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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1950
Page
6
Mostly fair and cooler today with more cool tonight and Sunday. Frost possible in north and central areas. Highs 55 to 65, lows 35 to 45. North winds about 15 mph. Record highs and lows listed for yesterday and year ago. Warmest and coldest U S cities named with temperatures. Sunrise and sunset times given.
Victor Raitington transfers parcel in Cadiz Township Browntown to Charles Ebert. John Wyss transfers old Wyss cheese factory building and real estate in Monroe Township to Dwayne Block. Martha Merkel transfers parcel in Brodhead to Woodstock Typewriter Co. Henry Heuer transfers 6th street frontage parcel in Monroe Township to H L Kubly. Casper Disch transfers outlet 113 in Mon ticelio to Walter Elmer.
Justice Elliott and Monticello roll call involve speeding charges. Aubey of Appleton facing $25 and costs forfeiture. Monroe subject Truehardt charged with reckless driving at $25 and costs. Marriage licenses issued for Doris Layman and Kenneth Keen. Death notices for Ernestina Schlegel, William Fox, Harlow Johnson. Birth announcement for a daughter to Oscar and Mrs. Samson.
The notice lists patients undergoing tonsillectomies and medical procedures at St. Clare Hospital including Richard Kemprood and Helen Englbrecht with other named patients in locations such as Freeport Janesville Argyle Beloit and Gratiot. It also names dismissals including Dr Bernard Munson and several patients and relatives.
Green county residents are advised of the Legislative Council hearings this month with several meetings listed including June 5 Highway committee trucking problems 10 am June 12 Agriculture committee poisons regulation 10 am June 13 Agriculture Bangs control and seed program 9 am June 23 Judiciary Elk Hart Lake joint with state bar June 27 Highway Merrill courthouse trucking reports June 29 Education adult and vocational education needs 10 am June 30 Education transportation state aid and building needs.
Forty six Monroe high school students finished a two term driver education class guided by Nat G. Preston and Edmund R. Anderson and received achievement certificates. Eligible now for road instruction without further testing, the certificates can be exchanged for a permit to learn to drive. Names listed include Carpile Ableman, Yvonne Ammann, Arlen Ault, Wilbur Beach, Nancy Benkert, Geraldine Berg, Clifford Brown, Marian Due, Donald Dwyer, Marjorie Ethridge and others.
Harry Kesler of Janesville a retired police captain and former deputy sheriff announces his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Rock County sheriff in the September primary. He served on the Janesville force from 1924 to 1946 and has worked at Lewis Knitting Co. for the past year and a half.
Green county DOC members will elect four delegates to the state democratic convention at Browntown Monday night. The group aims to finalize a full slate of county office candidates for fall elections and hear candidate speakers. Lafayette county DOC members will attend, and Gratiot hosted the final Lafayette meeting with Attorney General Thomas Fairchild scheduled to speak.
Miss Marie Streiff received a bridal shower hosted by Mrs. Doris Strahm and co-hostesses in New Glarus. Attendees included Betsy Henning and Ruth Streiff among others. Green Bay visitors, YWCA official election for Marlea Duerst, and Virginia Finke showers noted. Local trips to Ozark mountains and New Orleans mentioned. Poppy sale raises 218 dollars, about fifty more than last year.
Zwingli Evangelical and Re formed Aid society will meet Tuesday at the parish house. Mrs. H F Stoll will be refreshment chairman assisted by Mmes Albert Strasser Jake Thompson Thomas Voegeli Leon Voegeli and Miss Kate Stauffer.
Mr and Mrs M E Lynn departed yesterday for Glenwood City and Stanley to be guests at grand officers parties of the Eastern Star Mrs Lynn holds the position of Grand Adah for the Grand Chapter of Wisconsin and will participate in the events alongside regional leaders.
A roundup of social notes lists names and travels across Green County. Albany visitor Stanton P. Stears stops in for a day. Verona hosts Miss Helen Sturzenegger at a wedding attendance. many families and friends visit, travel, or host in towns including Janesville, Carthage College, Milwaukee, Platteville, Waukesha, Chippewa Falls, and San Francisco. Local booklets on Swiss cheese history are available at The Times office.
A records check shows three siblings achieving top honors across recent commencements. Margaret Angliker, daughter of Adolf and Mrs Angliker of 2021 16th Street, becomes the third daughter to graduate with top honors, joining Lillian Angliker of Cleveland and Mrs Nathan L Goetz who tied for top honors in 1944. Similarly, the Krauss daughters Mildred Kathryn and Virginia also received top honors in the last three years.
Eight applicants were granted class B liquor and malt beverage licenses at the village board meeting last evening. They are Matt Zentner, Mrs. Christine Belle Elliott, Ernest Schuerch, Louis Wyss, Erwin Kissling, Herbert Hubacker, Mrs. Orpha Kubly, and George Grat.
The first six grades of Monticello public school held their annual picnic dinner at the school Thursday under the supervision of grade teachers Mrs Hazel Kundert Mrs Ruth Zentner Miss Lora Dick and Miss Marie Splinter. The school closed yesterday for summer vacation.
William Fox aged 70 of Warren died Friday morning in Deaconess Hospital Freeport after a long illness. Services set for 2 p m Monday at Bartell Funeral Home with Elmwood Cemetery burial. Born October 1 1879 in Germany he came to the U S in 1881 and married Elizabeth Zimmerman of Thomson Township Surviving: two daughters Lucille Winslow Freeport Marie Lamoreau La nark two sons Elmer Morrison and Clarence Freeport two sisters Bertha Risser Warren Tillie Wild Racine three brothers Albert Fox New Glarus Henry and Edward both of Warren
Livestock markets show mixed results with hogs and cattle varying by weight. Slaughter cattle and yearlings higher on top grades, vealers steady, and feeders strong. Grain futures mostly rose after early weakness with wheat down modestly and soybeans up.
