Daily Record Weather Summary December 7 1955
Mostly cloudy tonight with snow flurries in the north and along the east and south. Thursday will be partly cloudy and colder with snow flurries in the northeast and extreme northwest and southeast. Highs Thursday range 12 to 18 in the extreme northwest and 24 to 30 in the extreme southeast. Record low and high marks noted with temperatures from 33 to 22 since yesterday 1 p.m. Barometer readings shown and sunrise and sunset times listed.
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Ara Oatey
U.S
Miami
Devils Lake
Divorce Granted in Ruehlman Case After 25 Years
Myrtle T Ruehlman 41 was granted an absolute divorce from David Ruehlman 50 on cruelty grounds with no violence. Married May 31 1930 separated Nov 5 1955. They have two children and custody of one minor goes to the mother. A property settlement was made. Death notices list Anna Johnson 69 of 48th street David W Baker 74 Ontario Iowa Rev and Mrs Howard Beil Belleville Patrick Dunn South Wayne Mr and Mrs John Isely Monticello Mr and Mrs Gene Coplien Juda with sons born Dec 7.
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Myrtle T. Ruehlman
David Ruehlman
Anna Johnson
48Th Street
David W. Baker
Ontario
George Trezek
Brodhead
Howard Beil
Belleville
Patrick Dunn
South Wayne
John Isely
Monticello
Gene Coplien
Juda
Tonsillectomy Patients At St. Clare Hospital Albany Area
Harold Albertson and Mrs Roy Brooks among listed patients under medical and surgical care. Names include George Ryan Foo ville Mrs Roy Brooks Delavan Marilyn Higgins Clinton Thornton DeCoster Milton Mrs Fred Wyssbrod Shullsburg and surgeons Roger Paite 1723 19th street Har vard Ill Roger Stout Beloit Coretta Keegan 2002 9th street Maurice Peterson Hollandale plus dismissals of Mrs Sam McKool Mrs Donovan Digman Mrs Lowell Flynn Viola Rossing Mrs Arnold Wengert Mrs Lena Gunderson Ralph Carroll and Mrs Kenneth Zimmerman.
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Harold Albertson
Albany
George Ryan
Fooville
Roy Brooks
Delavan
Marilyn K. Higgins
Clinton
Thornton DeCoster
Milton
Fred Wyssbrod
Shullsburg
Roger Paite
1723
19Th Street
Alice Johnson
Harvard
Ill
Roger Stout
Beloit
Coretta Keegan
9Th’ Street
Maurice Peterson
Hollandale
Sam McKool
Donavan Digman
Lowell Flynn
Viola Rossing
Arnold Wengert
Lena Gunderson
Ralph Carroll
Kenneth Zimmerman
Christmas device lets kids talk to Santa on TV
Jack Greiner unveils a new gizmo in Monroe that lets children tune into Santa Claus in his workshop via a large television control panel and viewer. A two way microphone enables a direct conversation with Santa, with exact device details kept secret by the inventor.
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Jack Greiner
Monroe
Greiner
Santa Claus
Santa
Local Visitors and Events in Monroe and Surrounding Areas
Personal mentions place Donald F. Ripp in Hayward aday and Ray T. Silver in Monroe today along with Frank Schwartzlow and Frank L. Shaw in town from different spots. Local notices include American Legion Auxiliary bake sale on Dec 10 at First National Bank Annex. Public notices of church concert December 9 at St John’s with a silver offering.
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Donald F. Ripp
Hayward Aday
Ray T. Silver
Monticello
Monroe
Frank Schwartzlow
Brodhead
Frank L. Shaw
Fond du Lac
T. R. Newman
Orangeville
American Legion Auxiliary
National Bank’ Annex
Adv
Leo Rigsbey
Hartford
Ill
Robert Kirkpatrick
Madison
Bureau of Internal Revenue
LaVerne
Lefty) Andrews
Los Angeles
Freeport Choral Club
St. John’s Church
Frank Mau
Theresa Zibung
Tucson
Ariz
Car Damaged In City After Hit And Run At Intersection
Police report Cecil Lee Holloway Route 4 was rear ended at 2 55 p m yesterday at the intersection of 1th street and 16th avenue. He stopped for a stop sign when an unidentified vehicle failed to stop. Dale Young Route 2 elected Spring Grove Farm Bureau president. Edward Kaderly Leslie Pinnow Walton Campbell named officers. Mayor Dunwiddie to discuss city budget at Kiwanis tomorrow at 12 15 p m Swiss Wheel. directors meet Monday at Schuetze office.
