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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1949
Page
8
Partly cloudy to tonight and Thursday with a little colder air. Temperature highs reached 27 and lows 21. Observed records include a barometer around 29.85 at 1 pm and 29.75 earlier. Sunrise and sunset listed as 7 21 and 5 05 with Helena noted as the coldest location.
J. B. Pierce to Dwight Pierce transfers part of It 2 Kik 101 in the city of Brodhead. The transaction records a property deed within a local real estate transfer notice. The deal names both parties and specifies the parcel by block and lot identifiers.
County Court Judge Harold J. Lamboley finds Albert J. Duerst of New Glarus guilty on left side operation with fines of $10 and costs. Edwin Hoehne, formerly of Brodhead and now in Iowa, involved in a hit and run. fined $25 and costs. drunken driving charge dismissed on DA motion.
Dorothy Ann Schindler and Werner Ernest Krattig filed for marriage in Mt. Pleasant township. The couple plans a private ceremony after obtaining license details.
Families from Blanchardville Monticello Monroe Albany Albany Monroe Darlington report births on January dates. The notices list couples with newborn daughters and sons including Erick Siegen thaler Alfred Wytten bach Joseph Signer Burdean Everson Roscoe Jones Delmar Spick Glenn Winger and Arthur Cur ah Darlington.
St. Clare Hospital releases include Christ Musken Patsy Flannery Mrs Kenneth Koepnick and son Mrs Levohn Strommen Mrs Alan Jones Mrs Lester Bacon John Wet George Grossen Eugene Surgical Mrs George Lange Albany Samuel Pickett and others. Medical Mrs Henry E Babler 1011 22nd Avenue Herman Feenie Monticello Clifton Ault 1028 29th Avenue.
Smith reported that the administration seeks a quick vote on raising the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents without hearings. He urged correspondence to support delaying the House action. Myron Jeglum requested help to organize a dairy plant operators meeting on quality improvements, routing to the agricultural committee.
Mrs Charles Wong buys the old James Flannery farm three miles northwest of Browntown from Fred Bauman who held a closing out sale yesterday. They will move in March 1. Bauman, retiring, will reside with his sister Mrs Franz Brand temporarily. The two year old fall season brought $180 at the sale.
Evert Wallenfeldt of the University of Wisconsin led a session on six tests to determine milk quality at Turner hall. Dr. H. E. Calvert outlined the program for the remaining lectures as about 45 dairy men, fieldmen, and cheesemakers listened.
The University of Wisconsin announced a two day institute for trade association executives on February 11 and 12. Speakers include Paul Ringler of the Milwaukee Journal, J T Meek of the Illinois Federation of Retail Associations, State Senator Warren P Knowles and Assemblyman Ora Rice.
Michael F. Klein of Middleton, former lawyer and WWII editor of The Sourdough Sentinel in Anchorage, Alaska, spoke to Monroe High School students yesterday in the auditorium as part of the lyceum series. Since leaving the U.S. Army he has lived in Middleton.
Mrs. May L. Luchsinger of route 4 Monroe left yesterday for Washington D C to attend an executive board meeting of women’s patriotic organizations at the Statler hotel. She is active in the Women’s Relief Corps and the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Mrs. Wallace P. Barlow announces a 1 PM luncheon on Saturday February 19 at the Eugene hotel to map the April cancer fund drive. The event draws county volunteers and local supporters to organize efforts and assign roles.
Manly Mumford a Chicago born denoting public relations executive will address the Kiwanis at noon at the Monroe hotel on tomorrow's meeting agenda the topic The Future of Dairying in Wisconsin.
Senate Banking Committee advances a seven month extension of the voluntary materials allocation program after rejecting a Republican plan to extend 13 months after March 1. Democrats pledge swift action to repeal Taft Hartley. Hearings on new labor legislation begin Friday with Tobin testifying. Lucas says 10 days to two weeks after Feb 10 to shape the bill before Senate floor action. Taft allies await strategy. Morse predicts another coalition of Southern Democrats and Republicans.
William Shoemaker from Janesville visited today. Mrs. Robert W. Blum and Mrs. Gaylord Erickson called on business in Freeport yesterday. Mrs. Palmer Strickler of New Glarus visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Warden W. Francis. Verdel McGrath of Argyle, Gene Flannery of Woodford, and Alfred Aiken spent yesterday afternoon in Janesville on business.
The Wisconsin Farm Bureau reports 500 carloads of livestock valued at 2 600 were sold via markets at Monroe and Dodgeville and one at Lancaster. Farmers earned an extra 100 per car, adding 50 000 in income, enough to cover the Monroe or Dodgeville markets. Grant county farmers also bought an existing market at Lancaster. Purchases and construction were financed by sale of preferred stock to farmers.
Robert L. LaMarche, 25, was hurt when his semi-trailer veered into a ditch on the Oregon Madison road as a tire blew out. He suffered a broken left leg a broken right arm and possible internal injuries and is under treatment at Madison General Hospital. Mr and Mrs W S MacDonald of 1004 17th Avenue care for their grandchildren David Thomas Russell Laura and Michael LaMarche of Manston.
Recruit Robert B. Golackson of Woodford leaves Monroe with 15 Green County inductees and is assigned to the 101st Airborne at Camp Breckenridge Ky. His brother Milford L. Golackson trained at Ft. Knox Ky and is now stationed with the U S Army at Guam. Mrs James Golackson of Woodford is their mother.
Madison report notes spring election set for April 5 to fill Wisconsin senate seats in districts three seven and twenty nine. Gov Rennebohm will issue an order February 4 for the races with primaries March 15 and filing deadline February 25.
A special meeting of the Youth Service Commission will be held here next Monday to consider employee complaints filed against the administration of the State School for Boys at Waukesha. Commission chairman Frank Ross announced the hearing.
The 20 room Cable hotel in Cable Wisconsin was razed by a fire of undetermined origin yesterday. Owner Robert Flowers Jr. estimated damage at $12,000. Six persons including the Flowers family escaped without injury as firefighters from Cable and Drummond fought the blaze.
The state director and 11 CIO United Steelworkers members were indicted by a one man grand jury in Kalamazoo over the December 1 raid on Shakespeare Co. plants. About 300 people participated, smashing equipment and injuring seven nonstriking workers. Thomas Shane of Detroit led the union in claiming responsibility as a protest rally.
Secretary of State Acheson said that very great reservoirs of private capital are available to back Truman's plan to raise living standards globally, but only if foreign nations create fair investment conditions. He emphasized the plan remains a broad goal, not a finished program.
Theodore B. Royce, president of the Fort Atkinson Citizens State Bank since 1981, died yesterday in Galveston Texas. He was 75 and longtime Fort Atkinson resident.
Police say a single gang raided eight downtown establishments in Fond du Lac last night. The burglars broke windows and forced doors, stealing about $200 in cash and $50 in clothing. Three youths were seen loitering near one store.
A 15 year old boy who fled town on a rented horse was captured in Louisiana as a run away suspect and brought back to Kenosha for juvenile authorities to handle. The youth was identified by a detective after his arrest abroad.
H Stuart Johnston senior vice president of the Robert A Johnston Co. died at a Milwaukee hospital after a two day illness. He had led the cookie and candy firm, founded by his grandfather, since graduating from Marquette.
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