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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1949
Page
6
Rain today east portion with some glazing tonight. Rain changing to snow west portion. Snow Sunday likely with heavy accumulations in north and west. Colder with strong winds and blowing snow Sunday into Sunday night. Lows tonight 22 northwest 32 southeast. Monday morning temperatures 5 above southeast to below northwest.
Since yesterday at 1 p m the high reached 35 degrees and the low 24. Year ago today the highs and lows were 27 and 5. Precipitation was snow. Barometer 29.60 at 1 am and 29.50 at 1 pm. The warmest place yesterday was Brownsville Texas at 81 degrees and the coldest Green Bay Wisconsin at 9. Sunrise was 7 19 with sunset at 4 26.
George Erwin jr. transfers It 8 and E 60 ft of It 7 in block 9 Ludlow's add to Lawrence G Ruehlow. Erwin also transfers It 9 and It 7 in block 9 with exception of E 60 ft of It 7 to Hilton E Kirchner. Vina A Doyle transfers It 7 in block 11 Brodhead's add to Frank A Halverson in Monroe city.
Judge Harold J. Lamboley revokes the driver’s license of Herman O Nyborg of Ford for driving while intoxicated. Fined 65 dollars plus costs.
Mrs. Will Segrist of Elkhorn Mrs. Lilliam Solace 69 of Warren and Mrs. Caroline Doty 85 of Beav er Crossing Neb are listed in local obituaries with ages and hometowns. The brief notice provides names ages and residence details for the three individuals.
Mr and Mrs Robert Spring sted of Brodhead announce a daughter born December 10 and Mr and Mrs Harry Haur of Brodhead announce a daughter born December 9 in the same locality and period two new arrivals listed in local notices.
St Clare Hospital lists Mrs Nick Koeller Hartford as surgery patient. Tonsillectomies include Mrs Luke Siegel South Wayne and Stephen Kundert Madison. Medical patient Donna R St John Evansville. Dismissals named: Mr and Mrs Virgil Berger Mrs Duane Block and daughter Mrs Ray Baughman and son Mrs Kenneth Smith and son Edward Zentner Lyman Davis.
The article explains that postage rates for unsealed mail with no message are 2 cents and cards with insufficient postage become unmailed dead letters. Return addresses may allow refunds but late for Christmas. It highlights the lobby vending machine dispensing thousands of stamps since Oct 25, 1948, including 12,530 one cent stamps and 25,300 three cent stamps.
Anna Harver, 67, was found in a drafty doorway at Lakeland Hospital Elkhorn after lying helpless for 12 hours with a broken arm and hip. A neighbor heard her cries and reported she had tumbled down the stairs while carrying blankets after putting her grandchild to bed.
Services conducted at 3 30 p m in Stuessy Funeral Home with Rev Newell Mendenhall officiating. Burial took place at Greenwood Cemetery. pallbearers included nephews George Armstrong Edwin Booth George Geiger Thomas Schindler and Charles Booth from Monroe and Ray Zimmerman of Gratiot.
Services for Mrs. Charles Divan were held at 2 p m today at the Stuessy funeral home with Rev Howard L Orians officiating. Burial followed in Stavers cemetery. Pallbearers included Milton Stamm August Abraham F F Hartwig William Stauffacher Charles Krueger and Edward Stauffacher, all of Monroe and Stavers respectively, in a Monroe area service.
Green county USO committee set Saturday December 17 as tag day across the county to raise a quota of 1800. Chair Rolland R Etter and members outlined county wide chair appointments to be completed by Monday. The drive supports 242 USO centers and services for servicemen including young men 21 and under, with Wisconsin contributing over 30 000 of the nation s 1 600 000 in service.
Salable hogs 4 000 head estimated demand steady to weak with barrows and sows lower and top hogs at 16.00 for 180 210 lbs. cattle futures mixed as slaughter steers and heifers price changes noted. Grain futures climbed with December corn near seasonal highs and oats and rye mixed.
The New York market edged higher with a majority of leading shares advancing. Many issues held steady while overall turnover hovered around 600 000 shares in an hour and a half session influenced by weekend trading patterns.
Macomb police Chief Eddie Setser pleaded guilty to assault and battery after punching Carl Crabb Jr., editor of the Mc Donough County Times, on the street. Setser paid a $10 fine and returned to work in mufti, citing aggravation over Times articles about the department.
Personal mentions include Donna Fisher and Joyce Grinnell visiting Milwaukee, Albany visitors such as Mrs. Gardner and the Hoeslys, UW students and locals in Monroe for the weekend, and several area residents traveling for holidays. Also notes the annual Monroe Women’s Club Christmas musical and an American Farm Bureau Federation meeting in Chicago.
