Weather gloom and cold with light snow in west regions
Mostly cloudy and colder tonight with scattered light snow over the western portion. Low temperatures range from zero to 10 above in the northwest to 25 to 32 in the extreme southeast. Sunday highs from 10 to 18 in the northwest to the low 30s in the extreme southeast. Hourly temperatures show a peak around Friday afternoon and a high near 47 with a low around 35. Sunrise at 7:19, sunset at 4:39. Marriage licenses listed for James Arthur Roge and Shirley May Abbott. Death notices include Mrs. Amos Zimmerman and several local residents with December 23 24 dates.
Dismissals From St. Clare Hospital Beloit List Names
St. Clare Hospital Beloit releases a list of patients and staff members dismissed, including Earl Cox and Charles Johnson. The roster names Cyril F. Clark John S Pengra Fred Badertscher Chester Johnson and many others including several with Mrs titles and family relations.
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Earl Cox
Beloit
Charles Johnson
Cyril F. Clark
John S. Pengra
Fred Badertscher
Chester Johnson
John Bennett
Albie’ Swenson
William McGowan
J. Dwight Duerst
Roy Stephens
Mary Stephens
Perry J. Power Jr
Mathilda Crooks
Christmas Hope Amid Hospital Grim News Brightens
A 52 year old woman, injured, faces thrice weekly therapy and braces with crutches but vows this will be her best Christmas after months of hardship. Her son Charles attends Carroll College and daughter Mrs Kermit Bargant of Cedarburg live nearby with two grandchildren. She plans gifts for family including grandchildren not seen since September. Nearby, La Crescenta nurseryman Ralph Jeka offers 200 Christmas trees free to needy families.
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Charles
Carroll’ College
Kermit’ Bargant
Cedarburg
Stephens
LA Crescenta
Calif
Ralph Jeka
Mrs. Zimmerman Succumbs in City
Mrs. Amos Zimmerman age 86 of Spring Grove Township died at 11:50 a m in a Monroe hospital after a lingering illness. Born July 5 1869 in Rock County she was married December 18 1887 in Rock Grove to Amos Zimmerman. Survivors include son Gerald brothers Robert and Elmer. Funeral 1:30 p m Monday at Newcomer Brodhead with burial at State Line cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saodhead Specia
Amos Zimmerman
Spring Grove Township
Monroe
Avon Township
Rocky County
Jean Benjamin
Charles
Kathryn Brace Benjamin
Rock Grove
Gerald
Robert Benjamin
Rockford
Elmer Benjamin
Macfarland
Brodhead
K. K. Olafson
State Line Lutheran Church
State Line Cemetery
Market Report Giants Hogs Cattle Prices Mixed Across Classes
Chicago markets show salable hogs rising with barrows and gilts 25 to 50 higher and sows up 25 to 50 in spots. Cattle offerings include prime steers 24 to 25, good to prime 15.50 to 18.50, and veal calves 20 to 26. Grain prices list no wheat, corn as No 2 yellow mixed at 1.28, with oats at 71.
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Hyestock
Chicago
Dubuque Woman 31 Killed in Auto Crash
A 31 year old Dubuque, Iowa woman, Mrs. John Callahan, died Friday night in a two car wreck on icy Highway 11 five miles west of Fairland. Five Benton teenagers were injured. she was a passenger in a car driven by her sister, Mrs. Mary S. Haxmeier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazel Green
Wis
John Callahan
Dubuque
Iowa
Here
Benton
Callahan
Mary S. Haxmeier
City Holiday Social Notes Reach Various Families
Personal mentions list residents and relatives visiting or visiting through Christmas from Brod Loves Park Albany Iowa Falls Boulder Waterloo Freeport Great Lakes Milwaukee Rockford Naperville Stillman Valley Madison and Chicago areas. The notes note travel, family gatherings, and planned returns around year end with several arriving or departing for holidays and Christmas visits.
