Weather Outlook for July 21, 1949
Clearing tonight with thundershowers in extreme east. Cooler conditions in the southwest portion. Mostly fair and pleasant Friday.
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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1949
Page
8
Clearing tonight with thundershowers in extreme east. Cooler conditions in the southwest portion. Mostly fair and pleasant Friday.
Temperature range since yesterday at 1 p m shows high 86 and low 68 with year earlier high 91 and low 71. Precipitation 17. Barometer 29.48 at 1 am and 29.40 at 1 pm. Warmest spot was Yuma Arizona 108 degrees, coldest International Falls Minnesota 45. Sunrise and sunset times listed as 4 40 and 7 32 respectively.
Judge Harold J. Lamboley grants letters of administration to T. E. Sharer for the estate of Zua Webb of Albany who died May 28.
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Soper Argyle announce a daughter born July 21. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Raymer Route 5 Monroe announce a daughter born July 21. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Van Darlington announce a daughter born in July. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hall 1725 15th Avenue announce a daughter born July 20. Mr. and Mrs. E. Clifford Kane Orfordville announce a son born July 20.
The list includes Mrs Walter A Miller 2119 10th Street Roger L Bernstein Jr from Brodhead Medical Edwin Lunda at South Wayne Stephenie J West 535 17th Avenue Mrs John M Stauffacher Calamine plus Mrs Edwin Colden Helmer Hoff Mrs John Armstrong and daughter Shirley Mae Lust Mrs Louise O Grady Robert MacDonald Debra Kay Saxer Francis Kubly Mrs Martha Prasse Mrs Paul Kern and Mrs Albert Elmer.
Arthur Swain of the Brodhead FFA chapter is selected as a saxophone player for the 1949 State FFA band. Fred Haneman oversees selections with plans for a two day program at the state fairgrounds on August 26 and 27 designated FFA and FHA days.
A parked truck owned by Edwin W. Voss rolled from 18th avenue between 8th and 9th streets this morning striking a 1949 Chevrolet and then stopping against a telephone pole in front of the Robert E. Davenport residence. Minor damage reported. ownership of the struck car initially unclear per police.
John M. Anderson 78 a longtime Argyle farmer died at St. Clare hospital after years of declining health. Born Sept 10 1870 in Humboldt Ia he married Helga Olson Aug 13 1891 and farmed near Argyle for 40 years. Survived by son Guy and three daughters eight grandchildren plus siblings. Services set for Saturday Erickson Funeral Home 1:30 p.m. and Argyle Lutheran Church 2 p.m. Burial Woodland Cemetery Argyle.
Dr C E Baumle won the blind bogey with a score of 83 at the Kiwanis golf tournament held yesterday in Jefferson. Monroe visitors included Robert J Tracy the low Monroe scorer with 71 and a list of participants: Roland R Etter Herbert M Ainsworth Rev Paul C Kehle Richard H Bahr Rudolph P Reger Edward Pickett Victor I Carson and guest Carl Musebeck.
Brodhead retail stores will close after next Wednesday ending Wednesday night hours used in May June and July. Leo Flanagan of the Brodhead chamber of commerce retail committee announced the action.
Personal notices show Max I Armstrong from Albany, L Schindler of Albany insurance, Calvin Brough ton and family in Monroe, Harold Bernhagen and son from Albany, Ransom Holmes visiting his daughter in Janesville, Mrs Herman Lanz visiting her daughter in Brodhead, Delores Hodgson two days in Freeport, Barbara Dee Lynch in Madison visiting grandparents, and Mrs O V Olsen from Detroit visiting relatives in Monroe. Two events include an ice cream social at Oakne church Friday at 8 p.m. and Fidelity Life Association meeting Friday July 22 at 1 30 p.m. at the Shriner Neush wander home for Willie E Tertin funeral.
Max I. Armstrong of Albany announces a partnership with Paul Gubb Jr. of the Doherty Grubb and Ryan firm in Janesville. They will operate from the Jackman building with a branch in Albany. The partnership, effective Aug. 1, takes over the practice of the late Joseph Page of Janesville.
A steady queue of mourners in work clothes filed into city hall to view the coffin of Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy. He died Tuesday and lay in state after being brought from Harbor Beach, drawing a crowd likened to those at Franklin D. Roosevelt's bier. The line stretched about 300 feet along one side of the hall.
Miss Virginia Knaack a 1949 Monroe high school graduate appears as guest soloist tomorrow at 10 30 PM over WKOW Madison. The soprano daughter of Mr and Mrs Emil Knaack 2213 8th Street works as a receptionist with Simon Brothers Co Madison.
The educational exhibit for the 95th Green County Fair will be placed at the fair grounds beginning Monday. All entries have been judged previously.
Mrs. Marvin Rufer of route 1 Argyle was named a winner in a national farm magazine word contest. She earned credit toward household furniture from a Chicago firm and this marked her first sizeable prize after several prior entries.
President Truman intends to take another vacation at Key West in Kla around mid November, a White House official said today.
A truckload of glass sits in court house square delaying final concrete paving for Bahr's Variety storefront. Eight World War I veterans, Link Smith, Itarry Smith, William Timmons, Harry Babler, Emil Boesch, Charles Pickett, Fred Miller and James Davis, meet on the east side. Gilbert Baltzer flew from Badger Flying field near Monroe covering Mexico, California and Paris, Missouri, in a day trip returning at six.
Shanghai reports 700 foreigners request reservations if a repatriation ship is ordered. The list includes refugees under the international repatriation organization.
A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Leroy Vinje at the Methodist hospital in Madison on Sunday. Mrs Vinje was formerly Laurabelle Larson of Blanchardville.
Washington reports two atomic scientists at the University of California Berkeley Radiation Laboratory named by the House committee as members of a wartime communist cell. Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz and David Bohm are identified. the panel says inquiry continues and notes Nelson’s 1940s activity. Bohm teaches at Princeton. Lomanitz taught at Fisk University.
Raymond Fernandez told a hush courtroom that his co defendant Martha Beck killed Mrs Janet Fay during a five or ten minute interval in their Valley Stream New York apartment. They face first degree murder charges in the Albany New York widow slaying tied to lonely hearts club schemes.
Secretary of Defense Johnson told the Senate Armed Services Committee that adequate Alaska defense plans are in operation and requested a secret session to discuss them. He urged swift approval of 643 million dollars for army navy and air force construction, to be executed domestically and overseas. Lt. Gen. Nathan Twining leads the joint defense forces in Alaska.
Mrs. Geogia Neese Clark becomes the first woman U S treasurer and keeper of a projected 27 424 541 375 78 2 3 dollar sum in the custody of any woman six accountants certify the amount as correct to two thirds of a cent.
The document lists paper money, silver and gold coins and government securities held in the treasurer's vaults. The item notes bonds and other securities held in trustsecurities division at 25,215,188, 823.06 dollars and two thirds.
George Flynn 75 founder and president of Crescent Clothing Co. in Madison died yesterday in a local hospital. A director of the National Retail Clothiers for 20 years, he was born on a Cottage Grove farm, graduated from Northwestern business college Madison, and later worked for Olsen and Veerhusen before starting his own firm in 1908. He leaves five daughters two sons and two brothers. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at St Raphael's cathedral.
Peter Doctor a 78 year old retired laborer was killed yesterday when struck by a North Western road passenger train at a crossing in Oshkosh. The death halted traffic as investigators arrived at the scene.
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