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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1950
Page
6
Partly cloudy warm day with cooler northwest tonight and in north and extreme west portions Saturday. Scattered thunderstorms northwest and west central this afternoon east and south portions tonight and in southeast Saturday. Low 55 northwest 70 to 75 southeast. High 75 to 80 northwest and near 85 southeast. Sunrise 4 22 sunset 7 41.
Annie I Uphoff transfers 1 and 3 with exception block 72 Brodhead to Walter E Bliss. Lucius F Smith transfers Lot 121 Railroad add No 2 Monroe to Basil Walters. Roy E Chesbro transfers 173 acres more or less part of NE quarter section 34 Monroe.
Final judgments entered in the Anna Marie Elmer estate Monticello show 74 355.91 remaining for distribution to heirs Mathias Henry C William E Ernest R Klassy and Louise Peerce. Walter A Miller Monroe dies May 14 executrix Bessie Miller named. Guardians ad litem Rudolph P Reger and Rodney O Kittelsen named for two minor children Jacob C 17 Fred G 11. Appraisers listed for each estate and administrators named for Carl Exe ter township estate.
William A Brown, aged 79, died at Wadams Grove Illinois. Funeral arrangements are pending local services and burial details.
Mr and Mrs Laurel Lockman Juda report a daughter born June 22. Mr and Mrs Lloyd Rufer route 4 report a daughter born June 22. Mr and Mrs James Jackson Argyle report a daughter born June 23.
A St. Clare Hospital accident note lists Mrs. Hilda Becker of 1611 14th Street Merlin Wick ersham route 2 and Mrs. Harold A. Hal verson of 2426 12th Street along with Mrs. Arthur Bader of Beloit and Mrs. Ro handling surgical details and patient mentions.
Kenneth E. Glass deputy director of the U S savings bond program for Wisconsin arranged a Monroe visit for the Liberty Bell caravan on July 1. The bell will arrive Saturday morning from Darlington and tour the court house square from 1 30 to 3 30 p m. Glass spoke to the Kiwanis club about the Independence bond campaign and Green County’s $111 000 goal by July 4 with $30 642 already credited.
William A Brown 79 of Waddams Grove died yesterday at 3 p m in the Odd Fellows home in Mattoon Illinois He was born May 26 1871 in Cadiz township and married Nellie Huber December 12 1905 in Clarno He is survived by his widow two daughters a son a sister and relatives Services will be Sunday at 2 p m at Seamen funeral home Lena burial in Waddams Grove cemetery Friends may call tomorrow night at the funeral home
The Brown Swiss Breeders' Association met at Alfred Meier farm northeast of Monroe to finalize plans for the canton show and picnic at Waterloo tomorrow. They also planned a Cheese Day float on Sept 9 and a July barn meeting, with Myron E. Jeglum, county agricultural agent, attending. The summer-activities committee includes Alfred Meier, Kenneth Marsh, and Everett Buttke, with several breeders from nearby towns attending.
Three sailors died when a Navy experimental AJ-1 attack plane crashed near Bedford Virginia during its first transcontinental test flight from Edwards Air Force Base California to Patuxent Maryland. The jet aided aircraft veered to ground and erupted in flames shortly after takeoff.
Dismissed individuals include Mrs. Leroy Hol comb Mrs. Bertha Stiles Law rence Frisque Mrs. Arnold Heller Ray Schultz Mrs. Joseph Johnson Mrs. Selmer Erickson Charles Cook Leo McGuire Vivian and Marilyn Mitchel Lucretia Rood Robert French Mrs. Hilda Becker Gaylord Schultz. Medical references note Audrey Shervin New Glarus. Bert Grinnell listed at 1711 10th Street.
Local residents and visitors are listed with their origins and travel details. Names include John Benning from Brodhead, Harry and August Larson of Gratiot, Beloit guests, Joe Theobald from Monroe to Fairmont, Minn., Panama residents, Rock Island visitors, Middletown Ohio residents, and Bloomington area connections. A hospital trip involves Hilda Becker from 1611 14th Street who fainted near St John’s church and was treated at St Clare hospital before returning home.
