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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1949
Page
6
The Daily Record reports unsettled weather with showers in the northwest tonight followed by rain statewide Thursday. Warmer tonight with windy conditions on Thursday. Lows near 45 to 50 in the north and 50 to 55 in the south. Thursday highs will be in the middle sixties.
Report covers yesterday from 1 p.m. with high 68 and low 46, year ago highs and lows 64 and 47. Barometer 1 a.m. 29.64 and 1 p.m. 29.60. Warmest U S yesterday was Yuma Arizona at 101, coldest Helena Montana at 31. Sunrise 6 01 sunset 5 36.
Judge Harold J. Lamboley issues letters of administration to Mary Arnold for Marion Franklyn Browntown Arnold who died June 14. Appraisers John Coryell and Victor Ellingson. Joseph D. Viney named special administrator for Ernest Nydegger who died July 13. Appraisers Paul Knoll and Marie Blum.
Justice L A Koenig finds Calvin T Drahfahl route 5 guilty of improper muffler with four dollar fine plus costs and guilty of operating an unregistered vehicle with ten dollars and costs.
Obituary notices announce the deaths of Herman Brandt 74 Monroe Mrs William Smith 56 Warren Frank Francis 71 Evansville and Clayton N Ward 59 Madison with brief identifiers.
Mr. and Mrs. Selmer Paulson of Brodhead report a daughter born on October 5. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Barmore of 712 15th Avenue announce a son born on October 4.
The record lists patients and dismissals at St. Clare Hospital including Mrs. Henry Gessler and Mrs. Herman Norder from New Glarus and Woodford, Herman Dittmar in Monroe with other listed patients and multiple dismissals such as Cordelia Stephenson and William Hartsorn along with several family entries.
William Aumock, 18, of Monroe, was sentenced by Juvenile Judge Harold J. Lamboley to stay at the Wisconsin School for Boys in Waukesha until age 21. The delinquency case was quashed and he returned to juvenile jurisdiction with probation revoked. His older brother David, 23, seeks counsel over a separate case involving alleged indecent liberties.
Surveying and plotting of a new subdivision west of the country club grounds is underway by the Jerry Donahue engineering firm of Goetz. The tract covers 14% acres with right of way for extending 19th Street into the subdivision obtained from Casper Portman, John Hirsbrunner and Mrs. H F Fels. Streets will be boulevard width 40 feet and sewer and water installations are hoped to be completed this fall.
Mrs William Smith 56 a Green County native died Monday morning at her Warren home. Services were held at Graham funeral home Warren with Rev William Evans. Burial was in Union Grove cemetery Darlington. She was married to William Smith August 18 1937 in Warren and leaves a husband two stepchildren four sisters and other relatives.
In a tense state league game the Yankees edge the Dodgers 1-0. Henrich drives a fastball into the lower right field stands in the bottom of the ninth for the deciding run.
The Adirondack Park in New York spans 3,281 square miles with 2,200 lakes and 19 peaks over 4,000 feet, offering capacity for up to one million campers daily.
Personal mentions list residents visiting Albany Milwaukee Madison Canton Freeport Fort Madison and Monroe. Names include Mrs Wayne O Peckham Everett Keel Mrs Fred Odell Miss Emma Becker H N Darling Mrs A R Steele Mrs Peter S Solomon Mrs Chester J Goetz Mrs Willard Miller Ralph Voigt Diane Rosa Cherilee Barbara Schraepfer Jeane Hardy Rodger Nick and families with brief travel notes and visits to relatives and hosts.
Circuit Judge Harry Fox of Janesville will conduct a mandamus hearing in Madison to force Superior Judge Roy H. Proctor to hear criminal lobbying actions against Milwaukee lobbyists Milton T. Murray and Arthur J. Balzer. Proctor had dismissed the charges and asked for an outside judge. An appointment by Judge Roland J. Steinlee was made with Reis and Sachtsen excluded from presiding.
