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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1968
Page
2
Subscription details for the Monroe Evening Times list carrier and mail rates by region, with prices for in city, Wisconsin, and Illinois subscribers. Office hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 12 noon Saturday, telephone 325 5101.
A rural Monroe reader argues against centralization and for home rule, warning that county mergers threaten elected officials and local authority. The writer cites the Committee for Economic Development and regional planning as paving the way for county managers, mergers, and loss of local control, urging resistance and unity among farmers.
Badger Lapidary and Geological Society members will tour a Cuba City mine Sunday Sept. 8 at 1 p.m. William Fig of Argyle, field chairman, announced plans and noted next club meeting is Monday Sept. 9 at Arabat Ludlow Library reading room.
A collage of historical notes from Sept 6 across 1958 to 1908. Entertainment at Farm Progress Days, polling by Meno Minee Tribe, local officials elected or hired, Queen Wilhelmina's abdication, draft board mailings, courthouse clock quirk, European study trips, and notable local incidents and milestones in Green County and surrounding towns.
Funeral services were conducted for Andrew Andy T Heinzelman 78 a retired carpenter contractor died Friday Aug 30 in the Stuessy Funeral Home Reverend Milton G Petzold officiated. Military graveside rites at Greenwood Cemetery included flag ceremony colorbearers and pallbearers. Heinzelman a World War I veteran belonged to the Golden Age Club and is survived by sons Robert and Ray and a daughter.
Edward E. Swanson 69 a Beloit area resident died Wednesday at Beloit Memorial Hospital. Services set for Saturday at 1 30 p m in Chilson Funeral Home Beloit burial in East Lawn Cemetery. He is survived by his widow Laura a daughter Mrs Edward Gorski Totowa N J two sisters and two brothers.
Theodore Tate Busch aged 79 died September 5 in a Platteville hospital after a brief illness. Born in Rewey he married Leona Helms in 1922. The couple farmed near Poynette and Belmont before retiring to Belmont in 1946. Surviving are his widow two daughters and five grandchildren. Services set for 2 p.m. September 7 at Morgan Funeral Home Platteville. Friends may call.
Orangeville School district opened the year with a full faculty after filling the fifth grade vacancy. Elizabeth Dawson of Freeport will teach fifth grade. The district secured a $14,454 Title I grant for developmental reading, supporting salaries and supplies. The Orangeville Band Boosters met, and football/coaching meetings are planned in Pearl City. Labor Day caused a one day delay in start.
The Black Hawk FFA chapter runs a rat bait sale from Sept 3 to Oct 31 titled Help Stop Rober Rat to raise funds for projects. Each rat costs farmers 22 annually and a pair can litter every 27 days while a rat may carry ten livestock diseases. Contact Black Hawk FFA members at 325-5101 to place orders.
Lyle Dahms of McConnell Illinois is named supervisor in the receiving department at Kelly-Springfield in Freeport Illinois. He began in balance production this January and started with the firm in 1964 as a trucker checker in receiving. Dahms and his wife Alice have four sons and one daughter and reside in Freeport. Detroit based American Motors reports 18 265 cars sold in August a 27 percent rise from August 1967.
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