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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1952
Page
8
Partly cloudy with little temperature change. Low 38 to 45, high 65 to 70, warmer near Lake Michigan. Yesterday’s extremes 68 and 46, year ago 84 and 62. Barometer 29.69 at 1 am and 29.59 at 1 pm. Warmest city New Orleans 87, coldest Denver 42. Sunrise 4 34, sunset 7 19.
Real estate transfers include Helen Steuri selling Sugar River property north of Albany in Albany township to Ernest E. Wenger. Joseph Rohner transfers It. 3, bik. 8, Tallmar addition in Monroe to Lloyd Holmes with specified exceptions.
Justice actions list L A Koenig and Harold Wright Rockford nonresident fishing fines 25 dollars plus costs. Daniel Hake Rockford similar charge 25 dollars. Robert J. Kuebli 21 South Wayne guilty speeding and failure to yield with total 30 dollars costs. Deaths Dr B L Clarke 83 Monticello Shelby Divan 60 Janesville. Births Clarence Mayer New Glarus a daughter May 19 Lawrence Severson Blanchardville a son May 18 James Furnis wife twin sons May 17.
A long roll of patients and staff from St Clare Hospital includes Mrs Henry Geiger Verona Mrs Julius Friedrich route 2 Monroe Arthur Staedtler Monticello Mrs James Gianoli Rockford Joel Trigloan Shulls burg Mrs Nellie Coplien 719% 19th avenue Gregory Lyle Vorder man Browntown Paul Olson HUBER AT WAUSAU Brodheld Howard Hill Freeport Leslie Huber Garret Van Hemert Rockford and agricultural agent at Wausau D Cameron Findlay Mt Morris tonsillectomy Janice and Patricia Liedschlag Juda accident Mrs Flora Flader 820 17th avenue surgical Mrs Stanley Mauermann 1819 14th avenue Mrs Angelo Cernoia Beloit Darrell Gille Gratiot Alice Svensen Brown town Paul Drauz Beloit Mrs James Granger Beloit Dennis Flannery Argyle William Berget Gratiot dismissals George Turner Mrs Louis Pfund Mrs Marcella Lovelace Mrs C J Tingley Mrs Morris Wahl and son Mrs John Duggins Fred Stabler Mrs Albert Bellamy Francis Barry Jerry Waelti Mrs Marian Coates Thomas Moore Leo Splinter William Berger Mrs N Roy Bowman Mrs Roy Morton Mrs John Burr i Mrs Robert Gissing Mrs Lawrence Row and daughter Harold Hines Mrs William McGowan and son Mrs Thomas Kelly and daughter Terry Coplien Richard Shower Kermit Thompson Sylvan Prattman Mrs Harry Carlton Mrs Wilbert Zweifel Mrs Leo Deininger Howard Hill Mrs Charles Collicutt and Mrs Victor Ostby
Shelby Divan 60 Janesville native died at 6 45 am Saturday in Mercy hospital after a diabetic condition. An autopsy followed a recent traffic injury. He farmed in Cadiz township, worked at Rock River Woolen Mills, and was married thrice to Edna White, Louise Palmer, and other family survived by a widow, sister Vera Smith, two stepdaughters, two grandchildren. Services set at Shriner Neushwander funeral home with burial in Bethel cemetery near Monroe.
Flood-Smith crash case Rooney Flood and others versus Eugene Smith and others settled out of court. Judge Harry S Fox of Green County Circuit Court announced to clerk Lois Faubel finishing February term. Trial had been set for June 3. origin was a March 8, 1951 automobile accident in the county’s northeast.
The U S Embassy said Brazil will take steps to secure the release of a U S civilian aviation inspector and a Brazilian Air Force major held by a wildcat parachutist group. In Miami Gordon Bennett said 30 or more armed parachutists hold hostage Scott A Magness.
Salvation Army trucks will be in Monroe Wednesday for a general pick-up announced by local chairman Herman A. Stuessy. Donors are asked to take their items to the trucks on the South side of the square if possible.
Mrs. Perry Power, recently discharged after surgery in Rochester, was unable to join the Chicago trip with the Green County Masonic chorus due to union rules for accompanists. Kiel bandmaster Allan F. Barnard led his own T. R. Holyoke Anniversary March at a Wisconsin Bandmasters meeting. A library program at Ludlow Memorial offers a no fine week to encourage overdue returns.
Mrs John A Schindler 532 22nd avenue has been nominated as a director at large of the Wisconsin Alumni Association by the nominating committee. The May Wisconsin Alumnus lists her as wife of a physician and mother of four, with UW ties and former teaching staff role. Voters may return the ballot on page 21 to the Madison committee by June 21.
A new Montgomery Ward and Co. manager is expected to begin duties here Thursday after I. M. Brcewell resigned last Saturday. He and Mrs. Brcewell plan to move to Herman Missouri, and their daughter will leave Monroe June.
Local social notes list visitors from Beloit Freeport Milwaukee Des Moines Dubuque Rockford Chicago Madison and more. Residents and relatives travel to Monroe for weekends visits weddings and family events while a Monroe Woman's Bowling Association meeting is noted for May 20 at Turner Hall.
James Furniss and wife welcomed twin sons at 5 10 and 5 25 P M Saturday at St Clare hospital. The babies, third set this year at the hospital, were reported healthy without incubator needs. Grandparents are Simonson of Wiola and Mr and Mrs Ben Furniss of Beloit. Sisters Nancy and Susan and brother Gary await at home. A second note: Mrs Flora Fluder injured her left hand in a washing machine wringer this morning and was treated at St Clare hospital.
Two firms planned for the south side of Highway 11 at the Highway 81 intersection. A Dairy Queen will be completed by June 1 with brick front and front window counter service. A Pure Oil Co two stall station with brick front will be built east of the dairy firm. Philip Wilmore from Assumption NL will manage the Dairy Queen. Roy Schiffman of Pure Oil said no manager chosen yet. Entrance to the Dairy Queen from Sth street and the highway. Land leased from Mrs Stella Prechel on a 10 year lease with five year option. Land for the station via long term lease from the same owner.
Monroe Western Union office resumes operations this morning as telegraph workers return amid ongoing wage strike talks. Local manager George E. Jacobs notes discretion to return to work, while national negotiations continue in Washington with indications of progress toward an offer possibly tied to telegraph rate increases.
Arch ie H Gibbons 60 died Friday services were held this morning at Stues Sy funeral home and St Victor s Catholic church with Rev E C McCollow officiating burial in Calvary cemetery pallbearers Sam Walter Elmer Matzke M J Hyland Frank M Har en Thomas McArdle Albert H Mielke A son Sgt Edward Gibbon stationed Bamberg Germany believed en route home after emergency leave granted when his father s condition worsened. Mrs Quinton Lunquist Beloit dies at St Clare hospital services held today at 1 30 p m at Rosman UehlingKinzer Junes Rev Kenneth Fox officiating she was born in Beloit Oct 11 1914 married June 30 1945 leaves husband parents two sisters and three brothers.
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