Columbus dispatch reports D. W. Norris a 73 year old industrialist and Iowa newspaper publisher was found dead today in his Columbus athletic club room. Norris published the publican and served as president of Lennox Furnace Co with plants in Columbus Syracuse Lima and Marshalltown.
Glen L. Ripley 42 of Madison died at home from a heart condition. A 1 30 p m service at Stuessy funeral home in Madison will be officiated by Rev E C McCollow. Burial is Calvary cemetery. Ripley born Sparta Jan 19 1907. married Helen Keegan March 4 1930 in Monroe. He was a painter. Survivors include wife mother son Richard 17 and six siblings.
John Eley son of Mr and Mrs John A Eley of 2411 11th street has become a new member of the Lancelot club at Park College Parkville Missouri The campus society has operated since 1896 as an alternative to Greek letter fraternities John is a Monroe High School graduate.
Miss Mary Virginia Hartman daughter of Mr and Mrs T A Hartman of 1213 11th Street earned honorable mention on MacMurray College Jacksonville Illinois second semester 1948 49 honor roll announced by Dean Wendell S Dysinger Students with at least 14 credits and average 2 1 to 2 4 receive the honor
Harold E. Mueller of 1003 10th Street joins four companions from Winslow and Dakota on an antelope hunting trip in Wyoming this week.
Private first class Wilbert G. Block, 22, son of Mrs. Lena Block of 2103 9th street, has been promoted to corporal. He is assigned to headquarters company, second battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division at Camp Crawford, Japan.
Notice states an envelope with valuable papers meant for the British Vice Consul in Chicago was picked up at First National Bank on Tuesday afternoon. It asks the finder to return it to the post office or contact Louis H. Kohli at phone 92 at once.
Mr and Mrs Louis A Pandow announce plans for a trip likely to be shared with family and friends. No dates or destinations are given in the brief notice.
Mr. Pandow plans a Monday departure for an extended west coast visit by train. He will travel to San Francisco Seattle and Whittier Los Angeles to see relatives. A former city mail carrier in Chicago, he retires after 30 years of service.
Arthur F Roethe has purchased the residence of Mrs H M Place at 808 25th avenue and will move with his family soon Miss Place and her daughter Helen who is visiting will depart Friday for Estes Park Colorado where Miss Place has accepted a winter posting
Prof. Hugo H. Sommer of the University of Wisconsin spoke at a Borden Co. dinner for 30 cheese and dairy research men at the Monroe Country Club. The group visited Lakeshire Marty, Wyss, and Milwaukee Cheese Co. plants and will travel to Fond du Lac Plymouth and Milwaukee.
The sheriff's department investigates the theft of 35 bales of hay from a storage barn in Spring Grove township where 162 bales had been rented by several nearby farmers. Evidence suggests a small truck was used to remove the bales. no residents occupy the farmhouse on the property.
A maritime trade note reports oysters in the shell shipped from American shores to European ports as part of early transatlantic seafood commerce.
The fertilized corn plot at George Hatfield farm Adams township produced nearly three times the yield of the unfertilized plot. Dr. J Chapman of the University of Wisconsin spoke at the demonstration where 50 farmers attended a two hour fertilizer meeting.
Louis H. Kohli of 811 17th Avenue plans a world tour and is without his passport and papers. They were taken in error from a lodge inside the First National Bank building yesterday afternoon. The papers are addressed to the British vice consul in Chicago. Contact the bank or call Robert Kohli at home, phone 92.
City council last night approved a zoning ordinance change for the M. J. Gonstead property at 1711 10th Street, paving the way for construction of an additional building after final adoption of the measure. The changes relax required space standards.
The council expands limits for family in multiunit buildings in business and light industrial zones and reintroduces residential area restrictions. It requires off street parking. The council also received a formal claim from Henry H. Elmer of 2559 13th Street for injuries from a fall on November 16 1948 at Recreation Park.
Fred Shappert general manager of the Belvidere Daily Republican, joined Robert Elliott and Wendell Harbard of Belvidere on a tour of The Evening Times plant yesterday.
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