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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1949
Page
6
Fair and cool tonight and Sunday may be warmer in the northwest away from Lake Michigan. Yesterday at 1 p.m. readings show a high around 80 and a low near 64. A.m. reading 29.60.
Harold J. Lamboley of Hot Springs Arkansas presided as Roderick A. McEachearn is found guilty of carrying a concealed weapon. He is fined 100 dollars and sentenced to five days in the county jail.
L A Koenig of Freeport pled guilty to speeding and owes 18 dollars plus costs. George E Lantz of St Louis Mo pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and owes 5 dollars plus costs. Roderick Alan MacEachern chair concessionaire pleaded guilty to being armed with a concealed dangerous weapon and was bound over to county court under a 400 dollar bond.
Marriage licenses issued in Lafayette county include Jeanette Wieman of Woodford and Donald H. Madsen of Council Bluffs Iowa. Also listed are Mary Staver and Delbert Leu of Darlington, issued in Lafayette county.
afr. and Mrs. David R. Erickson route 1 have a daughter born July 28. Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Erick South Wayne announce a daughter born July. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Yaun Belleville report a daughter born July 29. Mr. and Mrs. James C. Johnson Blanchardville welcome a son born July 29.
St. Clare Hospital Surgicar lists George X. Tunson of Albany and Mrs Maria Olson of Argyle as patients. Medical cases include Thomas Schindler of Blanchardville and Gregory Goodman of Browntown. Dismissals cover several women and relatives, including Ida Chapman Gertrude Myers Ernest Steinman Wil liam Aufderhaar August Faesler Tony Cernoia Ray Baltzer Harry Ahruth and Dwight Zweifel and Mrs Harold Broege.
Free dances at the fair ended with Budd Riffle and Hal Mack's orchestra delivering hot vocal licks to delighted boys and girls. Driver licenses are required for sulky races under the United States Trotting Association with revocation possible. Mike Reinert of Sturgeon Bay is not racing his horses this season due to impaired vision. Pills from a long-necked bottle were used to draw harness race positions.
Mrs. Donald L. Collins hosts junior contract club in Decatur. Mr and Mrs Peter TenEyck of Janesville plan move to Lake Koshkonong after purchasing a home. Peter TenEycks visit family. Mr and Mrs Dave Neidermeier travel in Minnesota. Elery Boyes and son Lewis visit J D McNair in Mexico Missouri. Mrs Thomas Kidd of Mendota visits Spring Valley friends. Patricia Pierce returns from Minnesota. LaVerne Moor of Dundee Illinois visits Grand Junction Colorado.
Mr and Mrs William Teuscher and son Frederick from Monroe along with Mr and Mrs Christ Yaus from Monticello left today for the west coast. The report notes it takes about one hour to convert coal into coke.
McEachearn 33 of Hot Springs Arkansas was sentenced to five days in jail and fined 100 dollars for carrying a concealed weapon after admitting a plan to shoot Richard Taylor 35 of Darlington. The two men, former popcorn concession partners, had a domestic dispute that led to the confrontation at the fairgrounds. Taylor did not appear in court.
Rev. Heary U. Cooper will deliver a farewell sermon at the Universalist church tomorrow morning before leaving with his family for Littleton New Hampshire. He has served as supply minister since April 1948 and will work with small mountain missions in the Littleton area after earning a Meadville Theological School doctorate June 14. The Coopers will drive east via a camping trip along the Mississaugi river in Canada. Church vacation is planned for August.
Flora Wad dle Folmer 86 died Thursday in Bismark South Dakota. Her body arrives by train at 6 pm today to Janesville for Everson funeral home arrangements. She lived in Decatur township Green county before moving to Elmer s home in Bismark after her husband William died. Survived by daughter Della Erickson Longview Washington and three sons Herbert Elmer North Dakota William Elmira NY plus several grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Ya Anderson 28 of Argyle, former Monroe service station operator, won a weekend delay on a six count embezzlement charge. County Judge Harold J Lamblesley scheduled 10 am Monday for the plea. Defense says Anderson hoped to sell a truck to reimburse. He wrote checks in his own name without a bank account. one for 226 dollars paid gasoline tax to state, later subject to property attachment.
A three car accident occurred at 4 45 p m on highway 69 three miles south of Monroe. No injuries were reported. Cars were driven by Carl Miller Winslow Howard Drye and Wesley Bowen. Drye drove a car licensed to Arnold Smobersteg.
London and surrounding areas sent hundreds of thousands toward the sea as the annual three day bank holiday opened. From London alone about 1,000,000 people streamed to coastal resorts on the first day.
Local society page notes numerous visitors and residents arriving from Albany Brodhead Madison Milwaukee and Chicago. Names include Mr and Mrs Harold Burtness Mrs Marvin Smith Miss Rose Waelchli and many more as friends relatives and travelers converge for races fairs and family visits with extended stays in Monroe and Madison.
