. 1893 Village of March Rapids, Wis & Doad Sons & Co sawmill, NW SE 4-27-3E, Tn of Eau Pleine, Marathon Co.

20452B Town of Eau Pleine plat map from 1956, site of March Rapids, one-half mile north of junction of CTH P&E, NW SE 4-27-3E

20452C Account of “Old Rosie” accident from “history of Town of Eau Pleine.”

20452D Account of “Ole Rosie” accident by Otto Guenther, 1975. Account of road monkey & runaway load. “Ole Rosie, the steam tractor, would pull into Stratford with 4 to 5 M [thousand board feet] of lumber on each wagon, to be loaded onto railroad cars. Approximately 11M was loaded onto each [railroad] car.” P. 10 of “History of Town of Eau Pleine.”

20452E Map of “Old Rosie” accident site on Noisy Creek, NW SE 13-27-3E.

20452F Assorted photos of “Old Rosie”

20453 History of Village of McMillan from Wausau Daily Record Herald from 1934

20453A Plat map of Town of McMillian, Marathon Co, Wis. Site of Village of McMillan in NE NE 13-26-3E.

20453B Hand drawn composite map of Village of McMillan c. 1915 showing junction of Wisconsin Central railroad spur from Mannville, the Milwaukee, Lakeshore & Western Railroad, later Chicago & Northwestern, and the Doud & Sons Co logging railroad to March Rapids.

Collection of Thomas M. Rusch

20454 W. “Try Snowshoeing to the state’s highest point at Timms Hill.”

20454A “The Wisconsin Bucket List; 100 ways to have a real Wisconsin experience.” Kelly Jo Stull, 2016-cover

20455 W. 2016 Ad “High Point Village” featuring Hill of Beans Coffee Shop & 5 cabins at Timms Hill

20456 1-26-2017 “The Order of Worship for the Christian Funeral of Gene Arnett” at Trinity Lutheran Church, Whittlesey, WI, cover

20456A ibid p. 2 & 3

20456B ibid The Old Rugged Cross hymm lyrics

20457 Memorial card for Gene Arnett 12-9-1932 – 1-21-2017; cover

20457A ibid p. 2

20458 Obit. Gene Arnett Star News 1-26-2017

20459 “Healthcare trail blazer; Gene Arnett was longtime hospital leader,” Star News 1-26-2017

20459A ibid part 2

20459B ibid part 3

20460 “School Goes Rib-less in Support of Packers,” Star News 1-26-17

20460A ibid Photo of Jordy Nelson

20461 “Soldiers of Christ,” 1119 Kennedy St, Rib Lake, 715-427-3678. 2013-14 Rib Lake phone book

20462 P. John Cross, aka John Desris, a native of Kenosha, Wis, moved to Rib Lake c. 1955, bought numerous vacant properties on McComb Ave, including Bogumill’s Store and Gordon & Phyllis Nordgren’s gas station, and until his deather c. 2012, headed “Soldiers of Christs,” a Roman Catholic outreach for youth males.

20463 “Let’s Take the High Road-a book on strength for young men.” By John Cross – title page

20463A ibid

20463B ibid Table of Contents

20463C ibid “The prayer of a Soldier of Christ”

20463D ibid autobiography

20463E ibid p. 2

20463F ibid “Remember your eternity”

20463G ibid Youth Training Books by John Cross for sale by Soldiers of Christ at Rib Lake, WI. 40 titles & prices for 10 cents to $10

20464 Pamphlets & posters by Cross for sale, “A fearful crime to offend God to please man,” c. 1961, Kenosha, WI p. 32

20464A ibid title page

20464B “The Road to Manhood” by John Cross, 1948, The Cross Co, Kenosha, WI-title page

20464C dumbells and barbells; equipment for sale by Cross Athletic Equipment, p. 101

20464D Heat & light products for sale by Cross Electric

20464E Sport books for sale

20464F inspirational statements by Theodore Roosevelt “it is not the critic who counts..”

20464G ibid outside cover

20465 P. Scott Riggs, Bob Rusch & Cindy Sommer, 2016, staff of Rib Lake Historical Society, LLC & text for Village of Rib Lake hall historic photo display

20466 2016-17 “Official program” Rib Lake Middle School Girls Basketball

20466A ibid Roster, Rib Lake Middle School girls basketball; Tonya Hempe, Ksmryn Annala, Raelyn Waszkiewicz, Rebekah Strobach, Jolee Gehrke, Rhonnie Jo Scheithauer, Nellie Hopkins, Nadia Czahor, Lauren Pelnis, Reagan Reinhardt, Joran Klinger, Tia Bube, Molly Heiser, tiara Kestler, Emily Rodman, Emma Winter, Hailey Zickert, Aryam Soto Sosa, Sarah Schreiner

Ida Yorde collection

20467 W. 1991 “In memory of Walter Zeit, Ph.D. 1898-1991, Medical College of Wisconsin

20467A ibid, biography of Walter Zeit & obituary, Milwaukee Journal

RPR Collection

20468 6-21-1934 “Rib Lake mill starts operations”; 150 are given employment; to work 48 hour week. Sawmill had been closed since 4-1932 due to Great Depression. Additonal 200 men employed for 2 RLLC logging camps and 150 more for jobber camps.

20469 6-21-1934 “Interwald post Office to be discontinued,” Star News, George Knower, postmaster

20470 7-5-1934 “17 from county to Mercer [Civilian Conservation] Camp,” Star News, including Frank Kurek, Carl Marschke, John Surek from Rib Lake

Rib Lake School District collection

20471 “Mabelle Adams – 6th grader – Rib Lake, Wis.” written on back of photo. 22 students sit two to a desk; teacher stands next to map of Europe with her book covered desk. A portrait of George Washington smiling. C. 1906

20472 P. 1906-1907 in just built Rib Lake High School” 39 students sit at desks; in back rows 2 probable female teachers sit beneath American flag while probable male principal (likely John J. Weinberger) stands in corner

20473 6-2-1911 Rib Lake High School diploma of Beda C. Skon. Has satisfactorily completed the English course of study prescribed in the high school and having sustained a good character and made attainment in Science & Literature, is awarded this Diploma, the highest honor for its power to bestow. This holder leaves the institution with the respect and confidence of the Board & the instructors and with their best wishes for future success and usefulness. Signed by J.A. Taylor, Board President; George F. Braun, Treasurer, B. Hoey, Secretary, and John F. Weinberger, principal of high school.

20473A ibid - top

20473B ibid - seal

20473C ibid – signatures

20473D Annotations to diploma to Beda Skon’s 6-2-1911 from Rib Lake School Board by R.P. Rusch on Feb. 2, 2017

20474 Obit, Beda Prien, fka Beda C. Skon (12-24-1892 to 6-26-1988), Star News 3-9-1994

20475 Annotated sketch of the Rib Lake School System by Emma Heany, June 1898, printed 8-16-1962 in Rib Lake Herald; corrected and annotated by RPR 2-5-2017

20475A Historical Sketch of the Rib Lake School System, by Emma Heany

20476 P. c. 1940 Taylor County Courthouse from Second Street

20477 Governor Scott Walker cartoon, Star News 2-2-2017

20478 “Rib Lake Hall of Fame Inducts Nurse, Teacher” Star News 2-2-2017, photo of Bonnie Pearson

20478A ibid p. 2 Photo of Lori Manion, Joan Magnuson & Mark Maata

20479 Obit. Joan Simek 1933-2017, Star News, Co-founder of Tombstone Pizza

20480 “Trump is what he is, and God help us now” by Garrison Kellor, 1-26-2017 from internet

20480A ibid p. 2

20481 Registration form; 35th annual Hinder Binder cross country ski race, 2-18-2017 by Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club

20482 Map 2-18-2017 Hinder Binder Ski Race-Event course; Forest Springs start-finish. Using first names, the map identifies individuals in charge of aid stations;

1. Cathy Miller-Temme

2. Norman Hoyt

3. Janille Zirngible

4. Gary Thums

5. Ann Rusch

6. Buzz Meyer.

20482A ibid course sign 32km skate-classic

20483 P. 1-19-2017 Mike Quednow & new groomer purchased by Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club

20483A ibid track setter

20483Bibid caterpillar tread

20483C ibid, Nordic trail “Green trail”

20483D ibid front view with winch

20483E ibid, perfectly gromed trail for skate and classical skiing & snowshoeing

20483F ibid, dog, “Marley” on groomed trail showing snowshoe tracks.

20484 P. 1957 L-R Tom Smith, unknown, Herb Curran after ruffed grouse hunt. Building at rear was old fire towerman residence in Taylor County Forest, NE NE 24-33-3E.

20485 P. 1957 R-L Mrs. Harry (Faye) Curran on showshoes with son, Tom Curran, outside old fire towerman residence in Taylor County Forest

20486 P. 1962 Airplane crash near RLLC Camp 24 site, Town of Corning, Lincoln County, WI

20487 P. c. 1960 Hunting shack, snowshoe house, built by Taylor County Judge Peter Seidl in former RLLC cutover lands in Town of Corning, Lincoln Co., WI SW NW 20-33-4E

20488 W. “Names of Rib Lake Old Timers,” by Ray Bundick c. 1960, p. 1 Kennedy, McDonald, McLennan, McMillan, Larson, Eggeston, McLellan, Getchel, Talbot

20488A ibid p. 2 Talbot, Whittlinger, Hess, DeGroat, Thomas, Miller, Hintz, Gummoll, Rosemus (sic), Taylor, Manderville, Hagen, Ballonge, Adams

20488B ibid p. 3 Brede, Adams, Peterson, Reece, Winthers, Bangle, McRae, Skipple, Skon, Duchene, lilly, Trentow, Carroll

20488C ibid p. 4 Lange, Aikin, Pringle, Begley, Frosset, Herrem, Dr. Wickman, Dr. Williams, Wallace, Page, Hazen, Voemastek, Downs, Cowel, Finegan, Beadmore, Hebert, Radtke, Krueger, Mielke, Drake, Harding, Sheldon, Walty, Niggeman

20488D ibid p. 5 Dr. Corbett, Dr. Werner, Allard, Clendenning, Bonneville, McLeod, Clark, Johnson, Kelnhofer, Van Gieson, McManus.

20489 Map 2-9-2017 Prussia in 1876-Baltic Sea to Silesia

20489A ibid, Red arrow to Karlsdorf-Ancestral Rusch village; Green arrow to Schoenwalde-Ancestral Gebauer village

20489B ibid, Prussia battle sites, 1st and 2nd Silesian wars

20489C ibid, Seven Years War

20490 P. 1909 Rib Lake High School

20490A ibid back, postcard to Bertha Stallard postdated May 16, 1909

Lee “Butch” Clendenning Collection

20491 P. c. 1920 L-R Otto Rusch, unknown, Joe Lilly, Max Clendenning, who stands on empty narrow gauge tram car. View west on tramway from RLLC sawmill complex.

20492 P. c. 1900 Rib Lake Saloon. Two patrons stand by swinging doors to entrance. Barender at back bar has hand on cash register. Wall signs advertise Miller High Life beer from Milwaukee

20493 P. c. 1939 Lee “Butch” Clendenning poses with do “Moochie” and his spike buck at Maple Knoll Tavern on Little Spirit, nka Mohr’s Bar. Lee was killed on 12-7-1941 at Pearl Harbor

20494 P. c. 1965 Charles Clendenning was badly wounded on 12-7-1941 at Pearl Harbor.

20495 P. c. 1944 Robert Knop in WWII uniform

20495A P. Robert Knop with spouse, Ruth, nee Myer, c. 1950

End of Clendenning collection

20496 c. 1910 Panoramic photo, “Anderson & Bergland” Lumber Co, “Alvin, Wisconsin, Camp at Siding 83.” The steam hauler belches smoke. Note the polewood timber positioned behind the legs of the man at left and running between the bunks of sleighs 1 and 2 to prevent the sleighs from colliding on a downgrade. A similar polewood timber separated every sleigh behind this steam hauler.

20496-1 Sleighs 2-7 behind steam hauler pictured in image 20496. In foreground team is hitched to tote wagon carrying supplies to camp, including bales of straw/hay, barrel and loaded gunny sacks.

20496-2 Water sprinkler sleigh of Anderson & Bergland Lumber Co. Note that tongues are attached to both front and rear of sleigh allowing sleigh to be pulled in either direction. A pulley and chain hang from superstructure above sleigh ready to pull water barrel to fill tank. At rear a spigot is partially seen, used to sprinkle water to augment ice road surface.

20497 Map 2014 Wisconsin state highway map showing location of Alvin, Forest County, Wisconsin, the location referred to in image 20496.

20498 CSM 2307 9-25-2015 David Tlusty-Dennis Scheithauer-Timms Hill Trail parcel

20498A ibid - certification

20499 W. 2013 Rib Lake Waterworks “consulter confidence support data”

20499A ibid p. 2

20499B ibid p. 3 contaminants

20499C ibid p. 4 radioactive contaminants

20499D ibid p. 5 radon-no testing done

20499E ibid p. 6 water & sewer rates

Ida Yorde collection

20500 W. 2-2012 “First wartime Christmas holds special memories,” by Vernon John (Jack) McRae, “Reminisce” magazine, Greendale, WI, Photo of Vernon McRae at McRae’s Restaurant & Bakery on McComb Ave.

20500A ibid

20501 W. “Who came when to United States,” author unknown

20501A ibid p. 2 e.e. Albert Knop 1891 from Plotsig, Germany

20502 2-7-2017 Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club minutes; officers, Scot Bromann, president; Gary Thums, Vice President; Gail Nelson, secretary & treasurer; Bob Rusch resigned after serving 35 years

Mary Lou Howard collection

20503 Celebration buttons; 1965 “Still Alive in 65”; 1976 Bicentennial; 1977 Here again in 77; 1979 booster time; 1981 Rib Lake centennial; 1983 laker fun fest; 1986 Go Rib Lake Redmen; 1988 Ice Age Days; 1996 ibid “Ugh”

20504 P. 1888 “Jumbo Four Horse Load of ‘88” 21 logs-scale 16820 feet-12 foot bunks [on sleigh] hauled five miles [by 2 teams of horses] from J.J. Kennedy’s camp, Rib Lake, Wis. W.W. Lamb, photographer. (Also scanned as 10699 & 12229)

20504A ibid back

20504B P. Enhanced 4-2017 by Dan Smith, dba Winterspring Studios, Wisconsin Rapids, WI, original photo of Jumbo Load of 1888

20505 P. c. 1895 Planing mill at J.J. Kennedy’s mill complex at Rib Lake. Forty men, two boys and one dog pose. Recently planed piles of lumber await shipment.

20505A P. Enhanced 4-2017 by Dan Smith, dba Winterspring Studios, Wisconsin Rapids, WI

20506 P. c. 1895 Interior of J.J. Kennedy’s planing mill at Rib Lake; overhead horizontal shafts power one-foot-wide vertical leather belts connected to planers on floor. Fabricated metal tubes suck shavings by air pressure into overhead pipes, which run horizontally to boiler room.

20506A P. Enhanced 4-2017 by Dan Smith, dba Winterspring Studios, Wisconsin Rapids, WI

20507 P. c. 1895 Planing mill crew sits atop freshly planed lumber at J.J. Kennedy’s Rib Lake mill. Two wheel cart of lumber can be moved by men pushing high end of lumber level. Inside planing mill triangular shaped superstructure of pneumatic shavings collection [“cyclone”] system seen above planer.

20507A P. Enhanced 4-2017 by Dan Smith, dba Winterspring Studios, Wisconsin Rapids, WI

20508 P. c. 1895 Crew holding 2 foot wide shovels move wood shavings near boilers of J.J. Kennedy’s Rib Lake sawmill. Six foot high sheet metal horizontal tube is temporary storage filler with shavings blown there from planing mill. Hinged doors on storage tube may be opened to allow shavings to pour onto floor. An open door at right exposed shavings inside tube.

20508A P. Enhanced 4-2017 by Dan Smith, dba Winterspring Studios, Wisconsin Rapids, WI

20509 P. c. 1895 Interior of part of boiler room of J.J. Kennedy’s Rib Lake sawmill. Man at right stands next to round access door which allows inspection of fire inside furnace. Man at left if millwright holding pipe wrench with right hand while his left hand rests on part of steam engine; 18 feet in diameter fly wheel stores kinetic energy.

20509A P. Enhanced 4-2017 by Dan Smith, dba Winterspring Studios, Wisconsin Rapids, WI

20510 P. c. 1890 4-4-0 Wisconsin Central locomotive waits at crude Rib Lake dupot for run to Chelsea with passenger car trailing freight.

20510A P. Enhanced 4-2017 by Dan Smith, dba Winterspring Studios, Wisconsin Rapids, WI

20511 P. c. 1900 teamster stands on peaker sleigh load

20512 P. c. 1920 Frank H. Bailey, right, and 2 men on 20 foot high pile of hardwood logs. NB-pulley

20512A ibid Frank H. Bailey at left

20512B ibid Frank H. Bailey at RLLC dry yard; butt log on flat car behind him

20513 P. c. 1925 Corner in lumber [dry] yard, Rib Lake, Wis.” 167 foot chimney of RLLC sawmill at rear

20513A ibid man next to 20 foot high pile of lumber in RLLC dry yard

20513B ibid man on narrow gauge tracks between 20 foot high lumber piles. “roof” to shed rain water protrude from front of lumber piles

20514 P. c. 1900 Pine Island on Rib Lake

20515 P. c. 1925 Vertical pilings driven into bottom of Rib lake support log boom extending shore to shore to contain floating saw logs

20516 P. c. 1940 Rib Lake inundates two railroad tracks at RLLC hot pond. Photo taken eastward from “round house” roof

20516A ibid signed “Fred L. Bailey, Rib Lake”

20517 P. c. 1940 log-loaded flat car awaits unloading at RLLC hot pond – here flooded by lake 2 feet higher than normal

20518 P. c. 1940 Heindl’s “Standard Oil” gas station on then STH 102 and Church Street. It was near Heindl family-owned grocery store and run by variety of operators including Harry Curran

20519 P. c. 1950 Rib Lake Dairy truck stuck on town road during spring break-up

20519A ibid

20519B ibid, farmer with horse team removes milk cans from accident site.

20520 W. 11-1-1943 “Sawdust,” Vol. 1 No. 2, published by Accident Prevention Committee, Rib Lake Lumber Co., Rib Lake, Wis. front page; Committee solicits articles from RLLC employees for monthly “magazine.”

20520A ibid p. 2 “Fred Bailey has again won the down payment on a new pair of shoes…”

20520B ibid p. 3 “98% of industrial accidents are preventable.”

20520C ibid p. 4 rationing

20520D ibid p. 5, contributors; Adolph Walbeck, Ernest Krueger, Con Berg, Wesley Schmidt, Wm. Radtke, Bernard Frenzel, Wm. Lemke

20520E ibid p. 5 proclamation by Governor Walter Goodland

20520F ibid p. 7 “labor shortages”

20520G ibid p. 8 jokes “Good Republicans”

20521 W. 3-1-1944 “Sawdust,” Accident Prevention Committee, RLLC, Vol. 2, No. 2, Rib Lake, Wis., front page. There were 784 days lost in 1943 due to accidents. This is the poorest accident record experienced since 1936-1937…Five years agao the company purchased timber that has been coming into Rib Lake rather than to one of the nearby plants in Upper Michigan, which has prolonged this operations now several years, as over 40 percent of the logs sawed here have been “outside” logs…

20521A ibid p. 2 letter by Fred L. Bailey; Hemlock and [yellow] birch-due to being shade loving trees – can not be replanted and selectively logged…with proper fire protection, maple seed trees will reforest as demonstrated on all early RLLC cutting.—Editor.

20521B ibid p. 3 poem by Fred L. Bailey

20521C ibid p. 4

20521D ibid p. 5 77 “Village men in armed forces: including Frank Bailey

20521E ibid p. 6 Herman Wiitala seriously injured on the steam jammer [ McGiffert Loader] loading logs at Camp 26

20521F ibid p. 7 Otto Ziemke, barn boss, kicked by horse…is in very critical condition at Medford hospital.

20521G ibid p. 8 “fire…forest enemy number 1”

20521H ibid p. 9 “The Camp of the Big Onion,” by Paul Bunyan

20521I ibid p. 10

20521J ibid p. 11

20521K ibid p. 12 Buy US War Bonds

20522 W. 4-1-1944 “Sawdust,” Accident Prevention Committee, RLLC, Vol. 2, No. 3, Rib Lake, Wis., front page. Grievances should be discussed with foreman first; if employee is dissatisfied, he may go to “office of superintendent and the plan manager is open at all time.”

20522A ibid p. 2 states oldest forest plantation is at Star Lake; it is 30 years old and experienced first thinning

20522B ibid p. 3

20522C ibid p. 4 Camp 27

20522D ibid p. 5 Wear goggles. Transfer car.

20522E ibid p. 5 “The Pyramid Forty” by Paul Bunyan

20522F ibid p. 7

20522G ibid p. 8

20523 W. 5-1-1944 “Sawdust,” Accident Prevention Committee, RLLC, Vol. 2, No. 4, Rib Lake, Wis., front page. “No employee will be discriminated against because he has experienced his right to join a labor organization [union] or any other organization.” H.W. Johannes

20523A ibid p. 2 dry yard accident

20523B ibid p. 3

20523C ibid p. 4 Mr. Yanko pulling sinkers or dead loads from hot pond

20523D ibid p. 5 poem by Fred L. Bailey

20523E ibid p. 6

20523F ibid p. 7 “Babe the Blue Ox” by Paul Bunyan

20523G ibid p. 8

20523H ibid p. 9

20523I ibid p. 10

20524 W. 6-1-1944 “Sawdust,” Accident Prevention Committee, RLLC, Vol. 2, No. 5, Rib Lake, Wis., front page. “59 out of 183 employees had signed union cards as of 4-25-1944” at RLLC. RLLC says it is trying to get War Labor Board to approve RLLC granting its employees a vacation in 1944.

20524A ibid p. 2 tuberculosis x-rays conducted; 50 employees tested. “Your family doctor will be notified of result.”

20524B ibid p. 3 At sawmill safety devices installed for edger, trimmer, slasher, deck, horizontal resaw, vertical resaw

20524C ibid p. 4 IRS warns employees about falsely claiming too many dependents.

20524D ibid p. 5 department supervisors [foremen]; Sawmill-William Radtke; Dry yard-William Daga; Green yard-William Lemke; Planer-Wesley Schmidt; Shop-Anton Hoffman; Chipper-William Radtke; Section-Anton Klister; Railroad-E.J. Synott

20524E ibid p. 6 three poems

20524F ibid p. 7 “The Round Drive” by Paul Bunyan

20524G ibid p. 8

20524H ibid p. 9

20524I ibid p. 10

20524J ibid p. 11

20524K ibid p. 12

20525W. 7-1-1944 “Sawdust,” Accident Prevention Committee, Vol. 2, No. 6, RLLC, Rib Lake, Wis. Front page. “Sawdust,” was mailed to employees in service with the RLLC

20525A ibid. 2 John Kurotnic killed while sawing tree – limb fell on his head

20525B ibid p. 3

20525C ibid p. 4 lumber workers still deferrable from draft

20525D ibid p. 5 “Chipper Department,” “We know we are sort of a lowly affair, built beneath the rest of the fellow, our living quarters are crowded and filled with cast-off materials from above.” [The chipper was a toothed wheel which made wood chips from scrap wood.-RPR]

20525E ibid p. 6 “Bill Berfield”

20525F ibid p. 7 “We’re coming, Tojo”

20525G ibid p. 8 Ad-5th War Bond Loan

20525H ibid p. 9

20525I ibid p. 10 “Prunestones” by Paul Bunyan

20525J ibid p. 11

20525K ibid p. 12

20526 W. 8-1-1944 “Sawdust,” Accident Prevention Committee, RLLC, Vol. 2, No. 7, Rib Lake, Wis, front page

20526A ibid p. 2 letters form WWII servicemen

20526B ibid p. 3

20526C ibid p. 4 Green yard

20526D ibid p. 5

20526E ibid p. 6 planing mill crew works 7 am to 5 pm, 10 hours

20526F ibid p. 7 “sensible living”

20526G ibid p. 8 “Some of Paul’s men” by Paul Bunyon

20526H ibid p. 9

20526I ibid p. 10

20526J ibid p. 11

20526K ibid p. 12

20527 W. 9-1-1944 “Sawdust,” Accident Prevention Committee, RLLC, Vol. 2, No. 8, Rib Lake, Wis, front page. Dedication to three dead servicemen; Lawrence Matthias, Saipan; Dan Thums, Italy; Russell Bullis, France

20527A ibid p. 2

20527B ibid p. 3 No news from logging department

20527C ibid p. 4

20527D ibid p. 5 “Fall” guys

20527E ibid p. 6 Fire signals; location of fire as designated by signals; A) 5 short-1 long; mill building, shop or round house; 5 short-2 long; planing mill, dry shed or office; 5 short-3 long; yards east of Kennedy Street; 4 short-4 long; yards west of Kennedy Street

20527F ibid p. 7 poem by Fred L. Bailey

20527G ibid p. 8

20527H ibid p. 9 The master ruleth me

20527I ibid p. 10 Paul Bunyan’s wife

20527J ibid p. 11

20527K ibid p. 12

20528 W. 10-1-1944 “Sawdust,” Accident Prevention Committee, RLLC, Vol. 2, No 9, Rib Lake, Wis., front page. “Status of negotiations with Union.”

20528A ibid p. 2 1) RLLC proposed to union-1 week’s vacation with pay for those employees on payroll as of 6-1-1944; 2) time and a half [pay] on holidays; 3) a full grievance procedure; 4) A seniority clause; 5) clause governing transfers; 6) leaves of absence, etc [union rejected offer]

20528B ibid p. 3 National War Labor Board will decide RLLC-Union dispute

20528C ibid p. 4 90 percent of forest fires are caused by man

20528D ibid p. 5 safety in home

20528E ibid p. 6 Letters from the boys [servicemen]

20528F ibid p. 7 “Wayne Bullis has had the hemlock itch on his hands and arms-no lost time-but a very disagreeable affliction.”

20528G ibid p. 8 Colonel Stoopnagle

20528H ibid p. 9

20528I ibid p. 10 “The Buckskin Harness” by Paul Bunyon

20528J ibid p. 11

20528K ibid p. 12

20529 W. 11-1-1944 “Sawdust,” Accident Prevention Committee, RLLC, Vol. 2, No. 10, Rib Lake, Wis, front cover

20529A ibid, p. 2 Accident chart

20529B ibid p. 3 poem by “Bailey”

20529C ibid p. 4 servicemen names and addresses

20529D ibid p. 5

20529E ibid p. 6 Hitler vs the Devil

20529F ibid p. 7

20529G ibid p. 8 Gremlins we have known

20529H ibid p. 9 A lumberjack’s prayer

20529I ibid p. 10 “The Winter of the Blue Snow,” by Paul Bunyan

20529J ibid p. 11

20529K ibid p. 12

20530 W. 12-1-1944“Sawdust,” Accident Prevention Committee, RLLC, Vol. 2, No. 11, Rib Lake, Wis., front page.

20530A ibid p. 2 letters from servicemen

20530B ibid p. 3 Accident chart

20530C ibid p. 4 poems by “Bailey”

20530D ibid p. 5

20530E ibid p. 6 servicemen addresses

20530F ibid p. 7 cause and effect

20530G ibid p. 8 heart disease

20530H ibid p. 9 Alibi Ikes

20530I ibid p. 10 “Paul’s hunting,” by Paul Bunyan

20530J ibid p. 11

20530K ibid p. 12

20531 W. 1-1-1945“Sawdust,” Accident Prevention Committee, RLLC, Vol. 2, No. 12, Rib Lake, Wis., front page

20531A ibid p. 2

20531B ibid p. 3 letters from servicemen

20531C ibid p. 4 “Frank Steen is feeding the chipper. His job is quite dangerous…”

20531D ibid p. 5 sixth war bond drive

20531E ibid p. 6 “the dry yard now has gone a whole year without an accident.”

20531F ibid p. 7 green yard “The transfer gang has had a lot of new faces in the past year. J.J. Mauch and Dick Berg are marking lumber in the [transfer] chain, i.e. grading lumber.” “The lower [hardwood] yard is no more.” The railroad tracks have been removed. “The hardwood is being piled on the south side of the old yard.”

“The hemlock is being shipped out before it [is cooled] off from the hot pond. Pilers load it down on yard [cars?] from the tramway. It really is [a big] advantage all around. Lemke’s crew doesn’t have to pile it [and] Bill Daga’s crew doesn’t have [to unload] it. Besides all that, it gives the pilers a chance to be up near…[McComb?] street and check on everyone going up town and they sure don’t miss a thing.”

20531FF Annotation: WWI created a red hot market for lumber. Since the RLLC had only one small dry kiln, nearly all of its lumber had to air dried.

The January 1, 1945, article in “Sawdust” describes freshly sawed lumber not being piled for air drying. Rather, it was loaded into railroad box cars and shipped out of Rib Lake to market.

“Green planer;” during WWII the RLLC installed and operated a green lumber planer on the tramway near Pearl Street. Tram cars brought green lumber there. After planing, the green lumber was immediately shipped. –RPR 2-25-2017

20531G ibid p. 8 men descended

20531H ibid p. 9 Memories of the old hardwood yard. “Oh, the hardwood yard is bare, now bill Lemke doesn’t swear, he can keep an eye on his men, without walking to number ten.” –Fred Bailey. P. “John Monske was called upon to help out in the green planer for a week.

20531I ibid p. 10 Accident chart comparing 1944 and 1943

20531J ibid p. 11 “Logging North Dakota,” by Paul Bunyan.

20531K ibid p. 12 Buy more bonds.

20532 W. 2-1-1945 “Sawdust,” Accident Prevention Committee, RLLC, Vol. 3, No. 1, Rib Lake, Wis., front page.

20532A ibid p. 2 Free enterprise

20532B ibid p. 3

20532C ibid p. 4 poems by William Radtke

20532D ibid p. 5 planer department “Spilled buggie loads of lumber”

20532E ibid p. 6

20532F ibid p. 7 letters from servicemen

20532G ibid p. 8

20532H ibid p. 9 woods injuries; 1-1-1944 to 1-1-1945 Camp 26 and 27, 56 injuries including a fatality.

20532I ibid p. 10 “Logging North Dakota”

20532J ibid p. 11

20532K ibid p. 12 Sales manager Rubin Lutz resigned

20533 W. 3-1-1945 “Sawdust,” Accident Prevention Committee, RLLC, Vol. 3, No. 2, Rib Lake, Wis., front page.

20533A ibid p. 2 At Camp 27 pine tree produced 21 logs

20533B ibid p. 3 Gerald Dewsz missing in action

20533C ibid p. 4 accident charts

20533D ibid p. 5

20533E ibid p. 6

20533F ibid p. 7 letters from servicemen

20533G ibid p. 8 the screwier accidents of 1944

20533H ibid p. 9

20533I ibid p. 10 “Paul Bunyan’s cornstalk”

20533J ibid p. 11

20533K ibid p. 12

20534 W. 4-1-1945“Sawdust,” Accident Prevention Committee, RLLC, Vol. 3, No. 3, Rib Lake, Wis., front page. Government wants increased lumber production, “”such as maple, birch, oak, and rock elm larged produced in our area, to say nothing of the tremendous amount of hemlock…used in lend lease and crating to get ammunition and war material to the war zone.

20534A ibid p. 2 safety suggestions

20534B ibid p. 3

20534C ibid p. 4 letters from servicemen

20534D ibid p. 5 accident chart

20534E ibid p. 6 logs being decked near RLLC sawmill

20534F ibid p. 7 ethnic “jokes”

20534G ibid p. 8

20534H ibid p. 9 “new methods,” by Paul Bunyan

20534I ibid p. 10

20534J ibid p. 11

20534K ibid p. 12

20535 W. 5-1-1945 “Sawdust,” Accident Prevention Committee, RLLC, Vol. 3, No. 4, Rib Lake, Wis., front page. Obituary of Herman Johannes, manager, RLLC by Jack Mylrea

20535A ibid p. 2 R. “Rudy” J. Miller asked to become general manager of RLLC by Jack Mylrea.

20535B ibid p. 3 letter from Ray Becker

20535C ibid p. 4 safety shoe

20535D ibid p. 5 accident chart

20535E ibid p. 6 in 1944 10,500 American servicemen died by accident

20535F ibid p. 7 Examine yourself-test

20535G ibid p. 8 “Off for the West,” Paul Bunyan

20535H ibid p. 9

20535I ibid p. 10

20535J ibid p. 11

20535K ibid p. 12

20536 W. 6-1-1945 “Sawdust,” Accident Prevention Committee, RLLC, Vol. 3, No. 5, Rib Lake, Wis., front page. V.E. Day 5-8-1945

20536A ibid p. 2 The mill is operating 50 hours a week

20536B ibid p. 3

20536C ibid p. 4

20536D ibid p. 5 monthly accident report card

20536E ibid p. 6 “Two empty trouser legs”

20536F ibid p. 7

20536G ibid p. 8

20536H ibid p. 9

20536I ibid p. 10 “The inland empire,” Paul Bunyan

20536J ibid p. 11

20536K ibid p. 12

20537 W. 7-1-1945 “Sawdust,” Accident Prevention Committee, RLLC, Vol. 3, No. 6, Rib Lake, Wis., front page. RLLC received order of War Labor Board on 6-26-1945: 1) union membership; 2) pay time and half for timber of 8 hours a day; 3) 10 cents per hour wage increase, etc.

20537A ibid p. 2

20537B ibid p. 3 green yard [name for places where freshly cut lumber initially handled, e.g. transfer chain, tram car loading area and green planer—RPR 2-22-2017.]

20537C ibid p. 4

20537D ibid p. 5

20537E ibid p. 6 mill manager Rudy Miller and wife plan to move to Rib Lake

20537F ibid p. 7 2 poems by Fred Bailey

20537G ibid p. 8

20537H ibid p. 9 “On the Columbia,” Paul Bunyan

20537I ibid p. 10

20537J ibid p. 11

20537K ibid p. 12

20538 W. 8-1-1945 “Sawdust,” Accident Prevention Committee, RLLC, Vol. 3, No. 7, Rib Lake, Wis., front page.

20538A ibid p. 2

20538B ibid p. 3 The Sawdust poet. There is a fella’ his name is Bailey, in the planing mill he works daily, He has a talent for writing verse, some we rate pretty good-some much worse.

20538C ibid p. 4

20538D ibid p. 5 “Digging Puget Sound” Paul Bunyan

20538E ibid p. 6

20538F ibid p. 7

20538G ibid p. 8

20539 W. 9-1-1945 “Sawdust,” Accident Prevention Committee, RLLC, Vol. 3, No. 8, Rib Lake, Wis., front page. Safety speaker at machine shop at 1245 pm on 9-10-1945

20539A ibid p. 2 Accident chart

20539B ibid p. 3

20539C ibid p. 4

20539D ibid p. 5

20539E ibid p. 6 “Clearing the La Conner Flats,” Paul Bunyan

20539F ibid p. 7

20539G ibid p. 8

Collection of RPR

20540 2-23-2017 “the 35th Hinder binder; Sat. Feb. 18, Forest Springs, Westboro.” Star News.

20540A ibid Race results-classic

20540B ibid Race results-freestyle

20540C ibid “Is this the end.” Scot Bromann’s comments

20540D ibid Photo of Evan Schneider

20541 Logo 2-18-2017 35th Annual Hinder binder Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club

Donation by Howard Marx

20542 P. c. 1910 Rib Lake Elementary School students sitting in classroom in Ward School

20543 W. 6-1-1900 Rib Lake Public School Commencement announcement-cover

20543A ibid, program, Mr. Sharp, Mrs. J.E. Kennedy, Nina Begley

20543B ibid p. 2 Walter Buedding, Edith Pringle presenting diplomas, D.B. Kennedy. Class of 1900; Daisy Whittlinger and Laura Talbot. Until 1906 Rib Lake had no high school

20544 P. c. 1940 Fred Bailey and 2 hunting friends, ruffed grouse & bottle of Dad’s Old Fashioned Root Beer

20545 P. c. 1940 2 men at RLLC transfer chain; partially loaded tram car at rear.

20546 P. c. 1945 Honor roll-RLLC employees in military or naval service; Herbert Stelling, Maurice Olson, Joseph Wudi, Leo Stiel, Nicholas LePage, Richard Upjohn, Louis Kasek, Ode Lemke, Harold Bokoth, Francis Kettleson, Robert Hess, Jr., Charles Ziemke, Edward Quednow, Blake Bokoth, James Holmes, Jr., Clifford Waldhart, Carl Krueger, Ray Pendergast, Jr., Raymond Seidel, Albert Lein, Ambrose Thums, Walter Kulka, Andrew Mann, Jr., Herman Steinman, Jr., Lee Hill

20547 P. c. 1940 Man at RLLC hot pond. Note water channel for logs to reach bull chain

20548 W. 10-25-1945 Certificate for Honorable Discharge for Frank H. Bailey, US Navy

20548A ibid enlisted Army record

RPR collection

20549 Whimsical cartoon of street car recovered from Opal Bailey’s house in 2017

20550 1-14-1878 receipt for lodge dues for $1 to Hollis Bailey

20551 5-11-1895 $10.00 credit check, payable on demand in merchandise to Oliver Bailey, signed J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co, which had both its sawmill and company store in Rib Lake. NB-sums from 1 cent to 50 cents-punched out as needed

20551A ibid back; “you can always tell how your account stands, as the amount unpunched represents the value of the card”

20551B ibid $5.00 5-23-1896

20551C ibid 3-5-1896

20552 12-15-1928 Statement of deductions from pay of Oliver Bailey by RLLC of Delaware-75 cents for insurance.

20552A ibid Fred Bailey

20553 c. 1928 Employee pay claim card to RLLC of Delaware

20554 1889 “Hazeltine’s pocket book almanac” front

20554A ibid title page and postal rates

20554B cure for consumption (tuberculosis perhaps) and other wasting diseases is “Piso’s Cure.”

20555 2-26-1898 Social certificate of Ladies of the Maccabees [lodge, Port Huron, Michigan] to Abbie M. Bailey by Hive #56, Rib Lake

20555A ibid – cover

20556 Pocket calendar 1900 compliments of Knights of the Maccabees-cover

20556A ibid title page

20556B ibid p. 1-2, categories of memberships; a) social, b) life benefit “in case of total and permanent disability or old age.”

20556C ibid p. 3-4 costs to join the order

20557 1-1-1902 “Ladies of the Maccabees, a Fraternal Beneficiary Society for Women” membership info-cover

20557A ibid

20557B ibid

20558 2-12-1900 postcard signed “J. Kennedy” [for John J. Kennedy, founder of Rib Lake] to “My Dear Mrs. Bailey”

20558A ibid penny postcard to “Mrs. H. Bailey, City” postmarked Rib Lake

20559 penny postcard postmarked 3-8-1901 Rib Lake to “Oliver Bailey, City.”

20559A ibid back. Ad by Elliot “E.C.” Getchel re his store in Rib Lake

20560 Ad Johannes canned goods

20561 Ad Baker’s Cocoa

20562 Ad School supplies & Kodaks, A.P. Stebbins & Co., Barron, Wis

20563 c. 1905 Ad “Galena Axle Grease” notebook-cover

20563A ibid p. 2 stamped “J.A. Taylor, Rib Lake.” [John A. Taylor Hardware Store]

20564 P. unidentified man

20565 P. unidentified woman and child

20566 P. unidentified boy

20567 P. unidentified couple

20568 P. James Holzer

20569 P. unidentified woman

20570 P. unidentified woman

20571 P. unidentified girl

20572 P. 3 unidentified children

20573 P. 2 unidentified children

20574 Postcard postdated 2-7-1908 Boston, Mass. And 3-9-1908 Rec’d Rib Lake, Frank Bailey to mother Hollis K. Bailey

20574A back, written in Chelsea, Mass, for which Chelsea, Wisconsin, is named

20575 Undated telegraph message written in longhand at Rib Lake Depot to Oliver Bailey from Seymour, Wisconsin

20575A back, printed form of Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co. “Soo Line” acquired the Wisconsin Central and served Rib Lake to 1950’s.

20576 Map 1997 Timms Hill National & special access trail with 10 points of interest

20576A ibid back

20577 P. 9-7-1951 Aerial along route of former Rib Lake-Camp 9 ice road c. 1914-1922. Originals in Rib Lake Historical Society collection. Rib Lake section 26-T33-R2E

20577A ibid Sec. 24-T33-R2E

20577B ibid Sec. 24-T33-R2E & Sec. 19-T33-R3E site of Albert Knop farm 1920-40 and Knop Hill, high point between watersheds, shown with arrow

20577C ibid Sec. 18-33-3E site of former Anton Kurek farm shown

20577D ibid Sec. 7-33-3EE site of former Heinrich Klostermann farm shown; spur of ice road to Olson Lake can be discerned

20577E ibid Sec. 12-33-2E (current Rusch Preserve), site of RLLC Camp 6 1911-1914 shown.

20577F ibid Sec. 1-33-2E and Sec. 36-34-2E

20578 Map 3-8-2017 homestead on IAT by Jake Walsiak, Asst. Taylor County Forester. Locations shows: IAT=yellow line, yellow circles, i.e. dots L-R; 1) unknown, 2) c. 12 x 12 foot earth foundfatio nof homestead house; 3) excavation of former root cellar; 4) high quality natural spring (potable water)

20579 map 3-10-2017 Steam hauler ice road route c. 1913-1922, Rib Lake to Camp 9 on 1951 aerial copy. Red line is on discernable road route on photo. Orange line is approximate route estimated by R.P. Rusch

20579A ibid Sec. 26-33-2E

20579B ibid Sec. 26-33-2E & Sec. 19-33-3E

20579C ibid Sec. 18-33-3E

20579D ibid Sec. 7-33-3E site of Heinrich Klostermann farm c. 1900-1916 shown. Route of spur ice road to Olson Lake shown in green

20579E ibid Sec. 12-33-2E (current Rusch Preserve), site of RLLC Camp 6 shown 1911-1914

20579F ibid Sec. 1-33-2E and Sec. 36-34-2E (extent of excavation of 200 foot long trench north of Ritchie Lake through which ice road ran is shown as well as Ritchie Lake, named for 1876-1900 pine logger

20580 W. 2-2017 “The President Who Loved,” (Obama) by Ann Patchett.

20581 Obit. Oliver H. Bailey, Rib Lake Herald 7-9-1948

20582 W. Bailey descendants’ chart 3-11-2017 by Robert P. Rusch

20583 P. c. 1940 Ida Mae Bailey and granddaughter Opal Bailey

20584 P. c. 1940 Oliver Bailey with granddaughter Opal Bailey

20584A P. c. 1943 Oliver Bailey with granddaughter Opal Bailey

20585 Introduction cards of Hollis Bailey, Oliver Bailey, Fred Bailey, et al.

20586 W. 5-29-1896 Receipt for poll tax signed by Peter Clendenning for $1.50 from Oliver Bailey

20586A ibid 6-18-1896 signed by Hugh Kennedy (“H.J. Kennedy”) brother of J.J. Kennedy

20586B ibid 7-12-1899 signed by George Clark “G.S.”

20586C Constitutional amendment #24 passed by Congress on August 27, 1962 and ratified January 23, 1964 making poll taxes illegal

20587 W. 9-5-1901 Introduction card of R.S. Mandeville, watchmaker and jeweler, Rib Lake

20587A ibid back, handwritten watch guarantee

20588 P. c. 1900 lumberjacks on deck of saw logs at Rib Lake

20589 Pay statement 11-10-1900 to Oliver Bailey from W.A. Osburn Lumber Co of Rib Lake, purchaser of J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co., rate of pay was $1.75 per day

20589A ibid 7-6-1901

20589B ibid 5-10-1902 rate of pay was $2.00 per day. Oliver Bailey is reimbursed for a railroad “switch key” for $1.50

20590 “Timeline re sale of J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co. and creation of Rib Lake Lumber Co. by RPR 3-11-2017. RLLC Created 5-6-1902 when W.A. Osburn renamed itself

20591 P. c. 1900 RLLC sawmill complex, rear-chimneys at Rib Lake Tannery; view north

20592 Map modified copy of RLLC Mill Complex dated 8-4-1902

20593 1-13-1902 Rib Lake Herald receipt $3.00 “Hand & Voemastek”

20594 8-10-1903 Rib Lake Herald bill $1.50 signed by John J. Voemastek

20595 5-29-1915 Rib Lake Herald receipt for $2.00 signed by J.J. Voemastek

20596 12-10-1913 Rib Lake Herald subscription bill for $1.50

20597 8-30-1898 receipt for $2.50 Dr. A.M. Corbett

20598 3-15-1910 receipt $3.00 Dr. G.C. Wichman, M.D.

20599 c. 1910 prescription by Dr. E.A. Lapham

20599A ibid back “James Upjohn Pharmacist, Rib Lake”

20600 c. 1910 prescription by Dr. W.A. Shepherd M.D. “Please take to James Upjohn, Ph.G. Rib Lake”

20601 c. 1910 bill $6.75 Dr. H.J. Hoffman, M.D.

20602 2-19-1901 receipt Dr. O.E. Werner, M.D. $10.00

20603 W. First National Bank, Rib Lake, WI 9-26-1902 check for $50.00 by Mrs. Oliver Bailey

20603A ibid 1-1-1920 L. to Mr. Oliver Bailey signed E.C. Getchel, cashier. “Duncan McLennan, president, James Upjohn, Vice President, capital $25,000”

20603B ibid Savings passbook-cover in English & German. E.g. “Geschaefts Stunden,” (hours of business) 9 am-noon, 130 to 4 pm

20603C ibid 1-24-1908 check $10.00 “paid”

20603D ibid 4-19-1912 check $25.00 “paid”

20603E ibid 2-8-1925 check $10.00 “Paid”

20604 1906 First National Bank Rib Lake passbook-cover

20604A ibid back cover

20604B ibid p. 1

20604C ibid p. 2 & 3

20604D ibid p. 4

20604E ibid deposit information. In German-you must bring this book with you whenever depositing or withdrawing money.

20604F ibid “Account with Ollie Bailey”

20604G ibid In German-Regeles und Vorschriften, i.e. Rules & Regulations

20605 10-2-1912 Envelope, First National Bank to “O.H. Bailey, City”

20605A ibid L. signed by E.C. Getchel

20606 10-10-1902 Rib Lake Lumber Co. pay statement for Oliver Bailey $2 per day

20606A ibid 12-10-1902 $2 per day wages of “RR”, i.e. railroad, other $1.75

20606B ibid 10-31-1904 wages $1.85 per day

20606C ibid 7-10-1905 wages $1.65 per day; railroad $3 per day, deduction for (fire) wood $7.00

20606D ibid 2-10-1905 wages $1.85 per day

20606E ibid 7-10-1905 wages $1.65 per day; 24 days at $1.75 per day

20607 10-21-1916 Bill to Oliver Bailey from RLLC for “6300# coal at $4.85 is $15.28; $3.95 for coal, $1.00 for weight, 50 cents for unloading & delivering.”

20608 5-23-1908 RLLC monthly statement “paid on 1st loan $2.00…paid on 3rd loan $3.50”

20609 P. c. 1905 “Pine Island in Winter”

20610 c. 1899 Handwritten list of books on stationery; Peerless tent No. 36 Knights of the Maccabees, Rib Lake

20611 10-22-1916 receipt for Ida Bailey from Women’s Benefit Association of the Maccabees for 90 cents

20612 5-16-1910 Subscription receipt for Ida Bailey re “Home Life Magazine” 25 cents for one year

20613 c. 1910 Printed envelope to Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago

20613A ibid back

20614 L. 11-14-1902 Oliver Bailey to T.C. County Clerk re marriage license

20614A ibid back signed by William Martin, county clerk

20615 P. c. 1905 “McComb Avenue” Rib Lake, view north. Bldg on right was James Upjohn “Drugs,” Lemon’s “Furniture.” On left “Wisconsin House Hotel”

20616 “RLMC” Rib Lake Mercantile Co. $510.00

20617 5-12-1914 Phillip Marcus dba The Fair Dept. Store, “general merchandise, flour & feed. Charge slip to Oliver Bailey, Suit for $16.00, Hat for $2.00

20617A ibid 12-5-1916 1 spool for 5 cents

20618 Tax bill Village of Rib Lake 1917 Fred Niggemann $23.62

20618A ibid 1918 by Ed Johnson $20.20

20619 5-20-1913 Dog tax receipt $1 signed by Joe Scott

20620 9-22-1912 Receipt by Ed Johnson dba Johnson Hardware to Adolph Daue for Oliver Bailey $12.93

20621 5-14-1912 “Bill of Account” by Adolph Daue for labor ($23.50) & supplies ($40.21) to paint Oliver Bailey’s home

20622 10-6-1916 Ed Johnson “General hardware, farm machinery, electrical & supplies. Paints & Oils” Rib Lake, bill for soft coal for Oliver Bailey

20623 P. Opal Bailey, born 5-1-1938 plays on merry-go-round at VRL Ward School

20624 P. Village of Rib Lake c. 1900, Lutheran Church facing south. View south from tannery. Center-store on Landall Ave.

20625 P. c. 1940 “Rib Lake [Lumber Co.] from South Shore” A-216

20625A ibid back, postmarked 6-28-1940 to Jim Verlles

From Bailey collection DVD dated 4-17-2017

20626 P. c. 1940 Stairway along bull chain; crooked log on bull chain side. At rear is hot pond.

20627 P. c. 1940 Man standing on dock where RLLC bull chain removed logs from hot pond

20628 P. 9-1945 McComb & Railroad Street in Rib Lake. Center-debris left from fire which destroyed planing mill and company office; left-gondola railroad car at dry kiln

20628A ibid, 4 railroad cars, two in center destroyed and warped by fire. Right-masonry vault stands where RLLC office building was destroyed by fire on 9-21-1945

20629 P. c. 1920 2 men at RLLC transfer chain. Rear-green lumber on tram carts on narrow gauge tracks

20630 P. c. 1920 View northward of McComb Ave from RLLC tram bridge; pipe in foreground is part of bridge guard railing

20631 P. c. 1920 back yards of structure on north side of Church Street in Rib Lake; right-Methodist Church; left-Ward School

20632 P. c. 1920 O.A. Peterson General Store and Red Crown Gas Station

20633 1-28-1914 Adolph Daue, dba A. Daue & Co. Well Drillers, receipt to Oliver Bailey for $8.86

20634 P. c. 1915 “In the Woods” two does

20635 10-26-1912 24 cent receipt paid by Oliver Bailey to Rib Lake Co-operative Co. signed by E.C. Getchel

20636 c. 1915 receipt to Oliver Bailey for $1.00 Paid to Rib Lake Telephone Co signed by Cyrus R. Claussen

20637 c. 1920 Christmas wishes by Rib Lake Telephone Co signed by Floyd J. Peterson

20638 5-1-1916 $1.00 receipt by Frank Poole “for load of sawdust” to Mrs. Oliver Bailey

20639 12-1-1917 US mail insured parcel 3 cent fee receipt by postmaster John J. Voemastek

20640 11-7-1917 $100.00 receipt for WWI “Liberty Bond 31-40-4 to be converted to 4% bond signed by E.C. Goetchel, cashier

20641 11-16-1918 $1.00 “patriotic contribution” by Oliver Bailey to United War Work Campaign

20642 2-1-1919 $1 receipt by Rib Lake Municipal Light Planbt for 7 kilowatts of electricity

20643 c. 1915 toothache remedy and corn cure homemade prescription

20644 c. 1930 spoof postcard “Greetings from Rib Lake”

20644A ibid

20645 c. 1906 RLLC Store “General merchandise, fresh, salt & smoked meats. Quick sales & small profits.” 39 cent receipt

20645A ibid back

20646 12-22-1941 envelope Lake Superior District Power Co, Rib Lake, Wis, “Reddy kilowatt, your electric servant”

20647 P. c. 1930 “RL” postcard; Wood & Little Rib Lake, Depot & RLLC Camp 4

20648 P. c. 1910 Ida Bailey (Mrs. Oliver Bailey)

20649 P. c. 1940 Mr. & Mrs. Oliver Bailey and granddaughter Opal Mae Bailey

20649A ibid with Opal, mother Evelyn & Uncle Frank Bailey

20650 P. c. 1941 Opal & parents Fred & Evelyn Bailey. Rear-hemlock dry yard and tramway

20651 P. c. 1942 Opal Bailey

20651A ibid Opal Bailey in snowsuit

20652 P. c. 1943 Opal Bailey in jeans

20652A ibid Opal Bailey in party clothes

20652B ibid Opal Bailey with grandparents

20653 P. c. 1943 Opal Bailey on tricycle; rear-Mathias’ Central Hotel

20654 P. c. 1944 Opal Bailey

20655 P. c. 1945 Opal Bailey at Ward School

20655A P. c. 1945 Ward School kindergarten class. Opal Bailey, front row-3rd from right.

20655B ibid –teacher Miss Wallech; pupils’ names

20656 1947 “Wisconsin Young people’s Reading Circle” primary certificate to Opal Bailey

20657 P. c. 1943 Opal Bailey

20658 P. c. 1940 Opal Bailey and Uncle Frank Bailey

20659 P. c. 1940 Fred Bailey

20660 5-21-1958 RLHS diploma to Opal Bailey signed by George Tlusty, Elmer Taylor & Robert Becker

20661 5-21-1958 RLHS Commencement Announcement-cover

20661A ibid p. 1

20661B ibid p. 3, 30 graduates named, including Opal Bailey

20662 Postcard “Greetings from Rib Lake, Wisconsin” embossed

20663 “Last Rites held for Oliver H. Bailey,” Rib Lake Herald, obit 7-9-1948

20664 P. c. 1942 L-R Fred C. Bailey, Fred Bailey holding daughter Opal, unknown

20665 P. c. 1945 Frank Bailey

20666 P. c. 1940 L-R Fred Bailey, unknown, unknown, Rear left-RLLC logging railroad “roundhouse”

20667 P. c. 1940 Flood at junction of STH 102 and Hohl Drive. Rear-tavern with “Gettleman” beer sign

20667A ibid flooded auto being pulled, view west on STH 102

20667B ibid flooded auto & Frank Bailey

20668 P. 1941 View NE from box car to RLLC hardwood yard

20668A ibid view SE on Soo Line tracks from Rib Lake depot. On left-box cars on Konz mill spur.

20669 5-16-1929 “30 confirmed at St. John’s Ev. Lutheran Church,” Star News; Edna Blasch, Edna Radtke, Emily Peterson, Dorothea Krueger, Irma Frank, Ella Yorde, Hazel Kalk, Ella Ziemke, Emma Ziemke, Minna Laack, Mabel Ziemke, Myrtle Ziemke, Olive Clendening, Amanda Timm, Magdalena Golder, Frank Kaske, Harold Bokath, Harold Peterson, Melvin Funk, Robert Marschke, Carl Krueger, Alvin Martin, Hugo Gilge, Joseph Rowley, Michael Haluska, John Knop, Otto Gerstberger, Elmer Freiboth, Elmer Martin, Clifford Hehn.

Articles from Taylor County Leader, a newspaper published at Medford, WI on microfilm at Medford Public Library:

20670 2-10-1921 Rib Lake farmer arrested for making moonshine

20671 2-17-1921 First page, NB-The Taylor Co. Leader is the “Successor to der Waldbote,” a former German language newspaper

20672 2-17-1921 Rib Lake moonshiners arrested and fined, John Hulaska, $432.86 and Joe Tylowski $168.00

20673 2-17-1921 Omaha Railroad has decided to extend its line in Taylor County eastward as far as Merrill

20674 2-24-1921 Greenwood Leaves. Wausau Lumber Co. broke camp awaiting more snow. [re river drive on Rib River; Pauline Gebauer is teacher at school district #5

20675 2-24-1921 Ad for hemlock lumber by Medford Lumber Co.

20676 2-24-1922 Ad – farmers should use dynamite to clear land

20677 2-24-1922 Man from Rib Lake, John Dodge, arrested for jumping his board bill.

20678 2-24-1922 Owen Lumber Co employs Soo Line crew to operate train on Soo Line tracks

20678A ibid 3-3-1921 Westboro Telephone Co

20678B ibid 3-10-1922 Whittlesey Potatoes

20678C ibid 3-24-1921 Log drive on Rib River

20678D ibid 3-31-1921 Log drivers strike at Interwald

20678E ibid 3-31-1921 Ad-Clear land with dynamite

20678F ibid 3-31-1921 Ad-Titan Kerosene tractor for $1,000

20679 1-1-1921 Taylor County pays bounty on wolves, $432.00

20680 10-27-1921 New factory planned; Rib Lake Chair & Manufacturing Co.

20681 10-27-1921 Rib Lake area men arrested on venison cases, Louis Mohr, Herman Brahmer, Fred Hengst

20682 10-20-1921 Dr. Nystrum loses case against Village of Rib Lake

20682A ibid

20683 10-31-1921 Rib Lake area persons made citizens, Herman Monske, Adolph Reinholt, William Lemke, August Blank, Frank Bosse, Walter Wilhelms, Chrisian Reber, August Krueger, Fred Hanke, Gustav Trantow

20684 10-6-1921 “Joe Katorski, Rib Lake, arrested for making moonshine”

20685 10-6-1921 WWI surplus “purid acid” an explosive available to farmers to clear land

20686 9-22-1921 Obit. John Hanifen, former superintendent of Rib Lake tannery dies

20687 9-22-1922 Ad-Phonographs. Come witness test at Germania Hall, Medford

20688 9-1-1921 Whittlesey News. Langenberg Brick Co. closes for the season

20689 9-1-1922 US & Germany end state of war

20690 9-1-1922 RLLC closed due to national depression

20691 8-18-1921 Whittlesey potato tour

20692 8-4-1921 “Rib Lake Coop will buy store of P.E. Marcus.” Phillip Marcus long operated “The Fair,” a store on SE corner of McComb & Landall Ave (1898-1921)

20693 6-30-1921 Hemlock lumber from old Hotel Winchester used to build many buildings

20694 6-30-1921 Chautauqua at Chelsea

20695 6-24-1921 Ad-John Deere hay loader

20696 6-16-1921 Ad-Hotel Westboro

20697 5-19-1921 Obit. Andrew Wahl, Westboro, died in WWI, reburied at Mt. Olive Cemetery, Westboro

20697A 5-12-1921 Military funeral at Westboro this morning for Andrew Wahl

20698 5-5-1921 Ad “Farm Electric Lighting & Power Plant”

20699 4-28-1921 Rib Lake Citizen’s Band, John Taylor, director.

20700 7-18-1929 “Rib Lake Gas Station Robbed,” Star News

20700A ibid “J. Sig. Stone, former Rib Lake pastor of Church of Christ Marries”

20700B ibid “New officers installed in G.U.G. (Germania Unterstetzung Geschelschaft) Ladies Aid (at Medford)

20701 9-11-1942 WWII Bond Cartoon showing church, Stalin & Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt carrying “The Weight of the World.” Rib Lake Herald

20701A ibid “Considerable Loss in Joe Pertmer fire.”

20701B ibid Ad RLLC Store

20701C ibid Pulp Cutters wanted,” RLLC

20701D ibid Lake Theatre ad

20701E ibid Ad-“Always have a load of good work horses,” Ed Lamont

20701F ibid WWII “Junk Rally for Rib Lake.”

20701G ibid Ad for reelection to Congress by Bernard “Barney” Gehrman, “Progressive”

20702 P. 1945 Honor roll-RLLC employees in military or naval service sign on RLLC yard office building

20703 P. 1944 Oliver Bailey & granddaughter Opal atop lumber pile in tanbark yard

20704 P. 1944 sign RLLC Quality Lumber on planing mill. Boy on bike on railroad track to dry kiln at left.

20705 P. 1944 National Hotel & highway sign. Hwy 102 has arrow right directing traffic onto Railroad Street

20706 “Hearing on Spirit Lake Dam Scheduled,” Rib Lake Herald 7-9-1948

20706A ibid “Visitors at Camp Carter for Business Girls”

20706B ibid “John Blennert rents Bokath Garage.” The garage was behind Willet’s Standard Service Station, in 2017 the parking lot of the IGA

20707 “Rites today for Edwin Johnson, early merchant,” 4-25-1957 Rib Lake Herald. Johnson operated a hardware store & movie theater on north McComb Ave.

