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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1948
Page
6
Fair and colder tonight with snow flurries near the upper Michigan border. Tuesday generally fair with diminishing Westerly gales. From yesterday at 1 p m high 51 and low 26. Barometer 1 a m 28 95 and 1 p m 29 30. Sunrise 7 15 sunset 4 27. Brownsville Texas hottest 82 Helena Montana coldest 5.
Monroe county court records show Melvin Siedschlag a milk producer pleaded guilty to maintaining premises and utensils used in milk production in an unsanitary condition and offering adulterated milk for sale. He was fined $35 and costs on the first count with the second charge dismissed upon payment of costs.
Cecil Easter charged with drunk and disorderly conduct. fined $20 and costs. Justice L A Koenig presided in Monroe.
Miss Amy Green, 69, of 17951 10th street. Mrs Annie Paynter, 83, Darlington. Miss Annie McCloskey, 62, Blanchardville. H Loomis, 90, Cotton. Short notices provide names ages and hometowns in a community notice style.
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ebneter at the Trailer Camp on December 5.
Medical notes list patients at St. Clare Hospital including Frank Schutt and Mrs Sophie Great singer with locations Footville and Beloit. Dismissals feature multiple individuals led by Mrs Neil Jensen James Hanson and others including Marie Helm and Dorothy Lewis across several families.
The state public service commission approved Mt Pleasant Telephone Co Monticello to abandon facilities and transfer service for its 33 patrons to United Telephone Co Monroe. The commission will also review Round Grove Telephone Co Monroe Route 4 plea to abandon facilities under the same arrangement. The firm has seven range subscribers.
Jacob Geigel celebrated his 81st birthday with an open house at his home 713 20th avenue from 2 to 4 p m. Sixty five friends relatives neighbors and Immanuel Evangelical Faithful Workers Sunday school class members attended. He received ecards and gifts and four birthday cakes baked by Mmes Fred Boesiger Henry E Babler and Harry Prien. The Boesiger family sang for him in the morning as an annual tradition.
A severe windstorm toppled decorations and signs across the city. Widespread damage included shattered store windows, fallen Christmas trees, and barricades at a building site. Radio stations interrupted broadcasts. temperatures fell from 51 to 26 degrees with rain and snow flurries overnight.
Christian Science rites were conducted for Miss Ellen Lynch who died Friday afternoon burial will be in Cadiz cemetery at 3 15 this afternoon at Shriner Neushwander funeral home Harley Dedrick Freeport served as reader casketbearers named Elmer Bast Herman Lueck Clarence Rinehardt Max Rinehardt Otto Lanz and Jack Marty.
The body of Mrs. Fred P. Treat, who died in Concord California, was flown to Chicago then by train to Freeport. Services are scheduled for 1:30 tomorrow in Shriner-Neushwander funeral home with Rev. Henry Cooper officiating. Burial will follow in Greenwood cemetery.
Nicholas Haas age 76 of Browntown died Friday afternoon after being struck by a car on Highway 11 near Browntown. Funeral services were held at 1 pm at Shriner Neushwanders funeral home with Rev J L Haack officiating. Interment followed at Cadiz cemetery. Pallbearers Raymond Montgomery Rodney Wells Ed Good Hubert Rockow William Stauffacher and Clifford Wells. Final cause pending post mortem results. injuries not deemed sufficient to cause death.
The Wisconsin public service commission authorized four steam railroads to raise intrastate freight rates by about 25 percent and add five cents per ton on coal and coke shipments. The increase mirrors an interstate order and affects the Chicago and North Western, Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific, Minneapolis St Paul and Sault Ste Marie, and Green Bay and Western railroads.
Weekend visitors and residents referenced include George Lockman Juda Esther Peterson Raymond Trotter Argyle C H Bartle New Glarus Ed Hintzman Juda Roy Zweifel Madison Beloit Gratiot Oshkosh Milwaukee Darlington Postville Ia Civilities mark church funerals and a Monroe Women's Club Christmas musical on December 12 at the high school auditorium.
A young robber looted 13 people in Chicago and Evanston stealing cash and jewelry. Police ringed a five block area after a 90 mph chase ending with a stolen car abandonment. Victims surrendered 618 cash and 4413 jewelry along with the vehicle in a spree overnight.
Circuit Judge Jess Earle ruled the Milton Junction incorporation referendum may proceed next year after a petition to block the measure failed to gather sufficient signatures. The decision ends months of dispute over the village status and governance.
