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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1946
Page
5
Clearing and cooler tonight with frost and near freezing temperatures. Thursday partly cloudy and cool. Yesterday 3 p m high 74 lowest 57. Almanac says sunrise 4 40 sunset 7 13. Warmest day Yuma Arizona 95 while Bismarck North Dakota registered 32. Barometer today 29 56 at 3 am 29 54 at 3 pm.
William W. Churchill and others transfer parcel in Sec 34 Monroe township to Stanley W. Howe. Simferd H. Bartle transfers tt 2 bik 2 Blumer add New Glarus village to Casper K Marty. From estate of David Mann tt 23 Grand View add Monroe to Henry Kramer by administratrix Lillian Phelps.
Obituary notice reports the deaths of Mrs. Minnie Feldt aged 78 and Gustave Hefty aged 53 from Monticello. The brief obituary provides their names and ages and notes their passing without additional biographic details.
Mr and Mrs Walter R Wyss of Monroe route 4 welcomed a daughter on May 15 at St Clare Hospital.
Accident victims include George B Moore and Luanne Lewis with addresses in Monroe route 3 and New Glarus. Medical contacts feature Mrs Paul Busch Mrs Uno Miller Mrs Albert Grinnell and others in Brodhead Monroe and Morristown. Dismissals include Mrs Chester Stwessy and William Golackson along with several others.
Minnie Feldt 78 of 523 17th Ave died at 2 15 a m today at her home after a two year illness. Born Sept 9 1867 in Pieritz Germany she came to America in 1893 settling in Monroe. She and her husband farmed in Juda township before moving. Surviving are two sons Otte and Harry Feldt five daughters Mrs Tobias Wild Mrs Minnie Chryst Mrs Herman Wild Mrs Rodney Buchholtz and others as listed. 25 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Funeral services 2 pm Friday at Shriner Neushwander funeral home with Rev Paul Kehle. Burial Mt Vernon Juda.
Flour mills may halt production for six weeks as wheat shortages bite domestic supply. The House agriculture committee will open a broad inquiry into U S and world food conditions with a first session set for tomorrow. Chairman Flannagan may push renewed rationing if evidence warrants.
Chicago observers say the livestock sector can absorb the government wheat use program with little effect on meat, noting farmers may have fed wheat before for profit and could lack other feeds. Some argue even if wheat feeding stopped, meat supplies would not be substantially affected due to only a small crop portion used for feed. Another notes much of current feed wheat falls short of milling quality and still enters the feed bin.
A Weather Bureau report notes winter wheat in Washington remains hurt by harsh conditions and insect pressure. The update cites ongoing weather impacts on yields and farm conditions across the region.
Local notes list residents and visitors from Niles Juda Warren Madison Monroe New Glarus and other areas. Entries include trips, shopping, visits to relatives and moving announcements plus stamps and university events.
Harold Rottler visited Madison today while Mrs. Eugene Elmer and Mrs. Harrison Grenzow were seen in New Glarus and Juda respectively. Emma Marty came from Monticello and Miss LaVerne Keehn from Freeport visiting families. Anna Benkett visited her son Roy in Appleton. Helen Ellingson attended an Madison insurance meeting. Henry Leuzinger and family from Monroe and Brodhead dined with relatives in Albany. Frank Guggisberg and family called in Brodhead. Lt. Dan Ault in Vienna sent a Mothers Day cablegram, noting a possible army tour with Robert Lanz through Switzerland.
Gustave Hefty 53 was found dead at his Monticello area farm eight miles northwest at 7 45 am by his son Richard Hefty had sent a farm hand Arthur Blum to town for repairs. Hefty was brought to Monroe and pronounced dead by the coroner Herman A Stuessy. Funeral arrangements were set at Voegeli funeral home.
Funeral services were held at Shriner Neushwander funeral home at 2 p m today for Herman Savoy with Rev. Alvin C. Rab eh officiating. Burial was in Greenwood cemetery. Pallbearers were Fred B. Trickel, Glen H. Kubly, Arthur Spoerry, Louis R. Wolleson, O. A. Moldenhauer, and Wilbur E. Deininger.
Mr and Mrs Joe Hawthorne and Mrs Verna Kubly traveled to Camp McCoy to accompany home Cpl Alden J Hawthorne discharged after 23 months service in Manila. The piece notes surrounding activities including a Madison exams event for Marty Chevrolet Sales Co employees with Monroe participants Douglas Zastrow Larry Vincent Emil and Fred Bandi and John Marty present.
Mrs Warren W Sutton and son Paul Mrs G W Campbell Miss Hazel Falk Miss Alice Falk Mary Wampfler and Beverly Wampfler depart for Lime Ridge to attend United Brethren Women's Missionary Society convention with sessions starting today and ending Friday. They plan a stop at Devils Lake en route.
Mr and Mrs Henry G Schneider report their son Pvt Kenneth Schneider is stationed at Ft Lewis Washington and will take part in a parade at the state capitol there Saturday.
The 33-cow Holstein herd owned by John W. Ruff of Monroe finished a year of production testing. The average butterfat per cow reached nearly 24 percent above the national average for dairy cows.
Three fluorescent lighting units have been installed in the county agent’s office. Two are in the outer room and one is in E. O. Bakers private office.
The April session authorized the first street lights to be installed under county control with three other courthouse offices already lighted earlier in the year, marking progress on local infrastructure.
Rev. and Mrs. Alvin C Rabehl and Charles Krueger attend the 90th Wisconsin conference of the Evangelical Church in Milwaukee. Bishop G E Epp presides as the session runs through Sunday. Friday includes a vote on merging with the United Brethren church. Rev Rabehl marks 15 years at Immanuel Evangelical Church.
The streets department under John Erb started re painting crosswalk and parking lane boundaries using 70 gallons of yellow paint at 4.06 per gallon. Crews began on 16th Ave south of the square and will extend work citywide this week.
Here From New York Mr. and Mrs. Gus Merrill of Boonville are visiting in the Fred Karlen home in Winslow and with other relatives in the vicinity.
County Agent E. O. Baker spoke with the Green County Farm Implement Dealers Association about member participation in the grassland farm and field day scheduled for June 11.
The Stauffacher Brothers farm hosts a field day to showcase new machinery. The agricultural association held its latest meeting in Monticello.
In portions of pasture land 4 to 6 inches tall, dry soil and cold weather kept pastures short but expected rapid response if conditions improve. Hay fed to dairy herds remains high. feed supplies are tight. Cool, dry weather delays truck crop planting and potato seedings. fertilizer delays hinder early crops. early peas grow slowly. some late seeding awaits better weather.
The district soil man Burle Buttman has spent about a week in Green county and will return to finish soil inventories. The work focuses on measuring load carrying capacity in short and long rotations rather than fertility, with cooperation from farmers noted.
Mr. Kimball notes yearly growth in adoption of terracing and related practices. Farmers increasingly require guidance rather than persuasion, making outreach the main challenge as demand for advice rises.
A motorcycle ridden by Roger David Teuscher hit the left rear of Cleo Jeanette McGrath’s auto on the south side of the square. Teuscher posted a 25 bond and was later fined 10 plus costs by Justice L A Koenig. No injuries reported.
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