20707A Obit. Nettie Dodge, nee Peterson 7-27-1887 to 4-21-1957, dba Ma Dodge’s Café

20708 10-7-1908 35 cent box rental receipt for Oliver Bailey by Duncan McLennan, Rib Lake postmaster

20708A ibid back

20709 4-5-1917 US mail 3 cent insured mail receipt

20710 3-5-1916 Receipt for Oliver Bailey by John Taylor, dba Taylor Hardware.

20711 3-2017 Donald Trump Cartoon

20712 3-2017 “Look North for Answers; As the US health care debate rages, why not look to a model of another country?” by Peter Weinschenk

20713 Map 1995 Chequamegon National Forest

20713A ibid Nicolet National Forest

20714 P. c. 1980 Lambert Lamberty

20715 List of lumberjacks who worked for Lambert Lamberty

20715A ibid p. 2

20716 P. c. 1920 Hemlock bark piled in 100 ft plus long rows in Town of Corning, Lincoln Co., Wisconsin

20716A ibid

20717 P. 1925-26 Massive log piles in Town of Corning on either side of RLLC logging railroad track; bales of hay fill sleigh and four empty barrels in foreground

20717A ibid

20718 Long road of courdoroy (8’ long pulp pile) had formed from base winter ice road at Tripoli, WI.

20719 P. winter 1925-26 “A few of the best lookers,” lumberjacks at Lambert Lambery’s jobber camp along CTH M in Town of Corning.

20719A ibid lumberjacks crowding into cook shack to eat

20719B P. ibid cook blowing dinner horn; on right-meat house

20719C P. ibid in foreground combination root cellar (dug into earth) with meat house (with screened windows)

20720 P. c. 1928 woman visitor at jobber camp poses in crude barber chair

20720A ibid 5 women at camp well

20721 P. c. 1928 photographer on top of logs atop flat car, coal filled tender & rear of RLLC steam locomotive in Town of Corning. Freshly peeled tanbark piles on new spur run into the woods.

20721A ibid lone man walks between snow-covered RLLC logging railroad

20722 P. winter 1926-27, Joe Enders sits atop sleigh loaded with 102 logs as horses, Kid & Doll, pose

20722A P. ibid logs at right are being off-loaded from sleigh to much larger pile on sleigh at left, which will be pulled by 2 horse teams on long ice road to landing along CTH M for another loading on railroad flat cars.

20722B P. ibid horse team pulls tanker sleigh down ice road

20722C ibid, 2 horse team ready to pull mammoth log load

20722D ibid, “Lambert’s ice road.”

20723 P. Winter 1926-27, a temporary shelter covered in evergreen boughts for lumberjacks eating lunch

20723A P. ibid a 1-horse sleigh has brought lunch from camp

20724 P. Spring 1927, mammoth log piles on either side of RLLC logging railroad, “LPL’s landing.”

20724A P. Lamberty’s jobber camp summer of 1927 on CTH M in Town of Corning.

20724B ibid P. Itemized list of provisions for men and horses for Lamberty’s jobber camp 1927-28.

20725 2017-2018 Official Wisconsin state highway map. Arrow to location of Lamberty’s CTH M jobber camp.

RPR Collection

20726 P. Village of Rib Lake commercial properties for sale 3-2017; former John A. Taylor hardware store, now the music store, 740 McComb Ave.

20726A ibid, Barry’s Body Shop, junction of McComb & Fayetts Ave SE corner, Barry Anderson

20726B ibid café; NE corner of junction of STH 102 & Kennedy Street

20727 1-2017 “A Guide to the Rib Lake Village Hall Historic Photo Display,” By Rib Lake Historical Society, LLC-cover

20727A p. 1

20727B text

20727C p. 2

20727D text

20727E p. 3

20727F text

20727G p. 4

20727H text

20727I p. 5

20727J text

20727K p. 6

20727L text

20727M p. 7

20727N text

20727O p. 8

20727P text

20727Q p. 9

20727R text

20727S p. 10

20727T text

20727U p. 11

20727V text

20727W P. Scott Riggs, Bob Rusch & Cindy Sommer

Collection of Jennifer Williams

20728 3-31-1908 to 3-24-1909 “Record” or diary of Jay C. Maxwell including life at Rib lake, Ontario, Canada - cover

20728A ibid signed Jay C. Maxwell & address

20728B ibid, purpose of trip p. 1

20728C ibid, departure p. 2

20728D ibid, p. 13 “expect to leave for [logging] camp on Rib Lake tomorrow.”

20728E ibid p. 14 heat water for bath

20728F ibid p. 15 Walked 9 miles to Temagrami, Ontario

20728G ibid p. 16 Walk from camp 2 miles to Rib Lake

20728H ibid p. 17 Rib Lake on railroad consists of a frame house where [railroad] section foreman and wife and 5 men live and a log house, the office of Gilles Lumber Co

20728I ibid p. 18 5-17-1908 caught suckers weighing 1.5-2 pounds

20728J ibid p. 15 5-19-1905 saw moose

20728K ibid p. 20 Built cedar canoe

20728L ibid p. 21 Walked 13 mi to Latchford. Returned on train to Rib Lake

20728M ibid p. 22 made heart disease cure

20728N ibid p. 23 5-27-1900 “Walked to Rib Lake for mail and mail thrown off train

20728O ibid p. 24 5-31-1908 Men from Hauris mine visited

20728P ibid p. 24 6-4-1908 planted radishes, corn, beans & pumpkins near camp

20728Q ibid p. 51 8-31-1908 Walked to Rib Lake to flag train for [town of] Tomagami but she would not stop

20728R ibid p. 57 10-6-1908 Packed up my personal property and store it with camp cook. Left came and Rib Lake to pursue mining in Ontario

20729 L. 4-8-2017 RPR to Jennifer Williams thanking her for Jay Maxwell’s “Record”

20730 L. c. 3-2017 Jennifer Williams to RPR

20730A P. c. 2016 Jennifer Williams and family of Marshville, North Carolina. Jennifer purchased 1908 record of Jay Maxwell for $1.00 at a rummage sale.

20731 P. c. 1910 “Rib River Scene” near Marathon City, Marathon Co., Wis.

20731A ibid back, postcard 7-4-1914 Dad to Doris Dietsch

20732 P. c. 1905 “The Old Dam, Jump River.” Washed out logging dam near Westboro

20732A ibid back, postcard 8-22-1910 Harrie to Gladys LaBelle

20733 Magazine 12-10-1913 “Lumber World Review” articles from 12-6-1913 meeting of logging superintendent at Green Bay, a conference of Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manufacturers’ Assoc, including “use of steam log hauler for logging” by George N. Harder

20733A ibid p. 2

20733B ibid p. 3

20734 Article 12-10-1913 “Use of steam hauler for logging” by George N. Harder, general manager, RLLC, published in Lumber World Review

20734A ibid, annotations by Robert P. Rusch in blue ink

20734B ibid enlarged print top third

20734C ibid center third

20734D ibid bottom third

20734E ibid alternative font

20734F ibid p. 2

20734G ibid p. 3

20735 Map 5-5-2017 Probable approximate route of steam hauler ice road c 1913-1922 in Section 36, T34N-R2E, by RPR shown in orange on Timms Hill quad map

20736 P. c. 1950 “The Point, Spirit Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. 25”

20736A ibid back, postcard to George Harrison 10-23-1956

20737 Brochure 2017 “Celebrate 100 years,” “Lions Clubs International is the largest service club or organization in the world.”

20737A ibid “Rib Lake Lions Club”

20737B ibid, Rib Lake Lions donation list

20737C ibid photo of Rib Lake Lions float

20737D ibid photo of Rib Lake Lions food stand

20737E ibid Rib Lake Lions charter members 5-28-1966

20737F ibid Rib Lake Lions current members

20737G ibid Rib Lake Lions ad

20738 P. c. 1985 L-R Robert P. Rusch, Dick Angelo at wood cutting bee

Peter Anderson collection

20739 Business card, Peter Anderson, dba Sound Forest Management

20739A ibid back

20740 Booklet “Michigan Log Marks,” 1941 Clifford Allen, editor-cover

20740A ibid title page compiled by Work Projects Administration of Michigan

20740B ibid Foreword

20740C ibid, Story of Michigan pine lumbering history

20740D ibid Contents and the why of log marks

20740E ibid Map of rivers of Michigan

20740F ibid, sample log marks; NB-The booklet consists of 89 pages. A hard copy is in the archives of the Rib Lake Historical Society, LLC

Lori Manion collection

20741 W. “2017-2018 Rib Lake High School Scheduling Guide”

20741A ibid p. 2

20741B ibid p. 3 graduation requirements

Kris Strobach collection

20742 P. 3-2017 Basketball, Rib Lake v Stratford, #10 is Bekah Strobach and next to her is her good friend Lauren Pelnis, both 7th graders

20742A ibid

20742B ibid L-R Ann Rusch, John Adams (coach), Bekah Strobach, Robert P. Rusch (grandfather of Bekah), Barbara Anderson (coach)

20742C ibid, Bekah Strobach & proud grandparents, Ann & Bob Rusch

20742D ibid, Bekah Strobach and teammate

20743 Registration plate 2006-2011 “Ran 100” of Robert P. Rusch & German holder

20743A ibid, Wisconsin car registration plate with annual renewal stickers

20744 Vox Pop letter, Star News 4-27-2017, Dr. Mark Reuter to Star ews, “A case against vouchers”

20745 P. c. 1915 “The Bucyrus Company, South Milwaukee”

20745A ibid back, postcard 1-21-1918 to Rudolph Breckenridge

20746 P. c. 1910 Holy Hill

20746A ibid back, “Shrine of Our Lady of Help of Christians. US most favorite place of pilgrimage.”

20747 Ad 4-21-2017 “Greg Hanke Memorial Poker Run”

20748 2017 Ad for Hill of Beans Country Cafe

20749 4-2017 L. State Representative James Edming, “Jimmy Boy,” to Robert P. Rusch

20749A ibid back

20750 4-2017 “Wisconsin Natural Resources” cover. DNR secretary Kathy Stepp proposes to cease publication of this self-supporting, popular magazine claiming it is not within the mission of the Dept. of Natural Resources

20751 2017 Logo of Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club

20752 4-25-2017 program “Rib Lake Bands Fine Arts Night” of Rib Lake High School & Middle School

20752A ibid, notes re “Echoes in the Woods,” a musical composition celebrating Rib Lake written by Rick Kirby and financially underwritten by generous donation of Rib Lake High School music director Matt Robisch

20752B ibid, list of Rib Lake Middle School band members

20752C ibid list of Rib Lake High School band members

20753 Town of Rib Lake annual meeting announcement for 4-19-2017

20753A ibid, financial report for 2016

20753B ibid p. 2

20753C ibid p. 3 signed by Joseph “Joe” Knorn, chairman, Ben Kauer & Tom Wendt, supervisors

20754 4-1-2017 DNR burning permit signed by Ken Zondlo

20755 1-1-1927 “Directory” of Rib Lake businesses, Gustafson Lumber Co, Rib Lake, Rib Lake Telephone Co., F.J. Peterson - cover

20755A ibid Ad George Seidl dba The Daylight Store

20755B ibid Title page

20755C ibid Ads Cyrus Claussen dba Claussen’s Electric Shop; Dr. E.A. Lapham, physician & surgeon; C.J. Howe, dba National Hotel

20755D ibid p. 3 Ad Albert Marschke, “local information, e.g. busuinesses open evenings.” Train schedule

20755E ibid p. 4 Ad Rib Lake Coopeartive, Robert Wensel dba South Side Garage

20755F ibid p. 5 Ad H.C. Headstream, Jeweler, watch repairs

20755G ibid p. 6 Ad Joe Lilly dba Rib Lake Service Station

20755H ibid p. 7 Ad Gessert Meat Market & Ed Stamm, dba “The Lakeside”

20755I ibid p. 8 Ad Frank Becker “General Merchandise, shoes & flour, shopper of potatoes, ties, etc”; Ad-Rib Lake Cooperative Creamery

20755J ibid p. 9 Ad Art Swanson dba The Pool Room; Jerry Kapitz, dealer in cattle & sheep

20755K ibid p. 10 Ad RLLC of Delawwre, “Manufacturers of Hemlock & Hardwood Lumber.”; “A local industry – with the largest payroll of any single sawmill in Wisconsin.”

20755K-1 Ad-William Welch, lumber & shingles

20755L ibid p. 11 Ad John Taylor Hardware, farm implements, furniture, undertaking, radios & Dodge cars

20755M ibid p. 12 Ad H.C. King, Westboro, Ford Products; William Junk, blacksmith & wagon maker; Mathias, dba Central Hotel

20755N ibid p. 13 Ad John Klement dba Modern Café

20755O ibid p. 14 Ad Bogumill & Hippe dba The Big Store; Ole Peterson, general merchandise, flour & feed, fresh & salt meats; Ad-Anna May Kennedy, dba Upjohn-Kennedy Drug Co.

20755P ibid p. 15 Ad Mrs. Charles (Nettie) Dodge dba Cozy Corner Cafe

20755Q ibid p. 16 Ad Art Foltz dba South Side Store, groceries, meats & confectionary

20755R ibid p. 17 Ad J.A. Hurtgen dba Star Recreation Parlor

20755S ibid p. 18 Ad J.A. Scharer dba The Spot; August Wegner dba White Front Barber Shop

20755T ibid p. 19 Ad Western Union Telegraph Co.

20755T-1 ibid p. 19 Telephone numbers for RLLC; A) Sisley office; B) Robson office; C) Brong office; D) Brush office; E) Barn

20755U ibid p. 20 Ad Dr. G.L. Baker, MD

20755V ibid p. 21 Ad Col. C.H. Moore, Auctioneer

20755W ibid p. 22 Ad Dr. C.C. Smith, dentist

20755X ibid p. 23 Ad Frank Tauber, Insurance; William Banks, Livery; Orlando Winter, shoes & harnesses

20755Y ibid p. 24 Ad Voemastek & Radtke, millinery, press making; The Rib Lake Herald, published Fridays

20755Z ibid p. 25 telephone information

20755AA ibid p. 26 Ad Phillip Arnold, Hardware

20755BB ibid p. 27 Ad First National Bank

20756 5-4-2017 Invoice of Jerry & Susan Clark dba Jerry’s Computer

20756A ibid business card

20757 P. c. 1930 “Rib Lake, Wis. K 453” Rib Lake’s lakeshore looking north; RLLC logging train in the distance

20757A ibid back, postcard 8-30-1930 to Charles Hertzel

20758 4-2017 Invitation by the Ecumenical Choir to the concert at Westboro’s Woodland Community Church

20759 Map 6-5-17 “Rusch Preserve; Wisconsin’s premier trailhead where four trails meet.” Surveyed & drawn by George Sandul. Printed by Stratford Sign Co. [20759 does not show “you are here” and is also on Computer 6 as email from Justin Schmidt, dba Stratford Signs 8/7/2017.]

20760 Map 8-1-2016 Rusch Preserve by Ice Age Trail Alliance, northern part

20760A ibid southern part

20761 P. 11-17-2016 Kuehling kiosk at Rusch preserve under construction; L-R John Hein, Lloyd Keuhling and Butch Clendenning (on roof)

20762 [Bob must take photo] ***not scanned as of 6-11-17*** P. Display on trail side of Kuehling kiosk – fatal accident 3-3-1914-broken runner from RLLC steam hauler

20762A Illustration and article “The Phoenix Steam Hauler,” “Wisconsin Lore & Legends,” Milwaukee Journal c 10-28-1983

20762B W. “Explanation of Fatal Accident; Death of Darwin Whyte, March 3, 1914, by RPR, p. 1

20762C ibid p. 2

20762D ibid p. 3

20763 W. 3-6-1914 “Meets Death Under Logs,” Rib Lake Herald

20763A Sign “Steam hauler sleigh runner above” for fatal accident display on Kuehling kiosk

20764 Map 6-6-2017 Map 6-6-2017 Arrow to fatal steam hauler accident site 3-3-1914. Legend. 1) Usual steam hauler route between RLLC sawmill & Camp 9 shown in red. 2) Fatal steam hauler accident site 3/3/1914. 3) temporary steam hauler route used 3/3/1914. 4) Kuehlinkg Kiosk and broken steam hauler sleigh runner damaged in fatal accident. 5) Knop Hill; where a second horse team was often used to pull log loaded sleighs. 6) steam heated “hot pond,” part of Rib Lkae kept from freezing. 7) site of Rib Lake Lumber Co. sawmill. Text and colors by RPR over 1913 Standard Atlas of Taylor County Map.

20765 Map 6-5-17 “Rusch Preserve; Wisconsin’s Premier Trailhead where four trails meet.” Suveyed & drawn by George Sandul. Printed by Stratford Sign Co. [NB-Contains “you are here” pointing to Kuehling Kiosk]

20766 Map 6-5-2017 “Rusch Preserve” by George Sandul in black & white.

20767 Map 6-5-2017 “Rusch Preserve” by George Sandul – color, full-size version (22x28”)-legend top

20767A ibid legend bottom

20767B ibid north portion including Rustic Road, Kuehling kiosk, Scheithauer Bridge & Palisades

20767C ibid center portion including future IAT route, Heilige Nacht campsite, Camp 6 historic site parking and well

20767D ibid south portion including Camp 6 insert, Felseneer, Baumann’s Bruecke, Cahow Creek, spring, & Schoenwalde

20767E Map 6-5-2017 “Rusch Preserve” by George Sandul in color

20768 Map 1-2-2015 Taylor Co uniform county address system-cover

20768A ibid Legend

20768B ibid Town of Goodrich

20768C ibid Town of Rib Lake & Greenwood, T32NR3E

20768D ibid Town of Chelsea

20768E ibid Town of Chelsea T32NR1E

20768F ibid “Chelsea”

20768G ibid “Whittlesey”

20768H ibid Town of Rib Lake T33NR3E

20768I ibid Town of Rib Lake & Westboro T33R2E & Copper Creek

20768J ibid Harper Lakes area

20768K ibid Village of Rib Lake and Town of Rib Lake; T33NR2E

20768L ibid Town of Westboro; T33NR1E

20768M ibid “Westboro”

20768N ibid Spirit Lakes area

20768O ibid Olson Lake & Blomberg subdivision

Dennis Kuehling collection

20769 P. 5-2017 Myrtle S. Kuehling and 110 hats she crocheted

20770 P. 4-26-2017 Dennis Kuehling & 22# tom turkey

20771 P. c. 1905 North Harper Lake G565. Unique 2-story boat house on east shore

20772 P. c. 1905 “Bark peeling,” freshly peeled hemlock trees lay where they fell. Center bottom-pile of tanbark

20773 P. 1917 Rib Lake “home guard” sitting outside of Johnson’s Hall, in 2017 Veteran’s Park on McComb Ave.

20774 P. c. 1910 “A beaver dam, Rib Lake”

20775 P. c. 1910 The Dells of the Rib River taken by WRC

20776 P. c. 1908 McGiffert loader with flat cars marked “Copper River Land Co. 98” near RLLC Camp 1

20777 P. c. 1911 “The Ice Road” taken by “WRC #58.” The road has been snowplowed and ruts cut into ice to guide sleighs pulled by steam hauler

20778 W. Herbert Curran (1887-1969) “Find a grave memorial”

20779 W. 6-2017 “Gerstberger Pines; offers an escape to the past” Taylor Co. visitors guide

20780 Map c. 2-3-1982 by James P. Kaysen showing former railroad lines drawn on 1970 US Quad map “Rib Lake, Wis” and Kaysen’s annotation; “The last railroad logging operation in Wisconsin”

20780A Annotations by RPR re James Kaysen

20781 ***Not scanned as of 6/11/2017** P. 4-2017 Robert P. Rusch & Tom Curran attempt to locate former right-of-way of RLLC Camp 8 spur beginning at junction of mainline

20782 Map 6-1-2017 RPR corrects 2 errors on James Kaysen’s map using US Quad “Wood Lake;” 1) claimed site of RLLC Camp 4 south of Wood Lake; 2) omitted south railroad right-of-way of wye at junction of Camp 8 spur and mainline

20783 Enlarged version of James Kaysen’s map of RLLC Camp 8 railroad spur & site of camp, i.e. at west end of current Camp 8 earten dam in NW SE 25-33-3E, all drawn on US Quad 1979 “Wood Lake”

20784 Aerial P. 8-28-1938 BSC 3-64 of Wood Lake and; A) then functional RLLC logging railroad right-of-way; B) abandoned RLLC Camp 4 railroad right-of-way “mainline” south of Wood Lake; C) abandoned RLLC Camp 8 railroad right-of-way spur south and east of junction with mainline in NE SE 23-33-3E; NB-photo predates construction of Wilderness Ave east of current junction with New Wood Ave and construction of Camp 8 flowage. This 1938 photo may be a copy of aerial of James Kaysen used in his railroad mapping.

20784A c. 2010 aerial photo of Wilderness Ave and Camp 8 Road in Town of Rib Lake showing dashed black line drawn by county forester Russ Aszmann interpreting former route of Camp 8 railroad spur

20785 P. and obituary of Clemens Gebauer (9/1/1933-5/23/2017). Clemens was a cousin of RPR and born in the ancestral Gebauer village of Schoenwalde, Silesia, Germany

20785A ibid envelope

20786 Book; “Fun & Frolic-Painting & Drawing Book” copyright 1916-cover

20786A ibid p. 1 instructions

20786B ibid p. 2 title page

20786C ibid p. 3 inscription “this book belongs to Martha Gebauer, aged 7 years, who commenced to paint on it on January 5, 1917 and finished (blank)” signed Martha Gebauer aka Martha Hedwig Rusch

20786D ibid p. 4 a painting by Martha Gebauer where she added blue and brown color to a printed scene

20786E ibid p. 5 incompleted painting

20786F ibid p. 6 Martha’s first pencil sketch

20786G ibid p. 7

20786H ibid p. 8 printed image identical with G; Martha carefully painted each differently

20786I ibid p. 9 Martha’s pencil sketches

20786J ibid Martha added text; “Gee, I wonder if I’ll get there on time” and “Gosh, I’m glad it’s spring.” Both were neatly block printed & exhibited imagination

20786K ibid p. 10 Martha painted outside lines

20786L ibid

20786M ibid

20786N ibid p. 22 [editor’s note-the entire book consisted of over 50 pages-Martha completed each; the following are representative]

20786O ibid page constins 2 identical printed images. Martha poorly painted the first and carefully, beautifully the second

20786P ibid The image is a witch flying on a broomstick. Martha added the text “I’ve got a long way to ride yet tonight.” [editor’s note-in the spring of 1918 Martha’s only brother, Paul Gebauer, died; that fall her mother Bertha, nee Steiner, died of influenza, leaving William a widower, who cared for the 3 remaining siblings, Paulina, Mary & Martha. Martha always spoke with great love and regard of her father.

Following Martha’s death at her home on March 30, 2000, at N8476 CTH C, Rib Lake, her daughter-in-law, Karen, found the “Fun & Frolic” book in a dresser drawer. Karen generously gave the volume to Martha’s son, Robert Paul on 6-5-2017, his 75th birthday

20787 c. 3-30-2000 “A Tribute to Martha H. Rusch, nee Gebauer” by her son Robert Paul Rusch

20787A ibid p. 2 photos of Martha Gebauer

20787B ibid p. 3 a biography

20787C ibid p. 4 Photo of Martha in 1949 with sons and sister Pauline

20787D ibid p. 5 1989 return to Rib Lake to purchase home at N8476 CTH C, in Town of Rib Lake

20787E ibid p. 6 P. Martha & granddaughters Robin & Kris

20787F ibid p. 7 A statement of Christian faith by Bishop Damasus

20787G ibid p. 8 color photos of Martha & husband Herman Rusch & sons, Everett, Gerald, Robert & Thomas

20788 “Era of the Winchester; palatial hotel looked down on town,” 6-2017 Log Cabin News, TC Historical Society [a history of the Winchester Hotel 1895-1920] p. 1

20788A ibid p. 2 P. Winchester Hotel-view to SE from Main Street

20788B ibid p. 3 credit-reprinted from the Star News 1-22-1981

20789 Map 2015-16 Medford, City of, red dot on east side of South Second at junction with Ogden Street, was site of Winchester Hotel 1895-1920

20790 c. 1900 Hymnal in German, “Dirchengesangbuch Fuer Evangelisch-Lutherische Gemeinden,” Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, MO, title page

20790A ibid p. 2 Order of Worship “Ordung Des Hauptgottesdienstes” This was the Sunday worship service routinely used, for example, at St. Johns Ev. Lutheran Church in Rib Lake, “The German Lutheran Church”

20790B ibid p. 3 confession and absolution

20790C ibid p. 4 The Lord’s Prayer

20790D ibid p. 5 Holy communion

20790E ibid p. 6 Table of contents “inhaltsverzeichnis”

20790F ibid p. 7

20790G ibid p. 8

20790H ibid p. 9 Alphabetical table of contents of hymns

20790I ibid p. 10 text; A mightly fortress is out God, Ein Feste Burg instonser Gott, by Martin Luther (1483-1546) NB-original full volume at Rib Lake Historical Society

20791 1891 “Das Neve Testament Unsers Herrn and Heilandes Jesu Christ,” The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, in German, American Bible Society, New York, title page

20791A ibid p. 2 Table of contents of books of the New Testament

20791B ibid p. 3 Chapter 1, gospel of Saint Matthai “Evangelium S. Matthai”

20791C ibid p. 4 inscription 4-7-1964 by Robert Rusch “to Freund in Chrsit Floyd Branb..” to Friend in Jesus…Floyd Branb was RPR’s roommate at Northwestern College, Watertown, Wis. where both studied for Lutheran ministry; NG-entire volume at archives of Rib Lake Historical Society

20792 6-8-2017 “The Mystery Continues-theories abound about the Rib Lake Lumber Co. and McCaskey Safe Register,” Star News, top half, Photo of RPR and Ryan Strobach

20792A ibid bottom half

20792B 6-10-2017 L. to Star News McCaskey safe register-Judy Troyk explains she and Dr. Galen Scharer found register at former McRae Bakery on McComb Ave in Village of Rib Lake c. 1994 where McRae used it to store accounts receivable.

20793 P. Rib Lake High School Student Emily Spinoza at state track meet 6-8-2017

20794 L. State Representative James Edming to Robert P. Rusch

20795 Ad 6-2017 Country Wireles-high speed internet. This company is currently building a transmission tower in the Village of Rib Lake

20795A ibid back

20796 Map 5-1-2015 Stevens Point, WI Green Circle Trail; route of marathon walk on 6-3-2017

20797 Ad 2-6-2017 Little Bohemia and old Rib Lake National Bank building for sale; 800, 802 & 806 McComb Avenue. Paul Hohl sold to Steve Hanke in 5-2017

20797A ibid p. 2

20798 5-2017 “Furrow; A Free Literary Journal,” by Writer’s Studio, Rib Lake Library, Sue Roupp, editor, poem by Krista Blomberg

20798A ibid p. 2 story by Alise Swan

20798B ibid p. 3

20798C ibid p. 4

20798D ibid p. 5

20798E ibid p. 6

20798F ibid p. 7 poems by Connie Marsh

20798G ibid p. 8 poems by Krista Blomberg

20798H ibid p. 9

20798I ibid p. 10 “The Blue Shirt” by Gail Goran

20798J ibid p. 11 poems by Alise Swan

20798K ibid p. 12 Poem by Sue Roupp

20798L ibid p. 13 Photo & biographies of Krista Blomberg, Connie Marsh & Alise Swan

20798M ibid p. 13 Photo & biography of Sue Roupp

20799 Map 6-5-2017 Camp 9 steam hauler routes

20800 Camp 9 steam hauler routes-annotations by R.P. Rusch p. 1-Ed Blomberg interview notes

20800A ibid p. 2 steam hauler spur line

20800B ibid p. 3 c. 1920 log sleigh route used by Herman Rusch

20801 Photos 8-27-2012 Roger Blomberg leads Katie & Bekah Strobach to site of RLLC Camp 9, SW NW 36-34-2E.

20801A ibid, Roger Blomberg holds metal object from Camp 9 dump

20801B ibid, L-R Katie & Bekah Strobach, Rogert Blomberg hold tin cans found at Camp 9 dump

20801C ibid L-R Bekah Strobach holds rusted barrel hoop, Rogert Blomberg holds mason jar & Katie Strobach holds tin can & brown bottle fragment found at Camp 9 dump

20801D ibid Bekah Strobach stands on pile of rusted tin cans at Camp 9 dump

20801E ibid, Roger Blomberg stands next to remains of root cellar at Camp 9 site

20802 W. Sanborn Insurance maps now online, Taylor Co Genealogical Society newsletter

20803 W. “Taylor County Poor Farm,” by Dorothy Willner, Taylor Co Genealogical Society newsletter, June 2017 page 1

20803A ibid p. 2

20803B ibid p. 3

20803C ibid p. 4

20804 W. Obituary & marriage indexes online, Taylor Co. Genealogical Society newsletter 6-2017

20805 P. c. 1920 probable Shay locomotive reading “Rib Lake Lumber Co.” on its coal loader tender waits next to camp buildings in the Town of Corning, Lincoln Co, WI. The camp crew poses on a deck of logs which is being loaded by a McGiffert loader onto a flatcar

20806 5-24-1996 Rib Lake High School commencement and list of 54 graduates - cover

20806A class motto; graduates names

20806B Michael Radtke photo & name card

20807 W. “Taylor County Hiking & Biking,” 2017 Taylor County Tourism, Pine Line Trail

20807A ibid p. 2, IAT, Timms Hill Trail & Gerstberger Pines Natural Trail

20808 6-19-2017 Fathers Day card from Ann Rusch to RPR

20808A ibid p. 2 “I win this argument” card

20808B Fathers Day card from grandchild Tinity Riggs - cover

20808C ibid p. 2 Trees which RPR loves

20809 6-26-2017 Appointment notice from Rib Lake Health Services provding physical therapy at Golden Living Center, 650 Pearl Street, Rib Lake.

20810 Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club t-shirt 1998

20810A ibid

20811 P. c. 1910 Depot in downtown Chippewa Falls, WI. To right (south) is Wisconsin River. By 1980’s depot was long gone, but rusty tracks ran through grass

20812 P. c. 1940 “Thunder Lake Lumber Co. mill, Rhinelander, Wis. A 897” John Mylrea ran this company until its closure. In 1936 he and 3 other investors bought the RLLC, a business he ran with breathtaking financial success

20812A ibid-handwritten note by Joyce

20813 P. “Bridge over Spirit River – Rib Lake, Wisconsin B 243” This beautiful double arch stone bridge carried the north fork over the Spirit River. It was built by Simon Danielsen and was razed c. 1950. To the left of bridge can be seen sharp pinnacle of larger boulder.

20814 4-9-2017 Coal fragment found along Camp 8 spur line by Tom Curran

20814A ibid railroad spike

20814B ibid rusted steel logging hook

20815 P. c. 1910 “Logging scene at Rib Lake, Wis.” RLLC Shay locomotive pulling 8 loaded log cars in color. This is one of the earliest color postcards in the Rib Lake Historical Society collection.

20815A ibid back. Postcard written in Upjohn’s Drug Store on McComb Ave to Mrs. Oliver Bailey.

20816 7-18-2017 Invitation by Sara & Brandon Budimlija to neighbor to pig roast potluck at their new home at W2483 Bear Ave, Town of Rib Lake.

20817 Sign “Forest Fires”

20818 2016 historical marker for IAT, “Forest History,” at NE SE 12-33-2E.

20819 2016 Historical marker for IAT, “Ice Road” and “Star Load” for SE NE 12-33-2E

20819A ibid “Rib Lake Lumber Co – Camp 6” for SE NE 12-33-2E

20820 2016 Historical marker for IAT “Old gravel pit” at CTH C in SE NE 12-33-2E

20820A ibid “Old growth forest” at W-half of SE NE 12-33-2E

20820B ibid “Old tote road” at SE NE 12-33-2E

20820C ibid “Strobach’s stone” at SW SE 12-33-2E

20821 RLLC railroad track cut through 4x4” used as award at “Pine Line” marathon in 1999

20821A ibid Third place men age 50-59 1999 Pine Line marathon. The trail uses the abandoned right of way of the Wisconsin Central, lka, Soo Line Railroad…hence the railroad themed awards.

20822 W. 6-24-2017 Lehman-Clendenning Americal Legion Post 274, Rib Lake, fund drive for new building. In 6-2017 post razed its old headquarters on Lot 9, Block D, McComb’s Racing Park Addition to the Village of Rib Lake

20823 W. 9-2002 “Taylor County Historical Society” Taylor County sites on National Register of Historic Places

20823A ibid

20824 Map 1-30-2014 “Ice Age Trail in Taylor County,” by IAT Alliance, including Timms Hill Trail

20824A back, IAT distances between highways

20825 Map c. 1-2010 Ice Age Trail in Taylor County unit of Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest-cover

20825A ibid p. 2

20825B ibid p. 3 Mondeaux Flowage

20825C ibid p. 4, Legend & Ice Age semi-primitive non-motorized area

20825D ibid p. 5 Jerry Lake

20825E ibid p. 6 Lake Eleven

20826 Map 3-14-1989 Rib Lake Lumber Co. Camp 8 site, NE SE 25-33-2E, Town of Rib Lake, by Robert P. Rusch

20827 7-3-1896 J.J. Kennedy, dba J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co., issues to his employee Oliver Bailey a $10 “credit check” payable on demand in merchandise at Kennedy’s company store in Rib Lake. Numbers, i.e. 1 cent to 50 cents, in small printed boxes are punched as items are purchased. In essence, this is a debit card

20827A ibid “This check is for the purpose of saving both time and space in bookkeeping. It will be found more convenient and correct than any other plan ever adopted. You can always tell how your account stands, as the amount unpunched represents the value of the card, and will be received for merchandise on demand.”

Rib Lake Historical Society collection

20828 Map 1919 “Soils of South Part of North Central Wisconsin” Wisconsin Geological & Natural History Survey –cover

20828A ibid legend “conventional signs”

20828B ibid legend soil types

20828C Map 1919 “soils” Spirit Falls-Tomahawk

20828D ibid, Town of Corning, Lincoln Co, spur of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad from Merrill

20828E ibid Taylor-Lincoln & Marathon Co. junction. Soo Line railroad into Goodrich

20828F ibid Rib Lake

20828G ibid Westboro

20828H ibid Withee-north end – Fairchild & NE railroad & Village of Hemlock

20828I ibid Greenwood

20829 6-29-2017 “A look at the downburst storm that devastated Phillips 40 years ago.” Price County Review

20829A ibid “Record breaking storm hits Phillips” 7-4-1977-photo & text

20829B ibid “Downburst”

20829C ibid photo

20830 Map 1916 “Soils of North Part of North Central Wisconsin” Wisconsin Geological & Natural History Survey-cover

20830A ibid, Townships of Hill & Brannon, Price County, Villages of Ogema, Prentice, Worcester, Brantwood & Clifford

20831 Map 1916 “Soils of North Eastern Wisconsin.” (from Lincoln Co. east to Green Bay); Wisconsin Geological & Natural History Survey, cover

20831A ibid Antigo, Deerbrook, Summit Lake & Parrish

20832 4-2017 “A History of How Logging Shaped Northern Wisconsin” Great Lakes TPS -cover

20832A ibid p. 28

20832B ibid p. 29

20832C ibid p. 30 Laona, WI

20832D ibid p. 31 Rusch Brothers sawmill at Wabeno, WI

20832E ibid p. 32 P. Rusch Brothers sawmill

20832F ibid p. 33 Flanner Lumber Co

20832G ibid p. 34 Blackwell, WI

20832H ibid p. 35 Franklin Pierce Hiles

20832I ibid p. 36 Hiles mill

20832J ibid p. 27 Cleereman Lumber Co

20833 Rib Lake Centennial plate 1881-1981

20833A ibid back, thumbnail history of Rib Lake by RPR

Collection of Debra & Michael Turner

20834 P. c. 1900 Boy pulling “Iron Clad” coaster wagon with girl & puppies

20835 P. 3-26-1928 “Cast of “The Womanless Wedding” at Rib Lake. This comedy used Rib Lake citizens as a cast of 71 persons – all pictured here. The play was staged at Ed Johnson’s theatre, aka the Armory

20836 P. “In Season, Park Falls, Wis.” hunters pose with 2 bucks over front fenders and 2 does atop a truck in front of L.L. Rennels, Jeweler

20837 P. c. 1940 “Bud Bogumill’s boat” at Lake Superior ore dock

20838 P. c. 1940 Ward School, Church Street, Rib Lake. A suspended round swing stands ready for recess in foreground

20839 P. 7-15-1947 Joe Kobassien (L) and Frank Jarish (R) and 3 others stand on “the flats,” a once marshy part of Rib Lake filled in with sawdust and refuse from the Rib Lake Lumber Co. In 2017 Schubert’s True Value Hardware Store, 700 Mill Lane, is located where these persons are pictured. The camera points to the SE; note RLLC logging railroad caboose and log loaded flatcars along lakeshore.

20840 L. 7-23-2010 Robert P. Rusch to V.J. McRae

20841 L. 7-23-2010 Robert P. Rusch to Vox Poop, the Star News, Medford, re Village of Rib Lake president Wayne Tlusty

20842 Eyeglass case embossed “Dr. G.L. Baker, Physician & Surgeon, Rib Lake, Wis.”

20842A ibid, bronze metal eyeglass frames stored in case; handwritten note by Bernice McCumber of Westboro “in the 1930’s [eyeglasses] used by Mrs. Charles L. Johnson.”

RPR collection

20843 6-5-2017 “Happy 75th Birthday Grandpa” by Trinity Riggs to RPR - cover

Steven Hanke collection

20844 Envelope c. 1903 George A. Clark, Justice of the Peace, Rib Lake, Wis. “Rib Lake Mercantile Co. versus S. Ticher”

20845 5-13-1903 “Affidavit of Criminal Warrant” “State of Wisconsin against Ira Premo, did lease the Hotel Commercial [Commercial Hotel] without paying for his hotel bill amounting to $1.00” Signed James Radaker, subscribed and sworn to before me 5-13-1903 G.A. Clark, Police Justice. This was on e of at least three legal actopms started pm 5-13-1903 by the hotel built by John J. Kennedy in the center of Rib Lake; in 2017 the site of the hotel is the residence of William & Bernadette Marschke, 600 Lake Street. If the defendant was found guilty, he could be fined and/or jailed and ordered to pay restitution to the hotel for the room the defendant failed to pay for.

20846 Criminal Warrant 5-13-1903 in State of Wisconsin versus Ira Premo charging defendant with leaving hotel without paying “for his board amounting to $1.00.” The warrant authorized and ordered the Taylor County Sheriff or any constable of Taylor County to arrest Ira Premo and “Bring him before me to be deaelth with according to law.” Signed G.A. Clark, Police Justice for Village of Rib Lake.

20847 12-27-1903 Affidavit of Garnisher process by Dr. L.L. Taylor, MD, who is suing A. Edwards, probably to pay a medical bill and requesting that the United States Leather Co. be summoned into court as a garnishee. US Leather Co. operated a large tannery in Rib Lake and probably owed A. Edwards wages; the plaintiff, Dr. Taylor, wants the company to be joined in his lawsuit against A. Edwards so the court will have authority to order the company to pay the doctor for monies owed to A.Edwards.

20847A ibid back side

20848 W. 2017 “Welcome to Rib Lake attractions – where the Ice Age Ends and your adventure begins.”

20848A ibid p. 2 Gerstberger Pines & IAT

20849 W. 2017 “The Fifield Fire Tower”

20849A ibid p. 2

20850 W. 2017 “The Round Lake Logging Dam”

20850A ibid p. 2

20851 P. 11-2-1941 7 log loaded flat cars on hot pond siding; RLLC mill at rear. Photo by Milwaukee Journal, which published it.

20851A back p. 2 Milwaukee Journal clipping

20852 Flyer 8-19-2017 “7th Annual Spirit-Hill-Ogema 4-H Fair”

20853 4-27-2017 IAT “2016 Chapter yearbook” cover

20853A ibid Chapter map

20853B ibid p. 3 High Point Chapter

20854 IAT “Bob Rusch” annual conference name tag

20855 4-2017 “Advocating for the IAT” “A simple guide to help support the IAT”

20855A ibid p. 2

20856 4-19-2017 IAT Application; “Thousand miler” aka Section hiker

20856A ibid p. 2

20856B ibid p. 3

20856C ibid p. 4

20857 W. 4-7-2017 IAT construction notes – Ringle Segment, Marathon County

20857A ibid p. 2 project team George Sandul et al

20857B ibid p. 3

20857C ibid p. 4 aerial photo routed

20857D ibid p. 5

20857E ibid p. 6

20857F ibid p. 7

20857G ibid p. 8

20858 W. 5-2017 “Grandma, this wish for you comes straight from the heart.” Card for Ann Rusch

20858A ibid p. 2 signed Colton, Brendan, Kirstin & Trinity Riggs

20858B ibid “Child’s drawing of house of Ann & Bob Rusch, N8643 CTH C, Rib Lake. Accurate, insightful details; dog “Marley”, patio door from basemenet, outside stairway & trees

20858C envelope from Robin Riggs, nee Rusch

20859 W. 1-2017 “History of the Rusch Preserve.” Between 1999 and 2015 RPR obtained and deeded 5 parcels of land to the Ice Age Alliance to create a 50-acre trailhead in Section 13, Town 33 North, Range 2 East, Town of Rib Lake.

20860 P. Aerial, Section 13, Town 33 North, Range 2 East, Town of Rib Lake c. 2015

20861 P. c. 2010 Wisconsin. Happy cows and white barn.

20862 1949 Matchbook cover, “Gettleman Milwaukee Beer,” then a popular beer; its sales jingle “Get, get, Gettleman.” Bud’s Tavern, Rib lake, John Freeck proprietor.

20863 2017 brochure “Help us continue to improve & keep Spirit Lakes healthy,” Spirit Lakes Improvement Assoc.

20863A ibid, p. 2 list of projects

20864 7-19-2017 Merrill Foto News “Volunteers build boardwalks in school forest.” Ice Age Trail

20864A ibid p. 2

20865 7-29-2017 Registration form; Timm’s Hill Triathalon, paddle, bike & run

The following photos were taken by a professional photographer hired by Caterpillar Tractor Corporation of Peoria, Illinois, after it sold “Caterpillar” diesel D-6 crawler tractor to the RLLC. These photos were given to Ed Synott, the last walking boss of the RLLC, and inherited by his daughter, Joyce Mathias, who generously donated them to the Rib Lake Historical Society in 2016. In 6-2017 Winterspring Studios made 8x10 copies and a DVD of each photo for the Rib Lake Historical Society.

20866 6-20-2017 Invoice by Dan Smith, dba Winterspring Studios, to reproduce Joyce Mathias’ collection of photos.

20867 P. c. 1938 RLLC employee uses newly purchased Caterpillar D-6 crawler tractor to skid at least 6 hardwood logs in Town of Corning, Lincoln Co., Wisconsin.

Nota bene: the RLH Society has this collection in four modes:

1. Frame originals, originally owned by Ed Synott;

2. 8x10” black & white copies filed at the RLH Society;

3. on DVD;

4. Scanned into Document & Photo Collection as #20867ff.

20867A ibid, text on hood reads “Caterpillar Diesel” note forest is clear-cut of all merchantable timber

20867B ibid, crawler tractor easily skids 5 large hardwood logs.

20867C ibid, text on back of crawler tractor reads “D 6 Caterpillar Diesel manufactured by Caterpillar Tractor Corporation, Peoria, Illinois.” Note railroad tracks in rear. Some logs have choker-skidding cables attached; they have been pulled parallel to other saw logs. The RLLC will use is McGiffert loader to load logs on railroad flat care for transport to RLLC sawmill in the near future without making large piles of logs in the forest. This method of quick log movement was a new method called “hot logging,” championed by John Mylrea after he and 3 other investors purchased the RLLC in 1936.

20867D ibid, action photo taken at RLLC hot pond at very moment logs tumble off Soo Line railway flat car. Man carries axe with 10-foot-long handle which he used to sever wires tying vertical poles on either side of flat car together; this practice of wiring the side poles together and loading more logs on the wires was called a “belly wrap.” The axeman also cut the vertical side poles, causing them to break and spill the logs toward the hot pond. At the upper right is the impressive 3-story Rib Lake High School, built in 1906.

20867E ibid 1938 photo eastward through hemlock dry yard to 167 foot high chimney of RLLC. Two sets of narrow gauge tramway railroad tracks run between 25 foot high piles of lumber. The pile to the right is 1 inch thick boards that had spacer boards laid perpendicular to creat an air spece for drying. Two tiers of boards are between each spacer board.

Note the ingenious system to secure a waterproof roof on top of each pile. A steel wire has been twisted taut to tightly pull spacer boards together.

The tram tracks in the rear go up an incline to cross the bridge over McComb Ave.

End of Joyce Mathias collection

Douglas Thums collection

20868 P. c. 1919 Each wearing a distinctive hat, 5 men stand in a doorway of RLLC Camp 9. They may be members of the North Wisconsin Logging Association., who were conveyed to and from the camp by steam hauler on 2-28-1919; note the plaster linking between 6 tiers of logs, creating a sturdy “log cabin,” a lean-to of sawed lumber has been added to the right. A box laying on top the snow advertises “Prince Albert” chewing tobacco. Camp 9 operated from 1913 to 1922.

20869 c. 1919 A teamster and a boy at RLLC Camp 9. A suitcase & upsidedown metal tub lay behind them. The horse on the left wears blinders next to his eyes to prevent it from seeing distractions. This sleigh was not built to haul logs; rather it hauled supplies or tanbark

20870 7-13-2017 “Merrill firm gets bid to resurface Pine Line trail.” Star News

20871 Obit. Bernice “Babe” Stellick 1927-2017, Star News

20871A ibid, Foster “Hup” Kalk, 1930-2017, son of Karl (Charles) & Anna (Knop) Kalk.

20871B ibid Memorial Card

20871C ibid Poem “My Farm”

20871D Map 1913 The Kalk farm, S SE 30-33-3E I nyellow; Albert Knop farm in pink

20872 4-2009 Rib Lake School Board vote totals – RPR v John Czarnezki

20873 c. 2017 Dr. Susan Frazier, MD, biography, popular Rib Lake physician residing in rural Westboro.

20874 P. c. 1910 Rib Lake Tannery, view to north across Fayette Ave. L-R “X” a faint handwritten note “piles of hemlock bark, two story pant house; NB-standard gauge railroad track; center-distinctive two metal chimney from power (boiler) plant [same as #13391 except for “x” over bark pile.

20874A ibid, back-to “Dear Mama,” Mrs. J.O. Wooley, Dixon, MO; postdated 7-13-1913.

20875 W. Definition of the word “pant” in Websters Unabridged dictionary, 2001, by Random house “#5-to emit steam or the like in loud puffs.” This may explain Augustine Koffler’s identification nof “pant house” on map 20877 and letter 20876.

20876 L. 12-10-1987 Augustine Koffler to Robert Rusch explaining his map #20874 including “pant house.” NB-the Koffler farm was ¼ mile east of the Rib Lake tannery.

20876A ibid, enlarged copy of writing

20876B Envelope postdated 12-10-1987 from brother Augustine Koffler to Robert Rusch

20876C Email from Dennis Kuehling reporting on his research on the word “pant.” Narrative of the Earl of Elgins mission to China & Japan in 1857; “the pant of the steam engine mingled in their dreams.”

20877 Map 12-8-1987 Rib Lake tannery at time of closing (1922) by Augustine Koffler

20877A ibid, Annotations by RPR 7-30-2017. Koffler’s original map was rescanned as image 20877 in place of 12278 where RPR had erroneously substituted “pan house” for “Pant house.”

20877B Map 1913 “Union Tanning Co. Tannery” from “1913 Standard Atlas of Taylor County” by George A. Ogle & Co.

20877C Description of maps

20877D Map 1905 Rib Lake Depot Grounds

20878 P. c. 1910 “Rib River & Rapids near Medford, Wis.” the Dells

20878A ibid back, postcard to Charles Knapwurst, Pickette, WI

20879 Menu, Camp 28 Restaurant, Rib Lake, 2017

20879A ibid p. 2

20879B ibid p. 3

20879C ibid p. 4

20879D ibid p. 5

20880 Camp 28 restaurant guest check by Heidi 7-25-2017

20880A ibid Visa Credit sales receipt

20881 L. Irwin Meier, retired chairman of Milwaukee Journal, to George Corrigan, including “after WWI we had acquired quite a number of the Germans’ formulas for chemical tanning of hides. This caused the phasing out of the use of hemlock bark in the tanning process in a very short time.”

20882 2005 name tag; State Bar of Wisconsin-Robert P. Rusch, Rusch & Rusch Law Office, Medford, Wis.

20883 Flag of Canada 150 years since confederation, 2017

20883A ibid

20884 belt buckle, c. 1997 Ice Age Trail 50 mile run awarded to RPR

20884A ibid 1998

20885 Bowl 1994 “Minnesota Voyaguer” 50 mile finisher awarded to RPR, 10 hours 22 minutes.

20886 10-2017 “Walking history; Wisconsin’s Ice Age Trail,” columns, newsletter of Wisconsin Historical Society, cover

20886A ibid p. 2

20886B ibid p. 3

20887 8-11-2017 Flyer, Rib Lake Ice Age Days events

20888 6-2017 Price & Taylor Counties, Wisconsin Resident Guide - cover

20888A ibid p. 6 Price County History est. 1879

20888B ibid p. 8 Taylor County History est 3-4-1875, named for William R. Taylor, Wisconsin Governor

20888C ibid p. 9 Taylor County comunities

Judy & Stanley Hebda collection

20889 Siding sawed from hemlock tree c. 1910 salvaged by Stanley Hebda from home in Village of Rib Lake c. 2000, cross section 5.25” high, .5” thcik tapered to .25” NB-cross section reveals annual growth rings about 1/32” apart – this is very slow growth and typical of virgin timber

20889A ibid exterior side showing nail holes and white paint

20889B ibid interior side showing black stenciled text “Sargent & Son, Rib Lake, Wis.” Who or what was “Sargent & Son” is not known as of 8-10-2017.

20890 c. 2008 DVD Taylor County Conversations; these are stories of Taylor County interviews of Robert P. Rusch re Gerstberger Pines, ice roads, Rib Lake history, produced by Taylor County Tourism. DVD stored at archives of the Rib Lake Historical Society – cover

20890A ibid back “Medford, Gilman, Rib Lake”

20890B ibid DVD

20891 9-9-2017 invitations – 2nd annual Thumsfest at Thums cabin, by Jeff, Julia, Gary & Rose Thums

20892 W. Summer 2017 Mammoth Tales, Ice Age Trail Alliance magazine – cover

20892A ibid Annual report

20892B ibid Photo of Tim Malzham, Outstanding Trail leader award

20893 W. 2017 Kettle Moraine Scenic Drive pamphlet - cover

20893A ibid p. 2

20894 W. 2017 booklet Kettle Moraine Scenic Drive - cover

20894A ibid map 8-1-2017 Kettle Moraine Scenic Drive, Kettle Moraine Natural History Assoc-north section

20894B ibid middle section

20894C ibid south section

20895 Map 8-2-2017 Kettle Moraine State Forest, Milwaukee Map Service – cover

20895A ibid north unit

20895B ibid south unit

20896 Map 8-3-2017 Kettle Moraine State Forest, Northern unit, Wis. Dept Natural Resources, cover

20896A ibid legend

20896B ibid Parnell Tower area

20896C ibid, Kettle Moraine State Forest – Northern Unit

20896D ibid south part

20897 P. c. 2017 Parnell Tower

20898 Map c. 1898 by William Milzimore “Rib Lake” legends show first J.J. Kennedy logging railroad running on Pine Street and turning to log dump east of Broadway

20898A ibid J.J. Kennedy railroad runs west of Hemlock Street along Pine Street to log dump into Rib Lake

20898B ibid VRL between Railroad Street & Landaal Ave, later corrupted to Landall. Six railroad spurs serve Kennedy sawmill.

20898C ibid VRL between Railroad Street & Landaal Ave

20898D ibid VRL north of Fayette Ave including tannery. As of 8/26/2017 this is the earliest known map of the Rib Lake tannery, then owned by Fayette Delos Shaw.

20899 Map 7-11-1916 School House Road – from the RLLC by [railroad] westerly 1100 feet; Village of Rib Lake, Sec. 25 [sic-should be Sec. 26] 33 [north] 2 [east], Wisconsin Highway Commission – title page

20899A ibid part 2, RLLC logging railroad mainline & siding cross future STH 102

20899B ibid part 3 “Grade sheet”

20899C Map 1913 plat of Sec. 26-33-2E, from Standard Atlas of Taylor Co. , yellow line shows future route of STH 102

20899D Modified 7-11-1916 map showing site of Rib Lake High School (1906-1983) on south side of Fayette Ave.

20900 Blueprint 3-1923 building in Village of Rib Lake, Wisc. West, elevation, Edward J. Hancock, architect, Eau Claire, Wis. This is page 1 of 13 detailed blueprints, e.g. jail of building never built on this design. Instead, a combination village hall & public works garage & fire station were erected at 741 McComb Ave. As of 8-24-2017 it is the village garage & public works shop. After careful deliberations, RPR on 11/11/2017 determined that the storage of the original documents/plans for the Administration building would be burdensome and outside of the scope of the Rib Lake Historical Society; the originals were destroyed that date.

20901 Map 6-30-1914 Soo Line railroad tracks & structures in Village of Rib Lake, RLLC mill complex, US Leather Co. tannery complex by office of Valuation Engineer, Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co, Minneapolis, MN. Map to scale & identifies mill, tannery & other buildings and has modifications to 1951. Original map at Rib Lake Historical Society, 24”x200”

20901A ibid, US Leather Co tannery complex, office, hotel, scales, coal platform, roll loft & railroad track crossing Tannery Creek eastward to hide house

20901B ibid RLLC mill complex [remainder of map not scanned]

20901C ibid parts of Village of Rib Lake including parts of pine, Church, Railroad, Elm & Lake Streets

20901D ibid, part of RLLC hemlock dry yard west of McComb Ave as shown on Soo Line map 6-30-1917. Note alternating standard guage and tram railroad tracks.

20902 c. 1930 VRL municipal street lighting & generation – legend; blue dots indicate lights on both sides of McComb Ave & 2nd Street, creating the well lit “white way”

20902A buidlings in RLLC mill complex; 1) sawmill-red highlighting; 2) power house-yellow highlighting i.e. boiler room; 3) Lake Superior District Power Co. generators-orange highlighting; 4) Electric substation – red highlighting

20902B ibid McComb Ave, then STH 102, aka “The White Way,” attractive lampposts on both sides of streets, 3 for each block. [NB- as of 8-27-2017 1 such pole lamp at Lake Theatre Park, junction of McComb & Landall Ave.]

20902C ibid, Street lighting on Fayette Ave, aka STH 102

20902D ibid, Pine, Church & Railroad Streets showing location of overhead street lights. [NB-this map correctly shows “Main Street” south of Railroad Street and along lake as platted by J.J. Kennedy.]

20903 Map c. 7-31-1940 Lake Superior District Power Co., Ashland, WI, sites of 33 VRL street lights – legend. A) 13 street lights (red) 2500 lumens; B) 23 street lights (green) 1000 lumens

20903A 13 RLLC mill buildings drawn to scale & identified;

1. sawmill

2. “slip” bull chain

3. hot pond

4. pump house (for lake water-fire control)

5. fire hose

6. “shed”

7. “#2”

8. water tower & well

9. RLLC office

10. planing mill

11. planed lumber storage “shed”

12. “shop”

13. power house

14. “sorting shed” (transfer chain)

15. tramway

16. machine shop

20903B ibid enlargements RLLC mill complex

20903C ibid Railroad spur line to former tannery & spur to NW, remnant of 1891 logging railroad built by John J. Kennedy; “tile factory” acoustical ceiling & wall tile using former tannery building (railroad spur tracks shown near tile factory had, in fact, been removed after tannery closed in 1922.-RPR)

20903D ibid W. “feet of distributation pole lines” 7-31-1940-12290; thru 4-29-1953-15797

20903E ibid ledger stub enclosed in map found 3-17-2017; date of bill was 5-19-1954, Lake Superior District Power Co.

20903F A handwritten note by unknown author obtained by the Society in 2017 when Map 20903 was donated by the Village of Rib Lake. The document lists parties in the Village using surnames and behind which are numbers, which appear to be an estimate of a electric power consumed

20903F-1 ibid back side

20903G ibid first entry refers to Village water filtration plant consuming 1000 [kilowatt hours?]

20903H ibid list refers to high school, Carl Radtke’s residence, Heindl’s cabins, Joseph “Joe” Heisler residence, Lakeside Tavern, Daius (sic) cabins, Schultz alley (sic)

Dennis Kuehling collection

20904 P. c. 1960 Westboro, Wis. north Main Street, view south on then STH 102

20905 W. German language newspaper 6-16-1887 “Excelsior. Fuer den katholischen, Farmilienkreis zur Unterhaltung und Belehrung.” Milwaukeee, WI [Excelsior, for the support and instruction nof Catholic families.]

20905A ibid back side. Wallpaper recovered when old house was torn down in Unity, Wis. in 2017. Layers of newspapers including #20905 were beneath the wallpaper & between stud walls as insulation.

20906 Why Luther Matters, by Ed Klodt in 9-2017, Thrivent magazine on 500th anniversary of Martin Luther, p. 1

20906A ibid p. 2

20907 W. 44th annual North Central Wisconsin Antique Steam & Gas Engine Club, Inc.” Aug. 25-27, 2017, Edgar, WI

20907A ibid p. 2

20907B ibid p. 3 Schedule of events

20908 P. “Songbirds of the Northwoods”

20909 Postcard “Lublin, Poland”

20909A ibid postmark Warszawa, Poland 8-21-2017, Chris Kulinski to Robert & Ann Rusch

20910 W. 8-2017 “Ice Age Trail Alliance Zillmer-Reuss Dinner” 10-6-2017 at Taliesin, WI

20910A ibid back, invitation to members of Yellow Blaze Club and Bur Oak Society of Ice Age Trail Alliance

20911 Email 8-21-2017 Brian Smith to RPR re descendants of emigrants from Mocker, Germany

20911A Immigration dates & family names of emigrants from Mocker, Silesia, (Schlesien) Kingdom of Prussia, Germany in 1880’s who came to Taylor Co., Wis.

1. Peche

2. Schmidt

3. Klein

4. Lassmann

5. Scheithauer

6. Lerch

7. Franz

8. Kaske

9. Wittke

10. Roberts

11. Hippe

12. Wolff

13. Jorde, aka Yorde

14. Mucke

15. Gilge

16. Mohr

20911B ibid

20912 Annotated map 1-1-1905 “Rib Lake Depot Grounds” by R.P. Rusch 8-14-2010 – title

20912A ibid “miscellaneous annotations”

20912B ibid title “Wisconsin Central Railway map of Rib Lake Depot Grounds 1-1-1905”

20912C ibid Annotations re RLLC

20912D ibid RLLC

20912E ibid Annotations re RLLC

20912F ibid Tannery

20912FF ibid Annotations re tannery

20912G ibid annotations re RLLC

20913 8-30-2017 $5 receipt, Roy Lebow dba The Music Store, 740 McComb Ave. $4 for Darlene Nowak, instructor, for Ryan Strobach and $1 store change. For years Roy & Darlene have provided outstanding, inexpensive music lessons at the old Taylor Hardware Store in the Village of Rib Lake

20914 Summer 2017 Real Estate Review by Century 21 Dairyland Realty - cover

20914A ibid P. Sara Budimlija auto-biography

20914B ibid Photo and offer info on former Upjohn Residence, 902 Upjohn Road, Village of Rib Lake, asking price is $174,000

20915 8-2016 “Our Wisconsin” – cover

20915A ibid The Ice Age Trail Gave this Hiker 1200 Miles of Memories, photo of Pat Witkowski

20916 Map 1-2-2017 City of Medford - cover

20916A ibid west half & legend

20916B ibid east half

20917 W. Rib Lake American Legion Post 274 – legacy stone order form – fundraiser to help pay for new building under construction

20917A ibid p. 2

20918 Map 6-13-1932 Wis. Highway Commission; “Proposed VRL paving, commencing at intersection of Fayette Ave & McComb Street, approval signatures

20918A ibid Map – project overview; McComb, Railroad & Elm Streets

20918B ibid Map McComb addition and railroad tracks

20918C ibid, Map RLLC Dry yard; tramway and 8 railroad tracks in dry yard; NB-elevated tramway extends west beyond Kennedy Street

20918D ibid Map VRL original plat, horizontal railroad spur shown at center once extended to Rib Lake where J.J. Kennedy had saw logs dumped; this site was inefficient since it was a quarter of a mile away from the sawmill. Consequently, it was abandoned in 1902 when the railroad was extended eastward along the north bank of Rib Lake and a heated “hot pond” was built at the RLLC bull chain; the new logging dump site lasted until mill closure in 1948.

