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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1948
Page
2
The board of directors approves the exemption and permits exclusive republication rights for local AP news dispatches from the newspaper. The formal order is dated April 30 1947 and confirms continued use of Associated Press material.
Observers counted 40 attendees in the high school auditorium for the Union district annual meeting. The sparse crowd prompts questions about elector interest in a $226000 business and the directors governing the school system.
Lafayette county faces repeated legal hurdles blocking a $100,000 bond for a memorial hospital. The hospital association has raised $100,000 by subscription, and with $200,000 total funds the county could gain federal aid. Citizens and districts support the project though legality and private status questions linger.
The piece notes belated army concerns about morale under the draft, with fears of singling out a few inductees and the challenge of fitting volunteers into a unified military image for conflicts that may be undefined. It urges educational leaders to address this psychological impact and cites anticipated GOP action.
John J. Hoffman said in Chicago and Wisconsin he beat his wife. He faced first degree murder after her body was found in an abandoned trailer near Wisconsin Dells last month. Canadian officials arrested him Friday. Curran quoted Hoffman describing the two assaults and implied he would not speak further.
Ten years ago death claims Mrs. Annawarie Bidlingmaier after 76 years in the county. Mrs. Everett A. Janke elected Legion auxiliary president. John G. Theiler dies at Monticello. Ballistic slips report car overturn near Monroe with no injuries to Ralph Elmer, Clarence Elmer, Wally Muller and Barton Pickett. City council accepts Turner hall club parking offer.
The annual detasseling of hybrid corn in Green county will start July 19 with about 350 workers under adult supervision. Detasseling 1,100 acres of DeKalb corn is expected to take three weeks due to a longer season and uneven stands from dry planting. A mobile unit will detassel 400 acres in Spring Grove township, while crews operate mainly in Juta and Albany areas. Charles Agnew of the Janesville WSES office is canvassing towns for applicants.
Anna Eleanor Boettiger, eldest grandchild of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt, wed Van H. Seagraves of Oregon City in a quiet ceremony in Phoenix Arizona. The bride, famed as a widely photographed child during her grandfather’s first term, once lived in the White House with her brother Curtis from 1933 to 1935, known as Sistie and Buzzie.
The conservation commission has canceled the emergency fire regulations adopted in June to guard forest lands from fire during a prolonged dry spell. Recent northern rains reduced the hazard, prompting the repeal.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Foulks who lived with her niece Mrs. C. W. Emrick in Lima township Grant county will celebrate her 101st birthday on Friday. Despite blindness and deafness and being bedbound she remains cheerful in Platteville after long years of teaching in local rural schools.
Mrs. Fred Cole, 88, longtime operator of the Cole hotel at Cashton, Wisconsin, died Tuesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William Canary. She and her husband ran the inn and she retired in 1936.
Registered Brown Swiss cow Spring Valley Elsa owned by the John Ingold estate Monroe completed a production record with 13,689.5 pounds of milk and 587 pounds of butter fat as a senior four year old, according to the Brown Swiss Cattle Breeders Association.
Senator Melvin J. Olson of South Wayne met Governor Rennebohm in Madison for a conference on legislation at the special session set for July 19. He stopped in Monroe on his way home.
Rudy Schneider, employed by Harold Hoesly, sustained a badly cut foot after his shoe string was caught in a hay baler. The accident occurred at a New Glarus area farm.
Albany Times Special reports no services at Albany Methodist Church on July 11 and 18 as Rev. Orra Compton and his family take a vacation. The minister left Tuesday to visit Mrs. Compton's parents Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Sears in Bynumville.
A brother and sister, Her shel and Joyce Sears, who visited here the past five weeks, accompanied them. Part of the Comptons' vacation will be spent at the parental home of Rev. Compton at Ft. Cobb Oklahoma.
Alfred L. Deyo, 22, of Warren special, is in critical condition at St. Francis hospital Freeport after a tractor accident on his farm yesterday afternoon. He fell from the fender as the tractor passed over him, suffering a fractured vertebra and internal injuries.
Karl Neiderman of Blanchardville is employed at Badger Motors. He recently finished a five month commercial trades automobile school course in Chicago.
A warrant has been issued for Michael Edward Melvin, a Monroe resident. Details indicate law enforcement actions underway surrounding the case.
A man is in custody for concealing mortgaged property without consent, with the sheriff's department handling the arrest. The case centers on a vehicle involved in the alleged concealment.
Local angler Dr Earl V Hicks holds the Lake of the record after catching a 40 pound muskellunge during a fishing trip.
Mrs Hicks lands a 20 pound muskellunge and a 15 pound northern pike in woods Canada. Other catches include northerns eight pounds and up bass and walleyes.
An advertisement from Kempfert Pharmacy touts TE-OL as a best selling foot fungus product. It claims the germ penetrates deeply and reaches all germs, with complete alcohol content and rapid results within one hour.
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