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- According to an article published in the Portsmouth Daily Times (Portsmouth, OH) on 20 Aug 1929, W.A. Drollinger chartered a plane for $30 to fly from the Wisconsin Valley Fair where he was exhibiting a herd to his farm to save a $1,000 Brown Swiss cow from dying.
According to an article published in The Grand Rapids Daily Tribune (Grand Rapids, WI) on the 24 Mar 1920, Wilmer Drollinger is mentioned being a buyer of many head of cattle.
Marshfield, WI
Marshfield News-Herald
Tue, Oct 11, 2005
MNH 1011 Yesterday
75 YEARS AGO: Erection of a new 36- by 90-foot dairy barn with a concrete and wood basement, is under way at the Wilmer Drollinger farm near Auburndale where fire destroyed the barn, a silo, machine shed and hen house the night of Sept. 28.
Wausau, WI
Wausau Daily Herald
Tue, May 11, 2004
Longtime boxing coach Gust dies at 85
By Casey Krautkramer
For the Wausau Daily Herald
MARSHFIELD - Legendary boxer and coach Florian "Flossy" Gust, involved in the sport for 50-plus years in central Wisconsin, died Saturday at age 85.
His eldest son, 61-year-old Charlie Gust, said his father made sure young men began boxing with the correct mindset about the sport.
"He always called boxing the art of defense," Charlie Gust said. "He used to get on young guys who wanted to box just to knock people out. He said, 'You are here to learn the art of defense. Until you can protect yourself, you can't score on anybody else.'"
As the story goes, Florian Gust was given the nickname Flossy by the late Wilmer Drollinger, on whose farm Gust worked during high school. When Drollinger pronounced the name Florian with a wad of chewing tobacco in his mouth, it sounded like Flossy.
CHAPTER XIII
HISTORY OF WOOD COUNTY (Wisconsin)The number of maple trees tapped was 11,540, the product amounting to 173 pounds of sugar and 3,040 gallons of syrup. Of small fruits, aside from cranberries, there were 32 acres in strawberries, producing 55,037 quarts, and four acres of raspberries, producing 1,905 quarts. Poultry and bees (1919)-Chickens, 134,871; other poultry, 2,682; value of all poultry, $120,124.There were 1,880 hives of bees, with a total value of $9,938. The first Brown Swiss cattle introduced into Wood County were brought inby the Sherry Lumber Company during the old lumbering days, but the herd was allowed to dwindle out. This next effort to establish a herd was made by Joseph Lusk of Auburndale village, who purchased several head from H. W. Ayers of Honey Creek, Walworth County, Wis. Mr. Lusk was then well advanced in years, and was unable to push the breeding, and about 1908 he closed out his herd. About that year Joseph Havenfang of Richfield Township, Wood County, was making a local reputation in breeding the Brown Swiss cattle and today he has a fine herd. In 1913 or 1914 Charles Wundrow of Marshfield Township became interested in the breed and has since built up a fine herd. Another excellent herd of the same breed was brought into Wood County by W. A. Drollinger, who came here from Marathon County in 1919, and whose farm is on Section 28, Auburndale Township. The popularity of the Brown Swiss cattle has kept increasing and during the last three years they have been entered in exhibitions at various county fairs through-out the state. There are now 300 head or more in Wood County, and they are rapidly taking a prominent place in the great dairy herds of this section, being generally acknowledged to be as good as the best and better than many others. They are a hardy breed and well adapted to the climatic conditions of this part of the country.
Posted December 28, 2005
Yesterday in Marshfield (Wisconsin)
50 YEARS AGO: W.J. Koenig of Marshfield has been named president of the Central Wisconsin State Fair Association, to succeed W.A. Drollinger of Auburndale.
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