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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1968
Page
2
Fragmented OCR text from Monroe Evening Times shows garbled newspaper metadata and stray phrases. Contains partial references to dates, editors, Associated Press and republication rights but no coherent event or clear persons, organizations, or places to summarize into a definitive news item.
In New Glarus the Wilhelm Tell Guild held its first press reception and Swiss Folk Dancers excite regional hopes. A Drum and Bugle Corps Cheese Days fundraiser is planned at T. R. Holyoke Field Monroe. A chaotic Jaycee teen dance cancellation prompts concern over youth event supervision.
Question and answer style item explains why Pennsylvania is called the Keystone State and why Lilliputians are named after Swift’s imaginary people. The text links PA to holding the arch of the United States and notes Lilliputians as tiny inhabitants from Gulliver’s Travels.
Glancing Backward notes Monticello among 19 Wisconsin communities to receive state funds for water pollution control programs. Dag Hammarskjöld arrives in Jordan to discuss Middle East stabilisation for a potential U.S. and British troop withdrawal. Monroe golfers dominate regional Knights of Columbus event with a local foursome winning the trophy. Herbert Kubly returns to New Glarus for Wilhelm Tell festival after summers in New Hampshire. 20 Years Ago Today Aug 27 1948: lightning destroys a barn near Juda. Arthur Putnam 14 of Argyle dies after falling from a moving truck east of Wiota. Grain storage shortage threatens farmers with hundreds of millions in income loss. Jacob Bruni of New Glarus elected county commander of the American Legion. 30 Years Ago Today Aug 27 1938: painters await licenses at courthouse. Pro James Forbes and amateur John Chum Figs win pro-am event at Oshkosh Funfest with 67. Fans All-Stars vs Beloit Colored Giants in softball. Wisconsin Standard Life Insurance formed. George W Wilkinson president. Charles Booth stars in Abie's Irish Rose in Toledo. A Travelaire plane crashes near Monticello. crew missing after collision with a liner believed to submarine. Barn burned at Albert Moritz farm near Monticello. Crew of U.S. patrol boat missing after being fired on by liner. Carl Chandler sells Blanchardville Blade. Mrs. Amy Morton nearing 90 has attended Green County fairs for 65 years.
Sixty years ago today August 27 1908 W W Chadwick was named delegate from Wisconsin to the American Bankers Association national convention in Denver September 28 Williams Jennings Bryan spoke to a mammoth crowd at Salem Illinois his birthplace Herman Reger and Clarence Isley won a bowling match over Dr W B Gnagi and Charles Nance tragedy reported as the morning passenger train crew died in a head on collision with a work train at Platteville a classified want ad offers low cost help to find lost pets with a phone number for Times readers
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