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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1950
Page
3
The youth council outlines a fall lineup after a Friday dance and a 7:30 p m Storybook Land aquacade at Recreation Park. Activities include square dancing, an orchestra night, photo clubs, and after school hours open house for teens with ongoing table tennis and checkers tournaments.
A Sunday picnic and shower at the Elon Segner home near Winslow honored Miss Evelyn Schuetz and Donald Ritschard ahead of their Sunday Monticello wedding. The gathering included numerous Ritschard and Grossen families from Monroe Clarno and Monticello with friends and relatives.
Warm sunshine drew auxiliary women to a relaxed golf and bridge day at Monroe Country Club. Hostesses Mmes. Redman Ransdell and Prien led 48 participants including out of town guests and several flight winners in golf while bridge honors went to Mmes. Fritz Prien and Waeffler.
Oakley Union Church drew a large crowd for a musical program and social time last evening. Linda Stevers opened with a prayer, then Helen Hafen sang solo, Mason Marchant and Dorothy Campbell sang a vocal duet, Arthur Swain and Mary Anderson performed an instrumental duet, and Elsie, Helen and Sally Kueng led a vocal trio with Walter, Eugene and Helen Stettler in an instrumental group. The Union church Hot Shots kitchen band was led by Rev. Peter Retzlaff.
Reverend William Beckman, a languages professor, will speak at Zwingli Church in Plymouth and Monticello, in a Times Special report. The lecture covers religious and linguistic topics.
House Plymouth will be guest speaker at Zwink church Sunday morning and will meet the adult Bible class in Rev A R Achtemeier’s absence. The Achtemeiers left for Princeton New Jersey to join their son Paul at Princeton Theological Seminary.
Mr and Mrs Louis Hirsig of Madison left for Vallejo California to visit their daughter Mrs Frank Doyle and family The trip marks their Golden Wedding Anniversary first married August 21 1900 in St Johns church The couple honeymooned in Nashville Tennessee Their daughter Mrs Guy Martin and family plan to join in California for the observance
Mrs Gertrude Cecil presented her son in a program of accordion music before 34 members of Women of the Moose. In the business session the group voted a donation to a music scholarship fund for the Moose conference in Racine and appointed Mrs Amelia Zuhlke chair of a social event August 30 in Lincoln Park.
New Glarus golfers from Mt Horeb Country club hosted Wisconsin Lake club members for a noon lunch and afternoon of golf Tuesday. Attending Mt Horeb events were Mmes. Gilbert Ott Harlan Wernle C H Bartle Harley Hosly Al Burdorff and Ralph Luchsinger.
Mr and Mrs Ernest Lehmann attended the church wedding and reception for Miss Ellen Tess of Elkhorn and Ralph McKenna of Evansville at the Elkhorn Methodist church on Sunday.
Miss Ruth Kienholz the University of Wisconsin graduate and Messiah contralto soloist won a $2,000 scholarship from the LaCrosse music award association. She will study at the New England Conservatory of Music and perform a hometown concert in LaCrosse to receive the grant. Funds from the concert will support future awards.
Groom, a former Juda resident, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McKenna.
Directors of Wisconsin Power and Light Co. met in Madison yesterday and declared regular quarterly dividends on the companys cumulative preferred stock. The amounts are $1.125 on the 4.5 percent issue and $1.20 on the 4.8 percent stock, payable Sept. 15 to stockholders of record Aug. 31.
Christy Mathewson Jr., 42, son of baseball great Christy Mathewson, died after burns from a gas explosion at his ranch. The retired Air Force lieutenant colonel was installing an electric dishwasher when the blast occurred.
Hal Boyle reports from the Naktong river front on patrol scouts in the 5th Cavalry reconnaisance platoon. Sgt. Carl D. Martin says the job is dangerous and tense as they cross the river to gather enemy troop data and capture prisoners amid a firefight with North Korean forces. Casualties include one American and four South Koreans, with two South Koreans lost to drowning.
Gunnar L. Larson of Superior Wisconsin was killed when a Northern Pacific mixed train collided with a Soo Line freight at a Lucca crossing. At least three others were injured in the crash yesterday.
Senator McCarthy said he will persist in a bare knuckle fight against communism as long as any communist remains in government. He spoke to the National Wood Distributors of America and attacked Secretary of State Acheson and Phillip Jessup, accusing Truman of granting top secret clearance to atomic information. He urged immediate action before the 1952 election and a house cleaning by the American people.
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