Health & Fitness
The Greendale Review Newspaper - Revisited Week 11 - 12/29/38 to 1/14/39
The Greendale Review was Greendale's first newspaper and through 2013 I will post stories every Thursday from the early days of Greendale taken from the paper.
With this year being the 75th anniversary I thought it might be interesting as well as fun to look back at Greendale’s beginnings from the viewpoint of its own residents and local news stories of the day. Every Thursday through the end of the year, I will be posting humorous, relevant or just interesting stories from Greendale’s original newspapers.
The following selected stories are copied exactly as they were originally written (including some misspellings) unless otherwise noted. Some may be shortened with “…”. They will be in bold and italicized type.
Also, just a reminder - Greendale first opened to residents on May 1, 1938
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The Greendale Review – December 29, 1938 New Year Greetings from The GREENDALE Review
Greendale Store Earns $177 First Six Weeks
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Taken from the Midland Cooperative—With sales and membership increasing weekly, the grocery and meat market of the Greendale Wisconsin Cooperative Association showed net savings of $177 for its first six weeks, ending October 30. Sales for that period totaled $9,478 of which $7,126 was accounted for in October.
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Greenbelt Farmers
Would you be interested in forming an association of Greendale farmers? ? ? This Association for the purpose of marketing your produce and vegetables. To establish a Green Market in the village where you could display your produce. To get better acquainted with the people living in Greendale who are depending upon you to supply them with garden produce, berries, eggs and other commodities. Let us hear from you on this question. Many inquiries have been received concerning farm produce available. What have you to market now, what will you have available this summer? ? ? ? ? GIVE US YOUR LIST AND WE WILL PUBLISH IT IN OUR NEXT ISSUE. THINK OVER THE ASSOCIATION IDEA.
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New Postoffice Starts With a Rush
That the Management turned over the postal service to Mr. Bengs and his assistants at a most auspicious time, is clearly evidenced by the amount of mail handled since its opening.
We wager that the lobby of the Village Hall and perhaps, even Mr. Reeder’s office would have been overflowing, with Christmas mail and packages, had not the Postoffice been ready at this time; to say nothing of the wear and tear on the office girls.
It is interesting to note that Mr. Bengs, our new Postmaster, received about 1500 requests for canceled stamps, some of these coming from as far distant points as Japan and Asia.
The opening of the Post Office is another step toward the completion of Greendale’s business life, and we are looking forward to the opening of the rest of our business section.
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Radio Interference
Recently a number of complaints have been received at the Management office about interference in radio reception. Investigation of these reports has revealed that in many cases the cause was a light bulb being loose in a socket or other forms of poor electrical connection, such as to electric irons, vacuum cleaners, toasters, etc. Each of these miniature broadcasting stations sends out man-made static. In some instances Radio interference was traced to large electric motors installed in some garages. Your reporting such motor installations to the Management will help to correct the situation. In other cases the entire difficulty was due to the need of a new tube in the radio itself. …
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Contest Sponsored in Search of Corporate Seal
At the first meeting of the Village Board, a committee was selected to run a contest in quest of a design for a Greendale Corporate Seal. All artists, and people interested in designing are requested to submit a design for this Corporate Seal, to the following committee members, who will act as judges: Chairman Fabian Strong, 5612 Apricot Court; Bramble Burke, 5593 Municipal Square; Ella Miller, 6706 Conifer Lane; Russell Knowles, 5620 Badger Court; Mr. Ambruster, School office.
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The Greendale Review – Saturday, January 14, 1939
THE HUB OF THE GREENBELT
Postmaster Bengs Asks Your Cooperation in the Distribution of Mail
Mothers, if you call for your mail at the post office between 2 and 3 o’clock, please do not send your children in after school to ask for the mail again. There has been a great deal of confusion in the post office due to this problem. Please send in just one member of the family to get the mail.
If you have relatives living with you, or visiting, please register both names at the post office under your address.
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NOTICE
At the last meeting of the Greendale Review Staff it was decided to change the price of the Review from 4c to 5c. This is to cover the added expense of a printed paper. All the staff members, being paid subscribers, felt that our subscribers would be willing to pay the extra penny in order to have a better paper in Greendale. We have received many paid subscriptions of 50c for 13 issues and $1.00 for 26 issues. All those interested in taking out a new subscription contact any member of the staff. …
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Medical and Dental Offices Opened
The Management announced the opening of the medical and dental offices on the second floor of the Post Office Building this week. Drs. Harold Dvorak and Laura Fisher will occupy the physicians suite and Dr. L. C. Lomas will occupy the dentist’s office. They will share a joint reception room. …
…The Doctors also plan physical therapeutic facilities for ultraviolet irradiation, electrocoagulation and electrocautererization and modalities for performing cystoscopy and proctoscopy. …
Dr. Lomas reports that he is installing new equipment of the most modern type available. …
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Corporate Seal Contest Closes January 17th
The contest in search of a design for a Corporate Seal for the village of Greendale will close January 17, 1939.
The only rules of the contest are that the outer edge of the seal should contain the words “Village of Greendale, Wisconsin. Incorporated November 1, 1938.” And the inner circle should picture some legend or design representative of the spirit of Greendale. …
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Game Room
The game room, in the Community Building, is now in full swing, activities galore! Ping pong, chess, checkers, dart ball and card playing. Interest in continuing with every activity, future Greendale champions are now in the training stage. Make a date, attend an evening of real fun.
A dart ball league is now in the making. Any group interested should contact Mr. Bennett. Nine players shall represent a team. Chess instructions are available to those interested. A county champion ping-pong player is in our midst. Drop in, see him in action get a few pointers.
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Next week –The Corporate Seal Winner Announced!
Thanks to the Greendale Historical Society, for which I am a member, for providing the original newspapers.
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Steve Peters
