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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1949
Page
6
A short classified blurb notes that placing a Want ad requires effort from the advertiser, highlighting tradeoffs between time spent and cost savings. It emphasizes value and practicality for readers considering ads.
Poultry supplies include baby chicks hatching June 13 to 16 with thousands of White Rocks New Hampshire Hampshire Whites White Leghorns Austra-Whites and started pullets. Brodhead Brodhead Wisconsin area firms promote gas and time saving valve grinding and used equipment sales.
Listings include John Deere 2-row cultivator, No 4 horse mower, hay rope, New Idea hay loaders, Kewaunee and McCormick machinery, wagons, and tractors. Contact Oscar Prasse at route 4 Freeport or Winger Implement Co. phone 6 Argyle for details and pricing.
Employment small ad seeking a female bookkeeper for part time work at Monroe Ready Mix Material Co. Also a home helper role listed for Mrs. Walter Roth in New Glarus with a Monti cello contact. Includes major league baseball schedule and yesterday’s results with several games noted and rain postponements.
USDA market summary shows hogs 8,500 salable with declines across weight classes, sows weaker for weights over 400 lb, top hogs at 21.00 sparingly. cattle and calves steady to mix with few loads up to 1,350 lb, feeders down, cows and bulls weaker. Live poultry fowl steady while chickens soften, eggs and butter with mixed to unchanged prices amid receipts.
A morning attempt to push prices higher failed to sustain and gains barely outweighed losses. The undertone remained stable with brisk opening trade, later slowing to the week's lightest turnover. Movers included U S Steel, Youngstown Sheet, Studebaker, Goodrich, Sears Roebuck and Oliver. Decliners featured General Motors, Douglas Aircraft and Illinois Central as rail bonds edged up.
Detroit reports that middleweights Marcel Cerdan and Jake La Motta will weigh in again for the Briggs Stadium title bout after postponement concerns. Weather outlook calls for partly cloudy skies and no rain. Longman warns of potential international incident as the stakes rise.
Pacific Coast Conference levies 21 105 dollars in fines for athletic code violations across ten member schools. University of Washington paid 5 500 dollars, Idaho 4 010 dollars, Oregon State 120 dollars, with totals over the last year matching the regional sanctions set at the spring convention.
The Green Bay Bluejays defeated Sheboygan 4-3 in a 12 inning marathon that was to be the first game of a doubleheader. The nightcap was tied 5-5 when called due to curfew at the end of five innings. Wisconsin State League results follow with Wisconsin Rapids beating Appleton and Fond du Lac splitting with Janesville, plus Wausau’s two games.
Washington coach Al Ulbrickson shuffled the varsity and junior varsity eight after a Lake Monoma workout. The coach was unsure which crew would race Wisconsin in the varsity event tomorrow.
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