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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1968
Page
2
A damaged OCR block from Monroe Wisconsin includes garbled newsroom details, AP affiliation and postal regulation notes. It mentions subscription rates, advance payment, and office hours but contains many truncated fragments and misjoined words.
A humorous roundup of local quirks and small events including Louis Studer finding $2, a birthday violin with repellent prize, Joe Viney from Cut and Shoot Texas, librarian misunderstanding, and community happenings at the Ludlow Memorial Library, Link Store, Monroe Country Club, Chalet music debut, and local sports figures.
A collection of humorous vignettes from Monroe involving Hal Boyle, Fire Chief Bud Richter, Rev. Gerritt Mouw, Mayor Wal ter Ekum, and others. Anecdotes touch on stamps, France, prizes at the fire school, bets about editors, stock talk, a photo subject with gall bladder surgery, a police ad, vacation plans, and a kitchen fire sparked by interest in an old fire truck.
Glancing Backward summarizes past events in Freeport and nearby areas, including a Lincoln-Douglas debate re-enactment with two concerts, Frost in Monroe, the Gonstead Chiropractic clinic association, Kensel District coverage at a Hearst All-Star game, and Alaska’s statehood vote. Cites 1948 and earlier items with band concerts, crops, livestock co-op openings, a Kasenkina escape claim, and local pageants.
Forty years ago Aug 26 1928 the Kellogg Briand renunciation of war treaty was signed by plenipotentiaries of 15 nations led by Dr Gustav Stresemann. The piece notes no Green County Swiss cheese is on display at the state fair and reports New York subway wreck fatal and injurious counts with Emery A Odell named general chairman of Green County Cheese Day for Oct 2.
Fifty years ago on August 26 1918 three local Company H members were wounded Corp Wayne Van derbilt Juda Corp Otto Barth Monroe Bugler Rolland B Cary Argyle Corp Ray Drummy Monroe suffers shell shock The U S government child welfare campaign begins Monroe September 4 with Mrs C S Young in charge The item also notes 60 years ago August 26 1908 reports of travelers in Europe and a pearl found in Rock River plus a Lincoln Douglass debate recollection by four Monroe residents
Jim Huntoon, district genre manager of the Wisconsin Conservation Department, spoke to the Monroe Rotary Club at the Idle Hour Mansion Tuesday luncheon. He screened the movie A Nation of Spoilers highlighting vandalism as an American issue caused by thoughtless acts.
Speaking on vandalism in Green and two other counties, Hunton urged restraint noting about 2000 signs need re placements at 75 dollars each and citing park clean up costs near 500 million with no damage estimate. He referenced Yellowstone lowering the lake ten feet, removing good game fish, poisoning remaining fish, restocking later. France announced a hydrogen bomb test in the South Pacific.
Three young people die in a Chippewa County collision near Stanley. Ardine Henderson 20 Thorp and Jane Stengl 17 Stanley perished in a flaming car crash. Jane’s sister Ellen Stengl 16 died after being pulled from the wreck. A 19 year old Stanley male driver was hospitalized in serious condition. a pickup truck was involved.
Ernst Zurbruegg 77 a Swiss native and longtime rural Columbus resident died Sunday in a Columbus hospital after a rural intersection crash. Surviving are two sons Adolph and Robert, a daughter Mrs Edwin Zwald, a sister, a brother, four grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are at Gesme Ellestad Funeral Home in Mt Horeb.
Mrs Albert Pohl 76 native of Wiota Beloit died Friday Aug 23 in a Beloit hospital services were held this afternoon at Rosman Uchling Kinzer Central Chapel Beloit Burial was in East Lawn Cemetery She was born Aug 29 1891 daughter of Einard Hagen and Anna Skoolrude Hagen She had lived in Beloit since 1912 She married Albert Pohl Feb 17 1915 in Rockford Surviving son Richard Pohl Beloit daughters Arlene Carroll Beloit Hazel Smith Edgerton eight grandchildren She was predeceased by husband a son Robert and daughter Shirley Harrison.
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