Christmas Seal Sales Reach $1,875 in City
Christmas seal campaign in Monroe shows $1,875 raised so far. Rudolph P. Reger, seal sale chairman, notes about 3,400 letters were sent with around 1,500 still unanswered. Last year’s total was $2,138.45, with Mrs. John T. Etter Jr. as committee chair and Miss Wilma Heimann as secretary-treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rudolph P. Reger
Monroe
Reger
John T. Etter Jr
Wilma Heimann
Girl born in Madison to Kirch family
Mr and Mrs Robert L Kirch Jr of Madison welcomed daughter Karen Kay born yesterday at Madison General Hospital. Grandparents include Mr and Mrs Robert L Kirch Sr and Elizabeth Kiel, with great and great great grandparents listed as Mary Jane Lloyd John Inderland and Roy Youtzy. Frank Kiel is great great grandfather.
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Madison
Robert L. Kirch
Karen Kay
Madison General Hospital
Joseph Huber Plans Observance of 95th Birthday
Joseph Huber, 95, will observe his birthday with family at the Coryell home in Brown Town on Christmas night. He resides at his daughter’s home and planned gatherings include two daughters, their husbands, a son Emil in Monroe, and a son missing in California. Mary Ellen Coryell returns from Austria for the holidays. Mr. Huber, Swiss born, once ran a California dairy and later settled in Monroe after his wife died in 1935.
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Joseph Huber
John Coryell
Browntown
Huber
Coryell
Otto Wirz
15Th Street
T ‘Ris
Oscar’ Imhof
Freeport
Emil
Mike
Monroe
Joseph
California
Mary Ellen
Austria
America
Canton Lucerne
Switzerland
Cornt Green County
Josephine M. Ackerman
Fire destroys home near East Troy. coworkers rally
MILWAUKEE fellow workers at Pabst Brewing Co. learned of George Barrington’s loss Friday when a fire gutted their Potter's Lake home. Police notified him, and within minutes the plant circulated money and clothing. A brewery spokesman said several thousand dollars would be raised as first response. Barrington, his wife and their children were away when the blaze started.
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Milwaukee
George Barrington
Potter's Lake
East Troy
Barrington
Pabst Brewing Co
Boyington
George Jr
Ellen
Monastery Fire Claims Three Nuns in Connecticut
Three Dominican nuns died when a fire destroyed Our Lady of Grace monastery in North Guilford Connecticut. A fourth nun was injured, others escaped to safety at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven. Fire officials cited a possible short circuit as the blaze’s cause and noted water shortages hindered efforts.
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Guilford
Conn
Our Lady of Grace
Albertus Magnus College
New
Boy 4 Year Old Shoppers Christmas Gifts At Church
A four year old boy accompanying his brother to church buys gifts for the priest and for Jesus as a Christmas spirit story unfolds. In Burlington New Jersey the Bridge Commission announces no tolls on Dec 25 for the Tacony Palmyra and Burlington Bristol bridges a holiday present for motorists.
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Muumauns
Kingdom of Heaven
Jesus
Burlington
N. J
Burlington County Bridge Commission
Tacony-Palmyra
Burlington-Bristol
Community donation totals aid local holiday needs
Donors including the Moose fire department and Monroe Chamber of Commerce contributed cheese corn chips coffee and candy in a Christmas project led by Mrs J T Etter Jr for Monroe Woman's Club. Weather outlook remains mixed with sun and warmth easing travel while churches list multiple midnight and morning services across St Victor Grace Immanuel and other local congregations.
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Moose
Fire Department
Monroe Chamber of Commerce
J. T. Etter Jr
Monroe Woman's Club
Mercury
Santa
St. Victor's Catholic Church
Grace Lutheran
Immanuel Church
Methodist Church
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
Union Presbyterian Church
Mt. Quve Lutheran
Holiday church services and travel notes from Monroe
Tomorrow features services at Bethel Church, Church of Nazaren e, New Apostolic Church, First Universalist, all morning. St John’s holds a midnight candlelight service tonight. a German Christmas service with communion is set for 10 a m Monday. Bus traffic is light versus two weeks ago. Taverns in Monroe close at noon today and will stay shut until tomorrow noon.
