Monroe County Fair exhibit hall ready for July opening
Monroe Fair officials prepare a new 135 by 60 foot steel and concrete exhibit hall for home economics crops and crafts with restrooms and an office at the east entrance. Entry day is July 25 with exhibits in by 3 p.m. Games include Ernest Tubb show Thursday and horse pulling Friday.
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Tomah
Wis
Monroe County
Cox Construction Co
Frances V. King
Curry St
Ernest Tubb
Grand Ol’ Opry
Nashville
Tenn
Jung Carriage Collection Shown at Old Wade House
Greenbush Wisconsin displays 80 of 120 horse and hand drawn vehicles collected and restored by Wesley W Jung of Sheboygan. The exhibit at the State Historical Society carriage museum spreads across wagons from 1860 to 1914 with plans to add 40 more as time allows. The collection includes surreys broughams landaus and a circus calliope considered the most valuable wagon. Open daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through November 1.
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Greenbush
Wis
Wesley W. Jung
Sheboygan
State Historical Society
Old Wade House
Jung Carriage Co
Jung
J. & W. Jung Carriage Co
Jungs
Walter J. Kohler Jr
Warren P. Knowles
Milwaukee
Oklahoma
Spring Green
Bill
John Richardson
Sheboygan Falls
Charles P. Fox
Ciracs World Museum
Baraboo
J. & W. Jung
Gillett
Silsby
Plymouth
Jung Brothers
Albert Laun
Kiel
Laun
Namplate
Tomah Meters Not Used So May Be Cut
Tomah Wisconsin city officials report low use of parking meters on Kilbourn and Mc Lean avenues. May and June earnings averaged 2.4 and four cents per day respectively, with over 95 percent of spots unused. The meter study will continue, but meters may be removed if income does not rise.
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Tomah
Wis
Council
Kilbourn
McLean Avenues
Don Fisher
Space age deer kills during landing at Sparta airport
Sparta resident Robert Munger piloting a Cherokee 140, with Charles Erickson aboard, touched down at Sparta Municipal Airport when the tail struck a deer. The deer died and the plane suffered tail damage but both men were uninjured as the craft landed safely.
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Sparta
Wis
Monroe County
Robert Munger
Charles Erickson
Munger
Former Merrillan Pastor Transferred
The Rev. Richard Brooks who served Merrillan Alma Center and Humbird Methodist churches in the early 1950s has been transferred from Chatsworth California to Camarolli Heights Church in Camarolli California. The family has visited the Merrillan area in the past two weeks.
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Merrillan
Wis
Richard Brooks
Alma Center
Humbird
Methodist
Chatsworth
Calif
Camarolli Heights
Camarolli
Wilton Girl, 6, Injured After Hay Load Fall
Julie Steinke of Wilton suffered fractures to both wrists when she fell from a load of hay. Her parents, Mr and Mrs Elwin Steinke, Wisconsin, report the incident occurred recently.
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Wilton, Wis
Julie Steinke
Health Team Plans To Cover 7 Counties In Wis Minn
A $204,620 federal grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity funds a joint Minnesota Wisconsin health team program to start Sept 1. The project serves Winona Houston and Fillmore counties in Minnesota and La Crosse Vernon Crawford and Monroe counties in Wisconsin with mobile teams supervised by local doctors and supported by 18 additional workers plus four VISTA volunteers aiding youth and senior programs.
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Viroqua
Wis
Office of Economic Opportunity
Gordon Robson
Wisconsin Coulee
Winona
Houston
Fillmore
Minnesota
la Crosse
Vernon
Crawford
Monroe
Wisconsin
Halver Lacher
Southeastern
Minnesota Citizens Action Council
Robson
CAP
Laura George
Gays Mills
Crawford County
Robert Hebbard
Sparta
Monroe County
Jane Jacobs
la Crosse County
Alston Wolfgram
Vernon County
VISTA
Coulee
de Soto
Wauzeka
la Farge
Lynxville
Seneca
Tomah
Cashton
Holmen
Melrose
Melrose-Mindoro
Stoffel Hall
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Monroe Fair
Jacob Jung
Germany
Jacob Jr
William
Frank Lloyd Wright
Mueller Climatrol
Schneider
3Rd St
Bank of Stoddard
Stoddard, Wisconsin
Mar
GE Motor
Our
Frigidaire
Losey Blvd
Hwy
NORGE
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