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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1952
Page
8
Fair and cool tonight with tomorrow's conditions sunny and pleasant. Low temperatures range from 40 to 46 in the north and 46 to 52 in the south, with a high tomorrow of 72 to 78. Precipitation since yesterday is minimal, barometer readings 29.33 and 29.41, warmest U S city Chicago at 92, coldest Bismarck at 42. Sunrise is 4 22 and sunset 7 36.
Judge Harold J. Lamboley issued letters of administration to Frank Good for the estate of Herman Keel who died December 28. Appraisers are Brooks J. Dunwiddie and W. C. Bender. Heirs include three daughters, three sons and six grandchildren.
Acting Judge L. A. Koenig finds Clayton MecNitt of Brodhead liable for overweight vehicle and license violations with $10 and two days costs. Gateway Transportation Co. of La Crosse forfeits $20 bond and $4.03 costs for overweight over license. Alvin L. Benson of Janesville forfeits $20 bonds on two charges no registration inserts in license and no markings on truck.
Miss Rosemarie Petri of Lena Illinois pleaded guilty to speeding before Justice L A Koenig. She was fined ten dollars and costs.
Pirase Sarah Ann Becker of Spring Grove township and Elvin Robert Bus jahn of Orangeville Ti collect marriage license. Gertrude Elizabeth Grunewald of 1702 13th street and Herbert Warren Booth of 1903 10th street secured a license.
Death notices report Mrs. Mary Cecil aged 90 in Monroe Mrs. R B Atkinson aged 77 in Albany Joseph Wong aged 77 from route 1 Blanchardville Frank Wegner aged 74 of Shullsburg Mrs J W Zimmerman aged 83 of Brodhead all reported in local obituaries.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Goulke Sharon Illinois welcomed a son on June 9. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Heinzelman 914 19th Avenue announced a daughter on June 9. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Locke Darlington reported a daughter on June 9. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Schilt route 2 Juda celebrated a son on June 8. Mr. and Mrs. Raipu wuchow route 2 reported a son on June 8. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ganshert Browntown welcomed a son on June 7.
A hospital notice from St. Clare lists patients including Mrs Harry Prindle Marian Signer Maurice Connors and others as well as separate sections for Tonsillectomy Accident Surgical and Dismissals naming numerous individuals and addresses across Illinois and Wisconsin communities.
The article covers a county ag demonstration showing ammonium nitrate side dressing with a cultivator, Digman choppers and wagons, a blower at a silo for silage, and sulfur dioxide as a preservative. Moisture testing via a vegetable oil method is described, aiming for about 65 percent moisture.
Miss Helen McGuire traveled to Chicago on Saturday to spend two weeks there.
Joseph Wong 77 died at his home following a heart attack. Services at Yellowstone Church, Blanchardville, with Rev. M. A. Sorenson officiating. Burial in church cemetery. Born July 24, 1874 in Moscow township Iowa County. Survived by son Dr. Victor J. Wong of Milwaukee, daughter Lillian at home, sister Clara Monroe. Married Petrena Goodman March 6, 1902. Member Yellowstone Lutheran Church.
Authorities report several deaths across Wisconsin. Victor J. Turk Jr., 21, of Sheboygan, an honor student at the University of Wisconsin, drowned at Lake Ellen near Cascade. Allen Schaefer, 18, of Malone, Fond du Lac County, died from injuries after a car left Highway 149 near Johnstown and crashed. Emil van der Heyden, 36, of Elmwood Park, IL, killed when a car left Highway 41 near Kenosha and struck a culvert. Ralph Redmond, age and address unknown, killed in La Crosse yards when struck by a switched box car. James Small, 16, Pittsville, crushed by a barn door while driving a tractor. Gerald Maslack, 21, Kenosha, drowned in Pike's Creek after a canoe capsized. Gordon D. Stebnitz, 21, Milwaukee, died from injuries after a collision at Highway 55 and County Trunk C in Washington County.
The Green County Historical Society holds its annual meeting at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Green Room of the library. Directors will be elected and then officers chosen. Slides from a recent style show will be shown. A New Glarus group will report on the near completion of a replica of the first New Glarus church as part of 13 proposed historical buildings. The society may participate in a later church dedication with a picnic dinner.
