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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1950
Page
8
Partly cloudy with a chance of showers northwest and west central tonight and Thursday. Warmer day Thursday with highs 75 to 80. Lows tonight about 50 to 55. Record temperatures include 80 high and 56 low today. Sunrise 4 22, sunset 7 41.
Justice L A Koenig sentences Arthur Thomas of route 2 Monti for drunk and disorderly conduct. Court costs total 90 days in county jail with a $40 fine. fine paid.
Deaths reported for Oscar Sandvold aged about 68 of Dan and N. D. and Miss Margaret Foley aged 56 of Shulisburg.
Mr and Mrs Arnold D Ewing of Darlington welcome a daughter born June 21. Mr and Mrs Francis Fox of Winslow announce a son born June 21. Mr and Mrs Donald Lee-Brodhead report a son born June a.
Surgical cases include Charles Cook from Durand and Mrs John H Reynolds Beloit and Mrs Marvin T Holcomb at 1615 16th Street Gary Saunders Brodhead. Medical entries list Mrs Clem Thacker Beloit and Leo T McGuire Darlington. Tonsillectomy involves Lucretia Road route 3 Robert L French 1413 12th Avenue and Marilyn Vivian Mitchell Brodhead. Discharges cover numerous patients including Johanna Kessler Hugh Durgin Mrs John Hauser Mrs John Schild and others.
Joe Theobold of Fairmont Minnesota, a former Monroe resident who left 35 years ago after working at the Ludlow hotel, drove the hotel bus, clerked, and bartended. He later ran two Chicago hotels before retiring and spending the last 15 years at the Fairmont Railway Motors plant.
The estate of John Baumgartner of Belleville, who died June 7, is valued at $25 000 including $14 000 jointly held with his wife. The will filed in Dane County court leaves the entire estate to the widow except for milk trucks, route equipment, and franchise, which go to son Willis.
The condition of Mrs. Laroy Dodge who underwent surgery yesterday at St Clare hospital was reported good today.
Albany residents Mrs William Steindorf and Mrs M L Gardner with children Larry and Connie visit relatives in Potosi and Dubuque. Miss Gloria Zwickey returns to duties at Madison Methodist Hospital after weekend at home. Frank W Christopher recovers from heart trouble and is about at home. Mr and Mrs Boyd Atkinson and Mr and Mrs Carl Carlson attend West Wisconsin Methodist conference at Reedsburg as local church delegates.
Monticello notes honor Eugene Johnson of Argyle with a Sunday picnic at the Robert Schupebach home. Attendees included Mrs. Eugene Johnson and Nancy, Mr. and Mrs. Harlow Larson and children of Argyle, Mrs. Russell Venable and children, Harold Nelson of Rockford, and Robert and Linda Kay Schupebach.
The Monroe pool opens with 2434 admissions in the first week of the season begun June 11. Lessons run six weeks as a joint city Red Cross activity. Private lessons are Friday mornings. Eligibility starts at six years. A Friday 10 am housewives class and Monday adult night 7–9 pm provide instruction for adults.
Union school district No 41 will elect three members to the board at the annual meeting Monday July 3 in the high school auditorium. Terms expiring include Herbert T. Johnson and two other two year trustees Dr. Leslie G Kindschi and Dr J J Schwingel. Holdover officers are G E Zuercher secretary, Herman A Stuessy treasurer, Rodney O Kittlesen and Mrs Perle G Guess.
Minneapolis delegates at the biennial convention will vote on three NLC backed plans to unify the National Lutheran council bodies. The executive council supports a merger with the American Lutheran church and United Evangelical Lutheran church. Other NLC members include United Lutheran Augustana Lutheran Lutheran Free Danish Lutheran and Suomi synod.
In Los Angeles the 135000 Shriners gather for the 76th imperial council with three days of pranks and parades behind them. Primary task is electing the imperial outer guard, a position that has seen gradual advancement over 11 years. Candidates are Dr Clayton F Andrews of Sesostris temple Lincoln Nebraska and George A Mattison Jr of Zamora temple Birmingham Alabama.
