Around the Block With the Geh Rig Party in Canada and West
Mr and Mrs John Gehrig of Monroe travel 6400 miles through Minnesota North Dakota Winnipeg and Regina to Calgary Banff Lake Louise and Jasper. They tour the Canadian Rockies and Crown lands. Highlights include Sulphur Mountain gondola ride and Glacier National Park. They also visit Victoria Port Angeles Portland and Mt Hood. Mrs Lehmann visits old friends and a visit to Theodore Roosevelt National Park and the Corn Palace in Mitchell. Rosa Florist Starflower Shop opens Sundays through December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Gehrig
Monroe
Herman Lehmann
Canada
West Coast
Minnesota
North Dakota
Winnipeg
Manitoba
International Peace Gardens
U.S
Regina
Saskatchewan
Parliament Building
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Training School
Calgary
Alberta
Banff
Lake Louise
Jasper National Park
Switzerland
Lucerne
Glacier National Park
British Columbia
Vancouver
Horseshoe Bay
Vancouver Island
Victoria
Port Angeles
Wash
Olympic National Park
Pacific Ocean
Oregon
Hillsboro
Portland
Gehrig
Switzerland, Whom He Had Not Seen For 30 Years. Mrs. Gehrig
Mt. Hood
Medora
N.D
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Bismarck
Capitol Building
Strasburg
Lawrence Welk
Pierre
S.D
Mitchell
Lehmann
Strator
Ill
Oklahoma
166 Pints Donated To Exceed Blood Drive Goal
A mobile blood drive yesterday collected 166 pints with 10 rejects. The Lions Club earned top honors by drawing 16 percent of its members to donate, followed by Kiwanis at 11 percent and Rotary at 10 percent. Mrs Paul Paulson, chairwoman for the bloodmobile, thanked all who helped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lions Club
Kiwanis
Rotary
Paul Paulson
Jaycette Bloodmobile
Market Hog Show Slated At Green County Fairgrounds
John Mahlkuch announces a Sept 21 market hog show and carcass evaluation at Green County Fairgrounds with a lunch stand by Green County Pork Producers. Exhibitors must own hogs 60 days, weigh 190 to 240 pounds, enter one carcass animal, and sell all hogs on grade and yield. Oscar Mayer will purchase by grade and yield, weigh arrival sale weight, weigh on arrival, and slaughter with reimbursements paid by the plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Mahikuch
Green County Fairgrounds
Green County Pork Producers
Green County Extension Service
Green County Swine Breeders
Green County Agricultural Chest
Green County Agricultural Building
Oscar Mayer
Oscar Mayer Company
John Mahlbuch Sr
Juda
Wis
Clinton Zettle Jr
Route 2
Brodhead
Green County
FFA
Arleigh Frautschy
Mahlkuch
Lights On To Aid Pilots At Monroe Airport
The Monroe Municipal Airport now features 24 hour service with 2000 feet of the alternate runway lit by 32 low intensity lights and green approach lights. The project, costing about 2000, was funded by the Green County Pilots Association with city help, and aims to allow night flying for all craft based at the field. Plans for a hard surface main runway next spring will be funded by federal, state, and city sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ollie Fine
Monroe
Robert Hahlen
Green County Pilots Association
Brunkow
Monroe Flying Service
Fred Simpson
Council
Hablen
Hahlen
Monroe Municipal
Times
Rock Collection To Be Seen Here At Museum Sunday
The Vashni M. Marchant Memorial Rock Collection will be shown Sunday from 2 to 5 p m at the Green County Historical Society Museum in the former Universalist Church. Donated by his widow, the exhibit features minerals rocks and fossils from Wisconsin and honors Marchant a retired Boston teacher who settled in Monroe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vashni M. Marchant
Wisconsin
Green County Historical Society Museum
Universalist
Marchant
Boston
Monroe
Badger Lapidary and Geographical Society
Northwest Mineral Society
Green County Historical Society
Five Injured In Car Crash Near Monroe
