Pioneer Village Project Growing in New Glarus
The Pioneer Village expands with a second replica on land from the Gabriel Schindler estate. The Swiss Reform church replica, sponsored by the Wilhelm Tell Guild and supervised by J Jacob Rieder, is due for dedication this month. The original 1938 community house now serves as a Swiss museum with over 1 000 cataloged items under J J Figi.
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Wilhelm Tell Guild
New Glarus
Green County Historical Society
Mary Jane Webber
Cliff Webbers
Gabriel Schindler
J. Jacob Rieder
J. J. Figi
Norway House
Figi
Extra bull goes home after wrong delivery stop
Green County officials resolved the case of the extra bull when the Brown Swiss stray was dropped at the Lorraine Douglas Oliver Miller farm near Juda instead of the Condon farm southwest of Brodhead. The mixup began with an attempted delivery when no one was home, prompting a sheriff's department report of a missing bull that ended with two animals in custody.
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Green County
Lyle Condon
Brodhead
Carlo Figi
Juda
Sheriff's Department
Condon
Lorraine Douglas-Oliver Miller
Douglas-Miller
Bucko
Rockford
Ozark Pastor Dies After 51 Day Fast of Prayer
Rev. J. J. Ivie a 57 year old Assembly of God minister died in Cherryville Missouri after a 51 day fast he began to seek the more perfect will of God for his life. His wife five sons and a daughter were at his bedside as Ivie remained conscious until death. He had warned the fast was not to save the world though he spoke of concerns about Communism in two recordings.
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Cherryville
Ozarks
J. J. Ivie
Assembly of God Church
St. Louis
Ivie
Mrs. J. W. Zimmerman of Brodhead Dead at 7:15
Mrs. J W Zimmerman wife of the retired Evangelical United Brethren minister died suddenly at her Brodhead home after a cerebral hemorrhage. Born Ella Marie Johnson June 25 1863 she was active in Emmanuel church WSWS and WCTU. She leaves husband two sons Paul and Floyd a daughter in law Bertha Meinert two grandchildren and several nieces and nephews Funeral services Wednesday at Emmanuel church with burial in Union cemetery Oakley
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WCTU
Paul
Brodhead
Floyd
The
East Troy News
Will
Bertha) Meinert
Juda
Virgil
Carol Meinert
Emmanuel Church
Robert Boettcher
R. W. Huebner
Union Cemetery
Oakley
Everson Funeral Home
Grains Hold Firm as Market Opens Cautiously in Chicago
Grains held firm after a hesitant opening on the Board of Trade led by rye and old crop soybeans. The market echoed the strong late week trading with ongoing active demand and price firmness.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Federal Reserve loosens down payment rules on new housing
The Federal Reserve Board announced relaxed down payment requirements for new private houses built after October 1950, cutting by up to half on the least expensive homes and up to 20 percent on the priciest. For houses under 12,000 dollars a 5 percent down is now required, while 25,000 dollar homes and up face a 40 percent minimum, with sliding scales for in between. VA insured loans get easier terms, and apartments with more than four units adjust to 10 to 40 percent.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Veterans Administration
Wisconsin Alice in Dairyland finalists named at Madison
Eight regional girls were narrowed from a 40 entrant field to eight finalists for Wisconsin Alice in Dairyland at Madison. Finalists include Bonnie Stephan and Jean Hendrickson of Madison, Phyllis Indermuehle of Jackson, Lois Weber of Columbus, JoAnn James of Dodgeville, Caro Sutherland of Milwaukee, Marjorie Davntl of De Forest, and Mary Walsh of Baraboo. Judge panel featured F. J. Bolender Jr., Peter May, and Roy Gumtow.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Green
Dane
Columbia
Crawford Counties
Monroe
DeLea Treloar
Phyllis Teehan
Sauk City
Seymour
the Park Hotel
Bonnie Stephan
Jean Hendrickson
Stock Prices Climb In Moderately Active Market
Better prices were paid all around for stocks in a moderately active market. Gains were fractions to around a point while losses were scattered and largely fractional though some extended to a point. Volume ran about 1,300,000 shares, above average compared with 1,520,000 shares traded Friday.
