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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1955
Page
8
Partly cloudy and hot with scattered thundershowers likely in the afternoon or night. Tonight low mid 70s, Tuesday high mid 90s. Precipitation since Saturday 0.84 inch. Warmest city Lincoln Nebraska 108, Fraser Colorado 48 coldest. Sunrise 4 57, sunset 7 15.
Peter S. Solomon transfers part lot 59 at Evansadd in Monroe to Adolph A. Ambrose. F Earl Lamboley and others transfer lot 12 block 3 East Lawn subdivision in Monroe to Robert Rutsch. F Earl Lamboley transfers lot 2 block 2 Eastlawn subdivision in Monroe to Frank Nussbaum.
Judge Marshal L. Peterson reports Victor Gilbertson of Route 1 New Glarus pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated. A fine of 100 dollars plus costs is due within five days or 30 days jail. Driver’s license revoked. Sheriff’s department confirms.
Judge Marshall L Peterson Nathan Wiesenberg and Kenneth Robertson charged with contributing to delinquency of minors receive a year of probation and ordered to pay costs of action by Chief of Police J H Schwaiger and his officers in Monroe police action.
Monroe police report lists L A Koenig Charles Kundert Jr Route 2 with no driver’s license and $5 plus costs. John L Andrews Mineral Point fined for disorderly conduct and operating during license suspension with $12 and costs. Sheriff’s department records show Benjamin O’Brian Racine fined for following too closely with $10 and costs.
Robert Arthur Boeck 29 of Wayne Township Lafayette County and Marion Bertha Ault 29 of 2244 Sixth Street obtained marriage licenses.
Fred Grimm aged 70 of 2401 9th Street. Mrs. John Abderholden aged 81 of Monticello. Warren R. Smout aged 74 of Albany. Mrs. E Q Knapp aged 88 of Oelwein, a.
Mr and Mrs Sanford Gilbert announce their Basco Wisconsin son's birth on August 1. Mr and Mrs John Stadelman of Belleville welcome a daughter born July 31. Mr and Mrs Gerald Thompson of Lone Rock announce a daughter born July 31. Mr and Mrs Clarence Soddy of Brodhead report a daughter born July 31. Mr and Mrs Robert Blaser of Orfordville announce a daughter born August 1.
James Samuelson of Freeport and Thomas Larson of South Wayne are linked to a hospital accident at St. Clare Hospital. A separate entry notes a tonsillectomy for Bruce Charles.
A hospital roster lists patients by surname and city across medical and surgical categories plus a long dismissal section. Names include Floyd Vickers Edgerton Willie Hellwig Warren James McCoy Rockford Jessie Blackshear Rockford Louise Pierce Monticello Floyd Call Beloit Clark Bechtolt Route 4 Emil Voegeli Monticello and Keith Wilson 2105 16th avenue. Dismissals include Clarion Wick Richard Dulles John Madden John Rhyner Henry Elmer Vernon Ruthe Roman Wiedholtz Melvin Bowman Warren Crooke James Clark and others.
Otto Thurlemann of Monroe was fined 75 dollars plus costs in Darlington Justice Court this morning after being charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated.
The Green County Safety Council will erect a 9 by 3 display titled How Safe is Your Home in the Wisconsin Power and Light Co tent at the Green County Fair this week. County nurse Miss Ruth Chase announced the exhibit this morning.
Thomas Larson aged 67 from South Wayne was admitted to St. Clare hospital at noon today after cutting a tendon in his thumb while butchering. He is reported in good condition.
Charles H. Deitz 85 retired principal of Green County Normal school fell Saturday night at his daughter’s Fond du Lac home and broke his hip. He is hospitalized at St. Agnes Fond du Lac after visiting his daughters here and returning to Fond du Lac last Wednesday.
Miss Carol Galli daughter of Mr and Mrs G Fred Galli leaves for a two week leadership training camp near Muskegon Michigan under a Rockford College scholarship. She travels with her brother Roger to Milwaukee where she will fly out.
