Weather Log Snapshot From Daily Record
Daily weather summary notes yesterday from 2 PM with high 83 and low 45 degrees. Precipitation since yesterday and barometer reading at 2 AM are recorded alongside sunrise at 4 22 and sunset at 7 38.
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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1947
Page
6
Daily weather summary notes yesterday from 2 PM with high 83 and low 45 degrees. Precipitation since yesterday and barometer reading at 2 AM are recorded alongside sunrise at 4 22 and sunset at 7 38.
Forrest F. Engebretson transfers to Rox and Roxaha ff real estate parcels 2 block 55 and 1 and 3 block 55 Brodhead in a sequence of conveyances. The filings indicate property moves within the Brodhead district with multiple parcels involved.
Lois L. Gross was granted a divorce from Raymond V. Gross on cruelty charges. The plaintiff received custody of two minor children with child support of $60 per month and alimony of $40.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Huntley Monticello announce a son born June 13. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Watrud Blanchardville announce a daughter born June 13. Mr. and Mrs. William E. Freeman 502 20th Avenue announce a son born June 12.
Hospital and medical staff listings include surgeons George Geigel and Edward Knipshield with locations on route 4 Herman Greeson Rockford and South Beloit Medical Alice Sherron 714 21st avenue Deanne Kay Stenbroten route 2 Tonsillectomy participants Pergy and Jerry Powers Phillip Webb Meredith Burt James Ketter Albany Shirley Krupke Brown town Eunice Moe South Wayne and dismissals of George Marshe Mrs Orso Duerst Leon Marty Mrs George Beck Dewey Covert Mrs Elbert Fish Mrs Guy Hagar William White Daniel and Rebecca Stir Linda Lou Elmer Sharon B Sneider Ronald and Janice Nelson Joyce Salzwedel Mrs Emma Zimmerman Melvin Phillipson.
Indiana and Wisconsin farm youths entered a record 505 lambs at the ninth annual Chicago Junior Lamb Show and Sale at Union Stock Yards. Wisconsin exhibitor Wayne Disch, 17, Evansville, showed the grand champion, with six lambs entered. About 180 people a day register at the Vicksburg National Military Park in an average year.
A reform plan proposes eliminating 14 positions in the state board of health and creating an executive director role to cut about $22,000 annually. It calls reorganization of labs, public health nurse hiring, and removing ex officio or group-representative memberships, with higher birth certificate and delayed record fees and consolidating field inspection and vital statistics units.
In Milwaukee Judge Steffes recessed as defense objects to admitting chemical analysis of a jar found in Calvary Presbyterian Church fire debris. Prosecution argues the state must prove circumstantial evidence linking the jar to the blaze that damaged the church on January 25. The defendant Dr John Lewis, 72, faces the charge while the pastor denies the accusation.
Mrs H S Haworth hosted a dessert bridge for her Thursday Night club with high honors earned by Mrs George Stauffacher Mrs John ODonnell and Mrs Rey Schiffman. Travel winner was Mrs Russel Prien. Another dinner bridge at the Spaeni sisters featured Miss Margaret Burgi scoring high and winners Mrs Clara Belle Grode Mrs C E Baumle and Miss Nell Burgi. Registrations promoted by local want ads.