A string of social notes records figures such as Bessie Bending of Beloit and Mr and Mrs Harry Reasa from Albany visiting various towns. Others include George W Norton on business in Edgar, Ernest Studer and Clifford Isley fishing in Northern Wisconsin, and many more trips and dinners among Beloit Madison Monroe Juda Blanchardville Mineral Point and La Crosse area households.
The first day of the sixth annual Daily Vacation Bible School drew 353 registered students with record attendance in two departments. Tomorrow offers enrollment for late arrivals and more helpers are needed in St. John's junior classes. Immanuel church kindergarten reports 125 enrolled across eleven classes. Attendance totals include primary 131 junior 66 and intermediate 31. Community Vacation church school at New Glarus shows 102 children enrolled with 14 teaching staff.
Extreme heat Friday and Saturday caused a bulge on highway 1181 north of Juda over Keen cattle pass. No injuries reported after the incident. one motorist briefly lost control after hitting the bump. Two highway workers removed the bulge, scraped material, leveled sections with heavy trucks, and filled the area with blacktop.
A local variety store display inspired a Christmas in June idea as shipments of German made Yule ornaments arrived. The items are the first influx in many years and were produced in the U S zone of Germany.
Police arrested one person over the weekend on speeding charges. Last weekend four others were held for speeding, three for reckless driving, and one for a faulty muffler. Miss Rosemarie Petri, 19, Lena Illinois, was fined ten dollars and costs after driving 40 miles per hour on Highway 11 east.
Miss Ruth Chase county nurse will travel to Aurora Illinois Wednesday as a state conference delegate to the Illinois meeting. She represents the Christian Church at Magnolia.
Judith Kubly Barbara Davis and Karen Bender left yesterday for an aquatic Red Cross lifesaving course in Towanda Illinois. The program prepares them to teach and perform lifesaving duties at the local swimming pool this summer.
Within four days three members of two Brodhead families had their tonsils removed at St. Clare hospital. This morning it was Jan et, 12, Carol 9, and John 7, children of Mr and Mrs John Hoesly Sr. On Friday morning the three children of Mr and Mrs Harold Hawkins had a similar experience in surgery. They were Patsy Lou, Harold and Sandra Kay.
Mr and Mrs Herman A Heinzelman of 914 9th Avenue are the parents of a third daughter born this morning at St Clare Hospital. Mrs Heinzelman is the former Irene Block. The two older children are Cherree and Jacqueline.
Mrs Burnett Briggs of 1520 9th street underwent major surgery at St. Clare hospital this morning.
Appearance of Donald Trow of route 2 Albany in justice court today was postponed until tomorrow. Trow faces a larceny charge from a cattle mixup Thursday night, reported Justice L. A. Koenig.
President Truman told the Senate negotiators may be near settling the steel strike. He urged lawmakers not to act and the Senate postponed further action on steel related proposals until tomorrow. A letter to Vice President Barkley delivered to Chairman Maybank of the banking committee coordinated wage price controls amendments.
An auto crash yesterday at the intersection of highways 11 and 78 in Gratiot damaged Mrs. Etta Steele’s home. Passengers Mrs. Mary Maddrell and Frank Broege were hospitalized at St. Clare with injuries. Neighbor Maude Trickel treated and released.
William Murphy 49, formerly Janeville fire department captain, died yesterday in a Milwaukee hotel. The medical examiner said the death was due to a heart ailment. Murphy had retired a year ago because of ill health.
Robert Alm of Green County highway department was bruised but not seriously hurt when a felled tree swung as he dragged it from a county trunk road east of New Glarus. Alm was pinned to a tractor seat. Paul Tertin and N. C. Jensen helped extract him and take him to the hospital.
Mrs. Helmuth Gruenberg of Juda was hospitalized Saturday night after a wheel detached from a stock car at the Monroe Speedbowl struck her as she watched the races. Doctors report a head concussion and she is in satisfactory condition today.
Shullsburg area farmer Frank Wegner, 74, was found dead Saturday night by neighbors after two days of absence. Laf ayette County coroner Richard Barth ruled natural causes and said no inquest is planned. He leaves a sister, Mrs. Joseph Goebel. arrangements are pending at O Faherty Funeral Home.
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