The U S high commission reports Clay H Henderson a 33 year old U S vice consul in Frankfurt died by his own action. He left three notes noting only his deafness and need for a hearing aid. No reason for the act is given.
The Kiwanis club at Monroe Country club will screen Movies of the Northernaire re sort at tomorrow's luncheon. The Kiwanis education and fellowship committee plans a meeting later this week.
The WSCS will meet at the Browntown area Meth odist church Friday with the public invited. Mrs. Frank Flannery is hostess.
Miss Lois E. Thomas of Wel come Wagon Inc area supervisor visits Madison for several days to oversee activities and operations in the region.
Albany visitors Mr and Mrs Joseph Nogradi from Albany and W D Stewart G D Saunders of Toronto visited Monroe. Brodhead business traveler Kenneth Marsh. Miss Ruth Discher to Tucson. Oshkosh weekend visitors Albert Weismiller Alvin Moritz and families. Numerous local calls and arrivals from Madison Mc Farland New Glarus Monticello Cremona Alberta Canada Sturgis Michigan and Chicago with multiple family reunions and weddings noted.
Miss Margaret Foley, a Shullsburg native and registered nurse, died yesterday at 7 30 p m in St Clare hospital after a stay as a medical patient since January 19. She will be laid to rest at Honeycomb funeral home in Shullsburg with friends invited to call at the Foley home.
M. J. Gonstead advertises chiropractic service featuring X Ray and Neurocalometer. Includes phone 373 and residence 101 Monroe.
Madison truckers agreed to a public service commission order banning heavy trucks over 8000 pounds from major Wisconsin highways on summer weekends. The ban runs July 1 to September 10, Saturdays 1 PM to 10 PM and Sundays 9 AM to 10 PM, with exemptions for livestock and several perishable goods carriers.
Political activity at Badger Boys State reported a set of sheriff appointments after yesterday’s elections. The named sheriffs include Walter county, Gene Worschek for Sheboygan, Howe county’s Leo Ottman, Elmwood’s Doolittle county killer Niteski, Wausau’s Carpenter county Glenn Sobkanski, Milwaukee’s Dodge county Jim Adams, Cudahy, and Durkee county Richard Hoffman for Wausau.
Wv. A. Elmer Smith H Hughes, agriculture instructor at the local high school, is attending an agricultural conference at the state university this week.
The annual Mahlkuch reunion will be held Sunday at Recreation Park in town. Family members and former residents are expected to attend the gathering.
The AFL switchmen's union announced a Sunday strike on five western and midwestern railroads. Its 4,000 members will walk out on the Great Northern Chicago Great Western Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Denver and Rio Grande Western and Western Pacific lines after rejecting a 40 hour week and 18 cents pay rise for yard crews.
Oscar Sandvold, 68, father of Mrs. Harold E. Scherer of 1109 11th avenue, Mandan, died last evening at 10:20 p.m. at his Mandan home from asthmatic complications and heart failure. He came from Norway as a young man, was a retired carpenter, and his wife died in 1918. Surviving are another daughter Mrs. Gerda Farr and a son Gordon who lived with him in Mandan.
Circuit Judge Norval K. Harris of Sullivan received 60 days at the state penal farm and a $300 fine from the Indiana Supreme Court for contempt of court. Harris, co chair of a defense committee for 11 convicted New York communists, defied a court order not to interfere with a county investigation of his court. He faces additional charges of issuing a fraudulent check and drunkenness in Indianapolis.
William A. Canary, head of the Footville State Bank, was elected president of the Wisconsin Bankers Association at the annual convention. Other officers named include O. K. Johnson as executive vice president.
The list names several banking executives including vice president Fred Goetz of Whitefish Bay State Bank and executives from Citizens State Bank Cadett First National Bank Ripon Farmers and Merchants Bank Tomah Iron Exchange Bank Hurley and others as executive council members.
Rev. Rudolph Meschenmoser, a Jesuit priest since 1893, died yesterday in LaCrosse at age 78. He served 16 years at Champion High School Prairie du Chien and taught 1934 to 1944, then led as spiritual director of the Jesuit community there.
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