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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1949
Page
8
Cloudy and windy with light snow starting in the west portion. Tonight will be 18 to 25 degrees with a high of 25 to 30 degrees on Saturday. Yesterday’s high 34 and low 17. Warmest city Phoenix Arizona and coldest International Falls Minnesota noted. Sunrise 7 11, sunset 4 28.
Grover Holmes transfers undivided interest to Its 7 and 8 blocks in New Mexico addition Monroe. Joseph Krug to Wilbert R. Rhyner seven percent A land Albany. Roy Jaberg to Louis Felder parcel Lybrand donation Monroe. Ida A. Figy to Maynard Reigg 195 acres York township. Julia Paulson estate to Felix Bongiorno land Albany township. J H Flanigan estate to Dan Flannery land Adams township.
Mr and Mrs Kenneth Stauf facher route 1 report a son born December 2. Mr and Mrs Paul Monson Gratiot report a son born December 2.
St. Clare Hospital lists tonsillectomy patients Lolly Dittner route 4 and Robert Larson with Mr Ho reb Surgical including Loren Updike Janesville and John Kelleher Janesville. Dismissals include Anna Williams Richard Brust George Grenzow and many others with family and guardians listed.
Export business backed a grain rally on the Chicago board of trade led by soybeans and corn. Wheat deferred deliveries hit seasonal highs while December futures faced pressure after flour demand waned. Oats lagged then edged up on buying, rye rose on short covering, and lard stayed firm.
Turner Hall club members will meet at 8 p m Monday to elect officers and one director. Retiring officers are Sebastian Laeser Jr president Andrew Sulzer vice president Fred Glauser secretary and Miss Ida Casanova treasurer.
Firefighters saved 55 year old George Robinson from a second floor room as a tavern and rooming house burned. The blaze started in the basement and men worked to control the smoke filled building yesterday.
Green county veterans were told by county service officer Theodore J. Burgy that a January 1 deadline looms for national service life insurance. WWII veterans may apply or reinstate with proof of good health, with partial disabilities ignored for eligibility. Beginning January 1 applicants must prove insurability, and total disability income provisions gain extra coverage for a small premium.
Former President Herbert Hoover attacked four groups he claimed block government reorganizations and economies urged by the Hoover commission. He criticized citizens aged 21 to 65 who rely on taxpayers rather than working, speaking at a dinner of the Greater New York citizens committee for the Hoover report.
Emil Boesch a Gonstead apartments custodian faced a string of mishaps from getting stuck in an elevator to losing $20 after cashing a check. He awaited a cleaned dress coat returning just before a funeral, then endured snow car trouble and a fall that bruised his pride.
The Mt Hor eb Telephone Co and the Spring Green public water utility gain rate increases from the Public Service Commission. The telephone company is slated to raise annual rates by 8 640 dollars.
James Method, a Milwaukee night club entertainer, was placed on one year probation after being charged with contributing to the delinquency of a 16 year old by giving the youth a narcotic capsule.
Local notices list people visiting or passing through Monroe and nearby towns including F. J. Karlen from Winslow Mrs Martha Wolgast Juda Frank Hilliard Albany in Monroe Fred Galli on business from Darlington Cecil McCreedy Albany Miss Jeanette Milloy Freeport caller Alfred Keller Jump River visiting sister in law Rudy Maurer Roger Stephens Janesville in Brodhead Monroe Alfred Keller visiting sister Mrs Rudy Maurer and family Booklets on 80 years of Swiss cheese industry in Green county now available at The Times office. price fifty cents Adv. Mrs John Helmeid returns to Blanchardville after visits at Henry Severson home. Mr and Mrs B F Rostad return to Brodhead after visiting Free. Transportation to American Legion auxiliary card party Monday Dec 5 please phone 1233 Adv. Dr Paul W Snowden leaves Sunday for Cleveland to attend Radiological Society of North America conference. Mr and Mrs Robert Burgy return to Madison after funeral of uncle Daniel F Burgie in Chicago. Homemade Christmas gift sale Saturday Dec 3 Wisconsin Power and Light Monticello Adv. Mrs Montgomery Chesebro and Mildred Marty Adv. Mrs Daniel F Burgie Chicago visiting after funeral. Bazaar and bake sale Saturday Dec 3 Wisconsin Power and Light office 10 am Grace Lutheran church. Specialty home made doughnuts Adv. Mrs Mildred Stauffer St Louis arrives evening to spend weekend with Miss Frances M Moritz and friends. Mrs Stauffer is former Mildred Ryan.
In Barberton Ohio a major factory fire left 26 firemen injured with two in critical condition at Citizens hospital and 24 hospitalized. Officials analyzed phonograph records and plastic debris for possible phosgene gas release described as potentially deadly 24 to 48 hours after exposure.
