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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1959
Page
8
The Daily Record reports considerable cloudiness with warm humid air and scattered showers or thunderstorms this afternoon tonight and Wednesday. Some locally severe storms possible this afternoon. Lows in the 60s and highs in the 70s.
Latest observations show yesterday from 1 p.m. high 81 and low 64. A year ago today the high was 80 and the low 47. Trace rainfall since yesterday. Barometer readings 29.90 at 1 a.m. and 29.86 at 1 p.m. Warmest location Presidio Texas at 102 degrees, coldest Big Piney Wyoming at 28. Sunrise is 5 37 and sunset 8 17.
Transfers include Clinton and Ray P Lichten walner to Charles Keister land section 34 Clarno Township. Frederick J Sarles to Arthur Smith Jr part of It 7 block 5 Bloom's Add Monroe. Maud Snyder to Fred Brunner It 9 and S 7 of It 8 block 10 Emerson and Maulton's Add Monroe. Emma Maass Estate to Louis J Sveom N 2 of Its 3 and 4 block 164 city of Brodhead. W A Dreibelbis Estate to Harrison Matzke parcels Its 14 and 13 block 13 Fosters 2nd Add city of Monroe. Anna B Bednar to Frank Wyss land section 33 Brooklyn Township.
Judge Marshall L. Peterson presided on offenses from Rees Construction Co to New Glarus Feed and Fuel Co and individuals. Violations included license overload axle overload no stop light expired driver license no registration or no driver's license with fines from 1 to 17 dollars and required traffic school with potential dismissal of charge.
Justice reports list L A Koenig Ronald A Schrademeier and Roger W Downing as non resident minors under 21 charged with possessing malt beverage without a guardian. Each forfeited $20 as noted by Monroe police.
Harold A. Scott Jr of Orangeville and Marilyn F. Allan of Barron Wisconsin requested licenses in Freeport. Application filed for marriage.
A terse list notes five individuals with ages and towns: Mrs. Clifford Fuqua 64 Orangeville Patrick Murray 75 Darling ton Marvin Haynes 66 Beloit Hyacinth John Helwig 23 Durand Hl Edwin Hogan 69 Rockford Dan Streiff 73 Beaver Dam
Mr and Mrs Robert Schutt Route 2 welcome a daughter born on May 26.
St Clare Hospital Medical staff listings include Paul E Baltzer at 1513 15th Avenue Harold Wuethrich at 1810 12th Street and Robert Tuescher Browntown with Ronald Will listed as contact connections for patient or facility records.
Mrs. Clifford Fuqua aged 64 died after an extended illness at her farm home west of Orangeville. The body was sent to Middletown Indiana for funeral services at 2 p.m. Thursday at Ballard Shirey funeral home with Rev. Lawrence Fuqua of St. Louis officiating. Burial will be in Miller Cemetery. She was born December 5 1894 in Middletown and moved from Kenosha to Orangeville in 1956. Surviving are her husband and three sons Rex Paul and Gene and a brother Paul Bell.
Monroe Major Softball League kicks off with First National Bank YMCA versus Commercial Bank at 8 p.m. and Brodhead against Simmons at 9 15 p.m. at Recreation Park. The pair of games start the season with a second round set for Thursday featuring Brodhead and Commercial Bank in the opener and First National Bank YMCA against Simmons in the late match.
The Soviet premier once set a deadline for ending the West Berlin occupation. The Soviet Embassy assured that no action will disturb the city for now. They demanded Western powers quit West Berlin and declare it a free city.
Readable fragments name individuals in a Blanchardville area notice including Mrs Kenneth Herlien Mr Horeb Archie Divine Tiffany and Perry Jackson. Surgical and dismis sals lines mention Mrs Ralph Bohren Route 3 Paul Ruf 1602% 1lth street Jane Strickler New Glarus Edward Edler Freeport and several listed dismissals by various spouses and initials.
Dick Wong from Monticello visited Monroe today along with Mrs. Leo Hanson and family from Argyle and Browntown. Herman Meyers left for Hawaii after a week there, having attended his mother Marie Meyers’s funeral. Catherine Welch plans to return to Rockford tonight after visiting Miss Frances Kleinmaier and Mrs. Charles Kleinmaier, with Kleinmaier headed to Stockton, California on Saturday as a selective service board clerk.
Marvin Haynes 66 of Beloit died Saturday at his home after 23 years in the city. Services were in the First Presbyterian church with burial at Brooklyn. He was born in Rutland Township Dane County near Brooklyn and married Lillian Christensen July 22 1915 in Rockford. Surviving are his wife three daughters a son nine grandchildren and three sisters. two children preceded him in death.
Patrick Murray 75 longtime area farmer died yesterday at his home in Darlington. He is survived by his wife three brothers Irving Dan both of Darlington William of Lancaster six sisters Mrs William Foley Janesville Mrs Joseph Swift Mrs William Gille Miss Josephine Murray all of Darlington and Mrs Cletus Wolfram Shullsburg and Mrs James McManus Madison. Services are set for 10 a m tomorrow at Holy Rosary Catholic church with rosary this evening.
Funeral services for Donald Plecity 40 of 500 18th avenue were held at 2 p m today at Stuessy funeral home. Rev C C Warfel of Grace Lutheran Church officiated and burial followed in Bethel cemetery southwest of Monroe. Pallbearers included W J Kohlhagen Albert Schmidt Jacob Wiltfang Fritz Neue n swander Lloyd Benrud Edward Wehinger and Mrs Burton L Holling played organist.
