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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1973
Page
6
Wisconsin and Illinois forecast: sunny periods with warm highs in the 70s to 90s and cooler nights. Wisconsin notes include barometer readings and sunrise sunset times. Obituaries list Arthur Svoboda 51 Brodhead Charles Booth 90 Mazomanie Harry Holton 60 Monroe Julia Bull 78 Brodhead and Kjelland family Footville with a birth on June 8.
Obituaries for Mazomanie area residents note deaths from June 7 to June 9 in Madison and surrounding towns. Details include survivors, burial plans, and funeral home arrangements with multiple services in United Methodist churches and local cemeteries.
St Clare Hospital case file lists accident victims including Mrs Thomas Turner 19 residing at 1303 19th St and Mrs Walter Bregenzer 1322 9th St plus surgical and medical patients such as Miss Patricia Hanson Beloit Emil Stoller Rockford and others. The roll also records numerous dismissals including Frank Bradle Mrs Albert Brushaber and James L Davis among names.
Funeral services for Alvin Blanchard 71 grandson of Blanchardville founder die Friday June 8 at 2 p.m. Monday June 11 at Blanchardville Lutheran Church Pastor Rev J R Hestenes to officiate Burial in Graceland Cemetery Saether Funeral Home Blanchardville 2 to 9 p.m. Sunday and Monday morning Visitation church 12 noon until service time Survived by widow Amy Halvorson married 1921 a son Alvin a daughter Mrs Malcolm Disrud two sisters Mrs Ted Brewer and Mrs Harold Pulliam eight grandchildren six great
Arthur Charles Svoboda 51 of Rt. 1 Brodhead died Friday June 8 after a long illness in Swedish American Hospital Rockford. He was born May 12 1922 in Algonquin Illinois son of Stanley and Anna Svoboda. He married Jean Davis May 10 1941 in Kahoka Missouri. He was a farmer and a carpenter and a member of the United Methodist Church Brodhead. Survived by wife Jean a daughter Susan Clancy Grafton five sons Peter Rockford Matthew Brodhead Thomas Benjamin Andrew all at home and two grandchildren. A sister and his parents preceded him in death. Services will be at 1 30 p.m.
Stanley W. Olson, 46, a former cashier at the First National Bank of Blanchardville, pled no contest in US District Court to making fraudulent entries totaling more than $118,500 over ten years. Judge James E. Doyle ordered a pre sentence investigation. Olson had vanished briefly in late 1972 and has since returned to the area. Bienema's open Eve's till 9.
Monroe volunteers host a rescue and firefighting display at 1 15 p.m. Sunday on the south side of the square. A bucket brigade follows with teams from 12 fire departments in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. The St John’s Church Women’s Guild meets Monday at 7 45 p.m. to hear Mrs Arthur Garst of Madison speak and show Holy Week trip films.
Swimmers at least 15 may enroll in the Senior Life Saving course at the Monroe Community Center with sessions at 7 30 p m on Wednesdays starting June 20. Report to the inner pool area and arrive prepared to swim at the first session.
The 44th State Convention of the Wisconsin FFA will be at the American Baptist Assembly Green Lake Monday through Wednesday. Monroe delegates led by Mark Flannery president Layne Sass secretary and Terry Patterson treasurer as alternate attend with others including Larry Weckerly Buetzer Hasler Wyss and Nuckles. Hasler will speak Monday on his Work Experience Abroad in Switzerland. Monroe Advisor Ken Allen accompanies the group. Gerrit DeBruin Juda and Kim Havens Darlington will participate actively.
The Red Cross urges vacationers not to skip blood donations this summer. The Bloodmobile will visit Monroe Tuesday from 1 to 6 p.m. at the National Guard Armory. Appointments are via Mrs. Clarence Rufer. Several individuals require blood replacement: Ray Goodmiller 23 pints for open heart surgery at University Hospitals Madison. George Clark 11 pints for open heart surgery at St Mary's. Mrs. Eugene Meier 9 pints for University Hospitals. Joe Coffee 5 pints for St. Clare Hospital.
June Dairy Month recipe shared by Green County Farm Bureau Women. YUM YUM COFFEE CAKE blends butter sugar eggs flour and sour cream with vanilla and a brown sugar cinnamon nut topping. baked in layers at 325 for about 40 minutes. Credit to Mrs M Klassy of New Glarus.
Green County Sheriff reports two road mishaps this week. Edwin C. Seaton 43 Winslow sustained minor damage when another car forced him off the road and his vehicle went through a fence 0.7 mile southeast of Martintown. Fritz O. Treuthardt 37 Juda sustained under 200 dollars damage when the roadway shoulder gave way as his dump truck turned left at Buckskin and Isely Roads intersection.
An off duty officer spotted four juveniles from Princeton Illinois in the 1200 block of 9th Street. Monroe Police took into custody two 17 year old boys and two girls aged 14 and 15 as runaways. The youths were returned to Princeton with one boy sent back to the U S Navy from which he was AWOL.
An Albany Education Association open letter to concerned citizens outlines ten points about the Albany school district. It notes three teachers with 22 combined years have not had contracts, young teachers leaving for better jobs, a $500 cut to library funds, a nurse shortage near closure, falling ceiling tiles on fourth graders, and other fire and safety hazards. It also mentions legal fees for binding arbitration and that both the administrator and the principal will depart this year.
Monroe Public Schools announce a summer program starting June 11 with reading enrichment classes at 8:30 9:30 and 10:30 am. Sessions include music typing and driver education with one special education class and speech language development offered at Lincoln School. Community parents are invited to visit.
Mrs. Walter Bregenzer tripped at a New Glarus store and broke her left leg below the knee. a cast was applied and release is anticipated. Mrs. Everett Van Horn fractured her left hip in a kitchen fall and is in satisfactory condition. Kathleen Kammel, 11, underwent appendectomy and will be a sixth grader in New Glarus. Jon Hendrickson, 6, is recovering from surgery at St. Clare. Richard Wetzel, 74, in ICU with a heart condition after a recent return from Pleasant View nursing home. David W. Smith sustained torn ligaments in a knee and leg from slow pitch, cast to stay six weeks. sister Mrs. Robert Severson remains hospitalized after disc surgery.
James L. Flynt II and Michael C. Howard named platoon leaders with Captain Thomas Irvin commanding the 1158th. Fifth Army adviser M Sgt Henry Stegall to Camp McCoy for a month. Betty Stegall and son Charles visited Monroe for the weekend, their first visit. A chicken pox case was reported in Green County for the week ending May 19.
Clarno 4-H Club sponsors a June Dairy Month contest to identify the oldest active farming couple in Clarno Township. Nominations run June 11 to 18 by calling Cindy Waelti at 325-5723. The winning pair will be honored June 21 at the Clarno Ice Cream Social at the Clarno Community Center.
Fifty four girls register for the first session of the annual Girl Scout Day Camp running Monday through Friday at the Kiwanis Youth Cabin west of Monroe. Mary Usher of Monroe directs the camp with Nancy Peters assisting. staff includes Brownie and Junior units and a Seattle internship next July.
A Kenosha woman is hospitalized at St. Clare Hospital after a Friday afternoon crash in the 1100 block of 20th Avenue. Joycelyn K. Pasch was stopped in the lane when her vehicle was rear ended by a car driven by Craig R. Zentner of Monroe. Pasch suffers a neck injury and was transported by Green County Sheriff's Department ambulance for treatment.
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