Baseball in Wild Rose about 1910

Front: Dan Jones (1896-1966) son of William ( Gwilym) and Angie Jones.  Back  Row: Glenn Etheridge (1894-1931, son of Alanson and Emma Etheridge, Lawrence Lane (1894-1939) son of Henry and Theresa Lane, and an unknown player. You will notice that the uniforms don't match.

Sprague Meat Market in Wild Rose, WI

Claude A Sprague had a Meat Market at 457 Main Street.  Smoked hams and sausage were on the top row on the left.  The next row has chickens.  The lower row has animals and carcasses. The  scale and cash register are in the middle.  Lights are strung from the ceiling. He had the ability to smoke meat in his smoke house.  He bought the building in 1905  but was in Wild Rose much earlier.  He had a home on Wisconsin Ave. that was sold to T J Woodward in July of 1918.  Ed Heuer also had a meat market in this building.

The Wild Rose loom before the Musuem

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This loom was made by Henry Hohenstein in 1866 

in the Town of Bloomfield.  His sister Minnie Pietz 

used the loom until 1910 when it was given to Mrs. 

Herman (Wilhemina) Zabel of Brushville.  The 

picture was taken in 1914 and shows Minnie Zabel 

using the loom and Mrs Cephas (Mary) Walters 

showing one of the throw rugs Minnie had woven 

on the loom.  Minnie also wove blankets and carpets 

on the loom.  The loom was used until 1942.  Her 

sons Helmuth and Leonard inherited the loom and 

donated it to the Wild Rose museum.  The  loom is 

located in the weaving room in the building which 

used to be a harness shop.  

Loom in the Weaving Room Wild Rose Museum

Etheridge & Jones Store in Wild Rose

Cornelius Etheridge and LaForest Atwood Jones built this building about 1875. There was an earlier general store where the Hotel is today but it burned.  Cornelius was a brother of Josiah and John in Wild Rose and Benjamin in Janesville.  They came from Woodmancote in Gloucestershire. L.A, Jones was from Maine.  He took over the store and later took Charles A Smart into the store. William A Knights (Co-founder of the Gideons) also was a clerk here.

Milford Etheridge and Wife Alice Jenks

Milford Etheridge made a pedal car for his youngest son, Neil in 1927. The Wild Rose Museum has the car. It has a leather seat, an oak steering wheel, as well as rack and pinion steering.Cars didn't have it until after 1970.

Glenn Murty in Baseball uniform

Glenn was a left hand hitter and played for Wild Rose High School but he also played for men's teams like Chain of Lakes.  

Church Transfer of John Spicer and wife Lurinda Jeffers

It was signed Sept. 9, 1856. They moved from Alexanderia, Jefferson County, NY to the Town of Wautoma, Waushara County. Wisconsin.

Speiser page 4

The pencil marks are from someone in the family who probably wasn't in school.  Paper wasn't so easy to find before 1900.

Speiser page 3

Johann Speiser page 2

Before pictures people were identified by a written description.  The right page shows his birthdate on Oct. 4, 1819.  He was 5'9".  His teeth were good and he had brown hair. 

Johann Georg Speiser Wander-Buch Page 1

 

This is the front page of Johann Georg Speiser's Wander-Buch. He came to the US in 1840 from Brettheim, Wuettemberg, Germany. He changed his name to John Spicer. The surname was often changed by immigrants to sound the way it did in German.  He was a master carpenter in Germany.

Creamery Fire in Wild Rose

The fire was before 1910.  The creamery was rebuilt on the same site. The Wild Rose Mill is in the background on the right.

Flax breaker in the Weaving Room, Wild Rose Museum

Gerald Anderson

My first cousin, Gerald Anderson who was killed in a plane crash near Bitburg, Germany. He was in the Air Corp with 317 Troop carrier group.  

Charles Charleson

Charles Charleson was the brother of my grandmother, Louisa Charleson Anderson.

Rodney Murty House at 727 Maple 1950's

Pam with Nephews & Cats

Jeff, Pam and Nathan Anderson

Dublin and Minerva

John Spicer Family Register

Wild Rose Train at Station First Day

First Day of Train Service in Wild Rose, August 15, 1901

Building the Wild Rose railroad 1901

St Paul's Lutheran Church in Wild Rose WI

St Paul's Lutheran Church was dedicated in Dec. 1941 with about 400 people present. The first service as Jan. 1942.  The church had met in other Wild Rose Churches since 1913.

The Wild Rose Baptist Church

The foundation for the Baptist Church was done in Oct. 1901.  In recent years the church built a new building on Main St. (also Highway 22).  Grace Bible Church now worships there. 

Waala & Holt General Store in Wild Rose WI

This store was located on the corner of Main St and Maple Ave. Today Lauritzen's BP gas station is located here.

Joe Milliken & Daniel W Davies

Joseph E Milliken is on the left and Daniel W Davies is on the right. Joe was born October 18, 1885 in Springwater to Morris Milliken and Elizabeth Jones. He died February 1, 1969. He married Bernice Davies daughter of William E Davies and his wife Mary Hart on May 26, 1913. He was a farmer he also had a milk route in Wild Rose. Dan Davies was born September 5, 1886 to William Morris Davies and Margaret Ann Davies. He died June 26, 1966. He married Sara Evans September 13, 1911.

