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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1950
Page
4
Washington reports furniture sales soaring to $3,000,000,000 annually as high personal incomes and a home-building boom drive demand. Fewer buyers use installment plans now, with about 45 percent on credit, per a Commerce Department survey.
In Orangeville and South Wayne a series of social gatherings featured Mr. and Mrs. Ray Askey hosting a Monday dinner for guests including Mr. and Mrs. Jann Rockey of Summit Wisconsin and Mrs. Join Faw of Vale Oregon. A surprise birthday dinner for Mrs. H. C. Homb was held Sunday by local families and friends.
Members of the Monroe volunteer fire department held ladder practice during last evening's drills. They handled 75 foot ladders behind the fire house and ran a drill on erecting 30 foot ladders in tight spots between buildings.
Juda high school celebrates top scholars William Brunkow and Gerald Keen with the Amer ican Legion and science awards. Keen and Brunkow, tied for highest four year average, draw lots to present speeches at commencement in Evangelical United Brethren church. Nathan Bartell of Wauwatosa guest speaker. diplomas by Principal W H Clements.
Harold E. Stassen called for a great revival of Christian stewardship during a Northern Baptist convention assembly, saying the advance of dictatorial powers threatens human freedom and highlights the need to rekindle religion in America.
Badger school pupils from Decatur township visited Madison last Wednesday led by Mrs Selmer Olson with mothers Mrs Leo Culles Mrs Ben Zimmerli and Mrs Harvey Mauerman. They lunch at a 200 area stop then toured Truax field weather bureau and an airliner mock up then visited a dairy plant. Two eighth graders Rose Koch and Nathan Kuhnke will graduate May 26. Miss Helen Stubbe is rehired.
Daryl Regan of Madison was elected president of the Wisconsin League of Women Voters at the 22nd annual convention. She succeeds Mrs. William A. Norris of Milwaukee. New officers include Mrs. E. E. McClean Manitowoc and Mrs. William G. Hyde Wauwatosa as vice presidents and Miss Marguerite Rogers Prairie du Chien as treasurer. Board members named are Mrs. Henry Meigs West Allis, Mrs. Frederick J. Lenfester DePere, Mrs. Palmer F. Davgs Lake Mills, Mrs. Arthur Christensen LaCrosse, Mrs. William A. Cameron Rice Lake, and Mrs. William G. Rice Madison.
Green Bay reports Joseph Korn a former jail trusty who escaped Brown County Jail a month ago was captured in Hudson on a purse snatching charge. Sheriff Gordon Zuid Mulder said Tuesday.
Easy to sew Marian Martin pattern 9075 flatters figure with shirred bust and flared skirt offered in multiple sizes from 12 to 42. Includes complete illustrated sew chart and sizing notes. send 25 cents to The Times pattern department with name address size and style number.
Milwaukee clerk Ray Fleming announced that the first degree murder trial of 45 year old Mrs Elsie Wrosch will begin June 2. She is accused of giving her 70 year old husband Sarnhard arsenic.
Mrs Helen Eagleburger, widow and mother of Larry Eagleburger, earned the highest four year scholastic average among Stevens Point teachers college graduating seniors after returning part time in 1946. The award was presented by her son, a second year student, and follows her two year prior attendance and marriage in 1920.
Justice of the Peace Harvey Teamer in Sheboygan was placed on probation for one year after pleading guilty to embezzling 3541 dollars from state and county funds. Circuit Judge Henry A. Detling ordered the probation.
President Truman on Tuesday authorized emergency federal funds to Minnesota to relieve flood distress as waters from draining into the Great Lakes were added to the relief measure.
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