Knights of Columbus Picnic and Officers Meeting
The Knights of Columbus will host a picnic at Twining Park north shelter on Monday July 8 at 6 p.m. Members and families invited. attendees should bring their own place settings. Food and beverages provided. An officers meeting follows Monday July 15 at 8 p.m. at the VFW Hall.
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Knights of Columbus
Twining Park North Shelter House
V.F.W. Hall
Orangeville
J. R. Scragg
Odd Fellows Lodge
Rebekah Lodge
Odd Fellows
Rebekah Lodge No. 452
Orville Barker
Mary Reeser
Roller Party Slated For Here Tuesday
An open married couples roller skating party is planned for Tuesday night July 9 from 8 to 10 p.m. at the Blue Star Roller Rink in Monroe. All married adults from area towns are welcome. the June party drew 60 skaters.
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Blue Star Roler
Monroe
Leuenberger Family Dinner Honors Larry at Monroe Picnic
A Monroe family picnic Sunday honors Larry Leuenberger on a two week home visit from Sunnyvale California. The event at Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Leuenberger’s rural Monroe address drew relatives from multiple Wisconsin towns and Phoenix Arizona.
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Clarno
Lawrence L. Leuenberger
Route 1
Monroe
Larry
Sunnyvale
Calif
Barnes Fowler
Phoenix, Ariz
Leuenberger
Cora Pinnow
Harold Leuenberger
Ralph Lichtenwalner
Lloyd L. Leuenberger
Denise
Kurt
Sam Buehler
Browntown
Don Nelson
Brodhead
John Bauman
Ronnie
Lloyd A. Leuenberger
Albert Reinmann
Kenneth Waelti
Vicki
Cindy
Sylvia Herbert
C. H. Lichtenwalner
Fowler
Phoenix
Robert
Carol
Wayne Gempler
Larry Schwitz
Sheila
Debra Schuette
Larry Gempler
Madison
Luella Wunschel
Juda
Fred Gempler
Wesley Grenzow
Dwight Rote
Frederic
Robert Becker
Dinner Event Held For Diane Gilbertson
A birthday dinner was held on July 4 at the home of Diane Kay Gilbertson’s parents in Monticello to honor her son’s first birthday on July 10. Grandparents and relatives from Monticello, Blanchardville, Monroe, Plateville, Janesville and nearby areas attended.
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St. Victor’s Catholic Church
Monroe
Constance Ann Gable
Melvin Gable
7Th Ave
Kenneth Gerald Johnson
Urho E. Johnson
Lincoln Ave
Milwaukee
E. C. McCollow
Roger Gable
Bill Diebold
Cross Plains
M. Rita
St. Victor’s Church
Gretchen Gable
Gloria Gifford
West Allis
Cheryl Sartorius
Fort Atkinson
Mary Gable
Maid of Honor
Lee C. Schwoegler
Dick Hashek
Greg Zaremba
Fred Peyer
Whitewater
Randy Wedig
Tom Lunn
Mequon
Diane Kay Gilbertson
Orville Gilbertson
Route 1
Monticello
Henry Stauffacher
Clarence Hanson
Blanchardville
Lewis Hardyman
Margaret Ann
Mary Lou Hardyman
Plateville
Nancy Hardyman
Janesville
Kenneth Stauffacher
Paul
Royal Hawkins
Karen
Gary Allen Gilbertson
Otto Guttmer
Monroe Manor
Woman’s Relief Corps of
Marie Geigel
Fred Schott
WRC
Guttmer
Times
Argyle Youths Attend Fifth Wisconsin Electric Youth Congress
Eight area students sponsored by the Lafayette Electric Cooperative will join more than 150 Wisconsin high school juniors and seniors at the fifth annual Electric Cooperative Youth Congress at Wisconsin State University River Falls July 8 to 11. The Lafayette group includes Deborah Fitzsimmons Moran Mullikin Bruce Gilbertson Kathy Thomas Adele Wiegel Mary Ellen McKnight Kim Havens Beth Francis. The group will be accompanied by Mr and Mrs Gaylord Reichling.
