Monroe Evening Times Owner and service details
Faund By EMERY A. ODELL Published Daily Except Sunday and Holidays. Entered at Monroe Wisconsin post office as second class master under act of Congress March 2 1879 Member Associated Press Inland Daily Press Association Audit Bureau of Circulations Wisconsin Daily Newspaper League. Calls for subscribers to contact delivery boy or mail office if papers are missed.
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Emery A. Odell
Monroe
Wisconsin
Congress
Associated Press
Inland Daily Press Association
Audit Bureau ‘of Circulations and
Wisconsin Daily Newspaper League
Monroe Evening Times
Judging Nixon on Vietnam Leads Biased Foes to Err
President Nixon faces scrutiny from adversaries who label him political and doubt his Vietnam disengagement motives. Biographers note many liberals distrust him as a political actor while acknowledging the public favors withdrawal. The piece argues distrust often reflects the observer, not Nixon, and that his course toward unilateral troop withdrawals was driven by political urgency and Paris talks stagnation.
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Nixon
United States
Richard Nixon
Vietnam
Paris
Monroe High School Drives Stocking Fund for Needy Students
The Monroe High School Student Council runs its annual Christmas stocking drive with a goal above 300 dollars to aid less fortunate students in the Monroe School System. Donations from adults are welcomed through Friday December 12 as students and community members contribute to the charitable effort.
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Monroe High School
Monroe
Women’s Club
Rites Planned for Mrs. Vernan Youmans in Platteville
Services for 83 year old Mrs. Vernan Youmans, a 50 year Platteville resident, will be held Thursday at 1 30 p m in Thomas Funeral Home. Friends may call at the funeral home. She died Monday December 8.
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Platteville
Vernan Youmans
Thomas Funeral
Dear Abby exposes fat bias and group therapy trust
A Dear Abby column advises a reader on fat prejudice in hiring and self image. It also covers marital strain over group therapy boundaries and a driver’s plea for thanks from other parents, urging accountability and self respect for the needy.
Nurse member of church and lodge noted in obituary
The obituary notes she was a Registered Nurse and a member of the First United Methodist Church and the Rebekah Lodge. There are no immediate survivors. In other news, salaries of white collar workers rose at a record rate per the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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First United Methodist Church
Rebekah Lodge
Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Christmas Capers High School Band Concert Draws Capacity Crowd
A capacity audience attended the high school band concert titled Christmas Capers. The United Fund Drive trailed the 1959 quota by $1,280 as organizers push toward the deadline. A massed crowd in New Delhi surrounded President Eisenhower during a motorcade through the city. The county advances toward a new $200,000 jail with an open house planned for the weekend.
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United Fund
Eisenhower
India
20 Years Ago Today and Other Brief Notices
A 1949 Christmas mailing will update Monroe post office records as obsolete by next year. Chinese nationalists lose most of China proper, retaining only three fingertip holds. Attica Homemakers, 50th club in Green County, organized with Mrs. William Schultz as president. A 35-year-old former LaCrosse auto salesman is found innocent of the November 1947 homicide of Dr. James McLoone.
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Wec
Monroe
China
Green County
Attica
William Schultz
James McLoone
Women’s Relief Corps elects officers on 60th anniversary
The Women’s Relief Corps held elections naming Mrs. Nellie Wells as president and Mrs. Lydia West as senior vice president. Other officers include Mrs. Mae Hood as junior vice president, Mrs. Margaretta Whitcomb as treasurer, Mrs. Addie Huffman as chaplain, Mrs. Tillie Schuler as conductor, and Mrs. Ida Smith as guard. Concordia lodge also announced new officers with Herman Tennler as Noble Grand and Joseph Williman as vice grand.
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Wec
Women's Relief Corps
Nellie Wells
Lydia West
Mae Hood
Margaretta Whitcomb
Addie Huffman
Tillie Schuler
Ida Smith
Concordia Lodge
Noble Grand
Herman Tennler
Joseph Williman
H. J. Hefty
John Aeschlamn
Robert Theiler
Henry Voelkli
Cinch Club Hosts Evening With Hood Couple
A 70 year old notice reports the Cinch club being entertained by Mr and Mrs J C Hood. Tolands business schools in multiple Wisconsin cities have grown to be the nation’s largest. A state inspector urges installing a fire escape at the high school. All roads lead to Madison for the Wisconsin Chicago football game.
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Cinch Club
J. C. Hood
Toland
Monroe
LaCrosse
Eau Claire
Wausau
Winona
Minn
Norway’s Hambro Warns Delegates On War Halt
Thirty years ago on December 10 1939 Karl J Hambro newly elected president of the league of nations assembly urged delegates to halt the Russo Finnish war. Marvin Brandenburg Spring Grove showed the grand champion lamb and Nathan Brown Clarno won first premium for his lambs at the 4H sheep day show at the fairgrounds. Six children of Mrs Clara Gilbertson Blanchardville underwent wholesale tonsillectomies at St Clare Hospital.
