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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1948
Page
8
Increasing cloudiness tonight with scattered showers or thundershowers west. Yesterday peaked at 66 with a low of 44. Today's forecast shows a high of 75. Barometer at 1 am 29.55 and 1 pm 20.46. Warmest place in U S yesterday.
Real estate transfers include VA Wood to William H Woodlands in Monroe township by trustees of The Assembly, A B Hartwick acquiring Hartwick's addition sections in Juda village and Moulton area, Minnie E Anderson and Philip R Anderson Sr selling parcels in Brodhead, Joe Riemer selling to Raymond R Bartelt, and Charles A Pinkham selling about .32 acre in Cadiz township for highway relocation.
Probate records show estates issued to Spec in the estate of Nicholas A Speck who died April 24. Heirs include his daughter and widow Mattie His appraisers are Marie Blum Herbert E Lanz and Harry Young Mr and Mrs Lloyd Gaulke Beloit daughter April 30
The notice lists patients at St. Clare Hospital and Brodhead Medical with names and addresses including Franklin Wells 1620 15th Avenue and Robert Campbell 2102 16th Avenue among others. Dismissals include Mrs. Alger Vincent Mrs. Orville Flaherty and son Walter Sutter Delbert J. Wyss Thomas Schindler and Mrs. William Nightingale.
Green County processed 76974 in savings bond sales from April 1 to 17 at federal reserve banks toward a 750000 goal ending June 30. Neighboring counties show Iowa 51954 Lafayette 59921 Dane 349730 and Rock 258487 in the same period.
A scrapbook kept by Mag Hoesly sister of Pvt Hoesly forms the core of a Co H history. It mainly compiles Monroe Evening Times clippings, many by Emery A Odell, publisher of The Times. The scrapbook, likely unmatched, remains with Samuel Hoesly after his sister’s death.
A speaker urged no discouraging letters and steadfast loyalty as Co H faced deployment. Yet letters home three months later would test the unit’s future, despite Colonel Schadel’s plea and the women’s hopeful farewells at the departing train.
The new Benjamin Franklin half dollar was issued today as part of the United States currency honoring a founding father. The coin features a right profile of Franklin and the Liberty Bell with an eagle and the motto Pluribus Unum. Local banks have not yet received a supply or details on when it will circulate.
Mr and Mrs Oscar N Johnsons plan a May 7 departure for Ketchikan Alaska to visit J E Johnson brother of Oscar N Johnson who has lived in Alaska 25 years and works in insurance and real estate They will travel from Seattle by boat via Victoria and Vancouver arriving May 13 Their return includes a stop at Lake Louise Banff May 20.
Decatur and Jolly Junior 4-H clubs will participate in the morning worship service Sunday at the Evangelical church.
Local brief records citizens visiting relatives and patients at St. Clare and Deaconess hospitals. Names include Mrs. Carl Ruch, Mrs. Lois Blowers, Miss Norma Waelti, Mrs. Oscar Evenson, Dr. George R. Barry, Mary Helgesen, Miss Patricia Biffle, Miss Patricia Knaack, Miss Rosella McGuire, Mrs. Max G. Booth, Mrs. Elizabeth Rolph, Mrs. Jacob J. Legler, and others. Also notes a field trial event at Blackhawk grounds and a bake sale by G U G G at Wisconsin Power and Light Co.
Mr and Mrs Otto Albrigh and Mrs Joseph Striker left for Independence Indiana to attend the funeral of Mrs Edna Braun who died Sunday. Mrs Janie Gregory has been visiting her brother and sister in law Mr and Mrs Clyde Smith Twin Grove and her niece and nephew Mr and Mrs Harry Huffman Monroe. They visited Mr and Mrs James Van Sickle Lena yesterday.
Mrs. Gertrude Myers was elected secretary of the capital regional Women’s Guild of the southern Wisconsin synod of Evangelical and Reformed churches at their 8th annual convention in Madison’s Memorial church yesterday. Mrs. Oscar Moldenhauer was named a delegate to the Milwaukee September 26 27 conference. Monroe attendees included Mmes J Schwingel Charles Frey Alfred Voegels P C Kehle Paul Frenzel Victor Stauffacher Herbert Stauffacher Louis Blanc N H Duerst Fred Grimm Lee Stauffacher Emmanuel Fuchs Wilbur Ott Miss Anita Courtney Florence Wartenweiler.
Florence Hubbard, 69, widow, won the walking man contest prizes totaling 22500 and received 40 marriage proposals. She discarded the proposals and kept cash, excluding a sewing machine and other listed valuables like a Cadillac convertible, mink coat, diamond ring, motorboat, and a house trailer as not fitting her life.
Dr J K Shumate superintendent and medical advisor at Lake View sanitarium Madison and Mrs Margaret Fosberg public health nurse will be guest speakers at the Primrose Aid Thursday afternoon in New Glarus.
Funeral services for Walter Elmer twenty four son of the late Jacob Elmer formerly of Monroe will be held tomorrow afternoon in Arpin. Relatives expected to attend from this vicinity include Mrs Herman Reger Walter Reger Miss Fangie Elmer Mrs Lee Germann Mr and Mrs Stuart Chambers and Mrs George Schuh.
Erling C Landfried of Monroe Transit Lines Inc says the company will begin service the first week of May after receiving a common carrier certificate from the Wisconsin Public Service Commission on April 12. The 20 day period to request a re hearing expires May 2.
Beloit Shriners plan a charity dance at Beloit College field house tomorrow from 9 to 1. Proceeds go to Shriners Hospitals for crippled children. Shrinanigans unit of Tebala Shrine Temple Rockford will perform, with Madison Zor Temple Craw unit also appearing.
Hopeful plant owners guard poinsettia stock after Christmas to see blooms return. Miss Laurene Gardner reports her plant, last year’s Christmas gift, has bloomed again, now seven flowers. Two Monroe men capsized on Sugar River near Brodhead as they tested an outboard motor. they swam to shore and walked to their destination.
Cardinal Lines Bus Lines Inc filed a circuit court appeal alleging the Wisconsin Public Service Commission wrongfully denied authority to operate a Kenosha Racine and Madison route. The firm argues the commission waited beyond 60 days after a final hearing to issue the order and refused a rehearing. The commission says the Kenosha Racine Madison route is already fully serviced.
Madison report of Milwaukee State Teachers college president Dr J Martin Klotsche addressing 1000 delegates at the 39th Wisconsin Congress of Parents and Teachers urging tolerance across race color creed and belief and a basis of unity while preserving individual differences in a troubled world.
Life memberships in the congress were presented to Mrs. Evelyn Goldberg and Mrs. Ann Bevering of Milwaukee, Harry Nash of West Allis, Foster Randle of Madison, and Mrs. Ethel Newby Mills of Fond du Lac. These awards honor long service within the organization.
Jonara Mattson of Washington was named chief of the State Federal Market News service today. Mattson, who will assume duties Monday, succeeds C. D. Hadley, transferred to the dairy and poultry office of the federal department of agriculture in New York City. A University of Wisconsin graduate, Mattson taught at the college of agriculture in 1917 and 1918.
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