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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1949
Page
6
Light snow in extreme south and near Lake Michigan tonight changing to rain in the extreme southeast. Snow continues in the extreme southeast Wednesday. Temperatures trend colder across the region.
A fragmentary weather notice notes yesterday's temperatures at 1 pm and 1 am with lows around 34 and highs near 27 in the region. It references San Antonio Texas with a cold reading and contrasts with a 90 degree reading elsewhere.
James Maurice Fitzgibbons and others transfer undivided interests in parcels 55 and 56 Lybrand’s donation Monroe to Elmer Babin. Nell Fitzgibbons estate transfers 1/6 interest in same parcels to Elmer Babin. William A. Burkhard transfers IT 40 Evans’s add Monroe to Erwin A. Norder. Gilbert N Swartz transfers West 6 and 8 block 53 Brodhead to Marjory Co. Claycomb.
Mary Victoria Westgard and Robert John Martin, both of Monroe, obtain marriage licenses.
Obituary notice notes the infant son of Mr Fred Stoller Jr and Mrs Stoller of Blanchardville. Also recorded is the death of Jacob Frederick Rufener Sr aged 66 in Monroe.
Mr and Mrs John Waefler Jr of Juda welcome a son and Mr and Mrs Arthur Pandow of Gratiot celebrate a daughter both born on March 8 in local hospital reports.
The St Clare Hospital report lists surgical patients Paul Schiess and Arlene Anderson, with several named individuals under medical, tonsillectomy, and dismissal categories. Dismissals include Sherman Bandi, Mrs Fred Stricker and son, and multiple Mrs entries such as Mrs Ben Andrews and Mrs Henry Trepus.
In Decatur township the April election will feature two contests chosen from a caucus at the Congregational church. Treasurer races pit Vance Wall against Harvey Mauermann, while Otto Maas and Arkel Keen seek the constable post. Willis Riemer is named for justice of the peace, and incumbents renominated with no opposition are A. L. Miller as chairman Clifford Hintzman Ben Zimmerli as supervisors Jennings Christensen as clerk Frank Ten Eyck as assessor. Only nine attendees at the caucus.
At the American Legion athletic committee meeting, plans were set to organize a 1949 softball league. A protest commission will handle game disputes, umpires will have full authority, and an official scorer will track team averages. Play at Monroe is set to begin around July 4 after field upgrades.
Ray Figi was chosen as president of the Oakley 4 H club with Willis Stokes as vice president Anita Figi serves as secretary treasurer Wendel Wunschel is club reporter Audrey Roberts is song leader Helen Stettler piano with Werner Gerber librarian Mrs Walter Stettler director Mrs Daniel Alexander assistant director Rob Hafen and Roy Figi as sergeants at arms A joint Oakley Juda 4 H window display highlights National 4 H Week.
Virgil Neuenschwander was elected president of Monroe Agricultural 4 H club at the reorganization meeting in the court house. Robert Brunkow was named vice president and Robert Dye secretary treasurer. Herbert Scherer and Walter Brunkow are senior leaders with Virgil as junior leader. New 1949 projects include forestry and dairy. The next meeting is April 4 at the court house.
Mrs. Florence Smith, 45, vice president of Smith Brothers fisheries and widow of Lester Hoyt Smith, president of the company, died yesterday in Port Washington. Survivors include two sons Alan and Lloyd of Port Washington and daughter Carol of Beloit. Funeral services are planned for tomorrow.
Pope Pius XII today received in special audience Father William J. Dohney of Merrill Wisconsin, auditor to the Sacra Romana Rota.
Mrs. Robert Hoesly visited from New Glarus. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Schneider returned from Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Leo V. Koehler were in Milwaukee on business. Mrs. Mabel Hanson of Argyle visited her daughter Doris Hanson. A chicken pie supper at Union Presbyterian church was announced for Thursday with salad jelly pickles dessert and coffee for 75 cents serving starts at 5 p.m. Adv. Mr. and Mrs. W C Baumgartner returned from a southern Mardi Gras trip to Sylvester township. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Yost and Randy expect to return to Monroe after a two day Milwaukee visit. visiting Ft Worth Tex to see his mother Mrs Albert Yost.
The Salvation Army annual appeal runs in Brodhead under the local Service Unit. Thirty volunteers will canvass the business district led by Bertha Tuescher Vilas Swartz and others, with neighborhood division chairs guiding four sections and multiple workers in each.
Funeral services for Ernest Kundert, 44, of Monroe, who died suddenly in Los Angeles Sunday evening, will be held in California Thursday. His mother Katherine Kundert and sister Margaret notified relatives here of their arrival and the funeral date. He died from a heart attack.
Elmer Kuhnke, 52, died Saturday at a Freeport hospital. Services were held this afternoon at 1:30 at Shriner-Neushwander funeral home with Rev. Newell Mendenhall officiating, assisted by Rev. Homer Retzlaff, Juda. Burial followed in Greenwood Cemetery. Pallbearers: Dwight Rote, Russell Severson, Carl Bidlingmeier, Charles Vogel, De Boss, Lawrence aft.
