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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1972
Page
4
About twelve thousand dollars worth of airline tickets and twenty five bus tickets for Soldiers home for Christmas were stolen from Headquarters Company A at the Army Ordnance Center and School on Aberdeen Proving Ground. Also taken were $647 in cash and jewelry worth about $180. The theft was reported Monday.
Mary Zettle 97 resident of Monroe Manor Nursing Home was honored at a family Christmas party with gifts from her children grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Attendees included multiple Zettle families from Monroe Brodhead Beloit Janesville Monticello Argyle Martintown Browntown and Evanston Illinois with refreshments served.
Zwingli United Church of Christ Sunday school students staged a Christmas program at the Monticello church. Nursery finger plays. Kindergarten songs. posters tell The Christmas Story. recitations and pantomimes by various students. group carols and solos highlighted by classic Christmas tunes.
Europeans face an unusually long Christmas weekend with Dec 26 holiday closures in many countries. Banks in Germany and Britain close Friday evening and reopen Dec 27, while the Netherlands and others may stay shut until Jan 2. In Walpole Mass 400 prisoners pledge to forgo dinner to aid the needy and sick.
Balls Mill Homemakers Club will meet January 18 at Mrs. Forrest Ludwig’s home with county nurse Mrs. Doug Diedrick as guest speaker. The group held its Christmas party December 14 at Monticello Casino with gifts, card games, and prizes for high hand low hand and lone hands. Winnettes Homemakers Club added member Mrs. Richard Detra at their December 11 party. fund raising yielded 20.94 dollars and a canister set was given as a Christmas gift. Members plan to take husbands to Stub’s Hideaway February 10.
Mr. and Mrs. Adie Stalder hosted a Sunday birthday dinner at their Winslow home for Mrs. Floyd Seibert of Rockford. A cake by Mrs. Stalder served as centerpiece and guests included Ethel Smith, Nevil Beckman, Arlo Krell, Elmer Beckman, Robert Stalder, and Floyd Seibert with other relatives.
A Christmas pageant titled What Happened to Christmas will be shown at 8 p.m. Sunday at Zwingli United Church of Christ. Miss Cinda Broge directs the pageant featuring intermediate classes and choirs about youths who lose sight of Christmas meaning. The children's choir is led by Mrs. Ruth Zentner and the youth choir by Miss Broge. The 11 p.m. Christmas Eve Midnight service will include scripture prayer and hymns led by the senior choir under Frederick S. Voegeli.
President Nixon secured 517 of 538 electoral votes as electors met in state capitals and the District of Columbia to cast ballots. One vote remained uncounted but the result was a decisive victory in the Electoral College.
Mr and Mrs Michael Dean Lindsey married in a candlelight ceremony at Brodhead United Methodist Church on Saturday November 25. Bride Janis Hulburt wore ivory satin with pink accents and carried miniature carnations and pink roses. The couple, honeymooning in Chicago, will reside in Albany.
The Monroe Union Presbyterian Church youth groups held a worship service on Sunday centered on definitions of love. The program featured a Bach organ-piano duet, readings by Lonna Soddy, and sermons on love by several youth, with a Celtic cross Advent display crafted by Mike Soddy. The Senior Choir, directed by Mrs. James Gordee, performed Bethlehem.
Members of the Woman's Relief Corps held a Tuesday Christmas party at the American Legion Club with about forty in attendance. President Miss Hedwig Portman led a business meeting, a reading by Mrs. Fred Schott titled A Note to Christmas, and a $25 gift to the U S O in Milwaukee. A memorial for Mrs. Ralph Baltzer was noted, and funds were donated to the Cancer Fund. Mrs. Chester Tobin was honored with a birthday song before a gift exchange and social time. The next meeting is Jan 2 with installation of new officers.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Schuetz of Monroe hosted the annual Clarno Exchange Club Christmas party on Saturday. A potluck supper preceded a gift exchange with guests including Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pick Sr. and Mrs. Kittiemay Whitehead, plus Mr. and Mrs. Charles Zettle and their grandson Jamie May. Also notes Oldsmobile 1973 models featured at Bienema Olds Cadillac.
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