20918E ibid Map, 6-13-1932 STH 102 portion on McComb Ave; “Portion to be left unpaved shown thus.” [red color]

Document #20918 is a spectacular record of detailed, authoritive information. The original consists of 10 pages of blueprints, 33x23 inches. Because of size, only portions were scanned. The original map is stored in rolled fashion at the RLH Soc office & archives as of 11-10-2017. This map was part of a spectacular gift made by then Village of Rib Lake Highway Commissioner Jerry Butler when he “cleaned out” the former village hall on McComb Ave.

20918F ibid Map 6-13-1932 At right Sheep Ranch Creek flows beneath STH 102. The railroad track spur shown left the former Stephen Konz sawmill and crossed STH 102 to serve the Gustafson retail lumber company facilities, some of its buildings are shown.

20919 Map 8-1-1939 Map of streets, alleys and STH 102 in Village of Rib Lake by C.R. Claussen-legend

20919A ibid NE portion

20919B ibid center; NB “Main Street” in place of Lake Street; original stored in file cabinet at Rib Lake Historical Society office & archives under Map 8-1-1939

20920 Map 5-7-1942 Relocation of Lots 1, 2 & 3, Block F, North Rib Lake addition by C.R. Claussen by order of Tracey Berfield, Superintendent of RLLC – caption

20920A ibid 31 feet of land added to T. Stiels lot include buildings & pump

20921 c. 1945 Jail plan addition. Proposal to add women’s section to VRL Jail by taking portion of fire station at combined Village Hall & Fire Station, 741 Mccomb Ave.

20921A ibid “present jail”

20921B ibid side view, “section thru jail.”

20922 Map. c. 1947 tax assessor’s notes & diagram of RLLC mill property in VRL; “Rib Lake Lbr. Co. mill property.” This document does not show nor refer to planing mill loading shed on NE corner of McComb & Railroad Streets, nor RLLC office on Railroad Street. All of these buildings were destroyed by fire on 9-20-1945. “Machinery in engine room, 3 Corliss Engines; A) 1500 hp Allis Chalmers; B) 1250 hp Allis Chalmers; C) 1800 hp Clark. 1,000 K [kilowatt] turbine; 400 cubic foot air compressor; 8 boilers bricked in 200 horsepower each; 4 pumps 500 gallons per minute

20922A Diagram of buildings along McComb Ave.; Machine shop 84x128’; office 24x16’, brick building 12x11’, planing mill 40 x 80’; [dry kiln-brick 63x67’ not shown.]

20922B List of structures; 18 structures named with dimensions, square feet and two unidentified columns; 1) the first column lists a percentage for each structure. The lowest percentage is 10%, the highest is 50%. The “round house” where locomotives of the RLLC were stored include a comment “very poor conditions.” Its percentage is 20%, did that refer to depreciated value? The final column is a list of figures – 100 is highest, (re the round house). The highest figure listed is 18850 after “sawmill” 60x240 and 21x33. This probably meant $18850 was the assessed value for real estate tax purposes.

20922C Diagram of sawmill 60x240 feet, transfer chain inside of transfer shed is 181x51 feet, brick smokestack 12” in diameter, 160 feet high, water tank 14 feet in diameter, boiler room 58x120 feet, engine room 32x126 feet

20922D Diagrams – frame warehouse 28x50, brick pumphouse 18x22’. Caption “Rib Lake Lbr. Co. property.”

20922E Diagrams; roundhouse [for storage of RLLC logging locomotives] 106x50’ and an addition 14x95 feet with note “very poor condition”; pumphouse for washing logs 18x18 feet, log shoot (sic-chute) i.e. bull chain, device to pull logs into sawmill from hot pond. Summary – my opinion is that this document was maintained by VRL tax assessor. The document was given to the Rib Lake Historical Society in 2017 when village utility foreman Jerry Butler cleaned out old village hall, 741 McComb Ave.

David Jacobson collection

20923 P. 2-1948 RLLC Camp 28, NW NW 32T33R4E, Town of Corning, Lincoln Co., WI. Most of the camp buildings faced NW where a line of the RLLC logging railroad ran in front of the buildings most of which were side by side. This photo shows a car parked on a clearing on the south side of the camp buildings.

20923A ibid P. A lone man and horse at Camp 28

20923B ibid freshly cut logs awaiting skidding within eighth of a mile of the back side of Camp 28 buildings; a small outshouse in foreground

20923C ibid 2-1928 a hardwood tree, self pruned for over 35 feet begins to fall after being cut at RLLC Camp 28

20923D ibid 14 logs, their far end reseting on a pan, are skidded by a caterpillar D8 diesel tractor to a spur of the RLLC logging railroad near Camp 28. About a 12 mile train ride will end at the RLLC samill in Rib Lake. The man with the white checkered coat in the foreground holds a cant hook. In front of him is a partner who is attaching a looped choker cable around the log for skidding. The photographer, Norman Jacobson, labeled this photo “cat” [i.e. caterpillar tractor for skidding].

20923E 2-1948 This rare side view shows the D8 caterpillar tractor skidding hardwood to the RLLC logging railroad at Cap 28. The dark lines from the rear of the “cat” are choker steel cables attached to the front of each log. A flat piece of metal curved upwards behind the tractor was the skidding pan. Part of this pan is approx.. 4 feet. The dark side of the snow-covered pan is approx. four feet behind the cat. The pan kept the butt of the log from digging into the dirt or hitting obstructions.

20923F ibid 2-1928 The RLLC stam powered McGiffert loader lifts a bundle of hardwood logs onto the front of a railroad flat car. The ingenious loader rode the railroad tracks to the loading site. When a flat car was laoded the McGiffert loader stood a steel foot straddling the rails and pulled an empty flat car from its rear to its front, note the flat car being loaded is higher in back when its wheels rest on a ramp of rails passing beneath the McGiffert loader.

20923G ibid 2-1928 A McGiffert laoder at RLLC Camp 28 pulls an empty flat car beneath itself. The empty is going up a ramp and has wide tracks beneath the loader and then down a ramp to ground level. The looped link chain on the side of the McGiffert laoder provides power to four steel legs to the left of the loader above the logging railroad tracks to allow the empty flat car to pass.

20923H ibid A McGiffert steam laoder sets a bundle of hardwood logs on an empty flat car while log loader cars wait in front. Note at left the ruts left in the snow by skidded logs

20923I ibid 2-1948 felled trees await skidding to railroad spur at RLLC Camp 28. On 6-4-1948 the RLLC will saw its loast board and cease operations that began at Rib Lake on 12-23-1881.

20924 L. 8-28-2017 David Jacobson to Everett Rusch re Normal Jacobson’s photos of RLLC Camp 28 taken 2-1928

20924A ibid envelope

20924B L. 8-23-2017 Everett Rusch to Robert Rusch

20924C ibid envelope

20924D L. 8-15-2017 David Jacobson to Everett Rusch

20925 pamphlet, Protecting Shoreland Wetlands in Urban Areas, c. 1970 Wisconsin DNR.

20925A ibid back

20926 Map c. 6-1-1948 Surveyors plat MRPA (McComb’s Racing Park Addition to the Village of Rib Lake) by C.R. Claussen, County surveyor

20926A ibid “public school” site of Rib Lake High School 1906-1983

20926B ibid Mill lot fka RLLC mill complex

20926C ibid junction of Railroad & Kennedy Streets. NB-large black areas to NE & NW are former RLLC dry yards; 59 acres of land for air drying of lumber

20927 Title portion of Map c. 12-1948 “Old & New shoreline of Rib Lake,” by C.R. Claussen, county surveyor, original map includes year of 1948; W. (Wesley) Stiel and E. (Elmer) Gilge, helpers. Map does not say how there came to be an old and a new shoreline

20927A Map c. 12-1948 “Old & New Shoreline of Rib Lake” Annotations by Robert P. Rusch 9-1-2017. I don’t think there is any question that a portion of Rib Lake was filled in. In 1881 J.J. Kennedy chose high ground along the lake for his mill. Northeast of the mill was water and wetland to Fayette Avenue and the high hill the Rib Lake High School occupied 1906-1983; this wetland provided a handy dumping area for sawdust and wood scraps. Between 1892 and 1922 the tannery normally flushed its hair and scraps into Tannery Creek. In 1902 the Soo Line railroad built its eastward extension on fill in this area. Examine the c. 1904 photograph of the train in the area and you will see a distrinct curve into the right of way between the mill and high school hill. The curve is mapped in the 1913 VRL map in the Standard Atlas of Taylor County.

For decades the RLLC unloaded its logs at the hot pond; bark and dirt routinely was dumped into the lake there. In addition, the mill operated a high pressure steam of water on logs going up the bull chain into the mill, thereby washing dirt into the lake.

The railroad line was torn out and replaced by STH 102, highway construction into the 1950’s and filled parts of the lake south of Fayette Aveneue with thousands of truck loads of gravel. This fill created such pressue on the lake bottom that a new island literally popped upin the lake.

Eventually the new right of way for STH 102 was completed; a straight line from SW of Fayette Ave into the heart of the village. Additional fill was dumped south of the highway to create the boat launch and parking lot at the site of the old hot pond.

20927B Southmost portion of map c. 12-1948.

20928 6-1-2017 thru 9-1-2017 IAT-Timms Hill Trail registration journal from Kuehling kiosk on Rustic Road 1, Rusch Preserve – cover

20928A ibid p. 1 signers, George Sandul, Bonnie Szydel, Jean Stolzenberg, Bob Rusch

20928B ibid signers, Lee & Butch Clendenning, Karl & Tricia, Scot Bromann, Steph, Tim, Claire Lorck, Anne, Danny & Charlie Reiman, Marisa Hagney, Nick, Erik, Mary & Liz Socydee, Joe Hebda, Colin, Brian, Lisa & Jay, Jerry Brecht, Ken Holmes

20928C ibid sigers Lou Ann Nowal, Janet Wood, Sandy Kalles

20929 Map c. 12-2-1948 Rib Lake Depot surveyor’s plat by C. R. Claussen. Map shows Soo Line depot, old route of STH 102 (1930-1953) and spur once extending to Rib Lake to allow J.J. Kennedy to load logs and “Hemlock Street” platted by J.J. Kennedy and now abandoned.

20929A ibid Annotations by RPR

20930 2-7-2010 Karen Rose Baumgartner nee Peterson, siblings. Her father was Orville “Ole” Peterson

20931 Map 1876-1914 Prussia (SW part), Berlin & Province of Silesia (Schlesien)

20931A ibid (NE Part) Berlin, Province of Pmmern (Pomerania) & Posen, City of Bromberg near which was Village of Karlsdorf, from which Herrrmann Emanual Rusch emigrated.

20931B ibid Silesia, Posen & Ost See (Baltic)

20931C Map 1440 Mark Brandenburg

20931D Map 1640 Brandenburg

20931E Map 1740 Prussia under Frederick the Great

20931F Map 1786 Prussian under King Frederick Wilhelm

20931G Map 1807 after Peace of Tilsit

20932 Map 7-14-1978 Wisconsin Wetland Inventory, T33N Range 2E, Town of Rib Lake – legend, NB-preliminary draft-subject to change.

20932A Village of Rib Lake

20932B Sections 1, 12 and 13, NB Klostermann Creek labeled Copper Creek

20933 Map c. 1960 Zoning, Village of Rib Lake, by R.G. Kulas, draft –not believed adopted-title

20933A ibid legend

20933B SW part, proposed street e.g. “Hemlock”

20933C 2nd Street, McComb Ave “Mill Lane”

20933D Map ibid “3 Lake Streets”

20934 Map 2009, Rib Lake & Environs “Pearson Hill, elevation 1951, Timms Hill elevation 1952”

20935 P. c. 1925 Lambert Lamberty jobber camp for RLLC, Town of corning, Lincoln Co., WI. Note car building and auto on upper right. The RLLC logging railroad bisects the photo and a McGiffert steam powered log loader sits on a spur track.

20936 P. c. 1925 7 men pose atop mammoth load of logs piled on either railroad flat car or sleigh; note vertical pole serving as a side stack in center. Leaning over photo is the top of the boom of a McGiffer log loader, its metal cables hang on the side of the logs. Taut chains bind the pile together making possible the vertical side wall of this load.

The man on the top left appears to hold leather driving reins; he is apparently pretending to be a teamster. Photo marked “Rib Lake Lumber Co. logs”

20937 P. c. 1930 Soo Line Depot at VRL. It was in service for freight and passengers (who could only go west on 5.5. mile spur to Chelsea, Wis where passengers could board north to Ashland or south to Chicago. A classic wood wheel baggage cart sits in front of the bay window. The elevated walkway allows easier stepping onto the passenger car steps on left. View looks NW; a box car and 20 feet tall pile of air drying lumber mark the horizon

20938 2017 pamphlet “Welcome to Rib Lake – where the Ice Age ends and your adventure begins.” By Joe Hebda. Rustic Raod and Taylor County Horse camp.

20938A pg. 2 ibid, Iceman “Ugh” Lakeview Park, Ice Age Trial, Timms Hill County Park, Historic St. Anns, Gerstberger Pines

20939 2017 pamphlet Connect at the Rib Lake Public Library. Photo of Juno and her handler, Kerri Olson

20939A p. 2 ibid

20940 W. 2017 biography, the Rev. Michael Meier, German Settlement, Wis

20940A ibid, 10-29-2017 Worship service invitation to First Lutheran Church, Ogema, Wis. by four Lutheran Church; Zion in Brantwood, First in Prentic, Westboro & Ogema, constituting “Northwoods Star Ministries” formed in 2017

20941 2017-18 phone book directory, cover, Rib Lake & environs, Frontier Communication Co.

20941A ibid Map of directory coverage. Town of Rib Lake & Westboro

20942 W. 9-16-2017 Official program, Rib Lake Schools Coed football. Cover

20942A ibid 2017 Hawks Middle School Football roster; Rebekah Strobach

Sam Gumz

Michael Borchardt

Deagan McNamar

Jayden Thums

Jordan Yanko

Logan Blomberg

George Gedde

Ryan Bergman

Michael Quednow

Ty Heikkinen

Ashton Makovsky

Owen Nowak

Ty Annala

Brandon Heiser

Rebekah Strobach

Lauren Pelnis

Rickie Staab

Colton Rademacher

Ryan Greibel

Drake Hamilton

Johnathan Konrad

Ethan Mundt

Daemen Hartmann

Damien Peterson

20943 W. c. 2000 Where is Brehm, Wisconsin by Irene Dums

20943A ibid p. 2

20944 W. 9-2017 “Saengerfest is a German singer festival, a competition of singer groups.” Such a fest was held in Medford, WI in 1910

20944A ibid, postcard advertising Saengerfest in Medford in 1910

20945 9-2017 WWI draft registration requirement, Taylor Co. Genealogical Society newsletter

20945A ibid, those registered in Town of Chelsea

20945B ibid Town of Greenwood

20945C ibid Town of Rib Lake

20945D ibid Village of Rib Lake, Town of Westboro

20946 W. “Railroad Logging in Wisconsin” by James P. Kaysen. On 9-9-1975 third annual proceeding of Forest History Association of Wisconsin. Cover

20946A ibid p. 1, NB-Kaysen says last logging railroad in Wisconsin was Rib Lake Lumber Co. “which pulled into mill yard on May 13, 1948..” CORRECTION: THE RIB LAKE HERALD EDITION 5/21/1948 REPORTED THAT ON THAT DATE THE RIB LAKE LUMBER LOGGING TRAIN BROUGHT ITS FINAL LOAD OF SAW LOGS TO THE RIB LAKE LUMBER CO. MILL ON THE SHORES OF RIB LAKE. In summary, Wisconsin’s final logging railroad, the Rib Lake Lumber Co., ceased operations May 21, 1948. Robert P. Rusch 2/17/2019.

20946B ibid p. 2, Ashland County alone had over 717 miles of logging railroads.

20946C ibid p. 3, Wisconsin logging railroads were either standard gauge, 4 feet 8.5 inches, or narrow gauge, 3 feet between rails

20946D ibid p. 4, flat cars in early days were skeleton type cars known as “Russels” with bunks similar to sleighs with no floors.

20946E ibid p. 5 geared logging railroad locomotives included Shay, aka “limey,” Heisler and Climax

20946F ibid p. 6 “Since the maximum practiced distance for direct skidding was considered to be about 600 feet, logging spurs had to be located about twice that distance apart or 1200 feets to provide complete coverage.”

20947 P. 8-2017 Ice Age Trail (IAT) and Timms Hill Trail (THT) signs along CTH C at Rusch Preserve, Town of Rib Lake

20947A ibid, dog “Marley” on IAT (yellow blaze) and THT (red blaze)

20947B ibid, Scheithauer bridge

20947C ibid recycled boards rom ski trail convey path over wet spot

20947D ibid 5 carefully stacks rocks, a cairn, built by unknown hiker

20947E ibid, Kuehling kiosk

20947F ibid, Marley & Rustic Road #1 in rear. Note sign in registration kiosk

20947G ibid, at rear, Rustic Road #1, 9 more miles to Timms Hill

20948 P. 2017 Elroy-Sparta bike trail. The Timms Hill Trail is open to mountain biking

20948A ibid back

20949 P. c. 1930 “Lake St. Claire, Rib Lake, Wis” view northwest across current Rustic Road #1. Lake named after Walter St. Claire, who operated a classic dairy farm on the southeast shore. By 2017 all of his former farm fields have grown back into forest

20950 9-2017 Business card, Mike Phillips dba Came Seven Industries

20950A ibid back

20951 P. 2015 Wisconsin State Capitol, Madison

20952 2008 P. “Meier’s Oak” by Roy Meier, resident and historian in Town of Spirit, Price Co., Wis

20953 P. c. 1910 James Upjohn “5 cent one glass soda water” trade token; good for soda water at James Upjohn’s drug store; in 2017 its building still stands, dba Ultimate Illusion salon, 713 McComb Ave, Village of Rib Lake

20954 Map 6-7-2017 “Camp 6 Historic Site” surveyed and drawn by George Sandul. Map is portion of 6-5-2017 “Rusch Preserve” map

20954A ibid title with scale

20954B ibid, legend, RLLC Camp 6 within Rusch Preserve in SE NE Sec. 13 T33N R2E except for its root cellar site which is in the NE NE Section 13. Camp operated 1911-1914

20954C ibid additional legend

20955 Map 4-27-1914 “The Chelsea Road” by Wisconsin Highway Commission, title page. This is blueprint map of reconstruction of STH 102 starting at SW corner of Section 26, T33N R2E and extending northeastward into Village of Rib Lake

20955A ibid 5th ROW crosses Sheep Ranch Creek, SW SW 26-33-2E

20955B ibid Kontz (sic Konz) sawmill & Catholic church, Church Street & Soo Line “spur” railroad built for John J. Kennedy to dump his logs into Rib Lake

20955C ibid “Grade Sheet”

20956 P. 10-2015 brilliant gold colored sugar maples at Village of Rib Lake Tourist Park. Photo by Karen Rusch

20957 Map 6-10-17 Camp 2 site shown on 1947 US Quad “Rib Lake” on west bank of Wood Creek, in SW NE 9-32-3E, Town of Rib Lake. Site of RLLC Camp 2 (1906-1908) located by Matt Robisch & Bob Rusch on 4-28-2016; see map #19822, See photos taken on even date by RPR

20958 P. c. 1930 “Wellington Lake near Rib Lake, Wis” view north from modern swimming beach. The far north end of the lake was bisected from most of the lake in 1881 when the Wisconsin Central buit its right-of-way there to avoid hills.

20959 W. 2017 “Oxen and the Kettle Moraine Frontier” the Schuppernong Journal. Town of Rib Lake farmer Joseph Pfeiffer did his field work with oxen. In the 1880’s oxen were extensively used to skid logs

20959A ibid p. 2

20960 Abstract of Title to east half of NW quarter, Section 10, Town 33 North, Range 2 East

20960A ibid p. 2 first deed 7-15-1874 to Ezra Sage

20960B ibid p. 3 entry 5, deed 8-6-1874 to D. Quam

20960C ibid p. 4 entry 9, deed to Thomas Scott (pine lumberman based in Merrill, Wis)

20960D ibid p. 5 entry 13, deed to John J. Kennedy, founder of Rib Lake, 6-21-1882 for east half of northwest quarter, Section 18 and other [pine] lands for $9999.00; entry 16, timber deed 7-22-1891 J.J. Kennedy (aka John J. Kennedy) to Fayette Delos Shaw, “conveys the hemlock bark with right to cut and remove the same…Shaw “agree to erect a tannery at Rib Lake of the same capacity as the tannery now at Medford, Wis, to be completed and in operation by January 1, 1893.”

20960E ibid p. 6, entry 17, 8-29-1900 Shaw quit claims his interests to John J. Kennedy, dba J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co. Entry 18, J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co quit claims interests back to W.A. Osburn Lumber Co; entry 19, J.J. Kennedy Lumber to Carl Knop [brother of RPR’s step-grandfather Albert Knop] March 3, 1897; entry 20 7-21-1908 Taylor County issued tax deed to Albert Knop

20960F ibid p. 7 Entry 21, quit claim deed of Albert & Ernestine Knop to Carl Knop 3-30-1911; entry 22 11-13-1911 “Carl Knop, a widower, to Charlie Knop”; entry 23 5-20-1912 Warranty deed Charles & Bertha Knop to Jacob Kapitz & Otto Heinske for $525

20960G ibid p. 8 entry 28, Warranty deed 5-16-1914 Jacob Kapitz et al to Andrew Borksa [NB-each page shows other transactions which are not indexed here.]

20960H ibid p. 9 entry 30, Judgment of Foreclosure; Ed Gomoll vs Jacob Kaptiz et al 12-24-1915; entry 31 3-3-1917 Sheriff’s deed to Ed Gomoll

20960I ibid p. 10 entry 32; Warranty ded 1-22-1916 to Frank J. Klug [spouse was Hedwig] for $800

20960J ibid p. 11 entry 36; Ed Gomoll will probate order 10-18-1927

20960K ibid p. 12 entry 38, patent dated 1-13-1875 recorded 1-30-1924 United States to James C. Headley

20960L ibid p. 13 entry 40, Mortgage $1500 10-2-1933 Frank & wife Hedwig Klug to “the Federal Land Bank of St. Paul, a body corporate.” Entry 40 mortgage $800 10-2-1933 to Land Bank Commissioner by Frank & Hedwig Krug

20960M ibid p. 14, entry 42 10-24-1933 Melvina Johnson et al satisfaction of mortgage of Frank & Hedwig Klug dated 6-18-1924

20960N ibid p. 15 Entry 44 8-8-1945 Federal Land Bank of St. Paul satisfies mortgage dated 10-2-1933 by Frank & Hedwig Klug

20960O ibid p. 16 4-22-1940 Warranty deed Frank Klug, a widower, to Arthur & Emeline Geiersbach

20960P ibid p. 17 Entry 51, 12-3-1947 Warranty Deed Arthur Geiersbach et ux to Fred & Ester Linzner

20960Q ibid p. 18 US Public Land Survey monument record; surveyor David Tlusty notes original corner monument was a wood post erected in 1862 by William E. Daugherty [surveyor hired by US government to do first survey of land of Section 7, T33N R3E and other land.] A bearing tree included a 12” diameter hemlock used by William Daughterty to locate the south quarter corner of Section 7.

20960R ibid p. 18 p. 2 of David Tlusty’s document shown above

20960S ibid p. 19 Entry 63, 8-15-1990 Warranty deed Fred & Esther Linzner to Michael Linzner

20960T ibid p. 20 Entry 70 12-1-1992 Warranty deed Esther Linzner [widow] to Steven B. Weise and wife Angela F. Weise

20960U ibid p. 27 12-7-1992 Certificate of Abstract – finis

20961 P. 8-2017 Joan & Herbert Magnuson at Kuehling’s kiosk along Ice Age Trail in Rusch Preserve. At rear is Rustic Road #1

20961A ibid Behind Magnusons is display of fatal steam hauler accident of 3-3-1914. Above them and not in the picture is accident artifact, the steam hauler front runner saved by Herb’s father.

20961B ibid Herbert Magnuson signs trail register at Kuehling’s kiosk. At right is map of Rusch Preserve, “Wisconsin’s premier trailhead where four trails meet.”

20962 P. 1-10-2017 Signs, Southern Terminus Timms Hill Trail and IAT

20963 Statement 9-28-2017 Steve Weise dba Steve’s Masonry, W2255 Bear Ave, Town of Rib Lake

20964 10-7-2017 email of Todd Olson re Timms Hill Trail & Bromberg Bridge reconstruction, i.e. Widening to admit snow groomer

20964A P. Blomberg Bridge as it existed c. 1987-2017. Bridge manufactured in 1904 at Milwaukee Bridge & Steels Co and served as Town of Rib Lake highway bridge c. 1905-1986

20964B P. c. 9-2017 Text by Todd Olson explains reconstruction

20964C ibid

20964D ibid “project complete”

20964E ibid Blomberg Bridge is at Mile 5, on the Timms Hill Trail, five miles north of trail’s southern terminus at the Rusch Preserve

Collection of Joan & Herbert Magnuson

20965 P. c. 1900 Carl John Magnuson & wife Catherina

20966 P. c. 1920 in back seat is Carl & Catherina Magnuson, their son harry drives car with Frieda Nyberg

20966A P. ibid, Model T Ford

20967 P. c. 1920 Ole Peterson’s jobber camp on Spirit Lake; Top row L-R, unknown, Ole A. Peterson, unknown, Jennie (Mrs. Ole) Peterson, Emily Goodman, nee Pederson, unknown, lower row L-R, 4 unknown, Harry Magnuson, Orville Peterson, unknown

20968 P. c. 1920 giant white pine, pinus strobus, at Spirit point, L-R Bernard Swanson, Elmer Anderson, Henry Magnuson

20968A P. ibid L-R Bernard Swanson & Harry Magnuson

20969 P. c. 1920 Harry Magnuson planting oats

20970 P. c. 1905 Stone Lake School at first location, quarter mile east of Stone Lake. Harry Magnuson sits holding chalk board, third person to his right is Fred Schmidt wearing suspenders. Fred eventually ran a tavern at Phillips, WI and changed his last name to Smith. Fred Smith won international fame by making concrete folk art, nka Wisconsin Concrete Park, in Phillips.

20970A ibid

20970B P. c. 1905 first school teacher at Stone Lake School, Mr. Blonder, and bicycle; note bicycle had single gear and no hand operated brakes.

20970C P. c. 1905, Stone Lake School at its second location on current CTH YY

20971 P. c. 1928 L-R Fred Schmidt (lka Smith), founder of Wisconsin Concrete Park at Phillips, WI, & Harry Magnuson

20972 P. c. 1930 examples of Harry Magnuson’s taxidermy work

20973 P. c. 1935 H. (Harry) Magnuson Fox Farm. Shown is “Silver fox,” a breed made famous by Fromm Brothers.

20973A P. c. 1935 Magnuson’s Fox Farm pens & fences in Town of Spirit, Price County, WI

20974 P. c. 1940 Ginseng bed and massive overhead wooden trellis to mimic natural shady conditions in which ginseng grows on Harry Magnuson’s farm

RPR collection

20975 P. c. 1960 “Camp Bay-Lee Mac, Rib Lake, Northern Ontario,” Canada

20976 W. Spring 2017 “North Central Conservancy Trust closes 2016 with 60 acre conservation easement.”

20976A ibid cover

20976B ibid mission statement

20977 P. 2016 Marley eating stick

20977A ibid P. Bekah’s Bridge built for IAT in SW NE 13-33-2E

20977B ibid P. “Ole Tote Road” sign SE NE 13-33-2E

20977C ibid P. Waldheim yard, SE NE 13-33-2E

20977D ibid P. view from Segerdahl of “Twin Towers” trees

20977E ibid P. Timms Hill across Bass Lake in snow

20977F ibid P. Groomed ski trail across Becker Bridge at Rusch Preserve

20977G ibid P. “Friends of the Trail” sign at Rusch Preserve

20977H ibid P. Kate & Scot Bromann sign “Toad Hollow Loft,” a bed & breakfast at N8457 CTH C, Town of Rib Lake

20977I ibid

20977J ibid P. Former pant house building at Rib Lake Tannery remodeled into residence on Fayette Ave in Village of Rib Lake

20977K ibid P. St. John Lutheran Church on Fayette Ave in Village of Rib Lake

20977L ibid P. Mike Quednow & new groomer purchased for $26,000 by Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club

20977M ibid P. Marley on groomed ski trail at sunset

20977N ibid P. IAT & Timms Hill Trail at Rusch Preserve just after construction by mobile skills crew

20977O ibid P. Fratney Street School, public elementary school, in Milwaukee where RPR attended school

20977P ibid P. “English Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Divine Charity,” First & Chambers Streets in Milwaukee, where RPR was baptized and confirmed

20977Q ibid P. boyhood home of RPR 1947-1967, 5947 N. 66th Street, Milwaukee

20977R ibid P. tree transplanted by Julius Gilge, who pulled it from the roots in c. 1955 from Rib Lake and replanted at 5947 N. 66th Street, Milwaukee

20977S ibid P. 10-2016 Kuehling kiosk just after completion by Lloyd Kuehling, John Hein, Butch Clendenning & RPR in Rusch Preserve

20977T ibid P. Katie & Ryan Strobach at Kuehling kiosk

20977U ibid P. Scheithauer Bridge at Rusch Preserve

20977V ibid P. L-R John Hein & Butch Clendenning install broken steam hauler runner at Kuehling kiosk in Rusch Preserve; runner broken in fatal accident of 3-4-1914 when RLLC steam hauler crashed, killing its fireman at location approximately one-sixth of a mile north of kiosk

20978 P. 2017 Joan & Herbert Magnuson at Kuehling kiosk where steam hauler runner was broken on 3-4-1914 in fatal accident. Runner is mounted above them. Herb’s father, Harry, saved runner & stored it from 1914-2014 in his barn

20978A P. Herb Magnuson signs trail register at Kuehling Kiosk. Behind is display of 3-4-1914 fatal steam hauler accident

20978B ibid P. Kurt, Julieta & Isabella Rusch 8-2013

20978C ibid P. Ann Rusch’s garden at N8645 CTH C, Town of Rib Lake

20978D ibid P. “Waldheim” German for home in the woods, N8643 CTH C, Town of Rib Lake

20978E ibid P. stone stairs built by Rodney & Kris Strobach at Waldheim

20979 Map 10-15-2017 Tote Road and hill by RPR on 1947 US Quad (15015). Colored dots show sites. Legend: A) orange is a 200 foot section of unbulldozed tote road as exists in SE SW 13-33-2E south of Nordic Ski & Snowshoe trail; B) green is site of McGillis pine camp owned by John J. Kennedy c. 1885 on SW NW 13-33-2E; c) yellow is Tote Road Hill – so steep rear wheels of wagon chained to brake wagon’s descent. IAT kiosk built atop hill on 10-3-2017 in NW SE 12-33-2E; d) brown is route of RLLC Camp 6 (1911-1914); E) black is route of RLLC Camp 9 (1913-1922); F) red NB-only known parts of tote road route shown on map. The actual route ran from Village of Rib Lake northward ending in Town of Spirit.

20980 P. 10-2017 Construction of Tote Road Hill kiosk by Lloyd & Dennis Kuehling, John Hein, George Sandul, Lee “Butch” Clendenning and Robert Rusch. Shown L-R George Sandul & Butch Clendenning inspecting site on 10-2-17

20980A ibib, top-Lloyd Kuehling of Colby, Wis, master carpenter

20980B ibid NB in background-sign “Tote Road Hill”

20980C ibid Roofers L-R Lloyd Kuehling, Butch Clendenning & John Hein, day 2, 10-3-2017

20980D ibid end of day 2 L-R Dennis Kuehling, Butch Clendenning, John Hein and Lloyd Kuehling

20981 P. 10-4-2017 L-R Lloyd Kuehling & Bob Rusch build “bulletin board” in center of kiosk.

20981A ibid “The baby is born.” L-R Dennis Kuehling, Bob Rusch & Lloyd Kuehling

20982 P. 10-4-2017 Bob Rusch tries out 32x96” sleeping bench on kiosk

20983 P. 10-4-2017 signs-above c. 1980 “Ole Tote Road Hill;” below c. 2010 “Tote Road Hill.”

20983A P. ibid. View from top of Tote Road Hill of former route of tote road teamsters c. 1885-1922

20984 P. 2x6” yellow plastic blaze used as IAT marker

20985 W. 10-10-2017 Minutes of Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club re history of Blomberg Bridge

20985A ibid p. 2

20985B ibid Membership form, club history since 1981 and mission statement

20986 Obituary 10-19-2017 Carol Kobielush 1921-2017

20987 P. 10-7-2017 Bob Rusch completes first public run since finishing chemotherapy. Run was 5k carbone run for research in Madison, WI and Bob’s cancer survivor button

20988 P. 1920 RLLC railroad section crew pause from track maintenance work on 5 mile spur connecting mil and mainline at Chelsea. At right is Wellington Lake. Note heavy use kept the rails shining.

20989 P. 1936 Seventeen RLLC lumber pilers stand on tramway bridge over McComb Ave. A bare light bulb hangs overhead. Men carry assortment of hats to shield them from the sun

20990 Obituary, Herman Arthur Rusch, 10/4/1903-2/15/1994, Marshfield News Herald

20990A Autobiography of Herman A. Rusch, Star News 9-18-1991

20990B 12-1-1993 Health fund eligibility card for Herman Rusch by his union, Milwaukee Carpenters District Council. Fro over 20 years Herman was a member of the teamsters union when he ddrove truck for Steinman Lumber Co. When he was made yard foreman he was no longer eligibile to be a teamster, so he jouned the Carpenters and Joiners union.

20990C Autobiography of Herman A. Rusch, part 2, a child’s life in the Village of Rib Lake in 1910. Star News 11-20-1991

20990C-1 Map – North part of Village of Rib Lake including residence of Ida Rusch, widow of Herrmann Emanuel Rusch and mother of Herman A. Rusch. Legend is keyed to sites referred to by Herman A. Rusch in autobiography #20990C.

20990D Autobiography of Herman A. Rusch, part 3, Star News 11-27-1991

20990E ibid part 4, Star News 1-15-1992; Martha E. Rusch & Julius Gilge 1912 wedding, etc

20990F ibid part 5, Star News 7-1-1992 July 4th Village of Rib Lake balloon ride c. 1913

20990G 2-15-1994 hand printed note of Herman A. Rusch to his son Thomas (Tom Rusch) following prolonged poor health and rehospitalization ending “let me die”

20990H ibid back side

20990I L. 6-24-1993 RPR to brothers re Herman Rusch 90th birthday celebration

20990J ibid, map 6-29-1993 location of Camp 28 Restaurant by RPR

20990K ibid guest list – top

20990L ibid guest list

20990M ibid invitation to Herman Rusch’s 90th birthday party

20990N ibid, P. birthday cake at Camp 28 Restaurant 10-3-1993

20990O ibid L-R Mary Ann, Karen, Robin, Martha & Herman Rusch

20990P ibid L-R Michael & Tom Rusch, Elmer Gilge

20990Q ibid L-R Phil, Sue & Grace Jacoby

20990R ibid L-R Ev, Jerry, Tom & Bob Rusch

20990S ibid L-R Barb, Rev. John Meyer & Herman Rusch

20990T ibid P. 10-3-1993 Herman Rusch 90th birthday party, L-R Walter (Wimpy) & Isabelle Wilhelm

20990U “Herman Rusch’s celebrate 65th wedding anniversary” Star News 2-9-1994

20990V L. 4-12-1994 State Senator Russ Decker to Herman & Martha Rusch

20990W Obituary, Herman Rusch 2-24-1994 Phillips Bee

20990W-1 ibid

20990X Memorial Card, Herman A. Rusch, funeral service 2-19-1994 St. John Lutheran Church, Rib Lake

20990Y W. 2-15-1994 “in Loving Tribute to Herman Arthur Rusch” by RPR

20990Z ibid p. 2 biography of Herman Arthur Rusch by RPR

20990AA ibid p. 3 Photo of Herman Rusch c. 1943

20990BB ibid p. 4 Photo of Herman Rusch & boat

20990CC ibid p. 5 1955 “A pair of shots and a hatchet” Milwaukee Journal

20991 10-3-1993 Herman Rusch 90th birthday party invitation to Camp 28 Restaurant in Rib Lake

20991A ibid P. Herman Rusch and sister Hattie (Hedwig) Johnson, nee Rusch

20991B ibid Herman Rusch and nephew Al Gilge

20991C ibid Herman Rusch and wife Martha, nee Gebauer; children L-R, Robert, Thomas, Everett and Gerald

20991D ibid Herman Rusch and friend Mike Utesch

20991E ibid Herman & Martha Rusch and son Gerald

20992 W. 2002 “Home owners manual” by Blomberg Builders for Ann & Bob Rusch - cover

20992A ibid, front view of house at N8645 CTH C, Town of Rib Lake

20992B ibid RPR holding camera as laborers work on basement which became office and archives of Rib Lake Historical Society in 2009.

20992C ibid view from pond

20992CC ibid

20992D ibid contractors identification, e.g. Roger Blomberg, et al, dba Blomberg building & supply company, Jim & Pat Mann, dba Manntech

20992E ibid

20992F ibid back cover

20993 Map 2016 Underdown Bike & Hike & IAT Area, Lincoln Co.

20993A ibid ski trails

20994 W. 2015 “Nobody Walks Now-A-Days. The Merrill Railway & Lighting Co.” by Thomas E. Burg – cover

20994A ibid title page

20994B ibid Map, streetcar route in City of Merrill c. 1900

20995 c. 1990 A round metal stencil used at Rib Lake Tannery, probably to mark leather made there with its grade. The stencil, when inked, leaves the following marks; A) a round circle ¼” in diameter; B) a stylized hatchet or battle axe; C) Arabic numerals “53.” The tannery at the Village of Rib Lake began operation sin 1891 and closed permanently in 1922.

20996 Map 11-1-2017 Hiking trails between Toad Hollow Bed & Breakfast and Ice Age & Timms Hill Trail (at Rusch Preserve) by RPR. The public may hike between Toad Hollow B&B (operated by Scot & Kate Bromann, N8657 CTH C, Rib Lake, WI, 715-427-5676) and the Ice Age & Timms Hill Trail on The Rusch Preserve, an improved trailhead SW of Rustic Road #1 & CTH C by use of 4 connecting trails. 1) orange blazed Toad Road ¼ mile long from Toad Hollow B&B west; 2) Green blazed Nordic Trail 1.5 miles to Camp 6 on the Rusch Preserve. Between Toad Road & Bear Avenue hikers may hike on either route of the Nordic Trail/Tote Road cutoff, which run parallel about ¼ mile apart; 3) blue blazed beginning ski loop .2 miles from Camp 6 junction to parking log and kiosk; 4) red blazed Timms Hill Trail and yellow blazed Ice Age National Scenic Trail use the same trailhead in the Rusch Preserve. NB-Between Dec. 15 and April, the Nordic & Beginner Ski Look trails are groomed for skiing and snowshoeing. Hikers must wear snowshoes on them.

20996A Annotated Map 11-1-2017 Hiking trails between Toad Hollow B&B and Ice Age & Timms Hill trails at Rusch Preserve

20997 Roger Blomberg business card 2017

20998 P. 10-30-2017 Brianna Karen Killion Heck, aka Mrs. Erik Madigan Heck, niece of Ann Rusch, and son Winston, on cover of Time Magazine

20999 Map 4-1946 Surveyors plat of north Rib Lake (including Tannery Pond & site 1891-1922) by C.R. Claussen - title

20999A ibid East portion including Outlot 5 owned by John Schaack, former home of Herrmann Rusch & birthplace of Herman Arthur Rusch, NB-“Gay” now Surek Road

20999B ibid west portion, including West, Front & Kennedy Streets.

21000 Map 1948 Surveyors plat of NE quarter, Section 27, T33N, Range 2E by C.R. Claussen, top half

21000A ibid bottom half

21001 Map 8-8-1948 RLLC mill site subdivision. Part of Rib Lake “to be filled in.” Title

21001A ibid “former mill lot” and Main Street along lake

21001B ibid signatures, Rudolph J. Mueller, RLLC Superintendent; F (Francis) P. Schaack, notary at bank; Leon Olson, vice president; Frank Becker, Village of Rib Lake Clerk

21002 Map 7-1-1948 Surveyors plat of original plat of Rib Lake – title

21002A ibid, including Lake Street [never built] south of Church Street, Hemlock & Forest Streets [never built]

21003 10-2017 “Heritage of Brownstone lives on.” Ashland Daily Press, Photo of brownstone building

21003A ibid part 1

21003B ibid part 2

21003C ibid part 3

21004 10-29-2017 St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, Rib Lake, bulletin – cover

21004A ibid p. 2 & 3 Reformation Sunday – list of lyrics of German songs

21004B ibid p. 4

21005 W. 2013 “The Wisconsin Bucket List,” by Kelly Jo Stull – cover

21005A p. 22 “try snowshoeing to the state’s highest point at Timms Hill” NB-The book has no mention of the Ice Age Trail. If you are on a trail snowshoeing to Timms Hill, you are on the Timms Hill Trail, a 10 mile non-motorized trail; its south start point is in the Rusch Preserve in the Town of Rib Lake

From Henry Krause collection

21006 P. c. 1909 Home of Merwin & Nellie Krause in Town of Westboro; in 2017 residence of Randy Krause on Silver Creek Road

21006A P. c. 1909 Goodrich School, aka Silver Creek School, Town of Westboro

21006B P. ibid far left – Harold Wennerstrand; pupils pose outside of Goodrich School

RPR collection

21007 11-5-2017 Cheerful notes from grandchildren, Kirstin, Trinity, Colton & Brandon Riggs to Bob Rusch

21008 “Geology of the Ice Age National Scenic Trail,” by David M. Mickelson, et al, UW-Press 2011-cover

21008A ibid p. 304 “Chippewa Lobe Ice Age Trail Segments”

21008B ibid p. 307 Maximum positions of Ice advance

21008C ibid p. 309 Rib Lake segment & Timms Hill Trail

21008D ibid p. 310 (figure 239) Map 2011. Rib Lake segment togography. “Dashed blue line indicates the outer edge of late Wisconsin glacial deposits. [in Rusch Preserve, Sec. 13 T33N-2E] by David Mickelson, et al.

21009 P. c. 1900 “Soldiers Monument & Burying Grounds, Westboro, Mass” The Wisconsin Central Railraod named Westboro after Westboro, Mass.

From Jean & Steve Severson Collection

21010 10-31-2017 “A Brief History of the MT&W Railroad” “Tomahawk Then & Now” Tomahawk Leader. A) William H. Bradley, founder of the City of Tomahawk, created the Wisconsin & Chippewa Railroad in 1891. In 1895 the W&C was built westward from Jersey along to the nearby town of Spirit Falls, reaching there in 1896. “Bradley hopes to make Spirit Falls the trading center of a great farming area after logging was completed.” In c. 1902 the Wisconsin Central Railraod built eastward from Rib Lake and joined the W&C (then part of the Marinette, Tomahawk & Western) 2 miles south of Spirit Falls. The WC explored the possibilities of passenger service between Rib Lake & Tomahawk but abandoned the idea as fiscally unwise.

21010A ibid P. c. 1900 “Boat train” built by William H. Bradley on Somo River.

21011 Map 11-11-2017 & aerial photo of Wood Lake. Green line shows route of Ice Age Trail by Joe Hebda. Historic features – 1) right of way of Rib Lake Lumber Co. logging railroad; 2) where Wood Creek flows out of Wood Lake was site of; a) A logging dam where the Joseph Dessert Lumber Co. of Mosinee constructed a logging dam; when opened, the dam released a flood of water, driving saw logs down Woos Creek to Rib River and to Wisconsin River; b) A spur of the Rib Lake Lumber Co was located east of Wood Creek along the south shore of Wood Lake. The photo shows a Shay locomotive and McGiffert loader pulling logs from the lake and loading them on flat cars; 3) site of RLLC Camp 4

21012 Map 2-1-2000 “Lumbering Epoch Railroad of Oneida County” by Everett Rusch - title

21012A ibid Tripoli & Willow Lake

21012B ibid Harshaw, Goodman, Minocqua

21012C ibid Rhinelander

21012D ibid Pelican Lake, Monico, Thunder Lake

21012E ibid key

21013 P. c. 1970 Camp Forest Springs main lodge, torn down in c. 2010 and replaced. Name changed c. 2010 to Forest Springs

21014 P. c. 1920 Dells of Rib River “Rib River and Rapids.” In Town of Goodrich

21014A ibid, back postcard to Margaret Schomer

21015 P. c. 1905 “44,800 lbs of bark hauled 7 miles, Rib Lake, Wis.” teamster & 4-horse tam pull tanbark sleigh. On horizon is gable roof of tanbark pile along West Street

Donation from Bob & Barb Moon

21016 c. 1940 safety award pin, “Rib Lake Lumber Co. without accident 4 years” awarded to Barb Moon’s father, Ewald Nelson.

21017 Missing, not scanned as of 12/16/17*** c. 1950 key chain “National Hotel. Where all friends meet. Wines, beer & liquors, Rib Lake. 427-3505.”

21018 11-11-2017 L. Bob & Barb Moon to Ann & Bob Rusch – cover

21019 P. 2017 Sara Budimlija

21019A ibid, Ad Century 21 Realty

21020 c. 1930 P. “Coal docks seen from Great Northern elevator, Superior, WI”

21020A ibid back, postcard to Marjorie Winch 11-3-1937

21021 L. 11-13-2017 Joan Magnuson to RPR re fatal steam hauler accident 3-4-1914 display at Kuehling Kiosk

21021A ibid back, drawing of Spirit Methodist Church

21021B ibid envelope

21022 Map 11-16-2017 R.P. Rusch grandparents’ emigration origins

21022A Map 2001 Europe, ibid, dots – red-Herrmann Emanuel Rusch; green-Ida Hedwig Lange; yellow-Wilhelm Gebauer & Bertha Gebauer nee Steiner

21023 11-11-2017 Relationship chart, Robert P. Rusch & Uta Klein

21024 11-3-17 “Daze of Olde,” a play presented by Rib Lake High School drama club – program p. 1

21024A ibid p. 2 & 3

21024B ibid p. 4

21025 “Daze of Olde” Star News 11-16-17 – top

21025A ibid, bottom, L-Katie Strobach

21026 “The Time Machine – 25 years ago 11-18-1992” Star News, Robert Rusch, secretary of Prentice to Medford Rail-Trail Association, historic 1883 railroad junction to Rib Lake

21027 1989 Wisconsin Gun-deer hunting back tag

21027A 1989 Resident deer hunting license to RPR

21027B ibid back

21028 10-10-2017 “TU-DNR culvert work links disjointed trout streams,” Wisconsin Outdoor News

21028A ibid p. 2

21028B ibid p. 3

21029 2017 Sticker “I make the trail a reality. Go hike it.” Ice Age National Scenic Trail.

21029A lapel pin “Ice Age Trail”

21029B Lake Superior Trail 100 mile endurance run logo on R.P. Rusch’s 1998 finisher’s shirt

21030 2-16-1969 “Hopeful thaw in Wisconsin’s Ice Age Park” The Milwaukee Journal – Sunday picture journal cover

21030A ibid, The Ice Age Scientific Reserve – on paper congress has created a most unconventional kind of national park. p. 2

21030B ibid p. 2 bottom

21030C ibid p. 3 painting of Kettle Moraine

21030D ibid p. 3 bottom, Mel Kishener’s Kettle Country”

21030E ibid p. 4 P. Dundee Mountain

21030F ibid p. 5 top painting

21030G ibid p. 5 bottom “Hunters of Beauty

21030H ibid p. 6 top “A showcase of Glacial Wisconsin. Park naturalists will conduct tours and give talks at amphitheaters on Ice Age history.”

21030I ibid p. 7 bottom, Maps by Ludwig Cinatl, Jr.

21030J ibid Map, Wisconsin Ice Age Reserve – Bloomer unit

21030J-1 ibid Map, Wisconsin Ice Age Reserve – Mill Bluff

21030K ibid Map, Wisconsin Ice Age Reserve – Interstate Park

21030L ibid Map, Wisconsin Ice Age Reserve – Devil’s Lake

21030M ibid Map, Wisconsin Ice Age Reserve – Cross Plains

21030N ibid Map, Wisconsin Ice Age Reserve – Two Creeks Buried Forest

21030O ibid Map, Wisconsin Ice Age Reserve – Sheboygan Marsh

21030P ibid Map, Wisconsin Ice Age Reserve – Wisconsin

21030Q ibid Map, Wisconsin Ice Age Reserve – Campbellsport unit

21030R ibid Map, Wisconsin Ice Age Reserve – Kettle Moraine State Forest – north unit

21031 Map 1965 “Early Vegetation of Wisconsin” Wisconsin Geological & Natural History Survey, G.F. Hanson director. Published in 1970 “Wisconsin Scientific Areas” by Wisconsin Preservation Council

21031A ibid Map 1965 “Interpretation of the Vegetation of Wisconsin”

21031B ibid

21032 2017 letterhead, Aspirus Rib Lake Clinic

21033 11-13-2017 W. Statement – Randy Thums Trucking & Excavation, LLC to RPR

21034 1946 pamphlet “The Raven Nature Trail,” American Legion State Forest” cover

21034A ibid p. 2

21034B ibid p. 3 Geological timetable

Collection of Marathon County Historical Society

21035 1958 obit “A.P. Woodson, Industrialist & Financier, Dies” Wausau Daily Herald, P. Aytchmonde Perrin Woodson. In 1936 A.P. Woodson & 3 other men purchased the RLLC

21035A ibid p. 2

21036 Biography “Aytchmonde Perrin Woodson” encyclopedia or biography

21037 W. Obit “Aytchmonde P. Woodson” unknown author. Text appeared next to his obituary in 1958 Wausau Daily Herald

21038 L. 4-22-1936 A.P. Woodson, here “Aytch P. Woodson,” to John Mylrea re purchase of RLLC

21038A ibid p. 2 John Mylrea accepts terms in letter & writes: later we bought out Frank Hendyside & P.S. Brownell (thereafter) this gave Woodson 67% ownership interest and Mary & John Mylrea had 33%.

21039 1-1934 “Son of wealthy lumberman is victim of suicide.” Manitowoc Daily News

21040 1-4-1934 “Refused car, Wausau youth kills self. No inquest planned in death of Cyrus Yawkey Woodson.” Rhinelander Daily News

21041 c. 1945 Engagement announced – Mr. & Mrs. A.P. Woodson announce engagement of their daugher Margaret Perrkin Woodson to Frederick William Fisher.

21042 c. 1945 “Miss Woodson wed in Wausau to F.W. Fisher”

21043 1963 Mrs. A.P. Woodson, nee Yawkey, dies at home, obit

21044 “Woodson home, 1100 Highland Park Blvd, given to Marathon Co. Historical Society.” By 3 daughters in memory of Leigh Yawkey Woodson. This structure was the final home of A.P. Woodson and his wife, Leigh

21045 Business card, Gary Gisselman, librarian, Marathon Co. Historical Society. The second to last home of A.P. Woodson, 410 McIndoe Street, Wausau, was donated to the Society as was the childhood home of Mrs. A.P. Woodson, nee Yawkey, which is, in 2017, the Yawkee House Museum, and across McIndoe Street from the A.P. Woodson house, now office and archives of the Marathon County Historical Society

21046 Flyer 2017, Yawkey House Museum

21047 Flyer 2017 “Birds in Art” exhibition in Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, 700 N. 12th Street, Wausau - cover

21047A ibid p. 2

21047B ibid, back cover “Birds in Art is an international juried exhibition organized annually by the Woodson Art Museum.”

21048 Flyer 2017 “Tour the fully restored Yawkey House,” 403 McIndoe Street, Wausau

21048A ibid p. 2

21049 8-23-1993 “Woodson exhibits honors foresters,” Wausau Daily Herald. “The Leigh Yawkey Art Museum is…the single greatest museum of wildlife art in the world, barr none, and they (John & Alice Woodson Forester) created it.”

21050 Aytchmonde Perrin Woodson, aka A.P. Woodson papers 1887-1957 Wisconsin Historical Society, Stevens Point, summary of info

21050A ibid index of info re RLLC, boxes 44-46

21050B ibid, services

21050C ibid, location

21051 Thanksgiving 2017 “Turkey Trot 5K” bib, Park Falls, WI

21052 11-19-2017 “What ever happened to fiscal responsibility. The Republican party’s retreat includes a tax plan that will balloon federal deficits and ignores the rising of entitlements.” Wisconsin State Journal - caption

21052A ibid text

21052B ibid Cartoon “The Republican Tax Overhaul Explained”

21052C ibid “Republican tax plan is fiscally reckless.” By Gary Moseson.

21053 2017 Ads in “Fingertip Directory,” The Star News. Roger & Carrie Mann dba Mann’s Southside Auto Repair, Village of Rib Lake

21053A ibid Chelsea Conservation Club

21053B ibid Craig & Dale Zirngible, dba C&D Lumber, Village of Rib Lake

21053C ibid Jerry Clark dba Jerry’s Computer, Westboro

21053D ibid Cindy & Keith Hanke, dba C&G Mini Mart

21053E ibid Bird’s Nest Tavern, 729 McComb Ave

21053F ibid Camp 28 of Rib Lake, Inc. Village of Rib Lake

21053G ibid Cattail Tap, junction of CTH C & M

21053H ibid Pot Belly Pub & Grill, Whittlesey

21053I ibid Mahners Welding & Repair, STH 13, Chelsea

21053J ibid Hope Hospice, Village of Rib Lake

21053K ibid Rib Lake Health Care Nursing Home & Physical Therapy, Village of Rib Lake

21053L ibid Sara Matyka, Northwoods Photography, Town of Rib Lake

21053M ibid Jill Behrens, dba Break-Away Get-Aways, LLC, Town of Rib Lake

21054 P. RLLC chimney tile from sawmill 1916-1948 (time in use). Chimney 160’ tall stood south of mill, see Sanborn diagram #11159A. Each tile stamped Earling & Gunerson (manufacturers) & was honeycomb (i.e. partially hollow) baked red clay. Chimney razed c. 1952 by Fred Schwartz – see Rib Lake Herald article

21054A ibid oblique view

21055 “Above the tree tops – the Fifield Fire Tower,” Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, photo & cover

21055A ibid p. 2 Fuel for the fire

21055B ibid p. 3 fire detected from tower

21056 “Caring for the land atop a fire tower,” USDA Forest Service 9-2006 -cover

21056A ibid, the Great Depression & Civilian Conservation Corps, CCC

21056B ibid Climbing the tower & photo of Fifield tower

21056C ibid Wind & Lighting

21056D ibid Wild fires & Eagle story

21056E ibid On the job & photo of fire dispatch

21056F ibid The three towers

21056G ibid historical perspective & Map 2006, Fifield, Sentinel Point & Riley Creek Fire tower sites

21056H ibid photo of Fifield tower

21057 W. “Fred Smith’s Wisconsin Concrete Park”

21057A ibid, biograph of Fred Smith, born “Schmidt,” Town of Spirit, Price County, Wis.

21058 W. “Huey’s Hideaway Children’s Museum,” Medford, WI 2017

21058A ibid p. 2 memberships

21059 P. c. 1960 Robert P. Rusch

21060 5-1966 Robert P. Rusch’s BA diploma – Concordia Senior College, Fort Wayne, IA

21060A ibid chapel

21061 P. 10-1971 Anton Kurek

21062 P. 8-1972 Karen & Bob Rusch at Waunakee, WI

21063 P. 7-1972 L-R Joe Sweda, Taylor Co Assemblyman; David Obey, Wausau Congressman; Bob Rusch, DA candidate – campaigning

21064 P. c. 1972 Waldheim viewed from CTH C

21065 P. 10-1973 Robert P. Rusch landscaping at Waldheim

21066 P. 9-1974 parts of unused wood furnace “The Behemoth” RPR bought for $50

21067 P. 9-1974 RPR Chevy pickup on woods road at Waldheim-garden at right

21068 P. 9-1974 RPR holding daughter Robin Ann Paulina at red pine plantation at Waldheim

21069 P. 1975 Walter “Wimpy” Wilhelms on old logging road near Waldheim, in 2017 site of “doggie bathtub”

21070 P. 11-1975 Beaver pond just east of Waldheim, NB-“cutover” forest

21071 P. 4-1986 pond next to Waldheim; at horizon are pines planted by Anton Kurek & Rollie Thums in 1961 along CTH C

21072 P. c. 1905 “Westboro, Wis. #402” view NW from Queenstown. Twin chimneys on right serve Westboro Lumber Co. Behind chimneys is at least seven identical lumber company houses and steeple of the Swedish Lutheran Church, in 2017 First Lutheran.

21072A ibid postcard dated 7-2-1910 to Kittie Oconnor Currie

21073 P. c. 1905 “Greetings from Westboro”

21074 Winter 2017 “The Milwaukee Fourteen, a burning protest against the Vietnam War.” By Tim Thering, Wisconsin Magazine of History

21074A ibid

21074B ibid p. 1

21074C ibid p. 2 UW-Madison Company

21074D ibid p. 3 Mike Cullen, one of the main organizers of the action. Cullen married Annette Rhody, daughter of Town of Spirit historian Carl Rhody. Cullen and Annette & family resided for several years in the Town of Spirit

21074E ibid p. 4 quote by Michael Cullen

21074F ibid

21074G ibid Photo, preparing to burn draft records at Wells on Langington Avenue in Milwaukee

21074H ibid Photo of Michael Cullen, et al

21074I ibid arrests

21074J ibid 9-25-1968 Milwaukee Sentinel

21074K ibid “at least a year in prison”

21074L ibid Cullen’s deportation

21074M ibid Photo of trial

21074N ibid Photo of Michael Cullen, his wife Annette and three children. They lived a year on the Carl Rhody farm in the Town of Spirit following his release from prison

21074O ibid endnotes

21075 Map 1964 south part of Town of Spirit, Price County, Wis. Residence of Carl Rhody and later Michael & Annette Cullen. Color highlighted. Carl Rhody wrote a series of local history books entitled “The Saga of Spirit Valley.” In one volume he discussed Michael Cullen’s war protest.

21076 “A history of early Goodrich, Wisconsin” by Martha Macek, Alvina Margetta and Lorene Lemke, c. 2000. Town of Goodrich was named after C.P. Goodrich, a boss in the Rib River Land Company.

21076A ibid p. 2 The Abbotsford & Northeastern Railroad connected Abbotsford, Athens and Goodrich.

21076B ibid p. 3. Dairy farms prospered

21076C ibid p. 4 Rib River Land Co. sold cutover land of Upham Lumber Co. of Medford

21076D ibid p. 5 Photo of Goodrich Hotel & General Store 1915 and 1913 map of Village of Goodrich

21077 11-30-2017 Obit. Lena Gumz 1929-2017

21078 11-30-2017 Obit. George Buksa 1930-2017

21079 10-15-2016 “History of the Supper Clubs of Taylor County” by Mary Schultz – cover

21079A ibid, the Plantation, fka Michael’s Mansion, Medford

21079B ibid P. 1935 The Plantation & Moose Clubhouse

21079C ibid Leffels’ Plantation

21079D ibid Florena Supper Club, Phil & Eleanor’s Steak House

21079E ibid Phil & Eleanor’s Steak House, Old Heidelberg Inn

21079F ibid Old Heidelberg Inn, the Lamplighter Club

21079G ibid Chaparral at Whittlesey

21079H ibid Wildwood Supper Club, fka The Farm House & map to location

21079I ibid High View Inn & Turtle Club

21079J ibid Black River Villa & Tom & Jerry’s at Gilman

21079K ibid Credits

21080 Obit 11-16-2017 Star News Isabelle Wilhelms, nee Thums

21080A Obit 11-16-2017 Star News Darrell Damm

21081 Fayette Shaw genealogy 12-1-2017 by R.P. Rusch

21082 2-19-1906 P. postcard “Grand Avenue looking west, Milwaukee.” View of Wisconsin (then Grand) Avenue & Milwaukee River with excursion boat advertising “Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort.” At right horizon – “Germania” building on Wells & Plankington Street

21082A ibid back

21083 W. 12-2017 Index – Obituary; index – Marriage, online at tcgensociety.

21084 W. 7-2017 Index – headstones in Taylor County

21085 W. 12-2017 Taylor Co. Genealogical Society membership 2017-2018

21085A ibid p. 2

21085B ibid p. 3

21086 P. c. 1910 “145. steamer passing through Grand Ave. Basscule Bridge, Milwaukee, Wis.” View to NE – City Hall on horizon. Waldheim (German for home in the woods) Furniture Store at right; its wall sign “Successful because we satisfy.”

