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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1946
Page
4
In small print ads Milady and Leader Department Store showcase hot weather lingerie and garter belts. Sees Sportswear promotes shorts playsuits and women’s cotton slacks via The Link Store and The Style Shop offers white cotton panties in rayon mesh at 85 cents to $1.50. Westbend Aluminum appears as a quick sales prompt for Want Ads.
A compact local item lists shipments including mann rosaries prayerbooks and Bibles from The Klassy Shop. It also notes a sales pitch for fire and wind insurance through Haren Agency at First National Bank Building with contact numbers.
Local farm supply ads list hay loaders tractors mowers and hay tools from Monroe Madison area dealers. Advertised items include John Deere loaders slicers balers stanchions hay racks wagons and dairy feeds with contact names and phone numbers for Sam Klassy Carl Hannes Ben Feldt Delbert Elmer and others.
A montage of shop promos and classifieds showing Wards oil and apparel deals, hardware and scales, weed killer, milkers and dairy equipment, and farm supply offers. Names include Montgomery Ward, Fred Lanz Hardware Co, Norton and Schneider, Paul Knoll, A. W. Morse, and TSCHUDY'S Service with various contact details and prices.
60 acre farm located four miles south of Brooklyn with black soil, modern house, 80-foot hip-roof basement barn, tobacco shed, electric lights, granary, machine shed, corn cribs, milk house, 40-foot chicken house and 8000 dollars price with 4 percent terms. Also listings of other farms and livestock buyers appear including Holstein cattle buyers and a trucking company in Juda and Suda Wisconsin.
Calls for up-to-the-minute prices and prompt truck pickup for OSCAR MAYER & CO. at Milwaukee Road yards Monroe and Juda. George Brookover and Buck Buchholz, buyers, operate Mondays Wednesdays and Tuesdays with various phone contacts. Also listed are misc items including old kerosene lamps and household goods for sale and pickup, plus an antiques ad by Tom Bowen of Orangeville, Illinois.
An advertisement seeks a furnished apartment for the summer with space for Mrs Minnie Chrys. Dr John Usher can be contacted at telephone 506. Also seeking farm property on a fifty fifty split with good references, to be written box 9 in care of The Times.
Multiple listings seek male applicants for roofing auto mechanic and body work at Gamble Store and Meier Chevrolet sales in South Wayne. Positions include stockroom janitor Burgess Battery Monroe factory and Jefferson Center Cheese. Married men needed service work pay good Blum er Brewery Co single man for far work Melvin Updice route 1 2124 Albany farm work Davis route 5 Monroe and Davis areas seek office stockroom and farm labor no experience required via phone numbers and addresses listed.
A set of classified help wanted notices including a female office cleaner once a week. a farm housekeeper and a proofreader with strong English. an experienced office girl and bookkeeper for a permanent post. and a woman or couple to live with an elderly farm resident near Browntown.
Help wanted notice seeks a man and wife to operate a dairy farm or sell personal property and rent on a 50 50 basis. Also Guernsey house cow for sale. R L Hasse phone 929 G. There are no fur bearing animals on the land within the Antarctic circle and no aboriginal people.
Employment notice seeks experienced male and female sales clerks for training toward department manager roles. Training paid, generous store discounts offered. See MR. STIVERS for details.
USDA notes salable hogs 6,500 with barrows and gilts at 14.85 and sows at 14.10, cattle 8,500 and calves 500, with feeders and yearlings up 15 to 25 cents and steers near 18.00. Sheep total 6,500 with clipped lambs steady and best pelts at 17.00 to 17.50, slaughter ewes scarce and steady. Dealers show softer demand for some cuts while stock cattle rise to 17.25 and heavy beef bulls reach 16.00. Market remains active with buyers strong on most killing classes.
A Chicago market listing reports firm prices and receipts for poultry and eggs. It shows FOB prices for fowl and fryers, ducklings and ducks, butter and eggs with day two receipts and grade ranges, including U S extras and standards, and current receipts with dirties and checks.
A quiet Chicago grain session saw record low turnover with only 140 000 bushels traded on Saturday as wheat supplies rose to 36 909 000 bushels while last year’s level stood at 59 829 000. First wheat from the 1946 crop sold at ceiling prices and cash oats and corn offerings were light. In New York, stocks rose on rails and industrials amid inflation fears and congressional watching.
Pattern 9234 advertises a practical summer outfit with a casual ironical tone. It lists sizes 12 through 20 and includes a 3 yard embroidery transfer. Send twenty five cents to Monroe Evening Times Pattern Dept for pattern 9234 with name address and style number.
Sale notes describe head lots of good and choice shorn ewes offered at 8.75. Prices and specifics not fully listed in the fragment. Event context and venue not provided.
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