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Rock River Thresheree, Inc.

Since 1955
19th Annual Reunion (1975)
1975 Souvenir Album

In 1975, we added a 400-amp electrical service to the west side of Threshermen's Park. We purchased our Allis loader and enacted safety rules (copied from the Sussex club). We also did work on the loudspeakers, enabling spectators to hear our new parade announcer, Don Lux. Hilda Loveland was our Reunion Queen.

Our souvenir album contained photographs from our 18th Annual Reunion in 1974 and could be purchased for 50 cents.


1975 Souvenir Album Index:

  • Front Cover - Aerial view of Threshermen's Park
  • Page 1 - Welcome letter from President Walt Durst - photo of Walt Durst - Board of Directors list - program of events
  • Page 2 - Membership list - deceased members
  • Page 3 - Map of Threshermen's Park
  • Page 4 - Exhibitors [photos] - Monarch 75 Caterpillar formerly owned by Rock County - Marv Helgesen's 15-30 Sandusky tractor - Lyle Silverthorn's 1916 6-12 Allis Chalmers tractor - church services - Mel Cassels' Sunday buggy - Vern Burno's steam roller
  • Page 5 - [photos] - hoist-operated sawmill - Ward Taylor with his model Case engine - Frank Reise's 50hp Fairbanks oil engine - Rock River Cannonball - Harold Muerman's Titan tractor - Bob Higgins & John Stacey on Rumely Do-All tractor & McCormick Reaper
  • Page 6 - [photos] Walt Durst's 1912 single-cylinder Fairbanks tractor - Frank Reise's 20-40 Case tractor - Don Wittenburg's 1912 15-30 Rumely OilPull - club's 65hp Case steam engine & separator (donated by Elmer & Helen Taylor) - Richard Garity's model Case steam roller - Marv Helgesen's 1916 8-16 International kerosene tractor
  • Page 7 - [photos] Janesville's Senior Citizens Brass Band - Green Beret Marching Band - Don Wittenburg's 1918 25-50 Avery kerosene tractor - George Klein's 1932 W-30 International tractor - the Barbershop corn boil - Don Helgesen's fire truck
  • Page 8 - [photos] Don Wittenburg's 20-30 Rumely OilPull pulling Duane Richards' Grande de Tour 3-bottom plow - Fred Durtschi's shingle mill - gas engines - Willy Heller's John Deere tractor (Willy died in 1975) - Earl "Windy" Stephens announcing at 1974 show (Windy died in 1975) - Ted Walton at the Tracy & Sons corn meal booth
  • Page 9 - [photos] Harold Russell's antique tool collection - Ben Lux & Frank Loveland on shingle mill formerly owned by Frank - Lyle Silverthorn's 1932 Model C Case tractor - Mel Cassels' Port Huron tractor pulling a separator - Pete Burno's 1918 12 hp Frick portable steam engine - Gerald Jacobson and his buckwheat mill
  • Page 10 - [photos] Frank Loveland & his shingle mill - Virgil Gilbert's miniature circus - simulated oil well driven by an English diesel engine - Marv Helgesen's Janesville-made GMC tractor - Runstad's sawmill - drag saw
  • Page 11 - [photos] Ted Mudek's 65hp Case steam engine - pile driver - helicopter rides - Ted Mudek's Wallis tractor - Bob Higgins & John Storey's 1890 Helecopter Reaper - Carol Kroll spinning wool
  • Page 12 - [photos] Syl Henry's Fordson tractor - Walt Durst's 1917 4-cylinder Buick automobile - pottery maker - Duane Richards (pile driver operator) Marv Helgesen's 1921 30-60 Aultman-Taylor tractor - Syl Henry & his engine collection
  • Page 13 - [photos] steam-operated air compressor - Ted Mudek plowing with Case steam engine - Marv Helgesen's Whitcomb road roller (formerly owned by the city of Evansville) - 1974 Queen Mrs. Fred Thomson - Den Lux's F-20 Farmall tractor - Elmer Phillip & Orville Smith's F-12 Farmall tractor
  • Page 14 - [photos] Elmer Phillip & Orville Smith's 1939 Farmall F-20 tractor - Bob Higgin's 1929 Rumely DoAll - Mr. & Mrs. George Vint painting the pile driver - Orville Smith & Bob Higgins with the windmill - Mel Cassels & Syl Henry cutting oats - Don Lux announcing the parade
  • Page 15 - Case steam traction engine lithograph
  • Page 16 - Brief history of Threshermen's Park - aerial view of Threshermen's Park
  • Back Cover - Helgesen Harvestore, Inc. (Janesville, WI) advertisement