Daily Record Weather Update
Partly cloudy and warm today and tomorrow with above normal temperatures. Highs near the upper 80s to low 90s and lows in the 60s to around 70 across the region. No significant rain expected in this period.
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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1948
Page
8
Partly cloudy and warm today and tomorrow with above normal temperatures. Highs near the upper 80s to low 90s and lows in the 60s to around 70 across the region. No significant rain expected in this period.
Mena R. Focus to Koy C. Fenske a half interest in section 28 Spring Grove with five acres excluded. Carlton E. Ashby transfers to E. L. Nifenegger land block 12 Payne donation Green County Monroe. Possession set for Aug 1. Bruce M. Blum to James Quinn parcel It 123 Lybrand donation Monroe city. John M. Elmer and Ruth Heller to Henry Heller lot 35 Monroe township. Frederick T. Goecks to Joseph E. Kesler lots 12 and 14 block 8 Andricks add Monroe city. C A Holsinger to Julius Studer lot 100 Lybrands donation Green County Monroe city.
Court records show Baertschi of route 1 Argyle cited for improper use of a temporary instruction permit with $10 and costs. Allen Chesebro of 1923 5th Street cited for no driver's license with $20 and costs. Justice L A Koenig presides.
Joassuspoun of Washington township and Fredrick Ovall Sweeney of Argyle are issued license papers. Phyllis Anne Johnson of Monroe and Norman Edward Watson of Montreal appear in the same notice as couples authorized to wed.
A Albany woman has been named executrix of the estate of her father George T. Peckham who died May 19. The will dated August 22, 1987 leaves granddaughter Arlene Jane Peckham $1000 and the balance to four children Everett Lester and others in Albany and Harleigh Boscobel, subject to widow’s life use. Appraisers named are Thomas M. Dunphy, Robert F. Smiley and Edward Killingstad.
Monroe firm Bruni-Miller Construction was fined five dollars and costs on two counts for no tax and overload. Judge Harold J. Lamboley presided.
Listing of patients undergo operations at St Clare Hospital including Otto A Pehl 1808 Shan Noble Or Accidents 39 Brodhead Olaf Olson 7 Brodhead Norma Lois Ripple 6 Route 1 Belleville Tonsillectomy Edward M Einbeck 2005 6th Street Linda Lou Deemer 500 18th Avenue Mrs Jesse Olson South Wayne Maurice Jewell Jr Brodhead Thomas Hefty Route 3 Medical Mrs Edward Haber.
Carol Schindler was elected president of the Angle Monroe youth center council for 1948. Officers include Mary Barbara Hess as vice president Jane Anderson secretary James Forbes treasurer and Delores Meyer cleanup chair. Members span freshmen to seniors with hours set across weekdays weekends and bad weather slots. Rev. D Andrew Howey will supervise until June 15.
Ten South Wayne eighth graders received county exerts Darlington Tuesday. The group includes Betty Lou Chapman Joann Maurer Judith Krupke Joan Olson Mary Arnot Ruth Swenson Orville Swanson Norbert Durgit Charles Montgomery and H Krebs.
Miss Carol Howe and Walter F. Egli were reported married in Freeport on Friday. The couple are on a short wedding trip in the state. Mr. Egli is employed by Kane and Stautfacher. Arabs and Jews fighting in Palestine paused as UN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte set a four week cease fire in Cairo. The Security Council in Lake Success urged an armistice accepted by both sides. Names of local dismissals listed include Shan Noble Owen Schmitz and others.
A series of social notes reports visitors and travelers including Mr. and Mrs. Lee Phillips of Brodhead in Monroe, Mrs. Sara Schuh from Los Angeles visiting Mrs. Anna Schuh, and Helen Sturzenegger staying in Beloit with relatives. Also listed are trips to Madison, Milwaukee, and Chicago, family visits for Memorial day, and mentions of graduation at Stout Institute and Northland College events.
The city planning commission will meet at 7:30 next Tuesday to take initial action on the Waelti-Quinn subdivision. The 6.33 acre site with 24 building lots lies on 23rd avenue east of 17th street and north of 18th street. The panel will also consider closing an alley between 19th and 20th avenues off 11th street and a stub continuation of 11th avenue north of 15th street.
Scherer and Mrs Scherer will fly to Banff Alberta Canada to attend the International Credit conference next week. He is director at large of the National Retail Credit association and chairs the hospitals and professional group meeting there. He will also visit the Winnipeg clinic on Friday and return in June.
Six brothers-in-law served as pallbearers at the funeral of Fred Brawand. Rites were at 2 pm at Shriner Neushwander Funeral Home with Rev. Paul C. Kehle of St. John's Evangelical and Reformed Church officiating. Burial followed in Greenwood Cemetery. Casket bearers were Joe Lehr, August Lehr, William Lehr, John Lehr, Max Lehr and Ernest Lehr.
Mr and Mrs William Meier are constructing a cottage north of their home in South Wayne. The La Verne Hale family will reside there upon completion with Mr Hale employed by Mr Meier.
Herman Plantikow of route 1 reports the theft of 80 to 100 white Leghorn hens from the farm night of June 1. Sheriff’s department investigating the suspected poultry theft with farm records checked for missing birds.
Interior work proceeds with a first coat finished and a second light green to blend with tan and scroll work in the courthouse ceiling. The family of the late Emil W Stauffacher asks friends to omit funeral flowers.
The clipping lists Kathryn Chambers of Juda to work at a clinic pharmacy this summer and enroll at Stout Institute in Menomonie after graduating Juda High School. Ernest C. Waeffler, Crown Swiss Dairy distributor, received a permit to deliver milk in Belmont with his family present. Dr. Arthur J. Schindler remained in critical condition at a state hospital.
The late board of health urges Darlington residents to apply for hospital construction funds. About 973000 dollars will be available after July 1 for distribution next year under a Wisconsin program requiring two dollars local match per federal dollar. Plans for a 300000 dollar hospital with 100000 from subscriptions and similar federal and county bonds faced an attorney general ruling that the county bond issue was illegal.
The Paraguayan army ousted President Higinio Morinigo after an eight year rule. Chief Justice Juan Manuel Frutos becomes provisional president awaiting inauguration of Juan Natalicio Gonzales, who was elected in February with a single candidate ballot. Shirley DeLorimier was in Madison on business.
Miss Virginia Barlow of Monticello will be queen of the University of Wisconsin Senior Ball on June 15 with Ed Mills of Milwaukee as king. Barlow, a Stephens College graduate and part time UW student, and Mills, a former varsity basketball player, headline the event. Also noted: two million tons of rail steel produced in 1947 for American railroads.
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