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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1956
Page
6
Scattered showers or thunderstorms and windy conditions expected this afternoon and in the southeastern half this evening. Becoming fair to partly cloudy by late tonight with cooler temperatures and possible frost in the northwest. Saturday outlook shows partly cloudy and cooler skies with temperatures around 71 high and 40 low.
Justice L A Koenig of Juda pleads innocent to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated with a hearing scheduled tomorrow at 9 30 a m Monroe police report. George Share of Monroe cited for illegal parking with fines of 2 dollars and costs. Obituaries note Mrs Anna Maria Johnson Sorli 81 Primrose Mrs Charles Little 71 Paoli Mrs Melvin Stromset 61 Beloit. Births recorded for Mr and Mrs Adolph Gobeli 527 21st street a daughter born May 17.
Surgical list includes Joan Bernet at 716 16th Avenue for tonsillectomy. Discharges noted for Mrs Lawrence Pine Beloit and several others including Mrs Gerald Wolter and son Mrs William Schmitz and son Helen Bauken Leo Hoftender Mrs Richard Singles Mrs Frank Beeck Stewart F Kingston John Weber Edward Johnson and John aus.
Sophomore class hosts its annual picnic after school at Recreation Park with sponsors Miss Margaret Fisher Charles Mowbray Mrs Herbert M Ainsworth and Miss Laura M Shoemaker in attendance. Games include baseball and tennis while committees cover food recreation and cleanup with many student volunteers.
City clerk Freda M Bray announced sealed bids for 2000 tons of bituminous concrete placed on streets with a mechanical spreader and for storm sewer installation. Bids for concrete due by 8:30 am June 2 and for sewer by 8:30 am June 4. Two autos damaged in a minor collision on 13th and 9th streets with at Ot to J Hein as driver and Donald F McGibbon's parked car.
Anna Maria Johnson Sorli 81 of Primrose dies at noon at her son Ancil Johnsons home in rural Horeb after long illness. Born May 14 1875 in Adams Township Green County she married John O Johnson Jan 5 1894 and farmed there before moving to Blanchardville in 1927. Survived by son Oscar Blanchardville daughters Amelia Gilbertson Ella Morris seven grandchildren fifteen great grandchildren one great great grandchild. Funeral Monday 130 PM at Trinity Lutheran Blanchardville Rev Benson officiating burial Adams cemetery pallbearers listed.
BELLEVILLE Special Mrs. Charles Little 71 Paoli died Wednesday at home with services set for 10 a.m. tomorrow at St William s Catholic church Paoli The rosary will be recited tonight at Becker funeral home Belleville She was born Lydia Schaller and married Charles Little October 12 1904 The couple celebrated their golden wedding two years ago Survivors include her husband a son George Verona three daughters Mrs Herman Hoesly Belleville Mrs Leonard Ripp Evansville Mrs Malcolm Ross Madison 22 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren
A group of 28 Milwaukee women visited New Glarus to view the Chalet of the Golden Fleece guided by J. J. Fij and Mmes. Henry Glaeden Arthur Theiler Millard Tschudy and Ernest Seeholzer, with Mrs Seeholzer serving as curator. Nearby, police reported three deer seen near St. Clare Hospital by patrolman Ervin Goecks. Virgil D. Klassy, 35, is reported in satisfactory condition after eye surgery at Clare Hospital, caused by a wrench during an accident with a hammer.
Notes of residents and visitors from Monticello and surrounding areas. D Curtis and Curt Wagner from Monticello. Mrs Emery Silver and Mrs Owen Keener from Monticello. the Scully family from Brodhead visiting Avon. Mrs William Klossner from Janesville. Mrs G Fred Galli visiting Rockford College and May Day events. trips to Falls Church Virginia and the Tulip Festival in Holland Michigan. departures to Hayward for a few days. Mother Daughter banquet at the Methodist church May 24. Rev Clarence Warfel returning from Illinois Synod convention in St Louis. Edith Rockow of Browntown visiting Clinton. Jerry Dale, Clinton mink farm descendant and Clinton High School student achieving music honors.
Sgt and Mrs Allen E Swanton of Vista California welcome daughter Melody Ann born Tuesday at Camp Pendleton Naval Hospital Oceanside California. Mother Phyllis Walters daughter of Harold Walters 2106 11th Avenue paternal grandparents Earl Swanton 1631 28th Avenue. Sgt Swanton who was to graduate from engineering school Camp Lejeune North Carolina today will return soon to Vista.
Asopert J. Alder was named last night as the nominee for commander of the Zilmer Riley American Legion Post during a meeting in the Legion home. Other nominees included Bernard J. Gibbons Warren Gerhart Lloyd F. Marty Daniel L. Ault Joseph D. Viney Rev. Richard F. Hulburt Robert E. Hardell Jr. Daniel W. Gerber George J. Engles Glen Gerber LaVerne E. Deal. Officers will be elected in June.
Catlin, delayed arrival greeted by crowd, denounces charges as disciplinary. High court announces details, Catlin learns of his father’s death minutes later. Oswald, former parole board member, says Catlin fought for clients without political pressure. Reger of the bar commissioners takes a statement from Oswald, not released.
Barbara Brown 1955 Alice in Dairyland leads a cavalcade of roadsters carrying district and state Legion officials for a parade. Trophies will be awarded to top bands and the best majorette at a program in the village park after the parade. G Emery Sipple department commander will speak at tomorrow night's public banquet ending the joint centennial observance.
A busy schedule includes church picnics and an 8:00 p.m. play at the high school gym, a 10:30 a.m. Union Presbyterian meeting, a Wisconsin Coon and Fox Hunters event at James Doherty farm four miles south, young anglers at Benkett pond, a Teen-age Road-eo at Recreation Park with 14 entrants, an Armed Forces Day air show and open house at Truax Field, a Valley District Scout camporee at Zanders Lake with Indian dancers, and Dewey Dwyer in charge of the event drawing 150 youths from the district.
State spelling bee champion Lloyd Duncan, 13, of Onalaska Wisconsin, was eliminated for spelling error on saponaceous meaning soapy. Melody Sachko, also 13, of Pittsburgh, won the championship.
Steen County Teachers College president Otto W. Lund spoke yesterday at the Kiwanis meeting at the Swiss Wheel. The discussion covered college management topics and future plans.
An out of town shopper entered a closed Monroe store on Thursday and paid for merchandise left on the counter. She later asked a nearby open grocery if self service is the norm here. Also, Spotty the cat, belonging to the Leonard D. French family, was rescued by Monroe firemen after two days up a neighbor’s tree. Donna French welcomed the cat home. Nancy Walthall, Northwestern University staff member, was named Beloit College dean of women.
Sinner H. Fairbert, 61, Route 3, Brodhead, said he swerved into a roadside embankment on Highway 81 nine miles west of Beloit to avoid a head on collision. He reported a youth yelled chicken from the approaching car as it passed. Fairbert sustained nose and right rib injuries. the left front and rear of his vehicle were damaged and two farm tractors pulled the car back onto the road.
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