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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1948
Page
5
Daily Record reports tonight will be fair and somewhat warm in the northeast and extreme north portions. Tomorrow, fair and warmer in the south with increasing cloudiness and continued warmth in the north.
Yesterday at 1 p m the high reached 78 and the low 57. A year ago the high was 79. Barometer readings were 29.58 at 1 am and 29.45 at 1 pm. Yuma Arizona recorded the warmest U S spot at 113 while International Falls Minnesota was coldest at 37. Sunrise was 5 35 and sunset 6 17.
J Seitz transfers property on Gustav Street Gorham's addition Monroe to Gustav St. Davis S Legler trust to Earl Foster transfers outlet 61 on asses sor's plat village of New Glarus.
Judge Harold J. Lamboley presides as Royce Rickart faces petty larceny charges with $10 and costs. Christ Herold and Sterling Taylor, both of Freeport, appear on petty theft related notes in the same docket.
Justice L A Koenig lists speeding fines of 15 dollars and costs for Laverne Wahl route 1 Argyle and operating an unregistered vehicle fine of 5 dollars and costs for Harland J DeVoe Rockford and Walter Schild route 1 Juda.
Mrs August A Krause 54 John Alvah Laborde 84 and Thomas L Dunaway 57 reported dead. Free infant son of Mr and Mrs Clifford Pratt route 4 Darlington mentioned in brief notice.
Mr and Mrs John Flannery of Argyle welcomed a son on September 11. The birth notice records a healthy infant and recognizes the family.
St Clare Hospital Medical records note Mrs William Wunschel of route 3 Mrs Clifford Reisinger Beloit Mrs Meda Henneman Monticello. Accident: Mrs Rosmond Arnsmeier Brodhead. Dismissals: Mrs Margaret Engebretson Mrs Victor Miller Mrs Ralph Miller and son Mrs Roy Block and son Valerie Zimmerman and Edward Grossen.
E. O. Evans announced that starting Monday eight second grade pupils will be transported daily from South to North school to ease overcrowding in South’s second and third grade rooms. North’s second grade will then hold 29 pupils, while South’s second and third grades drop to 35. Students will travel by Monroe Transit Lines buses morning noon and afternoon.
Rev. Robert Sharer Wilson is named pastor of the Afolkey and Cedarville Evangelical Congregational charges. He comes from Highland Park Illinois with 20 years in ministry and directed a Rockford Christian service center during the war. He replaces Rev Clifford Polson. services tomorrow evening due to a burned church. The Wilson family will move into the parsonage next week.
A 102 group of young people attended the Angle dance at Lincoln school gym last night to kickoff The Angle annual membership drive. The campaign begins Monday under Carol Schindier Sybil Blumer and Mary Hess with 202 members last year and plans for a new Angle bowling league for high school students.
Midwestern Democratic leaders from 11 states announce farm prosperity as their key campaign theme. James C. Quigley of Nebraska says the Midwest conference will oppose price leveling and recession by protecting farm buying power and values while distinguishing Democratic abundance from Republican price policy.
A. D. Sutherland of Fond du Lac, president of the Izaak Walton League, denounces Wisconsin pollution statutes. He notes fines and imprisonment exist for illegal discharge but claims no prosecutions have occurred in 30 years.
Gust E Kraft 49 of Delavan Wisconsin faced manslaughter charges in a traffic death from 18 years earlier. He was released on a cash bond of 5000 after Justice of the Peace lowered the prior 10000 bond. Kraft, a former Rockford tavernkeeper, waived extradition from Wisconsin as Assistant State’s Attorney John Ghent said he will seek indictment before the October grand jury.
A Black River Falls woman, Mary Kuvaga, was taken into custody by Sheriff Evan Chambers and Deputy Fred Williams and lodged in the Green County jail awaiting arrival of northern officers. She reportedly faced a charge of child abandonment after staying in a local hotel and taking city work.
