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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1950
Page
15
Cloudy with snow in the north and central areas tonight and Saturday flurries. Warmer tonight and Saturday, highs from 10 below to 32 in the extreme south. Low temperatures range from 5 above in the north to 15 in the south tonight. Barometer 29.90 at 1 p.m. Warmest place in the U.S. yesterday noted.
Real estate transfer: Fred A. Schindler to Delma H. Kubly for parcel sec 23 in New Glarus. Small Claims Court judge Harold J. Lamboley, plus several traffic and authority violation items list fines. Various residents listed with ages and towns including Me kinock and Lebanon. births noted with dates.
St. Clare Hospital lists surgical patient Roger Warren with others named for dismissals including Walter Schroeder Florence Wartenweiler Mrs Julian Brersath Joseph West Ada Mae Field Mrs Thoren Beeler Emilie Gempeler Mrs William Elmer Thomas Jenkins Mrs John Wettach in a brief notices column.
A regular meeting of the agriculture group at the county courthouse discussed district soils conservation plans. Local extension workers Miss Mamie TilJema Myron E Jeglum and Lester reported on club work and equipment needs including a projector and a mimeograph.
Paul Arthur Riemer 19 days old died at 10 50 p m in St Clare hospital Brodhead. Parents Arthur and Mary Fuller Riemer and grandparents survive. Private services set for 10 30 a m tomorrow at Newcomer funeral home Brodhead with Rev Andrew Brienes officiating and burial at Calvary cemetery Monroe. Uncle inherits 9 500 000 estate from Thomas S Lee in Seattle.
A varied vocal and instrumental program will be offered at the Mon ree chamber of commerce annual banquet held in the high school gym. Miss Maud E. Wenger and Richard Kelley will sing, with Miss Mary Ann Huber on piano. Sybil Blumer and others perform string pieces. Arthur H. Brayton of Des Moines will be principal speaker. Floyd Davis reports ticket distribution for the event aiming for at least 300 attendees.
Clarence Bender, 60, of Lebanon Ohio, died Wednesday at Otterbein home in Orangeville. Born June 8, 1889 in Orangeville, he lived there until 14 years ago then moved to Lebanon. Survived by brother Vernon C. of Freeport and sisters Mrs. Frank Walters of Freeport and Mrs. Oscar Babler of Magnolia. Services at Beckeeson funeral home Orangeville with Rev. Oscar Babler officiating. burial in Orangeville cemetery.
Directors of the Green Country Rod and Gun club met at Bluff View Park near Brodhead and named Wendell L. Fuller new director to replace Parker Patterson. Myron Stair of Monroe was elected caretaker of the bass pond on the Louis Benkert farm. plans were made to add pheasant pens and repairs to Twin Grove bass pond to curb muskrat damage.
Mrs Mellwood M Nesbit of Madison is denied alimony from former husband Dr Fritz Kant of Madison. Judge Harold J Lamboley's ruling stands. A later misprint corrected to now allowed was in error. Nesbit is also suing for divorce from her second husband Dr Nesbit, Madison physician. The Kant divorce occurred in Green County with multiple property and alimony litigations heard locally.
Thomas E. Kelly of 2302 13th Avenue was hospitalized after a tree fell during line work with a utility crew near Madison on Wednesday. He suffered a two‑part fracture to his left forearm and multiple hand fractures and is expected to be released from St. Marys Hospital later this week.
Advertises a caregiver needed for two children from 8 45 a m to 6 p m daily. References phone number 2387 in Monroe after 6 p m for contact.
Numerous residents including Joseph Jones Juda Jacob Burgy Sr Monticello and Z A Gorder Watertown were in town on business or city matters. Mrs Robert L Miller and Miss Esther O Mahan visited Freeport and Kenosha respectively while others from Monroe Juda Albany Green Bay and Argyle stopped in for calls or shopping. A three act play Clubbing a Husband by Monroe Woman's Club is set for February 8 at the high school auditorium with tickets via Mrs T W Reilly.
Joseph Huber of 1511 17th Avenue remains in St. Clare hospital with a broken knee cap after a full leg cast was applied. He is expected to stay several more weeks. Florence Wartenweiler county superintendent of schools was discharged from St. Clare hospital today where she had been a surgical patient.
Russell D. Knapp, principal of Edgerton Junior High since 1947, has been named principal of Ashfield Senior High. He will assume duties February 6 or earlier if a successor is found, and previously taught at Engleberg, Menomonee Falls, and Sharon.
Washington officials report Russian delegates walked out of a meeting of a 13 nation Far Eastern commission after Moscow failed to block Chinese nationalist representatives. The agency voted to table a Russian resolution to depose the nationalists.
