Pages from the Past
Posted: Living Sussex Sun, June 2, 2010
By Fred Keller, Sussex Village Historian
100 years ago – June 2, 1910
Lisbon, Sussex and Lannon residents are excited about the Waukesha Beach lake resort that opened on May 28. The manager of this south Pewaukee Lake carnival and resort is again Mr. T.M. Toll.
50 years ago – June 2, 1960
The new hospital (Menomonee Falls Community Memorial Hospital) has purchased 34 acres on Custer Lane and Town Hall Road making it much easier and faster for Sussex and Lannon rescue squads to deliver emergency patients in the future.
25 years ago – June 2, 1985
Finally after 21 years in the Braveland, the Hamilton Boys Track team took the conference championship in track and field under coach Ken Krause.
Hamilton scored in every event except the long jump. The Hamilton girls softball team won a share of the fast pitch softball championship at 10-1 with a 21-0 final conference win over Germantown.
10 years ago – June 2, 2000
For more than 15 years, Sussex has funded the local senior citizen program that includes about one third Lisbon residents. There is a move to have Lisbon donate some money to this community wide project.
Peg Nettesheim is retiring as a Hamilton English and math teacher after 24 years.
Sussex dentist Gene Goetsch, 60, has spent 30 years at his Sussex office and is now thinking of slowing down and retiring soon.
Five years ago – June 2, 2005
The Friday farm family has revived the traditional June Dairy Month, “Father’s Day on the Farm.”
Todd Van Lare who is accused of murdering his wife is expected to plead guilty.
Junior Jim Liermann finished sixth in the triple jump for Hamilton High School at the state track meet.
Posted: June 8, 2010
100 years ago – June 9, 1910
In Colgate Mrs. Herman Kollath has returned to the homestead on North Lisbon Road from her stay at Trinity Hospital in Milwaukee where she underwent an operation.
The Lisbon farm of Will and Watson advertise their fine herd of purebred Holstein cows.
50 years ago – June 9, 1960
Orval Cullen Jr. will give the class motto in the Sussex Main Street School graduation of 25 eighth-graders.
Arthur Voight 14, and the Lannon-area Marbles won second place in the state marble championship.
Seventeen graduated from the eighth-grade at Lannon grade school including Terry Gissal.
25 years ago – June 9, 1985
World War II Cpl. Philip Stier was the parade marshal of the annual Sussex Memorial Parade.
The Sussex Business and Professional Association donated $200 toward the upcoming Sussex Village Park fireworks display.
Ralph Lenz is the Hamilton District Administrator.
10 years ago – June 9, 2000
Willow Springs Mobile Home Court was flooded as the nearby creek overflowed.
TV Personality Gus Gnorski interviewed Sussex Village President Pat Bartelt at the M&M Restaurant.
Fred Bartelt, 81, a Sussex Main Street resident dies.
Le Roy Eichhorst was out near Memorial Day selling poppies.
Five years ago – June 9, 2005
Sussex’s Amie Zyla testifies before Congress on Amies Law.
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Posted: June 22, 2010
100 years ago – June 23, 1910
A wit added to last week’s 1910 definition of automobiles this ditty, “An auto consists of a handsome leather upholstered carriage body mounted on a gizzard full of machinery suffering from various ailments. It is the speediest and most stylish form of transportation known to transport seven people to the police station.”
50 years ago – June 23, 1960
A massive fire at the dump and tire storage area near the Tamarack Swamp on Good Hope Road was fought by the Menomonee Falls, Butler, Lannon and Sussex fire departments taking seven hours to control. The smoke cloud could be seen as far as Bayside in Milwaukee.
25 years ago – June 23, 1985
The top two athletes at Hamilton for the senior class are Lisa Ische and Dave Wnuk.
Jeff Semrad is the first Eagle Scout to come out of Sussex Boy Scout Troop 175.
John Ziebell is the editor of the Sussex Sun.
Olde Quarry Daze return to Lannon as a festival.
Beth Konkol will leave as Sussex Teen Club coordinator after three years of service.
10 years ago – June 23, 2000
On May 10, 16 inches of rain fell in Sussex.
In the recent WIAA state high school track meet Hamilton’s junior Jenny Prohaska was the repeat state champion in the shot put breaking a 10-year state record with 46 feet, ¼ inches.
Jason Huilbregtse is the valedictorian of the Hamilton High School graduates.
Five years ago – June 23, 2005
Lannon has a 9-2 record in the Land O’ Lakes baseball league, a half game out of first place (Oconomowoc at 9-1). Sussex is fourth in the standings at 7-4.
Sussex women’s softball league champs, Woller-Anger is 7-0 at the half-way mark. Beth Brewer had two homers for Woller-Anger in a recent 14-7 win at Sussex Bowl.
Posted: June 29, 2010
100 years ago – June 30, 1910
In Colgate J.W. Whitaker makes up cord wood for delivery for heat to Menomonee Falls uses.
Nearby, W.P. Connell made up a lot of bails of early hay for delivery for Milwaukee horse owners.
50 years ago – June 30, 1960
The Lannon Village president is Frank Clucas.
The Lake Five two-room school on Hickory Road had a school year ending grounds picnic with mothers of the school children as special guests.
Sussex will get an improved telephone system this year as a new building to house it will be built on Silver Spring Drive.
25 years ago – June 30, 1985
Special championship Hamilton athletic letters were awarded to 29 members of the Hamilton Boys track team in recognition of the first ever Braveland Conference championship.
The Lannon Olde Quarry Daze featured women mud wrestling for local amateur contestants.
Carmela Patterson a longtime Sussex library volunteer dies of cancer at age 41.
10 years ago – June 30, 2000
Pam Gigg Nettesheim was honored at the recent Hamilton High School graduation ceremony with the “Distinguished Alumnus Award.”
Woodside principal Dian Loppnow has taken early retirement after being the first-year principal of the newest Hamilton school.
WOW Distributing Co. will locate in the new Mindemann Industrial Park on Silver Spring Drive.
Five years ago – June 30, 2005
Summer school in the Hamilton School District has attracted nearly 1,500 students enrolled in 55 classes and 233 sections with 145 staff members.
Although Lannon namesake William Lannon had no living grandchildren four distant relatives attended Lannon’s 75th anniversary celebration.