Monroe Wins Team Crown at Fall Corn and Hog Festival
Ronald Fahey of Belleville won grand champion honors with a Chester White hog at the Brodhead festival. Harland Mahlkuch of Juda earned a purebred gift. 31 exhibitors showed 78 hogs. Monroe claimed team gold as Juda and Blanchardville followed, with a carcass session planned for Sept. 23 at Green County Bank Brodhead.
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Ronald Fahey
Belleville
Brodhead
Belleville High School
Francis Fahey
Harland Mahlbuch
FFA
Juda
William Zuhlke
Monroe
Myron Jeglum
Ronaldean Pawlisch
Blanchardville
Harlan Mahikuch
Dan Meier
Tom Klemm
LeRoy Gavigan
David Fahey
Terry Eberle
John Mahikuch
Gordon Andrews
Evansville
Phyllis Klitzner
Brooklyn
John Gruber
Gary Gritzmaker
Harland Mahlkuch
Phillip Andrews
John Mahlkuch
Paul George
Evans
Lucey Firework Blast Ruled Prank At Maple Bluff Home
Madison authorities investigate a fireworks rocket explosion fired from the lawn of Lt. Gov. Patrick J. Lucey's Maple Bluff residence Saturday night. Two upstairs windows were broken. no one was hurt as Maple Bluff police call it an obvious prank. The Lucey family was dining when the blast occurred.
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Madison
Patrick J. Lucey
Maple Bluff
Lucey
Divers Probe Mississippi River For Poison Chlorine Load
Divers searched the muddy Mississippi River north of New Orleans for a sunken load of poisonous chlorine while morgues filled with hurricane victims. Officials warned of toxic gas risk if the barge is punctured as Betsy’s toll climbs and floodwaters recede slowly around New Orleans.
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Mississippi River
New Orleans
Mississippi
Red Cross
Nicholas Chetta
Plaquemines Parish
Johnson
White House
Louisiana
Chetta
Betsy
Florida
Baton Rouge
Navy
Hyman
Like a Swimming Pool Willie Tells Tale Of Furious Flood
Willie Brown a 50 year old chef from Reynes Street New Orleans survived 19 hours on a flooded roof after Betsy reached his home. He clung to tar paper and a dog Lady as water rose and wind blew him from the roof before a motorboat rescued him at 5 30 p m Friday turning his ordeal into a dramatic flood tale.
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New Orleans
Willie Brown
Reynes Street
Willie
Charity Hospital
Betsy
Land of Lyndon boost for Lyndon Johnson souvenirs
In Johnson City Texas tourists flock to Lyndon Johnson country buying Presidential Nectar bottles rocks from the LBJ ranch and land ads near Stonewall and Fredericksburg. Visitors pack parks and campsites as locals report booming business and rising land values while the Secret Service guards the president on weekends.
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Johnson City
Tex
Lyn B. Johnson
LBJ
Midas
Lyndon B. Johnson
Stonewall
Texas
Lyndon
Bluebonnet Acres
Johnson
Harold Stehling
Fredericksburg
Chamber of Commerce
Secret Service
Kermitt Hahne
Rumors Claim Monroe Doom Days Amid Cheese Days Hope
Local residents dismiss doomsday chatter predicting Monroe destruction on various dates including this week and Sept 26 27. Forecasters note rain but the community focuses on Green County Cheese Days this weekend, urging skepticism of hearsay from a Milwaukees paper to a Timbucktoo cousin tale.
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Monroe
Milwauke
Kennedy
Timbucktoo
Shangri-La
Green County
Wisconsin hosts 42 riders on 500 mile bicycle tour
Wisconsin including Green County will host 42 riders from England France and ten states for a 500 mile bike trip across the state from October 1 to 16. The group ages 21 to 73 includes doctors dentists nurses teachers a columnist architect and editors led by former Federal Trade Commissioner de Mason. The route starts in Rockton Illinois then LaCrosse New Glarus Spring Green and Viroqua to Prairie du Chien Lancaster Galena Monroe Rockton and Fontana ending in Kenosha. Wisconsin chosen for scenery and roads as 18 000 miles of county and township roads and part of the planned Wisconsin Bike way. The tour is organized by The Bicycle Institute and Robert M Cleckner. honorary president Dr Paul Dudley White.
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Wisconsin
Green County
England
France
Federal Trade
de Mason
Washington, D.C
Rockton
Illinois
Bismarck
Chicago
LaCrosse
New Glarus
Spring Green
Viroqua
Mississippi River
Prairie du Chien
Lancaster
Galena
Monroe
Fontana
Kenosha
Wisconsin Bikeway
The
Bicycle Institute
America
Robert M. Cleckner
Internation Bicycle Touring Club
Clifford L. Graves
California
Paul Dudley White
Boston Heart Specialist
White
Legion of Doctors
Fford L. Graves
la Jolla
Cheese Days Hospitality House plans unveiled
Hospitality House at the old Kroger Building during Cheese Days Sept 18 19 will feature a Know Your Cheese contest and Green County's Gold display. 4H clubs will run booths and films on dairying with Swiss Shields decorations and Kay Haden Dairy Queen expected to greet visitors.
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Clarence Grundahl
Green County
Hospitality House
Kroger
Myron Jeglum
Kay Haden
Barbara Wegmueller
Mary Nussbaum
Jeglum
Albert Schmidt
Robert Hardell Sr
Ernest Hayes
Steady Madison Wisconsin Cheese Market Update
The Madison Wisconsin market reports fully steady cheddar cheese with fair to good demand and mixed supplies. Cheddars sell around 36 to 39 percent, 40-pound blocks at about 365 to 39, longhorns at 40 to 41 percent, and rare varieties at 4042 to 41 percent.
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Madison
Wisconsin
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Bowman
Mr. Bowman
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Lodi
Susie
Times
Fahey
Champion
T. R. Holyoke Field
Ymca Kiltie Kadets
Bicycle
Cheese Days Inc
Green County Fairgrounds
Turner Hall
Jaycees
Ymca Kittie Kadets
Racine
Kadets
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