Monroe Evening Times masthead and office hours
The Monroe Evening Times publishes daily except Sunday from Monroe Wisconsin with a 35 cent weekly in city rate and 12 dollar annual mail rate for Wisconsin and Jo Davies counties. Office hours are 8 30 a m to 5 p m and the paper is edited by Emery A Odell 1871 1953.
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Emery A. Odell
Monroe
Wisconsin
Stephenson, Jo Davies
W Counties
Illinois
Timotsew
Inois
Key to Progress is Brotherhood in Turbulent Times
An editorial argues that national violence and urban upheaval affect small towns like Monroe. It notes rapid change, growth, and the need to maintain neighborly brotherhood to preserve community soul despite modernization and external shocks.
Lt Sickinger Leaves For Viet Nam Service
Lt. Thomas L. Sickinger sailed from San Francisco on August 3 for a 13 month tour in Viet Nam. He serves with the 519th Military Intelligence Battalion and will stop in Hawaii Guam and the Philippine Islands. He visited his parents Mr and Mrs Lyle F Sickinger before leaving and his wife Patricia has returned to Monroe to stay with her parents.
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Thomas L. Sickinger
Viet Nam
San Francisco
Hawaii
Guam
Philippine Islands
519Th Military Intelligence Battalion
Lyle F. Sickinger
Patricia
Monroe
E. C. Hanson
Honors for Virgil Leopold at Platteville State commencement
Virgil Leopold of Route 3 Monroe joined seven others in receiving scholastic honors at Platteville State University’s 100th Commencement on Friday August 5. Leopold earned a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education after attending Monroe High, Green County Teacher’s College, and teaching seventh grade in Barneveld. He and his wife Carol Ann Jordan now plan to move to Neenah where he will teach fifth grade at Coolidge School and supervise fifth grade in Wisconsin.
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Virgil Leopold
Horeb
William Leopold
Route 3
Monroe
Platteville State University
Leopold
Monroe High School
Green County Teacher’s College
Barneveld
Carol Ann Jordan
Orangeville
Neenah
Coolidge School
University of Wisconsin
FFA
Zwicker Reports Fishing Trip For Monroe Lions Club
Lion Ed ward Zwicker presented a travel program on his fishing trip to Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territory Canada at Marco's Supper Club Monroe Lions Club members attended after a 6 30 dinner and watched a color film on lake trout. Dick Newcomer reported on the Green County Fair Dip Stand and the board approved supporting St Clare Hospital expansion.
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Great Bear Lake
Northwest Territory
Canada
Lion Edward Zwicker
Monroe
Lions Club of
Marco’s
Green County Fair
Dick Newcomer
Monroe Lions Club
St. Clare Hospital
Ceiling Is Zero Finds Airlines Strike Worsening
Washington The House Commerce Committee calls top union and management negotiators as witnesses today facing a ceiling zero visibility zero forecast on prospects of settling the month old airlines strike at the bargaining table.
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Washington
House Commerce Committee
Road patrolmen ordered to remove roadside signs
The report notes road patrolmen are ordered to remove all advertising signs and placards from road areas. Stock prices climb on rail optimism. Herman Meier plans a Swiss Cheese journey to attract 80 golfers. Gottfried Schuetz Jr. to direct German portions of Wilhelm Tell pageant. Gemplers leads city softball. Sheriff Sam Humbel names Howard Schuct to county patrol.
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Herman Meier
Gottfried Schuetz Jr
Gemplers
Sam Humbel
Howard Schuct
Polio scare resolved and local sports highlight featured
Polio case east of Brod en route turned out to be neck. James Hardell and Judith Kubly crowned swim champions. Roland Etter defeats Ed Rufenacht in a closely played country club match. Harvey H. Holland and E. R. Johnson chaperone a dance at the new Youth Center. All county schools to spray DDT after generous rainfall revives crops and gardens.
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Brodog
James Hardell
Judith Kubly
Roland Etter
Ed Rufenacht
Etter
Harvey H. Holland
E. R
30 Years Ago Today August 9 1936 Highlights
Ralph Elmer leads in cattle judging while boys are lectured for petty theft. Mary Boyd, five, wins a beauty title at the Green County Farm Bureau picnic in Ludlow Grove. Adams Lutheran Church marks its 80th anniversary with hundreds attending. A haystack on the J P Kubly farm near Jordan Center was struck by lightning and destroyed.