21087 12-2-2017 cartoon – “Senate GOP meeting this morning.” New York Times. A spoof of the senate passing of purported tax reduction bill which the congressional budge office says will add one trillion dollars in national debt.

21088 12-2-2017 Cartoon “It’s Mueller time. Impeach Trump”

21089 P. c. 1940 “Riverside High School, Milwaukee, Wis.” Aka East Division. Everett A. Rusch graduated here. During WWII Ev was a member of its football team. Once the team, in full uniform, got on the Oakland Avenue streetcar and the rode to Racine’s Horlick High School, where they played football on a Friday evening before returning in full uniform and cleated shoes to Riverside where they showered and changed clothes.

21089A ibid back 7-15-1937 postcard to Belle Harden

21090 Membership card 2003 Robert P. Rusch State Bar of Wisconsin, where he was member form 1972-2012,

21090A ibid back

21091 Business card 2017, Nicolet National Bank – Rib Lake Branch

21092 Business card 2017, Lakewood Credit Union, 1003 Railroad Street, Rib Lake

21093 Business card 2017, Melinda A. Brahmer, dba Audiology & Better Hearing

21094 12-7-2017 “Knox Creek Heritage Center hosts Finnish Independence Celebration” Price County Review

Craig L. Johaneson collection

21095 Aerial photo 8-28-1938 Section 12 & part of Section 1, T33N-R2E, At least 6 operating farms shown; in 2017 none are operating and nearby former fields are forested. A red dot & arrow shows the 12-11-2017 location of the Rib Lake Historical Society Office & Archives. [The entire state of Wisconsin was aerial photographed in 1937-1938; photos can be searched online & downloaded & printed free of charge from the Robinson Library, UW-Madison.]

21096 L. 11-21-2017 Tammy Bladwin, US Senator, to Robert P. Rusch re wolves & endangered species act.

21096A ibid p. 2

21097 7-22-2000 Hope Hospice, Inc. 15 year anniversary & retirement party for its founding director Barbara Meyer and her husband, the Rev. John Meyer, pastor at St. John Lutheran Church and Hope Hospice founding alternative chaplain

21098 7-2000 “Hope Highlights” newsletter of Hope Hospice, Inc, 709 McComb Avenue, Village of Rib Lake

21098A ibid p. 2 Ed & Jewel Blomberg, caregivers for Hope Hospice patients living at Blomberg homestead

21098B ibid p. 3 Barbara Meyer comments including “…a better way to die.”

21098C ibid p. 4 Dean Niggemann comments

21098D ibid p. 5 Ed & Jewel Blomberg comments

21098E ibid p. 6 Kathy Bromann retirement

21098F ibid p. 7 Ron LaSalle new director

21098G ibid p. 8 Library additions

21098H ibid p. 9 Memorials – Martha Rusch et al

21098I ibid p. 10 “Rise in use of Hope Hospice Care”

21099 P. 12-13-2017 Grave metal cross of Joseph Steiner (4/23/1872-2/28/1889), maternal great-uncle of Robert P. Rusch

21099A ibid German language text on grave memorial cross – Ruhe Sanft – rest softly in peace, Joseph Steiner. “Geboven (born) 22 April 1872 in Schlesien” (in Province of Silesia, Kingdome of Prussia, Germany). “Gestorben (died) 24 Februar (February) 1889 Whittlesey”

21100 The story of the two Joseph Steiners by Robert P. Rusch 12-13-2017

21101 P. 12-13-2017 Next to Joseph Steiner memorial grave cross is red object and c. 1900 water hydrant purchased by RPR from owner in Budzow, Poland. Budzow prior to 1946 was the ancestral German village of Schoenwalde, from which the maternal relatives (i.e. Steiner & Gebauer) emigrated. The German text on the hydrant reads “Silberberg Wasser….” Following the forced expulsion of all German inhabitants of Schoenwalde in 1946, the new Polish inhabitants removed all public signs in German, including gravestones.

21102 Map c. 1999 Poland – SW portion showing Wroclaw & Budzow, Breslau & Schoenwalde respectively in German. Area shown was part of land taken from Germany after WWII and given to Poland by Potsdam Conference

21103 4-1982 “The Face & Faith of Poland,” Map of Poland by National Georgaphic. Red dot shows location of Schoenwalde, birthplace of Joseph Steiner, now Budzow.

21103A ibid p. 2. A history of Poland by Czeslaw Milosz.

21103B ibid Map c. 1000 Duchy of Poland

21103C ibid Map 1492 Poland & Lithuania

21103D ibid Map 1667 Poland

21103E ibid Map 1795 No Poland following three partitions of Poland by Austria, Prussia & Russia. Also shown is boundary of Poland prior to first partition in 1772.

21103F ibid Map Kingdom of Poland 1815

21103G ibid Map Poland 1918-1939

21103H ibid Map Poland 1982 (Poland following 1945 Potsdam Conference until the present, i.e. 2017)

21104 P. 12-26-1999 Martha Rusch nee Gebauer, sons L-R Everett, Robert, Gerald & Thomas. All four of her grandparents and both parents were from Schoenwalde, Silesia, Germany.

21105 8-19-2004 “Graduates of Taylor County Normal School to share memories of teaching tradition,” Star News. Martha Rusch was a 1926 graduate of the Taylor County Normal School

21105A ibid Photo c. 1920’s “Model School”

21105B ibid Photo c. 1926 Taylor County Normal School. At rear is Taylor County Jail & Sheriff’s residence. To right – not shown – was Taylor County Courthouse

21106 8-10-2009 Pedigree chart, Robert P. Rusch & maternal grandparents Franz Albert Gebauer (7/24/1824-8/2/1905) and August Steiner, II (7/4/1836-1/23/1903)

21107 c. 4-1-2000 “A tribute to Martha Rusch, nee Gebauer, by RPR, page 1, entire document scanned as #20787. Surrounding #20787 are other photos & documents regarding Martha H. Rusch, nee Gebauer

21108 P. 4-3-2000 Funeral of Martha Rusch at St. John Lutheran Church, Village of Rib Lake

21109 4-2000 Martha Rusch condolence card – from Ed & Karen Scholz – cover

21109A ibid text “She was such wonderful company, interested and informed, no matter what our conversation.

21110 4-2000 Martha Rusch condolence card from John & Aimee Hein – cover

21110A ibid text

21111 4-3-2000 “In Memoriam” Martha Hedwig Rusch 1908-2000 – cover

21111A ibid Bible verse & pallbearers, Everett, Gerald, Robert, Thomas, Michael Rusch & Scot Bromann

21112 W. c. 1-2000 Biographical comments of Martha Hedwig Rusch, nee Gebauer, recorded by Ann K. Rusch – cover

21112A ibid p. 2 “father, Wilhelm Gebauer. 12-22-1864 to 8-29-1932 farmer, on school board, chairman, Town of Chelsea. Mother Bertha Steiner 9-2-1867 to 10-15-1918

21112B ibid p. 3 siblings

21112C ibid p. 4 grandparents

21112D ibid p. 5

21112E ibid p. 6 Tante (Aunt) Matschinsky, nee Gebauer, was head nurse at Breslau, Germany, hospital. Michael Gallagher story

21112F ibid p. 7 Christmas tree lit with candles

21112G ibid p. 8 The Gebauer Whittlesey farm had 12 dairy cows

21113 1913 Plat map of part of Town of Chelsea farm of Wilhelm (William) Gebauer and father-in-law highlighted. Note “Lagher” Lake in Section 28. Its name is a corruption of Michael Gallagher’s last name. He and his wife Ann, nee Steiner, had a dairy farm just south of the lake. Mike was a fun-loving Irishman who often overslept; Anna once lit a fire under his bed when he ignored her pleas to get up.

21114 P. c. 1895 Farmstead in Town of Chelsea, of August Steiner and wife Pauline, nee Meissner (erroneously “Nee Straus” on photo text. W ½ SW ¼, 26-32N-1E.

21115 P. c. 1917 Twenty patients at Wisconsin State Sanatorium at Wales, Wis. Woman in white top row far left is probably Bertha Gebauer, nee Steiner, aka Mrs. William Gebauer

21115A ibid

21115B P. c. 1920 overgrown Catholic cemetery at Whittlesey and six gravestones and grave crosses. Stone at rear in center is for Bertha Gebauer, who died 10-15-1918.

21116 c. 1970 Envelope to Pauline Gebauer from Berlin, Germany, Bund der vertriebenen (Union of Expelees) Haus der estdeutschen Heimat (house of the east German homeland) “Deutschland bleibt unteilbar” (German remains indivisible.)

21117 4-2010 “Celebrating the Life of Paul J. Heinrichs, 9-18-1930 to 4-26-2010 – photo of Paul & cover

21117A ibid p. 2, photo of Paul Henrichs, cousin of Martha Rusch

21117B ibid p. 3 biography

21118 P. c. 1920 RLLC Sawmill complex. At right is railroad flatcars stacked high with logs. Previously unloaded logs lay on lake bottom, forced down by log pile at least 6 feet above lake surface. Photographer stands on Lakeshore Drive.

21119 P. c. 1920 view eastward from RLLC sawmill across logs floating in hot pond. Faintly seen pilings in lake bottom hold boom crossing lake to its eastern shore at cemetery; the entire lake surface is filled with saw logs north of the boom

21120 P. c. 1920 Photographer stands on tramway pointing camera eastward across McComb Ave. At right is machine shop with railroad spur shown beneath door. Steel railroad wheels are stored on side of shop. At center is west end of RLLC sawmill. At right is portion of tram railroad 14 feet above ground used to convey green lumber to dry yard. The west ends of over 20 tramcars are paralled ??? beneath roof of sorting & transfer chain building where green lumber is graded and sorted onto tram cars for hauling to dry yard where lumber will be piled and air dried. Two standard gauge railroad tracks switch together on McComb Ave; track then makes graceful bend allowing lumber from dry yard to be moved by horsepower to planing mill.

21121 open number ***not scanned

21122 Map c. 1909 plat, Town of Chelsea. Shows William Gebauer and father-in-law, Albert Steiner’s, farm.

21123 12-2017 Flyer Indoor Walking at Rib Lake School District

Ned and Ann Orthmann collection

21124 Abstract of Title, Lots 1 & 2, Block E, McComb’s Racing Park Addition - cover

21124A ibid p. 2 real estate description

21124B ibid p. 3 Map c. 1955 C.R. Claussen, Lot IA land to newly built STH 102 in old dry yard

21124C ibid p. 4 Patent 1-30-1875

21124D ibid p. 5 Warranty Deed 10-24-1874 to Louis Price

21124E ibid p. 6 Quit Claim Deed 2-1-1881 to George M. Curtis, Charles F. Curtis & Judson E. Carpenter, comprising the firm of Curtis Bros. & Co.

21124F ibid p. 7

21124G ibid p. 8 Warranty Deed 8-18-1892 Curtis Bros. an Iowa Corporation, to John J. Kennedy, who takes title to sawmill complex

21124H ibid p. 9 John J. Kennedy mortgages 4-31-1896

21124I ibid p. 10 John J. Kennedy mortgages

21124J ibid John J. Kennedy mortgages

21124K ibid Mortgage documents

21124L ibid partial mortgage satisfaction

21124M ibid partial mortgage satisfaction

21124N ibid partial mortgage satisfaction

21124O ibid J.J. Kennedy sells racing park land to A.C. McComb for $10,000 8-12-1897; McComb plats McCombs Racing Park Addition

21124P ibid 8-27-1915 A.C. & Ella G. McComb Warranty Deed to Joseph Brehm

21124Q ibid 2-25-1920 lease to William, John & Peter Bogumill

21124R ibid 8-1-1939 Order adjuding Peter Bogumill bankrupt (dba Bogumill’s Store)

21124S ibid 4-23-1945 Quit Claim Deed, Taylor Co. to Ben Kofler $13.60

21124T ibid 1895 Satisfaction of mortgage to J.J. Kennedy

21124U ibid

21124V ibid 6-25-1861 John Kennedy sells hemlock bark to Fayette Delos Shaw

21124W ibid Warranty Deed 6-29-1899 J.J. Kennedy to J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co.

21124X ibid Warranty Deed $200,000 J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co. to W.A. Osburn Lumber Co. 11-23-1901 and contract to sell $525,000.

21124Y ibid 12-8-1882 deed Curtis Bros to Wisconsin Central Railroad for Rib Lake railroad extension

21124Z ibid 1-1-1879 $9,900,000 bond mortgage. Wisconsin Central Railroad to Edwin Abbot, trustee

21124AA ibid Warranty Deed 8-26-1901 W.A. Osburn railway r.o.w. for proposed Rib Lake Branch extension eastward from Village of Rib Lake

21124BB ibid Quit Claim Deed 8-31-1901 Wisconsin Central Railway to W.A. Osburn Lumber Co re Rib Lake & Tomahawk Branch of railroad

21124CC ibid 4-16-1902 Regisnation of Edwin Abbot as Wisconsin Central trustee

21124DD ibid Quit Claim Deed 3-13-1918 Wisconsin, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway (Soo Line) to RLLC

21124EE ibid Deed 1-16-1925 RLLC to RLLC of Delaware

21124FF ibid 1-31-1936 Mortgage, RLLC of Delaware to United States Leather Co purchase money mortgage consideration of $950,000,000.

21124GG ibid Articles of Incorporation filed for RLLC of Delaware, A Delaware corporation filed with Wis. Secretary of State 1-12-1926

21124HH ibid Quit Claim Deed 1-10-1949 RLLC of Delaware to Rudolph (Rudy) Mueller, all rights to raise or maintain dam on Rib Lake

21124II ibid Quit Claim Deed 12-13-1956 Village of Rib Lake to Elmer & Hattie Taylor

21124JJ ibid Quit Claim Deed 5-21-1956 St. John’s Catholic Church to Elmer & Hattie Taylor

21124KK ibid Abstractor certificate Harold Gowey 2-1-1958

21124LL ibid Mortgage 6-15-1961 Taylor to State Bank of Medford

21124MM ibid 6-15-1961 Abstractor certificate

21124NN ibid

21124OO ibid 2-25-1920 Final decree re Joseph Brehm

21124PP ibid 12-29-1934 tax deed to Taylor Co

21124QQ ibid Quid Claim Deed Village of Rib Lake to Elmer & Hattie Taylor 12-13-1956

21124RR ibid Land contract Elmer & Hattie Taylor 10-11-1963 $10,000 to S. (Siegfried) F. Hesse, et ux

21124SS ibid Abstractor certificate 7-20-1973

21124TT ibid

21124UU ibid Warranty Deed 8-5-1975 S.F. Hesse to Ned & Ann Orthmann

21124VV ibid Mortgage 7-27-1943 to Medford Federal Savings and Loan

21124WW ibid Abstractor Certificate 8-8-1973 Harold Gowey

21125 P. pre-1909 “Rib Lake, Wis.” from chimney of tannery of McComb Avenue south of Fayette

21125A ibid postdated 2-6-1909 Rib Lake.

21126 P. c. 2010 Round barn northwest of Wausau, Marathon County, built in 1895

21127 P. Jay Punke in Perkinstown Tramp Snowshoe race. 2017 Taylor County fall-winter visitors guide

21127A ibid Rib Lake Snowshoe Adventure

21127B ibid P. new groomer, Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club

21128 Membership form-Taylor County Genealogical Society

21128A ibid p. 2 contact info, Dorothy Willmer, president

21129 T-shirt c. 2010 Westboro Town & Country Days

21130 P. 6-2016 RPR and daughters, L-R Robin Riggs & Kris Strobach

21131 P. 2-2016 RPR and grandchildren on snowshoes, L-R Trinity Riggs, Bekah Strobach, Brendan, Colton & Kirstin Riggs, Katie Strobach

21132 P. 3-2016 L-R RPR and son-in-law Scott Riggs enjoy a beer at bonfire. In rear “Schppen” at Rusch home, N8645 CTH C, Town of Rib Lake

21133 P. 8-2016 L-R Katie Strobach & cousins Kirstin & Trinity Riggs and sister Bekah Strobach

21134 P. 7-2016 Riggs siblings; L-R Colton, Trinity, Kirstin & Brendan at A&W Rootbeer stand

21135 P. 7-4-2016 Fireworks over Rib Lake

21136 P. 7-4-2016 Riggs family on Rib Lake dock, top L-R; Scott, Robin, Kirstin & Trinity; bottom L-R; Colton & Brendan

21137 P. Christmas 2016 at Waldheim, home of Robert & Ann Rusch, Town of Rib Lake, L-R Kirstin & Trinity Riggs, Robert Rusch, Katie & Ryan Strobach, Ann Rusch, Colton & Brendan Riggs

21138 P. Christmas 2016 Riggs children R-L Colton, Brendan, Trinity & Kirstin pile on top of Rebekah Strobach

21139 “A Guide to the Rib Lake Village Hall Historic Photo Display by Rib Lake Historical Society.” 2017 cover

21139A ibid, modified cover signed by Bob Rusch, Christmas 2017

21139B ibid, P. laying out McComb Ave, J.J. Kennedy, A.C. McComb, et al 1897

21139B-1 ibid, explanatory text

21139C ibid P. Aerial view of McComb Ave from tannery smokestack c. 1900

21139C-1 ibid, explanatory text

21139D ibid P. c. 1925 McComb Ave business district

21139D-1 ibid, explanatory text

21139E ibid Map 1913 Village of Rib lake from Standard Atlas of Taylor County

21139E-1 ibid, explanatory text

21139F ibid P. c. 1910 Badminton players

21139F-1 ibid, explanatory text

21139G ibid P. c. 1900 tanbark piles along West Street in Village of Rib Lake

21139G-1 ibid, explanatory text

21139H ibid P. c. 1906 “At the Landing” train at hot pond

21139H-1 ibid, explanatory text

21139I ibid P. c. 1925 “mill pond” and RLLC sawmill

21139I-1 ibid, explanatory text

21139J ibid P. c. 1925 RLLC K-955 tramway and mill complex

21139J-1 ibid, explanatory text

21139K ibid P. c. 1925 RLLC dry yard

21139K-1 ibid, explanatory text

21139L ibid P. c. 1919 hemlock dry yard, RLLC, National and Central Hotels

21139L-1 ibid, explanatory text

21139M ibid “World’s first debit card,” $10 “credit check” by J.J. Kennedy to Oliver Bailey for use at company store

21139M-1 ibid pan and ink sketches of Taylor County “The Log Cabin County” photo by Ellen Nibbelink “RLLC –early 1920’s” by unknown

21139N ibid 7-12-1899 $1.50 poll tax receipt

21139N-1 ibid 12-15-1928 RLLC of Delaward statement of deductions, RPR business card for law office

21139O ibid P. 2016, Scott Riggs, webmaster; Bob Rusch, manager; & Cindy Sommer, executive secretary and deputy manager

21140 Rib Lake Ice Dip

21140A ibid bottom

21140B ibid Photo of ice fishing on Rib Lake

21141 2-9-1881 “Wisconsin Central R. Co. v Taylor Co.” decision by Wisconsin Supreme Court holding that Taylor County may not collect real taxes on railroad lands, p. 2 (NB-remaining 27 pages not scanned)

21142 L. 1-15-2018 Tim Burns for Wisconsin Supreme Court

21142A ibid p. 2

21142B ibid logo

21143 Fall 2017 “Wisconsin Central Bridges over the Wisconsin River at Stevens Point. Soo Line Historical & Technical Society. Photo of railroad bridge built 1889 serving railroad to Taylor County

21143A ibid P. 1871 bridge over Wisconsin River allowed railroad to be built to Taylor County

21143B ibid P. 1889 bridge

21144 7-15-1976 “Rib Lake Report” bicentennial events to begin Friday. Star News. Photos of John & Jean Eckhoff, Mr. & Mrs. Ed Martin, Lucille Hanson, Gene Clifford, Howard Scott

21144A ibid P. Bicentennial committee members, Harold Zielke, Verl Bokath, Mrs. Nancy McNamar, Ed Prien, Mr. & Mrs. Ray Voemastek

21144B ibid P. Isabelle & Walter Wilhelms, John Dolezalek, Jr. , Nona Bieniek

21145 Ad 7-15-1976 Rib Lake Commercial & Civic Club Charcoal Chicken Dinner

21146 7-15-1976 “Rib Lake Area Bicentennial Celebration” 3 day program of events, Star News

21147 Ad-Dale & Nancy Strobach, dba Dale’s Supermarket, Star News 7-15-1976

21148 Strobach family reunion, 7-15-1946 Star News

21149 Rib Lake History 7-15-1976 by Star News, based on “Early History of Rib Lake” compiled in 1938 by the 10th grade class at Rib Lake, Elsie Beck (teacher). The 1976 history is not a mirror copy of the 1938 history.

21150 Rib Lake History 7-15-1976 annotated copy by Robert P. Rusch – keyed copy

21150A Annotations by Robert Rusch

21151 Robert Rusch, Manager, Rib Lake Historical Society business card 1-2018

21151A ibid back

21152 “Rib Lake Personals” Star News 7-15-1976 including Ray Becker, Barbara Radtke (aka Mrs. Gus Rusch), Leonard Seidel, Debra Sternhagen, Anna Bleck (formerly Anna Rusch), Robert Bleck, Elwood Bleck, Fritz Knop0, Ray McGuire, Lucille Hanson, Dorothy Hebda, Mary Banks

21153 7-15-1976 “End of Lumbering Era in ’48 Recalled” Star News P. of 2-22-1948 last log tree felling. History “…in 1880 Curtis & Carpenter acquired a large block of timber from Chelsea to Merrill…Kennedy began logging the timber for the owners…(Emphasis added)

21153A ibid P. 2-25-1948 Charles Seidel chops RLLC white pine to make “last log” as Diogenes Walty stands by tree.

21153B ibid P. 2-25-1948 visitors at the RLLC “last log” ceremony east lunch in Camp 28 cook shanty

21153C ibid P. 2-25-1948 visitors who had boarded the RLLC logging trail at Rib Lake stand in gondola car on way to Camp 28 and last log ceremony

21154 7-15-1976 Rib Lake Schools Annual Meeting Notice and statement re recent tragedy in the district. Signed Vernon Hanke, district clerk

21154A ibid Ad “Little Bohemia” bar, bowling and restaurant, “Hello from Jack & Rita Hatourell.”

21154B ibid Ad Warner Hardware, Village of Rib Lake

21155 P. c. 1910 “There are lots of pretty girls in Westboro, but none like you.”

21155A back postdated 9-31-1912 Joe Weber to Rose Kuchenbecker

21156 L. 1-1-2018 Rose Thums, Clerk of Court for Taylor County, and resident of Village of Rib Lake, to RPR re lawsuit rcords, Curtis Brothers v John J. Kennedy c. 1898.

21157 Map 1-25-2018 verified location of RLLC Camp 3 well site found in summer of 2013 by RPR and Dorothy Willner, nee Franz, who grew up on the site – then part of the Franz dairy farm. The well is in the NW SW SW Section 22-33N-3E, Town of Rib Lake. RPR drew data on 1913 plat map.

21158 P. 1980 Site of RLLC Camp 7, a clearing in the Taylor County forest. Remnant of metal washtub hangs on branch

21158A ibid , Karen Rusch looks NW over Camp 7 site; camp garbage dump to right of photo

21158B ibid, Karen Rusch inspects Camp 7 dump. Note old tin can hung on pole.

21159 2015 “They camp to work in the woods,” a pictorial history of Civilian Conservation Corp Company 1608, by Scott and James Henderson. Camp Tomahawk 5-84 was a CCC camp 30 miles NW of the Village of Rib Lake – cover

21159A ibid Map-location of CCC Camp Tomahawk 5-84

21159B ibid P. “Former site of Camp Tomahawk Company 1608, 1933-1942. This is an exceptionally complete and well-illustrated book providing an overview of CCC activities in Wisconsin’s cutover forests. The volume is in the archives of the Rib Lake Historical Society

21159C CCC logo

21160 2017 “The Lake Shore & Eastern, a logging railroad in North Central Wisconsin,” by John L. Berg - cover

21161 P. c. 12-2015 Jay Winkle, in 2015 owner of former RLLC dry kiln (c. 1930-1948) and American Sports Laminate, 630 McComb Ave.

21161A ibid P. at rear-south side of old dry kiln. In foreground is addition built c. 1970 by Jim Mann for light industry, including Ernie Streckhart.

21161B P. c. 12-2015 portion of east side of RLLC dry kil (c. 1930-1940). Original three 9’9”x11’ high doorways were on kiln’s east side to allow green lumber to be rolled into kiln using a tram car. The white doors and cement blocks fill the former doorway in 2015. In front of the former doorway is a 6’ wide concrete apron forming the top of a steam tunnel.

21161C ibid. close-up of former kiln doorway now sealed with cement blocks.

21161D P. ibid, opening into old steam tunnel. Note stubs of old railroad track 4’ 8.5” apart. Tracks were longer, allowing tram cars loaded with green lumber to be rolled into kiln for drying. These tracks were covered by concrete when kiln was remodeled in 1970 into truck loading dock.

21161E P. ibid, 6 metal pipes in the west side of steam tunnel were cut off and sold as scrap when Potaczek brothers removed all metal from abandoned RLLC mill complex c. 1952. When kiln operated, some pipes introduced steam into kiln while other pipes carried condensed water from steam back to the boilers. The detailed Sanborn Insurance map dated 12-1926 neither showed nor made any reference to a dry kiln in the RLLC mill complex. In 1936 the complex was sold to John Mylread, et al, who listed a dry kiln among purchased items. It is likely that the dry kiln was constructed in the late 1920’s prior to the Great Depression which severely cut lumber sales and precipitated the closure of the RLLC sawmill for over a year. [NB-photo negatives in box at Rib Lake Historical Society]

21162 P. 12-5-2015 driveway to home of Bob & Ann Rusch and archives of Rib Lake Historical Society, N8645 CTH C, in Town of Rib Lake.

21163 P. 1-2016 portio nof former bull chain wood superstructure at home of Ann & Bob Rusch. Until closure of the RLLC sawmill on 6-4-1948, the bull chain pulled logs from the hot pond to the second floor of the RLLC sawmill, where two giant band saws began the lumber-making process. When the bull chain was in use, a foot wide steel plate covered the timbers, allowing the logs to slide into the mill. No portion of the actual metal bull chain in 2018 is known to exist. The bull chain apparatus pictured here was underwater when the mill was scrapped c. 1952. In c. 1985 Vern Hanke pulled the apparatus from the alek as part of landscaping a new home that Vern and his wife, Estelle, built exactly on top of the RLLC sawmill site.

21163A ibid, P. close-up. The special chain shown is from the S.A. Konz mill site SW of the Village of Rib Lake

21163B ibid. Note bull chain apparatus included two layers of c. 8x12” timbers beneath log. When operating, the bull chain apparatus had a wheel at its hot pond end to turn the moving bull chain 180 degrees, that wheel, as of 1-26-2018, has apparently not been recovered.

21163C ibid P. top end of bull chain apparatus. Note wood is deteriorated since it was out of the lake water. The wood portions, which were under water, did not rot. Note vertical long bolt, which originally secured layers of supporting timbers

21164 P. RLLC fragment of 1916 mill building beam 14x14”

21164A ibid P. Note intricate joint saved to join two timbers

21165 P. 2015 portion of hemlock timber hewed by broad axe on two sides from Richard Thums’ farm in Town of Greenwood

21165A ibid P. cut marks left by broad axe

21166 P. 2015 RPR & Ryan Strobach with former RLLC Safe box, McCaskey Safe Register, probably used in yard office c. 1940. Names of employees on paper slips shown. Inside box are hinged metal pages once holding cards on which employees entered number of hours worked each day. After RLLC closed the box was recycled by the Rib Lake Bakery.

21167 P. 2-25-2016 A one-horse slusher box, 2 wooden handles at rear are missing, lawn ornament at Darlene & Alfred Unick home, N8050 CTH C, Town of Rib Lake

21168 P. 2-25-2016 Darlene (nee Larson) & Alfred Unick. The fur gloves are original 1910 bear skin mittens worn by teamsters

21168A ibid

21169 P. 3-25-2016 L-R Christa, Roger & son Robert Guenther Rusch. Robert’s grandfather was Robert Ludwig Rusch, for whom Robert Paul Rusch is named.

21169A P. ibid Robert Guenther Rusch

21169A-1 Rusch Relationship Chart 2-3-2018 showing the three Robert Rusch’s.

21169B P. ibi Christa Rusch, born in Bavaria

21169C P. ibid Mr. & Mrs. Roger & Christa Rusch

21170 P. 3-26-2016 sign-Fred Smith, fka Fred Schmidt, born & reared in Town of Spirit, Price County, WI, gallery & concrete park at Phillips, WI

21170A ibid, Roger Rusch with concrete figure made by Fred Smith

21170B ibid, concrete horses, mane made from glass bottles

21170C ibid, tombstone of Robert Ludwig Rusch (12/25/1892-7/12/1952)

21170D ibid, Three Robert Rusch persons; 1) Robert Ludwig Rusch tombstone; 2) Robert Paul Rusch (born 6/5/1942); 3) Robert Guenther Rusch at Mellen, Wis, Union Cemetery

21171 P. 4-7-2016 Taylor Co. forest road built over c. 1902 r.o.w. of RLLC-Wis. Central Railroad to Spirit Falls where it junctioned with William Bradley’s Tomahawk, Marinette & Western. The Wis. Central once ran tracks from Chelsea through Rib Lake and Tomahawk and determined it would not be profitable for the Wis. Central. View north from Bear Avenue

21172 P. 2-2016 Matt Robisch & Ryan Strobach walk old railroad r.o.w. to RLLC Camp 7 (1912-1914). View south from Bear Avenue

21172A ibid, IAT bridge to railroad r.o.w. Atop hill were buildings of RLLC Camp 7. Compare to photo taken more than 100 years earlier, $10974, showing railroad & utility shed topped with soil and full Camp 7 crew and buildings.

21172B ibid, Interpretive sign at RLLC Camp 7 & photo #10974. Metal bucket is a camp artifact.

21172C ibid, Matt Robisch on flat earth, once a foundation of RLLC Camp 7 building

21172D ibid, L-R; Ryan Strobach & Matt Robisch hold copper fragment, old “tin can”, found at site of RLLC Camp 7

21172E ibid, Camp 7 soil compaction contributed to keeping clearing shown in midst of regrown forest.

21172F ibid, Ryan Strobach stands in old RLLC Camp 7 root cellar

21173 P. 4-2016 On east side of old railroad r.o.w. at RLLC Camp 7 is another clearing in which Matt Robisch & Ryan Strobach stand wich in 1912-1914 were Camp 7 horse pasture and blacksmith shop.

21173A ibid L-R Matt Robisch & Ryan Stsrobach hold iron artifacts from RLLC Camp 7 blacksmith shop; u-shaped metal was front runner attached to wood frame former “go-devil,” on which end of log was chainted to raise log end above ground when log was skidded.

21173B ibid, Matt Robisch, a popular and highly-esteemed band director at Rib Lake High School, loves to explore RLLC sites

21173C ibid, Matt Robisch holding old metal sleigh runner, note protruding bolts which originally fastened wood to runner.

21173D ibid Matt Robisch holds old wood barrel hoop found at RLLC Camp 7

21174 P. 4-20-2016 L-R; Ryan Strobach & Matt Robisch point to fragment of railroad tie on r.ow. to RLLC Camp 28

21174A Map c. 1980 “Rib Lake Lumber Co. railroads and camps,” by Charles Offerman, dba Mink Capital Survey from data provided by RPR

21174B P. 4-20-2016 Matt Robisch at site of RLLC Camp 28, NW NW 32-33-4E. Dog on RLLC railroad “Mainline.” Robisch stands on site of spur and next ot embankments on which Camp 28 buildings stood.

21174C P. ibid, ruins of RLLC Camp 28 building, probably foreman’s office and residence

21174D P. ibid, L-R Matt Robisch & Ryan Strobach at RLLC Camp 28 hand dug well lined with cement pipe. Pipe about 30” in diameter, 3’ long with male and female ends so they would interlock as they were stacked. The same type of cement pipe lined the well of RLLC Camp 6 in the Rusch Preserve. Behind Matt & Ryan is gable roof of likely camp foreman office.

21174E P. ibid, RLLC Camp well, stagnant water fills pipe to within 7 feet of surface.

21175 Map 11-27-1983 Extant features RLLC Camp 28 drawn by R.P. Rusch. Foreman’s office & residence identified by Elmer Taylor

21176 Map 2013 by Ed Scheller; land ownership between site of RLLC Camps 26 and 28. bottom

21176A ibid top

21177 Map 1-1-2018 RLLC Camp26 & Camp 28 sites and Wilderness Fire Tower sites 1 & 2 by R.P. Rusch on US Quad of Wood Lake; RLLC Camp sites-red dot; Wilderness Fire Tower first site-brown dot; NE NE 24-33-3E, Taylor County; second site-orange dot, NW NW 19-33-4E, Lincoln County

21178 P. 1948 RLLC Camp 28, unidentified buiding. Note 4 log high embankment along RLLC logging railroad spur track. Partially shown in foreground is roof of gas-powered “speeder,” a utility vehicle operated on railroad track

21179 P. c. 1940 unidentified RLLC Camp, perhaps Camp 28, from files of Star News reporting Wiscosin history mobile’s presence in Medford, “Lumbering Era Theme of Historymobile”

21180 2013 W. Robert Mittenzwei, employee at RLLC Camp 28 in 1948; interview notes by R.P. Rusch. p. 1- he drove one team of 5 at Camp 28 skidding logs. He usually farmed, brought his own horse team and stayed at camp in winters Monday thru Friday.

21180A ibid p. 2 paid 82.5 cents per hour

21181 2017-2018 Rib Lake Middle School Girls basketball team; Kamryn Annala, Tiara kestler, Lauren Pelnis, Josie Scheithauer, Rebekah Strobach, Danielle Mann, Rhonnie Jo Scheithauer, Catherine Lennartz, Reagan Reinhardt, Tia Bube, Tonya Hempe, Nadia Czahor, Aryam Soto Sosa, Hailey Zickert, Jersey Taylor, Molly Heiser, Emily Rodman, managers Emma Winter & Johnathan Konrad, coaches Barbara Anderson and John Adams.

21182 1-27-2018 “Phillips Flurry” 5k and 10k snowshoe run-walk bib

21183 1-30-2018 Hinderbinder cross country ski race, Star News, left

21183A ibid center

21183B ibid, right, This is the first year the event was put on by Forest Springs; the Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club put it on for 35 previous years.

The following photos taken by R.P. Rusch in his Volume 26 stored at Rib Lake Historical Society:

21184 P. 5-4-2016 Concrete abutment; site of c. 1910 Albert Krause saw and veneer mill; SW SE 28-32-3E, Town of Greenwood

21185 P. 5-4-2016 Rib River Road, NW SW 28-32-3E, Town of Greenwood, Taylor County, WI

21186 P. 5-4-2016 Log cabin home built by E. Franz, emigrant from Village of Mocker, Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire; NE NE 20-32-3E, Town of Greenwood, Taylor County, WI

21187 P. 5-4-2016 Mark & Sara Matyka farm, W2306 Trout Avenue, Town of Rib Lake

21188 P. 5-4-2016 Mary & Glenn Harder, dba Organic Valley Farm, W3042 Trout Avenue, Town of Greenwood

21189 P. 5-4-2016 Classic wood gable barn, owner Gladys Matyka standing, W3008 Trout Avenue, Town of Greenwood

21190 P. 5-4-2016 St. Anns Cemetery and Church

21190A ibid

21191 P. 5-4-2016 Joseph Obenhoffer home, W4518 Brehm Avenue, former store and residence of Joseph Thums at “Brehm, Wisconsin.”

21192 P. 5-4-2016 Wellington Lake, view northward, faintly seen on north shore is 1883 Wisconsin Central railroad grade to Village of Rib Lake

21192A P. 5-4-2016 Wellington Lake beach and boat launch

21193 P. 5-4-2016 Pond built 1976 at home of Ann & Bob Rusch, N8645 CTH C, SE NE 13-33-3E

21193A ibid Ann Rusch garden

21193A-1 5-20-2016 ibid Ann Rusch garden with fresh wood chips

21193B ibid, residence of Ann & Bob Rusch, home of Lorraine Killion from 2002-2016

21193C 4-13-2006 “A streetcar named Killion,” Star News. A biography of Lorraine Killion, mother of Ann K. Rusch

21194 P. 5-4-2016 Ryan Strobach, music student at Ray Liebl & Darlene Nowak’s “Rib Lake Music Center” former John Taylor Hardware Store, Village of Rib Lake

21194A 1-31-2018 Receipt from Rib Lake Music Center for $5 for Ryan Strobach music lesson

21195 P. 5-4-2016 foundation of former RLLC horse barn which housed horses used on tramway and dry yard in Village of Rib Lake. In 2017 landowner Mark Schreiner removed foundation while landscaping his yard.

21195A P. 5-4-2016 Rib Lake High School, 1200 North Ave, Village of Rib Lake

21196 P. 5-18-2016 Nordic Ski & Snowshoe trail through second growth stand of hemlock, NW SE 12-33-3E

21197 4-22-1947 Report of conviction requiring mandatory revocation, in Village of Lake versus Robert Gums, defendant pled guilty to driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. Signed Edwin Thums, Justice of the Peace, page 1

21197A Order for issuance of occupational license 11-4-1947 authorizing Robert Gums to drive a V-8 Ford and a wrecker within 30 miles of Village of Rib Lake while employed by Bernard Cihasky of South Side Garage, signed Edwin Thums

21198 2-5-1894 Wis. Supreme Court, Schafer v Shaw et al. 87 Wis 185 p. 1. Schafer owned a farm on the Black River one mile south of Shaw’s tannery in Medford.

21198A ibid, p. 2, Schafer sued claiming Shaw…by operating the tannery had caused hair and other decomposed matter [from the hides] and noxious water to flow in the the Black River and upon Schafer’s farm, to his damages in the amount of $1,800. On the day set for trial, Shaw asked for a change of the place of trial (City of Medford) claiming “the prejudice of the people of Taylor County.” The trail court denied the motion for change of venue and Shaw appealed: and p. 3-The Supreme Court noted that Shaw had submitted a large number of sworn statements that A) many farmers favored a recovery by Schafer as established their own right to imaginary damages; B) that many citizens of Taylor Coutny were prejudiced against Shaw and their methods of doing business; C) that the City of Medford had issued bonds in aid of the construction of the tannery and $9000 of bonds remained unpaid; D) that many claimed the bonds were illegal and opposed payments. The Supreme Court upheld the decision of the trial court for two reasons; A) there was no evidence that the court abused its discretion; B) A Wisconsin statute provides that no such change shall be madfe…after one continuance had…Editors note; Each of the three Shaw Taylor County tanneries consumed thousands of hides annually. They arrived by railroad primarily from the American west, Argentine and Australis. At the tannery, huge amounts of hair and flesh were removed, all of which was dumped into the nearest waterway, e.g. the Black River at Medford, or from the Rib Lake tannery into Tannery Creek, which emptied into Rib Lake.

21199 2-1-1899 Wis. Supreme Court, Nelson v Shaw, 102 Wis. Reports 275. P. 1 “Appeal from judgment of the circuit court for Taylor County, John K. Parish, circuit judge, reversed.”

21199A p. 2 Nelson was hired by the Rib Lake Shaw tannery as a teamster to haul tanbark from Mud Lake eight miles to the tannery. The sleigh road descended a hill with about a 10% grade with a “ditch and dully” at the bottom.

21199B The teamster hauled bark down this hill 6 or 7 days totaling 11 to 13 loads. He felt conditions ont eh sleigh road had become so dangerous that he told Shaw’s foreman “he would quit work if Shaw did not fix the sleigh road. The foreman promised to have the road fixed before the teamster came out of the woods with another load. The next day the teamster was severely injuried when his sleigh crashed at the bottom of the hill; he sued Shaw for damages.

21199C At the close of the jury trial, the judge considered the evidence summarized here and more and dismissed the teamster’s case without letting the jury decide.

21199D The Supreme Court ordered a new trial noting…”the most serious question in this case is whether the plaintiff was not guilty of contributory negligence, as a matter of law, in driving downt he hill while sitting on the load with the soles of his boots even with the front end of the load, and hence with nothing for his feet to brace against. But upon the whole evidence we are constrained to hold that the question of contributory negligence was for the jury.”

21200 Wis. Supreme Court, Krueger v Lake Trading Co, 150 Wis. Reports 569. Headnotes

21200A p. 2 Plaintiff, Lake Trading Co., sued to recover the balance of the purchase price of hemlock railroad ties sold by oral contract to Krueger. The hemlock ties were delivered but later burned in a forest fire. The defendant claimed the ties should have been loaded onto the railroad cars in the Village of Rib Lake. The plaintiff claimed he properly delivered the ties by piling them along the RLLC logging railroad in the Town of Rib Lake. The Supreme Court decided that the jury’s decision in favor of the plaintiff was appropriate

21201 10-29-1912 Wis. Supreme Court, Graves v RLLC, 151 Wis. Reports 99. Summary-This is a suite for money damages brought by the estate of an employee of the RLLC against the RLLC. The deceased was a millwright, and at the time of his death he, with his associates, was attempting to shift a large and heavy leather belt from a line, i.e. spinning, belt to a dead pulley. The best furnished powere to run a slab machine, called a “hog,” and it was necessary to throw off this belt while in motion. The pulley and shaft on which it ran were near the ceiling of the room housing the hog in the sawmill. The pulley was 25” in diameter, and the belt was 18” wide. In order to shift the pulley, an employee had to climb a short ladder to a platform near the spnning shaft, take along a stick, and reach over the belt near the pulley, insert the lower end of the stick behind a cleat, and pull the stick toward himself and onto the pulley. The jury found that the man died when he came in contact with the moving belt and pulley. The death was the result of the failure of the RLLC to install a guard or fence to protect employees like him. The jury found the estate, i.e. widow and children, were entitled to $5000; the judge approved and granted a judgment against the RLLC

21201A On appeal the RLLC claimed the way the decedent died had not been proven since no one saw the death. The Supreme Court ruled that from the evidence “it would be impossible to argue at any conclusion except that he came in contact with the belt and pulley,” and therefore affirmed the judgment.

21202 11-16-1920 Schenning v Devere & Shoegel Lumber Co., Wis. Supreme Court 173 Wis. Reports 20. Facts-F.H. Schenning et al owned land in the Town of Greenwood, (see map 21202C) and arranged to have hemlock logs from the land sawed at either the Hintztown or Stumpville sawmill.He entered into a contract to sell the hemlock lumber to Devere & Schoegel and to haul the lumber 7 miles north into the Town of Rib Lake to the Rib Lake Lumber Co logging railroad tracks at “Stumps spur.” It was the duty of the buyer to make arrangments to have railroad cars sent to the Stumps spur.

21202A On 3-1-1916 the first car load of hemlock was shipped from Stumps Spur. On 3-20-1916 plaintiffs wrote “Defendant calling attention to the danger of fire as snow is off the ground. By 3-27-1916, all the lumber under the contract had been brough to the spur and piled along the tracks. On -4-24-1916 plaintiffs again wrote to defendant again warning of a growing forest fire danger…We are all exceedingly uneasy about our lumber. You know very well that lumber piled close to the railroad, where there is dry grass and leaves, is in immediate danger every time a locomotive moves by.” On 4-23-1916 the defendants wrote explaining they had unexpected problems selling the lumber and therefore have not had railroad cars sent to the spur. Defendants closed saying they would get back to the plaintiff..in a couple of days. On 5-8-1916 all the lumber at the spur burned. On 5-10-1916 the defendants, unaware of the fact the lumber had burned, wrote the plaintiffs directing them to send the lumber to Milwaukee.

21202B The plantiffs sued for the railroad of the hemlock thus destroyed in the sum of $2,233.18. The trial court directed a verdict in that amount. Defendants appealed claiming title to the lumber when destroyed was in the plaintiff and arguing that the plaintiff had acquiesced in “the delay as to leave the liability for the destruction” on the plaintiffs. The Supreme Court ruled the plaintiff reasonably waited for shipping orders in reliance upon the promise in defendant’s letter of 4-28-1916. The Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the trial court. [As of 2-2-2018 all evidence of the sawmill, logging railroad and stumps spur is gone.]

21202C Map 1913 Using Standard plat map to show location of plaintiff’s forest lands and sites of former Hintztown and Stumpville sawmills where the hemlock was sawed – all in the Town of Greenwood.

21203 Map 2-1936 “US Forest Service Fire Towers Medford Area 1936.” Legend

21203A ibid, Worcester, Price Co, to Village of Rib Lake. Note 360 degree circle quid around Ogema Tower, atop Timms Hill. To precisely locate site of forest fire, reports from at least two towers had to be received. The fire chief would draw on this map a line on the coordinates reported, where the coordinates crossed was the location of the fire.

21203B ibid, map shows Ogema fire tower atop Timms Hill and part of the circle quid of the Rindt Tower east of Westboro, plus the Towns of Rib Lake and Greenwood. Note “Copper Creek” shown from Village of Rib Lake to Emerson Lake. Emerson Lake was actually Long Lake and the creek near it was Klostermann. Much of the former railroad logging grade to RLLC Camp 10 is shown as a “truck road.” Original of this map in Taylor County Historical Society.

21204 Map 1-24-2018 by Jake Walcisak, Taylor County Forest 1906 Logging Railroad Grades and Slusher Ridges

21204A ibid, black and white

21204B W. “Unique Discovery Along Ice Age Trail,” by RPR. In 2017 hundred-year-old “slusher ridges” of ear up to 5 feet high mark where men building the RLLC logging railroad dumped spoils.

21204C ibid p. 2 directions to slusher ridges south of Wood Lake in Taylor County Forest

21205 P. c. 1900 Church of Christ building, SE corner of Pearl and Landall Ave. In 1973 the shrunken congregation donated the building to the Village of Rib Lake and dissolved for want of members. The Village razed the structure c. 1980. In 2018 the site is a vacant lot, 740 Pearl Street.

21205A ibid back, postcard 9-19-1907 Eliza writes photo is the “Christian Church” to Anna

21206 L. 2018 Ann & Bob Rusch Christmas letter and photo of each with progeny.

21207 L. 2-5-2018 Michael Meier, German Settlement History, Inc. to RPR. This wonderful organization is considering moving its mueum to near the Town of the Spirit town hall, when Mr. & Mrs. Meier move to Seattle to be nearer to family.

21207A ibid receipt

21207B ibid envelope

21208 Map 12-2-2017 Timms Hill trail by Todd Olson – cover

21208A ibid Points of Interest

21209 Map 2-7-2018 Steam hauler trench, NE NW Section 1 T33N R2E, allowing RLLC steam hauler and its ice road to avoid hill at NE corner of Ritchie Lake. Drawn by RPR. Spoil hills consistent with steam shovel excavation. Last use of steam hauler through trench was March of 1922.

21210 P. 7-24-1914 RLLC sawmill burns, “A total loss.” View southward to Rib Lake

From Greg Gierach collection

21211 L. 2-1-2018 Greg Gierach to RPR re donation

21211A ibid P. c. 1905 The Woods Crew at Donney, L.A. Berges Camp. 22 lumberjacks eating lunch, plates in their hands, in the woods. At rear is a crude wind break of balsam trees

21211B ibid back, postcard May 3, 1909 to Martha Kuszinski, Rib Lake, WI

21211C ibid P. c. 1905 teamster skidding logs in summer, lumberjack holds cant hook

21211D ibid P. hunters holding shotguns sitting on a log

21212 Map 1874 Wisconsin Central Railroad under construction. Track had been laid through Taylor Co as far north as Worcester, Price Co. “Charlestown, lka Whittlesey, Roxbury, lka Westboro, Malden, lka Prentice

21213 Map 1900 Wisconsin Central Railroad shows 1883 spur to Rib Lake

21214 Map 1896-1912 Lakeshore & Eastern Railraod from Phillips – west portion

21214A ibid East portion by John Berg

21215 2-8-2018 County looks at revamping logging contracts, Star News

21215A ibid In 2017 Taylor County forest generated $522,000 in gross revenue

21216 2-8-2018 Rib Lake Legacy Wall, Star News, Photo of Mike Wudi, Rib Lake High School Athletic Director

21217 Abstract of Title SE NW 11-33-2E (Harper Lake) – original store at RLHSoc archives, patent 4-15-1874 USA to Wisconsin Central Railway

21217A ibid 8-1-1893 WC to J.J. Kennedy land contract for sale of SE NW 11-33-2E and other lands “Grantee to pay taxes and $71,538.51 on or before 8-1-1903”

21217B ibid 3-16-1897 Warranty Deed WC to J.J. Kennedy SE NW 11-33-2E $200

21217C ibid 1-31-1899 Quit Claim Deed $1.00 J.J. Kennedy et ux to Fayette Shaw

21217D ibid 1-11-1929 tax ded to Taylor Co. SENE 11-33-2E and other lands for $20,959.12; 1-24-1933 $10.45 Quit Claim deed, Taylor Co. to Carl Gilbertson; NB- 5-29-1969 RPR bought same land for $28.00 and RPR valued it at $60,000 c. 2000.

21218 P. c. 1925 RLLC Camp 20, NE NE 26-32-4E, Town of Corning. Snow and ice encased camp buildings on both sides of RLLC logging railroad on which steam emitting locomotive stands at center, rear; for detailed map of Camp 20 layout see map #14319A by Mike Weckwerth dated 1-1-1990.

21219 Map 2-14-2018 Pine Line-Price-Taylor-Rail Trail – title page

21219A ibid p. 2

21220 Map 1-30-2014 Ice Age Trail from Tower Ave, Lincoln Co, west to STH 64, Taylor Co, cover & text, High Point Chapter Contact information

21220A ibid map, IAT, Pine Line & Timms Hill Trail by Joe Hebda

21221 Map 2017-18 Wisconsin Highways, Dept. of Transportation around Rib Lake, “Timms Hill, elevation 1951.5 feet, highest point in Wisconsin.”

21222 2-14-2018 Minutes of Rib Lake Village Board, p. 1

21222A ibid p. 2 disbursements

21222B ibid p. 3 receipts

21222C ibid p. 4 sewer accounts

21222D ibid p. 5 “local historian Robert Rusch was present..”

21222E ibid p. 6 signed Dawn Swenson, clerk

21223 L. 2-15-2018 Vox Pop “Invites people to join Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club,” by Lee “Butch” Clendenning

21223A ibid P. Elizabeth Wilson & Katie Strobach at Huey’s Hideaway.

21223B ibid “Community members will be invited into interview process for next Rib Lake School administrator.” $213,000,000 is currently diverted by the state budget from Wisconsin public schools to private voucher school that have little or no accountability. Despite Governor Walker’s promise not to enact major policy changes in budget bill, the diversion of public school monies to voucher schools was enacted in this Wisconsin state public with no public hearing.

21223C ibid Rib Lake Middle School Second quarter Honor roll. Eighth grade “high honors” recipients were Tia Bube, Kylee Goodrich, Courtney Guerrero, Samuel Gumz, William Hartke, Kyle Kennedy Jacob Matyka, Reagan Reinhart, Rebekah “Bekah” Strobach and Emma Winter.

21224 Map 2-17-2018 probable site of RLLC Camp 1 (1906) and confirmed site of RLLC Camp 18 and Natzke jobber Camps 1 and 2 by R.P. Rusch

21225 Lidar Map 2-18-2018 Rib Lake Historical Society LLC office and archives in SE NE 13-33-2E, highlighted with red dot; former residence of R.P. Rusch reads “N8643.” Office & archives is 1655 above sea level.

21225A ibid Donut Island Pond in NW SW 13-33-2E, Note closely spaced contour lines evidencing step glacial side hills; Forest Springs ski hill at 1849 feet is the highest natural point in Taylor County. All of Taylor County Lidar mapped see taylorcowi.. Strobach hill, adjacent to Rodney Strobach’s house at 2582 Bear Avenue, is 1758 feet in elevation.

21226 Map 2-19-2018 Wilderness Fire Tower site #1 NW NE 24-33-3E, Taylor County; #2 NE NW 19-33-4E Lincoln Co. by R.P. Rusch on 1949 US Quad

21227 Map 2-20-2018 East portion of former railroad r.o.w. to RLLC Camp 8 shown in red, SW 23-33-3E; using a metal detector, TomCurran located r.o.w. in 2017. Map by R.p. Rusch on 1949 Quad

21228 P. c. 1900 Hotel Winchester, Medford, Wis. Built in 1895 by lumbermen, including J.J. Kennedy, to advertise hemlock lumber

Mary A. Gebauer collection

21229 Obit. Mary Gebauer, 11-1895 Star News

21230 Memorial card, Mary Gebauer, age 81, Dallman Funeral Service, Rib Lake

21231 P. 9-1952 Mary Gebauer between two other people

21232 W. 1-16-1950 Note by Everett Rusch, in in USMC, to his aunt, Mary Gebauer

21233 11-26-1953 wedding invitation to Mary Gebauer from Nina Mae Webster, lka Mrs. Everett Rusch

21234 6-15-1958 Birth announcement form Everett & Nina Rusch re their son, Heinrich Bismarck Rusch

21235 P. 2-1968 Mary Gebauer writing; at rear-L-R Joan Rusch, Pauline Gebauer, unknown, Martha Rusch. Paulina and Martha were sisters of Mary Gebauer

21236 P. 3-1970 Mary Gebauer, with shovel, plants cedar (arbor vitae) trees in yard of ner niece, Gerald Rusch

21237 P. 8-1970 Mary Gbauer scrapes paint from door, at rear is Karen Rusch watching Bob Rusch on ladder at their $190 house, “Waldheim,” N8643 CTH C, Town of Rib Lake

21238 L. 3-26-1981 Martha Rusch nee Gebauer to Mary Gebauer

21238A ibid cover

21238B ibid, envelope, 5947 N. 66th Street, Milwaukee. Address of Martha Rusch, to Miss Mary Gebauer, 4480 North Hopkins, Milwaukee.

21239 4-8-1982 Envelope to Mary Gebauer form Karen & Robert Rusch

21239A ibid back

21239B ibid note written by Karen Rusch to “Aunt Mary”

21239C ibid

21239D ibid enclosed photo of Kristin Rusch at age 5

21239E ibid photo of Robin Rusch at age 7 birthday party

21240 P. 1975 L-R Karen Rusch holding daughter Robin, Aggie Tetzlaff, Mary Gebauer & Ernest “Ernie” Tetzlaff in Karen Rusch garen, N8643 CTH C. Mary Gebauer grew up on a farm and loved to work outside; she grubbed out roots and stumps to make this garden

21241 P. 12-1968 front room of Karen & Bob Rusch apartment in St. Louis where Bob was attending Concordia Lutheran Seminary

21242 P. c. 1968 Bob Rusch atop old street car

21242A ibid back, Bob’s note explaining photo shows him salvaging rose colored window

21243 P. c. 1970 L-R Herman Rusch & daughter-in-law Karen atop glacial knoll, NE SE 12-33-2E, Town of Rib Lake; view looks west across farm fields of former Frank Filas homestead; later in 1970 landowner Leo Kahne sold the N ½ SE ¼, Section 12 to Rusch brothers fro $2600

21243A **not scanned** Bob must take photo ibid P. 2018 same view as preceding photo

21243B ibid Map 10-30-2013 Rib Lake Ski Trails, location of preceding photo labeled as “Filas Field”

21244 P. 8-1972 Karen & Bob Rusch cycling

21244A ibid Bob Rusch and west side of Taylor County Courthouse

21244B ibid District Attorney Bob Rusch at office

21244C ibid District Attorney Bob Rusch hitting the law books; he served from 1972-1980 as DA, corporation counsel and family court commissioner. NB-at rear-a then state-of-the-art typewriter

21245 P. 7-1972 Bob Rusch at his home sign “Birch run” N8643 CTH C

21246 P. 8-1970 $190 home of Karen & Bob Rusch after its move one-half mile on CTH C (formerly owned by Marlin Walbeck). It was built by Phillip Bonde c. 1920 for John Schwartz, who lived there until c. 1960; Schwartz had obtained welfarm from Taylor County, which secured the debt by an “old age assistance lien.” When Schwartz died the county took title to the land, S ½ SE ¼, 12-33-2E, and then sold it to Marlin & Donna Walbeck, who built a modern residence there and sold the old Schwartz house for $190.

21246A ibid L-R Karen & Bob Rusch, Pauline & sister Mary Gebauer scrape paint from house; NB-house set on concrete slab, which extends to support a future addition

21246B ibid Bob & Karen Rusch scrape paint. Three 14x14” timbers evidence blocking used to raise house off of Robert Thums’ lowboy trailer, which moved house to this site. After truck pulled lowboy from site, house was lowered onto concrete slab.

21246C ibid Martha Rusch stands on mulch protecting grass seed for future lawn

21246D ibid Bob Rusch admires SW corner of his new house just primed with white paint

21246E ibid, view of “new” home of Bob & Karen Rusch eastward from CTH C. Young forest appropriately gave home the German name Waldheim, “home in the woods.”

21247 P. 3-1971 Franklin stove tries to heat Waldheim, home of Karen & Bob Rusch. Note drying socks over brick all, the darker bricks are from Langenberg brickyard south of Whittlesey. At far right is portion of cast iron door from kiln in which the bricks were fired.

21247A ibid, typed notes by Bob Rusch

21248 P. 3-1971 Karen Rusch with pile of firewood stacked in her home, Waldheim. At rear is view of steep ladder in the kitchen.

21248A ibid. Explanatory notes by Bob Rusch. Note comments about woods improvement work, also called timber stand improvement (TSI). Bob got invaluable TSI pointers from DNR forester Joe Donowski, who administered a state grant program paying landowners to do TSI after DNR forester marked the tress for cutting.

21249 P. 3-1971 Karen Rusch with improvised bird feeder. NB-young forest which had its start after the death of former landowner Stanley Dyrcz; his estate sold “stumpage,” the right to log any and all trees, to the Franz brothers.

21250 P. 7-1971 Karen & Bob Rusch’s cat inside of addition, under construction, at Waldheim.

21250A P. 8-1971 Karen & Bob Rusch proudly pose outside of addition beneath their name for the house, Waldheim. At this time Karen taught remedial reading for the Rib Lake School District.

21251 P. 7-1970 Bob Rusch opens his mailbox on CTH C. Note red pines, at rear, planted in 1961 by Anton Kurek and grandsons Ray, Greg “Doc” and Rollie Thums. In the 1930’s Mrs. Kurek attended an auction selling the land, SW NE, 18-33-3E, for farmer Peter Perusek. Without telling her husband, Mrs. Kurek bouth the land using “her own egg money.”

21252 P. 7-1970 Herman Rusch & grandson fish from his pier on “Spirit Point,” a peninsula jutting into Big Spirit Lake. Herman & family spent as much time as they could at this lake from 1957 to 1985, although winter use was severely limited because the Town of Spirit did not plow the road to their cabin.

21252A ibid Herman and daughter-in-law Joan, Mrs. Gerald Rusch, love the dock secured to a huge cedar log cut on the site.

21252B ibid Martha Rusch and cat enjoy the dock. On the left is Evinrude 7 hp outboard engine.

21252C ibid, Gerald Rusch & daughter Susan enjoy wooden rowboat built by Herman Rusch into which he hand turned over 4700 brass screws.

21252D ibid Everett Rusch & one of his 3 sons row on Big Spirit Lake. Across the lake at right was the site of Ole Peterson’s dance hall; he ferried dancers from STH 102 through the channel from Little Spirit Lake on a glassy wood launch with a powerful inboard engine. In the 1970’s ruins of this launch were on the shore next to the still-standing boat house next to the dance hall.

