Veterans Of Foreign Wars To Sell Poppies Here Saturday
The VFW plans a poppy sale Saturday with 20 000 poppies available in La Crosse. Budd y Poppies are sold by authorized auxiliary volunteers to aid disabled veterans and their dependents. Proceeds fund welfare work for World War II veterans and families.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Thomas Rooney
Auxiliary
Viola Ritter
Fantle
Main Street
Fifth Avenue
Sixth Street
J. J. Beranek
St. Paul Street
VFW
la Crosse
Thomas Rooney Post
Veterans Administration
America
Discharge Buttons Available In City
A second shipment of U S army discharge buttons arrived at the Army recruiting station in the Exchange building. Veterans may buy one for 10 cents with a copy of their discharge papers. Information on special discharge pins for the Army Air Corps is also available there.
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U. S. Army
Orville T. Lowe
Army Air Corps
State Cheesemen Hold Cheddar From Market To Raise Price
The Southwestern Wisconsin Cheese makers' association voted unanimously to withhold all cheddar cheese from market until a price increase is permitted. Leonard A. Kopitzke said the Wisconsin group has 100 percent dealer and manufacturer cooperation. A Green Bay dealer returned an unsigned government contract for 1,000,000 pounds of cheese. A Central Wisconsin meeting at Marshfield is planned to discuss industry problems.
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Boscobel
Wis
Wisconsin Cheesemakers’ Association
Leonard A. Kopitzke
Marion
Wisconsin Group
Kopitzke
Green Bay
Consin Cheese and Butter Makers Association
Marshfield
Aquinas Pupils Win State Honors in Madison Contest
Seven Aquinas music students and a mixed vocal quartette earned top ratings at a state contest in Madison. Mary Simones led piano solo with a first, and the vocal quartet of Simones Gallagher Klein Bradburn also won first. Second place went to Klein Bracken Gschwind Sciborski Potoracke and Kerrigan. Other prizes went to violin Bried Sinniger Schmitt Rudolph, and third place to Skemp for violin and Marilyn Rice for vocal.
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Aquinas Music
Madison
Wednes
Agnes Clare
Anney
Mary Simones
Joan Gallagher
William Klein
Richard Bradburn
Thomas Bracken
Jeanine Gschwind
Patricia Sciborski
Jeanette Potoracke
Patricia Kerrigan
Pia
Francis Bried
Mary Ann Sinniger
Esther Schmitt
Donna Rudolph
Samuel Skemp
Marilyn Rice
Sunday Services In Rural Churches
Mindoro church led by E W Griffith D D offers 9 30 am sermon Fallow Ground and 10 40 am Sunday school. North Bend church holds 10 30 am Sunday school and 11 15 am sermon Plough and Sow Righteousness.
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North Bend-Mindoro Presbyterian Church
E. W. Griffith
D. D
Mindoro
North Bend
Holmen Lutheran Sunday Activities and Confirmations
Kenneth Torvik leads Sunday school and Bible class at Holmen with listings for Halfway Lewis Valley and Holmen churches. The Holmen service includes confirmation vows for multiple church members and graduates from a four year Bible course. A Communion service follows a week later. A Lutheran Brotherhood outing is planned for Sunday afternoon and the World Action committee will begin parish solicitations late in the week.
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Holmen
Robert Olson
Wallace Tolvstad
Harvey Tucker
LeRoy Johnson
Charles Paulson
Alverda Berg
Sylvan Schonsberg
Lutheran Brotherhood
Lewis Valley
Lutheran World Action Committee
Church Events Announced at Upper and Lower Coon Valley
Upper Coon Valley schedules a Sunday school and Bible class at 9 15 a m with an English worship at 10 45 a m and a Communion service at 8 p m on May 27. May 30 in Lower Coon Valley features a Ladies Aid society gathering with hostesses Mrs Tom Bjorge and Mrs Julius Bjorge.
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Upper Coon Valley
Lower Coon Valley
Ladies’ Aid Society
Mmes
Tom and
Julius Bjorge
Reverend L C Smith Attends Presbyterian Assembly
The Rev L C Smith of North Presbyterian church attends the general assembly meeting in Atlanta City this week. The assembly includes elders and ministers from Presbyterian churches across the United States.
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L. C. Smith
North Presbyterian Church
General Assembly of Thebyterian Church
Atlanta City
General Assembly
United States
Living costs rise 50 percent since 1939
Washington report shows most family budget items up over half since war began in Europe. Food clothing and house furnishings, accounting for 57 percent of urban wage earner budgets, exceed August 1939 levels by more than 50 percent according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Washington, D. C
Europe
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau
Wisconsin Senate Split Over Proposed Union Health Funds
The Wisconsin delegation was divided as the senate rejected 45 to 32 a proposal by Senator Green of Rhode Island to legalize union health and welfare funds under federal security administration rules. Senator La Follette supported the amendment while Senator Wiley, a Republican, voted against it.
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Washington
Wisconsin
Senate
Green
DRI
Federal Security Administration
la Follette
Wiley
Central High Senior Wins Harvard Freshman Scholarship
Stanley Emerson Niebruegge a Central high school senior at 226 South Eighth Street Milwaukee has earned a Harvard freshman scholarship in Cambridge. Selection cited scholastic record teacher recommendations and a six hour college entrance exam taken April 6 1946 plus a personal interview March 18 at the University Club in Milwaukee. He plans to study medicine and is active in Latin and forensic honors.
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Stanley Emerson Niebruegge
South Eighth Street
Central High School
Harvard University
Cambridge
F. S. von Stade, Jr
Harvard
University Club
Milwaukee
Niebruegge
George Scott
Central
Wisconsin
American Legion
Circle Honorary Society
Northwestern
A. J. Niebruegge
First Presbyterian Church
Prize Offer For Professional In Scottish Golf Tournament
First professional in the Scottish Northern Golf Tournament at Murcur Aberdeen was offered a special prize of a first class round trip fare to St Andrews and hotel accommodations for two weeks plus caddie expenses.
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St. Andrews
Murcur
Aberdeen
Girls Best Spellers Shine In National Bee
Washington reports that 29 finalists in the national spelling bee include 9 girls and 20 boys. Winners receive a $500 bond and $150 cash. all finalists win at least $40. Nancy Kay McDaniel of Fort Worth argues girls spell better, saying boys aren’t smart enough.
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Washington
New York World-Telegram
Nancy Kay McDaniel
Fort Worth
Tex
Nancy Kay
Child Drowns at Wood County Park Picnic
Beverly Brooks aged 13 of Milladore drowned in Lake Wazeecha at South Wood County Park. She fell from a dock during a school picnic and her body was recovered about an hour later.
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Wisconsin Rapids
Beverly Brooks
Milladore
Lake Wazeecha
South Wood County Park
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