Dick began his career with the DNR in 1937
and continued with the Department until retire-
ment in 1971. He became well known in Rusk
County. He presented educational programs at
schools, spoke and showed movies at various
places, served as first aid instructor and worked
with the Boy Scout Council. Following retirement,
Dick sold Rawleigh products and worked part-time
for Brown's Auto Supply.
Church activities were important to Dick. He
served many areas in the Ladysmith Church of
Christ. He was instrumental in helping build
Christian Harbor Youth Camp at Lake Holcombe,
was charter member of its Board of Directors for
24 years and treasurer for 17 years.
On July 6, 1979, Dick passed away suddenly.
Mary Ruth has been active in Cub Scouts, PTA
and other activities. She worked part-time in the
school lunch program and from 1961 until retire-
ment in 1976, worked in the City-County Library.
She has also been active in church work.
Cindy enrolled at Minnesota Bible College in
1960 after high school graduation, receiving her
Bachelor of Sacred Music Degree in 1965. On
November 26, 1965 she married Douglas Winter
from Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan. Cindy and
Doug reside in Minneapolis. She is Administrative
Services Manager at the National Council on
Family Relations and teaches private piano
lessons. Doug is a Vice President andheads the ac-
counting department at Marquette National Bank
at University.
Following high school graduation, Neil attended
UW-River Falls for 2 years, transferring to the
University of Minnesota, graduating with a
Degree in Forestry in 1967. On September 16,
1966, he married Joyce Applebee from Ladysmith.
Neil worked as a forest ranger with the DNR for 9
years in Black River Falls, Pray and Webster. In
1976 he enrolled in Lincoln Christian Seminary,
Illinois. He was ordained in 1980 and began
preaching at DeLand, Illinois while finishing his
schooling. He graduated in 1981 from Lincoln
with a Master of Divinity Degree, and is presently
ministering with the DeLand church, also taking
graduate work at the University of Illinois.
Neil and Joyce have 3 children: Brian, Michelle
and Amanda. By Cynthia Leroux Winter
BLANCHE TIFFANY LINDOO
AND TIFFANY STUDIO
I was thirteen when my family moved from
Cadott to Warner (now Ladysmith) by horse and
wagon in the late spring of 1903. We were a family
of five: my father, Edward Tiffany; mother, Har-
riet Tiffany; sisters Mabel, Grace and myself. The
rough dirt road followed the Chippewa River to
the confluence with the Flambeau River. The
Halfway House was located here and was the only
eating place along the way. We were all hungry by
then and my mouth watered for the delicious look-
ing cake. What a disappointment - the cream
turned sour!
My mother was interested in daguerreotype. She
encouraged Mabel to apprentice under Mr. Soulie
who had a photographic studio here. My father
sold our Cadott farm to purchase half interest in
the studio and a home plus several lots on West
Fifth Street (where I now live.) He remodeled a
barn and lumber shed into rental units.
We were in our new home only six weeks when
lightning struck the house and killed Grace as she
was closing the upstairs window. So our first year
was difficult and depressing for my mother was
deeply affected by this tragedy. She immediately
took our family to be baptized and to join the Con-
gregational Church.
That fall I enrolled in the first year of high
school and in 1907 I was in the third class to
graduate from L.H.S.
In 1904 my father bought out Mr. Soule's in-
terest and established The Tiffany Studio, 213
Miner Ave. We moved into the connecting house.
My mother, a talented seamstress, took in sewing
to help with the payments. It was a family business
and the convenient train service enabled us to open
branch studios in Bruce and Ingram. I ran the

