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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1949
Page
2
The piece argues the era is better called the Age of Exploitation as politics targets various groups for votes. It cites farmers seniors labor and welfare spending as specific exploitative aims and warns taxpayers will bear growing costs when beneficiaries pay the tab.
The Monroe community mourns the death of Rev. J L Haack a clergyman of fifty years who served repeatedly at Lancaster and other postings. He retired twice only to be persuaded to return and finally left the pulpit last summer. He dedicated decades to church duties and leadership.
Salvage crews fought the Night to clear wreckage of the Rock Island Imperial after a pre-dawn collision near Meade Kansas. Five people were killed, Crystal Lee Dutton, 2, of Port Huron Michigan, is missing. Thirty-nine treated, 26 detained.
A collage of historical items notes Elmer Austin losing 115 hogs to a 1924 cholera outbreak, Leon Novak warning of red flags at a 1920s Brodhead meeting, a death of Mrs. Leighton, and store openings. It recalls 1999 deaths, Faust at Turner Hall, rifle victory, planing mill sale, a horse dying in harness, and hunting licenses totaling 900. Also mentioned are a 1899 wedding, Boer War anxieties, a jail break dummy, and local war-era armory dances and hires.
The Federal Geographic Board moves to standardize Wisconsin lake names list and applies proposed spellings for 14 lakes. Notable changes include Lac Vieux Desert for a lake straddling Vilas and Gogebic counties and Rib Mountain preferred to Rib Hill near Wausau.
Twenty one members joined the Orangeville chapter of the Future Homemakers of America as Mary Py aorrmagus Sue Moore and Jackie McKenzie organized plans for the initiation. New members wore aprons and carried a cook book during the day. At night guides led them in with candles into a candle lit gym as officers conducted the ceremony. Carol Jean Frautschy spoke of the FHA camp and Virginia Lee Frink played piano while songs were led by club mothers. Refreshments followed. The Yucca plant roots may be used as soap.
The article notes a peak in instalment credit as consumer buying on time surges after eased credit curbs. Car credits reach almost 2.8 billion, refrigerators and TVs 2.5 billion, total instalment loans near 4.4 billion by financiale institutions.
George Schwartzlow four and a half miles northwest of Brodhead improved a dairy herd by selecting three sires from the same family, boosting butterfat from 330 to 390 pounds. He uses a controlled feeding program with oats bran and soybean meal, keeping protein under 12 percent and aims to surpass the former average. He replaces cows with eight or nine heifers yearly in a 30 head herd.
The annual retail value of U S meat products now is about 15 billion dollars.
The senior class at Orangeville High selects the three act comedy Little Sweetheart for performance on Friday and Saturday November 4 and 5. Tryouts were held last week with playbooks arrived and rehearsals to begin once tryouts conclude.
Mrs Edna Haffele 76 of Warren died Sunday in Deaconess hospital Freeport. Services were held at Bartel funeral home Warren with Rev Ira Sherman of Durand officiating burial at Highland West Ella cemetery. Born April 7 1873 in Waddams township she was daughter of John and (mother’s name) Kleckner. Her husband Ernest Haffele preceded her in death. Surviving are brothers Oscar and Howard McConnell and Warren Lena.
Bounties on eight foxes taken in September have been paid by Green County. Payers include Glen Wunschel of Judo route 2 for a gray fox, Clifford Jones on route 1 Brodhead for two red foxes, Ray T. Silver of Monticello for a gray fox, William Sproud at 111614 16th Avenue for a gray fox, Howard Lewis on route 3 for a gray fox, and R. Boyd Atkinson of Albany for a red fox.
President Truman signed a bill increasing veterans compensation and disability payments by over 112 million dollars annually. The measure affects 2,024,000 World War I and World War II veterans and the Spanish American War veterans, expanding lifetime payments for tuberculosis cases and creating a new disability scale of 150 dollars monthly for total disability and 15 dollars for ten percent disability.
Sydney based artist Sydney Ure Smith dies at 62 following a long illness. He was renowned for etchings and watercolors and was a prominent figure in Australian art circles.
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