Thorp family opens a new dairy store on 11th Street in a 30 by 60 foot concrete block building. Mrs. Ozora Thorp and sons Eugene and Robert lead the venture with pasteurizer homogenizing equipment, cold display, bottle washing and sterilizing areas, and a boiler room. The Thorps have over four decades in dairy farming with ancestral ties to Ozora Thorp and George Thorp. They specialize in Guernsey cows.
Nearly 100 imaginative arrangements of garden flowers plants and foliage were displayed this afternoon before judges at the Universalist Aid society spring flower show in the church parlor Judging was to begin by 1 30 p m with awards to outstanding entries in seven divisions Mmes Fred L Kohn Ben H Brunkow and Dwain E Mings were the judges
Green County coroner Herman A. Stuessy ruled Leonard Burnell Schultz died accidentally by drowning after falling into the Sugar River power race at Albany just after midnight. Schultz, 33, was crossing the race to the dam to fish, leaving his nine year old nephew to summon help. his body was recovered within minutes, with a forehead bruise from the fall and fire department gear retrieved from the water.
For the first time in 2000 years the mother will witness her daughter elevated to sainthood. Assunta Goretti, now 87, will watch Pope Pius XII preside as the rite honors Maria Goretti who died in 1902 at 11 after defending herself from an attack. Her assailant, 68, lives in a Capuchin monastery doing menial tasks.
The $250 900 estate of the late O T Donovan is placed in a trust for three sisters and later to be transferred to the University of Wisconsin for cancer and kidney disease research.
Sewing and knot tying were the work projects at the Mills Pep 4-H club meeting on June 12 at the Elmer Thorson home. The club announces the July 17 gathering will be at the Edward Brecklin home.
County nurse Miss Ruth Chase will be away from her duties for eight weeks to attend summer school at the University of Wisconsin starting next Monday. Miss Lillian Perdue will staff the nurses’ office during her absence.
Mrs James German of Elkhart Indiana and Lt and Mrs Paul Gurnee of Appleton visited the Gurnees at the Swiss chalet in New Glarus while the couple are on a honeymoon. Edwin Barlow owner of the chalet is away. Barlow sailed this week on the Queen Mary for an extended European and African stay. German and Gurnee are 1950 West Point graduates.
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Rabe of New Albany Ind announce the birth of their first child, a son born yesterday. The infant is the first grandson for the elder Rabes, who already have three granddaughters. Mr. Rabe is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton A. Rabe of 2205 Ninth Street.
Chicago special report outlines Rep Lawrence H Smith Racine urging a moral crusade to block communism at home and abroad. He rejects militaristic war with Russia and argues against rearming Europe if Russia may wage war, calling for a broader appeal to workers to reject communism.
The appeal calls for expanded Voice of America programming and stronger backing for religious and secular groups struggling to survive behind the iron curtain. The plea emphasizes steady support for those opposing repression and seeking freedom.
Eight crew members of a B 29 were rescued by a crashboat 140 miles off Guam. Three others remain missing, one seen attempting to reach a lifeboat as planes spotted him. The crashboat reached survivors before dusk, according to Far East Air Force headquarters.
A 3 a.m. blaze in Tilbury Ontario destroyed the Chatco Steel Products factory and men battled the flames for two hours before it was brought under control. The fire threatened nearby areas but did not spread beyond the plant.
A bolt killed convict Angelo Massina after he leaped from a prison truck during a traffic stop near Winter Haven. A companion was wounded as the same storm damaged a church and struck eight baseball players and an umpire at a nearby game, with another bolt injuring personnel at the naval air station near Jacksonville.
Dr. George H. Lawyer aged 50 former mayor of Ironwood Michigan was fined 500 dollars in U S district court for violating federal narcotic laws He pleaded nolo contendere at an earlier appearance.
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