Monroe Evening Times Community Postage Rates and Office Hours
The Monroe Evening Times operates as a daily newspaper since October 13 1898 with AP and local press affiliations. Subscription options include 40 cents weekly by carrier within Monroe and annual mail rates of 12 to 15 dollars depending on location. Office hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 12 noon Saturdays.
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Associated Press
City of
Monroe
Wisconsin
Stephenson
Jo Davies
Winnebago
Illinois
Thank Yous From a Hospitalized Editor
Editorial thanks flood in from readers and friends after a lengthy hospital stay. Names from doctors, staff, and local residents appear alongside gifts, visits, and small acts of kindness that kept the editor hopeful during illness and recovery.
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St. Clare
Stormont
Phillips-Smith
Art Garcia
Kenosha
Playboy Magazine
Pete Zito
Wagon Wheel Combo Fame
Orville Evans
Ron Barribeau
Chuck Ekena
John Brody
Bill Johnston
Times
Keith Seward
Bill
Walt Drews
Wilfreda
Sister Joy
Joe Riedweg
Arizona
Wally Radke
George Schuette
al Moritz
United Nations
Babe Kline
Ray Beckman
Dick Young
Green County Boots and Saddle Club Christmas Party
The Green County Boots and Saddle Club held its annual Christmas party at Windy Acres on Thursday December 5. Thirty six members attended the buffet dinner and voted to donate 30 to the Green County Rehabilitation Center. Prizes were won by Chris Alston Mrs Nathan Bechtolt Ken Wyss and Mary Louise Ziltner of Monroe plus Mrs Doral Erickson and Shelly Argyle and Mrs Jim Moe Browntown and Mrs Loran Dietmeier and Celeste Winslow organized the entertainment.
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Green County Boots and Saddle Club
Windy Acres
Green County Rehabilitation Center
Chris Alston
Nathan Bechtolt
Ken Wyss
Mary Louise Ziltner
Monroe
Doral Erickson
Shelly
Argyle
Jim Moe
Browntown
Loran Dietmeier
Celeste
Winslow
Charles Cox Arrives in Viet Nam With Marine Unit
Charles Cox formerly of Monroe arrives in Vietnam on Thanksgiving Day and is stationed with the First Marine Division near Da Nang for about a year. His wife Mrs Coyle Cox lives in Dallas and his present address is 2nd Lt. Charles Cox 0105894 B Co 1st Motor Transport Bn 1st Marine Division FPO San Francisco 96602.
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Charles Cox
Monroe
Vietnam
Coyle Cox
10Th St
First Marine Division
da Nang
Dallas
Texas
1St Marine Division
FPO
San Francisco
Glancing Backward Highlights from Green County History
Items from Green County history note December 9 events in Monroe and surrounding areas. Key figures include Arthur C. Benkett and Fred Feutz on the Red Cross disaster committee and Allan F. Barnard receiving a music honors plaque. Notes cover weather, quarantine cases, cheese production honors, and a new disaster preparedness plan invoking Monroe's national guard medical unit.
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Arthur C. Benkett
Fred Feutz
Green County Red Cross Disaster Committee
Gottlieb Oberholzer
Maple Leaf Factory
Albany
Wisconsin Swiss and Limburger Cheese Producers Association
Green County
Monroe
National Guard
Narcotics Raids and Local Business News Chronicle
Forty years ago on December 9 1928 federal agents raided a Chicago hotel room seizing a trunk and suitcases containing drugs valued over 50000 dollars dope tins were hidden in cocoa cans E Shapiro of Freeport leases a Syndicate block room and will open a furniture store in Monroe John Philip Sousa to dedicate the new Masonic auditorium in Freeport Fire destroyed Walter Bishops farm home east of Albany.
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Chicago
E. Shapiro
Freeport
Monroe
John Philip Sousa
Fifty Years Ago in Beloit Influenza and War Notes
On December 9 1918 Beloit reported an average of 50 new influenza cases daily while no American serviceman was executed for military offenses in the war. Surgeon General Rupert Blue reassured the public that the influenza epidemic had passed and would not return. Edward Nicollier bought the Sanitary Meat Market from A Eichenberger.
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Beloit
America
Rupert Blue
U. S. Public Health Service
Edward Nicollier
Sanitary Meat Market
A. Eichenberger
Monroe residents back Thorp bond to save county funds
Sixty years ago on December 9, 1908 twelve residents signed County Treasurer George E. Thorp's bond saving at least $600 the county would have paid to a bonding company. Esther Rebekah Lodge elects officers Noble Grand Mrs. Amelia Churchill vice grand Mrs. Rose Fields secretary Mrs. Louise Ruegger treasurer Miss Edna Dunwiddie trustee Miss Nellie Summeril Brodhead Masonic Lodge observes 50th anniversary.
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Monroe
George E. Thorp
Esther Rebekah Lodge
Noble Grand
Amelia Churchill
Rose Fields
Louise Ruegger
Edna Dunwiddie
Nellie Summeril
Argyle ALCW Luncheon Set with Norwegian Menu
Argyle American Lutheran Church Women announce a Christmas luncheon at 1 p.m. Thursday December 12 at the church with Norwegian delicacies. Price is 1. Mrs Chester Weinschenk and Mrs Herman Laatsch lead arrangements. Mrs Glen Gruenberg presents Christmas Everywhere program. Ushering by Mrs Leo Johnson and Mrs John Bruehlman. Mrs Clayton Ostby presides.
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Argyle
Argyle American Lutheran Church
Chester Weinschenk
Herman Laatsch
Glen Gruenberg
August Schlafl
Clayton Ostby
ALCW
Leo Johnson
John Bruehlman
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Monroe Evening Times
Monroe, Wisconsin
Congress
Emery A Odell
The
Associated Press, Inland Daily Press Association
Audit Bureau of Circulations and
Wisconsin Daily Newspaper League
Editorial
Lowell Stuessy
Petzold
Wheelock
Lena Conrad
Evening Times
Kerwin Steffen
Northwoods
Moose Lodge
Max
Don Place
Bob Tschudy
Kay Wong
Maple Grove
Schoenick
Wayne Lausch
Hervey Hoesly
Jane Gibbons
Emmy Gonstead
Judy Heitz
Mark Pink
Nedra
Simeon H. Stidger
GOP
Viet
Spe
By Phil Maid
Kodel
Allan F. Barnard
Monroe High School
Chair of America
Walter V. Price
Dairy Department
Wisconsin College of Agriculture
Charles Jorgenson
Fred Feutz Jr
Green County Court
Walter Bishop
Brodhead
Washington
State Department
Moscow
North Vietnam
This
Christmas Club
First National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Robert Ostry
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