Fainting Couch In the Elisha Stewart House in Wild Rose Museum

In the 1880's fainting couches were used by women who wore clothing tight enough in the waist to cut off the breathing so they fainted.  They also had large skirts so it was easier to faint and restore their air flow.

Norwegian Trunk in the Weaving Room at the Wild Rose Museum

Wild Rose Pantry 2

More in the Pantry.

Wild Rose Museum Pantry

The display changes from year to year but the pantry was likely added on to the house after the house was built

Kitchen table in the Wild Rose Museum

The small Bible on the table is written in Welsh. There is a cigar case. The knives and forks have bone handles.  The Tea Leaf china was donated by the Hansen family.  The father bought barrels of china for all of his children.  One son did not marry so the china was not used.

High chair with wheels and cane seat in the kitchen

This high chair does not meet today's safety standards because the child could fall out or maybe even tip it over.

Dewey Ave in Wild Rose

Early Wild Rose Creamery

Looking North from the School on Park Ave in Wild Rose

Wild Rose Mill Pond

The Wild Rose Hotel is the building on the far left side.

Pam Anderson, Kay Williams, Michael Anderson

This picture was taken with the Rodney Murty house on Maple in the background. When we were kids we enjoyed rolling down this bank between the Murty house and Ingwald & Sara Sorensons.

Pam Anderson, Dennis Christie, Carla Christie & Taffy the cat

Taffy was a great cat.  He allowed me to dress him in doll 

clothes including bonnets and the put him to bed and cover 

him up.  Usually he was able to take a nice long nap.  

Carla and I were in 3rd grade.

Pam Anderson and Sally Roth Otterson

This picture was taken in the back of my grandparent's house on Maple Ave.  Rodney Murty made the sandbox.  Sally was a cousin from Eau Claire who was the granddaughter of May Etheridge Roth who was sister of my grandma, Blanche Etheridge Murty.

Ruth Clarke at the Library in the Village Hall

Francis McGovern for Governor in 1910 In Wild Rose WI

With all the political debates going on these
days, you might enjoy this picture of Wild
Rose from 1910 when Francis E. McGovern
(Republican) who was the District Attorney
in Milwaukee County beat Adolph Schmitz
in the race for Governor.  Governor McGovern
was nationally known because he purposed
and passed the first workers compensation
insurance in the county in 1911.   On the
right side of the street going north are Theo.
 Keppler's Harness shop, the Wild Rose State
 Bank, Bob K Jones' Hardware Store.  The
tallest building on the right was a grocery store.

Main Street., Wild Rose, Waushara County

Maple Ave in Wild Rose, Waushara County Early 1900's

James "Jeff" Murty's farm in Town of Rose, Waushara County WI 1913

This farm was originally built by William John Thomas in the 1850's, William was the father of James wife, Maggie Thomas. The farm is located in the Town of Rose on 17th not far off County A West.  There was a very large rock by the driveway.

Wild Rose Sewing group early 1900's

Luella Swett Hart, X, X,  Mrs Oscar (Edna Jones) Holt, Cora Darling Schneider

Jenks School with Maty Murty, teacher and family

Picture at the Jenks School in the Town of Rose, Waushara County. Maggie Thomas Murty (1869-1958), Alice Murty Simonson (1906-1993), James "Jeff" Murty (1860-1936), Maty Murty (1895-1996), her aunt, Jennie Thomas Sherman from St Paul, not certain of last person.

Inside Smart's Store 1897

Charles A Smart over the building that Corneius Etheridge and LaForest Jones had started in the 1870;s. Cornelius left first. L A Jones brought Smart into the store  after he had married Charles sister Ella. The marriage failed so Jones sold out to Smart and left town to be a traveling salesman.. Jones later settled in Portage, Columbia County, WI. The store was located on the SE corner of Main St

and Maple Ave. It is located where the Motel is today.

Nancy, Susan & Rebecca Noble

Nancy, Susan and Rebecca Noble celebrated 

a birthday at the Wild Rose Methodist 

parsonage. The father Rev. Richard Noble 

was the Methodist minister. The picture was 

about 1957-59.

Burton Weyermeier & Ernie Knoke

Burton Weyermeier was a pro skater who taught Wild Rose children to skate. The Wild Rose Skating Club put on outside skating shows first back of Cleveland Ave near where Cal Jenks lives. Later the show moved to the area of Knoke's sawmill off from River St.  The show started in the mid 1940's and the last show was in 1953.  Mother's made customs for the skaterss.  Weyermeier doing a solo, he brought other pro or semi-pro skaters for the show.  There was snow fencing around the rink and many more people attended than the population of Wild Rose.  Parking was hard to come by but there was no charge for it.  Television is probably the reason the show ended because parents and children alike wanted to watch the new entertainment on television even if it was very snowy.

Ration Book from WWII