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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1966
Page
2
A brief notice indicates the Monroe Evening Times must advance to comply with office hours from 8:30 am to 5 pm. It lists telephone number 325 5101 for contact.
A harsh editorial condemns daily racial strife and the turn toward civil riots as undermining civil rights. It argues rights must come with responsibility, warns against using race to divide, and urges lawful, steady progress mirroring immigrant endurance.
Smith Lodge announces its first stated communication after summer recess on Thursday evening September 1 at 7 30 p m. Dues for 1967 will be fixed and a Grand Lodge report heard. The Worshipful Master invites all Entered Apprentices to attend an E A Degree.
Glancing Backward notes Mrs Audrey Appel of Brod head securing first place in an apple pie baking contest in Janesville. Mr and Mrs Hervey Hoesly and Holly return from a week’s vacation at Lake Puckaway. Rev Paul C Kehle leaves for Lancaster Pennsylvania to attend the General Synod as a delegate at large. Several National League clubs claim New Burdette throws a spitball.
Gos Joogjana proclaims September 12 as Dick Bong Day to honor World War II hero Dick Bong who died a year ago. Browntown girl is stricken with polio. Goetz Theater marks 15th anniversary with Marx Brothers film A Night at Casablanca. Wayne and Mrs Wayne Gempeler of Juda welcome a son at St. Clare.
The clipping notes a busy weekend with four autos and nine parts reported missing and a nine year old girl missing from her Darlington home until found with an aunt near Brodhead. Richard O. Gibbons aged 52 dies in his sleep. Rodney Wells and four companions escape death when a car rolls over near the County Farm.
News brief notes Herbert J. Benkert, 22, killed in an auto accident west of Monroe on Highway 20. Rev. and Mrs. J. E. Lubach of Juda return from a visit to Chippewa Falls. Frank P. Davis advertises Coon Cypress silos for immediate delivery. Mrs. Pearle Bowen of Augusta announces candidacy for state secretary, first woman to run.
Jesse K Gopen a city letter carrier spends the hay fever season at Haugen fishing. Lt Charles R Kohli from San Antonio expects an Army discharge soon. Robert Rote announces Wednesday as automobile day at the county fair with free admission for autos and a five mile race around the crack featuring Dr R B Clark and Jake Gempeler, speed pals.
G W Simmons anger uses Wealthy apples at 25 cents a bushel for windfalls and forty cents a bushel for handpicked. George Roderick of Clarno is ill from an attack of appendicitis. Mrs Willis Ludlow entertained a company of musical friends at Sunnyside yesterday. Thomas Cunningham and family went to Freeport this morning.
Allan Patterson 20 died in a motorcycle crash Sunday on Highway 78 two miles north of Kewaunee Illinois. Funeral services are at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Hazel Green Methodist Church. he was a Hazel Green High School graduate class of 1964. Survived by his father Charles Hazel Green and brothers John Cuba City and James rural Hazel Green. Friends may call at Thomas Funeral Home Platteville after 7 tonight.
John E. Schmit 77 of Rockford path died Sunday morning in a Rockford hospital after a heart attack. Born November 6 1888 in Mineral Point he was married to Agnes Coogan in 1914. He worked as a guard at Barber-Colman Co for 17 years and later moved to Rockford. He was survived by his widow two sons two daughters two brothers a sister and numerous grandchildren. Funeral services are planned in Rockford with burial at Calvary Cemetery.
Funeral services for Oscar A Thoni 67 Cottage Grove reared in Hollandale were held this afternoon at Gunderson Funeral Home Madison. Burial followed in Roselawn Cemetery Moose Lodge services occurred last night. Thoni died Saturday in a Madison hospital born in Nashville Tennessee owned Thorn Insurance Agency with offices in Bank of Madison for 25 years moved to Cottage Grove five years ago due to ill health survived by widow Blanche married 1942 and three sons James Sunnyvale California Gary and Ronald at home
Anton Lux 73 a farmer in this area for 30 years died Sunday night in a Madison hospital after a long illness Funeral services will be at 10 am tomorrow at St Rose Catholic Church American Legion services will be conducted at the graveside in the church cemetery Haydenshield Funeral Home in charge The Rosary will be at 8 tonight He is survived by his widow the former Angela Funke a son James Route Cuba City a sister Mrs Coohey Cascade Ia and three grandchildren
On this date Mussolini body moved to family vault at Predappio in 1957. Civil War Bull Run second battle fought in 1862. Rob ert Randall patents coffee percolator in 1892. De Gaulle provisional government set up in Paris in 1944. 24 German war criminals named in 195? by prosecutors. ABA backs school desegregation decisions in 195? Ten years ago Kennedy names Lucious Clay ambassador in Berlin. One year ago steel strike talks at White House to avert strike.
South Korea reports 28 additional deaths from encephalitis in 24 hours, raising the toll since early this month to 338 as the Health Ministry releases updated figures.
William G. Bordner 83 longtime Dakota Township tax collector died at Freeport Memorial Hospital. Survived by daughter Mary Lou Washington foster daughter Ruth Hosman two grandchildren and two foster grandchildren sister Eva Hotze and other family. Funeral 2 pm at Grace Evangelical Congregational Church with burial in Afolkey Cemetery. Daughenbaugh Meyers Funeral Home handled arrangements. Married Nan Wolever December 15, 1920 in Indianapolis.
Seven members of a family perished early today when a large home in the Glasgow suburb of Shettleston was engulfed in flames. Four relatives jumped from windows and were hospitalized with severe burns.
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