Ashland reports the death of Rev John A Houkom age 59 on Monday He led Nidaros Lutheran in Ashland and Bethesda Lutheran in Bayfield since 1939 Born January 27 1890 Mekinock North Dakota he studied at Augsburg including its academy college and seminary He formerly served Blanchardville York Hauge parish 1920 1934 and was longtime Augsburg College trustee president Survivors include his wife and one son Leif.
Police Chief George Walker called a 1948 confession story a dope head's dream after Lowell Edward McCurdy of Dallas, Texas, admitted ambushing and shooting Bernie Shelton near a Peoria tavern on July 24 1948. Shelton, part of a notorious southern Illinois prohibition era gang, was killed July 26 1998.
President Truman said James Byrnes is a free agent amid Byrnes bids for South Carolina governor. The former secretary of state has criticized parts of the fair deal and the president noted Byrnes may act as he pleases.
Firemen carried three women down ladders to safety as heavy smoke filled a two story brick building at 3401 W Center St Milwaukee. The basement started fire and spread to the first floor where a tavern and bowling alleys were housed. Families of Herman Walter Elmer Menzel and William Mallwitz lived on the second floor and were rescued.
Two legislative council committees will hold hearings in Madison next month. Sen Mélvin Laird chairs. The real and personal property subcommittee will take up personal property tax subjects Feb. 6. The ad valorem and excise tax subcommittee will study distribution of utility taxes Feb. 28.
French police announce arrests in Marseille and Paris of five members linked to the Aga Khan ambush last August. The gang leader and his sweetheart are reported murdered. Loot valued at $500,000 remains missing.
Semester finals close schools and shift focus to cram sessions and last minute studies with students pledging improved effort. This brief notes student across campus facing exams and a pause in classes during crunch week.
The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis seeks $50,000,000 in the March of Dimes as Basil O’Connor reports the foundation remains depleted after $31,000,000 spent on polio care in 1949. He says $20,000,000 will be needed in 1950 for ongoing treatment. Dr. Hart E. Van Riper warns polio may rise in the US for years.
Wilbur P. Brons of the Chicago Journal of Commerce told the Wisconsin Bankers Association during its winter conference that expansive stock ownership across industries is the best defense against creeping socialism and preserves economic liberty.
Milwaukee man Leonard C. Jastrow 44 seeks state compensation after a false testimony led to a three month prison term. State Senator Bernhard Gettel promises to help file the claim following the accuser’s admission that she lied at trial.
Clarence C. Fuller, 70, longtime president and organizer of the Necedah bank, died of a heart attack. He aided efforts to rehabilitate central Wisconsin lands. In Milwaukee area, a $5,000 feed barn fire in Cudahy killed 31 pigs and 1,100 hens, likely from a short circuit.
John Reimer 84 longtime Milwaukee Road employee died Thursday night after a 60 year railroad career. He retired in 1946 and the last 20 years served as superintendent of the shops in Tomah. Leghorn hats get their name from Leghorn Italy though production is in Fiesole near Florence.
Forrest Huff, who served 11 years for a Macomb county tavern holdup he denied, is released after three lie detector tests cleared him. His sister Odessa aided the effort. Macomb County prosecutors pursued tests under different administrations until exoneration.
A 20 inch steel gas line burst along a hillside in eastern Ohio at about 3:10 a.m. Flames rose 500 feet, blackening 60 acres of farmland. No injuries were reported as service was restored after bypassing the break. The blast awakened nearly all residents.
Muskegon theater owner Paul J. Schlossman who died January 8 left an estate valued at more than $390,000. The bulk goes to his daughter Mrs Pauline Kanlans of Kohler Wisconsin and her two sons.
Edwin J. Kallevang of Madison was announced as the nomination committee's choice for president of the Wisconsin Society of Professional Engineers. He serves as chief engineer of Wisconsin Power and Light Co.
Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan ruled that Judith Coplon and Valentin Gubitchev must stand trial on spy conspiracy charges after six weeks of hearings. He denied motions to dismiss the indictment citing wiretap evidence, ordering the trial to begin next Tuesday.
A state medical society committee urged housing criminal sexual offenders at Waupun prison rather than mental hospitals. They argued homosexuality and related offenses reflect criminality, not mental illness, and require secure containment until a dedicated treatment facility exists.
A 75 year old man Albert Krueger died of a heart attack within minutes of witnessing his wife Martha Krueger 72 faint and strike her head on a kitchen stove. He collapsed and died as an ambulance carried her away.
Milwaukee police responded to a burglary alarm in the county treasurer's office. Treasurer Clarence M. Sommers apologized, saying the alarm triggered accidentally when workmen moved a partition in the cashier's cage.
Ten men spanning Congress to coaching were named the nation’s outstanding young men for 1949 by the U S junior chamber of commerce. The recipients include Gerald R Ford Harold Russell and Charles Harting Percy among others to be honored at a Peoria banquet Saturday.
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