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Argyle
Lafayette Electric Cooperative
Darlington
Wisconsin
Electric Cooperative Youth Congress
Wisconsin State University
River Falls
Youth Congress
Wisconsin Electric Cooperative
Deborah Kay Fitzsimmons
John Fitzsimmons
Moran Mullikin
Basil Mullikin
Cuba City
Bruce C. Gilbertson
Irving Gilbertson
Kathy Thomas
Charles Thomas
Adele Wiegel
Urban Wiegel
Shullsburg
Mary Ellen McKnight
Richard McKnight
South Wayne
Kim Havens
Kent Havens
Beth Francis
Joseph Francis
Lafayette
Gaylord Riechling
The Common View Short Week As Writer Takes Time Off
The column notes a brief week with the writer away for golf and household duties while a partner attends summer school. The writer laments limited league progress and improved self control, and mentions a weekend visit with the Schwoeglers in LaCrosse and curiosity about hillside homes in a new development.
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Schwoeglers
LaCrosse
Sailors called tars from tarpaulin cloth in early ships
The piece explains that sailors earned the nickname tarpaulins shortened to tars due to tar impregnated waterproof fabric. It also notes other space and science questions with brief answers and then offers local notes about a serviceman Dennis Burreson winning European track events, weathering erosion, and community anecdotes.
This Day in History July 6 1968 Highlights
On this date in 1923 the USSR was formed. Pirates like Capt William Kidd were captured in 1699 and hanged. In 1777 Burgoyne captured Ft Ticonderga. Texas ambassador to Washington in 1837. First airship Atlantic crossing in 1919. Nicaragua accepted UN Charter in 1945. Related items note U S Soviet talks, US Mexico border dispute, wiretap curbs, and a marijuana alert. Federal agents warned about colorless man made marijuana per Washington Post.
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Associated Press
Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics
William Kidd
Boston
England
John Burgoyne
Ft. Ticonderga
N.Y
Republic of Texas
Washington
Atlantic
New York
Roosevelt Field
Nicaragua
U.N
United States
Mexico
Rio Grande
el Paso
Tex
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Arnold Rufener
Belleville
Judith Lynn
John Paul Baumgartner
Wilbert Baumgartner
River St
Belleville High School
Miss Rufener
Oaktron Industries
Kelsch Machine Shop
Paoli
Dianne Burgy
Theodore Burgy Jr
LaCrosse State University
Burgy
Platteville State University
Beloit
Racine
Monroe High School
Lutheran Alcw
Wiota
Wiota Lutheran Alcw
Ward Halloran
Clarence Zuberbuhler
Robert Krebs
Vacation Bible School
Lawrence Berger
Crystal
Freeman Larson
Dorothy Gertsch
Kenneth Anderson
Arleigh Johnson
Joel Metz
Don Pehl
Lenita Bordner
John Sargent
Zuberbuhler
Apple Grove
Gratiot
Jordan
Warren
St. Paul’s
Larry Leuenberger
Constance Gable
K. G. Johnson
VFW Club
Waldo Rufer
Ed Doyle
Ernest Zumbach
Jeanette Wedig
Barb Wedig
Kathy Lindsay
Peggy Whittaker
James Byrne
Hermie Blum
South Milwaukee
Greendale
St. Francis
Cudahy
Wis
Michigan
South Dakota
Nevada
Iowa
Peter Gable
Corpus Christi
E. Warnimont
Apt
Whitewater State University
Phi Chi Epsilon Fraternity
Allen Bradley
Stewart Chapter
Order of DeMolay
James Marty
Gary Griffith
Terry Kramer
van Counselman
Phillip Ringhand
Navy
Kenneth Johnson
Diane Gilbertson
Dennis Laube
Marion Laube
Court of Wisconsin
Monroe Commandery
Laube
Lodge
Mabel E. Bauer
Richard ‘Miller
Platteville
Iva Miller
Margie Bernet
Gary Rucht
Mrs. Elmer Matzke
William Beightol
Lizzie Mather
Mmes
William Berndt
Forrest Zimmerman
Alvie Phillips
Linda
Lyle
Leslie
Delafield
Jim Seifert
Menominee Falls
Ella Randall
Ida Vanderbilt
Ripon
Keith Bartig
Kevin
Edna Ludwig
Mabel Bauer
Emma Lahr
Minnie Haberman
Ray Castater
Jane and
Allen Matzke
Sylvia Grenzow
Rockford
Robert Scholl
Phil Harter
Clarence Raymond
Wausau
Elmer Matzke
Matzke
Philadelphia
John Cardinal Krol
Francis Cardinal Brennan
Pennsylvania
Vatican
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Dennis T. Burreson
James Burreson
Upperheyford
Europe
London
United Kingdom
Dennis
Wiesbaden
Germany
Berliner Strasse
U.S. Air Force
Tunate
Jim
John Steinman
John
Mary Jane
Washington Post
Adtaker
Stuessy
Monroe, Wis
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