Monroe Cheese Day Parade Promises Two Mile Spectacle
Monroe readies a giant parade for Cheese Day with over 100 floats and many marching units. The route from the county fairgrounds to Court House Square includes clowns camels and prizes honoring cheese makers and Swiss culture.
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America
Court House
W. R. Schuetze
Fitzgibbons
Madison Zor Shrine
Corps of Camels
Fairgrounds
10Th Street
22Nd Avenue
8Th Street
16Th Avenue
9Th Street
17Th Avenue
18Th Avenue
11Th Street
Alice In Dairyland
Pioneer Cheese Makers
New Glarus
Gilbert Ott
Alice
Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Zor Temple
American Legion of New Glarus
Uncle Sam
Brodhead
Monticello
Juda
Zor’ Temple
Harriet Anudsen
American_ Legion
Veterans of Foreign War
Monroe Motorcycle Club
Green County Boots and Saddles Club
Green County Holstein Breeders Association
Wisconsin Conservation Department
Sory ° Scouts
Future Farmers
Boy Scouts
Cub Scouts
Bauman
Ace Store
Burkhalterman's
Aotosi Brewing Co
Monroe Clinic
Green County
Busy City Host For Biggest Party Prosperous Monroe Had Stormy Start
Monroe Wisconsin known as the Swiss Cheese Capital grew from a bitter 1838 39 split over county seat to become a retail center and dairy hub. The city with 7008 residents in 1950 drives Green county trade through cheese milk and merchandising while industry and services expand. It hosts a booming retail market with 165 shops in 1948 generating over 16 million in volume.
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Monroe
Joseph Payne
New Mexico
Green County
Iowa County
Payne
Jacob Andrick
Jacob Lybrand
William S. Russell
Winslow
Spring Square
Wisconsin
Illinois
Evening Times
Moonroe
Washington
Wisconsin Swiss Cheese Output Dominates State Production
Green and Lafayette counties remain the top Swiss cheese producers in Wisconsin, supplying 27,834,000 pounds in 1949 and 24,898,000 in 1948, about 57 percent of the state's totals. The four-county district of Green, Lafayette, Iowa, and Dane produced 32,854,000 pounds in 1948 and 36,924,000 pounds in 1949, maintaining about 76 percent of Wisconsin's output.
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Green
Lafayette
State Department of Sericulture
Wisconsin
Green County
Iowa
Dane
$3 Million Voted For Roads in 1919
Green county passed a $3,000,000 bond issue in 1919 to build a county wide road network the first of its kind in Wisconsin. The plan funded road projects chosen by the county board and retired by 1944, with most roads remaining in good repair. The effort followed Cheese days and dairy industry growth, reinforced by a 1949 referendum.
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Green County
Wisconsin
The
Times
Wisconsin creamery group to hold annual meeting
The Wisconsin Creameries association schedules its annual convention for Wednesday September 27 at Stevens Point. University of Minnesota professor J O Christianson will speak at the banquet.
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Wisconsin Creameries Association
Stevens Point
J. O. Christianson
University of Minnesota
State Cheesemakers To Meet Oct 25 26
Wisconsin Cheesemakers Association will hold its meeting Oct 25 and 26 in Milwaukee auditorium with headquarters at Hotel Schroeder. G Fred Galli Monroe and Glen Erbe Mt Horeb to judge Swiss and limburger Frank M Boren Thorp and American cheese Fred Bleuer Cambria and John Snabnet Randolph brick and muenster.
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Wisconsin Cheesemakers
Milwaukee Auditorium
Hotel Schroeder
Cheese Day Reborn in Monroe After Ten Year Gap
A revived Cheese Day movement in Monroe culminates in the 1950 planning phase. D A Crandall leads as chairman with 1940 veterans and new directors shaping parade, publicity, finances, cheese display, and concessions. Factories commit butterfat checks, subcommittees form across the county.
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Cheese Day, Inc
Dwight D. A. Crandall
Fred Futz Jr
Russell W. Prien
Fred Glauser
Gilbert Ott
New Glarus
C. S. Pierce
Brodhead
Conrad Stauffacher
Monticello
ZumBrunnen
D. A. Crandall
Chamber of Commerce
Old Cheese Day, Inc
Crandall
Russell W
John J. Burkhard
Rodney O. Kittelsen
W. C. Bender
Glauser
Wesley L. Dodge
R. H. Schoonover
Jack Erb
Stewart F. Kingston
Armory
Robert Hardell
Walter Day
Louis H. Kohli
Fred Marty
M. K. Johnson
Celebration Timetable for North and South Side Stages
The schedule lists a multi-stage event at Monroe Park on Saturday September 9 featuring amateur bands and groups from five counties. Highlights include Monroe High School band direct broadcast, Swiss Family Fraunfelder, Four Flushers quartet, Hi-Life Barbershop, parade, Cheese Day royal introductions, drum and bugle corps from Racine Madison Milwaukee Canton acts, and varied Swiss performers, dancers, and awards presentations through the evening.
