Ashland through history

1924

Jack Pufall will be on the mound when the Ashland City Team opens the season against Bayfield. George Sullivan will be catching. The rest of the starting lineup has yet to be selected.

1944

Several Scott & Taylor Co. workers escaped injury as a floor collapsed. An overload of materials was the cause of the collapse of the second story floor.

1944

Two prisoners slide down the dumbwaiter at the Ashland County jail and were able to escape.

1944

Pfc. Robert Stadler, 23, received the Purple Heart Decoration for wounds he endured in the Anzio Beach invasion.

1954

Ashland’s first Centennial baby, a son born to Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Watson, Geoffrey Smiles Watson, born here at Trinity Hospital. The baby’s grandfather, Dr.

C. J. Smiles, is Ashland’s oldest physician in years of service having practiced here for 42 years.

Ashland area trivia quiz: A regular train run began in 1885 between what two cities? A: Ashland and St. Paul, B: Ashland and Superior C: Ashland and Milwaukee.

Last week’s answer: The “Poorhouse” on Beaser Avenue was built in 1926