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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1950
Page
6
Partly cloudy this afternoon tonight and Sunday with scattered thundershowers in south and west central portions. Cooler north and west central Sunday. Low tonight 50 northwest 65 southeast. High Sunday 75 northwest 935 southeast. Temperature highs and lows from yesterday and a 1 a m barometer 29 25 and 29 38. Sunrise 4 23 sunset 7 41.
Judge Harold J. Lamboley issued letters of administration to Leona TenEyck sister of Evansville and John Mulvihill father of Brodhead for the estate of Herbert G. Mulvihill who died August 30 1948. Appraisers C J Coldren H V Hartman and William Hahn. Leonard N. Dedrick of Brodhead named administrator for Elmer P. Dedrick who died June 8. Appraisers B H Roderick G N Swartz and William Hahn. Heirs include three brothers Harley E Freeport Leonard N and Frank H Brodhead and sister Roxanna Dunwidkie Akron Ohio.
Judge Harold J. Lamboley heard cases including Walter Hillbrand of Judo for illegal parking on a highway with $5 and costs assessed. Robert Collins of Brodhead charged with speeding at night, $5 and costs. Vaughn Brown of Stockton NL faced a night bail forfeit of $10.
Isabelle Irene Noonan and Louis Anderson both of Brod Head are issued licenses alongside Florence Louise Rehbehn and Norton William Keller both of Muscatine Iowa.
Obituaries list Mrs. Fred Roth 51 of Jefferson township Mrs. Lee E Hall 52 of Brod head and Gottlieb Kohli 64 of Anchorage Alaska. The notices announce their deaths with ages and places.
In Monticello Mr and Mrs Vinal Jorgen welcomed a daughter on June 24. The family confirms the birth, noting a healthy infant and joyful new arrival in the household.
List of patients and dismissals at St Clare Hospital includes Mrs Lue Bates of Darlington and several medical and surgical cases with addresses in Monticello Belleville Freeport Apple River Delano and Delanoy Nybroton. Dismissals include Mrs Robert Keen and daughter DeLea Treloar and others.
A fire yesterday morning destroyed a 20 by 40 foot machine shed and most farm machinery at Randall Hanson farm in Jordan township three miles north of Browntown. Browntown fire department contained the blaze. loss estimate not yet available. Sparks from closing a gasoline barrel vent are blamed. Equipment lost includes hay rake loader and seasonal gear.
Gottlieb Kohli a 64 year old former cheesemaker and buttermaker of Anchorage Alaska died this week. The body arrived in Minneapolis and will be sent to Shriner Neushwander funeral home. Service arrangements are pending. Survivors include son Fred of Anchorage and daughter June. He married Rose Gasser in 1913 in Saint Paul Minnesota and moved to Monroe from New York state March 28 1926.
Mrs. Lee E. Hall of Brodhead died at 1 45 a m in her home. Born Francis Dora Pinnow November 16 1897 she lived in Spring Grove or Brodhead all her life. Survived by husband two daughters six brothers and four sisters. Funeral Monday at 2 pm Everson funeral home with burial in Greenwood cemetery Brodhead.
Ralph E. Wagers of Chicago, board member of the Mother church in Boston, will lecture tomorrow at 3:15 PM at Emanuel Evangelical Church. The topic is Christian Science: Revelation of Divine Sonship.
The firm Bauman and Denney in Burn Electric building has received the franchise to market Rusco self storing metal windows for Green and Lafayette counties with immediate effect. The windows are manufactured by the F. C. Russell Co. of Cleveland.
Albany special: R. H. Tegan, who completed five decades of railroad service in April, will file for retirement July 1 with a final decision likely in the following months. He serves as local depot agent. The Tegans bought a house in Fond du Lac and plan to move there.
Judge Harry S. Fox of Green county circuit court and Mrs. Fox plan to leave Janesville in mid July for Lake Vermilion Minnesota where they will spend a month at their summer home.
Mrs Paul Shigley, who taught at Purcell school in Washington township last year, is recovering from gall bladder surgery at St Francis hospital in Freeport. She is the daughter of Eves W Bleiler of Adams township.
Mr and Mrs E O Evans announce the birth of a second daughter to Mr and Mrs Russell J Greb of Waukesha at Waukesha Memorial hospital last evening. Mrs Grebs is the former Jean Evans, daughter of the Evans family of 2202 11th Street.
John Anderegg Jr Charles Ingold and Raymond L Rupnow will depart Monroe Tuesday for a summer European journey. They will drive east park their car and fly July 1 through International Youth Inc landing in Paris. They will tour France Switzerland and Italy and expect to return by September 1. Anderegg farms with his father east of Monroe Ingold is Kraft Foods employee and Rupnow works for Swiss Colony.
Rollie's Standard service station operator Roland G. Treloar had emergency hernia surgery today at St. Clare hospital. The incident prompts no further details on prognosis or duration of hospitalization.
Mr and Mrs C J Dammenn arrive in town from New York City as weekend houseguests of Dr and Mrs W B Gnagi. Dammenn is the author of the ABC Way to Stop Smoking.
Condition reported good at St. Clare hospital after a forenoon fall from a barn roof during repair work. Merlin Wickersham sustained a severely fractured left arm and right leg with possible back injuries.
Local residents and visitors listed from Juda, Freeport, Lena, Shullsburg, Milwaukee, Beloit, Darlington, Evansville, Madison and Chicago with multiple calls and trips. Swiss cheese booklets available at The Times. barber shop hours changing after July 1. wedding attendance and travel updates included. A Christian Science lecture is announced for June 25 at Immanuel Evangelical church in Monroe.
