17 August 2022

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On Two Eden Postmarks

On Two Eden Postmarks


On Two Eden Postmarks KARL MCCARTY CONTRIBUTOR This article is about a mass produced postcard, a well-staged photo and a significantly blotched postmark. More than a decade ago, somewhere in a pile of postcards at a Fox Valley antique mall was a farm field photo-op which left the readers smiling and questioning. On the flipside was a four lettered town in the 1914 postmark and a mailing

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|CAMPBELLSPORT GLANCE BACKWARDS|

|CAMPBELLSPORT GLANCE BACKWARDS|


|CAMPBELLSPORT GLANCE BACKWARDS| 5 Years Ago August 17, 2017 The Empire Threshing Association is hosting its annual thresheree on August 26. Many di_erent activities will be held throughout the day - oldtime steam threshing, cutting, plowing, baling, chopping, and silo filling. It was a beautiful summer night and the Golf Club at Camelot was packed for the annual Cougar Booster Club Golf

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Library Happenings

Library Happenings


Library Happenings Activities at the Campbellsport Public Library 220 North Helena St. P.O. Box 405 www.campbellsportlibrary.org 920-533-8534 Greetings from the Campbellsport Library! Summer at the Campbellsport library “swam” right past! We had so much fun hosting events on Wednesdays for our Oceans of Possibilities summer theme and seeing so many smiling faces visit us each

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Check It Out!

Check It Out!


Check It Out! LORI KREIS KEWASKUM LIBARIAN With a happy sigh of relief, the library has completed a successful summer learning program. We had record numbers in participants and minutes read, all prizes have been drawn with winners notified and good memories were made with performers, participants and volunteers. Two hundred forty-seven people registered for the program either through

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Community

Community


Community CALENDAR TO BE INCLUDED IN THE COMMUNITY CALENDAR, PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR EVENT PRIOR TO OUR 2 P.M. MONDAY DEADLINE. 920.533.8338 • THECAMPBELLSPORTNEWS.COM • KSTATESMAN.COM (We welcome submissions to the Community Calendar by emailing Mitchell B. Keller, editor, at mitchell.keller@mmclocal.com . Deadline for each Thursday edition, with the exception for holidays, is on Monday at

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The Last Thresheree

The Last Thresheree


| LAND BETWEEN THE MARSHES | The Last Thresheree ROB BOWE CONTRIBUTOR The following is a historical piece by contributor Rob Bowe who recalls a thresheree in neighboring Theresa township in the 1950s. Best I can remember, it was about 1959 when mom’s family had their last thresheree. Mom’s brother, Arnold Christian, farmed with their stepdad Eddie Zimmermann, on Allen Road, Theresa

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POSTCARDS

POSTCARDS


POSTCARDS from page 6 it is fair to say the Dutch were not even in the top three in Eden Township, and the postcard was a cheap, funny or suggestive card to mail the year World War I started. Despite the generic quality of the Dutch girl postcard, it was valuable because it’s postmark was a sloppy stamp that could not be certain to be Eden until compared with another messy postmark of a