Opinions related to teacher contracts den tures and shuffleboard were reported by Atty. Gen. Thomas Fairchild today. A contract with a supervising teacher remains in effect under a new superintendent. Shuffleboard is a game of skill and not a vehicle for gambling laws. Black bears eat roots berries fruit flesh and fish.
Oakley 4-H and Green County Center led the junior fair with first place exhibits at Oakley. Second and third places were earned by Brook lyn Busy Bees and York 4-H among others. Grand champion female was Stone or Two Ormsby Tanger shown by Donald Timm. grand bull champion Homestead Governor Inspiration owned by James Oliver. Numerous purebred Holstein and calf classes named many Monroe and Albany participants.
Sheboygan’s Jimmy Lohr held a four up lead over Racine’s Mike Beneriscutto at halfway in a 36 hole state amateur title match. Both players shot 39s on the first nine with Lohr taking holes ten twelve and fifteen with birdies to gain the edge.
Second Ward Alderman Floyd Matzke says he can hear the Brown Town fire siren from downtown Monroe, a claim skeptics wagered on until he produced proof. He said the feat occurred while speaking with Montgomery Electric Co over the telephone.
The Senate appropriations panel struggled over a foreign aid bill riding in amendments. It kept in place proposals to require the ECA administration and the army to buy about 1.8 billion dollars of surplus American farm products and to earmark 50 million dollars of ECA funds for Spain loans, resisting administration pressure to withdraw them. The panel rewrote riders to avoid new legislation within a money bill, prompting a chaotic parliamentary tangle. Vice President Barkley suggested sending the bill forward without the amendments and voting on riders separately.
The first cargo was sent out today as Hawaii's 91 day longshore strike intensified with non union stevedores loading a freighter manned by an AFL crew. Picket lines formed at the waterfront as CIO affiliated longshoremen and Warehousemen's unions began their strike May 1, affecting shipments and talks.
President Truman cooled off from the Washington heat by retreating to a mountain breeze. He told reporters that hot weather is two thirds heat and one third imagination, shrugging off the enduring warmth yesterday.
Drawings were posted at 11 this morning for Sundays harness racing at the fairgrounds. Events include a 2:22 pace with purse 600 featuring Barney Leer and Rose Guy among others, a three year old pace with est 1060, and a 2:26 trot with multiple entries. Additional races include a free for all trot and pace divisions with listed horses and owners from Wisconsin and nearby states.
Manitowoc man Donald Skrepensky 23 loses his left arm when a truck sideswipes his car as he rests an arm on the door. He won a golden gloves title at Fond du Lac last winter. Passenger Elsie Smrz injured lightly. Truck driver Ewald Franzmeier 43 from Haven Wis was arrested after the collision near Green Bay.
University of California officials report Lick Observatory observers detected an extremely fast moving object in the sky and suggest it may be a minor planet. Further tracking is planned to determine its nature and orbit.
Economist Harold G. Moulton, president of the Brookings Institution, says the United States can support a doubled population a century hence with eightfold living standards. He cites soil erosion solutions, universal science-based farm yields up 50 percent, and advances like desert farming and ocean-bed crops. He argues world resources and science can sustain long term growth, with war and other frictions as main limits.
Gov Rennebohm signed two bills and vetoed two others. One directs the legislative council to study highway problems with an advisory committee, funded by a 15000 dollar appropriation. He also signed a measure increasing the industrial commission budget by 15000 dollars annually for factory and building inspection services. Proposals for a 75000 dollar rural library demonstration and conservation wardens pension fund were rejected. wardens would join state retirement per a 1947 reform.
Oslo based lyric tenor Xivin Bjornstad will present an open sacred music concert Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the Bethel Evangelical United Brethren church corner of 14th Avenue and 14th Street. Bjornstad has toured the country for months performing sacred works.
Hartwig Hartwig boy, a prominent FFA and 4 H member from Monroe, won hog showmanship at the junior fair judging on Thursday afternoon. He also earned several firsts including boar Chester Whites best barrow fat class and blue ribbon litter class. Others earning top prizes included Harvey E Elmer Monticello assistant superintendent for division four sheep and reiner, Duane W Mahikuch Juda owner of the championship Berkshire boar and grand champion gilt shown by Albert Burr Monroe, plus numerous additional breed wins across Poland China Duroc Jersey Hampshire and Shropshire classes with multiple champions and first prizes awarded to local 4 H and FFA youths.
A Kentucky carnival worker William Gamble, 26, of Happy, is charged with murder in the slaying of Muriel Baldridge, a Prestonsburg high school cheerleader. Gamble denied knowledge of the crime during questioning at Perry County jail.
Madison reports no new polio cases for the first time in four weeks. State board of health notes a total of 107 cases had been reported up to last night.
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