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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1949
Page
2
A damaged OCR notice references an online service and phone hours but text is garbled with stray letters and incomplete phrases making specifics unclear. No clear event, date, or named organizations can be reliably identified from the readable fragments.
An official decision confirms a statewide election in Wisconsin to select a supreme court justice and appoint a public official. The editorial notes the court’s decision as a logical resolution and highlights two issues tied to the vote.
The season starts amid sparse crowds and technical issues as major league play resumes despite concerns over overtime demands and equipment glitches. Team setups and venue readiness remain under scrutiny as fans await steady action.
An OCR fragment notes unusual car parts with references to three cent pieces and thirty bulbs. The text hints at automotive era pricing or features but provides no clear event or outcome.
Historical notes on events dated April 19 1939 include Alderman Frank Buehler named president of the city council and various local happenings. The record lists marriage vows of Miss Marion L Hauser and Lester G Forcade, plus wartime duty for Col. Charles A Lindbergh and other community items from that date.
The soils office reports tree and shrub work as part of a soil program. Plantings provide wildlife cover and improve large farm areas at about $1.20 per thousand. Strip cropping and terracing work are being carried out extensively in California, as announced.
A damaged item notes that the Ironclad from First Lakes is to be sold for scrap to raise funds. The fragment mentions a person identified as William B. W. acting as counsel and references the Great Lakes region.
Rev. P. C. Kehle will attend a special meeting of the general synod of the Evangelical and Reformed church in Cleveland on a Wednesday and Thursday. He is one of five official ministerial delegates from the South Wisconsin synod. Herbert Stauffacher, one of the five lay delegates, will be unable to attend. St Johns church council met last night at the parsonage with Rev Kehle presiding.
Earl S. Elling son driving pranged city hotel car in a parking collision with Art Pehl of Davis Illinois at 6 45 p m Saturday. The damaged vehicle was parked in the 1900 block of 12th street. Vehicle owner is Mrs. Margaret Marty of 1601 12th Avenue.
South Wayne high school is among 24 schools entering the spring music festival at Monroe on April 28 and 29. Vocal solos and ensembles include 21 students, with 23 entering instrumental solos and ensembles. The fin al lyceum program features the Ebonaires in a return engagement performing southern spirituals and folk songs.
John A. Page of St Paul has accepted the Monticello public schools music instructor post for the coming year. O W Weller resigns as band master. Page, who will graduate in June from the Phair School of Music, will teach in the grades and organize the band. The Pages will move to Monticello in late June.
Madison resident Wilbert Wilson Johnson was awarded the American Red Cross certificate of merit for saving two year old Mikkel Arree from gas exposure on February 1. He performed first aid to revive the child.
Dewitt Mackenzie recalls the 1916 Easter Rising led by Pearse and de Valera in Ireland. He details Casement’s German-backed plot, the seizure of Dublin buildings, and his perilous midnight ride and court martial as British troops bend Ireland’s fate.
An Irishman and I evaded pursuit by using a noisy driving ruse to reach Kingston where I hid in a cottage overnight. I surrendered to the constabulary the next morning and was interned awaiting return to England as British forces crushed the revolt in days, about 1,000 people killed.
Francis E. Dykstra, longtime Wausau Thorp Finance Co. director of operations since 1946, is named vice president. He began in finance in 1927 and worked in Madison from 1930 to 1941, announced by President Francis J. Conway.
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