Chris Kulinski collection

21253 W. 1-2018 “Stanley Area Historical Society” newsletter, p. 1

21253A ibid p. 2 officers and directors

21253B ibid p. 3 comics

21253C ibid p. 4 North Western Lumber Co. display

21254 L. Chris Kulinski to Bob Rusch re Alfons Mitchell, Sr, name anglicized from Polish Mnichowicz

21254A L. 3-3-2018 Bob Rusch to Chris Kulinski re Alfons Mitchell, who desired to be president of incorporated Village of Westboro.

21254B

21255 Magazine, Winter 2017, Rodziny, The Journal of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, Chicago, IL

21255A ibid officers and mission statement

21255B “Following the partitions of Poland by the German, Austrian and Russian Empires in the late 18th Century, Poland ceased to exist for 123 years until the end of WWI.”

21255C ibid back page

21256 Book “Silberberg, Block in die Vergangenheit,” A history of the villages of Silberberg and Schoenwaldd in Polish and German - cover

21256A ibid Map c. 1880 Silberberg & Schoenwalde in Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (Schlesien) showing railroad which in all probability William (Wilhelm) Gebauer and his father-in-law August Steiner took on their immigration to America

21256B ibid inscription 11-13-2003 Bob & Ann Rusch to Chris Kulinski who visited Budzow, fka Schoenwalde, and learned of the existence of Gebauer relatives in Guetersloh, Germany

21256C ibid title page

21256D ibid p. 11 P. Frederick the Great, builder of the giant fortress of Donjon on hill above Silberberg.

21256E ibid P. c. 1900 Schoenwalde, ancestral village of Gebauer & Steiner families p. 110. Schoenwalde was founded in the first half of the 13th century

21256F ibid p. 111

21256G ibid p. 112

21256H ibid p. 113

21256I ibid Map c. 1980 bilingual in Polish & German, Silberberg (Srebrna Gora) and former Schoewalde (Budzow), and former county seat of Frankenstein (Zabkowice Slask). NB-a copy of this book in the library & archives of the Rib Lake Historical Society, LLC

Photos taken 1990 by Herman Arthur Rusch

21257 P. 1990 Herman Rusch and wife Martha, nee Gebauer, at retirement home, N8458 CTH C, Town of Rib Lake.

21257A ibid 1990 Herman Rusch & granddaughter Robin, lka Mrs. Scott Riggs

21257B ibid 1990 L-R Robin Rusch, grandmother Martha Rusch, rear-former Joseph Kulka farm field, SW SW 18-33-3E

21257C ibid 1990 Martha Rusch shows off a red strawberry; NB-old scalding kettle converted into a flower pot.

21258 P. 1990 L-R Herman & Martha Rusch and grandson Michael at pick-your-own strawberry farm north of Tomahawk.

21259 P. 1990 Herman Rusch, age 87, split and stacked firewood in 8 rows. Rear-CTH C driveway to neighbors Kate & Scot Bromann. NB-elevated timbers held pile of pole wood cut & piled there by Bob Rusch using Bob’s International H tractor and saw rig. Neighbors formed a Saturday firewood bee where pole wood was cut to 18” length. NB-wood chute used to “throw” firewood into basement.

21259A ibid A work in progress. Herman Rusch used his yellow chainsaw to saw firewood to length; pole wood placed in saw buck on right. Herman used the red-handled axe and sledge to split wood.

21259B ibid, old age robbed Heramn Rusch of his ability to snap the cord of an internal combustion gas chainsaw; solution – he bought an electric saw with a long extension cord. Herman last cut with this saw in October of 1985, 5 months before his death.

21260 P. 1990 The Herman & Martha Rusch lawn gave way to field; stakes mark evergreen seedlings planted by their son Bob

21260A ibid Martha Rusch uses bucket to water her raised bed garden. View looks north to Anton Kurek farm.

21261 P. 1990 Martha Rusch stands between son Bob’s International H tractor. Note old truck box on rear wheels and racing gear wagon loaded with pole wood cut as part of ongoing timber stand improvement on Bob’s lands begun in 1970. Shed houses portion of 1916-1948 RLLC bull chain device used to pull saw logs into Rib Lake mill from Rib Lake.

21261A P. 1990 Bob Rusch holds one of two trusty Stihl chainsaws he swears by. He will split white birch firewood by hand and load it into his 1976 Chevrolet pickup covered with eye catching paint. The pickup cost $2700 brand new in 1976.

21261B ibid Bob Rusch “woods truck” featured polka dots

21262 P. 1990 Martha Rusch shows her Whittlesey farm background; she dug weeds with a fork around rhubarb; note her neatly hilled potatoes; all this and it is not her garden, rather Karen and Bob Rusch’s.

21262A ibid. A heavily-loaded apple tree next to giant swing set on Bob’s lawn

RPR collection

21263 3-1-2018 Star News “Getting a Life; County grants variance to Forest Springs for chair lift to replace ski hill tow rope.”

21263A ibid P. Del Kroecker, Arlen Albrecht and Patty Smith.

John Bates collection

21264 2018 “Our Living Ancestors. The history and ecology of old growth forests in Wisconsin and where to find them.” By John Bates - cover

21264A ibid, p. 260 Photo of R.P. Rusch in Gerstberger Pines

21264B ibid, p. 261 “Gerstberger Pines County Park,” in Town of Rib Lake

21265 3-28-2018 Note by John Bates to R.P. Rusch

21265A ibid Original artwork by Mary Burns; “Hemlock Lake”

21265B ibid explanation

RPR Collection

21266 P. c. 1910 enhanced photo. RLLC Shaw locomotive #1 at outlet of Wood Lake (SE NW 23-33-3E) with crew and steam jammer loading railroad flat car with logs which fil Wood Lake. Note pile of peeled hemlock logs on right. As part of RLLC Camp 3 (1906-1908) and Camp 4 (1906-1914) operations logs had been sleigh hauled to frozen lake and off-loaded there to await spring breakup. Log storage on or in lake negated the risk of logs being destsroyed by forest fire and hid them from eyes of tax assessors, who would surely assess them for personal property tax if stored in Rib Lake.

In 2018 the Ice Age National Scenic Trail circles Wood Lake on its thousand mile cross Wisconsin route; this trail is located where railroad tracks are shown in this photo.

21267 3-2018 “Northwoods Historian, RLLC Camp 15 info is needed.”

21268 c. 1970 lead pencil “The Milwaukee Road” “Be safe, be sure. Prevent injuries – watch your step.” Logo. The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & pacific Railroad had a spur running northwest of Merrill and west of the Wisconsin River and east of the Town of Corning. It served as a logging railroad feeding Merrill sawmill.

21268A c. 1-1-2000 Map Railroads west of Wisconsin River in Lincoln County, including Milwaukee Road logging line from Merrill to Town of Harding & Rib Lake Lumber Co. logging lines throughout Town of Corning by unknown maker. c. 1/1/2000

21269 2-2018 Historic St. Anns newsletter. Photo of church built in 1888

21269A ibid p. 2 Elk River String Band

21269B ibid p. 3 2018 Schedule of Events

21269C ibid p. 4

21270 2-14-2018 “River Bent Trail Garners Support of Native Author, Wellness Specialist,” Merrill Foto News

21270A ibid p. 2

21271 3-12-2018 “Rhinelander Brewing Co. brings brand back to its namesake city.” The Business News

21271A ibid p. 2

21272 3-22-2018 “Board Picks Cardey. Rick Carkey picked to replace Lori Manion as Rib Lake School chief.” Star News. Photo of Rick Cardey.

21272A ibid p. 2

21272B P. Governor Scott Walker visits Rib Lake School

21273 3-1-2018 “Getting a lift; county grants variance to Forest Springs for chair lift to replace ski hill tow rope.” Star News

21273A ibid p. 2

21274 3-8-2018 Vox pop “What happened to silence Repubicans on morality, debt?” Star News by Russ Decker

21275 3-10 through 3-25-2018 Notes of Kris Strobach “Watching” Bob Rusch (her dad) home including red squirrel hunting

21275A ibid p. 2

21276 2018 “Fingertip Directory 2018” the Star News - cover

21276A ibid Roger & Carrie Mann dba Mann’s Southside Auto Repair

21276B ibid Rib Lake School District

21276C ibid Chelsea Conservation Club

21276D ibid Steve & Cindy Hanke dba Little Bohemia

21276E ibid Steve Weise dba Steven’s Masonry & Concrete

21276F ibid, Our Lady of Perpetual Help

21276G ibid Sue & Jerry Clark dba Jerry’s Computer

21276H ibid Cindy & Keith Hanke dba C&G Mini Mart

21276I ibid Dean Hussong, DDS

21276J ibid, Gary Krueger, DDS

21276K ibid Bird’s Nest Tavern

21276L ibid Camp 28 Bar, Restaurant & Motel

21276M ibid Pot Belly Pub & Grill, Whittlesey

21276N ibid Rail Trail Café, Ogema

21276O ibid Kathy & Lyle Blomberg, dba Hill of Beans Restaurant, Coffee Shop, Boutique Gift Store, Timms Hill

21276P ibid Rib Lake Health Services aka Aspirus Rib Lake Clinic

21276Q ibid Sara Matyka, dba Northwoods Photography

21276R ibid Mike Lucia dba Silver Creek Services, Westboro

21276S ibid, Mahner’s Welding & Repair, Chelsea

21276T ibid Jill Behrens dba Break-Away Get-Aways

21276U ibid Mike Lucia dba Silver Creek Services, Westboro

21277 P. 3-2018 Elliot Severson

21278 2017 Travel Wisconsin – Official biking guide – cover

21278A ibid Map 2017, NW Wisconsin bike trails including Pine Line-Prentice to Medford

21278B ibid text, Pine Line Trail

21279 2018 “The Indian Chief & the President.” In 1852 a 93-year-old Ojibwe chief traveled to Washington to stop the president from forcing his people off their [Wisconsin] ancestral lands. By Nicolas Brulliard. “National Parks” magazine-cover

21279A ibid p. 1 Photo of Chief Buffalo & US President Millard Fillmore

21279B ibid p. 2 In the 1854 treaty the Ojibwe retained hunting & fishing rights in perpetuity in north Wisconsin, including Taylor County

21280 L. 3-8-2018 Roger, Chrisa & Robert Rusch to cousin Robert P. Rusch

21280A L. Roger, Christa & Robert Rusch to cousin Robert P. Rusch

21280B ibid envelope

21281 2018 print; Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway by Everett A. Rusch “Sleeping car” Ishpeming. Railroad operated in 1900’s along south shore of Lake Superior through Douglas, Bayfield, Ashland & Iron County and eastward to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Car sold in 1944 to private party, who used it as a recreational car until donating it to the Mid-Continent Railroad Museum near Reedsburg, WI where it was restored. Ev Rusch is a retired electrical engineer and graduate of the Milwaukee School of Engineering who resides in the Town of Rib Lake

21281A ibid signature of Everett Rusch 3-2018

21282 2017 “A Relief Job at Owen. An operator gets more than he bargained for at busy station.” By Gib Wiedenhoeft, “The Soo” magazine.

21282A ibid p. 1 P. Owen, WI, depot

21282B ibid p. 2 P. 5-16-1956 passenger train

21282C ibid p. 3 Map Owen, WI

21282D ibid p. 4 1970 publicity photo

21282E ibid p. 5 c. 1960 freight train; Owen is 3 miles south of Taylor County and on the former Soo Line track between Spencer and the Twin Cities.

21283 Abstract of Title, SW NE 11-33-2E “Harper Lake” title page

21283A ibid p. 2 patent, 4-15-1824 to Wisconsin Central Railroad Co, fka Winnebago & Superior and-or Portage & Superior

21283B ibid p. 3 Mortgage by Charles Colby, presidence of Wisconsin Central Railroad Co. He gave his name to Colby, WI. This conveys all land acquired by WC by Act of Congress on 5-5-1864

21283C ibid 9-27-1893 Court appoints trustees for Wisconsin Central Railroad in bankruptcy petition “Edwin Abbott et al v Wis. Central Railroad Co.

21283D ibid 7-13-1899 Warranty Deed, grantor Wis. Central Railroad Co. to grantee Wis. Central Railway Co.

21283E ibid 11-12-1874 Agreement for sale of all pine timber to James Ritchie, John Duncan & William S. Taylor, dba Duncan, Ritchie & Taylor. Grantees owned first sawmill in Westboro. Ritchie, aka Reich Lake in Section 1, T33N-R2E, Town of Rib Lake is named for James Ritchie.

21283F ibid 3-6-1908 US Leather Co & its subsidiary RLLC file quiet title lawsuit against John J. Kennedy & owners of W.A. Osburn Lumber Co

21283G ibid 6-23-1911 Articles of Incorporation of US Leather Co filed in Wisconsin USLC was originally incorporated on 2-25-1893 in New Jersey & purchased the Rib Lake tannery from Fayette Delos Shaw

21283H 5-6-1902 W.A. Osburn Lumber Co changes it sname to Rib Lake Lumber Co [This is the first time the name of RLLC is used. J.J. Kennedy did not use it.]

21283I ibid 5-11-1954 Albert Knop & wife Helen, nee Schmidt, mortgage property to “Mike & Elsie Schmidt” aka Ma & Pa Schmidt. They operated a dairy farm atop the hill north of South Harper Lake & long operated a bar & dance hall on the North Harper Lake calledthe Harper Lake Resort. Across the lake from the resort they hand dug a trench for a toboggan slide.

21283J ibid 3-1-1968 Deed, Albert & Helen Knop to RPR & wife Karen Mae Rusch; the 40 acres were sold for $1200 and this marked the first time R.P. Rusch, born in Milwaukee, owned land.

21283K ibid 2-9-1971 Order & Approval by Wis. Dept. of Natural Resources of application of RPR to enter the property into the Forest Crop Law. This law allowed owners of at least 40 acres of land that were forested or had “a reasonable assurance that a stand of merchantable timber would be developed on said lands within a reasonable time and that the same are now held permanently for the growing of timber…” to pay annually real estate of $4 for 50 years. In addition, landowner must practice forestry on the land and pay a 10% severance tax when the landowner sold forest products from the land.

21283K-2 Annotations by RPR re Forest Crop Law. The Forest Crop Law was enacted by the State c. 1924 and was a monumental achievement encouraging good forestry. FXL lands were open to the public for hunting and recreation. About 2000 the FCL was replaced by the Managed Forest Law, which authorized 50 or 25 years of enrollment and allowed the landowner to deny the public access to the land provided he pay a higher annual tax. The fixed $4 per forty per year real estate tax was replaced by a higher sum subject to periodic increases. RPR 4-3-2018

21283L ibid Taylor Co Shoreland Zoning Ordinance adopted 1-25-1971; Taylor Co Sanitary Code; Taylor Co. Subdivision Control Ordinance adopted 4-17-1968. The texts of these ordinanances are reproduced as the final pages concluding 20283. Annotated by R.P. Rusch on 4-4-2018 spurred by a nationwide environmental awakening and the progressive leadership of Governor Gaylord Nelson, the State of Wisconsin bylaws required all Wisconsin counties to adopt and enforce shoreland zoning ordinances at least as strict as a state model in all unincorporated areas. Taylor Co adopted the state mandated shoreland zoning loaw and hired Earl Kilby as county zoning administrator. As of 4-4-2018 Taylor County has adopted no other zoning nor has any township enacted zoning except Little Black. Little Black enacted zoning ordinances in an effort to prevent the establishment of a dairy farm holding thousands of cattle. On 2-15-2018 Taylor Co. Circuit Court Judge Ann Knox-Bauer ruled that Little Black’s ordinance was void and unenforceable since it had not been properly enacted. See doc. #20284, a copy of such decision and order.

21283L-2 ibid Sanitary code

21283L-3 ibid waste disposal

21283L-4 ibid

21283L-5 ibid

21283L-6 ibid subdivision control ordinance

21283L-7 ibid p. 2

21283L-8 ibid p. 3

21283M ibid Certificate of Abstractor Harold Gowey

21284 Decision & Order of Taylor Co. Circuit Court Jduge Ann Knox-Bauer re legality of zoning ordinance enacted by Town of Little Black

21285 P. 1905 Stranded hemlock logs on hydroelectric dam on Black River at Greenwood (Clark Co). Large quantities of hemlock logs from Taylor Co were driven down the Black River to mills at Onalaska. Note logs shown in foreground are peeled hemlock; the bark streipped at the citting site and used in tanneries to produce tannic acid

21285A ibid back of postcard to George Peterson, Withee, WI

21286 2018 “The HardLuck Story of theCazenovia & Southern Railroad,” by Peter Shralie, “Wisconsin Magazine of history.” cover

21286A ibid p. 1

21286B ibid p. 2

21286C ibid p. 3

21286D ibid p. 4

21286E ibid p. 5

21286F ibid p.6

21286G ibid p. 7

21286H ibid p. 8

21287 4-12-1884 Steamship S.S. Nordland passenger list at Ellis Island, NewYork, upon arrival from Antwerp, Belgium list “Frz” [Franz] Gebauer age 17 [Annotation 4-25-2018 by RPR: This document was given to me by Lila Ross ofColorado. Currently I have no evidence this Franz Gebauer was a relative ofmy mother, Martha H. Rusch, nee Gebauer, nor any Gebauers currently residing in Taylor Co.

21287A ibid entry “Franz Gebauer age 17” probably not a brother of William Gebauer

21288 L. 10-5-2004 RPR to Lila Gebauer (lka Ross)

21288A 9-7-2004 Memo “How did one Gebauer end up in Wisconsin; a brief history of William Gebauer and his daughter Martha Hedwig Gebauer.” By R.P. Rusch, son of Martha

21288B ibid p. 2

21288C ibid p. 3

21288D ibid p. 4

21288E ibid p. 5

21288F ibid p. 6

21288G ibid p. 7

21288H ibid p. 8

21288I ibid p. 9

21288J ibid p. 10

21288K ibid p. 11

21288L ibid p. 12

Collection of Lila Gebauer

21289 P. c. 1900 Homestead of Franz Gebauer, Jr. on short grass prairie south of Akron, Colorado. Franz with his parents and siblings emigrated from Schoenwalde, Province of Schlesien (Silesia), Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire in 1885

21290 Map 1871-1914 Kingdom of Prussia in German Empire, red dot shows site of Schoenwalde, ancestral Gebauer village.

21291 6-1900 US census; Washington County, Colorado, part 1. William (Wilhelm) Gebauer, white, male, head of household

21291A ibid part 2

21291B

21291C

21292 L. 10-15-1985 Gebauer immigration by John B. & Betty J. Gebauer

21292A ibid highlighted annotations by RPR 4-4-2018

21292B “Genealogy of Franz Gebauer, Sr. family” aka Franz Albert Gebauer (1824-1909) by Betty & John B. Gebauer on 8-5-1984 revised on 10-15-1985

21293 Map 4-3-2018 Gebauer homestead south of Akron, Colorado, by RPR using modern platmap. #2 is homestead of William Gebauer, SW ¼, Section 5, Town 1 North, Range 53 West. After marrying Bertha Steiner in Whittlesey on 1-11-1897 he brought her to his homestead where 3 children were born, Paul (1899), Pauline (1902) and Mary (1904), plus two other who died as infants and were buried in the garden which Bertha could see from the prairie home.

21294 P. c. 1931 William Gebauer

21294A Biography of William (Wilhelm) Gebauer, born in Schoenwalde, Silesia, Germany on 12-20-1894, emigrated to US on 5-28-1885 with brother Herman, moved to the short grass prairie near Akron, Colorado on 11-12-1887. With his brother Herman Gebauer and brother-in-law August Wolf, became a US citizen on 6-25-1894. He married Bertha Steiner, who was also born in Schoenwalde, in Whittlesey, Wisconsin, on 1-11-1897. She died in 1918, he remarried. As a single parent, he saw to it that daughters Pauline, Mary and Martha graduated from Medford High School, which was five miles from his Whittlesey farm. William married for a second time on 9-8-1923 to Mary Wayman. Hesuffered from heart problems and died at the Marshfield, WI, hospital on 8-29-1932. He was burned at the Holy Rosary Catholic Cemetery, where his daughters Pauline and Mary were intured next to him. Daughter Martha, Mrs. Herman Rusch, always spoke with great admiration and affection of her father. RPR 4-6-2018

21295 4-5-2018 Alfred “Al” Unick 1946-2018 Obituary, Star News

21296 4-5-2018 “Sharing the History of theCity Gravel Pit,” by Dr. Heldegard Kuse, Dr. Loretta Kuse. Star news. With photo of 1923 teams of horses, showing slushers in upside-down (empty) position

21296A Ibid photo of slusher

21297 4-4-1968 Railroad depots at Whittlesey, Chelsea, Westboro & Ogema are closed by Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad, “Soo Line.” A traveling agent working under Medford depot agent Charles Haffermann will serve those villages. Star News 4-5-2018

21297A P. c. 1965 Soo Line at outhouse next to Chelsea, WI depot by James “Jim” Scott

21298 4-2018 “Jerry Petrowski 2018 Legislative update,” cover. He represents Taylor County in the Wisconsin State Senate

21298A ibid p. 2

21298B ibid p. 3

21298C ibid p. 4

21299 W. Town of Rib Lake, Annual Report for 2017 by Town Board, Joseph “Joe” Knorn, chair, Ben Kauer and Tom Wendt, supervisors.

21299A ibid p. 2

21299B ibid p. 3

21300 11-8-1874 Agreement between Wisconsin Central Railroad Co. (party of the first part, or #1) and John Duncan, James Ritchie, William S. Taylor (party of the second part, or #2) authorizing #2 to cut all pine timber on specific lands in Taylor Co and requiring #2 to promptly built and operate a sawmill to saw such pine at Westboro, WI p. 1, RPR has underlined and annotated portions

21300A ibid p. 2

21300B ibid p. 3

21300C ibid p. 4 signed Charles S. Solby, John Duncan, James Ritchie, William S. Taylor

21300D ibid signature of James Ritchie

21301 4-2018 Spoon & fork made from Town of Rib Lake wood by James “Jim” Dillion, dba Spirit Hill Woodwork

Collection of Jim Scott of Medford

21302 1972 Dedication booklet, new church, St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Rib Lake, WI – cover

21302A 6-24 nativity of St. John the Baptist. Biography

21302B P. Pope Paul VI

21302C P. Bishop George Hammes

21302D P. Fr. Richard Girt

21302E 1972 also marks diamond jubilee of congregation

20302F P. First school 1894-1971 and Soo Line Depot in Village of Rib Lake; Photo of 1914 RLLC fire

21302G “Mr. Kennedy donated lumber to build in Rib Lake with the stipulation that they all have the name of John.” [I believe the claim that the churches must be named John is without any basis in fact. The first church built in Rib lake was the “United Methodist.” Niether it nor the Church of Chirist was named John. RPR 4-12-2017]

21302H P. c. 1894 The Rib Lake Catholic Church was built that year. I

21302I First services held in the Blue School house, located south of Ward School and Church Street and north of the Village of Rib Lake

21302J St. Ann Catholic Church of the Town of Greenwood, permanently closed 8-15-1963

21302K First “Permanent pastor” was Father Gengler

21302L List of priests 1902-1972

21302M ibid

21302N c. 1948 Rib Lake creamery [where butter was made] added a cheese wrapping unit. 1971 ground breaking for new Rib Lake Catholic Church.

21302O P. new church construction in 1971

21302P Parish has 258 families

21302Q Photos of priests

21303 P. C. 1930 Methodist Church, Rib Lake, WI

21304 3-13-2018 Minutes of Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club, Inc.

21305 W. 5-1-2009 Rib Lake School District Hall of Fame Induction booklet for Ms. Shirley Martin & Dr. Walter Gojmerac – cover and photos

21305A ibid biographies p. 2

21305B ibid

21306 P. Shirley Martin 1-11-1979 Amateur Athletic Union-basketball photo

21307 W. 4-2018 James Edming, Wisconsin State Representative photo and 2018 legislative update p. 1

21307A ibid p. 2

21307B ibid p. 3

21307C ibid p. 4

21308 4-28-2018 flyer, Taylor County Lions Maple Syrup Fest, Medford, WI cover

21308A ibid p. 2

21309 P. 5-9-1996 L-R Martha Rusch, nee Gebauer, Mary Becker, nee Probst, Taste & compare pickles. They brought lunch for volunteers planting pine on NE SE 12-33-2E. Note seedlines planted on hill on former Frank Filas farm. In 2018 it hosts IAT & “Forest History” sign & Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe trail runs on top of hill

21309A ibid Map of same location using 3-21-2014 Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Trail map

21310 W. 1-13-2018 Wikipedia-Town of Rib Lake, p. 1

21310A ibid p. 2 link to US Govt. survey notes

21310B ibid p. 3

21311 w. 2-21-2018 Wikipedia Village of Rib Lake, p. 1

21311A ibid p. 2 census

21311B ibid p. 3 links

21311C ibid p. 4

21312 W. 6-22-2017 thru 4-13-2018 entries in Trail Register at Kuehling kiosk on Rustic Road #1 at Rusch Preserve – cover

21312A ibid p. 2 entry #1, George Sandul, Appalachian Trail through hiker and builder of trail register box holding this document

21312B ibid p. 2 10 entries, Butch Clendenning, Bekah Strobach, Karl & Tricia Kissinger, Scot Bromann, Reiman & Hagney families, Joe Hebda, Jerry Brecht, Ken Holmes

21312C ibid p. 3 LuAnn Novak, Janet Wood, Sandy Kallas, Joan & Herb Magnuson, Ryan Strobach, J.J. King, Fred Paasch, Grizz & Gaucha, Steve Peters

21312D ibid p. 4 Entry by Dennis Kuehling & son, the master carpenter who superintended construction of Kuehling kiosk, refer to plans to build another one, the Tote Road Hill kiosk

21312E ibid p. 5 entry by Trinity Riggs, granddaughter of Robert P. Rusch

21312F ibid p. 6 Scott Riggs refers to the Palisades, an impressive rock retainer wall south of Kuehling kiosk built by Mobil Skills Crew

21312G ibid p. 7 entries by Jim Dillon, Decatur, Georgia, a great local IAT volunteers Joe Hebda & “the plodding Prussian.”

21313 Abstract of Title (parcel bordering Rusch Preserve on the south) – cover N ½ SE ¼, 12-33-2E

21313A ibid certificate of abstractor N. A. Urquart

21313B ibid patent 1-30-1875 USA to Samuel Wallace NW SE 12-33-2E (in 2018 IAT crosses this parcel)

21313C ibid Warranty Deed to John J. Kennedy NW SE 12-33-2E & other lands 12-19-1881. This is among J.J Kennedy’s first Rib Lake land purchases in what will, in 1885, become the Town of Rib Lake. It confirms history of Rib Lake by Guy Wallace #12118 that in summer of 1881 George Curtis of Curts & Carpenter Lumber Co. of Wausau offered deal to J.J. Kennedy including that he “could saw their pine…and buy up pine for himself.”

21313D ibid entry 34 Warranty Deed $5000 J.J. Kennedy ex us, 6-29-1899 to J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co. ; entry 35, Taylor Co Sheriff sells some of John J. Kennedy’s real etate 5-5-1898; & entry 36; Quit Claim deed where J.J. Kennedy buys land back from buyer Home Investment Co. by A.W. Sanborn (a close friend & business associate of J.J. Kennedy) for $10,000.

21313E ibid, entry 42, 11-13-1901 J.J. Kennedy Lumber Co. sawmilll & timber lands sold to W.A. Osburn Lumber Co. for $200,000.

21313F ibid Entry 57 Quit Claim Deed $21.71 NW SE 12-33-2E Taylor County to Andrew Filas (land had gone tax delinquent. Filas & family created a small dairy farm.) Etnry 58 “Andreas Filas buys NE SE 12-33-2E on 1-6-1941 (he builds house and farm buildings there.)

21313G 12-13-1946 Andrew Filas, single, sells to Millard (Satch) Kapitz, et al N ½ SE ¼ 12-33-2E

21313H 3-14-1949 Selma Anderson buys; 3-14-1949 Astrid Anderson buys same parcel; 9-4-1951 Leo Kaehne buys same parcel, N ½ SE ¼ 12-33-2E. He owns dairy farm c. ¼ mile to the west where he resides. In 2018, site of his residence is home of Mary Ann & Tom Rusch

21313I Warranty Deed 3-13-1969 Leo Kaehne, “A single man,” sells for $2600 to R.P. Rusch & Karen M. Rusch, husband & wife, Thomas M. Rusch, a single man, and Gerald A. Rusch & wife Joan and Everett A. Rusch and wife Nina Rusch.

21314 4-15-1969 Opinion on title by Raymond Scott, dba Nikolay, Jensen & Scott, Medford, WI on N ½ SE ¼ 12-33-3E

21314A ibid p. 2

21315 Picture postcard “Wisconsin” 3 silos stand next to a classical hip roof cow barn. In reality, the number of dairy farms has diminished. IN 2018 ther is a single operating dairy farm (James Packenham) on CTH C between STH 86 to STH 64.

21316 W. 4-12-2018 “Taxpayers geta boost from county forest revenue,” Star News. Committee members propose cap on how much money the (forestry) department keeps in stumpage revenue reserves.” P. Chuck Zenner

21316A ibid part 2

21317 W. Obit. Lester Mann 1947-2018

21318 Book 2002 “How runing changed my life,” edited by Garth Battista – cover

21318A ibid back cover

21318B ibid p. 178 12-23-2017 handwritten note by Bob Rusch, whose life was changed by running, in August 1988, the first of 230 marathons.

21319 Spreadsheet, Bob Rusch’s marathons and ultra-marathons as of 9-30-2017. Page 1. 8-1-1988 Paavo Nurmi marathon, 26.2 miles, Bob’s first of 230 completed at Hurley, Wisconsin, in three and three quarter hours.

21319A ibid p. 2 7-1-1989 Minnesota Voyageur, Bob’s first 50 miler turns into 53 when he goes off course in the woods.

21319B ibid p. 3 11-1-1989 Bob struggles thru 100 kilometer (61 miles) but learns the difference between subjective versus objective feelings of self-worth.

21319C ibid p. 4, Bob is “the last of the Mohicans at his first 100 mile run on 6-4-1990

21319D ibid p. 5 Bob does his favorite 50 miler, 5-1991 “The Ice Age,” on the Ice Age Scenic Trail in the Kettle Moraine State Forest

21319E ibid p. 6 Bob completes the Western States 100 miler on 6-25-1992 in 29 hours 13 seconds. At the post-race banquet he falls asleep and his face lands in the middle of his plate of food to the everyone’s amusement

21319F ibid p. 7 9-19-1992 Suffering from uncontrolled diarreah, Bob does not finish, his first “DNF”.

21319G ibid p. 8 1-16-1994 bob runs a marathon in wooden snowshoes in 4 hours 50 minues in the “Beargrease” outside of Duluth, MN

21319H ibid p. 9 Running his fastest marathon of his life at 3 hours, 27 minutes, 3 seconds, Bob qualifies for the 1996 Boston Marathon, its centennial.

21319I 5-20-1996 Bob trains Ted Bever, later Medford Police Chief

21319J ibid p. 11 10-10-1998 Bob does Ashland, WI, inaugural marathon, the Whistle Stop

21319K ibid p. 12 daugher Robin is key to Bob’s completion of tenth hundred miler

21319L ibid p. 13 Medford doctor and surgeon paces Bob 6-4-2012 Kettle Moraine 100 kilometers

21319M ibid p. 14 Medford Chamber of Commerce takes over local marathon, the Diaryland, and renames it the Pine Line. Runners no longer bused to its start near Prentice

21319N ibid p. 15 4-7-2007 Bob walks and runs from Mondeaux dam to Timms Hill with Jason Dorgan, who is running the entire IAT in daily segments

21319O ibid p. 16, 1-16-2010 Bob is only person to complete all 20 Pine Line Marathons beginning with its inaugural run on rough railroad roadbed through Westboro, Chelsea & Whittlesey in 2001.

21319P ibid p. 17 Bob misses his first Medford marathon, the Pine Line, due to wife’s hospitalization, but substitutes run through German Settlement

21319Q ibid p. 18 7-16-2011 Bob cuts back from 50 miler to half Voyageur & says “anyone can do a marathon.” Then forgets “Pride goeth before the fall.”

21319R ibid p. 19 4-15-2012 Rib Lake superintendent of education, Jeff Tortomasi, passes Bob in St. Louis, MO marathon

21319S ibid p. 20 Bob reminiscenes that the Pine Line recreation trail began while Bob was doing a training run on Rusti Road 1 and met Mike Wepfer, who with his wife Ellen, owned Dairyland Realty Co.

21319T ibid Bob’s philosophy of running

21319U ibid p. 22 4-28-212 Bob’s statistics to date; marathons – 106; 50 kilometer runs – 21; 50 mile runs – 37; 100 kilometer runs – 6; 100 mile runs – 12; miscellaneous over 26 miles – 130, totale – 200

21319V ibid p. 23 Bob’s running mileage in events from 1988 to 4-28-2012 excluding training runs - 7545

21319W ibid p. 24 Bob runs Wausau’s inaugural marathon with Medford carpenter Curt Doberke

21319X ibid p. 25 12-28-2012 Bob does 35 mile snowshoe to Park Falls, WI

21319Y ibid, p. 26 9-1-2013 bob meets 73 year old doing his 354 marathon. Friend says “by walking the marathons you can keep doing them forever.”

21319Z ibid p. 27 4-26-2014 Bob completes his 23rd Pine Line coaching granddaughter Katie & friend Beth Wilson, both 8th graders, to do the half.

21319AA ibid p. 28 5-10-2014 Bob wins 70 and older category at Eagle River, WI marathon

21319BB ibid p. 19 Another DNF

21319CC ibid p. 30 Two old friends Gene Curnow & Bob Pearce die

21319DD ibid p. 31 Rib Lake girl, age 15, Katie Strobach, completes her first marathon

21319EE ibid p. 32 9-2016 Bob diagnosed with incurable but slow growing cancer, small cell lymphocytic lymphoma

21320 Not scanned missing *** P. c. 216 “Helene’s Hilltop Orchard, LLC, Merrill, WI

21320A ibid back

21321 P. c. 2016 “Wisconsin” white birch

21322 P. c. 2016 “Wisconsin” a frosty morning

21323 “Short stories by former Rib Lake resident Marge Tauber”

21323A ibid “A very special family; Art & Gert Marschke & children

21323B ibid p. 2 P. Gert & Art Marschke

21323C ibid p. 3

21323D ibid For love of the land; Helen & Ray Ziembo’s garden, W2605 STH 102, Rib Lake.

21323E “Pa’s old horseshoe may be lucky after all.” P. Peter Kauer of Mud Lake

21323F ibid p. 2

21323G ibid “Jake’s Lady” Jake Janda and his ice cream store on McComb Ave, Village of Rib Lake

21323H ibid p. 2

21324 7-2014 “Up the Hill, there’s down home cooking; Hill of Beans Restaurant is a highlight of this reader’s journeys up north.” “Our Wisconsin” P. far right Kathy Blomberg

21325 W. 3-2015 “High Point Village to host Timm’s Hill Trudge, Snowshoe race-walk 3-7-2015.” Up North Action magazine – cover

21325A ibid p. 1 P. Lyle & Kathy Blomberg, founds and operators of High Point Vilage (resort) and Hill of Beans (restaurant)

21326 Map 1972, Birch Run Silvicultural Zones, RPR residential property Sec. 13, T33N, Range 2 East

21327 P. Van Vliet Lake Conservation Area, Vilas Co, WI

21327A ibid p. 2 L. Byron Pierce, Executive Director, North Wisconsin Land Trust, to RPR 4-12-2018

21328 c. 1900 W.E. Hibbard, Medford, WI estimated volume of timber in North half, Section 1, T31N-R3E (Town of Goodrich); Hem = hemlock; M = 1 thousand board feet; tam = tamarack, block printed annotations by RPR

21328A ibid “clean” copy

21328B ibid Map Section 1, 31N-R3E, Block printed annotations by RPR

21328C ibid “clean” copy

21329 Ad 2007 Rusch & Rusch Law Office in Taylor County plat book

21330 c. 2010 “Save the hemlocks – Great Smoky National Park,” bumper sticker. An invasive species, the wooly calldid, is killing hemlocks near the east coast and expected in Wisconsin

21331 W. “Eastern Hemlock” an informative thumbnail sketch of this tree, e.g. “They are slow growing and long lived – the record hemlock reached 988 years…” by John Bates in his volume “Trailside Botany; 101 favorite trees, shrubs & wildflowers of the Upper Midwest.” 1995

21331A ibid p. 2

21332 Email 4-20-2018 by RPR first Democrat elected as Taylor Co. District Attorney

21333 2-22-2010 postcard Viele Grusse Aus Arosa, Switzerland, Many greetings from Arosa, Switzerland

21333A ibid back, German text; Dear Greetings from Switzerland. We are having a great time snowboarding; this is great. Jan Gebauer to his cousin, Bob Rusch

21334 Map 6-5-2018 Rib Lake Ski & snowshoe Trails

21334A ibid lighter color

21335 Map 4-23-2018 Site of RLLC Camp 11 in SW SW SW 3-33-3E. Red arrow points to dot of cabin occupying site. 1947 Quad map Rib Lake used as a base for this map by R.P. Rusch.

21335A ibid sketch map drawn by R.P. Rusch from site inspection of same date. Camp 11 was to the southwest from junction of RLLC logging railroad spur running west into Section 4 toward Little Spirit Lake & mainline, originally Soo line, built in 1902 from Village of Rib Lake east and north and junctioning with Marinette, Tomahawk & Western Railroad south of Spirit Falls. Current car-truck roads lighted in brown; former railroad right-of-way highlighted in red. Upon inspection of site on 4-23-2018, R.P. Rusch noticed two apple trees where c. 1980 Camp 11 location was identified by Albert “Happy” Marschke. The entire site on April 23 was snow-covered, preventing observation of the ground.

21336 W. c. 2000 “In Step with Retirement, “Doc” and Dorothy Scharer find dance card full,” Senior Spotlight by Dean S. Acheson. Photo of Galen “Doc” & Dorothy Scharer & their children Debbie, aka Mrs. Mike Turner, and Galen Scharer, II

21336A ibid p. 2 “At one time [Galen, Sr] had the larges chiropractic practice in the State of Wisconsin.” c. 1988 Galen with Emmery “Pete” Peterson and Ron Simek bouth the former Rib Lake School District bus garage & site of the 1906-1983 high school and remodeled garage into Camp 28 motel & restaurant.

21336B ibid p. 3

21337 P. “Filling Coffer dam 9-27-1912 Rothschild, Wis.” The construction of this and other dams on the Wisconsin River made log drives impossible; for example, Joseph Dessert Lumber co. driving logs from Wood Lake to his Nekoosa sawmill.

21337A ibid back. An informative explanation of what the image shows. The sand shore and hill was on the west side of the Wisconsin Rivedr and across from the pulp mill.

21338 P. c. 1964 “Mondeauz Dam, Westboro, Wis. 60-8” This dam was built c. 1935 by the federal W.P.A. program. Even this releatively small “river” had a series of dams to facilitate pine logging drives

21338A ibid back 6-29-1964 postcard to James McEvoy, Joliet, Illinois

21339 W. 2017 pamphlet “Ice Age Trail, Create, Support & Protect.” IAT Alliance

21339A ibid map IAT. “Be sure to take a break during your hike for a stop at the historic Mondeaux Lodge & Dam.” The IAt crosses atop the dam pictured in #21338.

21339B ibid Map south portion

21339C ibid pamphlet “The IAT Alliance proects what the glacier left behind.”

21340 Map 1913 Soo Line near Rib Lake from Taylor County Standard Atlas

21341 Letter of RLLC by S.J. Williams, treasurer, to H.A. Buckley “it is our intention to have this boy work in our lumber yard.” 4-12-1920

21341A ibid, Industrial Commission of Wisconsin Record of Birth Certificate “Herman Ruesch” (sic) Mother Ida Lang (sic), should be Herman Rusch & Ida Lange

21341B ibid School Certificate signed by N.W. Delert, school clerk. “This chid has attended school at least 7 years.” “Weight of child; 143 lbs.”

21341C ibid L. 4-13-1920 Pastor A.P. Sitz, St. Johannes Gemeide Rib Lake “Herman Rusch was born 10-4-1903.”

21342 Memo 4-27-2018 by Bob Rusch re work permit document for his father Herman Arthur Rusch.

21342A ibid p. 2

21343 Memo 4-27-2018; How to access online original Wisconsin survey notes, including 1938-39 Bordner maps.

21344 Map Price County c. 1860 Spirit Lake; original government survey of Spirit Lake in Price County, erroneously omitting Spirit Point

21345 Deed 3-15-1904 “Swamp land patent” State of Wisconsin to Carl Heden, Government Lot 3, 31-34N-3E, adjacent to Big Spirit Lake

21346 *** not scanned as of 4/29/18** deed to Ole Peterson for Govt Lot 3, 31-34N-R3E

21347 11-16-1956 Warranty Deed to Herman A. Rusch & wife Martha from Albert Knop (junior) and wife Helen, nee Schmidt; Lots 19 & 20; “being a part of Government Lots 3, 4 & 5, Sec. 34, T34N R3E, of Spirit Point, according to recorded Plat of Spirit Point in office of Register of Deeds in Price Co., Wis.” NB-claim land is part of Government lots 3, 4 & 5. Compare and contrast to statement in 1910 “Plat of Spirit Lake” that platted land “is projection of Lots 3, 4 & 5.” See Doc. #11737 for “Plat of Spirit Point” 12-1910

21348 12-1910 Plat of Spirit Point, Price Co, Wis. “being a projection of [government] Lots 3, 4 & 5, Section 31, Town 34 North, Range 3 East by Ole Peterson – Harry Johnson, surveyor, north half

21348A ibid south half. Affidavit of Surveyor Harry Johnson “by order of Ole Peterson I have surveyed and platted Spirit Point…and have proven said point to be a projection of Lots 3, 4 & 5, Section 35, 34N R3E. NB-Johnson claims to have “proven” the platted lands to be a projection of government lots without citing any proof whatsoever.

21348B ibid, enlarged copy of affidavit of Harry Johnson that he, by order of Ole Peterson, surveyed and platted Spirit Point…and “have proven said point to be a projecti of Lots 3, 4 & 5,…in Section 31, T34N R3E.” [Not only does Johnson not show any proof, he fails to explain he he reached his conclusion, nor does he define “a projection.” Nor are the platted land on this plat shown to be continguous to Lots 3, 4 & 5. The government survey contained specific surveyed measurements which did not include this platted land. RPR 4-27-2018.]

21348C 2-18-1911 “Certification” by Ole Peterson, aka, “A” on Plat of Spirit Point purporting to be owner of lands platted.

21348D Title “Plat of Spirit Point”…being a projection of [government] lots 3, 4 & 5, Section 31, T34N R3E, December 1910, Harry Johnson, surveyor. Plat recorded 2-20-1911 as Document #46993, Price Co. Register of Deeds

21349 4-26-2018 Receipt for $11 for Rib Lake Historical Scoiety by Judith Chizek, Price Co. Register of Deeds

21350 Map 9-21-1938 Resurvey of Hultman Lake by US Dept of Interior, General Land Office to include “…lands which were erroneously omitted from the original survey and not shown on said plat.”

21350A ibid Memorandum; original map 12-5-1865 A) erroneously omitted lands; B) original meander courses (survey lines purportedly showingly lakeshore) was “grossly in error.”

21350B ibid approvals of resurvey of Hultman Lake 2-7-1939 “office of the supervisor of Surveys, Denver, Colorado.” 1-27-1940 US Dept of Interior, General Land Office, Washington DC

21350C Map 9-22-1938 Hultman Lake Resurvey; RPR annotations & color codings 4-27-2018

21351 Map 1989 Plat of Hultman Lake & environs. NB-dashed lines west of lake is original 12-5-1865 meander (lakeshore) line. Arabic numerals 1-12 denote original “government lots.”

21352 4-19-2018 magazine Milwaukee Biz Times - cover

21352A ibid p. 1 “Who’s going to ride the streetcar”

21352B ibid p. 2 Photo of the first streetcar arriving in Milwaukee

21352C ibid p. 3 logistics

21352D ibid p. 4 Map 4-16-2018 New Milwaukee streetcar routes.

21353 2018 Polk County, Wisconsin Visitor’s Guide - cover

21353A ibid p. 2 Photo of Senator Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth Day

21353B ibid p. 3 Village of Dresser-site of trap rock – volcanic rock used by Soo Line railroad & throughout its system, including Taylor Co.

21353C Map 2018 Polk Co. SW part including Dresser

21354 trap rock sample from Dresser, Wis, pit mined by Soo Line Railroad, nka Canadian Pacific. It served as railroad for Soo Line track thru Whittlesey, Chelsea & Westboro. In 2018 it lines many sections of the Pine Line Recreational rail-trail.

21355 P. “Interior of St. Luke’s Church, Westboro, Mass.”

21356 P. 1913 Emery A. Premeau delivers his newspapers in Westboro, Wis.

21356A ibid 4-8-1972 article “Remember when…new day began with the Milwaukee Journal.”

21357 Booklet “Sixtieth Anniversary Jubilee 1886-1946 St Johns Lutheran Church, Rib Lake, WI – cover 6-23-1946

21357A ibid Title page “St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church; P c. 1945 church building

21357B ibid Jubilee Calendar – German & English services; parsonage bought in 1921, 859 Fayette Ave

21357C ibid First Lutheran Church service in Rib Lake was 4-2-1884; 6-13-1886 “is the birthday of our St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran congregation of Rib Lake. Note by RPR-Church seal in 1920 read “Ev. (evangelishe) Luth. (Lutherishe) St. (Sankt) Johannes (John’s) Gemeinde (congregation), see #21341

21357D ibid 3-3-1898 voting members meet in Carl reiboth home to buy land for church building. (see #21358); Photos of Pastor Paul Burkholz & Pastor Voss

21357E ibid P. Pastor A. Sydow (1906-1918). In 1907 Frank Skon house SW of church bought as a school house; 1907 motion to joint Wisconsin Synod was tabled;

21357F ibid 10-1911 Pastor Sydow also serves St. Peter’s congregation on CTH C in Greenwood; Photo of former Frank Skon house, now church school house. [In 1914 Herman A. Rusch was attending classes there when he saw heavy smoke outside; he tried to tell Pastor Sydow. The RLLC sawmill burned to the ground. RPR]

21357G ibid P. Pastor A. Sitz (1918-1923); P. Pastor K. Kammholz (1923-1938)

21357H ibid duplex weekly envelope system for collections was introduced in Jan. 1940; 1941 congregation joins Wisconsin Synod

21357I ibid 60th anniversary celebrated 6-23-1946 & Pastor O.E. Hoffman writes this booklet; congregation numbers 400 souls, 300 communicants & 85 voting members

21357J ibid P. Pastor Hoffman & family; 1946 Church Board members; Pastor O. E. Hoffman, Emil Gnotke, Fred Radtke, Otto Hein, William Gilge, Elmer Taylor & John Stelling

21357K ibid Sunday School Staff; Mrs. M. Doubek, Mrs. Victor Kohn, Faye Kelnhofer, Anna Mae Kohn, Patricia Scholtz, Reita Annen; Ladies Aid Society founded 10-29-1910, has 28 members in 1946

21357L ibid P. Dorcas Society

21357M ibid, Active Dorcas Society members; Mrs. John Stelling, Mrs. William Tetzlaff, Mrs. Joe Frombach, Mrs. Herman Batzer; P. Men’s Society; upper row 2nd from right is Albert Knop, Sr.

21357N ibid Men’s Society founded on 4-15-1940; members Elmer Taylor, Donald Taylor, Emil Gnotke, Gehrman Radtke, Herman Batzer, William Gessert, Albert Knop, John Stelling, Verl Bokath, Charles Blair, John Liesenberg, Ed Steffen, Fred Vlach, Harold Zielke, Joe Frombach; P. Young People’s Society

21357O ibid Young People’s Society members, Leroy Radtke, Robert Doubek, Leroy Greening, Faye Kelnhofer, Anna Mae Kohn, Donald Hoffmann, Allen Hanke, Marjorie Walback, Willard Gnotke, Reita Annen, Eugene Schopper, Viola Bleck, Melvin Gnotke, Patricia Schulz, Andrew Boneski, Wayne Olson, Donna Schulz, Larry Krueger, Vernon Hanke, Marlyn Zuther, Phyllis Hein; first baptism Albert Weingartner, first confirmed Mathilde Radtke, first confirmands Adolph Greening, August Krueger, Carl Radtke; first marriage Franz Peters & Louise Hirte, first funeral Herman Peters

21357P P. Charter members of Ladies Aid; Mrs. John Gigle, Mrs. Carl Radtke, Mrs. John Taylor - finis

21358 3-20-1899 Articles of Association from Taylor Co Register of Deeds for Evangelische Lutherische Sankt (St) Thomas Gemeinde, German language for Evangelical Lutheran St. Thomas Church, signed Carl Freiboth, Carl Knop, Werner Radtke

21358A ibid 4-28-2018 typed version of same 3-20-1899 document; NB-until 1902 incorporation of Village of Rib Lake all of its land was in the Town of Rib Lake.

21359 Map 1913 showing in yellow locaito of Werner Radtke, Carl Knop & Carl Freiboth farms; each were signers of the Articles of Associaton for the Evangelical Lutheran St. Thomas Church (#21358)

21360 5-15-1888 Articles of Association from Taylor Co. Register of Deeds for “German Evangelical St. Peter’s Church” of North America and located in the Town of Greenwood, Taylor Co. signed by Wiliam Martin, J. Witzke, William Peche & Fritz Martin

21361 4-4-2018 “River Bend Trail Annual Meeting,” Merrill Photo News.

21362 Lakewood Credit Union 3-15-2018 57th Annual meeting booklet

21362A ibid title page

21362B ibid Chairperson’s message

21362C ibid Margaret Ziembo, president’s report

21362D ibid treasurer’s report

21362E ibid treasurer’s report continued

21362F ibid internal audit report

21362G ibid services offered

21363 3-21-2017 Lakewood Credit Union 56th Annual Meeting notice

21363A ibid

21364 Photos 3-21-2017 at Lakewood Credit Union annual meeting taken by Aimee Hein at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Rib Lake; Mike Schneider, Irene Dums, Betty Quednow, Ken Nowak, Sandra Rizzi, Roseann Reavis

21364A ibid Beverly Tesch, Tammy Mann-director, Mary Kauer-secretary, Marge Ziembo-president, Glen Harder-chairperson, Bill Schreiner-treasurer, Herb Schubert-vice chair (absent)

21364B ibid Jeff Heiser, Brandon Heiser, Sheila Hieser, Allison Heiser, Linda Houston

21364C ibid Andy Ziembo, Austin Ziembo, Connor Ziembo, Ivan Kauer, Ray Schlosser, Riley Eisner, John Eisner

21364D ibid Heidi Budimlija & Brad Budimlija

21364E ibid Brandon Heiser, Kathy Herschberger, Sheila Heiser, Linda Houston, Cliff Mann

21364F ibid Arlene Quednow, Doug Kring, Ed Thiel, Donna Walbeck, Betty Quednow, Ken Nowak, Gene Rizzin, Roseanne Reavis

21364G ibid James Allen & Aubri Allen

21364H ibid Ivan Kauer, Ray Schlosser, Cliff Mann, Austin, Andy & Connor Ziembo, Jeffery Peterson, Judy Budimlija, Eli Deboth

21364I ibid Ken Nowak, Gene Rizzi, Sandra Rizzi, Roseanne Reavis

21364J ibid Linne Henrickson, Ginger henrickson, Doris Zitzer

21364K ibid James, Brittany & Aubri Allen, Elaine & Wally Emmerich

21364L ibid Dennis Budimlija, Jennifer Peterso, Eli Deboth, John & Kathy Roiger

21364M ibid Jeff & Katie Heiser, Isabel & Neal Olkives

21364N ibid Kathy Roiger, Riley Eisner, Heidi Budimlija

21364O ibid Mary Thums, Carol Bleck, Ivan Kauer

21364P ibid Branda Fallos, Iva Troiber, SuAnn Johnson, Kari & Sam Rodman, Julia Thums; at rear-Cindy Ewoldt, Jenny & Catherine Lennartz

21364Q ibid John Dolezalek, Joe & Shirley Kauer, Isabel & Neal Olkives, Linne Henrickson, Jeff Heiser, Katie & Brandon Heiser

21364R ibid Judy Cihasky, Mary Gordon

21365 Lakewood Credit Union 4-4-2018 transaction slip

21365A ibid business card

21366 P. 2016 L-R Jennifer Lennartz, Aimee Hein, Margaret Ziembo, Nicole Waszkiewicz, Nancy Kreklau, Cindy Ewoldt, all staff members of Lakewood Credit Union

21367 2018 Keith Hanke, dba Hanke’s Lawn Care, LLC, business card. Keith is from a pioneer Rib Lake family, Herman Hanke, who emigrated from Germany, who was a logger for J.J. Kennedy at McGilles Pine Camp. His son, George, farmed on Bear Avenue. His son Vernon had a fuel oil delivery route & served as village president, his son Greg married Cindy McNamara and founded C&G Mini Mart & gas station at the junction of McComb Avenue & STH 102. All good people and wonderful neighbors; with Allen & Dorothy Hanke, they have generously allowed the Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe trails on their beautiful forest acreage allowing for public use of this spectacular community asset. R.P. Rusch, charter member, Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club, Inc.

21368 4-28-2018 Ad-Spirit American Legion Post 452 Annual Pancake Supper. This is a great way to meet new friends while enjoying regular or potato pancakes.

21369 3-2012 Rib Lake Legacy Wall-fundraiser by Rib Lake Athletic & Booster Club - cover

21369A ibid p. 2 goal is to raise funds for new bleachers

21370 Map 1938-39 Bordner-Wisconsin Land Inventory T33N R2E, including Village of Rib Lake. NB-fire lane NE of North Harper & running north to Spokes Hill

21370A ibid T33N R3E. NB-see legend for two types of fire lanes

21370B ibid T32N R3E. NB-Big Rib River. The Little Rib river spurs north off the Big Rib River west of Wausau

21370C ibid T31N R4E, part of Town of Corning, Lincoln Co. NB-abandoned logging railroad running east & west in the bottom of Sec. 28. This was part of the spur serving Rib Lake Lumber Co. Camp 1 beginning in 1906. Wisconsin’s railroad historian, James P. Kaysen, showed this as a possible abandoned railroad line on his US quad series of railroad maps. This Bordner map failed to show the westward extension of the Camp 1 line thru Section 31 (beyond the purview of this map this railroad spur junctioned with the Abbotsford & Northeastern branch to Goodrich.) R.P. Rusch 4-2018

21371 5-5-2018 Burning permit issued by Kenneth Zondlo on behalf of Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources to Bob Rusch

21371A ibid back

21372 Map 1-3-2018 Taylor County ATV map - cover

21372A ibid legend

21372B ibid title

21372C ibid Rib Lake area. NB-All town roads in Taylor County are shown to be open except 1) Town of Pershing & Town of Maplehurst; 2) Town of McKinley roads are shown in blue; 3) Rustic Road 1 is shown in green and not expressly dealt with in the legend.

21372D ibid Camp 8 ATV-UTV trails-Taylor Co Forest, north portion

21372E ibid south part

21373 2018 Rice Lake, WI visitor’s guide – cover

21373A ibid p. 2 history

21374 c. 1978 print by Ellen Nibblelink “Taylor County, the Log Cabin County,” home of the first Rustic Road in Wisconsin

21374A ibid back

21375 9-24-1924 Deed, Loeb & Hammel, an Illinois corporation, conveys SW NW 14-T33-R1E, Town of Medford, to William Gebauer & (second wife) “Maria” subject to purchase money mortgage of $2300, signed by Max Loeb & L.F. Hammel

21376 5-1934 Decision of Taylor Co. Judge M.A. Buckley finding William Gebauer dies 8-28-1932 and determining that his wife, Mary (“also known as Maria Gebauer”) was now the sole owner of (their residence) SW NW 14-31-1E

21377 Map 1925 highlighting in yellow farm & residence of William Gebauer and second wife Mary, nee Wayman, SW NW 14-31-1E, from 1925 Star News “pocket plat book”

21378 Deed 5-12-1934 Mary Gebauer, widow of William Gebauer to Mary Gebauer, Pauline Gebauer & Martha Rusch, nee Gebauer, “sole heirs at law of said William Gebauer, deceased.” Land 1) SW NW 14-31-1E, Taylor Co; 2) [parcel near Amherst, Portage Co, Wis) in T23N-R10E; 3) SW ¼ Section 5-T1N, R53E, State of Colorado; 4) Lot 11, Block 5, First addition to the Town of Akron, Washington County, State of Colorado.

21379 Map of T 1 North, Range 53 West, Washington County, Colorado, highlighting in yellow SW ¼ 5, former homestead of William Gebauer [here labeled “Coral L. Silva” and highlighting in orange portion of City of Akron, Colorado [the base plat map published c. 2000] of #21293 map showing contiguous homesteads of siblings Herman, William, Franz, Jr. & Franz, Sr, Gebauer, and Mrs. August Wolf.

21380 12-30-1946 Deed by siblings Pauline & Mary Gebauer & Martha Rusch, nee Gebauer to Leo Metzler, SW NW 14-31-1E [former residence & farm of William Gebauer & second wife Mary.]

21381 2018 postcard “Having a great time in Wisconsin.”

21382 5-26-2018 Elizabeth Wilson, Medford High School graduation party invitation - cover

21382A ibid back

21383 7-7-2018 Neal & Isabel Olkives 65th anniversary party invitation

21383A ibid back Olkives ran a family restaurant & resort on Spirit Lake c. 1980-2000

21384 5-7-2018 Postcard from Bob Funk to Bob & Ann Rusch

21384A ibid back Photo of erratic boulder along Ice Age Trail

21385 1997 Taylor County Forest Management Plan for the East Lake Corridor segment of the Ice Age National Scenic Trail – cover

21385A L. by Wayne Tlusty, primary author of plan [born in Village of Rib Lake, professor at UW Extension, president of Rib Lake Village Board c. 2005-2015. ]

21385B 9-5-1997 resolution by Taylor Co. Forestry Committee approving plan, signed Mike Roiger, Tim Peterson & Wayne Lato

21385C Review & Approvals signed by Brad Ruesch, Taylor Co. Forest Administration, Steve Clark, Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation, Wayne Tlusty, Professor of Landscape Architecture UW-Extension, Tom Gilberg, National Park Service, Mike Ecker, High Point Chapter Coordinator, Kathy Bero, Ex. Director Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation

21385D Table of Contents

21385E ibid

21385F Purpose of Plan

21385G Introduction “A trail to explore the glacial landscape”

21385H Photo of IAT & Jaycee Trail

21385I Planning Process

21385J Existing conditions

21385K Map 1997 IAT & East Lake Segment “Trail location, inventory & Analysis” east portion

21385L ibid west portion

21385M timber assessment

21385N Map 1997 IAT-East Lake Segment, timber assessment, east portion

21385O ibid west portion

21385P Management policies to meet the desired future conditions

21385Q ibid

21385R Photo of East Lake

21385S Americans with Disabilities Act

21385T Trail hiking, mountain biking

21385U goals

21385V ibid

21385W Trail promotion by APTVF

21385X Photo of hemlock grove

21385Y recommendations

21385Z corridor width

21385AA timber management

21385BB special “q” concept

21385CC ibid

21385DD field testing

21385EE IATP&T “High Point Chapter” activities

21385FF indications for semi-primitive non-motorized (SPNM)

21385GG ibid remotiveness

21385HH naturalness

21385II Plans for planning 12-4-1992

21385JJ local chapter coordinator Bob Rusch

21385KK Agreement in principle

21385LL 10-11-1994 signed Olson

21385MM ibid, ROS recreational opportunities assessment

21385NN ibid

21385OO signed Wayne Tlusty

21385PP Forest appearance

21385QQ conceptional model

21385RR Aldo Leopold

21385SS Trail Assessment Inventory

21385TT forest cover types, Wayne Tlusty 3-25-1995

21385UU trail construction design standards

21385VV design standards and structure standards

21385WW support facilities

21385XX NPS sign standards

21385YY “single tree cutting with log “q”

21385ZZ stand structure goals

21385AAA growing conifers with aspen

21385BBB USDA handbook

21385CCC ibid

21385DDD Photo of Ponderosa Pine

21385EEE Photo of western forest

21385FFF ibid finus

21386 Map 9-1-2018 Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Trails including Rusch Preserve inset map

21387 Map 6-7-2018 Site of RLLC Camp 1 (1906-1922), NE NE 31-31-4E, Town of Corning, Lincoln Co. Wisconsin

21387A Memo 5-6-2018 by Bob Rusch detailing evidence found 5-6-2018 confirming site of RLLC Camp 1 in NE NE 31-31-4E. See also Camp 1 portion of “Rib Lake Lumber Co. numbered logging camps – following purchase of RLLC by US Leather Co on 3-23-1906,” by R.P. Rusch.