Company K riflemen won their fourth straight game 943 to 822 against Elkhorn in Whitewater. Monroe unit members included Lt. Joseph D. Viney and Sergeants Glenn L. Kubly Dwight C. Coplien Arthur Nondahl Niederberger and Willis J. Kohlhagen with Privates Robert Babler Lawrence Reimers Robert Bear and William Leopold Jr. Elkhorn will face Company K in a rematch Tuesday evening.
Herman O. Nyborg aged 26 of Woodford was fined 65 dollars and costs and had his license revoked after county court found him driving while intoxicated. Judge Harold Lamboley issued the sentence after Nyborg, arrested by Green County highway police, drove off Highway 1181 east of Ju ta and rolled over at 6 p m. He was uninjured.
Monroe relatives report the death of former Monroe resident Mrs. Addie Wybie Segrist at her Elkhorn home after a long illness. She was born in Lake Geneva and married Will Segrist. Survived by son Frank of Elkhorn and daughter Edith of Waukesha. Funeral services are planned Saturday with burial in Lake Geneva.
Theodore T. Thorp of Monro e is among 11 men enlisting in the navy under a program and will attend navy recruit training at Great Lakes. Recruiter J. D. Murphy notes others join the inactive naval reserve including Arnold B. Carlson of Lena and men from Lanark Stockton and Freeport. December enlistment openings exist for the regular navy with details available at the Freeport post office or from the local recruiter on the first and third Wednesdays each month.
Capt Theodore J Burgy reports the Company K payroll is anticipated by next Tuesday evening drill. Armory offices are redecorated under the remodeling contract. Pfc Jerry Brennan traveled to Camp Douglas for supplies Thursday. One of the two and a half ton trucks is loaned to the local post office during the Christmas rush under an army postal working agreement.
A county committee of the Production Marketing association is to be elected this afternoon at a meeting of the township committees. The PMA office in the Peterson building hosts the session with Brodhead, Albany, and Adams members in attendance.
Betty Jean Sacker daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward Sacker of Woodford exchanged marriage vows with Harold E Alston son of Mr and Mrs Guy Alston of 2002 12th street at Peace Evangelical and Reformed church Browntown. Rev Walter H Waeckerle officiated. The bride wore a white gown with lace trim and net yoke and a beaded tiara. The couple plan a southern states wedding trip and will reside in East Troy.
A cast of 28 presented a choral reading from St. Andrews missal during the Knights of Columbus auxiliary Christmas pageant at St. Victor's parish hall. The event featured special music by Mrs. Howard Olsen and Mrs. Wayne Fencil with violinist Robert Rieder and pianist Mrs. Donald Ripp.
The program lists Kay Lamboley Gary Quinn Jerry Staffon J Walter Donovan Jr Francis Lamboley Paul Lamboley Maryanne Blum Mary Agnes Lamboley Sharon Reilly Valerie Usher and others. Refreshment committee includes Mines Con rad Leverton Theodore Gaulapp Otto Boelter George D Stauffacher Mae Knight Maurice Connors Anna Dempsey Louis J Goethals Francis E Lamboley W Howard Smith William Weyda Emma Fangman.
Mrs Fred Friedrichs was reelected president of the Women’s club of Mt Olive Lutheran church at the business meeting and Christmas party. Mrs Walter Wieser was chosen secretary treasurer. Co hosts were Mrs J C Underwood and Mrs Paul Franks. The men were invited to the after session party with a Christmas story by Rev R F Bittorf and carols.
Mary Robertson hosted a slumber party last evening at 1322 23rd Street in the Harold Pickett home. Attendees included Darlyne Keel Gladys Rhyner Barbara Foley Beverly Hunt Billie Wenger Maureen Bruni and Rose Aeschliman.
Mrs Harold Ingwell entertained members of her card club Wednesday evening at New Glarus Times Special. Present were Mmes Dean Gmar Arthur Zweifel Walter Wenger and Millard Tschudy.
The Washington-Mt Pleasant Farm Bureau held a meeting last evening in Casino hall Monticello. Attending from Monroe were Roger Robeson and Mr and Mrs Harold Whitehead Lawrence Moth James Holcomb and Roscoe Smith.
Lyman R. Roderick, former Brodhead resident now of Sunset Island Miami Beach, is a hospital patient there in serious condition.
Mr and Mrs Virgil Berget of a South Wayne area farm were discharged from St Clare hospital after a Nov 18 fire that destroyed their home. They suffered burns while rescuing three daughters. Two daughters treated and released. infant Paula Joyce remains hospitalized.
A. E. Mitchell, retired, is critically ill at his home at 1505 13th Avenue with condition unchanged.
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