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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1968
Page
2
The paper lists subscription rates and mailing details for Monroe readers. Carrier delivery within the city costs 4 cents per week and mail subscriptions vary by location. Information appears from the Inland Daily and Associated Press notices with office hours and circulation data.
A Baraboo couple Mr and Mrs Melvin Lange celebrate 50 years of marriage with ten children all grown and healthy. The Lange clan gathered at Behnke's Restaurant in Rock Springs for a homecoming and shared memories of farm life near Reedsburg and Woodtick Lodge in Wisconsin North Woods.
William S. Flaherty a UW Oshkosh junior son of Mr and Mrs Orville Flaherty was elected recording secretary of the Epsilon Chapter of Alpha Phi Omega He also serves as secretary of Phi Beta Sigma and as corresponding secretary of Alpha Phi Omega at Oshkosh He will begin the role in late January
Ten years ago Bishop Cousins succeeded Al bert G Meyer as Milwaukee archbishop. Changes loom in Green Bay Packers management after their worst NL season in four decades. A Bogota department store fire kills 82 and injures 50 amid Christmas rush. Postmaster Burkhard forecasts a record Christmas for Monroe. Earlier, the Guttmer Cheese co op organized in Jordan township. U S vice consul Willis R Etter returns home from China. The Wright brothers plane, now in the Smithsonian, was officially accepted fifty four years after their first flight.
The 25th anniversary of the Wright brothers first powered flight at Kitty Hawk N C is noted. Other items include a 23 day old son born to the Otto Grabows in Clarno township and death losses among triplets. Historical events span 1903 to 1941 with multiple world and local notes.
Thirty years ago today December 17 1938 a frame house on the Russell Trumpy farm in Oneco township burned to the ground. Tenanted by George Blasing it was a total loss. A school plan closed as pupil Roy Rothenbuehler aged 6 developed scarlet fever. The Little Theater 1938 program featured a Charles Booth skit musical readings by George R Keepin with Albert White Geigel at the piano Ned Woodman and a scene by the Little Theater executive board.
The excerpt recalls Kennedy addressing the nation in 1962, Mao stepping back from state leadership while guiding the party, Johnson urging UN action to end the cold war, a bridge collapse in Point Pleasant with many missing, and the US arthritis cost estimated at about 1.5 billion dollars in annual losses.
In a year end message Senator Gordon W. Roseleip thanks Wisconsin volunteers for civic service and charity work that strengthened communities. He praises unsung efforts by hidden contributors and wishes a fruitful 1969, noting alfalfa history as a note.
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