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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1948
Page
8
Increasing cloudiness and warmer tonight with scattered showers in the northwest. Saturday, cloudy with showers and thunder showers in the north and west spreading southeast by afternoon or night. Somewhat warmer in the southeast. Yesterday's high 67, low 43. barometer 29.75 at 1 am and 29.72 at 1 pm. sunrise 4:39, sunset 7:14.
Real estate transfers list Alice Caple to Bernard Caple in Brodhead lot 2 block 123 and Olive B Hilliard with partners to Henry Goreham for Albany land. Amelia Stauffer to Richard J Gilbert parcels in New Glarus assessor plat. Obituaries list Emil Erickson 56 route 1 Mt Horeb. Births include Mr and Mrs William Haesler Areyle a son May 14. Mr and Mrs Edwin R Broge street 2x000m a daughter May x. Mr and Mrs Charles Higbee Albany a daughter May 13.
St Clare Hospital lists Monroe contact John Stalcup at 1045 17th Street and Charles Robbins in Belmont. Surgical staff include Leland White of 1506 Ith Street Frank Digman 1016 12th Avenue ert Zuhlke Mrs Bernard Matteson and Curtis McCulley.
Otto Schneider guards the courthouse clock each Saturday morning winding the mechanism for ten minutes. A timing discrepancy appears on opposite clock faces with several minutes difference that workmen cannot fix. A boy made six trips on the steps while mushroom hunters and dandelion fans explored the countryside during the season opening.
Darlington tested a new fire pumper with 252000 gallons at 200 pounds pressure for three hours and recorded 90000 gallons with final two readings. 26000 gallons were under 250 pounds pressure. Chicago milk price up a half cent to stores and 22 cents at homes.
Virgil Berg and William Leopold, Monroe youths, win Wisconsin Farmer Degrees but stay for the Monroe Junior Prom. Leopold runs seven baby beeves and four purebred cows with litters, tests soil, and earned $1,116 in three years. Berg has seven baby beeves and seven purebred cows with litters, is a DHIA native, and earned $2,438.88 in three years. Leopold serves as FFA reporter this year. Berg contributes on multiple chapter committees and in speaking contests.
Albany special report notes area children entering first grade this fall as guests at the Albany trade school. Other items include Miss Patricia Tarrant joining St. Clare hospital as a nurses aide, Phyllis Ludwig heading to Chicago for a Fritos booth job, and the birth of a son to Mr and Mrs Ken Ernst now Chicago residents. Oren Burt to illustrate a Green County centennial cookbook, a deer collision damages Hiram Lancaster’s car near Argyle, Lincoln school eighth graders enjoy a Recreation park picnic, and local moving plans involving the Cash family on 10th Street with real estate activity by Kramer and associates.
Dixon Construction Co of Albany wins contract for grading training and base construction on Highway 23 from Darlington city limits north to the Iowa Lafayette county line a distance of 9.684 miles with a bid of 177 998 40 dollars. Relocations will improve alignment and remove curves.
Personal mentions list residents and visitors in Monroe and nearby towns with names like George Deegan Mrs G S Soseman Mrs Jeanette Pauli Jonas Burmeister Kathleen Peters Edward Klu and James Green. Several trips and visits are noted plus a bake sale at Wisconsin Power and Light by the VFW auxiliary.
A four year old girl Pamela Bahr was found bound in a garage by a neighbor’s fox terrier. She had a burlap bag over her and weights including cement blocks and scrap iron placed on her. Police said she had not been assaulted and could not tell what happened. Her mother Madeline Bahr reported her missing. The garage is near the child’s home.
Gratiot High School band won first for playing and third for arching at the Evansville music festival. Soloists placing second included Arthur Satterlee cornet Louise Stevens voice Jacqueline Sargent clarinet and Mary Friedli mellophone. Trombone quartet members Gordon Ayers LaVerne Engebretson Clinton Paulson and Anthony Wand also took second.
Herbert W. Parisius, once accused by Rep. O'Konski of soliciting subscriptions for an alleged communist magazine, resigned today from the commerce department. Associates said he left as director of the area's division of the international trade office to enter private business.
Tass reports Russia protests Greece over executions of rebels tied to the 1944 leftist uprising. In recent weeks about 217 prisoners, many convicted of murder, have been reported executed in Greece, Russia warning they must stop.
Three fertilizer test plots have been placed in Monroe and Green counties to study soil response to varying application levels. Plots at Clinton oats, Green county farm, Oliver Miller farm, and E. D. Porter field will compare medium and heavy phosphate with or without nitrogen and with or without potash, plus a blank strip.
The annual mother and daughter banquet, under the Evangelical and Baptist churches, drew 165 attendees. Toastmistress was Mrs. Clarence Brunkow, with Irene Menehan delivering the toast to mothers and Mrs. Ralph Frey replying for daughters.
Members of the Monticello and Wallace Homemakers clubs chartered a bus Tuesday for a day in Milwaukee. They visited Mitchell Park a radio station city water works and toured Lake Shore Drive with guests Mmes John Dahnke Jacob Voegeli and Marvin Freitag among those on the trip.
After Russia agreed to conciliation discussions, President Truman and Secretary of State George C. Marshall stated American policy was unchanged and that the United States would not engage in bilateral parleys with the Soviet Union.
John W. Roach head of Wisconsin cigarette and beverage tax division was elected secretary treasurer of the National Conference of State Liquor Administrators, representing a gain for Wisconsin amid national tax administration efforts.
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