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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1949
Page
8
Cloudy and cooler tonight with showers in extreme east. Partly cloudy and cooler Saturday. Low tonight 26 to 32 in the northwest and 38 to 46 in the southeast. High Saturday 35 to 45 northwest and 45 to 55 southeast. Temperature highs and lows recorded yesterday and a warmest and coldest reading noted. Sunrise at 6 20 and sunset at 5 10.
Obituary notes list James Flanagan 78 Argyle Charles J Richter 71 Janesville Mrs Rachel Milbrandt 85 Evansville and Mrs Anna Elmer 77 Monticello among recent deaths including their ages and towns.
Mr and Mrs Charles Ruch of 2541 13th Street welcome a son born October 21.
Mrs Earl Berger Gra tiot listed under surgical. Medical cases include Clarence Johnson Capron Ill Mrs Ira Moffiett Beloit Mrs Rose Kueng route 2 Monroe Thurl Carpenter Gratiot. Dismissals noted for Mrs Gilbert Albright Mrs James Logan Paul Wenger.
Daily bag limit is two and possession four. Conservation deputies will be on duty in Green and Lafayette counties aiding Clarence Benkett Monroe game manager. State and sheriff's department officers present. Ball sponsored by local Eagles at Turner hall. Prizes from Monroe merchants for longest and shortest tail feathers and heaviest and lightest birds. Weighing at Monroe hotel bar. Radio gear installed in Warden Norman L Hicks car, donated by Green County Rod and Gun club and serviced by county radio system.
Geese were seen flying south again last night with flocks traveling nightly. Ducks were scarcely heard as birds migrate, signaling possible preparation for warmer weather or lingering storms.
The Henry Solomon Coal and Iron Co and the Lamboley Coal and Ice Co announce a merger of coal sales and service activities. Lamboley delivery equipment will serve both, Solomon yards will be used jointly, and no new company is created. Solomon and Lamboley retain separate identities with their respective offices.
Blanchardville special notes Mrs. Bertha Vamstad will observe her 90th birthday on Sunday. Born in Norway she came to America 66 years ago with Ole B. Vamstad and daughter Carrie. The family settled in York township Greencouty 36 years then moved to a village home 30 years ago. Mr. Vamstad died 21 years ago leaving 12 children 35 grandchildren and 29 great grandchildren. Daughters and sons named with towns in this vicinity.
A string of personal mentions from Albany to Madison and Milwaukee includes Ed Strasser visiting yesterday from Albany, Miss Patricia Hogan spending the evening in Madison, Mrs. Hannah Olmstead from Orfordville on business, and Charles Deininger returning to Rockford after an overnight visit. Edmund Richmond of Milwaukee was a Wednesday guest of Rev. L. B. Hastings. Other items note Roy Selnow and his mother from Albany, and local reminders to post No Hunting signs. Harold Miller and daughter Kathy Jean returned to Annville Pa. after weeks here, with social visits to Mrs. Howard L. Orians in Milwaukee and others from Lafayette Ind. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Blair returned from Lafayette to their 8th Street home. Brooks J. Dunwiddie left for Colorado Springs to visit his sister Miss Mary Dunwiddie, head of a nursery, and Maud E. Wenger plans to be a guest.
On her 94th birthday Mrs Catherine Ryan enjoyed a friendly card party at home with daughter Mrs M J Knight. Two tables of 500 were played with winners Frances Kleinmaier Anna Dempsey and Nora Moran of Chicago. Mrs Knight served luncheon as many well wishers visited.
Edward A. Schneider driver for Stauffacher Construction Co. loses track of a six inch steel form that falls onto Emray Ace's vehicle on a county trunk near Monticello injuring Ace's young son. The windshield shatters and the boy suffers minor cuts while Schneider only learns of the incident after Ace flags him down.
Monroe junior and senior high began at eight o clock and ran six forty minute periods. School dismissed at 12 15 p m to accommodate students leaving for the Wisconsin High and Monroe football game.
Mrs Rachel Milbrandt 85 of Evansville died at 6 30 a m on her farm south of Evansville after a three week illness. Born July 4 1864 in Koenigsreich Saxony Germany she came to the area with her parents and later married William Milbrandt. She was a Baptist church member and is survived by two sons five daughters ten grandchildren and several great grandchildren. Services Saturday at 2 pm in Evansville Baptist church with burial in Maple Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers include grandsons Clifford Fenrich Leonard Kersten Philip Arneson Edward Fenrich Gordon Milbrandt and Howard Milbrandt. Friends may call at Allen funeral home.
George Hill, a professor of agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin, is renamed to a new position in Madison. The announcement lists his tenure and affiliation with the university as the basis for the change.
Shullsburg miner John Hebenstreit, 25, killed in a mine cave Wednesday night, will be buried Saturday at St. Matthew's Catholic Church with burial at the church cemetery. Rev. John McNamara and the Shullsburg American Legion will lead services and military rites.
James Flanagan 78 retired farmer died at his Argyle home from a heart ailment. Born Sept 12 1871 in Adams township he married Lena Wilber in 1901. Survived by wife four sons three daughters a brother two sisters and 32 grandchildren. Services Monday at his home and St Josephs church burial in Calvary cemetery. Also reported a crash killed trucker Donald Beeny 39 of Prairie du Chien on state highway 35 near Lancaster.
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