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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1949
Page
6
The record notes clearing and cooler tonight with a Tuesday forecast of fair and cool weather. Averages show highs near 92 and recent readings include 77 today. Barometer at 1 am 29.50 and 1 pm 29.50. The warmest city yesterday was Yuma Arizona at 102 and the coldest Escanaba Michigan. Sunrise 4:51, sunset 7:21.
Services were held at Stuessy funeral home this afternoon for two month old Gregory Dennis Goodman of Browntown who died Saturday at St. Clare hospital of an undetermined illness. He was born May 30, 1949 in Monroe. Survived by his parents, a brother Gordon Jerome, grandparents, and great grandparents. Burial in Cadiz Cemetery ten miles southwest of Monroe.
Otto J Zajichek 61 of Milwaukee died Saturday at his home after illness from a heart ailment. Services 1 30 p m tomorrow at Kaestner funeral home with interment Wanderers Rest cemetery. Survived by widow Evelyn Blotz of Monroe two sons Reindl and Gordon sister Mildred Schwister two brothers Sandy and Alfred one grandson together with other listed relatives.
J. H. Hoesly and Harland Barton transfer property to Uriah G. Hartman in the village of New, fringing West 198 feet of outlet 87 on the assessor's plat. Transfers show an uninterrupted chain of title and local land records activity.
Letters of special administration issued to Effie Wenger in the estate of Nick Haas, who died December 30.
The Hutter firm outlines continued expansion for St. Clare hospital with a fifth floor sun deck and nurse call transmitters above beds. Architect Theodore A. Hartman joins the project with Sisters of St. Agnes led by Mother M Ange line. Since opening in 1939 the hospital has grown from 4,408 patient days in five months of 1939 to 13,746 in the first half of the year, totaling 228740 patient days over ten years.
Deaths listed include Ernest Nydegger age 44 of 1219 30th Avenue Dennis Goodman two months Browntown Otto J Zajichek 61 Milwaukee Miss Verna Mahara 55 Los Angeles. Births noted for war and Mrs Alvin Rich Chicago daughter Aug 1 Mr and Mrs Harold Johnson ee ee daughter July 1 Mr and Mrs Olin Nelson Blanchardville son July 31 Mr and Mrs Ed Lehnherr New Glarus daughter July 31 Mr and Mrs Wayne Maddix route Monroe son July 31.
List of patients and dismissals at St. Clare Hospital detailing surgical and medical patients including Mrs Wilbert Bernet Argyle Mrs Angelos Cernoia Beloit Charles Allen Sterling David H Voegeli Browntown Betty Ginstrom Rockford Mrs Ira Moffett Beloit Clarence Jeglum Blanchardville Augustine Johnson Woodford Mrs John Carroll Brodhead Mrs Frank Jones Monticello Frank Broge 2106 35th avenue Leona Nyborg Woodford Dismissals include David H Voegeli Paul Amudjeff Mrs Robert Ruegesegger John Lightfoot Mrs William Silverthorne Goldie Robertson Mrs Roger Wuthrich Mrs Arthur Flescher Mrs Ralph Neuenschwander Judith Lennartson Dennis Malony Eugene Weaver Mrs Maurice Stauffacher and son Mrs Ernest Schwartzlow and son Mrs Lawrence Zweifel Mrs William Fuchs and daughter Edward Stauffacher Mrs Harry Reese.
Brown town residents elected Davia werre no president and Mrs. Paul Raether as secretary treasurer at the Benson reunion held Sunday in Leota park Evansville. The oldest present were Ortha Scott of Twin Grove and Oscar Wells of Browntown, with Jane Margaret Wells as the youngest. Attendees hailed from Grena Rockford Stevens Point Pecatonica Brooklyn Madison and several nearby towns.
A long list of social notes from the area includes Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Barton of Albany visiting here from Saturday, and guests like Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Ames Blanchardville and others at the fair and races. Several couples and families from Albany Madison Darlington Spooner Chicago and Milwaukee spend weekends and vacations with relatives in Monroe, Baraboo, and nearby towns. John H. Disch resumes his duties at Brennan’s after a vacation. charity and Legion events are also noted.
