Monroe Evening Times masthead and postal note
Monroe Evening Times notice indicating postoffice second class matter under Congress March 2 1879. Founded October 1898 EMERY A ODELL 1871 1953 is listed as a member of AP Inland Daily Press Association Audit Bureau of Circulations and Wisconsin Daily Newspaper League. Subscription rates and office hours provided with contact number.
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Monroe, Wiscon, Postoffice
Congress
Emery A. Odell
The
Wisconsin Daily Newspaper League
Stop and Go And A Farewell Too
Monroe officials press for a traffic light at Times Square and 9th St crossing after state counts show 9 413 vehicles and 1 010 pedestrians in 16 hours. At 9th St and 20th Ave counts show 8 122 vehicles and 177 pedestrians with a four way stop in place. Local plea notes safety for elderly and disabled pedestrians.
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Walter Ekum
State Highway Commission
Times Square
Monroe
9Th St
16Th Ave
United Telephone Co
Monroe Evening Times
Sth Street
20Th Ave
Job Corps offers Wisconsin based training camps
Wisconsin Job Corps centers at Blackwell near Crandon and Clam Lake near Ashland provide up to 450 residential spaces with training in auto mechanics, building maintenance, welding, and more. Trainees receive stipends, room and board, medical care, counseling, and job placement help, with most completing in about nine months and home leave during Christmas.
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Wisconsin
William B. Mills
Janesville
Wisconsin State Employment Service
Blackwell and Clam Lake
Mills
Blackwell
Nicolet National Forest
Crandon
Clam Lake
Chippewa Lake
Chequamegon National Forest
Ashland
U.S. Forest Service
Employment Service
Medicare Benefit Deadline and Retirement Notice
Medicare beneficiaries must file claims by December 31, 1968 for services through September 30, 1967 and by December 31, 1969 for services after that date. Time runs from service date, not billing. Local Social Security office in Janesville offers help. Also farewell to Clair Munns of Daily Doggerel retiring from The Monroe Evening Times, with a note of thanks and an address for correspondence.
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Medicare
West
Milwaukee Street
Janesville
Clair Munns
Daily Doggerel
Doggerel
Monroe Evening Times
Munns
Mr. Munns
Times Family
Clair R. Munns
Route 3
Jacobus Road
Edgerton
Wisconsin
Clair
Mrs. Mununs
Social Roundup from South Wayne and Nearby Towns
Overnight guests included Mrs. Tom Garvey of Chicago and Mrs. Clara Stixrood of Rockford. Weekend visitors were Dale Lagerholm of Elmhurst and Jim Boland of Villa Park at the Clynton Seffrood home. Various local families hosted meals and birthday celebrations across Monroe, Browntown, Arlington and surrounding communities.
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Clifford
Viola Olson
Mae Middleton
Ben Maddrell
Browntown
Ben Osvey
Clinton
Clifford Stixrood
Stixroods
Charles DeNure
Harvey Tollackson
David Johnson
Arlington
Johnsons
Eric David
Arleigh Johnson
Woodford
Fred Rhemstedt
Monroe
Jay Larse
Harold Larse
Winslow
Charles Larse
South Wayne
Larry Schroeder
Mervin Kant
Roger Vickers
Paul Thompson
Ed Thompson
Blanchardville
Phillip Paulson
Tom
Seymour
Frank West
Chester Weinschenk
Harland Skattum
Odell Hendrickson
Rockford
Myron Hendrickson
Horeb
Andy Larson
Cora Lofgren
Joe Bredeson
Juanita
Jeffrey
Lowes Park
George Davis
Kim
Carl Steiner
Stephen Hefty
New Glarus
Emma Lease
C. F. Holmes
Laurence Howe
Verona
Henry J. Anderson
Cecelia Splinter
Jerry Young
Sun Prairie
Spring Grove Celebrations and Family Visits
Spring Grove notes celebrate Clayton Clark on his birthday with a potluck dinner hosted by family members including Raymond Clark and Stan ley Clark. William Goecks also marked a birthday with a home gathering attended by relatives and friends. Several visits and travel entrees are listed among locals, with Hazel Mohns hosting and others attending events in Monroe Beloit Rockford and Freeport.
