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TO BE A PART OF
STETTIN
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ABOVE HOLLYWOOD THEATER
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Congratulations --
Town of Stettin
On Your 100th Anniversary
Bob Altman

PINE WOOD
LODGE
on
Half Moon Lake
ONLY
11 MILES SOUTH
OF WAUSAU

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Congratulations
Stettin

324 THIRD ST.

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week sailing trip to America. The head of the
family would get busy on the loom or the spinning
wheel whenever it rained, or during the long winter
months and on summer evenings.
The family had little wild game on the table. Mr.
Sauter kept the boys too busy to hunt. However,
occasionally on a Sunday, one of the boys would
shoot enough squirrels for a meal.
Load of Wood: $3.00
Mr. Sauter worked extremely hard making fire-
wood to sell in Wausau during the winter months.
A whole load of cord wood brought the magnificent
sum of $3 in those days. And then, sometimes, Mr.
Sauter was unable to collect for the wood he hauled
to town on his weekly trips.
He cleared about an acre a winter, an indication
of the fine stands of maple and other hardwoods
which he found on much of his 160 acres. Many
times, as he went to Wausau with loads of wood, he
would carry a large package of butter wrapped in
cloth to sell to some special customers. In the winter,
the Sauter family usually ate lard flavored with
apples as the spread. "I liked it," Mrs. Schilling
said.
Mrs. Schilling recalls well the onion-flavored but-
ter which the Sauter family ate in the spring. The
first greens in the woods in those days were wild
onions and the cows, allowed to roam freely in the
big timber, would eat them with relish. As a result,
the butter had a very strong onion flavor.
Cows Sometimes Lost
Occasionally a cow would be lost in the deep
woods and never be recovered. However, the loss
was not too great, since there was no cheese factory
or creamery to sell the milk to anyhow.
Mrs. Schilling recalled her mother telling how
another farmer, George Lodholz, settled nearby
and, at night, the Lodholz farm light could be seen
from the Sauter farm. "It gave her a warm feeling
here," she said, clasping her hand to her heart and
telling of the dark wilderness and the great distances
between farms.
Every farmer had a beard in those days. In the
winter, Mr. Sauter had a full beard and moustache,
which were perfect for keeping the face warm while
he worked in the woods. But in the summer, com-
plaining that he was having trouble eating soup, he
would remove the moustache and trim down the
beard, Mrs. Schilling said.
Such was life in the Town of Stettin when the
woods was being cleared by the early pioneers 100
years ago. It was a difficult, yet satisfying, experi-
ence. And better days were ahead!

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