The United States Senate approved the nomination of Harry A. Walters as Monticello postmaster. Walters, a native of Albany and World War I veteran, has long been connected with the Monticello public utility. The wolf is noted as a rare animal in most U S regions.
Revel English of Chino California, a veteran horse judge, praised Green County exposition as the only real county fair. He recalled selling Edna Mays King for 50000 dollars a decade ago, a high saddle stallion price, and noted his Pomona breeding roots. English and Temple Stephens of Moberly Missouri left for Charleston Missouri after judging the Monroe show.
Jill Revere sought permission to score from the outside in a three-year-old trot Sunday. Be loit driver Wallace, nearing 80, competes with his son Stanley in horse show events. Blue Eagle, owned by D R Witter and Son, was reserve world champion in 1946 and national champion in 1947 and won the Tennessee walking horse open. Marian Brown rode Flying Victory for Dr F J Fechter to a fifth straight stake win in Wisconsin. Deer are noted in the wolf’s diet at the event.
Mr and Mrs Fredric Rosa and their son Fredric David returned from a two week eastern trip visiting Mrs Sommers in New Brunswick and landmarks in Washington DC New York Hyde Park and Niagara they also passed through Canada. Meythal newborn son at Elizabeth hospital Appleton welcomed by parents and grandparents. George Skowronski displaced person in Madison spent weekend in Monroe and Albany. Jacob Hoffman and Miss Marjorie Kenady visiting Monroe while Hoffman takes over the Eugene hotel.
Mr and Mrs Arthur Scheidegger of Smithfield depart Monroe for New York en route to Switzerland for a five week visit. Scheidegger, former local resident, is chief cheesemaker at Cache Valley Dairy in Smithfield, a world leading Swiss cheese producer. He trained in Swiss and French factories and graduated from the Swiss cheesemakers school in Rutli Zollikoten. His wife Nellie Weiland is a Monroe native.
Times Special reports funeral services for Flora Folmer 88 who died in Bismarck North Dakota on Thursday. Services will be held at 2 p m tomorrow at Everson funeral home with Rev J W Zimmerman officiating and burial at Greenwood cemetery in Brodhead. Oconomowoc— Wilbert S Slemmons 53 dies at home He was assistant general superintendent of Carnation Co operations in Wisconsin and had worked there 29 years.
Miss Verna Mahara of Los Angeles died Wednesday night at 55 from heart illness while caring for her mother, Mrs. Della Mahara. Funeral was held Saturday at 11:30 with Forest Lawn burial in Glendale beside her mother. She was the sole survivor of her family, and had recently moved into a home of her own.
In Paker Florida a lightning strike during a Sunday baseball game killed two Baker club players and injured about fifty others. The victims were Allen L. Joyner Jr. 23 of Crestview and Harry Moore of Baker. The bolt scorched the diamond leaving a three inch by twenty foot ditch and sent sparks through the crowd of about 300 as players and spectators fled the scene.
The state board of health reports 15 new infantile paralysis cases today, bringing the year total to 127. Cases came from Vernon, Waukesha, Marathon, Milwaukee, Crawford, Dane, Douglas, Vilas, and Rock counties.
Lyle Rodger trained and raced horses for five years from here to California. He earlier cared for Eleanor Volo owned by H. F. McNutt of Oxford and later sold to a Denver figure, with a $5 000 service value at Rodger's death. The piece notes Foxy Hanover at Walnut Hall Farm and references sire Peter Volo at Lexington and a California sale to E J Lambert.
August opens with fall like weather and a light shower after a hot July that posted 28 days in the 90s and 3 rainy days. July’s total rainfall reached 3.75 inches while humidity proved hard to measure as August arrives with a cool morning and a 79 degree afternoon.
Gov Oscar Rennebohm signed Wisconsin’s rent control measure amid market jitters as tenants wait to see if rents rise 15 or 30 percent. The law allows increases based on voluntary 15 percent setups under federal law, and does not affect Monroe and Green counties. Leases remain in effect until expiration. Colorado is noted as a leader in sugar beet production.
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