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Clayton Clark
Raymond Clark
Elmer Stahlecker
Charlie Clark
Terry
Stanley Clark
Dennis
Norman Jensen
Selmer Paulson
Barbra
Steven
Jerry Nelson
Melvin Eggemeier
Curtis
James Kleaver
William Goecks
Martha Goecks
Walter Ludwig
Frank Schroeder
Rose Clark
Elwood Hegel
Ray Ellis
Cora Botteron
Monroe
Herbert Mohns
Rockford
Beloit
Jessie Drafahl
Madison
Alvin Timm
Freeport
Jack Klopfenstein
Orville Hawkins
Hawkins Doomye 4
Brodhead
Leon Weidman
Jerry Jones
Browntown Social News Theseda Mau Visits and Guests
Browntown area notes list visitors and dinners. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Gordee of Wisconsin Rapids stayed with his mother Mrs. Vernie Werren along with several relatives from Belvidere Platteville McConnell and South Wayne. Local families hosted gatherings and attended church events.
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Bert Gordee
Wisconsin Rapids
Vernie Werren
Jasper Maddrell
Belvidere
B. E. Maddrell
Rands Rockow
Leon Rockow
Platteville State University
Marvin Sandley
Clarence Black
Arthur Rabe
McConnell
Ill
W. G. Mau
Monroe
Mary Blodgett
Frank Tourdot
Attica
John Surrell
Henry Vickers
South Wayne
Harvey Promoted to Lieutenant in Wisconsin State Patrol
William A. Harvey advances from sergeant to lieutenant in the Wisconsin State Patrol effective Nov 3. While on special duty since September at Northwestern University Traffic Institute, he will become executive officer of Patrol District 3 in Fond du Lac after graduation next June. Harvey joined the patrol in 1956, previously worked in Green County, lived in Brodhead and Monroe, and later served in Green Bay before the current assignment. He and his wife Luci, of Evanston, have a one year old son, William Scott.
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William A. Harvey
Wisconsin State Patrol
Lewis V. Versnik
Harvey
Traffic Institute
Northwestern University
Patrol District 3
Fond du Lac
Green County
Brodhead
Monroe
Green Bay Area
Luci
Evanston
William Scott
Birthday Wishes and Hidden Lane Walk Feature
A community page shares birthday notices for local youths including Michael Charles Soddy Cheryl Lynn Plantikow Gregory Ellefson Kerry Karlen Michael Wells and others with addresses. A poem about a country lane walk celebrates nature and farm rewards. The vandalism note reports Chicago Board of Education testing shatterproof windows to curb annual breakage costs.
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Michael Charles Soddy
20Th Ave
Cheryl Lynn Plantikow
Argyle
Gregory Eugene Ellefson
Kerry Ralph Karlen
Monticello
Michael Howard Wells
Rantoul
Ill
Lawrence Scot Johnson
25Th St
Michael Keith Doran Schony
Dakota
Michelle Renee Zettle
Brodhead
Brian Robert Putnam
Cindy Lou Meier
Juda
Patti Jo Wild
Winslow
Randy Mark Whipple
7Th St
Vicki Lee Legler
Chicago
Chicago Board of Education
Rotary Hears Monroe Priest on youth dance lighting
The Rotary Club heard Rev. Henry N. Kalscheuer of St. Victor's Church discuss a modern lighting project for teenage dances at Idle Hour Mansion. He highlighted strobe kaleidoscopic and color organ lighting and upcoming slide shows and wet shows. The project aims for up to $5,000 in lighting costs with 400 to 500 teenagers attending monthly dances. Public welcome.
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Rotary Club
Idle Hour
Henry N. Kalscheuer
St. Victor’s Church
Kalscheuer
St. Victor’s
Ron Taylor
Madison West Rotary
Ray Corbins
Meythaler-Caton
Ben Campa
George Clark
Jim Haas
Education Fund
Herbert Johnson
Ron Tschudy
Fernando Santiago
Veterans Day attendance and travels noted in Monticello column
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Woelfer attended the Veteran's Day program in Monroe Tuesday evening. Lt. Dan Benkert returned to Jacksonville Arkansas after visiting his parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Wichser left Thursday to spend the winter in California and Arizona.