21388 5-19-2018 “Deer Dispute” County forester defends move to seek more deer permits for county forest.” Star News

21388A ibid Star News editorial, One size does not fit all with deer management.”

21389 Memo 5-8-2018 RLLC gravel pit, NW SE 16-32-4E near RLLC Camp 22 site, by Bob Rusch.

21389A Map 5-8-2018 RLLC gravel pit near Camp 22, both within Section 16-T32N-R3E, by RPR; red dot is probable site of Camp 22 (1934-1935) NE NE 16-32-4E; RLLC mainline highlighted orange, spur to gravel pit yellow; base map-James Kaysen & US Natzke camp quad

21389B Plat map c. 1010 T32-R4E, NW SE, Section 16 owned by Town of Corning is former gravel pit used by RLLC for railroad bed.

21389C 1991 Aerial photo Section 16, T32N-R4E. Current gravel pit in NW SE owned by Town of Corning was owned by RLLC and source of roadbed for its extensive railroad system. Note former railroad r.o.w. curving northeast from pit and joining railroad mainline in SW SE 9-32-4E.

21389D 2013 Aerial photo Section 16, 32N-R4E, Probable site of former RLLC Camp 22 is white color clearing surrounded by green forest in NE NE. Currently owned by Brian Schmidt, et al. Large gravel pit in NW SE contains a deep “trench” running SW to NE along east side of quarter quarter through which RLLC excavated pit run gravel and loaded by steam shovel roadbed

21389E ibid

21390 P. 2017 Mr. & Mrs. Scott & Robin Riggs, nee Rusch, and children L-R Kolton, Trinity, Brendan & Kirsten. Scott is the longtime webmaster of the Rib Lake Historical Society

21391 5-17-2018 Rib Lake Village Board approves display of RLLC logging railroad

21392 P. 4-2018 Katherine “Katie” Strobach, Rib Lake High School, graduation announcement 5-25-2018

21392A ibid back

21393 2017 Todd Olson business card, Timms Hill National Trail

21394 P. c. 1920 “Rib Lake, Wis K 459” The tapered masonry chimney & the straight bull chain apparatus demonstrated in this photo shows the RLLC built in 1916. To the left (east) of the bull chain is the Lutheran church before its c. 1925 rotation, putting its steeple near Fayette Avenue. Next comes the tannery complex; the pant house, tannery smokestack, vat house & dry shed. This view of the tannery is obstructed by a pile of saw logs on railroad flat cars along the lakeshore.

21395 P. c. 1920 “Rib Lake, Wis K456” The RLLC 1916 mill with distinctive masonry 167’ chimney before straight metal smokestack added. A string of railroad flat cars await unloading.

21396 Memo 5-18-2018 “Dating Rib Lake Lumber Company sawmills from photographs” by Robert P. Rusch.

21396A ibid p. 2 major distinguishing features

21396B ibid p. 3 smokestacks & chimney

21396C ibid p. 4 caveat

21396D ibid p. 5 conclusion

21397 Neighborhood flyer 7-7-2018 “Budfest 2018, party starts at 3 pm, pig served at 5.30 pm, Brandon & Sar Budimlija house.”

21398 L. 3-23-2013 Herbert Schotz to RPR re RLLC Camp 27 & Gebert family

21398A ibid envelope

21399 Memo 5-23-2018 RLLC Camp 27 mapping errors in US Quad & James Kaysen maps by RPR

21399A ibid p. 2 aerial photo 7-15-1945 enlargement showing 4 parallel buildings made up center of Camp 27 with RLLC logging spur on west side of Camp 27

21399B ibid p. 3 part of 1978 US quad “Natzke” camp erroneously omits former railroad spur on west side of Camp 27

21399C ibid P. 4 James Kaysen map showing RLLC railroad lines uses 1978 US quad map & unknowingly repeats omission

21400 Sketch map 5-28-2018 extant features of RLLC Camp 27 by R.P. “Bob” Rusch with Ed Scheller

21401 R.P. Rusch field notes 5-8-2018 at RLLC Camp 27 site

21401A ibid p. 2 GPS coordinates of camp; list of extant camp items found at dump; 3x5’ metal tray cook table, old ice box & 12x12x70” metal portable silverware tray

21401B ibid p. 3 sketch map, old railroad grades to Camp 27 and thru current New Wood state wildlife area

21401C ibid p. 4

21402 Map 12-9-2010 “Historic Logging Camp 27 site” Ice Age Trail in New Wood State Wildlife Area by Ice Age Trail Alliance

21403 W. 2017-2019 “Ice Age Trail Guidebook” cover

21403A ibid p. 96 Camp 27 segment & map. “Historic Camp 27 site”

21403B ibid p. 97 text

21403C ibid p. 98 history of RLLC Camp 27

21403D ibid p. 80 IAT STH 13-CTH D

21403E ibid p. 81

21403F ibid p. 82

21403G ibid p. 84 Rib Lake segment

21403H ibid P. 85 Rib Lake segment map, Rusch Preserve

21403I ibid p. 86 Wood Lake segment

21403J ibid p. 87 Wood Lake segment map

21403K ibid p. 88 Wood Lake trail loop, RLLC Camp 4

21404 L. 3-6-2008 Rolland “Rollie” Thums to IAT, Buzz Meyer & Tim Malzhan revoking permission for IAT to use land

21405 Map 4-29-2014 IAT Mobile Skills Crew. Rib Lake project area reconnecting, in part, IAT off-road in Town of Rib Lake

21406 2017-2018 pamphlet “Connect at Rib Lake Library”

21406A ibid p. 2

21407 Sticker “I love my Wisconsin Library”

21408 P. “Harper Lake Resort, Rib Lake, Wis. 39” c. 1945. Mike & Helen “Ma” Schmidt operated a dairy farm touching North Harper Lake. They built a popular resort featuring a tavern and several rustic cabins

21409 5-22-2018 Randy Thums, dba Randy Thums Trucking & Excavating bill to RPR

21410 5-25-2018 Program, graduation ceremony, RLHS Class of 2018 - cover

21410A ibid p. 2 graduates & agenda: Jerod Neil Arkola; Chase Xavier Blaedow; Storm Rae’Lae Blazio, Trent Alan Block; Cody J. Blomberg; Tailor Makenna Bohmbach; Bryanne M. Brugger; Kaitlyn Jo Cardey; Cassandra Lynn Dickinson; Hailey Ann Duerr; Adam Andrew Dums; Emily Vasthy Espinoza; Caitlyn Mae Fitzl; Dakota Joseph Fox; Marshall J. Fuchs; Armando G. Sosa; Jayden Karin Gustafson; Cassandra K.D. Halopka; Hunter Robert Hamilton; Micheal Lawrence Hempe; David M. Hoffland; John Simon Hoffland; Jacob Jay Hollingworth; David Michael Howard; Cole Vernon Klemann; Keesha Lynn Lucia; Kelli Ann Lueck; Ajia Nicole Maki; Zachary Alan Makovsky; Cody Allen Matyka; Eliza Grace Matyka; Patrick Louis Matyka; Jesus Alex Ontiveros Arinivas; Cullin Patrick Peterson; Erin Michelle Probst; Joshua Daniel Probst; Kassie Siara Lee Quante; Brooke Anne Scheithauer; Max A. Scheller; Sean Micahel Schreiner; Julie Ann Schubert; Nicholas Devin Starr; Katherine Karen Josephine Strobach; Marshall Clark Thums; Gracie Shae Weinke; Kylie Jo Weise; Hailey Marie Wudi

21410B ibid P. of Cody Matyka, valedictorian & Adam Dums, Salutatorian

21411 Map US Quad, Westboro 1970-2008 (by US Geological Survey 1970, revisions by USDA Forest Service 2005). Showing Soo Line Railroad 1974-1989 & r.o.w. of former Westboro Lumber Co logging railroad westward toward Mondeaux

21411A black & white annotated

21411B ibid part of Queenstown, Ice Age National Scenic Trail (IAT) & former 1883 Wisconsin Central spur east over Wellington Lake

21411C black & white annotated

21412 5-20-2018 RLLC Camp List by R.P. “Bob” Rusch

21412A ibid Camps 15-28

Jim Scott Collection

21413 “Medford Centennial 1874-1974 Historical Album” – cover

21413A ibid p. 3 9-1873 first Medford Depot

21413B ibid p. 11 Indians

21413C ibid p. 12 Town of Greenwood

21413D ibid p. 19 Early Medford, German titles

21413E ibid p. 21 Medford old mansions

21413F ibid p. 33 Hotel Winchester, built by John J. Kennedy, et al, to advertise hemlock lumber

21413G ibid p. 39 1885 fire

21413H ibid p. 45 8-5-1923 last log of Medford Lumber Co

21413I ibid p. 47 Photo of Hotel Winchester “Built to prove that hemlock wood was a durable building material.”

21413J ibid p. 51 Photo of Tannery

21413K ibid p. 73 Photo of Holy Rosary Catholic Church (1901-1970) in Medford; a stained glass window was saved by RPR and incorporated into the residence at W8643 CTH C, Rib Lake

21413L ibid p. 77 Photo of Methodist Chruch (1920-1975) on Medford’s Main Street; built with hemlock lumber from Rib Lake saved from Winchester Hotel

21413M ibid p. 93 In September of 1872, first depot built in Medford by Wis. Central Railroad

21413N ibid p. 95 In 1955 Medford industries gave the Soo Line [railroad] 3877 [railroad] car loads, representing $1,500,000 in business.

21413O ibid p. 129 Taylor County was incorporated March 4, 1875

21413P ibid p. 131 Photo “Der Waldbote, Deutschke Wocherzeitung,” “The Messenger in the Woods,” a German weekly newspaper

21413Q ibid p. 139 Photo of Walter Kuse, who painted wall murals in St. John’s Lutheran Church in Rib Lake

21413R ibid p. 141 Photo of Germania Hall

21413S ibid p. 175 Steam hauler hauling logs to mill of Medford Lumber Co. 1907

21413T ibid p. 176 Photo of 1974 Taylor County officials; Judge Peter J. Seidel, Clerk of Court Joyce McNamar, Register of Deeds Harold Gowey, County Clerk Roger Emmerich, County Treasurer Alvin Sova, Sheriff Alfred Palmer, Civil Defense Director Frank Krueger, Veterans Service Officer Richard Ecklund, District Attorney Robert Rusch, Social Services Director Bruce Willet

21413U ibid back cover Photo of State Bank of Medford, Medford building State and Whelen Streets

21414 P. 7-5-1892 Bridge Lowreyk, residing at North 2228 Fifth Avenue, Harlem, New York, New York

21415 P. c. 1900 Maid displays roast at table set for 12

21416 P. c. 1900 3 people at tar paper shack on treeless prairie

21417 P. 8-27-1913 Biplane flies at Lincoln County Fair

21418 1937 Ink blotting paper

21419 1935 Ad-woman smoking Chesterfield cigarette

21420 P. c. 1890 Man poses in studio of J. Lacerte, Wausau, Wis, with painted mural as background and hay bale

21421 P. 1926 two women smile near rear window of automobile within Wis. plate & sign “If u kan read this U R 2 darn klos.” Circle device is mount to which spare tire can be affixed

21421A ibid side view of car

21421B ibid laughing woman in then scandalous pose

21422 P. c. 1920 dirt street, St. James, Minnesota

21423 P. c. 1950 WWI memorial at north side of courthouse

21424 Jim “Slim” Scott business card c. 1980

21424A ibid color business card, 4 samples of his photography

End of Jim Scott collection

21425 L. 5-2018 Brian Ewert, Candidate for US Congress, to Bob Rusch

21426 Map 1916 Taylor County by C.H Paetzold, east half

21426A ibid west half

21426B ibid entire railroad of Westboro Lumber Co

21427 2018 Photos Rib Lake from album #30 by R.P. Rusch, bottom row, Katie Strobach holds sign “Pretty in pink, dangerous in camo” signaling her enlistment in US Air Force, her mom Kris Strobach, nee Rusch, & her father Rodney Strobach; top row L-R, Rebekah Strobach, Karen Rusch, Ryan Strobach & Ann & Bob Rusch

21427A ibid red fire hydrant from ancestral German village of Schoenwalde, Schleisen, Prussia, Germany

21427B ibid sign Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club & Rusch Preserve at junction of CTH C & STH 102.

21427C P. fresh snow on “Twin Towers” view to north from home of Ann & Bob Rusch, N8645 CTH C, Town of Rib Lake

21427D ibid, same view in April 2018

21427E address label, Rib Lake Historical Society, LLC

21427F ibid P. outside entrance to office & archives of Rib Lake Historical Society, LLC, N8545 CTH C, Town of Rib Lake

21427G ibid P. 4-2018 north shore of Rib River, Matt Robisch had hand on remnant of a post, once part of logging railroad bridge serving RLLC Camp 1 (1906-1912); Ryan Strobach & Will Robisch

21427H ibid P. 4-2018 L-R Ryan Strobach, Matt Robisch & son Will stand on ditched former railroad r.o.w. to RLLC Camp 1, all in NE NE 31-31-4E, Lincoln Co., Wisconsin

21428 Map 5-30-2018 sketch of site of RLLC Camp 1 (1906-1912) and extant post of former railroad bridge over Rib River

21429 6-4-2018 Rib Lake Wis profile from WI Home Town Locator p. 1

21429A ibid p. 2

21429B ibid p. 3 Data & demographics, “total population of Rib Lake as of 7-1-2017 is 900”

21430 Certificate 2-1-2018 purportedly signed by President Donald Trump re National Park Service Volunteers in Parks, the US Dept. of Interior & the National Park Service presents this certificate to Bob Rusch in appreciation & recognition of [his] generous…volunteer work on the Ice Age Trail in Taylor County. Robert “Bob” Rusch founded the High Point Chapter in Taylor Co in 1983, served as its first coordinator until 1995, with Adam & Gary Warner laid out and built the first Ice Age Trail through the Town of Rib Lake. IN 2018 Bob remains active in Ice Age trail construction & maintenance and remains on its board of Ice Age Trail Alliance in emeritus status.

21431 c. 6-7-2018 leaflet “Hiking & Biking in Taylor County,” by Joe Hebda. Visit Rib Lake, Wisconsin, vacationland. P. 1, Ice Age Trail & Timms Hill Trail

21431A ibid p. 2

21432 Spring 2018 “Mammoth Tales” magazine by Ice Age Trail Alliance, p. 1 cover

21432A ibid p. 2 P. Mike Wollmer, director

21432B ibid p. 3 contents, directors

21432C ibid p. 4 annual conference

21432D ibid p. 5 backpacking

21432E ibid p. 6

21432F ibid p. 7 IAT near Walla Hi

21432G ibid p. 8 sessions

21432H ibid p. 9 schedule

21432I ibid p. 10 registration

21432J ibid p. 11 official notice

21432K ibid p. 12 thousand miler journals

21432L ibid p. 13 Photo of J.J. King

21432M ibid p. 14 Land conservation

21432N ibid p. 15 outreach & education

21432O ibid p. 16 trail building

21432P ibid p. 17 2018 mobile skills crew projects

21432Q ibid p. 18 trail building highlights

21432R ibid p. 19 philanthropy

21432S ibid p. 20 chapters

21432T ibid p 21 photo of hikers

21432U ibid p. 22 chapter highlights

21432V ibid p. 23

21432W ibid p. 24 yellow blazed members, includes Joe Hebda of Rib Lake – members annually donate at least $1,000 or more. Burr oak society members include Ann & Bob Rusch

21432X ibid p. 25 Lakeshore chapter news

21432Y ibid p. 26 $5000-$7000 2017 donors include Ann & Robert Rusch

21432Z ibid p. 27

21432AA ibid p. 28 Trail terminus – logo – the end

21433 c. 2018 flyer “Rib Lake Ice Age Park & Pavilion”

21434 10-2017 pamphlet “Gerstberger Pines Nature Trail.” Cover

21434A ibid p. 2 introduction & photo of trail

21434B ibid p. 3 1892 land bought by Ed Gerstberger & stations 1 & 2

21434C ibid p. 4 Leopold bench & cradle knoll

21434D ibid p. 5 largest hemlock 29” in diameter & hemlock shelf fungus

21434E ibid p. 6 super elevated white pine, in 1953 about 12 in Gerstberger Pines Co. park; in 2018 only 3 remain alive; in 1881 J.J. Kennedy built first sawmill in Rib Lake

21434F ibid p. 7 sap suckers & Taylor Co Forestry & Recreation Dept.

21435 2018 flyer “Rib Lake Public Library presents summer reading”

21436 2018 W. Juno Trading Card Club sponsored by Rib Lake Library. Website

21437 Obit. 5-31-2018 John W. Gosbee (1931-2018) son of Ann Steiner & John W. Gosbee, Star News; NB-typo in printed obit misspells Steiner surname

21438 “Base” Map 1916 C.H. Paetzold’s Taylor County; NB-Paetzold was a “civil engineer & architect in Wausau, Wis.” the “base” map bears his name alone. Other editions ad names of businessmen – legend

21438A ibid Rib Lake, Westboro, Greenwood & Chelsea

21438B ibid Goodrich & Medford; NB-entire/complete copy of this base map is in the archives of the Rib Lake Historical Society

21438C Memo “buyers” of C.H. Paetzold 1916 map Taylor Co. used it to sell, by R.P. Rusch 6-6-2018 page 1, Frank J. Hintz edition #21439

21438D ibid p. 2 Elias Urquhart edition #21440

21438E ibid p. 3 J.W. Benn edition #21441. “notary public & abstractor.” Rib River Land Co. edition #20220

21439 Map 1916 Taylor Co C.H. Paetzold-Frank Hintz edition “Come to Rib Lake, Wis. F.J. Hintz, Taylor Co. improved farms and cutover lands a speciality.” NB-Frank was a son of Carl Theodore (C.T.) Hintz, owner of sawmill at Hintztown, SE of Rib Lake

21440 Map 1916 Taylor Co. C.H. Paetzold-Elias Urquhart (abstractor) edition “E.L. Urquhart bonded abstractor, Medford, Wis.”

21441 Map 1916 Taylor Co. C.H. Paetzold-J.W. Benn (Loans & Abstracts) edition “Notary public, Medford, Wis.) This edition is in color and recovered from an abstract

Patti Jani collection

21442 P. 7-1907 Rib Lake Christian Church & Sunday School picnic (this church stood on the east side of Pearl Street and south of Landall Avenue until c. 1973)

21442A ibid photocopy with four identified persons; 1) Mr. Kerswell; 2) Emily Kerswell, daughter; 3) Mabel Adams; 4) Lillian Adams

21442B ibid back with descriptions of identified persons

21443 Obit 5-26-2018 Ray Ziebel. For voer 1 decade prior to his death he operated “The Music Store” in the former Taylor Hardware store on McComb Avenue. With Darlene Nowak they provided high quality, low cost music lessons. A half hour music lesson was only $5. Ray also rented instruments for $5 per month.

21444 5-31-2018 Star News, Rib Lake High School Class of 2018 photos; Jerod Arkola, Chase Blaedow, Storm Blazio, Trent Block, Cody Blomberg, Tailor Bohmbach, Bryanne Bugger, Katie Cardey, Cassandra Dickinson, Hailey Duerr, Adam Dums, Emily Espinoza

21444A ibid p. 2 Dakota Fox, Caitlyn Fitzl, Marshall Fuchs, Armando Sosa, Karina Grissmeyer, Jayden Gustafson, Cassandra Halopka, Hunter Hamilton, Michael Hempe, David Hoffland, John Hoffland, Jacob Hollingsworth

21444B ibid p. 3 David Howard, Cole Klemann, Keesha Lucia, Kelli Lueck, Ajia Maki, Zachary Makovsky, Cody Matyka, Eliza Matyka, Patrick Matyka, Jesus Arenivas, Cullin Peterson, Erin Probst

21444C ibid p. 4 Joshua Probst, Kassie Quante, Brooke Scheithauer, Max Scheller, Sean Schreiner, Julie Schubert, Nicholas Starr, Katherine Strobach, Marshall Thums, Gracie Weinke, Kylie Weise, Hailey Wudi

21445 5/30/2018 8th Grade Recognition Night ceremony for Rib Lake Middle School – cover

21445A ibid p. 2 program

21445B ibid p. 3 8th grade class of 2018; Tyrek Annala, Boah Bixby, Logan Blomberg, Tia Bube, Mason Chmielowiec, Joshua Downing, Elizabeth Faucher, Kimberlee Frohling Kylee Goodrich, Courtney Guerrero, Samuel Gumz, Drake Hamilton, William Hartke, Brandon Heiser, Molly Heiser, Kyla Kennedy, Tiara Kestler, Trey Klemann, Johnathan Konrad, Jacob Matyka, Kristofer Monty, Owen Nowak, Lauren Pelnis, Damien Peterson, Michael Quednow, Reagan Reinhardt, Logan Rendell, Emily Rodman, Ryanna Schrader, Braylee Shafranski, Rebekah Strobach, Trinity Taylor, Jonathan Thums, Samantha Westfall, Emma Winter, Jordan Yanko

21445C P. 6-1-2018 8th grade graduation party cake for Rebekah Strobach

21446 Map Town 33N Range 4 East showing patent date and grantee. NG-William Patrick 1872, John Kennedy & Patrick Curran 1883

21446A Deed 11-1-1872 to William S. Patrick of Wayne County, Michigan, for the NE ¼ NE ¼, Section 2, T33N-R3E, and other lands, signed by US President Ulysses S. Grant. See image #21446 for identification of all lands conveyed, all of which are, in 2018, within the Taylor County Forest in the Town of Rib Lake. THIS DEED IS THE VERY FIRST CONVEYANCE OF REAL ESTATE FROM THE US GOVT IN CONGRESSIONAL TOWNSHIP 33 NORTH, RANGE 3 EAST, IN 2018 A PORTION OF THE TOWN OF RIB LAKE.

21447 Obit. 6-17-2018 Myrtle Blomberg, aka Mrs. Ivan Blomberg

21448 6-7-2018 “Wolf count is 905-944 in Wisconsin,” Star News

21449 Map 4-24-2018 “Westboro Community” by Frontier Telephone Co.

21449A ibid red letters show sites of A) John Duncan, James Ritchie & William Taylor sawmill; B) Land abstracted in image 21450; C) Westboro Lumber Co sawmill aka Heidrick & Matson Lumber Co

21450 Cover of Abstract of Title, part of SE SE 12-33-1E shown on map 21449A. Note only selected pages of abstract shown here

21450A ibid p. 1 legal description

21450B ibid p. 2 patent 5-20-1870 to William Rust

21450C ibid p. 3 John Owen affidavit

21450D ibid p. 4 7-2-1892 Deed to John Duncan

21450E ibid p. 5 11-27-1899 deed to Levi Heidrick and Emett Queen for whom Queenstown is named, 6-26-1900 deed from Heidrick & Matson Lumber Co

21450F ibid p. 6 10-22-1900 No. 15 Easement to Wisconsin Central Railway to built “spur track” on 30 foot strip to Heidrick & Matson Lumber Co’s new sawmill, lka Westboro Lumber Co; No. 16 12-28-190 similar easement from US Leather Co. which had acquired nearby tannery built by John Duncan

21450G ibid p. 7 5-18-1901 Will of Levi Heidrick of Pennsylvania

21450H ibid p. 8 7-19-1902 Deed by heirs Levi Heidrick to Heidrick & Matson Lumber Co.

21450I ibid p. 9 5-27-1900 Heidrick & Matson Lumber Co, a corporation, is created. “It’s purpose…shall be logging...building a logging railroad [Westboro & Northwester], buying & selling tan bark & merchandise; entry 23 8-12-1903 Heidrick & Matson Lumber Co deeds [sawmill in Westboro] for $140,000 to Josiah Howard; entry 24 1-21-1905 Josiah Howard, et ux, deed [sawmill at Westboro] to Westboro Lumber Co for $140,000

21450J ibid p. 10 Entry 28, 8-17-1920 Westboro Lumber Co. plats “Joseph’s second edition to Village of Westboro” for map

21450K ibid p. 11 Entry 31 10-31-1927 Judgment vacating logs 24-34 Joseph’s second addition to Westboro

21450L ibid p. 12 Map 11-1-1927 Joseph’s second addition to Westboro, Wis. shaded lots 24-34 were vacated by court order on 10-31-1927

21450M ibid p. 13 Entry 39 6-23-1980 Deed to Richard “Dick” Angelo & wife Vivyen – end of abstract

21451 Memo 6-8-2018 “Purpose in scanning image 21451 Abstract of Title by RPR.

21452 6-5-2018 Birthday card on his 73rd birthday to Robert Rusch from wife “Saint Ann,” nee Killion

21452A ibid p. 2

21453 2017-18 “Official directory of Taylor County – cover

21453A ibid p. 1 offices

21453B ibid p. 10 county board

21453C ibid p. 11 James Gebauer, Town of Greenwood & Ward 2, Town of Rib Lake; Rollie Thums, Ward 1, Town of Rib Lake

21453D ibid p. 42 officials of Village of Rib Lake; William Schreiner-president; trustees Keith Hanke, Russ Bullis, George Tesch, Jack Buksa, Vernell Van Hecker, Kimberly Peterson

21453E ibid p. 41 Town of Westboro; Jeff Peterson-chairman; Steve Peterson & Patrick Tlusty - board

21453F ibid p. 39 Town of Rib Lake; Joe Knorn-chair; Ben Bauer & Tom Wendt-board

21453G ibid p. 33 Town of Greenwood; James Gebauer-chair; Michael Wudi & Travis Fuchs-board

21453H ibid p. 52 population 2010; Town of Rib Lake 864; Village of Rib Lake 910; Westboro 684; Greenwood 638; Taylor County 20,689

21454 6-9-2018 Memo – the riddle of Ritchie or Reich Lake by R.P. Rusch, Manager, Rib Lake Historical Society, p. 1 A beautiful, small, pristine lake touches the Timms Hill Trail on the NE NW, Section 1, Town 33 North, Range 2 East; is its proper name Ritchie or Reich?

21454A ibid p. 2 The original government survey notes & maps, image 12912, says northing about the lake

21454B ibid p. 3 Map 1948 part of “Taylor Co” published by Marathon Map Service, Milwaukee. The second known map to show & name the lake Reich

21454C ibid, enlargement with arrow to lake

21454D p. 3 Memo Ritchie or Reich Lake

21454D-1 Memo 2-11-2017 by R.P. Rusch re Ritchie Lake aka Reich Lake

21454D-2 ibid bankruptcy of James Ritchie and his many timber contracts

21454D-3 ibid With Adolph Hitler’s coming to power, he used the terms “The Third Reich” and “Deutsches Reich” which both became household terms.

21454D-4 ibid I surmise that a US Geological survey doing work near Rib Lake for the 1947 US Quad was told by a local the lake was ‘discovered” by use of aerial photos was named Ritchie, which was mis-recorded as Reich

21454D-5 ibid Reich is not a local surname

21454E Map 1947 US Quad “Rib Lake,’ first known map to show a lake in NE NW 1-33-2E and label or name it “Reich Lake”

21454F 1935 German postage stamp “Reichsberufrweltkamp” The stamp uses “Deutsches Reich” German nation or German empire rather than Deutschland, “Germany”. During WWII the Milwaukee Journal, Wisconsin’s highest circulation newspaper, routinely printed the word “Reich” in reference to Germany.

21454G ibid p. 4 Alan Blomberg, life-long local resident, told Bob Rusch small lake in NE NW 1-33-2E was “Ritchie Lake” and it was named for “an early pine logger.”

21454H ibid p. 5 Evidence confirming and corroborating Alan Blomberg’s statement re Ritchie Lake; 1) 1874 construction of James Ritchie, et al, sawmill at Westboro; 2) Accounts in newspaper notes at reporting James Ritchie leading & active pine procuring for Westboro sawmill

21454I ibid p. 6 one mile distance between Ritchie Lake and headwaters of Silver Creek, down which Ritchie, et al, could drive logs

21454J ibid p. 7 Image 21283E is abstract entry 11-12-1874 contract by Wisconsin Central Railroad authorizing James Ritchie and his partners to cut pine on Wisconsin Central lands including 1-33N-R2E

21454J-1 Summary of agreement 11-12-1874 Wis. Central Railroad to John Duncan, James Ritchie & Wm. S. Taylor “Agreement for sale of all pine timber on lands of [Wis. Central RR] in Township 33 North, Range 2 East and other lands. Said timber to be cut and removed within 6 years from date [Nov. 12, 1874].”

21454K ibid p. 8 11-14-1874 Wisconsin Central pine contract with Ritchie

21454K-1 Map 1-1882

21454L Annotated map c. 1885 T33-R2E lands of James Ritchie highlighted pink, Wisconsin Central Railroad is yellow, Silver Creek is blue

21454M ibid p. 9 National Park Service, et al, recognizes & shows Ritchie Lake on its maps

21454N ibid p. 10 Pleasant one mile hike on Timms Hill Trail connects Ritchie Lake and parking at Rusch Preserve

21454O ibid Memo 6-9-2018 p. 11, addendum listing illustrations

21454P Map 6-6-2018 Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Trails including red line indicating Timms Hill Trail from Ritchie Lake southward to Rusch Preserve, public parking & trailhead on County Highway C

21454Q Map c. 1890 T33N-R2E showing in Section 1 Long Lake but none other. All Section 1 owned by John J. Kennedy

21454R Map T33N R1E, only Long Lake shown in Secton 1, All sEction 1 owned by H.G. Golderg

21454S Map 1916 C.H. Paetzole. In Section 1, 2E only Long Lake shown

21454T Map c. 1920 T33 R2E, original maker-source unknown; this page from T.C. Register of Deeds also scanned as 11267A. These “1920” maps erroneously show State Highway 102 running on west side of Section 24 33N 2E. As of 6-13-2018 no road has ever existed there. STH 102 should have shown on south side—RPR.

21454U ibid p. 12 Memo 6-9-2018 Continued Addendum listing illustrations

21454V Map 1925 by Star News, Medford, WI, T22N R2E. All of Section 1 owned by H.L. Gilbert. This map contains two errors, both pertaining to lake names. 1) In Section 1 the lake correctly shows as “Long Lake” in the 1913 map

21454W ibid p. 13 Memo 6-9-2018 Continued Addendum listing illustrations

21454X

21454Y

21454Z

21454AA ibid p. 14 Memo 6-9-2018 Conclusion

21454BB

21455 P. c. 1900 Martha Krushat age 4

21455A ibid back Emilie Krushat writes in German to friend Marie

Herbert & Joan Magnuson collection

21456 P. c. 1910 Johnson brothers of Town of Spirit use gas-powered drag saw to cut log into firewood lengths. Note-saw is halfway through log. Power is transferred from axle with fly wheels on both ends to axels of drag saw by two 5” wide belts

21456A portion of drag saw blade donated by Herb Magnuson

Robert P. Rusch collection

21457 Booklet c. 1940 “Among the Wisconsin State Parks & Forests,” Wisconsin Conservation Dept, 52 pages, original in Rib Lake Historical Society archives – cover

21457A ibid p. 15 Rib Mountain State Park features “the highest officially recognized point of land in Wisconsin, 1940 feet above sea level…”

21457B ibid photos – top of rock

21458 Visitor Guide for 2018-2019, Forest Springs, celebrating 60 years of ministry – cover

21458A ibid p. 1 history

21458B ibid p. 2 Photo of Dick Angelo, senior consultant

21458C ibid p. 3 four seasons

21458D ibid p. 4 calendar of events

21458E ibid p. 5 Outreach ministries

21458F ibid p. 6 staff photo

21458G ibid p. 7 sister facility, Oak Forest Center, a Christian retreat facility

21459 2018 “The World Walked on Milwaukee Leather,” Hemlock & Wisconsin’s Tanning Industry by John Bates, Wisconsin magazine of history – cover

21459A ibid First page of well-researched and well-written article by John Bates

21459B ibid p. 2

21459C ibid p. 3 heavy hides were used in the sole leather shoes and were exclusively tanned using hemlock tanbark. [Rib Lake tannery made sole leather – RPR 6-14-2018]

21459D ibid p. 4 Rib Lake Tannery method; it was owned by Fayette Delos Shaw

21459E ibid p. 5 The tanning process

21459F ibid p. 6 Pfister & Vogel, major Milwaukee tannery

21459G ibid p. 7 “Augustus Schulz patented his discovery of chromium salts for tanning in 1884. Chromium salts could replace tannin, and, most important, do the job in a matter of days not months …

21459H ibid p. 8 “the bottom dropped out of the leather market in 1920, due in part to changes in the leather industry, but also due to foreign market competition after WWI.” [The Rib Lake tannery permanently closed in 1922 – R.P. Rusch 6-14-2018]. End note #1 “hemlock contains 10-12 percent tannic acid.” Authority cited

21459I ibid back cover

21460 6-14-2018 “Pine Line use rules. Share the trail or lose the trail.” Star News editorial

21460A 2001 Logo, Pine Line Marathon

21460B The Pine Line, America’s most beautiful rail-trail. On c. 2000 t-shirt

21461 W. Bob Rusch’s Marathon & Ultra Marathon Log - cover

21461A ibid p. 1 log covers any event in which Bob Rusch went as far as 26.2 miles

21461B ibid p. 2 How to use this log

21461C ibid p. 3 Bob’s first marathon 8-1988 Hurley, WI Paavo Nurmi, 3 hours 48 minutes; Bob’s second marathon, Milwaukee, WI Lakefront on 10-2018

21461D ibid p. 4 [gap in coverage until 4-25-1993] Dairyland Marathon, Medford. Bob’s 38th event of least 26. 2 miles. In 6-1990 Bob finished his first 100 mile run, the Mohican in Ohio. In this log it is counted as event #17.

21461E ibid p. 5 6-25-1992 Western States 100, Placerville, CA, 29 hours 13 minutes

21461F ibid p. 6 with teammate Steve Clark, Bob ran & alternatively biked from Medford to Prentice on the Pine Line and back to Medford, 56 miles in 7 hours 56 minutes

21461G ibid p. 7 8-1-1993 participated in trans-American run

21461H ibid p. 8 1-27-1994 Crosby Park, Minnesota, did 50K snowshoe run-walk in 5 hours 36 minutes

21461I ibid p. 9 “Marathon” #77 9-1994 American Odyssey, Marathon City to Athens, 4 hrs 40 minutes

21461J ibid p. 10 Event #75 1-1995 Beargrease Snowshoe Marathon, Duluth, MN, 5 hrs 15 minutes; Event #78 Grandman’s Marathon 6-1995, 3 hrs 27 minutes 3 second; this time (his personal best) qualified Bob to run in Boston marathon centennial.

21461K ibid p. 11 4-15-1996 was 1 of 38,500 marathoners doing Boston marathon centennial

21461L ibid p. 12 9-20-1996 “I turned a corner, actually enjoyed this event” Lake Superior 100

21461M ibid p. 13 7-20-1997 completed his 8th running of Voyaguer 50 miler, Carlson, MN

21461N ibid p. 14 6-5-1998 Celebrating his 56th birthday, Bob runs event #109, Kettle Moraine 100 miler in 26 hours 38 minutes.

21461O ibid p. 15 9-1999 Event #117, Bob quit at mile 65 of Lake Superior. “I am no longer willing to pay the price necessary to finish a hundred miler.”

21461P ibid p. 16 Event #120 5-2000 Ice Age 50, Bob completes its 10th event, putting him into the coveted “Iceman” class.

21461Q ibid p. 17 9-10-2001 Bob finally finishing Lake Superior 100 for the 5th (and last) time, earning a special belt buckle. This is how Bob maintained the wherewithal to finish; he asked his daughter Robin to meet him at mile 90 and run with him to the finish. This meant that if Bob quit before mile 90 – as he had been doing lately – he would be standing up Robin, something he would never do.

21461R ibid p. 18 Event #133, 48k Birkebeiner ski race, Telemark, WI 2-2002

21461S ibid p. 19 Event #170 10-2008, Door County 50 mile road run, 9 hrs 42 min. smooth road runs are normally much easier and faster than trail runs

21461T ibid p. 20

21461U ibid p. 21 1-16-2010 Event #178, North Woods Snowshoe Marathon. I am the only person to do all 20 consecutive events at Duluth, MN. The race director, Barb Van Skike, had announced this would be the last running of this annual family reunion. I got a standing ovation at the awards ceremony. NB-after event #182 on 7-17-2010 University of Okoboji Marathon, Spirit Lake, Iowa, I stopped manually maintaining this log and initiated a computer version, RPR-Marathons & Ultras.

21461V 3-1991 Trail Races in Central Region

21462 T-shirt “200 Marathons and still going strong” to celebrate Bob Rusch’s 200th marathon.

21463 Ultra Running magazine cover, March 1991

21464 3-1991 “Do you want this buckle? Earn it. It’s not for sale at any price. Entry form for Ice Age Trail 50 mile run.

21465 1-19-1991 “Beargrease Snowshoe Marathon,” Ultra Running

21466 6-27-1992 “Western States 100 mile endurance run,” Ultra Running

21466A ibid p. 2 Bob Rusch #189 29;13;01

21466B ibid entry form

21467 8-17-1991 entry form, Leadville Trail 100

21468 6-17-2018 “We love you to pieces,” Fathers Day card from Bob Rusch’s daughters Robin Riggs & Kris Strobach and families

21469 2018 “No Farms, no food,” American family trust bumper sticker

21470 P. Helene’s Hilltop Orchard, LLC. Merrill, Wisconsin

21470A ibid back

21471 6-2018 “The Log Cabin News,” Taylor County Historical Society. Cover

21471A ibid p. 2 Jump River history. Broederville and the Stanley, Merrill & Phillips Railroad

21471B ibid p. 3 “history of the Village of Field”

21472 “Rib Lake” c. 1920 by Arthur J. Latton in Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Early Taylor County. P. 195. Latton’s first sentence is wrong regarding J.J. Kennedy’s arrival at Rib Lake. The Taylor County Star & News on 8-13-1881 reports the Kennedy brothers (including J.J. Kennedy) have a crew cutting a road to Rib Lake where they will build a mill. Image #18945 indicates the Rib Lake sawmill sawed its first log on 12-21-1881.

21472A ibid p. 197, “The first [Rib Lake] town board was Duncan McLennan, chairman; Chas. Seidel & Mr. Clausen, supervisors; and William Layman, assessor.” Duncan McLennan was J.J. Kennedy’s brother-in-law.

21472B ibid p. 198 “In 1897 [J.J. Kennedy made] an attempt was made to log by railroad, and the Nancy Hanks [a locomotive owned by the Wisconsin Central Railroad] was leased for that purpose but too many troubles developed, and the project was abandoned. Later, a [rail] road was built [in 1902 by the Wisconsin Central Railroad] toward Wood Lake and Spirit Falls. Three Spot, a freight engine was bough; experienced men maintained the road bed and this method proved to be the cheapest method of logging, and is till in use today.”

21472C ibid p. 199 The sawmill Kennedy built in 1897 in Rib Lake burned on July 7, 1914.

21472D ibid p. 200 P. Rib Lake High School baseball team of 1910

21472E ibid p. 201 Latton is wrong on another date. Fayette Delos Shaw began work on his Rib Lake tannery on 8-1-1891; it was in operation by 2-13-1892. See Newspaper Notes-RPR

21472F ibid P. “J.J. Kennedy, Founder of Rib Lake.” John J. Kennedy preferred and was routinely referred to as J.J.

21472G ibid p. 2013 Photos of Mrs. Carl Radtke, Mrs. John Gilge & Mrs. John Taylor

21472H ibid p. 2014 April 2, 1884 Rev. Bernard Ungroat, pastor of Immanuel Lutheran church in Medford went to Kennedy Mills, as it was then called, and organized the Lutherans of Rib Lake. J.J. Kennedy was arrested by his 3 brothers, Hugh, William and Angus. See “Kennedy’s – Movers and Shakers”

21472I ibid p. 205 The Mike Olah farm was in Section 16, T33N R2E. In 2013 is it owned by Richard & Peggy Olah. Early maps show this road connecting Westboro and Rib Lake by this farm.

21472J ibid p. 206 Photo of John Voemastek, co-founder of Rib Lake Herald and it long-time publisher.

21472K ibid p. 207 “When Rib Lake people used to come to Medford in the early days, they were the best equipped, best dressed and hat the finest horses, to be seen.”

21473 6-22-2018 postcard “Berlin” from Uta Klein to her cousin Robert P. Rusch

21473A ibid back text

21474 W. Eau Claire Lager beer – front of 6 pack. Beer was brewed in small Hibernia brewery until c. 1980, representative of local brewereies once common throughout Wisconsin

21474A ibid side $2.99

21474B ibid top

21475 Map 6-22-2018 Westboro sawmill sites by R.P. Rusch & approximate route of John Duncan tramway

21475A Story of C.H. Palmer & John Duncan log dispute of c. 1880 in Westboro

21475B ibid

21475C Map 7-1-2018 Sites of 5 sawmills in “village” of Westboro by R.P. Rusch on base map from 1913 Standard Atlas of Taylor County

21476 6-21-2018 Star News “Rib lake denies claim on residential sewage backup.” And village board grants 8 liquor licenses

21476A ibid “Rib Lake schools still optimistic about safety grants.” Wisconsin’s governmental response to massacre of students in Florida was appropriate. $100,000,000

21476B ibid Obit. Norman Vanderhoof 1927-2018. Norman has carefully preserved at his home in the Town of Spirit a c. 1900 stone arch bridge built by Simon Danielson.

21477 W. John Duncan’s Westboro 1879 tramway in Arthur Latton’s Reminiscenes in Taylor County, p. 134. In 1879 John Duncan builds a tramway, a “railroad” with wood “rails” to overcome snowless winters. Cards with concave wheels & pulled by horeses haul saw logs to Duncan, Ritchie & Taylor sawmill. See Map 6-22-2018, #21475

21478 “Reminiscenses and Anecdotes of Early Taylor County” by Arthur J. Latton. This 224 page hard cover book was the first published history of Taylor County. The date of publication is unknown but the author wrote; “We have tried to take our record of events up to 1920 but in some cases is has gone a few years beyond. Cover

21478A ibid p. 1 P. Arthur J. Latton

21478B ibid p. 2 Foreward

21478C ibid p. 3 P. “First house in Medford – built by A.E. Harder in 1872 – artist Chas. Wachtel”

21478D ibid p. 4 Title page, NB-Chapter on “Rib Lake” is image 21472

21478E ibid p. 209ff “Westboro” chapter. Wisconsin Central Railroad laid track through Westboro in 1873. The first sawmill built in Westboro was built by Clarence Palmer in 1874; in 1876 the second mill was built by John Duncan, James Ritchie and William S. Taylor.

21478F ibid p. 210 August Frank built a wind powered sawmill in Westboro

21478G ibid p. 211 Elias Urquhart came to Westboro and engaged in lumbering. He later did abstract & land selling

21478H ibid p. 212 “Grittner and Ruprich operated the big store business at Westboro.” In 1923 its impressive two story brick structure still stands in downtown Westboro on the west side of business STH 13.

21479 c. 1967 Ad “Hudson Bay Co. Fur Sales, Inc.” announces the re-opening of its mink receiving station, 111 E. Division St, Medford, Star News. This sturdy brick building was originally the Medford Telephone Co. office. Between 1980-2009 it was the office of Thomas & Robert Rusch, dba “Rusch & Rusch Law Office.”

21479A business card, Robert P. Rusch, Attorney at Law

21480 6-12-2018 L. Taylor County Literary Council announcing 2018 H.L. Kuse award to Robert P. Rusch.

21481 11-23-1934 Obit. Joseph Zondlo, Rib Lake Herald. He was the patriarch of the Zondlo family at Rib Lake. Surname “Sizurek” later Americanized to Surek.

21482 c. 1910 Catalog advertisements for farm machinery by Montgomery Ward & Co., Chicago. Cover

21482A ibid p. 24 “Climax steel drag scraper.” $3.40 and up

21482B ibid “Climax Wheeled Scrapers” $25.75

21482C ibid p. 3 Mower $33.95

21482D ibid hay loader $43.75

21482E ibid p. 4 All steel tedder

21482F ibid stump pullers $13.65 yo $53.75 illustration

21482G ibid free trial warranty

Herb & Joan Magnuson collection

21483 8-8-2018 Herb Magnuson’s 90th birthday party at Zondlo’s Bar & Ballroom

21483A ibid back, photo of Herb and Joan Magnuson

21484 Map plat c. 1895, Sec. 30, T34N R3E, Carol J. Magnuson farm between Spirit and Stone Lakes. The farm is highlighted in yellow and in 2018 is the residence of Herb & Joan Magnuson

21485 Photos from Harry Magnuson, father of Herb, family album c. 1938; L-R Aileen, Lester & Herbert Magnuson c. 1935

21485A ibid p. Magnuson children in front of the house

21485B ibid p. Magnuson family 1937 Dodge

21485C ibid p. 1932 Harry Magnuson & children Herb & Aileen. Note beautiful cropped hay field in 50 years created from forest.

21485D ibid c. 1932 Hand colored photo of Harry Magnuson and children Herb & Aileen with unknown man; Harry’s 1932 Dodge is parked on bridge over “Magnuson Creek.” View looks to the northwest in SE NE 30, 34N R 3E. In 2018 road is Forest Drive

21486 Plat map 1963-part of Town of Spirit, Price County, WI, T34 R 4E. Red arrow shows camera pointed in preceeding photo, #21485D. Lester & Herb Magnuson, dba Magnuson Bros. Farm then pelted as many as 55,000 mink annually

21487 c. 1930 Photos from Harry Magnuson family album; L-R Jenni Magnuson, nee Jacobson, aka Mrs. Harry Magnuson, Lester, Aileen, Harry & Herb Magnuson going to church.

21487A ibid 1935 L-R Herb, Lester, Aileen Magnuson

21487B ibid c. 1940 hand colored photo, Aileen, Lester & Herb Magnuson at Lake Wausau

21487C ibid c. 1935 Foxes in pens on Harry Magnuson fur farm, Town of Spirit

21487D ibid c. 1935 Aileen & Herb Magnuson hold tame foxes.

21487E ibid Harry & Aileen Magnuson & Elmer Gilge holding silver fox pelts. Note white tipped tails. In 1917 Harry Magnuson paid $2,000 to Fromm Bros. for a breeding pair of silver fox and started the long and successful Magnuson farms.

21487F ibid c. 1970. Rib Lake School students visit Magnuson Bros. Farm. Herb holds his pet badger, “Sweetie Pie.”

21487G ibid W. May 1958, “Mortuary science alumnum mink rancher by his own choice,” US Fur Rancher. P. top L-R Herb & Lester Magnuson; bottom parents Harry & Jenni Magnuson

21487G-1 ibid p. 2

21487H 1958 aerial photo of residence & fur farm of Mr. & Mrs. Harry Magnuson & sons Herb & Lester. Rows of mink sheds, “Magnuson Bros. Farm.” North ½ SW ¼, 34 North Range 3 East.

21488 P. c. 1930 Funeral of Donald Blomberg at Garden of Memories Cemetery, view looks east across CTH C.

21489 Magnuson Family Tree, “Descendants of Magnus Grans.” NB-Carl J. Magnuson settled in 1879 on North ½ SE ¼, Section 30, T33N, R3E, Town of Brannon (now Spirit), Price County, Wis. see map #21484. According to Herb magnuson, his surname Magnuson was created when Carl J. was born, the son of Magnus Jonsson (1818-1868). Carl J. Magnuson’s great-grandfather was Magnus Grans.

21489A ibid p. 2 Generation #6, Herbert Magnuson (b. 1928), named for President Herbert Hoover, then in office

21490 Magnuson family history, “The Magnusons, my dad’s family” by Eric Edward Magnuson, son of Herb & Joan Magnuson.

21490A ibid p. 2

21490B ibid Carl J. Magnsuon & wife Fredricka, nee Danielson. She was the sister of Simon Danielson, skilled stone mason who built fieldstone arch bridges and settled just north of Carl J. See Map #21484

21490C ibid c. 1900 top row-Harry Magnuson & sister Tillie; bottom row-Carl J. & Fredricka Magnuson

21490D ibid c. 1950 Mr. & Mrs. Harry & Jenni Magnuson in their home

End of Magnuson collection

21491 P. 1895 “Beam and Yard Crew of Shaw Tannery, Perkinstown, Wis. 1895 by Dake”

21492 2018 patch “Ice Age Trail” The Ice Age National Scenic Trail in 2018 runs east-west through all of Rib Lake and most of of the Town of Westboro.

21493 6-12-2018 postcard, Ice Age Trail Alliance to RPR. 60th anniversary celebration of the Ice Age Trail.

21493A ibid back

21494 “2018”

21495 7-3-2018 book inscription, RPR to stepson Jim Dillon

Karen Meier collection

21496 Map c. 7-4-2018 Szubin, Poland, until 1918 Schubin, Province of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire. Siegfried Meier immigrated from Schubin 8-1857 and to Town of Brannan (now Spirit), Price County in c. 1884. Siegfried is the patriarch of the local Meier family

21496A Map 1882 Province of Posen, Prussia, German Empire, from Blackie & Sons Atlas, Village of Schubin highlighted in yellow

21497 W. US Dept of Labor, Immigration & Naturalization Service, showing Siegfried Meier arrived in New York on 8-1897 and became US citizen 2-2-1888 at Milwaukee, WI

21498 6-25-1889 patent, NW ¼ 26-34-3E, USA to Siegfried Meier; entry #2 5-1-1889 Siegfried Meier deeds land for Liberty School

21499 7-4-2018 Thom, Zuhlke & Martwick families immigrated to Town of Brannan (now Spirit) because of Siegfried Meier per Kasey Meier

21500 7-10-2018 Siegfried Meier descendants list to Kasey & Pastor Mike Meier

21501 Saved for Meier family tree

RPR collection

21502 2018 “Wabeno’s Historic Phoenix Log Hauler,” [steam hauler] pamphlet by Wabeno Park Commission, Wabeno, Wisconsin, page 1

21502A ibid p. 2 mechanical specifications, 100 horsepower, 200 pounds pressure of steam capable to run 6-8 mph

21502B P. 7-2018 Steam hauler owned by Town of Wabeno Park Board with name of former owner on side “G.W. Jones Lumber Co, Wabeno, Wis.” Placcard on steam hauler entitled “1901 Phoenix log hauler…” Shortly after picture was taken by Everett A. Rusch, a 3 man crew of volunteers took this steam hauler, under its own power, on a display ride for the public at 2-3 mph. The next day the steam hauler was a star as it took part in a July 4 parade down Main Street, Wabeno. The pictured machine is the similar to one owned by the Rib Lake Lumber Co, which made its last run from Camp 9 nera Hultman Lake just before spring breakup in 1922.

21502C P. 7-5-2018 by Joan Magnuson of 1901 steamer on display at Wabeno, WI, town park. Normally the steam hauler is in static display in the roofed shed just behind the machine. Nota bene; After the Wabeno Town Board acquired the steam hauler in 1935, the front runners were replaced by twin steel wheels to allow summer operations. When the steam hauler was used in logging it ran on snow or specially built ice roads. In 2018 one of the front runners of the RLLC steam hauler is on public display at Kuehling’s kiost at Rusch Preserve in the Town of Rib Lake.

21502D ibid, Herb & Joan Magnuson in front of 1901 steam hauler; placcard reads “1901 Phoenix Log Hauler. Powered by four steam engines (sic; should say pistons). 100 horse power capable of speeds 6-8 mph. Weighs 18 tons, can pull 25 sleighs of logs. Boiler tested at 240 lbs. safety valve set at 125 lbs. snow-ice runners have been replaced by steel wheels.”

21502E ibid

21503 1990 Phoenix Steam hauler, P. Wabeno Park Commission

21503A ibid p. 2 steam hauler is operated each year at logging exposition and at steam up days.

Gerald Rusch collection

21504 P. c. 1949 Rib Lake Lumber Co. steam locomotive 101 sits in former dry yard of RLLC at Rib Lake, Wis. This locomotive on Friday, May 21, 1948, pulled its last train of logs from RLLC Camp 28 in the Town of Corning, Lincoln Co, WI, to the Rib Lake sawmill. It was the last load, ending railroad logging first tried at Rib Lake by John J. Kennedy. According to railroad historian James Kaysen. The Rib Lake Lumber Co. logging railroad was the last to operate in Wisconsin.

21504A 7-6-2018 Explanatory notes of photographer Gerald Rusch to RPR. The photo looks northward

21505 W. “Wilderness Bike Trails” Forest Springs 2018, page 1

21505A ibid p. 2 Map of trail system

21506 W. “The Quiet Places at Forest Springs,” p. 1

21506A ibid p. 2 Camp legend

21507 W. “Home coming staff alumni weekend,” Sept. 21-23, 2018, p. 1

21507A ibid p. 2 Schedule. Celebrate founders of Forest Springs in 1958.

21508 W. “Man Camp,” Sept. 28-30, 2018, Forest Springs

21508A ibid p. 2

21509 W. “Refresh, a retreat for women,” March 29-31, 2017, Forest Springs, p. 1

21509A ibid p. 2

21510 “Whittlesey Lions Park 2018 baseball & softball schedule,” cover

21510A ibid p. 1 officers, Dedication to Mike Roiger

21510B ibid p. 3 t-ball

21510C ibid p. 5 9-10 year old boys

21510D ibid p. 7 11-12 year old boys

21510E ibid p. 13 10-12 year old girls

21510F ibid p. 23 Men’s Taylor County Sportsman League

21510G ibid p. 27 Dairyland Baseball

Jake Walzciak collection

21511 Map 7-10-2018 RLLC Camp 4 (1906-1913) site at green dot. Ice Age Trail is yellow line. White lines are Taylor County forest roads

21511A 2017 Aerial photo of Wood Lake. Yellow line is contour line 5 feet above level of Wood Lake, which is the purported flowage level crated by the Joseph Dessert Lumber Co. logging dam. Dessert logged the environs; piled the logs on the frozen lake and in spring opened the dam and, with its gush of water, drove logs down Wood Creek to the Rib River to the Wisconsin river and southward to its sawmill at Mosinee, WI.

21512 Map 7-11-2018 Log drive water route between Wood Lake & Joseph Dessert Lumber Co. sawmill at Mosinee, WI, on 2017 Wisconsin State Highway map.

21513 P. Dam on Jump River c. 1900, probably in Town of Westboro. View looks upstream. The dam had several features right to left; A) earth embankment from shore to three openings where gates (not shown) controlled water level. A person stands on the embankment. A timber lays ajar between the walls of the first opening, suggesting the dam has been damaged; B) a largely underwater base of lumber or timbers runs from embankment to embankment supporting the twin towers; C) wood planks are affixed to the wood base between the two center towers to serve as a slide to get floating saw logs through the dam; D) behind the dam & upstream are two log cribs; a chain of logs linked together by chains had stretched between the cribs and extended to the left tower guiding saw logs to the opening between the tower; E) to the left of the dam super structure and swale, i.e. depression exists in the earth fill of the embankment. At its base crib of logs served as a foundation. This may have been a water spillway.

21514 P. c. 1915 “Lone Rock, Rib River, Souvenir from Rib Lake, Wis. Photo by Brown.” View upstream of part of the Dells of Rib River, N ½ 30 T31N R4E, Lincoln County, Wis.

21515 Map 7-13-2018 RLLC camps 1, 18 & 19, Dells of Rib River and former Fromm Brothers Fur Farm on c. 2010 Lincoln Co. plat map by RPR

21516 P. c. 1915 New Union Depot, Chicago, IL

21516A ibid, backside text, depot will serve 4 railroads; 1) Pennsylvania; 2) Chicago, Burlington & Quincey; 3) Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul (“The Milwaukee Road”); 4) Chicago & Alton.

21517 7-9-2018 Real estate listing, land on Timms Hill Trail, owner Lyle & Kathy Blomberg, 40 acres “Hike to the Ice Age Trail”

21517A ibid p. 2 Map, listed property outlined in red

Collection of Margaret Lee

21518 P. 6-1-2018 framed pressed plants; top row L-R; A) maiden hair fern; B) wild geranium; C) maidenhair fern; bottom row D) blood root; E) ferns; F) grass. Margaret residees in Decature, Georgia and collected these plants in the Town of Rib Lake

21519 6-2018 Ad “Memoir writing in 6 easy steps,” long line writing course offered by Rib Lake resident Sue Roupp.

21519A Business card of Sue Roupp

21519B ibid back side

21520 2-11-2003 L. RPR to Wisconsin Woodland Owners association, “My next submission for publication.” For 30 years, 1978-2008, RPR wrote a column, “Ask the Attorney,” published in the quarterly magazine of WWOA.

21520A ibid p. 2 “The [DNR] may change the designation of a stream from non-navigable to navigable.”

21520B ibid p. 3 “What is the modern test of navigability.”

21520C ibid p. 4 the doctrine of equitable estoppel

21520D ibid p. 5 summary.

21521 P. 3-2002 Newly constructed wildlife pond on Ann & Bob Rusch homesite; SE NE 13-33-2E. In back, “Twin towers,” tall spruce & tall white pine tree.

21521A ibid “Three headed spruce road.”

21521B ibid “Lost log loake,” a natural sedge meadow.

21522 5-20-2002 “Well construction report.” by Brunner Well Drilling of Medford, at home of Ann & Bob Rusch, SE NE 13-33-2E. List of different soil types found; 1-18”=clay; 18-23”=gravel; 23-31”=blue clay’ 31-76”=hard pan; 76-89”=sandy clay; 89-93”=sand & gravel

21523 Pin “Still Alive in 65; Rib Lake, Wisc” in center, side view of #30 1957 Chevrolet stock car driven by highly successful Rib Lake resident Marlin “Shoes” Walbeck. The title “still alive” is a reference to the momentus closure of the RLLC sawmill on 6-4-1948, last sawlog sawed, and the fears that Rib Lake might become a ghost town.

21524 Envelope from Everett Rusch to his brother Bob Rusch, postdated 7-12-2018. Since Ev served in US Marine Corps (1949-1952) he longer wrong longhand in cursive style, rather, block printing.

21524A ibid enclosure explanation of job of “cruisers,” aka land lookers, in preparation to log virgin timber in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

21524B Map 7-15-2018 “Horseshoeing a forty,” a three sided rectangle inside a 40 acre land parcel, i.e. 1320x1320’ in which land cruiser would hike, stopping 8 times to tally, i.e. estimate the timber types, quality and number of board feet of lumber

21525 W. 8-2018 “Rib Lake Lawn Mix” turn grass seed mixture sold at Rib Lake Roller Mill

21525A ibid back side “limited warranty”

21526 Flyer 1-1-1995 “Rib Lake area recycling – mandatory recycling program” The recycling center uses old Rib Lake creamery building at junction of Church Street & State Road

21526A ibid p. 2

Doreen Eldred collection

21527 P. c. 1920 Desolate log cabin built on a hill with walk in entrance to its basement which also served as a root cellar. “Taylor County, The Log Cabin County.” This motto was adopted by the Taylor County Board of Supervisors in c. 1976

21528 5-2015 “Stories from Stone Lake” by Herb Magnuson. Herb’s father, Harry, ran a fox farm in the Town of Spirit and bought a huge but gentle horse, “Dan,” that pulled tram cars for the Rib Lake Lumber Co.

