THE MAZEPPA JOURNAL, Editor and Publisher: Barbara and Reider Tommeraas
FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1956
MILKING CONTEST
One of the less esthetic but most enthusiastic events was the milking contest held across from the gym at 3:30, by county editors Ray Young of Wabasha, Bob Mack, Jr. of Plainview, Carol Law of the Lake City Graphic with publisher Larry Oberg, at the halter and Reider Tommeraas.
The latter has been walking in the clouds all week by putting four pounds of milk in his pail in four minutes, winning handily over the other who did not boast a farm background.
Ray Young had quite a pail full of milk, but the eagle-eyed crowd saw him empty a quart of milk in his pail from a pocket of his hospital gown. He was disqualified immediately by consent of the crowd, but was a vision of loveliness in cherry red Bermuda shorts and loud sport shirt. Bob Mack drew a lot of attention with his beautiful goatee grown for the Plainview centennial, and Mrs. Law was roundly applauded for being such a good sport.
All agreed it was a lot of fun---all that is, but the poor, patient suffering cows furnished by Henry Thiele and Mrs. Henry Betcher.
Tuesday morning Janet Cravath, Wabasha county dairy princess and Eldred Kuehn took the cookies entered in the contest and served them, with milk, to post-polio ward patients at St. Mary’s hospital. This was particularly appropriate as Miss Cravath was treated there for polio in 1952.
FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1956
Obituaries
JOHN W. ALMETER
John W. Almeter of St. Cloud, longtime Mazeppa resident, passed away at the St. Cloud hospital at 5:15 a.m. June 27, following a stroke. He had been in poor health for several years, and was 62 years of age at the time of his death.
Mr. Almeter was born Sept. 13, 1893, in Mazeppa. He attended school here and was a resident until 1945. He was a partner in the family business, Almeter Motor Sales. After leaving here, he resided in Minneapolis and St. Cloud.
He was a member of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars, and served in France in the First World War.
He is survived by a son, James K. Almeter, Champaign, Ill.; a daughter, Mrs. Galvin Uhlenhopp of Minneapolis, his mother Margaret Almeter of St. Cloud; two brothers, Frank N. Almeter of Mazepp and Louis L. Almeter of LaCrosse, Wis.; and two sisters, Miss Mary A. Almeter of St. Cloud, and Mrs. Helen Heaney of Beloit, Wis.
MRS. CATHERINE BARTHOLOME
Mrs. Catherine Bartholome of St. Cloud, former Bellechester resident, died Sunday at the home of her son, Bishop P.W. Bartholome in St. Cloud.
She was born in Luxembourg May 4, 1853, and came to this country with her family at the age of 11. They settled near Wabasha. In 1871 she was married to Nicholas Bartholome and they farmed at Bellechester for 32 years. He died in 1918.
Three of her children and her husband preceded her in death. Her surviving children in addition to Bishop Bartholome, are Msgr. John Bartholome, Dominic of Bellechester, Nicholas of Crookston, George of Crookston, George of Regent, N.D., Mrs. Anna Hart of Mazeppa, Mrs. Elizabeth Lippert of McVille, N.D., and Mrs. Justine Dobner of Faribault.
Mrs. Bartholome visited here often at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Hart, and was loved by all.
