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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1949
Page
6
Partly cloudy and quite cool conditions expected on Tuesday with occasional showers or thunderstorms and a cooler night ahead. General area trend shows cooler temperatures continuing into the night with variable cloudiness.
Last week highest 76 and lowest since Saturday 1 p m 77 and 59. Year ago today high 81 low 62. Precipitation since yesterday. Barometer 29.50 at 1 am and 29.45 at 1 pm. Warmest U S yesterday Yuma Ariz 104. coldest not listed.
Real estate transfers list partial descriptions. Transferring entities include Baking Co of Dubuque to Johnson Implement Co for part and parcel of NE TM% of SW% in Monroe. Henry K Edgerton III to Emil Von Arx for W% of Outlet 62 on a assessor's plat in New Glarus village.
L A Koenig and John Woeffler Jr on route 1 faced speeding charges. Both were found guilty and assessed 12 dollars plus costs.
Mr and Mrs Gaylord Hermanson of Blanchardville announce the birth of a daughter on September 11.
The notice lists patients at St. Clare Hospital in various departments including surgical cases Austin Jameson Davis Junction Ill and Dan Stoddard Darlington, medical patients Janet Sweeney Juda and Mrs. Donald Coplien Brodhead, along with dismissals Matilda Klaes Wallace Billings and others across several towns.
More than 3000 replies have been received in a mail poll conducted by the Mon roe Merchants Courtesy League. Harold C. Heinman tabulates the responses as Clarence Kempfert reports. questions focused on parking meters but extended remarks touched many business operation and shopping attitudes.
Mrs. Mary Alice Cecil, 87, fractured her left hip after slipping and falling at her daughter's Gratiot-area home. She was treated at St. Clare hospital yesterday afternoon, arriving at 2 05 pm in the Stuessy ambulance.
George Ban ta Jr., Neenah, chosen president of the Wisconsin State Historical Society at the convening meeting on Saturday. L. M. Hanks, Madison, elected treasurer. vice presidents include Mrs. Angie Main Fort Atkinson Rev. Peter Johnson Milwaukee Charles Broughton Sheboygan Fred Heinemann Merrill Harold Shannon Green Bay and Lawrence Whittet Edgerton.
Tom Hubbard aged 21, a University of Wisconsin football freshman year major, died Saturday at Wisconsin General Hospital after a three month illness. He was from Shorewood.
The weekend and today brought beneficial rain to Green County boosting moisture in soils. Farmers finish silo filling and some are shocking as terraces and pastures benefit from improved ground condition. the Times rain gauge shows six tenths of an inch by noon.
In a ceremony at St John’s church yesterday afternoon Miss Joyce Fey daughter of Mr and Mrs Raymond Fey Clarno married Chester Strehlow son of Edwin Strehlow Belleville Rev Paul C Kehle officiated A reception followed at the Easter home Juda Attendants Miss Rose Marie Reusser and Robert Rackow The bride wore heavy slipper satin with roses and white gladioli corsage The maid of honor wore pink satin with white and pink carnation corsage The bride attended Monroe high school The groom attended Juda high school and works in farming They will reside in Belleville
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture announced an advisory committee to set standards for the production and processing of fluid milk for interstate shipment. The group will align standards with a model ordinance from the U S Public Health Service and includes Milton Button Dr Carl N Neupert Dean R K Fraker Dr C A Brandley Dr Hugo Sommer W W Clark Henry T Scott DT ds 2 Schwab Milo K Swanton and Matthew Wallrich Shawano.
Canadian Finance Minister Douglas Abbott announced that the United States, Britain, and Canada have agreed on immediate measures to combat Britain's dollar crisis. Abbott said finance and foreign ministers from the three nations, concluding their meeting, made very encouraging progress in a National Press Club luncheon speech.
In Jackson Michigan an elderly industrialist G Stanley Porter 63 and his wife Marguerite 62 were burned to death as a weekend fire razed their summer mansion. Fire Marshal Glenroy Walker said he would confer with the state police commissioner to consider arson as a possibility.
Six people including two children and two couples were rescued after more than 18 hours adrift in a storm on Lake Winnebago. No injuries, but some suffered shock and exposure. Rescue followed a pilot's report guiding sea scout navy and police craft to the lake center, five miles from Oshkosh and 22 miles from the starting point.
A roundup of visitors and residents throughout Monroe and surrounding towns includes Adele Marty visiting Chicago, Fred Baertschi and others from Albany, Kathryn Krauss enrolled at Milton College music school, and multiple weekend trips to Beaver Dam East St. Louis Madison Racine Chicago and Milwaukee. Also noted are bake sale details and class enrollments at Whitewater State Teachers College.
A fragment notes a woman seeking clerking work in a grocery store and a junior or senior high boy for Saturday duties. The message is addressed as care of The Times, No. 56.
Harry Harris visited Monroe today from Janesville. Mrs. Alice Heise of Orangeville was a Monroe caller. Edward Killingstad of Albany made a Monroe business call. Miss Nancy Bishops returns to the University of Wisconsin to start her senior year. Clifford Ostrander of Jefferson township visits Friendship and plans to return soon. Edith Cline heads to Freeport to visit daughter Merle Krebs a surgical patient in Freeport hospital. Claire Winslow of Milwaukee traveled via Monroe en route to Freeport to visit a sister. Mrs Fay Blurton returns home to Vadalia NL after visiting sister Mrs Gijon Sweeney of Argyle, who accompanied her to Freeport.
Miss Jac que Mercer of X-Bar-X ranch Litchfield Park Ariz was chosen Miss America for 1949 at the finals in Atlantic City Saturday night. Miss Phyllis Ann Kessler Green Bay Wis was among the fifteen finalists during the judging.
Madison police chief Bruce Weatherly named to state crime laboratory board succeeding former Madison chief William H. McCormick in the governor’s announcement.
Theodor Heuss, 65, educator and candidate of the three party rightist coalition, won 416 votes on the second ballot to become the first president of the new West German republic. Kurt Schumacher of the socialist left garnered 312 votes. the first ballot ended in a deadlock.
Vice President Barkley rejected reports of a wedding to Mrs. Carlton F. Hadley, a St. Louis widow, on her birth day September 23. The rumor claimed an engagement and a St. Louis ceremony, which Barkley dismissed.
Monroe hosts a local wagon derby with 12 year olds George Mauerman Jr and Gary Hoesly among top finishers. Dennis Goecks’s improvised Flash suffered a collapse while tugging spokes as Gordon Hersel placed third. Builders Lyndon Viel Jr and Paul Jeglum failed to medal with The Snail amid late night prep and slow finals.
A blaze at the Patterson Brothers duck farm near Frankfort Illinois yesterday destroyed about 1000 full grown ducks. No further details on cause or damages were available.
The Cheese Laboratory, Inc. north of Turner hall will hold a Friday open house to show the facility. Cheesemakers who helped erect the building will take guests on an evening tour led by technician Robert E. Hardell recently returned from Utah. Current work focuses on quality control with plans for extensive research. directors include leaders from the Wisconsin Swiss and Limburger Cheese Producers associations and the Foreign Type Cheesemakers association.
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