21528A ibid. Copy of story with two corrections in red made by Bob Rusch on 7-20-2018

21529 P. c. 1900 “Greetings from Ogema, Wis.” collage of 8 small photos “Brown Bros. Publishers, Minneapolis 364”

21529A ibid P. sawmill & mill pond

21529B ibid P. cemetery bridge

21529C ibid p. East side Main Street looking south

21529D ibid P. Lutheran Church & parsonage, aka First Lutheran Church

21529E ibid P. Wisconsin Central Depot, Smith residence & school house

21529F ibid P. East side Main Street looking north

21529G ibid P. Ottertail spring

21529H ibid P. Baptist Church & residence of C.H. Loftquist

21530 P. c. 1910 “Business Street, Ogema, Wis.” with 1-man biplane dubbed into photo. View looks south on Main Street

21530A ibid, back post stamp 9-8-1912. Text “Brother Oscar. I was out in the auto this morning. Your sister Hannah.” Addressed to Oscar Carlson, Brule, WI

George Sandul collection

21531 7-22-2018 “Wisocnsin’s Highest Point is a quiet escape.” Wausau Daily Herald, p. 1

21531A ibid p. 2 top half

21531B ibid p. 2 bottom half

21531C ibid part 3

21532 c. 2018 “Native American Tourism of Wisconsin,” brochure by Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, cover, p. 1

21532A ibid p. 2

21532B ibid p. 3 Table of Contents

21532C ibid p. 5 Bad River Bank of Lake Superior Chippewa (Anishinable People). The Anishinable are a diverse tribe with reservations in Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsula, Minnesota and the Province of Ontario. They probably were the dominant tribe in what became Taylor County in 1875.

21532D ibid p. 6 Photo of Indian dancer

21532E ibid p. 7 Forest County, WI, Potawatomi. A bank of Potawatomi settled at the “Indian Farm” in the Town of Westboro afer it returned to Wisconsin after its forced move to Kansas. See #17633 & 21533.

21533 1-2017 “Indians of Taylor County – The Indian Farm,” Log Cabin News, newsletter of the Taylor County Historical Scoiety, by Mary Schultz, page 1, 8-7-1897 editor of Taylor County Star & News reports about 100 Indians on the south fork of the Yellow River

21533A ibid p. 2

21533B ibid p. 3 smallpox epidemic. NB-see folder at “Newspaper Notes” for verbatim newspaper accounts re Taylor County Indians

21534 P. c. 1950 “Scene at Westboro, Wis. 427” view looking north showing STH 13 crossing Silver Creek bridge, “Village” of Westboro at horizon, Soo Line railroad track faintly seen at right (east), and east of railroad is brick building of cheese factory.

21535 c. 1900 book of matches, “Lakewood Credit Union,” “Savings insured up to $100,000” Rib Lake

21535A ibid back “The place to save – the place to borrow…because you own it.”

21535B ibid inside 14 of 16 matches “thank you”

21536 P. “Wood Duck” from 2018 National Audubon Society. For years the Rib Lake Fish & Game Club has given away free wood duck houses to anyone who promises to put it up.

21536A ibid

21536B ibid text

21537 1-1-2004 Stewardship Forestry Plan – Managed Forest lands, NW SW 13-33-2E, Meade M. Dillon, et ux, Wis. Dept of Natural Resources, page 1

21537A ibid Key to forest cover symbols

21537A-1 ibid enlargement of forest cover map NW SW 13-33-2E in red, Bob Rusch has printed forest types.

21537B ibid, page 2, stand 1 (northern hardwoods) practices for 2023 – mandatory & optional

21537C ibid p. 4, practices for pine plantations

21537D ibid p. 5 “Acts of God”

21537E ibid p. 6 summary

21537F ibid 7-18-2013 land exam

21537G ibid land acreage 38.01

21537H ibid DNR approval

21537I ibid map

21538 W. “Timeline of events re NE NW 13-33-2E, Town of Rib Lake, in 2018 owned by Max Dillon, Charlestown, S. Carolina, by Bob Rusch, step-father and de facto land manager

21539 2018 “Unique Discovery along Ice Age Trail,” Chips & Sawdust newsletter of Forest History Association of Wisconsin, spring-summer edition by Bob Rusch - cover

21539A ibid p. 1 Photo of Jake Walcisak pointing to slusher ridge on 11-26-2015

21539B ibid p. 2 photo of slusher and map

21539B-1 ibid color version of map

21539C ibid p. 3 directions to site

21540 c. 2018 Rib Lake Legacy Wall by Rib Lake Booster Club

21540A ibid p. 2 soliciations-fundraiser for new bleachers

21541 Tannery Creek Parkway, home of ball diamond in Village of Rib Lake, photo of backstop

21541A fundraiser for backstop and fencing project 2018

21542 8-30-2018 Affidavit of Herberg Magnuson on misnaming Ritchie Lake on 1944 United States Quadrangle Map entitled Rib Lake

21542A ibid p. 2

21543 c. 2018 “Help us continue to improve and keep the Spirit Lakes healthy” Spirit Lake Improvement Association

21543A ibid p. 2 membership application, history of projects funded

21544 2018 business card, “Rib Lake School District” side one

21544A ibid side 2, “The Rib Lake Way”

21545 8-2018 newsletter “Rib Lake School District” p. 1

21545A ibid p. 2 special needs vouchers

21545B ibid p. 3 food service

21545C ibid p. 4 transporation by bus

21545D ibid p. 5 4-year-old kindergarten

21545E ibid p. 6 athletics

21545F ibid p. 7 school board members

21545G ibid p. 8 notices

21545H ibid p. 9 calendar

21545I ibid “Looking forward, start of school year brings new principal, district administrator,” Star News, photo of Rick Cardey, principal

21545J ibid p. 2 top

21545K ibid p. 2 bottom

21545L 8-1-2018 “School Claim misleads,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Governor Scott Walker’s school claims are “misleading”

21545M ibid p. 2

21546 8-30-2018 Literacy awards, Star News. Photo of Bob Rusch as he receives H.L. Kuse award from Taylor County Literacy Council president Joseph Greget

21547 P. 8-30-2018 front view of H.L. Kuse award & text “L.H. Kuse award presented to Robert Rusch for his efforts to preserve the rich history of Taylor County, WI, August 21, 2018.”

21547A ibid text

21547B ibid, back view, 2017-2018 “Wisconsin Blue Blook.” NB-pages have been hand folded to form the word “inspire.”

21548 8-25-2018 Email, Bob Rusch to Cathy Retzor re H.L. Kuse award. Cathy’s history of the Taylor County Literacy Council formed in 2014.

21549 6-5-2018 Email, Joseph Greget to Bob Rusch re H.L. Kuse award

21549A 6-5-2018 biography of Robert Rusch prepared by Taylor County Literacy Council

21549B 6-6-2018 autobiography of Robert Rusch prepared for Taylor County Literacy Council p. 1

21549B-1 ibid, p. 2 summary of user friendly, word searchable collection of Rib Lake Historical Society website,

21550 2018 “German Settlement, Yesterday House, Liberty School, the Machine Shed,” Taylor County Visitors’ Guide

21550A ibid p. 2 Liberty School built in 1919.

21551 8-12-2018 “Gottesdienst” (church service) at St. John Luteran Church, Rib Lake. Invitation to attend a German church service during Ice Age Days

21551A ibid bilingual, English & German, church service including liturgy & sermon. NB-St. John Lutheran was a German speaking congregation for many years, p. 1

21551B ibib, pgs 2 & 3, opening hymn & liturgy

21551C ibid, pgs 4 & 5, epistle & hymn

21551D ibid, pgs 6 & 7 gospel

21551E ibid, pgs 8 & 9 sermon

21551F ibid, pgs 10 & 11 offering & prayer

21551G ibid p. 12 closing hymn

21552 P. c. 1930 View of South Harper Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. No. C-15. View south from town road which became Rustic Road No. 1. The field in foreground is grass hayfield for the Mike & Helen Schmidt farm, then operating on hilltop behind photographer. Forest on horizon is young, just recovering from clear-cutting and forest fire

21553 8-20-2018 Fragment of pine stump removed from woods in SW NE 13-33-2E, Town of Rib Lake. Black charcoal still clearly visible on fragment from one or more forest fires following pine logging c. 1881-1891. According to Robert Rusch, charcoal evidence like this can be found throughout the Rib Lake area in 2018.

21554 8-7-2018 Bill for $38.75 for records of Taylor County Clerk of Court office

21555 Affidavit of Detective Aemus M. Balsis in support of application for search warrant; property at 832 McComb Ave, Village of Rib Lake, “Drink Slingers Tavern”

21555A ibid p. 2

21555B ibid p. 3

21555C ibid p. 4

21555D ibid p. 5

21555E ibid p. 6

21556 Search warrant for Drink Slingers Tavern

21556A ibid p. 2 signature of Honorable Ann N. Knox-Bauer, 4-5-2018

21557 Search warrant return served 4-5-2018 at 832 McComb Ave, “Drink Slingers Tavern,” Detailed list of items seized

21558 4-23-2018 Criminal Complaint, State of Wisconsin v Earl R. Soderman, Ct. 1-possession with intent to deliver tetrahydracannabinols (the chemically active agent in marijuana), Class I felony, fine of not more than $10,000

21558A ibid

21558B ibid

21558C ibid

21558D ibid

21558E ibid

21558F ibid

21558G ibid

21558H ibid

21558I ibid

21559 8-2018 Cartoon “Benny the barber says…Why didn’t Noah swat those two mosquitoes?” published in Your Wisconsin magazine

21560 2011 “Geology of the Ice Age National Scenic Trail,” by David Mickenson, et al, cover (all used with permission) The University of Wisconsin Press

21560A ibid p. 299 map 2011 RLLC Camp 27 & route of Ice Age Trail shown in red

21560B ibid p. 300 map 2011 Figure 232 topography of Timberland Wilderness Segment of IAT. IAT shown by red line. Site of RLLC Camp 26-green arrow; site of Wilderness Fire Tower-blue arrow. All railroad grades of RLLC

21560C ibid p. 311, Figure 233 “Wood Creek Segment”

21560D ibid p. 202 Map 2011 Figure 233, topography of Western Wood Lake Segment of IAT

21560D-1 Figure 234

21560E ibid p. 304 “Chippewa Lobe-Ice Age Trail Segments”

21560F ibid p. 305 Map 2011 Ice Age Trail Segments of Taylor County

21560G ibid p. 306, Map 2011 Bedrock geology of NW Wisconsin

21560H ibid p. 307 Map 2011 Ice flow directions of Wisconsin glacier over what is now Taylor County

21560I ibid p. 308. P. Blue Hills Felschmeer

21560J ibid p. 309 Rib Lake segment of IAT, Timms Hill National Trail

21560K ibid p. 310 Map 2011 Figure 239 topography of Rib Lake Segment. Dashed blue line indicates maximum extent of Wisconsin glacier

21560L ibid p. 311 Map 2011 Figure 240, Topography of Timms Hill Trail –northern part.

21561 c. 1995 logo-Timms Hill Trail; Ice Age National Scenic Trail from shirt with gray background

21562 5-3-2018 IAT, Timms Hill Trail trail journal at Keuhling Kiosk, Rustic Road No. 1, Rusch Preserve; entry by Bob Funk

21562A ibid 7-14-2018 “Love the spirit that builds this trail.” Signed Kurt, Madison, WI

21562B ibid 8-20-2018 to 9-5-2018

21563 Running t-shirts for events done by Bob Rusch, 7-1988 Paavo Nurmi marathon, Hurley, WI, Bob’s first marathon

21563A 8-1991 Leadville Trail 100, “The race across the sky,” starts and ends at Leadville, Co, elevation 10,152 feet above sea level and it goes up. Finishing time was 18 hours 18 minutes – top

21563A-1 ibid bottom

21563A-2 elevation chart

21563B ibid, 1993 “Trans-America Foot Race. Bob & Jim Sisko ran one segment in Illinois to provide moral support for the runners from Los Angeles to New York, including good friend Lorna Michaels.

21563C ibid 1-15-1994 Beargrease Snowshoe Marathon, Duluth, MN. This 26.2 mile run on snowhsoes was an annual event 1989-1999. Bob was the only person who completed each of them, including one which had a temperature of -30 degrees at the start

21563D ibid, Pine Line Marathon was first called the Dairyland and began in 1991. Bob & Ann Rusch were its founders and first race directors. As of 2018 it is still held the fourth Saturday in April and is headquartered in Medford

21563E ibid 9-9-2001 Lake Superior 100 mile trail run. Bob’s 12th and final 100 mile run.

21563F ibid 6-27-1992 Western States 100 mile; this was the most prestigious ultra marathon in America and the most difficult to get into. First, you must do a qualifying run; second, your name must be drawn in a lottery.

21564 Postcard 1950 double stone arch bridge by Simon Danielson at outlet of Little Spirit Lake

21564A ibid back

21565 9-27-18 Star News, Elizabeth Simurdiak, Taylor County Educator of the Month

21566 P. c. 1905 McComb Ave., view north from James Upjohn drug store (in 2018 the Ultimate Illusion hair salon, 713 Mccomb Ave.) text-5-1-1907. “X is where we now live and is where our new buiding is being built, between those two buildings.” NB-the horizontal line on the horizon is the top of a huge pile of hemlock bark piled at the tannery

21566A postcard stamped at Rib Lake from Milton, WI post office on May 1907 10 AM.

21567 P. c. 1910 76 McComb Ave, Rib Lake. View north from the railroad tracks showing all buildings in Block D, McComb’s Racing Park Addition to the Village of Rib Lake. Buildings starting with closest to photographer: A) North half of D3 & South half of D4, George Baun real estate office, in 1950 Donald Thielke’s dry cleaning, on 4-16-1959 Robert Melaski’s tire & chainsaw store, building razed in c. 1990, new buiding constructed which is occupied in 2018 by Jim & Chris Mann d/b/a Mann Made Pizza, 709 McComb Ave; B) D4 James Upjohn, dba Upjohn Drug Store, in 1922 he hired Marquette University graduate Anna May Kennedy, dba Upjohn & Kennedy. In 2018 building is Ultimate Illusion salon, 713 McComb Ave. C) D5 Mr. M.L. Lemon, his stationery dated 10-23-1903 provides “M.L. Lemon, dealer in furniture, notions & undertakings.” Photo #19390A. In 2018 it is Nicolet National bank, 712 McComb Ave. D) D6 Voemastek building where J.J. Voemastek published the Rib Lake Herald & wife Emma sold millinery. In 1950 Mauch dental office, later residence of Mary & Ray Becker. In 1969 wood building razed & State Bank of Medford opened attractive bank, building in 2018 is part of Nicolet National Bank. E) D7 Oliver Forseth & Arndt Herrum, tailors. Building sold in 1930 to Peer Beck dba Beck’s Tavern. A succession of tavern owners; John Freeck, 1950-51, Ed Tellier, Southwell Rosenfeldt, George Buksa, Jr. dba George’s Go-Go Bar in 1967. In 2018 buildign still stands but vacant, last operated as the Frosted Mug. F) D8 In 1903 buildign built by Alram Sargent, harness maker. ON 2-23-1950 Lehman-Clendenning American Legion Post 274 buys & converts building into its headquarters. Post razed building in 2017 & is building a new attractive building. G) D9 and south half of D10. On 2-21-1901 A.C. McComb and wife Ella sell to Rib Lake Camp No. 890 Modern Woodmen of America (a lodge). #15522 dated 11/27/1907 reports Rib Lake Band & Orchestra Assoc. will put on a dance at “The Opera House.” ON 4-2-1909 Ole A. Peterson buys building & Operates a popular “Opera house” upstairs, i.e. meetings, dances, school events, while his brother Oscar operates “Busy Bee Café” downstairs. In Great Depression Ole goes bankrupt and loses property. IN 2018 building still stands and features popular Birds Nest Tavern, 729 McComb

21567A ibid back side of postcard

21568 c. 1910 McComb Ave, VRL, southward from Fayette Ave. On right side beginning closes to photographer, Thomas Brehm’s “Brehm’s Flour & Feed Store,” in 2018 buildign in a apartment at 827 McComb Ave; next-Dr. Smith dentist’s office in Joseph & George Kelnhofer general store which opened in 1898, in 2018 buiding owned by Roger Zondlo, dba Zondo’s IGA, 801 McComb Ave. Left side-beginning with closes to photographer, A) Frank Tauber’s tavern, Block B, Lot 10. In 2018 building houses Drink Slingers Bar, Earl Soderman, owner, 832 McComb Ave. B) Shoe Store, 828 McComb Ave. building razed in 2008 by Rodney Strobach. C) Lone w-story buiding, lots 6 & 7, Block B, built in 1903 by Hiram Sargent, harness maker, later sold to John Voemastek, editor of Rib Lake Herald, he lived upstairs and published newspaper downstairs. Later George Braun used upstairs where they also ran a pool hall and bowling alley. In 2018 the site is Genesis Youth Center. D) Edwin “Ed” Johnson Hardware Store. B5, sold out to a succession of owners, including Tom Carroll, dba Coast-to-Coast store. Building razed c. 1980. IN 2018 part of Genesis Youth Center.

21569 P. c. 1915 Westboro Main Street, view north past “Hotel Lundeen, Auto livery, Inc.” On horizon is steeple of First Lutheran Church

21569A P. c. 1940 Westboro Main Street (then STH 13) “Corner Store” on IGA grocery store, stands in SE corner of STH 13 & CTH D.

21570 Spirit Lake History – Spirit Lakes booklet compiled by Carl Rhody, published 9-20-2018 in “Log Cagin News” newsletter of Taylor County

21570A ibid p. 2 1908-1912 Ole Peterson ran logging & tan bark camp on Spirit Point, its site was the Herman Rusch cabin 1957-1989. Ole drove pine down Spirit River, the last log drive in Price County.

21570B ibid p. 3 in 1960 Rib Lake Fish & Game Club replaced old driving dam on Spirit Lake outlet with concrete dam.

21571 1885 Census report. Taylor Co. population was 5703, a gain of 3392 from 1880 census; 3133 were whitemales, 2537 white females. Of the black (African American) population, 13 were males and 16 females. There were 4 Native Americans. 2617 people were born in Germany, 2433 born in the United States, 297 from Scandinavia and 49 Great Britain, 32 from Ireland and 11 from France.

21571A ibid p. 2 South cited, 9-20-18 “Log Cabin News,” Taylor Co. Historical Society

21572 P. 8-2018 Hemlock tree 26 inches in diameter breast high 100’ from Nordic Ski Trail, NE SW 13-33-2E; landowner Ann K. Rusch, standing.

21573 Map RLLC Camp 6 from 6-5-2017 by George Sandul. Site is open to the public and owned by the Ice Age Trail Alliance & part of the Rusch Preserve, SE NE 12-33-2E

21574 Taylor County poor farm (1887-1942) “The Star News 3-26-1981” reprinted in 9-2018 Log Cabin News, newsletter of Taylor County Historical Society

21574A ibid, p. 2 Frank & Hazel Reinhart, custodians

21574B ibid p. 3 photos of Taylor County poor farm building c. 1930

21575 Map 2017 Wisconsin, north half of road atlas including Apostle Islands National Lakeshore

21575A Photo of Presidence Lyndon B. Johnson, signer of National Lakeshore legislation

21575B ibid p. 2

21576 P. Senator John McCain 8-29-2018 “The San Antonio Observer,” page 1

21576A ibid p. 2 John McCain reportedly requested that Obama and George W. Bush give eulogies at his funeral and that President Donald Trump not attend

21576B ibid p. 3 “Its the ugly deep reality that we basically have a monster as president.”

21577 9-4-2018 “Thank you” from Taylor County Sheriff’s Office, Sheriff Bruce Daniels to Bob Rusch re H.L. Kuse Award – cover

21577A ibid page 1 “We often sat at different tables (in the courtroom) but I always knew that our common goal was what the justice system calls for.” Signed Bruce Daniels.

21578 10-2018 Our Wisconsin magazine – cover

21578A ibid p. 39 P. butte at Mill Bluss State Park, Camp Douglas, Wis. The soft, tall sand stone butte is in the “Driftless area” the portion of Wisconsin without glacial ‘drift,” soil & stone debris resulting from glacial activity.

21578B ibid P. vivid fall tree colors in Door County, Wis.

21578C ibid “When Flames Leapt Downward,” The Peshtigo fire came out of the sky one infamous evening in October (10-8-1871). Between 1881 and 1941 nearly all forest land near Rib Lake was burned over; many fires set by settlers trying to clear land and created farms.

21578D ibid p. 28

Randy Holzl collection

21579 P. 41 foot long steel balance scale made by P.S.&W. Co” c. 1900 which used detachable weights to weigh up to 50 lbs. Randy Holzl generously donated item after Kevin Radtke found it in his home in Village of Rib Lake. Holzl believes the scale was used in a store in the village to weigh bulk itms, such as flour or nails.

21580 Fall 2018 “In search of the Kincaid Mammoth,” cover, “The Schuppernuong Journal,” Vol. 23, issue 2, Kettle Moraine Natural History Assoc.

21580A ibid p. 2

21580B ibid photos and site plan

21581 Postcard, “Luckenbach, Texas, US Post Office, 1850-1971”

21581A ibid backside text. NB-While many areas in the US had a majority of their white immigrants from Germany, including both the Town and Village of Rib Lake, few local spots once bearing a German name were; 1) Interwald (in German for in the middle of the forest.) a post office and store operated by George Knower ¼ mile north of CTH M along the Rib River; 2) Sankt Johannes Evangelische Gemeinde (St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church) in Village of Rib Lake.

21582 9-13-2018 Obituary Lee Strobach (1939-2018)

21583 9-2018 Lee Strobach memorial card

21583A ibid side 2

21584 9-22-2018 Lee Strobach, First Lutheran Church, Ogema. Funeral service bulletin & photo, p. 1

21584A ibid p. 2 & 3

21584B ibid p. 4 & 5

21584C ibid p. 6 & 7

21584D ibid p. 8 worship leader Pastor Bob Giese

21585 9-26-2018 “St Stevens invites Merrill to celebrate Oktoberfest.” Merrill Foto news. NB-lots of beer reminds me of German saying “Deutsches Bier, is deutches Brot.”

21586 9-29-2018 Ad “Toni Meier plant sale”

21587 2018 “Milwaukee Co. History,” vol 6, No 1, newsletter Milwaukee Co. Historical Society-cover. P. c. 1950 Milwaukee Street car and its private r.o.w. trestle extending Wells Street line over Menomonee River. In rear right, buildings of Miller Brewery c. 1952 Gerlad A. Rusch on behalf of his fraternity, Phi Beta Epsilon, at UW-Milwaukee, rented such a street car, loaded it with food and beer, and had a fraternity party as a Milwaukee Transportation motorman ran the street car down Wells Street in downtown Milwaukee.

21587A ibid p. 2 “Worshipping at the Milwaukee North Shore.” By Chris Barney & Larry Sokar

21587B ibid p. 3

21587C ibid p. 4

21587D ibid p. 5

Collection of Joan Magnuson

21588 9-23-2018 125th anniversary celebration of fath & a service of rededication & renewal, Spirit United Methodist Church, STH 86, Spirit, Wisconsin - cover

21588A ibid, Call to worship, p. 2

21588B ibid p. 3 charter members

21588C ibid p. 4 renewal

21588D ibid p. 5

21588E ibid p. 6 ministers 1888-2017

21588F ibid p. 7 history 1889

21588G ibid p. 8 Swedish Methodist Episcopal Church, Town of Brannan 1893

21588H ibid p. 9 9-24-1942 electricity

21588I ibid p. 10 The ladies kept the men happy

21588J ibid staff

21588K ibid photos

21588L ibid

21589 2018 Ad “Clover Meadows Family Farm” cover

21589A ibid p. 2

21590 L. 9-20-2018 Jake Walcisak to Bob Rusch re Camp 8 dam in Taylor Co. Forest. The dam and its flowage were created in 1969 on the site of an historic logging dam, i.e. a “driving dam” built to help create a flush of water to float pine logs down the waterway, according to the forest administrator, Brad Ruesch

21590A ibid email by Jake Walcisak

21590B ibid Ayres Associates estimates of costs

21590C ibid “#11 repair erosion (on Camp 8 dam) on ATV Trail $7500”

21590D ibid “Section vices” of Camp 8 dam

21590D-1 ibid details of ATV damage

21590E ibid Wisconsin DNR history of fish stocking in Camp 8 dam flowage

21591 P. 2009 Thomas M. Rusch at front door of Rusch & Rusch Law Office, 111 E. Division St., Medford

21592 Business card of Thomas M. Rusch

21593 P. 6-26-2009 “The team at Rusch & Rusch Law Office, Tom, Cindy & Bob”

21594 5-2009 Notice in Star News of Rusch & Rusch closing

21595 6-25-2009 “Rusch brothers retire from law partnership,” Star News

21596 P. 6-30-2009 Tom Rusch in his near empty law office

21597 P. 6-30-2009 Wall mural in Bob Rusch’s now empty law office

21598 Vox Pop opinion, 7-2-2009 retiring clerk of court Bonnie Bauer commends Rusch brothers

21599 P. 6-30-2009 Tom Rusch sitting in receptionist spot in former Rusch Law office

21600 P. 6-30-2009 Large wooden table in former conference room of Rusch law office

21601 P. 6-30-2009 empty banker boxes once used for file storage at former Rusch law office

21602 2008 article “It’s the Law; What’s an LLC” by Thomas M. Rusch in Woodland Management magazine

21602A ibid p. 2

21602B Thank you note from Tim Eisele, editor, Woodland Management

Collection of Len Lozier & Nora E. Lozier – somehow this collection came into the possession of the Rib Lake public library which gave it to the Rib Lake Village Clerk & President Bill Schreiner, who gave it to the Rib Lake Historical Society in 9-2018

21603 Penny postcard, Manawa, WI 8-11-1902 Dear Friend, I will want a jar of butter Saturday and if you have any extra..don’t sell it until I see you. Yours truly, Nora E.V. Lozier

21603A ibid reverse side “postal card-one cent USA” postmark Manawa, Wis. addressed to Mrs. Mary Braatz, Manawa, Wis.”

21604 Undated portion of letter “Manawa (Wis.) 9-12-1902 Friend Will & wife, I got your letter & picture some time age and was glad to hear & know you had not forgotten us. Can you tell Eda & Frank what I say…and send Eda’s kids name and number. Nora is very low with cancer in her brain. Hasn’t been up since the 25 of last April (and) is very ….and out of her head some..”

21604A ibid continuation…of the time. We can’t raise her head above a level. I have to dope her every day now…I haven’t been down town since the 20th of April. Hoping to hear from you, we remain as ever your friends. Signed Len Lozier and (Nora) I can say this yet, can’t much longer, good bye.

21605 Penny postcard to “Mrs. Bill Brots (sic, probably should be Braatz) Rib Lake, Wisc.” Postmarked Dec. 1914. P. Manawa, Wis.”

21605A ibid back, Manawa, Wis. 12-19-1917 Dear Friend, I am requested to notify you of the death of our beloved friend and neighbor Mrs. Walter Vaughn, died Dec. 19, 1911, at her home in the Town of Little Wolf.”

21605B 1913 Plat Map (part) Town of Rib Lake showing site of “Mary A. Braatz” property, SE SW 31-33-3E

21606 W. Souvenir 1919 of Rib Lake School cover

21606A ibid, pg. 2 “public school District No. 2, Rib Lake, Taylor County, Wisconsin” F.J. Wudi, Teacher, School Board-August Radtke, clerk, Ernest Huhndorf, director, Ernest Gerstberger, treasurer, (see map of homesites #21607)

21606B ibid p. 3, printed poetry “My pupils dear, this little souvenir…signed your teacher

21606C Names of pupils, Upper form-Frieda Gilge, Mary Schaack, George Schreiber, Arnold Zuther, Lottie Monty, Adolph Louis, James Sampson, Huldah Mielke, Elvina Monty, Clara Louis, Olga Hein, Ella Hein, Walter Hulffe, Arthur Mielke, Frieda Hein, Otto Prahl, Katherine Denis, Hattie Sampson, Lizzie Erdman, Minnie Ziemke; Middle form-Ida Gilge, August Louis, Matie Shinker, Robert Sabrowski, Lizzie Schaack, Martha Mielke, Bertha Erdmann, Lydia Hein, Emma Zuther, Anna Louis, Willie Mielke, Mathew Denis, Eda Hein, Frieda Erdmann, Alfred Monty, Albert Ziemke, Grady Louisi, Hermina Louis, Katie Schaack, John Sampson, Anna Williams, Cyrus Monty; primary form-Joseph Heindel, Clara Mielke, Susan Denis, Christina Freiboth, Theresa Trick, Eddie Schaack, Justina Denis Jim Heindel, Eddie Williams, John Erdmann, Mary Schmidtfranz, Elsie Gilge, Margaret Trick, Bertha Mielke, Margaret Schaack, Anna Schmidtfranz, Alvin Mielke, George Erdmann, Lizzie Williams, Clara Hein, Katherine Seidel, Carl Mielke, Charles Monty, Emma Mielke, Gertrude Shinker

21606D ibid “The Close of School.”

21606E ibid

21606F ibid

21606G ibid, The School is out and now we part, And go our several ways, to mingle on life’s busy mart, and spend vacation days.

21607 Map 9-27-2018 Residences of 1910 Fawn Valley School (Rib Lake District No. 2), board members residences shown in yellow on 1913 plat map.

21608 P. 7-24-1914 Rib Lake Lumber Co. sawmill on shore of Rib Lake burning. Smoke obscures sawmill. View southward across “hog feed” i.e. wood scrap from 2018 site of Schubert’s True Value Hardware, 700 Mill Lane, Rib Lake. Three stell chimneys with screens on top to catch live embers mark location of sawmill. Two wood sided flat cars in foreground used to haul waste wood to Rib Lake Tannery for fuel to heat boilers. NB-items 21603-21608, less maps, were found in small drawer of item 21609.

21609 c. 1910 photo album “Cabinets” cover. In 2018 album holds high quality, professionally taken black & white photos of people currently unidentified. As of 9-27-2018 R.P. Rusch believes album was originally owned and used by William and Mary Braatz because; A) c. 1910 William & Mary Braatz resided in Town of Rib Lake; B) Postcard addressed to Mary Braatz found in storage drawer of album; C) at least one photo in album taken in Phillips, Wisconsin; D) all items 21603-21609 less maps, given to Rib Lake Library c. 1970 when local Braatz family died out; E) the drawer beneath the album contained a 1910 Fawn Valley School Souvenir. The Mary Braatz residence was just ½ mile southwest of Fawn Valley School. While the 1910 Souvenir did not list any children named Braatz attending Fawn Valley School, the Mary Braatz residence was then in its school district.

Alternatively, album may have been originally owned by Mr. & Mrs. Len & Nora Lozier. While they were not known to have any connection to Rib Lake, RPR intends to search census records and Taylor Co. Register of Deeds grantee deed indeces.

21610 9-22-2018 “Some CWD (chronic wasting disease) positive farms in Wisconsin will remain open.” Wausau Daily Herald. CWD is a fatal, high contagious deer disease first found in one spot in 2002 in Wisconsin. Due to the malpractive of Wisconsin officials, the disease has spread to many counties and deer farms. The failure to effectively deal with CWD in Wisconsin stands in start contrast to science based decisions implemented in Minnesota.

21610A ibid

21611 P. STH 64 bridge over Chippewa River, Cornell, Wis. 2013

21611A ibid P. 1913 view eastward on right Cornell Wood Products. c. 1920 Herman Rusch worked there and found a woman’s purse among cardboard sent to Cornell for recycling. Herman found her address and mailed it to her in Las Angeles, California.

21612 P. c. 2015 “Historical visitors’ center and pulp wood stacker at Cornell, Wi.”

21612A ibid, interpretation; stacker built 1912 in England operated in Cornell until 1971. It carried 2’ long pices of pulpwood up an included conveyor belt as high as 175’ and dumped them into a storage pile. Later, the pulpwood would be floated via a concrete canal under STH 64 into the pulp mill.

21613 Map c. 1945 Village of Cornell, Wis. Showing Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad, in 2018 Old Abe State Rail Trail and site of 175’ high pulp wood stacker, p. 28 “2013 Cornell’s 100th birthday” book

21613A ibid cover

21613B ibid Map c. 1945 Village of Cornell, Wis. R.P. Rusch annotations

21613C ibid P. c. 1914 Cornell Wood Products mill, i.e. wall board factory, aka Cornell Wood Products

21613D ibid 1964 Diagram of Cornell Paper Board Products Division, mill and stacker at Cornell, Wisconsin, owned by St. Regis Paper Co. NB-dashed line was route of walking tour on 8/23/1964. Legend/explanations of site on map, A) Chippewa River, extensively used to float pine logs to saw mill from Chippewa Falls to St. Louis in the 19th century; B) concrete lined canal about 12’wide. Chippewa River water diverted into canal. Water in river and canal flowed south, moving pulpwood toward stacker. A portion of the west bank of canal had a parallel truck road where pulp tructs could offload pulpwood into the canal. C) The slasher building; Here the floating logs were taken from the water by a series of chains and passed through a bank of parallel circle saws cutting the standard 8 foot pulpwood log into 4 two inch pieces, which moved to the base of the stacker; D) the stacker had several points. The massive 176’ superstructure which was handled at ground level. The superstructure held a continuous conveyor belt. The 2’ log pieces of pulp entered the belt at ground level and were moved upward by the belt. The 2’ long piece would be dumped off the conveyor belt at its very top or an alternative point about 2/3 of the way up. In either case, the pieces would crate a huge dome of tens of thousands of short sticks of pulpwood. E) “Log sluice” i.e. concrete lined channels approximately 3’ wide and deep held water moving to the southwest, going under STH 64, and eventually into the mill building where the pulp was debarked. After debarking, the pulp moved in and endless stream through the mill until its conversion into 4 x 8; pices of wall board. R.P. Rusch 10-6-2018

21613E ibid “History of the stacker”

21614 W. 2018 “Taylor County Hand & Water Resource Management Plan” by Northwest Regional Planning Commission – cover

21614A ibid Table of Contents

21614B ibid, Executive Summary. This 79 page book is filled with maps and data e.g. 19% of Taylor County is wetland

21614C Plan 15, Map watersheds.

21614D Plan 26 Taylor County has 283 lakes, 88 named and 195 unnamed.

21614E Plan 27, Map Taylor County Rivers, Lakes & Creeks. “Copper” Creek, aka Klostermann Creek.

21614F ibid Plan 29 Taylor County Trout Streams – 3 classes

21614G ibid Plan 46, Taylor County Forest Crop Law land. Green is open to public, brown is closed to public.

21615***not scanned as of 10/21/18*** 10-2-2018 P. Rebekah Strobach & Kylee Goodrich, freshmen at RLHS, run cross country race at Athens. “Rib Lake Hawks start October with strong outing at Auburndale meet.” Star News.

21616 Map 1999 United States railroad (used with permission) desk map systems, cover

21616A ibid Map 1999 Railroad in Wisconsin. NB-The Soo Line Railroad between Medford and Prentice had been removed in 1989 and converted into the Pine Line, a recreation trail. The railroad between Chelsea & Rib Lake was removed in 1951.

21617 Map 10-6-2018 Site of Rib Lake Lumber Co. Camp 5 (1907-1911) extant evidence

21618 Camp 5 (RLLC 1907-1911) 12 x 14” interpretive sign produced by Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation 1987, text by Bob Rusch. NB-The sign says RLLC Camp 5 operated from c. 1907-1911. In 2008 Bob read all extant copies of the Rib Lake Herald and found its first mention of Camp 5 was on 6-28-1907 and its last was on 10-4-1914.

21618A Memo 10-7-2018 by Bob Rusch; “the existenence and location of railroad spur toward Camp 5 just camp together.” One page of text and cross references.

21619 Portion of metal hoop originally circling & holding wood barrel staves in place. Found 10-6-2018 RLLC Camp 5 site by Bob Rusch

21620 ***not scanned as of 10/21/18*** Photographs 10-6-2018 by Rusch at RLLC Camp 5 site, SE SE 11-33-2E, on south shore of Beaver flowage caused by damming New Wood River.

21621 Map 10-8-2018 RLLC Cmap 5 location, NE SE 11-33-3E and environs on aerial photo by Jordan Lutz, Assistant Taylor County Forester. Ice Age Trail highlighted in yhellow. Logging roads dashed black lines.

21622 2018 Dog paw print “Marley,” Bob & Ann Rusch’s best friend, half Lab, half Golden Retriever.

21623 W. 10-13-2018 “Oktober (sic-its German) come celebrate an old world tradition as our German-Bohemian Heritage.”

Milton Reinke collection

21624 2008 proposed sign by R.P. Rusch entitled “Can the Ice Age National Scenic Trail and Commercial Logging co-exist” You be the judge.” In 1984 Bob Rusch and other landowners consented to IAT being routed through the N ½ SE ¼ 13-33-2E. RPR eventually became sole owner of the NW ¼ SE ¼ 13-33-2E and continued a commitment to careful environmentally appropriate land management, including commercial tree cutting. It was RPR’s intent to erect the sign and invite hikers on the IAT to comment on the land management, including the clear cutting on about 1 acre of land where RPR planted white pine in 2005. RPR asked Milt Reinke to proofread the proposed sign, which he did. Milt, using red ink, struck the words “big tooth” before the word aspen.

21624A 2-25-2008 proofreading note regarding image-sign 21624 by Milton E. Reinke. “Big tooth aspen make up only 10% of less of the apsen that seeded in after the fires. Trembling aspen was the predominant species.” NB-The proposed sign was never erected because neighboring landowner Rollie thums rescinded permission for the IAT to be on his land; Rollie’s decision resulted in IAT closure in 2008, a closure which continued as of 10/8/2018. However, the IAT Alliance has partially completed a new IAT thru Section 13, which will pass directly north of the 2004 Gene Polacek clear cut and the sign shown is image 21264.

21625***not scanned as of 10/21/18***

21626 Milton E. Reinke’s notes “I remember when” describe his bomber being shot down in 1943 over Austria. The 1 page note was published in the retirement home he resided in 2009; Oakwood Village, Madison, WI.

21626A note 2-27-2005 by Karen Baumgartner to RPR re 21626

21627 “Rail Trail Café” 10-14-2018 credit card receipt. This Ogema business has enthusiastically embraced the 26 mile rail trail built in 1989 from the former Soo Line railroad right of way.

21628 Robert Rusch photo album #1, beginning February 1982, Walter “Wimpy” Wilhelms with his Farmall H tractor

21628A ibid P. Haupstrasse and RPR driveway, on left-red pine planted in 1968

21628B ibid P. 8-2018 identical photo to 21628A 36 years later

21628C ibid Stras inserted in tree; frozen maple sap. Herman Rusch sugarbush

21628D ibid P. Robin Rusch at Zuckerhaeuschen (Little Sugar Shack) with milk can to hold maple syrup

21628E ibid P. Zuckerhaeuschen, NW SE 13-33-2E, where Herman Rusch cooked maple sap

21628F ibid P. Herman Rusch tipping over white plastic map sap pails to get rid of snow and ice.

21628G ibid P. L-R Robin & mother Karen Rusch holding frozen rounds of maple sap removed from outside pails.

21628H ibid P. RPR at map tree “K” sighting into reflexometer to read the presence of sugar in sap from that tree. Sugar varied from 1-4%

21628I ibid P. Walter “Wimpy” Wilhelm pours maple sap into storage barrel. 4-1982

21628J ibid P. bottom-firewood protrudes thru doorway of stove; middle-a 10x4x6 foot pan holds maple sap being cooked; top-3’ high chimney from cover diverting evaporated water away from boiling maple sap.

21628K ibid P. melting, discarded ice in pond in front of Karen & Bob Rusch home signals “Maple sap season is over.”

21628L P. Martha & Herman Rusch pick up pails & spigots from sugarbush.

21628M P. Robin Rusch, age 8, and grandparents Martha & Herman Rusch, pick up sap pails.

21629 “Sugar Maple Research; sap production, processing, marketing of maple syrup.” 1-18-1983 by US Forest Service scientists – cover. NB-This 108 page book is in the Rib Lake Historical Society library

21630 Storage envelope “Keep at Zuckerhaeuschen 1983”

21630A ibid Handwritten notes made by Herman Rusch, e.g. started tapping [maple trees] 3-11-1991, tapped 75. Started cooking 1st batch 3-18-1991. Finished cooking 3-24-1991.

21630B ibid cooked 80 gallons [sap] in batch.

21630C ibid number of trees tapped, location, e.g. “west side of road” 33 pails and 81 milk jugs.

21631 Herman Rusch’s wood match brass holder, 2.5 inces long, side view

21631A ibid end view “Marble’s, Gladstone, Mich, U.S.A. Pat’d 1900” NB-you opened holder by twisting it and then moving the top which was hinged on the bottom.

21631B ibid holder in open position with wood matches showing.

21632 Part II, photos in album #2 of RPR beginning April of 1982, Part I is #21623. Herman Rusch holding hammer used to remove maple sap spigots at Rusch sugarbush

21632A ibid sign where Rusch driveway junctions with CTH C, “Birch run, Bob, Karen, Robin & Kris Rusch. Welcome” N8643 CTH C, Town of Rib Lake.

21632B ibid L-R Robin & Kristin “Kris” Rusch work out on homemade high bar.

21632C ibid R-L top row-Tom Rusch holding son Michael, Martha, Karen, Herman & Mary Ann Rusch, Oscar Olson, bottom-Robin & Kris Rusch

21632D ibid Our Lady of Perpetual Help cemetery at Whittlesey. L-R Karen, Martha & Robin Rusch at grave of Paul Gebauer. Martha’s only brother, Paul, died in the influenza epidemic. The land for the cemetery and church was donated by Martha’s uncle, Joseph W. Steiner.

21632E ibid, c. 1982 Red brick Rib Lake High School addition, school bus sits in bus garage; c. 1990 garage was remodeled into Camp 28 Restaurant & Bar

21632F ibid, “Rib Lake” sign on north side of lake, former RLLC r.o.w. posts in lake part of RLLC hot pond.

21632G ibid Robin Rusch enters school bus at N8643 CTH C

21632H ibid 1982 Robin Rusch straddles mailbox waiting for school bus.

21632I ibid L-R allen & Vernon Hanke, their father was George & grandfather was Herman, who worked at the Matt McGillis pine camp in SE NW 13-33-2E

21632J ibid c. 1983 Rolland “Rollie” Thums with Vernon & Allen Hanke laying out Rib Lake ski trail.

21632K ibid c. 1983 Herman Rusch rototilling garden

21632L ibid Kris Rusch swings

21632M ibid Kris Rusch & older sister Robin water garden.

21632N c. 1983 Beaming to go to school, Robin Rusch perches on mailbox awaiting school bus.

21632O P. c. 1983 former gravel pit on west side of CTH C one quarter mile south of Rustic Road. In 2018 it is part of the Rusch Preserve and the IAT & THT j unction with CTH C at right.

21632P ibid Kris Rusch throws ball at South Harper Lake swimming beach as sister Robin floats on surfboard

21632Q ibid, L-R Barbara & Pastor John Meyer & Karen Rusch. John faithfully served St. John Ev. Luth. Church in Rib Lake, Barb was an RN and the founder of Hope Hospice & Palliative Care in Rib Lake.

21632R ibid P. Herman Rusch 7-1983 in front of Waldheim, home of Karen & Bob Rusch, N8643 CTH C.

21632S ibid P. 7-1983 Karen Rusch & daughters Kris & Robin hold surf board she won at AAL picnic.

21632T P. 8-1983 Fritz Knop & wife Hattie with grand-niece Kristin Rusch

21632U P. ibid 8-1983 elms trees killed by Dutch Elm disease, which had just come to Rib Lake area, killing nearly all elm.

21632V P. ibid 8-1983 Tom Rusch barn & milk house, probably built by then landowner Heinrich Klostermann, who first farmed section 7, T33N-R3E and gave his name to Klostermann Creek there

21632W 8-1983 L-R Herman Rusch, Martha Crane nee Gebuaer. Top-Karen Rusch, Martha Rusch nee Gebauer, bottom-Robin Rusch, Kristin Rusch

21632X ibid 8-1983 Bob Rusch boyhood home (1947-1962), 5947 North 66th Street, Milwaukee, WI.

21632Y ibid 8-1983 L-R Kristin, Robin Rusch, their mother Karen and their maternal grandparents Leona & Arthur Baumbach outside their Milwaukee home.

21632Z P. ibid 8-1983 Lawrence Schneider, in charge of Town of Rib Lake dump (shown in back) on his farm on Wilderness Ave.

21632AA ibid 8-1983 glacier strewn rock on Peter Fuchs farm NE NE 21-33-3E; farm in distance belongs to Kauer brothers at “Mud Lake”

21632BB ibid 8-1983 L-R Martha Rusch nee Gebauer, her cousin Martha Crane nee Gebauer, Mary Gebauer, sister of Martha

21632CC ibid P. 8-1983 L-R Siblings Robin & Kristin Rusch, Kent Walbeck, son of Marlin & Donna.

21633 Political ad 10-2018 against Leah Vukmir, running for congress.

21634 l. 1-18-2018 Larry Black to Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club “What a vibrant & vital organization you have.”

21635 obituary Franz “Frank” quednow 1933-2018 Star News

21635A ibid Emmery “Pete” Peterson” 1932-2018

21636 10-16-2018 “Marawood Conference Cross Country” Star News

21636A ibid segment, “Freshmen Bekah Strobach, Claryssa Moore & Kylee Goodrich formed their own pack.”

21637 P. Potato railroad box car, 2018 Soo Line Historical Society. NB-c. 1900 VRL had a potato warehouse on Front Street, south of Fayette Ave, where brokers bought potatoes & shipped them via Wisconsin Central.

21637A ibid cover

21638 P. 10-2018 Marley smiles at Timms Hill Trail sign; “Timms Hill 9.75 miles.” The perfect photo

21639 12-13-1889 penny postcard to Wayne Ramsey, Madison, WI.

21639A ibid back. Edwin Van Giesen asks if Ramsey wishes to sell SW SW 28-33-2E. “There is no pine on this 40”

21640 10-2018 Ice Age Trail Alliance postcard “Thank you”

21640A ibid back

21641 10-2018 Postcard “In wilderness is the preservation of the world.” Henry David Thoreau

21641A ibid back. Bob Funk notes death of Rodney Strobach and his generous help in building the Ice Age Trail

21642 “Maple syrup making for beginners,” by Thomas Robson & Gordon Cunningham, 1979 – cover

21642A ibid introduction

21642B ibid page 1, chart – length of season

21642C ibid p. 2 Taylor County has 3 naturally occurring maple trees, sugar, silver & red, commonly called soft maple

21642D ibid p. 3 tree characteristics

21642E ibid p. 4

21642F ibid p. 5 equipment

21642G ibid p. 6 evaporation

21642H ibid p. 7 hints

21642I ibid p. 8

21643 W. “An Epic Journey to the Front Lines of World War,” by William Vollman, 10-2018 Smithsonian magazine – cover

21643A ibid title page

21643B ibid p. 3

21643C ibid p. 4 Map, stalemate on western front

21643D ibid p. 5

21643E ibid p. 6 photo of trench

21643F ibid p. 7

21643G ibid p. 8 British blockade

21643H ibid p. 9

21643I ibid p. 10 statue

21643J ibid p. 11 WWI largest crater

21643K ibid p. 12

21643L ibid p. 13 tank in museum

21643M ibid p. 14

21643N ibid p. 15

21643O ibid p. 16 shelling of Paris

21643P ibid p. 17 illustrations

21643Q ibid p. 18 “What then did the great war accomplish?”

21643R ibid p. 19 Map Western Frank breaks wide open 1918

21643S ibid p. 20, treaty of Versailles

21643T ibid p. 21 finis

21644 10-20-2018 “Walker fails to deliver on Sportsmen’s Support,” Wausau Daily Herald – top

21644A ibid photo

21645 Map 2017 Milwaukee Street map – northeast side. Annotations showing site of first home of Bob Rusch, NE corner of Vienna & Holton Street, a second home, 5942 North 66th Street

21646 1980 Taylor County Soil & Water Conservation District Award to Bob Rusch for “Wildlife habitate development award.”

21647 “Camp 4” sign c. 1986. Text by Bob Rusch, sign made by Ice Age Park & Trail Foundation

21648 10-2018 W. “Your voter report card,” mailed to Lorraine Killion

21648A ibid, back “Your voter grade B”

21649 10-25-2018 “Black River Riders Bridge Dedication,” Star News

21650 10-25-2018 P. Black River Riders on horses in Taylor County Forest, Star News

21651 10-25-2018 P. Prentice-Rib Lake “Hawks” runner Serena Moore

21651A ibid P. Bekah Strobach “…finds a finishing kick and passess...Lily Nordskog at the end of Saturday’s WIAA Division 3 sectional race” at Iron River, Wisconsin

21651B ibid “Hawks finish 6th & 14th” “Freshman Rebekah Strobach was a solid 49th in her first section with a time of 24:32:5…”

21652 2018 “Making the world a better place; the legacy of Frank & Mary Nikolay” Wisconsin Public Radio. In 1989 at the request of Bob Rusch, Frank Nikolay introduced legislation to allow counties, such as Taylor, to use property acquired by tax delinquency to acquire land for recreation. The Prentice to Medford rail trail association used this to purchase the abandoned Soo Line right of way thru Westboro and create “the Pine Line.”

21652A 10-23-2018 L. Attorney Corliss Jensen to Robert P. Rusch

21653 P. c. 1925 “Highest point in Wisconsin, elevation 1940 (sic) feet.” “Cluster of rock, Rib Mountain State Park, Wausau”

21654 c. 1950 3 inch promotional sound record “Best wishes, Ray Becker dba Coin machines, Rib Lake, Wis. Ph. 427-3831”. Village of Rib Lake businessman Ray Becker for many years operated a business supplying pin ball and other gaming machines to area taverns.

21655 11-2-2018 Playbill “Desperate Housewives of Shakespeare” Rib Lake Drama Dept - cover

21655A ibid, back, cast and crew

21656 10-30-2018 Political ad by Democratic Party of Wisconsin re Leah Vukmir, Republican candidate for Wisconsin Senate – cover

21656A ibid p. 2, Photo altered to show Republican Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell next to Leah Vukmir with scissors cutting social security card.

21657 c. 1912 P. “Omaha [Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad] Depot, Rice Lake, WI

21657A ibid back, postcard 10-10-1912 to Leon Soibble, White Bay, Wis

21658 c. 1947 P. “Main Street, Westboro, Wis” View north on then STH 13. Awning on store building reads “Bert…” In 2018 building still stands in SW corner of CTH D & Bus. Hwy 13

21658A ibid back, postcard 6-11-1947 from Selma to Hilda Steinweg, Iowa City, Iowa

Donaton of Harold Schopper

21659 Memo - Only boys, no classes re school size. 90 boys in Rib Lake High School

21660 W. 1950-1951 Rib Lake High School basketball schedule. 17 games, Rib Lake won all except Park Falls.

21660A ibid, pen & ink drawing of player

21660B 2-15-1951 “Rib Lake won the 3-C conference championship beating Spencer.” Rib Lake Herald

21660C ibid “Final 3-C conference standings.” “Rib Lake with a perfect conference season, beat Spencer”

21661 1950-51 Rib Lake High School basketball team members authographs; Marvin Doubek, Harold Schopper, Dale Lewis, Ron Minarcini, Bernard Schabel, William Mathias, Roger Nyberg, DuWayne Christianson, Don Cihasky, Lyle Blomberg, Coach-George Neary.

21662 P. 1950 Rib Lake High Schol baseball team & coach George Neary, top right.

21663 Feb. 22-24, 1951 Class C District tournament, High School gym, Phillips, WI – cover. Many RLHS students have autographed this cover, e.g., Wessly Stiel, Barbara Taylor, Arlene Steen, Caryle Schwoch, Eddie Schaack, Mike Cihasky,,,

21663A ibid p. 2 list of players from Glidden, Prentice, Winter, Westboro. Lester Nason, Dick Odau, Doc Christoffersen, George Hanson, Dick Dums, Ray Erdman, Jake Bursik, Ken Arkola

21663B ibid, p. 3 list of players form 4 high schools, Draper, Tripoli, Butternut & Rib Lake, to wit; Marvin Doubeck, Ronald Minarcini, Don Cihasky, Billy Mathias, Rodger Nyberg, Dale Lewis, Bernard Schabel, Harold Schopper, Bob Edelberg, and Lyle Blomberg

21663C ibid p. 4 referees’ signals

21663D ibid p. 5 ibid

21663E ibid p. 6 list of advertisers

21663F ibid p. 7 Tournament pairings, Rib Lake vs. Butternut; Rib Lake tournament boosters James Upjohn, dba Upjohn & Son Drug Store; Walter Ahlers, dba Blue Royal Tavern & dance hall; John McRae, dba Rib Lake Bakery, Log Cabin Service Station, National Hotel & Tavern, Becker’s Tavern

21664 2-22-1951 Rib Lake first division game against Butternut covered in unknown newspaper article, “Rib Lake cagers cited Sunday by sports writer.”

21665 2-1951 “Redmen meet Butternut in first district tourney game” Rib Lake Herald

21666 3-9-1951 Playbill WIAA (Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Assoc) tournament at Spooner, Wis. Rib Lake versus Hurley High School

21666A ibid enlargement of Rib Lake players individual points

21666B ibid, Chetek & Shell Lake High School basketball team data. After Rib Lake beat Hurley, (57-55), Rib Lake beat Chetek (61-41) to complete sectionals to advance to state finals at Madison.

21667 c. 3-10-1951 “Rb Lake Cagers will compete in state tourney,” unidentified newspaper “A county [Taylor] basketball history…Rib Lake quintet will meet Baraboo this afternoon at 3:15 o’clock in its first game in the state basketball tournament.”

21667A ibid, photo of Rib Lake 1950-51 basketball team, manager and coach; George H. Neary, coach; Duwayne Christianson, manager; Bernard Schabel, Harold Schopper, Roger Nyberg, Dale Lewis, Marvin Doubek, Ronald Minarcini, Billy Mathias, Bob Edelbert, Lyle Blomberg and Donald Cihasky.

21667B 3-10-1951 “Sectional tournament Dopester “Rib Lake upsets Hurley Midgets in Thriller 57-55”

21668 c. 3-9-1951 “Little Rib Lake team qualifies as Dark Horse in state meet,” Milwaukee Journal. Its basketball team comes from a school of only 173 students.

21669 3-16-1951 “Menomonee nips Wauwatosa in first round thriller, 49-48; West of Madison and Rib Lake also wins” Milwaukee Journal

21669A ibid P. “Rib Lake defeats Baraboo 64-62.”

21669B ibid “Rapids” Gurtler leads scorers in state meet.” P. Don Cihasky, Rib Lake “Rib Lake’s red men were favorites of the crowd at the opening session. The Taylor County team, only Class C school to survive the first round (Onalaska, the other one was beaten), showed a keen eye for the hoop from long range…The Red Raiders suffered first round defeats in 1948 and 1949, and now they finally got over the hump.”

21670 “Redmen go to state tourney” Milwaukee Journal. “Rib Lake’s 1950-51 Redmen –First Taylor County basketball team to play in a state tournament…”

21671 “Rib Lake’s Redmen left for Madison by automobile Wednesday morning.” Rib Lake Herald

21672 “Sunny Side of the Street” Rib Lake Herald

21672A ibid “Village schools choose”

21672B ibid “Ed Martin really dished up an answer for the 9 AM at Spooner who said “my, my, where is Rib Lake…”

21672C ibid “But for the answer of the month, someone should engrave a trophy for the one Fritzie Knop dished up for a Medford citizen…”

21672D 3-15-1951 “First round, Thursday, March 15, 1951 [Rib Lake vs. Baraboo] Wisconsin High School Basketball Tournament, Fieldhouse, Madison, Wisconsin” official program – cover

21672E ibid p. 3

21672F ibib p. 5 Photo of Baraboo team

21672G ibid p. 5 Photo of Madison West team

21672H ibid Champions of previous state tournaments

21672I ibid Field goals, free throws and personal fouls of Rib Lake team members in game against Baraboo

21672J ibid Photo of Rib Lake team and statistics leading to state.

21673 Is Rib Lake far north hex team” by Ed Cnare

21674 3-16-1951 “Wisconsin’s 36th annual state high school basketball tournament. Fieldhouse, Madison, official program, semi-finals – cover”

21674A ibid p. 6 Madison West photo & roster

21674B ibid p. 21, Photo of Rib Lake team, roster and complete record

21674C ibid p. 16, individual performance of Rib Lake players

21675 6-16-1951 Madison West High School “The Regents,” beat Rib Lake High School “The Redmen,” in semi-final game of Wis. State championship “Regents measure Rib Lake” Wisconsin State Journal

21675A ibid, p. 2 “Redmen fight hard in losing.”

21675B ibid, scoring summary

21675C ibid, photo of Bernard Schabel, Dale Lewis & Marvin Doubek

21675D ibid, photo action shots, Madison West v Rib Lake

21676 3-17-1951 “Rapid fire” five takes state title. “…Rib Lake, a squad that came from nowhere to lick the bigger boys and was the most popular team in the tournament, although the whole town’s population (1042) wouldn’t fill one end of the fieldhouse.” (emphasis in original)

21677 3-24-1951 Cartoon “A cartoon from the Madison Capital times which points out that five of the eight teams in the state tournament had Indian nicknames. Wisconsin Rapids & Wauwatosa both are called Red Raiders..and Rib Lake are the Redment. Rib Lake Herald

21678 c. 3-24-1951 “[Rib] Lakers win and lose in state basketball meet,” Star news. “The Lakers, according to all reports, became the favorite of the large crowds…”

21678A ibid, continued

21679 Assorted tickets to 1951 state high school basketball tournament

21680 “Down the Road,”Rib Lake Herald 3-24-1951

21681 “Sunny Side of the Street,” Rib Lake Herald 3-24-1951

21682 3-16-1951 “Rib Lake yell leaders had reason to cheer,” Wis. State Journal. Photo L-R Bethany Schaaf, Marty Oman, Mary Ann Hengst and Caryle Schwoch.

21683 3-16-1951 University of Wisconsin Sports News Service. Minute by minute summary of Rib Lake v Madison West game. First & second quarter

21683A ibid third & fourth quarter

21684 4-1951 Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Bulletin – cover

21684A ibid Page 20, Synopsis of Village of Rib Lake at state and Baraboo

21684B ibid p. 21 Synopsis of Madison West at state tournament. After beating Rib Lake, it lost to Wisconsin Rapids. Wisconsin Rapids beat Madision West and became the new Wisconsin State Basketball Champions for 1951

21684C ibid p. 22 team figures (statistics) for the tournament

21685 c. 3-24-1951 “Not bad,” Rib Lake Herald, notes of Bernie Schabel “who hit 5 field goals out of 12 attempts in the Baraboo game was to the second team…

21686 c. 3-20-1951 “Welcome Home” Rib Lake Herald “A capacity audience turned out Tuesday afternoon for an informal homecoming celebration in the New Lake Theatre…”

21687 2-28-1952 Official program – Class C, District Tournament. Phillips, Wis. – cover. Autographed by Rib Lake and Westboro high school students

21687A Tournament pairings-Rib Lake wins all three games

21688 3-14-1952 sectional tournament, Spooner, Wis. – cover

21689 Map 11-6-2018 site of RLLC Camp 5, in SE SE 11-30-3E by R.P. Rusch

21689A Map 11-1-2018 Camp 5 by Jordan Lutz

Collection of Michael “Mike” Wudi

21690 Partial family tree of Michael Wudi and son Anton Wudi, Sr. (Born 5-10-1842 in Austria, died 4-23-1922) near St. Ann’s, Town of Greenwood, Taylor County. Anton Wusdi, Sr’s wife was Barbara Handel, born 11-30-1849 in ethnic German village of Seewiesen, Kingdom of Bohemia, Astro-Hungarian Empire, Barbara died 4-2-1931 near St. Ann’s.

21690A ibid, Descendants of Anna Prahl and Frank Wudi. He is probably the F.W. Wudi who taught at Fawn Valley School whose picture is on its 1910 Souvenir. (Frank Wudi 9/13/1886-5/6/1962)

21690B ibid P. F.W. Wudi

21690C Descendants of Anna Wudi and George Thums (1886-1957)

Collection of Mary Nikolay & Attorney Corliss Jensen

21691 12-19-1962 Frank Nikolay appointed judge advocate, Clark County Press

21691A P. 2010 Attorney Frank Nikolay. Frank had a long and distinguished careet service as senior partner in the firm of Nikolay, Jensen & Scott; he was elected to both the Clark Co. board and Wisconsin Assembly, where he rose to the position of speaker. In 1989 he introducted legislation which allowed the Taylor County Board to trade tax delinquent land for the abandoned Soo Line railroad right-of-way between Medford and Prentice, which became the Pine Line Trail.

21692 2018-19 “Experience Taylor County,” Visitor’s Guide – cover

21692A ibid, p. 9 High Point Village at north terminus of Timms Hill Trail.