Five persons were injured when a car went out of control and rolled over at 2:15 am seven miles southwest of Monroe on a town road. Vicky L. Rugh 18 Argyle and Linda Wolfe 18 209% Sixth St. remain at St. Clare Hospital. Charles D. Schiller Route 1 Judo. Carl Bignell Belvidere Ill. Rozella Kemp Rockford Ill treated and released. Two more accidents reported by sheriff's deputies and two by Monroe police with a car speeding and a fence collision noted in the 2200 block of 15th Ave and near Jeffrey and Melvin Roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Sheriff's Deputies
Vicky L. Rugh
Argyle
Linda Wolfe
St. Clare Hospital
Charles D. Schiller
Route 1
Judo
Carl Bignell
Belvidere
Rozella F. Kemp
Rockford
Ill
15Th Ave
Jeffrey Road
Melvin Road
Australian visitor stays at dairy farm in Green County
Kerrie Payne of Portarlington Victoria travels from Australia to a Green County dairy farm for nearly a year under the American Field Service program. She stays with Mr and Mrs Ben Zimmerli near Brodhead and attends Brodhead High School as a senior. She has been in the U.S. six weeks and plans to return in 1969, nearly a year after arrival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Kerrie Payne
Kathy Zimmerli
Kerrie
AFL
Portarlington
Brodhead High School
Kathy
Ben Zimmerlin
Times
Helen E. Zimmerli
Zimmerli
Brodhead
Iowa County Without District Attorney Nominee
Iowa County lacks a district attorney candidate as incumbent J. Paul Morrow declines the post. Seventeen write-in votes in the primary failed to reach the 5 percent threshold. The November winner will take the office upon signing a declaration of intent. Morrow, appointed in 1967, cites no secretary and no office as reasons for not seeking reappointment. Two football players from the Stateline area were injured in separate games last night and admitted to St. Clare Hospital. Mark Wainwright, 16, from New Glarus, sustained lower back injuries after a completed pass in the Black Hawk vs New Glarus game. David Lee Ostby, 17, son of Magne Ostby of Argyle, sprained and fractured a knee in the Argyle versus Fordville game. he is in good condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa County
Dodgeville
J. Paul Morrow
Town
Kenneth Patzkill
Morrow
Warren P. Knowles
Wayne J. Staton
St. Clare Hospital
Mark Wainwright
New Glarus
Black Hawk
Mark
Richard Wainwright
David Lee Ostby
Magne Ostby
Argyle
Argyle-Orfordville
City Band Plays Moonlight Madness Concert on Square
The Monroe City Band directed by Allan F. Barnard will perform on the Southside of the square Wednesday September 18 1968 at 630 p m as part of Moonlight Madness sales promotion by Monroe businessmen. The program features marches pop tunes and light music replacing a rehearsal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe City Band
Allan F. Barnard
Monroe
Look To This Day by Clair R. Munns
Daily doggerel urges faith in Sabbath time and daily gratitude. It praises material provisions and notes that a well lived day makes yesterday a dream and tomorrow a vision. The verse reflects poetic reflection on time and blessing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clair R. Munns
Nixon Humprey name calling cited in campaign
AP News in Brief reports Nixon accusing Humphrey of childish attacks using the Fearless Fosdick nickname. Also notes awards for Keith Ware in Vietnam, Wisconsin budget dispute, University of Wisconsin chancellor appointment, Navy reservist discharges, a Florida murder charge, and parish assignments for St Victor Monroe with Rev Lawrence Kieffer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Ohio
Richard M. Nixon
Hubert H. Humphrey
White House
Fearless Fosdick
Humphrey
Nixon
Also Mentioned on This Page
Helen
Rosa Florist Starflower
John Carter
Monticello
William Lauber
Route 4
Fairgrounds
Air Group
City
Jim Goetz
Wendell Brunkow
AP News
Siagon
Keith L. Ware
Ware
Loc Ninh
Madison —Assembly
Harold Froehlich
Appleton
University of Wisconsin
Fred Harvey Harrington
Froehlich
Madison
H. Edwin Young
Young
Board of Regents
Washington
Pentagon
Congress
Air Force
National Guard
North Korea
Pueblo
Richard S. Schweiker
R-Pa
House
Armed Services Committee
Hollywood
Robert John Erler Jr
Marilyn Clark
Lawrence Kieffer
St. Victor’s Catholic Church of
E. C. McCollow
McCollow
West Bend
Kieffer
St. Ignatius Parish
Mt. Horeb
Holy Redeemer Mission
Perry
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