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Karl J. Hambro
Norway
League of Nations Assembly
Marvin Brandenburg
Spring Grove
Nathan Brown
Clarno
Clara Gilbertson
Blanchardville
St. Clare Hospital
Damage to Puddledock School Cuts Week of Classes
Four decades ago on March 10 1929 damage by unknown culprits broke into Puddledock school Adams township destroying books and supplies of 32 pupils taught by Miss Helen Kern causing one week of schooling to be cancelled. A fire also killed ten people at Manhattan Studios Inc a three story brick building housing the Pathe motion picture exchange in New York City.
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Wec
Puddledock
Adams Township
Helen Kern
Manhattan Studios, Inc
Pathe Motion Picture Exchange
New York City
Meiers Sells 214 Acre Farm in Jordan Township
Fifty years ago today Adolph Meiers sold his 214 acre farm in Jordan township to Carl Herrli of Brodhead for $200 per acre. Meiers had paid $45 an acre eighteen years earlier. Temperatures in the Mississippi valley ranged from zero to 34 degrees below zero. City physicians examined 855 school children below junior high. 23 percent were deemed perfect. reports Supt. P. F Neverman.
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Adolph Meiers
Jordan Township
Carl Herrli
Brodhead
Mr. Meiers
Mississippi Valley
P. F Neverman
Services Set For Mrs Babler In Monroe
Mrs Elsie Babler 67 of 2016 11th Ave died Tuesday morning in St. Clare Hospital from a heart condition. Funeral 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Stnessy Funeral Home with Rev Milton G Petzold officiating. Burial Greenwood Cemetery. Moose auxiliary will hold a memorial service at 8:15 p.m. at the funeral home. Surviving: husband Lee Shester Babler two daughters Audrey Way and Jean Ubl two brothers Ralph and Herbert Madison two sisters Katherine Heinvelman and Margaret Kundert five grandchildren. She was active in St Johns United Church of Christ Women Moose G U G Germania.娘
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Lee
Elsie) Babler
11Th Ave
St. Clare Hospital
Stnessy Funeral
Milton G. Petzold
St. John’s United Church of Christ
Greenwood Cemetery
Women of the Moose
Elsie Kundert
Monroe
John Henry
Katherine Wishser Kundert
Little Brown
the Vale
Nashua
Iowa
Lee Shester Babler
Jefferson Twonship
Holland's
Wittwer’s
LaBuch’s
Southside
Babler
St. John’s United Church of Christ Women
Mary Circle
G.U.G. Germania
Moose
G.U.G.G
Strong 82 Dies in Freeport After Long Illness
Grover Strong 82 of Freeport dies Monday December 8 at Benjamin Stephenson Nursing Home after a long illness. He is survived by two other sons David and Eugene of Orangeville and seven grandchildren. Services set for 1 p.m. Thursday December 11 at Burke Tubbs Funeral Home Freeport with burial at Twelve Mile Grove Cemetery.
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Grover Strong
Freeport
James ‘Strong
Orangeville
Benjamin Stephenson
David
Eugene
Burke- Tubbs
Twelve Mile Grove
Mrs Rue 83 Barneveld Dies in Wisconsin
Mrs Halvor Rue age 83 of Barneveld died Tuesday December 9 in Dodgeville hospital after a long illness. Survived by husband four daughters Mrs Alton Knudson of Madison Mrs Wallace Knudson of Blue Mounds Mrs Lawrence Uren of Mt Horeb and Mrs Alice Carden of Barneveld two sons Harland and Marvin both of Barneveld 16 grandchildren six great grandchildren. Funeral services set for 1 30 p m Friday December 12 at Barneveld Lutheran Church with Gesme Ellestad Funeral Home Mt Horeb handling arrangements.
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Halvor Rue
Barneveld
Dodgeville Hospital
Alton Knudson
Madison
Wallace Knudson
Blue Mounds
Lawrence Uren
Horeb
Alice Carden
Harland
Marvin
Barneveld Lutheran Church
Gesme-Ellestad
Mt. Horeb
Mrs Schaller 72 Dies After Brief Illness in Madison
Mrs Albert Schaller 72 a former Barneveld school teacher died Tuesday in a Madison hospital after a brief illness. She was a United Methodist Church member and survived by her husband Richard of Madison and three grandchildren. Funeral 1:30 p.m. Thursday in the Methodist Church with calling after 4 p.m. today.
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MT. Horeb
Albert Schaller
Madison
Bernice Clark
Barneveld
United Methodist Church
Richard
Methodist Church
Gesme-Ellestad
Mrs. Guerdon Hayden Dies at 69
Guerdon Hayden, 69, died Tuesday in Platteville after a long illness. Survived by husband, son Gerald of Platteville, daughter Joyce Mink of Milwaukee, sister Mrs. George Adelhofen of Platteville, and three grandchildren. Arrangements pending at Mergen Funeral Home.
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Platteville
Guerdon Hayden
Platteville Hospital
Gerald
Joyce Mink
Milwaukee
George Adelhofen
Mergen Funeral Home
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John Amacher
Ernest Snyder Sr
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Lula Snyder
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PTA
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Frank
Katherine) Heinvelman
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Ernest
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