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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1947
Page
8
Showers this afternoon with Friday partly cloudy and cool. Highest 77 degrees. Precipitation since yesterday is a trace. Barometer at 2 a.m. Warmest place yesterday in the U S was Frome Colt. Coldest was Bismarck South Dakota with 72 degrees.
Alerman Lufi transfers 2 acres near New Glarus to Arthur W. and Garnet V. Ames. Jay Starr conveys St. 119 Railroad 2nd ed. to Marion Wieck in Monroe. William Brewer sells land in Brooklyn to Jacob K. Thompson. Sylvia Breylinger deeds parcel It. 31 in Monticello to Jacob K. Thompson.
Letters of administration issued to Mrs. Iona Duerst of New Glarus in the estate of her father Scott Hilton who died May 15. Appraisers named are Lawrence Ames of New Glarus R J Mauger of Mineral Point and Charles R Kohli of Monroe.
Walter Sparks of Clinton was found guilty of stealing a Delbert Eimer car and sentenced by Judge Harold J. Lamboley to one year in county jail. Sparks had entered a not guilty plea.
Marriage licenses issued for Myron William Siedschlag of Monroe and Irene Lawler of Brown town at Newton Iowa. Deaths noted include Henry F. Kubly aged 76 of Freeport at St. Clare Hospital. Medical and dental items list Sareteal. cases include Mrs. Joseph Praego chy. Gerald Baldwin of Derlington. Tonsillectomy for Donald Rostad John Shirley and Mary Jackson of Brodhead. Several dismissals and names follow including Mrs Rose Morton Amos Schultz Maurice Christiansen and others.
United Steelworkers President Philip Murray ordered a two year no strike rule to ensure uninterrupted production in the steel industry. The letter to 3,000 locals, approved by the CIO union board, urged strict adherence to the contract, no work stoppages, and resolution of disputes through grievance procedures and arbitration.
Albany special: Class night will be held at 8 Tuesday in the grade school gymnasium with Kenneth Sisson as master of ceremonies. The Albany Bird school band will perform followed by class histories by Gloria Zwickey, William Fiedler, Ralph Leiiow Jr, Kathryn Kauk and James Price. Eunice Zweifel will present the senior class and Lyle Trow. The senior class will be announced. Choral music will be by the grade chorus and J R Schesser will preside over awards.
Henry F Kubly born September 20 1870 in Canton Glarus Switzerland died at Freeport hospital after six weeks as patient and long illness. He lived with son LaVern in Freeport and left four sons Ivan Marshall Gordon LaVern one daughter Miss Eunice a step son and five grandchildren. Funeral 1 Saturday at Shriner Neuschwander funeral home with Rev B W Blackburn officiating. burial Greenwood cemetery.
A four engine Army transport plane from Wright Field crashed four miles east of Dayton. Five people died and two were injured in the accident during a routine test flight. The C-87 plowed into a wheat field after tumbling sidewards. Names of the dead were withheld pending notification of relatives. The injured were treated at Patterson Field Hospital.
Berlin port authorities report 116 ships carrying nearly 1,000,000 tons of food will reach American and British zones from May 1 to July 18 to ease shortages. Ships unload at Bremen, Hamburg, and Emden with white flour wheat corn barley and oats. Air marshal Sir Sholte Douglas urges German leaders to share burdens, while US Colonel Hugh B. Hester says 1.4 million school children in the US zone will get school meals daily by June 1, and 2 million in the British zone already receive meals.
Personal mentions list residents and relatives visiting or staying with families across Wisconsin and nearby states. Names include Mrs Minich, Mrs Sophia Becker, Mrs William Cox, Mrs H J Bush, Miss Mary Langdon, Mr and Mrs Jake Hefty, Mrs Jake Tschudy, Mrs Beulah Enright, Mrs Ella Steele, Mrs Pearl Burmeister, Mrs Noris Tree, Jo ann, Mrs Fred Gerbitz, Mrs E Gerald, Mrs R Urban, Mrs Claude Conn, Wayne, Twin Grove, Mrs Orpha Wells, Mrs Ida Morton, Mrs Carl Larson, Glenda, Mrs Frank Gadow, Mrs John Kluss, Mrs Austin Davis, Mr and Mrs Albert Wyss, Mrs Mabel McGonigan, Violet, Mrs Gladys Ziech, Mrs John Wampfler, Branfort Conn, Mrs Nora Danielson, Mrs William Gift, Mrs John Lapp, Lena, Mrs Wilbert Krauss, Mrs Marie Widmer, Gary, Elmer Oswald.
