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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1950
Page
2
The notice lists subscription prices by city and county, Monroe Illinois and Stephenson county, with annual rates and advance payment required. It includes an Associated Press republication clause and a period for office hours and a telephone number.
The piece argues everyone tied to the foreign cheese sector should back protests against import cuts. It notes Swiss cheese exclusions, a five cent per pound duty or 20 percent ad valorem on Swiss imports, and lower tariffs for other foreign cheeses under general trade agreements. It warns that Danish and other Swiss cheeses entering at low fat content threaten domestic standards and urges equal standards, public support, and hearings in Washington to protect U S cheese producers.
Gasoline pumps were installed at Jones Texaca station yesterday after a flash fire Friday night damaged the premises. Fire officials blame selective wiring and a cement base, Jones shut off power and used a extinguisher before Albany firefighters arrived during a training run. Firefighters from Milwaukee and West Allis fought a separate blaze at Wittig Fuel Co. in West Milwaukee causing about $18 000 damage.
Ten years ago Nazis predicted Allied armies encircled near the English Channel would be eliminated within a week. A senate subcommittee approved legislation requiring registration and fingerprinting of all aliens in the United States. Roberta M. Durner married Leon J. Chryst in a candlelight ceremony. An infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Ludwig died suddenly.
John Kammerud 59 of Darlington died yesterday morning in a Dodger ville hospital. Born February 3 1891 in Fayette he is survived by Ollie Kammerud Blanchardville and Mrs Mary Kammerud Darlington and six sons Peter Blanchardville Lester Dubuque Howard Shullsburg and Oliver Thomas Joseph Darlington and five daughters Mrs Leland Van Matre Waldwick Mrs Clarence Jacobson Fayette Mrs Milton Hendrickson Holland Mrs Martin Erickson Lamont and Mrs W B Kelly Blanchardville. Services will be at 9 am tomorrow at Holy Rosary Catholic church with Rev Bernard Doyle officiating burial in St Michael's cemetery Yellowstone. Friends may call Steil funeral home.
Darlington milling and lumber firms seek service within a mile radius of Darlington for Darlington Milling Co and Madi son to Darlington, plus farms within 15 miles for Darlington Lumber Co Lane Lumber Co and Eagle Insulation Co all of Darlington. Howery Machine and Implement Co offers machinery parts steel and twine within Wisconsin. Save with a Want Ad.
Thomas Wetzel 55 of Warren died Tuesday in a Dodgeville hospital after 20 years of hospitalization. Services Thursday at 9:30 a.m. at St. Joseph's church Apple River with Rev. Edward Connelly officiating. Burial in church cemetery. Bartell Funeral Home in charge. Born in Thomson township Daviess County, son of John and Salina Wetzel. Lived on a Monticello township farm Lafayette County before illness. Survived by brother Richard Jones of Freeport.
A trucker from Madison has applied for an amendment to his motor carrier license. The case is set for 2 30 p m June 1 at the Public Service Commission office in Madison. He seeks authority to haul animal feeds seeds and fertilizers from Madison and nearby towns Burke and Blooming Grove to Darlington and from Madison Darlington to farms within a 35 mile radius.
Bates O Brien American Legion post will sponsor a county wide memorial service in Darlington high school gym Sunday evening honoring Lafayette county war dead. Senior high band concert precedes the program. United States colors by Legion posts. Kenneth Greenquist guest speaker, presented by Gordon Roseleip. Girl Scouts Boy Scouts participate. Medal of honor awarded to Billy McConnell drummer for services at funerals. Tableaux and community singing conclude.
A Wisconsin action over the 1948 collapse of the Wisconsin River bridge at Blue River settled for 3500 in circuit court before trial before Judge Herman W. Sachtjen. The state had sued Cyrus Stafslien among others for damages in the $313,467 case.
A 1950 report from Rock County shows 11 fatalities from truck crashes this year, down from 12 last year, with a loaded truck collision near a bridge span. Dane County records indicate 4 fatalities in 1950, compared to 8 a year earlier, amid a bridge lapse and ongoing trucking firm sales figures.
In reen county two traffic fatalities occurred in the first four months of 1950, versus one in the same period of 1949. The 1950 deaths were Thomas Albert Brennan Jr. on January 19 after injuries, and Enos Weaver of Sterling Illinois who died April 20 after an April 14 crash. In 1949 the four-month fatality was Percy Gliddon of Lena, Illinois, on April 29.
Waiter E Salathe of Darlington employed at the Jefferson Center cheese factory in Twin Grove fell asleep at 1 30 am and struck a culvert half a mile west of Twin Grove. The car rolled over and was badly damaged but Salathe was not hurt.
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