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Monroe High School
Albany High School
Monticello High School
New Glarus High School
South Wayne High School
Blanchardville High School
Argyle High School
Burkhalter
Madison Boy Scouts
Decorah, Ya
Racine Kiltie
Zor Shrine Calliope
Monarch Calliope
Belleville High School
North Side
South Wayne
Fraunfelder
Decorah
Four Lakes Scout Council
Madison
Boys of 76
Racine
Herr Louie Stanger
Four Flushers
Ming Toy
Arthur Chester
Eddie Smacker
Blatz Post
American Legion
Milwaukee
Milwa
Jay Jaxon
Anna
Dorothia
Barbara
Glarus
Canton
Monroe
T. A. Anderson
Farmonizers Quartet
Trempo Trio
Toledo
Ly Anderson
Freeport
Kee
Albert Buri
Donald Timm
John Stauffacher
Roy Roth
Fourflushers
Jack Andereck
Ben Blaser
Alan Prisk
Rudolf Maurer
Green County
Monroe Turn
Schwing
Tremp Trio
Betty Kneubuehl
Dorothea
Grace Anderson
Farmonizers
Tremp
Amteurs
Popula Records
Gerald Fritz
A. F. Barnard
Kitties
Racine Corps
Four Lakes Council Boy Scout ‘Corps
Racine “Boys
Screwball Annie
Higie Barbershop Quartet
Talent Winners To Raise Curtain In Cheese Day Preview
Twenty amateur acts from the area were chosen August 27 in Monroe high school for the September Cheese day preview on the square. The finalists will perform September 8 with a band concert and other entertainment. Winners include John R. Maurer Carolyn Kirsch Ruth Ann Buesser and others across vocal, instrumental, and novelty divisions.
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Monroe High School
John R. Maurer
A’ Mue
Carolyn Jean Kirsh
Freeport
Ruth Ann Buesser
Route 1
New Glarus
Orangeville Kitchen
Symphony
Strumental Novelty
Lou Ann _ Eden
Stockton
Blomquist
Hollandale
Toots, Birke
Bonnie Pirks
Sun Prairie
Leo Hilfiker
Nancy Moldenhauer
Mary Ann Huber
Monroe
Rose Marie
Herman Feller Jr
Merilyn
Joan Prasse
Kent
Ill
Sidney Anderson Jr
Route 3
Elizabeth
Lowell Ganstad
Donna’ Jean Lundeberg
Cottage Grove
Herman Erickson
Blanchardville
Bruce Bollerud
Don Teasdale
Darlington
Lanny Velenti
Madison
Cynthia Granger
Janesville
Wanda Gaarder
Albany
Martha Wagner
Boscobel
Cloyd W. Pickett
Jack R. Dwyer
Harvey
Don Hopke
John J. Burkhard
Doran R. Zwygart
Allan F. Barnard
Frank W. Heinzelman
Sebastian Laeser Jr
Lois Faubel
New 100000 Square Will Greet Throngs At Cheese Day
A rebuilt city square completed in 1949-50 features a concrete surface with drainage and new water lines. A grand opening on September 10 marked the completion a year before the 1950 Cheese day, with merchants and community hosting a daylong turnout and street dancing. High street lighting has been added to enhance the event.
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Monro
Voragers
Court House Square
Guard Fliers Urged To Salute Cheese Day
Monroe plans an unscheduled air show on Cheese Day with National Guard air units urged to participate. Guardsmen flying on September 9 may pilot their planes over Monroe to add to the gala occasion during training flights.
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Monroe
National Guard
Air Guard
Dairy Industry Value Soared Since 1914 Cheese Day
The Green County dairying industry valued at 3 million dollars in 1914, rising to about 1 million dollars by 1928 as Cheese Day programs expanded the local dairy sector.
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Green County
Cheese Founding Myth From Ancient Desert Trek
A desert caravan tale from prehistoric times describes an Arab crossing the desert with a skin milk bottle who opened it and found the milk coagulated into a rich yellow solid. This anecdote is offered as the origin of cheese several thousand years before Christ.
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Desert
Music and Yodeling Highlight Cheese Day Gala
Friday evening features Monroe Pall’s 43ute concert and an amateur talent finals on the north and south stages. Saturday offers Swiss acts, band concerts, vaudeville, yodeling, and the Blatz Legion post concert to cap the prime event.
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Robert E. Tschudy
Monroe Area
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Monroe Pall
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South Stage
Leo Gempler
Anna Luethy
Everett Ingwell
Dorothea Widmer
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