The Senate agreed to vote at 3 p.m. Monday on motion to postpone action on the $4,000,000,000 income tax cutting bill until June 10. Senator Millikin secured unanimous consent for the request. Senator George, author of the postponement motion, called the timing satisfactory. Democrats crowded to push the motion, while Republicans foresaw a close outcome.
Mrs. M. J. Gonstead hosted the Wednesday night bridge club at 801 14th avenue. Honors went to Mrs. Leo Koehler, Mrs. Arthur Rothe, Mrs. Nell Cunningham and Mrs. George H. Schuh as refreshments were served by the hostess. Separately, estimates place California sequoias at 3,000 to 4,000 years old while the Cypress of Tule in Mexico is believed to be 4,000 to 6,000 years old.
Lee Hoxey from Madison on business visits. Mrs Baltz Voegels of Monticello shopped in Monroe. Mrs Fred Butcher and Mrs R Grant of Monticello and Beloit visited Miss M Fauchie a patient at Clare Hospital. Mrs Thomas McArdle visited her son at Centen hospital then returned to work after weekend with Miss Schulz parents Mr and Mrs H O Schulz.
Harold E. Stassen pivots to Wisconsin for delegates to the GOP national convention in the state’s April presidential primary. He plans a Milwaukee editors’ meeting and weighs entering Nebraska’s primary. He pressed a 10-year “production for peace” program, urging 10 percent of U S goods and food for world peace, to be distributed to UN-supporting nations under U S control.
At the final meeting of the South school P T A 86 parents teachers and students enjoyed a program of colored movies shown by Christ Buhlman. Films included farm machinery Swiss cheese making and a reel on farm machinery featuring Paul Frenzel janitor. Also shown were clips of the New Glarus centennial Wisconsin Dells a northern fishing trip skiing and several comedies. Refreshments were served by Mrs Roscoe Dalton Mrs Burnette Painter and Mrs Stanley Beach.
Mr and Mrs Mungo Brydson of Freeport are guests at the Alvin Russell home near Gratiot where a club of people married over 50 years meets. The Brydsons have been married 54 years. Californians Visit Here Dr and Mrs Robert Cunningham of San Francisco were visitors yesterday of Mr and Mrs Charles Hyland en route to Fulton and Edgerton to visit relatives.
Two eighth grade students Jo Ann Larson and Duane Drye, with teacher Paul Severson, completed an end-of-school trip to several sites including New Glarus state park, Madison state capitol, Poynette game farm, Portage Indian agency house, Belmond old state capitol, and crossed the Wisconsin River by ferry at Prairie du Sac. Also noted: Mrs Ray A Young traveled to Denver due to her aunt Mrs Andrew Kundert’s serious illness.
A dense OCR fragment lists numerous names and place tags such as Zentner Frank Milz Oak Shade Marian Bidlingmaier Barbara Schraepfer Geraldine Smith Paul Wenger Buckskin Lydia Graber Theodore Lewis Roland Ritschard Loveland Robert Knouse Simmons Donald Thoman Purcell Monroe Monroe Danial Bechtolt Valley View Dorothy Becker Richland Geraldine Berg Rat Hollow Frances Bidlingmaier Enterprise Cullen Bowman Meadow Brook Joyce Brechlin Browntown Robert Buol Iliff John Burt Searles Sarah Elizabeth Burt Searles Wayne Conn Twin Grove Frances Cotherman Hillside View Jimmie Curran Patricia DeVoe Browntown Ruth Dettwiler Round Grove Charles Dickson Watson Lyle Drake
A dense listing of individuals and places appears, featuring Roosevelt, Rat Hollow, Richland, Browntown, East Clarno, and many others. The fragment suggests a community directory or notices with names, towns, and associations such as districts like Twin Grove and Pleasant Valley.
A Maine program addresses invasive growth in blue berry fields including northern nut grass common horseradish and trees classified as weeds when they appear among crops.
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