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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1949
Page
8
Partly cloudy this afternoon and tonight with mild west and north areas. Thursday will bring considerable cloudiness and warmer temperatures with scattered showers in the northwest. Low tonight 39 to 43, high Thursday 65 to 68. Record highs and lows listed. Brownsville Texas hottest at 91 and Cheyenne Wyoming coldest at 29. Sunrise 6 09, sunset 5 24.
Mrs. Herman Herring, 68, of Wellsboro Pennsylvania, and Miss Cordelia M. Stephenson, 86, of Albany, are reported as deceased. The notices provide ages and locations for the two individuals.
Mr and Mrs Alfred Sulzer of 727 17th Avenue welcome a daughter born October 11.
A list from St. Clare Hospital records names patients in surgical and medical services across various towns including Monroe Beloit Clinton Blanchardville and Blanchardville. Dismissals include Mrs Mary Alice Cecil Mrs Verona West and others plus families and patients with listed relations.
Herman J. Schmitz protests meters blocking his driveway on 18th avenue and threatens to bill merchants league for nickels. He plans deflationary ideas for driveway blockaders while Robert Wenger suspects his license may expire as notices arrive with mismatched title numbers.
Monroe officials will participate in the 51st annual convention of the League of Wisconsin Municipalities in Madison on October 19 and 20. Mayor Frank A. Buehler chairs the mayors section and City Engineer Z A Gordon will present a paper on engineering. Other speakers include Thomas A. Byrne Milwaukee tax commissioner, State Auditor J Jay Kelcher, Assemblyman Thompson of Richland Center and Prof Leroy Peterson of the University of Wisconsin.
Mrs. John Anderegg of route 2 described a two and a half month trip to Switzerland with her husband and two children Helen and Robert. They traveled by car, visited her parents and relatives, and returned Friday evening. It was Mr. Andereggs first trip in 30 years and Mrs. Andereggs first in 10 years, while the children’s trip was their first ever.
Astounded pedestrians watched a four point buck race through traffic on Monroe Avenue before turning onto Crescent Street and crashing through a theater lobby glass door. Officials then shot the animal to end the incident.
Orangeville community fair judges for needlework, home baked goods, canned goods, field crops, vegetables, and rural school exhibits have been named. Friday and Saturday feature plays, music by the Hampshire quartet, a bicycle race, a ball game, radio and concert programs, a trained horse act, and softball.
Forty seven Monroe G U G G members attended the New Glarus lodge installation at Wilhelm Tell hall last evening with Mrs Helen Hoss Milwaukee state president assisting. New Glarus and Monticello lodges to be guests in Monroe next Monday at Turner hall with Roy Wuetrich's band providing music after the ceremony.
A surprise birthday party for Miss Viola Borchardt was held at the Earl White farm home in Clarno township with gifts music by local musicians including Ralph Menn and Earl White. Attendees included friends and relatives from Clarno, Dakota, Freeport, Browntown, Winslow, South Wayne and Twin Grove. a midnight luncheon followed.
Dixon, NL civic groups visited the incinerator yesterday led by Dr. A. F. Moore. Attendees included Mrs Calvin G. Tyler of the Lee County Medical Society, Postmaster Rae Arnould, Mrs. Ethel Buchner, Rev. Vernon L. Jones, Charles L. Ballard, R. G. Thomas, Mrs. C. F. Johnston, Roy Finney, Louis Schumm, Hermie Koehler, Harry Lager, FE L. Fulmer, and other local officials and club members.
Personal mentions include Mrs. Ernst Lehmann of Juda visiting Monroe. The Sutherlands of Cameron called on Eugene Laughridge in Albany. Advertise No Hunting signs from The Times. Mrs. Wilbur Deininger and Emilie Karlen were in Madison on business. Holyokes attended the funeral of Bertha Ansorge in Oconto. Clifford family guests of the Evans in Milwaukee. Helen Amans travels to Baltimore Washington and Charleston. Augsburgers to meet Tabitha Ritzmann in Dubuque as she returns from Casper Wyoming.