Funeral services were held for John Hoffman 71 of route 1 Red Oak Cedarville a native of Cedarville. Burial followed in Cedarville cemetery with military rites conducted by United Spanish American War Veterans.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court allowed the state bar commissioners to file a complaint against Milwaukee attorney Walter J. Nowicki for allegedly negligently advising a client in preparing and executing a will for Wincenty Szperka. Nowicki has 20 days to answer. possible discipline includes disbarment. The ruling also covers ongoing Lake County town affairs and Kowaleski’s prior bribery arrest with a pending trial.
Officers of the Lafayette County Farm Bureau were re elected at a directors meeting. R H Hinkins Belmont is president Lewis White Darlington vice president Donald Thomas Darlington secretary and Vincent Byrne Shullsbury treasurer. They now supervise the Farm Supply Cooperative subsidiary following a consolidation approved at last week's South Wayne annual meeting.
A UW Madison student from Eshow, Zulu land in South Africa, George Quicke was elected president of the University of Wisconsin International club last night. He is pursuing a doctorate in biochemistry.
Charles Scheidegger and David Seeholzer arrive from Smithfield Utah for a 10 day stay at the Clifton Ault residence. Scheidegger attends Utah college of agriculture at Logan and plans to work with his father at the Cache Valley factory, reputed to be the world’s largest Swiss cheese producer.
Mrs. Snyder III of Freeport was taken ill during a Monroe visit and treated at St Clare hospital for pneumonia and heart condition. She arrived by Stenessy ambulance from her son Harold T Snyder’s home where she had been caring for grandchildren.
The newly organized Businessmen's Club will sponsor free outdoor motion picture shows once a week during the summer. At the last meeting Elmer Asmus showed films and lunch was served by Leroy Peterson.
Stanley P Huffman son of Mrs Morrey Standiford former Monroe resident is transferred from an Army post in Kentucky to Military Police School in Albuquerque New Mexico.
The Peoples No-license party nominates a village slate led by Vernon Best for president with Gilbert Abraham as clerk and Miles Barry Roy H. Ruff and Loral Jordan named as trustees.
Monroe plane owners and pi lots will gather this evening at the Badger Flying field west of Monroe to organize. Officers are expected to be elected and plans made for improving the field.
The condition of Mrs. Ursula Knobel of 621 19th Avenue at St. Clare hospital is reported improved but she remains in a weakened state after a heart attack Friday night. She was admitted to the hospital Sunday.
A Wisconsin National Guard plane that landed itself during a routine flight was later recovered and removed from a local airfield. Authorities investigated the incident to determine why the aircraft touched down without clearance.
An army plane broke apart on a field northeast of Albany on Thursday morning after the pilot bailed out. The wreckage was dismantled and hauled to Camp Douglas. An army truck arrived from Camp Douglas and two maintenance crewmen were flown in to manage the damaged aircraft. Lt. Howard Counselman, the pilot, was uninjured.
The second in a series of special Lenten services will be held tomorrow at 7 45 p m in St John s church. Special music has been scheduled.
William E. Torphy, Madison, backed from a parking place in front of the Chocolate shop at 2 30 p m yesterday and struck Arnold Kehrli of New Glarus, denting the right fender and running board of Kehrli’s machine while Torphy’s car had only slight rear fender damage.
The infant son of Mr and Mrs Fred Stoller Jr of Blanchardville died this morning at 9. He was born at 2 20 am. The body will be taken to Saether funeral home Blanchardville for arrangements.
Robert Reynolds, of Stocker body shop, suffered severe hand cuts and two broken bones when a car being repaired slipped from a jack Monday night. He received medical care and was discharged from St. Clare hospital.
President Truman spoke in Winter Park Florida declaring the embattled democracies before the iron curtain represent the world's best hope for peace. He received the doctor of humanities degree from Rollins College in a cap and gown ceremony.
Coast guard lifeboat rescues the last of more than 100 fishermen marooned on ice floes in Green Bay amid a 44 mph wind. Private and coast guard planes, boats, and volunteers aided across Michigan and Wisconsin waters, with several men saved near Keeweenaw Bay and Little Sturgeon after floes cracked and shifted.
The city of Youngstown began as an iron-working center in 1797, predating its later steelplant boom that started in 1892. This early industrial base set the stage for its 19th century growth.
Students rehearse for a high school class play and attempt a wolf whistle gag for Roger Schwaiger in The Miser. Nancy Moldenhauer as the lead actress provides the missing effect by turning her face away and making the sound herself during practice.
Rev and Mrs C J Tingley spent Tuesday at Brandon. They and a group from the Baptist church Young Adult fellowship attended an associational rally Wednesday in Janesville Baptist church. Mr and Mrs Gilbert Albright of Mattoon Illinois were guests at Chester Albright’s home last week.
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