May 8 19th century glance back and local notes
Sheriff Wilbur Deininger investigates Iliff School vandalism with an estimated 400 dollars in damages. Sidney L Horman of Milwaukee, president of the Wisconsin State Chamber of Commerce, will speak to a Monroe Jaycee meeting on May 15. The Wisconsin Cheese Makers Assn asks the legislature to spend 35000 dollars to back a claim for the world's largest cheese at the New York World's Fair. Monroe's notable native son Gen Nathan F Twining is named by the White House to succeed Gen Hoyt S Vandenberg as Air Force chief of staff. Joyce Campbell of United Telephone Co. earns state recognition for helping save a life by locating a mislaid drug while handling a hospital switchboard call. Also notes include horoscope entries and agency notices from 1943.
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Wilbur Deininger
Iliff School
Sidney L. Horman
Milwaukee
Wisconsin State Chamber of Commerce
Jaycee
Monroe
Wisconsin Cheesemakers Assn
Nathan F Twining
White House
Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Air Force
Joyce Campbell
United Telephone Co
St. Clare Hospital
Years Ago Today May 8 1933 Local notes and campus events
May 8 1933 reports show 400 at a senior class performance led by Captain Applejack and Hulda Schuetz elected president of Theta Sigma Phi at Wisconsin. Green County Normal School funding discussed. Browntown band concert drew 1000 attendees with $500 public funds and private donations. 60 years ago on May 8 1913 Boston schoolchildren strike for shorter hours. Odd Fellows district convention elected officers in Monroe.
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Aptain Applejack
Hulda Schuetz
University of Wisconsin
Theta Sigma Phi
Boston
35Th District Convention of
Odd Fellows
J. H. Stover
Browntown
C. A. Kelly
Fred Luchsinger
Belleville
Adam Schmidt
Monroe
Maids and Matrons Whist Club Guests Visit Miss Treat
On May 8 1903 the Maids and Matrons whist club with 16 guests spent the afternoon with Miss Alice Treat Euchre was played Silk raising is being experimented at Janesville and declared a success Strawberries and plums were damaged by the cold according to the Wisconsin crop bulletin
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Alice Treat
Janesville
Wisconsin Crop Bulletin
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Leo
Virgo
LIBRA
Scorpio
Sagittarius
Capricorn
Aquarius
Richwood
W. Va
Water Gate Inn
Washington
Nicholas County
Democratic National
T. K. McClung
Frank M. Andrews
Goodland
Harold J. Lamboley
Green County
Armed Services of the United States
Joseph Riedweg
Mickey
Bernice Beoe
Sule
Poppin Fresh
American Toy
REMCO
Viewmaster
Weeble
Weebles
S. S. Littleputt
Bauszan
Radio Steele
Green County Normal School
Inco Browntown
235 Souls
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