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volunteers for the ongo-ing baseball field renova-tions at Memorial Parkin Valders are still verymuch welcomed.

Thanks to volunteers,the village and theValders Area School Dis-trict, the outfield fencehas been built, the slopehas been improved anddrain tiles installed, sodhas been laid on the in-field, and grass plantedon the outfield.

A new pitcher’s moundand bases are in theworks and, if fundsallow, accoutrementssuch as a new score-board and updatedsound system will beadded.

The Christel Ford Cen-tennial CelebrationCommittee recentlychipped in with a $7,500check from proceedsfrom its July 31 gala thatcelebrated the 100thbirthday of William F.Christel opening a Forddealership in Valders.

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FUTURITY CHAMPSThe 2010 Manitowoc Culver’s Futurity drew astanding-room-only crowd on Aug. 28 at the Mani-towoc County Fair. Judge Mark Rueth, Oxford,placed 25 3-year-old cows, giving the first placenod to Calori-D Goldwyn Marrita-ET, owned bySiemers Holsteins, Cleveland, and led by BrynnKasten. Siemers also took second with SiemersDundee Haya 9652-ET, shown by Crystal Siemers-Peterman. Placing third in the Futurity was BrendaCavanaugh Gilbertson with Cava-Lanes DurhamMary, owned by Todd and Theresa Cavanaugh’sCava-Lanes Holsteins, Reedsville. From the left areRueth, Manitowoc County Fairest of the Fair TiffanyNohl, Kasten, Siemers-Peterman, Gilbertson, Mani-towoc Dairy Princess Rachel Hartlaub, and MissManitowoc County Farm Bureau Melissa Junk.Submitted by Peggy Borgwardt.

Charlie Bauer poses with the two models he produced. On the left is a model of the Elm Grove School District 2 in Newton that operated as a one-room school forgrades 1-8 from 1903-61. On the right is a model of the summer kitchen at the John Hetzel Farm, circa 1890. Sue Pischke/HTR file photo

Bauer’s models resurrect the pastTOWN OF NEWTON — Like the

legendary city of Atlantis, a placelong forgotten is springing up in asmall workshop in Charlie Bauer’sgarage.

The retired Newton man is reviv-ing the boomtown era with a razor,

rock hammer and a bit of sandpa-per.

Bauer’s time is spent perfectingminiatures of buildings long gone,places such as churches, schools,watermills, bridges and the barnon the farm he grew up on.

“My younger brother bought thefarm,” Bauer said. “He was chang-ing the whole façade of the build-ing. I wanted to preserve it like I re-membered it as a youngster.”

That’s how Bauer got his start, ashe handcrafted the barn, perfectly

replicating beams, joints and shin-gles from pictures and memory. Ittook three months with a razor andsandpaper to finish the shingles.

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“A lot of these take a yearor two or three to develop,”said Bauer, who carefully re-searches and documentsevery model with video andphotographs. He estimatesthere are about 10 minia-tures in his collection.

“You get a good, proudfeeling (when you finish amodel),” Bauer said. “It’slike watching your childrengraduate from school.”

Losing a friend

Time is no friend toprogress. Buildings in Man-itowoc County have quicklydisappeared to make wayfor efficient, modern facili-ties. An 1893-era blacksmithshop in the town of Newtonwas no exception.

Mechanical Research andDesign, which had beenusing a blacksmith shop on

County C for its operations,recently demolished it tomake way for a newer build-ing. It was the last of thetown of Newton’s commer-cial blacksmith shops.

An old boomtown façadewas the only evidence of therenovated shop, whichhoused one of four of thetown’s commercial black-smiths, according to an 1893-era plat map.

Bauer noticed the intrin-sic value of the building,and with the support ofMRD owner Charlie Stecker,he documented it before itsdemolition for a futuremodel.

Bauer witnessed the dem-olition, and said as the woodpanel dressing was clearedaway and bulldozers sweptaway a fieldstone founda-tion, he felt like he lost aloved one.

“It’s like watching an oldfriend go away,” Bauer said.“They aren’t ever going tobuild that building backagain like it was.”

Very few buildings mayever replicate the local pro-duction of the blacksmithshop. Its contents includedstone brought from localfarm fields and brick andtimber from within thecounty.

“(The stone) didn’t costthem anything,” Bauer said.“Everything there wasgreen and local. You can’tget any more one with na-ture. It was made out of nat-ural things from the earth.”

Iron Age

Metal work made black-smiths a staple of everytown for thousands ofyears, until the invention ofelectricity and power toolsmade handcrafted metal ob-solete.

Blacksmiths craftedhorseshoes, wagon wheels,light fixtures, sharpenedplow shears and made cook-ing utensils.

“They were as necessaryas the doctor,” Bauer said.“It was all muscle work. Ablacksmith, in their heyday,could (shoe) at least 10 hors-es in a day.”

There were other part-time blacksmiths in thetown of Newton but onlyfour were foremost black-smiths. Many doubled aswoodworkers.

Historic preservation

Bauer, who is a member ofan oral history group thatmeets at Lakeshore Techni-cal College, said resurrect-ing the buildings is a way ofpreserving the past.

“I talked to a guy who was101 years old,” Bauer said.“As a child, he was in therewhen it was a blacksmithshop. When he’s gone every-thing he knows about it isgone. That’s the sad part.My attempt is to capture allthat history but I’m nevergoing to keep up.”

Bauer goes by the motto,“Every time an old persondies, a library burns to theground.”

His goal is to encourageothers to find their own pas-sion for recording history.

“It’d be nice if we couldgenerate enough interest inthe town of Newton to col-lect the history,” Bauer said.“I know we have severalpeople that are interested inhistory.”