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New York
Supreme Court to rule on school desegregation
The high court agreed to hear appeals from Negro parents arguing that public school segregation violates equal protection. Cases focus on Topeka Kansas and Clarendon County South Carolina but rulings could affect nationwide policy. The court also ruled on labor rights, trial integrity, sanity standards, and a large Dollar steamship stock dispute involving American President Lines.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Topeka
Kas
Clarendon County
S.C
High Court
Federal Communications Commission
Morris Leland
Thelma Taylor
Portland
Ore
Oregon
Justice Department
American President Lines, Inc
Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer
Weekend Wisconsin deaths total fourteen
A weekend of Wisconsin fatalities included race driver Johnny McDowell 37 from Venice California killed when a wheel failed during a 100 mile race at State Fair Park Milwaukee. His wife Nellie and two children survive. Other deaths ranged from drowning to accidental strangling and vehicle collisions across Wisconsin communities.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Johnny McDowell
Venice
Calif
State Fair Park
Milwaukee
Nellie
Reuben Scheiderer
Wisconsin Rapids
Lake Wazeecha
Mary Clarice Mitchell
Minéral Point
Robert Mitchell
Oscar Fischer
St. Louis
The
Bank Building and Equipment Co
Neenah
Jeffrey L. Kwarcinski
Harry Sarbaker
Portage
Sauk County
Vernon E. Gabert
Egg Harbor
Fish Creek
Air Service Official Dies in Plane Mishap at Portage Lake
An executive of a new plane service to Isle Royale died when his craft crashed in Portage Lake Houghton Michigan this morning. His companion Norman Ward was rescued. Coast Guardsmen recovered Dr Hollis MacDaniels’s body about an hour later.
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Air Service
Portage Lake
Mich
Houghton, Mich
Isle Royale
Hollis MacDaniels
Northbrook
Ill
Norman Ward
Coast Guardsmen
MacDaniels
Mrs Atkinson of Albany Area Dies at 77
Mrs. R. B. Atkinson, 77, died unexpectedly at her Albany area farm home. She married Rus sell Boyd Atkinson on May 20 1897 and was a longtime member of the local Methodist church. Survived by five children, a sister, and a brother, with 20 grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
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Albany
R. B. Atkinson
Atkinson Farm
Russell Boyd Atkinson
Methodist
A. B. Nimz
Manitowoc
Sharer
Russell
Delmar Atkinson
Sherwood
Jordan Carlson
Lyle
Berdell Trow
Atkinson
Myrtle Edwards
Pembroke Edwards
Waverly
L. A. Sutherland
Brooklyn
George Rogers
Chicago
Elmer Runans
Boyd
Sutherland
Jesse R. Edwards
Janesville
Forage Field Day Draws 500 At Smock Valley Farm
Rain did not deter about 500 people at Kendall Digman farm in Smock Valley as Green County Grassland Soil Conservation Association hosted a forage harvesting demonstration. Attendees observed Henry Huffman hay stem crusher in action and learned faster drying of hay. Field days continue in Jefferson township and New Glarus with UW agronomist F Victor Burcalow assisting.
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Kendall Digman
Green County Grassland Soil Conservation Association
Zurfluh
Albany
Jack LaBrode
Jefferson Township
Ernest
Red) Zentner
New Glarus
F. Victor Burcalow
UW Agronomist
Henry Huffman
Emmanuel Fuchs
Eisenhower Camp Faces Taft Move For MacArthur Keynote
New York Republicans and Taft backers clash over naming Gen Douglas MacArthur as the Republican national convention keynote speaker. Eisenhower forces oppose a MacArthur selection due to his public Taft support, while Taft allies push for MacArthur alongside other potential officials. July convention plans hinge on arrangements committee votes and possible roles for Gabrielson Martin Knowland and others.
