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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1947
Page
5
Brodhead defeated Monticello 13 point effort led by 13 and 11 by two players while Elmer Duerst was Monticello top scorer with four field goals and six free throws in a hard fought game.
Mr and Mrs are visiting Woodstock friends while students return to Carroll college Stevens College and Iowa State College. Locals Elmer Dixon and Foster Johnson travel to Fort Collins Colorado for a trip. Numerous names appear as families host guests attend dinners and plan visits.
A wide roundup lists basketball results with Princeton, Holy Cross, Notre Dame, Duke, and Iowa State among winners and losers. It also records many Wisconsin high school games and local results, plus an agricultural note stating that a 30 minute change in daylight could shift bloom times for some soybean varieties.
The NCAA faces proposals to create a national FBI style agency to police athletics and curb gambling. Advocates urge federal and state laws tightening bribery offenses and include all sports under a governing foundation with top U.S. officials as honorary leaders. The anti gambling plans were debated at the NCAA convention.
In the Connecticut gambling investigation, December 3 marks the start. League bowling scores list multiple teams and totals, while in professional football the Chicago Bears face the New York Giants in a pivotal game. The trial of Alvin J. Paris advances as defense prepares its case with testimony from Giants players Hapes and Filchock.
In the record a Modern Club-Smith team totals 2486 with players Modern, Lauper, Goecks, Rohrer and Caradine. Clinic Pharmacy-Rees Hackle Albert Tschanz Red mah total 2493. Frozen Foods line lists Carson Holtshopple Hoesly Wenger Pickett with a 2711 total. Old Style Lager line shows Etter Miller Bacon with 512, 634, 573 and entries truncated.
A compilation of team and player totals from a neighborhood bowling league. Entries include teams such as Dutch Maids Baumle Modern Club and Clinic Pharmacy Rees, with individual scores like Maurer 527 Myers 429 and Rees 534. Totals range from the mid 1900s to over 2700 with various handicaps noted.
The record lists multiple teams and players with individual scores and team totals for the Ladies Badger League playoff games. Participants include Marty Swiss Flor ence Marean, Marge Share, Frieda Wuetrich, Barbara Goecks Ruf, Swiss Colony players Shirley Bu holzer and Grace Berndt, Marian Hanson, Dorothy In gold, Betty Wyss, Hoffmans led by Ruth Amstutz, Helen Haldiman, Lauretta Heimann, Pearl Kittelsen, Ag, Golden Glow players Hazel Wuethrich and Louise Vincent, Rose Langston, Hedy Brunner, Agnes Becker, Kempferts Marie Dearth, Carol Lindsay, Marian For cade, May Hofer, Carol Holcomb, Haworths Ardith Trickel, Arabelle Mitchell, Lois Pickett, Rachel Holcomb, Elsie Booth, and others with respective totals and handicaps.
The Monroe Rifle Club defeated Fort Atkinson 1448 to 1403 at the Monroe range led by C. Drake with 295. Earlier Monroe beat Brodhead 1459 to 1420 at Brodhead. Monroes A Trumpy 292 G Baltzer 292 Drake 290 Penniston 389 Raymer 285. Fort Atkinson scorers Magnan 287 Doering 282 Murray 292 Wendt 279 Sery 273.
New Glarus residents Apollonia Zweifel and Gilbert B spent Sunday at the Ray Ferris home in Madison. Their granddaughter Jane Ferris, who stayed a week, returned to Madison with them. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Nelson and family visited the Henry Pauli home. Roy Lust and daughter Shirley and son Roger, longtime New Glarus residents, moved back to Mt. Vernon. Allan Nequette and daughter Mary Ann and son Tommy of Beloit were guests of Orville Jorenby and family and Mrs. George Spauldin. Barbara Reardon returned from Chicago after two weeks with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mills and daughter Margaret. Marian Fredrickson of Madison spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Fredrickson. Mrs. Rose Opfermann and son ...
Frederick Opfermann and Henry Opfermann planned a Sunday trip to a camp near Minneapolis where Henry will be stationed. The New Glarus Firemen held a regular meeting at City Hall Monday. Mrs. Marty and sons visited Monroe, and the Dietszch family from Brooklyn visited Herman Becker's home Monday.
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