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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1947
Page
8
Barometer readings at 2 a.m. and 2 p.m. record 29.75 and 29.74 inches. Report notes the warmest place in the United States yesterday at 105 degrees Fahrenheit.
Justice cases list Gavigan Milwaukee no license with fine and costs. Marriage licenses issued for Alderman and Trickel. Deaths noted for Altmann and Leary. Births at St. Clare Hospital include Ensch child born June 20 and two Monticello Blanchardville and Madison area births to Schmid Halver and Sanford Halver families on the same date.
Rep O Konski warns government may ration gasoline in the United States if war increases oil need. Interior Secretary Krug notes an oil shortage but no rationing plan. O Konski cites Russia’s vast oil reserves and U S exports to Russia as a concern amid looming emergency supply fears.
President Truman denounces the Taft-Hartley bill as a threat to democracy asserting it would expand government control and foster distrust between workers and employers. He urges a new bill with labor reforms and cites four tests: economic freedom, human relations, workability, and fairness. The president also proposes commissions and provisions against jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts.
A preliminary report on domestic affairs to the American Veterans committee convention recommends opposing a veterans bonus. The report states bonuses are handouts and inconsistent with modern theories of social and economic security.
Robbe will attend the University of California at Berkeley for a summer session. He travels west via the southern route and will return after August 2 through Portland and Seattle and Butte. He plans to study science history anthropology and vertebrate courses. The trumpet is believed to have been invented around 1500.
Numerous residents and relatives arrive from Beloit Janesville Freeport Madison Milwaukee and others as Monroe area hosts and welcomes guests. Local spots Suh as Monticello Argyle and Beloit noted with visits to relatives friends and weddings amid travel to St Francis Freeport and Rockford.
Albert Flint and Milton Johnson visited. tales include a Milwaukee visitor and a trip to Yellowstone planned by Kenneth Burkhard and Gorman Trickel. Several residents joined travels to Freeport Rockford Beloit and Madison while Barbara Lee attends Badger Girls State. Local civic notes include Lions club leadership in New Glarus and Commemorative Stamp events at Monroe post office.
A Milwaukee radio feature on Interesting Places to Visit in Wisconsin covered New Glarus landmarks including the Swiss lace and embroidery factory Farmer's Grove cheese factory and Swiss museum. The piece noted local history and urged Monroe High School reunion attendees to join the Moose Hall event tomorrow night.
Miss Cath erine Galway of Rockford and Robert Harrison of Chicago united in marriage Monday at the Immaculate Conception rectory in Chicago. The bride’s brother-in-law and sister attended. The bride, a Monroe high school and Groves Earnhardt Secretarial School graduate, has worked in Rockford. the groom, a Kalamazoo high school alum, served four years and works for Household Finance Corp. in Chicago, where they will live.
In St. Bernice Indiana a bantam rooster at Hubert York’s chicken house has assumed the maternal role for a brood of chicks. The true hen sits nearby during the day while the rooster keeps watch at night as the youngsters cuddle beneath his roost.
Ante long resident of Gratiot Daniel Leary 83 died at 9 last evening at St. Clare hospital where he had been a patient. A retired farmer he is survived by a widow two sons James Portland Ore and Dan iel in the South two daughters Mrs. Mary Corrigan New York City and Nettie married in Detroit sister the Ayers jet will be at his home after tomorrow Funeral rites at 9 30 Monday morning in St. Josephs Catholic church Gratiot Rev Francis Carrigg to read the mass and burial in Gratiot cemetery
Primrose township residents will meet at the Bower school house on Tuesday to talk over the proposed union free high school serving the Mt Horeb area.
Funeral services for Miss Alice May Sherron 61 of 714 21st avenue were held at 9 this morning at Stuessy funeral home and 9 30 at St Victor s Catholic church Rev E C McCollow officiating. Burial in Calvary cemetery was postponed until 3 p m tomorrow for a cousin arrival from California. A nephew and wife Mr and Mrs John Sherron Gary Ind attended. Pallbearers were Harold P Lamboley Clarence Stuessy J H Schwaiger William Haren Joseph Huber Louis Benkert.
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