Members of Cub Scout Pack 311 received awards after a family picnic at Lincoln Park. Kenneth Snyder and David Gooding earned the wolf badge. Snyder, Gooding, Holling, Ronald Smith, and Max Voelkli received gold arrows. Holling, Smith, Voelkli and Scott Haberman earned silver arrows. Chris Olson, Ronald Shaffer, John Goetz, Gregory Holcomb, and Gregory Hendrickson earned bear badges. Vernon Gibbs, Robert Kohn and Faye Farmer earned iron badges along with two-year pins. Howard F. Hoppy Kohn is Cubmaster and Stewart H. Haber man is assistant Cubmaster.
The Lafayette County rural and elementary school graduations are set for 2 p.m. Thursday in the high school gym. Plattenville State College’s Roger Guiles will be principal speaker. Students named include William Goecks Mary Ann Tollackson Louis Schultz James Rufenacht Edna Olson Janice Smith and Melody Wellenkotter among others from South Wayne Woodford Zion and Watson areas.
Mrs Louis E Creuzer served as chairman for a meeting in the Green Room of the Ludlow Memorial library. Honors in 500 were won by Mrs Emma Kundert and Mrs Earl Morton, euchre by Mrs Creuzer and Ed Kleinmaier, and dominoes by Miss Muriel Goetz and Miss Minnie Maske.
Chief Freddie Meier led a bicycle safety meeting at the station on Saturday. Attendees had bikes checked for brakes lights and warning devices and learned bicycle rules equipment and the village ordinance.
Tom Holcomb grandson of Mr and Mrs Fred Holcomb once lived with them while attending Madison Vocational School where he earned a chef's course now employed as the main breakfast cook at the Farm Kitchen near Devil's Lake He is a Monroe high school graduate and served two years in the Navy.
Mrs. Sam Waelti of Monroe and Mrs. R J Douglas of Juda attended the Wisconsin Public Health Council meeting at the American Baptist Association Grounds in Green Lake. Waelti spoke in the afternoon representing the Green County Safety Council while Douglas was elected to the state board.
Friends and relatives report Lt. and Mrs. Nathan J. Lindsay and daughter Lori have arrived at Wheelus Air Force Base in Tripoli Africa where he will be based for three years. Lindsay is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph A. Lindsay.
Lindsay, Monroe, and Mrs. Lind report that the former Shirley Montgomery is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Montgomery of Browntown.
Sky- Vu theater presents a fireworks display to accompany Friday’s regular program announced by Goetz Theaters officials. The event adds an aerial show to the evening’s schedule.
Rev and Mrs Paul Jewell of Portland Oregon announce the birth of their son David Paul on May 6 The father served as pastor at Richland and Red Oak Methodist churches in 1956 57.
Paul E. Baltzer of the Ludlow Bar was taken to St. Clare hospital this morning for medical observation.
Paul A Ruf of 1602 11th Street underwent major eye surgery at St. Clare hospital today. He is expected to remain there for more than a week.
The widow of John Foster Dulles has chosen 22 officials and friends to serve as honorary pallbearers at his funeral Wednesday. The list includes Herbert Hoover Jr., Thomas Dewey, Adm. Arthur Radford, Jean Monnet, John D Rockefeller III, and several of Dulles' former law partners.
George P. Larson, 28, was arrested around noon at the County Trunk S and State Highway 178 intersection after an intensive hunt for a knife-wielding man who terrorized a teenage couple for about three hours near Leuck's Landing and Lake Wissota. The pair escaped to Chippewa County Hospital.
Edward A. Walsh known as Big Ed Walsh, aged 78, died in Pompano Beach Florida from cancer. The veteran hurler starred for the Chicago White Sox in earlier decades and was famed for his pitching prowess.
An advertisement touts a BUMP-IT door latch that runs the full width of a door and lets you swing it open by bumping it with a shoulder or hip. Sold at Kundert Hardware, the device is described as a temper saver for busy or loaded exits.
Import from France promises fast changes from serving tray to egg holder and floral centerpiece. It can transform into an ivy planter pedestal server cake carrier hot casserole carrier handbag and more appealing to home loving shoppers seeking novelty designs.
Jokes carry the nation with laughter as novelty cards for any occasion go on sale at RAFS KEMPFTS STALDERS and the Poor Boys Market.
Advertisement touts Quickie White Shoe Spray as delivering gleaming white finishes that last days. Reiterates easy cleaning with soap and water and targets professionals who wear white shoes year round from Tread Right.
If you love bells you will be enraptured by handmade brass elephant gongs from India. Indian craftsmen show exquisite engraving and enamel inlays. Strange haunting tones emerge from the resonant fingers. Available at the Poor Boys Market.
A sales pitch promotes SNAGOFF a spring gadget that fits beside the hook. When the line tightens after a snag it releases and pushes the hook free. The appeal claims quick snag removal and strong customer demand at Poor Boys Market.
A man cleans his car with NENETTE, a new self polishing car brush from England. Its cotton pile contains a dust absorbing chemical and a polishing action leaving a gleaming finish. It carries the British Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Grab it at the store.
Three items from a single company are now in markets. CHASE R-BUG is an insect repellent tissue that deters mosquitoes and flies without oily residue on hands. PREV is a deodorant tissue offering a mild fragrance in colorful caselets. SUN AND TAN tissue provides a quick sun tan with protection, all in portable packs sold at stores including druggists and beauty shops.
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