Weiss Winner Of Junior Swine Champion Honor
Green County Junior Fair events run through Saturday with dairy, beef, sheep judging and 4-H demonstrations and foods exhibits in the stock pavilion. Schedule lists judges superintendents and tent stations across Friday through Sunday with multiple 4-H activities and a church service broadcast on Sunday.
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Green County
Monroe Evening Times
Roy Brubacker
Don Deininger
Dwight Hoesly
Cal Kraemer
Gene Taylor
Bob Keen
Ralph Hess
Ken Allen
John Burgy
James Barlass
George Hartman
Evan Siedschlag
All Foods
Wisconsin
Robert Faith
Valerie Soddy
Marilyn ‘Brecklin
Carol ‘Gibbons
Debra Krauss
Luanne Marty
Darlene Pulfer
Barbara Wuethrich
Laurie Soddy
Nadean Streiff
Rhonda Potts
Barbara Woethrick
Rosemary Neuenschwander
Rickey
Jure
Cindy Durtschi
Susan Durtschi
Tina Larson
Joanne Pulfer
Louise Pulfer
Tene Schlappi
Margaret Lowl
Sally Marty
Cameron Kurer
Power and ‘Light
Laurie Bagley
Christy Benkert
Debra Mauerman
Margaret Peterson
Marilyn Pick
Carol Wild
Pamela Wells
Floral Hall
Don Schink
al Deppeler
Myron’ Jeglum
Ed Klassy
Power and Light Tent
Sonja Marty
Mary Hoesly
Jeanne Ludwig
Janet Mauerman
Christy Meier
Jean Spoerry
Betty Nickels
Gaylene Reasa
Dawn Ruff
Kay Si
Janet Beach
Kenlyn Blaser
Kathy Meier
Donna Meyer
LuAnn Montgomery
Rolene’ Reuter
Debbie Schilt
Laura Webinger
Dianne Wyss
Diane Graber
Jane Matzke
Sharon Moldenhauer
Marie ‘Nickels
Sally Steurs
Jane Wells
Karen Witt
Marcy Wyss
Gretchen Zimmerman
Midway Thrills Highlight 113th Green County Fair
The Green County Fair showcases expanded Midway activity with farm machinery and livestock. Copper Kettle Fudge of Clearwater makes its first appearance with George Surman, a 15 year candy veteran, and his French-born wife. Jerry Mullins of Dayton displays a Remington Rand Handwriting Electronic Analyzer in Exhibition Hall. Dairy Queen Madeline Bosben, from Jude, heads a team with regional Dairy Queens. The Green County Ag Chest promotes dairy displays at the North Exhibition Hall entrance. Rosa Garden Center features seasonal equipment including snow blowers as summer fades.
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Green County Fair
Clearwater
Fla
George Surman
France
Maine
Exhibition Hall
Floral Hall
George
Wisconsin
Jerry Mullins
Dayton, O
Rosa Garden Center
Krueger Absent From Green County Fair Exhibition Hall Post
Charles Krueger 87 of 1717 15th St will miss this year’s Green County Fair Exhibition Hall supervisor post after major surgery on Monday at St. Clare Hospital. He has supervised open class fruits vegetables grains and honey with Fred Dettwiler for 15 or 16 years and plans to return next year.
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Charles Krueger
15Th St
Exhibition Hall
Krueger
Fred Dettwiler
Daily Doggerel by Clair R Munns
A short verse notes Joe’s failed foot injury from a rail accident and the need to send him a card after his recent operation. The light verse preserves the names and hospital mood in a dated newspaper style.
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Clair R. Munns
Joe
Ida Meythaler 88 longtime Green County Fair official dies
Mrs George Meythaler 88 died at 1 20 am in the home of her daughter Mrs Chester Keister Clarno after two weeks there. Born Ida Ella Elmer Sept 29 187x she taught Mt Pleasant schools and married George J Meythaler Oct 28 1897. They farmed Mt Pleasant Township Monticello Hanover and earlier suffered a cyclone loss in 1911 before moving to Rock County.
