The Center Piece Winter Newsletter

Millerville Sportsmen Club Stock Walleye Fingerlings

The Millerville Sportsmen Club with matching funds from the Viking Sportsmen Club and a permit from the Minnesota DNR Fisheries, stocked 113 pounds of fingerlings into Lake Moses and 112 pounds into Lake Aaron.  They ran about 35 fish to a pound.  Bosek Bait of Garfield provided the fingerlings.  Club members present were Norbert Korkowski and Bob & Randy Habberts.  Other projects that the Club is involved with are: Pheasant release and feeding deer and pheasants during bad winters.  Members plant food plots for wildlife.  The Club has three certified Gun Safety Instructors that teach gun safety.  The Club pays the students fees and also gives a gun away at the completion of the course to one lucky student.  The Club  pays for portable toilets on both the Lake Moses and Lake Aaron public accesses and also pay for the night light on the Lake Aaron access.  It also helps support other area sportsmen clubs and donate to UFFDA( United Foundation for Disables Archers): donate to the Brandon-Evansville High School Trap Shooting Team which placed first in their conference and 16th at the State Tournament plus other projects.  The club meets 7:30 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month at the Millerville Fire Hall.  We thank all who support our club.  Feel free to join us and share in our activities. 

West Douglas County Record    December 5, 2013

Christmas Coffee at the Brandon History Center

Brandon Tile Manufacturing Co.

The Brandon Tile Factory was owned and operated by Oscar Newhouse from 1914 - 1945. It was located at 206 West Front Street. It was a center of attraction in town and everyone wanted to have their picture taken with the tiles. Between 4,000 and 6,000 concrete drain tile could be turned out each day. The cement used was brought in by rail and the sand came from the gravel pit at nearby Moon Lake. Some winters, if the sleighing was good, they would haul about 300 loads of sand by horse and sleigh, for use in the spring.

 

 

 

 

 

The Brandon Tile Factory was built in 1914, by Theo. Knutson of Garfield,  It was owned and operated by Oscar Newhouse, then age 21; and his brother, age 18.    The cement used was delivered by railroad at 80 cents per 100 pound sack.  The tile machine, a Monarch, made six tile per minute from six to sixteen inches in diameter.  A continuous cement mixer was used, with the factory being powered by a 20 horsepower Mogul engine.   There were three steam rooms for curing tile, each with nine tracks.  The steam boiler fired by wood or coal produced steam for the rooms which held 36  3-deck cars, on which the tile were piled while being cured.    After steaming overnight, tile were unloaded in the yard, where at times 60,000 tile were stored.  One day 22 double box loads, pulled by horses were loaded with 5 inch tile, being sold for 3 1/2 cents each.  The factory furnished 5 to 16 inch tile for County ditch, No. 22.  The Newhouse brothers also farmed and did surveying for their customers.  They operated the factory until 1946 when it was disbanded and the machinery sold. 

Fishing buddies showing off their catch.

John Korkowski and Corky Slack

Bitzan Sisters have Double Wedding in Millerville June 9, 1945

Collett Bitzan Kraemer, Bernadine Bitzan Schiele, Margaret Bitzan Schmidt, Phillip Schmidt,

 Vincent Schmidt and flower girl, Florence Bitzan

 

 Lorraine Linster, Frances Stariha, Irene Bitzan, Leander Stariha, Bob Bitzan

 Flower girl, Florence Bitzan

Cooks:

Back: Rose Bitzan ( Mrs. Pete), Barbara Webskowski, Hattie Meissner, Anna Turchin,

           Barb Bitzan ( Mrs. Joe)

Front: Francis Korkowski, Pauline Wagner, Alice Loeffler, Helen Otto

Waitresses:

Marion Webskowski Kelly, Evelyn Webskowski Skrove, Agatha Brozek Thoennes, Geraldine Meissner Hausman,  Odie Bitzan Roers, Rita Bitzan Karger, Irma Bitzan Foslien

Haehn Children from Millerville MN

 

Their parents were part owners of the Haehn & Linster Store in Millerville about 1912.