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RIGHT: CharlieBauer of Newtonexplains the finerpoints of the Cedar-burg Bridge replicahe produced, duringa Farm Toy FamilySunday last year atPoint Beach EnergyCenter. (DougSundin/HTR filephoto) FAR RIGHT:A closer view of themodel of the one-room school. (SuePischke/HTR)

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Checks made payable tothe Valders Athletic Asso-ciation may be sent in careof renovations chairmanBrian Glaeser, 310 John-son St., Valders, WI 54245.Volunteers or anyone withquestions can call him at(920) 775-3941.

Annual meeting

The annual meeting ofthe Valders Area SchoolDistrict will be at 7 p.m.Monday, in the high schoolcafetorium.

Residents of the districtare encouraged to attendfor information on districtplans to fund the 2010-11school year. The schoolboard will discuss issuessuch as declining enroll-ment, higher property val-ues and decreasing stateaid.

Counting heads

According to villagecensus workers, Valders ishome to more than 980people, with 19 apart-

ments and mobile homescurrently vacant. The offi-cial count will be providedby the U.S. Census. In2009, the state estimatedthe village had 997 resi-dents.

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ValdersFrom Page B-1

Madsen adjusts tolife as a freshman“ W e are the

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mighty seniors. Ooh-aah!Ooh-aah!”

Every high school hascheers celebrating the pow-erful upperclassmen. Everynewbie wants to be one.After all, the seniors are thebest, the brightest and theones who rule the school.

But what happens when asenior becomes a “lowly”freshman again? RecentValders High School gradu-ate Derek Madsen is goingthrough that process rightnow. Until two months ago,he was a much-respectedathlete, at the top of hisgame. Now he is an under-classman. What does thatfeel like?

“It’s not too bad,” saidMadsen.

He and the other fresh-men at St. Norbert Collegein De Pere came to campusfour days earlier than theother classes. They got toknow the campus, findtheir classes, and got theirschedulesearly.

“We hadmeetingson how tostudy anduse yourtimewell,” hesaid.“Groupsof 10 to 15kids got assigned to a men-tor and we will meet once aweek to go over things. Wehad speakers and we got toknow the other kids prettywell.”

Madsen says he “lovesthe food” on campus. “Youcan tell that they make ithere and it is always differ-ent,” he says. He likes theunlimited food option thathe has on his meal plan.Madsen admits he has agood appetite and likes toeat. “I can go in the cafete-ria anytime and swipe mycard and get a snack or ameal. It’s good.”

Knowing his roommatewas another plus for Mad-sen. “I knew Jace Neuserwas coming to school here,too. It really worked outwell to have him for a room-mate.”

Madsen notes that allfreshmen and sophomorestudents have to live oncampus. Their dorm is allfreshmen. “There is a lobby

on the first floor that joinstwo dorms together. Oneside is freshman boys andthe other side is freshmangirls. We have already met alot of kids from all over.There is a guy on our floorthat is from Brazil.”

Madsen will be workingon a chemistry major. “Ijust like chemistry. It is funand interesting. I took it fortwo years at Valders,” hesaid.

He first thought about St.Norbert College becausehis high school chemistryteacher, Jim Evans, wentthere and suggested it. “Icame for a tour. Then Icame and shadowed a cou-ple classes with a student. Iliked what I saw.”

Madsen was an outstand-ing basketball player atValders, but has decidednot to play college basket-ball.

“I got a letter from thecollege, seeing if I was in-terested,” he says, “but Ididn’t want to have to missclasses for games and haveto practice three hoursevery night.”

Overall, the transitionfrom senior to freshmanhas not been too difficult.“Everyone here has beenreal helpful,” Madsenlaughs. “No one has triedany pranks, really. And thehead of our mentor groupsays that the fraternities oncampus are set up to helpyou meet people in yourfield.

What would Madsen ad-vise other kids thinkingabout going to college? “Iwould tell them to go,” hesaid. “You meet a lot of newpeople and you can learn alot of new things.”

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The Franz property in rural Two Rivers recently was named a Century Farm at the Wisconsin State Fair. Submitted photos

Franz property named Century FarmThe Franz farm in rural

Two Rivers was named aCentury Farm recently atthe Wisconsin State Fair.The award honors thosefarms that have been incontinuous family exis-tence for at least 100 years.

According to currentowner Ruth Franz:

On June 13, 1906, Alex J.Franz purchased the 72-acre dairy farm fromWilliam and AmandaSteinbrecher. Alex and hiswife, Emma, together withtheir son, Oscar, main-tained a quality herd ofHolstein cattle and operat-ed the West Twin Dairythat supplied fresh milkand cream on daily deliv-eries to residents in TwoRivers.

On July 2, 1919, the elder

Franzes sold the farm toOscar, who had recentlymarried Adela Schroeder.Oscar and his wife contin-ued to operate the WestTwin Dairy and the Two

Rivers milk route.In addition to the dairy

farm, they planted a largegarden and sold produceat the local farmers mar-ket. Oscar and Adela had

three children: twinsEdwin and Edna, and laterRuth.

All of the immediatefamily members are de-ceased, except for Ruth,who lives on the home-stead with her two dogs,Sarge and Prince, and nu-merous cats. Ruth enjoysthe spacious countryside,doing yard work and gar-dening.

In 1963, they ceased op-erating the dairy businessand switched to cash crop-ping until 1988 when alarge parcel of land wassold to the city of TwoRivers for its future Indus-trial Park. The remainingacreage is owned by Ruthand remains under culti-vation by other farmers inthe area.

Oscar Franz operated the farm with his wife, Adela, for manyyears.

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