Funeral services for Herman Krueger 66 Evansville former Albany area farmer will be held at 1 p m tomorrow at Evansville Methodist Church Rev Horace Grabner Fond du Lac will officiate and burial is in Hillcrest Cemetery Albany Krueger died of a heart attack Monday while battling strong winds at Indian Ford where he had been fishing and he left the river bank for his car on a hill as gale winds rose.
Mrs Mary Elizabeth Shorb daughter of Mr and Mrs John Buck born in Janesville and married Hugh M Shorb in 1894. She lived in Durand until 1924 then moved to Brodhead and later California to be with her son Walter H Shorb in Los Angeles where she died October 8. She leaves a sister Elizabeth New York and many nieces and nephews. She held Eastern Star and American Legion auxiliary memberships. Services were in Durand Chapin funeral home at 2 p m with Rev Ira Sherman. Interment in Durand cemetery.
Three people pleaded guilty to embezzling state agriculture funds. Harold Crawford, already jailed for falsifying cattle shipment records, gets one year in state prison after 18 forgery counts and one embezzlement count. Patricia Feeney and Jacqueline Peterson, both of Madison, fined $50 plus costs each for embezzling $50 and $30 respectively. Eunice Farr Sumnitz of Portage pleads innocent to fraudulent use of state funds and is bound over for circuit court on October 24.
Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy N. Day of Duluth Minnesota announce the birth of a son on October 11. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Day of 1808 16th avenue. Mrs. Day plans to visit her son and family later this week.
Luke Lang of Wausau is practice teaching at Monroe senior high school this week. Lang is a senior in the University of Wisconsin agriculture program.
Cardinal bus services resume through South Wayne with three round trips daily each way.
Monroe's senior high school band will perform in a nautical themed show during Friday night action against Stoughton. The marching unit will parade Victory Ship formation with dramatic funnels belching flame and smoke as part of the field display.
A Dane County court reports a stipulation settlement in a contractual dispute between Sakiison, Rockey and Co., the Madison accounting firm, and Carlton E. Ashby of Monroe, a former employee. The case resolved the contractual issues defining their former employment relationship.
Merlin J. Meythaler Company notes Ashby worked with Sakkinson firm from November 1943 to last April. Mrs. Melvin Schiesser of Blanchardville taught hammered aluminum craft to Cub Scouts of Den 2 at the Harry J. Bellahan home, 2242 16th Street, yesterday afternoon. Eight cub scouts attend Den 2.
James J. Conklin, 70, Shorewood Hills Madison, was taken suddenly ill this morning at the Monroe hotel where he had been an overnight guest and was removed by ambulance to St. Clare hospital. He was an insurance agent for a Des Moines company. His son Vere was summoned from Madison.
Mr and Mrs Warren Roberts of San Diego California visit Monroes A C Frautschy home route 5 Their first visit in 42 years Ida Smock former North school teacher Albany native Warren formerly from Albany Classified want column
The Milwaukee Road cuts passenger service across Wisconsin and Upper Michigan starting tomorrow due to a coal strike. Affected trains include No. 29 between Chicago and Milwaukee, the Milwaukee to Madison service, and the Madison to Milwaukee 10:10 a.m. train, with several city routings in Milwaukee Madison Channing Ontonagon Chicago Sioux City Aberdeen Yankton and Platte impacted.
Authorities estimate about 100000 javelina wild pigs roam the United States with concentrations in southwestern states. Wildlife experts note rising populations linked to habitat expansion and limited hunting pressure. management programs seek to curb growth and protect ecosystems.
Mrs. G. S. Soseman of 733 17th avenue slipped in the kitchen just before noon yesterday and fractured her knee cap with body bruises. Her husband found her in the dining room. She was admitted to St. Clare hospital in the afternoon and underwent knee cap surgery last night. She remains in the hospital for several days.
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