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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1949
Page
6
The Daily Record notes snow starting this afternoon or evening likely to continue into tonight with diminishing snowfall to flurries by Wednesday. Forecast indicates fairly heavy accumulations in the southeast and extreme east region with temperatures rising to a high of 26 and a low of 1. Sunrise is at 7:27 and sunset at 4:55.
Real estate transfers list multiple deeds. Ruth Syse and others sell to Roland Syse in York township sections 3 and 7 with undivided interests. Sadie Kilwine sells to Arthur Jones in Decatur township section 19. Herman Ludwig and others transfer undivided half interests totaling about 150 acres in Jordan township sections 32 and 33 to Clarence Golickson and to Florence Golickson respectively.
Charles KR Kohli named executor of the estate of Helen Mary Stone Treat who died Dec 2 in Concord California. R W Prien and Marie Blum serve as appraisers. The will assigns $100 to multiple Stone relatives and instructs Franklin Lewis Stone and Sylvia Stone to receive a share, with other bequests to James Edward Stone and Lawrence Stone Eck.
Ellen Margaret Speich of Orfordville and Frederick James Schindler of Sylvester township have marriage licenses issued. Frieda Dettwiler of Monroe and Wallace Schaber of Wiota township in Lafayette county also secured licenses.
Walter Andrews age 66 of La mon and Clinton Bolender age 78 of Cedar Ville are listed in a local notice. The report provides names and ages with no additional context or details.
Surgical cases list Arthur Dubach Hollandale Christ Musken Janesville. Tonsillectomy Byron Kittleson Mt. Horeb. Medical John Bandi Monroe Route 4 Patsy Serreens Mrs Delmer e w Glarus. Dismissals Mrs Rosa Strahm Clifford Paul Mrs Melvin Spin hirne.
Dr. John Scott Everton, 40, dean at Grinnell College, has been chosen president of Kalamazoo College. He becomes Michigan's youngest college president and will serve as the 11th head, succeeding Dr. Paul Lamont Thompson who resigned last July.
Friends of Tyrone Power and Linda Christian announced their marriage in a Rome church on Thursday January 27. The couple plans a private ceremony attended by family and close associates.
The circuit court room hosted an achievement program highlighting soil conservation with awards for A papers. Miss Florence Wartenweiler outlined a spring conservation curriculum while Myron Jeglum urged continued parental support. Several rural pupils received knife awards for top papers.
Richard J. Phillipson 78, a founder of Milwaukee's Boston store, was found dead in his office chair. He served as secretary and merchandising manager from 1906 to 1935 and was a director when the store joined Federated Department Stores last month.
The new historical novel by Prof Charlton Laird of University of Nevada centers on frontier relations with Native peoples. It climaxes with the Black Hawk War in southwestern Wisconsin and a battle at Red Axe Creek.
Baltimore doctors report Mae West is very much improved after an acute illness that struck Saturday. Dr. W H Townshend Jr said she will likely be able to get up within a few days as recovery progresses.
Personal mentions list residents visiting relatives or conducting business in Freeport Beloit Brodhead Milwaukee New London Oshkosh Belvidere and Madison area. Notable items include a Mexico tour planned by the Babler couple and an ice cream social with white elephant sale at Richland school on Friday January 21. Banking officials attend Wisconsin Bankers midwinter conference. Inaugural trip to Washington prompts temporary business leadership changes.
The Supreme Court set aside a lower court ruling canceling August Klapprott’s American citizenship, citing an unfair trial and wrongful long imprisonment. Justices criticized four and a half years of detention as unsupported by government evidence.
Otto Martin, 60, of Rib Lake, was acquitted of negligent homicide in Lincoln county court before Judge Max Van Hecke. He was charged in connection with the Christmas Eve death of Charles Bergeson, 67, of Ogema, in a collision on highway 86 six miles west of Tomahawk.
The city council decided to take no action on a proposal from the state aeronautics commission to provide 120000 in federal and state aid for a class 3 airport. The city's share would have been 312000.
Wisconsin legislators remain largely unknown to many citizens and groups. The 1949 session adds about 46 newcomers, while mail to U S Senators Wiley and McCarthy and Representatives Byrnes Biemiller Davis and Hull flows to Madison year round. Milwaukee visitors show the clearest lack of knowledge of their own districts and representatives.
Beloit city council votes to authorize a further 900000 bond issue for a new high school. Earlier action approved 1600000 in bonds, but bids for the school building total 2989000, bringing the total near the legal bonding limit.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Black returned from a three and a half week trip through the west. They spent Christmas with her parents in Belgrade Nebraska and visited friends in Las Vegas Nevada. They saw the Tournament of Roses in Pasadena on New Year’s Day and returned to Wisconsin via Hoover Dam and the petrified forest.
Miss Ruth Chase, county nurse, presented a two month report to the Green county health committee in the county court chambers yesterday afternoon. District supervising nurse Mrs Irene Kimmel attended. Health certificates for teachers were discussed and plans were made to complete necessary dental work for school children.
Mrs Clifford Wells formerly Esther Pickett of Monroe underwent surgery at St Francis hospital Freeport Saturday morning. Her parents Mr and Mrs Charles Pickett visited yesterday and her condition is satisfactory.
Howard Voegeli son of Mr and Mrs Jacob Voegeli was honored at a state Brown Swiss association banquet in Madison He was a first prize winner at Milwaukee centennial 4 H fair last year receiving a cash prize and was an honored guest at the meeting attended by his parents He is a UW Madison freshman
New York James C. Petrillo president of the American Federation of Musicians says he believes the union will reject American appearances by German conductor Wilhelm Furtwaengler. Furtwaengler was invited to conduct in Chicago next summer amid Nazi collaboration accusations.
Richard Finnegan was crushed to death yesterday when his tractor slid on an icy bank and overturned into a creek on his Sutter farm.
Senator Wiley of Wisconsin proposes that New York state fund the power portion of the St Lawrence Seaway and power project from the start to cut costs. He estimates the plan would reduce total project cost by at least 180 million dollars, with a 802 million dollar price tag for U. S. and Canada. The move would require rewriting existing seaway legislation in Congress.
Wiley states the current favorable conditions mark a tremendous boon for the seaway’s completion and emphasize that never before has the situation been so needed or so favorable for achieving the great objective.
The administration proposed a six month extension of voluntary anti inflation agreements that expire Feb 28. House chairman Spence said the aim is to give Congress time to study President Truman’s economic program and he will seek six or seven months plus a year like export controls. The Senate committee also moved to extend voluntary steel and commodities controls for six months and export controls through June 30, 1951.
A dish option allows hot cooked cereal to be served with a square of butter or margarine instead of the traditional milk or cream.
Foreign reports say the Nanking government may be dispersed for safety though Nanking will remain the capital while Chiang Kai-shek stays. Peiping, encircled by red forces, is expected to fall or surrender soon as Nationalist troops pull back from north of the Yangtze.
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