Mr and Mrs John W Ruff Route 2 win senior and grand champion prizes for bull and cow, junior champion female, first prizes for two year old bull senior bull calf aged cow junior yearling heifer and senior heifer calf at Lafayette County Fair.
A roster of visitors and residents highlights Monroe social activity with entries on travels to and from Stockton Lincoln Chicago Janesville Bloomington Rochelle and Michigan. Several groups meet including Knights of Pythias and Pythian Sisters to attend the funeral of Fred Grimm.
Twenty three relatives from Indiana are noted for Cheese Day activities. The Lindgren family from Baraboo and Hayward return from a week’s vacation. Several families plan Milwaukee visits to see the Kruegers and attend a Braves game. County and state officials attend an Institute session in Madison. Others arrive to spend two weeks with local families, while some return to Louisiana and California after visits.
Milwaukee beauty Miss Margaret Walls, 20, won the Miss Wisconsin crown chosen by Lions Club sponsors in Reedsburg. She stands five feet four inches, 120 pounds with measurements 34 24 36 and will represent Wisconsin at Miss America in the fall. Miss Waukesha Denise Fischer was runner up. Miss Doris Olsen of Brooklyn did not place among the top five.
Miss Virginia Crandall daughter of Mr and Mrs Crandall graduates as a nurse anesthetist after completing an 18 month course at Duke University in Durham North Carolina.
Negotiations between Kohler Co and the CIO United Auto Workers resume after a weekend recess. The company demands 2300 on payroll including those hired during the strike, while the UAW seeks immediate restoration of all Local 833 members who have been on strike since August 5, 1954.
Funeral services for Fred Wellman age 57 of Jefferson Township were held at 2 p m at Shriner Neush wander funeral home with Rev Paul C Kehle of St Johns Evangelical officiating. Burial followed in Mt Vernon cemetery Juda. Pallbearers included Leonard Bauman Paul Bauman Ben Bauman Richard Wilborn Lawrence Raymer and Ralph Pfund.
Wisconsin received 22 428 cubic centimeters of Salk polio vaccine in the Public Health Service apportionment of its first new batch. Earlier data note 91 000 U S lives lost in 1954 due to accidents.
A mishap at the Swiss Wheel motel occurred at 10 40 p m involving intoxicating liquor. Earlier a run away car driven by Richard Brunner struck a parked vehicle owned by Werner Sulzer on the square causing a caved in left door. Two men were hospitalized near Darlington after a crash on Highway 81 as the car left the road into a ditch at 645 p m.
The article lists several deaths from accidents in Wisconsin: Jackie Bussan, 3, dies after entangling in unloading equipment near Brod. Norman Gilbertson, 27, dies from a ladder fall near Dodgeville. Kenneth Klaus, 24, dies when his Adams County Trunk A car overturns near Grand Marsh. Julie Hansen, 15, dies returning from a Chicago wedding when a tire blows and the car goes out of control on Highway 14.
About eight miles south of Richland Center a Madison man tentatively identified as Lewis A. Duvall, 35, drowned when his boat capsized in Lake Wisconsin. Officials drag the lake for the body as authorities investigate and confirm the death.
Herman Hackbarth aged 79 longtime resident and first cheesemaker in Lincoln county died at his home in the Town of Scott. Born there in 1876 he served as a past director of the Berlin Town Insurance Co.
Mrs John Abderholden 81 a Switzerland native who came to Green County in 1910 died at 2:20 p m yesterday in a Monroe hospital after a short illness She lived in Monticello since 1952 born Julia Keller on Dec 15 1873 married in Appenzell Switzerland March 23 1896 Survivors include nephew Ernest Keller New Glarus and niece Mrs Ralph Schultz Racine Services are 2 p m tomorrow Voegeli funeral home Monticello Rev A R Achtemeier will officiate Burial in Highland Cemetery
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