Monroe Evening Times Directory and Rates Notice
The Monroe Evening Times lists the 1879 entering details and notes Emery A Odell as publisher. It outlines subscription rates for city carriers and mail across Wisconsin and Illinois, with advance payment required and office hours 8 30 a m to 5 p m Saturday 12 noon.
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Associated Press
AP News
City of Monroe
Wisconsin
Stephenson
Jo Davies
Winnebago
Illinois
Dirksen Speech Delivers Wit and Warnings in Milwaukee
Editorial recalls Senator Everett Dirksen addressing 3 000 listeners at the Milwaukee Auditorium. The Illinois Republican warned of Washington chaos and debt while urging truth and integrity in government. Enlistment notice: Allen R Keller joins the U S Army for three years at Ft Campbell after basic training.
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Everett McKinley Dirksen
Milwaukee
Illinois
Dirksen
Washington
United States
Chicago
Sen. Dirksen
Allen R. Keller
Diana Heins
30Th Ave
Monroe
United States Army
Ft. Campbell
Aberdeen
Dearth Motors
Co. C
10Th Bn
BDE
USATC
Ft. Campbell, Ky
Parochial School Closing Slated in Darlington
Holy Rosary parochial school will end seventh and eighth grades at term end. Fifty nine students from those grades transfer to public schools, leaving about 200 pupils. The move trims staff by two lay teachers. two nuns remain. Board president William McGrene led the vote, 82 to 55, after a finance study and nun availability.
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Darlington
Holy Rosary Parochial School
Darlington Public Schools
Holy Rosary
William MecGrene
Holy Rosary School Board
Next Week's Menus Monroe and St Victor's
Monroe public schools plan a week of meals from Monday to Friday featuring hot dogs pork and beans Fritos grape fruit sections milk beef stew cheese slices cabbage salad donuts bread butter and milk to Tuesday. St Victor's offers beef and gravy potatoes buttered carrots cake orange juice bar B Q sandwiches potato chips lettuce salad lemon pie and pork and beans with franks buttered peas grapefruit sections bread butter milk and more ham noodles cheese slices peanut butter bars bread butter jelly milk grilled cheese wax beans apple sauce milk.
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Monroe Public
ST. Victor’s
Get Involved Courage and Civic Duty Reflections
A reader urges involvement over fear in civic duty and cites personal cost and conscience. The letter references Shakespeare and Roosevelt on integrity and public service, urging continued courage despite social fallout and risks. The piece ends with political news notes about Wallace ballot plans and FBI crime rate rise tied to riots.
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Shakespeare
Theodore Roosevelt
Seven Monroe students win A ratings in Stoughton contest
Glancing Backward notes that seven Monroe High School students Ruth Benkett Pat Miller Anita Blackbourn Carol Lux David Riese Pete Ridnour and Enid Spring earned A ratings in a forensic contest at Stoughton. Monroe Ponies also suffer sectional basketball defeats.
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Monroe High School
Stoughton
Ruth Benkett
Pat Miller
Anita Blackbourn
Carol Lux
David Riese
Pete Ridnour
Enid Spring
Monroe
Edward Harris Taken by Death
Edward Harris 71 died Thursday March 14 in a Madison hospital after a long illness. A lifelong area resident he previously ran grocery stores in Linden and Cobb and later worked for Wisconsin Power and Light Co retired in 1962. He was a member of the American Legion and the VFW. Surviving: widow Hedwig Sieger married 1923 a daughter Mrs Paul Martin of Dodgeville three brothers Sherman William Charles and a sister Mrs Patrick Cleary and one grandchild. Funeral 11 am Saturday March 16 at St Pauls Church Mineral Point with Rosary tonight at 8 and military rites by VFW and American Legion at graveside.
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Mineral Point
Edward Harris
Madison
Linden
Cobb
Wisconsin Power and Light Co
Harris
American Legion
VFW
Hedwig Sieger
Paul Martin
Dodgeville
Sherman
William
Charles
Patrick Cleary
St. Paul’s Catholic Church
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Monroe Evening Times
Monroe, Wisconse Co
Emery A Odell
The
Associated Press, Inland Daily Press Association
Audit Bureau of Circulations and
Wisconsin Daily Newspaper League
Editorial
Wallace
W. G. McCarley
Alabama
George C. Wallace
FBI
Dick Young
Dennis Streiff
10Th ST
Louis Pfund
Bluff View Park
Brodhead
Thomas Smith
Pecatonica River
Green County
Highway Headquarters
Victor Herbert
Monroe Woman’s Club
Universalist Church
Turner Hall
Felix
Monroe Dramatic Club
France
Dwight Flower
H. L. Ball
Nick Geiger
Clay Penn
Navy Department
First National Mortgage Loans
Fey
First National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Gorgen Funeral Home
VFW and
Tia
18Th Ave
Wis
Full Servic Bank
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