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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1950
Page
4
The Wisconsin State coal emergency board ordered suspension of all local anti smoke ordinances during the coal shortage. The directive allows use of any fuel despite smoke content and protects users from penalties, marking a major action under state agriculture department authority.
Miss Mary F Hawley reports gatherings and visits across Argyle. Darlene Matley and Ellen Kohler visited at the Herbert Gmur home in New Glarus Thursday night. Mrs John Haegels of New Glarus guests at Peter Kohler family. James Gooden returned home from St. Glares hospital. Jimmy Penniston and son Gary Clifford Penniston and son Leonard attended the conservation exhibit at Darlington. Mr and Mrs Jerry Kochel and children of Janesville visited Mrs Nels Saalsan who has been ill. Mr and Mrs Charles Smiley of Madison week end guests of Herman Wahler. Jeannine Albert of Janesville weekend at Vernus Nelson. World prayer program held at Methodist by Friday evening. Marie Richter of Freeport visited her parents. June Soper spent Sunday with Arvil Sopers. Danny Poff visited friends in Detroit. P F Flannagan went to Rock Island for several days with Raphael Flannagan family.
Mrs. Oyd Rockey convalesces at home after illness. Mrs. Esther Fleugel of Freeport visited Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Reed. The Nellis Wunschel family moves to Elmer Asmus farm. Mrs. Roy Tielkemeier recovering at Mrs. Agnes Roderick’s. William Plate of Monroe and J. H. Beightol attended a feed men’s meeting in Beaver Dam. John Chambers family and Mrs. Ernest Oldenburg visited Floyd Chambers. Oscar Walters Albert Fritsch Wade Raymer attended church at Rock Grove. Mrs. J. H. Beightol spent Saturday with the E. d Mr. and Mrs. W. Steckler and children. Grand Coulee Dam in Oregon is the world’s largest hydroelectric plant.
Henry Kramer, a farmer on the city edge, plans a yearly vacation to Alaska via the Alcan highway. He has visited 45 states and 13 foreign lands, with Cuba, Canada and Switzerland among his past stops. He notes Cuba’s crops and prices, labor by oxen, and a Jamaican teacher’s pay, and recalls Havana’s cheap gas and tax system.
The civil service commission reports federal employment at 1,948,900 nationwide and abroad at the start of February, the lowest since March 1942. The figure is 30,690 below January 1, 1950, levels.
Multiple area churches list services and activities for the Reminiscere season. Monroe Bethel Immanuel Grace Union Presbyterian St. Andrews Episcopal New Apostolic Universalist Christian Science and other denominations announce worship times, Sunday schools, youth groups, Lent services, choir practices, and special speakers with pastors and locations across Monroe and surrounding towns.
Monroe and nearby towns publish a slate of Sunday worship times Sunday school at 9 30 a m and worship at 10 45 a m plus midweek Lent services youth fellowships and confirmation classes at various hours in Browntown Wayne Monticello Postville and Washington Reformed congregations plus local clergy names and sermon notes and a Week of Dedication theme for Monroe First parish.
About 150 pupils at St. Mary’s Catholic grade School in Rock Island brought fuel to class when coal ran low. A suggestion by a sister spurred pupils to deliver kindling logs magazines and even an old piano part to keep the school running through the shortage.
In Singapore's Sarawak colony two young Malay men were executed by hanging for the December murder of Governor Duncan Stewart. Both convicts were found guilty of assassinating Stewart last year.
New York officials plan a fight over a court ruling blocking a merger of two Protestant denominations. A lawyers committee urged appealing Judge Meier Steinbrink’s Feb 20 decision which barred the Congregational Christian churches from joining the Evangelical and Reformed church or any other Protestant group.
Attorney General Thomas Paircnild urged Rep Biemiller of Milwaukee to oppose a bill allowing greater Lake Michigan water diversion by the Chicago sanitary district. Rep Sabath of Illinois introduced the measure Tuesday to let Chicago increase diversion from 1500 to 5000 cubic feet per second for 30 days during the coal strike to power electric generation.
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