Monroe Aldermen Approve Truck Parking and Alley Vacation
The Monroe City Council set Oct 7 for a public hearing on vacating a portion of alley to aid Jos Huber Brewing Co expansion. The council passed an ordinance to post truck parking restrictions and approved a property exchange with the brewery for alley vacation.
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Monroe
Jos
Huber Brewing Co
Green County Historical Museum
13Th St. Betwen 14Th Ave
14Th Alley
Mississippi coast reels from Camille death toll and aid surge
AP dispatch reports 162 killed along the Mississippi coast with eight more in Plaquemines Parish raising total to 170 and warnings that deaths could reach 500 to 1,000 as Gov Williams imposes limited martial law.
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Gulfport
Miss
Mississippi
Cammille
Highway Patrol
Louisiana
Plaquemines Parish
John Bell Williams
Back To School Sections Highlight Monroe Advertisers
The Monroe Evening Times runs two special Back to School sections with 22 extra color pages and a safety feature as classes resume. Forty sponsors back the message featuring school calendars, faculty lists, Monroe School District story, and shopping for clothing and supplies with pre school bargains. The edition follows a seven month Wisconsin Legislature budget dispute and expects the governor to sign a bill lifting the selective sales tax to four percent, widening revenue beyond prior proposals.
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Monroe Evening Times
Monroe
Times
Wisconsin
Warren P. Knowles
Street Work Bids Opened for Main Street Improvements
Two bids for four blocks of Main Street improvements were opened at the Darlington City Council meeting and will be held until the Aug. 26 session. Williams Construction Co. bid 42 896 75 with work slated Sep 16 to Oct 31. Glendenning Limestone and Ready-Mix Co. bid 44 011 35 for April 10 to June 30 1970. Officials may ask Williams to hold their bid if work is postponed to spring.
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Darlington
Main Street
Williams Construction Co
LaCrosse
Glendenning Limestone
Williams Construction
Monroe Fire School Set to Open at Green County Fairgrounds
Monroe Firemen prepare for the 33rd Fall Fire School of the Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois Firemen's Association on Sunday August 24 at the Green County Fairgrounds. Registration starts 8 a.m. with classes for 2,000 to 3,000 visiting firefighters and demonstrations begin at 1 p.m. The event features a two story practice house and multiple exhibits while public admission is free for women and children with a $1 men’s registration to cover costs.
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Monroe
Wisconsin
Northern Illinois Firemen’s Association, Inc
Green County Fairgrounds
Kenneth Stanton
Chicago
Joe Benkert
John Peters
McFarland
Paul Boecker
Naperville
Ill
Herman Pfund
Madison
Stanton
Milton G. Petzold
St. John’s
Monroe Fire Department
Walter Ekum
Association
Monroe Department
L.P
Fire Service
Illinois
Iowa
Chilean AFS student Patricia Johnson to live in Monroe for 1969-70
Patricia Johnson from Quilpue Chile arrives in Monroe to study at local high school as Monroe's American Field Service student for the 1969-70 year. She plans to pursue journalism and share Chilean culture with Mary Roth and family while observing curriculum differences. Officers and patrols accompany coverage of Prague unrest.
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Monroe High School
Monroe
Patricia Johnson
Quilpue
Valparaiso
Chili
Mary Roth
Nathan Roth
Patricia
Roths
Mary
Times
Dina Speich
Chile
Drapela) Johnson
17Th Ave
Nathan Roths
Chicago
New York
AFS
Brazil
Long Island
Europe
Maria Teresa
Roth
AFL
Kenneth Smith
Sherman Hodgson
Boyd Elliott
Jim Haas
Fred Simpson
Jack Caradine
Art Benkert
Alvin Kubly
City Day Care Set to Resume at Grace Lutheran
Grace Lutheran Church educational unit will reopen the City Day Care on Wednesday Sept 3 with Mrs Donovan Otteson as new director replacing Mrs James Voelkli who will volunteer. Miss Charlotte Young also joins as volunteer and Monroe Jaycettes assist. Classes expand to three afternoons weekly Monday Wednesday Friday from 1 to 3 p.m. تا
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Grace Lutheran Church
Donovan O
Jean) Otteson
Otteson
James Voelkli
H. F. Cunningham
Voelkli
Charlotte Young
Visitors from Switzerland Tour New Glarus Misses Home Hills
Ursula Christen and Rosmarie Ruckstuhl of Switzerland visit New Glarus with the Karl Hofmanns at the Wilhelm Tell while touring southern Wisconsin. They miss the Swiss mountains and family in Thun and Zurich and plan to return by Oct. 16 for a 70th birthday. They learned of New Glarus in Cleveland during Independence Day events and traveled from Puerto Rico via the East Coast.
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Ursula Christen
Thun
Canton Bern
Switzerland
America
Green County
Rosmarie Ruckstuhl
Zurich
New Glarus
Karl Hofmanns
Wilhelm Tell
Wisconsin
Puerto Rico
Cleveland
Ohio
Ursula
Pureto Rico
Inchusetts
Rosemarie
Miss Ruckstuhl
Miss Christen
Antwerp
Belgium
West
American
Freeway Plan Advancing Across Janesville Beloit Elkhorn
State Division of Highways backs a dual freeway system from Janesville Beloit to Elkhorn. The plan splits along US 51 and Highways 11 15 with an estimated 44 million dollar cost to Elkhorn and 11 million for the Beloit junction. City officials cite rapid growth and access needs while others push only the Beloit to Elkhorn segment.
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State Division of Highways
Janesville
Beloit
Elkhorn
William R. Redmond
Highway Commission
Commission
U.S. 51
Darien
James D. Swan
Beloit City
Daniel Kelly
Vocational School Meeting Is Tonight
The Board of Vocational Technical and Adult Education District 5 meets at 7 tonight at the District Office 2228 Center Avenue. Agenda includes teaching contracts, management rights policy, office space for the Adult Evening School at Monroe, cleaning services, personnel attendance at the American Vocational Association Convention, and salaries for clerical and custodial staff.
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Board of Vocational, Technical and Adult Education District
Center Avenue
Monroe
American Vocational Association
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