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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1959
Page
7
Cloudy and cool with showers likely this afternoon and tonight. Saturday partly cloudy and cool. Low tonight 42 to 50, high Saturday near 60. Warmest place Presidio Texas 100 and coldest Big Piney Wyoming 25. Sunrise 5:40, sunset 8:14. Barometer readings 29.86 at 1 am and 30.01 at 1 pm. Precipitation since yesterday trace rain.
Pearl Cassell 43 of Monroe obtains absolute divorce from Berlyn Cassell 40 of Waupun State Prison on cruel and inhuman treatment. Married April 19 1945 separated August 18 1958 custody awarded to Pearl of four minor children alimony and support set at one dollar per year.
L A Koenig and Martin Hanson face jury trials for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated in a Monroe docket continued from May 4. Bail and costs set at $125. Local police report.
Larry Gransee aged 18 from rural Brooklyn marries DeAnn Joyce aged 16 from Evansville. Local clerk records the license as valid and filed.
Obituaries note the deaths of Henry A. Walter, 82, of Brodhead, and Lyman L. Hunt, 49, of Hudson, with brief biographical details.
Mr and Mrs John Flannery of Argyle celebrate the birth of a son on May 21. Mr and Mrs John Antonuk of Footville announce the arrival of a son on May 22.
St Clare Hospital reports pediatric and adult tonsillectomy patients from Beloit New Glarus Monticello and Janesville including Jean St Peter Jeanne Kummer Mrs Virgil Leuzing Gladys Haag and others. Dismissals include Homer Pickett Clarence Dahlberg Michael Stocker Joseph Lamboley Donna Hefty and others.
John F. Brown Jr seaman son of Mr and Mrs Brown is serving aboard the USS Midway with the Pacific fleet off the northern California coast. The carrier trains jet pilots and airmen in naval air warfare techniques. Lt John Burt home on leave with his mother in Albany. Sally Burt accompanies him from San Francisco.
Alvin H. Babler of Monroe certified life underwriter and Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. agent was named to the 1959 Million Dollar Round Table. He may be Green County’s first agent in the group, which requires $1 million in life insurance sales in a year or three consecutive years. Babler will attend a June 21–25 meeting at the Americana Hotel in Bal Harbour near Miami Beach. He is president of the Madison chapter of the American Society of Chartered Life Underwriters and has earned the National Quality Award since 1954. He has been licensed since 1952 and ranks among the top 8 percent in company volume this year. Locally, he chairs United Fund efforts, serves as fund director and first vice president, and is a past member of the Board of Education. Babler is married with four children and formerly owned the Chocolate Shop.
Oscar Ward aged 60 of Darlington was injured when he tripped in a Freeport hotel parking lot and hit a brick wall. He was taken to St Francis Hospital around 5:20 p.m. authorities said.
Services for Leslie E. Ilgen, 64, Beloit, who died Wednesday at St. Clare hospital, will be at 1 30 p m tomorrow in the Sherwin Methodist church Beloit Burial is planned at Grandview cemetery Cedarville Friends may call at Rosman Uehling Kinzer funeral home Beloit
GREEN BAY Wisconsin Cheese Exchange values were unchanged today with steady trading. Sales included one car pasteurized single daisy at 33 percent and offers uncovered showed one car cheddar at 31 percent.
Mrs. Frank Thompson phoned from Mt Horeb and Miss Carol Wilson called from Brown Town in Monroe. St Omar chapter meets at the Temple on May 25 at 8 p m for a stated gathering and a memorial service. The St Andrew's rummage sale is set for Saturday May 23 at First Name Bank starting 9 a m. Robert G Lewis agriculture coordinator for Gov Nelson visited to discuss Swiss cheese industry figures. Mrs Charles Lederman and son Wayne of Brodhead visited relatives in Monroe. Airman Marvin Flick of Monroe departs tonight for California for overseas duty. his wife Nancy Wolfley will stay with her mother Mrs Grace Wolfley during the assignment.
Mr and Mrs Alvin E Schuetz of 613 North 7th Street Manitowoc named their first child Steven Edward born May 10 The mother Janice Helgeson daughter of Mr and Mrs Gordon Helgeson of Valders is the former Mrs Helgeson The paternal grandparents are Mr and Mrs Ed Schuetz of 1518 28th Avenue
Leonard Disch Jr of Monroe is named to the dean's honor roll for the past quarter at Milwaukee School of Engineering. A 1950 Argyle High School graduate and Army veteran, he is the son of Mr and Mrs Leonard Disch Sr of 2310 18th Avenue. Honor students must maintain at least a 3.2 average.
William Rust former city editor of The Monroe Evening Times is named assistant public relations director for the Pure Milk Association and will work from the Chicago PMA office. He remains publisher of the Clinton Topper weekly, with his wife Mabel and their two children continuing to publish it. Carol Wilson Feted at South Wayne High School Graduation Party honors Miss Wilson with local friends and family in attendance.
Mrs Barbara Yost of 2519 16th street was taken to St Clare hospital by ambulance shortly after noon today after developing a heart condition at her home.
The United States accounts for roughly half of all globally surfaced roads. This dominance reflects vast highway networks and historic infrastructure development across the country.
Henry A. Wolter, 82, of Brodhead, died at home after a long illness. Born February 17, 1877 in Sylvester Township, he married Laura Schwartzlow in 1905. Survived by wife, two sons Willis and Glenn, daughter in law Jacob Schnittler, 14 grandchildren, six great grandchildren, and brother John of Cleveland. Funeral services Sunday at 2 p.m. at Newcomer Funeral Home with burial Greenwood Cemetery. Friends may call tonight.
Rural and city students entering sixth grade next year may sign up to learn band or orchestra instruments. See Allan F. Barnard, band instructor, in the junior high school band room next Tuesday and Wednesday. Rural sign up May 26, city May 27, 3–5 and 7–10 p.m. Parents may accompany. east entrance unlocked. band room is on the third floor.
Ralph Stauffacher, son of Mr and Mrs Arthur Stauffacher, was awarded a freshman scholarship by the University of Wisconsin. The award, announced by high school principal Lloyd C Nielsen, waives general student fees for both freshman semesters of the 1959 60 academic year based on his high school scholastic record.
The government Living Cost Index rose two tenths of one percent from March to 123.9 percent of the 1947-49 base. State and local tax increases supported the higher level with increases in transportation medical care recreation and personal care costs.
Monroe high school students bound for the North Adams Massachusetts exchange program will hold a car wash tomorrow at East school. Proceeds finance trip films and will be donated to the school. Call 3 for an ad taker today.
Schlitter Construction Co. received a bid of 4624 dollars to lay the water main for the new school. The light and water commission had a second bid of 7724 dollars from Ruef Construction Co. of Darlington.
Congress passed a Democratic backed 2.1 billion housing bill by a 261 to 160 margin, defeating Republican attempts to weaken it. Rep Flynn of Racine supported the measure as Congress opposed President Eisenhower over spending.
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