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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1946
Page
4
Classified ad from Monroe Evening Times lists livestock including a strawberry roan gelding, Holstein heifers and a wearling grade Holstein bull. Items include horses, cattle, hogs and related farmers names with contact in Monroe area.
Classified ad roundup listing hay loaders mowers Deering and McCormick Deering implements inked with Sharpstown area sellers and contact details. Also dairy equipment cleaners, washing powder, soapless products, farm store offerings, and service ads from Kane and Stauffacher and TSCHUDY'S Service with nearby phone numbers and locations in Monroe and Orangeville.
An advertisement for Wards Vitalized Motor Oil promises engine cleansing and lubrication for tractors, claiming cooler, smoother runs and longer life. Drums available at as low as 68 cents per gallon plus federal tax. Montgomery Ward & Co.
Compressed air 3 percent gal spray ers priced at 6.80 dollars. Hand sprayers in all sizes from 1 dollar and up. City property and 33 feeder pigs plus young beef cattle wanted. Hay baler sought. Martin Duggan at 1498 Copeland Avenue Beloit requests.
Ill health forces sale of a dairy farm package including land stock and implements. Net potential around 6000 dollars yearly with small down payment and monthly balance. Listings include 240 acre stock and dairy farm with suitable tillable and pasture areas near Davis Illinois and other parcels with modern buildings and water access. Contact Avery Felts Freeport or Mrs Wise Davis. Holstein purebreds wanted and stock buying services offered by Juda trucking.
James on prices and pickup service for hogs cattle calves. George Brookover and Buck Buchholz, buyers for Oscar Mayer & Co, operate from Milwaukee Road yards Monroe on Mondays and Wednesdays and Juda yards on Tuesdays. Contact numbers Monroe and Juda provide schedule and pickup options with attentive handling.
A mix of job and item listings. Carpenter or contractor and auto mechanic positions at The Gamble Store and Meier Chevrolet Sales. Office and stockroom work for a young high school graduate. Married man service role and a single male for farm labor. Female help for office cleaning and waitressing. Proofreader and office girl/bookkeeper sought at The Times. Also offers for used furniture, antiques, and yard sale style items from Carroll Bros to Blumer Brewery and Robert Stuckey.
Mrs. Donald L. Collins attends department convention of the W R C in Kenosha. Sgt Henry Fricke tours furlough in Chicago after eight years with the Marines and 22 months overseas. Families from Decatur Lake and Madison visit relatives in Milton Baraboo and Chicago. Delos Johnson leaves for Yellow Stone Park amid rising prices. Chiropractors convention and statistical bureau director comments noted.
Help wanted notices seek female or couple to live with an elderly lady in a farm home near Browntown with no farm duties. Also property offers 50-50 rent and sale of Guernsey cow. R L Hasse contact 929-G. Additional ad: experienced sales clerks male and female needed, training provided, store and mail order discounts during training. MR STIVERS noted in Financial or Want. Also loan offer: borrows $2,000 to $3,000 on local residential property with state rate. Box 11 in care of The Times.
Church of Peace aid will meet June 1 at Mrs. Herman Brugger home to assist in serving. Mr. and Mrs. George Kubly and daughter Mary Lou were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Nybroten. Mr. and Mrs. William Krupke visited Mr. and Mrs. Jake Teuscher. Mr. and Mrs. Minor Babler visiting Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Mayer. Birth of twin sons to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Roswell. Paul Clarence and David Allen named. Eugene Doyle entertained recently. WSC met at Ella Bechtold home. next meeting at Herman Lueck home.
Livestock receipts show 4 000 salable cattle and 2 500 salable sheep with buyers active steady to higher on most killing classes. Feeder cattle and beef cows reach up to 18 average beef cows 10 ½ to 13 ½, lambs mainly 16 ¼ to 17, with shorn finished lambs steady to shippers and pale poultry and grain futures trading at ceilings with firm butter and unchanged eggs.
Wall Street trading in New York showed mild gains for a few leaders while many issues drifted. Rails rose on hopes for a freight rate boost, while overall activity remained slack and cautious awaiting congressional price control actions. Several gains and losses reflected earnings, dividends, and potential splits.
Mrs Will Hall H H Barkow and Walter Bliss attended the Eastern Star meeting at Durand Illinois. Mrs Frank Stauffacher Monroe is visiting Mr and Mrs Rodney Williams. Mrs Arthur Roberts and son Henry returned to their home in Duluth after visiting Miss Mary Matter. Lt Col F H Kildow and family from St Croix Falls Wisconsin are visiting his parents. Mrs C W Fleck hosted the Triple M club at a dinner by Mrs Gilbert Schuler at Orfordville for her 83rd birthday. Mr and Mrs Stanley Wilsey and Mary Rockford visited Mrs Mattie Lake.
Traveler tips to tour Wisconsin its cheese factories with stops for tastings. The piece notes Wisconsin surpassed New York as top cheese producer and accounts for about 6.5 percent of national blue cheese output. It mentions Labor Day events in New Glarus with the Wilhelm Tell play and Swiss museum sights along the route.
Nine lives saved in Terryville as Ply mouth volunteers answer first call to rescue a cat stranded high in a tree in Lake Plymouth. Pudgy the pigeon expelled from school after straying from home and flying to Heron Lake, ending his school days.
A sewing pattern advertisement touts pattern 9201 for a sun dress with a waist whittling cut out. It offers sizes 12 through 20 and 40, includes a field jacket, and lists a 39 inch fabric length with 21 yards. Send 25 cents to Evening Times, Pattern 232 West 18th St New York NY.
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