A stream of local residents and visitors appear in town for shopping and social visits. Names include Mrs Wilma Kubly Charlene Corse Rev J E Bostian Mrs Aletta Martin Herbert Wenger Mrs H V Hartman Mrs Chester Albright and daughter Annette Jud a Barbara Burroughs Miss Darlene Adelman and others.
Four men died and a fifth was critically injured when a new car with 238 miles on the speedometer crashed into a tree near the east city limits of Waukesha. Nelson Stuit and George H. Schultz, both 50 and 43 respectively, died instantly. Harold Hein 40 and John Sexsmith 31 died later at Memorial Hospital. Carl Bitterbush, 34, remained in critical condition but holding his own. Police say high speed on a curve on Highway 59 likely caused loss of control.
In Lansing Michigan at Edward W Sparrow Hospital a pair of five day old Siamese twin girls joined at the abdomen are thriving in an oxygen tent. Born at the hospital last Tuesday they are reported normal apart from being joined. The mother is recovering easily and the parents, unnamed Lansing residents under 30, are not identified.
Leo Farrell has been elected commander of the Argyle American Legion post with John Lunda as 1st vice commander and Robert Hawley as second vice. Other officers include Clayton Watkins adjutant Jesse P Hanson finance officer Howard Schellenger historian Sylvan Waage athletic officer Lester Sandley service officer Woodrow Wheeler employment officer and Chris Winger sergeant at arms.
Mrs. August A. Krause, 54, longtime Brodhead area resident, died at 3:30 a.m. at St. Clare hospital after months of declining health. Born Mary Lederman in Spring Grove township on June 10 1894, she married August A. Krause March 12 1913 and lived on a Decatur township farm between Brodhead and Albany. She belonged to St Peter's Lutheran Church and its Missionary society. Survived by husband, son Robert, daughter Sylvia Schwartzlow, mother Anna Lederman, two brothers John and Walter Lederman, and four sisters. Funeral at Bethlehem Lutheran Church Monday at 1:30 p.m. with Rev Mentor Kujath officiating. burial in Greenwood Cemetery, Brodhead. Body at Newcomer funeral home.
Mrs. E P Drake of Janesville is critically ill in Mercy hospital after a fall that fractured her hip shoulder and wrist. She is in an oxygen tent due to a heart condition and has been in poor health for months. Her daughter Mrs David Drummond of Indianapolis and two other children, Bernice and Lee Drake, survive.
Thomas L. Dunaway 57 of Freeport died of a heart attack yesterday morning while walking to talk with his brother Edward in a parked car. He fell, was pronounced dead at a local hospital after fire department efforts failed. Born May 8, 1891 near McConnell, he is survived by his widow Lola, son Durward, daughter, two brothers Edward and John, and three sisters Mrs. Wesley Jordan Mrs. Bertha Wohlford and Miss Emma Dunaway. Funeral arrangements are being completed at Walker mortuary.
John Alvah Laborde 84 a stock buyer in Orangeville died at 1 45 yesterday in Deaconess hospital Freeport after several weeks illness and recent surgery He was born in Martintown and survived by son Sylvester and daughter Mrs Roy Wagner Funeral service will be at 2 pm Monday in Orangeville Methodist Church conducted by Rev Fred Anderson with burial in Orangeville Cemetery The body lies at Burington funeral home
The Yellowstone Lutheran Aid will meet Thursday evening in Blanchardville. Donald Larson, superintendent of the Martin Luther home, will present moving pictures and a program. Members are asked to bring a quart of canned fruit or vegetable for the home. Serving will be Mrs. Oscar Hanson, chairwoman. Mrs. Raymond Hanson. the Gunderson sisters. Mrs. Kermit Hendrickson. and Mrs. Albee Paulson.
Miss Doris Pearl Fawcett of Los Angeles and Walter Elmer, formerly of New Glarus, wed September 4 at Westchester Christian Church in Los Angeles. The couple depart for New Glarus on their wedding trip.
The Albany Woman's Club will host a reception for local school teachers on Wednesday evening with Mrs. Emma Rechsteiner as hostess.
