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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1968
Page
2
Brief AP sourced item notes local happenings and community updates from Monroe, reported by the Associated Press, reflecting standard midwestern small town coverage.
Editorial notes a successful Third District Legion convention in Monroe praising hosts visitors and officers. It questions Mayor Ekums brief Saturday welcome and highlights the Monroe High School Band’s overlooked parade role. Also praises Chamber program and urges public pledge adherence before Madison hearing on Madison Bus Co service abandonment on May 16.
Dear Abby column by Abigail Van Buren recounts three reader letters about unrequited love and body image. Advice cautions against pursuing a draining relationship, encourages self care, and urges readers to seek purposeful activity to combat loneliness.
Glancing backward on May 8 1958 Dr. Mary Frantz addressed teachers at a regional gathering while Jerry Larson was stationed at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri. The item notes past local happenings and civic matters from Monticello and military service.
May 8 1928 marked 40 years since a Milwaukee road derailment at Juda caused by sunkinked rails. Two cars left the track while hog prices rose 15 to 20 cents with gifts at 9.85 to 10.35. Funeral services set in Albany for Mrs. Willis Silver, 79, who died in Rockford Illinois.
Beloit College will award honorary doctor of science degrees to five guest lecturers at the May 18 dedication of its new four million dollar science center. Honorees include Cmdr. M Scott Carpenter astronaut aquanaut Dr Carey Cronies president of Beloit College 1944 53 now chancellor of Rice University Dr Francis P Shepard Scripps Institution of Oceanography La Jolla Calif Dr Melbourne R Carriker Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole Mass and Dr Rene Jules Dubos Rockefeller University.
M. P. Schultz, a high school science teacher, submits his resignation to enlist in military service, ending a tenure marked by classroom innovation and dedication to students.
Sixty years ago today on May 8 1908 A Bruetting longtime brewmeister at the local brewery and later owner of the Mineral Point plant until a fire destroyed it dies in Nevada Retail prices on Swiss cheese in the local market ranged from 11 to 12 per pound during the period
Robert Phillips owner of Roberts Salon Monroe returns from Milwaukee where he attended the Wisconsin Hairdressers and Cosmetologists Association delegates seminar. Plans for the Fall convention were made and Phillips was nominated as banquet and style show luncheon chair. He attended the May 4 affiliate Unit A meeting in Janesville at Hotel Monterey as a delegate.
A new text book for Monroe High School speech students titled Speech In American Society became available in March and is dedicated to a former Monroe instructor and his class. Main author is R R Allen, with Sharol Anderson, Jere Hough, Earl Grow and Peter Martyn linked to the project. the book aims to equip students with practical, clear speech and civic evaluation.
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