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Bethel Church
Church of Nazarene
New Apostolic Church
First Universalist Church
St. John’s Church
Monroe
Service Record update on leave for Thompson and Schwarzenberger
John Thompson son of Mr and Mrs James C Thompson 723 13th Street arrived home Monday on 1 M day leave. He entered the Navy in November and is to return to the Naval Training Center Great Lakes Illinois January 2. Pvt Joseph Schwarzenberger Jr arrived home Wednesday to spend holidays with his parents Route 2 The senior Schwarzenbergers He has completed basic training at Ft Leonard Wood Missouri and is to report to Ft Bliss Texas January 6.
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Russell Rosheisen
Brod
August Plantikow
Jessie
Lucy Roush
Chicago
Morna
Grace Byers
Frederick Kohli
Elmhurst
Fred L. Kohli
Alton V. Kiel
Madison
Robert L. Kirch
Karen Kay
John F. Caradine
Boulder
Colo
Alma Caradine
Ben Blaser
Marie Blaser
Ft. Dix
N.J
Edith Koehner
John A. Theander
Lorene Kay
Stillman Valley
Shirley Wilson
Waterloo
Blythe Myers
Great Lakes
Clarence Benkett
Philip
Benkert
James Patterson
Milwaukee
Pattersons
Jean
Jan
Timmy
Lucille Blaser
Anton Niederberger
13Th Street
Niederberger
Otto Blaser
Kathy Ann
Linda Lou
Rockford
John Thompson
James C. Thompson
Thompson
Navy
Naval Training Center
Ill
Joseph Schwarzenberger Jr
Schwarzenbergers
Schwarzenberger
Ft. Leonard Wood
Ft. Bliss
Tex
Homes Evacuated In West Milwaukee Gas Threat
A suburb of West Milwaukee ordered about 25 residents to evacuate after a natural gas main opened by a worker released gas for nearly an hour. No explosion occurred though an arc welder nearby sparked, halted by a spray of oil and water from the line.
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Milwaukee
Escapee Held in Slaying Faces Adult Trial
EL CENTRO California article reports 17 year old state escapee Paul Krube from Wisconsin was ordered held for trial as an adult on two murder charges. Judge Elmer Heald cited his prior record and the seriousness of the case. Krube jailed without bail for a preliminary hearing with no date set.
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EL Centro
Paul Krube
Green Bay
Wis
Elmer Heald
Krube
Brook Park
Minn
Justice Court
Wisconsin Institution
Here
Angel Renteria
Anacleto Ro‘nero
Jerry Havens
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Seeney
U.S
Laredo
Cutbank
Mont
James Arthur Roge
Lark, NL
Shirley May Abbott
Spring Grove
Lewis E. Klaas
Dakota
John Mueller
Blanchardville
William Siedschlag
Juda
Alan Roenneburg
Robert Schiess
9Th Street
Henry Hawkinson
Eugene Roosli
Albany
St. Clare Hospital
Fairland
Okla
Ben Cooksey
William Craig Rollins
28Th Avenue
Alvin Neuenschwander
10Th Street
16Th Avenue
Lawrence College
WGN
Susan Blumer
H. A. Blumer
20Th Century-Fox Presents
Clark, Jake
Robert Gable Russell Ryan
Goetz
Paul
Gilbert
Bethlehem
Jesus Christ
United States
Mother Mary of Jesus
Boy
Evelyn Nesbit
Stanford White
Ray Mill and
Joan Collins
Farley Granger
I“ Atkee
G.E. and
Philco Appliances
General Electric
Philco
Motorola
And
Norge
Hamilton
Lewyt
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