Singers Thrill Audience At Green County Parade of Quartets
Barbershop lovers filled the Junior High Auditorium for the Green County Barbershop Chorus seventh annual Parade of Quartets. The headliners were The Yachtsmen from Decatur Illinois with comedy and songs including Hilly Billy Auditioneer Don’t Bring Lulu and When I Was a Little Bitty Baby. The Singing Jensens of Glenview Illinois returned to Monroe with Connie Reese Scott and Ed performing Dixie Oralee and Little Pal.
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Dina Speich
Green County
Tuuner Hall
Decatur
Ill
Hilly Billy
Lulu
Jensens
Glenview
Monroe
Connie
Reese
Scott
Dad
Dixie
Pal
Mer Quater
Show To Be Sunday To Coin a Phrase Big Day Coming
Monroe Coin Club hosts its Annual Coin Show at Turner Hall on Sunday May 18 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with free admission. Over 15 dealers from Iowa Illinois and Wisconsin will display coins and supplies, plus five trophy classes and gold coins in prizes.
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Monroe
Monroe Coin Club
Turner Hall
Iowa
Illinois
Wisconsin
LaVerne Permot
Tony
Kuban
Rockford
Beloit
Albany Scouts Host Camporee at Albany Wildlife Area
Albany Boy Scout Troop 107 hosted the Valley District Camporee over the weekend with 127 scouts and 22 adult leaders. Webelos from Pack 114 performed at the campfire while Order of the Arrow members led demonstrations on axe and knife use lashings backpacking and fires. Roy Chesebro spoke on edible plants and patrol tug-of-wars provided afternoon activity.
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Albany
Valley District
Albany Wildlife Area
Webelos den
Order of the Arrow
Valley Chapter
Roy Chesebro
American Legion Names Badger Boys State Delegates
The Zilmer- Riley Post No. 84 of the American Legion announced four area delegates for Badger Boys State. They are Joe Viney Steve Hennager Dick Haffele and Tom Jones all from Monroe South Wayne Juda and Black Hawk High School students with strong school activities and leadership roles. Viney Hennager Haffele and Jones hold multiple honors from Latin Club chorus M Club cheer leadership and sports teams with varsity experience and student government involvement.
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Badger
Zilmer- Riley Post No
The
American Legion
Joe Viney
Joseph Viney
Steve Hennager
C. G. Hennager
Monroe
Dick Haffele
Winona Haffele
South Wayne
Tom Jones
Jake Jones
Viney
Hennager
MHS
Church
Key Club
M Club
Legion
Haffele
Black Hawk High School
Lettermen
National Honor Scholastic Society
FFA
Five Hurt In County Traffic Mishaps Reported Saturday and Sunday
Green County deputies reported at least five people injured in traffic incidents over the weekend. Incidents near New Glarus and Monroe involved a bulk truck rollover, motorcycle crash, head bumps, and multiple vehicle collisions with injuries ranging from bruises to possible neck injuries.
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Green County
George A. Maughan
Dodgeville
New Glarus
Highway 39
Green County Sheriff’s Deputies
Martin Bonkoski
Route 1
Garry L. Rufer
Monroe
Bobby L. Wunschel
Juda
Wunschel
Rufer
Audrey Kenny
Warren
Ill
Max William Dearman
Woodford
Old Airport Road
William R. Haffele
Browntown
Highway 11
Earl J. Collins Jr
Genoa City
Arthur F. Carter
Oregon
Patricia A. Carter
Collins
Six Die in Barron County Two Car Crash
Six people including five from one family die in a Barron County Wisconsin crash near Chetek on a Sunday. Donald Bakken 23 dies in a westbound auto. the Huset family 28 24 4 3 perish with Sheila 2 later dying at a Rice Lake hospital. The accident marks the worst Barron County crash on record.
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Associated Press
Barron County
Wisconsin
Chetek
Donald Bakken
James Huset
Huset
June
Linda
Debbie
Sheila
Rice Lake
Bakken
Poskin
Wally Larson
Prairie Lake
Apollo 10 countdown and crew prep for moon orbit
AP dispatch notes Apollo 10 countdown begins at midnight with three veteran astronauts Stafford Young and Cernan on a 93 hour mission spread over 55 days. If successful it clears the path for Apollo 11 lunar landing in July and faces limited favorable lunar visits this month.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Air Force
Thomas P. Stafford
Navy
John W. Young
Eugene A. Cernan
Stafford
Young
Cernan
Earth
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Grant Briggs
Wilson Bloom
LaVerne Pernot
Tony Kuban
Nathan Bloom
Bill Moon
Times
First National Bank of Monroe
Albany Scouts
Jones
United Methodist Youth Fellowship
Jim Dixon
Claude
Woman’s Club
Jackie Thorson
Edith Friedlander
Norman Huber
Pearce
Sherman Hodgson
Lester Johnson
Dennis Hunt
Ethel
Monroe Woman’s Club
Monroe High School
James Liermann
Francis Denny
John Callahan
Arthur Roethe
Albert
Samuel French, Inc
Ollie Fink
Milwaukee
Selective Service
Marquette University
Green County Church Women United
Jack Close
Merryth Seaton
Alvin Rabehl
Frank Stiles
Rabehl
Steve Neuberger
Charles Seaton
Melvin Roehrdanz
R. Finley Barry
Linus Wierwill
United Church of Christ
Wolfgang Koehler
St. John’s United Church of Christ
Paul Gibson
Immanuel United
AP News
NEW York
John Mitchell
Earl Warren
Supreme Court
Abe Fortas
Newsweek
Mitchell
Nixon
Justice Department
Fortas
Detroit
General Motors Corp
United Auto Workers Union
UAW
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