Mrs. Walter M. Helgesen, wife of the local army recruiter, entered St. Clare hospital yesterday as a medical patient. Sgt. Helgesen took their children Walter and David to Kenosha last evening to stay with grandparents while their mother is ill. To move Monday Mr and Mrs R E Erickson will move from 1020 20th avenue to apartment 54 in the Gonstead building at 1711 10th street.
A red-haired scar-faced woman and two armed men evaded police in a two day pursuit across mountain thickets near here. They are wanted for gunfire brushes with officers in two states, with one believed wounded and the trio slipping out of a trap.
Three state agencies will meet Monday to decide on reviving a summer weekend truck ban long suspended since 1942. Officials from the public service commission highway and motor vehicle departments will determine if a hearing is necessary and whether to issue an order resuming limits on trucks on state highways. The ban restricts trucks between May 29 and the second Sunday in September, 1 p m to 11 p m Saturdays and 9 a m to midnight Sundays and holidays, with exemptions for under 8,000 pounds and for livestock bakery goods perishable food products and newspapers. The PSC can act without a hearing and the wartime suspension dates to wartime transport needs.
Elsie Wrosch 45 pleaded not guilty to first degree murder in her husband Barnhard Wrosch 70 who died last August. Exhumation showed a lethal arsenic dose in his vital organs and bail was raised by 10000 on her arraignment. she has 10 days to post the additional bond and a trial date will be set within that period.
Southern Illinois authorities hunted a hitchhiker described as about 40 and a Missouri fugitive after he shot and bound truck driver Carl Pursinger, 38, of Kansas City, Missouri, tying him to a tree. Pursinger was found in serious condition in a Vandalia hospital.
Monroe high school players James Hardell and Harold Pilz were knocked out in state tournament play at Neenah after winning their first match yesterday. The Associated Press list shows them not among the doubles quarterfinalists as Madison West led the field at noon.
A chartered bus carrying 38 students from St Robert junior high Shorewood paused in Monroe at noon for a square tour before continuing to St Clara academy at Sinsinawa for a school spring picnic.
International Harvester Co and CIO United Auto Workers reach a contributory pension pact for about 25,000 workers with a five year term and a health welfare package. A separate agreement with United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers for 27,000 workers across 11 plants also ratifiable locally, covers health, pension and related benefits.
A roster of participants for the Green County land contest includes William Figi Jordan Henry Spring Mt. Pleasant Herman Graber Washington Gilbert Detwiler Monroe Lloyd George Brooklyn Waldo Freitag New Glarus Fred Baertschi Albany Paul Grossenbacher New Glarus Leland Jordan Jefferson Everett Hanson Adams Stanley Kittleson New Glarus Fred T Hefty estate New Glarus Kendall Digman Monroe Kenneth Sonnnenberg Clarno Mike Ebel Cadiz Francis Doherty Adams Walter Streiff New Glarus Edward J Kaderly Spring Grove Arleigh Frautschy Clarno Walter Steffenhagen Jordan Oliver Miller Spring Grove Herbert Scherer Monroe.
Washington reports the federal deficit for the 1950 fiscal year may end about 1.4 billion dollars under the administration forecast, with potential to nearly reach a 2 billion improvement. The 12 month deficit may stay well below 4 billion, a 26 percent drop from the April 2 estimate. By May 31 with one month left, spending may fall further than the April 20 forecast of 42 billion dollars.
The annual poppy sale last Saturday raised $98.11. Sponsored by the American Legion auxiliary, the event featured canvassers Karen Kubly, Janice Escher, Judy Huber, Janice Kammerer, Kenny Kundert, Dennis Field, Eldon Taylor, Dickie Hitchcock and Marian Hitchcock.
Former Boston mayor James M. Curley returned from a Europe trip and announced he would seek a fifth term as Boston's chief executive next year. The 75 year old Massachusetts politician said he is at least 25 years younger than when he left for the trip and appeared hale and hearty.
Census figures show LaCrosse city population rising from 42,707 to 47,032 and LaCrosse county increasing from 59,653 to 67,511 over the past decade according to the Census Bureau.
Vilas County Judge Frank Carter entertained at a seventh judicial circuit bar association gathering replacing speeches with ventriloquism. His remarks drew applause from fellow jurists at the event.
E C Garton, 44, president of the Garton Toy Co., a leading U S toy manufacturer, died Friday after a sudden heart attack. His father Clarence Garton was chairman of the board.
Milwaukee Wisconsin federation of postal clerks adopted a resolution urging repeal of the Hatch Act. The act restricts political activities by civil service employees and limits their involvement in elections.
The county radio call letters have been changed to KSB447 from WKPY, affecting official station identification.
The ninth district census office reports gains in Eau Claire and Chippewa cities and counties. Eau Claire city 35,639 up from 30,745. Chippewa Falls 11,050 up from 10,368. Eau Claire county 54,236 vs 46,999. Chippewa county 42,233 vs 40,703. Small towns Altoona 1,710. Bloomer 2,557. Racine county 109,047 with Burlington 4,774.
Miss Ernestina Senieger died yesterday in Monroe township at 69 from a cerebral hemorrhage after stroke illness since May 22. Born October 27, 1880 in Nurnberg, Germany, she came to the U.S. in 1921, settled in Chicago, lived in Monroe since 1925. Survived by a sister, Mrs. Alfred Morgenthaler, two nieces and three nephews. Services today at 10:30 a.m. at Shriner Neushhwander funeral home, Rev. Paul C. Kehle officiating. Burial in Greenwood.
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