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R. W. Woelffer
Monroe
Woelffer
Dan Benkert
Jacksonville
Ark
Norman Benkert
W. L. Wichser
California
Arizona
Groundwork for a council-city manager form in Monroe
A forum in a high school auditorium drew 65 representatives to discuss a council city manager government for Monroe. Also noted are losses from Ptica tonica airport fire and political moves, including Marshall L. Peterson announcing a bid for supreme court.
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Monroe
Pecatonica
Marshall L. Peterson
Green County
Supreme Court
Community guest list from Orangeville weekend socials
Orangeville social notes list numerous Sunday gatherings and visits. Residents from Freeport Verona Warren and Argyle hosted meals and shared family moments with relatives in Wisconsin and Illinois during a busy weekend.
Tyrone Power Dies of Heart Attack on Movie Set
Glancing backward to November 16 1958 Tyrone Power 45 star of film and stage died of a heart attack on the Solomon and Sheba set opposite Gina Lollobrigida A note recalls Green Bay Packers looming season and Mel Ott critically injured in an auto accident during a bar conference in session at Laredo Tex.
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Tyrone Power
Solomon and Sheba
Gina Lollobrigida
Green Bay Packers
Los Angeles Rams
Mel Ott
Baseball Hall of Fame
Ruf Purchases Bridge Block In Local Real Estate Move
Sixty years ago on November 16 1908 Paul A Ruf bought the Bridge block including four stores the Adam Schmidt shoe shop Ruf store location a store room and the Times building. Sheriff M C Durst elected county asylum trustee and poor commissioner to replace J C Baker. Deputy game warden Hugh Wilson arrested three Dubuque men for hunting without a license fined $125 and costs.
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Paul A. Ruf
Adam Schmidt
Ruf
Times
M. C. Durst
J. C. Baker
Hugh Wilson
Dubuque
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Associated Press
City of
Stephenson
Jo Davies
Winnebago
Illinois
Job Corps
Adtaker
Clynton Seffrood
Spring Grove
Mrs. Herbert Mohns
Mrs
Theda Mau
Wisconsin Truck Owners Association
Miller Brewery Co
Milwaukee
Bob Knoare
Frederick W. Jentsch
Margaret Lane
Franklin
Waldemar Guenther
Cold Spring Road
Greenfield
P. R. Birdsall
Bill Martin
Times Children’s Club
Werner Schuetz
Brian Alan Bruegger
Michael John Aeberhard
Curtis Lee Schumacher
Orangeville
James Alan Richardson
Pauline Ann Koenig
Randy Lee Elet
Tami Roethenbuehler
25Th Ave
Mark Ray Jorgenson
Annett Marguerite Foulker
Joey Schwartzenberger
Daniel Lee Fuchs
Cheesebro
Eileen Kay
Colleen Mae McGrath
Leanne Kay Hartwig
Scott Dean Schneeberger
Rotary
O. D. Curtis
Joyce Hare
Krause
Jug Prairie
Virginia Porter
U.S
Joseph Kennery
Nazi Germany
Wirz
Vogel
Lengacher
Fred Marty
France
Brussels
Organized Labor
I.W.W
International la
R. V. Cronan
al Daniel
Michelle
Wis
Verl Boyer
Stella Boyer
George Hull
Stanley Hall
Gordon Balbac
Tommy
Mike Mahoney
Warren
Marvin Shippy
Larry McPhail
Amy
Paul Bolender
E. W. Johnson
Glen Bolender
Johnson
Lynn Bolender
Norman Richter
Walter Smith
Francis Leuenburger
Monroe Soae
Ed Bidlingmaier
Stillman Huntly
Dale Barker
Davis
Sim Wuthrich
Gene
Pat Kelly
Albert Hemphill
J. Milton Bostian
T. R. Anderson
St. Louis
St. Charles
Bostian
Steven Harris
Andersons
Mary
Pat Milligan
Board of Public Works
City Hall
F. M. Bray
Laredo, Tex
St. Clare Hospital
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Tati
ROK
Forees
Pral
Kosevad
Traines Reed Ag Too Ees Ncoranes
Ze. Pays Fe
PMT S Agency
Todas
Exvat
Oordy Bs Own
EH Gk Deratis
Dor
Lee Witonble
Traines
Popol Beers Bret
Freon
Waestigators
Isan Biarexomt Oc
Feormrerty Ress
HSG
Fae $ Ae
Tn Naakee Wankart Wit
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Adveliseiseng Council
International Sewspatia
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