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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1968
Page
2
Monroe paper lists rates for city carrier 40 cents per week and mail outside. Wisconsin and nearby Illinois counties $12 to $15 per year. Office hours are 8 30 a m to 5 p m Saturdays 12 noon. O'Dell (1871 1953) Associated Press member.
An Easter Sunday kitchen fire injures the editor’s wife with head burns amid a family mishap. The stove checked later, experts dispute the cause, with honey pineapple ham fat cited by some and dismissed as nonsense by others. The family’s attempt to keep humor amid the incident is recounted, ending with a wry joke from their eight year old about a baby.
Glancing back notes 1958 event with Miss Janis Babler honored at a university freshman scholarship luncheon. It also lists Joseph Carson replacing Kenneth Allen in the Madcap Minstrel Show dairy queen contest.
A historical note recalls Mark Hoesly moving 800 miles in Africa for another bout of wrestling on the continent. The column also mentions earlier items from 1928 1918 and 1908 including a horse hitching demonstration a school play and early career moves of local residents.
Children need 2100 to 2400 calories daily and should have regular meals. Modern dairies use sanitary parlors and chilled tanks. milk is cooled under fifty degrees. Ice cream supplies calcium and energy, and tours of dairy farms and plants were popular during Cheese Days.
Funeral services for Willis Stokes Sr., 68, Route 2 Monticello, who died Thursday morning at St. Clare hospital, will be 3 p.m. Saturday at Stuessy Funeral Home with Rev. J. Allan Mittler and Rev. E. C. McGollow officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation 7 to 9 p.m. today. Surviving are a son Willis Jr. of Monroe, a brother Manley R. of Inglewood, Calif., a sister Mrs. Elizabeth Dittman of Florence, Ala., and four grandchildren.
Gertrude McKernan 81 native of Lafayette County died April 17 at her Dubuque home after a brief illness. Survived by 12 children 95 grandchildren and 126 great grandchildren funeral rites at St Marys Church Mineral Point with Rosary tonight. Formerly Gertrude Schmit married 1906. husband Patrick died 1940. Also survived by seven daughters and five sons and siblings. Meanwhile Dennis R Ciesielski Milwaukee sailor sentenced to a year confinement by a Norfolk court martial for conscientious objection to Vietnam War.
The Southern Wisconsin Education Association Evaluation Committee met at Monroe Junior High School to assess the February Madison convention. Allen F. Barnard led members from Janesville, Marshall, Beloit, Fort Atkinson, and Madison to propose format changes for the 1969 SWEA gathering.
Francis M. Cheeseman 87 founder of Cheeseman Construction Co. died Thursday in Freeport Memorial Hospital after a long illness. Survived by widow Flora three daughters Mrs. Boland of Dubuque Mrs. Hoffman of Freeport and Mrs. McPherson of Madison two sons Ernest and Eugene both of Freeport two brothers Harry of Freeport and J Scott of Salt Lake City 20 grandchildren and 53 great grandchildren. Services set for 1 30 p m Saturday April 20 at Walker Mortuary Freeport burial Oakland Cemetery.
Alfred Virtue, 95, died Thursday in Caters Nursing Home Warren. He was a retired farmer formerly of Hanover. Funeral services set for Sunday at United Presbyterian Church Hanover with burial in Evergreen Cemetery. Survived by son Orville of Hanover, two daughters Mrs Wilfred Armstrong and Mrs William Millen, nine grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Nadig Funeral Home in Hanover handles arrangements.
Leon Thompson of 626 Federal East Seattle Washington writes he is a handicapped veteran on a small VA pension. He collects real old calendars from 1880s to 1896 plus post cards and Reward of Merit cards. He hopes readers can send old valentines and calendars to aid his research and fund a book project for medical care.
Monroe and area students Judith Gibbs and Richard Miller of Platteville State University will be initiated into Alpha Psi Omega on May 12. Gibbs daughter of Warren M. and Mrs. Gerhart, majoring in speech with journalism minor. Miller son of Ivy Miller, Route 1 Juda, majoring in Agriculture with economics minor. Members earn points for dramatic activity and are then eligible for membership.
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