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City City
Cecil Lee Holloway
Route 4
1Th Street
16Th Avenue
Holloway
Farm Bureau
Brodhead
Dale Young
Spring Grove Farm Bureau
Edward Kaderly
Leslie Pinnow
Walton Campbell
Kiwanis
Brooks J. Dunwiddie
Kiwanis Club
Swiss Wheel
Schuetze
City Band Yule Concert Set For Sunday
Allan F. Barnard director of the City Band announced a postponed Christmas concert to open the yule season. It will be on the east side of the Courthouse lawn from 4 30 to 5 p m Sunday with Homemakers and Girl Scouts forming a chorus to sing Christmas selections accompanied by the band. Sponsored by the band with Monroe Chamber of Commerce cooperation. The event was postponed from last Sunday due to bad weather.
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City Band
Allan F. Barnard
Courthouse Lawn
Monroe Chamber of Commerce
County Fair Blacksmith D W Baker Dies
David W. Baker aged 74 of Ontario Iowa a longtime Green County Fair blacksmith for over two decades died Friday. He worked in Ontario and traveled the harness race circuit most years and had been a blacksmith since age 14. He missed last year’s fair due to illness and spent nearly 50 years as a blacksmith in the Midwest.
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D. W. Baker
David W. Baker
Ontario
Baker
Middlewest
Delavan Voters Approve New Union High School Bond
Delavan and Darien residents vote 1,013 to 216 to approve a 1.75 million dollar bond plan to fund construction of a union high school serving both communities. Town officials say project advances school facilities and regional education goals.
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Delavan
Darien
Five Girls Die In Illinois Blaze
ENTON Ill Five young sisters perished Tuesday in an explosion and fire that destroyed their home and critically burned their mother and another sister Two brothers and the children's grandfather escaped through a window of the blazing three room house The house stood near the now abandoned middle fork coal mine two miles east of Benton The dead were children of Mr and Mrs Dallas Wingo identified as Nancy 15 Neva June 8 Marla 1 and twins Carolyn and Marolyn Hospitalized with critical burns are the mother Ruby 48 and another daughter Agnes 14 Mrs Wingo's father Charles Neunlist 78 and the family's two boys Muriel 13 and Truman 11 were unhurt Neunlist said he heard the explosion and shoved the boys to safety George Rose of Ewing a passing motorist said he saw the house burst into flame The two men rolled the victims in rugs to snuff the fire and called another motorist who summoned firemen from Benton Rose said he could hear the cries of the five children inside The coroner said a coal stove explosion was the probable cause A kerosene can was found in front of the stove.
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Enton
Ill
Middle Fork
Benton
Dallas Wingo
Nancy
Neva June
Marla
Carolyn
Marolyn
Ruby
Agnes
Driver Cleared in Triple Murder Case
Owen Robert Moser of Fenton Michigan was released from Oakland County jail after a lie detector test on the Chicago triple murder case proved inconclusive. Police said he admitted picking up three boys in the Chicago area near the time the bodies were found.
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Funsial
Chicago
Oakland County
Jack Pletske
Michigan State Police
Owen Robert Moser
Fenton
Mich
James Parker
Holly
Moser
Robert Peterson
John Schuessler
Anton Schuessler
Parker
Japanese Pinpoint Soviet H-bomb Test
Japanese weather experts in Tokyo say signals from 30 observatories indicate a Soviet hydrogen bomb test near Lake Baikal in Siberia at 1 am EST on November 22. The Central Meteorological Observatory reported the presumptive test based on abnormal pressure waves observed across the country.
