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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1956
Page
6
Partly cloudy this afternoon and tonight with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Chance of locally severe storms south and west central this afternoon or evening. Becoming cooler tonight. Saturday partly cloudy and less humid with cooler temperatures. Record highs and lows noted, warmest and coldest places listed, sunrise and sunset times recorded.
Joshua Wild and Barbara Duerst transfer a parallelogram land parcel 75 by 150 feet in New Glarus to D X Sunray Oil Co. Fred Kraus transfers 4.55 acres to Upright Swiss Embroideries Inc. Walter H. Reasa conveys property in Albany to George W. Schultz. Sylvan J. Frick transfers part of the SW quarter to Upright Swiss Embroideries Inc in New Glarus.
Roy Rolland Klitzke, 24, and Darlene Inez Fosanen, 25, both of Albany, obtained marriage licenses. The filing lists both parties as residents of Albany.
Fred Beer Sr. 74 of 859 30th Avenue. Mrs. Julia Kleiner 79 Route 1. Under Willim Schmid 61 Belleville.
Mr and Mrs Sylvan Waage Route 3 announce their daughter born June 21. Mr and Mrs Stanley Cerny Fordville announce their son born June 21. Mr and Mrs Leonard Bill Beloit announce their daughter born June 22.
A hospital notice lists patients at St. Clare Hospital under medical surgical and dismissals. Medical includes Charles B Bolender Dennis Lee Edge Elliott Montgomery Mrs Bertha Augsburg er Gilbert Koch and Gary Schmidt. Surgical lists Mrs LeRoy Quass Mrs Emil Kropp Arnold Mueller Mrs Robert L Rote and Mrs George W McKeown. Dismissals name Robert Fox John Krischke Mrs Jack Putney Mrs Alvin Wheeler Mrs Howard Isely Mrs James Campbell Mrs Charles Manks Mrs Bernard Lee and son Mrs Nordene Hoesly and daughter and Mrs Clarence Gray and son.
Jake Voegeli of Monticello leaves for Venezuela on an invitation from the Venezuelan government agricultural department. He plans to be gone a week or ten days. Voegeli and his son Howard recently sold 10 Brown Swiss cattle to ranches in Venezuela, with cattle trucks to Milwaukee for air transport to South America.
Mrs Lillian Huffman ended two years of employment yesterday at the county superintendent of schools office. Miss Marion Huber will replace Mrs Huffman at the Courthouse office as the upcoming marriage to Hans A. Spieler occurs this month.
Mrs Olive Peterson and Mrs Clayton Stephenson arrived from Albany today. Mrs Julius Sullivan visited Mrs Olga Peterson in Angyle. Miss Billie Ann Wenger travels to Chicago for Gamma Phi Beta sister Kathleen Day’s wedding. The Johnsons and Gemplers depart for a fishing vacation near Kenora Ontario, returning July 1. VanMatres move to 2107 Olive Rockford with Virgie Hawthorne assisting. Barbara Gordon visits Verona grandparents and watches Walt Disney film The Dairy Story. Emily Funn returns to Chicago and Krauss sisters enroll in Wisconsin summer session. Milford and wife plan a northern state vacation. Randall Thompson joins from Evansville. son stays with Monroe grandparents.
Frank H Reichstein 41 Beloit sports editor of the Beloit Daily News for 12 years died in St. Clare hospital after a rare central nervous system disease and pneumonia. He wrote his last column June 8. He leaves wife Laurine Shay, a daughter Merry Alice, two brothers, a sister, and a stepmother. Burial in East Lawn. Services at First Baptist Beloit.
Patricia Wendt, 12, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Wendt, was named the state winner of the Catholic Daughters of America poetry contest. The announcement came at a dinner in Holy Rosary parish hall. Her poem advances to the national contest as she prepares to enter seventh grade at the parochial school this fall.
Services for Christopher Brager 67 lifelong York Township resident will be at 1 30 p m Monday at York Evangelical Lutheran church where he was life member and trustee for 17 years. He died at St Clare hospital from a heart condition. Burial will be in the adjoining church cemetery.
Orangeville prepares for the new Orangeville Community Bank as state charter is sought. Stockholders will elect directors at a later meeting once the charter arrives, with a public Legion hall meeting noting a capital rise from 75000 to 100000 funded by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Over 70 residents attended.
Robert J. Alder was elected commander of the Zilmer Riley American Legion post, succeeding Forest H. Riese. New officers include Bernard Gibbons, Warren Gerhart, Lloyd Marty, Daniel Ault, Joseph Viney, Rev. Richard Hulburt, Robert Hardell Jr, Alfred Henning Jr, George Engles, Glen Gerber, and Samuel Pickett. Installation set for July 6 in Brooklyn with county-wide participation.
In observance of Harvey H. Hollands birthday a 70 pound six tier birthday cake is served at Hollands Grocery on the square. The cake used 30 pounds of mix and spices 16 pounds of frosting and features a Swiss cheese tub lid as a cake plate. John A Ammon of Monroe Bakery baked and decorated the cake using 24 cake mix packages 12 frosting packages and 10 pounds of special frosting to keep layers together.
Mr and Mrs Fredrick Thacker named their newborn son Kim Ellis born June 14 in New Glarus. The couple has two other sons, Brian and Brad, and the mother is Fola Hanson, daughter of Ben E Hanson of Blanchardville. Paternal grandparents are Cecil Thacker.
Mrs George W McKeown of 1702 27th Avenue is in good condition after minor surgery at St Clare hospital. She is expected to remain in the hospital for two days.
Mrs. Robert L. Rote of 1505 14th Avenue underwent major surgery this morning at St. Clare hospital after entering yesterday.
Charles B. Bolender, 79, of 2120 11th Street, is in serious condition in St. Clare Hospital. He was admitted yesterday afternoon as a medical patient.
The Monroe Council of Knights of Columbus will meet Monday at 8 p m in St Victor's parish hall. A lunch will be served by the newly elected officers after the meeting.
Mrs. Howard Keehn of Brooklyn Township, a polio patient at Warm Springs Georgia, shows improvement since starting treatment. She was stricken last September and hospitalized at Monroe and Madison. Her parents Mr and Mrs Hillmore Dreifke and sister Judy have returned to Janesville after visiting.
Sam S. McColley aged 45 of Janesville suffered a serious eye injury while working on a new project. He was treated at a local facility and conditions were not immediately released.
McColley, working with a table saw at the J C Penney Co store site, was struck in the right eye by a wedged wood chip. He bled internally and suffered minor external cuts. He remained in satisfactory condition at St. Clare hospital after admission yesterday.
Kurtis Swenson three years old, of Route 1 Argyle, remained in serious condition at St. Clare hospital after being crushed under a truck on his parents farm. He suffered multiple fractures and internal pelvic injuries and was admitted Monday afternoon.
Arnold H Mueller of Route 2 underwent major surgery this morning at St. Clare hospital. He is reported in satisfactory condition.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church first approves a constitution and by laws for a proposed 1950 merger with the American Lutheran Church and United Evangelical Lutheran Church. The plan would unite the three Lutheran bodies.
A fast moving storm tore parts of a roof onto railroad tracks and toppled a lone pine near the Harry Bowen farm. Albany reported 1.2 inches of rain with hail, and 1.25 inches more this morning. Monticello saw hard rain, while Voegels farms between Monticello and New Glarus had none. A plate glass bank door shattered as wind blew it open. Rainbows appeared after showers. hay and oats suffered, corn was knocked, and more scattered storms are forecast with possible severe conditions ahead.
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