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Green County
Floral Hall
George
Ida) Meythaler
Chester Keister
Clarno
Monroe
12Th Ave
Meythaler
Ida Ella Elmer
Mt. Pleasant Township
Henry J
Anna Schoenfield Elmer
Mt. Pleasantchools
George J. Meythaler
Peter Elmer
Monticello
Elmer
Hanover
Rock County
Green County Fair opens as swine crown set at 113th event
The 113th Green County Fair opened at 1 p m with strong turnout expected for a long weekend. Monroe FFA members dominated junior swine judging with Bob Weiss winning grand champion Poland China boar, Stephen Scott grand champion Duroc gilt, and John Ammon reserve gilt. Senior and junior showmanship crowned Karen Mauermann and Steve Scott, with about eight hogs entered in the junior show. Pony classes,4H Horse Show events, cheese judging, and a full judging schedule follow, with 68 41 members and over 100 horses anticipated. The fairgrounds buzzed with Gold Bond shows, food trucks, and open-class beef and dairy entries noted as the largest in years.
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Green County
Karen Mauermann
Dutch Hollow
Route
Albany
Steve Scott
Monroe Ffa
West Will Operate Geology Project Unit at Platteville
The Department of Interior will open a geology project office at Platteville State University this month. It will be Walter S. West’s field headquarters as he maps the zinc lead district of southwestern Wisconsin. West, from Darlington, says the project extends field investigations begun in 1942 and seeks guides to locate new mineral sites.
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West
Madison
Department of Interior
Platteville State University
Walter S. West
Washington, D.C
Wisconsin
Darlington
Heidi dress rehearsals and tours announced for New Glarus
The Times Cay lists a dress rehearsal for the third annual Heidi production on Thursday August 3 with sound effects and mountain scenery by Mrs. Alvin Hoesly. Tours of local farms and cheese factories run August 4 5 6 with start times 10 15 a m and 4 46 5 15 p m. Reservations and exhibits details are provided through the Information Office.
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New Glarus
Times Cay
Johanna Spyri
Heidi
Alvin Hoesly
Second Street
North Side
Monticello
Washington Town Hall
Robert Hoesly
Hubert Elmer
Eldon Thacker
Dean Streiff
Werner Stauffacher
Information Office
Glarmont
Marshall Ingwell
Tschudy’s
Robert Strickler
Kenneth Hoesly
Swiss Maid Cheese and Sausage
Boy collects empty packs to fund seeing-eye dog
Charles Clark 18 follows a school project at St Lawrence Seminary to gather empty cigarette packs for a seeing-eye dog. He has worked at Schmidt's Monroe Shoe Store with his father, plans to return to St Lawrence for two more years of college, and will collect packs at home or the store.
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Helen E. Zimmerli
St. Lawrence Seminary
Mount Calvary
Charles Clark
Don Clark
Monroe
Charles
Schmidt’s - Monroe
Clark
Detroit on edge as National Guard battle continues
National Guardsmen and police fought furiously with snipers on Detroit's west side ending a third night of rioting. Death toll reached 33 with 10 new deaths. over 1,000 injured and property losses near 1 billion. Curfews, refugees, and fires spread to other Michigan cities amid emergency conditions.
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Detroit
West Side
U.S
Watts
Grand Rapids
Saginaw
Flint
Pontiac
Riots and Sniping Across Cities Raise Death Toll
A third night of terror in Detroit raises the riot death toll to 33. Sniper attacks injure eight in Saginaw while three volunteers are shot in Grand Rapids. Other cities report looting, fire bombs, and tense calm amid civil unrest as Stokely Carmichael advocates action. US Army Sgt Dean Beranek of Rice Lake, Wisconsin, is killed in action in Vietnam.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Saginaw
Mich
Grand Rapids
New York
Spanish Harlem
Chicago
West Side
Cleveland
Ohio
Hough Avenue
Phoenix
Ariz
Havana
Stokely Carmichael
Toledo
Mount Vernon
N.Y
New York City
Pontiac, Mich
Rochester
N Y
Englewood, N.J
Washington
U. S. Army
Dean M. Beranek
Rice Lake
Wis
Vietnam
Defense Department
Beranek
Leon Beranek
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Sam
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Green County Ag Chest
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Jude
Ida Meythaler
Patricia Walters
Harold Walters
Route 3
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Kansas Smoke
Sue
Rich Gorst
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Holocaust
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James E. Groppi
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