Local notes list numerous residents and visitors: James Tschudy at Lanz Johnson Insurance. J W Miller and spouses from Sterling Illinois. Margaret Blum Monti cello Monroe caller. Etha Ruth Discher in Freeport. Fritz Messmer daughter Gertrude in Freeport. Sharon Mueller Beloit Monroe visitors. Lloyd Holmes guest of Weckerly in Mineral Point. Edna Hang Mollie Delp Orangeville Monroe shoppers. Mrs James Burke Mamie Burke Gratiot Monroe visitors. Rosie Goebel returned to Darlington after visiting Bernadine Goebel. Dr L A Moore back from Milwaukee after F and A M grand lodge. Robert Rieder spending summer at home. R N Austin left for Baltimore. Kundert and Schoonover visit Schindler Edgerton. Mrs Paul Schult to New Lisbon after visiting Lester and Mrs Schult South Wayne. Jeanette Nelson returned to St Paul after staying with Skyruds. Doc Deininger Monroe hotel patient at St Clare with heart trouble. Roy Thate son Lanz return to West Bend from Argyle and Monroe visits. Howard Lueck family and Herman Brugger family in Janesville. J H Effertz Los Angeles left for Milwaukee toward West Coast. Ervin Ogden parole violator turned to Janesville. Edward Gustafson family Madison. Mrs Adeline Chamberlain to stay with them.
Daylong visits and social events span Freeport Rockford Monroe and Cannondale with residents including Mr. and Mrs. H L Jacobs Mrs Barbara Olson Mrs Wally Miller and others attending Browntown 4 H club meeting and an insurance meeting at Devil's Bariboo Resorts. Families from Elkhorn Wilmot Martintown and Cannondale were mentioned in travel and guest summaries.
The St. Andrew's Episcopal mission choir joined seven members to hear St. Paul's choir perform The Yeoman of the Guard in Milwaukee. About 20 children and 10 adults plan to travel to Madison Sunday for a Grace Church church school festival hosted by Bishop Ivans. Frances Durner departed for Glacier National Park to serve as social hostess at Many Glacier hotel for the summer.
Two cases of measles reported by City Health Officer L A Moore, alongside scarlet fever. Activities include New Glarus visitors, summer school entry for Bet ty Jane Flannery, and a Rainy day cancellation of weed meetings in Adams and York townships. Residents attend Milwaukee and Sturgeon Bay events. Gene Buck heads to Crewe Virginia for summer with family.
A Beloit hospital reports a very serious condition of a female patient confined after an automobile crash Sunday. She suffered severe head lacerations and a skull fracture when she fell from the Matchett auto as Mr. Matchett swerved to dodge a water filled hole on the highway between Beloit and Shopiere.
The confluence of two streams 15 miles north of here sees key levees holding while the weather bureau does not anticipate major damage in the area. Levee failures are reported south of St. Louis at Grand Tower, I and St. Genevieve as the Mississippi breaches old fault lines from last April. The Say levee opposite Hannibal remains the most critical, with 500 workers reinforcing with thousands of sandbags to protect 120,000 acres as conditions recede north of Hannibal. A Kansas City weather bureau warning targets lowland residents in northwest Missouri and nearby Kansas Iowa and Nebraska after heavy rain sends the Missouri and tributaries on the rampage.
New Glarus residents Misses Donna Gumr and La Vonne Walden visited Wisconsin Dells with Fred Armstrong and Lowell Nevil from Brooklyn. Mrs Jacob Elmer of Monroe spent Tuesday with sister-in-law Mrs Casper Hefty Sr. Mrs Otillie Wild of Monroe visited her mother Mrs William Engler Sr Tuesday afternoon. Mrs Margaret Solbraa and Mrs
Alvins Bleiler and Walter Minnig of Monticello, and Mr. and Mrs. Jake Waelti of Blanchardville, visit on Wednesday. Dr. and Mrs. H. F. Zingg plan a several weeks trip to the North. Mrs. Everett Wild and daughter from Monroe stay with the Math Wild home. Milwaukee visitor Mrs. Paul Genthe calls on relatives. Many others from Monroe Belleville New Glarus also present during the afternoon.
Mr and Mrs Lauren Kleppe of Belleville were New Glarus visitors Wednesday evening. Mrs Alvie Moen and children from Blanchardville spent Wednesday evening here. John Reder of Milwaukee was a New Glarus business caller. John Marty left Saturday for Hillsboro Oregon after visiting. Mr and Mrs Fred Luchsinger of Madison visited relatives Wednesday.
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