University of Wisconsin summer session enrollment may exceed 6100 with 4124 registered yesterday and about 2000 more expected today. Classes start Monday and run through August 18.
A feature notes that sugar maple trees can live 300 to 500 years, enduring seasons and changes in climate. It highlights longevity as a key trait of sugar maples used for syrup production and timber.
Mary Ann Huber, daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph B Huber of 1511 17th Avenue, wins the mock lieutenant governor post at the Seventh annual Badger Girls state on the UW campus after 250 delegates elect. Patricia Schlacht Sheboygan named governor and others fill top offices. Delegates from Albany Brodhead and Monticello attend with several state-wide participants.
A head on crash on state route 121 four miles northwest of Lincoln, Illinois, killed five people including four Mahnomen Minnesota residents and seriously wounded three others. Police said a northbound Minnesota car with six occupants collided with a southbound vehicle driven by a Peoria man on slippery pavement. The Minnesota car’s engine was forced into the front compartment and the other car was bent severely.
The agriculture department backs aligning Rockford Freeport producer milk prices with Chicago. A proposed change to the federal order requires two thirds of local dairy farmers approval. without it, Rockford Freeport prices would run 11 to 13 cents higher per 100 pounds than Chicago.
Blanchardville Mrs. Frank Mason Jr and Miss Ruth Jorenby earned associate education degrees at Winona State Teachers College last week. Ruth Jorenby's parents and Phillip and Mary attended the exercises and Ruth plans to teach in Preston Minnesota next year. Mrs. C E Guldhaug broke bones in a fall near the Ford garage last week and earlier injured her arm on ice. Mr and Mrs R C Miller of Madison visited and Mrs Miller accompanied her grandmother Mrs Kate DeVoe to the Argyle Star celebration.
The Green County Ministerial association held its annual spring picnic at Lake Leota park Evansville. Attendees included Rev Paul C Kehle Howard Orians Lawrence Brown John MacMartin Ralph Kofoed Newell Mendenhall Monroe Homer Retzlaff Clarno Robert Boettcher and family Brodhead.
Two farmers chat on the public square about farming conditions. The remark notes damp weather affecting crops. Monroe area vendors report peas entering the food markets, highlighting local agriculture.
The George Hatfield farm in Adams township hosted a topdressing demonstration led by C. J. Chapman University of Wisconsin extension soils specialist. He noted heavier fertilizer use benefits corn grain and hay, stressed soil tests, and reported fertilized alfalfa plots yielded twice as much as unfertilized areas with better winter survival and extensive stooling and rooting.
Two prominent Appleton men Oscar Kunitz 68 owner and pilot and Aaron Zerbel 67 a retired businessman and Outagamie County official died when their two seat plane nose-dived into a hillside pasture four miles north of Janesville. The craft en route home from Beloit after the state Eagles convention nose-dived off highway 26 and burned no fire occurred.
Mrs. O. D. Curtis notes visits by Kate and Rose Stauffer to H. C. Hoes ly and Luan in Madison. Wilbert Marty begins a several weeks trip through eastern states visiting friends. John and Kate Stauffer drive to Madison and meet Ruth Taylor from Los Angeles who will visit relatives here. Sidney Gick of Buffalo and Ted Butler host Gicks for a week, with a luncheon. The Gicks depart for the eastern home while the Butlers stay for the weekend with Curtis.
A caravan of 99 scouts from U S Grant Council departed Apple River Canyon camp at 6 AM for a 3,000 mile journey to the national jamboree at Valley Forge Pennsylvania. Monroe area participants include Raphael J Daly Davie Burt John Brunner and others with adult leaders and sea scout members joining the trek.
President Truman flies from Washington to Baltimore with officials after dedicating Friendship International Airport. He will spend the night in Independence and expresses optimism for permanent peace and continued economic growth while warning against pessimism.
A three year old Madison girl Lydia Smich was saved from a storm sewer yesterday after a neighbor Frank Sapora pulled her to safety. The rain raised the grate and tipped as she stepped on it causing her fall. She suffered only minor bruises.
President Truman signed a bill extending federal rent controls beyond June 30 and allowing cities to maintain controls for the first six months of 1951. The measure ensures continued rent regulation through the coming year.
The village board approved a contract for 240 dollars with an elevated tank service company to clean and paint the water tower.
The Universalist Aid society held its flower show in church parlor yesterday with nearly one hundred entries. Mrs. John A. Becker staged a pale green hydrangea palette arrangement that won first in the most unusual class. Other top entries included Mrs. Kohli’s clear-glass compote of blossoms, Miss Becker’s pewter teapot hydrangeas, and Mrs. Grant’s two taupe roses in a glass globe. Several entries earned honors across artistic, classic, and oriental divisions.
Bouquets from E N Churchill and others were shown by Mrs Churchill at a party for the couple. A frozen punch bowl held yellow snapdragon and carnations, with orchids from John W Chadwick sent from Redondo Beach California. An African violet with 35 blooms drew comment from about 100 guests at a tea and show with orange blossom place cards.
Paris reports Premier Georges Bidault’s government collapsed on a confidence vote amid a European coal and steel talks conference. The defeat was 352 to 230 with support from his MRP and radical socialists, opposed by socialists, communists and de Gaulleists. Foreign Minister Robert Schuman may keep his post if his party offers him continuation.
Dr. Nathan E. Bear, a 1931 Northwestern medical school graduate, is named Green County chairman for a $500 000 drive to fund the Archibald Church library. The effort is part of the Centennial campaign aiming to raise $8 250 000 by 1951 for new buildings equipment teaching and research on Evanston and Chicago campuses.
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