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Chicago
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Douglas MacArthur
J. Russel Sprague
New York
Eisenhower
MacArthur
Taft
Walter Hallanan
West Virginia
Hallanan
Ike
Sprague
William Knowland
California
Harry Cain
Washington
Eugene Millikin
Colorado
Howard Pyle
Arizona
Sen
Joseph Martin
Massachusetts
Guy G. Gabrielson
Knowland
Convention Arrangements Committee
Gabrielson
Texas
Martin
House
Accident Strews Caskets on Street
A truck loaded with five metal caskets four infant caskets and several crates overturned at the intersection of 8th street and 20th avenue at 1 15 p m. The Oshkosh driver Harry R Dougherty traveling north on 20th avenue and Dr G F Van De Land Fulton Ill traveling west on 8th street collided and the truck tipped onto its side. Neither driver was seriously injured. The car sustained front damage. The truck was en route from Oshkosh to Arena.
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8Th Street
20Th Avenue
Harry R. Dougherty
Oshkosh
G. F. van de Land
Fulton
Ill
van DeLand
John M. Irvin
Arena
Silent Red POWs Watch Rehearsals For Splitup at Koje
U S paratroopers staged a second dress rehearsal at Koje Island Korea for breaking up Koje prison camp 80 000 POWs into 500 man compounds. Commanding general Haydon Boatner aims to gain control as troops rehearse dispersal amid red guards watching from compounds 76 77 and 78. Date for operation start not announced.
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Koje Island
Korea
U. S
Koje
Kose
Haydon L. Boatner
Mrs. Mary Cecil Dies at 90 in Green County Hospital
Mrs. Mary Cecil aged 90 died yesterday morning at Green County hospital after a yearlong illness. Born Mary Sexton in Albany Clinton County Ohio on March 20 1962 she married Sheb Cecil in Birdstown Tennessee in 1890. She and her husband moved to Green County in 1915 and she was the mother of 11 children with 5 surviving. Services will be held tomorrow at 2 pm at Shriner Neushwander funeral home with burial in Greenwood cemetery.
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Mary Cecil
Green County Hospital
Cecil
13Th Avenue
Albany
Clinton County
Mary Sexton
Aaron and
Nancy Alexander Sexton
Birdstown
Tenn
Sheb Cecil
Kentucky
Green County
Milwaukee Railroad
Dan
Flint
Mich
John Polston
Dayton
Jerry Rigney
Divernon
Sherman Dalton
Gratiot
William Walters
Monroe
Harvey
Sam
Florine
Shriner-Neushwander Funeral
Lawrence A. Brown
Paul Gibson
Bethel Church
Greenwood Cemetery
Tank Fire at Monroe Gas Plant Sparks City Interest
Firefighters fought a 16 000 gallon tar coated tank blaze at the Monroe Gas Division on 13th avenue. Kemp Construction Co workers dismantling the tank used torches, water was added from the top as flames and steam erupted. No surrounding gas danger. valves would vent if needed.
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Wisconsin Hydro-Electric Co
Monroe
Monroe Gas Division
13Th Avenue
W. Howard Smith
Kemp Construction Co
Chippewa Falls
Fire Department
H. L. Sickinger
Wisconsin Stations Plan Overseas Series
Radio stations in 25 Wisconsin cities including Monroe WEKZ join a plan to broadcast hometown voices to servicemen overseas. Col. W. M. Wright Jr. of the Armed Forces Radio Service in Hollywood says 1,000 broadcasters nationwide will participate in the series, set to begin August 17.
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Wisconsin
Monroe
WEKZ
Col. W. M. Wright Jr
Armed Forces Radio Service
Hollywood
Defense lists 130 added to Korea battle casualties
The Defense Department identifies 130 additional casualties in Korea in list No. 581. It reports 15 killed 106 wounded and nine injured in combat area accidents.
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Washington
Defense Department
Korea
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