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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1947
Page
6
Daily Record notes fair and cooler tonight. Tuesday looks fair with moderate temperatures. Since Saturday 2 p m high 97 and low 69. Year ago today high 81 low 58. Last week high 98 low unspecified. Precipitation since Saturday and barometer readings given. Warmest U S city yesterday was St Louis 102 and Havre Montana was coldest. Sunrise 5 16, sunset 6 48.
Real estate transfers report Grece Barry and others conveying 304 acres, with specified fractional sections in Adams township, including exception of 2 acres deeded to St. Francis Catholic congregation, and transferring any shares of stock in the Puddle Dock cheese factory to William Grant.
Edward Mulligan aged 53 of 1116 18th avenue and Ida Marie Pengra aged 66 of Brodhead are listed in community notices. The short item records their names and ages for a local public notice without further details.
Mr and Mrs Theodore Ott route 2 welcomed a son on Aug 25. Mr and Mrs Louis Wyss Monticello welcomed a son on Aug 25. Mr and Mrs Robert D Alm 12th Avenue welcomed a daughter on Aug. Mr and Mrs Francis Roth 1522 14th Avenue welcomed a daughter on Aug 23. Mr and Mrs Charles Lenz Brodhead welcomed a son on Aug 23. Mr and Mrs Harold Pickett 1722 23rd Street welcomed a son on Aug 24.
St Clare Hospital reports several dismissals including Raymond Campbell John Oesch Leslie Jones Phillip Johnson and others. Dr Charles A Briggs and wife left with the party for Appleton to attend the Wisconsin Area School of Methodist Ministers at Lawrence. they plan to return Friday.
Wilbur E. Deininger of Monroe was named to the state committee on inspection at the first district VFW quarterly meeting at Turner hall. The auxiliary also met with over 100 veterans in attendance. Arthur T. Nottingham of Bloomfield Center was named to the state committee on public relations. John E. Bartenbach of Lake Geneva conducted the session with State Commander Cal Johnson in attendance.
Hopfe and Geffen describe being captured about 100 miles north, a Russian barracks diet, and a Korean house with Russians. A $30 camera dropped by Pugsley was recovered after a Russian officer loaned a chessboard and guards taught them to play. They recount greasy fish stew and bare uniforms but good physical condition, with two carbines and film revived on release.
Miss Lucille Wells visited Monroe on Saturday while Miss Clara Krahenbuhl spent the day with her parents in Argyle. Several residents traveled to Dixon Illinois Milwaukee Chicago and Beaver Dam for visits and events including a funeral and a fish ing trip to northern Minnesota.
William Luecke returns to Los Angeles after visiting Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Kuebli and family. Several relatives from Gibson City Illinois and Dodgeville Wisconsin joined trips, with plans for longer travels to the Black Hills Yellowstone and Madison area, including Will Taylor’s family in Midwest Wyoming.
Ford Motor Co raises prices by 4.2 percent after rising steel costs and wage pressures. The move brings Ford in line with Chrysler GM and others, citing millions spent to maintain employment and meet production targets below capacity. The company projects production 135000 units lower in 1947 due to interfering factors. An extra 5 million was spent to obtain steel through regular channels.
Revercomb and Downey argue for selective immigration to match jobs and housing needs while preventing communist influence. They warn against influx into big cities and stress screening for fit with government plans. Downey cites birthrate concerns and asserts immigrants could boost a lagging workforce. Downey notes changing family sizes from seven to three children.
Figi leads the first of 12 to 15 proposed buildings in a Swiss historical village. The current museum, a replica of the 1845 colonists home, sits open Sundays by the Green County Historical Society. A Wil helm Tell Guild sponsored church will rise soon. The collection spans early cheesemaking utensils to home items, with future displays planned for the cheese factory, blacksmith shop, and church. The first communion set from the Swiss Reformed church, tin made, is preserved. Also kept are a colonial gun, a two row corn planter, and a hand operated shovel and early scythe.
The party had a box luncheon on their departure and a typical Swiss dinner served cafeteria style at the William Tell hotel upon their arrival. The train paused briefly at Brodhead and again near the city at the Engelbretson place to view a mural on the barn.
Former Monroe resident Miss Inez Elizabeth Buri and Robert G. Lee of Madison wed Aug 14 in Judge Evans’s Madison chambers. Miss Buri, a registered nurse at Methodist Hospital, trained at Allen Memorial School of Nursing and Sherwood School of Music. Lee, a veteran Wisconsin newspaper man, previously owned and edited several papers and served in education and trade associations.
A Chicago based printers firm employs a couple, Mr and Mrs Lee, who are living temporarily at 1109 University Avenue Madison, as details of their residency are noted.
Bans of marriage were announced yesterday at St Victor's Catholic church for Miss Shane Marie Collins Oregon and Samuel F Humbel Monroe. Mr Humbel is a Green County highway policeman. The wedding is planned for Sept. 6 at Oregon.
Mrs Marian Tschudy of 818 20th avenue has accepted a teaching position with Marshfield public schools and plans to leave about Sept 15. Her home will be occupied by Dr Alfred E Leiser. Her sons Robert Albert and James will continue their studies in September with Robert and James returning to the University of Wisconsin and Albert at River Falls College.
Mrs. J. Ray Fitzgibbons uses a life sized paper owl in her front tree to frighten starlings five feet from the tip. She reports the birds alight then flee after two nights. E. O. Evans and Emmett J. Norton similarly employ owls, with Norton’s two faced version proving effective.
Three persons were uninjured in a collision near the Oneco school on Illinois highway 26m at 12 30 this noon. A car driven by William Her-
A northbound Illinois car collided with a left entering truck on the roadway. The Illinois vehicle sustained severe damage. A. Smoberstag, a farm youth, drove the truck. R. F. Kennedy of Rock Island rode as a passenger with Herzog.
Mrs Ida Marie Pengra 66 died yesterday at 4 25 p m at her Brodhead home after a two month illness She was born January 30 1881 in Monroe daughter of Peter and Barbara Wohlwend She married Hugh S Pengra February 12 1902 at Juda Surviving are her husband three sisters and a sister in San Pedro California Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 2 p m at Everson funeral home with Rev J Tingley of Juda Baptist church officiating Burial will be in Mt Vernon cemetery Juda A note on rubber tapping states about one third ounce of dry rubber is yielded per tapping.
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