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Ralph Elmer
Mary Boyd
Green County Farm Bureau
Ludlow Grove
Adams Lutheran Church
J. P. Kubly
Jordan Center
Pavement Collapse Injures Family. Voters Meet Lenroot Supporter
Forty years ago today August 9 1926 a section of pavement dropped at East Russell and Beloit Streets sending Dr D H Murdock and family to hospital after their Stutz struck gravel near Edgerton. Mrs Howard W Chadwick introduces Dorothy Lenroot Black daughter of Senator Irvine L Lenroot to county voters during a campaign stop. A wedding reception followed the afternoon ceremony of Miss Harriet M Chambers and Myron I Stair with appropriate refreshments.
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East Russell
Beloit
D.H. Murdock
Edgerton
Howard W. Chadwick
Dorothy Lenroot Black
Irvine L. Lenroot
Harriet M. Chambers
Myron I. Stair
Wisconsin guardsmen on Texas rifle range today
A brief World War I era item notes Wisconsin guardsmen at a Texas rifle range. It also mentions shell wreckage and blood at Thiaumont Works near Verdun, with sixth charge in 120 hours. Green County fair floral and agricultural halls lack space, forcing tent entries. City Assessor O H Atherton reports a $5 568 664 tax total.
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Wisconsin
Texas
Thiaumont Works
Verdun
Green County Fair
O.H. Atherton
Monroe valuation for 254 cars shows 65 increase
The report records Monroe valuation rising by 65 to a total of 254 for the set of cars evaluated.
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Monroe
Mill torn down marks 60 years in Sylvester township
60 Years Ago Today August 9 1906 Ball's Mill in Sylvester township built in 1843 by Amos R Sylvester is being torn down Fred Marty completes inspection of 50 cheese factories forty found in grave need of improvement Fred Ties in the city today from Brodhead for the regular meeting of the county farm trustees and poor commissioners thal school meeting decides on 35000 school in Brodhead 163 to 95
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Ball
Sylvester Township
Amos R. Sylvester
Fred Marty
Fred
Brodhead
County Farm Trustees and Poor Commissioners
Thal
Mrs Brunker 37 Dies in Madison After Surgery
Mrs. Joseph R. Brunker 37 of Sun Prairie died Sunday in a Madison hospital after surgery. Funeral 9:30 a.m. at St Joseph's Bristol, Tuschen Sun Prairie. Survived by husband seven sons and six daughters, her father Edward Lease Ridgeway, four sisters and six brothers.
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Joseph R. Brunker
Route 2
Sun Prairie
Ray Harris
Blanchardville
Madison
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Bristol
Tuschen
Brunker
Delores Lease
Richland Center
Thomas Lawle
Spring Grove
Minn
Harris
IOOF Lodge 72 Plans Pin Awards and Lunch
Plans for the next IOOF Lodge No. 72 meeting were made at the regular gathering last evening in IOOF Hall. Past noble grand pins will be awarded and a program and lunch are being planned.
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Ioof Lodge No
IOOF
Willis J. Marty of Middleton Dies at 63
Willis J. Marty, 63, a former Monticello businessman who owned Marty Oil Co., died suddenly in a Madison hospital after a heart attack. He married Grace Durst November 19, 1927 in Milwaukee and was active in St. Luke's Lutheran Church, the Monticello Masonic lodge, Zor Shrine, Middleton Golf, and the Middleton Industrial Development Corp. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery, Monticello, with services at St. Luke's and the Monticello lodge conducting graveside rites.
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Monticello
Willis J. Marty
Middleton
Madison
Marty Oil Co
Grace Durst
Milwaukee
Marty
M. C. Durst
Green County
St. Luke’s Lutheran Church
Zor Shrine
Middleton Industrial Development Corp
Grace
Lawrence G. Marty
F. H. Steinmann
J. C. Legler
Highland Cemetery
Today in History August 9 1966 highlights
On this date in 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki Japan. The day marks the 221st day of 1966 with 144 days remaining and notes Admiral Nelson’s historic actions in 1796.
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Nagasaki
Japan
Nelson
Notable 19th Century Events Highlighted Across Years
A survey of historical milestones notes 1857 overland route between San Antonio and San Diego, 1939 Goering promises Ruhr safety from air attack, 1942 arrests of Gandhi Nehru amid riots, and 1946 Truman enacts terminal pay for enlisted men totaling over two billion dollars.
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Elba
San Antonio
Tex
San Diego
Calif
Century of tensions shadow civil rights and missile scares
Ten years ago former President Truman joined a broad coalition to avert a direct civil rights clash. Five years ago Soviet Premier Khrushchev warned of Russia capable of building a rock et with an explosive warhead equal to 100 million tons of TNT. One year ago a Titan 2 missile launch site explosion and fire at Searcy Arkansas killed at least 47 people.
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Harry S. Truman
Khruschev
Russia
Searcy, Ark
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