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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1946
Page
6
Mostly cloudy with occasional light snow and rising temperatures tonight and Thursday. Last week highs and lows ranged from 33 to 4 degrees, with today’s precipitation as snow flurries and barometer readings at 29.80 and 29.65 inches.
Real estate transfers include Fred A Fritz and Grace D Fritz transferring to Roy F Burmeister in Lake Side Heights Monroe. Rose Keller Buehler sells 15 acres in Jefferson township to William and Rose Grunder. Brodhead Telephone transfers part of lot 4 block 88 to Commonwealth Telephone. Deaths note Mrs Martha Ohl age 74 of 1703 8th Street and obituary for Mr and Mrs William A Brunkow Monroe route 5 daughter born Jan 1.
St Clare Hospital Medical shows patients including Orville Johnson Brodhead Michael Makow Ar Eyle and Peter Babler with tonsillectomy and other surgical cases. Dismissals include Mrs Hartwig Edith Musselman Joseph Kohn Stodt Rothenbuehl Smoke Bonjour Olsen and families Audrey Myles Pember Siedschlag Miller and Blank families.
A departmental memorandum notes Admiral Stark’s concern over Pearl Harbor anti-aircraft defenses in light of a possible early carrier air attack if Japan enters the war. His testimony may lead to retirements as the long inquiry extends hearings past the original deadline to February 15.
Traditional Swiss holiday foods graced many tables as snow began falling today. The mercury climbed from zero to 25 by noon, and heavy mail brought belated greetings and mostly bills. Monroe City Treasurer Charles Bolender started accepting tax payments at the Commercial and Savings Bank as business rushed.
County fair officials from across the state gather in Milwaukee for the 3 day Wisconsin Association of Fairs convention. Elections of directors and a dinner dance highlight tomorrow with today and Friday set for committee reports postwar fair clinics. Speakers include Milton Button Harry Frost Clarence Harnden and Ralph Ammon. President Eldridge and Secretary Ma Jones will preside.
Grinnell Pvt Robert Grinnell returned to Ft Wood Mo after visiting parents in Bloomington Ind Maurer Sir Harold Maurer Belleville received honorable navy discharge Dec 26 at Great Lakes after three years service mainly in South Pacific aboard USS Essex McGuire Pvt Donald E McGuire home at Browntown after 3 years 4 months service discharged at Camp McCoy with multiple ribbons and battle stars Stuart Corporal Kenneth W Stuart arrived in the United States after 18 months in Europe and is at Indiantown Gap awaiting discharge in Monroe soon. he spent a 7 day furlough in Switzerland during service.
Earl L Dockhorn counted 616 returning veterans helped by the Green county service office over the year. The registrar logged 620 births in Green county in the first 11 months of 1945 with December not yet recorded. Marriage licenses hit 179 in 1945 up from 156 in 1944, spurred by veterans return. November and December saw 24 and 25 applications while May and June had 17 and 16. Divorces declined from 33 in 1944 to 27 in 1945. Sheriff’s office placed 151 in jail with city police handling 99 and sheriff’s 35. traffic cases accounted for the rest, up from 113 in 1944 but below 381 in 1941.
A daughter with two heads was born prematurely to the wife of an American soldier in Birmingham. The infant, weighing 5 pounds 12 ounces, has twin necks and is described as feeble with a slight chance of survival. Both heads share normal shoulders and bodies while each head appears to breathe separately. The parents’ names were not released.
A flurry of names shows a busy period of visitors and locals in Monroe. Mrs Ervin Goecks Juda and Miss Olga Schroeder Beloit are among those noted visiting, with many others listed from Brown Town Freeport Beloit Madison South Wayne and surrounding towns.
Mrs Edwin Faubel visited Madison as a Madison guest today. Mr and Mrs L R Wolleson traveled to Milwaukee. Mrs Christine Langlie New Glarus visited Beloit. Mrs C B Baltzer and daughter Katherine visited Madison. Miss Alice Rude left for Janesville to visit Mrs Mary Feise. Miss Connie Johnson and Miss Helen Beiderman spent the day in Madison. Mrs Harold Dittmar and daughter Delores went to Milwaukee for a few days with relatives. Mrs Harold Bahe and children, visiting her mother, returned to Mayville. Miss Doris Messmer resumed teaching at Racine after holidays. Miss Shirley de Lorimier returned to the University of Wisconsin after Christmas vacation.
Mrs. Martha Ohl 74 a Monroe resident since 1911 died Tuesday at St. Clare hospital after a years illness of heart disease and complications. She was wife of the late Joseph S. Ohl who died in the 1934 Jefferson township cyclone. Surviving are three sisters and several relatives. funeral at Shriner Neushwander funeral home with Dr. Charles A. Briggs officiating and burial in Greenwood cemetery.
Juda Mrs. F N Miles and Rev Peter Rettliff family travel to Los Angeles for at least a month. Local gatherings include Bagley Miller hosts and Monroe shoppers Goldine Waiton. Honors go to Mrs Wayne Vanderbilt and others. Wisconsin Power and Light gets SEC permission to withdraw voting rights and proxies related to amendments to its articles.
Wagner announces addition of the electric light bath at Wagner's Health baths highlighting a mix of radiant and convective light. Other brief items note Mrs. E. Ned Demming entering Wisconsin General Hospital for leg surgery, the Michael home sale to Frank W. Heinzelmann, and residents preparing for January moves.
Mr and Mrs James J Quinn and family entertained at a New Year dinner at their home yesterday. Guests included Mr and Mrs W H Larson J Larson Wiola and Mr and Mrs C B Larson and family Beloit Mrs Lillian Lee and Bernard and Clyde Broge.
Two Brodhead brothers Arthur J. and Vernon D. Riemer, both sergeants, learned they shared the same 2000 mile San Francisco to Camp McCoy train trip after meeting in the station end of the ride. They were discharged December 23 along with 21 veterans cleared by the county service office.
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