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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1950
Page
8
Showers or thundershowers, windy and warmer tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight 40 to 45 north and 44 to 52 south. High Tuesday 60 to 70, lower near Lake Michigan. Yesterday 1 p.m. high 62, low 34. Year ago today: high 73, low 34. Barometer reading yesterday 1.
Real estate transfers include Claude Eley to Zella Ginner for parcel outlet 69 in sec 35 Monroe and Elsie Webb to Walter L. Bowtie for lot 1 block 3 in Brodhead. Marriage licenses issued to Clarice Lynstegard and Arthur Spoerry Jr. Deaths listed for Frank E. Roderick and Charles Calvin among others. multiple births and a daughter born to several couples in May.
St Clare Hospital lists medical staff across departments including John E Lancaster Darlington William Harry Pryce Brodhead and Alvin Bruegger route 2 surgical team members Henry F Zoellick Mrs Harley Ludeen Luther H Rodenbough Juda with others in Juda Waukesha Rockford and Belleville and dismissals such as Laura Fisher Russell Day Richard Muenich Mrs Raymond Hill and son Mrs Louis Lenz and Robert McKnight Mrs Gifford E Solem and Mrs Joseph Legler and son.
The First Methodist Church sanctuary in Monroe heard an organ prelude and postlude yesterday as Charles B. Doiner presented the new electric ex studio organ in its first musical appearance after over a year. A dedication recital is planned for May 21 at 8 p.m. with Dr LeRoy Wright guest organist.
A storm wrecked barns and outbuildings across Avon township and South Wayne. A purebred bull and two calves died as 30 herd animals escaped when Henry Burmeister’s barn collapsed near Gratiot. Roofs tore off at Mayer factory garage and Dr L E Creasy’s farm. John Brugger Jr. silos lost roofs, outbuildings damaged, and several other structures including a garage and chicken house were severely harmed. The Blumer pharmacy door was ripped from its frame and drift sand covered roads near Albany.
Funeral services were held for Wilbert Alvin Kraus Jr., 3, who died after falling from a tractor while his father drove in a farm field. David Heisey of Dubuque read the service at Shriner-Neushwander funeral home with burial in Greenwood cemetery. Casketbearers included Vincent Oswald, Marvin Kramer, Alvin Kraus, and Gail Shippey.
Local society page lists residents and guests from Darlington Rockford Monroe and beyond. Visitors include Fred Wenger from Darlington Mrs Paul Patton and Mrs Roy Straus from Rockford John Homb from Darlington Anton Sommer from Roscoe and more. Social events mention a Woman's club May 15 and church supper at Union Presbyterian with menu and price.
Mrs Henry Kramer returns from a visit with daughter Mrs Wesley Larson at 1a. Mr and Mrs Marvin Gilbert and family of Orfordville were Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs Ralph Duehow route 3. Robert W Black UW student and Arthur W Freeman of Madison spent Sunday with Arthur W Black and family. H Bert Miller left for two weeks with daughter Mrs Ray S Bender Appleton. Miller returned from Tampa where he spent the winter and was caught in the wildcat southern bushine drivers strike at Chattanooga en route home to Chicago.
Winnipeg battles record Red River flood as silt filled streets and levees strain under heavy flows from North Dakota and Minnesota. Authorities warned of possible double crests as 1,500 residents were told to evacuate and about 4,400 people already fled, with thousands more displaced in a 60 mile corridor from the U.S. border.
Shirley Mae Trout's parents, Charles and Louella Trout, file a civil action against Darling for 26 200 alleging gross negligence in the hit and run death of the 15 year old last Halloween. Darling was acquitted earlier by a jury of two negligent homicide specifications in the same case. A Kroger store looting case follows with a 400 pound safe and 1 140 taken during the weekend.
Mrs Nuzum 87 wife of a retired physician died at her Janesville home after six months of failing health Funeral services were held at Overton funeral home with Rev Ira Schlagenhauff officiating Burial was in Oak Hill cemetery She was born Jessie Richards in LaCrosse May 2 1863 married Dr Thomas W Nuzum in 1887 in Viroqua The family lived in Albany Brodhead before moving to Janesville in 1905 Surviving are her husband three physician sons a daughter nine grandchildren and one great grandchild She was predeceased by three brothers at Janesville Wisconsin.
The Supreme Court today upheld the legality of the non communist oath provision of the Taft Hartley labor law requiring union officials to file affidavits denying communism to use the National Labor Board. Chief Justice Vinson led the majority. Justices Jackson Black Frankfurter filed opinions. Douglas Clark and Minton did not participate. Frankfurt, Germany officials resign seeking refuge from communist dominated government.
Cat Tinker dies at 18, an age record for the family since Allan was 15 months old. WRJK radio call letters changed to KSB292 effective Saturday noon after FCC orders. Pryce Child III, William Harry Pryce, three, critically ill at St. Clare Hospital after rheumatic fever treatment. Joseph C. and Sherman H. Dearth buy four lots from Victor Heuer across Highway 11 for a new car sales lot, formerly a clay pit. Christine Elizabeth Weir born Saturday at St. Clare Hospital to Dr. and Mrs. James R. Weir of 2340 17th Street. The Weirs’ families visit. Mrs. James H. Weir of Chicago is grandmother. Mrs. John D. Germann improving at home after illness.
Austrian voters overwhelmed the communists in municipal elections in the Russian-occupied province of Lower Austria. Ten mayors appointed by Soviet authorities in 1945 were ousted while the Aloe backed by the communists won only five percent of the vote.
President Truman spoke to about 8000 in Galesburg IL on his midwestern tour calling for stronger democracy against communism and United Nations support. He warned that future wars could strike at home, urged world cooperation, and warned of totalitarian threats while noting the next few months will decide if a third war occurs.
Hungary's parliament approved Sandor Ronai as president of the Hungarian people’s republic, replacing Arpad Szakasits who resigned. Szakasits, former head of Hungary's social democratic party, resigned abruptly on April 24 in a one sentence letter to the speaker.
Dr. T M Taylor of Pittsburgh Exenia Seminary announced that a plan to merge the United Presbyterian Church and the Reformed Church failed to reach the required three fourths vote in the church's 51 Presbyteries. The reported tally was 1004 in favor to 220 against.
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