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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1949
Page
8
Fair tonight cooler in south and central portions. Partly cloudy Friday with scattered showers in extreme northwest. Somewhat warmer in the south. Yesterday at 1 pm high 89, low 64. Barometer 29.48 at 1 am and 1 pm. Warmest spot Yuma 108, coldest International Falls 46. Sunrise 4:34, sunset 7:37.
Judge Harold J Lamboley oversees the probate of George C Frehner who died July 9. Three sisters and two brothers are heirs with Alice Friedrichs Monroe and Jacob Frehner named co executors of a will dated October 9 1946. The mother would have been sole beneficiary if she had lived. she died in 1948.
Mrs. Ida Melinda Hunt aged 89 died in Rio Linda California. Her obituary notes her long life and ties to the community. She is survived by relatives and friends. Funeral arrangements were not listed.
Mr and Mrs Melvin Updike report a daughter born July 13 in Arevie. Mr and Mrs Ernest Lehmann of Juda announce a son born July 14.
St. Clare Hospital Surgical lists Gottlieb Siegenthaler Monticello Mrs Birdie Townsend Beloit Leonard Killenbeck City hotel Tonsillectomy Beatrice Flanagan Argyle Mrs David Campbell Brodhead Medical Dennis Maloni Beloit Mrs Otto Gobeli Woodford Dewitt Stuart South Wayne Dismissals Russell Wilson Mrs John DeFey Adam Duerst Mrs John Meyer Leo Staley Mrs Dale Anderson and daughter and Robert Perish.
The annual Brod head Congregational church and Sunday school picnic will be held at Recreation park on Thursday July 21.
Maj. Gen. Kenneth F. Cramer, head of the National Guard Bureau, inspected Camp McCoy today to review facilities and readiness at the post.
Settlement reached in the $7 958 wage claim by Lee Thompson former Huber Brewing route man against Joseph Huber Brewing Co at a Madison conference. Amount undisclosed but described as entirely satisfactory and likely above overtime pay. Final payment due in five days. dismissal motion to follow in federal court.
Arthur Walker, 22, youngest applicant to seek the post, is named constable at Warren over six rivals. Employed at Long's Electrical Supply Co., he succeeds Fred Pash who resigned for business reasons. Walker is married and is the son of Mr and Mrs Raymond Walker of Apple River.
Madison reports three new paralytic polio cases to the state board of health raising the 1949 total to 35. Two cases are in Rusk county and one in Waukesha city. Two additional cases were admitted to La Crosse hospitals from La Crosse city and Trempealeau county. The regional total reaches 14 with four in La Crosse county.
Announcement from Freeport notes Eugene Edward Cassidy, grandson of Mrs. Catherine Ryan, engaged to Lois Marie Linck of Leavenworth Kas. Mr. and Mrs. Charles L Linck announce the couple and a fall wedding is planned.
A string of personal mentions lists residents from Janesville Freeport Milwaukee Rockford Footville Evansville and Monroe visiting on business calling at homes and banks and vacationing at Lake Kegonsa with several family connections noted.
Rev John B. Grellinger was consecrated bishop at St John’s Cathedral in Milwaukee with Archbishop Moses E. Kiley presiding. The ceremony elevated the St Francis major seminary professor to the Roman Catholic episcopacy assisted by two bishops.
Milwaukee steeplejack Ralph McDavid a 29 year old Racine worker was rescued after hanging 26 minutes about 100 feet above the street at the North Western depot tower He slashed his shoulder while reaching air ducts 35 feet below and could not pull up Firemen lowered a basket from the tower to a fire truck and brought him down safely
A head on crash on highway 141 near Abrams killed two Green Bay men, Frank Goral 39 and Earl Koeppen 23, and injured three others. Mrs. Lorraine Beno, Mrs. Edna Handy 47, and Merlin Lardinois 21 were taken to an Oconto hospital. Koeppen and Lardinois of United Delivery Service were returning from a delivery at Iron Mountain. Goral and the two women rode in the other car.
Allan B. Kline head of the American Farm Bureau Federation condemned Secretary Brannan for politicizing the farm issue. He dismissed the price drop concept as untried and costly, arguing it would require government subsidies and realignment of policies.
Senator Kline criticized the proposed government subsidy as unfair to citizens and called the presentation process unusual. He said the plan’s disclosure shifted the farm problem into partisan politics, a situation he and the subcommittee deplore and condemn.
A Cook County grand jury returned a true bill charging 15 year old Robert Munday with murder. He is accused of hanging three year old playmate Thomas Laux in the basement of their home.
The county building committee approved contracts totaling 363725 for Rock County jail construction. Officials anticipate the jail ready for use by April 15, 1950.
Leland Wise a 17 year old polio victim who entered Freeport hospital January 27 is now at home awaiting departure next Monday for the Warm Springs foundation in Georgia to receive treatment.
Concrete for a new twin box culvert twenty feet wide was poured today on a town road north of Monticello. The road lies just north of the woolen mill.
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