Three members named to Lafayette county selective service board are John W. Grotkin of Benton Hermann A. Krupke of South Wayne and Joe Sauer of Darlington. The trio will serve on the local draft board as appointed.
Juda school registration totals 191 with 127 pupils in the grades and 64 in high school. Local officials note steady enrollment as the new term opens.
Christ Wittwer, a retired city employee, is introduced as the adult safety patrolman at North School. He takes on duties ensuring student safety around the school environment.
The Christian Endeavor meeting of Union Presbyterian Church, planned for tomorrow, has been postponed to a later date.
Lt. Fred Von Kaenel son of Mr and Mrs John Von Kaenel of 1016 14th Avenue is visiting until Oct 1 before reporting to Mitchell Field New York. He has served in the Philippine Islands for two years and previously with the Army in New Mexico.
Mrs James Green of 613 25th Avenue is homebound due to rheumatic fever, unable to leave the house for the time being.
Frank Lewis of Ginner Roofing Co. suffered a minor cut below the right eye when a shingle fell yesterday from the Ludlow hotel roof being worked on. No stitches required. Half the roof had been reshingled two years ago and the rest is now being completed.
Fifty neighbors and sheriff's deputies joined a five hour hunt after a man wandered from his home 13 miles northwest of Monroe. He returned to his farm shortly before 11 p m and is in poor health.
John Maurer son of E H Maurer will go to Madison Monday to enter the University of Wisconsin as a pre med student. He graduated this year from Monroe high school.
Patricia Ann Shager, of 1507 19th Street, collided with Theo dore J. Olson, of 2219 18th Street, in the 2500 block of 13th Street yesterday afternoon at 5:45. Shager’s car sustained major damage including a broken grill and left front fender.
Olson halted as a bus stopped, and the Shager car struck the Olson vehicle from behind. Olson’s car suffered a bent bumper and body dent while Shager’s car appeared to collide with it.
Kenneth Bromley circus employee identified as the assailant who struck Mrs. Fred Zentner at her 1425 13th avenue home and snatched her purse on the evening of July 18. He faces a larceny indictment in Freeport circuit court after a similar attack and arrest there the next night.
Mrs Ronald Stites 70 of Winslow Ill fell in her home this morning fracturing her left leg Her physician said her condition is good.
Mrs. Rosmond Arnsmeier aged 83 of Brodhead is in serious condition at St. Clare hospital after a fractured hip suffered last night at her home. She reportedly fell while entering a doorway.
Peter Graber departs Chicago airport at 1 PM heading to Switzerland for an extended several month visit. He plans to tour and reside abroad during the period.
By terms of the will of her father Clarence R. Knowles, Sister M Laura at St. Clare hospital has been left $500. The father died August 6 in Chicago and his estate has been admitted to probate there.
Edmond H. Lemay arrested in Newark on a Milwaukee forgery warrant will depart for Wisconsin tomorrow. Lemay waived extradition as Sheriff George Hanley prepares to fly east to bring him back. His wife vanished June 15. Lemay’s status at the American Hair and Felt Co. plant was terminated yesterday.
A new heated sidewalk at the Commercial and Savings bank corner uses copper tubes and a boiler to melt ice and snow. The Alvin F. Rote Co. installed it, with plumbing by Charles J. Niles Plumbing and Heating Co.
Congressional spy investigators report new twists in the atomic espionage hunt that may postpone public hearings by another week. Chairman J Parnell Thomas says a Wednesday start is possible but a further delay may occur as additional witnesses are called and testimony is checked behind closed doors.
Washington forecasts of record crops for 1948 project a value near 13.388 billion dollars for wheat corn cotton tobacco peanuts and rice, with total production surpassing 1946 and at 135 percent of the 1923 32 average. Corn output could reach 3 528 815 000 bushels valued around 6.74 billion dollars. wheat about 1 284 995 000 bushels worth roughly 2.57 billion, while meat supplies may rise next year due to more feed grains.
The infant son of Mr and Mrs Clifford Pratt of route 4 Darlington died shortly after birth this morning at St. Clare hospital.
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