The annual cheesemakers wrestling match and the annual dance will be held at Turner hall next Wednesday afternoon and evening. Between 12 and 14 wrestlers are expected to sign up before the matches begin at 2 p m. Indications are that four wrestlers recently here from Switzerland will enter the competition. Judges will be four former champions Otto Anderegg Paul Gros sengbacher both of New Glarus William Senatsch and Ernest Lehr Monroe. The champion will be crowned at the dance that evening with Les Hartman s band playing. Last year s champion was Lawrence Gissing of Monroe.
Kansas industrialist and Republican National Committeeman Harry Darby is appointed by Governor Frank Carlson to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Clyde M. Reed of Parsons. He will serve until a new senator is elected in November 1950, after a clash with Alf M. Landon over Kansas GOP delegation.
Mrs John H Chambers hosted three tables of contract bridge at her home 2203 11th Street on Wednesday evening Red and white Christmas trimmings decorated the party room Honors went to Mmes Doran Zwygart Edward Ensch Leo Hofmeister and Herbert Johnson
Knights of Pythias will elect officers for 1950 at the meeting Monday in the KP hall.
Tear gas protection devices were installed yesterday on the vault doors of The Evening Times office. The systems activate if anyone forces the doors, providing security against intrusion.
Robert B. Schuh grandson of Mrs Anna B Schuh of 1624% 11th Street is recorded as a freshman in the University of Southern California dentistry school.
Fred Glen Stauffacher son of Mr and Mrs Glenn F Stauffacher of 1421 22nd Avenue has been initiated into Alpha Zeta the honorary agricultural fraternity at the University of Wisconsin Students are chosen for class work leadership ability character and personality.
A son named Ronald Clayton Camron was born yesterday to Mr and Mrs Franklin Camron of Twin Grove at Deaconess Hospital Freeport The baby is welcomed by the family and Mrs Minnie Rutsch is the former Mrs Camron Pearl Camron is the paternal grandmother.
Snow and ice coated highway 11 near the Dill factory two miles west of Browntown when Thomas McArdle Shullsburg collided with Rev Walter Waeckerle Browntown after a rear end incident at 2 15 p m yesterday. Waeckerle could not stop his car as McArdle turned on the slick road.
Carol Jean Moritz daughter of Mr and Mrs E F Moritz Madison is receiving treatment for meningitis at Wisconsin General Hospital. She has been hospitalized over two weeks and is the only reported meningitis case in Madison. Her grandmother Mrs Emma Moritz of 632 17th Avenue Monroe is staying at the Moritz Madison home during the illness.
Pfc. Clarence L. Goecks of Company K, 128th Infantry, reported to Fort Riley Kansas for an eight week regular army maintenance school yesterday. The program reflects the national guard aim to provide further education in modern military functions to guard personnel.
Miss Pearl Nussey and Miss Mary Smyth began duties December 1 as laboratory technicians at the Monroe Clinic in Tilbury Ontario Canada. Miss Jean ette Milloy, a former technician, has left and will return soon to Rockford Iowa to be married.
Brooklyn officials named Walter Blumer and Mrs. James Green as co chairmen of the free anti tuberculosis X-ray mobile unit test program to be held here in mid January.
After school a pep meeting in the senior high gym rehearsed new cheers for Monroe fans. The aim is to boost support for Reedsburg's benefit and energize the crowd tonight.
The Robert Hardells moved today from the Universalist church parsonage at 1824 9th Street to the E A Ninneman home at 2020 10th Street. The Ninnemans moved into the former Treat home at 1421 14th Avenue.
Mrs Grace Anderson, high school girls' physical education teacher, will attend a dance workshop to enhance instruction and student engagement. The event aims to improve classroom activities and physical education methods.
A workshop will be held at Lathrop Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus tomorrow. The discussion workout is for instructors only and will be attended by Miss Harriet Baldwin who accompanies to Madison for the Southern Ten discussion conference at Wisconsin high school.
Rev. S. V. Gjervik, pastor of the Albany and Orfordville Lutheran churches, will leave Monday for his new parish at Lyle Minnesota. No replacement has been chosen yet and a special meeting of the two congregations will be held to issue a call.
An early morning blaze in Sapulpa Oklahoma tore through a four story hotel and spread to adjacent buildings causing about 1 million dollars in damage. No deaths reported though some guests may have been trapped in upper floors. Fifty three guests were registered. Occupants fled via exits rooftops and by jumping into nets.
The Bauman family opens a new Bauman Furniture Co center on highway 11 at the city edge in the former Whirling Wheels rink building. Kenneth W. Bauman and William Hall will manage, while Walter J. Bauman continues Bauman Ace with son William K. Bauman. The remodeled 60 by 120 foot display area and 60 by 30 foot storage area host an all day open house with refreshments tomorrow.
Elmer Latt of Rockford captured the top pro sheep shearer title at the 50th International Livestock Show in a tight final. Melvin Walker of Dalton Wisconsin finished second and Henry Henning Jr of Burlington placed third in the professional class.
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