Saxeville Softball Team

Manager -Ernest Christensen. Back row: Beatrice Jensen
Maager, Melva Zuege Kleist, Valeria Sawyer Russon,
Norma Johnson Christianson, Arvilla Smith Christensen,
Lavina Jensen Odling. Front row: Dorothy Christensen
Pitt, Gladys Moldenhauer Marks, Myrna Johnson Barr,
Lauretta Christensen, Jane Gibson Nitkowski. Six of
these women graduated from Wild Rose High School
from classes from 1934 to 1939. 

Luther Thomas Davies

Luther Thomas Davies was born Feb. 12 1889 in
Springwater.  His parents were William M Davies
(better known as Bill Morris) and Margaret Ann
Davies. Margaret was the daughter of Daniel
Davies and Elizabeth Evans.  He was baptized in
the Caersalem Presbyterian Church on July 26,
1889 by Rev. Daniel Thomas. He did not  marry
but he lived at home with his sister, Elizabeth
Ann and later with Della Davies Moss on
Oakwood in Wild Rose.  Luther's WWII old men's
draft registration showe his was 5'10" and 163
pounds.  He had gray eyes and brown hair.

Wild Rose Skating Club Event Oct. 13, 2019 At 1:00PM

This is a reminder that the Wild Rose Historical Society
will have a program on the club and programs. We
\especially would like to have former skaters attend.
We have costumes made by the mothers, programs of
the shows, pictures, newspaper articles and some'
film.. The program will be at the annex to the
Patterson Memorial library in Wild Rose, WI. The
address is 500 Division St. which is a block east of
Main St.

Wild Rose Skating Club board

The Wild Rose Skating Club started in the mid-1940's
 and ran through 1953.  The shows were south of
Cleveland Ave but later were moved to Knoke's Saw
mill land.  Wild Rose and Mosinee were the only two
places in Wisconsin that had outdoor shows at that
time. Mosinee did the early shows but by 1948 Wild
Rose skaters took over with much help from Burton
Weymier who was a pro skater and taught the kids
to skate. Burt also did solos and brought some pro
and semi pro skater from Milwaukee. The picture s
hows leaders of the club.  Back row: Ernie Knoke,
Everett Wilcox, Irma Wild Cox and Mildred Hadden.
Front row: Ted Long Helen Long, Burton Weymier,
Pearl Dopp, Gladys Clayton.  The Wild Rose Historical
Museum has a display of some of the costumes which
were made by mothers.

Steps going into the gift shop at Wild Rose Museum

The steps are from a building that was a harness
shop. The building has a weaving room, a general
store and a gift shop.  Elisha Stewart had the building,
in the beginning as well as a house that is part of our
Historical Museum.  Elisha and  his family came from
Rose, Wayne County, NY in 1850.

Wild Rose Senior Class Play 1938

The Old Mill of the Gods by Eugene Todd was the 
Senior Class Play performed on Friday April 29, 1938.  
The play was directed by Muriel Jones McCallum.  
Seated: Wayne Patterson as Kenneth Ramsey, 
Beverly Murty Anderson Ansorge as Patty Jefferson,  
Beverly Hills Nouri as Mary Jefferson.  Standing: 
Lorraine Klusinke  Dold as as Golda Kane, Stanley 
Kosmider as Terry- a tramp, Edgar Frater as Lawrence 
Stanton, Phyllis DeGolier Peterson as Selina an old 
servant, Gerald Schleicher as Phillip Jefferson. 

Ed Pease

Edward Newton Pease was born 14 October 1864 in
the Town of Wautoma, Waushara County to John
Nelson Pease and his 3rd wife, Emily Darrow. His
father served in Co. D of the Wisconsin 37th
Infantry. Edward moved to Iowa sometime after
1880. He married Minnie B Hawkins on October
14, 1894 in Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa. 
Her parents were Layette Hawkins and Clarissa
Chase.  They had children named: Clarence,
Lester, Lafayette, Lucille, Edward and Nora.  After
1920 he moved to Fulton, Whiteside County, Illinois
where he died on October 31,1933. He had two full
siblings Minerva who married Byron Currier and Cecila
who married Charles Warner.  Waushara County people
will be interested that this family is related to the
following families: Button, Barrington, Lovejoy, Etheridge.