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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1970
Page
2
Public notice from the Monroe Evening Times lists founding details, ownership by Emery A. Odell, postal registration, AP membership, and circulation rates. It outlines delivery procedures, contact numbers, and instructions for subscribers to report missed papers.
The Monroe Common Council progresses on expanding the Disposal Plant with costs to be shared by federal 50 percent grants and state 25 percent grants. City residents learn pollution concerns, trust in engineers and council, and the plan aims to spend 212851 dollars for long term sewage capacity and future growth.
Glancing back to March 19 1960 Ray W Preston retires after over 454 years in rural mail carrier service begun from a 1913 civil service exam with 13 applicants. Ottawa Illinois officials round up fur poachers amid inquiry into the Starved Rock State Park triple murder.
Twenty years ago on March 19 1950 a Cheese Day invitation with 300 Swiss samples was handed out during the state bowling tournament in Fond du Lac. Also noted a Fond du Lac area hero Neil Scott 43 who saved his four children from a burning Magnolia Corners home dies in a Janesville hospital. Two elderly brothers Pat Fanning 67 and John 71 are found bludgeoned and robbed at a Rock County shack near the Walworth Rock County lines.
More than 40 people gathered at Gem of the Desert mobile park on Benson Highway to bid Jake and Kathryn Hefty of New Glarus farewell as they moved two days earlier from the Gem to Los Ranchitos at 5454 S Bonney Ave Tucson into a larger trailer. An afternoon of visiting followed while hosts, Henry and Evelyn Hoesly and the Dr. Donald Partridges hosted guests and the Heftys prepared to return home due to Mollie Tschudy Graff’s illness. Demonstrations of cheese fondue were given at Levy’s store in El Con shopping center, featuring a fiesta style cheddar with green chilies.
An eclectic column recalls desert life in 1900 with leaping trees and blooming flowers, Moony Goonies carved from driftwood, and tales of the Monroe water works case. It mentions Ringling brothers’ Baraboo menagerie shipment, local folks near Los Banchitos Court, Kitt Peak telescope, Tuscan air show, and a Nogales trip, interwoven with brief notices and funeral visitation lists.
Sequent events culminated in an arrest in Milwaukee. L. A. Rossing plans to erect a two story brick building at Argyle as economic conditions push for construction while rural areas show idle labor and farmers seek spring help.
A Wisconsin group denounces a federal court ruling on abortion as a disaster medically and legally. They urge medical bodies to address the issue responsibly, warn against turning Wisconsin into an abortion center, and note the law remains in flux after the decision and appeals. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
On March 19, 1920 the U S Senate rejected the Versailles Treaty forming the League of Nations. Other items note 1928 English settlers founding Massachusetts colony, 1917 Adamson Act upheld, 1941 St Lawrence Seaway treaty for defense, 1959 Dalai Lama fled to India, 1960 Boliva revolt, 1965 Indonesia seized oil interests, 1967 Britain landed in Anguilla, and a 1-year-ago note on Anguilla commissioner installation.
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