21693 11-10-2018 “Eversbrings new hope to Wisconsin conservationists” Wausau Daily Herald

21694 County to issue deer damage tags, Star News 11-8-2018

21695 W. Fall 2018 “Mammoth Tales” magazine of the IAT Alliance – cover

21695A ibid “Unique Discovery Along Ice Age Trail,” by Bob Rusch. P. Jake Walcisak points to sluster ridge in 2016, approximately 100 years afer they were made as RLLC constructed its logging railroad

21695B ibid, page 2, Map of site. SW SE 23-33-3E, Town of Rib Lake.

21696 W. 8-2018 “A Land Beyond Glaciers, the rugged landscape of Wisconsin’s driftless region is too spectacular to keep secret,” Country magazine – cover

21696A ibid p. 2, photo of driftless area at Trempeleau, WI

21696B ibid p. 3, map “Wisconsin’s Driftless Region,” 8-2018 Country magazine

21696C ibid p. 4, P. “Amish farmer guides his team in rolling hills of Vernon County, Wis.”

21696D ibid p. 5, sandstone buttes in driftless, i.e. glacier free, area near Rockbridge, Wis. Had this area been glaciated, the sandstone would have been flattened.

21697 Illinois registration plate for 1926 truck from the collection of Herbert Magnuson.

21697A Wisconsin registration plate for 1931

21697B Wisconsin registration plate for 1936

21697C 1956 Wisconsin's registration plate for automobiles was one of the first to announce "America's Dairyland." The yellow insert "56" was a metal add-on inserted into grooves.

21697D Wisconsin registration plate for 1958.

21697E Wisconsin registration plate for 1952

21697F Wisconsin registration plate for 1963. NG-adhesive sticker makes first appearance.

21697G Wisconsin registration plate showing stickers from 1982-1990.

21697H Wisconsin farm truck registration plate for 1982

21697I 6-1990 Wisconsin registration plate showing barn & bird graphics

21697J For a one-time fee owners of a vehicle 20 or more years old can get a collector plate, which is good for the rest of the lifetime of the vehicle.

21697K Vanity plate, a spoof, “Upper Peninsula Yooper, You Betcha”

21698 Global warming state by union of concerned scientists 12-7-2018

21699 11-25-2018 Guide, “Welcome to the Rusch Preserve, Wisconsin’s Premier Trailhead Where 4 Trails Meet,” by Bob Rusch. Ann Rusch dba “Gasthaus B&B”

21699A ibid. Map 11-25-2018, Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Trails.

21699B 11-2018 Rusch Preserve inset map

21700 2018 sign “Take orange blazed trail to Camp 6.” In 2018 Bob Rusch built a hiking trail between the IAT & the Ski & Snowshoe Trail through the site of RLLC Camp 6.

21701 Map 2014 T39N-R4E, Town of Minocqua, Oneida Co., including “Patterson Hemlocks State Natural Area”

21702 12-2018 “Season’s Greeting from the Northwoods Land Trust, which has now conserved over 12000 acres of woodlands, wetlands and wildlife habitat…”

21703 Pamphlet 2007 “Walking tour of Andrew Warren Historic District,” Wausau Historic Preservation Committee – cover

21703A ibid, Cyrus C. Yawkey House, Wausau, WI

21703B ibid A.P. Woodson house. In 1936 with three other smaller investors, he bought the Rib Lake Lumber Co. of Delaware and operated it to its closure in 1948.

21704 Map 2010 “Wausau, Wisconsin, Historic Buildings of Downtown” by Gary Gisselman, et al

21704A ibid, properties identified by historic names, including the A.P. Woodson house.

21705 Map 2018, Marathon County by Wausau Convention & Visitors Bureau

21706 Map c. 1900 Central part of City of Wausau courtesy of Marathon Co. Historical Society. On west bank of Wisconsin River and north of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad tracks is “Curtis Brother’s Factory #1.” NB-The founder of Rib Lake, John J. Kennedy, was induced by George Curtis of Wausau to build the first sawmill at Rib Lake in 1881. He operated it for more than a decade as Curtis’ employee.

21706A ibid, enlarged “Curtis Bros. factory #1, sash & door factory,” on bank of “Big Bull Falls” highlighted yellow

21706B ibid, enlarged

21707 Map c. 1910 Wausau, WI, Curtis & Yale, fka Curtis Bros., factories 1 and 2, Union Tanning Co. tannery.

21708 Map Dec. 1912 Wausau, WI, business buildings of Curtis & Yale Co, planing mill, sash, door & moulding factory No. 1 along Wisconsin River north of Clinton Street.

21708A ibid, Curtis & Yale Co factory No. 2, hardwood, flooring & screen doors on site about .5 mile south of factory No. 1

21708B ibid, Union Tanning Co. tannery “not in operation,” on west side of Wisconsin River just south of Thomas Street, north half

21708BB ibid south half

21708BBB Map 12-1912 Union Tanning Co (not in operation), Wausau, WI with railroad yard and bark storage.

21709 10-2018 Newsletter “Dat Pommersche Blatt” The Pomeranian Page, p. 1.

21709A ibid p. 2 Robert Gruling tribute

21709B ibid p. 3 2018 Piknik Im Bush

21709C ibid p. 4, The Moonshine Era

21709D ibid p. 5 Pommerscher Danz (dancing)

21709E ibid p. 6 Schnitzenbank, German folk song

21709F ibid, Pommerscher Verein, library info. 715-845-4564, Attn. Laurel Hoffmann

21709G ibid “Singing with the Lutherans,” by Garrison Keillor

21709H ibid p. 12 Statues of Pommerscher Verein (Pomeranian union)

21709I ibid p. 17 Gifts, books, map, etc.

21709J ibid, calendar of events

21710 Book cover, “Kreis Naugard” County of Naugard in former German province of Hinter Pommern (farther Pomerania) by Janice Steeg Savage and husband Jerry Savage. In 2018 Naugard is the name of small rural community in the Town of Berlin, Marathon County, WI, many residents of which are descendants from Kreis Naugard

21710A ibid, back page. Map c. 1900 of Kreis Naugard, given by the Potsdam Agreement in 1945 to Poland, which expelled all its German inhabitants. The Poles gave Polish place names to all villages, renaming the city of Naugard, “Nowogard”

21710B ibid, the Forward from the book

21710C ibid Map 2018 Polish & German (highlighted in green) between Berlin & Baltic Sea, including cities of Nowogard & Czezecin, formerly Naugard & Stetting, Germany

21711 P. 1908 “Public Library, Westboro, Mass.” When the Wisconsin Central Railroad, in 1873, built thru what later became Taylor County, WI, its board of directors, many residents of Boston, Mass, named depots & town sites for Boston suburbs, e.g. Medford, Chelsea & Westboro.

21712 Map 12-11-2018 Klostermann Creek (blue line) in Town of Rib Lake as drawn on 1913 Standard Atlas of Taylor County. Pink-Heinrich Klostermann farm (Sec. 1 33N-R3E); yellow-Albert Knop farm (SW NW 7-33N-R3E), Copper Creek flowing into Rib Lake.

21713 “Find a Grave Index,” K.F. Heinrich Klostermann, 2/10/1849 (Prussia)-8/15/1915 (buried in St. Luke’s Cemetery, Washington Co, Illinois.

21713A P. Headstone of K.F. Heinrich Klostermann, text in German, “Ruhe sanft…”

21714 6-1880 US Federal Census C.F. Heinrich Klosterman (Anglicized by enumerator Oliver Hallow to “Henry Klosterman) residing in Village of Okarille, Washington County, IL, age 81, whith father Henry and mother Charlotte, occupation for all three is “farmer”

21714A ibid summary page

21715 5-13-1910 Census Town of Rib Lake, Henry Klosterman, aka Heinrich Klosterman, Albert Knop, August Mielke, Peter Perusek, et al, left half

21715A ibid right half

21715B ibid summary

21716 P. 10-2018 sign-Klostermann Creek, 2018 Trout Rehabilitation Project Underway, negative of photos in album DD-1

21716A ibid, IAT bridge spanning Klostermann Creek in Rusch Preserve

21716B ibid, view south from IAT bridge crossing Klostermann Creek. Volunteers have cut and removed alder brush previously obstructing view. Right-IAT signage; RLLC steam hauler and star logging sleigh road used ice road that used valley of Klostermann Creek.

21716C ibid Marley on bridge built 2018 after permitless culvert removed that had seriously impaired flow of Klostermann Creek

21717 Portion of Abstract of title to 7-33-3E and other lands. Entry 19-H.S Hughes et us, to Henry Klostermann aka Heinrich Klostermann warranty deed for $2500 on 3-30-1902; Entry 20-Warranty deed Henry Klostermann aka Heinrich Klostermann to John Culjar 5-12-1911

21718 Map c. 1890 Village of Spencer, Wis., including “sawmill,” which may be the one owned and operated by John J. Kennedy c. 1878

21719 Map c. 1900 Village of Colby, Wis. The “Heading Plant” made wooden barrels.

21720 Map c. 1900 Palt, Township 30 North, Range 3 East, Marathon County, including Villages of Athens & Gad

21720A ibid Map c. 1900 Plat of Township 30 North, Range 4 East. The Upham Logging Railroad “went to Goodrich, Taylor Co, with a spur to RLLC Camp 1”

21721 12-7-2018 Minutes of Rib Lake Ski & Snowshoe Club meeting

21722 P. c. 1900 two deer “Rib Lake, Wis.” The background is brush which following logging and a stump

21723 P. 2019 King County Interurban Trail, State of Washington. The beautifully wooded rail-trail should be the goal of the Pine Line through Westboro

21724 not scanned P. 1920 “Lincoln County Training School [aka Teachers College aka Normal School] Merrill, WI

21724A not scanned. Ibid back side

21725 P. 2009 Cousins, Rosemarie Kuchinke & Robert “Bob” Paul Rusch, check menus at idyllic restaurant near her home in Darmstadt, Germany

21726 P. 11-2018 Rib Lake Historical Society staff, L-R Scott Riggs, Bob Rusch & Cindy Sommer. Scott is the webmaster and lives in Crystal, MN; Bob is the manager and lives in the Town of Rib Lake, and Cindy is the executive secretary and lives in the Town of Medford, WI.

21727 P. 11-2018 Bob Rusch & granddaughter Trinity Riggs doing family history

21728 Wisconsin Wetland Association, Bob Rusch jointed it in 1968 as a charter member

21729 c. 2018 “Our Wisconsin” magazine premier issue – cover

21729A ibid page 2, P. editor Mike Bero

21729B ibid page 3, “Frank’s Hill is Tops,” photo of effigy mounds

21729C ibid page 4

21730 L. 10-23-1903 “M.L. Lemon, dealer in furniture & notions, undertaking, Rib Lake, Wisconsin”. His building stood where, in 2018, Nicolet National Bank stands at 717 McComb Ave, Block D, Lot 5, McComb’s Racing Park Addition to the Village of Rib Lake. Lemon’s letter was addressed to Kiel Table Co, Kiel, Wisconsin.

21730A Robert Rusch’s printed version of M.L. Lemon’s letter of 10-23-1903.

21730B ibid, annotations of Robert Rusch

21730C Map 12-17-2018 3 railroads connect Kiel & Rib Lake in 1903. Rib Lake merchant M.L. Lemon, by letter dated 10-23-1903, complainted to the Kiel Table Co. that some of its order was missing, “I have a tracer out, but lost track at Amherst…” Superimposed on a 2017 Wisconsin highway map are the routes of the 3 railroads used; A) Orange-Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad (“The Milwaukee Road”), Kiel to Green Bay; B) Brown-Green Bay & Western, Green Bay to Amherst Junction (the railroad continued westward); C) Red-Wisconsin Central – its portion between Amherst Junction and Rib Lake---R.P. Rusch

21731 11-22-2018 Obit. George Zondlo, Jr. (1948-2018) Star news

21731A ibid memorial card George Zondlo, Jr.

21731B ibid p. 2 text

21732 P. c. 1930 Heden residence, Ogema, Wis.

21732A ibid, back note postmarked 10-28-1938 to Mrs. Henry J. Beck

21733 12-2018 Rib Lake High School girls basketball team posters; Varsity players-Reagan Reinhardt, Savana Radtke, Lauren Pelnis, Hope Thums, Mackenzie Weinzatl, Cameron Scheithauer, Taylor Schmidtfranz, Samantha Rodman, Madison Winter, Makenna Annala; JV-Reagon Reinhardt, Taylor Meier, Tiara Kestler, Nellie Hopkins, Senja Koch, Rebekah Strobach, Jolee Fehrke, Emily Rodman, Lauren Pelnis, Hannah Schuh, Molly Heiser

21734 10-4-2018 Obit. Rodney Strobach (1960-2018) Star News

21735 10-1-2018 Obit. Rodney Strobach by Hemer Feneral Service & Cremation

21735A ibid page 2, children and principal events

21735B ibid page 3, surviving parents & in-laws, Robert & Ann Rusch

21736 10-5-2018 Rodney Strobach memorial card & photo

21736A ibid back

21737 Christmas 2017. Left-Ann & Bob Rusch; right-Photo of Bob & Ann & family; L-R Katie, Bekah, Ryan, Kris & Rodney Strobach, Bob, Robin, Scott, Kirstin, Trinity, Colton & Brendan Riggs

21738 9-15-2018 Woodland Community Church – Westboro 2018 directory – cover

21738A ibid p. 1

21738B ibid p. 2

21738C ibid p. 3

21738D ibid p. 4

21738E ibid p. 5 Karen Rusch et al

21738F ibid p. 6 Strobach, Rodney, Kris, Bekah, Ryan & Katie

21738G ibid p. 7

21739 P. c. 1920 Connor Lumber & Land Co., Laona, WI sawmill & dry yard

21740 P. c. 1960 Mondeaux Dam Recreation area – Westboro

21740A back text

21741 Map 1-2-2018 Taylor, Lincoln & Marathon County with small ghost towns, e.g. Naugart, Queenstown

21742 2018 Map Minnesota State Parks & Trails

21742A ibid Split Rock (Nov)

21742B ibid Jay Cooke (Sept)

21743 Forest Springs Brochure – Ski & Snowshoeing

21743A Map 12-20-2018 Forest Springs Trails

21744 c. 1985 “The Milwaukee Road” pencil with text “be safe; be sure; prevent injuries, watch your step.” Its full name was the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad. In 1987 it was sold to the Soo Line (Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie) after going bankrupt.

21745 2008 ink pen advertising Rusch & Rusch Law Office, Rib Lake, Wisconsin. Rib Lake residents Thomas & Robert Rusch practiced law as the Rusch & Rusch Law Office in Medford, WI from 1980 until 6-30-2009, when they retired.

Christopher “Chris” Kulinski collection

21746 L. 12-20-2018 Bob Rusch to Chris Kulinski re possible relative, Bernhard F. Rusch, Prussian emigrant who settled in Thorp, WI c. 1885

21746A 6-1885 Wis. State census-B.J. Rusch resided in Village of “East Thorp,” Clark Co., Wisconsin

21746B W. 2018 B.F. Rusch in Wisconsin

21746C 1910 federal census, Chicago Ward 27; Bernhard Rusch, wife Rose and 8 children, including Barney Rusch, age 14

21746D W. 1910 Federal census summary for Barney Rusch age 14, father Bernhard, age 42, i.e. born 1868

21746E 1920 Federal cenus, Thorp township, Charl Co. Barney Rusch, wife Eline, daughter Susie, his occupation “farmer” born in Prussia, age 64

21746F summary of 1920 federal census re Barney Rusch, age 64, birthplace Prussia, wife Eliza Rusch, daughter Susie age 19

21746G Map 6-26-2012 City of Thorp zoning map showing, inter alia, Rusch Street

21746H 9-5-1967 Resolution of common council, city of Thorp, creating Rusch Street

21747 L. 12-18-2018 Eric Gabriel, superintendent, Ice Age National Scenic Trail, to Bob Rusch re “your remarkable achievement of 1400 hours of volunteer service throughout fiscal year 2018.”

21747A ibid envelope

21748 2018-2019 “Rib Lake Redmen Sports” calendar of games in cross country, volleyball, football, track, boys basketball, girls basketball, boys baseball and girls baseball

21748A ibid continued

21749 12-21-2018 Rib Lake Redmen girls basketball team against Athens Fighting Bluejays – cover

21749A ibid p. 1

21750 Map 2016 “Outdoor Atlas & Field Guide” Rib Lake & environs. Lands marked with diagonal lines are managed forest lands open to the public

21750A ibid Wood Lake-Newwood Wildlife Area

21750B ibid legend

Collection of Charles Stats

21751 L. 12-14-2018 Charles Stats to Bob Rusch re Wisconsin Central Railroad extension in 1902 from Rib Lake toward Tomahawk

21752 L. 9-29-1903 Wisconsin Central [WC] Railroad by C.W. Kalk, Chief Engineer, to H.F. Whitcomb, president re offer of Marinette, Tomahawk & Western Railroad to sell out to WC, page 1

21752A ibid page 2

21753 9-2501903 Thomas B. Gibson, WC right-of-way agent report on Marinette, Tomahawk & Western Railroad. p. 1, west terminus of MT&W is in Price County in Section 34 T34N R3E. (about 1 mile south of German Settlement)

21753A ibid p. 2 condition of right-of-way roadbed, ballast & ties

21753B ibid p. 3 spikes & fastenings

21753C ibid p. 4 sidings & spurs

21753D ibid p. 5 industries include floor mill at Spirit Falls

21753E ibid p. 6 tomahawk terminals

21753F ibid p. 7

21753G ibid p. 8 buildings

21753H ibid p. 9 telephone & tannery in Tomahawk owned by Bradley Co.

21753I ibid p. 10 water power

21753J ibid p. 11 values

21753K ibid p. 12 total $90,202.93

21753L ibid p. 13 signed Thomas B. Gibson

21753M ibid p. 14 dated 10-1-1903 cost to WC to put property in satisfactory shape, $258,000

21754 1-27-2019 Spirit Historical Society, Inc, formerly German Settlement, Inc., annual meeting notice.

21754A ibid ballot

21755 1-1-2019 “America at War” “after 17 years, our longest armed conflict oversees now spans 80 countries.” Smithsonian magazine – cover

21755A Map 1-1-2019 US counterterrorism activity 2017-2018

21756 4-7-1922 Rib Lake News from Rib Lake Herald reprinted in Star News; RLLC forest fire fighting train.

21757 2-23-1926 Rib Lake Lumber Co. off income tax roll. Star News. In 1922 the RLLC paid $10,988.72 state income tax, in 1923 it paid nothing.

21757A Annotations by R.P. Rusch 12-25-2018

21758 6-29-1933 Decision of Wis. Supreme Court. RLLC of Delaware v. Wisconsin Tax Commission. Summary-RLLC, by creating and selling itself to RLLC of Delaware and paid for it by issuing capital stock and debentures held entitled to relief from Wisconsin income tax interest piad or debentures, though all debentures were owned by seller which owned ultimate ownership of property, thereby paying little or no income tax to Wisconsin.

21758A ibid p. 2

21758B ibid p. 3

21758C ibid p. 4

21758D ibid p. 5

21758E ibid p. 6

21758F ibid p. 7

21758G ibid p. 8

21758H ibid, NB-citation of decision is 272 Wis. 412 or 249 N.W. 322

**stopped scanning here on 1/6/19

21759 RLLC vs Conway motion for rehearing decision of Wis. Supreme Court 9-22-1933, p. 1

21759A ibid p. 2

21759B ibid p. 3

21759C ibid p. 4

21759D ibid p. 5, NB-See 12420, letter by Daniel Mayer explaining decisions which left RLLC of Delaware paying little or no income tax to Wisconsin

21759E L. 8-21-2008 by Daniel Mayer, tax accountant, explaining and commenting on the two preceding cases, RLLC v Conway. Mr. Mayer described the corporations’ setup as creating a “loophole”; “this ploy can no longer be used.”

21760 P. 1999 Bob Rusch with his grandchild, Katherine “Katie” Strobach

21760A 2019 Decal-My granddaughter is in the US Air Force

21761 1-3-2019 Obit. Joseph Filas 1932-2018, son of Frank & Veronica (Klapcinski)

21762 6-19-1996 “The 100 mile Kettle Moraine Trail Run; a test of endurance.” Star news. Bob Rusch, age 54, finishes event in under 28 hours

21762A ibid part 2 **not scanned as of 1/12/19** [Bob must get from Star News]

21762B Logo from finishers sweatshirt.

21764 P. 1993 Wisconsin Central Bridges over Wisconsin River at Stevens Point. The Soo Line Historical & Technical Society is an invaluable repository of documents on the Wisconsin Central Railroad, later “Soo Line.” The WC built a railroad connection in 1883.

21765 ***not scanned as of 1/12/19*** Bob to take photo of framed document. Certificate of Citizenship – Herrman “Herman Rusch” aka Herrmann Emanuel Rusch on 9-3-1903 “renounces and adjures all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state…particularly William II, Emperor of Germany. Therefore, the court admitted the said Herman Rusch to beome a citizen of the United States.” Signed W.E. Hibbard, Clerk of Circuit Court, Taylor County, Wis.

21765A mini-biography of Herrmann Emanuel Rusch by his grandson Robert P. Rusch 1-9-2019

21766 W. 1-2-2019 Babel steps down from River Bend Trail lead role. Merrill Foto News. This rail-trail in Merrill was constructed in 2014 on a former Milwaukee Road railroad spur which at one time hauled logs from Lincoln County forest lands west of the Wisconsin River

Collection of Herb Magnuson

21767 P. c. 1900 Stone Lake School, teacher and 11 students. School stood on west side of current CTH C in the Town of Spirit, Price County in NE SW 30-34-3E

21768 P. 1905 German Settlement School, 28 students and teacher “School district No. 1, Town of Brannon, 1905.” Building stood in SE corner of current German Settlement Road and CTH YY in NW NW 26-34-3E, Price County

21769 Map 1989 Plat map T34N-R3E, Price County. Note-Magnuson Brother Farms, (Lester & Herbert Magnuson mink ranch)

21770 Map 1989 plat map T35N-R3E, Price County. Note “Ritchie Creek” named for James Ritchie, pine logger and part owner of sawmill at Westboro with John Duncan & William S. Taylor

21771 P. c. 1920 Fred Schmidt, lka Fred Smith & Harry Magnuson, father of Lester & Herbert. Fred was born on the Schmidt family farm, E ½ - SW ¼, 20-34N-R3E, Town of Spirit, and moved to the City of Phillips where he ran a popular tavern. He has become world famous for his folk art, handmade concrete figures of people and other things; in 2019 his creations are in a park one-half mile south of Phillips on STH 13 and known as the “Wisconsin Concrete Park.”

21772 P. c. 1920 A Spirit township quintet; L-R John Johnson, Fred Schmidt lka Smith, unknown, Bernard Swanson. Boy standing at rear is Robert Schmidt.

21773 P. c. 1920 Elevated ginseng beds on Carl Magnuson farm, NW SW 29-34-3E, Town of Spirit, Price County. L-R Harry Magnuson, son of Carl, Fred Schmidt lka Smith, and John Danielson. Ginseng flourished in the old growth forests of Taylor & Price Counties. To cultivate ginseng the farmer must maintain cover to provide shade; note wooden trellis above and around beds to shade the beds, which have been freshly planted, but where no plants have yet to emerge above ground

21774 P. Ginseng root on cover of 12-1916 “Special Crops,” a ginseng journal

21774A ibid ad editorial

21774B ibid diseases of ginseng

21774C ibid letters

21774D ibid American Ginseng Growers Assoc.

21774E ibid ginseng leaves

21774F ibid pan to sterilize soil

21774G ibid ads

21774H ibid ads

21774I ibid full page ads

21774J ibid ad by H.A. Schoenen, NY, NY, “Sellers fo ginseng directly to Chinese”

21775 1-11-2019 Ginseng growing in Town of Spirit, Price County, WI; a brief history by Herbert Magnuson, codified by Robert P. Rusch

21776 12-1914 “Special Crops,” Vol. 13, No. 145, a ginseng journal. Page 1 –cover. “Wild root is selling slowly at $7-$8.5 per pound. NB-the entire original journal copy of #21774, #21775 & #21776 were generously donated by Herbert Magnuson to the Rib Lake Historical Society and filed in the archives

21777 7-1917 “Special Crops,” a ginseng journal, Vol. 16, No. 179 cover.

21777A ibid, back cover, testimonials from ginseng growers, “I must say that if all middlemen were as prompt and square as H.A. Schoenen there would be no need of a national organization.” Signed B.F. Boomer

21778 P. c. 1910 unknown couple with horse & buggy in Town of Spirit (possibly Mr. & Mrs. Anther Andreae

21779 P. c. 1920 man holding skidding tongs & 4 men atop sleigh load of pulpwood. Men behind to include Harry Magnuson, Charlie Danielsen and Carl Blomberg

21780 P. c. 1910 A team of dogs harnessed and hitched to seigh load of 4’ long small logs. Town of Spirit boys, “Albert & Fred Schmidt & Clarence Andreae.”

21781 P. c. 1960 Rib Mountain & Lake Wisconsin & floage formed by damming Wis. River near Wausau. Bay on right is inlet of Rib River that flows c. 50 miles from its source, Rib Lake

21781A ibid back

21782 12-12-2018 Merrill Hydro-electric dam crosses century mark. Merrill Foto News

21783 1-9-19 River Bend Trail Friends Group Selling Bricks to Fund Patio Project, Merrill Foto News

21783A ibid P. proposed patio

21784 P. c. 1945 Bathing beach on South Harper Lake – diving platform

21784A ibid, back, Fran to Vivian LaBahn 8-27-1945

21785 1-17-2019 Little Black Mutual & Farmington Mutual merger, Star News. Little Black got its name from the Little Black River; all people insured by this company is a part owner

21786 1-13-1944 RLLC suffers fatal accident. Salmer Olson killed when a log being pulled by his caterpillar tractor caught on a tree and swung around and hit him.

21787 1-9-2019 Resolution of IAT Alliance Board of Directors that Timms Hill Trail would not be recognized as within IATA mission, Tim Yanacheck dissenting.

21788 1-19-2019 Logo-Perkinstown Tramp Snowshoe race, established in 1993

21789 4-2018 “A bit of early Goodrich history,” author unknown, published in Log Cabin News, Taylor Co. Historical Society newsletter

21789A ibid p. 2, In 2019 the 1925 Schreiner Store brick building is the only commericial building in Goodrich. It houses “The Inn Between” bar and restaurant.

21790 L. 4-12-2018 Taylor Co. Register of Deeds to R.P. Rusch re William Gebauer, his grandfather.

21791 Deed 4-4-1904 Joseph Steiner of Whittlesey to William Gebauer of Whittlesey, $1600, W ½ SE ¼, 26-32-1E, except Catholic Church property.

21792 Purchase money mortgage, William Gebauer indebted to Joseph Steiner for $1200 dated 4-4-1904

21793 4-5-1909 William Gebauer & wife Bertha, nee Steiner, mortgage to Joseph Steiner. NB-Justice of the Peace Albert Steiner (father of Bertha Steiner & brother of Joseph Steiner) notarized the signatures. NB-Albert Steiner and wife Anna both witnessed William and Bertha signing the document.

21794 10-12-1918 Satisfaction of mortgage by Albert Steiner, administrator of the estate of Joseph Steiner, deceased.

21795 10-12-1918 Mortgage, William Gebauer & wife Bertha, nee Steiner, for $1000 to Anton Brickner & wife Mathilda. NB-In margin a satisfaction of this mortgage is 12-4-1923

21796 6-25-1923 Deed, William Gebauer, widower, to Samuel Walter Czeshleba & wife Wilhelmina, W ½ SE ¼, 26-32-1E except one acre used for church purposes.

21797 9-18-1923 Marriage certificate, William Gebauer marries Mary Wayman of Marshfield, by Fr. G. Reuter, Medford

21798 7-3-1972 Nomination paper for R.P. Rusch for District Attorney circulated by Roger Johnson, owner of Rib Lake Service Station

21799 7-6-1972 Nomination paper for R.P. Rusch for Districct Attorney by Marlin Walbeck of Rib Lake

21800 7-1972 Postcard by R.P. Rusch thanking voters for signing his nomination papers for District Attorney

21801 Map 11-3-1970 by R.P. Rusch showing his home “Waldheim,” (in 2019 N8643 CTH C) and Spirit Lake cabin of his parents, Herman & Martha Rusch.

21802 2-19-1969 Envelope from Florian Turba, Town of Rib Lake treasurer, to R.P. Rusch, then a law student at UW-Madison

21802A 1970 Tax statement by Florian Turba to R.P. Rusch, e.g. NW SE 12-33-2E valued at $500 and taxed at $19.19.

21803 L. 3-16-1971 by Gaylord Nelson, US Senator, to R.P. Rusch

21804 L. 2-10-1973 by William Proxmire, US Senator, to R.P. Rusch

21805 L. 5-15-1972 by R.P. Rusch to Anatoly Dobrynen, Embassy of the Soviet Socialist Republics (Russia), in Russian urging his government to exercise greater caution than that of President Nixon who ordered US bombing of Hanoi, Vietnam

21806 4-24-1991 “Merrill runner a surprise winter in Saturday’s Dairyland Marathon,” Star News.

21807 5-1-2010 “Run for Rusch” application form; Rusch Elementary School, Portage, WI

21808 1-11-1897 Marriage registration, William Gebauer marries Bertha Steiner by Catholic priest in Town of Chelsea, Taylor Co.

21808A ibid back

21808B ibid, attachment date e.g. mother of wife was Pauline Steiner, nee Meissner

21809 10-15-1918 Death record, Mrs. William Gebauer, aka Bertha Steiner. Causes of death-pulmonary tuberculosis; contributory cause-Spanish influenza. NB-August Steiner family tree is #21100

21810 1930-1949 Obituary index of the Star news e.g. William Gebauer, 12-20-1864 to 9-1-1932

21811 5-10-2008 Bib issued to R.P. Rusch for Ice Age Trail 50 mile endurance run, Whitewater, WI

21811A ibid Map of IAT 50 mile run

21811B ibid cutoff times, handwritten times on far right were entered by Ann Rusch & show R.P. Rusch arrival times at aid stations

21811C ibid event rules

21811D ibid event rules p. 2

21811E ibid event rules p. 3

21811F ibid event rules p. 4

21811G ibid T-shirt logo

21812 L. 1-1-2019 “The Riggs,” including Robin, nee Rusch, to Ann & Bob Rusch

21812A ibid Christmas card cover

21812B ibid, note by Robin for Riggs six; Scott & Robin (Parents); Colton, Brendan, Trinity & Kirstin

21812C ibid card cover

21812D ibid thanks from Trinity

21812E ibid thanks from Kirstin

21813 P. c. 1880 unknown logging camp, 30 men, 9 oxen & 2 horses. The oxen are yoked in pairs by a sturdy wood yoke. The hoff of an ox is cloven, i.e. in two parts, therefore its metal shoe is in two parts. Ernest Tetzlaff, pioneer Rib Lake farmer, found such shoes on his farm .5 mile east of Village of Rib Lake.

Collection of Kristin Karen Bethany Leona Martha Strobach, nee Rusch

21814 P. R-L Robin & Kristin Rusch & their paternal grandmother, Martha Rusch

21815 8-24-1992 Kristin Rusch’s first driver’s license

21816 P. 4-15-1996 R.P. Rusch on finisher’s podium for 100th anniversary of Boston marathon

21816A ibid, list of Wisconsin runners finishing 4-15-1996 Boston marathon, including Rib Lake runner Lorry Clendenning at 3:55:1

21817 P. c. 1993 L-R Kristin & Robin Rusch at Griffith State Tree Nursery, Wisconsin Rapids, WI

21818 P. c. 1995 Everett Rusch and third wife Caroline

21819 P. c. 1995 Everett Rusch & first wife Nina, and their 6 children;Henry, Kurt, Walter, Henry, Lisa, Virginia & Denise (all standing). Nina is in blue.

21820 P. c. 1995 L-R Robin, Martha & Kristin Rusch

21821 P. c. 1995 R.P. Rusch wearing Bib #31 running in Minnesota Voyaguer 50 mile endurance run

21822 P. c. 1996 holding her hand saw, Kristin Rusch shows off her natural balsam fir Christmas tree

21823 P. c. 1996 Kristin Rusch, Mary Jo Biermann & Jackie Zutavern, 3 CNAs at Rib Lake Health Care Center

21823A ibid, posing with hallway Christmas decorations

21824 P. c. 1996 L-R Kristin Bob & Robin Rusch

21825 Wisconsin governor Tony Evers visits Merrill within 2 weeks of taking office in 2019, Merrill Foto News

Kristin Strobach, nee Rusch, collection

21826 5-29-1996 Robin Rusch graduation with BS from UW-Eau Claire, magna cum laude. Her family ran this ad in newspaper

21827 c. 2005 Original painting-Oneida Indian Village-by Lisa Fifield, nee Rusch, daughter of Everett Rusch. Lisa was struck by disabling disease in middle age, and with assistance by Minnesota Dept. of Vocational Rebahibliation, she was taught to paint. She now has a national audience; her works hang in homes and galleries, including the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC

21828 2009 Biography of Lisa Fifield, nee Rusch and copies of some of her art in American Story, by Kohler Arts Center, Kohler, WI – cover. Lisa’s mother is Nina Webster, a full-blooded enrolled member of the Oneida Nationa, Ashwaubenon, WI

21828A ibid, painting by Lisa Fifield, “Manitou” 2003

21828B ibid , biography & photo of Lisa Fifield

21828C ibid, painting by Lisa Fifield, “Bird Funeral” 2002

21828D ibid, biography of Lisa Fifield

21828E ibid, biography & painting by Lisa Fifield “Blue Prairie Woman” 2011

21828F ibid, painting by Lisa Fifield “Dance of the Elk Woman” 2005

21828G ibid continued

21828H ibid painting by Lisa Fifield “Lydia Looking Elk” 2003

21828I ibid, inscription by Lisa Fifield to her uncle Bob Rusch and wife Ann 2016

21828J ibid, catalogue of works of Lisa Fifield

21829 New RLLC Logging Railroad Forest Fire Consist, Rib Lake Herald Article of 4-7-1927 and annotations by R.P. Rusch as of 1-30-2019 the RLH Soc. Has nothing further re the consist or use.

21830 1968 “Prexy (Walter) Stuenkel’s New Testament course – religion #204, Concordia Junior College, collection of RPR’s completed tests –cover

21830A ibid “Reserve references” RPR notes in longhand

21830B ibid map test

21830C ibid 4-29-1964 St. Paul’s Prison Epistles

21831 P. c. 1910 Northwestern Lumber Co.’s sawmill…at Eau Claire, WI

21832 c. 1970 pamphlet “What is Project Sanguine” State Committee to stop sanguine – cover

21832A ibid p. 3 handwritten notes by Karen Rusch. Project Sanguine by a huge radio transmitter planned by the US Navy, which initially planned would have covered north Wisconsin, including Rib Lake

21832B ibid p. B – effects on people

21832C ibid p. C effects on economy

21832D ibid p. D inadequate testing

21832E ibid p. E state committee to stop sanguine

21832F ibid “What you can do”

21832G Notes by Karen Rusch re Sylvania Area in UP

21832H ibid Photo of site where Navy bulldozed across Chippewa River to build Project Sanguine

21833 1970 bumper sticker “Stop Sanguine” RPR and Karen Rusch proudly affixed it to their 1968 VW

21834 L. 3-26-1970 Rise Russell, State Committee to Stop Sanguine to RPR

21835 11-1969 article “Project Sanguine” by Roy Johnson and photo in “Wisconsin Engineer.” NB- Entire article is in archives of Rib Lake Historical Society, LLC

21836 Map c. 1970 “The Milwaukee road” aka Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad. Wisconsin Division of Economic Development. A spur from Merrill to western Lincoln County brought the Milwaukee Road to within 20 miles of Rib Lake

21837 1-27-1969 ticket on Milwaukee Road for passenger passage between Madison & Chicago

21837A ibid cover

21838 5-29-1966 Bachelor of Arts diploms “with distinction” to R.P. Rusch from Concordia Senior College, Fort Wayne, Indiana. His major was foreign language

21838A ibid photo

21839 6-1-2017 American Legion Post 274, Rib Lake, WI, legacy stone order form. In 2017 the Lehman-Clendenning post razed its building on the west side of McComb Ave. and constructed an attractive brick meeting structure.

21839A ibid examples of wording for legacy stone

21840 1965 “The Physical Geography of Wisconsin” by Lawrence Martin – cover

21840A ibid Rib Mountain is one of the ost prominent monadnocks in Wisconsin, “its top is about 800 feet above the Wisconsin River near Wausau”; Monadnocks are ridges with “crests rising distinctly avove the pene plain level.”

21841 Map 1918 Wisconsin US Geological Survey Rib Lake area.

21841A ibid, south Wisconsin to Illinois state line

21842 2-15-1994 “Information for mortician” re death of Herman Rusch

21842A ibid Dallman Funeral Home “standard funeral charges as of 9-1-1993, $1765.00

21842B ibid final bill of Dallman Funeral Home for Herman Rusch was $4,086.91

21843 11-26-1982 L. Carpenters Union to Herman Rusch re insurance

21844 c. 1990 L. Herman Rusch to son Tom Rusch re insurance

21844A ibid, Continental Assurance Co. policy on Herman Rusch

21844B ibid 3-1-1994

21845 Original certificate of death for Herman Arthur Rusch, dob 2-15-1994

21846 Obit. Herman Rusch (1903-1994) Star News 2-23-1994

21847 Obit. Curtis Patrick (1919-1994) Star News 2-23-1994

21848 4-24-1979 Certificate of Registration of auto of Herman Rusch, then residing at 5947 N. 66th Street, Milwaukee

21849 c. 1990 Certificate of Registration of auto of Herman Rusch, now residing at N8476 CTH C, Rib Lake

21850 L. 8-25-1994 Atty. Thomas Rusch to Wisconsin Dept. of Revenue re estate of Herman Rusch

21850A 3-10-1994 Motor vehicle transfer affidavit signed by Martha Rusch

21851 2-16-1994 “Important message” to Tom Rusch from brother Jerry Rusch “If it is appropriate, he would be a pallbearer”

21852 L. 1994 Social Security Award to widow Martha Rusch of $776.90 per month

21852A ibid page 2

21853 L. 3-21-1994 Atty. Tom Rusch to Hackbarth Insurance re Herman Rusch estate

21853A ibid, unmailed envelope for copy to Martha Rusch with 29 cent stamp

21854 L. 3-14-1994 Atty. Tom Rusch to nephew Paul Wilde re estate of Herman Rusch. NB-“Just a bit of lawyer humor”

21854A ibid page 2

21855 3-25-1994 checks issued by Atty. Tom Rusch re estate of Herman Rusch

21856 1993 Handwriting samples of Herman Rusch in pencil and Martha Rusch in blue pen “Registration for 1969 Impala”

21857 2-1-1994 Statutory Power of Attorney by Herman Rusch

21857A ibid p. 2 signed by Thomas M. & Robert P. Rusch

21858 2-1-1994 Power of Attorney for Health Care document by Herman Rusch

21858A ibid p. 2

21858B ibid p. 3

21858C ibid p. 4

21859 2-1-1994 Declarations of Physicians by Herman Rusch “do not use feeding tubes…”

21859A ibid p. 2 signed by Herman A. Rusch, witnesses Scot Bromann and Margaret Ziembo

21860 L. 2-28-1994 Atty. Tom Rusch to Milwaukee Carpenters District Council & Health Fund re estate of Herman Rusch

21861 2-1994 Codicil to will of Herman Rusch, e.g. “to my son Thomas Rusch, my 38-55 caliber deer hunting rifle.”

21861A ibid p. 2

21862 3-23-1994 Death benefit check ($2500) to Martha Rusch from Milwaukee Carpenters District Health Fund

21863 L. 5-12-1995 Atty. Tom Rusch to mother Martha Rusch re revocable living trust

21863A ibid p. 2 signed your son, Tom

21864 The Martha H. Rusch Revocable Trust

21864A ibid p. 2

21864B ibid p. 3

21864C ibid p. 4

21864D ibid p. 5

21864E ibid p. 6

21864F ibid p. 7

21864G ibid p. 8

21864H ibid p. 9

21864I ibid p. 10 “initial trust assets”

21865 L. 1-17-2000 Atty. Tom Rusch to Mrs. Barbara Meyer, Director, Hope Hospice, Inc.

21866 1980 to 2009 Mailing sticker of Rusch & Rusch Law Office, S.C., Attorneys at Law, 111 East Division St, PO Box 339, Medford, WI 54451-0339, business address for Attorneys Thomas & Robert Rusch, both residents of the Town of Rib Lake

21867 P. Union Tannery Works, Stanley, WI

21867A ibid back Dec. 8, 1914, one cent stamp

21868 P. Tannery, Manisstee, Michigan

21868A ibid back 11-17-1910

21869 P. c. 1900 “Phister (Pfister) & Vogel Leather Co. Tannery, Cheboygan, Michigan.

21869A ibid back postmarked 7-10-1908

21869B 2018 Milwaukee Journal article at 1531 N. Water Street, Milwaukee. Until 2000, site of huge Pfister & Vogel Tannery

21869C ibid, p. 2, photo, old Pfister & Vogel Tannery water tower

21870 P. c. 1900 Sour Vats Sole Leather Tannery, Endicott, Johnson & Co, Endicott, New Jersey. “More than a million dollars worth of hides continually in the operation of tanning.” Length of vat yard, 600 feet. Rare inside photo.

21871 P. c. 1900 “Saint Mary’s Tannery, Saint Mary’s, PA” NB-rear left-piles of hemlock bark

21872 c. 1915 P. Rib Lake, Wisconsin, unidentified lake scene

21873 4-8-2018 Good Sherherd Catholic Church in Village of Rib Lake, fka St. John the Baptist, Sunday bulletin

21873A ibid p. 2

21873B ibid p. 3

21873C ibid p. 4

21873D ibid p. 5 advertisers

21874 P. c. 1905 “Residence in Second Ward, Medford, Wis” This 3-story house was on South Second Street south of Perkins Ave. It had its own 2-story water tank, note hose in foreground. Medford’s elite resided there at “Aristocracy Hill”

21874A ibid back postmarked 10-10-1920 to Mr. & Mrs. William Bovie, Stanley, Wis.

21875 L. 3-6-2019 Kevin Thusius, IAT, director of land conservation to Ann & Bob Rusch re annual easement review. They siged both a trail and conservation easement; the former authorizes trail building, the latter protects the landscape.

21876 P. c. 1912 “Neopit’s Main Industry,” on Menomonee Indian Reservation, mill pond created by dam on Wolf River. Domed structure is for burning sawdust and waste wood. In background is former Soo Line Railroad bridge and r.o.w., abandoned c. 2000.

21877 P. c. 1900 “Lumber District, Wausau, Wisconsin,” view northward showing log sorting works in Wisconsin River. On left is the sawmill and yard of the Curtis & Carpenter Lumber Co.; George Curtis induced John J. Kennedy to come to Rib Lake in 1881.

21877A ibid back postmarked 7-1-1908 addressed to Cornelia Getty, Yonkers, New York. This proves color commercial photography of postcards existed by 1908.

21878 Map 1969 “Chequemegon National Forest” - legend

21878A ibid, Rib Lake environs; NB-all forest fire towers named and sites indicated by black triangles

21879 Book 11-2000 “Wisconsin Forests at the Millenium” – cover. Photo of old growth forest

21879A ibid p. 2 Map 2000 Six glacial lobes, Rusch Preserve at junction of two of them

21879B ibid p. 26, Eastern hemlock

21879C ibid p. 27 …hemlock can live up to 500 years

21879D ibid p. 28 “hemlock may be recovering in Wisconsin’s northern forests.”

21879E ibid, definition of “old growth”

21880 12-12-2017 Memorial card for Richard Thums 1942-2017

21881 P. Katie Strobach, et al, performing at Rib Lake High School 2017 Christmas concert, Star News

21881A ibid part two

21881B P. Katie Strobach photo

21882 12-27-2017 Wikipedia “Rib Lake, Wis.” page 1

21882A ibid, p. 2 correction by Robert P. Rusch – John J. Kennedy founded Rib Lake and first came there in 1881, not 1882. NB-the 1881 date is confirmed by many articles in the contemporaneous editions of the Star News, published at Medford

21882B ibid p. 3 population in 1910-1018; in 2010-910

21882C ibid p. 4

21882D ibid p. 5

21883 P. c. 2005 L-R Siblings Bekah and Katie Strobach

21884 P. c. 1981 Siblings Kristin and Robin Rusch.

21885 P. 1999 Great Trip to Europe; Robin, Kris & Ann at Interlocken, Switzerland

21886 P. Page from 1999 calendar, memories of 1999. P of Robert P. Rusch at mile 64 of Lake Superior 100 on 9-12-1999

21887 Map 4-27-20112 Glacial landforms of Taylor County, a simplification of John Attig’s “Pleistocene Geology of Taylor County, Wisconsin.”

21888 Map c. 1900 “Preussen” Bibliographisces Institute in Leipzig. Cindy Sommer found by google search

21889 Map 1-1966 Milwaukee and SE Wisconsin including original larger boundary of Kettle Moraine State Forest – south unit - cover

21889A ibid, north side of Milwaukee, arrows to North 66th Street, residence of Martha & Herman Rusch in 1947

21889B ibid, boundaries of Kettle Moraine State Forest near Delafield before statustory shrinkage c. 1965; area “lost” shown in red

21889C Map 2-14-2011 by IAT Alliance; Current boundaries of “Southern Kettle Moraine State Forest” and its Lapham Peak unit and route of IAT

21889D Map 2-14-2011 by IAT Alliance, Delafield and environs with IAT and Lapham Peak Kettle Moraine State Forest

21889E Map 1966, portion of Kettle Moraine State Forest removed

21890 Map 1970 “Wisconsin Highway Map” cover

21890A ibid Rib Lake environs. NB-forest fire towers indicated by red dot, e.g. Rindt tower 2 miles west of Westboro

21891 2-14-2019 Additional language to 21879E proposed by Robert P. Rusch to currently & accurately describe old growth forest on Rusch Preserve, SE NE 12-33-2E Town of Rib Lake.

21892 P. 2017 Christmas card of Joyce Mathias, daughter of Ed Synott, last woods superintendent of the RLLC. Joyce has been a dear friend and generous supporter of the Rib Lake Historical Society

21893 P. c. 1950 “Spirit Lake, Rib Lake, Wis. 66”

21894 2-2019 “Spirit Historical Society Newsletter” previously known as Liberty School News – cover

21894A ibid p. 2 15th annual barn dance and fundraiser 5-26-2019

21894B ibid p. 3 plans to move buildings to site near Spirit Town Hall on Highway 86

21895 Rib Lake High School girls basketball varsity team 2018-19: Reagan Reinhardt, Savana Radtke, Lauren Pelnis, Hope Thums, Mackenzie Weinzatl, Cameron Scheithauer, Taylor Schmidtfranz, Samantha Rodman, Madison Winter, Makenna Annala; Junior Varsity; Reagan Reinhardt, Taylor Meier, Tiara Kestler, Nellie Hopkins, Senja Koch, Rebekah Strobach, Jolee Gehrke, Emily Rodman, Lauren Pelnis, Hannah Schuh, Molly Heiser.

21895A Varsity members photos and post-graduation plans, Makenna Annala, Sam Rodman, Cami Scheithauer

21895B ibid, Taylor Schmidtfranz, Hope Thums and Maddie Winter

21896 W. by Albert Meier c. 1990 “The Bear that Killed our Sheep”, p. 1

21896A ibid p. 2

21897 2-14-2019 “Luminary Snowshoe Walk planned for Rib Lake Trails on Feb. 19: Star News

21898A Ibid, ad for event

21898 P. c. 2017 “Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore” It is just 250 miles NE of Rib Lake

21899 Obit. Richard Thums (1942-2017) Star News 12-7-2017

21900 P. c. 1910 “Westboro, Wis.” View west by NW. In foreground is “Queenstown” subdivision. On right are twin metal smokestacks of the Westboro Lumber Co., which appears not to be operating. Further west, on horizon, are 5 identical “company” houses for families of the Westboro Lumber Co.

21901 Map 1963 Medford Ranger District, Chequemegon National Forest - legend

21901A ibid, Westboro & Mondeaux Dam

21902 W. c. 1970 “Mondeaux Recreation Area” page 1. US Forest Service

21902A ibid, page 2, map and “glacial spring”

21903 W. Bargain openings by Keith McCaffery in c. 1970 Wisconsin Conservation Bulletin. Photo “frost pocket”

21903A ibid page 2

21903B ibid page 3

21904 Map 1969 “Milwaukee” by Citgo Gas Co. Downtown Milwaukee including St. Michaels Hospital, 4th & Brown, where R.P. Rusch was born; Concordia College, 32nd & Kilbourn where he went to college

21905 P. 12-26-1998 Martha Rusch nee Gebauer at 90th birthday with sons; top-L-R; Everett, Robert, bottom-L-R; Jerry & Tom

21906 P. 12-1-1999 Rusch 4 generations, L-R Katie, Kris, Robert & Martha Rusch, nee Gebauer

21907 P. 6-26-1999 L-R Kris, Robin & Ann Rusch, nee Killion, board subway in Munich, Germany

21908 W. c. 1920 Senator William proxmire, Democrat, Wisconsin, “Keep him in the fight” p. 1

21908A ibid p. 2 “Watchdog of the Senate”

21908B ibid p. 3 “Fights for tax savings”

21908C ibid p. 4 Four years of voting on time every time

21908D ibid p. 5 Author of the truth in lending law

21908E ibid p. 6 Farm prosperity

21908F ibid p. 7 sponsor of water pollution control legislation

21909 c. 1970 “Prox” William Proxmire bumper sticker

21910 W. c. 1971 “Pulpwood passage” by Consolidated Papers, Inc., Wis. Rapids –cover. Photo of pulpwood in Lake Superior at Ashland. “Pulpwood harvested on the north shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota is floated across the lake to Ashland by rafts.”

21910A ibid map c. 1971, route of log rafts across Lake Superior to Ashland, WI, from either Sugar Loaf or Grand Marais, MN. NB-In May 1942 the RLLC had pine logs rafted from Hovland, MN, to Ashland for transportation to Rib Lake sawmill. See #15703, 15703A & 15703C.

21910B ibid, photo loading pulpwood pulled from Lake Superior raft onto Soo Line gondola car at Ashland, WI.

21910C ibid, aerial photo of pulp log raft approaching Ashland, WI

21910D ibid, conclusion of pamphlet. NB-see #21923 “History of Consolidated’s Pulpwood Rafting.”

21911 Map 1957 “Soils of Wisconsin” by UW Geological & Natural History Survey. Taylor County is shown to have 2 soil types, “Greyish-yellow silt loams (drainage often inadequate) and grayish loams (often stony) rolling and hummocky, i.e. the Perkinstown Moraine.

21911A ibid, p. 2 detailed data on soil types

21912 W. 1-23-1970 “New Wood dam proposal renews stormy battle.” Capital Times, Madison, WI. Map of proposed New Wood Reservoir, Town of Corning, Lincoln County.

21912A ibid, New Wood Society & conclusion.

21913 W. c. 2-1970 “The Newwood (aka New Wood) Society. The New Wood River originates in Town of Rib Lake and is a Class 1 trout stream

21913A ibid p. 2 impassioned plea

21914 W. “Schematic Reservoir Operation Cycle” by Wisconsin Valley Improvement Co.

21915 W. c. 1970 “Profile of Wisconsin River; the nation’s hardest working river.” Wisconsin Valley Improvement Co.

21915A ibid c. 1970 map, Wisconsin River drainage area and sites of its 32 dams by Wisconsin Valley Improvement Co.

21916 W. “Maralog” 9-1960 – cover

21916A ibid, “Running the River; that’s the novel job of the Wisconsin Valley Improvement Co. in which Marathon has a definite interest.” P. 1

21916B ibid p. 2 Photo of grandfather dam

21916C ibid p. 3

21916D ibid p. 4

21916E ibid p. 5 P. Spirit Reservoir Dam on Spirit River

21917 W. 7-1967 “A model of water conservation; the Wisconsin River plan.”

21917A ibid p. 2 Map showing New Wood & Rib River within “Additional Controlled Drainage Area Planned.”

21918 Map 1971 Wisconsin highways – cover

21918A ibid P. Gov. Patrick Lucey. “Wisconsin highways, flanked by nationally-balanaced roadside beautification..” At that time Wisconsin purchased easements to protect roadside scenery and had meaningful regulations on billboards along interstate highways.

21918B ibid, Rib Lake & environs. Red dots indicated forest fire towers.

21919 Map 1941 Village of Schoenwalde & environs, Grossblatt, 116 Glatz-Muensterberg, “Karte des Deutschen Reiches,” Reichsamt fuer Landes aud Mahme, Berlin, Ausgabe, 1941.

21919A ibid Politisehe Grenzen, Preussen, Provinz Niederschlesion und Oberschliesien un Reighsgau Sudetenland

21920 Map 12-1966 Index US Quad Maps of Wisconsin

21921 Map 1-1967 Taylor County Highways, State Highway Commission of Wisconsin

21921A Map 1-1967 Lincoln County highways. NB-absence of roads in Town of Corning.

21922 Map 1943 Dresden and Sudetenland by Reichsamt

21923 9-9-1978 “History of Consolidated’s (Paper Co) Pulpwood rafting on Lake Superior by Ralph G. Swanson, proceedings –third annual meeting, Forest History Association of Wisconsin. Between 1923 and 1972 Consolidated rafted pulpwood.

21923A ibid p. 2 Minnesota rafting

21923B ibid p. 3 Assembly takes experts

21923C ibid p. 4 some rafts from Canada

21924 P. 5-2018 Katherine “Katie” Strobach poses on railroad track

21925 L. Katie Strobach to Robert P. Rusch & Ann “Grandpa & Grandma”

21926 6-2018 W. Air Force recruiter and benefits

21927 9-2018 Map of Lackland Air Force base where Katie Strobach took basic military training.

21928 Postcard of San Antonio, Texas, where Lackland Air Force Base is located

21929 L. 8-14-2018 Katie Strobach to mother, Kris Strobach, nee Rusch – p. 1

21929A ibid p. 2

21930 W. 8-5-2018 Katie “KKJGS” Strobach to mother Kris Strobach. Spoof of a multiple choice test

21930A ibid p. 2

21931 8-20-2018 Katie Strobach to mother Kris Strobach, Envelope, “Lackland Air Force Base”

21931A Letter 8-20-2018 Katie Strobach to “Mom”

21931B ibid p. 2 “I’m a student leader”

21931C ibid “..and a roughneck..”

21932 8-28-2018 L. Katie Strobach to mother, Kris Strobach, from Lackland Air Force base

21932A ibid p. 2

21932B ibid p. 3

21932C ibid p. 4 art work “A daisy, your favorite color”

21932D 9-2018 Plaque-US Air Force Basic Military Training Graduate, Aim High, “Fly…Fight…Win”

21933 9-2018 Postcard, Riverwalk-San Antonio, Texas. Katie Strobach, her parents, Kris & Rodney, maternal grandparents Ann & Bob rusch, siblings Ryan & Bekah, and others, joyfully celebrated Katie’s graduation from Air Force basic trailing with a meal shown to the right of the boat.

21933A ibid back side

21934 2-22-2019 book “Then They Came for Me; Martin Neimueller, the Pastor who Defied the Nazis,” by Matthew Hockenos, Introduction; “First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me 0 and there was no one left to speak for me.”

21934A ibid p. 1

21935 W. 2018 “Fight Back” stickers used by some who oppose policies of President Donald Trump

21936 2-3-2019 “Camp 28 Ice Races” photos of ATVs racing on frozen Rib Lake

21937 P. 2-2019 “Hope Springs Eternal” plastic palm outside of Rib Lake Historical Society office; record setting cold temperatutres of -35 degrees F and 30 inches of snow on the ground on 2-23-2019

21938 P. 2-11-2019 major expansion of office and archives of Rib Lake Historical Society achieved; “endless pool” removed.

21938A ibid P. Endless pool to be removed. In foreground, “file” box contains scanned objects to be filed in archives of Rib Lake Historical Society, LLC.

21938B ibid P. site of former endless pool, which R.P. Rusch had installed in 2008

21938C ibid, P. L-R Ron Becker and Bob Butler remove part of base of endless pool

21938D ibid, P. wood frames to be recycled into bridges for IAT

21938E ibid P. L-R Bob Butler and Ron Becker show off site for shelving for Rib Lake Historical Society, LLC.

21939 W. 2-2019 Historic St. Ann’s Inc. newsletter

21939A ibid p. 2

21940 4-29-1884 Disappearance & possible Indian kidnapping of children of Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Schlais from Town of Goodrich, Taylor Co., Star & News, p. 1. Medford historians Loretta & Hildegard Kuse report “Kidnapping of two children in Taylor County by Indians in the late 1800’s.”

21940A ibid, p. 2 Taylor County Star & News 5-6-1893 reports discovery of Schlais boy near Manitowoc.

21940B ibid p. 3

21940C ibid p. 4

21940D ibid p. 5 missing boy was Frank Schlais

21941 2-2019 Handwriting sample –by the Rev. Michael Meier

21941A ibid by Karen M. Rusch

21942 2-20-2019 L. James “Jimmy Boy” Edming to Ann & Bob Rusch

21943 2-24-2019 New Rusch Preserve signs featuring logos of IAT & THT

21944 Map 2-24-2019 probable site of RLLC Camp 12 (1915-1916) in SW SE 34-T34N-R2E, Price Co, by Robert P. Rusch. Site indicated by red dot

21944A 1947 US Quad Map showing probable site of RLLC Camp 12 as a white colored clearing surrounded by green forest

21945 P. 1940 “Clausen’s Resort – Spirit Lake” Cy Claussen operated a small resort on the SE corner of Big Spirit Lake. View shown look to the northwest, Tabor Island and cabin is in the center and the south end of Spirit Point at right rear. Three super tall white pine trees near mark the horizon. Cy Claussn was a land surveyor and courageously spoke out against t6he unpermitted, illegal construction of a concrete dam at the outlet of Little Spirit Lake c. 1959

21945A ibid, back. “Laura to Edith Logan 7-31-1940” “The cottage is clean and has a screened front porch. Mother loves it so much.”

21946 Book “The Lumberjack Frontier,” the life of a logger in the early days on the Chippeway.” By Walker Wyman 1969-cover

21946A ibid, Map 1969 Louie Blanchard’s world, the Chippewa River drainage basin, including western Taylor County, Westboro & Silver Creek flowing from South Harper Lake.

21946B ibid, bio of Louie Blanchard part 1

21946C ibid part 2

21946D Signature of Roy R. Meier, preeminent Town of Spirit historian

21946E ibid, p. 59 “Devil’s Nest on the Jump River”

21946F ibid p. 60

21946G ibid p. 61

21946H ibid, p. 63 “A drowning at Little Falls (Holcombe, WI) in 7-1906. Eleven men died there.

21946I ibid p. 64

21946J ibid, photo “log-driving crews with bateau”

21946K ibid, photo of log rafts below Eau Claire

21946L ibid, photo of Wanigan shooting through the Flambeau River Rapids

21946M ibid, some Wisconsin log marks. A bark mark was cut by axe in the side of the log, while the end stamp was pounded into the end of the log with a hammer

21946N ibid, p. 79, “There was a big tannery at Phillips (WI) and when I drove the Elk River, I remember how it used to stink when we poled through the flowage there. The stink from the old Fayette Shaw tannery just about knocked us off the logs.”

21946O ibid, p. 80 “A green hemlock (i.e. freshly cut) just went to the bottom, and that is why they began to build little railroads into the wood. But when the hemlock logs had dried a summer and then put in the river next spring, they’d float good.” The last log drive down the Chippewa River was in 1917.

21947 P. 1934 August Zielke grading Price County highway YY in Town of Spirit. Zielke had a small dairy farm next to Liberty School in the heart of German Settlement. He was paid by Price County to grade Highway YY using a small horse pulled machine. He had to manually turn a wheel shown in front of him to adjust the grader blade beneath him while holding the reins to his two horses – quite a feat!

21948 W. 3-23-2019 “My Dad, Herman Rusch, and his Big Rock” by Bob Rusch

21949 P. c. 1910 Steam hauler near Barronett, WI, four sleighs of logs.

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