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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1947
Page
7
Fair and cooler tonight with Tuesday light showers. Last week records show highs of 74 and 71, lows 56 to 74, precipitation today .17 inches. Barometer 29.50 at 2 am and 29.30 at 2 pm. Warmest US location yesterday was Yuma Arizona at 103 degrees, coldest Eastport Missouri at 40. Sunrise 4:35, sunset 7:...
Olive Hilliard transfers to It 1 bik 12 o iam Murray Jo ney 158 A sec hn Fahr twp. County Court est Studer Monroe possession undersized trout 25 and costs Judge Harold J 1 Justice Cases Glen Langston Monroe speed pe 12 and costs Justice L A Koenig Robert Golackson Woodford no driver's license 10 and costs Justice L A Koenig George C Oswalt Freeport drunken driving 75 and costs Justice L A Koenig Marriage Licenses genthaler and both of Man Deaths Mrs Austin C Davis 77 Bro town Celia Faye Stuessy 2% weeks New Glarus Anna Bertha Klemm 58 Freeport pred Muchlemann 63 Mt Horeb Births St Clare Hospital Mr and Mrs Thomas Hergert route 1 Orfordville daughter May 19 Mr and Mrs Herb Nelson Brodhead daughter May 18 Mr and Mrs Werner Ziltner New Glarus daughter May 18 Mr and Mrs Lee Mitchell 7th street son May 17
Accident and medical notices list individuals by name and address across routes and towns including Argyle Beloit Clinton Janes and 1923 11th avenue plus dismissals of numerous residents. The item resembles a classifieds style notice with a request to “Try Times Want Ads.”
Mrs. Austin C. Davis of Browntown died at 6 last evening in St. Clare hospital after a period of ill health. Born August 29 1869 in Clarno township she married Austin C. Davis December 25 1885. Surviving are five sons two sisters twenty three grandchildren and ten great grandchildren. Last rites will be Wednesday at 2 pm in Stuessy funeral home with Dr. Charles A. Briggs officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood cemetery.
In Greenville South Carolina Judge J Robert Martin Jr directed acquittal of three of thirty one defendants in a week long lynching trial without calling witnesses. He ruled insufficient evidence to convict on any count and acquitted seven on murder and accessory after the fact charges while preserving accusations of being accessories before the fact and conspiracy to commit murder.
Mrs. Jack Green 37 of Avon township died after a year long illness. Funeral services were conducted at Everson funeral home Brodhead by Rev Barney Stephans. Burial followed at Brodhead cemetery. She was born Sept 16 1909 in North Dakota to Mary Meisel and Arthur Slaton. Married Jack L Green Aug 29 1930 in South Dakota and moved to Spring Grove in 1936. Surviving are her husband two sisters and four uncles among others.
Names and places populate a Monroe social page as residents and guests visit family in Madison Freeport Rockford Sauk City Evansville and Monticello. People travel to Chicago St Paul Beloit Oshkosh and Verona for weekends and events while local clubs host meetings and dinners.
Air and Mrs. Arthur Hillberg of Chicago spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Henning. Mrs. John Cleary and her daughter Bernadette of Blanchardville were shoppers in Monroe Saturday.
Former Green County sheriff Ted Syvrud and wife Mrs Marjorie Syvrud observed their silver wedding anniversary at home in Shullsburg with a noon family dinner and open house. Attendees from Monroe included Harold Kline James Bray R H Schoonover Edward Schafer Paul Baltzer and Matthew Solliran and their spouses.
Madison completes welcoming a daughter for Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Redman Pamelia White Redman born Saturday May 17 at Wisconsin General hospital Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Redman Monroe Cadiz Center school pupils tour Monroe visiting Fritos plant pop factory post office and jail Greer county Scouts round table at St John s Evangelical church hosted by Troop 114 Begin duties at First National bank Joyce Pehl and Lucille Keller start bookkeeping duties returned from six months in California Cubs Dodgers game attended by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ritschard Beloit Girl Scouts visit Monroe Center cheese factory court house highway police radio station I Am an American Day not observed in Green county Accident leads to fine after side swipe Sunday night
George C. Oswalt of Freeport was fined 75 dollars plus costs for drunken driving. Police report states he struck the car of Francis Oliver at the 1800 block of 11th Street, injuring no one.
Western Electric installation workers today re established their picket lines and curtailed telephone service in several areas. New Jersey Bell reported heavily picketed main exchanges with emergency service at posts where operators refused to cross. Some curtailment also appeared in Illinois while New York workers returned to their posts. The union claims 20 000 members and sent pickets back to their beats.
Arthur Le fevre of the Telephone Guild of Wisconsin said negotiations between the National Association of Communications Equipment Workers and Western Electric remain unsettled. He warned the guild may bar members from crossing ACEW pickets if a settlement is not reached, following a temporary withdrawal of lines last week.
LeFevre acknowledged the toll on service as the guild settled with Wisconsin Telephone Co. ending a month-long strike that disrupted telephone service recently restored.
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