Ernest Goranson state welfare department recreational director will speak tomorrow evening to a county committee created at the Green county Woman's clubs fall institute in Albany. The committee studies a county rural youth program and will meet at the county courthouse with chair Mrs Ralph Bridge. Other members include county home agent Miss Mamie Tillema county 4 H agent Kenneth D Slocum Green County judge Harold J Lamboley county superintendent of schools Miss Florence Wartenweiler welfare worker Mrs Ula Tyler Albany J R Schesser Brooklyn county club chairman John Derning Brodhead Durward McVey New Glarus Wallace Barlow Monticello Mrs R J Douglas Farm Bureau Juda Rev Newell Mendenhall Monroe ministerial association and Mrs Frank Bloom Monroe.
Miss Marion Boynton assistant chairman of Green county centennial farms and century families committee and Mrs Emma Olson attended the Dane county centennial awards program in Madison yesterday. Mrs Swanton, Milo K Swanton secretary of the Wisconsin council of Agriculture spoke on centennial certificates. Mrs Swanton, a Green county century family, received a certificate. Governor Rennebohm greeted the group. Green county plans a similar presentation before year end.
Remodeling of the Moose lodge hall on the north side of the square is complete. A new ceiling girder supports replanted beams, indirect lighting installed, and a forced ventilation system is in operation. Floors have been refinished and a rededication will be held tomorrow evening with Beloit staff conducting the initiation.
Miss Thelma Bly of Fond du Lac formerly with Wisconsin Power and Light joins Central Electric and Gas Co at Lincoln Nebraska as home economist. She taught in Monroe Belleville and Melrose schools and is sister of Clarence Bly of Albany.
Albany officials announce the annual budget hearing for the village will be held at the Barton Insurance Agency office at 7 tomorrow evening.
Masses at St Victor’s Church next Wednesday for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception will be at 6, 7 15 and 9 a m Rev E C McCollow announces the holy day schedule.
Andrew Buol son of Mr and Mrs Lawrence B Buol route 2 has enlisted in the regular army unassigned for 21 months. He left Thursday night for Camp Breckinridge Ky.
Mrs. Boyd Atkinson of Albany knows the Arnold Carpenters whose six children perished in the Oshkosh fire. She is formerly from Oshkosh and her brother is a brother-in-law of Mr. Carpenter.
Funeral services for Mrs Annie J Paynter 83 who died Friday after a long illness were held at 1 30 p m in the Methodist church Rev E J Jeffery officiated and burial was in County Line cemetery Warwick She was born Annie Slesher in Darlington married Charles Paynter in 1897 and the family farmed near Warwick before moving here in 1930 Surviving are three daughters six sons 29 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren The item notes Los Angeles claims the first movie theatre in operation in 1902 with a 10 cent admission.
Chinese communist radio said 110000 Suchow garrison troops were encircled in the Nanking area after abandoning Suchow. Government forces moved south while red forces massed from the north and west, threatening a decisive battle. The fate of Chiang Kai-shek's government hinges on developments 100 to 200 miles northwest of Nanking.
Mrs. Walter Alburn 32 is in critical condition at a Madison hospital with burns from a Truax Field apartment fire early today. Her husband 31 their two children Berry Jean 2 and Walter Jr 11 months and two rescuers Floyd Boyles 37 and William Ashley 24 also injured but not seriously.
Word reached Brodhead of the death on November 20 of William H. Loomis 90 Cotton South Dakota formerly of Brodhead Surviving are his wife one daughter and three sons Burial held there He was a brother of Miss Sara Loomis Brodhead
Nixon and Stripling review files and consider secrecy due to international repercussions. Welles may testify behind closed doors and state department officials could be called for secret testimony. The New York grand jury, due to end December 15, has indicted 12 Communist leaders for attempting to overthrow the U S government. Attorney General Clark says prior hearings found no spying prosecutions. the committee uncovered microfilms linked to the spy hearings last August.
Mrs Otto Gobely of Woodford made a business call here on Saturday visiting local firms and meeting with contacts to discuss potential ventures and local commerce opportunities.
A minor earthquake centered about 100 miles east southeast of Palm Springs rattled Southern California. Palm Springs reported two broken leg injuries but no major building damage. Dr. Charles Richter of Caltech estimated the intensity as far below the 1906 San Francisco quake, felt across a corridor from Santa Barbara to Las Vegas and down to San Diego.
Janesville janitor Charles Sharpe aged 66 was found dead yesterday in the basement of his home. Coroner E J Overton ruled death accidental due to gas escaping from a burner.
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