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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1968
Page
2
The item notes the death of F. M. Tinker a famed amateur weather prophet and former Brodehead police chief who died without a new snow fall to base a 1958 59 forecast. It also mentions Monroe FFA corn harvest safety survey and Wisconsin 1958 traffic deaths reaching 727 to date versus 809 a year earlier.
Twenty years ago today, November 22, 1948, hundreds of deer hunters slogged through a slushy Sawyer country morass for a trace of the missing aircraft carrying singer Bobby Breen. August milk price at Swiss factories drops to 3.36, down 40 cents from July. Five new teller machines at First National bank will remove old deposit books. Green County faces 750,000 bushels of corn damaged by rot.
The county board again considers a unit poor relief issue while resolutions recommend continuing the current county administration system. A Madison Square Garden mass protest urged President Roosevelt to embargo all German goods. Wilbert E. Johnson of Monroe was elected president of the Noah J. Frey Consistory Class as 53 classmates from Wisconsin earned the 32nd Degree in Masonry during the Scottish Rite reunion in Madison.
The Monroe Evening Times, founded October 1898 and edited by Emery A Odell, is a daily newspaper with AP affiliation. Subscriptions cost 40c weekly in city, 12 to 15 dollars yearly by mail within various regions, with advance payment required and office hours listed.
A Wisconsin hunting trip notes fall leaves, duck season on the Mississippi, and a bitter taste from the St. Louis Cardinals setback to Detroit. The author recalls companions, local scenes from Bagley to Hayward, and a playful wager with the Dittmers while dodging a lively World Series backdrop.
A long reader letter column features Abby advice on a husband with multiple wigs for his wife and a girlfriend’s doubt, followed by readers praising acts of kindness. The page ends with a personal reminiscence, carpe diem musings, and a closing appeal for thriftier classified ads via the local number.
Forty years prior, Nov 22 1928, John Dick Monticello and A B Comstock Albany were reelected poor commissioners by the county board. F B Luchsinger Monroe and Albert Schlatter New Glarus won Monroe Country Club directorships. Early dawn fire destroys Gottlieb Burkhalter home. invalid daughter dies after rescuing parents, mother severely burned. Benjamin Lang Winslow seriously injured in farm mishap.
Fifty years ago on November 22 1918 William Dempster Hoard former Wisconsin governor and dairy advocate died at his Fort Atkinson home. The report notes ex Kaiser Wilhelm II influenza illness and states President Wilson signed the dry prohibition law set to take effect July 1. City Health Officer George Seiler boards influenza signs on homes with patients.
The Monroe paper reports talk of new state laws for automobiles as Milwaukee club members tour Madison to Monroe after a football game. Dr H Hoesly of New Glarus wins county turkey shoot at Swiss Rifle club. A Vietnam veteran is killed resisting a robber in Santa Monica supermarket.
In a New Glarus gym concert, about 200 young musicians from Monticello Belleville Blanchardville and New Glarus joined under UW Madison director H Robert Reynolds for a mass band performance. The writer urges parental and teacher support and warns against premature criticism of youth efforts as they are America’s future.
Four Monroe teachers joined about 235 participants at Whitewater State University for a Foreign Language Conference titled Foreign Languages and the Changing Curriculum co sponsored by the State Department of Public Instruction and the University Foreign Language Education Center directed by Dr. Roland Durette. Principal speaker Dr. Wilmarth H. Starr of New York University led discussions with representatives from over 75 Wisconsin school systems. Participants included Larry Larson and Nancy Greenquist French Ed Grabow Spanish and Susan Wills German. Atkins dies in Manasquan Pauline McDowell Atkins 94 last survivor of 18 DAR founders announced today.
Village board withdraws from Dane County Library System and approves sale of about 10 acres of Industrial Park to Yoo Hoo of the Midwest Inc for $15 000. Yoo Hoo, led by Leo Roethe of Ft Atkinson, is the first purchaser in the park. The library cost this year was 5833 and next year would rise to 7149. The tax rate set for next year is 11 89 per thousand with a vocational tax of 2 36, and this is 2 23 less than the current rate. State and county figures pending.
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