Bruce branch from 1907 to 1909 and stayed at the
MacArthur Hotel.
My father developed lung trouble and for a
change of climate he and I went to So. Dakota and
took a homestead claim near the Badlands. I
taught rural school and have fond memories of this
pioneering experience. Father's health continued
to deteriorate so we returned to Ladysmith in Aug.
1910. He died in April 1912.
I married John Lindoo Jr., a classmate, in 1913.
His family had settled here in 1891. Mrs. Lindoo
told of visiting a cousin in Deertail (now Tony) and
then coming to Flambeau Falls (Ladysmith) on a
handcar in 1887 and hired out as a cook at the
Corbett Hotel. It was here she met John Lindoo
Sr. who was logging in the area. They left when
they married but returned after a year or so. John
Lindoo Sr. owned and logged about 5000 acres,
much of it in Rusk Co., and he operated a Saloon
on South First Street. He donated land to the
Sisters to build the hospital and land for the livery
stables on W. 2nd St. So. Mrs. Lindoo maintained
a beautiful flower garden.
My husband and I moved to a farm in Argos, In-
diana in 1913 and it was there my four children
were born: Roger, Max, Harriet and James. The
depression and my husband's poor health caused
us to return to Ladysmith in 1927. I began work
again with Mabel at the Tiffany Studio. In 1946
my son James and I bought the business and
established Lindoo's Studio at our home on W. 5th
St. So. After James' death and the death of my
husband in 1956 I continued photography until I
retired at age 70 and sold the business to Theron
Nash in 1959.
It was a very special experience photographing
the events, happy and tragic, of Ladysmith and
Rusk County for 50 years. There are some families
that I have taken baby, graduation, wedding and
family pictures over several generations. The most
unusual experience was in the 1930's when Roger
and I were hired and then driven secretly to Al
Capone's resort on Cranberry Lake to photograph
it. There were a dozen or so men coming and going
while we worked and we never did know if Mr.
Capone was among them. They bought not only
the pictures, but also the negatives which they had
carefully counted.
My children all graduated from Ladysmith
High School. Roger married Florence Whitmore
of Ladysmith. They have three children: Jeanne,
Peggy and Susan all born in Ladysmith. Roger was
employed at the Abstract Company and then the
PCA before being transferred to Minnesota and
later Chippewa Falls. He and Florence are enjoy-
ing retirement in rural Chippewa Falls on the
Yellow River. Jeanne's children, Linda and
Stephan, are my only great grandchildren.
Max married Marie Bierstecher of Eau Claire,
and has a son, Mark, all are presently living in
Hopland, CA. Max graduated from the Univ. of
WI with a degree in Chemical Engineering and
was employed by Uniroyal until retirement in
1981. He worked in Eau Claire, Turkey, Belgium
and Mexico.
Harriet graduated from the Univ. of Minn. in
Social Work and works for the Welfare Depart-
ments of Rusk County and the State of WI prior to
marrying James Mathews in Ladysmith. They now
reside in Mt. Horeb. She is retired and he works in
the Wisconsin Division of Corrections.
James married Madlen Deml and is deceased.
My retirement years have been eventful, travel-
ing to Panama, Turkey, Mexico, Florida and
California to visit relatives and friends. I have been
active in several Senior Citizens programs -
working at the Information Center and par-
ticipating in the Monday Bridge Group. Over 80
friends helped me celebrate my 90th birthday.
Blanche Lindoo
ELMER AND MINERVA LONG
It was the Great Depression that brought my
parents, Elmer and Minerva Long to Rusk County
in 1934. They were hopeful that they could find in-
dependence and security in the dairy farm in-
dustry. They first farmed south of Ladysmith,
renting a farm on the Vance Miller road. My sister

Elva Mae and I first attended school in the
building that is now part of the Mastercraft
Complex.
A few years later, Dad bought a small farm in
the Cloverleaf School District. It was there Doc
Lundmark came in 1937 to deliver a son, Lyle Bur-
ton, named after a neighbor, Burton Foster. Before
we owned a radio, they invited us in the evenings to
hear important events like the Joe Louis fights,
speeches by Roosevelt and Willkie.
Dad was a good storyteller and in the evenings
he would reminisce about World War I ex-
periences in France, boyhood days in Indiana and
Iowa, the rich black farm lands and huge fields of
corn and grain. Mother had been a school teacher
near Worthington, Minnesota where her parents,
Guy and Julia Fellows, were pioneers. Both Dad
and Mother were the youngest in large families.
It is impossible to put into a few words all of the
wonderful, sad, funny and tragic experiences we
had in the years I was growing up. Our lives were
centered around the Church of Christ, Cloverleaf
School, clubs, friends, and 4-H Camp in the sum-
mers with great leaders like Ranger Mac, Vern
Varney, our own Claude Ebling and Ed Sirek. We
had Deertail Creek and Memorial Park for swim-
ming and picnics, and free shows weekly at

Elmer and Minerva Long
Conrath.
We moved to a farm north of Bruce in 1943. It
was a big change with new faces and new friends.
We soon felt at home with the Blue Hills always
beckoning us, with the well-traveled foot path to
the bluffs, Devil's Creek, Christianson's Hill for
sliding parties, and the fire lane, logging trails, and
lakes. Mother loved to pick blueberries, blackber-
ries, and raspberries. She knew all the good berry
patches.
In the Fifties, the folks bought the Sand Lake
Store in the southern part of the county on
Highway 40. They enjoyed those years, but they
worked lon$ hours and for a while mother worked
in Eau Claire as a cook at the University, coming
back weekends to help at the store. They had gas
and oil and a clqthing section in addition to
groceries.
In the Sixties, they retired and bought a home in
Bruce. Mother worked one day a week at the In-
formation Center in Ladysmith. Dad was active in
the Legion and they were able to enjoy their home
for several years, until ill health made it impossible
to live alone.
They are now together in the Rusk County
Memorial Nursing Home and have many beautiful
memories of their friends and the places they have
lived in this harsh and lovely land. It was some
time in the late Forties that they said, "This is our
home now, and here is where we will be buried."
Julia Long MacArthur
G.T. LONGBOTHAM
In 1958, Mr. Thomas Longbotham retired from
a career of forty-one years as schoolmaster, and
could devote his energies to charitable work that
had already engaged his interest: service on behalf
of Medina Hospital in Chicago (the Shriners'
hospital for crippled children), and of hospitalized