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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1955
Page
8
Partly cloudy and warm with possible thundershowers tonight and Thursday. Low tonight 67 to 70, high Thursday 85 to 90. Sechiakier reading 1 am 29.75, 1 pm 29.62. Warmest US location yesterday was Gila Bend Arizona at 103, coldest Fraser Colorado 30. Sunrise 4:33, sunset 7:33.
Gerald Poff transfers It 7 block 1 Davis-Becker add Monroe to Kurt Schwager minus N 10 feet Goetz Theaters sells 5 feet of It 4 and west 70 feet of It 3 all in block 8 Goetz Acres in Monroe City. Joe E Miller purchases 5 feet of It 4 and west 70 feet of It 3 in Goetz Acres Monroe.
Letters of administration issued to Walter J. Minnig for John Minnig who died June 24. Heirs include Minnig’s son and three daughters. Appraisers named for Ben Fryslie estate are John Coryell and Avery Yost. John P. Derning named guardian ad litem for minors. Will dated May 19, 1947 leaves bulk to wife.
St. Clare Hospital Medical staff lists several patients including Vincent Holden in Fordville Elizabeth Ir Mrs Bertha Kuster 1104 29th avenue James Crozier Rockford Kenneth Chambers Freeport Selmer Brager Monticello Surgical staff includes George Daley Freeport Martin Tolland Mt Horeb Florence Stauffacher 1905 9th street Mrs Howard Drye Orangeville Mrs Omer Hawkins Brodhead Dismissals cover Ralph C Norder Mrs Ellis Bent on Francis Camenisch Mrs Donald Metcalf Mrs Donald Rupnow and son Mrs Lucas Bischler and daughter Mrs Herman Christen and son Mrs Lloyd Koppean and daughter Paul Gravenstien Nancy Rae Boeck and William Lee
Private William L Bouers son of Mr and Mrs Bennett E Painter and John D Stauffacher son of Mr and Mrs George F Stauffacher met in Croix Chapeau France Stauffacher serves in the 28th General Hospital APO 219 has been in France since April Bouers overseas since June 1954
Dr. Weisbrod and family will depart Monroe tomorrow for New Richmond where he will begin private practice. He has served the past year as resident physician at the Monroe Clinic.
Robert E. Maurer of 1617 15th Street was discharged from St. Clare hospital this morning and is convalescing at home after an injury on Monday.
Edward Roth announces township election board chairs who will nominate 10 community committeemen and county convention delegates for the July ASC election by mail ballot. Petitions with ten or more signatures may add candidates by July 5. Committeemen take office Aug. 1, 1955 to oversee price support crop allotment and conservation programs.
A petition to probate the will of Paul J Weirich president and general manager of United Telephone Co who died June 21 was filed in County Court. The 1951 will leaves $1000 to Helen Northrup of Waupun three nieces receive $100 each and the remainder to Margaret K Burgi with executor E A Dettman Appleton named to administer the estate.
Mrs. Bertha Kuster of 1104 29th Avenue was admitted to St. Clare hospital yesterday afternoon for therapy treatments.
A Monroe man, Herbert J. Crawford, was fined $105.50 by Police Magistrate William E. Kintzel in Freeport yesterday morning after allegedly damaging a car on West Galena avenue and leaving the scene without reporting it.
Burmese Prime Minister U Nu lands in Washington to discuss Far East tensions with President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles. He offers to help bridge the gulf between Communist China and the United States.
A parade of visitors from Argyle Joliet Ill Omaha Peru Ind Freeport Galva Ia Merrill Cedar Rapids Madison Monroe Milwaukee Janesville Antigo Chicago Waukesha Granite Tex Utah and other places were seen today in the city. People came for business visits tourism and family gatherings while others departed for travels or to meet relatives and attend events.
Movie actress Loretta Young is undergoing abdominal adhesion surgery today in Oxnard California. The operation is reported to be routine, with expected recovery.
A report describes workers in steel making using a pencil tool capable of leaving a mark on ingots heated to white heat. The technique highlights metallurgical practices and industrial process in the plant.
Committee members clash over remodeling the jail in Brodhead and Milwaukee costs. Regez supports building Huber Law area first and housing inmates elsewhere during construction while Miller urges citizens to provide preliminary plans.
Dewey Dwyer of Monroe will accompany Scouts from Monticello Troop 106 and Monroe Troop 115 to Canyon Camp at Apple River Illinois. They depart Sunday and stay a week. Attending from Troop 106 are Roger Babler Irvin Eichorst Billy Babler John Krieg Jack Ponyicsanyi Steve Boyan Eugene Gessler John Harden Dennis Rinehardt Gary Frey John Holdrich and Terry Wichser. Troop 115 members include Richard Blum Thomas Clark Colin Brennen Billy Stocker Michael Machotka William Weakley B J Quinn and Thomas Keegan.
In Springfield Missouri flames engulfed a retail store on Tuesday trapping three customers inside a restroom where they died. The victims identified were Mrs C A Click of Miller and sisters Mary Edith Williams 11 and Linda Williams 7 with employee Dwane Dittrick 19 hospitalized for smoke inhalation. The fire cause was undetermined.
Governor Kohler vetoed a bill requiring a fifth crew member on long diesel trains and another measure granting greater authority to the Board of Optometry. The train crew proposal sought by railroad brotherhoods. The optometry bill faced gubernatorial rejection.
Ill. resident has returned from a visit with friends in Minnesota. Mrs. Lloyd Douglas of Chicago and Miss Lucille Lawson of Shawnee Kas. have stayed with Mrs. Jessie Douglas and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Roderick visited Madison Sunday. Brodhead school faculty members Arnold Condon Franklin Schumacher and Warren Selbo are attending a summer session at the University of Wisconsin.
President and Mrs. Eisenhower will celebrate their 39th anniversary Friday with a picnic for White House staff and their families at the Gettysburg farm in Pennsylvania.
John Edward Harriman of Appleton today was named winner of the 1955 state contest on the U S Constitution sponsored by the Wisconsin Elks.
Norway's King Haakon VII, 82, fell at his summer residence near Oslo, injuring a thigh bone after slipping on a bathroom floor. The incident occurred at the resort outside Oslo as he was reportedly resting.
About 1,400 Singaporean and Indonesian Chinese crossed the Hong Kong border into the mainland today. Roughly 1,000 were pro Communist students and the remainder mainly destitute families.
U S open champion Jack Fleck of Davenport Iowa will compete in the Milwaukee Open July 14 17 for 35000 prize money. Directors said Fleck agreed by telephone to join the field in Milwaukee.
James R. Mors, 25, of Osseo and a June graduate of Wisconsin State College at Eau Claire, died when his car failed to negotiate a curve and struck a tree on Trempealeau County Trunk H, two miles west of Osseo.
About 30 cars of a 90 car Soo Line freight train derailed at Honey Creek just north of here early today. No injuries reported and crews worked to clear the wreckage and inspect the remaining cars. The cause was not yet determined and authorities investigated the scene.
Mrs. Kermit Barganz and daughter Rossi and son Bruce of Milwaukee spent last week with her parents Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Stephens. They were joined by Mr. Barganz for Sunday. The Kerrs from Lena Illinois and Mrs. Olive Kerr were at the W. W. Sawyer home. Frank Taylor and sons Christopher and Timothy from Long Island New York will visit next week. Reverend J C Robertson and Mrs Blanche Green visited Evert Green at his Spring Grove Township home, as he recovers from surgery. Miss Clara Hunder, Waukegan school faculty member, was noted.
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