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Tokyo
Soviet Union
Lake Baikal
Siberia
Central Meteorological Observatory
Japan
Walter Cavers Dies Antigo Wisconsin Assemblyman
Walter D Cavers 67 local businessman and two term Republican assemblyman from Langlade County Wisconsin died Tuesday. British naval authorities denied a Chinese Nationalist plane attack on the British freighter Hydralock off Paichuan Island, calling the report absolutely untrue.
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Walter Cavers
Antigon
Walter D. Cavers
Wisconsin Assembly
Langlade
Hong Kong
Paichuan Island
Green County County Fair Stockholders Back Sale Debate
At a December meeting a record turnout elected all officers and a two year director. Herbert Stauffacher won a close director vote after Hare declined. The board discussed selling fairgrounds to fund a Junior Fair, but opposition and financial hurdles were cited. A value estimate of 162400 was read and moving the fair was deemed likely prohibitively costly.
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Fred Burgy
William A. Brown
Lyle Rodger
Hare
Jernest Hayes
O. L. Hare
Herbert Stauffacher
Wa Ter Timm
Donald Thorp
Ben F. Feldt
J. L. Norton
Wolleson Stauffacher
Feldte
Timm
Thorp
Merlin Meythaler
Certified Public Accountant
Fairgrounds
Brown
Citizens Advisory Committee
Fair Board
Blaha
Citizens Committee
Citizens Group
Wolleson
Green County
Burgy
East Germans Hold Two Gls for school site sale vote
East Berlin Communists claim two American soldiers arrested as part of a regime asserting sovereignty. The case followed a bar incident near the boundary with a taxi driver description and later confirmation by ADN. US Army had no information. Western powers maintain four power rule over Berlin.
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Werner Lierck
Distel
ADN
Ada
Lierck
Jajo
East Berlin
U. S. Army
U. S
Berlin
Russia
Two Die Three Hurt In Milwaukee County Crash
Two people died and three were injured Tuesday night in a highway crash in southern Milwaukee County. Victims were Myron Benning 45 and Arlene Acker 41 of the Town of Franklin. Eunice Benning 43 Elmer Acker 48 and William Radtke 58 suffered injuries. Deputies said the Acker car driven by Arlene Acker collided with Radtke’s solo vehicle at South 68th Street and Highway 100 as the Acker car attempted a left turn.
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Myron Benning
Arlene Acker
Franklin
Benning
Eunice
Acker
Elmer
William Radtke
Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department
Bennings
Ackers
Radtke
South
Messmer Services Scheduled for Edward Messmer 89
Edward Messmer 89 dies yesterday morning funeral services set for Friday at 9 a.m. at Stuessy funeral home and 9:30 a.m. at St. Victor's Catholic Church with Rev. E C McCollow officiating Burial in Calvary Cemetery A rosary will be held tomorrow night
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Messmer
Edward Messmer
Stuessy Funeral Home
St. Victor’s Catholic Church
E. C. McCollow
Calvary Cemetery
Mrs Magda Hillison Hosts Howard Mothers Club
Mrs. Magda Hillison was hostess to the Mothers Club of Howard School today with pupils as guests. Officers were to be elected and a gift exchange held.
Brodhead Social Highlights From Grace Marsh Notes
Mr and Mrs Ken Yost and Mr Horeb were Sunday guests of Mr Sam Lawver. Mrs Van A Marsh of Mineral Point spent Monday and Tuesday with her mother Mrs William Lawver. Mr and Mrs Robert Davis purchased the house owned by Mrs Bernard Caple on West 3rd avenue.
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Ken Yost
Horeb
Sam Lawver
van A. Marsh
Mineral Point
William Lawver
Robert Davis
Bernard Caple
West 3Rd Avenue
Sibelius to Celebrate Ninety by Forest Home Birthday
Finnish composer Jean Sibelius marks his 90th birthday tomorrow in seclusion at his forest home. The Helsinki Orchestra will honor him with a program featuring his works, signaling a major tribute by a leading national ensemble.
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Sibelius
Helsinki
Finnand
Jean Sibelius
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